The Hope Dispatch from Hope, Kansas • 1

Society A NEW LINE, FRESH CHOCOLATES ALWAYS ON HAND. IMPERIAL DRUG STORE. The Hope Dispatch. VOLUME 25 HOPE, DICKINSON COUNTY, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910. NUMBER 33 Off For Pennsylvania.

Last Tuesday a number of people of this vicinity left for a visit to their old home state, Pennsylvania, where they expect to visit relatives and friends a few weeks, and note the changes in the country where they grew up. The party consisted of S. B. Wingerd and wife, and Herman Bohen, wife and son of Hope, Mrs. S.

H. Lenhert and baby of Abilene, and Mr. and' Mrs. Joseph Gish of Ramona. We hope they will have a fine time.

Religion Worked Wonders. O. W. Parker received $80. the other day that he did not expect.

A man came to him and said that several years ago he stole material from the shops but he had been converted and wanted to make return. He figured it up with interest and it amounted to $80. He paid the money.Reflector. If a young man wants to go with a young lady, that is HIS business. If a young lady wants to go with a young man, that is HER business.

If a young man and a young lady want to get married that is THEIR business. If you need a pair of glasses. that is MY business. We are prepared to give you anything in the Optical line. We fit glasses correctly and guarantee our work.

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Let os show you how a Leader Water System in your bome will save you money--in doctor's bills, and add to your own comfort and satisfaction at the same time. A Leader Water System suited to the needs of your home will never get out of order or need repairs. A few minutes attention each day de all that the apparatus requires. Call or Write For Free Descriptive Booklet Wm. Koch DUll A Big Income Does Not insure A COMPETENCE WHAT DOES? Saving so much of the income, whether big or little, every week or month.

A GOOD WAY TO DO THIS Make deposit with our bank at aegular intervals drawing interest, for then it is always growing. We want your business. THE STATE BANK OF HOPE Hope, Kansas. R. C.

Dederick's Store at Dayton is Burned. R. O. Dederick, the Dayton merchant, lost his store and its contents by fire Saturday about 3 o'clock. The flames were first discovered on the roof and in a few minutes the building was consumed.

The family lived in the building and lost all its clothing, bedding, etc. Mrs. Dederick's sister from Wichita had arrived for a visit the day before and she lost her clothing. With the rest went a 400 volume library. The family.

narrowly escaped and though Mr. Dederick tried to save some household articles he was In the attempt he was burned on the arm. The fire WAS started from sparks from the chimney or from a Missouri Pacific locomotive which passed, a short time before. Loss about $3000., insurance J. S.

Meek and wife left Monday on their trip to Detroit, Michigan, Knoxville, Tennessee, and other eastern points. They expect to be gone about three weeks. A number of our people are reporting fruit trees and strawberries in bloom, and some are reporting ripe berries. Great country this. Some Excitement.

Hope had another little run of excitement Monday evening that made things lively for a while. As the reports of the story of the affair come to us, a few of the miners received a supply of fire water and proceeded to have what they called a good time Monday afternoon. Some of them had quit their jobs, drawn their money, and were celebrating the event. Along toward evening they became boisterous and began to talk about what they would do I to the city marshal if he showed himself. A complaint was turned in to the marshal and he was notified of the threats.

About six o'clock another complaint was turned in and the marshal (who is a very busy man building a new shop) came downtown and found one of the young fellows and told him he had better go home and keep off the street. The young fellow began to abuse the marshal and call him vile names, and the marshal took him by the collar and told him he would take care of him. He was compelled to use some force and had taken him about half a block when the young fellow struck the marshal in the face, and a general mix up followed in which the young man got the worst of it and was finally landed in the cooler, but not until a large crowd attracted by the young man's cursing and the fight, had gathered on the street. The marshal went home to supper and the young fellow proceeded to get out of the cooler at once by springing the window bars and crawling between them. The marshal came up street as soon as he had his supper, and heard the fellow was gone, and which way, and he went to look for him.

He soon discovered him among the trees in one of the yards, but the fellow immediately began to run and ran right up through the town and crowd, when one of our young men hearing the cries of "catch him" made a flying football tackle and bore him to the ground where he was assisted in quieting the fellow by one of the city councilmen. The fellow was then taken back to the cooler and locked in the inner cage, where he remained until morning, when he was taken before the police judge. Here he was as ugly as ever and told the judge he would not pay a cent.The judge ordered him to jail at Abilene, but when the marshal started to the train with him he weakened and wanted to pay a fine, and the marshal and judge both being accommodating fellows he was fined a total of $7.50 We give these matters so fully because of the fact that the above was only a small part of the excitement. As usual in a small town everybody took sides, and it is astonishing to note the position some men took. Some persons thought it was a shame that a man could not get drunk, and have a little fun without 1 being arrested.

Others said the marshal would not dare to try to arrest a sober man, or a man bigger than himself. Still others thought if he could not arrest a man without quarreling with him he ought to resign, and others thought the fellow ought not to be put in such a place as the Hope cooler, no matter what happened. People stood around on the streets and talked until bed time. There has been entirely too much leniency shown such cases in Hope all summer. Every day or two some one tells us it is a shame the officers do not look after these matters closer, make more arrests, especially among the Hope people, and stop the drinking and gambling in Hope.

On the morning before this affair two Hope men who are in a position to know what they talk about, roasted the writer and the city officials because allowed so much gambling in Hope, which they declared was SO open and notorious any one could know it if they would, and yet the minute an officer goes to do something toward cleaning up the town a whole lot of fellows bellow around and tell what all they would do, and uphold the drinkers and gamblers. The DISPATCH takes the stand that no "good citizen" will abuse the city officials, or any other man for taking an active part toward the enforcement of the laws and the punishment of men who get drunk or gamble. We take the stand the city bastile is good enough in which to cool off a man who makes a beast of himself by getting drunk and that the city officers should and do have the support of all "good citizens" when they arrest and put in the cooler such cases. We take the stand that the people who want to live in a town where they can get drunk at will, or engage in gambling, should leave the town of Hope, and that every "good citizen" should help to make it so hot for him that he will be glad to be safely away from Hope. We don't need such people.

Poor Advertising. Poor Advertising. Last Saturday evening a man from Clayton, New Mexico, made a talk from a buggy on the street near the band stand in Hope, for the purpose of advertising the lands he had for sale down there. That part of his talk about the lands was no doubt good, but he spoiled it all before he got started by taking for his text the subject of grafters, and saying and repeating that "nine out of ten preachers were preaching for the money that was in it." A local preacher happened to be present and called him down for making such a statement, and his whole talk was thus ruined by his absurd statements attempting to convince his hearers that nine out of ten of our supposedly best men are grafters. The DISPATCH is glad his efforts were a fizzle.

No man who makes such statements and reiterates them, should be trusted by strangers. Hope has five resident preach ers. Two of them receive no salary at all, and the small salaries received by the other three who devote their whole time to the work, ought to convince most anyone they are not in it for the money they get out of it, yet cording to the assertions of this real estate. man there is but half a chance that any one of them is anything but a grafter. Such talk may go all right in New Mexico, but we don't know such language in Hope only to be cautious of the user of it.

Because of irregularities and lack of proper proof the will of the late I. S. Hallam has been refused to be probated by Judge Anderson. The court has appointed Mrs. Hallam executrix.

It is hoped that enough will be saved from the wreck to keep her comfortable through life. She will receive $12, a month pension as the widow of a sol-Reflector. Children's Shoes For School Wear We are offering a splendid assortmeet of School Shoes. Only good material goes into the construction of our shoes. We price them for Less Money than you are paying credit stores.

Make us prove it. 6 to 8 child's shoes 90 to 84 to 11 child's shoes 1.25 to 1.35 114 to 2 Misses shoes 1.50 to 1.60 3 to 8 women's shoes 1.89, 1.50 1.60 and 2.00 Handkerchiefs of course, children can't have too many, 1 lot at Tc, 1 lot at 3c and 1 lot at 5c A good, white, full size handker-1 chief for men, for 5c 1 lot of men's Pants at $1.00 1 lot of men's Pants at 1.25 1 lot of men's Pants at 1.50|1 We will sell Groceries than we can. Will meet any price Yeast foam 3c Purity rolled oats 9c 1 pound cakes 10c Household ammona 10c 7 bars Diamond soap 25c We want your trade and do but Dry Goods and Shoes also. any roof in Hope. This lot just put in stock Dress Pants 1.75, 2.25, 2.50 and up to 3.75 for fine peg top.

New dark Ginghams per yd. 1 doz. shoe laces for 5c 1 dozen fine Pearl buttons for 5c 1 dozen Rockford sox for 90c 2 bunches envelopes for 5c box black pins for 5c 2 yds. 11-4 sheeting for 58c 2 yards makes a sheet. Best Simpson Prints per yd.

54c yard apron gingham 6c GROCERIES sell them cheaper made. Growler Tobacco 15c Pick Tobacco 35c O. S. Tobacco 25c 1 can fresh Herring 18c I Kellogg Corn Flake 8c not only make Groceries cheap, More bargains here than under E.L.MARTIN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE CHANGE This is evidenced by the Maine vote. A similar surprising thing happened when good old Missouri changed the other way a couple of years ago.

The main cause of these changes is the personal of the men who are in the lead. When something good is presented everybody wants it, and it depends on the man and the way it is presented. Sometimes, (you old timers have seen it) a soap man comes along, sells you a couple of bars of soap and a ten dollar bill for a dollar. How people go after this. Then again a man comes along and gives you a dollar's worth of goods for every one hundred cents you spend with him.

Which of these two are you going to turn your attention to. If you like the soap racket, don't call on us. If you want to deal with one who treats you right, call on us. We want your business. We have everything in the building line, Paints, Oils and Varnish, Paint Brushes, Harness, Whips and Blankets.

Don't you think you ought to get a stove? have them both heating and cooking, and we know they will suit. BADGER LUMBER CO. A A A A A A MA A Mildred Fern Wixon. The friends of Mr. and Mrs.

J. M. Stanley will note. with sorrow the death of their little adopted daughter Mildred Fern Wixon, who died quite suddenly last Saturday morning, death being caused by diabetes. Mildred Fern Wixon was born near Geneva, Nebraska, July 14, 1904, and died near Hope, Kansas, September 17, 1910, aged 6 years, 2 months and 3 days.

Little Mildred was left motherless at the age of one year, and when seventeen months old was given to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. (Mrs.

Stanley being a cousin) who loved and cared for her until she passed away, when they took her body to Nebraska for burial, leaving Hope on Sunday afternoon. Her father, W. L. Wixon, Mrs. Hofer and Miss Etta Benson, sisters of Mrs.

Stanley, arrived from Nebraska Saturday evening and returned with the others Sunday, to Stella, Nebraska, where funeral was to be held from the Lutheran church Monday, and the body laid to rest. by the side of her mother. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Stanley she leaves a father, W.

L. Wixon, one sister and one brother, all living at Stella, Nebraska. Mrs. Mark McGrath of Dillon, spent Sunday at James Healy's. HE MURDDRED HIS FATHER Todd Miller is Before District Court on Serious Charge.

Todd Miller of Cheever township, is being tried in district court for the murder of his father last January. He claims justification in self defense. According to his report the father John Miller, was a quarrelsome man, abusing his wife at times and having much trouble with the neighbors. The young man, now 35 years old, remained at home to protect his mother. "Todd" went to a sale although his father told him to remain at home.

When he returned he went to the barn and his father was there. "Looks like a change in the weather," said the son. The father made a rough remark and the son said no more. They went to the house and supper was ready in the kitchen. The father sat near a door.

The son hung a blanket over a crack in the door to keep out the cold and the father cursed him. Then the father, mother and son sat down at the table and the mother reproached her husband for his language toward the son. Miller repeated his profanity and vile language, The young man was naturally angry but did not want to make a scene and left the house. The father followed him out of doors. Then came the fatal The men clinched and fought a while, finally the father fell.

When he arose he went to a flower bed around which was a row of four foot hedge sticks two inches in diameter. He seized one and started for his son. The son grabbed the father from behind and held with his arms around the older man, Miller bit his son's thumb and finger nearly off and loosened his hold. Then the son pushed him back against a wire fence and got the stick away from Miller. With it he knocked the older man down and beat his head until the stick broke after which he used a board.

During the latter part of the struggle the young man said he was wild with the combat and not until he went to the house and met his screaming mother did he realize all he had done. The sympathy of the community is with Miller and all the farmers of the vicinity signed his bond. Reflector. As we go to press the jury in the case is still out and agreement seems improbable. Card of Thanks, We desire to express our deep appreciation of the sympathy and kindness shown us in our recent bereavement in the death of our little Mildred.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stanley Mr.

and Mrs. S. D. Wixon..