The Olpe Optimist from Olpe, Kansas • 1

The Olpe Optimist. New Vol. 2, No. 47. Friday, October 18, 1912.

Price, $1.00 a year in advance. THE RIVERSIDE A Range That is Worthy of the Name It Bears All Smooth Nickel Drop Oven Door. Pebbled Oven Bottom. Boss Covers and Centers. Riverside Tight Fitting.

Take out Damper. RIVERSIDE STOVES ROCK ISLAND MAKE A heavy, large flued, well finished, square oven, cast iron range, that delights the eye of the buyer and the heart of the user. MADE BY Rock Island Stove Company ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS and SOLD BY MADDOCK BROS. BROWN. Olpe, Kansas.

Bring Your Produce To A. DIEBOLT'S And get high prices in cash or trade Eggs, 23 cents Springs, Under 2 lbs. 13 cents Springs, Over 2 lbs. 09 cents Old Hens, 09 cents Stags, 04 cents A. DIEBOLT Olpe, Kansas.

Mrs. Frank Hurtig's sister, Mrs. John Cook, of Parsons, went home yesterday afternoon after 8, three weeks' visit here. Claud Reed of Fruitdale, Alabama is visiting his urcles, John and Jeff. Stevenson, and their families.

Milton Herrington went to Kansas City last night. Gus. Huth is enlarging his cave. A. Murphy is building a coal shed.

J. H. Bradfield's new house will soon be ready for occupanty. The carpenter work is nearly all done and so is the painting and plastering. M.

Yanker's new house north of H. J. Horning's is being boxed in this week. Fred. Cooper and family returned from Quinemo Tuesday evening.

Mr. Hathaway, the blacksmith, sold his shop the first of the week. The new man has possession. The entire Conrade family was busy picking apples yesterday. Gus.

Huth says that the farmers are so busy that they do not know what to do first when they start out in the morning. Home made bread for sale at the City Meat Market, Made from Fancy Patent flour. Come and get a loaf and try it. HAAG SCHADEGG Miss Ida Haag and Mr. Herman Schadegg were united in marriage at the St.

Joseph's Catholie church Tuesday morning at 8:30 by Rev. Father Peter. The bride's dress was a beautiful white satin trimmed in irish point lace. She wore a silk vail and carried a boquet of bridel roses. The bride is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. M. Haag. The groom is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs.

Matt. Schadegg. Miss Margaret Haag, sister of the bride, and Miss Mary Beien, cousin of the bride, were the bridesmaids and Messrs. Tony and Matt. Schadegg, brothers of the groom were best men.

The bridesmaids were dressed in white. After the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents. The young couple were the recipients of many useful and beautiful presents. The out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs.

Peter Weber and M. Rulhman of Atchison, Mr. and Mrs. Young of Tipton, Kansas and Mrs. Geo.

Hopkins of Topeka. SURPRISED AT 51. Yesterday was John Mulroy's fifty-first birthday and that estimable gentleman was subjected to a genuine old fashioned surprise. And the surprise end of the affair worked magnificently for John never caught on to what was taking place until most of his neighbors had gathered in and Henry Sheridan and others from town weredriving in at the gate. Progressive euchre was the amuse ment of the evening.

Mrs. Jos. Scheve won the ladies' first prize and Henry Sheridan won the gentlemen's first prize. John Kane won the gentleman's booby prize while no one seemed to remember who won the ladies' booby prize. When the hour had grown late, refreshments in the form cf a birthday banquet, were served.

Those present were Robert Start and family of McCracken, Kansas, Miss Alice Mulroy of Hays City, Kansas, W. B. Nelson and wife, M. and family, Jos. Scheve wife, Kane and family, Jos.

Humerickhouse Alois Resneder and wife, A. E. McCullough and son, Willie, John Waechter, Peter Weinman, Miss Rosa Troll, Miss Ethel Porter, Henry Sheridan and family, Jake Brown and family, John O' Brien and family, Nick and Walter Crockedberger, S. Kroll and wife, John Kane and family, Chris Shafer and wife and Paul Markowitz. Mr.

Muiroy was presented with a substantially built rocking chair which will probably last him during the remaining 51 years of his life. Tom Resneder is hauling trash out of town this week. The -poor candidates are badly overworked these days. They try to attend all the sales and some days there are two sales at the same time that they would like to attend. -Americus Greeting.

John Mulroy's two sisters, Mrs. Robert Start of McCracken, Kansas and Miss Alice Mulroy of Hays City, arrived Tuesday for a several 'days' visit. Mrs. Start is accompanied by her husband and their family of three children. Potatoes for Seed.

The heaviest yielding hills of pota toes are not always the best for seed, the number of plants in the hill must be taken into consideration. MOBERLY COUPLE IS LOCATED Found in Michigan Where Both Are at Work Probably Be Brought Home. Moberly, Oct. Pigg and Miss Romona Randolph, the young Moberly couple who eloped from Sauk City, in R. C.

Pigg's motor car, August 27, have just been located in Trenton, Mich. A letter received here says they are well and both are working. R. C. Pigg, father of the boy, who is only 17 years old, left for Trenton and probably will bring the elopers back with him.

ON. S. Wendling, President, F. J. Rossillon, Cashier, John Langley, Vice President, F.

J. Voeste, Assistant Cashier. The Olpe State Bank OF OLPE, KANSAS Capital $20,000.00 Surplus $6,000.00 United States Depository Every Deposit Guaranteed Under The State Guarantee Fund. Interest Paid On Time Deposits. Safety Deposit Vault.

Your Business Will Be Appreciated. DIRECTORS. AN. S. Wendling, J.

H. Bradfield, Theodore Voeste, John Langley, John Lutz, F. J. Rossillon, M. Sterbenz, J.

M. O' Brien, Jos. Rossillon. USE OUR FANCY PATENT. AND OUR LEADER FLOUR Fancy Patent Flour $1.30 a sack.

Our Leader Flour $1.25 a sack. Every Sack Fully Guaranteed. Frank H. Oelkers, Agent For MILL and Make The CITY GROCERY AND I MEAT MARKET your headquarters when in Olpe. I carry a full line of groceries, canned goods, fresh and salted meates and everything to be had in a firstclass meat market and grocery.

I buy cream. I pay CASH for eggs and other farm products. FRANK H. OELKERS OLPE, KANSAS. Mrs.

J. J. Nuessen called on Mrs. N. S.

Wending yesterday evening. It is rumored that another weddingto-be will be announced at the Catholic church next Sunday. Gladys Nelson is helping Mrs. Jno. Stevenson pick apples -day.

Ed. Brier of Los Angeles, California, accompamed by Martin Cottemyer of Emporia was in Olpe this week calling on friends He visited Thos. Highwood, John Nelson, Chris Krueger and others. He is the man who traded with Rudolph Schroeder for the livery barn and Stotler house. John Nelson traded land to him for the above named properties.

H. J. Horning is making a concrete lined cave for Wm. Highwood. Mrs.

John Nelson and Mrs. J. J. Nuessen gathered walnuts at Jos. Rossillon's yesterday.

Although they worked only a few hours in the afternoon, Mrs. Nelson got five sackfulls. Miss Dora Schroer went to Plainville, Kansas the first of the week to attend the weddings of three cousins. Mrs. Geo.

Bechtel is able to do most of her work now. John Auflager is cutting kaffir corn for V. Freitag. Geo. I a noureux and family called on Grandma Bitler and D.

F. Bitler and wife Tuesday afternoon. Theo. Hahn visited Wednesday and Thursday in Emporia with his sister, Mrs. Jos.

Kowalaski. Minnie O' Brien did not attend school this week on account of ness. Anna and Elizabeth Voeste returned home Monday from a two weeks' visit in Wichita with Mr. Weiderholt and family. Chris Krueger received a message telling of the death of his son, Will, at Cedar Point Friday morning.

V. Kroll and Lawrence Schultz, went to Wichita Tuesday on business. The county commissioners and the county engineer came down to inspect the new Rock Creek bridge. The bridge is completed, dirt approaches and all, but will remain closed until October 23 to allow the concrete floor to get thoroughly dried. Mrs.

Alice Bitler came up from Eureka Tuesday and visited with Grandma Bitler and D. F. Bitler and wife until yesterday. Mrs. J.

H. Bradfield returned from her visit in Topeka Thursday evening. Frank Fladung who has been in St. Mary's hospital came home Thursday. Seraphine Wending returned from Westphalia yesterday, where he had been visiting relatives for a week.

His sister, Miss Tillie, who went with him will return in a day or two. Clyde Gibson, the station agent's assistant, has quit his job and will start for Illinois to-day. His successor is Earl Rambo who is already on the job. W. H.

Vansickle is enjoying a visit from his parents, O. H. P. Vansickle and wife, and their daughter, Miss Elizabeth, who arrived from their home in Hope, Arkansas yesterday evening. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a little poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.

-Goethe. "Did that young man kiss you last last night." "Mother, do you suppose that he came all the way up here just to hear me sing?" -Cornell Widow. Some men seem to ignore the Ten Commandments, and observe only the Eleventh, "'Thou shalt not be found out." -Pip Daniels. Too many cranks with twisted alphabets for names roam our cities' streets. And the worst of it is we are afraid to stop the source of increase.

-Hamilton Grit. Can the "dear" ladies be "Moos-Americus Greeting. No but the "doe" is much "needed" in this campaign..