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i i 77 (A Ct.sUOLi.uj HOPE DISPA Vol. 4. Hope, Dickinson County, Kansas, May 2-4, 1889. No 15. TCBL IT! BELLE SPRINGS ITEMS.

Still it rains. D. N. Gisli was gazing upon metri-politau scenes last Thurday. R.

Shaeffer is sporting a new buggy. A heavy wind storm. Accompanied by rain and hail, visited this vicinity last Friday evening. Several houses Cheap Cash Store. Having purchased the stock of School Closes.

It has been decided to make the last day of school on Wednesday of next week instead of Friday. This is done in consequence' of Decoration Day coming on Thursday and would break into the arrangements if held on the day following. All patrons of the school in particular are invited to spend a part of the last day Wednes-day-in one or more of the school rooms. and minis were unroofed and many smaller structures were a total wreck BAKREY, Keeps a fresh supply of Bread, Pies, Cakes, Etc. Ice Cream and Lemonade.

Fine Candies, Cigars and Tobacco. The wind was followed by rain which fell in torrents. The hail came in strips, breaking out window lights, destroying the fruit crop and heating the corn into the ground to so great an extent that many farmers will have to Parents! It does your children more good than you imagine for you to drop in and hear them recite or listen to their declamations. You can afford to replant. A.

It. St rock's went to Abilene last Friday. lierv and Jessie hwrle have crone spend a day once a year in this way, now how many of you will do so? Our Fair. to' Canada as delegates to the River DRY G00D3 MB Of Shockey Snider. I will inform my many friends that I am going to MAKE BUSINESS FLY and for that purpose I am offering bargains Way Below anything that has ever been known-in Dickinson county.

My stock of Dry Goods is complete at present but I propose to close them out, at Prices to Suit, within the next sixty days. I intend to handle Groceries only after that time. Those who believe in Saving Money by Buying, Cheap should take advantage of the bargains I am offering. For the present I may be found at the old Eisenhower stand where I hope to see all my friends and to show them what bargains I can offer. Respectfully, HENRY NICKLES.

Brethren annual conference. Noah Hershey and Mnsser are H. B. WOLFE, Manager. in Washington Territory looking over the country.

Everybody is busy hunting up their fences or fixing the road. Oh where Oh where has the chintz bugs gone? In bathing, we would suppose. As it was too wet to work in the fields last Saturday everybody went to town, either Hope, Abilene or Navarre. Eagle. GEO.

KELLER, Scenic Artist, Sign Painting The secretary is in receipt of inquiries from the etate board of agriculture regarding the time ot holding the fair this year, and other matters of importance that need to be attended to. There was a mistake made last year in putting off the selection of a date until nearly every other society had fixed upon a time to hold its fair. Let us not be caught this way again but have the time agreed upon at the next meeting of the board which takes place on the first Saturday of June. We can just as well determine upon the date now as ever and have it published in the quarterly reports of the State Agricultural Society for general information. Memorial Day.

KANSAS. HOPE, -AND- BANK DILLON ITEMS. Turky Creek overflowed its banks last week and was higher than it has been for ten or twelve years. Some corn will have to be re-planted but no damage to other crops or buildings. The good has far outwitted the evil.

The soil is thoroughly saturated and Decorating. -TERMS Office opposite A. Henque-net's stone building. The Post has decided to hold regular services here on the 30th and committees have already been appoiiiled to carry out the program. Parties have been detailed to go to the different A.

General Banking Business cemeteries in the forenoon to decorate Transacted. Alawyshave money the graves of all comrades, and in the to loan on approved security. well prepared for the drouth if it should come. The work of chintz-bugs has been retarded and many of them destroyed, while vegetation has been set forward so that if rains continue at regular intervals but little damage will occur. Prospects for a large oat crop are certainly flattering and the farmers should be happy.

Mr. Heller will soon tiave his building refitted. Fishing is the order of the day; a party will visit Lyons creek this week. Dr. Roberts of Gypsum is in town.

The" deditwtory services will tale" place on the first Sunday in June. afternoon services will be held in the grove if the weather will admit, if not, in one of the churches. Speakers will be announced in due time and no pains I HMDS GIVE U9A GALL. GEO. GL SHIRK, Cash! will be spared to make the occasion both interesting and instructive.

It is hoped that all secular business may be I closed fora reasonable length of time I -J Arriving Rev. Flemming of Wichita will preach on tftat'dajT turn that all may join In exercises which are Intended to perpetuate the memory of our dead heroes and to instill Into the minds of the youiig and rising" generation a love for the sermon. The boys were made happy this week as the pay car passed through.1 the cause in which they weie engaged Farmers were grtatlv disappointed Let us forget all matters of difference on that occasion, if any exist, and join in not being able to attend the inti Our purchasing agent is east, has visit heart and hand making the occasion tute in Abilene. FtfslflStt 2. WHITE HOUSE Ice Cream Parlor what it should be.

A Fine Ranch. ed Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago, An advertisement la a silent drum To an admirer of fine horses a visit mer. Bargains the chestnuts of trade, and less than cost, parodies on to a farm where they make a business picking up bargains for cash for the benefit nothing. There has never been int tru of raising these noble animals is some ted an advertising substitute for the thing to be enjoyed.

Few people have of our customers. newspaper; all else supplementary. To the opportunity that those living near Is the place to get a nice dish of Ice Cream. here have of visiting such an establish Goods are arriving. take the advertisement out of the paper during the so-called dull season is Don't fail to call at the ment.

The Excelsior Stud Farm owned by Alfred Pray is probably the The Ladies as well as Gentlemen are par about as bad as to stop feeding the horse because the present weather is largest institution of the kind in the state. The writer lately visited this unsuitable for using. K. C. Gazette.

farm and enjoyed a grand treat. Mr. ticularly invited to give me a call and try my delicious Cream. Kate Feild says that the woman who Pray has about one thousand acres of ope Mi i aims to be fashionable might as well land devoted to pasture and to raising commit suicide at the start. She must neglect home, husband and children.

feed. To see one hundred head of fine horses and colts grazing on the finest tame pasture in the country is a sight I will have all kinds of summer drinks at all put away comfort and convenience, be AND worth going a good ways to see. Be times and Strawberries once a week. a nrst class hypocrite and a good slanderer, and at the end of ten years side these, can be seen ten or fifteen break down and become a physical stallions, old and young, some of which wreck. Mb are the finest we ever saw.

The barn on this farm is 40 100 feet, with two additions each 20 100 feet. Water is June 24th the trial will be made in A azar Buffalo X. Y. to kill people by electri city. William Kemmler is the victim forced into each apartment by a wind mill, and everything on the place Is If the thing is a success New York Sheriffs will have a pic-nic hereafter made as convenient as possible for the business.

Mr. Pray not only excels in in disposing of their victims. horse-raising but he has the finest SIIEBIFF'S SALE. apple bearing orchard in Dickinson Under and by virtue of an order of county if not Centeral Kansas sale issued by the Clerk of the District Nearly forty acres of the finest kind of Court, Dickinson County, State of Kansas, in a cause pending therein, fruit furnishes him from one to three thousand bushels a vear. Taken together Mr.

Pray has a place that any wherein F. W. Wright is plaintiff and Gelbert Jiellor and Fanney Bellor man may be proud of and that bis are defendants. i win, on May neighbors may also, well be proud of. No doubt he has the finest lot of ercheron horses in the state, and 27th A.

1889, at the front door of the court bouse, in the city of Abilene, County of Dickinson, State of Kansas, at 10 o'clock a. in. of said day what is more he has never wanted for For Bargains in Summer Hats, Ladies Underwear, Parasols, Shirts, Flouncing, Etc. All spring goods go at cost; for the next 30 days. You cannot afford to miss our bargains.

Don't fail to see our Show Windows. Come in and get prices before buying. Most Respectfully, MBS. S. SORRELS.

Four Doors South P. O. a market for all he can raise. Last spring, parties came here from the east and bought a car load of fine young mm Mir 2 sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate to-wit: Lot number eleven (11) in block num brtod mares from him. This season he proposes to have all there is in the I tell you that Ice Cream at the White House business, and is now east with ths ber nine (9) of Henquenet's addition to the city of Hope in Dickinson county.

State of Kansas. The said real estate will be sold pursuant to the judgment second car load for this season. He has seven stallions in the field for of the Court in said cause recited in aid order of sale. is Grand. CHAS.

C. FIE, Proprietor. FIRST DOOB SOUTH DISPATCII OFFfCE. i service this season aud is getting all he can do with them. Such a man deserves success and he will surely1 succeed.

If you have any love for fine horses you will fell well paid by spend- Witness my hand this 17 day of April A. D. 1889. D. W.

Naiix, Sheriff of Dickinson county Kansas. ng a day at the Excelsior, Stud Farm. 1- s..