The Pratt Union from Pratt, Kansas • 1

TPf-p a hptp 1 1 Ol. l. VOL.XX11 NO. PRATT, PKATT COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1907.

teMMEii "talniheU 1830 lootwoHdatedneo.18. I860. Broke His Shoulder. ABOUT TOWN. TP Ed Wise went out Thursday to help drive some cattle and bis horse fell with bim throwing him to the ground We carry only the best makes in Goods for Fall 1 Wntrhpc nnrl hillftfl Crises The Globe is authority for the statement that every time a tbln woman laughs at a fat woman lacing, the fat woman snickers at thin woman's pads.

The date of the big ball game and rices that was set for Tuesday, October and bis shoulder was broken. Dr. Peak fixed the injured parts. Baby Eby's Automobile. W.

G. Ebey, train dispatcher at the Rock Island and his wife were pre Boss, Crescent and Crown Cases Webb C. Ball, Hamilton, Elgin and sented with a tine rubber tire baby Just Received tftb, has been changed to Thursday, 1 Waltham Movements cab, last by the employees of October, 10th. livery body turn out the C. R.

I. io honor of their Two Car Loads of. Everything backed up by our wen known guarantee and 14 years of I experience. 0. J.

WES EM AN The Rock Island watch inspector when you are in the market for a watch. New Furniture Rugs and Carpets ran iugg thl For the fall trade. Everything edicine or Prescription? new boy. Frank Ward Ebey who arrived Saptemle. 18th.

The buggy is one of the best tbat money can buy but the Rock Island crowd always get the best. The young "tram dispatcher" will make his initial trip in his new car in a few days. Got the Booze. Sheriff Burnett put a lot of captured booze in one cell of the jail for safe keeping and the prisoners got a broom with which" they shoved it to one side of cell then attached a wire and raised a bottle at a time pulled the neck through the bars and with another wire tipped the bottle and poured contents into a bucket. For euch work the prisoners have forfeited the many courtesies which have been extended to them and now have to stay in the dingy building.

Electric Lights. Mel Mawdsley was in Kansas City last week securing' repairs for their light plaht. They are doing all possible to get the lights ready and have had a hard time because of unavoidable delays. While patrons have suffered much, the proprietors have suffered a great deal more and are undoubtedly doing all in their power to make things right. The strike, the heavy traffic and the crowded condition of the manufactories the very latest and up-to-date AND PRICES ARE REASONABLE Come and see, we can please you and have a big time at the fair grounds.

i The sarcastic girl is the one usually left on the shelf after all the sensible girls have been disposed of.is the opinion of one of our most sensible old maids, and among our old maids are sime of the best women in the world. Saturday night some of the clubhdys witnessed the performance of a female acrobat in the open window of her bed room that was most thrilling. By the time the feat was finished their bair was standing on end. She came through and demonstrated that she was no novice. Not many days since a clerk in a grocery store put up 2 dozen eggs, to take borne.

A woman drove up in a bu27i et out, walked in and picked up the eggs boldly just as though she had ordered goods, and then hiked for her buggy and drove away. The clerk says, it was the most brazen shop lifting he has seen. One morning last week B. D. Crawford found a man lying on the bench of of hi out house who seemed to be drunk.

He had no hat and when asked bis name said "I lost my name, sbut that doer." Mr. Crawford phoned Marshal ilium who went down and got the man who is perhaps "nameless here forevermore." A young boy in this city collected a bill for his mother that was paid by check. He carefully raised the check to $10, and cashed same. That was during the fair but the check did not get back to the owner until last week so the forgery, was not discovered until then. We have not learned what is to be done with the boy.

The check was for $.1.00 If you hear anyone say "Medicine" or "Prescription," seed him to DR. McEL WAINS PHARMACY. Every drop of medicine bought at this store carries with it our guarantee of purity. We never substitute. We have no as good." You get just what you ask for.

Our price will -bow you how to ecopomi.a and save money. If you have heea wondering bow to get that medicine you Baw advertised try this store. We mean to handle all the new worthy medicines and we try to bar out all the unworthy. A Pleasure To Show Goods The Turn itu re Man 'TT'TTT'TTT'TT'TT tt- TT'T-TTT'T Trade at Dodson's It Will Pay You jBnng us Your Prescriptions have caused annoying delays acd we trust that all this is about over and we We make a specialty of handling the best goods 4- r. Thomas McElwain Store open Sunday from 9 to 12 o'clock shall again have good service.

Field Rally Day At the First Baptist Church Sunday October 6 1907. the market affords. Our line consists of the Cattaraugus and Keen Kutter tools and cutlery Superior stoves and ranges Detroit vapor gasoline stoves White lilly washing machines In the morning 10 45, there will be an excellent program, consisting of songs by a male quartette, ladies quir-tette, a Trio and Duett. Some short pithy talks, and Pastors report. In the evening 7:30 songs by the congregation, and quartettts.

Racine buggies, Sattley listers, Hummer plows, Full line of harness and collars, Devoe lead and zinc paint, In fact everything kept in a first class Hardware and Implement store. Sprained His Foot. C. C. McMichael, cashier of the Citi-z3Dsbank made a tnistep Monday and sprained his foot so badly- that he is going on crutches.

It Rained. SuDday the amount of rain that fell here was .18 iDches. Sunday night .30 inches and Monday night 1.10 inches, making in all 1.04 inches of water. Folks are still sowing wheat. We appreciate your trade and will treat you right Briant-Payne.

On Monday Saptember -'3 Mr. ert Briant and Miss Minnie Payne were united in marriage. Mr. Briant CALL AND GET PRICES ODDSON is well known in this county and Mrs. Briant is an accomplished young lady This is the prize for some bright little girl It is a Buck's Junior range.

It is a handsome little toy 23 inches long, 22 inches high and 11 inches wide. It will burn real and bake, boil, roast and fry just like in a mama's range. It is going to be giv to the little girl who clips the greatest namber of our ads from the papers before Nov. 24. of Hutchinson.

May every day be Christmas Bob. R. L. Parker Married. Mr.

R. L. Parker and Miss Nancy Phone No. 55 A. Smith were united in marriage Quotations and recitations.

Steropticon views, consisting of scenes in the lifa of Christ, a mechanical view of the ascension of Christ, Closing with the hymn "Rock of Ages," illustrated with eleven fine colored views come and and enjoy the day with us. Lee T. Fischek, Pastor, Death of Mr. Thompson. In a letter from H.

Thompson to N. Lyon we note some facts concerning the death of Mr. Thompson fattier which we think will be of interest to miny friends of the family. He says he did not reach bis home until after his father had passsd away. They his sister and his dear sorrowing mother and some friends present when they entered the borne.

The body of tne fathtr had been taken to the undertaking parlors where it remained until time for the services which were hold in the beautiful funeral chapel at clock on Tuesday, tae 24. immediately after that service, cremation service was performed and the ashes are to be taken to his beautiful family lot in his old home in Fredonia, New York for interment. It was the father's request that his body be cremated, and he had given fu.l instructions in every detail and all of them were closely observed by the family. Mr. Thompson maintained perfect consciousness to almost the last, but about ten minutes before the end came he had a slight convulsion, then passed quietlv away.

1 The home was 11 bower of beautiful flowers the tokeus of friendship from neighbors. Mr. Thompson has many friends here who sympathize deeply with him in this sad bereavement. Mmday of last week in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

They arrived in Pratt on Wed nesday and are now at home on the Let us show you the ereat advantage in furnishing your entire house from one com Parker home place north of Iuka. We wish them much happiness. The Watermelon Case. In the watermelon case Thursday the young men who had been arrested for stealing and destroying melons, proved to be not guilty and now we have been told that a suit for $3,000 damages will be started by the young men for false arrest and accusations made against tham. plete stock.

We make House Furnishing a Specialty I The Psatt Cash Has the Goods -4- They Appreciate Joe. The pupils of the Sixth and Seventh grades at the south building met Friday nDd gave the janitor a fruit show er. It was Mr. tsiincoe ota oirm- day and while he is janitor at the north building yet these pupils at the south side school hold him in high es Thomas Drills teem and miss no opportunity to do him honor. Moore -Jackson.

Mr. Clarence L. Moore and Miss Frank Rockefellers Sale Hereforda and Shoi thorns at Fair Grounds, Hutchinson, Kan. Thursday, October 10, '07. 30 Hereford-, 10 Shorthorns.

16 bulls, 10 of i hem Hereford. Beau Brummels, He.iotls, Lord Wiltons, Anxieties, Grove iirds and others Our aim is to supply you with better Furni COS ture, better Carpets and Rugs, better Stoves and in tact furnish your house complete of the very cream of the Ilerefords. Lena Pearl Jackson were united io marriage last evening at 6 o'clock at the residence of the brides parents, Mr. and. Mrs.

J. L. Jackson, by Rev. F. H.

Pojre. They left on the Rock Island for Argentine, Kansas, for a few days wti will then be at home on the Todd farm just west of Iuka. We wish Mr. and Mrs. Moore much hippines9.

with better goods than it is possible to get The Shorthorns include 4 Polled Durhams and trace to such families as Imported Younir Mary, Adelaide, Rose SOLD BYsso elsewhere at a price any way near as low of Sharon and Ruby. Reliable, use ful cattle, all of them, coming from the pastures without pampering. Good as ours, we are stocKea ior an lmmeubo trade and all goods are marked in plain figures, enougl: for foundations or to strengthen other herds. Buy them at your s. Toews Potatoes $1.00 Colorado or Minnesota potatoes at the Pratt Cash Grocery at 81.00 per bushel.

our prices are always the Jok VanVrankek, Prop. figure. Frank Roi'U'feller. For catalogue adire the auction R. Calbec Cullison, Kansas eers: I.

W. Hoitnan, Fulton, Mo or L. 8. Kent, Hutchinson, Kansas. i.iKfiJsSffil iSiBiiii5 322.