Quenemo News from Quenemo, Kansas • 1

Official City Paper Quenemo, Osage County, Kansas, Friday, June 25, 1909. Volume XVII Number 40 MORE ABOUnilE LIGHTS Council Explains It's Side New CELEBRATE The Nation's Birthday Proposition Nearly Ready. Reduced Prices, All wishing new hats for the Fourth of July had The impression has been given out that the city council was opposed to electric lights and would not accept the proposition made to them By wearing one of Marshall's Made-to-Wear Suit of Clothes. We have the Lamm, Kohn and Frat makes which cannot be beat in America. You get one hundred cents worth of tailoring value for every dollar and these clothes are built fit for the President of the United States to wear.

We want you to come in at once if you want a new suit for the Fourth. Some special prices on boys clothing. better get them before they are all gone. We have the nobbiest mens hats in the city Will you not need a new hat for the 4th. We take pleasure in showing our hats.

S. II MARSNALL is J. Pickles I Co. by the Quenemo Milling Company. They have been centured so bitterly that they think it no more than right that their side of the question should be explained.

In the first place they say they have received no legitimate proposition. The Milling Company made a kind of a proposition but failed to sign it and the committee appointed by the council to investigate it did not consider it a legal proposition. This committee wrote out their rejection to the proposition and handed it to the party who handed them the proposition from the Milling Company and he would not accept it because it was not signed. This therefore leaves matters the same as they were before the proposition was made. Following is a copy of the proposition made by the Milling Company: PROPOSITION.

To the Honorable Mayor and Council of the city of Quenemo, Kansas: The Quenemo Milling Co. hereby makes the foil owing proposition, viz: Provided the Quenemo Milling Co. can secure from the city of Quene mm CO. i V. 'ixu Jrx.

ii 4 ill INDIANS ARE COMING Will be Here in Full Indian Dress During the Old Settlers Picnic. A V7v. m-M will sell to those wishing souvenirs of the occasion. ML lege These Indians are members of the Old Sac and Fox tribe of the Mississippi. They have been a very mo a satisfactory franchise to oper ate an electric lighting system in said city, said franchise to cover a peaceful band of Indians who have not raised their hands against the period of twenty (20) years, Then the Quenemo Milling Co white people since 1808.

A little over forty years ago they were re moved from this place to the ter TO IMPROVE THE SERVICE ntory, now Uklahoma. We are Three Sac and Fox Indians were here Monday to see their old friend G. W. Logan. They live at Chandler Oklahoma.

While here arrangements were made to have a number of them come up here and remain during the Old Settlers Picnic which will be held on August 26 and 27. A wigwam will be built for them in the same style that they used to live in and they will be dressed in the old Indian styles. Many of the younger people and some of the older ones have never seen the Indian in his wild state and it is the object of the committee who have this in charge to represent them as near as possible as they used to live right here where Quennmo now stands some fifty years ago. They will probably bring with them blankets and trinkets of different kinds of their own make which they told that there are about eighty in the band, some of which would be proposes to, and is to contract with the city of Quenemo to install in said, city, twenty (20) 32 CP tungsten electric lamps, to be placed and disposed as the city may direct, and to keep same in good repair and operation from dark until 12 o'clock, midnight, each night, Missouri Pacific will Relay and Ballast Track from To- peka to Fort Scott. much pleased to once more visit their old hunting grounds.

One of the three who were here Monday is the head Indian or Chief of the band He could not talk English but had an interperter to do his talking for him. This will be quite an attraction for the Old Settler's Picnic. to this place he takes his bride and they start housekeeping at once. May their wedded life be filled with joy and happiness. large number of carloads of ballast stored which is to be used for the work on this line.

The work will be commenced at this end of the line, whare the traffic is heaviest. The service on the Topeka end of the line is light and this part will be the last to be reconstructed. The entire line however will be improved and ready train service by the last of October. The Missouri Pacific is planning some big things for this line. There are a number of good towns between Fort Scott and Topeka which should have better service and the Missouri Pacific will give it to them.

There will be a number of extra freight trains run over the road for the accommodation of the shippers. And the passenger service will undoubtedly be improved. A chair car will be added to the passenger train and the schedule will be rearranged to give better service to the different towns. No intimation however has been given out as to the nature of the changes. Topeka Journal.

If the plans of the Missouri Pacific officials here are carried out, the work of reballasting the roadbed between this city and Topeka will be started early next week. The work has been planned for sometime, but on account of the vast amount of work being done in other sections of the system in Kansas, the Nsas, Nebraska Dakota line, has neglected. This stretch of the track has long been one of the neglected portions of the Missouri Pacific. The line has been in service over twenty-five years and in some places scarcely no work of maintenance has been performed in that time. In many places the track is in such poor condition that trains are unable to exceed a speed of eight miles an hour.

The work of improvement will be extensive. New rails seventy-five pounds to the yard will be laid. New ties are scattered along the line in many places now and many more ties are stored in the local yards which will be transported to the base of operations as fast as they are needed. The local yards have a GIBSON-McCURDY. Miss Mabel Gibson and Mr.

Marshall McCurdy were united in marriage by Probate Judge Hogle at Lyndon, Tuesday afternoon. The marriage was a surprise to most of their relatives and friends. The young people are well and favorably known in and around Quenemo. Mrs. McCurdy is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Abner Gibson and was born and raised in this vicinity. She has many friends among the young people here. Mr. McCurdy is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank McCurdy. He is an upright, industrious young farmer. This spring he rented the John Streit farm and The Bulletin office has a large picture of Roosevelt draped with the American flag, hung up in its office. There is a big gray rat in the office also and every morning, just about sunrise, he can be seen marching up in front of the picture, rearing up on his hind legs and making three bows, graceful and low, to the picture.

We have had a number of chances to kill him but have never had the heart to do so. Florence Bulletin. tor a period or ten (1U) years; excepting that on moonlight nights the electric lights will not be operated, and it is to be understood that the city of Quenemo will furnish lamps and renewals of same as needed. The consideration in this contract is to be Three Hundred and Sixty Dollars ($360.00) per year paid to the Quenemo Milling Co. by the city of Quenemo, In the second place if the above proposition had been signed the committee would have rejected it.

They have found upon investigation that the 32 CP Tungsten lights are too small for street lights. The lights at Lyndon range from 150 to 200 candle power. Burlingame, Osage City and Lyudon have the Nernst lights which are the best kincf for street, lighting. If Quenemo has electric lights we want as good if not better than others have. In talking with the members of the council we learn that they are not opposed to electric lights but that they want the right kind of a proposition and one that will be satisfactory to the people for years to come.

Since the above was put in type we learn that the Milling Company have another more complete and definite proposition or franchise which they will present to the council committee. If this is not altogether satisfactory, the idea of most of our citizens is that they should get together and adjust the differences if possible. We want electric lights and want them badly, but think the council should secure the very best terms they possibly can. After July 1st the Funds of this Bank will be Guaranteed by the Depositors Guarantee Tund of State of Kansas Our application to this end being now on file with the Honorable Bank Commissioner THE FARMERS STATE BANK THE ONION MEETINGS. Evangelist Hamilton at the Opera House continues to be the center of attraction.

Last Sabbath four services were held and all larglely attended. The children at the Sunday School hour were pleasantly entertained and instructed. At eleven o'clock a large congregation assembled and heard a discourse scintillating with wit and humor but the sparks reverted more perfectly the golden gospel truth. At 3 p. m.

an address was delivered to the various fraternal organizations. The evening congregation was the largest yet assembled. The discourse seemed to be the climax of all the preceed- ing discourses. We do not know yet the effect of that discourse. Evidently non-professors were made to realize the danger in delay.

Christians, also, were made to realize the necessity of a more earnest effort on their part to solicit men for Christ. From these efforts we should expect results of a permanent character. The Evangelist's preaching is like zigzag lightning it shoots off one way and then another but you know where it strikes. Singer Boxell has his faithful chorus choir with its orchestral attachment under fine control. The solos and other special music are delightful.

The music is inspiring. (Continued on page 4) On account of outside work I will only be in my shop on Saturday to Kansas. Quenemo, do tin work W. E. Clark.

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