Ellsworth Messenger from Ellsworth, Kansas • 3

innnnnnni Cru We shind the Are Out 0Y IVI 1 1 1 ry Entire line of samples of new Millinery bought for Adam's Store at a price which will enable me to sell it at ten per cent under the wholesale cost price. This means about one-half price to you. C3 LI 1" Cloth I 8 so a' a ridiculously low price. You can not conceive of the bargains here given unless you examine them. ire Shoes and Stockings.

I have the exclusive sale for the celebrat Not for an hour or a day, but for all time. This month of May you can buy here all kinds of Seasonable Mer Prices 01 ed Iluiskamp Shoes and Iron Clad Stockings, best wearers on earth. chandise at lower prices than any concern in the county will sell you the same goods for under any circumstances. ADAM'S STORE, GEO. A.

MERKEL Prop. Miss Hay has in an advertisement NEWSY NOTES. this week that is of interest to ladies. Head it. Mr.

F. G. Babcock, president of the Town and County Occurrences Presented in a Readable Form. traws Eden Farm, Horse and Cattle is at wflica Way the Wind Blows the hospital, this city. The neatest, cleanest and most com plete stock of groceries and queensware in the city.

S. Rammelsberg. Mrs. S. E.

Belleville and Mrs. J. E. Putnam, of Salina, have been visiting Mrs. D.

B. Lone for the past week. The jury in the Shaffer-Ames case failed to agree and were discharged Fri Here are some straws that will give you a key to the price situation in this big, exclusive store. For the next ten days you can buy any of the bargains mentioned in this advertisement, and hundreds of others equally as good and low-priced: day morning by Judge Thompson. Monday evening next, Rev.

Hunt will preach at the Baptist church from the words "Break up the fallow ground." We can't give you the earth but we can give you the best and the most goods for your money. S. Rammels berg. A. E.

Culbertson has rented the prop 98c Ladies' Dress Skirts, worth $1.75 to $2.50, $1.35 Best Hooks and Eyes, five papers for 10c 4c Lace Curtains, worth $1.00 per pair, for 58c 8c Lace Curtains worth $2.00 per pair for $1.10 75c Ladies' Umbrellas, worth 75c, 85c and 90c for 50c 21 yards good yard-wide Muslin for Velvet Skirt Facing, good quality, per yard, Cambric, best quality, all colors, per yard, Belding Silk, all colors, per spool, W. C. C. Corsets, worth $1.00 and $1.25, erty on Tenth sereet, just west of where C. Jolley.

deutlst. Ellsworth. K. The coolest place in town is The May Pharmacy. Kaffir corn, cane and millet seed at M.

Meek's. The May Pharmacy is the coolest place in town. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas firover last night.

The new soda fountain at The May Pharmacy is a beauty. The goods you buy are the poods we sell. S. RammeUberg. See the center tables we are giving away.

M. Arnold it Co. Walter Carey returned Monday night from a short business trip to Salina. Corn planting is pretty well over with. Some of the early planting is up.

Dan Dyer, representative of the Tope-ka Capital, was in Kllsworth yesterday. Will Ober, of Salina, attended the Knights Templar ball here last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J.

B. Handy returned Sunday night from a week's visit in Missouri. Joe Thorpe recently purchased the property on Second street, in which he is living. George Krhardt, north of Ellsworth, Is having a good-sized addition built to his house. Guinness Moore and Morris Arnold were in Kansas City two days the first of the week.

Mr. Carpenter lives. He will occupy it at once. Tickets for Rev. M.

P. Hunt's lecture, Be Somelody," will be on sale at Sher- Ladies' Shirt Waists, latest styles, all colors 35c riff's drug store seats reserved without extra charge. The Central Restaurant, corner Doug las avenue and and First street, is open for business. Everything is neat, clean and inviting. Step in and see for Dr.

H. O'Donnell went to Pittsburg, Tuesday to attend a meeting of the State Medical Association. He is expected home this evening or to morrow. Joe Urbanek, on the head of Spring creek, just south of the Lincoln county Special Low Prices for ten days on Men's, Boys1 and Children's Clothing. Boys1 Suits from 38c up.

Special Low Prices for ten days on Men's and Women's Shoes. Special Sale of Ladies' Muslin Underwear. If our E. W. line of Ladies' Muslin Underwear is not better made, from better quality goods and does not cost you less than any offered in this city, bring it back.

You don't want it unless it's better and cheaper. Look here. Look elsewhere. Compare prices, and then buy where you can buy the best goods for the least money. John Brill, of the Sherman ranch, is a patient at the hospital.

He came in a few days ago. Herman Schwerdtfeger, north of town has just completed an addition to his farm house. line, has a large addition to his house well under way. It is now ready for the plasterers. Wm.

Mollhagen, who was injured last week near Lorraine by falling from his buggy, was in Ellsworth Tuesday. His bruises are still painful, but he is improving each day. The Presbyterian Aid Society was entertained yesterday afternoon by Mes-dames Chas. Hite, D. H.

Fraker and W. B. Essiek. Supper was served at the home of Mrs. Kssick.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chase came up from Mountain Grove, Mo.

last Friday night. Come and see the beautiful dishes we are giving away with every cash pur chase. S. Kammelsberg. Miss Lolla Lafferty is in school again this week.

Last week she was confined to the house with tonsilitis. Luke Shock and O. W. Sparr are at work this week on an addition to Ben Shock's house on Oak creek. Art Charvat and Frank VanDe Water SANTRY CO entertainad the whist club last Monday evening at the home of the former.

Delos Eldridge and Frank Sparr are building a large addition to Jacob Bow Mr. Chase returned home Monday morning. Mrs. Chase is still here with her sister, Mrs. Abe Higham.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Murray, of Frederick, were in Ellsworth the first of the week visiting Mrs.

Murray's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Payne.

Mr. Murray returned home Tuesday morning, and Mrs. Murray went home yesterday morning. Mr. Ludwig Bohl and Miss Bertha Kohls, of the northwestern part of the county, were united in marriage last ers home at his farm north of town.

Don't forget to ask for premium tickets. Fob Sai.k A number of carpets and some household goods. Mrs. F. S.

Foster. Dr. Alfred O'Donnell will return to Kansas Citj the first of next week. He expects to open an ofiice in Kansas City, Friday, April 26. Rev.

H. Obermowe, pastor of the German Lutheran church north of Ellsworth, performed the cere Base Ball. The base ball fever broke out suddenly this week upon the arrival of Siegel, catcher, and Fricke, short stop of last years' team. The fans are busy devising ways and means for supporting a team for this year. The sound of a fiddle makes a man want to dance; the odor of a beefsteak makes him hungry; the sight of a tempting fountain awakens his thirst.

See that elegant fountain at The May Pharmacy. Business with our merchants the past week has been unusually good. Special sales in progress at various stores have called out an army of purchasers. Last Saturday Larkin's store employed an Mrs. E.

A. Bower is still confined to her bed, but is improving daily. Mr. Bower will not return to California until she is fully herself again. Mrs.

Sophie Beebe, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. D. B. Long, left on Tuesday afternoon for an extended visit with relatives and friends in southern California. W.

E. Sherriff got his new French elate front in place yesterday. It is a Mo. Gottlieb Soukup, east of the Erdt-mann place in Columbia township, is having an addition made to his farm house. Attend the entertainment Monday evening at the opera house.

Mr. Bossert is highly spoken of by the eastern papers. Miss Daisy Lafferty is again at her desk in Larkin Sons store. She was at home several days last week with throat trouble. mony.

We wish them happiness, prosperity and a long life. Mr. Dewing, the Frisco express messenger, who was taken down with the small-pox a couple of weeks ago, was discharged from the emergency hospital last Saturday. He resumed his run on the Frisco Monday. Mrs.

Dewing, who nursed him during his sickness, went to Wichita Monday morning to visit relatives. She returned last evening. Laid to Rest. Mabel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

E. A. Bower, was laid to rest in the Ellsworth cemetery last Sunday afternoon. Services were held at the home at Rev. J.

R. Tery, pastor of the Presby "Be Somebody." We are in receipt of a letter from Rev. M. P. Hunt, pastor of the Patee Park Baptist church, St.

Joseph, in which he asks us to announce to his friends and acquaintances in and alout Eljsworth that he will spend the week of "May 6 to 11 in Ellsworth. He will speak each afternoon and evening at the First Baptist church. Friday evening he will give his much eulogized lecture on "Be SomelKxly" at the opera house. Rev. Hunt was a resident of Ellsworth for a number of years.

The Baptist church of this city was never more prosperous than during his pastorate of it. He is a logical and argumentative talker, interesting, instructive, entertaining. He is a christian gentleman in every sense of the word; preaches what he believes, and practices what he preaches. His series of meetings, as well as his lecture, should be well attended. We trust and believe extra force of five salesmen.

Business has been such that they have found it Obituary. The remains of Mr. Abram Higham, who died Thursday morning, April 25th, HtOl, in this city, were interred in the Ellsworth Cemetery last Friday afternoon. Short services at the home were conducted by Rev. F.

N. Cox, after which the remains were escorted to the "City of the Dead" by Ellsworth Lodge Xo.HH, A.F. and of which organization the deceased was an honored and respected member. Following the Masonic burial service at the grave, the remains were laid to rest to await the coming of the irand Architect. Abram Higham was years, 1 month and 13 days of age at the time of his death.

He was one of the early settlers of this county, had been respeatedly honored by election to office, and was a man who had the respect and confidence of the people of loth citv and county. His family have the-sympathy of th entire community in their sorrow. See the center tables we are giving away. M. Arnold Co.

terian church officiating. great improvement over the old front will make one of the most attractive display windows in the city. Dr. L. C.

Cook was taken sick Sunday quite suddenly. Monday afternoon we found him able to sit up, but still feel Mabel was four years, six months and Lee Lafferty, who was confined to the house last week with throat trouble, is seventeen days old at the time of her death, Wednesday, April 21. again at his place in The Central Na tional Bank. Mr. Bower, who was in Sacramento, neteessary to retain them all this week.

The "Carnival of Nations," a drill in which forty persons will take part, will bo given at the Opera House, May 24th. This exhibition will be under the direction of Mrs. P. J. Roth, for the.

benefit of the Episcopal church of this city. It will be a very instructive entertainment, and we hope to see it well patronized. The Singing Club will give an entertainment in the opera House Monday evening, May 6. The Club will be assisted by Mr. Joseph Bossert, impersonator and lightning change costume artist.

The Club will render two selections and Mr. Bossert will Eive eleven California, at the time of her death, ar Miss Annie iioptuns acted as one ot rived home Saturday night. the board of county examiners Satur ing weak from the attack. He is again able to attend to his professional duties today. Mrs.

Seaver visited in Ellsworth Monday with Mrs. L. II. Seaver. She was on her way from Russell, where she has "At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way.

They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely." different character sketches during the evening. Admission 35 cents children, 15 cents. Reserved seats at Sherriff's, 10 The Rockport correspondent of the St. they will as has a very large circle of Joe Evening News, says "The lecture personal friends here. cents extra.

Be Somebody," by Rev. M. P. Hunt, of St. Joseph, was one of the finest ever delivered here.

It is greatly hoped Mrs. Jane Dalgity, of Carneiro, left the first of this week for her new home near Seattle, "Wash. Mrs. Dalgity has lived in this county a great many years. that he will come back again next sum mer and repeat this lecture at the lec been the past winter with her daughter, Mrs.

J. R. Doig, to Enid, where she goes to visit another daughter, Mrs. Ben Fagan. Our old friend, J.

Q. Ruscoe, writes us from Marshall, O. T. He is getting along very well. The farm for which he paid $50, he sold about six weeks ago for $1,900.

He says he will try to get a farm in the new country when it is opened this fall. Rev. C. N. Snyder returned to his home in Kirwin, Saturday ture congress, which is now an assured fact.

Extensive improvements, including a 1 11 ne Ureat 9c bale at thep new ceiling, are being made in J-l. V. Twenty-one teachers took the ex-1 amination. Mr. Coon, special agent for the Royal Insurance was in Ellsworth yesterday looking up the matter of our city's Are protection.

Mr. Blake, of Denver, and Dr. Fret! Hawes and Miss Marsh, of Bunkerhill, were guests of Dr. and Mrs. George F.

Wright this week. Mrs. Nimmons, of Lincoln, spent several days the past week in Ellsworth with her friend, Mrs. H. Z.

Hissem. She returned home Monday. Rev. Snyder and Mr. Dewing, the gentlemen who had small-pox, were both discharged as thoroughly well last Saturday.

No other cases have developed. Kllsworth was extremely fortunate in having but two cases. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Stoltenberg, of Holyrood, died Sunday.

She was but four months old and an only child. The Messenger sincerely sympathizes with Mr. and Mrs. Stoltenberg in their sorrow. Roth's barber shon.

While these re- pairs are being made Mr. Roth has his chairs in X. Harris's real estate office, one door north of the barber shop. A ov. -c5Y ft "as ar surpassed our expectations, in ILPl Lvl JL volume of business, and while we know the values we have given to the public have been appreciated, we are going She has a host of friends in and around Carneiro who regret her departure, but at the same time wish her prosperity and happiness in her new home.

Three of her children have been residents of Washington for several years; four accompany her from Carneiro. Mrs. Dalgity, just before leaving, asked us to state that she and the children wished to thank their many friends at Carneiro for kindnesses and for the handsome parting gifts received, assuring them that they would be retained and prized by them as -tokens of loving remembrance. The Messenger follows Mrs. Dalgity to her new home.

We trust she will find both health and prosperity in barber shop and a real estate office are a goou combination at one you may morning. On the same day Rev. F. X. Cox received a draft for 142.20 from Rev.

J. II. the Beloit district, to defray all expenses incurred by Rev. Snyder's sickness. Frank Fox was in Ellsworth a day or two the first of the week.

Frank is an old Ellsworth boy. A few years ago he get shaved on the face, at the other it is possible to get skinned all over, figura to add a few more good things to our list for the remaining days of this tively speaking. Our new gasoline engine, put in last week to replace the seam engine taken out, is a daisy. It is small, compact, decided that town life was not all that wasaidof it, so adopted farming. He is now located near Brookville on a clean, noisless, inexpensive as tb opera vo vo vo on To farm and is getting along nicely.

vo Rev. C. M. Burck, formerly lay reader in the Episcopal church of this city, is visiting in Ellsworth this week. He is A great many odds and ends have accumulated in all lines in our dif- stationed, at Minneapolis now and is very much pleased with his charge.

ferent departments, and commencing Friday we will, in connection with PnAnf Cnln nfPnn tUnrA nilr nn1 A r. TOO TUT 1I7UrkT T70 ATT? 9 Summer Millinery We are now showing some of the NOBBIEST MILLINERY CREATIONS OF THE SEASON. Mr. Burck has a great many warm per sonal friends in Ellsworth, made dur ing his stsy here. PRICES.

Watch for Special Sale hand bills for Friday and Saturday. Our ft Great 9c Sale will close Tuesday niffht. Great 9c Sale will close Tuesday night. tion, and furnishes plenty of power to run our nine-column news press, the large 10x15 Gordon job press and the 7x11 Pearl. It consumes only a gallon of gasoline in ten hours.

The engine is always ready, can be started in thirty seconds and will run hour after hour with no further attention. Joseph Bossert, tragedian, presented several interesting plays at the college last Tuesday evening to a large and appreciative audience. He is one of the best actors in tragedy who has ever visited Manhattan. His presentation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde, and of the miser were especially good. Those who heard him are highly pleased with his entertainment and speak of it in the highest terms. It is hoped that he will give another entertainment here sron; if he does, no one should fail to hear him, for his acting is certainly fine. Manhattan Mercury. Mrs.

Spicer had a letter a few days ago from her son, Dave, written vo San Francisco. Dave belongs to Co. I. variety Thirty-second U. S.

V. For the past Poultry and produce wanted at highest market prices. Unginal, btyhsb Hats, lionnets and Street Goods in a wide i of styles and shapes, trimmed in most artistic manner at eighteen months he has been in the Philippines. Their trip across from Ma nila is the shortest on record, it having vo vo vo v5 Very Popular Prices. been made in 24 days and 18 hours.

They arrived at San Francisco jpn the 1 Larkin The Low-Price Makers. ons morning of April 19, and wera landed the next morning. Dave writes that they will be mustered out on May 8 Special Sale still continues. MISS INEZ HAY. we are giving 0i ON VO vo GXOxGv.NCXCVOvONC CNGNONGvOvOXOVCX ONVvOVONOvOXON OVOXOVOvOvOX OvoNONONONONOVONOv.

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