The Gem Leader du lieu suivant : Gem, Kansas • 1

be emrt VOL. 3 NO. 34 Gem, Thomas County, Kansas, Wednesday, Nbvember 23 1910 1.00 per Year Turkeys for Sale. tne man who does not take the home paper and then be rested. Aud then the devil got into nis moulding room and created the man who takes the paper for several yerrs and Tails to'pay for It.

After he had com pleted that sorry job aud having a few lumps left he created that excuse of a man who nettles his nubscripton by informicg the postmaster to mark his paper refused." Ex. Dentistry DOCTORS LARRICK MORRISON SURGEON DEN ISTS Will bo in GEM on NOVEMBER 28 29 Remember the DATE Rock Island Time Table. All trains ruu ojj what is known as mountain, western or slow time. EASTWARD. No.

82, Local Freight 10: 10A.M. No. 362, Local Passenger 4:20 P. 1Ho. 8 Mail and Express 2:49 P.

WESTWARD. No. 81, Local Freight 2:00 P.M. No. 361 Local Passenger 9:18 A.M.

So. 39, Mail and Express 4:50 A.M A. Si RABOURN Agent. Pire bred Mammoth Bronze turkeys. for sale at very low prices, quality considered.

I have a few that ure pot related. Mrs. Mary Mc-Sparriu, Gem, Kansas. Game With Rexford The Rexford basket bull team came up yesterday evening aud played a game with the Gem twam and were defeated by a score of 5 to 6, It was a very close and exciting game all the way through aud especially so in Claud Hershey went to Rexford Saturday. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! What have jou to be thankful for? Chas Summer has been hauling corn out from town this week.

Cha9. Pearson made our den a call Monday afternoon while in town. A lady from Topeka was in town Saturday collecting tor the Orphans Home. C. V.

Plott and wife visited out at W. H. Hull's last Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs. Houston, Mrs.

Eaton and Katie Hollzclaw went to Colby Friday afternoon. Real estate has been changiug hands very rapidly the past few days; It has been goiDg south, We noticed several Rexfordites iu the congregation at the Methodist church Sunday evening. tithe last half but-when' time was walled at the close, the Gem team Mr and Mrs Rabourne visited rel- I was one score ahead. The bo vs that al.ives over by Haltord Sunday. with the Gem team object to I I i I i Born to Mr and Mrs Roy Case on played agaiust girls on the opposite side because they don't know how to guard them.

What Are Merchants For? Did yon ever stop to think, when Saturday, November 19, a baby girl. Katie Hollzclaw has been working at one of the tjpeicases in this office this weekta Basket Ball Game. Tb basket ball team from district number 12-Roy E'lett's school-came to town lust Friday evening and played a game with our school team here which was very interesting aud excitiug, It was the second contest that these two yearns have had this season, this game being the return for the one played ou their grounds few weeks ago. The players ou either side did remarkably well, and though the score was 14 to six iu favor of Gem, it was a very good game. The visiting team started off at the first of the game like they were going to eary away the honors but iu the last half the tune changed and ihe Gem team easily made the winning score.

A good crow was out to see the game. After they were throughlplaying the toys around town chose up sides and played a game, and there's where we got ours. Mr and Ziegelmeier and Mrs Roy Mrs visitors at Colby yesterday. We learn that Chas. Thompson has been layed off from, work on the railroad untill the first Of che month.

John Carlstedt came up from Rexford Sunday morning and returned in the evening to be there for his work Monday morning. It is time your order for that win ter was in be fore the goods js all picked over. Ribiett's are orjr-ring new ones from two trood companies. Local News 'Lottie Marshall went to Colby Friday C. V.

Ziegelmeier went to Colby Monday. Harry Hayden "went to Rexford Saturday' Mr. Larson of Colby, was in town Friday. Nannie Houston spent i few days in Colby last week. -E.

T. Smith wa9 seen on our streets last Wednesday. Archie Summer and Ida Hardin were Rexford visitors Sunday afternoon. Willis Summer spent Sunday and "Monday visiting with his mother and sister in Rexford. Quite a delegation of Gemites at tended the play, "Nancy'! at the Colby opera house last Friday night.

Charley McKay and family visited his brother here a few days last week They left Sunday evening for Kan- sas City Sherm Houston received a car of corn at the elevator last week and it isgoingfast. If you want some of it yon will have to hurry. A represenative of the Oakley Marble and Granite works was in town one day last week and put up a tombstone at the grave of Chas. Thompson's little sob. Mr Rabourn informs us that the trayi known as the Jersey was taken off.

it has been doing all locai passenger work. As far as we know now, 27 and 28 will do local work We will know more about it next week as we we will have a new time caid by that time. you were ordering you were ordering your groceries and supplies from foreign firms and mail order houses that you were helping to kill your home town? You are. Our merchants, ai well as the merchants of any other town, depend the people of the town surrounding country for their trade and for" their living. Every dollar you spend out of their territory just harms them that much and it.

bams the town and that isn't all. It hauiis vou to a certain extent. You mav be saving a Tew cents at the time on a Tew articles but after awhiie if you wish to sell your property or establish some kind of a business, it will come back at you. To be sure the merchants make a proiit on some of the things they sell, but what if they do. They have to or they couldn't live, Ifc is the same way with you and everyone else.

You wouldn't want to buy something and sell it for the same price you paid for it. And (the rnerchants'don't make as much as some think they do. By the time they pay their' expenses and stand the loss that there is bound to be on many of the articles, there is not much profit left. Quite a few 'from here attended Mrs Mclntire's sale yesterday. They report the stuff as selling fairly well.

The lights at the Methodist church was. repaired the first of the week The plant is not working perfectly yet however. Lilhe and Clarence Carlste'dt left yesterday for Vona, Colorado to Rpend Thanksgiving with their, broth ev and sister. The meetings are still in progress at the Methodist cl urcb with a good attendance each Sunday night the church was crowded. IE you were a candidate for an office and got there, tomorrow is the day to be thankful for it, and if you got beat, be 'thankful that it was no worse.

A. B. Sargeaut of Colby, the Wat-kins medicine man was in town yesterday selling his wares. He is feel-1 ing very much elated over the returns of the election. Henry Franklin is putting another coit of paint on the George Schroeder store building this week.

This is the second time the building hrs been 'painted- The first time seemed to crack and peel off Little Herald McPherson has been We were requested to announce that the Ladies' Aid society will meet at Mrs Hurst's on Friday in stead of Thursday afternoon this week on account of Thanksgiving The Rev. Irl Hick's 1911 Almanac, The Rev. Irl Hicks Almanac tor '11, tha guardian Angel in a hundred thousand homes, is now ready, Not many are now willing to be without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks magazine, Word and Works.

The two are only One dollar a year. TheAlmanac is 35c prepaid. No home or office should fail to send for them, to Word and Works Publishing Company St. Louis Mo. day coming on Thursday.

Henry Hull lost a very valuable Notice All persons knowing themselves indebted to me please call and settle at once, by cash or bankable note and save costs. J. W. Hurst. In The Beginning.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and then th editor, then he created the liberal advertiser which was all good. The next day it snowed and he created quite sick the last few days. The doctor had to be called Monday after noon from Colby. He had driven his machine to Colby and had it torn apart for repairs so he had to hire a car to come home yi. Clarenc White of Kanarado la visiting Mr Casselman's this week, Hey See was a business at Colby yesterday.

0 I Sack Tfto a frequent visitor these horse a few days ago, caused by ex cessive bleeding from a wound on one of his shoulders. This was quite a loss for Mr Hull He seems 'to be having his streak of bad luck this fall. Mrs Arthur Smith' who has been at Wayne, Nebraska at the bedside of her brother returned home Saturday night. Her brother has been dangerously sick with typhoid fever for several weeks but she reports him improving now. Section foreman, Mr Connelly, received a message from headquarters one day last week telling him to lay off all his hands but one.

Consequently all thei boys had to quit but Charley Thompson who has first man's place for the winter. Bert King who has been working on the section here since harvest, quit one day last week and left for Topeka where he intends to work this winter and live with his father. His father has a job waiting for him in a furniture store if he wants t) take it. There has been a light flurry of snow since our last issue, just a warning for everyone to (ret ready for the one that is coming by and by. We noticed a freight train pass tbru hera one day last ffeek from the west with the tops of the cars covered with snow.

Again we will remind you of that load of coal. Did you ever play basket ball? If you want to die young or live thru untold misery, it is a good game to play. The editorof this Tpaper Jtuu been suffering the pact few days with a sprained shoulder that he obtained while out enjoying thin innocent pastime with some the rest of the boys last Friday afternoon. However we don't mean to condemn the game for it is alright, that is, if the rigbtones are playing, but deliver us from the evil. Cold weather is Jiere now and will need your winter underwear.

When you go to buy come in and look over our line. We have all sizes of the best ladies' and gent's winter underwear at right prices. Watch for special reduction sale on Ladies winter coats We are headquarters for good fresh groceries. Remember we are headquarters for duck coats, underwear, and in fact anything to make a person comfortable. SHOES! We are expecting a shipment of shoes inafewdays, Come in and get shod probuce Same as Cash it II.

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