The Citizen from Howard, Kansas • 1

So 0 i 0 The Local News. The Citizen is strictly a local ievs paper. Its aim is to give a true account of all the news happenings of the county. Fhone Xo. 117.

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at a ti i ft A 1 I VIA lef? Vol. XXXVI. HOWARD, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1909. No. J2.

Tn rt- yVx -vx -Tx -tx -t mrll Mrs. M. J. Glasoo returned homelast Saturday from Fruita, Colorado, where she has been spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. H.

C. Hayes. HI WAS KEPT BUSY We learn from the evening paper that Ex Senator Fifzpatrick Standard Oil lobbyist and former chief of the Senate Lodge, was only four times in the Ieg thi3 session." This DR. W. F.

BAKBURY, Dentist, Howard Kansas. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN YJEST Efi'D OF 1ST NATIONAL BANK B'LO'G DIED Last night at 7 o'clock, Simon F. Van Buskirk, of dropsy; at home in this city. Funeral services will beheld tomorrow. Mr.

Van Buskirk has juit lately moved here from Elk county, -Fredonia Herald March 19. The deeeased was an old resident of Elk county, for a number of years liv ing in the vicinity of Howard and then moving to Oak Valley township, and only lately moving to Fredonia. John Van Buskirk of thi3 city is a son of the deceased. MILUHE1Y mm Bfnm wo Now that Bishop Lillis has declined to accept the offered place on the text book commission Goyernor Stubbs has a chance to please all parties by nominating Myra McHenry. Emporia Gazette.

One of the very best eyidencea of the justice of the cause of the insurgents in congress is the fact that Tammany congressman deserted their party to vote them. Wherever Tammany goes there is carrion. Now that the comptroller of the currency has decided that nationol banks cannot avail themselves of the provisions of the Kansas bank guaranty law, some of those banks are talking about re-organizing as state banks. Independence Times. LAST WEEK'S COURA M.

Q. Greenler, the carriage workman, went to Wicfild this week, where he expecs io stay. J. T. Kelscy Hooker, has been visions' hi uster, Mrs.

J. W. Gibbon for the pit week. Clifford Brilhurt's school, out in the Baner district, elosed last Friday. Clifford has made them an efficient and popular teacher.

Lee Roberts has the contract to wreck the old wal's and remove the rubbish on th old opera house block, to prepare the for A. F. Eby'd new bosice b'ock. Mrs. Maud and little son are over from WicMts tbis week visiting the home fo Us.

the family of Th-s. Bruce. Mrs W. renewed her Courant subscription yesterday. Frank McKcy has begun the pre-limary work for the trection of a new cottage dwelling on the lots on the corner west of the Badger Yards.

It will be a modern style structure and attractively Earned. Mr. and Mrs. C. F.

Osborn returned New Street Hats are Pleasing rrg Mails 41 Opening March 25, 26, 27, 1909. Ivteo' Eo Jo Kkbjo Beal's Hardware Bldg. 0S Pake Meat Market f.tf i K-rri rf 4 J. Neat, Qcan and Fresh Cured Up-to-Date. Meats.

Oysters and Fish in IvkltiV season. Fruits, Candies and Canned lir-'i Goods. Cigars and Tobacco. We car- ry the choicest goods only, and guar--w antcc Satisfaction. Phone us, No.

218 CSsrsrsTf; sl ice? Mr. Bryan in 1909 The fight which Mr. Bryan has made through the Commoner and on the stump will be continued with unceasing energy during the year 1909. Mr. Bryan has again assumed editorial charge of The Commoner and will give this department his active, personal attention.

All earnest, patriotic Americans are invited to join him in a special campaign of education to be inaugrated through the Commoner and the Democratic press. The governmental resorms for which Mr. Bryan is laboring are of vital importance to the welfare of the people. He should have the active support of those who want to see the government administered in the interest of the many instead of the few. Join the movement for aggressive action by accepting our special clubbing offer for one year.

Elk County Citizen and Commoner, $1.50 AH clubbing subscriptions should be made payable to F. Flory Howard, Kansas. Which would the reader rather be Victor Murdock, defying Uncle Joe, Cannon and bearding him in his den, or Phil Campbell, toadying to that worst enemy of popular government in the nation today? "A man must certainly be an opti mist," Henry J. Allen observes, to get bitter when a campaign for tariff revision, earned on for five years results in nothing but a high duty on his tea and coffee. One of my friends who keeps his weather eye on the political situation says that the republican party has made its last fight as a coherent organization and that in 1912 it will split into warring fragments as the democratic party did in Charleston in 1860.

We have now two sorts of republicans who differ from each other far more than the Stubbs- Bristow- Murdock-L a 1 1 et sort does from the Bryan democrats. Independence Times. The Coffeyviile high school i3 very proud of her manual training depart ment. The boy3 are required to make drawings and estimate the cost of everything they do. Lately they drew plans for a residence and then built it, the high school boys doing all the work.

It is occupied now and its fine nppear-ance is helping them to secure a larger contract. The girls are also doing nicely with their needle work. Ik is only a matter of time until ev ery school of importance will have a good manual training department. If this season is a profitable one it is hoped the county high school will take steps toward one this fall. Two-hundred per cent interest is a pretty high rate of interest to pay for the U3e of money, yet that is exactly what the republican party is forcing the people of the United States to do when it hires cars of the railroad company and pays an annual rental of twice what the cars cost to build.

In other words, the government could build two mail cars and have the cars left at the end of the year for the money our benevolent assimilation Republican congress pays the railroad companies for the use of one car and the government has nothing left. This rental eharge has nothing to do with the hauling charge this is an extra charge varying according to t'aa number of miles the car is hauled. Erie Sentinel. The LaCrosse Chieftain scans with prophetic eye the society columns of a paper ten years hence and gives its readers this sample of wedding notices: "The bride looked very well in a traveling dress, but all eye3 were centered on the groom. He woie a dark suit that fitted his form perfectly and in his daintily gloved Land he carried a small rose.

His curly hair was beautifully done, and a delicate odor of hair oil of the best quality floated down the aisle as he passed. The young people will miss him, now that he is married. He is loved by all for his many accomplishments, his tender graces and his winning ways. The bride commands a good salary as a bookkeeper in St. Joseph, and the groom will mis3 none of the luxuries to which he has been accustomed A crowd of pretty young men saw him off at the depot." The principal of thi IIutchin3on High school, whose name is the same as that of the town, the latter having been named after him wes giving a demonstration in chemistry before an interested class.

He was fiddling with some stuff called sodium and explaining that it was great goods restoring hair to bald heads or making hens lay and then, to show what it would do in combination with other helpful chemicals, he poured on it a small quanity oxpropy-lendlisoamiloimine (get busy, linotypers don't miss that word) and an explo sion followed and Mr. Hutchinson had his whiskers burned off and two or three of the boys were badly burned. The Gazette it will be remembered, has often cautioned its readers against mon-kying with oxpropylendlisoamilaimine. Emporia Gazette. THE SPRING HAT My sister bought a new spring hat, the rim was three feet wide, it had a doodad on in front and feathers on the side.

She wore the hat to Sunday school, she wore it to the show, and everywhere that sister went, the hat was sure to go. The plumage of the rooster and the blue jay and the crow is guady and is glos3y and makes a heap of show; The trappings of the ancient knight were made of burnished brass and the way they used to glitter there was nothing could surpass; but there's naught in art or nature that was ever seen before that could start to hold a candle to the hat that sister wore. When she wore it out in public folks were filled with wild dismay for you couldn't see a box car if the hat was in the way; at church no one would sit behind the pew where sister eat, they could not see the preacher because of sister's hat; and many of the brethren who were slightly under size lost all the elaim they ever had to mansions in the skys; and each was represented by a vacant chair; for tney would not go to meeting if sisters hat was there. Nffw sister had a fellow, as sisters often do, but her wide expansive headgear broke the love affair in two; for when they went cut 8t rolling to hold communication sweet my sister walked upon the walk, her fellow in the street. My sister does not worry though all our folks are sad.

She does not think she is to blame that every one is mad She seems to think matters very little all th'j whila, what p-j rjl i say about her hat so long as it'i ir 1 Niesha Sun. Farm Loans. Bst Terms. See Glasco Bros. was through no iault of Fitz.

He gave as much direct attention to the legislature as his duties in the back room of Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald wculd permit. Fitzpatrick during his former membership was one of the cleverst organizers of the senate that we have seen in Kansas, and his coach ing of Mr. Fi zgerald this session was valuable to the Lieutenant Governor. The two Fitzes got along fine this ses sion. Topeka Capital.

Before the election, however, the Capital told its readers that this man Filzgerald was a patriot, a statesman and urged its readers to vote for him. Knowing all the time just what kind of a man he was. CANNOT PARTICIPATE The comptroller of the currency, Law rence 0. Murray, holds that national banks in Kansas ca inot participate in the guaranty fund to be created under the law passed by the Kansas legisla ture. This information is contained in a letter received yesterday from Mr.

Murray by W. W. Bowman of Topeka, secretary of the Kansas Bankers association. This letter is self-explanatory and reads as follows: "Washington, March 15, 1909. "Mr.

W. W. Bowman, secretary Kansas Bankers' Association, Topeka, Kan. "Sir: In reply to jour inquiry of the 11th instant, you are advised that this office will hold that national banks cannot lawfully participate in the proposed guaranty of some bank deposits under the bank depositors' guaranty law of Kansas, approved March' 6, 1909. Respectfully, (Signed) "Lawrence O.

Murray. "Comptroller." It answers in full the letters sent to President Taf and Comptroller Murray Tuesday by State Bank Commissioner Dclley. Dolley wrote to these two officials enclosing copies of the Kansas law and asking what action would be taken with reference to the participation of rational banks under the Kansas law. The reply to a letter from Mr. Bowman was written by Comptroller Murray before ho received Mr.

Dolley 's letter, tut will probably remain iLu same -Capital. CHA. PRIMARY LAW So niciiiy candidates got the worst of it at last fau's primaries by having their name3 near the bottom of the list because they began with a letter at the foot of tha alphabet, and that handicr.p in runnning for office was demons'. ed to be so serious a one, that must readers will be interested in the following provisions of the amending act which became a law last month by publication ia the official state paper: "In case there are nomination papers on file for more than one candidate for any state or district office, of tnedif ferent parties, the secretary of state siidll divide the state or district into as many divisions as there may be names to go on eacii party ticket for any particular office. Such divisions shall be as near eqaal in votes as any in making suchdivis ions the secretary shil take the alphabetical list of counties in regular order until he gets tne required prodortion of votes cast at tha last general election, and so go on through the list of counties in regular order until he gets the proper proportion, and the secretary of state in certifying the county clerk his names for whom nomination papers have been lilod shall place one mune at the head of the list in the first division of couat es, another name in the second division, and so on with all the the candidates for any particular office, so that every for any office shall be at the head of the list in some division of the state and second in another division thereof.

The arrangement of the names certified by the secretary of state shall govern the county clerk in arranging the primary ballot, and the county clerk in preparing the ballot for his county shall follow the same arrangement as provided in this section for the candidates nominated for county offices, using the townships and precincts of the county in making his divisions." is a provision which assurs a square deal to the Whites, the Williams, the Yoakums and Youngs as well as the Addisons, tne Bailies, the Boyds, the Brightens, the Cannings and the Cald-wella. Independence Times. AN AUTO -ENIRGY MACHINE' No, it isn't a perpetual motion ma-ehine; he doesn't call it that. But once started it will run "indefinitely" the inventor says. The chief advantage of the devise perfected by G.

W. Johnson of Grant City, Missouri, is that it will make the cost of power zero, naught, nothing. Mr. Joi.ns in is an engineer and owns the electric iig'if-. plant of Grant City.

He was iu Kansas City yesterday. The machine reprjsents twelve years' work and study. He believes it will furnish power wiihout any other cost than the investment to cover the expense of the original rnael iae and a reasonable allowance f-ir wear and tear. "My invention utilizes compressed air," Mr. Johnson said, "and I call it an 'air fend vacuum What it will do is this: After an initial charge it will run indefinitely and propel anything that moves.

It has not yet been perfected to run stationary machinery ahd mu3t gather energy as it goes. It will furnish any number of horse power and is suitable for motor cars, airships, street cars, railroad trains, farm machinery and other things. I have tested it thoroughly have adupU-d it to a motor cycle and it is a success." Mr. Johnson has patented his invention and is building a plant for its manufacture at Grant City. Star.

IN HOWARD IN UCTOBF.R 1881. C- C. CHENEY DENTIT. Howard, Kansas E. K.

LONGLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public Howard, Kansas. A. F. SIMS, Attorney-at-Lav Prompt attention fciven to all business in State or Federal courts. Collection-Solicited.

Money to Loan. OHice in Howard National Bank building. HOWARD 'BUS BAS3AGE GO. A. E.

CHURC1, Owner. Meet all trains. Call up phone 85. Elkhorn Barn Feed ai Boarding Stable S. II.

Patterson Real Estate and HOWARD, i' A NS AS. Office over First National Bank Building. GEO. K. REID.

FRED R. COOK. REID COOK, ABSTRACTERS BONDED. HOWARD. KANSAS Successors to Douthitt Ayres, Abstracters.

F. L. DePew, M. 0., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Res.

phone No. 149, Office No. Calls answered promptly. Office rooms over First National Bank. J.

L. HftYS, M. D. Office and residence west oi Post office. 'Phone 70.

YE AND EAR DISEASES A SPECIALTY. W. e. Trowbridge, M.O. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Howard, Kansas. Office south of Metropolitan Hotel. Glasses Fitted. G. II.

Grimmell, M. PHYSICIAN 2 SURGEON. Office and Residence North of the Howard National Bank. J. F.

COSTELLO, FHY5ICIIN AND SURGEON. Office in the Strachan Building nirth of Stroud's Hotel Residence first house east of the Presbyterian church W. II. WALKER Under First National Bank A Fine Catt: Room. Everything neat and clean.

Your patronage solicited. General Repair Shop. Bicycles, Sewing Machines. Umbrellas, Locks Repai-ed and Keys made. Typewriters Cleaned and Repaired.

Gun Wor.f, Saws Filed and Set. Buggy and Wagon work Will do almost any -fass of work Prices Lowest, wrk the Best. L. F-. ROBTRTS.

FOLLOW THE CROWD TO Templer Shannon's BIG General -M'dse Store at Fiat, Kans. They can supply your J- demands at the low- est prices. Terms Cash Prices Right Cash Paid for Poultry j6 Butter, Eggs, Cream. COME! GIVE US A TRIAL Templer Shannon LODGE DIRECTORY. a.

w. a. Oklahoma Camp No. 933, Modern Woodmen of America, Howard, Kans. Regular meetings the second and fourth nights of each month.

Jos. Chase, V. C. B. M.

Wisner, Clerk. HOWARD COUNCIL No. 263. F. A.

A. Meets first and third Monday evenings of each month. C. A. Sprague, president.

B. M. Wisner, secretary. MEL1NDA COUGHER Died, at the heme of her son, George, eleven miles southwest of Severy, March 13, 1909, Mrs. Melinda Cougher.

Melinda Frank was born in Palmyra, Lebanon eounty, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1832 and reached the age of 77 year3 and 8 days. The deceased moved to Ohio with her parents in 1837 End thence to Illinois, where she was married in 1858 to Thos. Cougher, whom sne survived 25 years. To this union were born seven children, three of whom are still living: Wm. of Howard, and D.

A. and Geo. W. Cougher of Paw Paw. In early life Sister Cougher was converted and joined the M.

E. church and had a happy christian experience through a long life and was a member of the M. E. church at Severy at the time of her death. She was a devoted mother and a good neighbor and was loved and respected by all.

The funeral services were conducted by the writer at the Salem Free Baptist church and interment took place at the Twin Groves cemetery. NOT TOO DRASTIC Talking about our new iron-clad, copper bottom prohibition law a Topeka paper quotes a good attorney and successful proseeutor es saying: The law is not too drastic. I used to find that one of the reasons why juries were reluctant to convict a jointist at times was because they felt that it was not a fair deal to stick a common jointist in jail for violating the law when it was generally understood that most of the druggists with permits were violating the Bpirit if not the letter of the law. "They said, 'Take the privilege away from the druggist as weil as the point-ist and we will be more ready to convict all the There is not much doubt that the bootlegger will be in evidence again but it will not be such a hard job to convict him. The bootlegger has few friends.

He is generally desdised even by the drinking men and he can't do a vast amount of harm." BRAIN LEXKS Tracts will not feed the hungry. Wasted time must be accounted for in eternity. The lesson easiest learned is soonest forgotten. The roan who is rieht need never fear a free press. The texture of a sermon can not always be judged by the text.

History may repeat itself now, but it wouldn't when you and I were going to school. A lot of children are being neglected in order to take care of the health of hogs. The man who is always "boosting" i gets lots of credit, but as a rule that is about all he does get. Some people are so intent on defending their "doxies" that they forget to practice their precepts. Some people practice what they call "philanthropy" in order to makeup for their refusal to deal justly.

It may be true that the course of true love never runs smooth, but isn't it true that we really enjoy the bumps? The trouble with most banquet orators 13 that they have nothing to say worth listening to and then consume too much time saying it. We humbly opine that if we were only half as wise as Solomon was credited with being we wouldn't make one-tenth as many fool mistskes as he made. The man who stands up to demand protection for dollars can always get a hearing, the man who asks for protection for human beings has to hunt for an audience. If ever we get rich enough to establish a pension fund the first one3 we will provide for will be the wives of workingmen who manage to make an average of $7 a week feed and clothe and educate a half dozen or more children. Such women are the greatest financiers in the world.

Commoner. CHEAP STATESMANSHIP Governor Hadley of Missouri threatens to retaliate in the event that the railroads restore the three-cent passenger rate in Missouri. He says he knows of 40 or 50 Missouri laws the railroads habitually violate and that if the railroads hike the passenger tariff he will see to it that they are enforced. It will strike the average man that if Governor Hadley knows of 40 or 50 laws the railroads habitually violate he would see to it that they were enforced irrespective of the action of the railroads in regard to passenger rates. All the public asks of the railroads is fair passenger rates.

If the two-cent fare is confiscatory the public will cheerfully pay three cents. But if the railroads are violating other laws the public will hold that they should be punished for it. The public does not desire that immunity be extended to corporations in return for concessions. There has been too much of that sort of thing in this country. Governor Hadley 's attitude will strike the average reader as "cheap," two-by-four statesmanship.

Is it possible that we have been overestimating Governor Hadley? Is he, after all, a .22 short? Capital. There were four of them talking confidentially in a corner of a smoker. "I tell you boys," exclamed a loud-voiced drummer, "I'm prod to say that no house in the country has more men pushing its line of goods than ours." "Humph! What you sell?" asked a curious one. "Biby carriages." Bill Nye in his earlier days once ap-proched the manager of a lecture bureau with an application for employment and was asked if he had ever done anything in that line. "Oh, yes," said Bill.

"What have you done?" "Well," replied Bill, "my last job was in a dime museum, sitting in a barrel with the top of my head sticking out posing as the largest ostrich egg in capativity." That even earthquakes have rivals is proved by an incident that occured at Charleston, S. C. several years ago. A resident of the shaken city sent his 6 year old son out of the danger and con fusion to the youngster's grandfather in New York. Three days after the boy's arrival the Charleston man re- ceiyed this telegram from his father: Send us your earthquake and take back your boy." The Lancet tells a story about a pa tient with malignant disease of the throat who consulted a specialist.

The surgeon recommended the removal of the larynx. The patient expressed a fear that the operation was very dangerous. "Oh, no," said the surgeon, "you are sure to recover." said the pa tient, "I understood that the operation was very serious indeed." "Well," said the surgeon, "my reason for saying that you are sure to recover is this: The mortality is 19 out of 20 and I've had 19 deaths already." A belated traveler, who was com pelled to stay all night in a back-woods cabin, says that soon after the frugal meal, a tall gaunt youth of about 18 and an equally sallow and gaunt girl of 17, both barefooted, took their hats from wodden pegs in the wall and pre pared to go out, where-upon the mother taking her pipe from between her yel low teeth, said, reprovingly: "Go long an' wash your feet, Levi, you an' Looy both! Haintyou 'shamed to go off to sn evenin' party without washin' your feet?" They obeyed, but as Levi took the washpan from the bench by the door, he said with a grumble. "I'd about as soon stay home from a party as to have to fix up for it!" Coffey ville. March 20.

What was probably the largest single sale of eggs ever made in the west to one party was made yesterday when Wells of CoiTeyville, Kansas, closed a contract for 20 car load of class eggs to be delivered in New York by the 10th of April. This contract was elosed by wire and the telegraph tolls alone amounted to quite a sum. The firm here was a little afraid to take a contract of this size for fear that they would not be able to get the eggs. The deal amounts to about $45,000. This shipment will require 8,000 cases of eggs or a total of 2,880,000 eggs.

As the contract calls for first-elass storage eggs the firm will probably be forced to buy double this number or 5,760,000 eggs for all eggs that 8 re dirty or checked or cracked will have to be thrown out as far as this contract is concerned. Congress met in special session March 15. In spite of the fact that a number of Republicans rebelled against the re-adoption of the Cannon rules, Joseph G. Cannon was reelected speaker. As soon as Speaker Cannon took the chair Dalzell (rep.) of Pennsylvania moved to adopt the old rules.

The democrats un-d the leadership of Champ Clark and supported by a number of insurgent re publicans, voted against Dalzell's motion and it was defeated amid great cheering by democrats and their allies. After a heated debate Fitzgerald of New York proposed what he called an amendment to the old rule. Practically the Fitzgerald amendment provides no relief from "Cannonism." Fitzgerald and several other Democrats, together with several insurgent Republicans, voted with Cannon Republicans for the Fitzgerald amendment and it prevailed. Champ Clark's proposition to have the house itself appoint a committee of 15 on rules was defeated. So in spite of all that has been said Cannon and "Cannonism" prevails.

Stories told at a church banquet in Atchiso'n: A boarder complained to the proprietor of the hotel that he had found hair in the ice cream, hair in the honey and hair in the apple sauce. "That is queer," said the proprietor. "The hair in the ice cream must have come from shaving the ice, the hair in the honey must have come from the comb, but I cannot understand how the hair got in the apple sauce, for I picked the apples myself and they were all Baldwins." An Irish soldier in the Spanish-American war took sick and was reduced to a skeleton before he was allowed to return home. "Well, I see you're back fivm the front," remarked an old acquaintance whom he met. "Is that so?" replied the Irishman.

"I knew I was awful thin, but I didn't know I was ag thin as that." home from Tope i-. a last week. Mr. Osborn, ss county surveyor, was there to get copies of cords, papers, fil-s, to take the place of those by tho Sre which consumed the Elk county ernrt house, two years ago Mrs. Osborc visited friends ia Topfka, and Kursas City, while gone and spent a few days with their son Fred, who is at K.

U. nt Lawrence. Hon. Oscar Bonnetl aod Mrs. Bonnett returned home iroin Topeka, Wednesday of week.

Mr. Bonnett i eoun'r'! in the house of the Kansas legislature, and he made aa arnest, conservative representative. It is not entirely agreeable to us to hsva a democratic representative in the legislature from a Republican couuty, but if we must and the voters said we must we are frew to av that Mr. Rnjtneit suits us aa well as any democrat could hope to do. Be was faithfully at his desk every dar and h-nr, and his vote was mainly the ritrht direction.

He did not a' low partisan sentiments to influence bis acts, and no boss or clique had him bv the nosf. He is a man who stsdivs all questions, financial, business and tncral, and his vote was always for what he believed was right. Mrs. Bonnett was with him in Topeka duriDg the entire session. BELATED COURANT ITEMS Orval McBride, a former Howard boy, was married ai Oklahoma City, Tuesday of this week, to Miss Nellie Glasco.

The boy and (tirl friends of Orval in Howard wish him and his wife an abundance of joy and prosperity. Ben Kankelinan has traded his Electric Mills to Charles Sharit of Yates Center, for some western Kan as land. Mr. will tike charge of the mills on ls and is aa old millwright. Ben does not intend to leave Howard.

W. W. Hupp received a dispatch yesterday telling him of the death of his brother In-law, Fred Huscher, at Peabody. Mr. had been tower miin for the Sauta Fe Ry.

for 14 years at that place and was a faithful and trusted employe. Mr. Hupp had no particulars of his or death. R. Hefner of Urion Center, was in to aee us Inst Saturdav.

Sam has been a respeeted citizen of this coiDty for a doz-n years, but be has bought a farm near Savre, and will move down to his new home this week. We are heartily orry to lose hiai from this county, but we ish him and his all the prosperity imaginable in their new location Mr. and Mrs. WaUer Platz have re ceived word from their daughter, Mrs. Drank A.

liump, at Oxford, Iowa, stating that their hcue caucht fire during their absence in Iowa Ciiy, one night recently. fire was ex tinguished before ti house was con tained, but they lost their clothing and everythiar el-e wis ruined by smoke and water. Their loss is par tially covered by insurance. NOTICE. There will be an election held at the city building in the city of Howard, Kansas, April 5th 1909, for the purpose of electing a mayor and five councilmen, and a police judgre of said city, for the term of two years.

J. W. Gibbon, Mayor. Outside paints, inside paints, porch paints, barn paints, all colors, all the best. At Benson Lumber yard.

Cleaning and Pressing Suit pressed, 50c; suit cleaned and pressed, 75c and overcoat cleaned and pressed, 50c and 75c; ladies' skirt, pleated, cleaned and pressed, 50c to ladies' jacket, cleaned and pressed, 50c Franklin Youngs, Phone 69. INSURANCE For farm property, the Farmer's Allianxe is the one to select For mercantile risks take the National Mutual Protective Association, of Pittsburg, Kansas. The 'two cheapest and best Insurance Companies in the state. Represented by HENSLEY LONGLEY. DO YOU WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE? If so we can help you.

We have already put hundreds through college by means of our plan. Write today for full information regarding our offer of a free scholarship in any school or college. Address, Robert J. Sherlock, 29-31 East 22d Street, New York City. Notice to Hunters.

(Names under this heading will be inserted for Zi cents for the season.) All persons are hereby warned not to hunt or tresspass on our premises under penalty of the law. P. H. Clark. J.

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Hughes. S. C. Hanna. P.

K. Hushes. Oscar Bonnett. Geo. A.

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