The Hutchinson Democrat from Hutchinson, Kansas • 5

Local Happenings. Eyes scientifically fitted at Plank's. William Whitney of Marion was in town on Tuesday. Thomas W. Ayers of St.

Louis was in town Thursday. Arthur Gibson of Newkirk, Ok. visited friends in this week. Mrs. W.A.

Thomas of Salina visited friends in town this week. Senor E. Marengo of New Orleans, 'was in town one day this week. Walters of Arkansas City was There on business on Thursday. Frank Smith of Denver, Colorado, spent Wednesday in Hutchinson.

Major James McKinstry was down from Kansas City this week on ness. DoN'T fail to see the Midland Drug Company if your hogs are sick. They can cure them. Double passenger service on the Mis souri Pacific now. Try their Kansas City train.

Through sleeper. We know an old hen in this town that wouldn't know how to take care of a bunch of chickens if she had 'em. WANTED to trade a six room house with barn at 204 Tenth Ave. East, for suburban property. See editor of this paper.

One of the Sharpley show boys made a mash on one of our girls this week and tat means a lot of love letter nonsense after the show leaves town. If you want something nice in a photo album you should see what the Midland Drug Co has. High grade goods and low prices. 107 North Main. We know a joke on a person in this town that would make your bair stand straight up.

We dont intend to say anything about it because we've been "subsidized." Sterl Mead has purchased the Commercial restaurant and short order house in the Midland block and will continue to make it the most attractive place in the city, to eat a lunch. The concession allowing the Venetian boatmen to row their gondolas on the waters of the lagoon at the Trans Mississippi Exposition, has been awarded to U. G. Graham and W. Jardine of Omaha for 20 percent of the.

gross receipts. W. J. Bryan, Senator Tillman, Geo. Fred Williams and Gov.

Davis are among the famous contributors to the April number of The New Time You cannot afford to be without this great reform magazine. Send us one dollar and we will forward it for an annual subscription. The Second Regiment Band gave its first street concert on the corner of First Avenue and Main Street Thursday night. The usual crowd was pres ent and the boys presented a good program. These concerts will continue during the summer if the boys are given the right financial support.

Mr. Geo. P. Coberly of this city and Miss Rachel Carson of Valley township were united in marriage at the residence of the brides parents on Wednesday March 30th. Rev.

W. H. Foulks, of Burrton, officiating. They will make their home in Valley township. The New Time shows a study improvement and the April number 1 18 especially attractive.

Do not miss readI ing this splendid reform magazine. One dollar is cheap for an annual snbscription to The New Time, and we are the authorized agents in this locality. Send in your subscription. We make a clubbing rate of $1.50 for The Democrat and The New Time. The election Tuesday in this city will be the least attractive of any election since Hutchinson was made a corporate city.

Many voters are asking "who are the candidates and what are they running for?" The registration is fifty per cent less than it was a year ago, and it is doubtful if more than fifty per cent of the registered voters go to the polls, is this thus?" F. A. Rinehart, an Omaha photographer, secured the exclusive priyilege of taking pictures on the Trans-Mississippi Exposition grounds. The use of the kodak is subject to special rules. Mr.

Rinebart will pay the exposition committee for the sole privilege, $1,000 in cash, and 20 percent of the gross receipts. The profits of the business are to be derived from the public sale of photos and pictures of the exposition buildings, exhibits and grounds. A consideration of "The Chinaman in American Politics" is undertaken by Charles Frederick Holder in the North American Review for February. The Chinese are not, the writer avers, the simple and childlike folk generally supposed. On the American continent and among the American people, where they are without a vote or ev' 9n a desire for citizenship, Chinese polity cal bosses succeed in defeating justice, retard the passage of laws, and add materially to the financial burden of our citizens and tax payers.

A fine collection of curios known as the Albright Colling's collection, for sale cheap or will trade for Hutchinson property. Enquire at DEMOCRAT Office, R. W. VEST. Henry Miller, the boss dairyman of Reno County, has disposed of a good number of good milk cows at good figures.

He is determined to have his herd made up of registered thoroughbreds and will come nearer furnishing his customers with pure cream than any other dairyman in Kansas. You may know that every quart of milk delivered to you by Henry Miller comes from a thorough bred registered Jersey. The February issue of the North American Review contains a paper of distinctly national import from the pen of the Hon. Charles S. Fairchild, formerly Secretary of the United States treasury, on "The Monetary Commission and its Work." Your political education is being sadly neglected if you have not read President John Smith.

It is an illustrated book of 290 pages, but it will cost you only ten cents, because the pub lishers have fixed this price in order to sell a million copies. Address this oftice. One of the most absorbing topics ot the day, viz: the 66 Intervention of the United States in Cuba" is luminously treated in the March number of the North American Review by John Letane Should the the government of the United States, asserts Mr. Letane, ever consider its high mission to intervene in the affairs of Cuba, whether in the cause of civilization, or of humanity, or of American interests, it must be armed intervention carried to fulfillment without regard to Spanish promises of reform. Look at This! We will send you the DEMOCRAT and the Kansas City Twice-a-Week Times, both one year for ONE DOLLAR.

This offer is good for both new and old subscribers who will renew their subscriptions immediately. This offer holds good but for a short time only. Everybody Says So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, most wonderful medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver aud bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C.

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A big crowd will probably go on the Hutchinson Southern excursion to Blackwell next Monday. The train will leave at 7:30 a. m. and will return in a convenient time for the patrons. By all means you should go on this trip as it is a good and grand sight to take a look at the growing wheat fields of southern Kansas and Oklahoma.

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fail, druggists refund money. Marriage Licenses. Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses have been issued by the Probate Judge since our last issue: Joseph keynolds to Miss Mattie P. Battis, both of Arlington.

Frank Holliday, Kingman county, to Albertie Wright, of Reno county. Wm. S. Brown to Cora Taylor, both of Reno township Lincoln R. Mills to Eilen Hoover, both of Wichita.

August J. Valdois to Della M.Chapin, both of Haven township. Edgar A. Robinson, Pretty Prairie, to Elizabeth McKinnie, Sterling Merritt L. Graves of Kansas City, to Lida F.

Stoops, Hutchinson. Worn Out? Do you come to the close of theday thoroughly exhausted? Does this continue day after day, possibly week after week? Perhaps you are even too ex- hausted to sleep. Then something is wrong. All these things indicate that you are suffering from nervous exhaustion. Your nerves need feeding and your blood enriching.

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Reece Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious. ROYAL LOYAL ANG CAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER N'EW YORK. The Republican Convention. The republicans met in convention at the auditorium on Thursday and selected delegates to the State and congressional conventions to be held in this city. Delegates to the congressional convention were ordered to vote for Chester Long but the ones selected for State convention delegates could not be bulldozed and will therefore vote for most anybody for governor.

"Bring Our Heroes Home! A beautiful and stirring song, arranged for the piano and organ, entitled Bring Our Heroes Home," dedicated to the memory of the heroes of the United States Battleship Maine, has just been issued. This beautiful song and eighteen other pages of full sheet music will be sent on receipt of 25 cents in money or postage. Address Popular Music Indianapolis, Ind. From "The Clean City." Mr. Frank H.

Clark, of Detroit, Michigan, keeper of records and seals of Myrtle Lodge No. 4, K. of says: The printing of the Schubert's is the finest I know of any concert company possessing and is in keeping with the elegant entertainment given us last evening." You can bear the same company that delighted Detroit by going to the opera house on April 20th. A Good Show Coming. Sharpley's Lyceum Theatre Company will open a weeks engagement at the opera house on Monday night, March 28tb at popular prices.

This company has played here before several times and gave perfect satisfaction. They have one of the best companies on the road this season including a fine band and orchestra and without doubt will do good business here. A New Manager, Mr. Fred Lacy, the manager of the Postal Telegraph office in this city for several vears, has resigned his position and will leave in a short time for California where he will probably reside in the future. Mr.

Lacy will be succeeded here by Mr. J. L. Miller who, has been in the employ of the Postal Compaay in Wichita for sometime. Mr.

Lacy has made a very efficient manager for this office and it is with regret that Hutchinson people see him leaye. The "Frisco Call." Of December 9th, 1896, says: "The entertainment by the Schubert Symphony Club and Lady Quartette at the Y. M. C. A.

last night was a most enjoyable affair and the audience testifiled their appreciation of the good things in the program by frequent demands for a repetition." Special attention is given to their encores by the Schubert's and although their program is an extensive one, it rarely represents one-half of the work performed by this favorite company each evening. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-ToBac, the worker, that makes weak men strong. druggists, 50c or $1. Cure guaranwonder teed.

Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Chicago or New York. Sharpley's Show. The Sharpley Company at the opera house this week has presented a number of first class pieces to well pleased audiences this week. On Monday night the house was filled completely and many were turned away.

The orchestra under the direction of Mr. Victor Kreyer was one of the best ever heard in this city and the band is an excellent one indeed and is the pride of Prof. Frank Flesher, the director. Sharpley's show 18 a good one all the way through and deserves the best of patronage. The performance tonight will close their engagement in this city for this season.

A fine high grade bicycle will be given tonight to the one holding the lucky number. A Bit of a Detective. Last week one day a young man by the name of Simpson came to Dick Hodge and informed him that a fellow named German had approached him and asked him to go in with him and dig up some goods that had been "planted" somewhere near Nickerson. Hodge told him to go abead, and when they bad dug them up, he would appear and arrest them both and hold him as a witness. The program was carried out, except that the big fellow German, got leery of Hodze before the plant had been dug up.

However, Hodge arrested them and the goods were located. The two are now held in jail at Lyons. The preliminary will be held today and the "detective," Simpson will probably be released. Some twenty pairs of pants and other goods were recovered, believed to be of the Fair Shaak stock, which was burglarized some time since. The officers here wrote to Leavenworth to look up the record of German, and find he 18 only recently out of jail there, and.

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For sale at a burgain. Southeast quarter of section 25 and east of the northeast of section 34, township 24, and range 4, Reno county, Kansas. S. F. HUTTON.

The April Term of Court. The court docket for the April term is one of good size. It contains 191 civil cases and eighteen criminal cases. Among the more sensational criminal cases are the one against Grenville Lewis, for murder in the first degree, in killing Dewitt Cole. He will probably claim it to have been self-defense.

The case of the State against Underwood and Shives for robbing old man Willems north of town, which was sent back from the supreme court for new trial, will probably be tried at this term again. The case of the State against Joe Centers of Turon, charged with raping a little girl, in which he was granted a new trial. is on the docket, but there is some talk that it will never come to trial again. This is of course, only talk, but nevertheless, from the circumstances as we learn them we do not believe it should. A case against John Burke and John Dunn, two bums, charged with attempting to throw a brakeman under the wheels of a mov ing train, about a week ago, when in company with several other bums they had a fight with the train crew, will also come up.

They are now in jail. A couple of the other bums, who were set to work on the streets, got away and skipped the country the latter part of the week. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 250.

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Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c. SCHOOL NOTES. Abnut one-third of the schools have closed.

271 pupils wrote on the first common school examination, March 19th. The second one will be held April 2d, at which time history, grammar, constitution and arithmetic, wiil be submitted. E. E. Anderson closed a successful term of school at No.

53 last week. He has gone to Winfield to "brighten up." C. R. Ray of Laurel school closed last Friday. Mr.

Ray is a faithful worker and gave value received. Reno and Kingman counties lost school buildings by fire las. week: incendiarism in both cases. The school house in Reno, No. 92, was not insured.

Superintendent J. H. Jackson, L. T. Gibbens, P.

Rowland and Superintendent Dayhoff, will have charge of the institute this year. The normal begins May 31st. Miss Carrie C. Shultz, of Wichita will conduct a model department in the county normal. Prof.

Joseph H. Schisler will leave for Colorado as soon 98 school closes. Sego school closed March 25th with a big dinner and a program, and a surprise to the teacher, J. W. Stevens.

Mr.Stevens and his sister Nora Stevens have gone to Salina to attend school. Percy A. Hall will start for Salina this week in order to get ready for school next winter. Mr. Hall comes from Indiana and finds that the Kansas schools are ahead of those in the Hoosier State.

G. M. Woodson has resigned his position as principal of the Pretty Prairie schools to accept a position on the A. T. S.

F. R. R. Miss Parr's department will be combined with Mr. Woodson's, Miss Parr in charge.

Sego school raised $20.00 for public library purposes this winter. Mrs. Ella Bick of No. 7, was a visitor in Hutchinson last Friday. Mrs.

Bick is an up-to-date school officer. Miss Florence Litchfield is in Winfield attending school. She taught a successful school at No. 93, last winter Superintendent Stryker is urging the county superintendents to buy and distribute to their teachers the "Report of the Committee of Twelve on Rural Schools." The report should be read by every teacher and school officer in Reno county. A.

J. Lusk has been given an extra month in No. 33. "Ab" deserves it. Ex-County Superintendent Ramsey of Anderson is a visitor in our city this week.

S. P. Rowland has gone to Battle Creek. Michigan, for his health. He is in the Sanitarfum.

Take Summer With You By going to Calitornia this winter; and take comfort with you by traveling on the California limited the Santa Fe's finest train, LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Superintendent Case of the Reformatory, was sick the latter part of the week. Mr. Porterfield of Meade county, a cattle dealer, was in the city Tuesday looking up cattle. The St.

John Trust Cempany sold sixty-eight head of cattle to S. R. Shupe of Clark county this week. The reformatory board has been in session this week allowing bills and transacting its regular routine business. Sam Hill from Haven township, was bauling lumber to his place the fore part of the week to build a summer kitchen.

Dr. Giles Blazedell has located at Haven. Mr. Blazedell was in this city purchasing furniture and carpets for his new office. H.

N. Smith, of Stevens county, bought 112 head of fine native cows of the St. John Trust Company last week and shipped them home. District court has been in session for a couple of weeks in this eity disposing of some old court cases. The April term commences next Tuesday the 5th.

Mr. R. Ray completed a successful term of school at Laurel, in Haven township last Friday. He visited Mr. Davis' school at Obee the first of the week and returned to his home in Loda township.

Governor Leedy has appointed John Bryden, of Greenwood county, as a member of the State live stock sanitary commission to supercede J. W. Johnson who retires. Reno county had an applicant for this position. Judge Simpson, of the district court was called upon Tuesday to decide whether the office of city marshal, street commissioner, and city clerk are to be voted for at this city election.

He decided that they are to be voted for Sam Hill, of Haven township, is getting a fine start in the fine hog business. Last week he brought in a fine sow from Illinois that cost him about $90. This is the second one he has recently bought. He now has some fine fall pigs for sale. Mr.

Robert Taylor, an old time and prominent citizen of this county passed over the river of time last Tuesday at his home on the corner of Walnut and First avenue. He has been in poor health for several years, but was suddenly taken worse while his wife was away. Mr. Taylor was one of the leading citizens in the upbuilding of Hutchinson a few years ago and leaves many friends. A sad faced professional man was in the city Tuesday hunting for a beautiful seventeen year old daughter, who had eloped with a married man who had a wife and two or three children in Illinois.

had a photograph of the man which he hoped would serve as a clue but he could find nothing further than that they had been traveling under the name of McLean through Kansas. He left with a heavy heart. Chicago detectives have found a gold ring in the safe of the Nickerson bank which may serve as a slight clue to the robbers. Detectives are at work but of course they are not publishing their accomplishments from the house tops, if they have made any. A former citizen of Nickerson was taken up and searched on suspicion but was let go for lack of evidence, be proving be was in Hutchinson all night the night the robbery occurred.

Mr. 0. 0. Woodard and T. J.

Ander- son have been settling up their affairs preparatory to leaving for the northern gold fields. Both are old residents and have been largely and prominently interested with public enterprises of this city in times past. Mr. Woodard takes his family as far as Seattle and from there they expect to go to New York. He has sold or traded most of his property here and will probably not returo.

He has been an excellent citizen and we regret to loose bim. Mr. Anderson however, leaves his family here and will quite likely return later. They do not expect now to go as far as the Klondyke country, as they think it is overworked. May they each strike a bonanza.

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G. ROBERTS, Agent. J. C. CRIMES, Locksmith, and General Repairer Key-Fitting, a Specialty 110 E.

Third, Hutchinson. J. L. CONN, DENTIST. Office over Leader Dry Goods Company's store, corner First and Main..