The News from Harper, Kansas • 1

i. Erp.nn ZD Don't ask the Commissioners to act hastily in re-districting the County. If you want to get it poing and coming, then read THE NEWS. 't' VOL. 3.

HAEPER, KANSAS, FRIDAY, I'EB. 22 1901. Wm. a. Briggs, attorney-at-law Collections made in Kansas and OklHhorna.

OflW over Harper State Bank. HARPER, KANSAS. GEO. TALLEY. LIVERY, FEED, ED.

TALLEY. SALE STABLE. CHEROKEE. OKLAHOMA, The iew town on the Kansas City, ilekico Orient Railroad. The Sentinel has a new sign.

Harper has no joints and no marshal. Bob Graham is on the sick list this week. Clay Elliott was over from Hopewell Tuesday. Col. W.H.

Plum was over from II ago Saturday. Milo Osborn was over from Danville last Saturday. K. B. Beard, bonded abstractor, Anthony, Kansas.

Bert Mathis' baby was reported quite sick last Sunday. I TALLEY BROS. CENTRAL AVENUE. i It is situated in the center of the broad and rich valley of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas river, in the northeast part of Woods county, productive region of Oklahoma. Has a dense population, the best of improved farms, and an abundance of pure, soft water.

G. W. B. DERRICK. Peop.

Anthony, Kansas. Rates: 4 When iu Anthony $1 and $1.25 Give us a Trial. PRICES MODERATE. TERMS HERO can be reached by way of Alva on the Santa Fe. The distance is 22 miles, and a erood hack line is in oDeration between these points.

There is SEND IN YOUR a good road from Kiowa, 24 miles distance, on the Santa. Fe, and the Missouri Pacific railroads. From Pond Creek, on the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific, the distance is 38 miles, and ths roads good, Augusta is situated 19 miles to the southwest. For further information address CHEROKEE INVESTMENT Cherokee, Oklahoma. Francis Oliver, was over from Odell last Monday.

Liew Lebrecht, the potato king, was in town this week. Mrs. John Burke is reported as on the sick list this week. Ben Hake was down from Wichita the first of the week. All kinds oi job work done at this office.

Call and see James Gillespie was a Harper visitor from Chicaskia Saturday. Dr. Martin reports Mrs. Lee, north of Attica, as being very sick. The tennis club has laid out a court south of the Marshal hotel.

James McGuirk and John Singer were oyer from Liberty Tuesday. For that hungry feeling go to the Kozy Kaf ay. Have your abstracts made by R. B. Beard, bonded abstractor, Anthony.KB.

The County Attorney was up Tuesday looking after the liquor question. Miss Hellie Elmore came np from Kiowa last Fx iday, returning Saturday. Lew Walton has had a new walk put down in front of Fletcher's bicycle shop. Sisters Boniyenture and Helen were over from the St. Bose Academy last Saturday.

Mrs. Springer, of Adams, was visiting Mrs. Ed Dorrington the first of the week. Harper is not a "dry" town, you can "bowl up" on Soup at the Kozy Kafay for 5 cents. Dr.

Martin was called down south of Anthony this week to Mr. Hunt, who is quite ill. Mrs. Ruth Washbon has completed the purchase of 160 acres of land in Harper township. Miss Ella Moore returned to Attica Saturday after visiting a tew days with Miss Alta Reese.

B. A. Hake and Wife returned to their home in Wichita on the 20th after a short yisit in our city. Dave Walborn is building a handsome 5-room cottage in the 4th ward, just J. G.

WASHnON, Harper. Kas. FKKD WAHKON Anthony. Kas. Washbon Washbon Attorn eys at Law.

Attorney for First Nat onal Bank, Anthonv: I roer State Bank, Harper. Notary Pcblic is FICE. Of ices Connected by Tdok. E.D. ROGERS, D.

D.S. A man with the, toothache is not only miserable himself but makes everybody with whom he comes in contact with, unhappy. Moral have that tooth fixed. Painless extraction of teeth. Office over Model Meat Market.

SAM. S. SISSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office in Mtrrick Bide HARPER, KANSAS. Advertised 1 -ters.

Lint of lettert rer dining -wcalled for in the harper. Kan- tofliee for th week ending Feb. 21. lfMil, nd if not called for in two weeks will be neut to the DeHd Letter Chambe. Bert Ewinz Major Cox Dr Habor Belle Erhart LaPIant Marie Winev In calling for any of above say "advertised" and give date of list.

W. Beeson, T. M. There is Something to See Along tie THE SHORT AND ONLY ft! liucaii nuu it iu inc. Llissouri and Mississippi Rivers and fesyend.

A FIRST CLASS LINE TO Texas and Old Jtlexico. CAFE CAR AND RAILROAD RESTAURANT SERVICE UNEXCELLED IN AMERICA. VISIT EureRa Springs The most convenient all-year-round resort for people in this section. THE LINE TO THE LAND OF Lead and Zinc. Send your friends in the old States cne of our illustrated pamphlets, entitled "The Top of the Ozarks." "Feathers and Fins on the Frisco." Fruit Farming Alone Vie Frisco." "The Ozark Uplift." i here is Something to Set Along the Frisco Line." The most comprehensive railroad literature for the home-seeker or investor ever distributed gratuitously.

Send an address to Room No. 726 Century Building, St. Louis, and we will mail copies. MAKE IT COUNT, No matter the amount of your grocery purchase whether one one item or many always buy it at the right price MAKE IT COUNT. Getting your moneys worth every time is what fills the saving bank that builds up your resources.

Aside from lowest prices here, you always get the top notcli of excellence the better, purer qualities It's this careful coupling prices and quality here that makes it the grocery store that nearest meets your needs that is to your beet interests to patronize. A Bicycle Factory. L. E. Fletcher has for eome time had under consideration tbe adviseability of putting out a wheel of his own make, and has finally come to the conclusion that a better grade $35 wheel could p.nd should be put out.

He wil' make three grades, the $25, $30 and $35 machines, and as the people of Harper county believe in patronizing a home industry, this wheel should find a ready, sale- It will be built in Harper, will be guaranteed, and will be put on the local market sometime in May. Tbe name for the wheel has not as yet been decided upon, but it is thought DOLLAR Canned and P'k'g Goods. Grandma's Jarus(ass'td)per can 10 Fancy Dates 1 lb package 10 Table Peaches, per can 15 PP OG tomatoes per can 15 Sprups, 15c and up Vegetables and Fruits OUR canned goods and package goods can't be beat in town. Breakfast Foods. Vitos 2 pks 25 25 25 the Whole Wheat Biscuits, 2 pkg These are only a drop in bucket, ask to see our line.

Miller's Hand Flour Germcline 85 Atlas Checks. LK. Site, Harper Kansas. 0 Is Dried Fruits. Fancj Peaches, per lb 12 12J Apricots, per lb Prunes, large, per lb 12J small; per lb 6 Apples, per lb 10 "Fancy Raspberries, per lb 25 NOTICE; Oar dried fruits are all strictly fancy and new, fresh goods.

in Bottles. Heinz pickles, 15c and up Catsup, per bottle 10. Khun's Catsup, per bottle, 10 25 Other goods too numerous to mention that are fine and up to date. Hunter's Cream flour 85! Breakfast Food Call fjr Yellow ITS YsHo' Ffcnt. Harper Kansas.

east or tne M. JS. parsonage. P. J.

Quigley returned Saturday from Kansas City where he had been with a train load "of cattle. Markets fair. The firm of Heacock Anthony has dissolved partnership. Mr. Heacock will continue the business.

Mark Dent was over from Odell last Saturday. He had two of the best draft teams that we have seen for some time. Francis Oliver, purchased the Joe Mclntost fann near Danville this week. It is a fine quarter. Consideration $3500.

Ed Talley is down at Cherokee this week attending to his farm and at the same time looking over the new town. Mrs. Stranahan's little girl, "Tot" who was bitten by Harry Ilisington's dog last week, is getting along very nicely. Miss Callie Baker will leave next week for St. Louis to purchase her spring stock of millinery and to study the sprtng styles.

Harry Kelly came np from Kiowa Saturday, returning Sunday. He re-borted the Beview O. K. and Kiowa as booming but dry. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will give a six o'clock colonial supper next week in oue of the up-town buildings.

George and Martha will be there to welcome you and to see that you get plenty to eat. Posters will announce the date later. Harry Johnson came in last Saturday to see the baby which in a few years will call him pa. Harry is all right and if he gets a little pushed for coin of the realm to buy clothes for the baby he can trade some of his personal puffs for the wherewith. The Hunter Elevator Co.

has completed their office and scales, and J. C. Elvin is now in his new quarters fully prepared to take in all grain that comes to town. TThey will save you the ex pense and trouble of unloading and Jim will treat you right. Dave Brown met with quite a serious accident last Saturday night.

He happened to be out after datk and passed over one of the sidewalks that should be repaired by a non-resident and fell in a broken part of the walk. He has been laid up for several days. From reading the Medicine Lodge papers one would conclude' that Judge Gillett has had a pretty hard seige of it over there, and has tried a lot of cases, both civil and criminal. That the attorneys and jurymen have been kept busy is apparent from the reports given. A part of Judge Hazen's remarks when he place Mrs.

-Nation and her lieutenants under a peace bond were: "Mrs. Nation is iasane, and the balence of you ought to be ashamed of yourselves fer encouraging her in her wild and unlawful acts." He then warned them to go their way and sin no more. Col. W. H.

Plum, of Rago, will sell at auction, en next Saturday beginning at 10 a. m. and continuing till all goods are sold, a first class lot of jewelry, consisting of solid gold cases for watches, etc. Ladies are inviled and bargains are promised. Sale will be at Theo.

Hepsher's old stand on north Central avenue. A Breezy Time had a larger house than it deserved last Wednesday night, and there was not very-many there either. With the exception of one or two of the vaudeville acts the show was strictly n. The opera house was a little warm at first but it soon cooled off and the audience was in cold storage. The boys smoked in the balcony.

The Barber County Index this week gives an account of a schoolmaster in tnat county who raped one of his nine year old pupils the first of this week. Excitement was at such a pitch that it was thought best to, take him out of the county in order to prevent a lynching, and he was accordingly lodged in the Harper county jail and was taken back to Medicine Lodge on Thursday for his preliminary hearing. Leave the lynching off and put him in cold storage till Mrs. Nation gets back, is what we would suggest to the Barber couniy people. The Clark boys entertained the Know-all whist club at the Marshal hotel last Friday evening.

Loyd acted as host, Sam as hostess and Arthur' as lackey, and owing to the tact and skill shown by the boys in performing the duties attendant upon these offices, the guests held that the evening was one of the most enjoyable in the history of the club. Refreshments were served at 11 o'clock, after which the large dining room was cleared for action, with the privelege of playing cinch if one didn't care to dance. It is impossible to give the points mads as the score card was misplaced. Subscribe for The News. L.

C. Beal, woo lived near DuQuoia about 9 years ago, is back and wants to purchase a farm. He says Harper coun ty is good eaougb. for him. Let the pro digal son return.

We tried to talk to one or two of our business men last Saturday but they said they had no time to fool away on an editor and for us to come back later. We took the hint. Guy Winn, of Green county, came in Thursday to look over Harper county, he expects to purchase a home and locate with us. He is an old friend of Geo. Parson's.

Mrs. J. Titus, of Jefferson, O. is visiting friends and relatives in Harper county this week. They have sold out at Jefferson and have moved to the new town of Cherokee.

The Fraternal Insurance company of the Ancient Order of Pyramids will give an entertainment in Harper on March 4th. The place and full program will be announced next week. Talley Bros, drove a contractor down to the graders on the Orient the first of the week. He went down to inspect the grade and will put in bids for laying ties and railes and putting in bridges. Rev.

W. E. Vann will hold Lenten services at the St.James churph on Friday, March 1, at 7:30 p. t)n Saturday, Holy Communion at 9 m. and Litany at 4 p.

m. Sunday services at 11 a. m. I The JjfEWS returns thanks to Bruce Broadstone and Charley Dpcherty for some excellent music. Thejl are artists on the banjo and guitar andparties desiring music for entertainments should call on them Col.

Bod Clarahan will iuctien the sale of some very fine jewelry next Saturday at the old Uepsher stand. It will be done correct and up to date, as Rod is one of the best auctioneers in this part of the state. Everret Parker while attempting that new-fangled mode of dismounting from a bicycle last week got a little the worst of it. He will take a few lessons from Geo. Parker and will then be able to do it more gracefully.

The Anthony Republican of last week says that Mayor Brown has finally completed the compromise of the Anthony indebtedness at 33 cents on tbe dollar- This is good for Anthony but rather hard on her creditors. I want to say to the public that Mrs. A. C. Crenshaw, one of the ladies of the mob on Monday, is not now nor has she ever been, a member of the Church of Christ, of Harper, Kansas.

J. H. Thompson. The editor of the Anthony Bulletin drove down to the opening at Cherokee and gives' a good breezy write-up of the town and country. He does not over estimate but rather understates the future greatness of that town and country.

John Thrush has not been seen on the streets of Harper for some time and we knew something was up. We met him last Saturday. He said no man did it? that the scars were the result of a ru una way, that no man could black his eyes. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that you want the news and the News wants you as a subscriber. If this is your first copy, and you like it, send in your name.

have had a number of buskets thrown at us as to our style of running a newspaper, but we can't wear buskets neither can we eat thtni. So if you like the papervtell your neighbors about it, and incidentlv send in a dollar as soon as possible. mo iff ATT I TMJU some of allowing the people of Harper county suggest a name, tne most ap propriate to be decided upon by a committee of three, selected for that pur-poKB. and the winner to receive a wheel, free. Each person to bi allowed but one BUg.estion.

Mr. Fletcher is a mechanic of considerable skill and experience and without doubt will put ou a better $35 wheel than any now on the local market. A new supply of Wall Paper at the "Variety Store. Mister Denny's new sign should read kThe Harper Sentinel, News, Advocate and Lamar Job Office," which, ac-curding to his mode ef thinking, might accomplish his original purpose, ati least until the people caught on to the littleness of the trick. The Santa" Fe 'is investigating the advisability of changing their train schedule on the Panhandle division.

If the change is made it will be about the first of March and will give us a passenger going east about 9 a. m. and one going west about 7 p. m. The change will probably not be made unless the Santa Ee comes to the conclusion that better train service will have to be given us if they wish to compete with the Orient.

The west bound passenger is from SO minutes to an hour late about 4 days out of the week, and the busi -ness men are expressing their dissatis faction very freely of the treatment they have received at the hands of the Santa Fe, and especially is this true of the grain men. On account of increasing business I will remain at. tyri My Patterson Hotel until Saturday eyening, March 2nd. Remember, all eye examinations free. Office hours, 9 to 11 and 2 to 4.

Yours oa sight," J. Harry Gay. From Kev. J. Ilamline Smith.

Attica Fkb. 4, 1901. J. Gay, Dear Sir: Nothing that I have had in the 16 years of using glasses and from the best opticians of Chicago and Wichita and other places that have tried to fit my eyes, have given me the power or the comfort of eye sight that you have, for which I will ever recommend your painstaking and skill. J.

Uamline Smith. The Commoner, AND The Wens, Both one year for the sum of $1.75 The Commoner employs no traveling canvassers and the only way in which yon can get the paper is by sending a dollar to the Commoner or through the other newspapers at 75 cents. CREAM FLOUR is made by the nunter Milling of Wellington, Kans. It is the "Cream that made Wellington famous" has made Wellington the grain center for Kansas and Oklahoma. The mill is simply grand nothing to compare with it in the west.

The finest machinery that is made is in this mill Mr. Barnard, the miller, is adir.itted the best miller in the state today and commands a salary of 10 X) more than any miller in Ihe Uate This mill starts at 1:30 a. m. Monday of each week and closes at 11:30 p. in.

Saturday. Ha no traveling salesmen. The only mill in Kansas that runs night and day withaut salesmen on the road. The Hunter Milling Company has Built A storage room at Harper where CREAM FLOUR will be kept and sold direct to the people at wholesale prices. Every sack is fullj guaranteed.

"We guarantee the Flour to be better, not equal, than any other. Whenever you find a sack that we ere mistaken about we want you to bring it back we don't want you to keep it; Hunter's Breakfast Food. Hunter's Breakfast Food is a good article. You will find it in almost any first-class grocery store in western Kansas. Has driven Phillsbury out of Wichita and finds ready sale in C.

We Keep Plenty of Mill Feed to Supply the Trade. The CREAM FLOUR will be found at the following: Stores: L. K. Sitler, Lace store, Obert Collins, Geo. Melvin, J.

Parker Sons, J. L. Anderson, Theo. Hepsher. A ini 0 ETtinrlrtM on uolcl Cream Flour back beeiuse there is less WOi'O 10 lIlB yBSIBl.

profit thansome other flour. You wilffind great consolation in the friends YOU MAKE SELLING CREAM. TllERE IS PROFIT IK CONSOLATION. The Bluff City News last week said that Geo. Miller had shipped in a car load of thorough bred heifers to finish stocking up his Twin Mound ranch.

Lunch 5 cents up, meals 10 cents up. Regular meal, best value in tbe county, for 25c. Kozy Kafay. (MuirBldg) Judge Gillett was in town Saturday afternoon between trains. The Barber county docket was cleaned up, nothing that was ready for trial being left over.

Joe Mcintosh was taken home last Tuesday. He met with quite an accident sometime ago in Harper, caused by a trip to Wichita and some fun on the side. Mrs. Sherriff, of Danville, was in town last Saturday. Within thirty minutes after her arrival the bootlegger ha I quit business and taken a tie pass out of town.

O. S. Northup was up from Anthony the 20th. He is helping H. D.

Northup in the painting of the bridges of Harper county and reports that they have nearly finished. Sam Sherril received a telegram last Sunday saying that his father had met with a severe accident, and he started the same day for Iowa. Mrs. Sherril received a letter Thursday from Sam announcing the death of his father. 2C.