The News from Harper, Kansas • 1

-A nn tp I If you have anything to sell. tll tbe people about it t--" through The Nkws. jf 5 UU 1 If you wast to pet It golcj and coming, then read VOL. 3. KANSAS, FR DAY, JUNE 28 1901.

NO. 2G If You a leicner ib cD t- You Ride Best II0W FOR CUT PRICES! rf Let us tell you. about them. I. FLETCHER We have now resched the pen son of the year when we will btgin to cut the prices on our Spring and Summer clothing.

We have no excuse to offer. We simply want to convert the balance of 4his season's stock into cash and to get ready for fall and winter and our low prices will certainly move oar stock out of the house and into the possession of our We don't want this ad to appear sensational or read like a fake. We want it to impress sensible people, as a truthful strtement of a plain business proposition which it is, Monday July 1st, we begin to cut prices STRAIGHT an actual mark down without a previous mark up: We do it because iv is good business to do bo, and these cut 'prices offer ySu the b.st kind of a business reason for buying hare daring this sale. J-. Monarch and Columbia Bicycles, The World Beaters.

We dely Competition and urge Comparison, for oar prices oil sundries. We do all kinds of wheel repairing. Pi Briggs. Black of Blue Black Birds Eye Worsted Suits Black Round cut Basket Worsted Suits Four Styles Fancy Worsteds, checks and stripes 20-oz All-wool Black Clay Worsted Suits -18-oz All-wool Black CUay Panel Back Suits I Lot All-wool Cheviot Suits, black All light colored fancy Worsttd Suits -An All.wool Scotch Cassimere Suit All-wool Fancy Cassimeres and Worsteds Black. Diagonal Worsted Suits, square cut Every Suit in Season's goods, bur House Guaranteed to be this and all our suits bear the union label.

CAL ERHARD, The One-Price Clothier. Because they Are well built, up-to-date and moderate in price. Meals are always ready, 15c to 25c. Also lunch. Kozy Kafay.

Mrs. S. Cw Hart returnedSaturday; from Omaha where she called by the death of her lather. Dr. F.

Demorest, president of Win-field college, will address the Normal students Monday evening. Take your shirts to Everett Parker, American Steam Laundry. New neck aud wrist bands put on free. Miss Callie Baker is closing out her stock of spring and summer hats, ornaments, flowers, at half price. Lobaugh's wheat, which is being thrashed, tests 62 lbs but is not yielding as much per acre as was expected.

The -ice eream social at the Presbyterian church last Saturday night wis well attended and was a social treat. Mrs. J. A. Titus and children came up from Cherokee Monday to spend a few weeks with relatives and friends, Miss Olive Quimby came in Mondav from Guthrie, to visit with old Harper friends for a couple of weeks.

Torpedos, firecrackers, sky rockets, Roman candles, higger chasers, every thing in the fireworks Store The Kiowa Review, Medicine Lodge Cresset and the Attica Independent will run the Uncle Josh story; 'nough said. Mrs Ben Lowinstein, of Hopkinsville and Mrs. Krover, of Hendersor, are visiting with their sister, Mrs. S. E.Cole.

Miss Grace Griswold, of Otto, came in this week to the summer with hei grandparents, H. Griswold and wife. A large supply of fireworks has been received at the Variety Store this week Call and lay in a supply for your 4th of July celebration. Misses Nellie Law and Carrie Collins of Anthony, who liave been attending the summer term at the College, returned home Tuesday. The Harper county institute will convene next Monday with the promise of the largest attendance of any Normal held in this county for years.

Misses Stella Elliot, Alice and Kate Purcell, returned to Cunningham Wed nesday after a week's visit with rela tives at Crystal and Harper. Judge Gillett was in town Wednesday between trains on his way to King man from Medicine Lodge where he has been holding an adjourned term of the district court. Rod Clarahan finished cutting wheat last Saturday. In 8 days he cut and put in the shock 400 acres of wheat. Can anyone beat the record? Rod has some second hand lanterns for sale.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Lucy Follet, one of the girls who attended the St. Rose Academy last term, was badly hurt last week by a binder. She was riding the lead horses, fell off, was caught in the sickle bar and dragged Mite a distance. or You Jess Purcell has been quite sick this week. A sister of Mrs.

R.J. Fossett's is here Elmer Titus' left for St Louis last Saturday. Harvester Oil in Gallon cans at Glenn's. Fred Washbon dropped in town again Wednesday. Cole Bros' ad, they have some bargains.

A new roof was put on the Glenn Hotel this week. Mrs. Martin visited with friend3 at Wichita this week. AU kinds of job work done at this office. Call and Hee um.

Miss Kitty Lloyd will leave toworrow for her home at Lamed. Buy your Harvester Oil at Glenn's and you will e.et the best. Mrs. John Baumstark visited al Wellington the first of the week. Nick Wolf has been spending the week with his sister near Freeport.

A. Weatherly left for Euid and other points in Oklahoma last Saturday. An extra fine polish at the American JSteam Laundry, Win. Hurst, ageut. M.

Reddy and wife returned Sunday from a week's stay at Gueda Springs. Kold drinks, Ice Kream, FREE with Saturday inner. Kozv Kafiy. W. Walcott left yesterday for Denver, to be gone about six weeks.

Mrs, L. Fletcher left Saturday for a few days visit with her sons near Sharon The Glorious fourth is nearly here! The fireworks are here. Variety. Store. Miss Irene Billing went to Medicine Lodge Monday to visit with her sister.

Miss Maud Smith left Monday for a several months stay at Hennessey Mrs. Share and son, Morton, left on Tuesday for their future home at Alva. Tom Moffett came in from Kansas City Saturday and remained for several days. Misses Olive Quimby, Yelma Sawyer and Mrs. Stewart were at Anthony last Tuesday.

J. C. Elvin moved into his recently purchased property in the third ward this week. Harry Armston return cd Tuesday from a couple of weeks sojourn in 9-Cottonwood. N.

Otto came up from the Strip last Saturday and left the first of the week for Germany. Rev. D. M. Simpson, of Souix City, Iowa' will occupy the M.

E. pulpit next Sunday evening. Charley Martin made final proof last Saturday on the quarter section he re cently preempted. Mrs. J.

Holmes and children left Wednesday for Wichita on a visit to ilrs. Holmes' mother. The Jessie Morrison jury at Eldorado has so far failed to agree and it looks like another hung jury. SAM. S.

SISSON, ATTORHET-AT-LAW. Office in Mrrrick Bldg. HARPER, KANSAS. J. Q.

WASHBON, Harper, Kas. FRED WASH BOX Anthony. Kat. Washbon Washbon Attorneys at Law. Attorneys for First National thon Ha rper State Bank, Harper.

NOTAHT PCBLJC IN Ot FICE. OFFICBS OOMSKCTED BY 'PHOSE. Quite a number of people have donated to the Street and Improvement fund this week. The" Assistant Superintendent the Santa Fe was in our city this week to try to arrange terms with the city to furnish water to the Company. It seems that in the past our city has had no way of knowing how much water was used, that they have thus far taken the Agent's (Mr.

Hart) word as to the amount consumed. So far they have never reported over $12 worth used in any month, and there is a strong suspicion that our city is beiug robbed. From this on a meter will be placed in aud this soulless corporation must pay for what water they use or make other arrangements. Reduced to $10.75 10.75 FOR Reliable Rates AND Quickest Time Patronize The Through Car Without Change BETWEEN AND ST. LOUIS.

Train lenve Wichita 1:20. 10:43 p.m. Train leaves Winfield 11 Santa Fe trains make close connection for all points online PBISGO LIIIE. For further information call on or write tbe undersigned. It is a pleasure for us to answer questions.

B. F. PUNN. BRYAN 8NYDER, Dist. Pass.

Agt. Oen. Pun Agt. Wichita. Kans.

St. Louis, lio AI! Kinds of Coal. Prompt Deliveries. Builders" Uaterial At an astonishing low figure. Kansas.

L. C. St.vsEMAN, Caaier. When iu Aotbooy Give us a Trial. Brigtjs Col.

Plum, Rago, was in town today. Dr. J. R. McKee at Patterson Hotel Monday June 3, remaining 4 days.

Call and have your teeth attended to. II. P. McClung took out two separators and an engine Tuesday. lie has a good reputation as a thresher and expects this year to make that reputation better than ever.

John Purcell, who has been attending school at Lawrence this year and is now visiting with relatives here and at Crystal, will leave next week to spend the summer at Chicago and Buffalo. Misses Mayme Haney, Rose Thompson, Mesdames Edwards and Hicks went to Argonia Monday to put on the initiation work for the Rebekah lodge at that place. They returned Tuesday. Notice! With this issue the News is discon- tinued as a Harper county publication, as noticed on the editorial page. Please be prepared to settle your account with us when the collector calls or when you receive the bill.

There are a few, a very few, who have paid for the News a year in advance and in order to refund the amount due them it will be neocessary to collect hat is due us from subrcribers who are in arrears, otherwise we would be glad to make youti present of the small. account. Ursel Finch. The gasoline engine and seper-ator has. been thrashing -Lobaugh's wheat south of town for the last, two days, and all say its doing good work.

Messrs Sanders and Cowles who pur- chased it are well pleased with the work done. Lee Patterson has accepted a position as cartoon man on a new daily to be started at El Reno, the first of July. He leaves next week. Lee has a natural ability as an artist and with a little practice will undoubtedly make his mark in that line. II D.

Johnson ha3 retired from the manage of the Peabody News in favor of D. F. Hancock, and in his obituary this week Harry sizes up Jhe prospects of the average country editor about right. He will take up his old occupa tion of prospecting, and says that if he doesn't make a find he will be no worse off than if he had run a country news paper all his life. It seems that the Journal and Reyiew of Kiowa are getting at loggerheads.

and each of the editors has a chip on his shoulder and is daring the other one to knock it off, and that they both are determined to have a scrap. Bojs, take our advise, dout do it, Remember that the hot season is now at hand and for the next two months the thermom eter will hover around the 109 mark. Judge Crogier once said, "That in the days of wilted colors, when mint julips failed to invigorate and ice clarets failed to stimulate, that on such days no one should be called upon to do heavy mental work." Follow the advise of the learned Judge, keep cool, and do not hurl any more heavy weight articles at each other. Why will a home newspaper pick up traveling fakirs and help them fleece the town? It may be a little cash to the paper at the time, but ultimately it will loose subscribers and advertising patrons by adhering to such a policy. At several places in the state Josh has landed his graft, to the detriment of the home paper, the merchants, and the public in general, and in a place where the merchants are already liberal advertisers it is especially an outrage for the local papers to help fleece them.

A person with the least conception of how to advertise can readily see the disadvantages of Josh's system. If one starts out to read a story and discovers that it is an ad, he feels sold and will seldom finish reading the article; or if three or four different firms in the same line of business are mentioned in the article, how much benefit does each derive? i Bicher In Quality than most 10 Cigars DOCKER stkaight5cigar Compare them with otW Cigar mad You find good reasoes for their cottlog the dealer more than other brand FRANK LEWIS, PCORIAJU. ORIGINATOR TIN FOIL SMOKER PACKAGE Electric Light Plant. The electrician who has been expected lor bo me time arrived the latter part of 1 ist week and in a abort time pland and Hpecificrttiona will be submitted for the erection of nn electric light plant. Thin id very important and aud should be fully and thoroughly canvasned and dinciiRseo before any action in taken.

The principal question U-ean our city under the circucnuta rices and the indebtedness now against us afford to incur the expense, and will it pav? We do not know what tha cosh of the construction of the plant Trill be but understand about fo.OOO or over, nor do we know whether it would py running expenses, but our opinion in thtit it would not. Our winter city. Weed Patch, has had some experience along thi line tnd could tell us whether theira ever paid operating expenses, we have be. told that it never did. Uadir the present condition of tbe Bid iwalks we need the lights in order to see th few scattering boards and whether it would be better to repair the walkrt or get the lights we will leave to the people to decide.

The columns of the News are open for a dirMHirtsion of this or any other public meauure. Hero aud There. When a young couple ha it ho bad that it appears to them ueeceftmry to be together at least three or four times a dav, they are rapidly drifting towards the ''Ought To Be" Society, and are immediately placed on probation, with a chance of becoming members if they remain true to each other. now has five couple who belong to this most flourishing Aa soon.ua a couple geta married, -nd are therefore ineligible to membership, another utandd ready to take their places. "I this hot enough for you?" is a foolish and sennelees query for thi time of the year but one which a.

person usuaUy aska upon meeting an acquain tance. One of our prominent business men who usually talks with from 100 to 200 persons a. day said that the above question was hurled at him 126 times last Monday and that the next hot day he wat going to get a gatlin gun and the first person who asked him that question would find that there was a hotter place than Harper. mat trait Known as firmness in a raan's character is called stubborness in a woman's. Can a person change their disposition? We think so, and therefore one who is easily imposed and overworked at a church social has no right to grumble afterwards.

"Never take advantage of a dumb ani mal" is Fred Lyons motto since he broke a couple ol bis fingers over acow'a head the other day. Our photogrn pher, J. Burgener, has been learning to ride a wheel during the past two weeks and is now an artist in crossing rail road trackB, taking headers, dismounting gracefully and at the same time quickly. "A Splinter from my Sweetheart's Wooden Leg" is one of the latest popu lar pieces of music in the East, and at the rate the leg is tra veling it will reach Harper sometime next year. It is not conducive to matrimony to employ a young man with the understanding that he it to hold his job only as long as he remains single, and if we were tbe young man we would inform the boss that "there are other jobs." J.

R. At Patterson House the first Monday of each month remaining 4 days. Bock Island Lumber Co. Lumber and Builders' Material We Build Our Own Bicycles. We Can Ik It.

Wc Do Do It. The lime was, only a few years ago that a large and expensively stocked factory was considered neccessary in order to build bicycles. Every manufacturer sought rather to make his wheel peculiar and original in its lines, instead of simple and perfect in construction. If you are one of the old timers jou can easily remember bow all of the Wtor bicycle could be told a mile away by their peculiar spring fork, the Rmb1en by their spring in the rear, the Colum- bia, Nev Mail, Riuige Bicyclette, and all of the others had their ear marks which identified them as far as they could be seen. But this has all changed.

Today, with the exception of a few minor details in construction, the general outlines of all wheels are the same and it takes an expert to identify them. Tbe reason is simple. The bicycle trade is progressive. Today tbe best known aud best equipped factories in the country are equipped with machinery suitable for assembling bicycles, but not for, manufacturing the component parts from the raw mateVial. Other firms have stepped into this breach.

Fauber. for instance makes nothing but hangers and has a world wide reputation; Grant makes nothing but balls, but of the Itest; Crosby Mayer and Keim make nothing but fit. iings, but make these eo that they are easier worked and much superior to forgings; Shelby makes tubing and tube specialties, the best in the world; and tbe list could be continued indefinately. Each firm makes a specialty of one item, and consequently the man who builds few dozen or a few hundred wheels during the season can purchase just aa high grade material as any of the larger manufacturers. The Trust or combination or whatever the American Bicycle Co.

chooses to term itself, has undoubtedly raised the price of bicycles $5 to $10 for 1901. All of the shrewdest men in the business admit as much and point to this fact as the principal reason for tbe Trust's existence, make our own deal independent of the American Bi cycle and are therefore able to fur nish you a wheel for $30 where you would have to pav $40 for the same grade wheel elewhere. You naturally have more confidence in the whaels you have seen built yourself than if thy were made thousands of miles away. We equip tbem in any manner you may desire. L.E.

FLETCHER, Harper, Kansas. C.I.WHEATIEY,M. D. Physical Surgeon. Calls attended to night er day from office, formerly occupied by Dr.

Martin. If yon want the finest Bread on earth, try Arkansas City Cream Flour. LACE STORE SOLE AGENTS. Wyatt Stanley will be the last man in this county to finish harvesting his wheat crop. It seems that be has had trouble in procuricg hauds.

Our Cements and Plasters Are Un equaled. Rubberoid Roofing Is the best that has ever been triel Watt arson An nvite GRAHAM BROS I bops. Rates, $2 Per Day. 4- F. R.

Zacbakias, President. llBPER STITE BjlM, 221233.. Do a General Banking Business. Anthony extends to the good people of Harper, Kansas, and vicinity a cordial invitation to come and celebrate with us the Fourth. We will have the biggest Band Carnival ever in Southern Kansas, six of the best bands in this section being engaged.

A section of State Artillery from 'Wichita will fire National Salute and give glimpses of war. A Ball Game between Attica and Argonia teams, two of the best in the State. Arousing Fourth of July oration. Fireworks at night. Excursion rates on all roads, plenty of G- W.

B. DERRICK. Paor. Anthony, Kansas. Rates: $1 and $1 25 shade and free ice-water.

GOME! Jr..