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'J rr fjc 4 VOL. 1. PRETTY PRAIRIE, RENO COUNTY, KANSAS, AUGUST 31, 1906. No. 27 Western Wheat For Sale.

One team of well broke 6-year old mules. Weight of team 1700 pounds. John McClure. If you are renting and want" a home of your own you should see Rob't B. Smith of Kingman, for he can sell you one where one crop will pay for it.

If you doubt this he give you the deed for one crop whether it be good or bad. Now it is up to you. To Judge Herefords Col. W. A.

Harris of Lawrence, the Democratic nominee for governor, will be judge of the Hereford cattle at the State Fair, September 17-22. The colonel is one of the foremost men of the country on the question of live stock, at one time serving as president of the national live stock Perdew-Hayse Wedding On Wednesday, August 29th, occured the marriage of Mr. G. E. Perdew to Miss Grace Hayse at the home of the bride in Castle-ton township, the ceremony being performed by Rev.

R. A. Corrie of the Pretty Prairie M. E. church.

The groom is a traveling salesman, whose home is at Maryville, Mo. The bride is one of Castleton township's accomplished young ladies. Many beautiful presents were received. Besides the relatives of the contracting parties, the following guests were present: Miss Laberta Owens of Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs.

Emmert of Darlow and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Graves of Pretty Prairie.

Mr. and Mrs. Perdew left Wednesday evening for a trip through the East, accompanied by the best wishes of a large number of friends. In blocks of from onequarter to ten sections and from $2.50 to $10.00 per acre. Can arrange terms to suit customer.

Have some fine wheat land I can give for one crop, and also have a list of HOME STEADS on which I can locate customers. GO WEST EVERY Railroad fare RETURNED to those who locate. For further information, call on or address MITH ROBT. Notice to Farmers. Superior and Thomas drills on sale at the Pretty Prairie Implement Co.

Official Statement Of the financial condition of Pretty Prairie, Kansas, At the close of business, April 6, 190t3. RESOURCES Loans and discounts Overdrafts 506.89 Bank building 1,000.00 Furniture and fixtures 1,000.00 Expense account 463.21 Cash and sight exchange, 16,955.07 Total $114,189.04 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in 10,000.00 Surplus fund 5,000.00 Undivided profits 11,167.55 Interest 2,051.50 Exchange 79.04 Individual deposits 54,420.04 Certificates of deposits 31,470.91 Total $114,189.04 State of Kansas, County of Reno ss" Ella Demoret, Cashier of said bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true; that said bank has no liabilities, and is not indorser any note or obligation, other than shown on the above statement, to the best of my knowledge, so help me God. Ella Demoret, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 17th day of April, 1906. seal G.

D. Smith. Notary Public. Correct attest: Ella Demoret, D. F.

Collingwood, I n- Joseph G. Collingwood, S. G. Demoret. To no.

Q. Royce, Bank Commissioner, Topeka, Kansas. lhe State Lock box 575. Telephone No. 136.

Kingman, Kansas Wall Paper Window Shades Paints Varnishes Oils and Brushes SEE 3. KNOWLTON PAINT! I do all kinds of frst-class painting" and paper hanging. I also have samples of up-to-date paper. Work Guaranteed to be First Class or no pay. Yours for business, the: druggist Pretty Prairie, Kansas AGENT FOR CRESCENT COTTAGE PAINT Looks Best Wears Longest Covers Most E.

HOEB Thirty Years of Experience TUIILE SLAUGHTER (Auctioneers Leave orders at Record office. Before Building See P. Dopps, Contractor and Builder Phone No. 37-3. Geo.

VanVIeet Contractor Q.Biilder All Work Guaranteed. O-LEAVE ORDERS AT HOTEL. Dr. F. B.

Cornell Physician and Surgeon Phone No. 1. O. L. Sprouse Son Painters and Paper Hangers Please give us a call.

EKE W. Ultch Lumber Co. the HAMILTON BROWN Call and see them. HUNTING TRIP Be sore to be properly e'lu-PT' obta'n the STEV-HN5 aai you CANNOT GO kosg. We make RIFLES from $2.25 to $150.00 PISTOLS from 2.50 to 50.00 SHOTGUNS from 7.50 to 35.00 insist Send for no-papre iHus on el popular naKe.

I tratei caraiog. If inter-youcannot obtain, weship ested in SHOOTING, you iirect, carriage charges oujfnt to have it. Mailed prepaid, upon receipt cf for -ur cents la stamps to catalog price. 1 cover postage. Our attractive three-color AltiTr.intmi HanererwCI be sent anywnere for 10 cents in stamps.

J. STEVENS AEIIS AND TOOL P. O. Box 4096 CMcopee Falls, U. S.

A. CO- Of ft AJ IMA. "Vr a Headquarters, Mound Ridfre, Kan Leave orders at Geo. To New York Dr. F.

B. Cornell left hurriedly Tuesday evening for Troupsberg, New York, in response to a telegram announcing the serious illness of his father. District Court Next Week District- court convenes at Hutchinson Tuesday, September 4th. The docket consists of ten criminal cases and ninety -six civil, of which eighteen are divorces. J.

A. Krehbiel of Pretty Prairie is one of the jury panel. Announcement is made of the approaching marriage of Mr. P. D.

Krehbiel of Pretty Prairie to Miss Selma Schmitt of Halstead. The event will occur on Wednesday, Sept. 5th, at the home of the bride's parents in Halstead. Castleton NoLes. Miss Lena White has been visiting the Hornbaker family the past week.

Castleton was victorious in the Saturday ball game with Partridge. Score 4 to 5. R. B. O'Leary has purchased the interest of Mr.

Cogswell in the hardware business. The Woodman lodge had their hall building covered with sheet iron, thus greatly improving its appearance. A good many pianos have been purchased in this vicinity lately. J. A.

Lewis and family are among the latest to install this popular instrument. The Santa Fe has changed station agents. Mr. Bates is the new man in charge. He has occupied the house recently vacated by Mr.

Williams. Castleton township products will be ably represented at the State Fair. The Forsha display, so we understand, will be quite an elaborate one. Mr. and Mrs.

Hanlon have returned from their honeymoon and have located with us. They have the best wishes of the entire community, Three Kansas Boys. By Judge S. K. Peters in Newton Kansan.

We notice in the dispatches of Aug. 8, that the Plains State bank opened for buisness with J. H. Colling wood, president, B. F.

Collingwood, vice president and J. H. Collingwood cashier. West Plains is a little village on the Rock Island, west of Meade in Meade county, Kansas. It is about the size of Walton, this county.

It is situated on a treeless open prairie which years ago was thought to be useless except for cattle grazing. The dispatch stated that the deposits for the first day in the bank amounted to $20,901. The success of the Colling wood brothers brings to our mind a trip that was made by the writer in July 1875 from Hutchinson to Medicine tor tne purpose oi noiaing a term of the district court in Barber county. The distance from Hutchinson to Medicine Lodge was seventy-five miles and there were but few houses along the road. After leaving the settlement in the vicinity of Hutchin son there were but three until you reached the vicinity of Medicine Lodge.

The only building in the city of Kingman at that time was a one story shack in which an eastern man who was nearly dead with consumption had started a little store not with the idea ot doing much buisness but in order to satisfy the cravings of some of those who took passage on the stage line from Hutchinson to Medicine Lodge, for Old Style smoking tobacco and crackers and occasionally some canned fruit. Another point was the Chickasha ranch where the stagre changed broncos or mules as the case might be. JNear the city of Pretty Prairie in Reno county now a station on the Hutchinson and Southern road, there was a house occu pied by a widow and her family. It was an unpretentious one, situated out in the open prairie, without a tree and with no outhouses, no iences, a coupie of old horses and as many cows, but the Oresidinsr genius of that" little prairie home was the Widow Colling wood. -She was enterprising, an excell ent housekeeper and a good cook.

On this trip we started out early from Hutchinson and drove to this place for breakfast. This consisted of coffee with cream and ham and eggs, lhe heat to treDare the meal was obtained from buffalo chips The breakfast was palatable and the meal enjoyed. The family aside from the widow consisted The Best Shoes in town are being sold at G. D. vSmitH's General The Forsha Display The Forsha ranch, located in our neighboring township, Castleton, will make quite an exhibit at the State Fair, September 17-22.

The exhibit will consist of live stock, agricultural products, flour and mill feeds. An entire building will be used in making this exhibit. This display, while presenting only the products of this one ranch, will do much to show forth the resources of this vicinity. Personals. Ed Bay was at Waterloo last Monday.

Clarence Field spent Sunday at Hutchinson. Mrs. Wm. Graves and Miss Hulda Graves visited here Friday. Miss Daisy Cogswell has re turned from a visit at Decoma, Oklahoma.

P. D. Krehbiel made a trip to Halstead last Saturday, return ing Monday. Mrs. R.

R. Blanchett returned home Saturday from a visit in Hutchinson. Rev. and Mrs. Francisco vis ited with Mrs.

Seibert at Lone Star last Sunday. Dave Barton and family are visiting friends in this vicinity. rhey are from Oklahoma. C. F.

Hogue, wife and daughter, of Hutchinson, are visiting rela tives and friends here this week. Geo. Schisler of Darlow visited Chester Fields this week on his way home from Gueda Springs. Miss Grace Kingsley, Mrs. Dr.

Welch and Thelma Welch of Hutchinson visited with Mrs. G. Demoret last Sunday. Homer Myers headed the dele gation from the Elmer vicinity to the Sunday school gathering which held forth in our city this week. Wm.

Graves of Troy township, spent several days the past week in southwestern Kansas. Among the places he visited was Plains, Meade county, where our fellow townsmen, the Collingwoods, have invested in a number of different lines of busines, including land, bank, elevator, etc. Mr. Graves is highly pleased with the town of Plains, also its surrounding country. "Something Doing." On Monday morning, Sept.

17, the great State Fair will open and from that time until 12 p. m. Saturday night there will be something doing. The big organ on the merry- go-round will commence to play in the afternoon and then there will be "something The Coleman Balloon Co. will make an ascension each day and there will be something doing." Pat terson Brainerd with their six teen shows, including the Navaho Girls, The Old Plantation, will have their spielers" each one advising the people that there is "something doing' on the inside of the pavilion.

Every afternoon "something will be doing" on the race track and there will be "something doing" in the agricultural hall, the chicken palaces, the fine arts hall and at the live stock stalls every hour in the day, not forgetting that there will be "something doing" at the model dairy each day. Trade with home merchants. BRANCH STORE OF Goering Krehbiel Mercantile Dealers in GENERAL MERCHANDISE J. M. BUSH, Manager.

SEE PRETTY PRAIRIE, KAN. 22 They are SHOES. Q. D. SMITH, Prop.

of a little girl and three boys ranging in age from four to ten years All of them were barefoot and not overly well clad. They were bright, active and evidently rustlers. Time has changed and these boys have become men. They now own 12000 acres of land in the vicinity of Pretty Prairie and 32000 acres in Meade and Seward counties They own and operate a bank in Pretty Prairie and also own and operate the bank just established at Plains. They also own an elevator at the latter place with a capacity of 45,000 bushels.

They have about 25000 acres in cultivation. It is almost impossible to estimate the number of bushels of wheat raised this year. It is safe to say however that their elevator with its capacity will be filled several times with this year's crop. "These are they who have come up through much tribulation." The widowed mother gave them their start upon the open prame teno county. So far as the writer knows she is still living and when last heard from was the same unassuming but ever interesting Kansas women.

Her boj-s are equally unassuming and among the best citizens in the state. 'A Nebraska farmer was bragging about the corn to a brakeman from Kansas, and the brakeman said, Down Kansas your corn would look like Trade with home advertisers. By their ads they invite you. Cheapest and Best Place in the County to buy HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTS. I also have a full line of Stearns' Paint that is fully warranted to be the best TIN WORK A SPECIALTY J.

G. GRABER. Job Prmtmg at The Record.