The Champion from Norton, Kansas • 3

Sale and Feed Stable llumsipal Haimony. Vhe Altneui boo edicion last week im kea cut thit cit." to be the o-jly one on our vestern ra- a it ia po ite t5 cli pate. Here is hopir it vill jntiuie that opinion ia Norton its To tlie Ladies.1 We Tv proud No one 1 be ermi ted to Cxndersed Official Statement 7 at ant f.ction. scund ts the m'V: i i hig ler ke th flhile l.o re-t'cmbi rs t'e OF st id ire euly a a The petit on aotni J. R.

Thompson maj jr was filed S.itu 'da Oe" smt Ban'i Norton, Kansas, at the Close of business March 16, 1909. I will have on display at my Formal Opening Saturday April 3, 1909, one of the handsomest assortments of Ladies Pattern Hats ever sho.vn in Norton. ThU will give plenty of time make. your Selections before ister. These Hats will be sold at Practially Wholesale Prices and Remember that they will only be on Sale for one week and you should not fair to see, them.

Bratt Budding R. C. I r7 v. p-tff r' F. M.

Duvall was arrested for assault with attempt to kill Thields, and his preliminary is set for April 5 before Squir Kingsbury. Ia order to disqualify ourself from jury service we desire to express an opinion at once: Not ijuilty. Jo Sarvia ia s.udyiig- navigation through a correspondence school of sailors. pieciai-CM. We for harmo iae artiste sense, sleniing of ight and si ado to inspire admiratie 1.

Sunlight and shadow prluf the ompesite photograph of a live city. Heaven is composed of angels; hell is popn'ated with devils: bvt a city Is the recruting gxoun for both. The mayor must ren ejiber few things are so rare as a igel's visits; and nothing more common then the social call of the bland prince of darkness. To heaven, a narrow path; to hell, a broad boulevard. That shows which enlists popular travel.

When our mayor pray: "Thy kingdom come," he must not forget that the kingdom is yet to come; that the "consummation deuovtly to be wished" is the optimism of the future. More than ordinances are needed to reform "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain." RESOURCES. Loans ad Discounts 89,534 54 Furniture and Fixtures 1.950 00 Expenses 847 98 Ca.sh and Sight Exchange 58, 194 86 Total 150.527 38 LIABILITIES Capital Stock 25,000 00 Surplus and Uudivided Profits 11,208 78 Deposits 114,318 60 Total 150,527 38 The above Statement is correct. J. E.

Gleason, Cashier. A. R. Williams and wife accompanied their daughter and grandson as far as Lincoln, on their way to Seattle. At D.

fl. Conway's Barn Horses and Mules of all kinds Driving and saddle Horses Time given on any Purchase Dr. Etta Al. Patton, DENTIST. Chas.

M. Sawj-r, Elmer E. Ames, Chas. W. Campbell, President.

Vice President Cashier. The First National Bank Norton, Kansas. Capital $50,000.00 Establish e'd in 1885 and successfully operated bys the same management since its organization. safeguard known to modern banking is employed to make this institution the best in northwest Kansas. Mrs.

A. A. Bower is ia Denver for a surgical operation, and Dell was called there later. Office over First State Bank. NORTON, KAS.

We admonish our popular friend to 0 TE EARNESTLY invitejyou to I. 'join the growing list of depos- be everybody's mayor, not mayor for and behalf of a hnlv" trinifv of mar shals alone, but mayor for the whole itors who keep their funds with us who wishes to build up a legitimate business, and we offer careful and courteous treatment and attention to those who give us their business. We call your attention to the called statement, and on the strength of it solicit your bank account. city as well. The people appreciate the accom The local papers have taken up the jos3 about our occupying the pulpit.

It has been occupied by devils before us. In that grand drama, the greatest German literary production, "Faust," his Satanic majesty, Mephistopheles, ascends the pulpit and delivers a fine discourse posing1 as a theological student We could certainly preach a sermon from the pulpit, taking for text a scriptural passage about stone-throwers, that would jar the glassy hearts of a crovrd in the amen corner. i.ne true snepnera wm iook alter modations we iurnish. They are his black sheep for their own good, as benefiited by our conveniences. Hail Insurance.

The Old Reliable St. Paul and Marine Fire Insurance Co, well as for the wool that may be clip We are interested in every man W. M. Weikert, Insurance Agent for Atlas Building and Loan Association Special Attention given to Farm, Stock and grain risks. Office in New Broquet Block State Phone 139.

Farmers Phone 65 Norton, Kans. ped from them. The real reformer does not first J. E. GLEARON Cashier.

B. S. MH.X.BR Vice Pres. W. H.

Marsh President. strive to eliminate error by making for it a capital punishment; he pro wi'l write a limited amond of HAIL INSURANCE on growing grain in Norton County for the Season of 1909, 1000 per section. See me for rates and terms. ceeds in three stasres. Caesarianism, the politics of earlier and when it settles in the ballot boxes next Tuesday, the shout will be a ages C.

A. HAMILTON, Warning. Prosecution. Persecution. Harmony again, but not from in Thompson victory.

Of course, such appeals do not en Proprietor of list us as a defender of the pulpit in W. M. WeiKert, Agent. Norton County. Until then, hurrah for Thompson.

Then, vote for Thompson. Dodd Gaston airs his literary miseries in not liking the reputed masters, sach as Dickens, Thackeray, Hugo, Irving, Hawthorne et as the lawyers write, but he lacks a coach 41 selecting masters of fiction. Has Dodd ever read -'Nick Whiffles, or the Trappers Guide?" We pause for answer. stigators of strife shall we look for an ellort to eliminate tnereirom an harmony. It gives apain to read praise I considera'ion of temporal things.

some men get for their part in creat- I The pulpit docs not transcend its end Tears and Laughter. Two witnesses may be onlookers of ing- harmony after whipping us to I authority to thunder against men and BATH ROOH. governments, which are men in united a commonplace ac yet one see in'it peace with their bludgeons of insurrection and pandemonium! effort. food for laughter, and the other provender for tears. OWERS Shall we be pardoned for reproduc It tried hard to snow Saturday and did drop down a few flakes.

The pulpit can well spare a few remarks on infamy wherever found. ing a recent specimen from the Tele As an instance: Yesterday Mrs. THE ANTELOPE gram? While we are instructed that man Conway set her finished shortcake "The business being finished W. B. cannot serve both God and Mammon, The News is in the whirlwind of a piano contest, reaping the hot air later.

"We are immune from further attacks of this malady. Tavern J. E. ERWIN, Mgr. First Class in Every Respect SOUTHEAST CORNER SQUARE.

Rogers, an old timer of Norton, who I the latter must not be construed as said he had lived in this town for I including all temooral endeavor to upon a box on the back steps to cool, for it was very hot. Kaiser, that is Dr. Haworth's bird of a dog, was seen to approach it and make a dive for MARKET and GROCERY thirty-five years, said: enrich a city, or to put money in its all my residence here I have the dainty. coffers. To support government is patriotism, and religion ought to be never attended a convention where His grimmaces made the lady Transfer -and Baggage.

B. F. BUNKER, Prop. laugh loyal to political rule. the spirit of harmony seems to prevail as it does in this convention.

It Christ would have been saved had But her little Johnnie cried not at One thing we feel assured of if Elder Thompson is elected mayor, he will call us into his cabinet as official swearer, an office, we filled once for him when some sneak stole his hay, because he was too devout to do the swearing himself. Phone 224. Norton. Kans seems to be the desire of everyone to I law prevailed, for Pilate was the law, the dog's torture. get together and to stay together.

I But he was like others in authority It was Johnnyscake for Kaiser. Extend an invitation to the public in general to come in ancl examine tneir stock. Tkey Lave a nice large room and tneir stock is complete. They especially invite your attention to their unequaled Thompson Taylor Coffees "Cash or Trade for Butter and H. M.

POE, Gentlemen I am well pleased with the knowing the right without the nerve work of this convention this even-1 to insist on savinc the innocent as True Politeness. Some sister writing for the Courier ng." well as punishing the guilty. The REAL ESTATE AND LOANS Notary Public axd Conveyancer Abstracts and Insurance Father Tuite is called to Colby for the IS inst to deliver a lecture on The sarcasm of the ages comes to pulpit must not fall into the error of the Sandhedrim of holy Jerusalem last week under "Idle Thoughts of an Onlooker," refers to the Topeka memory. Paraphrased it is. What evil did that convention do, that he and imagine that the hoodlums and Bargains in Farm Land Journal and comments: should praise it." rabble of Galilee headed by the car "According to the same authority, C.

M. Sawyer took the 32 degree in Masonry at Topeka last week. John Kecht and Byron Wheeler were Old Harmony! Bless the mark! Norton's town plat is an illustration penter's son with fishermen lieutenants, deserve death for their ideas of reform. Fleming Bros. a number of the northwestern editors are sprouting wings and should be occupying pulpits as well as editorial of Roger'3 spirit of harmony.

He dis The preacher in his pulpit and every chairs. Among these is John Conway East Side Livery, Heed and Sale Stabler E. J. Knapp is home to stay, tiring Of the road. of the Champion.

It is said that he covered that Uncle Dick Williams, the father of our mayor, headed a townsite company to buUd Norton, and while they were perfecting plans ''fffWr where else should defend his communicant and personal friend. It was no sin in Drummond to advise can write entertainingly on any sub ject," and, it might also be added, Rogers skipped out and rode all night his flock to support Mayor Williams the nastier the subject, the more en to the land office at Cawker City where jat the coming city election, He has tertainingly he writes, so it is pre tfbeelef ai)d Boweft Barber Shop Cheapest Life Insurance in the World he devoted that tract of ground whose I a right to judge men, but not the sumed that if he does enter the pro fession it will be as an Up-To-Date George Angell, the voice for Dumb Animals, isnow silent. He is dead. If the ghost of Black Beauty did not meet him at the edge of the darkness to bear him through the thorny path up the rugged hill to the golden mountain of Zion, we shall know that dumb animals have no hereafter. four corners are marked by Shimealrs power to escape the judgment of store, the Baptist church, the Light meD) -ia turn.

Is Drummond's Ice plant and Marsh's implement ture, experience and mentality such evangelist." We regret to note that our nasty IIA1MIY MITCHELL grounds, as the town ot Norton. I as to qualify him to be a judge of an items are so entertaining. Issued by the He beat them to it. I advancing municipality? Those of Dray ivikL Transfer We are a Spartan- The theory of xne town company therefore naa to I fended at him for interference say he Orders left II. E.

Graves, Phenss 28. be secondary in prominence by nam- I is a judge only of a Jersey-red exbi iEtna Life ing their first organized town as the bit or a chicken show. We have seen Ralph Riggs in three different characters, but he is always Ralph Riggs. LAW, Association's Addition to the town of Norton." What has been his training? We confess some impatience at the Jjm H. WILDER J.

hey turned their backs to the "ori The Rathbone Sisters had a big way he characterized all the opposi Five "Year Convertible Term: ginal town" and vowed that only tion to Mayor Williams, saving from 02ice Court House sheds and back houses should grace time last Monday night with Doc Ly" ons, Than Johnson, Dan Conway and other good things to eat. rebuke only Rev. J. R. Thompson State street, a vow held inviolate un Age and Annual Rate per $1003 til the fire of 18S6 changed the condi who is deemed too good a man to be sacrificed by such riffraff as put him R.

Hamilton. tions of things. Jule VanMeter and Dr. Wesley saw forward. They would not continue the town 20 $9 33 35 $12 11 50 $22 40 25 10 01 40 13 67 55 30 79 30 10 93 45 16 89 60 43 73 ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office in the Broquet building Hundreds of pure electors will re Gotr.h throw the Frenchman in Kan sas City last week.

ship line road, southern boundary of sent this undeserved libel. Roger's town, but jogged Washing Spartans is to pat evil on exhibition to show its faults. They assembled their young men to behold the slaves in drunken revelry, thereby to give kindergarten lessons on the ridiculousness of intoxication. The true gentleman is not he who turns his nose at a fault in another, but the one who takes upon himself the other's fault. A homely story will illustrate the point, we got it from our courtly father: In a swell society once a group were talking about their favorite perfumes, and the true gentleman was expatiating on heliotrope when the nearest lady to him a very beautiful heiress, inadvertently lost control of herself so far as to let slip what our little son Johny calls He was insulted, but being a true gentleman, he would not show it; so he bowed his apologies for doing such a thing as that in elegant company, and withdrew.

He saved the lady's chagrin by his act, and she married him. Is not the efforts of the opposition ton street half a block north. They We are in receipt of the La Harpe H. Thompson. and notaby praiseworthy for offering such a sacri Journal of Allen county, Colum put the square out of reach east of Kansas avenue which now as then fice? Shall they be condemned for bus Borin's new paper, or rather, PUBLIC.

Special attention given Probate and supporting a good man for mayor? had neither outlet nor inlet. other paper, Vol. V. No. 50.

it ts a Real Estate, law. six column auarto half patent. This For years the original town bloom What is the danger threatened by having such a good man at the head ed as a back yard for corn cribs and journal will give our friend a chance W. HEMPHILL of the city government? debris. At the end of every 5 years the insured may renew at the rate for that age for another 5 years without a physical examination.

OR Take out any old line life with the tna by paying the difference in rate. Pa3'ments may be made annually; or at a slight advance, quarterly or semianuually. Call on to spread himself over space com Like a hopeful report, he believes To-day it has not a trace of the that Elder Thompson is too good to be founder in evidence, except his origin mensurate with his dimensions, if things happen down there to engross his fascinating pen. The name, Attorney-At-Law Office in Ayera ling ol Norton PHYSICIANS. true.

al effort at harmony, a get-there-first Elder Drummond will fill space in scheme whose "crooked mark alone however, is a misnomer, because jour-nal is from the French and means the Telegram booming Mayor Wil remains to mar the city's symmetry. yil. CUilBACK LATHROP, Hams. It pays to advertise. Every We distinguish between a town- daily, while this Journal is a weekly.

W. M. WEII1ERT good thing he may write of Mayor builder and a town-founder. We shall assicn Borin only three Williams will be deserved, no doubt, Office Iloure: 10-12 a. m.

NORTON 24 and 78 r. m. KansBs While we write history no imitation years to use for fluid that mellifluous because he is a splendid gentleman term called taffv in writing of his Can pass ns for the real. with undoubted virtues. So may he Spring chickens may crow for men new friends, after that please.

Whoever posing under false banners; but the write of Elder Thompson Farm Loans. If you want a loan upon your farm call at the First National Bank and get their terms. Principal and interest payable at the home bank. JJR. A.

S. HA WORTH the liquid which he can sling in the 1A klA fcA. ItA. tfA IA is elected win give assurance or song of the dying swan will be raised for the stanch, heroic town-builders PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office fn Browne Building, NORTON, KANSAS faces of his enemies to satisfy the ghost of Dean Swift.

We do not like Borin's taffy because we cannot cut it away from his bad-taste-in-the-mouth noble work for the upbuilding of our fine city. In the main effort at uplift we are all agreed, but we differ in detail. Nothing of an acrimonious whose brains, ellort and money are visible in enduring monuments and Headquarters for Riverton flour at Thompson Carter's. 1 Thompson Carter 1 structures to exemplify their genius. smile.

We like Borin best in his war QHA.3. W. COLE. D. paint.

He thirty-live years in Norton ever before seeing such harmony nature should be in evidence no matter which wins. We say this to prepare our friends, the enemy, to ac- PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, We pay highest market prices for hides'. B. W. Harmonson.

as in a little convention like that? Successors to N. Redd 7 Of course, a man may exercise his right to decline to run for mayor, as Special attention given to diseases ot We believe his confession. Where cePl defeat gleefully. A desire for Eye, Ear, Nose and Threat. did Thompson; but A.

ft. Wil Ask Thompson cl Carter for prices was he when every meeting in Norton a change 01 administration is in tne air (where the opposition will soon be) liams has no such right. drafted resolutions for the harmoni on butter and eggs. Phone 61. Q.

GERALD BRETHOUWER, M. ous work of building the city? Goats, Monkeys and Telegrams! Frank Lockard was in th is city Frl PHYSICIAN SURGEON day waiting for the Colby land office to finish a contest before he could All calls promptly answered. Grocery and Meats All the old and new customers will be protected by good bargains and square dealing. We would like to make you prices on FLOUR and CANNED Goods. Politics and the Pulpit.

I Phones Central State 127 Resid. 79. draw upon the officers to furnish him McGREW Cashier HlXSINGER Vice President I COPS President During last Sunday morning's ser Farmers Resid. 13. a list of the land3 owned by the gov vice in the Christian church Elder Drummond took occasion to comment eminent in this district from which Office in Browne Building he will select tracts for the agiicul Norton, Kansas at length on the city election com turat college.

plications, and thereby offended J2 M. TURNER, M. D. many of his flock. These come here ith.

their grievance and suggest Ia canvassing aronnd for a candid ate to oppose Mayor Williams the op Highest market price for Butter, Eggs The National Bank of Norton Norton, Kansas Capital, prid up, $50,000. Personal Responsibility of Stockholders: ONE MILLION DOLLARS position met with no difficulty ia sel PHYSICIAN, SURGEON and Electro-Therapeutist. Special Attention given to the treatment Ot Chronio DWeaees. Office in Ayers Block. some lines cf criticism in turn, urging us to call his attention to the fact that he draws his salary not to teach theni politics, but religion; not to re ft' ecting and soliciting men with heads sound for the work, but f.hey were sometimes afflicted with heart-failure.

S'and Produce. 5 ft vert to the government of earth so much as hU proper theme, the kingdom of heaven; not to dessccrate the Jj L. WILLSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.

Office over Snow Bennett Hard war a Farmsrs Phone; Offic; 99. Heme 69. Cental Sta'e: Office 12 IIcb2 Phone 61. North of Square ftCiSt -f is -s -r temple of worship with profane things Billy Palmer ia his splendid Jewell Republican has such a system of credits cs to give delight to the newspaper boys, tepecially to these who Can get in for the credit A Share of Your Business Solicited like the money changers of their djve peddlers, chicken or i.