The Prescott Register from Prescott, Kansas • 4

MOUND CITY. The Prescott Register. FOR UP-TO-DATE PIRINTONG CALL ON THE NAT a. BARTER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.

PRESCOTT. AUG. 26. 1898. FOR CONGRESS SECOND DISTRICT HON.

J. D. BOWERSOCK, OF DOUGLAS COUNTY. If you-want your. Rome and county news read The Register.

The entertainment to-night, is given for the benefit of the M. E. church. The weather has been excessively warm during the week, the hottest of the season. The early morning passenger train, was three and a half hours late, on Thursday morning.

E. A. Simpson sports a frisky wheel, which he is rapidly learning to ride in expert style. Mr. G.

W. Gifford and Mrs. Ida Gilley, both of this township, were married on ednesday last. The picnic at Clays grove was largely attended. A number of Prescott people were in attendance.

Rev. F. M. Taylor and family, of Farlington, Kansas, were visitors in Prescott and vicinity, last week. Uncle Billy Snyder and wife, contemplate making a visit to Texas and Dent counties, Mo.

in a short time. Mrs. Charles White and Miss Grace White, of Fort Scott, have been the guests of Miss Lottie Lane, this week. H. C.

Johnson, and other old comrades in Prescott and vicinity, think of attending the Bax- THIS SPACE BELONGS TO E. liller i Son Their new stock for Fall and Winter will be here soon, then look out for BREAKERS. Ernest Jackson, of Fort Scott, I 'We haye a few remnants left of came up on the Thursday morn-1 summer goodS) whioh you can have for less -than cost. In making your purchases; of Kansas I dont forget that we sell the Winfield Flour, the BEST? ON EARTH, ter Springs reunion. Miss Cora Morgan, City, after a visit of two weeks with her sister, Mrs.

Nat G. Mrs. L. M. Strong is quite sick this week.

Mr. Daniel Spears is numbered among ihe sick, this week. i Fred Flemming is able to be out again, after a severe spell of sickness. Mrs. H.

S. Shannon has returned from a visit with relatives in Missouri. Miss Bertha Tricker, of Pleasanton, was in our city Monday, visiting friends. George Wakefield returned Saturday from a trip through Laclede county, Mo. Milt Sweeney and family moved to Osawatomie, last week, to make their future home.

A large number of our citizens attended the old settlers picnic, at Clays grove, last Saturday. Some needed repairs are being mae on the school house, by Jabe Clark and J. C. Torrence. George Latham returned from Lmwood on Wednesday of last week, where he had been visiting relatives.

Ad. Gallap came in Tuesday from Oklahoma City, where he is in the employ of the American Harrow Company. Gene Doty has moved into the house vacated by Milt Sweeney. N. E.

Bartholomew will occupy the house vacated by Mr. Doty. Miss Mary Pucket, of near Blue Mound, is in the city this week, visiting relatives and taking treatment of Docter Basker-ville. Miss Jessie Corbin gave a party a large number of her little riends, Tuesday afternoon. Ice cream, cake and watermelon were served.

Charlie Ellis and wife, who formerly ran the photograph gallery lere, returned from Kansas City on the 18th. Mr. Ellis will go to work in J. C. Devins store.

The ice cream social given by the Citizens Military Band, at the court house, on the 17th. netted he boys -quite a nice sum, with which they will employ an instructor. The following young ladies and gentlemen attended the fourth district Christian Endeavor Convention, held at Fort Scott on Thursday and Friday of last week Misses Mamie Gregory, Maggie Hellar, Cora Resnick, Vivian Potter, Williamette Lake, Mamie Latham, and John and Bert Martin, JohnHartong, Rev. L. A.

Halbert, Walter and George Latham. DEATH OF MRS. LANE. Mrs. Cynthia A.

Lane, of Pres cott, after a lingering illness of many months, with tumor, died at her home on Friday evening last, Aug. 19. Funeral services were held 'at the M. E. church, Rev.

S.5 Hedges, officiating, on Saturday afternoon, 20th. Mrs. Lane was a highly respected lady and many relatives and friends mourn her departure. Cynthia Pierce was born at Waverly, Tioga county, N. in and came to Kansas in 1867.

She was married to A. V. Lane, in 1868, who preceded her to the grave nearly four years. Mrs. Lane leaves a family of five daughters and two sons, to mourn their loss of a kind moth er.

Also two sisters, Mrs. W. H. Ham and Mrs. C.

W. Torrey, and many other relatives. Her remains were interred beside that of her husband, in the Prescott hemetery. The Fort Scott Laiitern has changed hands, and will be re resurrected as a straight-out pop ulist paper. and it costs less than others sell inferior grades at.

MILLERS CASH STORE. sphere. Along it lie great cities. Kansas is right in the path of this prosperity. With as fertile soil as lies outdoors, and with a salubrious climate, it is the fit abode for successful men.

Such is Kan- sas. Such is the land we love and whose greeting we bring. Even in thy desert, what is like to thee Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste more rich than other lands fertility. J. M.

Simpson, ex-chairman of the Republican state central com -mittee, is greatly enthused over the prospects for Republican success in Kansas, this year. He says we will carry the state by an overwhelming majority, and I would not be surprised if it reached above the 25,000 mark. The people of this state are not giving any attention to the smaller affairs of a campaign which will end in November. They are interested in the policy of the national government. This war we have jnst had has opened up a large and important field of new national issues, and these will demand and receive the attention of the people of country finally disposed of.

The campaign this year will be along these lines. The one great question is territorial expansion, and it is my opinion that the lines will be drawn closely on that proposition. The people will take one side or the other of the question, and I believe the majority of people, irrespective of party, in every State in ifhis Union, will cast their votes to, sustain the national administration in the new policies which have developed as a resfiltof the war. If I were a Populist in Kansas to-day, continued Mr. Simpson, I could find no encouragement nor hope of victory in the state campaign this year.

The very air is filled with Republicanism and the ballot boxes, in my opinion, in November, will be filled with Republican votes. The Republican ticket is one of the best the state has ever had. The people will recognize this fact and elect those men to office, PRORATE Aug. 19. Mrs.

Frances J. Holt withdrew her will and made some changes, and again deposi- ted it. Aug. 20. Dingus, administrator of the estate of William Dingus, deceased, filed petition for order of sale of real estate.

Said case set for hearing Wednesday, Aug. 31. Aug. 22. T.

L. Nunn, guardian of the estate of E. C. i and L. D.

Gear, made annual settlement in said estate. 1 Aug. 22. Mrs. Mary Coleman was -adjudged insane, by the fol lowing jury- Dr.

J. B. Paul, John Rankin, H. Woy, Eugene Lorton, Robert Flemin, B. B.

Corbin. i gaud A GREAT STATE. In an article written for the Mail and Breeze, Secretary Coburn, of the state board of agriculture, has this to say There is not space here for dwelling as might be upon the thousand advantages Kansas affords to those who would establish homes in a land where so nearly every prospect pleases. Her limitless acres of richest soil, producing the grasses, grains and fruits in profusion her climate, where the weak grow strong, and the strong, stronger; her exhaus-dess underground supplies of pure, cold water, for the lifting of which night or day her winds are ready to be harnessed her wealth in mines of coal, lead, zinc and salt in gas- fields, in quarries oi gypsum and building stone her cattle upon 10,000 pas-ures; her $11,000,000 invested in 9,400 schools, with 11,400 teachers and a half million pupils her 41 colleges and 8,500 students her churches in every val-ey and on every hillside. But all these and more' pertain to the state whose praises we sing greater in area alone than New York and Indiana united greater than the whole of New England combined, with Delaware and Maryland, or Maine and Ohio, together.

A commonwealth described as first in corn, first in wheat and first in the heart of its citizens. Four hundred miles long, 210 miles wide, 4,000 deep, and reaching to the stars. When every morning during the corn plowing season farmers go into a corn field as large as the whole state of New Jersey; every noon, during the harvest, the harvesters come from dinner from a wheat field of 200,000 acres, more than, all the state of Delaware and every night Mary calls the cattle home from a pasture larger than Pennsylvania: Once called a desert, the state is now a garden. The mustang is succeeded by the Percheron. The buffalo has abandoned the prairies to the Shorthorn and the Herefords.

sCorn tassels where the Sionx and Shawnee danced. Wheat grows over the old prairie dog village. The sun that crept over wigwam and cottonwood, shine on orchard and meadow. Located in the favored parallel a district that controls the destinies of the globe a parallel that has been the thread upon which the jewels of wealth, plenty, luxury and refinement have been hung from time immemorable. The thirty-seventh parallel is the girdle which' the genii of civilization have spun around the Barter, returned to her home on Thursday morning train.

A series of meetings have been held this week, at the Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Hicks conducting the services. His discourses are highly spoken of by those who have listened to them. Those wishing to purchase a Bicycle or Bicycle; furnishings, will save money by calling on J.

W. Sterling, railro id agent, who will give them advantage of very low prices quoted him. Oats and Flax Wanted. E. A.

Simpson, at the Prescott Mills, wants your Oats and Flax, and will pay you market price in cash, for same. He will make it to your advantage to call on him. CARD OF THANKS. To the many friends who so kindly aided us during the illness and death of our dear Mother and to those who have been so kind and sympathetic'at all times, we wish to extend our sincere thanks. Ella Lane, Julia Lane, Lottie Lane, Charles Lane.

Sunday School CcnYention. The Sunday School Convention for Linn county, will be held in Mound City, Sept. 11, J. H. Engle, secretary of the State Association, will be present.

Let every Sunday School the county be represented. For particulars, write. J. R. McNabb, Prest.

W. H. Ward, Secy..