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1 1 rBMW'r, -T TCTFErTf VI 1 HlMrrTm EBMJM THE FARM RECORD. FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1890. W. S. Platt, Editor.

Church Directory. Methodist Episcopal. Chnrcb south of Opera IJonse on Kansas Avenue. Services every other babbathatlla. m.

and every Sabbath at 7 p. m. Sunday School every Sabbath at 10 a. m. Young peoples prayer meeting Monday evenings, regular prayer meeting Thursday evonings, A cordial invitation to all the services is extended to the public.

L. M. Rhoades, Pastor. W. S.

Platt, Supt. S. S. Presbyterian. west of Simmons hardware store.

Sabbath School every Sabbath morning at 10 oclock. Preaching each alternate Sabbath morning at 11 oclock, and same evening at 7 oclock, to all of which services everybody is cordially invited. J. L. Amlong, Pastor.

United Brethren. bath at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m.

Young peoples prayer meetings every Tuesday night, regular prayer meeting every Thursday night. Sabbath School at 3 DO S. E. Bias, Pastor. J.

W. Puckett, S. S. Supt. N7" 51.

C. A. Booms east end Main street. The reading rooms are well supplied with literature. Gospel meetings for men every Sabbath afternoon at 4 oclock.

All are cordially invited to the reading rooms and to the meetings. F. W. Simmons, Seo. L.

U. Dick, Pres. MODEL, AKERY AMD MARMED. Knott Tilford In the court room at Mound City, on Monday, Jan. 27, 1890, Mr.

L. Knott of Wichita, and Mrs. M. E. Tilford, of this place.

Probate Judge Estep officiating. The contract was consumated in a business like manner. The widow, weary of her lonely lot, looked about for a partner to share her joys and sorrows; and Mr. Knott, desiring to take unto himself a helpmate, after several months correspondence came up last week, and on Monday they went to Mound City and had Judge Estep tie the matrimonial knot. The happy pair returned on Tuesday and were serenaded in the evening by the band.

The Record was remembered by a bountiful supply of delicious cake and we heartily join in wishing them a happy union. May the rough places in their lives only be a few little knots. Blunt Hosley At the residence of the brides father, 2 miles south of Kincaid, on Thursday, January 23, 1890, Mr. John Blunt and Miss June Hosley. Rev.

J. W. Sage officiating minister. The contracting parties are both widely and favorably known throughout Anderson and adjoining counties. The affair was one of the finest and most elaborate ever witnessed in the township.

The infair was held at the residence of the grooms father, II. II. Blunt on Friday. Civic Societies. A.

K.B. BURLEY POST NO, Regular meetings every Saturday night. members cordially invited. James DeFoee, P. C.

Fresh Bread Confectionery. Day Board and Meats, at Reasonable Rates. CHARLES CHANCE. Kr. -D BLUE MOUND LODGE NO.

75. Meets every Friday evening at the K. P. Hall. Visiting knights always welcome.

R. Felsing, C. C. D. E.

Elleb, K. R. S. AO TT blue mound VJ, U. VV LODGE NO.

121. Meets every Monday evening. Visiting brothers cordially invited. J. J.

Hawkins, W. S. Bobo, Rec. A. F.

A. M. LOTg. Regular Communications on the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. Visiting brethren cordially invited.

F. C. LiBBr, W. M. S.

S. Irwin, Sec. M. W. of A.

BLUE 5IOUND CAMP NO. two Meets the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month at Porters Hall, J. D. Cozad, Consol. Charles Chance, Clerk.

D. of H. A. O. U.

W. BLUE MOUND LODGE, NO. 23. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at Porters Hall. Mbs.

I. C. Bale, C. of H. Wm.

Olfokd, Rec. -Ki of LOCAL ASSEMBLY NO. Meets every Thursday evening at Porters Hall. Visiting Knights cordially invited. a F.

fifl. D. A. LODGES. INN COUNTY ASSEMBLY No.

63. Sleets tne first Saturday of each month at 51 onnd City. John A. Benson, Pres. T.

Sec, TXT ALL STREET No. 1526. Regular meetings Saturday nights at Wall Street. J. S.

Summers, Sec. N. G. Round, Pres, TOFFEE BEAN, No. Regular meetings VTednesday nights at Coffee Bean S.

II. Sanders, Sec. G. S. Stanley, Pros.

OUGAR VALLEY, No. Regular meetings every I riday night at the Clark school house. J. J. Hawkins, Sec.

Ilobt. Alexander, Pres. QUAIL TRAP, No. 1407. Regular meetings on Wednesday nights at Quail Trap school house.

D. Cannon, Pres. Al. McLean, Sec. WTT.

STERLING, No. 103-1. Regular meeetings on Saturday nights at the Konlware school hone. Jas. A.

Briggs, Pres. Wm. Wheeler, Sec. Buy your heating stoves at cost of Gibbs. Add.

Jamagin is closing out a superior lot of mens and boys boots. Not 10 per cent off, but actual cost buys heating stoves of Gibbs. Buy a Broadwell Washer of Gibbs. If you want a nice Boot or shoe, call at the C. O.

D. where you will find a large stock, Go to Gibbs for stoves. All kinds of toilet articles at the City Drug Store. Heating stoves for cost at Gibbs. Another Mathematical Problem.

Below we give a problem that has been going the rounds of our exchanges. We. would like to have some one to explain it, as it seems somewhat puzzling. No doubt there are many of our readers who can solve it. A friend asks me to multiply $5 by $5.

I do so and announce the result as $25. Now multiply 500 cents, give the answer in cents, pure and simple, not as fraction al parts of a dollar. I do so and am surprised to see the figures climb up to 250,000 cents, which is $2,500. As $5 and 500 cents are equivalent, the result is puzzling. It can not ie urged that decimal marks should be used.

A cent, as such, is as distinct a unit as a dollar, and as the result is1 to ie announced in cents the decimal can not be pleaded in extenuation of the rather surprising result. But there is clearly something wrong. What is it Pleasanton Observer. Yes, there is clearly something wrong with the Observer's problem. In the" first place you cant multiply by $5, but must use an abstract number for a multiplier.

There is the same ratio of difference between the results that there 's between the multipliers, the last is 100 times as large as the first. Now multiply $5 by 5 and you have $25; then multiply 500 cents by 5 and you have cents eqnal to $25. The trouble is you take multiplicands of equal value and multiply one by 5 and the other by 500 and expect the results to be the same. Any Blue Mound school boy can solve easy problems like that. Give us something hard.

Go to Gibbs for pocket and table cutlery. Again the road cart season has commenced with Simmons. The Eureka compression spiral spring cart, he tells us, is by far the best cart out, and Simmons knows and he sells them so that everybody can know by trying, And Simmons sells carts and dont you forget it. All colors of tissue paper at mrs. J.

Derrys millinery Store. Fall and Winter Hats at cost. Go to Gibbs for guns and La Grippe. The following article from the La-Cygne Journal of last week, written by Dr. W.

F. Sbeek, we think the most complete article on the prevailing epidemic we have yet seen: -That influenza is broadcast in our midst is patent to the educated physician, and we think the very best way to meet an emergency like this, is not to beat about the bush and try to hoodwink the people into the belief that it is merely bad cold, but to face the music squarely by admitting the fact. Forewarned is forearmed. Influenza in this well ventilated, well fed, sparsely settled country, is quite different from influenza in Europe, or even in our Eastern States, and especially in our large, crowded cities. Uncomplicated here it never kills, but neglected it sometimes lays the foundation for intercurrent diseases like catarrhal pneumonia and bronchitis, with kindred pulmonary troubles, which, grafted upon the system already weakened by influenza, may prove quickly fatal.

Now the practical deduction to be drawn from the above fact, is to apprise the people, honestly and fairly, of what we are dealing with, so that they may call their physician in bad cases in time to avert the tendency to these fatal sequels. The disease is the result of a specific poison which we inhale from the atmosphere. I. It has an incubative or hatching stage, in which to leaven up and gather strength in the system. This stage lastsTfrom twelve hours in some cases to as many days in others, then it manifests itself in a catarrhal congestion of the mucus membranes, preferably the air passages, characterized by cold chills down the back, alternating with hot flushes, with aching pains in the back and throughout the system.

"When it begins, as it most usually does, in the nose and frontal sinews, located just above the "eyes, there will be supraorbital neuralgia, or frontal headache with soreness eyeballsi which is the pathognomonic symptoms of the disease and are Tamely absent ij any case. There will also be dizziness in some cases, together with terrible nervous depression, entirely out of proportion to the local manifestations. After a few hours the chilly sensations in severe cases will give way to fever, which will be quite Jhigb with some delerium at first; then if the congestion dips down into the post nasal cavity and vault of the pharynx, involving the tonsils, there will be great dryness and huskiness of these parts, with pain in swallowing, shooting into the ears. Then it may, as we have seen several cases do lately, dip down into the bronchial tubes, and then the intercostal neuralgia or stitchy pains arise, and a feeling of great soreness, and stuffed up sensation in the lungs, with dry harassing cough at first, which gives place to a more moist cough later on, with expectoration of a' glary tough mucous at first, which turns into an ashen gray puss later, and jve will say right here, these cases are the ones liable to merge into catarrhal pneumonia, which is the fatal complication in the East. There is in many cases nausea and vomiting, sometimes of blood, also some cases are ushered in with sneezing and nose bleed.

The cause of this disease is as yet unknown. "We have no. preventive, no antidote like quinine for malarial poisoning. It is not in our judgment contagious. The Italians called it influenza because they thought the phenomena to be due to the influence of the stars.

The French call it la grippe. Both of the terms are arbitrary, -j The Germans get nearer to the disease and call it blitz, or lightning catarrh, wliile the modern English and writers call it epidemic catarrhal fever which is the very best name, as it conveys to the mind the nature of the disease at once. 1 The poison, whatever it may be, is said to wing its way from east to west with greater celerity than the speed of human intercourse. An epidemic in 1847 struck the city of London, and spread in a single day to every part of the metropolis, affecting upwards of 500,000 people, and and was very fatal. The disease runs its course in from one to five or six days, leaving the system in severe cases very weak.

The bowels are usually constipated at the start. In a few cases there is diarrhoea. The disease is uninfluenced by the season of the year. We have been importuned for a preventive. As already said there is none.

Tbhics judiciously used are good to brace tho flagging vital forces and help to eliminate the poison. Stimulants in, small, regularly administered doses are good, especially if given with warm drinks. The appetite is poor in the advanced stages, with very offensive breath. Avoid cold drafts, cold damp feet, and especially overheating the blood and cooling off too rapidly; also do not be in a hurry to resume business, for relapses are common, and if bad send for your physician early. Tp tho Trade.

I have been in the implement business at this place for past two years and have received a liberal share of the patronage for miles around. My trade during the past year has largely increased over that of the preceding, and lio'pe to still further extend my business during 1890. The sale3 last year were especially good on mowing machines, sulky plows and cultivators, and while profits were smaller, collections have been better. With bright hopes for a good seasons trade, I am Very Respectfully, R. Case.

SMITH ROBBINS, REAL ESTATE, LOAN, AND INSURANCE AGENTS. Blue Mound is located in southwest part of Linn county, near the corners of Linn, Bourbon, Allen, and Anderson counties, at the junction of the Mo. Pacific and the Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota Railway, and is surrounded by as fine an agricultural country as can be found west of the Missouri river. The soil is a black loam and is under laid with a vein of soft coal of the very best quality, coal only being worth Si. 25 per ton at the mines.

We are well supplied with plenty of the best varieties of hard wood timber fence posts being only worth 6c a piece. We are only 75 miles from Kansas City the best market for all kinds' of farm products west of the Mississippi. The country is gently undulating, just rolling enough to drain. Land in in this favored spot of the Great West can be bought at from Si 5 to S25 per acre, this being the price of well improved farms with good buildings, fenced with good hedge and having fine bearing orchards with all kinds of small fruits. We are now doing an exchange business, having a large list of those fine farms on our books to exchange for eastern property and we have land and city property in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to trade for farms in Kansas.

Any information in regard to Blue Mound or farms in this part of Kansas or Western Missouri will be cheerfully given and all correspondents promptly answered. We will be pleased to hear from anyone having farms, city property or merchandise to trade. SMITH ROBBING Little Lena Smith is very sick. Grace Libby is on the sick list. Mrs M.

J. Libby is quite sick with influenza. Miss Florence McDonald is very sick with fever. B. F.

Gibbs has been on the sick list for some time. C. W. Fridley is slowly recovering from a spell of fever. Mrs.

Ad. Gallop is recovering from a severe attack of la grippe. E. E. Trowbridge was at Garnett on business for F.

W. Simmons Monday. Preaching at the M. E. Church Sabbath morning and evening by the pastor.

Miss Jennie Brook is still very low with typhoid fever, but is slowly improving. Perry Rector, of Ft. Scott, came up Friday morning to spend a few days and visit friends. J. E.

Brown formerly of this place has r.ented the Sabin farm. Mr. Sabin has gone to Ft. Scott. Rev.

John Taylor, of Mulberry, was in town last week looking after bis farm west of town. Rosa Simmons has been dangerously sick with diptheria, but is improving at time of going to press, Chas. Stitb of Ft. Scott is in town iri the interests of the Merchants Mercantile Agency of Chicago, J. M.

Pinkston, an extensive, gas works contractor, of Fort Scott, was in town Wednesday on business. Ilarley Simmons sends word that he is down with the grip, and that the malady is raging in Texas same as here. T. J. Robbins left Tuesday for Salma to attend the G.

A. R. encampment at that place. Tom will not fail to have a good time with the boys. E.

L. Feemster, the young man who was teaching in the district east of town until the house burned, is now teaching at the Clark school house. S. W. Skipworth had his shoulder hurt last Friday, caused by a ladder falling with him to the" ground, a distance of six feet.

Colony Free Press. C. R. Wheeler came in from Burlington last week and left again Wednesday for Wilson county, where he will take orders for the Blue Mound Nurseries. Mrs.

Lillie Slack and baby went to their home at Colony last week, where Mr. Slack is teaching. Charly is so proud of thatgirl that he must take it home with him. If the Record does not come up to the full standard of sparkling news just remember most of our force have been laid up on account of sickness, and judge accordingly. Louis Glucklich is posing as a lone widower while his wife is visiting friends at La Cygne.

This together with an attack of the grip gives him a rather forlorn appearance. Fifty three years is a longtime to take a newspaper, but Mr. C. Smith tells us that he has been a subscriber to the Bucks County, Intelligencer, for that length of time. Miss Belle walker, who has been suffering with la grippe for several days, resumed her place in the school on Tuesday, Miss Josie Hubble took charge of her room during her absence.

I. S. Barnes is talking of moving to Kansas City in the near future. Mr. Barnes is now working for F.

G. Means Son, stock commission men, but will probably take a position as salesman in the stock yards. J. F. Rhoades, pastor of the M.

E. church at Garnett, came down Tuesday to see his brother and filled the pulpit for him at night. lie is just recovering from a severe spell- of sickness and is just beginning his work again. Miss Ida Robinson called at the Record office last Wednesday, and finding our typos all sick, went to the case and showed us that she had not forgotten how to stick type. Thanks Miss Ida, come again and we will furnish you with a case and plenty of copy.

Uncle John Hunt is making arrangements to extend his building now occupied by J. Derrys hardware, thirty feet further back, for a tin shop. The addition will be of stone, and will make bis building 101 feet deep. Mr. Derry must have room to extend his business.

We have a number of good looking widowers in this vicinity, who, we have good reason to believe, are on the lookout for helpmates. At least we heard one remark the other day, that he could find chances, but he had an eye to domestic felicity. He must have beard Jarnagins argument at Washington literary on ill tempered women, and became alarmed. The literary at Washington was largely attended, as usual, last Wednesday night, and the society has a reputation for good order. The question under discussion was, Resolved, That a tidy illnatured women is preferable to a sloucliy good-natured one.

Among the persons who struggled with this momentous question, were Messrs. Benson, Curtis, Paddock, Rogers, Jamagin and Morrison. It is needless to say that the subject was held up in all its lights and shades. Some of the parties were probably debating for the sake of argument, but it is hinted that Cal. Paddock andAdd-Jarnagin are discussing these matrimonial questions for their own benefit.

Besides the debate a good program of literary exercises was given. The next question for discussion will be, Resoiv -ed, That middle men cause more hard times to the farmers than scarcity of of money. For Sale. Having disposed of my pony, I have a single driving harness and a new saddle which I will sell cheap for cash. E.

E. Trowbridge. "NTENIA, No. Regular meenings on Mon-nights at the Xenia school house. Wm.

Williams, Sec. D. Smith, Pres. Franklin Township Assembly meets at the fame place on first Monday after each fall moon, TDK AIRIS VALLEY, No. Meetings on Friday nights at the Prairie Valley S.

H. Free. Bronson, Sec. A. Wrigh Pres.

"TlfALAHOMA No. Regular meetings on Tuesday nights at the Washington S. H. A. Banning, Sec.

N. Elliott, Pres. Hows your grip Regular Kansas, weather. The Schools at Greeley closed last week on the account of LaGrippe. Road Overseer McDonald laid a much needed walk across main street this week.

J. B. Findley shipped two carloads of cattle and hogs, and Rufus Barnes one of hogs to Kansas City, Tuesday. VYe have just put in a first-class jobber and have a fine line of job type. For neat work come to the Record Office.

Cook Irwin have about twenty men canvassing for nursery stock, and in spite of close times they are receiving a large number of orders. Saturday night the literary society at Unity school house will discuss the question, Resolved; That the negro should be disfranchised. A lively time is anticipated. Luther Osborn and a number of other parties on the Osage just east of this place killed a large gray fox one day last week. It is reported that there are several in that vicinity.

Lincoln Barnes returned Tuesday night from Chicago where he went with ten carloads of cattle. Mr. Barnes bought on a good market but a drop in the Chicago prices made a margin rather slim. J. II, Emerson left Tuesday for Coffey ville Kan.

He has purchased the right to sell the Broad well washer in the Indian Territory, and will proceed to work it at once. He will probably dispose of the whole territory in a short time. Our compositor, Harry Buzby, took a hitch with la grippe this week and was knocked oijt the first round. He thinks if the old demon gets his grip on some of the fellows that are trying to say funny things about him their wit will all ooze out through their pores. The revival meetings held by Rev-Amlong at the First Presbyterian church, closed last Sabbath evening with the addition of eight new members.

Rev. Amlong intended holding a series of meetings at Mapleton, but owing to the large amount of sickness discontinued it for the present. Mr. ODell, special agent for the Continental Insurance was here on Thursday and adjusted the loss on the school house in district No. 101, recently Their policy was for $600 and it was adjusted at $593.40.

The board are well pleased with the settlement and will call a meeting at once and take measures to rebuild. A Sons of Veterans Camp was mustered at this place last Saturday night with the following officers; cap. tain, J. L. Allen; first lieutenant, J.

N. Earnes; second lieutenant, Fred Doolittle. Twenty-four recruits had enrolled, but owing to sickness only seventeen were mustered. The camp starts out with good material and will no doubt make a good live camp. Smith Robbins closed a trade the first of the week between Samuel Bell Son and Michael Stateler, in which Mr.

Bell in exchange for the Victor Mills at this place, receives some real estate in Bourbon County, about $600 worth of stock, and $500 in money. Mr. Stateler will take charge of the mills next Monday. The Victor Mill has done a good business ever since it has been running, and has turned out many bushels of meal and feed. We wish the new proprietor abundant success, and the Record is always ready to welcome good, industrious citizens to our midst.

We have seen a number of accounts in our exchanges in regard to com husking, but we have seen none for genuine sticktoitiveness that beats the record of three of our Blue Mound township boys. During the last weeks of November and the first two of December, Henry, George and John Jack-son husked and cribbed 4,540 bushels of corn in four weeks. Counting out the time lost for bad days the boys husked over 70 bushels per day. This com was on the A. T.

Brook farm three miles northwest of town and was thrown into large feeders where the greater part of it can be seen anyday. We often hear of men who can husk and crib a large quantity for two or three days, but when it comes to a straight months work, no days out for sore hands, sprained -wrists or bad weather, we would like to see what the man is made of that can beat it. An item in the Kansas City Neics of last Wednesday, under the stock yard incidents, attracted the attention of the boys as they thought they recognized the earmarks of one of their neighbors, a jolly stock man not far away. In receiving payment for stock the seller has his choice of check, draft, gold, silver or greenbacks. As a general thing they are paid in drafts to secure the seller against being robbed or otherwise losing his money.

One day last week a well known stock man from Bourbon county sold 10, 009 worth of cattle on the market, and from some cause or other, presumably brg juice, he demanded the payment in silver. The cashier and his -ruis in tho exchange building b. ink Megan, pitching him bags of sif-j v-r alnlng $500 each. but before he thud rcecLed one-fomCi of his pay he jr-oach lea im w-mu have to charter a ca foeairy is out of Kansas City, so ho -I'-mor dud gold. Wh-m paid in this he was unable to curry it out of the room with him.

He finally concluded to take drafts for the amount. ask the secretary of every F. M. B. A.

or Alliance to send us their directory and wa will have it represented in this column, also notices of meetings and otter items of interest and they will find room in our paper. KIRKPATRICK PARNELL, BLACKSMITHS, THE BOSS HORSE SHOERS. All work Guaranteed Shop east end Main street. This space is for Delsing Brown, the City Meat Market. B.

F. WINSETT, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, BLUE MOUND, KAS. Chronic Diseases, Piles and Hemorroids a Specialty.

This isfor OLFORD, Blacksmiths. The Wolfl-The Wolf! There will be a grand wolf hunt on Saturday, Feb. 1, in the region between this place and Kincaid. The ring will form as follows: West line, the section line just east of Kincaid; South line-a line mile south of the north line of Allen and Bourbon counties; east line two miles east of the west line of Linn County, and passes the Tom. Salkeild and Day farms, two miles west of this place; the north line will be formed on the line north ol J.

W. Garrisons farm. The lines wil form at 10 oclock sharp and be ready to move at dnee. The captains will see that they have men to fill their lines anc see to distributing them. Rules: All lines march on foot.

Dogs must be led until ordered by General Commander to be released. Boys under 18 years of age strictly forbidden to carry guns. No shooting allowed in the ring. Men to be armed with clubs and horns. Center of lines must march slowly at first until the ends swing in to form a circle.

The place of meeting is in II. M. Brooks meadow just east of Blunts house. Captains, E. J.

Woods and P. H. Yelton, west line. J. M.

Davis anc II. H. Hickman, south line, Enoeh Guffin and Roe Cannon, east line. J. W.

Garrison and Wm. Stanton, north line. Every body be on hands promptly and we will have a good time. James DeFore, General Commander. Subscribe for The FARM RECORD, Show it to ycur neighbors, it looks after the farmers interests, and farm news.

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