Blue Mound Searchlight from Blue Mound, Kansas • 5

oo TT 35 tt Local News. 11 Out-of-Town i it Hi rV0" Billy McGee has purcnased the Luse property, near the depot, and moved his family into the new home this week. We learn that many of our farmers are feeding their range stock, being compelled to do so on account of the parched condition of the pastures. We are told by several of our people who were present that the entertainment given by. the Liuuie Biggs Concert Co.

in the opera house Saturday night was a rather tame affair. I will pay 20 cents per hundred for wrought and cast iron delivered here at Blue Mound during the coming week only. Other iron at its cash value. Bones, 25 cents. A.

M. Brees. Find our restaurant a very desirable place to lunch, and folks down town shopping will find our delicious Ice Cream Is most refreshing, in which we use only absolutely pure cream and fruit juices. We will serve free of charge cake with our ice cream. (ft (l (ft VOOLLEY DUER.

0 0 9 a 0 (ft All kinds of Hi mn! building material, paints, oils, brushes, supplies, at viz iff BLUE MOUND LUMBER YARD. )i groups, cabinet size, $1.50 per dozen at F. II. Brewer's. Gallery south of bank.

You can get more bargains at Chambers' Department Store than any place in Blue Mound. We are paying more for produce than any house in Blue Mound, for the simple fact that we have the best market. T. M. Chambers.

Jacob Hurst and F. A. Baker will open a marble and granite shop in Garnett in and will put in stock and open up business at an early date. Mr. Woolley, of the Commercial Hotel, who has been a cripple for the past two weeks, caused by running a nail in his foot, is now able to attend to business without the aid of a crutch.

The skys today (Friday) are obscured by clouds and the prospects are good for a general rain. The wind has also shifted from a southwestern to a northeastern course and'the temperature has been greatly moderated. Jacob Hurst has sold his beautiful residence on Second street to F. G. Butcher, the trade being consummated Wednesday.

Considera-tion, $800. Felix in this deal secured one of the best bargains that has ever beeu picked up in the town. Blue Mound township has now learned in which part of the county are located her political friends, and in future conventions we will know where and to whom to give our assistance. We have treasured our experience away and when we we leave for another convention, we give fair notice now, we will carry this polk of experience along. G.

W. Carmine, of the Xenia neighborhood, dropped in Saturday for a friendly hand shake and before -leaving raised our drooping spirits to the tune of one hundred cents. Mr. Carmine has been operating his steam thresher in this community for the past month and has not only made some money for himself but has pleased the people for whom he has done work. J.

M. Chit wood, of Xenia, was in Blue Mound Thursday and informed us that he had only recently returned from a two weeks' visit to friends at Joplin and Carthage, Missouri. Mr. Chitwood savs that the mining interests in the Joplin-Galena district is simply wonderful to th3 man who visits that camp for the first time. He tells us the weekly pay roll in the Joplin district proper is $240,000.

B. F. Blaker Props. jfjf (f PHOTOS, fifty cents a dozen at Brewer's. Go to Chamber's Department Store for Hoar.

Remember the dates, for Mrs. Seward's Millinery Opening Sept. 7, 8 and 9. Miss Sadie Simpson spent Saturday and Sunday visiting with Mrs. J.

O. Smith. Mrs. Joseph Mullins and her two little daughters returned Friday from a two weeks' sojourn among relatives and friends in county, Missouri. Edson, Keith of Chicago, have supplied Mrs.

Seward with the very latest things in the millinery line. It is worth your while to call and examine her stock. Don't fail so attend the fall Millinery Opening, Sept. 7, and 9, and get the 10 per cent discount on all goods bought or ordered. Mrs.

J. F. Seward, Mantey Block, Mound City, Kansas. In the Populist convention at Mound City Tuesday we met our old friend, James Lowery, of Stanton township, but we can't say whether Jim was there as a delegate-at-large or was only a spectator. The Twentieth Kansas regiment sailed from Manila for San Francisco aboard the steamship Tartar on Monday of this week, and the boys will reach their homes in Kansas some time during the month of October.

John Dexter returned Saturday from an extended visit at Fort Scott and Yates Center. John tells us that it is extremely dry throughout Woodson county and that the corn crop in that county is not near so good as is in Linn. The Coffelt boys are now mining and delivering to different parties in town large amounts of coal. This coal, taken from the Corbin mines just north of the city corporation limits, in qualitj is equal to any mined in Linn county. I Some of the fellows who are publicly praying the loudest for rain are not the men who dust the knees of their pants while bowing at the sacred altar, nor are they the ones who liberally subscribe to the cause of the Lord when the contribution Flax Seed Wanted.

Ms BIG SUGAR CREEK HERD Joseph Simpson, of Oakwood, was in town Wednesday, and while here dropped into our shack for a short chat with the boys. But the greatest tlrng that Joe did that day, and it was one of the Godly acts of his life, was to place upon our table a matched pair of silver wheels, and in the editor's eyes they looked larger than the balance, wheel of the news press. Al Brees, the gentleman who has has been engaged in our town in buying junk, received a telegram Monday that his mother, who resided near Lone Elm, was in a dy-insr condition, and he left at once for her bedside, but ere he reathed her home she had crossed that shrouded chasm of death and peacefully slumbered in that dream of eternal rest. She was buried in the Lone Elm cemetery Tuesday evening, and Mr. Brees returned to Blue Mound Wednesday morning.

F. G. Butcher returned home Wednesday from Lincoln, where he had been called by the seriou3 condition of his sister, Lulu, who had almost reached the brink with that dreaded disease, consumption. This is one of those sad cases where the victim, in the flowery morn of youth, bows to the inevita-ble, bids adue to her relatives and friends and passes to the great beyond with the childhood joys yet being in her innocent face. For the suffering girl her old friends and youthful associates in, this community offer up their sympathetic tears; but the decree has been written, and the limit is days, not years, when she must answer that call which will ultimately come to all mankind.

Later Miss Lulu Butcher died todfy (Friday) and will be buried at Lincoln, Nebraska, at 2 p. m. Saturday. Registered Sows, gilts and boars of the most popular strains and individual merit for sale. Pairs not related.

Farm eight miles north and two east of Blue Mound. MOUND CITY, KANSAS. Mrs. E. M.

Randall, who lives east of town, returned this week from a visit to her daughter at -La Harpe. John W. Poore is one. of the orators selected to deliver an ad Frank Patterson and family visited at the home of his wife's parents, near Bronson, on Sunday. George H.

Burnworth has purchased the Jamison property on West Kansas Avenue and will move his family from the farm home into town next week. Mr. Burnworth comes to town to secure better school facilities for his children. Ed C. Gatlin returned from St.

Louis this (Friday) morning, where dress at the M. W. A. picnic at Centerville on Saturday, oept. lb.

Joseph Powell, one of the sub stantial old agriculturists of the Yoro neighborhood was in our city Wednesday and honored our dingy roost with a social call. Cut Your Corn With the DEBRING CORN HARVESTER The only successful machine to cut and bind your corn. hat passes down the isle. George White, who for several months has been at work in the zinc smelter at La Harpe. came home Saturday evening and will paobably remain in Blue Mound for a considerable length of time, as quite a large force in the smelter has been laid off indefinitely.

The Blue Mound public schools opened Monday for the ensuing year with a good attendance in each department. Professor S. A. Kennedy is again in charge as principal and through his acquaintance with the pupils and his personal popularity with the patrons will undoubtedly make this the most successful term ever taught in the district. Not in twenty years have we seen this section of Kansas so dry and vegetation in such a parched condition.

Not only is stock water scarce but the grass in our pasture fields is as dry and brown as it is usually found in December. The air is full of flying dust and men are snorting from clogged nostrils like a horse with the distemper. Clark Porter has bought the furniture stock which has been conducted for several years in Blue Mound by W. B. Bough and on Wednesday evening moved the stock into the L.

G. Porter block, where it will be consolidated with the stock that Clark has been running in the Dr. Hendricks building. Those two stocks combined will give to Blue Mound the largest furniture store in Linn county. We learn that our friend Welton Neal, of Franklin township, has been renominated for commissioner for the northern district of Bourbon county by the Populists and Democrats.

In this case the boys have done just what they should have done. Welt is as good and faithful an official as ever represented a district in a commissioners court and will be re-elected by such a majority that the figures will fairly loosen his opponent's hair. he had gone in the interest ol the goods manufactured by the E. C. Gatlin Medicine Co.

Ed says that there is an immense amount of land to the acre in that city and that he met with good success in the sale of his goods. B. F. Young, of Centerville township, in company with his friend, N. G.

Ross, of Bates county, Missouri, were in Blue Mound Thursday. Mr. Ross informs us that his section of Missouri is suffering from the effects of the dry weather, that pastures are completely dried up and that stock water is getting to be an appreciated article. The Populist primary and township convention which was held in the opera house on Saturday was well attended and its procedings throughout were marked by a harmonious sentiment. Judge Van Pelt was selected as chairman and Finis Ewing was installed as secretary.

After the customary convention work was disposed of the following named gentlemen were selected as delegates to attend the county convention held on Tuesday: R. S. Alexander, J. G. Robinson, Joseph Mullen, E.

C. Gatlin, D. K. Paddock, J. W.

Van Pelt, Dr. S. A. Day, George Olford, W. C.

Griffin, J. W. Cox, J. J. Steele, J.

O. Smith, Andrew Elliott, Samuel S. Giffin, W. B. Waltz, E.

P. Simpson, Levi McCormac, E. M. Randall, Henry Morrow, Jacob Graham, J. B.

Findley and T. J. Treece. After the election of delegates the convention proceeded to nominate cnndidates for the different township offices. On the third ballot D.

A. Swank was nominated for trustee, and on motion of E. C. Gatlin the selection of candidates for treasurer and clerk was left to our- Democratic friends. A.

W. Gibbs and E. W. Fuller were nominated as the two candidates for constables. R.

Alexander was selected as the Blue Mound member ofsthe county central committee. A social dance was given at the home of Mr and Mrs. L. Z. Cox, who live southeast of town, on Saturday night.

Those who attended report a very pleasant time. Chas. Smith returned Wednesday from MoPherson county, where he had been working with a steam threshing outfit. Mr. Smith tells us that the drouth has dried up all classes of vegetation in that section of the state.

We met Isaac Ball at Mound City Tuesday. Isaac had just returned from Kansas City, where he had been looking after the insurance money which. is due him on a policy which covered his grocery stock destroyed by tire at Creighton, last year. We see that Al Morris has associated himself with Judge Harper in the publication of the Pleasanton Herald. Al was at one time foreman in our office, and a better all-round man cannot be found in East-tern Kansas.

Here's success to the old boy and the Judge. From the large-amount of advertising work which this, office has done for Dr. S. A. Day in the past month shows to us that the Doctor is meeting with even greater success in the sale of his preparations than was even expected by him.

The pill which the Doctor is preparing is a compound of his own medical skill and is highly recommended by all those who have used them. The Democrats of Blue Mound township, in primary convention on Saturday, elected the following named gentlemen as their delegates to attend the county convention which was held in Mound City on Tuesday: A. G. Dye, J. D.

Moore, W. C. Sutton, R. Fulton, G. W.

Stephenson and J. M. Broady. They selected as their member of the county central committee A. H.

King. We have SLEDS, KNIVES, everything to harvest your corn. Use nothing but DEERING TWINE; it is the best. Call and see our machine. Yours Truly, C.

E. BUTCHER..