Commonwealth from Sharon Springs, Kansas • 1

Tr it if a COMMONWEALTH INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS. NEUTRAL IN NOTHING WHICH CONCERNS THE WELLBEING OF WALLACE COUNTY CITIZENSHIP. $1.00 a Year. SHARON SPRINGS, KANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1910. Vol.

1. No. 8. W. M.

Camp was up from Wal lace Saturday. Chas. Morse called pleasantly the first of the week. Mrs. EdBoss'erman will return The home of Good Goods and Good Treatment.

Where you save on your Purchase and Make on your Produce. home in about two weeks. Roy Neff and Dan Yake, re turned Wednesday morning. Mrs. Fred Wileman, went to Denver the fore part of the week.

FOR SALE-Good 14 inch gpgan olw. Inquire at this office. EliGroverwas up from Wallace USE Saturday, and called on business while in town. Mrs. Chas Rogers has been RUSSELL BEST FLOUR visiting Mrs.

Jas Rogers, for the past few days. The various alfalfa ranches (None Better) are busy putting up alfalfa hay and harvesting the seed crop.x J. F. Ley is having his res idence re-painted this week. J.

P. Cheshire is doing the work. T. S. Coss, has been under the weather for several days past, but is now slowly convalescing.

When you want anything in Clothing, Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware or Furniture, it will pay you to get our prices. If you do not see what you want, ask for it. We have it. We want your trade. When building 3'oar new house or barn, do not forget to figure on Jordan and Coon's builders hardware.

H7A J. W. Thompson, is putting up a new residence near Mr. Garri liorene LOCAL OTHERWISE. Ice cream and sodas at Wor-meringer's.

J. B. Criggs was up from Wallace Monday. W. R.

Sexton, was a business caller Monday. F. D. Howell was a pleasant caller Monday. Dr.

Griffin is up from Ellis on business this week. V. A. Besack was in town on business Monday. C.

W. Schull was in town transacting business Monday. Frank Lock was in town a few moments Monday morning. -0. L.

Walker went to Hills-v the first of the week. Joe Smith was shaking hands with Sharon Springs friends Saturday. Mrs. Hugh Duphorne.has our thanks for a fine lot of homegrown vegetables. Mrs.

Coleman, of the Sasnak, went to DenverTuesday, for a short visit. Frank Thaxtonmadefinalproof on his homestead just south-east of Wallace, Saturday. Thos. L. Carney and Peter Robidoux, were up from Wallace on business Monday.

H. Ersking, one of the leading business men of Weskan, was in town on business Friday. County treasure Wm. A. Martin made a flying business trip to Hill City the first of the week.

Mr. and Mrs. Willis Helt were in town Monday, and while in town Willis called On the COMMONWEALTH. Miss Mabel Holmes, dining room girl at the Sharon Springs hotel, is visiting her parents in Goodland this week. We are pleased to learn that W.

H. Schull's little child is convalescing, after a severe illness with cholera infantum. Grandpa Rule is building a residence on his farm north of townr and will send his girls to the Sharon Springs schools this winter. Miss Martha Bieber, a teacher in the city schools at Colby, came in Saturday, for a few days visit with her sister, Mrs. Etta A.

Cheshire, Co. Supt. Sam -Chism and Mr. McCall, Wastrom. son's new house, for Pell Teed, of Weskan.

II. E. Steele has been very busy the past few days digging 17 rods of ditch. He has been S. I.

Thackrey was down from putting in a hydrant. Real Estate. Weskan Wednesday. Miss Npla Hail left Saturday M. A.

Cowles was a county evening for LoganKansas, where seat visitor the last of the week. I am a farmer and live on a farm TO and $15 worth of dry goods taken. There was very little money in the store and this was not found by the robbers who were undoubtedly scared away before they got all they wanted. No arrests have been made and there is no clue to the perpetrators. she will make a two week visit miles southwest of Sharon Springs.

JI have been a resident of cstern Kansas. W. H. Lutz, the lumberman, with relatives and friends. for over 12 years and will guarantee was a pleasant caller Saturday.

ou a square deal if you list vour John W. Snyder and wife of Jno W. Lacey went to Excelsior property with me. Greencastle came out Thurs Springs Monday vening, and will B. F.

STEPHENSON, day to visit J. N. Custer, Mrs. be gone about two weeks. Route S.

W. Sharon Springs. Snyder's cousin, and returned to Wm. A. Martin is out in the their home Sunday evening.

helping Messrs Fogles- NOTICE. Bids for the erection of the school house, on the north-west corner, 16-11-42 district 23, will be received by the District clerk. the account of the serious illness Mrs. Snyder's sister came up strom thresh this week. of his brother, who was suffering from Grainfield with them.

W. A. Hoofnagle, representing Lei Strickland of Athel, Kan- with typhoid fever. Mr, Enlo arrived in ElPaso Aug. the 5 and the Kansas City Paper was Bids to be opened September, 2.

sas is out for an extended visit a business caller Friday last. Plans and specification, can be found hisbrother convalescing but with his son-in-law, Goe. Daniel. obtained from the District clerk. The L.

W. Herman road, lead He will likely locate in Wallace spinal menengetis set. in, from which he died Aug. 10, at the age ing into town from eight miles The contract to be let to the lowest responsible bidder. The and we will be glad to wel of 45 years, leaving three broth come him to our midst.

north-west, was viewed byMessrs Babcock, Kopf and Mayfield, and board reserving the right to re ers, three sisters and an aged mother to morn his loss. ject any or all of the bids. was surveyed by Co. surveyor H. C.

W. Wallace has returned from Missouri for his health and is batching inhis residence about E. Steele this week. -The remains were entered in the W. F.

Walker. Clerk. Weskan, Kansas. cemetary at Waubunsee, The democrat precinct a block north of the Methodist mitteemen both new and old, al The Rev. B.

Dillard, D. of so local candidates and members church. Mrs. Wallace will return as soon as they can dispose of THE INDEPENDENT VOTER, The Independent voter in Salina Kansas. Dist.

Superin of the democrat party, are called their Missouri property. tendent of Kansas Children's to meet at Sharon Springs Satur county affairs is the greatest Home society, was in townSatur- The Jordan Motor Party to day Aug. 21 1 2 p. m. Object of faiend the people have.

He alone Sharon Springs last week includ jneeting is to reorganize the Dem day to Monday, and preached in the Christian church Sunday evening. While here he made ed Mr. and Mrs. Jordan, Hazel guarantees that no candidate with an unhoy purpose shall be ocrat party. and Del Motte, all but Hazel re come a public official even though Committee.

We wrould like to see a good arrangements with the probate turned in the car the same day; Hazel came down on train 110, put out by a predominant party. had hydrants, put in at their residence properties in town last week. They purchased 450 feet of pipe of Jordan Koons for the court, to turn over to his society lecture course arranged forShar- The lust for office is but natural. Thursday eve ng. Winona children that might be left home on Springs.

It is just a little late To the man to whom a public News. job. trust appeals as a post of honor less and dependent to that society. The work is worthy and merits Ed Bosserman is building a for undertaking arrangements for a course now, but a good one could be provided. Soon the and possibly with recompense a- Born to Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Shafner, 12 miles south-east of support. nice comfortable addition, and bove the average, we can have but the kindliest feelings regard The N. P. R.R have given on Sunday night, a fine the evenings will be long, and our porches to his house on front street, opposite the depot.

When J. F. Ley, their efficient agent, less of party. This concerns young people will be seeking nine pound son. Mother and son doing nicely under the care of an additional night helper in the not the independent voter.

The independent voter is afterthe fel entertainment. Why not provide something that will be both completed it will have five rooms and pantry, will be shape, with porches on south: and east, and person of F. C. Blattenberg, who Dr. Scott.

low who wants a public office to went on duty the first of the week. Mr. Ley now has seven helpers, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory and daughter Lucile, left Sunday entertaining and uplifting.

We believe a course could be made will make alnice home. the staff being as follows: Agent Mrs. H. Myers, of Lewis Iowa night for Denver, where they will to pay here, as has. been done in J.

F. Ley; day clerk, Wm. H. is enjoying an extended visit with visit a few days with friends, and smaller towns. Who will take Morehead operators, 1st, Wm.

E. her daughter, Mrs. C. F. Du will go from there to Pueblo, Colo hold and push? rado for a short visit.

phorne. Though eighty four Yore; 2nd Philo B. Lanning; 3rd J. A. Bolt; night clerks, P.

T. Salliger, C. Blattenberg and STORE K0BRED. use it as an inside track in commercial" competition. The Independents are vigilant, and watch not only the mercenary candidate, but note as well the innocent candidate, being' used as a cat's paw for the long-headed politicians who seem more interested in the culmination of their plans than the candidate himself.

Grainfield Records years of age. Mrs. Myers is re Miss Ida Vale left Saturday markably well preserved and evening for her home in Mo Ellsworth Aug. 18- The general store of H. Janssen, at Ray Wileman.

appears much younger. She is Allister, where she will spend a Lorraine, in this county was, en J. M. Enlo returned Saturday very pleasant temperament, and few day with her parents, and tered by robbers between mid is making her visit a delightful go from there to Norton from ElPaso, Texas, where he wTas called several days ago on night and daylight this morning, one. Kansas, to attend the air..