Osborne County Farmer from Osborne, Kansas • 4

mi The Big ffi Store Thursday, Friday and Saturday September 25, 26 and 27 A large assortment of Trimmed Hats will be shown, ranging in price from $1.50 up. Street Hats now on sale in a great variety of shapes and prices. Come and see the display and make your selections. MORTON-PARSONS MERCANTILE COMPANY. if i1 jiii'iiwui Stii irmr 'in Hni 111 THE FARMER.

PUBS lather AC SALE! John Mayfield, who has been at Concordia the past year, is home again. Mrs. L. B. Foster's sister and niece from Nebraska are visiting her.

Diamond and Howell finished their BY CHARLES HILLEBRANDT. The admission of the Populist bosses that B. W. Ayres, Republican nominee for clerk of the court, will be high man on the tioket plainly indicates that C. C.

Brown, his Populist opponent, is being offered as trading Btock to assist a favored few on the fusion ticket. If a few more of the nominees on the $1.00 PEE YEAR IN ADVANCE. "My mother was troubled with consumption for many years. At THUKSDAY, September 25, 1902. season's thrashing last Saturday.

J. II. Alexander and wife made a business trip to Osborne last Monday. The Hawkeye team and Portis will cross bats next Saturday on our home I will sell at public sale on my farm, i miles north of Bloomington, 10 miles north west of Osborne and 8 miles southwest of Portis, on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 1902, at 10 o'clock a. the following property: last sne was given up to die.

men she tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and was speedily cured." D. P. Jolly, Avoca, N. Y. (fusion tioket would move away or re A vote for W.

A. Rceder for congressman and J. B. Taylor for representative is equivalent to a vote for President Roosevelt. A man who votes against Reeder or Taylor Isn't worthy the name of ground.

A fine rain fell last Sunday, which everybody has been wishing for for some time. Mrs. George Brittain spent the greater part of last week visiting friends in Stockton. The Pops have nominated Sylvester Hahn for township trustee, We would like to know why, Miss Mabel Hahn, of Bloomington, will teach a five months' term of school No matter how hard your cough or how long you have had it, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you can take. It's too risky to wait until you have consumption.

If you are coughing today, get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once. Three sites 50c, $1. All druggists. 7 HEAD OF HORSES 3 geldings, 3 and i years old; 1 gray mare; 1 filley, 2 years old; 1 span of ponies. 12 HEAD OF CATTLE 6 milch cows, 6 spring calves.

FARM IMPLEMENTS Craver header and binder combined, 2 header boxes, 1 farm wagon, 1 sulky plow, 1 tongueless cultivator, 1 top buggy, 1 set work harness, 1 set double buggy harness. Hoisehold goods. TERMS All sums of $10 and under, cash. A credit of 6 months will be given on all sums over $10, the purchaser giving note with approved security, 10 per cent interest from date. Five per cent off for cash on sums over $10.

LUNCH ON THE GROUNDS. sign there would be no need of holding an election in this county. As it stands now it will simply be a matter of form as the entire Republican ticket will be elected by good safe majorities. The Lawton (Oklahoma) Lariat has been consolidated with the Enterprise, and will be run as an evening paper hereafter. Mac and Ben Tilton, sons of Col.

W. 8. Tilton, formerly one of the editors of the Farmer, will have charge of the mechanical work on the paper, which will be known as the Enterprise-Lariat, i Governor Stanley was very generous toward the Sixth district in the appointing of delegates to the national irrigation congress, which meets at Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 6 to 9. Of the fifteen delegates to whioh Kansas is entitled the governor selected nine from this distriot, among the number It may as well be admitted that the Republican party has lost its hold on the political situation. It was confidently predicted that Maine would go Republican by 16,000.

Instead, the Republican majority was 27,000. All that the opposition has said about the demoralization of the Republican party seems to be true. Ottawa Herald. at the Center the coming winter. John and Wilbur Kiesell have bought Ralph Smith's crop on the Foot plaoe Consult your doctor.

If he says take it, then do as he says. If he tells you not to take It, then don't take it. He knows. Leave it with him. We are willing.

J. O. AVER Lowell, Mass. Ralph talks of going to Oklahoma this fall. Hawkeye and Lawrence creek played C.

C. JOHNSON. J. M. CLARK, Auctioneer.

38-2 ball Saturday on the former's grounds The score was 15 to 18 in favor of Hawk POTTERVIIXE Another good rain Sunday night. Will Vague has an old buggy and a new girl. eye. The present campaign in Kansas is noted chiefly for its listlessness. Neither side is able to jam' any enthusiasm into it.

The principal reason is that the people generally regard it as a foregone conclusion that the Republican ticket will carry the state from 25,000 to 40,000. It iu impossible for the fusionists to enthuse over impending defeat, and the race is so onesided that the Republicans see no reason to become frenzied with excitement. being our townsman, W. Landis; the Watson Bros, write home that they MORE PORTIS ITEMS. others are Congressman Reeder, of Lo have moved their thrashing outfit from Phillipsburg to Hildreth, Nebraska gan; W.

G. Russell, of Russell; J. Allen, Oberlin; L. M. Linton, Lebanon ana they also say tnat tne wneat is making from 25 to as high as 50 bushels Alvin Law, Hill City; J.

M. Berry, Jew per acre in that county. ell City; W. L. Chambers, Stockton.

If Banner Salve Shafter. Doesn't cure your piles, your money will To Cure a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab be returned. It is the most healing lets. All druggists refund the money saive. j.

a. naraeia, sep if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove sig nature is on each 25o.

iiyl Lambert to Speak at Alton. PLEASANT VALLEY. No Republican should fail to attend the Republican meeting at Alton next Ed Moore and wife visited in Jewell county last week. Walter Sellers is head push on three ranches at present. Kimp Moore and Joe Green went to Kansas City Tuesday.

Jack Frost did considerable damage in these parts last week. Several from these parts attended the races at Osborne last Friday. Everett Shull lost a fine horse last week. It was cut on the wire and bled to death. Martha Karney purchased a new carriage of Fouts Ruede Thursday.

It is a daisy. Some of the boys seem to think Sunday school is the place to raise a disturbance. O. Lennen's wagon broke down while he was on his way home from Osborne last Thursday. The chairman of the Republican state committee gives out a statement covering a transaction in which W.

H. Craddock is involved. The story is taken froni court records in Jackson ooun-tp, Missouri. Craddock bought on credit goods valued at $9,274.49 of William Hogg, Coles county, Illinois, brought the goods to Kansas City, exchanged them for real estate, did not pay later brought suit, recov G. B.

Hall bought Al Curran's little Thursday, October 2, at 7 o'clock. Hon grey mare. Miss Pearl Brumbaugh spent Sunday in Gay lord. Judge R. M.

Piekler was a passenger on the Sunday evening train. The section hands have been up this far this week, helping repair damages. Aaron Blank, of Atchison, was a Sunday visitor at the home of J. L. Powers.

Will Brumbaugh has been troubled with several painful boils on his hand. The work train finds plenty to do this week, repairing the washouts up the line. Mrs. Wm. McComas was summoned to Nebraska Monday to the bedside of a sick sister.

O. Mackinson, who is employed as teacher at Little Bush, spent Sunday at Cedarville. The lateness of the train from the I. E. Lambert, of Emporia, ex-United well and appearing as though he had enjoyed himself.

Several Osborne ladies who had been visiting members of the Salvation Army at this place, Saturday and Sunday, left for their homes Monday morning on the hack, The passenger train from the west was three hours late Tuesday evening. That's the latest the east bound passenger has been since the run was instituted several years ago, L. C. Smalley was detained in Osborne Monday on account of the high water at the bridge. A current about 6 feet deep ran 'around the south end of the bridge all afternoon.

Washouts are so numerous hereabout that the writer makes ho pretense of enumerating them. Judging from the lines about town, every family in the Frank Cooper sold Bert Hall a team States distriot attorney, will be there on that evening and deliver an address. of horses last week. Mr. and Mrs.

Vogler visited with Mr and Mrs. Tracy last Sunday. Mr. Lambert has the reputation of be ered the real estate purchased by the stock of goods. The reoord of case, in ing one of the best orators in the state, Mrs.

Fannie Schweitzer was in the and it willundoubtedly be worth your cluding court decree, is being diatrib uted. valley last week canvassing for books, time to attend the meeting. Mrs. John Patterson at Rest. Miss z.epny Johnson, of Mortis, is visiting her sister, Mrs.

Hastings. This is the way the judges and clerks Adaline Mogridge was born in Wayne Mr. and Mrs. Will Messick visited her county, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1835. Mrs.

George Weese returned last week of election in KanBas are selected under the new ballot law; One of the judges and one of the clerks shall be She was married to Nelson P. Knapp in from Missouri, whither he was called by east Monday detained Miss Garman in brother, Elliott, on Joy creek Saturday. C. J. Hose had a two-year-old heifer killed in his pasture by lightning Sun appointed by the trustee, upon the re 1851, and to them were born two sons and three daughters, of whom both sons and one daughter survive.

Mr. Knapp died in Nashville, Tennessee, during Downs till noon. A. Bartlett was out at Mr. Mo-Gee's place Monday evening," looking oommendationjof the chairman of the county central committee of the party which polled the greatest number of the sickness and death of her father.

Miss Vina Daniels will teach the Pot-terville sohool this winter. She is, a fine teacher and will have a crowded school. Mrs. Sis Mays, who has been living day night. Mr.

and Mrs. G. B. Hall and daugh after some calves. ter, Belle, visited with F.

Hartman one the war of the rebellion, he being a sol dier in the Union army. votes in the Btate in the last general W. F. Cochran and wife, of Osborne, day last week. election.

Another of the judges and Mrs. Knapp married John Patterson spent Sunday and Monday at the home one of the clerks shall be appointed April 2G, 18G8, in Delaware county, New Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parsons visited with Mr. and Mrs.

W. W. Parsons, of of Prof. Harding. burg had a wash outlast week.

The county line bridge went out with the last rise in Lindley creek, and the people wonder when the townships will cease wrangling long enough to raise enough stuff to put in a new bridge. Mr, and Mrs. E. Crammer have been entertaining Mr, and Mrs. Wilson, who are here from Iowa, the past week.

Mr. Wilson is favorably impressed with Kansas and may decide to locate with us. We take this method of informing the 'g Portis readers and others interested in this department that the page will be on a farm owned by her brother, will move this fall. It will be a tedious task to haul 1000 bushels of corn and a large quantity of hay a distance of 13 miles. upon the reoommendation of the chair York, where they resided until Febru The last heavy rains fixed what the Osborne last Sunday.

man of the county central committee of ary, 1880, when they moved with their the party polling the next highest vote, preoeding downpours left of the hill north of the bridge. Dyke Weber had the bad luck to The north branch of the Solomon river is out of its banks and higher than or Democratio party. The remaining break a buggy wheel Sunday afternoon, Several of the boys about town expect judge is to be appointed by the trustee it has been for 24 years. family to Osborne county, Kansas, and have resided here since that time. Mrs.

Knapp's death occurred September 12, 1902, at her home in Jackson township, after an illness of three weeks with typhoid fever. Mrs. Patterson has been for many regardless of any reoommendation. Mr. Lattin returned from Kansas to go to 'Nebraska some time next month to husk corn, and was compelled to borrow a wheel so he could take his best girl home.

She says she will test the rig before leaving home for another ride. City, where he shipped cattle last week. The newspapers of Kansas have, in He is busy buying more cattle. Not a salesman stuck his head above years a consistent Christian, first being in the past two months, published col high water in Portis Monday. It's out Earl Parsons bought a drill of Charlie Johnson last week.

Charlie thinks We read in the Gossip Gazette, pub umn after column of matter regarding of the ordinary course. some of going to California soon. lished at La Junta, Colorado, that Job Hons. W.J. Bailey and W.

II. Crad The fellow who has seen it rain hard Percy Robb sold a team of mules to Karney, a former resident of this county, now a resident of Mill City, Oregon, er at this season of theyear had not put in his appearance at this writing. Will VanWormer, or Osborne, and bought a team of horses of John Herzog. dock. You have all read it, but have you noticed in the entire campaign there has not been a single charge made against Mr.

Bailey? He has not said a who was visiting his daughter, Mrs. The pupils in the town school whose Clarence Hose has his shop in order and homes are across the river were de is prepared to do blacksmithing at any single word that caused the opposition tained in Portis over Monday night. time he is called on. Farmers needing John Bell, of La Junta, has become mentally unbalanced and is beyond medical aid. He has returned to his home in Oregon, accompanied by his son, D.

II. Karney. Job Karney has regularly occupied by matter pertaining to town affairs. We deeply appreciate the kindness that has been shown us in this work, and to quote from Hon. John L.

Sullivan, as per Wilberforce Jenkins, hope to merit your approbation in the future as we have in the past. Saturday, Sunday and Monday occurred several of the heaviest rain storms that have ever visited this sec-1 tion at this season of the year. The total rainfall was about 6 inches, The river was higher Monday than it has been since '89, and the high water made the approach at the south end of the bridge somewhat dangerous. This is not supposed to be news to anybody only a write-up. to laugh, sneer at or deny.

They can trump up no orooked deals or broken R. Bell, who always endeavors to sup a member of the Methodist church, but for the past 20 years she has been a member of the Grand Center Baptist church. The funeral services were conducted by Elder Q. II. Clark, of Iloyt, KanBas, in the Vincent church, and interment was made in the Vinoent cemetery.

Numerous friends and relatives attended the servioes. Mrs. Patterson will be missed in the community. She was ever ready to help those who were siok or in needy circumstances. The reward of the faithful is surely hers.

II. Fall Festivities at Kansas City, October 1 tj 11, 1902, One first olass standard (not temporary reduced) fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale, Ootober 3 to 7, inclusive, limited to return leaving Kansas City to and including October 13. All tickets to be limited for going passage ply what the town lacks, has rented the meat shop and will sell beef as a side promises to use against him, It ap been deranged at different times during line. plowB sharpened would do well to give him their work.

Mrs. Z. II. Butler was called to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Mayfield, in Lawrence township, Monday, to help attend to her mother, who was taken very sick.

X. Y. Z. pears to be entirely different in Mr. Craddock 's case.

There are very few Tuesday the numerous washouts and statements that he has made where extremely high waters made the rural mail carriers pull in, after they had pulled out. a number of years, but not entirely so until within the past six months. The Gazette is published by a woman who was acquainted with Job Karney when he lived in Osborne county. Maurice Smith returned from his trip to Oklahoma Sunday morning, looking Echo. some one has not jumped up and proved that he was entirely wrong.

He haa made any number of foolish, impossible promises to the voters and his past record von't hold water any better than a sieve. You'd better consider the records of the two men before casting your vote. commencing date of sale and for continuous passage in each direction. HAWKEYE. E.

R. Hahn is building a new barn. Ernest Vance has bought a new corn High School Notes. John hasn't struck James yet. "George" McBride enrolled Monday binder.

morning. M. M. Kiggin, Agent. FOB RENT.

5 room house with barn, good well etc. Inquire of L. A. Linville. 38 12 Elliot Howell visited with home folks Lena Bandt and Flora Knox spent Prying preparations simply devel-op dry catarrh they dry tip the secretions, which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing afar more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh.

Avoid all drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs and me that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely's Cream Balm js such a remedy and will cure catarrh or teold in the head easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the COo. sizet Ely Brothers, SGAVarron N.Y.

The Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or canse sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, relieving immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever. Sunday at their respective homes. last Sunday.

ments under the direction of Professor Banks. "Merry Melodies" ought to fill the air, but they seem to be a minus quantity. Some plans ought to be made for more music. We have a very unruly set of teachers this year. Tuesday morning they had to be driven to their work W.

Bowen does the driving. Monday morning each member of the High school was presented with an note book and informed that it was to be used for spelling. Some people seem to think the school Ben Holtslander haa rented G. ground is a driving park. It is not.

Brittain'a farm. Cared of Hemorrhage of the Lungs. "Several years since my lungs were so badly affected that I had many hemorrhages," writes A. M. Ake, of Wood, lnd.

"I took treatment with several phy-sioiana without any benefit. I then started to take Foley's Honey and Tar, and my lungs are now as sound as a bullet. I recommend it in advanced oases of lurjg trouble." J. B. Hatfield, sep Misses Lizzie Craddick, Edith Oam- Pete Anderson and family have ber Bnd Delia Hahn were last week's moved to Oklahoma.

visitors, This signature is on everytjox of tbe gennln The members of the Physics class are Jas. Boyd will farm Mrs. Foster's Laxative lirorao-Uuinine Tbieta performing many interesting experi place the coming season. the remedy that cores cold In nt day.