The Benedict Courier from Benedict, Kansas • 1

BENEDICT COUR $1 per Year BENEDICT, WILSON CO-, JULY 18, 1902. Established April 1899. rare zyzi-a tj ehm re mnnnrgi Action ACTION Quic Action flit 1 il STYLISH, FRESH GOODS I COMMENCING mud 504 Main Street, Neodeslia; One Door West of Goycr Block. "A Sale that Will Make Neodesha Famous" ui C. C.

O'NEILL AUCTIONEERS, Our record of many years business all over the United States is sufficient guarantee that buyers will be satisfied and attend the sales regularly. A word to the wise DON'T MISS THIS CHICAGO. iri mmtrW" The C. E. society will give a lawn ABOUT BENEDICT.

ice cream social on the enurcn lawn ou Saturday night, July l'Jth, for the Independence is spending 840,000 in improvements on school buildings this summer. Bully for Independence! Iola's Labor Day celebration September 1 is expected to be the really big event not excepting the coronation. A "syndicate" is being formed to run a temperance paper in Coffe.vville. Shares are expected to go up to Vc iu a few days. Enlargements to cost 8800,000 and to benefit of the society.

Prices will hi given later. Everybody come out and have a good time. Ice crcaimand cake 10 cents, children under 10 years 5 cents. We went up to Ottawa last week to hear Miss Stone tell her experience with the Bulgarian brigands but we FREE Chase Sanborn's coffees are the best in the world for the money, For sale at Burnett's. Miss Bertha Jordan is staying at the hotel this week.

Girls who want to work are very scarce. Farm loans at 0 per cent with commission or 0)a straight, John Knaus, Benedict, Kansas. The second nine went to Buffalo Saturday to play a game with the Buffalo boys. They got beaten. Mrs.

S. S. Benedict and Mrs. C. A.

Sprague spent Tuesday with Mrs. G. MeFadden beyond Rest. Miss Grace Stark returned homo increase the working force from 400 to Read the Courier ads. Taints and oils at J.

V. Hyler's. Butter is scarce and hard to get now. Don't fail to see Mrs. Tarter's new goods.

Will McCain of Buffalo was in town Saturday. Fruit jars in pints, quarts and halves at Burnett's. T. C. Davis was down to Lafoutaine Monday.

School books and school supplies at J. V. Hyler's. Kessinaer. the oran man, was here 050 men are to be made at the lola cement works.

A lot of lola men are in Pierre, South Dakota, where they have organized a copper mining company of million dollars capital. Four persons murdered at Prudence, Oklahomu, lire hi-licvi'd to have moved there from Baxter Springs. Make your own pun. Parsons is having such a bloody newspaper war that it is believed the presiuent will soon bo asked to call out the town marshal. Barlow Wilson's minstrels are play A Beautiful Set of Hand Decorated Dishes, failed to hear it.

We got within what we thought was a reasonable distance but on account of the lack of carrying power of her voice, we failed to hear her story. Only those who were near her could hear what she said. Mrs. Givens of High Prairie aud was buried Monday. Sue was liO years old.

llev. Blackburn of Buffalo conducted the funeral services assisted by Rev. Rhoades of Altoona. Hey. Blackburn was formerly pastor for 3 years of the M.

E. church there Tuesday to Altoona after a weeks visit with her sister Mrs. Butler. B. C.

Wilson went Monday to Girard as a delegate to the Democratic congressional convention that was held there Tuesday. this week. Sewing machirie needles of all kinds at Burnett Bros. C. A.

Sprague was a Fredonia visitor Wednesday. For livery business don't forget to go to the old reliable. Mr. and Mrs. Tefft were up to Buffalo Tuesday.

ing over this part of Kansas in a tent mid the past exhibition notices say they are very good indeed. Miss Maggie McCain returned home The Fort Scott Republican announces this week after an absence of nearly 3 years in Illinois most of the time in liloomington. and Rev. Rhoades is the present pastor. Rev.

Wallace of the C. P. church was also there. O'Neal, the Webb City man who bought a lot of leases northwest of Chanute, broutrht in his first well last week. It is six miles west of Chanute that Mr.

Grant lloruaday has been elected a director of the Frisco system to succeed the late C. W. Goodlander. The Populist charges that Montgomery county ran 810,000 behind last year. Mrs.

Ella Palmer, the proprietress of the hotel, spent Saturday and Sunday in Fredonia the guest of Win. Sher lock's family. Our object in doing this is to advertise our business and at the same time directly benefit our patrotfft. Our plan is this: With each cash purchase vv; give you coupons corresponding with amount of your purchase. When you have sufficient coupons to secure such dishes as you want you bring them in and make your selection.

The assortment consists of cups and saucers, pic plates, dinner plates, jdatters, vegetable dishes and etc. Everything in fact, to make up a line set of dishes. ('all and investigate. Monday was the hottest day of the Montgomery county musi nave unen betting on Coffeyvilie's base ball team. Prof.

E. A. Herod well known here, has been elected to the chair of History aud Civics in the Northwestern Territorial Normal school at Alva, Oklahoma. Clarion: The Populist representa season so iar. Aoout twenty-live or and two west of the county line in Wilson county on the south farm on Village creek.

It proved to be one of the biggest gasers that has ever been struck except the Cauble well at Benedict. John McCraedy went out and tested it and it showed eleven million the hands at the crusher had to take to the shade about 3 p. m. Mrs. Singleton returned Saturday feet per day.

from- a weeks visit with relatives in U. S. flour 85c per sack, closing out price. Burnett Bros, F. II.

Burnett went to Oirard Saturday, lie returned Monday. All kinds of tablets, ink and pencils at Hyler's Drug store. Mrs. Rife has been on the sick list for several days this week. We bought our paint of J.

W. Ilyler, where did you get vours? We are closing out our IT. S. highest patent flour for 85c per sack. Go to l'atty for pop, ice cream or what you want to eat or drink.

Insure your property. See John Knaus for old line insurance. Several went from here to the funeral of Mrs. James Givens Monday. Woodson county.

Mrs. T. C. Singleton Oswego is getting ready to do a little of Fredonia went with her. street paving.

Coffevville has two rural routes pro Dr. Jason Roberts of Osceola Iowa mised by September 1. C. A. SPRAGUE SON.

What the Coffevville Record needs came in on the Missouri racinc vveu-nesday morning and will visit J. W. mobt is a proof reader. tive convention will meet at Liberty Saturday. Cherryvale has a candidate in the person of J.

II. Richie, editor of the News. Talk about tough luck! JustasCof-feyville, Independence and Cherryvale have landed glass factories, machinery has been invented that will mike glass without men. The only evidence we have that Hanson, Indian territory, is not a prohibition town is the news that N. Davidson of Yates Center fell off the water tank there last week and broke a leg.

Independence all but tears its shirt in hastening to explain that the man there who pawned his trousers for a drink of booA; was from Fredonia. Hyler and J. W. Brownells. Horrors! Rov Lovelady of Augusta has been caught stealing a horse.

Mrs. S. S. Benedict and Mrs. John Cherryvale has "taken steps toward" Knaus went up to Ottawa Thursday to hear Ilobson and take in the closing scenes of the Chautauqua assembly.

building a 810,000 auditorium at park. Moran had a SJ0.000 fire in lier midst Mort Tburman of Altoona was up Jiff Williamson went last week to last Sunday, but most of it will be re built. pitch for the Buffalo club in a series of Iola is about to be thrown into the I Tuesday looking after the store here. The Courier guarantees ita job print ing. It is your home ofiice, too.

games they had with Eureka, Kansas. They got badly beaten in each game. throes of a Vroouiau co-operative store. The case iu Justice court from Buf The explanation was entirely unnecessary. C.

B. Williams of Cleburne broke the record for price on dressed beef cattle in Kansas City last week. He received 8S.50 per 100 pounds for grade Here Dr. Hearst reports a baby girl at Lee Davis's, born Saturday morning July falo that was to have been tried Mon BENEDICT day was postponed till Saturday on 12. account of defendant not being ready ford and Shorthorn steers averaging Mrs.

Lou Willis of Waverly is visit 1.4WJ pounds. intr her sister Mrs. John Ellis of this A. J. Wolfe, the young man who was for trial.

The Altoona Journal reports B. Longnecker as having killed a black place. iniured while stealing a ride on the 'Frisco local which was wrecked west of Mound Valley on Monday, was taken From some oversight of the printer the items from Roper were omited last Cherryvale sees another chance for a water plant aud lias perked up considerable. Caney's celebration was such a success that Canev will now try her hand on a street fair. Charles Dilley of Angola dallied too long in feeding a thresher last week and lost an ana.

What a lot of fuss poor old asthmatic Fredonia makes over that oil mill that will employ 30 men. Galesburg had a disastrous fire last Monday morning in the business part that made a loss of 110,000. A Yates Center store is running its fans by wind. Any old bae knows tbat's the only way. to Mound Valley where he died.

His snake 8 feet, 9 inches long. That is most too large for any time except week. mother resides at Gas City. right after the fourth of uly. The father of Captain Adna G.

Clark ndraa Smith went this week to Terms $1,00 Per Day, WILLIAM PALMER, Proprietor of Lawrence, formerly of the Twentieth Kansas, tried to commit Filicide The Missouri Pacific surveyors have Yates Center to visit her daughter, been here setting grade stakes for Mrs. Jones. at Buffalo last week. He slashed his throat with a tVJt and also cut beveral change in the grade. They are raising Mr.

and Mrs. Bob Fortner returned arteries in bla arms. IU health was Friday from Oregon where they have the fills and cutting down the hills and bringing the road bed nearer to a level. the cause. teen for a year.

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