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Independent. VOL. XII. PORTIS, KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 1.6, 1915.

NO. 18. Hammond Brothers Fall goods of all kinds coming in every day. A large assortment of Mackinaws. Duck Coats, reversible and sheep skin lined.

Bring your new Montgomery catalogue and we'll be glad to meet their prices on these goods. See our wool finish Blankets. Men's, Ladies' and Children's Sweaters. Ladies, be sure and see our line of coats before the assortment is broken. Our new fall shoes will be in in a few days.

Remember the STAR on the heel is just as sure a sign of quality as 18K on gold or Sterling on silver. The same rule can be applied when you ask for Punch Groceries or Wheeler Overalls and Shirts. You get ALL THESE at -The BoysSPECIAL for Monday, Sept. 20th 16 pounds SAL SODA for 25 cents. Phone Number Forty.

The death of William Garver at the Garver farm five miles north and a mile and a half west of Portis last Sunday morning marks the passing of an old set. tler and well known citizen, a G. A. R. man and famaliar figure to the people of Portis and vicinity.

An ailment of the stomach was the direct cause of his death. He had lived in Portis for a great many years and has a home here now but he and Mrs. Garver had spent the summer out on the farm. He was in town the latter part of last week. William L.

Garver was born in Fountian Indiana, Oct. 23, 1831 and died at Portis, Kansas, Sept. 12, 1915, aged 83 years, 10 months and 19 days. He served as a private in Co. of the 43rd Indiana infantry throughout the civil war.

He was married to Sarah A. Riley on April 13, 1869 and to them were born nine chil dren, five of whom preceded him to the future world. Those left to mourn his departure are his wife and two sons, Robert of Cadams, Neb. and Rols of Portis and two daughters, Mrs. Maude Boyle of Portis and Mrs.

Charity Goodman of Kansas City, Mo. Funeral services were held at the farm home Monday afternoon at two o'clock conducted by Rev. Whitted. Burial was made at Bell cemetery near the home of the deceased. The pall bearers were Old Soldiers as follows: C.

E. Crammer, J. W. Powers, Jacob Echtinaw, L. C.

Smalley I. :4. Lerew and Henry Robertson. Card of Thanks. Death of Wm.

Garver. We wish to thank the friends who so kindly assisted us in the sickness and death of our husband and father. We wish to especially thank the old soldiers and. the singers for their services. Mrs.

W. L. Garver, Rols Garver, Robert Garver, Mrs. Maude Boyle, Mrs. Charity Goodman.

Paul Bartlett returned day from a trip to Salina and other central Kansas towns. He reports a fine visit at Salina and sa's the enrollment at the Wesleyan University is the largest it has ever had. (Rev. Whitted and family 'returned to Portis Saturday morn- C. H.

Lattin reports that he has bought more than 200 head of cattle since he returned from his trip to Colorado. The Gleaners S. S. Measure Social at the T. W.

King home Friday evening was well attend. ed. Weather conditions were ideal and most of the evening was spent playing games in the yard. Singing was also a feature of the evening. Punch and wafers were served by the class and a neat sum realized by the for their class treasury.

More than fifty people attended the I social. The Ira Bickle family are now residents of Portis, having moved into the Creamer house in the southeast part of town last week in order that the children might start to school. Ira says he hates to think of leaving the farm but he supposes that they are Portisites for good. They are an excellent family and we welcome them, Johnny Jones has charge of the Bickle ranch and the Chas. Campbell family are also living in the house.

Choosing A Face Powder A good complexion deserves the very best face powder you can get--and complexions that are not quite so good certainly need the best face powder. The use of face powder i is as much for the protection of the skin against weather as for beau. tifying it, and is practically universal among well groomed women who believe in preserving their natural beauty. Mooreland Face Powder, which is made for the Penslar Stores, is not only exquisitely scented--it is of extreme fineness (due to being sifted repeatedly through silk bolting cloth) and contains no in gredient that is in the least deleterious to the skin. It comes in liberal 25 35 cent boxes, and the same people come back and buy it over and over.

It is really the finest face powder we have been able to obtain. MILLS DRUG Portis Kansas. High School Notes. With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer. -Helen Hunt Jackson.

The teachers were treated peaches Monday evening. Oren Trombla who attended school at Portis several years ago visited school Friday. The Sewing Class was delighted Tuesday to see some new sew ing tables and a sewing machine brought to their sewing room. The number of High School students has increased during the last week. Miss Kellog has entered as a Normal Training student and Charlie Lee and Lawrence Dillon have entered the Junior High School.

The change in some of the High School Texts has caused a little drawback to some of the classes in their work, but it has been possible in most cases to substi. tute with other work until the new books arrive. The normal training work is going along in good shape. We only wish a few more would enroll so we can get the state aid. Some are afraid of the examinations but as a rule they are not any harder than the regular H.

S. examination. Out of several senior classes last year all passed the examination. A great majority of those last year thru out the state passed. This course means a state certificate which is renewable and you have only 5 or 6 subjects in which to take the examinations.

Some of the H. S. students are staying out of school to make some money. We are sorry for this is not doing themselves justice to say nothing about the in. justice to students in classes.

They can not make more than $3 a day now and the facts of tics prove to us that an educa tion would make for them $10 per day more if they would only wait to get out. We understand several do not have to stay out. Besides this when one is out of class the instructor when he returns has to take time from 10 to 20 and explain the points ed, therefore the class loses 10 to 20 days for the one student. The fellow who begins missing now is the one usually who drops out altogether later. Read the INDEPENDENT.

Ringling Circus Is Announced. Official information confirms the announcement that on Satur-; day, Sept. 25th, Ringling Broth circus will give two performances in Concordia. Many new features have been added this year, the most notable of which is the spectacle "Solomon and the Queen of Sheba." This colossal production is presented with a cast of 1,250 people, a ballet of 300 dancing girls, 735 horses, and a trainload of scenery, costumes and properties on the biggest stage in the world. Following the spectacle, a cir.

cus program of unusually brilliancy will be presented, including an array of foreign and American acts new to the circus world. The menagerie contains 1,003 wild animals, 41 elephants, and a "baby zoo." The circus is transported on 89 double length cars. Special arrangements have been made by the railroads to accommodate the crowds that will visit the circus from this city and the surrounding country. Card Of Thanks. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks for the kindness rendered by friends and neighbors during the sickness and death of our loved one, husband and father.

We especially wish to thank those who so kindly remembered him with dainty things to tempt his appetite and who did all in their power to bring back health. Mrs. B. G. Wilkins and children.

Having sold our residence and expecting to move to Topeka, we offer at private sale our Furniture and Household Goods. Call at house next week. Come early and get choice. W. F.

Bell. Local News. Frank Whitmore has been employed as janitor at the school house for the coming school term. The board made a good selection as Frank has had several years experience and has given the best of satisfaction by keeping the school building neat and clean. Lester Smith arrived last Thursday morning from Chicago and is visiting here with his parents for the first time since a year ago.

He has only a few more months of study and work befors he completes a course in medicine. He has attended a great many cases in Chicago alone the past year. George Moate arrived Tuesday morning from Haddem, Kans. where he has worked this summer and played ball as a sideline. He will visit at home a couple of weeks and return to Haddam where he will work this winter.

George says he has had a good season of baseball and would like to get into a game or two here before he returns. Portis Smith, who last year taught school in Colorado, has been helping around Osborne this summer in harvest and threshing and about the time he had figured on going east to make his home he was approached by board of district 102 withlan offer to teach their senool this winter. They accepted his terms and he and his family have moved over to the Cheyenne country. His school opened last Monday, (Aug. 30th) a week earlier than most of the rural Farmer.

Those who attend affairs at the opera house this fall and winter will have the opportunity' of looking over a new stage curtain. It was completed last week by Walter Reid, the well known Downs artist. It is a beauty and is good to look upon. The follow. ing Portis business concerns have advertised themselves and their wares on the curtain: H.

A. Turner, Peter Lund. Smith Hardware, Dr. Dillon, Zimmer. man Hardware, Dr.

Burtch, J. E. Kissell, Hammond J. N. McDanield, Bartlett Son, D.

E. Brumbaugh, Winters Son, A. C. H. Lattin, G.

E. Wineinger fand Garrett Co..