The Bison Bee from Bison, Kansas • 1

BEE, RISOM I11JG VOLUME 6. BISON, RUSH KANSAS, JANUARY" 17, 190S. Special price on inilk tickets, 35c per hundred or 200 for 50c at this office. Frank Juno is threshing or seed for tti.i I'vArna and Roll weilers to-way. A freight wreck just west of LaCrossc last Monday morning tied up railroad traffic for several hours.

There' are a number of cases of mumps in town, and the children TllO local market ranged from 85 (. 93 cenU bushel this an 1 there been a constant, of haulers in the- market every d.i.t Mrs. Geo. Timken and Carl and Herbert, went to Great Bend last Saturday. Hear tho Beilharz entertainers at Bison, January 25, the fourth number of Bison's Locture course ot Joseph Hcrohema aro reported Teachers Association Program, will be held at LaCrosse, Jan- 18, 190S, 1.30 P.

M. Music LaCrosso High School Roll Call. Didactics Chapter 9, 10, H. A. Kirk patrick.

Music Miss Grass. Social Spirit in America Mrr. Morse, Ree. Miriam Cheney. Four Fundamental liules in Arith W.

V. Wymer. Rcc. Miss Wirshing. Song Grammar Room.

Causes in failure in Discipline Round Tabic -II. R. Barnard It is reported that thcro are several cases of small pox in La-Crosse. Ye scribe and family dined with our wife's folks in Pawnee county last Sunday at dinner. J.

C. Timken and A. If. Meyer are in Kansa3 City this week attending' the Implement' Men's Convention. Henry Geis of Komalty, Oklahoma, was hero this week visiting J.

J. Krause and other friends in and about town. A. M. Gartin, formerly of this place but now living near Guy-man, Oklahoma, is hero on business and greeting old friends.

A great many people are availing themselves of the splendid opportunity to got the best county paper, The Bison Bee, for one dollar a year. C. B. Williams rented! old barber shop room thi week and sub-rented the front part to the Timken Bros, real estate firm, who moved in A postal from Mrs. W.

Stock, formerly Miss Emma directs us to send the Bets to "them at Herndon, Kansas where they have recently moved and the Dr. is practicing. Miss Edith Bockway was appointed teacher of the second 'Conrad Kaiser is very sick Prokup Kottal went to Great Rend last Saturday on business. Clause Neve is adding: a porch on tlio cast side of his residence. The barber shop was moved Monday and is now comfortably located in its new quarters.

Mrs. Herman Marquardt has been visiting friends in and a-round town the past week. Did you ever stop to consider that your neighbor has rights and privileges as well as yourself. Percy Woodburn and wife of Ohio are visiting with the Crot-ingers southeast of-town. Mrs.

G. V. Meyer returned home Wednesday from Hays accompanied by Lydia Walters. We can save you money on any newspaper or periodical that you wish to subscribe for. H.

N. Ring's sale was well attended last Monday and most of the articles sold at good figures. The first quarterly meeting of the officials of the Bison State Bank was held Tuesday evening; II. N. Ring and wife Jeft for Long Beach, California where they will spend the winter.

Joseph Namur and son Carl were up from Larfted last Sunday in their auto, calling on old friends. John C. Holzmeister called on U3 Wednesday and had his name entered on our books as a regular subscriber. Geo. Geisick was installed as grain.

buyer at Timken last Tuesday for Moses Bros, of Gt. Bend, to aucceed C. B. Sewis. W.

E. Younkin, formerly a merchant of Galatia, and well known to a number of our people, is now a resident of sick with the measles. i Jacob Steitz, who was taken to Gt. Bend last week on account of a badly crushed hand, suffered the loss of all of his fingers. Mr.

Corwine who has been visiting with Mann for sev-ctal days, departed Tuesday evening for his home in Springfield, 111.. Fon Sale A few fine pure bred barred plymoth rock roosters. I also have a fine $50 steel range that I will sell at a greatly reduced price, as it is too large for my rooms. Mrs. W.

C- Renner. A chin-whisker epidemic seems to have struck this town, as most of the young men have started to raise a chin beard. It is hoped that there bp plenty of snow yet this winter so the stubble will drift full and moisten the ground, so they will make a rapid growth the coming season. Announcemeets were recently received by a number of our people telling of the marriage of Perceval Dudley Thorp to a Miss Hair, of Nickerson, Kansas on January 1, 1908. The Bee and the groom's many friends around Bison extends the usual congratulations.

The shortage of money under the present financial conditions can easily be imagined when one considers that within the past few weeks some one hundred thousand dollars taxes have been paid at the cunty capital, and all of the currency has been deposited in the banks of that city, leaving only check deposits for the other banks. Woodincn--Next Monday night is regular meeting night. Considerable business is to be attended to as well as installation of officers. Don't fail to attend. S.

C. Monet, Acting Council. S. G.Allen, Clerk. An extract of the Kansas school law positively forbids parents to send their children to school when they, or any of the family, are afflicted with contagious and teachers are instructed to send pi Is home when it is known that they are sick from any such causes.

Obituary. Miss Mary Serpan was born in i Bohemia in 1S67. In 1884' she caind to Chicago where she lived two years, removing with her family to B.ush county in 18S6, where she has since lived. In 1888 she was united in marriage with John Hamrdla. To this union five children were born, three girls and two boys.

Mrs. Hamrdla was apparently in good health until January 2, 1908, when she was taken suddenly ill about 3 o'clock in the morning, which illness resulted in her death at the age of 40 years. The deceased leaves a loving husband, 3 daughters, 2 sons, a father, 1 brother and 2 sisters to mourn her death. Funeral services were conducted Sunday, January 5 at 1 o'clock p. m.

by tho Z. C. B. J. Lodge No.

95, and the remains laid to rest in the Banner township Cath grade at the High School build ing vice Miss Myrtle Williams re A recent ruling of tho postmaster general which went into effect-January 1, 1908, means much to publishers as well as subscribers of all papers. The order declarrs all papers on which the subscription is one year or more past as illegitimate mail, and not subject to second class postal rates, but instead must bo mailed as fourth class matter, with stamp affixed. This means that it will cost the publisher one cent to mail each paper to his subscribers who are one year or more behind with their accounts. A reasonable time will be allowed all publishers to collect up their accounts. The above is the order briefly stated and in consequence thereof wc will, in the near future, issue statements to all our subscribers who will be affected by the order and we hope by so doing we can clear ourselves, as wc don't want "Uncle Sam" to get after us, or cause any unnecessary expense to our signed.

Miss Snyder will act as substitute. The Raton Range. Mrs. C. F.

Kyte is the new night operator at the central office. C. F. Kyte left Sunday morning for Kearney county, where he will teach a term of school. Leoti Standard.

When a person, either old or young, launches himself in the business world he must expect to contend-with the ways. of. the world and keep a business man's olic cemetery. place, or meet with defeat. ztttit 101 Advance i I cii! Jan.

18, 11. Our Dry Goods Department is now ready to show you a large as-sortment of 1908 styles of spring wash goods. It will be a pleasure to us to show them. Our 1908 line of dress shirts are on display. 6 we wlil sell is Men's and boys' overcoats Men's and boys' suits Ladies' and Children's coats Winter underwear, Overshoes Caps and Winter Dress Goods at greatly reduced prices.

We make these reductions in both stores, at BISON AND TIMKEN. Geo. L. Timken Pi II ill!.