The Salem Argus from Salem, Kansas • 1

Adama THE SALEM ARGUS. By G. C. Mc NEICE. "STRIVE TO EXCEL." $1.00 Per Year in Advance.

VOL. 7. SALEM, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1889. NO. 9.

F. A.M Lo ige No. 223. Meets A. Wednesday of each Month, on or before the full moon.

Visiting brethren cordially invited. J. Mi. Isom, Sec'y. W.

Cook. W. M. A. R.

Cumberland Post No. 121, G. meets every alternate Saturday at 2 p. in I.0.0 F. hall Salem, Kansas.

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A. Dudley, P. 0. 0. F.

Salem Lode No 210 Meet every I. Saturday evening Bro's in good standing are cordially invited to attend. G. A. Dudley, ec'y.

We'b, 0 0. F. Salem carpmdnt No. I. meets every alternate Tuesday evening of the order in good standing are inMembers W.

ward, Scribe, G. A Dudley, P. vited to at end 0 0. F. Rebekab Degree No 62, meets I.

ev ry alternate Wedne. day ev ning in Odd Feliowa' Hall, Sal -m Kansas. Members of the order in good standing are cordia ly invited to R. Dudley, G. A.

Dudlow, Sec'y. E. Church, Pey. Pastor. M.

Preaching every alternate Sunday Surday School every Sunda: morning at 10 o'clock. G. Bailey. Sup't. Society Directory.

Church. J. Garner, Pastor. Christian hing every four we.bs at 11 a. and 7: 0 Sunday chool everv Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.

Mr8 hr Parker Sup' Of Hope, G. McNeice. Su 't Band Band meets every Sunday evering at 4 o'clock Business Cards. A. H.

GATES, Attorney At Law, SALEM JEWELL COUNTY, KANSAN Will practice in all the court- of the state. UR C. G. WARD HOMEOPATHIST. ESBON, Kansa: Tenders his professional service to all.

All cal a promptly atiended, Day or Night. HENRY A. DYKES, Physician Surgeon, SALEM, KAN. Special attention given to diseases of the Eye, Ear and Throat. Office at the drug store Callpromptly answered, day or night.

A bare of patronage solicited C. RAYD, The Barber. Hair Dressing, Hair Cutting, Shampooing done in a first class manner. SALEM, KANSAs. D.

W. HENDERSON, RESIDENT DENTIST, MANKATO, KANSAS. Having served five years in the dental proin Great Britian I undertake with tession confidence any case in dentistry Teeth very carefully extracted and painto sly tilled, Give me a trial I will guarantee y. satisfactiou. THE FUNSTON HOTEL, J.

S. FUNSTON, ALEM, KANSAS. The table supplied with the best the market affords. Charges reasonable. W.

S. FIELD, Best rates on Farm Loans. Time to suit applicant. Interest can be paid at Salem, Kansas. POST OFFICE STORE.

School Books' Blank Books, Stationary and School Supplies. A choice Line of Confectionery, Toys, etc. JAMES BROWN, SALEM, KANSAS You're going to leave the homestead, John, You're twenty-one to-day, And the old man will be sorry, John, To see you go away You've labor dinte and early, John, And done the, best you could; I ain't agoing to stop you, John, I wouldn't if I could. The years they come and go, my boy, The years they come and go; And raven locks and tresses brown Grow white as driven snow, My life has known is sorr we, Jobn. Its trials and troubles sore; Yet God withal has blessed me, John, "In basket and in store." LEAVING THE HOMESTEAD.

But one thing let me tell you, John, Before you make your start, There's more in being honest, John, Twice o'er than being smart, Though rogues may seem to fourish, John, And sterling worth to fail, Oh! keep in view the good and true; 'Twill in the end prevali. Don't think too much of money, John, And dig and delve a plat. And rake and scrape in every shape, hoard up all you can. Though fools may count their riches, John, In dollars, pounds. or pence, The best of wea th is youth a- health, And good, sound, common nge.

There's shorter cute to fortune, John, We see them every day. But these who love their self-respect, Climb up tne god way, "All is not gold hat glitters, John, And makes the volgar etole; And those we deem the richest, John, Have oft the least to epare, Pe good, be pure be noble, John, B- honest. br and true, And dot others as ye would That they should do to: ou And place your trust God. my boy, Dory darts be hurt Then you can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world Good May heaven guard and bless You fo isters day by day. Th- old house will be lone ome, John, When you are gone away.

The crieket's sony upon the earth Will have a add rtone; The old tamiliar spots will be So lonely when you're gone -Ex. Whatever may be the belief 01 our commissioners in regard to the guilt or innocence of tho county ofticials, they have shown commendable judgement in the selection 01 an investigating committee. Had they been at all inclined to shield their own party, a committee could have been chosen with that end in view, but right on the eve of an election, when proven guilt wou'd be sure defeat, they come out with a committee evenly divided between the three leading pomical parties, a committee that will be sure to make public the state of affairs that exist in the county. It would be in order for the pa per, or papers, that advocated the delay of appointing the investigating committee until two new commissioners were elected, to acknowledge that they were mistaken in the material composing our county board. Jewell County at the Fair.

Residents of Jewell county have no reason to be ashamed of the exhibit Jewell made at the state fair. While other counties bad just as good a collection as was sent from here, and some perhaps a larger amount, yet none excelled Jewell county. The following from the Kansas Democrat, published at Topeka, will throw a little light on the subject, and from it an idea of the 1m- mense display may be gained: "When Jewell county's carload was deposited in the ball Sunday, it suggested that the granaries of Pharaoh had broken down in that neighborhood. There was a world of stuff, but it was still a chaos. But in order, it 18 an exhibit of which Jewell may well be proud, both for the excellence of arrangement and the character of the material.

The gentlemen in charge deserve great credit and they certainly astonished more than one critical onlooker. There is not a more creditable showing in the ball." This coming from an unbiased party sounds much better than it would had it been written by a resident of this county. The Topeka Capital says: "Jewell county made very creditable showing." Hundreds of eastern men viewed the display, and it will have a tendency--if not already there--to place Jewell county In the front ranks of Kansas counties. It pays to advertise what we have, not only by a liberal 050 of printer's ink, but by sending such exhibits where men not acquainted with cur resources can be made acquainted. 69 The Investigation.

The commissioners have: recured the services of Will Nelson, of Smith Centre, an expert accountant, to investigate the county offices To assist him the board have appoirted three men, prominent in the political parties to which they belong. The repui lican, W. S. Chapman, lires in Mankato, wad is, as we understand it, one dissatisfied with some of the county offic ale. The democrats are represented in the person of J.

C. Postlethwaite. of Jewell city, who is a thorough business man, and one who, if any thing is found against an officer of Jewell county, will not; hesitate to mako it known. C. Il.

Moody, of Burr Oak, is the union labor part of the committee. To say the commissioners have appointed a good committee, would be putting it very mildly, and everyone ought to be perfectly satisfied We believe this committee will have the manhood to report things just as they are found. If all the books are right, and the business in good shape, We think it will be so proclaimed. On the other hand if crookedness, or incompetentey prevails, everybody in the county will be apprised of the fact. With a Moral.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow; it ran away, one summer day, where lambs should never go. The? Mary sat her down and tears streamed from her eyes; she never found that lamb--she did not advertise. Now, Mary had a brother Jim, who kept a country store; he sat him down and smoked his pipe and watched the open door. And as the people passed along but did not stop to buy, Jim still sat down and blinked his sleepy, sleepy eye. And so the sheriff closed him out, but still he lingered near and Mary came to drop with him a sympathetic tear.

"How is it, sister, that the other merchants here sell all their goods and ray their bills and thrive from year to year?" Remembering well her own bad luck, the littlo maid replies: "The other merchants get there, Jim, because they a Gazette. I Great Power. More than thirty-two thousand public schools of the United States have each been supplied with a copy of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Think what that means. If there is an average of 50 scholars to each school, it means that constantly a million and a half of American youth have the privilege of consulting and studying this great work in the course 01 their education, Who can estimate the power for intellectual stimulaton and development which is thus actively at work all the time? The preeminence of the American poople for genera' accuracy and facillity in the use of the English language is not likely to be lost.

Well and truly has Noah Webster been called "The schoolmaster of the republic." The C. K. All northern Kansas ought to feel proud of having the Rock Island in our country. This road is doing more to advertise us than many may suppose. Their corn depot at the state' fair at Topeka was a marvel of neatness and is described by one of Topeke's papors in the following style: One of the greatest attractions on the ground is the corn display of the Rock Island railway.

It 15 the most conspicuous exhibit and is the first thing one sees on entering the main gate, The chief component of the building is corn, put together in the most artistic and ingenious VaTs and the building is filled with a display of fine products of the farm gathered up along the route of the Rock Island in a dozen different counties. We understand this depot, towether with Jewell county's exhibit, will be taken to Chicago and placid on exhibition there, and, it we have not been wrongly informed, this will be the best advertising that Jewell county could have possibly received. DIED -Mra. Esther Stephenson, wife of Z. Stephenson, and mother of Mrs.

J. C. Emigh, died at her homo in Raymond, Lancaster coun ty, Nebraska, September the 7th. Mrs. Stephenson reached the age of 69 years and was cut down br the sickle of time even as the ripe grain is garnered.

While sbe was ready for the call and willing to obey, the tidings of her loss is ertheless one of sorrow to those who knew her and her lite. She was the mother of ten children, 6 sons and 4 daughters. In 1858, she, with her husband, moved from Iowa into this state where they have since resided. While we mourn the loss of mother, we realize that our loss was her gain. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord. An exchange makes this sugges tion for business men: "In all towns where a newspaper is published, every business man ought to advertise in it, even if it is nothing more than' a card stating his name and the kind of business he is engaged in. It helps to sustain a paper, and lets the peoplo out at 8 distance know that the town is fall of business men. The paper finds its way into thousands of places where hand bills cannot reach. A card in a paper is a traveling signboard, and can be seen by every reader.

Think of these things and let your light shine." U. L. COUNTY TICKET. Treasurer, J. N.

JOHNSON, of Ezbon Township, Clerk, W. E. BUsH, of Burr Oak Township. Sheriff, MILO KIRKPATRICK, of Richland Township. Register of Deeds, J.H, FINCH, of Odessa Township.

Surveyor, J. DUNTON, of White Mound Township. Coroner, D. W. HENDERSON, of Center Township.

Commissioner for 3d District, J. FOSTER, of Burr Oak Township. Commissioner for 1st short term, J.D. TAYLOR, of Allen Township. The Family Educator.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary a great family educator, and no family of children ought to be bronght up without having ready access to this grand volume. It will answer hundreds of questions of each wide awake child. It is an ever-present and reliable schoolmaster to the whole family. The whisky kegs, whisky bottles and stacks of cigar 1 boxes found in the defunct Schaffer Bank preached a little sermon to business men last Monday. It suggested reasons why a man of first-cla3s business qualifications went to wreck.

oIl Republican, We would suggest, as a matter of time saving," that the Jacksonian just make up its forms with matter set up at the Monitor office, as quite number of the Monitor's articles appeared in its last issue. What is the matter, George, is the Monitor democratic? Last Saturday J. W. Garner brought in a hip joint of some monster animal that was found by T. A.

McMasters, near Salem, Jewell county. It is a buge bone that has lain out in all sorts of weather pos sibly for ages. It WaS found 00 he surfaco of the ground, and ev ery grain is perfect and it is but very little broken on the edges. It is petrified, yet the nerves and marrow cells are very plain. The hollow in which the joint bone fitted is nine inches across and about three inches deep.

It is, without doubt the hip joint of a mastodon. or some other stupendous animal of a bygone -Beloit Courier. Anniversary Celebration. The city of Lebanon, Kansas, celebrates her second anniversary on Tuesday, October 1st. Extra efforts are being made to eclipse any celebration ever held in northwest Kansas.

A genuine barbecued ox will be on the ground, and the fruits and viands of the country will be scattered in abundance. We accept an invitation to be present. Kansas does not take a back seat for anything this year. Hear what the Secretary of Agriculture has to say about her wheat and corn: "Kansas is away in the lead for corn and oats this year." Kansas corn is on record as 98, wheat 98 also; averago of country in corn 91, in wheat 88. And if it were not for Kansas the average would be flower yet..