McCracken Republican from McCracken, Kansas • 5

Lyle Huling of Brownell was in town One of the best programs of the winter JHE REPUBLICAN 0. P. DUTTON, Proprietor. Missouri Pacific Railroad MOUNTAIN TIME. GOING WE8T.

Mail and Express 10 34 p. Local 10:20 a.m GOING EAST. Mail and Express 3:50 a. in Fast Freight 7 :30 a. Local Freight 8 :30 p.

Died, at her home 'ten miles northeast of McCracken, Saturday, Feb. 16, Mrs. Mary M. Hardwick, in her 71st year. The subject of this Bketch, Mrs.

Mary M. Hardwick, whose maiden name was Mary Morton Gillaspie, was born April 3, 1820, near Sharpsburg, Bath county, Kentucky, from whence she removed with her parents to Carlisle, Nicholas county, Kentucky, at which place she united in marriage to Mr. Jessie Hardwick, July 20, 1848, at the age of 18 years. Alexander. The following notes were sent in too late last week for publication A ball was given at the home of George Ilartgrave Tuesday evening.

Roy Coddington entered school again at Alexander. The young people of Alexander enjoyed a pleasant evening at the residence of Mr. Shryack. Mr. Hartgrave and Wm.

Coddington have each purchased teams. James Brown of Sylva is visiting his brother at this place. Mrs. A. H.

Young is very ill at this writing. Mr. George Walker is visiting in our vicinity again. Quite a number of friends were entertained at the home of Mrs. Baldwin Saturday evening.

The following is the program of the Epwqrth League meeting of the M. E. church, for March 3, 1901: Title of lesson "Religious Barrenness." Song service. Opening prayer. Song.

Led by President. Leader W. J. Wilson. Scripture lesson, Luke 13, 6, 9.

References. Essay "The Fig Tree," Prof. Arnold. Essay "Religious Miss Carrie Hun toon. Monday.

He says Brownell is thinking of having a livery stable and that Joe Richardson will be the proprietor. "Slow drag" is the name of the newest round dance in Kansas. The mammas think it a little too affectionate, but the buds declare it is "just too lovely." Born to the wife of Frank Start Wed nesday of last week, a girl, This we failed to mention in last issue. Dr. Dutton says it is a bright, healthy little one.

Born at the home of Harley Anderson a boy, on Uriday or last weeK. me boy is healthy and and is a heavyweight Dr. Dutton says. Harley is pleased at its arrival. Miss Ruby Davis' gave a party to a number of her young friends Thursday evening, celebrating her eleventh birthday, at the home of her grandmother, Mrs.

Keyser. Carl Rose has been working at 01- rnutz in the interest of the Occidental for the past two weeks and will probably organize a good lodge there. He put in a day or so here this week. LaCrosse Republican: Bison is to have a new bank about the first of May. The time lock eafe used in the old Rush county bank of this place was purchased and moved to Bison Wednesday.

Born at the home of Commissioner William Weirman, in Ness county, on Monday, a handsome girl. The little one weighs eight pounds, says Dr. Dut ton, and both babe and mother are doing well. T. C.

Fisher has returned from a trip to KingmanJ and other points south, having in view the purpose of locating down there. He came back home well satisfied they have no advantages there we do not have here. Revival services will commence in the U. C. church beginning with the services Sunday morning, as so announced from the pulpit.

Rev. Thom is a force-able speaker and will no doubt make the services interesting. The Chieftain had another two-column boom in last week's issue for Brother Hale. It will take lots of it to land your man, for there is the present incumbent, Judge Andrews, popular with all classes of people, to be reckoned with. Mr.

and Mrs. Kline and Mr. and Mrr, Jess Elmore left Tuesday for a two weeks visit at Galveston and other southern points. The trip will be a most enjoyable one and they will doubt less see enough that is interesting to re pay them. Mr.

Wm. Kelly, wife and son are vis iting at the home of his satrrer, Post master Kelly. Mr. Kelly says he hud not seen the young, man in ten years, and was very much pleased to see him drop in here. Mr.

Kelly holds a lucra tive position in Denver. The late snow had hardly melted from the ground when another fell Wed nesday morning. There is no use in using the streotvped expression that this is fine on wheat, but nevertheless it is true, and will advance the crop far into the season, when a few timely rains will insure the crop. About two inches of the beautiful fell. The examination for Common School Diplomas will be held on March 16th to 30th for country schools, and April 19th and 20th for village schools.

I would like each teacher to write me the number of applicants there will be from their school, and which examination they wish to take. E. M. Lank, County Superintendent. For sale See here, I will sell one of the best improved halt section-, farms eastern Ness county cheap if taken soon.

Call and see it, one and one half miles west of Rush county line, six and a half southwest of McCracken; alno a few barred Plymouth rocks and barred. black Lang-han cockrels at 60 cents each at the farm. Address, E. W. Wickens, McCracken, Rush county.

The Order of the Occidental held a social and literary meeting Monday evening at which a good crowd was present. An excellent program had been prepared, but unfortunately was not carried out for the reason not all present who- were to take part. Mrs. Nation's methods elicited the most discussion of any subject and was pretty well. sifted.

A ood program has been made for next meeting and it is hoped all will take part. Washington's birthday exercises are in progress in our public schools today, al! tlie departments taking part in the exercisers This is eminently correct. Let us kevp ever in remembrance the two emancipators, Washington and Lincoln; the. first, who threw bondage from the white, man and the latter who struck the from the negro and through the etlbrts ot botlt made it possible to establish the freest, happiest and most natiori on earth. was rendered by and probably the best of the season was present at the literary club meeting Tuesday evening.

The subject was Edgar Allen Poe and a well written biograpical sketch was given by Miss Eva Snodgrass, after which some musical selections were ren dered Eddie Wilson read "The Bells;" William Grumbein gave a parody on the The Raven in German dialect; a mu sical selection by Miss Leta Anderson Annabell Lee" was given by Prof. Ar nold a paper by Dr. Brownell on Hypnotism a quartette by the Misses Anderson and Mrs. Snodgrass and Miss Eva Snodgrass and finally "The Raven" by Mrs. Vincent.

Current events of the week were given promiscuously. Subject for next meeting, Bacon. The committe having the matter in, charge, give notice to those interested. that the Teachers' Meeting which was to have been held on the 9th was, by order of the committee, postponed till the 23d inst. Teachers and all oth- ers interested are urged to be present and take an active part.

The program is as follows Music, Miss Jessie Adams School Management, Prof. W. S. Robb Fractions, H. T.

Fish; paper, John Mills paper, Miss Maggie Howel paper, Miss Agnes Wilson music Primary methods, Mrs. Morse; Human Body Power, Prof. W. T. Clark.

The Hutchinson News says the Ten Nights in a Bar Room show which is i taking in the short grass country has a ten cent concert which they ougfct to i give exclusively and cutout the rest of the performance. This is a hard knock on LaCross' four hundred who have re cently been entertained with a two weeks engagement, snd pride thernseves on knowing when they run up. high class- talent. OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL. CONDITION OF THE Bank of McCracken, At McCracken, State of Kansas, at the los ot business, on the Ninth clay cL February, 1901.

HKsotJKCES. Loans and discounts 37,445.83 Real eBtate Exapense account 217.56 Cash and sight legal re- 1 serve 24,586.33 65,708.85 LIABILITIES. Capital slock paid in. 20,000.00 Sarplue fund S.M 'i Undivided profits, a. tl.fllii.il Interest 965.08 Exchange.

41.61 Individual deposits 29,823 09 Demand certificates. Total State or Kansas, I County of Rush, ss. E. 8. Chsnowetli, cashier cf- said bank- ao Boleuinly swear that tlie above statement is true; that said bank has-no liabilities, and is not indorser on aiy note or obligation, oUier than-.

shown on the above statement, to the- best of my -knowledge and belief-. Ho help nieOocl. E. S. Of.nowkth; Otshier.

Subscribed and swwrn to before ce-this 20th day of February. lflGlv J. K. Stock, Notary Public. Commission expiree on the 26th cL.v of iiay, 1904.

Correct Attest: E. S. Chenoweth, ii. M. KVAN, J.

P. Warden. Directors-. J. W.

Chenoweth, Be Up-To-Date. There is lots Roing on in the World. HUTCHINSON KEWSI'J Is the leading Republican evening daily newspaper of tlie Seventh District. Associate Press Keport of the news of the world by telegraph and cable up to live o'clock in the evening. Complete live stock and grain market report.

-Special Stare and Western Kansas Reaches McCracken the same iiiulit of puhlica- tion and is iu the postofiice many hours earlier than the Kansas City or Topeka pa peis witli tlie same news and market re- port. Subscription $3 Per Year ADDRESS, TBE EVENING NEWS, HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. E. L. STOCK Bicycles xil riHKinds oi intricate Machinery Ruird.

Shop with J. II. Slock. Call 00. ati, Men's suits for $2,50 at Starrett's.

Another invoice of Star shoes at Star-rett'e. Mayor Walker has been ill for s6me days but is convalecing. See those fine oversilk skirts at Star-rett's. They are beauties. Dr.

Raffington, dentist, will be in McCracken, March 3, 4 and 5. Fresh corn meal and graham, always on hand at F. P. Starrett's etore. Flour, first and second patent, at $1.70 and $1.80, at F.

P. Starrett's. Dr. Raffington extracts without -pain; will be in McCracken, March 3, 4, 5. I will give 8 cents per pound for fancy fat dressed turkeys.

F. P. Starrett. Five pounds of oat meal and a fine china dish for 25c at F. P.

Starrett's. Old "Judge" coffee in four pound cans at Starrett's. Try it nothing better. Green apples, oranges, lemons and bananas, always on hand at Starrett's. Mrs.

Ed Chenoweth is improving but is still confined to her home with grip. Sweet potatoes, cabbage and Spanish onions at F. P. Starrett's general store. I will preach at the Hanson school bouse on next Sunday afternoon.

W. E. Cox. Twenty boxes of crackers at 5 cents per pound by the case, at F. P.

Star rett's. If there is anything in the grocery line vou want see Starrett. He has it in stock. Mrs. Kline will be absent from her place of business from February 19th to March 1st.

I have two high grade six and eight months old bull calves for sale. W. S. McCaskey. Miss Gertrude Grazier is up from Sa-lina and is occupying a place in the bank this week.

The pay car went along Wednesday and dropped the usual monthly stipend among the boys. Good evaporated apples and pears at F. P. Starrett's, others ask 12c for same class of goods. Mrs.

States is visiting her brother at Mjunt Hope, Sedgwick county, and orders her paper sent there. We do not credit any one over 30 days but we give everybody full value for tneir money. F. P. Starrett.

Hud Starrett has been ill this week and has been absent from his placa behind the counter at the store, Mrs. Chenoweth, mother of Messrs Ed and Wesley, who has been quite ill for some days, is some better. Miss Ehel Brown is occupying a place behind the counters, in the ladies goods department at Starrett's this week. Mr. E.

F. Keyser of Ness City, and Mrs. Davis spent Saturday and Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Keyser.

Mrs. Keyser is prepared to accommodate two more boarders by the week and would like a few more day boarders. The bridge gang which has been at work here for several days, has gone to Hoisington, but will be back here Saturday. Don't forget Starrett's bargain shoe counter; 500 pair of boots and shoes at bargain to clean up old and odd stock. Price no object.

The McCracken Bank statement appears in this issue, which presents a very excellent showing for this, the dull season of the year. Forty dozen dress shirts all sizes and descriptions, at F. P. Starrett's, worth 50c np. Don't fail to see them before buying elsewhere.

Dr. Dutton reports the arrival of a nice girl baby at the home of Mr. Tom McKittrick Sunday The baby and mother doing well. I have bought 1000 pounds of Horseshoe and Star tobacco, fulii lfi oz plug, and will sell the same at 40 cents a plug. How is that? F.

P. Starrett. The Republican says LaCrosse is to have a supply station rf the Standard OH Company. These little things will make a town after a while. Those desiring a good are asked to to call on T.

CFisher, as his property is for sale. Itrfs well improved with fence and She removed with her husband to Abingdon, Knox county, Illinois, in the year 1864, where she resided until 1886, when with her husband and family came to their present home in Rush county, Kansas, where she died Feb. 16, 1901, after eight weeks of patient suffer ing, at the age of 70 years, 10 months and 13 days. She was the mother of seven children, four of whom still live to mourn the loss of a kind, affectionate mother. Her husband: is nearing the eighty- second mile stone and heavily feels the loss of her who was his faithful companion for more than one half century.

Soon after her marriage she united with the Methodist Episcopal church with which she lived a faithful member until called from labor to her reward. The funeral services were conducted at the home ten miles northeast of McCracken, Sunday, at 2 p. by Rev. S. R.

Thom, and the remains, attended by a large company of friends and neighbors, were taken to the Nichols cemetery and laid to rest. In a discussion between the LaCrosse Republican and the Ness City News, as to the git-up-and-gitativeness of the two places, the News makes this comparison: "Ten years ago Ness City outstripped LaCrosse in everything that entered into the making of a good town; it had better buildings, and more of them it had nearly double the popula tion; it had better merchants, larger stocks of merchandise, and more of them it had customers drawn from a greater area of country. Up to that time, while struggling for supremacy in some things among themselves, our peo, pie were practically a unit in any under taking that was likely to advance the interests of the community. In 1890 Ness City had, according to the govern ment census, a population of 869, while LaCrosse had but 513; in the count made by the government enumerators in 1890 Ness City had fallen to 505, a net loss of 464, while LaCrosse had crawled up to 536, a gain of 23. Was this difference in the fortunes of the two county seat towns due wholly to natural conditions and surroundings, or did the fact that the people of one town laid aside their petty differences of opinio.i and all pulled together, while thosa of the other town worked like a yoke of stubborn and unruly cattle and expended the greater part of their strength in pulling one against another? At any rate, here is an object lesson, and our people will do well to give it careful study." McCracken lies midway between these two points, and while it has no court house or buildings, and no patronage as county seats usually have from preople outside who are drawn there to do business, and while we have been alluded to by these towns heretofore as a "burg," still we have nearly as much population, and for push and energy are not behind the cities named on the east and west.

From the point of commercial supremacy McCracken will hereafter have to be included in the reckoning. We have a better and larger territory than either of tliese-townsfrom which to draw trade, and the stocks of goods and volume of business done by our merchants is not inferior-to that of our neighbors, almost every branch of business is represented here. Bison, six miles east of LaCrosse hangs like a mill stone around, her neck and saps her of her trade. while Brownell, Ransom and Utica have long since absorbed the trade that went to sustain Ness City. With our natural advantages, and we have as many as any other point surrounding us, if this town fails to make what it ought to be one of the best west of J-alina then it is the town's own.fault.

Now is our time and our opportuuit to do somethiog, and we had better be about itf. Chieftain The two saloons at Otis in this county were "Nationized" Wednes day by a Mrs. Reh, who a eock in stead of a hatchet demuwshed the bottles and fixtures, and tocceeding in the course of a few minutes in making the interior look like thirty cents. Rush county, is not one whit behind the procession, and it is hoped th; example of Mrs. Reh will huve a discouraging effect oa other violators oi lite law in this county.

Testimony meeting Theme: "Fruit Bearing." Everybody cordially invited to be present and take part. LaCrosse Republican: "Occasionally the business men of this town mention the fact that LaCrosse to have another railroad, or even two, but there they let the project stop. We should have both the A. extended from Lamed and the Santa Fe extended from Rush Center to this place. The know ing ones say that if a proper effort is made by Rush county people, both of said roads could be obtained.

Let a meeting be called for the purpose of de vising ways and means to get one or more roads." The M. A. begins half mile west of McCracken and runs west, and has been surveyed and appears on the maps as extending from McCracken to Lar-ned, and furthermore, this town has the word of Mo. Pac. officials that when the road is built it will he brought here.

The question to be determined, and ought to be soon, whether McCracken shall sleep on her rights and let that slip from her hands which rightfully belongs to her, or whether we shall get a move on us and get this road. Rush Standard: "The McCracken Republican in its last weeks issue, in commenting on the candidacy of S. I. Hale for judge of this district, among other things says: "We are for a Rush county man first, last and all the.time." We take it, from this declaration that if a Rush county mau does not land the Republican nomination for judge of this district thai Editor Dutton and his Republican will give Mr. Hale his loyal support in the coming judgship campaign, should the latter succeed in landing the populist nomination for the coveted position.

Shake, brother Dutton, it is a pleasure to meet men who can look over partisan politics and be loyal to their home county." The above bears a smattering of sar-crasm, and we do believe the Standard editor is have a fun with ns. Curb your exhuberance, brothers. Has the Rerublican through any line or sentance stated that we would support Mr. Hale for any office. Hardly.

The Republican has not a great deal of choice in the matter, for it regards all the republican candidates in the county as eminently fitted, for the place, and whether the nomination falls; to this county or not, we shall, render an abiding and loyal support to the republican nominee whoever he may be. While we have a preference, and should be pleased to. see a Rush county man receive the prize, we regard the party paramount to all and shall abide its. decision. The candidacy of the gentleman, named can only be regarded derisively, and his election, which is altogether improbable considering the good republican majority which can be counted on in the district, would a calamity.

The Hays Republics i says il people happen to get hold of a coin similar to a nickel with a lioleo.in the center, don't think its no good for the United Stati-s is aljout to begin the coinage three-cent piece for use in the west and It will baof nickel, about the siseot a five cent piece, but in the center of it will be a hole about a quarter an inch in This will enable one to distinguish itby feeling- the dark. A.