The Dexter Advocate from Dexter, Kansas • 5

Me handle the celebrated Dain Haytools, Sweet Rakes, Power Lift Rakes, Hay Stackers, None better made. BRYAN RiGGs. am now on the market for wheat and other grain for W. A. Stuckey, grain dealer of Coffeyville, and solicit your Corn harvesting is the order of the day, and almost the night too, in this vicinity, Quite a number of corn harventers are in operation and the very warm weather of the past two weeks hug made it necessary to rush matters In order to save the fodder.

The crop is a good one, the uplands having produced an unprecedented crop. A man killed at Cameron. George Williams, the Vinton merChant, was in town yesterday and brought the news that the body of a dead man had been found near Cameron station that morning, There was a bullet hole in the mans forchead and he had evidently been dead two or three days, At the time Mr. Williams left, the body had not been identified and the had been notified a and was expected last night, MARRIAGE LICENSES. NAME AGE Fred Olliverson, Winfield, 22 Georgia Sparks, 17 Edward Tomin, Glen Grouse, 22 Osca M.

Johnson, John D. Peters, Winfield, 28 Elskea H. Janssen, Peabody. 34 Edward H. Tate, Burden, 27 Amanda Clark, 24 FOR SALE OR TRADE.

About 2000 fence posts for sale or trade. Enquire of J. Kirby. MO. PACIFIC TIME TABLE.

WEST BOUND. No. 485, freight, No 485, departs ...1:45 No 9, passenger, arrives. 1:45 EAST BOUND. No 486, frieght, ...10:00 a 486, departs.

.10:15 No 10, passenger, pm GROUSE CREEK DIVISION. No 484, mixed, arrives ....12:50 No 483, departe ...2:00 p.m M. A. SPENCER, Agent, DEXTER CITY DIRECTORY. Mayor Bryan Police Judge T.

T. Rucker Clerk W. D. Hale Treasurer J. H.

Watkins Marshal Nicholson Day, Sam Nicholsor Branson, A Searle. Wm reenwell, Butter Turkeys 8c Old Tom 7c Hens and Springs Did Roosters, each Spring Roosters, not over The above report is corrected every week. The highest price is always given. LOCAL MARKET REPORT. 2e below test CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH, preaching the 4th Sunday of each month, morning and evening. REV. BAYS, Pastor METHODIST CHURCH, preaching evel'y' other Sunday, morning and evening. Sunday School at 10 a m. REv Wm CLAPPER, Pastor.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, preaching other Sunday in the Methodist church. REV. J. L. AMLONG, Pastor.

W.G. Kent, The Painter Grainer and Oil Finisher. Sign Painting, WE LET OUR WORK SPEAK FOR ITSELF The Columbian Parlor. During the hot and sultry Summer months the Columbian Parlor is the Mecca for all those hunting 1ced Drinks, Ice Cream and all the Cooling Refreshments of the season. A fine assortment of Fresh Candies and Fruits always on hand.

Short Order Lunches of all kinds are soarved at all hours. Our object is to supply the needs and wishes of our customers. Call and see H. L. GATES, Prop.

North Grouse Creek. Mra. Ove Wilsey went to Winfield Saturday. Mrs. Geo.

Walker visited Mrs. Lacox Tuesday. Eliza Howland visited Olive Johnson Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Darst spent Sunday with home folks. Putting up hay seems to be the order of the day in this vieinity. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur were the guests of Doe Hoyt Sunday.

Mrs. J. W. Lewis attended the reunion at Cherryvale last week. Mr.

and Mrs. Jim Taylor were the guests of Lock Hoyt and family Sunday. Little Mildred Parkhurst of Winfield was the guest of Maggie Wilsey last week. Mr. and Mrs.

Lacox visited friends near Oxford Saturday and Sunday of last week. Mr. Wm. Murphy of Arkansas City, spent a few hours with the Hankins brothers Tuesday. Miss Louelle Milligan who has been visiting her cousin Lucy Hankins for sometime returned home last Saturday.

A New Firm. Sam Nicholson and W. H. England have formed a partnership in the real estate business and have fitted up an office over Epgland's store, They have listed a fine lot of lands and farms in this section and are prepared to push the real estate business vigorously. Both these gentlemen are acquainted, with every foot of land in this part of Cowley county, knowing its condition and ownership.

They also are men who can be relied upon in their estimates and assertions regarding land and a prosperous business is before them. National Encampment d. A. R. For the National encampment Grand Army, of the Republic, Philadelphia, Sept.

4th to 9th, 1899, the Mo. Pac. Railway will sell round trip tickets for $33.60, limited to leave Phila-11 delphia September 12, with provision for extension of limit to Sept. 30. Low rates will be made for side rides from Philadelphia to visit Washington and other cities and points of interest.

For other rates and routes see M. A. SPENCER, Agent. THE FEMININE OBSERVER. The character of a family can pretty easily be read from the weekly wash, Nothing 1s BO exasperating as the memory of misfortune that was all our own fault.

The little street. bend has a very brazen way of playing before lager beer saloons. The smudge from a black glove can convert a beautiful woman into a verItable horror, Frills are so fashionable that a woman can be forgiven if her temper gets ruffled at times. The woman who doesn't own any furs is spared the worry about moths destroying them. There are none In the world ready to confess that their influence by any possibility could be bad.

A man never fully realizes the joys of bome until he sits at his own table and criticises his wife's cooking. The tinkle of the ice in the pitcher is the pleasantest music when the thermometer is on the upward move. Some persons are so perverse that they do not enjoy strawberries when they come within their purse range. The stage-struck girl receives a sevete shock when she sees for the Arst time some popular matinee idol off the stage. The greatest offense you can give the really hospitable woman is to fail to eat heartily of the food she sets before A woman carried away by her emotions generally discovers that the same conveyance is not to be had to bring her back.

A man glorifies a woman's freckles into beauty spots until he marries her, when he soon tells her the candid truth about them. A woman may say all sorts of unkind things about her husband, but she is not true blue if she lets any one else say them. It ts harrowing to dwell upon the bundle of rag-time melodies that will be. wheezed forth from the merry gorounds this summer. We are yet so unaccustomed to the automobiles that one never appears that a gaping crowd does not follow its progress with their eyes.

The suburbanite who ail winter wrestled with snowy and muddy roads, now beams upon his city neighbor and dilates upon the joys, of country life. Some of the new designs in bed room wall paper are better than alarm clocks in that instead of waking persons at a given time they would never let them go to sleep at Times, D. RODOCKER, The Photographer Will be here on Friday and Sat. urday, Sept. 1 and 2, and will be pleased to meet all those who a want good photographic work.

See W. H. England, insurance man for Eastern Cowley. 43 Cash paid for bones. Inquire at the Dexter Meat Market.

The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Cale Pilant is reported quite sick. The democrats of Ohio have nominated J. R.

MeLean for governor. FOR TRADE: fledge posts for cheap horse, single harness or pony. A. Stark Joe Zoll left yesterday for a visit with his parents in Oklahoma, south of Guthrie. Aubrey Sartin is very sick with typhoid fever at the home of F.

G. Hoyt north of town, J. D. MeCoid is shipping out a car load of hogs today. He expects to ship at least a car a week.

The Cowley County Christian Temperance Union held their twelfth annual convention in Arkansas City at the First M. E. church, Wednesday Aug. 30th. If you want the best Sulky Plow on earth go to Bryan Riggs and get the Rays.

It is the lightest running and easiest to handle of any plow on the FOR SALE. One mowing machine, one set of harness, one 14-in. walking plow, one work horse and two plug horses for sale cheap on terms to suit the purchaser. Dr. G.

P. WAGNER. Jerry Mosely has decided to full feed the balance of his bunch of Greenwell cattle, over 800 head. He says they are in splendid condition and he will be able in a few months to put some prime cattle on the market. For a few weeks only we will offer the Live Stock Inspector and the ADVOCATE for one year for $1.25.

The regular price of each of these papers is $100 and we: inake this special rate for only a short time and for cash in advance. There will be preaching next Sabbath Sept. 3rd, at the M. E. Church at a.

m. by Rev. Amlong, subject "Prisoners." Preaching also in the evening at 8 o'clock p. subject, "The possibility of missing heaven." Come and hear." Miss Mattie Marshal and Mr. Lyman Charles were married at the home of the bride's parents in Salem, Ind.

on Sunday August 27th. Both bride a and are well known in this comgroom munity and their many friends hore for them a happy life journey. Mrs. J. T.

Riggs can just beat the record on chicken raising in this part the footstool, and no mistake. Today she showed us a Plymouth Rock hen with seven wee bits of chickens. The hen was hatched on the 13th of March and these chicks were hatched from eggs of this hen's laying on the 28th of August, The probate court is trying the case of Noah Akin for alcholic insanity. Akin returned from taking the Keeley cure a new man, cured of the disease, and was working hard, saving his money and doing well. when his friends, arch-fiends in human form, insisted on his taking one cold drink.

Now he is beyond human help. Adams shipped out a car of hogs, Sunday; A. L. Branson, 4 cars of cattle Monday and Tuesday; G. W.

Bowen, 2 cars Tuesday; L. W. Guthrie, 2 cars and Bishop, 4 cars Tuesday; Larry Guthrie, 2 cars cattle Tuesday, and Burkett Lemert, one car of hogs. -Cedarvale notes in Sedan Lance. The reports of the secretary of board of agriculture this year shows large increase in the number of cattle.

in the state and a great. decrease the number of hogs. There are 068 cattle in this state, an increase 282,003 over, last year. There are 2,341,000 hogs, or a falling off 425,079. The Camen Band which started New York with the Oklahoma flour train was stranded in.

Chicago, the and O. railroad refusing to carry out its agreement and haul the train. The boys have been stringing into Winfield one by one for the past week. They scattered at Chicago and went different directions to visit friends on their return. The republicans of Wilson county, have nominated Gordon G.

Kennedy, a cousin of our postmaster, Sam Nicholson, for treasurer of that county They have nominated a good man and Sam and the republicans of that county will see that he gets elected. The trouble is there is.a pop editor over there: of the same name, but Sam vouches for it that he is no relation. The Winfield city council came near doing, something rash last week and electing Mr. Silliman president the council. Mr.

Silliman emphatically informed that, body that if elected he would' close the joints or bust hamestring, or words to that effect, He was not elected, but the narrow escape must have caused some of members to turn pale and they tremble when they think of it for many months to come. PERSONAL MENTION. T. S. Dove was in Winfield last Monday.

Joe Church was a Winfield visitor Saturday. Mrs. Oma Fields is the proud owner of a new wheel, Clate Smith was down from Cambridge Monday, H. L. Gates was seriously on the sick list this week.

H. S. Libby was up from Maple City one day this week. L. A.

Stuck was in Winfield Monday attending to business. J.T, Riggs made a business trip to Arkansas City yesterday, R. C. Bourdette attended the ion at Cedarvale last week. Mrs.

J. H. Watkins visited in Winfield Saturday and Sunday. County Attorney Clint Hargis was in Dexter Tuesday on legal business. R.

L. Foster with a crew of carpenters are busy on John Maurer's house. G. W. Chadburn of Conway, was registered at the Commercial this week.

Chas. P. Brooks of Burden was in town Wednesday attending to busi ness. Chas. Smythe made a trip to Arkansas City and Winfield last Monday and Tuesday.

Jerry Mosely loaded a train of cattle from this place Sunday shipping to Kansas City. Miss Ethel Wagner is riding a new wheel which is a present from her brother Frank. Wm Beasly of Tonkawa, Okla. was visiting the family of Dr. G.

P. Wagner Wednesday. Charles Quier and Merle Goforth of Burden, were visiting friends Dexter Sunday. Mack Douglass spent Sunday Oxford visiting his wife who is there visiting relatives. Watkins is reported no better Wm.

this week and is only able to be up short while at a time. Hon. A. H. Abrams was in the city Saturday and paid this a short while office a pleasant visit.

R. S. Kraybill was attending for E. F. Eastman in Dexter business the fore part of the week.

Elbert Blakely and Bert Chapman, Buckles were among the Burden R. J. crowd down here Sunday. Miss Nellie Deems, of Ft. Worth, Texas, is in Dexter visiting her grandMr.

and Mrs. Wm. Watkins. parents, Mary and 1 George McDermott drove over to Winfield Saturday and spent. two or three days visiting friends that place.

Miss Nellie McIlwain and her brother of- Valley, Okla. are in Dexter Bert, visiting their grandmother Mrs. Losey, and friends. Mrs. J.

E. Smith returned, to home in Hutchinson today after several days visit with her parents, Mr.and Mrs. J. N. Day.

A. Stark is in Joplin, visiting friends and relatives, and attending business: He will take in the Baxter reunion before returning. Wm. Taylor, S. H.

Richardson James Hathaway are cutting hedge posts for A. Stark on the old Nicholson place, south of town. T. J. Rice, of the Kansas City stock commission firm of Rice Brothers, in Dexter the first of the week looking up the cattle business in this section.

Prof. L. Lightfoot, who was ly principal df the Dexter school they editor of the Dexter Delta was in a this week. He teaches the coming at Edna, Oklahoma, in: John Houston is having a serious time with sickness in his family, off childred and his wife have been with malarial fever and are still in of very serious Dr. and Mrs.

G. M. Hawkins to tained a few friends Friday evening their pleasant home on north street. Ice cream aud cake was served B. and a very enjoyable evening spent.

Mr. and Mrs. Everet Hawkins children arrived. this week from kansas to visit her parents, Mr. Mrs.

Frank Hathaway. They through from their home in Arkansas making the trip in 29 days. Mr. and Mrs. B.

M. Brown children left Dexter Wednesday on G. A. R. excursion to Philadelphia and from there will go to- Bay Md.

to rielt Mr. mother only. They will be gone about a month. A. M.

Oft of Pottawatomie a son-in-law of W. R. Adams, purchased the S. G. Caster farm, miles west of.

Dexter. There are acres in the place and the price 83,200. Mr. Ott will move of was family here in November. Walter Johnson, who has been a ing for R.

C. Joy, came to town day with his head bleeding and battered up. He had been kicked the the cheek by a horse and sustained will very painful injuries. His was fractured and he will be layed tor sons time. Shoes Shoes More new Boots and Shoes.

We have now the Largest and mostcomplete line of Footwear we ever had. Every thing bright and new; fresh from the Brown Shoe Co's Factory, which is a guartee that they are good. Our increasing trade shows but one thing, and that is: Our Customers are Satisfied and tell their neighbors to come here and get good goods for little money Our several departments are now complete. Come and be convinced of the values we are giving. Yours for Trade, H.

A. SEARLE CO. S. BIBLER SON, -DEALERS INDry Goods, Groceries, Etc, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Gents Furnishing Goods. Notions and Oucensware: DR.

H. S. CREIGHTON, (Graduate Ontario Veterinary Canada.) College, Toronta, VETERINARY SURGEON. Office and Infirmary, 218 E. Ninth.

Ave. Winfield, Kansas. The only Veterinarian in Winfield who is a Graduate from a Veterinary College. Treats all diseases ofdomestic animals. Diseases of cattle specialty.

Vaccinates with the a Pasteur Lymph for the prevention of blackleg, anthrax, etc. only reliable preventative. All work done in a scientific manner. Can aiways be found at office or Palace livery, barn when not out on business. calls able.

Special attenfion given to telepromptly attended and charges reasongrams. Correspondence solicited. MoDERMOT JOHNSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OFFICES AT. WINFIELD and DEXTER, KANS, DR. H.

D. COOPER, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Office Front Rooms Over the Bank DEXTER, KANSAS, P. WAGNER, Physician, Surgeon and Accoucher. DEXTER, KANS, DR. G.

M. HAWKINS, Physician and Surgeon, Office over Bank of Dexter. DEXTER, KANSAS J.H WATKINS, on real estate and time to suit the NOTARY PUBLIC. Money to loan borrower. Abstract of title furnished on application.

Office at bank. W. H. ENGLAND, Notary Public, Deeds, Leases, Mortguges and all Notary work executed. All kinds of Insurance written.

Office over J. England Son's store. L. A. STUCK'S.

BARBER SHOP. For neat and up-to-date work. Agent for Steam Laundry. S. H.

WELLS, Notary Public. Pension vochers executed. "Also Deeds, Mortgages, Leases and all other notary work done, 1 door north of drug store. DEXTER, KANSA3 'THE MAINE" Restaurant When you want a good square meal, or a short order lunch. Candy, Oigars, Tobacco, Canned Goods and Notions of all kinds.

M. B. SOM MERVILLE, PROP, GEORGE SWITSER, Carpenter ANDContractor Plans and Specificatious Furnished. First-class work guaranteed. at Main was and Arand drove and.

the View county, has six 316 paid his workTues- badly on jawbone up FIELDS' RESTAURANT. IS THE PLACE FOR Meals At All Hours Oigars and Tobacco, Candies and Fruits. Oold Drinks of all kinds. o. W.

FIELDS, PROPRIETOF L. R. MOGLE IS A PRACTICAL Watchmaker and Optician Of Fifteen Years Practical Experience. Send Him Your Watchen for Repair Be Sure and Get Yottt a Glasses Fit By 908 MAIN ST. WEN.