The Lyon County News and The Emporia Times from Emporia, Kansas • 2

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Durjgan, Editor and Prop. Entered at the Post Olllce at Emporia, Kunas at second class mall mutter Terms of Subscription: One Year, in advanop. 81.00 The County Fair in ought to be made a sure go. Koch's message almost equalled Roosevel's r'n length. After January it will be ex-governor Hoch, Chatauqua and otherwise lecturer.

"How long, oh Lord, how long Cuviis isjelected to the United "States senate and the Republican party has started on its ride far a "fall" in 1908 in Kansas. Our Topeka letter is a hummer each week. Its meat, good strong meat for people who want the'truth i and nothing but the truth. It is believed the largest item of expense to the lion. Charles Curtis in being elected United States Senator was in securing the active opposition of W.

A. Wnite. Where oh whete was that magni-ficieut organization known as the "People's Lobby" in the senatorial fight. It can't be possible they were wolves in sheep's clothing. Kansas people are watching this session of the legislature closely.

The thirty odd Democrats, struck a popular chord In their first stand against the "Salary Grab. Two cents a mile passenger rates would travel enough to make up the detiiciency in revenue to the Rail loads caused by its passage. In the meantime what about freight rates' 4 4 4 4 4 4 Girlhood and Scott's linked together. The girl who takes sion has plenty of plump, active and This bunch or gentlemen will shovel coil at "Bill White's coaling station" the next two years. GeorgeSnoddy will come in, in May, to help them and Jeff Eastin will see to its proper distribution in the fire-box until October.

They are all "good fellows" and with the two Republicans who landed ought to make a satisfactory corps of officers. The General Solicitors for the Railroads in Kansas having used their offices for two weeks, as Curtis' headquarters are digging up I r. An1 naff Inn hfltlf tfi iltA ui icio, vku.f aim wuw vw w.v old grind. It beglcs to look like an antl- administration light In Washington from the "special Interest' crowd In both the Senate and House of repre- ssntatives. In other words, the next candidate for the Republican nomination must be "safe and sano." Vote for Bryan in 1008 and remove both sets of the gang now in control.

The Railroads of Kansas deserve a gold medal for the exercise of a foigiving, Christian spirit. Here Mr. Curtis had been fighting them, according to his story, for fourteen years. And for the last two weeks their strongest men have thronged around the members of the Kansas legislature asking them to help elect khis arch, enemy of theirs to the office of United States Senator. Excuse us while we laugh.

The Kansas Seuate sent a resolution calling for a revision In the tariff rates on lumber to the committee on Fedderal Relations. This means as a body, they are ''stand patters." The body of men who would be benefitted by such a revision is just as large as the male population of the state, but of course they don't know what is good for them, Especially when the prottc tion traditions of the Republican party must be preserved. W. F. Eggers, Ex.

No man will ever leave or has ever left the precincts of the court house of Lyon county with a bigge following or sincere friends, than will the subject of this sketch. He has been a faithful, honest, efficient officer, cartful and conscientious in his administration of the county's business. Modesty forbids much being said as to the conduct of the county's affairs at his hands. Suffice to say that early and late, at all hours, the office has been open to the public. No favor asked of him, for the carrying out of the business entrusted to his care, was ever too gieat a trouble to be grant ed.

He leaves the ermine of pubile office as spotless it came to him, and retires with the best wishes of a county of friends. Major Mapes Retired. It will seem strange not to see the erect form and the genial face of the Major at the court house. He has been the first District Representative for eleven years and two mouths being three times elected to the office. As a public official he leaves behind him an enviable record and no man can gainsay his devotion to the county's best inter, est on any and all occasions.

No day was too stormy, no road too rough for him to travel to look after bridges and other matters affecting the county's welfare that came before blm. lie has devoted 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 50c. AND $1.00. 1 I I g-j" 1 I I ilk 1 a 1 it. Excuse tbU Smllo.

A1 1 fc a' Ar 4 i headed business show you the 1 I R. 0. Mokbisv MORRIS KR AUNTS NEW RED BLO08. f0H LUNSS, HEART AND KIDNEY "Our Daddy for Register." up for the organization of the Lyon County Agricu'tural and Live Stock Association. Short Stories.

Jnryman'S One of the best jokes Mistake. of the year occurred upon a juryman of the February term, who shall ba nameless, the 11 ill lust. He came to Emporia the night before in order to be sure of being oti time and In the morniug walked down the County Clerk's office to have a chat, with Bill Eggers. He casually remarked upon what brought him to town and when Bill askbd him to see his summons pulled it out and Ejgers laughingly 8howed Mm the mont t0 be Febru. ary instead of January.

As we smoke, a cigar will keep the name mum. $77.77 Ttiat is what Chas Mayes Per Acre, one of the hustling young farmers of Lyon county paid for a 36 acre tract of farm land at sheriff's sale Saturday. The land is what is known as the Carney farm six miles west of town and real estate men say its worth every cent of the money. Lyon county farm values are beginning to look in the Tir sfer records like they do in Iowa and Illinois, In the column where the consideration is narked. Quick Fire The hostlers who Building.

have to build the lires in the engines at the roundhouse are rejoicing over an improvement the Sanca Fe is putting in to make their work lighter. It cod-sisis of two 3000 gallon tanks for crude oil just west of the round house, from which the oil will be orced in pipes to all parts of the building. By turning a faucet the fire builder can get a bucket of the crude oil, throw it on the coal placed on the grate ot an engine and in 5 minutes have a roaring blaze. Work done by Eicker Son is well' done. 1 i I 'i It When you strike this town just I ask any hard man or farmer to I best all around lumber yard.

his whole time to the office whila being paid for but a part. He has known no party, creed or friend in his career, when questions of the) county's good came up. Lyon county loses a good official, a courteous one, an obliging one And in Ids retirement as he reflects on other things, he carries with him the heartfelt wish of hundreds of friends for health, wealth and prosperity. David Overmeyer. For twenty-live yea's, in season and out of' season, the writer hus had profutid and deep regard for this brilliant man.

His political, his business career, his absolute hatred of sham, su.d Ins utspokeness! made of him a man wh die people of Kansas, regardless of pirty, admired, aud in his on party loved and listened to. The time serving politicians feared him, it is true. Because with one sentence, he would tear their house of cards to pieces. He stood for the right, from his liberal view, all his life. His death is a loss to Kansas and to the nation For, men, stalwart men, like him are scarce.

i The County Fair. The people of the counties hold one each vear in Coffey, in Greenwood, in Osage, in Morris counties. Wny not iu Lyon. 20,000 people waut it. The city of Emporia and all the live, husiling smaller cities of the couuty reah.a the advantage that a gathering together of the people, products and neighborhoods at one central point, and for the purpose of betterment of the county as a whole, could not but result to the mutual advantage of each.

When you think of the rank of Lyon counry among its sister counties in the state, of its varied and1 magniticent farm products and then think that there is no way provided as yet, for their exploitation it isn't any wonder aery is going fx Dollars to doughnuts he send -i I you here. Because we cary the I most complete line of lumber in 1 town. Give us a trial next time. I EMPORIA LUMBER GOAL CO. Emutsion are Scoff's Emul rich, red blood; she is energetic.

The reason is that at a period when a girl's digestion is weak, Scoff's Emulsion provides her with powerful nourishment in easily digested form. W. JJ, WiKLANi). WIELAND Farmsi Ranches and City Property Bought and Sold, A gonenil exchange business. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance at Lowes Rates.

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