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VOL I. HAVILAND; KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1899. NO. 52. INDEPENDENT When in at.

A Happy Ray Beals is visiting his uncle, Stacy Bevans. Mr. Burke is visiting his daughter Mrs. King Clements, Gurney Cox and wife, of are visiting relatives here. Having got moved into his new building Charlie Taylor will be glad to greet old and new friends.

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Lawrence at the Central hotel. S. D. Robinett has sold his mules to Mr. Allen.

Manvel Davis, John Walton and Evert Lawrence gave a magic iantei and magic box show in the office of the Central hotel Christmas evening. It was a good show for amatures. Rev. I. A.

Woodard and R. D. Wood- i ward were over from Haviland Tues day. Bert Cooke, of Haviland, spent Christmas evening with friends here. J.

J. Wilson will soon have his business house inclosed. Geo. P. Brown was on the sick list Christmas Harry Burnett is spending the holi days with the home folks.

O. J. Greenleaf started for Kansas City Tuesday evening. John Porter is building a shed. Will Wheeler is his boss carpenter.

Harvey Brown, of California, is visiting at J. M. Caplinger's. Frank Gibson traded horses last week. J.

O. Borland' and wife and Mrs. Charley Cooper dined at Lee Kenyon's Thursday. Mrs. Cooper is visiting at Mr.

Dorland's. John and Arthur Winsor are putting up a windmill for Mr. Haladay this week. Also putting in a tubular well. There was a big crowd at the Christmas tree, Saturday at the U.

B. church Excerpts From The Pratt Union Don't forget that the chicken show will be held January 17-20. The attorney '8 fees' in the case of Ellis vs. Pratt county were $135 to the county. Homer Hanne has been promoted to fireman and called to Herington, to take a run south.

R. D. Lamoreaux, of St John, visited his old friend, Postal Clerk L. L. Walker, Christmas.

Postal Clerk Jesse Bryant came in from Kansas City, Saturday to visit friends and returned Wednesday. He started into the service seven months ago the 18 man, and now he is up to the fourth place, and 'still climb ing. He is all right. A family from Oklahoma, was in town Tuesday with a wee mite of a baby boy that excited a great deal of curiosity. The little fellow weighed at birth If pounds and now at the age of four weeks weighs Si pounds.

The boys say its wrists were not larger than the little finger of a man and they use matches to represent the size of its fingers. The family is moving near Cullison. SO YEARS' EXPERIENCE Tram Marks desmns 'rtf Copyrights 4o. Anyone Mndlnf tkaton and dMaiptlon nniffki aanrtaln nur onlnlon fraa whathar mar an Invantion la probablr paUntabia. Communis tloat fillet! roonfldantlal.

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ROE PRATT, KANSAS. Go to Lee' Kenyon for house plants. Do not overlook sending in your subscription. Miss Zora Woodward is visiting Miss Janie Noble in Hutchinson. Monday, Jan.

8, 1900, is Dentist Simpson's day at Greensburg. For all kinds of sewing machine needles call at The Peoples Store. Mrs. Rich is enjoying a visit from two brothers of Dorrance, Kansas. Remember Lee Kenyon is the only man in Kiowa county to buy Ideal windmills from.

The Junior entertainment Thursday evening was well attended and the pro gram was good and well rendered. The regular January meeting of the county commissioners will convene on Monday, New Years day. Boiled linseed oil per gallon 65 cts. Ideal windmill oil per gallon 60 cents; will not freeze; just the thing for win ter use; for sale by Lee Kenyon. The Christmas entertainment at the Eaton school house Saturday evening was well attended and many childish hearts were gladdened by the gifts of good St.

Nick. The exercises at the Academy Monday evening were' interesting, The tree looked very pretty, and all the little hearts were gladdened with a gift of candy. We have rented the front room over Mr. Smyer's store and, after Jan. 4, will occupy same with this paper, and snail be pleased to have our friends call and see us.

Don't forget to report the news. It is recorded of Christ and his disciples that at a certain season "they bad no leisure so much as to eat" Of many modern disciples it may be said that on Thanksgiving day and Christmas, eating and preparing to eat take so much time that they have no leisure for anything else. Unto us, even unto us, in this far-off ape and this far-away land, is born a Savior. He is Christ the Lord. The birth of Christ is not a mere fact of ancient sacred history, but a truth of today, with a present and personal benediction for each heart that opens itself to welcome his coming.

Selected, Nixon Rich, has bought the Wheat 80, also the 80 across the road, known as the Ballard land. At the beginning of the present quarter of the Sunday-school, the superintendent of the Juvenile department offered a prize to all who were neither absent nor tardy till Christmas Ten little ones won, the prize, lovely souvenir Booklets. -Editor Reece of the Kiowa County Independent, is moving his paper from Haviland Greensburg and it will be come a permanent business fixture in that This office has been doing the press work for Mr. Reece for the past two years, but hereafter he will do all the work at his office in Greens From our business relations with him we feel sure that he will succeed and wish him unbounded prosper ity. Pratt Union.

There is some prospect of Greens burg having a good bank, if the county commissioners don't knock the thing in the head by demanding an exorbitant rent for the old bank room. A good bank would bring more business and money to the county than anything else. What are a few dollars, in the way of rent, compared to the benefit it would bring to the people of the county? If the present board of commissioners throw any obstacles in the way of a bank coming here, the people will hold them responsible for it. A prominent republican was heard to say the other day in Greensburg that unless they got rid of Jim Parcel in some way they could not elect a man on the republican ticket next fall. Since Parcel was appointed postmaster the republicans have lost some of the best offices in the county, and last fall they lost county clerk, sheriff and county commissioner.

One year ago he was the cause of Long running 40 votes behind Governor Stanley. But when the board of county commission ers changes and there is no more county printing in sight, Parcel will claim he never was a republican at ail. And that will be the truth, too. The name of Hon. J.

W. Davis is frequently mentioned in connection with the judgship in this district. We don't know whether he is a candi date or not. The members of the bar have indorsed him for the position, and he has received many fine indorsements from lawyers and business men elsewhere. He is justly ranked everywhere as a lawyer of very fine ability.

The people of this country appreciate him as a man and a lawyer, and have repeatedly elected him to positions of honor, and if he should be a candidate for Judge, he would have the support of everybody irjhe county whose sup port is worth having. This issue of the Independent closes its first year, and also completes the time we agreed to publish it in Haviland. In deciding to move the paper to we do so in order to be able to make the paper more interesting and profitable to our readers. We have the warmest feeling for those who supported us during the year, and especially those of Haviland. We have formed friendships here that we hope may never be broken.

That we have failed to please everybody is the repetition of a fact that has been the experience of, (we feel safe in saying), every person who has edited a paper for the same length of time. People differ in their ideas and views and hence what pleases some is likely to displease others. Attempting to please all would result in not pleasing any. Our course has been guided by conscientious convictions of. right and justice.

The results have proven that we were right. We will ever feel grateful to the good people of Havi land for their kindness and hospitality during our stay mong them. A GOOD INVESTMENT. "Knowledge is power" according to the old addage, but It is also said that a man never knows a thing until he can tell it, and he who can express his knowledge in language more terse, vigorous and appropriate than others becomes a leader of men. In gaining this power of expression as well as knowledge itself there is no aid so helpful, from which so much may be nbtained, and for so small an outlay as Webster's International Dictionary.

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I. Lawrence will pay the highest market price for chickens. Vaneless Ideal junior windmills can be bought of Lee Kenyon. Mr. Stonestreet, of Cullison, was here Tuesday, on a business mission.

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Please send us any item of news that may come to your notice. We appreciate all such favors. Rev. Peter Mawdsley, of Greens-burg, will commence a series of meetings at Wellsford one week from next Sunday. Everett and Orville Woodward, Marvin Whitlow and Wallace Kemp are visiting friends in Wichita during holidays.

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wv prepared to perform all kinds of dental operations. While in Greensburg Christmas we greatly enjoyed a turkey dinner at J. J. Wilson's. Mrs.

W. knows how to prepare a splendid dinner. James Braden, of Richfield, arrived here for a visit with his uncle W. J. Kessinger, of Union township.

He may spend the balance of the winter here. Miss Irena Woody left for her home in Butler county, Sunday morning. She was accompanied by DeWitt Burns who will spend some time vlvl.ing friends there. To stand up in a community and abuse its meanness or its irreligion; to arraign some sinner and upbraid his drunkenness or his licentiousness, that is so easy. But to take the latent generosity or the half-concious religion of a community and educate it and encourage it, to take the remnants and the seeds of good which are in the poor broken, besotted life of the wretched libertine or drunkard, and rebuild them into a new career, that is so hard! The one needs only hatred and vehe- lice; the other needs love and Intel- anna and natlannA and knna.

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