The Merchants' Journal from Webster, Kansas • 3

WEBSTER' SOCIETIES. G. A. R. No 389 meet second fourth fridays at 2 p.

and All Comrades are cordially invited to meet with us. 0. W. Patten. Com.

HI. Legrand. Adjt. S. V.

Camp No 028 meet first and third Saturdays at 7 p.m. Brothers of the order are requested to meet with us. J. HI. Smith, first Lieut.

W. R. C. No 166 meet sec ond and fourth Fridays at 3- p. m.

Theresa. Smith. Pres. Sunday Schools; Methodist, 10 A. Baptist 3 P.

N. Methodist Preaching every 2d 4th Sunday at 11 A.M. J. H. Hoff.

Pastor Baptist Preaching the first Sunday of each month. D. P. Crandal. Pastor.

MACHINE 4 Are BRAY AND GO'S Local and Miscellaneous. It does not seem like there is so very much of a choice between a position as a Congressman and a preacher for when Harry Pestana failed to the election of congress he went to preaching for the Baptist: The next state encampment of the G. A. R. will be held in Beloit next year.

Beloit is a good town but this is a mighty big bite for a town of her dimensions to bite off at once. We have heard some pitiful tales about aid in the west but the editor of the Record should have the button for his aid yarn. This is his statement: A Graham county aid applicant aplied for clothing for "a 2 year old, yearling and one unborned. A correspondent makes quite a blunder in the Webster Items of last week, in the statement that the majority of the people in thie town and vicinity recieved a share of the aid, either in coal, clothing or food. After looking the matter up we find that it should have read about one tenth instead of a majority.

Fri Governor Morill made the dif. ferent appointments for Judges for the appelate court and we will be under the jurisdiction of a democrat judge in this division. Bert winters, the foreman of the Jackson Bro's Mills, at Stockton, was tranacting business in our city Monday and says the water is too low to run the mill. Last Friday nearly two hundred persons either lost their lives or was badly wounded while going down a steep incline in Mexico. The engineer had failed to check the speed of his train until it got 80 great that it was beyond his control and while the train was making a curve the engine and three coaches went over a precipice.

Monday of this week the U.S. lost more of her wealth but took anonther blather-skite to feed; called a Count. The people at large will not particularly miss Miss Gould but they are not hankering for that kind of blooded stock. The owners of the Elbe are trying to recover the mails that was in it when it went down, it is only 225 feet under the water. The mails are estimated to be worth $90,000,00 The three divers are to recieve $2,500, each if they rescue the mails.

I have a first class hay baler and will bale hay for eighty cents per ton furnished. Call on me at the baler or addess me at Webster. G. W. Geer George Irwin, the hustling far mer of Belmont township starte his plows to day..