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The Osawatomie Journal. By J. Fred Whiting. OSAWATOMIE, MIAMI COUNTY KANSAS, Friday Jan. 8, 1897.

Vol 1. No. 35 Darby feeds the people at Ottawa. Try one of Sellers' fifteen cent dinners. Heating stoves at half value at Ludington's.

The snow brought out several sleighs the first of the week. Sellers puts up a splendid dinner for fifteen cents. Try one. Ludington's for new and 2nd cook and heating stoves. Cheapest place on earth to buy heating stoves i is at Ludington's.

The largest assortment of heating stoves in the county at Ludington's. William Mills spent $20,000 last year in laying gas pipes and drilling new gas wells. Cheaper than you can afford to cook. What? One of Sellers' good fifteen cent dinners. Three unfurnished rooms for rent for light housekeeping.

Information at JOURNAL office. Several of the boys had "Cuba fever" New Year's eve, but are all right again now next time. Mrs. A. Gove will have al millinery store in the room now occupied by the Enterprise, the first of next month.

The JOURNAL free from now until May 15. If you can't read this ask a friend to read it to you, as it is important. Augusta Journal: Osawatomie has eighteen secret societies. Verily, that town is a choice location for the insane. Go to Ludington's for furniture, stoves, stove pipe, stove repairs, hardware, tin ware and all other kinds of goods.

State Treasurer-elect Hefflebower and family passed through town Wednesday, en route to their new home in the state capital. "Tink" Walls (colored) lost a baby, five weeks old, yesterday morning. Funeral was held in the afternoon and the remains buried in the cemetery here. Miss Hattie Marks, aged 24, died of consumption last Friday night. Funeral Saturday afternoon.

The remains were interred in the Osawatomie cemetery. The infant son, aged one year, of Mr. and Mrs. John Graft, died Sunday. Funeral Monday afternoon from the residence of J.

D. Ward. Remains interred here. The little squib about the writer smoking, in last issue, has caused a good lady friend to remark that if we continue to smoke until we die, we may not stop then. This no joke.

Rev. J. A. Iler requests us to state that he is not engaged as regular pastor of the Baptist church, but only a supply until the church decides upon some one. This to correct a wrong impression.

T. L. Youmans of the postoffice news stand, is an authorized agent for the JOURNAL. The next time you go after your mail hand him your name with or without $1.25 and we will do the rest. Reynolds and Kelly, our local poultry fanciers, captured the bulk of the prizes at the Ottawa poultry show some weeks ago, and their birds are on exhibition at Paola this week.

We predict that they will be leaders. Last week we forgot to tell our readers not to forget to write it "'97," and so we do so now. We cannot pass this time-honored newspaper custom and we hope our readers will excuse the oversight as we have made it right now. Miss Sadie Mittong received the gold watch given by the Curtis Comedy Co. to the most popular young lady Saturday evening at the opera house.

Miss Lottie Hildebrandt was close second and the contest was exciting. The votes stood 584 to 577 in favor of Miss Mittong. Eight years until another leap year -but that cuts no ice with the girls. The modern American girl don't need leap year to assist her to matrimony. She gets him to tell what kind of a house he likes best and -she likes the same kind.

Next she talks of the kind of a house they will have and before he knows it he is an engaged man with the date set for the wedding and all without a question being popped or 2 knee bended. The desirable young man that can successfully ward off this sort of thing is a hun. The Spot-Cash Grocery is now nicely settled in the new brick block and everything looks as neat and Orderly as a girl with a new calico dress. Mr. Hoober has built up a splendid trade since coming to this place and we wish the firm the success their enterprise deserves.

John Gill's new billiard hall is in charge of L. C. Willott and seems to be having a good patronage. There are no curtains at the window, no partition in the back part and no visible place where "hot might be concealed except in the stove, therefore we think we are reasonably safe in saying that it is no joint. Monday afternoon as W.

H. Lasher was leaving the house to do some work about the stable, he slipped on the ice and fell, breaking his left leg between the knee and hip. Mr. Lasher is sixtynine years of age and for nearly four years has been in poor health. Dr.

Craig is attending the patient and all that medical skill can suggest will be done for him. The JOURNAL hopes for his ultimate recovery. The committee that was appointed to distribute the articles contributed to the charity barrels will meet at the JOURNAL office next Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and all that are interested in a charitable movement are requested to meet with them and assist in forming a society to perpetuate the good work already begun. Let every lady in the city, who can do so attend as your assistance and co-operation is needed. If deemed advisable a sewing circle will be formed and plans discussed for relieving the distress of our worthy poor people.

Applicants for clothing or assistance may also report to the committee at this time and make known their wants. Ministers of the city please announce this from your pulpits Sunday morning and evening. THIS MENS YOU. Are You Lazy, Negligent, Heartless or Only Thoughtless? What did you bring to the charity barrels? You thought of several things about the house that you would take, but put it off until you forgot about it, didn't you? Well, this article is intended to remind you of it and urge that you hunt the house over and donate any and all articles of clothing that you have cast aside or can spare. Will you do it today? The articles may be taken to any of the newspaper offices where they will be turned over to the committee who will distribute them among the poor.

Don't throw anything away because it is worn or soiled. They can all be patched, mended and washed. Your name does not appear in the transaction but you get the proper credit by the recording angel in the big book. The articles already contributed are now keeping worthy people warm, but the cold weather has brought numerour applicants, shivering with the cold, and with tales of suffering at home, who are turned away emptyhanded while wagon loads of useful clothing are laying around in closets, cubby holes, which will never be used again by the owners. A wrong impression has in some way gained circulation to the effect that the charity barrels were to be discontinued after Christmas.

This is a mistake. They will continue to receive contributions all winter and their capacity is limitless. A case is reported to the committee of a poor family with eight children who have not enough to keep them warm even in the house. Aid is promised them tomorrow and the committee has numerous other places to place articles to good advantage. They are depending on the generosity of our people.

Will you respond? Will you do your duty? Joe Johnson's baby is quite sick. Ed Eckart's baby has been quite sick but is improving. The ice broke the electric wires on street circuit Saturday night and the street lights took a vacation. Wednesday evening was the regular meeting night of the city council, but as only Councilmen Lenhart and Hirton materialized no business was transacted. No quarum.

The absent councilmen will have their salary la year) docked if this occurs again. 1 Osawatomie's Opportunity, 1 The The Goods The Burning Question just now is, "Where can I get the most for my money?" Take a walk through our store, and the problem is solved- give more sterling worth to the cent than any store in this section of the country. These are strong words, but those dealing with us know of their great truth. OSAWATOMIE, KAS. The The Largest Smallest Values Prices Let's Swap.

If you are on a dicker, come in and see us (or write) about a quarter section of land in Marion county. Will figure close on a cash basis or give you a good trade for stock of clean merchandise or a good printing office. Call at this office or address J. Fred Whiting, Osawatomie, Kansas. Perpetual Motion at Last.

An enterprising Kansas firm will establish 1,000 black cats and 5,000 rats and use to feed the cats, on a quarter section of land. It is estimated that the cats will increase 15,000 in two years. The black cat skins are worth $1 each. The rats will multiply five times as fast as the cats. The rats will be used to feed the cats and the skinned cats to feed the rats.

New Year's Eve. As mentioned in last week's JOURNAL a "watch party" was given at the home of the Misses Hunt, but at that time we were unable to give the names of those present, who were: Misses Sadie Mann, Cora Ringer, May Dolphin, Jessie Thayer, Allie Thompson, Nellie White, Edith Shields, Alceste Stanley, Sadie Hunt, Stella Hunt and Miss Smith and Miss Ritchie; Messrs. Walter Wilson, Dr. Payne, Harry Brown, Sumner Thompson, George Chase and Elmer Hunt. That Ghost Story.

The Globe's ghost story has brought a howl from Garnett. The Journal of that place says the house has been occupied by Charlie Judy for three years and any old ghost has never showed itself in the neighborhood. The owner of the land, Charlie's father, has owned it for twenty years and with good reason is annoyed by the story as it may depreciate the value of the land and drive prospective tenants away. Charlie Judy married a sister of Harry Voorhees, of this place, and since Christmas has been yardmaster at Paris, Texas, for the 'Frisco and his wife and children have occupied the house alone since that time without a fear of phantom visitors. A shot gun and several dogs are waiting to receive ignorant, superstitious visitors, Johnson, returned to his home at Monett, the last of last week.

Our 3,000 population can be increased to 30,000. Natural Gas, Mineral Paint, Pottery Clay and Fire Clay in Abundance. Humboldt Union: The natural resources of Southeast Kansas are attracting the attention of capitalists in the eastern states and it wont be long until they will be seeking locations for factories of various kinds. It does not seem improbable that in a few, years this section of the state will be the home of thousands of happy, prosperous employes. The towns that work the hardest for these industries will no doubt be the most benefitted, by securing some of them.

Cheap fuel will win the day. It is time Osawatomie got a move on her. Let us do something to let the outside people know we are on earth. We have the advantage of most Kansas towns in having a big income from the railroad each month, besides being surrounded by as fine an agricultural district as the sun shines upon, but we want and need more money from the outside and the way to get it is to make something to sell. Emporia is agitating the question of manufactories for their town and recognizing the fact that cheap fuel is essential, are preparing to prospect for gas.

Osawatomie has many natural advantages over other places, west and south. We are nearer a distributing point, (Kansas City) we have the best of transportation facilities, we have an abundance of material for several staple articles and, most important of all, we have natural gas in abundance. The profit of any maufactured article is the difference between the cost of production and the market price, and if the cost of production is reduced the profits necessarily must be greater. Convince a manufacturer that we can reduce his expenses and his money and business will come. Natural gas will do it.

Within a rifle shot of Osawatomie are extensive beds of fire clay, pottery clay and mineral paint. All of the raw material has been examined by experts and pronounced fine. A pottery, a paint factory or a fire clay works, with the raw material at hand, and fuel free, for the boring, would make the owners wealthy in a short time. The pottery and paint would find a ready market in Kansas City, only fifty miles distant, and the fire clay works would only have one competitor this side of San Francisco, the Denver Fire Clay Company, and all articles manufactured from this very useful product of nature, such as crucibles, scorifiers, muffles, annealing cups, assayers' furnaces, would find a ready sale in the mining districts at good prices and fire brick is in demand the world over. Iola made an effort and got a zinc smelter which gives employment to over two hundred men who distribute from forty to a hundred dollars a month each, among the merchants.

Neodesha made the effort and induced an oil refinery to come her way. Osawatomie has advantages over both and might increase her population from 3,000 to 30,000 as well as not. Fellow citizens is it not worth an effort? When nature has bestowed her treasures upon us with a lavish hand, shall we disregard her generosity, or shall we sit still and just take what comes and continue to see the procession pass us by? As has already been suggested, a commercial club would be a step in the right direction and we heartily seconding the motion for one. Let's get together and stand shoulder to shoulder for the advancement of Osawatomie. Person'ls.

A. F. Stephenson, of Lane, was in town yesterday. Stace Rainey and Arnold Miller were over from Paola Sunday. John Brady took a car of cattle to Kansas City Wednesday night.

Ada Remington returned to Ottawa Monday, to resume her studies. W. H. Hartzell made a business trip to Kansas City the first of the week. Miss Bernice Vreeland returned from a visit at Topeka the first of the week.

N. H. Horn, who has been visiting the family of his brother-in-law J. F. L.

Guthrie was in town the first of the week. He left Wednesday for Chicago. Miss Nettie Shinkle returned Baldwin Tuesday, where she is ing school. Mrs. C.

A. Humphryes and children returned home Tuesday night from their visit in Sedalia. Parker Message: Charles Chestnut of Osawatomie, was in town Wednesday, visiting with his father. Linn County Republic: Miss Minnie Rankin of Osawatomie, visited her parents from Friday to Sunday. Smith D.

Ray is in Kansas City buying new goods for the Cash Store. He will return tonight or tomorrow. Miss Blanche Morton and Bessie Maynard returned to Lawrence Monday, where they are attending school. Miss Josephine Roose returned to her home in 1 Ottawa Monday, after a visit with her sister Mrs. Calderwood.

Mrs. C. Wilson, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. M. J.

Hunt, returned to her home at Eldorado, Saturday. Miss Lila Weber will return today to her school in Lawrence, after spending the holidays with her grandmother Mrs. Roberts. Mrs. L.

C. Lindsay and son Jimmie, returned from Lecompton Monday, where she has been visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. D. Kerns.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mittong, who have been visiting relatives and friends here during the holidays, returned to their home at Muscogee, I. the last of last week. MrS.

Jos. Nicholas who is taking treatment at Kansas City, is improving nicely. She will return to Osawatomie a week from Sunday to stay 9 couple of weeks. R. A.

Ward and John Graft, of Topeka, came in Monday night to attend the funeral of the baby of John Graft, but arrived to late to be present at the services. J. 0. Van Voorhis is visiting his parents at Rich Hill, this week. He is expected home Sunday.

Miss Sadie Mittong has charge of his jewelry store during his absence. Miss Edna Walker, who has been visiting Miss Olive Wright and other friends here, went to Louisburg Monday, where she will visit for a week or SO before returning to her home in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. O.

R. Liddle spent Christmas with relatives and old friends at Holden, Mo. Mr. Liddle returned last week and his wife the first of this. Oscar says Holden is slow and to prove it he says that some of the people there are still talking of Bryan.

Dr. Dunlap wants Dr. Lobban to explain why he didn't return from his Christmas visit Monday as he intended instead of Tuesday. Lobban says it's a chilly day when he gets left, but Monday, (last week) was as warm the smile of an engaged girl. Rantoul cor.

in Ottawa Herald: Fred Conklin, an "old timer" now of Osawatomie, was up smiling upon old friends one day last week. Mr. M'Dowell, wife and daughter Corinne, of Osawatomie, spent Christmas night at the Judson house. Mrs. Kate Furniss of Osawatomie, is visiting her mother Mrs.

Day of ahis place, this week. Ottawa Republican: Mr. C. H. ler of Osawatomie, was in the city today.

Mr. Giller is interested in securbondsmen for Treasurer-elect Hefflebower. Of the one million dollar bond required, one-half was secured in Miami county alone. Mr. Giller reports that advices from Mr.

Tom in Colorado, are to the effect that he has perfectly recovered his health. Topeka Capital (Sunday): Miss Lottie Snyder entertained a few friends very pleasantly at cards for her friend Miss Bernice Vreeland of Osawatomie, New Year's eve. Those present were Miss Bernice Vreeland, Miss Blanche Snyder, Miss Lillian Trapp, Miss Elizabeth Cole and Miss Amy Smith. Mr. Phil Dailey, Mr.

Merle King, Mr, Robert Irwin, Mr. Clarke Dailey, Mr. Robert Rigdon and Mr. George Noble, jr. Garnett Journal: Nelson Spaulding of near Richmond, took the train here Monday for Osawatomie to visit friends.

He is a brother to the man who got beat up by the gang who tried to wreck the Santa Fe train last Thursday. Chauncy Winans and family of Osawatomie, spent holiday week with the Winans family here. Chauncy is one of the popular Missouri Pacific conductors and was taking a week's vacation. Will Cunningham, the competent engineer at the Osawatomie asylum, spent Christmas with his relatives D. Neal of Bush City, took the train at this place for Osawatomie where he expects to find employment on the railroad.

With the Railroaders. Conductor Forrester is laying off this week. Engine 331 will come out of the back shops in a few days. Missouri Pacific coach 294 is in the hands of the painters. Combination car 154 is being rebuilt in the car department.

Engineer Sullivan is taking a few days vacation this week. Master Mechanic Hill was in St. Louis the first of the week. Engineer Gaffney has 911 during Engineer Sullivan's absence. Abe Carter, of Pueblo, is a new boilermaker employed this week.

Business on the road still continues good and all the boys are happy. Engineer Johnson has been laying off for the past week butchering. Herman Shultz, of the car department, is quite sick with pneumonia. Fireman Connighan laid off a few trips this week, but is back at work again. Baggage and mail car 138, Missouri Pacific, is in the paint shop for a new dress.

C. H. Davis, of the paint shop, was off Thursday on account of illness in his family. Fireman Burwell is firing passenger this week while Fireman Lutz is hostling daytime. Engineer Waller is running switch engine at night now, after a few days service on the road.

Foreman Nicholas, of the boilermakers, will spend Sunday in Kansas City visiting his wife. Fireman Greenup is laying off on account of snow. Fireman Rusher has his engine while he is resting. Switchman Nicholson is filling his own place in the yards again, after a visit with home folks at Holden. Missouri Pacific coach 294 has been rebuilt and was turned out of the paint shop ready for service yesterday.

Engine 858 is laid up for a few trips on account of a broken piston. She will soon be ready for Engineer Reed. Engineer 315 has the snow plow. She is ready for business. We thought we'd need her, but we didn't-so glad.

A. M. Clark, of Springfield, has taken Dispatcher Brown's place. Mr. and Mrs.

Clark are boarding at the Dever House. Superintendent Shanklin and Division Superintendent W. L. Dunaway and Chief Clerk Aronson made a tour of inspection south last week. An unknown man threw himself in front of an extra east at Westphalia, Sunday morning, and Was instantly killed.

He was knocked to one side by the pilot and his neck broken. The brakeman whose feelings are so unsusceptible to cold as to allow him to ride atop a car of the east bound freight yesterday morning in his shirt sleeves must have been given the marble heart. The B. L. F.

presented the B. L. E. with a handsome chair for the secretary's desk, Sunday. The B.

L. E's. are proud of it, as they may well be, for it is a dandy; but they resent the insinuation that a11 engineer never stands up. Conductor (pro tem) Cox brought in a light engine from Council Grove Sunday and returned the same night. The west end must agree with Bert as he is getting fat.

Mrs. Cox who has been visiting him for several weeks, returned to their home in Dennison, aS soon as the snow fell. An attempt was made to blow open the safe in the Missouri Pacific depot at Ottawa last week, but they couldn't cutter. The agent has something to Crow over though, for he twisted the bent and battered knob for an hour or so and opened it all right. He was "onto the combination.".