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Minneapolis Better Way from Minneapolis, Kansas • 8

Minneapolis Better Way from Minneapolis, Kansas • 8

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THE MINNEAPOLIS BETTER WAY in Ul ill ii inn It 1 hi V.ll i dj id i V-rl i 1 11 Li ii uu Open for usmess in ill with 1 III Stock is located in the east room of the new Odd Fellow building ill Owing to scarcity of labor in garment factories, our stock is not all in, but we are showing a nice line of MILLINERY and NOTIONS, and will be pleased to have you come in and see the new styles in FALL and WINTER MILLINERY. 1 i rVu e3 ii "over there" and thought I would not try to take up your space which is filled with more valuable matter than I can hope to write. Finally, I thot I would send you a line and tell you of some of the boys I have seen here. Not long since, I visited the Great From Mrs. Thirza A.

Blades Chicago, Illinois, September 16, 1918. Dear Better Way: For several months I have been reading in the Better Way, in Chicago, with increasing interest, the letters from the boys Our Hobby gained a lot in weight and was looking fine and liking the service. He is in the Coast Guard. The great War Exposition has just closed, where they had, it is said, a very correct representation of the real warfare. Anyway, a good many were dressed to represent the Germans.

They had trenches just like the real thing, machine guns, the British tank batallions, Red Cross huts in short, all that pertains to real warfare except the carnage. The war exhibits from the different Lakes, where there are something over throughout the county and her departure will leave many friends to mourn her loss. Those of her family who are left to mourn her departure are, her husband, John Robinson, two daughters, Sarah Elizabeth and Lydia Bell; three sons, George Leonard, Edgar William and Roscoe John. She also leaves two sisters and one brother. Funeral services were held at the M.

E. church in charge of Rev. W. H. Zook.

The Rebekahs and Rev. Hood assisted in the service. The remains were laid to rest in the Tesaott Cemetery, September 9, 1918. ID UUVU forty thousand Jackies in training. They went thru all the maneuvers and it was fine to see such a body of men, all moving as one man, so perfectly Superstitious Ask to see samples of our busi-nesscards, visiting cards, weddina have they been drilled.

Sousa's band 1 ii. i 1 1 Lottie McHenry, now Mrs. Wm. Barker, and Uncle Hugh McHenry, the doctor's brother, which she did up to 1910, when she went on to Washington, where in 1917 she was married to Mr. Wheatley.

Mrs. Wheatley was a member of the Christian church, and tho a mute from childhood, her life and deeds bear witness that her's was one of the great souls that abide for a time here on All that a loving husband and kind hearts could do to save her life was but to no avail. As relatives and as those that knew and loved her, we all mourn, L. L. H.

Bright be the peace of thy soul! No lovlier spirit than thine E'er burst from its mortal control, In the orbs of the blessed to shine. The Sunday school of the M. E. church enjoyed a picnic in Frank Pierce's grove last Friday afternoon. There was a good attendance, and plenty of fried chicken for all.

After supper a marshmallow toast was held. many beautiful pai'ks and fine trans-pportation, it is a good place to be, but a Kansan yearns for the broad spaces and the friendly ways of the West. THIRZA A. BLADES. Obituary Ellen Salome Eaton was born in New Baltimore, Macomb county, September 28th, 1854.

She passed out of this life September 7th, 1918, at the age of sixty-three years, eleven months and ten days. She came to Kansas in 187f and on January 24, 1877, she was united in marriage to Mr. John Robinson. To this union were boro two daughters and three sons. Mrs.

Robinson was a member of Tcscott Ruth Rebekah Lodge, No. 297, and was a faithful worker in that order. She was raised in a christian home, her father being the founder of the first Sunday school at Glendale. She was a regular attendant at church services and took an active part in the Sunday school class of which she was a member. Mrs.

Robinson was well known piayeu; uie uuya wniie mey marcnea sang the popular war songs with vim and enthusiasm. They all looked muscular, neat and happy. Thru the courtesy of Harry Geisen, who is in training, we were shown thru the mess rooms and kitchens, where everything was spick and span, a model of cleanliness, and the quality and abundance of food, was astonish 1 Do You Believe In Signs 0 If you do you are a judicious advertiser and a good business man. Judicious advertising Always' Pays and especially when you advertise in a paper that is read by everybody in its territory. and other invitations, pamphlets folders, letter heads statements, shipping tags, envelopes, constantly carried in stock for your accommodation.

Get our' figures on that printing you have been thinking of. New Type, Latest Style Faces warring nations were many and varied. The crowd was so dense that one could not examine them closely, but it was all very interesting. There were eighteen airplanes, nine of which were in the air at once. We can see them over the city almost any day.

The hydroplanes are very interesting also. There have been many celebrities here this summer in the interests of the War Loans, the Red Cross drives, the Salvation Army, and the many calls for help in the prosecution of the world's war. Chicago has been delightfully cool all summer, and with the lakes, the Mrs. LeRoy Wheatley Mrs. LeRoy Wheatley of Dayton, died September 7, 1918, from injuries received while trying to hold an unmanagable horse.

She was sixty-nine years and nine months old. Mrs. Wheatley was better known in this community as Miss Eliza Mc-Henry "Aunt Eliza" her many friends called her. Eliza McHenry was born at Sparta, Illinois, and came to Minneapolis in 1887 to make her home with Dr. McHenry, her bi-other, and afterward with his daughter, Miss ing and appetizing.

Uncle Sam is certainly feeding his boys well. There were a dozen or so large kettles, holding eighty gallons, in which they do the cooking. And the bread! The piles of white loaves would make Your mouth water for some of it. Speaking of Harry Geisen; he had This newspaper readies the eye of everybody who might be a possible buyer in uus secuon. 'm Mpf'lr II i Pin smm.

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