The Elsmore News from Elsmore, Kansas • 1

Volume I ELSMORE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28,1913 Number 18 The State Bank Elsmore ELSMORE, KANSAS Capital and Surplus Harness, Implements, Buggies, Wagons, Pumps Wind Mills, Gas Engines, Furniture, Carpets Lap Robes, Horse Blankets, Etc, Come in Krokstrom Brothers Real estate loans and insurance. ARE GUARANTEED Will it rain seven Sundays? Pete Danielson was a Moran visitor Monday. "Mrs. Isaac Martin returned Monday from Iola. The concrete gang and Katy cars pulled out Saturday night.

Mattson Daniels shipped a car load of hogs Monday to K. C. For Sale Rhode Island Red Eggs for hatching, 2c each. Ben j. Ludlum.

Mrs. Annie vbles left Friday for a week's visit with relative at Noble and Turner, Mo. When we first hit town the great "I AM" was on the warpath. He's there yet, even after devouring three or four good citizens. J.

Moody and Ed RalstonD. R. Goyette, Frank Pittser, Charles Braden, Col. C. C.

West, Roy Sylvester and C. O. Pearson attended Masonic meeting at the burg Thursday night. The Variety Store has added the mail-order feature, to supply you with all goods not carried in stock. You select the articles from the catalogue without additional cost, duplicating all mail-order prices, and giving you the penefit of the freight and stamps and risks.

Adv. Tell us the news. The mutual is coming. J. O.

Nyman was up from the burg Saturday. Miss Hazel Ericson visited over Sunday at the burg. For SaleCheap Good Hedge Posts Aug.Anderson,Savonburg,Katy phone No, it's no disgrace to be flannel-mouthed. The disgrace is in the use of same. Miss Maud Price was down from Moran Sunday and spent the day with home folks.

A little snow, a little sleet, a line hail, plenty of rain, and how the wind did blow, during the weeknast. After this storm, snmmer and hot weather will be with us. Get your Summer Underwear at the Variety Store. A big line to select from. Adv The Mark Twain lecture Saturday night at the M.

E. church by Edward Dau, of Wichita, was quite well attended and enjoyed by most of the audience. Wonderful the operation performed last week at a K. C. hospital when a surgeon took off a girl's finger and grafted it to her face for a nose which had been lost, and the finger is growing right to the spot.

Don't vote both tickets, Fashion hegets a lpt of new wrinkles Curiosity is also a busy matrimonial agent. All kinds of Garden'-eeds at Tippie's. Adv. Hope deferred has given many a man cold feet. Wm.

Higinbotham Was a Moran visitor Saturday. Death is the nurse who will one day put us to sleep. A full carload of Shorts and Bran at the Elevator. Dave Goyette was over to the PLEASE On and after April 1st, 10 per cent will be added on all Charge Accounts 30 days' old. If you have an account with us, please call and settle before first of month.

Will take good notes at 8 per cent: Now this is the rate of interest we have to pay to your accounts and we can't see anything wrong with demanding a settlement on the above basis. We don't expect anyone to get cold feet and quit trading with us. In fact, have talked with with some of our best customers and they say "that's the thing to do." We thank you for your patronage in the past and hope to save you some money on your purchases fn the future. -SOME PRICES FOR Interest paid on time deposits. OUR DEPOSITS M.

E. church Sunday a. rru All fool's day will soon be here. Take your Cream to Fred Tippie. Adv.

Come to the Elevator for Shorts and Bran. Adv. Will Harmon made his irregular visit Sunday to Iola. Members of the cornet band have a card up their sleeve. Bring us your Poultry, Butter and Eggs.

Tippie's Adv. Mrs. Jas. Holt came in Monday for a visit with relatives. O.

C. Rucker transacted business Tuesday at the county seat. Miss Jennie Ray spent the week end with her parents at Iola. Miss Pearl Jordan was here from the burg Sunday visiting friends. Tippie's have just received their spring shipments of Hats.

Adv. Elmer Stowell was down to the burg Friday night visiting his best friend. Miss Leonna Johnson, of Lincoln, arrived Sunday for a visit with relatives. Mrs. Chas.

Cave returned to Humboldt Wednesday after a visit here with relatives. Mrs. Wm. Watson spent the latter part of the week with her sick mother near Moran. Tornadoes in the south and north have killed and wounded many peo ple during the past few days.

Wm. Elliott, of Elsmore, who has been here on business, went to Pittsburg Monday afternoon. Register. Prof. Larson was over to Bronson the latter part of the week and Friday night acted as a judge in a debate between the Kincaid and Bronson schools.

Mrs. Walter Elliott returned to her home in Pittsburg Thursday, after a few days' visit with her son and daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Loyell and Willie Elliott. Did you notice that smile on Fred Krokstrom's face? Well, last Thursday, he became the father of a new son. Wife and baby are getting along fine and papa's smile is hooked over hoth ears.

Wm. Higinbotham has quit the section, giving as the reason, "too fat for the job." A short time ago Bill Haws threw up his job and is now climbing telephone poles with the alacrity of a monkey going up a tree after black or red haws. Saturday afternoon Master Willis Pittser was given a surprise by his playmates, it being his 8th birthday. Refreshments were served and a nice time is reported. Those present were Emerson and'-Eunice Higinbotham, Ruby and Mildred Nelson, Teddy Ellis, Opal Sigler, Lillian and Marion Decker, Harold Allen, Edward Campbell, Claronce French, Burnice Pittser ay aiio 9atur Dust off your straw hat.

Sympathy, like advice, costs nothing Get your Seed Potatoes at Tippie's. Adv. The dregs of folly often act medicinally. Geo. Alderman was an Iola visitor Golden Donoho was an Iola visisor Saturday.

Reputations are made and lost by publicity. Come to the Elevator for Shorts and Bran. Adv. Always pay debts and compliments and yon will succeed. An Easter program was rendered at the E.

E. church Sunday. The people we envy always envy some other fellow higher up. Len Herod was here Saturday and Sunday from Erie, visiting friends. Get RED STAR FLOUR and have better bread.

Tippie's. Adv. Miss Artie Boyer returned Friday to LaHarpe after a visit with relatives near town. George Linquist orders the News sent to Edwin, 3725 Michigan K. C.

You bet. Charley and Fred Krokstrom have each received the highest votes on the two different tickets. Joe Roseworm was here over Sunday from Lawrence the guest of Chas. and Ivliss Olive Braclen? Mrs. W.

H. Cramer and children spent Tuesday night with her husband's parents at the burg. The windows of D. H. Sparks' grocery and meat market were neatly and artistically displayed for Easter.

Victor Tremain, wife and mother returned, overland, Thursday from Arlington, and went to Stark to reside. Try a sack of RED STAR Flour and have better bread than you can get from ordinary Flour. Tippie's sell it. Adv. Miss Velma Shelley came down Saturday from Lawrence and spent Easter with the Decker and Braden families, returning Monday to school.

Edward Goyette came down Friday from Lawrence and spent Easter with home folks, returning to school Mon day. D. R. accompanied his brother as far as Iola. Ida Lander, the heaviest woman in thevstate, died Saturday at her home near Beattie.

She was 28, weighed 465 pounds and measured twenty- eight inches across the shoulders. Add Jarnagin will be prepared to do all kinds of Upholstering work during the summer. New buggy and automobile Tops made to order, also the old ones re-Covered out of the latest materials. Adv. A well graded yard or lawn planted with ornamental trees, vines or bright flowers, is one of the most attractive features that can be introduced on a farm and shows that the owner has some taste and pride and thinks life worth living for.

At any rate he is enjoying life and everyone else thinks the same. WW Fidelity or Tyco dj rt OP Flour, per (pUQO Unity or Aurora Flour, per Fancy Shorts, per hundred 2.25 1.35 1.25 Good Shorts, per hundred 2 Lbs. May Fair or American for onlv Chas. Sylvester went Iolo Saturday I pay cash for your Cream. Fred Tippie.

Adv. Feather your nest, but don't rob the other birds. Noble souls wish not to have anything for nothing. Moran wants to try the commission form of government. A full carload of Shorts and Bran at the Elevator.

Adv. Miss Mae Higinbotham spent Sunday with home folks. Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. Oyster Shells for Chickens 75c a hundred at Tippie's. Adv.

Wm. Higinbotham sold his horse Saturday to Geo. Welch, "of -Moran. T. B.

Sherrod, 95, of-LaHarpe, is cutting teeth. He is tyile and. hearty. Mrs. Jess Stowell came Monday from Metz, to visit her brother, Wm.

Head. Men's Hallmark dress Shirts in all the new spring styles are to be seen at Tippie's. Adv. The Humboldt public schools were closed all last week on account of measles among pupils. Regular services will be held Sunday at 11 a.

m. at the M. E. church by Rev. Mahaffee, pastor.

The Mooney Price millinery opening nuay oaluiuay was a grand success, considering the weather Come in and let us fit you up in a new pair of STAR BRAND Shoes. All kinds and sizes at Tippie's. Adv Last week we printed horse and jack "bills for W. T. Campbell and C.

H. Roedel, owners of the best animals in this part of the state. Mrs. Jesse Ford and daughter, Miss Hattie, went to Bronson Thursday and visited until Sunday with Mrs. Ford's daughter, Mrs.

George Howard. Robert Ard, Sleepy Bob, is charged with an attempt to fuse a suffergette candidate with the citizen's ticket of bull moose, at the caucus Tuesday night. Now, who said Bob didn't love the women? Under the new law all barbers must pass examination and have certificates before they can barber in the state must serve a year's apprenticeship. Gov. Hodges has appointed the state board of examiners and they are to appoint the county examiners.

People on the party lines should not be frightened or surprised at the braying of a long-eared animal. He is not trying to protect you from being skinned by the printer. He is simply extending the favor? so that when he collects for a poor and inferior service you'll cough "up without a murmur. The skinning part is his business. Elsmore, Kan.

county seat Wednesday. Mrs. Bert Bennett made a business trip Tuesday to Kimball. Dr. Longenecker made a professional trip Friday to Moran.

Howard Hill was at home over Easter from the K. U. at Lawrence. Miss Burdetta Wood was down from Mildred Saturday and Sunday. A big line of Wheeler Special and Fitz Overalls and Jackets at Tippie's.

Adv. C. A. King was here Tuesday from K. C.

visiting his sister, Mrs. Dr. Longenecker. C. M.

Ard sends the News for a year to F. M.Trammell, St. Idaho. Thanks. Braden hall was enjoyable treat for the young; folks.

Uncle Sam is to print smaller parr i ti i i cei post sramps, merely Claiming io save annuallv $50,000. The jurors have been called to meet Monday at the county seat to consider a few remaining cases. A. P. Westine received a kick from a horse last week, but the horse didn't take time to translate Andy's remark.

If people favored the Katy phone company as liberal as the chief push has favored the newspaper, he'd have to hike out of town. Mrs. Carmichael, mother of Miss Madge, teacher in the public schools, came down Saturday from Colony and visited over Sunday with her daughter. Miss Olive Braden was home from the K. U.

at Lawrence spending her Easter and three other days with her folks and friends. Tuesday she returned to school. E. H. Leitzbach, at Humboldt, last week purchased 275 acres of land from the Humbold Portland cement company, paying $12,000 for same, Mr.

Leitxbach is a son-in-law of D. Cox of this city. A young man here in Elsmore claims to have discovered a substance which is 300 times sweeter than sugar. The substance is supposed to be about 18 years old, and is quite plentiful in this community. Real estate transfers: Ira Beamaij to M.

Beaman, 40 acres 3 miles northeast, $1,300. Wm. J- Pearsons et al to A. C. Parsons, Q.

C. deed to 317.87 acres 4 s. e. and 40 aces 2 miles southeast, $1. Mary Nelson and husband to J.

E. and S.J. Elliott 5 mines southwest, $2,400. Bring us your produce. As has always been our custom, will pay you in cash for anything we buy of you.

TAKE 4 Cans only Iowa Corn 25c 25c 10c 55c 55c 4 Lbs. 60-70 California Prunes for California Peaches, per pound 2 Lbs. Pea Berry Coffee for only Beauty Coffee Ludvig Hammerquist returned last Thursday from Sweden, where he has been visiting his old home for the past ten months. Henry Palm, a nephew, accompanied him from Boston, and may make his home here. Miss Bonnie Lovell will not return to college at Lindsborg.

Having graduated on the piano under one of the finest instructors in the state, she will devote her time to teaching piano pupils; As an accomplised pianist Miss Bonnie has few equals in the county. Register: C. W. Bacon came up from Elsmore Friday to attend the Crabtree meeting and he was surprised to find the sleet here. Down there rain-fell and just a little sleet.

Mr. Bacon planted oats and flax and potatoes Wednesday, and he kept one eye on that storm, but he anticipates no trouble now. A Pleasant Hilyourg man recently took dinner at a K. C. restaurant and with his cup of coffee the waitress brought a tiny pitcher filled with; cream.

In a jocular manner the young fellow ask her if that was the milk her cow gave. The answer was prompt: "Yes, buf if she was as fresh The Mills guarantee Fidelity and Tyco lour to be as good as best and we are' here to make that guarantee good. Respectfully, estino Real Estate, Loans, Insurance Steamship Tickets Foreign Exchange We handle Farms, Ranches, City Property and Merchandise Stocks. We Sell Trade and Exchange. If you have a farm or property of any kind to sell we can help you, and do it quickly.

List your property with us for quick action. We represent some of the best loan and insurance companies in the country. Can secure a loan for you on short notice, or write you safe Insurance for Fire, Lightning or Tornado. We will soon begin to bring Eastern people here to Ipcate so list your property now if you want a quick sale. Come and see us at once.

When the mutual is installed you pay for what you get. If you don't get service, you pay nothing. And good service will then cost you about half what poor service is now costing you. Curtis Samuel wishes us to express thanks for him to the generous, kind-hearted patrons on his route, who Saturday morning, tendered him an Easter egg shower. Curtis is surely more than pleased with the innovation.

Bytheway the printer is also thankful for two egg showers just before Easter. No, not trom central. The Inman Review is of the opinion that it doesn't pay to try to "Jew" a merchant down on his prices, and tells this story of a Newton man who has that habit. A farmer was in the store when the man who was always trying I to beat the merchants down came in and wanted to buy a saw. The mer-1 chant priced the saw at $2.25, but the I Newton man jewed until he got it for $1.75.

As he was gone the farmer said: "Well, I never ask a man to cut the price, but won't you treat me as well as you did him?" "Yes," said the merchant, "and better, too, for the real price of these saws is only $1.50, but we are all on to that fellow 1 and he pny for his smartness." EBraden'sharmacy EssssaEgsssssa DEALERS IN 'mmzzsszsi Drugs, Patent Medicine, Well Paper, Paints, Oils, Jewelry, Books, Station ery, Drug Sundries Anything You Went We are receiving new stock daily and are bene? equipped than ever to furnish you the exact "material you want for repairing old buildings or building new ones. Have a large stock of Portland Cement, Sand and Chats to furnish your wants jete work. Remember, our prices are always right (We sell quality and at the right price. Burgner-Bowman Lumber Co. W.

H. CRAMER, Manager..