The Elsmore News from Elsmore, Kansas • 1

r7 vor f7C twr Volume I ELSMORE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1913 Number 21 0 The tate Bank of Elsmore Yes, our Grocery Department is chuck full of high grade groceries at the least possible'prices. If we haven't got what you want we will get for you if it is to be had. Look over these prices and then' come in and see for ELSMORE, KANSAS Capital and Surplus yourself: .00 3 pounds BulkTapiaco Jj 3 pounds Nice Large Dried Peaches 100 pounds Crushed Interest paid on time deposits. Real estate loans and insurance. OUR DEPOSITS ARE GUARANTEED 25c 25c 45c 10c 7 pounds Oat Flake for 10-pound Pail White Large Can Choice Tomatoes 75c 25c 25c 30c 3 pounds Lima Beans for Good Coffee, per pound My thing You Want Three 16-oz.

packages QfJ Seeded Raisins Granger Coffee, per pound How's this for spring? Band Show Saturday night. Willie Elliott spent his Sunday at Moran. Miss Florence Price went to Moran Wednesday. Paint has greatly improved the looks of the depot. Elmer Price was up Saturday trading with the merchants.

The Hotel Booher is being painted and papered by Bill Watson. Mattson and Daniels shipped a carload of cattle and hogs Tuesday to K. C. Dave LaRue was here from Moran last week visiting bis sister, Mrs. Frank Pittser.

Mrs. Wra; Taylor, Mrs. Milt Watson and Miss Mandy Mattson were up from the burg Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Cole, who have been visiting the J. P. Setterstrom family, returned to Burdick Wednesday. A real treat. What you have long been expecting Moody Ralston in the role of a married man at the Band Show.

Last week Ralston Son advertised in the News for fifty cases of eggs. Well, they took in 49 cases of eggs and a few extra. Miss Burdetia Wood was home Saturday and Sunday from her Mildred school. She was accompanied by Miss Lena Scheufler, another teacher. Swat the fly.

Picture show. It pays to advertise. Spring fever struck you? Don't miss the movies Thursday nights. E. G.

Palmer, did the plastering at the hotel. Ed Ralston returned Friday from his K. C. trip. Moody will act the married man Saturday night.

Charles Nelson left on Wednesday for Topeka, a business trip. Jesse Ford opened his new meat market to the trade Tuesday. W. H. Cramer visited his parents Thursday afternoon at the burg.

Mrs.Wm. Haws visited her parents at Humboldt the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and several others were up Sunday from the burg.

The Band Entertainment Saturday night promises to be a real first-class entertainment. Linquist Hibbs have just re-roofed their machine shop with a patent rubber roofing. Miss Bessie Ball returned from her home Wednesday in Linn county and will spend the.summer with Mrs. A. J.

Marrs. Add Jarnagin has a new patent Rubber Heel more durable than leather. Don't fail to try them. Strictly up-to-date in style. Adv.

Libby's Hanover brand 1 Afl Kraut, per can 1 Ut FteHf1 BBS32SS We are receiving new stock daily and are better 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 for concrete work. Remember, our prices are always right Burgner-Bowman Lumber Co. W. H.

CRAMER, Manager. Elsmore, Kan. Remember, we handle two of the best brands of flour made, and they are the Red Star and Empress. Don't class these with the ordinary flour, as they are in a class alone. Son.

ii Tippie Bring your children to the picture show. Miss Nellie French was an Iola visitor Tuesday. Garden Seed and Tools at Krokstrom Brothers. Adv. Quite a number from the burg attended Honest Bill's show here.

Mrs. C. W. Nelson visited her parents at Parsons the first half of the week. THE CITY ELECTION IS OVER iULL MOOSE TICKET BADLY BEATEN Have you greened yet? Robert Milner was up Saturday from Stark, on business.

Bill Watson and son were Savonburg yisitors afternoon. Miss Louise Cox went to K. C. Tuesday to visit and attend grand opera. Miss Pearl Jefferis went to Erie Wednesday to visit her sister, Mrs, Frank Donoho.

Aattend the moving picture shows at Braden's hall Thursday nights. It will be improved on each week. Dave Teel moved his barber outfit Monday to the room formerly occupied as a meat market by Jesse Ford. You young people who expect to some day get married should take a lesson from Moody Raiston's experience Saturday night. When Col.

Booher, Nels Pearson and Bob Ard finish at the hotel it will look like a new building. Nels is surely a good carpenter, with an Campaign expenses heavy drew on us for 3c our part. Have got to get busy and try to make this Don't let the fly get the start. Jesse Ford and family moved into the Stanley property Monday. Get busy and get your tickets for the Band Show Saturday night.

They are going fast. George Showalter, father of Mrs. Charles Booher, is doing the painting at the Hotel Booher. Mesdames P. A.

Bragg, E. Elliott, C. Overgard and Miss Alice Roberts were here Thursday from the burg. Ah, Say! Have you seeu our New Buggies yet? Come in and see them. This mud won't last long.

Krokstrom Brothers. Adv. The lumber yard received another carload of lumber Friday anc Manager Cramer believes that they are in shape to supply all their customers' needs. Ed Ralston left Monday to seek his fortune in the wild and wooly West. In other words he started for Montana, where he may decide to locate.

Alf. Quackenbush was here Monday from Erie. Some 30 years ago he and D. Booher were chums. Monday they met for the first time in all those years and recognized each other.

The state penitentiary at Lansing was partly destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. Seven convicts were injured, but none escaped. The fire was started by prisoners and caused a loss of $500,000. The township clerks are getting to be important officials. Under the state fire law the township clerk is to report all fires and will receive 50c for each fire.

He also receives 25c for each birth and each death recorded. This volume of business may compel him to hire a stenographer. Fasten up your chickens. i Dave Goyette returned Wednesday from Topeka and his Rossville visit. Help a good thing along.

the Band Show and have some good laughs. Allen and Charles Nelson did some good work Monday on the streets with a road drag. Andy Ludlum brought over from Bronson Friday the butcher outfit for Mr. Ford which is now in use at his meat market. T.

W. Roberts brought his bucket to the show ground Tuesday, expecting to carry water to the some boy had already gotten the job. Remember our Corn Planter deal. You know we have the best prices on two of the Best Planters. We take pleasure in showing them.

Krokstrom Brothers.Adv. The Roberts piano company, of IolaLjut a piano in at the I-oveH Monday, upon which Miss Bonnie will give lessons and practice when she has time. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kendall came down from Topeka Thursday for a visit with Mr.

and Mrs. T. W. Roberts. Mr.

Kendall returned Sunday, but his wife remained for a longer visit with the Roberts family, her foster parents. The first act of Jesse Ford when he opened for business Tuesday morning was to go into the icebox after some meat. The door closed behind him and locked and Jesse was a prisoner on cold storage. In other words, he was a bird in a gilded cage. About 15 minutes later Mr.

Kenyon happened to be passing by and hearing Jesse's warble, released him. You need some Good Flour Fidelity or Tyco's Best, Jft Qf3 per hundred 0 Mrs. Lee Jones was here from Coffeyville Tuesday, visiting her niece' Mrs. Curtis Samuel. Honest Bill's show satisfied a big crowd Tuesday night and was a rare treat for the old as well as the young.

Wilbert Setterstrom went over to Iola Saturday and returned' home with his sister, Miss Florence, who visited over Sunday with the folks. Do not fail to see Bill Harmon cut up at the Band Show. He has particular reasons for doing his best that night. He will give you your money's worth. back, but in order to do this we'll not raise the price on one single article in fact, -lower, on many.

We have car of Salt in transit. Unity or Aurora Flour, Ct WE WANT FOR Friday and Saturday 1.35 25c 25c 25c 25c W. H. Ryherd, a farmer living near up-to-date taste for modern work per hundred Fancy Shorts, per hundred Springtime Prunes, 4 pounds for. California Peaches 3 pounds for Dried Apples, 3 pounds for Iowa Corn, 4 cans for Coffee, A brand, 2 pounds for Cases of Eggs and if you have some Poultry call up Ralstons.

Horton, owns a cow which become the mother of three calves last week. A year ago she gave birth to twins, all are alive and healthy. The two Charlies, Nelson and Wilson, worked a day each on the machine shop roof and together did one day's work. They both had their minds on fishing and were afraid of falling in big creek. 5c Quite a crowd assembled at the public school building Friday afternoon where two members of the school board were elected for the ensuing term.

J. T. Ralston was reelected without opposition, and the same fateovertookFred Krokstrom for clerkship, which office Fred has been filling by appointment for the past two months, made vacant by W. Campbell's retirement from the city. Krokstrom Brothers have sold the Hotel Booher, among numerous other Dr- Braden computed the figures, showing that $1,000 was needed to articles, one dozen nice large mattresses.

The Colonel knows and realizes what Elsmore needs and intends to have the best equipped and best set tables of any hotel along the conduct the school for the next term, said term to be eight months'for the primary and intermediate grades, the high schools in the state having; by an act been fixed at nine months. The That Mew For pring Katy, barring no reasonable size town. a'l fit Tuesday the hotel served a five-course was voted- ana the 0 montn i 'term slated to commeace on the first dinner to the entire members of the I Monday in September. 1 he treas-Honest Bills show, besides several urers repor pf0ved that the school other people. Mr.

Booher seems to funds had been properly protected and have been born under a lucky star, economically used. A traveling dentist hit the town Monday. Rev. Kirkpatrick was here Saturday and Sunday. Jake Brooks came over from Humboldt Wednesday to visit his brother.

Add Jarnagin spent the first three days of the week with his family at Iola. Braden hall Saturday night. Bill, George, Charley and the bunch will be there. Some people haven't enought interest in their own town to take the home paper. A wife's idea of a "good fellow" is the man who refuses to fulfill his fellow men's idea of one.

Elsmore has the best amateur theatrical performers of this section of At Braden hall Saturday night. Wednesday was pay day on the Katy. Frank Pittser was an Iola visitor Tuesday. J. T.

Ralston was over to the county seat Wednesday. Keep your chickens up. Don't let them scratch out your neighbor's garden. John Linville was here Tuesday from the burg, the guest of O. C.

Rucker. Several persons from here took in the minstrel show Wednesday night at the burg. Several of our citizens derived a little benefit from the dog and pony show Tuesday. Mrs. Job Cutter came Friday from Spring Valley for a visit with her daughter, Mrs.

Sadie Decker. Mrs. E. W. Myler, county school The Savonburg Dept.

Store offers a splendid opportunity to save you money. We have a larger variety of these goods 11 4 Hardware, Implement 1 iA than many of the city AAtf AA 1 1 aown as low as We are particular about our values, as we sell the same people year after year. Everything is guaranteed satisfactory here and the Harness and Furniture Yes, our stock is most complete in all lines. We have just received a carload of the finest Buggies we have ever had, and the prices or them are very reasonable. Gang and Julhy Plows The John Deere and Flying Dutchman Planters are the best made, and our prices are considerable lower than anyone on these Planters.

Krokstrom Brothers the country. You will see them at prices are very low. Our stock of Floor Coverings is complete. Rugs in all regular and extra sizes in all grades. JA 12-ft.

Lineoleum, square yd.Uvt Good line of patterns. All entire room devoted to these goods. their best at Braden's hall next Saturday night. "Life at best is but a gloomy prison," said the moralizing bachelor. "So much the worse for men who deliberately choose solitary confinement," remarked the girl who had ilf fUBraden'sfPfoarmacy Our produce prices are top.

Usually lc to 2c above others. Our new business plan enables us to sell you goods at the lowest possible margin of profit. Look over our Spring Lines. It will pay you. EssasHsssassssEisssss DEALERS IN rfisrWPaaMis superintendent, came over from Iola Wednesday and visited the schools.

The Band Boys need the money. Do not fail to help them and more than get your money's worth by attending their Entertainment Saturday night. This being the ending of a term of the city administration the people would like to see the financial statement of the city treasurer, as provided for by the state law. An exchange says: "The meanest and most despicable character in any community is the man who is envious of others prosperity and is always speaking in a contemptuous manner of his neighbors and fellow cit'7ens." Drugs, Patent Medicine, Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Jewelry, Books, Stationery, Drug Sundries her trap set. Prof.

L. G. French has disappear- ed. He was last seen and recognized at Iola Sunday afternoon. From there departed for parts unknown.

Hard study and financial trouble is thought to be the cause of his disappearance, Whether he intends to come back or whether he is seeking rest at the home of some relative is not but a distressed wife and five lonely! children are spending sleepless nights worrying and longing for their father! and provider, tore Savonburg Department (We sell cjuality and at the right price. BRADEN F. E. SMITH, Proprietor SON.