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The Valley Center Index A -E-W-S PAPER. IN THE 'STRICTER SENSE VOL. XXII VALLEY CENTER, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31., L9.8 NO. 30 Methodist Church Services. ENTERING CHURCH -Remember it is the House of God.

Be reverant, be silent, be thoughtful; and leave it not without a prayer to God, for thy self, for those who worship, and for him who ministers here." Sunday School, 10 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Junior League, 2:30 p.

m. Intermediate League, 2:30 p. m. Senior League, 6:45 p.m. Evangelistic service, 7:30 p.

m. Mid-week, (Thursday) Young people, 7:30 p. m. Seniors, 7:30 p. m.

Everyone cordially invited to all services. C. D. DANNER, Pastor. Christian Church Notes.

The Sunday School hour has been changed to 10 o'clock in the 11101 n- ing. Please bear this in mind and be with us next Sunday. Church next Sunday. Choir practice Friday night. Thirteen Years Ago.

(From the Vallev Center Index file thirteen years ago.) Geo. Patterson is reported sick with dropsy. Nim Rankin and Lawson Lipp killed 33 rabbits last Tuesday. Jake Wilson is hauling logs to saw for lumber. Harry Temple unload his new engine here Monday.

Clem Wilson has a very sore eye, having got a piece of steel into it while fixing a pump. Clyde Elliot was up trom Wichita over Sunday visiting home folks. F. M. Stamback had a whole sale butchering at his place this week, he killed 6 hogs and 1 beef.

OBITUARY. Willis White was born November 27, 1861, in Richland County, where he lived until the death of his parents. He then went to Hazelton, to live with an uncle where he resided until 1883, then came to Kansas. In 1892 he was united in marriage to Mary E. Briner.

To this union were born three children, Eula, Mrs. Nellie Jacob, and son who died in infancy. Beside leaving his wife and daughters, he leaves two sitsers and one grand daughter; relatives, Addie Winters and Ernest Carter. Mr. and Mrs.

Creasser and Mr. and Mrs. Stamback visited at Mrs. Lucy 'Ramsey's Thursday afternoon. Mr.

Jess Crider is helping in John Temple's barber shop this week. Mr. P. H. Smith transacted bustness in Wichita Tuesday.

Otho Ramsey from Scott county came Saturday and stayed until Thurs: day with his mother Mrs. Lucy Ramsey. Noble Smith was in town Monday. Mrs. of Grand Junction who has been in Wichita with her brother who is very sick at the Wichita hom.

pital, visited Monday afternoon with 'Avice Francis. Mr. and Mrs. Joe. Gown spent Friday evening at the P.

H. Smith home. Vivian Perin will attend the Schumann-Heink concert in Wichita Friday evening. Rev. E.

G. Osen of Lyons was a dinner guest at the P. H. Smith home Friday. Wilie Fulkerson moved the first of the week to Walnut Grove, where they have rented a few acres of land and will raise chickens.

Wilie will still continue his work at the depot. Sord THE UNIVERSAL CAR More and more the enclosed motor car grows strong in popular favor. It's natural, especially with Ford cars, which are bury running every day of the year-winter and summer the Ford serves faithfully and profitably. So for a real genuine family ear there is nothing equal to the Ford Sedan at $695 f. o.

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McLAUGHLIN MOTOR Valley Center. YOU WILL FIND HERE A DEPENDABLE LINE OF Watches and Jewelry to Select From. Also up-to-date watch repairing. Jewelry mended in an artistic manner. All work guaranteed.

ROBINSON, The Jeweler, VALLEY CENTER, KANS. 4 OUR THANK LIST Thanks to the following persons Music CACKLES COo. TUK HERE SURE 15 NO SWEETER 0 SonG THAN THE CACKLE OF A HEM IN TA' WINTER ANOTHER EGG I ENER Red Cross Notes Mesdames Gilchrist, Baird, Smith, Stamback, Bacore, and Corey, of Bentley were over for instructions in Red Cross Work Tuesday. Mrs. Todd McCluggage and Mrs.

A.P. Wright have been appointed Red Cross Instructors by the Head of the St. Louis Division of Surgical Dressings. Their work being almost perfect. Mrs.

O.R. Magee has been appointed teacher in surgical dressings for the local work room. All of these women deserve great credit for the great amount of work they have done. The work room will be open all Saturday to the fchool children. There is something for each girl and boy to do.

We are now ready to begin work on the refugee garments. Bring in your scraps of outing or any scraps of bright colored yarn. Reporter for local Red Cross. Mrs. Geo.

Spencer and little son of Wichita spent Friday and Saturday vith Mrs. Sharpelss. Mr. and Mrs. R.

Q. McLaughlin of Vichita visited at Oak McLaughlin's Friday. Mrs. Herbert Rollins of Herington, spent Friday and Saturday with Mrs. Rollins.

Mrs. Walter Thompson spent Monday with hre daughter. Mrs. Fry, in Sedgwick. Abbie Showalter spent Sunday with Lois Scheussler.

Thelbert Tolley of K. is visiting dis aunt Mrs. Eugene Goodrich. Mrs. R.

LL. Harpster. left Friday evening for Hammond, called there by the death of her father. Mrs. Chas.

Kennedy spent the week end with her fathre near Sedgwick. Frank Vallance sold four mules to Blaine Pollard of Sedgwick, last week. Roy Chipps has the measles. "Mrs, C. F.

Wright is recovering from a spell of sickness. Mrs. Goode returned Monday from a visit in Wichita with friends and relatives. Chas. Temple of Battery B.

9th F. A. Ft. Sill, and his father and mother Mr. and Mrs.

Geo. Teple and Miss of Wichita took dinner at John Temple's Wednesday. Mrs. Ellen Gilchrich is visiting C. W.

Buck and family. Announcement Announcement Owing to circumstances am pelled to close my picture show Feb. 1., thanking you for your patronage in the past. -B. W.

Gilchrist. Notice Notice On and after February 1, all stores according to the new rules, must open at 9 a. m. and close at 6 p. m.

This is done in order to save fuel. Miss Hazel Hyatt and Mr. Jesse Cieger of Wichita visited friends in Valley Center Sunday. BULK KRAUT Whiting Son A A A da Ada I BELL TELEPHONE VOLUNTEERS More than 6,000 employes of the Bell System are now enrolled or in. actual military service; including fourteen battalions of.

Signal Corps Reserves. Many Bell employes are inembers of the Eederalized National Guard or of the Naval Coast Defense Reserve. Over ten percent of the male employes of the company are now 01: soon will be engaged in active military service. A large proportion of these Bell System volunteers are teleplione engineers and technically trained men. They letive gaps in the Bell ranks not easily filled.

There is not a man of them who has not proved his loyalty in the ser vice of the public and not a man who will not give unreservedly the same large measure of devotion wherever the path of duty leads. One of our great problems, incident to the war, has been to readjust our organization and meet this heavy loss to our wot king forces, and at the same time to take care of the tremendous increase in telephone traffic with as little im pair ment to the service as possible. A LOCAL DISTANC1 LONG TELEPHONE Southwestern Bell Telephone SOCIATEDCO Company who have paid cash on subscription the past week: Geo. Fry, A. J.

Carnaban, Walter Cooper, Mrs. W. A. Goodrick. NOTICE OUR CLUB OFFER ON PACE THREE.

1 HIS OFFER GOOD FOR 30 DAYS OBITUARY. Virginia M. Buck, aged 73, died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clara Ertrington, 334 North She was the widow of T. D.

Buck, deceased, who died December 28, 1904. She is survived by four sons and two daughters, Charles of Valley Center; W. and Geo. of Oklahoma City; Thomas Valier Mrs. Alice Parr, of Dallas, Tex; Mrs.

Errington of Wichita; one sister, Mrs. J. C. Thomas of Charleston; W. and five grand children.

Funeral services were held from the Gill Funeral home Tuesday at 1:30 p. bur. ial was made in Kechi cemetery.Wichita Eagle. Mrs. Buck formerly lived in Valley Center, and many friends will mourn the loss of this departed friend.

According to Frank D. Blundon, fuel administrator for Saline county, there is more coal in the bins of the dealers in Salina this week than at any other time this winter and the outlook for plenty is rosy. Administrator Blundon received his information from the dealers with whom he met this morning. said Mr. Blundon, "a severe severe storm or cold spell might change the situation materially.

The merchants and secret and civic societies have responded almost unanimously to Mr. Blundon's order to not hold unnecessary meetings and to close at an early hour and open late in the morning. There is to complaint from any source. And you will find no complaint if you yo to We Vicar- Vicar-Howard-Millhanbt for AL complete line of wearing 4 parel. ADV.

who wish to have corn shelled will appreciute your work. -D. J. Searles, Phone 42, Valley Center 2t Harry Wilson's new home will soon be completed. Elliott, the painter, has begun the interior finishing.

Mrs. Keith and Miss Laura Casad of Wichita visited in Valley Center last Thursday. Mrs. Susie Goodrick of Yates Center visited here the first part of this week. Frank Whiting is wiring his house for electricity this week.

For 100 bushel of corn. Wish to sell to some farmer. -J. Burnaugh. 2t Harold Davis was home from Ft.

Sill visiting with his parents and his wife at Lucar, Kans. Mr. Burnaugh who is getting very feeble, returned with his daughter Mrs. R. L.

Bobbitt, to her home in Wichita. Park school has started again, under the management of a new teacher. For -Choice Barred Rock Cockerels at $1.50 each. -Address Mr. P.

Phenneger, Sedgwick, or Phone Bentley 518. Also eggs in hatching time at $1.25 a setting of 15. 4tc Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ryno, January 29, a son.

Rev. E. G. Osen of Lyons called at the Frank Smith home Friday p. m.

Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dairs of Wichita were Sunday guests at the Frank Vallance home.

MORE COME TO GEO. LAVENDER'S FOR STAPLE MERCHANDISE IN ANY LINE. Special Prices On Al Groceries Next Saturday. Come! We have just received a large shipment of SWEATERS and children's knit caps al reasonable prices. We carry Coopers Spriaz Needle underwear for men and boys.

We have a full line of Black Cat Hosery of excellent quanty. Plenty of blankets and outing and other things too numerous to mention. Just come and Geo. Lavender, Prop. 6 Who Banks The Money You Work So Hard To Get? You may be sure it reaches the bank.

To care for our depositors in the most considerate, most compitent manner is our constant study. No necessity of paying that bill the second time, keep your money in this bank and pay bills by check. VALLEY CENTER STATE BANK: Valley Center, Kansas Gives you as security for funds deposted the GUARANTY FUND OF KANSAS. Security for our Loans. Our Policy Courtesy and attention to patrons.

Capitol $25,000.00 Surplus $9,000.00, W. D. Goodrich, President S. Gardiner, Cashie, ON ST ME NE NE NE.