The Arcadia Record from Arcadia, Kansas • 4

LODGE DIRECTORY. Dr. and Mrs. Smith of Yale were John McCulloch, A complete lino of Fancy Valentines, Call and inspect the beautiful selections Mulberry, Flora Sweet died at the home of her parents in Coalvale, Wednesday, of dipthera. W.

Weaver and sons of Route 3 have been loading hay at Oska-loosa this week. Frank Ryan, of Bourbon county, is delivering grain for the Arcadia Grain Co. today. George Miner of Route 3, ship-ed a car load cit fat cattle from Hannon Monday, The sudden drop in the temperature Thursday caused a revival in the local coal trade. The school report for the Intermediate and Grammar departments will appeal next week.

Joe Lewis is opening up a coal mine on the old Garrett He will transport the coal to the railroad on a tramway, Mrs. Oscar Hildreth left Wednesday evening to join her husband at Mounds I. where they will make their future home. R. G.

Smith of Mulberry and Miss Maud Leslie of Arcadia, were, married by Rev. J. S. Baldwin, Wednesday evening. Dr.

Moore left this morning for Kansas City in response to a mes Kansas City Southern Railway "Straight as the Crow Flits." KANSAS CITY TO THE GULF. Along its line are the finest lands suited for growing small grain, corn flax, cotton; for commercial apple and jieach orchards, fur other other fruits and berries; for commercial canteloupe, notato, tomato and general truck farms; for sugar cane and rice for merchantable timber; or raising horses, mules cattle, sheep, poultry and Angora goats prices ranging from Free Government Homesteads to $25 or more per acre, heap round and one wav colonist ticket write for a copy of "Current 'Events" published by the Kansas ity Southern Railway the short line to inexpensive' and comfortable homes. J. II, Morris Trav. Pass Agt.

O. W'atuer. Pand A Kansas City Mo. Kansas City Mc. E.

Roeslr, Trav. Pass and Immigration Agt, Kansas City Mo To Train German Girls. The same methods which have been applied with such remarkable success of the training of boy apprentices in the industrial and commercial schools of the German empire are now to be adopted for the education and training of girls who may seek to better their condition In life. They will swell the anks of that trained army of expertswhich has accomplished more tlian any other factor to make German commerce and Industries what they are to-day. Smiths Lead All.

In the city of Washington there are 18,000 Browns, 15,000 Smiths, 14,001 Johnsons and 1,000 Joneses. Criticises Shakespeare. Count Leo Tolstoy has written a treatise on Shakespeare, whose works be crltloises adversely. Nobody's Island. It Is owing to a disagreement between Austria and Scrvia that the folk who have taken up their residence on a certain little island In the Danube pay no taxes and acknowledge allegiance to nobody.

The Island, which has very appropriately been called nobody's island, was formed many years ago by the accumulation of mud and sand carried down by the great river during a flood. Since then Austria and Servia have been quarreling about its possession. Work of London Policemen. London policemen patrol 2,446 ri miles of streets. Postal Rate on.

Human Ashes, The postoflica department has prepared a ruling the effect that cremated bodies should be classed as merchandise, and should pay the regular rate of 1 cent for four ounces. As result of this decision, four airtight Un canisters, containing the cremated remains of a family, shipped from New York to San Francisco, were forwarded from the Washington postof-flce, where they had been held up pending a determination of the postage rates for the journey, Premium Dollar. A sliver dollar, 1798, small eagle, la worth large eagle, $1.50. Northern Lumber Cut. The cut of lumber in the Sault Ste.

Marie district for the season of 1902 tv-as about 160,000,000 teet, and the cut for the season of 1903 is over 200,000,000 feet. At least 75 per cent of thia is cut In mills owned and operated by Americans wqi large sawmills have been built during the year and a new veneering mill has been operating very profitably during the season. Big Noses In Favor. In Japan the nose is the only feature which attracts attention. The nose determines the beauty or ugliness of the face, according as it Is big or small.

This is probably due to the fact that difference In noses oonsti: tutes about the only' distinction b. tween one Japanese face and another, Average Journey of Freiflht The average journey of a ton of Sraight ia 128 miles. Foreign School Gain. The two or three years' gain of the Gtrrman and -Spanish schools over ours Is due to the metric system and phonetic spelling, by which the greater part of compound numbers and spelling, which 4s such a terror to our children, is made unnecessary J. D.

GREEN CO. ARCADIA, KANSAS. Desiring to meet my obligations, from this date I will sell my stock of shoes and rubber goods at. cost. Also overalls, shirts jumpers and other notions, for cash.

Still want your butter eggs and produce at best possible prices in cash A.O.U.W. LODGE NO.IBfl Arcadia Lodge No, 150, meets very oaiuraay mglit in their own Oldest and best fraternal In. -tirance order on earth. Visiting isomers welcome, .1. CURNUTT.

Kecordcr. Triple Tic. Ji.r,n inyir ic ornc lit Aoe.Ht.oii. meets lHt and 3rd Friday cm." iiiimiu in worKniRTi Vleitintc member-, welcome K. UAKftltiER.

PreB. Improved Oder of Red Men. Apnche Tribe, No, 71, Improved Order of every ritlny nl)lit in Hall. Phil. Kkeiokb, Sachem.

Aeeper or Records. -ndeoendent Order of Odd Follows. Arcadia Lodge No. 401, Independent 'Order of Odd t'ellowH, meets every Satur-May night ut LUhUe's Hall, VisitiBK F. SMITH.

Noble Grand D.W. WIBST, Secretary D.ofH. Desrree of Honor. A. 0.

17. HipptaM 4th Wednesday of each month. Vla- iiik memnera welcome. IS nun a Cireen, iiief of Honor. Rebecca Stephenson Re nJer.

S. FLEMING, PHYSICIAN aud SURGEON. 'Office 3d door north of post office. L.A. RUN ION Physician and Surgeon Office at Murray's Drug tore.

W. H. Sprecher, Attorney-at-Law. Practices in all courts in Kansas and Missouri. R.

W. MOORE, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. -Residence opposite Christian church north. DENTIST. G.

A. PRINGLE, Doctor of Dental Surgery and Orthodontia; vitalised Air. lias Nitrous Oxide Administered for abso lute painlens extraction and surgery. At Arcadia, Kansas, Monday, Tues 'day and Wednesday until 2:30 p.m. At Liberal rest of time.

The Arcade Restaurant First-Class Meals and Lunches. Fine Cigars and Tobacco. E. E. DINGER, Proprietor.

Strongest in the World Sfce EQUITABLE Life Assurance Society, of the U. S. J. T. FOWLER, Agt.

The Arcadia Record By Wi J. Vane. Published Every Friday at Arcadia Kansas. ntered, April 17, 1903, at Arcadia, Kansas, as second-class matter, binder Acl of congress of March 'v. Six months 50 cents.

Three months 25 cents. Friday, Jan. 22 1904 OO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Mulberry Items. The tipple at Dickey Mulhol- land's shaft, is hearing completion. Grandma Seifert came home from North Missouri the last of the week.

W. O. Birdsell and family, of Englevale, visited with J. P. Du-gan and family, Monday.

The ladies' Aid and their families were entertained on last Friday Evening at the home of Charles Smilie, by four members of the society. Refreshments were served during the evening. Those present were: Zach Carpenter and wife J. C. Brown aftd WitCi Mrs.

Thompson, Mr. Hartmah, Wife and family, John Tliarpp wife and grandson Henry Tharp and wife, Mrs. John Honstead and I. Shaw and wifet O. F.

Smilie and family. Charles Smilie and family, Misses Jessie Thompson, Opheha Haynes, Miss Selenct, of St. Louis, Mo, A general good time is reported, with thanks to the ladies for their Local I Incidents. QOOOOCX in our town Sunday, M. C.

Kelly, state oil inspector returned home Thursday. E. E. Cory speut Saturday and Sunday with home folks. Miss May Parsons of Iowa camp is very low with pneumonia fever, Chas.

Fowler is doing a rushing business in his new barber shop. Mr, Wilson and wife, of Liberal spent Sunday with the latter' sister, Mrs, Crafton. An infant child died of diptheria in Yale and was buried here Wednesday afternoon. The long looked for car of lumber billed to Wyatt Tuttle was set out here Thursday We notice that one of our citizens E.Cox, has been drawn as a jury man for the March term. Ernest Sprecher returned from the Implement Dealer's convention at Kansas City, this week.

Arthur- Carpenter, of Gakna, came in Monday night to spend a short time with home folks. Miss Chandler canie. down from Kansas City and spent a few days with her parents before they moved. A number of people from Pitts burg attended the funeral of Mrs, Wright, also a number from Liberal. Elder Tuttle left Monday for Bartlesville I.

T4 to assist in a meeting that has been going on for several weeks. There is a meeting called at Mil lers hall Tuesday night to be ad dressed by agents interested in free honies in Canada. Mrs. O. Smilie gave a dinner to a number of her lady friends, Saturday, in honor of Mrs.

Wm. Austin; Those present were: Mes- dames Austin; Brown, Silence, Tharp, Eastes, Kelley, Charles Smilie, Chess Smilie, Near, 0. Smilie and daughter, Anna; An enjoyable time is reported. C. W.

Chandler has shipped his household goods to Rush Center, Kansas. He left with his family Wednesday for a few days visit with friends in Paola, before going to their new home. Mr. Chandler is an enterprising man and will no doubt make business lively in the ittle town in Western Kansas. R.

D. I Mulberry. Oliver Bishop of Klondike Kans. has the scarlet fever. Harry Bevans and family moved to Mulberry Saturday.

Miss Nellie Waltaree is working for Mrs. Harry Bevans. Mrs J. W. Clarkson and family visited her sister, Mrs.

Dave Huber and family Sunday. Laura McKinney. -Mrs. Laura B. McKinney, died at her home in Leroy, January 20, at 8:30 p.

nr. of typhoid-pneumonia; after a lingering illness. Mrs. McKinney was born May 2, 1874. On the 29th of November 1893, she married Wm.

McKinney. To them were bdrri two" children, Fern, aged 9, and Ruby-, aged 4, who are left to mourn the toss of one whose place in their hearts should evef be held sacred. Besides her children she leaves three brothers, Robert, Will, and Joseph Ennis and a husband, Mrs McKinney was a neice of Issac Lightle of Arcadia and a cousin of Vernon Lightle, Mrs. J. T.

Fowler, and Mrs W. P. Cundiff The remains were interred in the Shiloh cemetery Friday. Mrs. J.

Green is on the sick list. T. H. Beckley of Route 4. is very sick.

Arthur Davenport has gone to Kansas City. Grandma Butler has been very sick this week. An opera trdupe took dinner at the Crites Hotel today. Grant Ewing has purchased five acres of ground of Joe Lewis. A girl was born to D.

K. Boyd- ston and wife Sunday; reported by Dr. Moore. G. W.

Harris shipped a car of hogs from the Harris switch Wed nesday night; Kansas a Excellent Service to points In Missouri, Ar Kansas, Tennesseev Alabama Mississippi Florida JtnH tht Southeast, find to Uansas OKlahoma Indian Territory Texai tht Seuihtoasi (Detailed to excursion ilatu, Tatea, trail furnished apra apnlt. ia ID James Don hug, Assiataat General Passenger City, Ms. Quicli'aM -I Pleasant I Excellent Service to points Missouri. i If you need goods in my line I would like for you to call and get prices before buying. I carry a full line of Buggies, Wagons, implements, sewing machines' clocks, paints, oils and brushes, shelf and heavy and tinwar.

Undertaking Supblies. A full line of miner's supplies, also full line guns and amunition. sage announcing the serious illness of one of his faniily. The seven-year-old son of Phil Keener, of Scmnnion, lost an eye by the aif rifle system, Christmas. Mr.

Keener is well known to many Arcadians. The Sheffield school has been dismissed for two days this week owing to the presence of diptheria in the district. If no new cases develop school will be resumed Monday morning, next. A host of friends gathered at the residence of J. F.

Davenport and wife, Saturday evening and, judging from reportSj it was a social event long to be pleasantly remembered by those present; John Stewart of Cato went to Kansas City Wednesday of last week to Visit ibis wife who is in Scarrit hospital undergoing an" operation. We are glad to announce that her condition is much improved. It is for me to remember that the personal efforts of one or two a few months ago, to array the Christian people against the Record, was one of the most despicable little annoy ances that ever crossed my path. However we never knew of a man winning out by employing such small artifices to make a personal gain or any other gain for that matter. Fair dealing always pays.

Radium Energy. It has been calculated that th energy stored up In fifteen grains of radium la sufficient to raise 600 tons weight a mile high. An ounce would, therefore, suffice to drive a fifty horse power motor oar at the rate of thirty miles an hour around the world. Japanese Hemp. Among the Industries of tapan which are receiving especial attention Is the manufacture of hemp, it Is reported that orders have recently been executed for a supply of fishing nets for Alaska valued at JSO.000, and that a commissioner has lately been sent to Canada to investigate and report on the prospect of extending the market ior nets In that country.

father of Lexicographers. br. Johnson, even excepting his predecessor, Bailey, was not t. father of lexicographers. In thfi latest volume issued by the Historical Manuscripts Commission on manuscripts in the Welsh language it is stated that the idea ol illustrating the meaning and correct use of words by actual quotations from the literature' rf a living language seems to have b'uf-n first put in practice by Griffith 'Hirn'thog, the herald bard of Wales, -vim died In 1664.

Export Wood to Germany. Imports of wood into Germany from the United States have more than trebled since 1880, amounting in 1902 to more than $5,850,000. It consisted mostly of pitch pine. This wood is more resistant to the weather and costs much less than It is used for making doors, windows, floors, while oak is used in the manufacture of the finer grades of furniture. Cost of Gravitation.

In an address before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Mr. Charles Hawkin's remark that water' obtained by gravitation la almost, if not quite, as expensive as water obtained by pumping, may be something of a surprise to a lawman, but Is easily explained by the greater cost of gravitation work). John Honstead Cameo from Conch Shell. The ordinary cameo Is cut from kind of conch shell, obtainable only in the vicinity of the Bahama Islands. Very often a large shell, apparently In the best of condition, will yield but two or three morsels suitable for use.

Toys From Germany. Fifty thousand German toymakecs export $13,000,000 worth of toys, of which the United States gets nearly $4,000,000 worth. Silent Japanese Japanese soldiers fight noiselessly. They have no bands, no drums bsat rersille tr tattoo, and in action they BtUfr no cheers. Glatsrrmklng In Japan.

The Japanese did not know the art of glassmaklng until about one hundred and fifty years ago, and for several generations only a elngle family knew how to make it. Newfoundland Fisheries. Of the 100,000 men In Newfoundland more than half are fishermen, who catch 150,000,000 pounds of cod a year, Consume one-fourth of It and sell the rest to Catholic countries fot $4,450,000. Chivalry. The chivalry of Europe is.

in great measure, a product of the Saracen chivalry which entered Europe In two streams flowing through Constantinople and through Spain. Illiterate Children. The number of illiterate children between ten and fourteen years of age is: In Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina. 51.536; North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, 36,876." A Touching "Appc." The following notice is said to be posted over the almsbox pf a certain cathedral door in Northern Italy: "Ap-pelq to charitables. The Brothers, so called, of Mercy, asks slender arms for the hospital.

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