Mapleton Dispatch from Mapleton, Kansas • 2

A Cjarlaid svji5 of Ueel. Happy1 Home 12 its (ft Garland, Kansas. Dealers in fl 1 A 1 GEN ERAL MERCHANDISE 1 ff it Vt It ft Everything kept in an up-to-date store. New line of hats just received. Flour 1 .20 per sack.

Independent Oil. Big package garden seeds 4c. Ask for the Premium Stamp. ii Elder Jonah Johnson dismissed his meeting, at the East Baptist church the first Sunday in this month and did not attend his meeting on the second Sunday as usual. Banks has left his pastorate at the West Baptist church and has gone to Council Grove.

The church has called Elder Denton, of Girard Grandma Seitz is reported quite aick with pneumonia fever. She is 82 years of age and may recover, as she has been a woman of tenacious vitality. Snow came again Sunday, continuing until some time in the night. We 'hear by letter that there was but one cloudy day at Colorado Springs in February. How pleasant if some of those balmy days could come this way.

F. M. Dyer is troubled again with that carbuncle or boil on his neck. May he recover and be as merry as ever. Burt Brown Co.

started out with their shelling rig in the cold weather, froze up and abandoned the enterprise. They went out Saturday, extricated the machine and shelled one thousand bushels of corn for Mr. Myers and moved the sheller to Swartz late in the afternoon. There is much talk of good roads ami telephones in this vicinity. Charlie Goss and John Golden are inuisposod with colds and incipient lagrippe.

Mrs. Dr. (loss is reported no better, but gradually growing weaker. my fa jo a i RHDUnTGS OR WESTERN UETERNRRY COLLECe, KTtNSHS CITY, 70, M. A.

King, our new neighbor on ttu; Bran son farm put up a mail box und H. Friel has clone likewise, hav-'ing concluded lie can no longer do without the servlc. r. Holeman reports a number of cases of Bickness occasioned by the changeable conditions of the weather. iurs.

Eva Allen has gone to Slloani Springs for a visit with her parents, Geo. W. Anuerson and wife. John (the husband) says he will keep batch. Mrs.

I Boyer visited from Saturday to Tuesday with her brothers, E. D. at Mathewson and Hugh and Or-ville at Fleming. Get a road drag and fix up the roads along your farm. H.

M. Mayfleld has started the example and others near him are getting the contagion. Township Trustee S. B. Ridge has in his possession several drags that he is 1 willing to loan.

We hope to see the whole township over-run with the drag. Try it and your farm will enhanced in value and the rural route service strengthened. Mrs. Frank Palmer and two little boys lefts via the Frisco on Saturday to join her husband who has located on I. S.

Buyer's farm near Parsons. He met them at the train and they drove to their new home well pleased w.li prospects for the future. Their ranch contains 215 acres. Parsons and the adjacent territory have advanced wonderfully in the last two or three years and real estate values are going' up in leaps and bounds. A 200 acre farm fairly improved near the above location sold last week for The King road drag is used down there and the public ways show the handiwork and benefits.

Where are your talents? School Report. Following is school report of the custard school, Dist. Ill, Sixth month ending March 9: No. of days taught, 20. Enrollment Males 7, females 14 total 21.

Average daily attendance males 14; females 17; total 31. Those not absent during the month are as follows: Myrtle Caldwell, Mary Cliffman, Albert Needham Elsie Howard, Corda and arney Cliffman. Those making an average of 90 are as follows: Advance grade, Gertie and Elsie Howard, Ruth Burciviey and Gracie Ryan. Intermediate grade, and Marie Sullivan, Alert and Suda Needham, Varney and Myrtle Caldwell. Visitors always welcome especially patrons of the district.

A. H. Adamson. phon i. 86.

kstablishkd Goodlander Supply Co Undertakers 8 Embalmers No. 14 Scott Avenue. The Editor of the Gazette was unavoidably absent this week. We will make up for shortage of local Garland news hereafter. A Story Without Words Q2Qj Oflii'Kd for llurrisun Hnri.il liesi and mast in'ompt service in the stale ill roatonsililc inics.

We sell hi- latest and most sulislantial trowis on Hie market onus iersonallv or by wire when neeilint; anything in our line. i i i 1 PIONEER To have a happy home you shouli have children, They are great happy-home makers. If a weak woman, you can be made strong enough to bear healthy chil- oren, with little pam or dis- comfort to yourself, by taking WINE OF A Tonic for Women It will ease all your pain, reduce Inflammation, cure leucorrhea, (whites), falling womb, ovarian trouble, disordered menses, back ache, headache, and make childbirth natural and easy. Try it. At all dealers in medicines, in 1.00 bottles.

"DUE TO CARDUI Is my baby girl, now two weeks old," writes Mrs. J. Priest, of Webster City, Iowa. "She is a fine healthy babe and we are both doing nicely. I am still taking Cardui, and would not be without it in the house." BLANCHE DATES' Blanche Bates has been writing epigrams.

Here are some of them: Good borrowers are cheerful spenders. He who sows nothing always reaps the worst. Do not pin your future to a rural press notice. Fools wait for opportunity, i the wise go out and meet it. Beautiful sunsets are not to be blamed for the bad poetry they inspire.

Married men are not lecturegoers they have too many good ones at home. "OLD MAID'S" PROVERBS. Take home your wages and spend your rages. Few men die of love who carefully shun love's cooking. It's the most faulty husband that finds the most fault.

A girl has got to have a beau if he Is only in a story book. It takes almost as many clothes for i baby as for a bride's trousseau. One dressmaker can make a woman pay for clothes that ten men couldn't get her to take for a gift. One of the greatest problems of iiodern society is stairs when you lome home late at night. Exchange.

DINKELSPIELERS. Many matrimonial matches vas struck mitould kindling fires of love. Der man dot is wrapped up in alvays dinks he is a warm baby. Der man dot likes to do all der alvays chums mit a goot steady listener. Man'vants but leedle here below md vot leedle he gets is cheneraly der neck ---George V.

Hobart in Jhlcago American. Glasgow's Drink Glasgow, Scotland, spends on firirk a year, av. average of $21.25 a head. fish ijver Bleep. The only fish that never sleep are said to be the salmon, pike and gold Bsh.

YuWR mmmw. 1,1 1 I'l I 1 1 1 I't I a 8 SMI rr II is Mia 1 III i NURSERY STOCK AT WHOLESALE PRICES. AH stock guaranteed Hart Pioneer Stock is pure bred and produces heavy crops. Value received for every dollar sent us. No Agent's Commission.

WRITE FOR COnPLETE PRICE LIST. WE WILL SAVE YOU HONEY. HART PIONEER NURSERIES, Fort Scott, Kan, 1 ylir 71 ft 7- HiU i I 4 1S58. Ol'KN 1JAY NIGHT. Fl.

Scott, Kansas. GUARANTEED disease free and true to name. GLAiE LEWIS We want h. ree QofnfJoY jt.u ctl-sc lft 0U.lUiUuJ orLL 50 rs I i indu ion i Rugs all bright sOhes wide 60 al Sl.eO, choice ilOSE fleece lined hose and fine qual- Lac'ies all sizes, i it, i aturoa heviot Waisting a neat polkadot oauiiiu! quality. jr.

sals one day rr and 3.: GL.i'l LEI Look to (or Cheap Pi ices. R. King, PrcttUcal Jeweler Fonv.fi rly of Fort Scott. All Work Reas-- unable. GARLAND, KANSAS.

Spring Time is ve with its attendant changes and i am ready for your order for Wall IiiSior We have our New Sample Books rom the Best companies iu the Vet! iiid desire to stale that we have the lust iiid lnlndsoinest line of puttertis ever tight to Garland. Kvery order guaranteed same as iiulterii. Country solicited. Craiuinjfs and natural tiiiisiies artistically done. Beep aie a i cs; al, e- M-TROUT, The Painter and Paper Banker, Garland.

Kan. j-i L. 1 POLAR BEAR FLOUR "BEST GN H. G. Voolsey has a PIANO, only M59 00 CHOICE am US N.

Main, Fort Scott, Kas. 4 Ik 0 ii.i.o.ilU,.vi.iiil-m-ailnliiilH.,li.;H m'llll'll i I I i ADDITIONAL ITEMS. By A. J. Ogle.

oiouds have shut off the sunshine for more than five days. The wind lias been more than thilly, blowing from northern regions. The sun has shone fiittingy through broken clouds, uie ground is frown to the depth of seveia. inches, with but few signs of tMwing. Farmers do not manifest any fears about the coming crops, but come cheerfully into town to do their trading as usual.

has two octogenarians as permanent, citizens. Lisbon Walker ami J. R. Virgil. Walker has passed hU SJird birthday and Virgil his 82nd.

Thomas White, another octogenarian, "spends part of his time in town. James MeCan, two miles south, has passed 'f4th birthday. These men fan tr II interestingly of the past. liberal, Mo. takes the- palm in Hit person of Henry Donuan, who vn-buni January lurh.

17::, and ivlabral bis one huu.lml and seventh birti. day the 10th of la. January. He i Us strength fairly and can walk about town without a cane. He Succeeded in hi in- as a at the third attempt, when he in a Michigan cavalry regiment, was present at Gettysburg, and lest two fingers while campaigning witii Grant in Virginia.

Jlon. E. H. Funstun, ex-congressman. Was in Garland Wednesday, cheerfully talking politics.

He talks for Hon. C. V. Scott and appears quite sanguine 'as to Mr. Scott's final success.

I. S. Boyer and family left on Friday to make a visit with relatives near Par-ons to make arrangements with Mr. Frank Palmer for cultivating his farm. Mr.

Boyer returned on Tuesday The old bank building uas been removed preparatory to the erection of the new bjuilding. The material is on ground and work will begin as noon as the weather will permit. This will add materially to the business aspect of the town. WORLD'S OPINION OF FRANKLIN. "Franklin is the world'3 best type of good sense." Prof.

Fisher. "Antiquity would have raised altars to his mighty genius." Mirabeau. "He invented the lightning rod the hoax and the republic." H. de Balzac. "That crafty American is more than a match for all my ministers." George III.

"Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin? Every great man is unique." Emerson. "He. snatched the thunderbolt from heaven and the scepter from the hands of tyrants." Turgot. "This self-taught American is the most rational of all philosophers. He never loses sight of common sense." Lord Jeffrey.

SONGS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS. For Distillers "Comin' Thro' the Rye." For Truant Schools "Days of Absence." For Business' Men "I Know a Bank." For Moonshine "Oft in the Stilly Night." For Milkmen "The Old Oaken Bucket." For Furniture' Dealers "That Old Arm Chair." For Housekeepers in Need of Help "Sally In Our Alley." 1 For Theatrical People "When Stars Aifl In the Quiet For Cautious Creditors "Trust Him Not." Baltimore American. DeilSlH: BREASTED AGES' 3 1. mUAWED MANVFAC 3ob Robert's.