The Hiattville Weekly Optic from Hiattville, Kansas • 1

Maple Cr9Ve flam- Tom Tuff 'an Girls, 4 '1" Dby July" I. Plese. mistur editur man let a feller what tnowi inthln about gurlp speke a little Bapd festival soon. ji Mm ijr irii, Pjefjt'i? pftaa tmt knejdwp. theWflJ I Thps'e art regular Jemonade dayi: The telephone takei everybody'! City SJruag Store.

FOB TOUfl- Machine Oils. 30' 20 1Q 40 Newfay. Don't flirt. 8endin. the news.

Finp shpwer'fcundajr, -New potfttqgg are searse, Monday, was a "spoicber." Misse. $attie. qnd ty Johjjgoi) failed i(5jfonday, We will sura boom when tha( new brick materialises. II Chimpky went up Boott Tuesday on Will pfcimpky returned to this pjty Monday evening. Go to Jake Conine's for yonr dinner when it) pott.

i A profane upstart-Thp map who pits dowa on bent The army should be Kent to the segt of war. Misses Lifldell and Dunn called at the Optic sanctum Friday. The Butch are all right- The cabbage crop is a big one, Take your meals at Jake Conine's restaurant when in Fort 8coct. Several important improvements for our city are being projected. Mis Altba McNaughton was a paller at the Optic office; Saturday We liave turned out some fine work this week for the Av.

0. U. Cents Per- Gallon. OTTO Roth Srothersv Leaders o( Low Prices, 50 00 Vii SETTLES, everything- -n. falu.y; and staple Ttinnp lis nil Trr.i1r nrn your neaaqurter3.

FAIR, Sanare Dealing In our J)ry has alwaj-s been our-ipg ml Notion. Departmeot motto, and by strictly a3 her- we have all the latest style ing to this motto we have'l newest novelties, achieved success. Our aim In our Grocery Depart has always been, and shall be ment we carry everything so in the future, to see to it good to eat, such as nice, clean, that every customer is satisfied, tresh smoked meats of all de- ltr scriptions, salt fish, home made We carry the best of every- aQ eastern ch reasonable profit. New stock of boots and All report, good time Fred Mpnk js painting Mr. S.we- rrey's house, -Fred is a.rpstler good' Bap riders, h.as, purchased a new sepertor and patent waw and is getting 'ready to start to freshing oqn.

Fox will the engine again this season, 'Mr, and Mrs, J. T. Didlaka intend' to make, a trip to Eldoradp Springs soon f. for the benefit.ofhe for mers balthjv GStepensifl cutting oats for Mr. week.

W- A. Gibbs, of Hiatville. was was seen in. this vicinity during the week out notions to the people. Mvra and Bertha Stephens, Lura Hagan, and-and Miss Orbs, of.

Fort Scott, visited at Mrs. G. Stephens' of -Hiattville, Is haying on the I. P. Routh farm here.

Work plenty. Hands are scarse. F. Camblin' pressed some T-imothy hay for Mr. Holland last week, i Stone, has.

employed Mr. Moore a practical engintjer to rnn his engipe this season. U. Sterling has sold 240 acre farm. The north 80 was purchased by Ben.

the southeast 80 by Jim Hernphill, and the sduth west 8Q hv a brother ot Air. Hemphill s. It sold far about $20 per acre. Messrs Holland and Saunders have been Cutting oats for Mr. St.

John and Mr. Hammonds. Mr. Caswell, who has been stay- ins at Mr. Fox's, has struck a job running an engine at Girard.

The small boy'and the fire crack ef have grne, and all that we have left to remind us of the day when Freedom was declared by our fore is the stars and stripes. land of the free aad the home of the brave. Is Pace. "The inan who reads this paper, And sponges as he goes; Will never reach the promised land, milk and honey flows. The man who cheats the printer, Out of a siugle cent, Will never reach the heavenly land, Where old Elijah went." A Fine Building; tot Free.

Tn nnrson who Will erect a Lanhtntiai buildinar of wood. Stone or brick, a tine business lot will be deeded. Address the Optic. See. those fine 18 cetn suspenders at Uouth Bros, Challies reduced to 5 cents per yard at Ilouth Bros, Silk Mitts only 19c, 24c and at R- M.

Wallace's. Mens' half hose only 9 cents 48o, 1" pair at K. M. Wnllace s. 10 dozen first grade suspenders at Roath Bros.

at 18 cents a pair. These are the world beaters. Local notices 5 cents per line each iusertixm. In BkAGIK P6 8 ctK- Fon Sai.e.--A thoroughbred short horn Durham bred bull. Color, red.

Weighs 1500. For further information call on or address J. W. HiNfcs, Hiattville, Kans. (3'rover Cleveland has a second cousin living at Wellington who thinks he would look just as well behind the stamp window at the poBtoffice as Jake toiler; In answer to the Optic Imp's Question as to who the p.

rh. will be I should Cleveland get there, 'we will say it is authoratively 'mated that Uncle' Jess wif do the stamp licking act iu that capacity. No young man shonld speak disrespectfully of a. young lady, tlie presence of strangers. Remember Vou havesus'ters of your oyu.

lven Away. Any person or persons will locate in Hiattville and establish a banking institution will be deeded a valuable business lot 30A60. The best location in town. Investigate. Address II E.

Bird, editor Optic. reo. B. isn't co-taes around. in it when Lon.

offering astonishing low bar- dUC6, and when you Visit gains, which will pay you totown make our store pace in yonr boss paper. Iv'e hadi em all sizes shades sad ige- and you bet rare butes Prn hav em eoma more. jqilers UKe blonde, snme brnnet nd othefs the betwixt-and-between. Blends, lire awl rite fer to Inhibit Ifinder eleatrlc life and. fill np on ise creme, brnnets are awl rit0 for.

to take few a 4U0e give rhe the brpwq-eyed brown-haired girl far br all-round steady 'Blonde are qo14 nd I shnd prefej a red'-' heded gurt every trip. -A red heied. gurl and a gpod roomy hammock don 'V go had. "Stil, Pye'seen blpndv I wood trust, I ope with my fofygraf wrjnce and' she Jet hur pug "tibew it to The pnrp died, Ever sense that crule act I've had the hydrafohft- 4 a desire' to drown my injured feelins with drink. Water, ttio, throes me into mental and beer makes, me froth at tne month.

Sum.fokes say I sham pain. Well, I do, when I run proper "Proper kalioo'' Ms from Seth Swap's fer Bashfull Lovyprs." definition Seth give8- of it is a gurl what 'knos her bizness. I struck sech a gurl wnnce, and proposed to' her. sed she wlpuld- trie when could showl.000 fera htjme, to furnish, it, and $100 for an emer gency. This wnz sven ago, and awl IvVgot so fer.

is the money fer the emergency, whatever that is The uther too thousand is non esti cum, and I guess it ain't ever going anl 27,. stra'te as an arrer and erne lots of stuff, but can't save much as long as the world is so full of gurls. I called on wnn; tother niie (the Fget p.ade For a bluff (pot bavin a sent) I sed: "Pretty cold. -night, fer lse-creme Nell." sez I. "Yes, but a'luVly.

trite 'fur the atur4 8d ene lukiii irbnr-wtitch which said 7:30. Gosh; how 1 swet fer about thirty minits. Ever bin ther fellers? Wurrain, aint it? Chicgo TheK. 8. A.

Fair. The Kansas Equal Suffrage As'so; ciationTaroposes to hold in Topeka, late ip. October, day All VA an villi. 'nnrt i'Af airT'l pected all friends of itf work are invited to in this nhder-taking. Each Auxilliary will defray the expense of shipment of its goods to the Fair, and that the expense will he borne, by the state state society.

pf its gross receipts will be returned to each local or county auxiliary- furnishing a table. No raffling will be oafried on at this Fair, and donors should bear this matter in mind when making articles. In avoid hiving-such a price ask: ed for goods that many goods will remain unsold, a committee bias been appointed by the board to revise the price of. articles from the veriou.8 societies, should suoh action seem necessary. Articles of'all which can be sold will be welcome fruit, cake, confectionery, fancy work, paintingi nheful and.

ornamental articles, whatever best contributed. Individual donations, which will be for the ben fit of the st-atp associa tion. should be sent- to -Mrs. T. E.

Bowman, Topeka. Evervbodv anywhere1 is invited to aid us in making this undertaking a success, 1 S. A. Thubstoh, Pres. of Board Zc Adams, Secretary One of the best brick plants' in the conntrv can be found on the McNaughton farm near this city We have samples of the briek manufactured there in our office which we will be pleased to exhibit to inter ested parties.

We "will also be pleased to send samples to contract ors and others for No work is beinr done at the yards at present, from the fact that the own ers have too "much other work, to at tend to. A practical brick maker with a little grit and capital Can find an opening here that is Worth inves- tigatinK. It is in fact a bonanza for the risht party. Any inoitiries'wtll be gladly answered by the editor -of investisfate, word. inlerton ngV n' always Uncle Jessgt Stifle has, gone v' to cobbling shoes, j' Candidate (jigars are unusually rank lha eeason, When one jtiinps at A conqlusion he raraly reaches it.

Thebes.t bnsinen oollege The schoo) of experience. Byron White made a bnsinass trip to Osawatomie yesterday. Look oat for announcements of the datft-ofAthe band festival. The Hiattville Cornet Band will give an ice cream ievtival in trie near green old-age i all right. is the green young age that is dan gerous.

4 We understand that Dr. id. Ken nel lost valuable horse-' one day this We have had a tough time this waek. rustling news. It' oppress ively quiet.

The -Hiattville Cornet Band is qpen-- tor engagements, utiarges reasonafble.1 F. Nail considerable petty theiving hiaVvicinity of, meat, gar- vegetables, John Catt, of the firm of Cstt Ft. Scott, was, a pleasant caller at the Ofno sanctum yester- dav. The Optic is in faor of protect- ion, out tne itina aavocatea oy tne Oarnegie-FrickrPinkertori crowd is not our Kintt. We hope shortly to move into pleassntef quartersVwhere we will be able to entertain or- friendaand patrons in little better manner.

The band desires to thank the Celebration committee for their promptness in paying over the money due them for their, services on the 4th. Wouldn't it be a picnic for such anarchistic aristocrats as those who train in the Carnegie-Frick gang if they could establish a Monarchy in this country? Dr. and Mrs. Griffin, of this city, and Mrs. U.

Griffin, of' Girard, drove over' to Pawnee the-jfirsfc- of the week where the last named "look the jtxain for home. We are pleased to place the Fort Scott Daily Monitor our Kst. It ranks among the eading' papers of the State. If you 'want the' news subscribe for the Monitor! i We1 areplease3 to 'chronicle, the fact that Comrade G. W.

Howe has been notified that he is to receive a (pension per month in addition to $288 already due him. He is deserving of tivery- pebny of it The history of the nations of the world shows, that a failure' to recog nlze the riahts of workmen and the poor has been the most substantial cause of their deoay and downfall. The United States mast profit by this lesson. Monitor. The editor of the Optio spent last Saturday in Fort Scott while there met'L.

Boyle and P. Dillard, the candidates of the Peoples party for county attorney and state senator Boyle is an affable and oonrtly gentleman, an honor to the legal fraternity of which he is a member, self made man, and has worthily filled the office which he now seeks- for a second term, The major portion of our readers, though they differ with him politically, will heartily indorse what we have said from an independent and non-partisan standpoint, We believe in honoring those who are mOBt worthy "regardless of political belief. Mr. Dillard is an experienced lawyer and will, if ably ani acceptably represent Bourbon county in the nett State (Senate. These1 gentlemen are both members of the Business Men's Club of Fort Scott, the rooms of which it is a pleasure to visit.

The reading room of the Club, filled ae it is with all the newspapers and periodicals of the day, is something above the ordinary. Gentlemen, we will take pleasure in visiting you WE. ARE THE LEADERS, Eduth Brothers. The ladies, of the M. cbu-rcfy Jwnee, will give a bo siipper-Nin the near future.

0. Settles, A. M. Jtoutb.rVa.od the Obtio quiJF driver visited ort (Scott Saturday Elder.J. Jf.

Williami" is making ftn effort' to procure money to re-seat he Christian, ohureh. Wm. HalJ started for the West last Sunday taking his threshing machine and crew along. The chain recently taken from the jewelry oasern t. Settle's drug Vtore been returned.

JTeyer bontract a friendship -with any one until you know how he -be' haved to his former friends. Modesty js a handsome dish-cov er, that makes lis fancy there he something goodunderueath Tho missing cap has been found, while the entire lot has oeen put away tar safe keeping until next 4th. A talse mend is. nice a shadow on A dial vvhiob appears in fine weather, but vanishes at the sight of a cloud. Mesdamee Mell B.

Bhepard, of Fol Scott, Nellie Calver, of Galena, nd N. S. Kinyon, of this city called featnrday, Aunt Lamenthia Gibbs, of this city, called Monday to have sample copies of this paper sent to friends jn Minnesota. JJan llunftie dp iwo. have lust rer reived a fine stearo engine and thresher.

They are having a water tank built by J. Peele. Our Maple Grove correspondent was just a day behind last week and in consequence his -matter bad to lay over. It appears this issue. Our issue of last week was com pletely exhausted before Monday nicht.

We had calls for BOO more papers than we could R. P. Andus, of Hollond, Chero keo county, visited in ou-r city dur Intr the week, lie mav conclude to locate here perroenentlv. He called on us Tuesday. The following persons called last.

Saturday during our absence and were entertained by D. W. Cochran. Messrs. Warreu and Fred Furry, Mrs.

V. V. Cady, Misses Allie Smith, Lois McNaughton, Nora Estella Cady, of this city and Maud Hesson, of Fort Scott. Theo. Kennell.of the firm of Dr.

I). Kennell fc Son, proprietors of the Hiattville creamery, called Friday nd subscribed for the Optio. Mr. K. informs us that it is next to impossible to.

secure enough milk to supply the demand. The creamery is now, and always has been a successful institution, and one our people can well feel proud 0. E. Corey, a candidate for -the nomination of county attorney on the republican ticket, was in our city Tuesday taking a view of the political horiaon. He didn't, think it worth bis'time to call on us, and we are not much of a Corey man.

The element of courtesy is evidently not a very prominent trait in that Gash Talks Loud FOR LOW PRICES AT THE OLD RELIABLE STORE OP R. M. WALLACE. It is a well known fact' that I carry only The Best Goods, And that ray prices are always The Lowest For Cash, Tt, will nav close buvers to call set 'our prices, take alook through our stock. Come in whether 'you buy or not, pur friends are always welcome, As we do business on a strictly CASH "basis wo shall expect you to come, prepared, M.

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