The Hiattville Weekly Optic from Hiattville, Kansas • 4

I I HIATTVILLE HAPPENINGS. Born- To Mr. Frank Steele and wife ten pound boy. 'There is another horse race on th tapis, but people will be careful this time how they bet on a sure thing. John, the correspondent of last week's PTIG, is sometimes out late at night and the duty then dev on his good wife to get in the kindling to start a fire the next morning.

John got up to make a fire but found no kindling. "Why i in thunder did you not get in something dry to kindle a Ire with?" says John in angry tones. dry do you want?" says John's better -half, "then take those Happenings' that yoit wrote for last week's OPTIC, they are the driest thing I know of." John an I his wife didn't speak till after breakfast. Mr. Goodnow says he never drank a glass of whisky in his life.

lle is from New England and always drank New England rum, which he says was good for him. 'The Routh Brothers have a large stock of goods now and make more money than any store outside of Fort Scott. The boys are ruth traders. Mr. Ili Downard talks of going west with the spring.

As Ili never drinks anything he will not go on the road to ruin. Richard Wallace is selling goods pretty fast and always looks out for No. I. lie is trying to get -rich-har 1," but vant, :18 there 18 21. high which he he can't look over.

Mr. Tillard Williams keeps al good supply of lumber which he will sell cheap tor cash or credit as you prefer. Alr. Williams formerly lived in the South, where he was engaged in rai-ing yams and sweet potatoes. He succeeded in raising a new variety of yams which he mined the Wil-yams." 'That reminds me that Tillard keeps his money in the till of the drawer which he kept locked with a combinaknown only to himself.

his father his clerk. Suspecting some petty thieying he lacked it with a combination known only to hinself, Now it happened that his father kept some private papers in that drawer, and one evening the old gentleman sitting up late looking over his papers and wanted those particular papers, so he went to the store about 11 or 12 o'clock and was trying to get his papers just as Tillard wes passing by. coming home from: a Inte garne of high live. 'Tillard heard him and thought it was thief. Ile raised the town and soon al dozen men surrounded the house with guns and revolvers resolved on capturing that thief or die.

Tillard looked in. when he saw, not the thief, but his father trying to get into that -till hard," but could not because it was locked with a new combination. L. E. Potter is bothered greatly with his neighbors chickens.

When they came over yesterday morning for their usual breakfast L. E. took his gun and bagged an old hen. When asked what he was going to do with it he promptly replied: fam going to "pot her." Frank Aidlot is one of the best blacksmiths in the country. But he suffers like all tradesmen nowadays from the credit system.

But he has now put up a sign that hereafter he will work for cash only. Ile is enough to tell them he will not a lot" of dead beats by trusting. They must pay cash. The railroad authorities wishing to economize have laid -ff one of the section men, Mr. Poe at this place.

Mr. Poe will wield the pick no more this winter. As it is very cold and there is nothing else to do he will have plenty of time to play a po." The following pun on Otto Settles appeared once before in the OPTIC while the celebrated he bird that tried so hard here to get a she bird but could not, was running this paper. But in justice we will say it never emanated from that skilled head of the said he bird. Who wrote it we do not know.

but we think the man is dead now, that wrote it, probably committed suicide. Tais was the play upon words: Our genial friend Otto Setties is married. As to the much discussed question as to whether marriage is a failure or not this Otto Settle it. George llowe is a good genial fellow. Everybody likes George.

and George likes everybody. Bun by George he will get come you once in a while. But George, how much he drinks or bow often he drinks or how much money he spends is now body's business. To be continued next week if the writer is not found out in the meantime and killed. minds of the citizens in such a state of nervous excitement that the crowing of the sentinel cock announcing the dawning of Sabbath was hailed with delight.

PAWNEE BILL. D. W. C. drove over from Pawnee Sunday.

We wonder if Ed Eeasly has recovered yet. NUTS WITHOUT HULLS. Nice weather. Doughnuts are still in it. Don't be a flirt.

Parties and dances are all the go. People should try to be as pleasant and agreeable as the weather has been for the past two weeks. There were a large number of young people from and around attended church at Pleasant Valley last Sunday afternoon. Gorge B. and others should not be so late to church Sunday afternoons.

We would like to know how "sister" Fred Furry likes the druggist business by this time. Mr. Dennis and John Dearing visited W. H. Kerlee and family last Wednesday.

Mr. Shuler says giggling is not known in "our school." There were several young people from Hiattville attended caurch at Pawnee, last Sunday evening. We wonder it Bob K. has got his load of coal from where it was last Sunday night. 'There were al number of young people assembled at the residence of W.

H. Kerlee last Tuesday evening. They passed the evening in plays and dancing and other amusements. All report an enjoyable time. If the weather stays suitable the farmers will soon go to sowing oats.

The people of Hiattville and vicinity should do their duty in trying to make their home paper a success. The dance at the hotel last Friday night was a success. The buzz of the threshing machine was heard at A. Fields last Wednesday. Prove not to be a false friend.

PAWNEE ITEMS. S. J. Cooper went to Girard Monday, Go to G. W.

Barton's for pure drugs. D. W. Cochran spent Monday evening at S. Cooper's.

gF. E. Morrison of Ft. Scott was in our town Monday. S.

Wallace and Gus Climpkey took the train Sunday for Pittsburg. Charley Primrose has returned from Ft. Scott where he has been staying for some time. Robert Mack of Cato. hauled a load of good- from this station to Cato for P.

Smith Wednesday. Pawnee Bill and our devil went to Cato Tuesday evening and attended the holiness meeting being held there. Henry Klocksen and sisters Misses Lillie and May of Ft. Scott, visited friends and relatives at this place Sunday. Mr.

F. Klocksen's house was discovered to be on fire Monday, but by the belp of neighbors it was put out befere much damage was done. Quite a number of our young people attended Catholic church at Hiattville Sunday and in the evening several loads of came to Pawnee to church. We are glad to hear of Dick Wallace attending church Sunday. he used to live at this place and we believe he attended once while here.

The Adams Express company have introduced the money order system at this place. This safe and convenienet way of sending money supplies a medium of exchange that has been needed for some time. Anyone that needs the best goods at the lowest prices need not go to Fort Scott to do their trading when Aubrey 0" Swain will sell as cheap or even cheaper than any town the size of Ft. Scott, where rents are high. If that monster who thinks he is all eyes that goes by the name of "Argus of Hiattville, that writes for the News- Broadax will come to Pawnee we will give him a drink of our best Confederate Post Master Forty Rod Tanglefoot which he talks about.

We are going to have the postoffice and a dozen persons like "Argus can't stop us. Instead ot being bothered by a solitary singer this village is infested by multitudinous songsters Saturday night. After singing such selections as More Ribber to Cross," "We're Going Home Tomorrow," and "Home Sweet with voices like the sounds of the filing of a saw and the deep tones of the bullfrog they departed leaving th It seem that a certain gent still denies his being the S. S. It is useless, when every one who heard him knows exactly who it was.

Come now, Doc, an honest confession is good for the soul. The local editor of the OPTIC surely must be a Populist, from the reading of certain portions of the paper, especially where he compares capital and labor. It seems to me that if capital ever was a fice it is now a full sized dog. Our barber flew his kite for pastures more green. Argus Eye, of Broadax fume seems to have it in for our P.

M. and few others. Pawnee Bill should not expect Grover to appoint him as P. M. when there are several Democrats in East Pawnee.

We don't want to see a member of the woman suffrage party as P. M. I wonder who the young lady was whom Doc. was parading with in Fort Scott last Saturday. Street Urchin was in Fort Scott a few days ago and had a pleasant time.

Quite a number of the young people of this vicinity attended church at Pawnee last Sunday evening. Uncle Jimmie will give a supper at hall Saturday evening for the benefit of the church. Wonder who it was that had to walk up the bill last Sunday night? Clarence says that Bird ain't in it any more. Fred Furry seems to ba quite apt at learning the art of making pills under the tutorship of O. L.

Settles. STREET URCHIN. STTEET PICKINGS. OBITUARY. Margaret A.

Harland departed from this life at the residence of her daughter Mrs. A. McCallister at Hiattville, on January 21st at 7:15 p.m., aged 78 years 8 months, 18 days. Her death was calm and peacefull, was more like one falling into a sweet sleep. She was a thorough and constadt christian, having accepted Christ as her savior some sixty years ago and has steadfastly kept the faith up to the time she fell asleep in Jesus.

Her funeral services were held at the residence of her eldest son C. B. bar and at Oswego, in a quiet and unostentations manner according to her request. All her chi'd den six in nnmber were present as well immediate relations ar friends in luding her only living sister. Mrs.

Shumaker from Warrensburg, M.o. HIATTVILLE, OF CAMP A. 1364, Hiattville, Kansas. Meets every Thursday night. I.

P. ROUTH, Counsel. 0. 1.. SETTLES, Clerk.

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CARTER MEDICINE New York. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE First publication January 21, NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL REAL ESTATE. In the Probate Court of Bourbon County, Kansas In the matter of the Estate of Hannah Uland, deceased.

To all persons interested: TOTICE is hereby given that on the 18th day of January 1898, the undersigned filed in said court a petition for leave to sell real estate described in said petition, for the payment of the debts of said estate, and that said application will be heard on the 17th day of February 1893, at 10 o'clock a. or as soon thereafter as the same can be heard by the court. This notice is given in pursuance of an order of said court, dated January 18th, 1893. MRS. LAURA A.

BENNETT, Administrator of said Estate W. WEBSTER, Atty. for Administrator, 3t Stood Sell It is generally ROUTH BROS. any other all Store the county. Cash is What Does it! We aim to invoice our goods the 3rd, 4th and 5th of January.

From now till that, date we have Many Bargains Which it will pay you to investigate. We are Leaders of how Prices, And our stock was carefully selected of the best goods. ROUTH BROTHERS. IF YOU WANT INFORMATION ABOUT PENSIONS 5 ADDRESS A LETTER OR POSTAL CARD TO THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY, JOHN WEDDERBURN, Managing Attorney, P. O.

Box 463. Washington, D. C. Honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who served ninety days. or over, in the late war, are entitled, if now partially or wholly disabled for ordinary manual labor, whether disability was caused by service or not, and regardless of their pecuniary circumstances.

WIDOWS of such soldiers and sailorsare entitled (if not remarried) whether soldier's death was due to army service or not, if now dependent upon their own labor for support. Widows not dependent upon their own labor are entitled if the soldier's death was due to service. CHILDREN are entitled (if under sixteen years) in almost all cases where there WAS 110 widow, or she has since died or remarried. PARENTS are entitled if soldier left neither widow nor child, provided soldier died in service, or from effecta of service, and they are now dependent upon their own labor for support. It makes no difference whether soldier served or died in late war or in regular army or navy.

Soldiers of the late war, pensioned under one law, may apply for higher rates under other laws, without losing any rights. Thousands of soldiers drawing from $2 to Sto per month under the old law are entitled to higher rates under new law, not only 011 account of disabilities for which now pensioned, but also for others, whether due to service or not. Soldiers and sailors disabled in line of duty in regular army or navy since the war are also entitled, whether discharged for disability or not. Survivors, and their widows, of the Black Hawk, Creek, Cherokee and Seminole or Florida Indian Wars of 1832 to 1842, are entitled under a recent act. Mexican War soldiers and their widows also entitled, if sixty two years of age or disabled or dependent.

old claims completed and settlement obtained, whether pension has been granted under later laws or not. Rejected claims reopened and settlement secured, if rejection improper or illegal. Certificates of service and discharge obtained for soldiers and sailors of the late war who have lost their original papers. Send for laws and information. No charge for advice, No fee unless successful, Address, THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY, JOHN WEDDERBURN, Managing Attorney, P.

O. Box 463. WASHINGTON, D. C. -CALL ONOTHICK CAMPBELL, UNION BLOCK, FT.

SCOTT, FOR 4 CHEAP MONEY 4 On Farm or City Property. JAMBS WALLS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Harness, Saddles, Hides, Furs, PELTS, ETC. TURF GOODS A SPECIALTy. No. 15 Market Square, Fort Scott, Kansas.

H. BROWN. Merchant Tailor. NO. 199 MARKET STREET.

FORTSCOTT, KANSAS. A.