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Town and Country and the Sasnak from Fort Scott, Kansas • 3

Town and Country and the Sasnak from Fort Scott, Kansas • 3

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Fort Scott, Kansas
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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. Redfield Weekly Review. Bring Your Corn to Glover Ush it. Redfield, Kansas. Claud Hunt was sick the last part of last week.

Jess Turner was here Sunday. Lauree Lewis came home Saturday morning and returned to Harrison, Sun.day. Siace the Missouri Pacific pays $1.50 a day, Mr. Martin has all the men he wants. Cggsai Bring Your Corn to Glover Redfield, Kans.

Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison and Mrs. D. H.

Cowan and daughter, Gol-die, of Iola and Miss Edna Cowan of Emmet, spent Thanksgiving with their auct, Mrs. M. Pool. Right is Right Frank Shorten is hauling lumber from town to build a new barn. Isa Greene spent Sunday with her parents here.

"Frank Welch an dfamily were down from Bronson Thanksgiving. Mrs. James Cooper went to Fort Scott Monday. TURKEY CREEK ITEMS. By Georgia Anderson.

Little Ray Hartman is sick with a cold. Roy Neville and Alvia Hartman are helping Zeke Anderson shuck corn. Mrs. Eliza and Georgia Anderson spent Thanksgiving at Mr. Jake Underwood's.

Mr. Dave Morris moved his family to Unlontown last Tuesday. Zeke Anderson, who has been sick the past week, is some better. Mr. and Mrs.

Sutton were visiting relatives on the Creek Friday and Saturday. Mr. Joseph. Harding cf Waverly III. is visiting his sister Mrs.

Baptist. Messrs. Chester Holeman and Clarence Myer, Mattie and Nannie 'Anderson and Mrs. Anderson spent Sunday at Eliza Anderson's. Alvia and Mary Hartman and Roy nd Kittle Nevlle spent Saturday evening with Lucy Baptist.

They had a very pleasant time making taffy and popping corn. Mr. I Wright received a nice box" of fruit from California last week. Mr. Harding, and Joe Baptist went to Allen county Saturday to visit relatives.

Misses Nora and Mamie Holt spent Sunday with Creta and Mary Hartman. Ed and J. W. Hartman sold their 'hogs to William Kirker last Thursday. As one of Uniontown's cornet players was sick Saturday Otis Lease played cornet in Uniontown's band at their social.

and wrong Is wrong. There i no middle station in Eyeglasses or. Spectacles. If they are not right they are Certainly wrong and should not be used. Dr.

Griffith, the optical authority of Fort Scott, has had inany years of experience, besides the best equipped optical parlor in the State. He grinds all his own lens, thus saving you time and money. See him for the best -work, the most thor- ough examination and a square deal. Parlor in Drake Block, over Brlght's Store. White3ides moved their goods into their new store building the first of the week.

Bertha Caldwell returned from Westphalia Sunday evening and went to work in Whiteside's store, On last Friday an accident occurred at Bandera which caused Claud Jcnes to get his foot very painfully mashed. A stone broke in two "which was being hoisted out of the pit, one part falling on his foot. Claud will be unable to walk for some time. Frank Draper was in town Monday. Bert Seaman is working for tfoi-inger Lumber Co.

M. W. Turner's car was unloaded Saturday. He has decided that sunny Kansas is good enough for him. DavidsonTheatcr Harry Ernich, Managed MONDAY, DECEMBER 11th.

Firfth AnnfiA.ra.nr.fl Hera rf This Every fall some one is hunting a house in Redfield. At least a dozen more houses could be rented here if some one would build them. Brilliant Musical Gomedy i Bert Troutman returned from Wash "lirrton state last week. W. I.

Whiteside received a letter from -W. E. Stockmyer and wife last week in which they state that Mrs. Stockmyer's, health very much improved an.d 'they are both well contented. We are glad to receive such news.

Jimmy Tumility, who was sent to the hospital from Bandera, is getting along nicely. SQUARE TOP ITEMS. By Clara M. Stevens. Charles Welch visiting his Mrs.

John Padgett, near Hiatt-villei this week. Meeting will continue this week at Mt. Orum. Howari Troy started, for another trip to. Western Kansas Tuesday morning.

Rev. Banks went to Moran Sunday morning. Rev. Caldwell will begin a meeting at Centerville Sunday night. Claud Jones' foot Is improving nicely.

He was able to walk down town Tuesday. ine ocnooi vain, The only Company in America presenting this Famous Musical Success. A Superb Company of 60 and augmented orchestra. Prices: 25c to TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12th. Adelaide Thurston in "The Triumph of Betty," Miss Thurston as Betty Bartlett "supporting an excellest company No Better Attraction will offer-en this season.

Prices: 25c to 1.50. Matinee and Night SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16th. The Startling Comedy Drama 'The Lighthouse The editor of the Herald attended the oyster supper given at Unlontown Thanksgiving evening and with the sweet strains of music from their band and the chats with his many friends he enjoyed himself hugely. Mrs. Lewis nad Mrs.

Searle drove to Fort Scott Saturday. Otis Barnihard and wife spent Sun-day with Mr. and Mrs. Ern Cox. Little Pauline Turner has been quite sick for the past few days, but is reported as better now.

Jenneth Davenport, Arch and Elmer Ramsey, were hunting Thanksgiving. They captured a nice lot of game. Adam Ham Is talking of going back to Wisconsin and bringing his niece home with him, be, company for Katy. Grandpa Turner and family have mwed back on their farm. Their many friends welcome them back home.

Elmer Robinson and wife have returned from Arkansas. Elmer wants to rent a farm and go to housekeeping in the good old way. A pleasant Thanksgiving was spent at the home of Jane A. Stevens with music, pictures and stories of the pioneer days, which we never tire of listening to. The dinner was a glorious repast, long to be remembered.

It seemed a sin to slaughter our pets, so we let the turkey strut around the farm yard and substituted chicken to go with the plum pudding, pumpkin pie 'and cranberry sauce. The turkey seemed happy that he escaped so luck-dly. Mother Stevens has passed her four -acore years; for. fourteen years she has spent Thanksgiving with the fam-, ily of her son, Dewitt, but owing her feebleness could not go this year. They were invited to dine with her, makjng the fifteenth Thanksgiving spent together.

We hope she may be spared to spend many more Thanksgivings with us. John Morris comes over to town every evening and takes a load of people over to Mt. Orum to church. Sunday Glovers and Dr. Leases roosters were settling a dispute on the railroad near.

the elevator just ts the west bound passenger came through and Glovers big white rooster, 'ssfi beheaded by the train. Robbery, LOXAL CITY NEWS. Berry, the insane woman from Spokane, 'Washington, who has de-' filed anybody to take her from the touet room in the Meteor passenger coach, that was sidetracked' at GI-rard, was made a prisoner Wednesday morning at 10:30, through the efforts 6f W. T. Monahan, who threw ammonia and water into the toilet room.

The ammonia was so strong that the fumes suffocated her for a moment and Mr. Monahan and the sheriff of Crawford county battered the door down and caught her before she had time to regain herself. Steve Hayden, the well known Missouri 'Pacific conductor, was taken suddenly ill at Wichita Tuesday whi'e on his way from the depot to the hotel. He was on his return trip to Fort Scott, and had not felt well during the trip and he fell on the sidewalk, cutting a gash in his face. Mr.

Hayden is in the hospital at Wichita and his condition was reported to be much better today. J. M. the popular mattress manufacturer, has bought a lot adjoining the fire department on the south side and will erect a building for his business. Things were mighty blue around the Herald office Saturday morniag.

The editor's maltese cat died. A play in Four Acts with Special-' ties. Afternoon Prices: 15 -25c. Night: 25, 35 50c. ALL WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, DECEMBER 18th.

The Woodward Stock Company Change of Play Nightly. Matinee Saturday. Sid tires Is getting independently ricn, trapping. Mrs. N.

Strain visited her daughter at Fort Scott last week. A newspaper clipping wi3s ent to us this week from Mrs. Halsted but for the lack of space we couldn't pub-.

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