The Centralia Journal from Centralia, Kansas • 1

The Centralia Journal. In CENTRALIA, KANSAS, MAR. 17. 1905. XXI.

NO. 12. I A NE NINES The Farmers Store We Want to Impress on the Minds of the Buying Community in this vicinity that the Goods and Prices in this store are unusual. Unusual in good quality and low price. Our motto is the best possible quality for the price.

This week we put on sale: 25 doz. women black and cotton children Stockings, ssizes, at 10 pieces wide Embroidery, Corset Cov. yard 35c to $1.25 100 yds and 27 in. cream. Japanese Just the Silks, thing white for 5 doz.

Suits, Men's each white cotton Union. $1.00 sweet girl graduates, 60c 1000 May Manton Patterns, each, 10C 5 doz. No "The buttons to Bachelor" come off, Undershirt. each, 50c GROCERY DEPARTMENT. 5 cases 5 lb.

package Rolled Oats, 15c pk 10 bags Oyster Shells 85c sk 7 lbs Japan Rice 25c 5 cases seeded Raisins 5c pk 6 lbs Navy Beans 25c J. H. Thom, Centralia, Kas. Dr. J.

S. Hidden. John Stephenson, son of Ephriam and Dolly Hidden, was born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, August 4, 1820. When he was four years of age death deprived him of a father's care. His mother was left with six small children, the youngest a babe but nine months old.

She was a woman of superior education, great energy and marked piety, and was a useful and active member of the chuich. She educated her children with great care and it la to her influence and instruction that they were indebted for that exceptional success and usefulness which attended them through life. It is seldom that all the members of a large family have survived until the youngest has reached the age of oftyty six and all become in their several localities distinguished for usefulness, meriting and receiving the confidence and esteem of the community. 'Vith the aid of his mother the doctor succeeded in securing good education. He worked upon the farm during the summer time until he was tweuty years of age.

There were always excellent schoolsin the neighborhood, and his eldest brother being preceptor. of the Gilmanton! Academy, took special pains to a8- aist him, so that, notwithstanding his farm work, he commenced the study of medicine, and graduated with honors from the medical department of Dartmouth College, in 1846. He located for the practice of Jade profession at Elliott, Maine, remaining one year. He then removed to Saco, aud for two years continued in practice with his preceptors, Drs. Malvey Grant.

In the fall of 1849 he went to New York City and spent the winter in the hospitals there, receiving great benefit from researches into medical science and the practice of the wards. In 1850 he settled in Deerfield, New Hampshire, where he enjoyed a successful practice, as is attested by complimentary notices of his success in surgery, by the newspapers of that day. To him belongs the distinction of being the first to use chloroorm in surgery in the state of New Hampshire. In 1857 he removed to Burlington, Iowa, aud from thence to Wataga, Illinois, remaining but a short time in each place. In 1858 he removed to- Kansas, where he and other brave, self-sacrifiring men formed a colony on the old town Rite of Centralla, and, I worthy representatives of the ciples and lite of New England, the THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CENTRALIA Directors: A.

J. BESC, capital surplus and unWith President. F. P. BOWEN, divided profits of $47,200,00 Vice President.

A. OBERNDORR, affords absolate and Vice President. security to J. B. Cashier.

depositors. N. S. KInG. JOHN E.

KInG. Your account solicited. BRIGE J. KING. The First National Bank Of Centralia, Kansas.

OBITUARIES. most subetantial building they erected was for educational purposes and to serve temporarily for a place of worship. Dr. Hidden was a good type of the New England physician in his love for culture and his devotion to free institutions. He came of good old Congregational stock.

His uncle, Rev. Samuel Hidden, waR a Congregational clergyman of considerable distinction, a graduate of Dartmouth College, universally respected for his abilities and genuine worth, and for more than forty years the well-known minister of Tamworth parish, in which he settled at an early day. He was ordained upon a rock near the church, since known as "ordination rock," and on which a haudsome granite monument has beeu erected by the citizens to commemorate his services aud death. Dr. Hidden's eldest brother, Rev.

Epbriam N. Hidden, was tor of the Congregational Church at Enat Midway, Mass. The doctor belonged to that stur dy class of pioneers who the prairies as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free." They made possible for us the common schools, the churches, and all institutions that stand for good With prophetic vision they saw into the future and counted their present hardships as naught. All honor to the dauntless spirits that conquered difficulties and made what was once known as the Great American Desert to bud and blossom as the rose, and who through drouth, famine, war and grasshopper scourge, developed and held for their successors this grand heritage. Dr.

Hidden has well been called the Father of Centralia. In ministering to suffering humanity he traversed the trackless prairies, braving the storms of winter and the heat of summer, to bring comfort and health to the stricken ones who anxiously awaited his coming. Many were the loug, weary journeys he made in this and adjoining counties, penetrating far into Nebraska, to relieve the suffering and the a ed by his superior knowledge of medical science. Men who rode for miles to secure his aid found a warm welcome, and were never allowed to return to their homes without sitting at his table, sleeping in his bed, or in some way partaking of his hospitality. Children whom he ushered into the world grew to womanhood and manhood and made homes of I their own to which they welcomed The influence of ha licing efforts In behalf of suffering multitudes is still felt in their homes and his spirit shall continue to live In their memories so long as their stay on earth shall last.

Dr. Hidden was alwaye an antislavery man, and he held positions of honor and trust in the Republican party. In 1857 he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives; in 1863 he was a member of the lower house of the Kansas Leglelature, and was re-elected in 1864. He frequently repremented his party in local and stateconventions, and filled various local offices. He was a Royal Arch Mason and aleo a member of the I.

0. 0. F. For many years he held the position of treasurer in the Masonic body, among whom he was esteemed very highly. November 16,1848, he was married at North Parsonsfield, to Hannah of James Wad.

leigh, of an ancient and very respectable New England family. A little over five years after they celebrated their golden wedding, and while residing at Alvin, Texas, the angel of death entered his home and bereft him of the companion who for 80 many years had shared with him the joys and sorrows of life. Last summer he revisited his New England home. While there he was united in marriage to Mre. Mehala T.

Plummea, of Saco, Maine, the sister of his former wife, who came to Kansas with him and made a pleasant home for him in the house where he had spent the most active years of hie life. He was the last leaf on the the family tree, none of his brothers or sisters surviving him. He passed from this life March 12, 1905, aged 84 years, 7 mouthe and 8 days. He leaves a wife and two daughters, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren, to mourn his loss. His elder daughter, Mrs.

A. J. Birchfield, resides at Alvin, Texas. The other daughter, Mre. D.

Birchfield, has always made her home at Centralia, Kansas. In the homes where his coming was always a benediction and where his paine had hecome a bouseholn word, Dr. Hidden's mem ory will long be cherished. Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday afternoon, at 2:30, by Rev. Browning.

After reading the above article, written by Mrs. Best, he read a passage of scripture from the 3d chapter of Proverbs, 13-18 verses, enumerating the blessings r'esulting from attaining of wisdom, which he said was Illustrated In the life of the Doctor, he having had length of days, riches, honor, pleasant and peaceful ways, making a life that stands as a tree of life. At the close of the service the Mnpoule lodge took charge and also conducted the service at the grave. John M. McCleary Dead.

Shortly after five o'clock Monday morning while dressing, J. M. McCleary fell dead at his home in Cen-: tralia. He went to bed Sunday evening feeling as well as usual and evidently awoke feeling well but before he finished dressing, and without the slighest warning or a word, he sank to the floor dead, tire cause of his death being heart failure. Neighbors were quickly eummoned by his frightened wife, a doctor was called, but he was past all suffering and pain.

The funeral services were held at the Congregational church Tuesday morning conducted by Rev. Moorehouse. The Centralia G. A. R.

Post of which Mr. McCleary was an honored member, took charge of the burial services at the cemetery. J. M. McCleary was born August 21, 1832, near Chambersburg, Franklin county, Penn, where he spent his boyhood days.

He was married to Ruth Hildreth at Mansfield, Ohio, in 1857. Six children were born to this union. Two of the children have preceded him to the grave, Mre. Grace Meyers and Charley McCleary. The surviving are J.

J. McCleary of Axtell, Kansas, Morton McCleary of Dover, Mrs. Nettle Ekart of Centralia and Mrs. Ruth Detweiler of Mina, Kansas. Mr.

McCleary came to Kansas in the early days and had the pleasure of seeing our fair state grow to be one of the great states of this union. He has lived in Nemaha county near C'entralia since 1890. A few years ago he sold his farm and mov. ed to Centralla where he and his invalld wife, who has been his constant care for several years, have made their home. He was 72 years, 6 months and 12 days old at the time of his death.

Mr. McCleary enlisted as a private in the first independent Ohio battery of volunteers on the 11th day of December 1861. He was appointed fret sergeant and later as second lieutenant, receiving an honorable discharge at the close of the war. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to thank the friends, neighbors and the G.

A. R. Post for their kindly assistance in the burial four beloved father. MRS. RUTH McCLEARY AND FAMILY.

Robert McCalg. Robert McCalg, one of the old settlers of Nemaha county died Friday afternoon, March 10, 1905 at the home of his son, James MeCaig, in Centralia. The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock lu the M. E. church, conducted by Rev.

Browning. Interment was in the Centralia cemetery. Robert McCaig was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania February 19, 1924 where he lived and grew to manhood. He was married to MINE Elizabeth Isenberg in 1849 at the old Pennsylvania home. About one year later he moved to Champion county, Oblo with his young wife and here they made thete home for several Two were born to them in the Ohio home, William and James.

In the year 1863 with his family he moved to Prairie Home, Shelly county, Illinois. Here the family made their home for a number of years. In the Illinois home three more children were born, Mary, Laura and George. In the year 1878, with his family, Mr. MeGatg moved to Nemaha county, Kansas, whieh has since been his home.

His children grew to manhood and womanhood around him. He saw them married and start homes for themselves and happy grand-children and great-grandchildren made pleasant his declining years. His wife died January 24, 1895, and sluce her death he has made his home with his son George at the old home place south of town. Early last spring he suffered a stroke of paralysis. From this stroke he rallied and enjoyed very good health for one of his age, but about five weeks ago he suffered the second stroke of paralysis.

He was brought to the home of his son, James, here in Centralia, where he was tenderly cared for until his death. All his children, but one, survive him and he has one brother still living. He offered a fervent prayer, bade all good bye and went in peace to his God. A Peculier February. From Dr.

Snow's weather report at hand we learn that the winter just closed has been the coldest for twenty years, the mean temperature of the three winter months being 24.75 degrees. The coldest winter on record in Kansas was that of 1884-85, in which the mean temperature was 21.03 degrees. With the exception of February, 1899, last February war the coldest one on record. The low temperature was however restricted to the first half of the month, which In average temperature was 22.14 degrees, below the mean of thirtyseven years. The last half of the mouth was considerably warmer than the average and more so than in any preceding February since 1896.

A Chicago Alderman Owes His Elec. tion to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. can heartily and conscientiously recommend Chamqerlain's Cough Remedy for affections of the throat and lungs," soys Hon. John Shenick. 220 So.

Peoria Chicago. years ago during a political campaign I caught cold, after being overheated. which irritated my throat, and 1 was tinally compelled to stop, H8 a could not speak aloud. In my extremity a friend advised me to use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I took two doses that afternoon and couid not believe my senses when I found the next morning the inflammation had largely subsided.

I took several doses that day. kept right on talking through the campaign, and thank this medicine that I won my seat in the ('ouncil." This reinedy is for sale by the A. J. Best Drug Co. M.

G. Heald left last Friday for Ellinwood. Kamas, to see moth who is 11. Sho to 1G go ere of er,.