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54 for the round trip. on mm WHAT ON EARTH WAS IT ABOUT.i Wat ThU Story of Humor or Simple Lunacy, "It was on a Fall river boat thatthU AUKSOUKI I'ACIt'lC. (joint? TCatit-No. 202, ft. m.

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CHURCH DIRECTORY. CHRISTIAN. Services every Fuuday at 11 a--in. and p. m.

Sundiiy school at 10 a. in. Hiutauvor Tuemlay evening hi o'clock. J. Jl.

tcicuAM, Pastor. APTIST. Services every iiowmd and fourth Sunday at 3 p. m. T.

1owney, l'antor. METHODIST. Services tlrrfl and ttiird Sunday evenings of every month at and second and fourth Sundays at II a. m. Hav.

Ilia nbon, l'astor. SOCIETY DIRECTORY. O. O. Lodirs No.

4-22. Meets every Wednesday evening. A cordial invitation xtended to brother members. W. H.

Stovkr, N. Q. W. C. Galloway, Sec'y.

CLAFLIN CAMP No. 1711, M. W. of A. Meets first aud third Friday evenings of every month.

Visiting neighbors iuviled to attend. M. A. Douse, Clerk. L.

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A. K. Meets 2nd Saturday of every month. Comrades in standing welcomed. Wm.

M. Maxwell, Commander. D. MoNTOOMiiitY, Adjutant. 1CKHAM CAMP No.

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I Mayo, Capt. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. COUNTY Ori'ICERS. Treasurer D. Boss1 clerk K- Typer olnTid' George Spencer Register of Deeds H.

J. Klein ierk of District Court K. A. harles ouniy Al.lornev K- L. Hotchkit robate T.

11. Brewer -uperinteiidviiitoi Schools Frank McKinney oronor Dr. G. L. Kocn in veyor S.

A Neweouibo D. Montgomery ommissioners-i P. Bruct C. L. Moset 1NDJSPENDJENT TWP.

OFFICKKS. i'rusteo Fred Ozeul)ergcr lclj s. W. B. Norrif.

reaJurer K. L. Hamilton i Joseph YVefeh fn.stices.. i. Ward W.

C. Galloway Constables William Grofcharat LOIiAN TWI. Ol I ICliKS. F. A.Prager It-rk Frank Kohl -hn Kohl i F.

btewart W.K. K. Tillotj George FeiK ontitables. Joseph Koh SCHOOL liOAKD. F- M- Campbell (.,.

11. W. Siovei- ieasu'rer J- V- MeDermoU GERffiAMA INSURANCE COMPANY, OK FKEEPORT.ILL, 1 1. A. C.

IIartman, Local Agent. F. M. CAMPBELL, Physician aid Surgeon. CLAFLIN, KANSAS.

J-Ofllc at City Drug Store. wagopiakeraed blacksmith. Jllorseshoeing a Specialty Claflin, Kansas. O. S.

WHITE, BARBER SHOP. Specif 1 Attention to Ladies' and Children's Hairiiuttiiig. Opp.Bailky House, Clams, Kanka. 3. B.

REAL ESTATst, all at Clallin Sttite Bank. UrJio Farm toans. Fine Farms For Sale CRESWELL'S. FOR PHOTOGRAPHS. Repining jromlay, June 27, we will give frve with each dozen Cabinets, six stamp photos.

OneD Dauu Store CLAFMS I'OsTOFriCE. Ollice open from 10 a. m. until 9 p. iu, j.

a. tt5eurrc4," said Lieut. Oscar King at the Lotos club, "and it's worth "If It isn't funny, cut it short," raid Col. Robert Gordon. "But it is funny," replied Went.

King, "and I'm going to tell it. Whek we pulled out of New York there was a nice little sea running, jus'j enough to knock tho formality out of every one on board. It was tho uual crowd, you know, and one younfy couple, evidently a bride and grown, attracted my attention. Ho was one of those busy little men, and riie looked very new. Apparently it was tlmir first experience on a boat.

They Were tim id at dinner, and they had some diilicuity in locating their staterooms. Another passenger besides myself was interested in them. He looked like a bar, detective. Hi? mustaches were heavy and black, an his hat as drawn over his eyes, You know the type, colonel" "Yes, yes; but go on," said the colonel. "What was it? An elopement?" "Don't crowd," said Lieut.

K.njj "This is my best story. You remember that spring but on the Platte, colonel, when there was such shooting? Those were the days when "Now look here, King," interrupted the colonel, "you got well started on a Fall river boat, brido and groom, detective, elopement, and all that sort of thing." "Certainly, I remember. Well, as I started to say, the bride dropped her fan, and before her husband could get it this mysterious man whom I took to be a detective pounced on it, opened it, and read something written inside. Then he handed it quickly to the bride. Say, colonel, do you remember the day you fired both barrels into the flock and didn't get a bird? How you "King, you are wandering," said the colonel.

"Don't you remember? Fall river boat, bride and groom, elope ment. detective, and fan." "To be sure I do," continued Lieut. King, "and I propose to finish it." The three men at the table drew near. "Well," he said, "it struck me as funny at the time that the bride didn't seem angry at the detective's insolence. She paid no attention to it.

I don't think that her husband noticed that the fellow opened the fan. That was my impression then, and I have had no reason to change it." Lieut. King was talking slowly and conservatively. lie had interested his listeners. "It was an unusually rough night with a nasty westerly wind that brought rain.

I remember it well. After smoking a pipe I turned in about midnight. For some reason I found it hard to get aslep. 1 felt that some- thing was goin? to happen. What are you fellows going to have?" "Same's before, but go on," said the colonel and his friends in chorus.

I remember that my restlessness was the same restlessness that seized me the night before that brush with the reds when you got tapped in the shoulder, colonel. It was the same feeling of uneasiness. You know it, colonel. "Yes, yes, but go on. What about the bride and groom and detective?" "As impatient as ever, colonel, I see.

Well, I tossed and was tossed around for hours. Then I fell asleep. I was aroused by a sudden shock. The sun was shining into my stateroom and the boat had stopped er what are you fellows going to have? "King, what on earth had happened?" asked the colonel. "No, nothing more." "Well, I did not know," continued Lieut.

King. "I rang for a stew-ird, and said to him: 'Where are w6 'At Fall he replied. 'I thought said I. I have never seen mosquitoes so thick." Lieut. King paused.

His listeners looked at him. Then he arose and km id: gentlemen, I must be Good night." Before any one had re covered he was gone. "But but but," stammered tin colonel, when he recovered lii-j speech "was that all of the story?" "Must have been," said another listener. "He evidently wound it up." "But I don't see the Bride and ifroom, detective, fan, suddeo. stop, Fall river I have never seen rnot.quitoes so thick.

Was it anny? What was "Don't UuoiV, I'm sura," said the third man. "Let's tnifc now." "Thoy look a if Kimr had been telling them his Fall river story," remarked Chandos Ful ton, as three uax.l-looking men walked out into the dark. -N. Sua. Handel very larye, weighing yer two iiUTuirpd p-iimda; hin flure was unwieldy, and he rolled from s'ule to side as he walked.

Ills hands we ro tin! ponderous tlin I voadaved how he could play the harp M-' chord or au at all. His fdee wt and coarse, with a icm nose. thi.Wt lower lip hi 1 ut'd chin with a diuipi I hi it. liis eye', weri ttnd eyebrows wera fall. He was a inon- Ktroas e.itcr, and t.fc times uran.v heavily.

His eoaeeit was st'apundoas, and lie always entertained the idea that there was no inusi-j to be compared to his own. tie was boorish in mamiers, quick in temper, and when irritated would sometimes give utterance to a robust oath in the German His contemporaries said he lool.ed like a porter. In tl io seco-iul game of ball with Ells worth our boys knocked the ''stuflin" out or pheparu, wno nas tne recoru oi being the best pitcher in the state. TAie Ellsworth club went in with confidence of winning the game easily. While errors were made in the begining of the game, as usual, by our boys, they made some grand stand plays, and covered themselves with glory, beating the vis itors 15 to 8.

The democratic congressional com mittee met here Tuesday and bv a vote 19 to 9 pot Simpson on their ticket. This will surprise no one. The democrats in Kansas have only furnished the tail to the pop kite since its organization. The "old corrupt" party and the new corrupter party sleep together, but lay awake watching each other, each trying to steal the covering. The result will be a split blanket.

On Saturday. September 29, practical experiments will be made on the Cow-gill farm, 3 miles east of Great Bend, with the- latest improved pumps for raising water from the underflow in this valley. Windmills and Gasoline Engines and machinery for irriga tion will be exhibited and practical tests made, that the farmers may see what can be done. Every farmer should be on hand. Several practical irrigators from abroad will be here, among whomare the Davis Gasoline En gine the Fump the Webber Gasoline Engine Co.

of Kansas City and tba Frizell Irrigation Pump Co. of Lamed will make exhibits of Engines and pumping machinery. Judge Emery of Lawrence, Judge Sutton of Dodge City and W. A. llnbbel of Kan sas City will be present to talk to the people, answer questions and fully explain about this water question.

Barton county has a number of irrigation plants already and these men will be here to tell their brother farmers what they have accomplished, and will exhioit specimens of fruits and vegetables raised by them. You will get more valuable and practical infomation at this meeting than you can otherwise gain in years of study. Let nothing prevent you from coming. Reception committee: D. C.

Luce, Cowgill, W. E. Stoke, W. B. Cornell and L.

Baldwin. Arrangment committee: D. C. Luce, M. B.

Fitts, Martin Musel, Chas. Fenno, John Wolf, Levi Gunn and Amos Johnson. Everyone is requested to bring baskets well tilled, as there will be a basket dinner served on the grounds. Everyone come. 2 Newspapers for 1.

The Clapun Leader and Kansas City Weekly Journal and Agriculturalist both one year for $1.50. Take advantage of this oiler and get the Century War Book premium offered by the Kansas City Journal; one coupon and 10 cents each week for 20 weeks gets Uie famous Century War Book, the lowest price of which has heretofore been 22. A new departure in journalism. Call or address all orders to the Leader. Advertised Letters.

List of uncalled for letters remaining the post office at Cbtllin, Kansas, Aug. 9, 1894. When calling for same please say advertised: Ames Bi'onsou, (T Hugh Tarbet, Mrs. Barbray Billin, V. I.

Rebard, Mrs. Jennie Repard, John Wilcox, Henry Aikon. JosErn Welsh, P. M. It I The UoneSt to Tin Plate.

The delay in the settlement of the tariff question has been of benefit in at least one quarter to the manufacturers of tin plate. There are large quantities of Welsh tin plate waiting in bond at our ports for the contemplated reduction in the tariff, bat, ponding the passage of the tariif bill, tho shippers anil importers of this foreign tin plate do not care to pay the I aa dealers and canne existing duty. canuers are not in clined to inaka their purchases for the season any earlier than is necessary. The result is that thoo who tire now in imnisdiase need of tin plate, as the canning season advances are placing their orders for the American product, which can bo secured and promptly de- lifered in auy quantity that is desired for immediate use. The American tin plate manufacturers are not complaining and are having some little amusement at tlie expense of the importers.

jpv'ff lp WHEN IN QHKAT BEND TYPER HOUSE, OTOP AT TUB MRS. R. BAYER, Prop. Htrlclly First Clans. Kates Keiwomible.

R. C. E. CASTLE, Groat Bend Dental Ollice Will be in Cladin about every month 1" Watch for locals; JiU DR. G.

G. DAVISON, DENTAL SURGERY, GREAT BEND, KAN. Will be in Claflin Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each month. JOE TROILLET, Wholesale nml Retail Manufacture of handmade oioahs, BENE, KAN I 1p a Trial. Salihinition GuraD'teed.

great hkndiglkanings. From tho Evening News. The warmest thing prognosticated for the next six weeks is politics. Jacob C. Osgood of Marion couuty and Florence M.

Patridge, Ellin wood were issued a marriage certificate Tuesday. A girl was born to tne wife of Jesse Jorden Tuesday. All doing we'll except grandpa Louis Zimmeht, aud he is recovering. Willium Schraeder of Albert and Miss Orletta Miller, daughter of Dan Miller, north east of town were issued marriage license Tuesday. Four wagons with families passed through Saturday morning from Ness enroute to south Missouri.

They could not pull through the winter in Ness. An exchange fays deep plowing saved the corn in some of the drongthy regions of Nebraska. Rome of our farmers might 'make a note on't' for future use. George Hamlin, tin: man who pitched for the Ellsworth base ball club on last Thursday, was killed in a salt well at Lyons Monday by giving away Of some Umbers. Lowman came in last night from Chase and went to Ellsworth with the ball club Tuesday morning to catch to morrow's game, hi the absence of Geo.

rge Sweet. Five state elections have occured so far this year. In these live states the total republican plurality in 1893 was 123(706. This ear the republican plurality iu the Same states is 1102,3113. The colored people of the county met La Fayette park Saturday to celebrate emancipation day.

Speaking by W. Gladden and lion. E. C. Cole.

They brought dinner in baskets and enjoyed a pleasant As a sample of the way the pops are sweeping things'' the next legislature of Vermont bus one pop member elect while the republicans have to content themselves with -223. Yes, the pops are evidently sweeping tlie country. A crowd of young bloods were shooting 'vraps" yesterday afternoon iu this city and while one of them was doin' the dice, "i.jfll, big Dick, GO in the county Jail, "etc sure enough Eig Dick did come Marshal Ewalt, who "pulled the kids and it cost thtm H0 each to keep out of the "county jail 00 days." Joe Ewalt has been looking out for a jxiasi to play second with the invincible Lenders for some time. His wants are liow supplied. He may be unable to pin tit ipate in the games next week, Lut will be "in later on.

For particulars ask Frank Rose. He arrived ruing, weighs 10 pounds aud looks just like his rlad. Kansas millers have discovered that however bentlicial the new tai'iil" bill be in reviving business, it has shut oil their shipments of Hour to foreign pa ts The Lousiana planters, the i'cxas wool growers aud tho Alabama iron maniac tur. are aisospeaumg out This "dead tari 11' issue" seems to still ha some thingto do with the country 's Mr Torry informs us that a speciaj a i ill leave reat Betid or Wednesday. 3, about 1 p.

m. IV the Mc-Kinhy moling iu Hutchinson. The will begin pi i ill. 4 p. and tlii special is to acotnodate business men ho cannot lose a whole day.

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