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2 PERI TURNING GRAY AND THREATENED WITH BALDNESS The Danger is Averted by Using AYER'S HAIR, VICOR "Nearly forty years ago, after some weeks of sickness, my hair turned gray and began falling out SO rapidly that I was threatened with immediate baldness. Hearing Ayer's Hair Vigor highly spoken of, I commenced using this preparation, and was so well satisfied with the result that I have never tried any other kind of dressing. It stopped the hair from falling out, stimulated a new growth of hair, and kept the scalp free from dandruff. Only an occasional application is now needed to keep my hair of good, natural color. I never hesitate to recommend any of Ayer's medicines to my friends." -Mrs.

H. M. HAIGHT, A voca, Neb. Ayer's Hair Vigor PREPARED BY DR. J.

C. AYER LOWELL, U.S. A. Ayer's Sarsaparilla Removes Pimples. City Meat Market.

M. A. DOWSE, PROP. Fresh Meat constantly on hand. Your custom desired.

CLAFLIN, KANSAS. O. B. LOONEY CO AN ET NOLARY PURI 50 REAL ESTATE, and INSURA PEE Call at Ciaflin State Bank. Make Farm Loans.

Fine Farms For Sale F. M. CAMPBELL, Physician and Surgeon, CLAFLIN. KANSAS. 03 Office at City Drug Store.

H. A. C. HARTMAN, Real Estate, Loan and Insuranco Agent. -and NOTARY Loansa Specialty.

Ag't man Insurance Freeport, BELT PUGH, Ottle Herders. 31 Sections to range over. 3 wells of good water. Cattle correled at D. A.

Stanley's. TERMS-90c PER MONTH PER HEAD. Call at rapch 4 miles S. and 3 miles W. of Claflin; or address us at Ellinwood ALLEN CARSON, Proprietors of the New Steam Feed Mill Grinds Grains of All Descriptions.

Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited. CLAFLIN, KANSAS. SEASONABLE MILLINERY. Latest Spring Styles-Prices Reasonable.CALL AND SEE ME, LAURA MCELFUNNY. T.C.

DOWNEY Practical Shoemaker. Repairing Neatly and Promptly Done. Give Me a Call, CLAFLIN, KANSAS. Rain. Harvest has begun.

The drug store for oils. Advertise in the LEADER. The LEADER is ever ready. to do your job work. County nominating convention at Gaeat Bend tomorrow.

Buy your harvesting oil of F. M. Campbell. You will save money. Elmore Weltmer shipped two carloads of hogs to Kansas City Wednesday.

A number from Claflin attended the funeral of Melvin Clark at Ellinwood Sunday. Considerable damage was done by hail in the neighboreood of Dick Tucker's, Saturday. See the New York Store's ad. in this issue. They are offering wonderful values on harvest goods.

FOR SALE--A gang plow, nearly new and in good condition. Terms reason. able. L. C.

BREEDEN. Rev. Hoffman has rented the upper room of the Norris stone building. and will occupy the same as his town residence. Taken in time Hood's Sarsaparilla prevents serious illness by keeping the blood pure and all the organs in a healthy condition.

W. HI. Stover have their harvest announcement in this issue. Call and see their choice line of groceries and shoes. Poultry of all kinds will be accepted at the LEADER office at a little above market price on subscription.

Hens and spring chickens preferred. Quite a number of strangers are in town looking for work in the harvest field. There is quite a brisk demand for hands notwithstanding the short crop. There were no less than five Claflinites as jurymen on the Speck trial at Great Bend, which of course was ample assurance that justice and equity would prevail. The ladies of the M.

E. church will serve ice cream in the Williamson building, opposite the bank, Saturday. Go and partake of a delicious dish of cream. Elder Reese, of Chase, will occupy the pulpit at the Christian church Sunday 50 morning and evening. Elder Wickham will occupy the Frederick pulpit on that day.

The Typer House will be headquarters for delegates from this end of the county Sale at the Great Bend convention tomorrow. Excellent service and reasonable rates assured. George Norris has sweet corn coming into tassle. He had also new potatoes on his table the 2nd day of this month. George might be called a "sooner" in the garden business.

The following pupils from this neighborhood have recently passed the examination for school diplomas: May Strothman, Elsie Ozenberger, Sophia Groshardt and Agnes Preager. Another good rain yesterday mornGe ing and corn prospects are fine. ReI1- member we say and do not intend to make any predictions on the crop until it is in the crib. Next Sunday there will be Children's day exercises at the M. E.

church in the morning. A good program has been prepared and the exercises will be very nteresting. All are cordially invited to be present. By next week everyone will be harvesting. Some fields will give a good yield, but the great majority are badly damaged by the worms and grasshoppers.

Had it not been for these pests, we would have had a good all around crop. Dangerous looking clouds gathered in the north west Saturday evening, and many hunted their caves and cellars to await de velopements. The clouds seethed and boiled and tumbled over each other in an ominous manner, and one could see little whirlwinds gathering here and there. When the storm struck proved to be a heavy electrical rain storm, which lasted abont an hour. The rain was very welcome, and though too late to do the wheat much good, yet it revived the withering pastures, gardens and corn fields.

Mr. James Perdue, an old soldier residing at Monroe, was severely af. flicted with rheumatism, but received prompt relief from pain by using Pain Balm. He says: "At times my back would ache sobadly that I could hardly raise up. It I had not gotten relief I would not be here to write these few lines.

Chamberlain's. Pain Balm kas done me a great deal of good and I feel very thankful for Fit." For sale by E. Campbell, druggist. Plow Them Under. A few days a specimen of the worm which has recently appeared in wheat fields of western part of Kansas was sent from Reno county to Chancellor Snow of the State university, by Land Commissioner John E.

Frost of the Santa Fe. In reply to the request as to the best method for its extermination, Chancellor Snow writes: "Your letter, accompanied by a package containing specimens of worms, has been handed to me by Mr. G. C. Bailey.

I have received probably as many as twenty letters from central and western Kansas in reference to the ravages of this insect. It is the wheat-head army worm, (leucenta albilinea). It appeared in injurious numbers in the central part of the state in 1876, and in central and western Kansas in 1891, but has not otherwise been reported to me previous to the present year. It is practically impossible to do anything to protect the wheat fields after the worms have begun to feed upon the young grain in the wheat heads. Fortunately there are at least three insect parsites which destroy the insect and keep it from becoming generally and dangerously destructive.

Late fall plowing and harrowing will destroy the chrysalilds or pupae and prevent moths from appearing in the spring to lay eggs for a new brood of worms. Burning the wheat stubble will also destroy the pupae, at least those which are near enough to the surface of the ground to be effected by the heat. I do not anticipate a dangerous invasion of these insects for several years to come. The present invasionis about at an end as the worms have now mostly entered the ground to enter the chrysalid condition. I send you, a copy of a pamphlet in which on pages 37 to 39 you will find figures of the worm with its eggs and the place of egg deposit between the sheaf and the stalk of the wheat plant.

You will see from this pamphlet that the species appeared in Stafford county in 1891.1 Yours truly, H. SNOW. Chancellor." Republican Delegates. INDEPENDENT TOWNSHIP. The republicans of Independent township held their caucus in the Jim Storks building Saturday afternoon.

H. A. C. Hartman was chairman and M. C.

Elmore, secretary. The following delegates were elected, delegates to chose their own alternates: DELEGATES, ALTERNATES, M. C. Elmore, David Little, Lee Dougan, Ben Stover, L. J.

Bailey, C. L. Ward, N. E. Norris, G.

W. Norris. H. C. Smith.

On motion. delegates were instructed for B. F. Lorimor for representative. J.

W. A. Cooke was elected township committeeman for the ensuing year. LOGAN TOWNSHIP. Following are the delegates and alternates to the county convention from Logan township: DELEGATES, ALTERNATES, W.

B. Norris, Ed Hamacher, W. L. Steward, Frank Roesler, G. A.

Dusenbury. E. H. Grizzell. G.

A. Dusenbucy was elected committeeman for the ensuing year. CLEVELAND TOWNSHIP. The republicans of Cleveland township have elected delegates and alternates to the county convention as follows: DELEGATES, ALTERNATES, J. B.

Frederick, John Houska, C. D. Davidson, A. J. Stanley, S.

T. Frederick, Frank Ultch, W. A. McNutt, Adelbert Goudy, F. E.

Garwood, J. B. Frederick. CHEYENNE TOWNSHIP. Following are the delegates from Cheyenne township to the republican, convention: F.

H. Schrepel, F. B. Newcombe, Ferd Shadle and Alonzo Baugh. Our Man Around Town Remarked, That one of the delegates to republi.

can convention went over to the Bend Tuesday night so as to be there in ample time. That even the drummers have caught the fishing craze, and after selling their goods, they go to Cow creek for a tussle with the tinny tribe. That a certain fellow rode out into the country on horseback to bring his girl to church. She refused to share the animal with him, so they came to town afoot. Next time he will doubtless hire a rig.

That a certain family from the country were so anxious to get home from church the other evening, that they -for got one of the girls, and she was coming pelled to stay at a friends near town un. til morning. That our local sports who were so proficient in pitching horse shoes this spring, have now got their good right arms in splendid condition for stacking the sport has been abandoned for the harvest field. That one of our middle-aged widowers has become as frisky as a 20 year old youth lately. He can give some of the younger fellows pointers in the art of courting.

The report that he has been taking Dr. Brown-Sequard's elixir of life lacks confirmation, however. That two of our local swains togged themselves up in their "store clothes" Sunday and in separate buggies hied themselves to the country to take their girls driving. When they arrived at the home of their fair charmers, they found to their great chagrio that a couple of Ellinwood fellows had just driven away with the maidens. The feelings of our boys when they found themselves in this unhappy condition could notbe expressed in four languages.

HERE AND THERE. A CELEBRATION. Claflin will not celebrate will join with Ellinwood celebration. -Inman Review. this year but in their big PUSH IT ALONG.

The CLAFLIN LEADER starts a boom for Judge Ansel R. Clark, of Sterling, for chief justice. -Hutchinson News. THAT IS NERVE. Two Claflin young ladies took a gay widowers horse and buggy for a drive while he attended church.

That 1S termed nerve by the LEADER. -La Crosse Clarion. EDITORIAL DIET. Advertising in the CLAFLIN LEADER is falling off to such an extent that Joe Cooke. the editor, is advertising for a good receipt for making wind pudding and sawdust pies, on which he expects to subsist it "things keep going this way." -Kansas City Mail.

HOW ABOUT THIS, BOB. A young lady out at Claflin approached one of the unmarried clerks in that town the other day and asked for a pair of garters thusly; "It is my desire to obtain a pair of circular appendages capable of being contracted by means of oscillating burnished steel appliances that sparkle like particles of gold leaf set with Alaska diamonds and which are utilized for keeping in position the habiliments of the lower extremities which innate delicacy forbids me to mention." The poor clerk fainted. -Sedgwick Pantagragh. At this season of the year all farmers who have wheat to cut or who expect to have, begin to count up the expense of harvest. Among the various expenses incident to harvest his oil is pos.

ibly one of the least items, but the pru. dent farmer does not object to saving as much of this item as possible. I handle oil and intend to save you money on it. So call and see samples, get prices, then buy where you can buy cheapest. Remember, I will sell you your oil if price and quality are considered.

F. M. CAMPEELL, Drugs. O. J.

Richards has his announcement in this issue as a candidate for county superintendent of public instruction before the republican county convention. Mr. Richards is an old-time resident of the county, having been for a number! of years cashier of the Merchants Farmers bank of Great Bend. He has had wide experience as a school teacher and is in every way qualified for the office. Should he receive the nomination he will poll not only a large vote in his party, but many of the opposition.

Mothers will find Chamberlain'sCough Remedy especially valuable for croup' and whooping cough. It will give prompt relief and is safe and pleasant. We have sold it for several years and it has never failed to give the most perfect satisfaction. G. W.

Richards, Duquesne, Pa. Sold by F. M. Campbell, druggist. Melvin Ellinwood, well known in this vicinity, was killed near Pueblo last week by a rail falling on him.

Mr. Clark was employed as brakeman on the railroad. The funeral took place Sunday at Ellinwood, the services being conducted by Elder J. Wickham of this city. During the storm Saturday evening the barn of Julius Wendtland, five miles.

north of town was struck by lightning and burned down. Two horses were burned to deatir and some farm machinery destroyed. Mr. Wendtland's loss was partially covered by insurance. We had fully intended taking in the republican national convention at St.

Louis next week, but the "erime of '921 which brought such distress on the toilmasses of which we are a humble member, has compelied us to forego the trip. Harvesting machine pil.at drug store. PURELY PERSONAL. -Harry Degen Sundayed at Hoisington. -Al.

Plasket was over to Bushton Wednesday. Mrs. Kate Kelly returned to Great Bend Friday. -W. F.

Putnam came in from the Bend Wednesday. -Ben Hicks came over from MoCracken Tuesday. -Chase Elmore was over to the Bend Wednesday on businss. -R. L.

Hamilton visited his father near Raymond Sunday. -John Weltmer and son Guy were over to Hollyrood Sunday. -S. H. Chatten was up from Ellinwood Wednesday on business.

-L. C. Breeden and Bud Church drove to the county seat Monday. -will Wickham and wife came in from Canton Tuesday evening on a visit. -Joe Welsh went to Kansas City Wednesday with two car loads of hogs.

He will return Saturday. -Commissioner Montgomery went to the Bend Wednesday evening to attend a meeting of the board. -Harry Evans, who has been making all extended visit to his brother Will here, returned to Chicago last week. -Jacob Frederick, brother of J. B.

Frederick of Cleveland township, is up from the Cherokee Nation, on a visit. --N. E. Norris transacted business at the county seat Wednesday. He expects to remain over till the convention.

-Vern Russell and wife came over from Great Bend yesterday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Meyer.

-Harry Degen and Joe Degen, Hoisington's merchant princes, were in town Wednesday evening on business and pleasure. Mrs. R. L. Hamilton returned from Sterling Wednesday evening.

She was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Purcell of Galveston, Tex. -Carl Hartman came back from Shawnee county Tuesday. He came home to help harvest and rode the entire distance horseback. -Ernest Roahen returned from Salina where he has been attending the Normal University for the past seven months.

Ernest made a very creditable record while there, his average in all studies being very high. -Rev. Barr, of Hoisington, was in town Wednesday. He is trying to raise a subscription for a new church there. Though this is a pretty hard year to make such an attempt, yet if any one can succeed Rev.

Bare is the person. Good Health And a good appetite gO hand in band With the loss of appetite, the system cannot long sustain itself. Thus the fortitications of good health are broken down and the system is liable to attacks of disease. It is in such cases that the medical power of Hood's Sals parilla are clearly, shown. Thousands who have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla testify 10 its great merits as a purifier of the blood its powers to restore and sharpen the appetite and promote a healthy action of the digestive organs.

Thus it is, not what we say but what Hood's Sarsaparilla does that tells the story and constitutes the stronges recommendation that can be urged for any medicine. Why not take Hood's Sarsaparilla now? Death of George Stout. We failed to hear of the death of George. Stout in time for last issue. We clip the following particulars from the Sterling Bulletin: "Geo.

W. Stout was born in Illinois. Oct. 28, 1864, and departed this life May 29, 1896. About five months ago ne came to visit his mother, Mrs.

Wheeler, who then lived north of Sterling, and being unable to return to his home. remained with her until the time of his death. About two months ago they moved to Sterling, where he died. The funeral was conducted from the M. E.

church Saturday, May 30. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY Props.

Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able, tocarry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. WALDING, KINNAN MARNIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally anting directly upon the blood and uc.

Gus surface of system. Price 75c. per botthe. Sold by all Draggists. Testimoniais free.

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