The Hiawatha News from Hiawatha, Kansas • 3

Thursday, April 22, 1909 THE HIAWATHA NEWS. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Gold 2 SI our MADE BY Co 'Bhe Beloit Millinrf Co Beloit Kansas U. MM Is now sold by us. We believe it good advice to bay yout float now ae every indication is that the price i will go higher We guarantee every sack sold by as. MkMkM 'S Where there's always something doing ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo A busy store that grows a little each day Hello Central GIVE ME HENRY! "Of course I mean R.

A. Henry's Livery Darn," No. 85. He keeps the best rigs in town and gives the best service." HILL McQUARY, Produce and Feed Store. Cream, Poultry, Eggs, Feed, Hiawatha Flour.

Hides, Swift's Digester Tankage, Pratt's and Standard Stock and Chick Food. KESSLER'S OLD STAND. N. E. Phone 181.

Mut. Phone 107 ANNOUNCEMENT As successor to Kessler Son, I am paying the highest cash price for cream and eggs. Corn chop, bran and shorts sold at lowest prices. BEATRICE CREAMERY CO. Joe Lewis, Tostal Telegraph Office.

Both phones. Miss Gladys White. FURNITURE DEPARTMENT II. D. Adams and J.

B. Lowell. BASEMENT John Schilling and Velma Jacques. BOOKKEEPERS Claude Hoffman and Rilla Yaw. DELIVERYMEN Claude Lowell and Clifford Brock-hoff.

Next door to The Big Store is the meat market of A. O. Zimmerman. He is assisted by William Warren and George Galbrath delivers the meats. Miss Clara Zimmerman is proprietor of a gallery overher brother's market, and is doing excellent work.

William Harnack manages the band's pool hall and Dr. Houts has lately fitted out an office over the hall with Isaac Dilley's land office. He will soon move his office back to his newly purchased property, the Ryan home. Allen and Jenson have the room across the hall. Mr.

Allen is noted as having written more fire insurance than any other person in the county. Witschy's grocery is doing a big business on the ground floor and the bakery is turning out the dough. Philo Smith's print shop is the busiest shop in the county IT'S A BUSY BLOCK. The 500 Club Booms Things The Best Lighted Block in Town. The strongest club in Hiawatha is the 500 Club.

This is not a card club, or a club devoted to social affairs, but a club that has to do with the business of an entire block. The 500 block is made up of all of the business 'men in that part of Oregon street. The club was organized over a year ago. Electric lights were placed in the block making it the best lighted one in town. The streets and alleys are kept clean, and the whole block is in such a sanitary condition that the sanitary inspector was so well pleased with it that it now stands as a model one for Kansas.

Even the windows are kept washed by a man hired by the club for that purpose. The whole block is kept in splendid condition at a comparatively small cost by the hiring of one man to do the whole lot of work. The club organization O. Zimmerman, president; Harry Adams, treasurer; M. G.

Ham, secretary. The largest concern in the 500 block is The Adams Mercantile form 2. erly the Adams Baker managed by George II. Adams. It is one of the largest retail and mail order houses in Kansas.

The fine brick building is well lighted and well ventilated. The visitor is struck with the appearance of industry and thrift. The sales come so steadily and stock turned in such a short time that the remnants thrown on the bargain counter each Saturday cleans up the whole stock. The business in the three-story structure has grown to such an extent that a new warehouse is being constructed across the alley, almost as large as any store in towns the size of Hiawatha. A steel trussed viaduct will connect the two buildings, giving fire protection to both.

The Big Store Directory. MANAGER Geo. II. Adams. DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT Miss Lois Babcock, Mrs.

Tillie Mc-Adow, Miss Anna Liebengood, Mrs. Ella Moore, Miss Belle Galbraith, Miss Irene Wonder, Miss Anna Adams, Miss Ella Schilling. CLOTHING AND SHOES Allen Welmer. GROCERY DEPARTMENT Aaron Jacob Mohr and J. I The Business Houses In The Block.

these days and his engine sounds like the business end of a gatling gun. He is threatened with prosecution on account of the resemblance of the sputter to the post office stamping ma- chine, but intends to attach an auto siren to the escape before he muffles down the sputter. The Yates Drug store, with R. A. Henry selling hundreds of acres of land overhead comes next in the block.

Henry has sold dozens of farms from his News ads, and always scolds the advertising man if he is passed up. His page was the first set up for The News. Roll Meisenheimer, at George Adams old stand, is managing the Meisenheimer Hardware Co. His location in the 500 block and his good fellowship, make his business win. Mart Hauber and Thomas Hey are his assistants.

On the south side of the street, the Moreland, under the management of G. C. Roscoe, is keeping pace with the other business of the block. M. G.

Ham's office building is occupied by The Sturgis Sisters, who are in a combination to please the women at the expense of men. Their millinery business has increased to such an extent that they have as good a business as any of the 500 block club financiers II. A. Meyer Son have appeared in the 500 block and are fitting up the old frame Morrill building for an auto garage. The advent of this firm will strengthen the club organization.

HI-WA'S DEBATE. Saturday night the Hi-Wa boys debated the question: "Resolved that the hen that lays the egg is the mother of the chick and not the hen that hatches the chick. The affirmative; Elza Schofield, Robert Herman and Flake Smith of course won the debate but not until after a half hours 'hard work. The negative side; Loy Dawson, Roy Sweetland and Ed Whitney intimate that one of the spectators "put a bug in Schofield's ear" and thus the affirmative were able to set forth their only conclusive argument. The judges were; Pet Landis, Gus Steele and Earnest Seavey.

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. An examination for the position of clerk and carrier will be held at the post-office in this city on May 1, 1909. For application blanks, and for full information relative to the examina tion, qualifications, duties, salaries, address Secretary, Board of Civil Service Examiners, I'ostofflce, Hia watha. j. 't.