The Manchester News from Manchester, Kansas • 1

A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Local News, ond the Business and Farming Interests of Manchester and Surrounding Country, VOL. XI. MANCHESTER, DICKINSON COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1906. NO. 85.

A SOFT SNAP LOCAL NEWS Ml AND OTHER TJIINGS OF INTEHEST. The Election Tuesday. Trustee M. E. Simpson has named the following gentlemen to serve on the election board next We have just finished putting an- other car of Soft Pine in the sheds which gives us the largest and best assortmont of Soft Pine in the county.

We have Finish Lumber jn all widths from 4 to 12 inches all lengths from 10 to 18 feet; Flooring 10 to 20 feet; Siding 10 to 16 feet; Rough 4x4 for windmill towers; lie-sawed Boards from Ity Great Discount Cash Sale at Grant's Store 20 per cent off on all Fall and Winter Dry Goods and Boots and Shoes for 30 days. tn-fpnf! lint tana feet; Select 2x8 for door and win- dow sills. All kinds Yellow Fine. Lots of tt THIS poster Lumber Company. B.

HOLMES, Manager. REDUCED PRICES ON EVERYTHING-. Blankets, Heavy Goods, Caps, Gloves, Rubbers, and Millinery Goods See us for WHEAT DRILLS, GRINDING MILLS, STOVES RANGES, TANKS, WIND MILLS, AND WOVEN WIRE FENCE. PRICES THE LOWEST. for Eggs and Butter.

Tuesday: Judges li. Keyser, George Taylor and I. G. "Britton. Clerks Geo.

iiarvey and ilarry Flora. 1 The voting place will be in the lodge hall, over the postoffice. The polls will open at 8 a. m. and close at 6 p.

m. INSTKUCTIONS TO VOTERS. The following statutory instruc tions to voters will be printed on the general ballot, the same to be placed above the party emblem appearing thereon: Hirst 11 you desire to vote a straight party ticket, make a cross (X) mark in the circle on the ticket you wish to vote and nowhere elseJ on the ballot. Second If you prefer not to vote a straight party ticket, but wish to vote for a majority of the candidates on any party ticket, make a cross (X) mark in the circle as be fore, and then make a cross (X) mark in thesquare to the right of the names of such other candidates as you wish to vote for found under any other party name. Third if you prefer not to vote any party ticket, then make the cross (X) mark in the square to the right of the names of such candi dates as you wish t6 vote for, and nowhere else on the ballot.

Fourth If you desire to vote for a name not on the ballot, write the name in the blank column anq make a cross (X) mark in -the square to the right of such name. It you tear or deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it to the judges and receive another. Between the emblem and the cir cle will be printed the following: I desire to vote a straight tick- I et as shown by the cross (X) mark opposite the names of other candi-didates elsewhere on the ballot." The last above quotation will ap pear over each party ticket with the name ot tho party inserted in the blank space. Surprised the Teacher. Miss Phoebe Hartzell, the popu lar young teacher in district 91, the Flora school, was pleasantly surprised Friday morning, Oct.

19. Upon entering the school room she found a fruit and candy shower prepared for her by her pupils. rl1U 1 iwkAnn'n nnci npfntl A 1 many beautiful designs maue ox various materials, one of the main 1 1 articles used being tinted autumn leaves. An abundant supply of fruit and candy was In-ought for the occasion. Miss Hartzell certainly appreci ated the little deeds of kindness be-" stowed upon her by her affectionate pupils.

DeVoe for November. Some unusually cold weather may be expected in the northern section during November, but pleasant weather will prevail generally. 1st to 2d, cold wave. 3d to 4th, moderating and pleasant. 5th to Gth, cloudy, followed by cold weather and snow in some localities over the northern section on the 7th to 8th.

9th to 10th, falling temperature. 11th to 14th, pleasant. On the 15th a suddenly formed storm will cause local rains and snow over extended areas. 18th to 19th, cold' wave. 20th to 21st, mild and pleasant.

22d to 23d, cloudy with local rains. 21th to 20th, pleasant. 27th to2Sth, Indian summer weather. '29th to 31st, mild and cloudy, followed by thunder storms over the southern and snow over the northern states, with falling temperature on the 31st. List of Letters Remaining unclaimed in the postoffice at Manchester, Oct.

Jl, IIMi: LADIES. Brown, Miss Myrtle. GENTLEMEN. Dimon, Chas. A.

Scott. T. A. Sender, Jos. CARDS.

Kluker, Mrs. Cora. One cent is charged for advertised letters. Persons calling for saino will please ask for advertised letters. Z.

II. Wise, P. M. We have a few sets of double team work harness which wo will close out cheap this fall to save carrying them over the winter. W.

II. James Co, Bob Dietz spent Sunday with home folks at Geo. Noland took a carload of cattle to Kansas City Monday. Next Tuesday is election day. Vote early, but not too often.

Miss Grace Fugitt.of Solomon is visiting friends here this week. W. II. ames Co. have a number of splendid bargains in Kansas farms for sale.

'Sauire Harvey has inst com pleted a new barn on his place soutneast tr town. James and Wilson Young are building a new barn to replace the one destroyed by fire last spring. If you want to sell or buy a farm tell your troubles to W. H. James Co.

T. C. Baker returned Monday flight from a visit of a -day or two with his aged mother near Law rence. To F. Clatter," received too late to be put in type for this week's paper.

It will appear next week, W. H. James Co. have a "good stock of Mandt, wagons and manure spreaders on hand and are making a number of sales. Mrs.

J. V. Heed, who suffered a stroke of paralysis one might last week, is reported much better and getting alons as well as could be expected. Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Weaver moved in from the country and occupy Frank Edwards' cottage. D. 11. Turner's family, the former occupants, moved to Longford. Mrs.

C. C. Lewis and Miss tlehsah CamDbell of Industry nnd Miss Josje Campbell of Abilene were guests of Miss Pnoebe Hart-zell a week ago Saturday and Sunday. Married, October 20, at the hnillf. nf tho hi'lVlo'a nopunlo and Mrs.

li. Evans, near Lone- ford, Miss Edna Evans and John McCune. They will live on the groom's farm two miles east of Longford. 11. T.

Holmes has traded the old Ilavlick blacksmith shop for a quarter section of land near Win-field, Kansas. Benjamin B. Jones is the name of the new owner and it is understood that he will come here soon and open tho shop for business. W. II.

James Co. have a good stock of buggies, harness, wagons and manure spreaders on hand. Ott Smifh took his departure iuonuay lor Leer Lodge, to spend the winter with his wife, lie says he is coming back in the spring to continue the business of buying and selling cattle. Ott made good monev at tha business the past summer and he can do it again. The slander suit of E.

1. Knerr against E. W. Glenn was on trial in the district court Monday after noon and Tuesday morning, and the jury returned a verdict in favor or Mr. Glenn.

The case has been postponed from time to time for about two years, and it is a re lief to all concerned to sec the end. Miss Louise Schctzcr and Char ley Steinborn, two well known young people of 'the Keystone neighborhood, were married last Sunday morning in the Maytield church. Kev. Carinfax performed the ceremony in the presence of a church full of relatives and friends of the young couple. Mr.

and Mrs. Steinborn left Monday morn ing for California to spend the winter. Population of Morocco. The population of Morocco can only be guessed. No census has ever been taken.

The best authorities estimate the Inhabitants to number about fram lli to IS IT. DELHI DOINGS. Several friends and schoolmates of Miss kentj Daniels to6k her by Thursday eveiiiiH' at I home, with Mr. ami Mrs. Ilauha- wout.

those- pref-eat woro Mr. and Mrs. Vi Fen, Liliio Fern, Miss Doidga, Miss-MiWie Kabn, -Mits Alary i Koot, Ur ley and Kin Willie and Juumie Coup, and lOde" Li-sies. The school children were under the care of -Miss Knhn, the teacher at Delhi. Games and niiisic and conversation twisted the hahda of the aroauil to midnight naiy too Hogn.

Gnrd Burk' and Gone Ban field are LculiR; corn to Miies. Coup has the erection. good h'T bavn. 'llah iiaiu ior-oid ikiiui. nnd-Mrs.

Geo Graves and children visited with" Wilt' Fcnn and iuuiii'y lu.st Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Fenn and Miss Lillie visited Charley Hull and wife, northeast of Manchester, last Sunday.

Miss Cora Doidgo is visiting relatives in Solomon. Our hint may have had something to do with it, for the road boss fixed the road 'near the school house last week. He oupht to keep up the good work westward to the meridian. Joe Woolf went to Abilene Saturday. We believe Joe has a good notion to buy an up-to-date corn sholler and engine.

Mr. M. IV Jolley and son, of were in this locality last Friday, and dined at the Maple Shade farm. Again we arise to remark that corn is worth 36 cents at Niles six cents above any, other market within a hundred miles of here. The frost is on tho pumpkin, all right; it also paralyzed the tomato vines, turnips, and sich.

Mr. and Mrs. F. D.aughawout were in Abilene last Monday on business. A deputy game arden was in this locality last week.

Better take out a license, boys, because he'll get you if you don't watch out. "Oh, for a thousand tongues," 8he sang, Her husband looked askance. "Not much," he said; "One is enough. While you do wear the pants." School Report. Following is the report of the second month of the Flora school, Dist.

91: Number of pupils enrolled, 22. Those receiving certificates for punctuality and attendance are as follows: Edwin Brown, Ralph Brown, Herbert Dickinson, Orrin Lyday, Johnnie Sherman, Gladys Hush, Lola Young, Ruth Lyday. Those tardy but not absent during the month are as follows: Neva Neaderhiser, Pearlo Neader-hiser, Elsie Young, i. Young, Gladys Mader. 1 Patrons of the district and members of the board are invited to come and see the work we are doing.

Visitors always welcome. Piioeiie Haktzell, Teacher. Old pajers for sale at the News office. Big bundle for 5e Dealing, the general market steady with the close of last week. Short' fed steers bring $4.90 to $3.50, grass steers tl.M to $5.25, heifers $3.00 to $4.50, cows $2.40 to $3.50, bulls $2.15 to $3.50, light veals strong $5.00 to $6.50, heavy calves lower $3.00 to $4.25.

Stockers and feeders continue strong, stockers $2.75 to $4.35, feeders $3.25 to $4.75, about all the range ollerings selling between $2.75 to $4.10. Hog run last week was 24.000 head, nearly a third smaller than same week last year, market lower first of the week, but closing strong, making a net loss of 7 cents for the week. Run Is 6,000 today, prices weak to 5 cents lower, top $0.32 bulk of sales $0.20 to $0.30, some of eacli weight, heavy, medium and light Selling at the top. Packers could use more hogs than are coining, and receipts will likely Improve materially soon. J.

A. ItlCKAltT, Live Stock Correspondent. Already Perfect. Let no man Venture to lay iand on Shakespeare's works thinking to Improve anything essential; he will sure to punish himself. A.

W. Schlegel. hjelp Wanted. We wast, you to help disposo of our large line of Hue up-to-date Wall Paper. 20 per cent discount is the indu.ee-.

ment we offer for your i. Wf Hammond Co. Physician and Surgeon, MANCHESTER, KANSAS. Office loeated at Residence. Calls ft reel fltOMiTLT KITH Kit DAy OK jsfarnv FHpidanand Suroson, J(Oonpatiy Surgeon A.

T. F. Ry.) Calls promptly ariRweedday or night. Office opposite I'ostotlice. Manchester, Kansas.

C. Lewis, M. Physiciaaand Surgeon, INDUSTRY, KAN. Calls answered promptly Day or Night. Office over Inland Drug Phone Athelstane line No.

25. hj. Weaver, I Grain 'mFeed Canon City Coal always on hand, and various other coals. 9 See me before buying your coal. jVl LIT tio 1 Ji a as WflTGH GL0GK Gail on G.J.

Arnold To Cure Rheumatism Free the wstem from the poison which cauo Rheumatism and then prevent its formation. Learned physicians will tell you this is the only way it is the way by which DU. SHOOP'S RHEUMATIC CURE brintrs relief and cure-makes an end of pnln and swelling an end of uttering an end of Rheumatism. It is put up in handy tablet form, convenient and economical. Beirln to use this remedy today.

The results will be lasting. Sold and reoommended by For sale by Hammond Co. IT. i Sim ThemrvmonMrC'flll pKllerttPimW bithe United State (htn of any otb-r trake bi y.ttm Tfcitis en account their style, tcctirarr 4 simplicity. MrCall'i MUsTarliirrinfTieenof Fashion) t4 thai.

other Linu Map jme. On number, A crnii "Yvrry McCaJi Fait-tern Free. SuBcrite today. Idr Afffnt Wna4. Handtre premium or fibrraj cash cixarnhmt-n.

Fat I em I'm' alous' of d. and Ptemsam Catalogue (showing 400 prtaiufH9 pmmt trv Adure TME McCALL CO. hew York' THe Kansas Gity Market OiTers the opportunity for good prices and weights on Cattle, JIors and Sheep. The Big Casino. Man for Man.

Sales made by the Cliarle Iix-on Commission Company stand for fine emphasize this opportunity. I I I Highest Market Price Yours, for Fair OUT IX KANSAS. There's a man from Chicago out in Kansas. He is not unknown to fame, Col. Harris is his name.

He is running for Governor out in Kansas. Bat in eighteen sixty-one he was not in Kansas, lie was having lots of fun. Was the man behind the jrun. Says he made the Yankees run back to Kansas. And be was a Colonel, too be hated Kansas.

ITow he cheered the rebel crew That shot dow 11 our boys in blue. Crave boys in- blue they died for Kansas. Now he sounds the bugle call-to soldiers of Kansas. Nothing about biiu that's small. hays he will forgive tuem an.

If they'll vote for him this fall out in Cut the old boys all say, "Not out in Kansas." Forgiven but not. forgot. They know his talk's all rot. Men vote the way they shot out in Kansas. Rebel Colonels will not do-out in Ka nsas.

Mr. Harris you are throiiph. Hack to Illinois for you. Hike for Chicago bkitloo out of Kansas. John IIaskiss.

Independence, Mo. Market Review. Special to Manchester News. Kansas City Stock Yauds, October Such pressure has been brought to bear on railroads to relieve the car shortage all over the west that. they have made strenuous efforts to do so in the last week, resulting in the good run of .21.000 cattle here today.

The car situation has been so bad lately that receipts were kept down to a moderate basis last week, and the market was strung, cows and heifers advancing 10 to 1" cents. Calf supply has been extra heavy all of the month, and the total will be the largest for any month ever recorded here. Cattle supply for the month will fall head short of last year, but will still rank third largest for any month at Kansas City, at about Slo.OiK) cattle, exclusive of the calves received. Choice to prime steers are almost an unknown quautity here, good to choice steers last wet at 00 to The bet steers here today brought S3.7.", First published In the Manchester News, August 1). r.nHi.1 House Concurrent lU'solution No.

7. Unsolved liy tlin Lttijislaturoof the Stateof Kansas, two-t-iiiiils of he memberselecled to each house cimcirrtnit therein: Section 1. Tho following pmnosilion to amend the constitution of he stale of Kan- sas Is hereby siilimiUeri to the qualified elee.r of said state fortheir approval or rejeoV tin. to wit: The constitution of the statenf hereby amended by stiikiuc out the whole, of seciion 17 of tide 2 of said constitution, and Inserting in lieu of said section the following, which shall const ituta section 17 of article 3 of Mm constitution: Sec. 17.

All laws of a pJieral nature shall Imve uniform operativ throughout tho state; and In all cases where a general law can be made applicable no sptx-iul law shall lie enacled and whether or not a law enai t- ed is repumiant to tins provision of he constitution shall construed mid determined by the courts of the state. Sec. 2. This pnKisiilon shall be submitled to the electors of Ihis slum at the ircm iat election to beheld in (lie year for their approval or rejection. The amendment hereby proposed shall he mi the official hallot by the fullowini? title, vir.

Araend'tient l-i the coie-t Mail ion rcliHinzto la 's and their const ruction by the and shall lie voted for or against as provided by law under such title. Sko. 3. This resolution shall take fleet and In? In force from and alter iis publication iu the slnmte-book. I'assed the 1 louse 17.

1W5. Passed the Si nate January IM, Unii. Apnroved 1 hereby certify, thai the is true and corrv't copy of original Iioicb concurrent resolution now on tne it roy office. J. li.

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