Zenda Citizen from Zenda, Kansas • 1

CITIZEN, 4 Volume 1. ZENDA, KANSAS, MAY 27, 1910 Number 41 ZEND A Willowdale. Holcomb of Livingston "TAPS." A FEW THINGS WE 3 i a a 1 Lumber, Cement, Lime, Rock, Brick, Galp Tanks, Iron and Prepared Roofing, Goal, Furniture and Undertaking Goods, Hardware, Paints, Oils, Glass, Oil Stoves, Cast Stoves and Majestic Ranges, Re-frigerators Sewing Machines, Harness, Fly Nets, Dusters, Collars Strap Work, Harness Hardware, Gall Cure and Pads, T. M. G.

Cuttlery, Carpets, Rug, Lineo-lums and Matting, Fireless Cookers, Steani Cookers, Tinware, and Graniteware Screen Doors and Wire Cloth They ere marching- with a hultini) itep, A halting step and 'slmvi And many in tho'su blue-clnd ruiiks Have hair while an I'nowi Their youth lies on the battlefields Of forty yean ago. The laded, tattered flag" they hear, All torn by shot and shell, Are tacrcd eml'kn of the dead Who loved their country well; How great their love and sacrifice No tiMmatt tongue may tell. i Those serried ranld are thinning fast That once with martial tread The knapsaJk and the musket bore Where Groat end Sherman led; Their sleep is sound and peaceful In the bivouao of the No more the reveille at dawn" Shall rouse them from No more shall wives and sisters mourn No more shall mothers weep; Their names upon the roll of fame Time's hand has graven deep. Arid'some lie on'those hard-fought fields Where now the Blue and Gray Clasp hands across the battle lines Their blood has washed away; '-Wherrice the tide of battle flowed, Their children's children play. The passing years speed swiftly, And silence round them wraps; And tb their listening ear there comes No tweeter song, perhaps, Than when the battered gugle sounds Again the old Selected.

You Need the Goods We Need the Business. Let's Get Together. Memorial Day. A memorial-sermon will be prerch i '-eel at the' M. E.

cburch in this citul 1 'next Sunday morning at 11 o'clocll The M. W. ULTCH LUMBER CO. I by Eev. Gibson.

I -While there-is R. Post here, the few old soldiers who still re- i Win desire' to coramorrate those who I Zenda I have been promoted from the rankf-, to a position where weary marcher; are oe'r. old sbldichs, ''all-members of the. corps, Spanish-Americans sol- Succeeds Benedict. II.

F. Holcomb of" Livingston has been appointed by Commissioner J.H. Hall of the bureau of agriculture, labor and Industry to the position of chief clerk of that department to succeed Louis P. Benedict, who re-slimed the first day of May. Mr.

Holcomb will assume the duties of the position June 1. i Mr. Holcomb Is a native of Mon tana, having been born, and reared in Dillon. Furthe past 12 years he has resided in Livingston, where he has been employed in various capacities, for several years with the Pacific railroad, and for the past few veare as the auditor for the A. W.

Miles comyany of that city, which has large interests in various parts of the state, Mr. Holcomb Is married and will bring his family to Helena In the near future. Commissioner Hall has been congratulated upon securing' tne ser- vices of Mr. Holcomb, who, it is i 1 stated is admirably fitted to fill the position to which he has been named. Montana Daily Record.

B. F. Holcomb is a son of our fel low townsman, W. T. Hclcomb, who is well pleased with the success of his son.

An Interrupted Siseta. Just as the editor of this paper had laid down to take his Sunday after noon nap, and was jiidb passing into a delightful doze, 'Sunday, we imag hied we were looking on at the deciding game for the base ball pennant between two of the big league I ust as Casey was at the bat, two men clown and bases full a tie score in the ninth inning, our excitement got the best of us, we tumbled off the bed and Looking out of the upstairs window1! we saw the' jause of this interrupted dream. Some; jf the "small boys'' of the town had iotten up a game of ball and were 'laving a very exciting time at the yark, opposite our home. We failed I co gee pne nneup or- tne score as shower camc'tip just then and drove the "little fellow's" back to town, Attica Independent. M.

W. A. Had Lunch. The Modern Woodman pledge met Saturday evening' arid 'a 'royal time was enjoyed by the members who vere After the business of the organiza- Ion was transacted a committee was tppointfid to purchase lunch. The'committce reported back uid a table was spread with a variety if lunch that would tickle the palate if men.

around which the Woodmen issembled and done ample justice to the lunch fefore them. Those who bailed to atte'iicT the meeting Satur- lay evening missed a treat, it always kmys to attend lodije on bad nights. Guess Wrong. There was a rumor circulated the irst of the week that GuyWilmot was be married either Wednesday or Thursday. It was probably alright, xcept Guy didn't appear to know hat such arrangements had been nade, so he failed to carry out his of the program.

Later; The was right but the date wrong; Jai'ds are out announcing the mar-I'lage of G. H. Wilmot and Dora Alt-' 'and at the home of the bride's par-mis at Zend at 8 o'clock Wednesday June News. The small boys is urged to turn out in full force with their mother's dish pans for the occassion. Clnis.

Hldkarcl ancTC. Schooley attended the ball game at Spivey last Saturday between Spivey and Calista. Tl.cy report a fast game of ball with Spivey winuing by a score of 5 to 6. LE Kansas 1 we carry a full line of ne KANSAS AND ros. 0 diers, and especially if there are any who wore the gray, and all patrotic if" are requested to nieet at the lumberyard at 10:30 Sunday morninp Just laugh and forget it.

We are having plenty of rain. Thersla Iluse spent Sunday at the rohls ranch. Gust Emnlng has got a new buggy, now won't Mary shine? Henry Blakeley spent Sunday evening with Ray Falrchikl. Tete Gillen and Lizzie Goctz went to Kingman Friday to do some shop- Mr. and Mrs.

Mike Kerst of Zcnda, and Mr. and Mrs. Adam Smith spent Sunday Joe Goctz and family. Miss Mary Miller and Wesley Tatro spent Sunday at St-Leo. They en-joycj the clay very much.

Misses Kate and Emma Scbmitz spent Sunday ab Cunningham with Mrs. Ililberrj 'who moved up there a few weeks ago. The girls of the Willowdale parish chipped In together and got Father Bast an office chair and a white marble clock in gold' for his 29th birthday Johtv-Pohl is back from Kansas where he 'has been the past six months. We are all glad to have hirn with us again especially the girls. 1 Neghgence on the part of someone at Clare's store Monday evening in failing to close and lock the door of the room north of the store, caused a burglar alarm to be given about midnight.

A cat or some kind of a small animal got in the room and made al noise that awoke Leo" PHler: and Stan Smart who were sleeping 'in a room1 over the main part of the' store. They immediately notified the central office and the operator informed Mr. Clare that something was wrong at the store. Mr. Clare and one of his sons dressed and came down town and when they readlied the store tliey found Stanley and Leo standing in the street in their shirt tails, each holding a gun' In their hands and watching the open door.

An investigation was made and finding nothing wrong, the door was locked and all returned to bed. C. L. Schooley, Wallace Hunter, Stan Smart, A. A.

Johnson, W. E. Crum and E. A. Ford went to Kingman Tuesday to witness the ball game between' the Boston Bloomer Girl and the' Kingman team.

The game was1 interesting they report.and resulted in'a1 victory for Kingman by a little bdttcr than a' free' silver Ford was to have done the umpire stunt but the boys aarived a little late ahcVa. Kingman man was chosen for umpire Fortunately for Ford it was thus, for in the seventh "Inning one of the' bloomers girls got mad and walkecj. oijt.and whipped the umpire. 1 llf p.f rni' nrt mnro W-iw vAn in automobiles, One evening last week we went out with'Ernest Clare for "i little spin" and about five mile out we had puncture and delayed the game an hour or so. Saturday we started with Dr.

Phillips fa his buzz wagon and' turned the corner a block-south of tle drug store when the car stopped. Something was wrong with the dingbat that works the doodle-dash. We quit Div right there and walked Lee Nichols transacted business in Kingman Monday. Miss Grace Boswell who has been visiting in Coldwatcr for several weeks past, returned home Monday. Miss Genevieve Greenwood who has been visiting friends in; this city the past few weeks left Monday for her home in Wichita.

Stan Smart, J. M. McDonald and Kale Colli left Friday for Meade on a business trip. Tliev returned home by the way 'of Wichita and reached here Monday. Have youxs6eri the new two-row Cultivator at James Byrne's? We carry a full line of John Deere 'and headed, by the band will march other lines Don't forget ZENDA James Windmills Byr 'church "where services appropriate the occassion will' be held.

Monday) Decoration is urged' ib riieet at the M. E. churcl at 9:30 and so'tb the cemetary in r. 'body. It 'is desired that as man) little girls and boys as can will com and bring as many flowers as possibh to decorate' tjie graves of 'otir honored A large wagon will be at th church to take the little ones to tin cemcte'rjf.

'y At the.cemetery short service wil beheld tlheti with the band "funeral march a procession will forn 'and march through the cemetary anr place ilowers on the thi soldiers there i After th services at1 Che ccmeterj then1 return to ZendaaiK? get dinner Mr. Iveimig has kindly concented t( let the people leave their lunches aw Other articles in the hall and those who desire may eat dinner there. W( suggest that everyone bring a basket i NOW is the time to PROTECT YOUR WHEAT CROP against hail in the Old Reliable St. Paul Insurance Company We also write it; mother Standard Insurance companies'. None but strctly Standard, Reliable companies represeted by us and put their dinners together and have a hig time.

At p. services will le held in the Methodist church. Spec ial music has been prepared and ad 'dresses will be made by Hon. Jolir Conoughton, of Kingman, and others, A Democrat's Prayer. OLord, now that everything 'coming oar way, purge every Dome cvatic soul of hot air and vain glory and insert large installments of com mon sense in every Democratic crai nium, and 0 remember, Lord, our proneness to make foeils of ourselves ''just when we have the world by the tail and a down-bill pull, and sec that we don't get in bad this time.

IIous-tori (Texas) Post. Callahan 4.