The News from Cleburne, Kansas • 2

THE NEWS Wiie lotaim State Wmk1 Vi-i. Subscription price GEO. C. Editor. I Entered at the nostoffice a a Why Audit Then Th.ni? Why audit them then? is the question that wo would like to ask of the editor of the Free Lance.

Is it to be done for curiosity? Can the county afford such expense merely to gratify some fellows' curiosity? Here i the article "Without thought of reflecting on the honesty or proficiency of any official, present or past, Ceo. O'Malley, county commissioner, has been urging that the liooks of the various county offices be audited by an expert. GLSBURG A crowd from here attended the ball game at Cleburne last Friday between our boys and the Cleburne Grays. stayed for the play which our bo ysput on in the evening. A big baby boy was born to Mr.

and Mrs. II. E. Melgrer. on Tuesday May 5th.

Constance Fagerberg returned home Monday evening from the county seat where she had been visiting her sister Alice for past week. The ball game played Tuesday THERE ARE TIMES There are times when it pays to be well known at the bank. You may want a referance as to your integrity responsibility. A good word fro your banker will help a long way. You may be about to embark in an investment enterprise, go into business or buy some property.

Who is better to advise you perhaps give you a financial lift, than your banker? This bank takes especial pleasure in rendering such assistance to its depositors as it may. Your business co-operations are invited here. One is impressed, when he visits the state house, with the proficiency of the in putting their feet on the desk nnd the sang1 froid, whatever that may be, with which thev spend their time. The Pink Rag-. A stitch in time saves nine, but a swat in time (on.

a fly) will save 64,948,756 swats on his or her progeny in one season evening between the east and th Why objection is made to the auditing we know not. Ihe ex pease would not amount to very much, not more than five cents even every swat was a suc for each person the county At the instance ot commission Capital, $20,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits $5oob cessful swat, so swat every old green fly you see today.tomor-row or the next da v. cr O'Malley, Mr. Mair, a St.Louis expert, came here last week to west side of town resulted in a score of 9 to in favor of the west side. Edith Lindquist assisted Mrs.

Lauck with her house-work this week. Olslnirg Gazette. Otto and Ed Nelson and Wil-bert Forsberg caught 9 young coyotes the first of the week. Wilbert has two of hem over at his home, and Otto scalped the confer with the board in regard grandchildren and friends. Fun- Joseph Skala of Barnes has ereal services were held held at purchased two lots south of the to the matter.

He offered to audit all of the books for five he K.P. Hall at M.P. stosk yards of Wm.Moores years back for $780, or for twentv vears back for a rea and is building a small house on them. He will make his home there in the future. day morning, conducted by Rev.

Wilford Cooper. They took' the body to Springside for burial. (Cliiip(l from Leader.) sonable fee. It has been twen others. The young ones were found on John Velen's place Nor Guy Ward had the misfortune ty years since the accounts in Riley county were audited by The Manhattan Democrat say there are more democrats in ley county than there are members of any other party.

He is counting his chickens before the hatching, yet we must admit the prospects are for a good hatching in November. Mat Callahan of Manhattan re cently tried to save a boot-legger from trouble by telling a lie to the court about it and now he is found guilty of perjury and must th onf town. Wilbert was not Chas. ells Sr. came here I to smash a counle of his finsrers an expert.

Free Lance afraid of them as he says they Wednesday from Portland, Ore-1 while loading a can of cream on have no teeth. Friday morning to visit his bro. for a few clays. Mrs. Geo McDonald came in from Nebraska Sunday to visit relatives for a few days.

Lew Keen moved his family and household goods to Blue Rap ids Thursday. Miss Maude Comer left Monday for Minnesota and North Dakota where she will vivsit relatives at both places. She expects to be gone four months. Mrs. Chambers, of spent several days of last week with old friends here.

John Dunlap, who is working at Randolph, visited his mother Saturday and Sunday. gon, to stay with his sons Chas, We would favor such a plan if there was any prospect of its Wednesday's afternoon passen Forty friends gathered at the doing any good. What is the matter of making such work to home of Mrs. Ida Samuelson on Apr. 16; to give John Nelson a and Ben.

Lew Keen moved, his family to Blue Rapids yesterday. He has rented the Hall barber shop ger. It made him mighty sick for awhile but he is allright at present. Harry Forbes returned to K. Tuesday, after having spent be the business of the State Ac surprise honor ot his 84th countant and have him to exam birthday.

Mr. Nelson was pre tnere ad is running the same in all of these books at least sented with a sum of money as ben Wells is going to take since Saturday with home folks. once in every wo years, in some a reminder of the day. Refresh the examination for the post offi-i Ilarrv had just been released such matnner as he banks are ments were served and all had a examined. good time.

Ben Modene a resident I.N.rrocter died at his resi the county for twenty-three yrs go to the penitentiary, a peck trouble for himself and no sympathy from anybody, not even the boot-legger. Nearly everywhere they are making a fight on the Dandelions now why all that fuss when it is such a pretty yellow flower and makes such good eating too in the way of greens, why the women are buying seeds and planting themthat produce far less goods. John Barleycorn Fal City Nebr. After over fi dence Monday morning. He three strokes of paralisis and when seventy-three of age gave this office a call Tues He was 75 years of age and leavs to mourn his death, a wife and fty years of continuous residence' in Fall City old John Barly- Mr.

Modene returned home Wed nesday of last week, from an ex daughter besides a great many corn left. April 30 was his last tended visit with relatives in K.C ce here, making five that we from Universitty Hospital after have heard of and reported be-! having had an operation per-fore. formed some four weeks before Reginald Thomson is out of land a hard tumor taken from the store nursing a case of thhe behind his eye. The operation mumps. was a very serious one but the Mrs.

Anna Shirle left for Per-i wound healed nicely and he is ry, Oklahoma, yesterday to set-; feeling fine and expects to go to tie up some matters pertaining his work railroading in a short to the estate of her husband, het time, late Joseph Shirley. Mrs. Tom Chambers of Auro- The News is non-partisan "and ra, 111., came here yesterday to i and it's columns are open to visit old frieds. She came from the candidates of any political Oketo she had been party to make their announce-visiting relatives. The ments and run their campaign formerly lived south of Irving, ads.

The Usual rates will annlv. day and it was turned into a sort of a celabration. Although and Bee Bee. Ark. Mr.

Modene savs he landed in Arkansas in February, the wet season, anc the dampness went pretty hard with his rheumatism. He also John has never been a very highly respected citizen, and in fact it is claimed that he has-been the worst enemy of virtue, morality and almost everything else that most good people believe in, he had a host of friends around The Marysville Advocate-Dem ocrat sued a delinquent subscriber last week because he refused to pay his bill of $8.75, he claimed that he had ordered the took a little jaunt over in Tenn He is now making his home with i- his son, Elmer and family who reside south-east of town. Subscriptio Money Due- paper stopped several times years ago but could not get it TIT it i Mrs. Harrel, who has been her we need some ot tne stun in here and across the line in Kans. Hundreds of his friends were in town Thursday to say goodby to him.

Five hundred automobiles our business. tor a couple ot weeks assisting 1i n. at the Louie Carlson home, lelt rsotice tne date alter your for Beatty, Sunday Louie mak were lined up around the court name in addressing the paper to and if you find that your ing the trip in his Auto. stopped but he admitted that he had been taking it out of the post office. The court decided that so long as he had taken it from the post office that he was responsible for its pay and that he should pay the bill and the costs in the case which was an extra ten dollars.

subscription has expired kind- IRVING remit in a dollar for another Mrs. Austin of Blue Rapids year, it you do not want the house and the biggest crowd that had been here for years was on the streets or greeting old John at his place of business. A bi? lot of John's enemies were also here, but they didn't seem mad. Many of them used to be paper and do not intend to pay lor it at any time noti fy us to stop it as we do not A cartoon in the Topeka State care to send it to anybody who came Tuesday for a visit with her son, Guy and family. Jesse Pullin left for Oregon Monday morning where he will find work and later send for his family.

Misses Eva Webb and Elsie I Another Bargain I 'v ff if ll'rfe rf Trl if Journal showed a picture of a wild-eyed man who had killed a don intend to pay for it neith er do we care to stop sending his friends in other days and they are charitable enough to see the position of his friends today but they are all delighted to see woman and her man was labelled the powder smoke and bullets from the paper to you just because you do not happen to have the ready cash. want the pap George and Mis. Grace Comer spent Sunday at the J.L. Lewis the revolver was labelled Kock er. Hie date is given by the home.

Mrs. Curtis Murphy entertain efell'ow the picture was labelled "Colorado's Shame" him move out and all of them claim that he will not be missed by the city in a financial way. Some of John's friends tell of his good qualities and cite how kind he always was in case of a month and year means subscription expired Aug. 1, ed the Embroidery Club Wednesday evening. Saddle the blame on yourself to a big degree gentlemen.you who so on with all other dates.

vote to tolerate such conditions, cad cold or snake bite and some of them even say that he was OUR HONOR ROLL Is your name printed here? it is the shame of the U.S. and we better clean our own front responsible for paving the street door yard, before we go down to but the old man's enemies an Kennith Austin had the misfortune to sprain his ankle Sunday. He is now hobbling around with a crutch. Fred Hall of Whiting spent Tuesday night with Wm. Franks and family.

Frank DeShazzer jr. came in Here we list the names of the ones who have paid us anything on subscription since the first of swer tnat liiawatna, just inteen i i -r 1 Jx. soutn, wnere jonn nasni the month, the first of next lived for more than twenty-five clean Mexico for the Rocktellow interests. We should apologize to the laboring before they are driven to desperation into a big civil war that will leave a bigger blot of blood on America tan the Civil war did. years, has more paving and is a month we clear the space and correct our mailing list and start from Boner Springs Saturday to better town than Fall City in ev ery way.

The ministers of the This massive iron bedstead has two inch i' visit his parents for a tew days. Mis Maude Comer visited her friend Mrs. Fred Skoch, of Prair town mingled with the crowd the roll new again. J.A.FORSBERG 2-15 Emil Bjorling 2-15 Alfred Peterson 2-15 good naturedly, but with no air Over $12,000,000 was paid out last year by Kansas people for of having put anything over, A.F.Abrahamson 5-15 (new) Some of them say their fathers ROY BERGSTEN 5-15 in him soiv.ewhat and so they posts, good substantial fillers, is regular full sized and complete with rails, nicely finished in that rich gold enamel that is washable. It is a beauty in any home.Like theillustra-tion Others usually charge ten or SI 2 at their place of business? we deliver it to your home for ie Ridge Friday and Saturday.

Mis Sadie Stffler of Clay Center, was here visiting her grandmother, Mrs. S. Durgon last wek Mrs. Grace Styles and Mrs. Tom Chambers spent Friday P.

M.with Mrs. Ben Wells. Edgar Strader went to Lincoln paid out for other insurance. If City Restauraut are just glad he is gone, and that is all. The women, they that hav suffered most at the hands of the old tyrant, refuse to forget J.

F. CONKLE, Frop. in: axd rout dkinks. or forgive. If they had the right as Kansas women have they I i the people had been taxed that much each year by the state for a fund to help all of the widows and orphans in the a howl would have went up from the multitude for there is one big howl now because our total taxes for all other purposes by the state reaches the enormous sum of about one-eighth that a-mount, Of course Menls and Lunches at All Hours would pursue him even unto Om of this 3pt.

border with cor-! On Safe at Only aha and his reign would cease in this state. But by the terms of ner pieces, for only 40c J.F.COPELAND, DDS the law he is allowed to march out with the honors of war and take un his abode tlswhere. He I'amloljili, Kansas A Cft. of this 12pt. border, $1.23 ome of this money comes back Pffond full Thursday at 8 r.

M. and pn4o in the, ri-f (lentil i 't At I.eonardvllie the i of each month. Hundreds Praise EBERSONS PAINTS Some of those who have recognized the good Qualities of EBERSON'S PAINTS and se upon a u-" wl next day's sun ro A 2 ft. of this 12pt. border, $1.00 on of ever he state coul ha jdte tni, 1 humanity mess to the advantage ot all oi Dr.

E. Schumann have bought and used it tins week ir 1.. IKI.tn. Joseph KonigFmark Pervv Peterson cerned? and thus swat the in CLEBURNE, KAN'S. Phone Calls answered, all Hours.

Lind bloom Lnckson Smith lii.t; resolutions never to cultivate i his acquaintance again and des-! hiring wives are taking courage surance trust as the parcels po did the express rates J. L. Lewis G. Johnson 4 It. of this border, $2.00 Parsons Dental Dates CO.IPLETE CATALOG of nil sir.es and stvlcs of essrerj i secret ivC Indira tors upon Pystoin of Ix-nal O'Tifcs- Land is chean, savs theBreed-1 nd looking again to the future er's Gazette.

For easv figuring for that happines they have been let us it is worth SIC r.n I nied so long. Travelling acre. A souare rod, then is worth discussing the problem in onlv SI. and 10 cents' worn will i hood lobbies and are unan.mous Le "a little more than 27 so. ft.

i eq oj fi uorjtqiqatd pruonvji im or a little farm slightly more in the near iKturc. than five feet as ide. I low oft-j fc Vhangeifthe stvle of tn a boy will waste a dime i'lit iu.flVl we rr.m ht-adirig XL of (his lOpt. border; $1.50 Oilit'cs dii the follow in if dates each Perfect riontli: Oives drr.crii.'iioii full (ieUiita of r.ii'i Siphon You to ivad it licfore ujn your (I(liurii it ami 2n) OIlturK 2-lh lt i i Ihmk noimng oi u. rvr Seeder Dry 'c Air Siphon I of this 6 point border fori he can buy lur.a enough to r.r!:l a flower bed.

foi'r hill of clover or a reach tixe! The Lor whn Only $2.00 Sold Bij CHE LANDER can sava a dime ci i in more news and a lver-j without enlarging our I pi per, or going to the trouble of i out a hup; dement. Printing done by us wis! the most pt i or. 1 and prices wil! satisfy the ivo-4 SON in 1 rjlf 5- A.s I tiv? fHjt.rial attontlnn to crown and l.riifirc work, i.nd a (i'ock of material for ti.i.t p'ti-Poho. ani i roniil(e Jill v-orii at the various jitiints 1 visil on short, All work rn'rustod to r-i ivp my rari-ful n.ion. t--i fully.

H. W. I'AKSON43. Willi. iro, Kansas.

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