The Mahaska Leader from Mahaska, Kansas • 1

00 00 0 Historical Society THE MAHASKA LEADER. VOLUME 10. PUBLISHED AT NARKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1915. NUMBER 42 Published in the interest of Mahaska and vicinity. Entered as second-class matter September 20, 1913, at the postoffice at Narka, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

000000000000 Capital $10,000 Surplus $8,000 The Mahaska State Bank 000000004 General Banking, Insurance. Farm Loans and We Solicit Your Business. 0000000 Home Happenings Gathered from the Highways, Byways Railways and all other ways. Get right with the printer. Mrs.

P. A. King is on the sick list. The Misses Slater were Fairbury visitors Tuesday. Hubert Strayer left Wednesday morning for- Smith Center on business.

Tom Short visited at the O. W. Blakesley home north of Narka last week. T. A.

Dawson, who has been on the sick list for some time is still very poorly. Geo. Dawson suffered attack of appendicitis Tuesday but is reported some better. Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Osborne, of Fairbury, attended the Decoration Day Services here Sunday. Mrs. R. J. Williamson entertained Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Osborn, of Fairbury for dinner Sunday. Joe Hardenburger left Tuesday morning for Bushnell, to visit his son, Harry, a few days. S. P.

Hamm moved into the Mrs. Christison property vacated by Mrs. Amanda Lowe this week. A. J.

Freeborn and Wm. May were entertained at the W. W. Love home for dinner Decoration Day. Bill Peake, Leslie Reesor, er Garber and George Short were Fairbury visitors Monday after- Chas.

Rose, Chas. Van Waning and Miss Goldie Summers were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chias. C.

Knauff. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Brandt, of Jansen, came over Tuesday morning and spent the day with Mrs. Brandt's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. C. O. Messler, Mr. Brandt having some dental work done while here.

A supply of: select German Millet seed for sale. -F. W. Jennings, Narka, Kansas. Zene May visited at the of Geo.

Thomas home, naer Narka, Tuesday afternoon. Charley and Freddie Fett left Sunday for Gladstone, where they will attend school this summer. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Graham and children were Sunday guests of their parents, Mr.

and Mrs. T. Dawson. A. C.

Wheeler of Fairbury, and J. I. Wolff, of near Haddam, attended the Decoration Day services here Sunday. A. O.

Emrick and family took dinner with Grant and Irene Emrick Sunday and attended the Decoration Day services. Mr. and Mrs. Ray McMillin and son, Gerald, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. J.

T. McMillin, and his sister, Miss Grace. Miss Hattie Hutcherson, of Narka visited at the Mrs. John Reesor home Sunday and attended the Decoration Day Exercises. Mrs.

Amanda Lowe moved her household goods from the Mrs. Christison house to the home of her son, Fred Lowe west of town. Mrs. Blanche Dougherty, of Narka, came over Saturday evening for a few days visit with her sister, Mrs. W.

G. Arnold and family. A. C. Wheeler, Frank Broady and Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Livingston were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Livingston Decoration Day. The Children's Day program of the Presbyterian Sunday school will be given at 11:00 o'clock Sunday, June 6th.

Everybody is cordially invited to attend. Mrs. W. G. Arnold and son, Von, went to Narka Monday and visited her parents over night and attended the play given by the Ladies Aid Society of that place Monday night.

0 As warm weather ap60 Fly will from proaches flies. need your We protection horses have 0 Nets the BEST and largest line of New Nets ever shown in town. Call and see our stock and get our prices before you buy CHAS. C. KNAUFE, Mahaska, Kansas do do Obituary.

Johanna Charlotte Swanson was born in Sweden April 5, 1842, and died at her home in Mahaska, Kansas, May 24, aged 73 years, 1 month and 19 days. She came to America with her paretns. in 1854, locating at Marysville, Kansas, where on May 4, 1871, she was united in marriage, to John D. Minto. Shortly after their marriage Mr.

and Mrs. Minto located on a homestead near Fairbury, where they resided until 1892, when they came to Mahaska, where Mr. Minto has since been engaged in the harness business. She was confirmed in the Luthern church in 1859, uniting with the Presbyterian church shortly after coming to Mahaska, in which she remained a faithful member until her departure. Her husband and one brother, John A.

Swanson, of Hepburn, Iowa, survive her. Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church, conducted by Rev. B. E. Jacobs, at 2:00 o'clock Wednesday, May 26, and remains laid to rest in the Mahaska.

cemetery. Card Of Thanks. We wish to thank the many kind friends and neighbors for the kindness to us during our late bereavement of our beloved wife and sister. Also for the beautiful flowers contributed and to the singers. J.

D. Minto. J. D. Swanson.

Decoration Day. Although Sunday was a dark drizzly day the people and their friends commenced to arrive in town early and by nine o'clock there was a large crowd assembled to pay tribute to the boys in blue. Ways were furnished to all who could go to the cemetery where the graves of all departed comrads and their loved once were decorated, after this the W. C. and lodges remembered their departed ones by placing flowers on their graves.

The graves of frieds were remembered as long the flowers lasted. The program was well planned and carried out to the letter in every particular and those who were on the different committees are to be congratulated on the days success. The speaker, J. A. Freeborn, of Washington, delivered an excellent talk and the program was well rendered and all merit special mention.

The talk given by our home boy, Hubert Strayer, was exceptionally good. The decorating committee did some good soliciting as they had such lovely flowers for decorating, and the condition of the weather was very favorable for the flowers as they were so fresh. The music deserves special mention and also the pantomine given by several young ladies, Blue and The Gray" was very appropriate and impressive. Four old soldiers were present namely, J. I.

Wolfe, A. C. Wheeler, Win. May and John Deegan. Wheeler and Wolfe responded to the campfire talks which was enjoyed by all.

Hubert Strayer, who has been attending school at Emporia the past year arrived home Friday. P. 0. King and son, Lloyd, spent Sunday with P. A.

King and family and attended the Decoration Day Services. never worries about results," bellows an exchange. Of course not. The bride does thata few years after briding. Discoloratian.

Quite a little excitement occured at the postoffice Wednesday morning when the first sack of mail was dumped for distributing, there was more than the mail dumped as their was the prettiest red fluid painted over all packages letters, cards and papers which made one believe Easter had arrived, but later proved to be a bottle of medicine which was enroute from a distance that it was so disfigured one could hardly read who it belonged to. The mail was handled with gloves. Rev. Joseph Teply, the new pastor of the Presbyterian church. will be here next Sunday morning and evening.

Some "Boosting" Suggestions. Don't be the man who put sit in city. Building good houses builds a good town. Save a little money and save a lot of worry. Good roads lead not only to town, but to money.

Be a live one and the town will never be a dead one. A nice front porch has prevented many an old maid. Why should the town muzzle dogs and not knockers? When someone plans to help the town, plan to help the plan: The best plans a man -can have to the future are house plans. A good way to make the world better is to begin with the home. town.

A town is like a perambulator: it isn't much good, unless it is pushed. Don't spend all your time telling what you could do if you had some time. Be like a ball player. The thing he is always working for is home. Be one of the leaders of the town, if you can; but, anyway, keep up.

Don't be a grouch. Everybody in this town wishes you well, even the doctor. Let's not be trying to stop something all the time. Let's start something. A good town will do more to keep the boys at home than good advice.

A town is like a girl. It's wonderful what a little fixing up will do for her. Opportunity knocks once at every man's door; better be at home when the lady calls. The world owes every man 8 living, but the street corner is a poor collection agency. Don't look for soft snaps; the hard snaps are the ones that have the ginger in them.

Don't spend so much time talking war that you haven't time left to talk business. It improves the soup to throw a little pepper into it. Same way with a town. Plaster your house and everybody will follow your example. Lath and the world laths with you.

You've got to be a citizen to vote, but you've got to do a good deal more than vote to be a citizen. If you will consider the men in this town who are well off you will find that most of them made their money here. The big things were not all done in the big towns. The greatest poem in the English language. was written in a country churchyard.

There is only one better man than the man who gets behind and pushes, in an effort to improve the town, and that's the man who goes ahead and pulls. Every man has his allotment of brains, though some are little let bole JUST RECEIVED -A NEW LOT OF DRY GOODSConsisting of Hosiery for the whole family, Ties for men and boys, another supply of Summer Underwear, New Shirts for men and boys, Combs, Ribbons, Hooks and Eyes, Rubber Cords, Men's and Children's Hose Supporters, another lot of Summer Dress Goods, Ginghams and Percales, Scrims, Shirting and Wide Sheeting. New Groceries arriving daily. THE QUALITY STORE. Forget Try Emrick's First! Pays Quality and Prices are Right." 1 A A.

L. Graham and family were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashford Sunday, while attending the Decoration Day Services. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Lowe and children attended the Decoration Day services here Sunday and took dinner with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M.

Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. John Moser and children and Mr. and Mrs.

Lee Coonrod and baby were dinner guests of their mother, Mrs. W. B. Lowrie, Decoration Day. There was a new time card went into effect on the Rock Island Sunday, and slight changes were made in the time of all the local trains.

See the corrected time table in this issue. J. A. Swanson, of Hepburn, Iowa, who was here to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. J.

D. Minto, and has since been visiting Mr. Minto, left for his home Wednesday. Miss Gladys Kenton, of Haddam who is here visiting her sister, Mrs. Albert Selmer, went to Narka Friday morning and visited Miss Laura Moth until Saturday evening.

Miss Muth accompanied her here and visited until Sunday evening and attended the DecoraLion Services. M. E. Church Directory. Sunday School at 10:00 o'clock a.

m. Preaching service at 11:00 o'clock. Epworth League at 6:30 o'clock p.m. Preaching Service at 7:30 o'clock. Prayer Meeting (At the Church) Wednesday evening at 8:00 o'clock.

Choir Practice at the church Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock. Preaching each alternate Sunday at Mahaska and Haddam. A. C. STEWART Pastor.

A. Homer Whitney, Veterinarian. Narka, Kansas. Narka Phone. At McAtee's Barn in Mahaska Thursdays, and at Nelson's Barn In Hubbell Saturdays.

V. J. WALL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON All calls answered promptly day or night. Phones: Office 15. Night, Hotel 32 de dE de Mahaska Garage We can take care of that car for you, no matter what the trouble.

We do repairing, etc. We do delivering day or night Slater May Phone 23 Mahaska Kansas City Hotel We have purchased the hotel fixtures and took charge Wednesday and we expect to give the public a firstclass hotel in every way. Board By the Day Or Week Mrs. Zella Masten, Prop. noon.

OUR REGULAR PRICES You do not have to send away for your Groceries--Get Them at Home. 8 cans Red Salmon 55c 3 Pink 30c 5 lbs. Good Coffee. $1.20 1 lb. Gunpowder or Japan Tea.

50c 8 1-oz bottle Extract. 25c 12 cans 50 Milk 55c 8 cans Sardines. 25c 6 cans Choice Peaches or Apricots. $1.00 6 Red Raspberries 1.10 1 can Logan Berries. 20c 2 lbs.

Best 20c 3 cans Standard Tomatoes 30c 6 Extra Standard Tomatoes, 70c 6 cans Fancy Corn. 50c 6 Extra Fancy Corn. 70c 3 30c 25 lbs. Granulated Sugar. Total.

$10.36 We will fill this order for $10.00 Cash. L. B. HAMILTON MAHASKA, KANSAS 0000000000000.