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The Fulcrum from Burlingame, Kansas • 3

The Fulcrum from Burlingame, Kansas • 3

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The Fulcrumi
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Burlingame, Kansas
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man named Davis, at Peterton, on th BUSINESS' COLUMN, DEBTOR AND WOBKIHSHAH, Harry Satzleris the first man to buy a R6.lt finding corn harve.ter, wo shall be to se it working, He bought.it of Fi I ley's. Frank Nelson has a sharp eye on the voters of Burlingame township for he knows that Tom Cain is a rustler and no mistake about it either. Mrs, Geo. Hile who was dangerously ill with a jnalignat sore her hand Wednesday night Is ye are glad to say inuch better this morning. SUiVER STATUE C1CAU, Colburn cames well recommended, His family and household goods will arrive here tho latter part of this month though he will bo unable to come before the first of September, as he is engaged in institute work, Thore was one teacher yet to i.

hired and there were three applicants for the position. The board decided to select the one" who had the highest average grade on her certificate and they accordingly made an average of Krades and found Miss Briddick had the highest and she was elected to fill the vacancy. The board thought If they decided the question in this way it would be considered fair and jmt by all mid no bit lor feelings would entertained by anyone. Xcntitlmi' We will Evaporate Some Apples and Peach es on shares, come and A large stock ofFEUTT JARS and Jelly tumblers at I JLSOK AT RliLISOiVS. see us.

the Sand Bank i Coal Mining Co. it and KING'S Coal to be had at Shaft 7cts per bushel. Jack If you want Fancy Fish go to Nelson and King's, the only place in town you can GET Ice Cream season is now open if i you want the best, go to Rulisons at the corner resturant. Chase an(J Sanborn Tea's and Coffee's sold by Nelson King are the best in the county. A suit of furnished ropms for rent charge of disturbing the peace of woman in that vicinity.

He was taken to Lyndon for trial, the county attorney thinking that Lyndon lawyers will not he smart enough to pick him up as Osage lawyers do, The editor was over at Leavenworth last week aud drove through "Leaven worth county a good deal. Such corn we never saw before, There are thousands of acres over which the stalks are ten feet high. We passed Wellhouse's great orchard (160 acres) at Falrmount. The trees are loaded. It is estimated that ha will have a hundred thousand bushels on that orchard alone.

Cidbuiidaliaru v'1 Messrs P. Carl Koleh, Tuny Richardson, T. Cowen and John Keennn of Lyndon was in our city ust Wednesday, shaking hands with friends. Mrs. B.

Miller, and little son, of Harveyville, arrived in our city last Tuesday and were the guest of Mr. and MrB. E. Lay bourn until Friday morning, she returned to her home. Messrs, John Davis, Ham 'Wolf and Will Watson, who left here about two weeks fto to hunt work, were heard from this week.

They are at Kockford, 111. They left hero for Lawrence to pick potatoes, and bot finding work aa they expected went on. The following teachers were employed by the school board this week for the ensuing year, and assigned their respective rooms. Prof. J.

T. Albin, Principal Miss Katia Montgomery, 4th room. Miss Grace MoKee, Srd room. Miss Lauretta McClair, 2nd prlmrry. MiBS May Reed, 1st primary.

Mr. Geo. Perry brought to our office yesterday 8 ears of corn, in roasting ear that is the largest and finest we ever saw in that stage of growth, at this sea-son of the year. The largest measured 12 in, in length, and 8 inches in ciroum ferance. The smallest is 10 In, in length and inches in circumfe ranee.

He says that be has the finest corn this year that he has ever had in his life the samples he brought to our offica are truly wonderful, taking into consid, eration that it is only the 1st day of August when corn is supposed to be just in bloom, Owrbrook Herald, fricej large Lowell apple "were sold in this market Wednesday tot fifteen cts. a bushel, feorge ITenrici was delivering 500 bushels of corn this week that he con-traeted to Jacob Badsky two months age ut DO cents. PROHIBITION CONVENTION, The Prohibitionists of Osage County will meet in masB convention at Burlin game, at 10 a. m. Wednesday, Aug.

21 1895 for the nomination of Candidate for County Clerk, Treasurer, Sheriff, Register of County Survey and and a a candida te lor Comini! T.biV4 Commissione Dist. Barrington, Chairman M. Ave-rill, GRAND HAVEN AUGUST 8, I89R. Prof. Butner was a Burlingame visitor Monday.

Miss Laura Elebrater Is home from Hutchison on a visit. Orson Bec'kes commenced to work for Mr. Fogwell yesterday. R. L.

Chapman drove over to Over-brook Monday on business. Quite a number of our young folks attended the Sunday School picnic at Harveyville last Thursday. A small crowd attended the tee cream supper at Pleasant hill last night about eight dollars was cleared. Last Thursday evening was a very nice evening for the social at Mr. Chap-mans, four dollars was cleared, there is to be another at Mr.

Cralgs next Tuesday evening every body Is Invited to come There was a very interesting game of ball played after the picnic between the Harveyville vs Elm creek teams which resulted in a victory for Harveyville" the victory gave Harveyvill the big head so they thought they had the Sharon boyg beat before they commenced to play Saturday but the score at the end of nine innings was 11 to 12 In favor of Sharon WAITER A. WOOD, Harvesting Co. Is all right financially, able to pay debts, and have $2,847,911.00 Left, so say! the figures filed with the Court. Elisha Wood has sample machines on exhibition and for sale. Call on him and get prices and terms, Markets, at $4.00 per month enquire of Mrs.

Follett FRIDAY, AUttW 0, LOCALS. M. B. Raymond, Jr, Is iu town. Elmer was In town this week.

Martin is in town at work again. L. E. Dunmire in charge of the Finch livery barn." Miss Pearl and Jennie Williams were In town overSunday. EflBrownis trying to run the engine at the Morgan tile.

factory. Wd Lamb" now ocoupies their old home next to Mrs. Beverly i. Richard Johnson came home from his trip on Sunday night. You, will always flud that pews published In this paper is reliable.

SC. D. Martlpdale, of Scranton was a ibusiujess visitor in. tqwn yesterday. Mi's" II.

Lord is home from Kansas City much improved in health, Minnie Wolff, of Topeka are visitiBg Mr. and rs. W. G. A.

Johte. Forrcnt. sale or trad Guizlo house and two on E. S.Fish.. Harrison Black thinks that he has some big it does look pretty well.

Q. W. Grissenger came home with cars of cattle the first of the week The Baptist Sunday school are having a picnic in Mrs. Newman's grove today. Mr.

and Mrs. Wm Vanderlip and two children, are visiting Mrs. Heder- Btrom. p. R.

Hamilton came to our office this week with some very fine Jfiraporateu Mrs. 'Mary Hartley of Ocheltree, (Kansas is visiting her Bon Pr. A.J' Geo. Placket is doing a' good job "of grading in his district west of Richard Johnsons. Chas.

Grieves, of Scranton, has been a new barn on his farm near Ed. Silvers. Yiloover thinks that his fqnees are in good repair JmweYpr time will tell William. tCarl Tufts, of Kansas City has been visiting the family of 8. Bratton for the past week.

I J. I). Jack jwa a nw ate this week 12x17. Wld Lamb did the job. Be sure and rend an article in column headed Working for pay, and read it caref ully.

The Workers" of the Baptist flinrch anticipate having a picnic at the Poor Farm Aug. If you want to have fruit Evaporated at the Mill two blocks' North of town well or at this oflice. C. P. Drew moved to Swf-ka yester-with teams, thus one by one our old settlers stray away from Jos.

Guizlo was here from Reading looking after his property here which he anxious to sell or trade. Trustee W. Hoover and Treasurer J. P. Slaughter went to Lyndon oq, Monday on Township business Judge Thomsons, McDonald won the race in his class at Ft.

Scott in three straight heats last weekr We are informed that there will be evening Services in Presbyter ian the balance of this month. John Sanderson and family returned from their Holton visit last night. They made the trip with private F. M. Ste ves will ap ples or peaches for cash or on shakes for terms call at this Office or at the Mill, Ben Austin says that there was about 1,000 at the picnic last Friday and that iheitfdn'geat' thing that' tjjjey? had was whiskey.

Mrs.H. to Wayne Co. N.ew York en last Saturday for a 6 weeks visit with her parents and other relatives and friendi. We forgot to mention that Rev. C.

editor of the Ottawa Inlex at Minneapolis visited his pother Sunday on the 28. A Jarge number of our Masonic orxler went to Osage City last Sunday to the Funeral fit Thomas R. Webb and old citizen of that city. Wm. Spaulding and F.

E. Rosj and their wives expecjt to ajt.r' for' Colorado tomorrow with a team for' the benefit of the ladies health. Ben Haller has been hauling lumber and sand to build a large addition jto theold homestead residence, Gib Taylor will do the carpenter work. W. H.

and Sam Morgan weat to Reading last week after tfte tile faor tory when they canp. to Dragoon they did not dare ford and left their Jpads. there till next morning. Mason's Jars, Pints, qts 1-2 gal. We bought them Dr.

C. S. Terry and family of Chicago arrived in Burlingame on TueBiiay and we saw Ira go down the street on his bjcycUi.thls morning like a race horse. We saw Rev. Turner and his son Frank's family out at Dragoon fishing Wednesday and met Miss Violet Hunt and Sum a going for the same purpose.

If you want to read something good wrder the $ew Era of July 19 and read R. 8. Thompsons great speech at the Nebraska State convention, it is a good one. Burlingame will have a fruit Evapor ator large enough to take care of 100 bush, every 24 hours in operation next Monday, F. M.

Sieves Proprie tors. Brown and Roach are building a carriage roojft adjoining the Shopard house sample room a wood fratan covered with iron stamped in imitation of brick. If you want close figures on flour, feed, bran, shorts Call oa S. Bevurlv 8on. Wa a greater variety of brands of flour than any other store store in town i Rev.

Turner, of Kansas City rilled the M. E. pulpit last Sunday morning Text "Behold what manner of love tue hath bestowed jupon us, that we should be caUed the children 0f Albert aud Charlie Finch Btarted for California on the night freight last; Saturday They, acom- nanv the car ana lane care oi me pa.ir of horses wWch tiey took with them, J. Q. Cowee was In town Wednesday and we talked with him about apples, we think that a.

man and a family of children could make some money at his place running uu Evaporator on shares. C. A. Nlcolay, of Fairfax was a caller at our office yesterday there is a beo buzzing around Lums head which may cause some people trouble for he is a No. 1.

tip top good fellow and wants to be the Next Republican. Sheriff of Osage Co. The A.O. W. ojrder of Burlingame intend to have a nicnic down at the Poor farm on Friday A ug.

23rd. They expect to Have saeieejies hi forenoon for the goid of order and in the after noon on the silver question. Every bodj invUgd. E. Fitrch, wife and Daughter and Miss Nellie Hood left on the 4-38 train for Los Angelos Califoi a There was quite a large number of their friends at the train to see them off.

Their many friends in Burlingame join witl us inhopeing they may i pleasent future in that for off home. The Epworth League will take a trip on the cars to Harveyville Aug, 18, where they will b.old a picnic. Every one, young and old whether Epworth- ians or not are invited to bring there baskets well filled and go and have good time. If an attendance of 75 can be secured the railroad will, doubtless grant a rate of one fare (twenty-five cent) for the round trip. In proportion to the size of the city In which It is printed, The Kansas City Star has a larger circulation than any other American Its remark' able succes has beeg achieved by Its un faltering adhotence to the rule of giving its readers the best that The Star's In creasing revenues could furnish aud its improved facilities could supply.

The Stan was the first newspaper to give its readers a full week's papers six even lngs and Sunday morning for JG cents. a thing that could not be profitable ex ceptjvhen done on tne big scale on which The Star does everything. The fitar was also the i first to establish weekly edition for the trifling price of 25 cents a year; 110,000 regular circula tion for the weekly edition domonstrates the wisdom of the idea. The Editor was out to the farm of A. Gates yesterday morning and found him cutting gome Bowjad sorghum with a grain harvester and it seemed to be the correct way to handle it only, do hot cut It to green or with any dew up on it.

A oyone interested can get point ers from Mr, Gates about how it pan out in about a week. The machine cer tainly did the work well tying it up in bundles that could be handled nicely. In a ride of over sixty miles around this county oh Monday we saw but very few pieces A corn what will make good corn if we do not get any more ram, 411a we saw sowed sorglvim so heavy that jthey il need to rent softie ones pasture to ore it in. We thin that our farmers friends will have bot ter success with their sowed sorghum if they let it get ripe, fpr jt will be Ushs trouble to cure it, and it will also be great deal better feed. Try cutting and binding with a grain harvester.

and will SELL THEM the SAME WAY. ORGAN and Co. to bo Kcmemttfrrd. 21 Prohibition county conven- ion in Shepard's opera 'house Burlin game, Aug. 22 Peoples Party county conven tion at Osage City.

Aug. 23 A. O. U. W.

picnio at Poor farm. Aug. 27 Republican county conven tion at Quennmo. WILLCAUl.KTOS having heard of th qiinint conduct of ur school bourd, contributes the fol lowing: Well, John, they've hired the teachers, And I'll tell you what they've done, They've hired each others' daughters, That is, all bat one. And he had no daughter to hire, But when he spoke his piece, To make the thing harmonious, The others hired his niece.

I used to think it the duty of A public school director, When a teacher wasn't competent, Politely to reject her. But now it seems our school board thinks, The only qualification Required in a public teacher is To be a blood relation. Iv'e naught in the world to say against The ones they've hired to teach, For they're all quite nice and proper girls But the danger is that each Being of pure republican blood, May think just like her pap. That office is not a publio trust, But simply a private snap. The Cu rbondalia n.

I'm PJ.t'i4 Opiiimi. fain, of Durlingumc, was in the hiil nuay. We liPur with regn-t thai time of Robt. J. Hill's children are very sick with a disease not at all unlike diph therla.

Prof. McDonald and family have re turned from their overland trip to Illinois. They appear to have greatly enjoyed the outing. 1 In all piobability the Oaage f'jty TV- nlng Factory will open for the season's work next Manapev in forms us that the crop of tttmatooI though short, are demanding hi- atten tion, and it will bo necessary fur him to begin to care for them at, that time. He went down yesterday to make the necessary arrangements to begin then.

From Quenemo Republican. Two sun-strokes aud three more ex hausted from heat, the result of Nate Thompson trying to thresh Saturday. Billy Farrow Is lamenting the fact that he is not taller, for he says a short legged corn.husker can't get a a job this fall. Nobody under six foot will be able to reach th ears, From Peoples Herald. Mrs.

Ellsworth Armstrong of West Virginia, is visiting her parents Mr. aud John Hinton, Our Creamery is now receiving over 10,000 pounds of milk dally, and are making over 450 pounds of A No. 1 but ter. Jflhn Keenan has bought himself a new buggy to make the canvass for Sheriff lu. John always enjoys a good rig aud team and he always has them too.

Miss Franc Campbell, will be the teacher in the primary room on the west side. Mrs. Cooper will take the room taught last year by Miss Sadie Gill. Miss Hussey, Miss Varner and Mr. Howley will take their old rooms, It has beendeeided to build one room on the large school house this fall ag it is Impossible to secure a suitable room in the oity for one the primary From Free Prm.

Editor Pipp, of the Burlingame Chron icle was in the city for an hour or so Monday. Clyde Miller returned from Chicago Sunday evening. He says it's a wise son that knoweth his own father when his mustache is shaved of. A new lodge is about to be Btarted here. On Tuesday Mrs.

Gibson, grand chief of the llathbone Sisters, the ladies' order of the Knights of Pythias, visited this city and got things in shape for the organization of a lodge in thin city, Deputy Sheriff John Swisher came over oil Tuesday and arrested Rn old You can get the in Dinner sets ever offered you in to wn at Nelson King's. Just received at blankets at 50 cents per pair M. 8teyes Co- want to talk to you ratmg Apples or reaches. before the advance bqst Bargains in Kents 200 pair albout evapo- Aj we go to press we learn of the death laslrnlght of Rev, Redgates wife of Wilmington of -Typhoid Bhe was taken sick Sunday A Singular Accident, Miss Jennie Picken, who is visiting it Mrs. Fish's slipped and fell on the kitchen floor about 3 p.

m. Sunday, her right limb doubling under her causing a severe injury. The exact nature of which the doctors' could not at once determine. Two doctors were, called and administered chloroform and after examination came to the conclusion that no bones were broken. Miss Piekens suffered extreme pain fron the first.

Bhe is now improving and by the aid of crutches gst into a phaeton last evening and is now at Mrs. Elma Pringle's. The Board of Education after exam ining the certificates aud recommenda tions and making inquiries in regard to the qualifications of twenty applicants for the principalship of oijr school has elected Prof. J. M.

Colburn of Syracuse. to fill the vacancy. Prof. Ilayincis in "full blast in the lower half of Osage County and is being bal ed in the field and rushed on the mar ket it is soiling for $3.00 per ton- in Osage City. Little Jim Bratton is havine a ser ious time with what at first appeared to be lUieumatisin but it has now settled in one of his knees, he has been having this trouble fpr about three weeks but they think he is some better.

II. I). Shepard lias made a deal with Chambers so that he now' controls the Rink, we have been trying to get IX to think that the best thing to do with It is to tear it down and make an elevator of it down at the railroad. The following aro the Teachers select for our schools: Prof. C.

S. Fowler Principal, Prof. Koy Holtz asst. Miss Eva M. Hold, gvammer Emma Ilcderstrom Lou Newman Mary Williams MabefWood Lizzie Vaughn and Franc Hills, Eggs per doz.

8 centa Butter, per ft 8 to 12 Potatoes, per bu. 40 Apples per bu. 15 to 25 Peaches per bu. 20 to 75 Hens per ft fi Spring chickens, 7 Roosters, per ft 2 Wheat per bu. 55 Corn, per bu.

80 Oat, choice 32 ft per bu. 20 Hay, prairie, per ton $3.50 to 4.0ft Hay, baled 5,2510 5,53.

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