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Belle Plaine Gazette from Belle Plaine, Kansas • 1

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CIRCULATION HOME BELLE PLAINE GAZETTE. KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 26 1907. NUMBER 28 'OLUME I I. BELLE PLAINE, Local Mention OBITUARY It Comes Local Mention Home People Who Went Away or Came Back----Little Happenings of the Day Hay fever is in vogue. C.

Knox is visiting in Iowa. A show is on at the opera house. Remember Parker's Special Sale: Mrs. Ora Funk visited at Wichita Monday. Mrs.

C. N. Higginson has been on the sick list. Chas. Large is moving to Wichita this week.

Mrs. I. R. Smith was a Wellington visitor Friday. A.

Lindstrom transacted business at Wichita Friday. Farmers were deliyering hogs to the shippers Monday. Tom Looper was at the county seat on business Friday. Elder D. T.

Broadus preached at Palestine last Sunday, Joun Robinson and Geo. Golightly were in Wichita Sunday. Miss Laura Kogar was home over Sunday from Wellington. Roy Patterson returned home Tuesday night from Ft. Scott.

Read what the advertisers have to say. They invite your patronage. GAZETTE readers will be glad to see a letter from Cicero again this week. Chas. Glover was working in the Famous restaurant part of this week.

There was a horse buyer in town Friday. Good horses are scarce and high. Miss Florence Huddleston, of Harper, is visiting at the J. E. Redmon home.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm Darby left Monday morning for a visit of a few weeks in Ohio. Mrs. J.

F. Thompson entertained Mis. A. M. Reitzel of Welling on Saturday.

J. A. Potter, of Blackwell, was here Friday of last week trying to buy horses. Mr, and Mrs. Jno.

Zimmerman and family were visiting relatives near Zyba Sunday. A Mr. Wilson of Butler County was here Tuesday looking for a small tract of land. Mrs. Frank Gifford and Miss Bessie Warren were visiting at John Gifford's Tuesday.

Jas. Stevenson was home over Sunday from Wichita where he is attending school. Ira Wheeler was getting cement blocks of J. A. Owen Monday to build a fine cave.

G. W. Harrison covered Route I Tuesday for regular carrier Bingham, who was sick. Hugh Henderson and sisters, Minnie, Dollie, and Nora, were visiting at Irwin Roy's Sunday. Geo.

Stunkle is having lumber sawed at Short Bros. mill to be used in building a new barn. Prof. Pearson will occupy the Barnes property which was vacated this week by Chas. Large.

Geo. Sloan of Prairie Garden neighborhood was in town on real estate business Monday. Don Pringle was hauling hay in town Friday with two teams. It was baled and sold at $8 a ton. Mrs.

Maude Shaffer has been down from Mulvane this week 'visiting her mother Mrs. Bishop. Mrs. George Golightly who has been visiting in Mulvane and Wichita returned home Wednesday. A.

Lindstrom drove to Rose Hill on business Monday. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter. Harvey Smart, of Cicero, who is by trade a painter, was in town Monday. He thinks of locating here. Mr.

and Mrs. Alex Williams returned Tuesday evening from a stay of two months at Colorado Springs. Mrs. Serena Davis returned Tuesday from Iowa. Mr.

and Mrs. Grist went on to Indiana to visit friends there. The GAZETTE reporter heard somebody (the name we did not learn) remark the other day that "it is getting very dry! Dr. Davis, the dentist, is now in Belle Plaine Tuesday and Friday of each week instead of only Tuesday as heretofore, Mrs. Josie Blankenship and the little Misses Wooldridge spent the latter part of last week visiting friends at Blackwell, Oklahoma.

OBITUARY Parkers Special Sale One case Albert Hosiery Misses seamless fine Egyptian fast black ribbed cotton hose will be put on sale Saturday Afternoon, Oct. 5 a at 2 o'clock. Sale closes Saturday night. Sizes run from 5 1-2 to 91-2 and regular prices 15, 20 and 25c per pair. In this sale all sizes go at pr 15c We bought this case of hose last April, since that time this line of goods has advanced 25 per cent so you can see where it will pay you to buy what you may need for the fall wear.

Our fall and winter line of Dress Goods, Underwear, Blankets, Outings, Flannelettes and in fact everything we handle is beginning to arrive and you will find everything in the advanced and up-to-date styles. Call inspect our lines. Dont forget date of sale-Saturday Oct. 5th. See our East window A Parker 0000000 000000000000000000000000 000000000000 0000 000 8 Time to buy a cap.

Good to wear, good to see, good for the money good bills, good crowns, good bands, good all round caps at A. Lindstrom. 000 000 The Famous An Invitation You are cordially invited to call at the Famous. Everything bright, new and clean for the summer's campaign. The soda fountain is running.

All kinds of cool, refreshing, summer drinks. Delicious crushed fruit flavors for ice cream sodas. Try our Bread, Pies and Cookies, fresh baked every day. You are invited to try our short orders, our standard cigars, our seasonable fruits, select canned goods, etc. J.

H. Large 0 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0.0 PER YEAR E. L. Foltz went to Wichita Monday. O.

C. Watson's sale is next Saturday. Alex Knott shipped a car of cattle from Riverdale last Thursday. O. C.

Watson's sale is Saturday of this week--the 28th-don't forget. Dan Roy a prominent farmer of near Peck was in Belle Plaine Monday. Harry Kayne, of Atlanta, came up from Wellington' Monday is now employed in the GAZETTE office. B. D.

Dumbauld returned Monday from a visit to Ohio and is again at his old place in the Valley State Bank. Carl Anderson, who worked for M. Troutman the past summer, left Monday evening for his home in Wichita. Miss Frankie Helme was up from Wellington Monday. She expected to De back again in a few days to remain.

It is currently reported that 0. C. Watson, who makes a sale Saturday, has sold his farm just south east of town to Foltz Bros. John Anderson of Mulvane was in town Saturday offering for sale stock in the ice plant which that town proposes to build next season. The Home Study Circle met Friday afternoon with Mrs.

W. E. Bartlett. The next meeting will be with Mrs. L.

L. Constant Friday, Oct. 4. J. Tyson the fence post buyer of Hunnewell, was in town Monday.

He says he expects to "winter" again in Belle Plaine. He knows a good town, Geo. Penny of Mulvane was in town Monday afternoon to meet Dr. J. H.

Stevens, of Wellington, to whom he had sold a horse which he was delivering. There is no abatement of interest in the Mordy-Hazzard checker tournaments held in the back of Labe Siceloff's harness shop. Something doing all the time. Dee Snider left Sunday for Odessa, to join his mother and brother who went last week. Mrs.

Snider goes to keep house for the boys who are attending school. M. L. Haworth expects to enter his pacing horse Gyp, which is now working out at Winfield, in the Winfield and Blackwell races, and probably send him on into Texas. T.

R. Mordy received a letter Monday night from Congressman Murdock which bore the information tnat N. Grist's pension had peen increased to $17 per month. T. J.

Marshall spent Sunday in Wellington with his family. He will remove to this place upon the completion of his new residence which is now in course of construction. Mrs. Miller, and Mrs. Illinois, stopped off here Tuesday and are visiting Mrs.

Miller's cousin, Mrs. M. L. Haworth while enroute home from a visit in Texas. Bell Plaine is sending its full quota of visitors to the Wichita and Southwestern fair this week.

Today will probably be the record day of the fair in point of attendance. O. C. Watson and Clarence Griffith will load a car together in a few days and remove to their claims in Oklahoma. Mr.

Watson will probably engage in the real estate business down there also. Rev. Dr. Wilcox, a noted divine who spent several years with the "heathen Chinese" in China will speak at the M. E.

church in this city next Sunday morning. Do not miss this interesting lecture. On next Tuesday morning at six o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.

R. Wallace in this city will occur the marriage of their daughter, Nona, to Mr. John W. Songster of Okarche, Oklahoma. The new fall goods are arriving.

You can find out what they are at the stores that do not advertise by taking a clerk to one side and convincing him that you won't tell. Take the clerks' time and yours but you ought to know. County Superintendent Lee Harrison spent today in -Wichita attending a meeting of the executive committee of the Southwest Kansas Teachers association which meets in Wellington Thanksgiving week. -Saturday Mail. J.

R. Nelson and A. J. Richardson returned the first of the week from southern Oklahoma where they were looking after their claims. They were also in Texas and report more rain down in that country than is needed--a complaint that is not at all in vogue in these parts just uow.

Daniel M. Ott was born at Whitesborough, January 22nd. 1875, aud died at the home of his sister, Mrs. M. L.

Lane, in Belle Plaines, September 19, 107, aged 32 years, 7 months and 27 days. He came to Kansas in 1901 where he lived until called to his eternal home beyond. Daniel was the youngest of 5 children, the others being J. M. Ott of Oklahoma City, Mrs.

M. L. Lane of Belle Plaine, Chas. S. Ott of Morristown, and Walter S.

Ott, who died at Wellington, February. 7th, 1902, and was buried at Belle Plaine. Daniel was a member of the Baptist church at Whitesborough, and was a regular attendant upon all. the church services. He lived a consistent Christian life and died in the triumphs of a living faith.

Funeral services were held at the home of M. L. Lane, his brother-in-law, Rev. J. W.

Crouch. pastor of the M. E. church at Belle Plaine, officiating. Interment was made in the Belle Plaine cemetery.

The bereaved friends have the sympathy of the entire community. THE Mulvane has concluded to capitalize its new ice plant at $16,000, all subscribed locally, which apeaks well for a town the size of Muluane. Last week's Star indicates that Conway Springs has visions of an electric light plant, fair grounds and flour mill. Conway ought to get one enterprise out of the bunch, it seems, and here's hoping they get all of them. The town where the court house is is ecstatic over strong prospects of being on the line of the new north and south Yankton railroad which the Wichita Eagle says is as certain of being built as the Panama canal.

Wicnita has on her best bib and tucker this week entertainiug the fair visit. ors. The News states that the fourth annual fair at Udall last week was a pronounced success in every way. SCHOOL NOTES. day.

We will soon be fixed to burn gas in the furnace. SCHOOL NOTES. And still the algbras are nat here. Dee Snider visited high scool Friday. The 10th grade began geometry Mon- Teddy bear' For futher information inquire of Miss Hill Ina Duvall visited High School Tuesday.

She expects to enroll soon, The High School has been divided in to three sections for the study of Rhetoricals. There are quite a number of pupils who still owe for books. We are waiting patiently. The Physical Geography class was fig uring out the latitude of B. P.

from the position of the sun this week. Sam Bartlett, brother of Miss Bartlett, who has been teaching in the Minneapolis, High School visited us last week. One morning in each week is to be devoted to cvrrent events. While it is interesting and profitable to study the events of the past, we should not slight the important events which are transpir ing today and which will be history tomorrow. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEWS.

Every member of the Sunday School and church urged to attend. A special service of Bible reading and song will be held Sabbeth evening. The regular monthly meeting of the Brotherhood will occur next Wednesday evening. Next Sabbeth will be Rally Day for the whole church, as well as the Sunday School. A.

H. T. A. NOTICE. Association meets Wednesday, October and at 2 for instalation of officers, and for consideration of the mat ter of prohibiting hunting on farms.

All members requested to be L. F. WOOD, CHAS. W. HITCHCOCF, Pres.

Sec. ADVERTISED LETTERS. Letters remaining at the Belle Plaiae postoffice uncalled for are: T. J. Ramsey, Frank Wright, Vern Dunlap, S.

Dolman Son, Mrs. W. O. Brainard Please say advertised when calling for the above Jos. DULL, Postmaster It Comes From Italy No soap has ever been produced that compares with a pure Castile so far as soap quality goes.

Of course dainty perfumes make soaps more costly. Pure Castile as it is imported is never perfumed and is therefore comparatively low in price. We have just received a large invoice of the finest Castile Soap the world produces. It comes to us in original packages just as shipped from Italy. Its only odor is that fresh, clean smell characterstic of the pure article.

It's a neutral soap and is adapted to the most delicate soap uses. We have it in 5C and roc cakes and in large bars which we sell by weight. CONSTANT The Druggist the bride will rejoice at the presents she receives, no matter what they may be, or where they came from But if you wish to be sure that your offering will receive the admiring attention of everybody, get it at this jewelry store Then you are SURE to be right. You CAN'T go wrong by giving jewelry. And you CANT go wrong by getting it here.

1 Everything we show you would do credit to your judgment and good taste We can interest you at a dollar or so, or as high as you care to go in figures. 1 Always trust us to have the right goods. Arvy B. Dodson Jeweler and Optician NEW STOCK of wallpaper being added to constantly and line is most complete in the city. Paterns in stock at present of numerous designs to select from.

SPRAYING FOR TREES Blue Vitrol and Arsenate of Lead on hands in quantities. MOTH BALLS Insect powder, Fly Paper and spring requirements included in our new stock of drugs. H. R. FUNK DRUGGIST.

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Years Available:
1907-1907