Liberty Express from Liberty, Kansas • 1

IBERTY EXPRESS, LIBERTY, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1904. VOLUME 1. NO. 10. beautiful, fragrant trees, bordered AN ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION er it will keep up its fatal record, time only can tell.

on one side by the Verdigris river Apropos of the exceedingly scrupulously clean and a restful This is a rainy time. Every CELEBRATE IN PARK Brewster Park Opens on the Fourth. great number of widows on thin place for weary minds or broken cloud is laden with vapor. When route, was Mr. Gibbons chief in spirits.

the sun does shine it evaporates moisture as fast as it does in the centive for making application for The drill on the Lett farm is down 500 feet. A 50 foot sand, was passed through. It had con siderable oil and unlimited amount of salt water. The oil ran to the road which was several hundred yards away. Oil was found in this well at the same depth that gas was struck in tho other Lett well.

The drillers are going on to the next sand. la substitute It. F. I), carrier. tropics.

But the water descends CRUSHED TO DEATH AT CANEY Not a town of any importance He has waited patiently for the again in a much shorter space of Additional Locals. W. W. Wingate was down to Cuffeyville Wednesday. Attend the display of fireworks here tho night of the Fourth.

N. E. Whitman went to Cherry-vale to-day. Miss Stella Wingate, of Cuffeyville, is visiting at her uncle's, G. W.

Wingate. Guy Whitney rought us some Cularabis the other day. This vegetable is a cross between the cab 'n this county is going to celebrate, time. There is hardly a day in job and if lie doesn't "shuttle off" too soon his senses will yet be steeped in deligbtfulness. Jji the GloriouH Fourth will be observed in a fitting manner at A peddler named Whitman was ground to death in a smelter at Caney last Saturday.

He was a the week but what the elements are just right for a rain. If the Brewster's Park. It is so nearly formation of a cloud ever begins, stranger in that town. His body wa9 shipped to Bland Lake, where A GRAND ICE CREAM SUPPER it doesn't stop till it covers the state and has the inhabitants in his family lived. all the bottoms wading and swim Chas.

Shultz invited quite a ming for the bluffs. The unfortunate man had gone down to the smelter to see it in mmratinn. The instrument that Jiver since babvnoou we were number of Liberty young folks out to his home Tuesday evening. The guests went but in separate rigs. Some of them crossed Big taught that Kansas was a dry stirs the oro caught him and he was crushed before the engineer could stop the machinery.

centrally located that people can attend from all over the county. No admission will be charged. All the attractions will bo free also. It is to be similar in char- actcr to any other celebration, but it will be held at a rural park instead of a city. An elaborate program is being prepared.

Noted orators will be "Ythere and music, both vocal and instrumental will 'swell the breeze This park has a perfect race track and those that enjoy racing will have a chance to gratify the place, dryer than a desert, and that water was so great a' luxury bage and turnip. The Barnum Bailej circus will be at Independence in September. It will have 100 cars. Owing to tho bad weather not many attended services at the Catholic church last Sunday. Rev.

Fr. Hill at the Ford. The water ran that it was never used only for into the buggy. medicinal purposes. The tradition The same crowd intended to call that was handed down also said The council meets to-night to consider granting a franchise to a gas company for the purpose of piping gas from the Lett well into Liberty.

It is thought that the company will ask $2.00 a month for each stove. If the work goes ahead the line will be built inside of S)J days. The Liberty girls had an Old Maids' ice cream supper at the Hotel Wednesday night. They lock ed the doors to keep the boys out and tried to pull the function off hecretly. The lynx-eyed boys had been "next" to the affair all along, even before the ice cream was made.

When the boys got ready they raided the house, tore the, screeu off one of the lower story windows and were upstairs around the ice cream freezer in a jiffy. The girls had, however, made a-way win a' I of tin oreatn. that the only kind of vegetation at Mr. Shultz' Saturday night but THE NEW PASTOR ARRIVES Jtev. Stiles, of Somerset, who (ills the vacancy of Rev.

Corning, preached his first sermon at this that grew in Kansas was such the little sprinkle about dusk scar plants that had roots long enough to ed the boys out. reach down to the subterranean Two and a half gallons of iee lakes and water courses. In those Tierney took dinner at Jos. Eu-glcrt'H, returning to Ooffeyville on the 3:20 train. Mr.

Royer, fiving east of here, said this morning that unless the rains stopped at once almost all the wheat in this county would be lost. Another man said that there would u't be enough wheat saved days credulity was considered the cream was made and the Shultz family had to make away with it without much assistance. highest virtue and we believed place Sunday night, Those that beard his address said it was powerful. Rev. Stiles is a young, intelligent and energetic man and the people will surely be pleased with his services.

everything we beard, myth, myra-cle and legend, with reverential The same amount of cream was firmness. frozen for the Tuesday evening re We saw this part of the coun to furnish seed for the farmers try for he first time in March. ception. A capital tune was re-1 ported by all. this fall.

eye. Dozens of auto's are owned by individuals in this county. The speed of some of these vehicles will be tested at the Park on the day of the Fourth. There will be foot races and bicycle races sights that renew youth and various other kind of races. Mr.

Brewster, the manager of the Park, is arranging things so the day can be pawned off comfortably. The seating capacity will be adequate and those who like to swing may disport themselves that way. Wc have never been at the park So far as the casual eye could dis cern, not a drop of water had ever fallen from the sky. At any rate He didnt visit any of the out-of-town points Sunday owing to tho nastiness of the roads and weather. He will have five churches on this charge.

He and his mother will move down in a few days. The parson-ag will khe Hhingled anew as soon as a little more money is made up. the surface of the earth afforded no such indication. The roads 1 were hard and smooth as an as phalt pavement. The bottom of every pool was parched.

There LET US PROVE TO YOU THAT IN BUGGIES AND WAGONS WE HAVE THE LATEST STYLES AND BEST GRADES A. L. Dack, of Galva, 111., has been visiting relatives here for three weeks. were fissures, in the earth, caused by contraction, large enough to In question, but it is said to be bedecked with an eiysian spot, en cult a man. liie skies were Egyptian and the dryness of the atmosphere made one give up the very liquid in his eyes.

ive weeks from that time we were a resident here and the weather OUR BUGGIES ARE ALL GUARANTEED. man or something had changed the aspect of the heavens. Clouds 8 took the place of a blue sky and the air that was once light and dry become wet and heavy. The rain has lasted nine' or ten weeks. Oh! how it has rained The weather man has simply turn ed on the hose.

He wanted to see how much soaking Kansas peo pie could stand. By this time he should show little mercy. The Kansan can endure anything, burn, starve, freeze, raise Old Ned and stand in water up to his eye 0 brows and and never complain. Regent of the heavens, please let old Sol smile on us once more. Pinkston Clarridge Wagons of All Kinds and All Prices.

PATRIOTISM THAT IS ABORTIVE If shooting firecrackers is equiv olent to celebrating the Fourth, the boys of Liberty began to show their patrotism in season. For ever a week the discharging of Would like to have you call and examine their stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Queensware aud Shoes, and get prices. We have a few mens' Suits to sell at a bargain. Also ask for our bargain Shoes, and be convinced of our ability to sell you Shoes cheaper than you can buy elsewhere fireworks has been an avocition for most of the wakeful boys. I The air is kept in a cyclonic state.

Zephyrs carry away the odor of burned powder and when the stranger appears near be reminded of a fierce land engagement. No town near here bo far as is known now will make any attempt to rtvive the love of the play on the Fcurth. The people at this place will not however allow this holiday to pass by unnoticed. A big supply of fireworks, star rock ets, Roman candles, colored wheeling flames, cannon firecrackers, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 8 will be here to furnish amusement Schuttler, Mitchell, Fish, Bros. Beggs, Stoughton, Flint, Racine and Grand Detour.

for all that can see and hear. ROUTE 3 IS DISTINGUISHED AT WHITHAN BROS. are approximately oife hundred customers of the free mail service on route No. 1. Out of this number nearly one fifth eighteen to be exact are widows.

The mortality of men on that route has been astouiding. Wheth- AND CHERRY VALE LIBERTY COOOQOOOQOOOOf 0000000000000.