The Daily Free Press and the Times from Independence, Kansas • 7

More Reduced Prices On Winter Goods. The last of lots of the same high grade goods that you bought earlier in the season. If you will buy at the prices we are making now. $1.19 Blankets, we sell now at 95c 1.34 Blankets, we sell now at $1.07 1.65 Blankets, we sell now at 1.32 FASCINATORS 69c Fascinators, now at 50c 98c Fascinator Shawls, now 75c $1.25 Fascinator Shawls, now at 95c $1.48 Fascinator Shawls, now $1.00 GLOVES AND MITIENS. The ones that we sold for Men, Women and Children at 34c and 25c, now all go in at (per 19c pair) Many other Winter Goods will be sold at reduced prices as long as the lots last.

The Overhiser-Anderson Mercantile Co. Over $30,000 Business Last Year. The postoffice receipts of a town are a pretty fair criterion of its importance. Independence has increased with marvelous rapidity the past few it is now one of the first in the state in the volume of its postoffice receipts. In 1896 the postal business of the Independence office amounted to $6,881.03.

Ten years later, 1906 the volume of business had increased to $30,038.84. This is a splendid showing for any town to make. But one of the best features of the conditions is that the business is growing faster now than it was. For instance the receipts in 1904 aggregated $24,816.08 add in 1905, $26,935 50, an increase of $2,119.42, whereas the increase of 1906 over 1905 was 103.24. When the last auditor's report was issued for 1905, Independence was surpassed only by Parsons, but during the past year this city has gone ahead of Parsons, according to statements made by representatives of that office.

The 1905 report gave these different offices the following postal receipts: 26,935.50 Coffeyville 21,705.62 Iola Parsons. 27,837.45 Pittsburg. 25,199.05 Fort 22,496.61 Emporia 24,826 13 Thus it will be seen that Independwas ahead of some very pretentious towns a year ago. Having passed Parsons, it stands at the head of the list. The Cost of Our Schools.

A Cherryvale man who has been studying school statistics contributes an article to the Journal of that city in which he has figured out the comparative expense for teachers' wages in the cities of this county as follows: Coffeyville will raise for, all school purposes this year, $48,869.58. They employ 53 teachers, which makes the expenditures per teacher $887.22. Independence will raise a total of 108.80, and employs 33 teachers, at an expenditure of $973 per teacher. Caney will raise $20,224 40 and employs 21 teachers. This will make an expenditure of $963 per teacher.

Cherryvale will raise for all school purposes $17,. 462, 48. We employ 25 teachers, at an expenditure of $697.82 per teacher. A comparison of expenses according to the number of pupils in the cities, shows a still greater difference. The three cities of Coffey ville, Independence and Caney together will raise $99,302,36.

There are 6,585 in the school age. This make average of per pupil. The expenditure in Cherryvale is $9.69 per pupil: According to the last available statistics for the state, the average cost per pupil is $20.98. So it will be seen that the cost of the Cherryvale schools is not only less than that of the other cities in this county, but considerably below the average of the state. In fact less than one half.

The Kansas average is lower than that of any other northern state. The figures given above are misleading in one respect. The totals given for each city include the amount to be raised for bonds and interest as well as for general school expense. Take Independence, for instance. The amount of taxes raised here for school purposes is a little over $32,000, but of this only about $24,000 is for the running of the schools, and about $8,000 for bonds and interest.

Dividing the general expense of the schools here by the number of teachers we find that the cost per teacher is $725, instead of 8973 as stated. I can see no possible relation between the amount of bonds and interest paid on debts for the construction of school buildings and teachers' wages. The bonds and interest tax might be $10,000 a year here, or it might be nothing if our buildings were all paid for. The easiest thing in the world is to make mistakes; the hardest is to acknowledge them; the next hardest is to profit by them. The man who only possesses wis.

dom to get money seldom cares a cuss how he gets it. When a man does his best he is pretty safe in depending upon God to do the rest. THE TIMES. FRIDAY. JANUARY 18 1907.

DISH LIKED BY ALL MANY WAYS OF SERVING THE POPULAR POTATO. Easy to Avoid Common Mistakes in Preparation Three Recipes That Are Used in Public School Classes. "More than half the ills that attend the middle and latter part of life due more to erroneous habits of are diet than to the use of alcohol, great as I know the latter evil to Henry Thompson. After the first potato lesson, says Mrs. Mary Williams, instructor in domestic science, the girls have learned what mistakes are commonly made in the cooking of this vegetable and how to avoid such mistakes.

They will not serve potatoes that are soggy and waxy instead of mealy. They know that potatoes should be left uncovered to allow the steam to escape, instead of recondensing and soaking into the starch. The practical work in the second lesson on 1 potatoes has to do with various ways of serving this vegetable. Potatoes appear on the table so often that this variety in serving is most important. The girls learn that with little trouble and expense they can prepare creamed potatoes, equal to those served in the finest hotels.

The use of starch in thickening liquids for sauces and gravies is explained when making white sauce for the creamed potatoes. The important point in this is to keep the starch from lumping when it is used as a thickening material. There are three ways by which the lumping may be avoided. First, by mixing the starch with a little cold water before adding it to the hot mixture; second, by rubbing the starch with the butter or other fat before adding the liquid; third, by mixing starch and sugar together. Before leaving the subject of potatoes i it will probably be of value to housekeepers (who dearly love recipes) to give some potato recipes which are used in public school classes.

Creamed freshly boiled or cold boiled potatoes into onehalf cubes, put them into a saucepan, nearly cover them with milk, and cook gently until nearly all the milk is absorbed. Add white sauce, stir for one minute, sprinkle with finelycut parsley and serve. White Sauce (for Vegetables.) -Butter, two tablespoonfuls; salt, one-half teaspoonful; flour, two tablespoonfuls; pepper, one-eighth teaspoonful; milk, one cupful. Rub the butter and flour together with a spoon in a small saucepan. Add the milk and stir steadily over a moderate heat until the sauce boils.

Add salt and pepper. For richer white sauce use part cream. Cream sauce is white sauce made with all cream instead of milk. Use one and one-half teaspoonfuls of flour to one cupful of cream. Mashed potatoes in the saucepan in' which they were cooked, using a fork or a wire potato masher.

When free from lumps add one cupful of scalded milk in which has been heated one spoonful of butter, one-half teaspoonful of salt, and one-eighth teaspoonful of white pepper. Beat, all together until light and creamy. Heap in a dish without smoothing the top, or it may be put into a baking dish, the top brushed with milk and browned in a hot oven. Riced -Press boiled potatoes through a strainer or vegetable press into a hot dish. Serve potatoes uncovered.

Spinach c'n Toast. Is an excellent luncheon dish. A half peck of the vegetable is boiled in salted water until tender. Drain and chop fine. To this add thickened milk.

Into a saucepan put a tablespoonful of butter, to which, when melted, add an even tablespoonful of flour. Rub smooth. Stir in slowly a cupful of milk and let boil and thicken betore mixing with the spinach. Serve hot on squares of toast. Brussels sprouts may be served in the same way, and if thoroughly cooked are both palatable and digestible.

Nut Wafers. Butter the inside of a granite saucepan, then put into it a cupful of light brown sugar, a cupful of granulated sugar and two-thirds of a cupful of sweet cream. Cook until the mixture forms a soft ball when tested in cold water, add a cupful of chopped nut meats of any kind, flavor with vanilla and stir until of a creamy consistency and commencing to harden. Reheat over hot water until melted, stirring constantly, then drop in small pats on buttered paper. Good Way to Broil Chicken.

Anyone who has broiled chicken knows how hard it is to cook it through without burning outside, so wish they would try this way: Split and wash chicken and put a shallow pan with a little water in it and place in hot oven for about half an hour; then put on broiler and brown well on both sides; take the water in pan and make a butter gravy and pour over chicken; serve hot. Steamed Eggs. Have a cup containing one half spoonful of butter, setting in a dish of boiling water. Into the cup break one egg, beat slightly with a fork, add two tablespoons of milk, mix, then cover the dish tightly SO that the steam will not escape. The egg will puff up to the top of the cup as it cooks and is soon thoroughly done.

A delicate appetizing dish served with toast. At Your Service For reliable banking in all its branches! We issue drafts payable at any point, furnish letters of credit, make a specialty of collections, issue Certificates of Deposit allowing 3 per cent. interest when money remains on deposit over 6 months, and give prompt attention to the accounts of non-residents as well as to our city depositors. Every privilege consistent with sound banking principles we offer patrons of this bank. From Statement Sept.

4, 1906. Our Deposits, $1,124,439.51 Our Resources, $1,354,084.93 Commercial National Bank INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS Buttonholes. When cutting buttonholes in heavy material a small triangle is cut in the end nearest the edge of the garment. This allows the shank of the button to set easily in the buttonhole. After cutting and overcasting begin with two threads, one to outline the buttonhole and the other to work the stitches.

Draw one thread gently around the edge of the buttonhole to form a cord as the stitches are worked over it. When completed work three stitches at the inner end of the buttonhole, making a bar across it. When all the buttonholes are finished the edges of each should be drawn together by a few stitches at the back. They should then be pressed under a damp cloth, and when dry the stitches can be ripped out. Graceful Hands.

It is next to impossible to make the hands slender. You can make them graceful by indulging in certain Delsarte exercises, stretching the fingers to the utmost and closing the hand slowly and gracefully. You can also keep your hands soft and white by using a pure soap and cosmetic jelly. If, in addition, the nails are beautifully manicured, the extra plumpness will not matter so very much. The main thing is to have the hands white and soft, the nails polished and clean and to move the hands gracefully.

All these delightful conditions can be cul- tivated. The Dresser Drawer. The girl who throws everything in a mix-up jumble in her dresser drawer is paying dearly for her lack of care, for it Is like throwing money out of the window to fail to keep one's dress accessories as neat and nice as they possibly can be kept. Anyway, the mere desire to keep oneself and one's belongings neat and tidy should be 8 sufficient incentive for these small attentions. Shelf Paper.

"If paper is used on your closet shelves," says an expert in domestic science. "teach your waitress to put on three thicknesses at once. It is as easy to cut three layers as one. They can be removed then one at a time as they become soiled, a few dishes being removed and replaced as the paper is rolled away, and it requires much less time than to remove all the dishes and put on new paper." Good Luncheon Dish. To use cold lamb, ham or beef, mince it fine, with half the quantity of ham and a quarter as much breadcrumbs.

Season with a small onion (if not objectionable), salt and pepper. Mix this with an egg and any gravy that may have been left from the roast. Put in a baking pan, cover with breadcrumbs and bake for half an hour. This is a good dish for luncheon. Fresh Groceries is the only kind I carry, and my stock of Staple and Seasonable Groceries is unsurpassed in this city.

Come in and let me quote you my prices. A. E. ROBLEY: 117 WEST MAIN Phone 96 Prohibition and Prosperity. Cowham Gets The Mouse Creek Cement Options.

To learn that the options, gas rights and other properties of the Jones- Brown syndicate which was getting ready to build the Mouse Creek Cement plant east of this city have been sold to W. F. Cowham and his crowd is not especially cheering news. Of course the purchase is to shut out competition with the Western States as far as possible -but happily the amount paid is so large that Cowham will hardly be willing to throw up the proposition; and it is announced that contracts have been or will soon be made for ten big rotaries which cannot be completed under a year. Of course, in view of the fact that the rotaries at Table Mound were in place in the works in less than five months after the contracts were closed for the building of the plant, such a statement is ridiculous.

Still it is probable that a new plant will be erected, although additions to the Western States plant would seem to be more economical in every way than the erection of a new plant. That is, if the new plant is not to be a stock scheme to rope in suckers. Although the Cowham organ announces that the new plant will be built by the owners, with no sales of stock, that statement can be taken with a great deal of allowance--and the very fact that we at the same time get the informetion that it will be a year before the rotaries can be completed, indicates that it is intended to take ample time to rope in the confiding investor, in the same way as in the promotion of the Western States proposition. Jim Walton Gets a Good Job. J.

H. Watson has received a commission from the chief detective of the Rock Island railroad appointing him on the detective staff of that road with the title of special agent. Watson will be made a special detective and his jurisdiction will extend to any part of the Rock Island system and his authority to any part of the United States. 'The position pays a stipulated salary of $90 per month and traveling expenses. For the present Watson will make his headquarters in Memphis.

He will leave to take up his new work to a few days, probably the last of this week. Mr. Watson stated this morning that he did not expect to move his family, not for the present at least. Republican. Passing of Another Pioneer.

Mrs. Mary C. Rowland died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James M. West at Sedalia, Sunday morning, January 13th, at 8:30.

She just fell asleep. She was born in the county of Cornwall, England, May 16th, 1818, and came to this country with her husband, Mr. Thomas Mayne, brirging a daughter with them. They took a claim in what is now West Cherry in 1869, and resided there until about ten years ago, when she went to live with her daughter at Sedalia. A Sunflower Farm? A sunflower farm is rather a novelty in the agricultural line, An Iowa farmer this past season planted five acres all in one field to sunflowers.

It made the most gorgeous crop in the state. The seed was put in with a corn planter and the field was afterward cultivated as if it had been a corn field. 'The entire crop was contracted for in advance by a seed firm. The yield was about 1,500 pounds of seed to the acre. The price was from $1.75 to $2 a hunhred weight.

Even at the lower price this would bring a revenue of more than $26 an acre. As a sort of extra profit the stalks made good kindling woods for winter mornings. Sunflower seed is used as a stock food and is said to be liked by parrots. It yields a good oil also. There are several sunflower farms in the Middle West.

A pampered stomach is worse than a spoiled child. Writing from Cherryvale a friend who signs himself "A Farmer" says: Again the railroads have elected a United States senator to represent the of Kansas. It seems as if we never will get out from under the railroad rule, as every election of a senator shows more plainly. The people will never get a senator who will represent them and their intesests until they elect him by direct vote. In reading Governor Hoch's message it looks as if he was long on prohibition and salary grab and short on railroad legislation.

The governor seems well pleased with the way prohibition law has been enforced in Kansas. He may call it enforced but it doesn't look that way to me. I don't think the governor has traveled over the state very much. He says the saloons are the devil's best recruiting ground; I think he is right in that; but when the devil lost the open saloon he gained just about as good recruiting camps in the drug stores and club houses as he ever had in the open saloons. About the only difference between them is that the saloon did business at the front door and the drug store in the back room.

And the club room! Just take a peep in some them some night when they are in full blast and see what you can find, and you will agree that the devil has not lost very much of his recruiting camp. I am in favor of a prohibitory law, but it should be a national law. As it is now in this state prohibition is simply a farce. Take the liquor business away from the drug stores and how long will it be before one-half or two-thirds of them will close their doors? And then how many of them would be selling spirits that would intoxicate if the good people of the cities did not give them permits to sell intoxicants? They sell them simply because the people of the cities want them to sell the stuff. I once asked one of our county attorneys how he was getting along enforcing the prohibitory law and his reply "'It is pretty hard to enforce a law that the people do not want enforced." There you have it in a nutshell.

If the devil loses any good recruiting camp the people of the cities will see to it that he is furnished with another. Just go to the probate judge's office and look over the statements filed there by the drug storeand I am not going to say that all are there that ought to be. A great many of the newspapers do not like to say very much on the prohibition question for fear they will say something that will be unpopular, but I am not running a newspaper nor do I want to run for office. Of course the druggist and whiskey ele ment will combine and vote for the men that they can use in their business. And then Governor Hoch and Secretary Wilson say the farmers are all rich and that they have had such a run of prosperity in 1906, and that they have raised such large crops; but yet they are valued at forty million less than the 1905 crop brought them.

That is about the way the farmers' prosperity runs. Hunters' Licenes and Pipe Line Explosions. Another farmer, writing from Ha- vana on the 14th says: Now that the legislature has elected their railroad senator, we hope to see them turn their attention to the people who pay them, if they do not send them there. We were diverted upon reading in the Sunday Star, a piece on splitting the graft, or dividing the hunters' license fund. It is all right as far as it goes.

They have no business with that fund, but how about the clerks? What right have they a fund obtained by permitting men to run over and destroy the farmers' property. We feed and protest the birds on our lands, paid for, and taxed to pay for these clerks salaries, and yet we have no voice in. the matter. The farmer would cheerfully pay that amount in taxes if the hunters would stay off his place altogether. What we most need is a law prohibiting anyone from hunting without a license from the owner--the farmer.

The people are getting disgusted with the frequency of gas explosions. We not only hear of, but hear them every few days. Last Thursday night the big gas pipe carrying gas to Wichita burst, just west of Wayside, tearing up the ground and tumbling out three lengths of big pipe. Op Sunday just east of there it burst again. On Sunday they had out the danger flag still.

It is getting unsafe to pass and more than one farmer goes around the big pipe; yet we are commpelled by our laws to grin and bear it. In this connection the following item of legislative news will undoubtedly interest our correspondent: A bill has been introduced into the legislature by J. W. Holdren of Montgomery county making it a misdemeanor for any person to bunt or fish on the land of another person without having obtained permission from the owner of the land. -H.

E. Roberts, dentist, over Scott's Marriage Licenses. Name Age Waldo M. Gaverick, Coffeyville, Kas. .24 Hazel Grounds, .22 Jno.

E. Sweeney. Toledo, Ohio, .27 Anabelle Cunningham. Cherryvale, Kas. .18 Geo.

W. Clinton, Baron, Cherokee Nation, .20 Lucy M. Batson, ..14 Alexander Haynes, Cherryvale, Kas .26 Allie Holeman, .22 J. Courtney, Coffeyville, Kas 19 Goldie Brown, .19 Manson Naugle, .21 Anna Burk, 22 Iva V. Peterson, .17 Hanson L.

Conner, Independence, .29 Jno. F. Dollard, .22 Lumina L. McConnell, 22 L. C.

Gunnell, Sapulpa, I. T. .22 Mamie Lolley, Independence, Kas .18 Jno. Mackey, Ochelata, I. T.

18 Susie I. Dickson, 16 E. D. Tanquary, M.D. -Mamie M.D Tanquary Tanquary, Physicians and Surgeons, Office 211 Penn.

Over Fair's Pharmacy. Office Phone 21. Residence Phone 48 Independence, Kansas. E. Clate Fair, Prescriptionist "Always Busy" Phone 595 211 North Penn.

Ave. published Jan. 11th, Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas, Ass. Montgomery County.

In the Probate Court in and for sald County: In the matter of the estate of Walter T. Bradley, deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notitied that at the next regular term of the Probate Court, in and for said County, to be begun and beld at the Probate Court Room, in Independence, County of Montgomery, State aforesaid, on the first Monday in the month of February, A. D. 1907, I shall, on the 5th day of February apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate.

JAMES A. OTTO. Administrator of Walter T. Bradley, deceased. Independence.

Kansas, Jan, 11th, A. D. 4907. published Jan. 11th, Notice of Final Settlement.

State of Kansas, s8, Montgomery County, Probate Court in and for said County: In the matter of the estate of Levi Huston. deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, hereby notified that at the next regular term of the Probate Court, in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court Room, in Independence, County of Montgomery, State aforesaid, on the first Monday in the month of February, A. D. 1907, I shall, on the 6th day of February apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate.

CATHERINE D. HUSTON. Executrix of the Estate of Levi Huston, ceased. Independence, Kansas, Jan. 11, A.

D. 1907. Notice. To all whom it way concern: Notice is hereby I. Martin Monroe.

who was on July 1st, 1898, sentenced by the Distriet Court of Montgomery County, Kansas, to serve a term of twenty years for the crime of murder. 2d degree, will on the 11th day of February, 1907. or as soon thereafter as the same can be heard, make application to the Governor the State of Kansas for a pardon. -Martin Monroe. publication Jan, 4th, Notice of Hearing for Druggist's Permit.

State of Montgomery Kansas, County, In the Probate Court, in and for said County and State: To all whom it may concern, Greeting: Know ye that Chas. W. Fadler, the undersigned pharmacist of said Montgomery county. state of Kansas, did on the 4th day of January, 1907, file in the Probate Court of Montgomery county and state of Kansas, a petition duly five women Second ward in the city of signed by twenty free holders and twentyIndependence. Kansas, where said business is located, praying for a Druggist's Permit to be granted to me to sell intoxicating liquors for medical, mechanical and scientific purposes for the period of one year.

The averments and allegations set forth in said petition to come on for hearing at the office of the Probate Judge. in Independence. Kansas, February 4th. 1907, at o'clock p. m.

CHAS. W. FADLER, Pharmacist. Dated Jan. 4th, 1907..