The Benton Call from Benton, Kansas • 3

That delioiona syrup is going fast at Many people oo to pluin when a looal RAILROAD TIME TABLE paper is not newsy. They over look the THE LOCAL NEWS fact that looal news is simply looal history and that the hnmblo soribe, who is Patterson's. E. Crouch wat transacting business fn Wichita to-day; L. O.

Slusscrbas moved from Illinois to sunny Kansas, the historian, oan not very well record Steda at Pat- events nntil they occur, If year paper Fresh stock of Garden terson's. is not newsy get op and do something make history snd give the penoil push jX Sm I I There is a great demand for corn land er show this spring. W. W. PATTERSON, DEALER IX GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

Dry Goods; Notions, Hts, Caps, Boots and Shoes. GROCERIES AND QUEENSVARE The Call Las a message box placed in New stock of Shoes just reoeived at A oar-load of Flour and Feed on track this week at Simpson's. A Mitobell oounty farmer sold sow last week at auction for $107. Large stock of Spring Hats Just re-mived at Patterson's. Patterson's.

Wallace for nioe Fresh Go to J.T. Mince Meat, FOUT 80OTT. WIOHITA WESTKRN. KA8T BOUND. Kansu Citv.

Chiowro. St. Loafs Edward Fisher will erect a farm resi dence this spring. and rut ptuveoger 10:27 p. No.

454, Ht. Louis, CMnaco and Mat pauenirer 1 :18 i lour $1.10 per hundred I oome auu WIST BOUND. Ho. 411. Wiohita.

Hutahinum. Kiowa get it at Simpson's. and west passenger a. Uo. 4tti.

Wiohica. Colorado and all the postomie which was put there to receive items of news which the public may desire published. The hot will be opened regularly and we hope the publlo will feel at liberty to contribute any news that may be of interest to the public Tbe name must aooompany the items to insure publication. A young man who resides near this oity oame very near losing his best girl on last Sunday night through a oase of mistaken identity. He bad taken her to ohuroh, sat with her daring tbe servioes and at the close of the meeting took her by tbe arm and started for the door.

On the way she paused a few moments to speak to a friend and he passed on a oar load oi point went pamtnger 1:45 p. Herr Sc Crow shipped $7 20 bogs Tuesday. Highest Market Price Paid For Coun Kaiwacfl oaecaeu lurouga to animation. U. Watxbsom, Aft J.

G. Henrie shipped a oar load of oat the first of the week. Plow Shoes, Buokle or Laoe at 81.25 per pair; just reoeived at Patterson's. The only place in Benton to get any ize rope you want is at O. Henrie's.

Mr. Largent's daughter oame up from Viohita Wednesday on a viait to parents. J. E. Harding has just oompleted a residenoe for Wm.

Goodale, on the Whitewater. Miss Pearl Zimmerly went to Wiohita Monday to attend a party and visit ber sister, Nellie. Soett King moved his family from town to his farm three mfles southeast if town Monday. try Produce, BENTON, KANSAS. Wichita visitor.

Win. Green was a Wednesday afternoon. SOCIETIES- W. R. C.

'Women' Relief Onrrrn. auxiliary to tbe O. meet in Q. A. R.

hall tbe Ural Saturday E. K. Robinson was doing the county of seat Wednesday afternoon out of the building. Presently one Vn.Mi Riinimi. Winn.

nnn. Htiwabt. Parties looking for land will do well Seo'r. Pres. ooueult these oolumns this week.

whom he took to be his girl oame out and he immediately, as the boys say, "buckled on." Imagine his surprise and J. C. DEALER IN K. of P. unver Boharier or Towanda was consternation when he discovered "it town with a load of hay yesterday.

Ormoent Lodge, No. 209, K. of meet every A pleasant party was given by Mist Friditr evening in Fytuian ball. Ybkd Vkss, W. M.

Dickerson. K. R. and 8. 0.

0. was not herself at all" but another fellow's girl, and be was inform in no very pleasing tone that he bad better GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Hastings on Monday evening. The orew on the section has been in a a. r. FLOUR, GRAIN, COAL oreased seven men for the eummei James Parks went to 1 Dorado Wed-lesday to serve as juror, providing he ails to "beg off." Hon.

R. F. Moore went to Topeka last evening to attend the Kansas Republican jtate League Club. The saloons in the United States ex-o ed in amber the ichool bouses by ifty-one thounand. ball eaob O.

A. R. Pont, No. 409 meet in O. A.

very second and fourth Saturday of Next Sunday is the day for tbe ded -AND- month at elooK p. E. Habdimo, Commander. oation of tbe M. E.

ohnrch at ToWandu J. live BENTON, KANSAS. I. O.O. F.

Miss Mary Mcintosh of Fort Soot writes and orders the Benton paper sen iodire to her addrees. evening at 1. O. O. F.

ball. Remember that yon oan get the bigh Mt price for your butter, eggs and poul 'ry at J. C. Henrie's. taAH Cmow The Methodist Sabbath school wii F.

8. PaBKh. See. N.O. give an Easter service; you can expi- tie himself loose and catoh on to his own people.

And then "he oame onto his own and his own reoeived him not," until he had held up his two hands and swore by his beard "it should never be so again." Benton Call. Call For Your MalL The following list of letters were at the Benton postomce uncalled for at the olose of the month of February: William Bennett, Mrs. Dumb Gresham, Mary Bebton, G. Watkins, Joseph Phelps, T. A.

Tender, Henry Campbell. Parties calling for them will please say advertised." B. F. Mathbbs, Postmaster, Correspondence. something good.

AniKB BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, meets Tbe El Dorado official dog butcher has the scalps of 100 mangy onrs as tbe JOHN CROW, ever alternate Tnoraday at o. at. Mbb, Will Chair, President. Itev. aller preached to a larze au trophies of a month's chase.

dience at the Christian cburch on las PROPRIETOR OF Send ns tbe news, neighbors, belp Sunday evening. TADIEfl AID'HOOIEfY. meets every alter, mite Friday af ternaoa at 2 o'clock. Mas. i.

D. Wallace. Pres. Dr. Webber was called down from us to make the Call one of the best lo-jul papers in this great state-David Anderson has two teams plow; Greehwi ch Saturday to see oe" of LIVERY, FEED Rich's children, TENTON LIBRARY CLUB, meets once month at l)r.

Dill's residence, dim. Ik nn iJ Mrs. KUDT FibiIfR. (ig for oorn and he will have the planter Mis Myrtle Crow came up from Librarian. Pres.

AND Dorado Saturday, where she has beei a operation by the last ot the month. James W. moved his family in taking instructions in music Benton, Kan BENTON CHURCH DIRECTORY to town yesterday; they oeoupy Mr. Sale Stable. Quite a number of Jiansans went tc Inrie's house the south parto 'own.

Iadiamola News- piTRIBTIAN CHUBOH Elder Q. A. Waller Paafnr K.0tllltr MrfftNM Hit fcllA flfilt and Washington last week to witness the n. ion's sorrow. Sunny Kansas has smilBii several day third Lord's Day of eanh month at 11 a.

m. and Mt. N. B.Haynes of Norwich, 7:80 p.m. Hunduy school Bt 10a.m.

3. Dill Superintendent. Tbe public cordially in. viced. this week; she's a beauty when she is i a good humor.

his WBy to Presbytery last week stopped off and spent a day with his sister. Irs. 8. D. Wallace.

John Williams will move to our city if he oan get a house. We are unable to supply the demand for houses. The matrimonial fever liked to have realized the town last week. Fonr oou- -1TJMBERLAND FRttSBYTERlAti CBURCH Rey. 8.

D. Wallace Pastor. Begnlar ser Mr. Baney, living nearlndianola. sol A Remarkable Banquet.

"I have eaten apples that ripened nor than 1800 years ago, bread made from wheat grown before the children of Israel passed through the Red Sea, spread it wittJ butter that was made when Elizabeth Queen of England, and washed down the One dollar pays for this paper for one vices every alternate Hannatn. BaODatn his farm last week, consideration $.7,000 ohoil at 10 a. m. Sarah Wallace superin The purchaser was Mr. McGlade.

tendent. ear. Have the paper sent to your riends in the east and let them know vuat is going on out here in balmy Kan-4HS. Rev. Harmon will preaote in th ufianoPAL OHUROH Rev Methodist church here on next Suuii.i Harmon Pastor.

Regular service on the seoond sud fourth Habhath of each month at 11 repast with wiua that was old when Chris topher Columbus was playing barefoot morning, as has been the usual canton) a. m. H. 0. Gault superintendent.

Tbe Benton Township Sunday Schcol Presbyterian ohnrch servioe at Indian-ola sohool bouse every alternate Sabbath at 11 o'olook by tbe Rev. Anderson of Wiohita. Indiaaola union Sunday school, every Sabbath at 10 a. m. Wm Rainey has sold his farm to his son-in-law, 8.

McGlade, for the sum of $3,000. Mao will now have a good farm. Or Rollings has moved into Mc-Glade's house and will farm land for T. A. Fenton.

Q. H. Fenton who moved to Eddy, New Mexico, with his father and mother is quite sick end his recovery is doubtful. Mr. Weaver and wife of Sedgwick connty, Grant township, spent last Sabbath with Mr.

and Mrs. Meliok. John Hull and wife spent Saturday E. S. Sharp, our genial hardware1 mer Association will hold a convention about prit 1, tbe program of which will appear chant has been confined to his home fu J.

L. WALLACE, the past two days; mumps was tbe oausi ui these oolumns next week. BARBER- She Jilted him; his grief was strong, The star of hope grew dim; He took to drink and 'Uaun't long 'Till drink took him in. KANSAS BENTON, Mrs. Worley and the three little arrived in Benton Tuesday afternoon a a rain storm.

They have a full stock grippe at present but we hope they till soon be rid of that. Bay northern potatoes for eeed You get choice early Ohios and Early Rose at J. Henrie's. Come to the Call oflioe for sale bill 'ples embarking on tbe matrimonial sea. Another week or two like that and we will be swamped.

The Benton Call is quite a newsy paper. Subscriptions are being solicited to repair the M. E. church. It will take, about $300 or i00 to fix it as wanted Bevt ralmemberB have chipped ih $25 each.

The postoffice fight here is creating a big stir. Petitions have been circulated quite freely during the past week and we presume both candidates for poBt-office honors feel enoouraged. Dr. Bur ton has about 200 signers to his John Thompson is the other candidate do not know how many names he has Whioh will get it I am unable to say but have a powerful good idea. No mat ter who we get, none oan be more ao-oommodating and give betler satisfaction than Volney Stiles, our present postmaster, but Volney refused to see the error of his ways last November and of course must suffer.

horse bills, or any kind ot job-work. guarantee to give tbe bottom prices aw SMITH with the boys of Genoa," is the remarkable statement made by a writer in the Bt Louis Globe-Democrat Tbe remarkable "spread" was given by an antiquarian Gleebel in the City of Brussels in 1871 The apples were from au earthen jar taken from the ruins of Pompeii, that buried city to whose people we owe our knowlege of canning fruit Tbe wheat was taken from a chamber in one of the pyramids, the butter from a stone shelf in old well in Scotland, where for centuries it had lain in an earthen crock in icy wator and the wine was recovered from an olet vault in the city of Corinth. There were six guests at the table and each had a mouthful of the bread and a tea spoonful of the wine, but was permitted to kelp help himself liberally to the butter, there being seueral pounds of it The apple-jar held about two-thirds oi a gallon, and the fruit was as sweet and the flavor as fine as though put up yesterday." Star. good work. and Sunday with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Rainey. Our 890tion foreman, Mr. Math as, wa Will Stone of Sedgwiok oounty, one ol GROCER THE Aaron Melick is living on the Scully quite sick lust Sunday and had to have tbe get-up and go young farmers, made ua a pleasant call Wednesday evening. farm.

a physician called he was soon on his Candies, Nuts, Cigars and To feet again. He says oat sowing is about past and This is the time of year when all the bacco plowing for eorn has oommenoed. DENTON, KAN The spring has oome, the Ho wers wi "Peter Tumbledown's" of the country will be getting their old plows out from the fence corner, or some other equally Farm Fob Sals. I will sell my farm soon be in bloom and breaking plows, of 70 acres adjoining the town of Ben- gang plows and oorn planters will soon I "XEEM. Stone Maaon Tv rosES sheltered plaoe, to scour them np in the tou for what the improvements would UJvU.

be in use. Brick I Layer, Plasterer oost, if taken in the next ten days. AND pnblio highway. It there is anything detestible it is to plow np tbe rosdf-your neighbors have to travel, because A bright little baby boy arrived at thr .2 II JohK Cbow home of Mr. and Mrs.

Will Ctreen od Cistern Builder. A number of our young people con you were too busy "saving tbe country' Monday at 6 Dh Dill was master fientoa Sohool Notes- template going to Augusta next Sunday to spend five minut.es greamng your of ceremonies. to attend the baptising there. One hun Charges Reasonable. Ti.a anhnnl in ancrftired in trial exami-l plow, etc There in a law to punish We respectfully call attention to the dred and forty converts are to be im those who plow np the roads in such a KAS CENTON, mersed, so we are told.

advertisement of James Parts which sp lawless manner, and we would like to pears in this issue. Read lb everybody see it enforced. A few fines would stop The Call man has bean moving this The Price of Admission The clothing man thought he'd be funny and original in his advertisements, so b'J put a number of pairs of trousers in hi windows and labeled them variously mission $3, $1, 85, 87, according to quaUty'' Alter a time a seedy looking citize came by and, after looking at tbe displr.y, stepped inside. "Whose idea is that?" he asked solemnly as he jerked his thumb over his shouMef and profit thereby. it.

J. LANGDON, week and has not been able to gather nation this week, preparing for the finft examination nest week. "Sand Burr" are you aware of t'aa faot th at turning through a book, is, by no means learning it? The road to the poet-office is quite dusty for winter; some think that Solomon Calberry travels thit road quite Miss A. J. Pawson has returned from the news as be would decire, but tbe We want a load of cobs, we want'etr Cincinnati, where she baa been spending bad.

Now then, who wants to pay foi moving is done now, and we will endeavor to give all the news from now on. their paper by bringing ns a croOj load THE UNDERTAKER. the winter, In these stirring times we are con of cobs, at once? J. Patton left on Sunday for Con toward the window. often.

The Augusta Journal publishes more KAN oordia, this state, where he went as a delegate from the Benton Camp I.O. BENTON, stan tip learning something new. The other day an intelligent (V) man, a voter, and a man who ean read, (but I guess "Spring" has come. If you don't be religious news for its size than any otber lieve it, just ask Lou and Tid paper of its size in the state. Colonel O.F to tbe annual state conclave which meet this week; he returned last evening don't) informed ns that it was the alii One of the B's earned a penny b) Cady has a natural penchant for being ance that made cheap Bnirar, and that good.

singing "Over Jordan," good for you I "Mine; entirely my own responds Che pleased dealer. "Very good; verygodd;" said the solemn man, chuckling. "Can't get in without paying the price, that's the idea, Very good; very good indeed." "I thought it excellent" he said, a- I'm lad you appreciate it." "Yei I do; yes I do," assented tbo sol Stbated: February 28, '93, a red the world's fair was the cause of taxes Ask Elsie why she quit school; is it yearling heifer. Finder will please leave Editor Call. The writer spied the being so much higher this year, and of because she doesn't like the Call's message box to-day, WJdneeday, word at tbe postomce or at my premises Rome of the bovs are in a hurrV with fonr miles north of Benton.

If You Want BARGAINS, CALL At-- E. OROUOHE'S. Let me say that the people of Benton course the republicans being responsible for the fair. 'Therefore fto. etc.

Yum! Tamil Sand Bub. 2 tf HABBT WlNEOABWlfR, and vicinity give to the editor and his spring work, emn man. 'By tbe way, do you charge family, also the papery a hearty welcome Some of tbe pupils have been It aving Rev. Wallnoe desires to preach to all any thing extra for reserved in our midst. Subscbibeb.

the "spring" fever; we are glad to hear the members of his church and as many Then he went out, and somehow, after they are oonvaleseeht. When the strip opens there will be a friends as will favor him with their pres that the dealer lost confidence in tha idea Detroit Free Press. and over Audits. Times Correspondent. Wesley Maples will load five cars Ask the Prof, why "she" didn't get i)rv Goods.

Notions, Boots Notions, Goodsr ence at the C. P. ohnrch March 19, at 11 Shoes. married Sunday night; he was so dis of m. The beginning of another year's mad rash for land; but not so many will go now as would have gone had tbe bill passed a month ago.

A good many who ana appointed in not getting the shortest oats this work with the congregation. Answer We take pleasure in noting the faot that he young people's Benevolent Society straw. present. J. B.

Riddle shipped eight cars of oats contemplated going have settled down and are putting out crops. UPShoe Repairing at All Timee.JgJ liEN'TON, KAS Benton is in a flourishing condition Our worthy postmaBler, B. F. Mathers, tn BEihville, Tennessee, last week. Dr.

Mupsey hue ordered three oar nd its membership is rapidly growing the membership now numbers about is in receipt of a letter from Ex-Popt- Contractor Rich has a contract for loads of his famous, all-curing medicine, master General Wanamaker, the hirty. building a fine residenoe for parties in MARKET MEAT great Sunday school man, congratula Mrs. Stiles and Miss Etta Newland El Dorado. The work will begin in ting him upon the efficient service he were purctiimng a wealing outnt in Wichita Monday for a party who lives thirty days. Mr.

Rich has been figuring with parties at Towanda, and he is likaly to get several contracts there. has rendered the United States during the past four years. north of here. "Sand Burr" says, "There are gooc olases in Bay's higher arithmetic and philosophy which will see tbe bad cover by the close of the term. That' nothing, our laziest 'kid' can da that jnst turn the book ever; ha! ba! If theee itema are worthy of space will contribute Bome more to the CaWs message box.

The Focb OitEHNiES. Judge Stratford has been provided for by the people's party of this state, be has been appointed to the regency of theState Agricultural Colloge. Ed Cta hiB position better than any other, appointment that this party bat made. J- Mrs. Woodruff's son, who hes been in The wedding which Dame Rumor A number of young folks spent a plea OTA lit rtfiiio 33, E.

Doyle Prop. IVesh and Salt Meats Kept Constantly on Hand. Cash paid for Poultry. sant evening at E. E.

Armstrong a on Saturday last. Among them were: Topeka for a number bi years, whs hurried in the Andover cemetery last Sun day. KaKBti i caused us to meat! on last week did not oooar as it was supposed to tave dene, and tbe result was that there were people at church Sunday evening who, it is stated, bavanot attended for ten yeftfs. Misses Williams, Willhite, George and TOWANDA, 3 Henry Keller is vry busy repairing the old Aaron property. For' what pur Olin of'Wlchita.

and Miss Hastings of Benton the gentlemen were: Messrs Gorg, Carter, Black Iioller, rawknerfbartsfiifn Wf Wiitii8: I Subscribe for your home papf Tbey wanted td be present at tbe wed- pose no one Brbnnd here sems to know. Probably for 8le-' I KANSAS".