The Neal News from Madison, Kansas • 1

I TH NEWS 7 vol. NO. 40 ISSUED AT MADISON, GREENWOOD COUNTY, EANAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1917. PRICE $1.00 A YEAR. 7'7 tL IN AL Neal High School Notes.

THE NIAL NBWS. 000 oo Billie Combs, a sophmore, has quit school because of his father's" Admitted to tha Post Omca at Unison, Kansas as Sscond Claca matter. oo ooo Publish! Wealdj By Lawrt P. Shearer. The Neal High School boys will play baseball with the Tonevay boys at Ton- evay Friday afternoon.

THE NEAL STATE BANK We have money to loan on-first class security. If you are in need of a little accomodation until you raise your next crop, come in and see us. We can handle a few good farm mortgages. NEAL NEWS. Grandma Hall died Wednesday.

She was laid to rest Wednesday in the Toronto cemetery. The funeral services were conducted by 'Rev. Houchins. Fay and Emmet Taylor of Toronto visited the latter part of last week with their grandparens, Mr. and Mrs.

John Taylor. Grace Dolson was in Yates Center Sunday. Jim Medearis of Toronto visited with Mrs. Medearis brother, Frank Gehr, and family the first of the week. Mrs.

Elenor Crumrine of Toronto is visiting her son, Luther and family. The third number of the lecture course will be given April 23. The commencement exercises will AUTO LIYERY Calls Answered Promptly Day Or Night. STEVE LIVINGSTON, Proprietor, Thona, No. 19.

Neal, Kansas. be given April 25. Miss Williams' students gave a W. I. McQuown Cashier.

splendid dialogue in chapel Wednesday morning. A. N. McQuown, President, C. W.

Boone, Vice-President, I Bob Mann and family spent sunday at the M. L. Sanders nome. ROYAL CAFE Short Orders And Regular Meals. Fine chocolates, Fruit Cigars, Etc.

Come and see us. C. L. Carlock, Proprietor, Neal, Kansas. George Harber.

and family visited Sunday atRalph Digel's. 3 Miss Martin has been giving the final examinations this week to the 7th and 8th grades. Several of the school girls have planned a trip to Tonevay in a certain Ford car to see the balr game. Some of the girls believe in changing partners about once a week. For particulars, ask A.

B. and H. B. Irene and Edward are quite friends. Wonder what Margaret thinks.

No. 9 and Neal played ball in Neal last Sunday. Too Many Grocery Stores! John Taylor and amily Dave Tay For some reasons we do not TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: We have a full line of seeds, kaffir, oats, corn, sweet corn, onion sets, rape, etc. Buy before the price goes higher. Prices in Cash.

E. Mattingly Son, Neal, Kansas. like to sa it but for other reasons we will say it. We think lor and family, John Caley and family, Walt Key and wife, Roy Key and wife, Grandpa and Grandma Key, and there are too many groc ery stores in Quincy for the best Vernie says that when he joins the Aerial Corps, he will play high in the Emmet and Fay Taylor spent Sunday at Will Taylor's. interests of the town.

It is too es of some N. H. S. girls. Mrs.

Rosa Hamilton and daughter, COME IN and figure with me on LUMBER. I will save Mr. English Givan got sleepy wait Margaret, were in Eureka Monday. ing for Brutus to kill Caesar. Olive and Leone Houchins, Ruth Prof.

R. M. McKee cannot get his Gregg and Alice Fritts spent Sunday as the guests of Irene Boone. you SOME MONEY. THE HOUSTON LUMBER E.

S. Mattingly, Manager. will to decide whether to join the army and use lots of powder or stay in Neal Mrs. Crumrine of Toronto spent Monday with Mrs. T.

M. Anderson. and start a Red Cross hospital. Olive Houchins gave a book review Peter Baker visited over Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. T.

Wilson, of of "Robinson Crusoe" last Friday. An- much to expect a small community like this to keep three families and pay the overhead expenses on three stocks of groceries and dry goods for the small amount of retail business that is done here. Two really good up-to-snuff grocery stores is all that this community can be expected to support. Madison with a population of over 800 people and a lot of good bottom forms near it besides a wide expanse of upland country that is more thickly settled than the upland around el Boone gave a book review on Gulliv west of Eureka. Erma Englehart is sick again.

er's Travels Friday of this week. The English III Class will finish Mr. and Mrs. E. S.

Mattingly and their continued stories Monday. two children, Vessie and Edward, went to Eureka Sundayin their car to visite QUINCY NEWS. Mrs. Mattingly's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. A. Flummer. On their way home, they called on Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Junior-Senior Banquet. The Juniors of the Quincy High Clark of north of Eureka. Mrs. Clark's iNeai, nas only tnree grocery stores. Two of them do nearly School gave the Seniors a farewel mother, Mrs.

Win. Good, is now staying with her. Mrs. Good recently under banquet Thursday evening, April 12, at all of the business and either one of these two stores do more the Sunny Side farm, the home of Miss went a serious operation for gall business by far than all the Gwendolyn Brown. Sixteen were pres stones which was performed at a Kan grocery stores in Neal put to sas City hospital.

She is getting along ent The dining room was decorated with the Seniors' Class colors, pink and green crepe paper, and ferns and gether. Quincy had three grocery stores but one of them was nicely and was able to sit up Sunday, Little Erma is threatened eliminated by one of the other pink carnations. An eleven o'clock four with pneumonia. stores purchasing the stock of THIS PAPER AND THE WEEKLY KANSAS CITY STAR FOR ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. WE ARE NOT COUNTING ON RAISING THE PRICE.

COME IN AND STRAIGTEN UP YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ACCOUNT THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE IN TOWN. REMEMBER, THE TWO PAPERS ARE FURNISHED FOR ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IF YOU PAY IN ADVANCE. 7 course luncheon was served, consist More men came Monday to install goods that kept in it. The result ing of the new engine at the pumping sta is that Quincy now has two tion. Mem Fruit Cocktail.

good grocery stores with clean stocks such as are kept in the The Ladies' Aid will give their play Saturday night, April 21. They are larger towns because the stocks Gravey Butter Roast Beef Buns practicing now. are now turned of tener. Ott Mr. and Mrs.

Gregg went to Eureka Imthurn's store in Quincy does fes much business as all the Saturday to have some dental work done. Snowflake Potatoes Salad Ice Cream In Wafer Basket French High Ball Each member was given carnations grocery stores in Neal. Nobody but the merchants themselves Mrs. Frank Baker is visiting her daughter-in-law. Mrs.

Baker, this week. can remedy the present over tsupply of grocery stores in this and fern leaves. Gertrude Hamilton was home awhile town of Neal. The editor is not H. H.

Slough will be 85 years old lo be blamed for mentioning the condition that everyone else Saturday from Toronto. Mrs. Jim Culbert's baby is better. We had a heavy rain this week. Sunday, April 22.

He says that, hav ing come to Kansas when it was a mere knows as well as he does. It is Most all the young and old people wilderness and having seen so much ud to somebody to change the around Neal went picnicing Sunday. change, growth and developement, condition. Carl Engstrom has moved into his he would like to live another 85 years to see what progres the state, the new store. Mr.

and Mrs. James Hollister and Miss Jennie Richardson has been Miss Edna McConnaughey went to country, and the world will make dur ing that time. Neosho Falls Monday afternoon to at visiting her sister this week. Mrs. Sattler is very sick.

The Neal News, $1.00 Cappers' Weekly, one year for .50 The Kansas City Star and Times tend and take part in a meeting held Mrs. Ruth Redfern who came here Mr. Harry Avery's friend from Wy there to boost a consolidated schoo ominer has been vsiting him this week. with her mother, Mrs. Jane Kinsel, re proposition.

Mr. Hollister and Miss Mrs. Eugene Robb called on Mrs. turned Tuesday evening to Ratoon, N. McConnaughey gave talks in favor upon receiving word that her huS' the proposition.

They were glad to Englehart and Mrs. Mattingly day afternoon. band had undergone an operation for take the part they did in the meeting Walter Williams visited his father appendicitis. It had been planned for and they enjoyed the trip very much. Total, $9.30 Our Price for all three papers, 1 year, $7.80 Order next Saturday, when I am in town, yj L.

M. Shearer Sunday. Mrs. T. N.

Anderson visited her her husband to come here and go with her and her mother to Michigan but Mr. and Mrs. Redfern probably will Ott Imthurn received a carload of daughter, Mrs. Cunningham, and fam flour and feed Monday. It was about ily near Toronto last veek.

fnow forego the trip. Mrs. Kinsel will all sold out by Saturday. Dewitt Flummer visited relatives in stay here about a month longer before Milton Close traded for Barney Wor Neal this week. proceeding to Michigan.

From there ford's car the first of the week. Mr. E. Martin of Eureka visited his she will return to Ratoon, N. M.

Mrs, siser. Miss Laura Martin, between Kinsel sold her house and nay barn DISTRICT NO. 100 NEWS. George Harber went to Eureka Fri trains Thursday. and now has no more property here C.

B. Hill and sons were Madison day. He brought back a wagon load of Miss Wilma and Miss Ethel She sold ner household goods to Mrs. corn which cost him $1.50 a bushel. callers Monday, Summers celebrated their ninth birth.

Flo Case and Mrs. O. L. 3reider. The switch board is now kept busy Andy Andrew and his father return days Wednesday the 11th.

ed from El Dorado Sunday. At a depth of about 1600 feet a big Mr. Kellogg is very sick. The doct by applicants for positions as school teachers. Mrs.

John Garst returned home from gas well was brought in this week on the Chandler land about eight miles or was called- to see him.He will start Sunday for St. Francis Hospital in The large brick building at the pump ing station will soon be completed. Wichita. His son, Charlie, and his, northeast of Quincy. The escaping gas Mrs.

Culbert has a slight touch of daughter, Bertha, of Emporia will go the grip. with him. Mrs. Godsey, his grand. meeting of the Presbythry.

Mrs. Bradley, who had been staying in Emporia, came home with them. C. E. Lovett will serve as a grand juror for the May term of the U.

S. district court at Ft. Scott. Word has been received that Henry Morris died from a stroke of apopleyy Sunday at his home in Fresno, California! E. A.

Melbourne left Monday for Nebraska and Colorado where he will travel for his clothing house. Ezra Kelley came up from Hamilton Sunday morning. Dr. Moore came home Sunday morning. Swegle came up from Eureka Sunday morning.

Flossie and Frances Smith of Emporia visited Sunday with their sister, daughter, from Oklahoma is with him MADISON NEWS. Samuel Foust came up from Cha- threw sand and gravel 65 feet into the air. There is a rock pressure great force. The casing was anchored down before the well was capped. It is esti mated that the well is good for from million to fifteen million feet.

The well is on the head of Dry Creek over the Woodson county line. Mr. Charlie Swann is leaving to-day, Saturday. He recently came home Fredonia Monday evening. Eli Garriott and wife were Madison callers Saturday.

Fronie Andrew helped Mrs. Mark a few days las week. Mrs. A. Rose and son visited her mother, Mrs Lantz, a few days last week.

C. R. Day has been planting some corn. Mrs. Kates and family attended the supper.

Mrs. D. P. Andrew entertaied the Aid last Thursday afternoon. Mr.

and Mrs. Day attended Bitler's funeral. nute Saturday evening to visit his friend, B. Bock. from the Mexican border.

He is going Mrs. J. M. Moore entertained the to Liberal, Kansan Uisfess. Thimble club Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Mattingly has been quite sick. Rev. and Mrs. Philip Evans left, for He is some better to-day, Saturday.

their new home at Allen Friday. Piatt Slough and wife have moved into the house opposite Blake's, which his fathel recently purchased from .13 Amos Harber went to Toronto Sat Roy Bradley and A. J. Bow- urday to have some dental work done en returned Thursday evening from Mrs. Jan Kinsel.

Ilia Stella went with h'in. I Mcpherson wmde they attended the Mrs. Martin Elocr 7 to.