Scottsville Advance from Scottsville, Kansas • 1

distrueal Scottsville Advance VOLUME XI SCOTTSVILLE, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 24, 1914 NUMBER 475. Of General Interest Many a honeymoon trip resolves itself into a lecture tour. Dan Shamburg and daughter, Elsie, were in Beloit, Tuesday. B. C.

Culp went to Kansas City, unday night, on business. Hugh Paul had business which called him to Downs, Sunday evening, Mitchell county has increased 2000 in population in the last ten years. Many fields in this vicinity show an excellent stand of volunteer wheat. Mr. and Mrs.

John Wolf, of Glen Elder were Scottsville visitors Sunday. Alvin McKellar and family spent Sunday with his folks at Jameseown. F. P. Flitch went to Kansas City, Monday morning, to spend several days.

Send your kodak finishing work to the Beloit Camera and Photo Supply Shop at Beloit. 68tf The name of A. W. Burcher was added to the list of Advance readers, last week. Mesdames H.

M. Nolan and Lawrence Clark were Beloit visitors, Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Loop, of Simpson, spent the afternoon with the James Green family, Sunday.

C. M. Witham, the piano tuner, from Beloit, made a professional visit to Scottsville, Monday. Henry Christie left Monday morning for Kansas City on a few days trip, combining business and pleasure. We can save money on ready ing.

We have a to select from. MADE-TO-ORDER We have several different clothing from which to' satisfaction. We also take orders for coats for ladies. Give us Our stock of underwear and our prices will any. KEELER "The Store of you some made clothgood stock CLOTHING lines of select and made to order suits a trial.

for winter is now compare favorably BROS. The neatest and most particular dressers patronize the Clothing Hospital. There's a reason. Miss Minnie Culp is expecting a visit soon from Mrs. W.

H. Overlook and mother, Mrs. J. M. Cox of Kent, Wash.

Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Burcher will! leave next week for Barnesville.

Ohio, to spend the winter with relatives. I TE have been very fortunate in again securing Miss Legler to take charge of our Millinery department this fall. She comes direct from the largest wholesale millinery house in Kansas City. This will insure everything in our millinery department being of the latest style and at prices lower than the stores in large towns can afford to sell them. Come in and see for yourself.

HARN'S CASH STORE Corsets, Plenty of grapes the latter part of this week, at per basket. Phone your order. J. E. Squire arrived home from Topeka, last Thursday, where he had been attending the State Fair.

Ed Coad, of near Jamestown, substituted- for L. L. Stillwell, at the depot, Sunday, while the latter was absent. F. M.

Gordon arrived home Tuesday morning from a two weeks vacation trip, most of which he spent in Topeka and vicinity. A. W. Culp returned to his home in Muskogee, Saturday evening, after a few days spent with his father, C. W.

Culp and sister, Miss Minnie. Newt Turley, the Concordia carpenter who has been working in this vicinity this summer, returned home Satusday, having finished his work here. Roy Motes, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.

O. Motes and family, returned to his home in Axtell, last Friday. E. C. Logan, Secretary of the Mitchell County Fair, was in town, Monday, distributing literature advertising Mitchell county's big annual event.

Obituary. Edwin R. Ballou was born in Somerset, Kentucky, November 16, 1871, and departed this life at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. K.

Dwyer, near Asherville, Kansas, Monday, Septem- ber, 21 1914, p. m. The funeral service was held at the Dwyer home Tuesday, September, 22, at 4:00 p. m. and interment was made in the West Asher cemetery where Mr.

and Mrs. Ballou buried an infant son just two months before. The service was conducted by the writer of this notice. Mr. Ballou lived in St.

Louis and was foreman of a working crew in a railway freight service. He had been in ill health for some time. He was at his sister's home just three weeks before he died, where he had the best of care and medical aid, administered by Dr. Joseph Shaffer, of Simpson. He leaves a wife and a twelve day-old son.

The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the broken hearted wife. George P. Clark, Pastor Randall Christian Church. order tee and complete with The Old Songs are Best A new departure in churth services, at least so far as Scottsville is concerned, was inaugurated at the Baptist church last Sunday night. The meeting was in the nature of an "Old Song Service." Outside a short scripture reading the entire service was devoted to music, the rendering.

of each of the old hymns being preceded by a short talk by the pastor; the Rev. A. S. Reeves, relating to the composer and the circumstances leading to its composition. The program consisted of sacred solos, instrumental and vocal, quartette numbers and the old hymns.

rendered by the chorus, in which the congregation heartily joined. That the old songs still have the strongest hold on the people is shown by the exceptionally large attendance and by the many expressions of pleasure from those fortunrte enough to be present. Dal Birch. Mrs. Wm.

Birch and Mr. and Mrs. Miles Allen speut Sunday in Beloit the guests of A. J. Wehl and family.

Give the high cost of living another setback -have Alfred Wilson repair those old shoes. Prices reasonable. tf John Johnson, who has been visiting his brother, Hardy Johnson for the past few weeks, left Tuesday morning for Denver. Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Hillery came up from Concorpia, Friday evening, and' visited a few days with the home folks. don't spend good money for clothes cleaning and pressing when our plan does it FREE. SANITARY BARBER SHOP On the Weet Side of the Street There are 177,481 farms in Kansas of an average value of $11.467 and with an average size of 244 acres. C. L.

Kagey, the Beloit attorney; brought a load of folks down from Beloit, Sunday, in his car. He transacted a little legal business while here. See O. E. Schmeil for Victor safes -all sizes and styles-made by the Victor Safe and Lock of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Miss Mayme Legler, of Kansas Oity, who made many friends while employed at Harn's Cash Store last spring, is again in charge of the millinery department. Mow on sale at the Postoffice News Stand: "The Eyes of the World," by Harold Bell Wright; "Winning the Wilderness," Margaret Hill McCarter's latest book. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Thomas drove down from Beloit in their car Tuesday morning, to visit his brother; J.

Thomas and wife, who accompanied them to Concordia in the afternoon. Mrs. A. R. McKellar and children and Bessie Henderson returned Sunday from a two weeks visit with their brother, H.

D. Henderson, of Morland, Kansas. L. L. Stillwell went to Lawrence Saturday night, to join Mrs.

Stillwell, who has been visiting there and at Blue Rapids for the past week. They returned home Monday morning. F. W. Knapp, until recently the editor of the Beloit Gazette, has been appointed secretary of the state" Progressive committee and is at Topeka in active charge of the duties of the office.

Mrs. H. Hoffman, of Sacramento, who had been visiting her sisterin-law, Mrs. D. J.

Farren for several days, left Tuesday morning for Illinois where she will make an extended visit with relatives. The Rev. F. D. Baker, at one time M.

E. pastor at Beloit, and later presiding elder in this district, is serriously ill at his home in Fellsmere, Florida, and his recovery is doubtful. The success of the meeting is SO gratifying that a similar service will no doubt be held at some future date. The Glasco Booster Fall Festival, which will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, offers an attraction that will be of special interest to baseball fans. Each day I.

0. Seweil's Simpson team, recruited from various league clubs, will play Bidwell's Emporia team from the State league. After winning the pennant in the State league, Bidwell. has won forty-five out of forty-six games played in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma. team has won every game they have played, twenty in all and it is said that their lineup will be strengthened in various positions from the big leagues.

Other attractions will be speaking, band music, races, athletic contests, horse shoe pitching, etc. adv During the remainder of. this week and six days of each week following, we will offer as a special inducement one hundred cents worth of honest, guarantaed work for each dollar. The Clothing Hospital..