The Golden Rod from Parsons, Kansas • 4

GO TO THE Anything You Can think of in Hardware A tfcHEFF HARDWARE CO. Do not keep your sitting rooms above 70 degrees, and air them every day. Ttather have them chilly than too warm. Also keep your stables a little chilly so your horses will not take colds and pneumonia. ft Co.

jilt on IlcrCdiili Zvt Golden Rod. Published Monthly Bt Dr.W. S.NEWLON, SUBSCRIPTION 20C A YEAR. Catered at th Qiwego, Kansas, poa ofiica second-class mail matter. If yiu ant a Laijje Stock to jgeieC-; from, l'oliiv Clerks to wait uin you, Low IP ice Tis Oswiio MpHmt riONEElt NEWSPAPER.

Official Paper of Labette County. Some manly young fellows bfiYe formed a literary society in the reading room. Well done, boy, it will pay you well. The man who does not have time to read will have time to be a nobody in the rear ranks. fti Oswego Blade, Now is a good Mine for us to pay our small debts first of the year, and take a square, honest look at every body in Vn Earnest Reform I W.

Cook Newspaper Publisher $1 a year. Oswego, Kans. the face. A great annoyance it is for boys to Their rttot of 15 lot, and Shoes Dry Goods toothing, ud Notions it oiv ilete. throw at each other, at dogs, birds HENDRICKS ATTORNEY AT LAW and at the houses.

Those little A poultice of wet salt they now claim will cure a snake bite. Remember this when snakes are ripe next spring. Tlomarkable Events of 1903. Januauy 2 rain, 9 snow first, 1G rain, 22 rain and snow, 23 snow, 25 rain. February 3 rain, 5 and 0 snow, 10 rain, 15 snow and rain, 24 snow melts.

March 2 rain, 3 and 4 rain, robins whelps do a great deal of injury and we think our intelligent teachers will Office Over Hughey'a Grocery Store. OSWEGO, IIANSA wipe it out on the play grounds and the marshal will stop it on the street. We have had tefi dollars worth of COME IN. KIEGSBUY FRISK LEADING Prescription Druggists OSWEGO, KANSAS. glass broken out by them and pay taxes for defense to property and ought to get it.

Staple and Fancy groceries. Buckwheat and Pancake Flour at Cost at i JOHN HAZLETT Glen Lumber here, 3 rain all morning, 7 terrible rain and thHndsr, 9 rain, 17-rain, 23 spits of snow, 27 rain all day. ArRiL 3 rain and snow, 7 rain, 8 Not one in a hundred perhaps has thought how many people we are sup and 10 rain, 13 rain, cold, 14 frost, 18 April showers, barefoot boy, 27 frost popilie butter My, 28 snow a little, 29 Cofderman porting now, how much we pay the party made officials in Kansas. How would 30,000 and a pay roll of rain, 30 hard frost. May 5 rain, red headed wood peck, SELL 000 jar you? A great many of these Proprietors of the if are only to keep up a party or combine Lumber, Sash Doors.

5 6 good rain, 7 rain, strawberries ripen, 8 showers, 9 whippor will, 10 rain, NEW HARNESS and are as worthless as a worn out bung hole in a barrel or the Kansas hookey sheriffs. Sunday, hummingbirds, 11 rain, 12 rain. 13 and 17 rain. 20 great rain, 21 SHOP. rain, 29 rain, 30 rain.

SLzLz THEM HWEGO, KANSAS June 1 drizzle, 4 sprinkle, Irish potatoes bloom, 15 shower, 17 rain at night. 21 rain at night, 25 rain at night. Physicians and Surgeons The Labette shales have some little petroleum in them near the bottom, and the lower Pleasanton shales have abundance of petrified trees in them, chiefly conifers and condatites. When they grew what a wonderful unwritten history there was these God only knows. July 11 rain, 12 hot weather, 13 shower, 14 shower, 15 shower, 1(5 sprinkle, 18 snrinkle, 21 shower, 27 KANSAS SWEGO shower, 29 shower, 30 rain.

6 0ONDON Qd August 1 big rain, 5 and big rain. 9 rain and thunder, 15 rain, 28 rain. A suitable present for a maiden would be a looking glass. Her stock in trade are her forni, her raiment and PRIVATE BANK Tour Business Solicited. Condon, Cashier.

MYTH OF THE DANDELION. Pretty Legend of Beautiful Maidon Who Vanished In Air. The red men of the forest have ft legend about the dandelion that is full Df quaint humor. Mudjiekeewia, a great warrior, killed the Great Bear of the mountains, the Mishe-Mokwa, the terror of the people, and was by them chosen father of the winds. He kept for himself the west wind and gave the others to his children.

To Wabon he gave the east wind, to Kabibonokka the north wind, and the south wind to Bhawondassee. Shawondasse soon grew fat and lazy in the drowsy south land where there was never-ending summer. The Bmoke from the pipe filled the air with, Septemher- 8 rain and electricity, 15 sprinkle, cold, 17 frost, first, 20 rain her face, and how can she make these a winner without a glass. little, 29 rain. 30 rain.

October 4 rain, 6 rain, 13 rain 17 rain, 30 shower, 31 rain. November 3 rain and mud, 4 rain NELSON CASE 1 RELIABLE ATTORNEY: OSWEGO, KANSAS jf Africa has been taken by the Euro pean powers to the last crumb. They are bu.lding. railroads across it like a checker board, planting cotton, coffee and rubber fields all over it and we hazy vapor, a dreamy softness thatj and gloom, 10 rain a little, 24 rain, last of Indian summer, irk days, 30 first sno v. December 9 liht snow, 12 spits snow, much rain, 20 warm, rain a little, 29 rain all iliy, thunder.

-4 The Turks continue to step on Uncle Sam's corns a little t' often. Expect one of these dajs we will go over there, thrash them and nav them fear killing the savage people with rum aud vice. They would have gobbled up South America but for the Monroe Doctrine. As it is they work the mines, raise the sheep aud cattle, Was called Indian summer, and all the birds flew back to the north land and the melons flushed in the sunshine. Whoa wanting Buggy, Wagon, Harrow.

Disc Plow, Planter, Cultivator, Drain Tile, Sewer Pipe, Har. ness, Collars and Straps. Also the celebrated Deering Binders, Mowers and Twine. Call on or write, Rich creek. Implement Co.

But there came into the heart of the colTee and rubber, build the railroads and own a billion of wealth in our big money and get an island, and kiss and make up. south door yard. Dutch, English and tazy, lustless Shawondassee a great1 Borrow. As he gazed to the north, where had gone the robbin and the bluebird, the showshaw and the wawa, the swallow and the wild goose, he Baw far out on the prairie a beautiful maiden, tall and slender, with hair Italians live there by the millions. Let us become weak with corruption or divided and the.

rivers of South America and rich plains will grind at the m.ils of Europe as did blind 1 Blocks West of Deining Inv Co.j OSWEGO, KAN8A! Parrot When Col Horner was County Superintendent of schools of this county, he Induced the ladies hero to form an Educational Society to autify the school house and grounds. T- went to work, put a fence around the school lot and bought clocks for the rooms etc. Prof. Donovan took the children, went to the woods and got trees and planted them on the ground at the East building, and the trees' growing now had their origin thusly. like the sunshine.

As thedrowsy went by, his longing for the maiden! With the yellow tresses grew more in-! tense, but he was too fat and lazy "to bestir himself and woo her; yes, too Indolent and lazy to pursue her andj persuade her." So, as he sat. and sighed, the yellow tresses were changed to white. Then the wretched Shawondassee breathed the more fiercely hia Bighs of passion, and the air suddeniy seemed filled with thistle and the maid with golden andiwhite tressea ranished from her sight forever. Alex. McCully, Livery Transfer I Mil.

II Highest Prices paid -at all times For Horses and Stands for the Best Wherever found. Try our Breakfast Food Made from Choicest Wheat-no Shavings or Sawdust Just Wheat. Parrot Flour A few royal Christmas presents were given us many years now past, and we treasure them up In our heart and review them year by year as Christmas comes to us. They are the Star of Bethlehem, the infant Christ, the cradle and the manager. They cost me nothing only faith and submission "Jesus paid it all." ft i leads.

Have you trlealtl Your Grocer sells It. Poor, deluded Shawonklassee! "Twas no woman thatiyou gazed at 'Twas no maiden thatiyou'sighed for. Twas the prairie dandelion That through all the 'dreary summer You had gazed at with. such longing. Sfou had sighed for with such passion.

And had puffed away forever. Blown into the air with sighing, Oh! deluded Homo tp4 XTte3BSsa i Oswego Milling Company ft M. E- "WILLIAMS- ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office up stairs in Perkins Block. Oswego.

Kansas Stephen Girard gave to Philadelphia 0 millions of money for Girard BRADY College. The conditions were the LAWYER exclusion of the clergy we believe. OSWEGO. KAN?.