The Oketo Eagle from Oketo, Kansas • 4

I i THe Success Manure EVKKY FRIDAY MORNING AT OKETO, KANSAS. S. XV. McCoy, Hilitor. Knt.Tnl at tin- iitiini('C at nketu.

unary H. Iikh. as xi-i-oiiiI-iUsh matter, ar-i-'inllim to Art uf Cuimri-ssof Man IH7H. nearly one a minute every hour in the twenty-four. If freight cars could be utilized as houses there would have been more than enough for each and every one of the 2,050,000 inhabitants of Chicago to have one for a private habitation in 1908.

If the capitalization of the railways could be turned into actual cash and the money divided equally among the people of the United States (estimated at 75,000,000) every person would receive $18. Spreader Is Hit' oldest ami best manure spreader on the market today. It is a force feed, machine, carefully built of the best of material. It is guaranteed to give satisfaction. Come and see it before you buy.

Right now we are making a Special Price on Heating Stoves special representatives will be present at every meeting of the Legisla- ture this coming session. Matters of exceptional interest are to come before the lawmakers this winter and every loyal Kansan should subscribe for the Capital while the session lasts. For the benefit of thote wishing a daily paper only a short time the Capital has made a1 special rate of (0 cents until March 10, 1909. This offer is limited and should be taken advantage of im- mediately. If you are not taking the Capital now be sure not to miss this offer.

The Capital is now publishing the best color supplement on the market and it goes to every subscriber with each Sunday issue. One Dollar per Year in Advan.e FrHRUAllY 5, 1009. Neighborhood Notes. I'riitu the Advorate-Drmorrat. A corporation has been formed for the purpose of continuing the mcr cantile business in the Tracy store.

Up to the hour of poing to press not all of the details have been made. The management of the new concern will be in charge of Edward P. Redmond who for the past two years has been in charge of the business of the late firm. The awards made nt the corn contest at the Citizens State bank held in this city last week are as follows: I Thompson Champagne. I Kansas Notes.

It goes without saying that the Baldwin boy who won fame with a $500 prize story had to go away from home for a plot. A Coffey ville paper describes glass-workers as men who put in the whole summer planning to strike for higher J. W. CHAMBERS, M. I).

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R. All calls promptly answered, liarneston, Nebraska. Oketo Roller Mills. MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE FLOUR. We have unexcelled facilities for manufacturing Hour, and all of our mill products are guaranteed.

All we ask is that the housewife give them a trial. 4 1 iM i It 1 I i wages in winter. The member who feared the anti-lobby bill might "stultify" the.v senate spoke too late. The senate already has been stultified. Elder Underwood, the chaplain of the senate, seldom prays more than two minutes.

Perhaps that's what's the matter with the senate. Several Brown county farmers have arranged to rig up their motor cars with wireless telegraph apparatus to use whenever they find themselves sinking. Clay Center thought it was going to get along without a town row until the matter of a new postoffice site was approached, and then the town promptly divided itself. A meeting of Cowley citizens was K. L.

McAllister K. WillKiin. Willson McAllister, i fv4 PHYSI1AKS AND SURGEONS, isft Highest market price paid for GHAIN. Marysville, Kansas. hrlj City Barber Shop, C.

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OKETO. KANS. held a few days ago to find a remedy I 4 LJ for high taxes, and the man chosen 11 A lLvl) 0 chairman was named, appropriately, I Q-gjgral First, John D. VanAmburg of southeast of town, on Boone county white corn; second, John Frost of near Blue Rapids, on Reed's yellow dent; third, James Dilley and son of near Beat-tie, on Boone county wh'ite, and fourth, Henry Moeller of north of town on yellow dent. The marriage of Miss Martha Krause, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Krause of northeast of this city, and Mr. Herman Behrens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris.

Behrens of this city, was solemnized at the German Evangelical church yesterday morning at 11:30 o'clock, Rev. L. Reinhart, pastor of the church, officiating. The ceremony was performed in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives. Sunday the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Ambrose Mayhew of west of Marietta was the scene of a very pleasant gathering of friends and neighbors. That day was the fifty-fourth anniversary of the birth of Mr. Mayhew and as the anniversary of Mrs. May-hew's birth occurred on the following (fay a celebration of both events was held on Sunday.

There were fifty guests present among whom were a number from Marysville. The day was passed in general good old fashioned sociability and a big dinner was served. The occasion was csrtainly well enjoys i by Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew as well as by their guests.

Dray Work. c. (.:. firtv, Livery and Feed. Unlike Any Other Newspaper is The Weekly Kansas City Star.

Chas, Manrose, All kinds of BOIL Kit AN I) ENGINti KKPAIKS. Although the Santa Fe shops have practically been moved from Ottawa to Chanute, Ottawa continues to pay about $10 a day interest on the bonds voted many years ago to induce the shops to locate there. Commenting on Senator Tillman's statement that he believes in the doctiine of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, the Wichita Eagle reminds him that President Roosevelt is still longer on teeth than Tillman is on eyes. Inasmuch as the Missouri Pacific has put a force of sixty men at work repairing its tracks in Wilson county the Fredonia Herald says, with becoming humility: "We're sorry we THE ROOT ELEVATOR. OKETO, KANS.

Dealers In GRAIN. I' 5 i I i 1 i A 1 ways at the top on prices. See us before you sell. Thk Wkkki.y Stak, in addition to printing the entire news of the week in concise form, has ilbselubely leeurafee sMarkefc (Tjuefcafcio is. So valuable are these that hucIi are copyrighted by Thk Si'Ait and appear only in this newspaper.

Tiik Wkkkj.y Star haw also the famous Chaperon Feature which furnishes free, advice and help on many perplexing problems. Also "Answers" which takes care of all questions the reader cares to ask. It has a practical, successful Kansas farmer in charge of its Farm Department, which is of great value to all farmers and stockmen. Tjik "Wkkki-y Kansas City Stak isn't for any limited set of people: it's for every member of every family. If you don't find something of interest in a particular issue, well, the oilice looks on that issue as a failure.

'J)c pays for one year. Address The Weekly Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. said what we did last week about the $100,000 supper given to Miss Gould, I and we hereby apologize." I "The" gang of Greeks working in the railroad yards," says the Downs Times, "had been buying all their meat of p'rank Cole up until a few i days ago. Mr. Cole noticed they didn't come around for meat for sev-! eral days, but they came in again the other day.

Mr. Cole noticed that one of them looked peaked and about 'all 'What's the matter with i that fellow asked Mr. Cole. I 'Oh, he sick in the knee, sick in the bell and sick in the head. Too much i chick mit the big.

Mr. Cole was somewhat puzzled, but when Greatest Railroad Center. The Railway Record: That Chicago is the greatest railway center in the world is clearly demonstrated by compilations made in connection with the business of the transportation companies whose lines enter that city. Here are some of the facts: are twenty-seven railway systems entering Chicago. There are 1,275 passenger trains entering and departing from Chicago every day, divided between 905 suburban and 370 through trains.

There were approximately freight cars handled in Chicago HUMMER SPECIALTY GO. Real Estate and rierchan-dise Exchange. TvtiiU to Us Ofoito I'hoiirs in the year 1909. they explained that the chick mit The pst imnted value of the railwav oigeye coulU twist its head clear terminals in Chicago is $148,44 W0. around he tumbu.di The Greeks The capitalization of the railways had hased a gun and intended entering Chicago in 1908 was n.

T. T. J. Mann, is prepared to do all kinds of 51 (pairing Shop in Root Elevator Mlice. What you need these chilly days is a imately $3,605,000,000.

The average number of passengers handled daily by the railways entering Chicago in 1908 was approximately 200,000. The yearly tonnage handled on thing they killed was a lot of owls, and a mess or two came near putting them all out of commission." To the Woman of the Mouse. The Journal would like very much Bowl of Hot Soup. 1 always ready to Appetizing hot vegetable soup serve. It takes the chill olf and makes you feel like a new man.

The Wright Place, The place to buy your Cigars, Tobacco, Candy, Nuts, Fruits and Hakery Goods. Short Orders. JOHN WRIGHT, Prop. Lake Michigan in and out of Chicago have you send in a few of your most is not accurately kept, but the ton-1 treasured cooking or household re-nage of the vessels entering Chicago cipes for use in its columns during during the year was about 8,000,000. the coming year and to be published There are approximately 2,250 later in a volume of general recipes, miles of track inside the city limits Permission to attache your name is of Chicago.

Of this, 721 miles is I desired. You can assist in making a main track, the balance being secon-' Home Department in our paper of dary track and side tracks. very practical benefit to many thou- It will be seen from the above fig-' sands of families, and we thank you lift! IV'! J.jLJfc-,-" C' i'V ifj r.it1 I. in advance for your expected help. i F.

E. Kinney 9 Auctioneer Farm, Hore, Blooded Stock. Ten yt'iu experience, Oketo Phone No i (jo to nil partH of country, Oketo, Kansas ures that the tracks within the city limits of Chicago are of greater length than the distance from New York city to Denver, Colo. The number of passengers handled in and out of Chicago daily is almost equal to the population of Los Angeles, Cal. Railway passenger trains enter and depart from Chicago at a rate of Fritz Netz Wants your Blacksmithing.

Horseshoeing eneral Repairing. NEBRASKA STATE JOURNAL. An Interesting Session. Topeka Capital Makes Rig Arrangements for Full Reports of the Legislature. 1 The Topeka Daily Capital has completed arrangement whereby two City Meat Market Fresh and Salt Meat, J.

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