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State Historical Solely DECEMBER 5, 1902 OLUME 18 NUMBER 49 The Hortonville Kansas The Heading Hews Dispenser and Best Advertising for Jefferson and Atchison Counties Our Stock Is Complete Get ready for the NEW YEAR by buying Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes and Men's Furnishings of us. Our Stock is complete and every article is of the latest Style. can be found all the upIn our Dry Goods Department styles of Dress Goods, Blankets, Curtains and Ladies Underwear, Skirts. Etc. is complete in and deliver.

Our Grocery Department ies are made promptly to any of the city. Let us supply your wants in this line. part for some of those bargains in our Men's Department in the Get in line way of Clothing. Shoes, Hats, Shirts, Neckwear, Etc. Below are a few of the prices in our various departments: Men's caps from 10cts.

up to $1.50 Hats from 35cts. up to $3 Work shirts from 25cts. to 60cts. Overalls from 25cts. to 95cts.

Rubbers from 50cts. to $1.90 Blankets from 50cts. to $7.50 per pair Tapestry curtains from $2.75 to $5 per pair Cotton flannel from 74cts. to 20cts. a yard Outing flannel, from to a yard Ladies' underskirts from 35cts.

to $3.75 Morning Glory Coffee 20cts. per pound Daisy Oats 25cts. per package Morning Glory Bluing 10eta, a bottle Mayflower Baked Beans 10cts. a can Cero-fruito, 2 packages for 25cts. Ralston's Barley Food 15cts.

Jersey Mince Meat, just the kind for pies, 3 packages for 25cts. Yours For Business, C. C. McCARTHY Nortonville, Kansas. POLITICAL HOT SHOTS On the Senatorial Situation by Brainy Editors of Kansas Just now the all absorbing political theme is the speakership fight, which is brought about by the senatorial candidates.

It is quite probable that Curtis and Long will both come home from Washington about the middle of this month when the fight will be gin in earnest. At present it looks as if Stanley was practically out of the race and that he will turn his strength to Long who will see to it that Stanley is not left in the cold. Curtis? and Longs' forces are mighty and the fight will he to a finish. Governor Bailey is being severely criticised for the part he has taken in fighting Curtis. Mr.

Bailey's campaign was such a clean one and he has so endeared himself to Kansas people that it is much to be regretted that a fight should he made on him now. It seems to a majority of the people however that he made a mistake in taking such personal interest in the House organization and in engaging in another bitter fight against Curtis. Plenty may be sail on either side and in order to show the warmth of argument being used we will quote an article from the Emporia Gazette and an answer from the Mail and Bre Emporia Gazette: The Lawrence Journal, representing Bowersock, aud the Topeka Capital, representing Curtis, are shocked attitude of Governor elect Bailey in taking a band aguinst Curtis in the senatorial fight. These two sensitive souls will have to bear with the harsh world a little Jonger: for it mav as well be given out bold and fat that Bailey has turned the other cheek the last time. When Curtis violated the the only other he had.

Horton agreement, Bailey, turned When Curtis, a senatorial candidate, and a congressman elected as a result of a broken pledge, came back from Washington, be got into the governor and fought Bailey tooth and toe nail. It is babyish for him to expect Roach--Clinkenbeard. On Decon ber 3, at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKenna, living east of Nortonville, Mr.

Andrew Roach of Cummings, was married to Mrs. Sylvia Clinkenbeard. Rev. S. M.

Hood officiating. Tuesday notwithstanding the dripping of the rain a few of the old soldiers their wives and friends found their way to the home of Wm. McCoy where the G. A. R.

social was to be held. The cordial welcome given hy Mr. and Mrs. McCoy and the inviting comfort of the cheerful rooms made each guest instantly forget the inclement weather and proceed at once to have a good time. Dinner was served to seventeen and it is sufficient to say that the quality and quantity wore such that not a single old soldier was heard to lament the absence of the Army bean.

The afternoor. was spent in games of carrom and crokinole enlivened by piano music, antil time to go home came all to 8000. The guests were grateful to host and hostess for a delightful day and Mr. McCoy says whenever we want rain appoint a social at his place. Causes of Prosperity.

Old Soldiers Meet No country has ever occupied a higher plane of material wellbeing than ours at the present moment. This well- being is due to no sudden or accidental causes but to the play of the economic forces in this country for over a century; to our laws, our sustained and continuons policies; above all to the high individual average of onr citizenship. Great Fortunes have been won by those who have taken the lead in this phenomenal; industrial developement, and most of these fortunes have not been won by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefitted the community as a whole. Never before has material well being been so widely diffused among out people. Great fortunes have been accumulated, and yet, in the aggregate these fortunes are small indeed when compared to the wealth of the people 19 a whole.

The plane people are better off than they have ever been before. The insurance companies which are tically mutual benefit societies -especially helpful to men of moderate means- represent accumulations of capital which are among the largest in this country. There are more deposits in the Sivings banks, more owners of farms, more well paid wage workers in this country now than ever before in its history. Of course when the conditions have favored the growth of so much that was good. they have also favored some what the growth of the evil.

It is eminently necessary that we should endeavor to cut out this evil, but let ns keep due sense of proportion; let 118 not in fixing our gaze upon the lessor evil forget the greater good. The evils are real and some of them are menacing, but they are the outgrowth, not of misery or decadences, but of prosperity--of the progress of our gigantic industrial developement. This industrial development must not be checked but side be side with it should 170 such progressive regulation will diminish the evil. We should fail in our duty if we did bot try to remedy the evils, but we shall succeed only if we pro- the ceed patiently, with practical common sense as well 118 resolations, separating the good the bad and holding on to the former while endeavoring to get rid of of the latter -Thend we Koosere't in his Me sa to Contee A PHILOSOPHER'S VIEW Us farmers in the country, as the seasons go and come, Is purty much like other folks--we're apt to grumble some. The Spring's too back' 'ard fer us, er too for, 000-- jaw about it anyhow, and have our way er We'll none.

The thaw's set in too suddent, er the frost's stayed in the soil Too long to give the wheat a chance, and the crops is bound to spoil. The weather's either most to mild, or too outrageous rough, And altogether too much rain, er not half rain enough. Now. what I'd like and what you'd like is plain enough to see, It's jest to have old Providence drop around on you and me And ast us what our views is first regardin' shine er rain, And post when to set her off, or let her on again, And yet, I'd ruther, after all -considerin' other chores I'ye got on hand, a 'tendin' both to my affairs and yoursI'd ruther miss the blame I'd get, a rulin' things up there, And spend my extra time in praise and gratitude and prayer, -National Tribune. Bible School Convention The Jefferson county Bible School association held its annual convention in the Methodist church, Valley Falls, Nov.

24 and 25, The weather was pleasant and so were the good people of Valley Falls, who entertained the delegates so royally. 'The attendance of delegates was not so large as some had hoped for, but there but there were enough present make a very interesting convention. The universal testimony, so far as heard, was that the convention was a great success. A good program had been prepared and was fairly well carried out, notwithstanding the absence of some whose names appeared thereon. The convention was a little embarrassed and greatly disappointed by the absence of president, D.

L. Stanley, who was detained by court being in session in Oskaloosa. A very good substitute was tound in A. R. Comstock of MeLouth who is deeply interested in the study of the Bible and in every other good work.

State secretary J. H. Engle was present and contributed not a little to the pleasure and profit of the convention. It was also the great picasure of the convention to have in attendance, Rev. L.

S. Keyser, D. D. of Atchison who gave an excellent address on the subject, in the S. Happy indeed and prosperous would any community be if such a condition were realized.

Prot. Samuel Tracey of Topeka had charge of the music and dealighted everybody present with the manner in which he conducted the song service. The secretary succeeded in getting reports from 51 schools in the county. There are 5 or 6 schools frot which no report was received. The reports received in many respects were very ing.

In all the schools in the county there are 506 officers and teachers and 3,127 scholars: Last year the addition to the church from the Sabbath School were 226. Rev. Thomas McConnell of Oskaloosa was elected president of association for the coming year. Rev. 8.

M. Hood wasting re-elected to the office of secretary treasurer. It was left to the executive committee to fix the piace of the next convention. The committee will be glad to receive invitations in due season. A rerival of interest in this department of the work of the church is desired by many and shall be earnestly sought after by the officers and other workers in the Jefferson county S.

S. association. REPORTER. Chas. E.

Cline the popular mercy now, and what's more he wont get it. For Bailey to stand idly by and let Curtis be elected Umted States senator, would be an unmanly thing to do: Politics is war and war is hell, and Mr. Curtis is going to catch it from now on, and there's no use or sense in being mealy mouthed about it. There is ne more wrong in Bailey as governor fighting Curtis than there was for Curtis as a first district congressman fighting Bailey in the first district. The above is written by Wm.

White to which Tom McNeal of the Mail and Breeze has the following to say: What! hot William, you seem to letting the feline out of the meal suck. You hadn't heard the story that is being circulated by the rest of the crowd you pretend to speak for, had you, that Mr. Bailey had selected a candidate for speaker especially because he wanted a man who would beabsolately fair to all parties? So you, pretending to speak as one having authority, say, do you, that, it is the purpose of the governor elect to give Mr. Curtis hell? We had fondly supposed, and we were led to that belief from what Bailey himself said before election that he purposed to be the govern or of no faction, but the governor of the whole people. If it had announced by anyone having unthority before the election that Mr.

Bailey would devote his time after lection to giving a man hell who had chanced to he opposd to him before the nomination, we venture the opinion that Mr. Bailey's majorities would not have been somewhere close to 40,000. The Republicans of Kansas believed in Bailey. They thought that he was big enougl. man to rise ahove faction and be fair as governor, but here is William Allen White, the biographer and herald of Mr.

Leland and the assumed mouthpiece of the incoming administration, who says that he will not only use the power of his position to defeat Onrtis for the senate but that he will give Curtis hell. If you keep up that lick, Witliam. Bailey will have regrets that you did not settle permanently ont. on Catalena Island, where you could listen to the swish and swash of the sad sea waves, and in listening you might bave forgotten to make any raw cracks ahont Kansas politics. Thus the battle is raging and it doth not yet appear what the end may be: On Saturday morning Nov.

22, 1902, Harold W. Arthur died at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

Arthur in North Lawrence. He was born July 30. 1894, at Pardee. In February, 1900, his parents moved to North Lawrence. Harold when but eight years old was a remarkably bright boy.

Heflearned easily and could speak and decline with ease and fluency. At all the entertainments and social gather ings at the North Lawrence Chris. tian church where he attende-1 with his parents, he was always placed on the program and de lighted' and pleased everyone with his recitations. In public schools he wasa bright scholar and a general favorite with both his teachers and classmates. He W919 regular attendant at the Bible schools and had already developed a love for religion and for one 80 young he manifested a fervent and zealous spirit.

On account of a malformation of the heart his life went out. He possessed a sunny nature and was loved by all who knew him. Atthe funeral services which were held in the north side Christain church and conducted by Rev. T. M.

McHale on November, 23, there was the largest attendance of any fnneral ever held in that church. His bereaved parents have the heartfelt sympathy of the whole community. There is no death; The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in heavens jeweled crown They shine forever more. Overalls and work shirts that as are good as the best and better than some. Griffin Son WANTED See us before selling YOUR CORN We want a large amount to fill contracts to feeders Skinner Eyerly Obituary Obituary Atchison barber was out this week visiting his father M.

Cline who is ill. Miss Bessie Burdick of Lone Wolf, is expected here Friday night for a visit with relatives. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Maris is seriously ill with whooping cough.

Geo. Randolph and wife are in Oklahoma visiting relatives We admire their judgment for visiting in the southland during this present spell of weather. Abram Maris and wife of Damascus, Ohio arrived here Tuesday morning for a visit with Isaac Maris and family. L. E.

Hummel who is on the road for the National Rating League of Chicago, was here for Thanksgiving. He will be home again for Christmas. Where they spent Thanksgiving -Chas. Kaufman at St. Joseph; J.

W. Harris and family Kansan City; D. S. Carry and wife in Leavenworth; Mrs. A.

W. Johnson in Kansan City; Miss Alice Curry in Topeka; Mrs. Henry Ellerman at Lowemont; W. M. MeBlair and wife Boyle.

Joshua Simmons of Leavenworth was in town Tuesday and Wednesday visiting his son, 0. A. Simmons of the Exchange State Bank. He attended the old soldiers dinner Tuesday at Win. MeCoys and enjoyed visiting two of regimental comrades, John Weishwar and Henry Ellerman.

Mr. Simmons formerly resided near Nortonville. The new home of John Seever and wife on West street was the scene a pleasant surprise last Monnight where several friends neighbors met and surprised Seever household. Numerons games helped pass away the evenand music was furnished by Misses Gertrade Baur and Daisy Bludes which was enjoyed by bountiful lunch was served and present were graciously entertained. For a good time you fought to he a member of this family.

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