The Haven Item from Haven, Kansas • 3

CHURCH DIRECTORY. The suffrage amendment was de When you bear a man cussin A Swap feated in the state by only about 4 000 votes. That wan a pretty close run, and only for the rank foolishness of the leaders among the women, who saw fit. to roundly slue and abuse the Republicans for failing to make it a partisan ques-Hon, which abuse had a tendency to alienate mauy who otherwise might have voted for the measure, we believe it would have carried by a handsome majority. According to the reports there seems to be a perceptible up" wardness in nearly all lines of trade with increased orders for coodsaud a livelier demaud for -etttle, hogs and grains.

Corn and wheat have both showed good healthy advanc es, and money is quoted freer in the east. Make your own application of these cold facts, and all join in singing, It's all on recount of the election." The other morning we overheard a townsman "jacking a neigl bor's ioy for something or other, during which he said: "My boy never told a lie in his life." When we hear a proud daddy use that ex pression, we are prone to wonder it he has begun to lay by a fund to buy flie truthful kid a coffin, and otherwise prepare to have him leave this vale of tears while his "election' is sure. Owing to an important meeting of the Uuiversalist Society of Hutchinson tomorrow. Rev. Mis.s Brant will be unable to fill her reg ular appointment at Haven Sunday r- i 1 X.

morning, one is expected to come two weeks from then, however. Rev. Swim, the Salvation Army soldier who preached two sermons in the Congregational church some time ago, is doing a contract of corn husking out west' of town a ways, for the benefit of his health he says. What! a preacher work Most of them would take up a collection firstv C. F.

Herlacher has embarked iD the dressed poultry business, and shipped his first consignment to Kansas City this week. By his card elsewhere in. this paper, it will be seen that he offers to make a cash market for this sort ot produce The Republicans who want jobs in the state house are busily begging Major Morrill's attention. Kansas is a great state, and her people recover from great adversi-ties with alaerity, but it seems to be in the climate that a man once attacked with the itch for office is beyond hope of a permanent cure. Richard Borchert, a brother of our townsman, Robert Borchert.

arrived from Berlin, Germany, last Sunday evening, with the intention of making this country his home. His journey brought him through Canada, where, Unci Billy Ost informs us, he saw heavy snow covering the. ground. his local p.ijrwr and swearing that he would uo.t liave it in his Iiounp, you may know that he is a ftead beat, who booro-w; the paper front some neighbor, purloins it.frons some store or owe the publisher. Avarice make's a veiy peevish testy parent, a cruel teacher, an unsocial husband, distant jnd distrustful fr'kMid, nnd i early always makes home milmp-py.

Pay up your subscription and get clear out of th rut. Trissal the livery men put a stove in the old Independent building, and mil a cooping place for emigrants who wis Id "shelter in a time of storm," instead of allowing them to roost iu the livery office. ALL. BECAUSE OF A BLACK CAC StaBlnegti Partner Fiht Ouo Uiw th Other Arrentert. A black cat is admitted 1o bo the cause of a quarrel between two business partners of Ktna, N.

has already rcsuliod in tho arrest ot ono and tho threatened ojectmont of both from what is known as the Captain Hammond farm. Mrs. gliomas F. Laud and Airs. D.

G. Stoinccko quarrelled about the black oat and accused husbands til cowardice becauso they kept -out of tho fight, until, at last, tho business partners and former frionds punchod each other tho baru floor. 'It is all because Mrs. Land ia superstitious about black declared Mrs. iStUnocko.

"Our husbands wore iu businoss together, -cod we thougU'o it would bo nice for our two fanillies to live together. Everything went woll until Mrs. Lana learned that I had brought a iblacfc cat here with mo, when she became frightened. It is all nonsense to have any such idlo foars, but she has got them. I've got tho cat and I guess it will broalc up our diappy homo.

Mrs. Land has done everything eho can to make us get rid of the cat. She uatd it killed her chickens. Why, I would bo willing to put It in a cngo with a little chicken and bet that it wouldn't hurt a feather." The eat docs kill chickens, and Mrs. Stoinecke must get rid of tho cat or got out of hero," was.

all that Mrs. Land said. Land and iStoinecko, besides being in business together title of Land steamfitters, run ning the big Hammond farm in partnership. They had a drove of twenty-five Now York truck horses to pasture and wore making a good thing out of their farming scheme, as well as out of thoir steam-fitting businoss. Their business affairs 'prospered until Mrs.

Land declared that thft black cat or tho Steineeko family had to go. Every time an accident happened Mrs. Land declared tha it was becauso of the presence ot the black cat. The climax eamo when a valuable horse died. Mrs.

Land was on hand with her black-cat theory and her husband became so enraged that fcy went at his farming partner withcat (jlovo3 on tho threshing floor ot tho barn. To offset his arrest for assault he has had Steineeko suod for ejectment, and. the owner of tho farm has employed Lawyer Herring xiis-r-assess both of his tonants. W. BUTTON, Plivsiciaii and Surgeon.

Ofiiee and residence east side of Main Strett opposit Paync'g store. 'ALL CALLS PROMPTLY ANSVTKttK.n 1 will trade five bushels of good Sweet Potatoes For a dozen hens and a rooster. Wlil also sell Sweet Potalle, 50 Cents per Bu she! for large ones 25 Cents per Bushctfor small All tbfgabove trades repeated ia rften as aked. 1 want to sell ray eweet potatoes, and will trade for what I can ue, in any quantities. RlvsrsideFruit Farm and G.irdea, one east of Haven bridge.

G. C. Curtis. The Haven Livery and Feed STABLE. We'have opaned a stable 'in Haven, and are prepared to furnish teams on short notice, and to board and care for, horses at any time.

Special attention given to Commercial travelers. ill Hall and Henderson have opened a Feed Mill in the Primrose building, and are prepared to grind All Kinds of Feed and Coin Meal, Any day, at customary prices. Give them your grinding. Grand Army Campfire. Haven Post, Grand Army of the Republic, will give a Campfire in their hall on the Saturday of November, at 10 o'clock a.m.

All old soldiers and their families are cordially invited. Come out, you old coffee eoolers, and break a cracker with us. Uy Order of Committee. Rev. Miss i3rant will preach at Haven, in I.O.O.P.

hall on Sunday, December 5zd, at ll a.m., and on each alternate Sunday afterwards, at 11 o'clock, a. m. What might be considered the first blizzard of this winter came blowing along yesterday. It was a genuine cold wave accompanied by some snow, and interfered with fuel piles considerably. That load of cob3 which Parks intends to haul us, helped our fires a great deal in our mind.

The 0avn vCreamery received worth of milk Monday. It is now paying 80 cents per huncU red weight for milk, and making about 2i0 pounds of butter a day. CONGREGATIONAL OHUIICII. Preaching every alternate Sunday, at II a. in.

and 8 p.m. Prayermeet-lng every Wednesday evening. Sunday School every Sunday at 10 a. m. Rev.O.T.

Wattenhaiigek, Pastor. ME. CIIURCII. Havkn. Preaching every alternate Sunday at 11 a.

m. and 8 p. m. Sunday S. at 10 a.

m. every Sunday. Teacher's meeting every Friday evening. Trayer-m9eting every Thursday, at 7:30. Class meeting Immediately after morning services.

Kpworth League every Sunday evening at 6:45, for a devotional meeting. Let all young people come. The Junior League each Tuesday at 4. Klmeh Preaching every alternate-Sun-dry at 11 a.m. and Sunday school every Sunday at 10 a.

m. Prayenneeting every Thursday at m. Highland Preaching every alternate Sunday at 3. p.m. Sunday School every Sunday at 2 p.m.

Everybody cordially Invited to all of these services. Strangers made welcome. A. W. Cummings, Pastor.

TTNIVERSALIST CHURCH. Services the Third Sunday of each month in Masonic hall, at 11 a. m. andSp.m. Rev.

MIss Rkant, Pastor. Church Notes and Notices. All evening preaching services in each church, hereafter will begin at 7:30 sharp. AW are iuvited. A.

W. Cummings. O. Wattenbarqer. The devotional fmeeting of the Ep worth League hereafter will begin Sunday evenings promptly at 6:45 o'clock.

Please be on time. A. Pres. A. W.

Cummings, Pastor- Rev. Brant will preach Haven on Sunday, December 2d, at 11 o'clock. The Revival. The attendance has not beea Tery large this weeK, but the in-' terest seems to be quite good. The meetings will be held next week in the M.

E. church, beginning with Sunday morning servise. Rev. C. H.

Woodward, of Burr-ton preached a good sermon last Monday evening. 'Squire Longman has been up at Elmer this week, setting up a new scale for someone. He reports that a farmer, whose name he could not recall, was butchering hogs one of the windy days of this week, and had a fire to heat the water a few rods froai his barn. The wind turned around and blew firtj into straw and litter, and the barn was burn'd with all its contents except the horses. About 1,800 bushels of grain, several tons of hay, a buggy and "some farm machinery were a total loss.

Hall Henderson have an ad-vertisement of their feed mill in this paper. They are doing quite a lot of grinding, making various kinds of feed and corn meal. On 'Tuesday we saw them grinding a big grist of mixed Kaffir corn, oais and brooracorn seed, which made a meal that looked good enough for any kind of stock..