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THE BORDER SENTINEL, MOUND CITY, KANS. Barrett visited Mr. Carr at the hospi ORLIN EATON MORSE. ITIIK BORDER SENTINEL AND LINN COUNTY DEMOCRAT tal in Ft. Scott Sunday.

Mr, Carr ex- DEPARTMENT OF CHURCHES pects to come home Thursday. Urlin Morse, born near County Engineer Jas. M. Mundell Norwalk, Ohio, March 1837 and Harry Curry, chairman of the county commissioners, were out over died at his home adjoining Mound By C. E.

DALLAS and HELEN C. DALLAS and all wished her many more as happy birthdays and as many more complete surprises as this one was. Mrs. Martha Sutton fs visiting her son Ben and family this week. The Misses Vera and Amy Huffman entertained the Comrades S.

S. class at their home Tuesday night. About forty were present consisting of the class and some invited guests. The evening was spent in playing outdoor games and also plenty of fine music the Jefferson Highway last Wednesday City, Kansas, Friday, July 13. 1917 for the purpose of making a report on Moneka News.

Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Hilt entertained Saturday night and Sunday July 7 and 8, Mr.

Hitt'i three sisters and their husbands and children and their daughter MIbs Daisy and her friend. They were all from Kansas City and there were 17 In all. They drove thru the material available for the construe- aged over 80 years. With his brother, Orlando Subscription 81.25 a year In advance, tion of said highway. They reported Morse, he came to Kansas in Apri material bountiful with no long hauls THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1917.

1857. They came direct to Linn and singing. This is the second class in their cars. 1 OF LOCAL INTEREST county and went into business the old town of Moneka. social since the class was organized Entered In the Postoffice at Mound City, for transmission through Miss Beulah Flora of Oklahoma visit and the next one will be at the home the mails aa secona-oaHs mmier.

ed with Mrs. F. S. Heller from Wed Associating himself with others who tame to Kansas with the same of the Misses Clara and Edna Burris. Refreshments of cake and ce cream Want Stock Hogs.

nesday until Friday. Weigh 60 to 701bs. Any having such The Dingus Bros, started out with object, namely, to make Kansas were served. After the social a short call A. J.

Garrett. 5-ltp. their threshing machine Monday, be business meeting was held and they free state, he took an active part in the "Border Troubles" before the ginning on Ben Dingus's wheat. Tues Mr. Curry, a brother of Commis voted to give an ice cream supper next day they threshed Ben's oats and John sionerj Harry Curry waa over from Saturday night, July 21, herein town.

war. Hinkle's oats. They are now In the Centervllle Thursday. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. DR.

MARSHALL LOW1, PASTOR. Announcement for July 8 Bandar School at 10 a. m. Mrs. W.

D. Lightner, Bupt. Horning service at 11 o'clock with sermon by the pastor. Union 0. E.

society at 7 :15 p. m. The congregation unites In the union services at 8 p. m. held on the church lawn.

Stranger and all not woTuhlplnff elsewhere are cordially Invited. METHODIST CHURCH. Announcements for July 15 Riv. I. F.

Edwards, Pastor. You are cordially invited to attend the Methodist Episcopal Church services. Sunday School 10 a. 11 a. tu Subject, "The School of Sorrow." Epworth League 70 p.

Prayer Meeting every Wednesday evening. If you have no church home, "Come, perhaps we can help you. If jjnu are looking for Church work, "Come, you oan help us. THE UNITY PEOPLE. Hold their regular service every Sunday at 10 a.

m. Wednesday evening at 7 :30 Praise and Healing Service. Leader, Mra. Sowers. CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Rbv. J. W. Hats, Pastor. Announcements for June 17.

Sunday School at 10 a. m. Preaching services at 11 o'clock a. m. Christian Endeavor 7 :15 p.

m. Preaching 8 p. m. Bible study class and choir practice every Friday evening at 7 :80 p. m.

Preaching the first and the third Sundays, morning and. evening at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.

Everybody is Invited to attend these services. At the beginning of the Civi Rose Hill neighborhood. Wheat and oats are both good this yeir. Too bad Miss Mamie Mathews left Tuesday Rose Hill News. War he enlisted in the Third Kan Alt Smith who is working for Calvin for Savannah, where she went to take a position aa bookkeeper in her there wasn't mora planted.

Lowe fell from the hay mow, bruising sas Volunteers. The company was afterwards transferred and became Mrs. Frank Jordan and little daugh uncle's store. himself Co. of the Fifth Kansas Cav ter Bertha visited with Mrs.

S. Heller one evening last week. Mrs. Lottie DeVoll-Dine came in Dingus Brothers are fast threshing out the grain in our vicinity with good airy. After three years and four Thursnay morning from Gordon, Kas Mrs.

Heller Spent Saturday after Attractive Club Offer for a few days visit with home folk yields. months of service along the border noon with Mrs. Susie Merkle. She will return to her home Sunday and in Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi he was mustered out Mrs. Chas.

Baker and twin babies Clarence andCleton, and little daugh Mrs. Mattie Myers from Mound City visited Friday and Saturday with bis sister-in-law, Mrs. Lottie Neel, and Airs, oiamte Gregory uiuott is ex pected to arrive this Thursday after ter Mae and Mrs. Eva Chamberlain with the company as captain of his family. noon from Fharr, Texas, for a visit visited the first of the week with Mrs company.

1 Mr. and Mrs. John Potter were Sun with her sister, Mrs. J. E.

Wiley, and Border Sentinel in any of (heie papers one yean The Border Sentinel alone $1-25 Dally and Bandar K. 0. Star 17.80 Dally Star without Sunday $8.86 E. 0. Weekly Star .25 Dally and Sunday Poet ...14.88 Dally ft Sunday Topeka Weekly Mall ft Breeze 1100 Daily ft Sunday E.

0. Journal 14.46 Drovera Telegram 16.00 Denton Stark. In October. 1864. be was mar other friends.

day guests of Earle Murray and wife Mr. and Mrs. Heller and son Ed ried to Emma Wattles, daughter Delia Post visited from Thursday snent Tuesday evening with Will The infant daughter of Mr, and Mrs Susan and Augustus Wattles, who until Sunday with Clara Feemster near Heckadon and family, it being Mr W. M. Jackson of Centervllle tcwnBhip Strangers always welcome.

died Wednesday, July 18, and funeral Heckadon's 40th birthday. with their family came to Kansas in 1855. From this union was Mantey. W. D.

Murray and wife were Satur services and interment took place Ada Fearl Heckadon called at the 0. W. SwIUer home Wednesday after Thursday at Wesley Chapel cemetery SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. A. J.

Sullivan, Pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.

first and day callers at the home of his son B. L. Murray. born six children, Wilton John 0., Theodore Stuart Orlin noon. Jay Strong and a party of Mound third Sundays of each month.

Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings at 8 p. m. Sunday Schoo D. J. wife and daughter City's city council were in Hume Mrs.

Will Dingus helped Mrs. Ben and Eleanor all now living at 2:30 p.m. AU are Invited. Thursday, inspecting our oiled streets Dingus cook for threshers Tuesday. except the daughter.

Mound City is getting ready to oil Esther from Mound City were Sunday afternoon visitors at B. F.Stuart's and "incidentally" looking at his Jersey This neighborhood wai more than in For sixty years his home was every street in town. Hume Tele KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK MARKET, Furnished Weekly to The Sentinel by grieved to learn of Capt. Morse's death and we extend our heartfelt sympathy and near Mound City, and the most phone. C.

Loy of Council Grove, Kans of that time was devoted to farm Many from our vicinity attended the to all the relatives in their sad afflic Greer Co. at Stock Yards. Receipts of cattle Monday were funeral of Captain O. E. Morse at ing and raising improved livestock arrived Thursday to make a location tion.

for drilling for oil on his leases be 000, a record July run, and a remark but he was at all times willing to Mrs. Heckadon and daughter Ada Mound City Monday. He was well known and respected and many more tween here and Mapleton. He states Fearl called on Mrs. Heller Thursday would have gone but were busy give his time and financial aid to any movement that promised to that a drill is ready to be shipped here evening.

able thing, a good market on a heavy run. Today we have 16,000 cattle on sale. The market is higher on corn-fed stuff and the record top, $13.80. as soon as a location Is made. Mrs.

Will Osborn was making palls improve the social or moral condl Mrs. Lena Patrick and son Kenneth, Mr. Frank S. Dayia of St. Louis tions of his community, last week among the patrons of the school taking the names and ages of spent Friday at Harvey Carter's in came last Sunday to spend his vaca Spring Valley.

To those present who heard Mr tion visiting his daughter, Mrs. Elmer all the school, children. The women folks as well as the men Morse's talk New Years Day in the Mra. Mae Dineus and little sister Good grass steers, cows, and heifers are 10 cents higher for the week; medium and common cows alow; bulls steady; veal calves 50 cents lower. The best stockers and feeders, were a shade higher, others slow.

Stock cows and heifers were steady; stock calves dull. have to exchange work in threshing Dingus, and other friends in and around Mound City. His wife has been here for some time. Mr. and Congregational church last winter Mildred visited homefolks Sunday.

time, as it is impossible to hire help. Ben Dineus and John Hinkle baled All Quiet on the Marmaton. The Fort Scott Tribune of Saturday the 14th intimated in a three-stick article that the Sentinel became offensively jubilant over the result of the efforts of Linn county's road boosters which resulted in our county board filing the first application for federal aid for a rock road across the county over the route of the Jefferson Highway, which jubilation the Tribune's local reporter mistakenly concluded was meant it was an unwritten revelation the early days of Mound City Mrs. Davis expect to return next Sun Mrs. Lena Carbon helped Mrs.

B. L. Murray and Mrs. Laura Carbon assist their oat straw Monday. day to their home in St.

Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Snider and baby We expect a moderate ran of cattle With his characteristic thorough ed Mrs. Earle Murray.

Mrs. D. R. Lamoreau was taken the rest of the week and a fair market. Ruth and Mr.

and Mrs. Dwight Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Martin from quite sick last Thursday and is still nesB and energy he helped in its building the first church in Mound and children spent Sunday at the We quote good to choice steers, Hume were Sunday evening visitors at Dwight Barnes's. home of David Snider, it being his in a critical condition.

Her daugh ters, Mrs. Jno. R. Mentzer and Mrs City. 00 medium to fair, $10.30 $11.45.

Good to choice fat cows, $8.25 medium to fair, $7.00 birthday, Claribel Hawkins, were called from Thoroughness was the keynote Dwight Barnes and family Bpent Sunday with David Snider in Battle Kansas City and are here caring for as a "taunt'' for Bourbon county all his labors, whether it was help her. The many friends of the family Centervllle Items'. By Mrs. M. J.

Lamb. ''.) field and helped celebrate; bis: birthday and to wish him many more 10. Good to choice baby beel and heifers, $10.50 $13.00. Good to choice bulls, $3 00 medium to (air, ing to stamp out slavery in' the Of course we might have modified hope her condition will soon be Im Civil War, building, farming and happy years. our hilarity and been more thought proved.

The Comrades Sunday School class stock raising, or in the legislature Earle Murray had eight acres of oats Jul of the feelings of our Ft. Scott will srive an ice cream supper here $6.75 $7,80. Good to choice veal; calves, $12.00 $13.50. Canners, $5 65 $6 60. Four carloads of Mound City people friends than to have flashed our red next Saturday night.

Everybody championing the rights of the col went down to Ft. Scott Wednesday to which made 62 bushels to the acre, which was by" far the best yield in our vicinity. visit the Red Cross headquarters and Good to choice feeders, $3,25 come. tail light in their faces, since they ored people to an education. To him what was worth doing was learn all they could about the work Rev.

F. Maya was in Kansas City are entirely unused to gazing at tai John Davis and M. J. Bailey helped from Wednesday until Friday, 75; medium to fair, $7.35 $8.00. Good to choice stock steers, $8.40 $9.35.

medium to fair, $7.00 $8.00. Good to choice stock cows and heifers, worth doing well. Calvin Lowe haul oats from his They found about 25 ladies as busy as they could be at different things, some working with bandages, others making John Curry is on the sick list. Of his company in the Civil War district farm Monday, lights or taking anybody's dust in the matter of promoting sentiment for and building rock roads, but as the present instance is the first op Dr. Porter removed a splinter of wood hospital shirts and pajamas.

Six or the Burvivors were always his clos John Kincaid from Henryetta, Okla. Inch long and Inch wide from est friends, and the reunions of Co. in his seven passenger Buick, with his 00 medium to fair, $6.79 $7.60. Good to choice stock calves, $3.90 medium to fair, $7.40 $8.00. Mrs.

W. A. Kincheloe's thumb last seven ladies were running sewing machines. These ladies were among were times of great enjoyment! portunity the good road workers week from which she has been Buffer wife and children, Wesley and Elean or, and his mother Mrs. Lizzie Kin ing for some time.

Chicago had a heavy run of hogs Linn county have had to give vent to any paeans of victory along that Caid and daughter Mayme, were Sun the most prominent families in Fort Scott and they met the Mound City people most cordially and gave them Borne very valuable information. Those Dan Kline and family were guests Most of those comrades preceded their Captain to the life beyond only one lieutenant. A. D. Perrin, day afternoon visitors at the Fletcher yesterday, and their hold-over numbered 8.400, with 16,000 fresh hogs.

Their of their son Harry and wife. line we feel that the Bourbon coun home. Leroy Campbell and Loyd Browning going from Mound City were Mr. of Frescott, being near and strong market was 5 10 cents lower. There were 12,000 hogs received here today.

ty veteran rock roaders should not be peeved at our expressions of de went to Kansas City Monday evening Beverly and Glenn Hewitt, visited Gause with Mrs. Cause and daughter Sunday with their parents near Farlin Mrs. Eling Burris, who has been for Eunice, Mrs. Daisy Sweeney and Mrs light over our first score, even tho Dot Mantey in his car. The Coe car the past week at St.

Mary's hospital, Shippers bought a few hogs early at about steady prices, but the packers bid 10 15 cents lower on the start, enough to attend the funeral. This, briefly, is the outline cov ering the activities of a strong, up right man. Sixty years in one com ville and say it rained enough to make to make the roadi muddy. It is to be it has resulted in beating Bourbon carried Mrs. Coe, Mrs.

Blanche Glea- returned home Monday much improv ed. hoped our turn will come soon. county to it in the matter of federal son, Mrs, Douglas and Mrs. Nesbitt; and the close was slow, and a quarter lower. Top, bulk of sales, the Hoover car contained Supt.

Hoov aid. since it doesn't deprive her or Don and Dale Dexter, Holley Mitch' Jonah Holt surely hauled two big munity, always found working on 60 $15.60. er and family and Miss Helen Mc ell and Owen Kline went to Faola any other county of any part of her the right side of every social and Dill and the Van Ness car carried Miss Sheep receipts were light today, Monday, loads of alfalfa to the barn at Mound City, aa his wife wants her horse and a cow when they move there and he is share of the federal fnnd to which Bertha VaoNess, Mrs. Lightner, Mrs moral question, and at last laying down his burden in his home over A fine bov arrived at the home of 3,000. Market was about steady, top $15.25.

We look for lighter receipts a good feeder. she or they are entitled. A letter to the editor of the Trib Mr. and Mrs. Chas.

Satchell Sunday. next week and a steady market. Hellard and granddaughter Dorothy Giles and Mrs. Two or three of the cars had considerable with the slippery roads between Fort Mr. and Mrs.

Geo. Cooper. Mr. and Gussie Carbon has the best yield of une protesting against the reflec looking the valley where he had lived and worked so long. The last services were held in the little As we go to press the executive.

wheat in our vicinity, his making 25 Mra. Frank Smitheran and the Misses Mabel Clark and Myrtle Kline, Mr. tions of that paper upon the inten- bushels per acre. board and chairmep of the different departments of tha Red Cross Chapter Scott and Fulton, owing to a heavy Hons of the editor of this one has and Mrs. Geo.

Dudley attended church shower havine preceded them. We "first'' church he helped to build so long ago, the sermon by Rev. are holding a meeting at the U. 8. at Blue Mound Sunday night.

can certainly recommend Miss Bertha Mantey News. brought this honorable" from the Tribune in its Tuesday's Bank to make further arrangements VanNess as a very capable and careful Miss Bessie Parsons visited Julia Lowe, and the exercises at the Miss Clara Feemster spent Tuesday for procedure. driver in any emergency. The roads jjikntojuuu ovsr issue: liOiu four miles cast cf Mound City to in. with Mrs.

Floyd Siuiiu. grave conducted by the Grand a few miles this side of Frescott were Dr. Porter has received his commis First published In The Border Sentinel July Kt.t 1QT7 1 "Linn county has a right to strut. Mr, and Mrs. J.

L. Higgins and Mr, Army of the Republic sion as an army surgeon, and expects almost dry, To Oil the Streets. PUBLICATION NOTICE His clean, firm, upright life haB She has some of the best road boost ers in the state and has really ac- and Mrs. Burton attended Capt. 0.

E. Morse's funeral in Mound City to have to go soon. To A. V. Flint, lessee, if living, and if left its impress for good for all Mrs.

0. W. Litchfield and children complished a great deal in prepar Monday afternoon. dead to nis heirs, assigns and as time. The world is better for his As a result of the visit made by the committee that visited Hume last week' to investigate the merits of oiling signees: of Kansas City is visiting her sister Mrs.

G. A. Jones visited Thursday ing for the building of good roads. As Mr. Dallas savs.

she has been 1, the undersigned, owner of the fol having lived. Mrs. Al Campbell. with her cousin In Fort Scott. lowing-described land situated in Linn county, Kansas, towit: The North half streets, a meeting of citizens was call the first county to take many differ Though the bivouac of acre O.

R. Burris, J. R. Clark and R. W.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Hopkins are in ed and held at the Union State bank May put ice in our veins. ent steps in road building, and for () of the Northwest Quarter () of Neosho, for a two weeks visit And no fiber of steel in our sinews re Dexter went to Kansas City Saturday returning Sunday.

to hear their report and decide whether Section Two (2), Township Twenty (20), Range Twenty-two (22), upon which a this initiative and energy she de serves full credit." mains; or not it would be advisable to under with their daughter Mrs. Charley Hag gard and family. Miss Daisy Kincheloe came down take to oil Mound City's streets. The Though the comrades of yesterday' march are not here lease dated December 19th, 1913, was given to said A. V.

Flint, do hereby notify you, and each and all of you, down from Paola Saturday to visit Mrs. waiter Cox and children were committee's report was so entirely And the sunlight seems pale, and the home folks. visiting at the Fred Cox home Wed Wm. Cummins, an old comrade and friend ol Gapt. Morse, drove up from near Mairieton with his family last that the terms of said lease hare been Drancnes are sere.

favorable that those present were unanimously in favor of trying the oil, a Vernie Vinton the restaurant man nesday afternoon. Though the sound of our cheering broken by the owner thereof that I hereby elect to declare and do declare dies down in a moan. and Mr. Oesch the M. K.

T. agent, subscription paper was at once prepar Mrs. P. J. Higgins and little daugh Sunday to call on Capt.

and Mrs. Morse, and as he said, had intended We shall find our last youth when the have each purchased a new Victrola. ed and circulated, and $110 subscribed ter Aldene motored to Blue Mound the said lease forfeited and void, and that unless you do within twenty days from this date notify the register Dugie is mown. M.M. S.

to take them to the lice cream parlor. by those present and later, without any Wednesday p. m. They were accom Mrs. E.

E. Hime is Quite sick at He had not heard that Oapt. Morse special effort, the amount has grown to panied home by Mrs. Higgins' mother Of deeds of said as provi- -ded by law, that' said lease has at this writing. $270.

It is estimated that from $550 for a few days' visit. not been forfeited, I will file with OREGON and CALIFORNIA RAIL had been sick, so to find that his friend and comrade had passed away The Christian Endeavors will hold to $600 will be necessary to oil the Mr. Collier Cox spent several days ROAD GRANT LANDS. Leeal fieht a business meeting next Friday night streets, beginning one block east of the was quite a shock. this week with his parents, Mr.

and said register of deeds affidavit of forfeiture, as provided by law; and I hereby demand that you execute, or have executed, a proper surrender of over land at last ended. Title revest at the parsonage. DallaB home property to the west end Mrs. Clifford Cox of Prairie Val John Carr reports that his brother ed in the United' States. Land, by act of Congress ordered to be opened of Main street and south and west A family reunion was held at the ley.

said lease and that you put the same of record in the office of the register of from Sixth and Main to the city limits Rolla will be brought home this Thursday from Mercy hospital at Ft. Scott, under homestead laws for settlement Mrs. Joe Venie, Mrs. Geo. M.

Hop home of Mrs. Stephens last Sunday which consisted of all of her children deeds of said county within twenty days from this date. and sale. Two million three hundred at Willis Burge's place, which oiling will keep the streets free from both where he had been operated on for kins, Mrs. D.

Carr and Jake Barrett were Fort Scott visitors Thursday. and grandchildren with the exception of one. Dated this otn day of July, 1917. Helen C. Dallas.

dust and mud until next spring. thousand acres. Containing some of the best timber and agricultural lands left in the United States. Large copy Mr. and Mrs.

Carl DeMott and son Reports from every town and city A crowd consisting of about forty where oiling has been tried increase of Mound City spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Yeager. friends met at the home of Rev.

Dan. confidence that it is the best and MO newspaper can succeed with-a .1 i righted map showing land by townships and sections, laws covering same and description of soil, climate, Huffman and wife Thursday evening in honor of their daughter, Miss Miss Delia Post of near Mound City appendicitis, the case being a very serious one. His friends are greatly gratified that he is now able to return home as fully recovered as the time has permitted. Miss Helen Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ira T.Myers arrived last Tuesday from Oklahoma City, for a visit with her parents. cheapest plan to keep down both dust and mud that has ever been tried. The usuig, uiereiore wo ilicit the patronage of our readers out solicit tl was the guest of Miss Clara Feemster from Wednesday until Sunday. (or Wp to Amy's 14th birthday. The evening was enjoyed by all and refreshments subscriptions should be pushed along rainfall, elevations, temperature, etc.

postpaid One Dollar. those who by then advertising thosi and the streets ofVound City oiled at Mrs. D. R. Parr.

Miss Grace Burton, make this paper possible of fruit, pie and cake were served. Amy received several birthday gifts Gbant Lands Locating Oregon. the earliest possible time. Augustus Wells Burton and Jake.

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