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THE FOR HAS THE CIRCULATION PRINTS THE NEWS CONTAINS THE ADVERTISEMENTS REACHES THE PEOPLE VOLUME 2 FORMOSO, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1913 NUMBER 7 SPIRIT. Nothing ruins a person as as Ue big head. Will' SOUTH AMERICA HATES US Anent Mexico we hear and Sqe MOCK ISLAND TIME TAIILK. EAST BOUND.

Elsie Bales spent Sunday visiting friends at Mankato. There is a back door to every mlad, as to every house. Alma. Johnson of the Pavo-nia, neighborhood was shopping in Formoso Monday. Lou Van meter visited the Shady Nock school one day last week.

Nothing Is true for ever. A man and a fact will become equally det-crepit, amdi will tumble in the saime, ditch; for truth is mortal as man, and both are outlived by the tortoise and1 tike crow. 11 -V alSO Mrs. Jas. Livlngood returned to home at Belleville, Monday.

Tiiefe are those, who would just as soon see things go wrong so they could find, fault. Misses Coral and Ruth Alderson were shopping in Manlcatot, Saturday. If it, were not for the. right to crdttcise, some mem wouldn't have anything at all to do. Mrs.

Dot Hock came dowai from Saturday fco, spend the, with, the home people. When you get up etjrlyyou always ste people goling to work whom you dt'dj not know ever worked- Geo. Poling commenced work on the city delivery, Monday. We! understand Mr. Poling has purchased the Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Suthhrland aiid Roy Nichols went up to Montrose Saturday to spend Sunday at Sutherland home. i Mr. a.md Mrs. Jess Wilson, of Webber visited the lattter rart of tli week with Ms brother, D.

B. and family here. Geo. Robb of Bethany, Neb. passed through on No.

27 Saturday evening enroute to Lebanon, where he will -preach on the following day. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ramsey, Sr. served new potatoes and.

string beans for dinner Sunday Dec. 7th sent to them from Sam Diego, Call. Leave your orders for letter heads cards, statements, bills, etc' with tha Spirit. Our prices are right. Letter heads, 500 for $1.25, What do you pay? The Beedle Conaway show was poorly patronized owing to the condition of'the' streets.

The cartoonist was. exceptionally good and the others were good enough when It Is remembered that it is disheartening to play empty Beats. Courtland Comet. The company with the same' success- here. HIS He gave the.

girl pair of skates, Amd now his heart is full of hate, He merely stands around and waits, And Inwardly rebels at fate. While one mora favored far than he Ta or may ever hope to be, Kneels where she stands, So fair, so weet. And fastens them upon 'her feet. ADVERTISED. of letters remaining unclaimed tn the post office at Formoso, Kansas for the week ending Dec.

6, 1913. Harry Foster, 2. A. M. Rosamonidi 1.

Harry Walthem 2 When calling for the above please say, "advertised." Lou M. Crans, Postmaster. Thei emd ot everything is the beginning oi everything. Mr. nd Mrs.

Guy Sutherland, of Fajr'bury visiting at Harold Sutherland's. Harve Easter came in from Vail, Iowiai, Monday where he has been gathering corn. Roy Nichols, of Scandia spent, Saturday visiting his friend, Harold AT na OklahomBi, Saturday morning, where she has be.ein visiting relatives. Mrs. Dr.

Stewart and daughter, Callie and Sarah Baird were shopping in Belleville, Saturday. Mrs. Axtell Johnson spent the latter part of the week visiting her sister Emma To! and at Abdal, Neb. Blancha Ellsworth and Mabel Trump for an unknown reason made weree shopping in Mankato, Satur day. Mrs.

A. Rhodes and Mrs. Jas. Livingood were passengers to Lebanon Saturday to visit relatives a few days. Jewell Cooperative Co.

and L. L. Burchnol have two cars of corn on track here shipped from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mrs. Robert Potter left Tuesday morning for her home at EckUy, Colorado.

She decided to this paper visit them once a week. The Spirit office this; week moved one door south to the- Patterson tuilding one door nearer the undertakers. "Darn the Spirit" anyway. Dan is placing a board fence on the lot adjoindngvThe Racket Store. Too much trespassing that disturbs his peaceful slumbers are his complaints.

For Sale: I have, several bushel of 1912 white seed oonn at my farm In Switzer Gap: Will sell at $1.00 per bushel. Phone 1212 until Mch. first. N. B.

Sweet. The Spirit provoked four different shots in last week's New Era. Freeman just has to write mean things about his competitor and it to do him a powerful lot of good and the Spirit mo harm, so Itts all be happy. The box supper at Rockdale, Saturday evening by Freda Clark and pupils was a decided success. Amounting to over $46.

V. L. Chandler, of Montrose auctioned the boxes, afterwards cake was voted to the most popular young lady. The contestant being Freda, Clark and Marie Stone the latter receiving the cake. THE nin i noaiK many references to the Monroe Doc-trin Nearly everybody in vthe United States is strong for it.

But not everyone. There; are many ood, hard-thinking, right-feeling men who think the Monroe Doctrine ia a mltsake. The Doctrine has changed somewhat from, its original form. At ifinst it proclaimed mo mor that we considered any European interference with the independent governments of the Amerlcam' commutes, to. no other light than as a manifestation of am unfriendly disposition towandis United States.

This wias in 1823. Since then anany things have happened) to distort the Doctrine, Preslldjent Polk in a document declared the doctrine a we iNoriui amenenn continent, uauMHji pan Domingo, said "no territory on this con.itnent shall be regairded tis subject of transfer to a European power." Seward, in suggesting the withdrawal of Fireneh troops from the. support of Maximilian, was very pointed, but didn't mention the doctrine, and In regard to Chile he wrote, In 1S00, insisting lh.it the republican system in any Spanish-American Stato shall not bo want only assailed, and that it shall not bo subverted as flu end of a lawful war by any European powers, lie said nothing about our interferencei in South American matters. In 1895, President Cleveland and Secretary lOlney Invoked tho dot tj-ino bluntly when Croat Britain proposed to take aboutt CO, 000 squat miles of jungle southeast of the' way from Vcn.ezuola on the claim that the territory wns a part of British Guiana. We insisted that Great Britain arbitrate we said our word was law on this con-tinnet.

How we whooped for Cleveland and Olney then and bow both were loathed by tio silverlnes a year later. Too many of us like to put on a little Secretary of State Sessions reminds auto owners that the tag for the midline must be delivered to the purcahser of the car should It pass out of their possession. "A ilng must follow a car," said Mr. Ses sions. "Many who buy new cars take their tags off their old ones and place them on new ones.

This cannot be done. Those who bring cars into Kansas from other states keep them in the state thirty days without paying." JIDGE SMITH A CANDIDATE. Judge Clark A. Smith, formerly judge of this district has announced his candidacy as follows: "Believing, from the comments of the press of this state and other stages and from the expressions of Individuals, the supreme court of Kansas, as now constituted, has met the approval of the public generally and that I have been accorded a fair portion of the credit therefor, I ani ft candidate for re-nomination. By the consensus of opinion In this find the other states of the Union, as well as Europe, experience is regarded as especially valuable In the discharge of judicial Stability In the courts of last resort is also favored as tending to uniform construction of and certainly In the law.

I submit my candidacy to the women as well as the men electors of the state regardless of party affiliations, in accordance with tjie spirit of the law known as the iNon-pairtfean Judiciary Act (Chapter 193 of tthe Laws of EI'WORTH LEAGUE NOTES. (Crowded out last week.) Motto, "Look up, Lift up." Last Sunday was tuberculosis, Sunday but services were postponed until next Sunday. i We are expecting aj very large attendance on next Sunday at Sun day School. Reputation, is what men think of us. Character is what God thinks of us." We think it to be a pretty el- arming state of affairs when your sister an4 mine isnjt safe from, kidnapping and dectitlon evta ia her own home.

I We' hope that tj parents will try to help in ever possible way to Make our Chrtetn as program a success. We would be very grateful to any one whi cannot send their c'hlldKO to the practice to get taa children 'icltatlona and No. 28 local passenger 11:32 a. to. No- 6 lino a.

m. No. 84 local freight 8:40 a. im. No.

362 Jersey 4:57 p. m. WEST BOUND. No. 83 local freight- 8:40 ft.

m. No. 361 Jersey 12:15 p. m. No.

5 passenger 6:34 p. ta. No. 27 local ipassenger 6:40 p. in.

Eight thousand Kansas ar "touched" by the income tax and the remaining million are not. Tha masses will hear nothing ofi thift Income to except a tew groans and will not remember that there is such a thing "unless the newspapers fea-tune It. Olatha Register, This advicn to hunt very aPDllcablfl tO county sportsmen, seeing that there is practically no game to be hunted this fall and that very few of our citizens have secured licenses, but is printed is a reminder to tjiose who own a hunting license: Hunters must remember that if they are caught hunting without their licen-klos that not only terminates tho license but also subjects tho bun-, ter to tho penalty for hunting without license, so, when you start out hunting take your llcenso, as well' as your gun, 1 HOW TO AVOID AVKATJIKIt To prevent cold weather diseases put your body proper healthy coiHlhion to successfully resist them. Colds, grippe, bronchitis, pneumonia, catarrh, typhoid fever, rli; umatisin and otluir ailments may he escaped in, most cases if tiis is done. Build up your health and strength your nerves and blood and entire body into such hpo that you can count on good health all during the winter months-by taking Rexall Ollv.ei OH Emulsion, the ideal blood, nerve and body builder.

This is remarkable medicine, but a It doesn't stimulate. So-called "tonics" that stimul.jte give you no permanent relief; but leave you worse off tliiin before. Rexall Olive Oil Emulsion contains none of these harmful, stimulating ingredients such as alcohol and dangerous and habit-forming drugs. Its great benefit to you is through its real nerve and blood and body-butld-Ing effects. It nourishes, builds, strengthens.

Its merit does not rest e-n, you feel better for a few minutes' at a time after taking it, but on making you feel better as a result of making you well. Rexall' Olive Emulsion is the ideal blood and neerve-food tonic. You who' are weak and run-down, and you who are apparently well now, but are liable to suffer from various cold weather ailments, use Rexall OUvW tOll Emulsion to get and, keep wll and strong. For the tired-cut, rujn-down, nervous, em- acisted or debilitated the conval escing growing children kged people. it is1' a sensible aid to renewed strength, better spirits, glowing health.

Rexall Olive, OH Emulsion king of the celebrated Rexall Remedies is for( from sickness of ycu and your family. You'll be as enthusl.tlc about it as we are when you have noted Its pleasant taste, Its strengthening, invigorating, building up, disease-preventing effects. If it does help you, your money will be given back to you without argument. Sold in this community only at our store. The Rexall siore one of more than 7,000 leadlig drug stores in the United Sta es, Canada and Great Britain.

Stewart Drug Formoso, Kansas Dan Gallagher Live Stock Auctioneer Write or Phone Phone No. 257. for Dates. Box No. 503 Kansas Jewell City, Your Business'.

preciatea1. Satiffaction Guaranteed. Mrs. Wininio Poole, of Belleville. Is visiting the Leydlg's here.

Mrs. A. J. Hayman, leftt Monday for Downs to visit her mother. Mrs.

H. Flainding was piiss-enger to Otego, Saturady. Aura Caldwell and wife1 were pas sengers to Courtland, Tuesday. Mrs. Frances Gairber of Waeonda Springs has been vislitmg at M.

I. Blandlng's. G. B. Wade left Tuesday for Siloam Springs Arkansas accompgm-ied by parties from Blair Kansas.

Mils. Toland was a passenger to Mankato Tuesday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Caster. T. T.

Wilson and daughter, Elsie, of near Mankato wit re Formoso visitors, Monday. Guy Seat oil's entertained Gladys Seaton, of Jewell and Mr. and Mrs. Green, of M.nikato, Sunday. Mrs.

Eva Ellingseii cams im from I'owhattain, Kansas, Tuesday to visit her parents JligbeeV. We do not know very many things and added to the Ions list that we do not know what i a en bishop. You surely are enjoying th? Spirit's H-rial story. Its author Tlios. Dixon is one of America' great writers.

The Sophomor; class accompanied by Miss Graham enjoyed a marsh-niallow roast north of town Tuesday evening. Nobody Ins yet-pointed out that there is an eighth, sense, anid yet thesenpie of property is anor.s valuable and more detestable than, all the others ilin combination. If there' had not been a serpent in the cf Eden, it lis likely that the bored inhabitants cf Paradise would haivj' heen forced to import one from the outside wilds, merely to relax the tedium of a too-sustained dullness. It Is now proposed to build a tunnel under the ocean from New York to Liverpool, through which electric trains would run. Of course this sounds a little out of the ordinary, but so did airships, the Panama Canal, wireless telegraphy and many other things.

Simpson News. The high school basket ball team ts billed to pUy Clyde high school on Friday evening Dec. 19th at Leydig's Hall. This ds the last the team will play lnj 1913. Formoso has mot been beaten on their own floor this year.

Come1 out and isee a battle royal to return, Formoso's 100 per cent record at home. A Formoso school student attend ed a basket supper at the Rock dale school Saturday 'night and mot having enough money pay for a basket himself, a friend took pity on him, bought and presented him with a nica basket, the joint product of two M. H. 'S. girls.

He waited 'till the supper wss about half over and then slipped out and made bee line ifcr home and mother. This is his second' offense, it is said and the young ladies are still wondering whether he was afraid of them, their cooking or did net know how to proceed and felt that homa was the B3jfer place. Lottie Burgett and Oran JJyde went to Kansas City, Tuesday to attend the wedding of Arthur Bur- gett and Eva Lena Willis which will take place Wednesday evening, December 17th, o'clock at the bride's Jiome, Potomac Heights, Rosedale, Kanss. A reception following the wdding will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Bowman, 2209 Holmes Kansas City, Thursday evening at seven o'clock. The bride is the daughter of Mr. amd Mrs.

Edgar Willis, of Rosedale, Kansas. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bur-geft, of Formoso, Kansas.

The bride and groom will leave Kansas City, December" 20th Tor visit with the grooms parents at Formoso, Kansas. M. K. I'HUItCH. Cristmas services 'next Sabbath at 11 a.

m. The- subjetot for the, morning service will "Jesus." It Is the desire of the pastor that every member of the church do all he csav to bring; the joy of Christmas time to all his friends audi associates. The Sunday School will give a Christmas entertainment next Wednesday evening. The program will consist of recitations exercises, Christmas tree find a visit from Santa. Every body will be made welconinji and the coiinniitteej will greatly appreciate it of lite parents or thow wlio have' gifts will them to the church-.

Come and enjoy the childrcns jubilee and treat. said. Suffer dhi-m -fo come wilh me forbid them WJLOSX'S TRAINING. Someone lias expressed wonder that Wood row WiHso.n, should tin such a fine politician, having had experitmce outside of college and unlW'i-siMy. Thciro iis ivy cause for wonder.

There is no finer, shrewder, reinors less pclitics in the world than college, Wilson had as dos? of that at Priiwe-ton, and lit "got" hiin, too defeated his plan to democratize the institution, though the defeat started ham to the victory hv which the prize was Ihe uncsidency. Faeulity politics jd superior deadldnxs to wan-politics. Kl'WOKTH 1jEAUI0 NOTES. The services on last. Sun clay swere well abend ed.

Next Sunday will be the day Chi'Mtnuis thoughts. A Careful consumptive' for no more dangerous than well person. Pure air, siinshijH, plenty of good food and1 rest are the essentials for health to one afflicted with tuberculosis. Always wash the hands be eating. Eat mothimg picked up from the floor.

Throw the shoulders back and breathe deeply. Use no patent medicines for the care of consumption. T.iken from Dr. Cruinbines lecture. HOW TO TA JOOI CAItK OF VOIR HA IK.

Nothing spoils your Looks so much, as homely hair -stringy, dull-colored, harsh. Nothing adds to, good looks so much as beautiful hair soft, silky, wavy and glossy. No matter how beautiful your hair is now, you can improve its good looks by using Harmony Hair iHcau-tifier. If your hair is homely and ugly now, Harmony Hair Beautifier will make it softer, glossier, more beauitful in iivery way. It also makes it easier to put up and helps it to "stay put." Its rich rose, odor hides the unpleasant, oily smell of the hair.

Harmony Hair Beautifier is lightly named; it beautifies the hair. Very easy to apply- simply sprinkle a little on your hair each time before brushing It. It contains no oil, and will not change the eolor of the hair, nor darken gray To keep your hair and stalp dancV and clean, use Harmony Shampoo. This pure liquid shampoo gives an instantaneous rich lather tint Immediately penetrates to every part of hair and scalp, injuring a quick and thorough cleansing. Washed off just Ms quickly, the entire operation takes only a few moments.

Contains nothing can harm tha hair; leaves no harshness or stickinews just as sweet-melling cleanliness. Both "irejo'rations come in odd-shaped, very ornamental bottles, with sprinkler tops. Harmony h'air Beautifier, $1.00. Harmony Shampoo, 50c. 'Both guarsnteed, to satllsfy you in every way, or your money back.

Sold In this community enly at our store The Rex-all Store one of the mor than 7,000 leading drug stores of the United States, Canada; and Great Britain, which ownr the big Harmony laboratorks in Boston, where the many celebrated Harmony Perfumes and Toilet Preparations are madei. Stewart Drug Co, Formoso, Kansas. PayYowTaxes AT irstMat FOR Grant, Sinclair, Vicks-burg Washington Twps. and Formoso City hand names to us. Program Com.

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1912-1914