Downs Times from Downs, Kansas • 5

Frank Jackson was down from 5,000 Cabbage and Tomato plants for Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Mm 1 iisa pure PLEASANT RIDGE. Wm.

Cowien and Samuel Chapln, of Downs, visited in the ll.uffs Sunday. -11. Muck finished planting corn June 'MaLkey Shoan has returned from Nebraska. Ben Toothman was on the Ridge buying cattle Monday. Wm.

Saunders will rebuild his water basin. George Merryfleld, formerly a res- sident of Ross township, but now of Farmon, Nebraska, was recently mar- rled to a Nebraska girl. Sara Staauldine is working for Mr. Kaup. Wm.

Ileadley is sowing millet. Mary Muck visited her folks Sunday. Emory Bond has been repairing his water dam. The water wagons are seen no more since the rain. 0.

Bohlen has thirty-five young pigs. A. L. VanFleet and Jud Cherington caught three young wolves one day last week. Ira Ileadley.

is plowing for millet within a stone's throw of Wm. Saunders house. He says he wishes he had 7,00 acres there to plow. Crosby. Stockton last Sunday.

Ed. Bailey Is helping David Oliver on the farm four miles northwest of of the city. Miss Daisy Cross went to Greenleaf Friday to pay an extended" visit to Mrs. Dessie Wells. Ray Bicknell, of the Bank of BeloU, was in town yesterday returning from a visit to Osborne, Lee Wright, from near Kansas City, Missouri, is visiting S.

Peters' family, east of the city, Mrs. C. Richolson find Mrs. E. Rice, of Osborne, visited Mrs.

D. C. Grinnell, of this city Friday afternoon. Mrs. S.

E. Johnson is now prepared to serve ice cream in any quantity in the cool and pleasant rooms at her restaurant. The Enid Wave announces that its publishers will take roasting ears on subscription this week. So will we, brethren; bring 'em on in a hurry. They can't come too quick.

The last of the new strainers for the city wells arrived by express Tuesday night and the work of placing them in position and disconnecting the useless wells will soon be completed. The second well was completed yesterday and a satisfactory test made. Scott Dale's dog was poisoned yesterday, Scott does not know in what manner, but presumes he got hold of a dose that was placed out for the purpose of getting some dog. A person who "has it in" for some ornery cur, and who will place a dose out where any kind of a dog can get at it, isn't much. A.

Jackson returned Monday evening from Curtis, where he had been surveying the damage done to the mill at that place. He found the mill standing but with about ten feet of the foundation washed out from under one corner. The flume which con ducted the water from the lake to the mill was entirely destroyed. He estimates his total loss at about $10,000. It rains so easy in this country when it once gets started that it seems a pity It can't get started oftener.

An excellent rain fell last Sunday, and another heavy one Monday night, which appear to have extended pretty well all over the state. If this lick is kept up long enough, the country will be running over with corn, and oats will also be right up at the bead of the procession. "Have you observed," said a merchant to a customer, "the handsome advertisement I have just painted on a fence between Red Cloud and Inafule "No," replied the customer, "but if you will send the fence around to my house I will try to read the announcement. I read the papers and I haven't time to go around reading bill boards." And the merchant scratched his Cloud Chief. There is no person in the state of Kansas who rejoices more heartily over a good rain than the country newspaper man.

The following headlines show how some of the brethren ex pressed their feelings over the recent downpour: "That excellent rain." "The flood gates opened." "A subsoil soak er." "The drouth is broken." "Rain I Rain II Rain 11!" "A Heavy Rain." "Glorious rain." "Bridges washed away." "Welcome rain." A person claiming to be a minister of the gospel recently appeared in Omaha for the purpose of organizing a church in which the worshippers were to go through their devotions while in a naked condition. And, most ridiculous commentary on the intelligence of Americans, he found adherents, too. Actually, if a man should start out and endeavor to promulgate the doctrine that the consumption of powdered glass and crushed cobble stones would tend to aid digestion, ten days would not elapse before the organization of a society for the purpose of demonstrating the truth of the theory. The sucker is one of the most numerous members of society. Did you ever notice, or did you ever think about how little the average man knows of the small things of life? The surroundings of his own section of country, for instance? Monday evening a group of railroad men, clerks and business men were figuring out the course of some of the more important of Kansas rivers, and the results were wonderful About every man in the crowd had each river emptying in a different place, and could they for a moment have taken the courses assigned them it would have been a worse tangled up mess than the 'bundle of snakes Dillon says be saw out on the south branch.

A geography was finally sent for, and the boys took a little instruction in that line. i sale at M. Kindley's. Miss Alma Ise returned Sunday morning from Stockton. Beautiful hats at low prices at Mrs.

E. B. Hayden's. Call early. A little roofing paint yet for sale by the Downs Hardware company.

J. II. Lipton left this morning for Kansas City, to be absent a few days. Water proof roofing, absolutely tight, for sale by Downs Hardware company. Miss Libbie Winters returned Mon day from Kirwin.

where she had been visiting friends. The geographical center of the Ucited States is marked by a monument near Manhattan, Riley county. Byron Carpenter is now ready to pay taxes for residents of Downs and vicinity. The tax rolls may now be seen at his office. Gus Breneman, one of the old-time printers of the Western Hemisphere, who has worked in every office from Dan to Beersheba, made this shop his headquarters a couple of days this week.

John D. nail, of Bethany township, has secured an increase of pension from $30 to $50 a month. This is a recognition of a worthy and deserving veteran, as he is constantly obliged to have the assistance of another person. At the meeting of the tire depart ment Wednesday evening Jas. Eb-nother was elected treasurer, vice J.

II. Jones, resigned, and Ed Warren was elected foreman of the South Side company to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of Ware. J. W. Jackson and famiy arrived in this city last night from Mt.

Pleasant, Iowa, and' will again reside here, their household goods and personal effects having preceeded them several days He is greatly with the outlook for future business here. For the eighth annual convention Republican league, to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, June 19 to 21, we will sell round trip tickets at the rate of one fare. Tickets on sale June 17; good to return up to and including June 24. G. W.

Wilson, Agent. Dr. 0. F. Shearer writes from Hutchinson to have his paper changed to this city, as he expects to be here in a few days.

His numerous friends will gladly welcome him back and if the prospect for business continues, he will hardly regret returning. With the blood full of humors, the heated term is all the more opressive. Give the'system a thorough cleansing with Ayer's Sarsaparilla and a dose or two of Ayer's Pills, and you will enjoy Summer as never before in your life. Just try this for once and you will not repent it. The Children's Day exercises at the Baptist church, were held at 11:00 o'clock, a.

m. The church decorations were under the supervision of Miss Essie DeLay's class and were quite pretty. The entertaining rhetoricals and class songs were rendered largely by the younger scholars. To day the festival of Corpus Christi' will be observed by the residents of the Tipton neighborhood, services being held in the Catholic church from ten until one o'clock. In the afternoon there will be a ball game 'between the Buckskins and the Wild Cats.

The Dillon brothers will play with the Wild Cats. A Nebraska man writes to J. W. George for Light Brahma eggs, saying that he saw the advertisement in the Downs Times. The man was not a subscriber and did not live near one, but the advertisement found him in some way.

It is estimated that from five to ten people on an average, read every good weekly paper printed, so that their value to advertisers is inestimable. And now the Kansas farmer who was beefin' loud and long has taken on new courage and will sing another song; and the folks who left the country lookin' for a better lay have given up the job and they're a-comln' back to stay they're a-drillin back to Kansas since the rain. For the oats are lookin' better and the taters have a start, and the corn is jist a humpin', gittin' ready for the mart; and the boys who left the country when the prospects 'all were bad are lookin' as they're feelin', and they're feelin' mighty sad and they're drillin back to Kansas since the rain. It's a great old state, is Kansas, though she has a funny way, but the boys who stuck right 'by her are the ones who'll make it pay; while the ones who got disgruntled, sour and sulky, sad and sore, and who pulled out from her borders swearing they'd return no more-will come drillin' back to Kansas since the rain. TT mm mow J.

B. Craney was an Osborne visitor the first of the week. Mrs. Dr. Maher went down to Atchison the first of the week.

L. D. Hull, of Nebraska, is visiting at the home of E. Courter, northeast of town. J.

G. Hinnen and daughter, Miss Rosa, of Holton, are visiting at the home of H. C. Ise. On account of the hard times Mrs.

Ilayden will sell all her untrimmed hats at cost for the next two weefts. W. II. Williams has purchased the Rohowitz house, which stood west of Brooks' 8 tore; and will add it to his house. the outlook for business did not quite come up to his expectations, Dentist Daughaday returned the first of the week to his home at Kansas City." As there is beginning to be some inquiry for farms for sale, it would be well for those wishing to sell to list them with me, as my facilities for making sales are second to none.

Byron Carpenter. A healthy appetite, with perfect digestion and assimilation, may be secured by the use of Ayer's Pills. They cleanse and strengthen the whole alimentary canal and remove all obstructions to the natural functions of" either sex, without any unpleasant effects. Thursday evening after the meeting at the Baptist church a large number of the young people repaired to the nome or miss itime uross to enjoy a good social time and bid good bye to Misses Alice Templeton and Daisy Cross. Miss Templeton left Friday morning for Kansas City where she will pay a visit to her aunt before returning to her home at Pasadena, California.

I jiimer LiimDocKer naa a narrow squeak last Tuesday evening. He tried to cross the river at the Young ford, with a team and wagon, but the cur rent proved a little too gay for the un dertaking, and took the outfit down the stream. With considerable diffi culty he managed to get the team out all right, and later secured the wagon, but the river had claimed the contents a cultivator and several other arti cles. The base ball season was opened In this city last Saturday with a game be tween the country boys of the Dispatch neighborhood and the Downs lads, and the way those country fellows lammed the town nine over the diamond was enough to britfg tears of bitter sorrow to the eyes of a lover of the game. Only five innings were played, but that -gave Dispatch time to run up eighteen tallies, while our boys didn't get a mark on the score card; don't know how far ahead Dispatch would have landed had the full nine innings been played John Verhage and Ed.

Jones did the battery act for the winning nine, and the Downs battery was changed about every inniBg. Our boys say they can do better after a little practice "but they'll have to show us Missourians." Another of the city wells which was raised last Saturday disclosed the existence of a foot section of pipe at the bottom, perforated with quarter inch holes, as the only means of letting in the water. It now appears that those who put in the wells intended to put in Cook strainers, but found that the tubing was so badly blistered on the inside that they could not be inserted and were left out. The quarter inch holes must have let in considerable sand and gravel, while the holes in the Copk strainers are very fine slots which will screen the sand and are especially made to avoid clogging with mud. The ten feet at the bottom of the well is through the coarsest and cleanest sand and will supply all the water needed.

The strainers are of solid, 'seamless brass, and will not corrode in any way. When three of the wells are fitted with them, the four west wells will be disconnected from the pumps and a fair trial can be obtained of the three refitted and the best one of the old ones. It is to be hoped that this trial will be satisfactory, and there will be no necessity of investigating the system any farther. CENTRAL BRANCH DIVISION. ARRIVE.1 No.40i 6:00 pm DEPART No.

44 4il 12:30 pm 44 reignt 5:30 am 42 Mixed 1 30 pm 413 Lo. Freight pm NORTH SOLOMON DIVISION. 423 ..12:50 pm 421 SOUTH SOLOMON BRANCH. No. 6:25 am 438 No, 403 pin 437 Trains marked run daily.

All other trains run daily except Sunday. All trains carry passengers. Official Directory. COUSXT OFFICERS. Congressman, 6th District Wm.

Baker. State Senator W. B. Helm. -Judge of the 15th District Cyrus Keren.

Probate Judge-J, F. Irev. County Attorney S. Smith. Clerk of the District Court-S.

J. Crites. Sheriff G. B. Ruggles.

County Treasurer C. E. StoreB. County Clerk V. F.

nnlc II. H. Smith. County Superintendent Etta Cross, 3 Mos.Dw.AY. istDist.

Surveyor A. A. Nolan. ijos. Delay, istDist, Commissioners J.

T. Whitson, 9d I L. CWorden, 3d County CUT OFFICERS. Mayor W. P.

Troth. Treasurer D. B. Harrison. Attorney, J.

W. Smith. Clerk W. Smith. Police Judge-B.

Carpenter. Marshal John Keirns. Councilmen-S. K. St.

Clair. H. C. Strohm, W. H.

Welty, G. H. Skinner, W. A. Johnson.

Secret Societies-. GA. R. Ben Greenman Post No. 232 meet first and third Mondav evening of each month ANDREW JACKSON, Commander.

W. W. DIMOND, Adjutant. IO. Downs Lodge Nc.

323,. mcet? everv Friday evening. Visiting brethren in good standing are tordially welcome. E.B. HATH BUN, A.

A. ROBERTSON, Sec. 1 N.G.j,:.- AO U.W. Downs Lodge No. Vi meets sec- ond and fourth Wednesday evening of each month.

G. M. KIMBLE, M. W. J.

W. PUGH, Recorder nv A MTCRICA. Rear aunnA unA 4rmrth Mondav uiar inccuiigo evenings of each month. Neighbors of other camps are cordially mviiea 10 sciiiai J. W.

PUGH, V. W.A.JOHNSON, Clerk. FA. I. U.

Ross Alliance No, 10SS meets second and fourth Thursday evenings of each month. J. W. UiN rreMucni. JOHN BOWERS, Secretary.

EASTERN STAR, Lucretia Garfield Chapter meets second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. MRS. D. B. HArlKloWN, jyi.

MRS. G. W. MAGEE, Sec'y. Churches.

CONGREGATION AI Sabbath School afio prayer meeting every Thursday evening at clock. Snhhath at II a m. and 7: p. m. Sabbath School at 10 a.

Keerular prayer meeting tnursaay evening. E. L. HUTCHINS, Pastor. BAPTIST.

Sabbath school every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock; prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Preaching services at 1 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.

N. B. HOMAN, Pastor Business aH Professional Carls. I. W.

PUGH. KTOTARY PUBLIC AND INSURANCE "Agent, Downs, Kansas. E. F. ROBINSON, TTORNEY-AT-LAW.

Will practice in all the courts in the Osborne, Kansas. Fifteenth Judicial District. DR. A. S.

HAWORTH, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON- Office fifth door south of depot, Calls promptly attended day or night. MRS. N. A. MAHER, M.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Downs, Kn- sas. Office and residence. South Morgan Avenue, three blocks south of depot. Will do general practice of medicine in the city and county. Diseases of women and children a specialty.

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At Portls byE.0. HenBhalL Will King, of Stockton, visited Downs fiiends Sunday. Au With Longfellow' is the pleasing kind of an entertainment which the young ladies of the Epworth League have prepared, and which will be presented at the Methodist church next Wednesday evening, June 19. No admission will be charged, and all are invited to meet with them and enjoy hearing the following literary and musical program: Invocation. day is done." Instrumental duet.

liiography. First poem. Bridge." Recitation "Hiawatha's Wooing." Quartette "Beware." Recitation from "Hiawatha." Solo "The Arrow and the Song." Selection from "Evangeline." Quartette "My Lady Sleeps." Quotations "Miles Standish." is not Always May." the U. S. Gov't Reports show Royal Baking Powder superior to alt others Don't forget that I am still in the Jewelry business, and prepared at auy and all times to do all kinds of repairing on Jewelry.

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