Brown County World from Hiawatha, Kansas • Page 2

THE BHOWN COUNTY "WORLD Juno 8, ICOj resembles this picture. But he will have to wear linen pants this summer to carry out tho resemblance more completely. Oei 0 Must Keep Off the Street. The marshal has had to send two men home for getting drunk. He has frequently arrested them without doing them much good and is now trying to convince them if they must drink they must stay off tho streets or be locked up.

ICS pecia Said He'd Fire Htm. Manager Foster, of tho Armory, protested to the manager of "A Struggle for Gold Co." against the rotten sorg of the comedian. The company's manager said the season was about to a close and the comedian who had been reprimanded would bo let out. A Good Trading Day. Friday is getting to be about as good as Saturday for trade in Hiawatha.

Perhaps more people come to town now than can be waited on Saturday and they have found it out and many come Friday instead. However, Hiawatha has not experienced any real dull any day in the week, so far this season. PERFECTION TALK. For a long time it lias been customary and profitable to ship in straight grades and "long" patent and sell them as the Vbest" flour. To puncture this hind of competition we've made the dollar price on Perfection, which is equal to any outside flour shipped in with possibly one exception, and this exception is not equal to our So in Perfection you get a warm number, a popular price flour, the very best article it is possible to produce and sell for $1.00 per sack.

For biscuit and pastry many prefer it to There's nothing cheap about it except the price. If your grocer don't keep it order direct of the mill. The McQuire Milling Co. A JOKE ON THE MOCK JURY Is the supply of Rubber Goods we carry everything needed in the home for toilet or medicinal use. We carry an unlimited number of sprays, breast pumps, syringes, hot water bottles and bags, douches, and dozens of useful articles that are most valuable to have in the household in time of sickness or for every day necessities.

You may get along without any or all of these articles for years find then suddenly find yourself in serious straits without them. You may have an old rubber bottle which Tho Best Kind of Pay Roll. A business man said recently: "Talk about Horton, her shops and big pay roll, for my part I prefer Hiawatha with her wide stretch of trade, north and all around made up of rich farmers, hard working farm hands, or steady town people. It is not changing every day, but certain and sure all tho time. This furnishes a pay roll that can be depended upon." was about to dismiss tho court.

Some one whispered to the sheriff that he had better go unlock the door and let the other jury out. 'Vy (leorge, I forgot them, lie said, and when they came into the court room they wore nearly frozen." 7 GENERAL NEWS. All Night Service Wanted. The people of Falls City want all night electric service, and it is up to the council to bring this condition about as soon as possible, says the News. The 10 and 12 o'clock service is not satisfactory and the patronage of the plant will never be increased unless the service is extended.

The citizens realize there must be a great deal of preliminary work prior to getting the all night service, but there will be such a general demand for it that it must come. Electricity under proper conditions, is the cheapest light, and many residence owners will patronize the city plant when the proper service Is given. Same demand in Hiawatha and electric power is also wanted. An Unfair Deal. The people are indignant been us "Daddy" Shields a.

Mo. Pu employe for years has been let out. He is entitled on account of long and devoted scrvieo to a pension. Here is where Miss Helen CJould should show her good heart. will be sure to give out during some critical illness.

For these reasons, it will be to your own best interest to drop, in some day soon and look at our stock. Don't put this off "One of tho funniest things I over saw," writes Stephen Qualfe, to the ltoblnson Index, in the court house at Hiawatha some 20 years ago. Asa Terrill and myself were, on tho jury. A ease of a neighborhood quarrel wn'i up for trial. was in Febraury, the year of tho big snow.

There wore some 20 or 30 drummers snowbound so they came to the court house to hear the trial. After the case had been given to the jury Judge Otis went to supper at the Hiawatha hotel and left word if the jury came to a verdict to send for him. About o'clock we heard a terrible racket in tho court room. Looking through a keyhole we discovered a mock trial going on. The hotel keeper was occupying the judge's place, while Nigger Jeff was acting as his counsel.

They were trying Judge Price for not paying his board and the jury was composed of snowbound traveling men. As I looked through tho keyhole I could see old Jeff laying it off as only a nigger can. Every once in a while the judge would prod him with a sharp stick. He said 'You know, Mistteih Price, yo nevah paid foli yo an' Ah can prove it by the Then the crowd would roar. Then Price would get back at him.

You old black nigger, who runs that hash house, you or the Finally the trial came to an end and the jury was looked in the district clerk's room. I remember it was terribly cold that night and we came to a verdict near midnight. Otis was sent for and after hearing the verdict the judge until you can't get along without something of the kind and then not be able to find what you want. Culling at Iowa Point. Wesley Painter and Ym.

Hendron got into ii quarrel at Iowa Point Friday night with the result that Hendron will carry some bad scars with him the rest of his life, says the White Cloud Globe. Painter cut him across the face and head about a dozen times. Poth were drinking. Tic The Finest Library. F.

M. Pearl has a pardonable ambition to own the best and most complete law library in town. He has just added to his collection a very fine lot of books at a cost of more than $700. Ills library Is doubtless worth two or three times that sum and no other lawyer is so well equipped with modern works which report the law of yesterday and today. Moves to Canon City.

Fleming Swartz left Friday for Canon City, where he had a good job as cutter in a meat market awaiting him. W. A. Chapson, formerly of Hiawatha, runs a livery barn and has other interests there. He re-centlyjjought the largest meat market In town and offered Flemmlng a place there.

Mrs. Swartz will move there as soon as they can secure a house and move their goods probably some time in July. This makes quite a colony of Hiawatha people at Canon the Schalls, Watsons, Chapsons, Schweit-zers, J. P. Farmer and others.

Mr. and Mrs. Dave Kauffman have been there several months, but Mr. Kauff-man's health has not been benefited and he may be brought back home. Mr.

and Mrs. Swartz are fine young people who will be missed by not only tho young married crowd in Hiawatha, but many other friends as well. Both have made their homes here for years, being practically reared in' this section. Yates WW A Striking Resemblance. Henry Calnan, editor of the Troy Chief, here Friday to attend-the Masonic meeting, looks llko Sol Miller and also writes like him being seemingly the legitimate and natural successor to Miller.

Before Sol Miller died ho gave us ono of the few pictures he ever had taken and Calnan My business is pressing, but 1 will find time to clean that suit of CLAYTON HANNEY The Pantatorium Phone 203 Room 9, Noble Bldg..