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ALWA THE SIGNAL. Society The Alma Signal. A FINE JOB SPECIALTY. WORK VOL. XXI ALMA, WABAUNSEE COUNTY.

KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 18,1910. NO. 31 New Type--Good Workmanship--The Signal Guarantees Absolute Satisfaction in Job Work. Little Things You Know and Things 'em You Know--Read Locals and Get the News L. Pries was a Topeka visitor day.

L. L. Teas was down from Alta Vista Monday. J. B.

Fields was in Topeka on business Monday. Father Simmer was an Alta Vista visitor Saturday. A H. Meseke, the Alta Vista banker, was in town Monday. W.

B. Wilson and family visited relatives at St. George Sunday. T. F.

Whittenburg, the McFarland hotel man, was in town Friday. Miss Mildred Taylor went to Zeandale Friday to visit relatives over Sunday. Henry Gittings was over from Wamego Friday renewing old acquaintances. -Burnt wood, a few new pieces; and hand painted plates. Mrs.

A. B. Dwyer's. August Peters and his force of car, penters are at Maple Hill this week starting work on a new parsonage. Mrs.

A. Norlin and son Manley left Saturday for a two weeks visit at Neodesha and other Southern Kansas points. Charles Owens, a section hand from McFarland, paid: a fine of $13.75 in justice court Saturday, after pleading guilty to a charge of insulting a colored woman. The value of a varnish Stain depends very largely on the grade of Varnish used in making it. Campbell's Varnish Stain is made from the toughest gum floor Varnish.

You can finish your floor with this Stain and pound it with a hammer without causing the finish to chip or scratch. J. F. Terrass sells it. The Rice and Stout families left Tuesday for their new homes in western Canada.

That sounds like it is a long ways off', but there are points in the United States a good ways further. Their, cars of goods which started some time ago went through in about ten days, but the folks will get through in three days. The friends of Archie Robertson will regret to learn that he will leave Alma about the first of April. He will go to Manhattan to become secretary of the Knostman Clothing a place made vacant by the resignation of O. H.

stead. This is a well merited promotion for Mr. Robertson. He has been manager of the Knostman store here since its establishment, some five years ago, and is regarded by the company as one of the best men in connection with their chain of stores. Harry Knostman, vice president of the company, will move to Alma and take charge of the store here.

He will occupy Mr. Robertson's house. Frank Weideman was in Alta Vista Friday. W. G.

Weaver had business in Alta Vista Friday. -For a becoming hat see Mrs. A. B. Dwyer.

Warren N. Smith went to Wichita Friday for a short visit with relatives. W. L. Hughson and family spent Sunday with relatives at Dennison, Kansas.

George Comstock, the big sheep man of McFarland, was an Alma visitor Saturday. Mrs. Goodwin of Manhattan a former resident of Alma, visited friends here this week. Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Maisenthein and Mr. Carsten of Vassar were in Alma Tuesday in attendance at the funeral of Rev. Senne. While Superintendent Gift and Principal Chesky were cavorting around with the school teachers of the state at Lawrence Friday, the students of the Normal department visited the schools at McFarland, Hinerville and Volland. They spent a profitable day familiarizing themselves with the details of actual school work.

An operation for appendicitis was performed on Dr A. A Meyer Tuesday afternoon by Drs. Silverthorne, Wagner, Beverley and Johnson. Dr. Meyer stood the operation well, and is on the road to recovery.

He has been troubled more or less with appendicitis for a long time, the attacks lately becoming more frequent aud more severe. A bad attack Monday evening caused him to determine upon an operation without further delay. The county commissioners held a short special session Tuesday afternoon to finish approving the bonds of deputy assessors, and to work out some bridge matters. Bids are asked for on the river bridge in Kaw township and on six other bridges of varying sizes in various parts of the county. W.

S. Gearhart, state highway engineer, is expected here next Monday to look over the sites of two bridges in Rock Creek township. Two of the bridges on which bids are asked are to be of the stone arch style or of concrete. At the regular monthly meeting of the city council Tuesday evening the usual routine business was gone through with, and the usual bills allowed. The workings of the new cemetery ordinance were discussed, and Wednesday morning the council visited the cemetery on an inspection tour.

The place has been nicely cleaned up in the past two weeks, the trees trimmed and everything put in good shape. The proposed new building for the township and the town was talked over, and the council will take the matter up with the township board at the meeting of that body in April. With House Cleaning you will want to do some painting, and we carry a full line of LINCOLN PAINT, the best paint on the market -absolutely guaranteed to give satisfaction in every way. Our prices is lower than you could by lead and oil for. Let us figure with you on your painting.

Prescriptions our Specialty. The Office Drug Store J. F. Terrass, Prop. one Loans Commercial At the OF CONDENSED A close of $172,645.04 ALMA, business STATEMENT Capital.

January National KANSAS OF 31, THE 1910. Bank: 50,000.00 of U. S. Bonds. 52,509.10 Surplus 3,310 45 1,656.00 Circulation, 50,000.00 Cash and Sight Exchange 58,023.66 184,023.35 Redemption 2,500.00 $287,333.80 $287,333.80 We invite you to open an account at this bank.

The statement speaks for itself. The largest and best statement ever made by a bank only three years old. do J. N. DOLLEY, Pres.

W. G. WEAVER, Vice Pres. GEO. CASEY, Vice Pres.

L. PALENSKE, Cashier. I Dr. C. R.

Silverthorne of Maple Hill was in town 'Tuesday. Miss Emma Werner spent Sunday with friends at Volland. Postmaster Hansen of McFarland was a county seat visitor Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs.

Peter Deipenbrook of Herington attended the Senne funeral in Alma Tuesday. Mrs. J. R. Henderson entertained at a six o'clock dinner last Thursday evening in honor of the seventy-fifth birthday of her father, Fred Crafts.

None were present but relatives. The largest egg shipment made out of Alma this spring was made Friday, when F. C. Simon sent out fifty-five cases. This repesents 1,980 dozen, or 26,760 eggs -quite a lay-out for one hen.

Will Terrass will soon commence the erection of a fine residence on the lots he bought in, the Finley addition. He has five lots in the southeast corner of the tract, and will have a mighty fine home Mrs. Eliza Kent of Ogden, Kansas, an old friend of the DeArmonds and Crafts, visited in Alma over Sunday. Mrs. Kent's husband and A.

W. Gregory went through the war in the same regiment. Postmaster Kinne was passing out the cigars Tuesday in honor of his confirmation by the United States senate as postmaster of Alma for another term. A man may well feel proud that after twelve years of service his reappointment gives universal satifaction. An action for hearing in district court was started this week in which J.

E. Romick, C. M. Lemon and James H. Ross seek to establish a drainage ditch along the road running south from the Rock Island to Mill Creek, a mile westing, of Maple Hill.

The technical 'description is "'between sections 23, 24, 25 and 26, township 11, range 12." There is quite a lot of land in there which will be benefitted by the ditch, so the promoters claim- -and land around Maple Hill is too valuable to allow it to stand under water. William Bowes is looking after the interests of the petitioners. An exchange says two men were some time ago disputing over their respective churches. One was a Christian and the other a Methodist. Finally one of them called a friend who was passing by and asked his opinion as to which was the better church of the two.

neighbor," he said "my son and I have been hauling wheat nearly forty years now; there are two roads that lead to the mill. One is the valley road and the other leads over the hill; and never yet has the miller asked me which road I came, but he always asks, "Is the wheat good?" Will Terrass returned the last of the week from ElPaso, Texas, where he has spent the last two months. General Sherman once remarked that all Texas lacked was society and rain, and the rejoinder was that that was all Hades lacked. The lack of society in Texas, at least -has been supplied, but Mr. Terrass says that the part of Texas he visited still lacks rain as bad as the other seaport mentioned by the general.

He says there are miies and miles of nothing but sand, sage and cactus, and that there was a rumor that they had a sprinkle of rain two years ago. The dry air and the altitude of the place make it a great health resort, and the country in will be redeemed by irrigation from the Rio Grande. Texas is an immense state, and this section is a thousand miles west of the section which is being exploited by homeseekers and is an entirely different proposition. J. A.

Bisby lays claim to be the oldest living settler of Wabaunsee county. When only a boy he came here with his parents, in 1854, and has lived in the country continuously ever since. The Bisbys came from New York to St. Louis by rail, to Kansas City by boat, and made the rest of the trip by the prairie schooner. At that time Kansas City was known as Westport Landing and consisted only of two or three houses.

At Lawrence there were nothing but a few sod houses, and there was no settlement of any kind at Topeka. They did their trading -what little was done -and got their mail at Westport. Mr. Bisby is far from being an old man yet, but it is hard to realize that any one man has witnessed the growth from nothing of such cities as Kansas City and Topeka. Mr.

Bisby is willing to surrender the honor of being the oldest settler if anyone else is entitled to it. If there is anyone whose residence dates further back than the fall of 1854 the Signal would like to hear from him. Archie Robertson was a Manhattan visitor over Sunday. W. H.

Collier spent Sunday with relatives in Wichita. G. J. Appleton, from south of Maple Hill, was in town on business Friday. George Reives moved this week into the Fix cottage on Kansas avenue.

Mrs. Bertha Guest Foss of Herington is the guest of Alma friends this week Mrs. Alf Umbehr went to Manhattan Wednesday to spend a week with her mother. -Dozens of trimmed hats for children in all colors, at Mrs. A.

B. Dwyer's parlors. Mr. and Mrs. Michaels of Topeka were guests at the C.

Mueller home Tuesday. Emanuel Sheets returned to his home in Morris county Friday, after a visit with old friends here. Prof. Chesky was in Wichita this week, where he was subpoenaed as a witness in a case in court. Mr.

C. P. Zumwalt of the State Temperance Union will speak at the M. E. church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at a Union meeting.

All are cordially invited Prof. J. T. Willard, head of the chemistry department at the State Agricultural college, visited Alma friends Monday. Prof.

Willard is a former resident of this county. The Easter program at the M. E. church will be given in the evening on account of that day being quarterly meeting day. Communion services will be held in the morning by the district superintendent.

Ferdinand Stuewe and family went to Harveyville in their auto Sunday mornmaking the trip in two hours. In the afternoon they went to Burlingame, returning to Harveyville that evening. They returned home Monday morning. Proved Not to be Thomas The man who was brought back from Texas last week on the supposition that he was John Thomas, the Maple Hill murderer, was released Saturday and left for Texas. The man was brought here on the strength of being identified by Thomas Gristy of Maple Hill, who was well acquainted with Thomas at the time of the murder.

A number of people from Maple Hill, among them being David Oliver, George Oliver, H. S. Romick, David Stewart, David Scott and Walter Worrell, looked the man over day and Saturday, and gave the opinion that he was not the man wanted, although conceding there are certain resemblances. The man was furnished transportation back to Texas, and departed apparently satisfied. PIONEER MINISTER PASSES TO REWARD Rev.

H. C. Senne, First Pastor of the Alma German Lutheran Church, Dies at Vassar-Burial at Alma The Rev. H. C.

Senne, formerly pastor of the German Lutheran church, of Alma and later pastor of the German Lutheran church of Vassar, Kansas, died at the latter place Saturday, March 12, at 3 a. from a paralytic stroke. Funeral services were held at Vassar Sunday afternoon, Rev. F. Droegmueller of Paola, Kansas, President of the Kansas District of the 'German Lutheran Synod of Missouri and other states, preaching the funeral sermon.

A large delegation out of Rev. Senne's former congregation at Paola, Kansas, was present at the services in Vassar. Monday the remains were brought to Alma for interment. The funeral here in Alma was a very large and 1 impressive one, and took place at 2 o'clock p. m.

Tuesday. After the coffin had been brought to the Lutheran church from the home of F. Stuewe, where it had been kept since its arrival, Rev Schmid preached the sermon on Hebrew 13-7 and the Rev. C. Hefner of Haven, Kansas, addressed the large congregation in the English language on Matt 25-21.

Neighboring ministers acted as pall bearers, and Rev. D. Stemmermann of Tampa, Kansas, officiated at the grave. Beautiful floral offerings were received from the Vassar, Paola, Topeka and Alma congregations, besides those from individual friends and the conference to which Rev. Senne had belonged.

Delegations were present from Paola, Vassar, Topeka, Paxico, McFarland, plin, Alta Vista, Haven, Lincolnville, Herington, Shadybrook, Junction City. The following ministers were present: C. Hafner, Haven; O. Mencke, Herington; L. Brauer, Shadybrook; D.

mermarn and O. Heerwagon, Tampa; IC. H. Danitschick, Ramona; H. von Gemmingen, White City; M.

K. C. Vetter, Junction City; W. Wittrock, Templin; A. G.

Degner, McFarland; P. D. Mueller, Topeka, Rev. Senne was born July 25, 1842 in Kurhessen, Germany, and hence On Easter Sunday at 9 o'clock the following children of the Catholic Parochial school will make their first Holy Communion in the Catholic church: Herman Sander, August Tembrink, Louis Danzebring, Eddie Michaelis, Robert Rebiskie, Joseph Dietman, Frank, Schutter, Johnie Pusch, Kathryn Maggie Wertzberger, Apollonia Wertzberger, Lena Degenhardt, Lizzie Steimel, Verona Schutter, Marie Dichl, Johnson, Anna Pusch, Della Anderson, Mable Downey. The confirmation proper of this class will occur some time in the summer, when the Bishop can arrange to be present.

died at the age of 67 years, 7 months and 17 days. When a boy he came to America with his widowed mother and brothers and sisters and settled near Crete Ill. It had always been his heart's desire to serve the Lord in his vineyard and become a minister, but as the family had no funds, young Senne hired as a farm laborer. Having accumulated enough money, he entered the Theological Seminary at St. Louis, and graduated as minister in the year 1869.

On August 15 of the same year he was installed as a minister here in Alma, and began a very active and fruitful life. This was at the time of the first organization of the local church. Under many hardships he gathered a congregation of nine members, Templin being counted to the charge here at the time. Rev. Senne was a pioneer of the German Lutheran church in Kansas, only three other 'ministers located in Kansas when he arrived.

Many of the neighboring congregations were gathered and organized by his efforts. After having labored here for over twenty years, Rev. Senne preached his farewell sermon on Second Easter Sunday, 1890 and accepted a call to Paola, Kansas, where he was stationed a little over seventeen years. Two and one half years ago he accepted a call to Vassar, which was to be his last field of labor. In the year 1870 Rev.

Senne was married to Hans who survives him. Nine children were born to them, one having died in infancy. Those viving him are: Rev. Martin Senne, Lincolnville, Kansas; Titus Senne, parochial school teacher in Haven, Kansas; Anton, preparing for the ministry at St. Paul's College; Mrs.

Emma Senne and Mrs. Olga Kinninger of ToI peka, Kansas; Mrs. Anna'Becker, Paola, Kansas; Clara and Gda Senne, Vassar. Besides these, two brothers, Henry Senne of McFarland, and John Senne, Iowa, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Harste of Beecher mourn his loss.

The residence of Mrs. Dittman, in the northeast part of town, was discovjered to be on fire about two o'clock Sunday afternoon. The fire department, augmented by a large force of ready helpers, soon had the fire under control, but not until the south end of the house was badly damaged. The fire started between the sheathing and plaster, and went up in the wall and spread on the I roof. It is supposed to have started from mice and matches.

The damage, estimated at three hundred, dollars was covered by a policy in the Shawnee company. When You Buy a Suit don't buy one until you can buy clothing having some distinctive features from the ordinary run of ready made clothing. Suits these days are made to order for you to try on. If you are a young man you want a suit different from one your father would buy. Young men's suits must have the new style kinks and little style features that the older man does not care for.

Knostman's Society Brand Clothes surely have the lead far the young men. They are in Grey and Blue Serge. Men's Oxfords Copyright 1910 The House of Kuppenheimer Chicago We also show a full and complete line of Men's Oxfords. Look for the one having the high heels. EL IN LADIES' SHOES A SPECIALT YAM CLOTHING AND SHOES FOR CASH.

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