The Lamar register., 1892-04-02

Another queen OF the gypsies has been
She visited Lamar this
week and gathered in some ducats tell
ing fortunes.
S. Morris Irwin Il Co. carry fun line
Of the NJ. D. Wells boots and shoes. The
most reliable line IN the market, for
cheapness and wear.
W. H. Sanders always carries a large
stock of the best grades of -four and feed
and he proposes to sell it at as reason
able price as any other first grade
goods can be had for.
R. NJ. Douglass, of Garden City, rep
resenting the Garden City Roller Mills
company, was IN Lamar Thursday. He
informs us that his company will soon
open flour and feed store in Lamar.
Imagination is great gift, but it took
but slight stretch of it for anyone, tax
ing walk on our back streets the morn
ing after the wind storm, to imagine that
he was star actor and had a score OF
opera glasses turned on him.
In order to induce farmers to put in
wheat for the new mill, the Lamar Mil
ling and Elevator Company will sell
spring seed wheat at co, 60 and rs cents
per bushel. Parties desiring wheat get
the same from Markham and Brevoort.
CT. Hill was bound over to the dis
trict court by Judge Deeter, on the
charge of grand larceny last Monday,
and in default of $3.50 bail is being held
in the county Jail. 1t is charged that he
took $50 in cash from Ira Swadley last
Saturday night.
Thirteen people tempted fate by gath
ering around festive board in Lamar
last Thursday night. They had scarcely
taken their seats. when the wind began
to howl, doors slammed, sheds turned
their roof to the ground, and all nature
trembled in solemn warning.
A petition has been filed with the
county superintendent, asking that
new school district be formed from part
of District No. II (the Lamar district),
and part of the district in Bent county
lying west of No. II. Also another peti-
tion for a new district embracing part of
territory of District No s (the Granada
district.)
DIED-At Lamar, on Sunday evening,
March 9th, 1892, Mrs. j. C. Bailey.
Mrs Bailey came to Lamar last fall for
the benefit of her health, but the disease
Consumption had already progressed
too far, and knowing that an early death
was inevitable she patiently suffered,
awaiting the last relief The remains
were taken to her former home in Mis-
souri, for burial. Mrs. Bailey left hus-
band and two small children.
John Hess has secured the exclusive
local agency for this county for Dale
mand and Co.'S Cream Pure Rye. This
Rye has become famous for its absolute
purity, nutritive value, smooth taste and
delicious bouquet. 1t is good for weak
lungs, q standard remedy for La Grippe
and stimulant for impaired constitu-
tions. 1t does not rasp or scald the
throat and stomach, nor cause nausea,
dizziness and headache.
Misses Ida and Betty Gratehouse, who
came to Lamar one year ago for their
health and have been employed in
our public schools, started for their
home Rockport, Indiana, last Sunday
evening, accompanied by Miss Belle
Denny. Misses Gratehouse expressed
themselves as having spent an enjoyable
year with us, much improved IN health,
Denny will remain there during the
summer.
The Prowers County Sunday-school
Association will hold its next annual
convention in the Christian church in
this place the 18th and 18th of this
month. An excellent program has been
prepared, and will apper in next weeks
papers. Papers will be presented by
leading Sunday-school workers of the
county and the State. 1t is hoped that
all the Sunday schools in the county will
be organized by that time, and that they
viii send delegates to the convention SO
that full attendance may be had.
That little breeze last Thursday night
went to extremes in its playfulness. It's
all right so long as the wind toys with
tempting sheds and outhouses, and sets
them askew with the world, but that
particular blow raised the wind to have
rattling time with tin roofs, awnings,
stables and the like. 1t tore the roof off
the Alamo, landed big rolls of tin roof
ing from Judge Deeter's building
two blocks away, and as for covering
over Herbertis head on his two story
building, why he hasn't "got it," any
more The awning in front of the
Holmes block, and great many other
ornamental and useful structures min
gled themselves with the atmosphere
and were afterwards carted away for
kindling wood.
The Henry Canal,