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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

John Jones, of Madison, S. d., an uncle
of Gill Jones. is visiting with friends here
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

ever sell that much, our order this season was for
thirty eight pieces which goes to show how rapidly
they have become popular with the buying public.
We start them at IL lzc yard, but recommend those
costing from Csc to 4Sc, to get real satisfactory SER
vice and styles.
The nice ones pretty as ANY floor coverings,
and those at about Csc to 35c will wear longer clean
easier sweep easier and keep their color better than
any Ingram carpet, costing 10 to lSc per yard more
II you cannot afford to buy the BEST ingrain It is
better by far to buy mating.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

Wall paper, big stock, new and prett.
patterns, low prices, at Roberts.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

See the Diamond hay carrier at G. w.
Honyer's
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Stetzell are the
parents of little girl born Sunday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28
MATING.

The only people
who don't like mat
ting for floor covering
are the people who
have never tried them
and the cotton carpet
manufacturers.
The first time we
ever bought Mattings,
our order was for
three pieces, and we
doubted II we would
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28
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The improved, up to date methods have for show
ing our goods makes it convenient and pleasant for
customers.
By our system of samples and other methods
able to show and customers see, entire lines in the
least possible time and with thorougness and complete
which meets with their instant approval.
You will appreciate methods of showing goods as
compared with most stores in small places; and you will
appreciate perfect assoments in the various branches
OF our business and you will greatly appreciate the
further fact that our prices for reliable merchandise
are Enthusiastically the lowest quoted.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

Port Arthur excursion May 3.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

Riddlesbarger & Fay are paying the
highest cash price for eggs and poultry
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

shown in most stores.
Our prices too, we believe must be
lower than usually quoted,--we know
they are lower for the same grades
than we asked last season. We
have them down as low as 4Sc a pair
and as high as $3.50.
The numbers quoted below you
will find very satisfactory and equal
to the balance.
No. ITO. Ecru Curtain A inches wide, 3 yds 400
long. All over pattern. Each - fOS
No. 64O9. White curtain, 81 inches wide BY QO/
81 yds. Very lacey, alloyer pattern.s each O1S
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

j. NJ. Greenlee, of Gray, an old friend
of The REPUBLICAN, was caller Tues
day.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28

We pay the highest market price FOL
hides and tallow. III. ID. MosIER & Co.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28
Port Arthur excursion May 3.

No word from Frank Allen yeti
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28
LACE
CURTAINS.

SoNAHhlNos
II is a real
pleasure to be
able to select
your curtains
out of a stock
like ours. And
much more sat-
isfactOry than
having but the
few styles as
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28
Port Arthur excursion May 3.

Port Arthur excursion May 3.
See the Diamond hay carrier at G. w.
Hoover's.
S. M. Luse, of Ross, was among our
Tuesday callers.
Every roll of Wall Paper at Wilhelm's,
ninety eight styles.
Go to Burnsides' for best grades of
hard and soft coal.
The Brown and the Kingman corn
planters at Hoover's.
NJ. E. Jenkins came up from Brayton
Friday evening on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Stetzell are the
parents of little girl born Sunday.
Riddlesbarger & Fay are paying the
highest cash price for eggs and poultry.
Wall paper, big stock, new and pretty
patterns, low prices, at Roberts.
We pay the highest market price for
hides and tallow. III. ID. MosIER & Co.
j. NJ. Greenlee, of Gray, an old friend
OF The REPUBLICAN, was caller Tues
day.
LosT.-A lady's ring, white opals, blue
sets. Finder leave at City drug store
and receive $500 reward.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Haines, of Glendon,
Guthrie county, were visiting here with
their son Ed, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans ID. Lund celebrated
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

/ of plaits. BowNwith long, hanging loops
! and ends and made of velvet ribbon seem
to- be much liked, and / noticed some
where wells were broughtaround the crown
and tied SO that the ends hung down in
| the back. English toques of roughish
/ straw are pretty and becoming with their
broken lines.
One where the crown was fattened only
to be gathered up again into no end of ir-'
regular plaits had a drapery of wide rush
/ green volvat ribbon lightly twisted be-
tween that and the brim, which was also
folded into plaits. All over the back part
there was an immense mass of purple II
white wistaria, the ends of the punches
trailing forward.
There are odd poke bonnets called POM
padours. This is shown in one beautiful
design where the hat itself is of fine satin
gloss braid in pale pink. The high crown
was nearly covered with very dark yellow
lace. There was a wreathAof large Amer
lean Beauty roses around the crown and a
I full rosette bow of black velvet ribbon
under the brim over the face. There were
long strings of wide satin ribbon to match
the roses to tie under the chin and start
ing under the rose wreath. 1t would be
very becoming to a round face.
Many of the straw hats are woven in
regular coarse basket weave, and often
these rough straws are trimmed with the
lightest of the new trimmings. Turquoise,
forgetmenot and pervenche blue tulle and
+ chiffon scarfs with floating ends in the
back are among the prettiest ideas. Pale
pink, saffron yellow and, in fact, a dozen
shades-of yellow and as many mora of
blue are all seen in the mixed straws,
mingled with black, dark green and brown.
Some hats are all in ona$qplor. When
messy green is the color ofHShe hat, let it
be chip or straw, a veil Of tulle, plisse,
lisse, malines net or silk null of the same
color draped around it and left to hang in
the back o little, with an armful Of deli
cately tinted sweet peas piled upon it,
makes an ideal hat of the new style.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
Fashions OF new YORK
Pretty and Dainty Wash
Goods for Morning
Wear.
WHAT EASTER HATS WILL BE LIKE
Colored StraWs Woven Into Plaid
Flats in All Manner of Shapes
Lavish Flowers.
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copyright. 1898, by American Press Asso-
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Let no one think that wealthy ladies
wear nothing but "silk gowns for break
fast and satin ones for tea. That person
would be quickly disabused of the idea if
he or she could see the eager crowds OF
what the storekcepers caH "carriage Gus
toner's crowding around the wash goods
counters.
The windsor p~ercales have taken a new
and almost unprecedented prominence
among the best sellers of the whole long
list Of wash goods, partly because they are
of such sterling value for wear and color
and for the bright, fresh look they always
maintain, however often they may be
washed and ironed.
The old and well liked hair lines are
among the most popular, whether the lines
form stripes or checks. The standard fig
urings are also seen, differing little from
those of last season. But now there is q
new design wherein each piece of percale
follows precisely that in india silks. Indi-
go blue and white, brown and white, black
and white hair lines with deep heliotrope
colored figures over them, and, in short,
every pretty feature in the india printed
silks is reproduced in the soft finished and
indestructible percales.
They are made up in dainty wrappers,
blouse waists and also French waist dresses
sewed to belts. The wrappers are excep-
tionally pretty, and much talent has been
employed in finding some new way of add
ing grace or excellence.
The wrapper design is always made with
a snug lining and is fitted closely over tie
hips. Some have a vatican and others
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
WITCH WREATHS.
Old Superstitions Still Current In Penn
~.sylvania and New Jersey.

Old Superstitions Still Current In Penn
.sylvania and New Jersey.
A matted ring of chicken feathers about
8 inches in diameter was recently present
ed to the museum OF the University of
Pennsylvania by Professor Newbold. The
curiosity is called a witch wreath. 1t was
secured by DR.. George B. Kline of Pitts
burg, who gave 1t to DR.. Newbold, who
transferred it to the museum.
A resident Of Pittsburg who had been
i'll for several years died July, 1897. Dur
ing his last illness, extending over several
months, he would frequently throw his
pillow away, saying, "There is something
in that pillow that hurts. my head" His
wife said that this was impossible, as she
had gathered the feathers and made the
pillow herself a few years ago. Some days
after her husband 8 death the widow claim
ed that something seemed to say to her,
"Look at the pillow" Upon opening the
pillow she found this object within it.
When questioned closely, she declared that
the sewing was hers and that 1t showed no
signs of having been tempered with.
The neighbors believe in the woman's
truthfulness. Her husband had been an
old soldier. He frequently took a cup of
coffee at the house of Mrs. s., and was in
yariably more Ill after doing SO. Mrs. s..
died a short time before he did. The pa
tient was attended by DR.. George B. Kline,
and the facts above given are furnished by
him.
DR.. Kline writes that a similar wreath
was found In the pillow of a 6-year-old
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

FUN FOR CLUB WOMEN
Plans for the Convention
of Their General
Federation.
TO Be OPENED IN DENVER JUNE q
1t Promises 10 Be Enjoyable
Candidates for the
Presidency.
0 Be OPENED IN DENVER JUNE "a

There will be nothing stale or stereotyped
about the reception and entertainments OF
the delegates to the biennial convention Of
the General Federation of Women's Clubs
which takes place in Denver beginning
June 20. Every Rocky mountain woman
seems to feel personal responsibility in sus-
tanning the western reputation for hospi-
tality, and If the clubwomen do not see all
that is worth seeing in Denver and yicIn-
ity it will be their own fault. Even now
the programme has assumed definite shape
and many of the features of the convention
have been decided upon.
One large excursion will be given to
Georgetown on Saturday, June 90, all the
delegates being guests. The scenery Is
beautiful, and, to add to the zest Of the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

at 1888 West One Hundredth street. There
she has had charge of the training Of
nurses for work among the poor and for
cmergency work under the Red Gross
rules. Her charming personality made all
the members of the society her frie1ds,
and last August she was married to IN. A.
Monae Lessar, with whom she has now
gone to Havana. Sister Bettina is the
only one of the nurses of the society whom
Miss Barton has called to Havana. She
will try to train the native women to help
her in the care of the i'll, but if more of
the Red Cross nurses are needed a large
number stand ready to leave at a few
hours notice.
There is lots of work to be done. From
Havana to Santiago the wistful eyes of d.
half million sick, starving. dying Cubans
are looking to tic Red Cross to bring them
succor from their terrible plight. Miss
Barton's arrival has revived some who
were at the last extremity, and oil are try
ing to hold cut a little longer until the
help that is noH promised reaches them.
Primarily Miss Barton's mission is to
rescue the helpless children and save the
women who have no means of helping
themselves. But her ILLUSTRATIONS are
denied to none who need them. As soon
as it is known that help is being given at
any place haggard, ~listless, bony women
come with their starving, sad eyed babies
i'll their arms. hundreds ard thousands of
them at q time. Sometimes they faint or
die before their turn comes. Sometimes
there is net enough to go around. and
they go away despairing.
Those who have not died of actual star
walton are now falling victims to smallpox,
malaria, fever and other diseases produced
by lack of sufficient food and deplorable
sanitary conditions, and the greater nuns
Der of these victims are the unoffen6ing
women and children.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

sntin strlned percalines. All Of these last
have q regular silk finish and they look as
we'll as the silks.
I saw in one house a very stylish outing
suit, the skirt and jacket being Of dark
indigo blue and reyers, pocket lids and
cuffs, also a bias fold around the bottom,
of a frosty whitish blue. There were large
pearl buttons IN the natty jacket, and al
together the suit struck my eye. found,
to my surprise, that 1t was mad of denim,
the right side being the dress and jacket,
and all tho trimming made of the same
stuff turned wrong side out. It couldn't
rave been prettier. This and the fleece
lined fannelettes seem to be made up on
either side as suits ones fancy. Ducks in
unbleached shades with narrow bias clan
plaid bingham ruf1es are very stylish,
though in rather poor taste, / think, for
outing dresses. Some of the ducks are
dyed, and one finds them in every color.
Last season there were some new Scotch
linen suitings put forward by the import
ers IN doubt as to their probable success.
This year there is no doubt about it, and
there are some really elegant patterns of
this durable fabric. These new ones are
| plaided, but SO modestly that n should
really call them checked. In no case is
any color shown that nature itself does not
give to the fax at one period or other of
its growth and conversion into the fabric.
Pale rushlike green, greenish gray, drab
or unbleached fax and silvery white are
all there, and woven so that these different
tints form the fine checks and plaids.
Very o the Openings for the Easter
hats and bonnets will take place. A
| glimpse at a few of the delightful surprises
shows many new ideas. The shepherdess
shape, which is really a round flat bent
down in front and at the back, takes the
lead, l think. The straw may be fine white
leghorn or milan, or it may be rough straw
in two or three colors, but W tever the
| straw is the quantity of trim ag is as
great as the crown will support.
One poetic affair had an enormous mass
of blue velvet myosotis with its leaves
thrown over the whole crown and piled
high up on the top. There was a drapery
of soft grass green velvet around the brim
under the flowers, and from the top of the
crown there dropped seven or eight loops
of velvet ribbon an nch and a half wiGc
of the SAME shade. These loops were about
~ inches long and would hang down tA
the collar. Under tho brim at the left side
was a spray of pink rosebuds and foliage.
Some of the finest straws, like milan
and leghorn, rave double brims, the upper
one being bent and twisted into all sorts
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

but q yoke. All are full at the neck and
front of the waist, this fullness being held
in by side flaps or crossed tabs. The
yokes are pretty and d~aintily trimmed with
lace, embroidery or serpentine braid or a
ruf1le. Some of them have wide cape col
lars trimmed with braid lace or rufiles.
For early morning and general home
wear where comfort and neatness so hand
in hand these percale wrappers are useful
| and in every way desirable. For these any
! and all kinds of percale are seen. The silk
designs are new and SO far have not been
| made up largely, but it is expected that
| these will BIO mostly used for. afternoon
| wear in the warm days.
There arc some new thin stuffs in cham
bray weaves. These we all know are real
ly ono kind of bingham, woven in one
tall alike surface, but in threads of two
| tints. This treatment gives it q faint
| changeable effect. The chambray of this
season is almost transparent and has a
feel between linen lawn and the softest
zephyr bingham. 1t is absolutely change
less under all circumstances. Very hand
some patterns are worked on some of these
new chambrays in hamburg edge, and this
is used as trimming such as ruf1es.
Corded madras is another good and re-
fined summer wash goods. 1t is mostly in
light tints and is used principally for shirt
waists. 1t does not change color with per-
SEPARATION as other cotton does.
Covert cloth, all In cotton and yet re-
sembling the wooden covert so closely that
one needs to look at 1t sharply, is among
the cotton stuffs that have taken the pub
lie fancy. These coverts are produced in all
the regulation colors, like tan, dust, gray
and mixed brown, flax, etc. These coverts
are washable, and when made up the tai
lor style will be followed more or less close
". White pearl or smoke pearl buttons
will be put upon the jackets. White lawn
vests tucked closely or gathered will be
| the prettiest of all the underwaists to be
worn with the jaunty little jackets. These
may be full blouses If wished. This covert
suiting is also being made up for some cos
TUNES for the bicycle, 1t Is strong, but of
little use in wet weather.
A very odd but yet pleasing new fancy
is called boucle plaid. The ground is a
regular Scotch bingham, strong and firm,
in large plaids of rather sober colors. Over
these in large design is another plaid, usu-
ally bias, formed of lines of loops of the
threads-curls, the French call them. The
stuff does not look like cotton goods, and
1t is used for skirts to wear with waists Of
another color and weave.
think ! never saw cotton developed In
TO SO many surprises in the way Of dress
koous as there are now. Aside 1roln lnose
mentioned above, there are others where
q satin stripe Is woven in. hut this satin is
nothing but COTTON skillfully wrought,
There is cotton challie exquisitely printed
with overthrown satin stripes, all Of cot
ton. Thera are grenadines, beiges, wills
that look like serge and foulard, besides
the now eateeus, silkolines and the mnire
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12

80 snap and his eyes CLINT from side to
side. Mr.. Walter took deliberate aim at
bruin' s eyes and again pulled both trig-
gers. To his satisfaction, he saw both eyes
burst out of the head at the report of the
gun. Taking advantage of the situation,
he beat a hasty retreat down the mountain
nor did he stop until he reached his home,
two miles way.
The next morning before daybreak no
started with four of his n~eighbors, all
armed with ~winchesters, and a team of
horses pitched on to a sled. They came
upon the scene, but instead of finding the
bear they found only great punches of hair,
blotchcs of blood on the snow M the
brush broken down, small trees torn out
by the roots and snapped in twain. They
took the trail of the animal and soon found
it to twist and turn In every direction.
They found where the animal had run up
plump against a large hemlock tree and
where the jar had sent him sprawling back
into the snow. He had been made stone
blind by Mr.. Walters fire and was easily
6piched
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
MADE LOVE OVER AGAIN.
How q Clergyman Lost All Memory ..
His Sweetheart.

~ .
hvefytning was uflVeh IroH tne mlno
OF the hev. !. y llama OF Southlngton
conn, Wnen ne Ieii on ms mead year ago,
even sne al lm~portan6lacc tnat ne was en-
gagea TO marry a handsome young WON
cut she CID not wish TO remind MIN OF IL
livery one i& Happy noW'@ 'WeVer' iof tns
OF the young woman anu
the Rev. MI. hanna is announced.
MI. D was driving along Connect.
icut road last March when ne was thrown
rom MS buggy. he teA upon MS head
and was picked up 1nsensi9le. When ne
regalneo CONSCIOUSNESS IL was Iound 1nas
MS power OF emo ~waaSntlreiy gone.
he could not thlnk OF Sne name that NJ
TED the ar0lcle OF FURNITURE we can a onalr.
everything apout nun was hameiess. Els
intellect was alert his MIND receptive
but the past was a complete bianK. he
gazed at the pictures, and MOWERS.
He tried to speak about them, YET the
words would not come.
His friends pointed to the common
tllngs about him and spoko the names
over and over again. He repeated the syl-
tables AFTER ehem. dradually the words Pc
gan to attach themselves again to the OBJ
1ects which surrounded him. Every body
was glad that the Rev. Mr. Hanna was
coming to his senses. From nouns he pro-
ceeded to verbs. 1t was not long before
his Investigations brought him to that
same old verb which every beginner in a
language learns first of all. There was
something about it which suggested a
previous existence. Then one day he saw
upon the street a familiar face.
He asked his friends if they could not
:emember, for they reasoned that when
she man had completely come to his senses
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
OLD BALDY.



Center county, Pa, has for years been
terrorized by a monstrous bear which the
expert hunters of that region were not
able to capture or kill. He was known far
and wide as Old Badly, owing to the light
or thin hair on the top Of his head. Many
a marksman got a good shot at him, and
presumably his body was full of bullets,
but none brought him down. John Wal
ter of Pleasant Gap recently went out bear
hunting, but had no idea of running
against Old Badly. His search led him
into the region Of Green valley, near the
preserve Of the Rod and Gun club. Here
he came upon the tracks of a bear, which
he Immediately knew were those of the
famous invincible. He assembled a little
knoll, and upon reaching the summit his
eyes met a scenesthat sent the cold chills
chasing each other down his yertebrse.
1t was a circle of black fur fully 6 feet
In diameter, and but little lower than tho
surface of the SHOW around it. He knew
at once that he was face to face with Old
Badly, and closer than any man had ever
ventured before. The animal was sound
asleep, and, although Walter was not ten
feet away, he could not discover head or
tail of what seemed to him a ton of bear.
He stood for probably three minutes,
which seemed three hours to him, and
finally, imagining he could see the form
of the animals head, he emptied both bar
rels at it and then ran behind a thick
pine which stood some Is feet to the left.
Mr.. Walter had mistaken the rump of
the animal for his head and had as good as
wasted his two previous loads of buckshot.
The animal rose up in his lair until he ap-
peared to stand fully z feet high. He did
not seem much hurt, or was too much sur
prised at the sudden interruption of his
nap to realize what had happened. But
that he was getting mad there was no mis-
take, for his hair began to raise, his jaws
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
Thoughtfuf Thief.

An American woman lost her purse in
Paris the other day. The next morning
she received by mail several samples of
silk, her card to a circulating library, a
key, a memorandum of d~ressmakers' adj
dresses and several other articles that had
been in her purse. They were ~inclosed
with a note. which read as follows
Dear MADAME return all of the con
tents Of the purse which you lost yester-
day with the exception Of fifteen francs,
which I need more than you, and hope
you will pardon a poor devil for keeping
the purse to carry it in"
The note was written in excellent
French and with good penmanship, which
Indicated that the thief was an educated
man,-Chicago Record.