Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-31

chants there are dead in the she'll They
don't want to be bothered with peopl,
coming into their stores and causing
them to wake up and show their goods
They'd rather sit and doze and enjoy tn
quiet usually experienced by men wh'
do not advertise.
McAfee's furniture factory has shippe'
out four bank counters the past tel
days:-One to Kinsley Lloyd Wyatt
went out to set it up); one to Kansa
City, Kas., (Will Wyatt went, Wednes
day, to set it up); one to Cheyenne, Ok
lahoma, and one to the Indian Terriri
tory.
Oscar Aldrich arrived here from Upton
Iowa, last Friday, on a visit to oil
friends. He looks exceedingly well, an,
says he never felt better. He is engage,
in farming, which gives him good
healthy color Oscar left, yesterday, TO
Nickerson, where his mother is visiting.
Kansas never had prettier day TO
decorating the soldiers graves and pay
ing other tributes of respect to the deaf
heroes. A large number of people from
various sections of the county were il
town. The program previously arrang
ed was fully carried out.
]. c. Hollingshead, an old-time Garrett
citizen, a brother of w. X. Hollingshead
has returned to Garrett after many
years absence. He has lately lived a
Osawatomie. He and his wife now liv,
! in the old Downie home, on Second av
enue, west.
Miss Rose Letter left, Tuesday, on he
return to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, accom-
panied by her sister Agnes. who wen
with her to take position in the hospi
tai. Rose has been employed there TO
several years.
Speaking of the the "helpful hen,
Reub Row has one that "beats the band.
The other day she laid an egg that
measured seven inches around one wa.
and nine inches the other way.
Mrs. Lizzie Mcclure, of Harmousburg
Pa. arrived here last week, on visit t.
her sister, Mrs. w. l.. Upham. She viii
probably spend the summer here.
Dan Ma kiln and Joe Newton went tt
Kansas City, Wednesday morning, ex
pecting to 90 from there to Port Arthur
to look up business location.
w. b. Hamilton has built handsome
porch in front of his house in Orchard
Park addition, and is making other i'm
provements about his home.
Geo. Pratt came up from Paris. Texas
Sunday, to visit his father and sisters
He left, Wednesday, on his return home
George says he is doing well.
Bud" Tallman, who is working OF
a railroad in Colorado, visited his par
ents, /. b. Tallman and wife, few day
this week, returning to-day.
Mrs. Ida Powers, of Iowa City, la.
left for her home, Monday, after visi
of three weeks with her parents. c. H
Lowry and wife, of Harris.
Mrs Elizabeth Ransford, who has beer
visiting Mrs. J.. R. Abbott, of Reede
township, returned to her home at st
Joseph, Mo-, Monday.
Ralph Bell, who has been visiting hi
aunt and uncle, Hiram Andrews ant
wife left for his home in Blackjack, Pa.
Monday.
Mrs Madge Carr, of Kansas City
who has been visiting her parents, Geo
Campbell and wife, returned home
Monday.
Miss May Durall came down from
Kansas City, Monday, to attend tn
commencement and visit relatives an,
friends.
Miss Brockway, of Wellsville, who at
tended the Sunday school convention a
Glenlock, Sunday, returned home. Mon
| day.
Mrs. !. A. Moore, of Reeder township
who has been visiting her son Isaac Bol
son and wife, returned home, Tuesday.
One of the most remarkable but least
noticed facts in connection with the wa
| in the Transvaal is the extreme youth o
large part of General DeWct's army
When hostllities broke out, almost ev
cry grown man enlisted, even the en-
ieebled, but the pace has been too rapi'
for the venerable burghers As they wer
killed or incapacitated their places hav
gradually been taken by mere school
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