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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29
Consrcssr,an MATES Letter.

1arLOrO, N. C.
GenYemels: am more than salts.
fled witt, Perrna and find ii to be an
excellent remedy for the grip ard ca.
farrl. 1 have used 1t IN my far7ily
and they all join nc in Recommending
ii as an excellent remedy. p George
II. White, Member of Congress.
Mrs. Il. w. Collins, Treasurer indie.
pendent Order of Good Temp,ars, of
Everett Wash, writes:
After having 4 severe attack OF Ia
grippe | continued in feeble conditct
even after the doctors called NC cured.
My blood seemed poisoned. Pnruna
cured me, Mrs. T. w. Collins.
If you do not derive prompt and s;,tis-
factory results from the use of Pernna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman. giving
full statement OF your case. ard lie will
be pleased TO give You his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman. President Of
The Hartman Sanitarum, Columbus,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29
Area under crop In Western Canada, 1909
1,9ss,8SO ncres.
Yield, 1soa-1ls, 9ss,7s4 blu.

Free Iiorestcnd. of 60 Acres picntifnI. tho onl,
tharse being $40 for entry Abundance of water and
fuel cheap building material, good grass for pasture
and hay n fertile foil fcient rainfall and climate
giving an assured and adequate sensun of growth
Send to the following for Atlas and other lltera
tufe. and also for certificate giving you reduced
freight ana passenger rates. etc. etc: Tho Super
intendent of Immigration. Ottawa. Canada, or te
i: T. ilolmes s5 Jackson St.. st Paul. N Y. "
W. II Rogers Watertown. South Dakotn. tho author.
ICED Canadian Government Agents.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29

CLEVELAND, KY, Dec. 90, 1905. %
was laid up in bed with my back an
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29

r. A GRIPPE is epidemic catarrl. 1t
spares no class or nationality. The
cultured and the ignorant, the arts
tocrat and the pauper, the masses and
None are exempt-all arc liable.
the grip got your Grip is well named.
The original French term, In grippe,
has been shortened BY the busy Ameri-
can to read grip" Without intending
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29
APPRECIATION OF TOM REED.
On tho wa.

Ask your druggist for free Pe-ru-na AIN
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29

Sioux City mud Sioux City lndpt Lis,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29

SIOUX CITY pro CO, e0e-5, 1908
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29
Pe-ri.-na for Grip.

y Ameri Mrs. Theophe Schmitt. wife Of the
intending ex.Secretary of tho Gcr.nan Consulate.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29


to do so new word has been coined that
exactly describes the case. rs il
some liideous giant with awful Grip had
clutched US in its fatal clasp Men,
women, children, whole towns and cities
are caught in the baneful grip Of y tor
rible monster.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-14
SlNkHOLES IN KANSAS.
mysterious Depressions in the West.
ern Part of the State

An interesting phenomenon in west
ern Kansas is described and pictured
IN recent report Of the United States
geological survey. One of the natural
curloslt1es of the great plains region
IS known as the Meade salt well. in
southwestern Kansas. 1t made it's an
pearance very suddenly in 1889.
On March of that year the famous
Jones and Plummer cattle trail extend
cd right over the spot where this de-
preston was soon to appear. A wagon
passed along the trail over this level
ground. 1t IS not known that this
spot was seen again until twenty
thfee days later, when it was found
mat the ground for a considerable
area had sunk into the earth and the
nole was partly filed with water from
al -. underground source
ne slnkhole remains today. and on
either side of it are still to be seen the
ROAD ruts and cattle trails along
~hlch Tor years scores of thousands of
ranch cattle were driven from north
ern Texas into Kansas. There wara
very few routes of travel across THE
wide plain. But the accident To tb~
surface occurred on the most imnor+o
ant of them. =
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-14

to go at lively clip when required;
tandem. teams. the wheel horses being
stOckily built and the leader snowy
and spirited, prancing and chalIeng-
ing admiration for his style, and other
plain saddle horses, who are expected
merely 70 walk, trOt and canter. All
VIII be judged from a standard con-
sIstlhg largely Of style, appearance,
spirit The horses will learn in one
performance to keep step to the music.
rag Ilme VIII be played for the high
school horses, and more stately airs for
the more stately steeds.
1t is the horses opportunity tn nut
mechanical machines. autos, to shame
NO auto can prance and strut like the
high school horse. The companionshiD
between horses and rider is not pres
ent in the auto car.
st. Paul will have a splendid oppor-
tunity to show that warm, cordial.
open handed hospitality, for which the
city is famous, for reduced rates will
be In effect on all the railroads for
horse show week. and the thousands Of
people from out of town will take adj
vantage of these rates to come into the
city.
Honorary Vice Presidents.
The following gentlemen have kindly
consented to act as honorary vice Dresi-
qeHlS, ana assist IN the tremendous I'M
deftakIng or putting on the horse show
Under these auspices. it is certain to be
the greatest display of it's kind ever seen
in the western part of the country:
Hon: X. A. Smith, James J. Hill, B. L.
Goodkind George G. Benz VIII Eisinger.
w. G Grisham, w. l.. Perkins, G e. Good
rich, William Hamm. George Thompson,
Frank Kellogg, Theodore Schurmeier,
George r. Finch, F. B. Clarke H. p Up
ham. M. ]. O'Neil- Arnold Kaiman, A. p.
Lathrop, r. H Edwards. Charles E Has
son, Charles Schuneman, John Field. c.
H. F. Smith. NJ D. Mum, George e.
Lennon. L. L. May, H. w. Fagley, G. B.
BOwlby. Condo Hamlin, W. c. Toon1ey A.
II. Lindeke, Paul Gotham George w.
Freeman, ). Harry Lewis, Thomas r.
vine ]. w. Lusk, ]. w. Jockey. K Clark.
E. B. Putnam, Matt. Clark, L. A. Wood.
George Walker. B. II. Evans, Frank
Schlick
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-14
China ChInaman.

1t Is reported that the following notice.
issued by the board of health of New
Chinese laundrymen
Oriental mouth must not be used to
sprinkle American mans clothes" T0
overcome what habit this is issued is OBJ
vious.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-14
Egadl Ills True.

Mrs. Knox-Vulgar habit Mr.. Neerbya
has. He's forever saying "Gad9'
Mr. knox-And then there's his wiSea
habit. a Shes forever doing it.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-05
LADIES' EASTER MEG

Large lot of style collars with the embroidered
tabs also the latest style stocks the kind that much
in demand at present Your choice Monday.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-05
GREAT SALE OF EAS1
j. L. Brandeis s. Sons, Bankers
oneo 1.-THE ateS SOrOwug an
| SAFEST BANKS IN AMERICA
Opna Account On
BewitChing Millinery at Moderate Cost


millinery
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are
avng millinery pu
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14
in LINCOLN'S IRTHPLACE.
Woman Living New England Whose Father Wes
istoric Log "a Stories of the Ear

sick, in Indiana, in 1918, about the
same time that Lincoln's mother,
Nancy Hanks, and her uncle and aunt
Sparrow died. All were buried to-
gether in rude collins construed by
Thomas Lincoln, who was now a wild
over with two small children. After
Lincoln became President, someone
erected a monument over his mothers
grave in the wilderness, but Aunt
Roseanne told me that the selection of
the grave for the monument must
have been mere guesswork, since none
of the graves had ever been marked,
and there was no means of identifying
any one of them"
Coming Co the subject of the migra-
ton of the survivors of the three fami-
lies from Indiana to Illinois Mrs.
Moore sa. ):
Joseph Hanks. who taught Thomas
Lincoln, Abe's father, the carpenters
trade, just 100 years ago, was one of
the first settlers in Illinois, having
gone there from Kentucky about 1920.
1t was his son, the famous John
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14
lincoln has been dead thirty-eight

Lincoln has been dead thirty-eight
years.
Most of those who personally knew
him have also passed on into silence,
and, like Washington, he has become
In the popular mind sort of mystical
figure, associated with bygone age Of
dramatic heroism-a patron saint.
Although New England loved Lin
coin as much as any other section Of
the country did, when it came to know
him, yet he was always regarded as a
characteristic product of the pioneer
country, and, although efforts not alto
gether successful have been made to
show that he was of bingham ances-
try, never till now has Massachusetts
been conscious of the presence in this
locality of any living connection be-
tween the immortal rail-splitter and
our own soil.
Nevertheless for seventeen years
one of the environs of Boston has har-
bored a woman who makes the proud
boast that her father and Abraham
Lincoln were first cousins; that both
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14
Lincoln Letter Recover.d.

Soiled and faded, torn and frayed, a
letter written by Abraham Lincoln a
few months before. his assassination
has been found in some rubbish and
papers on Broadway. New York. near
the postofhce. 1t reads as follows:
Executive Mansion, Washington,
Nov. Fl, 1S64.-To Mrs. Bixby, Boston,
Mass: 1 have been shown in the file
of the war department a statement of
the adiutant general of Massachusetts
that you are the mother of five sons
who have died gloriously on the field
OF battle.
81 feel how weak and fruitless must
be any word Of mine which should at
tempt to beguile you from the grief of
loss SO overwhelming. But / cannot
refrain from rendering you the con-
ISOLATION that may be found in the
thanks of the republic they died to
save. pray that our Heavenly Faith
er may assuage the anguish of your
bereavement and leave only the cher
ished memory of loved and lost and
the solemn pride that must be yours
to have laid SO costly q sacrifice upon
the altar OF freedom.
Yours very sincerely and respect
fully. a LINCOLN"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14
The President and His Rovs.

1t was a frequent custom of Lin
coins to carry his children on his
shoulders, says the Literary Digest.
He rarely went down street that he
did not have one of his younger boys
mounted on his shoulder, while an
other hung to the tail of his long coat.
The antics of the boys with their faith
er and the species of tyranny they ex-
eXcised over him are still the subjects
of talk in Springfield. Roland DiIler,
who was a neighbor of Mr.. Lincoln,
tells one of the best of the stories. He
was called to the door one day by hear
ing a great noise of children, and
there was Mr.. Lincoln striding by with
the boys, both of whom were wailing
aloud. why, Mr.. Lincoln. what's the
matter with the boys?" he asked.
Just what's the matter with the
whole world" Lincoln replied. I've
got three walnuts, and each wants
two"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14

When his wares have been sufici-
emily extolled he asks for bids. Bids
can only be made by pounds or ounces
(etcetera) of love, the man who would
like to capture the heart Offering so
many pounds or ounces for it. This
bidder continues for about a minute,
the heart then going to the highest
bidder.
AS soon as the purchaser has been
decided upon the man who wins is led
into the adjoining room and presented
to the lady whose heart he has won.
The men who were not purchasers re-
main in the outer room and do not
learn the identity of the lady whose
heart they failed to carry on.
Another heart is now proposed by
the auctioneer, and her charms de-
scribed. This also goes to the man
who bids highest, who is promptly ad-
mitted to her society.
The game continues until all the
hearts have been disposed of, when,
Of course, all the young people will
be together
The man who purchased and the
girl whose heart has been won become
partners for the games OF the even
ing.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14
MONUMENT FOR LOG CABIN.
Spot Where Lincoln First Lived IL
Illinois Will Be Marked.

Spot Where Lincoln First Lived in
Illinois Will Be Marked.
The Illinois State Historical Society
Is pushing a movement to erect mon
ument on the site of the log cabin in
Harristown township. Macon county.
which was the first home Of Abraham
Lincoln when he came to Illinois. No
body knows what has become OF the
famous old structure. 1t was q hut OF
one room, about fourteen feet square.
It had loose boards for a loft and 8
clapboard roof. The logs were chinked
with mud.
The old structure first attracted pub
Tic attention when 1t was sent to the
Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876. 1t
was brought back from there. and a
cabin. which was said to be the same
one, was on exhibition at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago, although its authen-
ITCHY was disputed at the time.
The exact size OF the old cabin Is In
doubt and for some time efforts have
been made by historians to determine
the spot. 1t Is now practically settled
that the cabin stood on the spot now
occupied by an old farm house on the
Gcroggin farm, near Harristown. Just
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14

1.-THE river rose while grandma was
away and she toiled laboriously to get
home as soon as she could. When she
got nearly home she found everything
afioat, and as she passed tree that
was well submerged she thought she
heard a cry from the branches. She
padded TO the tree, and there found
her baby, John Hanks, af1oat in his
cradle, which had been washed through
the door of the cabin, and had drifted
about till it found Judgment in the top
of the tree, where his mother found it.
Another of her stories was about
Guinea niggers. l suppose you don't
know what Guinea niggers were, do
you? Well, they were not uncommon
in the days when slaves were brought
from Africa. They were very small
in stature and very unprepossessing
in appearance and they were said to be
cannibals.
Grandma said that in her youth she
knew a young couple who bought a
pair of Guinea niggers. One day their
little child disappeared and it was
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14

were born in the same rude log cabin
in Kentucky, but three months apart,
IN 1909, and that she herself is a
grandniece of Lincoln's mother, the
famous Nancy Hanks.
She is Mrs. Nellie M. Moore, who
was born not many years before the
outbreak of the civil war, in the then
exceedingly primitive town of Frank
ford, Mo-, and has been for three
months past a resident of East Pep
perell, Mass, where her husband.
Charles w. Moore. is engineer in a
mill.
When asked to define her relation
ship to the martyred President, Mrs!
Moore said:
MY father, William S. Hall, was a
son of Martha Hanks, sister of Nancy
Hanks, who married Thomas Lincoln
and became the mother of Abraham
Lincoln. So, you see, my father was
first cousin and 1 was second cousin to
the President.
my grandfather, who married Mar
tina Hanks, was Levi Hall, and they
and Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were
living together in the little log cabin
in La Rue county, KY, in 1909, when
Abraham Lincoln was born there. My
father was born three months later in
the same cabin"
When questioned as to the antece-
dents of the Hanks, Lincoln and Hall
families, Mrs. Moore says it is a tradi-
ton of all three families that they
emigrated together from New England
about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania,
from there to Virginia and later to
Kentucky, as they eventually did to
Indiana and finally to Illinois and Mis-
souri,. She has been for some time
engaged in investigating the possible
early connection of the families with
New England, and intends to prepare
a genealogy embodying the results OF
her labor.
Continuing her story of the vicissi-
tudes Of the Lincoln, Hanks and Hall
families, Mrs. Moore says:
my aunt, Rosanne Hall, who rode
from her home in Maryland to Ken
lucky behind her husband on his horse
told me that there were Quakers
among my ancestors, as there are said
to have been in the Lincoln family.
She also said that my great-grand-
father was killed by the Indians at the
same time that Abraham Lincoln's
grandfather was, while they were
clearing the ground to plant corn, on
their arrival in Kentucky. 1t was she
who told me my father was born in
the Lincoln log cabin.
my grandparents, Levi Hall and
Martha Hanks, both died of the milk
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14
AUCTION SALE OF HEARTS.
Novel Way to Celebrate the Feast OF
Good ST. Valentine.

Novel Way to Celebrate the Feast of
Good ST. Valentine.
There could be no gayer plan for
celebrating the feast of good st. Val
entine than an auction sale of hearts.
Beyond suspending sheep in the cen
ter of the drawing room, in case it is
not convenient to devote two rooms to
your guests, no arranging is necessary.
If there are two. rooms employed
let the girls of the party all withdraw
into one of these, the men remaining
in the other The folding doors are
closed or partly drawn and the girl
whose heart is first to be auctioned
is decided upon amonT the ladies. The
men are kept in total ignorance OF the
results of this decisiyn.
Some one. vic is clever talker,
then mounts a chair. and, armed with
e hammer, begins to auction on the
heart OF the girl chosen He does not
describe her in such way that she
can be recognized, but dwells upon
her particular charms Her wit. If
she is witty, her beauty IL she is
beautiful, her vivacity If she is vi
vacious. and so or
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14

where the ancient old structure is now
no one seems to know. For many
years after the Lincolns vacated it the
cabin was used as a schoolhouse.
There are several Of the old-timers of
Macon county who attended school
there They say that an elderly lady
named Macintosh was the teacher. No
body has been found who knows what
became of her.
Harristown's first white settler was
a relative of Abraham Lincoln. He
was William Hanks, who located on
section 20 in 1923. Three years later,
according to Macon county histori-
an, "Mr. Lincoln, John Hanks, Mr..
Lincoln's father, and John Johnson,
Mr.. Lincoln's step-brother, erected q
log cabin on section % in the edge OF
the timber along the Sangamon river"
1t is hoped soon to agree upon q de-
sign for the monument designed to
mark the spot where the cabin was
constructed.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14

Hanks, stu living in Missouri, who in
1880 induced Thomas Lincoln, Dennis
Hanks and my father to pull up stakes
and also remove to Illinois, where Abe
was destined to achieve that fame that
gained for him the Presidency.
Having arrived in Macon county,
ILL.,, the party, which numbered thir-
teen, settled for while. My father
and Abe Lincoln were in their 21st
year, and they, with John Hanks, Abe's
second cousin, built the log cabin
which some say was exhibited on BOs-
ton Common thirty years or more ago.
They also split the famous fence rails
at that time, samples Of which did
much to arouse the enthusiasm in the
Illinois convention in 1860, which Sc
cured the Presidential nomination for
Lincoln.
After serving as major in the Black
Hawk war, in which Abe Lincoln was
captain, my father became one of the
earliest settlers in Missouri, and dur
ing the greater part of his life kept
tavern, first at Hannibal and later. at
frankfort.
81 often visited around among the
I1dAhSSS III NY CIllQAOOO, IOO, anu my
especial favorite was Grandma Hanks,
as we called John Hanks mother, who
lived in what is now known as Quincy,
Ill. 1 used to hold her skein of yarn
for her when she wound it into ball,
and during the operation she would
tell me stories of her early life in the
pioneer days in Illinois.
Zone story was in regard to fresh
ct such as used to come almost yearly
to those who lived along the river bot
toms eighty years or so ago. Grandma
went several miles down the river on
raft, one day, to the mill, to have
some corn ground, leaving the chill
dren in the log house. The river had
been threatening to rise for several
days, but the children we'll knew from
former experiences, that if the river
invaded the house they were to climb
up on the roof for safety.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14

home. He never talked of these days
10 his intimate friends. Once, when
asked what he remembered about the
war with Great Britain, he replied:
Nothing but this: l had been fish
ing one day, and caught a little fish
which l was taking home 1 met
soldier in the road, and having always
been told at home that we must be
eocc to Inc soldiers, gave him my
FISH"
This is the only faint glimpse. but
what 1t shows is rather pleasant-the
generous child and the patriotic house
mold But there is no question that
these first years of his life had their
lasting effect upon the temperament
Oh this great mirthful and melancholy
man.
He had little schooling. He accom-
panied his sister, Sarah. to the only
schools in their neighborhood, one
kept by Zachariah Riney and another
by Caleb Hazel. where he learned the
alphabet and little more. But OF all
those advantages for the cultivation
Of a young mind and spirit which
every nome now offers to its children,
the books. toys. ingenious games and
daily devotion of parental love, he
knew absolutely nothing.