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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-01-14
Homestead Contest Notice.
of the Interior,

u D Land Omce,
Wakeeney, Kansas, No.
Jan 2, 1903. 1859.
A sufficient contest affidavit having
been fled in this office by Peter A.
HOff, contestant, against Homestead
entry No 2o4S2 made June Il, 1901 tor
the SET OF sec. IL, township IL south,
range Is west,
by Louis q. DIXON, contestee,
in which it is alleged that said claim
AMI has wholly abandoned said land
for more than six months last past
and has failed to reside upon or I'M
prove said land at any time since max
ng said entry; that said abandon
ment was not caused BY claimants SER
wee in the Army or Navy of the Uni
ted States.
Said parties are
hereby notified to appear, respond,
and offer evidence touching said allie
cation at 10 o'clock a m. ON FEB. 9Th
1904 before the Register & Receiver al
the u. 5. Land Office in Wakeeney
kansas
The said contestant having, in prop
er affidavit, filed Jan. 2, 1866, set forth
facts which show that after due diligence
personal service of this notice can not
be made. it is hereby ordered and di-
rected that such notice be given by due
and proper publication.
a. Fl. BIail, Register,
j. A. Nelson. ATTY. iy7 #
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Our citizens generally regretted
to see the household goods OF
Supt. Haney gong to the depot
ind he and his wife leave, but such
Is fate. His friends tried to call
a halt, Mayor Saum visited the
Manhattan school, but too late.
Another has been selected to take
the place. And he goes to the
A agricultural college of Iowa.
But maybe the Board have sent
here a practical, nice man that CIV
erybOdy will like aud who will
make the Experiment station lands
bloom like a rose.
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Legal papers dr0aO7s.

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When you want any deeds, OF
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ment drawn carefully at reasona
BILE charges. come to this Office.
Also aHY Notary work.
If you have land or property to
sell or rent be sure to list 1t with
US at this office.
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BGptist.
Preaching services every Sunday
morning at IL and evening at 800
Sunday school at IL 10.
Junior B,Y.P u at $50.
Senior s. at $3.50.
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DR.. Middlekauf has been aP-
pointed Co Health officer and he
promises to make things interest
ing and enforce the $25 fine bust
ness, no matter where it hits. The
community will watch. and wait
and see Dare he do it. Catudal
did, he hit IN high places and they
begged 'to call of the dogs. In
less than a week this carelessness
and recklessness can be stopped IN
the town and country.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-01-14

Ned Beach is making many con
veniences around his new residence
on the hill. Be very convenient
when completed.
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I Need Land.

have several inquiries >trom
Eastern parties for farms in Ellis
County. II you have one for sale
let me know location and price
No sale, nO commission
G. w. Miller.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
A USEFUL APRON.

There is really something new in
aprons. This time it is one which is
not only to be worn when one is do
ing fancy work, crocheting or fine
needlework, but which forms recep-
tacle for the work in question when
it is to be put away.
The apron is rounded at the bot
tom, does not reach below the knees,
and is made double. Linen lawn is
the material usually employed, but
any sufficiently thin white goods can,
OF course, be substituted. Dotted
muslin is pretty. Take one width of
the goods, leave it straight across the
top, but round off the lower corners
so that the apron itself shall have a
decidedly round appearance when
gathered into the band. Cut front
and back alike. Then in the front
piece cut two oval openings, one on
each side, large enough for the hand
TO slip into easily. Bind each open
ing with white or colored ribbon.
Next make a ruff1e to extend all
around the apron and edge the ruffie
with ribbon or the same color as that
used for binding the pocket openings.
Some cheaper material than the rib
bon may be used in both places il
preferred. Set the rufiie in between
the front and back portions of the
apron and stitch in place.
The apron is now ready to be gath.
cred and set into band, which may
be of ribbon or of the goods. The
completed apron forms large
pocket, of fiat bag, into which the
work may be thrust through the open
ings at the top. For knitting or cro-
chet the bag serves to hold the balls
of wool; for sewing it keeps together
all the small sewing utensils except
the scissors, and even these may be
slipped in if they are small and have
rounded ends.-Indianapolis News.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
GO TO GRASS GRADUALLY.

There is no rule in COW feeding
more imperative than the absolute
necessity for making all changes of
rations gradual. Abrupt change of
food, either for that which is less
or more palatable, is ruinous to the
cows digestive apparatus and conse-
quently to her milk flow This Is
most marked when turning TO grass
in the spring. The temptation is
to cut of the ground feed as soon
as the COWS go on TO grass. Early
grass has not substance enough TO
hold up the milk flow, so that it is
dangerous to stop the ground feed at
once; for the fact is. should the cows
fall off in yield now they cannot re.
cover after the grass gets strong,
and to the extent of the drop you
will lose their milk the whole sea-
son. Rather help them to keep up.
Jersey Bulletin.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
LEAVING THE FARM.

Yes, have sold the Iarm, said
my friend Hardin, and we Will move
to a suburb of the city March l. i
am Just fifty-one years OF age, anc
at twenty-one settled on that corner
forty $500 in debt. Last week Eli,-
son paid me $4,000 for my l50-acre
farm and / will move near the city
and enjoy the>rest of my life"
hated to see Hardin move away
for he is one of our best farmers
and a good citizen in every way, SO
| spent day with him to talk over
the past as well as to find out his
plans for the future.
He said that during the past ten
years he has sold on an average,
sl,250 worth of produce a year from
the farm, and in that time has paid
out over $4,000 for hired lauor. AS
taxes he has paid out $1,000 and for
buildings and fence repairs $1,000.
His farm implement and blacksmith
bills for ten years has been $500, or
a total of S4,9e0. He mas kept no ac-
count of butter, poultry and eggs sold
from the farm or exchanged Tor dry
goods and groceries, nor has he taken
account OF wheat used for -four, or
for meat made from his own hogs
and cattle for family use.
His plans are as follows; He will
move to manufactu. suburb OF
a large city and has bought an eight
room house there for $4,000. His only
son is a bookkeeper nearby, at $40
per week, his daughter will assist her
mother about the house, they will
keep three or four boarders at 81 per
week anu Hardin says he will do an
occasional days work at some of tho
factories-"when he feels like it."
To my mind there is dismal prss-
pect ahead for this family, accus
toned, as they have always been, to
an abundance of everything grown
upon a farm-to fresh milk, butter
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
no PACK WET CLOTHES.

Have you ever done big wash in
stormy weather and found that 1t
would be useless to hang your cloth
ing out on the line until the storm
ceased? Well, when you are through
washing how are you going TO dis
pose of the clothes until such time as
you can hang them out on the line!
Left around just any way they Will
streak and dry in spots which will be
enough to make the heart ache, con-
sidering the amount of time which
has already been spent over them.
We used to suds the clothes after
they were taken from the boiler. rinse
them through two waters and put
them into tub of slightly blued
water which completely covered them
until such a time as they could be
hung out in stormy weather. Then
there is another way for those who
prefer not to let the clothing lie In
water. Proceed as before excepting
that when you come to the blue
water, wiring the clothes quite dry;
shake out well and fold and roll into
as small roll as possible. Place
them in a tub which has been rinsed
and wiped until thoroughly dry. Put
the white pieces in one tub and the
colored pieces in another. Cover
them with wet towels or old pieces
of sheets until ready to hang out.
The reason the towels or pieces OF
sheets are wet and wrung as dry as
possible when used as covering Is
that if there is any possibility of
streaking it would naturally come to
the top.-V. Leah Kettering, in the
Epitomist.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
SKIRT, BODICE AND SLEEVE.

So far the draped skirts have not
made their appearance, but that tney
are lowering upon the horizon IS
shown in the dainty way the fiounces
and ruffies are festooned, the way
that lace upon the summer frock Is
cascaded and the fact that all OF tne
new skirts are trimmed, many Oh
them extravagantly and all OF them
prettily The smooth, snug but Dy
no means tight fit over the hips still
prevails, and the best of the Parlslan
couturieres are running little double
ruffies of silk below the waist line III
the back of the skirt to give just a
little outward flare at that point.
There must be no hint or appearance
of a hustle, however; there is simply
a suggestion, a suspicion of a little
added fullness at the center OF the
back. The Parisiennes have been
trying to push the vogue OF the round
and cutout necks for daylight, and
even for street wear, for more tnan
one season now, but we on this side
of the water have hesitated about
taking it up.
When planning the summer ward
robe, however, it would be well to
take due heed of this hint and have
the bodices cut after this fashion, and
then the making of dainty chemi-
settes to fill in the slight decolletage
will furnish work for nimble fingers,
for handiwork is at premium in the
latest styles. While we are on the
subject of bodices 1t is well to take
up the sleeves 1t is always well to
take heed of some of the vagaries OF
Madame La Mode, for in her mood
she has lavished thousand and one
of her caprices upon the arm cover
ings that shall rule the fashionable
frocks.
Last year we had the sloping
shoulder with the sleeve manipulated
so that there was an unbroken line
from pretty nearly the top of the ear
down to the wristbone-and there is
not much exaggeration in that. The
late winter and early spring models
brought up the broad shoulder, the
one built out variously with feather
bones, hair cloth and the like, and
now the tickle DAME that rules the
fashions hints mysteriously that she
| snail look with favor upon the sleeve
that encroaches upon the shoulder
line and works it's bouffant way we'll
up over the natural point where the
arm and the shoulder meet.
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The midland journal., 1905-06-30
TO DISSOLVE BONES FOR MAN
IRE

Take an old barrel and put into
the bottom a layer OF hard WOOD
ashes filling the space between the
bones with them, then add bones and
ashes alternately, finishing off with
thick layer of ashes. When your
barrel is filled pour on water just
sufficient to keep them wet but do
not on any account suffer it to leak
one drop for that would be like leak
ing your dungheap. In the course OF
time lney will heat and eventually
soften down so that you can crumble
them with your fingers. When sui
ticiently softened dump them out of
the barrel onto heap of dry loan
and pulverize and crumble them up
till they are completely amalgamated
into one homogeneous mass with the
loan so that it can be easily handled
and distributed. Whenever required.
you may rely on it, this manure will
leave it's mark and show good results
wherever it is used.-C. A. Umoselle
in the Epitomist
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
FASHION NOTES.

From Paris comes the statement
that the long round skirt has come
back again.
That ever fascinating garment the
tea-gown is shown in most tasteful
designs in the shops.
Linen holds its own especially in
the longcoat suits which are prac-
tical and becoming.
Blind embroidery and English eye
let embroidery hold high place in
popular favor.
The silk skirts are in various de-
signs. The newest seems to be that
with the Jersey top which fits close
to the figure and does not run the
risk of splitting.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
An important Collection.

Perhaps one of the most important
collections of books outside the Ii
brary of Congress, relating to the
workings of the Government. is that
connected with the Office of L. C. Fer
rell, Superintendent of Public Docu-
ments, Washington. The library Is
said to contain nearly 10000 docu-
ments and maps. many of which are
Of great value.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
GUARDING the Treasury.

A member of the Board of County
Commissioners OF Woods County OBJ
jected when the board voted TO pass
an item of the County Clerks expense
account entered as ribbon for type
writer" He said the clerks type
writer was nice girl, but didn't
think the county ought to buy her
clothes.-Kansas City Journal.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

ceive a stony stare, as though you
were in some way responsible for
the untidy state of the dress.
How often, too, we hear that a
certain valuable article has been re-
turned to its owner, who showed his
or her gratitude to the finder by a
reward so trivial as to be almost an
insult.
Women are mostly at fault in this
matter, but men, too, are sadly want.
ing at times, as the following Incl.
dents will show. One would expect
a person who had been rescued from
drowning to be at least grateful, but,
according to Royal Humane Society
man, this is seldom the case. A WON.
an who had fallen through the ice
and had been dragged out by two OF
these men owned husband who
stood safely on the bank watching
proceedings, and when his wife was
brought safely to land abused the
men and was ready to fight them,
because, he said, they had rescued
his wife in such a rough manner!
Another case was that of a man
who was rescued with much difficulty
and who, after the men had been
trying to bring him to life for two
hours. soundly rated them because
half a dollar was missing from his
pocket! indianapolis News.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
KEEP YOUR SENTIMENT.

Life without sentiment is as insipid
as a savory without salt. Yet when
people marry they usually settle
down." which means they endeavor TO
look at everything from the common.
sense point of view. and forswear all
the delightful nonsense which they
indulged in when they were sweet
hearts.
Is it that rent, taxes, butcher, baker
and candlestick maker usurp the
place given to romance? Or Is it that
people always grow staider as they
grow older?
Is it possible that the wife cares
less for love than the sweetheart
used to do? Not in her heart OF
hearts, I believe But, once surround
ed by it, she grows unconscious of it
and imagines it no longer of supreme
Importance, even making the hideous
mistake of fancying it can be done
without. Familiarity breeds con.
tempt, and so she lightly praises love
of her own undoing.
Stick fast to the high ideals OF
counting days; don't let yourself be
persuaded they are foolish or old-fash.
ioned; don't, when love becomes a
daily certainty, fancy sentiment can
be dispensed with, or you will wake
up with a start one of these fine days
and find to your cost that the future
which promised to be so fair is
stretching blank and desolate before
you, and that your husband or your
wife, as the case may be, bears no
resemblance to the sweetheart OF
years gone by.-Indianapolis News.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
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eggs, vegetables, fruits. to flour from
the wheat in the bin and to the gen.
erous winter store of potatoes in the
cellar. What change there will be
from all this plenty to the market
basket, to the milk bottle, to the peck
of potatoes anu the small sack of
flour.
Then the bills, bills, bills, bills for
meat, vegetables, fruit, bills for wood
that used to come from the timber
lot, bills for water, that used to come
pure and fresh from the cliff spring,
bills for everything.
Hardin is only one of hundreds who
have made the ill-advised step of sell
ing productive farm and moving to
city, which may be said to be non
productive, excepting where labor is
the producer.
The sunshine and the rain develop
the crops on the farm, they grow on
while the farmer sleeps, and there
nature makes rich gifts. In the city
all this is changed With the last
.rob of the engine production stops;
wages cease, the stock of finished
products does not increase during the
night, but remains as the workmen
left it until they are again in their
places in the morning.-E D. E. in
Farmers Voice.
DAIRY STABLES AND BARNS.
T <%f E,1
much satisfaction in the statement
made in a report which has been
republished by the Bureau of Animal
Industry, that in the housing and
general care of dairy COWS no for
eign country shows, as a rule, in gen.
eral practice. any methods or condi-
tions better than those found in
America. The average conditions
everywhere are bad enough with
opportunities for great improvement;
but such improvement is peing made
as rapidly in the U. S. as anywhere.
Nowhere else, it is stated, is there
better appreciation of the Importance
ana economy OF abundant room, light,
air, comfort, cleanliness for cows.
We hear much of the close relations
between the dairy cows and the
homes of their owners in Holland and
Switzerland. connecting apartments,
under the same roof, etc., but the
stables which are seen in the sum-
mer by tourists, converted into con-
servatories and rooms for weaving
and cheese curing are the exception
and show places. Even the best OF
these, when visited in midwinter,
with the cattle in place, are often
found dark, close, poorly ventilated.
crowded and unsanitary in many re-
spects although they may be kept
clean. While the construction of COW
stables generally in the dairy regions
of the Old World is substantial, it is
with little regard for light, ventila-
ton and cleaning and the labor neces-
+ sary to keep them in decent condi-
tion would be regarded as impossible
in the United States.-Indiana Farm
er.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
NEW corILLoN FAyoRs.

Cotillon favors that may truly lay
claim to originality as well as to ar
,istic excellence are certain to be
appreciated these days when there is
such an incessant demand for nov
city, particularly in all that tends to
amuse or divert. Hostesses exhaust
their own inventiveness and that of
their friends or the professional de-
signer in the effort to secure clever
which is now as it has been for some
time past, the favorite dance of So
ciety.
Flowers have ever served as en-
blems for the daintiest and most ac-
ceptable of favors and this season
witnesses no exception to this fancy.
The rose, queen of blossoms in ma
ture's garden, has served as inspira-
tion for some exceptionally pretty
conceits which lent decorative
touch at many a fashionable dance
and performed further service as an
attractive remembrance of the occa-
sion.
1t is not the intrinsic value of the
cotlilon favor that counts with the
dancer to whose lot it falls SO much,
as its simplicity, it's daintiness and
artistic charm. Crepe paper has
served as the medium for the most
successful and clever trifies ever
fashioned for the cotillon.
A crepe paper rosette in rose color
with bow to match on the stock lends
a decorative touch to the whip and
the reins are adorned in similar fash
ion. The always welcome satchet bag
assumes new Importance and dignity
when it is made in rose form and
the bag with its delicate painting in
floral design is a souvenir that would
be acceptable to almost any recipi-
ent. The rose fan and the rose sachet
are dainty conceits worth the win
ming by every fair participant in the
cotillon.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Census Bureau rules that
women must tell their ages to the
enumerators. 1t should be called the
senseless Bureau, the New York Her
aid avows.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30
DO WOMEN LACK GRATITUDE?

"The art of gratitude ought to be
taught in the schools" says an Eng
lish writer. Il am perfectly aston
ished at the attitude of my own sex.
A woman wishes to alight at a cer-
tain station. A mana total stranger
not only opens the door, but hands
out her many packages. all of which
she receives as her right, and calmly
walks off without word of thanks.
''1hen, again, a woman is walking
along the street all unconscious of a
+ DOT of two of braid trailing behind
Ter. You wish to do kind action,
md inform her of the fact. Instead
4 the expected Thank you.' you re-
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

The Russian fleet has at last learn
ed the difference between real Japa-
nese torpedo boats and Dogger Bank
trawlers, says the New York Tribune.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

A missionary travelling down the
Lau River in Mongolia says he passed
thirty-one rapids in one day.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

A single Greenland whale is worth
more than $4,000.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia, is
the first man to increase his reputa-
tion by blowing out the gas, declares
the New York Journal.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

The number of timber sleepers On
the railways of the world is calcu-
lated to be about 1.494, 100000 and
their value is estimated at about
100000, 900. This item makes
serious drain on the timber supplies
of the world.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

It was mean man who framed
that new marriage certificate law'
thinks the Los Angeles Express he
insists that the young couple swear
that they are not crazy.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

First class in arithmetic: If Chi
cago should own its street car lines,
and the truck drivers should own Chi
cago, how long before the entire popu-
lation would leave town, asks the New
York Mail.
The midland journal., 1905-06-30

Instead of being stencil and
scandal, Philadelphia bids fair to take
her rightful place among American
cities. She has already got her deep
channel to that breezy and wholesome
sea of public appreciation, declares
the Philadelphia Record.