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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04


]. M Bray, of Kingman, has ac-
cepted position with F. M. Davis
and Geo. B. Cones. Mr.. Bray is a
stenogropher and short hand man.
When in Fowler call and see our
new line of hats and gloves. Prices
right. Fowler Mercantile Co.
Wednesday was about the windiest
day we have experienced for many
years. The wind blew hurricane
all day and real estate was in the
air.
w. W. Pressly is now clerking in
the hardware establishment of D.
Gerow & Co., where everyone is
pleased to see him. Will is a good
fellow and is well liked by everyone.
We have large stock of numbers
2, M and 3 shoes which we will sell
for IS cts. per pair.
BOYER SISTERS.
Mr.. c. H. Eaton and wife. of
Shelbyville, Mo-, and Mrs. Scho-
field, of Pleasant, Hill, Mo. are
visiting at the home of J. M. Eaton
and family.
The First National Bank directors
met May and declared a dividend
of 10 per cent and placed $500 to
their surplus fund. The bank was
just one year old on May 2, 1905.
Chas Sourbeer has a very neat
window, in the way of watch hos
pital. He has the watches dropping
around with all manner of diseases
and recommends them to the hos
pital for treatment.
The Meade Cement and Building
Block Co., had bad luck while rails
ing their wind mill Wednesday
morning. They were all ready to
raise it when hard wind struck it
and broke the plate on top.
John Wood had the misfortune to
have his left shoulder dislocated last
Sunday, by being thrown from a
horse at Louie Martinson's place.
He came to town Immediately and
had it reduced.
The singing class holds meetings
every Tuesday night under the lead
ship of Moses Black. There should
be large attendance as this is ab-
solutely free. Mr.. Black gives his
time and you can lerrn to read music
if you will only put in little time.
John H. Lynn, our popular agent,
will shortly go to Hutchinson as day
operator. We all regret to lose Mr..
Lynn, as he has always given uni
versal satisfaction. 1t is hoped that
he may return to Meade in the near
future.
S. D. Adams left last Sunday night
for Fort Scott, Kansas, where he
will attend the meeting of the State
Camp M. w. A. which elects dele
gates to the Head Camp meeting at
Milwaukee in June.
Bird Perkins, who is quite well
known to our people, was convicted
of cattle stealing at Beaver, o. T.
last week, and was sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary. There
are three more counts against him.
Ashland Clipper.
Call and see the handsomest and
finest line of shirt waists ever seen
in Meade at Wehrle's.
Among our subscribers for the
past two weeks are as follows:
Mrs. Joe James, Meade, Kansas.
S. E. Myers, Greensburg, :"
Geo Cobb, Meade, /"
c. T. Haskins, Meade, ="
Bob Byrns, Guymon, Oklahoma,
Dave Mackey, Nye, Z"
Take your hides to Eaton's.
Mrs. Homer Edison, of Liberal,
came up Tuesday to visit with Mrs
Winnie Edison, who left Tuesday
night for the hospital with her little
son who has been seriously Ill fol
the past two weeks at the home ot
her father, Mr.. Frank P. Marshall,
-on+h <,f Nfaoda
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04

We believe in advertising and we
want your trade and we are going to
get it if fair dealing stands for any,
thing ALBERT POTTER,
Banner Feed Store
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04

Wehrles have received a large
stock of their new spring millinery
and dry goods including all kinds OF
novelties. They will be pleased to
show you them. Call early.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04
w. W. PREssLY.

Another lot of sicilian and mo-
hairs in all the leading shades just
received at Wehrle'ss
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04

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Ladies belts at Eaton's.
| EHis SCobb got a good well for
the Cement Co. at 14o feet.
Mrs. Robt Byrns returned to her
home at Guymon, Okla, last We'd
nesday.
Rev. E. A. eagle will preach at
the Presbyterian church Sunday,
May 9TH.
Toile de Norde and Ivanhoe
ginghams of the latest styles at
Wehrle's.
Sam Bunch has an ad in this issue
relative to his farm implement at
tachments.
Our City schools close this week.
The past term has been a very sue
cessful one.
Dave Mackey was up from the
Cimarron Tuesday and made this Of
flee very pleasant call.
Clarence Eason, of Belvidere, Ill.
is here to spend the summer with
his father, J. M. Eason.
The Meade Grain & Seed Co.,
have pure Tennessee and Siberian
millet, kafir corn, alfalfa and cane
seed for sale.
J. R. Griggs returned from Has
kell county Tuesday, where he had
sold several sections of land.
Now is a good time to get cheap
shoes for summer wear at Boyer's.
Joe Conrad, of Oklahoma City,
came in Monday night to spend
several days with his parents.
Mr.. Art Noble, of Wichita, came
last Friday to spend several days
with his sister, Mrs. C.. P. Fulling-
ton.
H. B. Phelps is breaking 500
acres for VIM. Robert, of the XI
ranch. Mr.. Robert will put in into
alfalfa.
We had expected to announce a
wedding this week. but for unforeseen
causes we were prevented from do
ing so.
Messrs. McMeel and Boehler went
up to Bucklin Saturday night to help
invoice their merchandise stock at
that place.
We are in the market for seed of
all kinds. Meade Grain & Seed Co
Misses Sybil Thornton and Dora
Dlckerson left Sunday night for Nc
Pherson, Kansas, where they will at
tend school.
Hulburt & Black have opened
their real estate Office one door west
of the Dutch Cafe on the north side
of the square.
Mems, ladies' and children's sum-
mer underwear at Eaton's.
DR.. C. B. Leslie left last Tuesday
night for Wichita to attend the an
nual meeting of the State Medical
Association.
The Rock Island have cut off our
day operator at this station and we
presume Mr.. Downs will go back as
night man.
The public schools held their an
nual picnic Wednesday. A large
crowd attended and all report a
good time.
Albert Potter will handle oil cake
in any quantity to suit the purchaser.
Real estate has been on the boom
for the past several weeks. Land
buyers are numerous and are all
making purchases.
The dog ordinance has replenish-
ed the city treasury to the extent of
about SIS. Every one who has a
dog wants to keep it.
]. w. Klbby's Jack, formerly ad-
vertised to make the season at Meade
will hereafter be handled by Chas
Orner, Plains, Kansas.
Mrs. Geo. Healy and son, of Bea-
yer county, spent few days with
Mrs. Louis Boehler. Mrs. Healy
is on her way east on visit.
See those ladies' black and tan
slippers at Eaton's.
Mrs. A. F German made trip to
Buiklin Tuesday and returned We'd
nesday. She went to meet an old
friend who was going east.
F. w. Curl, cashier of the First
National Bank, has begun the laying
of foundation for new residence
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04
Pianos.

Dan Taggart is agent for the
Schumann piano for the southwest
part of Kansas and Oklahoma.
This piano received 1st medal at
the St. Louis Exposition and are
good instruments. Sample piano
can be seen at Taggart's store west
ofshotel.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04

The directors of the state prison
have agreed not to sell binding twlne
in Oklahoma or in the Indian Terri
iory this year and the entire output
of the plant, which is expected to
reach three million pounds by June,
will be held for the Kansas farmers.
This will supply at least one third of
the twine used in the state. For or
ders under 500 pounds, the price is
oA, and on larger orders 874 cents.
This is about one cent cheaper than
the twine trust price.-Western Life.
Leavenworth.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04

Originality Is the salient feature
of "We're All So Much Alike" by
Will Payne, in the May McClure's.
The story opens in Chicago police
court, where the heroine is discover
ed on the witness stand testifying to
many things calculated to bring
grievious modification to her ultra
respectable parents, and the newness
never abates even while this strong
minded young person proves finally
the truth of the story's title by sur
render at last to masculine persuasion
1t is pretty story, told with a fin
ished art.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04

Get your shoes, hats and pants at
Eaton's.
New and up-to-date styles of
spring millinery at WebrIe's. Call
and inspect it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04
Hail Insurance.

Banner Feed Store.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
ANCIENT DOG TONaS.
They Were Used to Eject Cuarrs!ine
CANNES From Church.

Among the many quaint customs
existing in remote country parishes
in Wales until early in the last cen
fury not the least interesting was
the use of the dog tongs, known as
"gefail gym" in the yernacular.
These curious and somewhat formi-
dable instruments, it need scarcely
be said, were intended for ejecting
quarrelsome dogs from church dur
ing divine service
The Welsh farmer, living in his
solitary home, some distance from
the church and combining his spfr-
itual needs with his material occu-
pations, would take his sheep dog
with him to church, looking after
his focks and herds by the way. His
canine friend was in some instances
allowed to remain under the seat so
long as he behaved himself and re-
Trained from quarreling with other
dogs within the sacred precinct. At
the slightest sign Of quarrel the
parish functionary, who was provid-
ed with a stool, "set at the church
door for the officer that clears the
church from dogs" forthwith eject
ed the offenders with the tongs,
which were sufficiently strong and
secure against any resistance.
The intrusion of dogs in church
was not confined to Wales. As early
as 1897 the farmers in the parish of
Workshop took their sheep dogs
with them to church, while as late
as 1917 the same custom prevailed
at on-in-Lindsey. One of Arch
bishop Laud's reasons for ordering
the erection of communion rails is
said to have originated in his desire
to keep dogs away from the altar
and from defling it. Sometimes
these dog tongs were of wood, some
times of iron. - English Country
Life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
Thousands Of Women
Success Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Rests Upon the Fact that II
Really Does Make Sick Women Well

Thousands upon thousands of Ameri-
can women have been restored to
health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. Their letters are on file
in Mrs. Pinkham's Office, and prove this
statement to be q fact and not mere
boast.
Overshadowing indeed is the success
of this great medicine, and compared
with it all other medicines and treat
ment for women are experiments.
Why has Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound accomplished it's wide
spread results for good =?
Why has it lived and thrived and
done its glorious work for a quarter of
a century?
Simply and surely because Of its ster-
ling worth. The reason no other med
icine has even approached it's success
is plainly and positively because there
is no other medicine in the world SO
good for women's ills
The wonderful power of Lydia Z.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over
the diseases of womankind is not be-
cause it is astimulant-not because it is
a palliative, but simply because it is
the most wonderful tonic and recon-
structor ever discovered to act directly
upon the uterine system, positively
CURING disease and displacements and
restoring health and vigor.
Marvellous cures are reported from
all parts of the country by women who
have been cured, trained nurses who
have witnessed cures, and physicians
who have recognized the virtue in
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and are fair enough to give
credit where it is due. If physicians
dared to be frank and open, hundreds
of them would acknowledge that they
constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound in severe
cases of female ills, as they know by
experience that it will effect cure.
Women who are troubled with painful
or irregular menstruation, backache,
bloating Tor fatulence), leucorrhea,
falling, Inflammation or liberation of
the uterus, ovarian troubles, that
= bearing-down feeling, dizziness,
faintness, indigestion, nervous pros
tration, or the blues, should take i'm
mediate action to ward off the serious
consequences and be restored to health
and strength by taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound Anyway,
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass,
fer advice. It's free and always helpful.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
lie Did Tell Him.

A Brooklyn German grocer who
cannot be accused of plagiarism, be-
cause he had not read the warrant
ed to stand without hitching" horse
trade story, was trying to sell his
prancing steed to doctor.
Giles a good horse" said the
grocer, "even if he dond't look pooty
goot."
The doctor took the animal. Three
days later he came back very angry.
''That was mean trick" he ejac-
ulated, ''to sell me a horse that
couldn't see and not tell me he was
blind"
mod dell you? Nod dell you? '
cried the German Indignantly.
"Dond't you regollections vot'I set,
He dond't look poorly goot?'"
"Ah," said the doctor, rejecting,
"that was what you meant, was it +?
Bless the German language!" Then
he went away.-Brooklyn Eagle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
Profitable Guessing Contest.

A guessing contest of unprece-
denied bigness gave the leading daily
newspaper of Paris, the Petit Pa
risien, its circulation of 100000.
The contest consisted in guessing
the number of grains of wheat in a
certain sealed bottle. The aggregate
prizes, including first prize of ST.
900, amounted to 100000. 1t is
said that during the competition,
in which millions took part, the cir
.culation attained the almost incred-
ible number of 100000 a day. A
special staff of 500 clerks had to be
engaged to sort the wagon loads of
correspondence which arrived every
morning.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
HAWAIIAN SHARK FISHERS.
How the Great Man Eaters Are Caught
by the Natives.

1t appears that the Hawaiian
chiefs of some years ago were much
addicted to the use of human flesh
as bait for sharks. 1t came cheaper
than pig, was equally acceptable to
the shark and gave the chief an OPP
portunity to kill any one whom he
disliked. The victim was cut up
and left to decompose for two or
three days in receptacle. Kane
hameha |. was a great shark hunter
and kept those of his victims who
were intended for bait penned up
near the great temple of Mookini.
Mrs. Beckley gives a particularly
interesting account of another meth
cd of capturing the huge niuhi, or
man eating shark, followed by the
natives. They first of all captured
a large number of the small COM
mon shark, saved their livers with a
portion of the flesh, wrapped them
in XII leaves and baked them under
ground. From fifty to a hundred
canoes were loaded with the baked
meat and large quantities of the
pounded roots of ava, mixed with a
little water and contained in large
gourds. The fleet would sail many
miles out to sea in the direction in
which the niuhi is known to appear.
Arrived at a comparatively shall
low place, the canoe containing the
head fisherman and the priest and
the sorcerer, who was supposed to
be indispensable, would cast anchor
Meat and a baked liver would be
thrown overheard, a few bundles at
a time, to attract sharks. After a
few days the grease and scent of
cooked meats would spread through
the water many miles in radius. The
nillhi would almost always make its
appearance after the third or fourth
day, when bundles of the baked meat
were thrown to it as fast as it could
swallow them. After awhile it would
become comparatively tame and
would come up to one or the other
of the canoes to be fed. Bundles of
the liver with the pounded ava
would then be given it, and it would
become not only satiated, but also
stupefed with ava.
A moose was then slipped over its
head, and the feet raised anchor and
set sail for home, the shark follow
ing, a willing prisoner, and the oc-
cupants of the nearest canoes being
careful to feed it upon the same
mixture from time to time. 1t was
led right into shallow water until it
was stranded and then killed. Every
part of the bones and skin was sup
posed to confer unfinching bravery
upon the possessor, and the actual
captor-that is, the one who slipped
the moose over the niuhi's head
would also ever after be always vic
torious.-Forest and Stream.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
Court In a Railway Car.

A short time ago when train on
the Russian railway from Tashkend
stopped at Tchernaievo a well dress
ed man got into a carriage marked
'No Smoking Allowed and, taking
out his case, began to smoke Gig
arctic. The other passengers polite
ly called his attention to the fact
that he was not in a smoking car
riage, but he paid no heed to them
and went on smoking. 1t so hap
pened that one of the travellers was
a justice of the peace, who there
upon got up, took his chain of Of
flee out of his bag and declared the
carriage a court of law. The smok-
er was found guilty and fined so
rubles, and, as he would not give his
name and declared that he had no
money, he was imprisoned in the
guards van until he paid the fine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
How Stories Grow,

Mrs. A. Ito Mrs. B.)-That Mrs.
Newcomer is so fond Of her chill
dren! The other day when L called
she was blowing soap bubbles with
them through a common clay pipe.
Mrs. B. Ito Mrs. C.)-That Mrs.
Newcomer is so funny. Mrs. A. saw
her amusing the children with a
common clay pipe.
Mrs. G. Ito Mrs. D.)-That Mrs.
Newcomer smokes a common clay
pipe.
Mrs. D. Ito Mrs. E.)-That Mrs.
Newcomer smokes horrid pipe. l
don't see how any woman in her So
Der senses could do that.
Mrs. E. Ito Mrs. F. )-That Mrs.
Newcomer smokes pipe and drinks
awfully.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
An Old Italian Custom.

In the Val di Rose in Italy pop
ular custom which is known as "the
offering" has been repeated for cen
turtles on Christmas day. Crowds
Of the faithful convey to shrine
gifts of oranges and pomegranates,
gathered from each worshiper's own
farm, and place them at the foot of
the altar of the Redeemer, who is
represented by a boy holding a globe
and surrounded on all sides by olive
branches, wax candles and votive
lamps. Every officer wears the typ.
zeal costume of the valley, and the
men assume the traditional head,
dress. This rite is said to be con.
1ected with the visit of the magi to
Bethlehem.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
A Protective Duty.

The whistling boy has been cele-
brated in sentimental poetry. 1t re-
manned for a New Jersey farmer to
clinch sentiment with sound prin-
ciple.
He wanted boy to pick his
grapes and went among his neigh
bors looking for one who whistled.
He found such a boy without diff
Guilty and sent him up the ladder
with the order not to cease whis-
Ting until the last grape was picked.
Any one who has tried to whistle
and eat grapes at the same time
knows how little of the farmers
harvest was DETECTED into the boys
stomach. But the tale recalls that
older one of the boy whose father
sent him down cellar to draw a
pitcher of cider and ordered him to
whistle while he was doing it. The
whistle ceased for a time, however,
and then went on again. When the
boy reappeared he was asked why he
had stopped.
"Only to wet my WHISTLE" he said.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
HARD INSURANCE WORK.
How an Agents Blunt Franlnes,
Opened the Way to Big Order.

A clever insurance agent was
closing a long campaign upon a
wealthy merchant whom he wished
TO insure for 100000. The mer-
chant had been a tough PROPOSE
tion," and the solicitors arguments
and eloquence dropped from him so
ineffectively as to arouse all the pro-
fessional pride of a dozen years. sue
cess. He redoubled his efforts and
was at last just about to give up in
disgust when the merchant swung
around in his revolving chair and
fixed him with cold gray eye.
young man." said he, eff you
can satisfy me on one point I'll take
out this policy"
The agent braced himself, for the
tone contradicted the encourage
ment of the words. 81 guess l can, :"
he remarked.
"Well, then," demanded the 9TH
er in high voice, pointing a big
finger sternly at his visitor, chow
much do you get out Of this first
$4,000 which | am to invest as
you call it %
GIVE no objection personally to
telling YOU" replied the insurance
man uneasily, ''but Ive agreed not
to give the exact figures"
us it half?"
eyes. More than that"
'More than half! And will you
kindly inform me why | should pay
you more than $4,000? Do l get
anything from it? What reason is
there for such an absurdity?" He
was angry, insulting, triumphant.
The agent rose. He felt his chance
was gone and decided that he had
earned the luxury Of a little plain
speech.
'Well, III tell you. I've been
here twelve times, haven't II"
q can well believe i" replied the
other, rather brutally.
"And I've spent hours and days
you know nothing about finding out
all about you and your affairs and
laying out my facts so that they'd
appeal to YOU"
"Well?o
"Well, # the world wasn't full OF
obstinate idiots like you, who have
to have a good thing hammered
clear through their skulls before
they recognize it, my company
wouldn't need to employ and pay
men of intelligence like me-"
1t is said that this venturesome
person left that office with the sig
nature for which he had striven so
hard. In any case, he expressed
truth which impresses one as soon
as he begins to investigate insurance
conditions. If people who ought to
be insured would all go to the insur-
ance companies instead Of having to
be fairly dubbed in, one of the lar
gest expenses would be eliminated,
with the obvious result of lower
rates or larger dividends to policy
holders.-World's Work.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
CONCERNING Tears.

Cut what you expect in half, sub.
tract what you would like to have,
add. nothing and multiply the result
by naught, and you get what you
get in this vale of tears. Expect to
do without the things you want
most, take what you can get and be
satisfed.-New York Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02
Both Necessary.

'Now, my dear children" said an
archdeacon, 81 will ask you a few
questions in your catechism. Which
of you can tell me the two things
necessary in baptism? Quite right,
water Water is one thing, and
what is the other? What Can
none of you think what else is nee
essary? Well, little girl, what do
you say?"
'Please, sir, baby" was the re-
IL,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-08-02

A bachelor never figures on mar
rving a widow, but when a widow
figures on marrying bachelor its a
sure sign of a wedding.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-01-28
. It is a Great Temptation

for grinders Of paints cheap oils in place q D.
Lnseed OIL "Portland Oh Coors, however are eraus u
in Linseed Oil which is always pure for we do not bu
sell anything but Pure Lnseed Oil. We make connl.a
assortment of Colors ground in oil They are fine e1
for the best fresco work. and being Of great strength s
most economical for house painters USE as one pound @
do the work of two of cheaper ~r@ ~ WILL
grades. Ask your dealer for bOR~1ENN
PORTLAND OIL COIIORS 1<[PoRII AND NAIEF-rSSs
if you want the best. Fnn~ m
~ .Or lAA0NS