The Globe-republican., 1907-11-21
BUCKLIN ,BREEzES.

from her visit with her daughter al
Ottawa, Kansas and hers at Harrington.
lShe returned Sunday evening, gladto
get home again, not thatshe didnot enjoy
her visit, for she did enjoy 1t very much,
and had q good time while with her
children, but old people like home the
best.
J. w. Ellis Is improving his home
place by putting down some cement walks
in his yard and cleaning up his lots
generally.
G. W. Artwein has bought the feed
barn located on South Main street, OF
J.W. Weaver.
G. H. Dellinger, who is working In
Pratt, spent Sunday with his family
/ in Bucklin.
d. G. Evans, Of the firm of Evans
Bros, is down the line this week, he Is
buying poultry for the Thanksgiving
market.
G. F. TRACER is still on the sick list, be
got some, better and was able to get out
a little, then he.got worse again, at this
time he is confined 10 to the house.
f. A. Gresham is busy classifying an
labelling the samples of farm products
that are to be on exhibition during the
Farmers Institute and corn carnival thai
Is to be held in Bucklin the last Of this
week.
o. Y. Hageman, of Ford was transact
ing business In Bucklin Tuesday.
Jesse Christopher loaded his household
goods Tuesday, preparatory to moving his
family to Pratt where he has job with
the Rock Island railway company.
The Bucklin Real Estate Co., we are
informed, have changed their methods Of
transacting their business. While the
business is still carried on In the name Of
the Bucklin Real Estate Co., yet, the
two parties composing the company are
occupying separate offices. Mr.. Parker 10
in the Tout building down near the
depot, while Mr.. Mills occupies the old
office on the second floor of the stone
building on the corner Of Main and Oak
streets.
Died, at her home In Bucklin, Monday
evening, November 18th, 1907, at 900
O'Clock, Mrs. Anna E. Swartout, aged
sixty nine years and eleven months.
Funeral services were held atthe N. E.
church In Bucklin on Tuesday the 10th at
400 O'Clock p. m. The services were
conducted by Rev. G. E. Williams,
pastor. She was buried In the Bucklin
cemetery. Anna Elizabeth Ferguson
WAS born In Montgomery county, Ohio.
December 18th, 1887, when she was ten
months old her parents moved to Illinois
where she grew to womanhood. On
February 22nd she was married to G. W.
Swartout, the family came to this part OF
Kansas 10 the spring Of 1886, and located
on claim just across the south line Of
Ford In Clark county, where they lived
and endured the hardships incident TO
those early days, which as all of us that
were here at that time, know by ex-
perience were not light. 10 1903 Mr..
and Mrs. Swartout left the farm and
came to Bucklin, where they lived since
that time. Mrs. Swartout has been more
or less afflicted for the past twenty year.
but has been able to be up and around
the most Of the time until about six
months ago, when she was taken worse
since that time she has been confined to
her room. She was afflicted with dropsy
and suffered much up to the hour Of her
death. Mrs. Swartout was the mother
of three children, one Of which died 10
infancy, the other two survive her, they
both live 10 this vicinity, the son,
william Swartout lives at the old home
place In Clark county, the daughter Mrs.
Harris, ct present lives just north Of the
river In Ford county. These two child
rem and the aged husband are left 10
mourn the loss Of . devoted wife and
fond mother. They have the sympathy
Of many friends who have known ID,
deceased during her life here.
Judging from the samples OF the farm
products that have been entered up (,
this writing, the soil Of southeast Fort
county, and adjacent territory In Kiow'
and Clark county, ifproperiy handled. 1
capable Of producing the raw materia
for the nourishment Of man and beast, Il
abundance. II In the lean years. tina
are not 90 very far 10 the dim and dlstan
] past we could have had some Of th
corn that 10 on exhibition here now,
: would have caused some Of our hungr
pigs Of that day to have laughed thea,
q selves to premature death. Those ex
hibits lsok good to Us. for they sho,
! what intelligent perseverance, will GO