The Lamar register., 1908-01-15

The young peoples class of the Meth
odist church will give box social in
the basement Of the church en- next
Thursday evening, the 23rd. Everybody
is cordially invited to come.
]. L. Brott, OF Austin, ILL.,, who has
been visiting with his daughter, Mrs. j.
X. Doughty for the past month started
for his hsme last Friday. He will stop
off on his way, in Kansas, to visit relat-
IONS in that state.
w. G. Gould went down to McPher-
son, Kansas, last week and returned later
with his wife and her father, DR.. ]. G.
Kalb, who had been quite i'll. The Doc
tor will visit here for while, and get
back his lost strength.
Mrs. Alice B. Locke, state commander
of Ladies OF Maccabees, will be here
next Wednesday and address the ladies
Of Lamar in the Odd Fellows hall at 8
O'Clock in the afternoon. All ladies' are
cordially invited.
Geo. r. Coovsr received word today
that the eastern firm with which be
deals. the Ditmer Wooden Co., had sui
fered million dollar loss by fire. Geo
thinks loss like that would put their
Lamar representative out of business.
A large audience was out on Monday
night to hear the lecture by Hon. G. A.
Gearhart, it being the fourth number OF
the library lecture course. All were
pleased with his eloquent talk on the
"Footprints Of the Twentieth Century
William E. Robinson, who used to re-
side here, but is now resident of Der
yer was here Monday and closed up a
deal for his residence property in the
east part of town. John Williams
bought the property, which consists OF
two lots and very nice house, and other
improvements.
The alleged coal strike has not caused
much excitement In Lamar, but a few
claims have been staked covering most
all the territory from the Fort Lyon
canal to the Missouri Pacific RR. This
side of the Fl. Lyon canal the land Is too
valuable to tear up for little thing like
a fourteen foot vein Of coal.
Monday afternoon q gasoline tank,
used in the restaurant in the back room
of the Ssyler building on the corner Of
Main and Railroad ave. exploded and a
dangerous fire was threatened. TIE
siren whistle assembled crowd of will
ing workers and the fire was put out
with very little damage done.
Hon. G. A. Gearhart lectured at the
Methodist church last sunday night on
Civic Righteousness, and a large con-
gregation heard with pleasuse and in.
struction, the very able and eloquent ad-
dress. The other churches held no ser
vices 30 that their members could at
tend the lecture. Everybody present
praised the lecture and lecturer in the
hie hest terms.
]. G. Forrest, representative of Clay,
Robinson and Co., spent several days
this week looking over the feed lots in
this section. He says the sheep and
lambs being feed near Lamar are lock-
ing the finest of any he has seen, and
feeders will make fine thing out Of
their winters work as the price from
this on will be good, and the stuff sent
fr ,m here will top the market.
The Lamar Brick g. Stone Company
will resume operations at their plant
next week, having received several large
orders for drain tile. The plant had been
closed for several weeks. owing to the
large stock on hand, and also on account
OF the money stringency. This is quite
an important industry in Lamar as .
large number of men are employed and
the pay role is Of some considerable size
each month.
Married-At Congregational church
at Ossaw atomic, Kansas, on January 7th
Mr.. Merl G. Ward Of Lamar and Miss
May Williams Of Ossswatomie. Mr.. and
Aai6s w nio oAhiN0A 81 4A0hot kxAOdudy
morning and will make their home here,
the groom being bookkeeper for the
Lamar Milling and Elevator Co. He
is we'll known here and has many friends
who extend congratulations and best
wishes to the happy couple.
The members of the Hunt family re-
ceived the sad intelligence from their
old home at Maryyille. Missouri. on
Monday Of the death Of their father. Mr..
Francis Hunt was already at the home
place, and the two SONS and two daugh-
ters here left at once on their sad jour-
ney. The news came as greater shock
because they did not know he WAS ssri-
ously Ill. They have the deepest SYM
pathy Of Lamar friends in thsir Ion.