The Springfield herald., 1910-04-29
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cattle this week.
Arthur Sutherland of ,Coffey
county, Kansas, is visiting at d.
Halls.
Virgie MCGOWAN is visiting on
the Cimarron this week.
The dance given by Mr.. and
Mrs. Scribner was well attended.
All report a good time,
N. Graves has returned from
TeXhcma, with a load of wire.
Mr.. Peters, a Baptist minister
from Washington, has located in
this vicinity.
Louise Schweizer will teach a
4 months term of school in this
side of the Boston district.
j. P. Jones and wife visited at
E. Lepel's, Wednesday.
Messrs. Meadows, Crick and
Fred Black attended the pie So
cial, Saturday night; also Gid and
Frank Thompson.
The pie social was financial
success, receipts $23.4O. Come
again. We will promise all the
pies you can eat next time.
Pretty Prairie.
Mr.. Cooper and wife. who
spent the winter in eastern Kan
sas, haye returned to their home
here.
Aunt Martha johnson is visit
ing with friends at Wellington,
Kansas.
Mrs. Tudhope has been visit
ing her daughter at Kansas City.
She returned home last week.
Wheat is growing fine, in fact
is looking so promising that we
overheard young man engag-
ing harvest help last week.
Fred Swinson, Kathryn Bideau
and E. M. Corrie and wife auto
ed out from Isabel, Kansas, the
latter part of the week. Mr..
Corrie is looking at the country
with the intention of locating.
Miss Bideau is from Rose, Kan
sas, and will make an extended
visit with her uncle, 7. N. Cor
rie and family.
Mark Dance, who has been
sick for so long, was taken from
among us Saturday, April 10th.
He will be greatly missed in the
home and community.
School closed at Konantz last
Wednesday. Mr.. Brant will now
have unlimited time to devote to
those desiring instruction in the
art of cooking and housekeeping.
Obituary.
Mark Dance, the second son of Mr..
and Mrs. Rodger Dance, was born Dec.
Goth, 1892, in Cardonia, Indiana. He
moved with his parents to Pratt coun-
ty, Kansas in May 1893, They lived
I%l, = Ln he
family, moved to Baca county, Colora-
do. About the middle of January last
Mark was taken i'll with what appear
ed to be severe cold; not getting the
desired relief from the usual home
remedies, a physician was called and
pronounced the disease bronchitis.
But as there was little or no improve
ment, a physician was again summoned
and he said it was Bright's disease.
All that careful nursing and medical
skill could do was done, and at times
he seemed to rally aud there were
hopes of his recovery.
Most of the time he was bright and
cheerful enduring his suffering with a
patience lndl lS Selt.oli pslidliSlti. Dul
at last succumbed to the disease. He
departed this life April l6, 1910, hav-
ing been i'll nearly thirteen weeks. The
| funeral services We're conducted by
Rev. Dean from the Pretty Prairie
school house April 18th, interment in
| the Blaine cemetery.
He leaves mother, father. brother
and host of sympathizing friends to
mourn his death.
Mark was converted at the early age
of thirteen, and was member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. During
the last few days of his illness some
hours were rich with religious thought
and meditation He secured the prom
Use of his father, mother and brother
to meet him it the Great Beyond, to
which he passed so trustingly and fear
lessly.
Not only have his parents and broth
er lost dutiful and loving son and
brother, but the community feels keen
ly the loss of one of its nobliest young