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V" ID J Yearly Subscription 1.00 "Financial problems are nuts and clover for demagogues." J. A. GARFIELD. TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. WA-KEENEY, KAN., APRIL 29, 1899. Dol Ilankins is working for W. E. Tilton. Mayor Wilson is having his well re- curbed. The Hays Republican is lighted by electric lights. Everybody is busy these days except the Sons of Rest. The Independent moved into their new home last Friday. Attorney Saurn spent Sunday" with his family at Lawrence. "We are pained to announce that Colonel Tarpy of Ogallah is very sick. Ringling Brothers circus at Hays, May 20. You are invited. Are you going? Albert Redmond of Banner adver tises to prove up on his homestead June 10. Attorney Nelson and A. McAtee drove down to the gold diggings last Tuesday. Ed Bradshaw and family departed Tuesday morning lor Denver, their new home. Colonel Hutchinson of the AYilson j-.clio was appointed postmaster at that place. Goqd. Eli Sheldon has moved his grocery utore from Ellis to Hill City. Score one for Hilltown. Uncle Jimruic Sutcliff of Gove coun ty was in the city on- Wednesday on land ollice business. Jesse Rover or Gove county will be foreman of the Forestry station at Ogallah. A good appointment. Jacob Schneider has purchased the Charles Gilbert farm south of town and is pleasantly located upon it. Tom Roberts, Benson Brothers, Will Sullivan, Claus Si-human and G. W. Staplin represented Ogallah township at the county seat last Monday. Robert L. Bailey, Arch Hays and John Green represented Riverside township at the county seat last Tuesday? Their mission was land business. II. S. Givler, Prop. NUMBER 8. VERBECK'S PRICES. We will make the following prices: 17 lbs. Granulated Sugar - 1 00 Dried California Peaches - - - 11c 3 lb. can California Peaches - 15c 3 lb. can Pears - - - - 14c 3 cans Tomatoes - ' - - 25c 3 cans Corn .... . 25c Can of Peas - - - 09c Can of Blackberries - - -" 09c 2 lb. Brick Codfish - - - 15c 12 bar3 Worldbeater Soap - - 25c 7 bars Santa Claus Soap - - 25c A NEW LOT OF TINWARE. Car of Seed Potatoes. COAL OIL 15 Cent Par Gallon. Raspfterries, 15c lb. Cheaper than ever before. Charley Hickman, the bright young merchant of Collver, broke the bike record from Col Iyer to Wa-Keeney on Wednesday afternoon making the run in 57 minutes. W. Mattingly was a pleasant caller last n ednesday. He informs us tha ue is living on the farm vacated by Jacob Schneider, and has 100 acre? planted to spring crops. Theo Johnson and Orlando Carlson or me east side were visitors to the county seat last Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. Carlson is thinking of opening a photograph gallery in this city. Editor Griffith-of the naysRepubli can, and l'ostniaster Brettle of the Ellis Review passed through Wa-Kee ney Monday evening enroute to Colby to attend the bixth District Editorial association meeting. lingaaier General Brettle of the Ellis Headlight was appointed post master last week. The general has our heartiest congratulations. Fred Cross will be retained as clerk. An other good appointment. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Yost, who came out here from Topeka about the first or ine month with the intention of making this their home, returned to Topeka last week. A good offer from their former employer, Mr. Griswald, a wealthy gentleman, was the cause of their short stay. Mrs. John A. Kelson and children returned from Baldwin, Kaisron4 iuursday evening. Willie kelson In forms us that Baldwin is nice town; that Mrs. Best's family are well, and' that If. Metz has opened a nice pho tograph gallery. Willie is quite an expert on the mandoliu and we hope iie will favor us with some of his se lections soon. . Fresh pork at Baker's. Pickled pork at Baker's. Get ready for Decoration day. Teachers' examination to-day. Wall paper at Cortright's for 4c, 5c, Sc, 74c per single roll. McCarthy has rented the Ellsworth pasture adjoining town. Dr. Jones made a business trip to Kansas Ciiy on Thursday. For an extra fine table syrup try a can of Superior Rock Candy Drips at Bestor's. ' David Kendall of Hoganville was in me ciiy .inursaay patronizing our merchants. Wm. Walsh was in town last Satur day and proved up on his homestead north of Collyer. W m. Sommerville rented his large pasture of 1400 acres to a Lincoln cattleman last week. is visiting Smoked hams at Baker's. Good fresh beef at Baker's. George Baker, Jr., visited Kansas City this week. Tom Bundy made a business trip to Collver on Wednesday. Mrs. Frank Woodward friends in Graham county. Window shades, good quality, 35c. 40c, 45c, 50c each, at Cortright's. .-Mrs. Greenwood enjoyed a day's vis it Irom her sister one day this week. Died April 21, 1899, near Banner John McMauus from the effects of la grippe. . W. C. Olson is building an addition to his building lately purchased of A J. Davis. Don't forget that Heinz Pickling Vixegar is the oest in the world. For sale by C. C. Bestor. C. J. Ferris pays the freight on wall paper and will hang it for you. Call and look at his samples. Mrs. Smith moved from the south side of the track Wednesday into the Frank Ellsworth stone house. James Kelly moved Wednesday to his new home formerly owned by Mrs. Conger in the east part of town. v anted 100 to 150 head of cattle to herd this summer. Good range and plenty of water. Inquire at this of- toee. j.nere win oe a new postoffice es tablished in the John Marcv neigh borhood. Who wants to be postmas ter? For Rent 60 acres of cultivated land one mile west of town by John A. Kelson or John Straub, Clinton, Mass. ; . Go to Cortright's for your wall pa per and shades. He has a fine line; Uis prices are right, and he pays the freight. - - It is reported that a heavy hail storm passed eight miles south-of town Tuesday evening doing consid- erablexlamage to windows. V Ed. Bryant returned home from Denver last Saturday, where he has been working in the Grant smelter. He thinks he will try" farming again this year. Spring is here for good. Ten wan dering "hay boys" camped on theshady side of the stockyards Wednesday. C. J. Ferris has a nice line of wall paper and carpet samples to select from. See him before purchasing. Herbert Robinson, a former Wa Keeney boy, has a good position as clerk in Secretary Coburn's office at Topeka. For Sale Stone building north of T. R. Moore's store. A bargain. Terms reasonable. Address-B. Sellers. Wa- Keeney. Kansas. Strayed From my. farm 9 miles northwest of Ellis, small dun mare, lett in net root white and white spot in face. Luther Griffith. Fob, Sale One of the best 320 acre farms in Trego county. For terms ap ply to George Baker, Wa-Keeney, Kan. Can give possession at any time. XT- C ' . I . i . vjorren, me wen man, lias a new ad in this issue. He can bore wells, make casing, repair your pump and windmill. He also moves houses. Give him a trial. We need a good rain. Rev. and Mrs. Ilankins of the Saline moved into town Thursday and are domiciled in the Frank Ellsworth stone house. Kottce The committee on child rens" exercises for Decoration day will meet with the committee on arrange ments at the Land Office on Tuesday, May 2, at 4:30 p. m. Pneumonia, la grippe, coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough readily yield to One Minute Cough Cure. Use this remedy in time and save a doc tor's bill or the Undertaker's. Jones & Gibson. Mr. Holmes of Grand Rapids, Mich., was in the city the first of the week and made this office a pleasant call. He owns 1000 acres of land in south Graham and some choice town lots in this burg. There will be Episcopal services at the Baptist church next Sunday, April 30. Morning prayer-and ser mon at 11a. m. Litany and sermon at 3 p. ra. All are cordially invited. J. II. Lee, Rector. Miss Lillie M. Caskey closed a suc cessful school in District 13 on April 14, with a dinner, ice cream, cake and a very interesting program in the af ternoon. The number' oresent was forty-two. Everybody had a good j price, time. A Pupil. - - Jin Illinois justice of the peace lias' discovered a new cure for drunken ness. His plan is to have the tippler hauled up before his court where an oath is administered that never again in the world will lie take an intoxi cating drink. If the fellow ever after appears before the court for being drunk, lie is at once confronted with the charge of perjury. Ex. "There's nothing in a name," said the Man With Whiskers as lie stood on Froehly's corner last Saturday af ternoon. "For instance there is the tSmith family in Fort Wayne. They always affixed 'ie' to tlie names of their children They had Johnie, Maudie, Willie, and Bellie. Bellie married a man named Ake and now they call her Mrs. Bellie Ake." Leb anon Criteriou. A novel law suit is on down in Tex as. A newspaper, during the cam paign last fall, said a certain doctor was the biggest liar in the district. The doctor sued the ed i tor for $5,000 as damages to his practice. The edi tor will first try to prove that as the doctor had no competition his prac tice was not injured ; second, that his practice was not worth half the amount sued for; that the allegation, as to the -doctor being a liar, is true. MOORE'S CASH STORE. CLOTHING. Men's medium weight suits at popular prices. $G. 50 and 8.50 are two numbers worth 25 per cent. more. Wo have also a few Crash suits and extra coats and vests. Our Boy's vestee and wash suits are remarkably good at the price. SHOES. We can fit the whole family out in Tan shoes, Ox fords or slippers aryi tan stockings, and almost anything else in the shoe line from a $1.00 plow shoe up. LftCES. ' - Ask to see them. They take up so much room we ?4- 1 J 1 - - . c-cin t ivet-p mem in sigiit. We have a very lar ment ana you will use much this season. Get e assort- the beet Getting weight and crash trimmed hats, light hats shirt time now for straw caps, sunbonnets, sailors, waists and belts, silk mitts and Mocha gloves, gauze vests and skeeter nets, "toothpicks and celluloid collars, " lemon squeezers and corkscrews, felt pads and horse brushes, lisle hose and hammocks, Swiss dots and Organdies, fancy rib bons and lots of them, Negligee shirts, ranging in prico from a 25c laundried shirt with attached collars and cuffs to our best silk front .at $1.25. Lap robes and buggy whips. "" Come in and order your Carpets or if something particularly nice in Wall Paper w f"r7 vnn J Some new Hats and Flowfks, and several new things in Notions line. . you want can ' get it ii interested in norses, cows or sheep, take the Farm Journal. We will give this paper five years, to all subscribers, new or old. who pay for the World a year ahead. A Mr. McMillan and family of Mar shall county arrived the first of the week with a car of stock and house hold goods and are domiciled in the Alsop house uorth of Verbeck's, . Mr. Andrus, U. P. Land agent-ac companied by a cattleman from Ne braska and a banker from Kansas City drove to the Smoky on Tuesday 10 iook at a section or railroad land. 'A word to the . wise is sufficient" and a word from the wise should be sufficient, but you ask, who are the wise? Those who know. The oft re peated experience of trustworthy persons may be taken for knowledge. Mr. W. M. Terry says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gives better satisfac tion than any other in the market He has been in the drug business at ELkton, Ky., for twelve 'years; has sold hundreds of bottles of this reme dy and nearly all other cough medi cines manufactured, which showscon clusively that Chamberlain's is the most satisfactory to the people, and is the best. For sale by Jones & Gibson lue Minneapolis Messenger poet gets off the following: "When dad has worn his trousers out, they pass to brother John, then mother trims round about and William puts-them on. When VV illiam s' legs too long have grown, the trousers fail to hide 'em, so Walter claims them for his own, and hides himself inside 'em. Xext Sam's fat legs they close invest, and when thev won't stretch tigher, they're turned and shortened up for me the writer. Ma works them in to caps and rugs, when I have burst the stitches; at doomsday we shall see, perhaps, thtu last of dad's old breeches. I will be at Alead's Barn in Wa-Keeney on S1TR01T. HT 6!il, IS93, prepared to do all kinds of horse dentistry. . Any one having horses showing any symptons bring them in. Examination free. G. L. Robinson. Beware 01 oiiM for coiorm moi coniain ; Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system wheir entering it through the raucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable phy sicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mer cury, and is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen uine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo. Ohio, hv F. J. Chpnpv t- rv. T" . : : . i . . . Sold by Druggists, price 7..- per bottle. . i Hall's Family Pills are the best. W. S. GORRELL. WELL CONTRACTOR Mi cod Gaslns femlM. Windmills and Pumrs Repaired. Jewelry" 9T Leave orders at Moser's store. For Sale. East half of section 5, township 10. range 23 io Graham county. Land very fine." Terms easy. - I nq a ire of W. E. Saum, Wa-Keeney or A- Morfc on east half section 14 same town.