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Boston One Price Cash
Clothing House,,,,,,,
Hamlin Department.
Mors Terry refused $100.00 for liis
flue span of mules.
Cappie Dodjre closed her school In
district No. 7, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Percy's baby
.is quite ill ot a bad cold.
Sam Terry sold a .span of mules to
Joe Woodland for $25.00.
Mrs. Will Young was quite ill of
la grippe (lie first of the week.
Walk Crees imule a bee" and
shucked his pop corn this week.
The officers of the Blue Grass
Creamery held business meeting on
Tuesday afternoon.
Text Sunday evening Rev. Humph
rey, of Exira, will begin a series ol
meetings at Old Hamlin.
John Moore shipped a car ol baled
hay from the Station to St. Louis,
"Wednesday of this week.
Johu McLuin, of Des Moines, is
here for a good visit with his rela
tives, Harry Percy and the Crees
families.
Rev. Conner is meeting wi'li good
success in his meetings ai Brushy
College, six going furward last Mon
day night.
\George Smith' came snailing his
I pise into Hamlin Tuesday night
MOW he will-soon be a resident of
fity Ridge.
The Young People's Meeting will
joe held ftt the residence of Mr. and
'Mrs. J.Z. Moore nextSaturday after
noon.at 2 o'clock.
'i There will be a meeting at school
house No. 2, next Monday for the
purpose of electing one sub-director
for that district.
The pig trade was very brisk this
week and McGuire bought one hund
red head. He shipped two very nice
car load9 to Chicago during the past
week.
There will be a district township
meeting at school house No. 2, the
"ij. second Monday iuMarch,at 2 o'clock,
a in alteruoon for the purpose of elect
iug school officers.
Mr. Krebs, lather of Mrs. Anthony
Myers, of Greeley, is very ill of grip.
The old gentleman is eighty-uvo
years old and his friends fear that the
disease may result fatally.
At the Old Hamlin literary next
Friday night the question will be:
Resolved, That home culture tonus
the character of man. John White
and Ralph Thomas are the chief dis
putants.
Uncle S. D. Coon rod made a hash
*~"ilrip to Audubon, Monday night, for
Dr. Keudlenian to go and see Alfred
Bartlett who was reported much
worse. Mr. Coonrod had a chill after
his arrival at home and for a few days
was decidedly under the weather.
The Stuart grain office caught tire
Tuesday morning and for a few min
utes liob't Si/.er and the rest of us
1 flew around like a chicken with its
I head cut off. However, the tire was
1 put out without much damage being
done, thanks to Mr. Sizer's bov and
the water.
Hub White and his bride arrived
home last Saturday and that night
a large crowd of his friends gathered,
tuned up their old tin pans and cow
hells and went over to play a few
select airs for Hub and bride. Tne
lioys say they were treated more
white" in their lives.
Last Sunday Will Clark and wife
kiMed the old lien and prepared
royal feaBt In honor of Hub White
and his newly wedded bride to which
a large number of friends and neigh
bors gathered. Mrs. White and Mrs.
Chirk are sisters. The new married
folks will live on a larm in southern
Melville township next summer.
They had a spelling school at Old
Hamlin last Thursday evening and
before recess Miss Anna Warner was
the best speller, mid after recess Miss
Mi:mie Rice proved the winner and
was awarded the cake. Uir.l Lefler
Was the poor speller and was awarded
the ginger bread. The boys turned
and crutned the ginger bread and
pasted" poor Bird with it because
lie couldn't epell more words.
The first of March the Blue Grass
Creamery will start out the following
uamed haulers to gathering milk and
expect to run every day Alex Fer
guson, Chris Petersen, Mr. Christen-
Jce Heath, Lou Bryan, Mr
"'here will be two more routes
decided who
-a
HUtoribai Department
V.
will haul milk on them. The cream
ery is proving a paying investment
and the managers propose to push
the business this summer.
What is that mother?" A swan my love,"
He is floating down from his native jfrove.
No loved one now, no nestling nigh,
He is llouting down by himself io die.
Death darkens his eye and unplumes his
wings,
Yet the the sweetest song is the last he
sings:
Live so my love that when death shall
come
Swanlike and sweet, it may waft thee
home.
A few mouths ago Mr. Byron Every,
of Woodstock, Michigan, was badly
afflicted with rheumatism. His right
leg was swollen the full length, caus
ing him great suffering. He was ad
vised to try Chamberlain's Pain Halm.
The lirst bottle of it helped hini con
siderably and the second bottle effected
a cure. The 25 and 50 cent sizes are for
sale by C. W. Houston, Exira C. L.
Bisom, lirayton.
THE QUEST.
There must be a somewhere Jnst beyond
Oar here with its weary tulles
Where there'* no parting for hearts
fond,
And (he blue sky always
Bra5lew.
But the unseen shore is still before,
Though wo strive till our courage falls,
And never a man sinoo the world began
Has sighted its peaceful vales.
There most be a sometime, hotter far
Than our now, with its old sorrow*
And though never we've won where its out
posts are.
We'll try again tomorrow.
For sometime land has a silver strand
And pleasant groves to shade us.
So we cannot rest in our lifelong qoMl
For Joys that still evade us.
Why should we strain our weary eyes
For a land that we may not see,
Or dream of brighter and kindlier skies
In a time that may never be?
Ah, better Is hope than to erawl and gropt
Through a life without its sent.
Up, wanderers alii Sound tho bugle call!
And we'll follow the old, old questt
—J. L. Heaton in "The Quilting Bee."
The Gentleman Farmer of the South*
While the muterial development
of the south in tho past 30 years has
been almost startling, it would nev
ertheless be rash to assume that the
economic character of her people
has been entirely transformed. Slav
ery no longer exists, and labor is no
longer considered disgraceful, but
the negro, though politically free,
is still socially and economically
servile and still affects his white
employer disastrously in many
ways. With the growth of towns,
an artiBan and a middle class have
been developed, and the
former aris
tocracy of birth and wealth has
given way to one of wealth only,
but in the country the well to do
middle oloss farmer is the excep
tion the gentleman planter and
"poor white" squatters cumber and
choke the ground.
Want of thrift and intelligent fore
sight and an inherited instinct of
laissez fairo are to be observed In
every rural community—normally
in tide water and romute mountain
regions, less commonly in such fa
vored spots as the valley of Vir
ginia. In cotton growing localities
the factor or commission merchant
plays a part fully as important as he
did before the war and practically
holds both planter and plantation
in his grasp. With the factor on one
hand and the lazy negroes with
whom he works
011
shares on the
other, it is no wonder that the lot of
the gentleman farmer is continually
growing worse or that his sons
seek urban employment whenever (plough
they can.—W. P. Trent in Atlantic.
Only Occasionally*
A bright little fellow of 4 years
bad the unfortunate habit of stam
mering. One day his mother had
callers, and the little one was asked,
"Richard, do you stutter all the
time?"
"N-n-no, only when I talk," watt
the ingenuous reply.—Boston Daily
Globe.
Example.
Uneasy Passenger (on an ocean
Steamship)—Doesn't the vessel tip
frightfully!
Dignified Steward—The vessel,
mum, is trying to set a good exam
ple to the passengers.—Strand Mag
azine.
I was nervous, tired, irritable and
croBB. Karl's Clovor Root Tea has made me
ireli and happy. Mrs. £. B. Worden. Bold
by 0. Houston.
Corn 5 to 7c, porkers $3.00, eggs
10c, butter 10c.
L. N. Wickham was dealing In
cattle last week.
Banker Wiley was quite sick
Saturday—grip of course.
Mrs. Welty is moving her stabling
from the city to the farm.
Miss Lalhrop of Ralston is visiting
her friend Miss Bertha Shelley.
Sam Newell rode the Pythian goat
at Castle Hall Audubon, last week.
Our young friend, Eugene Mertz,
was a sufferer from tonsiiitis last
week.
The Green Bay will build a nice
office in connection with their dry
house.
Frank Leet was
tenants recently.
Frank.
J. E. Griffith passed through this
city
011
his way to visit his parents at
Carroll.
Dave Reid sold his nice bunch of
steers, 21 head, to Nels Olseu of Viola
toVnship.
Pearl and Elmer Audas were visit
ing their uucle and cousins near Man
ning last Wednesday.
Nels Christiansen Is again shipping
cattle to Chicago. Nels is a hustler
in the cattle busiuess.
M. E. Jenkins, (he retired proprie
tor of the billiard hall made the city
a flying visit last week.
Walter Audas and wife were visit
ing his brother mid niece and family
up in Carroll county last week.
Charley Page, a long ago resident
here, was visiting Johu Hench and
other friends near here last week.
JEWELRY- REPAIRED.—Leave orders
at the Gray Pharmacy for repair ot
clocks, watches or any kind of jewelry
W. L. Hamilton will farm on the
Cameron ranch this season. The
young ladies hereaboutare necessarily
happy.
James Gregg and family of near
Manning, formerly residents here,
will move to a farm near Glidden
next week.
Sam Mulford's landlady, Mrs.
Bishop, of Marohalltown, is making
him a visit and renting Sam the farm
for another year.
Henry Biownhorat north of town
is contemplating the erection at, a
larfxe crib 28 1 48 feet in which to
store his soft corn.
At the Foster lyceum last Friday,
they debated that brand new ques
tion: Resolved, .That the pen is
mightier than the sword.
Weduesday Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mc-
lo
their 18-month's old
baby from grip. The little one was
laid to rest in the Gray cemetery.
Geo. Gray is buying corn again
and hauling ii to his ranch to crib.
This corn will have to be handled the
seventh time before reaching Chicago.
Revival meeting is still progressing
and the sinners are slow to bestir
themselves. Probably on account of
there being so tew newspaper meu
here.
The Germans that are old enough
are all getting married. The next
will be Chas. Rutt and Bertha Bor
skoaki whose weddiug we. shall
chronicle soon.
Uncle Jacob Ginther and Walter
Audas are the representatives from
Lincoln township to court next term,
the former on the grand jury and the
latter on the petit jury.
A team belonging to S. C. Randies
made a break for liberty one day last
week. The results were a badly
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Fancy bosoms with white bodies and detached cuffs. Anew one in this line with two detached, high-fold
collars and detached cuffs in Madras, Cheviots and Percales. The newest designs and colorings in plain,
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Collarless Negligees—the latest idea. Made with white neck and wrist bands, detached cuffs. Negligee
with collars and cuffs detached or attached
J. FRIEND & SON
C. EUGENE MERTZ, Proprietor.
Drugs, JcWelr^, Toilet /Articles.
Stationery, Palate, Oils, Brushes, Olasi, Wall Paper, Etc.
Gray Department.
Eugene Mertz has a corner in calico.
S. C. Randies is still 111 Nebraska.
Harlan Kennels was at Audubon
Wednesday.
broken up wagon, aud ditto harness,
but strange to say the horse did not
get into a wire fence.
W. L. Swaney is cribbing his soft
corn inside a nice bunch of hogs.
His neighbor C. H. Earhart tried the
same method of storage but the
brutes died by the wholesale, now
soft corn, hogs and all is gone.
The question Which is the better
for the world, arbitration or war?
was ably discussed by the High
School pupils last Friday and was
handled in such an able manner that
it surprised the audience. War won.
Elmer Ellis is now a full-fledged
business man of Gray. His shingle
informs the public that a harness
shop is carried on inside. GiTe the
boy your work and don't have
another failure in that line op ac
count of lack of patronage.
After election aud its usual bitter
ness is passed why not all of the
business men appoint a mtmHWfc and
talk over the future prospects of this
little town, and come to some con
clusion of how to better its business
condition. It cau be done if petty
jealosies are buried, and buried so
deep that they will not know a re
surrection. It's an evident fact that
trade lias been slipping away from us
for three years that properly belong
here, and with the proper busiuess
prudence cau be regained. Let us
bury the hatchet aud converse one
with another like men of sense.
The best cough cure is Shiloh's
core. A. neglected cungh is dangerou*. Stop
it at onoe with HUM'* mure, G. Holla to*.
Cameron Township.
Jim Hoffman visited over Sunday
in Teuipleton.
F. H. Turner had a very sick horse
one day last week.
Mike Vullmer shelled corn tor Bert
Roberts last Tuesday.
Arthur King is moving his big
crop of corn to Dedhaiu.
Dick Fancher came near losing his
best steer caif last week.
Bob Smith transacted business at
North Branch last week.
Robert Henderbon was buying
horses in Viola last week.
Sampson Brothers delivered their
hay at Ross last Saturday.
Big dance at the home of George
Phister'B last Monday night.
Mrs. Albert Gingst is recovering
from a severe attack of the grip.
Charlie's favorite song is now On
Jordan's stormy banks 1 stand."
Joe Leonard is moving some of his
farm implements to the George Mc
Michael farm in north Cameron.
Bob Grausberry, of Exira, attend
ed the Frank Rice sale last Tuesday.
Ray Ballou visited over Sunday at
the home of Ed. Walters, in Carroll
couuty.
Ralph Ballou, of Hamlin, is visit
iug his brothers, Bill and Ray for a
tew days.
Wood Scott iB moving some of his
implements to hia new farm in Viola
township.
Amos Fancher bought sixteen head
of shoats of Albert Hartmau and paid
$2.36 for them.
Jake Rubs, the hay baler," has.
knocked out lorty tons of hay for
Amos Faucher and isn't through yet.
Frank and Henry Wileuder depart
ed last Tuesday for their home at
Wiota after a pleasant sojourn with
with friends in Audubon county.
Edgar Smith, one of Viola's pros
perous farmers, was offered 945.00 per
acre for his fine farm. We didn't
learn the buyers name, but he mpst
have tpnte confidence.
My baby had croupe, and was
eared by Bhiloh'a core," writei'Mrfc J. BY
Martia, ef HaattTiUe, tlaheia O. Heutoo
'M
'-rtfe
Ross Department.
J. F. Luse shipped fonr cars of hay
this week.
Big dance at Wat Frye's last Tues
day night.
Dance at John Rorah's home Tues
day night.
J. F. Luse has raised the price of
corn to a good figure.
J. F. Luse was at Halbur the first
of the week on business.
Mike Carroll went to Cedar Rapids
Wednesday to attend school.
Take your corn to Luse. Goods at
his prices are equal to the gold.
Bob Henderson ships his carload of
horses to Chicago Saturday night.
Jay Eddy returned last week from
his visit with Johnson county rela
tives.
Meetings are still in progress at
Bethel church. So far three conver
sions.
Sylvester Moore is fitting up his
outfit and will soon commence hull
ing clover.
J. W. Foster, up on the Carroll
county line, was trading in Ross
Wednesday.
Ross Markets.—Corn 5 to 7c, at the
store 8c, oats 9 to 10 18c, butter
11c, eggs 10c.
Friday night of this week the
young folks will have a'
hop at the
home of Dave Hart.
Albert GOBS returned Tuesday from
a two weeks' visit with his brother,
Peter Goss near Casey.
Sampson Bros, shipped two cars of
cattle Tuesday. John Wagner also
shipped two oars ot cattle.
Jas. Rutherford of Nebraska, is
visiting a few weeks at the home of
his uncle, Robert Rutherford.
Dave Hart is a grippe victim. As
soon as he is able to navigate, himself
and family will move to Ross.
Mrs. Luse aud Mrs. S. B. Rice
passed last Wednesdavat the pleasant
home of D. L. Reid in Cameron.
Luse is receiving large invoices of
machinery for spring work and his
prices are worth taking advantage of.
Rob't. Henderson bought a team of
Sammy Jordan this week, price $103.
He also bought horses of Frank Cor
win, Dan Sampson and others.
The Henderson school closes this
week, Earl Jump, teacher. Mr.
Jump has given excellent satisfaction
and will teach the spring term.
Saui Wilson and M. McDonald
have rented the Pingrey farm, rented
last year by Wat Frye. Mr. Wilson
to put in all small grain aud Mc
Donald to put in coru.
About two weeks ago Ferdinand
Weidersteiu fell while carrying lum
ber, said lumber striking hiui in the
back, in consequeuce of which he is
still in bed a badly used up man.
John Reuschling, of north Melville
towuBhip, was in Ross Wednesday.
He marketed 55 pounds of nice but
ter and 38 dozen eggs,—and every
week he markets about this amount.
John Lovelace left Tuesday for
Winterset to attend the funeral of his
father who died Monday, aged 85
years. Mr. Lovelace was recently
oalled to Winterset by the death of a
sister.
Margaret Graham, a sister of Mrs.
Geo. Everett, died in Chicago Tues
day of this week. Mr. Everett left
for that place Tuesday eveuiug and
will accompany the remains to Vail,
Iowa, where the fuueral will be held,
that being the parents' home.
Last Tuesday at 3 o'clock p. u.,
Lee McCuen and Lou Townseud were
married at the Christian parsonage
in Audubou, Rev. Clemmer perform
ing the ceremony. Mr. McCuen is
the son of J. S. McCuen, of Cameron
township and is a steady, industrious
you'ug man. The bride is a sister of
Alex. Townsend and an estimable
lady. They commence their new life
on the Mandelkow farm in Sec. 24,
Cameron towniliip. The many
friends and relatives congratulate the
united two aud the JOURNAL wishes
Lee and his happy bride many loug
years of prosperity and consequeqt
happiness.
Pills do not cure consumption. They
only aggriTata.. Karl'* 0)ov*r Boot Tea-mri
t[oaaton.
erfeot regularity to the bowels. Bold by 1
Is needed by poor, tired mothers, over*
worked and burdened with care, debili
tated and ran down because of poor, thin
lud impoverished blood. Help is needed
by the nervous sufferer, the men and
women tortured with rheumatism, neu
ralgia, dyspepsia, scrofula, catarrh. Help
Comes Quickly
When Hood's Sarsaparilla begins to en
rich, purify and vitalize the blood, and
sends it in a healing, nourishing, invig
oratingstreamto the nerves, muscles and
organs of the body. Hood's Sarsaparilla
builds up the weak and broken down sys
tem, ana cures all blood diseases, because
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
(it Uie.One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1.
Prepared only JyC. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Muss.
mm r*3ti are the only pills to take
flood 5 Pills
with Hood's Sarsaparilla
with an imp* vised doll. Toy weap
ons, again, are older than history.
Many of the other toys at present
in use date from the earliest times
of which we have any record. In
the tombs of the ancient Egyptian^
along with painted dolls having
movable limbs, have been found
marbles, leather covered balls, clas
sic balls and marionettes moved by
strings. Ancient Greek tombs fur
nish olay dolls, toy horses and wood
en carts and ships. In the Lotrvre
there are some Greco-Roman dolls
of terra cotta, with movable joints
fastened by wires. Greek babies'had
rattles (platage). Greek boys
played
with whipping tops. So did the boys
in anoient Rome (Vergil-Aen. bk.
7). Horace speaks of children
trundling hoops, playing odd and
even with nuts, etc.
Waiting For Expert Information.
One of the stories told at the ex
pense of Boston's extreme respect
for the opinion of its critics is amus
ing.
lady who had been at a great
concert one evening was asked the
next day:
"Did you enjoy the music last
evening!"
"I really don't know. I got up too
late this morning to see The Adver
tiser, and The Transcript hasn't
coma out yet."—Youth's Compan
ion.
Sir William Hamilton mentions a
tailor, whose name he does not give,
who was blind from birth, and yet,
by the sense of touch alone, could
distinguish the patterns of Scotch
plaids used in the kilts
of the high
land oostumes, matching the cloth
with all the exactness that might be
expected of one having perfeot vi
sion.
Umbrellas are now almost exclu
sively machine made, the various
parts—ribs, stocks, handles and
tips—being separately manufactur
ed and put together by hand.
It is the turn which a man takes
about the age of 45 that parts him
off among the sheep on the right
hand or the poor goats on the left.—
John Morley.
Cortes, at Tabasco, found stock
ades so strongly built that he was
forced to employ artillery against
them in order to effect a breach.
Lima, Peru, is 3,615 miles south
west of.
Washington.
Captain Sweeney, U. S. A., San
Diego, California, Bava: bhiloh's Gatarrah
Bomedf ia the flrat medicine I bare ever
fouund that would do me an good." Price
Ode. For aale by O. Houston, Ecira.
Guaraw
t6IrculaT
Broadway
Audubon, low
Help
WITH JENNY IN THE
As sad 1 was as an}*.
With all a lover's paiu,
Till I walked tliat day with
With Jenny, in the rain
Past fresh'ning fields of clove:
And sweet with ripening gr
And blossoms blowing over,
With Jenny, In the rain!
The silken shade above her,
The violets at her feet,
The raindrops seemed to !ov
And lell in masic swett.
And, oh, the south wind blo\
In many a glad refrain,
When love and I wore ^oiug
With Jenny, In the ruin!
Haoh breeze that rippled past h*
Stole kisses on the way,
The raiu fell never faster
That beat my heart that day.
And, oh, the fields of elover,
And, oh, the golden grain!
For love came home—the rorp*-~
With Jenny, in the rain!
—Frank
The oideat Toy. Joachim and
The most primitive toy ia the dol
1J.
A Famous Filddle.
rtLd
There is a violin in Jthe
of Fran Grigorieff-K*uden
cerne, the widow op the
young performer Gngori*
is reputed to be worth 60, (X.
Vulliaume, Bianchi,Sivori a
experts have agreed in this
dinary estimate. The grea
ists, PaganirH ^nohr, Vieu
OT,rl
It dates back to prehistorio times
and is found in every part of the
world. This one would naturally uX- uriginauy one
pjjet to find. A child, seeing its furaten geige,
mother nursing other younger chil-1 fiddles, 12 of
dren, would imitate the example presents to the electors of
Roman empire by Jacob
Ame^i, and is the only one
whi A is still in existence.
century and a half ago it cau
the possession of Baron de
er, the Russian diplomatist a-,
husband of the famous Mme.
Krudener, the singular religionis
who played
so great a part in bring
ihg about the so called holy allianc
in 1816. Mme: -de Krudener was
sort of German La&r Huntingdon,
always surrounded By a "court ot
clergymen. But one of her family,
the last of the name, was a borr
musician "and delighted M~""
with the dusty old neglected Am
He took to music as his profession
renounced the name of Krudern
and adopted that of Grigorieff.
Westminster Gazette.
A Katnnl Apartment Honee*
"In Florida they have marsh hens
that build their nests in the'grass or
In 'logs,' said A. P. Cornell of
Jacksonville. "I was hunting along
the upper St. Johns river when I
saw what at lirst appeared to be a
log. Then I noticed that one end
was split and went to investigate it.
I soon saw that the object was a
dead alligator, with its mouth wide
open, and as I approached a marsh
hen flew from between its ja"~
making a fuss that indicated
its nest was near. On reachin
alligator I found tlm nest
mouth, with four eggs in it
saurian's remains appeared
whole, except a portion of the
which had rotted away. I wei
turn the body ovor and found
it was a regular apartment hou
From the tail emerged three go
sized moccasin snakes, and from
hole in the side that I had not sebti
a ground hog emerged, while the
hen that occupied the mouth strenu
ously objected to my interfering
with her home. Washington Star.
tTaoit.
"Habit" is hard to overcome. I
you take off the first letter, it does
not ohange "a bit." If you take an
other, you still have a "bit" left. If
you take off another, the whole of
"it" remains. If you take off an
other, it is not "t" totally used up.
All of which goes to show that if
you wish to be rid of a "habit" yo
must throw it off altogether..^
I have given Chamberlain's Cougv.
Remedy a fair test and consider it one
of the very best remedies for croup
that I have every found. One dose
has always been sutHcient, although I
use it freely. Any cold my children
contract yields very readily to this
medicine. 1 can consciously recom
mend it for croup and colds in child
ren.—George K. Wolft", Clerk of the
Circuit- Court, Fernandina, Florida.
Sold by C. W. Houston, Exira: C. L.
Bisoni, Brayton.