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Ihave 100 aeres of corn. Uncle the last two weeks. The writer and Uncle Jake Masterson made a flying trip to. Rockville. We were over some siyel country. - The farmers have got their ferms|¢..1, puffed up. re . well improved, good houses and Miss Elsie Keaton called on the barns. .The wheat down in that) po on girls last Sunday evening. part of the county is looking fine. - ‘ ; ! There wasn’t much corn planted. mites , geo o ce opening nine months old heifer and'a We took in the path of the cy-|;,, FH, y A % g. He was taken with the clone. You could , tell that. it}) cash a they i opens meant business. We spent several : : “a days at the home of Cameron ae He was buried at Crescent ; Tuler, who entertained us in fine) yrs, Christman, who has been last Sunday evening at the home of Guss Bruner. John Stephens has a phone ‘o- cated in his house. We think he Holstein cattle all 0, ki ter in 7 days. shape. Mrs. Tuler has the-finest | .. Ate will not permit us going into de- Bt i : ‘ sai Suiokste ranch that we have seen eee some time is reported ‘a tails but anyone calling at our prions ¢ Guard of Leg ae At glial ag ane ns bia rug? Loe id went to Amster. . hy in the county. She - vee Uncle Charley Henderson and ph hia beet fd ealt and tom i eed aaa P | successful school and the patrons] Esq. Hedger Sundayed with his f yaune chickens rahe Aas “ny e wife were visiting last Sunday, |° 000) Us breeding. i of the-school came in at the noon| son, John, near Foster. _ 4 ‘We called on our friend, Lucien| ju we didn’t learn where they| Dr. Ross Grossheart of Tulsa,}' Washington, May 9—For the|hour with full baskets of the best} One of Emett Burk’s'big black Green. _ He lives up at the foot of the mountains. He has a rock road from his house to Pleasant ‘Gap but deliver me from all such rock roads. On our return home we called at Ike Ellington’s where we took dinner and talked poli- tics to a finish. We got to Butler and put up at the Freeman Hotel ‘and took in the picturewhow. The next night we landed’ at the home of J. W. Ferguson where we spent the night and had a good time. We landed home on the 5th of| yya, anyone seen anything. of May about all in. Tom Raybourn lately? The writer spent last Sunday at} W. F. Stephens is through the home of W. F. Stephens where | planting corn it is reported. we rounded ‘up the ‘candidates. Charley Kershner and wife -Watt Dawson was calling on|called at John Barton’s last Sun- the boys out in Elkhart one day | day evening. > last week. Watt is alright. Calvin and Eldred Kershner Otis Summers and family of| visited at Will Morris’ last Sun- West Point spent Sunday at the| day. : ; home of John Barton. Well, we had better ring off John Fritts, wife and baby|or some of this may go to the called at the home of Guss Bruner | waste basket. last Sunday evening. Miss Nellie Bruner has a first class case of the measles, She is getting ajong alright. Tom Bruner and gon, Billy, went but we'do know that we failed to get any dinner at Uncle Charley’s. . : There was quite a little dog fight down on the creek a few days ago. One of the party got| Sunday. badly excited over the fight but} .Mrs. Lizzie M. Braden, nobody was hurt and the dogs pulled out for home. We hear it reported that Col. Lockridge is done planting corn. We haven’t seen the Col. for some time so we guess that is right. Morwood Sunday. ihg at the Carl F. Hall store. being very poorly. oret Saturday. Amsterdam Tuesday. ers either of us had ever sold. JOHNNY. | ers in Amoret Monday. Dean Canterbury and W. D. Howard made a business trip to Metz Tuesday. : Sena, Mr. MAY BARGAIN BULLETIN Of the Samuel Levy Mercantile Company DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT Not jobs and undesirable stuff, but clean, fresh, seasonable merchandise. 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We go home from the Sunflower eae swaed He hea dof pure bred Hob. Omer Nichols has the measles. steins, one 5 year old cow, two A heifers 2 years old this. spring; oe hhired Miss Stella calf seven months old,a grandson: of ‘‘King Walker’ the sire of 53 daughters in the A. R. O. class, 11 with a record of 30 pounds of but, Time and space} : Oklahoma, a former Bates county} first time since the Spanish-Amer- boy, was one of the heaviest buy-jjcan War the President of the ers at the sale, getting 10 head. David L, Clark and family vis- ited at the Claude Cooper home son, Mae, ahd daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Welton, were guests of Mrs. Ella Hugh Nestlerode who went up} to Kansas City the first of April has returned and is again clerk Grandma Saatoff is reported as Grant M. Garner of the Virginia neighborhood was trading in Am- J. H. Leiner and Rambler de- livered fat hogs to H. G. Blake in The top hogs brought $34.70 and $33.96. These were the highest price pork- John Taute delivered fat pork- Miss Inez E. Beck was a guest of Miss Marvel Fail the past week, Geo. B. Bohlken and daughter, and Mrs. Tom 'C ~- NUMBER 30 — T. : treatment for stomach trouble. Arthur Westover left Monday for Kansas City to: buy a load of stock, also to hear Billy Sunday. Cart Wallace is doing some im- ON THE WING. The waterworks, 4 miles west 0: Butler is contemplating raising the dam across the sy i 3 eve It will be a good thing for Butler ‘ ; : ; proving by putting hog tight in case of a drouth: but death to fences on the wid side of his the low land owners. above the oak dam. ‘ Mary McGuire visited with her Newton Wilcox wants to buy &| sister, Mrs, Tom Hockett, Satur- good milk cow. The price is no] gay item. Wonder how the road question resulted on the Miami, northeast corner of Charlotte as the second petition has been circulated. The Miami school closed Friday mel, Mr, and Mrs. J. H. Leiner, Weimers and family were vis- tors at the John Kaufmann home Sunday. H, K. Dykman and family vis- at the John Dykman home day evening. The Mulberry school board has Nichols for rteacher the coming term. i RAMBLER. y. We understand that Ike Daw- son’s mules ran away with him Monday and bruised him up con- siderably. Dr. Lusk was called. Tim Gregory visited his father Tuesday evening. PRESIDENT CALLS OUT MILITIA mares is very sick. I. 8. Paddock found an inner tube for an automobile one. mile south of Virginia. Owner will please call for it. Ralph Hughes and family visit- ed Geo, Hughes last Sunday. Grandpa Lewellen is getting to be a pop shot. He kills two rab- e bits at one shot. Harry Henderson’s horse al- most got the best of him Sunday. It started to run and ran in a hedge fence and tore the harness up considerable. eatables you ever sat down to and after dinner ice cream and cake was served and then a fine pro- gram was rendered. = W. H. Durst was a county seat visitor last Saturday. Mrs. R. P. C. Jensen is still im- proving. Glenn Pahlman sports a new buggy. Mr. Clifton was in our midst to buy corn Monday. Dad says they did not raise much corn in_ his neighborhood last year. Tink Hedger visited with his father and mother last Friday. Mrs. Geo. Rhobacker went to Amsterdam to visit her mother, Mrs. Cook, last Friday. Mrs. Cornelius Porter visited with her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Hughes a few days the latter part of the week and returned Sunday. : Mr. Grant Oldham purchased a De Laval separator of Graham Sons of Amsterdam. Tom Grimsley’s oldest daugh- ter has the measles. ait: Mrs. Carrie Henderson is mak- ing-a extended visit to Indianap- olis. She is also taking medical United States. called on state militia to assist the regular forces ih an international crisis. The ilitia in Texas, Arizona and New exico were ordered out. Use of these citizen troops will not call for action by Congress at -| this time, since they will be used ‘nly for patrol duty along the Bran They will be under the ‘command of General Funston. The militia organizations of the three states comprise about five thousand officers and men, fully atmed and equipped. Orders also were issued for three regiments of regular infan- try to proceed to the border. at once from Plattsburgh, N. Y., Vancouver, Wash., and Fort Law- ton, Wash. In all about eight thousand additional men will be on duty. : Decision to call out the militia followed a conference between President Wilson and Secretary Baker after Baker had received two long code messages from Gen- ;eral Funston. N.M.N. Ed Snider to Joplin. Ed Snider, the popular Missouri Pacific engineer, who. has trans- ferred from the Interstate run to a run between Joplin and Granby left Monday for Joplin. His fam- ily will join him in a few days and they will make that city their home. 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