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35-NO. 17 Hats for Men and Boys We have gone through our hat stock and Rubbers and rubber boots for men. We Heinz Chutney, one of the best eatables taken out all the broken lines. Some of them have the best rubber boot sold in Osborne. Let ever made from tomatoes.
only left three or four of a kind. Good shapes, us prove it to you. A few 35c close lots of them. A great many will do for dress sour pickles, values, to out and big lot of dandy good work hats. Millinery business is rushing.
The past at 25c per gallon. Small sizes and good. wear a week has been the best week so far this season. All of them priced away down. Come in and Acropolis canned beets, 15c per can.
supply yourself. Appetite Improvers Try 3 of fine mackerel for 25c. our Rubbers for ladies -low or high heel. little bit a the hottest goods ever put in a bottle. Some big values in dried fruits by Saturday.
Try bottle of Heinz Mandalay Sauce. A Phone 19 THE GILLETTE COMPANY Free delivery to Good place to trade. any part of town. Of all sad words of tongue or pensaddest are these: "It might have been 22 CALUMET Baking Powder 04 Avoid the mishaps the disappointments the "bad luck" in baking, by avoiding Poor Baking Powder the cheap, or CAKING big can kinds and the highNOT MADE BY THE price Trust brands. They are unreliable--they too often fail -Don't trust them.
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Among the bills enacted into law during the recent session of legisa lature is one providing for the establishment of normal training courses in high schools, and the granting of state aid to such schools as shall establish and maintain such courses under regulations provided by the state board of education. High schools and academies to be eligible under the provisions of the normal training act must: (1) Maintain a four-year course, provided, however, that in counties in which no high school has a four-year course a three-year course may be approved. (2) In all high schools approved under the terms of the normal training act there must be at least three regular high school teachers, exclusive of the superintendent; provided, however, that in those counties in which the three-year course is proved there shall be at least two regular high school teachers, exclusive of the superintendent. (3) A teacher shall not teach more than seven classes a day. (4) Before determining the eligibility of any high school there shall be sent to the state superintendent by the superintendent or board of education a certified list of pupils agreeing to undertake the normal training course, and who shall have signed the following pledge: "We, the undersigned, hereby declare that our object in asking admission to the normal training class inhigh school is to prepare ourselves for teaching, and it is our purpose to engage in teaching in the public schools of Kansas at the completion of such preparation.
We pledge ourselves to remain in the class the required time unless prevented by illness, or unless excused by the state superintendent of public instruction." Each high school designated for normal training and meeting the requirements of the state board of education shall receive state aid to the amount of five hundred dollars per school year, to be paid in two equal installments, on the first day of March and the first day of June of each year, from the state treasury, on a voucher certified to by its superintendent or principal and approved by the superintendent of public instruction; provided, that no part of such money received from the state shall be used for any other purpose than to pay teachers' wages; and provided further, that in case more than one high school in any one county shall establish a normal course in accordance with the provisions of this act and shall be accredited by the state board of education, the total state aid distributed in such counties shall not exceed one thousand dollars; and in case there are more than two high schools in any one county designated and accredited by the state board of education, state aid to an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars shall be equally divided among said schools. A number of pupils in the Osborne high school have already signed the above and a large number of others have signified their intentions of 80 doing. They are much interested in it. It takes ten to start it, but the number will likely be several times that here. In Osborne county Downs and Osborne will be able to qualify and each school will receive from the state $500 for teachers' wages.
The Missouri Pacific depot at Ames, on the Central Branch near Clyde, with all its contents was destroyed by fire Saturday night. Lightning struck the building and caused the fire. Loss is said to be in the neighborhood of $2, 00. Bought a Famous Farm. Presbyterian Church Regular services next Sunday: Sunday school at 10 a.
preaching at 11; C. E. at 7:00 p.m.; evening service at 8:00. Mid-week meeting Wednesday at 8:00 p. m.
JOHN C. MILLER, Minister. A New M. E. Parsonage.
The executive board of the Osborne M. church had a meeting Monday (evening and decided upon the immediate erection of a parsonage on the lots north of the church. The new building will cost about $4,000. The present parsonage will be sold and the proceeds used in the erection of the new house. We understand negotiations are now in progress for the sale of the property at Penn and Chestnut streets.
The building committee will be announced as soon as the chairman of the executive board, Rev. W. H. Neil, has selected the members. A soliciting committee -C.
E. Jewell, W. J. Messick and D. C.
Hamacher-is now at work among the church members. The new parsonage will be ready for occupancy fall. Missionary Council at Downs. A missionary council of the Congregational churches of this district was held in the Downs church Monday, and a very good attendance is reported from the seventeen churches in this group. Addresses were delivered by Rev.
Thomas Gray, formerly missionary in the Caroline Islands, where the mail steamer came only once a year; Rev. J. F. Cross of Wales, Alaska; and Rev. J.
B. Gonzales, superintendent C. H. M. S.
for Texas and Louisiana -all of which were highly interesting, instructive and entertaining. Downs was one of 200 Congregational centers the speakers will visit in their tour in the interest, of the "Together" missionary movement. Among Osborne people attending the Downs meeting were Rev. F. P.
Strong, A. G. Hardman and wife, E. S. Baldwin, Mrs.
J. J. Hays, Mrs. J. A.
Morton and R. R. Hays. -David Neiswanger, Sat- former resident of Osborne, died urday at the home of his son, W. A.
Neiswanger, Topeka, aged 84 years. He was a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. Nov. 16, 1850, he married Miss Nancy Westfall of the same county, and for years their home. was in Mechanicsburg.
They came to Kansas in 1900 and lived in Osborne several years. Mrs. Neiswanger was called from this world Feb. 28, 1905, and a couple of years later Mr. Neiswanger went to Topeka to live with his son.
He was a lifelong member of the Dunkard chureh. Five children survive him: Hal W. and C. G. Neiswanger of Osborne, W.
A. and Miss Laura Neiswanger of Topeka, and J. K. Neiswanger of Brookville, Pa. The funeral was held and interment made Monday at Topeka.
DEATHS Another Old Timer Heard From. W. W. Parsons is in receipt of a letter of Noah F. Hite, who many years ago lived in Tilden township on the farm now occupied by Fred Pulver.
He came here in the '70s and will be well remembered by the older inhabitants. He left here to make his home in Virginia years ago. From the letter we take the following: Do you remember Will Wood? He and I went to Osborne county together from Miami county and each took a homestead. Will sold his and returned to eastern Kansas, where he died the 13th of last February. I believe he never owned a farm after he left Osborne county.
My father died about three years ago at the advanced age of 86 years. My mother is still living and is in her 86th year. She is very active and strong for her age. I do not take an Osborne county paper, so do not know much about what has taken place there in the last ten years. The news from Osborne made me homesick, and so I stopped my paper.
Under the stress of homesickness once I remarked to my wife that I would rather be dead in Kansas than alive in Old Virginia. She sensibly replied that if I did not stop my foolish worry I would soon be dead in Old Virginia. I got over it and have quit dreaming about the beautiful land of Kansas. Prices yesterday: Wheat, corn, 59; hogs, $6.50. The deal was closed yesterday for the sale of Norwood Stock farm, and Col.
E. A. Smith, who has owned the noted place for forty years, turned the papers over that placed it in the hands of another. The price paid for the land was $20,000. The purchaser is Geo.
F. Brown of Osborne, a brother of Secretary E. E. Brown of the state university. He will stock the place with cattle.
He has made a success of the cattle business in that part of Kansas where he has lived and says the conditions here are more favorable. He and his family will be welcomed by the city and their neighbors, and that welcome will be accentuated by the fact that Mrs. Brown was before her marriage a Douglas county girl and lived but a few miles from hui new home. After tiring of public life and the active duties of banker and hotel owner and manager, Col. E.
A. Smith in 1869 bought the Norwood stock farm. Three years later he sold out his business holdings and took active management of the place. He was a practical horseman and knew the business before he stocked the farm. His first work was to go to Kentucky and buy forty head of the best blood of the blue grass state.
They were the best and largest bunch of horses that had up to that time been brought west of the Mississippi. Colonel Smith invested in his farm and stock. It is needless to say that his success was phenomenal. Norwood stock farm has sent out to the world some of the best horses it has ever known, and the get of his stud and their descendants are of the finest blood in America. Norwood, the Kentucky bred stallion, at the head and the patriarch of the farm.
He was as fine an animal a as one would wish to see. Then among the many stallions bred and sold on the farm were Almont Pilot, and Col. Smith refused an offer of $10,000 for him. Sealskin Wilkes, the handsomest horse ever seen in the west, cost $5,000, and a few months before he died Col. Smith refused an offer of $13,000 cash for him.
Novar sold for $3,000 as a yearling, and now in his old age and after his days of usefulness are over he would probably bring as much. Among the others Sister Wilkes was a 2:20 mare and sold for $12,000. Emolita went to New York, where she trotted in 2:10, after Col. Smith had sold her for $5,000. Rosemond went to a German nobleman for $6,500.
Bessie Wilkes trotted a mile in 2:24 when she was a green colt, and sold for a price almost as large as was received for Sister Wilkes. In those early days Col. Smith seldom sold a yearling cold for less than $1,000, and the average price for the young stallions was $3,000. It was the golden age for horses, and Norwood farm had the best that could be found. Men came or sent their agents from all over the world to buy the blood of Norwood.
A pedigree from there was worth thousands of dollars many times and nothing but the best ever went out from the famous us farm. And if anyone should ask a horseman of Kansas today what was the most successful horse farm that was ever in Kansas, there would be but one answer, "Norwood." -Lawrence Gazette, April 16. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hill and the two youngest children went to Kansas City last night to spend a couple of weeks.
J. Wittenberg and wife of Fairbury, who were here a week on account of the illness of his sister, Mrs. Gerhardt Roenne, returned home last night. The matrimonial business in Osborne county has been booming the past week and Judge Groesbeck has been kept busy. Here is the record: Thursday Judge Groesbeck married Geo.
H. Towne, aged 23, of Shull City, and Pearl Connelly, aged 19, of Osborne. Ray Ewing, aged 23, and Mary A. Grieve, aged 20, were married by Judge Groesbeck Thursday. They will make their home on a farm in the Paradise country which the groom's father recently bought.
A license was issued Friday to Frederick VandeReit, aged 31, and Grace Vos, aged 23, both of Dispatch. The wedding occurs today and will be quite elaborate. A license was issued Friday to Henry B. Farr, aged 23, of Twin Creek, and Susan W. Shiel, aged 24, of Osborne.
They were married yesterday by Judge Groesbeck. A very pretty wedding occurred yesterday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. T.
Orr, in Tilden township, when their daughter, Miss Edna M. Orr, was united in marriage to John H. McDaneld of Bloomington. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W.
H. Neil of Osborne. At the home of J. C. O'Brien in this city on Monday evening occurred the marriage of George L.
White of Round Mound township and Miss Violet Gos- MATRIMONIAL sett of Natoma, Rev. W. H. Neil of Osborne officiating. The happy couple took the evening train for Nebraska.
The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. White of Round Mound and the bride is a well known and popular school teacher.
A license was issued Tuesday to Jas. Searle of ca*wker and Julia Knapp of Downs. The wedding occurred yesterday. at Downs, Rev. Campbell officiating.
Yesterday afternoon Judge Groesbeck united in marriage W. S. Wallace of Luray and Miss Jennie Grace Whitely of Jackson township. Married, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Kaser of Osborne, April 18, by Rev. W. J. Loyd, Mr. Andy Johnson and Miss Lottie Kaser.
Only near relatives were present. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson will make their home on a ranch in Covert township. People will take a big risk for a very small amount.
During the last week we have received two letters on which were one cent stamps. One of the letters was sealed and the other was not, but both of them contained written letters and both were signed by the parties who wrote them. Had they fallen into the hands of the postal authorities it would have meant at least a fine of $10 each. Possibly the one cent stamp was put on through ignor'ance, but it is taking a long shot to save a penny. Land! Land! Land! There never has been a time when the prospects were as bright for a good advance in land everywhere, with corn and wheat as well as all other crops from the farm bringing as high a a price as they are, with a good big price for live stock, prospects fine for another good crop, lots of cheap money seeking investments in land and farm mortgages, with homestead land all gone, railroad land all sold, immigration at the rate of 1,250,000 per annum, with independence as well as contentment found in farm life makes everybody sit up and notice the farmer.
If you want to make some good money, sure, make your investment in land at once for there is bound to be a good advance- and a big one, tooall over Kansas if we raise the bumper wheat crop we now have every chance of getting with the whole state thoroughly soaked. We have some extra fine wheat propositions around close to Osborne with from 100 to 120 acres of wheat; a share goes if sold before April 15. Hail Hail Hail Is likely to come now most any time, and it will cost you no more to get a policy for the whole season than it does for a few weeks at latter end of season. Call at our office and give us your application before the section is filled in which you are located. We represent the Good Old Reliable St.
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