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Newspaper
Belleville Freeman
Location
Belleville, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1899
Page
5
Belleville residents welcome Miss Laura L. Tinkler now Mrs. Co. Walker and other locals as Judge Jacobs and Sheriff Brown travel to Topeka. The town reports safe children, cough cures, new businesses, and social visits, with frequent mentions of families, lawmen, and returning soldiers from Cuba and the South.
Mrs Ida Hardy with Mrs Morfydd D Kamp to give a piano recital at Armstrong and Co operating opera house on Tuesday evening March 14. Admission is 35e with no extra charge for reserved seats. Programme begins at 8 15.
For sale a 13 acre fruit and poultry farm with abundant water near the city. Offered cheap and on easy terms. Call at this office for details.
J. W. Hari & Co advertises farm loans at 5 2 percent with a small commission and no delay. Money available as soon as title is proven perfect. Allows partial or full repayment after one year. Note clause only on their paper.
Dressmaking offered at reasonable prices by Marre and Grorata Boyn in the Meeks building at the southeast corner of the square. Local customers invited to call for service and fittings in the new season styles.
Mrs. Della Darron declares from St. Louis that she has secured a superb line of millinery goods from eastern markets and will supply elegant wares at prices lower than ever before.
Mrs R M Armstrong entertained about forty ladies on Wednesday March 1 with a T party. Invitations were tea pot shaped in blue, souvenirs were cup and saucer shooklets. Guests wrote words starting with T for ten minutes. Mrs G W Collins won a blue medal tea cup and saucer for seventy five words. Elegant refreshments followed. guests departed pleased with the charming afternoon.
Mankato visitor J M Doyle hosts W B La Bar while Anderson contemplates selling his farm in Michigan. Cough remedies and polishes are advertised by Doherty Drug Store. Obituaries note Rose Creek farmer J E Cooper died in Indiana. Mrs Cooper also passed away. Community updates include school visits, new cashier Myrtle Lash, One Minute Cough Cure promotions, and local hardware, marble works, and waterworks interests. Church notes cover services and meetings. March foreign missions offering postponed.
Letter list of unclaimed mail for February 28 1899 at Belleville Kansas includes Lapres List and Gents List names such as O D Beckhart J T Backus W 1 Buazga Dr J Croulett Thomas Coen Dave V Cooney Elmer Cox Adolph Erker Allison Gilpin James Huey Louis M Katz N B Porter Carl S Onuell Grace Dye Maud Hughs Mrs Clara Merrett Bonnie McCoy Clare Shadbolt Maggie Wells and notes to use the ad date when calling for advertised letters Cauas P Batpers P M.
A new paint and wallpaper stock is announced in a building one door west of C. A. Taylor's shoe store. The dealer offers fresh, clean stock of paints oils glass brushes and wall coverings at reasonable prices. Experienced workers are available for painting and paper hanging and J. P. Stephenson may call with sample books.
Ben Bailey accepts a Rock Island position and digs trenches while stone masons work. Supt Rathburn and crew leave depot tasks to a subordinate as Harry Plush loses appetite. Agent Whittemore’s child improves. W A Brock named water works supervisor promising better service. A Sedalia conductor’s daughter recovers from croup after One Minute Cough Cure. Doherty's Drug Store promotes it as sole remedy for lung and bronchial troubles.
Farmer James S. Price writes to Republic County growers advising seed should come from fields with prior abundant yield. He announces alfalfa seed will be sold at Mr Riddlebarger's feed store and Price's farm around early February with a positive guarantee.
Attention farmers seek updated agricultural journals and catalogs. Send ten cents to the American Farmers' Directory for a listing of farm implements seeds stock and merchants nationwide. Includes farmer names in the United Eta Directory. address Department 103 Birmingham.
James 8 Price offers a fine Hi Bull for service at his place one south of town. Service charges one dollar. The note records a small local housekeeping or business listing with a price and address reference.
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