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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1902
Page
8
The report states that a regular banking business was transacted across all branches without incident. Details indicate typical daily operations, deposits, withdrawals, and routine services conducted by staff at multiple locations. No unusual events or disruptions are noted.
The column lists town notices and brief items: phone numbers, visits, travel between Kansas and Missouri locals, births, guardian appointments, business trips, factory shipments, burglaries, hospitalities, spiritual events, and a circulation of social ties. Names such as Horace Reed, Champe, J.L. Harteell, Capt. L. D. Dobbs, Marble Wyatt, Della Kerr, Lizzie Anderton, Hea tor Kessick, J.W. Henderson, W. H. Ambrose, Marion Ramsay, A. Bedford, Agnes Spraull, and the Garnett Marble Granite Works appear alongside places like Emporia, Kansas City, Burling ton, Circle ville Ohio, Greeley, Osawatamie, Topeka, and Lake Joy. The column notes guardian appointments, burglaries, church baptisms, and the presence of county officials in session, reflecting a busy local week.
L W Baxter formerly of Emporia and graduates of Kansas State Normal School has been named territorial superintendent and ex officio auditor of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Capital lauds his reappointment as deserved, citing Baxter as a capable, safe business man with broad experience and a bright future in the young territory.
In Central City and nearby areas owners exchange hands at a record pace. E Boroughs returns with family. Purney sells his farm and plans to move to Ohio next year. Local social events include Mrs Jennie Lake and Mrs Elisha Davis hosting gatherings and the Ladies Aid Society meeting.
A fragment praises the Chicago Record-Herald for its brilliant array of features. It notes combined coverage from The Chicago Record and The Chicago Times-Herald, including foreign dispatches, market news, sports, literature, fashion, society, and readers’ guides.
In quantities to suit purchasers at my dorm two miles northeast of Central City J D Stevens advertises patent tonics and tablets with dubious claims. The copy touts Hops the C and Works off the Cold nulva Birowa Quinine Tablets cure 9 salonature No Pay Pelee Jonta Try Holcomb's Headache Powders and asserts others have been cured and you will be too.
Rev. J. G. Lemon founder and manager of the Christian Home Orphanage in Council Bluffs writes that Dr Ray's Renovator and Nerane Balm have proven meritorious in caring for residents. The orphanage shelters several hundred children and the products are sold by all druggists.
A historical church directory lists service times and pastors for Presbyterian Methodist United Brethren Baptist and Christian churches. Entries mention regular Sunday services 9 to 11 o clock morning and 7 to 9 pm evening, youth groups Christian Endeavor and prayer meetings midweek, with pastors listed including Marais Carmun Watutam and others.
Fragments list lodge meeting days and locations including Ge Tiatton Hall on the first and fourth Thursday, Gawnerr Lopan No 16 at Gad alloy building every Tuesday, Odd Fellows hut Denentas London No 4 Masonic on the third Monday or Thursday, Royal Arch Mason gatherings on the first and fourth Friday, and other lodges such as Zion Circle No M and Workman Hall schedules with visits encouraged for visiting members.
A plan for ready grown plants in May from Judes Vick of David Landreth & Sons offers trading bedding and flowering sorts at 25 cents a dozen or 1.50 per 100. Readers get 10 percent discount by mentioning this paper.
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