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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1903
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR notes show morning and evening church services across Baptist and United Presbyterian congregations. Times include 11:40 am and 7:10 pm with prayer meetings noted, no full addresses or dates readable.
The notice lists lodge meetings and visiting hours for Colfax Lodge No. 1 and related groups. It notes Odd Fellows and Masonic halls, monthly meeting evenings, and welcomes for visiting members across multiple lodges including Royal Arch Masons and Workmen groups. It invites masons to attend gatherings at Odd Fellows hall and various local venues.
Fragments recount visits and travels in Kansag ved and nearby towns. Many residents such as Mrs. Mattie Hunt Mabel Bleeth and Mabel Miller Hedges visit relatives while others travel to Kansas City Ottawa Leavenworth and Coffeyville for illnesses theater and family events.
Local notes highlight a new organ for the high school replacing the old one. Kincaid plans spring stone and brick building construction as Anderson county towns push forward. Robert Wing leaves Carrizozo for El Paso Rock Island offices. A horse of Phillip Morris is struck by lightning and killed. barn uninjured. Prof. A Ludlum from Topeka notes the county courthouse as one of the finest he has seen, having taught here previously. Jim Coleman promoted to train dispatcher at Richmond for the Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie line, starting March 1.
Happenings item notes that G H and I Rice, late of Jackson County Missouri, have bought out J C Miller and will operate a restaurant as Rice Bros The piece also mentions Beulah Hedges Olive Hampshire apprenticing in Mrs Ella Barretts millinery shop Ernest McMurray birthday visits from Baldwin and other local updates including Pearl Rice resigning as assistant postmaster and the death of Thomas Stevens with funeral arrangements in Garnett The friars was held at United Bar and the remains sent to Welda.
Local resident Frank Elliott reported exhibiting a remarkable eight legged three eared pig that died shortly after being brought to town for photographs. Various residents including Mrs. Chas Rice and Mr. John Webb’s children were noted as ill with grippe or sickness, with Mrs. Horace Reed also suffering grippe.
The two year old child of Mr. P. L. McPherson, Harrisburg, Pa., slept better after a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Two boxes have proved a permanent cure. Seeds from D Landreth & Sons, Philadelphia, are offered by Tibbets & Co with Jas Vick & Sonu in charge of mail orders and Garnett ladies placing orders this week.
A short notice urges care with colds noting pneumonia can follow a slight cold. It praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for counteracting this tendency and states Tibbetts & Co sells it.
A Virginia town tale claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured an infant's cold and possible pneumonia after a neighbor's anecdote. Mrs. Harmon of Melfa Station praises the remedy, urging readers to try it. Also notes marriage license for Amon Wadard and Beasia M. Rogers, local sign of spring, and groundhog and frog signs.
John Blowe fully recovered from his attack thanks to Chamberlains Pain Balm after other town doctors failed to help Tibigia & Co. offered the remedy at a favorable price. At the Grand J of A B and A M annual meeting the liquor sale rules were reaffirmed and renting or aiding the traffic would bar lodge membership.
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