Local notes and events in Colony community
Personal illnesses travel and social news from Colony and nearby towns. Chas Graham remains ill. Clyde Glaus and Joe Carey made brief trips to Kansas City. Mina Elin Kennedy attended Colony commencement. Ladies Aid elected officers. Rev Moore hosted visits and sermons. Little Cecil Butler died in Osawatomie with funeral at Garatt. Acratox extends sympathies.
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Little Cecil Butler
Dwight Butler
Osawatomie
Garatt
A.C. Farrow
Acrratox
Curbstone Jottings on prejudice and domestic tales
A column mocks prejudice and social aims, warns against petty bias, and narrates a Kansas City stock tale where a husband overreacts to a flirtatious ploy. The piece blends humorous anecdotes with moral advice on seeing life without narrow judgments.
Livestock Receipts and Market Outlook at Kansas City
Kansas City April 27 1903 livestock receipts last week totaled 26089 cattle 37973 hogs 32842 sheep and 1764 horses and mules Cattle runs fell from the prior week as beef feeders and vealers held value while stockers faced lower prices Hog prices eased slightly with generous hog marketing helping apples in California ads and a brisk week ahead expected for cattle with steady to lower mood and early demand for stockers and calves Last lines promote CAS CARETS laxatives with sensational market turn and tourist car rates in the Santa Fe region
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Kansas City
Inter
California
Santa Fe
Market Report Shows Mixed Bids and Seasonal Slump
Demand remains ample for arrivals but overall trade slows due to weak values. Week’s loss runs 16 to 20 cents with sharper declines on small pigs, while top hogs reach 7.05 but most sell under 7. Lambs show slight gains, while sheep trade stays dull except for lambs. Southern grass stock dominates receipts. wooled muttons ease and lambs hold steady. Best west lambs at 6.65 for 61 pounds. Mules range 110 to 175. Santa Fe ayl accepts colonist tickets for California trips March 7 to June 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joux M. Hazatrton
Eleven Killed and Twenty Five Wounded in Missouri Pacific Collision
A north bound Missouri Pacific stock train rear ended a work train near Buffalo at 7 p.m. Sunday. Eleven men died and twenty five were seriously injured, mostly Greeks and Italians. one casualty was Peter Fry of Garnett. Rescue crews rushed to Coffeyville hospitals. language barriers complicated aid. Officials blame fault between the Buffalo station agent and the work train flagman.
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Missouri Pacific
Buffalo
Peter Fry
Garnett
Coffeyville
Missouri Pacific Hospital
Tts
Melvin Sargent Marries Mamie Sargent at Emerald
Last Saturday Jefferson Melvin of Glenlock wed Miss Mamie Sargent of Garnett. Rev Father Hurley officiated at Emerald. Breakfast was by Nellie Minchan. Dinner at John McGlinchy home. Supper at Jobs Knight home Mineral Point. Bride Gwenett county teacher. groom a farmer merchant in Glenlock.
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Jefferson Melvin
Glenlock
Mamie Sargent
Garnett
Father Hurley
Emerald
Nellie Minchan
John McGlinchy
Jobs Knight
Mineral Point
Gwenett
Anderson
Socialist College planned in Wichita for May opening
A group including Elmer Will and W. A. Rost announces a new American Socialist College in Wichita Kansas to train men and women for a cooperative commonwealth. The project partners from Ruskin College add a music department to the reorganized Western College of Oratory with Sedgwick block headquarters and close cooperation planned. Lydia M. Craig is summoned in a divorce suit filed by C. M. Craig with a May 25 response deadline.
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Wichita
Elmer Will
Kansas Agricultural College
W. A. Rost
Granville Lowther
American Socialist College
Kas
Cooperative Commonwealth
Fredrick A. Metcalf
Department of Oratory
Kansas State Agricultural College
Western College of Oratory
Mra. C. P. Harnish
Sedgwick
Ruskin College
Trenton
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Chas Graham
Clyde Glaus
Joe Carey
Mina Elin Kennedy
Colony
The
Methodist Aid Society
FE. May
Joplin
Rev. Moore
Mathis
Chanute
Presbyterian
Cyrus A. Lowry
Art Bennett
Thos. Black
New Bedford
Mass
Gospel Hall
Rev. Church
Colony High School
Coleman
Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian Church
Curbstone
Eivery
Smith
Brown
Sane
Best Ateera
Chicago
Los Angelia
San Francisco
Holcomb
Uneeda
Uneeda Biscuit
Uneeda Blacult
National Biscuit Company
Missouri Pacific Railway
Melvin Sargent
Ploe
B. J. Kay
Saratoga
Ayer
Buckingham
Druggteteor
P. Mall eCo
Hashua
N.hee
Rs Kay
Thedfords
Black Draught
Over Medicine
Sinopee Plains
S.C
Tae
Teo Burp
Lumanet Nadie
A. G. Lewis
Kaning
Hans Erickson
Angeletta Erickson
State of Kansas
Aaid
Sai
A Socialist College
Aspinson County
Anderson County
D. M. Craig
Lydia M
Rowman & Whittington
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