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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1904
Page
6
A jumble of brief notices from Garnett recounts illnesses, travels, and visits. Many residents attend events in Kansas City, Ottawa, Osawatomie, and Lawrence, with tasks from carpentry to telephoning, school work, and family visits noted amid social and illness items.
Mrs PH Croot and her son Claude came home on Wednesday night from the world’s fair. Miss Helle Hollingshead visited from Topeka last Friday to see her parents and celebrate the new days.
A humorous montage of a bustling circus crowd, ornate pageantry, and a feisty monkey escape. The piece mixes toy-page exaggeration with local chatter about repairs, hoaxes, and a few quirky anecdotes. It notes correction demands, new vehicles, a charitable box joke, and a crude humor sketch of a medicine testimonial.
Sunberman C Vo Stoll receives more timber. H Turner visits Miami county friends. Mr Wishard and Mrs Kennedy visit Welda relatives. Neweoul, Weld, Jolson county movers stop in Lone Bini. Movte family visits Jolson. Stoll family in town. Dr. Smith inks stock. plans to locate. Mrs Woodmill and Mrs Bidwell ill or improving. St Louis trip returns. locals consider relocation. Ladies Guild Social Circle picnic at W E Locksner's creek with games and chatter.
A warload of pipe arrived last Friday for Garnett Gas Company to lay six inch pipe around the square. Work began Monday with a large force of men busy at the site. Pipe runs eighteen inches below the surface. Local officials plan to heat the courthouse with fuel as long as possible. Various residents and visitors travel through town, including Tones from Hutler, Mev Kennedy, Mie Craig, Dr Ceitig, Mrs Stoddard, Mra Chas Stewart, Mr. and Miss Lamasney, and others visiting relatives and friends.
Prof Nighols new principal at Ure Eastside School rents Bash property on Third Avenue West and moves household effects from Douglas county. Flix family to arrive mid September. John Reddington and Messrs McMul len McEvoy and Ralston ship five cars of catty to Kansas City. Miss Mary Arnolds heads to Kansas City next Monday for five month course at St Teresa Academy conservatory. Mont Bel and wife visit Kansas City relatives while Miss Delia Lagg returns from Springfield. Mrs Lacy plans extended stay. Chester Herbert and Thane Holcomb camp and fish on the Neoshy.
Plaintiff Dows A. Vann seeks divorce from BM Valk in Anderson County Kansas court. She asks for custody of minor children Bede Valk Ruth Valle and Haneke Valk and alimony on specified block 34 property. Defendant must answer by October 10 1904 or judgment will be entered.
A postmaster notice lists letter recipients at Garnett PO including C. B. Ray air F 1 Sturgess Sir Haub Watkins Charles Deu L Cunningham W C Burton C Audiberc ar D 7 Pausch William McCreul Mies Liege Warshall W S Hews Postmaster
An advertisement proclaims Holcomb's Headache Powders cure headaches and promising relief for customers who try the product. It touts past cures and urges readers to purchase to experience relief firsthand.
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