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Durifig thia month—an opportunity is afiforded every wtnnan to try a One Minute in her own . home. Without the slightest obligation or ex¬ pense—without even asking you to buy, wc will deliver a brand new washer to your home and leave it there for a trial washing. Phone or come in and arrange for this demonstration.
You can own a One Minute by paying a littla down and a little a week.
BOWMAN'S
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COUNTY SEAT NEWS
By E. B. OORRBLL Former Br".tor of Tha Republican
Clem Isrssl, called to thia county a tew wesk* ago by the sudden death aud burial of his father, Mosea Israel
wife, whom he married last summer, is a daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Ad Hays. He is employed in St. Louia witb the Continental Battery Co., of North Harter Tp., visited the \ which resumed operations on Monday county seat last Friday, intent upon i of this week, after a brief suspension, learning whether or not the records \ i^w Sergeant, old-time hotel keep- of the connty contained a copy of a er and tonsorial artist of Louisville,
Hersehel Wilson and wife returned Qranite City, viaited over the week- to St. Louis last Saturday, after a end wtth home folks in this city, week or two's visit in Louisville with Mrs. Kepley came especially to meet home folks. Herachel is a grand- her friend and former chum, Mra. son of "Poke" Wilson, one of the Moine Todd, who was visiting here, oldest citisens Of the capital,Jknd his, but two houra betore her arrival Mra,
reported will left by his father.    An exhaustive search of the records at the court house,    however failed to diaciose any papera of that    nature. Mr. Israel ia a man of about 40 yeara «f age.    His home is at    Lewiston, Northern Idaho, where he has lived aa a farmer (or the past twenty-four years.    He    left his    home in    this bome in this county when he was but a boy of fifteen yeara.     He haa but one brother. Earl,    who   resides    in Denver,    Colo.    Owing to    slcknesa Earl Israel was unable to attend the funeral  of  his  father.    The   mother of the Israel boys, who died several years ago    and was    buried at Elm¬ wood cemetery, was a sister of Mra, Ham Monical,   deceased,   and   Fred Monlcal,    of    East St.    Louis, is    a cousin.    Mr. Israel left on Saturday upon his Journey home,   stopping en¬ route for a short visit with his cousin tn  East St. Louis.    The estate, con- elating ot 80 acres of improved land situated on the hard    road north of Flora, will  be administered  on,  Mr. Israel said while here, and sold.
Fred Busse, from Chicago, looking well since bis complete recovery from his hospital experience while on his previous visit at home, is again spend¬ ing a few days with his family in this elty.
left forVincennes this week to visit a few days with the famiiy of his son, Austin, before the work season opens Lew says he likes this town—that he was here before there was a brick house on the square, and bas seen everything built that is now worth while.
"Dad" Preston, who spent the win¬ ter trapping along the course of the Sangamon River between Springfield and the Mississippi River, returned to Louisville a few days ago. "Dad" says he didn't get rich, but he had lots of tun and a good time.
Miss Stella Lewis, who left home here at the beginning of the year to study millinery in. Indianapolla befdre entering Mra. Grace Massey's shop in Urbana as saleslady, the same having been her custom the past three or four years, has accepted a position with a wholesale millinery house in Indianapolis. Owing to failing health Mra. Massey has been compelled to retire from business.
Charley Osterdoek and family of Jimtown, are leaving this week for Mamsfieid, Piatt county, near which place Charley will be employed on a farm and provided with a home. He has a wife and three children .
Mrs. Geo. H. Kepley, nee Paullne Farrell, and little daughter, Jean, of
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Todd, in answer to a summons left for ChebauBe .
Supervisor William Cox ot Oska¬ loosa Tp., who says he's tired of pol¬ itics and public office and will here¬ after devote his time to the farm,' was in town last Thursday afternobn, chatting with the boys and laying in a pound or two of smokin.' The plain truth is Bill's been keeping "bachelor's hall"—fryin' his owft bacon and sitting by the kitchen range raading ancient history while his wife is away visiting her son, Melvin, and famiiy in Flora, and he just bad to come to town to see some¬ body and talk.
Otto Hardin and famiiy moved from the George Ranse place on the hard road this week to the oid Bly farm in Northeast Louisville Tp. Mr. Hardin is the widow Ranes' son- in-law, and since the death ot Oeorge Ranes has been living with his moth¬ er-in-law and caring for the place. He Is a son of Sam Hardin of Bible Grove Tp,
Harry McClure, ex-World war sol¬ dier and a son of Sid McClure of Lou¬ isville Tp. who has been at the Roch¬ ester, Minn., hospital for a month or two, has been ordered back to San Bernardino, Calif. He ts not tmr proving.
Miss Dollie Hobbs, who lives w|th her aged mother on the Hobbs farm about three milea south of Louisville on the old Louisville-Flora wagon road, and raised last year with her own hahds about the flnest small herd of Hereford calves in the county, has mailed us a little newspaper clipping showing why the editor left town. It appears from the story that the editor one day received from a friend a few bottles of bome-brew. On the same day he received a wedding announce¬ ment and a notice of an auction aale, and this is what the home-brew did for the paper when It came out: "William Smith and Miss Lucy An¬ deraon were disposed of at public auc¬ tion at my farm 1 mile east of a beau¬ tiful cluster of roses on her breast and two white calvea, before a back¬ ground ot farm implements too num¬ erous to mention in the presence of about seventy guests. Including two milch cows, six mules and one bob sled. Rev. Jackaon tied the nuptial knot with 200 teet of hay rope and the bridal couple left op one good John Deere gang plow for an extend ed trip with terms to suit purchasera. They will be at home to their friends with one good baby buggy and a few kitchen utensils after ten months from date of sale."
Adam Conley, ax-supervisor, school treasurer, and    leading    tamer    ot
Hoosler Tp., traosaeted business at the capital last Friday—only good day ofthe week.
John Boles passed away last Thnrs¬ day trom the effects of a second stroke of paralysis which tae suffered three or four weeks ago, age 72 yeara. He Is survived hy a wife and two sons, Ray Boles, a garage me¬ chanic I nthis city, and Floyd Boles, leslding at Winchester. The funeral was conducted at the Boles home, hree and a half miies southwest of lculsville, by Rev. H. J. Frost of the ^'eniacostal church, and the inter¬ ment was at the Speaks graveyard. I'he deceased was the son of Moses Greenbury Holes, a Civil war soldier of tbe county and a former chaplain of Stephenson Post, G. A, R, ot Louis¬ ville.
Esq. Holaday, county coroner, com¬ pleted a four weeks' internment at St. Antuony's Hospital in Effingham last Tuesday. He was reported slightly >.etier at the week-end, and "fret¬ ting" a little to gat home. It Is the intention ot his famiiy, concurred in Ly his doctors, that he be returned home tbis week if he continues to im¬ prove. During the four weeks of his detention st die hospital bis daugh¬ ter, Adda, a gained nurse by profes¬ sion, has remained constantly at hla bed-side, and without doubt contri¬ buting very much to his reported change for the better. The Squire's many frienda will he glad to see him home once more, and getting well.
Otho Evans, or "Spiked as he used to be caiied when a boy about Louis¬ viUe, made a sale of his personal property last Wednesday with the ob¬ ject of temporarily quitting business pursuits to enter a government hos¬ pital at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., for treatment. Mr. Evans is a World war soldier. During the service he contracted an intestinal disease, from ivhich .ho suffered more or less until ni* discbarge, pndergoing meanwhile several delicate surgical operations. After the close of the war the govern¬ ment sent him to a school farm in Missouri, where he acquired the knowledge of successful poultry rais¬ ing. Upon his return to this county about three years ago Mr. Evans pur¬ chased a 20-acre farm south of the picnic grounds near lola, and com¬ menced to build up a modern poultry -arm, with tbe result that last Wed¬ nesday be had a flock of 700 healthy chickens to sell. Mr. Ehrans' oid .rouble has returned, and Inunediate special treatment, government ex- aminera now says,is necessury that his life may be preserved. He and his ¦ amily, a wife and two children, left Ibis week for Jefferaon Barracks. Otho Evans' mother, the widow of Ai- :.ert Evans, a former Baltimore & Ohio section foreman, resides at this place with two minor children, a girl and a boy.
Edgar Krutsinger of West Louis¬ ville Tp., accompanied by "Uncle BiU" Montgomery, motored .o Neog.i last Friday afternoon to meet Mr. Krutinger's son, Lowell, now ac home jn a short vacation. Lowell Krut¬ singer is a student at the Charleston .^tate Normal.
They motored Into town last Thureday about noon and were' mar¬ ried in the county clerk's office by Rev. John W. Tucker of the M. B. church. Who? Why, Dr. Horace L. Willey and Mrs. Minnie Heratman of Mt. Carmel. It was the second mar¬ riage for both the bride and groom, but it was Dr. Willey's firat marriage on his birthday, that same being his 59th. Dr. Willey is a popular prac¬ ticing physician of Mt. Carmel, where he has resided for many yeara, and his bride is a good looking woman of that city. They departed from this city bound for the little town of Wil¬ ley, the Doctor's native home, in Christian county, to visit a few daya. Rev. J. E. Willey, a former paator of the Methodist church of this city. Is a distant relative of the Doctor.
Nothwithstanding that three of the inmates of the county house have died and been buried since the begin¬ ning of this year, Alva Potts, mana¬ ger of the farm, reported to the Board of Supervieora, in session this week, eighteen inmates now finding bed and board at his house. Of these he haa one whole family, consisting of a father and mother and six children, boarding with him. They are Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Brown and family from Pixley Tp. The Browna found lodging and keep at the Poor Farm last fall, and Mr. Potts «ays the fath- and mother are in good health. Dur-^ Ing the past year Allen Cox, James Coakley and Samuel Enog have died at the county house. They were all old men, and with the exception of Enos, were bachelora. Among the inmiates now at tbe farm are Bill Pngh, Blias Crum, Frank Welch, and Ed Minor. Minor is over 40 yeara ot age and was born on the farm.
Ben Hagle, candidate for county Jndge, spent the day last Thuraday In Xenia aad Xenia Tp., meeting up with his republican friends, and If the con¬ tented smile that has since embelllsb- ed hts features means anything be must have received some substantial encouragement. Ben Hagle ' was county Judge of this county thirty- one years ago, and he haa since beea elected county Judge two or three limes, always serving the people of the county satisfactorily and well, the which is the best guarantee that tt again gucceasful the county will have a worthy Judge. Judge Reaugh, who Is also a candidate for this office, seeking a re-election, has made the connty a worthy Judge, and so, no matter how the cat Jumps next April the county and ita people are reason, ably sure of being ably and honestly served. Tbe time is not now far dis¬ tant when the question will be settled. Over 400 attended the poultry meetings of the Clay County Farm Bureau last week. F. A. Oougler of the Illinoia Agricultural Association, discussed some poultry problenis. with special reference to quality pro¬ duction and to^ co-operative market¬ ing plan that is being favorably re¬ ceived by the farmera and also' by several leading Clay county mer¬ chants who have heard the plan ex¬ plained. Co-operative poultry and egg marketing associations have been at work In tbe west for a number ot yeara. More reeently, Minnesota and Ohio bave been saceeaafnlly working
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CARS FOR
27c
1 HEHinG f,ir       . 5c I
I HERRWG, Holhiid, per doz. . 29c i
|Pork&Beansar3c»'23c|
BREAD '*"""' *^""'
11-2 ft. Uif, DnUe
lOc
Vavy Beans 2 Lbs. for .
13c
Karo Syrup, blue label B lb can	
25c
Peas, Country Club Tiny 	
25c
Peas,  Country Club, Sifted ...
21c
Oleo, Wondernut, per lb  	
20c
Gloves, 2 pair .
25c
Gloves, Dozen ..
$1.39
Heins Baked Beans, 3 small cans 	
25c
Catsup, Country Club Small Bottle 	
lOc
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Tomatoes, SUndard No. 2 can 	
9c
standard Peat 8 cana 	
25c I
Cheese, Cream, per lb .
34c I
Butter, Country Club CreMnery, lb 	
49c I
Onion Sets, Red and Yellow per lb
lOc I
Onion Sets, White, 2 lbs
25c I
Potatoes, 16 lbs	
72c I
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33c I
Oranges, per dos ..
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along these lines, under conditions I home a few days ago from a Savan- very similar to this section of Illinois. {nah. Mo., hospital for cancer. He As the major source of Income of, was operated on for a tancer on the Clay county farmers Is generally con¬ ceded to be from the sale of poultry and eggs, farmefs are requesting their Farm Bureau to make poultry and egg marketing a major project for 1926.
Mra.   Ethel  Carter-Abel,  late  pri¬
mary teacher In the lola schools, bail resigned, and is succeeded by Miss Irma White of Flora.
The Clay County Shippera' Assoc¬ iation got out one car of Uvestock or the Ea*t St. Louis market last 'eek. This car was shipped from Louisville. Those who fecelved checks exceeding one hundred dollars were O. D. Lewis, $215.43 for 9 hogs; E. L. Sunderman $183.64 for g hogs; C. W. Landwher, $136.63 for 5 hogs; C. E. Denker, $107.26 for 4 hogs; Dr. J. V. DUIman, $107.12 for 7 calves. A. W. Conley, Fred McCol¬ lum and Charley McPeak had good calves on this car ranging frem $27.- 6K to $28.36. Some calves were shipped from Flora. Howard Pearce having the best at $24.62. E. M. Richardson sold one at $22.18. total tor the week was $1776.67
Frank Lancaster Is again laid uii suffering from intestinal trouble.
O. O. Tate ot Machem Tp., Marion county, wa* tn town last Friday, pay¬ ing  hia  l,axes.    Mr.   Tate   returnad
mouth while in the hospital, and he says he believes he will get well.
Hugh Hord, ex-president ot the Louisivlle Sanhedrim, is laid up wltb the grip.
Jas. N. Fender and O. O. Lewis, both old campaigners have visited the county seat the paat few days. Both are candidates for county school superintendent, and both are receiv¬ ing encouragement right along. May the best man win.
Howard Berry of Tuscola, was in' town last week from a visit at his father';! bed-side in the Olney hoa¬ pltal. Harrison Berry was operated on a few days ago for bladder trouble and is making good progress towards an early recovery.
Mra. Bdna Goodenough and her daughter. Miss Elisabeth Boyles, who have b^n the house-guests of Mra. Goodenough's brother, Fred Barbee and wife the past few days, returned Wednesday to their home I nOreen- castle, Ind. Misa Blisabeth is Just _. i back from spending the winter at T"« Seattle, Wash.
The Pentacostal evangelists, the Mleses Grace Cook and Florence Clan¬ cy, closed tbeir revival meetings at the village of Oskaloosa ten days ago
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I With the approach of Easter we are prepared I with a wonderful array of the latesl
? Spring Styles
and Ck)lor8
$1.98 to $4.95
We have not forgotten the
Kiddies
Those cute little hats
and bonnets
of Tan, Brown, Green
and Pink
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