In So Society. y. Its just about over. And many a poor woman is thankful. Entertaining friends and "cousins" during the Fair is always customary and is very enjoyable as long as the excitement is going on, but when one's nerves and muscles relax, it is awful.
But if no one visited here during the Fair, we wouldn't enjoy it at all. What pleasure would it be to attend the Fair with the same crowds that are together all the time? New faces, new acquaintances and visitors makes Fair week a pleasure. say, some of our -town "cousins" certainly showed Brookfield some new styles. Did you notice the stunning costumes some of them wore. The most beautiful costume noticed by the woman scribe was a grey onepiece dress with purple trimmings.
A touch of purple at the throat and one of the news sashes of purple made it a very striking costume; one that looked neat and clean and did not show the dust and dirt that one is bound to get at a Fair. Miss Lola Robitall was hostess to a few friends last Wednesday evening in compliment to her sister, Mrs. George Grace, of St. Louis. At a seasonable hour a dainty lunch was served in courses.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ferris were hosts to the Club last Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Waldhaus, Mrs.
S. J. Stewart, of Centerville, and Mrs. H. Kneedler, of Manila, were guests of the club.
The favors were awarded Mrs. Leigh Camberlain and Mr. Waldhaus and Miss Veda Jenkins. A sumptuous luncheon was served in courses after the game. Cards announcing the marriage of Mr.
Harry William Schenck and Miss Mabel Settes, of Los Angeles, on June 26, 1913, have been received here. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Schenck, formerly of Brookfield and well known. The many friends hereabout wish the newlyweds happiness.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dooley and Misses Kathryn, Mary, Loyola, Agnes and Veronica and Majorie Smith, Messrs.
John McGowan, Sr. and John McGown, John Howk and A. L. Burns have returned from a camping trip on Grand River. Mrs.
W. H. Jenkins entertained seven tables at bridge whist last Thursday afternoon in honor of Mrs. H. D.
Kneedler, of Manila. The house was a of scene beauty, the decorations being very elaborate in pink and white sweet peas and yellow daisies. The first favor was given Mrs. C. V.
Sidener, a beautiful sandal wood fan, and Mrs. W. D. Harris was given the second favor, cut' glass nappy. Mesdames J.
C. Craig of St. Louis and S. J. Stewart, of Centerville, Iowa, were out-of-town guests.
The same evening Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins entertained the K. Club. Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Waldhaus, Mesdames J.S. Stewart and H.
D. Kneedler, were club guests. Mrs. A. C.
Ferris and Mr. J. D. Waldhaus were awarded the favors and a consolation favor was given Mrs. Stewart.
Sumptuous refreshments were served at both parties with the color scheme carried out in serving. The following is from the Linneus News: Miss Ora Collins entertained a number of young ladies last Thursday afternoon from 2 until 4 o'clock, complimentary to Miss Anne Kinsey of Kirksville, who has been visiting here. Refreshments were served. Those invited were: Misses Dora and Fannie Abbott, Eula Davis, Eulalia and May Belle Symons, Enid Locke, Stella McNary, Grace Williams, Edna Grice, Mary Elizabeth Phillips, Susa Betson, Susa Ormiston and Mrs. T.
N. Ormiston. Miss Mary Devoy entertained the T. K. K.
Club last Thursday with a line party at The Grand Theatre, in compliment to Miss Neva Ledford, of Centralia, Illinois. After the show the party enjoyed music and delicious refreshments at the Devoy home. Mr. Guy W. Arnold, of this city, and Miss Letta Baker, of Wheeling, were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Baker, formerly of Brookfield, at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, July 13, 1913, Rev. E.
P. Reed of this city officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, after a few days' visit at Breckenridge, will be at home at No.
436 Market street. The many friends of Miss Fisher Shipp were very sorry to hear of her being injured in a wind storm in Alliance, Nebraska, where she and her company were giving a concert in a Chautauqua tent last Thursday afternoon. The storm came up quickly and was a severe wind storm, blowing the tent and piano over. The piano fell on Miss Shipp's foot, breaking one bone. She was also bruised by a tent pole falling on her.
Mr. Loar was knocked down, but sustained no severe injuries. Miss Shipp was brought home Friday night on No. 16. Miss Shipp will not be able to go back to her work for a month.
She has the sympathy of her friends in this unfortunate accident. Miss Clara Hunter very pleasantly entertained the Builders Sunday School class of the Presbyterian Church Monday afternoon. Sweetpeas were used to decorate the home and dainty rerfeshments were served. Stories of the Streets And of the Town. A.
S. Dean, the local agent for the Marion automobile, will receive another car load of machines the latter part of this week from the factory at Indianapolis. The Marion recently came into fame and popularity on account of successful tour cross the continent. The power and the durability, the dependability of the Marion appeals to purchasers of automobiles, and this may he the reason Mr. Dean has been having good success this season.
Next week a general agent will be here to assist the local agent in a finish-up campaign for the season. There is a common belief that the game laws of Missouri are not working very well. In fact, it is a somewhat prevalent opinion that the game birds throughout the country, to say nothing of the songbirds, are slowly vanishing, and that a day will come before long when none save owners of large private estates will be able to find any of the feathered friends that were erstwhile plentiful. We are the more pleased, therefore, to find in one of the sources of rural news in the state that in Linn county, Missouri, there is now a veritable army of prairie hens, pheasants, partridges, thrushes, robbins and cat birds. Evidently we are not going into a condition of bankruptcy, with relation to certain fine and beautiful forms of natural wealth, so rapidly as we feared.
Moreover, it seems that game laws do help- fact which is worth nothing at a time of much skepticism and complaint- St. Louis Times. While the above compliment from the esteemed St. Louis contemporary is appreciated by Linn county folk. that paper should have been magnanimous enough to give credit to whom it is due, which is to no less personage than George W.
Bailey, the well known Brookfielder, and deputy game and fish warden. Mr. Bailey, as we of Linn county all know, is the man who hasput the county on the map in the matter of protection to wild life D. B. Campbell, the Chariton county farmer, famous for big mules, was at the Brookfield Fair again this year with his big pair, and carried away the blue ribbon for the biggest and best mule team in harness, and first and second for the biggest and best pair of mules at the halter; so, also in sweepstakes.
Truly is Mr. Campbell the "big mule of this portion of Missouri. Work in reality was begun Monday on the excavation for the Masonic temple. It is history destroying and history making work. That old corner has entered into the early history of Brookfield.
Work on the excavation will be pushed, and the foundation and brick will be started early in August. At least that in the intention of the contractor. George Fitch gets close to human nature when he says men are divided into two classes- those who take their coats off in hot weather and those who don't dare to. The man who takes his coat off is no better than the man who doesn't, but as a rule he can be more safely approached on a hot day. After a man has bubbled and boiled inside of a hot woolen coat for sixteen hours on a midsummer day his disposition has generally fermented and the will exploded with a loud report is pricked by a sharp word.
Custom and convention look down upon the man who takes off his coat and he is fired out of fashionable resturants with great zest by the outraged proprietors. This saves the shirt-sleeve man: a great deal of money and it also keeps the haughty but only partially dressed lady dancers from being shocked and alarmed. The easiest way to offend society east of the Allegheny Mountains is to shuck off the coat. Many a man who has tried vainly to get the finger of social scorn pointed at him by accumulating divorces and other people's money could get booted out of Newport in a minute by attending a select party without his coat. Society is very fond of coats and insists upon their attendance at all functions.
But it is not always so particular about filling in said coat. South of Mason and Dixon's line the coat is also treated with great respect and the man who attemps to remove his coat before going to bed is ejected from the bosom of his few friends with great emphasis. This however, is not from aesthetic reasons, but because by removing his coat in the South a man advertises the fact that it is hot and the South is particularly touchy upon this subject. Man is much more beautiful in his shirt sleeves than he is with his coat on, provided his credit at the laundry is good. But not much can be said for the man who removes his coat and clings to his vest.
Vests are not immodest, but they are no more ornamental than false teeth out of place. Likewise, suspenders and garters were both made to blush unseen. Nature has so designed some men as to make suspenders a necessity for them. But the offenses of nature should not be visited upon the helpless public. The suspender man should wear a kimona over his shirt in the interest of art.
Brookfield has had a big undertaking on hand this week, the entertaining of the multitudes -but Brookfield as usual, has made good. A habit, you know. HERE AND THERE. The Keytesville Chautauqua begins on August 2. It is estimated by some good sources that the peach crop this year in Missouri will be 85 per cent of a full crop.
The city of Hannibal by election held July 1 to vote on the proposition of the city buying its water works system, voted to do so. The proposition carried by a vote of 104 to 172, the bond issue for this purpose to be $360,000. Kirksville has now come in the limelight by having their street lights turned on after five years of darkness. Has been dark there ever since the town went dry. The new mayor, Dr.
Charles Still, who owns the light plant, will furnish the city light free. Shelbina Democrat: The Christain churches of Shelby county hold their annual convention this time with the Lentner congregation. The date is August 7 and 8 and a good program is under way. Benjamin F. Smith of Moberly will be convention guest, and will preach the doctrinal sermon.
Bevier Appeal: The foundation of the new freight house is being put in this week. When complete Bevier will have two of the prettiest depots to be found ad long the Burlington route. Interior work in the passenger station is being pushed and the building will be complete before many more weeks go by. Bucklin Herald: When you go to a boarding house to eat you select what you want and don't kick because one man eats everything on the table and pays the same as you do. Still, you make a roar if something in then newspaper doesn't quite you.
It always pleases somebody. Don't be a philosopher about your stomach and a fool about your head. The brick work has commenced on the new depot at Shelbina, according to the Democrat. The switches across Center street have been torn up and never again will a freight train be able to couple up and pull out just before passenger trains come in, and thus shut off late comers. It is thought the building will be ready to occupy by September 1.
The Constitution has this to say about the water supply of Chillicothe: He who rolls and flops about in his bath tub in Chillicothe has an object lesson in nature's very own. It has all the elements which belong to the average swimming hole. It is a mixture containing elements from the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms, and it is guranteed to hold its color for forty-eight hours, even though it stands ever so still. Three branches of organizations of the Holiness Church will hold union camp meeting at Clarence, August 7, and for nine days thereafter. Hitherto one branch has been holding an annual camp meeting at College Mound, another at Clarence and the North Missouri Holiness Association had been meeting elsewhere.
The union of them in one big meeting promises too bring together an enormous crowd from Missouri and several other states. Parcels post stamps are now good for any kind of postage. This ruling was made effective July 1. Now you can place ordinary stamps on for parcel post or the regular parcel post stamps on a letter. They are interchangeable.
The postoffice department limited the use of the regular parcel post stamps to packages to get some idea of the volume of parcel post business to be done. This is now known and the ban has been removed. Chillicothe Constitution: -A. M. Shelton, Joe Pierson and Fred Harris of the Chillicothe Fair Association were in Brookfield Sunday looking over the list of horses entered in the big race meet which begins in that city Tuesday.
Gus Gannon, the secretary of the Brookfield Association, accompanied the Chillicothe gentlemen to the fair grounds where they looked over the list of entries and consulted with the horsem*n regarding the Chillicothe fair. Practically every horse on the Brookfield grounds will come to Chillicothe next Saturday, at the close of the fair at that place. A special train on the Burlington will transport the race stock to this city. H. J.
Simmons, one of the most prominent citizens of Clarence and Shelby couny, was found dead Friday morning of last week at his room i in the Pool Hotel at Kirksville, a carbolic acid bottle found near being the mute evidence that he had committed self-destruction. Long hours of work in connection with getting out the daily Kirksville paper he had helped to establish, and the intense heat are supposed to have temporarly unbalanced his mind. There was undoubtedly much worry, also, about managing the syndicate of papers of which he was the editor. The well known newspaper man is survived by the widow and one daughter, 16 years of age. The funeral was at Clarence, the old home town, and was very largely attended, many from Kirksville being present.
The deceased brother was a wholesouled, energetic man. He was well known throughout Missouri, having been actively in public life. The Argus joins all the press of Missouri in sympathy to those two loved ones who mourn for husband and father. William L. Reid of Monroe City, was Tuesday appointed postoffice inspector in charge of the St.
Louis division in place of George Daniels, appointed inspector in field service. Marion, Friends of Miss Jessie Wilson are rejoicing overt the discovery that she won't be the thirteenth White House bride when she becomes the wife of Francis Bowes Sayre next fall. Not that the number would worry the bride-to-be, for she laughs at superstition and besides, if there is any superstition in the favors the Wilson family. Heretofore lists of White House brides have included Angelica Singleton of South Colin, who became the wife of Major Abma Van Buren, son of President Van Buren, in 1840. Always it has been assumed that this wedding took place at the "home of the bride's parents." But some curious person, looking up this ceremony this week, has discovered that Angelica Singleton was not the sort of girl to pass up the opportunity of being a White House Indeed she was ambitious for social honors as any girl of today would be, and she brought her wedding gown and kinsfolk to Washington and was married in the east room.
And so it was Alice Roosevelt who was the thirteenth White House bride. The White House brides are as follows: Lucy Payne, widow of a nepew of George Washington, and sister-in-law of President Madison, to Justice Todd of the Supreme Court, March 11, 1811. Anna Todd of Philadelphia, cousin of Mrs. Madison, wife of the President, to Congressman Edward B. Jackson, great uncle of "Stonewall" Jackson, 1812.
Marie Hester Munroe, to Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur of New York, 1820. Mary Helen niece of Mrs. Adams, son of President John Quincy Adams, February 20, 1828 Della Lewis of Nashville, Tennessee, a daughter of one of President Andrew Jackson's famous "kitchen to Alphonse Joseph Yver Pageot, secretary to the Frence legation, 1829. Emily Martin, neice of President Jackson, to Lucen B. Polk, relative of President Polk, 1837.
Angelica Singleton of South Carolina to Major Abram Van Buren, son of President Van Buren, 1840. Elizabeth Tyler, third daughter of President Tyler, to William Waller of Williamsburg. Virginia, June 31, 1842. Nellie Grant, daughter of President Grant, to Algernon C. F.
Sartoris, May 21, 1874. Emily Platt, neice of President Hayes, to General Russell Hastings, formerly Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-third Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, June 19, 1878. Frances Folsom, the President's ward, to President Grover Cleveland, June 2, 1886. Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Roosevelt, to Conrgessman Nicholas Longworth, February 17, 1906. In compliment to Miss Genevive Delaney, of St.
Louis, and Joseph Devoy, of Chicago, a six o'clock dinner was served last Sunday at the Devoy home. After the sumptuous meal, music and conversation was enjoyed. The following is from the Colorado Springs Telegraph: The wedding of Miss Harriet Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
C. Clark, North Wabash avenue, and Mr. Ralph R. Rathbun, which was solemnized this morning at 10 o'clock, was a pretty affair. Bridal wreath was used in an artistic decorative schemeand the bride and bridegroom stood for the ceremony under an arch of white roses and bridal wreath.
The Rev. Mr. Patten, who is in charge of the First Congregational church during the absence of the Rev. Mr. Ranney, was the officiating clergyman.
Miss Florence Stevens played the wedding music and only relatives and close friends witnessed the ceremony The bride was attired in a fashionably tailored traveling suit and after a wedding breakfast which was served following the ceremony Mr. Rathbun and his bride left for an extended wedding journey in the east. Both bride and bridegroom have a large circle of friends in the Springs and the bridegroom is a young business man with a promising future before him. They will make their home in the Springs. A dozen couples enjoyed a dancing party at the Bowden home last Friday evening.
Light refreshments were served. Among the Fair visitors are Mr. and Mrs. L. F.
Thomas and daughter, Miss Vera, of Springfield, and Miss Nina Flaten, of Grafton, Illinois, guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Fuoss and Miss Eileen Fuoss.
Mrs. M. Thomason and daughters, Misses Emma and Pauline, and Mrs. Calla Uhlenbrock, of Quincy, guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Jenkins; Mr. and Mrs. John Crowder, of St.
Louis, guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Boyles, and Dr. and Mrs. J.
F. Peery, of St. Louis, guests of Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Green. Misses Margret Lowe and Nylene Reynolds entertained last Friday evening at the former's home i in honor of their visiting friends, Misses Lucile Hyden, of Marceline, Jessie Jones and Ruth Nichols, of Moberly, Mabel Eggert, of Lacross, Wisconsin and Frances Marseilles, of Trenton. Music and guessing games were enjoyed after which a delicious lunch was served. Miss Genevieve Delany, of St.
Louis, is spending this week at the home of Mike Devoy. The Car of Durability, of Power, and Mechanical Nicety. Marion 37-A five-passenger touring car, fully equipped, $1475 The Marion is gaining in popularity in Linn and Chariton counties. The above points have contributed to that popularity here as elsewhere throughout the many states in which it is sold. The Marion Motor Car Company, of Indianapolis, makes pretense of putting up the best car for the money to be obtained in this country.
I took the agency for the Marion here in Linn and Chariton because I knew that it had real merit---that the durability of the car---the small cost of maintainance and up-keep would appeal to the economical. The recent trial test of the Marion in the tour to the Western Coast has illustrated that the Marion has the durability, as well as the power and speed Another car load of Marions will arrive in Brookfield first of next week. A car can be seen on exhibition at the South Side Garage. A. S.
Dean Local Agent Brookfield Missouri Madam -Whether you need flour today or not, you'll do well to trade with the dealer who sells Zephyr Flour TN for the retail trade, it is when a considered dealer gets the evidence agency Zephyr Flour, positive that he stands high in his community as a man and high in the trade as a square merchant. It means, too, that the flour in his store are of highest quality. Zephyr WATER MILLS Flour We have spent endless care, time and money perfecting Zephyr Flour, the famous hard wheat flour of Kansas. We wash it and wash it and grind it and grind it, watching it all the while. Cooks who use it get a reputation for their bread and cakes, their biscuit and pies.
It is so good, so sure, that we sell it with a positive guarantee to satisfy. Any Zephyr Flour dealer will, on request, return the money paid for any sack of Zephyr Flour that fails to please. Save the chemist's test certificate of the wheat and flour, found in each sack of Zephyr Flour. It assures uniform high quality or another sack from your dealer or from us. BOWERSOCK MILLS POWER Lawrence, Kansas HARRIS BROTHRS, Agents for Brookfield.
Per Sack $1.35.
