of first-class drugs is with you all the time. We would like you to remember always that ours is the place for getting first-class drugs always. ST. BERNARD DRUG STORE. BRYAN HOPPER, Manager.] * * * * * [Illustration: The Bee] PAUL M. MOORE, Editor and Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1.00 Six Months 50 Three Months 25 Single Copies 5 Specimen copies mailed free on application. Correspondents wanted in all parts of the county. Address us for particulars. Telephone, No. 47—2. * * * * * THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1901. * * * * * ANNOUNCEMENTS. COUNTY CLERK. GILLILAND—We are authorized to announce John R. Gilliland, of Ilsley Precinct, Postoffice address St. Charles, a candidate for County Clerk, subject to the action of the Republican party. MURPHEY—We are authorized to announce C. H. Murphey, of Madisonville, a candidate for County Clerk, subject to the action of the voters of Hopkins County at the November election. JAILER. HARRIS—We are authorized to announce J. F. Harris a candidate for Jailer, subject to the action of the Republican Party. GOWER—We are authorized to announce G. W. Gower, of Madisonville, a candidate for Jailer, subject to the action of the Republican party. ASSESSOR. LYNN—We are authorized to announce W. H. Lynn as candidate for Assessor of Hopkins county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be held on Monday, July 29. * * * * * A rabbi, of Wabash, Ind., offers to sell to the Postoffice Department a discovery by which he claims the mails can be carried across the Atlantic in two days. This beats the Jews. * * * * * A Cleveland man who would not support his children was arraigned in court by a humane agent and fined $100 and costs and given ninety days. His sentence will keep him in the work house for eighteen months—a good place for a man who will not work outside. * * * * * W. H. Lynn announces as candidate for Assessor of Hopkins county subject to the decision of the Republican party in convention at Madisonville Monday, July 29. Mr. Lynn is thus far the only candidate to announce his candidacy publicly. He is a man well qualified for the place, knows the county and its people well, but says with commendable patriotism that if there is a man found who wants the place and is better qualified than himself, he is for that man. * * * * * A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa., relative to the strike of the stationary firemen says: