The Garden City Telegram from Garden City, Kansas • Page 1

1 ie Garden City ram Garden City, Finney County, Kansas, Friday, May 24, 1912 Volume XXIII Number 60 Tuesdays and Fridays Semi-Weekly TONIGHT GARDEN CITY GRADUATES A CLASS OF 19 STUDENTS IT IS A CLASS MISS SHARPE WILL STUDY GERMAN ABROAD OUD PARKS CONSIDERED AT THE COUNCIL MEETING S. es 1NORRI8 MAKES A REPORT ON THEIR PRESENT CONDITIONS. Maintenance Should Come From City Exclusive of Private Subscription Mayor Makes Several Suggestions. An ordinary meeting, perhaps, nothing of special Interest but attention was pretty strongly centered on city parks at counci. Monday night.

S. G. Norris made a report on present park conditions. Every citizen possessing a whit of town pride is strong for the parks. In the last three years from a tangled mass of weeds and grass and unkept trees the East and West parks have been transformed into distinctly pretty and inviting spots.

The maintenance of these in the proper shape is imperative once they have become established. City and county appropriation shou'd be suffl-cient to take care ot all the expense. The system that has been used to some extent in tne past of securing; donations might well be discouraged. The same citizens do practically all the contributing, and the injustice is potent as every citizen is equally by the existence of the parks. Mr.

Norris made a point at the meeting that a great deal of unneces-Bary carelessness originated from many users of th park. Flowers were tramped on, and litter scattered promiscuously around when proper receptacles have been placed in the parks for taking care of this stuff. This thorughtlessness increases the park ui-keep, and should be closely watched. For those who destroy f.ow era a suitable penalty might well be served. Mayor Harvey made some excellent suggestions as to what might advlsab.

ly be taken up by the council this year. He suggested in the first place a thorough of city accounts and to establish a new system of city bookkeeping. Another good point is to have tho streets sprinkled on Tuesday's whenever occasion demands. OUTLOOK GOOD IN WEST CROP CONDITIONS NEVER BETTER ON PACIFIC COAST. The Fruit Outlook Is Also Promising Much Attention Given to Poultry There.

Spokane, May 21. Bunkers, millers, commission men and transportation o.iicials return ng from tours of eastern Washington and Oregon, northern and central Idaho, western Moirtana Ind southeastern Eritish Columbia report that crop conditions were never brighter in the Pac fic and intermountain country than at present. Indications are the grain and hay elds wi.l be the largest in the history of tne district, be. ctouse of abundant moisture during w'nter months and the increased acreage. The appie," prune, pear, pech and cherry clops a'so give be ng iecord breakers.

Assessors of the various counties In tha Inland Empire district report that mixed farming is being practiced more extensively thuh before, saying also that thousands of acres, former, ly devoted exclusive to wheat, are now used for diversified agriculture, Pure bred cows and hogs are being brought into the country from th? central states and more attention is given to all k'nds of poultry. Samuel Gailland, pres'dent of the Spokane Clearing House association Eaid in an interview today that the banks In Spokane and throughout the district have more money than they can convenient hitmdle, desp.te the fact there is a good demand tor loans. The association has undertaken tq finance the aipple crop this season, and for this alone it is Estimated that fully $15 millions will be requir. ed. There is greater activity than at any previous time in the ast four years in metal mining operations, and it is reported by operators not less than a dozen properties in Washington, Idaho and the.

province of British Columbia will join the list of dividend-payefs within the next 90 days. The dumber industry also is look ng up, the present being largely from the prairie provinces in western CanadU, the Atlantic Sea. boarc and South and South Africa. Fine turkey dinner with at the New Owl Cafe Sunday- 25 ceptg. OF WHICH WE SHOUF 100,000 BEET CLUB HELD SPECIAL MEETING AND THREE TRUSTEES WERE AP POINTED FOR THE ORGANIZATION.

MUCH IS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED Warner, Zirkle and Finnup Named to Supervise the Club's Affairs Conditions Are Ideal for Beet Raising. The beet club held a special meeting in the Industrial club rooms Tuesday night for the purpose of selecting three trustees and out lining future plans for the organization. A. H. Warner, E.

G. Finnup and Charles Zirkle were the ones select ed and they will be general super- visers of the ub's work. It is their province to make all contracts, collect from and handle ail stock in the pool. The accomplishment so far realized by the beet club has been remarkable Businessmen have taken hold In real earnest and the subscriptions have been large. Over 400 acres have al' ready been contracted under the pool arrangement of the club.

To add to good work of the asso ciation, conditions have so far been ideal. Prosepects for an excellent yield have never been better and every thing indicates a record breaking ciop. It was thought the basement of the new church would De ready for next Sunday's services, but it will not. The finishing touches are being put on right and that takes a great deal of time. Next Sunday tne Sunday scnool will be held ns usual in the higlischool ntifl all tha phnrflieR will initl 1n tht memoria services at tne opera house witn me itev.

v. rj. rtrenm preacum. the sermon night service will bt as usual, All the young peop'e are invited to the Epworth league devotional meei, ing next Sunday and every Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. There wi'l music next Sunday.

Many of the Methodists will attend the Finney County Sunday Schoo1 convention at the Congregationa church Saturday beginning at 10 and lasting a 1 day, ans the services on Sunday afternoon. There will also be an elementary conference at the Christian church at 9 o'clock Sunday morning and an adult conference at the Congregational at the same hour. This will be a very helpful conven tion and many ought to attend. The Young Women-s b'ble class, taught by Mrs. Moore, and tin Young Men's Bible class, taught now by the pastor but soon to be taught by E.

Dumond, which classes have a membership of over 30 an attendance of 20, will begin June 1 a membership and attendance contest to 'ast one month, and the rosing class is to enterta'n the winners. It is bound to be a hot contest, as there are many workers in each c'ass and many are going to leave for the summer, so the ranks must be filled with new. AH young people are welcome in th se classes. The general conference a great concourse of over 800 of the most successful Methodist woikerB from all over the world, now meeting in Minnea.pol's is doing things. There is no friction and it means a great inspiration and impetus to this world-wde church.

The next quadrenn'um Is going to be the rcest in the 150 years of the church's existence since John Wesley founded It. Plans ar3 being 'aid useful changes being made and the best men 'n the world are be'ng elected to head the operations. Some wonderful papers have been read. The address by the bishops is the greatest Btate paper ever written, It said, and It covers the ground thoroughly. Method'sts never mince matters nor shirk responsibility.

Some things must be done and they wi.l be, to make the church even greater and more successful than ever yet. The amusement clause of the discipline has been left as it was, after much discussion, and the will of th? majority is best. W. M. C.

Mr. Hartman, who has been attend ing the Garden City vommercial college has been employed on a delivery wagon for the new Model bakery. The members or the Tennis ub went out for an early morning breakfast yesterday morning. Getting up about 5 o'clock they started to the Southside schoolhouse where a fire was built, coffee was made and steak was fried and with bread 'and butter and oranges, a fine breakfast was served. Those invited were Miss Maude Gorham, Miss Riggs, Miss Emma Diesem, Miss Carolyn Cowles, M'ss Sadie Richardson, Miss Nel ie Cbabin.

Miss Edith Bard, Miss Grac Baird, Miss May Balewm, Miss Leslie Huffman, Miss Mary P. Crura, Mr. John VanSchoiack, Mr. Ira Mahuron. Mr.

Bryant Garnand. Mr. Walter Lewis, Mr. "William Sharpe, Mr. Joseph Keith, Mr.

R. W. Edwatrds, and Mr. Albert Jones, UNNECESSARY TALK FROMMISIMPRESSION NEELEY APPARENTLY WRONGLY INFORMED AS TO THE CONDITIONS. ONLY ONE IS DENIED PASTURAGE In the Government Forest Reserve in Western Kansas Good and Substantial Reasons Shown for Action in This Case.

That settlers in western Kansas have not been den'ed the right of pasturage in the government forest re serve Is adequately shown by data In the office of the forest supervisor. Reports that Neeley has received many letters from residents relative to rejection of the privilege of pasturing seem without foundation, and any political ends which the congressman might like to gain by taking up the matter would be useless. Up to the present Time but one rejection has been made, and that is the one of C. A. Calkins of Syracuse.

Good reasons existed for this afctlon In the first place the land was being used to its limit by stock owners In the immediate vicinity or the reserve and It was Impossible to grant this request without overcrowding the territory. Had conditions been different the right of pasturage would in all probability not have been den'ed Mr. Calkins. A further point is Ihat whenever a rejection is to be made or has been made the reasons are given in writ, ing and can be examined and their justice determined. The agitation being aroused by one applicant who failed to receive a permit resjionsible for unjust fied talk into which the democratic congressman has become so siddenly interested.

FAT CALF CONTEST FOR BOYS. Arthur Capper Has Planned One for Boys on the Farm. Any boy in this county who is not mere than 18 years andhasabesf ca)f that will be a year old and not more than two years old by riext September may win some good prize money and considerable glory this fall at the Topeka or the Hutchinson state fair. The calf may be a grade, crossbreed or purebred steer, or a sprayed or martin heifer. The only povi'so is that the boy must feed or fatten the calf h'mself for exhibition at one of these two nig Kansas fa'rs.

This is a plan of Arthur Capper, publisher of the Topeka Capital and Farmers Mail and Breeze to get the farm boys of Kansas interested raising baby beef, the most profitable beef. Behind it is the fact that something must be done to bring the beef steer business back to the cornbelt In time to meet the prof opportunity that is soon to come in beef raising. Each boy entering a calf will become a charter member of the first Capper Boys Baby Beef club with headquarters at Topeka, but he must make bis entry immed'ateiy by writing to L. Cook, secretary of the Kansaa Ftate Fair at Topeka, or to A Sponhler, secretary of the Kansas State Fair, at Hutchinson, for entry blanks, wh'ch either secretaiy will furnish him. The class wi 1 be known as the Capper BoyB Baby lieef Spec'al In addition to the regular prizes offered by each fair association Mr.

Capper will offer cash prizes at both fair of $15, $10, jnd $5, respectfully, for the three best fat beef calves exhibited by Kansas boys. That means s'x Capper prizes and six fair prizes for the boys, then after the show the boys may sell ther beeves at auction. Mr. Capper would like to have every boy who enters a calf, or who intends to do so, not'fy him at once of the fact on a postal card addressed to him 'it Topeka. "Joe" Longshore, state oil inspector was in Garden City Wednesday.

Grant County Republican; There is a bunch of bachelors over at Toluca that have been pining in their loneliness for several months, ever since the organization of the Grant County Bachelor club here, and now they make their wants ana wisheB known to the wide world in a statement which declares the object to be the winning of cooks and helpmeteg for themselves. In short, they have ized a Toluca Bachelor Club they hereby appeal to newspapers of the land to bring their wishes and good ntentions to the notice of the fair sex who may, like themselves, be pining in celibacy. These boys are farmers and stockmen who are able to care for wives and are willing to correspond with young women who are willing to exercise therr prerogatives, object matrimony. A l'st of the names of the members may tie had by addressing, any of the officers, of tbq organization whose names are givien be low, atTolufca, Devils, president; Emil Schnellbacher, seers tary; and J. G.

Gilter ass'stant SENIOR GLASS PLAY WAS EXCELLENT ONE PARTICIPANTS ALL ACTED PARTS WELL AND RECEIVED GREAT APPLAUSE. CROWDED HOUSE BOTH NIGHTS The Chorus Work Was Especially Good and Showed Much Training Splendid Work Done by Each Member. At the End of We Rainbow, the senior class play, wbb presented at Stevens opera house on ednesday and Thursday nights of this week. The house was filled both n'ghts and everyone was highly pleased. While some may have felt a little more at home on th estage than others, everything ent off in tip top shape and one would have thought that most of the amateurs hid been actors or actresses all their lives, had it not been for the ract that some of them did not speak loud enough the first evening.

However, this de feet was remedied almost entire'. after the first act. Miss Ethel Downing, who directed the play, deserves a great deal of credit for the success of the play of course, as she has worked a most unceasingly the past two or three months several evenings out of every week on this play. It would be hard to single out one person and say that he was better than the rest because they were all well suited to their parts and all played them well, but most everyone will agree that Horace Foster was exceptionally fine in tile ro of Stanley Palmer-Hawkins, as the butler. He was perfertly at eirse at all his lines werf wel: spoken and he was su'ted perfectly to the part.

His was on? of the leading ro es and he and Miss Olga Blane as the maid were as good as a whole show themselves. Joe Hope as Dick Preston, the groom, and Mayme Karsnman as Nelle Preston, the bride, were exceptionally good In their parts. Their duet, It You "Won't Marry Me, I'll Marry You, with the chorus was one of the musical features and was well received. Miss Harshman has a good voice for the stage and she handled her part well. The part of Robert Preston, a law yer.

was taken by Raimon Wa'ters, and was well played. His ward, M'ss Fern "Wilson, as Marion Dayton hau one of the leading parts and her work was some of the best. Her part was as difficult as any, but she handled it in a most pleasing way throughout. Miss Ruth Laughlin, as Emily El-iliot, with a conscience, deserves especial mention and wTiIle "her part was not lengthy, it was well taken and her work in the song, Her Eyes Are Blue for Good Old Y.a'e with the chorus, was fine. Miss iaughlin has a good voice and led the chorus in fine shape.

Miss Emma "Weeks had the part of The Imp, a freshman and an imp she was but she always came in at the right time. Miss "Week's work was very creditable. It was a college play and of course the football game came in for its share of attention and added more interest to the "play. Douglass Brown, a football player was Chester Reeve, Ted Whitney, captain of the Varsity team wae Clifford Hope and Phyllis Lane a football enthusiast was Mtss Hazel Skinner. The partB were all well taken and each of the three de-erye much credit.

Miss Skinner's stage presence was exceptionally good. JaVk Aust'n, Preston's secretary, was Oliver Minor. He too, was very good, as was Miss Julia Hadley, as Louise Ross, known as MIsb Grayson. Mr. Minor and Miss Had'ey have well qualified vo'ces for the stage and they hamdled their parts well.

Jane, a maid with a taste for litera ture, was Miss Lydia Eck and Mrs. Brown stepmother of Douglass Brown was Miss Carrie Carpenter. Ne ther of these parts were heavy but fie work was wel! done. Miss Helena Anderson as Kathe'ene Knox, was chairman of the Rushing committee, which was composed of four or five college girls, who had a great deal of fun with the br'do and groom. Those on the committee were Miss Lenora Conn, Miss Clare Brenne-man.

Miss Laura Thrasher and Miss Margaret Reeve. Bern Carlton, Camertn Craig, Ed Watkins Dale Young and Perqy Beckett, who are not graduates, acted as college boys and ties, with, the other male hientheis the cast did the'r best worn wl they. the Stein song. The boys all have splendid voices and" the song was the best thins? the play. The latt thing on the program was the olass song, wihen was sung by the entire membership of the ase and received "hearty applause.

ma1feip; of the -cast was we'l done and the costumes were real good.V Gale Vinzant was musical director of the play. MORE RAILROAD TALK ABOUT GARDEN CITY R. H. FAXON WRITES WHAT ONE OF AM ARILLO'S BOOSTERS SAID TO HIM. HE SAW HIM THERE LAST WEEK Something More Than Really Prospec tlve Things in This Talk Amar-llo Man Was Recently Here With Others.

The Telegram has received a letter from R. H. Faxon, wno was absent all week in Oklalhomt, Texas, New Mexico, and southwest Kansas in charge of the Wichita Trade Trip concerning some railroad information he picked up In Amarillo Texas. "At Amarillo," says Mr. Faxon, "I spent considerable with D.

C. Priddy, secretary of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, and found him most enthusiastic over the Good Old Town and for a connection between the Panhandle line of the Santa Fe railroad there and the main line, at Uarden City. "Mr. Priddy recently put on his gum boots and slipped Into the Good Old Town and out again bo quietly that even our alert boosters of the Good Old Town didn't know he was there or for what he came. But he was there for business.

Himself and some others from the big Texas town to the south went by motor car to pick out a prospective route. They fell in love with the Good Old Town; and while we most generally shy at railroads since so many are being built on palter only, this year yet I Itelieve there is someth ng to this plan. "1 was advised by Mr. Priddy, Mr. Fuqua who is the leading banker and citizen of Amali'illo.

and several others that there is something more than merely prospective in this railroad talk. They plied me with ques tions about the Good Old Town and the country to the south. "I don't believe Wis Is a Santa Fe deal; and yet you never can tell abgut this raillroad business. "1 would BUggest nat Chtirman Zirkle of the Industrial club railroad committee get busy with Mr. Priddy.

Something might come up; anyway, the interchange of felicitations wouldn't be Inapropos just now. "Amarillo Is a fine big town built with no apparent excuse at the time, and yet now the great Plains city. They used to shy indignantly at the very idea of irr gation, but I find they are talking It pretty strong, no-, and I was asked many questions about pumping thtT sugar company work, etc. They are figuring on taking the matter up, an organized way, shortly- "May I add this word: That wherever 1 went with this Wichita, boost ing bunch last week end naturally I was In the thick of it all I found the name of the Good Old Town on everyone's lips and that the fame and glory of it exists in every section and locality. It didn't matter whether it was in Elreno, Oklahoma City, Alva, Woodward, or any ot the fine Oklahoma towns; whether at Tucumcar and other New Mexico towns; or in Texas they all knew and respected the Good Old Town." TO FORM LOCAL LODGE ELKS ARE GETTING HERE.

BUSY Will Be Unofficial, of Course, but it! Will Increase the Peasant Asso ciation of Members Here. A number of local Elks met in the office of J. W. Hope Wednesday night with a vLew to organizing an unorfi-cial lodge here. Monday night has been set for the next meeting at which time a permanent organization will be effected.

While Garden City is yet too small for a regular Elks lodge at home, there are many members of the order here who as a consequence are denied the privileges that exist in a larger place. The proposed organ'ztaion will fill the need in a small way and will give the local IJlks an opportunity for closer association than is to be secured under present conditions. All Elks in th's territory are requested to attend this meeting Mon day. Leigh Perry spent two or three days here this week coming home on account of the illnesh of his mother, Mrs. Nina Perry, who is much better now.

Mr. Perry is employed in Sam Wilkinson's drugstore at Claflin. We will return to his work th evening, Fine turkey dinner with trimmings, at the New Owl Cafe Sunday 25 cents. t-v Sale of shoes and s'ippers at the L. M.

Mer. Co. SHE WILL SAIL ON STEAMSHIP CRETONIA FROM NEW YORK JUNE 15. IS TEACHER IN HIGHSCHOOLHERE Will Be Gone Three Months Spending Most of Time In Benin Would Become More Proficient in That Art. Another Garden city girl will go to Europe this summer.

It will be Miss Mabel Sharpe, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. Sharpe and she will spend at least three months there. Miss Sharpe has been a teacher of German in the Garden City highschooi for three years and Is very proficient in that language, but she is desirous of being better, so Bhe will go to Germany and will study that language among the German people.

This has been the ambition of Miss Sharpe for years, but this) is the first time that she has ever felt able to make the trip. She taught German in other schools nerore coming to Gajrden City and Is already a fine student in that language, but she not stop until Bhe is perfect, it would seem. Her time wi'l be spent mostlyi in Berlin, although she will visit other German cities and it will be a great trip for her, and the beauty of is she will he accompanied by a dear friend classmate and her mother, with whom she has been acquainted in Wisconsin for some time. Miss Sharpe will sail by way of SteamBhip Cretonia from New York on June 15, although she will leave (iarden City several days before that. She will visit Latwrence for a day or so and will then go on to New York where she wiil remain two or three days sailing.

The Garden City highschooi will be fortunate enough to have Miss Sharpe for a teacher again next yea and she will return here just in time to take up her school work aga'n. MIsb Sharpe is a fine young woman and her friends congratulate her on being able to make this trip. CLASS DAY TUESDAY SENIORS THEN REALLY BADE FAREWELL TO HIGHSCHOOL. The Exercises Were Most Interesting iNumber of Alumni Members Present and Gave Ye) Is. The seniors Class Day exercises were held this year In the h'ghschooi auditorium on Tuesday morning.

At o'clock the members of the class were lined up in the ha'l and marched down the center aisle of the auditorium to the stage where they took their places. The class president. Chester Reeve made the opening speech and then the clasB quartet composed of M'ss Ruth Laughlin, Miss Mayme Harsh-man, Miss Fern Wr.son and Miss Hazel Skinner sang Mary had a Wil liam Goat and it took so well with the audience that they were forced to sing an encore. Miss Carrie read the class history and the crass prophesy was read by Miss Sylvja Had ey. Miss Halley was.

dressed in gypsy costume and told the fortune of each member of the class in turn. The his tory and prophsey were both very interesting. Miss Olga Blanke played a beautiful Instrumental solo which waB followed by a response by tbe presidents of the Junior, sophomore and freshman classes, the response being preceded and followed up by a class yell from each class. Wayne Campbell, a member of last year's senior class also gave a re sponse In verse, which too was very interesting, Superintendent G. E.

Brown, Principal E. J. Dumond, Miss Ethel Downing, MIsb Mabel Sharpe Miss Nelson, Miss Blanche Woodbury, N. B. Ma-huron, and E.

W. Fent, teachers, were all called upon for responses, which they gave. The Farewell was then read by Miss Carrie Carpenter and afterwards the class song was sung. Of course the usual number of yells were given following this and with them the program was ended. It has been a very" busy, week for the seniors, but the Class Day exercises were not the Important of the week's activities.

Harry Bnrghe'm of Athens, 11 Is here visiting his brother, G. Burg-heim. Edgar Roberts and H. O. Trinkle were in Dodge Oity.

Thursday, Fine, turkey Injaer jvith trimmipg, at the New" TJwT' TTare" 'Sunday 25 is i.