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PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL CITY THE GIRARD PRESS PAPER GIRARD, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUG. 17, 1922. No. 1024 VOLUME 53-40 OVI.R 200 HORSES LISTED Improvements at Fair Grounds. Prospects for an Unusually Good Agricultural Display The Crawford County Fair is less than a month away.

Preparations are practically completed for the best fair in the history of the county. Weather conditions have been favorable for an unusually interesting display of fruit, vegetables and field crops. There will be an equally good exhibition of poultry and live stock. The Home Economics, Textile Fabrics, Fine Arts and kindred deparments have been improving from year to year and prospects are good for a superior display this year. The educational exhibit is also promising.

More than 200 horses have been listed for the races, The Gold Medal carnival company will be here again and Thompson's tent show will do its part to add to the success of the fair. Crawford township has built a fine new culvert at the east entrance, and to keep pace with this improvement the directors of the fair association have built a new entrance and ticket office. Ample rest-room and toilet facilities are being provided. The board fence around the grounds is practically completed. Premium lists have been distributed all over the county.

If any one has been slighted, and desires a copy, he may obtain one at any bank or at nearly all mercantile houses and newspaper office in the county. Ku Klux Klan in Crawford County Last Friday night, a large number of Ku Klux Klan members held 8 meeting in a field a few miles east of Beulah. Their number was estimated at 2,000. They were clad in white sheets and conducted their ceremonies in great secrecy. Guards were stationed on all sides and spectators were permitted to look on from a distance but not to hear any part of the proceeding.

A large class of new members was initiated, many of whom were citizens of this county. The audience is said to have been composed of representatives from a number of neighboring counties, PERSONAL MENTION Mr. and Mrs. J. E.

Smith returned yesterday from a trip to the Ozarks. Mrs. M. Mattson of Route One is visiting in Savonburg. Miss Dorothy Corning, Irene Jennings, Hazel Gise and Ruth Kennedy write from Colorado Springs "We are having a fine time touring Colorado.

We made short stops in Wichita, Lamar, Pueblo, Beulah, Florence, Canon City and Colorado Springs. We leave at 6:00 this evening to climb Pikes Peak for a view of sunrise." Mrs. T. E. Osborn has returned from a visit with her sister in Mildred, Kansas.

J. P. Eggan of Hiatville was in Girard Monday on business. Ewald Boettjer of township was in Girard on business Tuesday. Miss Martha Gemmell entertained a number of friends Monday evening in honor of Miss Zelda M.

Bell, who left Tuesday for Wichita where she will visit for some time. J. A. Knight and family left Tuesday for a vacation in the Ozarks. J.

J. Storey, mayor of Girard, returned from California yesterday, after an absence since June 7. He was in a hospital a portion of this time. Mrs. Miles Dorsey and daughter.

have returned from a three weeks' visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Dorsey at Rogersville, Mo.

Miss Myrtle Moore, deputy probate judge, is spending the week with her parents in Osage township. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sullivan and son Robert, returned from Eldorado Springs last Tuesday. Mrs.

John Tayloe, of Owensville, is visiting her son, W. L. Tayloe, county farm agent. Merle Beck is visiting relatives in Wichita. Mrs.

Margaret Brown left today for Denver where she will visit her sister and her son for two months. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Majors and William, left today for their home in Muskogee, after a long visit with their parents, Mrs.

E. W. Majors and A. S. Johnson and other relatives.

The Chamber of Commerce is giving our tourist camp in the north part of town a thorough cleaning and making some improvement. Mr. and Mrs. H. B.

Smith of Eldorado, Kansas, and Mrs, A. F. Morton of Kansas City, are visiting Wmi. Grantham. Mr.

and Mrs. Smith were formerly residents of Girard. Mrs. Henry Combs is visiting friends in Fort Scott. Dr.

and Mrs. G. R. Kennedy of Chase, Kansas, have been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. Smith, southwest of town. A barber shop inspector visited Girard last week. All the shops in town passed a hundred per cent E.

L. Rice and daughter Mardell and Mr.and Mrs. Geo. Peterson and daughter Keitha drove to Nevada, Mo. one day last week.

Ivan Blair and family are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Blair of Crawford township.

Ivan is an instructor in the high school at Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Wm. McClellan of Dallas, Texas is visiting Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. McClellan and other relatives and friends. William is foreman in a large automobile shop and could not get away at this time. Jasper Johnson of Bedford Iowa is visiting his nephew, Guy Johnson.

Mrs. J. N. Taylor and daughter Sarah, of Kansas City are visiting Mr. and Mrs.

J. T. Ross and other friends. J. W.

McCaughan, of Sheridan township, has been a reader of the Press ever since he came to the county forty- years ago. He says there were not many brick buildings in Girard at that time. Mrs. Eliza J. Freed returned Sunday from a visit in the country southwest of Girard.

She has also visited in Kansas City, Oklahoma and Columbus recently. Mr. and Mrs. R. 'L.

Sullivan and son Robert, left last week for Eldorado Springs, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. M. Abbott left last Friday for Burdette, Kansas, for a visit.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Raymond left Friday for Lake Okaboge, Iowa, for a visit with friends.

Mrs. G. L. Millington and children are visiting in Wellington. Mr.

and Mrs. M. E. Sourdry attended a state convention of florists at Fredonia last week. They are attending the national convention of florists at Kansas City this week.

Miss Fannie Bush left last Saturday for Kansas City, where she will visit with Mrs. G. R. Thompson for some time. Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Alexander and daughter, Gertrude, after spending the last five weeks at Eldorado Springs, will return to their home in Pittsburg, Friday. Miss Lucetta Townsend is visiting friends in the country.

Rev. and Mrs. Robert J. Church left Tuesday morning for Colorado and other western states, for the benefit of Mr. Church's health.

They went by auto. Marriage Licenses P. C. Fisher, Frontenac. Beatrice Lena King, Pittsburg.

Edgar Reynolds, Scammon. Anna Adamson, Weir. Willard D. Frazier, Pittsburg. Regina Ann Kelley, Frontenac.

James R. Quinn, Pittsburg. Katharine Ellen Doyle, Pittsburg. Carl Niswander, Joplin, Mo. Jessie Jean Jacks, Pittsburg.

Carl F. White, Joplin, Mo. Nona Jeffeott, Joplin, Mo. Fines M. Green, Pittsburg.

Hallie Mae Hutcheson, Pittsburg. Andrew J. Cunningham, Neodesha. Georgia Shoemaker, Neodesha. William Brown Norris, Nashville, Ill Elizabeth Rose Gaddis, McCune.

Harry T. Guss, Pittsburg. Alice Ruth Oxford, Pittsburg. William Dewhirst, Mulberry. Lillie Ethel Studyvin, Mulberry.

Rollie Norris, Gross. Eva Buck, Arcadia. Cecil G. Odom, Pittsburg. Viola Smith, Pittsburg.

Frank Zoeglick, Gross. Mary Mahorich, Yale. Proceedings in Probate Court Aug. 9--A. B.

Davis was appointed administrator of the estate of Mary J. Davis. He filed inventory and appraisement of property. Aug. 10-Ira W.

Johnson, guardian of James L. Johnson, et al, filed partial report. Aug. 10-J. D.

Ross, administrator of the estate of Edward Hamilton allowed claims. Aug. 12-Charles Clemens, administrator of the estate of Lee Clemens, made annual report. Aug. 12-Mattie Walker, administrator of the estate of Frank J.

Walker showed proof of death and heirship and was appointed guardian of Vinta Belle Walker. Aug. 14-Charles O. Ecker, administrator of the estate of John Eeker, filed copies of certified MINERS RETURNING TO WORK Several Hundred at Work in This District on Terms Agreed Upon at Cleveland Three hundred miners in this district, have returned to work on terms agreed upon between miners officials and part of the operators at Cleveland, Ohio last Tuesday. Five companies who do not belong to the operators association have signed agreements with the district officials.

Others are expected to sign, up soon. conference between the miners officials of District 14 and representatives of the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators association for the negotiation of a contract for the coal field of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, has been called for next Tuesday at Kansas City. W. L. At Johnson, commissioner for the association, states that the operators will insist upon terms that will enable these fields to compete with other fields, such as the non-union fields of Colorado, Utah, Texas and Oklahoma.

This would mean a reduction from the scale in force April 1st, when the wage mines closed. Mr. Johnson further states that a temproary contract, to lapse next April 1st, will not be acceptable to the operators, who want settle the matter permanently. Geo. Peck, provisional president of District 14, has announced that the question of restoring to the members of the miners union who were suspended last fall will be taken up with them individually.

Louis Brunskill, acting chairman of the Howat miners, has stated that as the suspended miners shall soon as have decided upon a course, all them will act as a whole. The Cleveland agreement provides the resumption of work at the for scale in effect last March 31; wage retains the "check off" of union from miners wages by the companies. be paid into the treasury of the 1o- to in the past; and provides for cals, as the creation of a fact finding commis- consist of an equal number of sion to of operators and minrepresentatives to meet in October to a select ers committee to develop the pertinent facts in regard to the industry for the benefit alike of the public, the operators and the mine, workers, and negotiate. a wage scale agreement to become effective April 1st, 1923. After the miners and the operators had held separate meetings, they met in joint session and ratified the again Steal Three Motor Cars Two masked men, or boys, stole C.

N. Vincent's car last Friday night, and drove it toward Pittsburg. Seeing another car approaching, they placed their own across the road and the other which proved to be stopped a Pittsburg truck. This they appropropriated and proceeded to Pittsburg, where they held up a policeman, the night clerk at the Stilwell Hotel and another citizen. They then took a Ford truck belonging to the Owl Furniture Company and returned to Girard.

They abandoned this car in an alley in the east part of town. Before going to Pittsburg they entered the office of the Standard Oil Filling station here but finding only a dollar two in the money drawer they left or it. They were gracious enough to return to the clerk in the hotel, a stick pin which he told them was a gift from his mother. The sheriff's force been working industriously on the has job but have not yet discovered a clew. Jo Gaitskill is the local manager for the sale of tickets and arrangement for reservations for the opening of the Kansas City Speedway Sept.

16. The Kansas City Speedway association has an arrangement with the American Legion of Kansas and Missouri, for a division of the profits from this event. It will be a 300 The best drivers in America race. have been procured for this event. GIRARD MARKETS The following market prices are quoted today by Girard firms.

are subject to fluctuations: Wheat Corn 45c Oats Hogs 8.25 to 8.90 Cattle 3.75 to 8.00 Cream, No. 1 Butter 15c to 25c Eggs 17c Hens 14c to 3 1922 Hatch, lb. 14c to 19c Roosters 7c Cattle Hides, No. 1. Horse Hides 75c to $8.00 ANOTHER RAIL CONFERENCE Brotherhoods Persuade Shopmen and Operators to Meet.

Today. Hopes for Agreement Officers of the five organizations of train service employees, the engineers, conductors, firemen, brakemen and switchmen, succeeded in ing the representatives of the striking shopmen and the operators to meet in New York today for another effort to reach an agreement. The trainmen are exerting their influence for a settlement. The prospects for an agreement are sufficiently bright to induce President Harding to postpone his message to Congress relative to legislation in regard to the situation. The shopmen, however, still insist on the rights of seniority to the after they return to work.

strikers which would retain for them the privilege of continuing to work in case any men were laid off on account of a lack of work. The operators seem equally determined to protect those who have continued to work during the period of the strike. A compromise appears to be the only possible means of settlement, and it is a matter in which a compromise is exceedingly difficult to work out. CHURCH NEWS CHURCH NEWS Christian Science Society Corner St. John street and Ozark avenue.

Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Lesson sermon, 11 a. m. Subject for Sunday, August 20, "Mind." Testimonial meeting, Wednesday evening at 7:30.

Catholic Cnurch St. Michaels. Mass-1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays, at 8:30 a. m. Mass---2nd and 4th Sundays at 10:30 a.

11. Church of Christ Bible school attendance Sunday was 248. There was one confession at the evening service. The Loyal Daughters will give an, ice cream social at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

A. L. Nye, one mile northeast of town Wednesday evening, August 23. The Christian Endeavorers planned a social at Booth Park for Tuesday evening. The Croweburg Bible school will have a session and picnic dinner at Booth Park the last Sunday, in this month.

The committee, has been working completing the cabin and making other improvements. Miss Laura Colborn led an interesting meeting at C. E. last Sunday evening. The contest between the Reds and Whites still continues and the Reds are slightly in the lead.

An offering was taken to help outfit the Kennedy's who sail next month for missionary work in the Islands. The last Sunday in this month a special service "Go Away to College" will be held. Recognition of all our young people who have been to college the past year, and of those who are going this year will be had. The church will be appropriately decorated and a very interesting program for young people will be given at the morning service. The house was filled Sunday evening.

W. W. Jewell of Pittsburg conducted the song service and that is enough to say that it was indeed inspiring. "The people sang." Jewell is a born leader and our folks appreciate his help. The pastor is attending the assembly at Presbyterian Hill, Hollister, Mo.

this week. A great day is planned for next Sunday. The sermon for the morning service will be, "God's Extra Blessing." Evening, "The Battle of the Barns." John 20 and Luke 12. cordial invitation is extended to every. body.

Methodist Church Mr. Morris will speak Sunday morning on "Pillars In The Temple" and Sunday evening on "Popular sions." The Sunday school meets at 9:45. The Epworth League delegates are at the Baldwin Institute this week. The League will serve ice cream and cake on the church lawn Wednesday evening, August 23rd. Presbyterian Church The most practical way to support the church is by regular attendance.

Are you helping or hindering, your church? Next Sunday is Yokefellow Day at the Presbyterian Sunday school. Ev- ery member is going to yoke up with someone who has not been attending and together they are going to boost for Dad's Day. Dad's Day is the big day when everyone brings a dad. The date for this event is August 27th. If you have not heard about the big picnic to be held Friday ask Mr.

Rice. Services for Sunday, the 20th, are as follows: Sunday school at 9:30, Yokefellow Day; morning worship at 11. Subject, "The Preservative of. Society." Christian Endeavor at 7. Leader Miss Ruth Harmon.

Topic, "Following and Setting Good Examples." Evening worship at 8. Subject, "The Church and Today." There will be an unusual musical program at the evening service. City Taxes Reduced Following the lead of the state, county, and school district, the city commissioners in making the annual levy last Monday night, made a slight reduction from last year's levy, cutting one tenth of a mill for the fire department and leaving all other levies the same. The city levy this year, therefore, will be $16.00 per thousand dollars of valuation, compared with $16.10 of last year. Combined with the decrease of cents per thousand in state tax, cents in county tax and $3.00 in school tax, this results in a total cut of $4.26 per thousand for Girard property, a reduction from a total of $44.80 to $40.54 per thousand.

This year's levy of a half mill for the purchase of additional land for the cemetery, completes that fund and will be discontinued after this year. Girard Office Wins Division Banner Agent F.D. Meiller of the American Railway Express, was informed that the Central Kansas Division, in which his office is located, has been awarded the "Prize Division Banner" in the contest for the best divisional records in the reduction of claims. The Operating Division in each of the five regional territories which shows the greatest percentage of improvement in the claim situation for each period of three months, is designated a "Prize Division" and permitted to keep a "Prize Division Banner" until it is taken away by some other Division winning it for the next quarter. The honor just won by the Central Kansas Division is for the second quarter of the contest, and the competition in the third quarter is now under way.

The local office has received "Prize Division" cards, announcing the special honor won by the Division. The problem of claims, which was so serious in the express business a few years ago, has been nearly solved. The goal set before express employees is "one claim in a thuosand shipments" and the contest records show that that goal is not very far off. Failed to Return Borrowed Car Clyde Lewis borrowed an automobile of O. W.

Meine, of Sherman township, last Saturday, to drive to Girard. He did not return and the sheriff was notified. Lewis was trailed to Nowata, where he was arrested. He was brought to Girard and arraigned in the court of H. W.

Bouck, Justice of the Peace, where he plead not guilty. His bond was fixed at $1,000, in default of which he was sent to jail to await trial. Legion Elects Delegates At the regular meeting of George C. Brown Post No. 26, of the American Legion, held last Monday night the following were selected as delegates and alternates to represent the Girard Post at the State convention to be held in El Dorado September 11,12 and 13: Delegates; Clifford Everitt, Loi Boothe, Jo Gaitskill, George ley and W.

W. Holsworth. nates; Everitt Hutcherson, L. H. Bonzi, Mat Genser, E.

R. Langford and George Kirkpatrick. Ernest Ryan will also represent the Girard Post as a member of the State Executive Committee. Fifteen members of the Priestly-Ridley Post of Cherokee attended the meeting and enjoyed an explanation of the State Compensation Bill as outlined by Jack Henson, local compensation officer. The Post voted to make an effort to dispose of the automobile name plates which were secured several months ago.

The money secured from, this sale will be used toward defraying the expenses of delegates to El Dorado. Earl Tiffany is in the Girard hospital recovering from an operation necessitated by an accident while in the employment of the Carterville Construction company a month ago, RECLAIM JEFFERSON HIGHWAY Bogus Markings Obliterated. Resolutions at Mass Meeting Tuesday Night Resolutions condemning a few citizens of Pittsburg for their part in placing of the JH mark on roads officially designated as the JefferHighway, and pledging moral and financial support to the directors of road in their fight for justice, were passed unanimously by a meeting Girard men Tuesday night. During the day, a number of Girard men, along with others from Mound City, Paola and Osawatomie were out with paint and brushes, obliterating markings of the trail placed by Pittsburg and Pleasanton men in an effort to divert travel from the legally established route, to a line further east. The resolutions are as follows: Whereas, for the past seven years city of Girard, has been on route of the regular established Jefferson highway and at no time has ever refused to conform to by-laws, constitution and rules and regulations said association; and Whereas, the board of directors of Kansas branch of the Jefferson highway association has repeatedly held that Girard was on said route; and Whereas, the secretary of state of Kansas in a lengthy ruling has held that the Jefferson highway route went through Girard; and Whereas, certain individuals of Pittsburg, in face of the rulings said board of directors and the secretary of state and in face of the constitution and by-laws of said Jefferson highway association, and by unfair, ungentlemanly, and illegal means and tricks have repeatedly attempted to route said highway to the east Girard, and deprive the citizens of Girard from the advantages being on a national highway; and Whereas, said certain individuals of Pittsburg, did within the last week or ten days in violation of the constitution and by-laws of said association, and of the rules of said board of directors and the ruling of the secretary of state, and in violation of the laws of the state of Kansas with reference to markings of highways, changed the markings and attempted to change the Jefferson highway from its established route, not alone Crawford regular, county, but in other counties through which said route runs; be it therefore Resolved, by the citizens of Girard.

in mass meeting assembled that we extend to the board of directors of the Kansas branch of the Jefferson Highway association our appreciation for fair and impartial way in which they have handled the many matters that have before said board, and that we hereby, pledge to said board our moral financial support, and, Be it further Resolved, that we most bitterly condemn the actions certain Pittsburg individuals those, their unfair and illegal attempts to change the regularly established route of the Jefferson Highway and deprive Girard, of the advantages of being on this national highway. And we hereby publicly state them and the business men and good citizens of Pittsburg who believe fair play and a square deal, that the action of these certain Pittsburg individuals are endangering the good feeling and friendly spirit that now exists between Girard and Pittsburg. Be it further Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be sent to all the Pittsburg and Girard newspapers for publication. And that a copy be sent to the board of directors of the Kansas branch of the Jefferson Highway association. J.

M. VINCENT. R. L. KIRKPATRICK, W.

H. WAYLAND. Seven years ago the Jefferson highway was established southward from Kansas City through Mound City, Paola, Osawatomie, Fort Scott, Girard and Pittsburg into Missouri. Since that time a few citizens of Pittsburg have been trying to perfect an arrangement which would leave Girard, Mound City, Paola and Osawatomie off the route. Recently A.

H. Shafer of Pittsburg, was elected president the National Jefferson Highway association, and soon thereafter, the JH marking on the legitimate line were obliterated and signs posted on roads further east, avoiding all county seat towns except Fort Scott. A few weeks ago the matter was taken before the secretary of state Topeka, who decided against the Pittsburg men. Last Saturday the state board of directors of the road met Paola and ordered all. JH markers not on the original route, to be obliterated.

It was in accordance with this order that the delegations acted last Tuesday. Bright new markers are ing placed on the regularly established road, and it is rumored that legal steps will be taken against anyone attempting to disturb them. New Paper at Scammon Scammon has a new newspaper, The Scammon Boomer. It is a neat four page four column weekly, published by James Chase. Its first number appeared last.

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