The Oketo Eagle from Oketo, Kansas • 1

OKETO EAGLE. VOL, 1, NO. 49. Local News. Next comes Christmas.

Let us wait for it. Most of the business houses in Oketo were closed Mrs. Brainard returned Wednesday evening, She was accompanied by Edith Potter. A suit was filed at Chanute Tuesday attacking the constitutionality of the new tax law. The Oketo mill is again in operation, after having been closed several weeks for repairs.

A slight fall of snow occurred here Wednesday, but the weather yesterday wss ideal for turkey day. H. C. Lathrop and Mr. Nordwork of Blue Rapids came up Monday evening for a brief business visit.

Miss Laura Thomas came over from Summerfield Thursday to spend the Thanksgiving vacation at home. Ira Ewing of Clear Fork township was adjudged, insane last Thursday and was taken to the asylum at Topeka. A pool tournament between Oketo and Barneston players is being arranged. The contest will occur in Oketo. D.

C. Lancaster and wife of Blue Rapids spent Thanksgiving in Oketo, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.

Farrant. Fred Hartden, employed at a stone crusher near Blue Springs, fell dead while on his way to work Wednesday morning. Dr. Holmes of Bern, who was in Oketo last week and talked of locating here, has written that he he will not come. The intermediate and primary departments of the Oketo school rendered a program at the school house Wednesday afternoon.

The foot ball season closed yesterday. In a few days we will have the official count on the number of killed and wounded this season. Roscoe Barnes and a force of men' have been at work this week laying cement walks at the residences of H. R. Chapman and A.

E. Kibbe. Not much doing in the news line in Oketo this week. We had hoped there would be a first-class or something to liven things up. A number of Oketo sports went to Marietta yesterday to attend the shooting match.

Most of them were fortunate enough to secure turkeys. There is a farm residence not many miles from Blue Rapids, the furniture in which cost $3,000, and the farmer sleeps on a $150 bed. -Blue Rapids Times. G. Stettnisch, who lives six miles southwest of town, will sell his personal effects at his farm December 14.

He will leave for Colorado a few weeks after the sale. The basket social and spelling bee at the school house last Friday night was a success socially and financially. Col. F. E.

Kinney auctioned the baskets and his eloquent appeals resulted in securing war prices for the refreshments. About $35 was placed in the library fund. Peter Champagne has tendered his resignation as justice of the peace in Oketo township to Governor Hoch and the same has been accepted. This will leave the place vacant until a successor has been appointed. Thomas Devers was elected to the office at the late election but has not qualified up to this time.

The EAGLE was in error last week when it stated that Tony Pribyl had been injured by being trampled upon by a horse. The injured man is his brother, Milt Pribyl, who lives near Barneston. Mr. Pribyl was said to be in a precarious condition the first of the week, blood poisoning having affected one of his limbs. It was feared for a time that the member would have to be amputated.

OKETO, Marriage Licenses. Judge Loch issued the following marriage licenses this week: E. S. Heiserman, Beattie, and Elizabeth Winkler, Marysville. Peter R.

Kotapish, Irving, and Mary C. Ducheck, Irving. Otto W. Mohr and Minnie Hanni, both of Marysville. Chas.

O. Drotts and Lillie C. Van Dorn, both of Axtell. Emil P. Frahardt and Lillian Winsor, both of Wakefield.

Charles Weinart and Kate Murphy, both of Frankfort. The ladies aid society will meet next Thursday in the Moore building all day. Benjamin Knight and wife, who were visiting friends near Oketo the first of the week, left Wednesday for an extended visit with relatives in Oklahoma. The firm of Fassnacht Keegan of Axtell have offered a reward of $100 for the apprehension of the parties who entered their store last week and stole a quantity of firearms. out twenty young men," says the Atchison Globe, "and not more than five of them are making an effort to save money.

The indications are that the poorhouse of the future will have to be six stories high, with folding beds in every room." Here is a good corn shucking record: Oscar Honeycutt picked 589 bushels in six days. The corn was picked for John O. Hunt and wasn't guessed at, but was weighed over the scales. On one of the days he picked one hundred and one bushels and a half. -Blue Rapids Times.

A large and merry crowd was the one at the masquerade ball at the opera, house here last night. The dancing aid not begin- until about ten o'clock and did not continue very late, but all who attended agree in pronouncing it one of the most pleasant events held in Oketo in a long time. Brubaker's orchestra furnished the musie. A number from neighboring towns were present. Con Smith, who formerly resided in this county near Oketo and for many years conducted the county poor farm which was then located north of here, arrived in Marysville yesterday morning from Elk county for an extended visit with Marshall county relatives and friends.

Mr. Smith is eighty-four years old and is quite hale and hearty and carries his age remarkably -Advocate Democrat. W. C. Austin of the Chase County Leader, who believes in every man being his own Walt Mason, has written a little lyric entitled "Bliss in and here it is: "'The flies are frozen stiff and stark, no more we hear the meadow lark, impatiently the coon dogs bark and the 'possums through the dark.

The cider in the cellar works, the rabbit lurks, the quails hide in the deep ravines and dogs and guns disturb their dreams. The canna bulbs are put away, the cattle turn from grass to hay, before it's light the housewife wakes and stirs the toothsome buckwheat cakes. The turkeys as they take on fat will soon not know where they are at, their brief career ere long will close and in our stomachs they'll repose. The farmer in the early morn now hurries out to husk corn, the frost shines white upon the fence, but corn is bringing fifty cents, and for the frost he little keers, as rapidly he plucks the ears." No hunting or trespassing allowed on my farm, adjoining Marietta. N.

ANDERSON. Notice. Notice. Notice. No hunting allowed on my farm, west half of sec.

5. 20. CHARLES D. KNIGHT. 27, 1908.

ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR Hessian Fly at Work. E. O. G. Kelly, an expert on agricultural topics, visited Marshall county last week, and as a result of his investigations in the wheat fields reports that the Hessian fly is at work in the fields that were sown early.

In his report Mr. Kelly says: "I found in my investigations on the plot on the Hawkins farm that the sowings of September 5, 15 and 25 were infested by the Hessian flies, in both the larvae or grub state and the pupae (chrysalis) or dormant state. In the earliest seeding (September 5) much of the wheat was dead, and in the later two it was in such condition that it is but a matter of time before the greater part of it will die. The two latest seedings, October 5 and 15, were free from the pest and I believe they are alright, barring, however, an attack in the spring from the flies hatched in the earlier sown patches. This experiment has shown us this muchthat the early seedings were the feasting and propagating ground of the pests.

"The examinations I made on these plats showed that on the first and second seedings, September 5 and 15, were found four of the flies in the dormant state in the former and grub state in the latter, to the foot, while on the third seeding, September 25, there were seven of the pests in the grub state to the foot. Last year I found no Hessian flies present on the plot. "After leaving the Hawkins farm I walked to from Carden making many investigations of fields while enroute. From my observations I should judge that there is about thirty per cent of the early sown wheat which is infested by the fly, but, however, they may to a great extent be parasitized. This, however, I do not know, as I have made no microscopic examinations of the insects." A Thanksgiving Thought.

Sixty years ago there was something called a world, in which some of us were alive. It was a world of four or five continents of jarring interests; a world -parted by three or four oceans. If I wrote to my brother on the other side of the world I might expect an answer in six months. If in the region where he lived the water failed, or the winds did not blow the poor people there lay down and died of famine. The barns of Ohio might be bursting, but the starving people had to die.

But sixty years have changed all that. All that has been changed because God has worked with His children, and His children have worked with him. Men have been working each for all, and all for each. When a botanist in Java made gutta percha flow from a tree, and when Alexan: der Agassiz and the rest compelled the Lake Superior mines to "deliver their copper, some hundred of thousands of God's children between them drew the copper into wire and sheathed it with gutta percha and laid their cable beneath the ocean. The children worked with their father, and the father worked with His children.

It is not one man who has done this. It is not a hundred men. It is the union of the world. It is this union of the children with the Father, and of the Father with the children. The great victories have been the victories which you and I have prayed for every morning when we have wished that the Father's will may be done on earth just as it is done in heaven.

All for each, and each for all! Edward Everett Hale. FOR SALE. Fifteen full blood Buff Orpington hens and roosters. Fifty cents each. Fred B.

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All we ask is that the housewife give them a trial. Highest market price paid for GRAIN. H. R. Chapman Co.

OKETO. KANS. 3 KK DE A Marshall County Snap. Two hundred and three acres of good improved land within three miles of Frankfort. Well located.

Good improvements. Price, if taken soon, $14,000. Will take $4,000 down and balance to suit purchaser at six per cent. Write or phone. E.

G. Manrose, BLUE RAPIDS, KAN..