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HE TAR Volume III DORRANCE, RUSSELL COUNTY KANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 29. 1916 Number 39 HcCormick Header Deader Binder aoes ne stand at tiie bank How often is this question asked, not only of the small, but the big business man? If you have a small account at the bank make up your mind to increase it. You cannot tell when you may need extra i The McCormick Headeris a time and labor saver. It has convenient adjustments for raising and lowering the reel so that either long or short grain can be cnt A McCormic Header will harvest your grain in the shortest tim with the least expense for help arid machinery. The McCormick Header-Binder is light in draft, easy to operateand does good work under all field conditions, it is the most practical machine for the large grain grower who desires to bind his grain as it is cut.

cash to extend your business. If you are right at the bank you not only have the cash at hand, but the bank will help you with a loan. A community is judged by the number and the standing of its banks. Successful merchants make successful banks. And successful banks help to make successful merchants.

WE OFFER EVERY BANKING FACILITY. I can only surmise. This train reached Denver early in November, not September as I have read in the prints. It was then fixed up and in March following, at a time of the year that certainly promised calamity, it was sent on to its original destination, Salt Lake, was caught in the blizzard of Green river, and between the elements and the road agents was practically swept from the face of the earth. A corporation in Texas permitted a sweet tempered little girl to live on its premises.

This girl attracted a boy eight years old who came over and was injured by falling pulley wheels. The Texas court held that a. sweet girl is not an attractive nuisance and that the doctrine of the turntable cases cannot be applied to attractive maidens since they constitute an ordinary and natural, and not an extraordinary or unusual peril. Small dealers may berate the mail order houses but the skill of the latter in advertizing could well be studied arid emulated by the cities. The American Library Association meets on the Atlantic coast this month, and a member here has received an elaborate printed invitation from Sears, Roebuck and Company, signed by its president, asking the delegates when passing thru Chicago to yisit the mail order plant in a body and be their guests at luncheon, or to visit in smaller numbers or singly.

Brichacek, Prochasky, Urbanek, Zamrzla, this isn't part of the. roll call of an Austrian or Russian regiment. It is one-fourth of the high school class of 1916 in a neighboring city. Consider this, ye of little faith, who look down upon newcomers from across the seas. By the way their ancestral people establisht one of the oldest and proudest of universitiesJOO years ago.

An mmwiF HARD WARE AND FURNITURE Rustlings Written for the Dorrance Star by Judge J. C. Ruppenthal. Anna Steese Richardson, a writer and lecturer, is quoted in the Kansas City Star as saying that: ''Fifty per cent of divorces can be traced directly to some uncongeniality between husband and wife that has a physical cause." After trying hundreds of divorce cases, the writer knows that there is at least a very close relationship between phvsical unpre-paredness, unfitness and divorce. One of the good results of sketches of local history in the newspapers is the corrections made of eirors.

An interesting series of articles on early history of Lincoln county has run for many weeks in the Linooln papers. Now U. Bernhardt who watches Russell county histoiy too, nas written a colum to correct errors. Prof. Shiveley of the state normal commended a ten months' school term to the serious consideration of the patrols of the public schools of Hays City.

It looks as if the time will soon come when the foolish custom of turning the children loose without purpose or aim for sixteen weeks will come to an end. Not all jails in Kansas have prisoners, but at all times there are hun-dreds of prisoners tn jails thruout the state. They are rotting body, mind and soul in idleness. A few years ago many more cement plants were bilt in Kansas than were needed. Several of them are idle and going to ruin.

Some are sold by sheriffs. How would it be for the state fo buy a cement plant far below original cost, and run it largely with jail and prison labor in winter, and in milder weather keep such prisoners at work on public roads? The county superintendent of Logan county got out a breezy letter last week calling all school board members to the annual conference at the county seat, and also invited them to visit the institute now in session. It was well written advertizing. And the bachelors who are seeking nomination for county offices in the primaries, are already discussing the number of county officials who have married while holding office in the courthouse. James H.

Lowell, retired lawyer of Holton, tells the following incidents of the first trip or two of the stage over the old Butterfield trail from the Missouri river, up the Smoky Hill to Denver in 1865: Near where Oakley now stands we encountered Indians. They hovered around us for 31 days when on the 32nd Gen. Dodge came thru from Denver a cavalry force and dispersed them. My minutes of uiorraice OF DORRANCE, Political Announcements Sheriff I desije to make it known to the voters Russell county that I will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the office of sheriff at the coming primary, Tuesday, August 1, 1916. 1 will appreciate your support, at the primary, and later at the election, should 1 be successful in obtaining the nomination.

Russell, Kansas. P. A. PETERSON, I wish to announce to the voters of Russell county that I will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Sheriff at the primary election Tuesday, August 1st, 16. I will appreciate your support at the primary, and should I be nominated, your vot at the November election.

Lucas, Kas. J. W. MANNERS, Jr. It is my desire to make it known to the voters of Russell county, Kansas, that I am a candidate for the republican nomination for the office of sheriff of Russell county at the coming primary, Tuesday, August 1.

1 will appreciate your support at the primary and later at the election should I be successful in obtaining the nomination. I desire to further state I have lived in Russell county for over 20 years and have never before been a candidate foi any office, neither township or county. E. C. MUNSELL.

Clerk of District Court After having been repeatedly urged by friends over the county, 1 desire to make it known that 1 will again be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the office of Clerk of the District Court at the coming primary, August 1, 1916. I will appreciate your support at the primary and later at the election in November should I successful in obtaining thenomination. CARL H. ANSC1IUTZ. Register of Deeds desire to announce my candidacy for he office of Register of Deeds of Russell county, subject to the will ot the Republican voters at the primary, August 1st, 1916.

1 will appreciate the support of my friendsi all parts of county. Luray, Kan. J. M. AN SCOYOC.

Township Trustee I wish to announce to the voters of Rus sell county that I will be a candidate for the republican nomination for trustee "of Center township at the primary election, August 1, '16. I will appreciate your support at the primary and should I be nominated your vote at the November election. J. ELMER HOKE. Connty Superintendent I desire to announce to the voters of Russell county that I will be a candidate for the office of county superintendent, subject to the will of the democratic voters at the August primary.

The office of county superintended is hardly a political office and I will appreciate the votes of all parties at the November election. C. A. BODMER. ta tc Senator I desire to announce to the voters of Ellsworth, Lincoln, Osborne and Russell counties that 1 am a candidate for Repub lican, nomination for State Senator 34th senatorial district, subject to primary elec tion to be held August 1, 16.

I welcome investigation of my work as member of the House in the last three sessions of the Legislature. H. M. LAING, 30t6 Russell, Kansas. Clerk of District Court To the voters of Russell County: Your support is earnestly solicited in my behalf at the primary election August 1st, 1916, in my candidacy for the republican nomination for Clerk of the District Court.

IRA S. FLECK. Register of Deeds To the voters oFRussell County: I will be a candidate for the republican nomination for the office of Register of Deeds at the primary August 1st, 1916, and take this opportunity to thank one and all for the support given me in the past and will appreciate any favors shown me in this campaign. C. V.

SHAFFER County Treasurer I wish to announce mysHf as a candi date for re-election to the office of county treasurer, subject to the will of the repub lican voters of Kussell county. During the short time that 1 have been in office (being only about six months,) I have exercised all the human genius I possess in an endeavor to fill the office with skill and efficiency. If I have met with your ap proval, I will very grateful to you for your support. J. E.

MISSIMER. Bunker Hill, Kans. 3C mmmJ WW WWm Mate KANSAS. Commissioner 3rd District To the voters, women and men, of the Third Commissioner District of Russell county, I wish to announce that I am a candidate for the nomination for Commissioner for this 3rd District on the Republican ticket. Will appreciate your vote at the primary August 1st.

H. II. ANSPAUGH. I announce myself as a candidate for the nomination for Commissioner of the 3rd District subject to will of the voters at the primary Aug. 1.

If nominated and elected will give the same faithful and careful attention to county affairs I give to my own. JOHN MAHONEY-Hunker Hill, Kans. Probate Judge I wish to announce to the voters of Russell county that I will be a candidate for the Kepnblican nomination for the office of Probate Judge, for a second term, at the primary, August 1, '16. I feel very grateful to the votersof the county for the consideration given me at the last ejection, and will appreciate your support at the primary and later in the November election, if nominated. Russell, Kans.

DEAN S. LANDON. County Clerk I wish to announce to the voters of Russell county that I will be a candidate for the republican nomination for County-Clerk of Russell county at the primary election, August 1, '16. I will appreciate your support at the primary and should I be nominated your vote at the November election. Russell, Kansas.

WM. J. ROE. Sheriff I wish to announce to the republican voters of Russell county that I am a candidate for the office of sheriff, subjectto the decision of the voters at the primary. Your support will be greatly appreciated.

JOHN G. BOGAN. County Attorney To the voters of Russell County, Kansas: I offer myself as candidate on the republican ticket, for the office of county attorney, subject to the will of the voters at the primaries August 1, '16. JOSEPH S. WENGER.

em Bank K1I 1 For Representative I wish to announce to Phe democratic voters of Russell county that I will be a candidate tor representative for this district and respectfully ask your consideration and support during the campaign of IV16. Russell, Kas. G. W. HOLLAND.

cated along the same cnek. Southwest of town we found A. D. Williams, John Stolzenberg, J. D.

Mon-tany, the man Win. Miller bought out, and Mr. Muck. North of town was A. J.

Crawford, M. J. Brown, Goffe Brothers, Buzick cattle ranCjh. East of town Frank Brown and J. T.

McKittnck. (July, a few furrows were turned over. Mr. Tyler, agent, homesteaded 1()0 adjoining town, arid had ten acres broken, the est was buffalo grass. These men located in fall and winter 1871.

Crawford and Browns a month or two ahead of us. Many of them are still here today, Miller, Selleis, Crawford, Goffe, aod in the state Bolen, Stolzenburg, gnd ir ti i wm. jouusoii, i kuow me piu lines, traveled for years over the two towns as assessor, knew the old settlers, their wagons, oxen and plows Times change, but 1 am a jahaw-ker." First publfshed in the Dorrance Star June 29, 1916. Notice of Appointment Guardian State of Kansas, Russell County, ss In the matter of the estate qf May Allen Anderson, feeble minded, Russell-Gouaty, Kansas. Notice is hereby given, that on the 2 1st day of June, A.

1916, the undersigned was by the Probate Court of Russell-County, Kansas, appointed and qualified as guardian of May AIk Anderson, feeble minded, of Kussell County, Kansas. All Parties will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. L. J. SPRINKLE, Guardian.

Picture show Saturday night. 3 THE Elevator -1 WHEAT The Star's chief jabber does not like newspaper correspondence in the first person singular. The writer has just read an article in that form in the Wakeeney World describing a recent visit to Wilson by the veteran Dick Tograph. Certainly his direct statements added interest to the narrative, and those who know him are aware that it is no shallow egotism that at times prompts him to speak to his friends through the press j.ust as he would face to face. Jacob Sackman was one of the pioneers who planted the colony of Pennsylvania Germans east of Dorrance.

He says: UI was born and lived seven miles west of Chambers-burg, in Saint Thomas, along the Pittsburg and Baltimore pike, and left April 3, 1872, for central Kan sas. The pioneers of the first Pennsylvania colony came west to Wilson and Russell county to look over the country and select a location. These men were George Smyser, James Weakley, John Hemminger and Geo. Heimes jr. They came in fall 1871.

The colony came in April "1872. John Sellers, John Dellinger," John son Brougher, Wm. Miller, Micheal Shipp and Midheal Boland settled in and around Wilson. I bought the improvements on the northwest quar ter of section 30, town 14, range 12, west from A. Broomiield.

Jacob Dietrich came in 1873 and settled in town, but later homesteaded south west quarter section 34 in Russell county. When we landed in ilson we found Snow Beebe grocery and general meichandise; Philip Gabt-1 grocer; Thos. O' Loughlin living in section house with a livery barn south of the track; A. O. Gibbs, justice of the peace, school director, postmaster and holding a few minor offices, also landlord of the Wilson hotel; J.

Briggs and Geo. Wright lumber yard south of the track, Wright was also express agent; ChasI Martin saloon; Dennis Farrell and James Brady sec tion foremen; south of town found A. M. Waterman, James and Abe Broomfield, Chatfield, Green and Wm. Johnson on the Smoky.

A. E. Mathews mouth of Coal Creek, John Dodge, McDonald and F. Beech lo- 4 THE ave the Staff to Wei Panniers levator Co W. D.

HENDERSON, Manager. our journey "the plains across" forms a part of a narrative covering seven years mostly in Montana, pioneering. It was prepared years ago for my children. There are some things of interest historically connected with that hapless train, originally designed to achieve a record in, fast transportation, but hampered in several ways. These included a wet season at the first lap, a wagon boss deficient in resolution to command the element of toughs that filled tbe boxes, a poisonous weed that infected the legs of the mules and delayed progress, insubordination, the theft of two or three wagons and contents by drivers who took a back track with them.

The live stock were taken (my minutes show) about fifty miles from a point then known as Monument, and I see there is a township next Oakley named Monument. A coach, the first one I think, passed us the day of the attack and some three or four of the passengers came to our corral the following day, or the morning after on the second day, a sorry bunch, with their shoes in their hands, and crippled feet, and reported the capture of the coach, team, etc. A colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment was one of the unfortunates. The two guides who had been chosen to maneuver the train were constantly at fault, whether purposely or not BRING YOUR GOOD Dries them up so their is no STMXIIK Will not harm your Chickens, Pigs or other stock, but will Kill your Rats and Nice or Your Money Back. CALL FOR 'RAT -J5c.

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