Daily Telegram from Norton, Kansas • 5

THE NORTON TELEGRAM Tnr'T? High cost of farming without a spreader wBrinjnaf Figures Up to Data 'UI JliaJilUIJ ill Crooked Creek A fine little shower of rain fell in these parts last Saturday night. Rain is very badly at this Corn and potatoes are holding their own yet'ahU pfenty of rain would make a fine crop about here yet. The Free Methodist people or Densmore gave their children's day services last Sunday to a large and rv 1 othing and Specializiog Aoceat) Issue of a farm paper contained an article entitled Barnyard Manure and JIow to Spread It Advan-tageoa3ly." All the facts set were ttood, but many of the arguments were lased on corn at 60 cents, oats, at 33 cents, and -wheat at 85 cents per i i .3 appreciative crowd. 'The' program' con sisted of speaking and singing. After the program a number of delegates were elected to attend the Sunday School convention to be held at Nor ton.

'--A man can't know farming, unless at some time and for a long time, he makes a business of "ing; can he? A man can't know clothing enough to sell it con-' scientiously, without similar ex-" perience. We are clothing merchants and nothing else. We don't claim to know anything but clothing, but we know that well. And our ex- perience proves that KUPPENHEIMER Rev. Neal gave his farewell sermon On the same page with this very able article, but having no connection with it, was a4ifctle squib which read like this, "The chips oft the old block; ere often so lazy that they He whera ihey fall." that explains' why many of us do not take the troublo to bring experiments up to date.

If proper use of manure brought so many more buahela of corn, what 13 the reason it would not bring" Ike results with $1.54 corn? Consider the following results taken from some of the best bulletins. Hote the dler. ence when the figures are brought tip toal9l8 model. VIu of Crop Increase- Machine Spreading Over I Ian Spreading Per Acre On 40 Acre to the Fairhaven people Sunday night. He expects to locate his fam ily in Oregon and work for Uncle Sam as an Army 0 A JV Alvah Archer is to leave Friday for California and his relatives' and friends have arranged for farewell party to be given in his honor Tues lFric Ml 1 Price 1.M Cora day evening.

v4'J 'I jPrloe J3t Price I e.00 ot 8 rw iM8 iad 481.60 9A0 mm 8i-W .851 ice Mr. Siegrist and family from Cross Roads attended Sunday School, at CLOTHES provide the greatest value you can buy anywhere-this season. $20 to $30. See the display this week. See theUnderwood and Underwood "War pictures in our show windows.

They change three times Week. Value of Crop Increae Machine Spreading Over No Manure" Cacfus after which theyspent the remainder of the day at Mr. Skerman Archers. Corn I Prlos I 1 Price 14 Price .33 1 lPricL Mf 1 Pricox 0 Per Acre OniOAerM tlJ.0C or 00.00 J00 U38.0O B.M W7.ee 15.18 MM 8.50 840.00 VM 808.09 Claude Atkinson is another of our if 'i Copyrlpht ltt ThftHoUMoKuniKinhnlmoa fine farmers who has been called 'to I Price AS W8 1 Price 9X)t the colors and will leave Tuesday for Camp Funston. He had out a res look better TSovr.

don't those fi Those other In their 1918 dress sui well worked crop and it was doing fine low figures werealmost enough to glva ntin a chill. Now. when our nation 13 His father will look after his affairs as best he can until Claude returns. About seventy six persons gathered Saturday evening to bid him good bye. Ice cream and cake was served to all present.

John W. Schesser is home on a sixty day furlough to help in the har dealing in billions, who wants to think: of 50-eent corn? The American farmer la done with small figures and no one Is more entitled to a more avorabla return for his labor than Buying Power Doubled" Let us make another comparison. When corn was 50 cents, it took about, 240 bushels to pay for a good spreader at $120.00. Suppose such a spreader is now about worn out and a new one finished. Can't you help next tims ed out on iron cota on both sides of I know the weather is hot, but still, the-room, amusing the children, di-the boys at the front don't stop on rectinit the bewildered nlwavs Calvert Neighborhood i.

Everybody busy havesting. Harry Fisher visited hi3 brother vest, v. 4 Is needed. Two hundred and forty tKat account, should Harvey Monday evening. Louisa Schesser purchased a new The townshro Sunday School con polite to each other, and with a cheery word for the refugees." i From A Mountain Division Bulletin.

Notes From the Red Cross' Rooms in bushels at 11,54, tne present: price, would enough to bay two modern light-running, widespread spreaders with still soma 'Thrift left. Now, why is it some peopld insist header recently. Everyone is getting ready for harvest as' rapidly as possible. Some machines are running now. The Court Room.

on saying spreaders are mgn in pneer nrHnrHnir flonirAa nil to data certalnlv 1 Remember to come Thursday morn i.nu eecona crop oi uuuuu i auuui opens OD9 8 VjQwt The names of thoVe' sewing at the ing from 8 to o'clock, and not in Court room. the afternoon. vention was held at the Calvert school house last Sunday afternoon wih a good crowd in attendance. The ol-. lowing officm were elected for the' Vldent; E7Roabaug Vice President Mrs.

R. T6wne, Sec-Treas. 'Hw time came for the collection it 'was announced, thaif the had between, eleven and twelve dollars on hand, and a suggestion was made jars, joe, oiapieton.v Lou Redd and Harlan Dey leave for the FrankDrake place to help Miss Bluebell Steele who has been in Airmy City is home for the summer. vest. How the Red Cross Copes With the Refugee Problem, The following is, an excerpt from a letter written by a Sammy who witnessed some of the results of the Mrs.

Broquet i Mrs. jC; L. Mrs. Peters: Mrs. MoFarland Mrs.

'Wicker Mrs. Stowits Mrs. C. E. Kempton and daughter i that the Collection taken go to the Red Wylma left for Denver this morning a stay here with relatives I and friends.

most recent German on No 7. Mrs, A. J. Johnson 4 "Meanwhile the refugees are pour Cross. The" collection' amounted to $9.50 Mr.

and Mrs. Bert Atkinson attena-ed the convention at Calvert last Sun- ing into Paris where they are shipped to the southern provinces, unless they have' relatives in Paris or elsewhere who are able or willing to take -U Miss Gail Handshaw is helping Mrs, Clarence Sang through harvesting. care of them. I spent part of Sua day at the Gare du Nord, Mrs. J.

A. Miller is able to. be out where a trainload of evacues from the Wxt JfarmetB tate Sank 1 (Organizing) 1 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $27,500.00 again. 'r-C: newly invaded districts had just come Fred Fisher helped load silica last Mrs. Erwin Mrs.

P. Cope Mrs. Ed Rodgers Mrs, Cargill J. E. Palmer rtMrs.

Border i Mrs. Hobart Mrs. Fishbeck Mrs. Hanenkratt Mrs. Mary Hazelett Miss Anna Geraghty Miss Vernie Fawcett Miss Bess Alexander Miss Ardith Jeffers -Miss Luda Recht Miss Lola Wicker Miss Helen" Erwin in.

The American Red Cross is doing much of the emergency relief work at the station, and is also handling the problem of getting the evsfcues The Reason Norton is Entitled Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Tommy Bieber leavers Thurs-. day morning to visit her son, Ira ana from there she will go Colorado to visit awhile. Hard Teafoird is feeling better again.

Mr. Runion is mowing his oats, for out of their evacuated towns-and yil to a Third Bank lages. Many of the poor people were so sick or crippled or old that they could not walk from the train to the rest List of towns in the 12 Northwest Counties of Kansas, having THREE banks. Deposits as per Population. May 1918 Call Goodland, Sherman County 2213 room in the station, but had to be Car Pledges Are Signed Wichita, Kan.J June 25 -Practically Ethel and Ruby Rhoades took dinner with Doris Rorabaugh, last Sun- Grace Body gave a very interesting talk at the convention last Sunday.

ried by the gendrames or wheeled in baggage trucks, hastily improvised into litters. They were half starved, most of them, and fell on the sausage sandwiches and coffee we passed a- every thresherman. in Kansas has signed the pledge to conserve wheat Colby, Thomas County -1039 Atwood, Rawlins 752 'L Oberlin, Decatur (2 banks 3d chj. 123li Ed Teaford and family visited H. E.

-1285. Phillips County 664,618.45 .672,075.67 .709,620.22 654,960.49 909,957.56 584 226.0S 894,745.66 by careful threshing, it was anmouncd by the Pood Administration today. Delano Bechtel and James Benefiei, assistant threhermen, who have been Smith Center, Smith 2 banks 3d char) -1566 Hill City, Graham County Stockton, Rooks County -1417J. Osborne, Osborne County touring the state, have held more than eighty county meetings, which have Fishers last Thursday evening. round, like wolves.

Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bright and( "The children, once they were fed daughter Veda, took dinner at R. 3. and provided with new ehoes and fresm Towne's last Sunday, and attended clothing by the Red Cross, which they the convention in the afternoon.

sadly needed, were perfectly happy, The service flag program was sue- forgot their tiredness in the excite-cessfully carried out at the Calvert ment of new clothes paraded church last Friday evening" twelve around in front feach other in the stars were put on, each star was put most comical attitutdes, counting each on by some member of the f-ily r- rfej "mlt.i to see who got the been attended by nearly every thresh-, erman in each county. Without ex ception every man at the meetings a-. 1 NORTON, Norton County 2032 Norton has only two banks and all of the above towns except one have less population and all have less deposits than Norton. The Rock Island and Burlington railroads serve Norton which together with the' large population and the rich territory surrounding, makes Norton the best business point in Northwest Kansas B. S.

MILLER, President W. H. Vice-President F. E. BENTON, Cashier signed the careful threshing pledge.

Inspection of the 22,000 machines In Kanras is now under way. -Most of those machines have-already been put in good order. Manufacturing com- presenting the one for whom it was most. "The Bed Cross is wonderful, espec ially the. woman, mostly French, but pinned on, and a few words spoken in their behalf.

Calvert section of the loyal wo- some English and American, TheyJ panies are cooperating with the Foodl giving Administratfon in infection woilc. men met at the school house witn -vjorkekd until ready to drop, El 3 twelvejn attendance, the usual work-out food and clothing, petting ana Lockwood is the inspecfor for was on hand, and 15 undcrliirts wero corfortir.g the sick refugcra stretch- Nortdn County. 1.