The Norton Weekly Telegram from Norton, Kansas • 6

FROM THE BOYS AT FORT WINFIELD SCOTT. Mrs. Stoddard Receives Letter From. Her Sons Who Are Now at the Fort Near San Francisco Boys Doing Well. Fifth Co.

C. A. Ft. Winfield, Scott. Dear are in California now, and this state is sure all I have ever heard about.

I won't tell you much, about. our trip, or I would be writing all night and we go to bed at 9:30 o'clock. We left Denver Monday evening and were at the foot of the Rockies when we went to bed. The next morning when we got up we were on top of the mountains. We got up so high it made my ears ache.

We were in the mountains all day and in the evening we came down through a big canyon onto the plains. On one side of the canyon was the Rio Grande river and over in the distance was the other side of the canyon. On the other side of the train were great mountains of solid rock. Wednesday morning when we woke up we were past Salt Lake City and out on the great salt beds and from then on into the desert across the state of Nevada. There was a lot of scenery even on that desert.

Nevada is a wet state, but 90 per cent of the fellows did not touch a drop. When we went to bed Wednesday night we were coming into California. Thursday morning we were across the mountains and into the land of sunshine, flowers, fruit and palm trees. That sure was great. It even smelled good.

We got into San Francisco about eleven o'clock and took a ferry across the bay to the fort. The fort is just like a big college. Big gray cement buildings, cement sidewalks, blue grass lawns and evergreen trees. The fort is on a hill overlooking the bay. Our tent is up on a knob above the fort.

There are five of us in the tent, Glen Sarvis, John Rasure, Dick Rollins, Lewis and myself. We each have a cot with a mattress, pillow, two clean new sheets asd I two double thick army blankets. There is a nice little stove in the middle of the tent. I think we are situated on one of the prettiest spots there is, from our tent we can see on the west the Pacific, on the north is the Golden Gate and Frisco Bay with many boats on it and in the back ground, of the green hills. On the east is San Francisco, which we can see from here, and on the south is a forest of evergreen trees and the fort with its beautiful campus and buildings.

On the whole we are having the experience of our lives. We are associaring with college and high school boys, all clean and upright young fee lows. It seems just like one big camping trip. But after all we have just a little wee bit of homesickness which will probably grow. I guess we all get that way sometimes.

I expect "us kids" will go wild when we get one of the H. S. annuals. None of us have heard from home yet, as we haven't been in one place long enough to get a letter. If there is any clipping in the Telegram which would interest us, we would like awfully well to see them.

Don't worry about us, for we are sure treated well and fed well. Write to us soon. Harold and Lewis Stoddard. OBITUARY Mary E. Price-Smith was born in Knox County, Ohio, July 7, 1840 and died in Norton, Kansas May 13, 1917 aged 76 years 10 months and 6 days.

In 1856 she removed with her parents to Iowa County, Iowa, on July 4, 1859 she was married to Alva Smith at Williamsburg, Iowa. And in July, 1873 they came to Norton County Kansas. To this union there were born ten children, two of whom preceded her in death; Norman Bruce who died August 6, 1860 and Murlie who died Feb. 7 1885. Of the eight living children four reside in the vicinity of Norton; Lionel Mrs.

Adelial L. McGinnis, Orla and Wayne. Those who are living at a distance are John W. of Ft. Benton, Montana; Lenore E.

of Montague, Montana; Orville of Cavenlish, Idaho; and Birt C. of Osage City, Oklahoma. In early life Mrs. Smith gave her heart to God and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of which she has ever been a faithful and devout member. She loved her churce.

and Sunday School and, until 1: health during the past year prevented her attendance, she delighted in the public services. A dinner party at her home on February 1st, 1911 the Martha Washington Embroidery Club was organized with four members. The Club has grown until it has long since reached the limit of membership fixed at eighteen. She was also a member or the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Relief Corps but next to her Church and Sunday School sne loved the Martha's. The immediate mourners this day are the eight children, thirteen grand children, eight great grand children, two brothes, William and T.

F. Price, other kindred and a host of friends who remember her as a tender mother, a loving sister and a kind and helpful friend. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. U. S.

Brown at the First Methodist Episcopal church at 10:30 this morning and the body was laid to rest in the Norton cemetery. INFORMATION BUREAU FOR SIXTH DISTRICT FARMERS Facts in Regard to Crop Production to Be Published by Volunteer Organization. Hays, Kansas, May 13-The Sixtn district council of defense has discovered that its biggest problem out IS the "short grass" country is to get the people to realize the seriousness of the situation. Each county of the Sixth district can take care of itself financially, from the standpoint of seed and labor, and is loyal beyond question. But the crisis is greater than the isolation of the middle west permits them to know.

A central bureau of information to be used as a clearing house for the Sixth district alone has been established here by the permanently organized council of this section of Kansas. It will be maintained by a corps of unpaid volunteer workers, who will work under the direction of the council and it will be nameless. Its job will be to carry on a campaign to get the people to understand the significance of the need for food. One of the things being done has been to ask every newspaper to gather all possible news in its own county relative to the producing and conservation of food and crops in that county. "Each local paper owes this to the nation," the call reads.

The papers are then asked to send the district headquarters at Hays a copy so that the workers can clip and forward the news of one county into all the counties. There are ninety-one papers to whom the call went. With the call went a patriotic display concerning the big food drive of the council in the district. The various county chairmen appointed by the governor will send the news of their activities to the bureau for use in telling other parts of the district what other seetions are doing. OBITUARY.

OBITUARY. Alonzo Anderson Peak was born in Nodaway Sept 21st, 1881. Departed this life March 23, 1917, age 35 years, six months, 2 days, He came with his parents to Norton County in 1885, living at home with them until manhood. In 1902 he went to Washington state where he lived for twelve years. On May 28, 1913 he was married to Miss Mable Hartsook at Tacoma, Wash.

To this union one child was born, Fred Henry, age 17 months. They resided in Seattle until 1914 moving from there to Glenns Ferry, Idaho where he was accidently drowned in the Snake River, March 23ra. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, son, father, mother, two brothers, sisiters, and a host of friends. He was a member of Green Lake Lodge No. 209.

I. 0. 0. F. where he was ax honored past grand.

The funeral was held at the United Brethern church at Edmond, Kansas, May 6th, 1917, where the body had been brought as soon as recovered from the water. The funeral was preached by the Rev. J. B. Deever, the pastor, to one of the largest gatherings of its kind even seen in Edmond.

The capacity of the church was not nearly large enough to accommodate the vast number of friends who gathered together to pay their last respects to a beloved friend and former neighbor. STATE BOARD OF CONTROL AND STATE ARCHITECT HERE The Sanitorium to Have Pavilion and Buildings Amounting to $55,000. Last. trip of board to Norton. The state board of Control, composed of Mr.

Stanc Myers, and W. E. Davis, with Floyd Baker, the accountant and the state architect, Mr. C. H.

Chandler, came in yesterday on the Jersey and yesterday evening and this morning have been busy looking over, the State Sanitorium with a view to erecting a new pavilion, new cottage for patients, residence for superintendent, dairy barn, addition to dining room and kitchen, a complete water system, addition to power house and addition to pavilion No 2. The buildin all will amount to about $55,000. All they can do at present is to lay plans for the buildings and ask for bids, as the contracts will not be let until after July, when this board is succeeded by one appoined by Gov. Capper. This board was appointed under Gov.

Hodges, and have visited Norton and the Sanitorium many times during the past four years. Although they had a large territory, all the various institutions, to visit and keep running they have done unusually well towards our institute and much credit is due to them that the Sanitorium is the splendid health resort that it is. In the time that they have been coming to Norton the members of the board have made many friends, as was shown by the heatry way in which they were received at the Commercial club last evening. Harold Hamilton in a letter to his father, C. A.

Hamilton, says that the boys are getting along in fine shape and are enjoying the rudiments of soldier life at the forts. "Snapper' says that there are four or five of the Norton boys with him at Fort Barry California, located just across the bay from the Golden Gate, while the others are at Fort Winfield Scott, California. South Side. Mrs. A.

L. Romine was taken suddenly ill last Saturday night, but is much better now. Mrs. George Wheeler, accompanied by her daughter, Herma, are visiting her daughters in Rawlins County this week. Pearl Hobbs got home Saturday from Topeka.

She reports a great Convention. The Baptist minister from Oronoque preached at Calyary Wednesday evening. Albert Kidder lost a fine colt Sunday. Mrs. Arthur Mulkey came home from Agra Wednesday where she had been visiting hr parents.

She brougat her baby daughter home with her. Since her mother's sickness, Lois has been living with Grandpa and Grandma Coolidge. OBITUARY George Cyrus Delano was born February 22, 1848 near Huron, Ohio. He departed this life at his home near Norton, Kansas, May 9th 1917. Age 69 years 2 months and 17 days.

Mr. Delano spent his childhood the states of Ohio and Indiana. In April, 1862, at the age of 14 years, he enlisted as a private in Co. H. 88 Reg.

and Co. E. 38 Inc. Infantry and served until the close of the war. On November 1st.

1873 he was united in marriage to Miss Alice B. Rhines at Ashley, Pa. To this union were born nine children, seven of whom are still living Joseph M. George C. Nettie William Wesley H.

Alice and Thomas A. all being present at his bedside. In 1876 he, with his family, moved to Marshall County and in 1884 to Norton County Kansas. Mr. Delano united with the Metnodist Episcopal church at West Nanercook, Febr.16 1875 and later at Belle Plain, Norton County Kansas.

He was a kind, loving husband and father, who leaves a devoted wife, seven children and nineteen granochildren besides other relatives and many friends to mourn his loss. Funeral services were conducted at the home Friday morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. U. S. Brown and the body ruterred in the Norton cemetery.

The two distinct types of Eczema can be relieved readily by using dry Zensal for the crusty, scaly skin and moist Zensal for all watery eruptions. 75c a jar. NYAL DRUG STORE. Some of the Sixth district editors are engaged in a controversy over what constitutes good party loyalty. According to some, to be a in good standing in a party a fellow should always champion the political acts of its members and never commend the official acts of a member of the opposing party.

This little tempest started over Congressman Connelly's vote on the war question. John didn't think a state of war existed and voted that way. It was not up to the President to declare war, the constitution clothes the congress with this authority and he exercised his constitutional right in voting as his conscience dictated. Personally, we think a state of war did exist when the vote was taken and Mr. Connelly should have voted that way, but John saw it differently and we nave HO right in a free country to question his sincerity or Sentinel.

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