The Mapleton Press from Mapleton, Kansas • 1

Vol. 5, No. 17. Mapleton, Kansas, Friday, March 4, 1910. $1.00 per year.

DIFFERENT IN THE OZARKS. THE BARTLEY BROWN AND PICTURE CRAZE. Passing Comment of a Gentleman A True Story of the Early Days It Is Now Up To Us. From the Ozarks. At the hotel Friday morning, a free spoken mortal who came from the 'Away Down East." 3 wzargs inree or iour years ago, amusea The following little story, based on actual facts and written for The Press, is a graphic pen-picture of things as they were in that section before railroads, telegraphs and other civilizing influences came in xr Sometime in the 1840's a daguerre- a number of listeners who stood around the hot stove, while he delivered a series of left-handed compliments on the average Kansan's ability to resist cold.

"I'm awful glad I wasn't born or reared in Kansas. The way middle age and older people around heTe curl up as soon as the weather tightens up a. little, beats anything I ever saw in Arkansas. "Why, over there in the Ozarks no MAPLETON is the center of the best section of Bourbon county ten miles to Fulton, ten to Blue Mound, twelve to Mound City, twelve to Devon, fourteen to Redfield, eighteen to Uniontown and twenty to Bronson-c-with a good agricultural country for the greater part on all sides. With a fair degree of local enterprise, Mapleton is bound to have a prosperous future.

It is now up to us. In this connection we are glad to state that the Fort Scott Republican has sent its representative, Mr. Paehne, here to give Mapleton an illustrated write up. This has already been done for Bronson, and Fulton. The Republican is doing a good- thing for Bourbon coMhtf as" well as for itself in thus presenting be'ond local limits the unusual merits otypist visited the remote vilkges north of Vermont, where the boys and girls ran barefoot in summer and wore moccasins in colder weather.

In a sur prisingly short tkne after the advent of the questions that hdd fiecS warmly debated stfch as "Could oSe be Christian and play on a jewsnafp-Sunday?" lost their interest. They gave place to the absorbing topic of Mapleton and of the other wide-awake places above mentioned; I whether it was nght to patronize the mysterious art that so closely resembled magic. It was even rumored that one pays any attention to a coia snap fike this scores of men go about with only ordinary clothing, in fact a good many of them do not have the money to tog up when cold weather How much one can endure is mostly a matter of habit anyway. Ask Peary. "There are a good many too, here in Kansas, who begin to pile cn heavy bedclothes as soon as cold weather sets in.

If they knew it, this makes them only slightly warmer though of course there should be a reasonable amount of bed clothing and when real cold weather comes they are all KJtrArlnor Ton nrVi wpiorVt nf HH those who had their dogratypes took" had to go into a dark place with the SOMETHING ABOUT AUCTIONS tions may seem strange to some read ers, but we submit that probably very Its ew people know the above rather in The Origin of the Word and Various Uses. teresting facts, or all of the facts, and that what has been said is worthy of the room it has taken to tell it. Words of Commendation. Last week we sent the International Harvester Company a. copy of this paper, at the request of Mr.

C. C. Goss. in response to which he received the following appreciative letter: Parsons, Kansas, Feb. 26,1910.

C. C. GOSS, Mapleton, Dear Sir: We have copy of the Mapleton Press showing your ad. of the' Cloverleaf spreaders, and wish to say that this is attractively arranged. artist meaning the developing room.

Several elderly maiden ladies declared they would never stand for that. Our neighbor, Bartley Brown, had a rocky farm. He wasr an inveterate worker, tall, dark featured, heavy trowed. -Frow dewy mom to dusky eve the clink, clink of his crowbar upon the refractory ledges out of which he was building stone fence, could be heard across the clearing. He was so gruffly opposed to new notions that Stopping Your Piper.

borne time ago a cranky sort oi an clothing stops the blood circulating to the extremities, and the extremities are made less instead of more comfortable by it." individual came into this office and What public gatherings are there nowadays much more common than auctions Mapleton and vicinity has a full share. Rummage through a bfg pile of exchanges that the mails have brought from all quarters of the globe and you will find the familiar words, public sale, vendue, auction, meeting the eye constantly. How did -this convenient: way of offering property for sale get a start? Auction is of Roman origin and is said to have been first introduced for stopped hTs paper because something The in it did not quite suit his fancy. criticism had not ended when a man Snffi Vincincc Ii1r ctAne anil ro-toirKr We have frequently met him on the when stoves -beEran to surllant onen; rushed in from the street exclaiming, bring results. Yours since then, and UJs amusing to Pretty crimpy this morning," and an fire places Xn our timbered section of note the look of surprise xn the old fel INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO.

of America. By O. E. Wright, Gen, Agt. low's face when he realizes that the ed the province, he would not even per other Said, This warm stove feels mighty good, anyhow." itor is still in existence, regardless of the purpose or disposing of spoils tak mit one to be set up in his home triaL The old way was good enough for him.

the fact that we are no longer getting his $1.25. It is evident on which side of the borne day however and it will not Deceased. Departed this life, Feb. 25th, 1:30 a.m., 1910, Perry C. Graham, age 35 years, the deceased having been sick Preventable Failure.

Business life is safer because of the increased publicity, improved methods absorbing question Bartley stood. It is be lone: that old gentleman will turn probable, though, that the cost of the up his toes. His heart will be stilled of communication and transportation, forever. There will be, a display of (pictures had something to do with the eighteen months, nine nf which were prettyposies and crepe, and the neigh- I public outcry against them. The al en in war.

Such sales were said to take place "under the spear," from the custom of sticking a spear into the ground, probably to attract purchasers to the spot, The Latin word "audio" means an increase or an enhancement, and as an auction is a way of increasing the price by stimulating competition between purchasers, such a sale is correctly indicated by the name. In a more civilized and coherent currency spent at his mother's (Mrs. Fannie uors anu menus win iuuuw uis i legeu expense ui iuc system, ana a Dexier Knowledge oi me md's) nome clay but to the Silent City and lay it to I that were used could not be disputed underlying causes oi non-success, it rest in the deep, dark tomb. I by the doctor or the toddy mixer at An obituary will be Dublisnea in the villaee tavern, wno came nearer th's paper telling what a kind husband, I being "chymists" than anyone else in what is called a Dutch Auction," the loving father, good neighbor, beloved the settlement. It was currently be- 1 lieved that diamond dust was one of the essential components that made spirited he was which the recording The deceased was married to Dru-zella Crouch of Butler, August 18th, 1902, of whom two daughters were born, Beatrice and Cleota, age five and six years respectively He is mourned by many relatives and friends.

He was converted, and died in faith, saying he was prepared to meet his God. We heartily wish to thank cur many friends for their kindness in our times of sorrow. Druzella Graham. Mapleton, Kansas. the price so high.

The daguerreo angel will overlook for sweet charity's sake and in a short time he will be can be made still safer by greater co-operation on the part of business men. with the credit agencies to expose fraud and by more stringent laws defining responsibility for false statements. When the business community finally wakes up to the knowledge that business failure, like fire damage, is largely preventable, and that these two items, failure loss and fire Joss, constitute heavy taxes on the whole community swifter progress will begin to be made in reducing the burdens of losses which the business community and, through it, the country at large, mist bear. Frank Green in Century. types were not only hard to get, but the very word itself was considered hard enough to be kept in reserve forgotten.

As he' lies out there in the cold, cold graveyard, wrapped in the silent slumber of death, he will never- know among other difficult ones, to be given proceeding is reversed, the property being offered at higher price than the seller is willing to accept, and gradually lowered till a purchaser is found, so that this is no auction at all in the original afid proper sense of the term. There are some queer ways of indicating when the property or the article is "knocked down," as we say, to the highest or best approved bidder. Besides the fall of the auctioneer's hammer, which seems be the most widely known signal, over in Scotland out to those who stood up longest in the last kind word spoken of him by I spelling matches that were held about once a month in the winter season. the editor of the paper he so spitefully "stopped." Bartley's faithful wife and his two grown up daughters ma not noia to Have you, gentle reader, ever paused a moment to think that your editor- the satanic art" theory and when A Well Equipped Shop. C.

A. Nickelson had his gasoline en gine placed in position in his shop this week and now has the best carpenter's shop ever in town. He has a saw that will be driven by the engine that will do all kinds of work, such as ripping the whoever the running of a sandglass, or he may be will some day were confronted with the biblical state (hence the write your obituary? Exchange. burning of an inch candle ment that man was created In the Sunday Schools. Thie Mapleton Sunday Schools had but hath sought out many inven interesting sessions last Lord Day.

tions," they discreetly held their The injunction on the artist's printed. Some of the littte folks of the Method-. or sizing finishing material for buildings, ist school rave, in their own kneuafre. every piece intended for a house We have often heard about the "meanest man," but 'listen to this: There is a certain man in our town who compels his wife to muffle the washboard so that it will not disturb circulars to "secure the shadow ere the out. the storv of Josenh in EffVDt a Dart of can be readily gotten He that also will substance fades," had a tender mean--ing to the mother and the older sister, has attachment one of the most interesting narratives a plough his morning slumbers on the days for they did not know how soon they when she wishes to beat her neighbors woui(i have only the remembrance of a in all literature, which we older folks groove Jambs for sash strips-and do should read oftener.

The school at such other similar jobs that are contin-the Christian church besides a good coming up before a carpenter, lesson, had more singing than is usual Andy is a good workman and the elsewhere. At the close Mrs. (SupO addition of hiswell equipped shop will out with an early washing. Strong fading loved one left to them if they City News Current. did not secure the shadow.

They had picked enough berries and dried cara term sale by candle" answers the same purpose. There the conditions of sale once published cannot be changed by any verbal declaration of the auctioneer The seller must not raise the price by means of fictitious offers, but! shall fairly expose his goods to the competition of purchasers, and the purchasers shall not combine to suppress competition. The exposer or seller may set a price below which a thing is not to be sold, or. may expressly Teserve to himself power to offer. But if the sale is declared to be without reserve, or at the pleasure of the company, this is held in most countries to bar all biddings in behalf of the seller.

This restriction is not usually enforced in this country. That The Press should giye so much space to the origin and nature of auc- i i i De a great neip to mm. way 8eed.t6vpay,fo'?;SiniPPnre. Hamtnons announced a contest based on the lsrgest attendance during next six weeks. If the women i and girls outnumber the men and boys, the men are to provide a supper tor alL and There is a preacher at Minneapolis, says the Better Way, whose daughter has for company' a young fellow who is just beginning to learn the printer's trade.

A few evenings ago at church the good man had for his evening les The Kansas historian who" recorded the fact that "the oldest auctioneer" Their hearts ached td'- include but they knew it would not do to prot eose such- a thing. In fact they were compelled to sit for the daguerreotype 'died in Paola last week evidently over- An old gentleman who ev-1 looked the fact that Hank Mc- vice versa. his knowledge. i 1 son the fourteenth chapter of Matthew i idently has preferences and may be has Glothlin 0f Pleasanton is't stiU living. i cnnn npvPT inmi now iovous mc and wlfen he read out in his most three were over having at last secured stentorian tones, "My.

daughter iswhat had coveted and toiled fcr, grievously vexed with the audience littered. I Continued page4- eaten of his own cooking, feared that if his side lost" out in the contest the men's menu would not reflect credit cn their culinary skill. And Mr. McGIothin was an auctioneer before thky called themselves "Colo-nsls." Kansas City Star..