The St. Paul Journal from St. Paul, Kansas • 1

7 ft VOLUME XLVIII. ST. PAUL, NEOSHO COUNTY, KANSAS, DECEMBER 30, 1915. NUMBER 21. FORTY YEARS AGO.

tg DIXON STORE SOLD. WHEN NEW YEAR'S CALLS WERE i MADE. THE MARKET, .2. Ry A At, A JU DEATHS. mm Jtm Jtm Died, at her home in St.

Paul, Kansas, December 27, 1915, aged eighty-one years, Mrs. Annie Adams, after a short illness. She was a resident of this city since 1S77 and her edifying life was an inspiration to those privileged to enjey her friendship. As wife, mother, friend and neighbor she was a model for all. Mrs.

Adams is survived by a daughter, Miss Maggie Simpson, of this city, and a son, W. L. Simpson, of Parsons, three grand-sons, Frank, Fred and Ben Fox, and a grand-daughter, Mrs. Bird Kelly, of Denver, also numerous relatives in, or near, St. Louis, Mo.

After a High Mass of requiem at St. Francis' church this morning, her remains were interred beside her husband, who died "in 1SS7, and her son, Matthew Fox, who' died in 1902. Requieseat in pace We take this method of expressing our sincere thanks to our mauy for their numerous acts of Kindness shown us during 'ho sick-1 ness and after the death of oca- be loved mother, Mrs, Adam 4. WM. SIMPSON.

MISS MAGGIK SIMPSON. Fighty-two per cent of the tax have already been paid in this county when only half were due. The total collected up to Dec. 20, was $341,000 out of a total of $415,000 due for the year. Last year only $282,419 was paid at this time.

This indicates that the people have more money than in former years. The first and biggest snow of the season fell here Friday and gave us a white Christmas. Most of it melted Christmas day and Sunday, but another smaller snow fell Monday morning, and part of it remains with us yet. The weather has been real win-terish since Friday. We understand Roy Whistler will I join with W.

E. Apt in the barber tn (rpntipmon drove to St. Paul Sunday to make fifteenth in the state in order of num-some arrangements for additional ber of votes cast equipment for an up to-date barber I Mother BridSet sets the bal1 to ro11" DISTRICT Sentinel: In the suit of McMahill vs. the Santa Fe Ity. by agreement tlie plaintiff was given judgment for $3,000 and costs.

In rJ Bridget McCornnck vs. J. Luchner, on motion of the defendant, the attachment v. us set aside as to the personal property in -aid motion. The plaintiff was judgment lor $206.00 with 10 if cent interest till paid on the second count, and $300 with 10 per cent interest from January 15, 1916, and costs.

Tli order requiring the defendant in the suit of Belle K. Morey vs. D. E. Morey, to iay temporal alimony and attorney foes, is set aside for the reason that the county attorney had not at the time of the order endorsed his consent on the petition, and permission was given the plaintiff to file lit suit anew.

In the suit of IM Parsley vs. David W. Owen's, et al, it wis found there was due the plaintiff $2,517.50 with per cent interest, from date on the Jirst count, and" on each on the and third counts, with 8 per -iit interest until paid, and the securing the same were ordered foreclosed with the period of redemption reducui to six months. plaintil! in the suit of Ii. F.

shell s. Dolph Ahirich having died and .1. Q. Icoberts being administrator of the Ashell estate, the cause is revived" in the name of the administrator. A motion of the defendant to re-tax costs was overruled.

In the suit of the Henry Gas vs. the Chanute Cement Co. the court ordered that the receiver forthwith return to the assets of the defendant company all commissions taken by aid receiver for the sale of the receiver's certificates. Approval of the reports of the receiver is deferred. K.

W. Grant was appointed guardian ad litem for the minor defendants in the suit of Theodosia Duvall, et al, vs. J. W. Fackwood, et al.

The plaintiff in the suit of John K. Brinegar vs. Ethel Brinegar is ordered to pay the clerk of the court $25 on January 1, 1916, to apply on attorney fees, and $8 on the same date and each week thereafter during the pendency of the suit. All the cases not finally disposed of are continued and court adjourned for the term. W.

W. Oliryan purchased mor.e than 8,000 bushels of corn iron, the tanners this vicinity durm-; the year" just now closing, and even this was not sufficient to feed the largy nurihrr of cattle he has had on hand during the year. lie was oblige 1 to fhip in a few car loads of corn. As the price lie paid was always a bit above the regular market pre-, it may readily seen that the O'Bryan feed lot is a valuable factor in the adding to the income of the corn growers hereabouts. The Mechanic's Reprieve was played here last night by the Walnur Dramatic Co.

to a fair sized audience. It is a nice play with a good plot and the young people played it well. Hd Carlos' erehestra furnished splendid music. A dance given after the show was highly enjoyed by a large number of young people. he company was composed of as nice a lot of young people as ever visited this ciry and will be welcomed back again any time they wish to come.

The Erie basket ball team came over Saturday evening and played a mighty good game with the Mission Stars. The game was noted for splendid "basket shooting" which ran the score up high, the result being 51 to 41 in favor of St. Paul. The Erie boys are good players as well as fine boys and put up an interesting game. John Butler was in from West Crawford yesterday.

He spent nearly a month at Pittsburg serving on the jury and will have to go back next week. He says there are so many cases on the docket in Crawford county that the present term of court will not complete its work before time for the next term to begin. Forty couples attended the Christmas ball at College Hall and all report a fine time. A "watch party" dance will be given at the same place tomorrow night. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred FoxBen Fox, Frank Miller, Ray Munding and Wm. Simpson were among those who came, up from Parsons to spend Christmas. PROCEEDINGS OF COURT. Items from the "Journal, Dec.

1875: Jesse Payne, six miles from here has raised 2,500 bushels of corn on 50 acres of ground. Station Agent Howard informs us that L. A. Lyman, of Thayer, shipped two car loads of fat Hogs from this place to St. Louis Monday and another lot yesterday.

Yesterday L. P. Foster shipped three car loads of cattle to St. Louis markets. Hill has closed his meat market.

Een Johnson sold 30 Singer sewing machines during November. Dr. Chas. Baylies and Dr. A.

Culli-son have formed a co-partnership in the practice of medicine. The iiog market has been quite liveiy and dealers have been paying six cents gross. Our grain men are having trouble to get enough cars to ship the amount of grain they wish to handle. From the Journal, Dec. 15, 1875: Last Saturday J.

W. Bugbee bought seventy loads, over two thousand bushels of corn, besides five loads of otiier grain. He shipped over seventy car loads of corn and oats from here during November. Father Pcnziglione returned Friday from a three weeks tour to Elk and Chautauqua counties and the Indian Territory. Marion Cross has moved to Thayer where he will engage "in the grain business.

m. j. e-avanaugn is ounamg two churches in Austin, Texas. P. J.

Hudson is home from Austin, Texas. From the Journal, Dec. 22, 1S75: Corn 18 cents. Gardens were being plowed here in town yesterday. A teachers! examination will be held at Galesburg Jan.

8. i V. P. Patton, from Monongahela City, has purchased the Col. Butler farm east of town and will soon move here.

From the Journal Dec. 29, 1875: We think our taxes are high but Thayer pays 12 per cent for school ldACS Trol- Aim4tr i l- y-x 1 rir loaf iovemDer cast votes, Deing me inS getting a runarea aonar item- ington. H. C. Allen, prosecuting attorney, has eone to Greencastle, Indiana, Tllere wiu be a mas(me bal1 in Zeh" ner's hal1 Frida niSht that Poises to be a gay affair Johnston Bros, meat market was broken into Saturdav night and a Quantity of salted meat taken J.

L. Williams has placed a carload of Angora goats on his ranch three miles south of Galesburg. tnis county. He shipped them in from Kansas City. Miss Bess Dewey returned to Muskogee Tuesday after a short visit with her mother.

Misses Pearl Lake and Aurelia Hentzen accompanied her to Parsons. Sister Ethelbert returned to Kansas City yesterday after a visit at tl convent here and with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. J.

Owens. Geo. Payne has gone to Wichita toj spend a few weeks with his mother while recuperating from his recent attack of typhoid fever. George Ensch came home from Girard to spend Christmas. He has a good position in the Shannon hardware store at Girard.

Sister Rose Gertrude came down from Kansas City to spend Christmas at the convent here and with the McCall family. John Fager, an mployee in the boiler department of the Katy shops aJt Parsons, spent Christmas with home folks. Mrs. Pearl Parry and daughter returned to Kansas City Monday after a short visit with Mrs. Catherine Beck.

Frank Gallet is taking a week's vacation from his work at Frontenac and is spending the time at home. Ed Gibbons and wife, of Parsons, and Frank Gibbons, of Bartlesville, spent Christmas with homefolks. See Graves for Insurance. Last week Wm. Johnson purchased the R.

C. Dixon store, ten and one-half miles northwest of McCune. Mr. Dixon has traded his farm for a country store in Butler county to which place he move and conduct the store. The Dixon store has been established for several years, and has worked up a nice business in general merchandise.

Lumber is now being hauled out from St. Paul to erect a new building and the new proprietor will not take charge until the new building is completed. We have been informed that shares are being sold and a stock company will be organized ta conduct the stcre. McCune Herald. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Z. A. Eaton and wf. to John B. Peterson, 1-2, SE 1-4, 8-30-19, $1.

Henry E. Dunham and wf. to Ralph A. Butler, 1-2. NW 1-4, 16-29-19, John T.

Rafterty and wf. to J. A. Carson, unci. 1-5 int.

SW 1-4, Sec. 22 and 1-2. SE 1-4, 32-2S-21, $1,150. Annie Clark et al to George 1 lines. 1-2.

SW 1-1, SW 1-4, 31-29-20, $600. THE BOOSTING EDITOR. A newspaper that believes in "toot ing one's own horn' says: Editors are born boosters. The other day an editor was solicited to join a lodge and was handed a petition printed by a supply house He got a dun from a merchant in a government stamped envelope and written on a garling oil statement; he made a purchase at a store and got a duplicate bill printed in Chicago, and wrote a check on a bank printed in Denver. Ye gods, how-can an editor be expected to join lodges and pay bills for such treatment as that, and all the time tell the people to trade at home? Ever think of it Editors have to be born boosters, prepared to live on dried herring and stand for anything.

Maurice Miller and son George came home from Commerce, for the holidays. Paul and Harold Kelly went to Kansas City to spend; Christmas with relatives. Will Renner came down from Kansas C4ty to spend Christmas with homefolks. Miss Maude Carter spend Christ mas with her sister, Mrs. McAdams, in Chanute.

Miss Bess Dewey came up from Muskogee to spend Christmas with her mother. Dick May was up from Coffeyville to spend Christmas with relatives and old friends. Thomas Diskin is home from St. Benedict's college, Atchison, to spend the holidays. Miss Cozetta.

Harris and Mrs. C. C. Clark, of Parsons, were St. Paul visitors Christmas.

Graves writes farm insurance on the note or installment plan as well as the cash plan. Most of the trains have been late for several days. The holiday traffic was immense. Mrs. Jacob Frevele has b'een visiting her son Ernest Combs in Pittsburg this week.

A. R. Herod and wife were over from Thayer the last of the week visiting relatives. A lot of repairs are being made at the St. Francis school building during the holiday vacation.

Mrs. W. J. Shannon and daughters have been up from Parsons this week spending the holidays. O.

A. Abell went to Erie Tuesday, via Parsons, to assist his brother erect a new drilling rig. A total eclipse of the sun is scheduled for Feb. 3, and will be visible in this country. Ray Miller, of Springfield, and Harry Miller, of St.

Louis, are spending the week with homefolks. (Col. Tervvilliger Bluegrass speaks.) Folks somehow aren't as sociable As in the good old days, When 'Sail, a certain grace an cha'm Distinguished social ways; Fo' instance, Sah, on New Yeah's day, When Chivalry arrayed In feathas fine, would gathah Sah, When New Yeah's calls were made. We greeted one anothah, Sah, With hand-shake. Sah.

and hmv An' round the brimming punchbowl, I Sah, We gravely said, "Heah's How!" An conversation sparkled, Sah, With Wassail's kindly aid But that was in the times gone by, When New Yeah's calls were made. The sm'atk, Sah, of that New Yeah's punch! How generously it flowed! The season's compliments were passed; One's heart, Sah, fai'ly glowed. The present generation, Sah, Old customs has betrayed; I long, Sar, fo' the good old days, When -New Yeah's calls were made. BOY HUNTER SHOT HIMSELF. Girard, Dec.

20. With a bad gun- shot wound in the left thigh and with his hand dripping blood from a shot out of the other barrel of his gun, Perry Booth, fourteen years old, the son of Dan Bcoth, a J. P. motor- man, walked yesterday afternoon three-quarters of a mile to the Aikr.s farm south of Girard for help. His injuries were the result of a huuting accident.

He bad gone out alone. A rabbit he started took refuge in a shock of corn. The boy attempted to poke the rabbit out with the butt of the gun. Contact of the triggers with the corn stalks caused both barrels fire at the same time. The right hand was holding the end of the muzzle.

A flesh wound was inflicted in the hand. The other barrel sert a heavy charge thru the fleshy part of the thigh. When Perry reached the Aikens farm, he was weak from the loss qf blood. Surgeons were summoned by telephone from Girard. After the boy's wounds were given the fust dressing, he was brought to the Girard hospital in an ambulance.

His condition is good today, insofar as the serious nature of the wound in the leg will permit. How dangerous the wound is cannot be told for two or three days. HELP IN PREVENTING THIS LOSS In the United States in every normal week of the year fire destroyes three theaters, three public halls, twelve churches, ten schools, wo hospitals, two aslyums, two colleges, six apartment houses, three department stores, two jails, twenty-six hotels, one hundred and forty flat buildings and stores and sixteen hundred homes. Think of it, more than 83,000 homes destroyed by fire each year. The home, that unit in our civilization which is responsible for the greatness and prosperity of our country, is the greatest sufferer from fire, and 80 per cent of these fires are unnecessary due solely to carelessness.

The American business man locks his valuable papers in a fireproof safety deposit vault, and then permits his family to reside in a wooden tinder box, in many instances a veritable fire trap. Wlien will he be brought to a realization that safety first movement, like charity, should begin at home! Extract from Fire Prevention News. Preparedness against the common enemy, the chinch bug, is urged by A. D. Folker, county agent of Jewell county, in a "unique and timely appeal to the members of the farm bureau.

Copies of the letter have just been re- "Hav you noticed the enemy, the ceived. Here it is: chinch bugs? Yes. The wet summer was favorable for their death by the fungous disease. In many places there is a survival of the fittest. Henry Ford's peace plan won't drive them 'out of the but a little united 'firing' righ" now along the roadside, bunch grass, hollows, will drive them from their winter quarters, and the weather man will claim the victory.

This is an ounce of prevention, the safety first doctrine. It won't do any harm to remind your neighbor that this plan Is good for him als. That's co-operation, you know." J. A. RICKART, Market Correspondent.

4 Kansas City Stock Yards, Dec. 2Ub, 1115. Small receipts of cattle arrived today, 0,000 head, and sales were strong to 15 higher on killing graues. ihis was a continuance of the tendency last week. Stockers and feeders sold steady to strong.

Short fed cattle made up the beef steer offerings, best cattle here selling at Missouri cattle whicl went out at a cost of $7.20 three months ago were returned today and sold at $7.40, weighing 1,511 lb. These were big boned Durham steers, and as they had fine blue grass, in addition to corn, they made a big gain in weight, three pounds per day. Figuring the gain on the hogs which followed them, the feeder says the feeding venture made a good profit. Short fed steers weighing 1,100 to 1,300 lb not so well finished as these, sell at to $7, and the market for prime steers has not been tested since Christmas beeves sold around $10 two weeks ago. Butcher cattle are selling lirm, good cows around 6, bulls $5.25 to $5.75, veals 8 to Stocker and feeder trade is holding up well, shipments out last week 18,000 head, which was more than twice as many as during same week last year.

Feeders are finding a better outlet, fleshy steers selling at $7.40 to $7.90, and straight feeders to $7, choice stock steers $7.25 to $7.75, medium steers $5.75 to $6.75, breeding stock strong, cows and heifers $5.25 to $6.75. Shipment of stockers and feeders this year will approximate 915,000 head, largest on record here, or anywhere else. Heaviest previous shipments were 913,000 head in 1913, the drouth year. Hogs sold 15 to 20 higher today, receipts 6,000 head. Top was $6.65, at which price several loads sold, to both packers and order buyers, bulk of sales $6.25 to $6.60.

Receipts here are running light as compared with other markets, and on an equality with Chicago during the past week, including today. The supply at all points was moderate today, and the sharp rise in prices indicates that the market is well grounded. Sheep and lamb receipts today were C.000 head, and1 the market was 15 to 25 higher, three lots of pea fed lambs selling at the top, $9.15. Medium class lambs sold at $8.80 and choice yearlings $7.90 and $8, medium class ewes This is the highest price paid for lambs since June, and is 30 cents above the top ir Dccrmbor a year ago. scarcity is expected to, be the ruling factor in price making.

and a good market is anticipated next month. Top January last winter was $8.75. CITY MARSHAL ASSAULTED. The Miller boys living south of town and a stranger here giving the name of Lee, attacked the B. W.

Wilson, Thursday evening about 8 o'clock in front of W. N. Morgan's jewelry store. Mr. Wilson received severe injuries among them his jaw being broken in two places.

He was taken to the Girard hospital and is reported to be in a serious condition. Ed Hess was acting as deputy marshal, had ne tooth knocked out and his hip badly bruised. The boys made their escape and went home, some of the A. H. T.

following and arresting them there. They were taken to Girard Friday morning at 2 o'clock by the sheriff and deputy and lodged in jail. They are charged with assault with intent to kill and their bond fixed at $2,000 apiece. Tie preliminary tnal has been set for December 30th. Walnut (Kas.) Eagle.

John Houlihan was down from Pa-ola to spend Christmas with home-folks. Miss ae Roycroft is here from Kansas City visiting her mother and sisters. Miss Anna McNeill came over from Chanute to spend Christmas with her mother. Miss Nora O'Rourke came home from Pittsburg to spend the holiday vacation. Graves writes tornado insurance.

shop. Galesburg News. item in Thayer B. W. Wilson, who formerly resided southeast of here, and who was beaten up bv some young rcwdys at Walnut last week, is in a hospital at Girard.

His jaw bone is broken and he is badlv bruised but it is not be- lieved he has any injuries that may i prove fatal. i 4. A larse crowd attended the Christ-f mas services at St. Francis church. The church was tastefully decorated and brilliantly lighted.

The music was fine, and the services solemn and imposing. Rev. Fr. Roger preached a splendid Christmas sermon. Mr.

and Mrs. Jack McCart and Mrs. Short, who had been visiting Mrs. Riney, went to Parsons Saturday for a short visit before returning to their respective homes in Nebraska and Illinois. Miss Cora Riney, of Muskogee, has been visiting relatives and old friends here.

She was called back to Muskogee yesterday by a telegram to resume her work in the Pheonix book bindery. Itev. Fr. John Downing, a member of the Vincention Order, died in Chicago. December 25.

He was a brother of Mrs. M. Alton and had visited here one or more times. G. S.

Montgomery, of Detroit, spent Thursday and Friday in the city, the guest of his mother, Mrs. Emma Bradshaw. This his first visit home in fourteen years. Hobart Thompson is here from Iola spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. O. Thompson. Hobart has a position wth the T. A.

Joyce Grocery of Iola. George Hutton and wife prepared a big dinner for Christmas day and invited all their relatives to spend the day with them. They sure had a feast and a pleasant day. Lou Bonifas is here from near O'Neil, Nebraska, visiting homefolks for the first time in several years. 1 1 r7 0.