The Wathena Times, the Friday Troy Republican from Wathena, Kansas • 4

REPORT OF ALFALFA SITUATION to reaeed the Utter part of August The county Is replacing theb ridge! end you will make no mistake HERE ANtf THERE Continued from page 1 on Peters Creek which broke a couple fweeks ago and let H. B. Morgan fall li very poor this season, however Specialist la Bolla, K. 8. A.

C. with his finger a proposed boundary, other plenipotentiaries grouped around blm, also on all fours. In such matters tbe president took a keener In-, terest than either Lloyd George or Clemenceao, absorbed with extraortt- there sot more than belt a crop in any other county in the eastern pert WAT II A TI MK8 AM INDEPENDENT HKWiPArtJU FOR TROY and WATIIEA W. UYAN, EDITOR AND OWNER, Tbe Monuaa tax of 13.00 a year oa of the elate. Many fields are praeti- ine construction la n5 feet long leading wood, and tbe commissioners believe it.

A brand new automobile, It will be completed In a couple of which looked too sudden prosperity callr tone while thousands of acres of bachelors over XI and under 60, goes alfalfa have already beea plowed up. Into effect Beit fall. We expect to Thla however must not be taken to crop of mid summer weddings If i i i a a nary speed the salient points relating to an Issue which were frequently V. 'T I bard Umea eontlnue. Mrs.

Pbll Allen returned to Wathena Brown county is a bll chesty, over blspered to blm by some American a. a a aUtlna a Ika Mfta KasMa film tbe sofa beside blm." expert sitting on me fact tbat land up there is still Tuesday fro mtbe Ensworth hospital In St. Joseph, where she went two A letter was received from rather Etcher, recently. He aaya that the uvuiv vft KuaiiB or lua fc i win not grow here, for such la not the ease. There la a number of reasons why most of tbe alfalfa la la aucb a poor condition this year, la tbe first place, selling blgb.

The Ford land near Willis sold for $300 an acre weeks ago to have an enlargement of SUBSCRIPTION Two dollar a year la advance. Every subscription la retarded as aa ope account. The tames of eubacribera will be Instant- conditions la Germany are not ao bad Inducing European diplomats to get down on tbe carpet and crawl about on all fours Is in tune with American "Shirtsleeves" diplomacy. Stock Yards Journal. as be expected to find them.

Father tbe thyroid gland removed. She was operated upon a week ago Tuesday. Mrs. Allen is recovering In remarka the planta develop a long Up root for Elcker left for a visit In Germany la ly removed from our mailing list at tbe mala purpose of storing enough May. expiration of time paid for, if pub- food la the fall to atart a heavy growth bly quick time.

She stood the trip to Wathena and Is now convalescing at her borne. Mr. and Mrs. V. H.

Moore and little son, Elmer, of Wheeler, Texas, left Tuesday In their car for Clarence, to visit relatives, after spending a few days with her two brothers, A. O. and C. B. Marcelus and the H.

B. Wheeler family at Elwood. llaher la notified, or If at ths time of new aboota for the following sea-subscribing ws srs notified to put tie Mr. and Mrs. L.

A. Libel attended the dance at tbe dedication of the new country club bouse at inscription on the atop Hat; other- bout thwe a laa i a i If you live In Chicago you have to wise we will follow the usual custom and with tbe late freese much 'Atchison Tuesday night. Mr. Libel carry your, photo, and description of of country newspapers and tbe sub-! more damage was done than would tne cu0 house would be a credit I halt amHh.II liua ih. U'lth I A sample botUe cf the Seneca oil Is on display at the Farmers State Bank, sent by an uncle of Clarence Severln.

Seeing Is believing. Stop and see for yourself. DEATHS WYKERT Mrs. Winnie Elizabeth Wykert died July 7 at her home, eleven miles I to a town much larger than Atchison yourself and your car, while driving. Otherwise you stand to be arrested under tbe new Identification ordinance.

Mrs. A. T. Smith and daughter, Deane, of Marcellne, visited this week with the H. B.

Wheeler family designated subscription price. Every of the subscriber must understand that these plants waa lost A new growth start Do you ever wonder If your table manners are correct? If you want to know for sure, you can buy a little at Elwood. ed up again and thla was also killed Tbe city fathers stopped Just short of conditions are made a part of the contract between publisher and back by a second freese. taking an tne joy out of tbe married northwest of Wathena. Mrs.

Wykert book from Mall and Breeze In Topeka that will settle all problems for you man's life. Imagine a man whose wife bas gone away for the summer, forced When the afalfs did a tart again It sent out from three to flfteeen shoots Instesd of from twenty-five to one was 71 years old. Dropsy was tbe whether fingers were made before to hand over a photo and description forks, and are still in style will be The Homer White Post of the of every one, who takes a ride In bis hundred. Tbe garden pea aphis came on in abundance aad did considerable damage to the crop. While the alfalfa settled forever In your mind.

Why car. cause of her death. Funeral services which were conducted by Rev. Tucker, were held Friday morning at the Burr Oak Baptist church. Burial was made In Courter cemetery.

Mrs. Wykert moved to Doniphan county when she was about six or seven years old. She American Legion gives open air dances at 8un Springs. When It wsa was strugllng to get another start, the worry, when you can know? fox tall and the crab grasa came in Germany believes that an ounce of THE BIG FOUR AMERICAN METHODS The Big Four actually crawled around on their hands and knees when they were carving the map of Europe, according to Dr. Charles Seymours book, "What Really Happened at Paris." He says: "The Council of Four met in the front room of President Wilson's house.

There one might have seen President Wilson himself on all fours, kneeling on a gigantic map spread upon tbe floor, tracing thick and practically smothered out Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. McDougal, proposed that tbe Legion should do the same thing here at the Chautauqua sugar Is better than a barrel of vine what alfalfa bad been able to survive of Cedar Falls. stopped at tbe grounds some of our good people were the disastrous spring.

As a result of these abnormal conditions a number Tlems office Wednesday afternoon. Mr, gar, so she entices her bachelor Into marriage thusly: each bach is taxed yearly, this goes into a sinking fund, horrified. of diseases have come In and attacked McDougal formerly worked on the St bas resided here every since. She la survived by two daughters, Mrs. Delia Dinning and Mrs.

Fanny Meek, two-sons, Charles Wykert and Frank Wykert, one sister, Mrs. Sarah Stone, of Herring, and a brother, Frank Chase-of Bendena. the growing crop, Joseph Gasette and was well acquaint An advertisement from tbe Consum We made a tour of most sections of and when he- marries be draws an annuity, and gets a yearly sum for er's Coal appearing In tbe Times the county the past three daya. Samples of seemingly diseased plants ed with C. W.

Ryan, editor of the Times. Mr. and Mrs. McDougal are traveling in their car. McDougal is this week, was sent us by Wm.

(both alfalfa and clover) were collect every child. Germany may make some mistakes, but she surely knows human nature, how to spread the gufu, Ripley, of Albany, who Is more or now secretary-manager of the Pershing ed and will be aent to tbe Department of Plant Pathology of tbe Colege at Manhattan, for Inspection. less acquainted around Wathena and who was in command of a platoon of that gets results. Way, a highway running from Winne peg to New Orleans. As soon as a report has been made Tbe prospects of a good corn crop You may have noted that from the by the college on these diseases, Mr.

P. M. Dlllenback, county agent, will be glad to make as complete a report president down, this seems to be an are fine. The corn Is growing rapidly. It Is much better In Doniphan, than most of tbe corn near St.

Joseph on Co. 30 Third Dlv when we were In command of the company in the fighting across the Maine and when there were no officers left to command any of tbe platoons of tbe company. era of newspaper men in public life. of tbe findings as possible. It used to be that lawyers held the In tbe neighborhood of Wathena the Missouri side.

political field almost entirely. While and especially in Elwood bottom we found the poorest alfalfa in tbe coun Little Mildred Krausa, the three- ty. In my judgment, there seems to be nothing especially wrong with the condition of the soil to prevent it from year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Krausa, whose legs were bad ly cut by a mower last week, broke One night recently a "man got on tbe evening Grand Island train, carrying with bim a jag and two pints.

At Severance tbe conductor turned blm still growing good alfalfa. This ap plies especially to the bottom land up in Brown county last week, we heard a good deal of gossip, to the effect, that a good many folks, had an idea, Ewlng Herbert would make a good governor, for Kansas. We don't suppose Ewing knows that folks are talking (fbout him In any such fashion, but as we beard the same thing in Doniphan county, where Ewing has where soil washing has been practical- the badly silvered bone In one of het legs Sunday morning when she got over to the cnnstahln. Tn the absence negligible. We found quite a little "I don't need a roof when it's pretty, and I can't fix it when it's raining." How often you andI have laughed at the Arkansaw-yer's philosophy, yet how careless we do become about leaky roofs.

Although we do Dot say eo iu these words, we unconsciously do just as the backwoodsman did. Just think of the disagreeablenees those leaky roofs caused during the last few rains. Not only will you have a new roof to put on sooner or later, but the first thing you know, thereJwiJl be those ceilings to replaeter. Ask us about our prices on shingles. Farmers Grain and Lumber COMPANY of a suitable calaboose, the constable 'ot ot the bot' down off the chair where her mothei bad placed her.

Mrs. Krausa had torn which Is a very serious fungus placed Mildred on a chair, putting the disease. It is serious in that the only control measure for it Is to plow up tbe alfalfa and change the land to some loads of friends, because be helped feet on another chair so the child and another man took turns guarding the prisoner until morning, but they do say that the case was dismissed because someone other than the prisoner drank up the evidence before morning, other crop for at least four years. It is know nto live over in the soil in the absence of alfalfa for a period of from two to four years. There is us on our Pikes Peak road campaigns during the war.

We Just believe in repeating this bit, of gossip, although we know that Mrs. Ewing won't like it. could be more comfortable. Mrs Krausa left the room for a few minutes. Mildred climbed down from the chair, and as soon as she put het weight on the leg, the bone, which was already badly cut and slivered, snapped into.

as she wants Ewing out of politics, unless her mind has changed. The Pathfinder car of the Young Men's Division of the of BIRTHS so an insect working on quite a num- I per of the plants. The open mild win- It is not in good form to even hold ter is greatly responsible for this in- the hands of women relatives on the 8ect trouble. streets, especially as onlookers may I The leaves are turning yellow, the not know of the relationship, but lt browh beginning at the tips. This is 7 more than likely the ordinary tip burn remained for a prominent business or sun Bcad wnich attacks many other man of the west part of the county to plants which usually- developes as a walk along the street one night re-' of several days rainy weather, cently holding a lady's hand, having mistaken her for a relative until ha pearing on the leaves and stems.

Tufa came to a lighted place. Under the is unquestionably a fungus disease. tXtlXGTXZX, Commerce, Kansas City, Missouri, Elmer Euler, a boy. William Lieclui, July was in our city Saturday, July 0 lay- Mr. and Mrs.

Mr. and i s. 10, a boy. in the ti all for a Good Fellowship Automobile Tour which will arrive here August i'5th. Ti-is is the sixth year for Fellowkhip Tours, con ducted by the Younjf Men's Division, The leaf hoppers and other insects, which are quite plentiful in the fields, have evidently punctured the leaves circumstances, some will be inclined to consider him worse than a horse thie ffor having mentioned the and the 'of the lour is that of and stems and given the fungus an op renewing old acquaintainces and mak lnif new tines.

There will probably be one hundred and fifty pien and portunity to get within the plant. The plants have not been able to protect themselves owing ot their weakened condition produced by the early women in the when they arrive in our city in August. In the Path finder car were tne following repre Under the old English common law, which was good enough that a large part of it has been adopted as the unwritten law of this country today, on marriage a husband became owier freeze and the green aphis. In the neighborhood of Troy, Moray, Leona, Highland, White Cloud and Denton much of the same trouble was found as in the Elwood bottom with sentatives: G. liubnt, chairman boaid of directors, Western Savings rHhlr i i LI U.LJLJUW Loan Association; ICmile P.

Brus, manager, Kuisliner Motor Car C. A. Spauldinir, ptesidtnt, Spauld the exception of the violet root, rot. Practically all of the disease and insect trouble found (with the exception of the violet root rot) are directly or indirectly the result of the advance spring weather. It is very doubtful if any of the lag Electrical Com pa in, H.

S. Frazer secretary, Union Back note and I will sell at public auction, on the farm of Mrs. T. B. Wykert, on H.

F. Nariun, president Midwest of about all the wife's property except her paraphernalia, that is she retained as her own property wearing apparel and gewgaws, such jewelry or gaudy baubles as appealed to the fancy of the wife and the man did not want and could not use. And the strange part of it is that in those days, apparently, the women were better satisfied than they are now, when they keep all their own property, of every nature and de Envelope Co. plants tnai are sun living will pass the winter and I do not believe that it will be profitable to let the fields stand. I would suggest that the fields that are in poor condition be treated "You cannot expect your wife to be an angel and work like the devil all the time," says the Linn' County, as follows: 1.

Cut off the crop as soon as "possi THURSDAY, JULY 21, Budget. This recalls to us the meet ble if it hasn't already been cut. scription, and a few months later ask for all of that of the husband, in the ing of the wife of a very prosperous farmer, whose face showed the self form of alimony. 2. Plow the land within the next couple of weeks and work down a good seed bed, and prepare to reseed as soon as possible after the 15th of August as moisture conditions are denial, that had prefaced that Buickl Six, in which she tried so hard to look I at 1 o'clock, the following to the manner born.

We slide around right. Paper mills now claim that cut-over pulp timber land will renew itself rapidly enough to insure plenty of 3. The fields that the violet root to the wobbleness of husbands, and she said, don't look much today; but rot seem to be quite prevalent should be left go until fall unless you want raw material for paper. At the close of the war they were telling us paper to seed them to wheat, and get all the nay off of them that you possibly can you ought to see me In my glad duds. My husband used to kind of leave me to pilot myself along, we went to the city.

It kind of hurt my feel 1 Majestic Range; 1 Heating Stove; 2 Safes, (1 glass door); 1 Then plow late this fall or early next spring for the purpose of seeding them to corn, oats or some other spring Kitchen Cabinet; 1 Dining Table; Dishes, both china and glass; ings, and I began to study over the crop, I. 1 .1 t. It I uittLici. m. oar tiitvL iiuDUUlu, Willie I A 1 VTT My.

reasons for following one of the above practices are as follows: always preaching common sense heels, 2 SetS OI SllVer iVniVcS, JrOiKS aUU OpUUllS; AlUmmUIO VV are and 4tAnt ..11 .1,1. A I l. as i stated atove it is very um IU1, uu iwwi. or aI- VT Li I doubtful if many of the plants can powder to me. trailed the stylish, high other COOKMlg UtenSllSJ 1 VV yeiil asillllg lYl'dCIllUe 3I1U VY rmger.

pass the winter on account of weak 'was high because the wood pulp forests were about used up. The forests were supposed to have been used up during the war when there was no man power to cut timber except for the most necessary purposes and when building was at a standstill. When that excuse would not work any longer, the mills claimed that it was not so much a shortage of timber as a case of increased use of paper. Market reports are largely bunc and nothing seems to be too ridiculous to give out as an excuse for boosting prices up or down. ened condition.

out of the corner of his eye. Right 1 Singer Sewing Machine, latest model; 2 Organs; 2 Dressers; 1 2. Seed is cheaper now than it has been for several years and cheaper than it will likely be for some time. without pretty things all my life, to Commode; 3 Bed Steads; 1 Iron Bed Springs and Mattress; 1 Fold- 3. Doniphan County is not tbe only build up that bank account, that there unt, tnat tnere I 1 1 D.l...

1 county in the state that' bas suffered wasn't going to be any surplus spend in fi Bed, 1 AXmiUlSier IVUg, A iiimttiii. Viaipcio, I diiui outlC, DtJU a great loss from the present condi- Ition of the alfalfa. lng money in our family, from now on, CoversFeather Bed and Pillows, Chickens, Ducks, 1 Mule, 1 Sow 4. Kansas is the greatest alfalfa I studied myself, and clothes, and now producing state in the union. I have all the style that I can pile on, 5.

One-fourth of the total average and six pigs. and some powder and paint on state of alfalfa in the State Is being or will occasions. Tou can believe it or not, 'be plowed up this fall or next spring owing to the poor condition of the my man is too sheepish to. say he likes A sultan, of Zannizabar, took his summer vacation recently and his fifty wives went along. Vacation means, being free from duty and service.

Freedom from Interruption, trouble, or perplexity. We think he had everything but a vacation. the change, but he takes me to a niftier cafeteria, for lunch. He don't stand. 6.

Most farmers are going to do some reseeding but it is doubtful if It will equal the amount plowed up. I 7. We are only harvesting a 60 (crop in the state this year. leave me to drift around by myself and meet me at such a time to go home. WYKERT He sort of waits on me, humble like, when we eat, and I see his eye rest on my manicure and he sits up a bit more proudly.

The day that I said to myself, if tbat is the kind of heels he 8. The shortage of this year's crop We know a family In Brown county together with the possibility of a that have 400 acres close to the oil smallo racreage is a very good reason strike. They refuse to get excited, or fr land back into alfalfa 'thl r.tzil if it is in condition to grow build air castles, saying they have had tbe crop for thiB hag been ao wants to watch, the best this city has to offer is going to be on my heels to earn an mey ever naa ana, Desiaes, i ma year. too much money would be a terrible 9. Don't be discouraged with this almost as bad as not having crP fr tb'f "en an abnor-' mal year.

The time to seed more enongb. So some folks nave retained l8 wnen eTeryone from now on, and he can keep busy watching I Just woke up and knew that I was through being a doormat. I bad discovered my husband wants a doll and that be af- TROY, KANSAS. W. BEAR, Auctioneer.

their balance. jcouraged with the crop. Prepare now! ford one, I am going to be that doll now can.