The Wathena Times, the Friday Troy Republican from Wathena, Kansas • 1

Historical Society The Wathena Times. VOLUME XXXI WATHENA, DONIPHAN COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1914, NUMBER 81 THOSE WHO FRET MOST FOR WAR ARE APT TO BE THE FIRST TO LONG FOR PEACE THE APPLE SHOW An Opportunity For Doniphan County Fruit Growers To Advertise. E. H.

Favor, managing editor of Fruit-Grower and Farmer, is a membee of the Doniphan County Horticultural Society and has always been ready to help promote the interests of the fruit growers of Doniphan County. He is very anxious to see Doniphan County properly represented in the Apple Show, which will be held at the Auditorium, in St. Joseph, Dec. 9, 10, 11 and 12, in connection with the Second Annual Interstate Agricultural and Industrial Congress. Fruit exhibited must have been grown by the exhibitor in Iowa, Nebeaska, Kansas or Missousi.

This county can easily have the best exhibit there, if the fruit growers care to have it and will go to the necessary trouble. The effect of such an exhibit would be to benefit the horticultural interests of this county, for years to come. Growers should not care so much about taking premiums as als as in seeing that Doniphan county is properly advertised. Such advertising will benefit all of us, even those who grow no fruit. School District No.

11 Report of the Pottawatomie school for the month ending November 6. Edrollment, 27. Average attendance, 23. Those neither absent nor tardy during month were: Mary and Mabel Charles, Lois, Rachel, Melvin and Gilbert Turkleson, Hazel, Rosa and Bennie Dubach, Jessie and Archie Fenley, Lawson Mann, Charles Jackson, Farn Ward and Arthur Tharman. Visitors during the month were: Misses Edna S.

Whitney, Veda Duhach and Eva Able and George Large. Zola Large, Teacher. The Ladies Aid Society Election Dinner In every way this dinner was a success and we thank you for yonr generous patronage. We wish to extend special thanks to Mrs. Rose Poirior, who donated a kettle of delicious soup, and to Mrs.

Ruth Hoover, Mrs. Frances Groh, Misses Louella Dubach and Helen La Bounty for their help throughout the day; also Messrs. Fred Drenning, George Martin and Ezra Shields for valuable assistance. The hall was beautifully decorated with autumn leaves by Mrs. and her committee.

We are just beginning, but we tend the time shall come before very long when Wathena will have a new M. E. Church that will be a credit to our towm. Committee. Saved By His Fiancee Under a three deck head the NewsPress on Tuesday told of the adventure that landed J.

W. Butler at Central Police Station, in St. Joseph. Butler, who lives in town, was described as "a young farmer who lives near Wathena." Butler went to St. Joseph on Monday night and, "in exuberance of joy over the approaching nuptials, he indulged too freely in the cup that cheers." When he arrived at the home of his fiancee, Miss Anna Athey, at 1106 South Sixteenth street, she refused to let him in, and he kicked in the door.

She ran from the house and called the police, who found Butler quietly seated in the parlor. The next morning Miss Athey apseared in police court and the case was dismissed against Butler at her request. As a reason for wanting the case dismissed, Miss Athey said: I am engaged to marry him, and if he were sent to the workhouse it would be a disgrace. Besides, we have arranged to get married within the next thirty days," Judge Alee said to Butler: "Of course we are willing to drop this case, but I want to warn you both that if you start arresting, each other a month before you are hitched up, you will be regular visitors in this court by the time you have been married five years. Go home and behave yourself, Butler, and we wish you John Brown, 24 years old, called at The Times office Monday.

He had just started from "his home at 712 Powell street, in St. Joseph, to walk to San Francisco. He had letters from the mayor and chief-of-police of St. Joseph to like officials of San Francisco. He expected to make his way selling post cards.

Two others, who had planned to walk with him, backed out. It is a long way to 'Frisco when you go afoot. October Weather Walking to Frisco Condensed from monthly summary of W. S. Belden, local forecaster St.

Joseph. Mean maximum temperature, 67.4; mean minimum, 50.3; mean temperature for month, 58.8. Precipitation, 3.16 inches. Highest temperature, 82 on the 6th; lowest, 25 on the 27th; greatest dally range, 33 on the 30th; least daily range, 3 on the 14th Prevailing direction of the wind, southeast; total movement, 5763 miles; average hourly velocity, 7.7 miles; maximum velocity for five minutes, 32 miles per hour, from the northwest on the 12th. Number of days clear, 12; partly cloudy, cloudy, 10.

The first frost was on the 27th. Woman to be An Editor C. Pierce, publisher of the Commercial Journal, has placed the editorial 1 department of that magazine in the hands of Mrs. Adelaide Wayland, who has been doing some general writing for the paper for some time. Mrs.

Wayland came to St. Joseph from Springfield, where she had been engaged in sociological and char ity work. She has had extended experience as a writer, having published, a number of poems and a book or two. Some time since she wrote a review of the commercial interests of Joseph, under the title, "Seeing St. Joseph.

Afoot," which was favorably commented upon." -St. Joseph zette. Mrs. Wayland is the mother of Mrs. George F.

English, of Wathena. The Commercial Journal is a magazine devoted to the interests of the retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers of St. Joseph. He Got the $500 Some thought that Craig of St. Joseph, would not pay Harry Macomber that extra $500, because they were under no legal obligation to do so.

They bought the apples in his orchard, on the trees, for $6,500. After they had bought them, they told Mr. Macomber that they would make him a present of $500 if he got 6,000 barrels of apples from the orchard. The promise, being without consideration, was not legally binding, but Craig Bros. quite cheerfully paid the extra $500.

From the orchard they gathered 5,710 barrels of apples that were marketed in barrels, they sold about the equivalent of 1,500 barrels of bulk and cider apples. Harry Macomber says he prefers to sell his apples to Craig because he has found them so dependable and agreeable to deal with and they send good and desirable men to have about to pick the apples. R. Kelley, of St. Joseph, was orchard foreman, and Henry Kipp and Al Small, also of St.

Joseph, were head cullers. Palermo School Report for month ending Nov. 6: Total enrollment, 55; average attendance, 50.7. Grammar Room. Enrollment, 22; average attendance, 19.2.

Those neither absent nor tardy were Ellen Bruns, Georgia Boeh, Noma Brizendine, Ruth Engiman, Charles Engiman, Lydia Friederich, Ralph Meugniot, Maude Thompson, Aurea Meidinger. HARRY L. COLWELL, Teacher. Primary Room. Enrollment, 33; average attendance, 31.5.

Those neither absent nor tardy: Louise friederich, Alma Friederich, Clarance, Opal and 'Engiman, Celestian Meugniot, Carl and Arthur Dunlap, Kathryn Harris, Howard Burns, Herman Greub, Jimmie Glasgow, Russell Meldinger, Otto Seifert, Vera Brizendine, Ethel and Eugene Tucker, Tony Wende, Vernie Adams and Myrtle, Grace and Mamie Young. GRACE WHEALY, Teacher. Deaths PARKER. Mrs. Harry Parker, who recently moved with her husband from White Cloud to Manitou, for the benefit of her health, died there and the body was brought to White Cloud Tuesday, Nov.

3, and the funeral was held from Asbury church the next day. CAMPBELL. Dr. O. B.

Campbell, the prominent St. Joseph physician who died in St. Joseph on Wednesday, moved with his father's family from Ohio to Highland in 1869, when he was nine years of age. He was a student at Highland University. Dr.

J. C. Myers, of Troy, is a brother-in-law of Dr. Campbell. WHITNEY O.

P. Whitney, of Wathena, was born Dec. 29, 1849. He died Nov. 4, 1914, after an operation at the Sisters' Hospital, in St.

Joseph, Mo. He is survived by his wife and daughter, Mrs. A. T. Long, St.

Joseph, Mo. Interment was at the Cowger cemetery, Saturday, Nov. 8. ALKIRE. Special from Bendena.

Emmett Alkire died suddenly of apoplexy, in Atchison last Friday, Nov. 6. He was born and raised in the Bendena neighborhood and many Doniphan County friends will be grieved to learn of his untimely death. Mrs. Robert Campbell, of Hiawatha; George Larson, of Brenner; Mr.

and Mrs. John Lyons, of Nebraska City, and John Findley and Mrs. Rosa Herzog and family, of near Atchison, accompanied Mrs. Alkire to Topeka, where the body was interred. Katherine Banning was born in St.

Joseph, September 26, 1898, and died, Nov. 6, 1914. On March 3, 1913, she was married to Lawrence Fleek. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, one son, born October 24, 1914, her mother, Mrs. Jane Banning, and two sisters and two brothers, Mrs.

Gus Phillips, of St. Joseph, Edna and Arthur Banning, of Chicago, and Calvin Banning, who lives with his mother. funeral was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Fleek, on day afternoon.

Rev. Delezene conducted the services. She was laid to rest in Bellemont cemetery. The casket was massed with -beautiful flowers sent by relatives and friends, by whom she was loved. She was a devoted wife and 8 devout Christian.

She will be sadly missed in the Sunday school and church services and her young life, cut down so soon by the grim reaper, will be a memory cherished by many. MANVILLE. Peter A. Manville, was born June 19, 1843, at Waynesburg, Holmes County, Ohio. At the age of fourteen years he moved with his parents to Missouri, where he remained until the close of the Civil War, when he moved to Kansas and on to a farm near Wathena.

He was married to Miss Phillippa Amelia Miller, March 14,, 1869. They then moved to the location that housed them to the time of his death, Nov. 5, 1914. He is survived by his wife and six children, Mrs. C.

W. Richards, of St. Joseph, Mrs. H. U.

Snively, of Kansas City, Mrs. W. A. Rappely, of St. Joscph, Edward F.

Manville, of St. Joseph, Peter A. Manville, of El Paso, Texas; and William H. Manville, of Wathena. He had three living brothers and one sister, Henry Manville, of Faucett, George and Fred Manville and Mrs.

Jacob Bauer, of Wathena, Kans. Among the out of-town relatives who attended the funeral were: Wm. H. Miller and son Frank, Mr. and Mrs.

Tho. Hulton, Mrs. Nina and Helen Richards, C. W. Richards, Mrs.

Chas. Purnell and Fred Miller, of St. Joseph, and William Albright, of Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Manville was a Union soldier during the Civil war.

He was elected as a representative from this district in 1877 and served as county commissioner three terms. He was ever ready to help one in distress and was a faithful and loving husband and Even when the twilight was coming and he knew that darkness was only a short distance ahead, he pressed the band of his wife and smiled. Perhaps life is worth living, after all, if after our trials and. worries, the gladness and the griefs of life. one can go in that way.

It would be but a poor effort, on the part of the writer of this final' and brief record of a life well spent, to eulogize Peter Manville and we can only say that he was a true man and we loved him. Kansas Hay Crop Kansas farmers produced 2,492,000 tons of tame or cultivated hay during 1914, according to the preliminary estimates just made by the United States Department of Agriculture. The yield last year was 1,350,000 tons. The product is selling for an average of $8.40 per ton, compared with $12.70 per ton in 1913. The yield per acre this season is 1.51 tons and the quality is not as good as that of the average crop of the past ten years.

School Report District 37 Enrolled, 57. Daily Forty -two neither absent nor tardy: Sam, Margaret, Flora and Odelia Blum, Edna, Phillip and Allen Hoffman, Alice and Beulah Pfuger, Catherine, Rachel, Edna- and Tenla Weber, Margaret, LeEtta and Carl Schmille, Mary, Harry. Joseph and La Vina Redmond, Walter, Frieda and Victor Engemann, Marie. John and Dearl Parker, Matilda, Carl and Glen Lehman, Walter and Edna Liechti, Agnes, Robert and Lawrence Marolf, Bessie Banie, Lee Schnider, Arthur Weis, Margaret Stoeckle, Emma Shuskey and Joseph Weythman. Ida Bradley, Teacher.

Here and There In Nemaha County it is usually nip and tuck between the democrats and republicans. This year the democrats were elected to all the county offices except treasurer, county attorney and register of deeds. The Woman's Relief Corps Fair has been an annual event at Severance for thirty years. The proceeds of the fair this year amounted to about $125. The State Teachers' Association is meeting at Topeka this week, the session beginning yesterday and closing tomorrow.

Many of the schools are closed to allow the teachers to attend. Miss Edna Whitney, county superintendent, expected forty or fifty would attend from this county. Who says commission government is not better. Since Hiawatha has been governed the new way her two policemen have been dressed in uniform, to match up better with the white ways and paved streets in that progressive place. Spelling Revival Did you ever throw a stone into a brook and watch the circles that were formed in the water? That is just the way one little word may produce an effect on a whole county.

It was at a teachers' meeting in White Cloud last April that the teach. ers were discussing the lack of interest taken in teachers' meetings by many teachers. Many remedies were brought forth. When Prof. Gibbins, of Highland College, suggested having a spelling contest, he said he a spelling crank and told of the success he had had with a spelling contest in the Summer County High School at the same time one was carried on in the rural schools of the county.

At the close of Mr. Gibbons' talk, Miss Edna Whitney, county superintendent, appointed a committee to make arrangements for such a contest, the final arrangements being made June institute. The county was divided into districts for the purpose of local contests. At the close of the first month the business began. There were perhaps contests in other parts of the county, but the only two that were reported to us were at Leghman, between that school and Burr Oak, and between Fairview and Iowa Point.

But the close of October brought many reports of contests and heavy work being done. Two or three schools meet either in the evening or Friday afternoon and have a good social time and spell. Twenty-three (New Hope) invited Districts 60 and 72 to meet with them, number 60 coming out victorious. Leona spelled with several neighboring country schools. Iowa Point spelled with Fairview and won, 30 to 18.

Fairview spelled in the 'afternoon with Arnold, resulting in victory for to 14. Arnold spelled the week before with Cedar Creek and came out victor. Let the good work go on. Miss Emma Gibbins. Lost Boys A few days ago, Clarence Kilbey, aged nine years, son of Mr.

and Mrs J. J. Kilbey, and Norman Lytle, nine years old, came over from St. Joseph for a visit to the Kilbey and Wheat farm, north of Wathena. Mr.

and Mrs. Wheat had gone to St. Joseph and the boys found nobody at home, so they told a neighbor that they were, going back home. Growing uneasy, Mrs. Kilbey telephoned another neighbor toward evening, who went to the house and, seeing nothing of the boys and learaing from the other neighbor that they said they were going home, telephoned Mrs.

Kilbey the boys said they were going home. When they failed to arrive on the train, Mrs. Kibley supposed they had used what money they had to. get something to eat and were walking home. Alarmed and fearing dreadful things had happened to them, she persuaded her husband to start out at 10 o'clock at night and walk to Wathena along the railroad, expecting he would meet the boys.

He saw nothing of them until he reached the farm, where they were safe asleep in the best bed. They bad hunted with their 22-rifle until evening and had succeeeed in getting into the house, where they cooked their supper, played with the cats and dogs, wound the clock, set the alarm for the morning and went to bed, little thinking of the sleepless night they were bringing to their relatives, Brown County Election The official returns from Brown County show it was close there between the Democrats and Republicans with the Progessives also very strong. For United States senator, Curtis, republican, had 3044 votes and Neely, democrat, 1895 and Murdock, progressive, 1301. For governor, Capper had 3306, Hodges 1815 and Allen 1009. For congress, Anthony had 3039, Chapman 2012 and Ingalls 1065.

Judge Stuart had a majority of 1036. Judge Means carried Irving Township, Hamlin, Reserve, Morrill, Fairview, Powhattan, Forty-Four, Baker and Everest, which were a majority of the precincts outside of the two largest cities, Hiawatha and Horton, which went strong for Judge Stuart. County candidates received the following majorities: J. M. Johnson, republican, for representative, 297.

John E. Mathewson, democrat, for county clerk 45. D. Herman Shelton, republican, for treasurer 1298. Alvin Hicks, republican, for register of deeds 1546, the progressive candidate, Ella A.

Swartz receiving 1425 votes. W. E. Archer, republican, for county attorney 1319. C.

W. Biddle, democrat, for sheriff 208. Dr. H. L.

Goss, republican, for coroner 498. June G. Carothers, republican, for superintentendent, had no opposition. C. H.

Dawley, republican, for surveyor 1465. Frank W. Sterns, republican, for clerk of the court 185. R. V.

Brokaw, republican, was elected county commissioner by 66 votes. The other two members are democrats. One Paper Enough Hiawatha World; John Redmond, editor of the Burlington Daily Republican, has bought the subscription list and plant of the Independent, the only other paper in Burlington, a town of 2,500. This is a day of fewer and better papers and the business men and subscribers in Burlington figure they will be better satisfied with one newspaper. In announcing the consolidation Mr.

Redmond says, It has been inevitable for some time that one of the papers in Burlington would have to drop out. The tendency 1s that way all over the country and the recent increases in the cost of paper, ink, type. metals, and in fact everything entering into the production of a newspaper has made it impossible for many papers to meet expenses. The Independent has been a 'losing proposition most of the time for years Some excellent newspaper men have been here and tried to revive it, and the politicians have tried to carry it as an organ, and still the receipts generally fell short of meeting the expenses. Its subscription list has held up fairly well, running from 1,500 to 1,000, according to the effort made, but the people really felt that there was no more reason for having two newspapers in Burlington than there was in having two telephone systems or two waterworks plants.

Mr. and Mrs. L. -P. Evans had as their guests Sunday, Mr.

and, Mrs. Frank Kessler and two daughters, and Mr. and Mrs. Staner and daughter Lucile, of St. Joseph.

WIFE DESERTION Severance Man Charged With Serious Offense Of Neglecting Family. On complaint issued before James A. Campbell, justice of the peace at Severance, 0. G. Snodgrass was arrested, charged with deserting His wife and five minor children, neglecting and refusing to maintain and support then and leaving them in.

destitute circumstances. Under Kansas law it has come to be about as dangerous to not care fcr your wife and children as it is to steal a horse, and punishment may be a penitentiary sentence. The ple of Severance are said to be very interested on behalf of the wife and children. Preliminary hearing will be before Squire Edwin Brown, at 1 o'clock this afternoon, at Troy. Help Starving Belgium FLEEK.

Georges Mignolet, Belgian counsul at Kansas City, is asking Kansas newspapers to receive and forward subscriptions to aid the Belgians, thousands of whom must perish unless America gives from her abundance and saves their lives. In part, the letter we received from the counsul reads: "I would appreciate it very highly if you would open in the columns of your esteemed newspaper, a public subscription for the benefit of the gian Relief Fund, in order to alleviate the starvation facing gallant Belgium during the German occupation. The cause is worthy of the attention of everyone and needs no comment. Kindly collect the money and forward it, less expenses, to G. Mignolet, Belgian Consul, 3900 Wyandotte St.

Kansas City, the Headquarters of the Relief Fund Committee. A receipt will be sent." Such a request, under existing circumstances, can hardly be refused. All subscriptions sent through the Times office will be acknowledged in this paper and the Kansas City Star will publish the total amount lected. All Spoke Here Wathena people will be interested in hearing that official returns from 93 of the 105 counties show Judge Henry Mason with the highest vote for one of the three places on the supreme bench. The other two successful candidates are John Marshall, second, and John Dawson, third.

Ed. Little was a close fourth. Judge Mason delivered the class address here last spring and John Dawson was the class speaker the year before. John Marshall also recently spoke here. All three are good lawyers.

Methodist News' The second week of the meeting has passed, but not without much interest, and results that cannot be told in words. Numerical results are nine conversions, three having united witn the church. The sermons of the week have been pronounced by all who have heard them to be a clear declaration of God's word applied to fellow man and ourselves. The sermon on last Sunday evening was of special interest to' all, as it was the one on a subject we are all interested in, "Excuses." It was listened to very attentively by a large congregation. Mr.

E. E. Tolle's chorus is making the song service very interesting. We have been favored with some special features this week, a solo by Miss Joyce Fuger, a duet by Mrs. Jacob Miller, and Mrs.

G. L. Stuart, and a number of trombone solos by Mr. Tolle. The meetings are to continue through this week and every one is cordially invited to make the most of them for their own good.

Last Monday, on request of the pastor, all merchants of the town gladly consented to close their stores at 7:30 p. which was heartily appreciated by the church and special workers. We thank you. Next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock is church hour. -If you are a Christian and not a member of any evangelical church, with You will find a of our glad welcome.

who has Will a every neighbor member who is not a member of any other church give that individual an urgent invitation to come with us? The Ladies' Aid Society, on last Monday evening, called upon Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Shields, and, in appreciation of the long and faithful service rendered the society, presented the newly married couple with a beautiful comforter, which the ladies and tacked recently. They join with the many in congratulations. Regular services next Sunday at the regular hours.

Every one la cordially invited to attend. J. H. BISHOP, Pastor..