The Dresden Reporter from Dresden, Kansas • 1

El BUS THE DRESDEN, DECATUR COUNTY, KANSAS, OCTOBER 6, 1916 NUMBER 15 VOLUME 1 j. BOOST And right on boosting then keep dont stop. I LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. G.

A. Launch-bauRh were Oberlin visitcis Fn day. MORE APPROVAL. j-MS il ymox we rf.krf3!nW.I ill WwimrJ Bodst for Dresden. Did you ever try a'want ad? Rev.

P. L. Courter autoed to Norton Wednedsay, Arthur Rowland of Burlington has been visiting relatives here for some time. Chas. VValkty went to Atwood via Goodland Friday and wia J.

B. Bainter went to Kant City with cattle and hogs Friday night. Mrs. Fred Fortin spent a few davsintown with her mother, Mrs. L.

B. Walkey. A. S. Butel and E.

A. Anderson of Oberlin, both telphone men, were in town Sunday, Mrs. Ralp Rhodes has been quite pick and her school has been closed for the oreeent. Nellie, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

M. J. Hoppas mns rtii 1 1r a Anr JnlTa work there for several montnd. We are indebted to J. Fos-ter for a year's 6ubsciipticn to this moral and religious guide.

Thanks, Joe. Mrs. E. grandson Henry returned Tuesday, from an extended visit with tela tives in Missouri. Chas.

Cook and Carl Bird-sell autoed over from Oberlin, Friday night and again Sunday afternoon. Some attraction over this way, eh boys. CARTOON BY BRADLEY IN CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. LABOR VOTE NOT DELIVERABLE. AN EIGHT-HOUR LAW.

i week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vison-haler ard little fon, of Bellaire, Kansas, are visiting M. J.

Hop-pas and family. Mrs. B. S. Bowman and niece little Mary Funk, went to Jennings Saturday, for a short visit with the Brooks family.

The County Funds should be in the hands of a representative business man, hence vote for Henry Law for County Treasurer. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Burk's Big "Uncle Cabin the largest organization of its kinn fn America, will exhibit at Dresden Wed'day Oct. 116b. on this occasion the famous old play will be presented in as new and elaborate a form a modern thought and stage invention will permit, and doubtless the Big Pavilion. Theatre will be filled to it utmost capacity during their perfor mance here, the principal characters in this grand old play will be interp reted by a very competent cast of The cement mixing roarchine for the Farmer's Equity Union Elevator arrived Friday and now work on their new elevator has begun in earnest, Mrs.

Freeman Ingham came over from Oberlin Friday and This Is the Outstanding Fact Which Political Philosophers Deduce From the Defeat in Maine of Representative McGillicuddy. From among the numerous lessons or conclusions which the political philosophers can draw from the Maine election one lesson or conclusion stands out more sharply defined than any other. It jumps at you. The labor vote, for the sake of which the Poltroon Congress tarred and feathered itself with its own hands only a dozen days ago, is not deliverable by the traders who pretended to sell It This salient fact of the election Is illustrated conspicuously In, the Second Congress district. There are few places within the confines of our republic where labor is relatively stronger than In the city of Lewlston, the 'home city of Representative McGillicuddy," and he has made a specialty of it in his own political prac visited with Mrs.

Wnht andj daughter, until No. 5 when she i lady aud gentlemen artists that bav- been selected especially for their abilityto give a correct interpretation of Uucle Tjm." rpjy. Ophelia, Marks' Legree, Elizn, St. Claire and Little Eva; the balance of the cast Recent Legislation Docs Not Shorten Workday a Minute. As a matter of fact, it Is not an eight-hour law at all.

It does not curtail the trainmen's workday by a single minute. If an engineer has been receiving $5 for working ten hours a day, this law will raise his pay to but it will not shorten his workday even the tenth part of a sec-- ond. This is no more like the true eight-hour principle than chnlk Is like cheese. The reason why people call this an eight-hour law is because it says that in the case of railroad truinmen they shall get their day's pay for the first eight hours' work, 'and all the rest is to be considered' over-( time, Do not tell me that this strike 'could not havq.been.cn lied olf'w- postponed if President Wilson had shown that he meant business. I do not for one minute believe that those four brotherhood leaders started the blaze going without knowing how to put It out.

One of them admitted that he could put it out so far as his "own brotherhood was concerned, but that his followers would think that he had gone back on them if he were to do so. Statement of Con-, gressman A. P. Gardner. are exceptionally good, a contingent of Vaudeville artists consisting ol jubillee singers Buck, and Wing dan Georpe Fortin and wife ard John Fortion and wife visited with T.

A. McMar.us and family on the Sappa a couple of da's lastweek. Bob Bresnahan came in from Kanorado Tuesday evening and left Wednesday for his farm in Marion Ned Boldosier accompanied him. Mrs. Belle Akers and Master" Owen returned from their Mor-land visit Sunday morning, they were accompanied by herlbro-' therNoel Critchtield and wife and Mrs.

Gra.bner. Mrs. Marquette, who formerly lived between Dresden and Oberlin. but now living in Fair-bury, came in the Jersey Sunday, she was met by her son-in-lMw, Foy Hays who took her to Oberlin. gers, Wire Walking Hoop are introduced throughout 4be play tice.

-In the -Second Maine, If any" it tha strongest production of this popular drama ever presented to the public. A pack of Siberian returned to her home in Love-land, Colorado. Mr. Dovle who has been here for the' past three or four months fixing up the old Yeafcle building, which- he now owns, left lastweek for his home at Leoti, Kansas. E.

G. Bacon was the highest bidder for. the Foster Lumber company's cement house, and his bid was accepted, aTl bids on the office building were rejected and it is still for sale. Mr. and Mrs, Roler Jones entertained 20 at dinner Sunday.

ThoRe present were Mr, Woods and family and Miss Jennie Saw er of Norton Mr. and Mrs. Trommeter, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer.

Glen Jones and family and Mr. and Mrs. J. Sawyer and son Blood Hounds, Horses Poniep, dunk eys and an unusually fceorgeous transformation scene are also among where, would there be indications of any return, in the shape of votes, for the surrender of Congress to the four Brotherhoods. After a campaign which might almost be called desperate In Its effort to save McGillicuddy and one Democratic seat in the House from, the Republican onset, Mr.

McGillicuddy was defeated by an "adverse plurality of nearly 400, whereas he hed been elected to the Sixty-second Congress by a plurality of 1,389 and to the Sixty-third by 1,281. the many features of this Grand Spectacular production. The Ladies Foreign Mission ary Society met with Mrs. Mon nie Bowman Tuesday afternoon These ladies are doing a grand work and as an evidence of the interest they are taking in it despite the high wind and dust that filled the air, eighteen mem hers were present on this occa Irvin S. Cobb is to make campaign speeches for the Democratic party in the West.

Irv, you all recall of course, is a humorist, and Is peculiarly equipped to do full justice to his subject DR. W. DENTIST Permanently located at Selden. Ten years experience, All my work is Guaranteed. sion.

COMMERCIAL HOTEL A special invitation to the farmers. We set an extra good table and have nice cool, clean rooms. RATES 5150 PER DAY J. W. DAWSON, PROP.

We have now installed a phone and any one having any items that you think would interstour readers call phone rso49 and we will thankfully jot down any news items j'ou may give us. Senator-Curtis has again shown his long continued friendship for the old soldier and hia widow by forcing through Congress an increased pension for the widows, this will give them $20 a month.instead of $12. THE UNIVERSAL CAR These cold winds that come Blip-ing around the corners as the sun goes down, make a 'feller" wonder what he dy with his summer's wages. went to the iceman. How about you? Over a million and a quarter Ford cars in use today.

If each one of these cars wasn't an active demonstration of Ford qualities strength, simplicity, light weight, economy and dependability or the orders wouldn't come in so fast, Most men like to judge a motor car. by what it can really do. Touring car $396.05, Runabout $381, Coupelet $541, Town Car Sedan $681. All prices f. o.

b. Selden, On display and sale at Person Butler Garage. A. B. Person, Demonstrator.

1 FOR EXCHANGE 160 acre farm S. Missouri. 80 acres In cultivation. 60 in tame grass, 7 room frame house bam 34x37. All kinds of fruit, land not in-cultivation is in timber and pasture.

Price $3,600, mortgage $1000 Will exchange for land in Sheridan or adjoining counties. F. M. Draper Selden, Kansas. It is proved! that machines exposed to the weather rust out three times as quickly as they wear out.

In other words, outof every four dollars you invest in a machine rust gets three of them if you let it. Some men tiae their barns jto store their tools but usually there isn't enough space, Why not keep it in ashed? It's" the modern way. The cost of building suen a shed is much less than you think, much less than what you'd otherwise have to pay'for new machines and new. parts. We have a full line of good building materials The sooner you get your shed started, the sooner it will start saving you mony, Ivan Kelley and wife are the proud' owners of a brand new Dodge car, purchased Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Brooks of Jennings were trafifacticgbusi-ness in Dresden Monday.

FOSTER LUMBER CO. The way to have neighbors is to be one..