The Rolla News from Rolla, Kansas • 1

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REAL HOME TOWN BDILDERS Are Not The Fellows Who Boost Them-selves And Knock The Other Fellow But Those Who Boost For All. When a fellow says "I am a booster for mv home town" he will not bother to go ahead and tell you what a knocker his neighbor is, provided he is telling you the truth. The booster is the fellow who minds his -own business, has a good word for everybody or else "I have lived a plain man's life and don't want any big display. I have tried to live right and be honest. I have tried to keep myself unspotted by the world, and that is a mighty hard thing to do.

I am prepared to die. Those who have treated unfairly have my forgiveness yes, I have a large acquaintance and I have lots of good friends. I am ready to go but it is hard to give up my poor sick wife. I owe all to my wife. She has made me what I am.

This is true that there is nothing like a good woman. Try and bear up Ma, it is hard, but be patient. You have been so kind to me. No one knows better than we do. We have traveled over forty years over rough roads I wish I could be with you in your old age to do for you, but Jesus looks after his children." Mr.

Luther leaves to mourn his loss his aged wife, five sons, three daughters and five grandchildren. CAKD OF THANKS We wish to thank all those who lent their assistance to us during the sickness ana at the time of the death of our husband and father, assuring all that the respects shown him have been appreciated by us and will long be remembered. Mrs. J. D.

Luther. E. O. Luther. Ben D.

Luther. J. F. Luther. W.

H. Luther. J. W. Luther.

Emma J. Schwartz. Eunice A. Stout. Lula E.

Hjort. no word at all. No town, no matter how large or small can grow with one half of citizens knocking on the other half. Home town builders are not the fellows who exact a toll from every fellow who deals with them, and then with a big gust of wind throw out fifty or a hundred dollars every time the berg wants anything in the civic improvement line. The real home town builder is the fellow who will live and let live, who is willing to help with a little and help do the work if necessary to help fix up the town.

There is nothing gained by knocking the competitor. People are not interested in a tirely forgot that Mr. Capper was talking about Rolla when he incidentally mentioned Morton County. Rolla was the town in Morton County that went "over the top" three times and had fifty dollars to spare. It seems that the News doesn't know that Rolla is in Morton County, but we would like to call its attention to the fact that it was Rolla that raised day last summer for the Red Cross.

It was also Kolla that raised between $900.00 and $1,000.00 this spring in one day for the Red Cross. And it was Rolla that trebled its quota in the Third Liberty Loan. It was Rolla that found seven men with $1,000.00 each to buy Liberty Bonds in less than seven minutes. We are informed by the time keeper that it took Rolla five minutes and thirty-seven seconds to raise its quota after the campaign was begun. We don't believe the people of Rolla get up as early as the people of Elkhart, but they can always do a day's work before quiting time if they get up by noon.

Now if the Elkhart News wants to print some news that will be of interest to the people in the east half of the county it can. print the above. They can also say that Rolla subscribed more, according to its population, to the Third Liberty Loan than any town in the state of Kansas, and they can state that Hon. Arthur Capper said it. No dee County Board of Equalization, for the purpose of equalizing the assessments of both Real and Personal property, will meet at May 20 and 21 Rolla, May 22 Wilburton, May 23 Elkhart May 24 and 25 Anyone having complaints to make are requested to meet the Board on the dates mentioned above.

G.P.Riley, County Assessor. A number of cases of measles have been reported around town this week. knowing what the crooks ot the town are doing. What they want to know is what the live wires are doing to make the town a better place to trade and a more enjoyable place to spend their idle time. It is absolutely necessary that all the citizens of a town cooperate in building the town.

If thorough cooperation cannot be obtained then the town cannot thrive as it should. OBITUARY OF J. D. LUTHER Who Died At His Home Near Rolla Hay 1st Came To Kansas Trcm Indiana In The Till 1896. Joel Daisy Luther was born near Clay City, April 6th, 1854, and died at his home four miles southwest of Rolla May 1m.

1918, at 64 years nnri 25 days. Funeral services were conducted at the home Thursday, May 2nd, at 4 p. m. conducted by the Revs. J.

A. Cornelious of Dodge City and C. M. McClurr of Rolia. Mr.

and Mrs. Georgt Snyder and Mr; and Mrs. C. A. Snyder and Earlston and Laura Snyder furnished the music.

Interment service was in charge the Rolla and Elkhart W. A. lodges at Rolla Cemetery. Joel D. Luther was left an orphan early in life.

His mother died when he was three weeks old, and his father when he was seven years old. He vas married to Lucinda Bedford Huddle-ston January 8, 1874, near Clay City within half a mile of where he was born. They were school mates together and together they have fought life's battles for over forty-four years. They moved Crawford County, Illinois, in 1877 and united with Ogden Christian near Oblong in 1884, living a true Christian life thereafter. He has been a member of the M.

W. A. since February 12, 1895. He moved to Kansas in the fall of 1896 and to Morton County in 1908. He had lived on a farm the most of his life and bad always been an active man.

unable to do hard work any longer he took up insurance work and was very successful in it, as at the time of his death he had a well established business in Stevens and Morton counties. II was a kind father. He taught and practicdChristianity in his home, worked hard and endured many hardships that his children might have a home and an opportunity to secure an education which he never had himself. Later in life he gave up his well improved home in eastern Kansas to locate in Morton County where all of his children could, and did, secure free homes. On Sunday, April 28, he realized that he could live only a short time, so he called his wife and all the children and gave full directions as to his property left, named the men he wanted to act as pall bearers, asked that the two Mr.

Snyders and their wives and children sing certain songs, the ministers he wanted to conduct the service, the kind of basket, monument and everything to the smallest detail. Among his last words were, IS ROLLA CROWING NOW? Some Say That It Is Not In The race 01 Statistics That Show That It Is Growing In Volume Busii.ess. The other day a former resident of Kolla dropped in and in the course of conversation our visitor said that the town was not growing very fast. There is no town in the United States that is booming as it would were the conditions of the world's finance more settled. Rolla is growing.

In fact it is growing faster than any other town in the state of Kansas according to population. Rolla is growing on the actual resources of the county. It is not taking a hot air boom. People are building here because they know that the town and the country are not going to blow up. During the past ten years there have been a number of practical farmers come to this section and since their arrival there has not been a year when the land that they owned and cultivated did not produce more thantheassess-ed valuation of the land.

This section has been more fortunate than any other part of Kansas during the past three years. Good crops have been raised here while other sections dried up. The more successful farmers in this section farm quite as scientifically as the best farmers in any other part of the state. Not only that, but they are be ng well paid for their, labor. It is now a settled, fact that Morton County can and will produce as mnch per acre as any other county, in the state when properly handled.

Therefore the growth of the country is steady and with the country growing the town is bound to grow. During the past year there has been more fences and farm buildings put up than in any other year in the history of this county. When one stops" to think that there not a man in Rolla that is not actively engaged in some enterprise it looks like the town was growing pretty good. During the past six or seven months there has been three new dwellings put up, a new' grain elevator and a number of buildings have been enlarged toaccommodatethe increased business. The population ot the town is not growing by leaps and bounds, but the business of the town is.

The following report of the business of the Santa Fe at Rolla ior the month of April will show that the town is growing. During the month of April 'nine cars of cattle were shipped from Rolla. Ten cars of lumber, one car of coil, six cars of flour, one car of hay, two cars of live stock, five immigrant cars and four cars of miscellaneous freight were received, making a total of twenty-nine cars. In the same month 102,636 pounds of freight was unloaded here in less than car-lot shipments, and 71,420 pounds were forwarded. The total fi eight receipts for the month of April were $5,517.84, or an increase of $3,035.85 over the month of April 1917.

The total pounds of freight handled at Rolla in April, 1918, was 1,944,789. This is more than twice the amount handled during the same month last year. From these figures we conclude that business must be growing. Local Market Butter fat, lb 390 Butter, ft 300 Eggs, doz. 250 $3.20 Kafir $3.20 Feterita $3.20 Broom Corn, No.

2. market. The Brunswick Smoker added a new counter and stcols to its equipment this week. Resolution Whereas it has pleased our Heavenly Father, in his infinite wisdom, to remove from our midst Neighbor J. D.

Luther, therefore, be it resolved that we, the members of Rolla M. W. A. Lodge No. 5963, extend to Mrs.

Luther and family our heartfelt sympathy in this, their hour, of sorrow, and be it further resolved that a copy of these resolutions be entered upon our records, a copy sent to the family and a copy sent to the Modern Woodman paper. Rolla M. W. A. Lodge, By C.

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We have none at present. We are in the market for your beans. We are paying 7 per pound for them for the Government. See us for all kinds of field Yours for business, 1. The Bank is safer under all cir cumstances.

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Open an account today. Take the safe and sound way. Make our Bank your Bank by using it. Elkhart Forgot Something The people Oi Rolla who take the Elkhart News remarked that the editor was very careless and must be bothered with oversight rather than nearsightedness. The Elkhart News last week told that Morton County had gone right over the topJ; but failed to say that Rolla bad dragged it over the top.

While Elkhart did succeed in getting their quota it was not until after the News had gone to press, and even tiien, it is said that she did not go "over the top" with a very big margin. Then again the News spoke about the credit that Gov. Capper gave to Morton County. In stating Mr. Capper's remarks they en I nr.

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