The Stockton Review from Stockton, Kansas • 7

THE STOCKTON REVIEW Where Frank James Won His I thing was wrong. Of course, a i- Bride. good many of us knew that Frank used to come to see her, and that she would often take HAVE ong rides alone into the brush meet him she was a splen did horsewoman she could ride a horse bareback at full speed, and girls didn't ride a-stride in those days, either. She got off the train at the Grand Avenue station and here was a hack there wait Important Notice To Our Depositors We have adopted, for your benefit, the Protectu System of II check protection. This System prevents checks being altered so as to call for a larger amount than you indicate when you make out the check.

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LET US EXPLAIN THIS SYSTEM TO YOU. At the western edge of Independence, near (Englewood station on the electric car line, on the right hand side of the road as you travel towards the east, stands a two-story brown frame house, surmounted by two old fashioned "Missouri" chimneys that protrude from the comb of the roof and tell at a glance that they were connected, at one time at least, with the roomy log-wood fireplaces below. Though the house shows evidences of recent remodeling in the way of weather boards and paint and a modern concrete walk leading up to the front veranda, the general ing lor her. couldn tell whether there was anyone in it or not. But the next thing we heard was that she and Frank James had been married by a minister at Leavenworth, Frank James giving his right name to the minister, coupled A small stock of high grade re-refrigerators we will close out at attractive prices rather than carry them over.

We have the famous 'Automatic' which has features not possessed by any other. If you need a refrigerator, now is the time to buy, as next year's price' will be much higher. See us for Lawn mowers, cream separators, oil stoves etc. with a caution that the latter should not divulge the news style of the architecture, the inevitable cedar trees flank for twenty-four hours. After the ceremony the bridal couple rode rapidly away on horse ing the walk, the gnarled hon eysuckle vine with its roots back, and Annie Ralston did FARMERS STATE BANK P.

M. Reeves, Cashier. Stockton, Kansas. not reappear at her old home "inveterately convolved" that clambers up a trellis in one in Independnce for several part of the yard lend a pera- years afterwards." sive air of age to the place and Was Her Husband's Com- DR. HARMON TO RUSSIA.

impart a suggestion, on first view, that it is a rejuvenated survival of the old time. On pamon. The marriage, by all ac counts, was a happy one and inquiry you will be told that it is the old Ralston homestead Annie Ralston's influence over her husband was always exert Wrighi ed to make him quit his wild and mat it nas its romance, as so many of the old houses of Independence have. It was in will report in Chicago, Tuesday, where the party will be organized. The men will sail from the United States about September 1.

The United States is evidently taking every means to bolster up the Russian army and to help the people find themselves again. The Y. M. C. A.

work is world wide and the same work will be done in Russia. life and square himself with the world. Before her hus this house that the famous band's surrender she was his bandit, Frank James, wooed constant companion wherever and won his bride, Annie Ral ARITHMETIC ONCE WAS COMMON. he went, and his wandering in ston, and from which they were popularly supposed to those days were wide and de aldry. Consequently it was beneath the dignity of a boy unless he was "less capable of learning and fittest to be put to trades." Ex.

Salina, Aug. 27. Kansas Wesleyan university may lose its president, Dr. John F. Harmon -fora year.

He may accept a request of the government to do Y. M.C. A. work with the Russian armies. President Harmon is one of four men in the United States asked by the government to leave at once for Russia to work in the Y.

M. C. A. camps which are being rapidly organized with the Slav fighters "I wired that I had a job in Salina that I liked pretty well," said Dr. Harmon today, "but I would do anything and go any place the government asked me." vious, with the officers of the Only Those "in Trade" Studied the Science of Numbrs.

have eloped. Was a Border Day Belle. law always at his heels. It was at her solicitation, it is said Sam Ralston, who built the Mr. and Mrs.

Larue were up from Woodston Thursday on business. that Frank James finally de Survey Is Preliminary. house in early days on what was then his "plantation" was cided to put his life to the touch and "win or lose it all" one of the slave holding pio At the time of the colonization of America in the first half of the Seventeenth Century, writes Walter Scott Monroe, professor of school administration of the Kansas State Normal School, in a bulletin by a surrender and a trial. One neers of the county and was an intimate friend of the James son, Robert, was a soldier in the Philippine war. was born Freeman Alexander of Kansas City was in town the latter part of last week transacting business and calling on some of his old friends.

and Younger families long be of the union. At the time of fore they became notorious as If Dr. Harmon accepts he Frank James' death, Febru bandits. His daughter, Annie Ralston, was one of the belles ary 18, 1915, the widow and son were living at the old home of the border days, handsome stead, near Kearney, Mo. She dashing, romatic and full is a frequent visitor at Excel sior Springs, where she is al spirit it was said that she could ride a horse or handle a of the Interior Department, arithmetic was not considered essential to a boy's education unless he was to enter commercial life or certain trades.

The instruction in arithmetic was often given in another school, called a writing school, or a reckoning school. When arithmetic was taught in the grammar schools it was very rudimentary. Not only was this true, but among the nobility bolt as expertly as any ways a center of observation now a quiet, sad eyed, gray The survey of August 31, in so far as it concerns the supplies of 18 principal foodstuffs is a preliimanry one, to be followed by a more complete one after the crops are harvested. For the complete schedule the blanks call for returns on 103 items. Blanks giving all information have been mailed to some 350,000 firms, but any firm which has not yet received these banks should apply at once to the Bureau of Markets, Department of Agriculture, Washington, or to the nearest State address given above.

While the returns are required under the law, with a heavy penalty for noncompliance, it is expected by the Department that all firms will consider it their patriotic duty to fill out and return the schedules as requested. knight of the brush. Jus when and where she first me haired woman, with something Frank James has never been told, but it is known that "the boys" were frequent visitors in her face that would attrac interest even if one did no know her romatic history. K. C.

Star. at the old house not only dur mg the war, but in the after A GOOD SERMON. days when there was a price and the aristocracy of the educated, arithmetic was looked upon as "common," "vile," "mechanic," because it was the accomplishment of clerks, artisans, tradesmen and others who bore no sign of her You Can Make Better Times Cone to Colorado Where Crop Failures Do Not Occur. WHY PAY FANCY PRICES FOR LAND WHERE FAILURES ARE COMMON? I CAN SELL YOU LANDS FOR $15.00 TO $25.00 PER ACRE WHERE THERE HAS NOT BEEN A FAILURE IN THE PAST TEN YEARS TO MY OWN KNOWLEDGE I have lands in all parts of eastern Colorado in the rain belt district. Most of this land is shallow water country.

Wheat, Corn, Beans and in fact any kind of crops that are attempted to be grown in kooks County never fail here. We have an abundance of rain to make crops, that is all that is needed. And we never have hot winds. Below I will give a list of some of my bargains in different parts of the rain belt district. We can show you good crops on or adjoining any of these lands.

480 acres twelve miles east of Denver only two miles from Station on U. P. railway. Can all be cultivated. 80 acres will grow alfalfa.

Wheat on adjoining land will make 20 bushels per acre. Price only $20 per acre. Easy terms. 320 acre two miles from Godfrey. All fine farm land, half alfalfa bottom and 25 acres growing alfalfa.

80 acres in cultivation, house, barn, well 11 feet to water. All fenced, in good neighborhood. This land is worth today $8000, to close an estate I will sell it for $18.00 per acre. Half cash and balance on easy terms. Three good sections of raw land only about three miles from Manilla and only 30 miles from Denver.

These sections can all be cultivated and part of them are fenced with three wires. Will sell any part of them at $21 per acre on easy terms. 1412 acre stock ranch near Limon well improved. All fenced and cross-fenced. An abundance of finest of springs and open water for stock.

300 acres of low suirrigated bottom land suitable for alfalfa. Some seeded to alfalfa, cuts several tons wild hay. Only $15.00 per acre half cash. Thi3 is one of the best ranches in Eastern Colorado. Will sell stock with ranch if preferred.

These are only a few of my good farms. I have hundreds of them and if you want anything in Eastern Colorado I have it at right prices. Write me for full information regarding lacality you wish. Lands all over the rain belt district are from $5 to $10 per acre higher now than a year ago. Come out and look aver our country and be convinced that we have the goods and that farmers where ever you go are making good.

fred Hamilton ROOM 225 CENTURY BLDG. DENVER, COLO. on their heads. It was one of the places that was often shad owed by the Pinkertons and the local officers when the hunt for the bandits was on, and the tradition goes that Frank James, in the days of his courtship, made many a hurried exit from the back door of the home to the brush nearby where his horse stood saddled and bridled for emergencies, leaving his faithful sweetheart to explain matters to unexpected visitors. The marriage, it is said, was effected by an elopement, but it was not an elopement of the Lochinvar type.

It took place in 1875, and at that time Frank James was a much hunted man with a reward of $50,000 hang ing over his head. Sam Ralston, the father, friendly as he was to the Jameses from old associations, was opposed to the match, so one fine day Annie Ralston bade farewell to the old home and "ran away" to meet her outlawed lover at an appointed rendezvous. But she shattered all romatic traditions by going on a railroad train. "I traveled in the same seat with Annie Ralston," said an official at the Independence courthouse, "the day she ran away from home to marry Frank James. She had a small Not all the sermons are preached in church.

Some, and very good ones, are occasionally delivered by officers of the law. Such a one was ad dressed by Commissioner Hayes of Boston the other day to a man who had refused to submit to physical examination by a military service board because he was 'opposed to war. "I want you to understand your position clearly, young man," said the commissioner "You came to this country of your own You were not asked to come here. You have taken out your first papers and declared your intention of becoming a citizen of the United States. "When you came here you were expected to obey the laws of the country and as a citizen to serve her if she cal led upon you to do so.

Now the first time you are called upon, you refuse and try to evade the law. "You may have your views, but they will be utterly and absolutely disregarded. You or no other man can put his opinions up in the defiance of what is law." There is expressed the obligation of a citizen, especially of the once-alien citizen, in a nutshell. It should be read One of the best and most adoptable things that can be taken hold of by every individual is the use of a good bank in the handling of money passing through his or her hands. The successful wage earner, farmer, merchant, manufacturer, professional man, and those in other occupations, make us of some feature of the service a bank may render.

Many do not know how to make the most of their connection with a good, safe bank, but every user of a bank is benefitted in innumerable ways, and those who are yet without the help the bank affords are handicapped in their money transactions. The greatest need in trade is in getting the average man to use some bank for the carrying of a checking account. Getting the individual to do this, money is made to circulate as it should and do most toward increasing the prosperity of all. This is a direct benefit to every individual, but the convenience, the safety, the system, the saving of time and worry that comes from the carrying of a checking account gives to each user something that is helpful and that can be obtained in no other way. OFFICE HOURS 9 A.

M. TO 4 P. M. valise with her, and she told land remembered by every man of foreign birth who Stockton National Bank STOCKTON, KANSAS. me that she was going to Kansas City to stay with some comes to this land to better friends, but she seemed rather i his condition.

He Is getting excited and I suspected some-' much, and he owe3 much..