The Lansing News from Lansing, Kansas • 1

THE REILLY MAKES ANSWER To Banker's Suit for Overdrawn Warrants County Treasurer Reilly has made court answer to the bankers who have sued the county for $24,000. The treasurer says that in 1879 the Kansas legislature passed a special act fixing the date for the fiscal or financial year for Leavenworth county to commence October: 1 and to extend to October 1, and that the county treasurer is prohibited from paying out money on any bills contracted outside the year the taxes are paid in. It is held that this act has never been repealed and is still in force. Despite the dum-dum decisions by attorneys and others interested it is hoped the Reilly's contention is correct. It is the only show the taxpayer has for knowing what the yearly expenses are to be.

This switching of dates and juggling of funds is not the way to do business. When the bankers cashed the overdraft warrants they knew the condition of the county, funds. They are drawing 6 per cent for the money they have advanced. If they will join with the other zens of the county in securing a reduction of court house expenses their claims can readily be paid without an increased tax levy. Death of Mrs.

Ittner KANSAS Historical Society State VOLUME 22 Mrs. Herman Ittner died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Seifert, in High Prairie. The funeral was held Thursday at the home of Mrs. Seifert, burial being in Fall Creek cemetery.

Mrs. Ittner was born in 1841 in Germany. She is survived by her husband and five children. They are: Mrs. Willian Hitzeman of Boling, Edward Ittner of Kansas City, Mrs.

August Schmidt of Hereford, Mrs. William Seifert of High Prairie, and William Ittner of Tacoma, Wash. An Auto to Each 22 People Based on figures of the 1914 census, which gave the state a population of 1,672,106, reports show that Kansas has approximately an automobile for every 22 men, women and children in the state, or a car to each seven families. Based on recent estimates that two million cars have been registered (this year in the 48 states, the reports indicate also that Kansas has considerable more than its share of cars. GRAND PRIZE TOKANSAS Agricultural Exhibits Win at World's Fair Kansas was awarded the grand prize for the finest agricultural collection and the largest number of prizes, where competing, of any state, at the San Francisco exposition.

Kansas entries won 104 medals on agricultural products, and one entry of Kansas hard wheat was adjudged the finest specimen in the world. The poultry exhibits from Kansas also swept the field. Of 200 entries 136 won prizes, 75 of which were firsts and seconds. It has been found impossible to save the Kansas building for the state. A combination of wreckers makes i it impossible to realize anything on the building, and the lowest estimate of the cost to rebuild it in Kansas is $18,000.

The furniture, however, was sold at good prices. The Kansas commission will consider the presentation of the agricultural pavillion and exhibit to some city or civic or state organization in Kansas which will agree to house and maintain it properly. Holiday School Vacation According TO the plans now the school holiday vacation will begin Friday noon, Dec. 24 and continue one week. Several of the teachers are contemplating visits to other places, hence the Friday noon closing, NEW CASH GROCERY LOGAN PERKINS, Proprietors 512 Delaware Leavenworth Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables Our aim is to please our customers 512 Delaware street Phone 169 Leavenworth Mrs.

BYRNS' FLOWER SHOP. 314 Delaware street Leavenworth Holiday Decorations Plenty of blooming plants. Holly and Wreaths Large assortment of Flowers Orders filled with promptness We will please you PRICES REASONABLE 314 Delaware, opposite street car station Leavenworth The next time you come Leavenworth Stop in and look over our stock of ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES An Electrical Christmas A 0 The Leavenworth Light, Heat Power Company 5.5 Delaware street Phone 129 LANSING Issued Every LANSING, KANSAS, FARM CLUB PRIZES The Boys and Girls Who Won in Contests The awards to members of Boys' and Girls' clubs are completed. Each member kept a record of all work done and an account of all expenses. Contestants were graded in yield per acre, profit, exhibit and story.

The best record in growing and corn both go to Easton township. Katie Ehart made the best record in raising tomatoes, with the following grades out of a possible 100 points: 20 points Story. 18 27 Yield. 25 90 6 lows: 20 points Story 19 30. 29 98 Carl Hall of Easton led in producing corn with a yield of bushels per acre.

His profit on the acre was $37.25. It cost him cents to raise a bushel of corn. He graded as Carl's prize is a riding the best in Leavenworth, and he also wins a spring pig that his father offered for the best record in corn raising his township. In the poultry club Esther Roach, Marie Bonaly and Josephine Beyer were so nearly tied for first place that they agreed to divide the prize mopey equally. In the sewing work the contestants scored as follows on a basis of 20 points: Esther Helen Mottin.

.15 Gert' de Steinbach 14 Marie Bonaly 14 Marie Mottin 12 In Kickapoo township Alois and Ernest Fink won in the corn contest; Margaret Bonaly is winner in the tomato contest. Mort Robinson was second in tomato contest in Easton township. In stock judging the winners were: Fat hogs- Lewis Miller, Jarbalo. first; Collins Stearns, Leavenworth rid 2, second Dairy cows. J.

Irvine, Leavenworth, first; Geo. Fink, Lowemont, second. Horses--Gerardus Rozendal, Leavenworth, first; Floyd Kennedy, rid 5, second. The prize for each is $10 and $5, to be applied on expenses of a trip to the agricultural college. In the Mother-Daughter club at Glenwood Mrs.

James Hampton and daughter Florence won first, Mrs. E. L. Marshal and daughter Elma second, and Mrs. E.

C. Shaw and ter Julia third. This finishes the club work for 1915. Farm Agent Ross expresses the hope that "the various clubs' records of achievement will serve as stepping stones to bigger and better club work next year." Boys and Tobacco There are a number of young boys in this vicinity that are confirmed tobacco users, most of them are smokers. We pride ourselves on the great care taken to safeguard the young.

Whatever one's opinion may I be about smoking for adults, there is no ground on the question of the effect of tobacco on the growing boy. Physicians, educators, employers all agree the tobacco boy is subnormal mentally, morally, physically and industrially. Yet, in spite of civic organizations. our school regulations, our school laws, our churches, our temperance societies, the boys in astonishing 1 numbers are back-alley smokers. Where do they get it? Don't blame the tobacco stores entirely, Resolutions aimed at the stores won't ac complish anything.

We quarantine the man who may scatter physical disease but he may scatter moral disease unquestioned. There is room for moral and civic organizations to do work along this line. Said by Sister Cynthia If all the women were stricken dumb what a lonely world this would be. The way some of the girls dress you can't tell whether it is summer or winter. Hurrah for Dec.

18! The president will marry on that day; but what will the newspapers do for mush? A defective child was allowed to die in Philadelphia this week. Both legs and an arm would have to have been amputated in time. If it was your child would you have it live or die? Total Eclipse of Sun Feb. 3 A total eclipse of the sun- a rare astronomical phenomenon will be observed in all parts of North America early next year. The 1916 almanac fixes the date for Feb.

3. NG Friday. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1915 $70,000 Tax Money in 30 Days After collecting the 1915 taxes for 30 days, the county treasurer, announced that $69,688 had been taken in during the month of November. There is $691,707 still to be collected, and the treasurer said that he expected to collect most of this within the next 20 days. The penalty goes on after Dec.

21. PUSHING BRIDGE WORK Company With Big Contracts Must Get Busy The Leavenworth Bridge Co. were given contracts for some $25,000 worth of work along in the middle of the summer. Up to Monday they had made no pretense of commencing the work. Commissioners Ward, Davis and Roe have notified the Bridge company that "if work on the Timmons bridge and Uhl bridge is not started by Saturday, Dec.

11, 1915, and cuted to completion with all due diligence, weather permitting, that said bridges will be built by the county engineer and charged up to the said Leavenworth Bridge company and their bondsmen, together with any and all damages which the county may have suffered by reason of the non-fulfillment of the contract within the time specified therein." There is a rumor that the Bridge company is stalling on the contracts, as they do not see any big money in sight at the price bid, and the opportunity for "extras does not look bright. At all events the people want the bridges, and if the company can't build the county engineer can. We Pause for a Reply To the Editor: Why is it that the newspapers and farm papers, the interstate commerce commission and politicians and the people in general are always after the railroads for monopoly, overcharges in freight, 3-cent fares and so on? Why don't they investigate and control the prices of hogs and cattle a little? Why does the farmer have to sell his hogs for 6 cents when he is entitled to 8 or 9 cents and why does the consumer have to pay 16, 18 and up to 25. cents a pound for the same meat? Why can't we give the railroads a breathing spell and see about something that interests everyone of us some way or other every time we sit down to a meal? I am no friend of the railroads, nor am I a foe of the packers; but I should like to know "why." F. A.

DICKENSON. Tonganoxie, Kan. Chatauqua Contract Signed contract for pext year's chautauqua has been signed and the signatures of the 50 guarantors have been attached to a petition for a meeting," said J. E. Robinson, president of the association Saturday.

only ditference will be that the chautauqua next year will be under a circus tent with plenty of seats within hearing of the platform and with four times the cost of last year's meeting. Nine days and four times the attractions given last year cost The season tickets will cost $2.50. Farm Bureau Co-op. Auction The Farm Bureau have decided on Dec. 30 as the date of their first cooperative auction sale.

It will be held at the Market Square in Leavenworth. John Bollin of Kickapoo is handling the details. Arrangements have been made with Fred Potter of the State Savings bank, who will keep a list of the articles which will be offered for sale. The Big Poultry Show The Leavenworth big poultry show will be held next month. Chas.

Swan, secretary, has started a prize fund of $70 in gold for special awards, by giving $25. This is in addition to the usual ribbons and prizes. Democratic National Convention June 14 The democratic national committee have fixed June 14 as the date of their presidential convention. The convention will be held in St. Louis.

CLOSED ON SUNDAY H. PUTNEY Photographer 406 Delaware street LEAVENWORTH Kansas Home Phone 66 NEWS FIGHTING HOG CHOLERA Demonstration Made Under Auspices Farmers' Club Six hogs in a pen in the center of the market square in Leavenworth are to be attractions for the next two or three weeks. A platform was erected in the middle of the market square and on it Dr. Hobbs ating onstrated for the two methods of hog cholera, before an audience of 250 farmers. After the demonstration a pen was erected on the platform, and six hogs brought in, one after another.

Two were inoculated with bog cholera virus. They will have the cholera in a short tune in virulent form. Two of the other swine were vaccinated by the single method. The last two were given the simultaneous treatment to give immunity against the cholera. The six hogs are to live together in peace and amity, carefully watched, until the cholera hogs die.

With them the other four hogs will be for kept. If they live it will be triumph the immunization of hogs against cholera. All of which is the direct result of the Farmers' Club's efforts to teach the use of hog cholera serum and virus. Farmers Economic School The farmers school of economics being held in the Axa building at Leavenworth has a class of about 40. The lectures are by men and women from the agricultural college.

Those who are attending are much pleased with the instructions given. The first class was organized last year. The number in the class has doubled in attendance, besides many visitors. It is a very practical and commendable work by the farmers' club. U.

S. Stamps for Legal Papers If you have traded any real estate, made mortgages or notes, or any other one of the many things provided for to collect the revenue stamp tax you had better take a look and see if the proper amount of stamps are attached. An agent for the government is looking after these matters and is finding many cases of neglect- either no stamps where required or an insuticient amount. Papers requiring stamps are not valid if the stamps are omitted. BUSY AT PRISON Big Outputs of Coal and Brick -Sickness NUMBER 41 In November, 1914, the prison mine shipped 928 tons of coal.

This year the coal shipped in the month of November was 2,824 tons -an increase of 1,896. It costs less than 01 a ton to ship this for the 2,800 tons. The state institutions pay $3.50 to 84 per ton for coal locally. They get coal from the prison for the cost of freight less than 81 per ton. Here is a saving to the taxpayers of over $4,000 in one month.

That is one difference between the penitentiary idle and the same place busy. A like showing for the month was made in the brick yard. The brick yard will soon commence delivering 2,300,000 brick for the Plumb Memorial building at Emporia. There is an unusual amount of sickness at the prison. The hospital is full and many are idle because of bad colds and slight fevers.

Dr. Matz reports that there have been 12 minor surgical operations performed in the past week, in addition to 18 men in the hospital wards. Among the officers off duty because Continued on Fourth Page. To those Perplexed about a GIFT for HER AREFULLY have we chosen these gift stocks in view of simplifying the gift problem for as many of our friends and patrons as possible. WHEN making up your shopping list from the suggestions below we believe you will not find it as hard to choose for "her" as in past holiday seasons.

SPECIALLY note the lowness of prices and the unusual varieties offered. Their usefulness and good quality are also worthy of consideration. Neck Ruffs $1.25 Neck Ruffs made of chiffon and fur, in black and white and white and black combinations $1.25 Neck Ruffs 69c-- Neck Ruffs made of maline and plaited satin ribbon. Finished with silk ruche. Colors pink, blue and white 69c Scarfs $1.98 Scarfs 50 inches long, made of good quality black plush, lined with best quality mercerized lining in bright colors.

Finished with silk cord and $1.98 Angora Knit Scarfs $1.69 Angora knit solid and combinations, 50c scarfs, colors fancy striped. $1.69 AUTO CAPS Auto caps in solid colors and combinations of colors, In blue, brown, red, grey, green and white, 59c, 69c, 89c, 98c, $1.25, $1.50 $1.75 Knit Toques, Extra Heavy Knit Toques, extra heavy quality. In white, gray, red, navy and 50c WE REFUND YOUR RAILROAD FARE BELL DRY GOODS CO LEAVENWORTH.