The Monitor-Press from Wellington, Kansas • 1

nu 7Tr sss "i 1 JaUej 7 OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER WELLINGTON KANSAS, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 6, 1919 ESTABLISHED 1872 TEN PAGES THIS EEK VOL. 46, NO. 32 i CRUSHED BY HEAVY PIPE mm mm THE BONDS CAR THE COURT HOUSE DEATHS Will Pitts, of This City, Meets Death Through Accident in Oklahoma WEDDINGS FOR BOT EN ROUTE HOME PARKS; Wm. H.

Spence has brought a suit William Pitts, a resident of this Hall: The body of Mrs. Olive K. county and city since boyhood, lost his against the long defunct Oxford Town From Far Qff Siberia Uncle Sam at Km orra tmn rnmnorv arm ore rr Blecha-Hess: Mr. William Blecha, of this city, and Miss Hazel Hess, of Corbin, were married in this city at 4 oclock on Sunday afternoon, July 3d, the ceremony beig performed by Rev! Is Getting Them Back to Home in Old Bohemia 11 J. Cockerill at his home on West Tenth street.

They wil make their Voters Authorize the Commissioners to Buy Both the Big and Little Tracts At the special electio held yesterday the two park propositions submitted, one to authorize the issue of $12,000 in bends for the purchase of the Woods pasture, west of town for park purposes, and the other for a like appropriation cf $6,000 to pur Hall, relict of Rev. J. C. Hall, who life on Saturday, August 2d, while died at the home of her daughter, working in the Cushing oil eld at a Mrs.Lalage Emley, at Kansas City, well near Yale, Oklahoma. The acci-Missouri, on Saturday last, was dent happened about noon, but he liv-brought to this city on Monday even- ed until about 5 o'clock before he suc-ing by the daughter and other rela-' cumbed to his injuries.

The message tives and taken to the residence of bringing the sad news did not reach Mr." and Mrs. Fletcher Price on East hi3 relatives here until nearly 11 Tenth street, where it was viewed by o'clock that night. The shortest route many of the former Wellingto friends to reach Yale being by way of Win-of the deceased. The funeral ser-; field, his brothers, George and John vices took place from the Price home Pitts, and their wives left at 3 Sun- home in this city, Mr. Blecha being quiet the title to certain lots in Oxford.

1) The Grant County Bank of Medford, Oklahoma, brings suit against A. J. Baxter to foreclose a chattel mortgage for a note given for the purchase of a threshing outfit and now amounting with interest to $733.99. Roy Shrock and A. O.

Huddleston, to whome Baxter had sold the engine, are also named as defendants. employed in the local yard of the Rock Island Lumber compay. Four troop trains carrying nearly two thousand Czeko-Slovak soldiers which Uncle Sam has agreed to transport from Siberia, where for the past year they have been fightig the Bolsheviks, passed through this, city last Thursday morning, the first two between 8 ad 10 o'clock the others between 10 and 12. The train all stop Tuesday morning, day morning by auto for that place, chase additional land for the 10:30 o'clock Gstrander-Bell: The Wichita Beacon notes the marriage in that city on Wednesday afternoon, July 30tht of Mr. Roy Ostrander and Miss Agnes Bell, both of Riverdale.

The ceremony was performed by Rev. Walter Street, of the Central Christian church, at his residence. The couple were attended by Mr. and Mrs. A.

M. Johnson, fthis city. Robt. P. Richards brings suit for divorce from Angie E.

Richards, al- ped to change engines and crews and conducted by Rev. A. O. Ebright, an where the father of the young man old friend and ministerial associate i was visiting his daughter, Mrs. J.

F. of Dr. Hall, assisted by Rev. H. J.

Beck. At Winf ield Mr. John Pitts Cockerill, the present pastor of the took an early Santa Fe train for Methodist church, of which both Cushing and from thence to Yale, Messrs Hall and Ebright were former where he arranged for the early ship-pastors. Music was furnished by a ment of the body to this city, arriving son of Community Park, were both carried, the former by a margin of 0 and the latter by one of 471. Both propositions were submitted on the same ballot.

Just why the votc-rs should discrim-iate so markedly in favor of the Com leging abandonment and misconduct. while they were here they were given ueienaant is saia to be living at the refreshments by the Canteen committee of the local red cross These Czecks have had rather a "czekered" experience. They are natives nf nrirl wprp n-mrinf munity park project is not quite quartette consisting of Mrs. A. K.

at Wmfield with the casket in his present time in Lake county, Oregon, W. R. McGinnis, of Mulvane, asks the court to divorce him from L. J. miis, Mrs.

Herbert Burcham and charge Monday afternoon, trom where Messrs Burcham and W. H. Burks the body was brough here by motor clear. The fact that most of the money has already been spent to buy the Jackson tract on which the old with Mrs. Walter Archer at the pi- hearse.

League ball park was located and ano. At the time he met his death Mr. that the citv would have to reimburse I Mrs. Hall was born in 1843 and was Pitts was workig as casing man on McGinnis. He bases his complaint the Austran goverment to fight upon ill treatment of his 13 year old in its unhov alliance with Germany son by a former marriage, whom he against the entente powers.

Thev did alleges defendant during his absence so very lmwmingly and at eVerv op-from home compelled to sleep in tne nrt.nnit.v n-hnlnio trt portunity Henry -Taylor: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. of 707 North street, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Minnie, to Mr.

Chas. E. Henry, of Ponca City, Oklahoma. The ceremony-was performed by Rev. Walter Scott Priest, pastor of the central christian church of Wichita, at his residence on Saturday afternoon at 2 oclock.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry will make their home at Ponca City. woodshed without covering on winter the enemy, who were the Russians for the most part. When Russia collapsed and went out of the war they were4eft high and dry in that country.

The allies made, or tried to make, a deal with the Bolsheviki for their transportation and safe conduct to a those who had advaced the cash for in her seventy-sixth year. She with a well in which some heavy 15-inch the purchase eventually, probably her husband were members of the rasing was being put down. Being "had f.ome weight. On the other hand, 1 first class graduating from Baker short of casing men that morning the city was getting a large and val- university, Kansas' oldest college, and of the drillers was pressed into ser-uable tract of land for certainly not 1 and was for a umber of years en- vice, who being ignorant of the details more than its fair market value in gaged in teaching in ladies schools in of the work, tied a knot in the cable the Woods pasture, so it would seem state and Missouri. After their by which the casing joints were hoist-that both propositions were entitled marriage Dr.

Hall held pastorates in ed that proved defective and came to the same measure of support from several Methodist churches in this loose while a length of pipe weighing those voters who were looking ahead section and for a number of years was over three-quarters of a ton was be-to the future growth ad expansion of the revered pastor of the Wellington being lowered. Mr. Pitts was unable to the city, but anparetly a good many church. The daughter, Mrs. Emley, get out of the way ad was caught by failed to look at it in this way.

How- of Kansas City, is the only surviving the heavy iron, which fell lengthwise ever, both propositions went "over member of the family. upon him, crushing one of his legs and inflicting: internal injuries from nights. Defendant, he claims, also nagged and called him vile names and his health as well as that of the boy suffered greatly from such abuse and ill treatment. 0 0 Litch Stallinger wants the court to quiet his title to two lots in block 100 in New Caldwell against Esther W. Cross and others, their unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees or assigns.

I Pacific port, but the Bolsheviki broke Fleck-Alsup: On Monday, 28th ult, at his office in the court house Probate Judge Wendell Ready united in marriage Mr. James Fleck and Mrs. Mary L. Alsup, both of Wellington. They will make their home on the latter's farm, three miles west of the city.

their pledge and the Czeks had to fight their way east into Siberia. Here they joned the forces of Admiral now well started on the development i SANTA FE EXCITES HARPER i which he died some five hours later Ira E. Swain filed a suit Monday as of an excellent park system that will be at the local hospital to which he was Kolchak -ad formed the backbone of his army i his fight against the Red Terrorists of Trotsky and Lenine. Finally the allies, in accordance with their promise succeeded in getting getting the most of them to Vldivos-tock, from which the're sending them across to this country as fast as trans plaintiff against E. D.

Cook and oth one of the town's biggest assets in fu- Rumor cf Expansion Shattered When at once taken, fully conscious but sui- ers to quiet his title to certain lots in Peppard Talks on Homes. fering great pain. ture years. the city of Caldwell. Mr.

Swain brings Ccoiey-Walker Mr. Walter N. Cooley and Miss Inez M. Walker both well known young people of thi3 city, were married Saturday evening, August 2d, the ceremony being performed by Rev. C.

V. Lawrence of the Baptist church. Pitts was the William Nathan THE VOTE BY WARDS For a week or more the citizens of voune-est son of Nathan and M. Community Park For Against Harper and surrounding territory Pitts and was born August24, 1877, portation can be found. They will be Wards the suit as chief party in interest without the intervention of an attorney, though not himself of the legal profession.

SURPLUS TO PUBLIC First 168 Second 56 Third 119 Fourth 188 Fifth 5C Marriage Licenses landed in their native Bohemia with as little further delay as possible. Those of them who passed through Thursday were so much worn down with the hardships of three years fighting that they were of little use as soldiers. They were dressed in ragged and patched uniforms and a few of them sported articles of Yan War Department Will Sell Excess Stocks of Food. July 30 Ira Barber, 28 Wellington Golda Stoner, 24 Caldwell (Married by Probate Judge) July 31 20 have Deen greatly excited over tne at Nashville, Illinois. In uctooer oi 13 rumor that Santa Fe officials were 1886, while a boy of nine, he came 27 to visit Harper and there go over with his parents to this county, re-25 seme propositions of vital importance siding on their farm in Avon town-24 to the future of the city and the rail- ship, southeast of this city until 1903, road.

In fact this rctmor was given when the family moved to Wellington, HQ substantial verification in the minds which has since been his home. i of many, when it announced that F. For the past two years he has la-79 W. Peppard, freight solicitor for the bored in various oil fields in Okla-34 Santa Fe, would meet the citizens at homa, and at the time of his death 79 the City hall Tuesday of this week. was working for an Ohio company gg Tuesday came, so did Peppard.

But putting down a well near the city of 53 disappointment loomed up big on Yale, in the Cushing field. Prior to the horizon, for when the citizens of engaging in this business he had been 313 Harper had seated themselves, taken for a number of years in the train ser-. a firm grip of the seat to withstand vice of the Santa Fe. He was unmar-! surprises and waited with bated ried, and at the time of his lamented (breath the startling news of the es- death had reached the age of 47 years, kee khaki. All were overjoyed at the Clarence Wagner, 30 Perth ot of ttiV bnrk kmb whirh Mattie Rowe, 34 Perth some of them had not seen for four Totals 587 Roosevelt Park First 105 Secod 33 Third 65 Fourth 142 Fifth 28 Totals 373 A Hot, Dry Month.

August 1 years or more. They were much im- Buford Mclver, 21 Belle Plaine pressed by the greatness of this coun- Opal Edna Hughes, 18 Peck 'try and several expressed their inten- August 2 ton -of coming back here to live as Walter N. Cooley, 30. Wellington soon as they could get away from Bo- Inez M. Walker.

30 Wellington hernia. (Married by Rev. C. V. Lawrence) Arm Badly Crushed.

Will Blecha, 21 Wellington Hazel Hess. 20 Corbin Chas. A. Turner, 28 Wichita Hattie V. Storey, 21 Wichita (Married by Rev.

H. J. Cockerill) August 4 There have been but two Julys dur- tablishment of a division point, or the eleven months and six days, ing the past 18 years warmer than building of a round house or at least He leaves surviving his father, Na-that of 1919 and but one with as lit- some shops or repair barns, Mr. than Pitts; two brothers, George T. tie rain.

The rainfall amounted to an Peppard began his subject, "The and John J. Pitts, of this city; a sis-even inch, all of it falling on three Wellington plan of home building." ter, Mrs. J. F. Beck, of Winf ield; a days.

The greatest rainfall for any Then, unaware apparently of the nephew, Veryl B. Pitts; an aunt, Mrs. one day was .45 of an inch. The av- stir his visit had occasioned, he calm- Eleanor P. Ward, and -cousins, Dr.

G. erage temperature for the month was ly unfolded the plan which is used at W. Ward and Misses Mary and 82 degrees; the highest, 100 degrees, Wellington and which he recommends Blanche Ward, all of Wellington; a on the 29th, and the lowest, 56 de- Harper to adopt so that she may bet- cousin, Edward M. Wilderman, of Ok-grees, on the 31st. The coldest day ter take care for the people who seem lahoma City, and numerous relatives was the 23d, with an average temper- desirous of locating there.

The Re-; in Illinois and other states. nture of 70 degrees. The total rain- publican's staff correspondent at Har- The funeral services were held from fall from January 1st to August 1st per is authority for the statement the home of his brother, George T. this year has been 18.17 inches. that as high as four applications a Pitts, on South street, at 10 o'clock Henry B.

Hill, 21 Oxford Ada May Rogers, 16 Oxford Married by Rev. Elmer Dorsett) August 5 Wm. L. Lemgo. 37 Plains.

Col. Bertha M. Blunck, 25 Wellington (Married by Rev. J. C.

Jacoby) August 6 Harry Adair suffered a very serious and painful accident last Monday morning when he was waxing a separator belt on his threshing outfit at the J. B. Thompwan farm, southeast iOf town. Mr. Adair got his hand too close to the pulley and beefore he could jerk away his arm was drawn in between the belt and pulley and clear around the pulley and he was thrown against fa nearby wagon.

The arm was so badly crushed that the bones protruded from flesh and one bone in the forearm was completely broken in two places and the full arm was literally ground. He was immediately brought to the local physicians who placed him in the Adair car and his son Clarence hurriedly took him to the St. Francis hospital at Wichita. It was at first supposed that the arm would of certainty be lost, but at the hospital screws and plates were fixed to the day are received there by real estate this (Wednesday) morning, Rev. J.

L. A report of the weather observa Jacoby officiating. Interment was Virgil Buchanan, 27 Argoia Florence M. Good, 26 Caldwell Washington, Aug. 2: Disposition of all surplus subsistence commodities held by the war department is provided for in modifications of the original plas announced to-day.

Sale of only canned and cured meat and canned vegetables are planned at first. Sale of surplus war department food direct to the public through the parcels post will begin Mnday, the war department announced. The necessary forms and blanks for use by the 58,000 postmasters now are being provided by the war department. The announcement said sales wood be made in case or carton lots only, and that purchasers would have to add the cost of delivery by parcels post from the itorage points where the food now is held. Instead of carload lots of 30,000 pounds, sales may be made in as small lots as a single case or carton.

The pricees quoted to municipalities are the basic prices of the department in offering the commodities for sale through the postal service. Prices for the food were quoted as follows: Meats Corned beef, No. 1 can, 30 cents; No. 2 can, 58 cents; six-pound can, $2. Roast beef, No.

1 can 29 cents; one pound can, 41 cents; two-pound can, 66 cents; six pound can, $2.20. Corned beef hash, one-pound can, 23 cents; two-pound can, 40 cts. Bacon, in crates, 34 ceents per pound; in twelve-pound tins, 35 cents per lb. Vegetables Baked beans, No. 1 cans, 7 cents; No.

2 can, 13 cents; No. 3 can, 18 cents. Stringless beans, No. 2 can, 11 cents; No. 10 can, 48 cents.

Corn, No. 2 can, 12 cents. Peas, No. 2 can, 11 cents. Tomatoes, No.

2 can, 11 cents; No. 2 1-2 can, 13 csr.tr; No. 3 can, 15 cents; No. 10 can, 45 cents. Pumpkin, No.

2 can, cents; No. 3 can, 0 cents; No. 10 can, 24 cents. Squash, No. 2 can, cents.

The number of cans available for sale in each commodity ranges from 22,030,235 of the number 3 cans of tomatoes, to 1,025 cans No. 10 size of pumpkin. The largest amounts otherwise are 15,000,000 No. 1 cans and 19,000,000 No. 2 cans of corned beef, 12,000,000 each of the 1 and 2-pound cans of roast beef, 11,000,000 eact of made in Prairie Lawn cemetery beside his mother, who preceded him in death in October of -1913.

(Married by Probate Judge) Kanred Makes Good. SUCCESS WITH HOGS "Kanred wheat is making good," said Fred Seekamp yesterday. He had E. L. Miller Tops Wichita Market Four Times in Succession.

18 acres of it and it made just about tions made in this county for the men and civic organizations from par-past nineteen years shows the wet- ties outside of Harper who wish to test period in al that time to have locate. It seems the college at Har-been the four years from 1906 to 1909. per is attracting a great many peeople The total precipitation for year 1906 to that city. was 45.39 inches; for 1907, 34.90 The plan, as outlined by Mr. Pep-inches; for 1908, 45.34 inches; forward, calls for close cooperation 1909, 40.56 inches: Then climatic con- among the citizens of the town, who ditions took a big switch, and in 1910 start a form of building association we had only 16.44 inches of moisture through donations to create a sink-nil told.

The two dryest years in the ing and revolving fund. It was 19 year period were 1893, with 14.98 claimed by the speaker that some of inches, and 1910, above mentioned. the objectionable features of the The averagee annual rainfall for the i building and loan associations are past ten years has been 30.11 inches. eliminated in this plan. -'The greatest precipitation in any 24 Mayor Walton of Harper appointed hour neriod in that time was 5 inches a committee of three men, Messrs E.

Miller, who lives near Oxford, twice as much a shis Turekey wheat. This is a better gain than what the wheat will show every year, but it has been demonstrated that over the has topped the local market with his last four shipments of hogs. bones and an effort is being made to Last Friday when everything indi state that the Kanred has averaged save the arm. The shoulder suffered 3V2 bushels better than any other practically no injury. Conway Spgs.

cated that the price of hogs would be wheat. If it only averaged one bushel Star. no higher than yesterday, some of the better in Kansas that would mean finest porkers that have been seen on The Motor Inn Changes Hands. on June 5, 1916, and 5 inches Aug the market for several months were brought here by E. L.

Miller, who gain of something like $22,000,000 to the credit of the agricultural college which developed the Kanred seed, and ust 14, 1912. lives near Oxford. Liquor Question and New Time. Dryderi, Coulson and Eson, to investigate the feasibility of the plan for Harper and report on the same at a meeting of the citizens and Commercial club to be held next Monday night. Mr.

Peppard, who spoke at Harper Tuesday evening, is one of the many railroad employes who find them- For the past twenty years there has been an effort made to get the presidents to touch on the liquor question that amount would pay for the big school since its beginning. Fred will sell the most of his Kanreed fo seed. There should be a much larger acreage sown to this wheat the coming year. One thing quite clearly shown is that Kanred has more pep in resisting rust than other wheat. Mulvane News.

The sale by its owner, L. W. Bowles, of the business and equipment of the Motor Inn garage to the Patriot Motors company took place last week, the new management assuming charge on August 1st The Motors company was represented in the transaction by Messrs Clyde Stewart and Carl Schab-inger, who have the local oversight of the company's affairs, and was made for the purpose of securing for the company a desirable location under their own control. Previously they had been renting a part of the Motor Inn building for their farm truck and tractor business. Mr.

Miller brought ina load of sixty-two well finished hogs. Although yesterday's top of $22.85 was paid for fairly good hogs and to-day's market was only steady, the packers grabbed up his choice load at $23, giving Wichita a new record hog price. When interviewed this morning Mr. Miller stated that he fed his hogs on 'sweet clover pasture, corn, barley and Hold's tankage. During the last two weeks he has been hand feeding the hogs four pounds of corn daily.

Mr. Miller believes that sweet clover as long as it last offers as good pasture for hogs as alfalfa. On March 20th the In their messages. President Wilson selves virtually without a job through is the first president to touch on this government control of the railroads, subject in his message. He found it though still retained on the payroll, was loaded ad the kick was harder Under government control there is no than the front fire.

Twenty years need of soliciting freight, tbut to re-ago Sam Jones said of two prominent tain these solicitors on the payroll candidates for president that either they are given the job of suggesting of them would rather be run over by i betterment of conditions for the towns of-their territory. Anthony Repub the 1 and 2-pound cans of corned beef hash, 13,000,000 cans No. 3 size baked beans; 18,000,000 No. 2 cans of corn, 10,000,000 pounds of crated bacon, and 6,000,000 of bacon in twelve-pound tins. lican.

Friends in Belle Plaine have received word of the marriage of Miss Lillie Black, formerly of that place, to Mr. Leonard Miller, of Omar, West Virginia, the ceremony taking place at the residence of the bride's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. I.

Luttrell, at Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Saturday afternoon, July 26th. The groom At midnight last Thursday the tel load of hogs that were bought on the market this morning weighing 204 a locomotive than commit themselves on this question. This year on account of wet weather we were a month late getting crops planted. If when congress was making the sun rise an hour earlier they had also turned back the time one month we could have got crops planted at the usual time. All should be ephone and telegraph wires went back into the control cf their owners.

The pounds, weighed 47 pounds apiece. Although some of Mr. Miller's hogs Judge L. H. Finney's wheat on the old fair grounds made 18 bushels an acre, which the Judge complacently remarks was due to there being a good farmer at head of the enterprise.

The Judge is able to qualify as a humorist possibly on account of the fact that Mrs. Finney is a cousin of the late Bill Nye. first-fruits of the change was an announcement by the Postal telegraph ccmpay of a 20 per cent cut in rates, which thee Western Union will have were very fat there was not a hot hog in the load when they arrived this 45th division, from which he was mus- morning and men around the pens satisfied, as oon now comes at all Just after gazing at a thermometer in the window of one of the Keu-neke drug stores, uesday afternoon at the time whe the. mercury had reached the 107 degree mark and was steady-ng itself for another jump, we turned around to see a vision passing in the form of a young lady wearing a set of furs, and apparently the coolest per-so on the street. How do the fair salamanders manage it, to meet.

Whoever got the idea that commented on this. Mr. Miller says that he uses special care in loading times, from half-past 10 to 12 o'clock. Contributed. the government had any call to try and run the country's telegraph and tered out in March after a period of honorable service overseas.

The father of the bride resides in Anthony, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Miller will make their, home in Jennings, Kentucky, where the husband will follow his calling as an electrician. his hogs during hot months and that has not lost a hog that he sent to phone business that somebody else had built up, made a reasonable suc the Wichita market.

Wichita Stock Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Shetlar and two sons leeft Sunday evening for, a visit with relatives in northern Ohio.

The. Ed Rothrock and G. Moodie families are enjoying camp lift at Krell's grovethis'. week. man, July 25, 7 cess of and paid for 7 I.