Ellsworth Reporter from Ellsworth, Kansas • 1

EPO VOLUME 47 EL LSWORTH, KANSAS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1918. XOIBER 41. "E1LICS WOMTTm RTER Mllili AFIRE TWICE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR RATE, UP 22 PER GENT REGISTER 1,333 MEN A FAST RACE CARD PETER PAYNE TOOK 2:23 PACE IX STRAIGHT HEATS $315 PER CAPITA BANKS HOLD THAT AMOUNT FOR ETER YON IN COUNTY Bank Deposits in Ellsworth are 25 Above the Average for the State and Other Counties If your bank book doesn't show deposits of $315.17 today, somebody has your legitimate share of wealth. For iEllsworth county banks contain exactly $315.17, according to their last week's statements, for every man, woman, and child in tha county.

That Ellsworth possesses so much accumulated and ready cash despite unfavorable crops is particularly gratifying when it is remembered that the per capita deposits for the state are only about $250 and, for the United States $42 per individual. Deposits shown by the banks are: Cash on Deposits Hand $1,246,179 $293,627 541,612 95,543 428,546 79,922 Cen. National Citizens Wilson State Holyrood 361,514 96,463 Farmers 259,797 60,640 Lorraine 220,249 $131,035 Kanopolis 102,831 42,799 Ellsworth 33,512 9,573 Total $3,195,240 $809,603 Last January the combined depos its in all banks of the county was 016,720 or $283 per capita. Ells- wortn has increased. Her cash on Hand by almost $200,000 besides m- vesting in $394,000 wosth of Third Liberty Bonds, subscribing $16,737 to the Red Cross, to the Salvation Army, and pledging 000 War Savings Stamps.

The county has accomplished this, too, without selling any great portion of percent of the wheat crop is still in the hands of the farmers, and none of the corn and feed crops have yet been marketed, By way of comparison, Johnson county, one of the most fertile farm- ing communities in eastern Kansas, I has bank deposits this week of only $201 per capita, $114 less than I those of Ellsworth which thinks it has suffered complete crop failures Fair Displays Uniformly Good; Stock Show Splendid; Old Familiar Allurements on Midway THURSDAY'S PROGRAM Morning 10:00 Judging Baby Show. 11:00 Completion of stock judging. Afternoon 1:30 Concert Wolfe Band. 2:00 2:25 Pace. 2:30 Four Minute Speaker.

2:35 Free Entertainment Acts. 3:00 2:25 Trot. 3:15 Music Drum Corps. 3:25 Running Race. 3:45 Battalion Drill.

Evening 7:30 Band Concert. 8:30 Free Entertainment Acts. 9:00 Barney Wolfe Stock Co. FRIDAY'S PROGRAM Morning 10:00 Awards in Baby Show. Afternoon 1 HO Hand Concert.

2:0) Harness Races. 2:30 Free Entertainment Acts. 3:00 Four Minute Speaker. 3:15 Boys' Bicycle Race. 3:30 Running Race.

3:45 Motorcycle Races. Evening 7:30 Band Concert. 8:30 Free Entertainment Acts. 9:00 Barney Wolfe Stock Co. From the eager importunities of the "barkers" to the discordant melodies of a wheezy orchestrion astride a merry-go-round, there was nothing missing from the old familiar features when the Ellsworth fair opened Tuesday.

There was the wheel of fortune with its needle hesitating just short of a glittering watch and stopping on a penny cuff-button. There was Fabula, the clairvoyant seeress, ready to tell just who the rosy cheeked girl clinging to the bashful lad's arm really liked. There was the old familiar doll racks repainted to resemble Kaiser Bill, and the mysteriously inviting tents from whose interior came clattering sounds of high revelry. There was the shrill chorus of the rubber balloon man, mingled and merged with an incessant cackling from the poultry tent and an occasional bray from the distant stables. It was a typical county fair with all the well remembered sights and sounds.

The exhibits as a. whole are surprisingly good. New records have been made in the stock departments and the displays in the women's building are above par. Only the agricultural and horticultural exhibits seem to have suffered a reduction in quality and quantity. The racing is good beyond all expectations.

Tuesday's speed events would have been a credit to the "big" day of any fair, and today's program is making every heat a race. Tuesday results were: Special 2:25 Pace Little Chief 2 2 Peter Payne 1 1 The Virgin 3 3 Dewdrop 4 4 Time 2:24, 2:24, 2:24. Special 2:25 Trot Elmersa 1 2 Hazel 2 1 Time 2:28, 2.27-, 2:25. Fair Notes The Barney Wolfe stock company- did not play Monday night because a wneei on one 01 uie wuuS t-- a. J.

V. s-i -f- rrs AVOI TrnTli I 4-AVn I puruus tue Lincoin cuuggu uuu.u muanoie aim uuip.cu Hun army, ine acciuent uJ tne arrival 01 me main XOO laie iviunuaj tiate its erection that night. The women nuiiaing hum un nooreu uus jwi, 01 wnicn wm iuu.u fpminina wearers of $14 white kid boots. That excepiionany goou idtiiiK Kir do expecieu "'j' the fact that two horses which par- licipated 1n the Topeka fair for a series of years. As a matter ning lecture on each individual babe 0wA Johnson Chariei Mason Eaa-nf foot viiourM, v.00 frmnrn tA.fnti I uown oniison, varies -uason r.aa- Bradley, Wilson Preacher Absolutely Refuses to Register Last week's draft call disclosed a conscientious objector in Ellsworth county.

He is George Bernritter, a preacher of Bernritter not onlyhas religious scruples against fighting but he even refuses to register. Sheriff Storey was called to Wilson Tuesday to investigate the case. He found that Bernritter is an accredited minister of the Church of Christ, 'the Holy Rollers, or some similar sect. He is supporting six children by manual labor and works every day. Had he registered he would be entitled to group 4 classification which thus far has Taeen equivalent to exemption.

But Bernritter declines to register, so his case is being referred to the adjutant general of the state. BETTER BABIES CONTEST Fifty Youngsters Being Thumped and Inspected by Expert from State Board of Health Half the infant population of Ells worth county, be-ribboned and be decked, cooed and guggled at one another at today's fair while deft fingered nurses and critical-eyed doc tors thumped their chubby tummies and poked tiny electric light bulbs behind unwillingly parted teeth Nothing on the grounds exceeds the popularity of the Better Babies Conference where nearly fifty lusty lunged youngsters are being scored, measured and charted. Under the direction of Miss Virginia Kimble, a Red Cross nurse connected with the state Board of Health, charts are being compiled of each baby which will show mothers their defects and physiological snort-comings Twenty-two girls and twenty boys had been entered by mid-afternoon Tuesday and it is expected that more than fifty will be submitted for scoring by this evening. Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock Dr. O'Donnell will give a ten minute lecture on ba by hygiene to mothers attending Miss Kimble, the nurse, gives a run ao Tt lGSS proceeds; nning J'" Fj.

uuub)ivit3 fXT 1, TI TIT UK I zabeth Tercy, Lawrence Keith Hum- garent Nider, Catherine Esther Bart-1 Harla? Richard tnanes resile iaze, juanua HZse 1UT I "T-tr Wood, Ruth Emmetts Tobery BaHBy rteea uay fverne ivraizer, r.iuuu wooq i-uo, uen iwis naiuiuu, r-u- na May Shade, Marjorie Lillian Har- ris, Elizabeth Jane Desmarteau, Vel- ma Irene Glenn, Dorothy Evelyn Word, Joyce Fern Emler, Dorothy Ann Shade, Margaret Elizabeth ey, Bernice Sheridan, Tommie Na than Kinsley, Mildred Ann Bender, Frederick Mitchell Jennings, Robert Alfred Johnson, Margaret March. Jack Edgar Pressney. REDPATH CONCERT COURSE High School Will Sponsor Series of Six Monthly Numbers by Red- path and K. U. Artists fco Koon iZT.

hvH, this season sponsored jointly by the high school ana tne uoiaen theater. The course combines talent from the Redpath bureau and the univer- si ty of Kansas. Beginning In Ucto- ber one program will be given monthly until next spring. Tickets will be sold soon by the high school students, the cost of the six num bers being only $2.25. A partial selection of talent has already been made and will include I the Light Opera Singers, a group of I delightful melody makers; Sergeant I J.

FlanlrT, who has seen service I overseas; Antonla Sala, 'cellist to lthe Spanish court and a master at I wooing harmony from this most I beautiful of instruments; the our I Artists Company; and silent Mora. The sixth numfber of the course, I probably an orchestral group, re- I mains to be selected SENT HUN HELMET Victor Dolecek has sent home to his- parents a German helmet taken from a dead Hun kileld before the American lines. It is noticeably smaller and lighter than the Ger- man millinery which has previously reached Ellsworth, indicating either that the Huns are using much younger boys in their front lines cr I that a shortage of metal is compell- I Ing a reduction In size and weight. ATTENDS WAR FUND MEET I H. Work attended the meeting in I Topeka Tuesday of represpntatlves rrom an ivansas counties wnicn planned details for the huge war activities fund drive which is to te launched in November.

All acti vities the Red Cross, Y. M. C. I x. w.

j. baivauon Army. Knights of Columbus, etc. are to be merged and Included in a single I fund campaign and the public thus I caved the annoyance or being asKea to contribute to all these activities I individually. I I Passing Engines Big Menace to Local Mill Twice within the last ten days the roof of the Ellsworth mill has beeu found ablaze.

Both times the fire was discovered before it had gained much headway and was extinguished by mill employees before it had caused further damage than to burn large holes in the roof. The fires are evidently started by sparks from passing railroad trains, ihe soft coal which engines are burning now rain a shower of red hot cinders down on buildings adji- cent to the tracks, and it is believed that taese cinders are responsible for the mill blazes. The freuency of the fires make the mill owners won- Ji a a vail X-v n. on 1 tiicj mB tu special fireman to patrol the mill property after each passing train. CHOOSE PANEL Sheriff an(I County Clerk Draw Jury List by Lot for October Term; No Woman on Panel The tribulations of litigants in tho approaching term of district court will be adjudicated chiefly by Wil son men.

Of the thirty jurors drawn last week, ten are from Wilson. No ether town in the county has more than six representatives on the term jury. The list of jurors for the Octobe7 term of court was drawn by lot in the office of the county clerk under the direction of the Some of the panel are no longer residents of the county and at least one is em- pioyea in a government munition factory. The panel as drawn is: E. D.

Avis, Kanopolis Joseph Adamek, Wilson C. E. Belt, Wilson George Bingaman, Ellsworth George Colberg, Frederick H. C. Deardorff, Geneseo Joe Dolezal, Kanopolis E.

B. Fulghum, Wilson Jesse Forrest, Kanorlis Roy Grill, Wilson Ed Groth, Frederick John Jiricek, Wilson Will Kroesch, Geneseo Joseph Kekavek, Holyrood C. F. Lingo, Wilson Charles Larkin, Ellsworth Charles Matoush, Holyrocd Ben Mollhagen, Frederick Albert Matoush, Wilson George Neuschafer, Kanopolis Stanley Pechachek, Ellsworth Henry Pflughoeft, Wilson Will Panzer, Ellsworth L. D.

Sauberli, Lorraine W. F. Svoboda, Kanopolis Frank Vopatt Wilson Frank Valenta, Wilson 3rA-i Weidman, Ellsworth Fred Wamhoff, Lorraine Dick Williams, Geneseo There are only three criminal cases on the docket this term all of minor importance, and unless the number 01 civil case3 requiring a jury trial is above the normal av erage the jurors may not have to spend much time in the county seat. NEW DRAFT ADVISORS New and Larger Board is Named Be cause of the Great Number of Registrants Owing to the greatly increased number of registrants who must file questionaires this month, a-new and arivisnrv hoard has hPPn an- ov- xr i pointed to assist in filling out these documents. The board which devot- ed two weeks or more of time after the last draft to helping registrants win be entirely relieved of this duty this tIme and the burden placed on fh npw hoard.

The personnel of the latter will rnnClt ff A SIVa V7P I (Jar- onprrv wtiiinc ton, Elden R. Shaw, C. N. Fowler, D- J. Santry, and L.

E. Shade of Ellsworth; A. H. Schumacher cf KanoDolis: Sherman Andrea of Holyrood, and C. L.

Danner of Wil I An ov-ff ctnrov nt ini hnard I uucnu wiuiv; vr uv. received instructions Wednesday to mailin out questionaires lm media tely to all tne 19 to 36 yeai vear I exhausted, I -1 Registrants will then have seven days In which to fill out and file questionaires. ATTENDED LINCOLN FAIR. A number of Ellsworth people at- tended the Lincoln fair last week. T.

Kqq foiM hag evgr the raceg being speedy tfae pike being crowded with two carnival companies. Among those motoring over were M. L. Meek, D. J.

Santry, E. Woods, W. E. Sherriff Elden R. Shaw, G.

C. Gebhardt, Dr! and Mrs. W. J. Scott, and Mrg Joe Kalina-Jn; Roy Eisennower Father Bradley.

W. H. Carhartt, Lloyd Shade, Frank Schulz W. Clyde Wolfe and Del Ogbuin. MET IN FRANCE Joe Hutchins writing home to his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Hut- I nnine irnm ranrp 1114 'f 1 1 I nnv tnilinc alnn? a dustv French road t0 the front lines re. cently when they passed some rest billets where a boxing match was in 1 pr0gress. Joe glanced up at the nrin finale nn thp plpvatpd snnare I 0x1 A tc-qc cnrnHsPil tn IdPntifv th( referee as Rev. Anderson.

The two Ellsworth men had a brief but mighty enjoyable chat. Kj I I 1 I I I I 1 I I COUNCIL GRANTS LIGHT COM PANY WAR TIME ADVANCE The Increase Applies Only to Con sumers Using More Than 24 Watts; Most Towns Cheaper An increase in light rates average ing 22 was allowed the local elec tric light company by the city couu- cil Friday night. In granting this advance the city fathers protected the small home owners and placed the burden principally on the large consumers. The new rat whIch are as fol. wm take effect once anl ua tQ 44 kilowatt8: i2c Neit 5g kilowatts NpTt 10n viinwatt 10e Over 200 kibowatts 7c The new rates make no advance for the first 24 kilowatts, which have always'been 12Voc under the present ordinance.

As the average small home owner uses less than 24 kilowatts monthly, his monthly current bill will show no increase. It is the domestic consumer who uses considerable juice, the business men, and the users of current for power who will pay this war time increase. Chairman Demuth of the special investigating committee submitted figures from adjacent towns of simi lar population to snow that Ells worth was already paying a high fig ure for its first 24 watts of current. He showed that Norton was getting current 4 cheaper than Ellsworth, Lvons 18 cheaoer. Lar'ned 20 cheaper, Russell 21 cheaper, Hays 8 higher, etc.

The exact price paid in these towns being: To 24 To 44 Ellsworth $3.00 $2.00 St. John $2.62 $1.75 Larned $2.40 $2.00 Garden City $1.68 $1.40 Norton $2.88 $1.25 Hays $3.24 $2.70 Ellis $3.50 $2.50 Lyons $2.45 $1.44 Russell $2.36 $1.80 Against this showing the light company submitted operating costs showing that its average monthly expenses totalled $1,033 and its revenues but $1,109. The operat ing costs included no interest on investment, no depreciation, and no for the owner. Advancing coal prices threatened to result in .1 regular monthly deficit if operated during the winter under the present rates, according to the claims of the light company's representative. The light company asked for a re turn to the rates of the previous franchise, an increase in excess of 25 on all consumers.

A3 a com promise measure the council finally allowed the 22, advance to apply only on large consumers on 110 according to the light company's July statement. Demuth, Gardanier, and White voted for the ordinance Sperry voted against it as being too low, and Allan was absent not vot ing. MADE UNWISE GUNPLAY Now Dusky (iun-toter is in County Jail Joseph Harris isn't attending the fair this week. Mister Harris is in jail. And all because his perverse helpmeet objected to his playful flourishing of a small "gat" and threatening to demonstrate for her particular benefit Iver Johnson's L.f -n on How to Perforate the Human Frame" laicoi, uuvrit vuiuuii The trouble started Friday even- ing when Harris, who hails from junction City, endeavored to induce his wife to cut short her visit here and return home with him.

Angered rofneal Vi nacco few Ueft hooks to her chin and then cmnlroloco iriinnlntr OVi opt fF xt, hiking back to function. At his hearing Friday he was. sentenced to 30 days in jail FAT STOCK PROFITS i. UUllIt lltUIUIlll JL rvvlt 1119 vl iglliui Investment Annthur Install rp rf tho fnt nrnfits trm vear was f. fw nf stlprfl hv John Hammil Sunday.

Mr. Hammil bought a bunch of feeders last year at a head. Monday they brought an average of $180.69 on the Kansas City market. On his original investment the stockman has practically trebled his money. SIX POP-POP STARTERS The motorcycle races at Friday's fair will be hotly contested by -six professional riders.

There are two 3-mile events and one 5-mile endur- ance race. Riders who will start and their machines are "Speck" Warner, In dian; Hi Jones, Wlichita, Indian; H. Bowman, Wichita, Merkel; J. Alter- need, Hutchinson, Indian; S. John son, Hutchinson, Harley-Davidson; Otto Huycett, Indian.

BACK FROM FRANCE Allan Rpattv writP hl narpnts Mr and Mrs Beatty that hi3 ship arrived in New York harbor September 10. He has been assigned to the Henderson, a troop transport. On hl first trin nvpr Rpattv landpd I at Rrpst nnrl wna thpro fniiT- dav In less than a week's time the tran3 nort will again be at sea with a fresh lot of soldiers for service abroad. FORTY-FIVE YEAR OLD LARGEST CLASS FORM About 5G3 Available for Militarx Service Exclusive of the 18-Year Old Class Numbering 90 Little green cards Hun hunting licenses, their owners facetiously named them to the number of 1,333 were issued to members of the new, big Victory Army which; registered Thursday. All day long from 7 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night willing registrants strode briskly up to the tables of the enrolling boards and aded their names to the nation's new "manpower The num.

bpr registered is 51 less than the federal estimate for Ellsworth county but it is ample to create a great reserve reservoir of men who nest spring will crumple up the boche legions and roll them back across the Rhine into a crushed and repentant Berlin. Of the 1,333 registered 1,138 wero citizens. In the 19-21 and the 31-St year old classes which are to be called first are 563 but many of them will receive deferred or exempted-classifications. The number of registrants classified according to age are 18 years, 90; 19 years, 89; 20 years, 83; 21 years, 32 years, 50: 33 years, 76; 34 years, 103; 35 years, 78; 36 years, 78; 37 years, 77; 38 years, 80; 39 years, 83; 40 years, 61; 41 years, 53; 42 years, 70; 43 years, 64; 45years, 103. The names of registrants tabulated to date are: Ellsworth Win.

Grothusen, Morton Cleo Wilson, Lewis C. Meek, Harold Frederick O'Donnell, Otto A. Hloucal, James Hloucal, Leslie W. Fowler, Frank W. Lambert, Joe Rabas Thomas B.

Wilson, Elden Remington Shaw, William Homer Holt, Solomon Weidman, John Cipra, Jesse G. Ganse, Frank Cajthmal, Ralph W. Doubrava, Harry Henry R. Feld-man, Albert Dale Morrison, Franklin Clarence Smith, Harry Buckner, Pomposo Zalasar, James W. Mc- Cool, Harry Lantry, Samuel Katze-dorn, Rev.

James James terly, Joseph J. Svoboda, Arlie J. Boyer, Allan Daniel Thrash, Joe Jel- inek. Harry Ernest Trubey. Murray WorTan Mrn TtTfinoll W41 lima aV VilUam Wlli FraSk Jn oo1t, John White Lewis N.

Grimes! -mo isie Robert Edgar Moore. Jo- John Spousta, John Otis Eisenhower. John Drennen, Lewis Franklin Dick- erson, Albert Milton Sefton, Harry NathanIei Preston Emil Klubert William H. Carhart, Thomas M. eff p-h ntfr, WVllr PTart wirtn wiifnetnn.

Aafon Samuel Bartlet AW charleg Edward Schafer, William Evans Ramsey, Ar thur Becker, Anton Zelenka, Clarence James Howard, Harper Cunningham Bower. KanojHjlLs Charles Edward Short, Charlie Carl Crouse, Charles Thomas Moffit, Granger Powell, Earl Avis, Frank Conklin Griffith, Shirley Alton Miley, Benigo Medel, Pompies Fapoya, Na- "Sv Rodriquez Lasara, Antonio Sarrate, Gregorio Bantoza, Charlies Maggio. Joseph Caradonma, Thomas Cresaft, Antonio Friuedad Samliez. Charles William Braden, Marsalina riirenre Ahnor Rotrprs Wil Corea, Clarence Abner Rogers, Wil liam Mcintosh Veitch, Peter Freder ick 'Burrlchter, Ansehno Fusante Paul Savona, Carlos Mareno, Enea (Continued to Page Five). IS PERSHING'S CHAUFFEUR Ellsworth county can always bo depended upon to wiggle into the limelight and just now it is boasting over the recent promotion of a Lor- raine boy to the position of private chauffer to Pershing.

The lad is Mike Miller, who lived at lxrraine all his life until, two or three years ago when the family moved east. His father, P. D. Miller was here last week and had just received word or Mike promotion. SHADE TO FUNSTON.

Lieut. Grant Shade has been tran- sfered to Camp Funston. He is coming back to General Wood's unit from Camp Dix with the title." of firsnieutenant, and will spend from a month to bIz weeks training new recruits. At the end of that time he will accompany his troops to France for four weeks intensive training. after which he expects to be return- ed to Funston to repeat the process WORKED ON SUNDAY Tabulating the draft cards of registrants and copying duplicates for the federal authorities developed Into such a big task that the local draft board sent out an call fcr help early last 'Friday morning.

Miss Nelta Schmitt, Miss Mildred Storey, Miss Belle Lord, Miss Kathleen Storey, and Henry Herzig helped all day Saturday. Sunday the stack of cards still loomed large and C. N. Fowler, Lloyd Sparr, Jas. Paull, and J.

M. Wilson were impressed into service. A complete re port of the registration accompanied by duplicates of all cards had to be sent the TopeKa authorities Monday. kZ fJuLt rilr Tl V.D fm-mnA ,1, I I habit of throwing up its hands in mid summer and bewailing the dearth of crops when, in reality, its farmers have 25 mroe available money than the average Kansas farmers and much more than the farmers in Johnson county who brag about tin kind of wheat crops they bave been harvesting in the last two Never have Ellsworth- county banks been in such good condition as now despite war subscriptions they have floated. Extremely high prices for farm products have accumulated deposits with unexpected rapidity, and the present statements reflect gratifying prosperity in th-? county and capable management of county banks.

NEED FEDERAL INVESTIGATION German Families in Columbia Keep Children frpm School? Information has come to the city authorities this week that German families living in Columbia township are keeping their children out of school. They are reported to have declared that if the pupils can not attend a German parochial school they can not attend any school im diuiuuB bui ucou taken following the voluntary clos- ing the parochial school In that community. It is in direct conflict with the truancy statutes of the state and is certain to produce legal complications, if the allegations reaching Ellsworth officials are trm. COWS SOLD FOR $137 In 3 Hours Bryan Sale Reached Al most $4,000 That stock sold at public sales ov er th rountv is brineine hieh Drice3 was shown by the J. E.

Bryan sale near Carneiro Friday. In less than three hours Col. Harper had dis Dosed, of $3,847.50 worth of proper- ty The top cow sold for $137, and three others brought $135 each. All thpre were iust grade Holsteins. Weanling pigs were bid in at $9.50 each and the mother at $50.

Geese sold for $2.50 apiece and every oth er bit of live stock brought similarly high figures. SPLENDH) UPLAND CORN That there is upland corn in Ells- worth county this year despite the week of hot winds last" month is evidenced by the three large ear3 hroneht the IReporter office by George Veatchi The corn was raised on his farm four miles north of Kan onolls by Gottleib Ploutz. The ear3 nrp pIpvpti inches lone and filled out clear to the tip. Mr. Veatch believes that a conservative estimate his vield will reach 20 bushels to the acre.

BRADSHAW TO DENVER. Mr. and Mrs. R. W.

Bradshaw and daughter returned last Thursday fmm months stav in Denver. Brad was so delighted with the cli- mate this summer that he bought a four lot chicken farm out near 'Vashin'ton Scuare and intends tc move to Colorado early in October. I I I old class inclusive. Ten percent of Ellsworth county stockmen are har-erounds. hha intoi nnDinnairoa win maiipH wn -aa the total a uestionaires will be mailed vfistin? this recorded bv "i 1.

1, tho 1 rva I 3y are enierea iu Abilene races next week ana namg an im tc I V. Intorvtl hOtWPPn the two fairs were shipped here. An entirely new confidence game based upon the well known law of physics that any suspended weight when started in a straight line will v. swing in a circle, is operant Gladwav. ine wue oi a loai uusi- ness man forgetful of her high school training P1ayea me 6amC Tuesday tin ner purse was wuuji ed wtihout making a single strike.

Considerable interest attaches to the 2:25 pace because of the pres ence of an Ellsworth county horse, Peter tfruington, ownea py jue shaw of Wilson. The horse won his heats at both the Salina and Lincoln fairs and is a favorite here. The domestic science department shows the effects of the sugar short age. There is a decided dearth or entries in classes requiring sugar til. 11 1- V.r-v Cakes.

Pies ana cookie an iuuo. uc- low bread in the number of entries made simpiy Decaue county cooks couia noi uuiam plus sugar ior ineir oaiug. War aCtlVllieS are reoreseuicu Red Cross, L.iDerty LK)an, ana uuu Conservation booths, ine nrt races jasiv.ee are ou "1C Iuvr They are enterea in i (Continued to Page Five).