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THE ARGONIA A ARGOSY 9 ARGONIA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1919 NUMBER 17 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000 FORD THE UNIVERSAL CAR Have you looked over the Ford Sedan, that attractively equipped and comfortable enclosed car? Cool in summer, warm in winter, just right for every day in the year. Has every advantage of the touring car as a family car with the additional sure protection to clothing and comfort from storms and inclement weather. Just as desirable and serviceable on the farm as it is to town folks. It is the most all-round serviceable car of the day. Won't you come in and look the Sedan over? EMMONS MOTOR CO.

Phone 47 Argonia, Kans. 00000000000000000000000 000000000 Albert Reimer Independent Dealer 20000000000000. Lumber, Coal and Building Material Argonia, Kansas 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000 000000000 We Sell Good Coal cheaper than anybody in town We buy Poultry and pay highest cash price for it We buy Eggs and pay higher cash price than you can get any place We handle Shorts, Bran, Oyster Shells, Calf Meal, and most any thing you want in the feed line. We expect to begin to ship stock, and anyone that has any thing they want to ship leave word at our office and just as soon as we get enough for a car load we will notify you to bring them in. The Sumner County Farmers Union Co-Operative Assn.

J. S. HAMILTON Manager 0000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mrs. Allie Cox and Miss Lucille of Wellington were here last Thursday attending the funeral of Mrs. Catherine Ellarton.

Lewis Thomas went to Topeka Monday night to attend the Good Roads meeting, that is being held there this week, and to work in the interest of roads for this part of the county. Let everybody get busy and work in the interest of Good Roads. Chamberlain's Tablets When you are troubled with indigestion or constipation. take Chamberlain's Tablets. They strength the stomach and enable it to perform its functions naturally.

Indigestion is usually accompanied by constipation and is aggravated by it. Chamberlain's Tablets cause a gentle movement of the bowels, relieving the constipated condition. WHEN THE SPARKS BEGIN TO FLY the public "takes notice" and begins to boost- that's plain, every day human nature -also an additional help received by those who consistently use OUR Bank Account Plan to help get ready to "Make the Sparks Fly." OUR PLAN is definite, there is nothing haphazard about it, although it is adaptable to the convenience of each individual. The PLAN and our facilities for the proper carrying it through are ready for use by the earnest people of this community. No expense.

Come in and let us tell you about it. Farmers Merchants State Bank From Chris Jurgens France. Dec. 9. 1918.

Dear Folks: Received a letter from Lena today noon so will answer it while I am not doing anything. Also got a letter from Bess, she sent some pictures and got John picture. It is almost raining today, but yesterday was a fine day. I and K. V.

went on a wild goose chase, got us a pass to Dugny, first we went to Ancemont was nothing there, so we got in a truck and to some other burg, don't know the name of it. Then we went to Dugny got us something to eat there, than we went to Handenville, all we could get at the "'Y' was canned milk so we got us five cans each and we are going to have lots of milk and bread. We also got us a pair of hip boots, then we started back to Somme Diene was a little tired too, oh! we had us some time sure enough. I wrote Elmo Jones a few minutes ago. I often wondered where he was.

How is Mrs. Jones or don't you ever see them much. Say they must had an awful time in Argonia celebrating the armistice. I think they must have fake reports in several places. We were wondering how in the world an armistice could be signed.

We thought it couldn't be done, it was a good thing it was signed when it was for we had then drove back far enough so we would have to move up about 9 kilo's and we were going to do it that afternoon, but the worse of it would have been for us we would had to went over a road that Fritz kept shelling it all the time, thick and fast too, and we would of had to left our dugouts which we had all fixed up keen. That would have mean't to live in pup tents again like we did at Varennes when it wasn't raining, froze nearly to death only had one blanket and a shelter Half. We didn't have much time to sleep any way for we had to put on our gas masks about every half an hour. They tried awful hard to run us out with gas, but didn't have much luck at it, seems as tho their gas wasn't good or didn't have enough of it to do any good, of course in some places it did some damage. I wonder how the French felt the first time the Germans shot gas at them, and had to face it without a mask, it must have been awful along this Verdun front where gas was first used it killed lots of big trees for they kept so much gas in the woods all the time, the same way in the swamps, it would settle down and hang there.

Say you ought to see our electric lights we just put them in this morning it sure is bright, the lights come on at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and stays on until 11 o'clock, if we only had lights in the morning to get up by, it is the best light we've had since we left Doniphan. How is the flu by now? I hope it is checked. What are folks doing, has it been much of a winter so far? It hasn't here the French say it isn't near as bad as it was last winter, of next month is when it will be colder I suppose, I hope it does not get cold because the billet we are in isn't the warmest there is either. Sometimes I think we won't be here very long I wish we would go to southern France. I've not seen Ralph Moore for a week, saw Roy Hall go by on a truck this morning.

So Hugh Seago is in Texas going to Auto School, well if he had been over here when the war was still on he would soon have changed his mind about driving a truck or car of some kind it is a good job now tho not much night driving and lights can be used now, I've seen some nights when we were hiking that were so dark we couldn't see the road and don't see how the truck drivers did, one night we waited on a truck train one night that was almost 3 hours in passing a cross road that we were to cross but they beat us to it there we were waiting along side the road in the rain and mud, next morning is when you ought to have seen our clothes rock ballast along the road made good soft beds, many a night we could sleep most any old place oh! well it is all over with now so what do we care what we have went thru, it must be about time for us babies to have our bread and milk we have some every night just before we go to bed worse than some little kids. I broke out one of my teeth eating a chunk of tough beef it sure was tough too. I don't see why it should tho it has been dead long enough that it ought to be good and tender ha ha. I would like to have some fresh sausage for breakfast. George Lukens says he hasn't heard from his mother for a long time, he wonders how she is.

I guess I will write Pres. and Angie a few lines tonight before I go to bed if I can find, 'enough paper it is just six months ago today we landed in France don't seem that long to me. We can now wear our foreign service stripe on our left sleeve, but they are hard to get. So for the bread and milk so here I go in a hurry. Your son, Chris.

Jurgene. From Wiley Bunker C. A. Hirons received the following letter from Wiley Bunker: Somiden, France. Dec.

18. 1918, Dear Charles and Brother: As I have not heard from you for some time I thought I would let you know that I had not forgot you. It rains here nearly every day. We are in a valley where the sun can't shine more then one or two days, We think we will get motors and tractors from what some say, if we do we will go up into Germany for six months to do guard work. Don't think we will go any where.

I will tell you of the four drives that I wasin I don't know any thing about the war as I was in two to three miles from where the front line was, you know as much about what takes place on the front line as I do. The Company that I am in never lost a man in the fight. I would put up my shop and go to work, the horse shoes that we use are about four times as heavy as a shoe like we use in the States. The coal that we get is not as good as the worst that you get some times. We have been in one place for eight weeks, that is the longest that we have stayed in one place since we got in France.

Most of the places we would stay one week and less in one place. I got to see a wild hog last Sunday, he would out run most any dog. I have seen all of France that I want to see I could not see much as we travel at night, I could see a little of it. Most of the country is hilly and rough. The water is sure fine as it comes out of the hills.

It has not got cold enough for an overcoat yet, some of the French say that it never gets very cold. The French sure got lots of junk to sell the boys, to send back to the States. Everything is sure high in this country. Some of the boys went up on what is called dead man hill. it is sure a mass of shell holes.

I was down to a salvage dump, get most any thing that you might want. Some of the finest dugouts that you ever saw, stone laid in cement, some were made of heavy iron for roof and sides, one under ground fort had 14 feet of dirt 16 feet of concrete and one shell tore in it all in dust. Rocks are sure easy got, they are in six inches of the top of the ground, rocks run from one inch thick to most any thickness a man wants. Will close for this time. Your friend and brother.

Wiley Bunker. Seed Potatoes Leave your order now for Seed Potatoes. The best Northern seed. Won't be much higher than eating stock. Tennis Shoes Easter Stock Tennis Shoes and Oxfords for boys, of Ladies and Misses Oxfords and girls, men and women.

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Achelpohl Phones 14 and 54 Lee Williams was a Wichita visitor the latter part of last week. Wayne Hatfield of Belle Plaine visited here Thursday and Friday with his sister Miss Gladys Hatfield. 0. B. Dovel was in Wellington on business Saturday.

W. M. Nicholas returned home Friday from a business trip in Western Kansas. Clifton Shaffer visited friends in Wellington Sunday. Walter Free shipped a car load of cattle to Kansas City Monday.

Mrs. M. C. Rule is here visiting her daughter Mrs. L.

H. Coates. The Milan State Bank has under gone a complete change in appearance of late having had an entire new set of fixtures installed and the interior remodeled. W. A.

Free of Alva was here visiting his son Walter Free Saturday. L. H. Coates was called to Eureka Monday on important business. H.

R. Signor moved on Tuesday to his farm recently purchas ed from Mrs. McCanna. Mrs. Lowe's brother and wife from Parsons, Kansas, were here visiting the latter part of last week.

Mrs. L. C. Southwick and Mr. and Mrs.

J. T. Sappenfield were shopping in Wellington Monday. Fred Lee move his personal effects to town Tuesday and are occupying the Doran property in the west part of town. R.

W. Karnahan was in Milan Tuesday setting up machinery. Margurite Jesseph Dead Milan Items Margurite, the eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jesseph, died at their home in the north part of town this morning from an attack of influenza.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Tuesday January 28, Mrs. Geo. Hoff entertained the old ladies in honor of Mrs. Stubbs, who is here from Ohio visiting her daughter Mrs.

Sumpter. Had a very enjoyable time a fine dinner and our pictures taken. One who was there. 00000000000000000000000000000000 When in Milan You are Invited to call and see our line of General Merchandise Smith's Phone No. 3 Milan, Kansas 0000000000006 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 News of the North Mr.

John Bringer and family Geo. Achelpohl and family, Rev. and Mrs. Mueller and little daughter and Henry Achelpohl were visitors at the Henry Bringer home last Sunday. Elmer Bringer who was on a furlough from Camp Travis returned to the Camp Tuesday morning.

Roads are drying up fast, we will soon have our fine old Kansas roads again, and appreciate them to. Mr. John Peters went to Anthony Monday on business also to visit with his daughters Mrs. F. Childers of Freeport and Mrs.

C. Umpleby of Anthony. Mrs. M. Herington of Hutchinson was here last week called by the death of Mrs.

Catherine Ellerton. Mrs. Leo. Garrison and Mrs, Mary Fitzsimmons of Harper are here on business and visiting with friends. High School Question At a meeting of the representatives of the high schools of the county, held at Wellington last Monday, the following propositions were agreed upon: All high school education in the county to be free.

That Wellington aid the County High School in an amount equal to or greator than the amount received from the county and the Board of Education of Wellington take over the management of said school--County Board to exercise general supervision over all high schools in the county. That the funds derived from the County High School tax be apportioned among the four year accredited high schools of the county in proportion to the average daily attendance upon such schools. This proposition will now be presented to the legislature tor approval. Mrs. Jennie Teetzel of Harper is here on business and visiting with friends.

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