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7 THE PROTECTION POST VOLUME XI PROTECTION, COMANCHE COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1918 NUMBER Red Cross Christmas Roll Call -Dec. 16-23 Will You be Wearing your Red Cross Button When the Boys Come Home FLOYD H. HILLMAN VICTIM OF THE FLU Tuesday morning at twelve: Floyd H. Hillman fell a victim to the flu after but a few days' illness. Mr.

Hillman. became ill near the middle of last week and almost immediately after being seized by the epidemic pneumonia developed. He made a hard fight for life but was unable to overcome the ravages of pneumonia. And not alone pneumonia, but for the past few years he has suffered from a very aggravating heart trouble and this, too, contributed to his death. Floyd Hillman came to Protection five or six years ago as agent for the Santa Fe railroad.

From the first day he landed he became a useful citizen. He was a hustler and a man who took a great civic pride in the town and its affairs. He was ever found competent and worthy of every trust reposed in him. After serving as agent for the Santa Fe company for several years he resigned his position with them three years ago to accept the assistant cashiership of the Protection State Bank, which position he has filled with great acceptability ever since. He was but a young man, just entering on the prime of life with the prospects and hopes of the fruits of future years just opening before him Since leaving the employ of the railroad and in his association with the public in his bank activities Floyd Hilman had become one of the most astute and leading young business men of this section.

In the years that Floyd Hillman resided in Protection he made hosts of friends and in his death his family loses a loving and tender father, one who took much pride in and received immeasurate joy from his home life: his friends lose one who doubly rejoiced with them in their good for. tunes and with them doubly wept at their misfortunes and sorrows; the community loses a most valued citizen and one who could be not easily spared. The funeral was conducted at the home Wednesday afternoon at threr o'clock by Rev. Shield, his former pastor and warm personal friend. On Thursday morning the body, accom panied by his step-father, J.

C. Kevan of Augusta, Kansas, was taker to Canova, South Dakota, his boy. hood home for interment. The family and relatives of the deceased have the warmest sympathy of the entire community in their loss. OBITUARY Floyd Henry Hillman was born al Canova, Riner county, South Dakota, July 22, 1886, and died December 10, 1918, at his home in Protection.

He was united in marriage to Miss Lucretia Mahaffey in Wichita, Kansas, February 7, 1907. To this union were born two sons, Hjalmar and Henry, both of whom, with the mother, survive. Beside these he. leaves a stepfather, one brother, Ray Hillman of Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as hosts of relatives and friends who mourn his departure. He was converted in early childhood and united with the Congregational church, and some years after joined with the Methodist Episcopal church to which he remained a true and faithful member to the day of his death.

Jesus, while our hearts are bleeding O'er the spoils that death has won. We would at this solemn meeting Calmly say, "Thy will he done." By Thy hand the boon was given, Thou hast taken but. Thine own: Lord of earth and God of heaven, Evermore "Thy will be done." Recently Paul Schaubel handed the editor of the Post a branch from a crab apple tree that had on it several crab apples about half matured and of fair size and growth. The branch was taken from the trees on the farm of his brother-in-law, R. J.

Martin at Deer Creek, were from the second bearing of the trees for this year. The apples are quite a curiosity and freak as the trees had to bloom for the second time in the same season and the fruit had become developed before the frost had ten in its deadly work and killed it. Seldom has the writer seen a second crop of any kind of fruit in the same season especially one in which the second bearing had reached the ad vanced state that these crabapple: had reached. Rev. Shields, formerly the pastor o' the local Methodist Episcopal church was called from his home at Burrton Kansas, where he is now stationed tr officiate Wednesday at both the Hill.

man and Riner funeral services. Rev. Franklin was called to Ashland, Wednesday evening by a telephone message stating that a friend in Ashland was very ill and wished tr see him at once. Alf Miller drove up from his home at Jett, and spent the forepar' of this week visiting with his mother Mrs. N.

E. Miller and with other relatives and friends in and around Pro tection. He told the reporter that 1 he' had to hurry home as he had a new girl at his house who was but a little over a week old. Alf left on his return trip, Tuesday morning. Don't muster out your dollars until Uncle Sam completes the job.

THE HOLY LAND THE GRAND MUFTI, HEAD OF WHITE TURBAN), ARRIVES QUARTERS TO TAKE PART IN THE WORK IN PALESTINE. RED CROSS ROLL CALL PROCLAMATION While representatives of the great nations lately in the deadly throes actual war, are gathering around the peace table, it is given to the people of America to show that it was the high ideals of democracy and the love of humanity, which led them into war and not emotionalism nor merely hatred of an arrogant and impudent foe. As we fought for the sake of humanity we must show no diminished zeal and fervor, now that the storm of passion has passed in our tender ministrations to those who bore the burden of the battle, to their families and dependents, to the stricken people of Europe and to our own people who are undertaking the gigantic task of rebuilding a world. Suffer. ing and sorrow do not cease with the declaration of peace.

The aftermath of war carries its woes only less than those of war itself. To alleviate these woes, to smooth the way of soldiers and sailors readjusting themselves to civil life, to help the civil population at home abroad most quickly regain and estahlish normal conditions of life, is the function of the American Red Cross Its high mission must appeal to ever" American and its Christmas Roll Call must meet with enthusiastic response in every American home. Therefore, Arthur Capper, do hereby proclaim the week of December 9th to 16th inclusive as Red Cross Roll Call week in the state of Kansas and earnestly call upon all the people of the state, men, women and childten to enroll as active members of this great association. Carry on. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to.

be af fixed the Great Seal of the State of Kansas. Done at Topeka, the capital, this 12th day of December, A. 1918. Arthur Capper, By the governor, Governor. J.

T. Botkin, Secretary of State. YOU CAN HELP You have read of the war ridden districts of Europe and have wished you could help them. During the Christmas Red Cross Roll Call week, December 16-23, you will have the opportunity to make your good wish come true. Picture your own child ragged, bleeding and starving, your own mother or wife the victim of German wantonness.

The thought makes you shrink, but you cannot see the picture. Yet it is only the accident of circumstances that has kept this very thing from befalling you-only because you happen to live in this fair America instead of the devasted land over the seas. You can help the unfortunate who have had to bear war's horrors by joining the Red Cross--by answering "present" at the Christmas Red Cross Roll Call. John Moore left for the east coast to report to his ship after a furlough spent with his parents Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. Moore and with friends and relatives in Frotection. John was a- mong the first of the volunteer's fro this section, having volunteered fro Clark county, and enlisted in the naw at the very beginning of the war and he has seen service since in both our own and foreign waters. His stay at home was not very prolonged.

While on duty John had made many trip over there with transports conveying troops; he has likewise seen the life on board the destroyers those wolves of the sea that drove the submarine almost from its depths; he has likewise seen the destruction and the wastage of the war but has served as became a loyal American. John is looking fine and the training shows that it has been good for the boy. And John as you return to your duty here is luck to you until the task is completely finished and we can welcome you home again. Fritz Schrauner was up from his home at Gate, Wednesday in attendance at the Hillman funeral. THE CAUSALTY LIST The American public was surprised! to learn that our casualty armistice is nearly 240,000 with more than 000 dead.

The general impression was that the list would not much exceed 100.000. The discrepancy between expectation and fact seems due not to any attempt on the part of General Pershing of the war department to minimize the losses, but to the heavy fighting of the Argonne in the weeks immediately preceding the armistice, and to the natural slowness in checking up and making complete and official reports. Considered relatively to our allies, of course these losses are small. British casualities are given as more than 3,000,000 with 658,000 killed. There is no official statement of French cassalties, but unofficial estimates place he French dead alone at 1,500,000 out of a population only one-fifth as large as ours.

Germany has lost pernaps 1,700,000 killed. As matters stand, the nation may De profoundly thankful that our lossas are not larger. The majority of. Americans had steeled themselves to expect many hundred shousand casualties before Germany should be brought to her knees and the objects of the war attained. It may sound like mockery for those who live to say that the cost is small enough for the great benefits we have rained, when to those who feel the personal losses most, the cost is infinite.

And yet we cannot doubt that nost of the fallen heroes would reckit so and be well content with the blessings they have purchased for the rest of us. The nation, too, takes a sort of solemn pride in the knowledge that we did not shrink from the sacrifice; that when we were once ready for battle we gave "without stint or limit." waging war in a big way, and holding our own with our allies in blood sacrific as in We have less to mourn for because there is nothing to be ashamed of, unless it be our slownes in getting ready. News. LAYS FLU TO GAS Physician Says 'Irritated Air' Cause of Disease: Started At The Front Chicago, Dec. a paper recently read before the Chicago medical society and being circulated by medical journals, Dr.

Albert J. of Chicago expressed the opinion that the influenza which has swept over the world is caused by poison gas in the air and is not spread by the vietims coughing and sneezing as most physicians contend, but is due to what he calls "irritated atmosphere." Dr. Croft points out that the present epidemic started on the gas poisoned battlefields of Europe. "I advance the theory that the condition termed influenza is in reality a non-bacterial, non-contagious disease caused by inhalation of small amounts of depressing, highly irritat ing, high density gas present in the atmosphere at night and when the air is surcharred with moisture, more particularly near the surface of tha earth," said Dr. Croft.

Fie said the spread of the disease to every part of the world was tool wile and ranid for body or ne: cortae and 502 erratic for ger. transmiesion. The government restrictions have been removed from salt peter since the signing of the armistice and Von ret, all vou wart for meat curing at FULLER'S DEUC STORE. "Hapny" Kralicek who returned a few wecks ago from the eastern part of the United States where he has been since his return from Franco several months ago undergoing med. ical treatment is in the vicinity of Protection visiting friends.

Hepry was gassed and he has been but slowly recovering his health since he was sent to the hospital from the battiefield. See that all your pledges to purchase War Savings Stamps are redeemed by the end of this month. MRS. GEO. RINER SUCCUMBS TO FLU Mrs.

Geo. T. Riner died at the Riner family home in the east part of Protection Monday, shortly after noon from pneumonia. Mrs. Riner had been ill but a few days, having taken sick of the flu about the middle of last week, and pneumonia developed, causing her death.

Mrs. Riner was born at Attica, Indiana, February 22, 1855, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McFarland. In 1870 she removed with her parents to Oswego, in the southeastern part of this state, and there, on Jan.

3, 1873, she was married to Mr. Geo. T. Riner. Mr.

and Mrs. Riner lived at OswegO until in 1898 they moved to a farm in Grant county, Oklahoma. In 1906, twelve years ago, they moved from Oklahoma to Protection and proved up on the land now occupied by Philip Randall northwest of town, later retiring from the farm and moving into the home in Protection, at which Mrs. Riner died. To Mr.

and Mrs. Riner were born nine children, John Jacob, Geo. Franklin, Ernest Alvin, Charles Leroy, Edward Emery, Ida May, William Walter, Robert Crocket and Wayne, all of whom, together with their father, survive the mother, with the one exception of Robert who died in 1894. Beside these she leaves to mourn her loss sixteen grandchildren and one grandchild, as well as numerous other relatives and a host of friends. The community is ed by the Joss one of its most respected citizens, one who has endured the hardships of the pioneer life and been rewardeed by seeing her children take their own places of lity in the community and labor for its good.

The funeral was held Wednesday after noon at the family home, the services being conducted by Rev. Shield, her former pastor. The children were all present at the funeral. The body was laid to rest in the Protection cemetery, CARD OF THANKS We wish to express to our many friends and neighbors our deepest appreciation for the kindly services and floral offerings given us during the recent illness and death of our darling wife and mother. George T.

Riner and Family. Noel Thornhill came home Tuesday from Pittsburg, Kansas, where he had been in the S. A. T. C.

but as that work has now been discontinued by the government, he received his discharge and returned home and glad to get back too. Our boys have done their part; now it is for you to do yours. FEDERAL ASSISTANCETO EDUCATION On October 10, 1918, Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia introduced into the United States Senate the most comprehensive and important educational measure that has ever been put before Congress. The bill provides for an annual appropriation of 000, provided that sums in equal a- mount be appropriated by the several states, for the purpose of aiding the states to carry on more successfully certain types of education which most vitally concern our national welfare. The main provisions of the bill (S 4987) are as follows: 1.

For the removal of illiteracy, $7,500,000 annually. 2. For the Americanization of foreigners, $7,500,000 annually. 3. For the equilization of educational opportunities within the several states, particularly in rural and village schools, annually.

4. To cooperate with the states in the promotion of physical and health education and recreation, $20,000,000 annually. 5. To extend and improve the facilities for the preparation of teachers for public schoois and particularly the rural schools, $15,000,000 annually. 6.

The recreation of an Executive Department, known as the Department of Education, with a Secretary in the President's Cabinet. This Department is to administer the educational work of the government which is assigned to it. The reasons supporting the bill, the facts which lie back of it, and the beneficial results that would follow its adoption are not written into the bill itself. This series of explanatory articles is written for those who want the facts that support the bill and for those who are so keenly interested in I education as related to social welfare as to desire the facts that led up to the preparation and introduction of this bill. Mrs.

De Witt Tomason of Wichita, sister of Mrs. F. H. Hillman and Walter R. Mahaffey, arrived in Protection Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mr.

Hillman which was held on (Wednesday afternoon. G. G. Carpenter, a brother of A. A.

Carpenter of the Farmers State Bank, has been here since the last of last week visiting at the home of his brother and wife. Mr. Carpenter lives in Marshall county in the northern part of the state. A fine Christmas present to your daughter, Golden oak Piano bench and Music Cabinet $10.00 if taken in the next 10 days. Truby's LEADER OF THE "LOST BATTALION" Lieut.

Col. Charles S. Whittlesey, Leader of the "Lost Battalion" who withstood the enemy for five days when isolated and surrounded in the Argonne Forest. When asked to surrender he told the Huns to go to THE MOHAMMEDAN CHURCH (A AT AMERICAN RED CROSS HEAD. THE FORMAL INAUGURATION OF.