The Horton Headlight-Commercial from Horton, Kansas • 1

SOCIETY HISTORICAL Entered as Second Class Matter June 15, 1911, at the Postoffice, at Horton. Kansas, Under the Act of Marc 3, 1879. Published Weekly by Chas. II. Browne.

VOLUME 30. HORTON, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1916. NUMBER 25'. CWIERCIAL a Jul i jmmjfh i GENERAL AND LOCAL. Horton's Big New High School.

Call and Settle. Have closed my coal office and now have office at Geo. Anderson's secondhand store, where I will be pleased to have those indebted to me call and settle. J. R.

Wiggins. Adv. this inspection, and a special effort is being made all over the state to show the federal government that Kansas troops are in first class shape. Bran and Shorts. Just received another car of the good kind.

Ask for prices. Chandler Brokerage Co. Adv. GENERAL AND LOCAL. Chas.

Hansel's Sale March 7. Chas. Hansen will hold a closing out sale at his place, four miles northeast of Everest, Tuesday, March 7. Among other things, he will sell 14 head of horses and mules, a full line of implements, 12 head of cattle, 15 head O. I.

C. hogs, and a lot of harness, etc. C. G. Streeter is the auctioneer.

See his bills for full descriptions. Adv. But the new building really is enormous. It is 126 feet long and 84 feet 6 inches deep, not including the big boiler and fuel room on the northeast corner. The big gymnasium in the basement is about 45 feet wide and 67 feet long.

It is not stretching the truth to say that the entire city hall could be set down inside this gymnasium and there would be room to walk all around it. If arranged with seats, the gallery around the "gym" 11 1 1 nnn Horton's fine big new $70,000 High school building is slowly but steadily nearing completion. When work was started last spring it was thought that the building could be completed by Jan. 1, 1916, but the heavy rains of the summer and several shortages of materials and men knocked that estimate into a cocked hat. It is believed now that the building will be done by the date of the High school commencement in May, but probably not much sooner.

All of the brick and stofie work of the building having been completed onjeupy the same space as the gym in the outside, it is now possible to get the basement below, and on the second some idea of the size and general floor is the auditorium, which with its "look" of the thing. Truth to say. gallery will seat in the neighborhood the building at first is rather disap-jof 1,000 people. This auditorium has pointing to some wlio expected a a larger floor space than the opera I 1 1 1 1-1 1 1 iiiuL-ii mure gigantic structure, rom the front, where it faces High street. it has the appearance of a long two-story building.

From Trenton street, one block to the east, the new building assumes mammoth proportions appearing five stories in heighth. It is really only four stories high, but the windows in the gallery of the auditorium on the fourth floor make five rows of windows from the ground distance around the outside of the up. The entrance to the main floor walls of the building is 537 feet, al-(known in the plans as the first floor) most one-eighth of a mile. A path of the building from High street is, around the building would give the perfectly level. In many new school track team boys a good eight-lap-mile buildings this floor is approached by run, about as big as you find runnine a lung iiint oi steps, ueiow tne iirstitracKS anywnere.

ITorton Girls Play Willis. An "All Star" girls basketball team went to Willis Saturday night to; stage a preliminary game for the Willis vs. Atchison boys' game. The "All Star" team won by a score of 30 to 4. The girls received splendid treatment and they say the Willis team is a finr crowd of girls.

The line-up: Horton Ruth Kubichek If, Louise Modeland rf, Edna Stansbarger Clara Schra-der lg, Hazel Nelson rg. Willis Tinsley If, Covert rf, Peckham Roger rg, Rodkey lg. Trapper Who Uses an Auto. Not every trapper in Northeast Kansas is able to make the, round of his traps with an automobile, but that is what Tom Roberts does. He has a one-cylinder Cadillac and every day that it can be driven he runs his 30 traps in the car.

Roberts has been trapping ever since he was laid off at the shops early in the winter, and at times has made some good money. He has caught four minks, two of them on successive days. As a mink hide is worth over $4. Roberts keeps his eyes out for mink tracks at all times. Musk-rat and skunk hides do not pay as well, but he manages to bring in several hides every day, and the money made is not to be despised.

Tom says some folks don't think much of a one-lung car; but his Cadillac will jump 40 feet at every explosion of the engine, and that is fast enough for him. He has equipped the car with a Ford radiator, a jackrabbit body, grasshopper springs and says he is ready to travel right along with the best of them. Meeting of City Commissioners. At the meeting of the commissioners Tuesday evening, the police judge reported no arrests whatever for February in Horton. The February report of the city clerk was accepted, and will be found in another part of this paper.

The reports of water analysis from cfo, v.A vni, ti Horton water to be in excellent con- dition The city clerk reported that the! State Utilities commission will A Long Established Custom Broken. This week, for the first time in the 10 years that the present editor has had charge of this paper, Bourquin's have failed to change their advs. Many business men do not realize the value of presenting fresh news matter to their readers each week, and the fact that Bourquins failed to do so once in a long period of time is such an out of the ordinary event that it is worthy of mention. Making Advertising Pay You! Every line of advertising in this pa per is written with service in view. Every article advertised has some claim to some one's attention.

Each advertiser knows his success must come thru filling a human need. You will not be interested in all these messages but in some you will be. To miss the one directed to you may cost you dear. It does not take long to glance thru the advertising in The Headlight-Com mercial, and to do so is well worth while. Sentenced to Industrial Harvey Jordan, 13-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Steve Jordan, was sentenced to serve in the industrial school at Topeka until he is 21 years of age by Probate Judge Seaman at a special session of the juvinilo court held in Horton Tuesday morning. The lad was arrested on complaint of his father. It seems that the boy had used the name of his schoolmates in endorsing a check, had forged a check for $1 and passed a forged order at the Mullinix Cash store. Judge Seaman, Undersheriff Jackson and County Attorney Archer came down from Hiawatha Tuesday to investigate the case.

He was taken to Hiawatha, and Wednesday Undersheriff Will Jackson took him to the industrial school. The Hiawatha World says Tuesday night as darkness came on, Harvey began to get afraid and cried a great deal. Undersheriff Jackson thought he was sick, and called a physician who said he was simply Beared from being in jail. It is a sad case, and should prove a warning to other boys who might get the idea that they can violate the law and not suffer for it This boy will spend eight years in a place whero he will be under guard or locked up all the time. He did not have one chance in a thousand to es cape the law, and if he had, it would only have led to his committing some other unlawful act, perhaps worse than this.

DEATHS. RAINES Norval Raines died at his home in Willis on Tuesday, Feb. 29, at the age of 23 years. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Grant Raines, formerly of the Willis neighborhood, but now of Virginia. Mr. Raines went to Virginia three years ago and re turned to Willis about a month ago. He leaves his wife and two small chil dren. The funeral will be held at the Methodist church in Willis on Friday morning at 11 o'clock.

Interment will win noia auu spectators. On the first floor a bier study hall and lihrnrv no. nouse ana can Beat 3U per cent more While its stage does not have af great a depth, it is as wide or wider than the one at the opera house. Speaking of floor space taking all of the rooms, corridors, balconies, gymnasium, into consideration, there are nearly 43,000 square feet of floor space in the building equal in area to an acre of ground. The The plasterers have been at work on the building for the past two weeks and still have about three weeks work ahead of them.

It is estimated that altogether they have 9,000 square 'yards of walls to plaster. They will have finished the second floor within a few days. On account of the hieh ceiling and the balcony of the auditorium, this floor alone contains nearly nan or the total plastering, Scott Bros, the contractors, are now putting in the stairways at the north end of the building and visitors there next Sunday will be able to Bee more than the one floor of the structure. and thus realize what a great big proposition it is. Heretofore, many of the visitors have come away far from impressed, largely because they were unaWe to see more than a Bmall part or the building, GENERAL AND LOCAL.

New Call for School Warrants. All school warrants issued prior to Jan. 28, 1916, are hereby called in and interest ceases on them this 3rd day of February, 1916. G. W.

Carpenter, Treasurer Board of Education. Adv. Read "Swat the Fly" Literature. Rev. Ira M.

Benham has received a quantity of leaflets from the state board of health on fly swatting. As each mama fly becomes the ancestor of several million flies in the course of a vear. now is the nroner tim t.n start swatting them. The Boy Scouts are distributing these leaflets over town, and they should be read carefully by every person who is given one. Look Out for Johnson Grass.

Effingham, Feb. 29, 1916. Editor Headlight-Commercial. Dear Sir: Some seed oats containing Johnson grass sted has been ship ped into Atchison county and sold. Johnson grass is such a pest that it I is against the law to sow it in Kansas, and several other states have the same laws.

Seed oats should be ex- amined carefully before they are Potatoes. Genuine Early Ohios, $1.40 per bushel. Chandler Brokerage Co. Ad. "New Minister" Friday Evening.

See "The New Minister" at the opera house, Friday night, March 3, at 8 o'clock. A good musical enter-tainment 30 members in casteor-chestra will play. Given under the auspices of the Christian church Endeavor. Admission 15c and 25c. Seats reserved at the News Stand for 10c extra.

Many a Man Owes His Success to the Building of a Home. Because it has served as an anchor and kept him in a straight line and away, possibly, from the many "get rich quick schemes, which are so plentiful today and which so often means riches only to the smooth tongued promoters thereof. By in vesting in your home town you are dealing with values and people with whom you are acquainted people who are interested in your welfare, because your success means the success of others about you and the citizens can bonst of the better place it will be. All the lumber and building material in the yard of the Horton Lumber Co. was purchased with the view of giving customers honest values.

You can get plan books and many valuable suggestions in building. Phone No. 1. C. E.

Riley, Mannger. Adv. "They Say" Items. 1 The best joke pulled off by Horton peoplo in a long time was perpetrated on a Horton man recently, they say. This man was going to Topeka, and a crowd of his friends put an alarm clock in his grip and set it to go off at the time he would be going from tho station to the hotel.

However, the train was on time and the clock did not go off until the grip had been placed with others in the hotel. The joke did not turn out just as intended, however, according to what they say. The clock was placed in tho grip so tight that instead of ringing it only made a buzzing noise, and the people, around the hotel thought -it was an infernal machine. Everybody In tho lobby made a run for the street and tho police were called. They were, about to take the Horton man to the station, but a traveling man who knew him happened to be In the hotel-and vouched for the fact that he was no anarchist with murderous inten-.

tions. After the grip had been exam, ined and the troublesome alarm clock brought forth, he was freed. A great load was taken off two Horton young men's minds, they say, when they learned that it was rats, and not burglars, that were trying to break into the home of the young lady at whose home they were visiting. A Horton man resembles a jailbird, they say, because he wears socks wiU such prominent "Father-and-Son" Banquet A "Father-and-Son" banquet was given at the Methodist church Monday evening. The Busy Maids and Matrons furnished the dinner, and the fathers "took" the sons.

About 150 fathers and their sons were present, and many who did not have sons of their own went with other boys. The banquet end was the first time that the fine completed. The entire floor of the room was occupied by the diners, and after an excellent dinner, the crowd listened to talks. F. M.

Wilfon was toastrnaster, and called on Dr. A. O. Haviland. J.

II. Uowlin, Albert Wood, S. E. Friend, John Lanter. W.

W. Wood. Osrar Duff, W. F. Scott and Rev.

I. M. Benham for short talks. Dr. Harder was to have told "What I Like to See in a Boy." As he could not be present Toastmaster Wilson ventured to slate that he thought what Dr.

Har- ker would like to see better than any thing else in a boy was his appendix. A quartet composed of W. W. Wood. J.

H. Bowlin, Dr. F. M. Baldwin and S.

E. Friend gave several selections, and the church orchestra furnished music before the banquet. AtthecloRe, Webb Wilson proposed a toast to "Our Dads," and the boys arose and declared in college-yell fashion that "dad was all right." The affair was an excellent one, end will do much to promote fellowship between bys and dads. PERSONAL MENTION. "Smoke Slate Journal 5c cigars" Viavi office at corner of High and Mabel streets, southwest corner.

Adv. Clyde Beamer bought a house on Chicago avenue from Katherine Barrett Saturday. Free samples of Golden Wedding coffee. Farmers call at Pettct's. Best on earth.

Adv. Claude Holloway has been laid un with a bad attack of rheumatism, but is now able to hobble around. "Preparedness" Wins Again. Preparedness won again in the third debate on that question in this locality, when last Friday evening the matter was threshed out at the city hall The arguments of Dr. Ward, James Poston and Press Hartley, for the affirmative, apparently could not be successfully answered by their opponents F.

C. Trice, Hartley Keller and Fred Husted. The debate was spirited on both sides, and the big crowd enjoyed it thoroughly. When the argument was voted on, 56 stood up in favor of preparedness, with only one against it. Now For the Democratic Banquet.

The big Brown County Democratic banquet will be held in the social room of the Methodist church in Hoi ton on Thursday evening, March 1G. The Busy Maids and Matrons will serve the dinner, and they promise to make it the best banquet ever put on in Horton. With good weather it is believed that 300 Democrats will be present for the affair. The program has not been fully completed as yet, but as soon as finished it will be printed in full in this paper. Chairman Lindsay says as this is the first county ban quet ever held in Horton the Demo crats will leave nothing undone to make it first class in every way.

Aw, What's the Use? This paper has always been strong for the Commercial Club or any similar organization which would work for the best interests of the community, but it has finally decided that the Commercial Club here is a dead letter. The Horton organization had a membership of 190 a year ago, and still has about 150 on the rolls at this time. The Club has done some good work in the past, but for a year at least not over half a dozen members have attended any of the meetings. This paper has come to the conclusion that the community hasn't any interest in the Com- 'mercial Club, and therefore it ought to be disbanded. This is evidenced by the fact that the Club backed the lecture course of the past season a fine course that cost practically $600 and course mat cose praci from lack of interest or because the public just naturally "has it in for the Commercial Club, lost $300 on the proposition.

As that practically clean- merchants don't attend the meetings. shopmen can see anything in it, and the farmers never were strong for it so let's just throw up the sponge now while the quitting is pood, and forget we ever had one. What good is a Commercial Club, anyway? Pleasant Ridge Experimental Test, James W. Freeland, of Atchison county, makes his first brief report of the seven different varieties of winter wheat. The wheat was secured from the State Agricultural college at Manhattan, by Chas.

H. Taylor, farm advisor of the Atchison county Farm bureau. Pure bred seed of the following varieties: Turkey Red hard wheat, Bearded Fife No. 249, Harvest Queen No. 245, Fulcaster No.

247, Miracle No. 248, Indiana Red and Currell. was sown at the rate of 1 bushel per acre on oats stubble land, plowed in September and sown Sept. 25. Turkey Red wheat made a small growth, badly heaved, and small stems.

25 per cent being killed. Bearded Fife No. 249. stooled well but spind ling stems and heaved out of ground some. Harvest Queen No.

245, good erowth and deep rooted. Fulcaster No 247 made extra good growth, and not heaved, broad leaves and rooted deep. Miracle No. 248, there being no differ ence between that and Harvest Queen, not winter killed. Indiana Red made th best growth of all, least injured by the winter, having good strong stems broad leaves and deeply rooted.

Cur rell. a variety sown ten days later than the others, made as good a growth as Harvest Queen, did not stool quite as much but tops are green and roots are deep. Of the seven different varieties mat stood the winter best, made the best growth, and not winter killed, Indiana Red stands first, with Fulcaster a close second; Harvest Queen third. If seed of Currell variety had been sown at the same time, probably would have been first. During early harvest time the State Agricultural college will send a man out to take samples from each plot to determine the yield of the different varieties, best adapted to Northeast Kansas.

This will be re ported later. I par cash for cream, poultry and! W. W. Thompson. Adv.

its engineer here soon to look over the." "1C J7 city water and lieht plant Four in- 8 time to qmt as any Nobody 18 terested in the Commercial Club the floor is what is known as the ground floor, with entrances both at the north and the south, and below that is the basement floor. This makes two floors below the level of High street and one above it. The new building undoubtedly would have been a more handsome structure if it had been riised at least one story higher. At the time this was under consideration the board of education found it would cost something like $10,000 more to bring what is now the ground floor up on the level with High street. While this would have improved the appear ance of the building, it would not have increased its size or made it any more modern, and as all of the $70,000 bond issue was needed to erect and equip the building properly, the board did not see where it could afford to spend $10,000 extra simply for appearances.

WEDDINGS. LANG-HOLMES Miss Lillian Elma Lang, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. I.

Lang, and J. Henry Holmes, son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Holmes, both of Horton, were married at the home of the bride's parents on High and Mabel streets, on Sunday, Feb.

27, which was also the 32nd anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lang. The "Bridal Chorus" from Loh engrin, played by Miss Beulah Lang, sister of the bride, announced the approach of the couple. The impressive ring ceremony was read by Rev.

B. H. Smith, pastor of the Christian church of Horton. Solos were sung by Rev Mr. Smith and by W.

F. Lang, of Kansas City, a brother of the bride. The bride wore a beautiful gown of white chiffon and carried a bouquet of bride's roses and lilies-of-the-val- ley. After congratulations, refresh ments were served. The out-of-town guests were: Mrs.

J. D. Martin, of Wichita; Mrs. Chas. S.

Robinson, of Joplin, Charles Robinson, of Joplin, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Lang, of St.

Joseph, Miss Ruth Lang and Master Robert Lang of St. Joseph and W. F. Lang, of Kansas City, Mo. On account of recent serious illness of the bride's fa ther, few invitations were sent in Hor ton.

They were: Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Petree, Mr. and Mrs. W.

L. Myers, Miss Wilma Myera, Mr. and Mrs. A M. Brown, Mr.

and Mrs. J. N. Reeves Miss Jean Kelley and Ray Donaldson Mr. and Mrs.

James W. Holmes and son Donald and Miss Hazel Holmes; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Reddicord and Fred Lang. Mr.

and Mrs. Holmes will be at home to friends after March 5 at the home of the bride's parents. BIRTHS. ANDERSON Born Thursday, March 2, to Mr. and Mrs.

Leslie Anderson, a daughter. BROCK ER Born, Sunday, Feb. 27, to Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Brocker, a son.

Monroe Brocker is a son of J. II. Brocker. HA'iGARD Born Tuesday, Feb. 29, Mr.

and Mrs. Chas. Haggard, a daughter. Miss Haggard will not be able to celebrate her first birthday un til she is four years old. This is the only Leap Year baby born in Horton, so far as known.

When you think of feed see W. W. Thompson and when you see Thompson think of feed. Adv. Carl Jones, of Everest, was in Hor- ton Saturday on business.

a be made in the Mt. Hope cemetery atiwa8 the i room of the new Methodist building, Hiawatha, McMILLAN Many of the friends of 'c kuh and "'rvin a i.Vnn,i. been used sine the church was uwii especially mey come irom from hydophobia. J. A.

Jioit Texas. Oklahoma, or other points intends the following particulars: the south. A sample of the oats (a About three weeks aeo Mrs. McMil- the excavator, which is offered or gaje a large number of citizens, asking that the southwest upstairs room in the city hall be set aside as a storeroom for the Associated Charities. The petition was taken under advisement.

The city clerk was instructed to burn all the ballots on file from old elections. In the absence of the city attorney, the matter of unpaid licenses for insurance agents was laid over until the next regular meeting. The marshal was instructed to post the necessary notices regarding dog tax being due on March 1, and double the tax after April 1, as per Ordm ance No. 98. Company Inspection Saturday.

The annual U. S. government in spection of Company First Infantry Kansas National Guard, will be held Saturday at the Horton armory. Capt. Walter C.

Sweeney, of the regular army, who is the inspector-instructor of the Kansas National Guard, and Col. Wilder S. Metcalf, of Lawrence, will make the inspection. At this inspec tion every article in charge of 'the company here will be checked over by Capt. Sweeney, and will be examined to determine just how fit it is for use.

With a few exceptions, the equipment used by the National Guard is exact ly the same as that of the regular army. The arms and equipment in charge of Company amounts to nearly $10,000, and at this inspection, every article of property, even down to the smallest screw of the rifles, will be counted. In the evening Capt. Sweeney will inspect the company. Every member of the company is required by law to be present, and after inspecting the smaii arms, tne omcers ana non-commissioned officers will demonstrate their proficiency in drilling the company to Capt.

Sweeney. A number of new recruits have come in lately, and the men are working hard to make a good showing at this inspection. Sergeant J. A. Ash worth has had a detail at work in the armory for nearly a week, cleaning1 the rifles and other equipment The federal appropriation! to the state is based on the result of ii-4 iii her death on Feb.

20, near Cage, wa8 bitten on the cheek by a dog but no ill effects were noticed until til three days before her death and she was only seriously effected by the terrible results for two days. It was un doubtedly hydrophobia and was so pronounced. Mr. McMillan, the daughter, Mrs. Nelson, and her son were also bitten but no' effects have been noted.

However, they are taking" the Pasteur treatment and nothing ser ious is expected. Mrs. McMillan was before her mar riage Garcia May Tyler. She was born in Fayette, Iowa, June 6, 1857, and died Feb. 26, 1916, at her home, four miles north of Gage, Okla.

She was aged 58 years, 8 months and 20 days. She was married to Alexander McMillan at Atchison, on Dec 15, 1881. To this union five children were born, one dying in Infancy. She is survived by her husband, Kate, Will and George, all of Gage, and Mrs J. E.

Nelson, of Beaver county, and four grandchildren. She came from Iowa to Atchison In her girlhood and settled near Horton after her marriage, where she and her husband resided until 1904, when they moved to their present homestead near Gage. Mr. McMillan was one of the earliest settlers in this part of Kansas and is a brother of Mrs. John Kelly and an uncle of Mrs.

Court Haggard. Mrs. McMillan also has one brother living near Horton. pint or a quart) should be sent either, to me or to the college at Manhattan if you do not know Johnson grass at sight. We have bottles of the seed here in the office and anyone may come in and see it.

I will be in Atchison next Saturday and you may see this scad by calling at the Commercial club rooms in the new Masonic temple. I have written to County Attorney Chas. J. Conlon asking him to see what penalty attaches to sowing this seed, what the law is affecting the farmer in his relation to the firm that sold him the seed, and also affecting the local firm in its relation with the firm that sold them the seed. Some of this seed was bought from sample and the sample was free of Johnson grass.

Am also writing the college for what information they have regarding the seriousness of this pest this far north. We will try fan ning these oats to see if the seed may all be removed by running it thru the mill. As this information becomes available it will be given thru the local papers. Chas. H.

Taylor, County Agent, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Geo. W.

Leverton has gone to Carlsbad, N. M.f to visit Clarence Tebbetts and look after his ranch there. Tebbetts writes back that he hasn't worn coat but a few days all winter..