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Topeka 1.9 Historical Society THE GRIDLEY LIGHT VOL. 12. GRIDLEY, COFFEY COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918 NO. 11 Phoebe Doty was born in Randolph county September 10, 1840 and was married in 1864 to Joseph McCartney and came to Kansas in 1866 settling just south west of Burlington and in 1874 moved to the present hood where she died March 10, 1918, leaving four children to mourn her loss: Mrs. Alice Newland of Gridley, Kans.

Geo. McCartney of Pawhuska, Mrs Belle Yoho of Moody, and Alvin McCartney of the home alSO two stepsons, James McCartney of Burlington and Andrew McCartney of Fall River City, Kans, besides nineteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. Her husband departed this life November 13, 1881. For many years she has been a member of the M. E.

church and in her home has been living the quiet christian life. She was a faithful wife, kind and loving mother, and a good neighbor and will be great ly missed by hosts of friends. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Janssen at Wesley Chapel where a large audience assembled to pay their last respects to a well beloved neighbor and friend.

The body was taken to Fair Hope cemetery. MEETING SATURDAY NIGHT A meeting of greatest interest to all interested in our war activities will be addressed by State and Coffey county speakers at Wigners Hall Saturday evening at 8 p. m. Everybody should attend this meeting. No admission charge.

Notice If you want to sell or rent your farm, let me know. I am having inquiries for both. C. N. Phillips Land Co.

Don't forget, if you are going to have a sale that we can still print your sale bills. -tf. Allen Reed was a business caller in Gridley Tuesday. Guy S. Finch of Burlington has moved to Waverly.

MRS. PHOEBE McCARTNEY DIDN'T WITHDRAW Last week we stated that all of the postoffice contestants but two had withdrawn but we find this week that they had not. Some thought the piece read as though all had dropped out of the race but J. C. Neibrecht and it looked as though he being the only one left the office was just naturally shoved off on him.

We did not mean it that way, and stated that he was second highest in the contest, thinking that people would see by that that he stood a good chance of getting the position, as the three highest grades were the only ones the department took up the matter with. We hope this makes the matter plain as we do not like to be misunderstood, or to mislead the people- GOOD SHOW The home talent show which was given at the opera house Saturday night under the auspices of the Epworth League was well attended and was much enjoyed by all. The play was entitled Diamonds and Hearts and all of the characters were well given. Miss Beulah Powers and Blaine Crow each gave a specialty between acts. The play was under the direction of M.

B. Crow who deserves much credit. M. E. CHURCH NOTES Sunday school and preaching service at the usual hour.

Please remember we are to take a special offering at Sunday school. Thousands of boys and girls in Europe are homeless, fatherless and our churches must help them. The closing services of this conference year. will be held next Sunday night. Special music.

Henry Hegwald returned from the hospital in Kansas City Monday evening. He is recovering nicely after having been operated on for appendicitis. Mrs. Geo. Bumgardner and chil dren arrived the first of the week from Strong City.

Kans for a vis it with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers were visiting in Hamilton last Friday. Keeping Step With The Times It is hard to do in an ill fitting, unshapely shoe.

Your feet need your BEST attention---They SUPPORT you. Slip them into a pair of our superb shoes and you will have Perfect Foot Ease The hurry and rush of the times demand the full and free use of your feet. You are assured of this when you wear our shoes. They cost no more than the "other" kind. A.

A. Griffiths YOU BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY We write a special form on live stock insurance that covers vour entire herd. Suppose you have ten cows and insure them at a limit of $75.00 per head, later on the herd increases by natural increase or purchase to twenty or more head. This same limit of $75.00 covers them all, and in case of loss we do not Pro-Rate the amount of insurance carried by the number head of live stock owned at the time of loss, we pay full value. This means much to all live stock owners, this covers your herd in a blanket form, and only costs seventy five cents per hundred, one year, This class of business can be written at still lower rates in connection with the other farm property.

We always try to have the best going in our line of business. We can save you money. We cancel policy any time and pay return premium. HAAS INSURANCE AG'CY, Gridley, Kan. ROLL OF HONOR COMPANY K.

N. G. Corporal John Stockton, Privates Theodore Phillips, Ainsworth Bear, Sam Rudolph, Claude Winterscheid, Albert Neely, Alfred Chadd, Jack Stukey. THE NATIONAL ARMY Edward Birk, Scott Shaffer, Lawrence Fleming, Frank Lane, Ernest Bear. Roy Elliott, Aviatoin Corps.

Cleve Phillips, Boilermaker U. S. Navy. Robt. Peek, Sergt.

Mo. Signal Corps. L. D. Phillips, 1st.

Sergt. Mo. Engineers. Capt. M.

L. Stockton, Medical Reserve. First Lieutenant, Tom W. Flory. 2nd.

Lieut. M. L. Stockton, U. S.

Army. Walter Reid, Navy. RED CROSS NOTES The Red Cross work room is urgently in need of fuel and the work on the surgical dressings will have to be suspended until some one kindly donates some wood. Mrs. Brooks and Mrs.

Elliott have had the instructions and are able to teach the ladies around here how to make the different dressings. Every lady should make a special effort to come out and learn how to make these bandages. Don't wait until some of your sons are called before you begin to help. The ladies who are helping with the making of hospital garments will meet each Thursday and Friday at the work room to sew. It is earnestly hoped that there will be 2.

goodly attendance to help in this work: Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Richardson are both on this committee and any information may be obtained from them. NORTHERN LIGHTS Did you see the Northern Lights last Thursday evening? They were quite a sight and were visible practically all over the U. S.

At about 9:30 or 10 o'clock they were at the prettiest, the sky being a beautiful red from one horizon to the other. HERE FOR HAY Mrs. Sarah Minnich. Front Tires, for Ford, $13.50, rear tires, $17.50, Guaranteed- Phillips Garage. Anne Peek returned from Burlington Monday afternoon.

Two extra freight engines came in on the Santa Fe Sunday ing. They only took out five cars of hay but would pick up cars along the road until they would have 50 cars. Recent M. Osborn, Tufft Dreyer, G. S.

Errett, Fred Ropp, J. F. Schneider, Mrs Rhoda Arnold, T. F. Schneider, E.

H. Werts, Henry Winterscheide SPELLING CONTEST The spelling contest which was held at the school house last Tuesday evening was well attended. There were six contestants: Lucille Reeves, Lawrence Benton, and Clarence Finch from Gridley; Clara Kaufman of Gravel Hill, Ernest Lingenfelter and Ruth Hammond of Washington. Those who will take part in the county contest to be held at Burlington March 16 are Lueille Reeves, Clara Kaufman and Ruth Hammond. After the contest they voted to have a free for all spelilng match which was very interesting.

Miss Mary Brooks and HI. Cook stood up longest and Miss Brooks finally won the match. LOTS OF HAY Gridley has been a very busy little city the past two weeks. A number of the local hay men have been buying hay and shipping it for the government. Last Wednesday 21 car loads were shipped out.

As as the cars arrive they are filled and tp util the last of last week were unable to get enough cars. However, last Saturday an extra engine brought down 25 to 30 cars and they were nearly all loaded the first of the week. There has been more or less hay shipped from here all winter and we had no idea that there was so much left, but there still seems to be lots around. TO DRILL AGAIN Geo. Scales came in Monday from Neodesha where he had been working in response to a telegram from the company he drilled with last summer, stating that they were going 10 mence drilling OIL the VanNoy ranch in a short time now.

The new well will be put down about 500 feet cast of the first well drilled on the ranch. Oil was found in this well. Pete Gates will have charge of the drilling. WORD COMES TOO LATE Mrs. Dave Johnson received word from Lincoln, SunMay saying her mother, Mrs.

Houser was seriously ill. She started early Monday morning for that place but did not arrive in time to see her mother alive as Mr. Johnson received a telegram later saying she was dead. NOW IN THE ARMY H. Cook received word this week that his grandson, Earl Dickens had enlisted in the army and is now at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

Earl visited here a number of years ago and will be remembered by the younger folks. During the extremely high wind last Saturday the barn on the O. H. Schenck farm eight miles south of town was blown down. Luckily there was nothing in the barn and no damage was done.

A. A. Griffiths came in Monday night from Pawnee City, Neb. where he had been to attend the funeral of his brother Tim. Lyle Myers is able to be around again after being quite sick for the past week.

Grandma Lowe is sick. AT REST Mrs. M. Fessenden died at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning, March 6, 1918 at the home of her son Edgar Fessenden at 918 Merchant street, Emporia, Kansas, from heart trouble. Grandma Fessenden was well known thruout Coffey county and loved and respected by all.

Polly E. Bell was born in Indiana October 13, 1835. She was married to Miles Austin Fessenden, February 27, 1859. Mr. and Mrs.

Fessenden came to Kansas in 1865 and located in Louisburg, Miami county. Later they moved to Gridley where they lived until the death of Mr. Fessenden, eight years ago. Since that time Mrs. Fessenden has lived with her son Edgar at Emporia.

Those left to mourn her loss are two sons, Frank and Edgar; five grandchildren: Mrs. Clara Fish, Sharpe, Kans; Dr. Ersal Fes senden, Springfield, Mrs. Orpha Chubbuck, McPherson, Kans. Mrs.

Madge Cunnings, Muskogee Miss Elsie Fessenden, Emporia, and two grandchildren, Leward Fish and Vir. ginia Faye Cunning. Mrs. Fessenden was a faithful member of the Christian church here and loyal in every sense of the word and ever ready and will ing to help with any and all the work of the church and glad to be busy in His service. Funeral services were held at the Fessenden home in Emporia at 9:30 Friday morning then the remains were brought by auto hearse to Gridley where services were held at the Christian church at one p.

being conducted by Rev. J. J. Janssen. The music was furnished by M.

B. Crow, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Simpson and Mrs. James Elliott.

The selections were: "Nearer My God to Thee," "It Is Well With My Soul," and "Abide With Me." The remains were laid to rest in the Gridley cemetery to await the resurrection morning. NO HUNTING ALLOWED No hunting allowed on our farms, under penalty of the law. Anyone paying twenty-five cents may have their names added to this list for this season. Joe Prokop. Geo.

Houts. Frank Strickland. MOTHER DEAD Mrs. T. H.

Muir left Tuesday for Granada, called there by the death of her mother, Mrs. W. H. Morris. Mrs.

Mary Fessenden, of Muskogee, Okla. came in Thursday evening to attend Mrs. M. A. Fessenden's funeral Friday.

M. G. Atherly, Mrs. Leota Varvel, Miss Helen Atherly visited at the Varvel home. Fred Chadd went to Ft.

Sill, Okla. Tuesday morning to visit his son Alfred. Gridley and vicinity experienced another wind and dust storm last Saturday. Mrs. Alfred Chadd left Tuesday for Lawton, Okla.

for a visit with her husband..