The Liberal News from Liberal, Kansas • 4

THE LIBERAL NEWS realize what a friend the daily newspapers are to them, and the great service they render the according to Heaton. RYE SEED With broomcorn selling around $85 a ton, and the prospects of it overstepping the $100 a ton mark Have a small amount of Seed Rye. Better get yours now before the other fellows beat you to it within the next ninety days, it Jhe Only Practical Tailor, Cleaner and Presser IN THIS MANS TOWN THAT'S ME BILLY PATTERSON Repairing and Altering Phone No. 266 can easily be seen what a great loss to farmers is caused by the threatened labor famine now threatening Seward county farm- ers Under certain atmospnenc conditions, Heaton suggested, even the smaller broomcorn raisers stand a chance of losing $50 or more a day for each day the corn stands without cutting. Storage Goal You can always get Coal Cheaper when it has to be stored, and of us you pay a very reasonably email price.

Try us and see. HOSKINSON TITUS This year Heaton raised over 400 acres of broomcorn, much of which is being damaged by stand ing. JNext year, ne says, ne in tends to plant between a thousand and fifteen hundred acres of broom corn, and to avoid another big oss by the labor famine, will con tract for it3 harvesting before it is planted. Popular Drug Clerk Married A very pretty wedding occurred at the M. E.

parsonage this morning at 10 o'clock, when Miss Myrtle E. Miller became the bride of Franz Wimmer. The bride is a sister of Mrs. E. F.

Sweat and is a charming and accomplished young woman. Mr. Wimmer is a son of Mr. and Mrs. M.

M. Wimmer and is a hard-working, prosperous young man. The happy couole have the best wishes of a multitude ot friends for a long and happy life. They will make their home in Liberal. Rev.

Ward officiated. MARRIED Miss Alice Evalin Huff of Oil City, and Mr. Walter Milton Knowles of Avant, were married at the Methodist Parsonage, Saturday evening, Rev. Ward, officiating. Waterloo Bay gasoline engines, simple, efficient, low priced and warranted, at Liberal Hardware Co.

tf Thos. W. Miss Clara B. Colby, of Oregon will speak in Liberal September 21-22. On September 21 she will speak in the Baptist church both morning and evening, on "Some Phases of Woman's Work." On the 22nd she will speak on "Wo-mans Suffrage" place to be announced later.

Everybody is cordially invited to come and hear this noted woman. Big Dinner The ladies of the First Baptist church will serve dinner, ice cream and cake, Sept. 18, at the Craig building, three doors east of the P. O. Mrs.

Barbee, Sec. Judge A Banta, of Great Bend, who is judge pro tem of the Seward county district court made a favorable impression with the people who attended his court. He has a business-like manner of seeing that the work progresses is a treat and quibbling is not tolerated for more than three seconds. One horse drills, disc or hoe, at iberal Hardware Co. on southside 16 9 Thos.

W. Gaw mi IT FOK WKSTKHX KANSAS Kausas does things or, what amounts to the same thing, her progressive citizens do things. It seems FOR Harness, Saddles, Whips, Strap Work Harness Hardware Or Anything in the Horse Clothing Line OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE to make no manner of difference whether some one has ever done it before, or not.if it is the right thing to do, some Kansas brain drags it out and sets it in motion. The Secretary of the Commercial Club of Liberal, received re cently a letter from Mr. George O.

Creen, who is the specialist of Hor The Broomcorn Situation Following up the telegram which we sent to Hutchinson and was published-in the daily Gazette H. Heaton went to Hutchinson and was interviewed by a repre sentative of that daily. The following is the article in Thursday morning's daily. Authorized to employ five-hundred men with which to break the labor famine threatening the broom corn raisers of Seward county II. J.

Heaton of Liberal, Kansas, the largest broomcorn grower in Kansas and and perhaps the world, came to Hutchinson yesterday morning and began to organize a colony of laborers to be shipped to Seward county at once to help save the broomcorn crop. Heaton was sent on his labor hunting mis sion by the Seward County Broom Corn Growers' association and the Liberal Business Men's club, That close to a thousand men are needed in that county now to help save the broomcorn, was the statement made yesterday by Heaton, He says no farmer now has enough men to make a full crew of harvesters, and many have none. The farmers are paying the top wages for men, he says, that wages running as high as $2.25 in some instances but the prevailing scale is $2 a day with board. "Huadreds of farmers are losing from 100 to $150 every day on account of not having men to gather the broomcorn." said Heaton yesterday. "The loss is caused by the corn ripening, which reduces the quality of the brush The crop is good and the quality of brush this year was never better.

We have got to get men to help cut this broomcorn. We are calling on Hutchinson the one city ticulture at Manhattan Agricultural College, saying that a good many fanners in eastern Kansas have a supply of fine apples and Air. Our Trunk and Suia Case Department is very complete Green purposes to put the buyers of western Kansas in touch with the farmers, cutting out the handling of them by commission men, thus placing the consumer in closer touch with the producer. To the people of the districts where fruits have not as yet been propagated largely, this movement means a lot. When peaches rotted on the ground in eastern Kansas, we were paying a dollar and fifty cents a bushel for them, When to matoes were selling for forty cents a bushel in Hutchinson, we paid mm i in from a dollar and a half to two dollars a bushel for them in Liberal.

Wanted Butter, eggs, pouliry and cream. Will pay the highrst market price. Liberal Cold Stor- People cannot live in health with out fruit and vegetables, but the ex cessive, and even prohibitive prices demanded in Liberal, are not con M. J. Townsend has bought sistent with what the producer in eastern Kansas receives for them.

the insurance business of Ralph Smith. His office will be with There is no justifiable excuse for the ftxistenee of two or three com Ellsaesser Henry. mission firms to take this from the PHYSICIAN GEO. S. SMim, M.D., Office 2nd St.

and Kansas Phone No. 1 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON R. T. NICHOLS, M. Office 222 Kansas avenue Phone 22 Res.

Phone 21 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON A. L. KN1SELY, M. D. Office Miller Builning Phone 235 Ees.

Phone 180 HORSE COLLARS farmer, and hand it to our merchants. Nothing can justify the No 1 good ones about 144 of that is always loyal to the farmers of my section of the country, as well as closer territory for at excessive charges from the farmer to them a part of the W. Right's old stock. We have to close out the people of Liberal, and it is to bo hoped the people who handle our fruits and vegetables will have the least three hundred men. If I at prices that will surprise you.

courage to break away from commis Liberal Harness Co. can get tnem Here, i am going to Kansas City, Chicago, and in fact, I am going to keep traveling sion firms to as great an extent as John Thompson and Hiram possible, co-operate with the College until I get enough men to save its worthy effort, and help to Jarrett went to Hutchinson to promote the better condition of our day, to attend the Corn Contest. this valuable crop of broomcorn Upon whether or not they can ob They took samples with them. people who are making an effort to develop our country. PHYSICIAN T.

A. JONES, M. D. Office Miller Building Phone 45 Res. Phone 531 EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT T.

L. HIGGINBOTHAM, M. Office Miller Build. Phone 45 Res. Phone 3353 One horse drills, disc or hoe at For Sale A five room house tain a crew of broomcorn hands within the next few days depends the financial turn of many farmers in Seward county.

If they don't Liberal Hardware Co. on south- with bath and furnace heat, on side. Thos. W. Gaw.

16-9 easy terms. See T. A. Jones. L.

V. Gardner returned Sun get them, many a farmer who has worked hard raising this crop will A confirmed bachelor says this: "The Woman's National Weekly gives an account of the birth of a child, with two well-developed heads. day, from Kansas City, where he took a shipment of cattle. He reports the market good. go broke.

That a lack of transportation HOUSE FOR RENT need not keep men from these harvest fields, was the assertion Providence has, indeed, been kind in this instance. It will be a rare privilege of this child to argue all questions both pro and con without 12-9 2t. See Nellie Berry. made by Heaton. He says farmers being accused of talking to itself P.

M. Smith F. G. Jones SMITH JONES REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Office: Ellsaesser Henry Office Liberal's Largest Insurance Agency We are not informed as to the sex of the child, but having two tongues causes us to adopt the reasonable presumption that it is a girl. In will gladly pay the transportation of anyone who will agree to work for them, and in addition to this, they will pay the top wages and give the men the best of "grub" A wedding party was disturbed by the crying of a baby belonging to one of the women guests.

One of the young ladies present remarked to the bridesmaid: "WThat a nuisance babies are at a wedding!" "I should say returned the latter, and added, without very full consideration: "When I send out the invitations to my wedding, I shall have printed in the corner, 'No babies The this case the man who marries her will probably approach the ordeal with fear and trembling mixed with exaltation. He, will fear lest both wnue tney wort, tieaton says that there is enough work in the broomcorn fields to keep nearly tongues will lash him at the same time. His exaltation will spring a thousand men busy for the next four or five weeks. from the contemplation that his will Farmers are walking the streets not be a lingering death." Helen G. Bond J.

H. Light G. L. Light J. H.

LIGHT SON AUCTIONEERS We Work Together and Make Good Snappy Sales Write or Phone us at KISMET, KANSAS of Liberal begging for men, Heaton says, and are sending appeals to eastern newspapers as well as the See the new broom corn hand seeder at the Liberal Hardware Co. tf Thos. W. Gaw. Kansas press, begging for men HOMEPATHIC PHYSICIAN Diseases of Children a Specialty Phone 278 210 Kansas Ave.

North 2 doors north First National Bank This is one time the farmers fully.