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a a a a SECOND SECTION SIX PAGES THE LIBERAL NEWS XXXV Official Official City County Paper Paper LIBERAL, SEWARD COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1919 NO. 12 JULY FOURTH PASSED QUIETLY But Little Business was Transacted in Liberal That Day and no Particular Amusements Were Slated on Account of Harvest July 4th was not a very noisy day in Liberal, owing to the extremely busy season. No effort was made to celebrate and folks appeared to want rest more than anything else. Many drove out to different groves and spent the greater part of the day, while a few attended celebrations at different towns within driving distance. Business was suspended from 9 a.

m. until 4:30 p. and clerks had the benefit of that time in most all the stores, while many firms never opened for day. In the afternoon al number of those sportingly inclined gathered at the Taylor drug store where the fight returns, were received by wire. Owing to the city ordinance forbidding fireworks within the city limits there was no shooting of fireworks of any kind, but a few provided themselves with skyrockets and enjoyed a little fun at the outskirts of the city that night.

One thing that works against the 4th of July being a big event each year is the extremely busy and hot season in which it comes. With the sun coming down until it sometimes reaches 110 in the shade a fellow has a tough time of it working himself into much enthusiasm about thing, unless it is endeavoring to keep cool. Our revolutionary father must have been madder'n a carload of wet hornets when they pulled off that Declaration of Independence in such warm weather. Telephone San Francisco- and the energy for your conversation will all come from storage batteries of EXIDE make. Nothing but the best will do--and therefore they use "Put an EXIDE battery on your Car." Atchison Globe Observations Sent in: "No Man's Land is the vacant side of an Old Maid's bed." Altho we admire President Wilson a great deal, we regard Roosevelt as this age's greatest American.

Mr. Wilson is the greatest European. A young man in love usually has just enough sense to remove the cigars from his pocket before he begins the evening's hugging. THREE POINT EYEGLASSES Comfort, Looks, Efficiency Coupled with our prompt and accurate service, our fifteen years' experience in fitting discriminating people with eyeglasses, has given us a reputation of which we are justly proud. Dr.

Eugene F. Osteopathic Physician Eyesight Specialist LIBERAL KANSAS Peoples Bank Building ITEMS OF INTEREST TO OLD TIMERS Taken from the News When Abe K. Stoufer was Editor Years Ago, July 11, 1889 Arkalon first, Seward county second and the world afterwards. Cashier Stein and L. A.

Etzold visited Liberal on Monday. Will Feather, one of our best young men, called in last Monday and 01- dered the News sent to his father at Ada, Kansas. Miss Anna Scates left for her home at Ellsworth, Friday, after spending seven weeks here with her brothers, sisters and friends. Miss Scates will be missed in social circles. A.

L. Stickel, out, the up to date ranchman, also county surveyor, was here Tuesday looking after his large cane crop. The Board of County Commissioners at their last meeting rejected a free bid for the publishing of their proceedings and passed a resolution giving the work to parties at full legal rates. All in all the Fourth at Arkalon was a success in all particulars, and the. management deserves much credit.

May we all live to see many happy returns of the day. -Three Years Ago, July 1896 Ed T. Guymon left Tuesday for a business trip to McPherson, Topeka and Kansas City. H. P.

Larrabee and daughter, May, of Arkalon were visitors in town last Thursday It is not certain that McKinley will be elected. A French prophet announces that the world will come to an end in September. Fred Hood gave a party to a ber of his young friends Monday night in honor of his twelfth birthday anniversary. It was a very pleasant affair. Grover Cleveland and Abe Stoufer of the Liberal News went fishing last week.

Grover went to Chespeake Bay while the editor was content to angle for. the finney tribe along the wild and cataractuous shores of the Cimarron-Santa Fe Trail. A representative of the News was in attendance upon the Fourth of July celebration at the D. C. Davis grove the Frisco and reports the picnic as being a success in every feature.

Some of Liberal's young people who attended the celebration at Feather's grove last Saturday name the grove "Predition Park" on account of the abundance of "Devil's claws" found there. It seems practically certain that more than nine- tenths of the German-Americans will be found working and voting for McKinley and Hobart this year. Of the 581 GermanAmerican newspapers in this country which discuss politics, 499 are in favor of the present money standard, 39 are for the free coinage of silver, and 43 have taken no definite on either side. A majority of these papers are published west of the Alleghany mountains. Soapweed Roots Wanted; a Buyer at Hugoton Mr.

Farmer. If you are through gathering that $3 per bushel wheat, and that $18 per ton hay, here's a chance to gather a littel loose change for the kids by pulling weeds. The manufacturers of "Sayman's Wonder Soap" need some. of these soapweed roots that grow wild in such abundance in Stevens county and elsewhere in southwest Kansas. They offer $12 to $15 per ton for the roots, A buyer is located at Hugoton.

The soapyweed roots must be washed and dried in the shade. He suggests that the tops be plowed under as fertilizer, used for thatching roofs, or sold to some other manufacturing company to be made into rope News. Hunger's Best Friend is a good meal. Don't forget that we have good meals by the thousands in our store. That's the main point; it's one thing to know you are going to get Groceries for supper and another to know where to get THE BEST.

Well, the quickest way to find the perfect meal is to walk up to our counters and tell us what you want. Our Groceries are the guests of many homes where the three squares are the hearth-side goddess. WILSON'S Phone 151 ORDER WOBLIES TO WAIT AND RUSH WHEAT STACKS Organizers Admit Their Campaign So far has Been a Failure, and Advise Members to "Lay for Two More Weeks Topeka, July for I. W. W.

agitators to "lay off" for two weeks until the harvest rush is over, and then to urge men to attack the wheat, are contained in letter interstacked, cepted at Hays City. The letter admits that the I. W. W. Campaign in Okalhoma and in the southern half of Kansas has been a failure SO far.

The reasons given are that authorities have been busy and have taken the agitators in charge and captured their literature. The letter containing the plans for a belated I. W. W. season delivered to a Hays man by mistake.

His name is the same as the I. W. W. agitator to whom it was addressed. Information of the letter was received today by L.

T. Hussey, state fire marshal, from Frank MeIvor, deputy fire marshal who is in the field. Attorney General Hopkins stated that there are seven I. W. W.

agitators now in Kansas jails. The most important. of these is Henry Bradley, at Lyons, Wednesday. Bradley is said to be in charge of I. W.

W. propaganda in Kansas and he is either a member of the National I. W. executive committee or is a candidate for this position. The other agitators are distributed, two at Wellington, two at Wichita, one at Herington and one at Great Bend.

All are being kept in jail under the vagrancy act. Lyons, July Bradley, alleged I. W. W. "higher-up" and field organizer of the agricultural branch of the O.

B. U. was arrested in Geneseo, Wednesday by the town marshal and brought to Lyons for arraignment. Bradley was concencerned as to the amount of his bond, saying that it made no difference to him whether it were fixed at $5 or he would be able to make it after a few days. He refused local counsel.

A letter in his possession from those higher in "Wobblie" authority congratulated Bradley upon his success in his work. Particular emphasis was laid on the fact that he had eluded arrest and held out promises of reward in form of a "swivel chair' job in the upper realms of the proletarian tion. Walter Stahl, assistant prosecutor of Rice county, handled the Bradley arraignment for the state. Bradley operated in northern Rice county about 30 days before being arrested. Not Only Kansas Thinks More of Pigs Than Babes A daughter of Kansas complains in an open letter that her native state while willing to appropriate money for the health of animal and even vegetable life, is close to the point of parsimony when it comes to spending money for the conservation of human life.

To combat a hog epidemic the sum of $25,000 was appropriated; to improve the health of bees $8,000 was unhesitatingly voted; but when it came to preserving the health of the babies of the state $7,000 was as far as the legislature would go. Bless her innocent Kansas heart, that state of affairs is not peculiar to Kansas. There are few states in the Union not open to the same charges and we are sorry to say Minnesota is not numbered among the exceptional few. It is a curious psychology. Perhaps it is because people may look out for themselves, while animal plant life involves a degree of help-1 lessness.

Perhaps it is because of the market feature. Cows and bees are for sale; human beings are not. But it is a common psychology. No state monopolizes the wisdom or the ignorant narrowness of the country. The qualities are pretty well Paul Dispatch.

A Busy Corner "How's business today?" "Brisk," replied the druggist. "I've already sold out of stamps, no less than fifty people have come in to use the telephone and if the present rush continues I'll have to invest in two more city -From the Birmingham Age-Hera'd. I've over tropic seas where wandered, Southern Cross, I've crossed the trackless desert where men's lives oft are lost, I've climbed the loftiest, mountains and roamed North, Ambition's lead I've followed as I fared so gaily forth. I've faced the burning sunshine of a hundred cloudless days, I've seen the frozen whiteness of the brilliant polar glaze, Yet the world may change as years pass on and stars fall from the sky, And mighty hosts may struggle for the fields where daisies lie. And yet a thought comes stealing as I tramp the weary miles, The magic of its sweetness has cheered me all the while, One little word how simple 'tis I've claimed it for my own, My wandering's over now and I'm Home, Sweet Home.

-R. S. Bagley in the Honolulu StarBulletin. GRASSHOPPER POISON FORMULA The poison formula for killing grasshoppers refuires 20lbs. of bran, 1 pound of Paris Green white arsenic or London Purple, 2 quarts of cheap molasses, 3 or 4 lbs.

of newly chopped oranges or lemons, 3 gallons of water. Mix the bran and poison dry add the oranges or lemons to the water and dissolvethe molasses in this mixture. Wet the bran and poison with the solution. This mixture should cover four or five acres. It should be sown broadcast in infested areas early in the morning.

If the are moving into a new field, a strip of mash should be sown along the edge of the field early in the morning. Sometimes it is necessary to make additional'applications at intervals of three or four days. Must Fight Grasshoppers The following from the Dodge City Globe gives you some idea of the situation which prevails in Ford county and which is but little better here. Grasshoppers demand' attention right now or this fall's wheat will be eaten up or entirely destroyed. Read the following, think and act: Grasshoppers have destroyed probably a million dollars worth of grain in Ford county in the past few days.

Every day they are attacking new fields. The ravages of the grasshoppers are not checked even at night. According to many reports the damage to wheat fields amounts as much at night as during the day. Farmers say the hoppers may be expected to continue their attacks upon the wheat until the stalks are perfectly dry. Then they will go to the corn and other growing crops.

Ford county will have to pay a heavy tax this season for the support of its grasshoppers. The loss these pests are causing will seriously effect the economic situation in this county and probably in all southwestern Kansas. The difficulties which farmers will face when wheat seeding time arrives again, with millions of hoppers on every hand may be even worse. The question of a counter attack on the grasshopper is one which demands immediate attention. If there is any plan which could be employed in fighting the grasshoppers with reasonable promise of success, the interest of this entire county at least require that the plan be worked out and put into operation with as littie delay as possible.

The poisoning of grasshoppers is now going on in some of the adjoining counties. It is an expensive operation, of course, but the expense is hardly worth mentioning when compared with the enormous additional losses which the grasshoppers are certain to cause if they are unmolested. The poisoning of grasshoppers involves such a big expense, however, that it could not be carried out unless the county commissioners are willing to appropriate county funds for the campaign. The commissioners probably would be willing to do what the residents of the county want done about the matter, but it is not likely that they would appropriate such a large sum of money on their own initiative. For this reason, those who believe the county should go after the grasshoppers with poison, as has been done with considerable success in the past seasons, ought to say so.

The luxury of so many grasshoppers is one which this county can ill afford. And if relief are to be adopted, the county measures, be in a position to apply them soon." Obituary Pearl Emogene Hepler was born March 25. 1875 in Logan County, Illinois. Died at St. Marys Hospital at Winfield, Kansas, June 22, 1919 at 4:30 p.

m. She is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J.

Turley who survives her, she also is survived by her brother and sister, Walter Turley and Katherine Clark. Mrs. Hepler joined the first Christian church of Udall at the age of 15 and lived a faithful believer in Christ until her death. She was united in marriage to Walter B. Hepler, June 5th, 1908 and was a loving and devoted wife, the prominent feature of their married life was the close companionship of Mr.

and Mrs. Hepler. For the past six years they have lived at Liberal, Kansas, where Mr. Hepler has been engaged in the produce business and during their residence there have enjoyed the highest respect of the citizens of that community and sad and untimely death of Mrs. Hepler came as a severe shock to their large circle of friends.

Mrs. Hepler was first strieken about Feb. 12th during the succeding months and until her death, she was a patient sufferer and was apparently prepared to meet the end as she had previously made numerous requests that she desired to be carried out after her death. Funeral services were conducted in the Congregational Church on Friday afternoon, by the Rev. H.

S. Scott, text, Psalms 90:9: "We spend our years as a tale that is appropriate hymns were sung by the Quartet, Mrs. D. P. Simons, Miss Hazel Kiser, B.

H. Latham and H. S. Scott. Interment was in the Udall -Udall Herald.

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The Old Mare's Not So Slow There is a great deal of justifiable praise these days of what the tracto: will do, and its value to the but Ray Bruckart, who held public sale, Wednesday of last week, has a still accomplish on the farm in these pretty good story of what a horse times of tractor farming. Seven years ago, Ray, who has been in partnership with W. C. Edwards on Edsland Stock Farm, bought a mare for $75. In seven years he has sold three mules and three horse colts from this mare, the six head bringing $1,041 when sold.

He has had the work of the mare all this time also the work of several of her colts. He also has sold over $500 worth of colts from her first mare colt. And at the uublic sale recently he sold this mare for $61, she having depreciated only $14 in the seven years he owned her. -Tiller and Toiler. W.

C. Anderson was transacting business (in Guymon several days last week. He returned Friday ing. Roads to National Forests Why Not Trim Them Up The motoring public has forced following from The the Kinsley Mercury is applicable in Liberal as recognition from Congress of the well for other towns and suggests as recreational value of the national an ordinance for that as well as for forests. Appropriations for the con- weeds on vacant lots: and maintenance of roads "There is hardly a street in the struction city of Kinsely that one can walk the within the forests, full lenght of, and stand erect in donational totaling 19 million dollars of federal so, without having his lid swept funds, are now available.

Of this off his head. We know from experisum, according to information ob- ence. tained by the California State Auto- There is no excuse for letting the mobile Association from Federal For- branches of the trees grow so low. It est Supervisor R. 0 0 00 W.

Ayers, approxi- shuts off the cool summer breezes demately $2,300,000 will be spent with- priving the dwelling houses of sein a short time in providing curing the best of ventilation, and is al automobile roads for the tourist also mighty hard on a fellow's reand traveler leading to the 19 million ligion. acres of national forests in Cali- After a shower the wet limbs on fornia. some of these trees hang so low that For the last two years all road pro- one is reminded of the uncivilized rejects which did not: contribute gions of Africa and South America, rectly to winning the war were commonly called "the jungles." Why dropped. Now the road building not take a little pride in Old Kinsley gram of the forest service has been Town, trim up these trees high resumed and by the appropriations enough so that a person may pass recently passed program has along the sidewalks unmolested, and been' greatly the show people that visit our little city San Francisco Bulletin. that we want a city beautiful" Home TEN PER CENT OFF Saturday at 10:10 till 10:10 Staple and Seasonable Articles First Letter of the Articles are We are not giving away anythimg, Neither are we using this method to get you in the store.

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