The Ionia Independent from Ionia, Kansas • 1

ONIA INDEPENDEN SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR. IONIA, JEWELL COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 30TII, 1918. VOL. 2. NO.

14. old is on the sick Mrs. Dresslar was visitinj friends in Ionia, Saturday. i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiMiiiiiiii mm imiiiiiiimiiiiuiiiimit Eugene Hull list. Rev.

and Mrs. Templin, of Mankato, were callers in Ionia, Friday. Ionia Independent. O. A.

Brice, Owner Publisher. Mrs. Edna Holmes, Local Editor Don't Put It Off, Andrew Nichols was visiting relatives in Ionia, Saturday. Meyer Miles has an attack of Quinsy. Jack and Joe Beeler were business callers in Glen Elder, Entered at the postoffice at Ionia, Kansas as second class mail matter Dr.

J. A. Poppen enstalled electric lights in his office Miss Ada Colson was in Clay Center this week. Have you noticed after some great disaster legislative bodies made haste to pass laws to increase public safety? bame way with individuals; it's human nataure to lock the Subscription Price $1 Per Year in Advance Homer Workman made a business trip to Glen Elder, Oscar Loomis of Mankato was me norse is stolen. Angelo Colson returned home in Ionia, Saturday oaiuraay evening irom unanute Kansas.

Alcon has been on the sick list the past week. Published Every Thursday Miss Ada Colscn spent Thursday in Beloit at the home of her friend, Mrs. J. C. Eresch.

The Ionia Garage and the barber shop has enstalled electric lights. R. B. Turner has been suffering the past week with an acute attack of blood poison. Cyrus Buikstra visited at the Dr.

Poppen home, Monday eve. Joe Wheeler Aloysius Slattery and Leslie Wilkes left for Camp Funston, Sunday. "James Brinkworth of Beatrice Nebraska, visited his brother, T. II. Brinkworth and family, Little Alvah Seems has been critically ill the past week.

Miss Nees is helping care for him. Hereafter there are to be two visiting days at Camp Funston. Tht first and third Saturdays of each month. Many people never think seriously about a bank ac- count until the money they've hoarded is taken by thieves or destroyed by fire. 5 The time to put your money in the bank for protection 1 is before your house is visited by criminals or by flame.

The policy of "putting it off" is responsible for the loss 1 of big sums every day. Don't put it off, you are aware fthe danger of hiding I money about the premises. BANK IT TO-DAY. I I The Ionia State Bank Deposits guaranteed under the State Laws of Kansas and only State Depository in Jewell, County. IONIA, KANSAS.

Capital and Surplus $20,000.00 miimimiHiiiiiiii Miss Ada Colson returned from Clay Center, Wednesday, where she spent a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Blacker came in from Colorado Satur- Miss Bertha Dusenbery returned home irom Manhattan. Kansas, Saturday, where she dav to attend the funeral of has been attending high school Blocker's aunt, Mrs.

Reim- The business man who eternally keeps asking you to buy, sells more goods than the merchant that says, "They know where my store Frank Railsback who has been seriously ill for several months was able to be in Ionia, enschneider. this winter. W. S. Hoag has returned from Manhattan where he has been for a several day's visit with his family.

Mrs. Hoag will return home, Friday. On Saturday, "June 8th, when it becomes dark and you look at your watch and see that it is only 5:22 o'clock in the afternoon do not become frightened. A total eclipse of the sun is scheduled for that hour and this part of Kansas is just right to see it at its best. Political candidates are all hoping that no previous declaration of theirs will be referred to in this campaign.

Ionia Over The Top. Ionia and vicinity was asses-ed $750.00 for the Red Cross drive. Her loyal citizens came across with $965.00. Ionia has not a slacker in her vicinity Everyone paid something and we are glad to report that we are ready when the call comes again. The boys who have been in training at Camp Funston have been shipped out at a rapid rate the past week.

A man from that place told us that a train load of soldiers left Funston every hour during Friday and Saturday, Subscribe for the Independent Plans and specifications for Ionia's new school building are now in the clerk's office and the bids for the building will be LIMESTONE VALLEY CAMP NO. 1633 M. W. of A. Ionia, Kansas G.

E. Davis consul T. B. Huffman Adviser W. H.

Ault Banker Herman Colson Clerk Meeting Nights, first and third Tuesdays of each month I. 0. 0. F. Meets every Wednesday evening T.

B. Huffman Noble Grand Ed Fedde Vice Grand Jno. Stephens, Secretary Virgil Sample, Financial Sec'y. V. S.

Hoag Treasurer Thursday, of this week, is Memorial day. It will be properly observed in several parts of open June 3rd. the county. At Woodston, Kansas, lives a man named Ryant, who is a Bohemian by birth and a natural I have for sale a Dane Hay buck in good shape. Also a The longer the war continues Diabolo cream Separator, been Mrs.

Jio. Reimenschneider Eleanor Virginia Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. H.

P. Cook was born Sept. 1, 1860 in used only one year-Arthur Baker, Ionia, Kansas. ized citizen of the United States and he owns a 160-acre farm and he has bought $5,000.00 of Liberty Bonds. Every weeic he gives all the proceeds from the eggs he sells, $8 to $15 a week, to the Red If it takes From observation we have come to the conclusion that there are just two classes of women: those that don't believe all their husbands tell them and those that have no Ex.

Harrison coutny, Iowa and de the greater will the causality list of our American citizens become. A Hun sympathizer better be hiding out. He ought not to be allowed to even breathe American air. Ex. parted this life May 23, 1918.

imiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiimimimmi 1 BUSINESS 1 In September 1871, she moved with her parents to Jewell Kansas and resided here until Mrs. N. J. Harrel, who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A.

D. Dusenberry, was taken quite ill on Monday night but is some better at present. his whole farm to get the kaiser, 5 1 PROFESSIONAL April 1st 1917 when she with he says, he willing to give it up. Daily Call. her husband and son Samuel and family moved to Siebert, We note that a certain states Ionia may soon have electric lights.

Jim Dugger, owner of the Ionia Garage this week installed electric lights which are man wants a law to com- pell slackers to wear a distinguishing badge. It is unneces 1 CARDS milllllllllllllllllllMIMIillllllllllllllllHIlIi Auto Hearse or Horse Drawn Funeral as Desired Embalming and Sanitation G. T. ROSE Funeral Director Ionia Kansas as good as those in large cities Mrs. Samuel Gish, of Atwood Kansas is in a hospital in Miss Colorado.

She was married to Jno. Reimenschneider, November 9, 1881, Their home was blessed with four children, Albert Edwin, ot Esbon, Kansas. Samuel Lee of Siebert, Colorado, Alice Idell of Hudson, Colorado and Alma Claire Bonecutter oi Mankato, Kansas, who in the tenderest years of life hive sustained such an irreparable loss. Mrs. Reimenscrneider was' a home maker, a wife, and a com ouri, where she underwent an operation for cancer.

Mrs. Gish formerly lived on a farm liorth JJ' in 1 1 iiiiiuiiii i inn ii i ii ii 1 1 1 tii hi mi 1 1 1 nm i i ii ii in i ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 ii isr Scrap Iron Wan td I am on the market for all kinds of scrap iron and am anxious to buy a bunch at once. It makes no difference i what you have in the way of iron bring it in this week or during the next several weeks and we will pay you 1 I 50c Per Hundred I Thi3 is for mixed Iron. I also want I Old Bones at 50c Per Cwt. 5 The junk market has been very unsteady the pa3t several months but we are still buying all kinds of copper, I brass, rubber, rags, zinc, aluminum, and paying the very top prices for it.

We guarantee our wioht I sary. Every slacker in every community no matter how small is known as well as if he wore a badge that covered half his person and was accompanied around by a brass bad. For the slacker there is no escape. Let no slacker console himself with the idea that he is hiding anything. Osborne Farmer.

J. A. POPPEN, M. D. Physician and Surgeo Ionia, Kansas of Ionia and is a sister of Geo.

Fisher of this city. Glen Ault, of Kansas City, DR. L. E. AULT Veterinarian Missouri, is here visiting his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Kansas Ionia, panion indeed, a mother with all that endearing title means. She Ault.

Glen will leave July the Every auto owner will be in-erested in a new pro-German tactic in the automobile factories. It was found that new machines turned out ran hot and iiiiiiiiiimmmmiimrmiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiii was a member the Dentonia SlRebeckah lodge and during re- 1st for Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he has been called into the service of Uncle Sam. cent months while she was visit-5 ing relatives she confessed her faith in Christ in a meeting held IONIA 1 Lodge Directory scored the cylinders. Investig- right and ask you to clean your place of junk and take ad- 3 vantage of the prices now being paid. Do it this week.

Otis Colson is running as sub- ation disclosed that sand blasts at Dentonia by Rev. Kennedy. stitute mail clerk out of Atchi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiniiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiH She leaves to mourn besides her husband and children, an aged E. F. SUTTON to clean the casting were 5 charge of foreigners.

They added emery to the sand and it stuck in the pores of the metal and finally resulted in the trou-, son this week. He works with his brother Dice Colson. Mr. Colson recently entered the rail GLEN ELDER, KANSAS T. i.l way mail service and his many friends here wish for his continued success.

IONIA REBEKAH LODGE No. Ill Meets Every Saturday Night Mrs. T. B. Huffman, N.

G. Mrs. Wiley Huffman V. G. Mrs.

Geo. Davis Secy. Lizzie Brinkworth Treasurer. -Mrs. Ott Alcorn Chaplin HiHiiiiiiiMiiiMiiiiiniimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiii lllllllfllf IMIIff If lIMllIllf uiiTl place United States inspectors in every department to avoid this form of Hun insanity.

father, 0. H. P. Cook, of Esbon, Kansas, three brothers and two sisters," Daniel Cook, of Hudson, Samuel Cook, of Cawker City, Elmer Cook of Ionia, Mrs. Olive Colson of Ionia, and Mrs.

Alberta Rhodes of Vernon Colo. The funeral services were conducted at the home of her father in Esbon, Kansas, May 27th by Rev. H. J. Kennedy and interment in Ionia Cemetery.

Pay Up Your Subscription Now. Indications point to trouble soon with Mexico, but that will not stop the United States sending millions of men to France. This community was shocked last Saturday when a message came from Colorado announcing the death of Mrs. John Reimenschneider, a former resident and old citizen of Ionia. The remains were brought to Esbo Saturday and the funeral conducted Monday.

Remains were laid to rest in the Ionia IONIA POST NO. 78, G. A. R. Meets Every Second Saturday, 2 p.

m. at I. O. O. F.

Hall Angelo Colson Com. Joseph Clegg Adjt. There will be millions left to at tend to Mexico and the German agitators there. We have five "Oh, you have left Us dear mo-. ther, And sorrow is crushing our hearts, yiiniiini.miii.inm...I.m..m.i..m...HI.im..mu..n.,,l,m I iiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiMii 5 We are now in a position to write all kinds of Insur- ance such as the following: I classes between the ages to 21 to 31 to draw from and the age limit can easly be raised.

The For in this world there is no oth ASSEMBLY NO. 134 Kansas Fraternal Citizens Ionia, Kansas L. P. Marble President Mrs. 0.

L. Dusenbery V-Pres. Herman Colson, Sec'y and Treas. present government of Mexico evidently does not view the situation in its true light and probably has an idea that with the TORNADO, I 11A1L FIRE, LIGHTNING and also LIFE. i tinifitf in if iiiiiiiif if ii er, That can take thy own dear part, And as we go out in the world of action, To mount its highway rough and steep To meet the world's pleasures and attractions, Thy love darling mother shall guide our feet.

"Vengeance and The Woman." A regular wild west hold up of a store and the score of its occupants by a band of outlaws and escaped convicts and a game of dice for a girl whom they have captured furnishes some of the thrills in the 2nd episode of "Vengeance and The Woman." At the Ionia Opera House on Saturday, June 1st. SILVER CAMP NO. 2590 R.N. of A. Ionia, Kansas Hattie B.

Bowman Oracle Mable L. Davis Receiver Emma E. Colson Recorder Meetings 1st. and 3rd. Saturday afternoons each month help of the Germans there it can defeat the United States, get Texas back and secure a big money indemnity.

That is the sort of a propaganda being spread in that country by the Germans. Ionia State Bank iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimm.