The Ionia Independent from Ionia, Kansas • 1

THE IONIA INDEPENDENT SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YE AR. IONIA, JEWELL COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 27TH, 1918. VOL.2. NO. 18.

Word has been received here Ionia Independent. O. A. Brice, Owner Publisher. Mrs.

Edna Holmes, Local Editor At the Movies, Saturday Night. A lucky shot wins for Duncan as one of his bullets splits the stock of a bandits ride. The other is armed only with a pistol and the two withdrew leaving Duncan and Miss Holloway on a ledge, their only avenue of escape being the river below. Mr. Duncan and Miss Holloway Vitigraph's famous stars, take the leading roles.

UiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiNit I How Much Do You Spend! I In A Monht? In the course of a life time a fortune will pass through your hands. A great deal of it will sift through your fing- 1 ers like flax seed, so fast, and in such small sums that you will scarcely be aware of its passing. And aside from mere subsistence you will be conscious of very few benefits from 1 it. 3 If you expect any of the greater pleasures and comforts 5 any degree of ease or independence these all depend on 3 how much you can retain as it comes to you. 3 The Best Way to Retain It is a Bank Account.

We have 3 3 a pass book awaiting your call. The Ionia State Bank 1 I Deposits guaranteed under the State Laws of Kansas and only State Depository in Jewell County. 3 THE BLOOD CALL. There is no finer sight in this old world than perfect blood loyaltyfamilies bound by the ties of blood, cemented into one compact band to promote and defend the interests of the whole. The hour has struck when this cali is ringing dear and loud a-bove all others in the ears of the American people.

Every city, every town, every hamlet and every community in the land has given of its best beloved blood to swell the expeditionary forces on the battle fields of France. These men have gone to fight battles. They have offered their ALL in OUR service. The blood tie holds them firmly to the task which they are dedicated to. We have the word of the commanders that their sacrifice is complete that the blood loyalty is perfect.

But is theirs to be the only demonstration of the power of blood loyalty? What man worthy of the name, if he has a "friend fighting his battles, will not back him up and support him to the limit if his power? Is the sacrifice to be out of proportion to the gratitude of the beneficiary? These thousands, these hundreds of thousands, who have gone, are and who are yet to go flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood are appealing to us through every affection of the human heart for SUPPORT, for SUSTENANCE, for POWER. These WE must I IONIA, KANSAS. President Ben Kuiken. ier, W. F.

Bechtold. Capital and Surplus $20,000.00 5 Vice-President, R. D. Rose. Cash- Assistant Cashier, Pearl Rupard.

that Dr. Claude Maxwell has ar rived safely overseas. Bert Brinkworth, who was re cently called into the service of Uncle Sam was sent to the state of Washington to cut spruce for the government airplane program. Mrs. J.

W. Meadows is suffering with a severe sore thumb caused from a hedge thorn being run in it. ben Kuiken is in Tipton this week. W. F.

Bechtold, cashier of the Ionia State Bank, was in Gay-lord, Kansas, Sunday. Otis Colson of Atchison, spent the week-end at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Colson. Mr.

Colson is now a mail clerk on the Mo. Pacific and expects to be called into the services of Uncle Sam soon. Some Ionia folks are now laying in their winter's supply, of coal. H. E.

Colson was a caller in Glen Elder, Saturday. Some farmers are harvesting by night. The cool breeze of the last week was much appreciated by all who have to work in the fields. Ionia is the place to invest your money. Three lots on the outskirts of the, town recently sold for $900.

or $300 per acre. They were purchased from Mrs. W. S. Hoag by the Ionia School District.

The new school house will be built on these lots which are located at the bottom of the hill west of town. TiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiIi The high price of walnut lumber is bringing out great masses of the wood for gun-stocks. As high as $90 per thousand feet is being paid and at railway sidings bunches of logs are appearing. Certain specifications are necessary and if you have some walnut timber you'd better write to Washington, D. so that you may cut it the right size.

Just a sprinkle of rain fell on Monday evening. The papers report all Kansas soaked but Northwest portion. Lend your money to the government as freely as the boys over there are giving their lives. June 28th is the date to get in game and play against the Kaiser of Germany. Mr.

and Mrs. T. H. BrinkwortA were callers in Glen Elder on Sunday. Mrs.

Edna Holmes and son Ivan, and Miss Ada Colson were in Glen Elder, Sunday evening. T. harvested for T. B. Huffman, Wednesday.

J. L. Alcorn and Vernie Alcorn are in the harvest fields this week. Mrs. Margaret Hudleston an Mrs.

J. W. Meadows recently picked three hundred quarts gooseberries. They sold most of them. Scott Dale is working for A.

Baker. LOST Between Mankato and Belleville, a new tire. Notify Chester Steen, 2645 Washington Street, Lincoln Nebraska. The Willing Workers and Volunteer classes of the United Brethern church enjoyed ice cream, cake and pleasant games last Wednesday evening at the. home of Mr.

and Mrs. W. F. Bechtold. The evening was well spent and many happy memories will linger long over the happy event.

A well is Minneapolis finding oil. being drilled near now in hopes of Tfcl riace iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii How to Stop a Paper You Don't Want Easy If Done Honestly Entered at the postof fice at Ionia, Kansas as second class mail matter Subscription Price $1 Per Year in Advance Published Every Thursday Many newspapers and magazines are discontinuing publication on account of the new zone law which goes into effect on July 1st. Some Ionia folks have been slaying the weeds this week but we still have some that should be cut. Mr Mrs. Oscar Loomis of the Mankato neighborhood are the parents of a ten pound daug hter, born, June 22nd.

LIMESTONE VALLEY CAMP NO. 1633 M. W. of A. Ionia, Kansas G.

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

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

B. Huffman Noble Grand Ed Fedde Vice Grand Jno. Stephens. Secretary Virgil Sample, Financial SecY W. S.

Hoag Treasurer iiiitimiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiim 1 BUSINESS 1 PROFESSIONAL I CARDS 1 iimimiiiiimiiimiiimimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii Auto Hearse or Horse Drawn Funeral as Desired Embalming and Sanitation G. T. ROSE Funeral Director Ionia Kansas J. A. POPPEN, M.

D. Physician and Surgeon Ionia, Kansas DR. L. E. AULT Veterinarian Ionia, Kansas lyimmiiiiiimiimiiiimmmiiiiiiiiiiiiHi Lodge Directory rriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin 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 IONIA POST NO. 78, G.

A. R. Meets Every Second Saturday, 2 p. m. at I.

0. 0. F. Hall Angelo Colson Com. Joseph Clegg Adjt.

ASSEMBLY NO. 134 Kansas Fraternal Citizens Ionia, Kansas L. P. Marble President Mrs. 0.

L. Dusenbery V-Pres. Herman Colson, Sec'y and Treas. 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 The right, honest, just way to stop a Paper or Magazine is as follows: FIRST Pay up if you owe anything, and tell the publisher to stop sending it. SECOND If it still keeps coming, write "Refused" on the margin, and return it to the postoffice. The postmaster then places a penny postage due stamp on it and sends it to the publisher, who must pay for the stamp.

MiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiM To Our Patrons: 1 WE WILL BE SHORT OF HELP THROUGH THE 1 HARVEST SEASON BUT WILL DO OUR BEST TO 1 SERVE YOU AS WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE IN THE I I PAST. 3 YOURS TRULY, Just try this and see how quick it will stop TV1 i Kiievs TiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiT Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif biiiiii iiitiiiif iiiiaiiiii iif iiiii unit it ait mi inti imif if itiiittiiiTt furnish or their sacrifices will have been in vain. But we Americans need to be told that the very essence of blood loyalty is SACRIFICE. Not only a professed willingness to sacrifice "if necessary" but real sacrifice the total subordinating of our interests to their interests. Coming down to the grim realities, the success or failure of our sons "over yonder" ivill depend largely on whether or not we at home will sacrifice to the tune of twenty billions of dollars yearly.

There is absolutely no other way. This is the amount Congress has allotted tc the task, and it must ALL come from the people, and that over and above their own necessary expenditures. Armies are not fed and clothed and armed and equipped with ammunition simply by proclamation or by appropriations." These can only authorize the necessary expenditures, the concrete supplies must come from OUR labors and OUR savings and OUR sacrifices. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends of our soldier boys are we heeding the blood call? Are we not only "willing" buv DO we respond with every throb of our hearts' blood to every call? Or are we by our lethargy and indifference and selfishness manufacturing German bullets for their breasts for, get it right, that is the inevitable if we fail in our response to the call. A number of the business houses are short on help this week, the men being out during their "bit" in the harvest There seems to be sufficient men in the county this week to handle the harvest and most all the farmers have their crews.

Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Colson and VV.

H. Holmes accompanied by his son Ivan were callers in Mankato, Tuesday. miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiitiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I HOT I I WEATHER I I SPECIALS I miiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Scrap Iron Wanted 3 I am on the market for all kinds of scrap iron and 3 am anxious to buy a bunch at once. It makes no difference 2 what you have in the way of iron bring it in this week or during the next several weeks and we will pay you 50c Per Hundred 5 3 This is for mixed Iron. I also want 1 1 Old Bones at 50c Per wt.

I The junk market has been very unsteady the past several months but we are still buying all kind3 of copper, brass, rubber, rags, zinc, aluminum, and paying the 5 very top prices for it. We guarantee our weights to be 3 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. I E. F.SUTTON I GLEN ELDER, KANSAS 1 UIIIHIIIIIUlIlltllllllllltltflltllltllllllllllltf lllllltlfllllllllllf lllllllltllllllMIIIIIIlllltlllll WE HAVE ICE CREAM ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS.

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