The Dodge City Journal du lieu suivant : Dodge City, Kansas • 1

ODGE GITY JQU VOLUME FORTY. DODGE CITY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1920 NUMBER 35 RNAL KANSAS CELEBRATED MANY AT DEMONSTRATION GOOD ROADS ORGANIZATION TO BE FORMED MONDAY MONEY AND MARKETS i (By the National Bank of Commerce in New York) 1 markets are now in a condition of inactivity not paralleled since the pe riod of uncertainty which followed the armistice. Normally, this is the THE SCHOOL BOOK LIST Following is the list of books to be uesd by the various grades of the Credit Situation The gradual inmrovement of trans- portation which has been effected Fordson Tractor and Soil Experts Furnished Entertainment It is estimated that as many as nine hundred people witnessed the Fordson tractor demonstration -which was held Saturday on the Garner land just east of the new Dodge City standpipe. who saw the dem- onstration were well pleased with the success with which the Fordsons per formed and declared it was one of the during recent weeks has permitted sult of a widespread realization which a somewhat more rapid movement of has at last become general through-grain than had been anticipated. Con- i out the business community, that the best exhibitions they had ever seen that he "would have the opportunity in this city.

to address the celebration in other I. Throckmorton, professor of 'ears- agronomy in the State Agriculture In his talk Governor Allen outlined College, Manhattan, made a very in- the development of Kansas agricultur-teresting talk on wheat growing in i and as a state' complimenting Western Kansas and pointed out some a11 Kansans on the greatness of the of the difficulties the farmers in this state which they represented, section of the state had to contend Governor was Preceded by Mrs. James E. McConnell, of Vinita, A. E.

Hildebrand, who was in charge of the demonstration, made a short flower state better than Oklahoma, talk on power farming" and as he Mrs. McConnell sang several songs has practically handled a very large! Cu 6 nn a clear, high soprano. She was ractor demonstration during the past auded severatt timeg but was ten years, was able to give his listen- forced to retire whfin Colonel this li V6ry gd PinterS t0k the CentrC the Platform 1 1 e' i to introduce Governor Allen. The demonstration was scheduled After the Governor's speech, Mrs. to begm at 8:30 a.

but on account Margaret Hill McCarter, nationally dullest season of the year and the condition of stagnation is partially I to be ascribed to that fact. To a far greater extent, however, it is the re- present downward price movement is not a temporary tendency but a decline toward a new level applicable to postwar conditions, a level which can be found only by cautious experi- mentation in the market. It is possi ble that in some commodities this new level has already been reached. Railroad Rates The necessity for an advance in railroad rates had long been beyond argument, but even among those who regarded this advance as necessary there had been a considerable doubt as to the effect upon prices of pro-' ducts which move on a tonnage hasis Temporarily the effect of these rate advances will be reflected in prices of bulky articles, although there should be little or no reflection in prices of articles the value of which is relatively high in relation to weight. Certain offsetting circumstances are not to be ignored, however.

As long as the railroads were unable adequately to expand their facilities to handle the freight offered them, business in all lines suffered under a most serious handicap because of hampered transportation. In some cases this has been reflected violently in prices. If the rate advances enable the railroads to build up their plant and equipment enough to handle freight expansion of production in all lines will become possible, and the friction involved in the present process of distribution will be elimlinated. It take considerable time to reach this esult, but when it is attained the final effect of increased rates will be to lower prices. "Shooting the Goal." F.

E. Gordon's feage Advice Inspirational lectures have had a great call. In selecting a lecturer of the inspirational type for Chautauqua, Charles F. Homer, in presenting Dr. F.

E. Gordon, is offering a man whose sincerity is beyond question and whose ability is of a very high order. These days it takes considerable of a man to dtal with the subject of home training and some of the more old-fashioned ideas, bringing them up to date and offering solutions and advice that are new and timely. This is what Dr. Gordon does with fire and eloquence.

Any parent who misses this lecture or who permits children to miss it, passes up a rare opportunity for new thought and incentive. Dr. Gordon has a solution for a real understanding between the home and the' school, the parent and the teacher. It's worth while and it makes good. Gray County Record: We spent most of last Sunday in Dodge City.

In the afternoon we had Mr. F. S. Botkin bring us back to Ensign, we ('0ld not stand the noise and bustle of the Ia'er city any longer. We were accompanied home by our sister, Krs- Jonn S.

Rush, and Mrs. C. M. cee30n- vvnue ensign rars. nusn Mrs.

Beeson and Mr. Botkin were showT1 the flower Parden of M. razier, ami mey were surpriseu to see the beautiful flowers and fine Frank Richards, for many years a resident of Ford County, but lately of Pueblo, Colorado, died there last 1 I sequentiy tne holdover Irom the pre ceding year has in good measure been cared for and the new crop-moving season has begun on schedule and under more favorable conditions than seemed possible a month ago. It is reported from some sections of the middle west that bank loans to finance the actual harvesting of the new crops are being reduced at an earlier date than is usually the case. While the credit requirements of the new movement will not reach maximum volume for some time to come, and while easier credit can not be expected until the peak of the movement has passed, the situation has improved sufficiently to make reasonably clear that the.

autumn agricultural demands for credit will not be in excess of the ability of the banks to sup-There are indications also that many commercial borrowers, in response of a credit stringency during the fall which have prevailed foi many months, have at least to some extent anticipated their autumn requirements for credit. This factor, coupled with' the continued tendency toward reduced volume of business and lower prices for many commodities, may be expected to relieve the pressure of commercial and industrial credit requirements. It must be recognized, however, that some little- time will be necessary for this relief to make itself manifest, because of the interval which must elapse before a new policy in business brings Money Rates Rate in the New York money market have ruled steady throughout the period of July 16-August 15. Commercial borrowings in the open market le continued at a firm level of 8 per cent. Call money rates, which ruled at 9 per cent, at the beginning of the period, gradually declined to about 6 per cent, at its close.

This decline has reflected, not a surplus of funds available for stock exchange employment, but the reduced volume of requirements resulting from co tinued stock liquidation. Securities The bond market has experienced a real measure of improvement during the period under review. The absorption by investors of corporate and particularly of railroad securi- ties has been pood and has extended i rhnndsnfthPRPmndand third cradP The general trend of prices, moreover, has been moderately upward. This improvement in tone is a reflection of the more definite and improved position of the railroads which will result from the settlement of the railroad wage question and the allowr-ance of substantially increased freight and passenger rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission. It reflects, also, a feeling that the readjustment of business and prices to a more nor- mal level is proceeding satisfactorily and that process will ultimately release to the investmentmarket more adequate supply of credit.

While these factors have occasioned a mod- te upward trend of bond prices, the era tremendous value of new financing -wjhinVi orlmiha a -favnroblp mnrlrpt. Mor Than 1500 People Hear Got ernor at Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, Aug. 24. More than 1,500 Kansans turned out yesterday to the regular Kansas Day celebration here, to welcome Governor Henry Allen, their governor, who was the chief speaker of the day. In his speech Governor Allen congratulated the Kansans on being able to muster so large a crowd for the picnic and expressed the hope who says that she formerly 9 1 known writer and iecturer on politi cal reforms, spoke.

W. E. Stanley, of Wichita, and Judge E. C. Cole, of the Kansas court of appeals, also spoke.

Although Governor Oliver H. Shoup of Colorado was in the city yesterday he was unable to speak at the Kansas Day celebration due to other business. It had been planned that he would give an address of welcome for the people from Colorado's nearest neighbor state. Large sunflowers and other yellow blossoms resembling the emblem of Kansas were much in evidence at the big speech making. It is estimated that there were upwardsof 1,500 people in attendance.

Every seat in front of the band stand was filled and numerous other benches were brought from every corner of the park. Over 500 persons stood up during the entire celebration because they were unable to get seats. THEY WILL COMBINE American Lebion and S. W. Veterans to Hold Reunion Together There-will probably be no conflic-tion of dates in the reunion next year, as the Southwest Veterans association and thai American Legion will combine the fall festival and the reunion and hold both at the same time and place under one management.

Holding the two different affairs during the same week in different locations this year certainly resulted in a reduced attendance at each, although both were remarkably successul. Plans that will make the meeting next year the leading one in western Kansas are already being discussed and formulated. CAUGHI CAR THIEVES Two men giving their names as Harold B. McLemore and Bob Pol-son, and their residence as Denver, were intercepted here last week by Sheriff Madden, whose suspicions were aroused following' the attempt by the men to steal a spare rim at the Santa Fe Trail garage The car they were driving had been stolen from E. Hendricks, of Denver, who came with the Denver authorities and took the men and the car back with them.

The car was stolen in Denver August-14. BURNED BY OIL STOVE Mrs. Kittie Thompson, of, 503 Seventh Avenue, wes severely burned about the hands and arms Monday morning when she carried a blazing, (mm her home. The wick UH DtW 1 nf th stove had evidently been turn- ti, bad pet fire to the 11 wall back of the stove, but the flam-i- fV.o firp wa? ex prre was aim tingnished before the arrival of the fire department. Deister's orchestra will furni.h mu-ic frr an American Legion dance to be given at Ppearville next tupsday evening, August 31.

Many LeHon members from here will attend. The general public is invited. Mrs. Jennie Williams returned on train No. 11 from Kan-aCity, where she pvTcr-Vo-' fa'l stock fcr their store.

The Williams Millinery pnd Variety Ftore. Meeting is Called for 7:30 p. m. at Court House by V. N.

Gibbons, President of the State Organization Two prominent good roads men of Kansas will be in Dodge City next Monday and a meeting has been called to be held at the court house at 7:30 p. m. Monday, August 30, for the purpose of organizing a county or-anization. W. N.

Gibbons, president, and Harry Wright, manager the Kansas Good Roads Association, are the men who are coming, and who extend an invitation to all residetns of the county who are interested iii the subject of good roads. Mr. Gibbons states that the object of such an organization all over the state is: To advocate, instruct and promote the construction and maintenance of better roads, secure greater skill and efficiency in road workers and officials; advocate wise, equitable and practical highway legislation, secure just and economical expenditure of highway funds and urge construction of permanent bridges and culverts and a system of improved highways in the state of Kansas. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS T. L.

McCarty to H. M. Christen-sen, lot 30, block 19, Shinn's addition, Dodge City; $1,200. Walter V. Scott to Del Paul West, lot 15, block 87, Ford; $50.

John Stephens to A. C. Housinger, int. all 23-25-25; $10,000. Clarence R.

Winans to H. A. Hart, lot 53, block 35, Fairview addition, Dodge City; $500. Clarence R. Winans to H.

A. Hart, lot 52, block 35, Fairview addition, Dodge City; $700. Lilly A. Nutt to Bessie F. Nutt, int.

SEV 13-26-21; $6,000. John L. Gresham to Nannie A. Gresham, NE 4-29-22; $1. The death of William Henry Harrison occurred at the soldiers' home Wednesday morning.

following an illness of several years. Mr. Harrison was 78 years of ajfe. He was bom in Selma, Ohio, June 6, 1842, and atthe outbreak of the civil war enlisted in the 44th Ohio Infantry. He later served in the 8th Ohio- Cavalry, serving altogether about four years.

He came to Kansas in 1885, and was married to Miss Minnie Crawford at Peabody in 1895, The funeral was conducted by Rev. and interment was in the Fort cemetery. He is survived by the widow and a small daughter, Minnie Harrison. Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. Coffman, of Overbrook, who were here last week visiting Mrs. Coffman's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Bragg, 1600 Central Avenue, have returned home. Jay House: While the eugneic courtships at a Lincoln institute devoted to the inculcation of the art of sanitary and hygenic "spooning" are crawing large crowds ol interested spectators, a London correspondent admits the spectators are disappoint- ed. The students, he says, are ex- tremely self-conscious. We are, as the Hon. C.

G. Blakeley once said when interrogated by his constituents, con- 1 cerning his attitude toward certain legislation then pending, we are "for everything that's nice." But we doubt that eugenic courtship carries sufficient vibration to become popu- lar with the people. The people are much more open and freehand in their wooings than they were, "say twenty "yt ars ago; but they will never adopt hygenic methods at the expense of thrill. Two of the old and efficient aids to courtship and marriage have passed from view. We refer to the hammock and the top buggy.

Many men grown gray about the temples will read these lines and recall down in a hammock care and fancy free and arise from it manacled for life. Others will remember bilrcy rides upon which they embarked light-hearted, exuberant boys to return engaged men. But if the top Vu.r!ry and the hammock are gone, the rorch swing, the parlor sofa and the wk bench remain. It is still possible to achieve the thrill of love at a minimum of exposure to the public traze. It is true th? process of courtship, as we have once or twice had occasion to observe it in Fairmount Park, approaches the eugenic method in iU publicity.

But if we are nny judcre of externals, the similarity ends there1. Ford County schools, and the price of each First Grade Kansas Primer .22 Kansas First .35 Tablet Beginner's Pencil Package Drawing .10 Crayolas Second Grade Kanass Second Reader .36 Outlook Writing Book No. 1 .11 Writing- Pad .06 Package Drawing Paper .10 Tablet Beginner's Pencil Crayolas Progressive Music Reader No. 1 Foot Ruler 52 i Third Grade Kansas Third Reader 33 Outlook Writing Book No. 2 11 0utIok Practice Pad .06 Pens Ink Morey's Elementary Arithmeticl.

.39 Spelling Pad Foot Ruler Tablet Pencil Package Drawing Paper .10 Progressive First Music Reader .52 Crayolas Fourth Grade Kansas Fourth Reader .36 Morey's Elementary Arithmetic .39 King's Primary Geography .92 Lessons in English, Book No. 1 .35 Kansas Speller .23 Writing Book No. 3 11 Practice Pad .06 Water Colors .40 Pens, 5c, Pencil, 5c. Ink, 10c, Tablet, 10c. Package Drawing Paper Small Dictionary.

Progressive Music Book, Second .55 Mayberrjs's Primer Physiology .32 Fifth Grade Fifth Grade Classics 36 Language Book No. 1 (Miller). .35 Morey's Elementary Arithmetic .39 Second Music Reader .55 King's Primary Geography .92 Kansas Speller. i.l ,23 Writing Book No. 4 11 Writing.

Pad .06 Box of Water Colors 40 Dictionary Pencil, 5c, Pens, 5c. Ink, 10c, Tablet, 10c. Note Book. Drawing Pad .10 Mayberry's Primer .32 Second Music Reader .55 Sixth Grade Kansas 6th Grade Classics .36 Advanced Arithmetic .51 English Lessons, Book No. 2 (Miller) .11 Progressive Third Reader 60 Kansas Fifth Reader .39 Tarr McMurrey's World Geography.

Phyology (Meyberry) .32 Writing Book and Pad No. 5 .17 Dictionary. Kansas Speller .23 Box of Water Colors .40 Drawing Pad .10 Pencil and Pens, 5c each. Ink, 10c, Tablet, 10c. Gordy's Elementary History.

.62 Junior High School --Seventh Grade Seventh Grade Classics. .36 Grammar, Miller-Kinkead No. 2 .41 Kansas Speller .23 Advanced Arithmetic (Morey) .51 Tarr McMurrey's World Geography Physiology (Korhn Crumbine) SI U. S. History (Foster) .69 Fourth Reader Writing Book No.

6 .11 Writing- Pad .06 Tablet. Pens and ink. Junior High School Eighth Grade Eighth Grade Classics -36 Miss Marie Logan, who was elected oueen of the American Legion Festival Saturday night by a majority cf some 18,000 votes over her nearest rival, was presented a diamond ring Wednesday night at the dance given at the Hoover Pavilion in her honor. The dance was well atended and no admission charge made for the event. oi me oaa conauion 01 tne grouna caused by rain, it was found necessary to postpone the affair until the afternoon.

"PSYCHIC INSTRUMENT MAN" SAYS WE'VE OODLES OF OIL Can Put His Finger on the Exact Spot Where Oil and Gas Can Be Located W. F. Wittich, inventor, and locater of precious metals, oil and gas, spent a few hours here Tuesday, and while here stated that Ford county is located on top of a prolific supply of oil and gas. Mr. Wittich claims that by a method of his own, and by the use of his''own invention, to be able to tell a certainty the exact point which II or gas may be drilled into, and to yurther strengthen his belief in his ability he does rlbt demand his pay until oil or gas is drilled into.

It is understood that a number of Ford county men are taking leases on land in this county and will later prospect for gas and oil. CONSERVATORY GRADUATES Miss Carola Peahel and Miss Mildred Mudge Get Deplomas Those who attended the commencement exercises of the Inter-State Conservatory of Music Saturday night were enthusiastic in their praise of the joint graduation recital of Miss Carola Peshel and Miss Mildred Mudge. Both were graduate from the piano department of the Conservatory. C. M.

Gray, of Dodge City, gave the invocation. Rev. C. Judd, of Garden City, spoke on the "Importance of the Harmonies of Life." Director Jesse presented the graduates with their certificates. Mr.

Jesse's theme for the occasion was in which he pointed out that in reality the present graduation was merely the foundation or the beginning of me steps wmcn one must climb before attaining the top rung of success in a musical career. PEACHES ON THE MARKET Peaches in bushel baskets are on the local market but the price is too high to permit much canning just at present. Dealers say the peaches on hand now could not be sold in bushel lots for much less than about $6.50 a bushel. According to the same dealer the price of the fruit wilt" be higher this year than last, stating that the I uasKets win commena aooui jo eacn i lflt.pr -whpTi fhp cnnrilv hpenmps more plentiful. FOR SATF! NWVi 15-27-24 Ford County, 160 acres, 8 miles southeast of l)odge City.

No improvements. Price $4,000. Terms. The Chas. E.

Gibson Co. Perrver, Colorado. t. v. garden Mrs.

Frazier has grown this constitutes retarding element which may occasion repeated fluctuations invea Monday at the age of 57. The body English Lessons, Book No. 2 (Mil-was sent here for burial and the u- ler). .41 neral was conducted yesterday morn- Kansas Speller .23 ing by Rev. C.

C. Clampitt," of the Morey's Advapced Arithmetic .51 Christian Church. Mr. Richards lived U. S.

History (Foster) .69 on a farm in Ford County for several Civics and Citizenship 38 years, later coming to town and con- Writing Btfck No. 7 -H ducting a feed and sale barn, and at a Wriing Pad -06 later, date conducted a restaurant. Tablet The widow and several children sur- Pens and ink. the trend. It must be expected that at each new level of prices, outstanding bend-' issues will meet with competition of new flotations.

General Conditions Although superficially not much change is evident in the general business situation from that of July 15, nevertheless underlying intrinsic conditions are slowly and steadily mak-ing for a sounder situation. An important element is the determination of business interests to carry into effect a new policy of conducting their fffairs on sane and conservatives lines, looking toward stability' and continuance in business rather than t3 the policy which until recently prevailed of doing as much business as possible at higlj prices on a basis ot excited public buying with resulting abnormal profits. Wholesale Commodity Market With few excppt'oris. the wholesale Mi' Verna Table is expected to return Sunday from Colorado Sprinsrs where she has been voting for the Jpst three weeks. Attorney John Davis and son.

from Greensburg.stopped over in Dcdge City Wednesday en route to Garden City..