The Real Westerner from Norton, Kansas • 5

THE REAL WESTERNER July, 1917 4 THE FLEMING AUTOMOBILE GARAGE The Fleming Automobile Garage, now under construction, will, have over 12 car loads of brick in its walls before it is completed, and be one of the finest livery garages in the west. PASSING OF THE LIVERY BARNS IN NORTON, KANSAS. A few weeks ago the site of the Dey livery barn was sold to the Farmers Equity, who immediately tore the old building down and commenced the erection of a fine two story brick store building. Shortly after this Bruce Flem-ing started to tear down his frame livery barn preparatory to the erection of the fine brick garage now going up on that cornor. The garage that takes the place of this last livery barn will be one of the finest in the state and will be a credit to Norton city.

The Man Who Does His Best. Sing ye your songs to the winners For triumph well merits a wreath; Laud all your heroes at dinners Of splendor, the palm to bequeath; Laurel must aye and forever Be his who shall lead all the rest, But don't overlook the endeavor Of others who did but their best. All in this life can't be leaders. Our whole is a scheme made of parts Every high road has its feeders, Each traveled by coacihes and caTts. Speeders there be on the highway, Some laggers are there with the rest; Workers, both there and in byway Are plodders who do but their best.

This, then, a song to my fellows, The chap touching elbows with me; Years and their tears make him mellow And calloused are hands that I see. His pace may not be the fleetest, His finish is often jest, But life, after all, is completest If onlv a man does his best. Famous Death Sayings. "Methinks I am becoming a god!" Vespasian. "Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory St.

Paul. "I have not lived eighty year3 without knowing how to bear dying a quarter of an hour!" Montmorency. "Why should we shrink from death I find it rather shrinks from me than I from it!" Sir Henry Vane. "I die adoring Cod, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, detesting superstition!" Voltaire. "What shadows we are and what shadows we pursue!" Burke.

"Death is the most beautiful adventure which life can offer. The test for us is to meet it as such!" Charles Frohman. HEART TO HEART TALKS WITH OUR SUBSCRIBERS. While everybody is talking war and thinking in terms of ammunition and food, it's a mighty good time to rely on that old commodity of common sense and keep right on at our job doing better work than ever before. Without question many a dealer is using the feeling created by the common hysteria to hike his profits and you and I are to blame when we add to the attitude that makes the price hikes possible.

There is plenty of food in this country for all and no one need suffer if a little common sense is used in its distribution. A few weeks ago the wild ones bought enough flour to last them for two years at around $8 a hundred and when the local speculators saw that no more squeeze was possible things let up and flour has quietly dropped nearly $2 a hundred and will continue to drop. Keep your head and don't believe everything some cheap retailer or shallow headed traveling man tells you about prices going higher next week. They may and then they may not. Remember that the fellow with goods to sell has reason to want you to think so, he wants you to buy now; Buy just what you need as you need it.

Don't store food or hoard money these times. Be a real patriot and take your chances with the rest of the crowd. The man who hoards coin and stores food is a worse slacker than the man who avoids the selective draft and should be handled accordingly. This is your country and it's up to you to do more than wave flags. One of the greatest things you can do is to help create an atmosphere of sanity around your town.

Such an atmosphere as will keep business normal and production at its best. We are not in mourning, we have no cause to be. Sure there is a war on, 'but with the great resources of the United States in intelligent hands, there can be no question as to the outcome, and if you are a true patriot you will take off 'your coat and do your best to see that all kinds of productive work is kept up to the highest pitch and that high price speculation is promptly shut down. A CHICAGO MAN'S VIEWS ON KANSAS REAL ESTATE Chicago, May 22, 1917. The Ileal Westerner, Norton, Kan.

Attention B. Walker. Gentlemen: Your kind favor at hand relative to my subscription. I thank you for your advice in the matter and am pleased to enclose my check for 50 cents as per your suggestion. You will please continue my subscription as per your arrangement and before the same; expires if you will advise me I will let you 'know if I care to continue the same longer.

I have a great desire to locate in your wonderful state but I am not at present in position to handle such a move. I cannot say that I have ever received what I consider a real bargain or price thru the many advertisements I have followed up thru your advertising since I began taking your publication. The bargains seemed to me to lie only in tracts of land so large that the purchase price ran way out of sight and beyond my capital to handle same. My idea was a farm of 160 to 320 acres that had some slight improvements, not extensive but such as could by a small investment be converted into a real home to live in. Also with a well and some fenced and if possible SO or 0 acres under cultivation.

I would even be willing to pass up the cultivation were the other improvements there as a basis. It seemed to me out in your "new" country, where rainfall some times became a serious problem, that this land should be picked up with the slight improvements named at from $12 to $18 per acre. I may be mistaken but I am under the impression I should be able to get something good for about the above price. Permit me to thank you for your courtesy in handling of my subscription and bear in mind that I shall at all times be glad to hear from you or your friends out in Kansas. With kind regards, I am, Very truly, D.

D. DAVIS. 6239 So. Park Ave. PROMPT PAY.

GOLF ADDITION By Walt Mason. A man runs up a little bill, and when it's due he pays it; he coughs up for the merchant's till and no excuse delays it. Unlike the dead-beats and the bums, he makes a proper showing; the merchants bless him when he comes, and praise him when he's going. This man, in season, meets reverse, as all men strike disaster and then, when empty is his purse, and' hard luck is his master, the dealers say, "Buy all you wish, until your luck grows stable; we'll gladly trust a man, odds-fish, who pays up when he's able." Another man runs up a bill, he keeps it climbing steady; when asked to pay, he says, "I will, when I get good and ready." Though he has roubles in his belt, and other roubles handy, he'd rather lose his freckled pelt than pay up like a dandy. And when misfortune dogs his feet, and want has badly frayed him, and he has but his hat to eat, the merchants will not aid him.

If you are building in your town a bad pay reputation, some day that rep will knock you down, and hurt like all creation. Golf addition just- commenced real building last year and already has a larger percentage of modern houses than any other addition in the city. More houses were built in this addition last year than in any two other additions of the city and they were all modern. Over a half dozen new homes are now under construction or contract for this section this fall. This section will have city water, electric lights and sewer service, making it possible to build modern homes and become the best residence section ot Norton City.

The owner of Golf addition is selling his present home in Hillside addition and will build a new home and greenhouse in Golf addition showing that he has the right kind of faith in this section of the city. All of these lots are near school, church and town centei making ideal home lots and at the prices bringing today will double their value in a year's time. They are worth twice the money they sell at for speculation and three times as much for a home. Don't miss our auction sale. It will be the one big sale event of summer of 1917.

Golf addition is in the north central part of the city. It has a larger percentage of modern houses than any other tion of the city. It has electric light, water and sewer service and is on the line of the proposed interurban. The tract lies, from four to eight blocks from the center of town, is1 from two to eight blocks from four churches, just across the street from the high school and two blocks from the city graded schools. No better location could foe found for home building.

A NEW CHIROPRACTIC HOSPITAL An effort is being made to locate a new $10,000 Chiropractic Hospital in Norton. A free site and considerable aid has been offered the promoters if they would erect the building and establish the institution here and we understand that the deal will be made. HOW TO REDUCE THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Cut out extravagance. Refuse to feed loafers. Pay cash as you go.

Eliminate all waste. Produce more goods. Demand only reasonable profits. Pay only reasonable prices. Live to your ideals.

Talk less, think more. Keep eternally on the job and you will arrive. Little boy, Pair of skates, Hole in ice, Golden Gates. "Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more, but ye see me; because I live ye shall live also!" Christ. List Your Town Property and Farms With Us We have more calls for property than we can supply.

We have a nice line of properties for sale here are a few city homes 1. Five room, brand new modern house, well located. Price $2,250. Terms. 2.

Seven room, modern, brand new house, well located. Price $2,700. Terms. 3. Seven room house, partly modern, two lots, close in, lots of fruit.

The fruit off of this place brought over $100 this year. Price $3,000. Terms. We will sell you a house on the installment plan. If we have none that suits you we will build you what you want.

Why pay rent when you can buy 'a home on installments We have a fine list of Kansas and Colorado stock and wheat farms for sale and can save you money on them. Write us your wants. If you have a place that you want to sell or trade, no matter where located, let us have it. We will find you a deal. Write us today.

Northwestern Land Company, Norton, Kansas "The Two Best Buys in Montana" a) For the Man Who Wants to Live Near Town THE McMAIION FARM (160 A choice improved, farm on the edge of Sidney, Mont A live progressive city growing rapidly. This farm should soon work into a sub-division or an acreage proposition at a big profit In the meantime it has e-nod renter and is producing a handsome revenue. It lays beautiful, has im-nrements worth $1,600.00. Is all under cultivation, with 20 a. in alfalfa.

Is we 1 1 adapted for alfalfa? corn and hogs. Would make an ideal poultry, dairy or truck firm with Sidney a high-priced market for everything you could raise. Farmers Ite'ow growing sugar-beets on adjoining fields, with Prospects for a sugar-beet factoin Sidney next year. Adjoining lands are now all held at from $100.00 to 00 an a For farming purposes it is now easily worth $100.00 an and in a few years as fcreaje or I sub-division it should really bring $400.00 an a. Our price for quick sale, $60.00 an a.

Terms, half cash, balance arranged. (2) For the Man Willing to Live Some Distance From Town tut-' FARM (640 A section of good farming land, abour 12 miles fwpplng point Between 400 and 500 acres tillage 125a. in crop. All fenced; hmiVfl stnhlP eranarv chicken house, good well, 4 work horses, and complete set of new farm imSents bought in 1916. The crop with an average yield and nresln nrics shouT figure it for yourself, 65 a.

in wheat, 15 I in oats and 45 a in flax. The' work horses and farm implements are worth about $1,500.00. In addition there is a good coal mine close by and an Tbundance of fence poles and building material in the river bottom near by for the taking. Our price for a quick sale, $25.00 an including the crop, work horses and implements. Terms, half cash, and the balance arranged.

IrH. O. NELLIS Fairbury, Nebraska Mi.