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CLAFLIN CLARION. Historical State Entered at the Olaflin, Kansas, Post Office as Second-class Matter. Fifty-two Issues for One Dollar. VOL 12. CLAFLIN, BARTON COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1910.

NO. 3 This spring, get style and comfort Try on this style. See how easy it is to walk in. The Red Cross Shoe is tanned by the Special Red Cross Tanning Process-its sole is so supple you can bend it double when new. Red Cross Shoe Rear toss bends with your foot Trade Mark Trade Mark Oxfords $3.50, $4.

High Shoes $4. $5. CAMPBELL MERCANTILE CO. CLAFLIN'S MODERN STORE Wind, wind, we have had a plenty; let's have a change. Miss Grace Matthewson spent Sunday in Great Bend.

Rev. Borton is attending conference at Plainville this week. Don't forget the musical to be given by the Epworth League April 15th. Miss Elsie Kopplin spent Easter Sunday with relatives and friends at Hoisington. C.

T. Mayo has been on the sick list for several days and unable to attend to his duties at the postoffice Monday and Tuesday. A barn on the August Stolz farm in the St. Peter and Paul neighborhood, south of town was totally destroyed by fire last Friday. The base ball fans held a meeting last Friday night and elected officers as follows: V.

B. Sallee, manager; J. K. Pickerill, secretary, and J. L.

Walker, treasurer. The officers are now signing players and it is expected that a good line up will be secured. The Whitney pool hall was movod into its new location Tuesday. Two more tables have been added, making five altogether. The new location gives them much more room than they had at the old stand.

J. K. Pickerill expects to open a pool hall in the building vacated by the Whitney pool ball. A new floor is to be laid and covered with lincolem and three new tables will be installed. He expects to be ready to open by Saturday night.

Attend the tchool meeting next Friday--one week from tomorrow. Let's have a good attendance and talk over the matter of building a new school building. Your views on this matter will be appreciated whether you are for or against the proposition, SO make it a point to be present. The J. A.

Watson store had a very narrow escape from a serious fire Monday morning. Chas. Allen had just finished filling a two gallon gasoline can and there was a little drip of gasoline around the can and Tom Watson was lighting a lamp to take to the cellar and a piece from his match dropped into the drip from the can and a big blaze was started around the gasoline tank. Tom immediately grabbed up the can and threw it out doors, and the fire extinguisbers were put into use. A high wind was blowing at the time and bad the fire got a little start the whole north end of town would probably went up in smoke.

Archie Tyrell spent Easter with relatives at Sterling. E. J. Ingersoll and wife visited relatives at the county seat Saturday and Sunday. In the district court last Friday the case of Hunter vs.

W. B. Picker was decided in favor of the defendant. The Junior League will serve ice cream and cake Saturday afternoon, April 9, in the brick building on East Main street. Everybody invited Born, Thursday, March 24th, to Mr.

and Mrs. F. W. Dolechek, a sou. Fred is feeling pretty proud these days as they have several children, but this is the first boy.

A contract has been signed that will give Claflin the best lecture course next season that it has had for years. It is to be hoped that it will receive the liberal support of the people of the community. Among those who attended the Messiah at Lindsborg last Sunday were: Anna Carey, Marguerete West, Harry West, I ouie Miller. Cecil Dalzel. Earl Deeds, Frank Stout, H.

W. Aley and Bert Fancher. Mrs. Frank Hitchcock Monday took charge of the primary department in the Central school building, which has heretofore been under charge of Mrs. Fetters, who has -Great Bend Tribune.

Bert Jorden, who 1S attending school at Manhattan came home last Friday night and spent the time until Tuesday morning visiting with home folks. He was accompanied by Arthur Francis of St. John, who was his 1'00m mate at the college last year. Billy G'enn, state senator from Greeley county, and editor of the Greeley Tribune, has announced his candidacy for the office of lientenant governor. Billy is a good hustler and will no donbt make a good campaign for the nomination which he seeks.

Mrs. Anna Cipra, mother of Editor Cipra of the Holyrood Banner, died Friday, March 25th, at the age of 71 years. Funeral serviees were held from her late home in Holyrood on Sunday. the 27th, and interment was made in the Palacky cemetery. Sam Stover has resigned his position as wheat buyer at the elevator belonging to the Lindsborg Milling and a man by the name of Reid who was formerly located at Olmitz, has moved here and taken the place.

He is lining in the Hardten property, back of the light plant. County Surveyor Newcombe was here this week establishing the grades for the sidewalks which have been ordered in by the council, and we expect to see work on the building of the walks at an early date. It should be. remembered that all walks are to be in by the first of July, and that there is no time to lose. The "Faithful Few" of the Chautaugua Circle met with Mrs.

Haury Monday evening, and a pleasant informal social hour was spent discussing the education of the higher classes of Rome; the number, the names and the light of the stars, and Phoenician architecture. Mr. Gilstrap was leader. The Circle will meet with Mrs. Haury again next week.

Roll call will be answered by a short sketch of famous Italian artists and their work. Spring Poetry. Don't be stubborn, just surrender, Send us your your legal advertising, tender, The result will be surprising: Every dollar that is sent us Will insure returns momentous; If you don't believe our poet. Try us -the result will show it. Take this generous chance to try us, Don't creep fortune-ward so stealthy, And not carelessly go by us; Boldly dash in and be wealthy; Start boldly and gO faster, Be a Vanderbilt or Astor.

Use our paper and be wiser; Try us, Mr. Advertiser. The town of Ellsworth is figuring on. putting down a test hole and try to find oil and gas this summer. As the result of the explosion of a lamp in the Doran home at Wilson a little over a week ago.

Mrs. Doran andtwo children were burned to death. A barber at Chase being unable to get anything else to drink tried the hair tonic, and as a consequence funeral services had to be heid over his remains. Rev. J.

O. Borton delivered 8 fine Easter address Sunday morning. Selections by Miss Clara Grizzell and a solo by Mrs. J. L.

Walker were also enjoyable featnres of the service. W. G. O' Bleness has sold his farm near Cimarron and moved back to Claflin. He bas purchased ten acres of land in the west part of town and will begin at once the erection of a house on the same.

Here is a poser: If a one eyed muley cow can eat four green cabbage before a hunchback man can wind an eight day clock, how long will it take a snowball to melt in a country where the thermometer has dropped sixty degrees in sixty minutes if the snowball was there first We wonder why some one don't start a second-hand store. There is enough furniture in town to stock one, which the owners would be glad to dispose of. Besides, there would be a good profit in upholstering and dressing pieces of funiture now that house cleaning is on. A company has been organized with a capital stock of 000 and will put in a new salt plant at Lyons. The say that it will be the largest plant in the world when completed.

An evaporating plant and table salt mill will be operated in connection with this plant so that all kinds of salt can be shipped from that point. The plant is to have a daily capacity of 35 cars of salt daily. William Rawlings and wife who were brought to town last week, have. been taken to the county poor farm. Mr.

Rawlings is a cripple and unable to do any work. His wife is a daughter of Ad Smith, who lives north of town, and they have been making their home there, but it seems that owing to family troubles of some kind they were unable to stay there, and were brought to town. They had no place to stay and no means of support, so they were taken to the county farm. J. A.

Watson has traded his Arkansas farm to Nick Weber for an automobile. We suppose that we will now have to do without those peaches that John has been raising on his farm as the supply will now all be shipped direct to Dubuque where they will be on sale at the Weber store. We have not been able to learn whether Mr. Weber will part with any of those valuable diamonds that John has been tellting us about or not. Interesting Set of Figures.

The Mail and Breeze has been figuring some recently, and as a result presents an array of figures in a late issue that are quite interesting. Among other things it finds that the army and navy of the United States costs the people $2.60 per head per annum. The population of the state of Kansas is 1,700,000, so its share of the cost of the army and navy for just one year is $4,307,700. The auditor of state estimates the cost of running the state government of Kansas, including the educational and charitable institutions, for the year 1910 at $3,545,066. It is seen from these figures that if we could have our share of the money that is spent this year in maintaining the army and navy, it would be sufficient to pay all the expenses of the state government; the expenses of the state university, including more than $160,000 for new buildings; the agricultural college; the state normal and its Pittsburg branch; all the state charitable institutions with their more than 3,000 inmates; the interest on the state debt, in short, everything pertaining to the state government and the great educational and charitable institutions, and after we had paid the bills we would still have left out of the fund more than $725,000, which might be used in building 254 miles of macadam road, costing an average of $3,000 per mile.

Bound Over to District Court. B. L. Church was arrigned fore justice court at Ellsworth last Monday on a charge of making a false statement to the banking department of the state and accepting money after he knew the bank was insolvent. Several witnesses were axamined and the charges against him were found sufficient to bind him over to the district court.

His case will come up in the April term of the district court and as Judge Rees resigned, his resignation to take effect April 20, and the court does not convene until after that date, he will be tried by the new judge appointed by Governor Stubbs between now and that time. An ad in the Clarion will bring results. Try it. Arbor Day. LOCAL ITEMS For Busy Readers School meeting April 8th.

A. E. Wegley was a Wichita visitor Sunday. Easter Sunday was about as near a perfect day as one could wish for. R.

L. Hamilton was visiting relatives and friends at Sterling last Sunday. Attorney Coe Russell of Great Bend, was transacting business in Claflin Monday. An Uncle Tom show is headed this way and threatens to stop in Claflin. They are playing under canvas.

Mrs. M. A. Hayden came in Saturday night from Columbus, Kansas, and is visiting at the E. 0.

Jordan home. Turn out to the school meeting Friday. April 8th, and let the board have your views on the building of a new school house. The Junior League of the M. E.

church, wil' give an ice cream social Saturday night, April 9th, at the brick building on east side of Main street. A small crowd enjoyed themselves at the dance Monday night in the new pool hall building. The music was furnished by the Claflin orchestra. A. E.

Wegley has closed bis moving picture show for the present, or until be can get some one he can depend upon to run it for him. A new version Hy diddle diddle. the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon; the beef trust laughed to see the raise and the citizens dined on prunes. -Exchange. The program to be rendered by the Epworth Leagne at their Musical on April 15th, is a good one and those who attend are promised a rare treat.

It is to be held at the opera house. J. P. Percell sends us word to change the address of his paper from Plains to Kismit. He is in the real estate business there and sends us a copy for an advertise ment which will be found in this issue of the Clarion- M.

A. Dowse and son "Butch" left the first of the week overland for the farm in the eastern part of the state which Mr. Dowse recently traded for. The balance of the family will not go until later. In a proclamation issued, Gov.

Stubbs proclaims Friday, April 8, as Arbor Day in Kansas. After many preliminary statements in which he lauds the sentiments responsible for the planting of trees, he says: W. R. Stubbs, governor of Kansas, in accordance with the custom of my immediate predecessor, and the delightful sentiment of a better generation, do hereby ordain and proclaim that Friday, April 8, will be set apart and dedicated to the planting of trees throughout the state, and I do especially urge the five hundred thousand school children of Kansas to participate in the Madison "All Right." Congressman Madison has been making a hard fight for the last two sessiors against the one man rule in congress. He has been unalterably opposed to the house rules, or what is termed "Cannonism," but in making this tight be has lost none of bis republicanism.

His action in the last great struggle against Cannonism proves what many of the papers of this district have been saying, i.e., that he should not be classed as a radical Insurgent." that he "insurges" within the party. Murdock is what may be termed a "radical Insurgent." He goes the limit. He voted with the democrats to throw Cannon out of the speakership, but Madison did not. There is a "dead line" in this insurging business and Congressman Madison never crosses it. His Lotion in congress is me ting with the approval of a vast majority of his constituents.

After the Law Breakers. Sheriff Reardon was in Holyrood Monday afternoon looking for Frank Dlouhy, who is wanted for maintaining a nuisance. It is claimed that he sells liquor. Frank must have heard the officer was coming, as he could not be found. County Attorney Grover has asked for injunctions against Fred Dolecek, of Wilson, and Joe Socka, of Palacky, restraining them from selling liquer.

Criminal action has been commenced against Jess Shepherd of Wilson, on a charge of bootlegging. Officers were in Wilson Tuesday, but failed to find Sheperd. -Ellsworth Messenger. Do Your Feet Ache? THE FLORSHEIM THE "OTHER" WAY "NATURAL SHAPE" WAY It's easy to diagnose your case- -fitting shoes. SHOE We are shoe fitters, and Florsheim "Natural Shape" lasts are a positive cure for foot ills.

HANDSOME NEW SPRING OXFORDS NOW ON DISPLAY $4.00, $5.00 and $5.50 Campbell Mer. Co. Claflin's Modern Store.