The Atchison Church Visitor from Atchison, Kansas • 1

The Mchjson Church Visitor Volmue VII. Number 41. ATCHISON. KANSAS. SAT PAY.

JULY 19. 1913. Price 25c Par Year. A DIRECTORY COMPARISON addresses of saloons mentioned in the 1906 directory, published just before "sample rooms" were put out of business: 1913 Directory Now occupied by It is usualy claimed that when saloons arei driven out vacant store rooms result. This claim is unfounded.

Below we give the names and 1906 Directory Saloonkeeper Location Anderson, N. 211 Best, Geo. Mrs rooms Becker, Peter west Main Becker, Peter pool hall Broadway, S. 0 114 S. Home Cafe restaurant Burke, W.

905 Main. Winsor, A. grocery No. 2 Byram Bar 208 Byram Cafe Cobb, Wm 1029 old building torn down De Kent, Henry 805 Main, residence Devereaux, George 1501 now 1401, Cox, John grocery Devoto, A. 127 S.

Bros restaurant Dilgert, Adam 711 Palm theater Dilgert, Turner hall. Bros pool hall Ganter, Forest park Ganter, residence Hagerty, D. 112 S. 8th. Bros implements Half Dubois 105 N.

Gore, Sam pool hall Healer McKelvey 315 Com'l. Albar, Maria Mrs. Hyde, 109 N. Wm restaurant Irving, Geo. 527 Grim Mfg.

Co coops Kautz Bros 710 Com'l. Theater Keene, Geo 800 Com'l. Bros grocery Kermoade, J. 321 Com'l. Y.

M. C. A. building Kentner, M. 125 S.

3rd. Pat pool hall Klostermeier, C. 730 Com'l. Harness Co. Leonardi, Ed 425 Com'l.

Weatherford. hall Lewis, Wm 324 Com'l. Store secondhand Lyman, George Ill S. Irving, George restaurant McAuliffe, Pat 327 Com'l Site of new $100,000 Y. M.

C. A. Markle, Harmony Garden. George grocery O'Brien, James 1301 New barbershop Pretzel, A. W.

712 Kan. Herman Jochems, tin shop Price. P. 124-26 S. Auto storage room Prohaska, John Monrovia road, residence Scarringhausen, H.

415 Com'l. Kohler shoe dealers Shea, J. 939 Main. Hotel Smith, W. 724 Com'l.

A. drug store Tabor, Harry 845 Kearney. Anna Mrs residence Urban, David w. Forest Park. residence Vanderstay, Wm 106 N.

7th. Chas cleaner and dyer Voorhees, F. 511 N. Bakery Ward. Eugene 114 S.

4th. Wm restaurant The above reccrds are published directly from the 1906 and the 1913 city directories, and show that not a single building is vacant that was used by saloons when they were put out of business. A WHITE WAY. At the last meeting of the city' council provision was made to place 48 lights of 60 candle power each in each block on Commercial street between Second and Fourth and on South Third between Commercial and the depot. This Will be a decided improvement.

It speaks well for the merchants along these streets. The good book says that some love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. This evidently does not apply to the merchants in the lower end of town. The besiness men in the block on Commercial between Fourth and Fifth deserve much praise for starting the movement of a white way. It will undoubtedly be eventually established all along Commercial to Ninth street.

MY MOTHER. 'Mong all the women I recall, My mother stands the first of all; It seemed to me that every grace, Met in her mild and gentle face. 'Twas she who watched my slumbering eyes, And hastened to my infant cries; And in her Warm and sweet embrace I drank her life from breast and face. And oftentimes at eventide She drew me close to her dear side, And at the throne of grace and joy, She asked the Lord to bless her boy. And when I had to manhood grown Her gentle soul to Heaven had flown; But mother's prayers and love and life Have been with me through all the strife.

When I shall to the margin come, And cross into my heavenly home, I'll look for her who gave me birth And taught me how to live on earth. I'll tell her how, through all my race, I longed to look on her sweet fao. And let my throbbing temple rest Upon her sympathising breatt. I'll tell her of the many ways I gave her pain in youthful days, And feel the joy of pardoning bliss In her dear precious mother kiss. With her and all that happy band, With heart to heart and hand to hand, I want to roam those verdant plains And contemplate God's vast domains.

With her and all that happy throng, I want to sing the glorious song Of joy and praise and peace and love, Throughout the endless day above. D. D. Orangeburg, S. 0.

SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES The Union Sunday evening services will be held at Reisner Park Sunday at 8:00 p. m. Rev. J. W.

Scott of the Methodist church will preach tht str-mon. The Christian church will hold its Sunday evening services at Forest Park, and the Baptists will meet in their church Sunday evening. A BIG MEETING. The County Sunday School association is making big plans for a rousing convention the last week in September. Talent of ability is now being secured to present the various phases of Sunday school work.

The claim is made that never before have such elaborate preparations been made. NOT IN THE SCHEME OF KANSAS THINGS. It was a hot summer day. It was also dusty. One hundred and fifty men were riding from town to town in central Kansas, in autos, on a trade extension tour.

They were Kansas men merchants, lawyers, doctors, editors, clerks, mechanics, bankers, farmers. From time to time they stopped at 13 towns during the day's run. No one in the crowd spoke of beer. No one had any beer. At most of the towns there were great, deep stone jars of iced lemonade on the sidewalks with bright tincups hanging from the jars, and a sign up, "Welcome, Emporians." There was no whiskey, beer or wine in the crowd.

No one missed it. No one spoke of it. For these men, ranging from 30 to 60, had lived in Kansas 30 years under absolute prohibition. Most of them had never been in a saloon in their home town in their lives. Booze was as remote from their consciousness as carbolic acid.

Booze is not in the Kansas scheme of things. No one thinks of it. Its presence or absence is not considered by the Kansas mind. W. A.

White, in the Emporia Gazette. WILL ATCHISON CLEAN UP? The above question is one that seriously confronts every moral and upright citizen of Atchison. From the time of the recent city election, every well-thinking man and woman has been asking, "What will the new administration do with the joints? What will be done to effect a moral clean-up in the city?" Some months have passed and there is still strong evidence of the booze joints and resorts doing a flourishing business; and the citizens that Would like to see Atchison a city that would be an example as to sobriety and decency are wringing their hands and crying out; "What shall we do? What shall we do? Why don't the city officials put these violators of the law out of business and make Atchison the kind of a city that anyone would be proud to live in? We all Want Atchison to be a clean town but we want the other fellow to do the cleaning up. No one seems to be willing to take the initiatory move. And as long as such is the case these bootlegging, law violating rascals will continue to flourish in their nefarious business and the good people of the city will be at their mercy.

Will the good people of Atchison stand aloof and see their work go on indefinitely or will they and guzzle beer until night; not the church member that will not allow' his case to be delivered until the late hours of night when his neighbors are supposed to be asleep and not know what is going on; but the men who are leading clean, and sober lives and have the backbone fight the thing to a finish. I do not say that the city authorities will not do their part of the work, for they have shoWn that they will. Some arrests have been made, but need the encouragement and co-operation of the Christian people. Who wants to see Atchison a clean, moral city? I imagine I can hear a thousands voices say, I do. Who will make tho move to clean it up? How many will say, let the other fellow? I w'ould like every temperance advocate in Atchison to ask himself the question: "If it is left for me to take the initiatory step, will Atchison clean up?" Ernest Siebenthal.

rise in their righteous indignation and say, "This thing must stop?" The subscriber has heard different ones say that as long as the public sentiment was in favor of the present conditions, the present state of affairs would continue to exist. Where are the' church people of Atchison? Will they allow this charge to be brought against them? Where are the hundreds of Workers that were going up and down the aisles of the tabernacle such a short time ago inviting people to become Christians? My dear friends, your work is not finished. There is plenty for you to do now. If the Christians of Atchison will unite the work can be accomplished. The movement needs the hearty cooperation of every Christian in the city.

Not the long-faced church member that can put on a high standing collar and a white vest and go to church on Sunday, make a prayer a foot and a half long, then go home after dinner, hang around his ice box.