Smith County Journal from Smith Center, Kansas • 4

mith Ceanty 1013. County Journal. Established 1886 ALL HOME PRINT Office phone 90; residence 64. Farmers phone 19 BEN T. BAKER, Editor and Publisher.

THE OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER THE OFFICIAL CITY PAPER SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR. Published Thursday Rate Card. Local readers per line 5c Obituary notices over 15 lines or Lodge per line 18 5c lincolutions 5c Card of thanks per line 5c AUGUST 21, 1913. SMITH CENTRE'S AMUSEMENT PROGRAM. Annual County Fair- Sept.

2nd to 5th, H. C. Smith, Sec. Old Settlers Home-comingSept. 27th, Chas.

S. Uhl, Sec. Probate Judge Jarvis issued five marriage licenses this week to the following couples: Roy C. Libhart, 22, and Miss Nina McMullen, 21, both of Formoso; Ray A. Dimond, 24, and Miss Lottie L.

Chance, 22, both of Kensington; Henry L. Rosencrans, 22, of Kensington, and Miss Mae Hannan, 19, of Smith Centre; Everett T. Merriman, 40, and Mrs. Lillian L. Lull, 41, both of Lebanon; Jesse E.

Rice, 24, of Athol, and Miss Theo Irene Barnes, 24, of Bellaire. Smith Centre friends received the announcement the first of week of the marriage of Mr. Herbert Chandler and Miss Ruth Naylor last Thursday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Naylor in Kansas City.

The groom is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chandler, until the last few months residents of this city, but now of Asherville, in Mitchell county, and was raised to manhood's estate here, while the bride was very popular here last winter as an instructor in the local high school. Their first acquaintance was formed at Washburn college of which they were students and members of the same class. Miss Naylor was a member of the Kappa Kappa Chi sorority and Mr.

Chandler was elected to the Pau Delta Pi, an honorary society. Following a short honeymoon, they will return to Madison, this state, where Mr. Chandler has the position of superintendent of schools for the coming year. Bert is one of Smith Centre's brightest young men and one who has already carved for himself a niche in the column of fame among the scholastic men of the state, and he is sure of a still higher honor within a few years. The Journal joins with hosts of friends of these young people in congratulations and best wishes for a happy and prosperous married life.

A very pretty wedding ceremony was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Barnes of Cora township, last evening, when their daughter, Miss Theo Irene, was united in marriage to Mr.

Jesse E. Rice of Cedar township, Elder M. M. Goode, of St Joe, Missouri, uncle of the bride performing the ceremony. Preceding the ceremony, Miss Hazel Dunton sang "Because," Teschmacher, in a pretty and effective way.

Following this, to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march rendered by Miss Inez Clark, the bridal party took their places on the porch beneath a bell and arch of evergreen where the beautiful ceremony was pronounced. The bride is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes and has grown from childhood in the Cora neighborhood where she has been a leader among the young people. She graduated from the Smith Centre high school and was one of the popular and successful teachers.

The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rice, pioneers of Cedar township and among the highly respected people of the west side of the county. After the wedding supper the happy young couple came here and later left on the night train for the Colorao mountains where they will enjoy their honeymoon for a couple of weeks after which they will return to the farm in Cedar township where they will make their future home and where they will have extended to them the best wishes of a host of warm friends and acquaintances.

DEATHS Passing of Grandma Stevens. Rounding out a useful, christian lite of 88 years and more, Grandma J. M. Stevens, passed to her reward at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.

B. Harlan, in the northeast part of town at early hour Tuesday morning. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. L. B.

Parker in the absence of her pastor, Tuesday afternoon, and after a brief but impressive service and fitting tribute to the memory of one so worthy and kind, the remains were laid to rest by the side of those of her husband who preceded her some eighteen years, in Fairview cemetery. The floral offerings represented in a way the feeling of high esteem in which the deceased was held by the army of associates and acquaintances of a lifetime. The casket rested in a bank of flowers. The early days of Smith county served to bring out the qualities of the people who were here then striving to make for themselves homes and sustenance and only those who had at least some share in the ways of those early days can begin to realize the trials and difficulties under which these people lived while making the most important history of the new country. Grandma Stevens was here in the extremely early day GRANDMA STEVENS.

and those who knew her best testify to her many traits of womanly kindness and motherly ways. Since the death of her husband her home has been with the children here, and of late years she had been unable to be about most of the time, but her cheerful ways brightened the path of her life and for those with whom she came in contact. Obituary--Mrs. Jane Shepard Stevens was born in Deckertown, New Jersey, June 27, 1825, died at Smith Centre, Kansas, August 18, 1913. She was the daughter of Zenas and Margaret Shepard.

At the age of ten her father died, after which the family moved to Canadagnia, New York, where she grew to womanhood, then moved to Binghampton, New York, where she married John M. Stevens in 1851. To this union was born five children, Mrs. Helen Zimmerman, Ed C. Stevens, Mrs.

Eva Harlan, Milton of this place, and William Stevens of Granger, Washington. The family came to Kansas and nomesteaded a claim northwest of Smith Centre in March, 1872, and where they remained a number of years before moving to this place. Besides the five children there are 26 grand-children and sixteen greatgrand-children to cherish her memory. For the many acts of kindness extended by the friends during the years of her declining years with us we wish to reflect her wishes in thanking the friends and neighbors who contributed SO liberally toward making her stay pleasant and cheerful--The Family. Pioneer at Rest.

Grandma Bloomer, mother of W. A Bloomer, of the oldest settlers of the Oakvale country, passed away last Thursday evening at 9 p. m. of heart failure. This grand old lady leaves a host of friends.

who will remember her accounts of hardships they endured, 'when with her husband and little ones they immigrated to Smith county in the early seventies. She was blessed with a wonderful memory and retained all her faculties until the end. She leaves a large concourse of friends and relatives who will mourn her demise sadly and to these sorrowing ones we extend the utmost of sympathy and solicitation. Obituary--Isabel Baker was born in Fayette county, Ohio, September 11, 1832, and died August 14, 1913, aged 80 years, eleven months and three days. She was married to Joseph Bloomer March 24, 1853.

To this union were born seven children, two having preceded her to the better world. Those living are Mrs. Pheobe Crawford of Madison, Greenwood county, Mrs. Rebecca Kirk of Kansas City, Mrs. Jennie Allen of Garden City, Charles Bloomer of Seiling, Oklahoma, and 7Cillman's Every night during Fair week Change program each evening Miller Opera Popular prices.

W. A. Bloomer of this vicinity, She leaves 34 grand-children and ten great-grand-children. She united with the Christian church 30 years ago and lived a devout Christian life until her death. The funeral services were conducted by Rev.

Atkins of Lebanon at the Christian church last Saturday at 2 p. m. and the remains laid away to rest in the Oak creek cemetery. Another Pioneer Gone. W.

F. Garrett, one of the pioneers of Garfield township, for the last several years retired and living in Portis, died at an early hour this morning. Uncle Billy Garrett, came to Smith county in the early seventies and homesteaded on a choice Solomon valley farm. He was about 74 years of age at the time of his death and had an extensive acquaintance over the entire county. A.

B. Cordry Dead. A brief telegram last Monday conveyed the intelligence to the brother-in-law, Jonathan Moore, of this place of the death of A. B. Cordry at his home in Mahaska, this state.

Mr. Moore and daughter, Mrs. J. J. Pollock, went down Tuesday afternoon to attend the funeral service held' yesterday.

Mr. Cordry is the father of Tom Cordry, until lately editor of the Parsons Sun, one of the strongest papers in southeastern Kansas. He is also well known in this county as is his estimable wife, a sister of Jonathan Moore. Died in New Mexico. The news was flashed here yesterday morning from Roy, New Mexico, of the death of A.

J. George at that place the previous day. He is the father of Fred George of Crystal Plains and also of E. D. George, editor of the Mankato Monitor.

Another son, Frank, lives at Ionia. The body will be shipped back here for burial which will be in the Stuart cemetery in the southeast part of the county. Mr. George was an early settler of Jewell county and for many years also lived in Smith county near Stuart where he conducted a blacksmith shop. His wife died a few years ago and he moved to New Mexico about three years ago and in the city of Roy had a harness shop.

He was 60 years old. Peculiarly Sad Death. Mrs. Fred Isley passed from this life at her home in the northwest part of town yesterday morning from the effect of blood poisoning. She was almost 24 years of age and the mother of two children, a daughter three and a son more than a year old.

The case was pronounced hopeless from the start. Mrs. Isley came here with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin' Curtis, from Connecticut, thirteen years ago.

Her mother lives in Massachusetts and two sisters are in the east. The only living relative here is Mrs. E. S. Welch of West New York street, and she is in Denver visiting with her daughter.

Kind hands administered to her every need and nothwas left undone in administering to her wishes and diminishing the pain. The funeral services were conducted at the home at 10 o'clock today and the remains laid to rest in Fairview cemetery, Rev. Borton of the M. E. church conducting the short services.

Took His Own Life. A. S. Burwell, aged 68 years, a brother of Wm. Burwell and an uncle of James and Clarence Burwell of Crystal Plains, committed suicide by shooting last Monday night at the home of the latter named gentleman.

He had been in poor health for some time and the act seems to have been long premediated and was carried out in full. He had a habit of walking around a great deal at night, being unable to sleep, and the family had become accustomed to this eccentricity and thought nothing of it when he gave each of the small Burwell boys a quarter to go to a neighbor's to borrow a shot gun as he said he wanted to kill some of the rabbits he saw at night. The family retired about 9 o'clock that evening and the old gentleman went out carrying the weapon. He fastened a short strap to the tripper of the gun and then removed his shoes, climbed up a ladder until he got on top of a shed by the barn. He made the matter doubly sure by fastening two ropes about his neck and fastening them to the barn rafters in case the gun failed to kill him they would hang him.

When all was in readiness he pulled the weapon and the fatal charge carried off almost the entire upper part of his head. The funeral was held the following afternoon and the body laid away in the Crystal Plains cemetery. He was a very eccentric character, a rover by nature and had seen much of the world simply traveling around with a team and selling some small articles to support himself in his travels. He had a habit of returning to Smith county every two or three years and usually stayed with his nephew. He first came to Smith county with his father about 35 years ago and lived on Crystal Plains for several years before the wanderlust seized him Wolfe got together on 8 deal last Saturday, whereby the former added to the list of Smith Centre business men by the purchase of the latter's real estate and insurance business.

He took possession of the new business last Tuesday. Roy will stay with him for about 80 days until he gets the hang of the minor details. Jess a widely known, hearty and likeable fellow and a welcome addition the business interests of this town. 1. Or Baldwin, Jess Mathes of Hummer and Roy THE NAME ON THE PIANO PLATE Is of itself a guarantee of Quality of the instrument.

A careful investigation will demonstrate the facts. Newest in Sheet Music. Amis Testerman MUSIC EMPORIUM Diplomacy is something that is used by a nation in order to say something to another nation in such a way that the other nation will not only understand it, but will overlook it. Diplomacy is truth with reverse English on it. A diplomat is a man who can express the fear that his nation is about to be compelled to knock the excelsior out of yours in terms of undying admiration and affection.

Most diplomats wear knee breeches and medals and are very polite. A diplomat could tell a large cabman to take his decayed head and soak it in kerosene and the cabman would. thank him for them kind words. But when he uses terms of extreme and devasting friendship to a diplomat from another corner of the globe, that diplomat looks him over to see if his fingers are crossed. And if they are he cables home to scrub out the second best battleship fleet and send it out on a dock hunting expedition in front of the country of the first part.

When three or more diplomats gather together to decide whether dary line' of another or get thrown one country will get off the bounoff, the meeting sounds like the love feast of a victorious political party. Nothing could be more affectionate. This is why no amateur can go into the diplomacy business. Unless he was up on the rules of the games he would be accepting the invitation of the hostile diplomat to come over and live at his home forever, at the precise time when he should be telegraphing home to mass the militia and ask the powder trust if it could please spare few rounds of smokeless annihilator. In Europe diplomacy consists of saying kind words until one side fails to translate them correctly.

This counts one for the other side. But this country has never gone in extensively for plush velvet style of diplomacy. Amercian diplomats do not often wear knee pants and sometimes they come near enough to the truth to call a spade a sharp edged excavating instrument. When the American diplomat has to tell a foreign nation to get to Hades out of the western hemisphere, he frequently makes the blunder of not beginning by alluding to the ancient friendship which has always existed and always will exist between the two countries. It takes about sixty years to produce a good diplomat.

The greatest one was Ananias, but he died at the beginning of his career.George Fitch. Diplomacy. Now Lebanon will have electric lights and no more fooling with promoters. A little more than a year ago Lebanon acquired a north and south railroad through the generosity of professional promoters, and the road never was built. Since then the city has given franchises to promoters who proposed to build and operate an electric and power plant for the town, but the dreams all failed before they reached the stage of reality.

Last week at the special election the proposition carried by a vote of 212 for and 101 against to issue bonds in the sum of $18,000 or whatever part that sum would be needed 1 for Installing 8 complete electric light plant to be owned and operated by the city. It will be be constructed to serve in connection with the municipally owned water works tem and will prove the best investment the town ergr made. Work on the plant is to be commenced as the plans are -accepted and can ba Growing Metropolitan. 00000000000000 Reliable arpera Jewelry The kind that will stand the wear of time and never show a flaw. You will remember the dealer and the quality of the article long after the price is forgotten.

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0000000000000 00000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000 0000000000000 Agricultural papers are advocating the building of ponds where the rainwater may be conserved. If you will stop and think of it ju such a drouth as we have had this season stimulates the business. In the early nineties after the drouth of that year, much attention was given to building reservoirs and places for storing the water in large quantities, but plenty of rains have removed the absolute necessity and the dams have been allowed to go out till there is but little storage water. A good investment is a substantial dam built across dry draws where they will hold valuable water supplies for just such times as we have been going through in this country for the last two months. Ponds Are Valuable Why isn't the plan of Governor Hodges.

that fruit trees be planted along the public highways of the state to act as both shade and evidence of hospitality, a good one? He makes that recommendation, not as a joke, but as a permanent, 'living proof of the claim of Kansans to be hospitable and prosperous. True, but little satisfaction expected of peach trees through this method of handling them, but apple, cherry, plum, apricot and many other fruit trees make good shade and the fruit would be shared with the weary traveler along the highways. The thought probably came from the governor's idea to always keep in mind the making of better roads is in Kansas, and he is takins up the fruit tree issue as a side line. But, be that as It may, the Iden is a good one and one that will not prove expensive. bet wattle to, operate 64.

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