Labor Bulletin from Pratt, Kansas • 4

THE ROCK ISLAND friends at K. U. the Comte de la Marche was a house ha Arv ere that "someone" in 000 0000 00000 LOCAL UNION DIRECTORY Shop Notes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 All locals not entered in this directory notify J. P. Hamilton, 426 North Main street, or Earl Ball at R.

I. Store room. I Painters' Local No. 342.Meets every Welnesday night over Milne's drug store. Sec, 0.

E. Wald. B. R. C.

of A. Local No. 49 Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at Sneed's Hall. Pres. W.

T. Briggs; Sec, A. D. Troutman. Carpenters' Local No.

1137 Meets every Tuesday night, over Milne's drug store. Sec, Ed Gaylord. United Brotherhood of M. of W. E.

and S. L. Local No. 1639 Meets every Thursday night at Sneed's Hall, 'over Skinner's store. President, T.

D. Nash E. J. Ball. Central Labor Union Meets 1st and 3rd Fridays of each mopth at Sneed's Hall.

John P. Hamilton, Catherine P. Bible, Sec. Division No. 740, B.

of L. E. Meets n. i rt i i i -every ist ana ounuays oi eacni 'month at Sneed'p Hall. VSsiting! i brothers invited.

J. W. Chief. B. of R.

C. Local Lodge No. 1 162. Meets every Friday night, at Sneed's Hall. George Norris; Secretary Catharine "Bible.

I. B. of B. M. I.

S. B. and H. of No. 523, Ninnescah Local Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month, at 607 N.

Jackson street. Frank Stev-t ens, Rec. Sec. Tyographical Union, No. 820 Meets last Sunday of each month 3:00 p.

m. alternately at 3 chapels. Pres. A. W.

Bowen; Sec, F. A. Reece. I. A.

of M. Bone-Dry Local No. 1069 Meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights at Bays Hall. J. P.

Hamilton; Sec, B. W. Walling. B. of R.

T. Local No. 147 Meets 1st and 3rd Sundays and 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights of each month, at Sneed's Hall. Sec, Fred Rogers. B.

of L. F. E. Local No. 734- Meets on Monday night of each week, at Sneed's Hall.

Pres. J. L. Financial Sec, E. E.

Emerson. B. M. P. I.

U. Meets every Sun-' day morning over Hopper Hardware store. Frank Minter, Sec. I Vast "City of Dead." It Is estimated that something llk'Q 15,000,000 dead are Interred in the Bo man catacombs. painter; the Marquis DeTnrcey d'Etab llnde kept a small Inn at Carnac, and the Marquis d'llauteroche, a descend ant of the nobleman who, at the battle of Fontenoy, called out to the KnflUh: "Tires les premiers," was a gendarme.

Antimony In the Transvaal. A Dew body of antimony Is reported to bave have been opened near the Komatl river, In the district of the Stenysdnrp gold Transvaal. As the ore Is found to be valuable, a mining company Is how carrying on smelting operations on the spot. Three shafts have been sunk to a depth of 50 feet, besides open workings. One Is continuous throughout.

A furnace capable of smelting ten tons of ore per day is In operation nnd It Is stated that there Is sufficient ore In sight to keep the furnace working while developments are being made. Scientific American. Roberts Predicted Foch's Victory. When liord Roberts was in Canada ten years ago at the dedication of the Plains of Abraham park and playground he made this prediction: "They refuse to believe me, and we are asleep under a false security, for I do not hesitate to affirm that we will have a frightful war In Europe, and that Great Britain nnd France will have the hardest experience of their existence. They will, In fact, see defeat very near, but the war will finally be won by the genius of a French general named Ferdinnnd Foch, professor In the military school in Paris." Little Rivers Important In his war ode Dr.

van Dyke re-mnlns loynl to "little rivers." In his book, "Llttli Rivers," he has already made little rivers as interesting as the little drops of water that make the mighty ocean. Freedom begins at th source. NINNESCAH LODGE NO. 49 B. R.

C. OF A. At our last regular meeting Tuesday evening the following officers were elected for the coming year: President, W. T. Briggs Vice President, C.

C. Metz Rec. Sec, J. R. Stegman Fin.

Sec, Percy Newton Albert Cook Trustee, Wm. Nelson Appointed: Guide, T. H. Devault Warden, John Rich Sentinel, Wm. Rich Chaplain, O.

W. Pountain We have decided on a supper some time in the near future for Carmen and their families. Bert Laswell, who underwent a surgical operation in the hospital at Hutchinson a few weeks ago is reported improving nicely. He will probably be able to come home next Sunday. HAS DISCONTINUED PRACTICE OF OSTEOPATHY Buhl, Idaho, Jan.

1, 1916. B. J. Palmer, D. Ph.

C. Dear Sir: Answering your letter of recent date, would say: that in my opinion the contrast of Osteopathy to Chiropractic is as great as the contrast of an old-fashioned blunderbuss to a modern high-powered rifle. In fact the only similarity between the two sciences is that the hands of the operator are used in both. Osleopaths use a "hit and miss" method with results which, if fully satisfactory to both the operators and their patients, usually occasion surprise to the practitioners, and would to the patients if they -were well enough informed to understand conditions. Chiropractors are specific in application of adjustments; consequently good results are certain to follow.

Satisfactory results are obtained from Chiropractic adjustments in a correspondingly short time. This opinion is based on knowledge gained through my experience in drugless therapy since 1902, and is so firmly fixed in my mind that I no longer practice Osteopathy at all. Yours truly, S. C. WYATT, D.

D. C. How Frogs Protect Eggs. In the manner of disposing of theli eggs many species of frog exhibit remarkable peculiarities. One of tht most curious, a tree frog, native ol Paraguay, makes its nest in a bush overhanging a pond.

The lower ends of a number of leaves are drawn together and fixed In that position by a number of empty egg capsules. Th eggs are also covered with a shield of empty capsules to protect them from the sun and nir. When the eggs ar hatched the plug at the bottom appears to fall out and the tadpoles tumble Into the water. uality SHOE SHOP AL. RUNKLES, Proprietor North End MeatMarket JIM NEATHERY Phone 4374 FINE TAILORING THE HOME OF Service and Satisfaction.

A New Sarnie Every Week A New Sample Every Week. One Day Service on Dry Cleaning PHONE 220. CITY CLEANERS DYERS Star Meat Market E. H. FERIN Fresh and Salt Meat Fish and Oysters in Season Phone 135 Do You Own Your Home? WALTER W.

PEACOCK Building Loan and Insurance POSTOFFICE BUILDING Feed asiry Bret Laswell who has been in a Wichita hospital for some time Is reported as improving. We hope to see the boy back again at his usual haunts. We wish to thank friend Flynn for his interest in our case. We had not heard of the attack made upon us but the man who stabs under cover usually gets the bad end of the deal and it is -as Harry says and. we feel that he has placed the facts so vividly that we will not comment further.

Thanks Harry. Harry Flynn has been off duty a few days on account of illness. Hope you are better now Harry. Chester Naron and wife motored over from Eldorado this week for a visit with Wm. Baxter and family.

Robert Woods is reported as quite ill. He is at Kansas City where he went to consult a specialist about his failing health. Charles Siler is quite ill at a Wichita hospital. This is indeed sad news for the shop boys for Mr. Silers is quite badly missed from among the boys.

Anxious ears are awaiting the hoped for better news from his bedside. Jack Shannon who suffered a dislocated shoulder bone some time ago and who began work a while ago was compelled to again lay off and has gone to his home in Topeka to recuperate. Foreman F. P. Sullivan was in Wichita Sunday.

Mrs. Sam Bilbro is quite ill with a complication of troubles. Mrs. Ashlock is carin for her. "Childish Glee" seems to take well with many readers who have watched the Sparks column for years.

This column is dedicated to the railroad people of the Rock Island and we have endeavored to give them the best possible service in the way of news. The Union visits several hundred homes of former Rock Island employees who live in other cities and are glad to get the news direct and from a source that is accurate. The Union gives the people service. GOOD MONEY FROM BAD EGG Jim Buckley Finally Proved Truth of Saying That He Was Fond of Repeating. "Thar alu't nothiu' In the world but la good fer somethia'" Is one of the favorite sayiugs of Jim Buckley of Bear Lake.

Buckley Is a thrifty soul. He farms In summer and traps In winter and between wheat and furs he is growing rich. One morning his wife was cooking breakfast. She broke a rotten egg into a skillet and was starting toward the door to throw it away when Buckley stopped her. "Woman, don't throw that egg away," said Buckley.

"But it's rotten," protested his wife. "Makes no difference," declared the philsopher. "Thar ain't nothin' In the world but" "James Buckley," exclaimed his wife, "I've heard that a thousand times." The wolf never sniffs at the doors of the prosperous farmers of the Peace river country. But foxes are different animals here is something you don't know rotten eggs are rated as an epi-cureau tidbit in vulpine menus. That night Buckley set a trap In a poplar grove near tils home and baited It with the rot ion egg.

lie hoped to cntch a red fox or perhaps a coyote. But when he went out to his trap next morning, what do you think he found? The biggest silver fox Buckley ever had clapped eyes on. lie sold the pelt in Peace Kiver the other day for "A right nice lot o' money to hatch from a rotten egg," remarked Buckley, as he stuffed the money in his pocket. "I've allers allowed that thar ain't nothin' in the world but Is good fer souiethin'." Chicago Post. ONE GOOD THING FROM WAR Cocone Nut, Hitherto Considered Only as Nuisance, Has Been Made Article of Commerce.

Before the war the cocone, which grows freely in the Southern Americas, on large trees of the pulra family, was literally such a hard nut to crack that Its vegetable oil had no place in commerce, and the tree was known chiefly as a botheration to banana planters when they wished to enlarge their plantations. Eighteen hundred pounds' pressure is required to crack the cocone nut, and there was no machinery for doing it. Then government experts snld thnt nothing else In the world would provide such good carbon for gas masks as the cocone nut, and the United States financed the creation of machinery for cracking it, thus starting a new and important Industry. Hereafter will be well worth while breaking th shells for the vegetable oil inside thein, valuable for cooking, lighting, and the making of nut butter; and the shells, happily no longer needed for masks, can be used as fuel or in the manufacture of gas. And so, out of an effort to prevent the expansion of autocracy by conquest, the Southern Americas find opportunity to expand by commerce.

Scientific American. Aristocrats in Gutter. We hear rnmors of grand dukes nnd other members of the old nobility of Russia driving cabs and peddling bootlaces In Petrograd. This is no new thing in Europe. In England the descendants of the great Plantagenets have been found in very lowly occupations.

A few years ago a lawsuit proved that a genuine Bourbon was then hawking vegetables In the streets of Paris. A few years earlier a son of a cousin of Empress Josephine, Ka poleon's first love, was sent to prison for petty larceny. In 1892 the Marquis rkFoHgne. rcas an. omnibus conductor; dignantly snatched away the cloth, he I1U11 nllv onlv half washed.

But when young Mr. Dub blowed in last Sunday a fine nine pounder, souna urao and mind Guy decided to turn over a new leaf. So for three days he tried to think to bring a towel, and Wednesday night laid one out that he might not forget it. Thursday, when he went to use it, he met with a surprise instead of the towel it was a well, judging from the fact that it was sauare and made of outing flan nel, it evidently was originally intend ed for a diaper. Dub is putting it to good use, however, and everyone is satisfied.

Flemine says that what ever it is, it undoubtedly saved the new baby from being a half orphan, as patience had ceased to be a virtue. Now if that bucko can only induce the old man to sunnlv his own and papers and matches, great indeed will be the miracle he has wrought. Taswell Tunnell and wife have returned from a visit in Kansas City. Phone C521 for Wichita Eagle. R.

I. SPARKS i (From the Pratt Union) Taswell Tunnell and wife spent Thanksgiving with their brother in Kansas City. Kickapoo saw some real sights while up there among those "Mizuri" injuns. E. G.

DeWitt and wife motored to Great Bend Thursday to spend the day. Mrs. Chas. Unangst went to Law rence Wednesday night to eat Turkey dinner with Prof. Herb and wife.

Pete Inman believes in baptism but not the kind he got in a cab one day last week. A squirt of hot water hit him direct in the right ear burning the channel of the ear to the drum severely. The drum was not injured however. Mr. Inman is indeed lortu-nate in the fact that his hearing was not entirely destroyed.

Jack Mason and Billy Meridith had a 24 hour road trip to Hutchinson Saturday. Miss Eleanor Stoltz was home from Kansas City last week. Miss Stolts is taking a special course of music in the Horner Institute at Kansas City and has had a flattering offer to go to the Chautauqua platform next year with a sextette of accomplished musicians. We are glad to note her advancement and predict that she will make her Pratt friends very proud of her in her accomplishments. Koss Barton was home for a day last week.

Ross is doing some fine vrrk in K. U. and is well pleased with the school. Brakeman Jess Gurley has returned from a fev days vacation and has resumed duty. Switchman Sullivan wa3 on the sick list a few days.

John J. Grier put on a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving to the railroad boys. Yard Master Ed C. Stiles is off duty for a few days this week. Cond.

C. W. Barton resumed duty on train 3 Saturday night. Cond. R.

A. Tracy of Dalhart wnsj on C. W. Barton's runs during his t.bsence. Goo.

Keene entertained Thursday (Thanksgiving) at a tur-1 key dinner. Mrs. F. II. Vail, Mis3 Stevenson and the Misses Keynous wo Mr.

an-! Mrs. II. L. Mr. and Mrs.

J. B. Johnson at dinner Tnurfday. oe bid in the local run Sunday with layover at Liberal. Brakeman IT.

II. Stamper layed off Friday for a trip. Cond. C. W.

Barton and family, Jim Bainum and family returned Thursday from Blackwell, where they attended the golden wedding of father and mother Bainum. Brakeman C. Johnson came Friday from Hutchinson where he has been since he was injured. He says that his back is still poorly. Joe Petty took the Sunday local with lay over at Liberal.

Eng. John Dugan was off for a few days. Ben Hawk was on his run. Brakeman C. L.

Roberts is off a few days on account of stepping in a hole and hurting himself. Mr. and Mrs. George Roark, Mr. and Mrs.

H. E. Wright and Mr. and Mrs. R.

M. Wright went to Herington Friday to attend the funeral of Father Wright. The father was 72 years of age and had recently undergone an I operation which seemed too much for his vitality. These people have the sympathy of their many friends. Garland Ashlock has returned from Wyoming and will resume duty at the local shops.

Miss Irene Norris who was operated on last week at the Phillips hospital is reported as improving rapidly and will be able to be moved home this week. See Guy smile. What is it Guy? It's a boy. Well now, that is great. That boy is a match for that other boy in the Purnell home and now Guy and wife have a pair.

Congrats Guy. Mrs. Ray Rowland has resigned as deputy county recorder. The Rock Island yards never scare up the excitement as does our neighbor yards. Sundays routing was quite interesting and had the officers waited a few moments more they would have copped some of our business men who were hastening to the scene to get in on the game.

(Crowded out last week) Supt. Greenough was a Pratt visitor Monday night. Brakeman S. R. Cortdry is on the sick list this week.

Mrs. J. L. Smith left Monday for a visit with her daughter, Leila May who is attending school at Dallas, Texas. Miss Maxine Turner has gone to Lawrence to spend a few days with Phone C521 for Wichita Eagle.

For Taxi or livery, call 78 or 5288 Meet your friends at the Elk Smoker. Your presence is appreciated at the Elk Smoker. Call 6580 for Taxi. Day call 25c; night call 0c For fine Thotos go to F. A.

With, era' Art Studio. Fireman Guy Ncngle is again at work after vacation. The Stewart Electric all kinds of electrical work. For all kinds of Draying call phone 4179. B.

F. Crummett. BULBS Tulip, hyacinth and narcissus are now here. Fretz Green House. 214-3 W.

L. Shield, Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Healing. Ill West Fourth 'phone 5f2. BULBS Tulip, hyacinth and us are now here. Fretz Green House.

214-3 Fine line of fresh Tobacco and Cigars iit the Llk Smoker. For all kinds of draying call phone 4171). 15. F. Crummett.

Meet your friends at the Elk Gyp Hamilton, machinist on the third shift, has resigned and gone to K. C. Crchan is filling the vacancy. Machinist Stuart Laird, who has been on the the sick list, has returned to work. General Foreman Frank Sullivan is back from Liberal, where he attended "Safety First" meeting.

Wm. Pierce, truckman on the sec ond who for the past six weeks lias been visiting relatives in UKia homa, is again on the job. Machinist Helper Bob Ware has been assigned to the spring job on the second shift. Mrs. Earl Ball, wife of the electrician, is slowly recovering from her recent illness.

Machinist Helper W. C. Meredith is back at work after a brief illness. Dick Prater, who has been on the sick list, is again on his job helping blacksmith. Telephone G52 1 for the Wichita Sagle.

Machinist Jack Mason is back at work after a layoff. Machinist Jerry Holland says he fails utterly to understand that inconsistency of a person who complains of the 11. C. of L. and then hires a taxi to go to the ball game.

Truckman Joe Binder is again at work after a couple of weeks jury service. Phone (1521 for Wichita Eagle. Engineer Frank Moore, who has been seriously ill, is slowly improving. Wednesday he received a message that his father'had died in Texas, but owing to his own illness he was unable to attend the funeral. Boiler Maker Frank Stephens and wife have returned from a visit with relatives in Oklahoma and Missouri.

Rep'Verilative Joshua Alexander Of Missouri, whose nomination to the, office of secretary of commerce is' before the senate, is an uncle of Charles Stephenson, the oiler and packer. Steve has no job picked out as yet, and thinks he will hang on' jto the one he has for awhile. Floyd Withers, machinist helper, is the proud papa of a big baby girl, born Wednesday. Mother and Miss re both doing nicely. Cigars are always in order on the first one, JB'loyd.

Phone G521 for Wichita Eagle. No, Bill, I do not believe it would lie policy to discuss his heart affairs. (While I will admit that he resembles (Castoria, since the ladies cry for him man has a right to love the ladies if they are willing and hubby doesn't find out, so let him alone. Wonderful is the power for good in the child. We have seen reformations for which they were responsible; rutal harsh men softened in nature end disposition through their influence.

However, it is seldom that the dvent of one in a home has the same effect as did that of young Mr. Dub Purnell, who recently arrived at the kome of the little blacksmith. For months Dub has been "mootching a on some one else's towel, and in order to be certain that his face If you want quick service and good work, bring or send your Kodak films to F. A. Withers Art Studio Hay- Don't forget we are selling storage coal every day.

Colorado lump and nut. New Mexico, Oklahoma and Semi-Anthracite for furnaces, lump and nut. PRATT EQUITY EXCHANGE The North End Store Staple and Fancy 711 North Main GROCERIES Phone 331 SHOES OVERALLS GLOVES NOTIONS S. H. Skinner, Prop.

and Bread All orders for parties and entertainments given careful attention. Phone us your order. Pratt Baking Company Phone 151 J.W.BurrU.