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LE ROY RI REPORTER. Vol. XXXVII--No. 24 LE ROY, COFFEY COUNTY, KANSAS, MARCH 24, 1916 Whole No. 1894 The WhiteMan's Burden Southward the star of empire takes i its way; No more its goal is in the west; And juggle with the future as we may, Its destiny is manifest.

We cannot longer hold the hounds of war, Nor should we balk at sacrifice, When cold barbarities that we abhor Go on these years before our eyes. Shall we stand 1 by with idle hands and guns, While Rapine such dire harvests reaps, And blood of brothers like a river runs, And Peace in sackcloth sits and weeps? A standard flies on western shores and seas; Columbia still leads the van, And myraid voices floating on the breeze, Proclaim the brotherhood of man. This standard bear beyond the Rio Grande, And may its progress know no pause, Till Liberty and Justice rule the land, And there fulfill their righteous laws. The Jans of Providence none can defeat; The white man has his burden still; And ready be our hands and swift our feet, To work out Earth's and Heaven's will. -J.

M. CAVANESS, in Chanute Tribune. Democratic Convention Elected State Delegates Persuant to call, a convention of Democratic voters was held in Burl- ing at the court house last Saturday afternoon and elected nine delegates to attend the state convention at Hutchinson April 11th. Glick Fockele was elected chairman of the convention and W. J.

Briggs, Secretary. The county central committee, at a meeting in the morning, decided that the delegates should be selected three from each commissioner district in order to give a better diet bution of the delegates over the county. The members of the convention from the three districts caucused and each selected one member of a committee on nominations--J. T. Evans from the first district, G.

W. Ringle from the second and William Wells from the third. This committee retired and reported the following nominations: First District: W. J. Briggs and M.

A. Limbocker, Burlington, and P. B. Brosemer of Ottumwa. Second District: Glick Fockele, LeRoy, O.

B. Richardson, Gridley, W. J. Bradley, Spring Creek. Third District: Frank George, Key West; Andy Fields, Rock Creek and Wm.

Oronin, Pottawatomie. This delegation was elected unanimously. Then the convention voted that each delegate be permitted to select his own alternate. While waiting for the committee on resolutions, consisting of F. B.

Niles of Key West, M. A. Limbocker of Burlington and W. J. Bradley of Spring Oreek, Judge W.

O. Harris, who was present in the convention, was asked to make an address, which he did in his usual pleasing style. The resolutions as reported and adopted were as follows: WHEREAS: The Democrats of Ooffey county in mass convention assembled desire to express their continued confidence in Democratic principles and the work being done by the Democratic party, therefore; BE IT RESOLVED, that the Democrate of Coffey county heartily endorse every official act of President Woodrow Wilson; that through him and the assistance of a Democratic congress the United States has thus far been free from the bloody turmoil of the Old World; We commend him especially for his firm stand of neutrality and the firmness of, his convictions that the honor and rights of American citizens must be protected; 8 man of peace, first; but for honor and right at any cost. F. B.

NILES, M. A. LIMBOCKER, J. BRADLEY, Committee. Harry G.

Nauerte was born March 25th, 1878 in Lincoln township, Montgomery county, Iowa, and died March 13, 1916 in Seattle, Washington, at the Sound View Sanitarium. He grew to manhood on a farm near Red Oak, Iowa, and in May 1900 he went to Seattle aud lived there until a year ago when he went to the mountains for his health. He leaves to mourn his loss a mother, two brothers, Charles J. and James and one sister Mary besides a host of friends, his father and sister Nellie E. haying departed this life a few years ago.

The Web Pressmen's Union Local No. 26 and Seattle Lodge No. 1 Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which he was a member held services Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. His youngest brother James brought him to LeRoy where he wished to be buried by the side of his sister. Harry was pressman on the Seattle Times for five years.

Several years ago, at the time of the big fire at the Times building, he worked among the damp papers and smoke after the fire and contracted a heavy cold on his lungs. It has been a struggle to regain health ever since that time but all through the discouraging seige, he was always cheerful and hopeful. He spent the winter at the Pulmonary Hospital and seemed 80 much improved that he was planning to return to Seattle when he was troubled with a pain in his head and death resulted in three weeks from tubercular meningitis. He kept his condition to himself that he might not worry his family. He had loving care and friendly companionship; between the boys at the shop, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the school of nurses of which his sister Nellie was a member and many friends in the city, there was someone out several times a week to see him.

His brother James was with him constantly the last week and through his faithful love Harry had everything possible for his comfort. A manly, affectionate son and brother has gone from the family and the sympathy of friends is extended to them in their sorrow. Harry Nauertc Obituary, Hollyhock and Mignonette, There is content in a garden. Mother discovered that, and grandmother. Among the flowers they found peace in the midst of busy, troubled lives.

It is as though they inhaled some healing essence in the fragrance of herbs and blossoms. That is why old gardens mean 80 much to us. 1 It is not that they were more beautiful than those of today, or that they were laid out by more skillful gardeners. But they tell 80 much of life; they are full of the pathos and sweetness of human lives that have gone before; they are redolent of old romance. Have we grown too busy and too serious to find time for gardens and potted fuchsias? If so, we are surely missing one of the sweet, good things of life.

There is more of humanity, more soul, more of God in a quiet garden, oftentimes, than in the crowded market place. It does us good to withdraw, occasionally, from the heat and bustle of the day to the cool, sequestered paths where we may commune with hollyhock and mignonette and our own best selves in The People's Home Journal for April. Priscilla Club. The Priscilla Club was delightfully entertained, March 15, at the home of Mrs. Allison.

The hostess proved herself an able entertainer and had planned a number of original contests, pertaining to the land of Erin and St. Patrick's Day. Prizes were won by Mrs. Nelson and Miss Daisy Davis, consolation prizes by Mrs. Anthony and Mrs.

Cottingham. A delightful luncheon was served in which the shamrock and the green and white were noticable. The tables were tastefully decorated in green and white center pieces of Irish Potatoes, supporting the flag of the Emerald Isle. Mrs. Chamberlain ably assisted in the afternoon program.

Those present were Mrs. Rose Nelson, Clara Rich, Cora Johnson, Minnie Schlatter, Ida Zeller, Besse Anthony, Myrtle Webb, Pearl Cottingham, Laura Schlatter, Mable Davis and Mise Davis Dayis. Guests were Mrs: A. S. Green, J.

I. Davis and Retta Chamberlain. Mrs. Anthony entertains March 29. Robt.

Parsley, formerly of this place and his sister-in-law, Miss Lizzie Long, came up from Parsons last Friday on account of the serious illness of Ed. Lee's son, who is sick with pneumonia. Mr. Parsley had not been in LeRoy for about fifteen years. Mrs.

Rebecca McGeehon was born September 1, 1837, at O'Fallon, Illinois, and died of heart failure at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Samuel Rowe, at LeRoy, Kansas, Thursday March 16, 1916. She was 79 years, 6 months and 15 days old. She was daughter of Whitfield and Katherine Scott.

The funeral services were held from the family residence in LeRoy by the Rev. Dan. R. Gott and the remains were shipped to O'Fallon, Illinois for interment. She was united in marriage to the late Dr.

James Kinney McGeehon in 1853. To this union were born six children; Bryce Whitfield and Samuel Ellsworth of 'Fallon, Illinois; James Don and Edward, deceased; George Arthur of St. Louis, Missouri, and Mrs. Nellie Rowe of LeRoy, Kansas. Mrs.

McGeehon was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in O'Fallon, Illinois, and a member of the local W. C. U. Her life was spent in O'Fallon, except the last fifteen years when she lived with her daughter Nellie here. She enjoyed good health untit this winter when she has been suffering from asthma.

During her residence here she has made friends of all those with whom she has come in contact. She was a home-loving woman, not caring much for going but was always glad to have her friends visit her. She bad the faculty to make such visits enjoyable. She was a loving mother, a devout Christian and of a bright and cheery disposition. Other immediate relatives who survive her are two sisters, Mrs.

Jennie Wilhite of O' Fallon. Illinois, and Mrs. Josie Mosteller of DeSoto, Illinois; two brothers, Edward Scott of Minnesota and James Scott of Illinois; eleven grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. The funeral services were held Sunday and the body was taken to O' Fallon for burial. Mrs.

Rebecca McGeehon Dead. The Nightingales Meet. The Nightingale club was royally entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.

V. Watson last Friday night. It was a St. Patrick affair and the rooms were decorated to that effect and it was carried out in the supper. The invitations read to be present at 6:30 and everybody was there for whenever the club "pulls off" an affair none are found tardy.

At o'clock an appetizing supper of three courses was served as follows: Chicken Pie Gravy Oreamed Potatoes Sliced Tomatoes Celery Apple With Whipped Cream Bread Butter Coffee Salad Clover Leaf Wafers Ice Cream Shamrock Cake Each guest did ample justice to the repast. After supper various contests and games were enjoyed and the evening was closed with charades. Those present were Mr. and M. P.

Cook, Geo. Sims, J. L. Oarmean, T. S.

Chamberlain, Frank Brant, J. S. Johnson, Ralph Rankin, W. O. Thornton, H.

L. Covert, E. K. Lucy, Mr. R.

T. McKinney, Mrs. J. S. Covert, Audrey and Van Watson.

A Narrow Escape. Ed. Beach, living near Vernon, had a narrow escape from death or dismemberment last Thursday evening when he went to sleep on the track of the Missouri Pacific railroad about three quarters of a mile north of Vernon. The engineer of the north-bound local, which was running slowly up the hill toward this place after leaving Vernon, discovered what he thought was a bundle lying alongside the rail, but as the train got nearer, he was amazed to see that was a man. He stopped his train as soon as possible, but not in time to prevent the pilot from hitting the man.

One leg and an arm were extended over the rail, according to the conductor's story and after the train was stopped, he could hardly bring himself to look at the body. But by a miracle, the pilot had rolled the man off the track without serious injury. It is said that Mr. Beach was under the influence of intoxicating liquor at the time of the accident. Save Paper and Rags.

-An appeal made to women in 1801 by New England paper manufacturers to save their rags is recalled by the department of commerce in a circular urging the country to hoard both paper and rags to avert a threatened shortage of paper-making material. It is declared the need is a9 urgent now as then. A great part of the paper thrown away every day should be used over again, the circular declares. The paper-saving crusade was suggested by paper manufacturers themselves. The department promises to put inquirers in touch with manufacturers.

Benjamin Franklin This great American statesman, who Benjamin Franklin stood with George Washington in the Revolutiopary war, was the son of a poor Boston the printing business for worked hard, lived frugally had plenty to live on when Take your cue from legion of people whose bank. Enjoy the satisfaction become dollars and the soapmaker. Hie started in himself in early manhood, and saved his money. He old age came. Franklin.

Join the savings are growing in our of watching the pennies dollars hundreds. See your fortress rise against the possible attacks of sickness or misfortune. Lay the foundation with a part of this week's earnings. Multiply your money in our care. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Governor Leedy in Politics in Canada County Officials Neglect to Perform Duties.

When Andrew Fanchum, an unknown Missouri Pacific track laborer tried to board the east bound freight for LeRoy near Gridley Monday of last week he was jerked from his feet and fell. His head struck a tie and his skull was fractured. Hedied that evening. The Gridley Light says of the way the matter was handled by the officials: The coroner was notified as soon as he died and ordered the body to be moved to Olson Bahr's undertaking rooms. Tuesday morning, Dr.

Manson, coroner, County Attorney Pleasant and Under Sheriff Grubb came over and looked into the matter and ordered him buried at once. Fanchum had about $7 in money on his person besides his railroad identification card and outside of that there was nothing but a piece of soap and a wash rag. His foreman knew nothing of him except that he had come from Nevada, Missouri, and had worked but a short time. His traveling partner did not even know his last name, had never heard him called anything but Andy and Shorty. He was about forty years of age, with brown hair and sandy mustache.

He was about five feet and five inches high and weighed about 135. His clothing was clean though patched a great deal. In the black coat he wore was a label "Rozer Mercantile Co, Perryville, Mo." Everyone who saw or heard how little the coroner had done to examine the body and establish an identity were strong in denouncing him, 80 that some pictures were taken in case Fanchum had relatives who inquired for him. Some of the business men telegraped to the company that sold the coat and told them that Andy Fanchum was killed by accident and to notify relatives if any. Wednesday morning a reply came back from a man, presumably a relative, saying to ship the body of Andrew Fanchum to Perryville, Mo.

In the afternoon he wired the money to prepay the charges and D. W. Sander, was summoned at once from Burlington and embalmed the body. The body was shipped on the morning train Thursday to his relatives. H.

F. Pilcher is a candidate for the Democratic nomination as clerk of the district court, a position he now holds by appointment, since the resignation of L. W. Knight. Mr.

Pilcher's service in the office has been very satisfactory to the people of the county. He has been courteous and obliging toward those who have business in the office and will make a strong candidate. His announcement appears in another place in this paper. Ottawa, March W. Leedy, former Populist governor of Kansas and now residing at White Court, on the McLeod river, north of Edmonton, will be a candidate for the legislature of Alberta at the next election which will probably take place next year.

He was a Republican and Populist in the United States, but favors the liberal side in this country. He is anxious to introduce a better banking system, which he asserts can be obtained by following the methods of Kansas. John W. Leedy's life has been one of excitement and achievement since childhood. He was born in Richland county, Ohio, and when a youth 14 years old endeavored to enlist when President Lincoln called for volunteers.

His seryices were refused but he remained with an Ohio company on the battle front until the close of the war. From then until 1880 when he moved to Kansas his life was spent as a farmer and a clerk in Indiana. John Leedy settled on a farm near LeRoy and at that time was a Republican. Later he became a Democrat until the Populist party was organized when he joined its ranks and soon became a leader. He was a state senator from 1892 to 1896 and governor during the Spanish-American war from 1896 to 1899.

It was Governor Leedy who started General Fred Funston on his military career, by appointing him colonel of the Twentieth Kansas. In 1901 Leedy moved to Alaska, where he began the practice of law. Under She heading "'Leedy of Kansas Again," the Kansas City Star said editorially last Friday: Ottawa, Ontario, sends word according to a dispatch from Wichita, that John W. Leedy, former governor of Kansas, now living at White Court on the McLeod River, north of Edmonton, will be a candidate for membership in the Alberta, Canada, Legislature this fall. Kansas will not be surprised, of course, if the report true.

This thing of running for the state legislature anywhere is in the Kansas blood. Edmonton is so far north it would appear that even a Kansan's desire to be a member of the legislature might be frosted. But not for a man like Leedy. He was a member of the state senate in 1893 in Kansas when the lower house was divided and Kansas had its legislative "war." Leedy was one of the Populist leaders. He was one of the sharpest tongued, bitterest partisans in that that body.

He was not for harmony at any stage of the conflict, and took great delight in the turmoil. It was his prominence in this session of the Kansas Legislature that gave him the nomination for governor by the Populists, Democrats and Free Silver Republicans in 1896, when he was elected. The dispatch from Ottawa, Canada, says that "'Leedy was a Republican in the United States, but is a Liberal here." Not much. Leedy was a Populist, and before that was a Democrat. He lived at LeRoy and was for a long time the local attorney for the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

But he never could have been called a "liberal" in Kansas at any time. He was a radical of the riotous kind." But everybody especially the newspaper men who knew governors so well in those stirring days in Kansas, believed that Leedy was honest and "on the square." If he gets into the Alberta Legislature the conservative Canadians will hear the Kansas language "as she is along the banks of the "Neoshy." For Leedy's desire to go to the legislature shows that he is still a Kansan. Don't Plant in the Moon. Manhattan, March 29. -Between now and April is the time to plant potatoes, and for goodness' sake plant them in the ground and not in the light or dark of the moon- so advises F.

S. Merrill, assistant in horticulture in the Kansas State Agriculal college. Fall plowing for potato crops has given uniformly greater yields than merely plowing the ground in the spring. Heavy ground which is plowed in the fall should be shallow plowed in the spring. Shallow spring plowing is more beneficial to the crop.

Potatoes should be treated for scab and plant diseases before planting, in the opinion of Mr. Merrill. A good solution for treatment is one pint of 40 per cent formaldehyde to 30 galIons of water. The seed should be allowed to soak from to two hours. It is advisable to soak them in the sack as any spores adhering to the sack will also be destroyed.

The seed should then be spread out to dry in the sun before cutting. Corrosive sublimate is sometimes used for this purpose but sa it is a deadly poison, it is more dangerous to use where stock is likely to come in contact with it. Miss Ada Sullivan announces in this paper that she ie a candidate for the Democratic nomination as county treasurer. Miss Sullivan has been deputy county, treasurer under G. W.

Oalvert past three years. She has mastered the important duties devolving on the office and is in every way capable of handling the business as treasurer. If the Democrats nominate her as their candidate she will make a strong race..