The Longton News and Elk Falls Reflector from Longton, Kansas • 1

7 THE LONGTON VOLUME XV. LONGTON, ELK COUNTY, KANSAS, APRIL 5, 1912. NUMBER 14 Lived Alone Twenty-one Years. 2C From Tope ka Slate Journal Apr. 2, i School Notes Frank aud Ethel Stewart were absent from school Monday.

Murphysboro, 111., April ho was it at Longton, that kept W. Carteret Williams, the mys and caution which Williams evidently enjoined upon his correspondents was observed even by bis brother, none of whose many letters is signed with his name, but merely with the initials, A. The iron tank in which the hermit had armed and provisisned him LOCAL and PERSONAL Items of Interest about Home People terious hermit whose death has Earl Mahan was absent from High School all last week on acC- 3st occured here, supplied with oum 01 me bicimess 01 nis pareuis. inTrpatpii remittances 1 1 1 self as if preparation of a seige came every month, tsut beyond this fact nothing is known of the was placed cunningly in a ravine The Agriculture class is trying out some germination tests of corn, sender and scarcely more of the Mrs. 11.

ts. iVlcUutchan came near the shack where it was so 6ur-lounded by rocks that it could be cotton and flower seeds. A report man who received it. home Monday evening from Inde of the experiment will cume out For 21 years Williams held out approached only through one narrow entrance which a single man could hold against a score of invad George Harris, of Molirie, spent Sunday with friends in this city. Mrs.

F. S. Bennet came in Sunday for a few days visit with Mrs. O. H.

Worley. next week. against the enroachments of society pendence where she has been for the past two months caring for their "daughter Miss Kuth. She In that tune no one but a woman Most of the Junior class was ab ers. crossed his threshhold and she Although Williams had pur sent Monday.

reports her as much improved as crossed it only twice, once when chased a 40-acre farm on which she arrived and once when she left. Hal Marshall, of Elk City, was to what she wag wn3n taben away. The Sophomores finished the Death finally vanquished the bar his cabin stood, he did not cultivate it, and owed his support to money which he received once a month third book of Caesar this week the guest of his sister Miss Marshall Sunday. ricades and people entered his fortified home to seek evidence The movable Domestic Science Mrs. d.

V. Mitchell and son John, and little baby brother, re- turned Tuesday evening: from which will show who the old man Mrs. J. J. Sexton returned Sun from Longton, Kan.

He kept accounts in banks at Cobden, Alto School from the State Agricultural i was and the reason for his mode trom where she haa Quenemo, where they had College is to be at Longton near i i il l.i 1 ii i ill li lUii. been attending the 3 Duriai or tne the middle or the month ana wxii ui a fnnml Kocirlo husband and father a large iron tank in which were or woman who is interested in this ammunition and food enough to work is wfilmmfl tn Pnmll in th last through a long siege, bur On Saturday, April 13, the Ladies Aid of the M. E. Church will hold, in Mr. Gillam's building, rounding the cabin was a high class, although its primary interest I ii tt: i i fence covered with tin cans arrang ed to serve as an alarm when any a "Sunbonnet Sale" and "Ladies 18 Ior in aiSa 0011001 g1- Pass and Cape Girardeau.

The Alto Pass bank shows a balance of $G0. and in one Cobden bank he had $40 when he died. Much of his correspondence came from Toledo, 0., whence he also received a daily newspaper. 4 Among the recluse'l 'rd habits which astonished hit eighbors was thst of undressing and rolling in the snow before going to bed in a shed outside his cabin. He bought no food in Pomona, but always ordered his supplies from Chicago.

When they arrived he would harness himself to a light ton is anxious to have a Domestic one touched the wall Science course in the Hierh School His eccentric actions from the and hope to make this work so in- daY he arrived in Pomona puzzled been visiting relatives. Miss Mabel Brightwell, of Tola, came in Friday evening for a visit witn Miss Ethel Lyster i Miss Sadie Godard left Monday morning for Ida, for a visit with Sister, Miss Anna. R. C. Patterson, of Kansas City, owner of the Kollar ranch, was in Longton on business Monday.

Sheriff Liggett was down from Howard Tuesday morning on legal business connected with that office. The furniture of the late L. Parkinson will be sold at auction Ladies, here is a chance to get good bonnets at a bargain. Men, get busy if you want good pies, cakes, for your Sunday dinner. Call or send i i' ii i ii i ilia uuuuio.

uu, uuauic iu ci- teresting that next year it will be I i i i iiniT iniarni'ii win i tiiiti iiiiii had to satisfy themselves with Eriday, April 12th, is the an- guesses, some of them of a somber to Gillam building, April 13. rod school meeting. Everybody character. 1 hey hope that papers found in thp shack after his death spring wagon, draw it to town, fill Mr. M.

Li. Jolly who has con Mxwiv si W-rtrt. 4-, -V UJ I tt with his goods and drag it home. 1 i 1 i ducted the city meat market in He kept no horse. OCliOOl.

Iwliinh fVc rA mnn fonlr vrith mm Longton for a number of years has When his acquaintances found When we were in the Freshman to the grave closed out most of his stock and in class. Once a week he went to the he was ill they tried to obtain his consent to call a physician, but he i the future will devote all his time That humble station in life. postorfice, where he had two lock not only refused to see a doctor, at the residence Saturday afternoon to conducting an up to date grocery We looked up to the Junior lass, boxes, with a large tin bucket, and but also to take medicine. carried home a bucketful of letters April 6th. and feed store.

Mr. Jolly is not For best of wise advice. The body bore a number of old papers. Coroner Forshee ana Now that we have our position Miss Ada White returned the new in the grocery business, hav- scars, which seemed to have been secure 1.. -m0t iWn U-ug oametm iock mi connection touud several hundred letters the cabin, from each of which the id it A.

1U VU. A. A VSU.J. 1 A In the intellectual clasp of fame, with the meat martet tor some Be wise, be careful, be sure, time. His courteous treatment in nan.es of the writers and sometimes words of the contents had been cut.

inflicted with a knife. It was said that whenever his neighbors became too inquisitive he would change his postoffice from one of the nearby towns to another. Not to use our name in vain. the past insures him success in the of For we have sole possession "Mt. Mis only visitor in his zi years future.

where she has been the past several months. Dr. C. W. Maddox who has been in Kansas City in a sanitarium for his health, came home Saturday very much improved.

a 1 1 of seclusion and his only messen And must be shown respect, Aay mail that comes for Williams ger, save his letters, from the un The parties west of town who lour foolishness you will have have been poisoning dogs for the te stop, known world in which he once lived," was a handsomely dressed Or you will catch it in the neck. I. E. Bone returned Tuesday to Past few, weeks are kindly request woman who visited his tarm a few Juniors T.oolm Art Afro TW.P will rp. ed by some of the neighoors, to years ago.

When she was leaving PnmftTiii a wnrnnn snid cVia honrrl make the poison just a little main in Longton until she fully Williams say to her: "Don't come stronger so as to kill the dogs recovers her health. Died in Longton, March to see me again, or you will be the before they reach home. neck 28. 1912. Joseph Washington I cause ot me gelling my of Mrs.

Mary ralmer came over broken." Mitchell, aged 50 years, 5 months Robert Gordon and Miss Grace from Winfield the last of last week on business and to visit her son, I 1 1 itt, i ii Rumors that the strange old man wTas a miser as well as a her Pierce were married in Colorado am one uay' iur' iVlllcneii was Frank and family. Springs. Mondav. March 25. born 111 Slieriiau, Nov.

29, mit were prevalent in Pomona, but no one krew until his death that 1 Ol1 TT I A -i I 1 i tu Af. iooi. vv nen yei young, wun nis will be held for the coroner, who will open and read it, in the hop 3 of finding some clew to the hermit's past life. Saturday, at Elk Valley School Dist. No.

12, was the closing of the school term. A big dinner was enjoyed at high noon, and after this the school program was given. Mr Mason, the teacher, is deserving of much credit for the drilling of his scholars. Their program with no exception, was beautifully given and Young America was cer'-tainly at its best in the singing of the beautiful school songs and national airs. It was a treat to see so many bright happy faces.

After the flag had been presented by Mr A. B. McKay and accepted by Mr. W. Beverlin.

All stood and gave the flag salute under ths direction of the Corp's Patriotic Instructor, Mrs B. M. Miller. Mr Masons short talk rang with patriotism The appaulse was still J.V. J.

JYlUVUtUUaU wuu uaa uccu a. no giuuui 10 a ouu jl iuio, -LiLiiimi 1 in one room of the cabin into hnnsfid for thfl rast four weeks Gordon of this citv. m-ew to man. muveu 10 enemo, nans which he never had permitted en TT 1 iaui nlf.firat.fid sore throat and hood here and known to everv "no uiaiUDJ miuul lu umuc" trance was a large steel safe. When it was opened United State3 bonds t-i a.

I r.f nnA eila itoDerts at Usburn, Mo. lo lOIlSlllllS IS UU1C IU UC VJUli UaiU. uuiiiuu auu. riiniLj. uiiod and other papers thought to be tri fA, Pieerce is a Wichita young ady union do nine cnuaren, securities, were found BYlA m.

0 nve ot wnom are living and were The cabin contained several wagon loads cf books, scentific and her home in Elk I alls. She has 1 0 at his bedside when he denarted young couple left Colorado Springs Ul U1S "eusiue wnen been here assisting in the care of J- th- He was a devoted bus- fiction, and a recent edition of the Mrs. C. W. Mahan who has been 'i a ft kind nnrl in.lnWnt fntliPr wpsr 1 hflv vvi makp Encylopedia Britannica.

rni 1 1 1 A fragment of one of the letters their home where he is emoloved ntlu llveu 11111118 neia Mr. Munn, Secretary and Treas- as engineer on the Frisco. Their borllo0(l Dut a snort time and were received by Williams, the first half of which had been torn off and the names of which either were cut greater, lviany visitors were in urer or the jvan-u-J-ex ivennery mat)y friends join the News in umuilS us iney leu, at Caney, and Mr. E. S.

Dorance wishing them a long and happy mslkinS the shock doubly hard. Superintendant of the plant, were Mr. Mitchell was a man of unusual attendance and the afternoon is one long to be remembered by and his death was a great those present. in Longton on business Saturday Saturday, April 6, the Congre- shock to everyone, as he was only On Friday afternoon of last week The Easter sermon, at the M. E.

gational Aid will have an apron confined to the house from Tnes March 28th, a number of the church, will be delivered at 11 a 1 11 -fvtl 11 rr 1 tt sale and serve lunch and cotree. day until Thursday. lie was a away or distinguished by initials, was made public by the coroner and contains hints of mysterious suspicions. It reads: "Thinking of you would put me in a bad light and the boys all knew of it, and I don't want any such performance here. I always behaved myself and don't want any such suspicion resting on me.

"You must tell grandma yourself to address your letters in my name. Relief Corps drove to the Oak Ridge School district No.81. about Sunday morning and the pro- 1 Also will have a oc and 10c counter Scottish Rite Mason ana a mem will ho irivpn fnnf HV P.VPn. four miles S.uth East of town to ber of the Gruthie, Consis -iA-tn with a variety of good thin inor. Everyone invited to attend where a pleasing program was given, arranged by Mrs.

Bermetta eat on them, and a variety of tory. 1 he lodge here took charge these services. M. Miller, the Patriotic Instructor things for the boys and girls to of the body. The remains were Mrs.

T. K. Bosworth who hus eat and play with. shipped to Quenemo, Sat- with the assistance of the teacher, Miss Anna Lounsberry. A very Tell her I am your corresponding secretary as your health is poor.

Congregational Ladies Aid. urday morning where it wras laid been visiting her parents, Mr, and Mra A. R. McKay, went to Elk rest near that of his parents Falls for a few days visit with Wanted to Pasture. under the auspicies of the Masonic Aunt R.

and M. and Uncled, know about it. Aunt caught on. A man from here (here a word is cut fflonda in bp. fnrft returning to her rrrti 1 lodge of that city.

The breaved out was in Alliance in search of lhose in JLongton who have or keep a cow can obtain pasture for home in Geneva, Kans. wife and children have the sympathy of the entire community. Mr John Mitchell and wife of same by applying to the under- of you, I told him you were in trouble. All of them think it is a blackmailing scheme and that you New Mexico, came in Friday night signed. fine talk on the flag and its history was given by Mr.

A. B. McKay, Past Commander of the Post, who presented a beautiful flag to the school in behalf of the Mulligan Relief Corps number 45. Miss Lounsberry made the acceptance speech. A solo by Mrs Florance Weidlein, "The Flag With Many Stars" was greatly enjoyed by all, A paper was given by Mrs Miller and several short talks by the members of the board and visitors.

The flag salute was given closing with the Star Spangled Banner, We extend our deepest heartfelt i AT- WT (m-jre cut out), 'lhey will never tJ t1- thanks to all whoso kindly remem. tell grandma or grandpa." 1 11. 1 ii 7 TVfUUll Mitchell oromer, o. vV wiiuuou, Molina bered us in our late sorrow and Then follows an account of 1 11 A who recently moveu ner. Traxisas Tuesday nitrht.

April 9th. money spent attending a normal Mr.rw.mA Kqt school, the name of which is ehm also came iwm Smc a nms a i ootl ti grief. Mrs. J. W.

Mitchell and cbildren. to accompany the remains ua tu assured Morrig Hall inated carefully. The name of the writer is also cut off, The secrecy thali-'lace for burial..