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to to NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER KANSAS Happenings of More or Less Interest Gathered From Many Sources. WHEAT OUTLOOK BEST IN YEARS State Should Produce 200 Million Bushels This Year, Says Government Field Agent Paxton. Only one April in twenty years showed wheat in as good condition as it is at the present time, according to the detailed statement of the Kansas wheat prospects given out by the Kansas field agent for the United States Dtpartment of Agriculture. Kansas seeded the largest acreage ever known last fall, more than 11 million acres, according to Edward C. Paxton, government field agent.

The condition of the crop now is 101 per cent. "In 1901 only did the wheat go off with a better start than this year," said Mr. Paxton. "The condition April 1, 1914; that ushered in the greatest wheat crop Kansas has hitherto produced was 96 per cent. In 1901, starting with an April condition of 105, Kansas produced an average of 18:5 bushels on 5,356,000 acres, or 000 bushels.

In 1914 8,600,000 acres produced an averagt of 20:5 bushels, and a total of 176 million bushels. "Although no state forecast is made this early in the season, past experience would indicate that with anything like an even break from now till harvest Kansas ought, this year, on her 11,184,000 acres produce more than 200 million bushels of winter wheat. No Kansas wheat crop, 'with anything like a similar spring prospect, has ever suffered a slump that produced even a near failure. The average condition of Kansas wheat on April 1 for the last, ten years has been 77.7. The present condition of 101 is in violent contrast with that of 67 one year ago and 45 two years ago.

"The spring of 1907 saw a 65 per cent of the wheat acreage sown the preceding autumn abandoned to other crops. May, 1918, saw 27 per cent of the Kansas wheat a total loss. Although estimates of abandonment are not made until May 1, the present outlook is that the acreage abandoned this spring will be exceptionally low. Some counties of the west and the southwest may suffer a loss as high as 3 per cent of the acreage sown, due to blowing of the sandy soils, or because some fields of early seeding last fall, destroyed by hoppers, were not reseeded." The 1919 session of the Kansas Leg- islature was the most expensive the state has had in many years. The greatly increased expense was not due to the unusual number of employeessuperintendents of ventilation and other supernumeraries either.

It was due to a little raid on the state treasury by the members of the legislature themselves when they voted each member and the chief officers fifty dollars additional pay for "postage, telegraph and telephone expenses" almost on the last day of the session. The total appropritions for expenses of the 1919 session of the legislature exceeded $103,500. This was the amount directly appropriated in the four bills. C. B.

Aves was elected mayor at the recent election. The entire "Floreice First" ticket, which was recommended by the Florence Commercial Club, was elected. Appropriations made by the recent session of the Kansas Legislature total $14,205,183, or $3,036,617 more than those ordered by any previous legislature in the state's history. The total as officially given out by State Auditor Fred W. Knapp, was $824,115 less than the budget approved by ExGovernor Arthur Capper and $400,000 more than the total of Auditor Knapp's budget.

The necessity of meeting "war prices" in the mainttnance of state institutions was said to be the main cause of the increase over the appropriations of former sessions. Ottawa was chosen the convention city for the Kansas Retailers' Association in 1920, and 'the following officers elected; Samuel Rothweiler, Bison, president; I. D. Vanmeter, Parsons, first vice-president; G. Johnson, Salina, second vice-president; A.

O. Wheeler, Pittsburg, third vicepresident; W. L. Archer, Wellington, fourth vice-president; C. B.

Crosby, Topeka, fifth vice-president; C. J. McCarthy, Emporia, re-elected treasurer. The secretary is appointed by the board of directors. Mrs.

Sadie Scudder, the first woman county superintendent of Johnson county, died at Olathe following a stroke of paralysis. She was elected to this office in 1890 and since that time no man has been superintendent, although many have made the race. One of the biggest problems in modern gunnery has been solved by the invention of a gauge which registers pressure exerted on the walls of the large naval guns by Professor F. E. Kerster of the department of physics at Kansas University.

THE POTWIN LEDGER, POTWIN, KANSAS WILL INSURE WHEAT CROP Government Officials Planning to Guard Against Damage by Hail in Kansas and Oklahoma. The government will take out million dollars' worth of hail insuranct on the wheat sown in Kansas and Oklahoma through the instrumentality of the federal seed wheat loan negotiated last fall, according to word received Topeka recently by Edward C. Paxton, field agent for the bureau of crop estimates. This word comes direct from Leon Estabrook of Washington, who had supervision of the loans made in the Southwest. 'Mr.

Estabrook states that the federal land bank i in Wichita has been authorized to procure a blanket policy of hail insurance covering all loans in Kansas and Oklahoma, to the extent of $4 per acre, payable to the bank as its interests appear. Such policy is to be written by at least three standard companies. Coverage is to be effective May 10. The underwriting companies are to procure at once, at their own expense, notes from the borrowers of the federal loan to cover premium for this insurance and such additional insurance as the borrowers may want. General rule and rate in force in territoiry are to apply to all policies.

Notes are to be carried to September 1, without interest, secured by lien on the crop, subject to the prior lien of the federal land bank. All borrowers are to have the privilege of making their own arrange ments up to May 1, and policy is to be canceled without charge as to any borrower making other arrangements satisfactory to the land bank and advising the bank before that date. The Kansas state hospitals are being overcrowded and the 1919 legislature, made no provision for additional room for the patients. The state board of administration compiled some statistics relative to the admission to the state hospitals. In the first three months of 1918 the average admissions were sixty-four each month, while in the first three months of this year the admissions have averaged eighty-six each month.

An effort was made to get some new buildings for the different hospitals, but this failed in the legislature. Influenza has been the chief cause of the great number of admissions. The enactment of the law providing for voluntary admissions to the hospitals, passed to enable soldiers suffering from shell shock to be treated by the state, is going to make additional burdens on the state hospitals to find room for the patients. Kansas may have a "field of honor" for the Kansas soldiers killed in France. Some time ago Senator Arthur Capper and Governor Allen began discussing plans for a Kansas cemetery for the soldiers who lost their lives in the world war.

Senator Capper took up the question of bringing the bodies home with the War Department. He has received a letter from Col. R. E. Wylie of the general staff, saying the government plans to bring back at its expense the body of every American soldier where the nearest relative desires it.

However, the French government has offered America a plot of ground sufficient to care for the American dead, and this plot is to be maintained at American expense the same as the National cemeteries are now maintained. An unidentified woman died at Hutchinson in the dental office of Dr. E. H. Gibson, following the extraction of a tooth.

The dentist said he used the usual local anaesthetic and pulled the tooth with little trouble. The woman then fainted and was never revived. Physicians were in attendance and used the pulmotor an hour and a half. Pat Fogelstrom, 5, and William Brown, 6, and Donald Stevens, 12 years' old, and C. A.

Fogelstrom were severely burned at Junction City when boys dropped a match into the gasoline tank of Fogelstrom's motor car. The Stevens and Fogelstrom boys' burns are serious. Mr. Fogelstrom and the Brown boy received only minor burns. The Kansas utilities commission has denied the 6-cent passenger rate asked by the Kansas City Street Railways Company.

No special provision was admitted for long hauls, as the commission takes the position that thtre is a five-mile limit in Kansas City on the Kansas side of the line and all hauls in Kansas are "short hauls." The first death as a result of the recent blizzard in southwestern Kansas was reported when the frozen body of L. J. Wathen was found partly buried in the snow about two miles southwest of Hugoton. Several hundred cattle were killed in the blizzard, according to reports from ranchers and cattlemen. Mrs.

Fred Huebach pleaded guilty in the district court here at Anthony to a charge of murder in connection with the death of her husband at their home near Harper last month, and was sentenced to serve a life term in the state penitentiary. Atchison will have a Junior high school next year, it was decided by the school board. H. P. Study, superintendent of the public schools, established the first junior high school in Kansas at Cherryvale several years ago and made it a success.

JIM'S GOOD TRADE TO WELL Teaspoonful of PERUNA Three Times a Day THE GUIDE POST I PERUNA TO HEALTH Has Never Been Down Sick Since Taking PERUNA Read this letter from Mr. Robt. Minnick, Grass Range, Montana. 1900 I was out in Kansas running a threshing engine and the threshing crew had to sleep out doors. One of the crew Prowentino one Peruna day and Almanac I was to out.

feeling very ill from sleeping decided to give a trial sent for a bottle of Peruna a box of Peruna Tablets, straightened me out in a hurry. "I have never been down sick since that time. I do not take Any other medicines except Peruna, I always keep it on hand. If feel I get my feet wet, get a cold, chilly, or a little bad, I always take Peruna. People should not wait until they are down sick and then take, it, but should keep it on like I do and when they feel bad, they should use Recommended for Catarrhal inflammation of every desorption.

WHY NOT PUREIt any farmer will put in two or three registered Shorthorn females and keep the female increase he will soon have a valuable herd at small cost. A Kansas farmer produced 94 head of registered Shorthorns from one cow in 12 years. A Wisconsin farmer produced 120 head from one cow in less than 15 years. The value counts up fast if they're purebreds. AMERICAN SHORTHORN BREEDERS ASS'N, 13 Dexter Park Chicago, 111.

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-Adv. Fruit Lubricant. A new fruit containing: a large percentage of oil has been discovered in the region of Torreon, and is known by the name of "chicopoxtle," says Engineer. Experiments show that 25 per cent of its contents consist of oil of great value in industrial pursuits requiring a lubricant of high quality. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use for Over 30 Years.

Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria His Rule. At school No. 10, the children are working enthusiastically in the modern health crusade and in their art classes are making health posters. One little fellow, after finishing a poster showing a mounted knight in all his glory, wrote beneath it: "If you will keep all the health crusade rules you will be -Indianapolis News. BOSCHEE'S SYRUP will quiet your cough, soothe the inflammation of a sore throat and lungs, stop irritation in the bronchial tubes, insuring a good night's rest, free from coughing and with easy expectoration in the morning.

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A foreigner on a visit to England 1s at a loss to understand why in the houses of parliament each party has a whip for its own party when it wants to beat the other party. No Worms in a Healthy Child All children troubled with worms have an anhealthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as a rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, improve the digestion, and act as a General Strength. ening Tonio to the whole system. Nature will then throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will he in perfect health.

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"What kind of work is the old college coach doing now?" "I suppose his usual hack work." Some Cases. "Don't you believe it is better to give than receive?" "Certainly, if it is advice or knocks." A woman who is popular with other women is seldom a reigning favorite with men. Are you a success, or can your wife tell if you're telling the truth or not? HOW'S YOUR BLOOD 2 Pimples and Eruptions Mean Bad Blood Paid Youngster to Swap His Pig for the Bear. Bruin's Eagerness for a Pork Dinner Proved His Undoing When Old Muzzle-Loader Really Got Into Action. In return for helping his grandfather one summer and fall on his.

bush farm, Jim Holland had received a pig which he had taken special pains to fatten. One day when he was alone he heard a great squealing and came out just in time to see a bear carrying his pig into the bush. Rushing back, he seized his grandfather's muzzle-loader and hurried out. He picked up his hand-ax and stuck it in his belt, and as he ran to the bush his dog joined him. The porker, which weighed about one hundred pounds, was making a kick for his life and objecting SO strenuously to the manner of his removal that the bear was not making very rapid progress.

When Jim was near enough he stopped, took aim and pulled. But the old gun did not go eff; either the cap was useless or the powder was damp. Sending his dog after the bear, Jim dropped the gun, seized the ax and hurried on to see what he could do. The dog rushed in and nipped a hind leg. The bear swung round and snapped at the dog, then hurried on, clinging tightly to his prize.

At that moment Jim ran up and hit the robber with his ax. At the same time the dog rushed in on the farther side and nipped the bear again in the tender part of leg. As the tear swung round upon little torhis mentor, Jim saw his chance and got in another blow with his ax, which caused the beast to shake his head savagely. Apparently the bear was determined that, even if he had to give up his booty, he would see that it was of no service to Jim, for with one blow of his powerful paw he disemboweled the pig. He then threw it from him and made off through the woods.

In great disappointment and anger at the loss of his pig. Jim called his dog, got the gun and went home. When his grandfather returned that evening he told him what had happened. "That old bear will be back for the pig tomorrow," said his grandfather. "You'd better be on hand and get him." "How?" asked Jim.

"Why, with the gun, of course," said the old gentleman tersely. "I tried your gun on him today, but it wouldn't go off," said Jim. "That is one of the best guns in this country, even if it is an old-timer," said his grandfather sharply. This was not the first time his ancient gun had been condemned by a new generation. The old gentleman pulled out the charge, carefully reloaded the gun and told Jim that it was all right.

Early the next morning Jim climbed a tree near his dead pig and waited. The morning passed and there was no sign of the bear, but at about the time when he had appeared on the day before he came cautiously through the woods and approached the pig. Jim took careful aim at the spot just behind the fore shoulder and fired. The old gun did its work faithfully this time. When his grandfather heard the gun go off he hurried to the spot.

He found Jim dancing around his bear. "He's a big one, Jim; bigger than I thought," said the old gentleman. "You were lucky to get him at one crack. Meat and fat and hide, he's worth more than four pigs." It required a team and a stone boat to get Jim's prize Companion. Concrete Flume in Hawaii.

Owing to the scarcity of steel in the Hawaiian islands during the war, substitutes for steel had to be used as far as possible. On one of the sugar plantations a concrete flume was used to carry water across a gulch. The flume was formed as an inverted siphon, consisting of a rectangular box resting on concrete columns. It is about feet wide and nearly 5 feet deep and is supported about 35 feet above the bottom of the gulch. A bell-andspigot expansion joint connects the horizontal portion of the flume with one of the inclined stacks, the space between being filled with asphaltic cement.

This joint has operated satisfactorily without any signs of leakage for a number of American. Silk Hats Not Popular. Although silk hats have made their reappearance since the armistice brought about a partial return to evening dress in Paris theaters and restaurants, there is a growing feeling among well-dressed men that a substitute for the ancient and ugly stovepipe must be found. Today a correspondent of the aris tocratic. Gaulcis suggests that a soft felt hat to match the color of the evening waistcoat and ornamented with an artistic.

buckle should be adopted. This, it is suggested, would be "discreet and distinguished," but the newspaper asks with anguish: "What can be worn with the frock coat or morning Jacket?" The Impossible. "Every man should attend strictly to his own business." "Too much to ask," said Mr. Dustin Stax, after a moment's reflection. "Nearly every man I know was obliged to call' in an expert to help him with his Income tax return." ished People who have impure or blood should be careful to take only a temperance remedy made of wild roots and barks such as Dr.

Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is and has been for nearly 50 years. Ingredients printed on wrapper. The first day you start to take this reliable medicine, impure germs and accumulation begin to separate in the blood and are then expelled through the eliminative organs. In place of the impurities, the arteries and veins gradually get fresh vitalized blood and the action of this good blood on the skin means that pimples, boils, carbuncles, eczema, rash, acne and all skin blemishes will disappear. Then you must remember that when the blood is right, the liver, stomach, bowels and kidneys become healthy, active and vigorous and you will have no more trouble with indigestion, backache, headache.

Get Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to-day at any medicine dealers, in tablet or liquid form, or send 10c for trial package to Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Atchison, a great many years Dr.

Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has been our household remedy. In one instance especially I found it to be wonderful. When my boy was convalescing from scarlet fever he had breaking out. in blotches all over his body, face and limbs. One bottle of 'Golden Medical Discovery' completely cleared up his skin and also proved a splendid tonic.

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It's heartbreaking the way some girls are careless in these hard times. Aunt Martha went into the kitchen the other evening and found her young servant sitting by the fire which was gayly consuming much coal. "Goodness me!" gasped the old lady. "You should always burn cinders in the evening, Esmeralda." Next day auntie saw Esmeralda heaping coal onto a huge bonfire in the back garden. She couldn't speak for rage, but the girl understood her gesture.

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