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The Towanda Advocate; gmwmmmmmmmmmmmmnmimmmmmnimmK Fublisued Every Thursday At 1 1 We Invite YouJ Towanda, Butler Kansas Subscription, $1.50 A Year Entered as second class matter pril 5, 1919 at the post ollke at Towanda, Kansas under tie Act of March 3, 1879. It IF. II mm J. M. GILMORE, Publisher is.

w- Mr TO Call On Us When 3 Wanting Anything In 3 BUILDING MATERIAL We Handle Screen Doors 3 We Handle Wire SHUT OUT THE FLY I Courteous Treatment A Square Deal 1 7. R. PICKERING LUMBER COMPANY 1 E. R. FRANKS, Local Manager 2 5z Phone 53 Towanda 3 iuaiuiaiumiuiiiaaiiuiiiiuimuaiauiiaiiaiiiiiiiuuiiii What a Porch Can City Directory.

Mayor, W. L. Green. Councilmen; A. E.

RaLston, E. A. Shriver, II. S. Wait, Charles Keevert and C.

L. Botkin. Clerk, F. W. Squier.

Treasurer, F. V. Robiaon. Fire Chief, Dr. Roblyer.

Police Judge, W. R. Green. Street and Water Commissioner, N. L.

Reed. Perhans vour house needs a norrh to mil: non Which" of these houses had you rather own? If they were for sale which one would you buy If they were to let, which one would you rent? In which house had you rather live? The pictures are of the same houses before and after building the porch. inviting, more saleable, easier to rent, or n.ore enjoy able to live in. If so, come in and talk the over with us. We will be glad to make suggestion for the improvement of the appearance and value of your home, SCHOOL NOTES The Com ley Lumber Co- Continued fnrai ipe 1 "Aim for the Best' Debating, We find that a few of tne -31 students 01 tne school are in terested in having a Debating CANNING TIME NO USE.

class. Mr. Underwood called a consTrlerable shift in the negro pop ulation from the South to the North in the past four or five years. The Constitution requires that the presi- meeing Wednesday evening and 'Going to New York?" the following people have decided to try out for the team: "What's the use chorus eQt of the United States must be girls are all on strike." Carrol Baker, Helen Makr, Ruby Litton, Maude Edminster, Mary INFORMATION. a natural-born citizen.

The courts have never defined the meaning of natural-born citizen as used in the Constitution in this connection. Nace, Claudie Priest and Glenn McKee. THAT WENT DOUBLE. His gay wife showed him the pictured advertimeiit of a very short and vary skimpy baling suit. "You might let me have the money, John," she said.

can't consistently, my dear," said he. "Why not?" "I'm a man of modest means." Boston Transcript CRITICISM. "That fellow isn't worth his salt." "I wouldn't say that exactly, but I will say that -he surely isn't worth the price of beefsteak and potatoes nowadays." A try out will be held in a few days and the six best will be selected for the permanent WILL MARION GDOK'S SYNCOPATED ORCHESTRA Approximately speaking there are 1,000,000,000 people of the yellow races. This includes the whole of Asia and Oceania. They form two-thirds of the population of the earth.

It is hardly practical to give the, negro population of Chicago. The Chicago News Almanac quotes the census of 1910 in giving it at 44,103. This, however, is hardly correct, as there has been a verr DIRECT FROM Give your fruits and vegetables the right flavor by using our spices. They are all new stock thereby being fresh and pure. i Don't forget our soda fountain if you want a refreshing drink.

team. Arrangements for hard class study -will be made. The question to be debated at the try out is Resolved That a System of Compulsory Military Training in School and Colleges Should be Adopted by the United States. fc3T JAZZ BARD IR THE WORLD AT WHEAT SHOW, FIRST WEEK ONLY Wichita, Sept. 17 (Special) The High School has not had a Dehating Team for several Jazz? what is it? Don't ask us.

Wo dont know, and years, so we are hoping that the outcome will be a success. oasKet oan probably no one else knows about it to give a thoroughly scientific discourse on the subject And Pie Supper At Wait's Drug Store Prescription Druggists Friday Night, October 10. K' Everybody Come DEATH RECALLS FAMOUS DUEL We all know that an orchestra ta playing Jazz when the Trombone groans, and grunts like a pig squeezing through a tight fence; we can tell (lt is "Jazzing" when the Saxaphone soba and cries like a lost soul, and when the Clarionet sends out great Strings of shrill notes that split the i air and send little tingling waves up 'your spine. But to tell the ignorant what Jazz Is cannot be done. Jazz has to be heard to be appreciated.

Some say that Jazz is "music gone crazy with the heat," others say it is not muisc at all but is simply a melange of sound that stirs the senses and starts the feet in motion. Music or not, Jazz has taken the world by storm. Originating in the South among the negroes it has reached every corner of the globe. There is scarcely a collection of talking ma? chine records that does not carry one or more Jazz selections. For dancing purposes it surpasses anything yet brought out in the line of music.

Sport Items. The boys held their first basket ball meeing Wednesday evening. Prof. Underwood and Coach MiV-han both gave the interesting talks on basket Plans for the coming sea-oa wee discussed and prospects are now bright for a suc-vssful year. It "was planned to end the boy's team to the state at Lawrence in the Spring.

This trip will be of great educational value as the boys will get to go through the itate University buildings. The syrrinasium is being put in first class shapa. The goals are up and the floor will be crubbed, oiled and waxed next veck. New seats and window ghts are being put in. v' The boys will begin practising Uonday but there will be no night practising for a while yet.

At the School House Gymnasium The ladies are requested to bring pies Save Pennies-Waste Dollars Some users of printing save pennies by get' ting inferior work and lose dollars through lack of ad' vertising value in the work they get Printers as a rule charge very reasonable prices, for none of them get rich although nearly all of them work hard. Moral Give your printing to a good printer and save money. Grandson of "Dan" O'Connell Used Tell of "Liberator's" Meeting -With D'Esterre. Mr. Daniel O'Connell, grandson of the "Liberator," died a few days ago at his residence, Darrynane abbey, Wa-tervllle, Ireland, in his eighty-fourth year.

was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for County Kerry, and served the office of high sheriff in 1860. A Dublin gentleman has an Interesting picture of the late Mr. O'Connell holding the pistol which his grandfather used in a famous duel. The following description of the encounter is taken from his own description: "In a speech at a Catholic meeting on January 24, 1815, the 'Liberator referred to the Orange corporation of Dublin as a 'beggarly D'Esterre, a member of the corporation and a well-knowrn shot with pistols, demanded tin explanation, which was refused. "After consulting his friends, D'Esterre paraded the streets for two days with the avowed intention of horsewhipping O'Connell.

The two, howev Jazz music is the best little thing ever discoTered. Ask anyone. The first band that ever brought tyinnn this form of music to the public's at a 1 Ij 1L It has been suggested that a Hallowene party should be given by the High School. Plans for the entertainment are already under way. tention was Will Marion Cook's famous American Syncopated Orchestra.

It is composed of thirty Negro musi cians who are absolutely unexcelled when it comes to "Jazzing up" music Our Printing Is Unexcelled it's writ." They are artists su preme in this line. This band is he- ing brought from Paris where they have been playing, to Wichita for the International Wheat Show, and they will apepar for one week commencing September 29. Ruwlan Bison Exterminated. What has happened, during the war, to the bison herds of Central Europe? Protected by a ukase of the Czar Alexander, bisons still existed In some private parks of Poland and Lithuania, the last of their kind in Europe. Count Potocks herd was kept in an immense park, and for some time was protected by the Cossacks of the Don.

But according to ft French writer, M. Grand-idler, there Is no doubt as to their ultimate fate. In 1917 the hniahoviti Annual Election Of the Red Cross Officers To be held October 15th. In the Shriver and Glass Hardware store. Just Recieved A New Shipment Of Men Suits.

Miss Hanna called a meeting one day last week for all those interested in the Glee Club. There were about eighteen including two boys. We hope that those two boys will succeed in holding down the bass. They have ordered some material already, and will be ready to start work in a few days we hope. COMPOSITION Wlm CnrpM Joliri wns a hoy ami he own-i'(U 1'orj, Ue was rei'kloKs about his driving.

Ho would nut lot a car go iiroumi him, So he rawed very: often He jiMiially won this race and escaped be-mg: killed. One nlRht he had a load of v'oung folks; with him and heard lite honk, honk" of another automobile. It wag, one of the boys who always raced with him. He started around John. John pullod down the Kas lever and good old "fJenry Ford" was gain-Ins on the enemy.

"Careful!" said Bob, who was riding with him, "There's a bump just ahead!" "Who cares!" said John, "That guy Ian fro 1 rig to beat me, I've never been killed yet." and you can't be killed more than Bob answered. John went ahead and they "the bump on high." This made the lights fro out and John was going bo fast that he couldn't stop at once. "Come to the right!" shouted Bob. Hut he vna too late. Two wheels were in the ditch and would stay there until morning nt IcRst.

Wfi' nM "wnpso HrarpfV tnn hurt." Their opponent and the winner lhu race canio back and took them home, Thp Ford was taken to the gar-ttge the day following and repaired. "That was a narrow said John. "I shall never again sav 'who cares' when my Ford has anything to do iV er, did not meet, and finally D'Esterre sent Sir Edward Stanley with a mes-' sage demanding an explanation. O'Connell referred Sir Edward to Major MacNamarra, a Protestant gentleman of County Clare, who refused to give any explanation, whereupon Sir Edward Stanley delivered a challenge, which was accepted, and half-past three that afternoon, at Bishop's court, County Kildare, four or five miles from Naas, on the road to Dublin, was fixed for the meeting. "They met accordingly and fired together, by sipjial.

D'Esterre's bullet went Wide. O'Connell aimed low, intending D'Esterre in the leg, but actually did so in the groin. The bullet went through, penetrating the bladder, and came out at the Inflicting a mortal wound. D'Esterre lived for two days only. "The pistols used by the "Liberator' were given him by an English officer, quartered in Dublin, to whom he had clone a kindness, and who, when giving them, said, as a proof of their goodness, that they had already killed ten men.

They are a pair of 'Rigby's and Mr. O'ConneU often shot at a mark with them, and found them to be very good and accurate. "D'Esterre's daughter married Lieutenant Roberts of the British royal navy, who commanded the Sirlus, the first vessel to ttu lima Coik to America (Boston) under her own steam, and subsequently the President, which was lost with all on board, on the way mm TJow Vnrk tn Llvemnol." thought fitting to Include the herd In i their policy of extermination. Bisons could not be owned by everybody, therefore they must be owned by nobody, nd so, In the general cataclysm, the famous herd disappeared. Magpie Pet of Public.

The magpie In Kensington gardens ha many friends who attend his daily levee. One of so tender a heart that she conceals chicken bones in her muff for his delight was told that an offering of meal-worms would prove irresistible. She sought this delicacy, but "only to learn that it is now unobtainable. For meal-worms, as an article of bird-fare, came from Germany. Most of us will bear with equanimity The Nominees are Mrs.

Hopp, Mrs. IN. L. Reed, A beautiful line of Flannel, Unfinished Wosted Serges and Cashmires. We bought these Suiis early at last years prices, $30., $35., and $40.

Come in and look them over. Globe Clo. Co. Ella Otten, M. T.

Cooper Iven Kullmans, Menefee. MrsXi. A. Ureene, Sec. thm rllKUnnoaf one of hi jstf-ititocf Hunnlsh trades.

To the authorities of the Zoological gardens, however, the problem of meal-worm production Is said to be a weighty one still tin-wived, Loudou CUroulcle, fl. Mr Percy Torrey and son, 'of Wichita were Towanda victors today, (Thursday).