Clifton News from Clifton, Kansas • 1

V7 1 J. ety me and holn i The i have a goodiii .11 i ILA VV ftj? )Vouwish to sell and v7l VM write a letter t- 741 write a letter xent families! 1 JV HI III CLIFTON, CLAY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, KANSAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1918 NUMBER 14 VOLUME 3-1 jjohn VonLehe, W. H. Prentice, jh Dr. C.

P. Gillespie Suicides Lydia Prentice, Fred Glasco, "Re-, i. TT i i ri, i tt Those citizens of Clifton who Clifton-Vining Kctl Cross Drive The CI if ton-Vining lied Cross The Mulberry Red Cross Drive The people of Mulberry township across the river from Clif Flour Now Darker All of the local grocers have received announcements from the millers supplying them with flour drive is practically completed and Fhodes viae nc auccts uui oucxjr rs Tl Wnnrl Mrs. ton have not yet organized their I Red Cross auxiliary, as they are waiting until the Clay Center a oiaioi p. Coates, Mrs.

F. E. Knapp, i i i TiT I tamed by the soliciting Riu Cecil Riu prised and shocked to learn that tees. The part of Clifton township Rasmuaaen. j.

Eeniam-I Dl Gll.lesPie hd committed to the effect that in the future all flour must contain at least 95 per cent of the wheat. In other words, outside of Clifton and Vining has uopjaumdeby snooting himsell thru the head with an automatic re-i not yet been solicited in full and' A'i Mv3 i high patent flour is practically a 'hing of the past, the millers not being allowed to grind that kind any more. Some of the high patent the names of those hvmg the jj; Drury, Iza E. township outside of the two towns JMary Potter Lucy Roek Wmg br Giespie had been very chapter finishes organizing, but without a permanent organization they have secured 59 members in a little less than one days time devoted to the canvass. If they can do that well in less than one day without an organization, great things can be expected of them will not oe given uiun uie can- Clarke CarI Worley, Ellen 1 four months and had become des- vass is completed son, Chas.

Johnson, Mrs. Chas. I flours have in the past contained as little as 72 per cent of the wheat, leaving 28 per cent to be 'used for brans, shorts, etc. Un The list is -in excellent one audi Johnson, Robert Berner, Ezra uie Hot is an excellent one 'U1U i expressed his belief that he could is composed of practically every Thompson S. health.

For the iwhen they are organized and go I JM. i.1 i. days he has been con- citizen of the towns. Only a very Mattingly, Mrs. S.

P. Mattingly, verv few refused to join when sol-M. J. Watson, Mrs. Nannie Wat-td to H-icited bv the committees.

I Ron G. E. Sager, Mrs. Rose Sager, T0 Hutchins to Philadelphia Loren Hutchins, who enlisted in the navy a few weeks ago as machinist! mate first zIllus watchmaker, and who was ordered to report on December 2Gth, received a notice a few days before that date not to report until further orders. Friday he received another notice that the order did not apply to him, as he was to go direct to Philadelphia and not to a training station, and to report immediately at Kansas City for transfer to Philadelphia.

He left early Saturday mornhig and card received from him Sunday gave the information that he left Kansas City Saturday afternoon enroute to Philadelphia, were he will be placed on the U. S. S. Prairie for active duty. As was stated in The News a few weeks ago he has an excellent position in the navy, very few men of his age being able to secure that position.

The four years of service will be a great education for him, giving him the experience of travel and expert advice not available to every young man. His many friends in Clifton wish him all the success possible in his work. bed, and Thursday J. Banner, S. Banner, der the new ruling of the food administration all flour must contain 95 per leaving only 5 per cent for brans, etc.

This will make the flour slightly darker and also make the bread a little heavier. The order affects all mills. Clifton. ViniiiLr Clifton town-! A at ri.QT10 Jwuse io inquire aoout tne ngnts, ship. Krantford township, andiMra.

Melinda Morgison, W. FJ the current having been on and off The Brant ford Red Cross Drive Brantfordi township has practically finished its Red Cross drive and has made an excellent showing in the number of new members obtained, 182. Wm is the chairman of the organization and Mrs. Will Campbell is the secretary. Most of the families solicited are represented by two or more members and in some cases by four or five.

Walker Burk probably holds the record for that township with six memberships in his family. The following list of the members was furnished by the secretary and does not give all of the names, but only the heads of the families. The numbers following each name represents the number of members in that family. It is a good list and represents the best citizenship of Brantford township. George Dague 3, Albert West 2, Mrs.

Mary Wurtz 1, Mrs. A. Thie-manl, Andrew Erickson 2, Axel Hammer 3, Mrs. Henry Meyers 1, Mrs. Will Geiberl, Wm.

Jurey Sr. 2, Wm. Jurey Jr.2, C. B. Schrader 3, F.

E. Lisher 2, James Burnett 3, P. August Peterson 3, Mrs. Ruth McCulloug3i 1, Walker Burk 6, Albert Johnson 2, John Eklund 1, Pat Lisher 2, Mrs. Maud Graham 1, H.

D. Cassity 2, Tom Thompson 2, Mrs. Fred Meyers' 3, Paul Lambert 2, Lloyd Dunn 1, Mrs. Rtird Jurey Rc and Mr Krebs MuM.evry towsh.p have made rec-; Hutchins, Mrs. W.

F. Hutchins, 1 1, iif eemu- ords for themselves in the great Mrs. Joe Haas, R. Surprenant, hl. alkmg Wlth Mr" Tuer' Red Cross drive that will be hardwire.

E.R.Surprenant,U.G. Lack-lDr- C11116 was se'zed wlh a i i' ri rnvrcm rT no in inI t- rnm of pain and from Ford paroxysm rose i ora, to beat, and the citizens are proud Cyt l. E. Hutchins, B. On Again, Off Again Wednesday night the electric tans ueu lu to aiiunier loom, aiiu of the large membership in the Mrs.

Lackey, A. Wangerien, Jno towns andtownships mentioned. Stoler, Mrs. R. A.

Chenoweth, I within a minute a shot was heard. Dr. J. S. Scott was summoned im- current was off from a few min-iutes before six o'clock until after A.

H. Wangerien, Jack Chenoweth, The names of those in mediately, but could do nothing i John bnen, Chas. Rusco, lna Vin.ng and Clifton township who EJna Wood Katie -death having occurred almost in- have become members follow: 'e Watgo PendergrasSf stantly. The body was removed i vii t. a Ut a ht-o rrnli--to the undertaking rooms, where eight o'clock.

The management of the plant at Concordia stated that the stoppage was due to the fact that the steam was allowed aiter uie new meiuyurs iil earnest. Of all those called on and solicited for membership only four refused to join and none of those four were of German extraction. It is believed that practically every resident of the township will enroll before the canvass is finished. The names of those who have already become members follow: Mr.a nd Mrs. Ed.

Germann. Mr. and Mrs. Will Hanson, Helen Hanson, Floyd HansonjfeMr. and Mrs.

Harry Tousley, Dean Tousley, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bunton, Mr. and Mrs. L.

D. Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. L. E.

Meenen, Mr.rand Mrs. Wm. Young, Mr. and Mfs. Henry Baer, Mr.

and Mrs. Chas.Clevenger, Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell, Mr. and Mrs.

Jim Kaae, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hagen, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdnand Schwab, Mr.

and Mrs. Angus Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Weber, H.

J. Ball, Miss Elizabeth Ruegg, Miss Lena Ruegg, Ernest Weber, Christ Nelson, Miss Eula Young, Miss Lula Weber, Mrs. Wm. McCaddon, Mrs. John Meenen, John Rouse, w.

it was prepared for burial. Husselman, Aug. Jansenius, Mrs.iC I). Tolm, Miss Bornice Tohn, 1 Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made. to get to low.

I The Clifton patrons of Com-i1, i'xij are becctming resigned to I the on again, off again proclivities of the current and are beginning to take it in a matter of fact man-' ner. The company has promised better service for the coming year and insist, that it can deliver the goods, and the patrons in this town certainly hope that the management knows whereof it speaks. Henry Husselman, Mrs. L. B.

i Mrs. John Stober, Mrs. Lerard Woody, Mrs. D. Frager, Lon Hill, I Smith, Mrs.

Will Ha-nilton, Will Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralderston, Mae, jIrs. Geo.

Timmons, Ralderston, James Ralderston, A. Mrs. August Wangerien, Mrs. C. Bloom, Mrs.

A. C. Bloom, Mr. Mary Haas. John Haskins, Mrs.

and Mrs. F. L. Seelig, Mr. and John Haskins, Mrs.

M. Rains, Mrs. Mrs. II. Normandin, Elmer Tay-jAnna Hayncs, A.

Morgsion, Sam lor, Maltbie Woods, John Coates, VauCampen, Lou Woodruff, Mrs. Geo. Paull, Mrs. Geo. Paull, Glenn; R.

F. Jones, Bert Sager, -Lloyd Paull, Ed Turner, Mrs. Ed Turner, W. II. Haynes, Mrs.

W. R. Doijfhy Turner, Lavern Tucjner, Haynes. Henrv Bov, Mrs. C.

H. Servis.i Mulberry Red Cross There will be a Red Cross meeting at Mrs. Wm. McCadxlon's home next Wednesday afternoon, January 9th. All ladies invited.

Bring your old muslin and linens, scissors and thimbles. Will try some Red Cross work. How convenient it is to have just the right sized pot or pan when you want to cook something in a hurry. The cost is small and the time saved in looking for just the thing you want will more than pay for it. We have an excellent assortment of aluminum and gran-itware kitchen utensils from which to make your selection.

The Corner Hardware Store. 2, Ernest Lundquist2, Chas. erson 3, Mrs. El Rusco 3, Henry Nelson 3, Mrs. Gust Hammer 4, Old Year Passes Quietly The past few weeks makes one Harry Coates, Mrs.

Earl Loyd, Mrs. Mae Nixon 1, Mrs. E. Yound 1, Mrs. O.

Day 1, Will Meyers 1, Albert Milelr 1, Axel Larson 1, wonder if his clothes will last him 'he old year passed away very Mrs. A. IT. Ruhr, J. H.

Mcluturff, Mrs. J. II. Mclnturft, Miss Blanche thru the winter, and to wonder quietly, there being only one or Clark, Miss Ella Clark, Chas. Ser- whether to buy a new coat now or two watch parties.

None of the These cold days have caused 'many people to contract bad colds I and the lagrippe. There is a lot of sickness in this community right now, and the indications are i good for a lot more before the win-' ter passes. vis, Mrs. E. 15.

Servis, Mrs. John wait until next fall. We can effect cnurches held formal watch par-Harbaugh, Mrs. A. Wallace, Paul-j you such a handsome saving on ties? A few of the youngsters re-ine Bittel, C.

P. Gillespie, Mrs. ladies' misses' and children's maincd awake to greet the new Anna Carmu-hael, U. S. Banner, coats that it will more than pay i year with shouts, songs and the George Rouse, Mrs.

Ed Carson, Mrs. Claud Walker, Trke Affolter, Henry Hagen, Mrs. John Young, Mrs. Fred Mellies, Miss Lrllie Mellies, Godfrey Mrs. Homer Weber, Mrs.

Merl Kirkpatrick, Miss Anna Benninga, Mrs. Carl Tillinghast, Mrs. Rasmus Peterson, Miss Franc Kay, Mrs. Ed Weber. you to purchase now, instead of lmgmg oi oens.

waiting until next year. Come in I Mr. and Mrs. H. M.

Rasmussen entertained a few friends at seven o'clock dinner New Years eve. Rasmussen Steiner Friends of Bernard Rasmussen were pleasantly surprised to hear of his marriage to Miss Ella Steiner cf Onero Wisconsin, which took place in Mincminee Michigan, December 20th. Mr. Rasmussen is a highly respetced young man and a talented violinist. He has a beautiful home furnished for his bride on a farm near Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Their friends wish them much joy in their married life. and see x)ur choice assortment Mcluturff and Son. By the way, what has become of that notion some of the draft objectors had about, the United After a pleasant evening the guests greeted the New Year and bade the old year farewell. Mrs. Louana Banner, Mrs.

Wm. Eidson, 1). A. Frager, Mrs. W.

II. Ostrauder, Mrs. Augusta Gallagher, Julius Peterson, Carl Peterson, A. P. Teterson, Mrs.

A. P. Peterson, Joe Collette, L. R. Bonar, Mrs.

L. R. Bonar, Miss Liia Bonar, Mrs. W. A.

Chandler, John Poots, Mrs. Lois Brockway, Mrs. Anna Wagner. Al Roy, Mrs. Al Roy, Miss Ltota Roy, Walter Roy.

William Foley, Miss Lowell Funk, Mrs. Ida Miss Daisy Humfelt, "5 Christmas is. over and past, but some of the little folks haven't decided bargains in toys that we do not wish to carry over until next season. Mclnturff and Son. Mrs.

Cora Cox 1d daughter, States government being power-Miss Josephine, have been less to send a man out of the visiting at the Dr. and Mrs. H. E. limits of the country to Potter home for past two That seems to have blown up along weeks, returned to their home in i with a lot of "the other rot that Eat rabbits and squirrels, and jsave on your meat bills.

We have the famous "410" shotgun and the 232 inch shells, as well 'as the larger gauge guns. Henry E. Smies. Topeka Saturday. i was so common a tew nioiiuis ago.

M. E. Hammer 1, Richard Hammer 1, F. L. Hicks 1, C.

A. Olson 1, Mrs. Ada Hankenberry 1, Chas. Anderson 2, Wm. Day 3, Alfred Larson 1, C.

W. Johnson 1, Mrs. Gust Magnus 2, Carl Lundgren 1, Oscar Johnson 1, Herman Erickson 1, Nelson Bros. 5, C. J.

Johnson 1, Herman Burkman 1, Emil Tryborn 1, N. G. Nelson 3, L. J. Anderson 4, A.

J. Anderson 3, Wm. Campbell 2, Miss Esther Nelson 1, Miss A. Swenson and G. Fredrick- json 2, Mrs.

Carl Nelson 1, Mrs. jSeth Miller 1, Martin Pearson 4, Albert Carlson 2, Wm. Sharpe Albert Nelson 2, O. E. Almstrum 1, Mrs.

Anton Nelson 2, C. G. Fred-rickscn 2, Mrs. Edd Danielson 1, Gail A. Carlson 2, John Johnson 1 1, John Pearson 1, L.

Ahlberg 1, Dan Graham 3, Edd Johnson 2, C. F. Granere 1, Edwin Olson 3, C. A. Ostlund 4, C.

G. Olson 1, C. M. Johnson 1, Mrs. Andrew Johnson 1, C.

Albert Anderson 4, A. T. Johnson 2, A. P. Anderson 2, Hans 'Nelson 2, Ephraim Ostlund 2, Wm.

Skyllburg 1, L. E. Luudquist 3, Alfred Nelson 2, Philip Hendrick-son 1, Gunner Carlson 2, Frank Ribordy 1, C. P. Peterson 2, Levi Lundgreen 2, Wm.

Sharpe spent Christmas week in Oklahoma City with his sons, "Fred and William. Groceries are still hitting the Mulberry township starts the coming year with an enviable re-! high spots. Buy now while we can A. A. Larkan, Miss Mary Bockfelt, How to Cure Pork Properly Proper curing of pork is of HenrV Shuler Eliza Gingles, Geo.

'cord financially, a record that save you a little on most of 1 Ixi i 1 i Gimrles Clinics Peterson. Zibc I probably not equ.iHed by another lIltJ sianaaru oranas oi canned Free Entertainment "American Folk and War Songs" will be the free at the Presbyterian church Wednesday evening, January 9th. Come, everyone. This entertainment has been arranged by the Columbian Literary Club. The records being sent here from the state university," school of fine arts ana everybody is cordially invited to be present.

goods. Mcluturff and Son. township in either Clay or Wash- Wilson, W. II. Foley Mrs.

Alfred 'great importance at all times, but is especially so now when the meat is expensive and conservation of fats is necessary, according to A. I M. Paterson, assistant professor Peterson. Mrs. Belle Flora, Mrs.imgton counties.

lnc lust clay ot W. 1). Jones, E. J. Rossman, the New: Year, after paying the Mrs.

E. A. Merrill. Mrs. E.

C. hills for the year just passed, there Mr. and Mrs. O. M.

Atwood of Concordia were Clifton visitors' Sunday. Kirkpatrick, Poots, Mrs. L. remained in the treasury a bal ance of $3,100 to the credit of the IT. Grote, L.

II. Grote, J. Woodruff, township oi animal nusoanary tne Kansas State Agricultural college. Several methods of curing may be employed with equally good results. In the curing of pork, the care of the meat immediately after Mr.

and Mrs. Chas. Rossman returned to their home in Kansas City Sunday night after spending a few days here with the D. C. and E.

J. Rossman families. D. L. Miller, who will be remembered by a number of Clifton people, as he was employed at the News office in the fall of 1914, is editor in charge of one of the Western Newspaper Union's Iowa branches.

'killing is equal in importance to Nov that the corn shucking season is about over, can anyone volunteer the information as to what has become of the old-fashioned man who made his boy shuck the "down row7?" Why run all over town looking for good groceries, when you can get just what you want at Mcln-turff and Son's. M. L. Olson of Manhattan came Saturday evening to spend a few days with his father, Jake Olson. Mrs.

J. Woodruff, E. M. Nunally, Mrs. E.

M. Nunally, E. E. Lari-more, Mrs E. E.

Larimore, Mrs. Geo. Dexter, Mrs Edith Tilling-hast, Miss Lavinia Tillinghast, Mrs. I). C.

Rossman, Mrs.E. J. McOuiHcn, Miss Estella Mc-Quillcn, W. A. Chandler, Mrs.

C. N. Berner, Mrs. C. A.

Iletu, J. R. Comstock, Marguerite Gaston, Harold Cusac, Fred Marshall, Art Haynes, Elmer Taylor, Mrs. E. J.

Rossman, S. Van Blaricom, Mrs. Munson, Mrs. Fred Marshall, Mrs. L.

II. Eidson, Mrs. M. J. Barnard, M.

J. Barnard, C. N. Berner, Mrs. I will be obliged to all these having an account with me, if they will call and settle, as I will began the plan of sending quarterly statements to all my patrons.

Dr. J. S. Scott. 14-x-2t.

If your conscience has been hurting you because you thought you violated your meatless day pledge by eating turkey on Christmas day, you can give it a rest for Washington has sent out the word that turkey is not meat. If it is not meat, what is it? the curing itself. If salted before the animal heat is out, the shrinkage of the muscles causes the retention of injurious gases, giving an offensive odor to the meat. If salted while the meat is frozen, the animal heat is out, and before the frosts prevents thorough penetration of the salt and uneven curing results. The safest rule to follow is to salt pork as soon as it freezes or begins to decay.

Ordinarily 24 to 36 hours after slaughtering will allow sufficient, time for cooling. Brine cured pork may be either plain salt or sugar cured, and is best for farm use because a suita- Sent in item: The ground is dry to the depth of an ordinary post hole, and it will take many, many inches of rain to soften it again. Clothes are higher than they were "this time last year, ami they were higher a year ago than they were the year before, and the prospects are that they will be still higher in a year from now. All of that being true, why not conserve your clothes supply by having your old clothes repaired, cleaned and pressed by Head Bros. Steam Suitatorium, so that you can get a few months additional wear out of them? It is a good scheme and is being worked in many places and affecting a decided saving.

The Christmas season just closed saw the giving of mere practical presents than is usually the case. Many people gave articles of wearing apparel, furniture, etc. instead of the many useless things that are of times given. Many others cut down their Christmas expenditures by sending 1 cards, and greetings instead of ex Politics are breaking out early. One Washington county man has announced to his friends that he will ask the voters to place him in the sheriff's office next fall.

I. C. Rush, First National Bank, Rev. R. E.

Fleming, Mrs A. 1). Fleming, W. S. Denman, J'.

'M. Osboin, Dean Truex, Mrs. Dean S. Truex, Wm. Murdock, Mrs.

Wm. Murdock, Mrs. C. R. Burlingame, Billy Ralph Burlingame.

R. C. Graham, Harry O'Brien, Mrs. Harry O'Brien, Ralph Johnson, Citizens State Bank, Mrs. E.

L.Hagcman; Prof. C. Kraemor, Mrs. C. Kraemer Win.

VanScoyoc, Mrs. Wm. Van- Good news for the kids Castor oil has increased in price many fold since the war began. It is about the only oil that makes a successful lubricant for aeroplane motors, and the government has commandeered the supply for use in that line. pensive presents as formerly.

jble place for dry curing is not us Dr. J. S. Scott and Hugh went Carl A. Anderson Carl A.

Anderson, who will be remembered by many Clifton peo- pie as he was emplo3red at the old Sunday School Convention On Thursday, January 10, at the Shermarj Church, beginning at noon with a basket dinner, the North West district of the Clay County Sunday School Association will hold a convention. This district is composed, of the following named Sunday Schools Clifton Baptist, Vining, Mulberry, Moi-ganville, Mission-Friend, Swedish Luthern, Sweedish Methodst, Parallel, and Sherman. M. J. Watson of Vining is the president.

I. J. Wright will have charge of the music. A basket dinner will be served at noon and supper at 6:00 p. m.

This will be a fine time to renew our acquaintances. AFTERNOON PROGRAM 12:00 Noon Basket Dinner. 1 :30 p. m. Devotions led by Rev.

Holmertz. 1 :45 p. m. Reports from all Sunday Schools in the district. 2 :00 p.

m. Standard of Sunday School Requirements, J. C. Carson. General discussion.

2:30 p. m. The Sunday School Survey of the Community, M-ss Edith Wood. 2:45 p. m.

The Improved Uniform Lessons, T. E. Larson. 3 :00 p. m.

Elementary Work, Mrs. R. F. 3 :15 p. m.

Building Up the Sunday School, E. B. Stewart. General discussion. 3:30 p.

m. 3:35 p. m. Relation of Sunday School to Church, Rey. E.

V. Allen. 3:50 p. m. The Parents Opportunity in Sunday School Work, G.

A. Swenson. 4:10 p. m. Get acquainted period, supervised by Miss Minnie Wright, Miss Gladys Patterson, and Miss Edith Wood.

SiOOt p. m. Basket Supper. EVENING PROGRAM 7 :00 p. m.

Song and Prayer ser- vice, E.M. Nunally. 7:30 p. m. How to grade a Sunday Selena McQuillen 7:45 p.

m. How to Interest People in Sunday School Work, Prof. G. B. Cappelman.

8 :00 p. m. The Need of Live Adult Classes, R. B. Hammerli.

8:10 p. m. Winning Our Young People for Christian Service, Rev. R. E.

Fleming. 8:20 p. m. Sunday School Missionary Work, Mrs. A.

K. Harner. 8:30 p. m. The Value of the Cradle Mrs.

Frank Knapp. A cordial invitation is extended to the public come whether you live in the district or not. I. J. Wright, Music Director, M.

J. Watson, Pres. N. W. Dist', Scoyoc, Mrs.

L. D. Haynes, Airs. a. A.

Larkan is spending a va to Newton, Kansas Friday and returned Saturday. They drove back an Elcar chummy roadster purchased from the doctor's brother, Invoicing takes a lot of time and keeps us pretty busy, but we still have plenty of time to offer you some attractive bargains in shoes, coats, ready-to-wear, blankes, and men's heavy clothing. Mclnturff and Son. Chas. Sims, Mrs.

John Cusnc, Mrs. cation with his daughter, Mrs. J. E. Turner, Mrs.

F. O. p. Ellis and family at Trinidad, Captain J. R.

Scott. Mrs. Sorrell, Mrs. Hadsell, Mrs. Colorado.

Geo. W. Simpson. Mrs. J.

L. Fol All the questionnaires must be som, Mrs. Carl Worley, Mrs. L. I).

F. L. Norton of Wheatland, Ok- ually obtainable. The plain salt method consists in rubbing each piece of pork with fine common salt and packing it closely in a barrel. Let it stand over night.

The next day weigh out 10 pounds of salt and two ounces of saltpeter to each 100 pounds of meat and dissolve these ingredients in four gallons of boiling water. When the solution is cold, pour it over the meat, and then cover and place a weight on it so that the meat will stay under the brine. The pork should be kept in the brine until used. In sugar curing, each piece of meat is rubbed with salt after it is cool and allowed to drain over Roberts, Miss Mattie A. Cassity, hahoma returned to his home Mon- Cornelia cnssiiy, imss morninr after attending the Tufflcy, Mrs.

Funnell, Mrs. O. Mr. and Mrs. A.

WT. Randall, who have been visiting friends and relatives here for the past' two or three weeks, returned to their home in Lambeit, Oklahoma last Friday. examined and the registered men-classified before February 16th. That will require a lot of work on the part of the local boards, especially whenso many of the questionnaires are improperly filled funeral of Mr. John Murdock last Thursday.

Mr. Horton is engaged in the banking business at Wheatland and states that conditions are quite good in Oklahoma this year. out. Clifton mill for a number of years, died December 24th at his home near Lost Springs, Kansas, at the age of sixty-eight years, seven months and eleven days. He was bo rn in Ostergotland, Sweden on May 13th, 1849 and was married to Augusta Charlotta Fry October, 1871, to which union two children were born.

Mrs. Anderson died May 27th, 1883. He was again married June 1, 1884 to Sophia Mathilda Erickson, and to that marriage eleven children were born four of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are: Albert, Clyde Amelia Thelander, Lost Springs; Fred of Kansas City; Harry of Lost Springs, Cornelia Broadfoot of Manhattan; Elizabeth Hassell of Lincoln, Kansas; and Gerhard and Ivar at home. Mr.

Anderson will be remembered in this vicin- Nothing is too good' for the What is the idea of sending the draft resisters to jail? not send them to the front line of trenches. Harris, I). A. Bray, Mrs. Henry (Sorrell, Mi Long, Miss Efcnma Wyss, Mrs.

Nellie Hamilton, Mr. Witmer, Mrs.Chas. llarbaugh, W. R. Boal, L.

P. Bonl, Mary S. Boal. Ruth E. Boal, Mrs.

S. B. Ryan, J. R. Hague, Mrs.

J. R. Hague, B. A. Tottcn, Mr.

and Mrs. J. M. Foster, L. Pfistor, Laura Pfister, Henry E.

Smies, Annie E. Smics, Frank Mowry, George, Robinson, E. R. Pnronto, C. E.

Bachtel, Mrs. Flora soldiers at the front and they will appreciate a letter from you all the more if it is written on initialed stationery purchased 'at News office. Srict regulations are in force at Camp Funston with regard to the use of sleeping quarters and the way in which the men sleep. In the barracks, the men are required to sleep with the feet of one man Brnv. O.

P. Andrews. Mrs. O. Andrews, Everett Clark, Mrs.

Ed.i"i'i,UB'lc UJ- iwu uj1- Rmi. Childress. 'W. F. cent men- Use of any portion of night.

It should then be packed in a barrel with the hams and shoulders at the bottom and the strips of bacon at the top. Meat will pack best if cut into small pieces about six inches" square. Weigh out for each 100 pounds of meat, eight pounds of salt, two pounds of brown sugar, and two ounces of saltpeter. Dissolve the salt, the sugar, and the saltpeter in four gallons of water, and pour the solution over the pork. Bacon strips should remain in brine from four to six weeks, and A Long Dry Spell This is about the longest dry spell that has visited Kansas for years and years, according to those who have good memories.

There hasn't been a real good soaking rain in this locality since last June, although several showers have fallen since that time. One man living north of town said Saturday that the roads in his township had needed dragging n-ly twice since June. But in te Prontire T.ouiso Prentice Jos the authorized dormitory for other ity as he came to this, country Hnrbaugh, Geo. Dolan, Mrs. Geo.

I than sleeping purposes and plac-j August, 1887 and settled in Vining whereh lived for 17 years. He An oil promoter recently made a bet of a hundred dollars that gasoline will be worth a dollar a gallon by August first. He says that a fighting aeroplane uses as much gasoline as twenty huj.omobiles' and that a large proportoin of the United States will be shipped tu Europe for the use of the allied armies. If he is right, and the indications are that he is, a lot of cars will be pTaed on the retired list August 1. Polan Mrs.

M. F. Brookhart, Chas. 'm of beds in groups of two, AiiLibaugh, J. S.

Scott, Laura bunks bein contact, is C. D. Marshall. Mai ruerite hibited. It is a good thing that was the (engineer itheClifton roller mill and in 1907 he moved to rorshall, Ellsworth Kreeck, Al- i the army regulations require that LostSprings, Kansaswhere he has v-'alda Parvin, D.

C. Fraser Katie i the men take at least three baths; made his home since. Fraser Potter II each week or the heads of the The funeral services w-ere held i two men adjacent to the feet of the at thehome and the Mission church I.asmussen, tannic Rock, Geo. one mighv become slightly stop-j December 26 and interment was hams from six to eight weeks be re is, of the long dry spell the roads in very good condition, due jably to the fact that the dus blown away as fast as it fo by the high winds. fore they are smoked.

Pork cured in this way not only keeps all summer, but will be sweet, palatable, and of good flavor. I I A I hnll .1 Q-moa 1 i 1 a. i i I made in the LostSprings ceme peii, at leasi 11 xiis xeet nappeneu Head, Chas. Sims, T. B.

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