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Historical THE CLIFTON NEWS VOLUME 35 NUMBER 33 The Junior-Senior Banquet The Junior-Senior banquet at the Masonic hall last Friday night was one of the most enjoyable of the many commencement ties The hall was elaborately corated for the occasion with a lattice work overhead in blue, gold and black, the colors of the two classes, and on the walls was lattice work laced with all colored morning glories, which gave the banquet room a flower garden fect thatw as very pleasing. A delightful program was given as follows: Piano solo by Mrs. Clarke, Senior prophecy by the Junior Class, Vocal solo by Angie Taylor, Violin solo by Mr. L. L.

Barnes and the High School by both classes. Prof. E. J. George acted as toastmaster and the following interesting toasts were given and responded to The Top of the Tops, Next; Scaling the heights, Raymond Marshall; The Joy of Climbinb, Frances McCann; Our Gaides, Lena Frager; Tips, Miss Laughlin; The Supply Man, Jas.

Caywood; The Fun of It, Mr. Johnson; Other Tops in View, Laura Lundquist; They are Ours to Reach, Margery Ostrander; Keep Climbing, Miss Froom. There were plates laid for the banquet which was served by the following Freshman girls: Alma Hamilton, Violet Brockway, Mary Graham, Thelma Bradley, Frances Rowland, Vera Finkbinder, Elizabeth Blosser and Mable Nelson. Tuceday afternoon, May 4th, Columbian Literary Club met at the home of Mrs. A.

H. Yoey with a good attendance. Mrs. E. C.

Crary of McPherson and Mrs. Roy Dean were guests. Mrs. C. Rusco, Mrs.

D. A. Bray, Mrs. Wm. Lonergan, Mr.s M.

Barnhard, who are new members for next year, availed themselves of the opportunity cf attending the meeting. Miss Celia Hanson of Clay Center has consented to give a talk in Clifton on welfare work in the near future. It was decided that the public could be moreg enerally reached thru the Red Cross than thru the Club so this lecture will no doubt be given under the auspices of that organization. The date and particulars will be given in The News. The next meeting of the Club will be the last one of the year and it will be held at the home of Mrs.

John Ritter instead of with Mrs. E. E. Larimore. The date will be Thursday, May 20th, The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodistc hurch met with Mrs.

H. F. Lyon, Wednesday afternoon, May 5th. The -eight ent accomplished a lot of work After a good program and a delicious luncheon all departed feeling they had spent a profitable afternoon. The Pollyanna Club met at the home of Mrs.

Wm. VanScoyoc, Wednesday, April 28th. Four members, Mrs. Joe Knoettgen, Mrs. Harry O'Brien, Mrs.

Ed. A. Smies and Mrs. H. E.

Potter were absent. One visitor, Miss of Kansas City, was present. The hostess served dainty refreshments and the club will meet again with Mrs. E. Kreeck in four weeks.

FOR RENT or SALE: House, south side of city. Inquire of Mrs. C. R. Banner.

Dr. and Mrs. Ed. Peck of Had- of dam were callers at the Dr. L.

Kohl home Sunday afternoon. THE CLANCY KIDS Timmie's Friend Is a "Wise Guy" By PERCY L. CROSBY by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate CLIFTON, CLAY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, KANSAS High School Alumni The Alumni reception will be held in the Masonic hall immediately after the commencement exercises, Tuesday evening, May 18th. Fifty cents will be collected from each alumnus at the reception, and anya lmunus may bring one guest by paying an additional fifty cents. All alumni are urged to be present.

The Ladies Aid Society of the' Methodist church gave a reception for their new pastor, Rev. and Mrs. A. Rookstool, District Superintendent Hawke, and for those who united with the church during the past year, last Thursday evening. About one hundred and fifty responded to the invitation to be present.

A choice literary and musical program was given orchestra adding much to the pleasure of the evening. Addresses of welcome by the var-! ious departments of the church were given and responded to by Rev. Rookstool and Supt. Hawke. The pastor begins what promises to be a notable year in the history of this growing church.

A cafeteria lunch was served and a very pleasant evening was spent beciming acquainted. The Social Circle met Thursday April 29th with Mrs. Harry Totten, thirteen members bieng in attendance. Mrs. Floyd Cassity and children were visitors.

A pleas antafternoon was spent in music and contests. After a delicious lunch served by the hostess, the Circle adjourned to weet in two weeks with Mrs. Nellie VanScoyke. Oh, boy! that is some annual the senior class of the High School is publishing this year, full of interesting data concerning the school, classes and departments, many halftones of classes, individual, and groups, many good jokes and just a whole lot of other good readable matter. And the Seniors are sking only one-fifty per copy for it.

Better get yours now if you expect to get one, as half of the number ordered is already disposed of. See any member of the Senior Class. The Needlecraft met with Mrs. Frank Seelig April 30th, all of the members being present and the foll lowing visitors, Mrs. Roy Dean, Mrs.

A. H. Yoey, Mrs. J. A.

'Casner and Mrs. Max Dolan. The hostess, assisted by Mrs A. Bloom and Mrs. J.

H. Drury served a delicious lunch. A very fine ternoon was spent and enjoyed by all. The club will meet with Mrs. Carter Foss, May 14th.

Charles Schrader Suicides Charles Schrader of the Clara neighborhood, committed suicide last Friday evening, by hanging himself to a tree on the bank of a nearby creek. He had not been in good health for several months and it was thought that his mind hed become affected. He was missed by the other members of the family labout four o'clock in the afternoon, and a search sterted for him. About ten o'clock that evening he was found about threequarters of a mile from his home, dead. He was a man about seventy-five years of age, and was an old settler in that neighborhood.

The funeral was held from the Clara Catholic cuhrch, Tuesday morning and interment was made in the Clara cemetery. Clifton Post No. 227 of the American Legion has rented the old studio rooms over the Parlor meat market for club rooms and are furnishing the roomsn icely. The rooms will be used to hold their meetings in and as a lounging place for the members. A week from tonight, Thursday, May 13th, the Legion will present the famous motion picture, "The Heart of Humanity" at the Electric Theatre, and the proceeds will be used to help furnish the club rooms and for other expenses.

The membership is growing rapidly, and all soldiers, sailors and marines of the late war are urged to apply for membership. Mrs. Eliza J. Stewart Legion Has Club Rooms Relatives in Clifton are in receipt of a communication from the W. T.

Hunt family of Long Beach, California telling of the death at that place, on April 26, of Mrs. Eliza J. Stewart, a former resident if the Riverdale neighborhood. She had not been in the best of health for several years, and during the last six months, she failed rapidly. Mrs.

Eliza J. Stewart came to Kansas in the late sixties, and resided in the Riverdale neighborhood until about 1900, when she moved to Stockton, to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. W. T. Hunt and family.

Her husband preceded her in death 41 years. She was the mother of four children: R. M. Edwards, Canonsburg, who passed away January 26; J. C.

Edwards, of Stockton, C. D. Stewart, of Lawrence, and Mrs. W. T.

Hunt, of 1134 East First Long Beach, Calif. with whim she had lived for 38 years. Shea Iso leaves 12 grandchildren and 32 great-grand-children. Mrs. Stewart became a Christian at an early age and was a member of the Christian church at the time of her death.

She went to California last October. The funeral services were held April 28th, at 2:30 p. m. at Cleve-1 land's chapel, the Rev. Geo.

P. Taubman officiating. Burial was made in Sunnyside cemetery, near Long Beach. Pete Schumaker of St. Kansas come the latter part of last week for a visit with relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Wood spent Thursday in Clay Center visiting with their son, Maltbie.

Rev. A. Rookstool was a Clay Cemetery Association Meeting The annual meeting of the Sherman Cemetery Association will be held at the Sherman church Wednesday, May 12, at 2 o'clock p. m. All parties intersted are requested to be in attendance.

By Order of Board. Farm Bureau Secures 699 Members County Farm Bureau Agent, R. W. Shafer of Washington was in town Wednesday, attending to business affairs. Mr.

Shafer states that 699 new members of the farm bureau were secured during the county-wide drive last week. The bureau had set its goal et 1000 new members, but is very well satisfied with the showing made. No trace has yet been found fo the thieves who entered the Meinturff store two weeks ago and stole $1500,00 worth fo silks and lingerie, onr has any of the material stolen been discovered. Sheriff U. E.

Need and Deputy Sheriff Grant Lackey are working on the case, and it is believed there will be some new developments within a short time. The dealers tag which the robbers had on the car they abandoned here when they stole the Oldsmobile car, was one they had stolen from a grip in a car belonging to Sam Engler of Clay Center while his car was standing on the streets of Williamstown, Kansas, the day before the robbery here. The box of cigars found in the abandoned car, was also stolen from Mr. Engler's Hary Swan went to Topeka the latter part of last week and drove back the Oldsmobile car which was stolen from theg arage the night the McInturff store was robbed. Paul Swan had driven the car from Kansas City, where it was recovered by the police, to Topeka, where he had to leave it because of the rain.

Sheriff Connie Collins of Wash- No Trace of Thieves or Goods ington was in town Wednesday, with W. W. Kelly of Chapman in his custody. Mr. Kelly is wanted by the blue sky department of the state on a charge of violating the provisions of the blue sky law.

He is said to have been one of the parties controlling the company which sold oil stock in Clifton last spring, 1919, and which is said to have proved worthless. One of the other men wanted, Mr. Ault, is in the Plattsburg, jail serving a three-monhts sentence for mis-use of the mails. A preliminary hearing will be given Mr. Kelly in about thirty days bo.

fore Justice Frank Cox of Clifton township. He gave bond here on Wednesday for his appearance. Vining Items Earl McGriff went to Iowa last' week and is now employed on al farm near Rockwell. Wallace Brown was here last week to see his mother, Mrs. E.

W. Brown, who has been quite sick. A. Wangerien wes in Kansas City a few days of last week. Miss Alena Watson closed a succesful term of school at Excelsior last week.

Mrs. U. G. Lackey was in Clyde 2 few days the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Chas.

Philbrick and family Miss Esther Hutchins entertained the girls oh her Sunday School class in the form of a leap-year arty Tuesday evening, April 27. Each member was required to bring her partner. A very good time was reported. John O'Brien was in Clay Center on business Wednesday. Mrs.

Addie Rusco is expected home from Michigan, Thursday, where she has been visiting her two sisters since September. Mr. and Mrs. D. J.

Haynes and Blair and Chas. Norris were Sunday guests at the E. W. Haynes home. Buy Chi Namel Varnish for your Furniture anda 11 wood work.

Costs less to own than cheap varnish. Is water, hammer and heat proof. See E. J. Turner.

SMATTER AINT NAW! WHY NOT HOw DO KNOw YEH! AM'MAYBE GET YA COIN' IN FOR (BETTER NOT WHO THESE GUYS ARE Aw, FORGET ME I GUESS CLOTHES SWIPED, HUH? AROUND HERE? THEM AND GET A SWIM, SOOKY? TAKE A CHANCE UNDRESSED THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920 VanCampen-Hughes Wednesday afternion, April 27, at Manhattan, occurred the marriage of Miss Clara H. Hughes to Mr. Floyd B. VanCampen, the Rev. J.

M. McClelland officiating. Mrs. VanCampen is the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Hughes, who reside north east of Clifton. She graduated from the Clifton High Schiol with the class of 1919, and since that time she has taught in the rural schools of the county. Mr.

VanCampen is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. VanCampen of north of Clifton, wher he has spent all if his life except one year, when he attended the Washington high school.

He is an industrious and prosperous young man and the young couple have a large circle of friends who wish for them a long and happily married life. They will make their hime on a farm north of Clifton. Workmen from the Groody Bros. Washington Marble and Granite Works were busy last week hauling and placing in the Greenleaf Catholic cemetery one of the heaviest pieces of granite ever handled by them, and it is the largest single piece of granite in this section of the country. The grante was hauled on a truck made of threshing machine wheels with 10 by 10 inch oak for a bed, and was pulled by a 70 horse power tractor.

With this equipment it took, a day and a half to move the load the eleven miles to the tery. The monument is made of New England Gray Granite, and was purchased by Natta Marlow-Moore of Groenleaf, to be placed at the graves of her father and mother, Samuel and Olive Marlowe. Republican-Register. At Clay Center a big open air dance pavilion is being built by a number of the young men of the town interested in dancing ad a dance wil be given every week or two during the summer. A fewl years ago a similiar platform was operated near Idana and drew big crowds every night.

Here is an opoprtunity for some Clifton young men to make a little money during the summer and at the same time provide a place of amusement for the young folks as well as some of the older ones. W. R. C. May Day Dinner The May Day dinner served by the members of the W.

R. Saturday noon, was one of the most delightful dinners that has been given in Clifton for a long time. Good things to eat of all descriptions were on the tables and the large crowd present thoroly enjoyed the hospitality of the Relief Corps. About one hundred and fifty were present, including the members of the Corps and their families, theveterans of the Civil war, of the Spanish-American War, and of the World Wer. Those veterans present were: Civil War: C.

Jackson, R. C. Graham, Wm. Campbell, F. 0.

Andrews, J. W. Hamilton, W. T. Harris, A.

Morgsion, D. C. Rossman. Spanish-American War: J. T.

Parker and Carl Worley. World War: Joe Haynes, Loren Hutchins E. A. Veesart, Fred A. Glasco, Leo Esslinger, Ira Loyd.

Coates is putting in a full line men's furnishing goods and work clothing at the Department Store. Mother's Day grip. Next Sunday, May 9, will be Her day--Mother's Day. Just one day out of a busy 365, when a nation of toiling men and women will pause toa djust a flower in its buttonhole and do homage to its mothers; when those whose mothers are living will visit them, if that is possible, or at least will wrte them letters of affection; when those whose mothers are gone will recall the days that were. It is not an ancient day of embrance, this Mother's Day.

It is hung with no garlands of tradition. It was only in 1906 that Miss Anne Jarvis of Philadelphia, honoring the memory of her own mother on thea nniversary of her death, conceived of a day on which everyone should do reverence to his mother, whether living or dead. The World's Sunday School Association adopted the plan, and, in the next few years, annually designated one Sunday as Mother's Day. The purposes of this celebration, as stated by Dr. George W.

Bailey, then. president of the association, were: "To recall the memories of the mothers that are gone, and thra loving words and loving care to brighten the lives of the mothers that remain, and to help children, men and women to a greater blessing in honoring their fathers and their mothers. "To recall mother's prayers, mother's dying words, and the promises made to mother by the big boy that still mourns her, and to stop and think a little of what she was in her life to her family." In 1914 the observance of the day was raised to the status of a national celebration. Congress passed abi l1 designating the second Sunday in May each year as "Mother's Day," and calling upon the President to request the observance of this day each year by the people of the nation. It also authorized the President to issue a proclamation requesting government officials to display the American flag on all government buildings each Mother's Day.

That year the first federally decreed Mother's Day was observed. Each year (since the President has issued his proclamation early in May requesting its remembrance and his example has been followed by the governor of every state in the Union. The white carnation was early adopted as the symbol of the day; its whiteness for purity; its form and fragrance representing beauty and love; its wide field of growth and lasting qualities symbolizing chairity and fathfulness--all true mother's virtues. And still the white carnation remains the generally recognized symbol of Mother's Dey, tho usage has introduced the wearing of the red carnation in tribute to living mothers, and other flowers of both colors are worn when carnations are not Class. A mother is a mother still--the the holiest thing alive -Coleridge.

The pie social given st the Pleasant Pake school last week at the close of the term nettde more than $48.00 in cash, which will be used for fixtures in the school house. Miss Marguerite Gestin is the teacher. Dr. D. C.

Tyler returned the latter part of last week from 3 several months trip in Texas..