The Hiawatha News du lieu suivant : Hiawatha, Kansas • 9

THE HIAWATHA NEW3 Thursday, June 17, 1909. working hard to make a home here and When tlie Band new THE RACKET STORE WILL Still be selling No. 2 Lamp Chimneys for 35c. AND Nick Schomerus' City View Post Cards, 2 for 5c. AND The Best Rawhide Buggy Whips on 'the market for 50c.

AND A Bar of Glycerine Soap, 10c size, for 5c. .1 AND I jj Eastman's Talcum Powder for 15c a Bottle, AND vr Ribbon, 3 inches wide, Fancy, AND Will have that band concert Wednesday. Yours truly, VINSONHALER WHITNEY RUBEROID ROOflING STANDARD FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS Ruberoid is the pioneer weather-proof, pliable and fire-resisting roofing, from and superior to all other prepared roofings, in that Ruberoid Compound, a patented combination of high-class waterproof, acid and fire-resisting ingredients, is used exclusively in its manufacture and Is employed in no other roofing. That the first Ruberoid Roofs applied, many years ago, are still giving satisfactory service is indisputable proof of unusual and unequaied durability. It is strong and elastic.

Contains no tar or paper. Will not melt or rot. It is of a dark slate color and presents a smooth, neat appearance. Tin, Iron or shingles will not last as long as Ruberoid, which is, moreover, much less expensive. Ruberoid obviates the danger of rust, rot and corrosion.

Does not require painting.when applied. Briefly, it is the most economical roofing made. No special skill is required in its application. We supply with every roll sufficient nails, tin caps and cement for laying under ordinary conditions. Any handy man can do the work.

Full directions in each roll. Ruberoid endures all climates; is not injured by high or low temperatures. It is tasteless and odorless. Rain water running from it can be used for domestic purposes. A.

Isaacson Carpenter and Builder young folks. There are tnree boys and three gills. Three ptiirs of shears all sharp and bright, are surely handy about the house. Passing norlhward over the crown of the hill the road wound down the bluff to Wolf river. Giant oak and elm, throwing out far-reaching branches, witn here and there a walnut or other native tree, seemed endeavoring to shut out' the sun.

Far back, the dark green of the shaded undergrowth still wet with a recent rain had a most inviting appearance. How cool, how full of suggestion of old time rainy day when the Rambler used to drive home the cows through another forest as primeval as this. Again and again the beautiful lines with which Longfellow begins the poem "Evangeline" came to mind. It may be that deep in undisturbed nature, far back in the quiet of shadows, such as these, giving one's self up to the sweet calm of the forest the demon ot rush and worry and strife could be put off and life in its true sense could be lived as of old. East of Manville is one of the hills that is the dread of the road overseera road "hat must be fixed after every good rain.

A ledge of good building stone crops out here. As the road washes out they are exposed farther back, making extra trouble for the grader. Henry Zimmerman, the road overseer, and his assistants, are doing all they can to make this road passable. The Rambler vouches for the fact that all were sweating, including Henry. P.

C. Velman, who assists Lou Day, is a valuable man on the road. Nature built him on a generous plan and added plenty of muscle. P. C.

may be identified by his chin whiskers and the way he swings the mattock. Sylvester Lee also helping on the grade is said to keep bachelor's hall. May the crows take all his chickens until he changes his ways. L. A.

Day follows general farming on the George Norton place on top of the hill. There is a good view from here. Truman Jacques has his hands full with 200 acres and a job of tiling in the bottom near Wolf river. Marion Snyder has a good quarter and also some good grade horses. He has a good garden and was hoeing some melons as the Rambler drove up.

Moles and worms in the corn have given him a great deal of trouble this season. J. Lee has quite a good deal of bottom land. He follows farming on the usual lines. Farther west is Marsh Kelley, who aso is well located.

He has some good norses and mules; 300 chickens doing nicely. He was replanting corn at the other side of the place when the Rambler called. J. I. Jones has 85 acres on which he has good native grove and a nice lot of Plymouth Rocks were noticed here.

In the heart of the city of Manville is the residence of S. W. Comstock, who has been in Kansas 40 years. He had harrowed his corn three times and plowed it once. He is in luck as he has a good stand of corn.

About 20 rods down the road Is the elevator which is very handy for I. W. A two-year-old colt, broke single and double, that has helped put in this season's corn crop is the special pet of S. W. This colt is a beauty and will make a good driver.

C. Van Buskirk lives north of Mann-ville. A front yard full of artistically trimmed evergreens, make a good sotting for his comfortable home. rs. Jos.

Watson has five acres near the Grand Island railway. A fine young orchard and a good patch of potatoes are seen here. William Heimlich is located in a shady grove on the east side of the road. The house has bei lately painted. There was no one at home.

J. Orchard was busy putting his machinery in threshing trim. He stated that iie expected to do his share of the threshing this season. A clover iuller and a corn sheller are also part of his equipment. George Meisenheimer was busy ith a scythe, mowing weeds in the or-cnard where he has a nice lot of young trees.

The rains have been going around a few miles square in this section, and crops are needing rain. Tne wheat harvest will be early and with corn plowing and haying will ail hap is i 2 yards for 25c, THEN if. 3 RESIDENCE PHONE H3 Sid OUR RAMBLER To the west is G. W. Ilutton on Mrs.

Sprague's place of 320 acres. This is a good location for general farming. 3i0 sheep and lambs are kept here. 400 little chickens are growing up toward the frying size. Mrs.

Sprague located on this place in 1858. At that time neighbors were not as close together as at present, neither were there as many of them. Turning south another road drag met The Rambler. This one was in charge of S. V.

Pfister. lie said that he believed in dragging the roads, that the well kept roads advances the price of land. J. W. Pfister was busy with a scoop shovel putting shelled corn in the granary.

He runs 240 acres on general lines, has a good place, good farm house and buildings. lie was assisted by Duff, another good hand with a scoop shovel. W. C. helps R.

W. Young this season. J. W. Meyers has a good garden.

He has eighty acres and raises the staple Kansas crops. J. It. Zimmers was also found busy. He has some fine pigs as well as farm prospects.

He has 120 acres. Joe Lacroix runs the home place this season He has 75 acres in corn. Some fine potatoes were seen here. 250 little chickens also require attention. He has two boys and two girls who are all next to Kansas soil.

Kansas land is all right even if it does get on faces and hands once in a while. Children need more soil and less starch. Just south is E. D. Lacroix who counts forty years of residence in Kansas.

He is owner of 480 acres with quite a number of horses and cattle. A good farm and modern improvements. Little Willie Brooks, his lively grandson is visiting him at present. Willie enjoys country vacations and will quite likely make a farmer himself. To the south is A.

G. Davenport, who arrived in 1870. He has 200 acres here besides a ranch thirty miles west of Topeka. His son, Byron manages the ranch which is stocked with some 400 sheep and 200 cattle. On the farm here they raise horses, hogs and cattle.

A dairy of a dozen cows adds to the work at chore time. An 'ad' in the News sold 200 bushels of seed corn for A. G. People came from Everest, Willis and other Brown county points. White Cloud, Wetmore and Comet people also got part of the famous Boone County White corn.

Across the road is the home of Chas. Keiswetter who has one of the choice 80 acre farms in this vicinity. About the best field of wheat on Route four is on this farm. Some 300 Plymouth Rocks take a share of Mrs. Keiswetter's attention.

Marie and Ernest were pupils of the writer two terms at Mission Center. Marie takes special interest in the lawn though she finds the lawn mower rather a hard proposition. After dinner, which was a most satisfactory one, the Rambler had a short visit on the News time which he just couldn't help. South across the corner lives Quillian Lewis, a Brown county teacher who has taken up farming for a livlihood. He is a good farmer as he was a good teacher.

The cause of common school education cannot and will not prosper as it should while other occupations and professions offer better wages and inducements. There's a lot of sentiment on this question and it is good tnat there should be but teachqrs have a few substantial needs as well as other people and the blessings of posterity do not fill the stomaches and Clothe the backs of present generation. The flowery orations of educational masters to the contrary, notwithstanding. E. J.

Litle has a very comfortable home, well located and nicely kept. He devotes his time to general farming and raises a good grade of stock. Riley Catuska farms 1G0 acres on the Lacroix place. 250 eggs in a Hiawatha incubator hatched out 214 chickens. Pretty good record for one lot of eggs in one hatch.

Leaving for the other side of Wolf river on account of a heavy rain that had just gone to the east, the Rambler noticed a fine farm house on the east side of the road. G. TJ. Hauber said he had been remodeling the house. He farms 204 acres cn the usual lines and keeps a good grade of live stock.

To the west a short distance is the farm of Faul Cyphers, an old resident. 1 1 is son Ferd, a former pupil of the writer, farms the home place and raises horses, cattle, mules and stock hogs. Ferd is an enthusiastic hunter and keeps a pack of hounds. They make it very interesting to the wolf that crosses their path. J.

J. Hackley, who has a good country residence, owns an 80-acre tract. He raises the usual crops. Farther east is the 80-acre farm of I. F.

Martindale, who has but lately bought here. I. F. has some good corn and a fine garden. He says the timber squirrels are getting a great deal of his corn.

I. F. and hla wife are deserve to succeed. T. M.

Spurrier also among the hills is located farther west. He is a farmer also and was enjoying a breathing spell as the Rambler pasKcd him. Albert Lang to the south of Union school is located in the timber and apparently too close to the creek; 300 little chickens here have difficulty in keeping out of reach of the crows. Driving southward in search of more people the Rambler came to the Jake Schilling place, fanned by C. E.

Prew-itt. There are 200 acres here and are planted in the staple crops. This is a pleasant place though rather difficult of access. Turning northward the Rambler found Robert Gibbs making hay in alfalfa. Some 23, not an unlucky number at all, red hogs were getting ready for market in the pasture.

Robert rings his hogs just before weaning time and says this is best for the rooters. Seven boys and five girls make the Gibbs family one of special interest to all News readers. Success attend them. On the west side of the road there is another fine country residence surrounded by many evidences of prosperity. There being no one at home the Rambler afterward learned that Ed Pricer was the proprietor.

J. D. Craig has lately bought the place on the corner opposite Union school. J. D.

has a pretty farm here and has it in the best of condition. He has an eye to the beautiful if the lawn and shrubbery about the house are an indication to be depended upon. Mrs. Craig takes special pride in about 200 little chickens. Day making has begun here also.

J. K. Greenough, who farms the 80 acres east of Craig was busy with a hedge fence. The Buff Orpingtons flourish here. D.

N. Batchelder farms the home place of lfiO acres. lie raises corn and wheat and a good grade of live stock. On Route Six. Southeast of Hiawatha on Route 6 is the 200 acres tarmed by W.

T. Red-iker. By way of improvement he is painting his house. He has 31 steers preparing for market. By reason of cholera his stock of hogs is much smaller than usual.

To the east is the home of Wm. Hauber, who has 104 acres. He no longer engages actively in farming, leaving that to his sons, who raise wheat, oats and corn. He is very much interested in sweet potatoes. The Rambler rather suspects that.

William found out that sweet potatoes were mighty fine eating when he was in their native home back in 18G1-C5. He has a good location and says nothing about changing. To the south is Henry Zimmerman's place. Henry is busy at work on the roads. Besides farming on the usual lines there is an abundance of small fruit and a good garden.

Across the road A. B. Spangler farms 120 acres; 300 nice little Plymouth Rocks are doing nicely here. I. A.

Comstock lives in the large house in the center of the 104 acres where he was busy in the corn. J. P. Franklin, who has been here some 30 years, has several acres of potatoes and about 2,000 sweet potato plants. Mrs.

J. P. is quite an enthusiastic Sunday school worker and a thorough believer in home missions. This is a fine location and has an attractive setting in evergreens. To the south John Hansen farms 200 acres anu is a very busy man just at present.

A fine lot of boys will soon add to the working force here. Leaving this place the Rambler took the road down the creek and just as he concluded that he was up against the real labyrinth of Wolf river he was directed to the J. R. Kallenberger place. J.

R. raises O. I. C. hogs and Buff Orpington chickens, and farms, raising the usual crops.

The Rambler had the pleasure of meeting the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist church of Willis, Elder Grout, and Mrs. Grout here. They are very much interested in Sunday school work in the country districts. Across the road, on the place formerly owned by John Procter, is W. R.

Weimer. He has 70 acres of corn and had no replanting to do. A remarkably fine potato patch promises an early crop. W. R.

has put in 16 years with the Bell Telephone company, part of the time as general foreman of construction, in Missouri and Kansas. A fine growth of evergreens make an attractive dwelling place here. A. C. Barrett farms 180 acres on one of Chas.

Knabb's places. He has replanted 3u acres and the hard rain of Wednesday will likely cause some more replanting to be necessary. Fifty acres of timothy will make haying interesting. A drive across the fieuls and through the woods brought the Rambler to the other Chas. Knabb place, where J.

F. Shear manages 480 acres. Corn and hay are tue principal crops here. The former resilience of Chas. Knabb stands on one of the bluffs of Wolf river, and is surrounded by native forest trees.

J. T. not bein in calling distance the Rambler interviewed the MODERN CEMENT BLOCKS Are just the stuff to construct anything from a shanty to a mansion. Look at Dr. I.

L. Meyer's new residence if you want to be convinced. The cement blocks build a fireproof house, cheaper and better than any other material. The blocks are so constructed that they will last longer than any other building materials, granite excepted. Our Manufacturing Plant is running to its fullest capacity and will be enlarged.

Before you build, fiigure with THE RICHARDS CEMENT CO. THE STORAGE IDEA Is the orly Ideev. Crawford has a fine storage warehouse where your surplus goods can be safely stored and where the insurance rate is low. Tut away your hard coal burners, heating stoves -pack up your winter bed clothes and have them out of your way during the heated season. Don't make a muddle of your home you need the room and your stoves will be kept in good shape no rusty pipes from exposure no broken parts when you get ready for the stove again.

Call up Crawford and your goods will be taken to the storage warehouse and returned when wanted. Crawford Transfer Storage Co pen at once, making a busy time on the farm. Aaron Meisenheimer lives in the home place of 32 Oacres and raises wheat, corn and oats, "common, every day fanning," is the way he expresses it. This place has a plain, substantial bricK house, a generous front yard and a number of evergreens, making an interesting country home. J.

W. Glenn is one of the few who have a good prospect for fruit. John has forty acres here, to which he devotes his spare time, between threshing, corn shelling and such like work. He is confident of getting his share of the grain this coming season Mrs. J.

W. gives special attention to 75 hens and 300 chicks. They are Buff Orpingtons. One of the striking features here is the great abundance of roses. Though an old acquaintance OmCL PHONES 67 and 68.