The Ottawa World from Ottawa, Kansas • 1

When you, buy a BUICK, you get a Contract on Service-Not a Promise--OTTAWA BUICK CO. TICKETS Committee of 28 and Sub-Committee of 9 Nominate Mansfield Becker Then the Pleasant Finley Party Announces That It Will Have Committee of One Hundred NO. 52 OTTAWA, KANSAS, THURSD FEBRUARY 19, 1920. VOL. 19 Last Friday the peaceful (or preturbed) atmosphere of the World office was invaded byinine of the leading men of the city.

The editor turned from the trivial affairs of the print-shop to HEARING ON DAM ISSUE STATE DEMOCRATIC The End of Day: confront C. M. Thomas, Dorsey, A. P. Elder, M.

H. For 1 II I ester, R. E. Page, E. Van Hynmg, Dr.

J- M. McWharf, Dr. E. S. Price and Hon.

L. C. Jones. Before Industrial Relations Court Next Wednes- day We tried to make hurried, classification of that crowd so as 0 guess the purnose' of visit, but at the moment could not The settlement of the issue be think of any political party or any business, or profession or so--ial ties that would name them, except "leading citizens." Now anybody who is familiar with newspaper history and practices tween the city of Ottawa and the farmers who live along the river Able Speakers Will Adress Meeting Franklin County Democrats Will Attend A number of Franklin County democrats are planning to attend the annual meeting of the Kansas Democratic Banquet Club to February 23. Mrs.

Ada Rodman and probably Miss Edith Cusick, be held at Topeka next Monday, Knows that when so big a committee 01 leading citizens as tnai visits an tthe first impulse of theeditor is to look lor which upstream, who claim that their land would be damaged by the construction of the new waters-works dam is now up to the new of them has the rope, or the fence raii and bucket of tar. However, we put on as brave a face as we could and with all the sau- vity we could muster inquired, lo what do we owe this distin 1 1 1 0 jy Mil iMrtKH '-rSo5C licwi I I ri G3 i.J, guished honor?" The effort to placate them seemed to nave gone court industrial relations, at Topeka. It is expected that the matter will be brought up next Wednesday. The city took steps astray when one of them 'sternly remarked, "It's a distinction all right, but leaving us to infer what we pleased as to its being We chose to feel flattered when informed that they had to bring the matter before the court and it is expected that the members of the newly organized 1 -4. VXTnlH 7nlW eiiTvnvift a I Ion city clerk, will attend.

Mr. A. P. Elder, Mr. J.

and Mr. F. S. Mickey have signified their intention of going. There will be a meeting of the state central committee and also "of the Franklin County central committee at Topeka and the come 10 secure a pieyge tne-1 uic irvnu ouwuiv Mansfield, for mayor and E.

H. Becker for commissioner of drainage district will have then would consent to become a candidate unless assured of the sup attorned present to fight the port of both newspapers and the practically unanimous, support "rcrmsition. of all the people. We were that both gentremen were accep At-or RSImo bonds if the 'sum table to the World, and we knew ot nobody else wno expected 10 oe nf $1 3,000 ami arrflTieincr for "rthpr fs5" of $1.1.000 wh a candidate. "But, gentlemen." we concluded, view ot tne well known contention of the World that no group of men should ftnpRsarv.

the citv stnrted MANY DEATHS FROM FLU. 'fix up' a ticket and then so arrange that others would not nave -y ami ni 4inTifP do von think it would be consistent for the World -nnc-trft; the dam. Then thp Pittyipt1 fHp1 csnif "jxrniriS'h th After an illness of ten days, sc now to ioin you gentlemen in 'heading off anybody else who fv actVinc jYi ininTtrtinn to pre Mrs.fEmily Drum, 76 years miqrht become a canmoaxe, eiiner upun uwn iwuvh v-t nv vent the construction of the i age, qied at her nome, Mi is hhis friends?" The city agreed to delav sycamore, February lb oi miiu till the court decides the ques tion. The city then asked for a enzSpneumonia. She had lived here for 35 yeai's, coming here from Savoy, 111.

The husband, "But," thev contended, "this is not tne act ot a iw. zrouV, there were twentv-eiffht nresent at the meeting when the committee was appointed, and we propose to call a mass meeting of all the citizens at the court house Monday night to endorse this commission to condemn the land which was granted by the court Wra. H. Drum, died October 10, The city had purchased the dam 1914. ticket." We were not but predicted tnat tnese nme men with their knowledge of how to manage, and with an organ-united Dumose could go into any "mass meeting" they might site previously.

Then the farm Louis Drum, a son, who has ers organized drainage district been ill with influenza-pneu call and absolutely control it. No. 1. monia, died the following day. The two laws, one under which The event justified our prophecy.

presiucu Mnnv niffht meetinir. at which the proposed ticket was al eb. 17, at 12 10 p. m. He had I I I.

sw k- i I I i i i. been ill about eleven days. He the city was working and the ther under which the drainage was 6i years, ot age and wa: most unanimously endorsed and the apppintment of a campaign committee of fifty was decided upon. Yet) before noon the next day the antis had got drawn up a petition for the nom- district was organized were con jorn at Savoy, 111. He had lived ere all his life and was a la victing.

So an amendment to fhe drainage act was presented ination for waiter Pleasant ior mayur aim u. xv. sez wen he c's his naburs tail; thare kar 2 the garrig 2 git 50 sents uv wurk dun, and then c's I them swet wen the bill kums for borer. commissioner, and started upon a irmttui searcn ior wgwiiu w. fo the special session of the leg- We heard one man confidently assert mat ne coum get a iiuumeu 'Mature.

This law which was The death of James McGregor, An .1 -ll i. "issed, reomres a citv to.c-et j. SO old Feb. 15, St 5 p. m.

prmission of the industrial relft- was caused by influenza. Ho "signers" in an hour. The Pleasant-Finley men aiso annouuw that their campaign committee will comprise a hundred -members. Now if three or four more pairs of candidates should jutnp into the field and each pair should double the membership of the pre neether poverty nur ritches, an fTns court to construct a dam' had beep ill about "two weeks nose thet he kant afford no kar. maititam it within a dram- Mr.

McGregor was born in Rhodo vious committee, you ought to be able to tigure out wneie iu district. The drs inap-e di.c NEW INFLUENZA CASES vould put the newspaper that undertakes to print? tne names 01 ived here about five years, com all the committees. We're not going to do it. nig here trom the Pomona neign Since yesterday noon 13 nev -'am hplnnn-mn- to thp pjtv. oorhood.

He was united in mar cases ot mtiuenza tne cit DISTRICT COURT inEWS RECRUITING PARTY, VISITS lage to Mary Eubank, Nov. 14, were reported to Dr. Herr, coun-tv health officer. One new casn A PPT A OV, TrWTVrCFQ j.912 at Delivan, Kans. The OTTAWA Mrs.

Antoinette Funk wife, two daughters and a son of measles was reported. In, thf Harry J. Gates, .27 "ountv 17 new cases were report- A large recruiting party in dates for the Democratic county Services were held at the Lknyn-a rvf MoiAT' TflVlTl CI fVWlk. fi v.e v. xiuxiey, uxtawa iy ed and one case 0f pneumonia.

congressional and state conven grave in North Appanoose cern- f4talAiw ti. s. assisted William iioldenow. Bloom- TVip tipw pasps nf infhiPTi7 tions will be determined upon to elect delegates to the national tleld. ind were: F.

S. 421 Poplar; bv Captain John P. Shreves tank onducted by Jno. Ward of the aiiie M. ..16 Mrs.

Tuman, corner Cherry and U. S. are spending tne Dunkard church. red L. Hynes, Williamsburg: 25 Logan Walter Harper, 631 week in Ottawa.

There are sev F. T. Bruner, plaintiff, vs. Cornelius R. VanDorn, et al.

Plaintiff prays judgment quieting title to lots and in Dundee Place in the city of Ottawa. F. A. Waddle, attorney for plaintiff. The Foamite Firefoam a corporation, vs.

The Bankers Oil Gas Plaintiff alleges defendant through W. Walker, president, purchased 23 gallon pails Foamite and agreed to pay therefor the sum, of $90 with interest at the rate 6f six per cent Maye A. Beard, Waverly. 18 Mulberry; 419 eral non-commissioned oincers f'Mrsl 'Mary Effie Laymon died Jesse D. McDaniel.

Princeton2r S. Locust. Three cases the Monday, Feb. 16, at 9 a. m.

She in the party and they are cp-op- Hazel J. Stevenson, Richmond21 family of J.L. 'iad been ill for 6 davs with in- eratmg witn tne local y. aimy ohn nspnhnno-h xjouusl aim lour cases in me recruiting office in. charge of convention at San Francisco.

Two of the principal speakers at the banquet wijl, be Mrs. An-tionette Funk of Chicago, and Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Mrs. Funk is a relative of the late Cyrus Leland of Kansas.

She has been active in pol- tics and was a delegate to the Progressive national convention at Chicatro in 1912 and also in tluenza-pneumoma. The home Okl ooi Yates family, 813 North Hick- I is at 536 Walnut street. She was bom Jan. 1, 1889 in Michigan Sergeant James Ferguson. At the store of Gardner Walker they have arranged very inter .7 vbuana ula I.

Todd 18 Valley in Osage County and was LECTURE ON "SCHOOL HY married to Augustus H. Laymon Walter L. Nitcher. Pomona 26 esting display of captured Gi. man trophies.

1 'Vug. 10, 1916 at Paola, Kans. ner annum from April 1,1918. The defendant has refused to nay any part of the above tta May Baxter, GIENE Professor Cope of Ottawa Uni Sereeant Harry Adams, who 1916. She is a very able speak- The husband and a young son.

larl A. Cottier, Mound City was formerly with the 89th div A. Herman Burr Artis Layman, 16 er. No doubt the Washington birthdav bnnouet this year will amount. Mo 21 versity win give a tair on Suit was brought in district Hay Clark, LeLoup 21 months old.

survive. A private Mineral was held Tuesday afte-- "School Hygiene" at the Worn- be psneciallv interesting in view Homer H. Terry. Elbrina- 27 en's Republic meeting next of te coming nresidential cam naiTn. Grace L.

Foster, Waverly 23 day afternoon. The meeting wil on at 2 o'clock from Lamb's "hapel. in charge of Rev. Interment was made at "ourt bv Vienna Chenoweth vs. S.

E. Thomas et al, to auiet title to lots 13 and 15, in blck 3, of Hamblin's College add. John C. Quinn. attorney for nlamti'ff.

ision, who won the p. p. V. anc tbe croix de gueire and( medal militaire is here' with the party. During the St.

Mihiei offensive Sergeant Adams captured 375 Germans, including 17 officers. Wednesday evening he spoke hriefl at the Star and Crystal theaters. Chas. W. Ingle, Overbrook 19 nesrin at P- m- am tne Ief-Ruth Fishburn, OverbrooTc.

.....19 ejvill probably be given at 8 NATIONAL TRACTOR SHOW Hope cemetery. ZL T1S' to all to attend thelecture Is an Event of Much Interest in uwymuanamg, Thp Wnmm'5 Kansas City This Ween. jasper mvis, ken up thp general snbiect Minnie M. Johnson, Williams health' and Home at teir mee burg 47 m.nrS lately. The subiects of The fth annual National Tracto.

how is an event of much interest in Kansas City Ernest Frederick Wise Eudo- anti-vivisection and Medica Ellen Collins. 78 vears old. dipd eb. 18, at her home A Williamsburg, Route 2, of in-auehza, after an illness of 10 iays. She had lived here about years, coming here from Clyde, Mo.

She was unmarried. Ameral will be held Friday, Feb. i0, from St. Patrick's Emerald, with Father T. K.

)'Connor in chai'ge and inter-ient there. rl'eedom have been discusser ra 21 A suit has been filed BV VKZ. heth Adkins vs. Wm. Adkms asking for divorce on the rounds of extreme crupltv and gross neglect and abandonment.

Mrs. Adkins has been a resident of the county for more than a year. Plaintiff is now living at Peabody, Kansas. Adkins was formerly Elizabeth Martin. She asks for restoration of her maiden name and for costs of case.

Ralph Page is attorney for plaintiff. this week. Bernice Carolina Harirett. particularly at some of the meet But we glory in tribu- lations also: knowings that tribulation worketh.1 pa- tience; and patience, experi- ence; and experience, hope. Rom.

5: 3, 4. 1 r7 7 Eudora 19 ings. Among the citizens of Ottawa who will attend the tractor show at Kansas City this week are Ed red J. Stubbs, Vv illiams- buig J. 52 Nelson, agent for the Samscn GEORGE WASHINGTON PARTY A.

E. i'oung, Aberdeen S. tractor: Mert repre 25 se'nting the J. I. C.

tractor, anu o. J. Turner, tieid agent lor thau CRE- A committee from the D. A Mrs. Bessie May Stanhard.

Frank Jewell, Ottawa .....39 WILL SING HAYDN'S ATION" R. met Monday afternoon at the coHiuany: C. A. Simon, repre at Colville, Febm-'ry 13, at 9:30 a. of influen- Mary M.

Balch, Wellsville .........46 Geo. R. Bildstone, Ottawa .........27 iicme of Mrs. B. TX Bennett sentative of the Aultman-Taylor arrange for annual Georrrr tractor: E.

A. Chambers, rep the Avery; Clarence F. Drum, Ottawa 22 OFFER PRIZES She had been ill pfu- a week. She was married t-i Edwin II. 5 at Ot-Liwa.

She hr1 lived here fbur-inr! vpirs. Five children sur li. Sheldon, of the Ottawa Hard A chorus of students of Ottawa University an townspeople render Haydn's oratorio, 'Creation" during commencement week this yoar. Professor Paul Utt, dean of the' conser- WPF.hmgton party. The be held this year, trnoon, Febniarv 21, at V1 North AmcriVn otrl, for t'1 "embers of thf Chapter here ware company, representing the International.

Suit has been brought in district court by Margaret C. Cameron of Chicago vs. Joseph Huff, Kittie Huff, Geo. Kent arid Minnie Kent, his wife, to foreclose a mortgage on land owned bv defendants in section 10, township 19, range 21. The plaintiff n'-Vw, she.

was gven a note for $1,000 bv Joseph Huff and ether "'efendants and only $300 of it been p'nid. Se asks for thp iyment of the $700 due or of the mortgqo-e. mo TVTarv T'nirh is here to T.tcry of music, announces that The Chamber of Commence aas t'vo ioving caps vizes in iiti.letic contests to liel'l on t'it-id day for the crim vive. The body will be brough-1-'-ere for burial. The Pev.

wc-nd the week with her parents rehearsals -will be held On mornir rl-vnpi'" 17. 100 to Fnvrop" nnd Mrs. K. F. Push.

His ievt Tuesday evening at Rcr-itr-1 Fourth K-nchcs in the high school nril 24, one each tr schen's and rhoolt' 'e hih jp.hip Rr.tiids and the prhools -I'-pct'S. Fverycne who likes to "yiri.n, vh di'l Tir i nol. "nfl, Tyjlli-i-n- L.i(-H i.hprp. on account of in is. fred to icln'thc chori1 mr-flio'" vttvor fS omfp-'f- fvrrm.

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