Riley County Democrat from Manhattan, Kansas • 1

C3CZ 1 HP VOLUME ONE MANHATTAN, RILEY COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1911 NUMBER 43. SMALL NEWS ITEMS. Tno Old Settlers Gone. Senator Hostrup spent Sunday. with Last week we reported the death of v.

a tit i I' SOCIETY NOTES ms icimn xuannaitan. George M. Gilliford which occurred at BY MRS. HAMMOXD. Henry Winter, contracting architect, his home on Carnahan Creek.

Sunday Death of I. N. Hutto. Word of the death of I. N.

Hutto was received here last Friday. Death occurred at his home in Stillwater, and was the result of paralytic stroke received a few days before. Deceased was the father of our townsmen, W. W. Hutto, E.

M. Hutto and Albert Hut S3LVLL EWS ITEMS. Arthur Blackmail 'was' summoned to Kansas City the first of the week to see a sick sister. Mrs. Marshall, after a visit with her daughter, Mrs.

Chas. Fairman, has returned to Wakefield. Oranges tomorrow at ten cents per dozen. Phone 34 or 155 or call at the Bee Hive. Come early.

his wife followed him to the great be was Kansas City Sunday. Miss Ressa Foresman was at Wame go Sunday a guest of MrsCourse. The ladies of the. Congregational church served a banquet to 150 members cf the Y. M.

C. A. Monday yond. She had been sick for "some time, but the immediate cause of her death was no doubt due to a broken Mrs. M.

L. Stewart and daughter went to Topeka first of the week to at Sewer Bonds Sold. The city council met in adjourned sesson Wednesday morning to receive bids for the paving bonds. A number of parties wanted the bonds and they were sold to the 11. W.

Morrison Co. of Kansas City The bonds will aggregate and sold at par with accrued interest at tha rate of per cent to delivery and at a pumium of $230, the purchaser to furnish the blank bonds. In conformity with (he council's advertisement the veto sold at aiction. Three bidden banns at a premium to, and had spent a life of usefulness. The body was buried in Oklahoma.

The T. P. M. club held an interest 1 ing meeting with Mrs. Vernon study tend thefuneral of a relative.

'heart or the shock caused by- the sud- C. O. Burdette and wife came Sun- den deatn of her husband, day from Horton where Mr. Burdette Mr- and Mrs- Gilliford were Carna- had been working on the Commercial. han Creek pioneers, having lived in A man who was out through the that community, we are told, about Deaceased was a resident of Man-lattan from 18S6 to 1S96.

He was a ing Frank R. Stockton and Winston Churchill. Mrs. C. Nealis has returned home from Clay Center, where she was called to see hei sick mother.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. House are enjoying a visit from their daughter, Mrs.

E. D. Sherman, of Colorado. Hoosier and served with one of the -forty' years. They were aged respect The ladies of the Episcopal Guild Indiana infantries in tk.3 Civil war.

fully 6S and 64 years. Five children1 erved a banquet at Woodman hall for After the war he came to Kansas, tak country last week says that a couple of hundred farmers in Riley county were seen plowing. Mr. and Mrs. Z.

M. McCormick enjoyed a visit this week from Mr. and he Webster and Eurodelphian socie survive: Robert and Charles Gilliford, Mrs. Alice Carnahan and Mrs. A.

ties iuesday evening. ing a homestead in Washington coun-ty, moving to Manhattan later fcr Hawley, all of this county, and-William Gilliford, of Chicago The Riverside club and their fami- About ah inch cf rain here Monday was a great blessing. Reports indicate it was general all over the state. Andy Brubaker, recently operated on for appendicitis at Park View hospital, is recovering his former good school purposes. He was a man of at- Mrs.

L. L. Dugan and baby. Mrs. Du ies were entertained at the home of tainments and high ideals.

E. M. and San is their daughter Mr. and Mrs. Nixon Tuesday evening A Sad Death.

The hearts of Manhattan people W. C. Hartloff, who has been clerk- A. J. Hutto attended the funeral, re at a valentine social.

health. turning hoem Monday. ing at the Coons clothing store, will were made sad Monday morning by move to California next month. the announcement that Miss Fay Miss Frances Train and Miss Char- otte Morton entertained a company of Miss Vera Tull spent Saturday and Douglas had died the night before of Sunday at the state capital with her pneumonia at the home of her parents, Kansas City Market. Kansas City, Feb.

16. The price of friends the evening of Valentine day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J.

Brock. 726 Leavenworth, street. She was 23 brother, Ross Tull. Harry Smethurst and wife spent old and had bsen sick OG" since hogs advanced yesterday and today rapidly, selling at close today, heavy, Arthur Breneman was surprised HnnHnv witii ATr- nnri lUro wviiaii-ov Friday. Deceased was the only $7.15 to common to rough, $6.65 Saturday by twenty-two of his school mates who came in and spent the ev daughter of and Mrs.

M. L. Doug- A Million for K. S. A.

('. Topeka, Feb. 14. The Kansas State Agricultural College won its fight bo-fore the ways and means committee of the senate today. The total appropriation voted by that committee amounts to nearly 1 million dollars and makes provision for the up-to-date development of the school.

It is now believed that the bill will pass the senate. The appropriations for the state university were not so liberal, but no such reductions were made in that schedule as at first threatened, except in the matter of the medical department The agricultural college asked for $350,000 for 1911-12 and for 1912-13. The new buildings needed are a wing to the agriculture building to cost $125,000, a physics building to cost $90,000, a barn for aalmal husbandry to cost $23,000 and complete the armory and -vmnasium. unction City. to $7.00.

las. ening and gave him a post card Miss Celia Groom, after a visit in Cattle market uneven, prices some W. W. Hutto, who a short time ago had another surgical operation 011 his injured leg, is out again greeting his friends. Toe Drown and two of his sons went to the eastern part of Colorado this week to establish residences on their homesteads.

Gaunt, cama home from Missouri Tuesday. He bought a fine farm two miles from Springfield and may move there. Ren Paine of Kansas City, accompanied by Mr. Schnocke of Topeka, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

C. H. Paine. The parents moved to town from the higher today; most steers selling at Topeka with Mrs. Rothmeyer, has re- farm last year in order to give the $5.

SO to $6.15.. Some good heifers sold turned home. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Con daughter advantage of the college and some special musical instruction. Har- at $5.75. Roy Dill was at Abilene Friday.

He gregational church are having a series kxti j. 1. tut iu i. 1 1 1 1 ai wiieai uovvu un, iviay seuing ai nau a uiu ueiuiw me city cuuncn iui rv Douglas east of town is a brother of mothers' meetings, the first is being S8 cents. Corn advanced a cent, sell- the construction of a storm sewerage The body was buried Tuesday, Dr held this afternoon at the home of Mrs.

Will Wareham. mg at Close ior 4 cents. bsiem. Holt, of the fonsrrea-ational church. Eggs, firsts 14 cents, extras 16 cents.

v. h. Derr went to the Solomon preaching the funeral. Beautiful floral Evangelist and Mrs. Hamilton, Miss Demand for consumption increased valley Teusday to inspect his real tributes were fitting testimonials of owing to lower prices.

Receipts from estate possessions and will be gone the high esteem in which the young The Misses Lena Helm, Rena Mc-Peak, Mary Giles and Ida Northrup Veaie, Mr. Buss and Mrs. E. D. Sherman of Denver were entertained at dinner at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. country lighter. ten days absent. woman was held Butter, extra creamery 25 cents, XVhn Qr tbo R11PPPCQflll m-nts spent Sunday at the home of Miss Indeed, It's Siity. Ewing Wednesday.

packing stock 12 cents. near Topeka. in this city or any other community Christian Church Revival. The revival meetings at the Christian church continue with unabated interest. All meetings are well at A few months ago H.

P. Wareham Exports from America today includ- Av3 they the ones who advertise or Jchn Harrison is remodeling his The young ladies class of the Bap ed 96,000 bushels of wheat, 23, barrels -be ones -who do not advertise? Think commenced, -remodeling ms opera house. No one seemed to know just tist Sunday school entertained the grocery store ana meat maricet Aggieville, preparing to better care of flour and 428,000 bushels of corn. young men's class with a valentine what he was going to do, but all now General rain has fallen in the past for increasing trade. I.

J. Frost and family went to Lin knowr that old thirigs have passed twenty-four hours in Kansas, Oklaho party at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Brink Tuesday evening. coln, Monday.

Mrs. Frost will Frank and Louie Leber, of Court- away and that his opera house now ma, Eastern Nebraska, Missouri and receive treatment at College View land, came Tuesday for a visit presents a beauties that A meeting of Congregational church hospital and may have to undergo a Iowa, and the forecast is for more rain or snow and moderately colder are indeed envious. The building is with their brother, Henry Leber, the efficient clerk at Engel's hardware tended, and they are, entertaining as well as spiritually beneficial. Eva- gelist Hamilton is delivering powerful 2 sermons and displays a remarkable earnestness that wins the confidence of his hearers. Prof.

Buss is a superb musical director and his big chorus is immense. More than half a hundred have confessed Christ. The evangelist is relative of our esteem townsmen, the Hamilton Bros. surgical operation. far better and finer than was at first in all the winter wTheat area.

members was held this week for the purpose of old and new members getting better acquainted. These meet Mrs. John Hartley and daughter contemplated it would be, costing B. F. Snow says reports from the Southwest, mailed since the drought went to Kansas City Saturday.

Mrs. about $5,000 more than the origina ings are held every six weeks. After was broken, are very emphatic in Kimball joined them there and the estimates. You wdll not know just a social hour refreshments are served. claiming a great improvement in trio left for Wales to attend the wed- how nifty this new playhouse is unti wheat Tt now looV as if snrin? re- ding of a sister and visit relatives.

you see it the fine exterior frontage ports may show the crop up to normal The Topeka Capital reports the and the interior plans and decorations on the tremendous acreage that was marriage of Miss Mattie Wallace of Wareham is giving 25c picture- shows Finn Munsinger and wife of Smith Center, were in the city Tuesday commenting on the growth of Manhattan since they attended college here a dozen years ago. While attempting to carry an oil stove down stairs Saturday, Mrs. Henry Wiley slipped and fell, sustaining painful wounds on the head and one of the arms. Miss Elizabeth Putnam, instructor, in drawing' at the College, suffers wUh erysipelas. She has gone to Whiting, for 10c.

seeded last fall. that city to John H. Gaston of Seneca. Mr. and Mrs.

C. H. Paine, gave a 6 o'clock dinner Sunday. Those present were aside from the host and hostess were Mr. and Mrs.

C. H. Paine, Miss Cass Washington, Miss Rena Baldwin, Mis Ruth Ferguson, Fred Greeley, Ren R. Paine of Kansas City, and Austin Schnacke of Topeka. The bride formerly worked for the Marriage Manhattan Nationalist and for a while SMALL XEWS ITEMS.

Judge Morris has issued marriage was a student at the Agricultural Col Mrs. R. E. Lofinck visited friends at lege. Cases in Court.

Angie De Priest prays for a divorce from Henry De Priest, charging cruelty and gross neglect. Mrs. De Priest is a teacher in the Douglas schools. Edward Rohl, a soldier at Fort Ri-ley, says that Gertrude Rohl has abandoned him, therefore he asks a divorce from her. J.

YV. Rodgers, contractor and builder, has commenced suit on a mechanic's lien to recover $2,603.15 from the trustees of St. Paul's Episcopal church. Junction City this licenses since our last report as fol lows: 1 R. H.

Smith, aged 66, Manhattan There is a demand for electrical en E. M. Hutto and wrife were guests gineers everywhere. Mr; Downton of Mary H. Williams, aged 57, Manhattan oi relatives at St.

George Tuesday the Westinghouse Electrical company, Edward Sprecht, aged 23, Winkler Lawyer Brock went east Wednesday was here a few days ago offering situ- Florence Eversmeyer, aged 22, Wink Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Daisy Lee Keigley of Garnett, and Mr. Fred Foster Greeley of this city. The wedding will take place Monday, February 27, at high noon at the home of Miss Keigley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.

A. Keigley, at Garnett. Indiana, to be treatsd by her father, who is a physician. Capt. P.

M. Daily and wife of the Salvation Army, have been transferred to York, Nebraska. Lieutenant on legal business. He will visit New ations to young men who are soon to ler. York and Montreal.

graduate from the engineering de partment of the college. E. E. Hagenmaier, aged 29, Ran dolph; A. Lois Singer, Aged IS, Ran Miss Pickett, clerk at Harshbarger's McKinney and wife of Topeka will Mrs.

Thomas Worrel died last Fri book store, went to Kansas City yes dolph. succeed them in Manhattan. day morning at her home this side of terday to visit friends. W. H.

Hagenmaier, aged 32, Ran rw 1 1 1 I Lewis Ford, of Graham county, is Zieanuaie, oi consumption, aiier mucii (j0lph Martha Weber aged E. E. Wageman has returned to suffering. She leaves a husband, one Ran(iolDh Miss Mildred Huse and Miss Jessie Apitz gave a valentine party, Wednesday evening at Miss Huse's home. Miss Lillian Amos invited the mem here visiting his family who tempora his home at Great Bend after a visit child and numerous relatives to mourn rily reside here, to give two sons and P.

O'Neil, aged 24, Manhattan with his brother Leslie. i rri I three daughters the advantages of the iier uiiLimsiy uepariure. me remain Mary Litchenhan, aged 21, Manhat Tons of Itaiiiiiiiis. O. W.

Holt, of the Bee Hive store, says he has lately closed a deal with one of the largest importers of bananas in the United States for shipments of green bananas in large quantities and that the store will be aide to sell bananas for 10, 15 and 20 cents per dozen that have been selling for 20, 23 and 30 cents. The Bee Hive has a banana ripener in operation in the store. bers of the G. T. C.

club, a sewing so Miss Byrd Osborn, of Randolph was ere taken to Indiana for burial Agricultural college. tan. Married February 15 by Father ciety for little girls, to meet with her in Manhattan over Sunday, a guest J. M. J.

Reade. According to the Star, Frank Curtis, The faithful old horse which has of her brother, Ed. Osborn. a wealthy farmer near Manhattan, was in celebration of her eleventh birth-dajv" After spending a pleasant afternoon refreshments were served. been pulling the U.

S. express wagon TT 1- 1 I I r.irs. rreavvani came nonie me nrst caught by the vaccinating crusaders for more than htteen years, got a of the week from Hartford, Kansas, at Kansas City Saturday night and leg broken iiTa sewerage ditch Mon where she Visited a sister. fnroihiu vainatod trcroVioi wit. ir.n The Woman's Home Missionary So Has 400 Acres Plowed.

George Collister, the live wrire who presides over the destinies of the Casement ranch north of town, already has 400 acres of corn ground plowed. Recently he bought a 45 day and was shot by Chief of Police ciety of the Methodist church held an Mrs. Fred Frank is in Wichita vis- others. He first vigorously rebelled Dougherty. lianquet Monday Xhht.

interesting session at the home of iting a sister who is a teacher in the and was slammed in jail. What he The basketball game Wednesday night between the Aggies and. the Manual Training School there. thinks of Kansas City justice is not Airs. F.

M. Justin. Those taking part in the program wrere Mrs. Hiner, Mrs. Mrs.

D. H. Strand and children came printable. Washburn team resulted in a victory Baker, Mrs. J.

T. Smith and Mrs. I. N. horse power International gas engine, with, which one man.jperates his gang plow of eight 14-inch plows, plowing good and deep two acres per hour.

home from Junction City Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. W.

Stamp of Chi-They were guests of Frank Tenny and cago, the well known and able evange- for the home team. The score was 36 to 23. The Aggie team has not been Rigney. It was decided to send a box of clothing to Chicago for the work of President Waters, Dean Webster and William Ried of Manhattan and A. B.

Pearson of Kansas City will be attractions at a banquet at the Congregational church next Monday night. The meeting will be held in the interest of the young men of the college and city. A large number of invitations have been issued and a big crowd and profitable time is expected. family. were greeting friends in Man defeated this season.

The land now being plowed is that. vis- the Moody Institute. A. W. Long, district deputy grand hattan Tuesday- Since they were ited last year by the disastrous hail It was reported last night that the master of the A and A went to i nave nem SUCCesstui re- south end of the Union National Bank vivals at Concordia and Lebanon.

Mr. Kansas City Wednesday attend the building had settled about two inches Stamp is one of the" best sermonizers meeting of the grand lodge. Somethought the sewerage ditch in Farm Houve Burned. The farm house of Charles Johnson, in the ministery. the alley is to blame, but Contractor The health deartment reports that Lloyd and Lyndon Cushman were three miles east of Manhattan, was de- Cook does not think so.

The ladies of the W. R. C. gave a valentine party at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Will Hepler just across the river. Mrs. C. A home was decorated with red hearts and candles in honor of Valentine day for the meeting of the Treble Clef. Violets and hyacinths were also used and a large heart shaped box contained valentines for each member arrested Saturday morning by Sheriff stroyed by fire early Sunday morning there are three cases of scarlet fever among the short course students at The.

bill legalizing the Athletic Schermerhorn and Under Sheriff Bol- It is supposed that the fire originated ler charged with violating the prohibi- from a defective flue. Mr. Johnson the Agricultural College. Double Wedding. Tuesday afternoon Judge Morris in his parlors at the court hous3 united the fates of two popular couples of Randolph: Miss Lois Singer to Mr E.

E. Hagenmaier, and Miss Martha Weber to Mr. W. II. Ilagenmaior park for school purposes, is now a law and Architect Winter is making plans Mrs.

O. D. Morgan, whose husband tory law and maintaining a nuisance, and a brother were awakened from was killed two weeks ago, received a The men are proprietors of the livery sleep by sparks falling from the attic check Wednesday for $702.80 from the stable across from the Baltimore ho- onto theii bed and had time to save Equitable Fraternal Union, life insur- tet. They were bound over to the only a part of their personal effects. ance.

March term of the district court in Child's Skull Fractured. Hereford Iinil For Sale. Three years old, good animal. Inquire of Schultz Manhattan, Kansas. It the sum of $300 each.

The stable was Another good rain yesterday. The two-year-old son of Mr. and searched for liquor, but none was found. Mrs. J.

E. Thomas, in Ashland pre commenced at about midnight and continued all day, the precipitation being about two inches. We have cinct, whose skull was fractured by Here it is. Best bargain in papers the kick of a colt last week, is recov- heard less than a million people say, and specifications for the new school building. It is expected that work on the new temple of learning will soon be commenced.

The Sons and Daughters of Justice embracing councils at Junction City, Wamego and Manhattan, met here Tuesday and elected II. J. Harris, of Junction City, as a delegate to the national convention to be held at Hutchison March 14. Mrs. E.

L. Knostman is home from a six weeks sojourn in the southern states where she has been working as an official of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist church for the establishment of the "Peck Home." This home is for colored girls and will cost $25,000. "It's just what we needed." ever offered here. The Riley County ering. At first there was little hope Democrat, the Mail and Breeze, the of saving the boy.

Besides the frac-Wichita Wpelrlv V.atria oil nno vonr ture there was an scaln wound Complete Calking1 Machine. And in W. S. Tobey's blacksmith shop. ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE CALKING MACHINES ever invented by man.

Without the stroke of a hammer the toe and heel calks Mrs. Dan Still and Mrs. J. D. Harshbarger wrere hostesses at two "500" parties this week.

The first wras held Monday afternoon at the Harshbarger home, the following ladies being present: Mrs. Albert Dickens, Mrs. Mell Kimball, Mrs. P. C.

Hostrup, Mrs. N. Ballard, Mrs. S. W.

McGarrah, Mrs. J. W. Harrod, Mrs. D.

A. Dodd, Mrs. W. S. Elliot, Mrs.

C. H. Paine, Mrs. Harry Paine, Mrs. Harvey Haines, Mrs.

D. E. Deputy, Mrs. Ed Ulrich, Mrs. E.

N. Rodell, Mrs. L. R. Eakin, Mrs.

R. E. Lofinck, Mrs. Frank Emmons, Mrs. R.

J. Kinzer, Mrs. B. R. Rogers, Mrs.

T. R. Cave, Mrs. Hemp (Continued on eighth page.) TIT- ill .1. nil y-t I wux uraiu uie xuiey county issued by Mail large as a man's hand.

Democrat, the Wichita Weekly Eagle and Breeze, for the small sum of $1.75. are placed upon the shoe in such a .7 The map alone is worth that much a urse JLiuiiiiug. There is a vacancy at Parkview manenr as to insure greater durabil mi uue year, ior tne smau sum or $1.25, for a short time. Reader, do you know that at the Hospital for some one who wants to ity of a sharp calk, and a somplete-ness of form. Say! Just call and see Bower furniture store you can buy it work and try its quality.

One of the Johns boys in Argonia is the famous Ostermoor Great take training for a nurse. Call for application blanks and course of study. 4w named St. John Johng. bareainc In oarneta and rues.

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