The Fall River News from Fall River, Kansas • 1

The Fall River News IX, NO. 30. FALL RIVER, GREENWOOD COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY, 3 1907. WHOLE NO 437 DO YOU KNOW We have the swellest line of spring Oxfords ever shown in the city. They combine Style and Quality with' Good Wear American Lady SHOE Style 6049 A patent kid Gibson tie.

flexible sole Cuban heel. "Redlera" Toe Pric. $33.90 This cut shows one of the many styles we are showing for dress wear We have others at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2.50 F. G. Brown.

SIXTH DISTRICT CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION. The Sixth District Christian Endeavor will hold its sixteenth annual convention at Severy, Kansas, May 3, 4, 5, 1907, in the Congregational church. This district is composed of Butler, Cowley, Chautauqua, Elk and Greenwood counties. An excellent program has been arranged for the three days meeting. Friday night Rev.

G. W. Kitchen, of Chanute, will speak, Rev. Wells of Eureka will address the convention Sunday morning. Rev.

M. H. Wood who has charge of fhe Plymouth Mission church at Wichita will deliver his address "The Church and the Young Man," Sunday evening; and other good speakers will be on the program. DUANE HALL DEAD. Many of our readers will remember Duane Hall who lived in Fall River for several years, occupying the property now owned by E.

A. Robinson. The following notice of his death is taken from the Blackwell (Okla.) Times- Record: Death's grim reaper is surely but silently garnering the many souls that are ripe unto the harvest. Wednesday night at 10:45 God's messenger of death beckoned and the spirit of Duane Hall was conducted to its eternal home. Duane Hall was born at Shasbury Hollow, Jan.

11, 1822, and at the time of his death was aged 85 years, 3 months and 6 days. His life up to young manhood was spent at Glen Falls, New York. At the age of 27 he was married to' Miss Louisa Todd at Richmond, Ky. In 1854 he moved with his family to Kankakee county, Illi1101S, where they resided until 1877, when they removed to near Eureka, Kans, there they came to Blackwell in April, 1903, where they have since resided. Some nine weeks ago Grandpa was taken down with the then prevalent disease, lagrippe, from which he never fully recovered, and this together with his advanced age resulted in his death last evening.

Surviving him are his aged wife, Grandma Hall, and six sons and daughters as follows: Peter E. Hall, Mrs. Chris Behm, and Mrs. k. L.

Laughlin, all of Blackwell; Mrs. Norman Hall, of Phoenix, Frank M. Hall, of Wintieid. and Henry B. Hall, of Enid, Okla, The funeral services will be COnducted at the family residence on West McKinley avenue at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 20 by Garrett W.

McQuiddy of the Christian church, and interment in Odd Fellows cemetery. Poultry Panacea makes hens lay, cures gapes, roup and cholera. Money refunded if not as represented. Defever Son. ROMIG WILKINSON, -DEALERS INHardware, Implements AND Vehicles MOTTO: The Recollection of Quality Remains Long After The Price Is Forgotten.

SOLE AGENTS FOR LINSTROTH WAGONS Excell All Dewes Patent Skein The Axes, Wheels and Absolutely Sand Painting are the Best Dust Proof. Our Price is Right. A full mine of "Keen Kutter Tools." John Deere Implements. American Hog Wire, and we make a specialty of Wind Mill and Pumps, Anyone wanting a wind mill would do well to figure with us as we sell any make of wind mills or pumps on the market. Romig Q.

Wilkinson PHONE NO. 3 MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS. Two suspicious characters described as "low and chunky with a frost bitten moustache" and the (other a taller young man, both reasonably well dressed, were targets for Marshal Felker one night last week. They escaped on account of the marshal being such a miserably poor shot, as is proven by the holes in a sign board at the Commercial hotel. Six weeks ago these same sneaks were noticed on our streets and the marshal informed of their presence.

They have been seen several times since coming in on freight trains, always from the east and are probably from Joplin. They have always left the same night they arrived here and always returned from whence they came. Their visit here last week was signaled to Marshal Felker and he kept them in sight until about 1 a. when his suspicions began to grow. The two men first placed a barrel under a rear window of Romig Wilkinson's hardware store and one of them climbed on the barrel and looked in the window, They then went around the building and tried the front door.

From the hardware they went across the street to F. G. Brown's general merchandise store and tried the front door and then went around to the rear door of the building. 'The marshal gave the men an opportunity to break into a store but they didn't, and when he came out of his hiding place they started to run and refused to stop when he commanded "halt." He fired three shots at them--but missed them a country block. The of a train on a siding saw the two men go by his engine and disappear down the railroad track.

Marshal Felker has swapped his colt revolver for a blunderbuss that is guaranteed to destroy all living objects a quarter of a mile around and parades the streets every -never sleepinghopes he will get just one more shot at the two men. MILLIONS IN KANSAS FARMS. Kansaslands, in increasing in value (in a wonderful ratio, are still being more and more sought after. As their profitableness has gone up, the gages have been cancelled, so that no state in the Union is probably better prepared to meet the exigencies of a season or so of reverses. The Topeka, Capital says that connection with efforts of the tax commission of the Santa Fe to compile statistics of earnings on Kansas farm capital, it is of interest to note what the census has done with the same subject.

It found in 1900 that $20,500,000 are in. vested in the farm industry of the United States and 10,350,000 persons get their living from it. In Kansas the census reported the average size of farms at 240 acres and a fraction, and the capital invested, including machinery and live stock, as well as land and improvements, at $20 an acre. The number of farmers was given at 271,000 in this state. 'Che average crop and live stock product per farm was reported at $1,213, which was at the rate of about $5 an acre.

The aggregate farm capital of the state was reported at $864,000,000 in round figures. Only one farm in four was reported mortgaged. "During the last year the census has issued a bulletin on the advance in land values, which shows the enormous increase for Kansas of $350,000,000, or over 50 per cent since 1900. In the western half of the state there has been in this time an increase in land prices of probably 100 per cent and possibly more. At that rate farm capital in Kansas now ought to be arouud $1,200,000,000.

It is assessed, in round figures at 000, or about one-fifth of its value, in spite of its large advance in price since 1900. Until late years the assement was above one-fifth, if not above one-fourth." A big line' of straw hats at Brown's. de de de de de de de de de de de de de do die JUST REMEMBER We are here to stay and are selling goods as low as anyone. Call, get prices, be Convinced. We are always ready to show goods and quote prices whether you wish to buy anything or not Your produce wanted at highest market price--CASH OR TRADE.

Purkapile Son FALL RIVER TO FREDONIA. Fall River paid. Fr donia, the metropolis of Wilson punty, a visit Tuesday night that nay not have been appreciated, tho it was meant in all frendliness and with the kindliest feeling. A midnight picnic has never before been attended by so great a per cent of a town's population, and companied by a brass band. If any apology is due the good people of Fredonia, it is because of the spectacular parade and brass band serenade at such an unseemly hour and every good citizen of Fall River would humble his or herself to ask for full forgiveness.

Knowing the citizens of Predonia as we do, the writer vouchsafes to the Fall River visitors the warmest glad hand ever extended such a worthy delegation of citizens, and if our visit had not been a complete surprise a good sized delegation of Fredonaites would have met our train to volunteer as escorts and would have exerted themselves to make our visit a pleasure long to be remembered. The excursion was gotten up in about four days time, and was intended only as a visit to the Fredonia Window Glass factory to witness the maunfacture of glass from Fall River glass sand now being quarried. Agent Crawford reports that tickets were sold to 158 persons, and ten or a dozen paid cash fare to the conductor not being able to procure tickets; at least as many went down 011 the even-. ing passenger and nearly two hundred people from Fall River were members of the excursion. Arriving at Fredonia the party.

headed by the Fall River band. proceeded uptown to the Gold Dust hotel, and the band played two or three selections. Mr. Kilmer. in a few well chosen words, introduced to the excursionists, Mr.

C. F. Lutz, general manager of the Fredonia Window Glass company, and then introduced our fellow townsman, W. Brodrick as master of ceremonies, Mr. Lutz gave Mr.

Brodrick the large key to the glass factory and invited us to out to the factory and to make our-, selves at home there. The glass plant was visited next and the process of manufacture, from the time sand and other ingredients are mixed together in a furnace of fahrenheit and the molten glass gathered into a ball, then manipulated into a huge cylinder which flattens out into a window glass, was witnessed and explained by Messrs. C. F. Luz, superintendent or general manager of the glass factory, W.

S. Kilmer, employes and others. The work is interesting in all its details and we rethat our knowledge is so little gret and our space so limited that we cannot enter into a description more fully, and we promise a more lengthy account at some future date. Everybody took along a box of lunch which was spread on hastily prepared tables in the "cutting room" and coffee was boiled in a wash boiler set on a quantity of hot glass. The occasion was enjoyed by all and was especially interesting to those who visited a glass factory Tuesday night for the first time.

Mr. Kilmer is to be congratulated on his success at planning and putting into execution such FL splendid excursion and his untiring interest in the weifare and social comfort of others will long be remembered by those of the Fredonia excursionists. Mr. C. F.

Lutz and his estimable wife. mingled freely with the party and entertained as royally as though they had been in a mansion instead of a busy factory, NOTES OF THE EXCURSION. Alec Carnes seems to always do the wrong thing at the wrong time. He suddenly desired to take a bath vhile visiting the glass plant and sat right down into a big trough of water. He got his bath and then sat down on a radiator and you couldn't see him for the steam.

'The ladies seemed to be ill at ease until they were shown into the cutting room where there were piles cf glass stacked everywhere. Here they paraded up and down and viewed themselves in every glass in the room. Strange a women can't leave her habits at home. Fredonia has a citizer. who towers several inches above the rest of humanity and conducts a machine shop.

He is always present where eligible young men are in demand and soon had a coterie of Fall River damsels in tow. "Billy" Marr came upon the young folks and when he saw Mr. Griffin he remarked "my sakes alive! Do they make glass men here too? No mortal man ever grew so large as that, and then the two men were introduced. They conversed by means of a telephone, and it is just possible they envied one another. I.

W. Brodrick proved himself io he the "village cut-up." One of his victims was heard to remark that "when a man's couscience won't let him sleep, he always inflicts his suffering on someone You can't teach an old dog new tricks. As soon as the train arrived in Fredonia Joe Fedrick slipped away from the one person he "swore to protect" and was not seen again until train time. His actions were noticed by everybody and everybody remarked about it. One man's excuse for not going was that he was afraid would be making a great big speck out of this excursion Another man said the excursion was simply to scare Fredonia into donating money enough to the glass men to build their mill there.

Those who did attend say they are satisfied with the trip. no matter what satisfaction, conniving and scheming individuals got out of it. It is strange how some people will continue to in." Every time Charley Ater would get interested in conversation, Orange Romig would ask him something about his wife. It was embarassing to the girls, too. Everybody appreciates the accommodation of the railroad people in furnishing us with a special car-only for such a crowd there should have been two cars.

But, really, everyone connected with the excursion was surprised at the large crowd attending. With one or two exceptions the crowd was orderly, Those who did misbehave ought to feel mighty sheepish about it and next time try to do better. The Daily Herald at Fredonia gave us a nice writeup and printed all our names. It was feared the reporter was, securing names to present to the county attorney..