The Durham Journal from Durham, Kansas • 1

VOL. I. DURHAM, MARION COUNTY, KAM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1906. No. .4 TOWN AN COUNTRY TAMPA GR1 flNGS.

TOUT- TO MARK TRAIL. OUR EXCHANGES MI -TOM a KLV 11 iA Nl 111. II VI I I 1 I I XI II SCHOOL REPORT. Items of Brief Mention of Persons and Tom Mott was doctoring a sick Four Monuments to be Erected by Following is the report of the Durham school, District 57, for the month ending September 28, 1906. INTERMEDIATE ROOM.

Number enrolled twenty eight. Names of pupils neither absent nor tardy: Gladys Eichenour, Johnny Borton, Wesley Schultz, Elmer Frick, Josie Schultz, Jessie White, s' Arthur Schultz, Faye Eggleston, Ruth White, Adolph Funk, Maurice Parry. May Mcintosh, Teacher. PRIMARY ROOM. Number enrolled forty six.

Names of pupils neither absent nor tardy: Ruby Schultz, Effie Stephenson, Abbie Smith, Sarah Smith, Evadna Eggleston, Rennel Eggleston, Roscoe White, Ernest Jones, Clyde Moore, a Personal and Character. Local Zephyr yarn at G. Meschke Co's. Tell the Journal all the local news, it will be appreciated. Buy your harness of Lasure, they handle the best.

G. W. Thompson and wife left Tuesday night for Kansas City to attend the carnival. John Smith builds all kinds of concrete arch culverts and caves. See him and get his prices.

We have all styles, grades and prices of harness. Call and get our prices before buying elsewhere. Borton Lasure. Herman Haas who has been seriously ill of Typhoid fever for some time, is greatly improved at this writing and is able to be up and around. We want a regular correspondent at Mud Creek.

Stamped envelopes, writing paper and the Journal will be sent to party who will act in that capacity, 1 J. C. Fast, H. B. Kliwer and S.

L. Armstrong, of Hillsboro, were in Durham on business last Tuesday and while here made this office a pleasant call. Last Sunday a large crowd of relatives and friends gathered at the home of -A. Kromm where they were loyally entertained horse last week. Miss Ceale Berry, of Kansas City, is home mfpresent.

Miss Ida Hoefer returned Mon day from Cleburne Kansas. Quite a number of Tampa peo ple attended the fair at Hope. Johnnie Hackler was clerking for the Tampa Merc. Co. Satur-J Mr.

Loyd Garrison, of Hering- ton, was calling on friends Sun- day. Ethelyn Hackler begun her school at district 67 Monday the 24th. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Finn and baby, of Elmo visited at her parental home Sunday.

Pearl and Gertrude Hackler visited their sister, Mrs. Frank Walton, Friday and Saturday. Mi K-iio- T.flH,n hpPn visitino- -Fthplvn WVUr- returned to her home in Galva Sunday evening. Miss Flo. Grigsby, who has been working at the hotel, returned to her home at Stanley, Kans.

Thursday night. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Whitaker, of Stanley, Kansas, a lit ttti i nneoaoy ooy. mr.

wmtaKer is a brother of Mrs. Bye Hackler. Ed. Assman received a letter from his father who recently started for Germany. He arri- ved there safely being nine days on water.

i 1 cr, no ha mi ur tb and partook of a bounteous feast spread for the occassion. George Herbel, who is road overseer in one of the districts in Moore township has been busy working the roads the past week in his district and his work is appreciated by everyone who has occasion to travel the public higlx7ays. We are waiting very patiently to publish a like report about J. J. Geis who is said to be a road overseer also in Moore township.

Come now Jake, let us hear from you. Daughters of the American Marion, Kans. Septj 25. W. D.

Armstrong, Durham, Ks. Dear Sir: I received a letter this morning from Hon. G. W. V9nMa ro' Aiiiciiaii ivc vjiuiiuii Weill LU plant three or four monuments as markers of the Old Santa Fe Trail in Marion fnnnfv Tn rnr letter to Martin I have sugges- ted that four monuments should be Dlaced in this countv to mark the sites of Lost Springs Ranch, Moore's Ranch, French Frank's Ranch and one near the west line of the county, as nearly as possioie to marK tne place ot tne massacre of Ed.

Miller, of our settlement, (the Marion settle- ment). I suggested theseplaces because of the historical incident j' 1 1 connected with them. For inst ance, the history of Lost Springs Ranch is great and of much 1 I 1 i 1 interest, ana wnne it nas never been written and put in permanent form, it is still a matter of tradition. The old Cottonwood Crossing, afterwards known as Moore's Ranch, was the location of the first Post Office in the county, which was named after the mame of the ranch. It is also the only place where fortifi- cations were erected by United States Troops within the limits Ranch cannot be sent over the Rock Island to Durham, and that those to be placed at French Frank's Ranch and on the west line of the county, cannot be sent over the Rock Island also to Wal- deck or Canton, as parties inter- ested may suggest.

I had a talk with John Smith to-day after re- ceiving the Martin letter, and he suggested that I write to you. He further said he would furnish, free of charge, cement blocks for a foundation to those three monu- Pacing tne two webt oi uurnam. I am willing to give any assist ance I can in finding the locations or in any other way Yours Truly, Alex Case. P. S.

I think the papers prepared and read at the placing of the monument, set this summer by your peopte, should be filed with the State Historical Society, thus making them a matter State History. I think it Things Over the Way. About the time the "average man has built a home for his body and a dream-castle for his mind, death and decay swoop down upon him and force him to make new arrangements. -xEx. A Missouri legislator wanted to pass a law punishing lynching with imprisonment, but he called the deal off when somebody told him that it would take sixty years to build jails enough to hold all the people in Missouri, Ex.

W. A. Smith, of the Holton Signal thus explains the meaning of the song "001 Thro' The Rye." 4 'The picture of trying to kiss a girl in a field of rye is wrong. There is in Scotland a small stream called the Rye. The girls forded it going to church, school and to market, and as it was a foot or two deep, they had to hold their skirts up.

The boys would meet them in midstream and kiss them without any difficulty, as the girls douldn't drop their skirts to make any resistance. That's what the poet meant when he wrote 'Comin' Thro The Rye but most people think he meant a field of rye." Says Trusts Can Pay His Dollar. We have been invited to send a dollar contribution to the Republican campaign fund that is being raised by popular subscript ion and to which President Roosevelt recently subscribed. We would libe to have our dollar in such select company, all right, but we've done all the contributing we intend to do this year. We recently have completed a house at a cost of something over $4,000, and for every foot of lumber, every pane of glass, every sack of cement, every pound of nails, and in fact every bit of material that went into it we made a good, liberal contribution through the trusts that controll them, and we guess we have done our share.

"It may be treason for a Republican newspaper to talk this way, but facts are facts; and it sort of relieves our conscience to tell the truth about the trusts once in a while. We'll just let the several trusts to which we have had to pay unwilling tribute in the past year pay our dollar for us. We need it and they don't. Concordia Empire, (Rep) This Paper Free To each person who will secure ten paid subscribers to the Journal at $1 a year each, send in the names of same, and where they receive their mail, with the amount, we will mail this paper FREE one year. Go out among your friends and do a little hustling and get the Journal free for one year, and help us give Durham one of the best papers in the county.

P. A. Schmidt, Route 2, Tampa Kansas, Real Estate and Fine Live Stock, First Mortgage Farm Loans. Notary Public and Immigration Agent. Just remember that Borton Lasure handle the famous John Deere'harness and can save you money on every purchase.

Mr. and Mrs. Hoefer left Wed- of the county. French Frank's nesday for Milwaukee, Wis. to Ranch is where a traveler was visit relatives and friends.

They massacred by the Cheyenne In-expect to be gone for several dians in 1865. These being his-weeks. torical places I thought best that Mrs. Keefer went to Hope Sat- the definite location of these be turday to meet her son Frank, kept. Hence I suggested them, who has been lying at Orland Now the Santa Fe Railroad will Kline's, near Emporia.

He will haul these stone monuments any spend the winter at home. place on their line where desired We received word form Los for the purpose of having them Angeles, that Miss Marie placed, free of charge. I have Younge, sister of Mrs. Ed. Hack- suggested to Martin to see if the ler.

was recentlv married to Mr. one to be- Placed at Moore's 9 L. L. Hartford of that place. They will live in Los Angeles, and her many friends wish her unlimited happiness.

For Sale: 2 well bred Pole and China male pigs, also fine well bred White Legh om roost- ters. J. F. Haas, Durham. Revival Meeting.

Beginning Tuesday night Oct. 2nd. there will be a series of meetings at Elm Springs con- Johnny Eichenour, Enid Powers. Maude Rice, Teacher. M.

E. Church Notes. Sunday school every Sunday at 10 o'clock prompt. Preaching at 11 by Rev. Pon- ath, and Lpworth League at 7:30.

Study of Lesson, "The Grace of Giving." Miss Mae Mcintosh, leader. As the mam speaker of the day cannot be with us October we have decided to post pone the convention indefinitely New. School commenced Monday. Minnie McCandless teacher. Nora and Alice Noone called on Mr.

Fritch's last Sunday. Fred David and family visited in Dillon last Sunday. Nellie, Joe and Mrs Kraus were shopping in Hillsboro last Friday. Lydia Kraus spent last Sunday in Tampa with her sister, Mrs. Lappke.

David Kraus purchased a new road wagon of the Badger Lum ber of Tampa. Agnes Noone spent the greatest part of last week with her sister, Mrs. R. J. Belton.

The Baptist Young Peoples meeting an Tampa Sunday night everybody invited to come. Sorne of the young folks of this comunity attended the show in Durham Saturday night. Rudolph and Hugo Fritsch are are accompaning their sisters to the German school in Tampa. Fern and Edith Dielman and Lewis Ollenburger, of Hillsboro, called on the latters sister, Mrs. Fred David, last Friday, Fred Kraus attends school at district 91 where his sister Nellie teaches.

As it is only three miles from their home they drive to school. Everybody takes the Journal. j'Wljy don't you. Square Top Notes. Eddie Geis is attending school at Durham this winter.

Wm. Butler visited his daughter, Ruth, Sunday. The farmers are beginning to think "bout corn husking. Alex Walters was out in this neighborhood Sunday evening. George Boese attended the meetings at Elm Springs Tuesday night.

School opened at the Square Top school house Monday with Miss Swift in charge and an enrollment of 19. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ware are visiting her parents a few days before going out in Western Kansas on their claim. Rev Woods, of Roxbury, is conducting a series of meetings at Elm Springs.

Everybody is invited to attend. Miss Ehrlick, of Marion, will attend the meeting each night and sing two solos, one in English and one in German. Jacob David, who has been in in Canada for the past seven weeks, is so well pleased with1 that portion of King Edward's domain that he has purchased a section of land up there. The remainder of the family are talking of going to Canada not fer in the future. ducted by Rev.

John P. Woods ments. You being one of the and the singing Evangelist, I Miss first settlers in the vicinity is, I Louisa Ehrlick, soloist; formerly suppose the reason Smith thought of Chicago. of you, thinking for that reason You are all cordially invited to you would be interested, attend these services, come out Now I wish you would write and hear Miss Ehrlick sing and and tell me what you wish to do, you will be well paid for your if any public demonstrat-trouble. Bring the children and ion you wish in connection with let them see the little Billhorn this matter.

If any, after a con-Folding Organ. Preaching Sat- sultation with your people, I will urday afternoon and on Sunday write B. F. Dole relative to the 4 11 ft in the morning, afternoon and evening. Rememberl the date of meeting, and place held; Elm Springs school house, one mile south of the famous Elm Springs, one of Kansas' finest nature places, a place well Worth a visit, and five west and five miles north of Durham, and seven south and two west of Carlton, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

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