Elk Falls Reflector from Elk City, Kansas • 1

7 I So ELK FALLS REFLECTOR VOLUME V. ELK FALLS, KANSAS, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19 1915 NUMBER 27 Obituary. John L. Middlekauff was born near Antietam, Maryland, May 11, 1831, and departed this life at 11 a. November 10, in Elk Falls.

Kansas, aged 84 years and six months. His parents moved to Ohio, then to Indiana, then to Illinois. He was married to Miss Sarah Chase, February 7, 1861. Soon afterwards he enlisted in the Second Regiment of Missouri State Militia and served for three years in the Civil War in defense of hie country. Five children came to bless this home, two sons and three daughtere.

One son and one daughter passed away, before their father. The widow, one son, two daugh terg and several grand children and great grand children are left to mourn the loss of a devoted husband Mr. Miridlekauff and his wife united with the M. E. church of Elk Falls about twenty five years ago.

Mr. Middlekauff often spoke to the writer of his faith in Gol. He was a charter member of Rawlins Post Grand Army of the Repubile and was faithful in attendance until he grew too feeble. We often noticed Mr. Middlekauff bearing a basket of flow.

ers on Decoration day strewing flowers over the graves of his comrades. Last spring he was unable to be present. His illness was brief and his departure peaceful. The funeral service was held at the family residence Thursday afternon at 2:00 p. conducted by Newton Hill assisted by Rev.

George Hill. Music directed by Mrs. J. A. Richolson.

He was baried in the Elk Falls cemetery. The communtiy sympathize with the stricken family. -N. H. School Notes.

"Books, schools, education are the scaffolding by which God builds the human soul up There are now 2571 persons ing work in various correspondence courses of the different State Instiutions. Some of these probably come from the ranks of the careless youth who fail to utilize their opportunities during their school life. More of them belong to that class of persons who have not had a chance to secure schooling and appreciate its value. The punster of the Botany class has discovered the likeness of sphaerella to "Fair Ella." The girls' Basket ball team der the tutelage of Miss Grace Haggard, are doing much profitable practicing. Opal Olson bears and honor of being the first disabled member.

She etopped a ball with one finger. I The student volunteer movement has reached us, Bart. Hollingsworth, Carl Watson, Johnnie Wickam, Allen Kelsey and Mary Katherine McDairmid, of their own accord, have been curtailing their playtime to study lessons. The first team will match a game of basket bail with one of the Moline team on next Friday eve at the school ground. Time: four o'clock Come and see some good playing.

A hastily written abbreviation offered unusual possibilities for a dessertation upon ancient greediness, when the European history class read, "Decribe the Spartan Gout," The smaller boys have organized 8 second basket ball team and will be ready to contest for honors soon. Mrs. Florence Jones visited the Primary and High school rooms last Friday afternoon. Her presence recalled old times and hapmemories--we hope she will py come often. Raymond Morton visited the High school during the last session Tuesday afternoon in sea rch o1 diversion from the painful demand: of his broken arm.

Miss Mary Neeland who is a senior in the High school of Lucas, Kanass, writes that she is enduring a vacation with measles as an accompaniment She is taking the Normal Training course. Whatever makes for rational citboth in school and afterizenship, wards, should occupy a large place in the school program, because every child needs training which will develop him as a social being teach him to co-operate will (ingly with his fellowmen in all right efforts toward progress. In seeking to accomplish this; end there are seven 'abilities" in which the child must ring his school years. I The ability to control the body in all its activities. lI.

The ability to keep silence when provoked. Ill. The ability to perform readily and cheerfully the general requirements of the school. IV. The ability to recognize right and wrong conduct.

V. The abillity to yield, first place without resentment or jeal ouely. VI. The ability to hold first place without being vain. VI! The ability to yield to the opinions of others where be ques tion of right and wrong occurs.

Meetings at Christian Church Rev. 0. Smith of Wellington is holding revival meetings here at the Christian church. talker Rev. and is crowds are showing great interest each night.

Rev. Newton Hill is assisting him and Rev. A R. Bemis is here part of the time. Broke Left Arm.

Tuesday, Raymond Morton, fell from a wagon and broke his left arm at the wrist. He stepped on the hub of the wheel, when his foot slipped letting him fall directly on his wrist. It is quite painful but "Babe" is bearing the pain with his usual sunny outlook at everything. His crowd 01 friends are sympathizing with him and hope for him a speedy recovery. Entertained at Dinner.

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. BooK enter tained at dinner Sunday, Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Newman of Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.

Grigg and son Charles of Independence, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons and son, Grandma Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Horn and son, Willie.

An elaborate dinner was served and a very enjoyable day was spent. Elk County Citizen. F. E. Smith of Elk Falls was in the city yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Morehouse of the Oakwood Stock Ranch, nine miles southeast of Howard, were trading in the ctiy Saturday.

Mr. Morehouse renewed his subscription to the Citizen while here. He is building up a fine herd 01 Hereford cattle, that breed being his favorite. Short Local Stories. H.

C. McDairmid Coffey ville Wednesday I message stating was much worse. was called to night by a that his wife Mr. and Mrs. Ed Middlekauff and sons Ray and Vernie and their daughter, Mrs.

Grace Friley, and two children of Cherryvale were here to attend the funeral of their father and grandfather, John L. Middlekauff. Mr. and Mrs. R.

D. Richelson and their daughter, Wilma Dean, of Lucas, Kansas, are here visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. A.

Richolson and Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Crawford.

They were called to Moline last week by the illness and death of her mother, Mrs. J. K. Craig. Our stockmen are buying lots of corn this week from the farmers of this vicinity, among them we noticed Perry Trent, Wm McNitt, Will Frye, W.

D. Turner, Fred Pickell, Charles Rarick, Ford Son, Ola Lee, John Tyler, E. R. Payne and McDairmid Brothers. Mr.

and Mrs. J. E. Lidengton end their daughter, Miss Geneva, and Mrs. J.

E. Keifer, motored down from Moline Monday to visit Mr. and Mrs. T. P.

White. They brought with them Shelley Keifer of Springfield, Ohio, a cousin of Mrg White, who visited here until Tuesday morning and then started to the Panama exposition. Mra. Fred Horn, Mr. and Mrs.

W. E. Grigg and son drove to Independence in the Horn Studebaker last Wednesday where Mr. Grigg takes teatments from Dr. Bell.

From there they went to Parsons and got the ladies' pardents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Newman and brought them here. They returned to their homes Monday morning. Willie Horn accompaniled the Griggs to Independence Death of Mrs.

Kate Craig. Mrs. Kate Craig quietly breathed out her earthly life in Moline, Kansas, at 9:20 p. Thursday November 4, surrounded by her loved ones who had been summoned to her bedside. She had been ill but a few weeks.

She was the daughter of Charles and Mary Barbour and WAR born in Compeline, Wapelo County, Iowa, April 18, 1859. The family moved io Longton, Kansas, ing on a farm one mile west of town in 1871. She was married to James R. Craig, February 22, 1880. To this union were born four sons and three daughters.

One daughter preceded her mother in departure from this life, passing away September 3, 1895. The family moved to Moline, Kansas in 1889 where they continued to reside except one year in Elk Falls. The members of the family are now located as follows: Mr. R. Craig, husband and father, Moline, Kansas: Mrs.

R. E. Drybread, Charles Craig and James R. Craig Chanute, Kansas; Mrs. D.

Richolson, Lucas, Kansas; Glenn E. Craig, Albuquerque, New Mexico; W. 0. Craig, Arkanss City; Mrs. Craig's stepmother, Mrs.

Charles Barbour resides at Longton, Kansas; her brothers, James Barbour, Pitsburg, Kansaw; Scott Barbour, Portland, Oregon, Charles Barbour, Longton, Kansas; half brothers, 1 Ed Barbour, Woodward, Oklahoma, and Charles Barbour, Los Angles, California. Many relatives and friends from Longton attended the funeral at Moline Saturday, November 6, in the Christian church conducted by an old friend of the family, Newton Hill, of Elk Falls. Mrs. Craig was a good woman, well known and highly respected by all who knew her, a faithful wife and mother, as is evidenced by the success in her children. efforts to The advise and train of her her memory counsel and exemplary life is a rich legacy to the members of the ily who sorely miss her.

The sympathy of the ties of Moline, Elk Falls and Longton is extended to the bereaved family. ---Moline Advance. X. Whos Who In the World. Like the yellow dog, I am man's best friend, and yet like a faithful cur, often kicked and sworn at.

Day after day I do my work well. ask for no wages and accept no tips. A Sunday or holiday is unknown to me. My face is the frank, open face of honesty, and my hands are the blackened hands of the toiler. am on my feet.

twenty-four hours at. a stretch, yet no word of complaint ever issues from me. My voice is always cheerful. I speak only when I am bid I do not eat or drink. I am never too hot or too cold.

am something of a power on this earth. When I give the word the day begins anew, or ends. If I were unfaithful many times kings and cook and carpenters, cab drivers and cash boys, coal miners, and chorus girls would lore their jobs. If some day I and all my kind should neglect our duties civilizetion would fall apart. School would close Shops would fail to open.

Transportation would cease. Indeed the day would dawn in vain Who am I then? You woud like to pay your respects to this staunch but unknown friend- you wou curse him lese and love him more? well! I am, The Alarm Clock. If any subscriber finds a line in this paper he doesn't like or cannot argee with, if he will bring the paper to the office and point out the offending line, the editor will take his scissors and cut it out for him. -Oley Weaver We know a man who is so saving -surely not stingy--that he wraps his money in paper to keep from wearing out his trousers pockets. -County Liner.

If you don't know what a stepping stone to matrimony is, ask your jeweler about it. -Glick Fockele. Coid Wave Coming warm weather can not last forever DON'T WAIT until the good things that you want are gone. Get them now while the assortment is good. Men's A Garment Underwear 50c $2.50 Boys' Fancy Mackanaws, Colors, sizes 9 to 17; Boys' Heavy Overcoats, Navy, sizes 6 to 10; Youths' Heavy Overcoats, Gray, sizes 10 to 17; $3.75 Men's For.

Overcoats $5.00 $15.00 Men's Sweater Coats, 50c $3.50 Cotton For and Wool Blankets, 8 $4.75 Men's Duck Coats, $1.50 $3.50 Hundreds of Ladies' and Children's Coats--new ones arriving. We are headquarters on Coats. One hundred bolts of white and fancy colored Outing. Here is where you can get a choice. Ladies' Outing Gowns, 50c, 75c and $1.00 Now is when you get the good values.

Our stock was bought at the extreme low price. Cotton goods are advancing in the wholesale markets, but ours is priced on the low basis. Bny now at the low price. Moline Mercantile Co. WELLINGTON'S Best, Moses' Best and the Red Star.

Three of the best flours acor any made one in about Kansas, it--superior especially the quality. Red Star. Ask GROCERIES Our Grocery line in complete, and every can you buy is guaranteed--every pound of coffee or tea; every sack of sugar--in fact every article bought of us is guaranteed to be the best and price right. come where you are always welcome. J.

H. THOMPSON "The Big Store on the Corner." The Old Fifth Reader. "Bold Cyrus Field, he said, said he, I have a pretty notion, that I can run a telegraph across the Atlantic ocean. Then all the people laughed and said, we'd like to see you do it, you might get half seas lover, but you never could get through a poem in an old Fifth Reader, as we remember it. It's quite likely that Bold Cyrus turned over in his grave the other day when the human voice was carried over the Atlantic by wireless telephony.

And while thinking of Fifth Reader poems, do you remember the rest of one "Hi, Harry Holly halt and tell a fellow just a thing or two; you've had a furlough, been to see, how all the folks in Jersey do. 'Twas months ago since I was there, I and a bullet from Fair Oaks; when you were there, 0, Comrade, say, did you see anything of our folks? You did? Shake hands! Oh, an't I glad, for if I do look old and gruff, I've got some feelin'. People think a soldier's heart is mighty tough, but, Harry, when the hot salt petre flames an' smokes, one's blamed apt to think about his folks.County Liner. About the simplest I ever felt was one time when I stepped into what I supposed was a restuarant, to get a bite to eat. I was in my shirt sleeves and noticed that many curious eyes were giving me the icy stare, but I just thought they were greenhorns.

Presently a waiter came toward me with a coat and before he'd allow me to I had to put the darn thing on. I ed at my plate and tried to hide my blushing face in my hands. Finally I discovered a sign on the wall which said: "Gentlemen without coats are requested to go to the desk for one." I gulped down what was put in front of me (most ly style on a parsley leaf) and went down the street to a chile joint and got something to A. Airvender in County Liner. It is said of Hannah Moore that when she was told a tale of one in her villiage, her reply was.

let us go and see if this be The effect was something wonderful. The tale bearer, taken aback, would begin to make excuses and say, "Possibly there is some mistake, but this would not satisfy the good dame, who insisted that the tale-bearer should go with her to the parties to see if the tale was true. If every Christian man or woman were like that, what a revolution it would bring in society. But how many professing Christian not only listen to tales about others, but really peddle them, are often first to cut the ac. qaintance of one who is slandered by the very ones who should have been his staunchest friends to the last.

-Early News. Two miles were cut off from a free mail service route out of Mulvane last week because the citizens being served paid no attention to notices sent out to them from the department to fix up the road. It seems that Uncle same means business when he says that a certain road shall be fixed--Conway Springs Star A. W. Finley and Robt.

fellow drove up from Elk Falls in the Finley car last Monday. They came the river road and came near having an accident at the culvert near the Fleak farm. The plank floor of of the culvert was loose and flopped up, very nearly causing the car to go over an ment. -Howard Courant. In mentioning the list of people who were in Howard at the town ship boundary line affair, we failed to get Mrs.

Fred Horn with her car loaded. She did not get started with the others but maue the trip in 30 minutes in her big Studebaker. Mrs. B. L.

Hollingsworth and sister Mrs. Florence Post of Fairfax, Oklahoma, returned Saturday night from a visit with another sister Mrs. Jack Fulk and their brother Clarence Bennet and wife at Moline. Gov. P.

Lorance presented several people in town with large sacks of cabbage Wednesday. The heads were all nice and everyone who received a present appreicates it and thanks Mr. Lorance A. W. Finley went to Independence Wednesday, and from there to Kansas City to look over the cattle market with the veiw of buying some stockers if the market suited.

Carl Longfellow arrived Wednesday night for a few days visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Longfellow. He has a few days vacation from his school duties at Emporia Mr.

and Mrs. Sweet who have been visiting for the past week with their daughter, Mrs. F. R. Cooper and family, of the city, returned to their home in Cambridge Wednesday.

-Longton News. Mrs. Ella Keath and grandson Norman returned from Independence Saturday Mrs. Minerva Hurt left Monday morning for Sylvia, Kanses, for a two weeks visit with her children. Mrs.

J. P. McDairmid returned Thursday afternoon from Deering, near Independence, where she had been with her sister, Mrs. Frank Patterson. Mrs.

Nannie Richards returned Sunday from Longton where she had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. R. Irwin and family. Mias Tressie Kill spent Saturday night and Sunday with her aunt and uncle, Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Larkin and family, at Moline. Mrs. George Bennett and son Cecil went to Moline Saturday afternoon to meet Mr. Bennett who came home to spend Sunday.

Mike Keefe, his granddaughter, Miss Ruth Keefe and grandson, Frankie Kill drove to Moline last Saturday afternoon, -Fresh Dried Fruit, just opened. Sweet Pickles in bulk. waite's Store. A. W.

Finley was in Indepndence Wednesday. -See our Blankets and Outing Flannels at Postlethwaite's Store..