The World from Piedmont, Kansas • 1

VOL.rI. PIEDMONT, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2G, 1902. No. 8. G.

W. BARROWS, Editor and Publisher. Kansas enfranchises her women she will be the best governed state in the Union. Wm. Pyle and Mrs.

Osborne, of Western Park, have sold their farms to a Mr. Fleming, of Missouri. The meetings at the M. E. Church are being well attended considering the bad weather, and a good degree of interest is manifested.

WORLDLINGS. Subscription Price 50 cents per year. Locals 5 cents per line. TIME TABLE FRISCO R. R.

TRAINS GOING EAST. No. 30:2 Passenger 10:28 p. m. No.

"5Passenger 3:42 p. m. TRAINS GOING WEST. No. 309 Passenger 6:02 a.m.

No. 305 Passenger 12:50 p. m. Corrected by Clarence Bookout, Local Agent Owing to a press of other business we are compelled to let the World be thin of locals, but we will try and make up for it in future. Some fellow has discovered the bacteria of laziness and says he can cure it.

There are as many jobs for him as there are for the fool killer. Christmas is passed, but the Barrows Mercantile Co. are still doing business at the old stand and paralyzing their competitors with low prices. Ed Moyer is home for the holidays. Frank Karr has gone to Oklahoma, to spend Christmas.

Miss Delia Adair gave her scholars an entertainment, Christmas eve. The new switches are to be put in soon. The ties for them are here. The spur to the new Frisco turn table has been put in and is now ready fcr use. S.

Louck will start his threshing outfit as soon as the roads will allow him to do so. The Derry and Severy section men were here Monday and Tuesday, helping lay track. Misses Lucy Courtney, Jessie and Moyer, Ernest May and others are home for the holiday vacation. EDITORIAL. Mr.

J. A. Patterson's mother and brother from Linn county, Kansas, arrived here last Friday evening and will spend the holidays with him. Bert Lack has his bills posted for a public sale at the Hill farm, northwest of Piedmont two and one-half miles. Our station agent, C.

Bookhout, is seriously ill and Mr. Beloat of Fre-donia, has charge of the Frisco Station. One load of coal came in the last of last week, but it didn't last much longer than a frost in June after the people heard of it. EQUAL SUFFRAGE. The legislature of New Hampshire has decided by a good majority to submit to the people of that state an amendment to the constitution making1 the women of that state the full political equals of the men.

That is right. The idea of depriving the women of the right of suffrage is just simply rediculous. It is a relic of barbarism for which every man in Kansas ought to blush. We allow ignorance, drunkenness, dishonesty, corruption and imbecility to vote, if only they be clothed in pants, while we refuse to allow our mothers, sisters and daughcers, with their purity, honesty and talent to have any voice in te affairs of our state. The ancient argument that women were not qualified to take part in politics, along with its twin error that she bad no interest in such things, have gone the wav of all untruth.

Our sister states in the west, and even Australia, have declared that woman is man's equal, and are enjoying better government as the result. And now comes old Yankee New Hampshire and prepares to grant woman the simple right of which she has so long been deprived. With such examples before us, progressive Kansas cannot afford to deny her daughters the rights she freely grants to even the negros. When The musical entertainment given Tuesday evening was one of the best things that ever came to Piedmont, but owing to bad weather the crowd in attendance was small. From the Howard Courant.

ROCKY RIDGE. Wonder if the old saying in regard to snow will hold good this winter R. Allen Dougherty is helping J. A. Dunlap with his corn husking.

S. II. Lacy has rented the C. M. Nigh farm for 1903; F.

C. Young expects to move to Mo-line in the near future, and Robt. Ingle wil farm the place now occupied by Mr. Young. Ezra Crigei was in this burg the first of the week, buying 2-year-old steers.

S. Loucke is overhauling his horse power threshing machine, and as soon as the weather permits will thresh the cane and kaflir in these parts. Better ask permission to hunt on a man's place next time, boys. It's safer. Uncle George Dougherty writes that he arrived safely at Ocate, alter being 13 days en route.

He found all well, stock doing fine on grass and no mud to wade. Squire Easley lost a yearling steer recently from black leg. I Owing to the inclemency of the Mrs. Clifton of Western Park, started for Linn county, Kansas, last Friday, where she will visit relatives and girlhood friends. The fellow who takes a ride with his girl now, has a good excuse for keeping his arm around her.

She might fall out, you know. The Library Association supper was fairly well attended and it proved a pleasant social event as well as a source of profit to the Association. A down-east Yankee says he has invented a process by which he can heat a room all winter for a dollar. How we would like to have one for this winter..