The World from Piedmont, Kansas • 1

Dp LZ3 113 VOL. I. PIEDMONT, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1903. No. 12.

there the past week taking medical treatment. G. W. BARROWS, Editor and Publisher. Subscription Price 50 cents per year.

Standing Ads $4 per column per month. lLocals 5 cents per line. erly. If the good people of Piedmont could see their darling- boys as the writer sees them we think they would hasten to put in force a curfew regulation which would keep them at home. Most of them crowd around the stoves in the stores puffing at cigars or cigarettes and often some of them get silly drunk.

It is proved by statistics that seven-eighths of the-crimes of the cguntry conmdttoi and so marked Buce Copeland is able to be out again. Corn is coming in freely at 29 cents per bushel. For Sale A fresh cow. Enquirejof Squire Knapp. Mrs.

Chas. Wade's little boy has entirely recovered. S. D. Loucks is on the road with his threshing machine.

TIME TABLE FRISCO R. R. does light have on the )eople that there is less many crimes committed ts when the moon shines all night, than on the there is practically no i Hoys get together at commits some overt act an influene conduct of than hi; if on the rv all, or n' nights vv moon uH nijjht ii TKAINS Gt)lNG EAST. 302-Passenger 10:28 p. m.

No 306 Passenger 3:42 p. m. TRAINS GOING WEST. No. 309-Passenger 6:02 p.

1 No. 306 Passenger 12:50 p. Corrected by Clarence Bookout, Local Ag Professor Ferguson's mother from Climax is visiting him this week. Born, to Mr. and Mrs.

Jay Thompson, on Friday last, a daughter. Eggs and butter are on the decline in price owing to the open warm weather. The cattle market still continues to drop, but we still hope for a rally in the spring. When you waut first furniture at close prices call on the Barrows Mercantile Co. which requires a little daring and his playmate does something worse just to EDITORIAL.

show he is a good fellow and ain't WHY BOYS GET TOUGH. afraid; this kind of practice ripens in- Friday evening last there was to to toughness in a very short tim? and have been a meeting of the Literary 1 when some one goes to the loving club at the school house and a crowd mother or doting father with the in-of boys collected early. They were formation that Frankie, or Georgie, or of all ages, from eight or nine years to Willie is a tough proposition and guil-young men of 16 to 18, and entirely 1 ty of a crime, he is met with indigna-unattended by their parents. Beintion, incredulity and protestations thus free to follow the bent of their, that they "know the dear "loys own sweet will, they proceeded to wouldn't do such a thing." And if have a good time. They threw one of their family stands at the bar erasers, old metal lamps, chunks of coal of justice with the penitentiary star-and such other bric-a-brac as came him in the face the parents can't handy.

They climbed on the organ and believe the evidence of guilt and think Noah Young has rented the Geo. Pottorff place from A. Patterson for the coming year. Talk about your California or Florida climate It isn't a marker to the beautiful weather we are having. Judge Odell started for Kansas City, Sunday, where he has a position.

We wish him success in his new home. Jas. Courtn y's little daughter is now out of danger and her full recovery is only a matter of a short time. the prosecution a piece of spite work. We admonish you dear friends that if you want your boys to be decent men, keep them at home nights until their good habits are fixed.

WORLDLINGS. If you want goods that are good, goods that are cheap and down to date patronize the Barrows Mercantile Co. Mr. L. Allison, who is in the employ of the Barrows Mercantile Co.

was quite sick Saturday, but is getting stout again. Station agent Bookhout went to Springfield, to the Frisco hospital, last Friday. lie had to be carried to the train on a stretcher. jumped off, pounded the keys and pimped the bellows as hard as possible, accompanying their acts with yells that would, excite the envy of a Pawnee Indian. These boys are not naturally depraved, mean or bad boys they are just healthy, lively young fellows who propose to keep up with the crowd.

Their conduct is enough to make a civilized man blush for his community. But who is to blame? We say it is the parents. These bovs have no business running at large around town after dark unless their parents are with them to see that they conduct themselves prop- list is The World's subscription growing. The warm weather is playing even with the coal combine. Wm Knox of Otter Creek township, shipped two cars of fat cattle to K.

Monday. There were four sections of the stock special passed through our city that day. The boys report quite a number of ducks in the country. Walter Shumard went to Wichita yesterday. Mrs.

Shumard has been.