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DEATHS. CLARENCE KINCHEN JOHNSON. Clarence K. Johnson, son of Cyrus K. and Mary A.

Johnson, was born at Leavenworth, Oct. 24, 1867, and departed this life at his home in Bonner Springs, at 5:53 p. m. January 30th, 1920, aged 52 years 3 months and 6 days. He spent his childhood days and grew to manhood on a farm west of Bonner Springs, moving with his parents to Bonner Springs when he was 21 years of age.

He was united in marriage with Miss Alma Gibbs Nov. 10, 1889, and to this union four children were born -twin girls, who died in infancy, and two sons, Emmett and Cecil, who with one-daughter-in-law, survive him. Clarence Johnson was one of a family of twelve children, ten daughters and two sons, and is the sixth. to be deceased. The surviving children of his father's family are Mrs.

Ella McGarvin of Los Angeles, Miss Lou Johnson of Seattle, Mrs. Francis Stotts of Seattle, Mrs. Mack Hastings of Seattle, Mrs. May Glynn of Wilder, and his only brother, Mark I. Johnson of Bonner Springs, Kas.

Since coming to Bonner Springs with his parents this town has always been his home. Here he engaged in the barber business in 1893 and since 1900 has been associated with his brother Mark in that business through which he formed a wide acquaintance and mdae a host of friends who mourn his loss. Clarence Johnson was a good, clean man and was- devoted to his family. He will be missed not only by the members of his family but by the whole business community. The funeral services were conducted by Rev.

H. H. Fowler at the house Sunday afternoon and the body was laid to rest in the Bonner Springs cemetery. JEANNE FRANCES WOOD. Jeanne Frances Wood, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Frank Wood, was born June 4th, 1919, at N. M. She passed away Thursday, Jan.

29th, at Kansas City, the cause of her death being whooping cough and pneumonia. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, Jan. 30 and burial took place in Mount Washington cemetery. She is survived by her parents and many other relatives to mourn her loss and the sympathy of the entire community goes out to them in their bereavement. "She is gone but not forgotten; Never shall her memory fade; Sweetest thoughts shall ever linger Round the place where she is laid." Those who attended the funeral from here were: Mr.

and Mrs. J. B. Lashbrook, Mr. and Mrs.

R. H. Churchill, Mrs. C. W.

Lashbrook and Mr. Robert C. Lashbrook. Mrs. Wood was Miss Ruby Lashbrook.

MISS BESSIE MALONE. The funeral of Miss Bessie Malone was held at the Christian church in Edwardsville Tuesday, Jan. 27. Miss Malone was formrely a resident of Edwardsville, employed by J. R.

Thompson while in charge of the telephone office. She was born and reared near Bonner Springs and lived in this locality until 1912, when the family moved to Kansas City, Miss Malone being employed by the Kansas City Home Telephone Co. until April, 1919, when her health began to fail and she was compelled to give up her work. She went to the home of her mother in Pomona, where she passed away Sunday, Jan. 25th.

Miss Malone was a faithful member of the Christian church while residing here and after moving to the city entered the London Heights Baptist church where she left a host of friends to mourn her death. She was of a kindly disposition and had a pleasant look for all. She leaves a mother, Mrs. W. F.

Cook, Pomona, a sister, Miss Edna Malone, Kansas City, three brothers, Hiram W. Malone, Kansas City, Ira F. Malone, Edwardsville, and a younger brother, Mr. Virgil, Malone, Hutchinson, Kas. J.

J. SMITH. John Jenkins Smith was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, on November 17, 1836, and died January 31, 1920. He was the youngest of five children born to Susanne Ritter and George Smith. In Keokuk, he married Malinda Lawrence in 1856.

To this union three children were born, Claramon, Isadora and Charles. Mr. Smith is survived by one son, five grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and' two great-great grandchildren. He was a veteran of the Civil war and served two enlistments. In 1872 he united with the Christian church and in the same year entered the ministry.

THE BONNER SPRINGS HERALD BONNER SPRINGS HERALD Owned and Published by C. W. Lashbrook. Entered as second-class matter May 22, 1913, at the postoffice at Bonner Springs, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

$1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. SUGAR BUNGLE COSTS PEOPLE Capper's Weekly: The people of the United States have had to pay and will have to pay one and one-half billion dollars more for their sugar this thisdonneaoowpltf oy ee year than they needed to have paid if the Sugar Equalization Board, created to control the sugar market, had been utilized. And for this heavy tribute paid to the profiteers President Wilson is responsible, according to the statement of the president of thesugar equalization board, George A. Zabriskie. All the stock of the sugar equalization board is held by President Wilson in trust for the people of the the purchase, and' "then informed United States.

Zabriskie went to the president last August and asked permission to purchase the CubAn crop, four million tons, at six and one half cents a pound. He held an option on the entire crop. President Wilson withheld permission. For two weeks Mr. Zabriskie urged the purchase, and then informed the president that unless action was taken immediately he was sure the Cubans would withdraw their offer.

The president still withheld his approval and the Cubans did withdraw their offer." As a result nearly a billion dollars more has been paid for this crop, while the sugar beet people and the Louisiana cane sugar people have increased their prices until the excess paid over what the crop might have been obtained far is easily not less than one and one-half billion dollars. Attorney General Palmer permitted the Louisiana growers to sell sugar for as much as seventeen cents a pound, while at the same time he was telling the people how he was forcing down the cost of living. As a result the sugar equalization board, which might have been made to function with great sucess, has ended in a great faiure. ENUMERATOR TURNS RESCURER In the central part of New York state, near Oswego, a few days ago an enumerator making his rounds on snowshoes arrived at an isolated dwelling only to find that an ablebodied man was needed more than a gatherer as the man of the family had been sick in bed for several days and the farm annimals were suffering for lack of food and water. The census man, like any good neighbor would, stopped long enough to do the chores, dig out paths through the deep snow and put things in shipshape order before continuing his journey.

TREAT THE SEED POTATOES. Now is the time to get ready for treating the seed potatoes. The loss from diseased potatoes is enormous to the commercial growers because of scab, black leg, black scurf, stem rot, etc. The only sure way to prevent these diseases which are carried on the seed potatoes is to treat them in either a wooden or earthen vessel in a solution of corrosive sublimate. One ounce to eight gallons is the proper proportion and this solution can be used for about four dippings of potatoes.

Mr. Cassius Miller Son of Stony Point community are preparing to treat the seed potatoes this year. Growers cannot afford to overlook this important method of saving losses from a poor stand and the diseased potato field. Call the county agent's office for further particulars. A.

D. Folker, County Agent. CENSUS TAKERS USE AREOPLANES. Everything from aeroplanes to snowshoes is being used by the agents of Uncle Sam in taking the 1920 census of the United States. About the only modern method of transportation either on, over, or below land or water that has not been employed in enumerating Uncle Sam's nieces and nephews seems to be the submarine.

Areoplanes have come in handy in enumerating the dwellers of the islands off the coast of Forida; yachts and rowboats have been used in the harbors of the country; native canoes have been in demand among the Hawaiian Islands; "flivers" are being used everywhere; the tried and trusty mule team has carried the census takers out on the desert regions; and snowshoes have become the trusted aides of the census gathers in the northern states and Alaska. In 1877. he moved from Iowa to Tiblow, now Bonner Springs, where he followed his trade of blacksmithing for a livelihood and the gospel on the Lord's day. In 1881 he with other Disciples of Christ organized the Christian church in Bonner Springs and he became its first pastor. He was an elder in the church until he moved to Edwardsville a few years ago.

In 1908 he married Emma Dawson, who preceded him to his reward about two months ago. HUGE GRAFT IN WAR CONTRACTS. Cappers Weekly: Of all the tales of waste and graft in the conduct of the war, that at Mussel Shoals, probobly is the worst, size of project considered. This was an air nitrate plant built for the goverment by the American Cyanamid Company, to produce nitrates for war explosives by the company's German process. Under its contract the company was to receive royalties if the government ever operated plant.

Although 62 million dollars were spent on it, the plant is now idle. It has been proposed that the government use the plant to make nitrates for fertilizer. Of the vast sum expended, nearly a million to be exact- went for the purpose alone of recruiting labor. After the workers were once obtained, government testified that the company permitted them to gamble and indulge in other excesses, on the plea that they could not retain them otherwise. Maj.

J. J. Farley, an ordinance officer, testified that he once found three elevators at work lifting wheelbarrows of concrete a distance of four feet. He told of a cook being employed as a draftsman, a farmer as an ngineer and a "movie" actor as a mechanic. One item of extravagance was 000 paid for the distribution of articles describing the plant to newspapers.

The complete tale of waste and graft in our war industries during our short participation in the great World War probably never will be fully told. MONEY IN APPLES. The present large demand and very high price of apples is such that any person, owning a small tract of suitable ground would do well to consider the planting of an orchard, either large or small as his desires may be. The Marshall Orchard, of Fitchburg, is said to be the finest in the world. On this one orchard, 120 acres, the following varities were planted: Mackintosh, Baldwin, Delicious, Sutton, Wealthy, and Gravenstein.

These varities are very high in quality. The period of production of these apples ranged from the spring I to late in the fall continuously. The soil of this orchard is a heavy, sandy loam. The cultivation is carried on under the sod culture method and for many years the orchard has been seeded with a half bushel of timothy and three pounds of clean red top per acre, usually in the middle of August instead of the spring, and in this way the weeds are done away with. The trees are kept very carefully pruned and the pruning is begun as soon as possible after the fruit is off the tree; and is done by experts.

This orchard is sprayed six times a year which explains one reason for his great sucess. So confident is Mr. Marshall in his methods that he has offered one dollar to the man on the farm who bringgs a wormy apple from the field. So far not one dollar has been paid for wormy apples. As a further indication of might be stated that 95 per cent of the Marshall apples are rated extra fancy.

In the picking of these apples, great care is used and from the blossom to the consumer are handled like precious jewels. This man's sucess is due to the selection of variety; second, the care that he gives his trees; and thirdly the marketing the fruit in perfect condition. COST OF UNITED STATES WARS. The Revolutionary war cost the United States $135,193,703. 395,064 troops were furnished by the colonies from 1775 to 1783.

The war of 1812 cost the United States $107,159,003. The number of troops engaged is estimated at about 41,622. The Mexican war cost the United States $100,000,000. The number of troops engaged was 101,282. The war of the Rebellion cost the United States $6,189,929,900.

The number of Federal troops 132. The war with Spain cost the United States, $360,000,000. Number of troops actually engaged 60,000. The United States spent on the World War, to June 1, 1919, $36,000, 1000,000, SHIRTS SHIRTS SHIRTS Spring line just in. Beautiful Patterns and the very latest in Keen Mdse.

Much below the market price of today. Come in and see our new lines. Paul Davidson Dry Shoes FACTS CONCERNING FORESTRY. Forestry is of immense importance to all the people of this country. When a country loses its forests, Painfall ceases, and the soil becomes arid.

The present rate of cutting exceeds the annual growth of the forests, thus reducing the amount of standing timber. We take from our forests more than 22 billions cubic yearly feet of wood valued at over $1,085, 000,000. The value of forestry conservation to a community is well illustrated as follows: The state of New York in 1894 passed an act to create a forest preand set aside a large tract of serve, timber land for this purpose. Since that time this lot of forest has been handled in a sceintific way by exper-, ienced men and whenever trees are removed, others are planted in their places. It is estimated that this preserve has a market value of at least $40,000,000 and shows an increase of 1000 per cent of the original cost.

Orson, a town in Sweden, is about the only municipality in the world which has no city taxes. Moreover the local railway, as well as the telephone service, schools and libraries are free to every citizen. This is due to the wisdom of a former generation of citizens who planted trees on all of the available ground in the past thirty ears. The town authorities have sold no less than $5,000,000 worth of timber, and carefully replanting has provided for a similar income in the future. UNITED STATES GOVERMENT WHITEWASH.

For a number of years the goverment has covered one end of the White House in Washington with whitewash of a special kind. This whitewash is almost like paint. Does not scale off easily and withstands the action of rain. The following is the formula: Slack half a bushel of unslacked lime with boiling water, cover during the process to keep in steam, strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice boiled to a thin paste and stirred in while hot, half a pound of Spanish whiting, and one pound of clear glue, previously dissolved by soaking in cold water and then hanging over a slow fire in a small pot hung in a larger one filled with water. Add five gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir well and let it stand a few days, covered from dirt.

It should be applied hot, for which purpose it can be kept in a kettle or portable furnace. A pint of it, if properly applied, will cover one square yard, and will be almost as serviceable as paint for wood, brick or stone, and is much cheaper than the cheapest paint. Coloring matter may be added as desired. For cream color add yellow ochre; pearl or lead, add lampblack; fawn, add 4 pounds of umber, one pound each Indian red and lampblack; stone, 2 pounds each umber and lampblack. Bonner Springs Feed House Wholesale and Retail Flour and Feed J.

A. STARK Telephone 30. Union Pacific Tracks United States Administration License Numbers 16-63865 001747 G.H.F.Y. THE APOLLO Dry Cleaning and Dyeing Special attention given to Ladies garments. Gloves and Leather Coats cleaned.

Work Called for and Delivered Out of town patrons served by parcel post ROY HATCHER, Proprietor 108 Oak Street Phone 68-04 DOUGLAS BROTHERS General Auctioneers Live Stock and Farm Sales a Specialty Get Douglas Bros. to cry your sale for they are always posted on market prices. Address Route 1, Phone 208-14 Bonner Springs, Kas. I Build Houses And Sell Them on Easy Payments ROHE CON. CO.

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