The Edwardsville Visitor from Edwardsville, Kansas • 1

tl If Visitor. vim mwm I i NO. 4. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912. Vol.

I. THE EDWARDSVILLE VISITOR GEO. D. RATHBUN, Editor. EDWARDSVILLEJ KANSAS RATES SUBSCRIPTION.

One year, 11.00 Hlx months Cards of thanks will be charged for at the rate of Ave cents per Hue. THE SCHOOL LIBRARY, The school library in Edwardsville Is to receive some new books soon. The orders have been placed and the books will Boon be received. After they arrive we will publish a list of the new books that might interest the general reader, We desire to make the library of the greatest service to the community. Somo of the reference books should not be taken from -the schoolrooms, but some of the 'books may 'be taken For display advertising rutca apply to the Editor.

I and read by the people of this vicinity. Mrs. Chas. Fisher and her sister, Mrs. J.

A. Montgomery, of Mount Washington, returned from visiting their mother at Clay Center, last Saturday, Mrs. Montgomery visited with Mrs. Fisher at their home north of Edwardsville, then they spent the week together at Clay Center. Kansas University is working hard to secure a mill tax for its support on all the property In the state.

It looks like the high schools ought to have as much for their support as the University. The law does not permit the Barnes High School to have but six-tenths of mill on the property in their county. Other towns as well as Edwardsville have loose boards in their sidewalks. Last Sunday night while Miss Ida Groves was going up the street in Bonner Springs, she-was tripped by a loose board in the sidewalk, which caused a severe injury. She is likely to bring suit against the city.

The merchants of Edwardsville have signed an agreement not to keep their stores open to sell goods on Sunday. The postofflce will open for the distributibn of mall, but Mr. Haines will refuse to sell goods even then. Plan to buy on week days and let the merchant have a Sunday, too. CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

When requesting a change of address, Klve your old aa well as your new -address. 0. P. Qunter is balling his hay, T. P.

Ballard visited home Sunday. The Kughm boys are husking their corn. Mrs. E. Smith has been on the sick list this week, Fred Groves Is still using his idle time in calling 2511.

Misses Haass and Etta Tyson were shopping in the city Saturday, Miss Beulah Brown and Mr. John Crist were in Kansas City Saturday. The Christian Church made it supper as well as dinner on election day. J. T.

Maiden of Kansas City visited last week at the home of Charles 0. FlBher. Mr. and Mrs. Kay Beach of Kansas City visited In Edwardsville Monday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fisher were vIb-Itlng in Edwardsville Saturday and Sunday.

Prof. Geo. D. Rathbun is at Topeka attending the State Teachers' Association. Virgil Tyson had his ear drum broken by a slap which his brother gave him.

H. H. McAfee, from the Soldiers' returning the same promptly to Its place. Before we receive the new books we will give a list of some of the books that are now -in the library so our' 'readers may know what we already have of general Interest, Book3 that are only good for reference will not be mentioned. Whoever likes the romantic novel will find pleasure In reading Scott's novels.

We have in our library the Waverly novels. All these deal with Published Every Friday by THE KANSAS CITY SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER COMPANY. at 304 W.IOthSt. Kansas City, Mo. "held for postage." You must buy the parcels post stamps.

The parcels must be mailed at the postofflces. They will not be mall-able on rural routes unless the present plans are changed. Some newspapers have been speculating about what would happen when the farmers sent butter to town by the rural carrier. We hope the farmers may have that right, but they are not extended that right yet. An article not longer than six feet and not weighing over eleven pounds will be accepted.

New scales will be needed in all postofflces. New parcels post maps showing distances will be furnished to the postofflces, also parcels post guides. The map will show the eight zones into which our country would be divided in relation to the particular postofflce. The largest package that can be sent under the present law is four pounds, but under the new law the article shall not exceed eleven pounds. Under the present rate an article costs sixteen cents per pounds.

Under the new law one pounds will cost five cents for distances less than 100 miles, six cents to 300 miles, seven cents to 600 miles, eight cents to 1,200 miles, nine cents to 2,000 miles, ten cents to 2,800 miles, and eleven cents to 3,600 miles. For the additional pounds some extra is required, determined according to the scale of rates and distances. It is our guess that in a few years the zone plan will be elllmtnated and we will have the parcels post upon an equal footing with other mail matter. The express companies will be compelled to lower some of their rates or the government will get some of the business formerly given to the express companies. The Visitor had 100 subscribers1 Tuesday' evening.

Th Edwardsville schools have a vacation Friday of this Harry Benedict is working for Swift's Packinghouse ln Armourdale. The Wyandotte county students' at Kansas University have a club organized and bold regular meetings. Mr. 8. F.

Davidson was re-elected township trustee for Delaware, township by over one hundred majority. Mildred Stotts, a five-year-old daughter of Roy Stotts of Bonner, run a pair of scissors into her right eye, and will lose the sight. Fifteen boys ride to high school in Belolt on motorcycles. Why not Edwardsville bring some farmer boys to our high school ln the same way? Election news was received at the depot in Edwardsville. A collection to pay the expenses was taken.

Some stayed at the depot more than half the night. The State Teachers' association is holding its flfthieth annual session in Topeka. A special Kansas program on Friday night Is to celebrate the semicentennial occasion. Mrs. Lon Dragoo returned to her horae ln Kansas City Tuesday after spending the summer with Mrs.

Charles Taylor. Mrs. Dragoo will leave in about 10 days for Minnesota to look after her farming interests there. Fifty Bulgarians left Kansas City union depot last week for Bulgaria to fight the Turks. Our population is a strange mixture.

The whole world Is closer in touch than most of us imagine. Il3ve you any relatives on the other side? Mrs. Charles Taylor gave a Hallowe'en party for her little daughter, Ruth, on Hallowe'en afternoon. The LOCALS. Some of the potato raisers are plowing turnips under as a fertilizer.

Alexander Hayden shipped a car of turnips to Coffeyville, Saturday. Ralnh Groves has returned home from Omaha, but he is not expecting Horae. canie to Edwardsville to vote Tuesday. to stay. COMMENTS.

In this day and age it seems strange that Edwardsville should be required to support two weak churches and Sunday fighting each other more than they are the devil, when we could have co-operation, union and helpfulness. We seem to be living in the past ages instead of the age of progression. It is true that the Methodists omit the third verse when a song has four veses, while the Christians sing' all four verses. But a conference committee might settle that James Barger has not fully recovered from the shock of losing his horse, "Dad." Mr. and Mrs.

A. J. Mellott visited Tuesday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.

Mellott. Charles Simon is contemplating moving his family to Kansas City for the winter. The' sawmill belonging to A. G. Reeves has been employed recently on the Crider place.

Jake Hill, of northeast of Edwards amicably. Gary, has done away with the boundary line betwen the high school and the grades. They do not have a ville, is preparing to build an addition to his house. A number of our citizens went to Kansas City on Tuesday last to receive election returns. Manford Hllliard, northeast of Ed Scotland, Scott's native land.

The names of some of these are "Rob Roy," "Waverly," "The Heart o'r Mld-Lothlan," "The Monastery," "Kenil-worth." To the lover of mystery Cooper stories would probably appeal very strongly. They would be more interesting to some people than Scott's novels because they deal with America. Of Cooper's books we have the following: "The Pilot," "The Red Rover," "The Two Admirals," "Wing and Wing," "The Water Witch," "The Pathfinder, "Last of the Mohicans" and "The Prairie." If a person wants to hav4 a good description of the early life of New England he should read one of Hawthorne's book3. The books which we have of this author are "The Scarlet Letter," "The Marble Faun," "Moses from an Old Manse" and "Twice Told Tales." Of, Thackeray's books we have three, "Henry Esmond," "The Virginians" And "Barry Lyndon." Of the books of George Eliot, whols probably one of our greatest, if not our greatest, woman writer, we have five: "Felix Holt," "Adam Bede," "Middle March," "Silas Mainer" and "Daniel Deronda." Books of later times which are of Interest are "The Crisis" and "Richard Carvel" by Winston Churchill, the former of which deals with the Civil War, the latter with the Revolutionary-War; by' Lew Wallace; "Tom Brown's School Days," which Is very interesting to the younger people; "Ramona," by Helen Hunt Jackson; "The Hoosier Schoolmaster" and "The Hoosier Schoolboy," by Eggles-ton. Of poetry we have not so many books.

A collection of the poems of Lowell, of Bryant, of Holmes and Of Burns are perhaps the most important. The ardent admirer of Roosevelt will "be interested to know that we have the book, "The Strenuous Life," by Roosevelt. In connection with this the book, "How the Other Halt Lives," by Jacob Riis, will be mentioned. This is a good description of the conditions incited little folks were: Elizabeth ana Virginia Williamson, Restine and Nellie Heath.Wayne Williamson, Junior Stone Clinton Vlvin of Kansas City. Mrs.

Radcliffe of Lawrence spent Sunday visiting her sister, Mrs. E. T. MIze of Edwardsville. She went to Kansas City from here expecting to take her husband, Roadmaster Radcliffe, who has been in the.

hospital, home with her, Thanks to the stormy weather, nothing of damage resulted in Edwardsville from the annual occurence of Halloween. It is not smart to do damage to your neighbor on Hallowe'en night any now. Here is hoping that custom will end. The Kansas Supreme Court has decided that Kansas City, Missouri, must pay taxes on its waterworks property in Wyandotte county. This tax amounts to $16,000 per year.

Possibly a little mite of this Missouri money will reach the Edwardsville high school. Frank Sweet of Ottawa visited with Mr. and Mrs. U. S.

Hannum at the cement city last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Mart Sanders, who have been living west of Forest Lake, moved to Kansas City Sunday, i It will be easier to get basket ball games after Thanksgiving day. The football season is to close then.

The tinge of winter we have been having spoiled the beautiful colors in our autumn leaves. Most of the trees are now bare. Mr. Rice of Rice Mize meat market cf Springs was making v. Vieat in Edwardsville i aunuay.

Stony Point and TImmons district had no school Tuesday, so the school-houses could be used for election Mrs. mother of II. S. Hannum at the cement plant, returned to Ottawa Saturday, after visiting her son. The Visitor added twenty-five sub- Ecrlptlons fiA lis last Our little paper finds ihway into four other states Rev.

H. Rupert, pastor of the M. E. Church in Edwardsville, has arranged to receive The Visitor "regularly in Baldwin, Kan. James Worthington has been in Arkansas looking for a satisfactory location to move to.

The family expects to move there soon. The Kansas University students' who are drilling on yells for their football game with Missouri Unlversiey, are called the "Thundering Thousand." The introductory snow storm of the season came on the thirty-first day of October. It was not very cold only freezing slightly, but the snow laid cn the roofs for several hours. Mr. and Mrs.

J. L. Ship received a wardsville, had one of his colts badly cut on the barbed-wire. Mr. and Mrs.

Ira Malone went to Kansas City Sunday evening as bodyguards for the bride and groom. The section men will get off two hours to vote. Everybody had the 'tak'ng two hours off to vote. 1 Miss Ida Groves and Mrs. W.

M. Webster attended the S. M. T. Lodge in Bonner Springs Tuesday afternoon, November 5.

There will be Literary at the Stony Point school house on the evening of November 15. All are invited and will be welcomed. SCHOOL REPORTS. The Edwardsville Schools The Honor Roll of The second month of the Edwardsville public schools closed last Friday. The attendance was broken some, especially in the grades Wy pupils staying home to work.

We hope to have a better record to report next month in respect to attendance. In the high school the total enrollment is 35; the average daily attendance for the month was 33; the number of cases of tardiness for the month was 23. The pupils of the high school who were not absent nor tady during the month were Edith Craighead, Ruel DeFrees, Sarah Jewel Jacks, Frank Shumway, Ethel Thomas, Etta Tyson, Frank Tyson, Amanda Webster and Ivah Smith. The enrollment in the grammar grades, Miss Powell teacher, is 24, and the average attendance was 19; the number of cases of tardiness for the month was 2. The pupils neither absent nor tardy during the month were Joe Ballard, Frank Kindred, Blake Williamson, Carrie Coleman, Sadie Coleman, Lena Edington, Hazel Cfrin-ter, Edna Kindred, Nina Mize, Elizabeth Williamson, Florence Betteis.

The enrollment in-the intermediate grades, Miss Wallace teacher, is 21, and the average attendance was 17; the number of oases of tardiness was high school, but twelve grades. This avoids the diploma and graduation before they have gone through the full twelve years. They try to keep the pupil interested and hold them to the end and not sidetrack any with an eighth grade diploma, The candidates, with their cigars, have passed from the front of the The Visitor has received a welcome fri Edwardsville beyond our expectations. The people of Edwardsville anxiously await the arrival of each issue and read it carefully. The compliments are many.

The Edwardsville Visitor has been entered as second class mail and in the future the subscribers will receive better delivery. We hope the paper will be regular in the future. The local writers for The Visitor do not write all that is in the paper. The publishers' in Kansas City put In a large amount of general reading and general and state news. We think they do a good job In selecting this material, but It will be well that our readers understand that the local matter will be mostly on the first page of the paper.

The Wyandotte Chief of last week told of sixteen new divorce suits ln Wyandotte County. The reporter copied from the petitions the ground for divorce which each stated. Horrid reading! How much better to tell of the hnudred of happy homes lh the county. Don't be a buzzard. The gas well on James Trant'B farm has reached completion and the family are now using the gas from two veins which were struck, Miss Amanda Webster and Miss Etnia Groves will spend their Friday's vacation visiting the Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Mo.

The Visitor will not try to furnish general election news, but we will i of the tenement districts in New York when Roosevelt first came into power there. visit Sunday from their daughter, EDWARDSVILLE TRAIN BULLETIN try to furnish local results if we can get them in time for the press. A very heavy rain fell Tuesday afternoon. It made the election day somewhat disagreeable, but most everybody got in between the different rains. GOING WEST.

Train. Time. No. 107 A. E.

Langworthy, a deputy inspector of feeds, from the Agricultural Experiment Station of Manhattan, was in Edwardsville Saturday examining the bran and chop the stores hare were selling. He also saw our new gymnasium, and climbed the hill to examine it. He said it was a great step In the right: direction and he would be glad to see many other schools thus equipped. The piano contest in Bonner Springs has been decided and Clara Schneider of Wilder won first place and Myrtle Parks second place." The Kansas supreme court has labeled such contests as gambling. Of course, they are a mild form.

Only recently a rafling game was pulled off in Edwardsville. It is interesting and proft-able to the person who pulls it off, but it lacks a little of being the manly thing to do, and Mrs. U. S. Hannum, who live at the cement plant, have arranged to get their mail from Edwardsville.

Edwardsville suburbs go nearly to Bonner. Mr. Hannum is superintendent of the cement plant. For many years he was superintendent of the Home telephone system in Ottawa. Mr.

and Mrs. Hannum 'are excellent people and Edwardsville ex No. 105 4:36 p.m. The dinner given by the ladies of GOING EAST. No.

108 the Christian church at the I. O. O. hall on election day was well patron' No. 106 ized.

The occasion was one of so Mrs. Lulu Wilson of Kansas City. Mr. Wilson also came out Sunday morning. News for The Visitor should reach us as early in the week as possible, but Wednesday afternoon is the last day we send fh unless we use the telephone.

The Union Pacific is laying steel 4 -west of Bonner Springs. The rails are not much different in weight from the rails displaced, but the tempes of the steel is supposed fo make them more serviceable. The express companies are striving to hold the express business af- ter the parcels post law goes into effect. They have made cheaper rates 9. The pupils neither absent nor tardy during the month were Nora Brown, Hilda Fisher, Beatrix Charlton, Mary Hedman, Melva Drennon, Jessie Drennon, Clair Williamson, Ethel Leet and Edna Leet.

The enrollment in the primary room, Mrs. teacher, is 33; and the average attendance was 31; the number of cases of tardiness was 6. The pupils neither absent nor tardy were Hal-bert Charlton, Harold Rathbun, Litton Worthington, Harold Fisher, Charles Barger, Carl Edington, Wesley Purtee, William Coleman, Luther Kindred, Ermal Herdman, Gertrude Her-sey, Mildred Craighead, Evelyn Herd-man, Florence Drennon, Alpha Bennett, Delmar Coleman, Bonnie Purtee, Helen King, Howard Mize, Harold Brown, Francis Coleman, Ovid Leet. The total enrollment for all departments is 113; total number tardy marks, 40. The tardiness was from ciability.

Delusions. Some men think thev mtttinv Sixteln boys and girls employed at close to nature by making love to a Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. walked grass wiaow. Life. to Edwardsville Sunday.

They ate dinner at Edington's and, went to the CO-OPERATION GETS RESULTS. If anybody suggests any new thing to benefit our community take a knocks at it. We should keep in long established ruts. It is easy to knock, and a few lively knockers can keep, down any head that'attemps to arise. Are you.

a knocker? If anybody builds anything get your knife out and carve. It is easier to destroy than to build, and if we show we do not care for" Improvements, we will keep' down the sjplrit of the city on the late train. Bread From Dried Codfish. In Iceland a bread is made from the flesh of dried codfish beaten to a powder. Miss Edna Fleming of Maywood was married recently to Mr.

Lon Goble of Wallula. Mr. Goble has and advertising the same throughout teacUng gchool ln wegtern Kan, the country sas for the past, three years, Call On tends them a welcome. In this age of hurry and commercialism we scarcely give a new comer a social progressively inclined. Are you The farmer delights In cold of which we have had a fair sam a distructlonist? only a few families.

Mrs. Hiatt has a class containing nine boys who keep a perfect record of attendance. J. B. HARDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The boys of the team have not been practicing basket ball much this week. We suspect Olathe is not wasting time. For the Best in Groceries, Dry When anything is proposed, be sure to have a better method. Don't give in, but kill off the movement by dividing the followers. There is a better method than the one proposed, so oppose the proposition.

Are you a muddler? We would suggest that this community is probably no worse afflicted than the average. The knocker, the destructlonlst and the muddle? exist most everywhere. How much better if we would take for our motto: "Criticize by creation." Can you do and are you doing something, or only resistance in the current of motive force? Goods, Shoes and All Kinds of Nearly everybody went to the I. O. O.

F. hall for their dinner, Tuesday. Merchandise. Some few, of the new books for the library have arrived. Mrs.

Earl Rowland received a visit Sunday from her brother, Neal Veatch of Lawrence, Kan. Mr. Veatch has 'just returned from a summer's trip, Including stops in Wyoming, Montana and Washington. Miss Elizabeth Haass, who teaches in the Edwardsville High School, was in Kansas City Saturday. Miss Haass' homo is in Wichita and she had never been to Kansas City until she came to Edwardsville.

On Saturday Mr. Bailey DeFrees tools his daughter, Rebecca, home. She was sick at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Walker.

She stood the trip all aright and we hope she may be able to return to school soon. H. S. Neal, director of the printing laboratory in the department of Journalism of Kansas University, says-: "Courses in printing will become a part of every good high school in the U. Before that happens some Edwardsville student will invent a better method cf making newspapers.

Mr. Richard Commodore, who Uvea northeast of Edwardsville, lost a fine hound hunting last Sunday night. He blew" hiB horn all ddy Monday and offers a reward to anyone who finds it. This hound has. spots on his back and has a white face.

ple in the past week, for he then has time for the relaxation of his muscles by vigorous swinging of the ax. On Hallowe'en night J. G. Groves was the loser of one of his tenant's houses. It was known as the Gorman House.

It was destroyed by lire. On Tuesday, October 29, at Topeka, occurred the marriage of Miss Daisy Drennon and Mr. William Sherwood. Miss Drennon has relatives ln Edwardsville and recently visited the Edwardsville High School. On Sunday afternoon occurred at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. J. B. Com-moford marriage of their daughter, Miss Mattle Commoford, to Mr. Claude Millsap.

The ceremony was performed by Rev. Imri Zumwalt, pastor of the Christian church. The wedding was in the presence of the parents of both the bride and the groom, and Mlss Angle Beard and Ward Coffey. After the wedding Mr. and Mrs.

Claude Millsap left on the evening train for the East. The train was well bedecked with" rice by friends of the couple. Both parties to the wedding were raised here, went to school together and have a host of friends who congratulate them. welcome. A- THE VOTE IN EDWARDSVILLE.

The Edwardsville precinct cast 143 votes. About ten were rejected by the Judges. The vote on presidential elec tors stood Taft electors 21, Wilson electors 34, Debs 8 and Roosevelt 70. For Governor Capper 76, Hodges 40. For Congressman Brady 74, Tag-gart 41.

For State Senator Getty 85, Milton 33. For the county ticket Edwardsville precinct gave the following vote: Charles W. Scheller 70, Frank M. Holcomb 43; George R. Allen 72, James M.

Meek 46; John T. Sims 91, J. H. Luscombe 26; Samuel Stewart 86. John 30; Winfleld Freeman 75, Edward L.

Fischer, 44; Chas. E. Thompson 84, H. J. Smith 37; R.

J. McFarland 78, Thomas McDonald 33; Joe Brady 91, R. L. Hlnch 25, J. W.

Cash 12; E. R. Tenney 72, J. A. Davis 43; George W.

Phillips 75, H. G. Randall ttO; William Beggs 82, John Beam 31; 0. K. Williamson 101, R.

L. Mc-Alpine 22; J. H. Telker 75, H. R.

But-terwlck 33; J. N. Atkinson 83j A. A. Burgard 36; David Buckland 71, James M.

Klllmer 31, R. H. Wise 16. Superintendent Phillips' visit to the Edwardsville schools did not materialize. The election evidently was the cause.

Tfca water Tuesday run over the top of the filter instead of Into the cistern. The Edwardsville State BANK vk Your Home Bank Prompt Attention to all Business I intrusted to Us. Your Support Solicited DIRECTORS: J. A. THOMPSON', PrpRWrBt JAMKSTRANT, Vlcc-Preaideo I JOHN W.

M1SSDANA HALVES. Ats'tCashlflr b. tAlMfc, toshia rainy The' gymnasium solves the day problem. THE PARCELS POST. Some readers of the Visitor have asked us to give more information about the parcels post law; which goes into effect with the first of the coming year.

It is an experiment and so the cost of maintaining that part of the postal system may be compared with the receipts, the government will not. use the ordinary postal tamps on fourth class mall after 1. Parcels that have ordinary stamps will be The grade cards were distributed Tuesday morning. Miss Haass is counting the days until Christmas. She expects to visit home at that time..