The Edwardsville Visitor from Edwardsville, Kansas • 1

Visitor. sville Ed. wart. Toe FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1913. NO.

12. Vol. I. bears the seal of that classical finish! Ilergus Commodore, Miss Netti and Rosa Johnson, Mr. A.

C. Gentry, Mr. James and Sylvester Groves, Mr. John and Booker Stewart and Mr. H.

B. Douglass were the guests who were present. Mrs. Alvlra Culp went to Argentine to spend her Christmas. Restlne and Nellie Heath are' safely over the chlckenpox.

Miss Elma Brubaker.is spending a two weeks' vacation at home. Mable Combs and son, Gilbert, spent Christmas at the Trant home. Miss Lena Kindred of Eudora, is visiting friends and relatives here. Mr. L.

iE. Grinter and family and Published Every Friday by THE KANSAS CITY SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER at 304 W. lOih St. Kansas City, Mo. THE EQWARDSViLlE ViSlfOR GEO.

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HARDEN For the Best in Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes and All Kinds Merchandise. 'Misa Clara White visited G. P. Grin Cards of thanks will be charged for at the rate of live cent per line. ter's last Saturday.

Mrs. Charles Barto and daughter, Gladys, spent Christmas week visiting with Mrs. Barto's sister, Mrs. Charles Taylor. LIT UP WITH ELECTRICITY.

The electric lights are giving Edwardsvllle a progressive appearance. On Friday night of last week the lights were simultaneously turned on for the basket toall gymnasium, Dr. T. R. Heath's residence and" Prof.

George D. Rathbun's residence. Dr. Heath crowed quite a bit because the wire was attached to his house, first. A.

M. Smith's residence was connected up the first of the week. Others are preparing to use electricity and probably before this reaches the readers they may be attached. Those who have it are of it. Others are getting the fever.

If the talk comes to fruition the streets will toe full of lights Boon. For display advertising rates apply to the Editor. which guarantees the permanence of literary work, even more than intellectual power or direct utility. I BROWN FAMILY REUNION. A noteworthy family reunion occurred at the home of Dr.

J. M. Brown on Sunday, December 29, 1912. Jt was-the first time In thirty-two years that so many of the Birown family have eaten at the same table. Two of Dr.

Brown's brothers, tooth Veterinary surgeons, and a Bister with her huBband, and many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were present. Only one sister of Dr. Brown's was not present, she being Mrs. Jennie Roundtree of Parks, Neb. A four generation group was present consisting of Grandma Brown, Mrs.

William Edlngtcm, Mrs. Charles Par-dew and Donald. Those present were: Dr. and Mrs. J.

M. Brown, iDr. James 'Brown of Des Moines, Dr. Jake Brown of Watson. Mr.

and Mrs. George Schafer of Hamburg, Mr. and Mrs. Will Fisher of Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs.

William Eding-ton and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brown and family, Mr.

and Mrs. C. M. Pardew and Donald, John Christ Mr. and Mrs.

John Barger ate Christmas dinner at the home of CHANGE OF ADDRESS. When requesting a ehange of address, give your old ub well us your new address. Emery Culp's. C. U.

Magee and family visited at the home of W. ii. Saunders Christmas day. COMMENTS. Goodbye 1912, you have brought to Edwardsvllle some Improvements, may your successor take larger strides, Looking backward we recount thy blessing, a good crop to our farmers wedding to our belies, a gymnasium to our players, the Visitor to our readers, electricity to our city, and happiness to our homes.

1913, we hall Come through with greater blessings. Many of our boys and young men loaf around the stores at night. If we would get our heads together and co-operate could we not furnish them more profitable environments? Are we doing our duty to them? We are sure they could toe better cared for. The Visitor has been favored with an article by Mr. James Frasier of Edwardsvllle.

He 'contributed this article at our request and will probably favor us with some other contributions. Probably few of our readers know that we have in Edwardsvllle a man who hasJ acquired a national reputation as a magazine writer. Those who read his article on Washington Irving will rccognie the fluent expression and vocabulary of a writer of ability. Mr. Frasier has a retiring disposition and seeks no local notoriety, In fact asked us to have his article appear without his name, but we persuaded him to let us give proper credit.

BOOSTERS COME. We have suggested a few times that we might organize a club for the cooperation of the boosters of Edwards-ville. We will ask those who wish to co-operate to make things better about Edwardsvllle to meet at the school house on Monday evening next at 7:30. GEO. D.

RATHBUN. The Edwardsvllle Stale BANK Your home Bank Prompt Attention to all Business In trustedtoTJi. Your Support Solicited DIRECTORS: Entered as second class matter October 21, 11)12, at the postoi'fice at Kansas City, Missouri, under tlie'Act of March 8, 1879. William Culp of De Soto visited his brother, Mr. Emery Culp, of Edwards-ville, last Thursday.

Miss Dorcas Coffey has been on the sick list, the effects of Christmas vacation. J. A. THOMPSON, PrenWeot Wallace Magee went to Weaver, amkh TKANT, ce-President JOHN W. MISS DANA HAINES, AwtCashfer D.

S.HAINES, uashter and A. J. Stout. Wednesday evening to visit relatives. Quite a little crowd of young folks gathered at.

the home of C. U. Magee Saturday night. All reported a good time. T.

B. Saunders and Ernest Downey DODSON-COFFEY. On December 24 in Independence, of Platte county, Mo visited Thurs G. A. PERKINS FOR Harness, Hardware, Furhiture, Rugs, and Matting, Farm Implements, Buggies, occurred the wedding of Miss Maud Dodson, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. C. Dodson of Edwardsvllle, and Mr. Holt Coffey, son of Mr.

and Mrs. L. S. Coffey, also of East Edwardsvllle. After the wedding the couple went to Still well, for a week.

They will probably make their future home in iDenver. This marrying seems to be contagious, as this is the third young lady, i few years ago schoolmates, who has recently married. The Visitor wishes Mr. and Mrs. Holt Coffey much happiness and prosperity in their new partnership.

SORT YOUR. APPLES NOW. Now is the time to sort your apples, as we shall ry to Bhow toy the following article, based upon an experiment carried out by the agriculture class of the- Edwardsvllle High School last year. The object of the experiment was to prove that good apples could toe inoculated with rot by coming into contact with apples that were rotten. The experiment follows: Two good apples and one partly rotten apple were used.

A common sewing needle was' sterilized and stuck into the rotten apple, then into one of the good apples, then into the rotten apple again, and back into the same good apple again. This process was continued until the good apple was well filled with needle holes. The needle was then sterilized again and stuck into the other good apple many times. The apples were then marked in such a way that it could be told iwhich one was inoculated and then they were lain away to await results. By the end of a weelc, or perhaps ten days; the change was very noticeable.

The apple which had had the. sterilized needle.put into it did not seeni to toe affected further than drying up in the immediate vicinity of the holes, the solid apple which had inoculated from the rotten apple was In a bad stage of rot This goes to show that the rotten apple is a source of great annoyance and waste; it also shows that a rotten apple will inoculate every apple which touches the rotten Bpot of it. Therefore we who have proved toy experiment that the rot of one apple will spread to all other apples which it touches, recommend to you: "Sort your apples now before there are none to sort." Wagons, Pumps and Water Supplies. Goods delivered -by parcels post. Call phone No.

28 at Bonner before 8 o'clock and get the goods same day. G.A. PERKINS 0 day with C. U. Magee.

Harry Kindred of "Lenape visited from Friday until Sunday with his cousins, Lou and Wallace Magee. Orvel Jack and sister, Ina, of Platte City, spent Christmas vacation with Dorcas and Glen Misses Gay Runnels, "Edith Craighead and Edna Ballard spent Thursday of their vacation at Lenape, Kan. Mrs. D. S.

Haines returned home on last Saturday from a six weeks' stay with her daughter, Mrs. E. A. Pearson of Fond du Lac, Wis. Mr.

and Mrs. Bailey De Fries have been collecting telephone dues the past week. Hands on your pocket-books. A very interesting program was given at Lakeside School before letting out jfor the vacations. School will not proceed until after New Year's.

Mrs. U. Magee went to Platte county Friday- to visit relatives. Albert and family visited relatives at Muncle the first of the week. Paul Hilliard, who has been working In the West, came home last week.

He says "There's no place like home." Mr. and Mrs. Jacks visited at G. P. Grin ter's last Tuesday.

A party was given last Saturday night at the Trant home to a large number of the young people. It was planned as a surprise on Sara. It closed a vacation week full of social gathering for our school pupils. James Trant's cornfield was on fire' Monday toy a spark from a train. Two or three acres were burned he-fore the.

progress of the fire was stopped toy James Trant and Charles Taylor. Mrs. O. B. Hester, mother of Mrs.

George D. Rathbun, returned to her home in Richmond, last Saturday. She has been -at Kansas City for some weeks taking medical treatment. Miss Gail Williamson entertained a number of young folks on Thursday evening In honor of her cousin, Miss Edith Humphreys, of Kansas City, Kan. They played many games and then pulled candy.

Every one reported a nice time. Last Saturday a crowd of young folks went to Kansas City to the WASHINGTON IRVING AND HIS WORK. By James Fraser. In Salmagundi, his first important literary venture, Irving established his reputation as a humorist and satirist. These qualities he displayed still more conspicuously in Knickerbocker's History of New York.

Ins this book he satirized the pedantry of local antiquaries and created a distinct literary type out of the phlegmatic Dutch burgher whose mental vacuity and stolidity had long been an object of ridicule to the active and volatile Americans. About six years after the publication Knickerbocker's he went" to' England. Commercial misfortune In that country induced him to resume his pen as a means of subsistence. In England literary circles his aim-ability and refinement secured great popularity for him. Sir Walter Scott was so enthusiastic in his friendship that he heartily recommended him to his publisher.

That recommendation induced Murray (the publisher) to bring out The Sketch Book in 1820. If anything written in the early nineteenth century is certain to be read In the future, "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'and "An English Christmas" will not be History, local tradition, and landscape blend here In the most gracious harmony with the quiet, mellow tones of Irving's art. Two years later he published Bracebrid'ge Hall in which he displayed a delicate humor suggestive For Your Convenience Wrap up your collars and cuffs and mail them to the Ottawa Steam Laundry OTTAWA, KANSAS. Under the parcels post it will cost five cents for first pound to send them. They will be returned postage paid to you.

The prices charged will be collars 3c, pair cuffs 6c. You can send about fifteen collars' In a pound. This will save you- money and you will get good work. Put the money In an envelope and wrap it with the collars. Changed Hit Tune.

The other day a visitor surprised a professor, who was saying to his baby: "On-ny, no-ny, 'e mussy tick his footsy tootsies" Just then he caught sight of the visitor, blushed, and murmured: "No, no; you must not expose your pedal extremities by extending them beyond the protective covering of the blankets, or you- will lay your system open to attacks of catarrhal LOCALS. Mr. and Mrs. W. A.

Fisher were here Sunday. Mr. Zeb Crider is reported to be on the road to recovery. Mr. J.

A. Thompson Is repairing his fence to kep his goats in. New. Year's was greeted in Edwards-ville by the ringing of the church tells. George Crider spent the Christmas holidays in the city and in Springs.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher took Christmas dinner at Mount Washington, Mo. Any one wanting electrical supplies or lamp may get them from Geo. D.

Rathbun. There was a watch meeting and oyster supper given at the hall Tuesday night. Miss Brmal Herdman was on the sick list and missed school the first of the week. Zeb. F.

Crider and son, George, were at Excelsior Springs last week for Mr. Crider's health. A few people were disappointed because they found no preaching at the Methodist Church last Sunday. Mr. Willard Murphy was visiting at the home of.

his uncle, Mr. J. A. Thompson, the first 'of the week. On Friday, night some of the basket ball enthusiasts were up to the gymnasium to try the new electric lights.

fc Rev-'nMrf Ji Smith -enter-" talneft on last Sunday Mrs. R. S. Parker of Wilder and Francis S. Dawson of Kansas City, Mo.

In two weeks the mid-term changes occur in the high school. A few half unit studies will be completed and new subjects will be taken up. The Visitor has passed the 150 mark with its subscription list. This issue is the twelfth time the paper has appeared. The Visitor is three months' old.

Several cisterns are dry, the result of the long continued clear weather. December was an exceptionally pleasant month, but. most everything has two sides. Mr. and Mrs.

J. J. 'Smith spent Christmas with Hiram. David in Kansas City. The David family had a family gathering in which a large number of relatives were present.

Mr. J. T. Martin of Lane, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Barger. Mr. Martin is Mrs. Bar-ger's father. Miss Mary Martin had two weeks vacation from school and spent it with her sister.

Supt. H. G. Randall commenced his school work in Edwardsvllle this week. He took the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Carol Powell.

Mr. Randall is boarding with J. T. Williamson. Mr.

and M'rs. George Milburn, formerly of Bonner Springs, have moved into the house north of Hard en's store, recently vacated by John Pur-tee. They will rua the Edwards.ville telephone central under the new management. The county health officer left five pots of formaldehyde to 'burn in out schoolrooms. They were used during the vacation.

We think it a good Idea for the county health officer to furnish these disinfectants and not depend upon the various school boards furnishing their own. On New Year's night the Edwardsvllle High School girls gave a supper in honor of the boys' basket ball team. An opossum, caught by "Teddy," the Trant dog, and dellclously cooked- by Mrs. Price, was one of the features of the meal. Miss Ina Haines was a gueBt on Monday of this week at the wedding of her friend, Miss Edith Willis, of Lawrence, and Mr.

R. L. Douglass of St Joseph, Mo. The ceremony took place Monday evening and the newly-weds left immediately for St. Joseph, where the groom is engaged In the practice of law.

Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Williamson entertained at Christmas dinner Mrs.

Nellie Nixon, the mother of Mrs. Williamson, and her two sisters, Mrs. D. M. Shlvely and Miss Minnie Nixon, and Mr.

Samuel' Shlvely, all of Kansas City; and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Williamson, the.

father and mother of Mt. O. Williamson. They also had a lovely Christmas tree In their home. of the great essayists of the eighteenth century.

WATCHES JEWELRY M.A.LEWIS Fine Watch Repairing-Bdnner Springs, Kansas After traveling for some time he settled down at Madrid. Here in the Spanish archives he dug up the ma- Its Your Liver If your tongue Is coated and your complexion Is muddy or sallow, your Liver is out of order. Headache, Indigestion and a variety of troubles will result unless you help the Liver. You can help it quickest and most thoroughly by using Lane's Liver Pills 26c a bottle at Scheffer's Drug Store telal for his Life of As a representation of Columbus it is adequate In every respect and a model of tasteful literary elegance. Mr.

Walter Betteis is very proud of his new baby boy. Mr. Ralph GroVes has returned to Omaha, for the winter. I The bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs.

Clay were visiting Miss Ma Groves Sunday night. Miss Mildred Gentry "and brother, ere the guests of Miss Bartheps Webster last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Bennett entertained a number of guests New Year's day with a big dinner.

Mr. W. H. Clay and Mrs. Julia Clay left for their new home Iola, Kansas, Tuesday morning.

Miss Minnie Commodore and mother entertained thirty-four people for dinner on Thursday of last week. Mr. Charles Wilson, Harry Ken-schlo, and Fred Lldle spent Wednes; day and Thursday with Miss Bertha Groves. Miss Girlie Cox of Kansas City, Kansas, and Mr. Samuel Miller of Kansas City, spent Sunday with Miss Etnla Groves.

Miss Bertha Groves gave a dinner on Christmas day and entertained a number of young men from Kansas City and their entire club. Mr. Harrison Douglas of Oklahoma City, a former friend of Miss Amanda Webster when She lived In Oklahoma spent the Christmas holidays In our town. The program at the P. H.

Baptist church Christmas night was indeed a lengthy and interesting one. The con-gragation enjoyed it immensely. Mr. Fred Groves, better known as the plunderer, has been tearing things to pieces so much that he has learned to be a good piano tuner. There was sixty-one who took dinner with the bride and groom Christ-mas3ay at Bonner Eprlngs, Kans.

On Tuesday evening of last week many people went from here to Bon-ner Springs to the wedding of Miss Julia Gentry. Miss Amanda Webster of our city was bride's maid. Mr. J. P.

Wilsoa of Sedalla, and Mr. A. D. Wilson and family of Leavenworth, Kansas, were the guests of the Commodore family. The Wilsons are brothers of Mrs.

Commodore. Mr. H. B. Douglas and his sister, Mrs.

Fannie Tatum and her son, El-dried Tatum from Oklahoma City, who have been visiting Websters during the holidays, left Tuesday morning for their home. Mr. Sylvester Groves and Miss Ber-gus Commodore, JVffT Ralph Groves, Miss Minnie Webster, Mr. Junms Groves and Miss Amanda Webster drove to Tonganoxle, Saturday afternoon to a Christmas tree. On Christmas morning at 7 a.

m. a shower party was given on Mrs. Turner one of the oldest 'ladles in the community. She was one hundred years old, Christmas morning. She received presents ranging from money up to a ton of coal.

Mrs. W. M. Webster entertiincd a number of guests with a large dinner Sunday afternoon. Mj I.

G. Groves, Mr. Ed. Stewart, Mrs. C.

A. Groves, Mrs. R. T. Gentry, Mrs.

Ferguson, JJIr. W. Bennett, Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Johnson, Mrs.

Johnson, Mr. W. II. Clay, Mrs. W.

H. Clay, Mrs. Fannie Tatum, Miss Bennett, Hiss Mllda Gentry, Miss Grand Theater to see "The Littlest He then moved to the south of DR. FRED CANDLER Phon 14, Chndler Bldg. Bonner Springs, Kansas Spain, where he collected the material for two graphic and picturesque books: The Conquest of Granada and The Alhambra.

After an absence of seventeen years he returned to the United States.and settled at Sunnyside on the Hudson. His next literary work was a his J. R. CHARLTON Barber and Merchant Tailor tory of fur-trading In Oregon, entitled DR. C.

KEELING, bental Surgeon Phone 14, Candler Bldg. Bonner Springs, Kansas Astoria, and was followed by Captain Bonneville, a story professedly Rebel." Those, present were: Miisses Sara Trant, Elva Brubaker, Gail Williamson, Ruth Trant, Etta Tyson, Edith Craighead, Edith Bumphreys, Edna Ballard; Messrs. Frank Tyson, Paul Mellott and Leunert Mellott, and Mrs. James Trant, chaperon. Everyone reported the play as fine.

On Saturday night of last week Miss Pansy Mellott entertained the following young people at her home: The Misses Alf reda and Mina Kern of Bonner Springs, Ruby and Lily Peterson of Miaywood, Marie Colburn of Kansas City, and Messrs. Earl Tyler, Ernest Wharton, Dr. Keelin and Alva Kertoy of Bonner Springs, and James De Fries of Stony Point The evening was spent in music and games, and the pantomime readings toy the Messrs. Wharton and Tyler were very much appreciated toy all. based on the memories of a hunter.

Edwardsville, Kansas 1 Some years later he wrote a Life of Goldsmith (his favorite author) and a Life of Mahomet. As in everything else he wrote, Irving reveals in those two bio graphies his wonderful instinct for the poetical and the picturesque. He was led by a faultless taste to these phases of his subject that lay well within his power. Better than most authors, he knew what to avoid. His sense of proportion was unfailing, his purity of feeling and fine reserve were always manifest.

His classic qualities of Btyle were the expression of a na Who Will be Your Druggist in 1913? We ask the privilege of serving you during the coming! year. If you have been a customer of ours during 1912, there's probably no need of our asking for your trade, for we feel sure that you will continue to patronize us because of the pains we have taken In conserving your Interests. WE SHALL ENDEAVOR during the coming year to serve you still better, If possible, and shall neglect no means that may contribute to that end. We extend best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Scheffer's Store, rhone 105.

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Bonner Springs, Kansas. BENEDICT FAMILY REUNION. On Christmas day there occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Benedict a family reunion of children and grandchildren.

There were thirty-three" In all. Those present were: James F. Benedict, wife and children of Herrington, Hiram F. Benedict, wife and children of Sa-llna, George McClure, wife and children of Garnett CharleB Crooks, wife and children of Rose-dale, Harry Benedict and wife of Kansas City, and Edward R. Benedict and Rosa B.

Benedict and their friend D. Young of Kansas City, Kansas. ture polished and refined, of a gentle and kindly heart. Irving's humor was always artful, sometimes subtle, tout never malevolent He wrote, In short, as he lived, like a gentleman. Even his caricatures are distinguished by a delicate restraint, he always kept within the bounds of manly feeling and good sense.

He aimed at the classic model, the pellucid style of Addison and Goldsmith was his pattern. All his work i.