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STERLING FARM JOURNAL. VOLUME 3 STERLING, RICE COUNTY, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1911 NUMBER 3 RICE COUNTY INCIDENTS. About Persons, Places and Events Recorded in the Newspapers and Caught on the Wing. Ex-Sheriff Wilson has moved his family from Lyons to his farm west of Little River. Geo.

B. Ross of Alden was in Topeka last week attending the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture. Mrs. Julia Barnes has returned from California and is now with her daughter, Mrs. Joe Bleger, of Saxman.

Miss Hattie White of Sterling, who has been teaching Fairview school up in Center township, has had to resign on account of ill health. Miss Maude Keesling has taken her place. Gov. Stubbs has appointed Trustee Co. B.

Smith of Little River, a A delegate to the Kansas State Good Roads Association meeting to be held in Wichita January 17 and 18. The Santa Fe R. R. Co. paid R.

0. Stewart $62.50 for the damage done him by killing a colt for him some time ago, this is one half of the amount asked by Mr. Stewart. -Alden Journal. The amount of business done by the Bushton Grain Supply Co.

last year was $218,607.40. The amount of wheat handled was 211,832 bushels, and dend of of 25 corn 13,631 cent bushels. A per was paid. Will Lyon, who for years has been engaged in the dry goods business in Sterling and elsewhere, has taken an interest with his brother-in-law, Charlie Smith, in the poultry business at Little River. This firm has been doing a big business lately.

Jas. B. Tucker of Alden, principal of the Chase schools, was married last week to Miss Bertha Smith of Lyons, who taught the primary department last year at Chase. Mr. Tucker is a fine young man and he and his bride have the best wishes of a host of friends.

Farmer township again stands out as the banner community in prompt liquidation of its obligations. There was not a half tax paid in from that township and the full tax on every piece of farm property was paid before penalty time, which is a perfect score and a record breaker for Rice county. Lyons News. C. R.

Murphy and S. F. Self, the young men who are charged with the burglary of the Missouri Pacific depot at Crawford, on December were bound over to the district court in $500 bonds. They were unable to furnish bond and were recommitted to the county jail. Their trial will come up at the adjourned session of the district court this week.

-Lyons News. The next Rice County Gold Metal shoot will be held in Little River on Thursday, January 19th, in connection with which a duck, goose and turkey shoot will be held. This will make a full program for an afternoon. The first event will be called at 12:30 p. m.

All members of gun clubs are invited, whether in this county or other counties, as a good time is expected. Hinshaw-Foster. Mr. Edward M. Hinshaw and Mrs.

Frank H. Foster were married in Hutchinson last Thursday by Dr. D. D. Akin, district superintendent of the M.

E. church. Mr. Hinshaw is the accommodating treasurer of Rice County and the bride is one of the popular women of Lyons. Both have a wide circle of acquaintances who extend best wishes.

The newly married couple made a short visit with relatives at Bucklin and Haviland and then returned to Lyons to settle down. Notice. Ten Dollars reward for information that will lead to conviction of parties willfully breaking street lights -Geo. A. Morris.

tf THE LATEST IN GOLF. Corer on Swellington -What is the latest fad in Tellington-Having real detectives track uD your lost balls. Commencing Sunday, January 15th, no mail is brought to Sterling before 8:27 a. m. The mail car which was formerly on the train due at 4:02 a.

m. has been transferred to train No. 9. In this way mail is brought to Hutchinson in the early morning and picked up by the train arriving here at 8:27 a. m.

The last named train also makes connection with the fast mail, No. 15, at Newton, leaving there at 6:40 a. m. No. 15 leaves Chicago at 1:30 a.

arriving at Newton at 6:35 a. and coming by way of Ottawa, instead of Topeka. We will continue to receive Topeka mail however, as the 8:27 train also makes connection at Newton with No. 17 which comes by way of Topeka. STERLING BEATS NICKERSON But the Sterling Girls Suffer a Defeat on Friday Night.

Change In Mall Service. In a double header basket ball game between the Nickerson and Sterling High School teams, Friday night at the rink, the Sterling boys team and the Nickerson girl's team came out the victors. The result of the boy's game was Sterling 33, Nickerson and of the girl's game Nickerson 33, Sterling 13. The boy's game was decidedly the feature of the evening, but the girl's game was a fine curtain-raiser just the same. Nickerson with a crowd of over a hundred rooters headed by a band came prepared to paint Sterling "red," but before the evening's fun was half over they had spilt their paint bucket and were sent home with "the blues" painted on all their enthusiasm.

Sterling had no band and not nearly so large a crowd of rooters but "the bell-ringers' and a few other loyal followers backed the best team and victory was the result in the big match. (The Sterling lads were clothed in their bright new uniforms and started off the game with a vim. Before Nickerson woke up Sterling had scored 7 points. The visitors then settled down and held the locals better and in- turn began scoring themselves. This settled the home team and becoming more aggressive they overstepped themselves.

They used too many foot ball tactics with the result that many fouls were called on them by the officials. Frisch, the visitors clever forward, was a true shot at the basket and turned fifteen of these penalties into points for his team. Had Sterling played a more careful game the score would have been more decisive; for Nickerson's team work was far inferior to that of the locals. This fact is shown by a comparison of the number of goals from field secured by each team-Sterling getting eleven goals and Nickerson goals. The first half ended with score 18 to 15 in Sterlings' favor.

At the beginning of the second half Nickerson, by fouls called on Sterling, took the lead and the locals played an uphill game thruought, all of the last pericd. During the last three minutes of play they turned loose a "cyclone' and when time was called Nickerson was found in the cave, the Sterling boys being six points in the lead. Frisch, of Nickerson, was the star of the game. The local team had no star of the first magnitude but the five players found a "constellation" that is hard to beat. All played well and are equally deserving of praise for the victory.

In the girl's game Nickerson clearly out-classed Sterling. Miss Frisch and Miss Guerfeld, for the visitors, executed plays like clock-work and received bursts of applause from the spectators. Miss Sankey was the star of the local team. As a bunch of the Nickerson girl's team was larger, taller and more experienced than was Sterling's and to this fact can be attributed the dicisive score. The line-up of the two games was as follows: Boys Team.

Sterling (33) Position Nickerson 27 P. Axtell Frisch R. Rheam Apple Wockmitz Referee, Harsha; Umpire, Buchanan. Girl's Team. Nickerson (33) Position Sterling 13 Sankey 1.

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Referee, Umpire, Buchanan. Bulletin and Journal both for $1.50. 1 RENO COUNTY NEWS. Events of More or Less Importance Gathered from Exchanges and the Grapevine Telegraph. Chas.

Trostle of Salt Creek township has gone to South America for a three months outing and hunt. John S. Zimmerman has purchased a quarter section in Walnut township, from 1 John Haston, paying $9,000 for the piece. Geo. A.

Morris has purchased 240 acres in Plevna township, three miles southwest of Plevna, from A. v. Childs, consideration, $20,000. Jesse Gantz and Everett Withroder of Huntsville. neighborhood are in Manhattan, where they will attend college the remainder of the year W.

H. Mitchell has sold a quarter section farm in Walnut township, located west of the U. B. church in that township, to Jacob M. Royer, consideration $8,000.

M. W. McElroy has sold the north eighty of his Hayes township farm to Peter J. McCormick, and the south eighty to M. S.

Barber, consideration in each case $4,250. Jake Spaniol, a Huntsville township farmer has bought the Monarch pool hall in Hutchinson, trading his farm in on the deal. Mr. Spaniol is preparing to move his family there, having already taken charge. The citizens of Sylvia have sent a big petition to the manager of the Santa Fe railroad, asking for a new depot to be located at Main street, or somewhere where people won't have to cross the tracks to get to it.

County Assessor Lee has named W. F. Williams as deputy assessor for the city of Nickerson. Mr. William's appointment will meet with the approval of the people of this vicinity and they will rejoice in his good for-Nickerson Argosy.

Mrs. Dr. Bressler of Nickerson received one of the finest Christmas presents we have heard of in a long time, and one that is not only able but lasting. On Christmas day Mr. and Mrs.

C. N. Fair of Alden, presented each of their three children with 160 acres of Argosy. John M. Sallee of Grant township, has traded for the Bussinger home in Hutchinson, consideration $5,000, and will move his family there.

Mr. Bussinger gets the Sallee farm, three miles northwest of Nickerson, on the river, consisting of 251 acres. It is the old L. D. Dresbach place.

The consideration is $18,000. Chas. Goerke Likes Oklahoma. Editor -Enclosed you will find $1.50 for which to pay my subscription another year. We cannot get along without the Old Home Paper, as it is like a letter from home.

The weather has been very nice and warm the last two days; the bees have been buzzing around as if it were spring. We have had no rain since last fall and it is very dry and dusty here. As dry as the past year was, a good crop of cotton was made and we received a good price for it. With best wishes to all my friends and A. Goerke.

Roosevelt, Oklahoma. A Voice from Oregon. Sherwood Davis from Troutdale, Oregon, sends us a group picture of a party up on the mountains, and says, "We have had no winter SO far; peas are green in the Wish our old neighbors could have what we could spare. We are all well and satisfied. Hurrah, for Stubbs, Bristow, Murdock and Madison." Ralph McCarroll Gets a Ralph McCarroll was first to be awarded the Washburn college foot ball by the athletic board of that institution, last week.

MY GIRL IS VERY DISTANT. AND JOEWHAT COLD. YOU SEE. AND YET I HUG HER GETS QUITE AT CACHED 1 Will Garwood Hurt in California. Will Garwood met with a serious accident at Long Beach, California, on December 23d.

He writes, "I was run down by a street car. I didn't remember anything about it and was unconscious several hours. The first I knew I was at the Seaside Hospital. I asked them where I was and what they were doing to me. They told me about the accident and said my brother and sister would be there soon.

They got my name from my laundry mark and found a real estate agent's card in my pocket and phoned him. He told them where I lived. They took me home that evening. I had a couple of broken ribs, black eyes, skinned head and hips and a strained back, I was SO. sore the first week I could hardly bear any one to touch me and was as helpless as a baby.

Am getting along nicely now. Can sit up and hop around in the room on crutches. The doctor thinks it will be two weeks before I can walk. I was very lucky not to lose my life, as a man was struck the same way the same morning and was killed." Quince Growing. This is especially recommended to dwellers in town.

I think there is not as much attention given to the growing of that fine fruit- the quince, as there should be. The principal variety is the Orange quince, though there are several other good varieties. All who know anything about the quince, know that it is one of the very best for jelly, for preserves and for flavoring apple sauce. The quince tree, or bush as it should properly be called, comes into bearing early and is a sure cropper if planted near some building or some other large trees. The small size of the quince bush causes the blossoms to be more easily killed by late spring frosts, hence the advisability of planting it near some buildor large trees whose overhanging foliage gives protection from frosts.

-E. P. Fisher. A. B.

Hunt. A. B. Hunt passed away Saturday morning. January 14th, at his home in Raymond, Kansas, at the age of 60 years.

The body was brought to Sterling, Sunday, for burial in Cottonwood cemetery. Rev. W. T. Williams pastor of the Congregational church, conducted funeral services at the Masonic Temple at 2.

p. m. Mr. Hunt had long been a resident of Rice county, including several years in the vicinity of Steerling. He was proprietor of The Farmers Hotel in Raymond at the time of his death, and had been ill but one week.

Hog Cholera Serum Appropriation Representative Fair of Rice County introduced an emergency bill in the legislature appropriating $3,000 to propigate and develop hog cholera serum and to pay for distributing it among the farmers of the state. This is to be handled by the state live stock commissioner, and farmers wishing the serum should write to him. The bill passed the house Friday and will no doubt pass the senate promptly. This is an important matter just now when the cholera is so prevalent. Officers of the Road.

General Supt. J. W. Kerns, General Manager S. C.

Fox, and Division Superintendent H. A. Tice of the Santa Fe Railway Company, were at the depot of that company Saturday, a short tim making an inspection. They were on special train, going from Dodge City to Newton. Here's a Tip.

On account of it being the first crowd from Sterling, the party leaving here Wednesday with W. H. Jackson for Pecos Valley, Texas, will be shown special consideration in sight seeing after arriving on the ground. This is the time to go. Don't miss it.

3-1 Among the Woodmen. A vote was taken on two candidates for membership at the Friday evening meeting of the Modern Wood men. Oysters were served at Bruer's at the close of the installation of officers. District No. 87, Rice County.

Report of Eighty-Seven school for month ending Dec. 13: enrollment 8, average attendance 6, neither absent nor tardy: Mary Bertram A. Burton, Teacher. RAILROAD MEN THURSD'Y The Officials of the Proposed North and South Railroad Will Attend, Evening Meeting. The railroad meeting appointed for Wednesday night has been postponed until Thursday night, January 19, on account of the inability of some of the directors to get here before that time.

It will be held in the Morris Theatre, which Mr. Morris kindly donates for that purpose. Sterling should give these gentlemen who are backing the proposition a cordial welcome and a patient hearing. This road, if it should be built, will affect our trade relations. It will be well, there fore, to go into the matter pretty thoroly.

The farmers along the line south of and southwest of Sterling are probably the most vitally interested, as it means bringing a market for their products closer home. They should plan to attend this meeting in Sterling on Thursday night. Neither the town or the surrounding country can afford to slight this matter. It is of too much importance. Let us have a rousing meeting Thursday night.

Depositors in State Banks of Kansas. Watch this legislature. Watch how your senator and representatives vote on the amendments to the Guaranty Law. The Kansas State Bankers Association, a body of State Bankers only, are making the pull of their lives to have the interest restrictions in that law removed SO that you will be allowed to get the interest that you used to get, and will introduce amendments to that effect. Watch, and write your representative and senator.

It's your innings this time. To Keep Plows from Rusting To three pounds of tallow mix one pound of white lead. Melt the tallow in an old iron pot; stir in the white lead. When using, heat the mixture and apply it with an old paint brush. In the spring just put the plow in the ground.

This will clean the moldboard as bright in a few yards as it was before. The same applies to any farm tool used for cultivating. -Farm Journal. Turner House Sold. A deal has been closed between S.

C. Turner of Stafford, and F. N. Masemore of this city, whereby the latter has taken possession of the Turner property at the corner of Monroe and Fifth streets. Mr.

Turner has been recently in Texas and acquired property there which is a part of the transaction. The property has again been placed on sale. District No. 81, Rice County. Report of Walnut Grove school for month ending Jan.

6: enrollment 25, average attendance 21, neither absent nor tardy: Minnie Hauschild, Jakie Hauschild, Rolley Hauschild, Carl Hauschild, James Willis, Boyce Fulkerson, Oscar McIver, Elmer McIver, Fred L. Donnelly, Teacher. District No. 35, Rice County. Report of Prairie Lea school for month ending Jan.

13: enrollment 19, average attendance 17, neither absent nor tardy: Vera Bolton, Clarence Bolton, Dale Hamilton, Esther Hamilton, Floyd Harkrader, Mamie Ruhl, Ruth M. DeWitt, Teacher. I LOVE THE LITTLE GIRL THAT YOU DID EUER, BUT FOUND ALE SAY SUED BE A TO EVER MARRY PLEA ON A Girls Sewing Club. The seamstresses of the seventh and eighth grades, under the supervision of Miss Micheal, have organized a Sewing Club which meets semimonthly at the homes of the members. The object of this organization, besides the development of the needle-craft art, is for a general good time, the refreshment committee being a noteworthy feature.

Two meetings have been held and a recent election of officers resulted as follows: Myrtle Crawford; Vice Pearl Avery; Olive Hutcheson; Asst. Ruth Daggy; Martha Coleman; Refreshment Theresa Jacobs, Lena Snyder, Katherine Roy and Alice Forewalter. A Reception. The members of the United Presbyterian church gave a reception on Tuesday night in the church parlors complimentary to Dr. H.

T. McLaughlin, a medical missionary who spent twelve years in Egypt, Informal talks were given by Dr. McLaughlin, Mr. S. G.

Phillips, Rev. D. E. Smith, Rev. O.

S. Morrow, Rev. Harvey Phillips, Mr. John White, Miss Lizzie McKitrick, Miss Ethel Irwin, Dr. Jas.

White and Mr. Lee Fergus. Dr. McLaughlin was presented, with a purse of $125 which will be added to the fund for orphanage work in -Topeka Capital Small Fire at M. E.

Church. During the Sunday school hour at the Methodist church on the 15th, fire was discovered in the basement of the building. The proximity of a smokepipe to a partition had caused the wood to ignite, doing a small amount of damage. The flames were under control before the department arrived and no one was hurt. There were about 75 small children in the basement at the time.

Aside from replacing that which was burned, means will be taken for further safety of the entire building. It was most fortunate the fire did not occur during other serviecs of the church. HENRY W. SAVAGE'S "MADAME cO. On Wednesday evening, Jan.

25th, at the Home Theatre Hutchinson, Henry W. Savage will offer his long expected production of the great e- motional drama, "Madame Two seasons in New York, a season in Chicago of four months; a full theatrical year in Paris, and like notable triumphs in a score more cities of Europe, are included in the record of this remarkable drama. SEATS ON SALE ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE Traded Two Farms. Will English returned on Tuesday from Trenton, where he made a deal by trading two 80-acres and his home place east of town, to D. S.

McKee. He has secured a dairy farm of 226 acres adjoining' Trenton, together with $6,000 cash. The McKee's will be given possession on March 1st, and Mr. English will move closer into town. Dr.

McCracken Caned in Arkansas. Dr. J. W. McCracken's old friends in Sterling were pleased to read an item in the Sulpher Springs, Press, of which the Doctor is the editor, that he had been "caned" on his 75th birthday.

The mayor of the city and many friends called on him and presented him with a fine gold-headed cane. Notice. Some Rain, Sleet and Snow. A misty rain Thursday turned to sleet Friday, followed a little snow. This made a white covering for the ground.

Every youngster in town who had a sled, put it into commission; and those who had none, manufactured a pretty good imitation on short order. They had some mighty good times on Saturday. Winter Thunder Storms. During the past week we had two thunder storms, which are very unusual I this time of year. One was on Sunday night and the other Monday morning.

There wasn't much moisture, however. National Bank Report. The official report of the condition of the First National Bank appears in this issue. It shows its usual conservative condition, with a reserve far above the requirements of the department..