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STERLING FARM JOURNAL. VOLUME 3 STERLING, RICE COUNTY, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1911 NUMBER 4 EXPLOSION KILLS CHILD. Donald Goudy Struck by Flying Piece of Welding Machine at M. L. Garage.

Saturday afternoon at 4:40 o'clock the retort of the welding machine at the M. L. garage, Sterling, exploded with a terrific report. Donald Goudy, a lad of eight years, had his skull crushed by a flying piece of the machine, and died the same evening at 10 o'clock; at the Sterling hospital. Others receiving injuries were Warren Hastings, a garage employe, ear drum burst and cut about head and throat; Curt Stopher, one of the garage proprietors, ear drum burst and powder burned; Arch Evans, a spectator, scalded about the face; and Ed Goudy, the father of the fatally injured boy, ruptured ear drum and painful injuries on side of his head.

There were other spectators in the shop watching the demonstrations, but no one else was injured. The wonder is that any one escaped. Aside from those hurt by the explosion, considerable damage was done to the building. Nearly a dozen window lights were blown from the front and rear of the garage. A piece of casting went thru the ceiling.

A small fire followed the explosion, but was quickly extinguished. The tanks belonging to the welding machine remain in good condition. A circumstance much similar to that of Saturday afternoon in Sterling, occurred in Hutchinson but a short time ago. Saturday was a special demonstration day for this new machine, "Weld it-All," recently installed by Stopher Keeley. Bert McComb, an expert from the factory in Stafford, had been operating it and giving instructions.

A number of jobs had been completed. McComb had gone to the hotel and the garage men were recharging the gas retort to weld a cracked automobile cylinder. Dan Keeley said that, according to instructions, he had: the upper valve of the generating retort closed and the lower one open. As soon as gas commenced to come from the lower valve he was to open the upper one. He had just tested the lower opening by placing his finger in front of it.

No gas was coming out and he stepped to the shop door to take care of an auto coming in. That instant the explosion occurred. He said, "It seemed just like a sheet of fire toward the east. Those near it appeared to lean backward." He continued, "I really couldn't say exactly what happened, the whole thing occurred so quickly." Stopher and Hastings were on their knees working with a cylinder, and Mr. Goudy and his son were standing on the east of the machine.

Chas. Thompson and Chas. Barnes, were also in the room. Bert McComb, the expert, lays the blame on failure to open the upper valve at the right time. The broken parts are still in the possession of the garage, and will probably be kept for expert examination.

Master Donald Goudy was standing by the side of his father when the explosion occurred. A piece of bone two inches square was torn from his forehead, he had flesh wounds on the thigh, and both hands were injured. He was picked up unconscious and remained in that condition until his death. He mercifully never knew what struck him. He was the only son of Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Goudy, who live in northwest part of Sterling. His age was 7 years, 5 months and 21 days. He was a bright, attractive boy. The funeral services were conducted at the Friends Church at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.

Many sympathizing friends gathered to show their regard for the boy and their feeling toward the bereaved parents. STERLING LECTURE COURSE John B. Ratto Wednesday Evening, January 25, at Opera House. The next number of the Lecture Course will be an entertainment by John B. Ratto on next Wednesday night, Jan.

25th. Mr. Ratto is an impersonator of remarkable ability. One of the features of his entertainment that is a distinct. novelty is the "making up" of the characters before the audience.

The "make-ups" are quickly done and as true as the impersonation of the character itself. Tickets will be on sale the evening of the entertainment at the opera house. RICE COUNTY INCIDENTS. About Persons, Places and Events as Recorded in the Newspapers and Caught on the Wing. GARAGE SUPPLE TE The M.

and L. Garage where the ex plosion took place on Saturday. The repair room is in the rear. All the windows in that part were blown out, and four of the front ones. RENO COUNTY NEWS.

Events of More or Less Importance Gathered from Exchanges and the Grapevine Telegraph. C. D. Hansen left last Monday evening for San Antonio and other points in Texas to look after his land interests Sun. The Horton brothers of Plevna received a telegram from Ohio Sunday saying their mother was very ill and requesting them to come at once and they left on the late train that night.

C. A. Murphy, who used to run the Argosy at Nickerson, but lately principal of the school at Little River, has bought the Post office book store at Nickerson and will take possession when his school term ends. The new church building of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarenes, situated four miles north of Sylvia, will be dedicated with religious services Sunday, January' 29, at 3:00 p. m.

The dedicatory service will be conducted by the District superintendent, Rev. J. B. Mickey. In the write-up of the basket ball games at Sterling last Friday night, the Journal man said the Nickerson girls were taller, larger and more experienced.

Why not go the limit and also say that they were better looking and did less Argosy. County Assessor Lee has appointed the following deputies: Enterprise township, C. E. Pickens; Grant, G. U.

Battey; Hayes, W. R. Jones; Huntsville, Chas. Schoor; Medford, Dan McFadden; Plevna, S. C.

Davidson; Salt Creek, W. N. Smith and Walnut, R. M. Harvey.

W. E. Moore of Turon, returned from Ness county last Thursday where he has purchased a section of land near Bazine. They like that country fine and contemplate going there in the spring if they can get possession. Tom Smith who is in possession of the land left at once for Oklahoma where he is on a deal to trade his Sterling property for a Sun.

Dr. Bressler was called to the Dean home, four miles west of town, last Tuesday to attend Ora Dean, who met with quite a serious accident while cleaning out a well. He was down in the well at work and in some manner a ladder which was being used fell and struck him a glancing blow on the head, cutting an ugly scalp wound about two inches above the forehead. Had the ladder struck him squarely on the head the accident would probably been more serious, but as it is the young man considers himself very fortunate and is enduring his pains bravely.Nickerson Argosy. A.

P. Stucky, who owns the building occupied by the Field Hardware Co. and Schwartz Albright, informed us recently that he was thinking seriously of raising the roof of the building five or six feet and adding an auditorium to the improvements of Pretty Prairie, provided a little encouragement is offered him. This would indeed be a good thing for the town. If Mr.

Stucky decides to build this, no expense will be spared to make it one of the best houses of the kind in any of the surrounding small towns. A stage 20x20 will be put in, a deadened floor laid, a system of electric lights added, the auditorium will be properly seated and nicely decorated. Pretty Prairie Times. Harry Guild writes from Bern, Kan- sas, "I have been away from Sterling so long that I should be weaned from there, but find that I'm not, and that I always read the "Old Home Paper" when it comes. I was especially interested last week in notes in regard to blizzard of 1886.

I remema trip that I made out to the farm in it to look after some stock. We have had a very mild winter, only one real cold spell. Ground is now well covered with snow and sleet." The J. meet with Mrs. Liston next Wednesday at 2 p.

m. The Little River Produce Company shipped a car of poultry to. New York last week. J. 0.

Spires of Lyons won the medal at the county shoot at Little River last week, making a score of 27 out of a possible 30, A. E. Fogelberg, of Larned, who has been court stenographer for Judg Lobdell, will be the court stenographer for Judge Banta in this district. David Ahlberg, a resident of Lyons since 1871, died at his home there last week. He was 76 years of age.

The old settlers are passing away rapidly. Frank Proffitt south of Chase, went to Illinois and was married recently there to Miss Gertrude Armstrong. They will live on Mr. Proffitt's farm. Alva Crandall and John Moll went to Raymond last week and bought a hundred head of two-year-old steers and 40 head respectively.River Monitor.

A colt belonging to Roy Williams, south of town, was killed by lightning last Thursday night. How's that for an "electrical on January 13th? -Monitor. Net Belden shipped two car loads of hogs from Saxman recently. They averaged over three hundred pounds and were, a fine looking lot of hogs. -Saxman Bulletin.

Mrs. Koenig north of Raymond, died last Wednesday morning and funeral services were held at two o'clock Thursday, at the home, and the body laid to rest in the Lutheran church cemetery. Miss Troutman of the Topeka branch, Womans Foreign Missionary Society, will deliver an address in Alden on Thursday night, Jan. 26th. She is a fine speaker and ought to have a full house.

Chas. Cooper has been around over the state quite a bit during the past week and thinks the wheat is not seriously damaged, though the prospects for a full crop is not at all good. -Lyons Republican. The Farmers Grain Live Stock Co. of Alden, handled 63,000 bushels of wheat last year and 122,835 bushels of corn.

The directors declared a 30 per cent dividend. J. A. Werner is the competent manager. The last of the famous herd of Short Horn cattle belonging to Geo.

B. Ross were sold Tuesday to J. R. Whisler of Watanga, Okla. There were thirty of them and a good bunch they Journal.

The Chase Anti-Horse Thief Association is making arrangements for a big oyster and general supper, to be given in the opera house, Thursday evening, January 26. All "Horsethieves" and their families are Register. Cliff Martin and Miss Metia Rinner of Alden were united in marriage last Wednesday, Jan. 18th, at Lyons by Rev. Dr.

Hall. The bride is the oldest daughter of Charles Rinner who has lived in Alden a long time. The happy couple will live on the J. H. Smith farm west of Sterling.

The rural carrier out of Geneseo says, "What a little job for one person to take a hammer and knock the ice off of one mail box, but when the carrier has to take anything he can get and knock the ice off of 75, it's quite a job when he is hours late any way, think of this the next time it sleets." The Farmers Elevator at Saxman held their annual stockholders meeting Jan. 10th. The report by the officers showed the financial condition of the company to be in excellent shape. Much credit is due to Mr. E.

H. Wohlford and J. H. Welty for their management during the past year. New directors and officers were elected as follows: E.

S. Leonard, president; N. Patton, vice president; G. N. Belden, treasurer; L.

C. Needham, secretary. The other directors are M. F. Baker, Floyd Pratt, Geo.

W. Ginter, Frank Dewees and E. H. Wohlford. A week ago last Sunday at the Rugan home southwest of Raymond the little girl of Mr.

Rugan was accidently shot and killed. The accident occured about sun down. The family was preparing to go to church that evening and the little girl aged three years, and two older brothers were upstairs. The little girl was playing a harp when something caused the gun to fall the hammer striking a chair discharging the gun and blowing the little child's head into atoms. W.

E. James, who was telling us about it, said he picked up at least a gallon of brains, bone and blood from off the floor. He said it was the most pitiful thing he had ever seen. -Raymond News. The Saxman State Bank held its annual meeting Jan, 3d.

The reports for the year were evdience of the local bank's growing popularity and prosperity. The earnings for the year were good. The surplus was increased $1,000, making that fund at the present time $1900. It is the settled policy of the bank to build up a substantial surplus fund and thus put the bank on a strong and solid foundation. The directors for the ensuing year are as follows: Jno.

Oden, president; Wm. Schmidt, vice. president; Jos. Bleger, secretary; Jos. Bleger, secretary; Jos.

Hauschild and J. H. Welty additional directors. L. C.

Needham was again retained in the position of cashier. HOW TO ADVERTISE PROPERLY. A Successful Topeka Advertising Manager Gives Sensible Talk. "Little Helps and Hints on Effective Publicity" was the subject of a talk which F. L.

Lindemuth, advertising manager of the Crosby Brothers department store, of the Topeka Advertising club this noon. "A common fault of most merchants," he said, "is to pay too much attention to the buying of merchandise and not enough thought is given to the art of selling the goods. claim any man with money can buy goods, but when you've got them you have to use your brains in order to sell them. "A sale is a mental action always made in the mind of the customer. Therefore, why should we not lize that the selling of the merchandise is the all-important part in a business? "I think that too much copy is gotten together rapidly.

We should give the public a true picture of just what will be found at the store. "Many merchants ask themselves if it pays to advertise. It does, and the proof of the pudding is in the eating. It is the vital point in a business. A healthy business can no more afford to be without advertising than a healthy man can afford to be without life insurance.

"Satisfaction in a store is a big asset. Fill the store with it. Pile the shelves up with satisfaction. Determine to give your customer not merely the goods he desires, but satisfaction along with them, satisfaction. "To the one who writes the advertising I would say put your very best efforts into it.

Make it attractive. Make it stand out. Don't merely throw it together. Take time to prepare it carefully. Only in this way can the best results be secured.

"A man does not have to have a college education in order to write a good ad. but he must have good business ability. In preparing a piece of copy I think a man ought to sit down in a quiet place and imagine that a customer is standing before him, and write down just the things he would have said to such a person. "Most men in my position--that is advertising manager of a department store--think they know more about advertising than the printer. I believe this is a mistake.

Some things should be left to the judgment of the printer." A. B. Hunt. Amaziah Bait Hunt was born in Ohio county, Juy 19, 1850, and died at his home in Raymond, Jan. 14, 1911, aged 60 years, 5 months and 26 days.

He was married to Miss Herriet L. Hullcraft, Jan. 13, 1875. To this union were born six children, four boys and two girls. Both girls and one boy preceded him in death.

He is survived by his wife, three sons, four brothers, and three grand-children. His children were all present during his last illness which was of short duration. Early in life he united with the Methodist church in Indiana, where his church membership remained until he came to Kansas in 1885. After coming to Kansas he united with the Friends church at Sterling, but when he removed to Raymond he reunited with the Methodist church and remained a member until death. He came to Kansas in 1885 and settled on a farm near Sterling and some years later moved to Raymond where he has since Raymond News.

The Bulletin and Journal both for $1.50 per year. DISCUSSED NEW RAILROAD. The Directors Met Sterling Citizens and Outlined Plans--Want 000 of This Town. A Number of Basket Ball Games Despite the fact that basket ball players of the Halstead high school, are larger and more experienced men than those of Sterling, our boys did good team work in the Saturday evening game at the Main street rink. At the close of the first half, the visitors lead by a score of: 19 to 8 and closed the contest, 44 to 21.

The Sterling team has no farther dates scheduled at present for basket ball. The above named game was preced-60 ed by one between the girls teams from both college and high schools of this city, in which the latter won by a large majority. Cooper's boys met defeat in all three contests during their trip to the eastern part of the state the latter part of last week. One game was held at Florence Thursday evening, and two at Emporia on Friday and Saturday nights respectively. PROFIT IN A SMALL GARDEN.

A Dodge City, Man Fed His Family and Cleared $125.30. From Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan A man should support his family from his own backyard garden. If he makes a few dollars additional his record is worth noticing. One of the strong supporters of this kind of agriculture is J. H.

Miller, superintendent of agriculture extension in the Kansas State Agricultural College. A. F. Wheeler of Dodge City has reported to Superintendent Miller that upon a lot 110x120 feet he grew vegetables enough last summer not only to feed his family, but to give him also a profit of $125.30. Mr.

Wheeler says his garden thrived because he gave especial attention to the conservation of moisture. His report says: "This report gives only the a- mount of vegetables sold. It does not take into consideration any that we used for our table. I did not keep the dates of the sales from my late garden which I sold in November and December, but only the amounts. I figure that the vegetables we used would just about pay for all work done.

The total amount paid for plowing and harrowing and for seed was $16.75. The receipts were $142. 15, leaving a profit of $125.30. I did not use fertilizer of any kind this year, but have had a lot of manure spread over the ground for another year." The total sales for the vegetables grown were: $27.95 39.00 29.05 9.35 14.75 5.70 2.25 1.75 $129.70 November and December sales 12:45 Dewald-Ball. At Guthrie, on January 18, 1911, Mr.

A. E. Dewald of Los Angeles, and Miss Rose C. Ball of Sterling, were united in marriage, Rev. E.

D. Cameron, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiated. The bride and her parents, Dr. and Mrs. R.

B. Ball, had been visiting Ferd Ball's family at Mulhall, and Mr. Dewald came there direct from California to meet them. The two then went to Guthrie for the marriage ceremony and returned to Mulhall, coming on to Sterling with the bride's parents on the 20th. They will remain here until Thursday and then go to Los Angeles, where Mr.

Dewald is a landscape gardener in the employ of the Santa Fe railroad. The now united couple were both raised in Sterling and were, schoolmates together. Their long friendship finally led to the closer ties of love and marriage. Their many Sterling friends extend best wishes for a happy life together. Last Thursday night an audience of interested men gathered at the Morris Theatre to listen to representatives of the Winnipeg, Salina Gulf Railroad.

This is the road that proposes to build a trunk line from Canada to the Gulf and to put Sterling on the line. The party consisted of H. Leone Miller of Salina, president, and H. A. Noah and M.

M. Fulkerson of Alva, directors of the railroad company. Mr. Noah, an attorney, spoke first, stating the plans of the road. The general ground work is the line from Winnipeg to some point on the Gulf of Mexico.

The financiers who are said to be back of the enterprise stated that was "too big a bite" to start with. So keeping in mind the bigger project, the present plans contemplate a line from Omaha to Salina, thence to Alva, Okla. Branching from Alva one line goes to the New Mexican coal fields and the other to Oklahoma City. Mr. Noah claimed this would be a paying proposition from the start.

He did not make any glowing promises, but said Alva business men had gone into the project with the idea of helping their town. Mr. Fulkerson, who is cashier and the principal owner of a bank at Alva, stated that he had investigated carefully Mr. Miller, the president of the line, and his London backer, Mr. Samuel McLain.

He read the commercial reports concerning Mr. McLain and letters bearing on his ability to raise the money required. Mr. Fulkerson said Alva was subscribing stock to the amount of $100,000 to be applied to the preliminary work, that Cunningham, Turon and Sylvia had each agreed to take $5,000 and that Sterling and the country ten miles on either side would be asked to subscribe $10,000 in stock. This stock he stated was guaranteed by the Marine Trust and Security of San Francisco.

The principal would be paid back in forty years whether the road was built or not. Twenty-five per cent was to be paid when stock was subscribed, 25 per cent when the plans were approved in London and 50 per cent when the financial contract was signed in London and the money for the bonds deposited in New York. Mr. Fulkerson also stated that the money for the local stock could be deposited in Sterling in the hands of a trustee and only paid out for the necessary preliminary expenses of surveying, charter fees, printing of bonds, etc. The statements of both these men were very clear that Sterling was being asked to bear a share of the legitimate expenses of the promotion of this road, and that there was an element of risk.

While it seemed to them that the road would be built, yet there was the same. chance of a failure that, other enterprises were subjected to. Mr. Miller, the president, answered some questions. He stated that the surveying corps was miles north of Sylvia, but had been stopped awaiting the action at Sterling.

He intimated that unless this city met the conditions imposed the road would veer to the west. A vote was taken upon the proposition of "how many would like to see this road built thru Sterling?" Practically the entire audience arose. Then on a call for "how many would subscribe for stock?" five said they would take a share each. They were T. H.

Brown, Dr. P.P. Treuheart, W. Quigley, T. J.

English, J. E. Junkin The meeting then appointed these men a committee of five to continue the soliciting. Mr. Miller went north to Salina the next morning and the Alva men returned home in an automobile.

These two men say they have been giving most of their time the past three months to this matter. Alva men, according to their statement, have already put up $15,000. The committee of five has had several meetings and discussed the proposition with Sterling citizens. They find sentiment somewhat divided upon the advisability of extending a helping hand. The committee has no more interest in the matter than other citizens of the community, and will not go ahead with a canvass 1 for stock unless their is some cordiality and cooperation extended.

They realize that there are honest differences of opinion upon the matter, but also feel that there should be fair and discussion and some definite open line of action decided upon. $142.15.