Merriam Herald-Chieftain from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

Mef ianr Mtf a NO. 29. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913. VOL. I.

Willie llonsmau says It is fine walk- FREE VOTING CONTEST. dent Order of Odd Fellows at Sim WAYS OF CLEVER ATTORNEY ting when the roads are rough and nee, Thursday night. Murch 27. NEW DESSERT RECIPES Published Every Friday by THE KANSAS CITV SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER COMPANY. 304 10th St.

Kansas City, Mo. The Initiatory and the first degrees The Kansas City Suburban Newspaper Introducing Evidence by Dramatlo will bo conferred by the ofllcers au teuin of Chelsea LodKe No. Mi of Company Will the Great est Contest Ever Attempted In This Vicinity. Methods Is One of the Chief Means of Influencing a Jury. Kansas City, Kans.

District Deputy MERRIAM HERALD -CHICfTAIN TEMPTING 8WEET8 THAT. HAVE" BEEN DEVISED BY AN EXPERT. frozen. He went to call on Edith lilanton last Wednesday night and the horses decided it was to chilly to stand at the gate more than four hours so they untied themselves and como home, at least Willie said they did, la robes and buggy couslons were picked up the next morning between Rlantan'g and Uonsman's. (irand Master Joseph Riding will be Many devices have been employed the Instituting ofllcer.

See Big Announcement in This In the courtroom productive of an ef The ofllcers elected are as follows MRS. GEO. GILBERT, Kdltor. 11 MUUAM KANSAS. Issue.

fect far more telling upon the jury A. M. Smith, Noble tirand; B. A than mere words. Droits, Vice tirand; David It.

Abbott $750.03 In Valuable and Useful Prizes A suit was brought some years ago RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Onu year Hix Miinithn Secretary; J. W. Jones, Treasurer .11.00 .60 by the people of a certain quarter of Given Absolutely Free to Popular Young Ladies. Montreal against a manufacturing John Klser, Conductor; H.

J. Smith Warden; S. F. Davis, Chaplain; Will lam Klser, I. Lester Itlanton, The ladies of Shawnee took well filled baskets and surprised Mrs.

niuthman Wednesday, March 20, as that was her birthday, all had a splen company. The vile odors of the chem Curd of Ihiuika will bo iharsed (ur at tlis rate of five cciiU a Una. For dlnplay advertising I a tea Biply to thti Kdltom. lcals used In the works, they alleged, had made the neighborhood untenan Lee A. Cox.

Supt. X. Jnim Ooddard. L. Sup.

N. I. I'. Martin Tills week we announce the opening of our Popular Voting Contest. The Rules and Regulations governing this contest are given In full.

Wo desire that all of our readers In this and ad table and seriously lessened the value R. Sun. V. Goo. Goddard, I.

Sup, did time and a very good dinner, there were so many chickens and good things to at that Mrs. Parish eat until she said her eyes bulged out, yet she was not so bad as Mrs. Knauber V. Trustees, F. W.

lilanton, Leo Entered ua second claus matter January 23, 1913, at the postofllce ut Kansas City, Missouri, under act of March 3, 1879. of their property. The judge and the Jury were dis posed, to turn a deaf ear to the com' plaint, says the Green Bag. The com' joining counties make themselves fa A. Cox, Joseph Ernshaw.

miliar with the working principles of Thursday night of each week has and Jterta Hlattman as they left the been selected and the Masonic Hull puny was rich and powerful and an this Great Free Contest. Every lady who enters will lie treat table and went straight to the doctor's office for medicine. Mrs. Knau In Shawnee as the meeting place. alleged smell," as their counsel de CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

When requomln a change of ndtlrraa, five your old aa well aa your new ud- ivera. ed with exact fairness. In the strict A banquet follows the Initiatory clared, "was too Intangible a grievance to grasp." adherence to these Rules and Regula ceremonies In honor of the guests of ber paid she felt bettor when she returned from the doctor's office but Rerta( said she would have to eat tions lies the preservation of our good the new lodge. One of the opposing counsel was LOCAL ITEMS. seen to go out and not long after re name, which we have worked so hard to establish.

THE ANGEL FAITH. supper before she got better, when they said they were not hungry after turned with two glass retorts This contest will benefit this Town The story is told, since the days of Jien Offaltcr Is lack from his visit and County as a whole. It Is our be all, but say, we have not room enough to tell what they eat. "Here," he said, "are the offending subjects of our contention." He pass old; in St. Louis.

That God, to protect His servant lief that It will cause more new trade to come here than any other enterprise that has been carried out In years. from harm, In Mer- Mr. Clyde Gilbert visited riam Sunday. Sent an Angel to guard from the lions Paris "One Hundred" Club. The newly formed "One Hundred Maple Nut Pudding Will Be Appreclat-ed by Those Who Are Fond of the Flavor Rhubarb Tapioca i Worth a Trial.

Miss Farmer demonstrated the making of some new and tempting desserts this week. Following are the recipes: Maple Nut Pudding. To 1V4 cup-fuls of brown sugar add 2 cupfuls of boiling water and 1-3 cupful of cornstarch diluted with cupful of cold water. Cook over gas flame until mixture thickens; then In double boiler for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from range, add whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff and cupful of nut meats broken In pieces.

Serve with a custard sauce made of the yolka of eggs. Rhubarb Tapioca. Soak 2-3 cupful of pearl tapioca in cold water to cover over night. Drain and cook in double boiler with 1 cupfuls of boiling water and 2-3 teaspoonfuls of salt; when tapioca has absorbed water, add 3 cupfuls of rhubarb cut In U-lnch pieces crosswise, and 1 1-3 cupfuls of sugar. Cook until tapioca Is transparent and rhubarb Is soft Serve hot with sugar and cream.

Orange Cream Sponge. Melt 3 ta-blespoonfuls of butter, add cupful of flour, pour on 1 cupful of hot milk and bring to the boiling point Add grated rind of 1 orange and 1 table-spoonful of orange juice to the yolks of 4 eggs, and beat until thick and lemon-colored; then add gradually 1 cupful of sugar, continuing the beating. Combine mixtures and fold in whites of 4 eggs beaten stiff. Turn into a melon mould, cover and steam 35 minutes, or cook In blazer 40 minutes. Serve with orange sauce.

For this beat whites of 3 eggs until stiff, add gradually 1 cupful of powdered sugar and very slowly the Juice of 2 Every contestant and every reader who assists us in making this contest club" in Paris accepts only persons ed them to the judge and then to the jury, who smelled them and smilingly declared them pure and odorless. "But," said the counsel, "the company mixes them." He suddenly poured the contents of one of the retorts into the other and the nauseous fumes of hydro-sulphuric acid or sulphuretted hydrogen filled the air. big success, helps to increase the Charles Relger was In Kansas City, Sunday. in addition to having traveled so bold, And Daniel felt no alarm. We know not what Ansel came To close the lions mouths of old, value of every dollar's worth of real estate within the circle reached by visited Mrs.

this publication. Miss Retta Allison Fred Reicer Sunday. Hut well we know the Angel's name There Is no mystery or secret about Who conies to guard from beast, this Contest. What we most desire at least 40,000 miles by motor car, are well-known gourmets. One of the conditions of membership is that every initiate, in order to pay homage to the noble art of cooking, is pledged to reveal to his fellow members the name of the most humble tavern in which be has received an enjoyable repast.

more bold. is to Introduce this paper Into every Mr. and Mrs. J. A.

Ilarr visited In Conner Springs Sunday. home. While we already have a fine Faith is an Angel sent from Heaven, subscription list, we know by doubling The beasts are Doubt and Fear, this list we can give double value to Mr. Dave White has Just returned from his short stay in Texas. Who take possession of the heart, our many advertising patrons and In this and many other ways help to build up this Town and County to the high Miss Ethel Rourell of Kansas City visited Miss Ethel Nail Sunday standard they should hold in the state.

If the Angel be not near. Faith brings a light that has been given To keep our souls from Btrlfe. Hy Faith we see1 our home in Heaven, And all the better part of life. The editor has always been conaer-atlve in such matters, and we have Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Joiner were shopping In Kansas City Monday. Judge, jury and spectators choked for breath. It was necessary to adjourn court until the next day, when heavy damages were at once awarded to tho plaintiffs. In a murder trial before a western court the prisoner was able to account for the whole of the time except five minutes on the evening when the crime was committed. His counsel argued that It was impossible for him to have killed the man under the circumstances in so brief a period, and on that plea largely based his defense, the other testimony being against bis client.

When the prosecuting attorney replied he said, "How long a time really is five minutes? Let us see. Will his honor command 'an absolute silence in the courtrooa' for that space?" The Judge granted this request. There was a clock on the wall. Every eye In the courtroom was fixed carefully calculated on the cost and outcome of thisjiroposition. We want Encourage Kindness In Children.

Kindness is one of the habits that is latent in every normal child. It must be encouraged, and you may be sure that the child that Is kind to animals and birds will be considerate in his treatment of persons. There Is always something Interesting In animals. Children love anything with and If taught to care for birds, fish or animals there will be a certain strength of responsibility that makes for good character. the largest list of readers in this part Mrs.

Fred Relger attended a show in Kansas City Monday afternoon. of the State and if hustle and hard work, coupled with horse sense aud a F.e sure to read the particulars of the Big Piano Contest, on page 8. considerable amount of generosity will get it, we are going after it. An equal determination on the part of several TELLS WHY CHICKENS DIE. J.

C. Reefer, the poultry expert, of 1C47 Main Kansas City, is giving away free a valuable book entitled "White Diarrhoea and How to Cure It." This remarkable book contains some new scientific facts on white diarrhoea and tells how to pra-pare a simple solution that cures oranges, also the grated rind and Juice of 1 lemon. oung ladies will make them ownprs Miss James, our school teacher, her parents in Olnthe, Baked Gingerbread with Apples. of tho many valuable prizes without Cut 5 large apples, each in pieces, and remove skin and seeds. Cook in the outlay of a dollar.

Make arrangements to get Interested J7 a 1.lLn?yr" -SW ofJi dinllil. of Kansas City vis- this disease over nignr. C7 V. w-r Everyone" interested in poultry'should Vpon" 1t' as" the VeTuhfuIivVSa" -zZ the seconds. There was breathless silence.

We all know how time which Is waited for creeps and halts and certainly write Mr. Reefer for one of day. Dirty, Low-Down Trick. Stealing of servants is a social liffcl condemnation. It is really discouraging to spend three or four years teaching a raw girl to wait on the table only to have the guest of a previous evening entice her away.

A servant in the household is a gem, every young lady who enters and gets out and makes an honest effort to win the first prize, will be a winner for the effort she puts forth, whether she gets these free books. at last does not seem to move at all Charles Denham visited the Rose-dale Christian Church Sunday, Marcii 30. The attendance was 81. The keen wltted counsel waited until first place or not. We grow by the ef forts we put forth.

Work of this kind the tired audience gave a sigh of re- SHAWNEE ITEMS. Katherine Sautter Is attending In Kansas City. and the stealing of gems ought not i nef at the close of tfce period and then broadens and strengthens our charao ter, makes us self-reliant and equips quietly asked: to be countenanced. Charleston News and Courier. Miss Margaret Jackson of Des Moines, is here to spend the summer with her grandmother, Mrs.

ua better for the battles of life. "Could he not have struck one fa J. G. Maud Thompson visited Mrs Thompson Monday. tal blow in all of that time?" sugar ana cupful or water untu about half done; then drain off syrup and put apples in an earthen baking dish, pour over apples gingerbread and bake until firm.

Serve with whipped cream sweetened and flavored or Cambridge sauce made after this rule; Cream 1-3 cupful of butter, add gradually 1 cupful of powdered sugar. Dilute 2 teaspoonfuls flour with 1 V4 tablespoonfuls of cold water, add to cupful of boiling water and let boil 5 minutes. Cool, and Just before sending to table add combined mixtures and 2-3 spoonful of vanilla and 1-3 teaspoonful of lemon extract Gingerbread. Melt cupful of butter, add 1 cupful of molasses, 1 egg well beatc-, cupful of Bour milk, 2 teasponfuls soda mixed with 2 cupfuls of flour and 1 teaspoonful of ginger. Boston Transcript Dramatic effects, however, are haz Lived Up to the Injunction.

ardous agencies to use, as it is not Mr. John Meyer was off of the mail route a few days last week. impossible to spoil them as an anti t-eaestnan "Here, wny did you strike that boy?" Urchin "He hit me first." Pedestrian "Suppose he Neel Foster the championship of Merriam when it comes to eating lunanas. All challenges will be climax, as a member of the English have parliament found when at the close Mr. and Mrs.

John Kreeck moved into the Gorham of a fiery adjuration to the govern did; don't you know you should return good for evil!" Urchin "WeiL an' didn't I soak him good?" Slippery. "The 'Banana Baby' is the latest." "What's the banana baby?" "An eastern physician has reared a marvelous child on a diet of bananas." "Marvelous In what way?" "In mentality. Why, the little fellow can answer an almost Incredible number of difficult questions." "Wonderful, Indeed! One would naturally suppose that a banana baby would be apt to slip up once in a while." ment to declare war he cried out "Unsheath the sword!" and drawing Mr. and Mrs. Bert Thompson moved into Mrs.

Condon's house on Monday. a dagger threw It on the floor. "Ah!" coolly said an opponent "There is the knife, but where is the The honorable Frank Foster again honored the Merriam citizens bv "coming back." He is one hope who can "come back." He Is sure looking fine, and I guess the Chicago weather Is like the last rose of summer to him. We hope he is back for good. Mrs.

Harry Hamelton was visiting re'atives in Shawnee Thursday of last week. fork?" Calling. Mrs. Lamb I simply must attend to my social duties, and I need bo many things. What are considered proper calling cards this season? Mr.

Lamb Full houses, fours, flushes or Btraights, my dear. A shout of laughter was the result God As Seen by Youth and Age. Mrs. John Loercher spent Saturday afternoon with her Bister, Mrs. Santher.

niH An in more religious than Pencil Case for Travelers. When one is traveling and puts a pencil into the traveling bag it is so apt to Blip into unhandy crevices, that ASSOCI- MERRIAM IMPROVEMENT ATI ON. Youth. I do not speak of the emotion al crises that come upon young men a small flat pencil case, well filled, Is and young women in early youm; Mr. and Mrs.

Knauber spent Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Blattman, a convenience not to be despised on th09e crises seem too closely related For Curling Feathers. To curl a feather that has become damaged with rain or dew sprinkle it thickly with common salt and shake before a bright fire until dry, when you will find it as good as new. a trip.

Red leatherette cases may be to Dhysical growth and development All. FHI 1 4 Cuban Stewed Chicken. Put in a stewpan half a cupful oi pure olive oil, one chopped onion and a bruised clove of garlic. Cook until they begin to turn brown, when the chicken, divided as for fricassee, and a quarter of a pound of diced bacon should be added. When the chicken has cooked to a delicate brown add a half dozen tomatoes, a bay leaf, a couple of cloves and a green peppei seeded and cut fine.

Cover and cook slowly for half an hour. Add one pint of boiling; water and one cup of well washed rice, salt and pepper to taste. Cook until the rice has absorbed all the liquid, then place back on the stove and let the rice steam for twenty minutes longer. uau, uiiuu. iuey contain turee pen-1 to be religious In tne same sense in vuo, a Buiau case oi pen points, a run-1 which old age Is religious, writes n.

Mrs. Rose Coda of Armourdale spent Monday with her sister Mrs. Bonsman. Der ana a penholder, each fastened in Sedgwick in the Atlantic. That the Place, crises of youth may bear as truthful witness to the realities or thp universe as the temperate religion Lessons in Mistakes.

Q0 do not Henv. The God Mr. and Mrs. Bert Thompson took supper with Mr. and Mrs.

J. G. Meyer Monday night. Slightly Misunderstood. "I understand that the young man In the house next to you is a finished cornetist?" "Gee! Is he? I was Just screwing up my courage to finish him myself! Who did It?" Houston Post When is it a mistake to take what that youth see8 py the light of its seems the easiest way of doing a emotional fires may be thereat God, but that image of God is transitory, It appears in Are and too often disap Miss A.

M. Thompson, Mrs. Blattman and Mrs. Meyer spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Thompson.

thing? Do you know of lives that have been wrecked by a lazy choice of "the path of least resistance?" It would be a good thing to pause long enough to ask ourselves most earn pears in smoke. The image of God that appears to old age is a more When Nation Is Wholly Free. A nation aa a whole cannot be In the full sense free while it fears an abiding image: it reveals Itself to ex Earl Bonsman, Olive Cathey and estly if we are making such a mistake Maud Butlar represented our schoo. perience and to reason Instead of to the, aiindpn and brief conviction of just now. Novel Cake Container.

A large earthen Jar can be used for safely storing pies, several layer cakes or loaves of fruit cake by this system of shelves. It is made by nailing two spools under four corners of a grape basket cover. Place one loaf of cake on bottom of jar, place a shelf over It and another cake on this with a shelf above and so on. The other or gives cause of fear to another. L.

T. Hobhouse. in the spelling contest at Merriam a week ago last Friday, but Earl did not Annual Meeting Officers Elected A General Cleanup Started. The second annual meeting of the Merriam Improvement Association w'as held at the regular meeting place in Merriam, Friday night, March '21. Reports of the officers were made and the showing of the work was very gratifying.

Ovt 8,000 square feet of granitoid sidewalks have been laid, all bills are paid and a small balance still remains on hand to begin work with this spring. The spring cleanup of last year Is to be repeated this year. All residents and business houses are requested to abate nuisances. To remove all trash and rubbish from their premises, to repair fences and rid the community of obnoxious eyesores. The officers elected for the ensuing year are as follows: President, Lee A.

Cox; Vice President, R. O. Davis; Secretary, E. A. Drotts; Treasurer, Charles A.

Stark; Committeemen, Executive Committee, Northwest District, Fred Rugg and G. W. Hale; Southwest District, W. C. Evans and Geo.

C. Lowe; Southeast District, Louis H. Stark and Charles E. Waiters; Northeast and Loomls Place District, H. O.

Meyer and John M. McCoy. Street lighting, rock roads, street name signs, shade trees, policing and more sidewalks are all under consideration for this year's work. Sleep and Altitude. like to go he said all those girls would be looking at him.

Some Swiss doctors maintain that vision. Old age finds God more in its own image, calm, infinitely patient not revealed merely by the vibrant Intensity of passion, but in the familiar and commonplace. To old age the common things of life declare the glory of God. Wealth of Knowledge. There is no wealth like unto knowl the amount of sleep should be regu The Easter program the M.

E. Sunday school gave In Shawnee was love edge, for thieves cannot steal it Burmese Proverb. lated by altitude. Too much sleep, they say, Is as harmful as too much food or drink. In low lying districts seven hours' slumber may be enjoyed spools raise the boards just high enough to protect the cake and the shelves are easily removed.

The earthen jar keeps the contents In much better condition than does a tin or wooden cake box. ly. They had very little practice, but they all carried out their parts splendid, even Mr. A. L.

Blattman who had to pat for his self as everyone else seemed to forget. with Impunity, but up In the moun tains five hours is enough. Woman's Rights. A woman has the same human nature that a man has, the same human rights, the same human duties, and tbey are as Inalienable In a woman as in a man. Theodore Parker.

Worth Remembering. "You have never suffered from financial reverses?" "No," replied Mr. Dustin Stax. "Finance Is like dancing! When the market turns around and goes the other way you must reverse with it." Soft Custard. Yolks of four eggs, one-half enj Neiman said he certainly did Mr.

sugar, one pint milk, pinch of salt, vanilla. Put milk In double boiler and when just beginning to boil add the beaten yolks of the eggs and the rest Oldest Flower. The rose is the oldest flower of which there is any record. So great is the antiquity of the rose that all account of its origin has been lost. In Egypt the rose is depicted on a number of monuments believed to date from 3000 to 3500 B.

C. enjoy Mrs. Blattman's dinner party; as he called, as an excuse to talk to Mrs. Larsen on business, but before he stopped he had the chance to talk to all the old married women in Shawnee. He did not get lonesome that day.

Man to Avoid. The man who can laugh at a funny story after hearing it tie third time should not be trusted. He is a hypocrite. Washington Star. Frugal.

Mrs. Willis I'm afraid the young man who married our Emma is par of the Ingredients and cook until thq mixture coats the spoon. $53,000,000 Dam. The Assouan dam and other Irriga simonious. Mr.

Willis How so? Mrs. Willis She writes that their honeymoon is scarcely costing over his first ten years' salary. Life. FOREST LODGE NO. 654, I.

0. 0. WE SALUTE THEE. tion works in Egypt have cost City's Many Fatal Accidents. More than thiti thousand five hundred accidental deaths occur every year in New York.

000; but the Increase in the value of land in middle and lower Egypt has Sedentary Sorrows. First Hen What a ridiculously giddy creature that young Miss Dorking is! Second Hen Oh, she's young yet. Wait till she has known the sorrow of sitting for three weeks on a china egg and two door knobs she'll sober down then. Mr. and Mrs.

Riley Bonsman and eons, Earl and Lowell, also Mr. and Mrs. Kreeck and son, Neal took a drive Saturday for Mr. Bonsman's health, they went to Mrs. Hamelton's not finding her at home they eat every thing she had in the house to eat.

Mr. Bonsman was much better when they returned home that evening. Daily Thought. Of all human things, nothing is The Odd Fellows Organizing. Thirty-six of the best citizens In this community signed the application for a charter, and all arrangements have been completed for instituting the new lodge of the Indepen- been from $955,000,000 to $2,400,000,000.

The total rent of this land has risen from $82,000,000 to $190,000,000. This is what the engineer has done for Egypt In less than two decades. more honorable or more excellent than to deserve well of one's country. Take Long Time to Hatch. Eggs laid by a New Zealand lizard require fourteen months to hatch.

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