Potwin Record du lieu suivant : Potwin, Kansas • 3

1 forwards; Marian Ryan, center; Josephine Nelson and Iril Nelson, guards. Friday night in a fist exhibition by a score of 19 to 15. WIIITEVATEn DEFEATS BEHTOH COUPLE ADOPTS It is the first game the girls have lost this season. J. mi With characteristic sportsmanship, ACTS E.

II. S. 'GIRLS' TEAM OW ST no 'complaints are being made or ex ELEVEII YEAH-OLO GIRL Nora Thelma Bailey, 11, daughter III SWIFT EXHIBITION Mrs. Mary L. Gaskil, 74, died her home in Towanda Friday afternoon, following a short illness.

Death, was directly due to hemorrhage of th cuses offered. However, the E. H. S. hopes to recover lost laurels when the Whitewater team plays January 8.

toKc tank bids of William L. Bailey living two miles northeast of El Dorado, was formally liver. Mareta Harsh and Marie Baird were OIL adopted in the probate court Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. James Stephens of Benton.

The child's mother is dead. SIEGE OF GRANADA Actual boring for oil is the fruition $50,000 STEER Because cement, iron and other materials are cheaper than they probably of a hope that has invested El Dorado for several years. The contract was 99 Wnltr from KREUTZER'S Nachtlager in Granada will be at any time during the next let to Goodnow Crabb, an Oklahoma -V year the city council Thursday night accented the plans and specifications and Colorado firm, November 5. Ac of Black Worley, consulting engi yVs played by VICTOR HERBERTS Orchestra, cording to the terms, the contractors Oil drilling began on El Dorado 1 City's oil leases near Midian, 4 miles west of El Dorado, at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Among the city officials who witnessed the event were Councilmen E.

D. Stratford and C. E. Florence of the gas committee, and City Attorney Ralston. Mayor C.

E. Powell and Councilman Lee Scott, remaining members of the gas committee, were un neers of Kansas City, and instructed are to go to a depth of 2,600 feet, un TRANSACTION IS MADE the city to advertise for bids for build J- T7Vf yempo rax. ine a septic tank. The proposed improvement will be of modern construction and proved ef ficiency. It will have a capacity of less oil or gas is found at a less depth, or granite is struck.

The contract price is $10,150. Drilling will continue night and day, and, it is expected, one hundred days will be required to reach the contract depth. approximately 300,000 gallons a day Kansas City, Dec. 19. A $50,000 The city will be compelled to buy able to attend because of business en about one and a half acres below the gagements.

steer deal has just been closed in the "sale by H. W. Skinner, of Barber coun junction of the two rivers for a site. Council members refuse to intimate the estimate of cost, but say it will be ty, of 700 head of coming 4- less than $10,000. It is practically year-old steers.

The purchasers of certain work will start in early spring this string of cattle are A. E. Seeley, Spouse, 16, Sliding Down Clothes Lihe to HusLand It will require about $400 a year to maintain the plant, including an at J. P. Lucas and E.

Wilhite, of Rosalia, i I LJJ I lrtTi I. SF- -riJ 2T p- -f- -Sr. rit. I I a tempo. Butler county, Kans.

tendant, chemicals, electric current, etc. Black Worley, whose plans These cattle have been running all were accepted, will receive three per winter on a wheat pasture on Mr. cent of the contract price. Fatal Hurt It Breaks band. Both were hurt, the girl wife DORADO EL sustaining serious internal injuries in Skinner's ranch, located near the Oklahoma line.

They are extra choice in quality, and are carrying considerable flesh. They were shipped this week to their new owners, who will feed them well on forage grain feed until spring. BANKS 1 I addition to broken bones. 4 Leonard was arrested on a va RECEIVE grancy charge pending an investiga tion. His mother-in-law says he in duced the girl to do it.

Oklahoma City, Dec. 19. Mrs. Ethel Leonard, 16, was probably fatally injured Friday night when she attempted to escape from the fifth story of her mother's apartment house by means of a clothes line in order fto join her husband, Noble Leonard, barred from the house by his irate mother-in-law. About half the way down, the clothes line broke.

Mrs. Leonard struck some telephone wires and bounced off into the arms of her hus COUNTY FUNDS rTT r-rHT 1 OF MASTER MASONIC GERMANS ASSERT Countv Treasurer Oscar Evertson, Saturday, deposited almost $52,000 in El Dorado banks. The total repre sented the taxes collected Friday red NAMES OFFICERS VICTORY POLAND letter day for this year. Of the total the Santa Fe contribut ed the Missouri Pacific, Echo. TP $8,465.13: and the Frisco, $8,628.07.

Orville Holford, recently elected; worshipful master of Patmos lodge, No. 97, A. F. A. has named; JEWEL BANDITS FALL DOWN 1 K.C.

The Missouri Pacific and Frisco paid BRITISHJENY II German claims to a big victory in Poland were disputed to a certain extent Saturday, when a London statement declared the retirement of Grand one-half the amount due. The Santa Fe forwarded a check for the full amount. i his list, of appointive officers. They are: J. M.

Jones, senior deacon; Bruce Logan, junior deacon; Harry wEiEZl EEE Kansas City, Dec. 18. Two jewelry Martin, senior steward; Harvey Songer, junior steward; and C. F. Olin, tyler.

DARWIN flISS Duke Nicholas' forces to new trenches was in order to strengthen their position and save Warsaw. 21, Patmos officers and those recently Selected by the Royal Arch Masons i store bandits were captured today, after getting $1,800 worth of diamonds from a Main street store. One of the men said he wanted to redeem a ring. When the proprietor went after it, the men grabbed the diamonds and ran. A policeman caught one and citizens got the other man.

German exultation runs high in but the Vor Waerts cautions the IK ji-g-f t-r I I 1 I i 1 1 i 1 zgzt )nv '31 tS: IS- If TAKEN BT DEATH and the Eastern Star will be jointly installed next Monday night. Walnut Valley Times. DEATH AT GRADE GROSSING public against cherishing too great a hope, as the information is but meager. Miss Roxanna Elizabeth Darwin, 21, daughter of Mrs. Anna Darwin, died at the family residence, 325 Atchison street, at 7 o'clock Thursday night Garden City, Dec.

19 H. Tannehill is dead and his brother, following a long illness. NEW NAVAL RECRUITS. Russell L. Reiserer and Ivan H.

Matthews, both, of Leon, enlisted in the navy at the navy recruiting station in Wichita Wednesday. They were accepted as apprentice seamen. Cincinnati, Dec. 18. Police today were looking for the $13,000 cashed by the bank holdup yesterday, Frank G.

Hohl, who succumbed to his wounds. Officer Knoul, shot by the bandit, is dead. Published by AMERICAN MELODY New York Miss Darwin was born in El Dorado besides her mother, is survived by two Thomas, dangerously hurt as the result of a K. C. Southern passenger train striking their automobile.

sisters and six brothers, all of whom are expected home to attend the fun nz U-i 14 it- at-z -r is eral. They are Mrs. Joe Joiner, Coun cil Bluffs, Mrs. Kenneth Benson El Dorado; Rolla Darwin, Kansas City; Thomas V. Darwin, Yates Cen ter: Clinton Darwin, Muskogee, Okla James Darwin, Thompson Falls John Darwin and Ernest Dar win, El Dorado.

Walnut Valley Times GOVERNOR TELLS BOARD TO. REMIT Topeka, Dec. 17. Governor Hodges today called upon the state barber board to pay $533.55, which the members naid to their families as board r. 6 while living at home.

He had the trio on the -carpet personally. The-members said they thought the state was to pay all their expenses. WHITE PLAGUE CLAIMS JESSE SINKHORN, 35; es--s '-i- I rj )Lti mtm 11 -f 0- $-00- z2zjfcz ft fan 1 -i Jr ir T-ri fN i I FOURTH IN ONE FAMILY Jesse Sinkhorn, 35, resident of Leon for many years, died in the Sedgwick Home at Wichita Wednesday, of tuberculosis. His is the fourth death in the Sinkhorn family from this cause. He was a good and upright man, a son of the late mayor W.

F. Sinkhorn, of Leon. The body of Jesse bmishorn was sent to Leon for burial. He leaves a wife and stepson; four broth ers, Joseph, William and Alex, all re siding in Wichita, and Hamilton bink- horn of Leon; five sisters, Mrs. Chas, Crutherd.

Mrs. Clark Davis and Mrs T.nWr McVav of Leon. Mrs. Bertha Stephens of Atlanta, and Mrs. Wm Holston of Okla.

Mrs. Nellie Sinkhorn of El Dorado Dest dv test a is his stepmother. 4 ATTORNEY TELLS THEM OF. LEGAL CONTRACTS he balys, with as much ease V' ,0 jhJLl" 1 1 7 i-H -fr-H-ii 1 1 lrrt A Attorney V. P.

Mooney addressed the High school class in commercial Wk ing Try it. IMlfeSlSK law Friday, upon the subject of con tracts. This is the first of a series of talks by attorneysNo the class, covering a variety of topics. I 1- 7 54.