The Augusta Bugle from Augusta, Kansas • 1

A SUCCESSOR TO BUTLEK COUNTY DEMOCRAT. WATCH W0HT1I WIN. AUGUSTA ALWAYS A Non-Partisan Progressive Newspaper Published Every Thursday in a Progressiv AUGUSTA, BUTLER COUNTY, KANSAS THURSDAY, JAN. 1 1917. VOL.

XXVII NO. 32 -o When Youlb 'Settles' Down Your Help Needed I I. Al. KKUVViN, rresiderii W. c.DKUn, vasimr R.

A. HAINES, I Bugle is contemplating installing some new.machin- I ery and making other neces- i sary changes needed to take care of your printing needs i properly. 'To this end your dollar on i subscription renewal will 'be 3 I 7 ho mm vim greatly appreciated. 1 Hand it in, send it in, or i mail it in today! i Avoncv One of the saddest spectacles is to watch a young' man "settle down." At first he is full of fine theories, impatient of restraint and Bcornful of traditions. What he wants is to have the world made over and made right, and he knows how to do it.

As for the plodders, who are now carrying on the world, he'll show them. They were all right in their day, but they are slow and outof date. This lasts for a while and then the goddess of things as they are takes the young man by the ear and leads him down to the level of practical things, and he is forced to consider the ways and means. He finds that every mal adjustment is kept up partly by custom, which is the hardest thing in the world to alter, and partly by somebody's self-interest, which is the next thardest. There are vested rights in Ignor ance, in inefficiency and in wrong doing: Some of his friends, or bean by Honor Roll.

his 1 i rjfS If grit Vf i money Geo. W. Brown Son State Bank (Established 1869) Augusta, Kansas. mEBiJSNBSS MAN leeps his money in a home bank for safety, convenience and the special service the bank renders its customers. Why should the man cf small means forego these very material advantaged Why shouldn't he keep his money in the bank and have this protection? A few years aga bankers were not cordial in their relations with depositors carrying only a smalfbalance.

Today it is different. The progressive banker always realizes that by giving these small accounts courteous attention, careful management and assisting the owners to build them up he can increase the financial business of his community. At this bank small accounts are cordially welcomed and given the best of care. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED 5 i'. m.

the BANK. Tbe following have our thanka' for their cash contributions during the past week McVickera, Augusta F. L. Ay res J. D.

Fray F. H. Jones J. P. Chalfant R.

W. Stephenson Bros. Moomey Shiner C. W. Steiger, ElDorado Peffly, F.

Wittl, Carlinville, 111. Linseed Oil Works, Fredonia WV will -appreciate your assistance likewise, 1 YOU CAN'T GET ANYWHERE WITHOUT STARTING. IF YOU STANT IN THE WRONG DIRECTION YOU WILL REACH THE WRONG PLACE. IF YOU WISH TO BE RICH AND COMFORTABLE SOME DAY START RIGHT. BEGIN WITH THE SWALL DEPOSIT.

BEGIN WITH A BANK ACCOUNT. IT WILL GROW, AND YOU WILL BE NAPPY IN MAKKING IT GROW, MONEY IN OUR BANK MEANS BOTH JOY AND PROTECTION TO YOU- BANK WITH US. his friends' friends, are connected with these vested rights, and he discovers that they are not bad people. When he tries to correct an error, though it is no more than a wronsr way of lick-' ing a postage stamp, he finds himself lifting against millions First National Bank of tons of dead weight, but when F. H.

PENLEY, President W. A. PEN LEY, Cashier he does as everybody around him OFFICERS: 11. VV. WILSON, Vice-President A K.

PECKHAM, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS: OPERA HOUSE IN NEW HANDS NOW The Revival Meetings The revival meetings now conducted j-he Church of J. W. SKAEH ia doing he can lift half a dozen stupid but respected traditions on the tip of his little finger. P.

H. TENLKV A. PENLET H.W, WILSON JOHN GUTHRIE M.P.TAVLOK W. PECKHAM A. R.

PECKHAM E. C. FEN LEY hrist under i leauersmp ui Too SlowCrowl The story is going the rounds over the county that several months ago "a certain geologist was up in the Whitewater neighborhood trying to secure some oil leases, wanting at least 2,500 acres. Senator t. Joseph and others leased to him 1,700 acres witlV the stipulation in the lease contracts that he was to secure the 2,500 acres in twenty days and that actual drilling was to be started within sixty days, the leases to be held in escrow in the Bank of Whitewater until he had drilled to a depth of 2750 feet, or He learns that his career is not minister, 1 Overman, as- so.

much in his. Own hands as in those of a few older men who The collection which will be on CHANGE TO BEAU- happen, by the most stupid con display will consist of some two Bited by J.E. are still griming. Ther was a larger atfe.ndance last ILening than on an preceding night. The prfacfrr chose ashis subject for last hiVM "The Kail From the junctions of circumstances, to be hundred subjects, representing TIFY GITY SCHOOLS all of the principal schools of his wordly superiors, and he learns that they judge him by their own standards, which are highly conservative, and not by Effort Undertaken For Purpose art.

Notice the prize pictures on exhibition in window. These pictures are to "So to the room m'nr ttm rviref irtlof nf orl Heart of lita.Say.intr." He took the position that, like Lazarus was nhvsicallv dead, it The first of the year the Sanders' Opera House was leased by George Hamilton and J. B. Har-raman, who will manage same under the name of Hamilton Harraman. The building has been remodeled and a modern equipped motion picture machine and up-to-date screen has been installed, and is now in operation.

Up-to-date pictures are being shown with an entire change of program nightly. Only first-class operas will be staged. of Raising Funds to Purchase Picture For Augusta School struck oil in paying quantities. The geologist placed alt the leases with the exception of two his. They do not gather around him and admire him when they find out that he is a rebel, but smile pityingly, and note whether or not he is prompt and polite and if he dresses in good taste.

(that did not contain the twenty may be said that many are spiritually dead. Many are dead to all good impulses, many are dead in trespasses and sin, and many are dead to all appeals of truth. During the week of Jan. 15th. and sixty-day limitation)! in the there will be on display at the bank and insisted to Mr.

Joseph that there wa3 no oil in that vi High School Building an exhibi He may know how to revise the present economic system in a cinity, he left the country and tion of Pictures of more than ordinary interest. It consists of was not heard from until the other day when Mr. Joseph re Mass Meeting. But he said, too, that Jesus is interested in the "dead." His great heart, his mission and the demand for men on the part of HIS church was the reasons for his interest. This interest was manifested in his call to the world to come to him.

Jesus had fcarbon photographs, photogra mission to the exhibit. This is not a money making scheme for any individual, as the admission fees are spent for pictures, and we surely need them. Commercial failures in the S. during 1916, as reported to R. G.

Dun numbered 16,993 and supplied aggregate liabilities of $196,212,256. In Kansas, the" failures during the year numbered 198, as compared with 203 in 1915 and 203 in 1914; and the total liabilities of the failures in 1916 was $906,002, a most commendable commercial showing. ceived a letter from him, and in which he again referred, to what vures, prints in full color etc. loaned by Elson Publication Co. way that would add largely to human happiness, but they want him to polish his shoes every morning and keep his eye off the clock.

He discovers all this and in 999 cases out of 1000 he submits. It may be bitter to swallow, but nearly always he swal he had said "that there was no (Inc.) of Belmont, and oil up there." The following is Mr. Joseph's contains only the very best representatives of the master pieces reply to his letter: a message of redemption for the spiritually dead. He offers hope of Eternal Glory and he provides the plan of salvation that all who of art of different countries and different periods. The exhibition is to be present The Christian church is planning a mass meeting for Sunday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, at the Mecca Theatre.

There will be special music and a male quartette will sing. Bro. Henshaw, who is conducting the meeting, will preach, and those who have been hearing him will vouch for the quality of the sermon. This service is for all men, women and children. Come, and bring another! ed in this city for the purpose of My dear friend Crow I write to let you know That the oil has begun to flow From a thousand feet below On the leases you let go You was too d- -d slow! Your friend, Jimmy Jo- ere spiritually dead may be raised again to a new life.

You are cordially invited to attend the meetings. raising money for the purchase of pictures for the different lows it, and after awhile he likes it. If he gets on well he saves a little money and invests it, reads the market reports carefully, makes a careful distinction between business relations and ordinary human ones, decides that anyone who to get a job can do it and opposes all political or business measures that seem IF YOU WANT TO BUILD school rooms in both buildings, and to give the pupils and the WEDDING BELLS Tablets, pencils, inks, erasers, pens, and school supplies of all kinds at Robscn's. public a chance to see and to Harold L. Helena, son of Wal study the pictures.

An admission fee of ten cents will be charged and the public is cordially invited to attend. Nearly ter Helena, east of town, and to him to savor of experiment. When they are young they are Miss Alice Lichlyter, daughter of so guileless, so enthusiastic, so Come and see me. I will draw your plans, write your specifications, make your blueprints, let your contract and SAVE YOU MONEY! JOE R. SWITZER Architect Augusta, Kan.

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Lichlyter, full of hope andnergy.

It. is a who live two miles north of the city, were united in marriage on every art gallery in the entire world would have to be visited in order to see the originals of these pictures. tragedy when they settle down. But that is our American way Monday evening at the Christian to get rid quickly of life's "chan parsonage, Meal uverman, the geable taffeta" (as Shakespeare minister, officiating. calls it) and put drab in its place.

These young peopfe are so well known that they need no intro A drab world, a respectable world, a world of dependable Hams duction. Both of them are choice 1917 START the New Year right by buying your table and household needs at our store. I We carry a full and complete Jine of everything to be found in a Quality grocery. people, not to be inflamed by spirits and deserving of, the good fiery demagogues, not to be car will of everyone, ried off their feet by impractical There is nothing more APPETIZING than a slice ol They will make their, home on the Helena, farm near Wellville, ur HOICE HAM. We have them smoked or boiled as you prefer and, fried or baled or cooled in Kansas.

tr enthusiasms, a world in which all shall recognize that the most humdrum and settled aspects of life are its essence this is the mil any other of the many ways, they have a flavor that you We are sorry to lose these fine young people from our midst, ideal to wnicn most tine young will not soon forget. anything you may want in the line of fresh and salted meats. Fish, Oysters, Pieties, Etc. but wish them every success in men are sooner or later corrup their new home. ted.

If they guessed it in time -If you are looking for a place to it would break their hearts. SanFrancisco Bulletin, BrSchuItz Grocery live, or a location for a factory, or CITY MEAT MARKET F. T. COLGAN, Proprietor business, where conditions are favor Printing That Pleases Bugle able, you are invited to to 1 AUGUSTA. Electric Pnntery,.