The Real Westerner from Topeka, Kansas • 6

6 THE REAL WESTERNER October 1920 HOTEL SECTION Where the Boys Stop Everything New and Up-to-date THE NEW COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND CAFE 1 0. E. Morris, Prop. FiE BLUE E. RAPIDS, COLTRANE KANSAS Hotel Broker Dealer in Hotels, Rooming Houses and Cafes.

Hotels For Sale--Furniture and HOTEL NEU. Leases a Specialty, Neu Proprietors. North Main St. Hutchinson, Kan. H.

N. Neu, Man. Branch Office 220 National Bank Bldg. Modern. European.

Wichita, Kansas. The Real Hotel Between Belleville and Denver. THE ELLIOTT Kansas. Belleville, Kansas Goodland, Ask the Boys HOTEL ELMORE THE OVER THERE CAFE Kiowa, Kansas. Cleanliness and Service European, modern, up to date.

See the Boys Brewster, Kan. THE ALAMO The Commercial Boys' Home Colorado Springs, Colorado FOR SALE OR TRADE -Hotel and cafe business and property with SEXTON HOTEL grocery and meat market in connec- J. A. RASBACH, Proprietor tion if desired, in thriving Colorado Kansas City, Mo. town.

A big money-maker and KANARADO CAFE worth investigating if you have enough help to run the business. Kanarado, Kansas John J. Nobr, Prop. Good building on best corner in Neat Lunches, Good Meals, Comfortable Rooms for Tourists and Traveling town, good furniture and fixtures, and a good established business in Men. all departments.

Would like to have in Colo- Make our place your headquarters small tract near good town when in Kanarado. rado. Can make good terms on a sale or trade. Price approximately FIFTH AVENUE $16,000. What have you? R.

E. Topeka, Kansas Hightower, Deer Trail, Colo. European ern hotels, is its limited number of rooms. The best hotel on the Rock Island between Belleville, and Denver, is The Collins, at Stratton, fully modern and up to date with hot and cold water, steam heat and electric lights in over 100 well furnished rooms. This hotel is filled to capacity every night in a town of less than 1,000, and the old town of Norton is wondering if it can afford a hotel of eighty rooms.

Where are Norton's boosters? If you really want to keep good hotel help, pay them modern wages. You are getting modern rates and if you are square you will divide up a little. The chaps who have the most trouble in keeping the help are still trying to use the 1914 wage scale and collect 1920 hotel rates. Try being fair. Too many flies are permanent boarders in hotel and restaurant kitchens and dining rooms.

Get busy and have a cleaning up time. Incidentally take the pre-war and Hoover Food conservation poster down. Those campaigns are over now and they are mighty poor feed for your $1 to $1.50 meals. Give us the real grub that we pay for. We are tired of poster hash.

Sugar is down now in all the local markets and there is no real excuse of those sugar envelopes that are too thin to make a shadow. Bring out the sugar bowl. If you are really hard run and need the money, it would be more honest and quite as consistent to ask 15 cents for tooth picks and 20 cents for paper napkins as some other things that you have on your menubesides we can really see these two items and know what we are getting for our money. Away back in 1914 at any restaurant that you dropped into, a pleasant waiter would bring you a glass of water and respectfully await your order-today in nine times out of ten a slouchy cigarette fiend, who minus the glass of water, leers at you over the counter with an uncivil whatyerhave? Liberal, Kansas, is making decided efforts towards building a half-million dollar hotel. Today Nebraska has twice the good hotels and far superior hotel accommodations to the state of Kansas.

Even Colorado and Oklahoma far discount Kansas in hotel buildings and accommodations. Kansas has lagged far behind in building good hotels in her towns and unless she awakens to her needs will be left far behind in the march of progressive undertakings. We can help some of the good towns that are willing to help themselves in securing a good hotel, but we do not care to hear from any town that wants some rich stranger to come along and set a fine modern fire-proof, going, up to date- hotel down in their midst as a Christmas present. We live in too much that kind of a town ourselves. If we hear of any such strangers wandering around in the state we will do our best to run them over the state line.

We believe in the people and the towns who believe in themselvesthe other kind are not worth helping. The Over There new cafe at Brewster is a neat and attractive little effort at small town restaurant that will get a big business. The boys have a neat place and are entitled to the trade. Both Goodland and St. Francis, Kan, have good up to date cafeterias that are doing a very profitable business and proving themselves a great convenience to the general public.

Every good county seat town should have a cafeteria. There is a possibility of organizing a hotel company to build hotels along the highways in Kansas in medium sized towns. No town will be considered that will not stand at least 50 per cent of the cost of the building. The company, if formed, will be largely composed of traveling men and merchants and will take over and manage the hotels. The boys are getting rather tired of sitting up half the nights.

We would like to hear from a half dozen or more good towns that would consider a proposition of this kind and work with the boys in building some more good places in the west now SO sorely needed. We would also like to hear from any one who would be willing to invest anywhere from $100 to 000 in a properly organized company for this purpose. It is a cinch that if the western hotel situation improves any that western people will have to improve it. At present our almost total lack of hotel accomodation is a shame and a disgrace to the West and unless remedied will do much to injure the country in a business way. By working together we can all help and in the end acquire a number of good hotels that will affect the situation favorably.

The Stover Hotel, at Lucas, which can be purchased at a reasonable figure, is a mighty good opening for a man of moderate means to get into the hotel game. The Bales Hotel, at Plainville, is giving first class service and enjoying a fine patronage. With vegetables tumbling in price and -other things tending towards a slide, some of the rate makers in the hotels should get their ear to the ground and read the handwriting on the wall. Potatoes at $2 a bushel, tomatoes at $1.50, cabbage at 2 cents a pound, eggs at 30 cents a dozen and all other lines of vegetables too cheap to be interesting, certainly mean lower rates on meals. Read the good letter from our Nebraska correspondent on Western hotel conditions and then take a look at your own town.

A town's hotel is its best ad and if the hotel is poor it's making a mighty bad bid to the public for the growth of that town. Recently a restaurant man asked us who the hotel inspector was and how he could find him to get a hotel license. He had just bought out a place that had skidded along without a state license for over a year. We are like our Nebraska correspondent and wonder why the hotel inspectors do not occasionally take a look in on western Kansas hotel and restaurant conditions. When you plan for the future it will not be necessary to be eternally digging up the past.

Capacity to turn off work is one. of the greatest things in life, but many of us do not measure up to our capacity. The great moments of life are as short as the others in duration, but as far as the centuries in their influence on our futures. A GOOD LETTER FROM NEBRASKA Sidney, Sept. 6, 1920 The Real Westerner, Norton, Kansas.

Gentlemen: For one to thoroughly appreciate your "Hotel he should make an auto trip through western Kansas, as I did recently. I wondered why, if Kansas has a pure food department and a hotel inspector, they do not consider that part of their state within their jurisdiction and make a few calls. In one little city, where the prospects are such that within a few years it will be several times its present size, myself and companions called at an ice cream parlor for a cold drink, and, from all appearances, the last time it was cleaned was during the war and just before one of the Red Cross drives, as the posters are still in sight. Western Kansas will have the biggest influx of actual farmers within the next few years of any part of the West. It needs good ones who, through study, will farm the land in such a way that i it will produce even greater crops with less rain fall than it is doing the present year.

It is time for all the towns to prepare for the growth which is sure to come. Very truly yours, Robt. A. Barlow. LOGAN This thriving little town is the business metropolis of southwest Phillips county, has two good banks that rank with the best in western Kansas, a good high school, two elevators, several churches and some of the best equipped business houses in the -county.

The town is the seat of the Four County Fair and this year made one of the best agricultural products displays made in the west. Few county fairs in the East could have shown a more varied or better developed line than The Four County Fair at Logan put on. Logan has many beautiful homes and has produced some very successful merchants. It is near the Bow Creek country of Graham county and draws much good trade from that rich farming country. The town has its own water system, but gets its light service from Phillipsburg.

One of the best hotels on the Central Branch is located at Logan and the Commercial trade always make it a point to make it a lay over stop. Logan is a genuine boosting, thriving western town and will always be a good point for local trade and a fine town for a home. Property will always be good value in a town like Logan. EXCHANGE COLUMN We will carry a nice write up of your property two issues, giving you two inches of space each issues for $10. Smaller ads at Five cents a word per issue.

A well written ad will find the exchange for you. There is some one among our readers looking for what you have to trade. Try it. Write your ad or send us the description of the property that you want to exchange. KANSAS.

FOR EXCHANGE-Hog ranch at Severy, in Greenwood county; two railroads, two banks, two lumber yards, high school, electric lights. The following joins the town: Eightroom modern house, plenty shade, eight acres hog pasture with good hog houses, abundance of good well water. Would trade the above for a grain elevator in a grain producing country in central or northeastern Kansas. A. M.

Brandt, Severy, Kan. WANT COLUMN ADVERTISING RATES IN WANT COLUMN ADS Five Cents Per word per issue. Most copy runs six words per line, seven lines per inch. No ads taken for less than $1. Mail check with copy.

The Real Westerner, Norton, Kansas. FOR SALE OR TRADE-940 acres good farm land; 70 acres in cultivation, crop goes; 50 head cattle, 15 head horses, 15 head hogs; immediate possession; located 17 miles southwest Fowler, Colo. W. Pointer, Fowler, Colo. FOR SALE OR TRADE -160 acres, on Sasketchewan, Canada, 60 acres broke, balance prairie; very productive wheat land; well settled community; $40 per acre.

Trade Kansas or Colorado land of equal value. F. C. Meinter, Olmitz, Kan. Brooding over the past or dreaming of the future is not half so important as seizing the immediate present moment and grasping the opportunity of the hour.

It's just the difference between the ordinary and the best that makes the difference between the failure and the success. REAL ESTATE COLUMN KANSAS. If you have any eastern property that you want to trade for western land, get in communication with us. We can handle your stuff and give you a good idea. We have a man on the ground and a full list of good valuable tracts.

We can handle any sized trade. Dept. Real Western, Norton, Kan. FOR SALE--Save commissionsbuy of owner. I have land in Rawlins, Thomas, and Sherman counties.

Good wheat land. Merchandise stock. Good building for hotel or rooming house. Two store rooms for any kind of business. Write W.

E. Emalizer. FOR SALE- A square section farm lying north of Brewster, in the great wheat belt. Frame house, barn, well and windmill; fenced; 200 acres under cultivation; no waste land; all smooth, fertile wheat land. Price $24,000.

E. W. Albright, Brewster, Kan. BARGAIN-520 acres, one mile from town; 175 acres in cultivation; mostly bottom land; all new and large improvements; all buildings lighted with electric lights; fenced with sheep and hog fences. Price, $55 per acre.

Kline Realty Morland, Kan. HOTEL CHAT This column is conducted by the management of The Real Westerner as a regular department of the paper and the editor reserves the right to say anything about a hotel or hotel service within the bounds of truth that the institution is entitled to have said about its reputation. Not a cent will be accepted for complimentary mention in any way and we shall criticize freely where such criticism is just. If you want to avoid wide spread criticism all over five states give the public real service and a run for their money. The Shannon Hotel, at Hill City, recently fitted up new and opened by the Koehler girls, is a fine example of a well managed and well run hotel.

Miss Nellie Koehler is an excellent hotel manager and her effort in the Shannon is the finest we have seen in the West. That hotel is as neat and tasty as a model home and has the home-like comforts that any well planned hotel should have. Needless to say it is getting a liberal patronage from the commercial boys. The West needs more hotels like The Shannon. We would like to run this column chuck full of good things about that class of hotels.

A lot of Western towns are sleeping on the door step of opportunity on their hotel situation. Some day they will awaken with a jolt when their more enterprising neighbors take the business away from them. The hotel at McCracken is for Almost any place in the state, when the boys get to talking about the best hotel, some one speaks up and says: "I know where that is, that's The Elliott, up at Belleville, Kansas." That is because Joe Elliott is a real hotel man and back of that a real man. Joe gives the boys a square deal, has them all boosting for him, and yet makes more money than any other man in the hotel business in Kansas. When you are willing to give the other fellow a square deal and not worry so much about your own profits, you will really learn how to make money without thinking about it.

Joe Elliott's real concern is to run a good hotel, and he does it right up to the notch. Of course he makes money and a lot of other chaps could learn to double their present incomes by taking pointers from Joe Elliott. The Hotel Neu, at Goodland, maintains a nice place and runs an excellent dining room. The main trouble with the Neu, like most west- 190 ACRES, close to two good towns; well improved; 60 acres pasture; mile to school; miles to church; a choice farm at $125 per acre. 170 acres, highly improved; fenced with woven wire; miles to good town; owner received $2,000 rent this year.

One of the best listed. 200 acres, close to two good towns, in high state of cultivation; large house, fine barn; exceptionally good terms. 700-acre ranch; will carry 200 cattle; two houses; good barn; well improved with other improvements. A first-class proposition. Write R.

P. Wells, Formoso, Kan. A FIRST-CLASS improved 160 acres, within four miles of Goodland; 80 acres in wheat, one-fourth goes. This is choice land in the best wheat growing section of Sherman county, Price and terms right. Write Eastern Owner Real Westerner, Norton, Kan.

FOR SALE-160 acres, four miles north of Goodland, in the choice wheat section; 80 acres in wheat, one-fourth with place; $60 per acre, Good terms. Write me. W. M. Soules, Courtland, Kan.

350-ACRE FARM with 40 cattle, 3 horses, crops and 3 hogs, flock sheep, poultry, fodder to winter stock, machinery, wagons, tools; 275 acres machine-worked fields, wirefenced pasture, 1,000 cords wood, market nearby; 200 sugar maples, apple orchard; 2-story, 12-room modern house, bathroom; 107-ft. barn, 2 silos, spring water, 2 other barns, poultry house, other buildings; settling estate, everything goes to quick buyer for $7,200, easy terms. Details this and good farm with 11 cows, equipment and produce, only $1,000 cash needed page 22 Strout's Big New Illustrated Catalog Farm Bargains 33 States. Just Out. Write for free copy.

Strout Farm Agency, 831CR, New York Life Kansas City, Mo. FOR of the best garage propositions in Kansas, on the main line of the Rock Island railroad, also the Rock Island and Solomon Valley highway; cement garage and equipment; building is 50x100 feet and doing a good business. A good, two-chair barber shop in a good location. Also a fine, well-improved 320- acre farm, the best bargain in west, ern Kansas. R.

A. Rogers, Selden, Kan. FOR ranch, fenced and cross-fenced, six-room frame house; every foot tillable; 160 acres in crop this year; 15 acres alfalfa; will have approximately 2,000 bushels small grain; two ditch rights; plenty fo water. Write James Montgomery, Real Estate, Florence, Colo,.