The Jeffersonian Gazette from Lawrence, Kansas • Page 2

THE JEEFERSQrftAR DECEMBER 16 Klfi 1 STONY POINT. MUST PAY TO FISH. that results in thousands of miles of The Increase asked for the teuance of the state educational the staidest jgenerals have cheered aloud in their offices. An instance of this war was the occasion when General von Hinden-berg whose name has since become world famous was restored to the army. Perhaps it is not generally known that Hindenberg and the Kaiser were personal enemies.

It is the truth, however. The kaiser himself i put Hindenberg on the pension list six years ago in a fir of anger against him. Hindenberg was heartbroken; at 07 years his career seemed smashed. When the war broke out the kaiser ordered lists should be prepared including the name of every general who might help Germany. Hinden- Neste and Miss Marie DeWitt.

The club will meet December 30 with Miss Rovena Brown and Mrs. Walter Richards of Kanwaka spent Sunday at the Chas. Orr and Leman Unberwood Mr. and Mrs. Houghton and daughter, of Lawrence, were guests of Mr.

Elmer Keiffer and wife Miss Anna Anderson went to Kansas City, Saturday for a visit with friends and Mary effries is in Lawrence with Mrs. Hunt. Chas. Crowder of Lawrence, spent Wednesday night with her mother, Mrs. L.

Robert Ridley and Miss Essie Ridley delightfully entertained the Pleasant Hour club Wednesday afternoon. As it was election of officers, the order of business was suspended and Airs. Alfred Rucli- i ger for president, Mrs. W. P.

Martin vice president and Mrs. Jeffries secretary, were elected for the ensuing Mrs. Walter Davis read a fine paper on the reading a busy woman can do. Miss Bernice Eastman's name was added to roll call. During the social hour the hostess, assisted by Mrs.

Warren Ridley, served refreshments. The guests were Mrs. Anderson, Miss Ellen Anderson, Mrs. Erny DeWitt, and Mrs. Warren Ridley.

The club will hold its regular annual meeting New Year's Eve at the school house many friends of the Man-waring families will be glad to know that they are nicely settled in their new home in New York, and that Mrs. Henry Manwaring is fully recovered from a bad fall she had some time ago. KANSAS CROP VALUES. All Previous Records of the State Were Surpassed this Year. By United Press.

Topeka, Dec. 12. -The value of the field crops of Kansas this year is $280,000,000, exceeding the previous record by $52,000,000, according to a report made today by J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture.

The combined value of all crops, live stock sold for slaughter and slaughtered, and remaining on the farms, is $638,000,000. The value of the field crops averaged $1,500 per farm. INSPECTED WORK. County Commissioners Make Trip to South of County. The board of county commissioners made a trip to the south part of the county yesterday to make an inspection of contract work which has just been completed.

The county engineer made an examination of the work and will submit his report to the county board today. The commissioners having had completed the new Wintermantel bridge must now move a creek to run under it. This makes a neighborhood joke and an improvement at the same time. The creek had a bend in it at a point where the bridge was built, and begun to cut a new channel in high water. The bridge was built where the new channel will be and a little work will turn the stream through the short cut, obviating considerable loss in times of high water.

The other work inspected was the grading down of Pippert hill between Baldwin and Overbrook. The improvement will remove a grade that has always kept the road a bad one. GAVE A BAD BILL. Cbunterfeit of $5 Denomination Crudely Done. If you should chance to.

part with any of your belongings to a peculiar looking stranger and receive a five dollar bill in payment, take a look at the bill. An effort was maflo yesterday to pass a crude counter feit ot the 5 denomination. It failed yesterday, but may be re- Kansas good roads in our minds. It has been so for sixty years, and unless we wise up it will be just so for sixty years more. Neither the farmer nor the present generation learned that talk does not i build roads.

We are still trying it out, obsessed with the idea that when we have talked enough, we shall have the roads. Of this talk, some is good, some is indifferent, and some yet is bad. Among the best of it is that made by ranK fcmitn oi Pleasanton, president of the Eastern Kansas Uood itoaas association. At its meeting in Paola Mr. Smith made a soeech which he outlmed his plans for permanent good roads.

Here is an extract from the speech, and it is certainly well worth considering: "Have the next session of the Kansas legislature enact a road law that will provide that when 25 per cent of the tax payers of any county petition the county commissioners they shall levy a tax of one mill as a special road tax and the funds thus raised to be used in building permanent roads, beginning at the county seat and extending in four directions leading towards county seat towns in adjoining counties. The state highway engineer or his assistant to aid the county commissioners and the county surveyors in locating the various roads. Or to follow the Ohio system exact the county would pay 75 per cent of the cost of the roads, the township 15 per ceit and the abutting property 10 per cent. This plan would equalize the burden according to the benefits. "I would provide further that at the same time the inter-county roads were asked for by petition or after these roads were completed the people may petition for the building of other roads in the county to be known as Market roads, the petitions to the commissioners to specify the roads to be improved and the same rule as to townships and abutting property to maintain.

This system would, in a few years, enable each county to build permanent roads wherever needed and where the people wanted theoi. "By examining the map -of Kansas and noting the location of the county seat towns it will be seen that a system of permanent roads connecting all of these towns will be easy and practical and will give Kansas a system of good roads that will compare favorably with that of Ohio, New York, and other states well advanced in the matter of road building. The designated 'county roads' of each county now carry about 80 per cent of all the traffic in the county. When these roads are built and the people have gotten a taste of good roads it will be an easy matter then to keep up the good road work until all of the main roads are improved." REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. W.

E. Spalding wf Lawrence, to A. J. Anderson. W.i NW.

i 35-12-19. $1 et, W. S. McNeill wf. to A.

J. Anderson. Same as above. $5,000. Hugh Blair wf.

Lawrence to Grace H. Ober. N. 50 ft. lot 13 and S.

50 ft. lot 14 in blk. 10 Babcock's Enlgd. addn. Lawrence.

$9,500. W. Fred Lindley wf. Lawrence to Chas. F.

Oehrle. Lot 11 in block 36 W. Lawrence. SI etc. WAS BADLY BURNED.

Rev Mr. Jackson Injured When Workmen Burned Out Well. Rev. G. N.

Jackson, pastor of the Warren Street Baptist church, was badl3r burned by flaming gasoline day before yesterday. Mr. Jackson had some men cleaning out his well. One part of the cleaning process was to pour about three gallons of gasoline down the well and set it on fire. Mr.

Jackson was standing on his porch twenty feet from the well watching the proceedings, but the burst of flames from the well when the gasoline was ignited turned toward him and severely burned him about the face. The right eyebrow was burned off and the right side of the face was scorched and blistered badly, but the injuries were not so bad as to prevent Mr. Jackson from about his duties. going VON HINDENBERG'S GERMAN EFFICIENCY. By William G.

Shepherd, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Berlin, Oct. 15: (By Mail to New York.) I have had an insight into some of the affairs which have caused the greatest interest and excitement in the German war office. Just as this war in itself outdoes fiction so some of the scenes that have occurred in the war office have outrun imagination. There have been moments so exciting that even Plan Suggested, to Increase Fish Plant Revenue. If the plan of Prof.

L. L. Dyche is adopted the man who goes out for a day's fishing 7 will have to have a state license at a cost of $1, and that will mean the depriving of lots of men and women, who go fishing about once a year, of the privilege and pleasure of that sort of sport. Professor Dyche in his message to the legislature this winter will recommend that the present hunting license be made to include fishing, and that a fee of SI be charged for the same. At present it costs the numrods SI a vear for a hunting license.

The Izaak Waltons pay nothing for the privilege of pursuing the elusive bass and other members of the finny tribe. "Boys under 15 should be allowed to fish without a license," said Pro-ffessorDyche yesterday in commenting on his recommendation. "No one has a right to take from the boy certain inalienable rights. One of these is the right to fish. Neither should he be asked to pay for the fun he gets out of it.

He generally gets more fun than fish, anyway, but that is aside from the subject. Under the present arrangement the hunters pay the bills and the fishermen get the benefits, Dyche points out. The money received from the sale of hunting licenses goes to the support of the state fish hatchery at Pratt. Incidental the action of the Kansas legislature in doing away with quail and prairie chicken shooting, followed by the action of the federal government in forbidding spring shooting of migratory birds, is cutting the hunting license receipts nearly in two. "The days of hunting in Kansas are about ver," said Dyche.

"The only sport that we can count on within a few years is fishing. It is only fair that the fishermen help pay for the work of stocking the Kansas streams, now only really begun. In the last eighteen months we have distributed fifty-nine carloads of fish in the Kansas streams and ponds. From now on the bulk of the fish sent out from the hatchery will nbe placed in the streams, as most of the ponds are stocked." Dyche also will recommend that the state law be amended to conform to the federal regulation in regard to spring shooting. This will make the open season on migratory waterfowl from September 15 to February 1, Instead of April 15.

SOME POINTS ABOUT RICHER GIRLS HOME. In view of the fact that several erroneous ideas in regard to the nature of the home endowed by the late Leonora Ricker Hollingbery, seem to be current among those who have taken an interest in the matter, it seems well to make a statement of just what the home will be of what Mrs. Hollingbery planned and desired it to become. It is not to be a charitable institution, but more in the nature of a cooperative boarding and lodging club for girls, who are employed here, with homes 'elsewhere, or for student girls. It was Mrs.

Hollingbery's wish that it might be, in all true senses of the word, a home. She hoped that the endowment would pay the running expenses, and the girls would have their board and home for the actual cost of provisions. This would be a material aid to many girls with liminted means, who wish to obtain a University education. It will be much the same as the restaurants and club rooms of the Y. W.

C. A. in the larger cities. It was Mrs. Hollingbery 's desire that a special bureau be established in connection with the home which would assist students to secure such work as might enable them to pay, or partly pay their way while here in school, and also to assist any girl to obtain suitable employment.

It will be safe and pleasant place for any girl or woman, transient in the city, to board. It also was desired by the founder, that any girl who might for any reason, need temporary assistance, would be free to come to this home, just as she would go to her father's house, with no feeling that she was an inmate of a charitable institution. Airs. Hollingbery once said, "I have no children of my own to leave my property to, and so I want to just adopt the girls living in Lawrence who have no homes, or whose homes are elsewhere and leave them a place here, in this town where they will feel truly at home." Gertrude C. Harman.

In What Direction The great thing In the world Is not CO much where we stand, as In what direction we are moving. Holmes. Mr. Will Pumroy hauled wheat to Baldwin for Murray Price Maggie McMullin called at the Ulrich home Monday -Mr. Dodge of Ottawa, dined at the Pumroy home Mr.

Louis Georgii and Mr. George Tucker were Baldwin visitors Will spent Sunday at the Clarence Griffiths home. Will Pumroy and Mabel called at George Tucker's Glenn and McQueen and Wes and Albert Lawson are helping Mr. Schick, of Vinland erect a silo Mr. Roily Winters called at Kass-ingers and Mrs Lewis Georgiiand Xoah Weimer called at the Jake Ulrich home Sunday Charlev Kanninger went to Law rence Monday to begin work in the Barteldes seed house John Southard has the misfortune to have a sick Rob Pardee hauled wheat to Baldwin for Murray Price Tuesday Mrs.

Maggie McMullan called at Pumroy's Wednesday The county meeting of the Farmers' Union was held at Baldwin Thursday. It was an all-day meeting and held from the Masonic temple. Mr. county lecturer addresses the Mr. Thomas Pardee called at the Campbell home The sad news of the death of John Price, of Lawrence reached us on Thursday.

Mr Price has been seriously ill with consumption for several weeks and passed out of this life at 5:30 Thursday evening. The funeral was held from the Christian church at Stull and the body quietly laid to rest in the Mound cemetery. Mr. Price is survived by a wife, a father and two sisters and two A number of years ago he lived in this vicinity occupying at that time the farm now owned by Mr.Lawson.. Mr.

Will Winter had his fodder shredded Friday. Mr. Lewis Georgii was a Baldwin visitor Saturday and Mrs. Chas. Ice and family spent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives near Stull.

Charles Price and Willie assisted Raj' Price put in his telephone Saturday. Lewis Georgii called at Pardee's Mr. John Ulrich of Colorado is spending a few days with his brother Jake and Mrs. John Churchbaugh and family and Mr. and Mrs.

Campbell motored to Eudora Sunday Mr. Thomas Pardee called at the Murray Price home Lester Craig was a Baldwin visitor Miss Shepherd and the pupils of our school are preparing a program and pie supper to be given at the school house rriaay evening, Dec. 18... Bertha Pardee called at Pumroy 's Mrs. James Kassinger was a Baldwin visitor Solon Tucker is working for John Hulce of near Air.

L. A. Lawson was a Baldwin visitor Having quit work in Lawrence, Miss Clella McQueen expects to be home for some time now. Jack McMullan called at the Rolla Winters home Will Pumroy called at Geo. Tucker's Sunday Farmers Union received a carload of coal Tuesdav, which was unloaded in a few hours.

The coal was obtained at a greatly reduced price. James Kassinger called at the Will Winters home Sunday and Mrs. Jake Ulrich and Mr. and Mrs John Ulrich of Colorado called at the Georgi home Thomas Pardee called at Fleishman's Monday afternoon Maggie McMullan was a Baldwin visitor Wednesday revival meetings at High Prairie this week was attended by several Stony Point Mr. Thos.

Pardee called at Pumroy's Mrs McQueen and Crilla were Baldwin shoppers Mr. Will Pumroy called at Georgii's Miss Bridget Malone called at the Ulrich home Fern McQueen spent Sunday with home Bertha Pardee was a Baldwin visitor Friday Will Pumroy and Mabel spent Friday night with relatives in Lawrence Irvin Scott has been suffering from a severe Mr. Will Pumroy called at the Georgii home Friday. BRACKETT. Mr.

and Mrs. J. R. Topping of Kanwaka were guests Thursday of Mr. and Mrs.

Al Smith and The regular meeting of the W. W. club was held Friday afternoon, December 4 with Miss Marie Davis, with nine members to respond to roll call. -The name of Miss Co-rinthy Lindsey was added to the roll. An interesting Christmas story was read by Mrs.

George Siler. Music was provided by Miss Marie DeWitt, Miss May Myers, and Miss Marie At the usual hour dainty refreshments were served by I the hostess. The guests were Miss Phoebe Bigsby, Miss Nellie Van- 4S uuij a WU1C UKCi 1 1 1 "per cent, in ocner tnings we are airier vnnrlif nrps from twenty io iuu per cenx. r.u uuci ease only oT eight per cent in the cost of maintenance for these great and 1 -11 i A 1 vaiuame institutions is not- Keep-- ing even with the normal growth of the state. Evidently the board has -cut down their estimates to the very Ifiwrosf nrw-iihJp fimirp.

And while it would not be customary, it would -JJl-UULlUlV U2 1UX lUC UUU Ui. cational interests of Kansas tor me legislature to increase rather than to rWrpfise the estimates The hunters of Kansas Uity are t- -i rr-v i nr. 1 L7 I 11 Li r-a I I of Leavenworth county object to Iraving their farms tramped over by strangers, their game killed, their fialrls nrrl woods burned UP, their -chickens shot, their cattle and horses Skilled and wounded, and themselves compelled to dodge the reckless bullets of the hunters. The farmers are a scrubb- lot, according to the idea of the hunters from Kansas it. ixa 1 xne taiier nave iuimeu au alliance to force the farmers to let uieii-iiuiie vvxieu lutrj -uut onvu Jt does look as though the Leavenworth farmers are unreason- able.

The Kansas City hunters mut have their fun, and if the stock of the farmers, "-or-even the farmers thf-msplv-ps trpt in the wav of the nunters, then it is the worse lor trie farmers a nS Aheir stock. There. sl feeling throughout the aountrvit liat complete harmony does -exist; between President Wilson anil Secretary Bryan. Whether or no there is foundation for hei un-1 easy feeling, of course no one knows, perhaps, even should Mr. Bryan resign, rq one would ever know.

When Mr. Bryan took the office he regarded the acceptance of it as a sacrifice-on his part, and it was taken by hirartisJi peace offering, a patriotic partisan sacrifice, in order to -isolidify the democratic party. It had exactly that effect, thanks to the wisdom of President Wilson, who made -the tender of the highest office within 'Ids sift so that the partisans of Uryan should not be able to say that they and their leader had been treated unjustly. Vague rumors have come from Washington in re-- ierence to the differences, but no one has had the courage to make specific charges. There probably will be no but if one does come, here Is the prediction that it will be Secretary Bryan, and not President jtvf llson, who brings it about.

At course the people of Kansas ild not iiave done that if it hadn't I-- Ifyjn for the wheat crop. But when they 'harvested the biggest crop the history of this or any other state, and i afterward the prices of their big -crop went sky-scraping, they just made up their minds to cele- brate with a joy ride. That is how they happened to invest fifteen mil-: ihn dollars in automobiles since the wheat harvest of last summer. Pif teen thousand new cars have been boughtand if they cost an average of of $1,000 each then the people have spent about eight per cent of the they got for their wheat in buying automobiles. The fact that they ran afford it, goes without Question.

They do not as a rule, badly need the cars; that thej' could get along without them they have proved by doing without them these years. They are luxuries, but when you come to think of it, a that can raise 180,000000 bushels of wheat in a year and sell it for a dollar a afford some few luxuries. MORE GOOD ROADS. is the beginning of the season of the year when Kansas builds her good roads. During the summer, spring and fail, Kansas has so much to do that it is impossible for her to do any such unnecessary work as road building; it is only after the bad weather of winter sets in that we construct our roads, and the work is done then in warm and comfort--able rooms behindTxigars and pipes, and with great enthusiasm and unity of purpose.

After a rain I and a freeze in the early winter, the neces- sity for better roads makes itself manifest, and it is then we begin -their our mouths for instructive implements. We keep diils up industriously all winter, far into the spring, but when the roads dry up, and the wheeling is -good, and the whirl of the buzz car is in the land, we lay away our ood roads work in moth balls to be taken out again when another hard iliard winter begins. the beginning of a joy--uos Christmas season, when the rroads are sticky and the whiz car is marooned, we begin the annual est berg's name was not put on the list. The kaiser noticed the omission. "Where's Hindenberg?" he asked, "Germany needs him." That vas one of the first surprises the war office sustained.

But a greater surprise was in store for the men in the big stone building in Berlin in connection with this same Hindenberg. Hindenberg has been a one-ideaed man throughout his life. Every German general in the war office is a specialist on some tactics or plan, but Hindenberg was considered almost 'queer" in regard to a certain plan he had for crushing a Russian force in eastern Prussia. He had figured when he was a young officer Germany and Russia ever fought each other and that, if Russian troops started for Berlin by way of Eastern Prussia, and that, if on their march they got near Konigsberg or Tannenberg, and that if he were in charge of German troops in Eastern Prussia if all these "ifs" came true, he 4 would get the Russians into a trap and drive them back into the swamps in the lake country and let the swamps whip them, providing one more "if" that all this would not occur in the winter time when the swamps were frozen. All of JHindenberg's success in life, in fact, depended on all these "ifs" coming true and he was laughed at in the army and in German court circles for staking his career and his place in German military history on such a slim and, apparently, impracticable chance.

He was called "Swampy Hindenberg" by his inti mates. Many of his holidays he spent in the lake country in Eastern Prussia studying the ground. There was a mudhole in the aera that he did not know; its width, its depth the nature of the earth around it. Eastern Prussia swamps were his life study. When the war broke out Hindenberg was sent to Eastern Prussia.

At the age of 67 years, after decades of theorizing and friendly ridicule he was to be given his chance in life at last. The war office kept its eyes on Hindenberg. In the early days of August the Russians crossed the border into Eastern Prussia. Five great army corps, apparently ir-resistable in their might, began their ponderous progress toward Konigsberg. Miles and miles they went into Prussia unchallenged.

Hindenberg held back as he had planned to do. His life dream coming true. The Russians destroyed villages, seized large towns and hastened on toward the great modern city of ivonigsDerg witn its- csou.uuu in habitants and its rich storehouses. "The Russians are overwhelming Prussia, said worried Germany. "Weak German lines fears to meet oncoming Russians," said the Amer ican newspaper headlines.

But the German war office held its peace and its breath, waiting to see whether Hindenberg life-long dream had been all a mistake and his entire career only an error. At last the Russians reached the Tannenberg country. And Hindenberg struck! America knows by this time that it was one of the most terrible battles in human history. Hindenberg folded back the Russian left wing. The Russians found only a swamp behind them into which they retreated and found themselves helpless.

The Russian center Hindenberg drove back against another great swamp area. Here his men took 30,000 Russian prisoners. The oncoming Russian left had still another swamp reserved for it. The Germans were outnumbered three to one but 93,000 Russians were prisoners of the Germans within 36 hours and the losses on both sides were. 160,000 men; dead and wounded.

The decorum of the war office went to pieces when the first news came of Hindenberg's success. "Swampy" Hindenberg Is whole life of 67 years had been justified by 36 hours of fighting. Our Work, must do our human, work 1a Conscientious and Immaculate tier. Independently from whether iro cope to become angels some time 13 tas future or believe that we used to be zaollusks some time in the Jchn Itaskin. A man who was described as nrv I culiar in appearance offomd Mrs.

7 C. B. Harman $5 for a pair of white angora rabbits yesterday. After handing Mrs. Harmon a bill in nav- ment he started away.

Mrs. Har-man looked at the bill in her hand. It was such a poor counttrfpit that. a single glance was enough to dis close the fact "This is not a good bill," she told the man. did you get it?" The purchaser of the rabbits did ll not answer the question.

"If you think it isn't good, take back the rabbits and give me the monev fin said, and the exchange was made. Mrs. Harman had never seen the man before. The effort to get the bill culation may be reDeatpd nnrl if might be well for all recipients 'of 9E kill- .1 po uius to scrutinize tnem closely a. Mr.

Ben Matkins is here from Salt Lake Citv. Utah to Knonri holidays with his mother. 4'.