The Evening Kansan-Republican from Newton, Kansas • Page 1

EVENING KAN KANSAN-REPUBLICAN. Evening Founded 1887, Consolidated 1899 NEWTON, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1906. VOL. XIX. NO.

127. The Daily Republican, Founded 1886. That Rasping Noise From the Orient is Bill Bryan Saying Nothing and Sawing. -Wood RIGHT KIND AT LAST TODAY'S RAINS WILL DO LOTS OF GOOD. Ground Was Undoubtedly SoakedMorning Showers Did Not Reach All Parts of the County.

Just in the nick of time, a fine rain fell in Harvey county today and the farmers are rejoicing and the town peo ple with them. Things have been looking dubious the last week or so and the farmers talked with on the streets have expressed much fear as to the safety of the crops, corn and oats especially needing moisture. The tion has been even more critical most town people realized, some of the farmers reporting their fields beginning to "fire' around the edges. This morning's big rain has put a different aspect to the situation. Although not long continued, it was heavy while it lasted and enough moisture fell to soak the ground a couple of inches or more.

The best, accord ing to the weather prophets, is yet to come. They say that the indications today are that we are entering upon a rainy spell. A good shower is in prograss this afternoon and there is every prospect that the end is not yet. The showers of this morning were local to a large extent. C.

D. Masteze, who came in from Halstead, said the rain was exceedingly heavy out that way. Others, from northwest of town, report rain up to ten thirty o'clock this morning farther west than two miles out of Newton. This afternoon's rain, however, was undoubtedly more extensive and there is good reason to believe that the entire county has been given a much -needed soaking. Coming as it did from the west, it is practically certain that the western part of the county, at least was deluged.

NEARLY ALL HAVE PHONES. Farmers Around Goessel Are Very Progressive. As an illustration of the way in which the telephone idea is spreading may be cited the town of Goessel, northeast of Newton. Although only a village, it has a nicely equipped telephone exchange and is the center from which radiate. twenty-three toll lines, each of which has, on an average, fifteen subscribers.

Nearly ev. ery home in that part of the country has a phone, and it is the exception, rather than the rule, to find a home not equipped with a telephone in that part of the country. This particular section of the country is building up rapidly and the number of telephones in use there evidences the progressiveness of these people, nearly all of whom are German. -IN CLUB The chapel of the Presbyterian church never looked so pretty as it did last night at the banquet of the Bible Study club. The room was transformed into a perfect bower of roses and WAS an exceedingly beautiful sight.

The -tables were arranged in form of a cross and were decorated with an abundance of roses. A tall silver vase filled with red roses formed the center piece. The place cards were hand paint ed and each one was in some manner indicative of the person's characteristics for whom it was intended. They were the work of Miss Helen Hoisington, one of the absent members. Dr.

Smith acted as toast master and showed himself a very capable one. The courses were interspersed with music and toasts. Mrs. Smith, Miss Jessie Davis and Miss Alice Simpson sang a trio. Miss Alice Simpson sang a beautiful solo and graciously responded to an encore.

Miss Helen Shirk rendered piano solo, Miss Jessie Davis read a poem "Missing Arcs" in which she referred to the missing members and paid tribute to the club steed. Mrs. William Woulfe responded to "Our Near Togetherness" in a charmingly sympathetic manner. P. M.

Hoisington told of the Bible Study club as the militia of the church, Miss Converse said the committee could find no subject for her toast but gave an apt talk on "The Youngest Member" of the club and the good she derived from the club. Mrs. Ewart had a humor ous prophecy and told of the modern prophets whom we meet every day. "Our Sword the Word of God" was responded to by Rev. Ewart in a very pleasant manner.

Miss Avis Reynolds gave a beautiful pipe organ solo at the close of the program, rendering "Unfold" with great expression. Miss Alice Simpson, Miss Beth Hoisington, Miss Avis Reynolds and Miss Theo-dora Grove served the banquet and the deft way in which it was done was highly commended. Before the close of the delightful evening all joined in singing the Doxology. The Minus One Whist club was charmingly entertained last evening by Miss Eva Steinkirchner and Miss Ella Beezer. Three guest tables were added to the usual number and the evening was pleasantly spent playing the usual game.

The prizes beautiful china plate and a deck of cards were won by Miss Estelle Cooper and Mr. Ed Hoag. The hostess, assisted by Miss Louise Steinkirchner and Mr. Leo Steinkirchner served a delicious lunch. It has been some time since this club has had a meeting so the pleasure of being entertained in this hospitable home was doubly enjoyable and the guests lingered.

until a late hour. Miss Nellie Morgan was hostess at a delightful party at her home last night in honor of George Roberts who is a guest at the Morgan home. Cards and games were the amusements of the evening and the hostess served excellent refreshments. The guest list included Miss Edna Patton, Miss Margaret Hall, Miss Ellen Prather, Mr. Fred Hall, Mr.

N. B. Lamb, Mr. W. H.

von der Heiden and Mr and Mrs. A Morgan. The Ladies of the Maccabees gave an ice cream social last night at their hall. Despite the threatening weather there was a good attendance and all enjoyed themselves. A neat sum was realized for the benefit of the order.

AMUSEMENTS. Winfield, Courier, March 31st. 1905, says: The concert by the Polmatier Sisters at the Grand last night was well attended and gave splendid satisfaction. The Elks, under whose patronage they played here, merit the thanks of all music lovers for having brought this superb attratcion. The company is composed of finished musicians, both with voice and instruments.

Every number was enthusiastically encored, and the players were liberal in response. The sisters were assisted by Mr. Harry Woods, who played on the mandolin and xylophone. Each of the sisters deserves individual mention. They are blessed with great personal charm as well as with musical talent and were beautifully costumed.

Auditorium, Tuesday evening, May 29. The Orpheum Show. After a successful season in the principal opera houses of the middle west the Huston-Franklin Opheum show will play an engagement in Newton two nights, Monday and Tuesday, May 28 and 29, showing their own pavilion theatre. Arrangements have been made with the electric light company for a complete electrical display and the performance will be given just the same as in the best of theatres. Prices of admission, children 10c 20c.

Corner Seventh and Main streets The Mennonite C. E. convention is being held in Halstead today and tomorrow. A number of Bethel students will attend this evening. A marriage license was issued this morning at the office of the probate judge to Bertha Bonsmer and George Wise, both of Halstead.

WRENCH STRUCK HIM JOHN WENTZELL BADLY HURT THIS MORNING. Ugly Gash Cut on His Forehead No Danger Uni.ss Complications Set In. John Wentzell, an employee of the Santa Fe, was badly hurt this morning about eleven o'clock, by being struck in the forehead by 'a wrench with which he was working. An ugly gash was cut in his fore head and he was was knocked unconscious, from which condition he did not rally for several hours. He was taken to his home in the southwest part of town where the company physician dressed his wound.

A gash nearly three inches long was cut in his forehead. His condition is not serious, despite his age, and he will come through all right unless tions set in. HONORS FOR STUDENT. John Grove Elected to an Honorary Medical Fraternity. Grove who will graduate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago in June writes his father he has become a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha.

A part of the letter is given. "I thought you might be interested when I tell you of my good luck. I was notified this afternoon that I had been elected as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha, the honorary fraternity in the medical college. Scholarship being the only means of entrance. The dean of the school and a dozen other leading faculty men are on the election board so you see I have reason to feel elated and especially so since I was the only one who had not spent his four years here and there were only five in all out of two hundred and twenty-five.

in the class." This is an honor any one might justly be proud of and John is to be congratulated on his good fortune which is well deserved for the excellent work he has done. FROM THE RURAL ROUTES. Rural Route No. 2. E.

C. Merrell and family Sundayed at Wm. Gordon's. Frank Glenn returned to college Mon day. He has beenat home the last week on account of a slight attach of rheumatism.

Willie, Marven and Raymond Merrell of Macon were pleasant visitors the E. E. Merrell home Saturday. Rural Route No. 7.

Mr. Bausman is cutting alfalfa this week. Miss Inez Bausman spent Sunday at home. A. L.

Egy was in Newton on business Saturday. J. Zook has his new barn finished and is very proud of it. Mr. and Mrs.

Huntington were out looking at their farm Sunday. Fred Roup is painting Mr. Byler's barn. It makes quite an improvement. Mr.

Longernecker has been making some improvements on the road between Mr. Bausman's and Mr. Tangeman's. Fred Roup tells us that he never liked mules before but since he has been going over west he thinks they are all right. We wonder why? Good Fishing Near Home.

A. E. Snoeberger of the Kansas State Bank was fishing yesterday afternoon in Sand creek with great suc cess. He caught three carp which al together weighed ten pounds. One of the carp was two feet long and measured thirteen inches around and weigh ed nearly five pounds.

Mr. Snoeberger says he has plenty of as to the truth of this statement if any one doubts it. Novel Window Display. The Dickey drug store's north window is decorated in an unique way. At one end is a small pond and a green sward covers the entire bottom of the window.

Seven small turtles, each with one letter painted on his shell are there enjoying themselves in the water and on the cool grass. When lined up the letters will spell Dickeys. Mrs. Louisa Rich, widow of Atkinson H. Rich, died at her home in White water, Kansas, Thursday evening, May 17 at 6:30 o'clock from heart and kidney disease.

She is survived by one sister Mrs. Martha Overholt of Rising Sun, and two brothers, Quinby Smith who lives in Chester county, Pennsylvania and Brian Smith of Richland township, Harvey county, Kansas. Mrs. Rich was born near Doylestown, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1845. Her age at the time of her death being 61 years, 1 month and 4 days.

She was married to Atkinson H. Rich January 18, 1866. To them was born one ter who lived only about one year. They moved to Kansas in April 1873 and lived one year with her brother Brian. Early in the year 1874 Mr.

Rich bought the northwest quarter of sec. 14 Richland township, Harvey county Kansas. They built a home on this land and made it one of the best improved farms in Harvey county. They lived there until Mr. Rich died in the summer of the year 1899.

Mrs. Rich then sold her personal property and moved to Whitewater where Mr. Rich had purchased a commodious residence before he died. She improved a this property and made it a very desirable and attractive home. On Jan.

5, 1896 Mrs. Rich was stricken with paralysis from which she never entirely recovered, but she still retained a large degree of her former energy to and strong personality and filled an important place in her church and in society, until a short time before her death. While she was never permitted to raise any children of her own, there are several orphans who can truthfully testify that she was to them all be that a good mother could have been. To such a person a bright star in their crown of glory in Heaven is justly won Of her religion she was born and reared a member of the Society of Friends or Quakers, but on December 21, 1890 united with the Evangelical Lutheran church of Whitewater, Kansas, and was a faithful and helpful member of the same until she died. The funeral service was held in the Lutheran church at Whitewater Monday at 2:30 p.

m. conducted by the of pastor, The Rev Mr. Shirck. The Rev. Mr.

Foster pastor of the Reformed church also made a few very approat priate remarks. The music was furnished by a choir composed of a number of Mrs. Rich's most intimate friends. The songs were very appropriate and were beautifully rendered. The remains were followed to the at Whitewater cemetery by a large number of relatives and friends and there committed to the grave beside those of her husband.

The grave was beautifully decorated by loving and faithful friends of the deceased. The faltering speech and halting step are now made perfect in the realm of her Savior and her God, and she is well. J. T. B.

It has been rumored that the Arcade barber ship has chang. ed hands. I wish to inform my many customers and friends that there is no truth in it and that I am in business to stay and the shop is not for sale. Respectfully, JAMES M. GROSS, Proprietor.

One Fare For the Round Trip. Chicago to Buffalo, N. and return via Nickel Plate road, June 9, 10 and 11, return limit June 25. Particulars at Nickel Plate office, room 298, No. 113 Adams Chicago.

$12.25 to Buffalo, N. Y. and return, from Chicago, via Nickel Plate road, June 9, 10 and 11, with return limit of June 25. Nickel Plate office room 298, No. 113 Adams Chicago.

HAD A SOCIAL SESSION. Y. M. C. A.

Room Scene of a. Very Pleasant. Affair. Much credit is due the social committee of the Y. M.

C. A. for the splemndid entertainment given last night: al the association. Everything went off with snap. The crowd gathered at 8:00 and the bowling alley and shuffle board were kept busy for twenty minutes when it was announced that the program would begin.

The program con sisted of solos duets, short addresses and mandolin and guitar music. Those that furnished the program were as. follows: The Misses Crandall, Berry, Merchant and McGowan, Mr. A. C.

Rasar also Letta Crandall and Ruby Berry, while Mr. H. A. French presid ed in his pleasing manner keeping things lively from start to finish. At.

9:30 the program was over, indoor baseball was played by two teams while the bowling alley and shuffleboard were used in the other rooms. Refreshments were served from 9:30 to 10:30 and at 11:15 the jolly crowd said good night declaring this the best social of the season. MISS PEARL M. HELEN HERNDON. Who Appears At The Y.

M. C. A. Next Tuesday H. O.

HIll, M. C. A. Northwestern University, Evanston, "Selections happily made, rendition admirable in expression and interpretation" Margaret E. McDowell, Monologist and Teacher of Dramatic Art, Chicago: "All or more than is claimed for her as a dramatic reader." Great Discovery.

The editor of a Kansas paper states that he borrowed a Winchester rifle recently and started up the street to. deliver the weapon to its owner. Thedelinquent subscribers got it into their heads that he was on the warpath, and everyone he met insisted on paying what they owed him. One man wiped: out a debt of ten years' standing. On his return to his office he found a load of hay, 15 bushels of corn, 10 bushels of potatoes, a load of wood and a barrel of turnips that had been brought in.

Dead at Age of 91 Years. James Gordon of Goessel died at his home yesterday afternoon from inflam mation of the bowels. Mr. Gordon was ninety-one years old and besides his wife who is ninety-two years old leaves five children, Mrs William Maloney of Wichita, Mrs. Joseph Kinney of Goessel, Mrs.

John Reig, William and James Gordon of Newton. The funeral services will be held at the Catholic church here Thursday morning at eleven o'clock and interment will be made in the Catholic cemetery. A New Department. So that our friends may be able to get the best quality of country butter at all times we have lately added a new butter cooler that keeps the butter fresh and sweet at all times. We can now furnish you with fresh country butter right from the big cooler and deliver it to you any hour of the day.

If you care to leave a standing order for fresh butter we will take special pains to see that you get just what you -McManus. Grocery phone 202. Notice. Notice. Burial of Mrs.

Lemert. The body of Mrs. A. P. Lemert whose death was recorded in last evening's Kansan will arrive Friday morn ing on No.

2 accompanied by her son Ralph and daughter Miss Lulu. The funeral services will be held in the Baptist church Friday afternoon at three o'clock. Another daughter Mrs. R. O.

Lauck arrived from St. Joe last evening. A cousin of Mrs. Lemert, Mrs. L.

Wilson arrived from Alva, last evening also. Y. M. C. A.

Banquet. On account of the entertainment given at the Y. M. C. A.

by Miss Pearl M. Helen Herndon of the Behymer Lyceum Bureau next Tuesday night the date for the membership banquet will be one night earlier coming on Monday night, May 28, 1906..