The Advocate from Lakin, Kansas • Page 2

-cn i hmw -w fr-- i .1 i i 2 Wa a man," the other day, say that fifteen cents a quart for milk was a prohibitive price his family had to icut it out then he leaned up against the counter and infused into M- his system a pint bottle of near-beer ATTENTION, CAR OWNERS. A MONEY PROPOSITION. If your car in good shape? If cot, bring ft to U3 Trhilo yon and wo hoTi time, for soon you trill use it, and wished you had it repaired trKen you had the time. selves at the able and said to the waited 'Bring us when'a fellow showed his badge and said, Three and we said, Plates of Ellsworth Messenger. A couple at Minneapolis, Kansas, bought a flivver? with buffalo nickles they had saved.

This ain't a ad for flivver. The longer you ran one them things -the less there is left to it, while when you; once crank up a nickle and start it earnin interest feat you it'll keep right on gettin digger. Exchange. LOCAL AND OTHERWISE J. W.

MfcRae returned Tuesday from a business trip to St. John, Kansas, and reports the wheat as looking fine. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Foster left Sunday for Sheridan, Iowa their new home.

We regret to see this estimable family leave bur midst, and wish them he fuj, measure of access in the Hawkeye state. 1" While, crossing the railroad tracks in the local yards Tuesday morninf Herman Fensky was struck by cars for which he blowea nimseii oi a quartan; in cash. It's a queer world, isn't it. -Concordia Kansas. What's the matter? Chairman Howe of the Kansas Tax Commissions FLOB5KCE- Henry Summers was sick last week with the flu! Oscar and Con Kurz have" bought John Sturgeons out.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Barkofske were shopping in Lakin Saturday. Mr.

and Mrs. Ora Young spent Sunday with Asa and Mrs. Morgan. Mr and Mrs. Claud Yates visited Mrs.

Yates parents in Hamilton county Sunday. Every man in this neighborhood was out Monday helping to put out the big prairie fire. Mr. and Mrs. Gropp, Mr.

and Mrs. Palmer, Elmer Ploeger and the Young boys spent Sunday at the Joe Kurz home. charges that 70 per cent of the cash money and 80 per cent of the mortgage notes in Kansas are not listed for taxes" Land and personal, property and the cash and notes of the the local freight trian and badlv hurt. BEHELD G1T0B COMPANY RAMSAY, CAUVEL RAMSAY, Prcpricierx having an arm broken and several I 0x1 ood authority comes the re- port that an El Dorado man, in preparing for a party the other night, teeth knocked out. Mr.

Fensky aged and very deaf, which in part accounts for the accident. Subscribe For Tfie Advocate. used so many perfumes and paints and ungents and promades in an- nonesi man are xaxea extra to make up for the millions that escape 'without sharing the burden of government; High time the Kansas voters amended the constitution so as to get at all intangible property and make it bear its share. Marquette Tribune. fs A A A A A A nointing himself, that he had to be guaranteed under the pure food and -M-l- THE KEARNY COUNTY ADVOCATE drug act before -fce could leave the house.

El Dorado Times. Several of the neighbors in this vicinity took advantage of the still weather and burned thistles Saturday evening. THE GOOD IK OTHERS ))04 PMMifc4 aaah Friday, at La kin, Kansas. IT STANDS FOR PRINCIPLES AND NOT FOR PENCE. W.

E. SLAVENS, Eaiarta" at tha Paat Off lea la Kansas, aa Sacaad Class Matter. Saaaariatian rataa $141 par yaar. Six maatht tS cants. Na saaseriptian far laaa than six mantks.

Slngla aapiaa five cents. BUCKEYE i The Best In The World INCUBATOR Advertising Bates Sat Display matter, 21 aants par Net. LYDIA We had quite a severe wind and dust storm Monday. Mrs. Wm.

Kuhlman has been or the sick list this week. We understand that the Holsteir family are sick with the flu. Thomas Rew.erts sold a load of con-to Lafe Henry last Thursday. Misses Amelia and Tillie Sommer; visited Miss Mary Kelley Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. Wm. Kuhlman en DlepUy Add taltaa far laaa thaa SS aenta per issua, exeept plat matter. Plata advartlaiap. IS aaata par laaa par Issue.

Net. i Line advertising, ene aeat per jwerd eesh issue, and live eenta fer the head. Net. Ne lina add taken tar leu than zs aenu per issne. Pealtively aa advertlalag ran mixed with reading matter.

is entertaining. They show their good sense they would better stop now than next August after they have been defeated. Western Kansas Journal. Some men are born famous, some have achieved fame, but the big majority have nudged in on the gooc side of the editor. Minneapolis Better Way.

There is a lot of loose talk about 'stabilizing" industry. Give the farrier a fair deal as to livestock prices nd he will really "stabilize." Otta-va Herald. Hired girls are so scarce that certain woman is going to get iivorce because the-hired girl doesn't ike the. certain woman's thusband. tchinson Globe.

Bryan says the women saved the ")emocrats from defeat at the last residential, election. Men still likr blame everything on women. Tewell Republican. The Standard Colony Brooder Is also the best made "Built up to standard Not down to Price" Saltaary Peetry Five aenta per ward, ether ebltuary matter eaa eent per werd. tertained a number of friends Sunday evening.

J1 all i-t A a 1Tsltjffn HAllTliw 4nfltlBl Quite a large force of men froir here went to fight the big prairie fire Monday. Alfred Hempler made a trip t' Lakin last Wednesday to.Jiave som dental work done. WE REALIZE THAT OUR PATRONS ARE NOT BUYING SIPMLYAN INCUBATOR OR BROODER. WHAT THEY SEEK IS THE SERVICE THIS INCUBATOR OR BROODER WILL PRODUCE FOR THEM. WE KNOW THAT A MACHINE WILL FURBISH MORE SERVICE THAN IS BUILT INTO IT BY THE MANUFACTURER Mrs.

T. h. Rewerts and daughte visited with Mrs. H. C.

Bruce Wed nesday. afternoon. Miss Grace Grusing has been help The government sent Clay Center's ing care for the sick folks at August Kuhlmans this week. Mrs. H.

Bruce and Miss Ann We have them in stock and will take pleasure in showing them to you whether you buy or not. Bruce called on Mrs. Wm. Kuhlms Tuesday afternoon. troop 32 horses and 80 sad-lies, which is about the proportior saddles bought for durinf he war.

Possibly the government rants to dispose of some of the extrr addles bought during the war. Clay Center Times. "In all my much riding on railroad C. 0. CHAPMAN Charles O.

Chapman was born at Lagrange, Indiana, August 24th 1845. In his youth he came with his parents to the State of Iowa, where he enlisted in the Volunteer Service from that state in 1861 and re-enlisted at Vicksburg, in 1864 and was mustered out in July 1865. In 1876 he came to Kearny County and filed on a homestead and later moved into Lakin and entered the Real Estate and abstract business and for a time was Editor and Publisher of The Advocate, and was want to be recognized as one of the newspaper boys. He was married to Olive Rhubottom in 1888 at Lakin and continued to reside here until some four years ago when he went to the Soldiers Home at Ft. Dodge to spend his declining years, where he passed to the better world on March 10, 1920.

He joined the Christian Church of Lakin in August 1909 and lived consistently with its tenents to the end. The funeral services were conducted under the auspecies of the G. A. R. at Fort Dodge on March 12th, 1920 by Elder A.

C. McKeever. George Boger a former resident o4 Kearny county passed through her Wednesday enroute to Leoti. Dr. O.

E. Smith was called trains I have felt that with such August Kuhlman's last Thursday tr We can deliver the day you buy A Complete Line of Hardware at all I times for your needs. Come see us. see the baby who was very sick bu? is better at this writing. hances to read the book of humar ature about me and the wider pages nature visible from the car win-low to read othe books is a waste of There will be a program follower by a pie social given by theschoo7 Judge Ruppenthal, in at this place on the evening Luray Herald.

March 26th, the teacher Miss Mar? Kelley extends a most cordial invi Heard since July 1: "As I was Garden City, tation to all to attend. saying, he saia, we entered tne care see where America will need 3,000,000 more autos this year, and we suppose a lot of us will go "right ind had no more than seated our- -M- Things could be worse. Next time you go to buy a suit think Jiow much more it takes to cover the fat man than it does to cover a thin one. ahead trying to dodge them. OANICA Lawrence Fulmer went to Lakh -M-H-I- I Monday.

Ralph Paddack's barn burned the fire- Cotton seed of the crop of 1919 was worth $337,000,000 to producers, as estimated by the Bureau of Crop Esti "I have always noticed," said a well-known Lakin citizen yesterday, ''that opportunity never wasts any time knocking on a wooden (head." mates, United States Department of We had a genuine dirt and d' JollROTtrllElRS Agriculture. This is an advance of 42 pef cent over the value of the 1 2 -l-l-l-M- sorm Monday. Miss Mary Bohl is visiting in Kuhlman neighborhood thi3 week. Edgar Roberts has rented tl Hoopes place for the coming year. We fully agree with the Kansas editor who remarks that what'' we need in the senate is a few big guns that can shoot beyond the next production of 1913, the year next prc-eding the World War, It is more han the value of the lint production for every year; before 1902, except 1900.

mm. I Mrs. R. R. Gropp had no schor Monday on account of the big fire.

Percy Roberts had a narrow escap 11 1-1-1 aT 1 A a. 1 monaav. ms cioininir cauni nre wnut he was fighting fire ITS STABILITY IS BTJT A REFLECTION OF THE INSTITUTION ITSELF Mrs. C. C.

Butler ihas been en tertaining her neice and family frorr Maxville, Kans this week. "The greatest nationalist," avers our globe-galloping-and gentle President, "is -the man who wants his nation to be a great nation." Yes, Mr. President, for once you are clear. And that is just the reason why the great Americans do not want to submerge and surrended our national greatness to the overwhelming vote of an alien-controlled -League of Nations. Mrs.

Hooper left for the hospita1 at Garden City Monday. She ha- been very ill With rheumatism oi The power-loom, the spinning-jenny, the sewing-machine, the reaper and the steam engine have done a gfeat deal for the country. Protection deserves a place near the head of the list. "Capitalism," writes the wise man who edits the Socialistic New Republic, 'is merely a regime like the hypothetical matriarchate, unified only in the logic of its philosophical crisis." If the New Republic editor doesn't look out somebody will report him to the Attorney-General for infring-ment on Woodrow Wilson's copyright. some time.

Miss Ethel Hall commenced sohoc Monday after threV weeks vacatior M-I Mrs. Stella James spent Sunda with Mrs. N. A. James.

A big prairie fire came early Mor day morning and swept across the country. It did much damage. Sonu H-I buildings were burned and Tots range. It burned close to the Col umbia school (house and it also burner near Will and Walter Millers. Man were out from Lakin to help put ou According to the "Daily Digest" of the Council of National Defense (please don't laugh; that's its name) the Bureau of Crop estimates of the Agricultural Department announces that "the sugar beet production for Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada and the United States was 117.2 per cent of the 1918 output, or 103,5 per cent of the five-year average, being placed at $10,390,000 tons." Which sounds nice, especially in view of the fact that Wilson's Equalization Board has o.

the 20-cent charge per pound. But we cannot sweeten our coffee on explanations, and that's about all the ultimate consumer seems able to get up to the we hurry happily to press. the fire. The men fought fror early morning until late that even ing. Our phrase-sputtering President says, "The provincial standards and policies of the past have held American business as in a straight-jacket." As Mr.

Wilson is the self-confessed spekesman and chieftain of the Free-Trade party which has foisted on the country during the past the most provincil standard that ever masqueraded under the name of policy, we presume he knows what he is talking about. SUBSCRIBE FOB THE ADVOCATE -M-M4- THE CAR OF REAL MERIT LOCAL AN OTHERWISE R. IL Menn and sister Mrs. Minnie RIGHT PRICE Richards left Monday for Dayton, Ohio, in response to a wire convey ing the sad intelligence of the death of their father. j'Q ft QQaa'fr 00 George Bahntge is still confined tc 1 the house with Infiamatory rheuma The Married Man.

tism brought no by a fall on the slippery pavements or juatun on A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF REPAIR PARTS ON HAm ALL THE TIME SHOULD YOU NEED THEM r. i -ar- CallOnOrlPhoneUalrADemcmotration Februaryu 24th. Monday morning our people were called to help combat- a prairie fire that started in the north part of Hamilton icounty and was fanned to a terrific fire which burned over parts Ths? make a good many jokes at the expense of the 'poor marrisd man," but really marriage Is no joke to the man who is married. It is a stera, sobering event to the average man when he takes unto hiaself a wife. It means two mouths to feed Ins is ad of one.

Two jxsople to be properly clothed, a horse to furnish, additional dutits and responsibilities. It oaans more economy, more careful adjustment of finances. Aa account at our bank is one of the greatest safeguards the newly married man can make. Save a little something every I wesx, every month, every year for a rainy day. THE LAKIN STATE BANK.

of Hamilton, Greeley, and Kearny Counties. It was late in the day before it was subdued. So far as we can learn the stable of Ralph Pad-dack on his farm in the Northwest part of he county was the only building burned,.