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Most of the articles were submitted by Brenda Reeder, extracted from the Rooks County Record and Stockton Review.

Nov. 4, 1909 The Stockton Review

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Entered as second class matter March 5, 1909, at the post-office at Stockton, Kansas under the act of march 3, 1879.

The Review is waiting patiently for some insurgent to point to some practical harm done by the Payne tariff law.

The casual observer can notice a great similarity in the fight that is being made on some of the republican leaders now and the one that was waged against John J. Ingalls in 1869.

We will wager $5.00, the losing five to be given to the piano fund of the Stockton High School, that the person who is now writing political articles for the Rooks County Record, and signing them, "Progressive Republican," was a populist in the days of populism. Also, if there was any way to prove it, we would bet that he voted for William J. Bryan.

The Rooks County Record, personal organ of W. B. Ham, is getting ready to bolt in case W. A. Reeder wins out in the primaries next year. This is shown by an article in that paper last week. This looks like a piece of foolishness on the part of the Record and Mr. Ham should bridle it. It was the Record that recently made the charge that Mr. Ham won at the last primaries, but was counted out. All such talk is going to hurt Mr. Ham, and if he is wise he will put a muzzle on Deacon Chambers, the editor of the Record. The thing for Mr. Ham and his friend of the record to do is to go in and win if they can.--Smith Co. Pioneer.

The tariff is not hurting you. Keep in mind that these are pretty good times and you don't want a change.

There is much talk about "the old insurgents and the new," yet it is doubtful whether "Bill" White, Henry Allen, Victor Murdock and "Tom" McNeal, all sleek, well fed fellows, would have been strong for old John Brown had they lived in his day. And it is like-wise uncertain whether the gaunt fanatical old Osawatomie Puritan, if on ea4rth now, would acknowledge the insurgents of 1909 as real soldiers in the war for freedom and humanity. Fifty years have made great changes and not the least of these is the spectacle of fat men posing as reformers, heroes and even martyrs.--Ottawa Republic.

In coming to the defense of the democratic position on the tariff last week Deacon Chambers says that the democratic party never did favor free trade; that the party has all along favored "a tariff for revenue only." That "very low tariffs are great producers of revenue for the government." If this be true we would now like to have Deacon explain why it was that the last and only time in the past thirty years that the democratic party has had control of the government and attempted to apply its "tariff for revenue only" theories, the revenues of the government fell so far short of meeting the running expenses that in the space of one presidential term there had to be $260,000,000 in bonds issued to make up the deficiency. And all that at a time before and after which the republican party had so manipulated these matters that the running expenses of the government were always met, with the exception of when the country was engaged in war, from the ordinary revenues. Not a dollar of bonded indebtedness has been incurred by the republican party in time of peace.

The Coal Question
A shrewd man knows this is the time of the year to buy his winter's supply of coal for later on it may be hard to get. We have just the kind of coal he will want. Our Nigger-Head coal is free of slate and all foreign matter. Try a small load of it and you will kick yourself for not buying more.
Stockton Lumber Co.
West End Main Street

...is the man who obeys the laws in form himself, but aids and abets the young criminal by holding out to him the idea that he is being persecuted. There is no question but today Deacon Chambers has this young man and a few of his associates believing that he has been wronged, and that by criminal process and the sacrifice of those principles of manhood that should be the highest ideals of a young man of his age he will attempt to "play even." Who will be to blame? Our courts hold the instigator and the perpetrator equally guilty, and this law is based on a moral laws that makes a man largely responsible for the youth whose downfall he causes.
The writer is not against the plan of a school boy having a good time, and always had that disgust so common among school boys for the "Square-toed Saint," who believed it was wrong to take the "tenderfoot" out for a snipe hunt, or get him to hold the badger while the dog would fight him. The halloween raid where property was not wantonly destroyed, and all the tricks known to the school boy of a quarter of a century ago and those of today that do not carry with them that element of crime that will rob a boy of his reputation for honesty and honor, are endorsed by the writer. Anything that is not a real violation of all the rules that should bind every person, young or old, to the path of virtue and sobriety should be tolerated in the school boy, but for a school boy to mistake crime for cleverness, and adopt the practices of the common thug, is something the writer never did nor never will endorse, and the endorsing of such practices by older people always has a poisonous influence on the person who is just forming his habits for life. If a boy passes a grocery store every day and four days out of each week he purposely breaks out a window light, even though he flatters himself that he won't be caught, he is exercising no more honor than the older person who purposely sets on fire the barn of his neighbor or administers poison to the live stock of his neighbor. There is nothing but cold criminality in such work. There is not one particle of that wit which in the boy foretells a future filled with wisdom. It foretells a man who will become what President Roosevelt characterizes as the "undesirable citizen." The case of the boy who breaks out the window lights is a parallel of the case of Lewis McComb. If the courts have no influence on a boy in his youth what change is there to every check his career? But it will never be checked so long as men claiming to posses high moral standards lend him aid and encouragement to believe that when he is called to account for his misdeeds the courts, and the citizen who objects to having his milk paid smashed, are nothing but laughing stock. We think the average high school boy sees clearly where he should draw the line in this matter and what acts on the part of his classmates he should respect, and will draw the line between a class of sport that is proper and that which s been condemned by the laws of the land so strongly that a long term in prison has been fixed as the penalty. but while the hope of the nation lies in the wholesome respect that its citizens posses for law Deacon Chambers does all in his power to create...

Mrs. Fred Lambert of Lanark township, will accompany Herman Shallock and family on their trip to Iowa and Wisconsin. They leave this morning.

The Ladies Surprise club surprised Mrs. Chas. Mather last evening and a reception was held in honor of her mother and sister-in-law who are visiting here.

J. M. Howard of the Capital City Iron Works of Topeka was in the city this week and old our school district the iron stairways to be used as fire escapes that will be put up at once at the school houses.

The passenger train was late on Monday last for the reason that when the train came up to a bridge in the night down in eastern Kansas, it was found that the bridge was on fire. The fire was extinguished and the bridge tested before the train was run over it. This made the train about two hours late.

On October 29, Judge Dougherty issued marriage license to John Albert Smith, of Junction city and Miss Shirley Estella Brown, of Plainville, and on the same day to Chas. H. Mills and Edna Overholser, both of Plainville. The former couple were married by Rev. L. W. Mickey. There has as yet been no return of the latter license.

A case that has been in the courts here, hanging fire for the past month, where in John Maddy brought suit against John Coldiron is a controversy that arose when Coldiron lived on Maddy's farm, was tried before a jury in Justice Stevens court Friday and Saturday, and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. N. C. Else and W. K. Skinner represented the prosecution and Ham & Gold the defense.

The usual placarding of windows on halloween night was not done this year. The depredations consisted principally of the up-ending of outhouses, and the misplacing of wagons. It seems that some damage for which there can be no good excuse offered was done a few places. More arrests than usual were made that night and several have been cited to appear since and have appeared. Fines ranging from one to five dollars have been assessed by the police court.

Las week the Review mentioned the serenade of Prof. Bullimore and wife by the high school, and stated that the teachers were all there except one, meaning the teachers of the high school, making no reference to the grade schools. But his week we are informed by the grade school teachers that some people are getting the idea from what we said that the teachers of the grade schools were there. They wish us to make the statement that they were not there, which statement we gladly make.

Place you orders for coal now and save money. Stockton Lumber Co.

W. T. Pfleiderer, Auctioneer
Reference: Anyone for whom I have sold, or any bank.
Stockton, Kansas
Phone No. 250

Farm Loans
Plenty of eastern and local money. I want to place a large amount of money this month on Rooks county land. I have some special privileges to offer. C. H. Dewey

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The Pioneer Auctioneer
When the sales begin do not forget that your old reliable sale crier A. H. Judd is still in the ring. I have been temporarily knocked out, but am on my feet again, and ready to do anything in the auctioneering line. Have had thirty-five years experience. Cried the first sale ever cried in Rooks county. My record is my recommendation. Talk with those for whom I have cried sales. Give me a share of your patronage. Yours for business,
A. H. Judd

Money To Loan on Land. H. V. Toepffer.

Uncertain What Was Wrong
Nervous Man Worried Whether the Clock's Works or His Own Required Attention
A nervous little man stepped briskly into a jewelry store with a medium-sized clock under his wing. He placed the chronometer on the counter, turned the hands around to about one minute of 12 o'clock, and told the expert behind the counter to listen.
"It keeps perfect time," the customer said, "but I want to find out if you notice anything wrong with the way it strikes."
The jeweler listened, "There's nothing wrong," he replied with a grin, after the clock had struck, "except that she strikes thirteen instead of twelve. That can easily be remedied." The customer look as relieved as if he'd just awakened from a bad dream.
"That's just what I've always thought ever since we've had the clock," he burst forth. "I've always felt sure it struck thirteen. But no one else in the family ever slope of it, and I was afraid to say anything about it for fear there was something wrong with my own works. Well, It's worth the price of having the thing repaired just to find out I was right."

"Bread" and "Pigeon" Seed
School children in the crowded parts of New York do not speak of corn and oats and wheat by those names, but always refer to them as "seeds." The other day in one of the big schools the teacher was talking to her pupils about gardening. She ended with a request for each pupil to bring a few seeds the next day to be planted in the window boxes. The following morning the children appeared mostly with either oats, wheat or corn. While putting a few grains of each in the earth the teacher referred to them by their familiar names. One of the girls in the class took courage to "set the teacher right: and said: "Some one must 'a told you wrong, teacher. That"--pointing to the wheat--"is bread seed, an' that yellow stuff ain't corn; it's pigeon seed. We always call them that in the block where we live."

Nov 11, 1909 the Stockton Review

Postmasters In Politics
That progressive republican who wrote such a heavy article for the Rooks county Record some time ago gave vent to a great upheaval about the awful and pernicious influence of postmasters in politics. We would have taken no particular notice of it had the correspondent not sprung the matter so soon after the issue of the Record of Aug. 20, 1909, in which the Deacon used this language. "But the time is long past when the postmaster is able to exert much political influence save it the sparsely settled sections out west." It is true that great minds sometimes differ, but it really looks in this case as though the "progressives" ought to get together on this very important question.

In a letter to the Topeka State Journal., Ex-Congressman Case Broderick, one of the framers of the McKinley bill, says: "The federal supreme court has decided against an income tax. This decision must be the law until the proposed constitutional amendment is adopted authorizing congress to provide an income tax. Then the tariff tax can be further reduced and more of the necessaries of life placed on the free list. Until this amendment is made the bulk of the revenue must come from the tariff as the internal tax is now as high as the business of the country will stand. If the Dingly law did not produce revenue enough (and it did not the last three years of its existence,) how can we expect a radical reduction of the tariff and a materially enlarged free list? The government is doing things with the general endorsement of the people and must have large revenues or discontinue its activities in many directions." We hope the above from a man who understands the tariff and its working will be read and deeply considered. There are those here who have been teaching the doctrine that "very low tariffs are great producers of revenue."

It has always been our idea that the Kansas penitentiary was a place established for the purpose of taking a man in and keeping him and making him so everlastingly sorry that he had committed a crime that when he gout out he would not be likely to commit another,. But we learn from the Hill City Republican that his is not the case. He is taken there to be fed up and fattened and shown that he has friends in the world; to be educated and shown what the real pleasant side of life is. The Republican has the matter figured out in fine shape, but we can make one valuable amendment to it. Just abolish the penitentiary entirely, and send all the convicts to the State Normal school at Emporia, Here they can get just the treatment that the Republican suggests they should have in the penitentiary.

The proposition to have the governor appoint a commission to recommend to the next legislature certain needed school legislation was voted down by a big majority by the teachers of Kansas at their recent state association. There was probably not a teacher there but who favored such a commission, but the teachers of Kansas are not wanting any more of the Stubbs class of commissions. The common school teachers of Kansas have been slapped contemptuously in the face by the governor in the appointment of a state text book commission already, and the teachers want no more of it. The right to appoint a committee to recommend certain needed school legislation would be exercised by the governor with only one idea in mind--the strengthening of his already well developed political machine. The Kansas teachers were not at Topeka for the purpose of strengthening the Stubbs machine.

It is barely possible that Mr. Stubbs may see something in the action of the late teachers' association at Topeka. the motion made by his appointee Mrs. Stanley to permit the governor to appoint a commission to recommend needed school legislation to the next legislature was almost unanimously voted down. Later on Mr. Rarick, the man deposed by Mr. Stubbs to make a place for Mr. Stanley, was unanimously chosen a member of the nominating committee, one of the most powerful and responsible positions within the gift of the Kansas teachers. Mr. Rarick was also honored with the position of vice president of the association.

There is this to say for Mr. Reeder. He has defined his position in unmistakable terms. This should be the initial step of every man who asks the support of the people for a legislative office. It is certainly now up to the other aspirants to define their positions just as clearly.

That Reeder Letter
W. A. Reeder writes a letter to the Osborne Farmer in which he gives a summing up of the political situation as it exists in the sixth district. One cannot deny that he has the situation graphically described in so far as the relative position of the real tried and true supporter of the republican party on the one hand and the insurgent on the other are concerned. But when he comes to a personal mention of the candidates he makes some unwarranted statements. After speaking of the candidates collectively, he says: "Being of that political faith they cannot successfully deny that they are in sympathy with our junior United States Senator in his free trade tirades and his attacks on the party and the administration." Mr. Reeder has no right to include in this statement Mr. Ham. There is no competent evidence to substantiate such a statement. Mr. Ham has never been an insurgent. He has never endorsed the work of the insurgents, and it can't be shown where he has. He has always been a thorough republican both on the tariff and money questions. He has never been tainted with populism. He was an original Taft man. He has never been a party to any bunco political games for political effect. He is not a Grand Stand player. He is a straight republican who has always been in line with his party and all efforts to prove anything to the contrary will be completely refuted by referring to his record which is an open story here. True the Rooks County Record has stated that if he had been in the last session of congress he would have been an insurgent, but that paper was no more nearly correct there than it was when it said that Mr. Ham was the tool of John Dawson when he was in the Kansas legislature. The fact that Mr. Ham is handicapped by the pretended support of an organ that is giving the people the purest democratic slush all the time is his misfortune, and does not justify any honest person in charging up the fool breaks of such a supporter to Mr. Ham.

Late Opinions
The supreme court of Kansas has just handed down a list of opinions. Among the important opinions are the following:
A city council may locate a pest house where in the judgment of the council it should be located.
A district judge may parole any person in his jurisdiction who may be serving or sentenced to serve a term in jail.
City, county and state officials are not entitled to witness fees when called into court in a case wherein the state or city has the costs to pay.
Where an old soldier is appointed by a mayor to a city office, the city council is compelled to confirm the appointment.
A deed must be filed to make it valid against a subsequent deed that may be filed.

Down at the corners Saturday there was a man who said he knew it was illegal to put a woman in jail. "It can't be done," said he, "I would just like to see them put my woman in jail. She would sue them for damages and get so much money out of it that she wouldn't have to wash to support her children for the next three years. I know what I am talkin' over. You will find that our statutes says you can't put a woman in jail."

Wedding Stationary
We have wedding stationary in stock. Call and see it if you are interested in that line of goods.

Rummage Sale
The Ladies of the Congregational church will hold a rummage sale at the Smith Jewelry Store on Saturday next. Contributions should be brought there. There will be some great bargains. Call and examine the stock.

Farmers' Institute
We notice that the date of the Rooks County Farmers' Institute has been set for the 17th and 18th of November. This is the date set apart for the officials from the State Agricultural College to be with us.

Winter Potatoes
I agreed when leaving Washington, to us some potatoes in Kansas. One car was unloaded here and most all sold in four days and another is on the road and will be for sale on track at Stockton soon as it arrives. Notice will be given through papers. These potatoes are grown without irrigation, cook mealy and are a number one keeper. Give your orders to J. O. Adams.

Uncle Sal Oils are the best. Dan Randall handles them. See him and save money.

I am making the auctioneer work my only business and study. I don't claim to hypnotize my crowd an sell the $7 scalawag calf for $22.85, but I do claim that when your sale is figured up from the rat trap that the patent right man "stings" you on to the old team that your father-in-law gave you and started you west with, the total will be satisfactory. W. T. Pfleiderer, Auctioneer. Phone 250, Stockton, Kansas.

Money in Cream
Yes, indeed, if you sell to us, because we pay you're the top price the year pound. Give us a trial and let us show you where to get a square deal. Deer Creek Creamery Company, Ada Phelps, Agent, Stockton, Kansas.

O. Hazen and wife returned Sunday from an extended visit to Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan.

Nov. 18, 1909

Come and See Us
A. L. Look & Company
Milliners and Ladies" Furnishers

I am making the auctioneer work my only business and study. I don't claim to hypnotize my crowd and sell the $7 scalawag calf for $22.85, but I do claim that when your sale is figured up from the rat trap that the patent right man "Stings" you on the old team that your father-in-law, gave you and started you west with, the total will be satisfactory. W. T. Pfleiderer, Auctioneer
Phone 250, Stockton, Kansas

Tax Levies for Year 1909, Rooks Co., Kan.
Stockton, Rooks County, Kansas} Nov. 1, 1909.
I hereby give notice that the 1909 tax is due and payable on all real estate and personal property of Rooks county, state of Kansas, at the treasurer's office, with the following rate of tax on each dollar of valuation:
Levy for state tax................. .00125
Levy for county general....... .00125
Levy for county bond........... .0004
Township Levies

Township	Gen'l	Road	Bond	Total
Ash Rock	.00075	.00075		.0015
Alcona	.00075	.00075		.0015
Bow Creek	.0005
Belmont	.00075	.00075		.0015
Corning	.0005
Farmington	.00075	.00075		.0015
Greenfield	.00075	.00075		.0015
Hobart	.0005	.0007		.0012
Iowa	.0005	.0005		.001
Logan	.00075	.00075	.0013	.0028
Lanark	.00075	.00075		.0015
Lowell	.00075	.00075		.0015
Medicine	.00075	.00075		.0015
Northampton	.0005	.0005	.0015	.0025
Paradise	.00075	.00075		.0015
Plainville	.0005			.0005
Richland	.0005	.0005	.0015	.0025
Rush	.00075	.00075		.0015
Sugar Loaf	.00075	.00075		.0015
Stockton	.00075	.00075		.0015
Twin Mound	.00075	.00075		.0015
Walton	.0005	.0005		.001

City Levies

City	Gen'l	Sidew'k	Bond	Total
Palco	.002			.002
Plainville	.0025	.0015	.0015	.0055
Stockton	.0025	.002	.005	.0005
Woodston	.0015			.0015

Taxes are due on November 1st. A rebate of 2 1/2 per cent of the whole tax is allowed if paid by December 21st. If not paid by December 21st a penalty of 5 per cent will be added. If second half is not paid by June 20th another 5 per cent penalty is added.
L. L. Marshall, Co. Tres., Rooks Co., Kansas

C. W. B. M. Day
The Christian Women's Missionary Meeting to be held immediately following the communion, Sunday, Dec 5, 1909
Hymn--"All Hail the Power of Jesus Name."
Season of Prayer, led by Mrs. Fred Turner
Scripture Lesson, Psalm 46, Mrs. Emman Dancer.
Roll Call - Give one reason why I am a member of an auxiliary missionary society.
The President's Talk --Mrs. Addie Feleay
Solo Song, Mexico. Talk showing the connection of this song with our work.
Memorial Sketch of Ella Maddock--Mrs. McKinnis.
Hymn--
Book Review--With the Thibetans in Tent and Temple, Mrs. Iona Hederhorst.
Offering.
Song--
Closing Prayer--John Crane.

I am prepared to paint your wagon, your buggy, your house or your barn. Call on me at phone 81, one door west of livery barn. A. I. Tallman, Woodston, Kansas. 31-tf.

Nov 25, 1909

B. O. King, formerly of this place, is now in the real estate business in Los Angeles, Cal., and writes us that he is permanently located there.

The old stone school house in district No. 3, east of town, was sold at public auction last Monday by Col Pfleiderer, and was brought by E. C. Stewart for $40.00.

Dr. Book was over near Kirwin Sunday to call on Al Martin, an old settler of that community. We are pleased to learn that Mr. Martin was not dangerously ill when he arrived.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coldiron started Monday evening for a visit with their daughter Mrs. Clara Coleman at Hershey, Nebr. and will stop enroute to Beloit to visit their son Jesse and family.

Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Tuttle, who have been visiting here for some days wit the family of W. L. Chambers started Monday evening for their home at Victoria, Texas. Mrs. Tuttle and Mrs. Chambers are sisters.

Mrs. W. R. Griffin returned Tuesday from a visit at Pleasonton, bringing her mother with her. The mother will visit here for a while and may make her home here permanently, if the climate and other conditions are suitable.

Geo. Huffer recently received a check for $350, for injuries received in the railroad wreck near St. Joe. He had put in a claim for $500. A representative of the company was here and settled with him.--Plainville Times.

The old maids are being placed along with divorcees under the ban of the ministers when it comes to marriage ceremonies. Rev. G. W. Elliston, of Martinsburg, Mo., known as the "marrying minister" of the section, issues an edict to the effect that be will not marry anyone who has been divorced, old maids over 35 years of age, boys under 21 and girls under 16.--Beloit Call.

Miss Pear Johnson is now employed in the jewelry department of the Smith Jewelry & Optical Co., and if you will go in and see the improvements in the arrangement of things in that department you will note at once her ability, and will see the advantage in having such a department properly arranged. We predict also that Miss Johnson will make a most successful and popular saleslady.

Along with the other matters of importance do not forget the lecture on Dec. 6, by General Z. T. Sweeney. General Sweeney is one of the foremost men on the lecture platform at this time, and all should hear him. And again, the proceeds of the lecture go to the high school and this makes the cause a deserving one, and we hope our people will all come out and give the General a good house, and also help out in the finances of the high school.

Let every reader of the Review note carefully the financial statement of the Stockton National Bank that appears in this Issue. Among the stockholders in this institution are some of the best men in Rooks county and the confidence of the public in its reliability, business integrity and methods is amply proven by the numerous prosperity features of the statement, one of which is the $101,281.39 of deposits. This bank claims to give its patrons every courtesy and accommodiatio9n consistent with the natural laws of safe business, and one is warranted in believing from their statement which is the index to the volume of their business that they must do just what they claim.

Ray Jones who left here some time ago for the Pacific coast, has settled in southwest Oregon, and his family will start in a short time to join him there. Mrs. Jones will be accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Wolf, who will go there for a time and see how they like the country, and after a while they may conclude to locate there.

The souvenir edition of the Plainville Gazette is out and in circulation. It is a nice edition typographically, bu its strong feature is the neat way in which it portrays the features of the prosperous country known as Paradise Flats, in which Plainville, Zurich and Codell are situated. the views of farms, farm residence, cities, city residences, individuals and groups of old settlers and other prominent citizens are all good, and will serve to give the outside world a good idea of what the Plainville and vicinity really are. Ford is to be congratulated.

There was a meeting at the G. A. R. hall Sunday evening, conducted by a gentleman who is preaching the doctrine of the universal church and the abolition of the different church creeds. We did not hear him, but hear that he is a man who is urging the dropping of dissension over church doctrines and the recognition of one church along wit the one God whom all churches claim to serve. We hear the man well spoken of. We hope to learn more of him. Brother E. G. Davis, of Farmington township, is an adherent of the faith and would be glad to talk to talk with any earnest person regarding it.

Alpheus Grovenberg informs us that he has changed his mind about going to the Soldier's Home, and that he will probably not go there as long as his health remains as good as it is now. He is selling soap, and the proceeds of this in addition to his pension keeps him in pretty good shape and he would rather stay here as long as his health enables him to get about.

A. L. Look has been going some rearranging and other improving in the interior of his store, and is gradually getting things as he wants them. He has removed the partition and made more room and is arranging for the fine lot of new ladies' suits that will arrive soon. He is fast making his place what he has promised all the time--the finest ladies' furnishing house in the west.

W. T. Smither, of Woodston, was a very pleasant caller at this office Monday afternoon. He is one of the old settlers of that community, and one of the active business men at the present time. He reports business good at Woodston, a fact that is generally know among all who know if the business enterprise of the place and watch the space taken in the local papers by the local merchants. Mrs. Smither does not feel that the last session of the legislature did the fair thing with such communities like Woodston. For example, the legislature appropriated about $1,000 per county for high schools in Kansas. This $1,000 per county will, of course, be divided among not to exceed two schools, and these will be the largest schools of the county. This shuts Woodston out from any aid. But he made no complaint of this. But the same legislature further hampered Woodston by making a law that where over three and one half mill levy was necessary for the maintenance of a school, there must be three-fourths vote of the school _____ing for such levy. This enabled voters to defeat the levy when 81 voted for it and thus Woodston was compelled to abandon her high school which has seriously crippled the town both in an educational and a financial way.

Dewy, the Land Man,
has some special Bargains in Rooks County Land.
Call on him for lists. Some special bargains in farm loans. Have some company and also some private money to loan on Rooks County farms. Also write, Fire, Lightning and Tornado Insurance on farm and city property.

Mr. and Mrs. W/ H. Sage and son Leslie arrived home Thursday. Mr. Sage had gone to Chicago to meet them on their return from Albany, N. Y. where Leslie had been taking medical treatment. We are glad to say that Leslie has come home greatly improved.

Supt. Bullimore. of the Stockton schools, is preparing a display of the work of the Rooks county schools to be placed before the N. W. K. T. A., at its meeting here. Much of this work is being prepared under the direction of Prof. Bullimore, and it is expected that this is going to be a very interesting feature of the association, and that it will reflect great credit on our schools also.

Joseph Layhee has found an overcoat which he will deliver to the one who proves the property and pays 20 cents for this notice.

Miss Laura Craig returned home Thursday from the Hays Normal school, where she has been in attendance for some time.

It has reached the point where there is scarcely a livery team in Stockton that can be procured when the roads are too bad for an auto.

Mrs. Cal McNulty, who has been visiting relatives here for the past three weeks, returned Friday evening to her home at Burden, Kansas, where Carl is manager of a lumber yard.

A party consisting of Mrs. Geo. Estep, Mrs. Dick Maddy, Mrs. Lee Hall, and Mrs. Will Maddy, returned Sunday from a visit to Logan county with relatives. They went for a short visit but go stormed in and had to remain eighteen days.

W. J. Smith and family went to Cawker City, Friday evening. they were to make a visit there after which the family were to come back on the train and he was to drive back with some horses that Dr. Callender and Col. Sweet have been keeping on the Granite Creek stock farm near Cawker.

The Executive Committee of the N. W. K. T. A. will meet here Saturday to discuss matters relative to the coming session of the association that will be held at Stockton. The committee is composed of Supt. Haney of Smith county, Supt. Barnett of Decatur county, Supt. Ramsey of Phillips county, Supt. Reed of Sherman county, and Prin Finch of Jewell. The program and other matters of importance will be discussed and arranged for.

A decision of the supreme court put a crimp on the old "poll tax" form of taxation. the high tribunal decided that the $3 tax demanded by cities is unconstitutional. the case in question came from Iola. One, Peary Heath, considered the city's poll tax unnecessary and took the trouble to carry the contest to the supreme court. Just what the result will be is a question, for a majority of the towns in Kansas have been assessing the poll tax, the same constituting the street fund.--Beloit Gazette

Monday night the police court was in session. Some of the boys had met at Melleur's and in their some what enthusiastic demands for cider some one exhibited a gun. Melleur had been knocked down and robbed a few days before and he sailed out and sought protection from the court. Ed Nash was picked up on the street and warrants issued for Ralph Pitman and Ora Bright. Nash paid a fine of nine dollars, and Pitman and Bright were brought in next and paid about nine sixty each. We don't know any thing about Nash, but Pitman and Bright are not usually addicted to these kind of capers.--Plainville Gazette.

I a m making the auctioneer work my only business and study. I don't claim to hypnotize my crowd and sell the $7 scalawag calf for $22.85, but I do claim that when your sale is figured up from the rat trap that the patent right man "Stings" you on the old team that your father-in-law, gave you and started you west with, the total will be satisfactory. W. T. Pfleiderer, Auctioneer
Phone 250, Stockton, Kansas

Let the Review print your wedding stationery. We carry the stationery in stock. Call and see our stock.

Advertised Letters
The following is the list of letters remaining unclaimed at the post office at Stockton, Kansas, for the week ending November 18, 1909.
Letters
John W. Loyrd
Webster Hanson
Nellie Sessler
Cards
Pearl Wilson
J. M. Lyne
Maggie Harr
Persons calling for the above please say "advertised." F. E. Young, P. M.

C. W. B. M. Day
The Christian Women's Missionary Meeting to be held immediately following the communion, Sunday, Dec 5, 1909
Hymn--"All Hail the Power of Jesus Name."
Season of Prayer, led by Mrs. Fred Turner
Scripture Lesson, Psalm 46, Mrs. Emman Dancer.
Roll Call - Give one reason why I am a member of an auxiliary missionary society.
The President's Talk --Mrs. Addie Feleay
Solo Song, Mexico. Talk showing the connection of this song with our work.
Memorial Sketch of Ella Maddock--Mrs. McKinnis.
Hymn--
Book Review--With the Thibetans in Tent and Temple, Mrs. Iona Hederhorst.
Offering.
Song--
Closing Prayer--John Crane.

I am prepared to paint your wagon, your buggy, your house or your barn. Call on me at phone 81, one door west of livery barn. A. I. Tallman, Woodston, Kansas. 31-tf

...relatives and friends during her novitiate of three years, so as to minimize all probability of her changing her present purpose to devote her life to the church, Bernadette Imwalle, the beautiful young daughter of Henry Imwalle, mayor of St. Bernard, left Thursday for Namur, Belgium, where she will enter the convent of Notre Dame. Her father and mother are heartsick at the thought of losing their only daughter for all time, but, convinced that she would be unhappy if they should try to prevent her from carrying out her resolve they have acquiesced in her determination.--Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

To Drive Dull Care Away
What! dull, when you do not know what gives its loveliness of form to the lily, its depth of color to the violet, its fragrance to the rose; when yo do not know in what consists the venom of the adder, any more than you can imitate the glad movements of the dove. What! dull, when earth, air and water are all alike mysteries to you, and when as you stretch out your hand you do not touch anything the properties of which you have mastered; while all the time nature is inviting you to talk earnestly with her, to subdue her and to be blessed by her! Go away, man; learn something, do something, understand something, and let me hear no more of your dullness!--Sir Arthur Helps.

Such a Mean Trick
"Come home with me to dinner tonight, Gormley." "Delighted!" "I want you to hear my youngest daughter play the piano." "By Jove, I'm awfully sorry, old chap, but I have forgotten a most important engagement. some other night, dear boy." "Sorry about the engagement, Gormley. The fact is I have neither a youngest daughter nor a piano."

A Popular Fallacy
The generally accepted belief that a person is useful in proportion as he is busy is controverted by a writer, who says: "I have a dog that is loaded up with fleas. In the summer time, when the fleas are plenty, that is the busiest dog I ever saw; when he isn't biting at the fleas he's snapping at the flies. He never has a minute to spare, but when he is the busiest he is the least account for practical purposes. And there is a young fellow in my neighborhood who has a Waterbury watch, and he smokes cigarettes. When he isn't winding his watch he is lighting a cigarette. He is a mighty busy young man, but he isn't worth two hoops in a water barrel."--Rule (Tex.) Review.

Women's Newspapers in China
"the Strong Man of china" was a woman--the late dowager empress. Though the country is behind hand in many ways, it is well to the fore in the matter of women's daily papers, of which it has a large number. There are five in Shanghai, four in Canton, and hardly any city is without its women's daily press. Generally these papers are produced solely by women.--Home Notes.

Kansas Notes
There is now being a strong appeal made for a reformatory for female criminals in Kansas. There is absolutely nothing of the kind at this time. There is a school for incorrigible girls at Beloit, but when a young woman commits a crime there is no place for her at the penitentiary. At Hutchinson there is a reformatory for male criminals and the younger ones are sent there.
The Topeka Capital says the congressional candidates of the progressives will be Tom McNeal in the first, Alex Mitchell in the second, Arthur C_a_s_on in the third, Judge Rees in the fifth, I. D. Young in the sixth, F. H. Madison in the seventh, Victor Murdock in the eighth, and probably, Fred Jackson in the fourth. As usual the Capital is engaged in the business of nominating congressmen for the whole state.
A Kansas farmer has recently expressed the opinion that the folks who are wishing for Roosevelt to ____ and straighten Taft out will be about as _____ disappointed when he does return as the school boy was who called his father in to whip the school teacher who had just flogged him. The father proceeded to give the boy a repeation of what the teacher had just given him.

Cade Gasoline Engine
I am agent for the Cade Air Cooling Gasoline Engine, 2 to 12 hp. See one at my place before buying an engine. 43-4t. H. E. Reed

Farm Loans
Plenty of eastern and local money. I want to place large amount of money this month on Rooks county land. I have some special privileges to offer. C. H. Dewey

Loved 107 Women
John A. Tindall was married to his wife Alice at Girard, Kansas, 1893. They have lately been doing a stunt in the divorce court at Denver, Colorado, that brings Tindall into light as a rival to Brigham Young, with no pretense of legality for his meanderings in the garden of love. The wife accused Tindall of being devoted to 107 different women. She did not bring all the alleged co-respondents into court. But she named seven in her bill of compliant and swore in a deposition that there were 100 more.

Wanted! More Cream Customers, and in order to get them we are paying the top cash price. We test your cream and hand you the spot.....Cash. We handle flour and feed and will be glad to receive your order. Joe Davis

It is a Fake
"The issue of Cannonism is a fake/"--Congressman Reeder.
Of course it's a fake. Its precisely the kind of an issue the democrats made on Old Tom Reed twenty years ago when Old Tom was the idol of every Kansas republican.
The power of the republican party centered in Tom Reed and formulated a set of rules which knocked out the diliatory tactics of the democrats. Reed's "Revolutionary" actions in counting a quorum and in performing various other parliamentary expedients to advance the republican program of legislation was denounced in precisely the same terms by the democrats which the representatives of the square deal insurgent fettish now apply to Cannon.
Eminating from a republican source the issue of "Cannonism" represents the active, effective, working plan of the republican party, Mr. Cannon is not responsible for the so called legislative devilment he is accused of, because his cause bears the stamp of the enthusiastic approval of a large majority of the republican party.
Twenty years ago the writer was an ardent supporter of Grover Cleveland and a bitter enemy of "Cannonism." And the sentiments we now read in the square deal papers of this district have the same solemn, majestic tone that thrilled our ardent spirit in the dead but unburied past. To our way of thinking the editors of these papers are cheap plagiarists of the burning thoughts of a school of discredited statesmen. They are painfully chanting the refrain of what was once the mighty war song of democracy. It is not only futile but sacrilegious; they have appropriated the sacred exhortations of an enemy slain in battle twenty years ago.
Some day the farmers of this country will wake up to the fact that the policy Cannon represents is the policy that has made a profitable American market for their products, and then the cheap screws in politics will go to the wall. We contend that the tariff law that gets the revenue to run this government and gives the American workman a chance for labor is the law that is good enough for any republican. the law that lends money into industrial activity is the law that makes big prices for the farmer. That is the law that encourages big prices for the farmer is a vastly greater consequence to this country than the selling price of any protected article. We admit that in many instances protection is a fake, but not half so great a fake as the issue of Cannonism or the insurgent mania. Under protection, whether it or in spite of it, we have been getting results. The idea these insurgents are contending for has always brought disaster. If we remember right, the last fall we took out of the "affiliated interests" was only 7 per cent, but it left us a legacy of four hundred millions of bonds and spread industrial and financial disaster through every nook and corner of the land.
The injustice of the sugar schedule may be a matter for scientific investigation and lerned discussion but it has no interest for the Kansas man who gets 23 cents a dozen for eggs. The extortionate tariff on silk hose may excite the patriotic wrath of contending statesmen but it has no burning interest for the farmer's wife who get 30 cents a pound for butter. The glove manufacturers of New Jersy may have flimflammed the committee, and this fact may be of solemn consequence in some quarters, but the greatest excitement in Plainville township this year was caused by a check for ten thousand dollars which Ora Lemon received for his wheat crop.
Last year Reeder was forced to his anti-Cannon declaration; if he hadn't made it we would have torn him limb from limb and elected a democrat. Last year the writer abused Reeder like a dog, but this year we propose to give him a fair show. If nominated we will support him, and we think the man or newspaper who says he can't be elected if nominated is throwing bricks at his own house for the amusement of the enemy.--Plainville Gazette.

The Plainville Times says;
The Review was founded for the purpose of fighting Ham." All we have to say in reply to such an ill-timed and altogether malicious statement is that the Review is printed in Mr. Ham;s home town. He has seen every issue of the paper that has been printed here. The Review has tried to keep in touch with him; has referred matters pertaining to its political policy to him; has invited criticism by him of its political policies, with the result that Mr. Ham has expressed himself as well satisfied with the attitude of the Review toward him. With these conditions existing, it matters little what the Plainville Times says. The efforts of the Review have been put forth to show that Mr. Ham is a republican instead of an insurgent, and that he is worthy of and entitled to the republican nomination for congress at the hands of the republican party; that he is free from all entangling alliances with the Stubbs machine and is a sincerer and able advocate of the measures demanded by the sane element of the republican party. This has been the attitude of this paper, while the Plainville Times, who editor has belonged to every political party that has maintained an organization in Kansas in the past quarter of a century, has done nothing but try to prove that Ham is an insurgent; that he is a partisan in state politics, and that his election to congress must be considered as a direct blow at the republican national administration. Such work is not advancing Mr. Ham's interests in the right direction. ...

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Dec 2, 1909

The Christian Women's Missionary Meeting - the President's Talk was given by Mrs. Addie Feleay

John Russ had some fine turkeys out at Will Hall's farm, and the wolves were killing them and he had to go out through the mud Tuesday and get them. They were white turkeys, but when he got in here with them they were so covered with mud that one could hardly tell what color they were. He sold what the wolves hadn't killed to H. M. Harn.

Abe Schindler, one of the prosperous farmers of Greenfield township, received a telegram Sunday evening to the effect that his mother, who lived at Blanchardville, Ohio, and who was seventy-eight years of age, was not expected to live. He was not able to get out of here till Monday evening. The telegram should have reached him Sunday morning, but there was something wrong with the wires here, and late in the evening the Woodston operator took the message off and phoned the news to Mr. Schindler.

A colored man named Saddler was down from Graham county Tuesday to see if any arrangements could be made by which the colored men now in the county jail could be released. It is understood that a part of the money to pay the fines of Harvey Craig and Olden Hickman, Graham county colored people who are now in the county jail for selling liquor, has been raised and some of the people up there claim that they are making an effort to raise the remainder, and it is possible that the entire amount will be raised. It is possible that the boys are getting pretty tired of the confinement, and no one blames them for wanting out. It is to be hoped that their experience with the law will act as a preventative against the further selling of intoxicating liquor when they again gain their liberty.

Joseph Coder of Chillowee, Mo., left for his home Thursday evening after several days here. He has purchased the 480 acre farm from Henry Clemons south of Webster for a consideration of $18,000. As part payment Mr. Clemons takes two fine stallions and a mammoth jack, Clemons returned to Missouri with Coder and will return soon bringing this stock together with a carload of brood mares with him. Mr. Coder will move his family to Rooks county next spring, and become a permanent resident. Several times in the past six months we have had occasion to mention the crops produced on this large farm, and we can now assure Mr. Coder that he has one of the finest and ...

Program
County Teachers' Association at Plainville
December 4, 1909, beginning at 2 p. m.
Music
Recitation
Music
I Methods of Grading Manuscripts and Determining Deportment...Mrs. W. A. Kerns
Discussion...Prin. F. H. Campbell, Miss Ella Standish
II Training for Citizenship...Prin. J. A. Ross
Discussion...Wm. Kerr
III Helpful Suggestions to Primary Teachers...Miss Elsie Durnal
Discussion...Mrs. Geo. Patten
IV Normal Training in High School...Supt. R. Bullimore
Discussion...Miss Belle Lunden
V Report of State Teachers' Association...Supt. F. C. Marks and Miss Ida Hansen
VI Report of District Reading Circle Work...By Managers
VII Northwest Kansas Teachers' Association...Prin. Henry Graham and Co. Supt. C. E. Rarick
VII Business Session and Announcements...C. E. Rarick, President
Bertha Wyatt, Secretary.
Note: An attempt will be made to secure a representative from either the State Department of Education or from the State Normal School to address this meeting. Definite announcement later.

Honeycomb towels 24X115 inches 25 cents. Gibbs Racket.

Money to Loan on Land
H. V. Toepffer,
Stockton, Kansas
Office Upstairs over national State Bank in Dewey's office.

I know very little about township schools, but I would run the risk of adopting them if I have the opportunity. I am not quite so much "wrapt up" in the district schools as some people claim they are.

I can accomplish more in the line of reforming a worldly man by acting Christianlike toward him seven days in the week than by dealing selfishly with him all the week and praying for him on Sunday.

I have no patience with the person who says that no young woman will admit that she really wants to get married. There were three different ones admitted it to me the other day that they wanted to get married, and one of them said she would buy me the longest cigar in town if I would find a good husband for her.

I have lived in this country since 1880 and I have tried to keep tab on political conditions, and sometimes I get to thinking I know something about such things, but when I go to Topeka and get with the "boys" who used to hang around Copeland county, I find I don't know a thing. Just when I have my mind made up that a certain measure is popular, I find out from the fellows that there is not a half dozen voters in Rooks county who favor it. And just when I make up my mind that a certain man will carry Rooks county, I find that he hasn't a friend in the county. I tell you it is the place to go to learn, that city of Topeka is.

I understand, Mr. Merchant, that you are doing business on a capital of $15,000, and that you are running a force of nine clerks, yet you turned down applications for aid for the church on the ground that you are not a member and don't have time to attend very often. How would it suit you to abolish the church and the pastor and the Sunday school and the midweek prayer meeting? How long would your town keep up to where it is now and how long would your business keep up its present gait? Where would the morals of the community go to? What cl___ of people would soon be in control of affairs? What man of means would invest money in your town? How long could you remain in business in such a town? How long would it be till your life and property would be insecure? Would you want to live in such a place and have your family of four sweet a promising children grow up under such influences? Think these matters over and you will certainly make up your mind that the church is one of the strongest business friends you have and you will certainly see that it is business proposition for you to support the church.

Dec 9, 1909

Webster Locals

Ray Feleay built a barn 32 X 40 for Del Wallace last week.

Dec 23, 1909

George West went to C______ Friday evening, accompanied by his wife, to attend the funeral of an uncle who had died Tuesday.

Wm. Murdock went to Lincoln Friday where he goes to look after a proposition that is offered him there in the harness work line.

Miss Florence Smith returned home Sunday from Mexico, Mo., where she has been attending school, and will spend the holiday vacation here.

Misses Kate and Francis Smith came home from the State University Sunday to spend the holidays with their parents, Judge and Mrs. C. W. Smith.

George Stroup was down from Phillips county with a load of hogs Saturday. Stockton always pays the highest price for all products of the farm.

W. H. Wood, of Twin Mound township, accompanied by is daughter, started Sunday evening for Syracuse, Nebr., where his son is in quite poor health.

Mrs. Mattie Parham has purchased from W. R. Griffin the house now occupied by Frank Munn and family, and will move into it s soon as Frank moves out.

John Coldiron started Saturday evening for a trip to St. Joseph, and Kansas City, and he may also go to his old home at Columbus, Kansas, before he returns.

Have you seen the new fall ideas?
We are showing without question the most beautiful fabrics of the season. The line includes all the latest London and Paris novelties together with the most nobby designs as work in New York and Chicago.
See the soft Greys--they are unusually attractive and all the go, and , there is not other place in town where you can see so big a variety. Come in and look 'them over.
See Heling, the Tailor, for that new velvet collar on your overcoat.
Heling, the Tailor

Conductor Chas. Veal was here Sunday to visit his family, this being his first trip home for some days. Since going on the freight run east of Downs he does not come home often.

Mrs. E. C. Guthrie, of Woodston was in the city Friday visiting her old friends, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Barr. Miss Edna Barr accompanied her home and remained till Sunday.

Bert Miller shot an eagle but did not kill it, last Wednesday, on John Paynter's farm. It measured 6 feet, 8 inches, and weighed 12 pounds. He brought it to town with him, then killed it.--Alton Empire.

Miss Edith Coolbaugh returned Friday from Washburn college, where she had been for the past term. she will spend the holidays at home, before returning to her studies again.

Mrs. C. W. Landis left for her home in Osborne Friday evening after several days visit here with old friends, during which time she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Williams.

We notice a new one horse dray and transfer on the streets of late operated by W. P. McCollum. Mr. McCollum is a thoroughly responsible man and will take good cars of all business entrusted to him.

Mrs. F. C. McManis went to Ellis Monday evening there to join her husband, who is located there and is operating an electric theatre. She says he is doing well there, as there is only the one theatre there.

Mrs. Chas. Alexander arrived this week, accompanied by her nei8ce Miss Lura Fallas, to spend the holidays with friends. These ladies had been in Boulder, Colo., since Mrs. Alexander left here last fall.

Mr. and Mrs. George Jones, of Woodston, passed through this city Friday on their return home after several days at Webster, during which time they had attended the funeral of Mrs. Jones' father, J. N. Mullen

Miss Orpha Hubble arrived the first of the week from her school work at Sherman, Texas, where she has attended the fall term. She will spend the holidays here before returning after the holiday vacation is over.

W. T. Pfleiderer and Hennie Behrens started Thursday evening for Superior, Nebr., where they go on a sort of visit with Mr. Pfleiderer's parents and for a hunt, and while there Mr. Pfleiderer was to assist in the sale of a lot of horses for his father.

A letter from George Robinson who is not in the hospital at Kirksville, Mo., states that he is getting along nicely and the wound in him limb is healing nicely, and that the physicians say the bones of this limb are knitting in good shape. We are very glad to hear that he is recovering in good shape.

Mr. and Mrs. Art Hawk of Natoma are the proud parents of a son born last Thursday. Grandpa Frank Hill of Stockton who passed through the first of the week, stopped at this office and proudly recounted the virtues of this husky youngster/ the old gentleman is surely proud of him.--Natoma Independent.

Kansas City, Mo,, voted down the proposition to extend the franchise of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co., for forty-two years, a the special election held in Kansas city a week ago today. the majority against the proposition was 7097 votes. Here is a big victory for the Star. The Journal favored the franchise, but the Star opposed it. The Star made a desperats fight against it, and was repaid by a handsome victory. the Star had the right side.

David B. Smyth returned Friday night from his visit to Wichita and other points in the southern part of the state. He missed connections on the train at Clifton going down, but his misfortune was really turned into good luck, for it enabled him to run into Topeka while waiting and visit with his daughter, Miss Mary, who is attending school at Washburn, and also to visit an uncle who lives in Topeka--the only uncle he has living. While in Wichita he visited his brother.--Downs News.

Preston Agent Kingsley, of Topeka, was in the city Thursday and while here looked up matters relative to the pension claim of Mrs. Anna Sanford, a claim that ha been hanging fire for a long time and should be allowed soon. Mr. Kingsley informed us that he thought something would be done soon. He also attended some matters relative to the applications for increase of pension of Russell S. Osborn, and M. H. Shaw. Mr. Kingsley has been in the pension department service for over thirty years, and has been fifteen years of that time in Kansas. He is a man whose natural sympathies are with the pensioner, and he will deal with the strictest justice with them. He says most applicants are honest, and only occasionally do they detect any fraud in the people who apply.

Dec. 30, 1909 Stockton Review

...He was carried to the depot, and a conveyance was quickly gotten, which took him to Dr. St. John's office. At about nine o'clock the arm was amputated, a few inches below the shoulder. Dr. St. John performing the operation assisted by Dr. McShane. Yesterday the patient was resting easy, and no doubt will pull through, although he was very week from loss of blood. His mother and brother, Perry Boyd, drove up from Osborne in two hours after hearing of the accident.--Alton Empire.

Gamblers Pinched
For some time past the county attorney has been on the trail of some fellows who have been gambling. They were operating in Plainville. Thursday he closed in on them with the result that three fellows, Chas. Keleher, Chas. Phelps and J. W. White were brought before Squire Posegate on the charge of gambling. Each plead guilty and was fined $25.00 and costs. Keleher and Phelps paid up in full, but White could not raise the "Ready John Davis" to put him through and was brought here Friday and placed in the county quay. It is pleasing to see the manner in which the Plainville justice deals with this class of fellows, and it is our notion that this kind of execution of the law will pay a strong hand in the elimination of violations of the gambling law that are becoming entirely too flagrant. Squire Posegate has not up to this time been a widely known justice in this county but this class of performance of sworn duty if going to...

The Christian Sunday School has elected the following officers for the ensuing years. Supt., Mrs. Gibbs; Asst. Supt., J. O. Adams; Sec., Miss Millicent Meek; Asst. Sec. Miss Hibbs; Treas., W. H. Tanzey; Organist, Miss Grace Dryden; Chorister, Mrs. A. L. Robinson; Supt. Missions, Miss Ada Busch; Supt. Home Dept., Mrs. Hattie Marshall; Supt. Cradle Roll, Mrs. McKinnis.

A Prosperous Farmer
Last Thursday evening H. H. Nutsch who lives near Palco took the train here for Morrowville this state, his former home, to visit relatives and shop back a few cars of stock cattle. Mr. Nutsch moved to Rooks county last spring but prior to that time had backed up his faith in the county by purchasing 1440 acres of land. He is well pleased and thinks that there is no place like northwestern Kansas and he contends that the best little town on the map is Palco. He is a town boomer in all that the term implies and if a fair representative of the citizens over there, it is no wonder that burg is so widely known. This office enjoyed a visit from Mr. Nutsch during his short stop in town.

Christmas at O. Hazens
Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Hazen, of Hobart township, entertained at their home on Christmas day all their children and their families, with the exception of Mrs. R. W. Maddy, a daughter who was sick. There was a fine time enjoyed at the Hazen home, and the best that the market afforded was on the table at the noon hour. Mrs. Maddy who was unable to be present was given a postal card shower, in addition to many presents of a substantial nature. Mr. And Mrs. Hazen may well feel proud of the family they have reared and it must be a source of satisfaction to them to be able to call the children together with their families home for Christmas dinner.

Dinner at Fred Look's
On Christmas Fred Look and wife entertained at dinner for his sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. French of Hutchinson. There were present all of Mr. Look's family. I. H. Look and wife, A. L. Look and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Finlayson of Omaha and Howard Finlayson of Stockton, with enough of the children from these families to make twenty-eight persons in all. We have interviewed a few persons who were there and from them we learn that the bill of fare was such as is not met up with every day. The day was a most pleasant one in all respects at the comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. Look, and all went home hoping that Fred Look and wife will entertain again next year.

F. M. Gold went to Woodston Friday evening taking with him his gun to be used in the execution of a contract to kill all the rabbits in Lowell township.

Misses Genevieve and Marjorie Pfleiderer gave a party at their home last evening to a large number of their little friends, the guests of honor being Misses Pearl, and Beth Meek who are to leave next week for their new home in Texas.

Sleepy Hollow

Will Hall and family spent Sunday with the John Russ family.

Miss Lillian Winn went to her home at Beloit Friday evening to spend Christmas and was accompanied by her friend Miss Myrtle Reeder.

Greenfield Township

Miss Rella Stevens visited from Friday till Sunday with home folks at Stockton.

Wm. Smith and family and R. H. L. Smith and grand daughter May Simons spent Xmas at Fred Simon's.

Howard Johnson is visiting with James Gaffords at Goffs, Kansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Farris from Alcona visited Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Farris' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Schindler.

Abe Schindler returned home on Thursday of last week from Blanchardville, Wisc, where he had been to attend the funeral of his mother. His father was also very low while he was there but was slowly improving.

Vera Miles visited Sunday with may Simons.

A crowd of young folks spent a very pleasant evening at Abe Schindler's on Sunday. The evening was spent in skating..

S. W. Reeder and wife spent Sunday in Plainville visiting Mr. Reeder's mother, Mrs. Farrier.

Dr. B. E. Kelly, Dentist
Permanently Located at Stockton
Office Upstairs in Kelly Building

Mongrel Piece of Artistry
English Captain's Head on French King's Shoulders a Curiosity in Isle of Wright
There was set up in the seventeenth century, at Yarmouth, Isle of Wright, what is probably the most curious piece of art extant, erected to the memory of Sir Robert Holmes, a British naval officer of that period.
The odd circumstance is that the statue was not originally designed for Holmes at all, but for a very different personage, no other, indeed, than Louis XIV of France.
This statue, finished as to the figure, but in the rough as to the head, was being taken to France on an Italian vessel, when it was captured by a British man-of-war commanded by Holmes. Upon perceiving the unfinished condition of the statue, Holmes with grim humor, compelled the artist, who had accompanied his work, to chisel his (Holmes') head on the king's body. And so it stands today.
Holmes was eventually made governor of the Isle of Wright, which fact accounts for the location of this mongrel bit of artistry.

The Tub cure
It is being told now that the latest fad in society is the tub cure. The patient arises just as the crisp air of the morning is mellowed by the first sunbeam. An ordinary washtub is then filled with hot water and soapsuds, into which various articles of linen are thrown. After they are thoroughly saturated the patient takes them up one at a time and rubs them briskly up and down on the washboard placed in the tub. This is kept up until the hands, arms, and face are a glowing pink. The patient then goes into the open air and hangs all the linen articles on a line stretched for that purpose. the one completing the task first announces the time to the others over the telephone and is entitled to a prize. It is exciting sport and also invigorating exercise.

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