The Belleville Telescope from Belleville, Kansas • Page 1

THE A Consolidation of The Belleville Telescope and Rcpub lie County Seven Other Republic County Newspapers of lietmniic County'' OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER CITY PAPER SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.00 A YEAR FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR BELLEVILLE, REPUBLIC COUNTY, KANSAS, fHURSDAY. JANUARY 27, 1D27 TEN PAGES NUMBER TWENTY-TWO LIONS CLUB MEETS IN THIRD ANNUAL CHARTER NIGHT CO i ANNIVERSARvf THE CLUB HERE i E. S. Nightwine, District a. Explains Principles of The Club International, Organization.

Must Give Up Ring Or Be Killed A Jewell City lady is in rather a peculiar predicament. Losing the diamond from her ring, she is firmly of the opinion that the chickens picked it up. She has 27 of them" and may have to kill and eat the whole bunch in order to find out which one got it. ACTION AT GREENLEAF srnor a of cer at of the I E. S.

Nightwine, district of Lions clubs for this Kansas, was the principal the second anniversary ban Lions Club of Belleville, at the Hotel Elliott, last Friday evening. Lion "Cubs," their wives, or sweethearts gathered at the Elliott at 7:30 and proceeded to the dining room, "where sixty-four were served a sumptuous banquet, planned by the hotel management. Each one present was presented with a paper hat, on which the Lions club emblem, and other favors served to amuse. and jthe Lions by Lion L. F.

Collins, were intermingled with the courses of the dinner and the program of the evening. Lion E. V. Kalin 's 6 -piece orchestra furnished a number of selections during the evening. Hon.

E. S. Nightwine, the district governor, outlined the greater things doing for their respective cities, and how, thToughco -operation of the clubs of this dictrict, better Lions result, hence liver boosters for communities to make liver cities. Mr. clubs were not organizations of "moneyed" class of people, but were representative business men of towns, were willing to work for the bet- continued on page six, col.

4) FEBRUARY JURY CALLED Dockets Are Off Press For Term Slated to Open Tere February The Seventh. Citizens of Town. Mandamus! Action Against City Dads A mandamus action has been filed in the Washington county district court by R. B. Davidson and other citizens of Grcenleaf, against the mayor and council of the city of Greenleaf in an effort to prevent an I extension of paving ordered by the 'city authorities.

It is claimed that Iwhen an extension of a paving district is ordered, the citizens may cir- culate a petition opposing it and if i they get enough' signers to equal 40 per cent of the vote for mayor at the last election, then the council must submit the matter to a vote of the town, or back up. The petition was filed but the city officials, refused to fcallthe election petitioned for. SEN. JAMESREED'S i FAITH IN COOUDGE Replying to-Hef-Iin-A-tt-ack on Knights of Colmubus, Kansas City Man Ridicules The Idea of "Religious War." The following is a list of jurors -drawn for the regular February term of the district court, opening in Belleville, February 7. The jurors have summoned to appear at 1:30 p.

on Tuesday, February 8th: C. A. Lindberg, Courtland. Frank Mottl, Cuba. Frank Huncovsky, Agenda.

H. E. Coleman, Scandia. Geo. Maxton, Rydal.

Alvie Miller, Courtland. Ferdinand Halek, Belleville. Fred Nitcher, Republic. P. L.

Hugos, Scandia. E. Cure, Republic. O. L.

Dooley, Belleville. C. J. Banks, Republic. L.

R. Denoyer, Scandia. E. S. Kobes, Narka.

Joseph Marrsicek, Munden. Joseph Tarkowski, Belleville. Joseph Rizek, Belleville. Henry Spurney, Belleville. W.

S. Coppers, Belleville. Howard Barber, Courtland. Wm. Houdek, Cuba.

Eugene McDonald, Cuba. V. W. Farlee, Belleville. N.

J. Sanford, Belleville. W. J. Campbell, Wayne.

P. C. Cunningh Frank Celoud, uCba. W. H.

Bobenhouse, Rydal. C. A. Rood, Munden. Alfred Hammer, W.

E. Kelly, Rydal. H. W. Campbell, Byron, Nebraska.

Steve Benyshek, Cuba. J. B. Angle. Courtland.

C. C. Cullers, Scandia. NEW LIBRARY OPENS FEB Washington. Jan.

"both" the CalkoBc.cWfc^"a^3-0XLi>Jhcc, I the Coolidge administration against the charge they were attempting to; i force a war upon Mexico, i James A. Reed of Missouri made one of his most notable senate speeches this afternoon. He met the religious I issue, which had been dragged into the debate by Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama, head on for tolerance, denouncing bigotry and i denying the Catholic church or any other church sought to force war with Mexico. To the amazement of his colleagues, the Missouri senator, who, in the past, has been one of the most savage cirt- ics of President Coolidge, said he would do nothing that might weaken the hands of the administration during the present crisis.

He asked that the President be given a chance. Finally he declared there was not the slightest chance of war unless it was forced needlessly, provoked by incendiary speeches and newspaper articles in this country and Mexico; It was the first time the Missouri senator had expressed himself at any length on the Mexican and Nicaraguan situation. The speech came extemporaneously and at times the Missouri senator reached the great heights of oratory, the senate and the crowded galleries listened almost spellbound. Heflin made his bitter attack on the Catholic church and the Knights of Columbus, to which brief reply had been made by Senator Bruce of Maryland, when the Missouri senator took the floor. "I do not know that we shall gain anything by prolonging a discussion of this kind," he said, "but I am sorry (continued on back page, col.

2) WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Why Not State Aid For Fair? The North Central Kansas Free Fair held at Belleville -each year hub duiuunstnrted tion, and last week Senator Van De Mark and Representative B. H. Johnson introduced bills in both branches of the legislature asking for a meager appropriation of $7,500 a year. These bills are now before the Ways and Means Committees of both houses for consideration. In all fairness to the North Central Kansas Free Fair it should be noted that it has long ago passed from the status of an ordinary county fair and in fact, become, as its name indicates, the North Central Kansas Free Fair, patronized, as it is by thousands of people from all over northern and western Kansas.

It draws exhibits from this vast empire which is isolated in a way from the fairs at Hutchinson and Topeka. The records of attendance and the records of exhibits oyer a period of years gives the North Central Kansas Free Fair the right to claim the third largest agricultural and live stock fair in Kansas. With an running from 30,000 to 50,000 a year, agricultural exhibits comparable the fairs at Hutchinson and Topeka, and live stock entries of more than 1,000 animals from northwestern Kansas, eastern Kansas and southern Nebraska, gives this fair a status which is entitled to more than ordinary consideration. In addition to the above exhibits last year there' were more than 2,500 entries in the agricultural department and 1,338 fowls entered. Gash premiums are distributed to exhibitors over northwestern Kansas amounting to thousands of dollars annually.

The racing program which is conducted independently by the Chamber of Commerce, attracts race horses and autos from Kansas "who in the races at Topeka and Hutchinson. To all intents and purposes the agricultural and live stock fair at Belleville serves the people of Northwestern Kansas in the same way that the fairs at Topeka and Hutchinson serve their constituencies. Were it not for the North Central Kansas Free Fair thousands of persons would be required to travel from 200 to 400 miles to make their exhibits and patronize fairs which are practically in the same class with this one. The people of this important section of Kansas have, of their own efforts and of their own fesources, built up over a period of years, a great agricultural and live stock show comparable only to those at Topeka and Hutchinson. These people are taxpayers of the same taxing district which makes appropriations to the other state they have done it without complaint.

Now that they have developed a great fair, in an important agricultural district of Kansas they submit in all fairness that they are entitled to recognition and co-operation by the legislature in the further development and-promotion of the agricultural and live stock interests of this section of the state. Mrs. O'Hara Will Not Be Deported Concordia, Jan. Mrs. Harry O'Harra, Russian wife of the former Concordia boy, will not be deported, but will receive from now, immagration officials notified O'Hara yesterday, a letter to his mother in Concordia, said.

O'Hara now lives at Omaha. It was recently announced that Mrs. O'Hara, a Russian subject, would be deported, since the visitor's visa on which obtained admittance to United States had expired. FOUR CRIMINAL FIFTY-ONE CIVIL CASES DIST. COURT iFOTTTr NEW OFFICERS WILL BE i ON DUTY AT THIS TERM Jake Hostetler, Sheriff; Chas.

Yost, Under Sheriff; W. C. Perry, County Attorney; and New Court Stenographer SHORTAGE OF HAY Hay is generally plentiful in the Short Grass country, as a general rule yet this fall and winter has been an exception. Other years it is stacked and baled in great quantity. However, due to the dry summer last year, much hay is being shipped in from other sections to this part of The regular February term of the district court will convene at the court house in Belleville on Monday, Feb.

7, at 10 o'clock a. with ten criminal paroles, four criminal cases and fifty-one civil cases on the docket. Four new court, officers will be on duty in the court room at this session, as follows: Jake Hostetler, Sheriff; Chas. Yost, undersheriff; W. C.

Perry, county attorney and Kansas. Within three days Lebanon: Editha Sanders, court stenographer, received seven carloads, and other sec-1 The paroles to be.heard at this time I tions are shipping in enough to carry include that of the State of Kansas vs. their stock through the rest of the Clarence Sturm, Byron Culver, Orval i Winter. Nellie Durand, George A. Jones, Leonard i 17 i Xi Fir 1 )V im I Barton, Charles Beneda, Bart A.

I VAN Dfc MAKR AND i ShTuld an dw Barton I Included in the criminal cases ap- TAUMCAftl Uf AD VIMr earin on this term's docket are I JUIlIlljUJl TfUluUflllj those of the State of Kansas vs. Lesi Stfllwell, for burglary and larceny, John C. Hall for issuing worthless Senator and Representative Working Hard In Interest Constituents. issuing checks, and John C. Hall for making, of delivering of worthless checks and John Goodman i4ov- ebi4d-desertiom I The civil cases consist of a variety Senator M.

V. B. Van De Mark and of actions from divorcees to parti- Representative B. H. Johnson who tions.

Perhaps the most important in of money. RrMorey, of Scandia, fort to bring before the minds of the; vs. The Chicago Rock Island and Pa- legislators the feasibility of an appro-cific Railroad Company. Mrs. Morey priation for the North Central Kansas was ijured some years ago while Free Fair.

i alighting from a passenger train at The wide territory which this fair I on back page, col. 3) serves, is one of the big reasons it is deserving of state aid, and our rep-, resentatives in the state legislature mp i mirno lirrT OiT realize this. They are so convinced itAUMS Mfcfcl SAL of the fairness of an appropriation for this fair representing a wide area in this, section of Kansas that they are, Profe9Bop Rarick of Hays wnl working hard in the interest of the; rincipal speaker Fo measure This Meeting Has Civilization Pulled The Teeth The Old Time Kansas Blizzard? Of June SAVAGE'S HISTORY OF REPUBLIC COUNTY RELATES INSTANCE OF WHERE SEVERAL PERISHED IN A BILZZARD AT EASTER-TIME, 1873 Among the leading questions de- were not so well prepared as they are bated among the Kansas pioneers and now. While it did not turn very, cold those interested in pioneer days, is 1 here at that time, a good that of whether the real blizzard, is a to death elsewhere. thing of the past.

The cold snap which, ntl 4. I children, ono a baby oniv a has gripped this section for the past bad months old have been making their Superintendent Notes. i bIl ard occurred on March 13, home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roll Call and Payment of Dues.

MRS. HARDY HONORED Mrs. Ida DaFoe Hardy, formerly of; Prof. C. E.

Rarick, of the Hay's Belleville, but now of Medford, Teachers College, wi 'll be the prin- was given favorable comment in a re-' cipal speaker at the Republic County cent issue of the Qklahoman Teacher's association meeting, to be a daily newspaper of Oklahoma City, held here in the high school auditor- Okla. The paper named Mrs. Hardy ium in this city, Saturday, January as one of the leading musical educat-; 29. An interesting program of talks, ors of Grant county in that stat and papers and music has been arranged used a two-column cut of Mrs. Hardy for the occasion which is expected in the write-up on the front page.

to be largly attended by teachers Mrs. Hardy was once a music: from all parts of the county, teacher left here Following is the program: probably twenty years ago. Her Vocal Duet Edith and Deloris friends will be glad to learn of herj Larson District 96 success. Vocal Duet of Peggy and Jack," "Honeymoon WILSON TO BE RETURNED au Frederickson and Carl Fors- Wantedln Concordia On A Desertion 1 0 4 Grades Ethel Rust, Dist. 25 For a Sheriff to have to go after and Piano Solo Elizabeth Anderson arrest his own brother-in-law, is ra- District 96 ther an unuasual procedure, yet this'y Tri 01d Maids from a -ff hla came Aletha McHo nry, Evelyn Sheriff Kersenbrock, of Cloud county.

The brothei'-in-law in question is Gerald F. Wilson, who has been lo- Wiruth Veroda, Ida Mae District 111 cated in Shelbyville, 111., and is wan- Address 0 Rarick ted in Concordia for wife and child 0. 1. Hays desertion. Mrs.

Wilson and her. two Courtland Schools children, ono a baby onlv a few Reading of Minutes of last Meeting. MrTand Mrs. J. K.

Frame, Aged 83 and 86 Enjoy Nearly Three Score Years Together 1st Sunday, January 23, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Frame celebrated their 59th I wedding anniversary at their home on south street in this city.

Mr. accomplished EIGHTY IX LD AND in the past week in getting the books Mrs- Frame will be eighfethree and records ready for the opening of tn They to ansas the New Belleville Public Library, i jj will be opened and the public is in- moved to this city. Tited to come and inspect the books hey ar f- he NTB An EVE HLLD and see what has been done: 0, 'A 6 5 No books will be permitted to be and and Mrs F. Pal- taken out on- that but on Wed nesday, February 2nd, the official opening day the books will be ready to be taken out. TWO BROKE JAIL HERE But Were Recaptured the Following Day By Officers.

Baughorn, and E. Stine a floater, who broke jail and escaped Wednesday night, were recaptured the following day, one at Munden and the other near Cuba. The former was being held for a store burglary and the latter for vagrancy. They made their escape by reopening a breach in the wall, where Baugborn and two other prisoners, had escaped "two weeks before. Their recapture was made by Undersheriff Yost and R.

I. Detective-Cooley. -The- NOTICE "of Concordia and the Grace Hill Farmers Union will give an entertainment at the Grace Hill school house, on Friday, January 28 at eight o'clock. Lunch will be sold afterwards in the basement. Admission 15 and 25c.

and Mrs. J. C. Betts of this city; eleven grand children and two great grand children. Several friends and relatives called and extended congratulations and the orchestra from the Christian church played several selections that was very much appreciated.

The Season For Hatching Eggs is opening and there is one market place where much business will be transacted over Republic-county this year. That market place is the Telescope's Classified column. Advertise your eggs for hatch- in this column and reap a harvest of customers at low cost. Phone 38 or mail your ad. to the Telescope.

People profit who "read Classified column. "the two weeks, we think is bad, but what of the driving, blinding snow storms of western and north central Kansas, as they used to be back in the 80's and 90's 1876. Many were living in dugouts at that time and an instance is related that the groat amounts about a particular dugout on the John Hay homestead Pioneers relate instances where southeast of Scandia, that the eldest many people lost their lives in bliz-1 son of the family, Thomas Hay, had Fred Allen in Conem-dia. Wilson is a printer and has been "til recently in printing offices in Con- SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST zards of this kind, in the early days. 1 Were the storms then actually so much more severe? Judging from the following interviews gleaned from old time citizens it would seem that in these days Mother thellteeth of.

ihe old time blizzard. farmer and hardware merchant, of this city, who has been in the west for 62 years, tells of a severe snow storm when he was driver of a government mule team at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, when he was 16 years of age. They had very little protection except a tent and the snow sifted.in until it was four feet deep on the tent floor. He went several days without food. However, the worst blizzar that winter of 1886.

It lasted three days and many perished in the storm, especially in the Dakotas and other Northern and Western states. Isadore Bowersox, pioneer farmer of Union township, Republic county, who still lives on the old homestead near the Union Valley schoolhouse, says that the worst blizzard in his recollection was the memorable Easter storm of March 13, 14, and 15, 1873. It began with a great downpour of rain, but afterwards turned to snow. Mr. Bnwprsnv viriting to make a hole in the roof in order to get out of the dugout.

Large ravines are said to have been completely filled level with snow in many instances during this storm. In connection with the terrible above, Savage's JHistory of Republic county, tells the following pathetic incident: "One of the saddest events which has ever happened in this county, and which draped the whole community in mourning, occurred while the storm was at its height. Two families lost most of their loved ones, eight in number. The house 'of Mr. Crane, one of our most estimable citizens, who was absent from home, was burned on Saturday during the storm and his family, a wife and four children, took shelter in the residence of -MR hurricane took off the roof of the stone house, and blew in the gable end, crushing the floor, causing it to fall into the cellar, where the family had taken refuge from the fury of the elements.

Mrs. Bennett was severely injured. When morning dawned Mr. Bennett proceeded to the house of the nearest neighbor to obtain help. He was unable to procure it, and made his way to the next house, where succeeded in gettingassistance.

Upon his return a most terrible home of a neighbor, John Nelson three miles north of his home and remained over night. He started home about 8 o'clock the next morning at which time the snow barely begun, and before he reached home the snow was drifted over the fences. People sight greeted his eyes. There, in the clinging embrace of death, lay his wife and three children, together with Mrs. Crane and two of her children.

still alive, and Mr. Bennett carried them to the residence of the nearest neighbor, at which place the boy died E. A. Fulcomer Son are announc- cordia and Belleville, and other towns I ing this week a school essay contest in this part of the state. on the subject, "The Foundation of American Government." The contest is open to all school pupils and prominent citizens will be named later as judges, awarding three C.

OF. C. MEETS FRIDAY Postponed Election of Officers Be Principal Business of the Meeting Will meet in the Chamber of Commerce rooms at the Republic Hotel Friday night, convening at 8 o'clock. Election of officers will be one of the important points of the meeting, although other business must be disposed of, it was announced last night by Secretary Weil. At the last meeting the election of officers was postponed to this Friday, in order to give the new members an opportunity to vote for the 1927 officers.

united organization of this city and every person who has the interest of the town at heart should be a member. The committee. called on most the people of the city last week for renewal of memberships as well as new members, but anyone who is public spirited and has not already became a member of" the organization, will call Jack Davis, committee. cash prizes. A statement from E.

A. Fulcomer Son on page six, explaining in detail the contest, or Mr. Fulcomer or will be glad to required. B.H. S.

DEBATERS WIN Local Debate Teams Capture Seven Out of Possible Eight Points Thus Far. for want of timely asistance. The little girl recovered. "Mr. Crane's house." according to the history, "was in the northwest quarter of.

section 15, later known as the George Houdek farm, now owned by Gus Kaufman, in Jefferson town- -Bennett this sad catastrophe occurred, was on the Northeast quarter of section 11, in the same township." The Belleville High School. Debate Team met the Mankato High School January 19th in a dual debate. The question was, Resolved: "That a Federal Department of Education be established with a secretary in the President's Cabinet." The B. H. S.

affirmative debated the Mankato negative here, and the negative debated the Mankato affirmative at Mankato. Out of the eight points awarded Belleville's teams" werei able to win seven. The next debate scheduled will take place at the High School Auditorium Wednesday, February 2, at-irSO p. when the Blue Rapids affirmative team debates the Belleville negative team. Those representing Belleville are: AffirnTative, Wanda" Parrott, Virleen Van Natta and Ralph Douglas; Negative, Harold Kuhn, Virginia Ward, and Grace Jenks..