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The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 3

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PACE; six' THE EMPORIA DAIL.Y GAZETTE WEDNESDAY EVENING, 'APRIL 29,1925 New Styles Alarm Paris pay off the national debt. I never idle a did -work and quarrying aud I could get to do." Mr. Scliaefer expresses freely his low opinion the rsto of the most recent pension bills in congress. He IB a life-long Democrat and gives to tliat party his undivided allegiance. Mrs.

ScUaefer died in 1S9E. The Sena ef or children George Schaefer, vho runs the Olpe hotel; Mrs. Frank Wieland, New Kirk, Mrs. Tom Climax; Mrs. Fred Parker, Emporla; William Schaeter, Emporin.

and Miss Katherine flchaefer, -who lives ia California. One son, Charles, is dead. There are grandchildren. Mr. Schaefer married Miss Elizabeth Hoffman, of Louisville, in i900, and they have a comfortable home in M.

F. TAKE TROUBLES TO ABBOTT. How far if the mannish trend Roinji in fashion? Style author- itici arc unable to answer, and some of them are getting to be a little alarmed. The newest coats, one of which is seen at left, look brother's. In Paris a fad for waring man-style evening dress like that sketched at right, is taking hold.

And there is a minor in hats (see below) toward bandj and no decorations, just lute Dlpe Man Is Sole Civil War j. Survivor in Center Township Chris'ian Schaefer. of Olpe, enjoys t.ho distinction of being the only Civil -war veteran in Center Krwnship. "And I really don't belong in Center township," says Mr. Schaefer.

"I lived so many years in Elmcndnro township that always it -will FEP.m like home to me. There isn't much to tell about myself." ho replied in response to a rcnucKl for some of his recollections of early days in southern L.yon county, "but I do you to ielt the people, and especially the young people, in the p.iece yon write, that, old Chris 'Siha'cfrr Irlls them to bo honest and upright, to pay i heir debts and to be fair nnd square in all their dealings." Mr. Schaefor camo to Lyou county in and settled live miles southeast ot iho present town pt Olpn in what settlors in adjoining neighborhoods railed the "Dutch" settlement. There no Olpci then, and the iiooplc o.amo to Umporia, every two weelis or so. to sot their mnll.

Mr. Scha.pfcr' had married Mlw Carolina Bcchtcl in August, XapoVon. and some ot her barf como to Kansas, so the Scluiofora decided they come. They had mighty little money when they landed in Btnporia, says Mr. Schncter, and "hey lived for n.

timo with somo of their renting farm few years. After the death of Mrs. Scbaefer's parents they bought tho Beehtcl homestead, and Mr. Schaefer still owns this farm, half milo Oiist of the Eagle i'rci'k rliurch and school. Mr.

Srliarfer was one of the nf the Ens' Creek Catholic second i-hurch of that faith in Lyon county, the llrst 0110 having been organized Ht Heading, There were only il or 1" Catholic families in that scctinn of the county at that time, and Father Pirrier helpcd get Hie rliurch started. Mr. Schaefer not only helped 1n the organization of the church, 'tut being stone mason, he built the foundation and did other on it. The Schaefer children attended the public school, as there was co Catholic school in that community at that time. worked at anything could mrn my to," says Mr.

Schaefer. "We had a lot of hard times, all kinds of ups and downs. I worked at my trade as a. stone mason 1 coiutl get a job. I farmed for myself and worked for other farmers.

I worked for Daiik'l Bitler anil Cooper nnd William Sliockley the Brfwrrr-, many a day for nO or 75 cents a 'lay. At stone work: got big a day. I got hold of a 2-year-old thai was my start in cattle, and sometimes my herd numbered 50 ami more. And" I kept a good many hogs. In 1S74 I raised only 0 bushels of corn, but by great good luck my potato crop turned out well.

1 bud 1.00 bushels ot potatoes, kept a lot of them over winter, and sold them in the spring tor $2.25 a bushel. Scventy-Qvo was a good potato and that fall potatoes sold for 3" cents, and corn, also a cood cror. brought 18 and 20 7 sold my corn that year to Dan Bitler. In 1S74 we had couple, of hogs which we wn conld not afford to bit toiler, as we. needed money so so I askerl a dealer what he would ptiy uirs for them.

He offered mo J2.no .1 hundred, and I butclicrrf) Instead. And wo needed nil the. meat and lard they made, I cnu tell you. big crop of potatoes raised ivhon everybody else's po- latoeB failed, 1 planted on a little of creek bottom 'J had brokon out the ye.nr before, and 1 got good seed uf Simon Bucher. I teiidod those potatoes well, and soms or other they got the moisture they needed.

The potatoes saved the day for us that year. a.a they were about all -wo had that brought us in money." Mr. Sehacfer was born July in Cincinnati, Ohio, of German parents. He grew up there, did gardening and farming until IIR enlisted in Company isnd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in HR was in the battles ot Spring Hill and Franklin, and in tho great battle of Nashville. After Ilia discharge, he went home, and, hn says, boys of tho Civil war to work to help Chemistry Teacher Advisor for Flappers and Jealous AVives.

Graak Fords, N. April 28. the eternal triangle can Ije reduced to terms of chemistry in the belief of jealous wives and husbands. They come with hundreds other clients, including lawyers, doctors, farmers, capitalists, administrators, swindlers and flappers to Dr. A.

G. Abbott, head of the chemistry department' of university of North Dakota, seeking to have life's problems solved in his laboratory- Dr. Abbott is asked to do everything from solving a mysterious murder to prescribing a style of dressing for the bobbed-hair that won't marcel because of a cowlick; from purifying a city's water supply to de-termining the value of a new solitaire. To him coma tho baffled coroner with a tale of a patjent has succumbed to some new and startling form of moonshine: the prospector witli his "fools' gold: and patent medicine devotee with 'her pills. The doctor is the terror of the country fair candy vendor, whose deloctables are dyed pink from yarn and tho lemonade stand which invests in tartaric acid rather than lemons.

Once a tractor company subpoenaed tho chemistry professor to describe how the brackisli slough water a farmer used was responsible for cutting down the power on a tractor for which the farmer refused to pay. Dr. Abbott found the water contained alkali. The tractor company won the case. Not only from part of North Dakota do they come to Abbott, but from Minnesota and Wisconsin and elsewhere.

Through experiments in his laboratory tho town of Sparta, enabled to have a pure water supply. Keep Powder Dry, D. A. R. Head War Can't Be Prevented, Says.

Mrs. Anthony Cook In Preparedness Pica. Washington, April intentioned this country may be, either upon its own accord or as a. inenvber ot an international body organized for tha prevention of conflict, it cannot prevent -arar. So long as there Is no means of preventing war there must be preparation against a Such- was the warning conveyed to the thirty fourth continental congress of the Daughter? the Revolution recently by the president general I the society, Mrs.

Anthony Wayne NO FLAPPERS, BUT BACKFISH Vienna line Different for the Wise Girls, Vienna, April flapper not a llapper at all in the tor-. mer imperial home of the Haps- burgs. Here sho is "baekUsh." Just how she came to be so called, is not altogether known. According to- some Vienna, wiseacres it came about One day an American went fishing with an Austrian friend. For several hours they gat on the A.W.OOOK Cook.

Logic textbooks, leted and de- ivar- Any kind of Insurance Is all right as long as nothing happens. The insurance- wo write Is absolutely good, no difference what happens. We write our policies in Riir office, and they are in effect at once. McClurc's Agency, If yon miss hearing the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra with Mario Tiffany as soloist, appearing at the Teachers College, Thursday, you'll miss the best musical concert of fhc eeason. Hear them on Brunswick records at Pioneer music Wall Paper Wwsk.i AH this week at Samuel Holmes.

like bits of history never can be substituted for bullets, and. a well trained manhood as a guarantee of safety for the natiim, she cautioned. Pacifism, as preached by "emotional theorists," she warned, has reached "a dangerous stage." "Unfortunately," Mrs. Cook declared, "there is at present too great a tendency among many of our people to have America lead the world In readiness to promote peace by disarmament, without consideration ol the necessary provisions for our security and defense. As a nation we must realize that reliance upon right and logic in lieu oi proper defense is an invitation for us to be preyed upon.

"Nothing could be farther from the alms of our society than to commit our nation to a militaristic program, but it is the duty of every citizen to safeguard the United States against aggres-l sion by helping to support and maintain land, sea, and air forces for Our reasonable protection. "We further believe that it is our duty and that of every other) American citizen to be fully informed as to the measure of; national protection which' is banks of the Danube'. 1 flld not come to either of them. Each time.the American ckUfbt one he tossed it back into the river with the remark, "baoklish." "What mean you by saying hit Austrian host. American replied, "Oh.

I mean back Into the. river with their mother until they hare time to grow up. These little fellows are too small to interesting; always worrying everybody, like girls who think they are grown up and very So "backfUh." iye-Sore TJOW many "eye-sores" in your home haw nothing wrong with them other than a few stains on their Surfaces? Afl they need is a fresh outer coating of Mirroiac Enamel to restore their youth. Devoe Mirroiac Enamel for the hotaehoMTjcimti- ful! Easy to to dry. Gives a brilliant surface that looks and washes like tile.

Sorteen artistic colors to give your taste full play. When you want to know anything about paint or painting drop in and discuss your problems with us. Where Failure Means Death 1 a naval guk go off, the result may truction by the enemy. Our guns fired by toe current from storage batteries. as for a dozen other our navy relies on the sure power of Exide Batteries, navies of a number of foreign nations use the Exide.

'In the peaceful pursuits of industry, Exide Batteries play a vital'part. The current that sends your voice over the telephone comes from an Exide; thousands ot farm homes are lighted by Elides; the busy little trucks you see around railroad stations and in industrial plants are propelled-by Exides. There, is an Exide Battery for every purpose. Hanson Plummer 111 East Sixth neceesarr, and to be unceasing In our efforts to that it is provided by the congress of the United States." "The spread of pacifism," she said, "and the undermining of our ideals of national service by foreign agencies and by our native-born emotional theorists, have been swept loose from stable moorings by skillful propagandists, has reached a dangerous stage. "History will show that as a nation, in ordor to be have actually leaned backward in our endeavor to be fair in international matters," she the ttmejus come fop.our government to be given full power to expel from its shores those tvbo, in spite of every opportunity, are proving themselves hostile to the bett interests of our citizenship and arc.

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