Belle Plaine News from Belle Plaine, Kansas • Page 2

Hell? illatnr Nana AND DEFENDER. BEAV BR BOAR CAIN BREAKS. The Wichita mother who wanted to put her six year old son in a "home" because he grated on her nerves, was putting the wrong ono in the home. FOR BETTER. WALLS.

Or CEIUNCS IB II For dull ease broken By sharpest dole, For the dart that It driven Through flesh to toul; -For wrath made sterner By right's eclipse, For brave songs breaking From pain-wrung lips We praise Thee, Godl For faith that I born From the burning nest, For the spirit's flight On Its starward quest, For peace that dwells At the heart of strife, For death that scatter The seed of life We praise Thee, Godl Why Live with Cracked Walls and Ceilingi When They're Easily Covered Up Beaver Board will cover them up for all time and you'll never have the job to do again. While Beaver Board is doine away with the danger of falling plaster it is covering up old diney wall paper on walls' and ceilings and giving you an ideal surface for painting and decorating. 1,,. nomesteia nss Dcen revived with this knotless, cracltless manufactured lumber. Room after room has been made over one st time if you please without muss or litter.

Beaver Board ii real lumber. It is built Bp into Urge panels from the strong, pure Comley Lumber Company JAMES MACKY. Manager 4'A i shining pearls; stewed tomatoes, of deepest red; coldslaw, that pale green dainty. Perhaps there would be a pot-pie of chicken, or squirrel, or quail, a dish of hominy, or turnips, or corn. Celery In bouquets of bleached plumes beets, cut In scarlet roses spiced pickles, sweet and sour; cranberries glowing like heaped-up rubles, and pies, of all sorts and sizes, apple and custard and cherryand mince but, best of all, because most appropriate, the old-fashioned pumpkin pie, a lost delight, and, like Poe's heroine "vanished now for evermore." In the days of real Thanksgiving, there was no ice cream, no bar-le-duc, no creme-de-menthe, no pousse-cafe, no treacherous cocktail nor subtle pick-me-up.

For dessert there were doughnuts and cheese, gingerbread and beaten biscuit and honey apples and nuts and popcorn, and cider from the home press, made for the occasion and with just the right twang to Its bubbles. Royal Feasts and Feasters. Such royal feasts needed royal feasters, the keen winter air and long sermon combined to make the only true sauce, the simple, honest hunger of simple, honest people. Nowadays we hear of "the keen, sharp pangs of the morning after." Nobody ever heard of a sickness the day after this Thanksgiving dinner. Nobody was In a hurry to get oft to the theater or card party, for 1 o'clock was the dinner hour, and the sleigh ride home through clear winter sunlight was the best of all dlgestants, if such a thing were needed.

In some neighborhoods the day would end in a Thanksgiving dance, but this was not a prevailing custom. Perhaps the visitors would spend the night, would gather round the fire and tell stories, or listen to some newcomer with tale of adventure or deeds of (luring. And there was always music; some one would play on violin or bass viol, perchance a little piano or quaint melodeon. People sang ballads Id those dnys. "On the Banks of Allan Water," "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes," "Fly Away to My Native Land," and others so long unsung, are like dreamt far-off Joy to the old folks.

The Daily Beacon and the News for $6.00. We save you fifty cents. We will be pleased to have your subscription. "THE MinimmmmNmirommmtrnmntros Buy Belle Plaine's "Favorite" Flour 3 All flour, nojfreight. Why pay freight on outbound wheat and inbound flour.

Buy FAVORITE flour ST milled at home by the Marvel way, the most sanitary system known. This flour is sold by all merchants in Belle Plaine and the Peck Mercantile Co. Every Z. sack fully guaranteed by The Consumers Mill Elevator Co. J.

BYRON CAIN. PUBLISHER Published Every Thursday Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 191 Entered at the Postoffloe Belle Pmlne Ktnsas, aa second elaat matter. OFFICIAL G1TY PAPER Established December 6, 1879. Oldest paper in the county.

Charges will be made for all Lodge notloes, Resolutions, Cards ol Thanks and Obltuarj Poetry. Advertising rates are 85 cts perir per issue, single column: locals 10c per line per Issue. Extra oopies 6o per copy. If you fall to receire your paper or (ret it promptly please Inform us at once. Watch the date on your paper and please do not let It get In arrears.

Orville Silvers and wife came down from Belle Plaine Tuesday for a visit with Joe Silvers and family. Argon-ia Argosy. E. E. Sheridan and little daughter of Bolicar, are here visiting Mr.

Sheridan's brother, S. J. Sheridan, and family. Clearwater Courant. Mrs.

R. E. Hastings, who has undergone an operation in a hospital at Halstead, is recovering nicely and will be home in perhaps a week. Wellington News. Among the out of town visitors in the city Thursday afternoon was Mrs.

C. C. Phipps of Belle Plaine. She visited friends here until evening. Wellington News.

C. B. Wallace and family left foi Harper yesterday, where Mr. Wallace has bought a hotel. Transported their goods overland.

May good fortunes attend them. Caldwell News. G. H. P.

Showalter, of Austin, Tex. is announced to appear on the big three days program of the Church of Christ at Harper this week. It must have been a shock to him to read his name in the Harper Advocate spelled "Shalowater." Believe us, he is not "shallow" by any means, nor does he preach that sort of a doctrine. "Box Suppers" are not suffering any decline in popularity as a social event in the rural Bchool districts. In the Belle Plaine News of this week are the notices of three to be held at the Fisher, Meeker, and Schweyhart schools on 20, 21 and 25 respectively.

The customary invitation to the ladies to bring boxes and the boys their pocket books included. Wellington News. The Wichita Ben Franklin Club Invited tho employing printers of the southern part of this state to a banquet and love feast at Wichita Monday eveuipg. J. L.

Papes, wf Mul-vaDO, J. G. Campbell and II, L. Woods, of Wellington, and the ofll-cial gadabout of this piper represented Sumner county at the meeting, and all feel more than repaid for attending. There were about fifty persons present, Hutchinson, Pratt, Clear-watery Arkansas City, Whitewater, Halstead, Newton and Wintiold being represented also.

Many things which confront the printer today was discussed. We find others are about in the same boat we lind ourself. Stock has advanced very rapidly and the wage scale has been raised. Few apprentices are being found in the printing offices, and help is scarce. Prices on job work have been advanced and will no doubt be advanced more.

J. C. Mack, of Newton, told of a few of the many trials the newspapers have, and every newspaper man present is adjustiug his prices of advertising and subsc iption to meet, in a small measure, the situation which confronts him. The $2.00 paper is already here. The Monitor Press has already raised ita subscription rate and we know of at least two more in this section that will do the same.

The Sedgwick Pantagraph has been at the $2.00 rate for some time. The man who has a thousand pounds of paper on hand, is lucky. The price of news print has advanced from normally and $4.00 per hundred to $8.60 and $9 00 per hundred pounds and the top has not hue a reached yet. No advance contracts will be made and what shipments are received, are sold in the future at a price which may prevail then. The advance must be mot and many a newspaper will soon find out whether or not bis individual city wants a paper or not.

Got ready for the raise. No rational mother can possibly feel so severe against a helpless six year old child. Back of it all no doubt is, the little fellow is in the way when it enmes to meeting her gentlemen It is always Interesting to watch a combat "between two large Just now we are witnessing a clashing of ideas between a great government and a bunch of ring loaders in a strike. We shall see whether a government that can tear your boy away from your firesido and push him in front of tho deadly canon, is strong enough i force a bunch of men to go to work and dig coal. "We note," says Deacon Pore, 'that it is said of a musical comedy, which is soon to appear in Wichita, that it is 'highly regarded as an exposition of feminine pulchritude'." "We continued the Deacon, 'ihat the feminine exposed something, out wo never heard them called 'pnl-c iritude' before.

We just supposed that 'anklos' was the name to use." We see Arkansas had another hang-l bee recently. Yes, the victim was a "nigger." At that Arkansas is un-a 'le to get intfTGeorgia's class, where lling niggers is the national pastime. And still our people are shocked -cause Mexico is again engaged in fesllvo game of massacrecing the Ull. Of courso there ars places where they still shoot the bull. Peck Resident Pays Fine.

Sam Warren of near Peck, who is to have a hearing Friday before ustice of the Peace Garver on a arge of disorderly conduct, pleaded uilty and paid a fine of $15 and -3tS. Cyrus Hughes and son, who had arrested, recently paid fines $15 and costs to Justice of the Garver on a similar charge. Daily News. From Dr. Lanier.

r. J. Byron Cain, Belle Plaine, Kan. Byron: The Belle Plaine News just received 1 note niy subscription has exited. Please find enclosed check for of the old home paper.

1 with Interest in this week's issue your paper the reported Oil strike a the old Sleigh farm. This will be gratifying indeed, if it proves to in paying quantities. Crop cond.tions here were never tter and of course the phenomena! in circulation. Wife and I are enjoying good health nd manage to get hold of enough of medium of exchange to have Three Squares" a day. Thanking you in advance for the years news.

I beg to remain, your very truly, L. H. LANIER. Mulvane Musings. Mrs Fannie Ridgeway, Mrs.

Allen md sister, Mrs. Dunlap of Wichita, jent two weeks in Oklahoma City, isiting brothers. Mr. and Mrs Frank Doyle were -ver from Riverdale Saturday. Mrs Joyle is not in very good health and as consulting with local doctors and ncidentally visiting her daughtei rs.

W. C. Robinson, Jr. J. Byron Cain has been running the oclle Plaine News for 26 years.

We jlaim that is a sign of a pretty good awn that will let a country editor around for that length of time. We begin to see signs that Mulvane vill never measure up to Belle Plaine's high mark. Everett Watson had some hard luck Tuesday. In the first place he broke lis leg. A horse he was riding rared up and fell over with him.

And if that was not enough his fine new Uuick roadster, which he loaned to his Vother Joe to make a trip to Wichita, was stolen on the streets of that city, and has not yet been located, although there is strong suspicion pointing to a young man who has been working for Ray Piatt, who that same evening drove into Peck with a Buick Roadster for which he claimed to have traded. He had it filled with gasoline, charged the same to his late employer, drove out of town and has not been seen nee, though the officers have been looking for him with considerable interest. Mulvane News. ROYAL FEASTS OF OTHER DAYS When Thanksgiving Had Its Old-Time Setting of Indian Summer and Country Hospitality. CAN it be that not only the times are out of Joint, but the seasons, too, are changing? Is nature at this late day trying some experiments and setting back the hands on her dlalplate of months? Certainly this November weather is not the kind we read about when our grandfathers tell of "the good old times," of the "big snows" and "when the land was ne'w." For days we have lived as if summer skies were brooding over us, and were it not for the bare trees and silent woods we could almost fancy ourselves In that land of pure delight where spring Immortal reigns.

This is the real Indian summer, so often talked of, but eo seldom experienced in perfection, a writer in the Boston Herald asserts. All over this part of the world we hear of It, day after day of warm and comfortable weather, when the sun shines faintly through the clouds of mist and purple yjjoke veils all harsh outlines and unsightly objects; day after day with skies of melting tenderness and soft zephyrs playing in the tangled locks of little children romping In field and wood. The windows are thrown open, doors set ajar, and the fire goes out upon the hearth. Everybody wants to get out in the open, to wnnder on country roads, to climb the hill and find the seashore. In the Old World this season Is sometimes called "the old man's summer," and the fenst of i good St.

Martin, which falls in the first I week of November, is known as "the 1 old man's holiday" perhaps because of Its unexpected short-lived charm. Needs Country Setting. Thanksgiving, of course, Is truly a country affair, and in the city loses half its charm. The very word has come to mean something of country ways and country living, country products and country hospitality. It smacks of all things rural, of hills and fields and lanes and woods, ripe fruit, perfect vegetables, loaded corncrlb, shining cattle.

One cannot celebrate Thanksgiving aright, in a town flat, or a brown-stone mansion, certainly not In a boarding house or dining car. Thanksgiving day means a rambling house in a great green yard, a quaint, old gambrel-roofed cottage near a country road, a log cabin In a ten-acre patch houses full of old-fashioned furniture and with room for all the family and the kinsfolk and the stranger within the gates. It means love of home and great-hearted hospitality, the coming back of the children, the welcome of the old folks. The Ideal Thanksgiving must have a setting of snow. It must echo to the ring of sleigh bells and the neigh of the horses in frosty weather.

No matter what the weather for weeks before, there should be snow in good time. The sun rises on a dazzling picture of white field and glistening woodland. A veil of magic beauty covers fence and road, the yard so brown and ugly but yesterday, hides now under a mantle of snowy, swansdown. All night it fell, noiselessly, stealthily, mysteriously, this first coming snow of the year, and made of this common earth a bit of fairyland, a transformation scene. Like a Thrice-Told Tale.

The Thatksglvlng dinner of the country's earlier days has been described so frequently that it is like a "thrice-told tale, signifying sound and nonsense," so vividly that one can almost taste the dainties. Modern kitchens could not cook those incomparable dishes. Such a feast could not be served In courses, or brought on In piecemeal. In those days the table literally "groaned with its burden" and glowed with the beauty of the assembled dishes. Merely to recite their names would tempt the most pitiful dyspeptic.

Roast pig, hot and brown, roast spare ribs, pink and cold; roast turkey, Juicy and tender, full to bursting with perfect stuffing potatoes, Bnow- and mealy boiled onions, Ilka fibres of the roruce tree. Wl, ,,1 treated with the patented Sealtit process which prevents warping. If yo need to build or re-build, restore oi enlarge ask us how yon will profit bj using Beaver Board. Land Buyers Investigate De Rid-der, Louisiana Thousand of acres of cutover timber lands now being sold at very low prices. Will produce to $400 per acre.

Sure crops every year. Beautiful climate. No hard winters plenty soft water1 Save big money by locating in Louisiana and enjoy farming, sunshine, flowers, big crops. Raise stock at far less cost than hard winter countries. Excellent oil prospects now developing.

Write De Ridder Chamber of Commerce, De Rldder, Louisianna for full particulars. First Safety Bicycles. The first of the snfety bicycles was put on the market in 1880. In this the high front wheel was reduced and the rear wheel was about two-thirds the height of the front one. The machines with wheels of the same size appeared In 1885.

Bicycling began to be popular about 1891, and the "craze" reached Its height about 1895, when wheels had become low enough In price to be within the means of the multitude. FACES." Milhaubt Wichita, Kansas Clothes I i i I I I I WOMAN'S CASE AMAZES BELLE PLAINE A business man's wife cold not sew or read without sharp pains in her eyes. For years her eyes were red and weak. Finally she tried simple witch-hazel, camphor, hydrastis, as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash. The result produced by a single bottle amazed everyone.

We guarantee a small bottle Lavoptik to help ANY CASE weak, strained or inflamed eyes. Aluminum eye cup FREE. The Ideal Pharmacy. Mrs. Minnie Sturge was in Wichita Saturday.

Mr. Farmer, had you thought of this The nearer your farm is to a so jd town the mote valuable your farm Try selling and see. Or, if you buy, do you look for land near a i'cad town? Of course not. Then help your town a better one, and -hereby enhance the value of your uwn holdings. STORE WITH FAMILIAR Howard Clothing: Once More The Greatest Clothing Values In Kansas-efe- SERVICE, Comfort and Appearance are the true gauges by which we measure clothing values.

Each of these three things is offered every purchaser of HART SCHAFFNER MARX Fine clothes for man or boy. This is the one Store in Wichita that has built its reputation on value and quantity. This season, as in other years, this policy has brought us the greatest clothing business in Kansas. HcVicar 210-212 East Douglas Ave The home of Hart Schaffner Mark j.a4aaaaaaa..aaaAAA.