The Winchester Star from Winchester, Kansas • 2

I WrTMMJBrailitifflf 1 i rfi as Tramp (after hand-out) Than'r The Winchester Star I you lady. Is there anything can do by way of return? Housewife Yes, don't. Ex. J. W.

Byrn Editor-Publisher i Mrs. J. W. Byrn, Associate Editor Of the Passing of Time The calendar was brought about by evolution. It has been regulated by mathematics and astronomy.

It has been compounded of superstitions, of religious rites. It has pro Ship Your Stock to KILE COMMISSION COMPANY Kansas City Stock Yards Room 457 Phone Victor 3122 GOOD SALES EFFICIENT AND FJI LS PROMPT RETURNS SERVICE Published Every Friday Official City Paper There has been a large number of cases of pink eye in Eastcn. The primary room was dismissed last Thursday and Friday, as the teacher, Mrs. Raymond Scoville, and so many of the pupils were voked some of the great dramatic situations of history, relates Seymour Korman in the Chicago Tribune. The reckoning of time is as old as history itself.

Primitive man noted the new moon, watched it wax and wane again. He knew the moods of the seasons. There was suffering with the epidemic Entered at the Postoffice at Winchester, Kansas, as Second Class Matter. FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1939. Easton Transcript.

The farm home of Mr. and cold and warmth and he sensed they came at regular intervals. The ancient Egyptians calculated time from the rising of the Nile (in mid-June). The North American Indians reckoned journey in so many "sleeps." The Incas of Peru erected cylindrical pillars and estimated sol Mrs, Sam Gutschenritter burned to the ground Saturday night. It was discovered on fire around o'clock.

Sam had gotten up at A city girl, spending some time in the country, spoke to the farmer about the troubled way in which the cattle regarded her. "Well," said the farmer, "it must be on account of that red dress you're wearing." "Dear me. Of course I know its terribly out of 11 o'clock to see about the stock and everything was 0. K. then Around 1 o'clock the oldest girl, Martha, was awakened by noise (a window falling in) and style, but I had no idea a cow would notice it." Ex.

she got up and saw the kitchen stices by measuring the sun's shadow. The theory of this stone and shadow reckoning is familiar in the sun dial. Civilizations such as the Mayan, the Scandinavian, and the Babylonian had distinctive calendars many thousands of years ago. In classical Greece nearly every large city had its own calendar. The calendar depends on the sun, the moon, the earth, and a star.

The rotation of the earth around the sun gives the year, the rotation of the moon around the earth gives the month, the spin of the earth on its axis defines the day, the position all afire. She called to her par ents and she and each one of her parents carried a child to safety. THIS NEWSPAPER, 1 Year And Any Magazine Listed Both for Price Shown (AIL SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE FOR ONE YEAR) They lost most of the contents of their home; saved two feather- Boake Carter, the fiery columnist and radio commentator who was shut off the air by the new deal oligarchy some time ago, suggests that assassination of Hitler and Mussolini might solve matters. That's the way they beds, auilts. a radio and a few of a star in the heavens gives the starting point from which to measure the year.

other things and not much clothing There was insurance on the house but none on the furniture. All of the celestial motions are do in Japan and China, but there doesn't seem to be any volunteers for suicide honors in Germany chronologically independent. There never can be an exact number of full days in any lunar month or solar year, nor can there be an exact number of lunar months in the and Ttalv. Carter SDOke for an hour and a quarter at the big Ro The family suffered quite a loss by the fire, but every one is doing what they can for them and they have all the clothing they need now and have had some furniture donated to them. Grayson neighborhood ladies are giving a shower this Thursday for them a "kitchen shower and a fruit solar year.

tary convention at Lawrence last Monday and declared that Euro Hairy, Downy Best Known pean muss was a quarrel between two sets of thieves who should be Among Woodpecker Family Two of the best known woodpeck allowed to fight it out between themselves without interference shower." They have had four ers, the hairy woodpecker and the downy woodpecker, range over the American Boy $1.80 American Fruit Grower i25 American Girl L80 American Magazine 2.80 American Poultry Journal 1.15 Breeder's Gazette 115 Child Life 4 2.8O Christian Herald 230 Colliers 2.30 Country Home 1.15 Etude Music Magazine 2.50 Farm Journal 145 Home Arts Needlecraft 1.25 Liberty Magazine 2.30 Look Magazine (26 issues) 2.30 Love And Romance. 1.50 McCall's Magazine 1.50 Mechanix Illustrated 1.8O Motion Picture Magazine. 1.50 'O Movie Mirror 1,50 Open Road (Boys) 1.50 Parents Magazine 2 30 Pathfinder (Weekly) 1.30 Photoplay 2.8O Physical Culture 2.80 1 1.50 Popular Mechanics 2.80 Redbook Magazine 2.80 Romantic Story 1.50 Successful Farming 1.25 The Judge 1.8O True Confessions 1.50 True Experiences 1.50 True Romances 1.50 True Story 1.80 Woman's World 1.25 bed mattresses given them. greater part of the United States. by this country Oskaloosa In They differ chiefly in size, their Grayson item in Independent.

dependent. IN A NUTSHELL For six long troubled years business has tried every month or two to get upon its legs and travel upward and onward. Just as often the Great Radio Voice Many drivers feel that, because the weather is clear and the road surface dry, they can take chances going around curves, passing vehicles on hills, and so on. color being practically the same. The males, like those of many other woodpeckers, are distinguished by a scarlet patch on the head, notes a writer in the Missouri Farmer.

One of the larger woodpeckers familiar to everyone is the flicker, or golden winged woodpecker, which is generally distributed throughout the United States from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky mountains. There it is replaced by the red-shafted flicker, which extends westward to the Pacific. The two species are as nearly identical in food habits as their respective environments will allow. The flickers, while genuine woodpeckers, differ somewhat in habits from the rest of the family, and are frequently seen searching for food upon the ground. The red-headed woodpecker is well known east of the Rocky mountains, but is rather rare in New England.

Unlike some the other species, it prefers fenct posts and telegraph poles to trees as foraging ground. Woodpeckers apparently are the only agents which can successfully cope with certain insect enemies at Washington and his pinkish satellites have knocked business down aeain. They now see their error, are trying to make amends. But it is too late. Business is too lick and discouraged to get up until some real friend comes along and renders assistance.

Paul Jones, Independent Democrat of Lyons. Do you really know on what kind of road surface most accidents of our highway happen? FILL OUT COUPON AND MAIL TODAY Check Magazine Desired Above Thus (X) Gentlemen: I enclose $.1 which send me your newspaper for a full year, and the magazine checked. St.orR.F.D.. Town. State Wet surface? Dry surface? Icy surface? You will be surprised to know the fact that because you are dri The pessimist grumbles because the barrel is only half full of flour.

The optimist sings because the barrel is only half empty, explains the Atchison Globe. ving on a dry surface does not mean you can careless. Only a small percent of accidents of the forest, and, to some extent, with those of fruit trees also. happen on wet or icy surface. F.W.HUSTON, M.D.

Winchester, Kansas Even though the surface of the road is very dry the weather W. A. FRENCH DENTIST Office 1st door east of postoffice Res. Phone 103 While a man is cranking the front crank of his car, he doesn't like to hear remarks from the crank in the back seat Ex. clear and all other conditions PHONES avorable "It's Still Smart to Drive Carefully." Office 382 Residence S83 Bring us your sale bills.

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