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A WEEK CITY PUBLIC RECORD LEVI L. AtlUCH, Editor and Phlihr Dim. Emma B. Ai.hicii. iwniuu Kditor.

Year. CAWKER CITY, MITCHELL COUNTY, KANSAS, JUNE 22, 11)16 New Series, Vol. XXXIV. No. 1(5 On a recent visit to his early home in Carr Creek towuship he called np this editor by phoue aud ononr enqniry he answered: "Your TIRED OF LIFE.

J. Howard Moore, Teacher, SchoK ar and Author Goes to Meet. His Maker. Do you wanb a good grade of standard r-'-- Not anew home nor an old one but can benefit in some way in our offers ot furniture gathered from the best makers and all the desirable kindsatthe time you want it. For the present needs look at our line of Picture Frames, Hookers, Sewing Machines, Rugs, Cedar Chests, Keriroom Sets, Kitchen Cabinets, etc.

Call early and make your selections from the well selected slock at Undertaker and Licensed Embalmer. The family of W. A. Moore were surprised on Saturday tbe 17th to receivea telegrarnsayiug that their brother was dead, and they left on the evoniug traiu for Chicago v.itb-ont Knowing the particulars. A despatch to the Kansas City Star states: "The wooded Island in Jaek-bou Park watt deserted of man St o'clock in the morning when down the path came a tall man abont A3 years old who dropped heavily on a bench, rested head in his hands and gazed nnseeingly at the irds and squirrels that leaped joyfully as they knew this man.

A policeman heard the report of a revolver and came running. He found the man on his face with revolver beside him. In his vest pocket was a card bearing his uame and address, also a letter: "The long struggle is ended," the note read. "1 must pass away. Good bye.

"Oh, men are so cold and hard and half conscious their suffering fellows. Nobody understands. my mother, and my little What will become of you? and the poor fonr footed? May the long years be merciful. "Take me to my river. There, old friend J.

Howard Moore," and after a little coufah he said he would call at this office bnt he fail ed to come. Mr. Moore owned 000 acres of lHnd near Citronel. Alal nn on the shores of a river aud it is probable that this is the river to which he refers in his last note, saying: "Take nie to my river." He is survived by hiswife Jennie D. Moore; his mother Mrs.

W. A. Moore, a brother Oscar, two sisters Mrs. Mollie Drummer and Mrs. Phoebe McDaniel, and brother George who resides in California.

The deceased would have been 64 years old next December. His father William A. Moore died about seven years ago. The remains of J. Howard arrived last night, and the funeral services will be held at the old home today, Rev.

R. C. Conn officiating; interment in Excelsior Cemetery, "Tess" was his pet name for his wife both of them admiring "Tess'1 of D'Anberville. Moore's first interest in Dumas' works was when he was a reader in onr public library and he, Hawkins and Cupt. R.

H. Hewitt were the special readers of the 43 volumes of Dumas there. Moore had been through an operation for gall stones aud was not responsible for his last act. An article entitled "The Sonrce of Religion, by J. Howard Moore, f- it HAVE SPORT (flD wrni oar SPORTING GOODS.

vuiwvwmfmvwvvMvvivmivvvwwvuwv WHEN YOU BUY OUR HARDWARE IT WILL "STRIKE YOU RIGHT" BECAUSE IT IS GOOD. WHEN YOU BUY OUR SPORTING GOODS YOU WILL GET THE "AUTHORIZED" KIND THAT THE BIG ORGANIZATIONS USE--THE BEST THERE IS. COME IN NOW AND BUY WHAT YOU NEED SO YOU CAN "GET IN SHAPE" FOR THE BIG SUMMER GAMES. YOUR BOY WANTS A "MIT" TOO. OUR STUFF'S THE BESTj IT STANDS THE TEST.

OLIVERS CjIFE appears in the June number of the where the wild birds sing and the waters go on and on, alone in my groves forever. Tess forgive me. forgive me. please." Thirty two years ago this writer was one of the connty Board of teacher's examiners of Mitchell county, and J. Howard Moore passed for his first certificate.

While writing the answers International Socialist Review, which causes much comment. M. A. Oliver has moved his Cafe into the former postoffice block and will be glad to see all his former patrons as well as new ones. Rooms to rent in connection with the Cafe.

Baptist Notes. I i i 1 5 i The Childrens Day Program last Sunday was well attended. More than the usual amount of training all were alike only known as No, 1 and 2 bnt when the book had been given those appearing on was passed for oral reading, the Board were astonished at his H. E. Brown.

program and it showed in the ren dition. oratory. He became prominent in the neighborhood debating societies We are fortunate in being able to Habegger-Eckman. Married In the probate judge's office by Mrs. Mary 11.

Cooper, June 21 Miss Gladys R. Habegger to have with us on Friday evening of practising wherever he happened to be at work and soon after this this week, Dr. Woodin, who has Who is Noel Keys? This is the question asked Sunday night when the yonug man made his appearance at the Union meeting to fill the place of Rev, Lattin during his absence in Chica we find in the Record files: 9 wwvv wvwwt wvvwvi WW WWWW WV WW wvwv-wwww wwv spent several years as a Medical Missionary on the foreign field. Lawrence E. Eckman.

Miss Habegger has been a valuable assistant The Record of May 28, 1885 states this section is not only booming in in the department stores here for INDIAN WANTS CITY LAND improvements bnt the Solomon and Jnst at present Dr. and Mrs. Woodin are at the home of tbe latter's parents, near Ionia, while she is sometime, her parents living on a farm near here, and Mr. Eckman is He itt tributaries are on a boom caused by the heavy rain fall. The bridge recovering her health after a seri in the employ of the Missouri Paci Educated Pottawatomie Thinks Has a Good Title to Property In Elkhart.

ous break down while on the fic railway company. They have south of Downs was washed away, also over Walnut, Carr and Hard- foreign" field. The Ladies Aid So been fitting up their house near the scrabble. Charles Albert's horse ciety has taken advantage of the go. Noel Keys' mother was Miss Allie Dodge daughter of J.

H. Dodge one of the Beloit Gazette editors for many years. A graduate of the Beloit High School and tbe College of Emporia; he won tbe Rhodes scholarship in Oxford England but returned home on account of the war and will return there to resume his studies this fall. Mrs. Charles Hughes save; "You depot aud Mr.

and Mrs. Eckman proximity of a real live missionary was drowned in his stable and the water was four feet deep in Cy. will be at home there, having the best wishes aud congratulations of and have arranged for Dr, Woodin Larkin's house. J. Howard Moore to tell us of his work and experi while standing in his father's door ences on the date above named, at the church.

An offering for mis sions will be taken and after the musn't interview me. I have al was struck by lightning, burning his arm and breast. The Record of June 11, 1885, makes note of his calling at the office program light refreshments will be all who know them. The war department requested President Waters of the Agricultural College to name ten graduates skilled in, military science for appointment as second lieutenant in the regular army, and Paul E. Jackson, of Downs is one named.

This honorable position gives him the ways avoided it and been happily served. The public cordially able to elude it, our life attracting little attention, due to the nature and narrating his experience: "The TAX ON MATCHES NOT NEW English Chancellor of the Exchequer Borrowed Idea From United States In 1871. London. This is not the first time that a chancellor of the Exchequer has tried to raise money from the taxation of matches. The proposal was put forward by Robert Lowe (afterward Lord Sherbrooke) in 1871.

He suggested a halfpenny stamp on boxes of 100 wooden matches or less and a penny on boxes of 100 wax matches, or fuses, because they were "more aristocratic." He estimated that the tax' would yield for the first year 550,000 The idea was borrowed from America, which at that time made 400,000 a year from the tax. Mr. Lowe's reason for suggesting it was that the "cost of matches was so inappreciable that they were wasted in a most reckless and dangerous way." He suggested as the motto for the new stamp "Ex luce lucellum" (out of light a little and he thought this more appropriate than the usual rather watery device of a "Noah's Ark." The match tax was regarded in 1871 as a frivolous measure, although it was; at first favored by parliament. A procession of tattered matchmaker to Westminster to protest against it Elkhart, Ind. It is reported here that Charles Harman, an attorney at Cassopolis, has been retained by an educated Pottawatomie Indian to prepare to claim property in the heart of Elkhart worth at least Present owners of the property say they are not alarmed, declaring the court decided the case three-quarters of a century ago.

Pierre Morain, otherwise known as Pershing, was allotted Section 5 of Concord township, "and two other eectiens" by the treaty of Chicago, In 1826 he formally petitioned the president of the United States for permission to sell Section 5 to get means to Improve his remaining land. President John Quin-cy Adams granted the petition. Certain technical- steps in the transfer from Morain were not fully perfected, andsin later years Morain attempted to recover the land. It is believed the Cassopolis report has reference to some descendants' desire to push this old claim. All regular services next Sunday.

of Mr. Hughes' work but now I suppose we'll be obliged to be slightly more before the public. I don't want to be quoted on any rank of a West Point graduate and Sunday School at 10:00 a. in. Morning Worship at 11:00.

Junior B. Y. P. U. at 3:00 p.

m. Regular afternoon services at Liberty subject. If you write me up just os you see me here, in my home, as School house. B. Y.

P. U. at 7:00. Open air Union Service at 8:00. with the iaborn patriotism of a father who was one of the "boys of 61'' he will have promotion on the field of duty.

The Record is the "Old Reliable Home Paper; 44th year in Cawker $1 I am, I shall not mind." II. P. B. current struck the comb of the roof at the end, ran down the rafters to the eaves, thence to the door frame through his elbow which was touching the frame, down his left side and both lower! litnbs to thb ground. He fell bnt did not realize it, losing power of speech, bearing and sight, and seeming like a terrible nightmare." He was confined to his bed six days but finally recovered.

In an article published in "Science and Craft" October 1908, he described his sensations of "Being Struck by Light- Fnnston wants 70.000 men on the Mexican border within a week. "The Clock of Mystery" We're going to have a town clock COWS: GET TIPSY ON BEER and yon have a guess or as many as you want as to "what makes it It is 25 inches in diameter, of glass alone and will hang in the window Drink Fluid When It Is Poured Into Stream by Sheriff In Charge of 'tfagomwrdarBdiik" liv "two gave the coup tie grace to the Defunct brass chains. Two wooden hands Vie, but not before trial proofs of the doty stamp printed in a pale blue, and now become very rare, had been prepared. The stamps were to be so pasted on so as to be broken by the opening of the match point to the figures as on ordinary clocks, and hanging to one of the hands is a small compass the size of nickel; that's all there is to it; you can examine it back and front and all around and cannot detect WARRING ON LAZY HUSBANDS DON'T BODGE THIS what makes it go." The clock Pottsville, Pa. Judge Brumm has heard but not decided a suit for several thousand dollars' damages against Sheriff P.

J. Murphy, who emp-tied more than 1,000 barrels of beer belonging to the Schuylkill Helm Brewing company into a stream. The brewery management is bankrupt and the sheriff, who was in charge, was informed that the beer was spoiled. The trustees of the brewery declare that the beer was sold, and that the sheriff should have collected the money before it spoiled. Cows which drank out of a stream that was temporarily flushed with the beer acted unaccountably frisky and mystified their owners until the facts became GAHAGB will be installed next week we are informed by A.

Munro who hag the exclusive agency in Kansas, and He studied law with C. H. Hawkins, who died in 1909, when Moore wrote, (enclosinga dollar) to please lay a flower on the grave for him." About 26 years ago Moore was a student in the Chicago schools, becoming a teacher and author remembering us with a copv each of his books: "The Better World "The Universal Kin "The Law of Biogenesis" "Savage and "The New Ethics." His articles on "Universal Kinship" were published in "Our Dumb Animals" in the Fall of 1914. "The Schoolmasters' Club'' of Chicago, of which he.was a member was disrupted in February, 1912 because they did not agree with his views, and he stated to the members: "I am a radical and a socialist, but I do not allow my radicalism nor my only one clock is furnished in each town. Go and gaze at it next week and tell ns "What Makes it Go." Above we show one of the first motor cars, model of 1894 There Have Been Some Improvements Since Then THE FORD FOR INSTANCE WHAT DIFFERENCE! Get Acquainted With It BAND CONCERT.

Friday June 23. March, Washington Post, Sousa Charities Organization Forcing Habitual Loafers to Work or Serve Terms on Penal Farm. Martinsville, Ind. The executive committee of the Associated Charities is making war on lazy husbands. John Gourley has been fined $10 and sent to the penal farm for 30 days under the lazy husband law.

Charity will be given his family while he is away. Charles Kenworthy, when before Judge Whitaker, charged with being a lazy husband, was permitted to go on his pledge to obtain work. He has left the city. James Padgett, when charged with failing to support his family, promised to. leave town if permitted to go.

The opportunity was given him. The charity association is willing to give assistance to all families in need of help, but it is not willing to encourage laziness of Mother of 12 at 32. 7oROKEN PART5A ARE I 4 QUICKLY I Annover, Ark. The fourth set of Waltz, Among the Lillies, Berry March, Rehabilitation, Rosenkrans Silver threads among the Gold, By twins has been born to Mr. and Mrs.

George Davis here. Mrs. Davis, who is 32 years old, has now 12 children. Danks The flr twins died, one of the sec March, Liberty Bell Sousa Serenade, Visions of Yesterday, ond set and both of the last two sets Rosenkrans are living and in good health. It' remains for some scientist to demonstrate that the war has upset the world's weh March, Wedding Feast Taylor socialism to enter into my teachings." That incident shows that be was true to his convictions though they did not agree with popular opinion.

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