Phillipsburg News and Phillips County Post from Phillipsburg, Kansas • 8

The Trouble in The Wheat Belt. The movement recently started for the purpose of increasing the con sumption of wheat, together with the of th'ls world's goods with whiph to care for their declining years, It ia now only fitting that they be honored by the good people of the conference by raising an endowment fund for the purpose of caring for their needs during the remainde of their years when it is impossible for them to continue in the work. Wfl MUST CLEAN UP OUR. LIGHT COLORED VOILES All One Price reviveu euun. aoouc pr.ee-fixing or stabilization by the government of the Un.ted States, hag emphasized and brought to the attention of the entire country a situation which was already known to many people, notes the Agricultural QUALITY Phone 81 QUALITY Through the courtesy of Proctor Gambal, we are able to give you on August 18th only: Tenjbars Luna Soap 50 Nine bars P.

G. Soap 57 One Ivory Soap Flake 10 One Star Naptha .08 One bar Ivory Soap 10 Total ALL FOR ONE DOLLAR Come in and get a big cook book free, with a can of Crisco. We specialize on Tee Pee Coffee, Richardson Shirts and Overalls. The wheat belt is sick. Its farm 25 PATTERNS YOUR CHOICE PER YARD The boy with dirty hands and ears may be your health officer some day, warns Henry J.

Sullivan. To which the Kansas Health Bulletin makes reply: Mr. Sullivan's prophecy is timely; is has recently been fulfilled in Kansas. ers are depressed by the low comparative price of their chief product, and by the increased production and marketing costs The reaction upon all agriculture, and consequently up on all business interests, is unmis takably bad. Thia reaction extends We tried pressing Dan McKay into service this week, but there was not a bit of use.

Dan says when he is on vacation he vacates, and does not give thought to cares. far beyond the confines of the wheat belt proper. It constitutes a national problem economic, industrial and 0. Fogleman political. Wheat is quite generally considered as the "key crop" the standard by The National Bonfire.

Fire loss in Kansas for 1922 was $9.17 per capita, nearly twice nation which agricultural prosperity, and in QUALITY Phone 81' QUALITY directly the general business welfare, al average of $4.75 per capita. Great are measured. The situation calls for Britiain's loss per capita was 72 cents. the earnest consideration of all wheat growers and of all business interests, The question is often ruised as to The question what is the matter "President Harding was born in a the reason for higher or lower fire insurance rates in different cities and with wheat? two room farm house, and his father The answer is obvious. There is in the foregoing figures we have the was a poor country doctor.

There THESE WERE HIGHER PRICED VOILES, BUT WE MUST "CLEAN HOUSE" TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW MERCHANDISE. THEY ARE ALL IN OUR WINDOWS TAKE A LOOK AT THEM. Flemings The Store where quality counts too much wheat. The agriculture of answer. fore he had to work and it was this work that prepared him for his ca the wheat belt has drifted danger The national board of fire underwriters has for years been collecting ously toward a one-crop basis.

It is reer and ultimately the presidency. the community would have decreased just 33 1-3 per cent, Brown would have the dollar he got from Smith, Smith would have the dollar he got from Jones and Jones would be broke and sore because Brown did not trade at and the town' would have only $2.00 instead of $3.00. But if Jones sold a dollar's worth of chickens in New York and bought a dollar's worth from Smith and Smith sold a dollar's worth of vegetables to a man in Missouri and out of balance. There are too many data on every fire loss reported by a He was truly a typical American. We stock fire insurance company in the farms that bring in little revenue except the annual check for the wheat have lost a great and good president.

It is to be regretted he could not United States. 1 crop, I he very soil is tired, and its tillers are worn out by the hopeless complete the service for which he had been chosen. But while it is fitting we should mourn, we must also look The national board ha3 nothing to do with making rates or in any way operating the affairs of insurance effort to make more acres of wheat spell dollars. companies. It simply collects and to the future and give President Cooiidge our co-operation and The time has passed when wheat compiles irrefutable facts on fires and can carry all the overhead of an av Plenty of roastingears and other home grown stuff on the market now.

bought a dollar's worth from Brown, and Brown sold a dollar's worth of milk to a man in Colorado and bought a dollar's worth of goods from Jones then the gross business of the com erage American farm, supply the "President Cooldige is farmer, family of the owner or renter with too, isn't asked Jack. money to buy the food supplies for "Ye3, Jack; he was on his farm munity would have amounted to $6 the year, and pay the cost of its own We, had hope of rain Tuesday night, but the clouds swung around to other parts. helping with the work there, when it instead of $3 each man would have production and marketing. That became necessary for him to take the doubled his original capital and the Another Old Timor Gone. David Brenizer, son of David and Sophia Brenizer, was born December 5, 1832, at Carlyle, and died at Atchison, August 10, 1923, at the age of 90 years, 8 months and 6 days.

He was married to Mjsa Ruth Westlake on December 23, 1858, at Doublin, and to them were born three children, all of whom are livingMrs. Cora Terry, of Minott, N. Frank Brenizer, of Davenport, and Mrs. Laura Mcllvain, this city. time may never come again certain oam as preSiiaeni.

Anomer xarmer ly it will not until the United States boy is now chief executive of the na community would have shown a relative degree of prosperity. Harley McKown, one of Uncle Sam's route carriers out, of this city, is reported as having typhoid fever. ceases to be a wheat exporting Multiply the three people by a tion, for the domestic price based tion. He was formerly governor of Massachusetts and distinguished himself in the masterly way he handled the Boston police strike. He is very patient but firm and has demon thousand times, their combined wealth many thousand times, and the two Fred Vincent came in from Brew- makes this information available for any person in the country.

The result is that the making of fire insurance rates is not a matter of guess work. If Kansas City permits greater fire hazards within its borders than doeh Omaha or Chicago, its insurance rates will be higher than cities which eliminate to the greatest extent the possibility of fires. No fire is to small to escape the records of the national board office if an insurance loss is paid on it. The result is that every town in the United States has fire history recorded. Net result ih that the national board surveys every city size, makes a chart of the city showing the possibilities for fire prevention, for fighting fire, inculding water systems fire departments etc.

This work is done gratis to the city and every assistance offered fire on the worjd price, and protective measures are proving at best only partially effective. The' American farmer cannot successfully compete courses Would make the difference stre Tuesday evening, reporting that threshing out there does not amount between a prosperous community of strated his power for leadership. live ones and a community of business to much. with the cheap land, cheap labor and Mrs. Cooiidge is a fine woman, very Uncle David, as he was familiarly called, has lived in Phillips county since 1885, being loved and respected 1, 1 1.

TT 1 failures, depleted resources, failing water transportation of other count gracious, and wlfll, be a charming banks and business houses and mort first They have two turdy tries, uniess he can take a large part of the cost of operating hs farm off gaged farms on which the interest Bert Hall made run out to the sons, wen balanced in tneir outiooK on life. The fact that their father ia cannot be paid. west end of the state Monday night his wheat crop. Let us sell to New Missouri to give attention to wheat interests Hope of relief through govern now president hasn't changed them and the rest of the world through on land owned near Brewster. mental price-fixing is based on poultry 'business, milk business and false theory.

Nothing can come of one bit. One boy is in Massachusetts working on a tobacco farm and the other is in the citizens' training camP canning business then trade at home it. The movement to stimulate con where the dollar will come back, and sumption may bring some results, but Feeling he had a day's vacation departments of the city officials in we will all prosper. Lydon Herald ing themselves for greater things, as coming), Nelson Rumbaugh laid off pointing out how to better protect the vy un wiiu mil'w nun. ne iwiew Christ as his personal Savior and often spoke of his home eternal in heaven, a house not made with hands.

For many years the Bronizer family lived at Logan, at one time -Uncle David being appointed postmaster and gave patrons the best of satisfaction. Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church at Logan Monday afternoon, Rev. Lcmmon of the Philipsburg, M. E. church delivering the sermon; Members of the Logan Knights of Pythias lodge attended the services in a body, and at the cemetery performed ritualistic ceremony.

last Saturday and took in the cele did their father, by hard there is a possibility that it will also encourage additional production, thus offsetting any good that it may do. The expansion of credit facilities, UNCLE TED'S BED TIME STORY. city with the idea of eliminating fireh and reducing rates. bration at Kirwin, George Freeman substituting at the Runyan drug With such assistance offered, it is "We are so sorry for Mrs. Hard store.

a marvel that so many cities fail to while proper and useful, will not of itself correct the trouble, nor will avail themselves of it and contiune ing," said Ruth, "and so sad about President Harding; won't you tell us any legislative enactments. year after year to pile up staggering fire losses. something about him, Uncle Ted?" The fundamental trouble must be We are pleased to notice that our "Yes, children, I answered corrected. Nothing else will be ef fective, or prevent periodic recur Uncle Ted. Mrs.

Harding has been very brave and the memory of her A Good Argument For Home Trade. rences of the present situation. Quenemo has a big chicken hatch wonderful husband has helped her, next door neighbors, Weston Son, have of late been having considerable work for their stormizing machine. This is one of the best machines of that kind to be found in any shop west of the river and gives sat There is no necessity for experi A gentleman named McMahon, and hailing from Kirwin, "took on" the Because I have told you from time to ery and a small canning factory. They are going to move to Wellsville this wrestlers with the Andersoiv-Srader fall, which will leave the territory ments of any sort economic, political, or by way of trying out new crops or new farming practices.

It has been abundantly proven that this "I'll bet if my father was president I wouldn't work in a tobacco field," said Jack. "You're a little young to be making such rash statements," said Uncle Ted. "It isn't so much the money you would get from sticking to the job as it would be the fact that you carried through what you started, and when you are old enough to go out and get employment I hope you will look at it in that light. Work is a necessity and not to be scorned. One newspaper in speaking of President Harding lying, dead in San Francisco and of President Cooiidge on his farm in Vermont said: 'And the 3,000 miles that rolled between them was one country.

And the 100,000,000 souls from whose humble midst they sprang were one people. And the traditions which made such as they possible were democracy. And the land which gave them the opportunity was isfactory service. without a market for their vegetables time about the many things President Harding has done, I will tell you briefly what kind of a man he really was. He was a great lover of children, and very fond of all kinds carnival Tuesday night, downing pne easily and remained with the professional without either gaining a fall or a big hatchery plant.

very region to which the conditions This is Lydon's opportunity to under discussion apply is susceptible for twelve minutes. For doing the latter stunt, Mac is said to -have been Within 100, miles of the Artie Cir get two enterprises started that will bring in a lot of outside money each to a safe system of crop diversifica paid at the rate of a dollar a minute. cle, Cordeleia M. Karshner has succeeded in raising as many as 350 tion and live stock production. of animals, especially dogs.

He believed in friendships Just on this last trip while he was in Alaska he said: 'We may wonder what is the year and distribute it in her trade McMahon is said to know more about All that is needed is a program bushels of potatoes to the acre. She territory. generally applied, which will bring in The product of the hatchery is ship boxing than wrestling, but those witnessing his work Tuesday evening say he is one of the most active men has homesteated a piece of property in Alaska Jn a valley containing hot revenue every week in the year, to ped all over the United States, and greatest end of life. Men make their plans and try to adhere to them. That is a motive which is inherent supplement the wheat check.

Poul every dollar received from chickens springs that she is able to raise to they have ever seen and certainly is a new dollar in the pecket of the maturity melons and tomatoes. in us, but the longer I live and the Knows how to handle himself. try, dairy cows and other live stock will do this. Such a program will provide twelve months productive hatchery owners and the egg pro more I see of communities and hu ducers, and they will be spent in the man beings, the more firmly is my Dick Tackwell surprised relatives employment on the farm, instead of town where they are made mostly, belief established that the sweetest The Rock Island, handled a 14-car and friends here Sunday by dropping two. The resultant lessened produc circus train through eastward Tues in from Denver for a few days visit.

tion of wheat will cause an increase in price, in conformity with the law thing in the world is the friendship of a few dependable friends. This is the happiness that makes a life of day morning as a special. The "big Likely Dick had heard we'd- have The product of the cannery can be sold largely outside of the territory, and the new outside money will go to the people who raise the vegetables and do the work, and they, too, will too" was pitched at Smith Center carnival crew here all week, and he of supply and demand. "Work and their' application to their everyday duties carried them up to success and the same opportunity exists today for those who wish to grasp it. "And now good night, kiddies, and in your evening prayers remember the soul of the statesman departed, and theneed for God's aid of his successor in office." that day.

Circuses pass up Phillips. Mr. Harding had a may have been hungry for a bit of At the 17th annual session of the burr- for the reason of license fee gift for making friends; people amusement. International Farm Congress to be largely spend it in the place where might disagree with him as to his not being to their liking, it is said, so held at Kansas City October 10 to 12, they make it. policies, but they couldn't help liking him.

our people have to go to other towns to spend thrir money for such enter Better commence thinking about the coming school term only two Here are two opportunities to land this problem will receive especial attention, and a movement launched weeks off. tainment. enterprises which mean more money for poultry, raisers and vegetable pro which will with proper co-operation start the agriculture of the wheat ducers. It also means more and better buyers in our stores, more and larger bank deposits and more readers belt definintely toward the only basis upon which it can successfully stand. for the Herald.

To Reward Pioneer Preachers. The one thing to get these new Get Ready lor School dollars into Circulation here and thus improve business and make the town grow, is to get busy and catab.ish the hatchery an the cannery. The Methodist people of the Northwest Kansas conference are launching a campaign for the purpose of raising an endowment fund to reward the old-time retired ministers of this the business is over for this conference. snmrnei of 1923 and iht past b'lt it takes time to finance and build Many of those old time preachers were in the Lord's service from 30 a hatchery and a canning factory and to 50 years, and during all this time right now is the time to get to work Superior Grocery The guide to high grade food3 We endeavor at all times to maintain a standard of quality and service that is satisfactory to each and every customer. FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Of the most delicious kinds at any and all times.

Yours for Service received only a meager wage and in so they will be in operation next many instances going from place to spring and next summer. place preaching the gospel and re ceiving no compensation whatsoever A Town Growth Society, or Booster Club, or some other organization is needed to start and follow. up the Have you thought about giving that boy or girl an equal chance with other students? Many a student is working under a double handicap let us help you. Bring the boy or girl to us we will find out for you if they are laboring under too much eye strain. We do this work right, and prices ar reasonable.

We guarantee satisfaction. in worldly goods. In the early days the preachers were not stationed at work. Have we such a club? If not one charge but were on a circuit, will we have? If we have, will they walking or riding many miles each get busy on herding in those outside week and enduring many hardships dollars from Maine to California? If there was a town of just three W.F.Parker people Smith, Jones and Brown and each of them had Just one dollar and if Jones would spend his dollar in order to get to their appointments for Sunday and to help serve the community. When old age or broken down health came on they were forced to retire from active work in this line Phone 21 Phttlipsburg, Kans.

Phttlipsburg, Kans. Registered Optometrist and Jeweler with Smith and Smith spend his dol 4 BLISS MURPHY lar with Brown and Brown spend his because it found them without any dollar in Topeka, then the capital of www.