The Mullinville News from Mullinville, Kansas • 1

5 a vi- 0 i THE MULLINVILLE NEWS. THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF KIOWA COUNTY Vol. 15 MULLINVILLE, KIOWA COUNJY. KANSAS. AUG 22 1918 No.

taken up knitting, Patriots fiver Here from here. The first pairs were for Dwight Harp and Howard Cope. Buy War Saving Stamps today and then more to morrow. Through the kindness of Mrs. Wilson she has knit several pairs of mitts for some of the boys gone HOME GUARDS PRACTICE These are pretty busv times and it is pretty hard to come to town for borne guard practice.

But with a little extra effort enough of the members could get out to accomplish something on at least one practice evening in the week, say Fri jj jj day niglpts. Judging from the Gov ernment plans for calling draft men during the next year, thete are a number of young men here who SCHOOL NOTICE The schools of Mullinville will open Monday, September 2. Patrons will please take notice and. if possible, have their children in school the first day. It is highly important that they get started right.

Arrangements will be made to help the boys make up work who must assist in sowing wheat. No boy should be out of school this year. War makes it necessary to prepare for service. The young person with a college education or even a high school education will find a place. Improve your opportunity and be ready for the call.

The question may be, "Where shall I attend school?" Some educator in defining a college said, "A college is a log with Mark Hopkins on one end and a student on the othtr." He considered the teacher and pupil as the greatest factors in can use to good advantage, the opportunity for military training before they answer the call to the colors. Older men are needed to help keep the home guards going, and to induce younger men to attend. Regular drill nights until the busy season is over. Officers school on every Monday, night. HOW ABOUT-- That new house this fall1 That new barn or cattle shed Those rewairs that are needed on your buildings and fences Look over your needs and come in and talk the matter over with us.

We have a full line of building material, builders hardware, barbed wire. Yours for Quality and Service. T. M. DEAL LBR.

CO. "Home of Good Lumber." the makeup of a good school. You may prefer an accredited school. We have positive Assurance that the Mullinville High School will be accredited as sown as time Word from Mrs. Wm.

Sager who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the McLaughlin hospital in Greensburg last week, indicates that she is improving and her condition is very satisfactory to the attending physician. Dr. McLaughlin performed the operation. Dr. Geo.

P. Bell of this city assisted. WORD FROM A. ARRINGTON Letters Received From Him Sunday Tell of His Injury. Back in Service Soon.

permits. State Superintendent, D. Ross stated in a leuer to M. T. Bryan that Mullinville High School will be accredited as soon as we meet the conditions as set forth by tacks but I do not suppose it would get by the1 censor.

The French people are sure hospitable. I have seen several aerial battles. I als-o saw the German aeroplanes attack our sausages or observation balloons. Well I guess this is all I can tell at this time so I will quit. Private A.

A. Arrington 79th Co. U. S. Marines, A.

E. F. in France. In a letter to his mother, written on July 31, Burt writes, "Just a few lines to let you know that lam well again and all right. I Have been out of the hospital 4 or 5 days.

I will soon be back to my company. I hope I will be home by this time next year if uorr 'mum- We are cer- Supervisor Brown. Geo. Lowe of near Ford was attending business matters here Tuesday. Mr.

Lowe recently met with a very painful injury. While driving along in his car, the front' wheel struck a piece of fence post rhat Mr. Brown has approved a course Letters were received here from Albert A. Arrington, who of study and the school board has agreed to meet all the requirements 1 tn I was wounded in action on July 19. A telegram from the War Department telling of the injury was re nnoth men ,8 to uHi.pieie Iy.rfjJ jn thg amM me pian is a wonting scnooi.

10 ceived by his parents last week, but er post throwing it up over the windshield, hitting George in the bead. The wound was very near the eye and is very painfnl. it contained no particulars. The lei have a working school there must be pupils in every Vlass and a munity boosting for our school. giving I home, pretty Everybody get in line, boost for hard knocks ters received Sunday are the first since the accident.

Burt is the U. S. Marines, and has t-eetni the fighting zone for the last two months. His letter to the editor our town, our community, our school and our interests in general aid when we have confidence in our own, we will he able to impress There will be preaching services at the Church of Christ next Saturday evening, Sunday morning and Sunday evening. B.

F. Martin of Kinsley will be here at this time. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. follows: French Hospital Ml NEXT TUESDAY Nine more men are ordered to entrain from tins county on uexc Tuesday, August 27. These nine men are to go to Ft.

Riley. 1 lie fol other communities. Friday, July 26 Watch the paper for announce ments next week. I. Stimniel, Superintendent Phone No 29 J.

A. Sherer has p'ow machine that has a tractor beaten a dozen wavs. He has 36 horses pulling six Frank Steele of Liberal is Friend Joe: Just a few lines to let you know how things are over here. I was wounded in an attack we made but was not hurt very bad. I will try and tell you what has happened in tiie last two months.

We were in the trenches two months in a quiet sector. When we were relieved from there we were Ivifiting here this week. lowing men nave receiveu orders: Guy H. Dean Frank W. Makemsoii Alfred Con Keeu" Adolphus J.

heeler Sola Kay Willidins Clarence T. Adrian James W. Barnes Leslie H. SiuUer Voilie H. Scour, big disk plows oil working on the business 'RHnie P'ow This machine is i turning over about 50 acres per day S.

C. Gorrill transacted io Greensburg Wednesday. supposed to get a rest. We were out two weeks when we got orders to leave lor the front again. The Fiench sent trucks for us.

We trav REGISTER SATURDAY All young men in me county who have become 21 yejrs oi age since June 5ui must go to tiie county elled one day and night getting to the front. Arriving in a Mnall village Tf you were going to have your next rmnje made to order, we believe every good feature you would want, is found already in the Round Oak Copper-fused Boiler-Iron Chief range. Virtually it has been built to your order, for the Round Oak Folks have consulted with dealers and consumers all over the country, and expressed their combined wishes in tins masterpiece. clerk's oliice in Greeusourg uxt Saturday and regttr? at 4:30 in the morning we had 'our chow of bacon and hard tacK. Then we got on some U.

S. trucks and weut about five miles to where we too1, up ouf positions. The Germans were putting on a drive trying to get to Paris After 5 or 6 days we got the order to go RED CROSS NOTES Mrs. M. T.

Bryan' 1s kept busy for our ii.dkin sample gjiiiients chapter. Mrs. Clifford has finished sox and is now making a sweattr. prore.s.sing nicely Mrs. Glaser is with a sweater.

Not withstanding the scarcity of woolen fabrics, we are showing a very pretty line of suit and overcoat samples for the 1918-19 season. The prices are some higher than last year of course, but not so high as they will be soon. Better come in to-day while the assortment is good. 'over the top" We started over in the afternoon and had to drive the Germans back about two miles Mid take a suiiill village. We readied our objective after two hours of rather hot fighting.

We were on that front lor 33 days. Our division was relieved tram there and we came up to this front where I was wounded. We rode all the way in French trucks. We again received orders to go "over the top." Mrs. I.

li. Kesierso.1 liai knit pairs of sox for our chapter. Mrs. Snyder has finished her first pair of box. Our artillery had been pounding the Mrs.

McDtuild tells us that she lias knit 13 pdirs sox since this spring. Built tobur Personal Order Why a Two-MilHon-Dollar Range? This is the one range of its kind that the Round Oak Folks produce. They will back their judgment with their investment of more than two million dollars tha is represented their plant and equipment. What stronger plea could we possibly make for your confidence than thii? When may we show you this The range of the hour Sold only by Boche portions all night. It does not sound very bad to tay, "We went over the lop" but when one does go over it is quite a different thing.

When we started that morning Mrs. Cossell was in Greensburg Monday night to attend Red Cross business. the Boches started shelling us. As I we advanced the shelling became! MiM has nearly more terrific. I had advanced alxut jmnplet a a mile when a shell lauded cl se by rt me and a piece of the casing struck Thursday aIlll ot9 of cremt me in the left side of my face.

i Hlle thrin for thir n-nt wnrli the were sure making it hot "for W. H. CULLEY SON Geo. N. Havens -Mrs, Kilgore was in after more work the las', of the week and that speaks well f- at chapter.

''square heads." We captured several prisoners. Our artillery sure drs niake life miserable fr Am Germans. I would has recently Mrs. like to go into details of these at- I.