The Kelly Booster from Kelly, Kansas • 1

A Weekly Newspaper, Published' Every Thursday for the Best I. terests of Kelly aro Vicinity, An Unbiased Medium of Publicity Xiad, An THE KELLY BOOSTED Volume I. The postoffice inspector was in Kelly Friday. Quite a number in this vicinity have the mumps. Mrs.

Roy Gettle is numbered among the sick. Jos. Scheier of Idaho is visiting John Stallbaumer. H. C.

Meyer made a business trip to Seneca the latter part of the week. Gottlieb Schneider received a car of stock cattle from Kansas City Friday. Emil Jonach, made a business trip to St. Joseph Sunday and returned Tuesday. Mrs.

Harve Sherrer and Miss beth Moore were shoppers at the county seat Thursday. John Russ and daughter spent the latter part of the week with her daughter, Mrs. Ed. Altenhofen near Seneca. Mr.

and Mrs. Cleve Nickels of Oneida spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Stolt.

Horace Duncan of Manhattan, Kansas was a guest at the John Swart home from Friday until Sunday. Archie Hunt of Atchison visited with his aunt, Mrs. Mary Hunt and family from Saturday until Monday. A box supper was given at the Roots schoolhouse last week whereby the school cleared $20 as part payment on their piano. Mrs.

Henry Haferkamp was operated on Thursday for appendicitis at the Sabetha hospital and at last report was doing nicely. Mrs. Harvey Roots and baby returned the latter part of the week after three weeks visit with her parents at Colby, Kansas. Grandpa Jonach has been quite sick the past week. His daughter, Mrs.

Nellie Gheast of Oneida has been helping care for him, Ace Allen, who has been working in Oklahoma the past six months, came Saturday for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Mary Allen, Mrs. Barney Gellhaus is spending the week at Sabetha where she can be with her daughter, Mrs. Henry Haferkamp who is in the hospital. Mrs.

Hugo Fox visited with home folks between trains Friday. Mrs. Fox hrs been helping care for her daughter, Mrs. Frank Woltkamp at Seneea the paat two months, who has been in very poor health. Mrs.

John Hutfles received a telephone message Sunday night stating her mother at Topeka was not expected to live. She left on the early train for her bedside, when she arrived her mother had passed away. Burial took place at Hemdon. Kansas, Wednesday. Ed.

and Trace Ridgway, Vernon Britt Ed. McGrath Jas. McQuaid and a cousin of Jimmie's and twenty dogs went coon hunting Friday night and after walking from Kelly to the water tank at Seneca and back they caught a little half grown possum near the Kelly town limits and you could hear them hollow for about a mile. There was a little family gatherng at the Vollie Hart home Saturday afternoon. J.

The occasion being the farewell meeting before the departure Monday of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hart and Mrs. Cleve Firstenberger for Florida, where they expect to spend the remainder of the winter. Those present were Mr.

and Mrs. Ben Hart, Chas. Hart! and Mrs. Cleve Firstenberger of Seneca and Zeb Hart, wife and Mrs. H.

McKellips of this vicinity. A marriage in Mena, recently will be of interest to many readers of the Booster from the fact that the from a small child lived near Kelly. The marriage is that of Miss Alice Gettle to W. A. Cary which took place at Mena, Dec.

20th. The bride and groom went on a short wedding trip to tne grooms parents at Strawsberg, Mo. They are now located at DeQueen, where Mr. Cary is employed by the railroad company. We all join in wishing them good luck.

Swanson Speech. The speaking given in the Shumacher hall Saturday afternoon by the Farmer's Union was well attended. If we understand Mr. Swanson right, he thinks the farmers should trade with their home merchants, which is something quite a few do not seem to believe in doing at the present time. If Mr.

Swanson ries out all the things that he touched upon, he will do a wonderful work for the benefit of not only the farmer, but the retail merchants, bankers, grain men etc. At nine o'clock Tuesday morning a very pretty wedding was solemnized at St. Bedes church in Kelly which united in marriage Miss Martha Duethman, daughter of Mrs. Emanuel Becker of Seneca and William Eisenbarth, son of Michael Eisenbarth of Corning. The marriage was performed by Rev.

Father Edwin Kassens 0. S. B. Their attendants were Miss Agnes Duthman, sister of the bride and Frederick Eisenbarth brother of the groom. The bride was beautifully gowned in white crepe dechine with fur trimming.

She wore the customary bridal veil with sprays of fern. Miss Agnes wore a dress of white china silk and pink carnations and white lace bonnet. After the ceremony an elegant dinner and supper was served to the relatives and a few immediate friends at the home of the grooms parents. In the evening the young folks were entertained with a dance in the north hall. The out of town guests included Mrs.

Anna Huerter, Mrs. Lena Ronnebaum, Paul and A. A. Huerter, and Miss Anna Huerter of Seneca. The bride and 1 groom will go to housekeeping on a farm northeast of Corning owned by the grooms father.

The wishes of their many friends are that they may have many bright and happy days together. Lawyers. CHAS. H. HEROLD CHAS.

F. SCHREMPP General Practice of Law. Insurance and Collections. Office in National Bank Building SENECA, KANSAS. DRUGS Books, Stationery School Supplies, Toilet Articles Wall Paper, Patent Medicine, Stock Remedies, etc.

Perscriptions carefully compounded from pure, fresh drugs only. DR. FITZCERALD KELLY, KANSAS IT'S IMPORTANT Nearly everybody is writing these days that a bank account is a good thing, in fact nearly everybody has a bank account at some bank. The really important question is where will you keep your money. Right there is where we step in and offer you our services.

We feel that our bank is the best bank, because we offer depositors every possible safeguard for the money entrusted to our care. Our officers and directors are good business men and carefully look after our patrons' interest. The State Bank of Kelly G. A. MAGILL, Cashier Kelly, Nemaha County, Kansas, Ja Ignatious Joseph Fox aged 1 year 7 months and 11 days, infant son of Mr.

Albert and Elizabeth Fox died Tuesday morning January 12, 1915, of pheumonia, after an illness lasting eight days. Everything was done for the little sufferer that could be done but God in his divine wisdom called him home. To whom he said suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the Kingdon of Heaven. Little Ignatious will leave a vacant place in the home mourned by many friends Funeral was held at St. Bedes church conducted by Rev.

Father Edwin, pastor of the parish Wednesday morning at 10 a. m. terment was made in St. Bedes Co letery. New County Officers Installed Monday morning there was a general sheking-up in the offices at the court house, when the officials took their places.

George Britt and Mrs! Britt were in the register of deeds office. F. B. Crandall will remain with them for some time to teach them the ins and outs of the office. County Clerk W.

L. Kaffmau will keep Ernest Jessee, for his deputy. Probate Judge Higgins has Miss Marie Campbell, who served several years with her tather as his assistant. Miss Mabel took charge of the district clerk's office, with Mrs. Blanche Geary, who has served at various times in that office as her deputy.

H. M. Baldwin became attorney for the county, but will retain his office in the First National bank building. Mont Mathews will hold over as county surveyor until though cess of law a new officer is elected or appointed to take the place of Mr. Bearg, who declines to accept the office.

County Treasurer Bruner will hold over until after tax paying fime next summer, when Treasurer elect H. P. Zahm takes the office in October. W. R.

Anthony county Superintendent and Sheriff Battinare the only officers re-eleeted and they are the connecting link between the old administration and the new, The same county comI missioners hold over and meet Monday in their regular session. as FARMER RADFORD ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE The home is the greatest contribution of women to the world, and the hearthstone is her throne. Our social structure is built around her, and social righteousness is in her charge. Her beautiful life lights the skies of hope and her refinement is the charm of twentieth century civilization. Her graces and her power are the cumulative products of generations of queenly conquest, and her crown of exalted womanhood is jeweled with the wisdoni of saintly mothers.

She has been a great factor in the glory of our country, and her noble achievements should not be marred or her hallowed influence blighted by the coarser duties of citizenship. American chivalry should never permit her to bear the burdens of defending and maintaining government, but should preserve her unsullied from the allied influences of politics, and protect her from the weighty responsibilities of the sordid affairs of life that will crush her ideals and lower her standards. The motherhood of the farm is our inspiration, she is the guardian of our domestic welfare and a guide to a higher life, but directing the affairs of government is not within woman's sphere, and political gossip would cause her to neglect the home, forget to mend our clothes and burn the biscuits. The farmers are in need of personal leadership. They have political leaders, but they need 'local industrial community and educational leaders.

When honesty is merely a good policy it is a poor virtue. Lazy farmers are just as useless as dead ones and take up more room. When the soul communes with the spirit of nature the back to the farm movement prevails. There are two kinds of farmers. One tries to take all the advice he hears and the other won't take any at all, W.

H. Fitzwater. THE RURAL PRESS The Local Papar a Most Useful Agency on the Farm--The Prees, Pulpit and School a Trinity of Influence That Must Be Utilized in Building Agriculture. PETER RADFORD Lecturer National Farmers' Union A broad campaign of publicity on the subject of rural life is needed in this state today to bring the problems of the farmers to the forefront. The city problems, are blazoned upon the front of the metropolitan dailies and echoed in the country press, but the troubles of the farmers are seldom told, except by those who seek to profit by the story, and the glitter of the package ofttimes obscures the substance.

A searching investigation into the needs of the farmers will reveal many inherent defects in our economic system that can be easily remedied when properly understood and illuminated by the power of the press. The rural press, the pulpit and the school are a trinity of powerful influences that the farmer must utilize to their fullest capacity before he can occupy: a commanding position in public affairs. These gigantic agencies are organized in every rural community and only await the patronage and cooperation of the farmers to fully develop their energy and usefulness. They are local forces working for the best interests of their respective communities. Their work is to build and their object is to serve.

They prosper only through the development and prosperity of the community, Every farmer in this state should subscribe for the local paper, as well as farm periodicals and such other publications as he may find profitable, but he should by all means subscribe for his local paper, and no home should be without it. The local paper is part of the community life and the editor understands the farmer's prob lems. It is the local press that will study the local problems and through its columns deal with subjects of most vital importance to local life of the community. A Noble Task. In too many instances the country papers mimic the city press by giv ing prominence to scandals, accidents and political agitation.

The new rural civilization has placed upon the rural press renewed responsibilities, and enlarged possibilities for usefulness. It cannot perform its mission to agriculture by recording the frail ties, the mishaps and inordinate ambitions of humanity, or by filling its columns with the echoes of the struggles of busy streets, or by enchanting stories of city life which lure our children from the farm. It has a higher and nobler task. Too often the pages of the city dailies bristle with the struggle of ambitious men in their wild lust for power, and many times the flames of personal conflict sear the tender buds of new civilization and illuminate the pathway to destruction. The rural press is the governing power of public sentiment and must hold steadfast to principle and keep the ship of state in the roadstead of progress! The rural press can best serve the interests of the farmers by applying energies to the solution of problems affecting the local community.

It must stem the mighty life current that is moving from the farm to the cities, sweeping before it a thousand boys and girls per day. It has to deal with the fundamental problems of civilization at their fountain head. Its mission is to direct growth, teach ef. ficiency and mold the intellectual life of the country, placing before the pub lic the daily problems of the farmers and giving first attention to the leg. islative, co-operative, educational and social needs of.

the agricultural classes within ite respective community The intiuence of advertising 18 ciearly visible in the homes and habits of the farmers, and the advertising columns of the press are making their imprint upon the lives of our peoplo The farmer possesses the things that are best advertised. The farmer is entitled to all the advantages and deserves all the lux uries of life. We need more art. seience and useful, facilities on the farms, and many homes and farms are well balanced in this respect, but the advertiser can render a service by teaching the advantages of models equipment throughout the columns of the rural press. W.

H. Fitzwater, father of A. H. Fitzwater, cashier of the Goff National Bank, died at his home in Seneca Sunday afternoon shortly after two o'clock. He had been in very poor health for several years and early that morning had grown much worse.

Word of the change in his condition was telephoned to Goff and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Fitz water went to Seneca on the noon train, arriving about fifteen minutes before the end came.

The immediate cause death was paralysis of the throat which prevented his breathing, W. H. Fitzwater was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, March 4, 1847, and at the time of his death was nearly sixty-eight years of age. He came to Kansas and Seneca when about twenty-three years of age and shortly after was to Miss Eliza Cornelia Emery, death occuring on his forty-fourthwedding anniversary. Besides the widow, two children, Miss Jessie of' Seneca and A.

H. of Goff; he is survived by two brothers and three sisters, one sister, Mrs. Hardon, living in Seneca. The other brothers and sisters still live in Ohio. One sister from Ohio, eighty-two years of age attended the funeral.

The funeral was held from the home in Seneca Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. John R. Carpenter of Logansport, Indiana, a former Seneca pastor: and a close friend of the deceased. A large crowd was present to pay last tribute to the life of this old resident and respect ed citizen. Interment was in Seneca Goff Advance Fairview School Dist.

37. Report for the month ending Decem- ber 24. Enrollment for this month: Boys 1, girls 0, making the total enrollment, boys 11, girls taught 19; days attendance this month: boys 205, girls 107. Total 312. Days lost by absence: boys 4, giris 7.

Total 11. Number neither absent nor tardy: boys 10, girls 4. Total 14. Pupils as follows: Lulu Brockman, La Verne Brockman, Francis Hill, Helen Hill, Earl McKee Glenn McKee, Leland McKee, Lester Cox, Orville Sourk, Marie Glissman, Carl Schuyley, Eunice Cooley, hand Henry Cooley. Pupils awarded the prizes offered in spelling for the first four months of schosl were: Lulu Brockman, Leo Hill and Lester Cox.

EFFIE E. HUNT, Teacher. P. A. Lally Live Stock and General Auctioneer Claim your dates early.

Dates made at this office. Phone or write me at my expense SENECA, PHONE 128 3R Wagon Shop All kinds of Wood Repairing done for reasonable prices. V. BRITT KELLY KANSAS When You Think Photos Think Reichert We Make The Kind that Always Please. SENECA'S POPULAR STUDIO Over Firstenberger's Clothing Store mind, not a Digest what you reed.

Old men have visions, young men have dreams. Successful farmers plow deep while slusgards sleep. THE CHURCH AS SOCIALCENTER A Broader Sphere for Religion--New Field for the Rural Church. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union The social duty of the rural church is as much a part of its obligations aS its spiritual side. In expressing its social interest, the modern rural church does not hesitate to claim that it is expressing a true religious instinct and the old-time idea that the social instincts should be starved while the spiritual nature was overfed with solid theological food, is fast giving way to a broader interpretation of the functions of true religion.

We take our place in the succession of those who have sought to make the world a fit habitation for the children of man when we seek to study and understand the social duty of the rural church. The true christian religion is essentially social--its tenets of faith being love and brotherhood and fellowship. While following after righteousness, the church must challenge and seek to reform that social order in which moral life is expressed. While cherishing ideals of service, the rural church which ittains the fullest measure of success is that which enriches as many lives as it can touch, and in no way can the church come in as close contact with its members as through the avenue of social functions. The country town and the rural community need a social center.

The church need offer no apology for its ambition to fill this need in the community, if an understanding of its mission brings this purpose into clear consciousness. The structure of a rural community is exceedingly complex; it contains many social groups, each of which has its own center, but there are many localities which have but one church and although such a church cannot command the interest of all the people, it is relieved from the embarrassment of religiously divided communities. Social Needs Imperative. The average country boy and girl have very little opportunity for real enjoyment, and have, as a rule, a vague conception of the meaning of pleasure and recreation. It is to fill this void in the lives of country youth that the rural church has risen to the necessity of providing entertainment, as well as instruction, to its membership among the young.

The children and young people of the church should meet when religion is not even mentioned. It has been found safest for them to meet frequently under the direction and care of the church. To send them into the world with no social training exposes them to grave perils and to try to keep them out of the world with no social privileges is sheer folly. There is a social nature to both old and young, but the social requirements of the young are imperative. The church must provide directly or indirectly some modern equivalent for the husking bee, the quilting bee and the singing schools of the old days.

In one way or another the social instincts of our young people must have opportunity for expression, which may take the form of clubs, parties, picnics or other forms of amusement. One thing is certain, and that is that the church cannot take away the dance, the card party and the theatre it can offer in its place a satisfying substitute in the form of more pleasing recreation. Universal Instinct for Play. In providing for enjoyment the church uses one of the greatest methods by which human society has developed. Association is never secure is pleasurable; in play the instinctive aversion of one person for another is overcome and the social mood is fostered.

Play is the chief educational agency in rural communities and in the play-day of human childhood social sympathy and social habits are evolved. As individuals come together in social gatherings, their viewpoint is broadened, their ideals are lifted and finally they constitute a cultured and refined society. It is plain, therefore, that the church which aims at a perfected society must use in a refined and exalted way the essential factors in social evolution and must avail itself of the universal instinct for play. It the church surrounds itself with social functions which appeal to the young among its membership; it will fill a large part of the lamentable gap in rural pleasures and will reap the richest reward by promoting a higher and better type of manhood and womanhood. The growing of legumes will retard soil depletion and greatly add to its power to produce..