The Wellington Daily News from Wellington, Kansas • Page 1

Jj CO 11 2it VOLUME XII -WELLINGTON, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 5, 1913 NUMBER 157 stated that they intended cleaning up W. 0. T. U.

MEETING LIES GOOD START EXIT SIRE HOUSE The Grasshopper Year of 1874 A few facta in regard to the great grasshopper raid of 1874 have been dug out recently and handed to ua by one our readers. The old saying that mi3fortune3 never comes singly wa3 verified with a vengence that year in the hardships endured by the settlers of Summer County. There first came a prolonged drouth beginning the early part of May, and transforming what promised ufacturers plans show that the number will be greatly exceeded in 1913. It is told in this part of the' world, in the country that "every one owns a car or wants a car." That will be generally conceded. Just how strong the farmer will "want the car before he spends the money for it depends to some extent, on how many of his neighbors take him riding, in the spring and summer months, and how he lets it influence him.

Many of his neighbors already have cars and swear by them. The automobile is the talk of gatherings of people in the country, for it doesn't take a very large gathering to bring some man in with a new model for which he claims much. And he shows it to his neighbor to prove it will climb a tree or do anything else it should do. By that time the neighbor is interested and it follows that he will buy a car in the spring or simmer, if he can so arrange his finances. And the town man is no better than his farmer neighbor, either, save that he buys bis car, nearly altogether for pleasure while the farmer finds it is ml necessity after he has used one for a time.

The town man finds, if he bays a car he can afford to own that it is' the cheapest luxury, for what he gets out of it, or anything of like coat he can buy. The automobile has come to be sin- pie enough for any person to ope rata man, woman, or child. And they will take the wet roads, if they're not -too -wet, like a horse and wagon take them, and get along. And it is the availabil- ity that will sell more cars this year than any past year, because their value has been proven, by another year of service Hutchinson News. NEW PRESIDENT TALKS LIKE REAL PROGRESSIVE AT iNAUG URAL BEST PARTS OF HIS SPEECH Here Are Portions of Woodrow's Remarks Which You Can Take Time to Read And They Show that He is Headed in the Right Direction There is a fine progressive note all through the inaugural address of President Wilson, but as few people read inaugural addresses we give herewith some of the best parts of the address.

They show that Wilson is all right, but whether his party will let him proceed is the question. The following are extracts from his address: We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of out industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the humsn cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical cost to men women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. We have come now to the sober second thought. The scales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes.

We the place, It follows: Gentlemen: -Noticing the enclosed "Hou3e-cleanirig" item in one of the papers last night, it naturally made a good impression upon everybody and are impelled a small favor of becaufe of this good impression Not a small favor either since it would mean so much to all respectable people, and it i3 thi3: Could you not do a little house-cleaning out in front of your Smoke House? Women are tired being ogled and whistled at and jeered at by a lot oL hoodlums who have loafed about that place for year3. No matter how much one tries to go quietly about her business, vulgar remarks are made and rude jostlings by men (o called) who have no visible means of support but who dress better and put on more 3tyle than people who work and pay their debts can No man's wife, si3ter or mother is free from their nasty talk, riding, driving or walking, on all corners more or less, but it has seemed that before this one place it has been the worst-is it necessary because it is a Smoke House to allow these fellows to congregate there? Is it a help to your business? We should think not and if every business man would have them understand that they could not hang about and play the hoodlum, surely it could be stopped. We are not trying to be overly nice but why cannot decent people, or those acting decently, be treated decently? No one seems to see or hear of those put in authority to look after the city's welfare and we appeal to you and some other business men to do a little "House-cleaning" on the side-walks in front of your places of business. Wont you do this for some of the women who are tired of this ill-mannered set, both of the old and young men of Welling ton? Earnestly We Ask Thi3 Favor; Wellington Women. Public Sale Tuesday Commencing at ten next Tuesday morning, March 11, Tadlock McClelland will sell at the farm four miles north and two and three quarters west of Wellington 4 head of horses, 30 head of hogs, 6 head of cattle, and a lot of farm implements on usual terms.

Lunch will be served. Mrs. Margaret Diemer The body of Mrs. Margaret Ann Diemer, aged seventy-seven years, who died at her home in Belle Plaine Monday night, was brought here overland and burial mad 2 in Prairie Lawn Tuesday afternoon. A number of friends and relatives from Belle Plaine were here to attend the funeral.

Don't forget the dance in W. O. hall Friday, March 7 good music good time. W. and bare made up our mmas to rt i al every process of our national life again hY the ladieS the with the standards we so proudly setilsaptlSt CtlUrCh.

13LS ttie- Francis Willard Memorial to be Given at the Home of Mrs. E. A. Faucett on Thursday at 2.30 The W. C.

T. U. will meet at the home of Mrs. E. A Faucett, 215 north street Thursday afternoon at 2:30.

The following program will be given. Devotionals. Roll call to be answered with an item of Francis Willard's life. Piano Solo Miss Prudence Green. Biography of Francis Willard Mrs.

H. P. Butcher Francis Willard's Influence Today jMrs. Appleman Knot of White Ribbon Mrs. T.

U. An- drews Crusade Song Miss Ruth Winslow Recollections of Francis" Willard Mrs. Ed Van Horn Influence of Francis Willard upon pres- eat age Mrs. E. A.

Faucett America's Greatest Woman Miss Edith Nofsinger -How One Hundred Dollars Helped In One Campaign Mrs. Birkinsha Music Furnished By Victrola Everyone is cordially invited to this service as the program will be of interest to all. i Have Minature Stage In preparing for their Spring opening thej Gambrill Mercantile Co. will have some very classy decorations among which will be an excellent reproduction of stage, complete with footlights, scenery and sliding curtains and fo gotten up a3 to make the observor think he. or she is going to witness some grand opera.

This is the work of Cot win McLane, window trimmer for the Gambrill store and is very artistically designed. On Saturday afternoon and night there will be given a "dre33 show" to the visitors at the store, the stag being the show-window where five ladies will appear in the latest style gowns, acting as livincr models for the benefit of patron3. An exhibition of some thirty-five gown3 will be given after which several little tots will come forth, dressed in children's dresses. Watch the display ad in this paper for further particulars in regard to the opening. Miss Caldwell Goes West Miss Vivian Caldwell went" to her home in Wellington Saturday tc visit with her parents before leaving for the we3t with the Wellington Girls Band.

Miss Caldwell expects to remain indefinitely in San Francisco after the concert tour of the band is completed. Mis3 Caldwell has made her home at the Lindon while studying dramatic art and piano at the Wichita College of Mu3ic. She completed the dramatic art course last spring. She was informally entertained by friends la3t week before she left for Wellington. Beacon.

W. R. C. Dinner The ladie3 of the W. R.

C. will give a chicken dinner at the G. A. R. hall Saturday, March 8th.

25 cent3 per plate. 5559 FOR SALE My residence property, 808 N. F. street Wellington. At a very low price.

Must be sold in next ten days. A bargain if taken at once. J. F. Jone3, 1543 South Lawrence Wichita, Kans.

57-62 Milk and Cream The west side milk and cream. Belton. dairy ha3 plenty of Pnone 808-w. Wra. 52-57 I hereby give notice that the names of the person3 a3 they are to appear on the primary ballot at the primary election to be held March 11th 1913 are as follows: Commissioner of Finance and Revenue.

John Hinchcliffe C. L. Haslet J. W. Lockman W.

S. Nelson Members of Board of Education. Full Term W. H. Boory Emma B.

Burger Ellen R. Clayton Z. T. Houston A. Maxey W.

M. Martin R. J. Renn Member of Board of Education. Unexpired Term Charles Worden Treasurer of the Board of WJcation, M.

R. McLean E. O. Wil3on A. B.

Cheever, 55-57 City Clerk. Notice to Dancers Camp No. 11 W. O. w.

win give a dance in W. O. W. hall Friday March 7th fWh-atra music. Committee -51-59 WARD BPOTHERS WILL OPEN UP-TO-DATE CONFECTIONERY AND REFRESHMENT EMPORIUM GET RID OF UNPLEASANT FRONT Letter Tells Story of a Condition Which Always Vexed and Apparently Couldn't Be Cured Messers.

Ward Brothers, the gentlemanly proprietors of the Smoke Houae, will close up the Smoke House and re open their place of business about March 15 with i confectionery and refreshment parlor that will be a credit to themselves and to the town. They have a central location, and also had a fairly good business but the place was so handy that mo3t of the time during the summer months and the pleasant days of the winter season a bunch of rough necks made the walk in front a hangout where they could distribute vile language and annoy the decent people, especially women, who pa33ed that way. They are a class of people, "who are simply sponges, valueless to any business, and were a common nuisance. The Wards found it quite impossible to be rid of, the outfit so long aa they remained in that business, -so they decided to change and get rid of the undesirable sidewalk decoration. The following letter, written anonymously by some Wellington woman, hits the nuisance so squarely between the eyes that we reproduce it.

Ward Brothers received it two day3 after a news item appeared in which it was oir ailor You can avoid that hand-me-down look by having your clothes made by a reputable merchant tailor. A high class tailoring service at a moderate price. Rufus M.Wat kin Merchant Tailor Opposite Postoffice Yellington, Kansas 3 Can You Afford to Miss ARTHUR JOHNSON the Lubin favorite will be seen today with Miss Lottie Briscoe in the dramatic production JOHN ARTHUR'S TRUST It's bound to be good THE COWBOY AND THE BABY A Western comedy and laugh producer a sure Souvenir PICTURES WWHH WMIBWWMHfcfcf we you of do. a given up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. One work i3 a woi of restoration.

A taritt wnicn cuts us ort irom our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation and makes the government a facile instrument in the hands of private interests. The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves. Sanitary laws pure food laws, and laws determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless to determine for them selves are intimate parts of the very business of justice and legal efficiency. This is not a day of triumph it is a day of dedication. Here muster not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity.

Men's heart's wait upon us men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us tasay what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all fooward looking men, to my side. God helping me I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! Year For Automobiles The present will he the greatest year in the history of the automobile industry. At least that is the out -look at tLi3 time. The year 1912 saw a quarter of a million cars made and sold in the United-States and the man- ONYX HOSIERY 18ASIHHKar JCOXStCT to be a bountiful harvest into a failure all the more discouraging in that it was wholly unanticipated.

In a little while the ground became extrem ely hard and dry, the grsss and hertage became constantly more and more parched, while the creeks and water caurses became so nearly dervoid of water, that in many cases, cattle had to be driven for miles in order to finds pool here and there having suffici ent water for them. The early settlers like all pioneers, were poor and many later arrivals were unaccustomed to the rough western life of that period, con-sequently they were already thoroughly disheartened before the coming of the second great misfortune. On August 1, 1874 there occured before their bewilderedeyes a most remarkable spectacle: About midday there begun to be noticed in the sky, coming from the northwest dense clouds of small objects which toon proved to be Rocky Mountains locusts, or grasshoppers. These clouds soon became denser and more frequent, and were in some cases miles in length. Old settlers claim that the swarms were so great as to fairly darken the sun at times.

Of course the greater portion of these parts passed on, but the small portion of them that did alight almost covered the earth, and in the mo3t congested spots made drifu from two to four inches deep. In a comparatively short time, such vegetation a3 had been left by the drouth wa3 speedily eaten up, and in some localities almost every vestige of green herbage disappeared. Leaves and twigs were eaten from trees and shurbs while fields and gardens were devastated and left bare. The plague continued with but little intermission all summer and tall. Because of this and the continuation of the drouth there was much suffering and distress among the people.

Indeed it is said that no one who has not witnessed the ravaging power of the lo-' custs can fully conceiv of. or appreciate it. Insignificant individually but a mighty force collectively the locusts fall upon a country, a blight and a plague. The sufferings in the country mvaucu in loitauu uic uicauiui ucw lation of the following winter, are yet sufficiently fresh in the minds of the old settlers that they can convey a fair idea of the magitude of the I033 inflicted. They appealed to the experts at Washington for suggestions, but these learned men had at that time scarely begun to make investigation concerning the extirpation of the locusts and were unable to render any service of any value to the desolated settler.

They could only write him that the scientific name for his pa3t was 'Cal-optenua Spretu3 and give him certain facts he already knew about it3 natural history and habits. It was not until 1877 that an act of Congre33 caused the founding of the Entomologist Commission which under the leadership of C. V. R'ley, A. S.

Packard and others then begun to study the Rocky Mountain locust and its extinction. Governor Thos A. Osburn issued a call on Aug. 28, 1374 for a Special Ses sion of theKan3a3 Legislature, which met Sept 15, 1374 and passed a certain measure 'of a relief nature" for the fostering care and protection of its citizens during their recovery from the eftVcts of thi3 plague. This service proved of the utmost helpfulness to many of the pioneers.

On the oth day of September, the first rain since May was welcomed with delight by the people, but the severity of their experiences soon began to show upon them. There was a great deal of sickness during the entire Fall and Winter, and many were stricken unto death. The heavy mortality, and the enforced migration of these 'who were financially able to leave the coun try, made such extensive inroads on the population that the recovery was a matter of several years. An occasional review of some of the hardships of our predecessors tends to ma ice U3 more clearly realize something of the cost in blood and tears of the heritage which has come down to us, and should induce in U3 a deep thankfulness for many evil3 from which mast of us have been spared. Attention W.

O. W. Let all members be at meeting Thursday March 6. Business of especial interest and candidates for initiation. E.

R. Wright. J. A. Moore of Chanute is a business caller here today.

(E "The Old Maids Conven- atre this evening. Registration Notice Notice is hereby given that the poll books tor the registration of the voters of the city of Wellington, Kansas will be kept open during the noon hour and until ten o'clock each night from the 11th day of March to the 21st day of March 1913, except Sundaj and will be closed at ten o'clock p. m. on the 21st day of March 1913, and remain closed -until after the annual city- election to be held on April 1st 1913. A.

B. Cheever, Cty Clerk. 57-62 Christian Endeavor Social A jolly crowd of young people of the Lutheran Church met at the Wengler. home last night for a social time. As it was Inaugural day the entertainment for the evening was suggested by that event.

Dainty refreshments were served by the hostess. The house was tastily decorated with flags, and the pictures of our new President and Vice-president were prominently Small flags were given each guest as favors of the eve- ning. Money to Loan on Farms Can pay off at any time, or pay any amount and stop interest. Only Company that gives this privilege with cheap rates. L.

L. Webster. 6 tf AMERICAN LADY CORSETS week watch for announcement. CSlSSfOitmUL Seeing this Program? BLANCH SWEET the little Bioraph blonde who will be seen plavinff todav with Henry Walthall in THREE FRIENDS A Biograph story ot true friend- JSC- snip Special Feature Friday OIL AND WATER A two-reel oiosrrapn leature re lease said to be a masterpiece Henry Walthall and Blanche Sweet-playing: leads. of Mr.

Walthall or Mss Sweet More New Sprlmig Wearables Klave Ar raved Almost every express brings New Suits, Coats or Dresses. Our showing is sufficiently complete at the present time so that we. can give you an authora-tative idea as to the most favored fashions tor spring. You will notice a difference in style and workmanship of 'THE FASHION" apparel, and the no two-alike feature of our showing assures you an exclu-siveness in your suit, dress or coat. Prices are a3 reasonable as for ordinary kinds.

Suits from $12.50 to $37.50 Coats from $5.00 to $27.50 Dresses from $5.00 to $30.00 Formal spring" opeoicg' next away with every 10c admission..