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Richardson Co. Gerlane; Wilkins N. E. Pierce, C. L.

Grigsby, Med, S-klWCiy2 UUUU riULir Will be lWay5 ailSTlCU By IoJge. w- Drur7 Foresl. Martifl Lake Gy; Blankenship Jun City during the last few days of his life I5caid in the Bypaths The most fashionable pastime smoked cob pipes and whittled the boards of grocery boxes. Long belonged to that small and simi-ex-clmsive class that held county offices or places in the directory cf the banks those who got their linen laundered at Wichita. The rivalry of their respective castes Obituary of Mary It.

Sterling Mary R. Taylor was born in White county, Tennessee, April 3, 1S3 7. She removed with ber parents to Madison county, Missouri, in 1S84, then? to Sulivan, county, in 1845. Her mother died when she was seven years of age. In 1859 she was married to Robert Sterling of Lomdondaryj county, Ireland.

She was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church and attended church regularly for a good many years. vjn 1884 Mr. and Mrs. Sterling moved to Barber county where they resided the remainder of their lives. Mr.

Sterling passed to his reward 25 years To this union was born, seven children, three boys and four girls, one daughter Nancy WUhlte, hav- Jerry Did Wear Sox From the Kansas City rftar From "Vagrant Memories of Fifty by David D. Leahy in Hhe; Eldorado, Republican. I first saw Jerry Simpson at a pplitSJcal picnic. It was in. Barker cownty, on.

the west bank of the Medicine River, nearly thirty years ago. He was address-rag a hand' ful of "nesters" straggling and struggling sod house farmers on the plutocratic oppressions' of the 42 ay. He expounded the doctrines of the Union Labor party with, great earnestness and vigor, having diverted himself of coat, collar, necktie- and vest. His very dark hair he was then, about 44 had shown recent acquaintance with, comb or At that time th farmers of Barber county were suffering some annoyances and oppression from the-cowrmen who, in. the spirit of self interest, were discouraging settlement for agricultural purposes.

They put many questions to Jerry in regard to the matter and it was then I noticed that which I afterwards found most prominent STOCK SALT We are ordering a car of stock; It. Phone us your order and we will phorjo you when it comes. Leave your order for seed corn and kafir. MEDICINE VALLEY GRAIN CO. Lake City, Kansas.

0 War Pictures Coming By special permission of tho warring, nations, the Hearst news- paper syndicate was allowed tq send camera men to the front and make such; pictures of the. acliona on the battlefields as they could, secure. The result was that five reels of splendid views of actual fAghticjg and life at the front were obtained and will be shown at the Pastime Theater Wednesday; afternoon and evening, February 17th. For further particular see "ad" in another column of this paper. Original Photograph Medicine Lodge boasts of having an orginal photograph of General Thorn Thumb's wedding.

When the Thorn Thumb entertainment to be given at the M. E. church by the Epworth League on Friday evening was first advertised, F. Read happened to be looking, through a collection! of his mother's keepsakes and among them found one of these rare photon graphs. The Thumb wedding occurred in New York City in th early '60s and doubtless i number of Medicine Lodge people can re call the incident which at that time is said to have been a nationj wide novelty.

Mr. Read prizes the photographj very highly, both, because of its value as a heirloom and for the incident which it so pleasingly portrays. 0 Methodist Men and while he suffered territly he would caEt a glance cf wit occasionally. The future, I am sure, never troubled him. 0 Sprained Back in Fall from Ladder J.

H. Trice received a painful sprain in the back Monday afternoon about 3:00 o'clock, when a ladder slipped out from under him and fell to the floor. Mr. Trice had been rearranging some goods ox the top of a ledge in the Fair Trice, store, and having completfced the work had started to go down the ladder, but when his weight was all on the top step ft slipped and fell. Mr.

Trice fell across the ladder, striking directly in the small of the back. He was immediately picked up by several of the clerks in the store and carried to a room in the Grand Hotel and Dr. Gilbert was summoned. Examination revealed only a bad isprain and sejveral bruises but at first it was feared the spine might be affected. At the time of printing he was resting easily and barring un looked for internal disorders, he will be able to leave his bed in a few days.

Jack is the luckiest unlucky mortal on the hemisphere. Lucky hfecause he has escaped several accidents which might easily have resulted fatally, and unlucky because he has encountered so many ajccidents in his lifetime. Tom Thumb Wedding Sefveral of the children of the M. E. church will present Tom Thumb's Wedding on Friday evening, February 12th.

If you want to enjoy an evening of fun don't fail to attend this entertainment. Miss Margaret Soote arrived yesterday and will give the children several rehearsals before, Friday. This entertainment has been greatly appreciated at other towns where Miss Soote has been and should attract a large crowd here Friday night. The admission will be 35 and 20 cents. Infant Child Dies The little twelve-day-old daulghter of Mr.

and Mrs bahy John Roper died early Friday morning. The child had been quite weak since birth. The funeraaj services were held from the family? residence on West Kansas avenue Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. R. W.

Richards, of the First Baptist church. The little form was buried in Highland cemetery. The sympathy of many friends; goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Roper in their sadness.

Utopia Club Mrs. H. L. Dobson was hostess to the Utopia Club on Tuesday of last week. After the customary needle work, the regular semimonthly business, pertaining xo the ciub was transacted Following the brief business session, those present were delighted by one vocal solos by Mrs.

H. O. Cress, ac-cofmpanie'd by Miss Mona Dohson on the piano. Excellent, refreshments were served by Mrs. Dobson, assisted by Miss Mona.

The members of the club will entertained their husbands at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. 'Shaw on February 16th.

Birthday party Little Uenita Maurine Grandstalf celebrated her eighth birthday; anniversary on Tuesday evening of last week. Thirty of her littlo girl schoolmates were present from four to six Following a variety ot children's games and various other amusements, dainty1 refreshments, were served -and the littre guests departed after- wishing Benita many happy returns of the day. Mrs. Harry White assisted Mrs. Grandstaff at serving.

NOTICE I will hook orders for hatching gss, to be delivered after- February 20th, Buff, and Barred Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds, at "per setting. Phone 812. K. A. GOIHIANN.

for corporations and jointly owned concerns is to let the public know that they are losing money. Net to listening to a Progressive trying to convince hlmselfl that he hasn't sacrificed anything by returning to the Republican party, the most wasteful conversation thus far invented is a discussion of a dog fight in a tonsoriat emporium. If your ambitions to serve the public are not sprouting properly in the land of you nativity, try hike to Mexico. They change presidents there real often. Speaking about straining at a flee and swallowing a mastodon.

we recall as follows, xow.it: Some years ago this paper remonstrat- ed against cne practice of merchants putting spring vegetables out In front to be exposed to the tender mercies of the tall dog, and the castigation thatj the editor got at he hands of some saintly people for printing such "vile stuff" is fresh in his memory "till yet." But wait a minnte! These same people read "Confessions of a Wife" in the Wichita Beacon six times every week and thinik it real cute. The moral of the foregoing is, if you don't want to surrender all your privileges don't be a country editor. Educational An exclusive class in astronomy has been organ ized in Medicine Lodge. Tuition is free hut no vacancies. Study pe riod: 12:10 A.

M. Class room: city park. Instructor: not for publication. Student singu lar number but highly congenial. Visitors not irfited.

Still retaining confidence in the low'-prioerO'f-Jwheat argument, a good Republican friend comes forth with the declaration that wheat would be worth $3 per bushel if we had a Republican president. We have given over 85 per cent of our time for the past week 1n unearthing a motive for the new R. R. schedule. At just five minutes and three seconds by the watch, before press time, it had percolated.

The Santa Fe. avers that it is losing money on its traffic at the present rate. Therefore, the less traffic the less loss. Reasoning from analogy, the Santa Fe's loss in this immediate section will be greatly reduced. The German who dynamited the Vanceborro bridge in Maine was sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Some papers refer to it as a punishment. The German referred to, howerver, very likely regards the sentence as a reward. Now-a-days a Kansas legislator, before he casts his ballot on a legislative measure, scans the faces of the "suffs" in the He sometimes gets valuable tips. There are a great many big hogs in the country but the greatest of these is the biped variety that) will take the local paper five vears and when, presented with a bill, turn it down in a huff. There are different ways of exhibiting gall hut in our judgment the mam who will "knock" on a newspaper and borrow- ft every week, or solicit editorial favors from iJt, has all others skinmed a city block acid deserves to be dec-orateid in blue ribbons galore.

The cattle of "Barber county have so far escaped the foot and mouth dibease but there are individuals who are not so fortunate. Thia latter statement is based on. the odor that emanates from the feet and the umnecejssary noise, that proceeds from the mouth. Unfortunately, the, quarantine regulations do-not apply. See the noiseless oil burner at the Buick1 Clean: end easy to operate.

i in rhis public career a species of scqm for the local diseases of the body politic. He held that the smaller good was the enemy of -the larger good; that no perma-jofclnt improvement of (the condition of the "nester" of Barber county could be accomplished -until a cure was found for the ills of the ensure country until plutocracy was utterly destroyed. At heart he did not believe in any remedy but that prescribed by Henry George in? Progress and Poverty the stogie tax. He recommended Union- Labarism and Populism, and, ir later years, Democracy, merely as emergency or first aid remedies, but he never recommended them- as a specific cure. NO SOCK TO BE SEEN In 'liia first campaign far Con gress he used to stay over night at my house in- Wellington oh his way home to Medicine Lodge.

He had an easy way of making himself "at home" wherever lie was. In going to bed ome night he jerked TMir boot off with, such force that it flew across the room. "There goes boot, sock and all," he said with a hearfy laugh. I made no examination of the boot but it was as certain as proof could be that his foot was as naked as the day he was born. Hits remark, of course, wae a happy allusion, to the great distinction Victcr Mur- iock, then a young reporter, had recently given him that he didn't vear socks, and on account of yhich he was dubbed, the "sockless Statesman." He told me privately and frank-y that he appreciated my hospi- alities as he couldnt stand the ex- xentse of going to a hotel.

When, he and Chester I. Long had heir famous joint debates in 1896 was detailed to report them. My judgment now is that in J.11 except possibly two of the series; of debates Mr. Long! cleanly 4ad the better of. the argument but ppular feeling ran with Mr.

Simp-on' and he was elected as Mr. iOng knew he would be. Both of them wiere residents of he same small town Medicine (Lodge. Jerry belonged tq the, crowd that town that sat on the curb, was sharp and (theyj am tens Hi 3d their rivalry in poliitica with it. They brought it out sharply ii the Newtcm debate, for the same; castes were lined up in that railroad town on that.

day. The bankers and the petty officers of the raSlway and the men. they influenced came out to cheer for Long and the farm ers and their wives came out to root for Jerry. Mr. Long was so worn out after that debate and the terriblej sarcasm of Simpson that when I saw him a few minutes later he was in bed with a bright fellow on either side of it Bruce Keeaam now of Oklahoma and S.

S. Ash- baugh of the department of justice at Washington revealing! to him the weak points in Simpson's argument and showing himj in what way he could attack them on the morrow. When I came dowmstairs I found Jerry sitting on the curb whittling a stick and talking with a mob of farmers as unconcernedly aa if he was not a principal and most of the people thought a victor in the Ibig battle of the day. Jerry did not, study the issues of that time with amy system or diligence. He glanced over the papers a little and with hia faculty for absorption, got something out of them.

He depended entirely upon the resources of his wonderful memory, his fearful' sarcasm and his ever ready story to ex emplify the strength of his own argument or the fallacy of that of his opponent. I i was with him, once when he and Samuel Gompers, the gTeat labor uinionist leader of the country, had a dispute over something. It was the first and only time I saw him off his feet inj controversy. He seemed to have lost his cunning entirely on that occasion and I looked to see blows struck. Both men were as white with passion as the paper I am writing on.

Politically he was unmethodical. While in Congress he was a poor letter writer. He didn't send out his garden seed or his bulletins. Although he was himself a soldier he did very little for the veterans of his district in the field of pensions. In a word, as I have" said before, he had no faculty for localizing his efforts.

He would starve if- he were a country doctor, for he never could adjust his mind to the treatment of colics or other minor troubles. For the same temperamental reason he couildn't be a successful country lawyer. Although he was a Mason, I doubt' if he had an orthodox opinion of the Creator. I am inclined to think that he was an agnostic. His real religion was the single tax idea and that was bo strong him that when he was dying in Wichita, he sent for a Henry George doctor; of Roawell, N.

as his last hope. If he could cure him, well and good; if he couldn't cure him felt that he would console him with the religion of Henry George. I was with him several times machinery, located at my range 23; ail of section 16, town- ne. of se. 21.

ieea. intg preceded her mother to the Spirit, World. She was a sufferer for many years with juicers of the srtomach which developietd into cancer, from which affliction she had suffered for several weeks, but which at last culminate! in her death at 5:00 o'clock A. February 2, 1915, at the age of 77 years, 9 months and 10 days. Al- tnougn her suirering was very great, she bore it all with true christian fortitude and gentle pa-tienjee.

At her death were present three sons, W. J. H. and H. S.

Sterling, of Hardtner, and three daughters, Mrs. W. S. May, of Stevens county, Kansas, and Mrs. M.

M. Greever and Mrs. Thos. Kenney, of Medicine Lodge. She leaves six children, twentyj-five grandchildren and eleven great granid children together with a host of loving frienfds and relatives to mourn her death.

Funeral services were held at the home of her" son, J. H. Ster ling, at 1:30 o'cloclt, Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Geo H. Weaver.

Interment was made in the. Hardtner cemetery. Hyatt-Hjeaison Air. Edwin Hyatt of Conway Spring and Mrs. Elizabeth D.

Henson of Medicine were united in marriage on Saturday, Fejbruary 6th, in Wichita, by Rev. Walter Scott, pastor of the Central Church of Christ. Mrs. Henson is the daughter of A. Langhart of this city and hae been making her home here for the past two years.

She is well known and has many friends in Mejdicine Lodge and also at Kiowa where she resided for a number of years. Mr. Hyatt is a wealtyh farmer and stockman and owns several hundred acres of land Conway Springs as well as a large residence property in town where! the couple will reside. Mr. and Mrs.

Hyatt came to Medicine Lodge Monday to spend several days with relatives. DistHct Court in Session. The Fehruary term of district court convened late Montday afternoon ajid up to. the tiime of printing few matters, asSde from preliminary motions, had beem disposed of. In the Cox vs.

Statmbaugh case, an ejectment proceeding, findings wore in favor of plaintiff. Defendant gave notice of appeal and bond was fixed at $500. Fire BUndrdd Twin Daughters Twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. H.

H. Darnall, of Sawyer, Kansas, are blind as the result of a fire which destroyed the Darnall home a short time ago. The twtns.six months old, were brought to Wichr ita, specialist who Bald that thiey probably never would regain their sight. When the Darnall home burned the twin babies were rescued with difflcailty. Soon afterward both were taken sick with pneumonia and gradually lost their eightThe parents believed that they would be able to see in- a short time ami brought them to Wichita to bo examined.

They returned home yesterday. Beacon. Mrs. T. H.

Trice came over from Harper yesterday morning to see her son, J. H. Trice, whos accident is mentioned cUcrt'ero. The men of the Mens' School Class in the M. E.

Sunday church held, their regular! social meeting in, the basement of th church last Thursday evening. It was an a. fair worth while and everyone pres ent spent a very delightful even ing. The men brought their wives and, those who were not so fortunate as to have wives brought their lady friends. There were nearly a hundred present to enjoy the short but spicy program andi participate in the generous supply of good things to eat.

Mr. MoCumber furnished splendid entertainment to those present with his chalk talks. Some were sublime and beautiful while, others were strikingly comical and witty. One production was a moonlight scene in colors, drawn, whilej the Misses Eakins and Luallen sang iMoonlight Bay." Miss Bell pleased the audience by her characteristic quiet Hk9 burner and nature. When we say that Miss Alma Palmer sang, it is useless to say that it was greatly enjoyed by her friends who always hail her singing with much appreciation.

Several games furnished amusement for the company, after, which the men, through the committed appointed for that part of thft social, furnished all with a lunch eon that did great credit to their ability; as kitchen! superintendent). One of the leading features of this part was the serving being done in tin plates and cups and. eaten with tin spoons, hut it wag all, form beginning to end, much more thanr a "tin pan affair." It was "solid silver" in quality. Birthday Celebration A very erijoyable party was given by Mrs. Shirley at her home in the south part town, on Monday afternoon in celebration ot the birthdays of her little son and daughter.There were 8 little guesTe present and they voted It "just the best time we ever At the close of the afternoon's games, Mrs.

Shirley served delightful re freshments. i o- FOR SALE A four-cylinder, second hand Buok. In excellent repair. Inqulr at the Bulcli Gotec i i am moving west, will sell at oublic sale withnnt rwrvo ijigiiest bidder, all my land, stock, Monday, Feb. 22, 1915.

12S3 Acres of Land in tracts to suit as follaws: East half section 17, township 31, west half of nw. nw. of sw. 22, Also my residence in Ashland on same terms as land. 2 co acres corn fodder, kaffir corn and cane and 200 acres straw.

64.0 nood grass ana, water go wim h2ad of horses and mares. 57 head of cows. 13 hogs. Chickens 2veral hundred bushels of different kinds of grain. Terms' on Land: One fourth cash, balance in ten equal annual pay-ti interest 6 per cent, A fiat rate of 5 per cent discount ci Jh caland.

Usual terms on other property. I a ca land, usual terms on oiner property. is i.