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00 0 0 000000 0000 0 0 00000 0 0 000000000 000000000000 0 00 0 0 0 0 00000000 0 0 0000000000000 Yesterday's Circulation, 29,663 SUBSCRIBE direct Read Today's News Today of money address order, must Is There Another Page Like It? Do you remember Columbus, an American town, which was raided by Villa who murdered Americans? Do you remember we started thirty into Mexico after him on a punitive expedition? We were to capture him and destroy his banditry. We were to take him wherever we could find him. We are still in Mexico, not far from Chihuahua, where it is said Villa made a speech two days ago from the Governor's palace, captured the town, enticed a thousand deserters from Carranza's And the American troops right down there in army Mexico on an expedition that has cost us 000 just for Pershing's expenses alone and there we sit and wait, with Mr. Villa in sight because Carranza has asked us not 1 to march. Has there been in America ever a more sickening, feeble episode than the manner in which we have allowed pursuit for this murderer of Americans to be our diverted into ignominious failure? An Ornamental Office The best suggestion for the office of election commissioner of Wichita would be to abolish it and let whatever clerical work is incumbent upon the office, which is not a very great deal, be done? under the supervision of city clerk.

We would then save the salary of the election commissioner and the clerk who now does the work in his office could do the work in the city clerk's office. We would lose nothing but the ornamental title of election commissioner, which really isn't worth fifteen hundred dollars per year to the taxpayers. A Good Suggestion for Safety On another page of The Beacon of this evening Mr. J. J.

Jones makes a splendid suggestion for the amelioration of a danger in automobile driving in Wichita. He refers to the park corners that jut into the street in so many places where our engineering awkwardness of the past has created jogs at the street corners. His suggestion is that the contour of these jogs be softened by rounding the parking The suggestion is well worth considering. Booze and Convicts Brewers' Handbook, please copy: In 1880 Kansas had a population of 996,000 and had 724 persons in the penitentiary. The year will be remembered as the time when prohibition was adopted in Kansas.

After thirty-five years of prohibition the penitentiary has 768 inmates, but the population has grown to Gazette. In addressing the President's secretary as MRS. STANTON-BLATCH HERE NEXT WEDNESDAY Miss Morey and Miss Taylor in Wichita Today to Arrange for the Meeting. Miss Katharine Morey, of Massachusettes and Kansas, and Miss Kathleen Taylor, of New York, are here today making preliminary arrangements for a speaking date for Mrs. Harriet Stanton-Blatch for next Wednesday, week.

Miss Morey, with Mrs. Blatch, took the preliminary steps towards becoming citizens of Kansas in the spring by registering as residents of Topeka: so that they can vote at the presidential election. They were at the state fair at Hutchinson and worked the entire week there against President Wilson on account of the attitude he has taken that woman's suffrage is a matter to be handled by the state and not by the nation as negro suffrage was handled. They are not Republicans. They are really independent, but they are strongly for Hughes because of his personal attitude of friendship towards the franchise for women.

SESSIONS HAS NAMED AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE One Woman and Two Men From Each of the Congressional Districts. Topeka, Sept. Sessions, chairman of the Republican state central committee has announced the following members of the advisory committee to the state committee, one woman and two men from each congressional district. First district-Mrs. 'Sheffield Ingalls, or through your newspaper or postmaster.

Remit hy express order or bank draft. Subscribers requesting change give old as well as new address. "Dear Joe" an indiscreet brewer has raised a damaging suspicion in the minds of temperance workers that the White House is not as sincere in its hostility to King Alcohol as it has been pretending to be. It was a "Dear Joe" missive that ruined the prime minister of France no longer than three years ago. In connection with Thomas A.

Edison's lineup for Woodrow Wilson it must not be forgotten that Mr. Edison has been the recipient of distinguished honors at the hands of Mr. Wilson. He helped Mr. Wilson form the present national board of preparedness and was made a member of the board and a part of the President's official family.

We imagine that Mrs. Hughes will make a very sweet first lady of the land from the eireumstance that when she saw her old foster mother at Milwaukee the other day she kissed and hugged her like a long lost child. Mrs. Hughes' own mother died when she was four months old and Mrs. Williams nursed Mrs.

Hughes in her infancy. Kitchener is quoted many never could be the United States. The was made by Cameron of the Philippines, who England's late war head. Mrs. Mary Rolinson is another example of woman.

She asks for a band scolded her for while the cost of brooms Wisconsin has ceased Mr. Hughes spoke to 40,000 day. Five thousand men dinners at Green Bay, hear his message. The world is getting ern girl. The Bell Telephone to cut out paint and agers want her to dope of slang.

Although something cent of the Progressives Republican party, no steps up the front door until her 7. as having said that Gerdefeated without the aid of astonishing statement Forbes, formerly governor was on intimate terms with of Licking County, Ohio. the strangely dissatisfied divorce because her hussweeping the floor too often was so high. to be a doubtful state. people there Wedneswere willing to miss their during the noon hour, to pretty hard on the modCompany wants her powder and theatrical manout good English instead like ninety-eight per of Kansas are back in the will be taken to close the evening of Novem- President Wilson says that America is now awake.

Evidence has pointed strongly that way since the Maine election. Atchison: Gov. W. J. Bailey, Atchison; Will T.

Beck, Holton. Second district--Mrs. T. L. Hogue, Olathe; Charles F.

Scott, Iola; U. S. Sartin, Kansas City, Kas. Third district-Mrs. W.

D. Atkinson, Parsons; B. Schermerhorn, Galena; John S. Hubbel, Fredonia. Fourth district--Mrs.

J. M. Miller, Council Grove: Gov. E. W.

Hoch, Marion; George E. Tucker, Eureka, Fifth district- Mrs. Emma E. Forter, Marysville; F. H.

Quincy, Salina; E. Fulton, Marysville. Sixth district-Mrs. Eva M. Murphy, Goodland: J.

R. Harrison, Beloit; B. P. Walker, Osborne. Seventh district -Mrs.

L. J. Pettyjohn, Dodge City; Judge William E. Hutchinson, Garden City; 0. W.

Dawson, Great Bend. Eighth district Noble Prentis, Newton; Charles L. Davidson, Wichita; J. B. Adams, Eldorado.

PROPOSE A NEW CIVIC Business and Professional Men Will Organize a Lion's Club. Preliminary steps were taken at noon Friday at the Innes Tea Room to organize a Lions Club, a new civic organization. Twenty-two prominent Wichita business and professional men were present. Another meeting will be held next Tuesday night to elect of. ficers and perfect the organization.

STAND BY THE SHIP Portland, Sept. steamer Bay State of the Eastern Steamship Corporation, bound here from Boston, with 150. passengers, was wrecked on the rocks off Cape Elizabeth at the entrance of the harbor early today, Notwithstanding a heavy fog which was the cause of the mishap, all those aboard except the crew, were removed safely in small boats. The seamen elected to stand by the ship. A Golden Wedding in Belle Plaine MR.

AND MRS. JOSEPH DULL. Fifty years ago Wednesday, September 20, Joseph Dull and Melissa Severson were married at Kimbolton, Ohio. In Belle Plaine, where they have refor the past 30 years, they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. All of their children, Mr.

and Mrs. D. M. Dull, H. F.

Dull, L. Dull, H. N. Hulse. Mervin Chaffin, E.

Thomas and fourteen grandchildren, were present, together with more than seventy old time friends. The company went to the Linden Hotel for the "wedding feast." where they were entertained. by, a wedding BEACON HENRY J. ALLEN, Editor STATES: year, $5. Mail, Date Year, on label 6 shows PARK CORNERS CAUSE MANY BAD INJURIES J.

J. Jones Sees Improvements in Traffic Conditions But Suggests One Other for Attention. Editor Wichita Daily having been out of the city the greater part of the time for ten weeks, find a excellent improvement in conditions most, pertains to night driving on the streets of the city. The absence of glaring, headlights Botha was so extremely dangerous to automobile occupants and pedestrians and so prolific of discomfort are but very lightly in evidence. I am told that The Beacon has had much to do with the clearing up of this condition and it certainly should be appreciated by every citizen of the city.

I have in mind in writing you this letter another serious nuisance and one that has occasioned at least three fatalities in the last few months and many serious injuries and that is projecting street corners. There are a number of park corners that stick out into the street that should have the attention of the city officials but I presume, as is usually the case, they will wait for sentiment to voice the correction these bad conpublic, ditions. The property on such corners would not be injured and the streets would be made more beautiful by getting a proper countour by rounding the parking and if need be, the corner of the lots at these places. I believe that immediate action 'should be taken in this connection and if you are in' accord with my feelings in the matter, I should be much pleased to see you put on 8 campaign to that J. JONES, President, the Jones Motor Car Co.

SENT BLACKMAILERS AWAY A Kansas City Man's Wife, Who Paid $150 for Silence, Would Not Prosecute. Kansas City, Sept. handsome man, about 30, with a young woman attractively stood near a ticket window at the Union Station today, but two city detectives did the ticket buying. "Here's all the money this 'bird' has," one of the detectives announced. "Give us two tickets on the Burlington as far away as this money will take them." The ticket seller named a point well up in Iowa, In this manner, "Frisco," a small time blackmailer, left town today.

The young woman was his wite and "collector." "Your baggage will be turned over to the conductor," the detectives said. Two feminine eyes flashed fire, but the man beside her shrugged his shoulders. Yesterday a young woman, the wife of a middle-aged Kansas City business man, left an electric at Twelfth Street and Grand Avenue, to keep an appointment with the owner of a feminine voice who had said she was "a cigar girl at the Hotel Mercer," There had been a number of these appointments, and each time money changed hands. In several days it had mounted to $150. This time the woman, posing las a cigar store girl, was telling the blackmailer's victim the "man you know who is stopping at our hotel must have $20." But yesterday the married woman's lawyer crossed the street at a prearranged signal.

He escorted the two women to a nearby art store, where they would not attract attention. Threatened with jail, the "cigar girl" admitted she had no employment at the Hotel 'Mercer and was the wife of the handsome masher who had flirted with the business man's wife at a cafe and thus started an acquaintance that led to an exchange of letters, These letters the girl carried. She surrendered them. One had a verse written by the woman: Happy did we meet, Happy have we been, Happy did we part And happy meet again. But to her lawyer the woman had finally confided she had been by no means happy since the young woman began to make insistent based on what she knew about her flirtation.

The police, called by the lawyer, arrested the "cigar girl." "Frisco," as well groomed as ever, they found waiting on a nearby corner. At police headquarters, the blackmailer's wife broke down and admitted she and her husband had lived some time by going from city to city and gaining money rich or well to do women with whom the man flirted in the best hotels and cafes. "Frisco" himself denied everything. The Kansas City victim, fearing publicity, refused to prosecute. The lawyer who rescued the letters was Hugh K.

Rea. BIG COPPER ORDER 400 Million Pounds Have Been Bought in America. New. York, Sept. to trade reports current in the financial district today, a big foreign order for copper aggregating over $400,000,000 pounds has been placed by foreign interests, chiefly British and French, with large producers in this country.

These include the American Smelting and Refining Company, the United Metals Selling Company, which represent Amalgamated- -Anaconda interests. The is to be delivered in the first six months of 1917. This contract is said to be unprecedented in the history of the copper trade. The total amount involved in this transaction is said to be about $125,000,000, SHERIFF WANTS BACK Topeka, Sept. -Sheriff E.

G. Carroll of Johnson County, who was automatically deposed following the lynching of Bert Dudley, slayer of Henry Muller and wife, at Olathe early Thursday morning today petitioned Governor Capper for reinstatement. According to the law this is the procedure necessary before the governor can take up the case. The hearing probably will be held next week. FRIDAY'S CLASSIFIED GAIN 324 LINES OVER SAME DAY OF LAST YEAR 3 month, 40c.

Carrier: week. 10c; subscription expiration. Entered at Wichita Wichita, Kansas, September 23, 1916. through mails as second-class matter. BUYS A BIG STOCK TO SELL IN WICHITA Mr.

Coombs Will Soon Announce the Bargains He Will Offer for Sale Here. J. Coombs, proprietor of the New York Store, has secured the complete stock of goods of the Bicknell- -Barber Dry Goods Company of Alva, and will place them on sale in a few days. The Anthony Wholesale Grocery Company owns the goods and arranged with Mr. Coombs for their sale in Wichita.

The date of the sale will be announced in The Beacon. Bargains will be offered in silks, velvets, dress goods, embroideries, laces and piece goods. In the list there is a complete assortment of Educator shoes for children. For women there will be bargains in silk kid shoes. The famous Beacon shoes for men are included in the stock.

Men's hats of good quality and underwear, shirts and other men's furnishings from Wilson Brothers of Chicago will be closed out at greatly reduced prices. SCANDIA IS NEUTRAL Three Northern Countries Decide on Conditions That Will Rule in War. London, Sept. Christiania conference of representatives of the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish governments has resulted in a further development of the plan for co-operation during the war in matters affecting the foreign affairs of the three nations. Through the Danish foreign office last night there was issued a statement setting forth what was accomplished at the conference.

This statement, which is said to have been received with satisfaction by all DOlitical is said in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen to be in effect as follows: "The three countries are unanimous for maintenance of loyal and impartial neutrality during the present war. The blows aimed at the rights and interests of neutrals by belligerent powers, as well as the difficulties in the sphere of commercial policy which have ensued there from neutrals, formed the subject of, a searching inquiry which resulted 'an accord' for bringing about wider collaboration among the three countries. "Special attention was devoted to the destruction of neutral ships and cargoes, as well as to the consequences entailed by the issue of blank lists by the belligerents. It was agreed with a view to facilitating the commercial policy of the three countries, that they keep each other mutually informed as to measures to be taken in the respective countries in regard to both commercial policy and the repression of commercial espionage, to safeguard their interests in the sphere of commercial policy after the war." 0 0 0 0000000 00000000000000000 DEATH RECORD 000000000000 0000000 00000000000000000 000000000000 G. O'Leary, 24 years old, died this morning at the home of his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. O'Leary, east of the city. Funeral services will be held Tuesday from the St. Mary's Cathedral, and will be in charge of Flanagan Bourman Under.

taking Company. Duval, 9-year-old son of Grant Duval, of Colwich, died this morning at his home. Funeral services will be held at the home Sunday at 2 p. m. They will be in charge of the Baird Undertaking Company.

OKLAHOMA CHARTER GRANTS Oklahoma City, Sept. Theater Company, McAlester. Incorporators, D. B. Hussey, St.

Louis, L. W. Brophy, Muskogee; F. J. McFarland, McAlester.

Capital stock, $2,000. Red Oak Mercantile Company, Red Oak. Incorporators, Arthur Vict, Red Oak; E. C. Dunn, Red Oak; Walter Vict, McAlester.

Capital stock, $2,500. Oliver Manufacturing Company, Hartshorne. Incorporators, Andrew Oliver, Pheba Ray, Amanda Webber, Hartshorne. Capital stock, $1,000. Robinson Coal Mining Company, Claremore.

Incorporators, Florence B. Robinson, Muskogee; W. L. Mayes, Muskogee; Charles M. Watson, Kansas City, Mo.

Capital stock, $100,000. Burket Oil Company, Bartlesville. Incorporators, John G. Burket, A. Rowland, J.

D. Talbott, all of Bartlesville. Capital stock, $100,000. Benny's Notebook Ma sent me to the store to get 2 pounds of cherries to make a cherry pie out of, and I tasted one on the way home and it was so good I tasted about 15, and wile I was tasting them the bag slipped and I cawt it upside down so haff the cherries rolled all over the pavement, and a lot of kids wunted to know if I wunted them to help me pick them up, and I sed No, ony they helped me enyhow, putting more in thare pockets than wat they put back in the bag, and then I kepp on wawking home, thinking, the bag feels lite, and I passed Mary Watkins house and she was setting on the frunt steps, saying, Hello, Benny, wats you got? Cherries for a cherry pie, I sed. Wich she dident say enything, and I sed, wunt some? I dont know, she sed.

Take' some, I sed. And I held the bag out Mary Watkins sed, Thare for a pie. Wat do I care, I sed. And I took a handfull out and put them in her lap, saying, Wat do I care. Aint you afraid, she sed.

Afraid nuthing, I sed. And I took anuther handfull out and put them in her lap, and she sed, My, you better be carefull, Wy better I sed. And I put 2 more handfulls in her lap and kepp on going home, and wile I was going up the frunt steps the bag felt so lite looked in and counted the cherries, ony being 17 of them left, and I thawt, it wont make mutch of a pie. And I took them back in the kitchin and nobdy was back there, and I put them on the table and rote on the bag with a penzil, Deer ma, Im going erround to cuzzin Arities for suppir, please dont save me eny of the pie, as I have had my cherries. Your loving son Benny.

And I went erround to Arties for suppir and jest as I was going to eat it pop came after me and made me go him, the rest errounith being to sad to rite about. Bishop Favors Revising Decalog So Clergy Need Not Declare Bible Story of Creation! By Rt. Rev. Chas (Bishop of the Episcopal The proposal to "change" the ten commandments which i is to come before the next general convention is simply this: The Ten Commandments, as they stand in the Old Testament are, of course, not to be touched. No general convention or any other eccleslastical body has any power or desire to alter the words of the Bible.

But the Ten Commandments occur in the book of common prayer in two places; first, in the communion office, and second in the catechism. It is proposed simply to abbreviate the D. Williams. Diocese of Michigan.) commandments in these two places in the prayer book by omitting all but the imperative clauses. This will effect but three or four of the commandments and will in no wise touch their substance or their declaration or moral obligation.

I approve of the revision for two reasons: First, because it will make the commandments much simpler and easier to memorize for children. And second, because in reading the Fourth Commandment, it relieves the minister of the necessity of declaring that the Lord made the heavens and earth in six days. Confessions of a Wife (Copyright, 1915, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) Mollie Almost Bares the Secret of Margie's Lost Love for Dick "Margie," said Mollie, bursting into the sun room where: I was sitting, "isn't mother a scream!" "Mother is a scream," I answered, "but does Chadwick aid you in your horrible use of slang?" "Chadwick is like all other men," said Mollie with a little pout. "He fell in love with me for the very characteristics he now thinks he would like to change." "But surely you are happy, Mollie?" I asked anxiously. It seemed to me, little book, if Mollie and Chadwick Hatten were not happy after their mad courtship, one must put it down irrevocably that marriage is a failure.

"Of course I am not unhappy," she answered. "But what hurts is I am not happier than before I was married. Chad is a dear, Margie, but he is also a. man and, what is worse, a man made up of a bundle of nerves. Mother makes him alternately crazy and sick.

"Of course, Margie, I won't let even Chad say unkind things about mother. That is something I reserve for myself," she added with a smile. "Last night we went to the restaurant and there was mother dancing with a boy of 20! Chad nearly went up in smoke. Mr. Trent explained the boy was his nephew and he was teaching 'Sallie' some new steps.

young people have not reached the age where the joys and enthus- Kansas Siftings Miss Hopper has married Mr. Ripple at Garden City. There will be something doing in Anthony this winter. The airdome will have a chorus organization from Kansas City--all girls. Topeka has turned down the proposition to have voting machines used at the coming election.

It is going to see how the double election board will work. Gomer Davies has cast a political horoscope and the reading is that every Republican candidate for Congress in the state will be elected by an old time majority. By baching and doing their own cooking, ironing and washing two preachers at Norton expect to keep the tightwads in their congregations acquainted wtih the Lord. John L. Papes of the Mulvane News does not contemplate any partisan discrimination in candidate advertising.

iasms of youth seem the only distraction he said. 'Poor Sallie always wanted to she told me. years she was busy rearing her children, with never enough money to do what she wanted, so now she is trying to make up for "Sometimes, Mollie," I said, "I think we take life too seriously. We try to do too many things. I think it is the selfish woman who is happy, after all." "Please don't say that, Margie.

You and I are unhappy because we are not mothers. That is my great worry, and while Chad has never mentioned it to me, I am certain he is eating his heart out in disappointment. But you, Margie, surely as 'soon as you are well, you will have a baby?" "I don't know, Mollie, dear, I don't know." Mollie looked at me a moment in silence and then asked, "Margie, what is the matter?" "I don't know, Mollie. Perhaps it is because I have not yet fully recovered, but I feel as though I wanted to get away from Dick--at least for a while -and see where I am and what I am." "Dick has done something you can not forgive, I know it," exclaimed Mollie. "No, Mollie," I said, "I can forgive, but I just don't care any more." "Poor Dick," sighed Mollie, as she kissed me good -bye, and I echoed in my heart, "Poor Dick." (To be continued.) NOW WHY NOT GET SOME OF OTHERS? Court Holds It Unlawful for a Merchant to Have a Government Revenue Stamp in His Place.

D. L. Burton and H. Wheeler, proprietors of drug stores on East Douglas Avenue, were fined $100 each and sentenced to thirty days in jail by Police Judge Harry Dedrick last evening. They appealed.

Their places had been raided and alcohol found in the premises. They had government Internal Revenue stamps. Assistant City Attorney S. S. Hawks asked for a conviction on the presence of the revenue stamp, the state law making it prima, facia evidence of a violation of the law.

Attorneys for the druggists argued that the government required them to have a revenue stamp, even though they did not pretend to sell the alcohol unmixed with other drugs. The court held that they did not require a stamp if they used the alcohol for legal purposes and decided that since they' had the stamps it was clear to him that they intended to violate the prohibitory law of Kan- sas. RAIL REVENUES BILLION Increase for 1915 Shown by Figures From Railway Age Gazette. Chicago, Sept. financial results for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, made public yesterday, through the Railway Age Gazette, show that net revenues for the year crossed the billion mark for the first time.

The net pperating revenues for the year were $1,176,804,001, or $5,134 a mile, as compared with $938,560,638, or $4,231 a mile for 1913. The average mileage represented in 1916 was 229 and in 1913, 221,829, Compared with the fiscal year 1915, the current year shows an increase of $308,390,025, or 16.9 per cent a mile in aggregate operating revenue. ing expenses increased $388,867,393, or 8.3 per cent a mile. A MISSIONARY CONTEST The third in a series of missionary contests, given under the auspices of the Missionary Department of the Sedgwick County Sunday School Association, will be held at the College Hill Methodist Church Friday evening, September 29. The judges in the contest will be Mrs.

Anna Waldron of the Reformed Church school, Mrs. Melissa Fellows of Friends University Church school and Mrs. L. H. Kenaga of the North End Christian Church school.

THEY GOT HIS NUMBER An automobile hit Mrs. H. E. Gonder's stanhope at the curb on North Lawrence at St. Paul's church last night.

The accident was observed by several men and boys, who took the number of the machine, Kansas No. 76413. The buggy was demolished and the pony injured. The motorist explained that because of the dimmers on his lights he was unable to see the rig and left without revealing his identity, HELEN EVERS RELEASED Chicago, Sept. Helen Evers, held by Federal authorities under bonds as a member of an alleged blackmail syndicate, was released by representatives of State's Attorney Hoyne today after she had been taken into custoday and questioned.

He will put it exactly upon the same basis as commercial business, no more and no less. Charles Mays has lost five horses by lightning in the last two years. The fifth horse was killed at the McKinney place last Sunday. The last horse was insured. All others were a total loss to Mr.

Mays. We understand that a house near Attica was struck by lightning and destroyed last Republican. One thing may be said for the homely girl: She generally knows enough to take care of herself; by which we infer that the pretty ones are seldom taught to know anything. Girls always mysteriously disappearing, and girls who figure in white slave tales and other sensational experiences, are almost always described as being of the pretty Tom Thompson of Howard. Discovered in this county--The old fashioned ball player who put on his uniform when he first got up the morning of the game, and who came to the game with streaks of milk down his legs where he missed the bucket while engaged in the morning round with the Olathe Register.

The Outbursts of Everett True. MR. PASTOR, HERE'S A CHANCE TO SHOW WHAT KIND OF STUFF YOU'RE MADE OF. SEATED DOWN IN FRONT THERE I SEE A COUPLE OF RICH LABOR GRINDERS, I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THEY BOTH DODGE TWO- THIRDS OF THEIR TAXES, THEY DISCOUNT EVERYBODY'S AND 3'D LIKE TO HEAR YoU PAN THEM TO A FARE- YOU- WELL 004 march, played by the H. F.

Dull Orchestra, of Augusta. "The Prayer of Praise" offered by J. Dull, expressed the joy that was in the heart of each person attending. The afternoon was spent on the lawn of the Dull home, where many talks were given. One of the most interesting was that of Isaiah Forney, who had been present at the wedding ceremony in 1866.

Music on the lawn was furnished by the Dull Band. Many presents such as linens, cut glass, china, silver and gold were received by the old couple. They were honored by a serenade by the Belle Plaine Band in the evening..