Independence Daily Reporter from Independence, Kansas • Page 4

PAGE FOUR INDTKKDKNCE DAILY REPORTER, INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS. MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1920 HE, BISHOP COMING CITY AND COUNTY NEWS D. P. Curliss, postmaster from I SYCAMORE VALLEY A A 6 CLYDE H. KNOX, Editor and Owner Entered at Independence, Kansas, i as Second Class Mail Matter.

WMgl DECLARES gasdDiinim Daily Paper in Southern Kansas. i Established September 11, 1881 Every Evening Except "Sunday Member or The Associated Free The Associated' Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this aper and also the local news pub-shed herein. All rights of re-publi-catlon of special dispatch.es herein are also reserved. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Delivered in City, per year 6.00 By the Month 50c By Mall One Year, Outside County, $5.00 One Tear, In $3.00 DEMAND FOR OIL CROWING FASTER THAN PRODUCED i Washington, D. June M.

Special. Pro-, duct ion of gasoline increased 1,353,800 gallon-; daily, or lS'i per cent during the first four months of 1020, according to a gtatement issued today by the bureau of mines. As against this increase in production, however, the domestic consumption of gasoline increased gallons daily, or S3 per cent. (From an artiqle Chicago Tribune. Junt SO, UK.) THIS epitomizes the situation accur- Independence, Aug.

30, 1920 ately. It also indicates now great. is the task of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). But fuel for automotive power must be supplied. Especially is this true in the terri tory served by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), because in this area the bread-basket of the nation so large a percentage of the gasoline is consumed in producing food.

Take away even cripple the automotive power on the Middle West farms and food prices will soar becauseof decreased production. The power-driven tractor is the only means by which the farmer can cope successfully with the shortage of man-power. By extensive research and intensive application the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has increased the yield of gasoline from crude to the greatest degree yet known. But it is not satisfied. The Company is striving to further increase the yield so that the use of the rrflrrnr.

rrnrk. thft nntnmnhile. and the An effort is being made by a Missouri newspaper to start the old time factional row in the Republican party in Kansas again. It is cropping out more plainly every day and by November, if the present-rate is maintained, the factions will be as definitely outlined as they were in 1912 and 1914. In permitting Mayor Terence tn tn! death, England may be upholding the dignity of her laws.

jbut she.is in the whirlwind of Irish The -whole world is fast swinging around to uphold the Irish cause and a few more Lloyd Georges in control of England's affairs will hasten the day. Reports fiom Topeka indicate that one of the big fights in the Republican party council tomorrow will be whether the party endorses the three amendments. The oppon ents of the endorsement say that they should not be dragged into i politics. Those favoring endorse ment say that if the amendments are wise, every pslrty in the state should endorse them. Take your choice, but if this Is the only big question before the party council why hold such a meeting at all? Dispatches from Topeka tell us that Iowa is planning to adopt anj i SHE Grand-niece of Founder of the Christian Church Gains 35 Pounds by Taking Tan- lac.

r. "I have just finished my third bottle of Tanlac and' have actually gained thirty-five pounds In was the statement made recently by Mrs. W. T. Conway, 809 East Hidepark street, South St.

Joseph, Mo. Mrs. Conway is one of the best known and most highly respected women in South St. Joseph and is a grandneice of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian church. "For at least fifteen years I had suffered dreadfully from stomach trouble and nervous indigestion.

I gradually grew worse until finally I lost my appetite, and even when I did manage to eat a little something it caused me intense suffering. After every meal what I had eaten fermented and bloated me up with gas until I could hardly breathe. I suffered so from dizzl- ness that I have actually fallen to th floor- 1 had Pais a11 throush HOW DOES A MERE ONE CENT TOMATO RISE TO 60" CENTS? Washington, Aug. 27 The department of justice is mak- ing an investigation to ascer- tain why a tomato which costs one cent wholesale should cost 60 cents when gerved with a leaf of lettuce ln a lf staurant, Sliced peaches at 75 cents 'a portion and half a canta- loupe at 45 cents are also subjects of inquiry. The department is begin- ning in Washington and will probably extend the investi- gation to other cities.

MAPS OF "BETTER HIGHWAYS" LEADING HERE BEING MADE Special Committee Is Under Head-- way in Getting Results from "Tourist Trade." j. r. and, Charley Hill a Suociai committee of tho enod it0 he in rRM. other public places, throughout the country to get the tourist trade for Independence. Several thousand of these maps are to be distributed for the Independence good roads boosters are going after the tourist business "hot and This committee also has the copy and plans made for the two big sign boards to be placed at Lowell, and eleven miles east of Winfield to divert traffic by way of Independence.

One of the features of the maps that are to be distributed is a special chart showing the roads leading into Independence; this is being done by a special map of the city with the arteries of travel leading into it The Reporter FIRST in everything YEAR is We certainly are having plenty of rain for this time of year. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Loy and chil-, dren and Mrs.

Phillips, Cara Phil- lips and Ivan Bracken attended the reunion at Cherryvale Thursday, Aot very good weatiier for mak- ing hay this week. Only a little over a week until school begins Mrs. Katie Bircher of near Simp son church helped her mother. Mrs. Bracken, make kraut this week.

I The Sycamore Valley young peo- bJe met at Mr. Pasley's Tuesday evening to practice singing for the anr.iud picnic to be held the 2nd of September in Krone's grove. Eva, Sarah and Sid Pasley returned Monday from Baldwin where they attended the institute las' week. Mr. and Mrs.

Bracken and sons, Gilbert, Fay Stephen, went to Mr. Garner's, south of Independence Sunday afternoon get watermelons. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Goodwin have moved to Lafontaine to live.

Mr. McClaren and family attended the fair at Fredonia last week. Mrs. Ed Graham's mother, Mrs. Brown, visited her Friday.

Ed Graham hauled wheat to Neodesha Friday. MARRIAGE LICENSES Benjamin B. Whittle, Beggs, Ok 27 Pearl Muskogee, Okla v23 Fred O. Wiley, Galena, Kan 32 Christfnei'Coyle, Galena 27 Let R. C.

Hait Furniture Co. furnish the home. The Reporter FIRST in everything IF YOU HAVE A BROKEN PART dF MACHINERY We Can Repair It! We are at your service with a completely equipped machine shoo for anv j. -I? INDEPENDENCE MACHINE CO, PHONE 331 1215 West Sycamore St. 4 The New on IP 01 Automobile tar 1.

for stationary gas engine may be used freely Js fj 1 and without restriction. I ,1 It is apparent that the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) by increasing the yield has exerted, also, a downward influence on the price of gasoline. inaustriai coun law moaeieu aiong ixlD in DfAnC the lines of the Kansas But! FLAlNo rUK tSXJAUO Standard Oil Company (Indiana) 010 So. Michigan Chicago a close reading of the proposed Iowa statute fails to show much similarity. Iowa has the good sense at the very outset not to try to send men jail if they quit their jobs.

In the next place Iowa will recognize the fact that employers have certain rights to he considefed just as well as the employes have. It will establish a court of equity arbitration, in fact whereas Kansas now tries to. entorce us decrees wunjan sentences a ieature ens-1 rr 2210 the Nash the Best any Motor $1,895 $2,085 $1,895 $22925 $3,185 ence Phone 1-8-8-0 Today Bishop Waldorf Will i Here This Week peak AT DISTRICT MEETING Session Will Be Held at Meth odist Church Thursday antf Friday Heaton to lVeside Thursday and Friday of this week the district conferencavof the Methodist church will be. held in First M. E.

church her, ipr. 8. J. Heaton, district superintendent, presiding. The conference will open Thurs day morning at 9:30, and at 10 there will be, a sermon by Dr.

Burns, pastor of First Methodist church of Iola. At 11 o'clock Rev. Gordon B. Thompson pastor of the Methodist church in Coffeyville, will speak. The afternoon session will begin at 1:30.

Rev. H. A. Gordon of this city and Dr. Wiley of Fredonia will occupy the hour from 2 to 3 in discussing the legislation of the recent general conference held in Dess Moines.

Dr. Heaton will speak at 3, and Rev. C. T. Cotton of Sedan will follow with a sermon.

At the evening session Rev. A. L. Day of Cherryvale will have charge of the devotions, followed with an address by Dr. F.

II. Smith, returned missionary to Japan, The Friday morning session will open with a song service conducted by. Rev. J. J.

Skinner of La Harpe. Rev. A. E. Peterson, of Wichita will speak at 9.

Three addresses on "Evangelism" will follow. The speakers will be Rev. E. W. Spencer of Neodesha, Rev.

H. E. Crane of Howard and Rev. B. F.

Gaither of Chanute. At 10:45 Bishop Ernest L. Waldorf, D. will deliver his great address on "Rebuilding the World." In the afternoon Rev. A.

E. Peterson of Wichita will speak -at 1:30, and Dr. F. H. Smith will speak at 2.

Bishop Waldorf will deliver another message at 3, which will be followed by the communion in charge of the bishop. At -7, p. ni. a dinner will be served in the dining room of the church for the- bishop, pastors and official members of all the churches of Independence district. Dr.

Heaton will act as toastmas-ter. At 8:15 in the auditorium of the church Bishop. Waldorf will deliver an address'' in which he will outline "A Program Modern ehurcli. 7 Everybody is invited to all these services. A cordial invitation is extended to the pastors and members of all the church of this city.

CANDY MAY BE DOWN Sugar Cut in Prices May Make Sweets Cheaper by Christmas. As a result in the decreets of price of sugar in wholesale lots that was announced this mqrning, candy dealers of Independence say that Christmas sweets may be much lower than last year. However, a slice in candy prices" Is not likely to come before then as other materials and labor have not begun to go down as "If the people would buy more candy in bulk," a candy dealer said this morning, "they can get mors sweets for their Candy boxe.i are very high as result of the price of paper. The consumer has to pay the price of these boites. Pasteboard candy containers that formerly were forty and fifty cents apiece are now as high as one dollar and more.

The con sumer could save this price if he bought in bulk." 1 A. S. TREGER Watchmaker and Registered Optometrist lOi E. Main, Independence, Kans. THE BADEN DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT Is always featuring the new things on the market.

fi ft will pay you to visit this store where you have a large selection of merchandise to pick from. Baden Mercantile Co. Phone 89 Liberty was in this city today looking after business. I Miss Faye Shelton of Mount Vernon, is here visiting at the H. W.

Peters home, 1100 West Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Degarimore ot Elk City spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Degarimore of South Twelfth street. Have you seen the new dresses at Loeb They are very pretty and so reasonably priced.r-Loeb's, next door to Kress. The nt. iFa-sU; Christian church vfiy have. 9 watef-melo nfeast at Riverside.Sparfei to morrow evening at 7 o'clock.

Mrs. Albert Hilyard and children, of 618 South who have been visiting Wichita and Eldorado for the past week, returned home yes terday, Mrs. D. P. Robbins of Morris, Oklahoma, is here visiting her mother, Mrs.

W. N. Reece, of 713 North Sixteenth and her brother. L. Luke, of 705 South Fifteenth.

Stout, the gardner of South Fifteenth, who was thrown from an interurban car last Tuesday at the corner of Fourteenth and Myrtle streets, is still under the doctor's care. The profit-sharing store can and does save you money on your wearing apparel Loeb's, next door to Kress. Miss Marguerite Fisher of Caney, who underwent an operation at the West Side hospital last week, was. able to be tsiken to her home yesterday. Mrs.

Margaret Denney and daughter, Nanny, returned from au all-summer tour in the West with Dr. Joseph Denney, a son. Dr. Denney expects to locate in the West. Mrs.

Charles Hanna returned Saturday afternoon from Chicago, where she has been for the past month studying music and getting ready' for the fall term. The term will start next Monday. Mrs. Jean Bowen, stenographer in the office of the county attorney, has returned from Bella Vista, with her daughter, Mildred, where they have been spending their vacation. Mrs.

Bowen stopped in Joplln on her way home. -4 MOTOR CAR HIT Will Wadman and G. S. Minor Have Accident on South Waldschmldt Two motor cars, one driven by Will Wadman and the other by G. S.

Minor smashed into each other 0n South "Waldsehmidt street yes terday afternoon. One was a Hup mobile touring the other was a Maxwell The Maxwell was hit on the right side, the front wheel, the front fender and running board being smashed. STICH Shooters Didn't Meet. Members of the Oil Well Shooters' association failed to hold their regular monthly' meeting yesterday. Poor attendance was the cause of this.

The headquarters for this organization is at Tulsa, the one here being a branch of the regular organization. The branch here is composed of shooters living here and in this section of the country. Typewriters Agency for 'Corona All Makes New and second hand machines, for Sale or Rent. THE OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY Phone 503 115 W. Myrtle Dr.

William D. HowelL Jr. Dentist Offica Rooms 300-302. Fhona 40! Citizens First National Bank Bldg. Conserve Your Old Furniture Bring It to Us and We Will 'Make It Look Like New.

1 'Our Charges Ate Very Reasonable. E. A. Meisenbach phone 449. 1 a WALTERS POTTS Undertakers and Funeral Directors Phones, Office 179.

Res. 95 156-B Ambulance Calls Day or Night Physician and Surgeon CHESTER O. SHEPARD.M. D. Ouipssj pue astasia t.usjpimo Suite 304, Nat Bank Bldg.

I my body nearly all the time, which were especially bad in the smalt of njy back. My nerves were so upset that it was simply impossible for me to get a good night's sleep. Finally I became so rundown and weak that for months at a time I cquftitjslt do my house-, work or even leave my room. "I tried imany different medicines, but nothing seemed to reach my case until I started taking Tanlac, and the first bottle of it did me more good than everything else I had taken put together. I am still taking it, although I have been practically relieved of all my troubles.

Things I had not dared to eat in years now agree with me perfectly. I am almost entirely relieved of pain, am never troubled with dizziness. I can do my housework without a particle of trouble. In fact I don't remember when I have enjoyed as good health as I do now, and it is all due to what Tanlac has done for me." Tanlac is sold in Independence by J. A.

Cramer; Wayside Drug Wayside, and by" the leading AUTOLOAD AGAIN 1 FORT SCOTT TO PITTSBURG PROJECT 13 REVIVED Attorney John Bcrtenshaw Is Among Those as Backing the Entreprise -S3 Concrete. Topeka, Aug. 30. An unique freight and passenger line is soon to be built between Fort Scott and Pittsburg. It will be an auto railroad.

Freight will be handled in truck and passengers in auto-busses. The line is to be built by the Auto Traffic of Fort Scott, which was granted a charter recently. It has a capital stock of $50,000. Judge Charles B. Cory, well known lawyer, of Fort Scott, is the of the idea and 'chief promoter.

Judge Cory appeared before -the blue, sky department yesterday with an sell $40,000 worth of stock. The board will no doubt grant such permission at its next meeting. Some i of the leading; men of ae behind the road. Among others interested with Judge Cory are: F. B.

Wheeler, Pittsburg; C. A. McNeill, Columbus G. R. Gard, Iola; Sen.

fort Scott, and John HJHwiifctJ Independence. wka is build a concrete dttipfft-f-pn Fort Scott and it win not oe suriacea all' oYifer like a public road. There will be concrete strips twenty-four inches wide for the auto wheels to run on. They will be grooved so that the wheels will stick to the track. The company has already obtained terminal sites at both towns and now getting a right of way from the farmers on the route.

It will only take a few months to build and equip the line. The company expects to compete with the railroads both for passenger and freight business. SPORT COLUMN The action of Boyd, ace hurler for the Dajicjn gang in' the sixth in ning of jtliff diamond battle yes. terday afternoon in which the Empire squacgirpesville and the league team here plajed, caused some comment among the bugs this morning, Some were inclined to criticize the player's-action. Boyd loaded the bases in the sixth innfn? ar.d walked out, leaving a hole that lost the game for Independem v.

The pitcher said he had severely strained his side and. was unable to pitch. The flinger says he will come back and beat the Empire Uam for nothing. Johnson, who was inserted, had hot even warmed tip. The game was lost in that inning the score being 5 to 1.

But after the hectic "sixth" the visitors were only al lowed one hit off Johnson. DR. G. L. COFPMAN Physician and Surgeon Office Over BestTheatrli'1 Office Phone 461 uoR'es.

Phone 46 461 Calls Answered Night or Day BETTER WORK, NOT "CHEAPEST" Is a credit to a locality. Get it! Demand it! Come' to J.W.SENIOR ENTERPRISE DECORATING COMPANY 111 E. Laurel, phone 822 carded for such purposes in Gommittee.of theCommer-march of civilization over 600 years cial club ra now maWn-mang 5 Jtb? 1 1921 Six ago when they quit sending men to jail foi- In fact Iowa's law will make the Kansas law look like thirty cents. The Reporter now reaches more farmers than any other paper published in Independence. INDEPENDENCE I TRANSFER All STORAGE COMPANY I BEST SERVICE BEST EQUIPMENT Phone 447 or 890 113 West Main Street Features of Make It the Money of the Market We Still Have a Few Used Cars at Bargain Prices 5-Passenger Nash.

Cord Tires -7-Passenger Nash. Cord Tires -2-Passenger Nash Roadster. Cord Tires -Nash Coupe, Cord Tires -Nash Sedan, Cord Tires 4 One 1918 Hoopie Roadster One 1918 Maxwell Touring One Model 83 Cast Iron Wonder One Other Maxwell Touring, also One Model 90 Overland Touring, like new. Still Have The Famous 1982 Chalmers Speedster No tires; no lamps; no Prices Are O. Independ fenders; no top; no wind-shield Good wheels; good springs look it over! f.

1 The Above 214-216 West Main. vVe Buy-We ''Sell We Trade Anything Any Place Any Time! Terms. Phone 2 1 9 Open Sunday a. m. Smith Motor Co.

112 West Main..