The Liberal democrat. [volume], June 30, 1911, Image 2

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The Liberal Democrat
(Successor to The Independent)
Th Seward County Publishing' Company
CARL C. EOOY
Editor and Publisher.
Published every Friday morning
at Liberal, Seward County, Kans.
Entered as second-class matter January 6,
IDII, at the ixwt office at Liberal, Knsan.
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
"There's so much good In the worst
of us, and there's so much bad in the
best of us, that it doesn't behoove any
of us to speak 111 of the rest of us.'
The situation with respect to the
democratic candidate for president
seems to have found a fortunate
solution this week, when Champ
Clark declared himself out of the
race. Governor Harmon of Ohio
has been talked of for the candi
dacy, but the whirlwind trip
through the country by Woodrow
Wilson a few weeks ago seems to
have put the Harmon boom in the
background. Just now, it's Wood
row Wilson for president, and it
sounds preUy good down here in
southwest Kansas. Gov. Wood
row Wilson will probably be back
ed in the next campaign by the
Kansas City Star, which goes to
show that Col. Nelson is expecting
the election of the eastern man.
The Star may be said to be the
most accurate chronometer of pub
lic opinidn in the middle west, and
for the first time in several years,
it appears that the Star will sup
port a democrat for governor of
Kansas. Wilson and Hodges will
be the slogan through this section
of the state, and we believe it will
make a winning combination.
Hodges has ability, and we believe
that the majority of the voter? of
the state were thoroughly con
vinced of. that fact during the last
session of the legislature. We be
lieve that it will be possible for a
a governor of Kansas to be elected
on real merit and if this is true,
Hodges will be the next chief
executive of the state.
The election next week will de
termine whether the town is in the
hands of the standstill element or
the progressives. We do not be
lieve that a majority of the people
of the town , want it to remain a
windmill town, with the general
appearance of a mere collection of
small farms. The election will be
a true test of real progressiveness.
The Democrat believes that this
town is still in -the hands of the
men who want it to go ahead.
There isn't a real reason why the
bonds shouldn't be voted now.
There is'nt a dollar of bonded in
debtedness on the town, and we
need the better system. If Lib
eral is to stop her growth right
now, rote against the bonds. If
you want the town to grow just a
little faster than the surrounding
towns and country, vote for the
bonds, and make Liberal a better
place in which to live.
The Cimarron Commercial Club
has discovered the workings of the
creamery trust in their county,
and say the price of butter fat has
not been within five or six cents
of the Elgin market since the trust
obtained a foot-hold, while the
proper margin should be one and
one half or two cents. They also
iind that the shipments of cream
from Cimarron unde,r trust control
are about fifteen cans a week,
while when there was an indepen
dent buyer and prices were more
equitable the shipments were over
one hundred cans a week.
We have always been willing to
admit the fact that W. J. Bryan
was a pretty big man, but it at
least approaches the limit when he
is booked as an attraction at the
chautauquas of both Stafford and
Pratt on the same day.
It's just as the other fellow says.
It is anything but comfortable try
ing to write heavy editorials with
the thermometer haDging around
the 100 mark.
The fattest man in town Satur
day insisted that the thermometer
registered 109 in the shade.
Gets the Boys. 1
Garden City Telegram Mayor
Harvey and Street Commissioner
Logan have devised a clever ruse
that catches some of the boys com
ing and going. Approaching a
lad who is smoking a cigarette or
a pipe, Commissioner Logan will
carelessly ask tor three bones for
his poll tax. When the surprised
boy wiggles out of it by declaring
he isn't 21 and has no business
paying poll tax, then Logan sug
gests a little visit to the police
judge would help. ''It's one or
the other," said Mr. Logan today.
A party wants to lend $1000,00
on two good quarters of land near
town or three quarters farther
away for 5 years. Hate, 10 per
cent straight. Address R. 3, care
of Democrat.
Gathered a Net Full
Nearly three weeks ago a lady
purporting to be from El Paso
drifted into town and solicited or
ders for groceries and dry goods
so low it was a great temptation
to several of our town people.
The lady had prices marked down
to bed rock, but if you paid in ad
vance for your stuff you got your
freight charges off in addition,
which proved the thing for which
about all of the victims fell. The
lady had a little boy and was a
tony looking piece of femininity.
Up to date none of the goods have
arrived and the lady is still out of
town. This is a new method of
relieving folks of their coin and
should be remembered. Guymon
Herald.
Killed By Lightning
Walter Patton of the North Flat
was killed by lightning during the
electrical storm Thursday after
noon. He was on his way home from
the home of a neighbor, and was
alone when tho bolt struck him.
One of the horses of the team he
was driving was also killed.
He was discovered by his sister
who became alarmed at his long
delay in returning home and fear
ing some harm had befallen him,
set out to find him.
A strange coincidence which
makes the tragedy doubly sad is
the fact hat a son was killed at the
same place in the same manner a
year ago.
Funeral services were conducted
by Kev. McCormick, Saturday,
and burial made in the North Flat
M. E. cemetery. Beaver Herald.
A newspaper is in no sense a
child of charity. It earns twice
over every dollar it receives, and
it is a second to no enterprise in
contributing to the upbuilding of
a community. Its patrons reap
far more benefits from its pages
than its publishers, and in calling
for the support of the community
in which it is published, it asks
for no more than in all fairness be
longs to it, though generally it re
ceives less. Patronize and help
your paper as you would any other
enterprise because it helps you,
and not as an act of charity. J. E.
Junkin.
The bonds for building a court
house at. Dodge City failed to
carry last week, a plurality of 400
being cast against the proposition
The Globe this week carries a
picture of the "court house which
will probably not be built in Ford
county," a rather diplomatic turn
of the situation.
Independence Day of 1911 is
coming. To what city, what town,
what mother or father is it this
year to bring suffering or sorrow
the day after?
STATISTICS OF INDEPEN
DENCE DAY IN AMER
ICA. '
Year Dead Wounded Total
1903 4ti6 3,393 . 3,859
1904 183 3,986 4.1C9
1905 182 , 4.994 5,176
1906 158 5,303 5,466
1907 164 4,249 4,413
1908 163 5,460 5,623
1909 215 5,407 5,522
1910 133 2,923 3,054
1,662 35,620 37,282.
This year, 1911, how many are
to be slaughtered?
Fight the Drouth
(ByC. B. HUTCHINSON, Department of
Agronomy, University of Missouri.)
The Experiment Station i3 re
ceiving so many inquiries in regard
to the proper method of cultivat
ing corn during dry weather, that
it is deemed advisable to call atten
tion to some means of saving soil
moisture and of fighting the drouth
that is threatening the entire state
this summer.
Very little can be done to save
the uncultivated crops like oats
and grass, but so far as corn or
any other cultivated prop is con
cerned, a drouth may be effectively
fought by continued and persist
ent cultivation of the right sort.
If a mulch of loose dry soil is kept
on the ground, a great amount of
water will be saved that otherwise
come to the surface of the soil and
evaporate and be lost. The most
effective mulch is one about three
inches deep, made by a small
shoveled, shallow running imple
ment that will leave the ground
practically level. A spring tooth
cultivator with six or eight shovels
on each gang is one of the best
implements for dry weather, or a
one-horse garden plow after the
corn is too large to work with the
ordinary cultivator. If other im
plements are used, they Should be
run in shallow so as not to disturb
the corn roots at a time when they
are so badly needed. These small
toothed implements leave a loose,
dry layer of soil on top for a
mulch, which acts like a blanket
thrown over the ground and keeps
the water from being lost by eva
poration. The drier the weather the often
er a man should cultivate in order
to keep a good mulch, and culti
vation should be done at least once
a week in a drouth. It is a good
plan to continue the cultivation
even after the corn is too large
to plow with tho ordinary culti
vator. A one-horse garden plow,
orleven an old mower wheel weight
ed down and dragged between the
rows, will give good results and
in such dry weather as the present
will add considerable to the yield
of the crop. , ,4
Some people have the idea that
it does no good to cultivate corn
during dry weather, when it is
clean and the ground loose, but
this is a mistaken idea. The of
tener one cultivates the more water
he will save, for if the ground is
left unstirred very long the par
ticles settle together again and
water can get through the mulch
to the surface of the ground and
hence be wasted.
The only way to fight a drouth
in the corn field is by continued
and persistent shallow and level
cultivation, and the man who fol
lows this plan will win out when
he goes to harvest this crop.
li you want to maKe money, see
Ellsaesser & Henry regarding
their town lot proposition. It will
interest you.
T. - i - 1-
Foley's Kidney Remedy
Is particularly recommended for,
chrouic cases of kidney and blad
der trouble. It tends to regulate
and control the kidney and bladder
action and is healing, strengthen
ing and bracing. Sold by all Drug
gists. $100.00 Reward.
I will pay the above reward for
the arrest and conviction of any
person or persons illegally hand
ling, driving off and disposing of
tcor buhering any of my stock.
C. M. Lioht,
Liberal, Kansas
Kemomber the Palace Cleaners,
all work guaranteed. East side
Kansas Avenue. t-f.
Insure your crops against hail.
We represent good companies.
v Ellsaesser & Henry.
The Photoplay is the real popu
lar place these days for those who
like moving pictures.
Beautify the Home.
One of the best ways to make
the home more cheerful is by ap
pealing to the aesthetic sence of its
occupants. We have just received ,
a large assortment of wall paper,'
and it can be seen at Feather's1
furniture store.
D. A. Harris, . paperhanger,
and inside decorator. ,
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY.
J F Fuest, Chairman
W. W. Antrim
I Ell Taylor
E. D. Cooper
George A Smith
E S Irwin
C W Finley
C. R. Commons
J. W. Campbell
H. H. Eldson
.1. U. Trlndle
A L Knlselv
Commissioners:
County Clerk
County Treasurer
Clerk District Court
Reirister Deeds
County Attorney
Probate Judge
Sherllf
Surveyor
Coroner
County Sunerlntendant
Mary K Todd
Judire 32nd Judicial District, Hon William H
rnomuson, auuress, uaruen city, Kans.
TKRM9 OF DISTRICT COURT
Wednesday after third Tuesday of April
Wednesday aftersecoud Monday of September
Wednesday aftersecond Tuesday of December
CITY
Mayor t Dr. R T. Nichols
A. K. Htm fur
C. Summers
Tom Smith
J. E. (inorire
P. A. Craiir
H W Lane
J. T. Gray
J, Karau
E. J. Thayer
Councilmen
Police Judge
Marshal
Clerk
Treasurer
LODGE DIRECTORY.
Fargo Lodge No. 300
A. V. & A. M.
Stated communications first and
Q third Monday of each month.
in. 11. r luuu, v. m.
E. H. IRWIN, Sec'y.
Liberal Lodge 555 .
" I. O. O. F.
Meets every Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock.
A. W. I'ANKRATZ, N. G.
E. D. COOPER, Fec'y.
Liberal Encampment 144
I. O. O. F.
Meets every 2nd and 4th
Thursdayjiltfht at 8 o'clock.
FRANK WHEELER, CP.
'. L. BENNETT. Scribe.
Liberal Rebekah
Lodge 522
I. O. O. F.
Meets every 1st and 3rd
Thursday night at 8
o'clock.
Gertrude Thlerer. N. G.
Beulah Stamper. Sec'y.
Liberal Lodge 283
a.:o. U. W.
Meets every 1st and 3rd Mon
day night In the Crnlg Itulldlng
at 8 o'clock.
J. D. LANE. M. W.
A. W. I'ANKRATZ. Ilec.
Liberal Chapter No. 104
EASTERN STAR
Meets the second and fourth
Monday of each month.
Mrs. .1. A. BLACK, W. M.
Mrs. CHEEK, Secy.
Modern Woodmen of Amer
ica M. W. A.
Meets every 1st and 3rd Mon
day nights of each month, at
Craig Hall.
J .A. BLACK. Consul
EZRA SHORU. Clerk.
The Royal Nieghbori of
America
SHOUT GRASS LODGE
NO. KM.
I.mMmiui thi 9nri nntl lit.
Thursdays at Craiir hall.
Visiting neighbors are In
vited MRS. .I.E. MANN. Oracle
MRS. LEWW W lll.
Recorder
Canton Liberal No. 22
Tho regular canton
meetings arc held the 2nd
and 4th Thursday of each
II. D. DAVIS, Capt.
Victor Hugo Lodge
No. 186
K. P.
Meets every Wednes
day night. Visiting
Knights are welcome'
S. L. Wright, C. C.
L. C. Chainlierlalu. K.
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Pale Faces
Pale-faced, weak, and
Shaky women who suffer
every day with womanly
weakness need the help
of a gentle tonic, with
a building action on the
womanly system. If you are
weak you need Cardui,
the woman's tonic, because
Cardui will act directly on
the cause of your trouble.
Cardui has a record of
more than 50 years of
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Mrs. Effie Graham, of
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years. When I began to
take Cardui, my back hurt
awfully. I only weighed
99 pounds. Not long after.
1 weighed 115. Now, I
do all my work, and am
in good health.' Begin
taking Cardui, today.
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This is the time of the year
when everyone should look
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We have nice rockers, book
cases, writing desks, sofas
and many other beautiful
pieces of furniture which
will add comfort to the home
and be appreciated by the
entire family.
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