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THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT r 47 MEMECRS OF JVKIIR EVANGtUCT COTt6K TO . . HIGH RECEIVE DIPLOMAS i . , r SPEAlC"AT WUEttKT Cw UtortUg Profraa Vpm iWWiU Dixau Stfkjaat. kt SaMsrtV passed through that rards the lint RAILROAD NOTES A number tjf the Santa Fe trains f TWr PUUhimg JtmUr High Stluot OfcurrasM:. Blue first of the week owing to the heavy ' ndnt mjid wathouta west end north Beginning, aunaay aiternoon, 0flert, !ii.:u 'i-:. A data of forty-seven bright o'clock, June 12th, Evangelist Cot- . Mr. and Mr. Z. L. Smith and Ml girls and boys having finished the -work of the Junior' High School, have received their diplomas and will emerge next spring as Fresh men in Liberal High School. The graduation (exercises tore held at the Methodist ' Tabernacle last Friday, and were most inter esting. r?g At the close of the program Supt A. B. Steele presented the diplomas after a short talk to the members of j dress on the Sabbath question, in the class. ' i which he differed with Mr. -Cotton, The coming of these young folks Into the high school is going to be to the credit of the school . for among them are .many who wil) take their places on the different teams and in the various activities and help hold aloft the banner of L. H. S. The program was as follows, and every one ef the participants went through ' their parts ' in a highly creditable manner: jPiano Solo, "March of the Gnomes" Frank Behn, Agnes Bane. Chorus, "Over the Summer Sea" By the Class Invocation, Rev. Eli Walker Vocal Duet, "A Sweet Southern ' Dream," by , Ruth and Esther Fankhauser Reading, "A Very Naughty Litfle Girl's View of Life", Irene Cal vert Vocal Solo, "Tripoli" Irving Weill, Lee Mahoney ' Reading, "Pa Takes the Hired Girl's Place," by John Irwin. Violin Duet, "Dawn of Love"' by Robert Larrabee and Lawrence Emrie. ' . Vocal Solo, "Out Where tne West BegWs," Estelle PhUleo Muriel Zimmerman. Reading, "A Green-eyed Billy" by Ruby Oetinger ton oi Kansas uty win give wc- ,eft j.y for Oklahoma City to tore in the Majestic theatre on, the gpend gammer. Sabbath question, and future sub- ; ..M1lg no . wlmmer jeft for.Nara jects in Craig Hall. , Visa, New Mexico, the first of the Mr. Cotton recently held a aeries weeki fOT . short visit with' ela of meetings in Wichita and tives and frlenda. of his lectures were published in the j . w E Buah tntd the last of Wichita papers and stirred up con- week from fc bngineM ln siderable sentiment out here Jn Lib-, eattern papt of the eral. Mr. Eli . Walker, pastor of the r . R St.nheRon returned CBtjistian church delivered an ad- nn Monday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. T. J. McDermott Miss Mary Elizabeth Stephenson returned to her home in Pratt after a visit with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McDermott Mrs. W. E. Buah returned home Monday from a visit with relatives in Burlingame. Edgar Bush returned Friday from a busines trip to Hooker. . The tourist sleeping car service has been discontinued on trains Nos. miHie mia-ht have a fair opportun ity to hear both sides and thereby be enlightened upon the subject Mr; Cotton has been in the Min istry for 17 years and has carried on aggressive work in Baltimore, Md., New York City, Boston, and Detroit, Mich., and for reasons of health located in Kansas City last fall. "He is one of the lecturers of the state organization. The subjects are as fololws: Sunday "Did Christ or any of his Apostles change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday " Every text in the New, Testament that men tions the First day of the week will be carefully examined. Monday Night no meeting. ' Tuesday "The Sabbath God's Everlasting Memorial." , Wednesday "Christ and the Piano Duet, "La Paloma" S. Y'radier! Apostles the sure rule on the Sab- the- latter being a Seventh Day Ad ventist, and issued ft general chal lenge for an answer to his argu ments. ' . ' ' Members of the local Adventist congregation considered the matter of sufficient importance that they requested their state organization to send a man to give a series of lectures upon the subject. They do -.j. i- tli.' mattar with a LnJov rsiarst whatever, but . 2 last Friday betwee Kansas pnlBlv. with the purpose that the Current Business Condi t i on s V ! GEpGp-E. ROBERTS ; ' ...': i ' (Prom the Monthly Letter lined by The National City Bank of New York lor June) Harriet and Marion Magruder Presentation of Diplomas, Supt. A. B.Steele. Chorus, "Sailing" Class ' Those receiving diplomas were: Ruth Fankhauser, Esther Fankhau ser. Orville Edwards, Ruth Com Btock, Jessie Sutton, Paul Groves, . Paul Grey, George Comstock, Win ona Meredith, .( Laurence .Smith, Ruby Smith, Florie Jones, Maxitie J. Shelton, Irene Calvert, Ralph Mat- U lin William Ovir. H.n Oi u.jvtTi,M icastr. xiever. .inei Cross, Jean Baker, Ira Richardson, Reba Mann Muriel Zimmerman, Vi ola Shull, Dorothy Raub, Irma Chamberlain, Ruby Oetinger, Rob ert Larrabee. Lawrence Emrie, Har riett Ma.griider. . Marion . Magruder, Roerer Hill,' Agnes Bane. Nellie Ber . gen. Louise Bergen. Ethel McCombs Dale Dickerson. Beatrice Frv. AH. alii Cordum. LiTIiam Jonea. John k Iwrin. Lee Mahonev.' Edith Tice. Carl Bratton. Edith Smith and Anna . m i ELKS CELEBRATE JUNE 14 - , ... A T GARDEN CITY The Garden City Lodge, No. 1404, B. P. 0. Elks will have a big cele bration Tuesday June 14th, Flag Day. All Elks in Southwest Kansas 'are invited to come find bring their wives, mothers, sisters and sweet ' hearts wth them. Degree work will be a feature. Bigs eats and enter tainments furnished the Elks. Register of visitors and candi ' dates should be made at Elks Home .906, North Main as early aa possi ble. i'- - :; ' ; If traveling is good Liberal will "have a large list of candidates to attend-this .meeting. bath question. Thursday "Is the Law of Moses and the Ten Commandments one and the same law?" ; Friday "Did Christ do away with the Sabbath in the" New Covenant?" Saturday ''Sunday Laws: Are they sky-blue, brimstone blue, green or yellow?'' . Sunday 'fWho is responsible for the. change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday?" j . The .meetings will begin promptly at 8 o'clock and the public' is cordi ally invited. , MARRIED George E. Switier and Miss Myr tle Parsons of Lone Star were mar-1 ried at Dodge City last Saturday, , June 3. Mr. Switier is the son ofl Mrs. E. Switier of this city and has many friends here. Mrs. Switzer is a stranger here known by few people but she is a fine young woman. After a short visit in Dodge Cty they young folks will return here to make their home on a farm in the Lone Star community. , c, d S. Feck ot Tyrone was a lad- busineBS visitor Tuesday. , ' Victory for fie Lenten. : .'ft The ' closing f -II L'lii'.ti. SiuU'm public lieu 1 tli xervid' luisjiitul for lu berculur ex-xervice t iikii at Miirhle ' ion, l'u bj, order, ot Assistant Secre- Ifliry ,f tii Treasury Ewing Luiorte . : Is .tvganli'd )y Amtu'lcaii U'g on, olH t '. i'lals a trie n I, . victory for the ex Hervice : men's nutiniml -puilry In re - card Ho (llxnbleil ytitnin This hug- . '4lta! . wits first denounced u uu im proper place for ithe treiitiamit of tu benlihir t?x;scrvicc lueii by V. W. Gitl ' tirallli, Jr., national cumniander of the , American Lusloti. In a sjieecli In tlll - adelplila last November. ;f Ills utond followed numero.ui investlitaflons tnade Iy government authorities, and : a public iippenl from 96 tubercular, . Veteiiimi being ' treated there.-. 1 . First In Membership Conteet, . In tb! ttrM publllted list of leading pOtH 4u the ii Uinta tiieiubershlp con rteat .'of the American i Legion,' -Oal 'Matliewwiii pwt iiv. ttO 'f KdmooU, nn inken flrxt lac. ',ext in urUer J-t the Leg.on pwst at SterUng. Elk Weir, aud Uo(ii. SKventy-eJgbt' poata. in 'aii Uu ulreudy paaaed ineir ivm inembentilp,' while ten have no tlelloqaent znvmbera. . j NOTICE TO CUT WEEDS Notice is hereby given to all property owners, agents or f'lCJ pants that all noxinti weedt ;nsi be cut or otherwise destroyed, o.i all property in the streets and alleys ad jacent thereto. . -. . . ' Failure to comply with this order will result in tame being done by the city and the costs and expenm thereof plus a 25 fo penalty charg ed against the property. . , .. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of the City of Liberal. Kansaa, . this . 2nd day of June 1921., (seal) L L) HOLLAND. " . . ; . City Clerk City and Los Angeles. Owing to heavy rains all trains have been very late this week. Mr. and Mrs. ' A. J. Cure are planning on a trip to Texas and oth er points soon. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sumner of Neodesha, and Mrs. Will Jay left Monday for their hornet after a short visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Mead and other rel atives and Xrend. Mrsr"Sumner was formerly Miss Hattie Mead of this city. Miss Emma Mead accom panied her home for the summer. A Santa Fe train came thru Liber eral Sunday. The floods about Pueb lo was the reason the train was transferred on the Rock Island. Ralph Gra y left for Salina Tues day where -he will spend the summer Mrs. Ural Gray returned Tuesday night font Humbolt where 'she had been visiting with he mother, Mrs Hall. Chas. Alfred, hostler, went to Dal hart the first of the week to be gone sometime on business. R. Ross of Pratt came , in on Monday to take his place. , S. A. Waite and wife returned the first of the week from St. Louis where .they had been visiting. One of the most important under takings of this divsion is that of the big -shipments of. canteloupes there beng between tltree and four hun dred cart , already passed .thru- here. About .9000. cars- are- still to come all being shipped during the month. Lloyd Mclntyre third trick oper ator went to Hutchinson the first of the week fr a visit. Edgar Bush it working in hit place. Wilfprd Bush went to Burlingame Satirdy night and returned home with his wife Monday.. . Vernon Engel is working as sec oid trick caller, durng . the ' absence of Hershel Ives who is visitnig in Oklahoma. Mrs. Tom Lane of Dalhart was visitor here this week. Herchel Ives, and wife returned Thursday morning from a, visit in Oklahoma. . Miss Louise Boyle came -n Tom DaiV-t Tfemndsv morning for a vis it with relatives here. "Where hat all the money gonef Tun after, time during recent months we have been atked , thii leading question. People generally understand that, say this time two years ago, money wat "etsy"; to day, with presumably the tame ' amount of wealth is the country, money it "right" ' To the average man,' hundreds of millions -of dollart teem to have literally disappeared. Bankers are teeing their deposits and their loans drop. What has become of all thit money which, ' two yean ago, teemed to easily obtainable ' on every hand?. Understanding of the true answer to thete qneriet, we believe, meant a more intelligent understanding of the business situa tion to-day. It may be said thit condition gen erally it, the result of the fall of prices which hat taken place in the past year, the fact that the prices of all commodities have not fallen in like degree, and that bank de posits have not been replenished to make Rood the draftt on thrm to pay outstanding obliga tions During the period of inflation bank deposits rose tteadily with the loans. When a bank customer borrowed money, taking credit for it in hit account, the bank's de posits were increased in that amount. And when the customer checked out the amount to pay for But their deposits were not replen- Philadelphia and Cleveland reserve a Liberty Bond, or any other pur- ished as before. Their dsbts did banks began to lend to the reserve eote, the check went into tome not shrink with the value of their banks of Chicago, Minneapolis, ther bank at a deposit, and thut product!, and the pricet of goods Kansas Gty, Dallat, Atlanta and H became purchasing power per- which they purchased did not Richmond, all of the latter serving manently in circulation until that shrink in the same proportion, districts in which agricultural in borrower or tome borrower Probably there is as much money tcrests predominated. Thit thowt .checked against a deposit account in the community as before, but how the banking system of the that had been actually earned and money it only small change: the country is interlocked and mutually saved, and thereby extinguished a buying power, or debt-paying supporting, to' the advantage of all corresponding amount of credit power has diminished, and the conv industricj and all sections. " We followed thit process of in- mon form of expression is that It is not so much present specu lating our bank deposits up to "money is tight." What it really lation and extravagance that it con about November I, 1920. Some of tigmfiet is that the meant of mak- tributing to tight money at past our bankert were very proud over ing paymentt are hard to find. . indulgences which had to do with me groww ot their deposits dur- Ihe agricultural districts have creating the indebtedness now out- tuBered more than industrial dit- ttanding. It it the debts to gaily tnett because, their products have created in boom times that make fallen more than manufactured money tight when prices fall. The goodt; moreover they do not have debta do not thrink with the lots the amount of fixed income from of debt-paying power, savings that tome of the older The trouble is largely due to the ' states have. Their nulntanriinor in. itiik.l,iiil t t.. medium of payment.. At a con- debtedness usually runt to other pricet of what the farmer mutt buy crete example take, tay, an agn- state. The Boston reterve bank have not fallen to correspond with iiT . h uiiiiuniiy in inc Miaoie wat me nnt to experience bquida- the pricet of what he has to tell. A GLANCE AT THE BUSINESS SITUATION INTERNATIONAL SITUATION-Subjuml' basis forYmprove.' ment afforded by German reparation agreement.' British coal ,, ttnkt aul) onaettled but radical development-! checked. .GENERAL INDUSTRIAL x POSITION Continues uneven '.n without marked change. . Industries making goods of common consumption such as clothing and shoes are having moderate revival, owing to depleted ttocka. WAGES Reflect ttetdy downward trend. Reduction of 20 per cent v by Steel - Corporation and downward revision of wage scale , by Railroad Labor Board will promote industrial recovery. WHEAT Lowered estimate of winter crop "and sustained exports have strengthened market Carry-over reduced.,. LIVE STOCK Markett steady during May. Cattle and shee"p in fair demand while hogs bold above parity with corn pricet. COTTON AND TEXTILES Consumption of raw cotton In U. 8. during April dropped 28 from that of April, 1920. Demand tor textiles and raw wool slightly improved. ' IRON AND STEEL Production at lowest ebb in 'many years. Industry waiting on better net revenues for railroads and revival of construction. BUILDING High cost of operation blocks pressing need for construction. Building permits in 201 citiet for April show drop of 24 from tame month of 1920. AUTOMOBILES Demand hat aagged since April, especially in agricultural district!, MONEY Rates eating alightly at credit strain it gradually re lieved. Federal Reterve Banks in various districti reduce bank rates from i to 1 per cent ing that time, although they signi fied very little except that a carload of hogs, or wheat, or other prod ucts, wat creating twice at big a credit entry at before the war. : The fundamental point to bear in mind it that money it only the i- .u " "" "r wmwry, m uicnu nu purcnasing power it contracted .of that community it in itt farm being banks that terve industrial and be cannot go on buying the products, and as the pricet of thete communities. At the latter col- tame oiuntit nf rwt. . u. m have fallen 'the debt- Davinar oower. lected what Hn. km 4nsm t.. . , , - - ' , - - - vu. u.m.. WIIKUUCUU, KICI1 It U 1U" or purchasing power, hat ben other parts of the eoumry, and at bert of workmen are out of em- diminithed. The bank patrons their operations slowed down, they ploytnent in the industrial centers, went on drawing upon their deposit paid off their bank loans, and the and money growt tight with them accountt to pay their obligations Boston reterve bank and later the also. HARI Y -.. PVSTR"". Fiv Year a Bondad Abstracter l 5""'d C"!t All kinf ln,urnc ''ten rone ttt Court Houtr . itiiiuiHiintniliiliifiruiiiiiiliiliiiiiiiiini The Levi Hospital , . COfi North Sherman Ml Kinds of Surfvry, 'and Ear, Ey, No and Throat work done Dr. D. B. HARDY Graduate Veterinarian Phone 3405 Liberal, Kansas Liberal Ambulance . 'i R. M. MEYER. PIANOS STRIN(i INSTRUMENTS ' SHEET MUSIC Molt hop Studio 315 West TJrird St. ' ScdreS"pf Our Customers J-'trty-Cvc .year? old, and oltit r. itio buying the finest !vilIC'.,, yjsion. lcrms ' lhc world vt r, iw. '. i;n;'ii THE. CKLK1 'RA'rFJJ KH VP- .''UK " riiii ; ill imii Iff nil explain.-to "yHi -.tiic viM''r ia,aivuntafti5 of. tills line Dr.T'F. PELLETTE . EYESIGHT SPECIALIST ";jttnk la th TeoplM Butt,,.; Wade Benton arrived the first of Mrs. W. S. Martin and ton Billy the week from Colorado and will returned Monday night from Baa make preparatins for threshing trice, Neb., where they had been on toon. la visit with relatives. Dr. and Mrs. Mark Perrin expect to leave next week for Arkansas Mrs. Minnie J. Grinstead left Monday afternoon for Lawrence attena a meeting of the- school City, where they will locate. Lib Code Commissions and also to at- eral friends will mita them greatly. commencement exercises. : tend the Subscribe for The Democrat .-C?:ATCH J'ads lust the tning fo. desk or school. Hit UeiLnsra . Surplus milk and cream Sundays for ice cream. Come and get it T. H. TAYLOR, Lakeview Dairy, phone 8329. fJOtfc Dr. Vera L. 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