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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
Fred Hemker SurDrISef.

Fred Hemker, one of.the popular
merchants of the city, was years
old Monday and was treated to a
surprise party By the employees Of
the store that evening. In addition
tothe employees there were present
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Wilcox, Mr.. and
Mrs. ChaS. Fankhauser, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Stauffer, Mr.. and Mrs. Ise
Pursell and Arthur Brandt. Mr..
Hemker was presented with hand
some oil painting by the party, oil
paintings being special hobby, oil
his. Delicious refreshments were
served, and the evening was very
pleasantly passed by the happy crowd
playing cards and watchingthe dying
embeTs of 1905. In the early par. oi
the new year they wandered home,
wishing Mr.. Hepker many more
birthdays for them to assist him 10
celebrating.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
4 SocleiJ Breakfast

Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Moses enter.
tanned a party Of guests at a ten
O'Clock breakfast New Years day.
Tinted cards indicated the place at
table of each guest, on which was
printed the menu; new innovation,
having been used but once before in
our city we believe. The menu was
very fine. The decorations we're
pink and white carnations and smi
lax. Mrs. Moses was assisted in
serving by Miss Grace Moses, Miss
Florence Dean and Miss Gertrude
NimockS. The guests were Mrs. H.
H. Reed, Mrs. Ed Lindas, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. NJ. Holloway, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Frlzzell, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Edwards of Larned, Mr.. Gale Burris
OF Burton, Mr.. F. H. Gahagan Of
Topeka, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Honnen
DR.. and Mrs. H. E. Lindas, and Mr.
and Mrs. c. S. Allison. The affair
was an enjoyable occasion for those
present.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
doing the mischief which all
thoughtful people greatly deplore.
The Interstate Schoolman.
1 Deuble Event.

The Cooking Club held their an.
nual New Years eve dinner and
watch party at the home Of Senator
and Mrs. Chapman, on west Broad.
way Monday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Andress Of Chicago as
guests. The affair was somewhat Of
a double event, the date being Mrs.
Address birthday, which fact was not
developed until the company we're
seated at the dinner table. The din
ner was an informal one, and the
evening was most pleasantly passed
away by the happy assemblage, until
the tootiLg Of bells and blowing Of
whistles ushered in the strapping
youngster labeled 1907" This IS
another one Of those title clubs that
has been source Of much pleasure
to its members for several years and
we extend to the club and its mem.
bers our hope that they may live to
enjoy many more occasions as the one
Monday evening.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04

BY taxation. 1t is a matter with
10 the discretion Of the mayor and
city council at all times. No
other board or body has the power
to levy any tax for this purpose
and the Mayor and council may
levy such a tax as they deem
proper not exceeding the legal
limit of three mills in any one
year.
In order to authorize legally
the creation Of a library board, to
be appointed by the mayor and
city council. and to authorize the
maintenance of the library by the
city, the question must first be
voted upon by the people. A
favorable vote binds the city to
nothing else.
The question is. shall we accept
this gift and maintain in Great
n
Bend an institution which is the
pride of every town in Kansas
today which is so fortunate as to
have received a similar donation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
| Lesson for Merchants.

There is 9 lesson for every
merchant in the experience told
by a representative of a Chicago
mail order house to q gathering
of newspaper men up in Iowa.
He said that the mail order bust.
ness depended entirely upon ad-
vertlsing. He made one remark
that merchants should heed. He
says they take the local papers
and direct their special effor is
to communities where the mer-
chants were not up to date adver-
tisers. If the mail order map finds
that any line of business in any
town or city is not we'll adver-
tised, as for instance, furniture,
he said that they food that terri
tory with their literature and al
ways with satisfactory results.
He believed it true. he said that
country merchants could greatly
cripple the mail order houses if
they would advertise freely and
in the right manner. He said that
every advertisement should des-
cribe minutely the articles to be
sold and quote the prices. Here
is food for thought by merchants
who fear the effect of mail order
houses.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
An ENJOYABLE Dinner.

Tuesday evening, DR.. and Mrs.
H. E. Lindas gave a dinner party
for Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ. Hoilo.
way, Mr.. and Ilrs. E. E. FrizzeIl,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Edwards, Mrs.
Ed. Lindas, and Mrs H. H.
Reed, of Larned, and Mr.. and
Mrs. E. W. Moses and Mr.. and
Mrs. E. S. Marx, Mr., and Mrs.
c. S...Allison of this city.
The hostess was assisted by
Misses Beulah Dumont and Grace
Allison. and the dinner was one
Of the most enjoyable affairs Of
the season.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
As TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES

-
with rank heresy this paper takes
the position of affirming that free
public libraries are not to be re-
garded as blessings unalloyed.
We are willing to 90 farther. and
say that in its aggregate influence
upon given community, we fear
that a free public library often
weakens rather than strengthens
the intellectual fiber of that CON-
munity. When more than three.
fourths of the books taken out and
read BY patrons are works of
fiction, when standard works of his
tory, biography, and travel show
few marks of use, when three or
four novels weekly are taken out
and read by each one of scores of
patrons;- 1T doesn't take a very
wise person to see that the major
ity o, the patrons of that particu-
lar library may be getting somC
pleasure from 1t, and must be do.
ing even worse than getting no
benefit from it. The very prevail
ent and very eager desire of great
numbers of people to get hold Of
the latest exciting novel is much
to be deplored. And when this
fever takes hold of boys and girls
yet enrolled in our public schools
and it does take hold of many
of then-the mischief done is al
most beyond calculation. The
loss of time. involved is serious
enough: but that loss is a slight
matter when compared with its
effect in demoralizing all serious
study. Are the public schools, or
the methods therein employed, in
any way responsible for this per-
verted appetite Well, one would
hate to say so; but when one re-
members that teachers are some
times urged to acquire the art of
story telling: and when be reads
in books purporting to speak with
authority of the great number of
stories that children should read
in the first two years at school
and the still greater number Of
such stories to be told them by
the teacher-ought he to wonder
that they grow up into the belief
that storytelling and story read
ing are the important things in
life2
If instead of large free public
libraries in our cities it were the
rule to have in everypublic school
room, in both town and country,
some forty or fifty books, we'll
chosen and carefully adapted to
the intellectual needs of the
pupils, and a limited number of
these to be read each term of
school; the country would be none
the worse of if we had fewer
Carnegie libraries 1t is not to
be disputed that many people
make proper and profitable use
of public libraries;-but such
persons form the exception rather
than the rule. A nd 1t is conceded
that sometimes good novel is
the best book to be read by old or
yonng;- it is the yoracious, in
satiabIe, memory destroying
n0vel-rsading habit which is
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
THE ANNUAL -.
RECEPTION
Great Bends Big Society Event
Satisfactorily Held
HAPPY START FOR new YEAR

What has become. one Of. the
fixed and eagerly looked for
society events in this city, the an
'nual New Years reception was
held Monday afternoon and even.
ing, and was like its predecessors
most successfully conducted.
The general committee having the
reception in charge worked hard
and faithfully, and are entitled 10
the thanks Of those who were en-.
trtained. The decorations, while
possibly not quite as profuse as
some of the past events, we're
nevertheless very pretty and en-
tirely different from previous
years. A large tissue paper bell
decorated the center of the room,
suspended from which were sever.
al smaller bells, and on the outer
edge of which were Q row of small
electric lights in colored globes.
The clapper Of the big bell was
a transparency with the words,
The Gentlemen" and 1907" on
the same. Around the hall was
astring of electric lights in
colored globes, while in the
darkened windows we're potted
palms. The side walls of theball
room had been recently papered,
and the decorations provided,
coupled with the handsome cos
tunes of Great Bends pride, our
ladies, made a very pleasing pict-
ure for the eye. Tables and cards
were provided for those who
desired to indulge in cafd playing
for amusement, and the best
music ever heard here was furni.
shed by the LeValley orchestra of
Hutchinson.
The guests were met by several
of the gentlemen on entering. the
hall, prominent among whom
we're Mr.. Henry Born, Mr.. D. A.
Banta. and Mr.. G. G. Morrison
and the ladies we're each presented
with carnation. Refreshments
were served in the banquet room,
consisting of ice cream, cake anu
coffee. This room was also nicely
decorated, and was presided over
by Mr.. j. Geo. Brinkman. with
an able and alert corps of assist
ance.
In the evening Mr.. Ed. Chap
man was the general manager of
the ball, and did his part well.
The attendance was not as large
as in previous years, owing to the
extremely disagreeble weather
and while therefor those who had
planned to attend were prevented
from doing so, those who did 90
we're amply repaid for the discom-
future of the weather, and the un-
animous sentiment was that the
affair was successful from every
point of view.
A numoer Of flowers not used
have been distributed among some
of the sick people of the city. as
far as they would go, with hope
that theyl will assist in cheering
the entrance Of the new year for
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
Aferhe Ball Is the Fiddler And Look

of the north central markets.
The oysterbeds here are fast rival
ING. those OF Chesapeake bay an d
the business is steadily growing.
As a pleasure resort Corpus
Christi is the finest on the Gulf
Coast. 1t is renowned as a pleas
ure resort and for its beautiful
moonlight nights, its exhilerat-
ing sea breezes and medicinal
waters. 1t is the greatest sum-
mer and winter resort of the
South. Last summer | am told
5000 tourist were here at one
time continuing for weeks, and
the city is now literally full of
northern people spending the
winter months here.
The land adjacent to Corpus
Christi is practically all tillable.
The soil is Of a dark rich alluv ial
formation and wonderfully pro-
ductive. 1t seems to be especi-
ally adapted to the production
of all kinds of vegetables. corn
cotton and fruit. Truck farmingi
is a great factor in the commercial
life of this section. 470 cars of
'cabbages. cucumbers. onions.
tomatoes, etc. were shipped from
here this season from January /
to July 1. and the cotton made q
great crop besides as much of it
was grown the same land the rain.
fall is amply sufficient an well
distributed. The average precipi.
tation for the past 10 years has
been 27.O2 inches and for the pasI
4 years 29.06 inches. Well this
letter is already too long proba-
bly,, but | could not we'll make it
shorter and tell anything.
l will close by saying that
Corpus Christi is a city of about
10000 people and is gaining in
population very rapidly. 1t is
located on the highest bluff on the
Gulf Coast between Florida and
Mexico and is therefore the safest
place for a large city, The
government has very recently
made a recommendation for an
appropriation for deepening the
Pass into the harbor. AMI the city
dream of being a deep water port
is undoubtedly soon to be realized,
with this accomplished the future
of Corpus Christi is secured.
| hope this is not to long to be
interesting and that you will some
time prove to your own satisfac.
tion the truth of my statements.
Yours truy,
Chas. W. Sipes
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04

w. ]. Langham was over from
Hoisington to attend the reception.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04

Mr.. Gale Burris Of Burton and
F. H. Gabagan Of Topeka, were
in the city Tuesday visiting
friends and attending the r.sep-
tion. They were.the guests of E.
K. Moses Jr., and Miss Grace
Moses.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
Letter 10 J. G, Morrill,, PsierbSre, \. I.

Dear Sir: 1t takes 5000 gal.
Ions OF paint for the two big
hotels at Copey Manhat-
tan and Oriental. They are
painted with Devoe Ready.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04
Married FOriy-One Tears.

Monday was the heanniversary Of the
marriage Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Tyler, and they celebrated the event
in a quiet manner by inviting a few
friends and neighbors in to dinner
and to spend the evening, incidental
ly to watch the old yearout and tht
new one in. The evening was passed
in social conversation and everyone
present seemed to enjoy themselves
Miss Pauline Goodman o.
Chicago is in the city visiting be-
sister. Mrs. Henry Born.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04

Will Rubart says some of the boys
around here who were making fun of
his Texas investments do not feel so
funny about it now. Some of the
land be bought down there less than
a year ago at the ratf of $50 per
acre, he'has now been offered SIS
per acre.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-04

S. S. Carson Of Claain came
over to celebrate New Years DAY
with his son. Eli. of the Merritt
Produce department.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11

veloped into that in the month past.
He's the best influence about the whole
place. The men all notice it. There's
a different atmosphere in his depart
ment. He's a Christian now, sure
quiet, earnest and full of a spirit that
imparts itself to others. Something
has come over Murray = -
That was the pastors story. We
think the solution of the much mooted
question, what can men do for Christ
was reached by that pastor in that one
case. When the members CT the Young
Mems Club begin to live in the circles
where God has placed them, the Christ
life up to the measure of their power,
there will be more real service done
for Christ than this generation has
seen. The brotherhood that brothers
up to Embroidered men in everyday life
will accomplish more for Christ than
any number of Brotherhoods whose end
is met by constitutions and bylaws
and meetings and addresses and ban
quets and longing fer opportunities to
do Christian work what, they know
not, where, they know not, when, they
know not.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11
"M aplehurst's' Features.

A new feature of the spring an
nouncement of Maplehurst Stock
Farm, w. A. Bacon, proprietor, is the
nameIof Loconda, 2 :02.
Locanda has his future as a sire still
before him. That he will prove sue
ceSSful sire cannot be disputed on any
reasonable ground. He is a superb in
dividual, a true and tried race cham
pion, royalty bred stallion. and in all
ways fit to share the hnnors of the stud
with his grandsire, Jay Bird. He is
the fastest son of his sire, one Of the
greatest living sires. He is the fastest
son of daughter of AlcyOne, conced-
ed to be the greatest son of George
Wilkes. His gameness is atteSted by
his racing career. He started racing
in 1900 as three-year-old, and reduced
his record every season till 1905. In
his seven campaigns he has started 81
times, in only ten of which he was I'M
placed. Of the other 81 starts he was
first in %, second in II, third in ID and
fourth in four. He has met and de-
feated every great racing PAGER of re-
cent years. He holds the worlds
record for II miles-3l 81.
Although never trained to trot
Locanda has shown two-minute speed
for short distances at the diagonal
gait, and since he is so strongly inbred
to trotting crosses should get con-
siderable number of trotters. His only
living foal, LOcanda's Daughter(2 :22D
is a trotter that was given a record
the past season with only few weeks
training. LOcanda's fee will be $50 for a
foal.
Jaymore, son of Jay Bird. will also
be allowed to serve mares at Maple
hurst. He is the right type to sire
coach horses of the highest type.
Read Mr.. Bacon's display ad in
another column of this issue.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11
The Higher Education.

The appointment of Miss Corliss
Babson, the champion woman high
jumper of the universe, to be assistant
to the president Vasssar college, is a
distinct recognition of the manly quail
ties with which the young women of
the present generation are endowed. II
is not the female worm that crawIs,
figuratively speaking, with her nose in
the dust, that gets on, these days. She
who can go farthest into the air, who
can cleave the blue empyream with
great leaps and bounds while the gales
of the upper atmosphere futter the
slack of her boomers, is the one to be
depended upon and she it is who gets
the plums. When she is up there she
sees what she wants and lands on it.
The appointment of Miss Babson has
set at rest all criticism that the higher
education is not recognized. Nothing
in the female line could be higher than
Miss Babson, when she is in champion
ship form. She and the higher educa-
ton get there with both feet.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11
Constantly Signing For More.

Ruskin denied modern civilization to
be condition of mind in which. no
matter where we are, we want to get
somewhere else as soon as possible.
and no matter how much we have, we
are constantly signing for mere. We
heartily agree with the Central Record
when it say, the three condition are
quite common, and if society could get
rid of them there would be more peace
and happiness. But who shall start
the reform in these matter? What
minister is bold enough to proclaim the
truth and make a sermon properly
characterizlng the condition? What
newspaper is strong enough to speak of
the symptoms with wise words? What
layman IS conscientious enough to act
upon convictions which follow thought
upon the subject? Heller skeluer the
mob rushes from pillar to post, doing
that which it ought not to Go and striV-
ing for more when plenty is in hand.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11

Benjamin Harris Brewster. one time
attorney general, was most unique
character. According to his idea. he
was always faultlessly attired, and his
makeup once seen would never be for.
gotten. He usually wore a bell shaped
white silk high hat with long whiSkers
on it, plated and frilled white shirt
front, with high standing collar, car
dinal necktie or scarf. buff waistcoat,
maroon cOlored Prince Albert coat
with gold buttons, yellow trousers,
patent leather shoes and soft frilled
cuffs, which matched his shirt front.
around his wrists. On the thumb OF
his left hand was an amethyst ring
encircled with perfectly matched dia-
monds and q bunch of old fashioned
seals in heavy gold settings dangled
from his watch fob. This was his
usual makeup when he attended to
business at his Office, which was in the
old Freedmen's bank building, oppo-
site the treasury department, or visit
ed the United States supreme court TO
participate in cases which concerned
the government. His voice was pitch
ed in high key, and this popularity
was intensified by his Sartorial getup,
which always made him conspicuous
Mt any gathering. Apparently he was
Oblivious of the sensation which his
appearance almost Invariably created
Charleston News
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11
Porto Rica's Shame.

Bret Harte's heather Chinee was
/ peculiar. Noted for ways which were
dark and tricks which were Yain,'' he
has been the standard of deception ever
since the poet brought him into exis-
tence. His laurel, however, are in
danger. The erstwhile artless Porto
Ricans have him skinned mile, as the
saying is. They are up to peculiar
practices which would even make the
packer who stuffs a can full of bob
veal and label it chicken, blush with
envy. Imbued with the desire to
do somebody good, the open-faced
islanders are importing American peas
and beans, coloring them and subject
ing them to various processes they do
not describe for the public prints, and
sending them back to the United States
as prime Porto coffee.
Peas and beans are all right in their
place. In some states peas are one of
the chief articles of diet, and every
body knows that the very existence of
Boston depends upon beans. Masque-
rading as coffee. both Will tend to de-
preciate the reputation of the real
article. Thus Boston is properly shock
ed when it hears that its own bean can
be roasted and ground and actually
drunk when everybody knows that its
chief and only legitimate end is to be
eaten. As for peas, they are all right
when transformed into rich soup with
Just suspicion of bacon flavorlng add
Ing piquancy to it, but stands to reason
t at they must be a failure as coffee.
1t is sincerely hoped that the Pure
Food Commission will take the matter
in hand, as much Of the preservation
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11
Plutocratic Advice.

Rockefeller, Jr., one would think.
must be training for President, for he
breaches every Sunday to the public
on morals, religion and the strenuous
lie. His latest effort was on the sub
Ject OF wives and he advised unmarried
men not to marry woman who is
not in full sympathy with your ideals
Don't marry a woman simply because
she is pretty" He salso declared, it
was huge mistake to pick out wives
only Tor their money. He did not
tackle the subject of race suicide but
that interesting subject is perhars
hardly fit for Sunday school lecture
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11
Jump at the Opportunity.

Whenever the Republican leaders see
an opportunity to elect trust mag
nate to the United States Senate thew
jump at the opportunity. Simon Gug
genheim, the smelling trust magnate.
has been elected Senator from Colorado
IN return for having furnished tie
necessary Doodle to carry the State
for the Republican ticket. What is
the use of pretending to fight the trusts
when whenever possible trust magnates
are installed in the most important
branch of Congress, where one Sena-
tor has more power than four Repre-
sentatives of the people?
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-01-11

Korea is perhaps the oldest country
in the world and the customs and ac-
tons that go to make up the daily life
Of the people are not at all governed
Jy the logic or tradition which moves
us on our enlightened way They have
10 clearly regulated sports, nothing ap-
parently that could be likened to a
national game. They pass most Of
their recreation hours swinging in
straw rope swings and seem entirely
happy in the sport The straw rope,
if well made, is extremely durable and
can stand considerable weight, as may
be judged when three abebodied
young men impose their weight upon
the swing, standing on the shoulders
of one another after the manner of
acrobats. 1t may be very fine pastime,
but the average American, it is safe to
say. would find in it very little appeal