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Jewellery Store. Soft
Miss Margaret Rea is isvisiting friends
in Wakeeney the last of the week.
]. R. Mueller was down from Ellis
New Years day.
1908 came in like a lamb. Will it
go out like lion?
Claude Bice spent New Years Day
at the Peter Johnson farm on the
Smokey.
The K. U. Mandolin Club will give
concert in the Hall next Wednesday
evening.
J.H. Wood transacted business in
the western part of the state the last
of the week.
H. C. Freese spent few days in
Topeka and Kansas City the fore part
of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Wolfe, Frank
Heile and Tom Weisner went to Ellis
Wednesday evening.
Normal and Hays will again try con-
clusion in basket ball at the Normal
Gym this Saturday evening.
Mrs. John DeBoer and son Willie and
Miss Matte Norcross of Ellis ate New
Years dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Carter.
A number of the boys in Buckeye
township are giving a dance and oyster
supper north of Dory Gosser's place
this Friday night.
The Misses Rice of Denver, Colo.
who have been the guests of their Aunt
Miss Belle Sutton, left for their home
Thursday evening.
Mrs. John DeBoer returned to her
home at Ellis Wednesday evening after
a few days pleasant visit with her
daughter Mrs. Jas. Carter.
Few country people have been in
town this week and business has been
quiet. Merchants, however, are very
busy taking the annual invoice.
We regret to announce the death of
Mrs. Chas. Reumbeck of Antonino last
Tuesday. She is the sister of Co. Supt.
Grabbe. She leaves five children.
About thirty new subscribers have
been taken to the FREE PRESS the
past week. We will publish the full
list of new names at the close of the
contest, January 14th.
Warren Myers came in Friday even
ing from Wichita where he is working
with an elevator construction company.
Sheep" is doing good work and it ap-
pears to be agreeing with him.
Herbert Vine left the first of the
week for New York City and London,
England. Of course Mr.. Vine is a
farmer, no one but a farmer could
afford to take trip of that kind
New Years Day passed very quietly
in Hays this year, but New Years eve
and morning was unusually noisy with
the prolonged ringing of bells, blowing
of whistles and shooting of guns.
Quite number of people entertained
at New Years dinner.
Under the law passed by the last
Legislature no more passes can be
issued to anyone in Kansas to ride on
its railroads but actual employees.
State and County officers and politi-
clans are feeling bad over their New
Year prospects of paying cents a
mile or stay at home.
Our former townsman ex-sheriff
Charles Howard can't be a ''good
Democrat" any more. He is a deputy
internal revenue officer in Oklahoma.
In the new state the prohibition laws
went into effect January 1st and a
distillerv cannot manufacture, sell or
ship out of the state any liquor. On
Monday one of the largest distilleries
in the state emptied 23OO barrels of
beer in the cutters under the charge
of Charlie Howard, rather than pay
government taxes thereon. What a
Christmas present it would have been
to his democratic friends here!
Free press., 1908-01-04
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Rand, the horse buyer wires that he
will in Hays ON the 9th of January,
to buy your horses and mules. Tell all
your neighbors to bring in their atock
on that date, as he wants them 7-2t
Free press., 1908-01-04

1t is said that the increasing use OF
vegetables is tending to the lengthep-
in the life of the caucasian race.
When populations were more sparse
than now, animal food and fish were
easier TO get than now. Only in late
centuries have such vegetables as
potatoes, tomatoes and many forms
of cabbages come into general use
1t is certainly true that the eating OF
fresh vegetables greatly assists di-
gestion of all foods.
Free press., 1908-01-04

According 10 an English scientific
journal milk poor in fat is as valuable
a food as milk rich in fat The fat
percentage, the popular standard by
which milk is judged, is most valuable
while the proportions of the albumin
oids. sugars and salts vary but little in
the different samples of milk. In
other words, while the ergy-prodBc-
ing and heat-giving qualities of the sew
eRal kinds of milk may be great or lit
tie, the valuable proteid ingredients,
which go to the building up of the tis-
sues-the prime property of and food
remain very much the same in all
varieties of cows milk Thus a thin
milk is for all purposes, save for en-
ergy and heat production, as valuable
a food as the so-called rich" milk. In
deed, it not infrequently happens. as
the experimental feeding of young
growing animals has shown, that a
thin milk may prove, in the long run,
more flesh forming than a rich milk,
mas much as the former is less liable
TO induce gastro-enteric disorders. Let
US consider what this means: It
means. first of all, that the enormous
quantity of skimmilk produced in Eng
land could be turned to more economi-
cal use than the feeding of animals or
the manufacture of ivory for table
knives and piano keys.
Free press., 1908-01-04

Good ventilation in the dairy barn
is essential to the production of pure
milk. The spread of tuberculosis dur
ing recent years has been in large
part due to the shutting up of COWS
iH close stables, where all must
breathe the same air and the same
germs. In such & stable single tIl-
berculosis COW will spread the disease
to the whole herd.
Free press., 1908-01-04

If you are planning the planting Of
trees along the roadside, and this is
a splendid thing to do, remember that
the trees with high growing trunks
are best Such trees do not have low
hanging branches to interfere with
passing teams, and it gives the sun
a chance to work on the road and dry
up the mud puddles after a rain.
Free press., 1908-01-04

Turnips make a good crop TO add
humus TO the soil and are also good
for feed to the stock.
Free press., 1908-01-04

There is yet a great host of farmers
who are not convinced Of the profita-
belness Of the cream separator Well,
every man must decide for himself,
but it is certain that those who have
used the separator never want to so
back to the old methods of cream sep
aration.
Free press., 1908-01-04

There is no profit IL a sick horse.
For this reason take every precaution
against such condition.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

country districts are not keeping
pace with the development Of the ma.
tion as whole. In many places
care is not taken to make farm
houses and outbuildings sanitary and
great mortality especially among
children results. 1t is of vital import.
ance that the children on the farms
Jc given the best possible prepare.
ton for work in their own homes and
that everything possible be done to
make the homes happy, bright. at.
,ractive places; so that American boys
and girls will not leave their farm
homes at the earliest opportunity and
rush TO the towns and cities where in
the majority of cases they work harder
and for far less compensation than
might be theirs If they stayed at
home and helped in developing all
the possibilities of the farm on which
they were born. 1t is to be hoped that
some practical good to the millions
who live on the farms of America may
result in this movement of the gov.
eminent to eXalt farm life.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Fred NJ. Hunter, Norfolk's new city
superintendent who this week entered
On his work as the executive head of
The city schools, was prominent while
at the state university as an athlete,
as an interstte deJater, as a leader in
student politics and IS a student. That
a man, and especially young man,
should be sufficiently vall rounded
to excel in the fields of debate, ath.
letics, politics and study argues well
for his future. No young man has
made a better start in school woG X
in Nebraska than the new superin-
tendent who follows E. ]. Bodwell.
This summer M Hunter was prin-
cipal of the state juior normal
school at Alma, TIE home by the way
of A f. Shallenberger one of the
candidates fo. the fusion nomination
for governor. This appointment car
ried with it considerable recognition
in the educational world.
Mr.. Hunter comes of German lin
cage. HIS father was a farmer and
later hardware dealer in town.
It was in the common schools Of
Kansas and at the high school and
business college at Blue Rapids, Kan,
that the new superintendent received
his secondary education. His first
teaching experience was gained in the
rural schools of Marshall county,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

The agricultural problem for Amer
lea to solve, as her population and
expenses increase, is the old one of
making two blades of grass or grain
grow where one grew before, in other
words to double or greatly increase
the productiveness of the soil. The
the larger the yield the less trouble is
expended in its reaplng and less is
needed for the sowing and cultivation.
Hence the saving and advantage is
double.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

lister to advise her about her five
thousand because he'd had so much
experience handling big punches. Ma
ulster get so lonesome too after pa
was gone and nobody but me around
for compny, that she was glad to have
the minister come and advise with
her.
He ulster pat me on the he'd and say,
well Johnny, have you been a good
little boy today?" And when I'd say
Yes, sir" he'd sic, and say he wish
his little boys had sumone 70 bring
them up as good as me. An ma got
feeling bad too because the minister's
poor little boys didn't have emmy
mother to glide them, AID one day
about three munths afte pa dide she
took me on her lap and told me
was going to have three little broth
ers and new pa as soon as enuf
time had past so it wuldent look as
if she's bin in too big a hurry. She
sed she always uanted to do mishun-
airy work but she cudent while poor
deer pa was alive and now she had
a chanel to take those poor mother
les boys to raise and she and the min
lister both believed it was her dooty
to do it. | got ma rite away for |
new what meen little cusses the min
tiers kids were ennyway, and | told
ma Id ruther see her go to China or
to Venezuela and do mishunary work
among the worst heather on earth
than to try and raise them boys. And
told her that | was going to stick
by the pa of my youth even if he
wasn't as good and Plus as this new
pa she wanted to give me; I didn't
want emmy second-hauded pa nor such
job-lot of bruthe. ). Ma crde about
it and the minister coaXt me but |
just stuck by pa and wudent be
neither wheedled nor coaXt and told
them if they was going to hitch up
that kind of a team | was going to
walk And that is why | am haying
up in ..ewport when the wether is
good. Yours truly
Jonny Bumper.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

New Superintendent Was Foot Ball Star
A College Debater and an Honor Student

Kan, aud In the Oketo, Kan, schools,
where he was principal for two years.
Spending four years at the Unlver-
city OF Nebraska, Mr.. Hunter, who In
addition in participating In many
spheres Of college activity earned his
way through school, graduated with
A. b. degree. For two years he was
director of the night school of the
Lincoln Y. NJ. c. A. and for a year
and half was teacher of mathe-
MATES and coach of athletics in the
Lincoln high school
Hunter was guard on the university
football eleven during the years OF
Coach Booth when the big school ut
Lincoln established a reputation in
the west which II Is Just beginning to
again approach under the direction OF
Coach Cole. Hunter was not only n
ia" M man but he was success.
'ul as coach with the Lincoln high
school players, who as the athletic
world knows have made some great
'ecords in recent years.
In the first semester OF his senior
year ir school Mr.. Hunter was elected
president of his class. Later I'm the
spring he was named as the class or.
ator. On the debating platform Mr..
Hunter made considerable college
reputation. representing the Univer.
sity of Nebraska on several important
Interstate debates.
In his class Mr.. Hunter was one OF
the very few men who secured the
coveted scholarship honors of win
ming the p b. X. pin.
Before coming to Norfolk as city
super 'ntendent Mr.. Hunter has been
superintendent at Ashland and at
Fairmont He was an instructor in
the Valentine state junior normal for
two sessions and during the present
summer was principal of the normal
at Alma.
In 1907 Mr.. Hunter was married to
Miss Emma Schrieber, member Of
the class Of 1905 from the state uni.
versity, who also won p. u. X. hon.
ors al the university.
In picking a superintendent last
spring the Norfolk school board had
many capable men to pick from. They
chose Mr. Hunter as a worthy success
sor to Mr.. Bodwell and are prepared
to give him every possible co-opera-
ton
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Shades of Esopus Alton B. Parker
is talking for Bryan. But there is
no need for alarm. AS vote getter
Alton is the dismal failure of his
generation. 1t does seem pity, how
ever, to bring him out into the lime,
light again after these years of quiet
rest and respectful obscurity. It's not
such an easy thing after all to be
a democrat unless like David Bennett
Hill you go to Europe in campaign
years when Bryan runs. In that case
the remedy Is worse than the disease
as it means separation from home
and friends for at least six months
every fourth year for another gener.
alton. Mr.. Bryan comes from long
lived family. The New York jurist
evidently sensed this and took the pre-.
ferable horn of the dilema. It's hard
lines just the same.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Bryan accuses the Republicans of
initiating not only the Democratic
platform but their campaign methods.
Inasmuch as the Republican platform
was three weeks old before the Demo
Gratis held their convention, they
must have remarkable foresight to
be able to initiate it. A party so I'M
usually gifted in looking into the fu-
ture is almost sure of the national
success it deserves.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
TO IMPROVE FARM LIFE.

President Roosevelt has appointed
a commission composed of Prof. l.. H
Bailey of the New York college of
agriculture at Ithica; Henry Wallace
of Wallace's Farmer Des Moines, Ia,
Kenyon l.. Butterfeld, president of
the Massachusetts agricultural col,
lege; Clifford Pinchot of the United
States forest service; and Walter H.
Page, editor OF the Worlds Work, to
act as committee of investigation
on country life. The president be-
lieves that the prosperity and perma.
nency OF the nation depends upon the
tillers of the soil and while American
farmers are more prosperous than
ever before, 1t is still true that the
social and economic institutions OF the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Newport, Neb., Aug. 15,-To the
Editor of The News: It's bin raining
so steady since l got back from chau-
tauqua that us hay-gang fellers hasn't
had chanel to work emmy so I
thought that while / wasn't doing
nothing | might as well write and
tell you how | came to leave my hap
ply home and go sheep hearding and
haying.
You see it was this way: Pa did of
heet appopleXy, SD the doctors sed,
brOt on by overindulgents in alchol-
ick stimulashul. That's too big a
cartridge for my caliber, but | sup
pose pa was warning me about going
the same way when he told me before
he dide, to be sure and let whiskey
alone
l decided right there I'd let the
whole business alone. SIM fellers
down to Ewing tride to make me
drink beer onct last winter. They
sed it was good for me and would
make me fat. When | wudent take
emmy they all got holt of me and lade
me on d table and put funnel in my
mouth and pored two glasses of beer
in. | had to swaller it or choke to
deth, but just as soon as they let me
go | ran my finger down my throte
and throwed the stuff up agen. You
bet they can't get ahead of Johnny
by emmy such tackticks.
Ma felt awful bad about pa dieing,
although he left her five thousand
dollars insurance, moren he'd ever
give her when living. You see pa
belonged to four of five lodges and ma
got insurance from neerly all of
them, and they all past ressolushuns
that Whereas our all-wise hevenly
Father has seen fit to remove from
our midst our deer bruther Bumper.
appopleXy, ETC." that removed pa.
The minister that preeched pas fu-
neral was a widdower with three boys
and he seemed awful sorry for ma in
her bereavement. Mad never had
morn five dollars at a time before in
her life and so she wanted the min
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Optimism is at the bottom OF any
prosperous and healthy life. II is the
basis of national progress. When a
man or a nation begins to lose conf.
dence in their ultimate success degen-
eracy begins. The best forces in
American life today are those which,
recognizing present evils, are full of
will and purpose and expectation of
overcoming them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

The steel trade has so far recov'
cred its normal business that at pres.
ent the bookings of new orders are
up to three-fourths of the entire ca
pacity of the plants. The improved
conditions Of the trade was due to a
revival of business and demand in all
lines. And the improvement is a
fact, not theory. The business world
does not buy steel for political eff.
feet.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

The recent election in Cuba was
conducted in a very orderly manner
without riot or evidence of fraud. The
conservative party showed uneX-
pected strength. President Roosevelt
sent congratulations to Governor Ma
COON on the orderly election and TO
the people for the indication of their
capacity for self government and ex,
pressed his satisfaction at the serious
and responsible way in winch they
were preparing for the assumption of
their full duties as an independent
republic.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
THE NORTHUMBERLAND JOURNAL: AUGUST q yOs

II there ever was time in the his.
tory of the United states when pop
ular uprising seemed to demand that
a man make race for another term
/ in Office, that time was last spring
and Theodore Roosevelt was that
man.
Mr. Roosevelt had made a record. 8"
He had gained valuable experience"
But Theodore Roosevelt's word in
politics is as good as his bond. He
had said he wouldn't accept another
nomination-and he kept hts word.
More than that, Mr.. Roosevelt ON.
phasized the fact that there are II.
America an abundance Of able men
who could creditably and efficiently
serve in any Office in the land. He
emphasized the fact that the man
who has made a record" or gained
experience" in any gwen Office is not
indispe nsable to that Office; that there
other men-men who have made rec.
ords in other lines of activity TO
serve as a basis for faith in them
who IRE, under certain conditions,
even more desirable for the office
than the man who has served his
time and had his share of distinction
in that line.
President Roosevelt believes in ad.
herring to just and righteous pre-.
cedent. There is a precedent, estab.
lished by George Washington, that
no president shall serve more than
two terms. And in spite of the pop
ular uprising" that came to him, de.
handing that he make another race.
President Roosevelt lived up to that
precedent faithfully and emphatically
Is there any question as to what
President Roosevelt would say, II he
lived in Newman Grove, Neb., and If
he had been given one term as sena.
tor from the Eleventh district? There
is in the Eleventh senatorial district
OF Nebraska a precedent that the sen.
atorship shall be given one year to
Madison county, the next time to
Stanton, the next time to Pierce and
the next time to Wayne. That rota.
ton plan was adopted by the mel
who pioneered in this frontier. 1t was
based upon fair play and "the square
deal" The Republican party of this
district has faithfully adhered to
that precedent, because it was the
only fair way of distributing sena-
torial representation among four coun-
ties equally entitled to senatorial rep.
resentation. And is there any doubt
in anybody's mind as to what Theo.
dore Roosevelt would have done this
year, if he lived at Newman Grove
and if, having served this district in
the senate last session, he were called
upon by Spontaneous popular up
rising" to violate a time-honored pre-
cedent which had never yet been
broken, and to make an effort to get
back into an office which in all fair
ness, owing to geography, ought to
rotate from one county to another,
just as it always has done before?
President Roosevelt declined to
make another race for the creates
office in the world, because precedent
decreed that it was another mans
turn.
But President Roosevelt does not
live at Newman Grove.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

When it comes to making talking
permanent business, Mr.. Bryan is a
success. Running for the presidency,
either in fact or in fancy, is only a
quadrennial diversion. Why not en-.
JOY the honor of the occasion with
him. His defeat does not worry him
in the least. He takes it as matter
of course. Republicans should be
equally philosophical in the eXpecta
ton of Taft's election.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

That Sir Thomas Upton is possessed
of unusual persistence is evidenced
by the fact that he is anxious to make
another trial for the American cup.
He has won twenty-four of the twenty
seven contests in which he has en-
tered his new racing yacht SHAM
rock" in home waters and is hoping to
receive a challenge from the New
York yacht club. "To carry the Amer
lean cup to England is the ambition
of my life," said Sir Thomas.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

The Outlook in a recent issue pub
fishes list of twenty great fires which
have occurred in the cities of the
world since 1885. These firse de-
stroyed from $1O,OOO,OOO to 35O,OOO,-
600 worth of property in each of the
twenty cities. So many destructive
fires have occurred in the United
States that it is coming near deserv.
ing the unpleasant name given to it
by old world nations of the land of
fires. A large proportion of these
fires are preventable and merely re-
suit from carelessness in construc-
ton of buildings or in the care of
them. The United States has lost
in an average for the past five years
1921 100000 a year. We burn up
every five years more than enough to
run the government year. Even the
American people cannot afford that.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

The Republican party has half
century record of unexampled achieve
ment in the interest of the great body
of the people. 1t has as presidential
candidate a man of unimpeachable in.
tegrity and a capacity for doing things
for the public veal which has been
tried and not found wanting. The
great thinking mass of intelligent,
thoughtful Americans are not going
to exchange this party achievement
for a party of mere promises nor this
tested leader for one who, however
brilliant, is utterly inexperienced as
statesman.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
AROUND TOWN.

"Bill Hayward" is a thoroughly
good fellow.
Here's hoping O'Neill will have
better luck.
How much fruit have you put up
this year, Madame?
If you have rubbers, prepare to
wear them at racing time.
Nobody ever accused Bob Appleby
of breaking promise.
Mr.. Bryan in accordance with his
custom of twelve wears, has accepted
Everybody likes to see an old fash
toned balloon go up, with a man in
it.
The principal trouble was that those
pacing horses weren't trained to
swim.
The theatrical season will open aus
piciOusly in Norfolk September /
with The Royal Chef"
The primary election and THE
Royal Chef" taken together, will make
September l a big day in Norfolk.
There are about 1900 school child.
rem in Norfolk getting ready TO be Oh
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

OF the 1910 deaths in Minnesota
in 1906, 1886 we're from consumption.
When It is remembered that this is
the record-one out Of every TENN
one Of the healthiest of the northwest.
ern states, is 1t any wonder that mil.
lions of dollars and the best medical
skill Of the country is being enlisted
to stay the ravages of the great
white plague? 1t is cheering to know
that intelligent progress is being made
in this direction.