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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14
AntOne B3beck Dead.

The death Of Antone Bobeck, at
the family home II miles west of
Great Bend occurred last Monday
morning. He has been a sufferer for
the last three years from locomotor
a'axia, suffering much each winter
and being confed to his bed but able
to get up and be about little during
the summer.
In 1875 his father, Mr.. Bobeck
and Mr.. Buess came to this county
from New York state. Mr.. Bobeck
bought the place west of town from
John Wells and the first year, Antoine
his two sisters, Mrs. Troillett and
Mrs. Buess, and mother came out.
He is surviving member of the
family, the others proceeding him to
the world beyond some years ago.
He was born in Gesivhi, Bohemia in
1858, the family coming to America
in 1860.
Antoine was we'll known in Barton
county and had a large circle of
friends. His sickness had been
such that Of late years he was unable
to meet with them as formerly, but be
did not lose interest in them and
their visit with him were always much
appreciated. He was a kindly man
and his death is mourned by many
The W.O. W. lodge, of which he
was a member, had charge Of
the funeral. The funeral was held
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock
from the home west of town.
W. G. Merritt was in Topek:
Saturday on business.
Mrs. Will Mitchell was over from
Hoisington Wednesday the guest O
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hammond.
G. N. Bicknell was over. from
HOisington Monday being initiated a!
a member of the .Elks in the evening
Miss Pearl Emley, of this city
assisted by Mrs. Florence Townsle
Leland gave her graduating recita
at Lawrence Wednesday evening
Miss Emley has won high rank as
musician at K. U. She has succeede
in completing her four year course i
three years. something which has onl
been done by one other studer
previous to tLis. WI
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

We will in a few days receive a
numt er of copies Of the 18th Biennial
report Ct Sec'y. Cnburn. If you wish
one call on us for it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

Mrs. A. +. Livingston and son,
A. L., have been here from their
home in Grove county for a visit with
friends.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

If all the houses in this town
were painted with Bradley &
Vrooman Pure Paint there would
be no more painting for at least
5 years. Fred Hemker is the
agent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

William and Henry Gagleman left
Thursday morning for the mining
district Of Missouri on business in
connection with the new mining
comnanv
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

L. L. Gum was visiting at:
Lindsborg Sunday.
Will 0smond has purchased what
is known as the Arlington hotel in
Topeka, located at 332 Kansas Ave-.
directly opposite the Copeland hotel
The building has been used as a
rooming house. The purchase price
was reported as $4,000 in the Topeka
papers.
Frank Shongo, of Bushton, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Shongo, was
accidentally killed by being struck
by an auto last Friday morning as be
was starting to school. The accident
is a livery sad one, but from all
accounts it was accidental. The
auto was being driven slowly and
carefully. 1t seems the boy tried to
cross the road in front Of the'machine,
and was struck in the temple and
causing instant death.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

j. W. Susank, of Union township,
was looking after business matters
here last Friday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Carson Stark and
came up from Macksville this week
for the picnic and a visit With the
Harris.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

Charles Widmill and family were
visiting here the past week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14
Branching Out.

The Brinkman. .Brack banking in
terests of this county are branching
out. They have secured a charter
tor the "Bazine State Bank, a new
institution with $4,000 capital, to be
opened for business at Bazine June
LIST. W. M. Forbes of Bazine is
president, Peter Brack of Olmitz is
vice president, and Adam HELLER of
Bazine is the cashier,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

John Strothman was up from Iratt
this week on business.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-14

company.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
Success
Rewards
the Man
WhoSticks
By HARRY l. HERMAN

The for this is that the foreigners have
In their determination get these
stopped than the from shining. They
vbrate with intensity of
their desire to get ahead.
That little viii
doesn't look if did than 81
grows stores of its kind in
the neighborhood.
blunt
should make great Roadway the time
American who accustomed to the peoples
and probably polished and educated
scker give up get three
meals day The other has dress
and must eat, live and mix society BELTS his
The
they first opened up 1t took time Often failure knocked
they wouldn't They simply plugging away took no
VACATIONS made the of everything They ability
Coupled were stickers
Getting started the hardest of business you
got firm foothod things will begin brighter shape
themselves into the word success But you out UNI
til they do
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
The Hunter Hunted.

Pittsburg Donovan, one
of the detectives employed by the
voters league which brought the graft
and two bankers in this city some
time ago, was arrested Tuesday. DON
ovan, who was charged with conspir-
ing to falsely indict and subordinate
witnesses. was lodged in the county
jail. This information against him
and others was made last Saturday
in behalf of Councilman John F.
Klein, who was recently convicted
and sentenced to a trem in the peni-
tentiary
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
SCHOOL CHILDREN
FATALLY BURNED
Commencement Day Horror Caused
By Little Girl Becoming Excited
and Dropping Candle.
Dresses OF Children Caught Fire In an
instant, Four Being Fatally
Burned, in Spite Of Efforts OF
Parents and Friends to
Save Them.

Central City, Ky.-Five children
who took part in the commencement
exercises of Mrs. B. C. Boyd's school
in this city Monday night we're burn
ed, four fatally, while the fifth may
not recover; the audience was chang
ed from an applauding group into a
fighting mob and several other chill
dren were slightly injured. Panic was
averted by the GOODNESS of the men
in the audience, who covered the fam
ing children with their coats.
Little Dorothy Clay was the unwit-
ting cause of the catastrophe. The
little girls had formed in a circle and
had drilled back and forth In their
white muslin dresses, the audience
gathering enthusiasm as the enter
tainment progressed. Then the lights
were extinguished, and an electric
candle in the hand OF each child flash
ed out brilliantly. The aunts. moth
ers, fathers and playmates in the
crowd cheered and aplauded so en-
Enthusiastically that Dorothy grew
frightened and dropped her candle
The flames leaped to the white mus.
lin and in twinkling five dresses
were afire.
Mothers fought to reach their chill
dren, veritable small bonfires on the
PLATFORM
The children. frenzied with the
pain, made efforts to Chamber over
the footlights to their relatives Little
Louise Marshall, a screaming rocket
leaped over the footlights and into
the lap of her aunt in the audience.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
FRENCH POSTMEN TRYING
se TO GET BACK POSITIONS
Strike Has Collapsed and Leaders
Are Throwing Responsibility for
Failure Upon Each Other.

Paris.-The curtain was rung down
upon the general strike on Friday,
amid determinations by the leaders.
who tried to throw the responsibility
for the failure upon each other and
the defeated postal employees.
The end came when few hundred
laborers voted to resume work The
general federation of labor then threw
up the sponge and issued manifesto
planning that the postal employees
were over-conident of the success OF
their second strike, which every
thing shows was prepared and insti-
gated by the government, which was
DESTROYS of an opportunity for aveng-
ing itself against the leaders of the
first strike"
The statement adds that the strike
of the excavators and other workmen
having sufficiently demonstrated the
solidarity of the proletariat and the
postmen, there is no reason to call
out other unions, notably the cleo
tricians. who had expressed their
willingness to enter the fight.
With the surrender of the fedora
ton the strike OF the postmen col
lapsed entirely and the few still on
strike decided to try to secure their
old positions The postmen and q
few OF the other unions are now rails
ing a fund from which to give the
dismissed postal employees $50 a
month until they can obtain other en-
| ployment.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
TRIED TO cREMATE VICTIM.
Burglar Beats Boy and Then Leaves
Him In BLAZING BUILDING.

Chicago -Insensibke from blow
delivered by a burglar. John Adams.
Is years old, lay helpless while flames
cracked about him Tuesday night
the burglar, according to the police,
having set fire to the house before he
fed
The boy was alone in his brothers
home, having been left to guard the
house. Hearing noise in the
kitchen, he found there a negro at
the table, the carving knife with
which he had sliced loaf of bread
lying on the table. Adams snatched
the knife but was felled the next mo-
ment. The flames from the kitchen
were seen by passer-by, who sound
ed an alarm Firemen found the boy
still lying insensible on the floor and
dragged him out.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
Private Contract Holds Good.

Washington, Ind.-That Laura
Bum Clark is the legal wife OF the
Rev. e. f. Davidson. former pastor
of the First Christian church. was de
cided by Judge Houghton in the coun-
ty court Miss Clark, the daughter
of a former mayor of this city. al
legged that Davidson and she were
recently married in a st. Louis hotel
by a private contract drawn up by
the preacher on the back of an enve-
lope. Soon after publication OF the
charge Davidson left He was last
heard from at Toronto.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
TAFT WILL PRESS GOLDEN KEY.
Opening of MISUNDERSTANDING Elk
position Occurs on June I.

Seattle, Wash.-The formal exer-
cises of the opening OF the Alaska
Yukon-Pacfic exposition on June
will consume one hour and eighteen
minutes, and will be followed by the
pressing OF the golden key by Pres
ident Taft in the White House that
will set the wheels in motion. The
exercises are scheduled to begin at
IT O'clock Pacific time, and the pres
fdents part will be performed at
1928 p. m, or 1928. Washington
time. The Grafton of James J. Hill,
president of the Great Northern road.
will be 30 minutes long. The fair is
ready now except flower and grass
beds, and installation of some exhib-
IT'S
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
Libel Suit Dismissed.

San Francisco.-The libel suit
brought by p H. Mccarthy, a local
labor leader, against ]. ID. Spreckels,
Charles w. Horrick and Ernest S.
Simpson, respectively owner. man
ager and managing editor OF the Call.
was DISMISSED Tuesday by Police
Judge Shortall. The ground for dis
missal. as stated in the demurrer filed
by Attorney Robert Bacon, which
was sustained. was that the COM
plant did not set forth facts sufficient
to constitute a cause of action. The
case grew out OF an article published
in the Call
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
coIored Comedian Called.

New York.-Ernest Hogan, one OF
the best known negro comedians and
song writer's, is dead at his home of
tuberculosis. He wrote the book and
music of "Eufus Rastus," in which he
starred for two seaeons. then OF the
Oyster Man" which ne was produc-
ing at the time of his illness. Hogan
wrote several hundred songs, OF
which "All Coons Look Alike to Me-
was the most successful 1t is said he
cleared $4,000 from this song alone.
He was one of the originators of the
'rag-time" popular songs.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
Lord Beresford Says Colonies Should
Help Build Cruisers.

London.-Addressin a gathering OF
the Australasians here on the naval
question, Admiral Lord Charles Ber-
esford urged that the colonies, In
stead OF contributing toward the
building of Dreadnaught, should
build cruisers to protect their COM
MERGE and to form nucleus of ma
vies Of their own. after the example
insane advertising Of Dreadnaugits"
offended other nations and involved
Europe In TERRIBLY expensive naval
competition.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
COALITION BROKEN.
Senators Bailey and cummIns Come
to Parting Of Ways on Income Tax.

Washington.-lt was announced
Friday that the coalition OF Demo-
cratic senator's and progressive Re-
publicans" had been broken, so far
as the income tax is concerned. and
that amendments on that subject
would be, presented by both Senators
Bailey and Cummins.
Both amendments will provide for
fiat rates OF tax, but they diner on
some other Important features, par
ticularly the proposed tax on corpor
atoms.
II was stated also upon the high
est authority that an agreement has
been reached between the finance
committee and the supporters of
free lumber, by which the duty on
dressed lumber shall not be more
than 80 cents a thousand above the
rate fixed on rough lumber, whatever
that may be.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
Work to Begin on Lost River lrriga-
ton Project.

Boise, Ida.-The contract for the
construction OF big Lost river irriga-
ton project, which will reclaim 100,-
600 acres of land in Blaine. Fremont
and Bingham counties, has been
awarded TO Corey Brothers Con
struction company. a Utah concern,
with Offices in Ogden 1t Is estimated
that the total cost OF reservoir. d.
yerting dams, canals and laterals win
aggregate $3,000,000. One provision
of the contract is that water must
be delivered to all land not later than
April 1, 1870 in time for the next ir-
rigation season.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
MRS. rAFT's ILLNESS.
Wife Of President Will Give up Social
Dates for Some Time

Washington.-Altho Mrs. Taft
is making satisfactory progress In
her recovery from the slight nervous
breakdown which she suffered sew
eral days ago, she probably will be
obliged to give up social duties for
some time, 1t is announced. II 1t is
found that congress will be in session
until after July 1. Mrs. Taft will
probably leave Washington for Bev-
eriy, MASS. early In June, the presf-
dent to join her later
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27

Just because everything didn't pan out
in regal style the first month Henry Jones
closed up his new ice cream parlor and con-
fectionery and lost all the hard earned saw
ings he had invested in it. OF course, the
business was beginning to show signs of
increase, but it didn't do it fast enough to
suit Jones. Now he's back in the harness
again. Here's where the man that can
stick proves his worth and wins out in the
long run.
Most of the hourishing fruit stands,
successful soda fountains, and alluring
candy dens are synonymous with foreign
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
How to
Fight
Fires
in Home
By W. S. ROGERS.
Ohio State Fire Marshal.

from
freezing Such bucket should be kept each floor every
be hidden ornamental boxes
The effective piece apparatus for putting starting
the tanks
nearly department tank
inverted ready for suphurc acid spilled from bottle
top a water
formed which makes that will hrox the
places reached with
a water bucket
This gas by the helps greatly smotheng
genades full of fluid
On starting fire Many of them contain choke blaze
Grenades little used except in ships
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27

AT notice that the ladies with the eabor
ate dressed hair usually appear the magnificent millinery
and are shyest about removing it.
Now would the congregation
cover Oh has unquesonab the right procedure
he wishes But know it's much better do
anyhnghey do it, but there aefeelngs Sowel Eve simply
suggested.
And found real response But
vatiye, extremely and do expect quick
Then there real difficulties, will admit pleasant
hold large hat lap during eycand of the floor
out of the question.
In church have suggested making of the chape
cloak where the ladies could leave their hats they
they the With dressing table,
hair difficulty might be adjusted.
Why ministers grand against
Nearly all of opposed hawearng church by But
should organize and make mighty.
There is third solution of the pobenbu frankly admit I
wasn't clever enough think of it, suggested She
mine should small
and becoming hat for church exclusivend universally. 1t
should be fixed and absolute the opera hat for Variety
trimming might be allowed but neither should change
the general fatness smaness
church should it.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27

What should be feared more than the
burning of the home But in few houses
is there anything at hand with which to put
out starting fire
In farm house kitchen there should
be bucket kept full of water The bucket
used for water for cooking and drinking is
full less than half the time, and may be
empty at the wrong time. Fire buckets
are made with round bottoms, and held up
by shelf with a hole in it, or hung on
nail. One could not put to any other use
bucket that would not stand on its own
bottom SO it would not be removed from its
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-27
WOnnen'S
Millinery
Must Come
Off
in Church

18TH AVENUE churches will be the very adopt
that sensible of women removing their hats
Already we're way behind the times because don't do it,
New York is the best market the world for false hair
and other artificial aids to beauty And especially during
the last year there have perfect furore for
false pufs and tufts and all of base lendngs in the
very best society Perhaps the the big hats
to up connections
The Detroit times., 1909-01-28
Longy Club Gives
e Delightful Concert.

The Longy club OF Boston gave the
third artist concert OF the Tuesday
Musicale series In the Church of Our
Father, Tuesday afternoon. at 1 o'clock
ibis club is woodward choir devot-
ed 10 the Interpretation OF chamber
music written for the flute, oboe, clar-
met. horn and bassOon, and H. decided
ly unique. While such bands are not
uncommon In the art centers of Eur
ope. II was not until 1899. when ths
management of the Boston Symphony
orchestra imported Georges Longy.
the French oboe player. that America
could boast OF such an organization.
The presence of the Boston orchestra
In Detroit Tuesday evening made II
possible for the Tuesday Musicale 10
secure these players. who have never
before been heard outside the prfnci
pal music centers OF this country. The
members OF the club. ten in all, play
In the Boston orchestra
Gounods petite symphonic was
the opening selection, and was follow
ed by four Grieg selections, In Ny
Country Land" Young Bird" Soil
tary Wanderer. and the Elves
Dance" two movements from the
Persian suite by Caplet. and selections
by Gouyy. Saint Saens and Mendels-
sohn IL Will be seen from this list that
the great masters wrote for these in
struments, and that they wrote wei
was demonstrated by the interpreta'
ton given 10y the club.
The unusual character OF the wood
wind music. and the admirable ensem-
Bile under Longy's direction. made the
concert Of Tuesday one OF the most
attractive and interesting OF the sea.
son. This wind music comes as
sort Of refreshing breeze and is played
easily and gracefully by the club.
Ii Is not at AL improbable that the
Tuesday Musicale will abandon the
artist concerts after this season, as
each year has found the members with
balance on The wrong side OF the
ledger The members concert, how
ever. would be continued AS the or.
ganization has brought many OF the
best artists and musical clubs TO the
city. Il would be decidedly unfortun-,
ate. from an artistic standpoint, II
this course be taken. Nine. Katherine
Goodscn. pianiste. will give the fourth
concert, Tuesday. March ?.
The Detroit times., 1909-01-28

been found in the present law during
its 10 l-2 years OF operation.
Henry C. Smith, OF Adrian, former
congressman. told the credit men that
politics is business and business 10
politics"
"'rhe government has no greater duty
10 perform" he declared than 10
enact such laws as will enable the In.
dividual TO make the most money with
the least pain 10 his fellowmen."
He defined a pessimist as a man
who. given the choice OF two evils.
takes both ard who drinks skinned
milk all through life with the hope OF
cream I'm heaven.
The new committees appointed By
President Mills and their chairmen
are as follows: Membership, W. IA.
Roberts; pres, Frank f. Parker; leeis-
lation. r. +. Ingram; mercantile
agency reports. Charles w. CARAT;
entertainment. A. +. Kiefer; business
literature, y. A. Hawkins. The Credit
Men had much To do with the passage
OF the bulk sales law and the fictitious
sale Law by the last Legislature and
will keep sharp watch on CONNER
cial legislation in the state capital this
session.
The Detroit times., 1909-01-28
DR.. AKED FLAYS
GOTHAM OFFICERS
OLD PIRATES AND FOREST KINGS
WE'RE GENTLEMEN IN CON-
PARisON, HE SAYS.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Cheering
punctuated almost every sentence ut.
tered By the Rev Charles F. Aked,
at the dinner given by the Industrial
Christian alliance TO about 500 hun
dred clergymen and philanthropists,
In his speech concerning poverty and
grafters.
Henry Graeme Farley, who runs
.he Alliance home at 40 Bleecker.st..
IA. Just told the diners that those
wn N Re described as buns" might
be maze either social assets or social
liabilities. and Mr. Aked announced
that he would go a step further and
say that these men might become
either an asset or menace TO the
community.
This mob may become a positive
danger" he continued. Il understand
from those who have investigated that
the slums OF New York contain more
elements OF violence than do those OF
London or Liverpool, and remember
that our civilization. like that OF
France before the revolution, is Ca.
pab.e OF producing its own barbar-
ians
Or Aked then arraigned the city
government Tor It's delay in paying
the men who worked last weeh for
the street cleaning commission.
These poor wretches cannot afford
to subsidize the city Of New York"
he shouted. bringing his clenched hand
down on the table in front of him
with such force that the dishes rat.
tied
why. think tina, the old pirates
and forest Kings were gentlemen com.
Apared 10 the banditti who have this
city by the throat"