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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-04-20
From J. H. King.
The Meade News,
Meade. Kansas.

hCdbCJ Nduodo.
have made up my mind to fulfill
my agreement to you and all of my
friends, and let you know how l am
getting along down here
have seven acres of orange trees
set out and looking fine, one acre of
potatoes, one acre of cabbage and
about one fourth acre of onions.
Also have one hundred twenty-five
grapes, about the same of dewberries
and small patch of strawberries.
Have my ground in fine shape, cuI-
tivated it once with the cultivator
and narrowed it three times this
year.
Hay is $40 per ton, corn Use per
bushel. One man with one team
raised fifteen hundred bushels last
year. Potatoes $3.50, eggs 2oc and
butter 4oc.
We have had'a few cold days this
winter, but we have burned only four
loads of wood during the whole
time have been here, and we all do
our own cooking, SO you see we don't
have to burn much extra wood to
keep warm by.
The children go barefooted here
all the time, and we hatch young
chickens any time. Will soon have
some fryers, come down and help
me eat them. This is a good coun-
try for chickens.
like it fine here, don't think l
will go back to Meade very soon. l
don't cough now and the longer |
stay the better l like it.
Eli Keller came down here during
Christmas week, and he couldn't cat
anything but milk and crackers, ev-
erything he ate hurt his stomach,
and he can't get enough to eat now,
and says his stomach never hurts
him now except when he gets hungry.
The town is improving some.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-04-20

There has been several new buildings
put up here since | came, last Octo-
Der, 1910. built my barn last fall,
and am buildidg my house now.
We have Sunday school and
preaching every Sunday, and we ex-
pect to make Texas prohibition
state.
There are some people coming
here all the time, but not many yet.
l think the most of them are waiting
for the railroad. They have built
several miles of grade, but are going
along slowly. We think that things
will be booming here when the road
is completed. Everything is green
and looking fine, gardens are doing
we'll and the first strawberry crop is
all gone. Very truly yours,
!. H. King, Sr.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-04-20
Institute Premiums

Best ten ears of corn raised on
a plot of one acre. First S., sec
ond SO, third 81. Open to bows
under IS years of age January 1,
1912.
Same as above open to boys
over Island under 81 on January
1, 1912.
Same contests and conditions
on kaffir corn for ten heads.
Contests for girls in butter
bread and cakes:
First So, second 81, in each
class, girls to be under Is on jan
uary 1, 1912.
Best essay on raising, feeding
and breaking the colt: First
$3.50, second 81. Essay to con-
tain not less than 400 words and
contestants to be not over 81 on
Janury l, 1912.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-04-20
Irrigation Department
Dry Land Potato Growing
BY A. J. SLcocK.

Select the bestland on the farm.
The sod should be double disked
as early as possible in the spring
and narrowed after each rain as
soon as dry enough to handle.
Get good, clean home grown seed
free from scab. | advise some
early variety; the Early Ohio is
good. If possible, cut the seed
potato so as to have but one eye
to a section. When ready to
plant plow at least 3 inches and
drop the potatoes into every
fourth furrow. If burrows are
narrower than II inches, drop
seed into every fifth furrow or so
that the rows are about 4 feet
apart. Drop one piece of seed
potato in place, averaging about
IS or 20 inches apart.
If one desires extra fine pota-
toes, the ground should be plow-
ed as deep as possible, and the
potato seed covered not less than
8 inches.
AS soon as through planting
the land should be narrowed, and
narrowing should not be neglect
ed after rains until potatoes are
5 or g inches high. Narrowing
should be done each time in a
direction opposite to the last pre-
vious narrowing. After the po-
tatoes are up 6 inches the cult
vator should De used until the
plants are in bloom. The first
cultivation should be deep, but
subsequent civilizations should
be as shallow as possible to give
results-that is kill the weeds
and keep the mulch. Cultiva-
tons of the ripening plant should
not be so close to the plant as in
early growth.
The cultivator will always
leave some weeds near the plants.
These should be cut out carefully
but the land should never be
chilled up" as the plants do
much better with leveled land.
Potatoes can be produced on
sod land if dropped into the fur
row of the breaking plow; pro-
vided, the land is soft or sandy,
but with heavy soil the land
should be broken at least 3 inches
deep and then chopped up with a
disc. After disking it should be
plowed about 5 inches deep and
the potatoes dropped into the
furrow.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-04-20
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
First published April l3. l9Il.l

State Of Kansas Meade County: IS.
In the probate court in and for said county.
In the matter Of the estate of Claus Berger,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters Of Admins
tration have been granted to the undersigned. on
the estate Of Claus Berger, late of said County.
deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court Of
the County and State aforesaid, dated the 5th
day Of ApriisA,,D ID. 19l1. Now all persons having
caims against thesaid Estate, are hereby notified
that they must present the same to the under
signed for allowance within one year from the late
said Letters, or they may be precluded from
any benefit Of such estate; and that il such claims
be not exhibited within three years after the date
Of said Letters, they shall be forever barred.
Henry H. Eckhof, Administrator,
Of the Estate Of Claus Berger Deceased.
April S, 1911.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-04-20
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
lot First Publication March 9, 1911


Department Of the Interior, u. S. Land Office.
Dodge City, Kansas, March l, 1911.
Notice Is hereby given that Frank Stout, OF
Mertilla, Kansas, who on October II, 1905 made
homestead entry No. 1920 Serial No 0S+17 for
SW4 Section ?, Township 3oS, Range 29t p Meri-
dian, has filed notice Of intention To make final
five years Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before the Probate Judge
Of Meade county Kansas at Meade Kansas on
the 10Th day of April, 1911.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Robert McNairy, of Mertilla, Kansas
Thomas Brown, OF - Kansas
Andrew J. Elliott, Of - Kansas
Aaron L. Snyder, Of Jasper Kansas.
Not coal land. II. F. Millikan,
Register.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-04-20

See Wehrle & Wehrle's ad
elsewhere in this issue.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-04-20

Wehrle & Werhle write hail
insurance.
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01
OLD PROCESS is TOO SLOW
Articles of Merit viii Eventually Sell
Themselves but Advertising
Speeds Good Results.

This looks like good shirt" re-
marked the buyer.
The best | have ever seen for the
money" replied the haberdasher.
But never heard of it." added the
customer.
NO one ever hears of it," said the
dealer THE manufacturer has the
idea that good shirt will advertise
ITSELF
How does this theory work out?"
We'll, we sell five A-BC shirts. and
three of the EF-G make to one Of the
unadvertised kind; and. besides. the
advertised shirts are known and asked
for, the sale being virtually made with
out effort on our part. while to sell
one of the unknown brand it is neces
sary to change n customers favorable
opinion Sf an advertised article, and
that is neither easy nor worth while"
This experience is not uncommon. 1t
cannot be denied that a good article
will advertise itself, but the process
recalls the thoughtful man who. on be
ing told that coffee was slow poison
remarked, "Is 1t not very. very slow?"
Moral; Good advertising speeds up
good results.
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01
Begin each advertisement with
the sparkle Of life; then bring 1t
to an end before the sparkle
fades.
Success for the sticker.

William H. Hudson, contributing to
Judicious Advertising asserts that
repetition of advertising is double
barreled selling weapon.
How much and how often do need
to advertise? This is the first ques-
ton the new advertiser asks of his
agency.
1T is telltale question, for the man
who asks it has never really mastered
the first rudiments of advertising
The muchness and the frequency
of advertising are taken for granted
by every experienced advertiser. 1t
is only the novice who imagines that
an economical limit can be set in ad-
vance to advertising. II you
would merely keep pace with the
spirit of change. the spirit of restless
ness, the constant movement of the
flesh and blood procession that lines
your street, you must advertise free
ly. advertise consistently, advertise per
sistently. There is no room for the tail,
ender in advertising. He is constant
ly dropping out of sight
But II there were no changes in
the human stream that passes your
store you would still need to adver-
tise and advertise frequently"
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01
A little advertising is a dan
gerous thing; tho largest adver-
tisers are, almost without excep-
tIon, the most successful ones.
Tho Modern Method.

That the larger advertisers were be-
ginning to see the advantage of news
paper advertising as against magazine
advertising was the contention Of l..
H. Brown of the Catholic Citizen in a
lecture. 1.-The Newspaper as an Adver-
tising Medium" before the college Of
journalism, Marquette university. at
Milwaukee recently.
"If q merchant can sell summer
underwear In winter by advertising,
1t shows the power of advertising"
he said, and referred to the compare
tive cost OF newspaper advertising
and of mailing circulars. saying that
the newspaper carries the message to
the fireside, where the whole family
will see 1t.
"The method of going around to buy
a drink or cigar in order to adver-
Mise ones business ID obsolete" he
said. THE modern method 10 to ad
vertise in the newspapers"
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01
THE FATE OF EMPIRES

The meaning of life has in all ages been the
goal OF human thought and the great extension
OF our knowledge of the past by the researches
OF recent years enables now to view the
course of human changes with more complete
ness than has been the before In place of
looking on the fall of the Roman empire as a
mcnstrous and inexplicable fact, we now see that
civilization is not only intermittent but is reg.
ularly recurrent phenomenon"
This was the theory propounded by Prof Film
ders Petric In a lecture delivered at the Royal
institution on "The Revolutions of Civilization"
In Egypt said the lecturer, we can trace eight
civilizations; the first prehistoric; the second
prehistoric, the early dynastc, the pyramid build
ers, the middle kingdom (XIIth dynasty the EN-
pire (NV1llth dynasty), the Greek and the Arab.
The rise and fall Of art in each of these periods
be well illustrated Similar periods are
found in Europe, the early, middle and late Gre
tan, the classical and the medieval These Pc
RODS contemporary with those of Egypt SO
far ascertain. Hence the Mediterra-
mean civilization seems a distinct unit, rising
and falling together one body The Mesopo-
tamian civilization is in different phase to that
of the Mediterranean, but its period is about the
same.
A similar period of about 1900 years has oc-
CURED in India and Mexico. The Etruscan sages
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01
T PHENOM ENON"

assigned 1,lOO years the period of race. after
which 1t must be succeeded by another
The various activities Of man, according to
Professor Petrie. related in the same order
In each successive period. This can be best
traced in the medieval and classical periods
where the stages of sculpture, painting litera-
ture, music. mechanics. science and wealth
spread over some seven centuries. These stages
were nearer together in earlier ages but the or
der was always the same far as can be traced
The starting point of each cvization-as of
each generation-is a mixture of blood With
out fusion OF race no fresh start can be made
About six or eight centuries are needed for the
rise to the sculpture stage The growth of civil
lzation largely consists in lengthenng out OF
the subsequent stages Of activity and diminu
t1on OF the stagnant period before new mix
ture Is started. The period seems to belong to
the people and not to the country and is kept
by the people when they go to a land of diff.
ferent phase.
Though. no doubt. climatic periods have a
precipitating effect in throwing one people on to
another. yet the general regularity of interval
OF the stages of growth of civilization point to
racial determinant This may be the time re-
Quired to promote the maximum mixture of diff
ferent strains in two races which sre ip con.
tact-London Globe
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01
sssary to round out the full meas,

p"''hers are necessary to round out the full
ufe Oh the entertainment
very nearly old the Fourth of July itself
~ holday sense is the custom in the average
sHalier city. town village of making the aft
.ethoon OF independence Day the occasion Of a
race meet and athletic carnival. Perhaps this Is
neiu on the main street of the town if there is
no track available. but If there is a fair ground
or regular race track in the vicinity that is the
mecca Tor the crowds Some years ago the prime
feature OF every such meet found in the
racing hose-layng and ladder contests of the
various volunteer fire companies from all the
towns in the vicinity of the one where the
tournament was held. Latterly as horse
dra"n hrehghting apparatus has come into more
general use and even the motor hose wagons
nave been purchased by many of the smaller
cities the number of volunteer fre-fghtng or
CARNATIONS have dwindled somewhat, but there
are still a number in existence and there is moth.
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01

tennis tournaments held on hundreus o'
courts all the country on this midsummer
holiday ard "sociability runs by automophe
clubs have sdded yet another event to those on
the calendar for this pre-eminent holiday
The very warmth of the weather encountered
by the greater part of the country on the average
Fourth of July has always rendered popular
aquatic festivals and carnivals Yachting con
tests rowing and power boat competitions, swim
ming and canoe races and other sports on the wa
ter have compensations for the participants and
regale the spectators ranged in the shade along
shore In this field there many mirth-provok-
ing contests productive of fun the ones
above mentioned Log rolling contests. water polo.
water football. fitting contests in which the op-
ponents. armed with lances stand up in canoes.
and walking the creased pole over the water are
few of the tests of skill in which the price of
failure is ducking, to the delight of the spec
tators.
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01

other, but Is in actual fact universal
That Americans have come to rec
ogniZe the Fourth as day when
lovers of athletics of all kinds may
enjoy their favorite sports to their
fill Is q matter of congratuation, for
a good many of us take few enough
days or during the summer. We
have not to any great extent adopted
and perhaps may never adopt. the
English and European custom OF
banishing work and business cares
every Friday evening during the sum,
mer and devoting the interval until
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01

ing more exciting than their tourna-
ments when they are hotly contested.
In some sections of the country
horse racing has taken the place OF
the flremen's tournaments as
Fourth of July attraction but of late
their drawing power has been sur
passed by such novelties as automo-
bile races, motorcycle races and best
of all, aeroplane contests. There are
yet retained on many Fourth OF July
programs those homely contests that
have been greeted with roars of
laughter ever since the days of our
grandfathers- tests of skill as
the climbing of the creased pole, egg
races, sack races, three-legged races.
catching the creased pig potato
races and host of others in which
members of both sexes participate.
In the south from time out of mind
they have had fitting contests" in
which local 'horsemen as twentieth
century knights without armor have
WED with one another in stunts with
lances or spears somewhat similar to
those performed by the knights of
old. Within the past year or two
other sections of the country have
adopted these fitting Journeys as
Fourth of July feature, and with ex-
cellent success
In some communities Fourth OF
July sports committees have, in their
quest for novelties. borrowed some OF
the features of the modern circus, no.
tably the chariot races, which are
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01

Out of self-contidence grows enthu-
siasm and earnestness. For the man
in earnest nothing is impossible. En-
thusiasm keeps men young and strong.
It is the steam in the boiler. the
"juice" on the trolley wire. Earnest
ness in a young man will make him
a hundred friends. Enthusiasm will
help him over . thousand obstacles.-
Henry NJ. Hyde.
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01

the Fourth
b e C a u s e
b u sbands,
b r o t b ers
and sweet
b e a r t s
C o m e for
the day and
accordingly
there is Q
6 t a impede
for outdoor
p a 9 times.
J u 8 I a S
there Is for
d a n C / n g
and all 9th
er pursuits
where male
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01

Joyous anniversary and it is perfect
ly natural. II not inevitable, consider
Ing the great and growing interest Of
the whole American people in feats
of skill that call for mental and mus
cular agility. Moreover Its accept
ance as a day of sport Ia not con-
flned to the small towns on the one
hand. nor to the large cities on the
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01
POURING MONEY
INTO A HOLE
BY GEORGE s. sANTA.

Just like pouring SO much
money in hole" merchant
often says when approached on
the subject Of advertising his
business. will agree with him
in that statement, but ! want to
explain just how understand it.
want to remind thar man
how, down In Texas year ago,
there was company which put
nearly million dollars Unto a
hole" Finally, vein of oil was
struck, SO rich and SO generous
In its flow, that the money the
company put into the hole has
already come out again and
there Is every indication that 1t
will keep on coming until 1t has
been paid back scores of times.
That 10 the kind Of hole into
which you put your money for
advertising. But you don't need
to 90 to Texas to find it. With
you, II is just around the corner
at the newspaper office. II you
do not advertise, advertising will
never give your business a tonic,
move those sheIf-worn goods,
and put 4 swell In your ledger
balance.
will admit that no merchant
can advertise without spending
money. Furthermore, real ad
vertisins takes lots of time and
thought and work. II Is also
true that those fellows down in
Texas might still be wondering
whether there was really any oil
down below them If they had
been SO attached to their cur
rency as to have been unwilling
to pin il to their faith and send
it down into the hole.
Which are you going to be
a wise-acre pesslmist cIinging
to the one talent you have, or
will you spend part of it in
advertising that will bring you
back ten talents In the place of
one?
sssa,t3ss,e
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01
Advertising 10 not gamble;
Il is no more difficult or myste-
rIous than any other legitimate
business activity.
Enthusiasm.

,.ss..ssss.s..ssessss.s.s
The Glenwood post., 1911-07-01

the hair of the
more timid spec
tators stand on
end. Field and
track sports such
as putting the
shot, h a m m e r
throwing, jump
ing, running, pole
vaulting and hur-
die racing are sat
isfactory Fourth
of July sports be-
cause local talent
can always be re
cruited for the
competitions and
even II no worlds
records are bro
ken there is no
end of fun for
participants a n d
spectators. Lawn
The Washington times., 1911-11-15
OHIO EXPECTED TO
Be STORM CENTER
OF EARLY CAMPAIGN
Both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis to Make Strong
Fight There.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Nov. 15.-That
Ohio is to be made the storm center
of early activities of both the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties for the
campaign OF 1912 is indicated here to-
day In the work of politicians, together
with the announcement that the Pro-
gressive Republican movement within
the State will probably be met by a
big organization rally here early in
January, featured by a big banquet
with President Taft as guest of honor.
Standpat Republican leaders point to
the fact that four years ago. when Mr..
Taft was candidate for the Presi-
Dental nomination he was the guest
of honor at the annual Mckinley Day
banquet here, and that his campaign
for nomination was launched at that
time.
They believe his second campaign
should be started here.
Political heat throughout the State Is
already about ten points above normal.
Deals between John r.. Mclean and
w. r. Hearst to prevent the Democratic
The Washington times., 1911-11-15
DR.. Davidson Declares
Schools Are Broadening

Declaring the three "Rs" had broad
ened so that now they include much
more than reading, writing, and arfth-
metic: urging the development of schools
as social centers and emphasizing moral
instruction and physical culture teach
ing in schools, DR.. w. M. Davidson
made the principal address before near
ly 400 parents at the organization of the
Maury- -Edmonds Parent-Teachers' As
ISOLATION.
"The old time austerity and solemnity
that enveloped the school room Is out
OF date" DR.. Davidson said. To-day
comradeship and companionship mark
the successful school. The school room
Is a democracy"
Dr. Davidsons address was followed
by q characteristic talk by A. T. Stuart,
his predecessor and now director OF
instruction. Mr.. Stuart
gave some "reminiscences from the days
when the Maury School was situated in
the northeast commons" and the Ed
monds School had not been built.
Welcome addresses we're made by
Henry p. Blair, a member OF the Board
of Education, and by DR.. e. @. Kim
ball, supervising principal. Mrs. Emily
f. Barnes sang, and William Weber
contributed a plano solo. Later he ac-
companied Edward Weber in a violin
solo,
The Washington times., 1911-11-15
TURKEY STRIKES
HARDEST BLOW IN
WAR WITH ITALY
Every Italian Ordered to
Leave Country Within
Twenty-four Hours.

ROME, Nov. B-That Turkey is in
no mood to accept mediation or stop
the war with italy was shown today
when the grand vizier issued a sweep
ing order that every Italian within
Turkish boundaries must be expelled
from the country within twenty-four
hours.
Every Italian found in Turkey after
the twenty-four hours have passed vii
be. considered prisoner Of war and
held In Turkish fortress until peace
Is declared,
The sweeping order Is one of the se-
verest blows italy has suffered since
the beginning Of the war, and will mean
citizens III Turkey.
Despite the denial of Secretary of
State Knox that the United States Gov
ernment was considering the possibiiitv
OF Intervention in the Turco-Italian
imbroglio. the. Milan Secolo declares to-
day, emphatically, that the American
Government through President Taft, ie
favorably considering Italv's int'r'a
TO the world powers that pacific media
tion would be acceptable to the QuIrinal.
The Washington times., 1911-11-15
ALIENS, ATTRACTED
TO CITIES, NEEDED
AS FARM LAB0RERS
State immigration Agents
Will Discuss Methods to
Divert Interest.

"Of the half-million alien farm hands
who reached our shores last year. 30
per cent remained In the large cities,
where they are not wanted. and only
Is per cent went to the farms of the
country, the only place where they
really could prosper" said ]. B. Haynes.
Of Omaha, Neb.. who reached WASH
ington today as one of the delegates to
the conference Of State immigration
agents.
Mr.. Haynes, who Is stopping at the
Ebbitt House, will deliver an address
before the delegates Asked concern
ing the situation in the Middle West
States regarding the question Of farm
laborers, Mr.. Haynes said:
''The mid West States are losing agri-
cultural producers. State census bull
letins show that many Of the counties
Of Iowa, Nebraska, and Ksnsas have
suffered diminution of rural ropula.
tion. The people are becoming alarmed
about II. yet those States are doing
nothing officially to attract newcomers.