The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-10-18
PERSONAL

Oliver Beeven OF Pratt was here
during fair week visiting friends.
Mrs. r. L. Higglnbotham is visit
ing with her parents in Tyrone this
week.
C. d. Gassaway made broomcorn
buying trip over the southwest coun-
try last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Clark and fam
ily returned to their home in Texas
Monday.
Doss Woods was up from his ranch
ON the Paladora last week taking in
the fair.
Everything has grown beautifully
In the rural districts this year except
Taft sentiment.
The price paid for wheat ON the
Liberal markets jumped to so cents
Tuesday morning.
The city has new light installed
upon the city tank, which can be seen
for miles around.
Nj. S. Poorman of the Taylor Drug
store went to Arlington Sunday for a
visit with his mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Stewart of Dali
hart spent fair week with his SON,
W. P. Stewart, and family.
Otis Stephens and wife of Guymon
we're in the city last week visiting rel
atiyes and taking in the fair.
w. d. Wiley the new druggist and
family are now occupying the house
formerly used by NJ. H. Flood.
Taking into consideration the very
fast and careless driving done by
some automobile drivers during the
Mrs. James Burr of HarwoOd was
| in the city during fair week to at
tend the tair and do some shopping.
The many automobile owners made
considerable money hauling people to
and from the fair grounds during the
fair.
Even the base ball news faded in
to insignificance when the news got
here of the shooting OF Col. Roose-
welt.
Hiram Jarrett, who has been i'll
with typhoid fever since his return
from the Hutchinson fair, is improv-
ing.
Henry Hitch and wife and baby of
| Guymon, were in the city last week
| visiting relatives and taking in the
fair.
! NJ. H. Flood moved Tuesday from
his former residence on South Sher-
man to the lyman house on North
sherman.
L. ]. Pettijohn and family came in
from Dodge City last week in their
new auto. They took in the fair
while here.
The aviators who were here during
the fair have silently folded their
aeroplane and gone to Florida where
they will fly.
Mrs. Minnie Grinstead gave an adj
dress at the Methodist church Sunday
night. The w. c. T. q. had charge
of the meeting.
Gertrude Thompson, who has been
visiting her parents here for couple
of weeks, went back to her duties in
a hospital at Hutchinson Saturday.
We notice in several places in town
the great need of fire committe.
fair 1t is a wonder that there were
not more accidents than did happen.
Mrs. ]. X. Hitch stopped off here
on her way from Missouri to her
home in Guymon. last week to visit
with relatives and to take in the fair.
Mrs. o. T. Wood, who attended the
Grand Body of Rebeccas at Indepen-
dence, and visited friends at Wichita
for a few days, returned home Sat
urday.
A large number of people were
up from Guymon, Tyrone, Hooker,
and Dalhart during the fair. Also
from Plains and Meade we had many
visitors.
The police had very little to do
during the fair despite the fact that
Nos. and 2 were pretty we'll loaded
down with booze for Liberal each day
of the fair.
The first number of the Lyceum
course for this season will be given at
the Hall Saturday night. We under
stand it will be the Theobaldi Con-
cert Company.
Mrs Chas. White and Miss Kathryn
Wright are representing the Woman S
Club of this city at the district led
Grafton meeting to be held at Dodge
City this week.
One of the most cowardly things
we have heard of in the whole of our
existence was the declaration that
they were glad Roosevelt had been
shot and that they wished it had
killed him. This from a supposedly
civilized man in Liberal.
|. n. McCaully of Hiawatha. Kan
sas, was here the last of the week to
take in our lair and to look alter
some land holdings in Stevens county
and some lots in this city. He made
this Office a pleasant call and said
that he was agreeably surprised to
find Liberal having such a rafting
good fair.
The delay in the airship getting
here, was. in one sense of the word,
the fault of the NJ. X. & T. railroad,
but when the facts are known 1t is