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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
MARTIN TRIES TO FOOL.

Judge Martin acted as attorney for
the Stock Yards Company. which
brought an injunction to prevent the
water works company complying with
the order Of the city. Judge Martin
was merely violating the law and
Fighting the interests Of the city OF
which he was mayor. He fought it on
70 the supreme court and lost his
case. The supreme court decided
that the city could order water mains
taken up where they were Of no pub
lie use and put down where they were
needed. Mayor Martir fought against
The city's interests in the case. He
doesn't deny that. He denies some
ching that was never said, hoping to
make the public believe that he de-
nies something that was said BY
this polgfoxing he admits every state
ment Of The News, and in fact he can
not and will not deny one of them.
The ordinary citizen does not like
70 be trifled with. This attempt Of
Judge Martin to fool the public BY
such a statement on something not
Al issue IS merely more evidence why
he made such a poor mayor. It is
the same Characteristic which makes
him promise anything to get votes.
on the theory that he can slip out
later On.-Hutchinson News. March
%, 1909.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05

that the common carrier may no,
charge a higher rate for the short
haul than for the long haul in the
same direction, thereby removing the
discrimination against the jobbing
centers of the Seventh district.
10th. l believe in a further weed
ing out Of useless Officials who are
parasites upon the public polite;
cutting out every graft and reduc-
ing the expense Of the administra-
tion Of affairs so that every employe
will give dollar Of service for ev-
cry dollar Of pay.
11th. | believe in the further exten-
sion of rural deliveries and Of further
federal aid TO agriculture, good roads
and irrigation in this district.
18th. The government Of the
Unfed States owes a sacred duty to
It's defenders, and believe each sol
der Of the Union army is entitled to
a pension Of one dollar per day dur
ing the balance of his life.
Respectfully submitted.
GEORGE A. NEBLEY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
UNCLE SAM FACES INCREASED
DEFICIT.


The dying year, 1911, is bequsath-
Ing the federal government a mater
'aily increased deficit, as compared
with the close Of 1910, to be wiped
out If possible, during the remaining
half Of the current fiscal year. Tue
general fund representing the avail
able resources Of the treasury, showed
a big growth on. the other hand due.
10 the sale Of s5O,OOO,OOO IN Panama
canal bonds durcng the year.
While Secretary Macveagh had not
received complete returns when the
treasury closed its doors Saturday, X
Is known that the disbursements ex>
ceeded the receipts during the lask
SIX months, exclusive Of the Panama
canal financial operations, by about
s22,OOOOOO while during the CORES
ponding period last year the deficit
was only s3,S7O,OOO.
The principle causes Of the incress-
ed deficit were a falling off Of prob
ably s1O,OOOOOO In customs receipts,
and an increase of about 100000 n
the cosa Of the navy during the last
half year, as compared with the same
period i'm 1910. approximately $751;
100000 were received from customs
receipts during the last six months,
while at the close of December last
year this source Of revenue had yield
ed $162O00,OOO. The navy has cost
about 7O,OOO,OOO up to date this year.
fThe disbursements during the first
half Of the last fiscal year were $685.
100000.
The month Of December made a par
ticularly poor showing, ITS deficit be-
ing S2,OO0,00O while that for Novem-
Der was only $46O,OOO December's
receipts amounted to approximately
$52OOO,OOO and disbursements $54,'
100000.
The general fund today amounts "a
about 7OOOO,OOO actually in the treas
urer's cash drawer. A year ago the
general fund was sS9,OOO,OOO and the
working balance was sS7,OOO,OOO.
The amount Of gold today In the
possession Of the United States, the
greatest gold holding nation IN The
work. was approximately 81 49, 900.
900 in coin and bullion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
JOHN BlTNER LOST.

The daily papers the first of this
week contained an article sent out
from Dighton, 10 the effect that John
Bitner, postmaster and merchant at
Shields, in Lane county, had taken
the train for the east on December
22 and had not been seen nor heard
from since. So far as We know at
the time Of gOirg TO press no news
has been received from him. He
was formerly a resident Of this cOun-
ty being an extensive farmer. He is
the son Of Mrs. Bitner and brother
of the Misses Bitner, who for some
time have made their homes here.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
NOW RY.WINTERS.

May June Mowry and Mr.. Walter
H Winters were married al the
home OF the brides mother In this
city Christmas night, Rev. T. D. Hal
bert Of the U. B. church performing
the ceremony. Only a few frienda
and relatives were present to witness
the ceremony. The bride and groom
are two Of our popular young people
and we join their friends IN extending
congratulatioCs. The groom Is en-
ployed as time keeper at the Missouri
Pacific shops. They will make their
future home in this city:-Dispatch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
WINNERS

Albert r. Tucker took first prize
It the Farmers institute at Man
haitian last week for the best corn
shown ln the Exhibit for Western
Kansas. and Willis Adams. also a
Barton county boy, took third prize.
Barton county can Justly be proud
Of such boys as. these, and the future
prosperity of Kansas win be assured
as long as the Home and Schools fur
nsh the state such boys.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
RACHEL WRAY SLACK.

In the death of Rachel Wray Slack
Great Bend and Barton couus loses
one of its most respected citizens and
pioneers. Mrs. Slack came to this
city in 1873, and had since made her
home here. She was a kind mother, a
good friend. and a true Christian wo-
man. She was "a years, / month and 3
days Of age at the time Of her death.
Death was due to a general break
down in health which commenced
about years ago and which was ac-
cenhuated about year ago by two
apopletic strokes since which time she
had been practically helpless and un-
able to move about. Until her eigh-
tieth year she was active in mind
and body and insisted on doing her
part OF the house work. and though
she lived three miles from town new
er missed a Sunday, hardly, in attend.
ing church in this city
Born in England, in 1927, in 1876
at the age Of 10 Rachel Wray was
married to Edwin Slack in the church
at Leeds In 1855 with her husband
she immi grated to Canada and in 1861
they moved to Oswego, N. Y, because
Of their belief in the freedom Of man
and it was here that the husband
Joined the army, serving his adopted
country 9aliantly and giving his life
for the cause at Hilton Head, South
Carolina, at which time he was an
adjutant in the 3rd South Carolina
Colored infantry. It LEFT the wife
and six small children alone in the
world but with true Spartan courage
she went ahead. In 1873 after two OF
the children had died, she was told
that only trip west could save an
other daughters life and with her
four children she came to Great Bend
then nearly the farthest point west
reached by railroad. Mrs. Slack had
been brought up a member Of the
Wesleyan Methodist church In Eng
land and she was one Of the charter
members of the church here. A few
years after coming here she lost two
more of her children, leaving two, a
daughter and son. The son, Tom
Slack, grew UP here and later moved
10 Pueblo where he was in business
and where his death occurred many
years ago. The daughter, now Mrs.
R. Taylor, was united in marriage in
this city, in 1875, to R. Taylor,
then mayor OF the cny and pros
porous lumber merchant. Mrs. Slack
made her home with them until the
day Of her death. The family lived
in this city for few years an then
moved to the farm northwest OF town
The deceased Leaves to mourn her
death, her daughter, and grandchild-
zen of this place, a daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Slack in Pueblo, besides a host
o. friends here and numerous rela-
t.Yes in England. She was a kindly
woman, admired and loved by those
who knew her and her death brings
grief to many heart.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
DIED..

Helen Tindall, daughter cf Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter TndaM, died at their
lone near Mountain View, Mo-. FRI
Jay Of typhoid-pneumonia at the aga
If 10 years. Funeral services were
acid Monday. Mr. and Mrs. TLndall
ard family have the profound SYM
ssthy Of their many Ho.sington
. ends In their sad loss.-Dispatch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
LlTzENBERGER-elDEoN.

Miss Susan Litzenberger and Mr..
George Gideon were married at The
home of Theo Schuttler Christmas
day at 2 O'Clock by Rev. o. G. Heb
erstreit. About so friends and relar.
lives were present to witness the Ger
emony. Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon viii
make their home in this city whore
the groom is employed by the Ms
souri, PacHh.-Dispatch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
TO BUY THE TABERNACLE.

A committee composed Of members
Of the Commercial club and the Bus
mess Mems association Is at work
trying to interest enough people In
deal for the purchase Of the Tab
ernacle. We understand the price
made for the building, without any ot
lis equipment, is $500. The object
IL to buy the same and use It for an
auditorium.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05
WHAT HIS HOME TOWN THINKS
OF NEELEY.

The Gazette is in receipt Of a letter
nom Mr.. S. S. Spleakman, briefly re-
viewing the early struggles of George
A. Neeley in his pioneer Oklahoma
home. The letter comes from an old
fnend OF the democratic candidate,
who has watched his career from ear
y boyhood, and who is acquainted
with his inherent qualities of pluck,
rugged honesty, determination and in.
duStry. It is an interesting story of
The early struggles OF selfmade man
under diScOuragimg environments and
a splendid testimonial to the worth
and character of the democratic can
didate for congress.
Wellston, Okla, Dec. 26, 1911.
Editor Gazette:
The fact that the Hon. G. A.
Neeley Is favored candidate for con.
gress IN KaHass, is most gratifying
70 his many friends of the old home
town and county who have watched
his development from a country boy
struggling against the adEersities of
che pioneer life of Oklahoma, to a
man Of that ability, integrity and
strengh of character which gained for
him the highest respect and admira-
ton OF all who knew him. The story
ct Judge Neeley's early life is paral-
del with that of so many men who
have led our government in its most
steps Of progress.
His parents Live ON the farm which
they homesteaded in the opening set
clement. They are that type OF good
old country folks which every honor
able, self-reSpecting farmer is proud
% have as his neighbor.
While helping his parents clear up
this new home, young Neeley attend
ed the crude rural schools of that
day, won a local reputation as a keen,
eloquent debater, taught three terms
Of school; but all this time the big,
ragged frontier lad was digging out
The high school branches, and courses
Ia elementary law. With the savings
OF his scanty earnings he attended
the law school at the Kansas Univer-
sity where he had established at his
graduation a most enviable reputa-
tion. In a word, G. A. Neeley ) a
sef made man.
The struggle of his bOyhoOd days
II still fresh i'm the minds of the early
settlers. The mastemul courage and
perseverance with which he met his
Universities is held up as a model TO
encourage the young man of today
of apparent hope and promise who
is opposed by poverty and threats of
unfaNorable environments.
His ability as scholarly man, a
powerful orator, and a master of law
Is well known, that It needs no men
ton. His integrity and strength of
character stands without question i'm
the minds of those who really know
him, and those people bid fair to the
day when G. A. Neeley, with all his
power, strength and courage shall
champion the cause Of the right
against the wrong, the cause of the
common people against the special
interest i'm the halls of congress
The people of Oklahoma will ever
envy Kansas Of such a congressman
But this state will ever claim an heir
ship to the luster Of his glory; and
proudly boast Of the scenes of his
boyhood days.
S. S. SPEAKMAN.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-05

Mrs. Dot Keesee has returned from
visit with friends in Oklahoma
City.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19

Persia, with the kind of shops you
would find in Turkish city, will also
p pe part q this section of the s1-
One part of the Exposition will be
filed with sections and scenes repre-
senting Christian Missions in all
parts of the United States. The Wis
itors will first enter a large space
where there will be represented the
life of the American Indian and the
Eskimo of Alaska and the results OF
Christian work among them. The
scene will have all of the character
istics of large encampment Of In
dians in the northwest. Another i'm
portant department of Home Missions
will be illustrated in the Frontier
scene. Visitors will be surrounded by
views of prairies and mountains.
One Of the most interesting sec
lions will be that devoted to work
among immigrants at the Ellis Island
immigration Station, New York Har-
Dor. Splendid results in the Philip
pines, and in Hawaii, Porto Rico and
Cuba, of developing the religious life
of the people, will also be illustrated
in most interesting way.
Populating all the scenes, both of
the foreign lands and the home land,
impersonating the natives of every
country, interpreting to visitors the
meaning of everything they may see,
will be an army Of 5000 stewards
from churches Of Baltimore. These
will be prepared to answer the ques-
lions of visitors by weeks of study
from appropriate textbooks. Nearly
all will wear the costume of the scene
to which they are assigned, and they
will serve in relays, so that at all
times there will be a sufficient num-
Der on duty to give life, character
and color to the exposition.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19

nance the exposition. 1t is hoped that
the admission fee, which the visitor
will BE asked to pay, will enable a.
expenses to be met, and any money
advanced by the guarantors to be re-
paid Should a profit remain after
this has been done, it will be turned
over to the Missionary Education
Movement for the extension OF mis-
sionary education. The great mis-
sionary boards and societies are sup
porting the exposition through the
Missionary Education Movement.
The exposition will demonstrate to
the eye, by providing beautiful, arts
tic things to see, the scenery OF all
lands where the work Of Christian
missions is being carried on, the life
of the people of these lands, their
native religions and their needs from
both a humanitarian and religious
point of view.
Life-like scenery will surround each
scene and section, enclosing groups
OF buildings copied from the charac-
teristic town or village structure of
each land. The first sensation of WISH
tors will be the recognition that be-
fore their eyes is feast of color and
q spectacle such as rarely meets the
gaze Of the untraveled American. In
one part Of the hall, to be called the
Hall Of Nations" will be located the
sections devoted to foreign nations
AS the visitor enters, before him will
be Japanese scene of peculiar
beauty. From the beautiful temple
garden Of Japan you can step into a
waeled Chinese city and then walk
through Korean village street. Ohfy
little imagination is needed to make
you feel you are travelling in the
Orient. The Japanese scene will be
dominated by Buddhist temple with
the Tori arch before it. There will
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19
EXHIBITS ARE, SHOWN
FROM MANY CHIMES

be little shops and rooms from Japan
csc houses.
The China scene will have its tall
central Pagoda, it's temple shrines
and its native homes. In Korea there
will be farmhouse and other build
ings, with a peculiar wayside shrine
and a devil post. Then there will be
an India village, made up of Kali
Temple and a Bengal Zenana, ba-
zaar of shops, the Towers of Silence
and a Monkey Shrine. An African
village will have it's huts, native
blacksmith shop, schoolhouse and
granary. In the section devoted to
Mohammedan lands, which visitors
may enter through the Damascus
gate, there will be rich mans house,
a Bethany home, Turkish Khan and
a Bedouin tent Houses which you
would see If you visited Arabia and
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19
WHY TAFT OR ROOSEVELT
Prices of Food Products Have Scared
Under Them, Yet They Promise Re-
duefiona


Under Them, Yet They Promise Re-
auctions.
According to the bulletin of the fed
eral bureau Of labor the average price
Of q dozen or more of the principal ar
ticles of food has increased 80 per cent
in the last ten years.
The price of -four has increased 80
per cent. lard IS per cent, steak SO
per cent, hams 81 per cent. cornmeal
63 per cent, rib roast 63 per cent.
round steak "a per cent. pork chops SO
per cent, bacon SO per cent and Irish
potatoes III per cent.
During these ten years Of rising
prices Roosevelt and Taft were at the
head of the government Both of them
want to be at the head Of the govern
ment again.
Does any sane man believe that II
these men in ten years did nothing to
retard the rise Of prices which are
expressing the people they would do
anything in four years? Rather. judg-
ing by the past. we should be paying
approximately % per cent more than
we do now. or Is per cent more than
we did ten years ago.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19
Great Missionary Exposition Is Soon
to Open in Baltimore-Native
Life of Distant Places To
Be Pictured.

"The World In Baltimore" will be
the third Missionary exposition on
worldwide scale to be held in the
United States. From October % to
November 80, 1912, it will occupy the
Lyric Theatre and specially con-
structed hall in Baltimore.
Education and inspiration are the
objects of the exposition. 1t has
been organized and is under the man,
agement of committees of Baltimore
men of the highest standing and repu-
tation, who have provided guaran-
tee fund Of more than $4,000 to fl
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19
International Sunday School Lesson.
FOURTH QUARTER. LESSON Ill. MARK
7:M 80 OCTOBER 20, 1912.
Mission Of The GentiIes.
The Story.

Jesus mad q triple motive LOT
this Journey. There was an Il-ad-
vised popular movement to pro-
claim Him king. Again, His preach
ing had attracted the attention of
Herod Antipas, John Baptist's muir
derer. Finally, Jesus had irrevoc-
ably broken with the Pharisees, and
they were planning His death. Rest
and refreshment were to be found
In the locality Jesus visited. Two
Of natures grandest features were
there in juxtaposition-the sea and
the mountain. His retirement was
only partially successful, however.
for it is significantly said, 'He
could not be hid" and a heather
woman was the first to entreat His
offices. This Syrophoenician Is the
generalization of parental solicit
tude. In her pathetic appeal she
makes her daughters malady her
own. It is a mistaken interpreta-
ton which affirms that the unusual
ant was intended to test her faith
and exhibit her persistence. Ii UNI
doubtedly had that effect, but this
was incidental, not the main pur-
pose of delay. His saying to His
disciples explains His apparently I'M
sympathetic bearing, II am not sent
but unto the lost sheep of the house
of Israel" Forty times Jesus de-
clares Himself sent" He will be
true to the minutest directions of
His Infinite Sender. Gods ''plan"
for His Son confined His ministry
to the Hebrew people. He was to
be minister to the circumcision"
He Himself restricted the commits
sion Of the apostles to the Jews
until His resurrection. The pur-
pose was to form hearthstone out
Of the Hebrew nation on-.'s''-''-"
might be kindled, to whose
warmth and cheer all the nations
of earth might be invited. To this
plan" Jesus faithfully adhered. He
never crossed the boundary of the
Holy Land, never worked a miracle
on a Gentle. He who had limited
His disciples commission to the
Hebrews could not now go beyond |
them to work a miracle for this
heather, unless. to the complete sat
isfaction OF the disciples she could
be shown to be an exception. Hen
ce His silence, His discouraging an
nouncement, "Am not SENT and
finally those trying words in which
He used the common discourteous
epithet which Jews applied to Gen
tiles. The suffering woman en-
dured the ordeal. She proved her
self daughter of Abraham by her
faith, and as such worthy of having
the thing which she asked done for
her.
The Teachers Lantern.
1t would have been a moral dis
aster of superlative proportions if
the people had made Jesus king.
The Kingdom He had come to
found was altogether different in
kind and method from that which
they proposed. This proposition was
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19

When you have cold you want
the best medicine 7obtainable so as
to cure it with as little delay as
possible. Here is a druggists opin-
ion: 81 have sold Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for fifteen years.
says Enos Lollar, of Saratoga, Ind,
''and consider it the best on the
market" For sale by all dealers.
ADVERTISEMENT
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19
SIXTY MISSIONARIES
WILL PARTICIPATE

A large number of leading mission
aries from all parts of the world are
to be in Baltimore during "Ths World
in Baltimore" Exposition, which will
be held October rs to November go
They will take q prominent part in
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19
Puts End To Bad Habit.

Things never look bright to one
with "the blues" Ten to one the
trouble is a sluggish liver, filling
the system with bilious poison, that
DR.. Kings New Life Pills would ex-
pei. Try them. Let the joy OF
better feelings end "the blues y
Best for stomach, liver and kid
neys. 25c. at all druggists.
advertisement
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19

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Wilson, Pa, who says, 81 know
from experience that Chamberlain
Cough Remedy is far superior to
any other. For Group, there is
nothing that excels it." For sale
by all dealers.
ADVERTISEMENT
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-10-19
The President may prove himself
a larger body than Congress.

II you nave young children you
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common ailment. To correct this
you will find Chamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets excellent.
They are easy and pleasant to
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For sale by all dealers.
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