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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
RADF0RD ON
WOMAN SUFFRAGE

The home is the greatest contribu-
ton of women to the world, and the
hearthstone is her throne. Our So
cial structure is built around her, and
social righteousness is in her charge.
Her beautiful life lights the skies of
hope and her refinement is the charm
of twentieth century civilization. Her
graces and her power are the cumu-
lative products of generations of
queenly conquest, and her crown of
exalted womanhood is jeweled with
the wisdom of sanity mothers. She
of our country, and her noble achieve
ments should not be married or her
hallowed influence blighted by the
coarser duties of citizenship. Ameri-
can chivalry should never permit her
to bear the burdens of defending and
maintaining government, but should
preserve her unsullied from the allied
influences of politics, and protect her
from the weighty responsibilities of
the sordid affairs of life that will
crush her ideals and lower her stand
ards. The motherhood of the farm
is III inspiration, she is the guardian
of u domestic welfare and a guide
to a higher life, but directing the af-
fairs of government is not within wo-
mans sphere, and political gossip
would cause her to neglect the home,
forget to mend III clothes and burn
the biscuits.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
POINTS To
BY Helen Watts M'vey.

For lasting labels on plants ex-
posed to the weather, cut strips of
zinc, expose them to the weather for
a few days and then write the names
of plants on them.
Spray chrysanthemums for the
black beetle; make a strong suds by
shaving a cake of white soap in boil
ing hot water, and when dissolved,
add half of it to a pailful of hot water
apply with a garden spray or syringe
as hot as the hand a bear. Drench
tho beetle well.
After a shower, or when the foliage
is wet, give the rose bushes a thor
ough busting on all sides, with sifted
wood ashes.
If this is done whether insects APP
pear or not, it will save trouble.
Bignonia cupreolate is said to far
exceed the ordinary trumpet flower.
Bignonia radicans, in beauty, though
it is hard to see how it can. Both
vines are absolutely hardy, and in the
southern states grow wild.
Give the lawn a dressing of fertili-
ger in midsummer. If you have no
old fertilizer, well rotted manure, get
the commercial fertilizers as they are
not expensive, and be liberal with
them.
Adjust the knives of the lawn mow-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
A BIT OF HISTORY.

Experience has shown that the clos.
ing up of the saloons and the outlaw
ing Of the liquor traffic has always
proved a great benefit to every legi-
innate industry. A chapter in the
history of Ireland furnishes a graphic
illustration. During the years 1s09-10
and 1894 the distilleries of Ireland
were stopped on account of the fam
inc, on the ground that these distil-
leries wasted the grain that might
otherwise be used by the people as
food. The results we're surprising.
The consumption of spirits fell off
nearly one-half. On the other hand.
there was a tremendous increase in
the demand for dry goods, blankets,
cotton goods, sugar, hardware, crock
cry. groceries and other necessities,
thus showing that a year of scarcity
with prohibition is better than a year
of plenty without it.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
RURAL SOCIAL cENTERS

We need social centers where our
young people can be entertained,
amused and instructed under the di-
rection of cultured, clean and COM
petent leadership. where aesthetic
surroundings stir the love for the
beautiful. where art charges the at
mosphere with inspiration and power,
and innocent amusements instruct
and brighten their lives.
To hold young people on the
farm we must make farm life more
attractive as we'll as the business of
farming more remunerative. The
school house should be the social unit.
properly equipped for nourishing and
building character, so that the lives of
our people can properly function
around it and become supplied with
the necessary elements of human
thought and activity.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
STARTING THE W
By Josephine De Mari.

If your sweet peas begin to deteri-
crate, watch closely to see that no
seeds mature; that the soil is stirred
and a good mulch applied; that they
get a good soaking at the roots once
or twice a week during dry weather.
In a shady corner of the garden
prepare a bed of light, rich, sandy
soil, and put a frame about it. Cover
it with a glass frame heavily white
washed. Water and firm the soil and
then plant cuttings in 1T. Cuttings of
geranlums, roses, ETC., may vary from
an inch to eight, but in all cases re-
move two-thirds of the LEAKAGE and
bury the cutting, allowing one or two
eyes above the soil.
If you want to grow geraniums,
snip out the tips of the branches and
train the plant to throw out shoots
near the ground. No shoot should be
allowed to grow longer than three
inches. This shipping process will in
sure lots of blooms later On.
Prepare a good supply of liquid
manure to offset the facilitating eff
feet of summer upon. the flowers.
Have a spigot placed two or three
inches above the bottom of the barrel,
fill with straw well above this spigot,
and then a foot or two of fresh man
ure. Fill the barrel with water and
in a few days the manure water will
be ready to draw off and apply.
Turn the ported plants that have
been plunged in the border to prevent
their roots striking through into the
soil. Cut off all the buds just as soon
as they appear, and give the plants
enough water so that they will not
suffer. Turn the Gala lily pot on its
side in a shady place and give it a
good rest.
While most people preach the desir-
ability of young plants for winter
blooming, you will find that the gera-
NUNS and kindred plants will give
more bloom and be more satisfactory
as winter bloomers in their second
year than in their first, if properly
raised. Cut the year-old plants back
severely, pinch out all the shoots be-
fore they get three inches long, repot
and shift as necessary, but do not
stimulate with liquid manure
A neighbor has a hedge of peren-
NAL sweet peas screening the barn
yard from the house yard, and it is
most satisfactory. Although its
flowers r not as light and graceful
as the annual sweet pea, they have
a charm all their own, and through
heat and cold, frost and drought, need
little are or coaxing to do their best.
If you want to W. a fence or
trellis with a quick growth of vines,
get stems of the Virginia creeper,
about six to eight feet in length, make
a trench along the fence, and bury the
vines five or six inches deep. At ev-
cry joint will grow a shoot. Give a
good soil and top dressing of we'll
rotted in spring and fall.
This vine is hardy as the oak and al
most immune from the attack of in
sects and pests.
The gladioli may be planted up to
July 20 and, if given good soil, water
and liquid manure, they will bloom
before frost. If you come across the
wild cucumber this month be sure to
carry home with you some of its
seeds. Plant them where you want
them to grow and then forget them.
They will appear next spring.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
THE COUNTY FAIR
BY Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmerseunion

\ q OAAOh
The farmer gets more out of the
fair than anyone else. The fair to a
city man is an entertainment; to a
farmer 1t is education. Let US take a
stroll through the fair grounds and
linger a moment at a few of the points
of greatest interest. We will first
visit the mechanical department and
hold communion with the worlds
greatest thinkers.
You are now attending a congress of
the mental giants in mechanical sci
ence of all ages. They are addressing
you in tongues of iron and steel and
in language mute and powerful tell an
eloquent story of the worlds progress.
The inventive geniuses are the most
valuable farm hands we have and
they perform an enduring service to
mankind. We can all help others for
a brief period while we live, but it
takes a master mind to tower into the
realm of science and light a torch of
progress that will illuminate the path
way of civilization for, future genera
tiOAo. Inc ulcA WuO gave uS LILO
sickle, the binder, the cotton gin and
hundreds Of other valuable inventions
work in every field on earth and will
continue their labors as long as time.
Their bright intellects have conquered
death and they will live and serve
mankind on and on forever, without
money and without price. They have
shown us how grand and noble it is
to work for others; they have also
taught us lessons in economy and eff
cheney, how to make one hour do the
work of two or more; have length
ened our lives, multiplied our
opportunities and taken toll off the
back of humanity.
They are the most practical men
the world eve produced. Their in
%ventions have stood the acid test of
utility and efficiency. Like all useful
men, they do not seek publicity, yet
millions of machines sing their praises
from every harvest field on earth and
as many plows turn the soil in mute
applause of their marvellous achieve
ments.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
SALOON HER GREATEST FOE.

What a the Catholic church do If
she is loyal to her p~rofessed princi-
pies. but raise her hand in opposition
to the American saloon, and put her
self clearly on record as its unswerv-
ing antagonist? The Catholic church
renounces her w life and principles
when she eases to combat with all
her might intemperance in it's causes
and alliances. The American saloon
Is her mortal foe; between the church
and the saloon there can be no truce.
Archbishop Ireland.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
Upholstery and
Cabinet Work

High Class Work in All Branches
of the Business.
SHADES, AWNINGS, DRAPERIES
AND FURNITURE
A Speciality.
CARPETS ALTERED, SEWED
AND LAID.
No order too large, none too small
for me to handle.
All work entrusted to me will be
executed in a business-like manner
and absolute satisfaction is guaran.
teed.
A. b. ELDRIDGE
IL E. Washington Ave-, Pleasantville
Bell Phone 167.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
INSURANCE OFFICIALS TESTIFY.

The medical directors of three great
life insurance companies estimated
that from Z to 43 per cent of acct
dents are due, directly or indirectly,
to alcohol. Seven per lent of the rail-
road accidents, 8 per cent of the street
car accidents, 10 per cent of those
caused by automobiles, 8 per cent of
those due to vehicles and horses, 43
per cent of heat prostration and sun
stroke, z per cent of the machinery
accidents, 8 per cent of the accidents
in mines and quarries. Is per cen of
the drowning, and 10 per cent of the
gunshot wounds are brought about,
entirely or partially, by alcohol.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
MONEY FOR GOVERNMENT.

Liquor Man-Where will you get the
money to run the government if you
cut out the sale of liquor?
Temperance Mantle best answer
| know of is the action of the four
great nations, which, at a time when
every cent that can be got is urgently
needed for the conduct of the war,
finds it nor profitable to reduce this
revenue than to run the risks inciden-
tai upon the general use of alcoholic
drinks among the soldiers and, as in
Russia, the general public.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
WHAT LIQUOR MONEY WOULD DO.

w TIA mOINEr " LIZ.
The American Grocer enumerates
some of the benefits which might &C.
crue to the citizens Of this country II
the annual drink bill, $1,724, 607, 519,
were turned into legitimate channels,
namely:
1T would pay interest and sinking
fund on the amount necessary to buy
comfortable homes for nearly nine
million families.
ut would buy a suit of clothes for
every man and boy and a dress for
every woman and girl in the United
States, with enough left over to buy
a pair of shoes for everybody.
"If the money spent for drink were
spent for homes tenancy would disap-
pear in the United States within one
generation.
"If it were spent for education every
child in the country would receive a
college education.
"If it were spent for automobiles,
every family in the country would
own a car before 1924.
IF it were spent for religion, it
would within less than a decade carry
the Gospel to every living creature.
"Tf it were spent for railroads. 1t
would buy every mile of railroad in
the United States in ten years.
"If it were spent for government, it
would pay all the expenses of the
United States, with enough left over
to pay the bonded debt of all the
states of the Union"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
NO BEER FOR HER CHAUFFEUR.

A certain st. Louis brewer has a
number of autos, one of which is set
apart for the exclusive use of his wife
Mrs. Brewer, being a reading and an
observing woman, knows something OF
the nature and effects of the stuff her
husband manufactures and will not
employ a chauffeur who drinks that
or any other kind of alcoholic liquor
Safety first" is her p~olicy-that is,
personal safety. We venture to say
that neither husband nor wife feel
happy when they permit themselves 10
think of the destruction which follows
in the wake of the brewing business.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06

er to cut about two inches above the
crown of the grass plant; keep the
grass growing well, remove all lawn
clippings and put them in the manure
heap.
Do not fail to get a root of Trade
scantia Virginica, known commonly
as "Spiderwort," "Blue-eyed Mary,
and by a few other names.
The plant is perfectly hardy, will
grow anywhere, but prefers a reason
ably moist situation.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06

Many ills come from impure blood.
Can't have pure blood with faulty
digestion, lazy liver and sluggish
bowels. Burdock Blood Bitters is re-
commended for strengthening stom-
ach, bowels and liver and purifying
the blood.-adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
SOME FLOWER NOTES

The azaleas bloom late in winter.
In the south plant sweet peas and
trim roses.
Make out your lists for seeds and
plants early.
Plants that are not growing need
no fertilizers.
Take no chances in fighting insects;
fight to eXterminate.
Do not shower plants on cloudy
days and keep out of the sun when
wet,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
AN ANTIoUArEp MEDICINE.

One of the best known men in the
medical world is DR.. Howard A. Kelly of
Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore.
Doctor Kelly says: For about fifteen
years have eve prescribed or rec
commended it for any cause whatever.
Tell your surgeon who ~prescribes al
cohol and says it does good that he is
just ten years b h'r7 the age in which
he is living"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06

Old men have visions, young men
have dreams. Successful farmers
pillow deep while sluggards sleep.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06

Education is a developing of the
mind. not a stufing Of the memory.
Digest what you read.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06
No Use to Try and Wear Out Your
Cold; 1t Will Wear You Out
Instead.

Thousands keep on suffering
Coughs and Colds through neglect and
delay. Why make yourself an easy
prey to serious ailments and epidem-
les as the result of a neglected Cold I?
Coughs and Colds sap your strength
and vitality unless checked in the
early stages. DR.. Kings New Dis
covery is what you need-the first
dose helps. Your head clears up, you
breathe freely and you feel so much
better. Buy a bottle to-day and
start taking at once.-adv.
Itching, %torturing skin eruptions
disfgure, annoy, drive one wild.
Doan's Ointment is praised for it's
good work. SOC at all drug stores.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06

The growing of legumes viii retard
soil depletion and greatly add to it's
power to produce.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-06

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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21

Give yourself relief" we say.
To a great extent the remedy is
in your own hands.
Some of you are welded to the
mail order habit because you get
q cent or two off here and there
but you pay it back in the
freight
Is your credit good with the
mail order concern? Not in a
thousand years.
Do you hand over your cash be-
fore you get your goods? YOU
bet-every time-and you keeT
what you get, whether it stiug'
or not.
You expect your home mer'
chant, who extends you credit
and carries your account in
definitely, to make the same
price on goods he guaranteed
that the mail order man makes
on goods he does not guarantee
and for which he demands hi
pound of flesh in advance.
Is this fair? Is it just to thu
home merchant, or even to your
self?
Now why can't the people o
this community get togethe
with the tradesmen and inaugu
rate a strictly cash system il
every line of business? VIII,
can't we stamp out the credi
curse? 1t is simply breeder o
high prices, in which everybod,
suffers.
Buying for cash would meal
more goods for your money, les
worry, and a better communit.
generally.
And the deadbeat would thel
have to pay for his keep.
WHAT say you, brother? Thes
columns are open to you for re
O1v.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21
Five Mile News.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. U. Carney of
Galena spent Tuesday with Mrs.
c. C. Waid.
Mrs. J. H. Rudy entertained
4 number of friends Saturday
evening. Dainty refreshments
were served.
Miss Mum Shirley spent the
latter part of last week with her
sister, Miss Elizabeth.
Willie Ritchey spent Sunday
with Park Waid.
J. H. Rudy was on the Galeua
market Saturday.
C. C. Waid and Ray Smaller
transacted business in Baxter
Saturday.
A number of young folks at.
tended a party at Joe Ewers'
Thursday night. All reported q
nice time.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Waid were
shopping in Galena and Joplin
Monday.
Little Birdie Waid is reported
on the sick list this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21
First Published in Baxter Springs News
January 2Ist, 1851
PUBLICATION SUMMONS.

In the District Court of Cherokee county
Kansas, sitting ut Galena: D,.,,
TT. Morrow and Willie 7. Morrow. Plain
t,fTs' VS.. Louis Turner, Ruby Turner,
GRACE Turner, Fannie JONES' Nauoe
| Brown, Emma Brown and Alex oaE'"s'
Defendants. o
The State of Kansas to Louis 1uTneL'
Fannie Jones, Maude Brown anu 0
Brown ,.,.. ,,o.,asd
ond will take notice that you have oeen
sued In the above entitled cause IN tne
oIove entitled court by the above named
nIaintiffs. and that you must on or Detor=
tI,e Ith dnv of March, 1915, answer the Pc
tition of nlaintiffs or the same VAL DC
taI-en "a true and the court will renoer It's
judgment and finding that there 70 one
the plaintiff, T. ]. Morrow, the sum y.
$4,000 with ten per cent interest tneLeOn
from August 18th, 1913, and also JuoEmen.
for costs Of this action, and the mo.Ih ~
Given 20 secure the note sued upon IN TINS
action will be foreclOsed on the following
described real estate, to-Wit'-
Tots No. twenty-five ca, twenty-tnree
| fl3 and tU,enty.four ga, Block three CS IN
Rarnes Addition to the City OF Baxter
Srrin0s. ia Cherokee County, Kansas ano
tI,at said real estate will be ordered 500
for the payment Of said finding ana luog.
ment, and you and each of you wiz De
barred of all right, title and interest," IN
and 10 said real estatei that receiver
will be appointed for said real esta.e 1 a..
ing the tendency OF this actlon, III 'n :"
nIsintiH Riveu such other and further re
lief as 10 the court seems proper and just
In witness Whereof, have hereunso
aet NV hand and affixed the seal OF saio
court At my ONCE In the city OF GeIena;
Cherokee County, Kansas, this 18th day OF
o. ". FAIL,
rsKAIl clerk OF the District Court
By Bess Hickman, Deputy
8. C, Westcott, Attorney for Plainttns'i
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21
Every nation has It's curse.

Every nation has its curse.
Ours is the overworked credit
system as applied to the ordinary
expenditures of life, and espec-
tally to the table.
If every business and profess
sional man in this community
were asked a. to whether he
would rather sell for cash at 4
considerable discount in price, or
continue the credit system, we
believe the vote would be unani-
nous in favor of cash and re-
duced profits.
The credit system is 4 nui.
sance. It IL q national curse-a
community curse, if you please.
Wherever the credit system
prevails, there you will find the
usual number of Slow.pays and
genuine deadbeatS.
The merchant pays for his
goods, and in turn some one
must pay him. He cannot live
on wind, hope or expectations.
1t is a case of mo cash, no live. "
Every merchant who extends
credit gets taken in BY the dead.
heads. He loses not only his
profits bat the cost of his goods
as we'll.
And what then does he do?
Just what you or any other SEN
sible person would do--raises the
prices sufficiently on his wares to
protect him against such losses.
And the man who pays his own
bills also pays the bills of the
deadbeat.
If a person can pay at the end
Of every thirty days it would re.
quire but little retrenchment and
sacrifice to enable him to reach
the poiut where he can pay cash
" he goes.
When the merchant carries
your account he virtually lends
you his money, and this should
not he. The bank 10 the proper
place for such transactions.
By paying cash for his goods
the dealer can get 4 substantial
discount from the wholesaler,
and this discount coupled with
the saving of the usual deadbeat
losses, would make 4 material re-
duction in the cost Of supplies
But he can hardly stand the
strain of a cash transaction him
self while he 10 extending from
thirty to ninety days credit to
Dick, Tom and Harry and all Of
the little Harrys.
Prices are high in this com
muuity, bat conditions are nc
worse here than they are in Other
sections of the country. The
wall is heard in every city and
hamlet, and the volume is ex'
ceeding great.
Give us relief" is the cry.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21
On RemOdeIed Gowns

Perhaps now, Mrs. Housekeep-
er, you have a fine gown of last
years model which you would
like to remodel to conform with
the newer style. Read then, in
this issue of The News, Julia
Bottomley's article, style Fea'
lures in Remodeling Gowns" Il
is illustrated.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21
Make an Offer.

Make us an offer, and If it is
reasonable we will accept it, for
a whole block of ground in a
good part of town. Every foot
of the block can be farmed OF
gardened. The block is 800 feet
square, all good dirt, and will be
sold to somebody soon.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21

A big snow fell all over the
bigger part of Kansas last week,
but down in this Italian climate
none fell. The wheat out in the
western and central parts of the
state will be greatly benefited,
and already crop statisticians are
predicting a crop like the last
ooa
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21

We are of the opinion that II
is high time the legislatures and
others quit digging into the rail-
roads and other corporations.
The railroads are not making
any money, and are hardly able
to keep up repairs. The petty
assaults made upon them are un'
fair, and if persisted in, will
bring every road in the country
TO ruin.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21

Adam Hahn took a couple OF
6ue brood sows to his father,
Mike Hahn, over near Chetopa
last week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21

Use one-cent-a-word advs. in
the News, if you want to buy or
sell anything. They are cheap
and very effective.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-21

The Pitcher Lead Company is
sinking a shaft on the Slim Jim
land, just across the road from
the D. S. Chubb farm. The
Pitcher people have put down
several drill holes on this land,
and in all of them have made
good strikes.