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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01
Sermon in Honor
of Dead Soldiers

| scribed the nations start as a mos
heroic one and that it was none
other than the boys in blue who had
upheld this heroism and patriotism
and prevented 1t from being rent
asunder.
The greatest tribute was paid to
the war veterans when DR.. Dutton
told how of the ranks of the blue
had come the nations greatest states
men, president, leader, legislators
and lawyers. a; 81
"a new age is now upon us and
the world needs America" he said
in closing and urged the veterans
to train their sons in the ways of
great citizens and inspire in them
patriotism so as to meet this COM
ing emergency. "The greatest his
tory is yet to be made and beyond
the veil of the future lies untold
possibilities, great propagandas and
IlLOl C0llAS lain LAO
youth and the son in preparation"
NJ. Gardner, post commander, was
in charge of the meeting. F. A.
Smith, adjutant, read the state and
commanders proclamations
and the list of the departed veter-
ans.
Miss Zoa Ford and Miss Helen
Outton, accompanied by Miss Pearl
Carver at the piano, sang a duet.
All the committees of the three
bodies are asked to be at the city
lall at a. m. tomorrow, with the
of those who have other
,rders to come earlier. 1t is espe
tally desired that the Sons of Vet
rams make a good showing in the
'arade and be at the city hall in
ime for it's formation at 10 a. m.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01

Tribute and honor was paid tc
those of the Grand Army of Re-
public ranks, who have been mus
tered out in the years past, Sun
day with memorial services at the
Methodist Episcopal church, DR..
Dean G. Dutton making the address.
One hundred sixty-four veterans of
the rebellion are counted among the
dead from the local post and four
teen of these died within the past
year. Tuesday the stores will close
for a greater part of the day, and
the veterans, their sons and the
w. R. c. will decorate the caves of
the soldiers and pay further tribute.
G. E. Rugh will make the address
of the day.
The veterans of the Civil war re-
siding here still make splendid
showing and yesterday forty-three
were in line and marched with 40
members of the Woman's Relief
Corps and 20 of the S. of V. in a
body to the Methodist church. The
ranks are becoming more tottering
and feeble every year, but in the
two auxilliaries, the veterans have or
ganizations that will carry on their
noble work, and respect in even
greater proportions will be paid the
departed.
DR.. Dutton in his address, ''The
Processes of God in History" told
in his characteristic and highly in
tellectual and able manner, opened
with a description how America had
been called into the worlds history
at most peculiar time and that her
entrance into the worlds limelight
had set all nations agasp. He de-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01
CONTRACTOR DIDN'T PAY BILLS
Debtors Trying to Secure Liens on
New Enterprise High School

According to the papers Of a suit
involving School District No. 16,
Dickinson County VS., The United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Co.,
j. T. Allen, a contractor, A. r.
Reese and Charles Tiede, the latter
doing business as the Tiede Lum-
ber Co. of Enterprise, filed in the
office of the clerk OF district court,
the contractor who built the new
high school building at Enterprise
failed to pay some Of his debts,
after the district had paid him the
building contract price of $14,O31.
From statements made in the petit
tion, these are, Tiede Lumber Co.
$2145.02, and A. r. Reese $63.52,
who filed liens on the building for
these amounts last month.
The contract with Allen was
signed THE Board of Education,
School District No. 16, Dickinson
County, State Of Kansas" it seems,
and the school district is seeking to
hold the surely company for the
amounts the contractor failed to
pay for material used In the build
Ing.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01
Alumni Association for
New High School

telephone him repeatedly and beg,
plead and insist that he reserve a
place in next years work for their
children, Mr.. Stacey said. When
this condition arises 1t is time for
action.
Organization the Keynote
Twenty-seven of the classes re-
sponded to toasts, one by letter and
the remainder through representa-
tives and support was promised
from all Carl Nicolay, ~, sounded
the keynote In plea for organiza-
tion to put the proposition through.
This was taken up and an organiza-
tion of the alumni for further pro-
ductive work is under way.
A. II. S. Alumni Banquet
One hundred and seventy-five
graduates Of the Abilene high
school attended the fifth annual
banquet and reception to the '16
class at the A. o. U. w. hall last
evening. w. A. Matteson, first vice
president, was in charge, and an
enthusiastic gathering 1t was. The
alumni are out after a new high
school and they mean to get one.
The first part of the program was
devoted to boosting purposes. Af-
ter two course luncheon of gener-
Gus proportions had been served
twenty-eight of the thirty-seven
classes that have graduated re-
sponded to toasts. OF the first class
to leave the high school as grad
yates, five In number in 1880, two
we're present Miss Ida Romlg and
Mrs. May Brenizer-WiIs Staurt
D. Henry was expected from New
York, but he did not arrive. Deane
Malott, president Of the class of
1916, responded to the welcome
given the group Of which he is
member. Miss Gladys Harding and
Miss Ada Anderson, two talented A.
4. S. products, delighted the grads"
with a reading and solo, respec-
lively.
The officers elected for the en-
suing year follow: President. ].
Wilbur Nicolay; vice president,
frs. Lois Forney; second vice pres
dent, Miss Charlotte Northcraft;
ecretary-treasurer Miss Bessie
hockey.
The dinner menu: Chicken salad,
raham finger rolls, scalloped pota-
oes, pimento sandwiches, olives,
,e cream, cake, salted almonds, cof-
se
Considering that the affair was
tanned and prepared within
'eek's time, 1t was deemed very
iccessful, in fact the most of any
the previous gatherings. Many
tended from the surrounding
'wns and vicinity. The hall was
laborately decorated with flags,
1t flowers and wistarias.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01
TWO AUTOMOBILES LOCK
WHEELS AT INTERSECTION

An automobile, driven and own
ed by Leonard Patton, going north
on Buckeye at 5 p. m. Sunday
locked wheels with a motor car 60
ing west on Tenth street, at the
intersection. The west bound car
was travelling the fastest and the
occupants of both we're unhurt be-
yond a severe shaking up. The front
tenders of the Patton car and the
rear mud guards on the auto whose
occupants were unidentified, two
young men, we're damaged. 1t was
with some difficulty that the wheels
were untangled.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01
MISS GENEVIEVE HUFFMAN
PRAISED AS INSTRUCTOR

Longford Leader: The concert
given in the opera house by the
girls glee club of the Chapman
township high school, was one of
the most pleasing entertainments Of
the season. The girls did splendidly,
and their singing was a credit to
them and also to their instructor.
Miss Genevieve Huffman, who
has had charge of this branch in the
high school, is certainly deserving
of much praise and this demonstra-
tion of her ability as a music in
structor should not be passed un-
observed, but the patrons of this
school should give her every en-
couragement and cooperation, and
she should be authorized to extend
this branch of learning as far into
the grades as would, in her judg-
ment, be advisable and practicable.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01

Miss Huffman is the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George Huffman OF
this city. She is a graduate of the
fine arts school. University of Kan
sas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01
Don't Rob Birds, Nests

II is reported that several boys
are makisg a collection Of bird eggs
and robbing many nests in town.
There is a state law against such
practices including a reward Of $40
for information leading to a convie-
tion. The parents Of these boys
should make them quit or trouble
may follow.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01

With more enthusiasm, life ant
interest evident than at any pre-
vious occasion, the Abilene higt
! school alumni association Ia 1t.
fifth annual reception and banquet
Friday evening at the A. o. U. w
hall, launched a whirlwind cam.
paign that will secure for Abilene
new, up-to-date and modern high
school, for which there has been a
readily realized and crying need.
From the opening address, by w.
A. Matteson, vice president, who
presided in the absence Of c. l..
Brown, who was in Chicago on bus
mess, to the closing talk there was
a cracking and swapping of strong
feeling for the improvements.
Favor "six and Six" Plan
Prof. ]. w. French, who started
the ball to rolling, emphasized the
central place in community and
welfare work of the town, which
the high schools of the present age
have come to occupy and how in
adequately the present high school
chapel, with a seating capacity Of
250, answered the community"
needs of 5000 persons, 1t was his
well taken stand that all commun-
Ity educational factors, such as
he lecture course should go to the
nigh school, where they could be
made successful.
DR.. Blayney characterized the
Llumni body as the only real body
md organization of genuinely au-
horized aristocratic people of the
own. He pleaded for the adoption
# the junior high school and Junior
ollege system and proved their
merits. He also made a personal ap-
eal to the graduates to put the
roject through.
Propose $4,000 Bond Issue
]. S. Engle, president, and c. C.
Vyandt, of the board of education
l their talks quoted some very
lgnificant statistics and presented
ome amazing charts of the existing
onditions. Mr.. Wyandt SAID that
My lip OF one per cent OF the total
-ealth of the local school district
as represented in school build
lgs That the interest on a $50, 900 {
ond issue would mean a tax of 65-
30 mill or SIS on each $1,000 OF
le voters assessed property. 4.
is prophecy of what the new build /,
gs would be brought gasps OF as
nishment but approval from his
carers.
Urgent Reservation Requests y
w. A. Stacey, superintendent of s
q schools, outlined the plans and o
'quirements of the present day a
Iucational system, and offered ex- t,
anations of parts of the preceding {
eeches. Farmers in the vicinity C
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01
STEPS ON GLASS, SEVERING
ARTERY IN FOOT THRU SHOE

Herington Sun: ]. R. Field of
Abilene, the Standard Oil man, met
with what might have been a very
serious accident at the Rock Island
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01

freight house. He stepped upon a
piece of broken glass which cut
through the shoe and deep into the
foot severing an artery. He was
very weak from the loss of blood
before a doctor arrived to aid him.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-06-01
Negro Women Jailed for Sunday

Negro AOmeh Jaheu iOr ouiuag
Two negro women, arrested in
the jungles west of town at II
O'Clock Saturday night by Marshals
Engle and Haugh, we're released
this morning, after having spent
yesterday in the city jail, on a
promise "to hit the road" and new
er show up here again. Both were
out OF funds. One was a dope fiend
and became a bowling maniac when
she had been deprived Of her NOR
phine for several hours.
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
YOUTH OF 7S AND MAID
OF 70 WED IN STATION
Lad Pops Question on Bus Ride
After 25-Year Wait.

sprightly youth of seventy-eight
years decided to take his steady COM
pany, blushing miss of seventy sum-
mers, for jitney bus outing in the
general direction Of New York City
yesterday morning. They boarded the
vehicle near their home in Danbury,
Conn, and proceeded to sniff the fresh
air.
There was something about the air,
or the budding trees, or the new
ploughed fields that gave the boy Of
seventy-eight the courage TO say what
had been on his mind for a little mat
ter of quarter of a century.
Frances, let's get carried" he whis-
pered.
The already blushing girl of seventy
felt more color surging into her face,
but managed TO give the answer. So
they alighted al Yonkers, sought out
Town Clerk Frank O'Brien, who issued
license, then discovered Justice Of
the Peace James Murty, who was at
the station waiting for the noon train.
The justice agreed 70 perform the cere-
mony in the baggage room. The boy
of seventy-eight gave the name Of
Henry Bradley Yeats, a Danbury hat
maker, and the miss Of seventy gave
her name as Frances Julia Ganman,
also of Danbury.
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
PIGS PIGS MAN
WAR
Magistrate Admits Butler
Beat Him-Flushing Is
Now Calm Again.

Flushing's bloody battle of letters-to-
the-editor, which has been waged
through the columns of its local news
paper by two of the towns most orna-
mental citizens Ellis Parker Butler,
of Pigs Is Pigs fame. and Magistrate
Joseph Fitch, of Boy Scout affiliations
has ended with a crushing defeat for
the magistrates forces.
Marshaling secretaries, stenograph-
ers and proofreaders for a grand as
sault, the battle opened several weeks
ago when the magistrate assailed the
author in an open letter to the Flush
ing newspaper in which he mercilessly
held him up to public scorn for failing
to attend a Boy Scouts charitable en-
tertainment. And, to make the ofense
inexcusable, he pointed out that Mr..
Butler was interested in an Allies
Benefit and had expected the magis-
trate to contribute TO it.
Then came an even more biting letter
from the author of Pigs Is Pigis." He
used language strong enough 10 prove
that his English. from long parlor
usage, had not lost its cutting edge.
For & time there was no answering
salvo from the magistrate. Then came
yesterdays official statement admitting
crushing defeat. Here are the very
terms, as published in Magistrate
Fitch's letter:
81 read your public letter and then |
shed bitter tears of remores. Said TO
myself: I've stabbed good friend in
the back, and if | was going TO stab
him there are other parts of him so
muc hmore available
"Said /: He is charitable. He says
so himself, and he bought tickets 10 the
scout play and everything. WE'LL, it
was real remorse, so | let the bargain
day for the bazaar tickets go BY when
| had the chance; here are 81 for four
tickets at full rates.
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
DINNER FOR F. G. LEE
Broadway Trust Company Celebrates
Passing s25. 900 900 Deposit Marx.

There was a dinner given wednesday
night at the Longe Nue to Frederic u
Lee. president Of the Broadway Trust
Companv. on account of the Broadway
Trust Company having passed the SO
0OO. 900 deposit mark. The original
Broadway Trust Company was organ
lied fourteen years ago at Eighth
Street and Broadway. The board was
all present, also the executive com
mittee.
Colonel Guinzburg. on behalf Of the
directors. presented 20 Mr.. Lee an elao-
crate solid silver travelling set. Colo.
mel Guinzburg was toastmaster, ana al
the board members responded 10 toasts
eulogizing Mr.. Lee. ,.
Among those present were freder l'
G. Lee, president; Louis ;. tnimoy
vice-president; F. a. VI. Burrell, Brook'
lvn \. Y: VI. VI. Belding. jr, presi-
dent. Bedding Bros. & Co; II. A. Gum
burc treasurer. |. B. Kleinert Rubber
Companv; o. J. Ahlstrom, Importer
Tycene s. Benjamin. l. s. Wolf & Co;
Toscnh Frank. John Weber & CO..
eyis f. Picrson. chairman, Irving Ma
,ional Bank: Warren Cruikshank, presi
dcnt. Cruikshank Company; John II
Ioye Graupner. Love & lampreeht'
William Goldman, president Oonen
Goldman & Co; A. Howard Hopping
scotia Worsted Mills, and craig Co!'
gate, Colgate-Parker company
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
BIRTH CONTROL FOE
LOSES COURT FIGHT
Speaker She Dragged from Park
ROstrum Not Held.

Even woman may not venture into
the field Of street corner debate and
hope to escape unscathed by vituper-
alton. On that theory, Magistrate
Corrigan, in Night Court, last night
discharged Robert Harmowitz. of l7lO
Bathgate Avenue. The Bronx. on a
charge of disorderly conduct pre-
ferred b. Mrs Elizabeth zeisloft, Of
50 West Twenty-ffth Street.
Several nights ago Mrs. Zeisloft in
terrupted a birth control meeting in
Madison Square Park and caused the
arrest Of three men she said were
selling indecent literature. Two were
fined and another went TO the work
house.
Last night Harmowitz was speaking
from A soar box. when she appeared
again. He pointed her out and spoke
Of her in uncomplimentary terms,
whereupoa she dragged him from the
rostrum and turned him over 70 .
patrolman.
Magistrate Corrigan told Mrs. Zeis-
loft she might expect harsh words X
she chose 20 enter the lists with open
air propaganda speakers. She left
the courtroom with the threat 70 break
IN the birth control meetings. so that
her daughter. who was compelled 20
PASS the park every night, wouldn't
have 70 hear things not suited to her
ea-e
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
GEORGE GILMOUR DEAD;
NOTED AS ENGINEER
Once Associated with French
Experts at Panama Canal.

George Gilmour, hfty-one, an engi-
neer and head of the inspection work
of the Travellers Insurance Company,
died at his home, lO7 Stratford Road,
Flatbush, yesterday morning. after a
months illness. He was an authority
on all matters pertaining Ia accident
prevention and industrial safety.
He was born in st. Petersburg. His
father was naval constructor for the
Russian government. Mr.. Gilmour
was sent by John Elder & Co., Glas-
gov shipbuilders, TO South America.
On his return. by way Of Panama. he
was engaged By the French engineers
20 take charge Of the mechanical de-
pertinent of the work on the Panama
Canal. He was later with the Atlas
Line of steamships. and with the ia
n.aica government railway. After
eight years in Jamaica. he became
mechanical engineer 10 the New York
Telephone Company; from which,
after another eight years, he resigned
TO become chief engineer Of the Tray-
elers.
As consulting engineer Of the New
York Commission On Employers LA
bility and Causes OF Industrial Acct
dents. he made an extended tour OF
Europe in 1910 to investigate Euro
Iean methods.
He was a member Of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the
American Museum of Safety, the En-
gineers' Club Of New York and many
other societies.
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
CHURCH FAIRS OPENING
SETS NEW HIGH RECORD
Bay Ridge Fete Surpasses Mark
Set Last Year.

Despite the unpleasant weather last
night, the annual garden fete Of the
Bay Ridge Presbyterian Church, Ridge
Boulevard and Eighty-hrst Street.
Brooklyn. opened with an attendance
that rivalled the frs, night OF last
year. The fete will continue tonight
and Saturday.
The ambition OF the managing COM
mittee is TO push the receipts from
this years event higher than those Of
last year, which set a record az Si.400.
Proceeds from the fete are TO be used
20 erect a new building which vii stand
on a plot Of ground the church owns
near its present site.
For the careful arrangement and
picturesqueness of the booths which
have been built for the fete, members
Of the church are giving credit to the
managing committee, composed OF Mrs.
Charles VI. Fisher. Mrs. Mary Boyce
and Edward II. Bessels. This commit
tee has added 70 its many duties by
taking complete charge of the fancy
work booth, where the most important
pieces of needlework offered for sale
al the fair are displayed. This booth
was the centre OF attraction last night,
but had a close rival in the utility
table, conducted by Mrs, Herbert
Campbell.
The Rev. Horace II. Levitt, pastor
Of the church. has had much to do with
making the fete a success.
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
CHARITY COLLECTOR"
HELD AS SWINDLER
Names of Wealthy Headed List
-Cashed Check in Saloon.

Charged with obtaining money on
false pretences man. who said he
was Charles Fowler, forty, Of liS West
Eighty-fourth Street, Manhattan, was
held BY Magistrate Conway in the
Hunters Point Police Court yesterday
in s2,5OO bail
Joseph J. kozek, Of the shoe manu-
featuring firm OF Kozek & Mclaughlin,
Hunters Point, made the complaint.
According to Kozek, Fowler represented
himself as State Senator Walker, OF
Nassau County" and said he was col
lecting donations for the Urania Tu-
bercuosis Prevention Society Of New
York.
On a list which Fowler showed were
the names of c. A. Vanderbilt, +. W.
Woolworth. Hamilton Fish, jr., and the
Packard Automobile Company. About
sixty-fve Wall Street brokers and
bankers, according 20 the list, had con-
tributed sums not smaller than s25.
Kozek contributed. on behalf Of the
firm. a check for S25. Y came back a
few days later II had been cashed in
a saloon. On Tuesday last Fowler cam j,
back TO the Office and was confronted
with the check. He bolted, but was
caught after a pursuit by an automo-
bile
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
AUTO VICTIMS BODY
CLAIMED BY 2 WOMEN
Niece Demurs When Wife's Mar
riage Certificate Is Shown.

Two women yesterday claimed the
body OF Henry Stemper. grain broker
Of this city. who was killed in an auto
mobile accident in Springfield, L. l..
Wednesday night.
Miss Helen Cameron. of 456 River
side Drive, who was with the broker at
the time of the accident and said she
was his niece, presented herself at
the coroner's Office in Jamaica. A few
minutes later an undertaken, bearing
an order signed By the dead mans
wife, who lives az 1882 Lexington Ave-
rue, came for the body. The wife
could not come in person, il was said,
because her mother was being buried.
Coroner Voegel was at first unde-
cided how 70 act. as he had been under
the impression that Stemper and his
wife had separated. When he was
shown marriage certificate, however,
Miss Cameron quietly left and the cor
cner turned over the body 20 the IN
dertaker representing the wife.
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
PORT JEFFERSON ON PARADE
Convention of Firemen, Old and New
Feature of Towns Home Week.

Port Jefferson, l.. l.. June l5.--The
new was jostled by the old in vivid
fashion at the parade here to-day Of
the Southern New York Volunteer
Firemen's Association.
Old helmets, red shirts, and hand
drawn carts contrssted strikingly with
the natty, mechanical exhibit Of the
modern fireman. exemplified by the
Hampstead Fire Department, which,
with four pieces of powerful automo-
bile fire apparatus. followed close on
the heels of the Long Island City Ex-
empts, who led the procession Of 1900
marchers.
More than 5000 people turned out
10 see the parade, despite the threat
ening weather. Port Jefferson itself
is entertaining the largest crowd in its
history. The fremen's convention has
proved one of the most attractive and
profitable features of the towns Old
Home Week.
New-York tribune., 1916-06-16
Will Have to Spend Warm
Days in Slums Unless
Their Elders Help.
1000 GO TO FARMS
ON JUNE 80
Tribune Fresh Air Fund Asks Aid
That Others May Enjoy Sum-
mer in Gods Country.

Somewhere there are barefoot boys,
like Whittier's little hero, trsmping
dusty roads; somewhere there are
shouting, yelling, happy boys and girls
chasing over hill and valley, like the
small folk Longfellow was fond Of writ
ing about But in the East Side, IN
Hell's Kitchen, in the streets OF Cherry
HILL and the avenues of The BRONX
there are hundreds of thousands OF
youngsters to whom bit of real green
ground is an enchanted fairylsnd. The
public schools of the city close in few
days. Where are these children to go
Will the big folk who can make them
happy permit them to swelter in the
reeky tenements of Avenue A. permit
them to crowd like flies into a hot
sultry street? Will the big folk who
can make them healthy permit them to
draw the defiled air of smelly novels
into their lungs? Summer is comIg
on; the city will lose many Of its hun
dred thousands, but these children o'
the slums will have TO stay
Unless a "big bunch" of godfathers
and godmothers come to their aid with
contributions to the largest and most
important OF Fresh Air funds.
Unless enough money comes in tc
pay the heavy railroad charges TO the
various farms The Tribune has fol
scores Of years been maintaining.
Unless that money comes quickly
for The Tribune plans to send 12,00C
slum children 70 the green hills anc
sunny valleys that God created foi
thcm