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The Good Will Society will meet
with Mrs. H. J. HIlle next WedneS-
day, February 11th, in the afternoon.
Bring thimbles.
Walter Swiggett went down to
Kansas City Wednesday night for the
purpose of consulting specialist re-
garding his health
NJ NJ Bennett sold his short order
restaurant to his brother in-law, j h.
Bowman and it is now being con-
Quoted by Mrs. j. E. Bright.
Mrs. Frank Saffron and child re-
turned to Collyer Tuesday afternoon
after a short visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Saffron southeast of this city.
Miss Agnes Bradford who has been
visiting at the home of her aunt, Mrs.
H. j. Simpson, went down to Abilene
Wednesday for visit with relatives.
Revival meetings are in progress at
the Methodist church in this city
The interest manifested and the at
tendance is good. a cordial invita-
tiOn is extended to all to attend.
An interesting and instructive ser
mon is promised at the Methodist
church next Sunday evening. It viii
be word picture sermon, the SUB.
ject of which Will be "A Horse Race. "
Come and hear il.
John Gunckel was up from Ellis
the first of the week. For several
weeks John has been breaking on the
q. p. and rode up on his privileges in
order to pass the time o-day with
Wa-Keeney friends.
The first three days of the week
the weather was great deal like
spring and some had commenced TO
talk of making garden and putting
on spring underwear, but by We'd
nesday il had changed and the tenn
perate was twelve below zero Thurs
day morning.
Julius Harries, who lives about
three miles northwest of this city,
has nearly completed remodeling and
undermining his home. He already
has fine large barn and other good
improvements and as soon as the
house is finished he will have a farm
home which would be pleasure TO
anyone TO live in or possess. The
Verbeck Lumber and Supply Com
pany is furnishing the material with
which the Improvements are being
made.
For rent-The we'll known George
Clossen ir. ranch, ) miles north and
mile east of Kit Carson, Col, $50 acres
good s room new house with base,
ment, = good wells, wind mill, gooo
cistern. two SiloS, house ana Darn,
sheds and good corals, all fenced ana
refenced, so acres under plow, 0O rous
from scnool, phone line past the house.
lots of free range. Price $500 per
acre. Address Mrs. Vera Clossen,
6O6 S. Third st. west, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. ADV 2t 4S
We stand corrected for an error in
statement innocently made last week
in regard to the III. j. Simpson farm
being the first in the county to sell
for $50 or above per acre. We are in
formed by Earl Furbeck, of Ellis,
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north part of town; good house, sta
BILE and nearly full block of ground.
J. T. W. CIoud--Adv 40
/ would like to buy seven or eight
loads of In xed country iron free from
sheet iron and wood. Will pay 20
per cwt by February 1O.-Ad 48 2t
A. NJ. Finley, WaKeeney.
LOST Poland ,China sows, weight
about lis and $50 lbs each, largest has
tail cropped Finder will be reward
ed by III. S. West, owner, Wa-Keeney,
on old Barbee farm.-Adv.
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Martha Alice Bradgett was born at
Knoxville, Tenn, and was married
20 James II Brady at bloomington,
Iowa, February "a. 1875. To them
eight children were born, seven of
which are living. They came to
Trego county in 1907 and they have
lived in Wa-Keeney and near by it.
since that time. For sometime her
health had been gradually failing
from the effect Of diabetes and this
with a complication OF grippe and
pneumonia caused her death at 1850
O'Clock a. M. on January 80, 1917.
Fer many years she had been a mem
Der of the Wesleyan Methodist
church and the funeral services were
conducted Wednesday morning, JAN
uary 81, at the Methodist church in
this city conducted by the Rev. Wood
ward. The body was buried in the
Wa-Keeney cemetery. She was a
kind and loving wife. mother and
friend and will be greatly missed by
the family and neighbors, to whom is
extended the sympathy of many
friends.
The little city of Collyer and vicin-
ity were greatly shocked Thursday
morning when il became known that
Mrs. Samuel f. Glass had died very
suddenly at about four O'Clock that
morning. Mr.. and Mrs. Glass had
attending an entertainmen and after
the entertainment had spent a few
hours with friends. Their home is
but a short distance from town and
they were walking home when Mrs.
Glass suddenly became i'll and died
before Mr.. Glass could either sum-
mons help or get Der home. A coro-
nors inquest was held the next day
and the verdict was that she died
from the effects of heart failure
Mrs. Glass was a daughter of the late
j. H Dietrich and was fifty years,
six months and two days old at her
death.
On Friday.February 9, at 2:30 D. M
the Rev @. W. Stephens of Salina
will be here and conduct the fourth.
quarterly conference at the Methodist
church. He will also preach the SER
mon at night and will be here then
following Sabbath evening and will
deliver the sermon. A general invit-
alton is extended to all to come and
hear him.
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BASkET BALL SCHEDULE

Wilson High School VS. Trego
County High School, January
10Th.
Trego at Home
February Is VS. Ellis.
February % VS. Quinter.
March 2 VS. Ellsworth.
Trego Away From Home
January 8, %, 20, February s,
9, 16.
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COUNTY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

Saturday, February Il, 1917, 1000
a. M. at WaKeeney, Kansas.
1000 a. m. Music
Motivation, Part 7, Geo. L. Kirby
Something new in Reading Eva
L. Philbrook.
Practical Bacteriology Noble P.
Sherwood, of University of Kan
saS.
1:30 p. m. Contests for representation
at Golden Belt, March 8, 9 and 10.
Contest in reading, Class 3.
Contest in reading, Glass A.
Contest in spelling.
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Dictagrams
(Crowded out last week.)


Crowded out last week.
When you open package or parcel
do you unite the string or do you out
it2 Persons who were tbroughu up''
on McGuffey's Readers seldom cut
1.-The efeylaSting whipchord, / de-
clare.'
The treasury department says there
is an unusual demand for paper
money in small denominations. The
folks l do business with seem perfect
ly willing to take the largest bills /
happen TO have.
What is the difference between a
''fad" and "fake?r It's mostly a
difference in price. However, when
you adopt fad you think you are do
ing something and when you patron
ize fake you think he will do some
thing. And, generally, he does you.
Most people in this part of Kansas
have heard of the brand of flour call
ed "Semolino" and probably think of
it as an Indian word. Look il up in
the dictionary.
At the rate prohibition sentiment
is growing it will not be long until
there is only one county in Kansas.
t-o-water-me, of course.
The Washington s'leaks'' do not
worry me, because / shall neither
make nor lose thereby, having no
L
to have my capital invested in bread
and butter, and have no trouble in
keeping all my guilders hard at work
every day in the year.
A fig for the Washington leaks. 1t
is the little leaks right at home that
drain the bank accounts.
In spite of all the President can do
the war creepS nearer to u.s.. A rice
kettle blew up in Wa-keeney home
r he -
another that scattered a red ripe to-
mato smear all over the culinary de-
partment. Two of our most respect
ed citizens are under suspicion but no
arrests have been made.
Yes, there is great variety of
'.leaks" and leakers. Perhaps the
linguistic dribbler is the most annoy
ing.
OF all the periodical feeds and fill
ups, whereof this scribe is allowed to
partake, perhaps the most satisfac-
tory in all its appointments is the
annual fiesta provided by the
women of the locust club for the de-
,lectation of their worser fractions.
Which is one way of saying that a
woman can be member of culture
club and still be kitchen artist.
Yes. I said woman" and advisa-
bly,, too. Any mature female may be
Cdif6u idul, Oub tue common use OF
the word has made it so trite as to
cheaper it, to some extent at least.
The other word is the better term
and of higher significance. Every
good man thinks of his mother as a
woman" In its common sense use,
LADY" appeals TO the unthinking.r
We had another streak of freakish
weather last Saturday evening. At
dark a southeast wind was bringing
US a little rain with temperature of
80, and before O'Clock everything
was covered with ice. Before mid
night the ice was melting and the
temperature went up to 43 before the
next change came. Early Sunday
morning the wind changed to the
northwest and the temp perature had
fallen to II. 1t continued TO drop
during the day and by Monday morn
ing the reading was minus So or
five below zero. The tenn perature
seldom rises during the night and a
change of As degrees in "A hours is
rather unusual, even in this land of
frequent ups and downs and innum-
cradle variations.
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Beloit Gazette: During the cam
paign, the Gazette suggested that
the election of President Wilson
would result in a return to the old
time democratic practice of issuing
bonds in time of peace to pay the run
ming expenses of the government but
this suggestion was jeered by several
Democrat editors, one of whom dub
bed the editor of the Gazette as Just
an ordinary liar. Just to keep the
facts of history straight, we now
call attention to the fact that Pres
ident Wilson has given his consent TO
an issue of bonds of SlSo,0OO, 900.
The balance of the deficit of $500 000-
600 in the revenues for the coming
year will be made up by taxes on cof-
fee, wool, rubber, sugar, etc Why
should there be such a deficit in
time of peace? One reason is that
Hazard, Kentucky, with 437 people
had to be provided with a $40, 900
post office while Lewisburg, West
Virginia with SO3 people was given
$500 for post office building
Enough other towns were included
TO make public building pork bill
of S3S, 600. 900 and thus 2S0 members
of congress were recoA niZed. As you
do not get something for nothing in
this world, you will help to pay for
these buildings in the additional tax
eS YOU pay on your sugar, coffee and
other necessities of life
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DIR. N. J. Brown of SaIina

ical or surgical treatment of the eye,
ear, nose and throat, or require glass
es, or orifisial work, make a date with
DIR. NJ. Jay Brown, Campbell build
ingl Salina, Kansas, or see him at the
Penny Hotel, on Monday, February
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NOTICE

PARENTS teachers and school boards
take notice. Smallpox is reported in
adjoining county The local board of
health recommends that every un-
protected individual be yaccinated.
w. Y Herrick,
County Health Officer
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IF. BROCK. OPTOMETRISr

OF Lawrence, Kans., will be at the
Penny Hotel, Thursday, February s.
Conserve YOUR eyes by having DIR.
Broch make an examination and cor
rect and fit your glasses Careful at
tenrion given. All work guaranteed.
Adv. As 2t
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ALLEN, THE TOPEKA DENTIST

Will be in Wa-Keeney, Wednesday,
February 7th, prepared to do all kinds
of dental work Crown and bridge
work a speciality. Optical work.
Glasses fitted TO the most difficult
cases.-Ady 1t
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Will again be in
WA-KEENEY
February 2 and 3rd
At the Trego Hotel
IN ELLIS, JANUARY 27

Don't put your eye trouble off too
long. Have your eyes examined by a
man like Strauss and you can be~sat-
isfied it is the best. All work guar
anteed.
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that his fathers farm of $50 acres in
Glencoe township was sold at $50 per
acre about five years ago and that
nearly two years ago three quarter
sections of land in Glencoe township
were sold at $50 per acre. All this
land is close TO Ellis and we lad not
heard of the sale,
Frank Binder and sons did a great
stunt at fishing the first of the week
and for two days work landed 80
pounds of channel cat fish. The fish
were caught by cutting holes through
the ice on the Saline and fishing
through them with line and hook
it is not at all unusual to see fishing
parties headed toward the Saline in
auto, ON foot and in all sorts of vehic-
les. However, the Binders seem to
have captured all the fish which
were in the river
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Abstracts of title made promptly at
rates. W. h. Swigget.
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GERS have thrown such difficulties or
stumbling blocks in the way of re-

GERS have thrown such difficulties or
stumbling blocks in the way of re-
cruiting that no longer entertain
{, hope of completing the army by
voluntary enlistments. The reflection
upon my situation produces many
an uneasy hour when all around me
are wrapt lin sleep. To be plain
these eople (New England) are nor
to be depended on" and he advised!
appealing to their cupidity by the
offer of large bounties, for he adds
notwithstanding all the public vir-
tue which is ascribed to these peo-
pie, there is no nation under the
sun, that pays greater alteration to
monev than they do"
Nearly a quarter Of a century
after Washington penned at Cam.
bridge the letter quoted above, Will
liam Ellery Charming wrote from
Richmond these words: 4 blush fol
my own people when ! compare the
selfish prudence of a Yankee, with
the generous confidence of Vir.
ginian. There is one single trait
which attaches me to the people
here, more than all the virtues OF
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Abbeville S. C.,

present time would be Geroge
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Rob-:
ert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, ALI
born in the South. .-s.,s, j;I.t
When the people Of the United
States met to celebrate the centen-.
nial Of the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, Sidney Lanier was selected,
to write the poem for that occasion. =
DR.. J. Marion Sims, a native of
South Carolina. the great physician
who began in Lancaster, S. c., that
career, which brought him world
wide fame, and honors from the
crowned heads of Europe, was the,
only physician and surgeon; who ever
lived, possessing a reputation 80:
great, that he could commend q lu-
crative practice in any capitol Of the
civilized world, as soon as his arrival
was known.
DR.. Crawford W. Long Of Georgia,
was the first to use, sulphuric ether
to produce anesthesia in surgical
operations, and whose statute is in,
the Hall of Fame. ,e..,nts.
DR.. W. C. Norwood of South
Carolina, discovered the therapeutic
cal effects Of veratrum viride in
controlling the action ofthe heart. isf
William Gilmore Simms and Ed.
gar Allen Poe are now recognized
throughout the world, as among the
greatest novelists aud poets. ....s.
The Merrinac afterwards chris
tened "The Virginia." was the first
iron-clad war, vessel; and the plan
of converting her into an iron-clad,
was devised by Lieutenant Brooke Of
the Confederate States Navy.
The origin of the torpedo and
U-boat dates from the experiments
made by the Confederates on the
Potomac July Z, 1861, and was first
appreciated by Gen. Beauregard in
command at Charleston in March
1863. where it was developed, and
became the PRECURSOR of the boats
now universally used in the navies
of the world. .
On the 26th Of February, 1917,
Col. D. W. McLaurin, brave Con:
iederate soldier and State land
agent, wrote an account of the first
effective work accomplished by a
submarine in the sinking of Feder-
al war vessel off Charleston Harbor,
from which the following facts ap-
pear: "The port was at that time
blockaded by the Federal fleet. The
U. S. S: Housatonic, war vessel,
carrying eleven guns, was member
of the blockading squadron. She
was sunk by the Confederate sub
marine 'Hundley', on February II,
1864. During that day Col. Nc
Laurin with another member of his
regiment, was requested to 60 on
board the 'Hundley' to fix some ma
chinery. They went aboard, ad-
justed the machinery, returned to
their command, and that night they
learned that the 'Hundley', with a
well-directed torpedo, had sunk the
Housatonc. The 'Hundley' herself
sank from a cause which has never
yet been ascertained. After the
war the submarine was found on
the bottom of the ocean, close to
CONTINUED on page SIX
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A vINDIcATIoN OF THE SOUTH
CONTINUED from page two)

out of every 10 in the South. Of
these pensioners New England had
3146 more than were in all the
South; and New York two thirds as
many, though she contributed not
one seventh as many men to the
war. These are authentic historical
facts, and are not presented by way
of recrimination, but to establish
equality and justice.
History also shows that the num-
ber of those in the North, who were
opposed to American Independence,
was far greater than in the South.
George Washington in a letter
from Cambridge to friend, telling
of the lack of powder, and arms,
and money, said: "These are evils,
but small in comparison with those
which disturb my present repose.
Our enlistments are at stand. The
fears I ever entertained are real
lied, that is the discontented Off
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New England they love money less
than we do; they are more disinter-
ed-their patriotism is not tied to
their purse-strings."
"These people of the Southern
colonies said Edward Burke, the
great British statesman, "are much
more strongly, and with an higher
and more stubborn spirit, attached
to liberty than those to the north
ward" "The gallantry of the
Southern men has inspired the whole
army" wrote Adjutant- General
Reed (of New Jersey,) after the
Long Island Campaign of .1776..
During the recent meeting of the
Confederate Veterans at Chester,
S. c., an address was delivered by
Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford of
Athens, Ca, formerly Historian
General of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy. After speaking in
glowing terms of her magnificent
address, Judge J. Fuller Lyon, Zone
of Jackson's bravest soldiers) de:
scribed to me the thrilling effect
upon the veterans, when she stated
that she had an apology to make to
them. She said that some time ago
in. delivering an address in WASH.
inpton, she made the admission that
| it was best, that the South had not
been victorious; that she now felt
she had made a mistake which she
promised not to make again; that
she felt she had done them, and the
cause for which they fought, q great
Injustice, and asked them to forgive
her. Their applause was tremen.
dous, and attested the fact thai
thew deeply appreciated her touch
ing words, and willingly forgsve her
After listening to Judge Lyon l,
occurred to me, that this would be
an appropriate occasion to show
that the admission in her Washing
ton address, was unjust to the cause
for which we fought, and Mis-:
Rutherford was right in withdrawing
her words.
We do not wish to be misunder
stood in the remarks which We
shall make. There is unanimity
among the people of the South, thai
LQe aDOllClOu VI S1aNC3y was oAAS
the greatest blessings, that coulc
have befallen us. If the South hao
been victorious the indications are
that slavery would have been abol
ished by the consent of the Southern
people themselves.
The abolition would perhaps have
been gradual, but it would have beer
accomplished in few years after
the war.
We would thus have been spared
the days of Reconstruction, wher
the United States Government com
mitted a racial crime unexcelled II
the history of the world, by placing
as far as it was able, and at the
point of the bayonet, a portion OF
its own white citizens, under the
political heel of an inferior race, thai
had just emerged from slavery; es'
pecially when we remember, thai
the North introduced the system and
sold the slaves which they imported
| in order to make money out Of them
It must not be forgotten that the
theory of the North was, that the
Southerners had never ceased to be
citizens of the United States.
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the slaves. If the South had been
victorious, there is no doubt that
slavery would have been abolished
The emancipation would have been
gradual, and as said by President
Lincoln, that would have been the
best plan. 49,.
If the South had been successful,
it would be an injustice both to the
North and the South to suppose that
they would not have had the wisdom
and the patriotism, to act for the
best interests of the entire country
as they did in 1857, when the United
States Constitution was adopted,
and when they adopted the Declare:
ton of Independence. I am satisfied
that if the North had been willing
to pay for the slaves as they were
gradually emancipated the South
would have consented to such an
arrangement. 1t was wrong for the
North to insist upon the abolition OF
slavery, and to refuse to make COM
pensation for the slaves which had
been recognized as property even
by the Constitution of the United
States by Congress and by the Unit
ed States Supreme Court.
In order further to vindicate the
South from the untrue assault upon
it by the Encyclopedia, we will
mention few Of its leading men,
who have taken part in the building
of the Nation.
When this country went to war
with Great Britain in 1776, George
Washington was selected as the
commanding General. He was elect
ed President of the Convention that
adopted the United States Constitu-
ton, and was the first President of
the United States. He is popularity
known as "The Father of His Coun-
try"
Thomas Jefferson-the worlds
greatest democrat-was the author
of the Declaration of Independence.
James Madison is known as the
Father of the Constitution.
John Marshall, the great expoun-
der of the Constitution is conceded
to be the greatest Jurist of the
United States.
Calhoun, Webster and Clay are re-
cognized as three of our greatest
statesmen, two of these-Calhoun
and Clay-were from the South.
The verdict of the world is that
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jack
son are beyond question, the great
est Generals the United States has
ever produced.
General Carl Schurz said, that if
Jackson had not been killed, the
chances were that the North would
not have been victorious.
The greatest Presidents of the
United States were Washington, Lin
coin, Jackson, Jefferson and Wilson.
All were born in the South.
The genius of the war with Great
Britain in 1912 was Andrew Jack
son, who was afterwards elected
President of the United States.
Ex-Speaker Cannon in speaking
for the Lincoln Memorial, on the
floor of Congress-, stated that when
the impartial verdict of history shall
be written the great men of the
period from the Revolution to the
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HE WILL NOT RECOGNIZE
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