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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26
HUTCHINSON GETS HER
MILLION BUSHEL ELEVATOR

Hutchinson's million bushel term
inal elevator is assured.
The state charter board has grant
ed charter to the Southwest Ter
minal Elevator Company of Hutchin-
son, with capital of 100000. The
incorporators are all men of prom
inence in Hutchinson's grain and
financial circles, and are:
e. e. Shircliff of the Ferguson
Shircliff Grain Co.
]. r. Bolin, head of the Bolin-Hall
Grain Co.
Paul Noble, head of the Noble
Grain Co.
Howard ], Carey of the Carey Salt
Co.
William Kelly of the VIM. Kelly
Milling Co.
Fred Cooter, president of the State
Exchange Bank.
G. d. Estes, grain man of Stat
ford.
1t is the intention of the incorpor-
ators of the new terminal elevator
company to build a plant in East
Hutchinson which will have a capa-
city of one million bushels to start
with, and can later be enlarged.
There is a need of a big terminal
elevator of this kind, that will serve
the public, and 1t will help much to-
ward making Hutchinson a bigger
grain market.
Stock in the elevator company will
be sold to the public, and a campaign
will be launched at once to complete
ly finance it. The intention is to have
the contract let and work started so
the big elevator will be ready for the
movement of the 1917 wheat CROP
News.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

This office received a telephone
message from C. G. Stevenson on
Wednesday in which he stated that
Guymon people had organized their
cantaloupe organization with thirty
four members which number they ex-
pect to double soon. Mr.. Stevenson
also stated that he and Mr.. Osborn
would be in Texhoma for the meet
ing Saturday.-Texhoma Times,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26
EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES
THIS STAND ON THEIR HEAD

Mr.. Lawson says he paid the ex-
perts for digging. up the leak in
formation $4,000 out of his own
pocket and asked for no glory except
to appear as a witness" Mr.. Lawson's
modesty is remarkable, but probably
is not the worlds record, at that
Kansas City Star.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26
$40, 900 SCHOOL BUILDING
TO BE ERECTED AT BLOOM

A new $4,000 rural high school
building is to be erected at Bloom, in
Ford county, on the Rock Island.
The contract for furnishing the plans
for the new school has been awarded
to Mann G. Gerow of Hutchinson. 1t
is to be modern building, with heat
ing plant, modern lighting, and water
system.-Pratt Tribune.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

Golden State Limited train No. 8
is one of the busiest trains ever run
on the road. Reservations must be
made week ahead in order to be
able to ride. AS high as 16 coaches
are used in one train. The receivers
are not caring for service to the pub
lie but only of the present condition
of financers.-Pratt Union.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

A merry bunch took dinner at the
hospitable Ben Carson home Sunday,
the occasion being in honor Of the
birthdays of Mr.. and Mrs. Carson's
son, Chester, daughter, Mrs. Mary
Guthrell, and Mr.. Guy P. Belford.
The guests were relatives of the fam
lilies, and all had a fine time.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26
Mr. and Mrs !. q. Nusz and son.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Nusz and son,
Merle, came in on No. / Monday from
Excelsior Springs, Missouri, where
Mrs. Nusz has been in hopes that her
health would be benefited. While
away Mr.. Nusz attended the meeting
Of the Implement Dealers Associa-
ton.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

Z Truly automobiles are built to
stand rough usage. Friday evening
car backed up on the walk in front
Of the Feather furniture store, broke
off one iron post, bent another and
proceeded on its way with only bent
fender to show the effects Of the col
lision.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

Cecil B. Long made a business trip
thru central Kansas last week return
ing Tuesday by the way of the Liber-
al-Elkhart line.-Elkhart News.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

Preparedness or Safety First note
from Pratt: The snow pillow of the
Rock Island stands ready for USE
Hutchinson News.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

Russell Clark and Ernest Phillips
OF Hugoton are here visiting with
friends. The latter Is attending to
a few business matters while here.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

1t is said shoe prices and shoes
are to go higher. If they 60 much
higher they'll 60 out of sight, we fear.
Hutchinson News.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26
THE Weeks news
IN OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CASES INv0LV.
ED IN CONFIRMATION
OF WHITE SLAVE LAW
OTHER NEWS OF THE STATE
Little Incidents and Accidents That G.
To Make Up a Weeks History
Of Great Common
wealth.

Oklahoma City.-The decision OF
the United States supreme court
which settles the disputed question al
to whether the white slave traffic aci
applies to personal escapades, puts
teeth into what is the most far
reaching law ever enacted, is the
opinion of John A. Fain, United Slater
district attorney.
With the settlement of the Digs
Caminetti case the case of l.. q. Hays,
tried at Lawton in 1914, is also passed
upon The case we're identical in
the grounds for appeal.
In March, 1914, Hays Games to this
city and in a local hotel met A. l.
Miller of Wichita, and two girls, Les
sic Jones and Carrie Dawirs, the lat
ter II years old. Evidence in the
case shows both the women we're Of
the underworld.
Woman In Conspiracy.
The Jones woman shortly after
ward went to Wichita and with Hays
conspired to bring the Dawirs girl
there Hays gave car-fare money to
the Jones woman who sent it here
to the girl.
Hays was entenced to serve eigh
teen months in the federal prison al
Leavenworth, and the Jones woman
for her part in the affair served three
months in the Comanche county jail
Hays appealed to the Eighth cir
cult court of appeals where the de-
cision of this district was affirmed
He then obtained writ Of certiorari
from the supreme court ordering the
case to be sent up for review. 1t was
assiged with the Diggs-Caminetti
case.
Cotteral Affirmed.
This was the only case which ever
went up from this district to the su'
preme court on the personal ground.
Judge Cotteral has always held the
law TO cover the personal escapades
as well as those of commercial ma
ture.
The case OF John Floyd Clark, con-
victed at Enid last fall for transports
ton of Llewellyn Denton from Paris,
Texas, would have been brought up
for appeal on the same grounds, but
like many others was waiting for the
supreme court to pass on the cases.
Ralph simons: convicted recently at
Woodward for transporting Lena
Davenport from Colorado to Wood
ward, also gave notice of appeal on
the personal affair ground
At present there are two white
slave case on the federal court docket
Harry Lowery, negro, and Sam Shager
will be tIied in Guthrie during the
present term. Gene Ealy, who is
charged with bringing olivia Reed
from Kansas City three months ago, is
being held to the action of the grand
jury.
1.-THE law by this decision is uni.
versal dragnet which will catch any
persons violating the white slave act,
said Mr.. Fain. There are very few
acQuittals in the federal courts. Since
/ have been in this Office there has
bee none, and the second escaped
then because he termed evidence
against Ed Logsdon, now serving time
in the federal prison"
= !.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Seeley and
daughter, Miss Mary, are in Dodge
City visiting Charles seeley and fam
lily.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26
Domestic.

With the killing of Harry Hart, viii
Hart and Oscar Poe in the Deep Fork
Canyon, near Okmulgee, Ok. the
leaders of one of the boldest bands
of outlaws that ever operated in the
Southwest were put away. One other
member of the gang has been killed
and one is wounded and in Jail.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

T. ]. Blakemore returned Saturday
from Wichita where he attended the
Retail Dealers Association meeting.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-26

In test case on file in the federal
district court at Los Angeles, the
United States government asks that
the property of Mrs. X. Tanigofhi,
white wife of Japanese realty dealer,
revert to the state. 1t is alleged Mrs.
Tanigofhi lost her citizenship when
she married Japanese.
+ r +
Change of name of the Danish West
Indies to Dewey Islands" in honor of
Admiral Dewey, was proposed in a
Joint resolution introduced in the
House by Representative Allen Of
Ohio.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24
SOME HOMELY PHILOSOPHY.
New York Dry Goods Man Receives a
Letter Full of Wisdom

A retired business man now living in a
soldiers home writes the following letter
to a friend in the dry goods market. and
its homely philosophy and confidence will
be found refreshing; ''Since | saw you
| have entered on my seventy-seventh
year. My experience has taught me the
folly OF worrying over events | cannot
control. | have much reason for gratitude
as | have been allowed to live long. Ny
lines are cast in pleasant places and that
IS more than many a millionaire can truly
say. ] have little sympathy for people
who mourn their former prosperity, Just
making themselves miserable and their
hearers uncomfortable.
my five months captivity in rebel
prison showed me how little after all a
person requires to be perfectly happy and
contented. One good square meal to the
prisoners would have converted the prison
yard into a picnic grove. Even if
you may meet with ingratitude, your kind
deed is recorded somewhere and will be
remembered. | must stop pressing per.
haps YOU will think | am getting into my
dotage. New York journal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24
FLOUR
In Times of Stress

These are certainly times Of stress in
the -four business. The mills are con-
forming rigidly 20 the government regu-
lations and with the demand for -four
far IN excess of the possible supply, ex
IRENE caution in making sales is neces-
sary. We are doing everything that is
humanity possible TO favor all of our old
customers, and as nearly as we can, are
filing their orders az least 70 the extent
Of their past average requirements.
Current reports indicate that more lib
eral wheat receipts may be looked for
before long. SO far there has not been
enough wheat coming in TO enable mills
20 run anywhere near full capacity -
something which every mill in the coun-
try ought to be doing now. Were we
dependent on daily receipts, our. Com
pany could not run its mills as close to
capacity as il has been running them.
Long before the government fixed the
price Of wheat we foresaw the present
situation and accumulated little
wheat in our elevators at prices then
prevailing so as we might DO in a better
position 10 render adequate service to
our good friends when the rush came.
Capacity cars and double loads are the
order Of the day. Only in this way can
the railroads meet the enormous de-
mands made upon them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Vermont Librarians Elect officers.

The Vermont Library association and
the Vermont Free Library commission
were entertained at luncheon at the Ber-
wick in Rutland Friday by the Trustees
OF the Rutland Free Library association
and at a tea by the officers of the Baxter
Memorial library. The State association
reelected last years officers as follows:
President, Miss Fanny 3. Fletcher, Proc
.torsvile; vice president, Miss Eleanor
EggleHon, Manchester; secretary and
treasurer, Miss Alice Eaton, Woodstock.
a. a. Protzman, a member OF the Ma
tional War Library council outlined the
methods to be used in the campaign to
raise million dollars to equip Libraries in
each National army cantonment, to pro-
vide travelling Libraries for the lS5 smaller
training camps and to send books to Per
shings army, He emphasized that it was
the use to which the men put their les-
ure hours which would determine what
kind of men they would be when they
| came out Of the army, and proper reading
matter could be relied upon to keep them
physically sound
The librarians heard much about tho
work already we'll under way to gather
and disseminate books and the high class
Of literature demanded BY the men Light
fiction is nearly ignored and works on sci
ence and mechanics are sought, Mr. Protz
man said
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24
Lost S6,OOO-Almost.

young man whose important duty
is to carry deposits from large Mont
pelier idueiary institution to the bank
arrived at the bank door Saturday
morning before that institution was
open and stepped into a neighboring
store to wait until the bank was opened.
He had not been in the store five min
Qtes before he missed his bank book
Gee, there was $4,000 or $1,000 in
that roll, - he moaned as his face grew
white with fright Then he thought
joke had been played on him by
someone 2 IN the stafsowhe hadu taken
the book ont Of his pocket q know
had the book in M handr when 1
entered he said ''because l changed
it from my right to my left hand when
| opened the door. He was advised
TO go back to the office and tell his
| story so that payment could be stopped
on the checks. At first he was afraid
| to return but finally he did, prepared
| to make a clean breast of his trouble.
He was happy boy when he found the
| bank book, checks and currency on
| the desk at the office where he had set
them down while getting his hat and
| he came up town without the financial
accumulations he supposed he had lost
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24
Forcing Socialism.
bennington Banner

Mr.. Hoover is said to have warned
business men of the danger of social
ism if they insist on extorting big profits
on what they do for the government.
Mr.. Hoover is entirely right Socialism
as a basis of government and political
economy never has and never will work
1t has been tried repeatedly by differ
ent groups ever since the dawn of civ
ilization and has always failed to work
and always will. Human jealousies and
human ambitions are such that politi-
cal socialism is impossible so long as
the human race remains even approx
imately as at present, but it is easy to
force a nation into socialistic expert
ments and that is what Mr.. Hoover
means by his recent remarks The gov
eminent buys fine, heavy all leather
shoes for its soldiers at 1921 per pair
When individuals 90 to a store for shoes
equally good they have to paw from So
to $12. Even the fimsy shoes of little
leather that the women wear are cost
ing from So to $40 per pair in the later
styles. This contrast means that some
where and in some way the people are
being robbed. Greed is getting an IN
! due share and the cause of socialism is
ltSshtdi shehd We dent believe it is
the retail dealers fault for whoever
heard of retail dealer in a country
j town getting rich.l On tAeascnntrarv
more than two-thirds of the failures
each year in this country are among
retail merchants. The cost of mining
coal, including a splendid profit for the
coal owners and big wages for the min
ers, is from 81 to 81 per ton yet the
Ipeople of the United States are paying
from IS to $40 per ton for coal. The
coal operators are making themselves
rich but the greatest work they are do
ing is to advance the cause of Social
: ism. Socialism is gaining strength
daily, but its growth is not due to the
lshouters on the street corners The pow
erful promoters of socialism are tn.
shrewd and scheming men who sit il
banks, offices and factories and take
bigger rakeoff than they deserve on TIN
business of the country
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24
VERMoNTER COMMENDED.

In something of the spirit of the in
diyidual who used to pirate "There
were giants in those days" the special
Washington correspondent of the Spring
field Republican turns the searchlight
on the Z" New Enganders in the Nation
al IIousen and draws the conclusion
which none VIII dispute-that the in
hucnce of this section is not what it was
ia the. so-called lower branch of con
tgress, but points out Individuals who are
recognized as capable men. -
A large part of the article is devoted
to Massachusetts men, Maine, which
once had the strongest delegation in
the Union at the period when Tom Reed
was speaker, Dingley chairman Of the
ways and means committee, with Boutelle
and Milliken occupying other first class
Ichairmanships, is not considered of sui
4 iicient Importance to be given a word
Aud in this connection, gentle reader
can you tell from memory, the name of a
single congressman from Maine today
t.The New Hampshire representatives are
dismissed with the statement that they
have not been in congress long enough
to make an impression there.
When our own state comes up fol-
consideration the representative of tnC
First district is given this commenda
tion, which his hundreds of friends a.
home believe is merited:
From Vermont comes Frank Leste
Greene, who probably is one of the yer!
best known New Englanders in thu
House. He is rounding into an expe
rienced member, being now in his fourtl
term Mr.. Greene is a student of af
fairs and up to date. His chief worl
has been on the military affairs com
mittee, where his public service ha
been Of very substantial character
His influence in the house is likely t
increase rapidly, especially if the re
publicans should gain majority ther
in the next few years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24

agreement by which it is expected that
sugar can be sold for eight cents a
pound. The industry is to be so con
trolled that furries like that which sent
sugar up to 10 to Is cents pound last
spring will be avoided. The stabiliz-
ing of the price will be good thing IN
itself. The prospective reduction in
the cost is not great to the individual
family, but every little helps in these
times of war prices.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

We had mash potatoes for suppir last
mite, witch | wish we had them every
mite, and pop was eating his End help
ing of them, saying, Of course there's
nuthing axuilly the matter with these
potatoes, and of corse comparisons are
always odorous but wen alls sed and
done nobody can make mash potatoes
like my sister Sue, wy don't you call
her up and get the resipee sumtime,
Pawleen?
l will, III call her up tomorrow, sed
ma.
And today wen ! came home for
suppir wat did we have but more mash
potatoes, ma saying to pop, Now | hope
you'll injoy these, Willyum, because
there made according to your sister Sues
resipee.
And she gave pop lot on his plate
and he started to eat thdm, not saying
enything, and ma sed, Well, Willyum9
| There very fine mash potatoes, very
| fine, sed pop. And he took about more
mouthfulls, saying, They're as fine as
they Good be under the circumstances
/ / suppose, but after all, the persinal
/ tOuIcu counts IOr IL gOOu ueel, III UldSn
potatoes as well as everything elts. AS
far as that goes, you mite as well ixpect
Padderoosky to teetch the gerl next dOol
to play the piano as well as he plays
it himself, jest by telling he'd how he
does it. The persinal toutch, that tells
the hole story in , words, the persina
Itoutch. .t
Well, sed ma, there may be sumthin&
in wat you say, and then agen consider
ing that your sister Sue was heer thi.
iaftirnoon and insisted on making thes,
mash potatoes with her own hands, ther,
Imay not.
All ha, | thawt as mulch, sed pop
thawt Id get it out of you, | thaw
there was a serten sumthing about thes
mash potatoes that ony one persin il
the werld Good put in them
Hee hee, persinal toutch, sed ma, per
sinai toutch, hee hee.
Watts the joak, sed pop, don't you sip
pose | knew?
Hee hee, sed ma. WITCH she kepp o.
saying it all dooring suppir, and pc
kepp on eating mash potatoes and try
ing to look as if he was inioying Their
about 10 times more than wat he reel
was.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24
Navy Not Correctional Institution.
(Vergennes Enterprise. }


Men who have enlisted in the navy
voluntarily from patriotic motives must
be highly pleased when they read that
confessed thieves are allowed to 90 I'M
punished on condition that they also
enlist in the navy.-Brattlebor Re
former.
This comment of the Reformer is IN
spired by the decision of Judge o 'Brien
of Bellows Falls, sitting at Newfane.
who suspended sentence on a couple of
automobile thieves, who were overdue
at Windsor, on condition that they en-
list IN the navy. The judge must have a
queer idea of the kind of men the coun-
try needs. And what of the fine. clean
young fellows who 90 from Christian
homes to serve their countrc-must
they be forced to associate with Grim
mails? The United States navy is not
a correctional institution.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-24

An interesting story in connection
with the sale of the lumber town of
Lincoln, n. H., recently to the Parker
Young company, of which Martin A.
Brown Of Wilmington is president is told
in press dispatches. In the stock room
Of the paper mill which was included in
the purchase with its contents, barrel
of German red dye, bought just before
the war broke out for $50 was found.
This kind of dye cannot be found in the
American market today and a New York
concern was so anxious to get this small
supply that it paid 1000 for the single
barrel. Some Of Mr.. Brown S friends
are now repeating the statement that
he always was lucky.