The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-16
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Being Short Items of Interest From
Papers i'm Nearby Towns

TaperS III nearby TOWNS
Mrs L. E. Wood has returned home
after an extended stay at the home
of her son, Butler, at Liberal.-Meade
News.
Mrs. S. D. Aker and daughter, Miss
Marie have returned to Liberal
Meade News.
Mrs. Roy Twist went to Liberal Old
Thursday for a short visit.-Meade
Globe.
The Liberal Democrat got out
2S-page paper last week just to show
what they could do after installing
the latest model linotype and other
new equipment. The Democrat is
coming to the front rapidly.-Garden
City Herald
Mrs. Allen Black of Liberal is here
for short visit with her sisters, Mrs.
L. J. Pettijohn and Mrs. Lille Smith,
and her mother, Mrs. Wright.-Dodge
City Globe.
w. j. Steel, special agent of the
Rock Island road, arrived here yes
terday, and after transacting official
business at the local office of the road
returned to his station at Liberal
Hutchinson Gazette.
A. T. Moore of Liberal, who has
been looking after his farming inter-
ests north of town, is visiting Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Welker. Mr.. Moore
owns 400 acres of land adjoining the
townsite of Liberal = Hutchinson
News.
Chas. W. Rogers went to Liberal
Saturday for visit with home folks.
He returned Monday, and reports that
town on a boom with the expectation
I of new railroad.-Bucklin Banner
I j. E. Bane visited home folks in
| Liberal, Sunday, and his sisters, Mrs.
J w. B. Crawford and Mrs. Bert Kim
J zey. He went over on Monday and
| returned Tuesday.-HugOton Her
mes.
A. L. Edison of Liberal is visiting
| his cousins, C. II. McCollom and j. P.
McCollom. Mr. Edison is proprietor
of the Liberal Creamery and Bottling
| Works and was formerly in the gar
age business in Dodge City.-Dodge
City Globe.
| Burt Hobble, returned to Liberal
Wednesday Meade News.
Butler Wood, of Liberal was in
l Meade last week.-Meade News.
j. T. Newly, formerly of this city
l but now a real estate dealer of Lib
l eral, was in town last week. Newly
Is about the same old j. T., and seems
' to be glad to get back to good burg
for a few days.-Bucklin Banner.
The Liberal Democrat got out big
j booster edition last week, half the
}. front page being devoted to voting
bonds for the new railroad.-Plains
: Journal.
h Frank A. Milne and Mellick Young
returned from land buying trip to
Southwestern Kansas last night. The
!, party visited Haskell county and Mr..
, Milne purchased through the New
house Young land agency "A quarter
section of land near Satanic. The
land is near the new railroad which
will be built from Garden City to
!, Liberal. The day Messrs. Milne and
Young were in Haskell county the
bond election was held and the bonds
carried by good sized majority
Pratt Tribune.
The Liberal Democrat printed %
pages last week and every page was
of much interest to its large list OF
readers.-Pratt Union.
John B. Miller, of the Liberal, Kan,
Democrat, is installing new Mergen-
thaler linotype in his office. Editor
Miller needs the machine II he ex-
poets to get out editions similar to
one last week. It was twenty-eight
page affair.-Tyrone Observer.
Virgil Thurman narrowly escaped
death at the railroad crossing at /
Lo'clock today when Train No. "a hit
the auto truck which he was driving.
He was thrown from the truck and
escaped with several bruises and q
broken collar bone. The truck was
a total wreck. 1t was new Repub-
lie that Virgil had bought this week
at Dodge city, Kan, to use in dray
business Tyrone Observer.
| j. A. Kelley was at Topeka at the
time of the passage of the "bone dry
law and brings back the explanation
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