The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-10-04


this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. B, C. Scott of Ford
are here this week, visiting Mrs
SCOTS parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H
Gentzler.
G. L. Light of Liberal, was visit.
ing home folks in this vicinity Sun.
day. His family was with him.
Kismet Klipper.
H. N. Witt has taken over the
White House Rooms on West Sec
ond street and will in the future
conduct the place.
Joe Trindle has gone to Wichita
on a business trip. He will later go
to Kansas City and arrange to re-
ceive some Fords.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Goss drove to
Coldwater Sunday in answer to a
telegram telling about the serious i'll
ness of Mrs. Goss' mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Craig enter
tanned at six o'clock dinner Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Keown and Mr..
and Mrs. ]. E. George.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Guthrie have
gone to Preston. Mr.. Guthrie had
been with the T. w. Cav hardware.
The Guthries will make their home at
Preston.
M. C. Trexler went to Plains Mon
day to arrange to have some i'm
provements made on his property.
Mr.. Trexler owns three quarters of
land near Plains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Lane arrived
from Dalhart Monday. Tom has been
threatened with typhoid fever and
has been laying off duty at the Rock
Island trying to recuperate.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Printz have
gone to the farm where they will re-
that time they will have a family on
the farm and will return to town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Walker of Lib
eral, who have been visiting at the C.
G. Stevenson home since Thursday
will return home tonight on Rock Is
land train No. 33.-Pratt Daily Tri-
bune.
According to the local weather OBJ
server there were 400 inches of rain
fall during the month of September.
Twenty four days of the month were
clear, one partly cloudy and five
cloudy.
W. H. Graves is at Bucklin this
week doing some work on the ice
plant. Wherever "BilP' Graves is
known he is called for the difficult
jobs, and he always gets away with
them, too.
FOR SALE-One bay horse, 5
years old, Is hands high, weight
about 100, smotth, sound and with
out blemish. See A. L. Stout, 1 mile
north of Dombey, Oklahoma.
Chas. Molter, who has been at
Lindsey, Oklahoma, during the last
month, buying broom corn, was at
home over Sunday. He has gone to
Erick, Oklahoma, this time and will
buy more of the brush.
The Red Ball auto service company
has moved its office to the building
formerly occupied by the Star Lum-
Der company on Kansas avenue. The
room vacated by the Red Ball people
will be occupied by the Witt Real
Estate Agency.
Ira Wilson of Willow Creek, was
visitor in the city, Monday. Mr.. Will
son is one of the oldtimers who has
seen the country change from the
cattle range to a farming district,
and he has fallen in line, just as
many other old time cattlemen have
done.
E. d. Curtis, who recently bought
the Hoskinson farm one mile south of
the Friends church north and west
of the city, has recently moved from
Jacksonville, Illinois, and expects to
move on his new premises about No
vember l. At present he is with his
cousin G. E. Scott.
John Russell of Madison, Okla
homa was in the city Tuesday, greet
ing old time friends. Mr.. Russell
was here in Seward county when a
boy. He has land near the city. One
of the tracts lies near the sewage
plant northeast of the city. The 9TH
er tract is north of the city about
four miles. Many people will re-
member his father, A. Russell.
First Lieutenant A. L. Knisely of
the medical corps arrived in the city
Saturday night on two days fur
Tough. He is looking good, says he
feels fine. He has been ordered to
Fort Worth and started for there
Monday night on train No. 3. He was
in his uniform but he bought it
himself and all the comforts that he
had this far sercured he paid for. The
delay in supplying the soldiers has
caused much inconvenience. This
matter of having to endure camp life
with few clothes is not very comfort
ing.