The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-26
BOOSTER TRIP
A BIG SUCCESS
More Than 100 Business Men
Visited Neighboring
Towns Tuesday.
Good Crowds Out at Most
Towns-Crop Outlook
Is Favorable.

The Liberal Boosters made the
first of a series Of two trips last
, Tuesday. Twenty-Five cars made up
the procession and nearly 1875 busi-
ness men of the city were in the par
lty that visited our ntighbors and
Showed 'em what we had in stock.
The first town visited was Floris.
Several cars from that city came out
to meet the procession and escort
the boosters into town where crowd
of people had assembled. The band
played several selections and Rev.
c. D. Hestwood made a short talk
announcing our Chautauqua and
: Fair.
Ten cars came out to greet the
boosters as they approached Forgan.
Here the crowd was treated to sew
eral selections by the Ladies' Quar-
tette made up of Mrs. Frank Smith,
Miss Prudence Young, Miss Frances
Young and Miss Emma Thompson.
Rev. Taylor made a short address to-
the crowd. The band played several
popular airs.
Beaver City boosters came nearly
to Forgan to meet the Liberal pro-
cession. Here the party took dinner.
Another large crowd was out to
greet the boosters. The party left
for LaKemp after dinner. A pro-
longed drouth had not kept the peo-
pie of that territory from greeting
the Liberal men. A large sign was
Swinging across main street bearing
the words Welcome, Liberal Boost
ers."
Balco was the next town on the
schedule. Here small crowd had as
sembled. The bass section of the
band failed to arrive because of car
trouble so no concert was given. The
Ladies Quartette, however, pleased
the crowd with several selections.
The largest crowd to greet the
boosters was at Gray. At least 1000
people were assembled there. Har-
vey w. Hill, editor of the Beaver
County Rpublican, had arranged
place where the boosters could wash.
He was also thoughtful enough to
have a barrel Of ice water on tap.
A short stop was made at Miller's
store and Lorena on the return from
Gray. Small crowds greeted the
boosters at both places.
Most of the boosters agree on one
thing-that the crop outlook around
Liberal is as good or better than any
other territory Visited. The country
around LaKemp is very dry. Scarce
ly no rain has fallen there in months
and the prairies are parched. The
row crop has never started. 1t seems
as if the farther east one gets from
Liberal, the worse the drouth. In
the rolling country south of Beaver
City the crop promises to be total
failure. Rain there can't do much
good except for preparing. the
ground for fall wheat. Between
here and Gray the crop outlook is
promising. The hail storm did not
visit that vicinity. With another rain
a good row crop is practically assur-
ed. -
Very little bad luck was encoun-
tered on the trip. Frank G. Boles
had to be towed in from east of
Gray. A broken bearing in his
motor was the cause. Warren Zim-
norman burned. out several bear
ngs in his motor due to a defective
cooling system and had to be towed
in from Gray. Several others ex-
perienced blow-outs and punctures.
As rule, though, most Of the cars
vent through without hitch.
Frank Summers drove car number
l3 in the procession. The committee
n charge, however, put preacher
n the car ahead and garage man
n the car behind. AS result he
made the trip without trouble of any
ort.
Most of the business men had
ards or souvenirs of some sort.
frank G. Boles had tops and toy
birds for the little folks,
Clyde Atha had "poppers" for the
voung Americas, Riggle Bros. gave
,ut collapsible drinking cups, sew
raj men gave out pencils and others
ave out literature. The bells given
ut by the Fair Association were the