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Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-12-02
PREMIERZY ALIANToW
WLONDYNIE.

Londyn, 2. grudnia. - Marsza-
lex Foch, premier francuski Gle
menceau, premier wloski Vito
RIO Orlando minister dla spraw
zagranicznych baron Sonnino
przybyli wozoraj do Londynu,
witani owacyinie przez wojsko
przez tlumy ma ulicach stolicy
Anglii, Najwiekszy entuzyazn1
wzbudzai marszaiek Foch, ma
stepnie ,,stary tygrys' Francyi
premier Clemenceau. Celem tel
misyi jest przygotowanie niekto-
rych punktow, ktore rozpatrywa,
ne beda ma konferencyi wersal,
Skiei -,.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
GRANT HERscHEL WEBER

Grant Herschel Weber was born
in Stafford, Kansas, January 23rd,
1892, where he lived with his par
ents until the age of Is, when he and
his mother came to Seward county
and proved up on claim where his
brother, Arlie, now lives. Seward
county was then bare country. He
has made his home here ever since.
On May 1st, 1914 he was married
to Miss Anna Brier and to this union
two children were born, Doris FL
della, three years of age and Charles
Herschel, seven months old.
His father and mother have pre-
coded him to the land beyond.
About two weeks ago he and his
family took sick with the influenza.
From the first it seemed that
all the care and medical attention
that could be given him was of no
avail and on December 10Th he enter
ed the golden gate of everlasting life.
He leaves to mourn, wife, two
children, a brother and host of rel
atives and friends.
He made profession of religion
and Joined the Christian church at
Hayne and it was in this faith that
he passed away.
He was loving husband, a kind
hearted father and we'll liked by
every one who knew him.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

for so long and the needs for them
have piled up during the war period.
Real-estate operators, building con-
tractors and material concerns are
preparing for unprecedented activity;
road-making machinery plants will be
taxed to meet the demands for their
equipment; automobile factories will
have to meet the accumulated demand
for cars.
The thrift campaigns in connection
with the Liberty Loans and War Saw
ings Stamp drives have taught the
people to save, and they have saved.
The purchasing power of the indi-
vdual has greatly increased; labor is
being paid a higher wage-the living
scale is on a higher plane than it has
ever been in the past. This is an
indication of better and bigger bust
ness for everybody. Associations of
men are and have been gathering for
consultation and planning for this re-
construction period, arranging best
ways and means for quickly getting
back to normal business and making
up for lost time. Advertising will
be an essential factor in their plans;
printing and paper form the principal
part of advertising. One does not
have to be confirmed optimist to see
that the future prosperity and bust
ness of the nation are assured.
Anyone who doesn't give studious
thought to the immediate future is
likely to be caught totally unprepared
for eventualties. SIS my house in
order?" should be the question of the
hour. If the outlook for the future
means unprecedented business activ-
ity, as it undoubtedly does, what
should be done at once to make the
best of the situation when it arrives?
From pamphlet issued by j. W.
Butler Paper Co.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
THRESHOLD OF PROSPERITY

The man who talks calamity and
trouble ahead" is looking thru the
wrong end of the telescope; he is
blind to the world about him; he is
totally ignorant of existing facts and
conditions; he is totally ignorant of
existing facts and conditions; he has
not even begun to analyze the situa-
tion-take him in hand and show him
the light.
Bounteous crops and good prices
have put greater purchasing power in
to the hands of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
governor of prosperity. Building of
all kinds, except for actual war needs,
has been at a standstill for more than
a year; there has been no roadmak-
ing; the purchasing of luxuries has
had sharp decline; farm machinery
of all kinds, automobiles and innum-
cradle other kinds of articles, imple
ments and equipment have been un-
der the ban during the crisis in order
to divert mechanical and human en-
ergy to the quick and successful cul-
mination of the war. Now that the
war is over it is clear what is going to
happen. Advertising campaigns of
great magnitude will be launched in
all lines of business; plants working
on government requirements were en-
larged to increase production-these
plants must now turn to peace-time
products, they must be kept busy, and
it is reasonable to conclude that they
will be when we consider that their
regular lines have been off the market
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
HARD ROADS ARE CHEAPEST

When the writer was small boy
we lived next door to a very frugal
old lady. This lady had tin wash
boiler and it sprung a leak, so she
gave us a nickle to take it to the tin
shop and have it soldered which cost
her dime. About every other week
she sent us with that old boiler to the
tin shop to have it soldered up, and
kept it up for more than a year. FL
nally she woke up and figured that
she had spent enough having the
leaks soldered up to have more than
bought new boiler, and all the time
she was using leaky one that gave
nothing but trouble. She had paid
for new one and did not have it.
When we see a road grader at
work we always think of that old
lady She is just like lot of people
today, who think only of the dime of
the present while the dollar of tomor-
IOW SSIS away lIOIn IHeHl
There is just as much judgment in
grading a road as in sending that
Boiler to the tin shop. You can spend
the money alright, save what it would
cost to pave-but the first time it
rains you have to wallow thru the
mud.
Hard surface roads cost lot of
money. That is one reason they are
good; the things which come cheaply
are seldom worth what they cost; it
is the real meritorious improvements
that cost the money.
Under the present system when the
Government is helping to build hard
roads, the balance is paid out on long
years time the EXPENSE does not fall
so heavily. Then when one figures
the expense of keeping up the dirt
roads which are always "gone" when
it rains, and the time lost and incon-
veniences endured it will readily be
seen that in the end the hard road is
the cheaper.
Ford county is falling into lirA in
road building and will build brick
road clear across the county, and it
is safe bet that the fellow who lives
just little piece of this road will be
an advocate of hard roads.
Seward county has some of the
worst roads in the Southwest. Time
and money have been spent trying to
made road, especially when there is
done. Cussing the authorities never
made road, especially when there is
nothing to start with, and the only
way we will ever have a road north
of town is to build it of cement, brick
or other material with which real
roads are made.
Like the paving in Liberal, it can
be put off. If the present generation
do not do it the coming one will, so
we had just as we'll begin to plan on
it and get in line for Government aid
in building it.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

be no wars in the future, but it would
certainly make them less probable,
and that should help a whole lot.
"If preparing for peace will pro-
mote peace we might give it thoro'
test. We have always prepared for
war and had war. The League to
Enforce Peace may not be the best
thing, actually, but it is a step in the
right direction for the individual or
the nation that actually wants to do
away with war"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

W. Y. Morgan of the Hutchinson
News in an editorial in a recent issue
comes nearer hitting the nail on the
head regarding the League of Ma
lions than anything we have yet
read. Morgan does not seem to agree
with Stone, Lodge and lot of the
other reactionaries in both parties
who seem bent on destroying con-
fidence in a League of Nations to
prevent war.
As Morgan says, the League may
not entirely prevent war, but it will
be step in the right direction, and
his further statement that we have al
ways prepared for war and had war,
while there is chance that if we pre-
pare for peace we can have peace is
the most logical conclusion one could
conceive.
The editorial from the News fol-
lows:
"The proposed League to Enforce
Peace announces that its functions
should be judicial, administrative
legislative and executive.
at also announces that its weapons
should be moral, diplomatic, economic
and military.
"The League possibly would not
absolutely stop war in each and every
case, but it would make it much less
certain Also it would try to localize
it, more or less.
Morally, if the nations could all
agree to this, war would be much
less probable. After that diplomatic
measures would be brought forward
in order to stop the war before it
started Then the nation that was
bound to fight would have economic
pressure exerted, in an effort to stop
it before it started or to bring it to
an end soon after fighting had COM
meced.
"Tf the "moral" desires of the
League, in its connection with the
world, didn't stop the war, if diplo-
macy failed, then the strongest of
pressure, which would prevent food
coming in or preventing munitions be-
ing brought in to help the fighters, or
keeping out the raw products that are
needed to help win the war, would be
tried. An economic boycott might
bring the nations to their senses.
"If all of these failed, as the some
times might fail, the the military arm
of the League would take the matter
in hand and fight it out and finally
settle the difficulty.
at is not the belief that this would
be sure guarantee that there would
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
1T is NOW LIEUTENANT
oRWIN GRAY, AVIATOR
Son or Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. Gray Wins
Commission in the Aviation
Section.
Lieutenat Orwin Gray.

And he is Liberal boy, too. At
the beginning Of the war he enlisted
in the aviation branch of the army,
made good, and now has been pro-
NOTED to a lieutenancy.
Liberal is proud of her boys and
Lieutenat Gray shares in the honor.
There has been nothing said about
mastering out the aviation section
and it is Likely that the present nucleus
of an air force will be preserved as
part of the limited defense plan in
case the League, of Nations is formed.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
First published Dec. 10, 1879
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department Of the Interior


Kansas, December 18th, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Mary
M. Aker, of Liberal, Kansas, who, on
July 7th, 1915, made Homestead APP
plication Serial No. 012391, for
NJ SEA, SEA SEA, Sec. H.,
NEA, NEA SEA, Sec. IA, Township
50 S., Range 81 W., 9th Principal
Meridian, has filed notice of intention
to make Final Three Year Proof, to
establish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before the Register and Re-
ceiver of the U. S. Land Office at
Dodge City, Kansas, on the 23rd day
of January, 1919.
Claimant names as witnesses
Maude E. Dobson, of Liberal, Kansas /;
Laura M. Wood, Of Liberal, Kansas !;
John N. Kneeland, Of Kismet, Kansas !;
F+snces Wood, of Liberal, Kansas.
Not coal land.
r. R. WILSON,
Sits Register
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
Sure to Come

ooh, mama, I'm frightenedp' came
from little Tommie, in bed.
"What are you frightened about,
my SOM"
81 hear somebody on the roof"
ooh, well, go to sleep, my boy; it's
only your father taking off his shoes
before he sneaks thru the seuttle.
He's just got home from the club in
his airship."
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

Attorney H. A. Gaskill is here from
Camp Pike, Arkansas, where he has
been attending the Officers Training
School. We have not learned wheth-
er or not he will remain permanently.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. German went
to Meade to spend Christmas. They
remained longer than they intended
on account of the tie up in railroad
traffic.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
Unconscious Advertising

Modest Young Lieutenant (report-
ing to C. o. after a thrilling raid into
No Mans Land): Captain, / wish to
report Private Hicks conduct in the
highest terms of praise. He is the
bravest man in the world. He fol-
lowed me every place | went.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
Gets Rack at Mother

"Bertie," said mother, sorrowfully,
every time you are naughty get
another gray hair"
"My wordW replied BERTHE, "you
must have been a terror. Look at
grandpa pitt Bits.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

Elder and Mrs. Jas. M. Taylor
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jno
W. Baughman Christmas day. We
understand that goose was the main
feature of the dinner, and to which
Elder Taylor surely did justice, as
men of his profession have the repu-
tation of always doing.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
Bits
(First published November %, 1879
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
u. S. Land Office at Dodge City,

U. 5. Land Office at Dodge City,
Kansas, Nov. 23rd, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Martha
Post, of Kismet, Kansas, who, on
January 9th, 1916, made Homestead
Application Serial No. 013540, for
SEA Section 10, NEA Section "a,
Township "a S. Range 81 W., 9Th
Principal Meridian, has filed notice Of
intention to make Final Three Year
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before the Probate
Judge of Seward County. Kansas, at
Liberal, Kansas, on the 4th day of
January, 1919.
Claimant names as witnesses:
James B. Wood, of Liberal, Kansas
Esther Edison, of Liberal, Kansas
Charles W. Shore, of Kismet, Kan
sas; John N. Kneeland, of Kismet,
Kansas.
Not coal land.
R. R. WILSON,
28t5c Register.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

T. S. Lane, son of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
w. Lane, who has been attending the
officers training school at Lawrence,
will return home within the next few
days.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
.antCOlunn

FOR SALE-Half section land, A
miles of Liberal, room house, barn
for IL head stock, good well and
windmill and tank, 70 acres Of pas
ture, balance in cultivation. Terms,
$4,000 cash, balance on long time.
See C. W. Finley, phone I'LL or
3148. 29tfc
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
A Mean Remark

dead men tell no tales" observed
the Sage.
"Maybe that is the reason why so
many widows get to marry again"
commented the Fool.-Nashville Ten
nesseean,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

The friends in Liberal will be made
sad at the news of the death of Mrs.
Winnie Redd, at the home of a sis
ter in Guymon, the evening of Deem
Der oath, pneumonia being the cause.
Mrs. Redd went to her sisters home
more than week ago to care for the
family who were all ill with the in
fluenza, and in so doing contracted
the disease which was the second
time this winter. The remains will
be taken to Linneous, Missouri, the
last of the week for burial beside the
father.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
A Roundahout Method

"Pa, why do you always insist on
my singing when Mr.. Bimley comes
here?"
"Well, l don't like to come right
out and tell him to CO."
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
OBITUARY

The W. G. Allen home has been
greatly saddened this week, having
been paid visit of the hand of
death which removed from their fam
lily circle two little daughters lit
tie girl of about 10 years of age which
was taken Monday, and the baby
which passed away yesterday morn
ing, pneumonia being the cause. Mr..
Allen and the other children have the
flu and Mrs. Allen has been in a seri-
Gus condition for several days with
an attack of pneumonia.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

Mrs. W. C. Stout and four chill
dren of Arkalon are very i'll this week
with pneumonia.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

FOR SALE-Thoroughbred Buff
Orpington cockerels, So and $780,
Mrs. A. ]. Lancaster, Rt. B, Liberal,
Kansas. 31tfc
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

FOR RENT-A good room, furn-
ace heat. l block from high school.
See Maxwell at Craig Lumber
Yard. 29tfc
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

STRAYED: From my place A.
year-old brown horse mule, mealy
nose, IA IL hands high. Had leather
halter on. Notify E. Hibbs, Owner.
Liberal, Kansas. 31tfc
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

FOUND-Gold neck chain, near
Telegraph office. Owner can have
same by calling at this Office and pay
ing for ad. 32t1
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

Sacks, sacks, sacks-bring your old
sacks to Jim Johnston. 13-tf.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

FOR SALE-Bundle Kafr corn; l
mile east and " mile north of High
School building.-A. Wilson, Lib
eral. 28tfc
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26
Not Any More

Now Wilhelm with a troubled brow
Counts up his various losses.
He can not pay his board bill now
By giving iron crosses.
Washington Star.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

FOR SALE-One quarter section,
A miles east 10 south of Liberal, Kan,
100 acres broke, 60 sown to wheat.
Will sell right if taken at once.-R.
L. Hill, owner. 23tf
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-26

FOR SALE-A good piano. See
]. N. Evans, Peoples State Bank. tip
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-09-11
Nurses Training Course.

Mr.. II. b. Alsover is in re.
ceipt OF the following letter
from Congressman C. b. Slemp,
which is self explanatory:
Your letter of the 9th in
slant Just received in regard to
the nurses training course in
the Army and Navy schools.
This course requires three years
in which to Complete the train
Jug and ut the end of that time
they are graduated nurses, that
il, if they pass the examinations
each year.
In order to enter in this train
ing, application must be made
to the Army Nurses School,
care of Surgeon Generals office,
Washington, d, c. Or upon
application they will give ali
information on the subject.
The expenses of the nurses will
be met by the Government and
they will furnish all uniforms,
The six months course iir
nursing liz under the manage
ment of the Red Cross. They
will be trained as nurses aids
and will be given foreign ser
vice. 1t is really first aid work
For this work application should
be made to the American Red
Cross, Washington, ID. G.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-09-11
Transporting
Our Troops

The world has been astonish-
ed ut the great number of Amer
lean soldiers transported To Eu-
rope in the last half year. The
number now npproximates L.
800, 900, and the loss of life in
transporting them as has been
almost infinitesimal.
The success with which we
have moved our troops from the
scattered CAMPS in this country
and across 5000 miles of ocean
to the battle front is great evil
dence of American efficiency.
We have not only surprised our
enemies; we have surprised our
friends and ourselves.
rhc British controller of ship.
ping, Sir Joseph Maclay, speaks
of this movement across the
sea as "a transport miracle"
We have been inclined to attri-
butte this achievement solely to
our Navy and our shipping, but
the British controller speaks IN
high praise of the share the
American railroads had in the
work. He says:
eff the American railroads
had not been operated with
success the whole transport
movement might have failed be
cuuse it was essential to quick
transportation that the troops
should be ready for the ships"
Director General McAdoo
seems justified in his statement
that while the development of
the policy of the Railroad Ad,
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-09-11
Big Coal Deal

Coeburn and Wise, Virginia,
capitalists, composed of Il. &.
Candle, y. NJ. Wears, G. O.
Ramsey and a. w. Addington
closed Il biz coal deal last week
at Purcell, Va, which gives
them one-half interest in the
Powell River Coal Company, a
iirst-class operation which was
opened up at that point several
months ago by j. s. Chcyney
and associates.
This is one of the best plants
in the pocket and is well equip
pod for mining coal. The com
pany is now operating two sep
arate mines carrying from 3 to
. feet of clean coal. The lease
carries DDS acres of the celcbrat-
ed Kelly, Elkhors, ana numbers
/ and . seams of coal, being
some Of the same seams operated
by the Virginia Iron Coal and
Coke Company at their big plant
near ST. Charles. \ large new
upplc, equipped with scales for
weighing coal, several miners
houses, conmissary we'll stocked
with merchandise, large furnish
ed boarding house, machine shop,
two good railroad sidings, several
tons of steel, machines, mules,
horses and a large number of
ball bearing mining cars are in
cluded in Tie equipment.
The new owners are preparing
to double the present output and
install some new machinery
which will make it one of the
biggest operations in the pocket.
Mr.. Il. G. Candle is general
manager Of the plant and is now
on the ground giving his person
al attention TO the supervision of
the work. The general Offices of
the company will be moved to
Coeburn, Va,-Bristol Herald
Courier.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-09-11
Big Stone Gap
Buys 5000 Acres of Land at
Head Of Water Works.

AT u meeting of the Town
Council on Monday night that
body decided to purchase three
thousand acres of land at the
head of the water works,
which covers the entire water
shed of the towns water sup
ply. This matter has been dis
cussed for some time and mas
much as the company owning
this boundary of land was con-
templating cutting it up into
small farms aud selling it off, in
order to protect our water sup
ply, the town decided to buy
the whole tract.
This land belongs to the Min
eral Development Company
and was purchased for eight
dollars per acre.
The members of the town
council say that this land can
be paid for out of the proceeds
of the water rents, there being
enough in the sinking fund to
meet first payment. There is no
question but that this will be a
good thing for the town and
that the council has acted wise
ly i'll securing this land before
it was sold off, which would
have been Il continual menace
TO our line water supply.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-09-11
Directors.

The proposal to send conscicn.
tlous directors to the farms ms
laborers has not yet received the
hearty endorsement of the far
mers.
The conscience that demands
secure aloofncss when thousands
are making the supreme sacri-
flee is likely to be capricious
even about farm work II might
object to spraying potato bugs
and destroying chicken-lice.
Farmers have no more time
these days to argue with their
help than colonies with their
regiments.
In Europe they have partly
solved the problem by putting
conscientious directors to work
on mine sweepers. Here they
perform important service for
the express purpose Of saving
life, and never face the obligo-
ton OF destroying even potato
bug. The directors still object,
but with less logic, if any, than
before.