===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: KSJEWELL@rootsweb.com From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Subject: [KSJEWELL] WHAT THEY SAY in the REPUBLICAN: OCT 1914 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: smlslau Surnames: Alderson, Beeler, Berry, Bevington, Bowles, Bunch, Carpenter, Coffman, Convis, Crandall, Curtis, Davis, DeHoff, Drake, Dresslar, Dunham, Eberhart, Edwards, Elliott, Eychner, Fay, Fisher, Gallagher, Gartner, Gaston, Gray, Green, Grimm, Henninger, Hughes, James, Jordan, Keith, Kelly, Kibbe, Kreamer, Laffer, Lowe, Manker, McClain, McIntyre, Moore, Motes, Murdock, Murphy, Nees, Nixon, Pence, Perfect, Postlethwaite, Rauschmeier, Reeder, Renner, Robinett, Rossman, Rowe, Ruggles, Saint, Schumacher, Seamans, Seaton, Sheldon, Shinn, Simpson, Smith, Snyder, Sorick, Spatz, Stanley, Welstead, White, Whitney, Wise, Witham, Wolfe, Wolfe, Young. Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.jewell/1039/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WHAT THEY SAY in the REPUBLICAN: OCT 1914 02 OCT 1914 S. Coffman: "I won't help pray for peace till Germany is licked." Traveling Man: "I saw two piles of wheat on the ground near Colby in which there must have been ten thousand bushels." Ray Sorick: "I rented Billy Rowe's barn and he threw in the house." Splitwood Smith: "Virginia is a nice place to live if you don't want to make any money." W.R. Whitney: "I am putting my auto money into an up-to-date caw barn." Mrs. E.A. Convis: "I've got my ticket all made out now. I'm going to vote for Mrs. Murphy for congress, but I'll not vote for Mrs. Sheldon for supreme judge." F.I. Drake: "A man building a house is foolish if he doesn't excavate every foot of basement under it. It is the cheapest room he can make. Cement the floors and have fuel, heating plant, laundry and cellar down there. It is a fine place in the winter to hang out the clothes." Ed Simpson: "I stayed in Minnesota one year and that was enough for me. I didn't like any part of it. The farming land is either woods or swamp, and the flies and mosquitoes are almost savage enough to eat up cattle and horses. It's a good place to fish, but that soon gets tiresome to a man who wants to make a living. I am glad to get back to Kansas." Mrs. F.E. Ruggles: "I dressed twelve wild ducks last night." Mrs. Nellie Berry: "What do you know about farmers buying butter in town and having it sent out by mail? That's what this package is." S.S. Wolfe: "I have cut 500 tons of silage and am still cutting. I have filled five silos." Mrs. Art Schumacher: "I changed my religion to please a man, but I won't change my politics. I'm a straight Democrat. I don't care much about voting but I don't want these men standing around telling me I can't vote if I want to." Mrs. Ed Young: "We are all in from the farm but Ed and I think he's getting anxious." Jack Moore: "I saw the best young mule at John Barrett's. He thinks of bringing it to the colt show." Senator Curtis: "I got a letter the other day from Old Bill Reeder. He is in the real estate business in Los Angeles. One time he got me out to Downs to make an irrigation speech for him and it rained for two days. Will Elliott: "A string of blackbirds half a mile long went after my milo maize, but I beat them to the most of it." Mrs. E.D. Fisher: "I want woman suffrage because suffrage means national prohibition." O.A. Seaton: "Now I'm ready to buy a car." Frank Gallagher: "I've got a real estate hen on, but she hasn't laid yet." J.C. Perfect: "I'm tired of men politicians. I'm going to vote for every woman on the ticket." Jack Moore: "My wife says it's bad enough to be sick without eating my cooking. That's where she draws the line." F.I. Drake: "If Newt had two eyes couldn't he see a lot?" J.O. Laffer: "Our business is extra good this year." J.F. Rossman: "We are going to Mitchell county to get some butter. We couldn't find any in Jewell county." Mrs. Maggie McClain: "After I get my election ticket made out I keep changing my mind." 09 OCT 1914 Isaac Nees: "I don't know what Leslie Breed found in Arkansas, but he has a good thing right where he is." John Renner, Republican candidate for sheriff; "I believe from my talks with them, that half the women in Jewell county, will vote." Billy Edwards: "I'm happy now, I'm back on my ranch." Fred Dunham: "A farmer didn't use to think anything of going a mile for his mail; but he hates to do it now." H.A. Manker: "Tom Lowe is doing well. If he were a little younger he'd get rich again." Hamilton Davis: "The Rheumatism is one thing that never quite lets loose of me." S.A. Welstead: "Nearly all the wheat is up out our way and is looking good." Len Bowles: "I have from $150 to $200 worth of empty beehives piled up around my place. Foul brood did it." Dr. Hughes: "I have lost forty pounds this summer." Allen Robinett: "I backed C.A. White in getting his telephone pole digger patented and own one-third of the patent. This week we dug a four-foot pole hole with it in two minutes. It also lifts the heaviest pole and puts it in the hole. We are not having the least trouble getting the railroads interested in it. The Union Pacific official met us at Beloit, Thursday, for a demonstration and says they have a hundred miles of poles for us to start in on if they are satisfied with the work, and the Rock Island officials say they can use a hundred machines if it proves a success." V.L. Bunch: "My father and I are going to Kansas City this week to meet the president of the Bull Tractor Co. The Bull Tractor is an all right machine, but it is a new machine and is not perfected yet. The company is doing the square thing with every man who bought one, and will soon have a tractor out that will be O.K. I don't want to see a machine that doesn't give perfect satisfaction, but it isn't fair to judge the whole Bull Tractor proposition by the fact that the first ones out showed defects. These defects are now being remedied." E.L. Gray: "The new 1915 Studebaker Four is a beaut. They have reduced the price $60 and added $150 to its appearance. Justice Fred James: "I once settled a lawsuit with a prayer meeting." Charles Eberhart: "The Citizens Bank folks whacked up the insurance for my horse without a struggle." W.J. Carpenter: "Mr. Craven is clerking in an Iowa store and has had his wages raised twice. He doesn't know whether to come back or go ahead." Jim Motes: "We are beating you town fellows on the rain. We had a full inch Sunday and have been getting good rains since. The wheat looks beautiful" J.W. Berry: "The proposed new war tax of 1 cent on each telephone message that amounts to 15c and over is going to be disastrous to all small telephone companies. 57 per cent of all Bell messages originate on independent lines, and it is the originating lines that must pay the tax. On a dollar message such a tax would be only 1 per cent; but on a 15 cent message it would be 7 percent on the gross income on the message, and over 25 per cent on the net income. The telephone companies already pay a government income tax, a state corporation tax, beside the property tax that all property pays, but this new proposed tax would amount to more than all the rest put together. It will affect the big companies very little as theirs are mostly long messages, and the tax is the same on a 15 cent as on a dollar message. That's the unfairness of it. 70 per cent of our messages are 15-centers." 16 OCT 1914 Aunt Lydia Alderson: "They are good and kind to me down at the home for soldiers' widows. Of course it never will be home, but they do everything they can to make it seem so." Miss Lydia DeHoff: "I think the women are going to take a pretty lively interest in election." Mrs. Kittie Keith: "I want the REPUBLICAN to quit talking about the country telephone lines. I tried four times to get the office and the editor was talking 'steady fire' every time; so I finally got discouraged and walked up there and said what I had to say." Gene Eychner: "My principal objection to the Runner duck is that they are such a nuisance. Into everything, especially the water put out for the chickens." W.H. Spatz: "I have been out in the Selden country eight weeks pitching to a threshing machine. I never saw so much wheat anywhere as there is in that county. Twenty-three machines were working within eight miles of Selden. I am going back tonight to work at carpentering. Much of the wheat has been piled on the ground. Now people have time to build barns and granaries." Democratic Woman: "There is just one Republican I'm going to vote for. That's John Renner for sheriff." Edith Shinn: "I'm going to the polls just for the sake of voting for one person." J.W. Berry: "I found the silage in the bottom of my silo west of town in good condition. It has been in three years and I am filling on top of it again this year." Allen Robinett: "We have landed our first job with our new post hole digger. A.E. White, his son Will and myself will go out tomorrow to start in on a hundred mile stretch from Lyma to Denver. If that is a success there are 200 miles to dig between Ellis and Lyma. Mr. White is a Latter Day Saint and he claims he saw the digger in a vision. I think we can dig from 150 to 200 holes a day." Tom Lowe: "Old Colorado is going dry this time." H.A. Manker: "When I got off at Elk City, I said to the old bus driver: 'How big a town is this?' He shut his nose and chin so close together that they almost touched. Then he said; 'Four hundred and eighty acres.'" W.H. Snyder: "I value my gold mine in Alaska at $40,000 and it is worth the money. The proportion of business in our town of Council is five stores and seven saloons. That was when we had 4,000 people." George Saint, Perkins, Okla: "We are having fine weather, but no market for cotton." Wm. Gaston: "I hardly know what an ache or pain feels like." Chance Witham: "The Germans remind me of a story: A Swede said, 'The Irish are not such fighters as they tell about. Me and my two brothers licked h_____ out of one the other day'" S.L. Green: "When I peeked into my bee hives this week I found them solid full of honey." S. Coffman: "Our cat nailed five rats in one hour last Sunday." W.G. McIntyre: "I believe Germany is going to wipe up the whole bunch. She was ready for war and the rest weren't." Newton Kreamer: "Some day we are liable to need an army mighty bad and find that we have none. Six month's or a year's training in the army wouldn't hurt our young men, but would do them good. When they became efficient, put them on the reserve list and let them go about their business. Then if we suddenly needed soldiers we would have them. We might be licked now before we could get a trained army in the field." W.E. Smith: "October's the nicest thing we've got." Peter Henninger: "I came to Jewell in 1870, walking up from the end of the railroad at Waterville. The two fellows who came with me took fright at the Indian stories and went back the next morning." George Seamans: "I do not want you to print it, but it's a fact that our corn is weighing out twenty-two bushels per acre." M. Kibbe: "There never was a Democrat elected in Jewell county except by Republican votes. I do not see why we should do it this year as we certainly have just as good timber up as they have." I.R. Jordan: "A small yellow grub has taken about sixty acres of my wheat. You can stick your knife into the ground and throw out two or three of them at a time. It seems to be a sort of wire worm and there are three little legs on each side of the body near the head. The neighbors' wheat looks all right, but they are fixing mine." 23 OCT 1914 Victor Murdock: "Any town that can elect the same mayor without a fuss for 14 years is some town and he must be some major." Weber Wise, Champaign, Ill. "I would like to have the REPUBLICAN each week for as long as I can earn money to pay for it; and how much will it cost a man like myself more than a common man?" Buck Smith: "I'm going to vote for Murdock, and there are a lot of other Mankato Democrats of the same mind." E.D. Fisher: "It must have been a good game. One boy got his leg broke and another had his head most cut off." Miss Irma Nixon: "The women candidates never look at me when they come in. They devote all their time to the men." Mrs. Del Smith: "I am going to vote for her myself and I'm going to see to it that Del votes for her, too." N.D. Pence: "When I came to the last round mowing my cane, I scared out six rabbits and a shuck." Supt. Owen James, Phillipsburg: "I came in to tell you that I get straighter and more satisfactory war news out of the REPUBLICAN than I can out of the dailies." Will Wolfe: "There's a young buck around this town who refuses to work for $2 a day - demanded $2.50 at the same time he was living off his folks and his folks were living of the county." Mrs. Leta Grimm: "I'd rather have a good old-fashioned horse and buggy and a beau, than to ride in an automobile, and I've tried both." R.C. Postlethwaite: "The news is that Billard, the resubmission candidate for governor, is going to pull a remarkable heavy vote in the river towns and in the mining sections of the state. This means that the whiskey vote will be concentrated on Billard while the prohibition vote will be broken and scattered. I hope every man and woman who favors Arthur Capper for governor will go to the polls. Capper was born in Kansas and has the Kansas idea on the saloon question and has never for a minute had any other idea; but a bad day or a light vote in the agricultural sections might let Billard in. Don't take any chances on it." Bascom Dresslar: "I don't even know what the men are going to do at this election, not to mention the women." Vernon Eychner, Lindsborg, Kan.: "My mother's is the best letter I get and THE REPUBLICAN is the second best." John Kelly: "War is worse than Sherman said it was." Mrs. Parker Moore: "When my husband went off to a political meeting last Friday, he left me in the washtub; but an auto came along, and he was some surprised when I got to that political meeting first." George B. Crandall: "If we send Curtis to the senate he will get right back in the same old machine grooves. He'll be the same old obstructionist he always was. There was never a progressive hair on his head." Victor Murdock: "There are a lot of men that don't know how their neighbors are going to vote this year and there are a lot of men who don't know how their wives are going to vote this year." Fred Beeler; "I think I believe just about what Murdock does, and the people believe it; but I believe in staying in the old party and winning out there, while Murdock believes in getting out and raising the devil." Victor Murdock: "You will find congressmen sending out garden seeds that come to you once every year and come up about once in five years." Mrs. Will Fay: "I found a woman's hat in the road in front of our place Wednesday morning. Can you find the owner?" Mrs. John Kelly: "Not even my husband knows my politics." Miss Etta Gartner: "Don't you believe Philip and Louie are in the war. That is not true. They are American citizens and don't have to go to war." Carrie Hughes: "Anybody may search me for a diamond ring." Albert Stanley: "I am very much delighted with my new cook." Mrs. Florence Fisher Rauschmeier; "I was raised a mossback Democrat, but now I am a standpat Republican." E.D. Fisher: "I am going to vote for Murdock and a whole lot of other Democrats will do the same thing. I didn't help nominate Neely and I'm not going to vote for him." J. Bevington: "Just got in from Oklahoma City; best conditions there in seven years. They have wheat, oats, hay, cotton and some corn." Transcribed by Marjorie Kincheloe Slaughter Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. =====================================================================