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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Special? Joan had been naughty. When her mother was' putting her to bed she said, When you say your prayers, Joan, ask God to make you a good girl tomorrow. With an inquiring glance, Joan said, Why? Whats on By EDWARD EMERINE WNU , Feature. We do not live, but only stay, And are too poor to get away. Life on the frontier is always hard. It was doubly hard in Kansas where the pioneers had to endure border wars over slavery, bad men, drouths, grasshoppers, blizzards and dust storms, in addition to the ordinary hardships of a new country. But they stuck it out. , They stuck it out and on her husband for many days. Then, like a burst of sunshine from a cloudy sky, she smiled. Does that mean, honey" he asked, that you forgive me? "Go on away, you rascal I was just restin ma face. Thats For Sure It Bachelor Uncle How old is the John If you sleep at my house baby? youll have to make your own bed. Proud Father Eight months. Bachelor Uncle Talk yet? Frank O. K. I dont mind. Proud Father No, not yet. John All right. Heres a hamBachelor Uncle Boy, eh? mer and a saw. He Meant sticking MUKsIDO (fcjID it out" until the battle is won is still a characteristic of Kansas people. Perhaps it was the crucible of those early years that steeled and tempered the Kansas spirit which conquered the prairies. They stuck it out, rose above the trials of the hour and developed that rare sense of humor which enables Kansas people to laugh at themselves and the foibles of mankind. Despite Coronado and other Spanish explorers, and French, traders, Kansas remained Indian and buffalo country for two centuries after English colonists settled in New England and Virginia. Slow in Settlement. not until the was It bill was passed in 1854 that the land was opened to settlement. At that time the entire white population of Kansas consisted of about 700 soldiers, based at Forts Leavenworth and Riley and Walnut Creek ka (IiB 8W' start right when you measure the required amount of Clabber Girl into your flour . . . You are sure to get Just You the right rise in your mixing bowl, followed by that final rise to light and fluffy flavor in the oven . . . Thats the story of Clabber Girfs balanced double action. , Kansas-Ne-bras- Respite A Negress had frowned BREAD BASKET OF THE WORLD . . . Kansas is the No. 1 wheat producing state of the nation, yielding: almost a fourth of the entire U. S. crop. Kansas is ideally situated for Whether for or against slavery, Kansas settlers lived in log huts, agriculture, but it took a plow to break the sod. Where William F. shake houses, sod shanties, and other humble shelters, us- Cody used to hunt buffalo are the ing grass, brush and buffalo chips greatest wheat lands in the world. for fuel. The sod crop was com Kansas produces more wheat than and com they ate! Com bread, any other state in the union almost of the entire United parched com, hominy, com-memush they boiled com, fried it, States crop. It is first in milling baked it, stewed it. Fortunately, and wheat storage. Com, alfalfa, they had beef, pork and milk to go hay, sorghum, broom com, sudan with it, and a coffee substitute, grass, potatoes, sugar beets, barley, made of dried sweet potatoes, dried flax, rye, soybeans, vegetables, green okra and parched wheat fruits, truck crops Kansas produces almost everything that is grown on ground together and boiled. Would Kansas be slave or free a farm. territory? On its first election day Rich in Resources. in 1855, hundreds of Missourians finds riches below as well Kansas with rifles on their shoulders, above as the surface of her rolling, in their belts and a liberal fertile acres. Kansas is one of the of in their wagwhiskey supply in oil production, with its ons crossed the border and voted. leaders natural gas. Lead and companion, candidates All of the Coal are zinc mined extensively. except one were elected! And when is produced in most of the parts the bogus legislature met in July, state. Under Kansas is enough the Missouri slave code was the law salt to last 500,000 years! Volcanic ' of Kansas. ash, gypsum, limestone, clays and to the Civil The curtain-raisother resources are mined in Kanwar was fought in Kansas. Men sas. It is an important source blood. in cold were murdered helium gas. of Border ruffians ravaged antiAs the geological center of the slavery settlements. John Brown United States, Kansas was and and his sons took up the chalis the land of trails. Those who lenge and took after the slaveholders. Bleeding Kansas was sought land in Oregon, gold in no misnomer during the next California or Colorado, trade few years. But gradually the with the Mexicans in Santa Fe, forces won and or cattle from Texas, used Kanstate. a ALANCEOiSoub CLABBER dug-ou- ts one-four- th al (Buy. 74.. . SaowjqA, Bondi,! Ar . . six-shoot- AHIRT pro-slave- ry SMOKING TOBACCO er . Gov. CHIEF EXECUTIVE Andrew F. Schoeppel is a native Kansan, born in Claflin in Barton county. A former lawyer and veteran of World War I, he was a member of the Kansas Corporation commission until he was elected governor in 1942. post office on the Sante Fe Trail, and an equal number of civilians at Indian missions, stage stations and trading posts. The question of slavery immediately plunged Kansas into bloodshed. Even before the bill was signed, Missourians who favored slavery slipped across the border and founded Leavenworth and Atchison. But Eli Thayer found 29 men in New England who were willing to emigrate to Kansas, settle on the prairie, be neighbors to Indians and fight slaveholders. Dr. Charles Robfolks. inson brought a second party of But the unknown soldier, the emigrants, including four unhonored at to settle hero, of Kansas is the Boston musicians, from man who introduced the plow. Lawrence. Congress had decreed . He was not a glamorous figure, that Kansas would decide the and his hands were gnarled and tion of slavery for itself. And Kanblistered and bent to the shape sans set out to do it in their own of a plow, handle. saloon-bustin- . anti-slaver- or Whether he smokes a pipe -a rolls his own cigarettescut Christmas gift of crimp to please Prince Albert is sure Dealers everywhere are tin of featuring this Prince Albert for Christmas to give gifts. Its all ready wrapping-ev- en Christmas oay own space for your personal greeting. ce anti-slave- ry free Kansas became Only two slaves were listed in the census of 1860. Many notables have trod the Kansas stage. Heading the list is Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, great military leader of World War II. Frontier Personages. The history of the Old West is represented by such Kansas personages as Wild Bill Hickock, the marshal of Abilene, and Buffalo Bill, the scout. Carrie Nation and her g hatchet also brought the state into the limelight. In Statuary hall in the nations capitol is the figure of John J. Ingalls, senator, orator, essayist, poet. Ed Howe, the sage of Potato Hill, and his contemporaries, Walt Mason and William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, were Kansas ka 01 y" . sas as a highway. The Santa Fe Trail, the California and Oregon Trails, the Butterfield Trail, the Smoky Hill Route, Overland Trail, Pony Express Route, Jim Lane Trail and the cattle trails from Texas, including the Chisholm, Old Shawnee, Ellsworth and Western Trails, all used Kansas for a right-of-wa- y. Kansas today bears some of the of long ago ruts made by thousands of covered wagons and hooves of cattle among them. Lonely graves still may be found, and bridle bits, parts of wagons and other mute reminders of the past are picked up occasionally by grandchil- dren of the pioneers. Kansas is great, not only as one of the states of the nation, but as a great family of people who retain much of the pio-- : neer spirit. They stuck it out a few generations ago. And Kansans are still sticking it out for freedom of thought and of action, and for the right to progress by their own ef- forts. scars ! j 0 j food-produci- ng $ j it ; S7 I 1 ' i " 16-O- TIN Also evailabl . For pipes or no other cigarettes, theres Albert. Prince tobacco quite like cut to pack better In a roll-your-o- Its crimpdraw smooth and easy pipe, to taa or to roll up fast andfirm maklns cigarette. Cool, rich, end tasty. FOR OR VMS R0LL-Y0UR-0W- NS the national SMOKE JOY B. J twnoXUTob. Oo..Wtart-a- l. H O. ALSO IN POCKET SIZE |