Anthony Heinen, who is working for the Livestock Improvement Association, was killed at a grade crossing near Emporia a few days ago. Heinen has been in Stockton a number of times for his company and is well known here. The Emporia Gazette telling of the accident says: “Anthony Heinen of Cawker City was killed instantly and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lowry and baby, Mrs. H. C. Artzberger and baby and Miss Sell Cowser, all of Emporia, were injured last evening in the worst grade crossing accident since the opening of the paved highway through Lyon County. Heinen’s auto crashed squarely into the locomotive on Santa Fe train No. 16 after the Lowry car had been struck by the engine and knocked across the track, on the grade crossing a mile east of town. Mr. Heinen was alone in a Buick sedan. His car was completely demolished. The Lowry family, babies, Mrs. Artzberger and Miss Cowser were in the Studebaker touring car. Both autos were coming from Hartford and were racing when the accident occurred. The Lowry car was in the lead and was almost across the track when the engine struck it, knocking it into a ditch on the west side of the track and north of the paved road. Heinen’s car crashed into the engine after the train had struck the other auto.

Uncle Sam is to have some brand new paper money. Two purposes are being served in issuing the “new styles” of currency. The first, of course, is to make it still more difficult for counterfeiting. The other purpose to be served is to aid banks in sorting various classes of currency. The faces of the notes will carry portraits having a denominational significance. The $1 notes of each class—silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes and United States notes will be the portrait of Washington, the $5 bill will carry the picture of Lincoln, $20 bills that of Cleveland, $50 bills that of Grant, and the $100 bills that of Franklin. The overprinting of the seal and numbers of the silver certificate will be blue, on the United States notes green, and on the Federal Reserve notes red. The motive in making the portrait of each class of bills the same for the same denomination is in order that the public may thereby become familiar with the denomination value of the portrait so that a raised note may be more readily detected.

The Farmers Elevator traded the two lots on the corner, north of the elevator, to Mrs. Bert Howard for her two lots adjoining the elevator, and the Farmers Company moving the Howard residence to the north lots. Jack Dryden got his engine into use and with Joe Fealey moved the house to the new location. The elevator made the change for the reason of securing more space for the driving of trucks and wagons around the building.

F. C. Gager and family were in Stockton from Medicine Township. Mr. Gager being an old friend of the former editor of the Review got to visiting with him and during the course of the conversation he said he landed in Medicine Township with his parents when he was a boy of four years old and in the year of 1871. He has lived continuously in this township during the past 52 years, having spent but very little time outside the township and then only when away on business or on a visit. He says that when he was a small boy he can remember herding his father’s cattle and many times he says that he often had cattle, antelopes and buffalo in the same herd. Another thing he says that might be worth mentioning was the fact that he now owns and uses a McCormick mowing machine that he purchased at public sale in 1891 and during the past 30 years this machine has been in use every single year and has made an average of cutting 50 acres or more each year. It still has the same tongue, double trees, neck yoke, wheels and in fact all but a very few of the parts that wear the most. If there is another person in the county that can beat this record we would be glad to hear from him.

Six people suffered broken bones, cuts and burns during Fair week. Auto race car driver, Richard Richardson, one of the contestants, lost control of his car and it shot from the track, through the barbed wire fence and landed in a deep gulley, turning over and pinning him to the ground. Richardson was badly injured when the wires struck him in the face and neck, inflicting a severe gash on the throat from jaw to jaw. Mrs. John Edwards was the unfortunate victim of a severe accident when she fell on the show grounds. She received a complete fracture of the right arm. Chas. Reed, the third baseman for Agra, got an ugly cut in his right ankle when a runner accidently struck Reed with his foot. The show plate cut quite a gash. Mrs. Quentona Keller fell through a showcase at the Floral hall and was cut about the foot. Mrs. Keller had been standing above the showcase arranging some exhibits and while doing so missed her footing and fell through the case. Mrs. Frank Hubble was the most unfortunate victim of any. She and Mr. Hubble were on their way to the T. A. Kincaid home where they with several others were to partake of a Sunday dinner. On the way Mr. Hubble stopped at a pasture to look after some cattle while Mrs. Hubble and the baby remained in the buggy. Something frightened the team and they started to run. Mrs. Hubble, with the baby on her lap, endeavored to brace herself in the buggy but was pulled or forcibly thrown from the vehicle. It is not fully known just how her injury happened, whether from a kick of the horse or a foot was caught in a wheel, but she received a compound fracture of the lower right leg. The baby was not injured beyond a few scratches. One of Boss Lambert’s boys had his right hand badly burned by the explosion of a lamp, which had been filled with gasoline.

The Farmers Elevator at Plainville was totally destroyed by fire with the origin of the fire being undetermined. This elevator was the largest in the county and was successfully managed by George Stewart. The elevator contained 21,000 bushels of wheat, besides a large quantity of other grain. It is understood that the company carried some insurance, but at that it will still be a severe loss to them.

Oh Boy, the big Rooks County Fair is next week! Everything is being rapidly shaped up for the 35th annual fair. The grounds and buildings are being groomed for the annual event. The officers and committees are forgetting sleep and everything else to make the 1923 fair the biggest and most successful of all fairs ever held in the county. Now it is up to the people of the county and surrounding counties to come and swell the attendance into the thousands. The list of free attractions this year are far above last year’s fair. They have booked a fine list of entertainment and at a late date booked the Blackstone Quartette.

Kansas will have the highest tax levy this year in the history of the state. The expense of the state government makes it necessary to establish a levy of 2.41 mills compared to a levy of 1.66 mills last year.

John W. Hazelbaker, field manager for the Midland Trail, made the race over the trail yesterday, competing for the time against the Rock Island Railway. Hazelbaker left Kansas City at 2:00 o’clock in the morning and was ahead of his schedule up to the last report received, which was at Burlington, Colorado. He passed through Stockton at 10:40 a.m. just an hour and three minutes ahead of the schedule previously announced. The first hundred miles of the race was through mud and he lost a couple of tires and received a puncture at Simpson. Hazelbaker was driving a stock Buick car, carrying a relief driver, a mechanic and reporter. He was piloted from Osborne to Plainville by M. O. Koesling, Buick dealer, and at Plainville the Buick representative took up the piloting to the next Buick point. Mr. Koesling very highly complimented the county for the splendid patrol work given along the trail and the excellent condition of the roads through the county, which is due to the efficient work of our county engineer, J. A. Bodine.

A young man named George A. Benson, living at Scandia, concluded that he could pass as a member of the American Legion, so he secured a button and put it on. As a result he was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. He went to Belleville a short time ago and appeared in a clothing store operated by two Legion men, stating that he was short at the end of the month and the storekeepers gave him $2.00 with which to buy gasoline for his car. They later made an investigation and found that he was an imposter and was not a member of the Legion and had no right to wear the button. His arrest followed a short time later. Benson is alleged to have made a number of aliases and to have served time at different places prior to his arrest there.