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THE LAMAR REGISTER 7.3 C. DOVSHTT City 'Eil 1 tog iLBSTEiLCTS The only set of Numerical Abetracte of the Records of Prowere County. Abstracts to Farm and City Proper ty furnished on shortest no tice. Also owners of Bald win, Jay i& Co.'s Abstracts of Prowers County Rec ords previous to the fire of 1888. Terms reasonable. Address, PBOISRS CODHTY ABSTRACT CO. T*mtT. C*UmAo MONEY TO LOAN Plenty of Cheap Money for good Farm and City Loans. Call and see me. L. WIRT MARKHAM. State Treasurer A. E. Bent was in town several days the past week. J. L. Mayfield, the Granada banker, attended to legal buainesa before the county court Monday. O. N. Koen, of Manmngton, W. Va., is visiting bis brothers at Lamar and look ing over his Prowers county interests this week. Nova Butler, the Holly dry goods merchant, ie in Lamar today visiting his mother, Mrs. E E. Butler and sitting on the jury. District Attorney A. W. McHendrie, of Trinidad, ib in attendance at court this week representing the state in the various prosecutions. Lee Kelly, a young Lamar boy, was shot at La Junta last Saturday after noon and is now at the hospital there with a serious wound in his hip. J. W. Bent has purchased the resi dence of A. E. Bent on Second street and will soon move his family thore It is one of the handsomest homes in the town. W. J. Norwood will soon commence work on a fine two story residence on Second street It will be located in block 40, and will add much to the looks of that block. Capt. J. H. Wing got his hand so badly crippled last week that he had to lay off, and said he was going down to Kansas where they didn’t have anything to do but talk, until it was healed. Mrs. E. Bannister left recently for Ex celleor Springs, Mo , where she will re main some time owing to the condition of her health. Ned and his daughter, Miss Ellsn, are keeping house in his absence. The auto fever is spreading rapidly in Lamar and will soon be an epidemic. We understand a half dozen new ones are ordered. Leon Butler and C. R. Strain are among those will join the auto brigade. , Mrs. J. K. Doughty returned from Denver last Sunday night after a two week’s visit with her daughter, Miss Elizabeth, who is continuing her music al studiee at tbe college of music of the Denver University. The foundation is iaid for J. G Boyd’s new house on Third street and work has commenced on the building of tbe bouse. It will be a very handsome and con venient residence when completed and help the appearance of that street. Fred Cooper returned today from a trip to Florida, where his mother has been spending the winter. Mrs. Cooper is much improved in health and accom panied her son back as far as Larued, Kansas, where she will visit a sister for a short time. M Simon, proprietor of the Golden Rule Store, has purchased tbe half inter est of S. W. Smart in the store building on the north side which the Golden Rule now occupies, for 84000. Mr. Simon is now sole proprietor of the building as well as the store. L. F. Adams, cashier of the State Bank, returned this week from Cali fornia, where he took Mrs. Adams several weeks ago on account of the serious con ditionof her health. He remained until she was greatly improved, and came back feeling much relieved on her ac count. L. Wirt Markham, accompanied by his friend, W. S. Cummings, of Freder ickstowD, Ohio, left last Thursday morn- j ing for Denver and other places in that i region. Mr. Markham intends to prove } to bis friend that Colorado is the beet ever and will show him many places of interest. On Sunday afternoon there will be a game of base ball between the Lamar Cardinals and the Wiley nine at tbe lat tor place. An excursion train will be run over the Arkansas Valley railroad, and the fare including a ticket to tbe ball game will be only 60 oents for adults and 25 cents for children. The Lamar Machine Co., Harry Trax ler, manager, has rented the lower floor of the Hebrert building opposite the postoffice, and opened up a general maohine and repair shop there. They are well fitted up for all kinds of work in their line and Harry himself is well known here as an expert workman. “Jerry from Kerry” was here at the opera house last Friday night and had a big crowd present to witness the hilar ious fun presented on the stage. The musical features of this show are very good, its band and orchestra are about beet which come to town. All the work on the stage was well done, and the troupe is one of the prime favorites of playgoers. ► A. H. Goudy, of Denver, has been in Lamnr the past week in the interest of a hail insurance company which he represents. Tbe company is a reliable one and Mr. Goudy is having a good i success in writing business for thorn. He is a son of Hon. Frank Goudy, who is favorably known to our people ns a republican leader and advocate of good irrigation legislation. The following is tbe list of petit jurors present at this term of court: J. B. Bowen, M. J. MoMillin, C. 8. Curran, G. Bishop, Frank Lay, Geo. A. Everett, J. E. Pearson, R. M. Hall, G. W. Gentry, L. F. Sherman, of Lamar, W. H. Blosser, J. K. Stevenson. W. E. Martin, of Wiley, W. W. Edwards, of Albany, W. H. Mor ris, J. A. Wise, T. B. Ashlan, of Granada, N. E. Butler, M. L. Russell, C. N. Piper, A. W. Hornbeck, I. B. Barnes, W. M. Bise, E. L. Ball, of Holly. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cooper enter - tamed the Five Hundred Card Club at their home on last Wednesday evening, it being the farewell meeting of the club for this season. There was a full utten dance of tbe members and all enjoyed a very delightful evening. Delicious re fresh meets were served by tbe hostess and the jolly crowd were quite late in breaking away from the last game of the season that has been made up of many enjoyable entertainments. Saturday night about midnight an alarm of tire was given, and in a few minutes a large crowd of citizens had collected at tbe site of the new Metho dist church where the tool house of the •ontraotors, Lyon &. Axtel, was on fire. The building and all its contents were destroyed representing a loss uf several hundred dollars, and it took the hardest kind of work on the part of the firemen and citizens to save the parsonage which was only a few feet from the fire. M. A. Beltz, recently from Minnesota, and an experienced concrete workman, has established a yard in Lamar. It is located three blocks west of the O’Mal ley Lumber Yard and is known as the Anchor Cement Stone Co. He is pre pared to do all kinds of concrete work at reasonable figures, Hnd invites all in terested to inspect some of the work he has done and get his prices on their work. He comes highly recommended as an expert workmau and will cheer fully furnish estimates on your work. The April term of district court was opened in Lamar yesterduy with Judge Henry S. Hunter on the bench. The cases were set for hearing for the term The Johnson trial for the murder of Marshal Frisbie, in which most of the public interest centers, was set last and will probably not come up for hearing until next week; tbe court appointed 1 Jndge Thorne to defend him. Yesterday j Miguel Guarez plead guilty to muyhem f in cutting out the eye of his partner. ( This morning John Standley was tried for forgery and stealing a check, and tbe jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The larceny case against Sloan and tbe mo- ( tion of Johnson for a continuance until , next term will be beard this afternoon. | Church Notes. M. E. Church— All servioes at the Court House. Morning service, 11:00; address by the 1 State Superintendent of the Anti-Baloon 1 League. Epworth League. 7:00 p. m. Evening service, 8:00, sermon by the pastor, subject, “The Spring and the Valley.” A Fine Building. The improvements at the First National Bank are about completed cow and the finished work will represent one of the handsomest banking institutions in tbe state. The building itself is a fine structure and an ornament to the business section af our city. While the new inside fixtures and furniture finish ed in mahogany constitutes a model both for beauty and general convenience to the employes and the patrons of the bank. From the private office of Cash ier Gould at the front and the large lobby and banking room with three pay windows for the transaction of on rush days, every thing is of the most up-to-date make and most conveiently Cream Baking Powder Used in Millions of Homes. 50 Years the Standard. A Pure, Cream of Tartar Pow der. Makes finest cake and pastry, light, flaky bis cuit, delicious griddle cakes, palatable and wholesome. Note. Avoid baking powders made from alum. They look like pure powders, and may raise the cake, but no one can eat food mixed with alum without risk to health. a arranged, ' Th«* institution itself needs no mer. * tion, having grown in the past few yenrs i* from a small but sound oountry bank 1 into a big concern with over a half million dollar assets and nearly tbnt j amount of deposits. These facts are tbe ■i best illut-u-ation of the soundness of it* 1 management and tbe confidence which the public feel in tbs institution. It has a grown up with Lamar and is itself one of the best examples of tbe change which a few years has wrought in this city. School Notes. The regular literary exercises of the ’ schools were held last Friday afternoon. Mock trials’ debates, essays and recita ’ tions were found in the different pro grams. Much encouragement would result if parents could visit these exer cises more regularly. Next Friday has been designated as Arbor Day. The occasion is always ’ appropriately recognized throughout Colorado. Our schools will have pro t grams arranged for tbe occasion. These exercises will be held soon after nine 9 o'clock and will be followed by the ( planting of some vines and flowers. The grounds at the different buildings are , already well supplied with trees, whioh renders it unnecessary to set trees. The Art exhibit to be held under the , auspices of tbe Public Schools should I enable us to provide some very credit able pictures for the schools. It should ( be borne in mind that this exhibit is u collection of reproductions from tbe ( works of the masters, thus affording an opportunity for seeing pistnres that nun rarely be enjoyed. It should farther be remembered that the only expense at taobed to the display will be ten dollars to be paid on transporation. The oata logues cost seven and one-half cents and are sold for ten eonta each. All funds derived from the sale of oataloguee or admission to the exhibit will be spent for pictures at regular price. This ex hibit will be held in the basement of the Presbyterian church Max 1,2, 3 and 4. Tbe Las Animas high school baseball tenni were in Lamar last Saturday for tbe first game of the season for each team. The score 31 to Bin favor of La mar shows that there ie much room for improvement in both teams. The La mar boys will play a return game at Las Animaa on Arbor Day. Arrangement* have been made whereby any metnber of the high school can nttend. A rate of one and one third of the regular fare haa been effered for the round trip. No Doubt of Him. “If he got Into the pearly gates.” 1 says a Georgia exchange, “he must 1 have broken In, for nothing could re sist the force with which the mule sent him upward!”—Atlanta Constitu tion Jilts Eleven In Two Years. Helene Lorensen, a Copenhagen dressmaker, seventeen years old, had a record of-having jilted eleven lovers In two years when the eleventh ended her promising career with a dagger. Finnigin Filosofy. Th’ mon wld th’ hist theories av life la glnerally th’ mon that has slver wa-asted anny av his theory be thryin’ t’ practice ut.—Baltimore American. Close Bchools for Circus. The Ramsbottom (England) educa tion committee granted all the school children of the town a half holiday on the occasion of the visit of a circus. In order “to give the poorer children an opportunity of seeing unfamiliar animals.” Sour Milk as Aid to Longevity. In Bulgaria sour milk Is a dally drink of the people. Sour milk is to a Bulgarian what beer is to a Ger man. And it is a fact admitted ev erywhere that the Bulgarians are the longest-lived people In the world. What It Teaches Us. To watch the lives of those In a monastery is like looking at a large shop laden with silver and gold and precious things; It teaches us how many things we can do without. — Bishop of Plymouth. U SOME TALL SWEARING! Jm We are selling a line of clothing for men | J which is absolutely 100 per cent Pure Wool pjpgX and fast color and are willing to swear to this pjliigr (||| fact on a stack of Bibles as high as your jj TO In addition to being made of good materials, |m|| Capps Clothing is smartly cut and skillfully jjfH We carry a fine, well selected stock of these | m clothes of merit and you are missing some || H thing if you don’t deck yourself out in a suit gpSrfey of them this spring. 11l th the 3-piece suits, we have them in the light overplaid and the dark shadow checks, both patterns being very popular this season, at $12.50, $15., $16.50, $2O. For the cool comfortable 2-piece suits you will also find us headquarters. We have them at $lO., $12.50, $14.00 Guaranteed 100 per cent pure wool and the best line of Clothing in the west for the money Exclusive Agents for Star Hats, Douglas Shoes, Sweet. Orr & Co’s. Trousers and Wilson Bros. Shirts, all leading lines WALL PAPER NEWS 1 Watch this space for the latest information in regard to Wall Paper and Paints. The UP-TO-DATE COMPANY I 119 Main Street, Lamar Something New In Lamar VJJ7E make and repair everything. Steam Engines and Boilers, Gasoline Engines, Farm Machinery of all kinds,’Automobiles, Bicycles, Guns, Lawn Mowers and Stoves and in fact everything in the way of Machinery. Key Fitting a Specialty We have the best equipped shop in the country our work is guaranteed and our prices are right. Give us a call. The Lamar Machine Company. Coroner Mail & Elm Street. Opposite Post Office Notice of Administrators Sale of Real Estate. Htatk op Colorado. ) >hm. In thn County Court. CoL-NTT OP PROWKKa. ) 1 n thts matter of tlia on Late of W i 111 am M. Scott, deceased. Notice it* hereby given that on Monday tin* thirteenth day of May. A. D. 19u7, at ten o’clock in the fotenoon of said day at the otlice of J. 1,. May tl< Id. at the town of Granada, in the County of Prowers and State of Colorado, pursuant to the order of the County Court of the Maid County of Prowers and State of Colorado, madu nod entered on the fifteenth day of April, A. I). 1907. 1. J. L. Mayfield, administrator of the estate of William M. Scott, deceased, will nell nt pri vate sale all of the internist of tho said estate of the Niud William M. Scott, deceased, in and to the following deaaribed real estate, situated in the County of Prowera and State of Colorado, to-wit: Tue northwoMt quarter (1-4) of the southeast quarter (1-4; of (section thirteen <|:t ogether with a one fourth (1-1) water-right from the Amity Canal Militated in Bent and Prowers Couutiua, Colorado, and an undivided one half (1-2) interest in and to the southwest quarter (1-4) of the northeast quarter (l-l) of section thirteen (IS) all in towiiMhip twenty-two (22) soiith. of range forty-four (41) wont of th- Gtli P. M.. containing eighty (80) acre* more or lebH according to Government survey, including all water-right privileges attached to Maid de scribed real estate; said wale to be for cash. Dated at Lamar. Colorado, this fifteenth day of April. A. D. 1907. J. L. Matpibld, Administrator of the estate of William M. Scott, deceased. 4t Ist pub apr 17 1907 NOTICE FOE PUBLICATION. Department ok the Interior. Land Otlico at Lamar. Colo-. April 12. 1907. Notice ia hereby iriven that Wiiliain 11. • arl. of Lamar, Colorado, haa filed notice of hin in tention to make iinal commutation proof in aup|>orr of hiH claim, viz: Homeatoail Lntry No. 8130 made Match 20. 1906. for the Lota a. 4. 0 and sK >« NW K Section 6. Townahip 24 S. KatißO 47 W. and tliat aahl proof will be made before Keffiater St Kocoiver, at Lainar, Colo., on THURSDAY. MAY 21th, 1907. He narnna the following witu<<aa»a t'- prove hia continuoua residence upon. and cultivation of, the laud, viz : William L. Pollard. 11. C. Davia, Fred W. Lovnjoy, S. C. McAtee, all of Lainar. Colorado. JoHH A. W 11,1.1 A MX, Bnnt>. Excursions to California Daily Low Rate. Long Limit. Liberal Stopover Privileges. Diverse Routes. Tickets accepted on tbe California Limited and all other trains. Side Rides to Grand Caayon of Arizona and Yosemite Valley for small additional sum. $45.80 April 26 to lay 19,1907 Let me send you free copies oi California Summer Outings. The Mystic Shrine, The German Baptist Brethern. G. J. GARVIN, Agent, The Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe By. C*. LAMAR. COLORADO