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The Lamar Register voiiUm jjlvul CURTISS FLYING MACHINE Will Make Flights on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Fair Week Biggest Fair Ever held in Arkansas Valley Will be the 13th Annual Prowers County Fair. The photogiaphera Lave been making picture® of the fair ground* and especially ,tho race track this week for the use of the Curtiss fly ing machine company. This concern will not allow any matter like or dinary wind or so-called air holes to deter them and are not afraid out what they can get above the tree top* into the open without anny danger of accidents. They agiee to give a thirty minute ex hibition in the air aud ®ign a con tract which permits them to be docked pro rata for any part of the thirty minutes they fail to stay up. Their airman will be one of the most expert in the business and these exhibitions will be the best Colorado has ever seen. Manager Maxwell la giving the people iu this one attraction more for their money than all the other fairs oi the valley put together. The best is nose too good for him and he will give the people a big show. The race track is in splendid con dition and the interest already be ing shown insures the finest racing card ever seen in the valley. Last year the Prowers county fair had mere starters and better horses tksa say fair in the Arkansas val ley and the largely Increased purses this year will induce an even greater interest among the horse men. The grounds are being improved in many ways and the improvements are of the moet permanent char acter. The building for the ladies department has been remodelled and now has a porch all around it and screens on all the windows and doors and many conveniences ar ranged Inside that makes it the most attractive and most up.to-date exhibition room provided anywhere in Colorado for these departments. New conveniences for the stock exhblits have been added and also for visitors in taking care of their ms, autos, etc. Much interest is being evidenced in the agricultural exhibits and it is believed that this in connection with the splendid crops grown this year will insure the finest exhibits ever put bfeore our people. Don't forget fair week, August 19 to 22. Make It your vacation even if you don’t take any other this summer. State Capital Notes Four years ago this summer Gov ernor Shafroth convened the legis lature in extra session and forced the members to submit a constitu tional amendment providing for the initiative and referendum. The ex-, tra session and the attendant c*ost| of adopting that amendment totaled approximately $160,000. Today Gov ernor Ammons Is trying to find a way to convene his assembly in extra session In order to thwart the operation of the referendum part of that constitutional amend, ment. In other words, Governor Ammons is trying to undo with an extra session what Governor Shaf roth did with an extra session. Those who supported the Initiative and referendum as it was submit ted by that extra session seemed to forget that the very interests they were trying to put out of business THE PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF PItOWICKS COUNTY LAMAR, PROWERS COUNTY, OOIjORADO. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1013. with the amendment could use »l to their own auvantage just the same as the people c«>um use it* Governor Ammons is heginui».g to leel mat he cannot recall tu«. puuiic utility Dili lrom the omce o. the secretary of stale abcie it ueen referred for judgment or uie people. Hence he is consider* ng me proposition oi convening li*b legislature iu uxua session in an attempt to re-enact the bill worn tor word with a lime liiu*t as to iu operation, aud inciuoe in H the emergency, clause aud luo *ai<ij clutch so as U> put it iu ope*auo». immediately. H*s new idea is lo have Lhe bill expire ou election uaj of next year when the people win vote on the one referred. Under the decision of the supreme court it would not he necessary to place th time limit in the hill, for a legis lative act eupei cedes an act of th* people under the ie*e*«uuum, *u*u the legislative euactmeut wou*d b the law no difirreucec whether th* people adopted the one rtffened oi not. Colorado is still without a sta*e laud ooard commission. Hector if. L, Jefferson is getting ready to g to his South American elation. Gov ernor Ammons stated Wednesday that he did not believe there were sufficient funus to pay' a single member of the commission, hence m would appoint all three mem bers from among the state officers and let them eerve without salaries. Under democratic rule the state land board commission has been a failure and the lands of the state are no longer being used to the financial benelit of school children. There are two subjects which will be of vi(ai importance to the peo ple of Colorado next year. Thoy are, first, protection to Colorado’s in dustries; second, the squandering oi Colorado’s state finances by democ racy. The party that can adopt a platform that will guarantee pro tection to Colorado’s industries and that will guarantee to spend the state’s revenues on our education, al institutions instead of on dem ocratic payrolls, will carry this state. The present payroll is larg er than the entire cost of running the administration of the state un der Governors Buchtel or McDon ald. This Increased payroll has put the finances in such shape that on ly 35 per cent of the second class appropriations can be paid this year and none of the second class can be paid. The state institutions of every class are in a deplorable con dition, while hundreds and hun. dreds of useless democratic politic ians are drawing from ninety to two hundred and fifty dollars a month for doing nothing. The organization that can take hold of these two matters in a way that will give the people con fidence will be the organization that will win next year. Mr. Frank Guy, who has been 111 with blood poisoning for several weeks and whose friends had al. most given up hope of his recovery. Is now progressing rapidly. Drs. Hasty and Sheller were called and had to use heroic mothods to re move the poison from his system, but all indications now point to his early recoovery. GANDERBONE’S FORECAST Copyrighted by Clark McAdams, i 913. August The Turk at eve hail trotted where The sands of Asiu shone before, Aud said at length in his despair, ••Tomorrow 1 will trot some more.’* Ilia eyes were dull for fortune fell, ilia heart within kia breast was hot, And he said, with resting him, •• ‘Tla well. At any rate, 1 know the trot." But where pursuit had thundered aft. The morrow failed to bring the foe. At whiuh the son of Allah laughed. And listened for an hour or so. At last he heard the allied rauks Sandbagging one another’s men, At whiuh he duly rendered thanks And turkey trotted back again." August gets Its name from Aug ustus Caesar, to whom historians have likened Theodore Roosevelt. He was not, however, strenuous enough to be sure that posterity would not confuse him with Julius Caesar, so he took the sixth month of the Roman calendar, S'Xtilius. and named It August. While it >s not a pleasant means of remind ing us of him, Aug r>bus has al ways been U to have been Justified. He was competing for fame against the greatest name in history, and as the historian Fer. roro aptly remarks, ho had to go some. The reign of Augustus Caesar marked the golden ago of the Ro man Empire. Everybody was agreed on the tariff, the currency question was settled, and the Em peror was at his desk at 7 o'clock every morning. Julius Caesar, who was assassinated for being away from Rome half the time talking at chautauquas in Gaul and the other provinces, was a more brilliant man but ho kept Rome in an uproar all the time, whereas Augustus maintained pea< <• and quiet through out the empire until the last few years of his reign. He only be came involved abroad when the Germans insisted upon German be ing taught in the Roman schools. This problem was very much like our own Japan* se problem, and it is said to have almost exclusively engaged the attention of Augustus for twenty years. It finally result ed In war, and eventually caused the fall of Rome. The dear old swimming bole will don A nice thick coat of beryl scum. And lecturers with dusters on Will range from here to Kingdom Come. The woods will echo with alarms Concerning whither we are bent. And crowds will rally from the farms To push and crowd around the tent. The perils of a parlous day Will rise to plague us as they pass, And the diplomat will steal away With money for his rent and gas. The summer sun will float around about as high as early corn, and the Bob White’s whistle will re sound across the stubble field at morn. The brain will bubble in the skull, with steam escaping from the ears. The weather man will try to lull the farmer’s seasonable fears. The rich wheat grower on his truck will tool his product to mill, the hired man will deftly duck to spend a hundred dollar bill, the tourist visiting with kings will brLng uis travels to a close, and the sum. iner girl will gather rings on all on fingers and her toes. The festive calf will think of fan and lightly do the turkey trot, and the pumpkin vine will drag the ball across a twenty.acre lot. The bull frog booming the the glade will soumi bis ponderous farewell, the farmhand loaliug in the shade will listen for the dinner bell, tbe sum mer man will plight his troth to seven maidens in a night, the ev er-euterprisiiig moth will teach the little moths to bite, the common wealth will stand appalled at rev elations by the way, aud Col. Mul hall will be called & liar forty times a da*. oh. woe is us that have diverged To finding oue another out, Aiul scarcely knew the while we urged Exposure what we were about. If everyone lets out the cat The country will be so bereft \\ ithin a very little that It won’t have any good men left. The heights by statesmen reach, ed and kept were not attained by telling all, but mostly while their country slept with soft gumshoeing in the hall. The ways of politics are vain, and no one carrying a light has ever found it to his gain to dissipate the shades of night. Ah well would one turn on the Plntsch while in a tunnel on a train, revealing what it is a cinch will ordinarily obtain. The blushing bride, in sweet despair for hubby saving called her dear, aud the maiden lady reddened where some drummer bit her on the ear. It won’t do, friends; without the mask we’ve all good cause to be afraid, and a much more charitable task is keep i g up the masquerade. At any rate, the tariff bill And othor matters of debate. Will linger through the summer still And help the hills reverberate, i'he sugar man will sound laments That boom and break against the sky, And the wool man, from his pas ture fence Will sing a coronach and die. On August 3, 1492, Columbus sailed the first time for America. He sighted land Oct. 12. He hud labor troubles on the way over, and lost a great deal of time. The Industrial Workers of the World, who made up a considerable part of the crew, wanted to throw the Socialists overboard and have the new world to themselves, and the Socialists, In turn, wanted to throw the Democrats and Republicans overboard and keep them from dis covering where the others weht. Columbus subsequently made three other voyages for the purpose of bringing the different parties over separately. They all got here. It is customary on August 3 to think of Columbus and the time he had. The dog days will end on the 11, after which dog bites will not have to be Pasteurized. The 15th will be the anniversary of the birth of Napoleon, from whom we bough! an extensive piece of territory for Col. Roosevelt to hunt In. The moon will bo full on the 16th. Until the :?d of August we shall be under the Influence of Leo the Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac. People born under this sign are very smooth, and usually work for the National Manu'acturers’ Association After the 23d we shall be under the Influence of Virgo, the Virgin, the sixth sign of the zodiac. Virgo people are great purists, and have screened minds like Anthony Corn stock. On August 31st there will be a partial eclipse of the sun vis NUMBER 8. ible in America, hut it will drive home from Europe a lot of people who ought to be here helping us settle the Mexican problem. And then September’s breezes blest Will fan the trotting Turk, And Col. Bryan and the rest Will all go back to work. Contract To Be Let Here Messrs. Latzer and Helfensteller, president and architect of the Hel vetia company, will be in Lamar next Monday with tbe bids for con. struction work on the Lamar fac tory and the contract will be let here during the week. Reports from Highland, Illinois, are to the effect that there are numerous bids In i rom all over the west. La Junta, Pueblo, Denver, and numerous east, ern contractors in cities extending as far east as Detroit, Michigan. The bids will close on August Ut, and will be brought here and. the contract or contracts awarded on the ground. Our people will therefore know some time next week Just who will do the construction work. As soon thereafter as possible work will begin as the time limit In the con tract will prevent any delay In the construction work. Pure Democracy If nothing exciting takes place at the department of at&te at Wash ington there will be doings at the Emporia, Kansas, chautauqua the coming week. The events for the city, made famous by the residence of our good friend. William Allen White, had to be postponed from this week on account of the ab sence of one of the star attractions, ills presence was required at Wash. Ington. If Mr. Wilson from Mex. ico does not require too much at tention the program will be repeat ed at an early day. The names of the performers are reproduced here with as a matter of Interest and without any desire whatever to be hypercritical: - , New York City Marine Band. Avon Sketch Club English Opera Quintet Neapolitan Troubadours. William Jennings Bryan. Elliot A. Boyl. Soars, tho Taffy Man* Lorenzo Zwlckey. Ed Amhurst Ott There is a wealth of moaninng in this program display. It scatters precedent to the four wlrids. It Is pure democracy triumphant. This is a great republic In every thing that should make a nation great. It has been something of a world power. It has possessions beyond the sea. It is part of the brotherhood of nations. It has a mission to perform to bring about peace and goodwill. Until very recently a secretary of state, no matter how democrat ic he might be In private life or In public Ufo, when he entered the sacred precincts and began to deal with International questions and to mix with diplomats from other powers, took on a certain reserve. Htn words were guarded. Only at certain times did he appear on the rostrum. Now all that Is changed. The Wilson prlmo minister—and Wilson, be it remembered. Is an aristocrat, of brains, perhaps, but, nevertheless an aristocrat from the South— does not consider It beneath his dignity or the dignity of his office to mingle at Emporia or any other town with vaudevlllians and brass bands. It was Inevitable. It Is the con comitant of direct legislation popular appeal and the “recall.” Let us hope that the United States may bo long In a diplomatic posl. tlon to the rest of the world that tho nation's secretary of state can have time to appear on the circuit and preach his doctrine of world peace —Denver Times.