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THE LAMAR REGISTER
Published Weekly by
GEO. B. MERRILL
Editor end Proprietor
Subscription price, $1.60 per Year
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Colorado, a* ••cond eUas matter.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1915.
More Letters
After sinking the Arabic Germany
assured us it was all a mistake, that
the submarine had acted without au
thority and her sea policy had been so
modified as to insure protection for
Americans. And the next day they
sank another vessel without warning
and another American went to his
grave. Austria gave us solemn as
surances that she had the most friend
ly feelings for America. And the next
day letters were discovered showing
that the Austrian ainbasador was try
ing to bulldoze workmen in American
factories to strike. England, France
and Italy notified us that they would
extend additional privileges to our
commerce. And the next day they
added cotton, our chief export, to the
list of contraband. We are now pre
paring letters of protest. Such is our
vigorous foreign policy that has been
heralded as producing wonderful re
sults—wonderful indeed that any na
tion pretending to be first-class would
stand for them. Little Servia refused
such indignity on the ground that it
was better to lose national existence
than to maintin it by dishonor. Any
man can keep a nation at peace
through dishonor, but it takes a states
man to maintain peace with honor.
The grave situation is rapidly focusing
the eyes of the nation on our greatest
statesman, Elihu Root.
NEW INDUSTRY
L. M. Appel Fish Co. Will Handle the
Fish Product of Amity Lakes
Last week marked the establish
ment of a new industry at Lamar
which is proving a success from the
start and promises to develop into a
large concern. For a number of years
various parties have made attempts to
do something with the fish from the
big Amity lakes, but through lack of
practical knowledge of the trade all
have failed. The fishing privilege an(|
business finally fell into the hands of
L. M. Appel of Holly, and he has now
organized The L. M. Appel Fish Co.,
which has the exclusive fishing priv
ilege for the lakes.
Mr. E. T. Pratt after a careful in
vestigation of all the lakes and reser
voirs of Colorado has decided that
this is the best proposition and has ac
cepted the management of the busi
ness with headquarters in Lamar. They
are now located at 102 North Fourth
street. Mr. Pratt is from the Florida
coast and has had 25 years experience
in the business on the Gulf of Mexi
co and Atlantic coast, and is thorough
ly acquainted with every feature of
the business, as fisherman, packer and
shipper. He camped at the lakes for
two months and thoroughly investi
gated before deciding. He informs us
that these big lakes with over 75
miles of shore line and depth of 96
feet in places are overstocked with
fish so badly that they have not the
opportunity to grow to full size. He
says the supply is inexhaustible. He
says they are easily caught and the
continually running water and sandy
bottom gives them an-especially fine
flavor and makes them easily pre
pared for shipment. He is shipping
them either fresh or salted as his
trade desires, and within a reasonable
distance they will be shipped alive if
desired.
Although the company has only had
its headquarters here for a few days
they are already making large ship
ments, and the business is increasing
so rapidly that there is every pros
pect that it will soon be an important
industry and give employment to a
number of people. There is no limit
to the supply, and the business is only
limited to the market that can be de
veloped.
La Junta 4, Lamar 1
Lamar put a patched up team in the
field Sunday to meet La Junta and at
that gave them a good argument. Fred
Littler pitched one of the best games
of the season, striking out nine men
and allowing but five hits. The La
mar team however lacked the neces
sary- batting and running pep to put
scores across. They backed up their
pitcher in good shape and held La
Junta to a low score but could not
score themselves. Rocky Ford comes
down next week for the last game of
the season on the home grounds, and
as this game is of vital importance to
the Ford team they can be depended
on to make a hard fight. The box
score of the Sunday game was as fol
lows:
LAMAR
AB R H PO A E
Pate, ss 4 1 0 0 1 2
Lomasney, 2b 2 0 0 1 0 0
Love, c 3 0 1 10 3 0
Wallace, lb 4 0 0 10 0 0
Hines, 3b 4 0 0 3 4 0
Kenlin, If 3 0 0 0 0 0
Lindner, cf 3 0 0 2 0 0
Baldwin, rf 3 0 0 11 1
Littler, p 2 0 1 0 11
Totals 29 1 2 27 10 4
LA JUNTA
AB R H PO A E
Merrill, 3b 3 1 0 0 2 0
Addington, 2b 4 1 2 3 5 0
Foster, If 3 0 1 0 0 0
Forrester, lb 4 0 0 12 0 2
Brown, cf 4 1 2 0 0 0
Gardner, c,.4 1 0 6 2 0
Chellgord, ss 8 0 0 4 2 1
Samuels, rf 4 0 0 1 0 0
Griffin, p 3 0 0 0 4 0
Totals 32 4 5*26 15 3
• Baldwin out, hit by batted ball.
Score by innings:
Lamar 0 000 0 1 0 0 o —x
La Junta 0 0000121 o—l
Summary—Three base hit, Adding
ton. Base on balls, off Littler 1, off
Griffin 2. Struck out, by Littler 9, by
Griffin 4. Hit by pitcher, Lomasney.
Sacrifice hits, Lomasney, Chellgord,
Griffin. Wild pitch, Griffin. Umpire,
Byrnes.
Rocky’s Hoodoo
Wichita did not take Renell with
them as expected but left him to fin
ish the season with Fort Lyon, so Sun
day he took his sixth straight game
from Rocky Ford on the latter's
grounds by a score of 2 to 1. This
ties the race between the Ford and La
Junta with Fort Lyon only one game
behind. It is anybody’s championship
now and cannot be settled until the
last game is played on the 19th. Rocky
Ford protested the Sunday game be
cause Evans played with Fort Lyon.
Several of the Fort Lyon players
jumped their contracts and left the
team in a bad plight and it w-as neces
sary to fill in. The box score is us
follows:
FORT LYON
AB R H PO A E
Evans, If 2 0 0 2 0 0
Wyckoff, rf 4 0 1 4 0 0
Bush, 2b 4 0 0 1 4 0
Pyle, ss 4 0 0 0 4 0
Mellecker, 3b 4 0 1 0 3 0
Queary, lb 3 1 2 11 0 0
Bergerhoff, c 4 0 1 9 1 0
Pijut, rf 3 0 0 0 0 0
Renell, p 3 11 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 27 12 0
ROCKY FORD
AB R H PO A E
Matney, ss 4 0 0 • 0 0 2
Cummings, rf 1 0 0 0 0 0
R. Swink, cf 3 0 0 0 0 0
Maxwell, lb 4 0 2 7 0 0
D. Whalen, If 3 0 1 2 0 0
Jackson, rf, p 4 0 11 1 0
C. Swink, 2b 4 0 0 1 0 1
A. Whalen, c 4 0 0 13 3 1
McGraw, p o 0 0 0 1 0
Maier, rf 1 0 1 2 0 0
Dunlap, p 1 l l o 3 0
Totals 33 17 27 8 4
Score by innings:
Fort Lyon 00 11 0000 o—2
Rocky Ford ...0 0100000 o—l
Summary—Stolen bases, Wyckoff
2, D. Whalen. Two base hits, Renell,
Dunlap, Maxwell, Jackson. Three base
hit, Queary. Left on bases, Fort Lyon
5, Rocky Ford 7. Hit by pitched ball,
D. Whalen. Sacrifice hits, Queary,
Adams. Struck out, by Renell 9, by
Dunlap 3, by Jackson 10. Bases on
balls, off Renell 1, off McGraw l.
Umpire, Oberling.
Valley League Notes
Standing of the Clubs
P W L PC.
Rocky Ford 22 13 9 .591
La Junta 22 13 9 .591
Fort Lyon 22 12 10 .545
Lamar 22 6 16 .273
Paradox Pointers
Mrs. Cleve Roseboom of Girard,
Kansas, recently visited relatives ami
friends in our vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Haskins enter-
NO. 374 S
Report of the Condition of
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT LAMAR,
in the Statu of Colorado, at ihe close of business Sept. 2, 1915
RESOURCES LIABILITIES
Loans and discounts (except Capital stock paid In $ 50000 00
those shown below $243244 93 Surplus fund 40000 00
Overdrafts, secured. None; unse- Total Capital and Surplus ... $ 90000 00
cured. None Undivided profits ....$10507 8.
U. S. bonds deposited to secure Reserved for taxes ... 1959 09 12406 96
circulation (par value) 12500 00 Less current expenses, inter-
Securltles other than U. S. bonds cst, and taxes paid 30 95 12436 01
(not Including stocks) owned Circulating notes 12500 00
unpledged 7557 47 Less amount on hand and in
Subscription to stock of Federal Treasury for redemption or
Reserve Bank $5400.00 In transit 302 50 12197 50
Less amount unpaid $2700 00 2700 00 Due to banks and
Value of banking house (If un- hankers (other than /
encumbered 3000 on Included above) ....$ 21399 90
Furniture and fixtures 500 Ou Demand deposits:
Real estate owned other than Individual deposits
banking house 180 00 subject to check $184360 22
Net amount due from Federal Certificates of de-
Reserve Bank 4398 66 posit due In less
Net amount due from approved than 30 days ... 12432 98
reserve agents in New York, Certified checks 2 00
Chicago, and St. Louis $ 7368 65 Cashier's checks
Net amount due from approved outstanding .... 151 95 218847 05
reserve agents In other re- Certificates of deposit 19605 03
serve cities 38856 38 46225 03 Total deposits 237952 08
Net amount due from banks and
hankers (other than included
above .> 4687 03
Other checks on banks In the
same city or town as report
ing bank 5634 87
Outside checks and other cash
Items 87 00
Fractional currency. nickels.
and cents 194 36 281 35
Notes of other national banks. . 1200 0u
Lawful money reserve in bank:
Total coin and certificates .. 18851 25
Legal-tender notes 1000 00
Redemption fund with U. 8.
Treasurer (not more than 6
per cent on circulation) 626 00
Total 8862686 69 Total $352585 59
STATE OF COLORADO,
COUNTY OF PROWERS. SS.
I, J. F. Maurer. Assistant Cashier of the above named hank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. F. MAURER, Asst. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Bth d-> Correct Attest:
of September, 1915. W. C. GOULD.
(Seal) ESKEL A. LUNDOREN. A. N. PARRISH.
Notary Public. B. B. BROWN.
My commission expires May 14, 1916. Directors
tained about forty young people at a
house party last Saturday evening in
honor of their daughter, Miss Gladys,
whose birthday occurred on that day.
Social games were enjoyed until a
late hour and dainty refreshments
served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs.
T. F. Hover.
Mrs. T. M. Hall was quite sick last
week but her friends are glad to know
that she is recovering.
Edw. Pierson and force of men of
Lamar are building two large concrete
silos on the Ratliff ranch near the
school house. Mr. Ratliff is also hav
ing a deep well drilled on the same
place and work is progressing day
and night.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Alman of Mar
ion county, Missouri, are visiting their
relatives, the Hurd brothers, here and
attended the Arkansas Valley fair at
Rocky Ford last week. They pro
nounced the fair better than their
Marion county fairs and that is saying
a great deal for our valley, which is
only about thirty years old.
The last session of the Paradoz em
broidery club was held at the home of
Mrs. T. M. Hall August 26th. There
was a good attendance and a very en
joyable afternoon was spent. A fea
ture of the program was a word con
test in which Mrs. J. F. Mitchell and
Mrs. Geo. Russell were prize winners.
The hostess served a two-course lunch
ussisted by the Misses Kane, Has
kins, Irwin and Driskel.
Our schools begins next week. The
time of opening was postponed for a
few days on account of finishing some
necessary repairs and cleaning up the
work.
TOLL TO THE PAST
By JOHN CRAMER.
Home, the grocer of the busy little
Long Island town, looked up quizzing
ly at the young fellow who stood be
fore him.
"Looking for a Job. eh?" he asked,
surveying his rather furtive expres
sion. “What’s your name?”
"James Bennett,” answered the oth
er, and wondered whether it was
Home's kindly face that made him tell
the truth against his will.
”1 used to milk, five years ago,”
said Bennett, a slow flush creeping
over his features.
“Then you go straight up that road
and ask for Mr. Home's farm," said
the grocer. “When you come to It
go In and tell Minnie, my daughter,
that you're the new hand I’ve hired.
And If you've got a euitcaße, take It
along with you."
A few minutes after Bennett had
left Home's store, Home received a
visit from a stranger which made him
very thoughtful. In fact he closed his
store a half hour ahead of time and
hurried to his house.
Minnie met him at the gate and gave
him a hug. She was a pretty girl of
twenty, and growing more like her
mother every day, her father would
declare. He took her by the hands
and tried to read her eyes.
"New hand come?" he asked.
“Yes, and he's a dandy, tatner, de
clared the girl. "He went right to
work In the garden, and he's there
now.”
Home strolled over to where Bennett
was working In the garden. He stood
watching the young fellow at work.
Bennett bad certainly performed won
ders. Home was sorry for him.
Bennett came toward him, hoe In
hand. "Mr. Home." he said, with a
flushed face, “I ought to have told you
something. I came out of Elmira last
month, where they sent me for three
years for theft. I gqf In with bad
companions when I came to the city.
Nobody would give me work after that,
and the police hounded me. I walked
out from New York. I want a chance
to do better."
“You can have it, Bennett,” answered
Home, turning away abruptly.
“Now I wonder what made me tell
the fellow that!" be soliloquized.
Nobody In the town knew of Ben
nett's record, except Home. Gradual
ly the boy's step grew lighter, his com
plexion clearer. He was the best work
er Home had ever had. It was evident
that be had been sincere In bis ex
pressed intentions. Home ceased to
think of his past except as youthful
folly. He made him manager of his
dairy a year later. Bennett went to
night school. Everybody spoke well
of him.
What turned Home’s thoughts along
very serious lines was the evident at
tachment that was springing up be
tween Bennett aud ftlnule. The two
would saunter aloug the lanes, arm In
arm, after the day s work was done.
At first Home thought little of It. It
was not until be saw, in the darkness,
a black sleeve-line against the white
of his daughter's waist that he realized
she would some day leave him.
He was expecting Bennett to come
to him. But Instead of that he came
home to find Minnie In tears and Ben
nett gone. A letter was lying on the
table, and Home picked It up and read
It.
Bennett wrote that he couldn't face
Home and tell him that be had de
ceived him. Since leaving the reform
atory he had committed a burglary.
Suspicion had never directed itself to
him, but that was the real reason why
he had left New York. He had tried
hard during those two years to put It
out of his mind, but now that he loved
Minnie he was going back to take hla
punishment, and asked them to forget
him.
Home whistled and took his daugh
ter in his arms. "The fellow was a
scoundrel,” he said.
“No, father," she answered. “I love
him. He Is a good man." . . .
Bennett hardly saw the faces in the
courtroom. He stood patiently before
the judge. How much would he get?
Five years? Seven to twelve years?
He could hardly expect mercy; the
crime had been planned In the reform
atory. And Bennett had refused to
divulge the name of his confederate.
Wonderlngly Bennett saw Home
standing before him. speaking to the
Judge. He told him of his life In the
village, and how he had voluntarily
come In to the city to surrender him
self because the past preyed on his
conscience. He was asking for a sus
pended sentence.
Bennett did not know what the
ludse was saying. He stood dumblv
in the box until the warden touched
him on the arm.
"You’re free,” he said.
Bennett only stared at him. The
mail became Impatient. Suddenly Ben-
uta r.anas esaen 1C «cac :
strong clasp.
"Come along, my boy,” said Home.
“Where?” stammered Bennett.
“Where7" echoed Home. “Why. to
—to Minnie, of course. She’d give me
flts If I didn’t bring you back to sup
per."
(Copyright. 1915, by W. O. Chapman.)
Preserving Conscience.
"They tell me you have signed the
pledge?”
“Yes.’’ replied Uncle Billy Bottle
top. “And I’m goln’ to keep on
signin’ it. Whatever happens, no one
ain’t goln* to be able to say my In
tentions wasn't good.**
NOT A HERO TO HIS FATHER
Michael O'Leary, Br., Thought That
Hie Son Might Have Done More
Than He Old.
No man Is a hero to hla own valet.
That la proverbial. Ia any man a hero
to his own father? Maybe that de
pends on circumstances. The British
hero of the hour Is the Irishman. Mi
chael O’Leary, who won the Victoria
cross by bayoneting eight Germans
As many articles and poemß have been
written about hla deed as were writ
ten In the United States at the time of
the destruction of the Maine about the
man who coolly reported to Captain
Slgsbee that the “ship has been blown
up and Is sinking " Now a recruiting
poster has made Its appearance. Un
der a fanciful picture of O'Leary slay
ing the eight Germans, Is the admoni
tion: "Follow the example of Michael
O'Leary. V. C., and Join an Irish regi
ment today.”
But It appears that Daniel O’Leary.
Michael's father, Is almost disap
pointed In his son. According to a
correspondent the sire of the Victoria
cross hero was Interviewed and asked
if he was surprised at his sou's brav
ry He replied:
“I am surprised he didn't do more
I often laid out twenty men myself
ith a stick coming from Macroon
it, and It Is a bad trial of Mick that
he could kill only eight, and he having
.. riile and bayonet.”
Thus (he rising generation stands
rf
What Love Does.
Patience—lt la said only about one
person In fifteen has perfect eyesight
Patrice—And yet even that one is
fooled when she comes to get married.
Guest Thought He Had ’Em.
James F. McGee, former cashier of
the Crestwood bank of Louisville, Ky.,
got the scare of his life and suffered
a shock which necessitated calling a
physician when he found a six-foot
"Georgia bull” snake crawling about
his room In a local hotel.
Thinking a friend was playing a
Joke on him, McGee grabbed the
snake, when the reptile began to
show fight and put up a hard battle.
Clerks and attaches of the hotel came
to his rescue.
A clerk at the hotel said the snake
belonged to a vaudeville performer
whose room was directly above that
of McGee’s.
FOR SALE—I6O acres, twelve miles
from Holly; good, no sand; mortgage
$250. Must sell by September 10th.
Ask $BOO, make me an offer.
N. O. HOWE,
Lawrence, Kansas.