The Lamar register. [volume], June 21, 1916, Image 5

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7’/*s only sst of N umarioal
Abstracts oj th» Rscurds of
Prowers County. Abstracts
to Farm and City Property
furnished on shortest notice.
Also owners of Baldwin ,
Jay db Co's., Abstracts of
Prowers County Records
previous to the firs of 1888.
Terms reasonable
Address
I'KOfKfc COUITT ABSTRACT W
tVIONEY TO LOAN
Plenty of Cmmu Monty f«r
<ood Farm and Olty Loans.
yjm li and mo.
u. WIHT MrtHKHfIM
Jesse Johnston returned the first of
the week from a short business trip
to Chicago.
Ernest Allen left yesterday morn
ing for Kenton, Oklahoma, to visit
his parents.
Mrs. W. F. McCue and daughter.
Miss Anna May, spent the week end
visiting friends at Swink.
Attorney W. B. Gordon was at
tending to legal busines at the state
capital the first of the week.
Dr. A. C. Fox is attending th<
meeting of the state dental associa
tion at Colorado Springs this week.
S. S. Smith returned this week
from Peru, lowa, where he had been
visiting his mother for several weeks
W. S. Sidlow left the first of th«
week for the Kansas harvest fields
where he expects to work for several
months.
Raymond Scribner, who has been on
the sick list for several weeks, wa.-
able to be out on the streets again
this week.
J. F. Gamble and (’has. E. Gamble
of Wiley came in on Tuesday evening
to attend the special conclave of Mal
ta Commandery.
M. J. McMillin of the atate stock
inspection board was in Denver on
Tuesday attending the regular month
ly meeting of the board.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hagerman and
Mrs. J. A. Stinson came up from
Springfield Tuesday to visit Lamar
and do some shopping.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gerecke and
daughter. Miss Gladys, and son, Ed
gar, were down from Rocky Ford last
Thursday for a short visit.
Messrs. Harry- Wallace and Cha*.
Hansen went down to Springfield last
Saturday to set up the Junior linotype
machine in the Herald office.
M. J. Underwood after a visit of
ten days in Umar with his mother
Mrs. M. R. Underwood, returner!
last Saturday to his home in Kansas
City.
Raymond Pixley arrived from Ol
ney, Illinois, last week and expects to
spend a part of the summer visiting
with his brother, Dr. I. D. Pixley, ami
wife.
Mrs. L. M. Kinsman, who has been
visiting her son, R. T. Kinsman, and
family in Umar, left the first of the
week for her home in Long Beach.
California.
Mrs. Jennie Headle has returned
from an eleven months’ stay in Cali
fornia. She is now living in the new
bungalow recently constructed at 520
South Main.
Miss Ruby Johnston leaves the last
of this week for Colorado Springs
where she has accepted a position as
teacher in the Boutwell Arts and
Crafts school.
Robert Adams came down from Las
Animas on last Thursday and at a
special communication of the Masoni.
Lodge the second degree was confer-1
red on him.
At a special conclave of Malta Com
mandery No. 32, Knights Templar, on
Tuesday evening the Knight Templar
degree was conferred on Albert A
Hagerman and C. Frost Liggett.
Mias Frances Potter of Blackwell.
Oklahoma, and Miss Grace Keizer of
Woodard, same state, left Wednesday
for Colorado Springs and Boulder for
the summer, after spending two weeks
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gso. B.
Coovsr.
Louis Latzer of Highlands, Illinois,
president of the Helvetia Milk Con
densing Co., visited with Manager E.
G. Meyer of the local plant last week.
Dick Creaghe left the first of the
week for Kansas City and it is an
nounced that he will return as a
benedict. The happy event is said to
be arranged for Saturday- evening.
Miss Alma Leatherman, who was a
week end guest in the home of Mrs.
Geo. B. Coover, returned to Locust
Grove ranch, home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Leatherman.
A crowd of Springfield citizens as:
witnesses in a big scrap over a piece
of Baca county land last week made
the land office look like boom days
again, but it only lasted a short time.
E. M. Mcars has been selling sev
eral large blocks of Mustang Oil Co.
stock lately and it is expected that
sufficient funds will soon be secured
to continue the development work at
the camp.
1~ Wirt Markham went up to Den
ver on last Saturday and spent several
days with the other members of the
state immigration board arranging for
the campaign to advertise the stat*-\s
resources.
C. C. Crecelius arrived from St.
Louis where he saw the firs, day’.-
session of the democratic convention.
Watching the crack of the presiden
tial whip made him a stronger repub
lican than ever before and tha» is
making it pretty strong.
W. E. Coover, E. E., who has spent
a two weeks vacation in the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B.
Coover. left Friday night, June 16th.
for New York City, where he holds a
very responsible position with the
New York Edison Co.
Lyle Downing, eldest son of Sheriff
Downing, who has been in the engi
neering office of the Santa Fe at To
peka for the past two years, has re
signed and accepted a better position
with the Oregon Short Line with head
quarters at Salt I.ake City.
Frank B. Van Gundy and son, Blair,
have been visiting friends in laimar
this week. Frank is one of the pio
neer newspaper men of the the great
southwest anad has many friends all
ever this section. He has been work
ing this week in the News office.
Somebody issued Bobby McGrath •
“License to Lie” this week, but all
of his many friends immediately- rec
ognized it as a fake. If it had been
labeled “Renewal of License” most
of them would have fallen for it at
once. It’s too late to be issuing him
an original.
Orient Chapter No. 32, R. A. M..
at the regular convocation this week
conferred the Mark Master degree on
Merwin S. Coover and T. E. Kinnee.
After this week the various Masonic
bodies will have to take a vacation un
til the completion of the new temple
the latter part of August.
Sheriff Downing received word from
Denver this morning from Dr. Hall
that John A. Simpson, our popular
ex-sheriff, had been operated on for
appendicitis, and had come from un
der the anesthetic in nice shape, and
was doing fine. Mr. Simpson has been
SAFETY FIRST
Why do you take chances, when life is at stake? Why not take y our Prescriptions to a
Drug Store that is properly equipped to fill them?
We are the only Drug Store in Prowers county that employs more than one Registered
Pharmacist. We don’t allow our soda Fountain boys to fill Prescriptions or dispense drugs. We
handle only
Pure Drugs, Reliable Jewelry, Books, Stationery, Cigars, Soft Drinks
NO LOTTERY, NO SCHEMES, NO FAKES.
You get 100 cents worth for every $ l.OO you spend with us. We have estsblished our rep
utation for Honest Goods at Honest Prices. Remember the place
Druggist N. N. McLEAN Jeweler
The Old Reliable
The Buy Right and (E»t. Jan. 1895) Sell Right Store
, suffering for several years, and left
for Denver Monday to consult j
Dr. Hall. His host of Prowers coun
ty friends will hope for his complete
restoration to health.
Word was received last week from
Groom, Texas, of the death on June
Uth of Mrs. M. J. Lyon, for a num
ber of years a resident of She
moved from here with her husband
several years ago anad has since liv
ed in Texas. She was u sister of J.
A. Rourke of Umar anti had many
friends in this vicinity.
H. D. Applegate and family ami i
Mr. and Bert Merwin spent several]
days camping and fishing out at the
' reservoirs the past week. Fred Ap
-1 plegate, the eleven year old son of
Hubert, caught an eighteen pound
catfish which gave him a hard strug
gle, but the little fellow stayed with
it until he had the fish safe.
Mr. Samuel Johnston of San Fran
cisco stopped in Lamar this week to
visit his brothers, W. J. and J. M.
Johnston, and families. He is on
his way- to Philadelphia to attend
the annual convention of the Nation
al Advertising Agents Association,
where he will be one of the speakers.
Mr. W. J. Johnston, who was ser
iously injured in the HUto accident
near Two Buttes early in May, wu>
able to come down to the store for
the first time on Tuesday afternoon.
His host of friends in Lumar are glad
to know he is improving more rapidly
than the physicians expected and
hope to see him soon restored to com
i plete health.
Mervin S. Coover left Thursday on
No. 5 after spending two weeks with
• his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. 15.
1 Coover. Mr. Coover will return to
Butte, Montana, from there he will
go to Avery, Idaho, where he will be
r transferred and will be employed by
the same company. Mr. Coover is
E. E. for the Montana Power Co.
The calling out of tii militia stops
-1 one very promising bus>m ss in lu
' mar. Dr. Indian Davis had estab':sh
ed an agency to prepare and examine
applicants for jobs as to the'r abilHy
. to meet the demands of “quirk ser
vice.” This innovation was much ap
t preciated by our citizens especially
I those looking for entertainment in
the evening.
Married—At the residence of Rev.
W. S. Crozier on Tuesday evening
I Mr. Theodore L. Adams and Miss Ada
Strong, daughter of Mrs. W. P
! Strong. Both of the young peopl*
( are recent graduates of the laimar
t high school and two of the most pop
, ular of the younge r social set of La
mar. They left for Colorado Springs
to spend several weeks honeymoon
. und will then make their home in I,a
--i mar. The best wishes and hearty
i congratulations of a host of friends
. goes with them.
Attorney Chas. L. Doughty came
, up from Springfield and spent Sunday
with his parents. He made his first
address to a jury- at the present term
i of court at Springfield and as it was
I the first case on the docket he prar
r ticallv dedicated the new court house,
r He was assisting in the prosecution
-of a criminal case and as the result
I was the first conviction for a num
i ber of years in Baca county, he sue
War! War War! |
No condition as serious as the present one has ever con
fronted the consumers of the country. Prices keep march
ing onward and upward, and no one seems to know where
they’ll stop. We do know this, and we want you to know it
for your own good -that our prices thus far haven't ad
vanced a penny, nor have our values been lessened a particle.
In other words, there’s a lot of sound, shrewd sense in an
ticipating your requirements while that condition exists—
your foresight will reap a mighty handsome reward. We
are showing a splendid line of Panama Hats, Sport and Silk
Shirts, Kool Cloth and Palm Beach Suits for these hot days.
PALACE CLOTHIER
A.PULTZ
Everything—Men, Young Men and Boy« Wear
EAST SIDE—TWO DOORS SOUTH OF CITIZENS STATE BANK
NOTICE
We have just put ia a large stock of
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS
We sell the seeds in bulk. By buying in bulk you
get more seed for the money than whan they come
in sealed packages. Call and get prices, and exim
ine our scads.
LAMAR SEED CO.
eroded in making quite* fa record for
a first effort.
LOST —Child’s red wool sweater on
Wednesday in Umar. R. M. KAY.
Wiley, Colorado.
Pigs for Sale
Inquire of Ed Williams, just east of
Goodale place.
WANTED —Second hand buggy. Chas.
F. Hiley, Umar.
OCULIST AND DENTIST
Ail work will be done by the latest
and most up to date methods. I ease
the pain when necessary. 1 treat aad
cure ail diseases of the mouth and
gums and loose teeth, and guarantee
all 1 do to be satisfactory. My lino
of eye glasses is complete and I fit as
few can do. I have a University ed
ucation and do not take second place
to any man. Dr. Dowdey. Phono
Isirnar 30R.