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MU LAMAR REGISTER Published Weekly by GEO. Ik MERRILL Editor and Proprietor Subscription price— $1.50 per Year Entered at the Postolhcc at Lamar, Colorado, as second class matter. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. Zb, 1017. MEMBERS MEDAL MATCH Annual Content of the Lamar Rifle Club For N. A. A. Medal W ill Be Held on the Lainar Rifle Range. Commencing September 30th —Con- test Is Open to All Members The Lamar rific club will hold the members’ medal match beginning at 8 o’clock a. m. on September 30, 1 !)-'•, and ending October 7, 1017, and uli who enter the match will be required to complete the course in that time. The club will fnrnish guns, ammuni tion and targets for the match. No entrance fee will be charged, but all intending to shoot should file notic* with the secretary. The order in which the member* shoot will be the order in which they appear on the range, and in case there are several men on the range when the match opens, their order of shoot ing bhall be determined by lot. All members are expcc ed to take their turn in the target pus and any one who docs not want to do so, shouh. so suite before shooting, and he wil. be required to pay the range office i uO cents at that time, to hire some ont to take his place in the pits. The ‘‘Arms and the Man,” page 394 of August 10, 191 G, provides: The s< r vice rum, ammunition und targe vs wii. be us«-d. The Small Anns Firing Man uni L : . S. Army, will go.ern. Ten oi more members must compete to muki . UtL T competitor re cqiving the highest score will rcceivi the N. I*. A. medal. The report of the contest must bi made by the- club secretary and bi properly certified by the range officer. The course will be: 200 yards—Rapid fire, 10 shots foi record, kneeling from standing. Time limit I V* minutes. Target “D.” Bat tle sight, no sighting shots. 300 yards—Slow fire, 10 shots for record. Prone. Two sighting shots. Target “A.” 500 yards—Slow fire, 10 shoes for record. Prone. Two sighting shots. Target "B.” Total score possible 150. A. L. BEAVERS, President. RAY SHUTTS, Executive Officer. J. E. BROWNLEE, Secretary. Need of Red Cross Work The following from the Chifag->| Tribune is commended to the earnest attention of all the women and girls of Lamar and Prowers county: “Why aren’t more American women knitting?” is the frantic query of Maj. Grayson M. P. Murphy, head of the American Red Cross in France. More American women ARE knitting than they have knitted for it century in America. Women arc knitting ev erywhere and at every time. I i. n>os\ of them are knitting bright colored sweaters for themselves, or Cnristmas gifts to their women friends. It isn’t one woman in ten who takes khaki cr gray yam out of the gay bag that ■wings from her arm. This will be the worst winter that northern France has known. The sup ply of wood and other fuel which war available last winter has been mater ially decreased by the summer’s war fare. And now there are not only the French and English armies and thi thousands of refugees to be kept warm, but the American expeditionary force. Keeping warm in France this winter for the fighting armies will be a matter of clothing more than of fuel. If there is not enough warm clothing death will reap a greater har vest this winter than war. Thi3 isn’t sentiment. It is cold fact.. Whenever a woman knits a gay col ored sweater when she might be knit ting for the desperate need she is by her criminal negligence ex posing some one to illne* and pos sible death. Every ball of fancy yam is one ball of yarn taken from the possible supply of khaki or gray. It is practically impossible to buy khaki yarn* today, and the reason is that women have taken to fancy knitting with a fury with which almost no other fad has ever swept the country. There should be a yam commi . ion. The extravagant use of brightly col •rod yam should be made impossible. vnd women should be made to realize that knitting for themselves is as un itriotic as a prodigal feast in war time. Next! Costa Rica is the latest country to declare war on Germany and apply to Uncle Sam for a loan. Germany probably will never find out that she is at war with Costa Rica, but if your Uncle Sam don’t watch out he will find that he gets touched for his loose change. First Church of God Eighth and Maple Sunday School at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Will be glad to see you there. Come, you are welcome. J. W. BLOYD, Pastor. Box Social at May Valley There will boa box social on Friday evening, September 28, at the May Valley school house. Everybody is invited. The proceeds will be used to wards buying a victrola for the school. Bright Idea. "It would save us much-needed flooi space und considerable money If mort of our women customers would use th* stairway when going up only on* night," said the department-store man nger. “I wish I knew of some way to make ’em do It.” “Why not take the mirrors out of the elevators and put ’em on the stairs?” suggested hit bright UNsistunt. —Buffalo Express. Ample Time. nis Dad—"lf you don’t devote smn* time to study 1 don’t know w!.at kind of a lawyer you expect to be.” Tht law Student—“ There’s plenty of time father. I understand you never get a case that requires any knowledge ot law until about five years after you are admitted.”—Boston Transcript. Had Considered the Matter. “Now, my girl, don’t rush hastily Into marriage. Marriage Is a serlou* matter.” “I get you, grandma. It’* no Joke to go after a divorce und huv* to spend six months getting a rest donee In some faraway town.”—Louis vllle Courier-Journal. Knew What He Would Be Likely to De “The most outrageous show I evei had of getting a fee,” said the lawyer “was when a client name to me with no other asset thun a watch without any works In It.” "I suppose you took the case.” was the rejoinder. Had to Be Introduced Twice. While Mattel was watching hei mother making n pie, she was told It was lemon meringue. Half an hout later she came back und nsked: “Whnl was that pie’s last name?”—Youth’* Companion. Drop Use of Card. Thomas Edison advises young people to work to avoid temptation. Will some of our readers kindly try this and let us know whether It’s worth at tempting?—Macon Telegraph. Kaffirs In France. “Somewhere In France there Is a large camp of Kaffirs,” says a corre spondent of the Spectator. “When I I first saw them, my British Ignorance I and prejudice made me Jump to the conclusion that they were the scum ; from the mines of South Africa. To ! rny utter astonishment, however, I | have since discovered that 80 per cent of these blacks (Basutos and Zulus) nre the product of our mission schools. “They nre Christian men —have their own native Padre—and thirty ot forty of them knew all about Donuld Hankey, and were quite fumllinr with his book. ‘A Student In Anns!’ There may be white camps where the same may be said of them, but I haven’t come across them yet.” Slashes Russ Alphabet Russian Minister of Education Mnn- Jiloff is ruthlessly cleansing the Cyrillic alphabet of suj>erflultles. By decree he lias abolished the specific Russian letter “ynt,” confusion of which with “e” Is one of the woes of schooling, abolished also the use in Russian of the Greek “theta,” former ly used Indiscriminately with “phi,” and finally abolished the “hard sign” placed after consonants. The reforms excite mixed feelings. Children and utilitarians rejoice, but the novelist, Leonid Andreyeff, says that “such changes rob our classics of their traditional form and atmosphere. We feel we are reading dialect.” Sure Sign. “The war will end In two weeks,” he said as he estimated the decrease In the size of his apple pie, in a one arm cafeteria. “Where do you get that dope?” asked the next chair neighbor. “Well, I huve a brother who enlisted today and he never held a Job longer than two weeks In his life.” FOOTBALL PROSPECTS Lamar High School Has Material for ( Splendid Team and Can Get a Fine ! Schedule for Season The turnout of football material for | the first practice of the season for the i Lainar high school showed an abund ance of fine prospects and indicates | that a team as strong as the last year’s champions can again be put in the field. Many of the best last year players are again in school and ther< is a husky and promising new bunch from which to fill the vacancies. Last year owing to the fact that had been out of football for several seasons it was hard work to get a good schedule of games outside of the regular league games, but the record of last year’s champions put the Lamar school back on the foot ball map, and now it is easy to ar-, range for good games. The Colorado ; Springs Terrors are anxious to make a Thanksgiving date with the Sav- j ages, and it will probably be done, and J as the Colorado College Tigers play i away from home on that date it will be the big game of the season for; i both high schools. The Fort Lyon I sailors are reorganizing their strong eleven and will give the Lamar boys ; a strenuous practice game in the near j future which will help put them in I trim for the regular schedule. The lainiar Savages while they got no chance for the state championship last year owing to the fact that the situa tion was so mixed that no play off schedule could possibly be nrranged, yet had by far the cleanest record of any of the claimants. They were only | scored on once during the season und won that game by a score of 31 to C. No one of the other teams could show ; so few scores against them or such i a fine total for all their games. In ( all they won nine games with a total | wore of 187 to 6. Mr. Burgener, the i new coach, is an experienced football j player himself and expects with the i material at hand to have another win- l ning team at Lamar. j Lamar 18, Fort Lyon 6 Manager Rhodenbaugh took his bunch of fence busters up to Fort Lyon last Sunday and played the sail ors a return game. The Lamar boys have been growing better all season QUALITY—PRICE—SERVICE =SEVEN STORES= Trinidad, Colo. La Junta, Colo. Coloflats, Colo. Wiley, Colo. Ludlow, Colo. Raton, N. M. ---and— LAMAR, COLORADO. The Best in Each Town! —aainiw — ttpi , mmm 1 jw—bp—ia— B We pay Cash for produce, the best market price. We sell at the lowest price possible. At our stores you don't have to pay any body’s bad debts, and so get more for your money. WEIGHTS AND GOODS GUARANTEED Retail at Wholesale Prices Ask Your Physician Why he prefers certified and purest drugs in his pre scriptions—lt’s results he looks for and he knows what they mean to both the patient and himself., In sickness the best is none too good. BRING THAT NEXT PRESCRIPTION TO US WHAT- Keeps our soda fountain so busy? Courtesy, combined with service and the choicest fruits and syrups tell the tale. Where it tastes a little better than usual. A full line of Paints, Glass and Wall Finishes Our box Candies are kept in iced refrigerators which keep them in perfect condition, always fresh. TAKE HER HOME A BOX Lamar Drug Co. as they play longer together, and are I now a real bunch of champions. They drove three of Fort Lyon’s star pitchers to the tall timber and chased the team all over the reservation hunt ing for lost balls. They batted out three home runs and other long hits too numerous to mention. The final score was 18 to 6 in favor of the La mar boys. A game with the fast La Junta team is now being arranged and will probably be played in La Junta next Sunday. Baca County Fair The heavy rains of this week have prevented many of the I.amarites, who had made ull arrangements to go to Springfield Wednesday to attend the fair, from going as the roads were reported almost impassible. However they dried up rapidly during the day and there will be a big attendance from here on the Thursday and Fri day dates. The fair is said by those who have been down to be better than ever before, and the exhibits a reve lation to all doubters that the dry land settlement had come to stay. There are hundreds of visitors from all sur rounding states and all sections of Colorado.