The Springfield herald., May 12, 1916, Image 1

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Vol. XX!X. No. 40
Our Joycoy list is sure loom
ing up— proof that somebody is
living down there.
Though they have been going
like hot cakes, wo still have
some of the Caswe'.l seeds to
give away. Drop in and get
yours,
To keen in line with the arith
metical progression of the thing,
with one show last week and two
shows this week, there should be
three next, week, and so on.
The Keating state maps will
be gone by the time you read
this, but in June we expect, an
other batch of them, and then
as heretofore will hand them out
as long as t,hev last..
With the right kind of a pro
gram for the day. and proper
arrangements for providingeom
fort. on the fair grounds, 5,000
people may be expected in
Springfield en the 4th of July.
Springfield is fast coming to
the front as the peer of the river
towns in its business relations,
and if its business growth con
tinues it will be but a few years
until Baca county will have a La
mar of its own.
Roosevelt scrambled the eggs
at thr g. o. p. convention at
Chicago four years ago, and
made a good job of it. He is
going hack this year to unscram
ble them, and if he succeeds it
will make old Pierpoint Morgan
turn over once in his grave.
The editor of the Herald with
many others regretted the pre
paredness move of president
Wilson; but we now believe it
was the right move to forestall
the plunge of the goverr.ment
into Old World militarism
through tlie g o. p’s. In other
words, it pulled the teeth out of
the republican campaign cry of
1916, and thus insures the peace
and prosperity of the nation for
another four years.
Get-Together Day Saturday
was another red letter day for
Springfield. Notwithstanding
that the bills were gotten out
late—should have beenontaweek
sooner, something like 500 or 600
people were here. Each of the
stores had five or six clerks,
and they were all on the jump
during the day and way into the
night. Incidentally, Springfield
is fast taking its proper place as
the trading center of the county
one of the results of these
Get-Together days.
We believe now as we did two
years ago, when we first opened
our dairying campaign, that Ba
ca county should engage largely
in dairying. The great trouble,
as realized, has been to get a
conveyance for dairying and
other farm products to Lamar.
Not yet having established a
truck line, we would advise those
wishing to ship cream that it can
be parcel posted to Lamar if
they will send it in live gallon
cans. That seems to be the on
ly salvation for the business at
this time. In this way, if cream
producers will utilize the meth
od, it will be but a few years till
the business will develop into a
great industry for the county.
• We realize the fact that if thr
season should prove to be a dry
one it will be hard particularly
on this spring’s newcomers, and
all others whose ground is still
new; and yve realize the fact al
so that they are the first ones to
get scared when the moisture
fails to come Notwithstanding,
we don’t believe a dry year isgo- j
ing to make them run. The
facts are that a sod crop rarely
makes grain and often fails to
make fodier, and that no new
ground is dependable in a dry
season. The bright side to this
picture, and the hope of the peo
ple, is that old ground ispractic
ally always dependable for both
fodder and grain, and that old
timers here think no more about
rain and lalk no more about it
than they do back cast.
The Springfield Herald
Does an.vone l<no\7 whether the
sentinel on the towerat Armaged
den is still at his post, or
if lie has climbed down and
left his army to its fate?
Carlson will go as a delegate to
the g. o. p. convention at Chicago,
but if the signs of the times are
right he will end his wild career
with his boots on in the Noverci
ber elections in Colorado.
The differense of per cent
and‘6 ( /c on that million dollars
state school fund would help the
schools and the farmers; but
what the banks are getting out
of it is the difference of 2£ per
cent and 10 and 12 per cent.
Congressman Keating's Letter
It is too bad that every Amer
ican citizen cannot road all the
printed heatings containing the
facts and evidence* submitted
to congress in support of the
army, navy and fort lications ap
propriation bills. Then we
would have a clearr ' idea if
what we want to do in j mat
ter of “Preparedne* .
Every man in con; 3 wants
his country placed i position
where it can raaintr' rder at
home and resist ii on from
abroad. Perhaps somewhere
between the oceans you may be
able to find a “peace-at-any
price” man, but up to date his
identity has not been revealed.
I do not believe he exists.
There are men in congress—
and I am ore of them —who feel
that, before they vote away
countless millions of the people’s
money, they should be given in
formation concerning what lias
been done with the hundreds of
millions we have already appro
priated for the army and navy,
and we should be given a pretty
definite idea of what has been
done with the hundreds of mil
lions we are asked to appropri
ate this yea..
Building Submarines in Two
Weeks
Take submarines. The naval
officials were sure that private
plants could not construct these
sea terrors in less than two
years and allowed that time un
der the contracts. When the
contractors faild co deliver at the
given time the department offi
cials \ver« disposed 10 be linient.
Then the wizard Edison, the
greatest living inventor, came
along and explained how he
could make twenty or twenty
five submarines in two weeks.
“Standardize the parts and build
em like you would a Ford,” was
his simple solution of rhe prob
lem.
Edison disposed of another
pet theory of the department
chiefs. The latter have always
gone on the theory that omy the
big concerns could take care of
government contracts. “That’s
a mistake” Edison told the com- 1
mittee. “The little shops will
do the work faster and lor a
lower price. The thing to do is to
divide the contract and get as
many small shops working on it
as possible. Then assemble the
parts and put them together.
That’s the way I
The committee was so impress
ed by Edison’s testimony that it
will recommend an appropriation
of $1,500,000 for the establish
ment of a government experi
mental laboratory, patterned af
ter the one maintained by the
wizard at East Orange, N. J.
The Pros and Cons
As to a Herd Law
The New Bill
We had intended this week to
comment on the herd law bill
that, .has been inflicted upon the
public, but as another bill is now
[being initiated by the authors
lof the present one. we shall
here pay som(? attention to the
originators of these bills and the
red lined organ through which
they have worked up all this
herd law commotion: which
brings us to
The ‘ Great Divide.”
And tiii* reminds us that there
are three of them - the paper by
SPRINGFIELD, BACA COUNTY, COLORADO, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1916.
that name, the town by that
name—and the thousand dollars
to be divided.
We want to call jour attention
first to the fiery organ that is
causing all this herd-law agita
tion. A good many of our peo
ple have fallen for its cartoons,
red head-lines and gush, and
think that its efforts in ev
erybody’ s behalf is disinterest
ed and its motives pure and sin
cere.
We want those who have tak
en the Great Divide into their
confidence to disabuse their
minds of at least its disinterest
edness and to look carefully into
its consistency and sincerity.
You have noticed what a won
der ful reclamation service its
editor Hoggatt is performing up
in Routt county—wherein he has
located his town of “Great Di
vide;" and you have noticed that
all his big hollering leads to that
town.
What Hoggatt wants is to sell
town lots; and this herd-law
screaming was x> get him and
his project into the lime light,
the better to succeed with hiß
town piomolion; and that’s the
disinterestedness of the proposi
tion.
Listen to the requirements. |
“Those joining the Great Di
vide colony should have not less
than SI,OOO cash, three horses
and three cows—or they should
positively stay at home."
That would be about such an
outfit for farming as a pair of
shoes, a collar and necktie would
be for a man on dress parade.
Why so insistent about the
$1,0(0 cash, in connection with
the awful hardship of using S7B
of it to fence 160 acres of their
land?
Why—the town of Great Di
vide! Can you see through a
knot hole? Need we say more
o( the Great Divide’s disinterest
edness, its consistency, and its
sincerity.
Summary
Our first article was to show
first that the federal govern
ment Ims never passed any laws
i n the subject, and that a suit
for damages couldn't be brought
in a federal court; and second
that if the state passes no laws
on the subject no damages could
he collected in any other court.
Our second article was to give
the law as it is, and to indicate
the amendment of the law as it
should be. We believe the five
inch posts should be two and
three inches, every rod instead
of every two rods, and top wire
four feet high instead of four and
a half. That would be a sensi
ble fence law.
Our third article was to show
the cost of fencing, and the in
consistency of the Great Divide’s
herd law agitation, they requir
ing tlie settlers in their Routt
county colony to have SI,OOO in
cash. Only S7B of that SI,OOO is
required to buy the wire to
fence a 160 acre field, and the
field one winter is worth the
money.
Out- fourth article was to show
the cost of fencing before barbed
wire days, and that of the forty
eight states only two passed
herd laws while the open range
was a consideration.
Our fifth article was to show
the economy of Btock in the
building up of the county, and
the part that stock has played in
providing schools for those who
have been clamoring the loudest
for aherd law, and that the open
range is for those who have a
few head cf stock as against
those having very large herds.
We shall now leave the matter
until the new bill has been initi
ated. Meantime sign up the
blanks in the Herald, as we
want the sentiment of the coun
ty on tliis important matter.
Stonington
Bill Edmunds was kicked by a
mule last week, but is getting
along fairly well.
I N. H. Risley from Kansas is
here, the guest of Miss Pearl
! Kerr.
Miss Edith Kerr was on the
sick <ist Sunday.
J. H. Holdeman, the real es
tate man, is iiere this week.
A. R. Templen, the barber, is
building a new shop on the east
side of the street.
lames Morris was hurt by the
fall of a horse last week but is
ail right at present.
Mr. Holdeman and cousin,
Miss Ida and Mrs. R. B. Kerr
took quite a trip Saturday visit
ing Mr. Holdeman’s sister, Mrs.
Benson. They went down by
Richards and all over the soutli
part of the country.
Regnier
Charley Peterson got back
from Elkhart Thursday—took
his sister to the road.
Pat Jones is makiDg a black
spot on his place where he has
been plowing.
Mr. Taylor went out on the
flats after feed Uiis week.
Mrs. Rutherford, Mrs. Alta
West, Bart Hancock, Bert
Schneider, and P. Regnier have
been planting crops this week.
Henry Rutherford is herding
sheep for Stinson.
Wade West and two sons, Clin-
I ton and Milo, went to the cedars
this week.
Location
36-29-47
Plum Creek
Farming la the order of the
day.
Tandy has been sick but is up
and going again.
Miss Mamie Boles visited Miss
Johnson this week.
Mr. Pulliam is breaking sod.
Preparing for a big crop.
Mrs. Ice hasn’t come home
from Kansas yet, and Mr. Ice
is getting lonesome.
Horseshoe
Mr. and Mrs. Walker was vis
iting Charley Wilson’s Thursday.
Mrs. Russell and Josie were
visiting at Mason’s Friday.
Mrs. Ora Mason has seventy
five turkey eggs setting.
Mrs. Golden was at ltusseli’s
Friday for water.
I Everybody busy planting their
Crops.
Garden all looks fine.
Lone Rock
Never be neutral between
right and wrong.
The Vinyard’s Sundayed with
the Thompson’s.
Tom Park made a trip to La
mar last week.
Mr. and Mrs. U. G. Nelson
and Leon Sundayed with the
.Dillion’s.
| Mesdames Thompson, Kidder,
‘and Rockhill and children spent
a pleasant day last Thursday at
the Jent home.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry East
spent Sunday with Frank Kid
der and family.
Big Flat
Ed and Clarence Alfrey and
Al. Scoby went to Lamar yester
day for freight.
Ki Amrine passed through
Big Flats enroute north Monday.
Will Crawford is breaking sod
for his sister Pearl.
Mr. and Mts. Alfrey were in
Vilas Monday.
J. P. H. Jackman has been
having some work done on his
well and will soon have a wind
mill erected.
The chicken shower Thursday
at Mr. and Mrs. Campbell’s was
a success.
Konantz
Mrs. Mary Jones has moved
onto her ranch.
Archie Semmens hud Al Elliot
drillja well for him.
Bill French lias another Ford.
Our old friend Alva Dean went
and got married. Alva is a fine
young man and we wish him joy
on his first venture on th3 sea cf
matrimony.
Harry Bohl says he’s going to
have a gasoline wagon or bust.
Mrs. John Gilespy an 1 daugh
ter came home Thursday from
visiting relatives in Kansas.
The Sunday school feed w f as
not so well attended as it might
have been. However, those there
enjoyed themselves, and some of
the guests are showing symp
toms of founder foot.
Regnier
May 4.
Another big da ice at Frank
Welch's Saturday night.
Everybody busy planting.
Gus Thomas is busy fencing
Annie Hancock’s field.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams visited
Mrs. Williams’ folks this week.
Dick Welch seems to stay on
the flats most of his time. Won
der what the attraction is.
Mrs. Rutherford has little tur
keys three weeks old —doing fin?.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Thomas are
proud of their big team of mules.
Freezeout
Mrs. Johns of Blaine. Colora
do, lias come to make her home
with her son Charles on his
claim on Preezeout.
Carrs have moved onto their
claim on Freezeout.
A number from this vicinity
attended the dance at Whiting's
Friday night.
Mr. Backus’ baby has been
very sick this week.
Mr. Gellings and Mr. Carr
made a trip to 11 le cedars this
week.
Charley Johns and Reid White
made a trip to Lamar this week.
Mr. Peter and Raymond Cul
ver of St. Louis, Mo , moved on
to their claims on Fre.zeout this
week.
Short Grass
Walter Emil anil Otto Ruth
rauff went to Lamar last week.
The baby of Mr. ami Mrs.
Galways has been quite ill the
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mosser and
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Boswell from
Lamed, Kans., has been visiting
relatives and friends here the
past week. Mrs. Baswell is a
niece of Lafe Lester.
Miss Helen McGurk and moth
her arrived last week to keep
house for her brother Frank Mc-
Gurk.
George Harmon wus down
from Lamar the latter part of
the week to spend a few days
with friends.
Fred Page is here from Ok la
home visiting old friends.
West Pretty Prairie
Nim Pierce and Frank Morgan
went down on the Notth Fork to
break sod.
W. A. Greathouse and Roy
Stigers are breaking horses.
J. R. Rentfrow went to Holly
to get freight for Geo. Ervin
Konkel.
One of Orie Stigers horses got
cut on the wire, and will be un
able to work for some time.
Mrs. Geo. Mathews went over
in Kansas last week to visit with
relatives.
There ware three services at
Pretty Prairie Sunday and din
ner on the ground.
D r y wa ter
Miss Joanna Dumell of Wich
ita, Kans.. is settled on her claim
six miles e;ist of Campo. Her
friend, Miss Bessie Cone of Wich
ita, expects to stay till Septem
ber, when she will return to
Wichita.
They have christened their
place Ja.vhavvker ranch, in honor
of their native state.
Mr. and Mrs. Bellow expect to
go to Rodley Tuesday, and Miss
es Dumell and Cone expect to
to accompany them to see the
sights.
Mrs. Marie Lamport is the
most popular woman in Spring
field, according to the vote at
the Whitehead show, she hav
ing won the popuiarit.v bracelet
by about two to one over the
nearest competitor.
Location
5-33-47
Mystic Dell
Mr Falkuer and family were
visitors at E. L. Maxon’s Tues
day.
E. F. Coble is making a trip to
Lamar this week.
The dance at E. L. Maxon’s
! was well attended.
| Mrs. Coble visited with Mrs.
| Falkner Wednesday evening.
' Corn is coming up. and gar
dens looking fine.
Mrs. Blanche Gibson visited
Mrs. Grace Gibson Wednesday.
location
2I.X0-4U
West Flats
G. W. Peters and the Culvers
have returned, and tlio St. Louis
colony bums again w itli activity
Harvey Weeks gave a birth
day dinner to liis father, H. J.
Weeks, of Wichita, Ivans., Sun
day.
The McCulloughs and Buskirks
took Sunday dinner witli Millard
Shafer's.
Sunday schtrol and church were
well attended, and plans were
formulated to start a young peo
ple's meeting.
Rev. McCoy preached a rous
ing sermon to a large audiancc
Sunday. Arrangements were
made to have more benches and
to have them by next Sunday if
possible.
So much sod has been broken
that it is keeping what planters
there are more than busy.
Guess we’ll have to hang lanterns
on them and run night and day.
Pride
Robert Holler anfl Dan Haffi
ne i* went to Flkhart Saturday.
James Dye Inis been visiting
st the Can Ranch the past week.
I Sunday visitors at Walter Row
ers’ were Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Hager, ( has. Carr and James
Dye.
Mr. Mace more las built a four
room house on his claim and is
now having a well drilled.
There is some tula of building
a school house in the township
west of Pride. All we need is
someone to make a start.
Setonburg
Walter Briles has completed a
fine well for McCullough broth
ers.
Miss Frieda Hays spent Sun
day dinner with Miss Gurneth
Slavins.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Measel of
Springfield, Robert and Herbert
McCullough and Kenneth Slavins
took Sunday dinner with Seton
Brown and family.
Miss Hope Brown has gone to
assist Mrs. Sam Collins with her
housework.
Miss Agnes Haley spent Sun
day evening with Ceeile Brown.
Miss Florence Sibley v ill re
turn to her home in Vilas Mon
day. She will certainly be miss
ed by her many friends.
Lakeview
Roy Kraft made a trip to Vilas
the first of the w eek.
A most enjoyable time was
had at the surprise party for
Dan Bosley Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Van Voris,
and Dan Van Voris of Bidings,
Okla., Mrs. R. Wright of Oxford,
Kans., Mr. and Mrs. C. E. High,
Clark High and children of Viola,
Kans., and Mrs. Clay Woods and
childieii spent the day with Mrs.
Ella Bosley Wednesday.
Henry Lively is home after a
visit with parents at Caldwell,
Kans.
FLOEMONT
11. A. Butler and wife are the
proud parents of a94 pound baby
boy.
Miss Ruby Kuott visited Miss
Bertha Stephenson Saturday.
O. C. Mesnard and R. H. Dick
ey have beta on the sick list for
several days.
J. H. Cottrell and family spent
Sunday witn J. E. McGinnis and
family.
Mrs. G. A. Shultz spent Friday
with Mrs. R. H. Dickey.
$'.25 Per Year.
At the school meeting direc
tors were elected as follows: R.
H. Dickey President, J. T. Haw
kins Secretary. Fern Nixon treas
urer.
Preparedness
By Otto H. Rowland
(The Uncle Wait Mason of ISaca county)
The papers now are hollering
the same thing o’er and o’er, ad
vising every mother’s son to fix
himself for war, to pack a sword
and howie knife, a pistol and a
gun, so when he sees those lcr
eigu spies he can drop them all
and run. This talk of war and
bloodshed knockß a feller off his
pins, and then he makes the air
Quite blue, whiio he sits and rubs
his shins. Its very well to be
prepared for other tilings than
war, besides whicli disking up
your (Tcld will be a pleasant
chore.
The Corners
Mrs. Molly Turner, who has
been spending the past two
months with her nieces, Mrs.
Dan Ulry and Mrs. Cal Tomp
son, returned to her home in
Wisconsin last week.
Peter Marsh lias finished Mr.
Madden’s well and will com
mence one fur Frank Davis.
Tlie Douglas residence near
Kay’s is nearing completion. It
is a square cottage and modern.
Tom Parks went to Lamar
Saturday on business.
Warren Smith returned Fri
day from a business trip to Elk
hart.
John Meiers purchased anoth
er horse last week.
There will be a box supper at
the Pearce school Friday night,
May 12.
About 40 people gathered at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Hershner and enjoyed a weinnie
roast. A ball game between
two picked teams was tJie fea
ture of the afternoon.
The Meier family spent Mon
day evening with Andrew Jack.
Murray
John mid Geo. Steen have been
doing some experimenting, ongng
ing their Overland with Mr. Ter
rie’s wagon, the car getting the
worst of it. Nobody hurt.
Florence Terry missed her car
ride but the girls gave her a
ride in the little express wagon.
Mr. Cooper and family have
gone to Hooker, Ok In., to meet
his mother who expects to make
her home out here for sometime.
Grandma Fair and Mr. and
Mrs. Frazier took a r'e to Ston
ington with Mrs. S een and the
boys Tuesday. Had quite a
mishap but enjoyed the ride nev
ertheless.
Mrs. O. Fdan and children and
Mrs Wilson called on Mrs. Steer.
Tuesday.
Harry Kussell has returned to
Hooker, Okla.
CLYDE
I cent ' n
25.31.48
Crother Pierse helped Al
Hurshner the first of the week.
! F. H. Gulick of Kansas is vis
iting his son and daughter, Roy
and Luella Gulick.
Mrs. Smith and son Warren,
Mrs. Archie Davis and son Wil
liam, Miss Stines, and Luella
and Roy Gulick called at Mr.
KirkendalTs Sunday.
Mrs. Tom park and Mrs.
I Smith called on Mrs. Dillon Sat
urday.
Mrs. Archie Davis entertain
ed some friends from Kansas,
Elmar Em rice, Roy and Luella
Gulick Sunday for dinner.
Rain is badly needed in th 1 "
neck of the world.
Pete Morris is drilling a well
for Frank Pierce.
Mrs. Archie Davis called on
Grandma Davis Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Burson and little
son came up from Hooker Satur
day with her brother, AbeSchoil,
to visit her parents in the south
west part of the county. The
Bursons expect to move back on
their place in the Boston coun
try in the spring ol' next year.