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The Springfield Herald
VOL. XXX. No. 41
Ten sessions of the ChauUu-1
eua—every session a different
program.
Are we going to be patriotic in
Springfield on the great hurrah
day?—Time something was do
ing.
If you haven’t spring tilled
your seed bed, better get yours
in soon, else (lie drouthy season
may block the game.
Boosting the Chautauqua is
boosting Baca county—just as in
the case of the fair. Don’t talk
anything but the great Chautau
qua till it’s over with.
Over 300 of the new county
maps have been sold. 800 were
printed. At the same rate the
first issue will be exhausted be
fore the end of the year.
Farmers: Send to the experi
ment station at Ft. Collins, Colo.,
for bulletin 226 on growing, har
vesting and marketing beans. It
should be in every home.
The “Melting Pot’’ is a drama
that outside of the Chautauqua
could be seen only in the great
auditorium of metropolitan cities.
Sunday, June 10, at Springfield.
The great Chautauqua tent will
seat 2,00 C people. That tent
ought to be full to over (lowing
ten times during the five days of
happiness for Baca txjumy peo
ple.
We notice tnat the Fort Collins
bean bulletin advises that beans
be planted by the surface meth
od. Watch the lister and the
planter methods in your neigh
borhoods.
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The chances are that over 2,
000 people will be over-night vis
itors in Springfield during some
part of the Chautauqua enter
tainment. * Therefore, come pre
pared to camp.
The normal at Las Animas is
important to teachers; but equal
ly important to them, and less
expensive, is the Chautauqua at
Springfield. Don’t miss a single
one of the ten sessions.
In the case of a good crop this
year it is our prediction that
there will be tbiee or four hun
dred Pullfo.-ds and other tract
ors in Baca next year. See
the two ads. elsewhere in the
Herald.
Eastern land producing crop
values of from SIO.OO to $50.00
sells from $60.00 up to $500.00
an acre. From SIO.OO to $50.00
per acre are crop values in Baca
county—aud land selling for less
than $lO Better get busy.
Have you ever heard of Hawaii
—Uncle Sam’s possessions away
out in the Pacific ocean? Hawaii
ans were one time Cannibals —
man eaters. Five of these bloomin’
natives—thrilling performers,
will be at the Chautauqua at
Springfield.
There is no question of the
fact that the young men between
21 and 30 of sound body and
mind who in the first place
are depending on some one for a
living, or in the second place at
least have no one depending upon
them, are going to be drafted.
Better volunteer.
If all the young folks in the
county who have taken part in
local plays as amateurs were to
witness the five days’ Chautau
qua at Springfield, they would
go home with better ideas of
playing their parts in future en
tertainments. If possible, take
in the whole five days.
Keating’s letter this week re
ports one of the members of the
British commission to this coun
try as saying that, “we were
beaten if the United States had
not come in—Germany would
have starved us into submission;’’
and then a ship building expert
remarked that “the submarines
ai-e sinking ships faster than all
the world can make them. To
block Germany's game, we must
invent something to provide a de
fense against theU-bo at.”
The “Liberty L»..ui” bonds are!
in S6O and SIOO denninininations, I
the purpose being U> popularize [
them with people of small means.
The department hopes that Baca I
county will take up SIO,OOO or
more of these bonds.
Col. Roosevelt will not be per
mitted to I lead a division in Eu
rope, the president having decid
ed that only trained warriors
could be of service there. As 1
we have intimated before, it is 1
one thing >o command an army
in Cuba or Mexico, and quile a
different thing to command one
in Europe.
Registration day for those be-j
tween the ages of 21 and 30 has
been set by President Wilson for
June 5. To refuse or fail to
register is puni .hable with im
prisonment for not to exceed one
year, and tbc parties will then
be registered. It is not thought
that drafting will be resorted to
before tl’" first of September.
Those wanting entertainment
of a high and instri ctive class—
take ih the St. Claire sisters —
play everything, and charming
vocalists; the National quartet —
elevating, captivating, inspiring:
the Hawaiians —thrilling per
formers; the Melting Pot—the
climax of high-class world dram
as; —facts are, the w .ole bloom
jin’ show.
[ We are presuming the reason
conscription doesn't begin till
the first of September is that
they couldn’t train an army in
time far this summer anyway,
and that after September will be
plenty ot time to drill for next
year’s drive, when it is possible
that a million men will be sent
over—if the war doesn’t end be
fore that time.
Teachers 61 Baba country, do
you know that the Chautauqua is
a school just next to an up-to
date normal—in many respects
better? At the Chautauqua at
Springfield will be five days of
lectures and educational plays—
the teachers’ and all big folks’
Kindergarten. Instruction and
entertainment i- the key. Don’t
fall short of the five days.
The Woman’s Christian Tem
perance Union is asking the wo
man voters of Colorado to volun
tarily pay a Doll tax of SI.OO the
same as men are taxed, and to
send it to Miss Clara Mozzer,
assistant attorney general, treas
urer of the fund. Denver. We
believe no finer tribute could be
made in the cause of patriotism
by the women of this state than
by voluntary payment of this
dollar poll tax.
We don’t have much sympathy
with the movement of those who
would prod up the farmers “to
do their best to raise more stuff
to win the war.” It’s our idea
that Congress is the animal that
needs prodding. There has
been at Washington nearly two
months of dawdling, with Mr.
Millions Income and Mr. Foods
Gambler still running at large.
The farmer has always done his
best, both in the field and at the
front. Use your prodding irons
on Mr. Congress.
WHERE TO REGISTER
Precinct officer Place
1 Felix Si undell, Blaine S. H.
2 H. K. Ellis Stonington.
3 Fred Willis Vilas.
4 Will Spurgeon, Springfield.
5 Herman Ammann, Maxey.
6 Agnes Collins, Estelene.
7 Chas. Johnson, Edler.
8 H. D. Gaither, Two Buttes.
9 R. L. Booth, Diamond Ridge
S. H.
10 C. H. Wheeler, Oampo.
11 G. A. Inman, Chyde.
12 Charley Johnß, Joycoy.
13 A. A. Chambers, Pleasant
Valley S. H.
This information should go far
and wide into every precinct.
Tell your neighbors.
Every teacher in the county
should be at the Chautauqua.
SPRINGFIELD, BACA COUNTY, COLORADO, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1917.
Chautauqua
Paragraphic
Packard’s High Finace
Alton Packard who comes to
the local Chautauqua this season
tells of being on a lecture tour In
the west and being approactied
by a talkative commercial travel
er. The conversation, opened
b.v ibe commercial man, was
thus:
"On the road?”
“Yes.”
"Selling goods?”
“Yes.”
“What’s your line?"
“Chalklet talklets.”
“What?”
“Talk.”
“Huh! Easy work, selling talk!
Any money in it?”
“About two dollars a minute.”
“Well, don’t talk to me any
longer.”
Bank Won’t accept Packard’s S
One of the most remarkable
feats of Alton Packard, the car
toonist and humorist who comes
to the local chautauqua this sea
son, is drawing a free hand oir
c!e, almost perfect, with one rap
id sweep of the hand. Then he
draws wilbir. the circle the God
des ol Liberty reproducing the
obverse side of the silver dollar.
He was asked if he could draw it
agait, as neatly perfect. "Oh
,ve ,” said the cartoonist. “I’ve
drawn it over 2600 times, with
very little variation. That makes
$2,500.00 I have drawn, it which
does cot show on my bark ac-
,count
I Chautauqua a Forward Move
Every town which makes its
Chautauqua an annual affair has
taken a dtep forward. Any Com
munity which secures a Red path
Horner Chautauqua is especially
fortunate.
The people should get behind
this great chautauqua movement
for all thru the United States its
| intluence for good is being felt,
ianditislhe one big movement
I which is endorsed by all people.
“The most distinctively Amer
ican thing in America,” says
Theodore Roosevelt.
[ “If any foreigner wants to see
what a real, genuine, dyed-in the
wool United Stateser is, let him
attend a chautauqua,” says Dr.
Frank Crane.
An editorial in “The American
Lumberman” says, “The Chau
tauqua provides just that com
bination of education, entertain
ment. recreation and inspiration
that is indispensible to the build
ling up of a rural community.
Hence, tiie community that se
cures it will move forward in the
march of progress, and the one
that does not organize a chautau
qua has neglected one of the most
effective means of working out
its salvation.”
The circuit chautauqua was or
ganized to make possible a win
ning fight for the preservation of
the “home towns” of the coun
try. It recognizes the needs of
the hour, and its programs are
built for a definite purpose. They
i aim to make every town a better
town in which to live and do bus
iness, to bring a message of good
cheer and optimism, and the in
spiration of success, prosperity
and progress. They fit into ev
ery campaign for betterment be
ing waged by business men, civic
leagues, lodges, city governments
church and other organizations.
Chaplaiu E H. Loughter
Chaplain E H. Loughter. who
specks on the chautauqua pro
gram, has teen the world. Al
most by accident he was thrown
repeatedly into the whirlpool of
widespread disaster. He was in
India at the time of the great
famine and plague, an eye wit
ness to the countless horrois of
that awful period.
I during the Russo-Japanese war
and saw the earth ripped up by
hell's explosives.
He has spent long years in pa
tient research iu America, in pris-
He was in Japan and Korea
He was in Chtfel at the time of i
the Boxer uprising and witnessed :
the stirring sceii)U of that bloody
period. He caught the spirit of
the death struggle as sensed by
the slant-eyed ntandpaliers in ,
the very craddltf 'of the race. He
knows the color Chinese blood
and the dying fffMm of a heathen
Oriental.
ons, stockades, dlums and aims
houses, linking -the experiences
of the down-and-out American
with those aero®* the seas. The
results have been marvelous.
TiOughter is a wnrld citizsn with
out caste or clan, who labors like
a Titan in behalf of mankind at
large.
Loughter’s lectures are out
bursts from pent up emotions
caught from world wide study
of heroic ambition and the cold,
dull eye of dispair. They are
thought out recitals of theories
or philosophies. They are the
utterances of men whose person
al voice you caa never hope th
hear. The pathos and tragedy
create uncommon humon inter
eat.
You must hear him speak.
Somehow woveo into his life by
the flying shuttle of experience
the problems and trials of the
race force themselves upon your
attention, and ' One can almost
hear the heart throbs of the un
fortunate as the gripping story
unfolds. He is a reai master.
Through him the crying shame
of centuries has a hearing, while
love’s new inventions thv art the
mockeries of fate.
Labor, statecraft, art, com
merce, war, hietory race, color,
servitude, ambition, love, hate,
orime, each lend, in their pecu
liar ways, fores to the strange
study of E. H. Luughter affords.
But you mqaf hear him to ap
predate the full. His
lectures are master builders
whosefruits will remain.
The story of the -play, “The
Melting Pot,” which will be at
the Springfield Chautauqua, is
as follows:
David Quixana, a Jewish mu
siciau, recently come tu America
after a massacre of Jews in Rus
sia, is filled with intense loyalty
to his adopted country, regard
ing it as a place where the per
secuted and weary of other coun
tries may find rest and prosper
ity. Under the inspiration of
this feeling, he writes sym
phony which he is very anxious
to produce.
Meanwhile he has fallen in love
with a Russian girl, Vera Rev
endal, the daughter of a Baron
and an orthodox Christian, who
fled Russia after becoming impli
cated in a revolutionary move
ment. David and Vera cannot
marry until David’s symphony is
produced or he obtains a position
as violinist in an orchestra, and
while they are waiting Vera's
father, Baron Revendal, appears
upon the scene with his wife,
Vera’s stepmother, and attempts
a reconciliation. He hates Jews
and is filled with horror that his
daughter contemplates marrying
one. David, who has never for
gotten the scene of the massa
cre in Russia and broods upon it
a great deal, comes face to face
with the Russian and recognizes
him as the man who ordered his
father and mother' killed. He
finds he cannot think of marry
ing the daughter of this man,
and leaves here, thereby repud
iating all his theories about the
leveling of all racial differences
and former feuds in a new coun
try.
Later his music is published
and he becomes famous. He re
alizes that there is no reason
why Vera’s father should keep
them apart, and he decides a new
generation, it is bis right aud
duty to live his own life without
reference to the past.
Lamport
The sale at John Anderson’**
was weill attended Friday.
Everything sold well.
A big fine boy arrived at the
home of Roy Holcomb’s to visit
i inditinitely.
j The Sunday school and preach
ing were well attended last Sun
day morning at Butcher school
house.
, Everybody in this neighbor
s hood is as busy as they can be
l j putting in their crops.
l We will have a singing, to be
gin Monday night and last a
| week. Everybody welcome.
Stonington
Col. V. A. Thompson was a
Springfield visitor last Monday.
Sam Nichols of Konantz was
trading with our merchants last
Monday.
H. C. Wear, the Wichita land
broker, was here with a party of
n.en last week.
Geo. W. Elley has the lumber
on the ground for a fine resi
dence in Stonington.
R. IS/ Holt and R. D. Nance
each eri ected wind mills in town
last week.
Mrs. Iloii.’s sister of Wheeler,
Texas, is visiting her.
A fine boy made his appear
ance at the home* of Jim McKin
nis last wiek. As tins is the
first boy in the home, Jim is
stepping pretty high.
James Lang has taken charge
of the garage and will move his
family to town as soon as soon
as he can get a liauso to live in.
Geo. Ervin Kmikci is building
quite an addition l<» In- resi
dence. Ed. MeaxH is the car
penter.
Rodley
Rnrile.v matched reams with
Richards Saturday afternoon at
Richards. We heard that Rich
ards beat our hoys.
Earnest Hinds is clerking tor
Macy on Saturdays.
Joel HatchcU and wife with
Addie ami Fr-d are visiting
Mrs. G. A. Shultsand J. B. Hat
chett of Sandy soil.
Keister of Catnpo is breaking
sod, for Dr. Ballou with histrae
tor ten acres s day.
Pride
Mrs. J. W. Harmon, Miss
Argie Hanan, Willie Harmon
and Mr. Blackburn autoed to
Pride Wednesday morning.
Mrs. G. W. Caldwell and Mrs.
Lewis Stewart called on Mrs.
Claude Hager Wednesday after
noon.
School closed last Friday.
The .-school children and a num
ber of the patrons enjoyed the
day at the old Burrows ranch.
Saturday night the school gave
an intertainment that was very
much enjoyed by all present.
Elmer Ray of Wentworth is at
work for J. W. Harmon.
Ira. Johnson, Chas. Reodiger,
Sain Browning and Walter Rog
ers all made trips to Elkhart
this week.
Harold Hager of Joycoy has
visited his brother Claude for
a few days.
Mr. Blackburn of Elkhart has
been visiting at the Harmon
ranch this week.
Edler
The Waine-Moore drill is drill
ing for Chas. Collier.
George Collier made a trip to
Springfield Tuesday.
R. W Fox has purchased a
Ford car and tractor.
Miss Maude Ice, who has been
visiting at Coulter’s, returned to
Topeko Monday.
Floyd Coulter made a trip to
Lamar Monday in his car.
The assessor was in our midst
Thursday and Friday.
Paradise Flats
We have been having windy
weather.
Mrs. Frank Dean had a fine
hatch with her incubator.
Mrs. Classon returned to her
home in La Jaunta last week.
Mrs. Ransy Davis and son Roy
are Sick with the measles.
People are busy planting.
Frankie Dean has purchased a
cai.
Don’t forget the Chautauqaa.
Horseshoe
Everyone in this vicinity isl
pushing his farm work. Corn is!
coming up arnd small giain is
sprouting.
Henry Dolan whi.e plowing, in
some way his horses ran over
him, cutting his head. When
found, was unconscious, but is
improving at this writing.
The sod school house at this
place has caved in. Looks as
though we would have to have a
new school house this fall.
Children’s day at this place
the 4th Sunday in May.
Had quite a hail storm Tues
day, but no damage done.
Pilot Point
A large crowd attended Sun
day school Sunday.
A number of young folks took
dinner Sund y at the J. J. Little
home.
Rose Wright bought a fine
tuare and colt from Jim Ice this
week.
I. P. Richard lost a tine mare
lately.
Roy Hickcox has bean farming
the Measel place this week.
S. L. Hickcox has been fencing
some lately.
Nellie Grover spent the day
Thursday with Mrs. Johnson.
Murray
Bro. Carlin of the Baptist de
nomination is holding a revival
meeting at the courthouse.
Eugei.c Sea« right and wife
are visiting relatives here. They
are also trying to locate a home
stead.
Harry Russell has just return
ed from Hooker, Okla.
R B. Grubbs of Campo was
visiting in this vicinity Wednes
day.
Sunday school and preaching
every Sunday. Cn*itltian Endeav
or Sunday nights, ana cottage
prayer meeting Thursday nights.
Prairie Queen
Children’s day at Paairie
Queen June 10th. Everybody
come.
Dr. Patterson is in a good way
planting on his 320 acre crop.
J. O. Hamer and family from
Liberal, Fans., visited J. W.
Lynch’s last week.
Mrs. Susan Ellis is making
preparations to go to Arkansas
soon.
Mr. Three Wits Jake Cameron
and Sam Eaton went to Spring
field and got a new planter this
week.
Mrs. Ellis is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. J. W. Lynch. '
Zion Chapel
Everybody is rushing the bal
ance of their seeds into the
ground.
Ed. Vinyard and family re
turned from Wiley last week.
Members of the aid society
spent a pleasant day last week
with Mrs. Thompson.
Dillon’s and Rockhill’s autoed
over the western part of the
county Sunday.
Clarence Parson ana Bob Rob
ins and family spent Sunday
with relatives near Cain pa.
The Kirkendalls spent Sunday
with Henry Smith and wife.
Setonsburg
G. C. Blasdel and family, and j
Coultrup and wife ate Sunday I
dinner wit!; W. K. Jordan and
w i fe.
Laura Gregory left Saturday j
for her home in Viola, Kans.
She will visit relatives ana
friends fora few months.
Gordon Brown, Mrs. Daisy i
Hi ley and son Elbert, Agnus j
Haley and Hope Brown autoed 1
to the south cedars Sunday.
Gurneth Slavens and Elva
Cokeley spent Thursday evening;
with Hope Brown.
The Sunnvside Sunday school;
is preparing for a Children’s day I
exercises sometime in June.
Claud Bosley went to Elkhart,
to get nine barrels of gas for
Setonsburg store:
Chautauqua —Chautauqua.
$1.50 Per Year.
Baker
Wu are having some fine sl.mv.
ers.
Dehorning and dipping cattle
is the order of the day.
J. C. B. Hargis, Sr., of Witlii
ta, spent a few days in this viein
ity last week.
Mrs. J. P. Beckman ami son
Hall took Mary Black to her
home near Ulysses, Kaus., Fri
day.
Will Humble is working lor
John Hargis.
Everet McManaman and
daughter Irene are here from
Pratt county, Kans., establish
ing residence on his claim.
Charley Baker and family
spent Sunday with J. B. Wood
ard and family.
Those who took dinner with
Mrs. Beckman Sunday were Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Hearn, Nettie
and Phyllis Howard, Trixie Ale
Manamam and children, Charley
Hadley and Irene McManaman.
Vilas
Mr. Mitchell is building an ad
dition to his dwelling house.
Miss Mae Hagerman, clerk a
the Wheeler store, spent Satur
day night and Sunday with her
parents at Blaine.
Mrs. Yokum and John, Jr.,
took in the movie Saturday at
the Lyric at Springfield.
Miss Peton Yokle.y spent a
couple of days of this week with
her freind, Mrs. Glen Yokum.
Mr. and Mrs. Blanclmt’s bah.
is gaining rapidly from his ill
ness, but is still weak.
Mrs. W. M. Thompson and
John with the two daughter
and Mrs. Bill and Gid, spent Sat
urday in the county seat.
Mi. and Mrs. Millard Amri
have started for their home . i
Ignacio, Colo., over the great di
vide. Last heard from H . -
were in Trinidad. They w«
with a team.
Mrs. Rutherford is putting
a large garden. Sin* is sur*l\
doing her share in war times
M. Elmore Yukley of Po i -
City, Okla., is visiting his daugh
ter, Mrs. J. Stogner, also Ins
wife and daughter of Vilas.
Wheeler is fixing to insl I
large gas tank at the garag- .
We are all looking forwa; i f••
the Chautauqua to be held .u on.
county seat, We feel sue- r
will be an intellectual fen -1 of
good things. [Couldn’t have
been better expressed].
LAKE VIEW
We think from the warm
weather of the Fist few days
that summer has come at last.
Everything is looking fine.
Some corn is coming up.
Will Cramer started to Oalva.
Kans., Saturday for a visit with
relatives.
Margaret and Marion Bosley
from Edler visited at Roy and
Ray Bosleys Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
Mr. Westhoff and John Car
lisle started to Enid, Okla., this
morning,. where they expect to
work in harvi st.
Who would suppose i1 so near
harvest time?
Richards
| PH. Mitchell autoed to Elk
| hart Tuesday.
Miss Reese of Tyrone, Okla., is
I visiting at the T. O. Maynard
home.
j Mrs. McClendon called on Mrs.
Mitchell Friday afternoon.
Pre-1 Collins and wife of Pride,
accompanied by Mrs Collins*
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wells of
Emporia, Kans., were pleasant
callers in Richards last week.
Mrs. E. Chestnut returned to
Cold water, Kans., after a few
days visit with her folks near
Richards.
Richards ball team played Rod
ley on the Richard’s diamond,
Saturday. sto 1) in favor of
Richards.
L. V. Campbell has his wind
mill erected.
Mrs. C. A. Wiley shopped in
Richards Saturday.
It will be a treat for little folks.