The Springfield herald., August 02, 1918, Image 1

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VOL. XXXI. No. 41
See the announcements else- ■
where of W. P. Powell and Tom I
Oxenreider. Complimentary no 1
tice next week.
The republicans want it under
stood that politics is not adjourn- j
ed” until they get the offices —:
Which puts off the adjournment
Indefinitely.
At the D. C. D. convention at
Lamar two weeks ago it was de
cided to hold the next annual
meeting at Ardmore, Okla.,
probably some time in July.
More touristshave gone through
Springfield during the last month
than had gone through during
thelasttwo yearsbefore. That’s
a good omen for the future.
Reports from all qver Baca
county show that, with the ex
ception of a few very small soots,
crops are looming up belter than
at any time at this stage of the
game in the history of the coun
ty, so far as remembered.
Total amount of beans shipped
from Colorado in 1017, over -10
and a half million pounds. Total
amount from Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming,
a fraction over a million pounds.!
Who’s sneezing at Colorado?
All sugar is now sold by a gov- •
ernmental card system—began,
the first inst. Sugar cards at|
that time were issued with one
coupon to each member of the
family. The coupons are good
for three pounds of sugar month
ly.
A letter from Congressman
Keating informs us that he will
be in Baca before the primaries.
Mr. Keating says the outlook in
th*Pnebto"«A4«of strict* ip
re ry encouraging — that the
way we took their tirst-line
■trenches at Denver seems to
hava demoralized them.
Girls and women of Bacacoun
ty, you have a chance to join the
the U. S. Student nurse reserve
and thus to take training for ser
vice as nurses. 25,000 young
women —19 to 35, are wanted.
Address Woman’s committee,
State Council of Defense, Den
ver, Colo., and get particulars.
Don Vanwormer of Morton
county, who lost out recently
j n the supreme court and order
ed to the pen at once for life, has
jumped his $25,000 bond and is
supposed to be in Mexico. The
governor of Kansas has offered
$500 tor his capture, and his
bondsmen a full 51.000—$1,500 in
all.
We want to say here that it
[tierald] has the most extensive
local correspondence of any pa
per in the county |or in the oast
or westl, which is a feature that
a county paper should be proud
of. Mr. Konkel has organized
that division well, and keeps it
up admirably. —Two Buttes Sen
tinel.
The republicans Wednesday
designated the following primary
ticket: Chas. Howell county,
clerk, Miss Alice Jack countyl
treasurer, W. P. Powell and Tom I
assessor, M. Long
sheriff, I. A. Humbert and Mrs. i
Mary Jones superintendent, Dr.
Verity coroner, Geo. Elley com
missioner, Douglas surveyor,
The ticket is a good one, hut we
believe the democrats on the 10th
inst. can and will put up a better
one - ______
At the D. C. D. convention at
Lamar it was decided to devide
the D. C. D. trail into districts,
and each year to hold regular
district meeting*. The districts
were arranged as follows: Colora
do Springs to Lamar, Lamar to
Guymon, Guy man to Canadian,
Canadian to Childreth, Childreth
to Dallas. Sec. Palmer has the
calling of these meetings, and
the people of Springfield will he
glad t.o learn that Mr. Palmer
has promised the next district
meeting to Springfield, It will
be called here probably in May.
The Springfield Herald
We have a declar. ion of prin-l
Iciples By Hon. Thos. J. Tynan
| that certaiuly puts Torn in the
progressive class. We shall
-'quote the same In the early fu-
| ture.
What Champ Clark, speaker
of the house, thinks of Congress
man Keating, as given in a letter
to a Colorado friend, will be pub
lished next week. rich.
Watch for it.
Bro. Wheeler of the Enter
prise sayoth as follows: Those
articles that Bro. Ivonkel is run
ning in his paper under the cup
ton of ‘'Persons, Stories and In
cidents of Old Boston and the
Old Days,” are to say, at least,
very interesting. We watch for
them each issue.”
Democrats- don’t, forget that
next Thursday you elect dele
gates to the county assembly for
the designation of county offices,
and that r* the same time you
are to elect a committeeman and
a committee woman for your
precinct. All good democrats
should be at the precinct caucus.
Price fixing may be the reme
kly.—The Two Battes Wall Sheet
Kentinel. Is the little broth
now trying to retrieve his rep—
.that was lost when ho made his
great drive aguiust the E 7,
chumps of the county? That is
commendable; but if Bro. Jones
really warns to find that lost rep,
an au. in the Herald would be tho
quickest way to get at it.
Anyway, you’ll notice the
press has never been haled be
fore the public for profiteering
as a result of the opportunities
afforded by present war condiv
'tions—Cortes 46*33T ""Evident
ly the Cortez'editor hasn’t got
the Wall Street Sentinel on his
exchange list, else he wouid have
known of one exception to the
rule; tfie Groat County Builder,
by reason of its wonderful news
features and thereby its unpar
alleled subscription and adver
tising patronage, being tho one
lone exception.
The Sentinel says Stonington
'and Springfield turned down the
Agricultural college canning
demonstrator—Miss Grace Breed,
notwithstanding that her servic
es were tree. No one in Spring-
Held was authorized to cancel the
published annouuccmcnt of her
’date here, and wo have not been
able to learn of any person who
did so. Will tlie Sentinel please
to enlighten us as to who cancel
ed tlie lady’s date at this place?
All Springfield would be glad to
know.
Persons
Stories and Incidents
Of Old Boston
And the Old Days
Hv tho Wri'er
Newspapers, Towns
And Town Lots.
Wes to'a Continued.
We are continuing Westola for
the nnrpose of telling the story
of one of the worst blizzards that
ever struck this country, in con
n" tion with the remarkable ex
•iHriencc. of one of the citizens
of in the storm.
The blizzard turned itself loo3e
about four in tie* morning*, and
continued all that day with a fe
rociousness that is rarely equaled
in a lifetime.
We are not certain whether it
was the hotel keeper or the news
papei man that had the harrow
ing experience, but believe it
was the latter.
Anyway, along about 8:00 or
9:00 in the morning the man,
•whose name is not now remem
bered, thought he could make
his way to the burn or shed,
about a hundred yards east of
the house, and essayed to do so.
The storm whs in the north
west, so with it partly at his
back he managed to edge his way
to the b*.rn H sr'ot.y. Then af
ter fee ’ so and cow, he
started baelt to the bouse, prob
SPRINGFIELD, BACA COUNTY, COLORAO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918.
ably with a bucket of milk.
It was probably two or three
hours later when he staggered
and fell on his own door step, his
feet and hands frozen solid, and
his face also badly frozen. i
Fora long time he hovered be
tween life and death, but we
never heard whether amputation
had to be resorted to or not, but
if not lie was probably left in a
very crippled condition.
DECATUR.
It is probable tlie present den
izens of Springfield would be
surprised to learn that in the old
days they had a powerful rival
in a town just to the north of
them. Probably no one in the
present Springfield ever heard of
the town of Decatur; and we are
presuming that if any of the
Springfield and vicinity old tim
ers ever did lica’ - of it, they have
long ago forgotten about it, in
which case the following from
the Western World of June 28,
1888, will probably recall the in
cident to their memories:
“The new town of Decatur,
six miles north of Springfield, is
making a rtaady growth. Sev
er.! of tho business men of
Springfield, so we are informed,
will move to the new town.
Ail we can hear in Lamar is “De
cather, Decatur, Decatur.”
Tho wisli is often father to the
thought, and upon these, fanci
ful structures are olten built.
Boston was in entire sympathy
with any move in the direction
of a rival town to Springfield,
and of course made tlie most of
the talk of Decatur.
But Decatur was a real town,
and there was at the time a lot
of shouting for it. The town
wa3 located six miles north and
one west of Sprirfgfield, was
rfeS*tarty ewndsWia
cf four forties at the corner of
four sections.
There were two stores, a black
smith shop and a postoffice, be
sides probably half a dozen res
idences.
Jas. A. Bickford, now living
not far- from the old site,
had a grocery store, E. F. Mar
tin, now of Two Buttes, former
ly connected with a store here,
had a hardware store.
The town was started in 1888,
and passed in its chips with the
going down of the country and
the other towns in 18*9.
The joke was on the postmast
er, when the country went down
he wanted to quit, but thpgover- 1
ment made him stay with it—“till
the last doy was hung,” and tlie
last dog wasn't hung till his term
of four years was up, when of
course the postoffice was discon
tinued.
Our worthy townsman, Lee
Holmes, owns one quarter of the
old site, but we haven’t heard of
his intention to revive the old
town or of starting a new oue.
Something else next time.
THE KEATING-MARTIN DEBATE
"The worst whipped puppy
that ever came down the pike”—
That was Major John A. Mar
tin at tlie end of a remarkable
debate before the congressional
assembly ai Denver last week.
Our people have heard the
smooth, even-talking Keating on
different occasions, but they
have never heard Keating when
aroused and under tire.
Tlie transformation is remark
able—we might say electrical.
Tlie even talking monetone is
gone—melts away with the ar
dor and stress of the occasion.
The analytic sol u lions, sequenc
es and log’c remain tlie same;
but the oveness and smoothness
of expression gives way to the
trensient sentence and rounded
period, the monotone to a grace
ful and pleasing emphaticness
of both gesture and expression,
the common place narrative tol
as tine a quality of satire and
nicely couched sarcasm as ora
tors usually indulge in, while
his whole demeanor is that of
one conscious of the right and
determined to defend it.
Martin opened the debate, and
for two hours and fifteen min
utes worked over Keating's rec
ord to prove bis disloyalty and
anti-union proclivities.
Martin’s oratory consists of
occasional pungent epigrams, a
tedious mixture of logic and
and sophism, big jumps and em
phatic declarations. His princi
pal fault is tediousness of detail.
The same talk could oe made in
less than half the time and be
much more effective.
It is only doing Mai tin justice,
howuver, to sßy that at the end
of his talk, notwithstanding that
when he was through he had
odd nothing new, he had a whole
lot of fellera wavering, several in
our own delegation. But the
spell that was thrown over them
by the luring sophistry and em
phatic declarations was soon bro
ken when Keating took the lloor.
If only that disloyalist
Keating hadn’t have been
there, or would have sat
still and said nothing—the Mar
tin two hours and better would
sure have made a killing.
Keating talked one hour and
fifteen plnutes, du -ing which ho
nut only curried Martin up one side
he and down the other, but trim
med the whole bunch backing
him up in the campaign.
Probably as often as two doz
en times during Keating’s talk
the Keating admirers jumped to
their feet and cheer.‘d —when lie
made a specially good killing,
and scores of other times during
the course of the address cheer
ed and yelled their approval.
We haven’t time here to cover
the arguments pro and con, but
to -show Martin’s insincerity,
will mention a fact brought out by
Keating—-that the first 45 min
utes of Martin’s talk was about
thing* that Keating did in con
' greas eigh* months prior to the
last election—and Martin sup
ported him then on the stump
and approved of everything lie
did—never suspicioned Keating
of wanting to dismember the
Union until theC. F. and I. bunch
i wanted him to run for congress
We’ll mention one more thing
showing up Martin's want of
sincerity—and the buncli back
of him. The harping of the
whole bunch is that Keating did
n’t back the president; but at a
convention held ill Pueblo four
years ago, that same bunch con
trolled the convention, and tlie
convention refused to indorse
the administration of tlie very
I president they are nowcondemn
' ing Keating for not standing
by.
The sequel to the story is that
Martin was in that convention
and was virtually bribed to keep
still by tlie offer of U. S. senator
ship, which accusation not being
denied by him is admittedly true.
In conclusion, tin- squirming
of John A Martin during the
scathing reply of Cong. Keating
reminded us of tho squirming of
a little boy while his parent was,
admonishing him, and lie knew
thestraowas going to follow tlie
admonition.
However, there in’m any get
ting around the fact tliatKeatine
has a hard fight on his hands.and |
that it will take good work on the |
part of his friends to beat the re
actionaries who are arrayed
against him.
A Good Letter
From Chas. Finley.
Colorado College, Colo. Springs.
Colorado. 7-21, 1918.
Mr. Konkel: —
This is a radio or wireless tel
egraphy school.
Anyone wishing to take me
chanical work should nut
come here, but should go to
Fort Collins or Boulder. There
are about 200 men here from all
over tho state.
We arrived here Monday even
ing and were assigned oar
bunks and blankets then vaxinat
ed In the right arm and inoculat
ed in the left arm.
The next morning we wore a.
signed to our separate squads
and quarters and given a shirt
and pair of unionalls.
Then we got dowg to business.
Everything is like clockwork I
here. I
I will send you a scedule of j
what we do here except Satur
days and Sundays: We arrise at
5:45, Bieakfast 0:20. Drill 1 hr.,
School 3 hr. a. m., Dinner 11:45,
School 3 hr. p. m. Drill 1 hr.,
p. in.. Supper 5:45.
Then in about 30 minutes w<
go back to the mess hall and
study our text books for two
hours.
We must all be in our rooms at
nine o’clock and be in bed and
stop talking at 9:30. j
We take examination Saturday
forenoon, then have Saturday
noon until Sunday evening off,
after we are assigned our uni
forms.
The city auto club took us all
around and showed us the sights
Saturday afternoon. I guess we
saw all there was to see here ex
cept Pikes Peak.
Today Sunday we have been re
arranging our bunks, making out
uur allotment and insurance pa
pers, and having our linger
prints taken.
Some of the fellows go from
hern to take officer’s training.
Anyone who wishes to study
Radio, wireless, or who has an
ambition to become an officer
and is willing to work hard for
it, will do well to come here.
Hoping this letter will help to
put someone on the right track,
1 am, yours truly,
C. A. Finley.
«
Miss Alice Jack
We owe Miss Jack an apology
for not giving her the customary
notice along with the announce
ment before this time —but bet
ter late titan never.
Miss Jack is one of the best
teachers in the county, and as
such is well and favorably known
n a number of schools in which
she has taught. She taught
school several years in Kansas
before coming here, in nil mak
ing twelve years of school work.
Miss Jack took a clai.n cut in
■ tlie Lone Rock country fouryears
fg i. and proved it up some time
‘go.
There isn't any doubt of Miss
Jack’-: qualifications to fill the
office in which she aspires, with
ci-eoir. tntii to herself and to the
:ounty.
Sec Miss Jock's announcement
elsewhere.
Judge Terral Designated
At tlie judicial convention at
Denver last week Judge Joseph
E. Terral wa3 designated for one
of tile two judges of the third ju
dicial district.
Tne present incumbent. Judge
MeChesney, was unanimously
designated us one of the two, and
Judge Terral was given i;he first
place on the ticket for tlie other
judge, he receiving 35 votes to
Hollenbeck’s 34.
Hon, Lon Beavers of the- Lamar
Land office placed Judge Terral
in nomination, in one of the most
fervent and eloquent addresses
wo have yet heard him make,
and he usually makes a mighty
good talk at that.
It’s now upto Baca county and
the east end to see that Judge
Terral is put across in the pri
mary, and fair play for the cast
end ought to see it done.
With one candidate in tlie v.rest
end and une in the oast end, we
are very sure eacliofthem would
stand a better chance of election
than with both candidates in
Trinidad.
Sentinel Twaddle
We dislike to waste good spa.M3
on an idle, rambling talk about
everything except tho fucts ami
tlie question at issue.
Jones, in nearly a column cf
sucli rubbish last Week, snys the
Herald’s claim to have published
"several times more government
information than 'ins the Sentin
el”—is untrue. The Herald nev
er made such a statement, it be
ing another case of Jones trying
to fool his readers by a partial
quotation. Tho balance of the
statement was, “outside of hia
patent insides, which nobody
I reads.”
| Jones saw that by quoting half
I the statement it would give him ,
a chance to shoot randomly and
aimlessly into space, so stills the
prickings of his conscience at the
deed and “let’s her go Galleger’’
—heaven or no heaven.
Further on in his rambling talk
< he Bays, “if the Herald dares to
say that they publish all that
1 they get, then they do not get
what others have been getting,
l foi it is not published by it.”
I There isn’t a paper in the Unit
jed States that published all it
' gets from war sources. What
' the Herald gets of this nature
• would fill every column of an
• eight or twelve page paper every
week, and we couldn’t do this
I without loosing out on that great
i “profiteering” income,
i We are afraid the little broth
■ er wanders so eften from the
straight and narrow path of
- truth and rectitude that lie will
I have a hard time to explain mat
- ters when he finally moves up to
r the Pearly Gates und St. Gabriel
wants to know about it.
' Tho Herald never made the
statement implied. What we
t Said was tha* we get an aver
-1 age of a column a week in plates
r on food, and that every column
r of it has been used —besides
what is set upin this office, which
1 alone is much more than Jones
■ sets up in his office.
As to the stuff that comes in
• Jones' patent insides a week or
two after in happens, we will say
again if Jones has a reader vho
V will make an affidavit that he is
1 not taking a daily or outside
1 weekly, we will immediately sub
- scribe fora weekly for such per
son, whether there is just one, or
t the whole several dozen of his
s subscribers.
n But, Bro. Jones —“the love of
k Mike, when did we say it?”—
t that profiteering should cot he
9 interrupted till tlie war is over.
- You accused us of making the
accusation without a “semblance
1 of foundation, ” so we made three
s quotations from the Sentinel in
g substantiation of the statement
made.
3 Stop your tv:addle, get down
s to hard tacks, and harmonize
l thoso three quotations witli your
j emphatic denial of the statement
that you didn’t want profiteering
t interrupted till the war is over.
MtCarmel
Harry Russell left Monday for
the truining camp. He was a
comical sight. Ho dressed him
self as "Uncle Sam.” Kc will
miss Harry very much. He was
among the first settlers of the
immediate community. We are
sending him with a “God bless
you," and trusting his safe re
turn.
Roy Steen isn’t much better—
rheumatism.
Mabel Myric joined her hus
band at Haviland, Kans., where
they have planned to work for a
while and then go on to Kansas
City to visit his relatives.
Orphy Steen has gone to Elk
hart to stay awhile with her sis
ter Mrs Seauright.
Grandpa Steen received a card
from his son Kay, saying he had
arrived safely over sea.
Sand Well
Most of the crops in this vicin
ity are laid by and looking well.
Mrs. Sawyer, who has been
very sick, is able to be up part
of the time. Her two daughters
from Oklahoma are litre visiting
her.
Olaruaqe Jasper and George
Mahan found five young coyotes
and killed one of them. They
are planning for a chase in the
near future.
George Malian and wife spent
Sunday with Harry McMllian
and wife.
Mrs. Heagney is hero from
Chicago visiting her daughter
Mrs. Clarence Casper.
Doctor McMillan, who has
been taking care of his wheat
here, has returned to his home
in Hudson, lowa.
51.50 Per Year.
Pochards
T. Ld. Stagner and family spent
'Sunday at the Dave Stagner
home.
Mrs. E. C. Chesnut and family
returned home last week after a
pleasant visit with home folk? in
Oklahoma.
T. O. Maynard family and mer
chant Mitchel and wife attended
the Babtist meeting in St ning
lon Sunday.
Merchant Murphy, wife and
daughter and Miss Minnick visit
ed M. W. McClendon home Sun
day nfternoon.
The ice cream social given at
the Sam Osteen home the evening
of the 22nd was a success in ev
ery way—loo guests present.
Mrs. Bertha Smith and Jim
Burleson traded in Richards Sat
urday.
Edler
Mr. Charlie Bosley and wife
were in Springfield Tuesday.
He found out while there he
would •.ii* cl btt vt'pn the sth
and 15th or August.
Several from here wi'l leave
for the camps in Augu.i and
September.
Ivan Findley took oft’ couple
’loads of wheat this week.
Ernie Buzzard took off a cou
ple loads of wheat this week.
He will bring back lumber lor a
granary.
Jack Bowers went to the ceil
nirs after a load cf wood this
week.
Tourists are beginning to get
as thick as Russian thistles. A
tourist hotel wouldn’t be a bad
idea at Edler.
One of the tourists from Okla
homa went into ecsfacies over
the condition of the crops here.
He says everything in the parts
of Oklahoma he saw was burnt
up—corn laying on the ground.
Come to Baca.
Stonington (31, 32, 5, 6) (31, 32, (???)
Rev. Jacob Funk, a Brctheru
preacher from Wiley, Colo., is
holding a scries cf meetings at
this place with a gtod attend
ance and much interest.
W. A. Thompson and B. F.
Ross were the delegates from
here to the D. C. D. meeting at
Lamar.
L. V. Campbell and family und
Dr. Nicholson took dinner at the
Holt home last Friday. The
many friends of Mrs. Campbell
are glad to know she has almost
recovered from her recentillness.
Frank Elle.v has been engaged
by Ross, Thompson, and Holt to
take care of the ca'tL.
Miss Pearl Brill lias resumed
her position in the bank.
Mrs. Buslmell and daughters
are here visiting the Greathouse
and Nance families.
Earl Taylor and family visited
here the last week. Mrs. S. L.
Thompson accompanied them
home for s week’s visit.
J. L. Alman finished his work
here and returned to Springfield.
J. K. McKinnis and family re
turned Irom their visit to Texas.
A neieo of Mrs. McKinnis came
home witii iiim for a short wait.
B. F. Ross last week purchas
ed the fine farms of Mrs. M. B.
Chambers and her sun Levi, and
they will have a sale Monday.
Levi gocsto war, and Mrs. Cham
bers and daughters will move to
Hooker, Okla., where they will re
side.
The Commercial Club is plan
ning to have a big street lair at
Stonington some time during
September.
The two trucks working be
tween here and Elkhart are kept
busy hauling for our merchants.
S. L. Thompson lias ordered
another carload of biuders, head
ers and barbed wire.
W. A. Oakes returned from
Pueblo last week, where he was
called to the bedside of his daught
er Grace, who was operated on
for appendicitis.
Mrs. Minnie Hotchkiss had a
etter from her son Willie, who is
fin France, saying he had been
wounded and was now in a hoc
pltal in France.