The Springfield herald., December 13, 1918, Image 1

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VOL. XXXII. No. 8
It’s all off with ihe permits—
Governor Gunter signed the bone
Wednesday
Who’ll be the first to make it
"Xmas,” and why not while we
are at it make it "Xtian”?
The flues have greatly inter
fered with our correspondence
news, but we hope to have it bel
ter from this on.
Only eight counties in the state
are over the top in si amp pledge
payments, and sorry to say Baca
is not one of the eight.
If the lltrald dosen’t get that
$6.00 for the Guy U. Hardy pre
election ad., we will always have
something coming to us.
When Gov Gunner puts his
John William Henry to th ,t bone
dry initiated bil , it will be all off
with the permit business.
Notice our clubuing offer else
where —tbe Great County Build
er and four up-to-date mngazmes
for $2 25. That's iike finding
something.
Since the armistice has been
signed up, we haven't heard a
word from those unconditional
fellows. Wonder what lias be
come of them.
The way tbe g. o. p's. are back
ing Wilson is the same as the
Way Villa is backing the Caranza
government. Of course that’s as
ter as the resemblance goes.
Aa a corroborative evdience
that the world war is over. Villa
ia now gathering recruits for an
other grand come back in the
Chihuahua district in old Mexi
co. I
To say mat Tresment Wilson
Itea the repubs guessing is pot
ting it mild. He’s got them go
don’t know wiiac in blazes to say
next.
Baca's stamp pledge is $75,980
Up to the present we beut-ve
leas than $40,900 nas been paid
Up. Don’t fail to pay up tliat
stamp pledge before he old year
is oat. _______
“The biggest battle of the war
is atilt being fought,” says an
Armour & Co. ad. We suppose
the battle referred to is the fight
Of Armour & Co. on the high
prices of meat.
Somethin ? over 32,000 soldiers
were killed in battle, aud some
thing over 20,000 died of lnlluen
za, while in the United States
over 360,000 civilians have died
Of the dread disease.
Five new Baca county maps,
printed on good newspaper stncs
—for advertising purposes, will
hereafter be given to all those
getting up into the year '2O. Pay
ahead and send these maps to
your freiuds back east.
Bet you the profiteers will get
theirs when Shuup ami Phipps
get et them —with their multi
millions backing them. No prof
iteers can stand up and fight mul
ti-millions —any more than the
democrats could in the recent,
election.
The Herald is going to inaugur
ate a great Baca county advert s
ing c impaign, to be on till the
first day of February -the Her
ald, Kansas City Journal, four
magazines and five Baca county
maps for $2.50. Now is the
time to get in.
“Bolshevism” is very much i
like the ‘‘flues” — no doctor or I
others are able to tell what it is
or why it is. Bolshevism is ma
jority rule, bu' in Russia it seems
to be just Lenine and Trotzky
What it will mean in the rest of
Europe is yet to be found out.
It wouldn’t be abad idea for the
United States to go down to Mex
ico to find out what Carranza s
leanings are at the present time
—as to whether he is now pro-
Gerroan or not pro-Germm; and j
While finding out if might not, be
*' bad idea to give him a few |
kick* in the pants.
The Springfield Herald
Respecting the KoQpartlun
platform, as embodied in reso
lutions adopted at St Paul on
the 6th. we don’t agree with
some of the pronouncements, but
altogether we would o*ll It a dog-
Boned good outlins of political
policies.
Old Bill Hullerforlurn is re
ported to bare made an attempt to
atone for bis mnrdnrooa deed*—
made a slash at himself, and
slightly wounded the other fel
ler. What we say is that there
is no danger of old BUI commit
ting suicide.
Many prediction* are being
made th 't a trade war will be
staged next. If old Bill had
staked Ins all on a “trade war”
insb ad nf a war by the sword,
lie '•.nuld still bo in partnership
with Gott, and also still be em
peror *if Germany.
I In answer to many inqui
ries, Dr. Verity asks us to
make the announcement that
schools no where in the county
, are to bu opened until farther
I notice. Those schools that are
now open shou d close at once,
and wait until the danger of flue
is past, and they have notice to
open.
The g. o. p’s. were for a long
time in a quandary whether to
allow Wilson to remain president
while away, or to declare Mar
shall to be the acting president.
After praying over the matter
Tor some time and getting no an
swer to their prayers, they final
ly decided to let the presidency
take care of itself.
The Colo. Springs Democrat
says that foi the Dems to win in
1920 they want some aelid million
nires an the ticket, after getting
the consent d the traitors in the
party to nominate them. Sure
get n UAemPiiutnuii
aires— by the approval of the
anties. we can clean up on the
it. n. p. bunch in 1920; and what
a elorirus victory that would be.
At Kim Sunday we were told
of a Mexican tamil; of nine
about fifteen miles south of Kim I
that ihe neighbors, upon seeing|
no a'ir around the premleee for ai
lew days, came in and found
I hem all dead. They were all
taken down with the influenza
at the same time, and no one
able to go out and get help. The
stringmess of the disease is that
sometimes a whole family comes
down the same day.
Who Won the War?
Who won the war? is a ques
tion that can be answered in but
one way—
“ The Allies won the war.”
It is true that Europe owes
America a debt of gratitude; but
stop to think what America owes
to England, France and Italy.
It is time to ask ourselves what
kind of figure America would
have cut in the war if it hadn’t
been for the English navy, to
say nothing of that mighty
English army, and of that
mighty French army, and again
, f that mighty Italian army.
It is unboubtedly true that
America saved the allies from
defeat, but it wants to be reir.em
ereil that, even after our boys
were over there, America would
have cut a sorry figure without
those »Jlies.
The English admiral recently
d, dared that the English navy
won the war; but what would all
the allied armies have done if it
hadn’t been for the Fren h fac
tories that, turned out the guns
and the munitions?
The French might say that
their factories won the war, the
English that their navy won the
war, the Italians that the balanc
of power was with them, the
Americans ditto, but the facts
as indicated in the opening
statement, are that—
The allies won the war.
Five papers and five Baca coun
ty maps $2.50. Now ia tbe time
to get in.
SPRINGFIELD, BACA COUNTY, COLORAO. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918.
PERSONS
Stories Incidents
Of Old Boston
And the Old Days
By the writer
Doctors and Lawyers
Dr. Milligan
Practically everybody in Baca
connty knows about Dr. Mi'ligan,
he being the one doctor out of
the five of those old days who
stayed with the country.
Because of the great number
of doctors, because there was no
money, and because he lived a
little ways out of towr. Dr. Milli
gan had no practice that brought
him in any uioney worth men
tioning
We shall hive Dr. Milligan
agiin when paying our
special attention to those good
old timers who refused to get out
of the country, just because It
wasn't a fit place for a while
man to live in
The Lawyer Bunch
There were only four of them
in the Jennings family —the old
man, John, Forney a'd Ed.
Th°*e bovs had been admitted to
the bar, but none of them had,
done any practicing worth men-1
tinning at that time, and indepd
nothing on a paying basis until
after their outlawry career in
Oklahoma.
Eld was the only one of the
boys that tried to do anything at
the business at Boston, but we
are doubting whether he got as
much as $50.00, or eve l $25 00,
nut of his law practice, all pu'
togetb r; Rnd the old judge abinr
ditto
Captain John McCoaeh was an
other of the Blackstone dictate*
of that good old town. We have
already told about the captain,
and don't know as he ever got a
dnggoned cent out of 'the "busi
ness. He tried ro get a $25 t e
out of Rill Thnmnsnn, but it isn’t
probable his efforts were very
successful.
Col. Campbell
\ This was one man whose title
I was handed down to him from
official sources, he having been a
lieutenant colonel in the civil
war.
Col. Campbell didn’t reside in
Boston, but near enough for lr
cation purpO es, he living four
miles east.
Campbell was the author of a
law digest, relating mostly we
believe to common law as hand
ed down by prr cedents.
We never saw his book, and of
course wouldn't have known any
thing of the merit of the work if
we had seen it; but the fact that
he wrote a book on law
stamp him as being well up in
the prnf -ssion.
But the colonel wasn’t much of
a pleader. We never heard him
in but one case, in which Judg •
Jennings had the' other sh’e.
Campbell had the opening pl-a,
and made a fairly lengthy talk;
but when the old judge got
throughwith him one was remind
ed of a pigmy and a g'ant.
We sav we never heard him in i
hut this one case. It is probabje
ho never had any other case. '
Facts are that if the cases call
ing for a lawyer during the
whole of that old-time p. riod had
b -en divided up he'Woen 'ho law
vers there wouldn't have been
more than one or two apiece, and j
they of a P ttv nature.
Jerome Whitaker
Jerome made th“ seventh law
yer tar Boston. He was a broth
er of Eugene Whitaker, ex-editor
of the Herald and ex-register of
the Lamar land office, who is
iinown by about everybody in
Baca county.
Jerome was the city attorney
of Boston, and p-esumedly for
his services, he, like the town
marshal was paid in script,
which was Worth just the paper
it was printed on,
Jerome finally brought up in
Washington, and we believe is
now publishing some kind of
trade journal.
Ordinarily it is supposed that
lawyers and doctors have a pret
ty soft soap in their respective l
lines of business, and ordinarily, |
under normal conditions, we sup- i
pose they feed pretty well and i
clothe accordingly; but the con- i
ditions at old Boston, and gener- i
ally over <he east end at that I
time, were not normal. '
There were only about three '
years of the settlement, and af
ter the first year there was
no money loft in the country.
During this time there was little i
sickness, and no money to pay ■
for the litt’e there was, while in
law the people were too busy to
getin'o trouble, and after that '
rhey had no money to get them t
out. I
The lawyers and doctors, as I
did the rest of the world, let their i
money g >t. away from them dur- I
ing the first year, and then had *
to find some other way to live i
during the rest of their stay in 1
the country. <
“Some Odds and Ends” next 1
time.
The Nonpartisan Platform
i
As a matter of news, as well i
as of vital interest to the good ,
people of Baca county, we are ,
| herewith set of resoiu- ,
I lions adopted by the Nonparti
sans at a meeting of delegates
from thirteen suites on the 6th
iiist. These resolutions tell the (
story of what the league stands ,
for. The resolutions follow: .
1. A peace program must be
adopted which will make art end ,
of war by creating a world de
mocracy, not by substituting one :
d"»p tism for another. A Unit- i
ed Stites of the \V..rld, hv con
sent and not bv c inquest.
2. A reconstruction p no-ram
must be adopted which w I pro
vide employment for si 1 , reduce
the cost of living,naaittain earn
ings of 1 abitr-Bhd of pntnsH%epr<v
dneers, make an end of monopoly
extorijon, and redeem the state
and national governments from
the autocratic control of monop
olies, and in this way make the
nation safe for democracy.
3. Th« termination of the
present national control of rail
ways, and all other public utili
ties and in dustrios as war meas
ures. not b,v returning the pro
perties to private monopolies, but
bv national ownership, which
shall be extended to include al
means of transportation and com
munication and all other t’nder
* takings which in ih-ir nature
must be either great private
monopolies, or public enterprises,
4 Employment for the un.
employed in cooperation with
Organized labor throu gb govern-I
•ment works in such enterprises
!as roa,d building, forestry and
timber a d fu* 1 production, flood
protection a’ d land reclamation.
The national im >rovemenb with
buildings, stock and machinery,
of reclaimed or purchased lands
to be sold as going concerns, on
long-time amortized payments,
to returning soldiers, and to
others ab'e to make small initial
payments. All such undertak
ings to be provided with fie**
I -schools for vocational training.
5. The complete enfranchise-
Vment of women, with equal op
portunities, with men, and equal
pay for equal services.
-6. The national government
should make loans to the state
J governments on state banks, se
i cured by first mortgages upon
Teal estate in order that farmers
can get loans from the state at
co-t, and also upon the real and
personal property of state-owned
utilities, ent rpris s • r indu tries,
in amount not to exceed one-half
of their real value
. 7. The immediate reduction
of freight and passenger rates,
e»pecia’lv on food and fuel.
8. imediate abandonment
of all interference with the politi
cal rights of employes in the pub
lic service, or the exercise of any
further postoffice censorship.
9. The national debt created
"by the war should be liquidated,
!»nd to that end there .should oe
an income and inheritance tax,
graduated upward from $6,000
until all incomes above (100,000
per annum, and all inheritances
above that amount, should be
appropriated for that purpose,
until the debt is paid; and all In
comes not accounted for, and all
Income-producing properties, ss
curities and inheritances not list
ed for this purpose shall be for
feited to the government.
10. The rights of labor sur
rendered for patriotic reasons
must be restored; and laws limit
ing civil rights of the people as
war measures must be repealed.
11. The use of the mails, tel
egraphs, telephones, express
comptnies and banks shall be de
nied for making sales of goods,
properties, investments or secur
iiii-s,except for direct delivery
by the owner or his authorized
agent, and then of the specific
goods, property investments or
securities involved, in order to
eliminate gambling and specula
rion in utilities of life.
An awning is being built to
the Rexal. )
G. M. Madden of Pride, the
Haileck medicine man, is build
ing a residence in the east part
of town, and will move into town
as soon as the house Is ready for
occupancy.
Obituary
Lorenzo De Vore Tomlinson,
eldest son of Mrs L. H. Alberti
of Springfield, died Dec 3, at Sa
cred Heart hospital in Spokane,
Wash., fUv.l!i bring ciUsul by c
complication of diaeases.
He was born July 12, 1890, be
ing 28 years, 7 mos. and 9 days
of age at the time of his death.
He was educated in Galesburg,
111., and studied music under the
noted singer, Thomas Chalmers.
Lorenzo united with the Epis
copal church at the age of four
• een, and became a choir boy
at the age of eleven. He won a
medal for loyalty, fidalty and
good behavior at this church.
He was cremated at Spokane
and the remains, were sent to
Linwond, Iowa, for burial.
The entire eommunity extends,
heartfelt sympathy to the be
reaved ones.
ZION
(■a-«
L. C. Thompson and son Or
ville and Joe Boyd made a trip
to the cedars this week, and
came back with six nice loads of
wood.
The Zion school is closed for a
time on account of the flues. All
the cases are better now, and no
new cases that we know of.
Miss Herndon went to her
claim at Maxey to spend a few
day* while her rcho-d is l._ed.
E. E Vinyarrj u..u family spent
Sunday at L. C. Thompson’s.
Tiiere is not much news this
week, as everybody is staying at
home un account of the flues.
Herman Hesse was in ou
neighborhood looking after hi*
property here and seeing old
friends. He lives somewhere in
Oklahoma now, and seems to be
doing well.
Horse Creek
Several people are hauling feed.
Regnier’s, Stalnaker’s, Weed
en’s and others shipped cattle
iast week.
J. N Stalnak»rwent back east..
James McNickle sold some
cattle Wednesday.
S. H. Cox went toLiberal Wed
nesday, returning Friday.
Roy Rpgnier has lost some
young calves.
Regnier
All the cases of flu in these
parts are improving.
Lloyd Brown sold a nice 250
pound hog to J. R. Harvel tins
Week and has others for sale.
I. J. Williams traded for Pat
rick G. Jones’ Ford this week.
H. A. Caswell bought a hog of
R. E Frantz.
J. R. Harvel and N. E. Oliver
spent Sunday with Lloyd Brown
Dee Williams has gone to take
care of his brother Albert while
he has th“ flu.
C. C. Clayton has returned to
his homestead.
Richards
Mrs. Rich and’Mrs. Lockwood
and children took dltaner with
Will Johnson’s Sunday.
Mr. Bloom is helping to fix Mr
Hutches’ house and get it ready '
(or the winter.
Celia Steele, who has been
quite sick with the flu, has recov
ered and is able to be around.
Mrs. Hoffman and daughter
Lola went to Stonington Satur
day, and took advantage of the
sale at Wallis’. Mrs. Rich accom
panied them.
Harry Walker and family took
dinner at Scrivner’s Sunday.
R. Roberts, who Is staying
with Mr. Scruner, was kicked by
a horse last week, but not serious.
Mrs. Huffman’s and Lula Hoff
man’s schools will begin next
Monday.
I
Edler
Mrs. Clay Wood is tusseltng
with the flu this week. Also the
Phtllipps family and F. R. Bos- (
ley’s.
William Young is working for ,
Chss. Collier.
F. R. Bosley threshed beans
Wednesday.
Carl Kreil helped Mr. Ham
mond stack feed Friday.
Sandwell
Well, here we are back again
after having a seige of the Ann,
and glad to say it is better in
this community.
George Maban and George
Frowner took a load of grain to
Elkhart this week.
Fred Hughes shipped his cat
tle Monday to Oklahoma to wheat
pastures. He and wife will spend
the winter back there.
Grandma Mahan was on the
sick list again this week.
Emma Knowles and Grandpa
Mahan went to Rodiey on busi
ness Thursday. .
Miss Gillam, who has been vis
iting Ed Belt’s, has returned to
lier home io Kansas City.
Mr. Lowery and family left
Wednesday for Kansas City.
! They have been delayed here on
account of sickness for some
time.
Grover Kester’s baby has been
quite sick with the flu. Is some
better at this writing.
| The threshers are at work
again in this vicinity.
Mt Carmel
The fla seems to be raging at
its highest in this community
this last week. Most cases im
proving some now. Not many
deaths reported as yet.
Mr. ahd Mrs Alga Adams are
the proud parents of a fine baby
girl, bora Friday, Nov. 29.
Mr and Mrs. J. D Hand have
returned to their old homo in Mt
Carmel.
A baby boy was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Mitchell, Nov.
29.
Mr Loyd Shuman, a victim of
the Spanish influenza, passed
away yesterday morning at the
home of Mr. Mitchell's of I’ridn,
after being sick about four days
Funeral services were held at
Mt Carmel conducted by Mrs,
Edna Kennedy Remains uteri'
I laid to rest in the Mt Carmel
!cemetery. We extend our.heart
felt sympathy to the bereaved
ones.
J. R. Frazier is; threshing his
maize today.
We are still awaiting patiently
the return of our soldier boys,
which we hope will soon be.
Big Flat
Nice weather since the storm.
Quite a number of the furmers
have b. en hau'ing hreon-ci rn to
Elkhart this week.
Craafordfs are down with the
flues and Paul’is vey sick.
Mrs Dewey m ide a trip to
Spirngfield one day this week.
D N. Young went Wednesday
to see his son John, who is very
sick with the dues.
Herbert Greenlee is on the sick
list, but net in bed.
Mrs. Conner had her windmill
repaired.
51.50 Per Year.
Grand View
vr-aa-e*
Mrs. Sam Bell spent Tur
witli Mrs. M. E. Hankins.
Hazel and Alberta O'M'tl y
called on Mrs. Ada Jackson Sun
day afternoon
D. W. Babcook and family ate
Sunday dinner with W, M. Han
kins and family.
H. J. Isenhotvcr helped E. B.
Clapp head his bundle maize the
Or»t. of the wet
Mrs. S. E. Dunnn.'. called or.
Mrs. H. R. Korn Wednesday af
ternoon.
Happy Hollow
Fine weather ugain. Most
people still busy—stacking their
feed and other things.
Our new merchant-Simon
Cook, who rented the Davis
store, has in a nice line of goods
and we predict a good business
for him.
Mr. Coburn of Jott, Okla., was
in our community Thursday
came up to see his son who has
been sick for some Is bet
ter now.
Butcher, Happy Hollt v and
Diamond Ridge schools . art»d
again Dec. 6.
•As yet there has been no cases
of flu among the pnpils of llappy
Hollow school.
A. A. Davis and wife, Roy
Booth and wife and Mr. Cook
were in Elkhaft Wednesday.
Some talk of a telephone to Elk*
hart. Hope we get it, as it will
help the community in many
ways.
Everett Beeson’s called on Jar-
Bee3ou’s Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Huliord and Martha and
Jake have the flu. Martha is bet
ter, she having taken it first.
Abie and Ray Nicodemas went
to Elkhart with maize Wednes
day. ’
Pilot Point
Arc having some line weather.
S. L. Hickccx, •!. J. L’ulliam
and Robs Wright all went to the
cedars this week.
The broom corn seeders were
in this community this week.
Mr. Offit, formerly of Freeze
out, but now living at Sulber,
Okla., is visiting It. 1. Johnson
and attending to some business
here.
Cyril Grover returned home
from Kansas Monday, ami took
down with the flu the next day.
Getting along tine.
North Flats
Nearly everybody feeling
good again.
Mrs. Dunn and family were
moved to the hospi* 1 Wednes
day.
Lacey’s have been seeding
broomcorn at Hazel's and Clif
ton’s.
Clarence Barr came home from
Boulder last week, school having
closed there.
Smart’s moved their cattle to
the cedars last week.
Lake View
*•——
The flue seems to be no re
specter of pet.sen-, or place; It
is getting a pr stty I’a.start hero
lately,
O. H. Smith and •!. C, War
man were dodging the tluu in
Springfield Saturday.
O H. Smith and E. G. Finkle
took dinner with K. hi. Bustard's
Sunday.
Thanksgiving wgs awful ipiict.
Well, look where wo live.
West Flat
D. Rasmussen sold Iiis person
al property and expects to leave
fo- Oklahoma soon.
Jim Teorpe experts c I ivq
for Oklunnma where » • . >
farm hi.s 'father’s place.
Mabel Campbell >P*‘ S
day and Sunday ith
Goodwin.
Mrs. Kendall and » it
Mrs. Ray Campbell. • i i • 1
day with Mrs Evan •.
The Sunday school <
ing a Chri.-tmtis ent rta‘ j
for Christmas eve, p
theEe»are no casesf :i n.
'community at that lime.