The Springfield herald., May 09, 1919, Image 1

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VOL, XXXII. No. 32
The Chautauqua is coming— j
May 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. If"will be
one of the best. -
Last Saturday was a big day
In Springfield, and school-meet
ing day another.
The Chautauqua starts two
weeks from Tuesday. The pro
gram is one of the best for many
years. See ads. elsewhere.
At the chantauqua one of the
features will be a east of Now
York opera singers—as given in
the best operas in that city.
All in favor of having tiie
streets hard surfaced in some
way, please make the same
known by talking.foritand work
ing for it.
There has been an improve
ment all over the state "in the
loan drive, many of the larger
cities going over the_J.op. .The
indications now are that Colora
do will raise its quota of the loan
—and better.
The loan situation has been
greatly improved in Baca County
during tha. past week, some of
the Jianks guaranteeing their
quotes. It will be a week before
exact information can be had, but
Baca county will no doubt raise
its quota. —-
Was the minstrel entertainment
good? Well, as there was a
greater turnout Tor the second
night, there isn’t any question
what Springfield tfh’nks about it;
and the" Lamar bunch said ‘as
good as a traveling troupe"—and
that s Borne praise.
The minstrel ' entertainment
Saturday night and again Tues
day night was another great
treat for Springfield. $l5B was
token In the first night, and $l7O
Wtommtod iH»M. Hu suMler h»m
being admitted both nights. Cap
Hagerman, as wefi as each num
ber of the troupe, deserves crest
credit for these excellent enter
tainments.
If the Springfield nine keeps on
forging ahead as they did the
week between the Cam no and
Edler games, one of these times
all those, other places will have
get off the map; Edler beat
Brittle bit, but'by the time the
speond game is nulled off
Springfield keeping light on n'o
greasing—Camno and Edler will
have to join their forces.
The Liberal, Kama., Npws last
week got out a 100 page extra
edition of that good, r.ewsv- pa
par We are Changing dravapo
on our copy- from the postofliee
up to the News, and also the
cost of hiring a boy to count the
pages When that Liberal-
Springfield railroad is built, those
extra pditions themselves ought
to make it a paying line.
The sun stood still one div last
week while )Vil! C. Ferril of the
Rocky Mountain Herald was writ
ing's labored article against the
league’’ of nations. It’s a pity
FerijLwasn’t sufficiently known
to hava-heen chosen a. delegate to
the peace conference to shed his
light on that and other problems'
of world import, and thus much
time and cost saved in argueing
them.
County School Defeated
We are writing this the day
before election, at which time
the defeat of the proposition
seems to be inevitable.
It was patent from the first
that nothing but an educative
campaign could make the elec
tion of the county. system pos
sible, and we right now haven't
the least doubt of an overwhelm
ing majority for it—had such a
campaign have been made.
Our idea of such campaign
was the raising of a fund am
ply sufficient for flooding the
county with literature, and fol
lbwing the literature up with a
speaking campaign that would
have reached every voter in the
county.
After too long a delay Spring;-
1 ~
The Springfield Herald
i He ; d got into the working lw!-
mohs and outlinad the best po -
sib'e campaign that for the time
was possible to be made- that
of getting autoes in every dis
trict to line tilings up for Mon
day’s' election—and, then eam<
rains and rains that made even
that kind of a campaign impos
sible —
With the result that with the
exception of one trip,to Carnpo
not a soul got oub anywhere,
and that the fight of the Herald
and the Exponent for the high
school were the mositof'the can.
paign made for it outside of
Springfield. ~
But there’s no use of crying
over what "hasn't been done. The
tiling now is either to continu
this campaign of education for
the school election of 1920, or to
take up the matter of the
Springfield district undertaking
to go it alone. And —
Which shall it be?
A Springfield
High-School District
Something to Be Thought Over
And Talked Over, With the
View of Acting on Sanie if
Sentiment in the Communi
ty is Found to Be Favorable!
We believe it would be well
for the Springfield - district to
take in consideration the advisa
bility of organizing a district
high school, and to commence
now to think and to talk about it-
The law provides that a dis
trict in which the county seat is
located may organize itself into a
high-school district, and
maintain the same in the way
that maintenance of high schools
is by law provided for.
We have in this district a prop
erty valuation of- $600,000.tX) in
rnnpfl numbers- -ion. 4his. vahitu.
ti:n a four mill levy would pro
vide $2,<109 for high-school pur
poses
One high-class state teacher
would be. hired to start with, and
others added as the sehool
and the demands required it: and
as it grew, the revenues would
grow with it.
As an instance; 100 tuition pu
pils at $5.tX) a month, regular tn
i’ion rates, Would provide of it
self a funchef $5,000: and on sneh
membership the general fund
would add upwards of $5 00 to
the pupil.
Tiie building proposition is the
one to be considered.
In as Springfield hns
reached the place where build
ing for the ‘district common
school can’t he longer delayed. l
would it not.be well to consider
the matter af combinihg the two
—erecting a building for-both
'common and high-school purpos
es.-
For this purpose, as a matter
of course, a bond issue would 1»
necessary; and suppose to start
with a twenty-year bona of S2O,
000 or be taken into con
sideration.
By hiring the best high-school
educators, and with a grand high
school building and the right
kind of a laboratory equipment,
in the course of a few’ years a
high school of several hundred
pupils ought to be worked up
here.-'
In case we found the sentiment
practically unanimous, and we
wished to do so, we could organ
ize rftpnce into a high-school dis
trict, and then call a special elec
tion for the voting of bonds, and
probably before ninety days work
on the building could bevbegun.
Sljitll we think of the district
high school at all, atra if i\-e do
shall we consider taking up the
proposition at once?
Wliat does Springfield sav ?
The more wo think of it the
more we believe there isn’t any
use! t,o consider furthur the coun
ty schcool, and the more we be
lieve also that Springfield’s in
terests actually were in the first
place, and still are, in going it
alone—and that tiie move should
be mado in the very early future
What does Sringfield say about'
it. -
SPRINGFIELD, BACA COUNTY, COLORAO, FRIDAY, MAY "9, 1919.
Growing Broomcorn
For the Market
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tirnp <Jr>oqn , t. mpm tjj.nt P* '”*
brush is w!i:\i 'it fjhovilrl ho nr
that P »pfi ooulfln’t hr* iin
nroved upon and the rmulitions
mnd<‘ better.
Far*.ls are p, en hns reached
that-s»nee whore it should vifthf
•TMont f:,ce in memo' 1 * omnloved.
to the end that buvers may
com° to,Rnen county for brush
bpoauso it is rro?W brush
thev now tro to the Lindsay dis-
Mot. for such brush.
There is mueh tjood bru*h
yro\vn here, and has boon p.H the
time, that is partly or wholly
mined by and cur
ing methods for** marketing pur
noses. .
Th*» making of quality brush
Perrins at the planting and ends
at the seeding and nalimr. and
the method of caring for it from
then to the time it is hauled to
market.
Tt is possible for lh\e° to grow
and to put on the market fir t
quality brush without any. addi
tional'equipment—excepting the
equipment.of “taking pains.”
WhiJe in these tnlas *vo art'
going to cover these different:
features, of crowing hroomeorn
for the markets, we goihg
to make the tabes short to
the'point—as mueh so >i* n com
plete understanding of the dif
ferent topic-- will permit.
The Seed
That's the fir's<• nreenution
It’s not.a rrood ide*’ to ret vonr
rred ou^'pf‘7Th' v d'rrr.*br*S
or out of vour own.
-instead, every hroomeorn
growor ‘should rrrow own
«oofl — n snrtil natch every
% vnar away from nr y othor snr.
ghum, cultivate it to a finish
and then harvest it foivthe seed
-alone.
Leave till tVr grniiHs red rip",
then w' en- harvesting leave in
t ( he fi Id t.li* heads that are not
trpienl in formation.
You shpold-have n small hand
S'od°r of vour own to this
brush with, «*o that other grain**'
will not he mixed with it. and
vour sepd will not be infected
with smut.
Plan tin ft
Clno of the pr incipal t.puib’e*
is that the stand is to > Hdcken
the eround. Especkd'.v is that
(he case who re the seed is re>f
ripe and is well sifted, as iL
should be.
tfit happens to be r very,
rainy reason you win with 1
very thick stand, and ir it ban
pens to he a very dry summer
you win with a very thin s'and.
Bur there is a hnppv medium
and one year with another this
happy medium will prow the
most profitable.
We would put this medium at
about one stalk to a foot on har<i
ground, and one to about eight
or ten inches < n sandv Ground.
It isn’t an easy thing to get
the plate just right for ,the
stand you want. The easiest so
lution is to determine just how
many revolutions of the seed
[date there is to one revolution
of the drive wheels, th* n geti ing
nn average drop from the seed
plates that will give the stand
you want.
This is easily d > rmined by
the distance the drive wheel*;
Will go in one resolution. Fig
ure this way: The seed p'.at«s
| make so many revolutions'in this !
|distance, and 'drop an a\vr.*.gu
'of so many grabs to one of it*;
revolutions. Make the holes in
the seed plate acue dingly—tq
get the stand you want.
Next time again.
Electio K returns hive » been
slow coining in, but indications
are that 1G to 1 won’t miss, it*
ivery much. Anyway, it's a
■ plenty. f
Going Aider Railroad
Bui e City and Cimarron County
Lmd County High School,
and are now leading ou*- for
a People's Built Railroad,
and Feel Snnguir.eof Land
ing that Also.
fuUowingjs from the Oim
>l • ron ConntV News:
“The club has been talking
railroad right along, but no feas
ible propositiori'has been present
ed until the meeting Monday ev
ening.
The,club hasi>:.»* n rarin* for a
railroad ai\d tHa idea they are
working nlongj/pow has every
promise of landing one |n due
season. j
The club vvilimprobably have it
•M'lf chartered Mnd incorporated
of and endeavSr to secture a
right of \yay foil a road f rom Elk-,
hart.
A comrnitteehwns appointed to
investigate the legal steps neces
sary and prepare the papers and
perform such other duties as
necessary to carry out the idea
of the club in butting over the
proposition.’’
We br*linv(» it would be better
to have the rail eompany sepa
rate from the club—but anyway
to get there..
The Public Well
The city fathers (Lord blessem)
last week ordered certain work
men to mobilize their forces, arm
themselves forjbbc struggle, and
to proceed at onc> to storm the
works public well, capture
ih? strongholds thereof, and
with Wilson’s fourteen points and
other tools to see"
what cou|d be done with that
much t ked qj;/>ublic institution.
It v;a§ u undertak
y ng the! r-pvafy
r-rs and cross’ng themselves, the
indomitable workmen tackled the
job wiih a stolid determination
that,Jet come what would, that
old public well justjiad to oe fix
d.
After capturing—as reported
without the less of a single man,
that , mighty stronghold, the
doughty workmen -threw up for
tifications to prosect themselves
against any probable attopks of
Bolshevist foVces, and ome hours
ifte-rward?, by the waving of
their mysterious wands, the ram-'
rod to tiie ir .. was going up and
iown to beat the band; but the
old mill itself stubbornly refused
to pump anything but wind)
That night the brave and un
daur.ted work -n bivouacked on
the works, and the next day
threw up more breast works and
did some more hammering and
pounding—smote the rock, as it
wore—ana beh fid the water be
gan to flow, not as much as it
used to How, but beating no wa
t r all to holler —and the public
has since been slaking it’s
i hirst at the crystal stream,
i hankfullm ss coming up out of
their hearts while the crystal
fluid was going down iiito their
stomachs.
After the* daring Undertaking
was crowned v.i h more or less of
.'success, the workmen were de
mobilized, without any disability,
with orders to hold themselves in
readiness to tackle that old pub
lic. well again on the slightest
provocation, which they all will
be glad to do should-the old well
ever agaiil'go kerflunk.
Lf’.rer: Durncd old TpHI, after
two clays of good service, got its
stomach out of order somehow,
and quHftworking. The provoca
tion'thus cam*’, but at last ac
cuuiits the workmen not
rqusterd up courage enough to
j .-.tin t ckle Ihe j ;b. /
Edler
R W. Fox made a business
i/in to Springfield Tuesday.
F, R. Bosii.y is farming the
Alex Stewarc farm this spring.
Sam Collin-: passed through
oua vicinity Friday with a nice
bunch of steers, taking them to
bis ranch.
Tlie.writer tliinks we had bet
have some common schools of
more than three months a -year
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and get gome of our children
ready for high school before »e
builking. There are several
girls and boys in this countfrj
that should be in- high school
right noW that -ere lsr front
ready for it, because we have
not had/ the school, end when
we want more moutha of school
we gat the answee that, the coun
ty is not able Co afford it.
Rodley
Pat Sllvey and Will Scott went
hi Springfield .with the mail car
rier May 1.- '
Mr. Stephenson and family of
Liberal, Kaps., visited with B.
B. Bovdsteen’s last week.
L. O. Tobler, salesmao for
Townley Metal and Hdw. Co.,
was a pleasant caller at Rodley
May 1.
B. B Boydsteen moved Miss
Louise Sweizer back to her home
near Stuninetgp. She has been
teaching school at the Byrd
school house.
J. A. Harger brought in a big
four-horpe load of freight for E.
F. Macy May 3rd.
Mrs. L. H. Casteel was trading
in Rodley the 2nd.
Fern Nixon has bought a Ford
truck. Sold bis jitney to Lee
Zirkle.
Eli Smith has purchased a Ford
tractor, and is breaking soji on
T. E. Smith’s place.
B. B. Boydsteen and D. C.
Svid and families were trading
in Rodley Saturday.
J. H. Brown has gone to Kim
and from there to the,cedars.
Big Flat
Small grain growing nicely.
A few are breaking sod,.
One more of Baca county’s sol
dier boys has returned —Geo.
Crick.
A few from Bl(r Plat attended
the dance at Vilas.
Crawford’s and Charley Jon eg’
children visited at Westmore
land’s Sunday.
Mr and Mrs. Lock’s relatives
returned to Kansas the first of
i the week, after making qsite a
visit.
C. C. Swern of the Campo bank
forwards the 0. K. for the 52,
the 5 gratis going in.
Mr. Sliarrock of Konantz was
in iown Tuesday.
West Flats
Ralph Campbell and sister Ma
bel and Miss Ruth Seymour
spent a pleasant day Sunday at
C. C. Evans.
The Sunday school at this place
has been closed for three weeks
on account of the Hue. This is
the first time in the four years
since it was started lhat it seem
ed necessary to do so. However,
school will be held next Sunday
as usual. On Sunday, May 11,
Rev. Dean from Springfield will
preach at the school house at 3
p m.
The school meeting was well
attended and a great deal ot in
terest shown.
Mt Carmel
A large crowd attended the
Easter services and program
Easter Sunday.
Mrs. G. Litke and son Willis
have been on the sick lisf for
some tim»; some better at this
writing
On account of bad weather we
havcn’tdedicatod our new church
as yet, but if wsather permits we
will do so Sunday May 11 Ev
rervboijy come.
Ira and Earl Le Crone and
family are back again, after a
visit at Forgan, Okla.
Tiie sales of this community
have all been well attended.
Richards
Foster Elliott and wife at Rich
ards Saturday.
Bert Glasgow’s baby drank
some coal oil at. Richards Satur
day. They had to take it to the
doctor at Stonington.
-C. C. Dunivan and father at
tended the ball game at Richards
Saturday.
Fred Stagner has returned
(home from Camp.
' Heniretta iKicenski and Floyd
Burleson were united in holy mat
rimony at the Kicenski borne Sun
day. We join in wishing them
prosperity and happiness. '
Joe Snyder and-Davie Dunivan
took maize to Elkhait Monday.
The Bee supper was well at
tended at Grandview Friday
night.
Fred Collins, Pat Murphy,
and Jack Dapon were around with
a petition to have the road west
of Richards a county road Al
should be in favor of more coun
ty roads.
C. Whaley’s well is out of fix,
he having to-haul water.
W. Scott made a business trip
to Springfield Thursday. 1
‘We are sorry to hear of the
death of Mrs. Geo. Johnson.
Our heait-felt sympathy is ex
tended to the bereaved husband
and family. ' ,
Earl Miller, Mrs. Kern’s broth
er, visited her the last of the
week.
•Vic Higgins and Myra News
berry visited her sister Mrs.
Harger at Rodley.
Will Scott came in from Elk
hart Sunday evening with a load
of lumber for his new home.
Jesse Down came down from
Monon to get a load of maize.
He has rented a place there.
ll-il -M
Prairie View
Mr. Leslie and family of Wyo
ming have been visiting his sis
ter, Mrs. Hancock, for the past
week.
Ethel Craig was called to
Springfield Sunday to see her fa
ther, George Craig, who lmd a
stroke of paralysis..
Claud and Ralph Presten went
to Lamaf last week with loads of
grain.
Mr. Blevens made a business
trip-to Springfield yesterday.
O B. Preston and family spent
Sunday with Miss Jones.
Mr. Jackson and family of Joy
coy visited his sister Mrs. Po
well Sufi day.
Claud Preston is building a
granary this week.
' Will wife who have
I been spending the winter with
her mother, Mrs. Hancock, ex
! pect lo return to their home in
Oklahoma this week. v
Alvin Russell returned home
from Lamar yesterday.
Opal Lpwis scent the past
week with Mrs. Russell.
Graft
Lester Ogen is back on Ijis
claim after a year's leave.
Sunday school was organized
at Harmony school house last
Sunday, Mrs. Fannie Searboqrgh
being elected superintendent.
Bennet Cummings has
ed to his claim for the summer.
Waterman and Coddle have
gone to Lamar for supplies for
the Graft store.
Dan Van Buskirk is working
for Ike Abbott.
Ike Abbott had the misfortune
to lose a fine mare the last week.
J- M. Graft is doing a lot of
fencing again this spring.
ar-a-ifl
Grand View
S. B. Vandermark and S. M.
Bell and wife ate Sunday dinner
with H. J. Isenhotver and fami
ly-
Bessie Long ot Elkhart visited
her sister Mrs. L. Jacksod, and
her father Mr. Crawford Sun
day.
The pie supper at Grand View
Friday night was well attended.
A good program. Mrs. Fred
Collins won the cake as the most
popular lady.
The thresher is at Arthur Am
merman.
B. R. Glasgow took his little
daughter to the N doctor at Ston
ington Saturday, it having swal
lowed some coal oil. Getting
along nicely now.
Earl Miller of Tyrone is here
visiting his sister, Mrs. H. R.
Kern. She received word front ,
her brother Vern, from Camp ,
Mills, having just arrived from
France. t . ,
CA C will probably buy the i
Grimm place. i
$1.50 Per Year.
Prairie Queen
28~ *1 - M
John I<ynch and Mr. Three-*it
made n flying trip to Spriugliehj
hint Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Spikes of Fair
View visited Mr. and Mrs.
Tlireewitt last Sunday evening.
Albert Stinson left last Mon
day for Santa Fe, New Mexico,
where he is offered a position as
foreman of a dairy ranch at SIOO
a month.
We sure\thought the Bolshe
vists had broken loose when Dr.
Patterson came running down
tho road, waving his hat and
yelling, ‘‘it’s a boy!"
Rev. Eskew of Breezy Ridge
preached a very interesting ser
mon at Prai lie Queen last Sun"
day.
Mr. and Sirs. Terry are visit
ing her father, Mr. anil Mrs.
Matt Lynch.
Charlie Rider and Albert Stin
son attended singing at Fair
View Sunday night.
Lee Harris and Loyd Mickle
made a trip to La Junta with
maize last week, and brought
bade some wood.
After a rest of several months
John Robinson is again at his
post as teacher of the adult
class. John is sure the rig! :
man for the place,
J. L. Clement was elected •sec
retary of our school district. No.
34. Mr. Clements is a tine man,
and will give the people good sat
is faction...
Sandwell
Mr. Walker is staying with
Dave Konkcl a few days,’ and
thinks he will locate here.
Mr. White and Mr. Wade are
selling out and expect to go to
California to live. ....
J Eva i Tjahiih etfTenfT'?ew davs
wite her aunt, Mrs. Calhune this
week.
(We are wondering if this name
is spelled right, or if it should
be “Cjiihoun"|.
Tom Sawyer got home f; -m
over sea this week. We aregiail
to sea him, akin he is more than
glad to get home.
Mr. Walker has found a bea
tion and bought a team of Gee.
Malian, getting ready to farm
Ed. Belt and family spenkSu
day with Mr. Trent’s,
Dave Konkel and Mr. Mtse..*■
made a business trip to Elkhart
Friday. Mr. Moore brought iis
car home.
Clyde
Granomi Mizzles hasbe v n v \\
sick, but is better now. She i
pects to go back to her home in
Arkansas soon. *
Everybody is busy in the fields
breaking sod, disking-or listing,
S. Pearce is having his new
house painted.
The box and pie social a Fair
view last Saturday night was
well attended, the proce d*
amounting to $32 55.
Sunday school at F 'ir Vie ev
ery 'Sunday evening a f ’
Everybody invited,
Mrs. Luther Brinkley, Pead
Johnson. Hallie Kirkenda'h M'l
- Estelle, and Clarence P : .-
ley and Raymond Pearce <;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank John-on - t
Two Rut»es Sunday.
The Minstrel show at Sr r:~
field Saturday night was en.jo\-“d
by several from this com muni y.
North Flats
More rain this week and < v
erything green.'
Mr. Burdick moved to the 1
Stilwaugh place lasW week, and
has commenced making imp . o , e
ments.
Shepard’s have vi.-i ing
at Elmer Chatham's
Clifton sold some calves to M:\
Cole this week.
A. L. Smart is drag ring ibo
road from his ranch lo Bat'c;
creek.
Miss Stella Bair is at I
spending her vacation. Sh» ..i :
return to Boulder i” abnr. * v. >
weeks,