The Democrat-herald., April 15, 1921, Image 1

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THE DEMOCRAT-HERALD
VOL. XXXM. No. 28
Keep your moisture blanketed I
—all the time.
Dry (arming and weed kas
farming are closely akin.
Saturday was another big day
to the credit of Springfield. |
When in town, drop in and ,
•ay “hello,” and may be you can ,
give us a bit of news.
School election this year comes'
on the first day of May—two |
weeks from next Monday.
In the language of Cleveland. 1
President Harding has congress .
“on his hands’’ this week.
If you haven’t blanketed that
moisture, do it now —may m kel
the difference of a crop or no)
crip.
During the past ten years
France has lost nearly six pc.-
cent in population —poor breed
ing qualities and war.
A great deal has been said and
written about dry farming, bu'
you won't miss it much if—
you'll not let a weed grow.
According to present informa
tion It has been definitely decid
ed by the government to make
peace with Germany by resolu
tlon.
Marion Alonzo Friend, of the
"In Kingdom Come” story,
makes hiß last jump this week,
and next week will conclude the
# t°ry. _______
The bill fbr the repeal of the
primary law failed to pass tin
legislators. We did not favor n
repeal, but do favor some import
ant changes,
Tne Great Southwest fair for
this year it scheduled for Sept.
11, 12. 18. 14,_at Dodge City, the
fair thus.opening oii-sllnday and
olesißß on Wednesday.
An American was last week
carved up by three Mexidans in
Sonora, Mex. Nothing strange
about that, but why in hen are
n't the g. o. p’s marching ou to
Mexico City.’
Thoee mail robberies that are
netting the robbers tens of thou
sands and hundreds of thou
sands would seem to indicate
samething lacking some where
in mail protection.
Colorado in 1890 had a popula
tion of something above 34,000,
and Denver was then about what
Springfield is now. At present
Colorado has about 1,000 o<>o,
and D ;nver over 250,000.
President Harding delivered
his massage in person to con
gre'jß Tuesday. As Wilson
Started this personal message
business, it’s a wonder Harding
gould have had theheart to doit.
Joshua Sykes, while on
his way to prison had a vision
that Pueblo is to bo the Hcly
City spoken of in Scripture, J
which prompts us to say there
will have to be a devil of change
in that city first.
A news item says- Shoup is
satisfied with the legislature’s
grist, as the only thing the leg
islature turned out was expens
es for the state, our proclama
tion governor seems to be durn
ed essiiv satisfied.
A news dispatch informs us
that a bottle of hooch in a po
liceman’s pocket in open court
exploded, causing everybody to
run for their lives Just supkisp
the policeman had drank that
hooch before it oxploded.
Here are cattle prices for the
years ending with February for
1018,1010, 1920, and 1921: $12.15,
$15.80, $12.00. $8 85. Hogs for
the same years were: $10.95,
$17.05, $14.30, $925 Sheep
were sl2 50. $ll.BO. *13.25.
By reason of nonpartisanisir..
North Dakota has been in the
world’s focus for four years, and
South Dakota, having passed the
•O-called Sunday blue laws, will
be tbs next in the limo light-red
hot friends and bitter enemies.
UNWELCOME GUESTS
Charles IJ. Young and Willard
Centlllvre present nn unwelcome
problem to Washington health author
ities. They are lepers; both came
from other parts of the nation, yet
neither cun be ejected from the Dis
trict of Columbia. For safety's sake
thoy have been confined In quarantine
and spend a life of ease at the na
tion's expense.
The records show that less
cattle and hogs were marketed
for the year preceeding Mar. 1
than for the year ending first ol
March last year, and for that
year lets than the year before,
while with sheep it was the oth
er way both years.
A jury in the trial of a Geor
gia plantation man for the ki'l
ing of eleven negroes to prevent
them from testying against him,
recommended "mercy.” If mer
cy should be shown for killing
eleven, shou'd there be extended
a vote of thanks where only one
life is sniffed r ut’
Baca county in 1890 had about
1,50<X people The next year the
population was reduced to about
700, where it remain’d about fif
teen years. From 1905 to 1910
it jumped to 2.500. and from 1910
to 1920 to near 9,000, giving us
about three and one-half people
to the square mile at the present
time.
One of the bills of question
able propriety that passed the
legislature fixes the minium
wage of teachers at $75 per
month. As living and ciothing
are down about 50 per cent, it is
questionable whether teachers’
salaries should be sent up. In
stead of increasing the wage, we
believe it would have been better
to have lengthened the terms.
The joke is sure on the great
and good government of the
United States. The soviet gov
eminent of Russia has issued a
decree or order ordering that
none of Uncle Sam’s tribe be per
mitted to cross the borders into
j Russia after the 20th inst, The
joke might have been modified
some by adding—“unless show
ingsignsof having been dipped.”
The book of Ex Secretary of
State Lansing we opine will
have a discouraging sale. As
nearly a9 can be made nut from
his writing, his grievance is that
Wilson didn’t subordinate his
own views to those of bis secre
tary of state. Our idea is that
Lansing would better have stay
ed out of the book business, as
nobody is interested in a grouch.
If all the people of any com
munity would be thrifty in the
right way, hard times couldn’t
last over night, says a valued
exchange. Pshaw! Since prices
broke last summer, Mr. Farmer
'and about everybody else has
bought grub and clothes—and
durned little of that. Good times
and hard tinier isn’t a matter of
buying and selling, but of vol
ume of money in circulation.
Mrs. Sullens, wife of Rev. Snl
lens.ishere visiting her si-ter
i Rev. and Mrs. Holmes of this
city.
i What we are all wanting—that
there something what makes the
mare go,
SPRINGFIELD, BACA COUNTY, COLORADO, FRIDAY, APR. 15, 1921
YOU HAVEN’T SEEN COLORADO UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN BACA COUNTY
Sunday night the sheriff and
deputy raided a still in the base
ment of the Arthur Smart resi
dence north of town, and captur
ed the outfit and mash and booze
and took tfcb Stuff to town, aloi g
with Art Smart and Doe Hart,
who apparently owned and were
operating the still. They gave
bonds the next morning for their
appearance in court on the 23rd
inst.
Here is what Billy Adame, one
of the senators on the job, has to
say of tlie legislature: In the
opinion of the democrats this
has been a wonderful session.
It is undoubtedly true that we
could not have done half so much
for the cause of democracy as
the republicans have done for
u 9. They have added greatly to
the burdens of taxation; they
have created more jobs titan any
legislature has ever created in
one session; they have increased
more Ealariis than any other leg
islature ever has done; they have
fail d to add one piece of really
constructive legislation to the
state's assets. We feel that the
twenty-third general assembly
has paved the way to a tremen
dous democratic victory in 1922.
The Club Meet
Promptly at 8:00 p. m. Chair
man Thompson struck the d -k a
mighty blow with the gavel, and
upon quiet being restored an
nounced that the first on the
program would be a short musi
cal entertainment by the Home
String orchestra.
The little band entertained the
club about twenty minutes, and
at each round was heartily cheer
ed by the appreciative audience.
The chairman then, in the name
of the club, thanked the hand
t‘oi the entertainment, and ask
ed them to favor the club at
some other time.
In the short talks that followed
the subject of cleaning up and
cleaning up and painting up was
gone over, and further considera
tion given to a tourist camp
ground on Cat creek near the
south bridge. The committee on
camp grounds was authoriz 'd to
look further into tile matter and
complete arrangements.
The problem of some kind of a
fair was then considered, and
voted to have some kind of sire't
fair, purely agricultural, using
either the new or the old school
building for displays. A com
mittee consisting of K. H. Hobbs,
Fiank Maxwell, and Will Stew
art was appointed to look after
details and pesaibilities.
The chairman thought that a
purely business fair wouldn't
bring out the crowds, and hence
voted that some kind of enter
tainment should be put on, some
thought a tent show or some
thing like that,
The time of the fair, and
whether one or more days was
not taken up. It being a street
fair, of course what premiums
were paid would have to be by
donations.
The committee on the Baca
county booklet reported that
diffeiert towns would give brief
write-ups of iheir communities,
that photos of views were being
secured for cuts to go in the
book.
Adjourned to next regular
meeting-
Interstate Commission
Asks Loan to Byers
In case Byers get 9 this money
it will enable him to use other
funds on the Liberal to Spring
field road. The following in ref
erence to it is a dispatch from
Pratt, Fans., to the Kansas City
Journal:
Pratt, ICas , March 31 -The
Kansas public utilities cummis
sion in a decision handed down
here tonight agreed to recorn
i _________ ;
mend to the interstate ooinmerce|
commission that a lnanof $450,000 1
be made to the Wichita and I
Northwestern railroad by the I
commission.
The utilities commission also
granted the road permission to
increase its arbitral'.' rate 5 cents,
making it conform with the in
terstate rates.
President Byers of the road
said teat tne holders of notes
who have brought c foreclosure
suit in the federal Court will with
draw the suit if the government
will make a loan for which he |
has applied. The loan was to be
granted on coi ’ilion that the I
state com misspell approve the;
loan, also increase the rates.—
Kansac City Journal.
The Railroad Outlook
S E Wilson of Richfield, close
ly com ' ft, J w,.h Byeis in his
railroa i pruj:cts, was in Spring-
Held Tuesday and dropped in to
talk matters over on the rtilroad
outlook.
Mr. Wilson feel'. and we think
righfully, that Air. Byers will
want to get fu . ther along at the
other end of the line before he
ni'l be in position to make a prop
osition to Baca county.
Just how soon that wifi be
couldn’t at this time be deter
mintd, but all the way from a
few weeks to possibly as many
months.
We all know what the break
in the money market has done
for all public promotion enter
prises. That Byers lias kept
pounding away certainly thoWs
a determination that is not only
commendable, but that augers
well for the final success of this
much needed rc .
Mr. Wilson thinks the outlook
is very good for final success,
and is certain that every obstacle
will be overcome and the line
built into and through Baca
county, but jest how soon of
course no mortal at present can
tell.
There has been some specula
tion as to the objective point of
the line: hut Mr. Byers’ first
choice is Trinidad, and Mr. Wil
son says that when he is ready
to make Baca county a proposi
tion it will be to go e!»ar through
the c tintr, which u think
would be 'lie light tiling.
Mr. Wilson is sure Mr. Byers'
will get thp money nn the Wich
ita & Northwestern, spoken of j
elsewhere, and when that is set-'
tied Mr. Wilson will at onco ad-1
vise the Democrat-Herald as to I
efforts that should be made over
this way.
When things are lined up the
editor and Mr. Wilson are going
over the line from Liberal tc
Forgan and we will then have
something more definite as to
the outloou, and particularly ns
to the steps that should here be
taken to bring the roud through
Baca county.
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
This Poor Burdock Is all Worked
Up. for there’s a Stronger in town and
he doesn't Know her Name, nor Where
she's From, nor Why she Came, nor
How Long she's Going to Stay, nml tho
Suspense Is Killing Him. The Only
Explanation for the Volunteer Detec
tive Is that he Must have been dropped
on hit Bean when a Babe.
OF OUR
COUNTRY
EDITORS
A Few Suggestions.
Be car.Tul with proper names- Notice every
body—Omit ‘Mr." when the Riven nnmu or Ini
tials are utc-i—spell duys of week in full-Can
abbreviate titles before names, elm*wise spell in
full-Abbreviate the state when postollco or
county is Riven, eUewise spall in full—" And."
not. "&. " Observe this strictly Mail letters
Saturday when possible. Monday will do. Tues
day has u chance, Wednesday too Into.
Stonington
Miss Ola Brill is on ihe sick
liet. Bertie Swaggerty is tak
ing her place at the bank
A telegram was received by
Jay Waldren that his wife was
very ill with pneumonia. S.ie is
in Missouri with her mother.
Jay left the same day to go to
! her,
' The Robbins saie was well at
tended, stock bringing a fmr
price. One cow brought slOl.
Milk cows are the farmers,
i stand-by and ought to be kept
on every farm.
One of Air. Bell’s little boys
got knocked down by an auto
mobille last Friday, cutting his
face and bruising him some.
Air. Cockrum of Johnson City
has brought Art Ross’ building,
and will move his family here
soon-
Literary closed! Friday night,
with a program and debate. Th
subject :J: debate was, Resolved
that all foreign immigration be
prohibited from the U. S. The
affirmative won.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Godfrey. Alarch 31st, a boy.
School will close next Friday
with a basket dinner. Two or
three other schools are expected
to join us in a spelling contest,
and so forth. An entertainmeni
will be given in the evening by
the school. Alt. and Mrs. Hen
son have labored faithfully with
the children this winter, and
school ha 3 been a success. A
note of thanks should be given
hem by the patrons of the
| school.
There was a base-ball game in
town Saturday between Konantz
and Stonington. Konantz won
the game,
S, L. Thompson remedied his
garage office this week.
Graft
Leo H, Hutchinson has finish
ed his new heme moved in last
week,
Airs. Jennie Scarbrough and .
daughter have returned to her:
farm after two years absence. |
They plan to make their home
here.
The county grader is at work j
on the Graft-Las Animas roau
near here.
Delbert Pribble and family!
took dinner at Geo. Malone’s
Sunday.
Vilas
Mrs. Greer.ley of Big Flat is
staying with Grandma Conner.
Mr. und Mrs. Rliae Lackey
were callers at Vilas Sunday af
ternoon.
C. E and H. Y. Robb were
business visitors at Rex for d's
Friday afternoon.
I. F. Thorn is preparing his,
ground for spring crops,
Fred Willis has been on the I
sick list the past week.
Clarence Conner made a trip
to Springfield with produce Sat
turday.
Henry Blanchat, Charley
Greenstroet and Air. Royster
are working on Wheeler’s new
residence.
Here’s another way of putting
it: If everybody was attending
strictly to his own business, what
a monotonous world this would
be.
North Flats
Fred Chat ham is moving U
his place again, D. M. Chen<
weth having sold his ranch tc
Mr. Gold.
A nephew of Mr. Gold’s will
move onto the D. M. Chenowetl
place.
There were eight girls and six
boys buplized at the water hole
north ot Mr. Hills last Sunday.
Mrs. Dunn will be buck on the
Hats now, as her school was ou
lasi Friday.
Mr. Elrod called at Bickford’*
and Chatham’s last Thursday.
Mr. Dan’s left last Monday
for their home at E"*rpris..
Kans.
Mr. Riggs received w..ul this
week that his father is ver\
sick, and intends to go to set
him.
Mrs. Stainaker has more itil
'chickens than anyone els on
the Hats.
Eureka
Hurve Bewley and Claudi Can
ton have gone to Lamar ft> i
In:uher for Wheeler.
| There will be a pr« gram . I tht
Eureka school house 'he las day
of school.
Ben Lepol and wife are the
proud parents of a ten j iund
boy.
Quite a number in this n igh
borhood are setting out straw
berry plan’s.
Lewis Eaton is on the sick list
—Lagrippe.
Maverick
Getting a little dry in this
part.
Mr. Hurst of Granby, Mo, ar
rived last week and is at homt
on the farm he purchased of R.
B. Moore last Nov< mber.
Most of the farmers have
sown some barley and spring
wheat.
Fall-planted wheat is in fair
condition.
Most of the ground intend* d
| for spring crops has been blan >
listed or disked.
Patrons of the Ivlaxey scln <1
and others throughout the dis
trict arrived at the school about
noon Friday with well li i-o bas
kets. You know the rest
May Thompson and Ben Rey
nolds went to Limar Friday to
get their sisters.
J. L. Clements, a prominent
resident of Joycoy, was in town
the first of the week.
Richards
Literary at Prairie Dell last
Thursday night was well attend
ed, and adjourned till the first
Friday in November.
E mer Mills of Oklahoma is
visiting old aquaintances in this
neighborhood at this present
writing.
W. D. and D. N. Dumnan went
I to Elkhart Friday with two loads ,
lon maize, returning Saturday.
! Maize 50 cents per hundred.'
[ How much longer will the farm
er have to raise grain for this 7 i
| Wait till the N. P. L. get in of
j lice?
! Osa Hess’s baby is very sick
at this writing.
Sherman boys returned from j
Elkhart Friday.
Win. Sutton went to Spring
field Tuesday on business, re
turning Saturday.
S. E. Dunivan went to Elkhart j
on business Monday.
Among those who attended*
the dance at Chas. Sit ton’s w6re:
Lenard Williamson, Elmer Mills, !
OU Perkins, Bill, Wait, Dm and j
Leona Dunivan, and Joe Hankins.
Did they know it? Who know
it? The city fa*hors and fore
father-. Know what? Know I
that or.eof the corners ol Eighth |
and Main is being usid as r. j
dumping ground for tin cans.
What about it? Nothing. We
just wondered, that was all.
N. K. Bickford, Baca county’s
land, loan and insurance man,
was at Colorado Springs on the
bill and 9th on business.
51.50 Per Year.
Oklarado
Lee Oyler and family returned
Saturday after spending the
winter in Virginia.
Mrs. VV. H. Chapman will
leave Tuesday for an extended
visit in Missouri with her
daughters at Excelsior Springs
and Milan.
A. H. Cramer has friends
from Kansas visiting them.
Walter Rhodes was in Spring
field Friday on business.
Gertrude Gibbons visited here
last week.
Mrs. Geo Oyler has gone to
Wichita to visit her son. Will
be gone a c iuple of weeks.
O. D. Felts has gone to La
Junta with corn, and will bring
back a load of lumber.
Deacon Pane made a Hying
trip to Springfield last week.
Farmois are all busy listing
tor spring crops. Most of the
w!i' at is looking good.
Mt. Carmel
Tne revival meeting, conduct
ed by the Rev. W. A. Pipkin at
id the I, closed Sunday.
A program will be given by
the Murry school at the school
house Friday night, Apr. 8.
Also a pie supper for the pur
ch ising of some athletic materi
al.
Gny Timmons left Saturday
for the oil fields of Burbumen,
'IVx., where he expects to work
for a while.
Mr. Hawkins has been mov
ing to Chas. Libech’s place this
week. By some unknown rea
son, the barn was caught on
| fire, burning to the ground in
less than 10 minutes. Three
horses and one colt perished in
the lliints; also a large stack of
cane was burned. Sorry to hear
1 of the loss.
T. L>. l.itke and Mr. and Mrs.
njy Steen accompanied Mrs.
Roy Steen to Campo Wednesday
when she returned to her home
in Lamar.
The pastor, lola Steen, will
leave lor Haviiand, Runs ,
. here she will attend Pastor's
Alliai.ee.
Joycoy
So we haven’t needed those
straw hats and sun bonnets so
bad after all.
L. W. Biixzard and T. O. Swan
ner are breaking out the west
j end of section 8. Another big
wheat field.
Garvin Hatfield is working
over near Elkhart now.
Mrs. Mary Raymond is stay
ing with Mrs. Sam J ..i of R<g
nier.
Mr. Jordan of Flues came back
to finish Will Allphin’s well and
i found that the bit of ihe outfit
was missing.
T. 0. Swanner branded and
j dehorned Monday. Robert
i Sw,inner, Frank Heltcn and Cleo
Black of Clyde assisted him.
Tney handled Go head.
Mi*, and Mrs. Ward Brown
and Geo. Raymond Sundayed at
Blizzard’s.
Reuben S wanner was able Sat
'u-day to accompany Will Homer
to the Collins home for Sunday
dinner, returning from there to
Spi ingfield.
Prof. Finley was out calling on
patrons Friday evening. *
Mrs. Swanner reports that she
has a yery in foresting bunch of
boys and girls at Prairie View
and enjoys teaching there very
much.
Bro, Chas. Fosnight preached
Sunday morning and night. We
thought Sunday night’s message
one of the best ever given in our
midst. Everybody i s cordially
invited to all services. Sunday
school at 10 ... m. Young Peo
ple’s meeting Sunday night*.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday
nights. Bro. Pnsuigl.it is with
us or. the *eco u ami R.urth Sun
days of every mouth.
Richard Buiks near the
west county was in town
the first of the week. Mr. Burns
.say sbe sells his grain in pork
and cream. Had a woulnderf
ci*"|j last v* aj\ but will feed in
.ill up. that’s the right caper.