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EASTERN COLORADO TIMES VOL. YU NOTICE. Meeting of Cheyenne Wells Com mercial Club Monday night Mar. 24th, at the Court House to hear report of committees and general discussion of same. Everybody come and bring your friends and neighbors and learn for your sel ves what we arc trying to do. Chas. Hargleroad, President. PUBLIC SALE. We will offer at public auction at Cheyenne Wells Colo, on SATURDAY MARCH 22. 1913, At one, o’clock sharp the fol lowing property to-wit: 6 Head of Horses 1 black gelding, weight 1,200 1 bay gelding weight 1,100 1 black mare, weight 1,200 1 bay gelding, weight 1,150 1 black mare, weight 950 1 roan gelding, weight 950 3 Farm wagons; 1 Surrey; 3 sets double work harness; 2 saddles, 1 Deering corn Binder; 1 Sulky Plow; 1 20 inch disc; 1 Riding cultivator; 2 section steel harrow 2. walking stirring plows; 1 sod . breaker: 1 2 horse corn planter; 110 ft vaneless wind mill; 1 pat ent churn: 1 steel water tank, 9 1-2 bbls; 20 rods chicken wire. Other articles too numerous to mention. * TERMS*OF SALE to be made known on day of sale -E. B. Slotterback and G. W. iftaiTH, Owners. Col. Pattrson, Auctioneer. DATE MUFFINS, One egg, one eup of milk, two cups flour, four tgpspoon baking- powder, one teaspooi.' salt, two tablespoon melted butter, one-half cup dates. Beet egg and add milk. Mix to gether the ingredients, sift, and stir into the milk and egg mixture. Add the melted butter and then the dates which have been mashed , seeded and cut into small pieces* Put in but tered muffin pans and bake in a quick oven fifteen to twenty minutes. Serve hot. Kasins may be used in place of dates or plain muffins may be made from the above proportions. ASTOR TO MOTOR OVER THE U. S, NEW YORK, March 12. Vincent Astor, the wealthiest young man in the world, who now with a party of friends is cruising in the Carribean sea on his palatial yacht Naomi, plans to leave his yacht a£ the entrance of the Pan ama canal, go over the canal zone and at Panama take steamer for San Francisco. From the Pacific coast the young millionaire and party will cros3 the continent in motorcars, partly for pleasure .but. more to study in person ocean to ocean railway needs as part of his cho 'sen life’s work. Eclipse of the Moon 22nd - An eclipse of the moon, visible in a large part of the United States, will occur on the morning of March 22. The moon will be at the full stage at that time, and the exhibition is expected to he an especially fine one on that ac count. Those who live in the Mississippi valley will be* com pelled to arise at 3 o, clock in the morning or thereabouts in CHEYENNE WELLS, CHEYENNE COUNTY, COLORADO, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913 order to witness the phenomenon The eclipse will begin at about 4 o, clock and will not te finished for two hours. For those who miss this eclipse, there will be another one on September 15, practically at the same hour in the morning.—K. C. Journal. Civil Service To Stay. President Wilson Will Not Re voke Order to Suit Applcants. WASHINGTON, March 12- President Wilson has let it be known there was no immediate prospect of letting down the civ il service bars to thousands of democratic office seekers. The president told Senator Pomerene that so far, he and the cabinet had formulated no policy as to appointments for minor positions in the government service. There had beeit a report that President Wilson might revoke the recent order of Taft which put 36,000 fourth, class postmas ters under the civil service. Postmaster General Burleson has declared that no appoint ments of postmasters probably would be made before April Ist except possibly in case of emer gency. Approximately 1,500 such appointments by Taft were not acted upon by the last senate and it will be necessary for Pres ident Wilson to make appoint ments to all these offices. Burleson indicated that it would be his policy, too not disturb capable and efficient postal em ployes, protected by the civil ser vice. V PROSPECT HILL. (Too late for last week) If you have a memory for weather, you will recall the fact that a year ago today (14th Mar.) the worst snowstorm of the sea son or any other season was rag ing—we’d had no trains for sev eral days past nor for several days to come. Gangs of men with shovels and snow plows were fighting the Storm King on the Rail Road and the weather did not improve much till March marched out. Many farmers are turning this nice weather to good account by discing their ground to conserve the moisture. This is good wea ther if you wish to plow or list. Reed Caulkins is in the far front of farmers this year and is about ready to sow barley. The social and supper at Geo Walkers near Araprhoe on Fri day night will no doubt be large ly attended and a good time is in waiting for all who attend. J. M. Kennard was an after noon caller at our ranch on Tues day. Rev. W. J. Mills was an over night visitor with us ths week. There will be an all day meet ing at Arapahoe on Sunday Mar. 30th. Services at 11 A. M. and 2 P. M- with dinner in the Chap el between services. This will close Rev. Mills pa3torial year and he will be glad to greet all his friends with a hearty-wel cqpne. Everybody come with well filled baskets and enjoy a ! social hour as well as a gospel feast. The social and spiritual side of man are closely linked. “Come and go with us and we will do thee good”, was Moses invitation to his brother-in-law and he said * ‘ You can do us good” so we say to our neighbors and we may see each other, Sunday. We got through the storm with out material loss and we are thankfulr for it was the worst we ever saw—a little worse than the one just a year ago to the day. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. The Alpha Nu Literary society gave a very interesting program Monday afternoon. One of the good papers was “The Life of St Patrick”, prepared by Ethel Long. The High School pictures have all been taken and they are very good. We think that we will have a better annual' than was put out last year. Come to the Athletic Program Friday night, March 21st. The program is an April fool Farce, and A Country Justice Trial be sides some good selections. The First View Ball team has challenged us to a series of three games. The dates planned are March 22, 29 and April sth. The first game will be played here. We hope to make these the big game of the season, and are anxious for your support. No admission will be charged. At assembly Tuesday morning the athletic association discussed reorganization but it was left un til Friday for completion, Bert Siep and Anna Tuxhorn were elected song and yell lead ers and part of the assembly time was taken up by yelling and singing. ARAPAHOE. Dora Loster spent Tuesday night with Lillian Walker. M. C. Owens arrived here Sat urday morning after spending a few months in Jowa. J. H. Nelson is building an ad dition to his house. Clarence Auten and Dick Crain arrived here last week from a visit to lowa. Carl Bailey arrived home from Colorado Springs and expects to start farming soon. Ed Phillips spent a few days in Cheyenne Wells last week. We are glad to see our friends and neighbors coming back, they say this is too good a place to leave. Mr. Jas. Shaffer 0 f Clark Co., Mo. a <!on-in-law of John Snyder arrived with an emigrant car last Saturday. He will reside on the 0. G. Ranch south of Arapahoe. A number of the youug folks from and around Arapahoe at tended the dance in Cheyenne Wells Monday evening. Fernard Bidinger is spending this week on his homestead north of town. Everybody has been busy shov elng snow since the storm Fri day. FIRST VIEW NEWS. Jas. Rainwater went to Denver last week to visit his mother, Mrs Thos. Hickman. Angeline Pauls visited Mrs. Ramkin near Arena several days last week. J. C. Russell, carrier on the Medill Sta” Route, was unable to make the trip Friday on account of the storm. Del Liscom returned from Den ver Saturday, D. C. Fuller, C. N. Smith and Mrs. Clara Melton were passen gers to Cheyenne Wells Thursday A dancing party was given at the heme of Del Liscom Saturday evening. All had a fine time. There will be a base ball match Saturday March 22, between First View and Cheyenne Wells. Worth Kerr visited his mother Monday. The Ladies Aid Society will give a play and box supper April 4th. Loyd Van Duzer was transact ing business in our burg Tuesday Chas Martin and Arthur Hal weg returned from Cresco, lowa Friday, wher?? they spent the winter. J. M. Baughman of Kansas City Mo., is visiting his brother E, C. Baughman near Medill. Neil Mousel now has a good well. Last week several persons in this vicinity recieved a copy of the Excelsior Springs (M 0.,) Stan dard edited by Walter Bales, a former resident of this place. It is a bright newsy sheet, We hear that Mr Bales and family are happy and prosperous in their new home. They are fine people and deserve that Datpe Fortune tfaould smile upon them. , Dayton Ellis returned from Manhattan, Kansas Monday. A window was blown out of Mrs Molers house during the storm and she and Dollie were forced to take refuge in the sec tion house. Among those caught in town by the storm Friday were D. C. Fuller, Drs, Eagle and .Homer, Chas Martin and Arthur Halweg. All the school children were also obliged to stay in town ‘over night. Increasing The Production of Alfalfa. The results of experiments with ah falfa have clearly shown the possibili ty of improving this valuable crop. Comparative tests and systematic methods of seed selection have bee:] carried on to fix, combine, and de velop the superior traits that have been found in some of the best strains of alfalfa from different sections of the world. J3ut to do this, and In crease the progenies of these types for Commercial use, will require several years to accomplish. In the meau time present results seem to justify the advice to farmers, to sow the Baltic or Grimm’s alfalfa seed, especially when the seed is made with a view to seed production as these two strains have | proved to be among the best. There are points of decided merit in these over most of the imported and ordi nary strains of alfalfa. Some of the points of superiority found in these northern strains can be enumerated as follows: ). Hardiness and Cost Reisstance. , They have the ability to survive winter conditions where ordinary al falfa has failed or has been seriously injured. This is due to the difference in the stooling habits, the hardy strains having protected underground buds and shoots spreading beneath the surface of the soil, while the non hardy types grow more upright with their b.uds exposed to the frost. 2, * Better Quality of Hay. —These strains having heavier stoolinghabits, from larger crowns, which send up a greater number of stems that tend to. produce finer and more leafy hay. 3. More adapted to different soil con ditions.:—These heavy stooling types,, have more branched roots near the surface of the ground. They also., have a tendency to take root from the lateral branches, of the crown, thus, making this type of alfalfa Better adapted to shallow soil, or soil with ground water-near the surface. They are also better for dry land conditions where the root development must be necessarily near the surface as the plant must develop from superficial moisture. Yet under irrigation these strains seem to have the same deep foot system as other affalfas. Early Blooming f^abita: —This doubt-, less is an advantage in several re spects. For instance, lengthening the period for honey flow, and earlier ma turity of the first crop of hay, thus lengthening the time for subsequent Crops to develop. Early blooming is., also an advantage in-seed production. It is the aim and plan of the Colo rado Experiment Station to foster tha improvement and production of better alfalfa, by encouraging farmers who are favorably situated and otherwise, qualified to specialize in growing al falfa for seed production, thus devel oping an alfalfa seed growing indus try to produce improved alfalfa seed, PHILO K. 13LINN, Colorado Experiment Sub-Station. Rocky Ford, Colorado- HUMAN GREATNESS Sir John Mason, Privy Coun selor to Henry Bth, spoke as. follows on his deathbed; I have seen five princes, and have been privy counselor to four. I have seen the most remarkable things abroad and been present at most state transactions for thirty years. After all this experience, I have learned, that seriousness is most com mendable, temperance the beat physic and a good conscience the best estate. Were I to live again, I would change the coyrt for the retire-* ment of the hermit; and the whole time I have spent in the palace, for one hours communion with God. When I look at the tojnbs of the great every motion of envy dies; when J read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsakes me; when I meet with the grief of parents upon the tombstone, ipy heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of parents themselves, J reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we piust quickly follow. Whep J see beings lying side by side with those that despised them, when J behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divide the world with their disputes and contests; I re? fleet with sorrow and astonish ment on thf frivulous competi tions, factlqfiSand debates of piankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of whom some died yesterday, and some, six hun dred years ago; lam reminded of that day when all mankind will be cotemporaries, 'and make their appearance together, NO 18