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v'htryenne Record
Cheyenne Wells, Colo.
C. T. BOGERT, Owner and Publisher
. D'&MOCB.RTIC
1 MEMBER OMDRADO EDITORIAL ASSOCIffIoTf
Published every Thursday in Cheyenne Wells
Cheyenne county Colorado, and entered at th<
poetoffice as second class mail matter. April 3,191?
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription One Dollar per Year
ADVERTISING RATES
Made known upon application,.
PIANO FOR SALE
For immediate sale will set
tremendously cheap a high grad<
piano stored at Cheyenne Wells
Liberal terms to responsible par
ty. Quality guaranteed. It in
terested in a nroposition of this
kind write THE DENVER MU
SIC Co.. Denver. Colo., at onet
for particulars. 34 39
PROSPECT HILL
Mrs G. C. Calvert cf First View
who has been visiting her parents
at Prospect Hill for several weeki
returried with her Children to
her home on Sunday. Their new
Ford about annihilates the dist
ance which previously was 17
miles from this point. There is
an oppressive silence about the
premises since the departure of
those four lively aids.
The writer and family availed
our selves of Sundays goad
weather, and attended divir.e
s-rvice at Arapahoe. Rev. Me
Nab preached to a good congre
gation on me tneine oi Kedeu p
tion. You missed something if
you failed to attend. After a
weeks toil in worldly pursuit it
is restful to hear of things that
do not perish with the using.
From the cheerful good letters
in the county papers, from vari
ous Soldier boys in whom we all
have a supreme interest. We
think they must.be quite happy
in their efforts to ‘!serve Uncle
Sam. Their patriotism is bub
ling over to get to the front t<
aid the allies in winning the wai
and all in the interest of humani
ty, going to war, and moved bj
such a motive one should wear i
victors crown boys.
“God bo with you till we moot again
Koop loves banner floating oor you
With deaths threetning wave before you
God be with you till we meet again"
We could not wish you more,
we would not wish you less.
Messrs Wolf’ Emerson, and thi
writer joined forces on Tuesda\
and butchered our winters meat
We assembled at William Wolf,
as a center. Had a splendid din
ner and a splendid time, of cours
we will have meatless days anc
numerous other Hoover ways
For patriotism always pays. If
it will help Uncle Sam to win
this war. We will eat no meai
while the world stands and then
have patriotirm akin to tin
Apostle Paul.
Editor, the Hon. S. S. Ball, of
ICahoka Missouri Gazette Heiald
noting what the Record said
about our selling out, extendeo
a kind invitation for us to come
back there. we wrote the Ed
itor our sincere thanks for his
expression of esteem and good
will. Tne Editor of the Burling
ton lowa Saturday evening Posi
J. W- Murphy, who is a lifes long
tried and true friend wrote us
an urgent invitation to return to
Kahokah Missouri and buy out
one ef the papers and be hap.vy
and prosperous along newspaper
lines. We are again thankful
but are quite sure we are too old
to learn new tricks.
JlWe have a son, David Jenkins,
who lives in Tacoma Washington
who is more than urgent for us
to break camp under these con
genial skies and winter with him
near that insular sea or Pugef
Sound. If we could ignore geo
graphical bounds and financial
limitations we would do as well
aaaiag;
“Jorno I©fc «rs anew
Our jouro<9 persue,
Ko!l around with ti e year,
A id never stand still t:l! the Master appears.
His adorable will
Let us gladly fulfill
By the patience of hope, and the labor of love.<
Some lady left at Prospect Hill
Ranch on day of sale a hand-bag
Party can have same by calling
tor it.
The following article have been
donated to the Red Cross by the
Old Wells Red Cross Branch of
Cheyenne county.
Knitted Articles
1 sweater. Mrs. E. Plessinger
2 pr wristlets. Miss Ella Williams
1 pr socks, Mrs. Edna Wilson
1 helmet, ‘
1 muffler. Mrs. B. A. Hatcher
2 wash cloths. Mrs. A. J. Matley
Surgical Dressings *
2 wash mits, Mrs. L. A. Hickey
5 prs hospital socks, Mrs. A. J.
Matley
8 T bandages, Miss Ella Williams
7 T bandages, Mrs. A. J. Matley
5 cup covers Irene and Zella
Hatcher
1 cup cover, Mrs. Dorothea Ar
terburn.
2 body binders, Mrs. Dorothea
Arterburn
5 heel and elbow rings, Mrs. R.
G. Wairinßton.
ARAPAHOE ITEMS.
C. W. Auten is helping John
Wyant do some carpent# work
ihis week.
W. G. Walker and U. P, Owens
tutoed to Cheyenne Wells Mon
day.
Mrs. J. E. Shepard left Tues
day evening for lowa and other
eastern points to spend the wint
er.
MiWinona Runquist'of Strat
on Colorado was week a end visit
>i s in uie Gorman home.
John Wyant is the possessor of
a new “Ford”.
Every body enjoyed the dance
given at “Bills place” Saturday
night. There will be another
one Dec. 29th. Every body come
Mr. and Mrs E. L. Graham and
son Edward, ate Sunday dinner
with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wash
burn.
There will be a Christmas pro
gram given at the Chapel Christ
mas Eve. Every body invited.
Mr, and Mrs. Graves are nice
ly settled in the new residence of
Dr. Dickson.
Miss Mabel Killion was brought
nome from school last Friday on
account of having the measles.
Mr, and Mrs. J. N. Snider at
tended services at Arapahoe Sun
lay and took dinner at the Dick
ion home.
Heres Wishing you all a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New
Year.
ROLL OF HONOR
The following parties have re
newed their subscriptions to the
Record since our last issue:
H Delaplain Apr. 1 18
R E Skinner Aug. 24 18
J H Curtis Sept. 1 18
G Walker Nov. 1 18
M Keidinger July 2318
H A Burns Dec. 6 18
W A Harmon Oct. 2 18
Frank Nolan was a business
visitor in Cheyenne Wells one
day this week.
Earnes Ward and neice, of
Sharon Springs were Sunday
evening visitors of the Magwires
Maurice Howard left the first
of the week for Lomax Illinos to
visit his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Lang, re
turned to Cheyenne Wells Wed
nesday evening, from Kansas
City where they have been visit
ing Mrs. Langs relatives.
Bead the Rbcobd each week
I'HK CHS. > 1.
PRIME MINISTER’S DAY OFF
Lloyd George Has Been Known to Dig
Out a Badger Just as a Holi
day Pastime.
The picturesque account which has
been given of the prime minister's agri
cultural activities on the Sussex farm
on ti»e occasion of his recent vacation
is probably suggestive only of the ver
satility displayed by him in the matter
of holiday making.
Mr. Lloyd George has been even
known to dig out a badger, says Lon
don Tit-Bits. In the vestibule of his
onicial residence may be seen a mag
nificent stuffed specimen which he
helped to bring to the surface some
years ago on Lord Cowdray’s estates in
the same county.
It is doubtful, indeed, whether, ex
cept in the matter of arboriculture
'pursuits, the present prime minister
has derived u precedent from any of
his predecessors. The nearest ap
proach, perhaps, is Mr. Balfour, whs
goes in for farming at his Scottish
home at Wliittingehnme, where some
‘splendid cattle have been turned out.
The late Lord Salisbury found his
principal source of recreation away
from the cares of office in his labora
tory ut Hatfield house, where he fol
lowed tli£ peculiar bent of his family
in scientific and electrical pursuits.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,
who was an omnivorous reader, was
never so happy as when staying at his
beloved Dover; Mr. Asquith is credited
with a passion for novel reading; Lord
ltosebery, whose literary tastes are
well known, spends most of his time
between Mentmore and his Scottish
sent; while Mr. Gladstone, when not at
Dollls hill, enjoyed a sea trip or a so
journ at some east coast resort.
GREAT CANEL IS PLANNED
I Forth and Clyde Waterway Has Been
Under Consideration .by British
I for Several Years.
j There has been vaguely before the
! public for some years a great scheme
! —the Forth and Clyde cnnal —writes a
correspondent of the London Times.
Germany did not declare war until the
Kiel canal was completed. There can
be no question that If—during these
last three years—we had been able to
move ships quickly and safely from one
side of Scotland to the other it wonld
have been to our benefit. That benefit
will always obtain, but I am not now
talking of mere transit, but of new
town planning possibilities—a calcu
lated Incentive to expansion for those
who wish to live under the most mod
ern conditions, unhampered by what
we now consider the mistakes of the
past.
Seven years ago the government
was given powers to make a road
where It pleased and acquire the
land on either side of It for develop
ment. Let them now consider taking
their courage in both hands and them
selves driving across Scotland a canal
for ocean-going ships. Along Its banks
there would arise during Its construc
tion roads and rails and power sta
tions, together with the houses of the
men making all these. Later would
follow the factories, and we should
eventually have a lineal state garden
city, seaport, manufacturing, residen
tial. up-to-date and uncongestlble. It
would be a governmental experiment
in spreading the people for their ad
vantage.
Submarine's Lifeboat.
For a long time attempts have been
made to evolve some sensible scheme
for permitting a crew to escape when
a submarine sinks, gets ensnared In a
net, or for some reason becomes un
manageable while under water. An
! Invention that has lately been protect-
I ed by patents is described In Popular
Mechanics. It is a lifeboat and, in
! reality, a small auxiliary submarine
; that normally is held in a concave sent (
j constructed In the top part of the large
! craft. Water-tight hatchways are pro
vided in each of the vessels, so that ac
i cess from one to the other of them Is
I possible. It is Intended to offer a safe
| retreat for some thirty persons. Elec
! trie and gasoline motors would propel
! it and give it a radius of action esti- i
j mated at about 500 miles. In the event
! of accident, members of the crew
j would enter the lifeboat, close the
| hatchways, free the small craft by un
; screwing two large bolts that afichor
it to the larger one, and rise to the
I surface.
She Obeyed Orders.
Some time ago. before we all got so
! dreadfully economical, a mistress told
| her new Scandinavian kitchen girl
never to leave In the refrigerator any
thing old or left over, but to keep It
clean and fresh by throwing away the
old things every morning.
On the day following, the mistress
happened to look out of the window
and she noticed something peculiar In
the yard. Calling Hulda she asked:
“What Is that and how did It get
there?”
•That’s the old Ice. ma’am, left over
from yesterday,” answered Hilda. T
threw It away lak you toP me.” — Boa
ton Transcript.
Automatic Blsetro Plating.
A machine that automatically elec
troplates 100,000 doorknobs or other
metal parts a day Is described by the
Scientific American. It constats of a
series of tanka arranged In an oval
50 feet long, over which passes an end
less chain from which rods carrying
racks are suspended. The racks are
filled with thf objects to be plated, and
these are dipped ropwwi'• ' Into fh-' I
tukfl eoat.lnlng tb. anluti-i»' w '■
«m 4. The inn:' tin
tfe. mpMf prn-. ss I:
MUMMIFIED SNAKE IN LOG
Reptile Hermetically Sealed In Htsri
of Walnut Timber Discovered
at Sawmill.
Trapped in a chamber in tho heart
of a walnut tree, which hod evident
ly been its winter homo, n blacksnake
was found mummified In the hermet
ically sealed tomb after a lapse of 20
or more years. The layers of new
timber formation indicated the period
of the reptile’s imprisonment.
A handsome walnut log two and one
half feet In diameter, shipped to a
mill at Johnson City. Tenn., from
AVawnesvillo, N. C.. held the impris
oned coil of the dead snake. To the
eye the log was perfect. After the
carriage had passed back and forth
a time or two the saw uncapped a
beautifully polished vacuum, with a
dark coll lying within. Lifted out, the
coil proved to be the preserved form
of a snake. Exposure to air caused a
sudden shrinkage.
“The snake had undoubtedly crawl
ed into the tree through a hole
rnflTß? by a broken limb that bad
decayed at the base, 1 * said M. L.
Scifers, a member of the company
operating the mill. “The new layers
of timber, which had enveloped the
opening, were of a thickness to indi
cate a growth of probably 20 years
since the snake entered the cav
ity to find the exit suddenly closed
against its escape, probably due to
the dropping of a small piece of bark
which covered the opening.”
ALCOHOL FROM BANANAS NOW
Culls of the Fruit to Be Distilled by
Americans, Who Will Erect Plant
at Honduras.
Bananas suitable for export must
always be of a certain size or number
of hands. The rejection of smaller
bunches by the fruit companies has
always been a source of complaint and
also of loss to the planters. It Is now
proposed to use them In the manufac
ture of alcohol, says a report made by
Consul E. M. Lawton at Tegucigalpa,
Honduras.
By executive order, the president
of Honduras, has signed a contract
by which an American of long experi
ence in the fruit business in the trop
ics, representing a company of Ameri
can capitalists. Is granted the right
to erect a distillery at San Pedro Sula,
Honduras. The concessionaire has de
posited* 125,000 with the government
us an earnest of good faith, which Is
to be credited toward export duties
on the alcohol at three cents gold per
gallon.
The company proposes to supply
planters with funds for planting
sugnr cane on the worn-out banana
lands, ond will also distill from the
cane, the bagasse of which Is to be
used In the manufacture of paper. Ex
periments will be made In the manu
facture of paper from banana. waste.
• .
Irishmen at the Front.
The first American officer to tx
killed In France was Lieutenant Fitz
simmons of Kansas City, who lost hie
life when German airmen bombed hos
pitals lu the rear of the British line
where he was stationed as a medical
officer In charge of wounded. The
first Americnn noncommissioned offi
cer to lose his life In the overseas ex
pedition was Scrgt. Patrick Cassidy
of Syracuse, N. Y. The first Ameri
can private soldier to give up his life
for his country in France was Private
James Tracy of Philadelphia. The
first American soldier to win the
French war cross with palms, awarded
for conspicuous gallantry, was Private
John McClain of Peeksklll, N. Y. AU
those young men, ns their names In
dicate, were Americans of Irish de
scent which Is a fair enough record,
says the San Antonio Light, for the de
scendants of the Emerald Isle. All oi
them are said to have been native
born Americans, too.
Verdi Instead of Joseph.
Some years ago one of the members
of the Trieste council was Informed by
I a secret agent that, within a few
I hours’ the city would be faced by a de-
J mand on the part of Austria for the
erection of a statue of Emperor Fran
cis Joseph in Its principal square. A
meeting of the city council was Imme
diately called. It sat during the night
hours, and passed a resolution affirm
ing the Intention of the city to put up
a statue to Verdi on the very spot
chosen by the hereditary enemy. On
the following morning the demand of
Austria was received, but the council
replied that their decision was already
taken, and that it could not be re
voked. The people of Trieste see In
the statue of the great Italian com
poser, observes a correspondent, a
symbol of Irredentlsm, not only be
cause of Verdi's nationality, but be
cause the five letters ot the name
Venll stand for M Vlvn el Re d* Italia.**
The Ruse.
••Carl Liebknecht, the German social
ist.** said a socialist at Cooper Union,
“had, before the war begun, many wily
ways of bamboozling the German gov
ernment, bat, of course, after the war
started, a man of his liberal vlewa
couldn't possibly keep out of Jail.
**l once heard Liebknecht make a
fiery speech against the kaiser In Ber
lin. A police official, seated on the
platform, rose In the middle of the
speech, and whispered In the orator's
ear. Liebknecht turned to the andl
ence and aald:
" The police official on the platform
comma nde me tf retract the words I
have Jaat spoken. True words should
never ho retracted. Let no. however,
make a concession. Let ns retract the
ward, hat keep the Mon."*
I Sell
Lots of Land
I sell land because I have every fa-
Icility for so doing
Those who want Land should come
to me to find it.
Those who have Land to sell should
come to me to finnd purchasers.
I Bring Buyer and Seller Together.
It’s as simple as A. B. C, but it re
quires a system. I have that system,
and it rarely ever fails to work,
Don’t wear yourself out trying to
find what you want. See me, tell me,
I will do the rest.
J. N. HOLLENBAUGK,
Cheyenne Wells, Colorado
Undertaking
and Embalming
I carry a complete line of Undertaking goods and
Funeral' Supplies. A licensed embalmer and all
of the most modern equipment for taking care of
and directing funerals, see to the securing of pall
bearers, preparing grave, furnishing steel vault
if desired. Phone 20.
J. N. Hollenbaugh Cheyenne Wells
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
j Performance—“delivering the goods”—is
a the biggest feature to be considered when you
>; come to buy a motor car. “Will it do as I
" expect? Is it thoroughly reliable? Is it easy
It to understand? Is it reasonable in cost of, ,
! operation?” Well, you cannot go far before
meeting one of the million of Ford owners, and
he, or she, will give you the correct answer,
j Place your order today. Runabout. $345;
S Touring Car, $360; Coupelet, $505; Town Car,
$595; Sedan, $645; One-Ton Truck Chassis, J 1 j
fl $6OO. These prices f. o. h. Detroit. j
For Sale at the E. J. HARRIS GARAGE.
Cheyenne Wells, Colo.-ado. j
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