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Cheyenne Wells Record VOL. 10 I ®lfc of (Etirgrttn? MrUa CARROLL BROWN, CASHIER Save For A Purpose CAVING MONEY is worth while, for it makes every day profitable to you. But first of all have an object for saving— j sot a goal for yourself. You have an am bition—an education, a home of your own, | capital to start in business or for invest j ment. Start saving with a definate goal. Your | savings will grow when you have a plan. Then, too, as you go along, the compound I interest earned on your money will help I you reach your ambition in a shorter time. Capital and Surplus $27,5000 £s2^ I Give Us The Chance! 8 WE are always glad to talk business with the man C X or woman with a Missouri viewpoint, “Show-Me" 5 IF you own dairy cattle, what we can “show you” !; < in the way of a !■ § I CREAM SEPARATOR I w is going to interest you. ]! Q THERE are so many exclusive good features con- j! nected with the PRIMROSE SEPARATOR that I; j we can show you where you will profit much by £ its use. I; 8 Let us demonstrate its many fine points to you f VALOREHDW.IO 0 CHEYENNE WELLS, - - - (.'OLOUADO | Coal - Lumber I 1- Paints I 5! We Are Headquarters For the Famous J < Moffatt and Harris 5 I Routt County Coal I I Lumber y We cheerfully furnish estimates on aH bill of lumber, 5 ? Price in line with quality X S Paint Your Buildings With Mountain & Plain X { Guaranteed Paints !j § Chas- Eichenberger 8 v The Cheyenne County Lumberman O 8 OHioc; phone Residence phone 17 Q Last Sunday evening Chas Eichenherger, accompanied by h» sister. Mrs. J. W. Adams, departed for an indefinate visit to Kansas City and other Missouri points. Mr. Eichenherger is searching for a place where he hopes to again recover his health while Mrs Adams intends going lo Montrose, Mo., where she will visit with her sister, Mrs. John Boehm. The Record will follow these folks to keep them posted tin what is going on here at home. CHEYENNE WELLS, CHEYENNE COUNTY, COLORADO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1921 Our job printing talks for i's self. Mr. Thos. Wells, of Stapleton. Nebr., was a visitor in our city the first of the week to his bro ther S. S. Wells and family. While here Mr. Wells investigat ed the land situation pretty thoroughly with the idea of re turning at some future date as a pt rmanent fixture among us. Jas. Goodnight was down from Kit Carson Friday meeting up «ith old time friends and attend ing to business matters. HIGH SCHOOL NEWS OF INTEREST ! Mrs. Mary E. Fry has secured ] Miss Aline Patterson, of Arena, j to assist her in the dormitory. Basket ball practice is in full, ! swing now. An excellent line I up is promised for both boy’s and girl’s teams. The Manuel Training classes are working on the equipment cf j the new High School building. ! Next week they begin to fit up ' the supp y rooms with shelves. ! j The faculty and students of j C. C. H. S. extend their sym- ] ' pathy to Mrs. E. E. Fleming and Vernon Quinn in their bereave-, ment and sorrow in the loss of their son and brother Harry Quinn. -T'Miss Lela Hill ’2l, who is now teaching in District No. 4, is j making a name for herself in the | : first year of her teaching career, j ; Miss Hills school won twenty-five 1 dollars for first place in school exhibits at the county fair. Mrs. D. N. Corliss spent Sun- 1 ( day in Boulder visiting her folks. I | While in Boulder Mrs. Corliss: | saw Howard Shy ’2l, Zelda Jones '' | '2O, and Genevieve Wells ’l9, | who are attending University | there. These graduates are all ! making good in their work in the | University. ! | i The High School Faculty be fore leaving for the Teacher’s Convention assigned long lessons in order to keep the students I busy during vacation, but most‘ of the students decided to spend their time for a change and a rest! The picture shows received most of the change and the books the rest j 1 The Normal Training Course in the High School is a training that our county High School should most certainly emphasize, i In Cheyenne county th re are one-half of the exsiudents of the Cheyenne county High School teaching. A Normal training at , Greelev would be far too expen- I sive for the average boy and girl I who starts teaching for the first j year. The following course; Methods, Reviews, Agriculture and Physiology which includes a thorough review of all common schools, is now being taught in our county High School. The C. C. H. S. Board are for- 1 tunate in securing Mrs: H. A. Cheney as a new member of the High School faculty Mrs. Che ney is a graduate of Olivet Col lege and the University of Mich- ; igan. She received her degree from both of these institutions. Later Mrs. Cheney took post gradual e work at the Uniuersity of Michigan. Mrs. Cheney has; also had eight years of actual ex- 1 perience in the school room in addition to her Normal training. New Management The Cheyenne Wells cleaning and pressing parlors have again changed hands this week, Mr. G. ; E. Randolph, of Tulia, Texas, | being the net\ promietor. Mr. | Randolph is an experienced tailor and understands/the business from A to Z and c«nes to us very highly leccomtneiKied. He iiT forms us that JAe parlors will be conducted in -a business manner at ail times and solicits your pat ronage. •> Bring Your School Children To the Cnimercial hotel where Dr. K. C dapero, ihe well known eye, <-ar, nose and throat special ist, w ill examine their eyes and yours, free of charge on Wed nesday, November 2nd. Hold Legion Convention At Kansas City The American Legion will hold its national convention at Kans as City October 31st, November Ist and 2nd. A one-cent passen ger fare has been granted to all Legion members, their wives, widows or dependent members of their families. Several from Cheyenne Wells have already signified their in tentions of going. Certificates granting the purchase of these reduced fare tickets can be obtained from Carroll Brown, adjutant of the local Legion post These tickets must be purchased on October 27th, 28th or 29th. the fare from Cheyenne Wells to Kansas City and return will be $9.26 plus war tax, with the re turn privilege good until Novem ber 6th. Marshal '“’och will be there and i and so will Admiral Beatty, of j the British navy and many other ; important personages. Kansas City has arranged for wonderful entertainments for the Legion boys. It is hoped that Cheyenne Wells representation will be large No Place For Bootleggers Wild Horse, an enterprising community in Cheyenne county, is out after the bootlegger, and doesn’t care who knows it. Here is what the Wild Horse commun ity association has to say about it in a letter received Monday by E. H. McClenahan, federal pro hibition director. “Dear Sir:— “Members and officers of the undersigned association who desires to see this community a decent place to live in call your attention to the fact that there is certain individuals who is mak ing it a practice to appear at our entertainments in a intoxicated condition. We are to have a masqu> rade the twenty-ninth of this month, and as the ame in dividuals will, more than propab ly, again appear, we respectfully ask that you will have (hi.- oc casion in mind as. perhaps it may lead to a clue to the sourc of supplv. Respectfully yours. Wild Horse Community Associa tion” —Denver Post W C Schultz pent several days in Denver this week Geo. Sherrod Buys Beanery The many friends here of George Sherrods will be surpris ed to learn, no doubt, that he has quit the base ball game and en tered into business for himself. George got the idea into his head that he could "shoot buscits” the same way he does spit balls, etc..-and has purchased one of the leading restaurants of the city of I* Junta. Success to you George, is the wishes of this paper and your many friends here. M. E. Church Notes Sunday school at 10:00 a. m. Let everybody come and help to reach the 200 mark in the next thirty days. Preaching Service at 11:00 a. m , subject ‘Examine Yo.ir Title’ Junior League at 2:30 p m. Epwortb League at 6:45 p. m. Topic "Lessons Prom Patriots of the Past and Present”. Preaching Service at 7:30 p. m. subject “The Jerico Road.” A special invitation to the Odd Fellows. '"he public invited to all these services, come and help to build stroog the community life, for the church is the greatest com munity interest. Let every busi ness man help to hoist his town by his attendance of the church services. M. P. Dixon, Pastor Notice To Farmers’ Union Members I wish here to remind the Farm ers’ Union members who carry a policy in the Farmers’ Union Hail Insurance company, that the notes will be due November Ist, so kindly please try and settle up as the insurance was at cost; the company needs the money to settle the damages that was done and if you need some help, I will be glad to do all I can for you. The few members that insured in the Farmers’ Union Hail In surance company saved $936 00; the dues are $40.00. so there is clear a saving of SBB6 00; so lei’s all boost for the union. (adv) F. J. Vitera, Agent Ask Nick about Dream Electro iyte. Nicks Battery Shop. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. McMann entertained a number of friends at their home north of town last Sunday. Manager Hahn, of the tele phone company, accompanied by his wife, are visiting with rel atives and friends in lowa. The good housewives in our town were a mighty peeved bunch on Monday on account of the vast amount of real estate moving about. Rev. Bundy Skov, who has been spending the summer in Europe on a visit to his parents, returned to Cheyenne Wells on Friday of last week. J. C. Murray and family, who have made Cheyenne Wells their heme for the summer left last Friday for Lamar, where they will spend the winter. -''Frank Willikms is enjoying a visit from ms nephew, Floyd Williams/'atyd his wife of North Carolina. )Rmy expect to make Cheyenne Welle their home for the winter, at least Cheyenne Wells and vicinity was treated to a good soaking rain Monday evening and contin ued all through the night and amounted to something better than one inch. Our fall wheat fields were in need of thir good rain to assure another bumper crop for next season. Death Of Harry Quinn Harry Quinn, the fourteen year old son of Mrs. E. E. Fleming, died very suddenly Bt his moth er’s home last Monday morning at about 7:3ft. o’clock from what the attending/ physician pro nounced heaplt rouble. The un timely death of this young man iB indeed shocking as he appear ed to be in the best of health up to the time of his death. Last Friday morning the boy met his grandfather, D. T. Holly wood in town and decided to go out to the farm with him and spend the week end and that day began to feel ill. Saturday the boy was returned to his home and placed under the care of a physician and was thought to be getting along nicely. Monday morning the mother went up to his room to see how he was get ting along and he seemed to be resting easily, so she returned to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the family. Immediately after she again went to the sick room only to find that the boy had passed away. The sorrowing mother, broth ers and sisters, have a large number of friends in this city, whom, at this time join with the Record in extending our sym-‘ pathy in this sad hour. The remains were laid to rest at the Cheyenne ells cemetery on Wednesday moroing. services being conducted from the Cath olic church. Mo »£ One Dollar Each Asked For New Slate Hospital One dollar each from 200,900 citizens of Colorado is the ob jective of a campaign just launch ed by the State University for the establishment of the neat State general hospital. The new hospital, when ew tablished, will be a boon to to* digent suffers from disease or injury because it will place with in their reach, without cost, the very best medical and surgical attention that money can buy. When it is established any citi zen of the state who needs med ical or surgical treatment and who cannot afford to pay for it» can go to this new hospital and receive treatment free. This new hospital will belonf to all of the people of tbe state and because of this fact, the Un iversity has decided to give the people at large an opportunity to help establish it. Tne campaign, which has just been announced in quarter pago advertisements in the newspap ers, will continue for the next six weeks. Read the announce ment in another column. North and South Truck Line Monday morning the initial trip of the Eastern Colorado Transportation company, wa» made from Shtridan Lake, Julesburg, Cplo. This company proposes to handle passenger and freight service to and from tb* above mentioned towns, as wslfr as those between, and intends, to mate daily tripa. FIRST VIEW O. B. Fry is shelling com north of Arapahoe. D. O. butler shipped sheep* from here Saturday. Miss Lucille Woodrow was % week end guest of home folks. The Tom Dwyer family rat Sunday dinner at the Ross hornet Two auto loads ol people visited at the John Lowe home on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Peterson visited the county seat Satutday. Mesdames Tom and Joe Dwyer spent Thursday with Mrs. G. H. Woodrow. Miss Allin j Patterson is assisW ing at the dormitory during Mm. Fry’s illness. Tom Dwyer was grading county roads in the Dickman neighbor hood last week. Mrs. C. L. Etter entertained Sunday in honor of her fath r. Mr. Hart's seventieth birthday. - Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Woodrow and family, and Mr. and Mm. Wash. Smith were entertained at Joe Dwer’a on Sfaday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dwyer and daughter, Marjorie, and Mr. Glacier took in the movies st de Wells Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Washington Smith of Morlard, Kansas, is visiting at the home of their daughter Mrs. G. H. Woodrow. Mrs. Archie Lowe returned home Sunday from a fortnight visit with home folks near Strat ton. Her mother driving back with her. The Fair View school six a: d one-half miles south of First View will give a box social and program November 4th. Every body welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Rothmeier, Mrs Angline Ruck and daughter Pearl, Mr. and Mrs.-J. L. Mcu.se! and baby, Mr. and Mrs. J'x* Dwyer and Ben Glacier wi t* among Cheyenne Wells visitors on Saturday.