La Junta tribune., July 12, 1913, Image 4

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Y m. tt I *»4 in the alia*!** in I **
Junta thin w** k but then. It l*»« i
n«*t * MBury for you to »n»y tu th«? vhad
unhwa you want to. t om* out of
it.
—♦ -
Kanoas* City. Khun , lnv«*#t*-*] L’" o
000 iii a municipal light plant !*-»**
tnau a year ago, ami at a i*lx r»*nt
rat*- to th* conauui* r It ha* b*-« n
no Nucreatflll that laat w*-*-k f.nn.OOO
aiitlliiotial hum voted to extend th*-
•ervl.e to that power could ulao be
furn tailed.
♦ -
t'n*l»* Jo* Cannon la a atandpat
t- r rU.it If-- u.-nt nv* rto Richmond
ImlLina, the oth**r day ami made the
prediction that there will b* no
Hull Moose party In 191 t». Richmond
la In Wayne county, which elected *»
full proitr*iiMl\« ticket last fall,
which shows how *ood political b
server th*- m i *ar Is.
■>—
Within the next two weeks Prow i
or« county will complete th«- har .
vesting of the xro--».«t wheat crop «
known iti Ita history Not only Is «
the local trnfig* nu* h larger than I
ever before, but th • prediction of I
the •*w is Is 1 1 at the yl* Id per
a*re w It b-»sk all records The own
er of 1 rl 'at* d laud n Pit wers coun- «
ty Is a fortunate Indltldual U *
mar Sparks. a
*
U» Junta i* ••’tin* !n th-- buM- t
ball x a little lal* but th*- |
rallr • n«ti U tolng i»f»**r If rixhf t
One of t b-st professional pitchers j
In Denv* has been *-nxak**d and an
effort will b n ad- to defeat !-*■ h
Animas, tl • ti- a t*-sni cf th* (
valley \ g« ***d t*as* ball team ts * „
splendid advertisement for any town
and nearly *-\**ry community except' ¥
1 ..'iinar mi willing and anxious to |
put up funds suffl* lent to g**t In t
th- x»me Lamar Sparks
♦_
The *-xe* utlv*- committee of the (
prog regal v«* stut* rommlft*-* of Ke
tuckv h* Id h me* tlnx 111 ls»u|svll|e *
recently d*-\*»t*d larx*ly to th*- f‘»r „
mat lon of rules for the government (1
of the party during the next cant- v
palxn It was derided to establish |
n- wsp.ii>ers In th lnter*-st **f the ,
proxre««|te party at various place* .
In Kentucky, and It was also d»*- y
elded t.i nit » dldat** l'i the field ;
|r* at 1. -%**t • irhty of the counties of ,
the atat* The partv will have can- ,
t
K*n»**ekv j
—w -1
Him . inyt«**«t> iciiiiml h*-r* know R t
W Sta |*-\ «i a'l**.--1 det*H tlx •• of ,
th*- Insurant* «omi*anles # If there ,
is su* h a p'-rs**M around these parts
he will rell*-\•• ih*- general s«sp#*nse
and confer s ur- at favor upon Kens
tor Campbell by gt* Ini an affirmative ,
answer to that interrogatory Tti«- (
senator propound*-*! this ijuery to In
numerable prospective Jurymen the
first of the w#**-k and not a single
on** fessed up to ev**n having ever
heard of that distinguish'd gentle
man He may he a myth or the
shadowy cogitation of a Campbell
brainstorm
. ♦
While In Colorado Spring* re. ♦•»»!
ly John Harding of th*- White lions*.
hs l th*- pleasure of fraternising at
his ho’* I with I. Th*-o Hubs th»
celebrated portrait painter of Par
!• France Mr Pub- has J*u*t com
plef.sl a portrait «»f Woodrow Wilson
and when Mr Harding 1* ft the
Springs h*- was promised a photo
rrsph of the painting The photo
graph arrlv**d on Thursday morning
of this week and Is an eyrdlent
IlkrnrM of our democrat If pres I
dent, which many local lovers »*f
Jeffersonian almplir Itv will probably
be ((leased to Inapert
In an Intervb-w with Polly Pry on
that all absorbing topic, ’’the w.ath
er. M F II llrandenburg. chief of
the weather bureau In Denver, makes
•nme observations that are of Intrrevt
and tells why It Is that Colorado *•«
espew heal waves (hat kills hundreds
Id the east "In Colorado." says Ibe
weather rhleff. "unless the nlatit »s
cloudy, which la rare, evaporation of
beat la so rapid that almost with
the decline of the aun a fresh and
Invigorating coolness fills the air
If there are clouds they act aa a
blanket which prevents the hent 00-
rendtng. otherwise our nights are al
ways cool. TV re la every reason
why the world should tarn lomIM
eyes toward Colorado In the owner
lime, bat mm at all tor oar people
•am— la toot the tower toveb at
Man
about
Town
this tluic of year In March <>r April,
or October or November, It s a goovl
thing to get to s«-a level, but July.
August and September arc more com
fortable In Colorado than any other
plait* In America. The r***t of tin
world is all right when the steam
heat is turned on. but when the gOod
old summer time comes Colorado is
rood enough for Coloradans
Perhaps you will not believe l».
but they say one of our town girls
recently sent th* usual twenty-five
cents to find out how to whiten the
hands, and In a few days the an
swer came "Soak them in dish a a
ter Her mother was tickled a!
most to death
A ii*-w *iee has been found for
sw• • *-• t ilov**r which grows wild over
western |»«rt of Kansas, ami vhlch ■
lias lately proved of value as n sto* k
food Some one has found that It Is
a x'Kml thing to drive the fibs away
All over Carden City bum-lies of
the < lover ar*- fastened to the s reen
doors Houa* keepers say it is the
best thing yet discovered to help
keep the fit* s out of th*- house
Mr ami Mrs Frank Taylor, of Pu
eblo came over from Ordway last
Saturday by th*- automobile route f -r
a f*-w days* visit. Mr Taylor hav
ing business to arti-nd as one «>f
th.- directors *»f the Otero Irrigation
District Mr Taylor was the con
tractor for Pueblo county's n*-w mil
lion dollar court house, and Is **
present engaged In building s new
high school building in the town of
Ordway The buildlng will 1m- two
storl**s in heighth, construct**! *»f
brick with a concrete basement, snd
will be prmid*-*! with eight room*
It will *i*st about Ul.uoo. without '
the furnishings
♦—
One of the leading qu*-»tlons pro
pounded m pro«(>o*‘tlv *• Jurymen at
i* Ilian* hard Caldwell ir al was !k»
you r*-ad the Fowler Tribune 1 *" Only
tine juryman pi* ad«-d guilty, ami his
offense was ftoniewhnt itiUKnted
wh*-g h* voluiit*-*-re*l th*- Informs
tlon that his wife was a subs* rib
■ r ami that h*- unmet ini* read tlie
lMi>« How th. lountry m-w«pap-rs
would soff* r If It wasn't for the
l**ar women. <*‘ml bles> 'em We have
never found a full-grown male bl|e*d
vet that would •onf.-io* that he was
* faithful reader of ht« horn*- family
J*uirnal Th«-> take It because ‘ the
wife" wants It that's all Well,
the Fowler Tribune waa pretty w*»ll '
a«lv«-rtlstMj at the trial ami that's
worth soim-thlng to lluck
Th** progresslv, party will he one
ve*r old on August ’-th Plans are
under way all over the *v»uutry for
u si** il *el«-brat|ion of Founder’s
Dsy The Idea was suggested at thu
n * '-iii Missouri state wide conference
In St l«oul» wh«re a proposition was
made that «u* h county In Missouri
should have a rally on that day
Thlw l«il to the sugg*-etlon that th«-
♦lag's * *-l* hra»ion should b«- turned
Into b.t>k«-t plmfi a wherever possible,
at i* dnts selected by county chair
men The id-.« was Immensely pop
*ilar and Walter Brown, of Ohio,
head of the organisation work of the
National Committee who was at the
Kt me*tlnr. at once ttw»k It
up with other States The result
will be a nation w Ide a* r|*-a of coun
ty progressive plcnl* s or other
meetings on \ugust T.th
Twenty veara ago our preaent I’nlt*
***! States Senator. Charles S Thom
as presided over a “Silver Confer
ence" in Denver, during which hu
made a aomewhat startling state
ment to this effect "We are face
to fare with a crisis which has had
hut few parallels In the history of
this country- so deep, so broad, and
so far reaching that It does not In
volve egaggeration to predict that It
* m* ans another phase of the old ques
tion of slavery over oat in It Is a
s'agnatton of business, a paralysis of
commerce " Twenty years ago free
silver waa the panacea for all human
Ilia. Nowadays Thomas thinks It Is
free sugar and free wool that we
need to keep us from Industrial slav
ery It Is the great privilege of a
statesman to rhange his mind, but
he fhlls down so many tlm«a on diag
nosing what Is the matter with ua.
nod sever makes the right guess
•new. that we sometimes wonder
•toot he rsolfy thinks when he qnlef.
I? tots down to commune with him
the stole sf the not ton? ttoso
; anybody know anything for sure? It
don’t look like It.
Great pr»*parations are being made
for me entertainment of the Hes-I
Camp Session of the Woodmci of
tnc World, which la to take pi** • jt
Colorado Springs during the ww-k
*of July -’Mb to August -Id. Dei.vate*
will b-- present from California, Or**-
gou.Washington, Nevada, Idaho. Mon
tana. I tah Wyoming aud Cob-rad* 1
which comprise the Pacific Jurtsdl*
* tlon. S W. Brown will rt*prv«' ih**
local * amp, and C. S. McKlnl* Oi*-
• camp at Fowler.
I —.
Th* fine new mahogany bar »
the Klks installed in their club r - *m*
during th*- holidays, which dl*p«*n»«*d
liquid refreshments for a ver> brief
season, and was then consign 'd !o •
Innocuous desuetude owing to th**
proteat of the better element of the
order, waa dismantled, packed up and
shipped back the flmt of th* week
to the Walters* Brewing Company j
from which It emanated, when- It l* l
hoped It sill abide until this town
again becomes wet territory which
w ill 1» • along about tile time tl.; ( i»-
brlej blows his lost trump Well,
here - I'Miktng at you. B. P O K ‘»d
may you llv« l*»ng and prosper and
rotitlnue to progress forward a
*lry t*»wn. Instead of backward May
your watchword be. "Do Go- ***
*»f y »re .oid rememb**r that
hmeßts to di
lory which la a plain vidatl* -f ■>*
blndliig a Inw as any oth* r. • '
•r !»*• '-numerated In the cat- ' of
«.-<h.| d • -1-." no matter how brilliant
th- Irna/ltiatlon *»f some of \n* r
member.- When you permit t • v:h
In your 'home" or lodge root ’hat
do not reflect honor upon yo your
*1 *l> e«ls ar.- written upon t sand
Instead « f upon the tablets «-f love
an*! memory where they ought to be
B<* good, do good—lt pays In more
wavs than one Right Urine right
thinking high alms and not* pur
p..s»-s an- th*- only things worth while
after all In this vale of tear*
Part « r fins comes from Jln> Ham!
L--wls. democratic senator ft - n I Hi- ,
mils Part of it doesn't:
When l.* wts was a young man he
alternated between being br-*k*- and
havtnt- Ito In Seattle b*- was broke
Tii'-nf ir**, strolling down th- street t
and obesrvti g a nice younv man
ii-owliiig at a pile of coal h- bowed j
*-onrteotia|y.
’ I prestinn sai l he that you
wish that coal carried ;> stairs to
your offlc I will d** r for sixty
cents ”
F*»r flftv • • ts " '•reeled the
, nlcs young man
I sixty * • nts,” r- *te*l Lewis
1 urban Hy.
Oh said th** you- man. 'g*-t
to work." I
L*-w!s * arriv'd the upstairs
When In- -.imlnd.-d hi- k be dls
.ovr-d that th*- nice v,. „ man had.
taken the noon train f- - the Boat ,
Ilia partner In th«* la v fflce paid
'Lewis fifty cento— flrtnl> Eleven
v»a'-s afterward l/*l» t to Con
c-s from Washington * *i.day he
observed the nice young in. then a
representative from th*- K-.«1onla, N
I Y district
“Warren Brewster llo*-k. r," said
Mr Lewis, bowing, siui-i-.c. lifting
Ms hat with that gall*** grace
whit li is his only. "No *1- t»t you do
not remember me But '!.-\en year*
aco In Seattle ’*
'*! know," said Hooker • | remem
ber you perfectly Her*- * v.uir dlon*.”
Henry J Allen, th*- r-salve ed*
Uor of the \\ it hits Kan Beacon, (
has Just been having a m public
d«-batf with Chari* a F S- it, the!
atandpat n publh an - x ;reeaman I
of Kansas They had a*• *a* tight!
Inict la i*ol«irailn tt \|r. Scott
ha<l th** tlm, of hi- lit.- .ding th#
ronrtlonnrr p-r'* Aft-r 1 iur dart
of lit -hUffllllK t!. '!m effort
to «*vgdv Mr Allot!'- -i'.»■ k, Mr.
Srott *>• ft na 11>- into th*
open «lth • plain di-tUnnum that
tho rrpublli an pnrt> la not g pro
gno-lvr |wrtf nnd that th> thing
1 for procrt'—lton to do L. t,, )otn th#
' i pro*rr--|v<i party.
ThU I- it la-t an ninhorMatlr#
1 rnnfo-nlon of ••tartly «ha! ho pro
r graonlvon hn»«- b»«-n rharxtng aboot
1 > th* rrpublli an party for tin laat (Ir#
' ' y*ara or mor*
1 j Mr Allrn and Mr Rrott wof#
i ondor agr**m*nt to con Imo tub d#-
I ! bat* In Kanaaa. but th* aiandpsttan
I I «r*r* Ml dlarouragod by ib* ranatta
‘ In Colorado that tb*y hat* haw trS
1 Ing to ranr«| th# Kanaa, daUSL A
1 n*wapap*r raport from Port Hal sin
Colorado, whar* ona of th* dibit in
orrurrad. uya that. d*aplt* Mr. Ah
1 tan’a ability. “It la no dlarrodM V#
1 him to aay that h* can't poagMy
maka a* many rota, for th* pMSH^
' air## aa do** Chart** P limit, gbsis
1 man of th* rapnbliran n»i tonal pMr
r l*P rommltt*#. Who daUtad mOS
■ him.” Th* raport go** on t 0 mm.
:
I be prrp-'tuated, the fart that It U un
alterably oppoaed to all tbo prim Iplea
of direct legislation, the Initiative,
ref. reiiduin and recall He go- a far-
I tner than ttiat. he aaaerta that direct
t leyistatlon lead* Inevitably to anarchy
’ nr deap..»tl»lu. The I’nlted State* I*
i now beaded Inevitably Iu that ill
i roctlou, he eontrnda. and only the
- republican parlv .an rescue It fnim
luipendtiiK d.-atruitlon '
Twenty y.-ar* ayo Canon .vial waa
tdvirtlaed for -ale In lai Junta bv
all dealer* for 95 r.O per ton. or
fj so p-r half ton Coal ro»t* more
nowaday* <m account of the tariff,
probably—railroad tariff, coal com
' bine tariff, or aom*. other kind of
1 tariff The tariff cover* a multitude ;
of high price*, and if have got
' titled to thinking that It la reapon
alble for all the high coat of living
' III* that afflict ua After the demo
crata put everything on the fre#
Hat we may find out aomethlng. c|th- .
*-r one way or th# other, and what-1
ev.-r It la. lh* democrat# will b* re
aponslble. If tariff reduction ahould
demonstrate that democratic th.-orle*
are wrong, why aom a of ua would be
quite happy, but If these theories,
wh.-n administered, ahould prove a
panacea for all th* economic and gov
ernmentnl 111- th-t afflict u* why
a hat would some of ua do then.poor
thlna’ S. arch m. *»«ri h every
body!
hast Wedm -day morning ».- rec-l>-
evl a tHJ-t.ard fn.m Mr- Mary I'leree, j
of Billings. Mont., showing a vl.-vvj
of • Roosevelt's Cabin. Capitol |
tlround*. Bismarck N l> ' The cab- .
In wua Roosevelt's ranch house In ;
the Bad 1-nnda of North Dakota It
whs moved from the Bad Lands to,
the St Louis Expoaltlon. lut'-r to j
ih.- World’s Pair at Portland, and
finally found a permanent home at
Bismarck. Mrs Pierre was post
nilstr.es si Mud Creek. Colo, whim
Is located south anfl east of l-'tl
Vlitmus, and cam** to l.a Inula to
meet Roosevelt on the occasion of
-his visit to this city In September
'of last year Mr* Pierce was a
neighbor of Roosevelt's In th*- Bad
| lands and was a great admirer of
’ the man then and Is yet. We
th*- pleasure of showing the csnl to
Mr Roosevelt when he visited this
city Wednesday morning, and he re
memb*ml both the ranch house and
Mrs Pl.-ree. snd *eeni<-d to be pleas
led to have both recalled to hit mind.
In the little amenities of life Itoosc- ,
veil I- as common as an old shew,
notwithstanding the fact that he lias
i proved a colosstia In soma of the big
affairs of Cit* nation, and through his
llnitiative |s te-lng llm-d np for Its
final destiny
+
C P Helm left last Wednesday for
,11.1’- ».1 from there made an eight?
| inti.* Journey by automobile to Ta
os. N M where he went to look
over a land pro|e t that the promot
| era ar. endeavoring to Indnre him to
'take over and mana.o- for them
Mr and Mrs Thomas Drake. of
Payett.-vtile trk . were over Sunday
visitors with P McCloud and family,
while on th. Ir way home from *
trip to California
8 II Kllttore of Wlthlta Kan.
where he Is located a* commercial
agent of the Missouri Pacific, was
a La Junta vlsllor laat Tueaday. the
guest of hi- brother. <l. A Kilgore
The visiting Mr Kilgore, aa well aa
hi* brother, la one of the plnn.-*r» of
La Junta Ha tiittr to thl* city In
, I**l. and left In th- fall of l«W. He'
waa city clerk of Iji Junta In 1 ,
and I**4. under Mayor lu-nny'* ad- ,
1 ministration and alto ae.relary of (
'I the achool board at the time the
17.000 bond* were voted In I**4 for
'Jl«« Junta's first four room atone
' achool building, now greatly enlars
'jed and known aa the Lincoln bulhl
: Ing Mr Kilgore also ralasd th*
' money for th* building of th# Pr#»-
1 byt*rlan church, th* first church ad I- .
1 flea erected In In Junta, which I* I
now located on B#nta Fa avenue and ,
’ used bv the Mannonltea The moat
1 aatnnlahtng thing revealed to Mr.
Kilgore the#* day* I* the fact that
lln Junta I* a dry town When h*
' lived her* In Junt# waa very wild
and woolly—with th* accent on th*
’ wet
t D#at*> #f Mr#. Laura Ann Huff.
' The death of Mrw. Laura Ann Huff
occurred Tuesday evening gt th#
• horn# of her daughter. Mr*. J. H.
' AckulU. la North La Junta. No da
1 flail* ar rang amenta have been made
l lor the funeral, but It la aapected
1 that It will be bald tome time on
> Monday, aa the children of th* da
• fanned who live at a dlataor* from
1 La Juau will arrive la the rltjr to
■ morrow. Mr*. Half bad bean an In
> valid for th* past tea year*. She waa
r barn la llttaala. aad waa ality-al*
' faara old at the tlm# of her dead).
■ Abe tears# bar daagfetrr* aad five
> aons. Mra. Hoff kad b**n g raatdaat
1 a* Colorado br tk# paat twoatr-flr#
. reara Mar kaabaad. Bernard Half.
• panned attar bar jtoan apa baa j
Awfully Busy
But Perfectly Cool
LA JUNTA ICE AND STORAGE CO.
Phoiia, Junta 60S
Pay Day
SPECIALS
All white and wash material at a
Bjg kntorti—
All crepes, cotton corduroys, voiles and burlaps, 18c
to 25c qualities, at per yard
15 Cents
All crepes, cotton corduroys, striped fibres, and fancy
voiles, 35c to 50c qualities, at
29 Ceats
All white voiles, striped, fancy and plain, also fancy
white ratine, $l.OO and $1.25 qualities, at per yard
75 Celts
4» 1,
We are showing our new fall Ginghams, Toile du
Nords, and Bates' Mills, at
IS tab .
SUITS NEW FALL SHOES
The KENDALL DRY
GOODS COMPANY