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Interest the Children fws.&| TOR SAVINGS STAMPS ' ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT They Can Help CAPITAL (50,000 BURPLUS $25,000 TOTAL RESOURCES $520,000 . ..t h e ... First National Bank CENTRAL CITY, COLORADO. BUSINESS FOUNDED IN 1882. ORGANIZED AS A NATIONAL BANK l«t, 1874. One of the oldest banks in Colorado, it has for fifty-four years striven to furnish the public with every facility consistent with’conservative banking practice. Officers and Directors: , J. C. JENKINS, President J. C. McSHANE, Vice-President H. H. LAKE, Cashier W. O.‘JENKINS, Assistant Cashier WILLIAM MARTIN IFOR SAUO ** ‘ * :: :: • ’ Having bought a metor truck for delivery purposes, we offer the ] | ’ following for sale cheap: • • ~■ < > ■ > ;; ONE EXPRESS WAGON. ! , ' ! '• ONE SPRING WAGON. \\ ' ' ONE BUGGY. I J ; ", ONE BUCKBOARD. ill ! ! - ; | l \ m GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING ; ; BLAC^HAWK 4 The Clark Hardware Co. I Choicest of Groceries Nuts Figs Dates Candy Oranges Grape Fruit Pop Corn Pickles Olives Fancy Cakes The New Sauer-McShane Merc. Co. •4-«4-54»4«4-i»4-«4«4«4-84-«4-J-84«4-«4-«4-«4-»*4-»4-«4-«4-»4-« 2 7 jj *:* Stamp /Mill Screens \ | Caps, Fuse and Candles. •; I ' . ' ' ' F=S=£gET.— “ * il - Agonta for the Old nrf »i"“i - J \ 1 California Giant Powder! Quick Silver and Mill Chemicals, Gas I Pipes, Steam Fittings, Gold Retorts, || + Belting, Hardware. Stoves, Rope, Etc. j | The Jenkins-McKay HardwareCo.' x < S CENTRKL CITY, - COLO. i, *•+•+•+•+•+• >4 7H-B+o+*+»+»+*+«+9+«+*+»+«+»+B4. Read the Observer, $2 PERSONAL HON Neil McKay was lm Denver this week on commissioner's business. 'Walter Boyle left fer Denver yes terday, where hi* son, Tom, will have a little toe amputated to enable bl>m to join the marines. The. toe has grown cn top of the one next to It and this disqualified him physically for the service. - 1 Richard Horlheck and family came up from Denver Sunday in their Ford to rick terries. They former- j ly resided In Black Hawk. | Tony Cesario and C. D. Hughes left this morning In a t-uckboard for ( the east fork of the Troublesome to spend a few weeks fishing. James Wood will Join them tbis afternoon, going horseback. j Charles Word) came up from Den ver yesterday and bought the James Barbee car and took It hack with him last evening. Miss Vera Goldberg and. Miss Mary Cody were among those who acccm ranlcd the soldier hoys to Denver yesterday. Mrs. George Rule arrived today from Colorado Springs to visit her mother and sister. Dr. J. E. Beal left this week for Casper, Wyo., to engage in the prac tice of dentistry. i E. T. Butler, who is heavily inter ested in mining in the county, was ( up from Denver this week on busi ness. | Mrs. Altvater came up from Den ver today to live for a wfcile with her son, Henry. ' Sol. Bacharach was in Denver this week. | Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Moulton left the latter port of the week in their car for Lake City. They were ac companied as far as Denver by Miss Dolly Beamam who Went down to see ti e new daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fuelseher. L. J. Williams came up from Den ver yesterday on business* Rev. G. S. Parker, C. O. Richards and Jr.mes R. Rule were angling on Bovldcr creek Tuesday. Rev. Park er caught the largest fish of the Uree the other two reluctantly! tes'tsfjfng to the fact. .J. L. Hurat, Of Denver, arrived in Central Tuesday to see the county j and enjoy the mountain atmosphere, j Henry P. Altvater went to Denver Tuesday to see his brother, Alberti before he left fer Lincoln, Neb., to do service for Uncle Sam. Mnny a man who couldn’t train a dog decently imagines that he Is an Ideal child trainer. It is usually a case of misplaced confidence when a woman marries a man for the purpose of reforming him. When a woman doses her Invalid husband with herb ten and he doesn’t get well he is either contrary or un grateful. THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW Of the old-time vegetable dyes Bra zil possesses an almost endless variety. In some parts ot northern Arabia the hills are so well stocked with bees that no 6ooner are hives placed than they ure occupied. Tungsten, which only In recent years has come into general use, was discussed exhaustively by a Spanish treatise written in '4781. With the lions, tigers and other members of the cat tribe, the night finds them at their liveliest, nnd they sleep most between the midduy meal and supper time. Because of the war Scotland has been cutting down u great many tree** to supply its own needs. Much of the land thus cleared will eventually be used for agriculture. Currants from Greece are now packed by machinery in a manner which is far more cleanly and eco nomical than the old “hand methods.” The lutter have always been question able. A cablegram from the American consul at fuelling, Sumatra, received April 22,.states that the government bus prohibited the exportation of cin chona bark, quinine, quinine salts, tin, tin ore and kapok. Uruguay has appointed a commis sion to Investigate the feasibility of a scheme to turn the locust pest into a blessing by using these Insects in the manufacture of fertilizer, soup and lu hriciints and stock feed. The hell of Mahomet Is ns full of terror as his heaven Is of delight. The wicked will suffer alternately from fold and heat; when thirsty, boiling water will be given them, and they will be shod with shoes of fire. A brass band nnd football nnd cricket teams ore found among stu dents of the missionary college at Lovedale, South Africa, the only Insti tution in the Dark Continent that of* • ers Africans a stuudard college cdu* cation. THE OILPrN JOBBERVTBR SPIRIT OF FRANCE GLOWS IN SACRIFICE OF UTILE CHILDREN- Much has been told of the spirit of France since the war began. Many heroic things victories, sacrifices, courage beyond belief, uncomplaining resistance .to the slow agony of hunger, cold and personal loss, have developed from this marvellous, idealistic devo tion to their own land. But listen to this tale, ye who feel abused because your morning is not as sweet as of yore: Last winter sugar was scarce in France, even as it is now, sq scarce that it was and is an almost un known luxury to many. Officials of the. Red Cross de cided to invite the school children of Paris to a luncheon. So all the small folka of the city were gath ered together and feasted on the great cups of chocolate which is their delight, with an ample -sup ply of bread. Then because candy is no longer made in France, because the land of French pastry knows pastry no more, because there must be a sur prise, a final treat, a “bonne bouche,” each little guest, out of the stores of the Red Cross, was given to eat a lump of sugar, one of the half dominoes of loaf sugar. There were smiles of thanks, grateful words of delighted ap preciation from these children of Paris, starved for sweets through so many weary months. But then—a pause. A few of the scores of children ate their sugar joyously; others looked at It longingly; but most of It was at once whisked out of sight, clasped closely In little hands, slipped Into tiny pockets. Then came surprised questionings from those giving and serving the luncheon—and whispered, half-shy ex planations In response. “Yes, yes, every one loved sugar, but —" and then It was discovered that each small person had the same thought, born of the wonderful spirit of France, quite without other prompt ing. If the sugar were taken home, saved quite carefully. It might be put Into a tiny box and sent to a soldier, fight ing at the front for France. We in America now are asked to eat not more than two pounds of sugar a month —which is far more than the French are getting—ln order that we may send a part of our usual amount to our own soldiers In France and that we may share with these little French patriots. 50-50 RULINGS STILL IN FORGE SAYS FOOD GHIEF A misunderstanding which threat ens to be serious has arisen In con nection with a recent order of the Food Administration, releasing house wives of Colorado who voluntarily placed their homes on an absolutely wheatless basis until harvest from their pledge. This release from the absolutely-whentless-pledge w*as In no way intended to carry the impression thnt the 50-50 rulings have been abol ished or that the wheat saving pro gram should be cast aside. “In spite of the great harvest that has been granted to America, wheat saving must go on,” declared Thomas B. Stearns. Federal Food Administra tor for Colorado. “It would be the height of short-sightedness for the United States, with bitter war ahead of her nnd possible years of short crops, to eat up her wheat now.ln stead of creating a vast national store house from which she and her Allies can draw as long as war lasts.” COLORADO RESORTS HELP HOOVER One hundred and fifty of Colorado’s resort hotels are helping the Food Ad ministration to help to win the war. Menus from these establishments have been sent to Washington by the Ho tel and Restaurant Division of the Colorado Administration as proof that living up to the regulations la one of the best and easiest things they have to do. Sugar Is Scarce You can help win the war by making one lump ot augar do the work of two. Use sugar sparingly. Use none at all If you can do with out. Limit -ourself to the mnxl mum of two pounds per month. Sugar slackers and cheats can undoubtedly find ways of beat ing the Food Administration's sugar system. Red blooded Americans whose heart "ts with the soldiers In France, won't ‘nr. Sugar means Ships. Ships mean Soldiers. Soldlera mean—VICTORY, Almost 70 per cei\t of all the augar consumed In this country Is used in the households. Women of America, make the sugar go around. DAN CUPID’S WORK By LOUISE OLIVER. (Copyright, DIS, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) They say love laughs at locksmiths. It does. And It has been proved thnt It also laughs at gas bomb and shrap nel, bayonet and trench knife; the depth of the sea and the tops of the highest mountains, the Icy terrors of the frozen North and bitter agony of the desert. But there Is one thing left. We shall learn how love conquered that. Betty Barstow was a very pretty girl, but spoiled. Perhaps that was why she merely laughed at Jerome Gilbert, a young superintendent In her father's mill, when he fell foolishly, desperately, pitifully In love with her. “Betty,” he plead, “no one ever loved as I do. You see it’s the only thing I live for. Other people have been In love, or thought they were, but ft was nothing to this. Can't you feel It? Don't you see It, thnt I can’t live with out you? You'll find It out some day, why can't you give me a little hope?” Betty laughed. “Eventually, why not now?" she quoted from an adver tisement. Jerome colored. "You’re cruel, Bet ty. You don’t mean It, I know, but It hurts awfully. I can't stand It, any longer. I—l’m going to enlist and I hope I get killed.” But Betty had heard that before, and It worried her not. ’ He did enlist In the aviation corps. That was the next thing Betty heard of him, and he was gone without say ing good-by. Then she grew thoughtful. Perhaps she had been a little unkind. She really hadn’t Intended to go so far. She had only meant to tease him a little and make It up the next time he came. “He doesn’t deserve any credit for going.” she said to her father one morning. “He went because —because he was cross about something, I be lieve.” “I don’t think so,” returned her par ent. “He confided to me a couple of months ago that as soon ns we had certain Important work done In the mill he thought he would go.” “Oh!” Betty's eyes filled with tears of humiliation and she left the break fast table hurriedly. For the first time In her life Betty had a rebuff, and with characteristic wilfulness, fell In love with the unat tainable. And then she discovered that she hnd really been In love with Jerry all along. Then her mind being serious for the flrst time In her life, she began to think enrpestly of the war and of what she could do to help. She went In for Bed Cross work for a while, and work ed tirelessly In the Woman's Motor corps. But there were "others who could do her work and she wasn’t satisfied. She wanted something distinctive. Then one day she read how carrier pigeons were needed in France, and how difficult It was to get people to train them. And Instantly she decided that thnt was her work. She went out to their house In the country, with only the enretnker and his wife for company, nnd started out with twelve birds. It was Interesting work nnd kept her busy. She would take the birds a short distnnee away from the farm at first, in her motor car, nnd let them fly hack. Then gradually she Increased the distance, letting the birds fly alone. At Inst It got Impossible for her to take them herself, ns the distance grew , greater, and she would ship them to friends In different cities to release. They came back unfailingly, always with their ljttle brims tubes containing a friendly note. White Wing was the swiftest of them all. Betty was very proud of him. One day she sent a message to her self, or rather to Jerry. She hnd been so lonely all week, and the solitude of the country gave her plenty of time to think. “Oh. Jerry, Jerry, If you would only eome back,” she cried nightly on her pillow. “I’d never let you go away ngnln." The next time she went to the city, her father was shocked at her nppenr nnce. “You're working too hard with those birds," he said. "Pack up nnd ive'll both go to the seashore for a week. They can set along for n week without you." So Betty went, but she took her birds to test them In a five hundred mile flight home, the longest they hnd ever made. And thnt was when she sent the message to herself, or rnther to Jerry, for on the little slip of paper she tuck ed Into the tube on White Wing's leg was written: "Oh, Jerry denr, come j home. I do love you. Betty.” Now arctic lcc, nnd burning sands, 1 gns bombs nnd trench knives not hav ing badled love, such n thing ns n few hundred feet In the air was not going to get the host of the wily little fellow. Jerry was out on a trip, flying low, when suddenly something hit him In the breast. There was n flutter of white, nnd behold, a pigeon lay stunned liy the ImpYict, In his lap. Here was rnmnnee! Jerry, keen for adventure, spied the tube nnd extracted the note, nnd thus received by Dnn Cupid's spe cial delivery Betty's heartbroken mes sage. Jerry's leave of absence came Just, when Betty arrived home. There wns no preliminary. He Just gathered her In his arms nnd kissed her. “How did you know, dear," sho ask ed curiously. "A llt|se bird told me,” he confessed. OUR SAVED FOOD FED THE ALLIES Food Administrator Writes Presi dent America Conserved 141,- 000,000 Bushels Wheat CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN. Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by * 844,600,000 Pound*. Conservation measures applied by, the American people enabled the Unit-, ed States to ship to the Allied peoples and to our own forces overseas 141,- 000,000 bushels of wheat and 844,600,- 000 pounds of meat during the past year, valued In all at $1,400,000,000.' This was accomplished in the face of a serious food shortage In this country, bespeaking the wholeheartedness and patriotism with which the American people have met the food crisis abroad. Food Administrator Hoover, in a let ter to President Wilson, explains how the situation was met. The voluntary, conservation program fostered by the Food Administration enabled the piling up of the millions of bushels of wheat during 1917-18 and the shipment of meat during 1917-18. The total value of all food ship ments to Allied destinations amounted to $1,400,000,000, all this food being bought through or in collaboration with the Food Administration. These figures are all based on official reports and represent food exports for the harvest year that closed June 30, 1918., The shipments of meats and fats (including meat products, dairy prod ucts, vegetable oils, etc.,) to Allied des tinations were as follows: Fiscal year 1916-17... .2,166,500,000 lbs. Fiscal year 1917-18.. ..3,011,100,000 lbs. Increase 844,600,000 lbs. Our slaughterable animals at the be ginning of the last fiscal year were not • appreciably larger than the year be fore and particularly In hogs; they were probably less. The increase in shipments Is due to conservation and the extra weight of animals added by our farmers. The full effect of these efforts began to bear their best results in the last half of the fiscal year, when the ex ports to the Allies were 2,133,100,000 pounds, ns ngainst 1,266,300,000 pounds In the same period of the year before. This compares with an average of 801,000,000 pounds of total exports for the same half years In the three-year pre-war period. In cereals nnd cereal products re duced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations have been: Fiscal year 1916-17..259,900,000bu5he1s Fiscal year 1917-18. .340,800,000 bushels Increase 80,900,000 bushels Of these cereals our shipments of the prime brendstuffs In the fiscal year 1917-18 to Allied destinations were: Wheat 131,000,000 bushels and of rye 13,900,000 bushels, a total of 144,900,- 000 bushels. The exports to Allied destinations during the fiscal year 1916-17 were: Wheat 135,100.000 bushels and rye 2,300,000 bushels, a total of 137,400,000 bushels. In addition some 10,000,000 bushels of 1917 wheat are now In port for Allied destinations or en route thereto. The total shipments to Allied countries from our last harvest of wheat will be therefore, about 141,000,- 000 bushels, or a total of 154,900,000 bushels of prime breudstuffs. In ad dition to this we have shipped sonic 10,000,000 bushels to neu|rals depend ent upon us, and we have received some imports from other quarters. “This accomplishment of our people In tills matter stunds out even more clenrly If we bear in mind thnt we hnd available In the fiscal year 1916-17 from net curry-over nnd us surplus over our normal consumption about 200,000,000 bushels of wheat which we were üble to export thnt year without trenching on our home lonf,’’ Mr. Hoover snld. “This last year, however, owing to the large failure of the 1917 wheat crop, we hnd nvullnble from net carry-over nnd production and imports only just nhout our normal consump tion. Therefore our wheat shipments to Allied destinations represent ap proximately savings from our own wheat bread. “These figures, however, do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrifice made during the past year by the whole American people. De spite the magnificent efTort of our agri cultural population In planting a much Increased acreage in 1917, not only was there n very large failure In wheat, but also the corn failed to mature prop erly, nnd our corn is our dominant crop. *'l am sure,” Mr. Hoover wrote In concluding his report, "thnt nil the millions of our people, agricultural ns well ns. urban, who have contributed to these results should feel a very definite satisfaction thnt In a year of universal food shortages In the north* em hemisphere all of those people Joined together against Germany have come through Into sight of the coining harvest not only with wealth and strength fully maintained, but with only temporary periods of hardship. “It Is difficult to distinguish between various* sections of our people—the homes, public eating places, food trades, urban or agricultural popula tions —In assessing credit for these re sults, but ho one will deny the domi nant part of the American women.’’ ▲ hoarder Is' a man who Is more In tereeted In getting his bite than ip sly. 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