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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
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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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