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VOL. 34.
HILLSBORO, SIERRA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, AUGUST 24, 1917.
$1.00 Per Year
No. 25.
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Hhup miH this WAR
Ameruea United means
liasting Victory for Dcmoeaaty.
Every Man, Woman
Some Service in this
Begin to Day
Sat Iiess,
Produce fllore,
Waste Nothing.
SIERRR COUNTY BflHK
.safe'
mm
V. ;v3 :7-JN. .Woolworth
and -proof
StollMS For Sale
i olrtamed throuch the old established,
iji "O. SWIFT A CO." are ueing quicuiy
gl bought by Manufacturers,
fi Send anodcl or aketchB and description
ilof your inveotion for FREE SEARCH
?1 mnd reprt on patentability. We get pat
t Mita or no fee.. Write foe eur free bovk.
I ot dUU ntemiva iiiv.uciuiii.
D. SWIFT & CO.
aa.n 1 vuvra. Estab. 1889.
1307 Seventh St., Washington, 0. Cj
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and" Child can Render
Great Cause. Do it!
PemfngtoflrUMC
Rifles and Cartridges
for Real .22 Sport
IN the .21 caliber as in the high-power
arms, your shrewd sportsman selects
his rifle and cartridges for results.
And when you start to he critical, there's no
where to stop short of liemington-UMC.
Marie in Single Shot models in Slide-Action models,
with the famou Remiueion-UMC olid lircecli and
now, the Autoloading mo-iel that suctessfvlly handles 16
Remington Autoloading rtm-fire cartridges without reloading.
for real .22 sport, get your rifle and cartridges from the
dealer who displays the Red Boll Mark of Rtminglon-U MC.
Sold by your home dealar and 324
other leading merchants in New Mexico
Remington Ami-Union Metallic Cartridge Co.
Building IZ33 Broadway) Ne York City
r
hmoBM
of - ialior
at this office ,
lioeatloit
Hlaiik
this office.
H- A. WOLFORD,
Office: First Door east of K. 0
Church. Main Street.
Hillsboro
HCW MSX
Office: Room 2tt, Armijo Buildin
Cor. 3.dat. and Railroad Ave. I'ractioo
in the Supremo Courts of Now Mexue
and leiiif,
ELFEGO BAC.
Attorney and CouneellorHt Law
Aljti IHJuEKQUK. - NEW MEA
Will heprHontat alltetnrnof C'onrtof
fit rnalillo, Valencia, Socorro au Sier
ra t'onnties.
Deal in tfood Gold, Silver and Ooppe-
niining rroperuofun New Mexico.
DR. J. 0. MATCHER,
Physician and Surgeon.
Hills boro, New fiiex.
G. H. FI1IES.
Phsician and Surgeon
Hot Springs New Mexico!
BONHAM and REBER,
Attorneys-at-Law.
LAWYERS,
Las Cruces,
N. Me
JAMES R. WADDILL,
L'emms.r N M
Will attend all the Courts Sie
ra bounty and the Third Judi
cinl Distrct.
rcieral
Good Wormanehip.
Prices Right
HILSBORO, New Mexioo,
EVERYBODY JIEAD3
THE JOURNAL.
Why? Because it Print
TODAY'S NEWS TO
DAY, and Lot3 of it.
And because it is inde
pendent in politics and
wears the collar of no
political party.
70 Cents a month by mail.
Albuquerque
MORNING JOURNAL
Chlld-Tratning.
It Is not fair to u email child for the
parents or nurro to be careless about
the little things that develop thought
fulness, self-rellanco and seir-control
In a child. Self-control la a character.
Istic absolutely essential to manhood
or womanhood, and It la not learned In
a day. It lo the result of natient teach
1118 R,1( tra'nln8 through all the long
years or Daoynooa ana enncuaooa.
Thought His Duty Ended.
The Duo de Raguse once explained
to toa Countess de Bolgne the nature
of his connection with tbe emperor a
follows: "When ?he emperor said,
'AH for Fyance,' I asrved with enthust
asm; when ho said, 'France and V
served with obedience; but wben bejnom supply eat off recently by
said, T without France, I felt the ne- I . , .
cessity of separating from him."
Didn't Appreciate Whitman.
Shortly after Walt Whitman's
"Leaves of Grass" made Its appear
ance, J. T. Trowbridge was warning
I with Lowell in Cambridge, when the
tatter pointed out a door-way sign.
"Groceries," with the latters set zl-
Bag, to produce a bizarre effect.
"That," said he, "is Walt Whitman
with very common goods Inside.''
Yield of a Grain of Wheat
Very few people have an Ides, of
Cambridge, Eng., recently made an In-
structlve experiment which showed
that a single grain of wheat sown in
June, produced 47 pounds 7 ounces.
One acre of fairly good land will pro-
fluce 80 bushels of wheat or 260
pounds of flour.
Nlcamguan "Capote."
Instead of raincoats, the Nlcaragnaa
wears a capote," which is a piece of
Impervious material almost square,
wrth a hole in the center large enough
for the wearer to put his head through.
It is made by pouring rubber over un
bleached muslin.
Always There.
A New York theatrical man Is ad
vert! sing for the moBt beautiful worn-
an in the world, as if every musical
show press agent didn't claim that she
was in the front row of the chorusv
Detroit Free Pres.
Motor Car Jumps Three Feet.
k. motor car with six oooupapts
dashed np to a drawbridge at Haddis-
coe, Norfolk:, just as it was being
dosed, and safely leaped across a
space of three feet between the two
leaves. London Mall.
Proof to the Contrary.
1 understand that a number of
men have learned to smike cigars
said the frivolous observer. "I don't
believe it," replied Mr. Meekton. "Tbe
kind of cigars women buy nobody
could smoke."
To Remove V-rnlsn.
Threo tablespoon fuls of baking soda
In a quart of water, applied with a
rough cloth, will remove the old var
lsh very easily when you wish to
revarnlsh furniture. Woman's Home
Companion.
Whale Cast on Coast.
A whale, weighing five tons, was
burled recently on the Borkwfctashire
(Scotland) coast The monster had evi
dently been run down by a steamer.
and was cant up by the tide.
m now is Immoral an arrest may
be made without a warrant by a po
liceraaa. If a show Is dull the pua-
lshauuit is lit to the publlo.
As for scientific management on tbm
farm, please note the case of the Cole
tHUO WUMtli Hull AIMMW
clad in neat little ooats and oaps.
.... ...... . .
Although th back-to-thw-farm xnove
ment has not made great headway la
this country, It may soon be given ft
food boost by the Manohus in Chin.
Burglars who birw otin a e& ia
m Indiana postoface got only nine
cents. It must be that tbe Indiana
authors are sending" tbeir manuscripts
sy freight
A portahls wireless teteptmiM bM
ben lnrented fn England. In the fa
tare a man wfQ have so esrnae for
fialMosr to tlphon when bs
ftlaaer wsiasc
Platinum in Alaska.
Washington- Discoveryof plati
num in Alaska by Dr. Uerechel C.
Parker of New York and others
has aroused government interests
to the greatest activity in the tope
of finding sufficient quantities of
preoioua metal to meet the war
needs of the allies.
Four government experts have
been assigned to etuty the Alas-
kan situation and report if the die
. , . , . , .
I ,0""u wit paM
the virtual cessation of activities
ia the Ural mountain mioea, the
source of tbe world's greatest sup
ply. Intensive operations would fol
low a favorable report, for tbe true
condition, it is declared, cannot be
determined before next year by
which time the present short sup
ply will be very nearly exhausted
Prof, Parker has reported fiod-
i0& Paata in quantity In the
crave! of the Kahiitna riar dnr.
iog gold placer drilling. Instal
lation of a dredge followed and K.
B. Mertie, a government geologist,
was assigned to observe results,
Alaskan gold miners also have re
ported platinum in Ketchikan, Eo
yuk, Fairbavea . Ohristoohiua dis-
distnets. . ':v'",";,,r';"-.''"-
Between ten and twelve ounces
of platinum were discovered ia
Alaska last year and this small
amount was sufficient greatly to
stimulate prospecting. Govern-
ment experts win jpj iiO lurvuef
than to say that the situation is
MWpwt MBS
War uses of platinum inoluds
the making of snlphuno sold sod
the completion of contact points of
tbe ignition system of airplanes,
automobiles and telephone and
telegraph instruments. Substi
tutes have been found for it in
making sulphuric acid but it Is al
most indispensable for other uses.
It has advanced from, $45 to
$105 an ounce since tbe beginning
of tbe war. The condition has be
come so critical in this country
that a survey has been made. The
results have not been published.
RnsBian banks wbioh made high
loans on tbe output of the Ural
mountain mines, are understood
to bold large quantities of plati.
num but tbe chance of obtaining
their supply is regarded as uncer
tain. Seven hundred and fifty
try ounces constitutes tbe , largest
annual ouput of platinum in the
United Slatet. Iluseia, before the
opening of tbe war, produced as
muub as 300,000 ounces in a year.
tiocialistio
meetings are being
and tbe Portales Journal says: "Ia
tbe face of these conditions ibere
can be but one course to pursue.
These .meetings must be stopped
peaceably if possible, forcibly if
necessary. There is neither time
nor inclination to dslly with these
offenders, and the people of Rooss
velt county will not be slow to sot
should the circumstances appear
to demand their action. The scesea
enaoted in Oklahoma will never toe
repeated here."