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The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08
INDUSTRIAL EDITION OF THE DISPATCH
Will be the Largest and HandsOmest Publication of
It's Kind Ever Issued in Columbus

Mr. Harry Lyons, who will have charge of the industrial
edition which issued by THE the
yesterday will publca
Mr. Steiner who will assist Mr. Lyons in the work arrived
week and has already collected of
manufacturing which will given
able in this edition
edition will only show what Columbus
the industrial
the religious and educational the
giving figures show that city which
establish homes and families well
gaining wealth. and will
Mr.. Lyons has had of experience getting
Industrial editions in various cities throughout the
South thoroughly equipped the
Lyons and Mr.. Steiner will call
during the weeks,
bespeaks the
whic they entitled.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08
Supervisors Session.

The Board of Supervisors met
in regular monthly session last
Monday morning, at which time
there were present Hon. Battle
Bell, president; Messrs. s. w
Cald well, w. f. Barksdale, r. p.
Hairston, G. Fl. Jordan, ascot
ate mem bers of said board; r. A..
Eggleston, sheriff. and D. D.
Richards, clerk, when the fol
lowing proceedings were had:
Ordered that the overseer on
Road No. 9, District No. 2. be
allowed to use scraper now in
use on Road No. p in said Dis
trict.
Ordered that petition of J. n.
Ellis. @. II. Ellis, Jno. A. Egger,
ct al, asking for certain changes
in Wolf road be granted, pro-
vided that said changes are
made without cost to the county.
Ordered that Dick Bailey be
relieved from payment of poll
tax, he having been enormously
assessed.
Ordered that the petition for
change of road signed by John
Egger ct al be not granted.
Ordered that the clerk issue a
warrant in favor of Ben Ledbet-
ter for 50 on account of erro-
neous assessment.
The resignation of J. D. Shell
ton as constable in District No.
) was received and accepted.
The monthly report of S. NJ
Nash, county superintendent of
education, was received and ap.
proved.
Ordered that the clerk issue a
warrant in favor of the Southern
Express Co. for So. A on account
of erroneous assessment.
After making the usual allow
ances, which will be published
in next Sundays DISPATCH, the
board adjourned.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08
The Labor Problem.

We have the industries, now
we must help to solve the prob
lem of filing them with people
to operate them. There seems
to be a solution of this trouble
our manufacturers are exper-
fencing in the suggestion that we
import a German colony. Where
ever this has been done the re-
suits have been highly satisfac-
tory / propose that we organ
ize a land company with a capital
of $4,000. Buy plot of land
equal to about eight city blocks.
where water and sewerage can
be bad, build about fifty houses
which can be rented for not over
IS per month. and then import
fifty German families to occupy
them. In addition to being a
great help to the industrial in
terests of Columbus, such a step
would afford material help to the
servant dilemma also. | have dis
cussed the plan with a mum Der
of our business men and all of
them have signified their willing
ness to take stock in such an en-
terprise. If the money is wisely
spent the investment can be
made to pay eight or ten per
cent. and at the same time make
it easier for the management of
the various industries to earn
dividends. I would like to have
any citizen who has given this
question thought to be present
at the next meeting of the direct
ors of the Progressive Union. aud
give US the benefit of any ideas
they may have looking to a solu
ton of our labor troubles.
WALTER WEAVER. Pres.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08
The Summer Normal.

Hon. A. "A. Kincannon, the dis
tinguished president of the In
dustrial Institute and College,
has returned from visit to
Jackson, Miss. President Kin
cannon requests The DISPATCH
to state that the Jackson news
paper correspondent who quoted
him as saying that the Columbus
Normal would open on June %
was in error. He says that he
gave out no such statement, and
that the normal will open on
June 18th, as heretofore an
nounced. On account of impor-
tant private interests it will be
i'm possible for President Kin
cannon to serve as local director
of the normal, and Prof. J W.
Bell, a member Of the college
faculty. will serve in this capac-
ity
The railroads have granted
rate of one fare plus twenty five
cents for the round trip, and
this insures a large attendance
at the normal.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

1t is with pleasure that we an
nounce that our good friend
Gen. J. Fl. Sharp, has decided to
return to Columbus to live, and
after the first of September will
make his home here. For several
years past Gen Sharp has been
living in Crawford, but like every
one else who has ever lived in
Columbus, he loves the place,
and is coming back. 1t is need
less to say that his many friends
will extend him a most cordial
welcome.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Mr.. John E. Martin, who dur
ing the past winter has held a
position in the local office Of the
Newberger Cotton Co., leaves to-
morrow for his home in Grenada.
Mr.. Martin is an exceedingly
clever and urbane young gentle
man, and during his stay here
has made many friends who
hope to see him in Columbus
again next season.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Miss Eleanor O'Connor IS music
pupils will gize a piano recital
and May Day Dance" at Franz
lin Academy at three o'clock
this afternoon. Miss O'Connor
is a most excellent teacher. and
the recitals which her pupils
give from time to time are al
ways enjoyable.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Mr.. S. NJ. Spruill. of Houston,
Miss, State organizer for the
Knights and Ladies of Honor, is
in the city for the purpose of or
gauizing a branch of the order
here.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Mr.. Daniel Gushing, of FL Pasc,
Texas. arrived in the city Mon
day to join his wife. Mr.. Cush
ing was for several years resi-
dent of Columbus, and has nu-
merous friends here who are al
ways glad to see him.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

The many friends Of Mr.. P.
Gerand. who has been confined
% his bed BY illness for several
days past. will be glad 70 know
that he is able to be out again.
The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Lock work. bicycle repairing.
qua work and typewriter over
taullng done by Freeman at his
shoe near the N. q O. depot.
Give him trial. 641m.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
IMPROVED ROADS,

The problem of good roads all through
the great northwest prairie country is
not an easy one to solve. 1t Is useless
to advocate the issue of large amounts
Of bonds for the purpose of construct
ing macadamized roads at cost of
from $1,000 to $1,000 per mile, for this
course would almost bankrupt the
township or county which attempted
1t, there being from seventy-fve to
eighty miles of highway in every civil
township. Over large areas of this
prairie country there Is not stone to
be found or load of gravel within
fifty miles. There is nothing but just
dirt, rich dirt at that, out of which to
construct roads, and so it comes that
the problem of he dirt road is the
problem now being studied Some
things have been found out-one that
the dirt road when dry Is the best road
In the world that perfect underdrain-
age combined with a proper grade will
at once improve the dirt road 100 per
cent; that the use Of a heavy leveler on
such dirt road after a rain will do more
to keep it in good condition than any
and inexpensive methods of treatment
entirely within the reach Of any rural
community-just three things, a grade
and side bitches which will rapidly dis
pose Of all surface water, tile to take
care Of the subsoil water under the
roadbed, the maintenance of a smooth
surface by drag or leveler, to which
NAV be added Goa ting of gra vel where
1t can be obtained without too much
expense and more general use of
wide tired wagons. This is the solu-
ton Of the good roads problem in the
prairie country.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
RIFLE

Manager Mayor of the Fruit associ-
alton is very busy man these days.
Rev. N. H. Lee will occupy the
Methodist pulpit next Sunday in the
absence of the regular pastor.
John Fava contracted ten carloads
Of potatoes to the Tripes Commission
company of Denver this week.
The postoffice has some brand new
signs No mistake as to where to
get your mail now.
Did it rain in Rifie9 Well, we are
under the impression that it did and
those who were caught out in it in
their shirt sleeves will say the same
thing.
The "city fathers got through
with the ordinances and the full text
will appear in the local papers this
week. Stray cows and other animals
had better look out
John Hickman went to Glenwood
Monday to look after the poultry ex-
hibits at the fair. John has chicken
on the brain now. However, chicken
on the stomach is better.
Rev. Lew L. Thomas and wife left
Monday morning for hunting and
fshing trip in the north country.
They expect to join o. w. johnson
near Axial. Mrs Thomas expects to
get her deer as we'll as the 'parson. -"
What might have proved to be
fatal accident occurred Monday in the
railroad yards. Walter Spoonimore
and the Core boy were playing along
tho tracks and found . couple Of tor
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
BASALT

J. T. Hough is in Denver on bust
ness.
Mrs. Will Shanks and children are
visiting Mrs. Willis.
Albert Harris is attending the fair
in Glenwood this week.
Miss Eugenia Hyrnp and brother
Alfred spent Tuesday in Apsen.
Ray Trout and Miss Jessie Harvey
of Emma visited in A spen this week.
j. H. Troendly, w. w. Frey and
J. Weaver attended court at lied Cliff
Monday.
Mrs. E. B. Kelly returned home
Tuesday night from an extended visit
with friends in the South.
Miss Dorinda Turner departed
Wednesday for Cardiff where she will
join her sister, Mrs Harrison.
Miss Lora Cook, Mrs. Hyrup and
daughter Dora visited with Mrs. S. P.
Sloss at Sloan Saturday and Sund day.
Col. Henry Stiffier and Mr. Phillips
drove to Glenwood Monday where
they attended the district fail this
week.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
EvoLUroN OF THE pAmY,

Dairying has been a subject of al
most constant evolution during the
past twenty-five years. Step by step
the methods have been improved until
when the separator creamery became
general 1t was said that the end Of
development both in quality of product
and economy Of manufacture had been
reached. But 1t turns out that this
conclusion was premature. The farm
separator had not been reckoned with.
Today, through large areas of old es-
tabltshed creamery territory and in
still greater areas where the creamery
never could get foothold, new meth
Cd Is being most successfully used.
At depot Of little village In coun-
ty which did not have single cream
cry we one day recently saw a man
drive up and lift from his buggy an
eight gallon can of cream, which he
turned over to the express agent for
shipment to a centralized creamery 200
miles distant. Assuming that such
creamery managers will deal squarely
and honestly with their patrons, this
new plan enables any farmer, no mat
ter where located, to keep a dairy of
cows and sell the separated cream at
good prices In the manner indicated.
This method knocks out the creamery
promoter, gives the farmer his skim
milk in the best possible condition to
feed to his calves and pigs and en-
ables him to conduct successful dairy
business entirely independent Of being
obliged to get creamery organized
before he could profitably keep cows.
While the competition resulting from
this new method is being quite serious
ly felt in many localities by the old
established creamery organizations, it
is nevertheless doing great and most
beneficial work in all those localities
where the dairy business, for want of
local creamery, has never heretofore
received any attention. Many sections
of the west are being agriculturally
reformed, lands advanced in value and
prosperity assured by the use of this
new method.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
Items of Interest from NeighbGring Towns
Gathered BY Our Corps of Special Reporters

pedoes. Not realizing what they were
the boys threw one against rail. 1t
exploded and part of the cap tore a
deep cash in Walter Spoonimore' S
left breast and another fragme mt
broke tooth and splintered the jaw
bone. The Core boy was struck on
the hand but not otherwise hurt.
Doctors LIE Rossignol and Dymenburg
were summoned to dress the wounds
of the boys. At the present writing
both of the uinjured are doing we'll.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
POTATO BALLS.

A reader asks why it is that so very
few Of the blossoms on the potato plant
ever set any seed pods, not seed ball
to be found on whole field of Early
Ohio, Burbank or Rural New Yorkers
which will bloom profusely. This STE
rility is probably an indication that the
particular variety of potato is degener-
ating and running out, as we term it.
We last year planted new variety Of
potato only three years old-that Is. 1t
was three years since it was developed
from the seed pod. This patch Of pota-
toes was literally covered with bloom
and bore a large crowd of seed balls,
an indication to US Of great strength
and vigor. There is little doubt II this
variety should be planted for a period
Of fifteen years and the small potatoes
used for seed, as Is 30 commonly done,
that 1t would become almost wholly
sterile, as are the varieties first named.
It Is with potatoes as with all other
types Of vegetable and animal life in
the mystery of eproduction-poor seed
and poor sires insure rapid degenera-
ton, and only the selection Of the very
best will secure vigor and virllity.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
The Things That Were Going to Do.

Inc lnings lhat were Sotng to do.
Oh. the things that we're going to do.
How they lurk In each nook of our brain.
How they clamor for place and they
struggle for space
And cry out to be done. but In vain!
How they trouble our slumbers at night
And they add to our burdens by day
And our shoulders they press until we In
distress
Fairly tear at our hair in dismay.
oh. the shoes we are going to wear!
They can certainly not be called slim;
They'll be easy and neat but they'll fit to
the feet
In way that is jaunty and trim!
And the raiment IN which we'll be clad!
1t Will be most approved of Its kind;
1t will be by and by delight to the eye
And comfort and help to the mind
And the letters we're going to write
To the friends that are absent and dearl
They are marvels of wit and are certainly
ft
To be treasured by them year by year
Oh. the epgrams bright we will make
When we pour out our whole heart iE
song!
When shall come that glad day when
we'll find time to say
All the things we have treasured so
long?
Oh. the things we are going to do!
How they tumble about in a heap!
How they jostle around and arc every.
where found
Until In despair we could weep!
But the things we were going to do
Don't accord with the things we have
30 I question II we've really meant to
achieve
All those things that our fancy has
spun.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

The trouble connected with using
seed corn, only 10 per cent of which
will grow, planting more than three
kernels in hill to Offset the poor seed,
is that one always gets an irregular
stand, because the good and the poor
seed cannot be exactly apportioned to
each hill, so 1t comes that some hills
will be entirely missing, some will have
six stalks, some one, when to get the
best results just three kernels of strong
terminating power should be got In
each hill.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
PARACHUTE VALLEY

PARACHUTE VALLEY
Several farmers are blowing for
fall wheat.
Dee Freeland is quite low with ty-
phoid fever.
Joe Dere left for Denver univer-
sity Sunday
6. F. Yeoman made flying trip
to Rife Friday.
Purd Crawford is doing little
building this fall.
Mrs. Hilliker called on Mrs. John
son Sunday evening.
Charles Haley has gone north again
with load of fruit.
Birdie Wheeler is cooking for the
hay hands at Nj. K. Walls.
Maude Bailey will leave the first of
October for Silt where she has secured
school.
Mrs. Nellie Dixon, A. Mckinney
and wife were guests of Doc Wilson
last week
The creek has been higher than at
any time this year owing to the rain
which fell Monday.
Everything is growing rapidly as if
it understood that it must hustle if it
would beat the frosts,
Mrs. Tracy is still very sick wo
man. Her daughter, Mrs. Beck, of
Aspen is here visiting her.
Mrs. Streit, accompanied by Mrs.
land fair. She intends going on to
California.
Joe Connor has returned to Grand
Valley after long stay in Idaho.
He thinks Grand Valley pretty nice
place after all.
John Keizar is the proud father of
a big baby boy and they call him
John Jr. Mr.. Keizar has recovered
sufficiently to go to work again.
Robert Sobey had public sale
Monday afternoon of all his goods and
farming tools Robert goes to Colo
RADIO Springs the first of next month.
William Smith should treat the
community to something rich since he
has been "Grandpa' three times this
this month and twice within week.
Mrs. Marvin reports her husband
on the mend and she will probably re-
turn soon to resume her teaching
We hope the improvement will be
permanent.
The way certain young men were
buying dishes and other household
furnishings at the sale Monday, it
looks as if the county clerk and the
ministers would have some business
ere long.
Guy BANTER is breaking a colt for
Doc Wilson. Guy has been over on
White river this summer and also
saw the noted Pin Ears ridden, so of
course if you want any pointers on
riding bad horses just go to Guy.
His fees for information will be very
moderate.
There was considerable excitement
In Grand Valley over severe cutting
scrape between Roy Jones and Ed.
Duplice, resulting in serious wounds
for Roy Jones which nearly finished
his earthly career. Ed. Duplice is
lodging the officers and at the latest
accounts had not been located
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

II we had fat, wet farm where the
crops would wholly or partially fail
during wet season and could do it in
no other way we would sell SO much Of
the land as would enable us to thor
oughly tile drain the remainder. There
are hundreds Of farmers all over the
country who could make good money
by following out this suggestion. The
partial loss of crop for two years on
this type Of land will easily pay for its
redemption by tile draining.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

The grain dealers Of some of the
western states are up against new
type Of competition. The farmers of a
given community organize an incorpo-
rated company, two or three hundred
y them, each taking one or more
shares Of stock In the company and
being restricted TO just one vote An
elevator is built or purchased and an
agent employed to receive and ship
their grain. II In competition with
private concern, the same price Is paid
for grain and the company Joins the
state grain dealers association. This
the farmers have most unquestioned
right to do, but the Joke comes In like
this-all the grain raisers Of a commu.
nifty being members, there is no grain
left for the other fellow to buy. This
plan Is growing. for whatever profit
there may be connected with the grain
business goes back to the members In
the shape Of IN annual dividend
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

Farmers in Indiana are meeting with
much success in the growing of alfal-
fa by putting lime on their lands
where this crop Is sown. Sour soils
are death to both clover and alfalfa,
and lime corrects this condition. This
Idea is worth noting where alfalfa
fails.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

One point, and good one, is made
In favor Of the leveling of the dirt road
after a rain, and it is that, there being
no track or runt for wagons, travellers
will not drive in each others tracks,
but will spread out, so to speak, and
thus help roll the road and keep 1t in
good shape.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

The best peach country in the United
States is said to be located on the
south slope Of the Ozark mountains, in
southwestern Arkansas. There the Ell
berta is at its best.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
Three Stages

At twenty when we fall in love
We think an angel from above
Has dropped across our way,
And when the years to forty mount
We ask as to her bank account
And for a fortune play.
At sixty when we make a blufr
We ask that she be young enough
To be our srandchild. say.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

Every fifty years there was year Of
jubilee for the Israelites-a year when
all deals were squared up, debts can
celed, slaves freed, old scores wiped
out and every fellow took a fresh start
"a sort Of national bankruptcy affair
Some men would like year of jubilee
now. but it would do them no good
for this sort never profit by experience
and would go right ahead to the limit
Of their credit getting into debt again
No equitable division Of this worlds
goods would ever keep them square.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30
RAILROADS AND AGRICULTURE.

The great railway corporations are
fully alive to the great benefits to be
derived by the adoption of an improved
system Of agriculture and for two
months have been operating finely
equipped special trains in many of the
western states, bringing the good work
Of the experiment stations and agricul-
tural colleges to the very doors of the
farmers. The special seed corn trains
operated by five Of the great trunk
lines Of Iowa gave 1900 lectures at
90 towns to 10000 Of the farmers of
that state, novel and most success
full scheme Of agricultural work which
has never been equaled. The special
object Of this work is to show the corn
growers how to select and test then
seed corn, only 68 per cent of which
grew last year and only "a per cent of
which will grow this year, a poor
stand meaning poor yield.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

An old farmer in Indiana who had
spent a long lifetime in clearing UP
one of the heavily timbered farms of
that state reserved little piece of the
original forest on corner of his farm
which was cut of from the rest of the
land by a small creek The past win
ter he sold some walnut trees on this
land for S150 each and quantity re-
marked that he had worked hard for
lifetime to make himself poor, for il
he had done nothing and let his trees
alone he would now be a very rich
man.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

P. X. Huering, who has officiated
this summer as D. & R. G. night
operator at the Glenwood station. has
been transferred to Palisade as agent.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

The man who lives on the f1atlands.
where he sometimes loses a crop by
reason Of too much moisture, has this
for his comfort-that no amount of
rain can wash away the fertility of his
farm, while his neighbor on the hilly
farm will lose in wet season more
fertility than would grow two big
crops.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

On account of the Lewis and Clark
Exposition extremely low rates to
Portland, Oregon and return will be
in effect via the Colorado Midland :;
tickets on sale daily May 23rd to Sept
30th; round trip $40. 90.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

The rural mail carriers went from
deep snowdrifts into deeper mud all
through the north prairie country this
spring. The life of the mail carrier
for at least half the time Is by no
means an enviable one
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

In town Of thousand people we
noted the other day freight car being
loaded with manure, which was being
hauled from the town barns to be tax
en- out and dumped somewhere on the
right Of way Of the road to be rid of it.
and this when it was worth dollar Il
wagon load to put on cornfield ad-
joining the corporation. Some men
cannot see
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

Nowadays when man is getting
more than 4 per cent interest on his
Investments he almost always has to
keep pretty close watch on his security.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

Robert Law Jr. of the Colorado
Midland spent several days in Glen
wood, leaving for Denver Friday eve
ming.
The Glenwood post., 1905-09-30

A. J. Barkhouse was quite i'll at
the Hotel Glenwood this week but
yesterday was much better.