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The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-12-08
Dancing School.

Dancing is an accomplishment
worthy Of early consideration, it is
not only a delightful and healthy
amusement, but has long past
proven to be a social necessity. 1t
improves the department, refines
the manners and adds an ease and
grace to the carriage so essential
to refined society. On Monday
Dec. 10, | will open a term of ball
room dancing for ladies and gents
at the Rock Island dining room.
Terms; Gents SI.oo per lesson,
or IL lessons for 5000. Ladies
so cents per lesson or IL lessons
for $500.
Fancy stage dancing also taught.
particulars made known on appli-
cation. For information call at
Rock Island eating house daily
between 3 and 4 o'clock.
TT Mrs. f.. l.. Warren.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-12-08

the bar at A. h. Daubers.
Stanley Lawson has sold his
residence to conductor Ofholder.
Uncle John Pace was suffering
from a cold several days this week
Carpenter Bradley is building a
cottage south of the Chenault res
idence.
A. b. Dauber returned from a
business trip to Topeka and Kan
a City Monday.
Abner Smith, one of Quay
county's prosperous farmers, was
a business visitor Tuesday.
w. f. Buchanan, president of
the Tucumcari First National
went to Trinidad, Tuesday.
District attorney M. c. Mechem
has attended U. S. Court at Ala
mogordo during the week.
The new blacksmith shop of
Patterson & Dietz is a good one in
any country. They are busy too.
A. J. Davis was in from the
farm after ranch supplies Satur-
day. He says there is some mud
between his house and town.
LOST-Overcoat b G n
Showers place and Jackson pas
ture gate. Finder please leave at
A. B. Simpsons. S. c. Campbell.
Eugenio Garcia has moved to
Montoya and will 60 into business
there. He has been with the
White Elephant saloon here for
owe a year.
The city council was in session
Thursday evening and pulling hair
over some knotty problems under
consideration for the future well
fare of the city. They meet again
Tuesday.
Geo. A. Moore returned from a
weeks trip to Kansas City Tues
day. George was mixing bust.
ness with pleasure spending sew
eral days with his mother and Sis
ter who reside there.
Col. T. w. Heman, who has
been sick for several days, is
again up and able to handle hi:
business. We noticed him goine
out to his farmWednesday to have
an orchard OF 200 trees put out
He has refused $4,000 for hi:
homestead. 1t is one OF the choic'
locations in this vicinity.
According to the statement o
Agent Seaman, not all insurance
companies are ploddy in the ad
iustment and settlement of the
losses of the insured. Judge V. S
Montoya who was insured with thu
Fireman's Fund burned on Satur
day night of November ID, The
losses were adjusted on the Iotf
and he was paid on December 3.
He had $3.50 on his residence anc
$3.50 on his furniture a part Of
which was saved, and was allowed
So25.3o, being the full amount oil
the building and SI85.3o on tn
.-.t
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-12-08

John Briscoe was in town after
supplies Wednesday. John says
he believes the country folks who
have to make an occasional visit to
town could get along without any
more mud until spring,
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
MERCURY MUSINGS.

Any occupation Wnlcn does not u
rectly or indirectly subserve the in
terests of agriculture is worse than
useless, it is positively pernicious'
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Don't loose your grip. Stick to the
Union! Talk for the Union! Work
for the Union, and you'll land on
Easy Street eventually by all standing
together.
Were poverty ana the fear OF pow
erty banished, our jails and prisons,
now overcrowded, would eventually be
almost emptied. Poverty Is the pro-
life serpent mother Of vice and
crime.
1t is difficult to understand how any
man with a kind heart can be salts
lied with an industrial order under
which the average man is willing to
work has no assurance Of protection
from enforced idleness and want.
Land monopoly is the prolific par
ent of many grievous ills. Land mo-
nopoly wrought the downfall OF
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Isn't it about time that some Co
operation" about next seasons seeds,
plans, and crops, were growing? 1t
looks mighty like little understand
ing and cooperation would help 10
make call things work together for
good" to them that are Of the elect
Get together and see il you can not
be of use, each Of you, to your fell
low. Settle on certain crops and en-
deavor to get the best plans for plant
ing, the best seeds, the best cultlva'
ton and the system of marketing all
under way. Had not the strawberry
raisers of Crystal Springs gotten to-
gether' there would have been no
Crystal Springs market to this day
Have you a neighborhood brand that
will stand for the uniformly good
quality of all that bears that brand.
Build boys, build up. There Is SO
much to do!
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Some young society men of Hope
while out on lark, raided a chick
en- roost in the western part of the
town and were fired on by men,
bers of the family while beating a
hasty retreat.
Earle X. Braly, captain of Com
pany B, First Arkansas regiment in
the Spanish-American war, died at
st. Louis and will be buried in the
national cemetery at Fayetteville.
Ida Hyde, alias Ida Mccullough
attempted suicide at Jonesboro re-
Gently by taking 40 grains of NOR
phine. She gave as her excuse that
she was tired of living.
Mrs. O. Van Camp, wife Of a
travelling man, is dead at her home
at Newport from the effects of an
overdose of morphine taken to re-
ieve the pain.
apples which were the center of the
fruit display at the recent Benton
vile fair, has been sent to Presl-
dent Roosevelt.
The Baptist General Association
of Arkansas is in session at Little
Rock, with the largest attendance
since the association was formed.
Guy A. Woodruff, fireman was
killed, and A. II. Green, an engi-
neer, was severely injured in rail-
road wreck at Argenta recently.
County Judge 0. H. Sumpter of
Garland comfy has again been IN
dicted, this time on a charge of
malfeasance in Office.
Oil has been discovered on Pine
Island, two miles east of Ananlas,
and the gusher is said to produce
q barrel minute.
Hon. Eugene Landlord has sue
ceeded Judge G. M. Chaphne as
circuit judge of the Seventeenth jul
dicial district.
The Farmers Union of Lonoke
county celebrated the completion OF
their warehouse at Cabot by public
celebration.
j. II. Kissire of Morrilton has
filed a voluntary petition of bank
ruptycy in the United States CIR
cult Court.
Pine Bluff is removing the tall,
unsightly poles and all telephone
wires are being placed underground
OF cabled
The accumulation Of cotton at
Hope is said to be so large that all
available space is being utilized for
storing
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
Matters Modest Request.

Melba admires the independence OF
her fellow Australians, but on one &C.
casion she had rather pronounced
experience with what she calls their
delightful impudence." She had wait
ed long time for dinner at her hotel
in a large mining town and finally
made sharp complaint to the waiter.
We'll, ma'am," said he, coolly, you
might sing us song to pass the
time" This to vocalist who one
evening received $4,000 from William
Waldorf Aston for singing four songs
In his London mansion.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
NEWS OF ARKANSAS

Members of the Farmers Union
brought to Newport recently about
800 bales Of cotton which they re-
fused to sell at the market price
and have stored it in the compress,
together with 100 bales owned by
other farmers, to await better prices.
Lon A. Holland has been arrest
ed at st. Paul on charge of tam
pering with the mails. He is charg-
ed with taking the mail of another
citizen from the postofiice, opening
the letters and reading them.
Eureka Springs capitalists have
formed company, called the South
western Amusement Construction
Company, for the purpose of estab-
fishing a chain of play-houses in
the Southwest.
A lumber manufacturing COM
pany has been established at Wall
nut Ridge. The company will man.
ufacture wagon, carriage and car
materials and has capital stock
of $4,000.
On account of cold weather which
has prevented the proper fermenta-
ton. the brandy output in the big
distillery at Bentonville, will not
be so large as usual in spite Of the
largest apple crop in. years.
The death Of Mrs. Jefferson Davis
has developed the fact that she own
ed tract of 600 acres of land in
jefferson county. The land was
gift of Mrs. Dorsey to the presi-
dent of the Confederacy.
James l. Ellis, state business
agent Of the Farmers Union, be-
ieves that the farmer is making
mistake by parting with his cotton
for ten cents and confidently be-
lieves it will go higher.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
Edgar A. Nichols, United States

Edgar A. Nichols, United States
commissioner at Hot Springs, who
was charged with having attached a
notary public seal to afidavits with
the atflants not present, was fined
800 and costs in the trial before
Judge Trieber. The offence was
committed before he was appointed
to his present office.
Camden was treated to a very
spectacular fire recently when the
warehouse and five oil tanks, belong
Ing to the Waters-Pierce Oil Com
pany were destroyed and in addition
two small houses east of the Cotton
Belt Railroad were burned. The
flre was accompanied by heavy ex-
plosions.
The famous Mammoth Spring in
the town of Mammoth Spring, Full
ton county, is to be sold together
with 1000 acres of land, 500 town
lots, the large dam and water power
plant, the roller mills, the hotel Net
tleton, brick opera house and sever
al other of the best buildings of the
town.
Fred Southland and Ed Shelley,
two young men of Independence
county, have been sentenced to the
penitentiary for voluntary man.
slaughter. Their offence is the care
less handling Of firearms in which
each killed an innocent bystander.
Victor Price has been convicted of
involuntary manslaughter and sem
fenced to one years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for the killing
of Fred L. Bussey, a wealthy young
Iowan at Fayetteville last spring.
Prosecuting Attorney McDonald's
first step after assuming the duties
of Office at Fort Smith, was to file
information against 26 persons on u
charge of gambling.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

NJ. A. Friff, while looking up some
records in the circuit clerks Office
at Helena, was accidently locked up
in the vault and held prisoner for
three hours.
The seed house and hull house
of the Osceola Oil Company, to-
gether with 500 tons of cotton seed
were destroyed by fire at that place
recently.
E. L. Kerwin who was removed
from the office of county judge of
Jefferson county on charge of NAL
feasance in office, has been exon
Grated.
Willie Boseby, a negro boy, was
shot in the heel by policeman at
Jonesboro while attempting flight to
avoid arrest for stealing a ride on
a train.
Henry Denny, who, it is alleged
was shot by negro for refusing to
give him a quart Of whiskey, is in a
dangerous condition at his home at
Wan.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington will make minute
study of the soil of Conway county
by request of Representative Reed.
The Federal Grand Jury in ses-
sion at Little Rock has been dis
charged by Judge Trieber, after it
had returned ten indictments.
The citizens of Morrilton held a
mass meeting recently, and will file
a petition with the county judge to
stop the sale Of native wines.
r. L. Williams did not qualify
as sheriff of Garland county, pend
ing charges brought against him by
the Grand Jury.
Alonzo F. Rhodes, an old and
highly respected citizen of Center
| Point, is dead at his home in that
place.
All wine rooms being run in con-
nection with saloons in Argenta, are
being closed by order of the town
council.
The store of T. j. Richmond at
Hollabend, Polk county, in which
was located the postoffice, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
W. R. Martin, freight engineer
on the Frisco, was instantly killed
when his engine crashed through a
bridge near Fort Smith recePly.
Farmers are storing a great deal
of their cotton in the warehouse at
Van Buren, and will hold tor better
prices.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

1t is amusing to the average farm
err of the West to read Of the inroads
that the fertilizer trust" is making
into the profits Of the farmers OF the
East. II the Texas farmer could only
understand how much more he would
raise IL he took care Of the natural
wastes on his farm, he would get
busy. Millions Of dollars Of fertilizers
are thrown away on Texas farms year
after year, but the day Is coming
when this will all be stopped.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

We are not letting a week pass that
we do not mention the good work
that is being done by those engaged
in poultry raising. 1t is the cleanest
and easiest money that has ever been
made on the farm. 1t is not well to
become a crank and overlook other
things for the hen, but it is equally
important that the hen have her
share of attention, and you know that
she is not getting it on many farms.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
TEST OF AN AMERICAN.
Habit Of Neatness Established NJ
tionaiity to Observant Boy.

A young American who recently
completed course of study in An
English university brought homo a.
a souvenir OF his residence in that
classic place a decided English ac-
cent, says the New York Press. He
stopped the other day at a downtown
bOotblack's stand to get his shoes
shined. The boy who attended to the
cleansing process smiled upon him
Familiarity.
When you first began to como
here" he said, 81 took you for an Eng
lishman. You talked like one, but I
know now you amt"
How did you find that out?" asked
the American. obviously somewha:
disappointed
Because you get your shoes shined
so often" was the startling reply. III
you were an Englishman you wouldn't
do that. Nobody takes such good care
of their shoes as Americans. II it
were not for their daily shine q lot
Of us fellows would have to go out OF
business and the sale of backing and
polish would fall off onehaif. Next
to Americans, Russians get a shine
most frequently. The English are the
worst of all. They get a shine only
once a week Even when otherwise
well dressed their shoes are gray and
out Of shape. If ever you want to
pass yourself off for an Englishman
you'll have to cut out all this polish
ing. With such spick ad span shoes
even an accent that you can cut with
a knife won't carry you through"
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

One of our esteemed Western ex.
changes advises that if the negro is
to be imported to the West, that it
would be better to get him to feed
and kill hogs, rather than pick cot
ton; and to some extent that is a
mighty good piece of advice. The
hog harvest is one that will not keep
the whole family in the field for the
four most unpleasant months in the
whole year.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
cO-OPERATOR CUlLlNGS.

Every one who does not lean on
those who labor is interested in Just
and equitable prices. 1t helps all
classes except the gambler.
man without ambition is not a
man. He is a thing. He is not the
kind of stuff out of which first-claSs
Irrion men can be manufactured. Am
hilton to do right and to build.
Let only those who do not have
anv cause at heart, tear down. 1t is
hurt natural that they should. II
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
Mrs. SAGE. Gift to Church.

Mrs. Russell Sage made her first
gift for benevolent purposes of any
size when a. few days ago she con.
tributed $1,000 from the $4,000, 900
bequeathed to her by her husband to
the Lawrence Methodist church. This
congregation had been struggling to
raise $4,000 to build new edifice on
the plot adjoining the present church
property. Mrs Sage's donation brings
the fund up to more than $1,000.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
Saved Him.

ut did not kill nae, but / think 1t
would If it had not been for Hunts
Cure. was tired, miserable and well
nigh used up when l commenced US
ing 1t for An old and severe case Of
Eczema. One application relieved and
one box cured me.
Il believe Hunts Cure will euro
any form of itching known to man.
kind"
Clifton Lawrence,
Helena, o. T.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
immigrants for Ecuador.

The government of Ecuador has
signed a contract with an agency in
Guayaquil for the purpose OF import
Ing immigrants into the lower and
eastern portion Of the republic. The
company binds itself to import 5000
families. 1t Is specified in the con-
tract that the immigrants shall be
white and preferably Of the German
or Dutch races.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

You can not pick up newspaper
nowadays that does not have some.
thing to say about some new Union
or the doings of some old one. The
tone of these articles are all OF the
most complimentary sort too, and not
like some OF the comments that we
used to see. The timid ones can nov
come in and feel perfectly safe.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
This Is No Joke.

Hunts Cure has saved more peo-
pie from the cold Scratch than any
other known agent, simply because It
makes scratching entirely unneces-
sary. One application relieves any
form Of itching skin disease that ever
afflicted mankind. One box guaran-
teed to cure any one case
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

There is no use preaching Union II
you are not helping somebody to 3
happier life. Happiness through CO.
operation is the aim Of the Union, and
when it comes to using it for other
purposes it is subversion that will
soon bring an end to unionism.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
Japan viii Copy from America.

Prof. Taichiro HOMO is concluding
in New York tour of inspection Of
the great school systems Of this coun.
try. He was sent here by his govern.
ment of Formosa. When he goes
home he Is to establish a gigantic
educational institution modelled after
the American high school.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Are you "going out into the high
ways and hedges compelling those
found there to come in" and enjoy
the feasts of the Union meetings and
Union protection? If you are not, you
are falling little short of what OPP
portunity throws upon your slate OF
responsibility.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

The fact that there is no such a
thing as getting competent and re-
liable farm labor even with the plant
err on the place looking after his ow2
interests, will likely prove the undo
ners who are undertaking to buy land
and break the Cotton Trust"
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

The time will never come on this
old sphere when it is not duty "t6
watch as we'll as pray" 1t is well,
however, to allow as much honor to
others as you ask for yourself.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

"Forsake not the assembling of
yourselves together, and while you
are about it, try to make the assem-
blage worth the while. You need not
be an entertainer. You may start
something" by simple question. A
any rate, start something and keep 1t
going.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Get up nice supper in your 10.
cal and celebrate with joy and speech
making the return of eleven-cent cot
ton. If we all act as we should, it
would never be less.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Our lives will be a failure If we do
not do a full days work before TAX
ing out time comes. Let us ask our
selves the question, what are we do
ing for the betterment of the race?
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Don't let the little wabbles OF the
cotton market bother you. That will
keep up just as long as the gamblers
have any influence at all.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
Farmers Cooperative Union
Of America --

Always be builder. There are
enough destructive forces at nature 1T
that sort of thing without your as
sistance.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Texas is truly the center OF the
Farmers Union, and it is to the COOL
account that Texas is able to give Of
herself that other States look for in.
spiration.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Don't kick out'the kickers. Cult.
vate them and put them at so much
of the work that they will have no
time for kicking.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
A Harmless Laxative.

II you must take laxative, take karm.
less one. Lax-Fos does not grippe, therefore
does not irritate. Irritation is what does
the harm. Price so cents.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

With ignorant negro men making
eight to ten dollars a day picking cot
ton, times look mighty good to the
workers, but will the crop stand q
dollar a hundred for picking? 1t
looks mighty doubtful.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Don't get excited about English
spinners breaking the Southern COT.
ton trust" Unless we can get few
er bumpers" the trust will die a
borning.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Every now and then some one bobs
up and makes a perfect peace talk
about the Union. Such talk Is all
balderdash. There is no peace. AS
soon as one thing is stopped, some
body else starts something. and 1t is
well that it is so. Pace means stas.
nation, and stagnation means death.
When the body gets to that stage that
it no longer has growing pains, it Is
close to the meridian OF It's power.
and soon the declining shadows will
begin to mark it's decadence. Let
the rows go on, only keep clear
head, a clean conscience and abile
the admonition, Try all things and
hold fast to that which is good"
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

some of the most powerful nations
known to history. Monopoly of land
has led to monopoly in other lines.
Any member Of the Farmers I'M
ion can secure free the bulletins Is
sued by the Agricultural Department
at Washington simply by making the
request. These bulletins contain
much valuable information on sub
jects in which our farmers are inter
ested.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Put the taxes on the lands at some.
thing like the figures at. which it Is
held, and the day will be nearer for
every man to own home.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09
Important New. chronIeled.

An English paper gravely announ
Of Srohi, lost his last jaw tooth on
July and had diamond one put in
its Mace"
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-09

Already the stock is wishing for
some sort of winter shelter. They
have come through the same hot sum-
mer that you have and they are
pierced by the winters wind just the
same as you are. The improved con-
dition of the stock in the spring will
pay you many times over for all the
protection you may throw arouu1
them in the winter. Besides, this, is
looks a little too much of the british
to imprison the dumb brutes and
then torture them by exposure to tho
fury of the elements.
~~~~~-~o~-~-~~
you are a real co-operator, you are a
builder.
The producers are learning theii
power. A few more successes and
they will have learned fully that all
power is in their hands.
Oh, the home! Let us build homes.
beautiful homes. Let's make condi-
lions so that we can build them. We
are going through this country only
one time. Taking out time Is COM
ing.