La Junta tribune., 1907-12-21
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Everybody pokes fun at the grocer
who puts the big taters on top. but
they all do it. Every new acquaint-
ance you meet who puts on the broad
smile and gives you the vigorous hand
shake is simply putting the big taters
on top and you are doing the same
when you smile back at him. Very
few of US can deliver the goods up
to the standard Of the taters on top.
William Allen White.
Joseph Wiedemen. of Lawton.
Okla, a former old-timer of the
Paramount country. was in town
several days this week looking after
his property interests hereabouts.
MIR. Wiedeman has a farm of 600
acres in Oklahoma. He says he has
taken out ditch and is going to
raise crops by irrigation all same
Colorado. Joe says that some of his
neighbors view his irrigation enter
prise with grave suspicion, and en-
tertain serious doubts as to his
sanity. He is going to show" the
MissourIans down that way. how
ever.
Payday drunks were quite numer-
Gus in La Junta. one lady Of the
colored persuasion being among
them who persisted in haranguing
crowds on the streets regarding
their souls salvation. One man.
who had reached rather advanced
state of inebriety. was locked up in
his room in the Simonton block by
his friends. A few minutes later he
created quite sensation in front of
the postoffice by jumping out of the
second story window on to the side
walk. and with the proverbial luck
of drunk escaped unharmed, get
ting up with alacrity and making a
hurry-up sprint for the nearest
thirst parlor.
A lawyer charges ten dollars for
ten minutes conversation the man
insists on paying it. A doctor
charges one dollar for a prescrip-
ton and the patient says: "Oh
pshaw, is that enough?" An UNDER
taker charges hundred dollars for
conducting = funeral and he is just
perfectly lovely with everybody in
side and outside the family. A man
buys gold brick and apologies for
not having bitten before. An editor
walks mile in zero weather to get
the facts of death. a wedding, or
social function, spends three hours
writing it up. and tells lies and
praises people until he hates him
self. Then if he makes an insignifi-
cant omission or error. or charges
five cents straight for three extra
copies. he is stingy. good-for-noth-
ing old cuss. who never gets any
thing right and charges four times
the prices of city papers twice as
large. In short he is confounded
most any old thing and ought to he
run out of town. Talk about the
ice man. How would you like to
run newspaper?
Engineers Charles Philhour and
Charles Mays are taking 4 lay.off
until after the holidays. both hav-
ing been bruised up somewhat on
account of being mixed up in a
head-end collision at Earl, a small
station near Trinidad, one day last
week. PhiIhour. with engine 1l36.
and Mays. with thu lO7l, were
double heading east. in q binding
snowstorm. When they rounded a
curve west of Earl they found a
freight train standing on the main
line not over thirty car lengths
ahead, and relizing that 4 collision
was inevitable both engine crews
jumped. Philhour's lower lip was
badly cut and he received several
scalp wounds. His fireman. d. Ken
ton, had his left leg broken above
the ankle and is now in the hospital.
Engineer Mays and his fireman
escaped without scratch. although
both jumped from the. cab windows.
Engine 92S, in charge of Engineer