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The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
Valuable OvercOAt Stolen.
frok1- o-zt.tN

A handsome fur overcoat. belong.
ing to j. w. Mccormick. and a nun
boa. hand bag and pocket book, the
last containing small sum OF
money, belonging to Mrs. Charles
Cobbler, were stolen from the I. O.
o. F. hall Saturday night by a cleve,
thief. The articles had been left in
the ante room while the owners were
rehearsing some drill work with the
other members of their team. There
is little chance OF the thief beins
caught. There is reason to thinp
that he left on the o'clock trair
for Cheyenne, rs the people at tn,
station remember seeing stranger
wearing heavy fur coat board tha,
train. but this was not learned un
til too late to apprehend him.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
WONACOTT, PIANO MAN, HELPS
ALONG THE TRADE.
PAID $500 FOR AN OPTION
When the Deal Was Consummated
Wonacott Decided Not to Take
Eighty Acres at $4,000.
Farmer Thought Won.
acott Had Money.

The case OF the Iowa farmer
against Hodgell and the real estate
agents, Houtchens & Drumm, is still
on trial in the district court. 1t is
an equity case involving questions of
law only, and the issues will be de-
termined by the judge. The chief
point in the case is whether or not
Houtchens & Drumm acted in the
capacity of agents for the Iowa man,
and had his 81 acres listed for sale
or trade. Upon the stand both Hout-
chens and Drumm denied that they
we're agents for the Iowa farmer, or
that they received any payment from
him for such services. Drumm stat
ed he received 500 from Reagan
farm was as valuable as represented
by Reagan. But Drumm denied that
this money was for commission. AT
this point Attorney Strong, who rep
resents Reagan, produced a receipt
from Houtchens & Drumm for 800,
and the receipt read For commits
sion in full for sale of Iowa farm.
There were other sensational de-
velopments in regard to Wonacott.
the middle man" Wonacott sells
pianos and sewing machines anil
Reagan says that Houtchens d
Drumm represented to him that
Wonacott had barrel of money
and that Wonacotts brother was a
gold king in Nevada. Reagan SAYS
that when they were going out tc
show Wonacott the Hodgell farm
near Platteville. Drumm said. Look
out. Wonacott, or the weight of you,
money will break down those from
wheels" and that Drumm also talk
ed great deal of his partners iden
tity with church work and of Mr.
Houtchens' Sunday school class o
$50 kids. At the time of this triI
Reagan did not yet own the Hodgel
farm. but made Wonacott think tina
he did. Houtchens and Drumm ad
mitted that they knew this fact, bu
that they did not enlighten Wonacot
as to the actual ownership.
According to Reagan, Wonacot
was going to give him $4,000 casl
for eighty acres of the Hodgell farm
which would leave Reagan the othel
eighty and a few thousands besides
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
Old Timers Roundup at Eaton.
Eaton Specially

The cold weather. presumably. or
| it may be some other cataoclysm OF
nature, has made the old timers as
thick at Eaton this year as coyotes
are at Kersey. Bud" Kimball is
the latest to drift in. hale and
hearty despite the fact that the Den
yer Field and Farm recently played
him up as the oldest remaining
cowboy" Kimball has been ranch
ing it in Wyoming for while, but
is back to look at the country where
he used to punch cattle with Jim
Jules. the man for whom Julesburg
was named Jules was tortured to
death by the Indians. and Kimball
had many narrow escapes himself in
the wild and woolly days before the
Poudre valley was turned into a
truck garden. Bill Hopper. who
does not lay claim. however. to any
such exciting career as Kimball. is
another old timer whom folks are
glad to see again. Hopper has been
trying his luck in Montana and Ne
braska since his last visit to Eaton.
l.. P. Riley is in this part of the
country at present in the interests
OF = civil suit pending in the district
court. His home il now in Idaho
Falls, Idaho. Riley is another who
knew every foot of the range here
in the early days.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
SUIT TO COLLECT BEET MONEY
Frank Geiger's Name Up Again. hui
No Fault OF His.

On account of a little suit started
in the county court Saturday, Frank
Geiger must get his name in the pa
pers again, and. as before, it is m
fault of his. Together with three
other men, he took a contract to top
beets for F. S. Mondt, who lives near
Eaton. for $40 per acre. 1t seems
the men had earned some 1920 and
sold the account to J. w. Mcpherson.
The latter states that Mondt has re-
fused payment, and has brought suit
to recover the amount Mondt's an
swer will probably contain some rea-
son for withholding the accoupt 1t
was upon this farm that Gei04s uAs
working when his wife vas under
arrest in Denver on the Volly Mann
murder case. The Denver authOri-
ties came after him, but he was re-
leased next day. as it was evident he
had nothing to do with the crime,
and desired to have nothing to do
with the woman. whom he had aban-
doned some months before.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
No PROFESSORS
FOR COLLEGE JOB
nan MuDDi.E AT FORT COLLINS.
Two Men Selected for Agricultural
College Have Declined.

Unsettled conditions at the stare
Agricultural college have resulted
in Professor Carl w. Gay OF Pennsyl-
vania and Professor Alvin II. Kay
ser of Nebraska declining to succeed
Professor W. l.. Carlyle and Profes-
sor w. II. Olin. respectively.
Although the state board OF asri-
culture has offered to pay both pro-
ressors' expenses to Fort Collins to
jnspect the school. each has let IT
he known that he does not care TO
consider the proffered position until
assured that the troubles OF the col
lege are ended. Another thing that
deters the appointees. according to
friends in Fort Collins, Is the fact
that Governor Shafroth may name an
entirely new board. In that event.
their appointments might not be ap-
proved.
Then the incoming legislature Is
TO be reckoned with. 1t is predicted
that it might radically revise the
laws governing the college. 1t Is re-
ported that the legislative committee
which recently visited the school
made no effort to hide its feelings re-
garding the muddle.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
Mrs. Graefe Entertains.
(Ault Special) \

Mrs. Fred Graefe entertained Fri
day evening at party, compliment
ary to her sister. Miss Sadie Tramne
The occasion was the young LADY,
birthday, and there were abon,
thirty guests present. Those wht
attended from Greeley were Miss An
ME Greenwald, Rev. Edwin Gros,
and Arthur Cooper. In the embroid
cry contest. which was open to bott
men and women, Miss Adah Gone,
won the lady's prize and A. f. VIII
son, cashier OF the First Nation,
bank, the gentleman's prize.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
MOVEMENT TO BETTER sruDs.
Will Send Expert to Germany Il
study Conditions There.

A movement to perfect the Amer
lean potato is now on foot and in al
probability a petition will be sent L
the United States agricultural de
partment at Washington by the
state Agricultural college at Fort
Collins requesting the Washingtor
department to send an expert &c
Germany to inspect the potato in
dustry there.
Germany's potatoes are rated the
best potatoes in the world today
Greeley potatoes come next.
There is no reason why the Colo
RADIO product should not aspire to
more marked degree OF perfection
than the German product. We have
better soil and climate, and assuredy
as complete an understanding of the
raising of patatoes as growers in
Germany
The farmers in Colorado can see
no reason why Greeley should not
stand at the head Of the list in the
matter of potato raising, and are
eager to have the matter investigat-
ed in Germany.
Eugene Grubb of Carbondale, one
of the leading authorities on the
question of Colorado products, Is an
expert worker in behalf of the new
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23

ing to this case. and nearly all seen
TO have the same opinion regardins
the deal. No matter what the out
come. they think that this case ana
similar ones now in court. will IN
lure the real estate business ID
Weld county for some time to come
4 hey say the agents will feel TN
effect more than anyone else, ana
that the honest will suffer with the
dishonest. Already people who have
property for sale are advertisins'
mo agents: deal with owner direct
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
ASKS DIVORCE AND CHILDREN
Wife Filed Two Bills, bu, N.xer
Came to Trial.

Chester o. Bradbury, through his
attorneys Thompson & Hatch. has
brought suit in the county coprt for
divorce from his wife, Mamie NJ He
says they were married in 1900 and
that in 1907 his wife deserted him
taking his two children. a,od -,
and five. He says that the cb,,arar
are neglected. and asks that be he
given divorce and the custody y,
the little ones.
upon two different occasions ,be
wife has filed bill for divorce hu,
neither Of them have been broueht
to issue.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23

rhone your ad to the Tribune.
The Greeley tribune., 1908-12-23
was -Four Below Zero

sunday night the thermou...,
registered 4 below zero. on,,
two nights so far this year have haar
colder. Those were in the ,a..a,
pa.' ol november when the mer.
curry dropped to six below
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
FOR PERFECTION IN KISSING,
Magazine Writer Gives One Pointer
Worth Remembering.

Why OSCILLATION has received So BIT
tie attention from wise men we can
not tell, says the North American Re
view 1t may be that thinking and
kissing go not well together; If SO,
few of us would require long time to
choose between them. Or, possibly,
the subject has seemed to require too
delicate handling; or it may have
seemed trifing. We neither know nor
care. The most valuable practical
lesson to be derived from experience
and now set down is that closing of
IL e eyes is essential to perfection in
kissing. Aside from this hint to those
of congenial spirit, we would merely
direct the attention of those who may
decry the importance of the. topic to
the influence of the charm in retain
ing hold upon one worth keeping, and
ring less frequent and hazardous
those absences which are only too
likely to make the heart grow fonder
--of some one else.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
Legends Of Goblin Hounds.

Conan Doyle's Hound of the Basker-
villes," a "fearsome ANIMAL" is said
to have its origin in the legends Of
packs Df spectral hounds which are
popular in various parts of England
and Wales. In the north of England
these apparitions are known as Ca
briefs hounds" in Devon, the "Wisk,"
"Yest," or Heath hounds" in Wales,
"Cron Annwn," or Own Wybir," and
in Cornwall the Devils Dandy dogs"
They are supposed to be evil spirits
hunting the souls of the dead. Cen
orally they are only heard and seem
to be passing swiftly along in the air,
as they usually choose cloudy nights
for the pursuit Of their prey. Their
yelping is said to be terrific, resem-
bling the note of bloodhound. All
Of which tends to show that the origin
of these legends of goblin-hounds is
to be found in the terrifying noises
made by flocks of wild geese.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
Tho Prophetic GIFT.

That there are persons to-day who
possess the somewhat uncanny gift Of
being able to predict future events Is
probably true. The wife Of the late
Sir Richard Burton, the famous trav-
eler and linguist, not to mention other
instances Of her weird gift, announced
the very first time she saw Burton, at
the time perfect stranger whom she
had met quite casually, that he would
be her husband. At the present mo-
ment, too, there is said to be in Amer
lea man who has manifested such
an extraordinary faculty Of predicting
things that are about to take place
that a nAmber Of medical men have
purchased the reversion Of his brain,
In order that they may examine that
organ after death to see II it shows
any special development to account
for Its wonderful Gift Grand
Magazine.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
How We Came to Wear Clothes.


It has been truly remarked that, In
order Of time, decoration precedes
dress. Among people who submit to
great physical suffering that they
may have themselves handsomely
tatooed, extremes of temperature are
borne with but little attempt at miti-
CATION. Humboldt tells us that an
Orinoco Indian, though quite regard
less of bodily comfort, will labor for a
fortnight to purchase pigment where
with to make himself admired; and
that the same woman who would not
hesitate to leave her hut without a
fragment Of clothing on. would not
dare to commit such breach OF
decorum as to go out implanted.
The facts of aboriginal life seem to
indicate that dress is developed out Of
decorations. And when we remember
that even among ourselves, most think
more about the f1neness Of the fabric
than its warmth, and more about the
cut than the convenience-when we
see that the function is still In great
measure subordinated to the appear
ance, we have further reason for In
ferring such an origin. Herbert Spen-
Ger.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
In the Forture.TeIIIna business.

Just as matter Of curiosity a
woman who lives across the street
from fortune teller counted the per-
sons who called to consult the seer
In one forenoon. The number aston
ished her. In the afternoon she, too,
visited the woman.
II shouldn't think" she remarked
shat you would have such a brisk
trade these hard times. should think
that peeping into the future at your
,price per peep would be luxury that
most people would cut out"
ION the contrary said the woman,
"trade increases in hard times. When
everybody Is prosperous people are
satisfied and don't care especially to
spend money IN finding out II there
Is any III luck coming. but when times
are hard they win spend their very
last quarter to find out If there n
ahfAg better inSslfht.g
ILl "
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
Suicides OF Aqed people.

The record or age for suicides
seemed to be established recently in
Copenha zen. Denmark A wealthy
lady Of 81, living in Copenhagen, COM
mitted suicide as the result Of an un-
successful love affair She fell in love
with young man, and in fit of des-
pair. because her affections we're not
returned, she sprang from the fourth
aoor window one morning and was
killed. She was widow and was the
mother of high government official.
This record did not stand long, how
ever. A few days later it was learned
that Josef Szazkas, aged 1O6, had
hanged himself at Szatonar, on the
Hungarian frontier, because he feared
that God had forgotten him, and that
le was condemned to remain on the
earth for all eternity.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
Labor.savlna ImpoIlteness.

We wish some record had been pre-
served of the time saved by changing
from the old-fashioned profound in
cljnation Of the head toward the earth
perhaps itself labor-savIng i'm
provement on an earlier Ceremonial
Of greeting in which the forehead was
brought, oriental fashion, in actual
contact with the foor-to the modern
brisk nod. We wish there were sta.
tistics to show how much time man.
kind has gained in cutting courtesy
Town from paragraphs to grunts. We
doubt whether all the Wanted econo
mics g labor-saving machinery have
e.."aied those of labor-saving impollte
1GSg
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
A Sugar Jaa.

"Whon a cargo of sugar reaches
port, the matches are always lifted
and the hold aired two hours before
the stevedores are allowed to enter"
said w. c. T. U. woman. This is
right" she went on sternly Other
wise these men would get on jag, a
sugar jag. The air of the hold, filed
with the gases rising from the sugar,
would glaze their eyes, cause them to
stagger, cause them to sing and shout,
to want to fight, to smoke and to make
love. | have seen stevedores, riotous-
ly unloading cargo of sugar, as
drunk from the fumes as though they
had each put away 10 glasses Of dark
beer"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
Tn. Heritage Of the Centuries.

Every city in Australia should be an
ideal and model municipality. The
cities of that vast commonwealth are
heirs to the greatest heritage of the
centuries. In planting their centers Of
human life and activity they have had
the best of all forms of government to
draw from and living illustrations OF
the worst to avoid. But the seeds OF
an old world city are not only sown,
but, alas! the tree Of city problems
fIourishes on all sides. Yes, the evil
OF human beings sweated into eternity
looms large upon the horizon Of city
reforms. The unbridled spirit Of
gambling is abroad. Youths are in
the swim Of the relentless desire to
get something for nothing" The
drink curse has created the slum.-
The Sunday Strand.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
A CARD.

This is to certify that all druggists
are authorized to refund your money
if Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure
your cough or cold. 1t stops the
cough, heals the lungs and prevents
serious results from a cold. Cures
lagrippe coughs and prevents pneu-
monia and consumption. Contains no
opiates. The genuine is in yellow
package. Refuse substitutes. Bear
den & King. Okolona, St. Clair Drug
Co.. Tupelo.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
NO ESCAPE FOR HIM
MR.. BENSON CONDEMNED TO A
DIET OF HAM.
Policy Of Deception Brought Woe to
New Yorker Who Was Batch
Ing" It While His Wife
Was Visiting.

The last time Mr. Benson told a lie
he told it to his wife, says the New
York Times He told 1t just before
she went to Boston. The morning
she went away Mrs. Benson took Mr..
Benson into the kitchen and showed
him the icebox:
Il know" she said, 'how you dislike
eating in restaurants, so l have left
enough provisions cooked to last you
for several days. Here are cakes,
preserved fruits, salads and boiled
ham. You can make your own coffee
and by boiling potatoes whenever you
feel hungry for them you will be
spared the horror of restaurant fare
for at least week"
Benson surveyed his well-stocked
commissariat with pangs of insipient
dyspepsia. The prospect Of dining
alone on cold viands and boiled pota-
toes offered but few more attractions
than course in public eating houses,
but his hahitual regard for Mrs. Ben
sons feelings prevented his saying so.
On the contrary, he thanked her Ell
fusively for her tender thoughtful-
ness.
THAT ham," said he, ''looks par
ticularly fine am anxious to get at
it now. / sAan't step foot inside OF
restaurant so long as there is a
scrap Of it left"
Mrs. Benson beamed with the hap.
piness of the well-doer whose deeds
! q kindness are appreciated by the re-
cipient.
81 thought you would like it," she
! said.
The next day when writing from
Boston Mrs. Benson appended post
script to her six-page letter.
How is the ham," she asked.
| In reply to this query Benson wrote:
"The ham is delicious. eat it for
breakfast and for dinner. Yesterday
I happened to be in this neighborhood
at lunch time, and-will you believe
mel couldn't bear to go downtown
again without a bite of that ham, SO
l came and had snack. You were a
trump to leave me so we'll provided
for"
Thenceforward Benson forwarded
to Boston daily bulletins of the state
of the ham market. For the most part
this information was conveyed in let
tiers and postal cards, but on the
eighth day he rushed into telegraphic
activity. That morning he had
dumped four-fifths of the whole ham
into the garbage can, so he wired with
strict regard for truth: "The ham
is gone"
On the twelfth day after Mrs. Ben
sons departure Benson received an
express package from Boston. Won
deringly he paid the charges of rs
cents, and wonderingly he unwrapped
the box.
For the love Of heaven" groaned
Benson, and resolved henceforward to
stick valiantly by the truth.
Mrs. Benson had sent him another
ham.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
MORE DESIRABLE THAN BEAUTY
Writer Makes Good Argument in Fa'
vor of Neatness.

We all long for beauty, but there
is within the grasp OF all women
something even more desirable than
beauty-namely exquisite neatness.
The writer has descanted on the de-
STABILITY of neatness more than once,
but it is something that will bear to
be talked about more than once, or
twice, or even dozen times. Faith,
saws Pat, when reproved for lying,
"Oi have such a respect for Truth, O1
wud not be dragging her out on every
occashun." The writer differs in this
respect from Pat. She has such re-
spect for neatness that she would be
dragging her out on every occasion,
A man who had travelled much and
seen many women in many countries,
said the other day, Il prefer neatness
to beauty. Beauty does not last, while
the woman of 80 can still be charm
ingly neat" BY neatness he meant
more than simple tidine5s. 1t 1nclud-
ed style and care and taste and the
indefinable art of putting on ones
CLONES properly. IL 10 AoCuAIy, o"A-S'
that Canadian women do not possess
to any extent, says writer in the
Montreal Herald. They doubtless in
herit the lack Of it from their English
ancestors, who are noticeably untidy.
The mass of Englishwomen do not
seem to know the meaning OF the
word. Their skirts and belts always
separate at the back. Their hair Is
never beautifully coiffed. like the
Frenchwoman's their whole aspect is
frowsy to an extreme. OF course, this
does not apply to all Englishwomen.
There are exceptions to every rule.
On the other hand, the Americans are
neat, and hence smart for it is inn
possible to be smart without perfect
neatness. They have trim, trig way
of wearing their clothes that gives q
style to the cheapest ready-made. i
you cannot be beautiful you can al
least be charmingly neat. And neat
ness has an attractiveness that mere
beauty lacks.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22

body continually day and
night through glands the skin This natures way
maintaining proper OF systems and the SOFT
the blood is free from mpur
will result When however the blood from any cause
and acids these must be expelled ana
coming with the delicate fbes and tissues with which the
abundanty supplied they produce irritation and aIu
affections
into the blood through deranged
members whose duty to on
the body fail properly perform their work
left in the system to be absorbed y
The skin not only affected by posons generated within the
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22

Jllc OOCJOI . w CllC
extent of hc-vy
bills and an in
crease of the dis
ease and suffering,
/ recommended Gu
ticura and in a few
weeks the child was
well. He is to-day
a strong man and
a b s lu t ell y free
from the disease.
A few years ago ]
contracted eczema,
and became an in.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
Harklncl Back.

II tell you" growled Mr. Crabbe.
'your shopping is too ,extravagant.
You should never take anything just
because It looks cheap"
tsYou don't say7" sneered his wife.
even, II / had followed that advice
when you proposed to me wouldn't
BE Mrs. Crabbe now p philadelphia
Press.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22

tense sufferer. A Whole WInIVT Passeu
without once having on shoes, my
ankles and nearly from the knees to the
toes being covered with virulent sores. l
tried practitioners, specialists, dermatol-
ogists, etc, to no purpose. My daughter
irl~law reminded me Of having prescribed
Cuticura for my grandson more than
twenty years ago. | at once procured
the Cuticura Remedies and found i'm
mediate improvement and final cure,
till to-day, though well along in years,
am as though | had never had that
disease. / am well known in the vicin-
ity of Louisville and Cincinnati, and all
this could be verified by witnesses.
M. w. LaRue, S45 Seventh St., Louis
vile, KY, April % and May IA, 1907"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-22
TWO ,UNWELCOME VISITORS
HERE.

AT this season La Grippe and
Pneumonia cause more deaths than
consumption. FoIey's Honey and Tar
cures la grippe coughs that may result
in pneumonia over night. Do nottake
chances with cold when Foley's
Honey and Tar will quickly cure /.
Bearden & King.