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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-12-09

The county commissioners were in
session this week.
Mrs. w. w. Jones. of Granada was
a Lamar visitor today.
The county court was convened for
the December term on Monday.
The work of grading the road nortl
of the bridge commenced this week.
The Holly sugar factory has closed
down after a short run of thirty one
days.
Frank Tweedie is now entirely out
of danger. His friends are glad to
hear it.
E. S. Darrough, mayor of Granada,
was transacting business in Lamar
Thursday.
Mr.. John Duncan, Holly's big real
estate man. was a Lamar visitor
this week.
Mr.. Frank Stewart returned last
night from a few days visit in the
capitol city.
Miss Ella Packard returned today
from visit of several weeks with
friends in Boulder.
Mrs. J. F. Dillon, of Winterset,
Iowa. is visiting at the home of her
igto L
E. r. wager has almost completed
a fine residence for Mr.. A. Friedman
on the corner of Ninth and Elm SITS.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Dickinson, of Grana Ia,
was a Lamar visitor last week at
tending to matters before the county
court.
s. r. Hurson, of Carlton, was in
Lamar this week attending the ditch
meeting and looking after business
matters.
Mr. A. e. Downer went to La Junta
Saturday and enjoyed a short visit
with his brother Gil, who resides at
that place.
Rex Bennett of the City Electric
Company is able to attend to bust
ness once more after a long siege
of sickness.
w. w. Reynolds and S. C. Gregory
were Lamar visitors this week at
tending the sessions of the board of
county commissioners.
Mr.. Delbert Mourning is finishing
a neat little house on Ninth and Oh
i've streets, just north of Prof E. r.
Jones' residence.
Mr.. Harry Pettee, one of the numer
GUS candidates for Water Commission
Ter of this district, was up from Holly
Monday, looking after his interests.
DR.. and Mrs. c. S. Wilson enter
tanned few friends Wednesday
evening in honor of Miss Underwood
Quite a pleasant evening was spent.
Mrs. w. ]. Johnston returned the
first of the week from visit of
several weeks with relatives and
friends in Kansas and Oklahoma
cities.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-12-09
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.


In the Matter Of the Estate Of John A.
Mutehier, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given. that on Mon
day, the fourteenth day of December, A.
d. 1908, being one of the regular days
of the December Term of the County
Court of Prowers County. in the State
ministratrix Of said estate. will appear
before the Judge of said Court, present
my final settlement as such admins
and will then apply to be discharged as
such administrators. At which time
pear and present objections to the same
II any there be.
Dated at Lamar. Colorado. November
9th. 1908.
ELLEN NJ MUTCHLER,
Administrative of the Estate of John A.
Mutchler. Deceased.
]. X. Doughty, Attorney.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-12-09
NOTICE ron PUBLICATION.


November IA, 1903
NOTICE is hereby given that Ellen
M Mutchler, widow Of John A. Mutch-
Ter. deceased, Of Lamar Colo. who. on
No. 1854. II. e. No. 6s52, for the north.
east quarter OF Section "a. Township 20
south. Range 46 west of the 9th Prin-
tention to make final five year proof,
to establish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before the Register and Receiv-
err at Lamar. Colorado, on the S0th day
of December. 1908.
Claimant names a. witnesses:
Jesse NJ. Wright, Jack A. Seaman, John
Barnhiil, George f. Eagan. all OF La
JOHN A. WILLIAMS,
Register.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-12-09
BRING the School Children

to the Union hotel on Saturday, De-
cember 10, where DIR. Sapero, the
well known eye, ear nose and throat
specialist of Denver, will examine
their eyes and yours free. Call early
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-12-09

Found.-A lady's fur boa. Owner
phone Lamar 147, describe properyt
and pay for this notice.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-12-09
Specials in Notions

Specials in Notions
We are offering a good.
clean lot Of notions at ex-
ira low prices.
All our 1oc bargains in
oueensware will 90 for &c
8 cards of good Pearl But
tons for. -. 80. -. &c
Finishing Braid at ..., 80
Hair Pins, 2 punches for SC
An extra large line Of Rib
bons to clean up at. 100
1oc quality Of Hooks and
Eyes for 80. ...... Sc
Darnins Cotton, 2 for. Sc
Ladies' 15c Hose for. .1oc
A lot Of ladies' 75e Gloves
to be closed out at the
pair ...... -..... ..S5c
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-12-09

The marriage licenses of the week
are: Mr.. Gotfried Soklofski and
Miss Katie Mai, both OF Lamar Re-
fugia G. Hernandez and Sotorio Gar
'cia. both of Holly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Richmond as a Hotel Town.

Speaking of hotels" said member of Blrmingham's Virginia colony, "Richmond was for long time deficient in, hotel ac- commodations, but about 15 years ago the Jefferson, a palatial structure costing nearly two million dollars, was erected Later on other handsome hotels were built, and today Richmond is famed for it's magnificent hostelries. I am told that all the hotels there are profitable.
 ''No city of 100000 population can afford to be without spacious and elegant ho- tels. It may have everything else to con- mend it, but if 1t Is lacking in high-class hotel accommodations. unfavorable com ment is sure to be made.
 Conditions in Birmingham are rife for a mammoth hotel. There is hardly a month in the year that our hotels-excel- lent hotels they are, too-are not taxed to their capacity. If Richmond needs big hotels, Birmingham needs them still the more; for travel this way grows heavier year by year. People from every part of the country are attracted here by business, and those who come include q large percentage of men who can afford and who also expect. the best, regardless of cost"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Three Deficit Years Out of Seven

In September the Roosevelt admin istration will have rounded up seven years, and three of them have been years of deficits. There was a deficit of SAP 100000 in 1904, and in the follow ing year came deficit of 23,O0O0 900. The year just ended capped all with deficit exceeding $60,O0O,0O0 Large as this is, it will be exceeded in the pres ent year because appropriations were carried skyward in the long session, aggregating $1 ,008, ,804, ,894, a sum never before equaled by one session of Con gross for a single year, not even in times of war.
 The alleged party of prosperity is the party of deficits because it is the party of unparalleled extravaganza. When extravaganza is met by tariff designed to fill private pockets rather Shoh NhC blCdouly uOntlIS DSCOlliS Hat ural and even inevitable. Were it not for surplus of money in the treasury bond issues would now be necessary, and the deficit of the present fiscal year promises to bring the country face to face with bond issues. This is what the party of alleged prosperity has brought us to.
 Public extravaganza and a tariff built on indefensible lines is at once heavily taxing consumers and depict ing the treasury. This is what repub- licanism means. This is what it Is actually accomplishing, and it will be strange indeed if change of admins tration is not demanded in November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04

forget that abundant humor which was ever tempered with a native shrewd- ness that no words can describe. His imagination, too, was always linked with common sense. The limitations that he imposed on his sense of humor and his vivid dreamings made him the rare man he was. As time goes on his place in literature will be raised higher and higher until he will stand out as one of the country's finest humorists and dreamers. Just as Sidney Lanier's fame has risen with the passage of time so will Joel Chandler Harris.
 To those who knew Harris person ally the blow is irreparable. To those the tributes paid to him by the Presi- dent of the United States and by great men in nearly all the walks of life added nothing. They saw but the mod Noit SCilAdl WI ltlG wal lSu friend. the one who shed all pretenses and shams, who was just man. His modesty and his desire to be just sim ply man among men will be long re- tained in his adopted city, where incl dents will be told and retold while memory lasts. A real man has passed away, a dreamer of rare gifts, lov- able soul that knew the south as child knows its own mother.
 It is perhaps too early to suggest that a shaft should be erected to his memory in his own state. The entire south would certainly join hands to do this. The dead author needs no shaft of granite or figure of bronze to per petuate his fame, but the children of today and of coming years do need something to remind them of the story of life that was rounded at last into an immortal name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Harmony All Needful At Denver

In a year when union of all demo- crats and of all other men who believe the states still have some reserved rights, and who do not believe in Ding leyism, which is emptying the treasury while It is filling the pockets of the monopolies and trusts, promises the overthrow of the republicans, it is a source of regret that any democrat should seek to create discord and divis- ion. To attempt to do this over the newly made grave of Grover Cleve- land Is doubly regretful.
 Let the campaign of 1904 be consid- cred finished. Dismiss 1t to the his- torian, where it belongs. Do not dig 1t up at any rate in order to create dis cussion and discord at Denver. The Age-Herald warmly supported the can didacy, of Judge Parker in 1904, and as one or nlS supporters 1t appeals to him to do nothing that will lessen the en- thusiasm over prospective democratic success.
 All democrats should get together and stay together-all anti-administra- tionists, for that matter. The coming electoral struggle Is not picnic. It Is to be a battle between the people and vast slush funds contributed in good part by tariff benefciaries. For every dollar the democrats can assem- ble the republicans will have at least ten dollars, and the greater sum will be used to buy votes in the contested states. Democrats to the last man should therefore cultivate harmony and avoid discord, and The Age Herald has confidence that Judge Parker will not do anything that will infuse bitterness in the proceedings of the Denver con vention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
OAKLAND A BIG TOWN.
1e Washington Post.

TOnl tHt w dStiliis tcii OSt
 Oakland. Cal, has more than 100000 people, which Is 5o 900 more than it had before the San Francisco earthquake and fire," said J. E. McElroy, city attorney of Oakland, at the Arlington. "So the old saying that 1t is an i'll wind etc., might apply to our city. However, we are mighty sorry that we had to profit by a sister city's misfortune. More than 100000 persons fiocked to Oakland at the time. of the fire and, as have said, 50, 900 of them remained there. The others have gone to San Francisco or to other cities on the Pacific coast.
 q do not think San Francisco has lost any in population, however Instead of losing people now the city Is gaining right along, and when San Francisco Is again built up, which will not be so long, it will be one of the most beautiful cities on this continent. Building is going on with great strides and there is an air of prosperity about the city that was not apparent for some time after the disaster
 Ut is really remarkable the progress that San Francisco has made when all its troubles are considered. The labor difficulties and municipal disturbances following the fire surely were not calcu- lated to bring about happy condition of affairs, but in the face of all these handicaps the people went right ahead slowly but surely. and now the great work they have done is to be seen on all sides DO not believe the stories that are told by some persons that San Francisco is not arising from her ashes. No munici- pa1ity could have made greater progress The future of the city could not be brighter; 1t is sure"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Our Vice Presidents.

"In recent years too little importance has been attached to the mental equip ment of candidates for Vice President said an old democrat Tn the early days of the republic. and down to 1884, the Vice President was usually in the same class, from a statesman's point of view, as the chief executive. In the list of Vice Presidents appear John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Clinton, John c. Calhoun Martin Van Buren. Willard Fillmore. William R. King of Alabama, John c. Breckinridge and Thomas A. Hendricks.
 Roosevelt. as everyone knows. was Vice President, but while he has turned out to be a man of extraordinary force as President, at the time he was put on the ticket with Mckinley he was not regarded as a statesman of the ante bellum mould. In old times 1t was the rule to select for the vice presid ency only men of national distinction and high achievement in public life. It should be so today. But in many cases within the past 30 years the chief question asked is, Is he a vote-getter? !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Beef Production In the South

The ranches of the Far West, par ticularly in Texas, have been turned into farms, and the beef cattle of the future are to be bred and fattened on farms, where they are to be fed corn or cotton seed products. The raising of cattle in this state would simplify the fertilizer problem, and it would give our farmers something to fall back upon when the boil weevil has over- run our cotton lands.
 There is, however, one trouble in the way, and that trouble consists in the presence of the cattle tick, which causes Texas or splenetic fever. The best of cattle are especially subject to attacks of the Texas fever.
 But if the state will cooperate with the -fedepa1 government the cattle tick can be driven out. The task is not diff ficult, and once accomplished a great and profitable industry would be added to the agricultural possibilities of this state. Perhaps in no other way can our unoccupied ranges and mild eli mate be so prof1tably utilized. In no other way can the money now sent to the west be kept at home.
 But until the cattle tick is eradicated the beef industry cannot become estab- lished in Alabama. Additional state legislation Is needed in order to invite the farmer to cooperate in the work of driving out the cattle tick. The project is wholly feasible, and the na tional department of agriculture stands ready to lend helping hand, and to lead the way by the introduction oi approved methods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04

tration could get even better support from democratic House than it could from one controlled by Payne, Dalzell and Cannon. What are known as Roosevelt policies could and would be supported in a democratic House, whereas in a Payne-D Dalzell body they would be emaseulated or pigeon-holed.
 This belief is spreading throughout the contested northern states, and close observers do not hesitate to predict democratic gains in the next Congress, even if MT. Taft should succeed in get ting into the White House. Revision by the standpatters would be farce, and the country undoubtedly wants a tariff that would put money into the treasury instead of private pockets. The battle over candidates for Con gross will be warmly contested and there are few intelligent republicans who do not concede democratic gains in that respect.
 A careful reading of the signs of the times in the states that stretch from New England to the Rocky mountains discloses not a few districts that the democrats will almost surely gain. A gain of about 30 seats would make MT. Cannon the minority leader and it would elevate Oscar w Underwood to the head of the ways and means com mittee just when it will be charged with the duty of preparing a bill to revise the' tariff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Joel Chandler Harris

The death of Joel Chandler Harris will be mourned wherever the memory of the old south is cherished, for no one else had so vividly pictured the old plantation and the old life that were rudely terminated by the iron hand of war. His pictures of the times before the war were so kindly, so inimitable. SO wondrously picturesque that they were accepted in all parts of the south when they appeared about 25 years ago as a dream from a past that had gone never to return. There will be moist eyes today in every part of the southland that Harris loved so deeply and so well. Others may have under stood the old south as well as he did but no one else, not even Sidney Lanier. had painted it in such undying and lovable colors.
 But his work was not confined to the south. He wrought for all, and wher- ever the language is spoken his name speedily became a househoid word. Just as some do not know Mark Twain's family name, so many in far away states came to know the dead writer by the character that he had made glorious part of English litera- ture. Thousands spoke of him az "Uncle Remus" who perhaps had never heard his own name. His first book Is read today wherever the language Is known and it will continue to be read while that language exists. It is an immortal addition to English litera ture.
 He was essentially philosophical in much of the work that flowed from his untiring pen, and that philosophy seemed to spring right out of the soil Born as he was in Putnam county, ir The heart of Georgia, he was req, product of the red lands of the state he loved 90 we'll Nature added men lai equipment that enabled him tt narye her as no one else has. Who car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
GROVER CLEVELAND.

From Harper's weekly.
 He lived up to his ideal with a courage and "a devotion that made him in his retirement the most influential citizen Of the country. He defended the country against the selfshness and greed of poli- ticians and of other dealers In public wares He defended, too, against the Senate, the office which had been be- slowed upon him, as he defended fed eral rights against the states, as he was lcrcumspectly jealous of the rights of the states. He could not be moved as other men, some of them good. have been. by temptations presented to his ambition, for he had no ambition to hold office or to wield power. He was the pre-eminent em- bodiment of these political and social truths-that from the truest service comes the noblest power, and that the power of influence Is vastly greater than the power of authority
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Satisfactory Iron Trade.

"The large buying of iron has been fol- lowed naturally by a quiet market" said a prominent furnace company official, but conditions are very satisfactory in- deed. In May a considerable tonnage was bought for speculation, because the price was tempting and better times were ahead; but now melters are needing iron and the melt Is increasing steadily.
 shipments are heavy and although a majority of the furnaces in this district are running the stocks on the yards arc light. It Is safe to predict another brisk buying movement before tbe end of the month"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Vice Presidential Timber,

Governor Broward of Florida is one of the big men of the country" said Frank s. Mayes, editor of the Pensacola Journal, who was in Birmingham for a short while on Thursday, "and the Flor ida delegation will present his name to the democratic national convention for Vice President.
 Bryan and Broward would make a good campaign slogan. Governor Broward, as master of the Three Friends won inter national fame by his filibustering expedi- tions during the Spanish-American war, and as the projector of the scheme to drain and reclaim the Everglades. His administration as governor has attracted wide attention. As a peoples man he would certainly add strength to the dem ooratic ticket"
 MT. Mayes is one of the best known and most influential newspaper men in the south. He is an ardent Bryan man and is a delegate to the Denver convention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Railroad Travel Increasino.

"One of the best signs of a return of prosperity is the increased passenger bus mess on southern railroads" said R. II. Rathborne of Louisville.
 'I have travelled extensively in the south and west this year. In the spring coaches were rarely half filled. And it often hap pened that express trains were all but empty. It is very different now. Travel has been increasing since May, and from my own observation, it seems to be almost If not quite normal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Control of the Next H0uSA

The House of the Sixty-first Con gress Is to be elected in November, and upon the outcome of that part of the election a great deal in the form of legislation depends. Both big parties are or soon will be committed to i'm mediate revision of the tariff, and upon the House falls the task of formulating bill.
 It 10 believed that a Taft adminis-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
Fourth of July,

"In the usually accepted sense the Fourth of July is national holiday. but as matter of fact this country has no national holiday by congressional enact ment," remarked citizen.
 "The Fourth, or Independence Day. as it is called in some of the eastern com munities, Is a legal state holiday in Ala bama and in all the other states except Mississippi Bets are some times made on the question of national holidays. It is not difficult to get bet on the Fourth of July proposition, because the prevail ing belief is that 1t is a national holiday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
pEsFEcTrRIEF.

By Arthur Synons.
 The wandering, wise. outcast sons Of Pharaoh the dark roof1ess ones Taught me this wisdom: If Death come, And take tlt dear one, be thou dumb Nor gratif5 with suppliant breath The attentte insolence of Death. Suffer thyfdear one to depart
 In silence; silent in thy heart, From tbi3 forth, be thy dear ones name, So I. that would not put to shame So dearf memory dead, repeat No mora the sweet name once too sweet. Nor fr,h that buried name remove The mighty silence of my lovA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
WHILE AWAY FROM HOME.

Birmingham people who are leaving home for the summer should have The Age-Herald follow them, and thus keep Informed about what Is taking place in the city and state during their absence. The Age-Herald will be sent to them at any address at the regular price, and the address will be changed as often as desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04

Those who have old books to give in ex- change for new ones are allowed half price for the old books That is, book that costs 30 cents in cash costs 25 cents when an old book of the same kind is given in exchange Of course no chlld has new books to give in exchange IT his old book is half worn, he comes out even. If more than half worn, he is the gainer look at any pile Of old DOCKS taken in exchange will show that on an average they are much more than half worn out For the most part they are a dead loss or nearly so, to publishers who take them up. It is said that they are oftenssold at 1 cent or cents pound.
 The estimated volume of business the first year under the recent adoption IS $500 ,OOo. Perhaps not over 10 per cent or this will be exchange business. If so' s3o, 900 or $4OoO0 will cover 1t. One-haif of this is allowed for the old books, leav- ing a possible loss of only $15Oo0 or $2o,- GOO if all books exchanged are new. But as already stated, perhaps no pupil will turn in a new look in exchange.
 Those who have no old books to ex7 change would have to buy new books In any event. It matters not to them whether books are changed or re-adopted.
 Again. after the first year, all books bought will be new, since the exchange period is but one year.
 Hence 1t would seem that the busbear of the great cost of changing books is imaginary rather than real. All pub fishers know this. They and not the patrons are the losers by the exchange business. taken as whole True some particular patron may give up a book for half price worth more to him than to the publisher. In that particular case the order Is reversed But that does not offset the general proposition as to where the loss and gain lies.