La Junta tribune., 1909-03-20

All, q most uuusudl Opttminf was
Sophocles McCue.-A. H. Fol
well.
When you pull down the town In
which Is your home. your business.
you are pulling down yourself. and
when you build up your own toSn.
you build up yourself and your neigh
bor Try and Danish from your mind
the mistaken idea that good things
are away off in some other locality.
tGive the town all the praise II can
legitimately bear II will certainly do
you no harm. and will cost you aoth-
ing, and above all, patronize home
institutions. Be booster!
A well known Washington editor
was walking in front of a leaiing
hotel recently when Secretary Luke
Wright hailed him for chat
by the way. Blank, said the Sec
retary. Il saw several mighty good
things In your paper yesterday"
| II Sfdu sou bihfN Nhtms saiu
the editor. beaming with satisfaction.
1T always helps an editor to lind
out what his readers like What
were the articles you liked?"
The articles" said the Secretary.
earnestly. were three fat mince
pies wrapped up In your yesterdays
issue"-LippiRcott
A Winfield boy who didn't desire
to do anything more than get q free
ride, really committed terrible Of
fense when he punched two more
holes in the hat check which the con
ductor on Santa Fe train put in his
hat II is given out that thi. is
forgery. and that ought TO frighten
the boy enough to make him be good
ever afterward. The boy wanted to
20 TO Wichita from Winfield and
bought a ticket to MulSane. One
hole was punched in his hat rSAsck.
He noticed that three holes were
punched in the checks for Wichita
passengers. SO he dug two more aoics
/ in his check influential friends
penitentiary.
The State Land Board intends to
as far as possible reealize for the
state the increased valuations which
come TO state lands through the
construction Of ditches. One day
last week ten Applications were re-
jected because bitches are In eontem-
land can be watered. Just as soon
as water is placed on land ii be-
comes immensely valuable. There
has always been q disposition on
the part of residents of the state
to wait and see where a ditch is go
ing to be built and then file on state
land that will come under the ditch.
and buy the land at a nominal figure
after the ditch is constructed to sell
the land at q profit II the bitches
are built the state will receive the
increased valuation.
A little boy at school was requir-
ed by his teacher to write an essay
OF 500 words on the subject o, 'au-
tomobiles." knowing the frmness
of his teacher Johnnie sat out all.
gently about his task. and after \
great deal of worry and fretting. In
due course of time produced paper
which read ax follows: There are
various kinds of automobiles in the
bad. My Uncle John bought new
one short time ago and the other
day took Aunt Mary and the children
away out into the country for q
ride. When going up long hill. the
auto broke down and Uncle John
had to work several hours to fix It,
Now. teacher, what I have already
written will make about fifty words;
the other $50 are what my Uncle John
said when he was repairing the. su-
tomobile, but they won't look GOOD
on paper"
During the months of January and
February. $Ss.ll7.s2 for the taxes OF
1908 were paid into the Golfers OF
the Otero county treasury This lis a
pretty good record considering the
fact that everybody is complaining
of hard times these days During