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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
DR.. MORRISON
MORE MODEST
MONTHLY BILL UNDER NEW
BOARD 500 LESS, AND CON-
MlSSlONERS EXPECT TO
CUT OFF PETTY SPECIAL
CHARGE.

DR.. w. F. Morrison, county
health officer, who by grace of a
contract with the old board of
commissioners is enabled to still
hold onto his job six months long
err, has filed bill for services for
January a little more modest than
any recently rendered by him
against the county.
In his January bill DR.. Morrison
gives the name of every case visit
ed, something he omitted in form
err bills. Under this system of ac-
counting, the doctor reported three
cases in which no charge against
the county was made, because he
had previously filed a claim for the
same trip. His total bill for Janu-
airy was 1928, or over 500 under
his average monthly claim at this
season Of the year.
The commissioners have inter-
cepted an effort on the part of DIR.
Morrison in his capacity of county
physician, for which he receives
800 per month, to draw on the
county treasury for the petty sum
of 81. The doctor filed a claim of
25 cents for recording each birth
and death in the county, a service
that is rendered by the city health
officer without extra charge The
commissioners have referred this
claim to the prosecuting attorney
for an opinion, and will likely ask
DR.. Morrison to render this service
without extra cost to the county
If be wants to retain the Office of
county physician during the life of
his contract as county health Off
Ger.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
CARE FOR ORPHANS BUT STOP KILLING PARENTS
BEN 3. LIMBS ~, cHILDHooD's CHAMPION

free to sell his labor. That is what
our industrially controlled judiciary
are saying. We must not trespass
on the right of contract-the right
OF every individual to sell his labor
in the market for what he can
Nonsense. -.
Such an alleged law is travesty.
To say that such right is thing
protected by a constitution is to
make of constitutional forms an
instrument of tyranny. The indi-
vidual is not free. He does not
deal on equal terms with the cor
poration in whose mill he works.
To say he makes a contract freely.
and that the right to make that
contract should include the right
to give his life and leave his chill
dren helpless. is to make the law
and courts laughing stock"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
RIGHT UP TO MAYOR MOORE

, Mr.. Moore, l am up against the
real thing | am doing scavanger
work. have been requested by
the scavangers of Spokane to ask
you through The Press whether or
not you can offer any remedy for
pur sad condition.
: The city has been fighting us for
over nine months to corral this
work, and the court has decided
against us. There Is between two
and three thousand unemployed in
Spokane. 1t must be the fact that
The Jobs won't go around. Shall
we join the unemployed army, or
the Salvation Army, or the agita.
tors army, or go to Jail, or go hun
cry, Or beg money to hire lawyers
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08

to fight for the rights of our class,
the working class, the only class
that has the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
Mr.. Moore, do you agree with
me that the average wage paid to
the wage worker lin our so-called
free country of America) is only
one dollar and seventy cents per
day, and the wealth produced by
the average wage worker is ten
dollars per day? And there is an
army of unemployed constituting
one-third of the people who can't
get jobs. We can't exist on one
dollar and seventy cents per day,
and think our chances are slim to
get job at all.
Can you offer any remedy
whereby we won't have to die to
win?
The people of Spokane who have
hired us to do their work are per-
fectly satisfied with our service
and our prices. Now another set
of individuals has stepped in and
said to the employers and to the
employees: "You can't make this
DEAL" knowing at the same time
that all parties are satisfied. Now,
and special privileges for none.
believe in churches and saloons
alike being open day and night,
Sundays and all, and beer and
whisky being made for use, not for
profit and sold for ten cents per
gallon, or the actual cost of pro-
duction, and bibles to be sold for
one dollar per bushel. believe in
heaven on earth and no hell at all.
Some of us are wage workers,
others are small capitalists, but
we are all laboring men getting a
small part of what we produce.
Those who have teams and wagons
have been from five to ten years
struggling for mere existence.
Now we have our routes worked
up, which has cost lis time, trouble
and money. To take them away
from us. offering nothing in re-
turn, appears to me like taking a
mans home away from him and
driving him out in the street to
starve. l do not believe in COM
petition myself. Those who do be-
lieve in free competition will sure
" have to agree with me when |
say that one set of individuals can
say to another set of individuals:
You can't have a chance to COM
pete with u.s." that that isn't even
living up to the laws of cruel
competitive system.
Mr.. Moore, do you remember
General Bell of Colorado during
the miners strike? When asked
if it was not against the constitu-
tion of the United States to deport
honest working men who were
peaceably trying to better their
conditions, his reply was: ITO hell
with the constitution"
No, Mr. Moore. as We are work
ing men trying to make an honest
living for ourselves and families,
considering ourselves as good as
General Bell, could you with a
clear conscience blame us much If
we should say likewise, "To hell
with the constitution" Hoping
you will think this matter over,
respectfully yours, ]. S. Farquhar.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08

the house in which President Lin
coin died in order to preserve it
for it's historical value from de-
molition by a real estate syndicate.
The building now belongs to the
government, which purchased it
by an act of congress from Fred's
father.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
WILL TELL OF HOUSE
WHERE LINCOLN DIED

An invitation has been extended
to Fred Schade, president of the
Second Ward Civic improvement
club, to deliver an address at the
Lincoln celebration, which will be
held in the tabernacle on the aft
ernoon of February IL. Fred is
son of Colonel Louis Schade OF
Washington, d. c., who purchased
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
TAKE THAT, YOU WATKINS.

sokindly allow me to shake off the
shackles of fear as the roaring
African lion shakes the morning
dew from his silvery name, or as
the mammoth elephont elects
spray of aqua pura from his me-
andering proboscis, and make re-
Spouse to the villainous, unpurged
and narrow conceived conceptions
hurled at the Industrial Workers
of the World by one INSCRIPTIONS,
pusillanimous, Insignificant, infini-
tesimal, obscure parsonage whom
nomenclature has cognomenized C.
v. Watkins.
would solemnly request Mr..
Watkins to come out from his
dilapidated boudoir, out from his
seQuestered and murky metropolis
in which he is alternating, out in
the glimmering sunlight, and bask
under the warm and brilliant skies
Of modernity, and after thus re-
lieving himself of those old fash
toned, hypochondriacal, deterior-
ated tendencies. to delve into the
methods of modern labor organiza-
tions, and allow his crumpled
Uranium to expand and absorb a
little knowledge of what is going
on. in the world at the present age,
and after his crumpled and enact
ated Uranium has begun to be &C
tive, and he has become at the
stage of infant observation, he will
be an amateur in this worlds in
tricacies and on the pathway of
progress, and after he has reached
stage where he can think he will
be then likely capable of expound-
ing his ideas on what is right, logi-
cal and what is wrong regarding
the labor question.
Any individual who violently at
tacks an industrial organization as
did he. with no more learned inter-
est. should be well elated at his
own good fortune that he has not
only had the hose turned on him,
but not being prematurely relieved
of all the rest of his wearing APP
parel.
I, as a member of the l. w. w.,
can vouch that there are more
members in the organization that
are far ahead of the intelligence
manifested by Mr.. Watkins, and
will take 1t to vote, and if am
not correct will forfeit enough
money to give this gentleman
two weeks tuition in kinder
garten.
The I. w. W. is a law-abiding
organization which stands by the
cause which they represent. and
more loyal body cannot be found.
There was a time when Caesar
sat upon his throne and dealt out
to the producers of a country for
the we'll earned labor small and
meager sum upon which they could
aught but lingeringly and miser-
ably subsist. This brilliant star Is
now slumbering in the murk and
slum of past ages. Today we have
his successors. and the brilliant
monopolistic stars which glory to-
Eether and gloat over the spoils
of hard earned labor in their scin-
tillating social constellation shine
as only the crowned ones may: but
be alert with vivid agility. look
yonder in the industrial dome Can
you not see arising with vigor and
Triumph the most radiant star that
ever shone in midnight sky. and
do you not see emblazoned on it's
crest freedom and liberty" and
beneath in golden letters set with
the rarest of gems of all the ages
these initials 81. w. W.? M. C.
Armstrong.
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company when the work of con-
structing the bridge is taken up.
NEW CHILD FOR CHIEF RICE

Charles G. Mason, a strapping
1872. FOUNDER, five feet IL inches
tall, brakeman by occupation and
a bachelor by mistake, will be
sworn in for regular duty on the
Spokane rnlice department this
afternoon. Mason has been a resi-
debt of Spokane for the last nine
'years and is generally well
known. He measures Al inches
around the chest and his age is
oh yes, he's a bachelor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08


ORD, bless and preserve that dear
person whom thou hast chosen to
be my husband; let his life be long
and blessed, comfortable and holy;
and let me also become a great
blessing and comfort unto him, a
sharer In all his joys, refresh
ment in all his sorrows, meet
helper for him in all the accidents
and changes in the world: make
me amiable forever in his eyes,
and forever dear to him. Unite his
heart to me In the dearest love
and holiness. and mine to him in
all sweetness, charity and compli.
ance. Keep me from all ungentle.
ness. all observation-disclosures and I'M
rcasonableness Of passion and
humor, aud make me humble and
obedient, useful and observant.
that We may delight In each other
according to Thy blessed Word.
,e. having Our portion IN the love
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
WANT IN ON BONDS.

The Penn Bridge Co. of Beaver
Falls. Pa, has heard of the pro-
posed 100000 bond issue for the
Spokane bridges, and in letter
addressed to the city council, has
asked the body to consider the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08

taken up the matter and claim
that there art many alleged deaf
mutes in the city who impose on
the public through pitifully word
ed cards.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
AFTER THE FAKERS

An ordinance has been pro-
posed to stop deaf and dumb
takers in this city. The Spokane
Association of the Deaf have
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
THE PUBLIC SQUARE

Dedicated everything personal
quarrels and family fights. Otherwise you
about 300 words and sign your
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08

Special Cozrsspoudsncs to
PARIS Feb SThe United States will be represented in the
and designed by
Crane, who designed Dixie H."
The Yankee flyers been entered in the following
The prize of Monte Carlo maximum 92
feet and unlimited distance 81 miles, interna
tona prize 62 miles prize $4,000; mile and ko
standing flying start $500 valued
$4,000
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08

It's a safe bet that the first blue.
bird is unhappy.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-08
A WIFE'S PRAYER

BY FATHER BERNARD VAUGHN, s. j.,
Priest of the Farm Street Jesuit Church, London
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03

moved and gives considerable more room
in the entrance walk. so that there Is no
to mix longer any occasion for psdsstri-
ans entering or leaving the grounds
an improvement that is much appreciated
by everyone who in the olden time had to
dodge between praneing horses, autos
and the like.
Just inside the grounds the same old
friends-and many new ones-greeted
everyone on the Midway. where the string
Of fakirs is more numerous than usual
and snake charmers, palmists. Punch and
Judy shows, etc.. vie with each other for
trade.
In the Art hall the display this year is
much larger and better than ever before
Many new exhibitors have made splendid
showings Of paintings, fine arts. textile
work, etc.. and have divided the ribbon
honors with the old candidates. The
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03
A Business Change.

As was foreshadowed in this paper last
week Mr.. and Mrs. N. c. Morris have be-
come identified with the business inter-
ssts Of Rocky Ford. as they on Monday
closed deal whereby they assumed own
srship Of the Palmer Dry Goods Co. The
new propristors Of the South Main street
store have secured new and up-to-dats
stock Of shoes. dry goods and general
merchandise. and will undoubtedly do a
successful business. The Enterprise
heartily welcomes them to this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. L L. Vermenlen. the for
mer propristors, are bidding farewell to
the many friends they have made during
their years residence in this city. and in
theIeourss Of a few days will leave for
their former home in Loveland.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03

Is to fill him with new ideas and inspire
him with the possibilities Of his own farm.
Possibilities that he had probably never
even dreamed Of until he saw them in
actually.
The live stock industry is leading
source Of interest to a great many. and
at the fair they find on exhibition speei-
mems Of horses. cattle. sheep and swine
as nearly perfect as they can be
bred. OF course there are also some an
imals that are subject to severe criticism
and these are Of value to the visitor for
the purposes Of comparison.
Any farmer or stock owner will do wei
to study the character Of the prize win
ners. One look should not be enough. A
man should return time after time and
carefully study the animal in which he is
interested.
Animals are on exhibition that are
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03

nsedlswork department has also made
the best showing in the history Of the
Fair. And the pantry stores and pastry
exhibit was away ahead Of former years
both in quantity and quality Of display.
In fact the ladies have made = handsome
showing in every department in which
they are competitors and to them belongs
the credit for the fact that each year
shows improvement and added interest in
the Art hall. culinary and floral DEPART
ments.
Agricultural and horticultural fairs are
Of value for their educational influence
upon the exhibitor and upon the visitor
and you should again visit the Arkansas
Valley Fair while there is yet time.
No class Of men is more keen and alert
than the American farmer Of today and
for him to spend few days at the fair
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03

faulty in some respects. These should
not be passed by hastily. To study
than is almost as important ~ 70 study
the prize winners. They have faults and
these faults are to b avoided just as
strongly ~ the good points in the prize
winners are to b sought.
Last year there was great interest
manifested In poultry. but the interest
was nothing to that shown this year. and
to the poultry faneisrs visit to this part
Of the exhibition has alone repaid them
for the trip to tho fair. All the leading
varieties Of chickens, ete..are well repre- =
sentsd and are the eentering point for a
large throng.
The farm crops department is a source
of pleasure to all and Of inspiration to
many. Everything in the line Of field
crops. from the common grains. grasses
and vegetables to the more rare species
are there to be seen and examined. and
they readily show the adaptibility Of the
Arkansas Valley soil and climate. Then
the display Of agricultural maehinsy is
well worth visit Of inspection. Farm
machinery Is developing so rapidly tha: it
almost staggers one to comprehend the
progress that Is being made. as you will
no doubt admit If you give your attention
to the exhibit made by the A. B. S. Co.
For the past two years the fruit ex-
hibit has not been creative Of much in
teres., but this year there is a fairly large
crop and nowhere could an exhibition Of
fruit be found that is more pleasing than
that at the fair,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03
vorthy in the big celebration

the most noteworthy in the big celebration
Of 1909.
Great improvements have also been
made in the fair grounds this year. The
old entrance arehway-a relic Of the
Colorado building at the St. Louis Worlds
Fair. which was secured by Senator
Swink and presented to the Arkansas
Valley Fair association and has since
graeed the gateway to the grounds-has
given way to an ornate and substantial
entrance way Of cement stone blocks and
structural iron. which Is said to be the
finest edifies Of the kind in the state.
Connected with the entrance way are
the turnstiles and stations Of the ticket
collectors. which in the years that are
pas. have shown their frowning fronts
several yards from the main gateway.
Tbs secondary entrance has been re-
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03
State University Scholarship.

A scholarship certificate. emitting the
holder to a remission Of the annual fee
dess two dollars) in the college Of liberal
Arts, Engineering. Commerce and Edu-
cation. and an equivalent amount in the
Schools Of Law and Medicine. at Boulder.
has bsen issued to Herbert p. Kinney
q Rocky Ford high school graduate OF
the class Of 1909. as recognition Of high
scholastic standing.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03

Before another twsnty-four hours has
rolled around the eighteenth annual Ar
kansas Valley Fair will be numbered with
its predecessors. Already the souvenir
vendors and street fakirs arc becoming
hoarss and like those who have been in
constant attendance at the grounds they
are waxing weary Of the strain and they
will not be sorry when the big show is
ever.
But it has been hummer! In every
detail /. has been bigger and better than
ever before. The exhibits in almost
every department have been greater and
the exhibits themselves show marked i'm
provement over former years.
The weather is invariably good to Us
and although at times ''old Sol" appeared
to be handing US rather hot bunch his
smiles were at all times tempered with a
nice breeze. And what the fine weather
didn't do in the line Of comfort was at
,e7ded to by U. S. Ringer and his force OF
as ants in the public comfort tent at
tn. sf1pot. Every incoming visitor was
met With the invitation to leave his bag
gage with them until they had looked the
town over, and information as to places
Of interes. and entertainment was cheer
fully furnished. Many fair patron had
cause to bless the diligence and watehful-
ress Of the active members Of the public
comfort committee.
And the work Of another committee is
also entitled to high praise. 1t was
through the sxsrtions Of the committee on
decorations that our streets and buildings
were decorated in manner that called
forth the admiring comments Of thousands
Of visitors. Not only were the streets
and buildings gaily:dseoratsd with hazs
land bunting, but the snowy work oi
the decorators was smulatsd by the busi-
ness houses, amongst whom friendly
rivalry sprane up in the matter Of window
dressing. and as . result every business
house in the city took on gala appear
anee such as has never before been dis
PLAYED in Rocky Ford. The window dis
lplsys of course featured each individual
business, but the Fair eolors OF red anc
green predominatsd in the general scheme
and many novel and unique designs wers
untilized in the display.
The illuminations are this year also
away ahead Of anything heretofore seer
in Rocky Ford and the myriads OF greer
and red ineandeseents with which tht
streets are overhung gives Main stree
an attractive appearance at night. Th'
e!se;de lighting has greatly enhance
the ,sration Of the town and has aides
in making the decorative feature one o
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03
BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER
THE MELON PILE AND THE CROWD


that
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the
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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03

Why
Pay
Rent?

I will loan you money to
buy or build, you pay mon.
ey back in monthly INSTALL
ments the same as rent.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-09-03

IS Acres Of Land
under the Rocky Ford
ditch, three miles from
town, worth $4,000 per
acre.
|. R. Fen|ason
= I'D
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-16
The Parade on The Fourth.

The Commercial reported the parade
last week just as we saw it pass. All
the occupants of the vehicles were not
mentioned, and hence we overlooked
the fact that the decorated vehicle,
whose occupants were Misses Irene
Davis and Floy Coble, also contained
two other ladies, Miss Ruby Mays and
Miss Claire Littleton. This vehicle was
decorated under the direction of Miss
Mays, and was furnished by her for the
parade. The oversight was uninten-
tional. The vehicle occupied by Misses
Sallie George Chambers and Katherine
Flack was the Red Cross contribution
to the parade, and it was also one OF
the leading features.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-16
NONRESIDENT Publication.

F. j. Smith, administrator of John r.
Hovis, deceased,
VS..
Sam Hovis, Margaret Abbott, Thomas
Abbott Mat Hovis, Babe Hovis, Cor
die Moores, Sugg Moores, James Ho-
Wis, John Hovis, Verda Hovis, Della
Taft, Knox Taft, Bette Taft, Allie
May Taft, Lena Belle Holland, Annie
May Holland, Virgie Lee Holland,
Lorene Holland and j. B. Cheattam,
their guardian, Henry Hovis, Robert
Hovis, Ethel Hovis, Fred Hovis and
L. S. Parks, defendants.
In the County Court at Union City,
Tennessee.
In this cause it appearing from the
petition, duly sworn to, filed in the
County Court of Obion County, Tenn,
before the Hon. A. j. Lawson, County
Judge, that the defendants, Della Taft,
Knox Taft, Bette Taft and Allie May
Taft, are non-residents of the State,
they are therefore hereby required to
appear on or before the
First Monday of August, 1909,
before the clerk of the County Court OF
Obion County, at Union City, Tenn, at
his Office, and make defense to the petit
ton filed against them ct al, as above
styled, by F. ]. Smith, administrator of
John r. Hovis, deceased, or the same
will be taken for confessed
1t is ordered that this notice be pub
lished for four consecutive weeks in the
Union City Commercial.
This June "a, 1909.
S. F. HOWARD,
Clerk of the County Court of Obion
County, Tenn. 14-4t
F. j. SMITH, Sol for Petitioners.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-16
Everything dates from Dahnke's.

w. H. Harris & Co. is the latest
style of the firm with offices north OF
Alexander & Tisdale's in the National
Harvester Building. The members are
w. H. Harris and ], L. Ransom, who
will be in the market this season for
wheat and corn. A great deal of wheat,
we are told, has already been sold. The
acreage is not large in this county, but
the yield is, extra good, So probably
there will be an opportunity for hand
ling very liberal amount for ship
ment.