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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31
HAPPY RIDGE RouNpuPs

Mr.. Burton is fixing to leave for Kan.
sas to work.
wenzl Holm was trading 1T Norton
last Monday.
The sheep Inspector passed through
here last week.
This weather is getting the farmers
in the notion of planting.
Sim Harris and Jay Evans made a
trip to Apache canyon after a load
Of wood.
Mrs. Ida Evans aud Mrs. Ida Thorn.
son visited Mrs. r.. Brown near Norton
this week.
Mrs. Della Evans was visiting her
cousin, Miss Eva Brown, last Sunday
and reports a fine time.
Mrs. A. A. Harris, Mrs. Ida Evans
and family visited j. W. Brown e family
rear Puerto last Sunday.
j.. w. Brown and wife and daughter
Lula, were visiting f. G. Thompson anC
family the first of the week.
Sim Harris was hunting horses IN,
other day and found them one and one
half miles this side of san Jon.
We have been having some NOR,
cloudy weather, bnt have not receive,
that good old gully washer yet. Hop,
to soon.
Steve Beagle made a flying trip Il
Tucumcari this week to take a hors
home which he has had in the pastur
for the past month.
Some of the young folks of this dis
trict attended "A basket dinner an,
preached Mt the dobie school nous
six miles west Of here last Sunday.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31
BATTLEFIELD MONUMENTS AND
MEMORIALS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY

ment making institutions the air il
compressed Mt a central power plant
and is led by means Of pipes and hose
to the various localities where the me.
chemical chiseling il TO be done. The
designs for n statue or monument are
first prepared by craftsmen and are
then outlined on the stones TO he cut
with these markings as a guide a work
manipulating one OF the portable
pneumatic tools eau carve out quickly
and with great accuracy the intended
design. The principle of the superiori
~ of the mechanical carver is that II
rains, hundreds of blows IA minute
whereas the artisan with mallet and
chisel would not deliver more than one
or W blows. IL can be appreciated
that the surface to be cut is covered
much more rapidly by the machine
method, and moreover the air.driven
chisel will cut more accurately and
with greater uniformity that any save
the moe expert sculptor unaided.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31
EGYPT EVENTS

Sunday was q rainy day in Egypt.
Leon Phillips was in San Jon Satur.
day.
W. A. Goforth was 10 San Jon Sat.
urday.
Mrs Boone went to San Jon Satur.
day evening
Claude Boone is spending this week
in Tucumcari.
Ycll Jenkins went to Tucumcari Fri.
day on business.
MIR. Henry aud lady were shopping in
Rcvuclto Friday.
Mrs. Boone was visiting Mrs. Potts
Monday morning.
r. H. Houston and family were San
Jon visitors Sunday.
i. !. Henrit2e has purchased n fine
cow from DR.. Williams.
Clarence Richardson and father made
San Jon a call Saturday.
MTN. 'llS anu 'hilhl'h Nin'''' us
Pearl lJudgcns Saturday.
Mcssrs Potts and Boone visited home
folks Sunday and Monday.
r. Hutchens and family spent Sun.
day with the jenkins family.
Tom Abbott is contemplating going 70
Kansas during wheat harvest.
Mr.. Rater near Bard City, attended
singing in our valley last Sunday.
Mrs. Leslie Owens visited her bus.
band in Tucumcari Saturday and Sun.
day.
j.. f. Furgeson is preparing for a
trip to Kansas during the wheat har.
vest.
Mrs. Furgeson and daughter, Miss
Ethel, spent Wednesday at the Potts
home.
After the little shower Of rain Sun.
day some of the Egypt farmers have
been planting again.
Andy Potts visited home folks Mon.
day aud Tuesday, returning to his posi-.
tion in Tucumcari Tuesday evening.
T. Culpepper of Amarillo, spent "A few
days with nome folks this week. He
has a position in the railroad yards
there.
Leon Phillips planted twelve acres
+ Of watermelons. Said he was going 10
try TO raise enough for all the old
) maids in our vicinity. Good for us old
maids, we need not plant any.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31
HAPPY RIDGE RouNDuPs

Mr.. Bard is building him a new adobe
house.
Alfred Williams has a good mich Cow
for sale.
The new school house will be com.
pleted this week.
Jimmie Fields was visiting over in
this country the other day.
Felix Folks is building a new house
on his farm west OF here.
Odcs and Claude Poiner were hunting
horses the first of the week.
Mrs. A.. A.. Harris was on the sick
list this week but is on duty now.
All Thompson Of Norton, was here
and helped on the new school house.
We are expecting one Of our bache.
lor boys home soon, Mr.. Tom Brown.
Some movers passed through here the
other day on their way to Colorado.
Wenzl Holm had the bad luck TO get
kicked by his horse but is able to be
around.
We are having some cloudy weather
over in this district again aud hope it
will bring us a gentle shower of rain.
Alfred Williams, Sim Harris and Jay
Evans dug a well OF the Sabreta creek
the first of the week and struck good
water and plenty of it at n depth OF
ten feet.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

II. L. Hamilton has been having a
good deal of trouble with some of Tu.
eumcari's young America lately. There
are lunches of them who make up
parties and go out to the Blue Holes
to go swimming. They generally have
a target In their possession and do
some promiscuous shooting. Recently
a small company of them shot three
horses for G. w. Anderson. They had,
IL seems been In the orchard of Mr..
Hamilton and had stolen a quantity Of
green apples and when he drove them
away from the trees, they cought ven.
geance as they thought by shooting his
horses. The horses proved TO be the
property Of @. w. Anderson. This is
the reason that Mr.. Hamilton is adver.
tising that no boys under fourteen
years of age will be permitted on his
premises unless in company with their
parents or guardian in the future. He
informs the News that he intends 10
arrest all boys under the stated age
found around Blue Water and bring
them to town and turn them over to the
officials unless they are in company
with parents oil guardian . This is a
warning to the parents Of children of
this city to see that the boys stay
away from Mr.. Hamilton property.
IL is f%oolishness TO allow children to
take guns u IN these excursions any.
way and II the practice is continued 1t
may result In the loss Of the life of
hoys allowed such privileges. They
are about a. apt to shoot each other
a. they are to kill somebody's stock.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

There is a movement on foot to get
the business houses OF the city to close
at 8 p. NJ. every evening except Sat.
urdays and two days after each pay
day. We have always thought that
the SANE amount Of goods will be sold
if the stores all close at six o clock,
as if they should all keep open until
5 or even . o'clock. The clerks will
get the extra time and will be in bet.
ter condition TO make sales than if they
have to work too long hours. If there
city it commences generally at S
o clock, and for a salesman to have TO
work until seven or seven thirty, he
has no time to get supper and get
ready for the eight O'Clock hour. All
work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy. The old Hebrews taught that the
day should be divided into three equal
parts, thereby giving s hours for labor,
eight hours for refreshment and sleep
and eight hours for the service of God
and their fellow man. This division
cannot be improved upon. The gov
ernment of the United States has adopt.
ed the eight hour labor law. Laws have
been passed whereby a Rail road cor.
poration is compelled TO allow their
employee a certain number Of hours of
rest and recreation. Why should the
sales people be compelled TO work a
longer number Of hours than necessary
when no more goods will be sold, and
not ms good service rendered the en-.
ployerf Only those who have stood
behind the counter have any idea how
much wear and worry comes from meet
ing all kinds of customers, hearing their
complaints, their criticisms, tearing
down half of the goods in their depart
ment to sell a spool Of thread, having
to take back goods that don't suit, ex
changing sizes, matching colors, trying
to bring together the ideas of the boy
and his mother and the pocket book of
the father, being called a thief and ac.
cused of trying to put of last years
goods on a customer, and all the time
have to keep sweet aud smile. Eight
hours of this kind of life every day
will make a man more tired than plow-
ing new ground in Missouri, When a
salesman goes to work at seven and
works until six with an hour for lunch
be has done all that a man can do and
do IL well. Let the sales people be
treated Ms well as any other class of
employees.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

Z. E. Thompson, wenzi Holm and
steve beagle made a trip to Fucum
earl and 20, the rest of the lumber,
doors and windows TO finish the school
house.
The Logan Leader says the outlook
is exceeding flattcrinu tor the com
pletion of the irrigation organization
Il will be known as the canadian val
lev irrigation district aud viii embrace
about $4,000 acres.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY

Monday was q holiday in Tucumcari,
the banks being closed all day and the
business houses were closed during the
afternoon. At lao the members of the
g.. A. r. began to assemble at the Post
Office on south Second street, and the
march began at 2 p. IN. The procession
was headed by the members of the q.
A. r., followed by the Tucumcari band,
members of Tucumcari Company Of the
National Guards and citizens in ear.
riages and on horse back. The line of
march was about a quarter Of q mile
long. At the cemetery the ritual Of the
q. A. X. was read, after which q mos.
excellent address was deiive ed by Rev
Harvey NJ. Shields, d. D., Chaplain of
the Regiment.
After the exercises NJ the cemetery
the crowd returned to the city and dur.
ing the afternoon the rueumcari Band
rendered SOME fine music, which was
greatly rnioyed. There we're Is metz.
hers Of the q. A. r. Calul, In the parade
and we were reminded az how rapidly
the ranks Of the old grard are beng
thinned o"t by Father TIVE, and that
III a few mc-c years none o. the bra /. e
insn who answered tho CJuhtIy's cal. "a
6l.65 will be present to answer tue
earthly roll.call, but will have answered
tho call of to ground armt, snd rec ii e
their final discharge.
At the cemetery many persons deco
rated the graves of their dead. Widows
carried wreaths and silently placed
them on the grave of husband, mothers
knelt by the little freshly made mounds
and with a crystal tear on their cheeks
and quivering lips, quietly placed a
bouquet On the spot where baby slept
sons went to where the clods had a
short time before fallen on mothers cof.
fin, and with throbbing heart placed
the wild flowers Of the prairie over
the sacred dust; sisters knelt on each
side of brothers grave and tears drop.
ped on the dust. A widow with an
arm full of wild flowers Of New Mexico
stood beside the monument at the head
of her husband grave, and on each
side Of her stood a little boy; she look
ed at the grave, spoke softly TO tn,
boys, laid the flowers on the clay, look
ed up toward the cloudless heavens
then placing the handkerchief to hel
eyes, shook like an aspen leaf. II tn,
spirits of the departed can come back t,
earth, and Ear know those who wer,
so dear to them, surely the little GENE
terry was full of them, as loving naud,
put flowers on the spot where then
bodies were deposited.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

This hot weather should bring rain.
The rainy season Is due to begin June
the first TO the fifteenth. There is
time remember TO grow most Of the
crops adapted to this locality after the
middle Of June. 1t Is not necessary
that il should continue dry through
this month. In the opinion Of the edi-
tor Of this paper after watching the
dry farming process during eighteen
years of residence in this territory IL
is now about the proper time TO
plant the crops. Open the burrows and
let them dry out il there is any mois.
ture visible, plant the seed and cover.
The earth is dry so that the seeds VIII
not terminate until the rains come
after which stuff will come up and
grow right off and cultivation can be,
gin rs soon as a weed is seen above
the ground, and the crop is in hand
On the other hand If planting is put
of until after the rains come a LOT
Of the moisture is lost in the planting
and the crop will be days behind thai
put In before the rains. Try IL anC
see IL you are not convinced that tn,
plan Is q good one.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

This Is the fourth time the proprietor
Of the Clipper has located in a newly
settled country and each time he has
seen the settlers beset with drought
and badly discouraged and three times
he has seen the long drought come to
an end and the farmers blessed with
good crops and prosperous and happy
and he expects to see abundant crops
right here in this county. Kansas
farmers are as prosperous as any in the
U. 8. and Uncle Sam has appropriated
money to help the suffering farmers of
Kansas when they were in desperately
needy circumstances. In 1856 Congress
passed a bill appropriating money to
help drought sufferers in Texas and
Old Grover vetoed the bill, then the
Governor of Texas called a special ses.
sion Of the legislature and it a%ppropri.
ated money to buy chuck for the farm.
ers in 27 counties but we are going to
pull through here. Frank Pavey from
western Kansas finished fencing a
school section east of Los Tanos last
week. Keeter, a Texas man, took out
a big load Of barbed wire last week to
fence his place near Halle. those men
have faith in this country and expect
to stay with it and prosper.-Cuervo
Clipper.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

Hotel Grand, Cimarron, n. NJ, Bar
in Connection. For sale or Rent, fur.
nished throughout, swcrags, hot aud
cold water, II rooms, One block from
Depot-best location in town. Write
Tucumcari News, 5.3l.st
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

What Is the matter with our band :
Needs more support that Is all. The
boys are doing all the business we are
giving them a chance to do.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31
NOTICE TO

All boys under fourteen years Of
age are prohibited to enter my prem.
ises except in company with parents
or guardian.
II. II. l.. Hamilton.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

It IL one of the most beautiful com.
pensstions If life that no man can sin.
eerely try to help another without
helping himself.-Elbert Hubbard.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

The commercial club has leased head.
quarters temporarily in the Israel build.
ing. Getting down to business slowly
but surely.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-14
fascination of the Thiro Rail.

you can talk all you want about
the way some people want to jump off
tall buildings, but the men who walk
the elevated tracks can sympathize
with them" said man the other day
whose business it is to work along the
elevated railroad lines and see that
everything is in good condition.
"Trackwalkers often have the same
impulse to step on the third rail that
climbers have to jump. You walk
along and see that shining rod of steel
and watch the sunlight glisten on it.
and then the thought comes to you,
If l step on that it will kill me- and
then you wonder how it would feel to
just put your toe on it. OF course a
fellow shakes those ideas off his mind,
but they keep coming back, and l
have known more than one man who
has quit his job because he was afraid
that he couldn't fight off much longer
the impulse to stand on the track and
put the other foot on the third rail,
and when | hear of trackwalker
being killed by the third rail / Won
der if the fascination Of the third rail
got the better of him."-New York
Sun
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-14
NEW "CHRlSTMAS CAROL"

Not by Charles Dickens, but an In
eipient Parody on His Famous Story.
Barley was dead to begin with. He
was as dead as doornall. which must
be going some in the dead line, as peo-
pie have been using doornail as a
simile of death for several centuries.
But Smoodge was alive and kicking.
Smoodge kicked particularly against
Christmas presents. He didn't believe
in Christmas presents. Barley. his old
partner, dead these seven years, hadn't
believed in Christmas presents either.
When Smoodge shut up his ware
house and went home on Christmas
eve-he lived In lodgings that had been
| Barley doornail assumed an ex-
| preston which he had never noted
there before. The head of that dead
doornail resolved itself into the head
of Barley
Hey, Jacob; I thought you were
dead" cried Smoodge.
80 1 am, Ebenezer." replied the vi
talized doornail, "but I've come back
to warn you that you will be visited
at midnight by three ghosts, one after
the other. So long, Ebw
Barley's ghost again became dead
doornail. Smoodge went to bed and
promptly at midnight was awakened
by an apparition II was the first of
the three spirits. 1t seemed to crawl
out from under his bed. 1t danced on
the footboard Of the bed.
II am the Ghost of Christmas Pres
ent Past" said the spirit.
You look to me like one of those
slippers my niece gave me last year"
said Smoodge
You win" said the ghost and van
ished.
Presently the second spirit arrived.
doing a merry dance over the wash
stand.
You look to me like another Slip
per-" said Smoodge.
81 am the Ghost of Christmas Pres
ent Present" said the spirit.
''Ha, see! said Smoodge. You're
one Of the slippers my niece is going
to give me this year"
Whereat Spirit No. smiled and va
moosed
In jiffy the third of the promised
spirits came in. 1t jumped upon the
bed and slapped Smoodge in the face.
I'm on" said Smoodge: you're an
other slipper"
Il am the Ghost of Christmas Pres
mt Future" said the spirit sepulchral-
fy.
Yes, l know" remarked Smoodge
"My niece will present you and your
mate to me next Christmas. Because
I'm an old man she never sends me
anything but slippers. But these ghost
ly visits have taught me a lesson.
Hereafter I'll be a better man. I'll
give my niece Chantecler hat in
stead Of the usual pair of gloves, and
maybe next time she'll give me a silk
topper T. SAPP.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-14
A "RAFFLES" GANG
Two Men and Woman Rob-
berS. .FaShiOndbIy Dressed.
LEFT IN AN AUTOMOBILE.
Two Residences In New Rochelle Bur
sIsrized by Group Who Said "Good-
by" to No One When They
Came Out the Front Door.

New Rochelle, N Y, Dec. S-Two
men in evening dress and a woman.
All in fur overcoats, with a large yell
how automobile and colored chauf-
feur, robbed the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph d. Murthey of New Ro-
thelle and are believed to have re-
reated the trick at the homo OF Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Wallach. In the Muir
they residence $1,000 worth of jewelry
was taken. From the Wallach resi-
dence the burglars took clothing and
jewelry valued at $780,
Miss Eva Glardon, who lives oppo-
site the Murthey home, told the police
that she had seen a handsome yellow
touring car waiting in front of Mr.
Aurthey's house about o'clock and
that while she stood on her porch a
man and woman In evening dress and
fur coats emerged from the front door.
As they left the porch the man took
or his hat and. with a bow, said
well good night; we will see you
next week" Then he closed the door.
handed the woman down the steps
and into the automobile, where they
were Joined by second man In even
ing dress and fur coat. The three
were driven off rapidly
The man who left the house carried
two suit cases. After the party was
out of sight Miss Glardon noticed one
Of the parlor windows open and then
remembered that Mrs. Murthey had
gone out in the afternoon, and the
maid was away for the day. She ran
across the street to the home of Mr..
Murthey's father and told him of the
incident. Mr.. Murthey found one of
the parlor windows forced open with
Jimmy"
The rooms on the second story had
been ransacked and the contents of
bureau drawers and closets turned out
on the floors in the search for jewelrv
and money.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-14
Market Renorts.

BUTTER-Firmer; receipts. 6.ls2 pack
ages creamery, specials. per h.. 3Ohc /:
extras, 291Rc.; thirds TO firsts, 23Ika2Sc. /;
held. specials, Sic; seconds to extras. 5Ih
a3OAc. state dairy common to finest, 24a
Nc'; process. 2Sa26hc.; factory. current
make, 22a23c
CHEEsE-Steady; receipts, s,2n boxes:
state, whole milk. specials, per h., l52.a
lAc.; September quality, fancy. white.
l5al5Ac.; colored. 15lkc. later make, as to
quality l24al4hc.; white l4kc.; common
10 choice, l3al4c.; part skins, 41aal3c.; fun
skins. 21sa3iAc.
EGGS-Firm; receipts, S254 cases; state
Pennsylvania and nearby, hennery, white
per dozen, 45a55c.; brown. safe; gath
cred, white. 35a4Sc; brown, S2a42c. fresh
gathered extra firsts. 3Sa4Oc; firsts. asa
Hc,; seconds, 3Oa34c; refrigerator. special
marks. 26c; firsts, 24l6a25lzc.
POTATOES-Firm Maine per bag. 81 40
hlb5; state. S.35ai.5O: Long leland, per
bbl., n5Oa2; Jersey, per bag, 81. s5al. rs;
sweets Jersey. per bill. El.75a2,75; per bas-
ket 75c.asl25
HAY AND STRAW-Steady.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-14
WELL AIR BEDDING.
Recipes Fer Various Thinrs Helpful
TO tho Housewife.

J Recipes Fer Various Things Helpful
TO the Housewife.
Why is il that 80 L.rly huasekeep.
ers who see TO It that heir houses nre
spotlessly clean. with nary specl
OF dust or mud, do not appreciate the
value of clean, fresh air in the home
In the summer. when one is glad
tnough to open the window. proper ven
tilation is an easy matter. but when
the cold breezes blow and the coal
supply is not unlimited the housewife
seems to think II the bedroom win.
dows are open for five minutes in the
morning this will supply enough of
the life giving ozone to stock the house
for the day.
To begin at the bedroom, 1t IL the
idea of most housewives that to turn
the bed covers back for n few minutes
before the open window viii sufficient
ly air the bed. And SO IL is the idea
Of many Of us. But the covers should
be taken completely Off the bed and
spread over two chairs by the window
and the mattress turned back. These
shOhlu w dheu ul tuOTnluS DelOTe
making the bed. Every window in the
room should be opened, and, in fact,
one window should be partly open all
the time except when q storm would
drive through
At night the clothes should not be
allowed to lie in heap where they
have been carelessly thrown, but each
garment should be separated from the
others and hung on q clothes tree near
window where the night air will
blow on them. which. contrary to pop
ular superstition. Is not injurious. but
beneficial.
In the kitchen the frequent opening
Of the outer door generally lets In suf-
flcient fresh air, but the living room
is a different matter. The best plan
is to have the carpenter make a two
inch board to At across the outer sill
so that when the sash is closed down
II meets the board. In this way there
will be a space between the upper and
lower sash in the middle of the win
dow, which will permit of sufficient
fresh air entering. II vanished the
same as the other woodwork this will
not mar the appearance of the window.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-14
His Impression.

FIS IMPRESSION.
AIRS. Knieker-Now. will you Femem-
Der everything. John? Knicker-Yep.
I'm to turn the flowers out at night
and sprinkle the cat.-Harper's Ba-
Ear.