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The Paonia newspaper., 1910-06-17
RAMBLING REMARKS
By Geo. o. Blake

discussion of late as to means
for obviating the shortage OF
water which occurs each year
about this time. The town board
has seriously considered several
plans. Complaints have been
made that water users in the east
ern part of town have deem un-
able to get water for sprinkling
purposes. The board was in
formed that users out of town
were in a habit OF sprinkling,
watering stock. spraying trees,
ETC., from the mains contrary to
contract. 1t was known also that
there have been violations of the
ordinance here in town in re-
spect to sprinkling out of hours.
The board decided that when
users out of town make
prohibited use of water it is to be
shut off. The marshal was in
structed to enforce the ordinance
relative to sprinkling here in
town. Last Sunday evening the
marshal made a tour of invesiga-
ton. The result was that he
found good many sprinklers
running; one hose had no nozzle.
Strange to say. some of the Of
tenders were good church men,
bers. Perhaps you think Police
Magistrate Moulton had a dock
full of culprits Monday morning
You may guess again, he had
nothing of the sort, and am
doubtful whether his services
were asked for. The good
brother who forgot to put a
nozzle on his hose paid a dollar
for having the water turned on
again which had not been turned
Off and that ended the affair.
Not a man was hailed before the
magistrate. Now does anybody
imagine that ordinances will be
respected, if violators get off with
a mere don't do it again" II
every one of those culprits. with
out regard to wealth. prominence
or social -tanding, had been
presented to the police court and
fined, there would be no more
violations this year. Every one
of them is we'll informed as to the
ordinance and some helped make
it. Passed off as it has been. !
will wager doughnut that the
marshal can go out almost any
evening and find sprinklers going
merrily after hours and why not2
OF course it is robbery of those in
the east end of town, but what
matter itf If we are to have
ordinances, let them be enforced
and that regardless of the stand
ing of the offender. There are
sticklers for rigid enforcement OF
certain other ordinances regulat-
ing conduct. and strange to say
some of them were offenders in
this case. When a sprinkler is
found running contrary to ordi-
nance, let the marshal turn the
water off promptly and hale the
O fender before the police court
just as any other offender against
the law, why not7 Once that is
done, there will be no more vio-
ton. Now what can be said to
excuse any other course1 Fair
play for all who are entitled to
water demands that everybody
be compelled to observe the law
and it is.the duty of the town Off
cials to see that they do so or
suffer the penalty.
The Paonia newspaper., 1910-06-17
GOV. SHAFROTH AND THE DODGERS

ton has justified the trust inn
posed in it by the people. There
has been a determined effort to
eliminate graft and to ferret out
and punish fraud in the admins
tration of state affairs. The guilty
have been pursued without re-
gard to what party they belong
or whose appointees they are.
Gov. Shafroth has shown de-
termination to make these VIOLA
tions of law unpopular and un-
profitable. 1t is out of the ordi-
nary for an officer to prosecute
one of his own appointees. but
Governor Shafroth plays no favo-
rites. He demands the keeping
of faith with the people. The
policy of the administration has
been toward the utmost economy
consistent with efficient service.
In fact the duties of state officers
have never been better performed.
The failure of the general as
sembly to carry out pledges made
to the people was due. not to the
democrats of that body, but to
the republican members and
very few democrats who voted
with them, but the blame for it
has been applied to the demo-
Gratis. And those members re-
sponsible for the defeat of mea-
sures desired by the people have
been vociferous in asserting that
such reforms were not desired by
the people. When Governor
Shafroth expressed an intention
of calling the Legislature in extra
session to fulfill the pledges
made, he was denounced and ridi-
culed by these same fellows and
their bosses. An extra session
was declared to be need less ex-
pense to the people, and would
be wholly futile, as the member
ship would be the same as be-
fore and would do just what they
did before. But there was an
election in Denver which showed
without any question that the
people do want these pie dges re
deemed. The interests" and
their hired men in the legIs lature
do not want them, not any more
now than before. Now that Gov
ernor Shafroth has dec ided to
call the extra session for the
early part of August, these patri-
otic friends of the people have
changed their tune. They are
'denouncing the governor for not
calling the session Immediately.
They even charge him with a
conspiracy to oefe at the very
measures he proposes to submit
to the legislature. They assert
that if enacted in August, these
reforms can not be effective be-
fore the fall election. This
change of base will not deceive
the people. The men who are
raising this cry are known to be
the same ones who accomplis he d
the defeat of reform measures in
the regular session and the Peo-
pie know that they are in the pay
of the same bosses. The real fact
is that if called in August, the
members will be very anxi Gus to
get back home to fix fences
badly out of repair. They will
have to act promptly and then
just before the county conven-
'tions explain their acts to their
constituents. They will be COM
pelled to carry out their platform
The Paonia newspaper., 1910-06-17

and they may as we'll remember
that this is an off year with early
and destructive political frosts in
dicated.
The Paonia newspaper., 1910-06-17

Entered at the postoffice in Paonia, Colo
Yado for transmission through the mails as
second-cass matter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
new WHARF TO
Be FOR PUBLIC
On This Condition the Remon-
STRANGE Filed With Council
Will Be Withdrawn.
CITY TO BE THE REGULATOR
Sand & Gravel Company Ordinance
Until Tomorrow Evening.

Signers of the remonstrance to the
proposed Ievee ordinance Of the Rock
Island Sand & Gravel company have
agreed to withdraw their protest on
condition that the new wharf, or at
least certain portion OF it, be accessi-
bic at all times to the public, this rule
10 apply also to the two tracks 1t Is
planned to construct leading to the
improved landing, and that the wharf
be under the control and regulation of
the city authorities. This was made
known to the council at its meeting OF
asst evening through S. r. Kenworthy,
who is acting as the attorney for the
people who signed the remonstrance.
The latter demand also that the grant
;.e not in excess of 15 years. and that
lie clause setting up that the company
FL be reimbursed for its investment,
It is desired at any time after Is
ycaTs on the part of the city to retake
The river front between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets, be stricken.
Wants Time to RecOup.
The Rock Island Sand & Gravel COM
pany through its attorney, e. H. Stat
ford, answered that it would make an
expenditure of between Sic, 900 and
$4,000 in the event of the passage Of
the ordinance. The company did not
object to the conditions proposed. with
regard to the control and regulation
of the city of the tracks and the wharf
age, in order that the same be open to
all who wished to make use of the
hrNf
the company. in view of the large in
vestment, felt that 1t should at least be
allowed sufficient time to recoup; in
other words, the company would ac-
cept 25-year franchise, with the REIN
bursement clause omitted, or would be
satisfied with a 15-year grant with 1t
included. Mr.. Stafford explained that
a concrete wall, as favored by the
mayor and some of the members of the
council, had been found to be imprac-
tical on consultation with the city en-
gineer and the engineers of the gov
ernment river headquarters here. mas
much as 1t would necessitate the build
ing of perpendicular wall that would
be a handicap to the smaller craft in
low water periods, and would be a
treacherous spot to human life were it
permitted to remain unguarded, as
there would be straight decline into
several feet of water. For the reasons
cited rip-rap wall was substituted IN
the ordinance draft.
The ordinance was offered to the
council in revised form, conforming to
the suggestions of the aldermen at a
previous meeting. Last evening there
were submitted further changes, as re-
ferred to, and it was decided to have
special meeting Wednesday evening
to take final action on the ordinance.
Wednesday evening the new franchise
ordinance Of the Tri-City Railway COM
pany will be taken up also. 1t was in
tended to give it further consideration
last evening, but owing to the lateness
of the hour when it was reached, it
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
DISCUSS COTTAGE
Directors Of Bethany Home AS
ISOLATION Consider Build
ing New Structure.
TO ACCOMMODATE BOYS
Not Enough Room in Present Build
ing - Matter Left Over Until
Meeting to Be Held in May.

The board of directors of Bethany
Home association held a meeting last
evening at the New Harper house
and discussed the proposition of
building a cottage at the association
grounds on Fifth avenue between
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh streets.
The cottage is required to hold the
constantly increasing number of chill
dren who are cared for at the, insti-
tuition.
1t is proposed to have the boys live
in the cottage and the girls remain in
the large house where the entire num-
Der is now kept. The structure which
is needed will cost $4,000 to $500
and the ladies who make up the COM
mittees working for the home, hope
to raise enough money to build the
cottage without any great expense to
>ths association itself. The project Was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
VISITING NURSE
ASSOCIATION MEETS
Hears Report of Miss Margaret Giles
for Month just Passed and
Receives Donations.

The Visiting Nurse association held
a meeting yesterday evening at the
home of Mrs. c. o. Woodruff and
heard the report for the past month
of Miss Margaret Giles, the visiting
nurse It showed that she had made
1876 calls upon 81 patients who were
attended by II different physicians.
Nineteen new patients were cared for
and the rest were patients who were
on the list before. Eleven recoveries
were reported. three died, two were
sent to St. Anthony's hospital, one to
the hospital at Watertown and one
was dismissed.
Donations towards carrying on the
work of the organization were received
from the following sources: Helpers
circle and Silver Cross circle of the
Kings Daughters, Associated Chart
ties, Ladies' Aid society of the First
Baptist church, Mrs. Louisa NJ. Copp,
Mrs G. H. Sherwood, Dr. Emily
Wright, Miss Sue Denkmann, Mrs. c.
o. Woodruff, Mrs Robert Bennett,
Mrs. c.. C. Carter, Mrs. R. r. Gable,
DIR. Louis Ostrom, Dr. C. l. Silvis,
Mrs Mary L. Sudlow, Mrs. F. NJ Riggs
and Crawford Carter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
MooCHER is SENT TO JAIL
Trying to Beg Money With Which to
Buy Himself Liquor.

A. HI. Burke was picked UP late last
night by the police when he was
found "mooching'' on the streets in
such a manner as to greatly annoy
passers. Burke told the police mag
istrate this morning that he was mere
ly soliciting funds with which to
buy several rounds for himself and
his friends but the magistrate did not
believe in, this kind of begging and
he sent the solicitor to the county
jail for a stay of Is days. He was adj
viaed to shake the dust from this city
off MS feet when he is released from
The sherfff's retreat for the wicked and
thirsty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
Gold coino to EUROPE,

New York, April 5.-The outward
COW or gold TO Europe gathered force
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
Kerler & Co. make rugs.
Buy a home of Reidy Bros.

Kerler & Co. make rugs.
Buy home of Reidy Bros.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
For bus and express, Spencer & Trefz
Lawn mowers sharpened, 112 East
Seventeenth street.
LaVanway buys and sells every
thing. Telephone west 247.
Let William johnson do your tin and
furnace work. 1916 Third avenue.
H T. Siemon wants your tin and
furnace work. 1526-152S Fourth ave-
nue..
Various household articles will be
sold Wednesday. April 6, at $40
Seventeenth street
Mrs. NJ. Levy, 623 Eighteenth street.
is disposing of some of her household
effects at private sale.
Post card photos 60 cents per
dozen. Only a short time before !
stop making them. Kerr, 1907 Sec
ond avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05

The pretty Eclipse Pumps, Ankle Strap Pumps Patent
toes, straight tips, wing tip heel Styles the c.
latest feathers patents gun metal suede and satin opt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
today with the engagement of $4,000
mn
Notice.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Rock Island Saw
ings bank for the election of nine d.
rectors for one year will be held at
the Office of said bank in Rock Island,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
laid over after discussion until the
next meeting in May.
Mafron Makes Report.


MatrOn Makes Report.
The report of the matron of the in
stitution was made to the directors
and it was a very favorable one. 1t
showed that there are As children now
at the home and that during March
there was not single case of sick
ness. Two children were returned to
their parents during the month.
The list of donations received in
Guided the following: Jellies and car
pets, Mrs. II. B. Sudlow; dishes, books
and bedclothes. "A Rock Island
Friend" ice cream and cake for the
kindergarten. Mrs NJ. E. Sweeney; So
pounds of starch, w. H. Dart; six new
aprons, German Sewing society; East
er greetings and flowers. H. NJ. Nc
Caskrin; and flowers and seeds, Mrs.
M. l.. Henderson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05

Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets assist nature in driving all
impurities out of the system, insur-
ing free and regular condition and
restoring the organs of the body to
health and strength. Sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05

Monday, April IL, 1910. Polls will be
open at 10 a. m. and closed at IL noon
of said day.
P. GREENAWALT, Cashier.
Rock Island, April 2, 1910.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
City Chat
ELoPINo UP TO DATE,

The coatless man puts a careless arm
Round the waist of the hatIess girl,
While over the dustless, mudless road
In a horseless wagon they whirl,
Like leadless bullet from hammerles!
gun
By smokeless powder driven,
They fly to taste the speeches. joys
BY endless union given.
The only luncheon his coin1ess purse
Affords to them the means
Is a tasteless meal of homeless cod,
With dish of stringless beans.
He smokes his old tobaccoless pipe,
And laughs a mirthless laugh
When papa tries to coax her back
By wireless telegraph.
Motor Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-05
Notice

Notice.
I will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by J. c. McMann.
II. NJ OSBORN.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-10

1t is q beautiful day in spring. Some
3O,OOO,OO0 men, women and children
ire working the prairie. the meadow,
the hill and the valley. They are
blowing the ground and planting the
grain in order to produce foodStuI1s
enough to feed the coutless numbers
of hungry men. Their backs are bent,
their shoulders are stopped. Their
hands are calloused. Their muscles
are hardened. All day long-since the
Growing e the cock in the early morn
they have struggled and toiled.
Even their horses are tired and tuck
cred The guide of the household, the
busy wife and mother, has worked
faithfully and diligently and yearns
for rest.
On the same day. in a great metrop-
oils Of the Middle West. several hum
dred men are speculating and gam
bling in the necessarieS of life. They
call it a legitimate busines nesS-nOthin
more nor less than buying and selling.
1t is not. 1t is gam mbling-pure, genu-
inc gam bling. These sO-called apos-
ties Of business are not only gam bling
in he products grown in the soil. but
they are gambling in the human
flesh Of 100000 men, women and
children, who are actually compelled
to work sixteen and eighteen hours
day to furnish the goods for these ma
nipu,ators to carry out their specula-
tive operations. How dramatic the
whole scene is laid out before us. One
works in overalls, besmeated with
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-10

means of maintaining their selling.
prices. The packers have no fear Of
anything left on their hands TO spoil
or go 10 waste They can coerce their
customers as they do the growers Of
iiV JI 'If YOU don't want TO buy
at Asa1oy,, = not do It; I
will Keep 3'S cold stor-
age until you will DC to buy at
even higheF prices" And the eaters
are helpless
Thus in cold storage in the hands Of
powerful combines is an entirely mod
ern but most effective means for the
control Of both buying and selling
price and the creation of easy made
rnilionaires between the producers and
the consumers
But We must not become prejudiced
against cold storage. We agree with
the Wall Street Journal that modern
conditions make cold storage necessary
and like all other great discoveries, it
came just in time to meet an exigency
of the human race. 1t would be i'm
possible to guarantee our great cities,
with their teeming millions who eat
but do not produce, against periods of
hunger were there no stored supply
to draw from. And if prices were
made from an equitable basis cold
storage would serve as a safety valve
for farmers in the sense that it can
be made to relieve them Of temporary
market g1uts by retiring. surplus accu-
mutations.
Cold storage. then. is an important
factor In maintaining a just equilib-
rum between supply and demand-a
means Of saving producers from bust
ness stagnation in over fruitful years
and consumers from hunger, or at
least from short supplies, in seasons
of dearth or crop failures, or even
from Interrupted transportations.
It is. therefore, only the ABUSE of
cold storage that works harm. The
best things may be monopolized by
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-10
Farmers Should Store Their Own Crops

now be so pronounced There is
doubt if it would be felt at all-doubt
if there would be any shortage
We gave in last issue of Up-to-Date
Farming. from what was said to be
official figures, a statement of the
meat stuffs held in cold storag but a
short time ago. In round numbers
those figures were as follows: Cattle,
Ii, ,0O0,000; calves, 6,OOO,OOO. sheep
and lambs, Is, 100000; hogs, 10000,
900. There were also held at the
same time in the same institutions
1900, 100000 eggs and 10000, 900
pounds of poultry.
How was that tremendous stock ac-
cumulated and what for? We do not
know. But the natural inference is,
and the operation Of both buying and
selling markets justifies the conclusion
that the packers bought everything
| in these lines that was offered for sale
at packers prices. They then set the
prices at which they would sell the
meats made from the animals, and
whatever did not sell at these prices
and was left on hand, was not thrown
| into a rummage or clearance sale. IS
! merchants do their left over goods.
! but it was frozen down to be held as
! a reserve supply. The packers thus
maintained their selling prices, and
! had this reserve as an ever ready
| club 20 compel the farmers, If nece5-
sary, to accept the packers buying
| prices. 'If you don't want to sell
at our prices keep your stuff: we can
get along without it" They could
draw on their cold storage supply
dig up the meats that had been cached.
as the Artic travellers say Of supplies
hid den in the ice.
| It is asserted by those who claim
to know that meat and eggs and f'sn
and poultry often go on the market
after having been thus in storage from
one to five years. And as we nave
already intimated, it is an eHecH"e
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-10
President Barrett Speaks For
Three Million Farmers

ment Of that acrimony invariably at
tending the complication Of short
lived political platforms or their au-
thorS.
Mr.. Barrett said The American
farmer of tradition has been the farm
er Of the more or less humorous car
toon or caricature variously represent
ed as fair prey TO the green goods
man or the gold brick artist.
"And" he continued. the farmer
has been slow in awakening His en-
vironment, in the first place, was
against his awakening. The tardiness
Of facilities for communication, the
infrequency with which newspa pers
penetrated to the far rural districts,
and the natural suspicion which is a
part of his temperament all initiated d
to keep him in shackles as to his own
power, and his duty of self govern
ment in the premises.
The era Of sleep is at an end. The
era OF Wakefulness to self-duty, to the
obligation Of self-help, TO the obliga-
ton of duty to country is already
dawning!"
After stating that vandalism and
graft are being eliminated from our
political life, the speaker said: 'We
are standing more resoluteiy each day
TOR a literal Interpretation of the
doctrine of the square deal We are
determined that the people and not
the politicians shall rule
He said THE Farmers Union is
Continued on Page Two)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-10
Vol. 81, No. AZ

selhshnesS and greed and blessings be
thus turned into a curse Such is the
case with nearly every thing that has
world thinks Of pleading for in such
cases is legal control; and We stand
ready to second that plea. But the
history Of regulating or restrictive leg
islation in such cases IS not very en-
couraging. The lawmakers themselves
seem to be ronopolized, and the laws
they enact when tried out by those
whose duty il is to execute them,
seem to fall heavier on the masses
than on the monopolistic classes It
is not talking politics to say that to see
President TAFT Senator Aldrich and
Speaker Cannon standing upon the
three corners of the government trI-
angle is not very reassuring.
Again are we inclined to rest our
hope on the GREAT THIRD POWER,
the conservative sons Of agriculturk
the farmers. If they would be induc-
ed to act as emphatically in public af-
fairs as they 10 Strenuously in their
fields, neither hypnotized politics nor
combined greed could stand against
them.
They are in the beginning the own
ers of all the stuff that enters into tho
composition Of the worlds food That
stuff can go from their hands into cold
storage as well as from the hands OF
the profit graspin,g combines: and in
that storage it would be just as safe
an emergency supply as in the houses
where 1t IS held for all that human
necessity may compel people to pay.
A strong ingredient In the remedial
prescription would be such organiza-
ton of the farmers this paper Is
teaching which would enable them at
many points and in principal cities to
have their own cold storage that
would be used to relieve the markets
of depressing surpluses. and also TO
fill the gaps made by unfruitful years.
or either natural or artificial shortages
From Up to Date Farming.