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The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Dear Santa Claus: / am a little
boy s years old. I go to school in
the second reader. I want you to
bring me a tricicle and an auto.
candy, nuts and oranges. Please
come to see mamma and papa too.
So good bye. Jimmie Spencer.
Slater rid. 2.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Dear Santa Claus will you please
bring me a mother doll and a shirt
waist and a skirt. Please bring me
a Christmas tree too, thank you
very much. From your friend,
Bethany Witt.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Slater, Dec. 8, 1910.
Dear Santa Claus: 1 am a little
girl six years old. 1 want a doll a
teddy bear, doll table and chairs,
nuts and candy. l have a brother
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Gillian, Mo.
Dear Santa here we are again
Nora and me, I am nine years old
and Nora is three.I want a jacket,
candy, oranges, nuts and a story
book. Nora wants a doll, candy,
oranges and nuts. Be sure to come.
Yours truly,
Katie and Nora Glenn.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16
Marsahll, Mo.

Dear Santa-I hope you will be
at u house on Christmas v
night. I will be glad to get any
thing you give me, Idon't know
just what to say l would love to
have, so bring me what you think
is best, and don't forget brother
and sister. I am ten years old.
My name is Ora Colt.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

slater, MO,
Dear Santa Calus-I am a little
girl, my name is Velma, l am six
a old. Santa will you bring
me a doll and I want her to have
a hat and white dress. / have two
sisters aud three brothers, please
bring them something. oh, Santa
I want a big orange and some
candy. That is all.
Velmer L. Brooke.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16
Herndon

Herndon
Mr.. Santa Claus-I am a little
girl going to school and try to be
good I have a fine teacher. Santa
I want you to please bring me a
doll and story book, a locket,
chain and some handkerchiefs, nuts
candy and bananas. That is all
for this time. Eunice Hilton.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Dec. :, 1910
Dear Santa Claus. Christmas will
soon be here so l write to let you
know I am looking for youto come
to e me on the oath Of Dec. My
Bring me some little dishes, candy,
nuts and a doll for 1 am a good
girl when I am asleep.
Georgia Moore.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

q years old 80 please come to see
him. 1 have been a good girl at
school. So good Santa Claus be
sure to come to see me.
Nellie Spencer.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Shackelford, Mo.
Dear Santa Claus-I am a little
girl eight years old. l will tell
you what I want for Christmas. l
want a big doll, a little bed, a little
rocking chair, some candy, nuts,
and oranges. Yours truly.
Amelia Markes.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16
Marshall, Mo.

Marshall, Mo.
Dear Santa-I will write you a
little letter, I don't know what
to say I want. I have some little
dolls but I see come very sweet
big ones, OF course / am like 9TH
er little girls l love candy, nuts,
oranges and bananas. My name
is Novella Colt.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Slater, Nc.
Dear Santa Claus-I will write
you a letter and tell what wish
for Christmas. 1 am a little boy
nearly four years old and very
good so please bring me wheelbar-
row, dominoes, building blocks,
drum, fire wagon with horses to
it. Oranges, bananas, mixed nuts
all kinds OF nice candy and fruits
Wishing you merry Christmas
Santa, / will close.
Your little friend,
Lewis e. Walker.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Dear Santa Claus / will write a
letter to tell you what 1 want for
Christmas. ] want tools, a ball, a
drum, a little automobile, some
candy, "a little chair, a stove, a
horn, a pretty story book for Miss
Clarke to read, a tool house for
my tools and a pair OF leggins. 1
have a little sister Zelma.I also
want a little phone, a rocking
horse and five or six slate pencils.
Goodbye. Virgil Zahn.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16
Herndon, Mo.

EernuOn, MO.
Dear Santa Claus-I am a boy 5
years old, 1 don't go to school but
try to be a good boy ait home. Can
you bring me a sled, a ball, and
knife, some oranges, candy, nuts.
I would like to have an engine, but
l have a little brother two years
old his name is Frances Paul, he
wants one 80 If you will bring him
one that will do for both of us.
Don't forget to bring him some
chewing gum. Clyde Hilton.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16

Dear Santa Claus l will write
you a letter to tell you what /
want for Christmas. I want a doll
cart, a little iron, a pair of gloves
a pair OF leggins, a good book, a
new dress, a little stove, a little
table. I will be a good girl. I
am eight years old. I have a little
sister Zelma, please bring her some
thing red she likes red. / wish you
a merry Christmas. Ruth Zahn.
The Marshall republican., 1910-12-16
SANTA A T

Herndon, Nc
Dear Santa Claus-I am a little
girl nine Years old, I go to schooi
Please bring me "a doll with blue
and curly hair, a bracelet
with my initial (H) on l., some nuts
randy. nrahges and bananas. Yea
brought me 80 much last year I
wont ask for any more this time.
Don't forget that 1 live in Hern-
don. Helen Hilton.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
COLORADO TELEPHONE
CO.fEXTENDING LINES

Denver, Feb. 26.-Two hundred
miles of new telephone lines are to be
added to the Colorado Telephone COM
pany's equipment by which large
area in New Mexico and Texas will be
brought into direct communication
with Denver. The first connection will
be Ell Paso through the purchase of
the Alamo Telephone company's plant
which now operates between Socorro
and Alamagordo,. distance of 125
company will have its line completed
from Carrizzo to Roosevelt, N. NJ.
which will give Denver more than 100
miles of new line into that territory.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
WITH the
WESTCL|FFE PAR
TY ENTERTAINED
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The ladies that came in on the Elks'
excursion from Westcliffe yesterday
afternoon we're the recipients OF many
courtesies during their stay in town,
and, that they appreciated them, goes
without saying. There were twenty or
twenty-five ladies in the party; the
wives, sisters and sweethearts of Elks.
They were guests at the Hotel Den
ton while here, and in the course of
the afternoon, received many social
calls from old friends. In the evening
they were guests or honor of the
North Bros. Stock Co. at a perform
ance of "a Warrior Bold" at the
opera house; special reservations be-
ing made in the dress circle for their
accommodation. Following the enter
tainment at the opera house a COM
plimentary program was given for
their delectation at the Hotel Denton
by the orchestra of the company.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03

From Thursdays Daily.
Fully five hundred members of the
order were present at the social ses-
sion and smoker at the Elks club and
lodge rooms last night; many of them
from Cripple Creek. Victor, Florence,
Westcliffe and other towns within a
radius of forty or fifty miles.
The arrangements committee had
anticipated a large number of visitors
and there was ample provision for all,
both in relation to the entertainment
and the refreshments which followed.
There were special trains over the
Denver and Rio Grande from West
oliffe and over the Florence & Cripple
Creek road from the district, each of
which brought in many passengers.
About sixty people came down from
Cripple Creek and Victor, a number
considerably in excess of what had
been expected. The gathering was
complimentary to the members Of the
Elks lodge living in the Wet Mountain
valley seventeen of whom were in
itiated into its mysteries during the
previouS afternoon.
A feature of the entertainment at
the smoker was the boxing bouts be-
tween Monte Dale of Victor and
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
SOCIAL SESSION AT ELKS
CLUB FRIDAY NIGHT AN JN-
USUALLY PLEASANT AFFAIR

Tommy Murphy of Denver, and be-
tween Ike Cohn of Cripple Creek and
Lutte Kellogg of this city, with five
ounce gloves.
Monte Dale was a great favorite
with the Cripple Creek bunch and its
members anticipated an easy victory
for him, but in this they were mis-
taken. as the Denver lad was game
and gave his antagonist as good as he
received. WI lie Monte Dale would, no
doubt, prove the better man in a
Knockout contest, he did not show
himself to be greatly superior to Muir
ply last night. At the end of the fifth
round the contest was declared to be
a draw.
George wayland, of Victor, acted as
referee.
The bout between Cohn and Kellogg
was also an interesting set-to and af-
forded a lot of amusement to the
spectators. It was likewise refereed
by Mr.. Wayland and was declared to
be a draw at the conclusion of the
sixth round. Both bouts were swift
and were among the best ever seen
here.
An event that aroused the greatest
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
peared to have been impressed WITH

peared to have been impressed with
the argument But when he replied he
said: Yes, Jedge. dat's all mighty
true, but I might be dead next
spring." Hamp went back to Scum
Carolina on a holiday excursion tax
ing all the family with him, and
traipsed about on the railroads until
the last cent of his money was gone.
He started again in the spring of 1907
by giving mrotgage for his supplies.
Nearly all of the colored people are
like Hamp but not all. There are e1-
ceptions, and the negroes as whole
are getting to have better under
standing of the value and use Of
money. William Moseby. an ex-slave
of my home county, owns a large
farm, a steam gin. store and Ii
worth probably $4,000 and there are
a half dozen others who have accum-
ulated as much. Many of them now
own little farms. and in the towns anu
cities they are acquiring homes.
Your statement that at is not con-
SiutTtu ulSHOutSl 10 http lut poOA
devil in debt" is very wide OF correct
and does the white people OF the
South an unmerited injustice. II a
negro oversteps the bounds of propri-
ETY. in the South he is made short
shift of and no apology offered. but
in his everyday dealings with his
white neighbors he is treated wit.
absolute fairness and honesty. and in :
all matters. except for the nameless
crime, there is no discrimination
against him in the courts, and such
offenses are seldom II ever allowed
to reach a court In civil suit be-
tween n negro and a white man, thS'
chances are almost invariably in fay-
or OF the black. because usually the
white party TO the suit Is some trixter
who assumes that his evidence will
have greater weight with the court
or jury. have seen many juries made
up entirely OF white men Tin fact,
colored men are not allowed to sit rs
jurors in my home county render
their verdict wholly In favor OF a
negro when the suit was between
white and black.
have no doubt that your state
meuis were made honestly and upon
which you considered reliable author
lty but there are many people in the
South who like to make exaggerated
statements regarding the treatment OF
the negroes. for what reason ! cannot
understand. unless 81 be species OF
brageadocio. and such one you
seem 10 have fallen 10 with.
The negroes Of the South are happy.
contented and as prosperous as their
nature will permit. and I could tell
you a great many other things about
them n the bounds OF this communi-
cation permitted.
wM. f SPENCER -
Canon City. Feb. %.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
DEAD MOUNTAIN SHEEP
FOUND BY SECTION MAN ON
Pa c. G. ROAD on MONDAY
From Thuraaay,s DAILY.
Canon City, Feb. %.

From Thursdays Daily.
On Monday n section hand at cra-
mer in the employ OF the Florence 4
Cripple Creek Railroad company dis
covered the remains of n mountain
sheep at Twelve-mile post in Phan-
tom canon and sent Il To Canon City
on a light engine. Game Warden l.. A.
Poteet OF this city went TO Canon City
the following morning and secured
the head which ne brought TO Flor
ence and II is now on exhibition In the
west window OF the room formerly oc-
cupied by the Hadley Mercantile COM
pany.
The head is a fine specimen and ac-
cordinE 30 those who are familiar
with the animals. this one was an old
residenter Mr.. Poteet is of the opln-
ion that the sheep was the victim of n
shot fired by the notorious game vio-
lator. Fred Klanskey. during one Of
his last raids before taken prisoner BY
him last fall. Reports have reached
Florence from time TO time of a
wounded mountain sheep seen In the
locality of McCourt and there is hard
ly any question but the one discovered
yesterday anC the wounded sheep are
one and the same.
The game warden has been in
structed to forward the head 10 Den
yer and he will go to McCourt in the
morning to investigat the matteu
oroughly.-Florenc Citizen.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
WOMAN'S CLUB
ENTERTAINED
old SOLDIERS
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The Woman's club entertained the
old soldiers and their wives on Wash
ington's birthday. Entertaining the G.
A. r. is an annual event with the wo-
mans club. Recitations were given
by Mrs. Tobin, Mrs. hcCandless and
Mrs. Lamb. Army songs were sung by
Mesdames Prentlss Sell. Lewis and
oher club ladies. Victor Flanagan
rendered a violin solo and Irvie Case
beer gave a couple of songs. The
soldiers and ladies' Joined in a grand
march after which refreshments were
served.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
FLORENCE ELKS
REPORT A GOOD
WHILE IN CANON
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
About twenty members of Florence
lodge No. Gil, B. p. o. Elks, went to
Canon City last night to attend a So
cial session held under the auspices
OF the Canon Elks. The program is
said to have been one of unusual in
terest and the Florence bunch state
that those who were responsible for
its arrangement and classy features
thoroughly understand the proper en-
tertainment of n herd of Elks. Special
trains from Cripple Creek and West
cliffe swelled the attendance of the
session and added a vim that only
mining camps display. The Florence
crowd returned on No. 16 this morn
ing expressing themselves in no un-
certain terms OF the good time en-
joyed.-Florence Citizen.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03

enthusiasm of the evening was the
three-round boxing contest with FIVE
ounce gloves between Bobby and
Jack Boucher, sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Boucher of this city. They are aged
nine and eight years respectively and
are adopts in the boxers profession.
They are trained athletes and proved
themselves to be skillful exemplars
of the manly art of self-defense. The
visitors left for their homes at an
early hour this morning more than
pleased with their entertainment and
bearing with them keen recollection
of the generous hospitality of the
members of the local lodge.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03

Eieh boxes Of sok Delou At The Denver Naho1o APps
j. w. Murphy. Genwood Iowa.
That worlds record price for apples. All the
papers reported further opened the eyes of planters
everywhere. Only surprising quality-complete apple
supremacy could command such price. Stark Delicious h
all that and
II you have planted Delicious or if your plantne
Of have been SMALL make big order for il this spring
don't another 1t is the greatest prohtproduce
In the whole list of sppe-you simply can't afford not TO
have it in your orchard
Don't be deceived by INSCRIPTIONS offering
you Delicious Delicious and that is Stark
Deicous-owned, controlled and sold only by
Send your order early-our immense stock will be
sod befo the end of he
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
CUGCENHEIM OBJ
TAINS APPROPRI-
ALTON FOR HERE
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
An Associated Press. dispatch from
Washington ID. c., under date of last
Monday states that Senator Guggen-
helm has secured an Increase OF
$1,000 In the amount carried In the
agricultural appropriation bill to en-
able the director OF the weather
bureau to increase the weather serv-
ice facilities at Canon CITY.
This action Of Senator Guggenheim
rs in accordance with petition for
warded to him couple OF months
ago BY Secretary Ross Of the Canon
Oty Merchants' association. the sub
stance OF which was published in the
Daiy Record at Tie Time,
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
GAVE A DINNER AND THEATER
PARTY To HALF A SCORE
OF FRIENDS FRIDAY NIGHT
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
DR.. G. II. Kellenberger was host at
a delightful dinner party at the
Straihmore hotel last night. and. lat.
er. took his guests to the opera house
TO witness the production OF the mu-
steal comedy. The Top of the
World" The guests we're Mr.. and Mrs.
w. II. Dozier. Mr.. and Mrs. w. b.
Rowland. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton OF
Cripple Creek. Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde C.
Dawson. W. r. Wallace and Miss Wal
lace.
Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
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Cañon City record., 1910-03-03

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Cañon City record., 1910-03-03
General Stock

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western varieties offering this spring. Tree
perfection description of every tree and remember-we
complete satisfaction Most of the country
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.


DR.. Booker T. Washington's Tribute
From The North American Review.
1t was my privilege to know the
To the Greatest American Humorist.
late Samuel L. Clemens for a num-
Der of years The first time [ met
him was at his home in Hartford.
Later | met him several times at
his home IN New York City and at
the Lotus Club. 1t may be | be-
came attached to Mr.. Clemens all
the more strongly because both of
us were born IN the South. He had
the Southern temperament, and most
that he has written has the flavor
of the South in it. His interest in
the negro race IS perhaps best in
one of his most delightful stories,
"Huckleberry Finn" In this story,
which contains many pictures Of
Southern life as it was fifty or sixty
years ago, there is a poor, ignorant
negro boy who accompanies the he
roes of the story, Huckleberry Finn
and Tom Sawyer, on a long journey
down the Mississippi on a raft.
1t is possible the ordinary reader
of this story has been so absorbed in
the adventures of the two white boys
that he did not think much about the
part that "Jim"-which was, as [ re-
member, the name of the COlOred boy
played in all these adventures. [
do not believe any one can read this
story closely, however, without be-
coming aware of the deep sympathy
of the author in Jim" In fact, be-
fore one gets through with the book,
one cannot fail to observe that in
some way or other the author, with
out making any comment and with
out going out of his way, has some
how succeeded in making his readers
feel a genuine respect for "Jim,' in.
spite of the ignorance he displays. |
cannot help feeling that in this char
acter Mark Twain has, perhaps un-
consciously, exhibited his sympathy
and interest in the masses OF the ne
gro people.
Nv contact with him showed that
Mr.. Clemens had a kind and generous
heart. / think | have never known
him to be so stirred up on any one
question as he was on that OF the
cruel treatment of the natives IN the
Congo Free State. In his letter to
Leopold, the late King of the Bel
gians. in his own inimitable way he
did a service in calling to the atten-
ton of the world the cruelties prac-l
tised upon the black natives OF the
Congo that had far-reaching results.
saw him several times in cOnnec-
ton with his efforts to bring about
reforms in the Congo Free State, and
he never seemed to tire of talking on
the subject and planning for better
conditions.
AS literary man he was rare and
unique, and I believe that his success
in literature rests largely upon the
fact that he came from among the
common people. Practically all that
he wrote had an interest for the,
commonest man and woman. In al
word, he succeeded in literature as
few men in any age have succeeded,
because he stuck close to nature and
The Washington bee., 1910-06-11

to the common people, and in doing
so he disregarded in a large degree
many of the ordinary rules of rhetO-
ric which often serve merely to cramp
and make writers unnatural and un-
interesting.
Few, if any, persons born in the
South have shown in their achieve
ments what it is possible for one in
dividual to accomplish to the extent
that Mr.. Clemens has. Surrounded
in his early childhood by few OppOr-
tunities for culture or conditions that
tended to give him high ideals, he
continued TO grow in popular estima-
ton and to exert a wholesome intiu-
ence upon the public TO the day OF
his death.
The late Mr.. II. H. Rogers, who
was, perhaps, closer to Mr.. Clemens
than any one else, said to me at one
time that Mr. Clemens often seemed
irritated because people were not dis
posed to take him seriously; because
people generally take most that he
said and wrote as a mere jest. 1t
was this fact to which he referred, |
have no doubt, when at a public meet
ing IN the interest OF IuSkGSCC d.
Carnegie Hall a few years ago, he
referred TO himself in a humorous
vein as a moralist, saying that all his
life he had been going about trying
to correct the morals of the people
about him. As an illustration OF the
deep earnestness of his nature, | may
mention the fact that Mr.. Rogers
told me that at one time Mr.. Glenn
ems was seriously planning to write
a life of Christ, and that his friends
had hard work to persuade him not
to do it for fear that such life might
prove a failure or would be misunder-
stood
AS to Mark Twain's successor, he
can have none. No more can such
a man as Mark Twain have a sue
cessor than could Phillips Brooks or
Henry Ward Beecher. Other men
may do equally interesting work IN
a different manner, but Mark IVAN,
in my opinion, will always stand out
as an unique personality, the results
OF whose work and influence Will be
more and more manifest as the years
pass by.
The Washington bee., 1910-06-11
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DIR. Booker T. Washington's Tribute
From The North American Review.
1t was my privilege to know the
To the Greatest American Humorist.