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The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
LOCAL FIRM SUES
MOONSH|NERS'
Law Invoked to Collect Bill
From Dispensers Of Booze
in Grand Junction
BRINGS ONE DENIAL

Recently fellow named Tom Rogers
was arrested by federal authorities in
Grand junction, charged with operating
an illicit liquor still or in other words
with "moonshining. After his arrest
Rogers entered plea of guilty and
implicated several other men, some of
whom had not even been suspected of
such crime. While the officers dill
not make known the names of the ac
cused the parties have been kept under
strict surveillance ever since the arrest
of Rogers. That Rogers did not brew
all the booze disposed of through his
notorious Moonshiners Glee Club"
seems quite probable from the follow
ing article taken from the Grand June
ton News:
The suit to collect pay for the liquor
alleged to have been sold by the Grand
junction Social club, otherwise known
as the Moonshiners Glee club" which
was announced several days ago in this
paper has brought one result-a formal
statement of Ignorance regarding any
such debt by Morris IIaggerty, one of
the defendants named in the original
suit filed by johnny Richardson of
Glenwood Springs through his attorney
Joe w. Rozzelle.
The proceedings instituted by Rich
ardson < Marshall of Glenwood Springs
states that the directors-Tom Rogers,
Morris Haggerty, A. T. Wharton. H.
ID. Dickerson, J. R. Smith II. ID. Der
ickson and j. w. McCain-purchased
beer and whiskey to the amount of
1919 and that but $SS of this sum has
been >paid, thus leaving a deficit of
T2S3. The complaint states that this
liquor was sold between Nov. s. 1910
and Jan. 4, 1911.
In reply to this suit Morris Hag-
gerty yesterday, through his attorney,
Geo. Bullock, denies all knowledge of
any such debt, denies all the charges
set forth in Richardson s proceedings
and asks to be discharged.
1t is said that startling develop
ments will arise from Richardson IS at
tempt to collect the amount claimed
by him through his attorney here At
any rate the affair is causing more
than passing interest.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04

A bill to provide for the branding
and marking of live stock and for the
recording of brands and marks.
A bill for an act to encourage the
destruction of predatory wild animals,
to protect the game and live stock of
the state and to authorize the state
fish and game commissioner to appoint
hunting wardens and to cooperate with
live stock associations and making an
appropriation therefor.
A bill for an act to amend section
991 of the revised statutes of Colorado
for 1908 concerning assessment Of
stockholders in ditch companies.
And one of the very best: an act
concerning the establishment of ''Good
Roads Day" in Colorado.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

A class in Solid Geometry was form
ed at the beginning of this semester
ana now the Juniors are awfully busy
Several of the members of the upper
classes have taken up play-writing as
special study. The last to join the
ranks is one of the ever popular Junior
girls, who it is rumored will soon give
to the public beautiful little melo
drama under the following title:
"Stolen-Ten Cents Worth of Candy
or "No: L Have All My Dances
Taken"
During the last week the Freshmen,
the Sophomore and the Junior Basket
Ball teams played to decide the cham
pionship of the High School. OF the
three named the Juniors lead the list
by defeating the Sophomores who de-
feated the Freshmen. Next week n
game will be played between the Sen
iors and the Juniors; this will be the
deciding game.
Monday morning the students receiv.
ed their report cards and Monday after
noon Mr.. Shepherd favored the school
as whole with a lecture entitled
"Work.'
| Miss Altman thinks the pupils of the
high school are making fine progress
in music and Thursday morning it was
decided that the pupils should give a
minstrel at the Odeon Theatre soon.
Watch this column for the date, which
will be given later.
Monday review of the games Mt
Palsade was given by Arnold Maupin.
Mr. Smith, Lyle Lowe and George Kel-
ker. Each one told something different
and the reports were enjoyed by all.
There was no Physics recitation
Monday morning as Miss Allen gave
out the report cards and private lee
lures from the laboratory.
The Senior class held a class meeting
Monday afternoon for the purpose of
selecting a class play.
Upon being asked if cactus has leaves
a Freshman, after due consideration
replied, "No, but their ancestors had. y
The Physics class has been expert
menting in magnetism. One of the
teachers was heard to remark, "Thf
Seniors should be very attractive
Thursday afternoon the school receiv
ed one of the weekly fire drills.
On Friday, George Kelker and the
entire Civics class (including Mr.. Shep
herd) became involved in dispute
over who would become President il tn;
President were not elected at the pro
per time. The class is now convince'
since George spent so much precioul
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04

Some of our people have been quito
out of sorts" on account of the mud
which has made street travelling a little
disagreeable the past week or two.
These people ought to have spent
few days in Grand Valley or Debeque
and then they would have nothing fur
ther by way of complaint. A little
experience with the adobe mud of those
towns which "sticketh closer than
BROTHER would bring forth compli-
ments for our streets.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04

mia, died Sunday morning at 3:35. The
body was removed to New Castle
where the funeral was held Tuesday
afternoon under the auspices of Grand
River lodge No. 107 /. o. o. F., IF
which deceased was prominent mem
Der, being secretary of the lodge at the
time of his death.
Thias was about 50 years of age and
a coal miner by occupation. He hal
lived in New Castle about four years.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
SPECIAL SERVICE

At the regular monthly musical ser
vice at the Methodist church, tomorrow
evening. the program will include Sc
lections by the ladies quartette, junior
choir, senior choir, solo by Miss Altman
instrumental duet by the Smith Bros.
and Is minute talk by the pastor,
subject. "The HYMNS We Sing.N
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
DEATH OF JOHN TH1As

John Thias of New Castle, who was
brought to the Glenwood sanitarium
last Thursday suffering from pneumo-
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04

Good Morning, have you planted
your garden yet?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-10


testified
andm
by a . 0 some
about
onOtI naken difference to US
o
of
aderss for
up to the birth growth and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-10

those who wrote to them, and verified
the truth of the statements.
Under this agreement not to publish
names literally scores of letters came
from doctors. We kept our word and
neither printed their names or surren-
dered the letters.
Right here notice an limitation
spasm." The weekly says: "Post got
those. testimonials by advertising for
them. In New York he used for that
purpose the New York Magazine of
whose editor is now in the
Federal Penitentiary for fraudulent use
of the mails For example, Post an
nounced in that magazine in 1907, etc, -
then follows our prize competition).
We used nearly all of the papers and
magazines in New York and the rest of
America, but the sensational writer
gives the impression to his readers that
the only magazine we used was one
'.whose editor is now in the Federal
Penitentiary," ETC., something that we
know nothing of the truth of now, and
never did. Space was bought in the
magazine sDoken of on a business basis
for the reason that it went to good
class of readers The incident seems to
have furnished an opportunity for a de-
signing writer to deceive his readers.
We look upon honest human testimony
from men and women as to the means
by which they recovered health as of
tremendous value to those in search of
it. Our business has been conducted
from the very first day upon lines of
strict integrity and we never yet have
published a false testimonial of human
Many of these letters COW
cred numerous sheets; some, if printed,
would spread over half a page of news
paper If we would attempt to print
one such letter in every one of the thou.
sands of papers and magazines we use,
the cost for printing that one letter
would run into many thousands of dol
lars.
We boil down these letters exactly as
a newspaper writer boils his news, stick
ing sacredly to the important facts and
details about the family and
other unimportant matters. This work
Of boiling down, or editing, Is done hon
astly, and with full knowledge of our
but notice the art of the
'twister'' in the way he presents to his
readers this matter of testimonials.
Distortion No. 4. This is
bad one. 1t reads as follows: ''The
,nly famous physician whose name was |
signed to a testimonial was produced in |
Court by Golfers and turned out to be a
DOOR old brokendown homeopath, who is
now working in a printing establish
nent. He received ten dollars ts1O.OO) |
or writing his testimonial"
We will wager ten thousand dollars
$40, 000.00) with any investigator that
We have, subject to inspection of any
air committee, upwards of three hun
red (300) communications from physi-
ians, many of them expressing the high
st commentator of our products, but
hese will not now or ever be turned over
0 the publisher for his use.
Notice the statement in this charge: |
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-10

speak of the calories of heat contained
IN it, for the heat is not nourishment.
and the nourishment cannot be judged
by the number Of heat units. notwith-
standing the fact that certain chemists
would have the public believe SO.
As an illustration: Attempt to feed a
man sixty days on butter alone.with its
$50 calories. The man would die be-
fore the experiment had run sixty DAYS.
Then, take Grape-Nuts with $50 and
milk with 0.70-the two combined equal
4.66-about one-haf the number of
calories contained in butter. The man
fed for sixty days on this food would be
well nourished, and could live not, only
sixty days, but six months on that food
alone, and we do not hesitate to say
from our long knowledge of the sustain
ing power of the food that man at the
end of sixty days would be of practically
the same weight as when he started,-if
he be man of normal weight.
We will suppose that from his work
he lost a pound a day and made up
pound each day from food. If that
premise proved to be true the man in
sixty days time would make sixty
pounds of tissue to replace what had
been lost, and this would be- done on
Grape Nuts and milk with half the num-
Der of calories of butter, upon which no
one can sustain life.
Therefore, we have reason to believe
that our contention is right that con
centrated food like Grape Nuts, which
is partly digested and ready for easy
assimilation by the body, presents more
nourishment that the system viii alb
soEb than many other forms of food.
and we viii further say that in cases
of digestive troubles where meat, white
bread and oats cannot be digested, that
Grape-Nuts and milk contain more
nourishment that the system will absorb
than many pounds of these other foods.
Distortion No. 8 charges that
our testimonials were practically all paid
for and rewritten IN Battle Greek.
These testimonials were demanded by
the opposing lawyers. Naturally this
demand was refused, for they are held
in vaults and kept safe to prove the
truth, and are not to be delivered up on |
demand OF enemies.
Testimony at the trial brought out |
the fact that we never printed a single !
testimonial that we did not have the
genuine letter back of. Many of these
letters came spontaneously. A record
was kept of twelve hundred and four
(1204) letters received in one month
from people who wrote that they had
either entirely recovered their health or
been benefited by following our sugges-
ions on food and beverages.
On three or four occasions in the past
,en or twelve years we printed broadcast
n papers offers of prizes to users of
Postum and Grape Nuts,-two hundred
100 prizes, one hundred $500, twenty
# $500 and five of $1,000 each,-
stating that each must be an honest
etfer with name and address. We
greed not to publish names, but to fur
ish them to enquirers by letter. These
etter writer's very generally answered |
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-10

HYne6ner or not we DrlDe mem.
It may have escaped notice that we
did not ..bribe' that particular weekly.
No. y states that the amount of the
verdict will 'be devoted by the weekly
to exposing fraud"
This is almost real humor.
We have two suits pending against
the weekly" total, $500, 100000.
We haven't devoted" the sum to any
particular purpose yet.
Item lois a discovery" that
wheat bran is a part of Postum.
But the criticism neglected to mention
that for years every Postum package
announced in plain type that the outer
covering Of wheat tbran), made part of
the beverage.
They ienorantly fell into a trap here,
not knowing enough of food value to
know that "Taka-Diastase," the article
used by physicians the world over for
starch Indigestion" is made from
wheat bran"
So we use that part of the wheat
berry because it contains the element
needed to develop the valuable diastase
in manufacture Good Postum is i'm
possible without this part.
These seIf-appointed critics do make
some laughable blunders through ignor-
ance, but-be patient.
Item IL is an illustration Of the
squirming and twisting of the sensation
al writer delivering distorted matter to
his readers.
While on the witness stand Mr. Post
testified to his studies in Anatomy, Ply
siology, Dietetics and Psychological
relatin0 to the preparation and digestion
of food Asked to name authorities
studied he mentioned six or eight from
memory, and commented on some elm
zeal experience covering several years
in annual journeys to Europe.
Now notice the distortion. Copy from
the printed criticism.)
He POST pointed out pile Of books
in possession Of his attorneys as the
very ones he had read"
(Notice.-''the verv ones he had read, .
leading the reader to believe that they
were the only ones1
did you You consult the books from
these editions ?" was asked.
From those and various editions"
Post.
The attorney picked up book after
book from the pile and showed the title
PAGES to the iury,-all except two had
been published since 1905"
This is an example of distortion and
false coloring, to produce an unfayor- !
able impression.
The facts are Mr.. Post purposely in
PRODUCED the latest editions that could /
be obtained of prominent authorities to
prove by them the truth of his state
ments regarding appendicitis and the
analysis of brain, also the latest con-
eusions in regard to the action of the
digestive organs, These works are:
Human Physiology, by Raymond.
Physiological Chemistry, by Simon.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-10

| Ine only famous physician whose name
was signed to Postum testimonial, etc.
The truth is, this Dr. Underwood was
one of great manv physicians who
have not only written commendatory
words about the value of our foods, but
every now and then some physician
writes an article on coffee or on food.
and sends it to us with suggestion of
compensation for his time and medical
knowledge. Previous to the time when
we employed physicians in our own bust
ness, We occasionally employed doctor
TO write an article on coffee, always in
sisting that the article be an honest ex-
preston of his opinion and research.
The Weekly" hunted up this physi-
clan, and because ne seemed to be poor,
and as it saws. "brokendown," had him
brought to Court to be exposed before
jury as the "only physician that had
ever endorsed Grape-Nuts," but much to
the ehagrin of the Weekly when our
attorneys asked him if the article he
wrote about coffee was true, he replied.
eyes"
Statement No. 5 reads: @The
health officers of Mich, Maine, Penn,
New Hamp., and other states in their
official bulletins have for years been
denouncing as preposterous and fraudu-
lent the claims made by the Postum
Cereal Company" We do not recall
any criticism except from Mich, Penn.
Maine and S. Dakota.
The average reader might think that
the opinions expressed by the State
officials are always correct, but that
conclusion is not borne out by facts.
AS an illustration: About thirteen
years ago the Dairy and Food Commits
sion of Michigan for some personal rea-
son printed a severe criticism on us for
making Postum OF Barley according to
his official chemistl at market price
and selling too high. He was shown
there was never grain of barley used
in Postum His report was false and
misleading. The governor dismissed
him.
We believe that most of the state
are honest, and on the other
hand we are firmly convinced that some
of their conclusions cannot be substau- !;
tiated by facts in scientific research.
They never criticize the purity of our
foods, for so much we are thankful.
If our conclusions in regard to its be-
ing a brain food differ from theirs, and
we are both honest. they have rather
the advantage, because under the law
,hev can order us to eliminate from the
package any statement if it disagrees
With their opinion. Otherwise they |
would harass grocers.
Spasm no. 6 says: @rhe |
most dangerous thing in the world for |
me threatened with appendicitis is to |
at any food whatever. Notwithstand
NO he knew that danger, c. w. Post ad- /
yertised Grape-Nuts at fifteen cents a
package for those so threatened"
This is intended to muddle the reader
nto believing that we put out Grape
Iuts as a cure for appendicitis.
Mr.. Post, himself, has had probably as
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-10


Hand Book of Appendicitis, by ochs-
ner.
Physiological Chemistry. by HANNAH
stem
Biochemie System OF Medicine, By
Carey.
The Weekly" carefully eliminates
from its printed account. testimony re-
garding the years of research and study
by Mr.. Post in fitting himself for his
work. and would lead the reader of the
distorted article to believe that hiz edu-
cation began since 1905.
Distortion No. IL -aD,rt. NJ
Post as a lodging witness
his eye Is not Of the shiftv kind Oh
served IN the head Of one of his chief
critics On the witness stand Mr.. Post
looks quietly but very steadily straight
into the eyes of the haggling, twisting
lawyer, trying by al his art to ask dou-
bic baTreled questions and bull-doze and
confuse a witness
The lodging it seems consisted Of
replying, I don't know"
Opposing counsel holds a book IN bis
hand while he queries
I want to know If there is single
thing IN vouT whole book here that s1g-
tests any -artieular kind of food" Then
followed some discussion between attor-
neys.
When Mr.. Post was allowed to reply.
he said, I don't know until I ,ead the
book over to see"
This book, 1t turns out. was written bv
Mr. Post seventeen years ago and prob
ably has not been read carefully by him
in the last fifteen wears. II would re-
quire remarkable memory to instantly
say yes" or no as to what a book
of lat pages did or did not contain
without reading It over,-but such con-
sentative and well balanced answers are
construed by sensation seekers to be
"dodging'
The attorney sought BY every art to
impress the jury with the fact that Mr..
Posts belief IN the power of Mind in
relation 70 the body branded him as IN
reliable and worse.
The following is quoted from one Of
the questions
The LAWYER reading from the book.l
''Ihe writer Of these pages desires to
say nothing OF himself other than as a
sin1nle instrument through which the
Divine Principle chooses to manifest It
self BY precept and example.
Skill IN mental -aetice IS gained
in the same way as skill in any depart
ment of science-by observation. study,
exnerience and the ability to evolve cor
rect conclusions.
Read carefully. thoughtfuIlv no more
than twenty pages daily. Afterward
seek an easy position where you wiz not
be disturbed. Relax every muscle. Close
your eyes. and go into the silence where
mind is plastic to the breathings Of spir-
it and where Ged talks to the Son. The
thoughts from Divine Universal Mind
rome as winged angels and endow you
with healing power. If you 60 into
the silence humble and trusting. You
viii come out enriched and greatly
strengthened in body by contact even
for 4 short time with the Father Of all
life and all power. You viii feel re-
freshed in every way and food taken
viii digest readily rs the stomach works
smoothly when under the influence of
Higher Power
II ask you if YOU did not write that.
md if you did not believe it when you
wrote It."
For a moment the Court Room was in
lbsolute silence.
Mr.. Post slowly leaned forward over
he rail. pointed his finger at the
Atty's face to emphasize his reply and
With eyes that caused those of the At
-ornev to drop ne said, "Yes, I am
proud to say did"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-10
Some F acts.

Creek, Michigan December 80 1910
Postum
to e al hOneas
genuine tstmona tiers
regarding
is pdu T is method
NJ HOWE Company
Lmson Of Company about years)
GRANDIN yarz)
sTERRErT D, Physician in charge Of Dept
with Company ysap1
Company about yars)
Company yeas)
E. BURT General supt with
C. HAWK stant hartman with Company years.
W. POST, Company years. bnng
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-10
Distortion No. l stated that We


have been accustomed to advertise Grape
Nuts and Postum as -cure-alk for every
thing"
It has never been the policy Of this
Company to advertise Grape-Nuts OF
Postum to cure anything
We say that in cases where coffee dis
agrees and is causing sickness its dis
nissal will remove the cause of the
trouble. and we suggest the use of Pos
tum for the reason that it furnishes a
hot nalatable morning beverage, and con-
tains natural elements from the grain
which can be used by nature to assistAin
rebuilding nerve eenters that coffee may
have broken down.
Likewise Nuts food, does not
cure anything, but it does assist nature
tremendously in rebuilding, provided the
undigestible food that has been used is
discontinued and Grape-Nuts taken in its
place
Charge No. 2 states that the
passage of the National Food & Drugs
Act compelled US to drop from the pack
ages some assertions regarding the nutri-
tive value Of Grape-Nuts..
We have never been Compelled to
make any change.
Since the beginning It has been uni
versal rule to print clearly on every
package exactly what the contents are
made Of.
Before the passage of the Pure Food
Law the packages stated that Grape.
Nuts food was made of wheat and bar
Lev
We did not esteem the small amount
Of salt and yeast as of value enough TO
speak of, but after the new Law came
in we became as technical as the off
Gals at Washington and added the
words yeast" and salt" although we
have no recollection of being asked to.
We believed that our statement that
Grape-Nuts will supply elements to
nOuzish the brain and nerve centres is
true and bring authorities to support the
fact.
Some state chemists believed this
pross exaggeration and inasmuch as the
Food Dept. at Washington could easily
harass grocers, pending a trial on the
disputed question, we concluded that
much the better way would be to elm
mate from our packages such claims,
however certain we may be that the
claims are true
Another statement objected to read as
follows:
'eThe system viii absorb greater
amount Of noEITishment from one pound
of Grape-Nuts than from ten pounds of /
meat. wheat, oats, or bread"
Some Department chemists deceive
themselves as well as the public
Galore" is the word which defines a
unit of heat determined by the amount
necessary to raise one kilogram OF water
one degree centigrade. On this basis I
table Of calories is PREPARED showing the
percentage of different kinds of food.
Butter shows $50; Grape-Nsits s.s6;
milk 070. Remember the statement on
the package spoke OF the nourishmeut
the system would absorb, but did not