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The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14
BETTER FIRE PROTECTION

BETTER FIRE PROTECTION
Now that the water is in the
mains, and there is plenty Of il
for all kinds Of fire protection,
il behooves us to provide some
way to operate the department.
The city has an expensive engine
that we do not need now, since
we have the pressure from the
standpipe, and it would be a
good idea 10 sell il and invest
the proceeds in more hose, a
hook and ladder wagon. hose
cart. etc, that will be Of practi-
cal use in the department at
this time.
Another important move is TO
either purchase a team and hire
man 10 take care of Il so
that it will ever be ready for
immediate use, or employ a man
with his team 10 draw the hose
cart and hook and ladder wagon.
to the scene of the fire. and get
il there without delay. This ~
the only way that We will ever
get the reduction Of insurance
that we are entitled TO, and II Is
the only way that we can
operate the fire fighting appa-
ratuses successfully. So long as
we depend upon men TO drag the
heavy carts TO the place where
the building is burning. Just so
long will the fire department
avail very little. The machines
are too heavy, and by the time
the company gets them 10 the
scene Of the fire they are ex-
hausted, and are all unnerved
and excited till they cannot do
ANYTHING like they should and as
a matter of fact the result has
been heretofore that very little
has been accomplished.
Ii will take a certain amount
of practice too on the part Of the
fire company, to make their
work effectuaI. They must be
handy with the wrenches. and
learn the location Of every plug
in town to do the best work,
and il is to be hoped that they
will re-organize. and those who
join the company do so with the
intention Of attending practice.
The pressure is fine, and by
quick work on the part of the
department there is little occas-
sion for another heavy loss In
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14
MRS. EMILY [, B0LtS
Tribute to the Memory Of this
Good Women by a Friend
OF the Family.

Died. March ith, at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. Eva Out
house. Mrs. Emily l.. Boles.
Familiarity known in Lubbock "a
Grandma Boles." having reach
ed the ripe aye of eighty-two
years.
Mrs. Boles was born January
3, 1880. in Clinton county. Hi
nois. She was married 10 VIM.
NJ. Boles at the age OF seventeen
and came 10 Texas ~ 1877, To-
eating near Denison. Her
husband died in 1877. She was
the mother Of twelve children.
six Of whom are still living.
Mr.. John Boles, her oldest son.
lives in Carlisle. Illinois. Mr..
Will Boles. the youngest son.
lives in Tolbot, Oklahoma. The
remaining four, Messrs. Geo. NJ.
and Joe Boles. Mrs. X. c. Burns
and Mrs. Eva Clubhouse. reside
in Lubbock.
Mrs. Boles united with the
Baptist church when very
young and throughout her long
life was an earnest. faithful
christian. living her profession
every day. Her religion and her
church were her greatest treas
ures. May her children follow
her example and meet her IN
that beautiful nome above
where there is no sorrow and
where none shall ever say Il am
sick. "
Mrs. BoIes was carried by
loving hands 10 Denison. Texas
and there laid to rest in the Odd
Fellows cemetery by the side OF
her husband there her body Ia
rest till the Resurrection
Morn. "
A FRIEND.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT

Whethef cOnSluefeO from tne
political or the human stand
point, the causes which have
broken up the friendship of Taft
and Roosevelt are instructive.
Just as the artificial light Of the
stage creates a misleading
glamour around the actors, 50
the calcium Of publicity conceals
some traits Of character and ex-
aggerates others in public men.
Let us look at Taft and Roosevelt
in the dry white light of every
day. II we do that, it is seen at
once that the reasons which have
made Roosevelt and Taft enemi-
es are like those which destroy
thousands of friendship in pri-
vate life. The difference is in
size, not kind. The Taft
Roosevelt hatred seems TO be on
a bigger scale than the mutual
dislike Smith and Jones, simply
because Roosevelt and Taft deal
with large affairs, and their re-
pulsion toward each other has
split a political party.
But any friendship based on
such grounds as that OF Roosevelt
and Taft must go to the smash.
Any liking founded on such
defects in character, such false
ambitions, such erroneous ideals,
as those of Taft and Roosevelt,
will rot. We see such chummi-
ness rotting around us every
day, easily trace the decay to its
source. II is just as easy to find
the reasons for the present aver
sion of Taft and Roosevelt for
each other, The cause lies in the
men themselves.
Roosevelt owned his rise to a
spasmodic popularity. Taft ow-
ed his to a happy go-lucky PHI
ability. Roosevelt's native ego
tism was swelled into abnormal
proportions by a bellows of fav-
oring circumstances. Taft un-
derwent one of the greatest mis-
fortunes that can possibly befall
man in the fact that his has a
career without hardships and
difficulties. There was nothing
to create stern stuff IN his
character. The chute of prefer
ment was creased for HIM. He
slid, hardly knowing how, from
one lucrative appointlve job 20
another.
And to see these two distin-
guished men. each in his own
way. get sham notions of life.
Sham ideas of politics. Wrong
estimates of other men. Mis-
taken appreciation Of conditions.
Overestimation of themselves.
All the while they were building
up this shaky fabric Of self-delu-
sion, they were unconsciously
preparing for the dlstrust and
detestation which has usurped
the place of fraternity
Roosevelt thought, probably
sincerely, that he valued Taft
for Taft 3 self. Really he valued
Taft only as a tool. Taft doubt
less supposed he admired Roose-
welt for Roosevelt's sake. In
point of fact he admired Roose-
welt as a political creator of Taft.
At last there came a time
when there was a.clash of ambi-
tons. And that instant the
solid.seeming fortress of friend
ship became a wall of Jericho -
crashing to ruins at the blast of
ambitions trumpet. There is
nothing surprising in the now
open enmity of Taft and Roose-
welt. II was bound to come.
II was being bred IN the bone
and nourished IN the flesh of the
two men. all the years when they
seemed as strong friends as
Damon and Pythias.
The breakup of Taft and
Roosevelt is a warning against
falao idaalo In nolifica and
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14
ITS AMUSING

The Sweetwater Reporter mas
an editor that is a curiosity, we
are sure that his picture has
been in the comic supplements
Of the daily papers, If we only
had recognized it, for surely the
artists that rack their brains
for funny pictures" would
never over look him.
He undertakes TO reply 10 the
Avalanche with regard to what
we had TO say about his attack
on the Plains, the weather we
said we had, and the Avalanche,
and in doing so he displays the
humorous side Of life all along
the line. He possesses a very mod
est fellow indeed, so much 50
that he bushes on account OF
the plain language that the
Avalanche editor used in de-
fining his article about Lubbock
and the Plains. He enters into
historical events and takes us
back to our boyhood days when
we gathered 'honey.dew' from
the lips Of the sweet lassles of
years ago. He advises his
readers that we had either
kissed an old maid, or else bit a
green persimmon, in both in
stances we deny the charge.
We smile and the world smiles
with us, and our sympathy for
the unfortunate is unabating and
extends even as far southeast as
Sweetwater, where the people
are compelled TO drink creek
water or else use stuff that IL
caught in dirt reservoirs.
He undertakes 10 tell why
they had 10 come to Lubbock to
buy feed, by saying that they
had to feed the mules that drew
the scrapers that carried the
dirt that made the dam thai
created the reservoir thai
caught the water that quenched
the thirst of the people OF
Sweetwater. that paid the coir
that created the the fund that
the Santa Fee railroad built the
tank withand that the sale
mules had 20 also help in the ex'
cavations of several new build
ings in the city. 1t is a wonder
TO us that they do not finish the
buildings that they started two
years ago where the excavations
are already completed and wait
till the next crop year 10 begin
the new ones and save mule
feed. f"
The reason that we have Sc
much feed TO spare IN the
Lubbock country, is that our land
will produce more per acre and
will yield a better variety than
the red hills of the Sweetwater
country, and another is that we
do not have TO work our mules
10 scrapers in order TO obtain
water. When we want water
all we have TO do is TO select the
exact spot we want the well,
set well drill operated by a
gasoline engine, and go to work,
and within a day or two we
have a well that will produce
enough water to float a battle
ship, after supplying a city,
with all that is necessary. and
with the proper connections, in
few days fill the Mammoth"
dirt reservoir, that the Sweet
water editor tells about. with
water that is FIFTEEN to drink. "
This is all being done while the
young mules are frolicing in the
kafir fields, developing muscles
for the work that they have to dc
when they are taken to Sweet
water.
Lawdy. white man, this is a
grand country and we extend
an urgent invitation to Mr..
Windy Ananias Perry to come
up and see a good town and a
pretty country. Come to Lub-
boil
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14
PEOPLE COMING TO LUB-
ROCK

There are increasing numbers
of people coming TO Lubbock. IL
evidenced by the constant in
quiries at our office for buildings
to rent. Another proof Of the
matter is the constant call for
boxes in the post Office at this
place, and the number Of new
people that call for mail daily at
the Lubbock post office. Post
master Stubbs informs US that
the increase in the volume Of
business in the Lubbock post
office has been very noticeable
for the past three months and
ia increasing all the while.
People are coming to Lubbock.
They believe in the future Of the
town on the South Plains where
the railroads cross. They have
heard Of Lubbock and the great
possibilities Of this section Of the
state. They have come. they see
Il as represented. and they are
satisfied. They want 10 live in a
town where there is thrift. where
the Improvements continue the
year round and are Of a substan-
tial nature. They are not like
bubbles. n is a safe move.
Come 10 LllRofk,
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

X. Martin and family are now
occupying the Bledsoe residence
in the southwest part of town.
near Carl Roberds' home. He
had to vacate the Frank Bowles
residence on West Broadway by
reason of il having been pur-
chased by Mr.. Johnson. who
moved into same this week.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

A well trained fire eompan
a team Of horses and a man
take charge Of them ia the me-
thing on docket for Lubbock.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14
lITTLt kvALANCHtS
Come 10 Lubbock.

For wholesale and retail trac
ing Lubbock is the place.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

Lubbock now has an ide
water works system.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14
NeA-Iof0f q 1ckS from Toe Il
SO. so. at Crss4oFds. 36 Il
thanks 10 Our People

We wish TO thank oar friends
and neigbbors for their kind
assistance rendered US during
my wife's recent illness. And
will only be 10 glad to return
their kindness. should we ever
have the opportunity TO do so.
May God bless each and every
one Of you is our PRAYER.
Mr.. AND MRS. j. w. Couch.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

The gentle zephyrs blew III
week sandstOrms.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

a street sprinkler will
necessary in Lubbock Il
summer.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

against self-delusion as to mo-
tives and character. National
Monthly.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

More concrete sidewalks wot
help the towns appearance.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

One man says he has discove
ed the South Pole Many ms
have discovered that Lubbock
a mighty good place 10 live.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

Try som%7bst Queen Anne
Flour at Long/Mothers. s6 1t
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

No creek water for lubbock
we get the genuine article rig|
out of the wells. cool and r
freshing.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14


q team Of horses and a man
take charge Of them ia the ne,
thing on docket for Lubbock.
A street sprinkler will
necessary in Lubbock IN
summer.
The gentle zephyrs blew hi
week sandstOrms.
More concrete sidewalks wou'
help the towns appearance.
One man says he has discove|
ed the South Pole Many md
have discovered that Lubbock
a mighty good place 10 live.
No creek water for lubbock
we get the genuine article rig|
out of the wells. cool and n
freshing.
Too wet 20 plow in the LuI
book country: Sounds like a md
season.
The same building rented
two different parties the SAM
day sounds like business "a
picking up. This happened
Lubbock Monday.
The base ball boys have tht|
new uniforms. look out Plat
view, Amarillo. Post Citx, Swee
water, Tahoka. and ak 9TH
points north. south. east N
west. there Is going 10 be s(mI
thing doing this season.
Play BALL Lubbock is gettir|
in the harness.
Oh you railroads. come |
Lubbock.
Lubbock will have u
Normalites this summer.
Farmers organize an lnstitu !
Everything J. psre drugs(|
Crawford rYbdcompany. S6j
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

Too wet 20 pillow IN the LuI
,ock country; Sounds like a m
eason.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

The same building rented
two different parties the san
day sounds like business vi
picking up. This happened
Lubbock Monday.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

Lubbock will have
Normalites this summer.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

Oh you railroads. come
Lubbock.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1912-03-14

Play BALL Lubbock is gettir
in the harness.
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FARM LAND PRICES

H. o. Fritzle brought up a copy of
his old homo paper from Grundy coun-
ty, Iowa, last week. The part that in
terested us most was the report of
land transfers. One farm sold at $155
per acre. This was an inferior piece
of land without Improvements. Mr..
Fritzle farmed so acres of it the year
he came here and bought. The land
also needs thing to make it tillable.
Another sale was recorded at $3.50 per
ere. The party who sold the land
bought it about twelve years ago at
$117, thus making an increase in price
of $133 per acre. Still another farm
sold at better than 5000 an acre. That
land will raise more corn than South
Dakota land. But there is 4 good
reason for it aside from the matter of
original soil or climate. The land is
sown to clover. then corn, then winter
wheat. and always we'll MANFRED. AS
Mr.. Fritzle says, he can remember a
few years ago when a man who had
40 bushels Of corn to the acre rushed
to the newspaper Office to have it adj
vertised for the benefit Of the coun-
try. The question that puzzles us is,
why will people pay that price for land
when the opportunities are far greater
here in South Dakota, considering the
price of land, and how long will it be
before our good land will look cheap
at SIS an acre without improvements?
II We We're to answer our own ques-
ton We would say that five years
from now it will be almost impossible
to get a piece Of good land without
improvements for less than SIS and
improved good land from that I'D to
800 an acre.-De Smet Independent.
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GOOD ROADS MEETING

The South Dakota Good Roads AS
ISOLATION. in its meeting at Pierre this
week, performed a very good service
to the state, and gave itself the proper
sort of start, by choosing J. w. Parm-
ley of Ipswich, as president Of the as
ISOLATION.
Mr.. Parmley has been an enthus-
%iastic, insistent advocate Of good roads
for many years. 1t is largely due to
his efforts that the splendid highway
now being constructed between Aber.
deem and Ipswich, which will eventual
~ extend from Milbank to Mobridge,
and possibly-who knows from Bos-
ton to Seattle finally, was gotten under
way. The highway, very properly, has
been christened the Parmley road, and
the additional honor bestowed upon
Mr.. Parmley at Pierre was we'll de-
served.
The organization of the State Good
Roads Association means that South
Dakota is finally well on the way to-
ward a sys- ematic development of a
statewide system of public thorough
fares. Students Of the subject of
transportation long ago discovered
that the greatest transportation cost
is that involved in getting the farm
er's products from the farm to the
town market A system of roads
which will enable farmers to haul
heavier loads with the same amount
of motor power cannot help but prove
profitable to farmers and townspeople
alike.
The problem with the hit and miss"
way Of working the roads is a waste
of energy. The same amount of time
and labor and expense, scientifically
applied would result in a wonderful
Improvement I've existing conditions.
The South Dakota Good Roads Asso-
citation will assist nightly in bring
ing about the application of brains to
road building. and with Parmley at
the head the association will be a live
proposition, ever-lastingly at it all the
time.-Aberdeen News.
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revolution in prices or a change in
the relative position of supply and de-
mand over a number of years. The
United States in the last five years
has raised but two exceedingly liberal
wheat crops, counting this seasons
harvest. The 1912 production follows
two successive moderate harvests
that have drawn down both the Wis
ible and invisible stocks to small to-
tails. This mean that more than a
normal seasons demands will be made
on the present crop to meet the de-
pIetions resulting from the previous
year of light production.
The initial run of winter wheat to
the primary markets went mostly into
direct consumptive channels. What
little accumulation resulted was more
than Offset by the heavy decreases in
spring wheat stocks so that since
July 20, the beginning of free south
west marketings, the visible supply
has increased less than $50, 900 bush
els compared with 100000 bushels
for the same period last year.
The spring wheat marketings will,
Of course, soon begin to enlarge and
accumulate at the terminals, but
spring wheat millers have already sold
flour that will run into millions of
bushels of wheat which should absorb
a good portion of the early receipts.
The building up of reserves in the
winter wheat markets has been slow
of a broad commercial demand and it
is quite probable that the same thing
will happen in the northwest.
Intermittent rains in the three
spring wheat states have delayed
field work and a prolonged wet SPELL
would result in a deferred movement
OF wheat to market. All stocks of
wheat in the public terminal elevators
are less than 1000, 900 bushels and
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quite as much as those of his own age.
Among those who sorrow deeply
should be mentioned mis- bible class.
While he had been their teacher only
a short time the class grew rapidly
in members and spirit and devotion
to their teacher. Rev. Paul E.
Wright, pastor of the First Christian
church, assisted by pastors Of differ
ent churches, conducted the services,
the Masonic order of which the de-
ceased was a member taking charge
at the grave. A quartet, assisted by
Prof. F. j. Haynes who rendered a
beautiful solo, furnished appropriate
music. Interment was made in Fair
haven cemetery where he lies beside
his wife who died two years ago.
Santa Ana, (Cal) Register.
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Jan A. EATON

James A. Seaton, who died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. II. H.
Reeves, OF this city, on Thursday, Aug.
Is, was born in Kentucky, February
%, 1910. He "a a retired Christian
minister, having spent about SO years
in the ministry serving churches in
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota
and Montana. Three years ago he
came to Santa Ana where he has since
resided, identifying himself with the
church here.
He was married to Mary E. Bradley
February 20, 1862, and to this union
nine children were born, only two of
whom survive, Mrs. Reeves and Miss
Carrie Seaton, both of this city.
Mr.. Seaton was taken i'll some three
months ago with cancer of the stom-
ach and steadily grew worse until
death relieved him from his suffering.
The funeral held Saturday afternoon
from Mills & Winbigler's chapel, was
largely attended and the many flowers
spoke of the love he has won in the
hearts Of the people here.
1t would be difficult to find another
who in the short stay he has made
with us is more highly esteemed by
every one. The boys and girls and
little children enjoyed and loved him
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COM WHEAT

There has been much talk Of large
crops and much anticipation Of low
grain prices as a result OF the liberal
harvest, but very little has been heard
of the possibility of a broad absorp-
ton Of wheat for commercial pur-
poses.
There has been selling from FIRST
hands, with hedging pressure in the
pit. selling by spectators passed on
the one-sided statistics o. production,
but no consideration given to the low
old crop supplies and the many holes
to be Allied up before thero will be
any market surplus on hand.
One large crop does not bring .
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the amounts available on contract de-
livery is less than 200,0 600 bushels.
The large crop in the northwest has
a big legitimate commercial demand
awaiting it. Much of it has already
been contracted for in sales Of flour
for delivery the next four and five
months so that statistics of supply
are less Oppressive when the volume
of the demand is taken into considera-
tion.-Minneapolis Tribune.
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AUCTION SALE FARM LANDS.

Sept. Goth, 1912, 2 p. m. sharp, we
will offer for sale-on the lands-at
public auction, the east half of 26 and
the west half of 25-117-56, Clark county
So. Dak.-all splendid farm land
good set farm buildings-tracts sold
separately-located 3 miles northwest
Of Henry, S. d.
Also on Sept. Dist, 1912, 2 p. m,
sharp, the NV a and S. E. a of 49,
1852, Codington county, S. D.-S12
miles due north of Watertown, S. D.,
good land-good buildings. Terms
easy. For details write, H. l.. Hop
kins or G. J.. Flittie, owners, Brook
ings, S. D. Col. Carey NJ. Jones, of
Chicago, Auctioneer.
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FLYING MEN FALL

victims to stomach, liver and kidney
troubles just like other people. with
y results in loss Of appetite, back.
ache, nervousness, headache, and tired
iistless, rundown feeling. But there's
no need to feel like that as T. d.
PEBBLES, Henry. Tenn, proved. "Six
bottles Of Electric Bitters" he writes,
did more to give me new strength
and good appetite than all other stom,
ach remedies I used" So they help
everybody. tt folly to suffer when
this great remedy will help you from
the nrst dose. Try II. Only Soc at al
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