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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-10

Arthur w, Ruff, the newly engaged
principal of Peoples academy, Morris
vile, is a graduate of Schenectady. n.
Y, high school and Yale college. Dur
ing his senior year at New Haven he
qualified for a Rhodes scholarship He
has been a member OF the faculty at
the Taft Preparatory school in Con.
necticut and principal of Richards high
school, Newport, \. II.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-29

Eaf ali hour later Mrs. Richmond
went into Frances little room. A
sweetly smiling face looked up at her
from tile sed.
"Bab!," she pleaded. please DO as
mother wants you TO. Mother hates
TO punish her baby. Tell me the right
name Of this lettsr-"
She drew out the book and; laid her
Anger ora the much discussed letter.
There was a bTesthiess pause.
Well. rauSver." said bored voice
deliberately. may ft's IN A for you,
but Susss I'll call 1t B."
'I think III have to send Frances to
school after ALL" admitted Mrs. Rich.
nond to Frances father that evening
after dinner. Tn trl4 Ey ;Ddhod
q inp.rtiss INSTRUCTIONS ID no. sui
hdeauy mba6In.''
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-29
Wnl.P. W0oIIs&So|l
GroeeFs
AL X AND r [ AVA.

I.oudoun Co. Roll Butter. pound, 3ot
Three Large Cans Tomatoes 3oc
Thr.a Cans Goro 30
Three Cans Peas 2''C
Four Cans String Beans zoo
Three Cans Sour kraut @ot
Two Cans Table Peaches 221t
Fancy Seeded Raiains. p6Hnd, ld':
Sweet Cider, gallon 2oi
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-29
The Old Kick.

Satan--I'm surprised to ind you
here. I thought you would surely get
seat In paradise. New Yorker
twearily) --Nothing doing; specula.
tors had them all.--Puck
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-29
When You Think OF Electric Lighr You Think
Of Something Well Within the Reach
Of the Average Family.

Once electric Service was luxury anrhe family
neansc 20 afford.
Of living has been going the cost Of Eeetr
energy las going do@n.
1t consider erc Lighting hRlpiced expensive
fence possib only o persons Of large Incomes
Thoe would cnntente without it,
10
installing light and also advise regard
tn the l0caon nf lights rroiuce tie hest results
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-29
ereenness Accounted For.

Marks-That new member seeus
pletty green for MaI who clstMg
to be q college graduate Parks
Probably 1t was an agricultural col
lege
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-29
Suburban For Sale

Beautifully situated on the King st.
Road. 7 minutes direct walk from
Rraddock Station, 4 acres OF land
splendidiy adapted for country home.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
DENVER MARKET ACTIVE.

Denver Union Stock Yards, Jan.
Receipts of cattle here last
week were very heavy, but of course
many were show cattle. The mar
ket was active from start to fin
ish and prices paid were high. Good
steers sold at $3.50 to $3.50. cows
at $3.50 to S5.25. bulls at SO to
s4.35 and veal calves at IS to ST.
35. Show steers sold in the auction
ring at IS to SO and for carloads
with single steers up to $1,000.
The feature of the week was the
remarkable sale of feeder cattle.
Thousands went through the auc-
ton rings and thousands were sold
during the week at private sale, in
all about 900 feeder cattle chang
ing hands. Eastern feeder buyers
were here in large numbers and
the sale was the best ever held any
where. The grand champion load
of feeders sold at IS. the record
price for feeding steers. with other
sales ranging largely from 1913 to
$3.50. The feeder show was the
largest ever held anywhere. and
shippers were more than pleased
with the results.
Show hogs sold at $6.4O to $500
bulk, grand champion load at 81
100 Good hogs sold on the market
today at Sc to s6.15. prices being
lower at all points.
Sheep demand was good all week
and the market active. Prices are
high and more shipment wanted.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
BACHELORS LOOK OUT!

F. A. Mckinney received from
the East a short time ago, a letter
asking If he distinguished in his
directories between bachelors and
married men, that is, could per-
son in looking through the direc-
tories. find out whether n man was
married or not. He replied to the
letter, stating that in all OF his
books published since January list,
1911, he had indicated that a man
had a wife by inserting her given
name after her husbands name, or
II he could not get her name, by
putting MRS" in parenthesis. He
then received letter from the
marty, giving him an order for one
of each of his books as fast az they
are published.
The writer OF the letter Is the
secretary of band or club or as
ISOLATION of young ladies', who are
banded together and are united to-
gether in making a united and de-
termined effort to obtain husbands
nv fair means or foul. CThis last
was not in the letter but Is simply
supposition on the part of MacD -.
The young women have evident
ly been reading western literature
in which Colorado has ben pictured
az an Eveless paradise. and they
have determined that little mon
ey spent for directories and post
age will remedy this deplorable state
Of affairs.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

ing over the bids the council award
ed the job to the Independent, on
the lowest bid. On that occasion the
Tribune's bid was just few cents
higher than that of the Independ-
ent, and considerably lower than
was its bid for the county publishing.
Our criticism is not against the
Tribune, which, like the Independ-
ent, needs all the business it can
get. The right to criticize, if it must
be exercised, is against those coun-
ty commissioners who palpably were
guilty of breach of official trust
in advertising for the disposal of
county work and then voting to aw-
The troupe was beautifully cos
tisan reason to the highest bidder.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
BUSINESS LOCALS

To Trade-For automobile or
horses. 40 acres Desert Filing. at
800. A. Watson, the Land Man.
North Delta. Phone Garnet 1911.
Brown Leghorn Chickens-about
so for sale. F. w. Austin. four
miles south OF Delta, near bridge
crossing Dry Creek.
Wanted-By a young man attend
ing business college. place to work
for board and room. Address p. o.
Box 292.
For Sale-Slightiy used furniture:
four-passenger auto: two dozen
chickens. NJ. b. Heston. 23s Column
bia street.
Barn to Rent-With two double
stalls. hay NOW and buggy shed. IA
Palmer street
Agent for Spirella Corsets. 332
Grand Avenue. Coop phone 79-M.
First and second cutting alfalfa
for sale by John w. Potter. south
of Delta. Phone Olathe White 432.
Fine alfalfa hay for sale by Jno.
w. Potter. south of Delta. Phone
Olathe White 432.
Pure sorghum molasses for sale
at p. G. Conkle's ranch, Garnet
mesa. 2w
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
LIZARD HEAD
STILL STANDS.

1t is gratifying to learn, from re-
liable sources, that Lizard Head
peak, in the San Juan mountains.
which was reported TO have fallen
several days ago, is standing as
nigh and as picturesque as ever and
that the topping OF that great spire
OF granite occurred only in the i'm
aglna,lon OF an excited newspaper
correspondent.
If there is anything Colorado has
been priding herself on all these
years, it is the solidity of its noun
tain peaks. Tourists have been in
vited TO stand beneath Inem and to
climb TO their submits, and not one
mountain has been placarded with
such signs as dangerous or
keep OF! Not a Colorado peak has
shown signs of being constructed
like New York tenement house,
but the workmanship has always
been first class and warranted to
last through the ages.
Nothing would be more annoying
to Colorado than TO have to aplo-
gize for the erratic behavior of it's
mountain peaks 1t has the most
sublime mountains in the world
and to have all this sublimity mar
red by the knowledge that it is
built upon unsuitable foundations
would be severe blow to the
pride of the Coloradoan who feels
sense of proprietorship in the
range that makes such a wonderful
state.
Inc Coloradoan can conceive of
Gibraltar totteIing, or the Alps
slipping, but can never imagine Liz
dust from its proud elevation am
ong the other peaks of the San
Juan. Old Jim Bridger, of blessed
memory, used to tell tenderfeet in
the early days, that when he came
to the West Pixies peak was a hole
in the ground-but he never hint
ed that it might return to its for
mer state, or that any OF its com
panion peaks might fall. The excit-
able eastern editors, who have been
charging on the affair until one
might suppose the whole Rocky
range to be falling, would
81 EN- to owe Lizard Head an apology.
When Colorado peak does fall,
the whole world will have seismo-
graphic information of the fact
Republican.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
ADVERTISING RATES

Professional cards of one inch
sigle column space, per month. 81.
If paid for in advance by the year.
$40. If paid for in advance for six
months, IS.
Advertisements of four inches or
more, run by the month without
change, IS cents per inch. Adver-
tisements reset each week, 20 cents
per inch for each insertion
Readers, outside of classified adj
vertising department, 10 cents per
line for each insertion. In CLASH
fled department, cents per line.
In effect on and after December
LIST, 1911.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
PURELY POLITICAL.

The Democratic, administration
paid it's first dividend to the edu-
cational institutions of the state on
Thursday of last week. The divi-
dend was but rs per cent of the
total appropriation and Governor
Shafroth, Treasurer Kenehan and
Auditor Leddy frankly told repre-
sentatives of the state institutions
that they did not know when anoth-
err payment could be made. The
present biennial period is fourteen
months gone. Only ten more months
remain in which to pay the other
rs per cent If the institutions are
allowed their full allotment. Treas
urer Kennehan is of the opinion
that not more than 5 per cent OF
the remainder will be paid. This
comes from the fact that the pres
ent administration is using the
funds of the state for special sal
aries to friendly politicians.
Governor Shafroth has new
way of getting his speeches print
ed and mailed. His way allows the
federal government to pay for the
printing and postage and the state
government to pay for addressing
the envelopes and putting the
speeches in envelopes. incidentally.
he worked Ed Taylor, congressman
at-large from Colorado. to be a
party to cheap graft. Some time
ago Gov. Shafroth delivered a speech
before the Kansas City conserva-
ton convention, which speech was
the governors bid for the long term
senatorship from Colorado. He then
sent it to Taylor and had Taylor
offer to read it before the house of
representatives. Reports have it that
the members of that body courte-
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
ARE ROUNDING Up
BOOTLLEGGERS OF DISTRICT

For several days past, officers
have kept on the trail of bootleggers
and all persons who might be in
possession of liquors of any kind
with the result that five or six ar
rests were made and in each in
stance the persons taken in were
given fine of s25 and costs, the
sum total being in the neighbor-
hood OF $40.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
HARD TIMES DANCE.

TheMaccabee Ladies will give a
hard times dance at Odd Fellows
hall on Friday night, February End
1912, to which all are invited.
Wear your old clothes. A hard
times supper will be served and
good music provided. A prize will
be given to the couple whom the
judges proclaim are the best cos
tuned for the occasion. There will
be fun for everybody. Come early
and stay late.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

The Tribune took it upon itself
last week to indulge in a spasm of
humor and inform the Independent
that the county commissioners CON
sidered quality" in granting the
county publishing to the highest bid
. der. AS this paper is unable to APP
preciate the Joke" We pass it up
to the tax payers.
We do not know whether or not
the board of county commissioners is
compelled by law to advertise for
bids for this work. We do know
and without reservation. We know
further that the Independent has
the best equipped printing plant in
the county and are reasonably sure
that its circulation in the county is
larger than that of any other paper
This circulation is among Republic
ans an d Democrats like. which
should be sufficient recommen-
dation to the papers merits.
Had there been no advertisement
for bids. this paper would have
made no bid AS there was an ad-
vertisement for bids. we had the
right to bid and to expect that ou1
bid would be treated as a business
proposition.
1t may be remembered that last
summer both the Independent ant
Tribune were asked to bid for the
publishing of the City Of Delta
They did SO and after carefully 60
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
THE WHY AND THE WHEREFORE

Delta has two newspapers.
Their friends and the public say
of them: They are the cleanest, best
filled with news, most enterprising
weeklies in Colorado or the West"
1t costs these two newspapers
a combined sum of about $4,000
year to run.
Practically, then, they are spend
ing about $4,000 year to ad-
vertise Delta and Delta county.
This sum they must earn. Can
you figure from their columns how
they do it?
While few Delta merchants have
been fairly good advertisers. the
majority have not.
Grand Junction business men pay
more money to the News and SEN
tinel in one month than do the bust
ness men of Delta to the Independ-
ent and Tribune in six months. The
Grand function papers are dailies
to be sure, but that merely proves
that the money can be applied to
such a purpose. In Delta the ap-
licant is met by many with the
statement: I'VE can't afford it.
The best advertisers of Delta.
who claim they spend close to ST.
900 year in advertising. give only
about one-fourth of that amount to
newspaper advertising. The bal
ance goes to posters, letters, cards,
and to the various advertising
schemes that bob up.
Every dinky show program. a
chicken show, county fair. etc, has
to have an ad.
That there is no class of adver-
Using equal to that of the local
newspaper, has long been conceded.
A merchant who had been thinking
remarked the other day: Just as
soon as advertising slows down
not been regular nor an extern
sive advertiser. He was one of the
many who had been reaping the
benefits of those who did advertise
extensively and by SO doing. had
brought people to town to do their
trading.
The rates of the Delta papers for
advertising space have been too low
They cant pay $500 each per month
office expenses on $3.50 a month In
advertising.
Yet when this paper sought to
charge one dollar a month for ar
inch card instead of fifty cents. sew
eral quit. These men could pay -
to Sc a month for telephones; coul'
, pay a dollar month dues to sew
! eral different lodges; could pay. M
telling how much for churches
could afford automobiles. but the,
/ could not afford an additional ter
cents a week for professional caro-
in a newspaper which. by the mere
force of it's energy and it's publica
, ton, was contributing Thousand
times more to their success, and t.
, everybody's success, than all othe
: things combined.
, II there is anything RADICAL.
wrong in this county-which ha
every right to be the most pros
! porous on earth-it isn't its news
, papers. If town or city drags, tn
. public is aware of 1t only in the re
flex of business in the advertising
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

knows, this is the first time that
governor of a state ever used his
nerve to deliberately graft off the
federal and state governments in
order to get his initial speech, ask
ing for the United States senator
ship. printed and circulated
Cheap" was the one word heard
throughout the entire capitol when
it became known what the governor
had done.
The Progressive Republicans
held their second conference at the
Albany hotel in this city Tuesday,
and elected an executive committee
of seven, which committee after
wards elected P. B. Stewart of Colo
Springs, chairman of the organiza
ton. Mr.. Stevens succeeds to the
position made vacant by the resig-
nation of Merle d. Vincent. The
Progressives adopted platform
declaring for all the Progressive
principles and stated that Senator
ollttle anu lol lltT
Roosevelt represented the Progress
sive movement.
President Taft has again shown
that he is capable of mastering sit
uations. This time he has address
ed letter to congress, recommend
ing reductions in the cost of conduct
ing the federal government. He
lays down the proposition that the
people have as much right to know
what becomes of their money as to
know how it is raised He recon-
mends several reductions in var
ious departments. In this message
it is estimated that his recommen-
dations if put into practice would
mean an annual saving of at least
ten million dollars. This shows
that the president is ever on the alert
for the financial interests of the
people.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

Everybody does not know that
Ben Lindsey plagarized the word
jungle" when he sought to cop
a copse for his Denver beasts. Fort
Collins is the one town which has
the word. jungle" copyrighted
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

The clam has the owl skinned
for wisdom. The clam knows enough
to shut up. Absolute silence is more
valuable than any number of "hoots
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

Having restored the monkey to
the jungle, Mayor Speer has also
embarked in the newspaper bust
ness in Denver. The most cruel
thing about the newspaper field Is
its lure, which by the way, has led
many, very many of the aspiring, I'M
sophisticated to financial ruin.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

The homemade man is usually
worth about half a dozen of the
selfmade man, though both are in
demand.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

The genius is the fellow who
thinks of something that sets all
other men to wondering why they
did not think of it themselves.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
For Sale.

A fifteen-months-oI Full Blood
Jersey Bull. Price $500. Write
Mr.. Opal L. Croft, Olathe. Colo,
or phone White 1854.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

Wanted-To trade full blood
Brown Leghorn cockrells for same.
or will sell. Mrs. A. NJ. Felmlee,
624 Palmer street. Coop phone.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

If the main business in life is
making money, isn't it astonishing
how many people fail in business.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

If the profits in farming were al
ways as much in evidence as the
prophets of farming, dividends of the
soil would be larger.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

Wanted-By young lady attend
ing Business coll. &c. n place to work
for board and room. Address Box
292, Delta.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

columns of its newspapers. They
go on boosting under discouraging
as well as, to them, affluent condi-
lions.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26

First. second and third cutting. in
any quantity. delivered in Delta.
Phone Olathe White 342. John w.
Potter. Olathe Colorado.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
For Rent.

Rooms from So up. Good store
room. Basement short order fur
nished. NJ. X. LINCOLN.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1912-01-26
Office Supplies

Our Stock of Office Supplies is complete You will
time and probably by remembering these goods
here We have everything the way Of Office Stationery Desk
Supplies Typewriter Supplies Letter Files Bill Files. Blank and
Account Books of all kinds We believe that Book and Sta
oney Stock unusually large for Of this size and that
always make it worth while here when anything Of
this character is needed
The chronicle=news., 1912-12-17
UNCOvERs PLOT
To SEIZE GOVT.
Of PORTUGAL

Lisbon. Portugal. Dec. IA plot
to establish n military dictatorship
In Portugal was discovered last night.
Part OF the army was supposed to to
be implicated. The cabinet was in
session all night Troops were kept
under arms and today warships In
the harbor cleared for action.
Rumors of an alarming nature
spread all over tn. city and caused
great anxiety.
1t was reported that a large Num-
her OF conspirators had assembled in
the Campo Grando Park and were
about to come into the city and seize
the members of the cabinet. II was
also asserted that they intended to
occupy the government buildings and
declare a new government.
The minister Of war. acting under
the orders OF tn. cabinet. KEEP. GER
tain troops. whose loyalty was un-
dou bted, under arms. He also called
otu the whole of the republican
guards and tn. members of the Re
publican secret secretary who were
all armed.
The minister OF marine ordered all
the war vessels in the harbOr to take
up favorable positions and to pre-
pare for evcntualities.
The night passed, however. with
out any outbreak
The chronicle=news., 1912-12-17
NJ v WISH = 'Fi |i E !fF ! !4I4i! 4 ?I| || ,,,,
PLAN TO ENTERTAIN
COMMERCIAL ASSN.

Trinidad Is getting ready TO re-
officers OF the commercial associu- :
lions who will hold their quarterly
meeting In this city on Friday and
Saturda! OF this week. Secretary T..
!. Mcmahon estimates that about
one hundred peOpl. will b" here. m
this meeting Is to b. on" OF the most
important In the history OF the or
Yanixntion. The commercial cYccu-
dives ar. interested in legislation.
are Interested particularly in the
manner by which Colorado shall he
advertised throughout the country
and tn" world. and the boosters OF
Southern Colorado want u man from
this part OF II" s'n;c on tn" board OF
Immigration, that Southern CGlorn do
VIII sc; it, Just shsr. OF the adv.r-
'ising
Another important matte 10 claim
the attention OF til" commercial men
II that OF IRE insurance. Al tn.
last meeting in Denver . ,omm.,t..
WAS appointed 10 report on the mat
ter of reduced fire Insurance. and the
agitation for lower rates viii he con-
tinu'd ut III" sessions here.
The local Chamber OF comm.rc. IL
planning to entertain til. yisiiors
every minu,. that they nr. not In
business session. On the morning
of Friday Hn int-rurbau excursion
Will he run To CokcdIi- where the
visitors will he shown au active coal
camp and til. operations OF coal min
ing. On saturday an automobile rX-
"ursion 10 Ra'on has been planned -
a trip over the beautiful mountain
road. Som. OF til. speakers OF the
meeting viii b. senator A. y. Par
r,sh oI Lamar. Rev. II. N. Shields
OF Dawson, Iudg. J. q. Northcu,,.
aud x. A. Tmrncr. J. y. Jenkins o!
Pueblo.