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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06
BY FRANK p. sTOckBRIDGE.

BY FRANK p. 5 STOCkBRIDGE.
What about the roads that lead into
Richmond?
Unless you are very much different
from the general run of American
communities, they're an awful bad lot
Of roads.
The worst of it is, there isn't any
excuse for bad roads.
Bad roads leading into a town mean
just one thing. They mean that the
people of the town are a thriftless,
shiftless lot.
You don't believe it?
I can prove it.
1t is thriftless to throw money away
1t is shiftless to allow bad conditions
to continue when you have the means
at hand with which 70 remedy them.
Good Roads Mean Money.
Bad roads take dollars out of the
pockets of every man, woman and
child living in the town that permits
them to exist
And good roads are so easy to get
that no community can truthfully say:
I'VE can't help it,"
How? By community effort. One
man can't build a road, although if he
is millionaire he may hire other peo-
pie to build it, for him, but any live
group of men working together for the
common good. can build all the roads
any town needs and build them right
Did you ever hear of NJ. J. Bowling,
of Olivia, Mimi? Mr.. Bowling lost both
f0et one hand and part of the other
! hand, through being frozen up in a
Minnesota blizzard when he was a
young man. But what is left of him
has more energy than god many com
plete men that you and | know. He's
always starting something, and a cou-
pie of years ago he got the notion that
Renville county. where he lives, need
ed some good roads.
Mr.. Bowling proposed to the cOun-
ty commissioners that they put up 5000
to help improve 55 miles of road Then
he got ~very village in the county to
put up from SO to S25. Then he went
around in his automobile to see the
leading men in the villages and all the
farmers whose land abutted on the
roads. He asked them to help for one
week and promised them good roads
at the end of that time All but one
agreed to help. That one said he didn't
need good roads and that this was just
scheme to work the farmer for the
benefit of them city automobile fellers.
Job Done in Week.
In one week the job was done-55
miles of smooth, solid, level hard
dirt roads, clear across Renville Coun-
ty. Right in front of the farm whose
owner had objected, too. And when
he saw that road and his neighbors
building it he got ashamed of himself
and came out with his team and haul
ed king drag all the rest of the week.
Renville county went road crazy.
When they saw how easy it was, they
appropriated $500 against an equal
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06
TRACTION EMPLOYE
MUST Be ABSTA|HER
Sweeping Order Issued BY
President of 7. H.. | < E.
Company.

1t is now perfectly safe for any one
to ask a motCrman or conductor OF the
T. H. l. x E. traction system to have
a drink. for the assurance-is is offered in
advance that it will be refused.
\ sweeping order has been issued
by the president OF the company which
affects every employe from the vice
president down. stating that any en-
plOye found in saloon either during
working hours or when he is of duty
will be Immediately discharged. This
affects the claim department and all
clerical help as we'll as the operating
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06
Better Roads Leading Into City
I>1 --~+ +~i. -->.
Bring Money Into Pockets of All

amount from the state to put in stone
roads on some of the stretches where
the traffic is heaviest, and almost ev-
cry man in the county now keeps a
split-log drag handy, and uses it intel
ligently on the road in front of his
place after every wet spell-and they
still have good roads in Renville
county.
Now, there is an example of good
roads obtained through community eff
fort on the initiative of one man-and
a cripple at that. To be sure, Mr..
Bowling never would have become
Speaker of the Minnesota Legislature
if he hadn't been a good deal more of
man to begin with than most of us
are. But what he did for his home
county the Commercial Club can do
here.
There isn't any group of a dozen
men in Richmond who couldn't, if
they wished, and had enough civic
spirit to do it, start a good roads
movement that would put your town
on the good roads map with a great
big red circle around it to indicate
that it is a live town, inhabited by live
people.
Assistance Needed.
| don't need to argue with you
about the dollars and cents side of this
good roads proposition. | don't care
| if you lay brick pavements at a cost
of 100000 a mile. Richmond and the
country people nearby, and you and
everybody else in the community, will
get your money back many times
over. Some towns need brick pave
ments-others can get along for
good many years yet with dirt roads
But no town can prosper long with
bad roads.
| If the enthusiastic community
workers who are trying to make Rich
mond a better town, never do anything
/ else than put in some good roads, you
haven't any excuse left for not doing
your share.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06
department.

department.
Use OF intoXicants by motormen ana
conductors in Richmond has never at.
fected the service. according to Super
intendent Gordon, but he says he is =
hearty accord with the ruling and VIII
see that il Is rigidly enforced among
his men
II is probable that a delegation ct
local motormen and conductors VIII
go TO Indianapolis next week with Mr..
Gordon TO confer with General Super.
intendeut Jeffries regarding an tn'
crease in the wage scale in Richmond.
MIR. Gordon conferred with the men
this afternoon regarding the men who
should constitute the committee.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06
MOTORCYCLE CLUB
HOLDS NOMINATION
Officers Will Be Elected On
First Friday in January.

At a meeting of the Richmond
Motorcycle club last night the follow
ing members were nominated for club
offices: President Walter Moore.
Charles Tangeman. A Stole; Vice
President. Howard Oesting, Frank
Cook. Ned Cook: Secretary-Paul Nc
Bride. Clyde Smith, Everett Moore:
Treasurer, Carl kemper. Ned Cook,
howard Oesting: Captain. Carl KEN
per, E. Moore, Ned Cook: First Lieu
tenant, John Brown, Ernest Wilt. Pete
Tillborg: Second Lieutenant, Earl
Wright, E. Moore. II. 'Oesting.
The officers will be elected from this
list of nominations at the next meet
ing to be held the first Friday evening
in January. Arrangements are being
completed for the annual banquet of
the club to be held December 10 at
the Westcott hotel, More than forty
are expected TO be present.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06
CITY LIGHT PLANT
BEST IN INDIANA

"Richmond's city light plant has the
reputation over the state of being one
of the best managed and most paying
small plants in the state" said f. B.
Ameloe, representing the Hooven,
Owens and Rensselaer, company of
Hamilton, Ohio, which furnished the
engines and part of the new equip
ment. Mr.. Amele said superintend-
ents of small plants in other cities
looked upon the Richmond plant as a
model
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06
WILSON TAKES SPIN

WASHINGTON. Dec. S.-Despits
his physicians injunction that he re.
main in his room. President Wilson
upset arrangements and left the
White House for an auto ride He
was feeling 50 greatly improved that
he determined that journey out in
the open would be beneficial. Dr.
Greyson finally consented To let him
take a spin around the city.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06

Coming home late, he found that the
family had gone out for the evening
and he could find no entrance into
the house.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-12-06

Sidney A. Witherbee. the American
who emerged from war-ridden Mexico
with a peace plan for the republic and
all the Americas. has just laid his plan
before the world and has the endorse
ment of government officials. Andrew
Carnegie and other peace advocates.
The plan provides for an All-American
union. making all the Latin American
republics parties TO instead of sub
jects of policy of mutual protection
and peace; an agreement that none of
the parties interested shall obtain an
others territory by force or conquest:
a tribunal before which all internal
and external questions affecting each
other shall be adjudicated, and the
concerted action of all TO prevent for
eign invasion. Many of the Latin re-
publics are already waiting 10 sign
up" Mr.. Witherbee is a New Yorker,
native of Michigan, and has spent
most of his life in connection with de-
velopment enterprises in Central
America.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
tBy Associated Press.l

Washington, ID. c., June 26.-The
senate lobby committee today made
preparations to follow up the testi-
mony of last night by Judge Lovett
of the Hartman lines that men i'm
Ipersonating congressman have been
making demands on New York finan-
ciers.
Edward Lauterbach, New York
attorney, arrived in Washington this
morning and was promised chance
to go before the lobby committee to
testify tonight, but later the commit
tee changed the plan, announcing that
mo one would be heard until the Demo-
cratic caucus in the senate had fin
Iished with the tariff bill.
Judge Lovett testified that efforts
were made to force the Hartman lines
to employ Lauterbach, who was to pre-
sent the agitation in congress against
the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cific distribution plan. Lauterbach to-
day denied all the Lovett charges. He
said he had talked with Otto H. Kuhn
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
FASHION NOTES BULLETIN

A long oval side panel on a new
skirt is weighed down by a long silh
tassel.
Bullet buttons are seen on all light
weight cloth suits.
Pink and blue is the combination
for the summer.
Hats are growing larger, the droop.
ing garden variety being very prom
inent for afternoon.
A snakeskln serge is new. 1t is in
dark grey, with dots of red, black
and blue over its surface. For outing
and travelling it is the favorite.
Fichu lines in vests and guimpes
are here. They are suggested in
crossed net, tulle and soft null.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
AGED NOBLEMAN IS
SEEKING DIVORCE
Ludwick of Bavaria, Brother-in-Law of
Austrian Emperor, Asks Di-
vorce at 81.
[By Associated Press.l

Munich, Bavaria, June 26.-Eighty.
two-year-old Duke Ludwick of Bavaria,
brother-in-law of the Austrian emper-
or today entered suit for divorce
against his second morgantic wife, a
former ballet girl of the Bavarian
comic opera, whose maiden name
was Annie Barth and who is forty
years younger than her husband. They
were married in 1892. The dukes
first morganatic consort was also an
actress. She died in 1891. The first
morganatic wife was treated with
great consideration by the court, but
the second did not occupy a similar
court position. The grounds for d.
vorce are not given.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
LAYING STEEL
ON |NTERuRBAN
The South Part of the City a Busy
Place With Many Hands Laying
Ties and Steel.

The Eagle editor had the pleasure
this afternoon of looking over the
work being done on the extension of
the interurban in the southern part of
the city. A large force of hands is at
work laying track and that part of the
city presents a scene of unusual ac-
tivity.
The connection with the H. & T. c.
main line several hundred feet south
of the signal tower has already been
made and some five or six hundred
feet of steel have been laid. A thou
sand or twelve hundred feet of ties
are ready for the STEEL A vast amount
of material is on hand and there will
be no further delay in the work.
Mr.. Odea is in charge of the track
laying gang and says he will have, in
addition to his present force, large
number of Mexicans to put on the
work Monday.
The connection with the main line
of the H. & T. c., and completing the
two or three curves near the starting
point is the most difficult part of the
work, and with these completed, Mr..
Odea will be able to lay about three
quarters of a mile of track a day
The officials expec, to have the
track laying completed to Stone City
within thirty days.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
Named As German Ambassador.

Washington, d. c., June 26.-Presi-
dent Wilson has selected Justice Jas.
w. Gerard of the New York supreme
court to be ambassador to Germany.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
NAVASOTA BANK
ROBBED YESTERDAY
A 10-Year-Old Bryan Negro Boy Lifted
a Roll of 81 Bills That Would -
Choke a Horse. =

-
A ten-year-old Bryan negro robbed
the First National bank of Nayasota
in broad daylight yesterday and re-
turned safely to Bryan with the roll
of bills which he secured.
The boys name is given as d. John.
son, and after remaining in Navasota
visiting his aunt since the 18th cele.
bration, he returned home yesterday
afternoon. calling by the bank. where
he,lifted $50 roll of 81 and 81 bills.
Sheriff John ID. Conlee was notified
and readily secured the boy and $47
of the money. The negro was lodged
in the county jail pending the arrival
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
LARGE DISTRIBUTIONS
IN DIVIDENDS
Banks to Pay Out Money for Various
Institutions-Morgan's Fortune
a Hundred Million.
[By Associated Press.l

New York, June 26.-The New York
banks have begun preparing to dis
burse the largest sum ever paid out
in one month in the history of Wall
street. 1t will total $3.50, 100000 in
annual, semi-annual and quarterly div
idends to the end OF June of railroads
and industrial concerns.
The New York state comptroller's
department has estimated ]. Pierpont
Morgan's entire fortune at a hundred
million dollars.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
WHO HAS ANY SURPLUS
SKIN To SPARE
[By Associated Press.1

Buffalo, n. Y, June pa public
appeal will be sent out for 10000
square inches of skin for grating on
the injured victims of the Huested
elevator explosion. 1t is necessary to
save many lives.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
TO BUILD CROSS
CONTINENT HIGHWAY
tBy Associated Press.l

San Angelo, Tex, June 26.-Tem-
porary organization of the Texarkana
to San Francisco highway was formed
here this morning. The object is to
make a highway from Texarkana to
Ell Paso via Ft. Worth and San Angelo.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
'|MPERSONATE CONGRESS-
. MEN AND MAKE DEMANDS
This Charge Made Before the Senate Lobby
Investigation By Judge Robert Lovett,
Head of the Hartman Rail-
road System.

land would explain that conversation
on the witness stand.
Representatives of Daniel Riodan Of
New York also asked for a hearing.
Riodan is the congressman supposed
to have been impersonated.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
CITY MARsHALS MEET
NEXT IN SAN ANTONIO
tBy Associated Press.J

Galveston, Tex, June 26.-The city
marshals and police chiefs selected
San Antonio as the next convention
city. They elected w. j. Sails of
Brennan as president.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
ACQU|TTEDs0F MURDER
At CLARKsVI[LE
tBy Associated Press. ]

Clarksville. Tex, June 26.-Hiram
Rodgers on his second trial was
acquitted of the murder of Ed Murphy
here a year ago
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
Try a Can Of
Ladies Club Tea
Best for Ice Tea
Hardy Newton

of an officer from Navasota. Sheriff
Conlee was walking around this morn
ing with the roll OF bills, which is as
big as a slicker, and has notified the
Navasota officers to bring a bird cage
to take the boy back in.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
To investigate Increased Freight Rates

To Investigate Increased Freight Rates
tBy Associated Press.l
Washington, d. c., June 26.-The
Interstate Commerce Commission to-
day issued an order for the investiga-
tion of increases in freight rates by
about fifty eastern railroads. 1t an
nounced this investigation does not
mean the commission has concluded
the rates are either too high or too
low. The investigation will probably
not begin until fall.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26
WEST VIRGINIA MINERS
CO ON STRIKE
tBy Associated Press ]

Charleston, w. Va, June 26.-One
in the famous Cabin Creek district.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-26

DR., and Mrs. Claud Searcy arrived
this afternoon from Hampstead to
visit at the home of Capt. and Mrs.
A. ]. Searcy.
The Delta independent., 1913-07-25
Scarcity of Men.

The awful man question is looming
up this summer more fearfully than
we have, ever known it in the west and
everybody is wondering how we are
going to get help enough to pull
through the season. In ordinary years
we have had fully 5000 men waiting
around Denver for the summer work
to open but this season the number
was practically none and the watt has
brought us nothing more. There is
really serious drouth of farm labor
and we understand that the railroad
corporations are having serious trouble
in securing sufficient help to go ahead
with their betterment work. We have
this week been looking over the an
nual report of the state labor COM
missioner and note that more than
fifty per cent of the industrial workers
are out of employment. OF course
these bricklayers, stone cutters, wood
butchers and the like would rather go
to the poor house than step outside
of their trades to work in the alfalfa
fields and this is one of the most ap-
parent causes of the hard times about
which so many of them complain.
We need fewer ethics and more elbow
exertion among the sons of Martha
and until they get over some of their
fool notions the industrial world is
bound to be up against strenuous
proposition, but setting aside these
matters what has become of all the
men? The intelligence offices in Den
yer are in vain posting offers of $45
a month of hay hands, $50 for all
around ranch help and $55 to those
who can take a shovel and irrigate.
These wages have doubled in the last
three or four years and we are still
asking what has become of all the
and Farm.
The Delta independent., 1913-07-25
whisp erlne is Horse Secret.

One of the great horse secrets is
the way in which certain nervous ami
mails may be controlled entirely by a
mere whisper 1t sounds like SO much
witchery, but one has ony to have
a practical demonstration of the
power of such man to appreciate it.
No bullying is done and the whisper
er can face a mad, gnat-brained horse
with his hand behind his back appar-
emily at the mercy of the beast that
has to come under the charm. One of
the first whisperers to acquire fame
was Con Sullivan, who migrated in
his youth from Killmallock, Ireland,
where he could trace his genealogy
through a long line of snafflers. and
became almost exclusively employed
by Lord Doneraile. So unaccountable
and so magic was the power Sullivan
instantly acquired over the most saw
age brute that his parish priest, who
had excellent grounds for not believ-
ing him a saint, denounced him as a
sorcerer-Field and Farm.
The Delta independent., 1913-07-25
When Are Eggs Ripe7

There is vulgar prejudice against
eggs that have passed their first
youth. People avoid them as they
would the plague, and fancy that ma
turity is good only for whisky. cheese,
beef, epics, ideas, and so on. II Is in
vain that specialists of various sorts
try to cure this simple notion; we
simply refuse to be convinced, where
upon we are accused of being stubborn
how justly heaven alone knows. says
the Chicago Record-Herald.
The latest expert to champion the
egg, mature and sedate, is Professor
w. G. Sedgwick of Stevens institute,
who was called in court to defend eggs
only three years old. What! But
three years old? Such eggs, said he,
we're hardly fit for human consump-
ton. They were far too young. and he
went on to cite the case of that Chi
nese sage, Ii Hung Chang, who. dis
gusted with the immaturity of Ameri-
can eggs, imported eggs fit for the
palate OF an epicure from China. Ii
Hung Chang's eggs had a history
they were hundred years old. 1t is
true that Professor Sedgwick could
not swear of his own knowledge that
these centenarians were delicious, but
then he had tried eggs three years
old on his family without disastrous
results. He could answer for their
wholesomeness.
More tenacious than these vulgar
errors" deplored by Lamb Is the sus-
picion that an old egg is also a bad
egg. The reverse may be true for
aught we know. yet we venture to say
that science, which has no trouble in
proving so incredible thing as that
the earth is round and moves about
the sun like bird will yet fail to
convince us that an old egg Is not
also a bad egg. There really are lin
it's to human credulity!
The Delta independent., 1913-07-25
Warranty Deeds.

Revised by the Grand Mesa Abstract
company, Delta, Colo, for the week
ending July 21st;
Josiah H. Kellogg to Shelly F. Mil
Ter, lot 4S, North Fork l.. and F. Co. 81.
Josiah H. Kellogg to Shelly F. Mil
Ter, lot As, North Fork L. and F. c.,
$4,000.
]. H. Kellogg to Shelly F. Miller,
lot As, North F. L. and F. Co. $275O.
Josiah H. Kellog to Hugo Grebel,
lot 46, North Fork L. and F. Co. $4,000
Josiah H. Kellogg to Hugo Grebel
lot AZ North Fork L. and F. Co. 81.
Continental Oil Co. to the Continental
Oil Co., tract Hotchkiss, 81.
Godfrey Teuscher to ]. NJ. Conner,
tract Cedaredge, 81.
L. S. Angel to Orchard Mesa d. and
R. Co. interest in Dry Fork Res. $91S..
SO.
w. F. Hornsby ct al. to Orchard
Mesa D. and R. Co. interest in Dry
Fork reservoir. $432.
F. P. Marshall to Orchard Mesa D.
and R. Co. interest in Dry Fork reser-
voir, $500.
c. P. Lippert to Orchard Mesa d.
D. & R. Co. interest in Dry Fork res
ervoir, $500.
Genevieve Hartig to Orchard Mesa
D. & R. Co., interest in Dry Forks res
ervoir, 1925.
c. D. johnson ct al. to Delta county,
tract Delta, $1.00.
Frances E. coval to Ira D. Wheeler,
tract Delta, $1,000.
The Delta independent., 1913-07-25
Hearty Dutch Salutation.

The Dutch are exceedingly sparing
of words, but their God bless you!
after someone has sncezed is both
quick and hearty. That sneezing is
an evil, the bad effects of which can
be averted by prayer, is an almost
worldwide superstition, but as colon
izers the Dutch had particular oppor-
tunity to test its universality. Sneez-
ing is taken mere seriously in Holland
than anywhere else.