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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-30

Yes, sir, we're for that game
law making shores of lakes and
streams public fishing highways.
Nothing makes us so blamed mad
as to have to stuff the bait in our
mouth, grab our pole and climb a
barbed wire fence just as they're
beginning to bite, all because the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-30

In counting money the United States treasury which
tremendous job the coins counted by machine This picture
shows of these little machines that do their work with almost
human intelligence, and than human accuracy
The machine counting Dimes They swept into by
hand and they fall into bag underneath when the operator
the handle the machine registers the pass
ing through and when 900 Dimes or $00 worth have been
counted, the bag is sealed and packed away.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

First Methodist Episcopal Church

The subject Sunday morning will
be 1.-THE Reciprocity Of Love- Sum
day evening the subject will be 1.-The
Dramatic Book" The pastor WAS
delighted to notice the increase in
numbers at the church services last
Sunday. let us invite some to come
with us to churc:, Sunday and in
crease the attendance. The services
will be short. Good music, lively
singing with the spirit.
The Ladies' Aid society appointed
a committee to arrange for the pur-
chasing OF pews for the church; they
have decided to buy the best grade Of
furniture.
There will DO preaching at the
Mesa school-house Sunday afternoon
at $3.50 Everybody cordially invited
to attend this service.
RoBr. L. NUCKOLIs, Minister
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14
Notice Of Filing Plat

Land Office Glenwood Springs.
June 6, 1918.
Notice Is hereby given that the
following township plat will be open
for ding and entry at this Office on
and after July l, 1913:
One triplicate copy OF the supple
mental plat Of See. 8. TIP. s., r. 81
w. 9Th p. NJ. +. +. FORDHAM,
Register.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Mrs. Rea Of the New York store,
was In Rifle for . few days, early
part Of week, and met the eastern rep
resentatives Of big millinery houses,
from whom she ordered large in
voice of the latest shapes and trim
mings In fall millinery, suitable for
children, misses and women. These
goods will surpass anything in this
line ever received in Meeker.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14
Mrs. j. P. Nielsen is visiting at
Grand Junction.
Tom Warren. of Rosedale, mingled
with the town people Saturday.
Hichway Commissioner Walbridpe

Highway Commissioner Walbridge
and H. s. Harp joined Com
missioner Golf at Rangely, this week,
to arrange for having q bit OF road
built in the Raven park section. to
connect the lower White road with
the K-ranch- Vernal auto road. The
people of the Rangely section have
volunteered to do most OF the work.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Miss Msy Baker. who has held an
important position In the schools Of
Saguache, Saguache county, during
past year, is home for the summer.
Miss Baker Is graduate Of the Uni
versity OF Colorado. and Is a teacher
of exceptionable ability.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

1t has been suggested that seating
arrangements he made for the
Fourth Of July visitors. In the park.
A rood suggestion. Act on 1t.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Word comes from Sacramento
CAL, that Mrs. w. Il. Barnes IL still
in the hospital at that place, but i'm
proving.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Mrs. Arlington and Master AIRING
ton and = party Of Southern friends
arrived early In week, and will spend
the summer 1t the lodge on Big
Beaver. The doctor will be In In
shout two weeks.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

J. B. limerick felt IL in his bones
that they were going to have snow In
his section OF upper White and came
to Meeker to enjoy the balmy breezes
which percolate through our olean-
ders and rose bushes.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Early in the week Sheriff Lyon
placed Fred Miller Of lower White,
under arrest, for threatening to kill
Luciua Shepard. The trouble was
over water and ditch rights. Miller
has an ugly case to explain to the
court.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

A good turnout Of good roads en-
thusiasts reported for duty Tuesday
morning. We will have a report Of
their work later.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Ed SaItmsrsh changed places with
Perry Spurlock this week, and Ia
attending TO stage and auto line BUSH
ness at the Rifle end. Ed likes to
hear the foot OF the locomotive oc-
cSsionAlly.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Water Commissioner Mikkelson,
Of Sulphur creek, attended to busi-
ness matters In town Tuesday. AS
water 10 short In side streams this
season, Mr.. Mikkelson will be on the
20 for the next two months; and
then he will not be able to satisfy
all.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

While In Gunnisson, lately, Rev.
Bacon met Johnny Wolfe, q Meeker
piopeer. John Is we'll and sends
good wishes to all White river &C
0uatntAnces.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

The bishop and Rev. Bacon got to
Rangely In time to take In the horse
races; that is-we presume they did
II the rector's team didn't give out.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

We note by our Rangely cores
pendent that Fred Nichols is the
same "kid'' he was when member
Of THE HERALD fOrce-riding fast
horses and pulling of other kid"
stunta,
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Business ID good In Meeker. Both
Hugus' and OldlAnd's have had to in-
crease their working force Of late.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

II you want to sell or buy farm,
see Tom Scott, the Meeker real es-
tate agent. Tom has the knack Of
knowing how to bring both parties to
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14
o. l.. Dudley of Piceance creek was
a town visitor Tuesday.

J. d. Miller of Flag creek, mingled
with the town people for spell, this
week.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Glance over that Fourth Of July
program on another page. It's >
dandy.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Dry crops in these parts weren't
suffering, but the good rama Of Tues
day, were worth many thousands OF
dollars to Rio BlancO county. They
were not only great helps to crops,
but very beneficial to the range.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

James A Rendle, vice president Of
the Hugus company, and manager OF
the banking department Of the COM
pany, spent the past few days In
Meeker. Mr.. Rendle was we'll pleas
ed with the showing Manager Moul-
ton had to present him.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO
Should aud acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought TO mini

keeping tab on the tariff and seeing that
the fishing season WAS properly inaugu-
rated has taken "A good deal Of our
time of late, to the neglect Of the Notes. $
but-here's the missing oneS.l
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Miss Flora Thomas, head of the
dry goods department at Okiland's,
In taking her summer vacation, and
Mrs. Cassidy ts looking after the de-
partment for the time being.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

The youngsters will again have
charge Of the Fourth OF July cele-
bration. They have always made
good, and will do so again. Tom
Cassidy is at the head Of the affair,
which is . guarantee that the cele-
bration will be . success.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

J. w. g. Shepherd WAS attending
to business matters on Piceance and
lower White, latter part OF, week.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Mrs. w. s. Montgomery and Miss
Marcelle returned from California,
Monday. Miss Marcelle has been
attending a young ladies' seminary
during the past school year.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

John +. Murray has bought John
RescorlA's ranch on Coal creek. 1t
comprises 2i0 acres, the original l8h
having been preenpted twenty-five
years ago by Ed Hall, and undoubt-
eddy will prove good Investment
for Mr.. Murray. Eight thousand
dollars was tile purchase price.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Ill. II. walbriigc, cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best OF my
knowledge and belief.
l.. b. WALBRIDGE, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before mo this
18th day Of June. 1918.
(sEALl CLAUDE J. WILSON,
Notary Public.
Correct-Attest: n. OLpLANp,
j. +. ROONEY,
AMURusE ULDLAND,
Directors.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

t an ~
#
June ,, 1873
Cattlemen were reporting good
calf crop.
The James brothers Of Axial, were
Meeker visitors.
Texas stock cattle were selling at
Is for yearlings, and $3.50 for twos.
A post Office WAS established at
Frank Morgan's (now the Alley
place) on the Meeker-Grand river
road.
June ., 1888
| In connection with the quarter
century services at st. James Church
last Sunday. the following item,
which appeared in the Herald of
June 9th, 1888 will be read with con-
siderable Interest:
Rev. A. L. Williams and wife, of
Longmont, Colo, arrived in Meeker
| Thursday and will make this town
their residing place in future. Mr..
k4HititAms comes to, take charge Of
the Episcopal Mission here and will
therefore be the pioneer minister in
Meeker, and rs such has been warmly
received by our citizens regardless of
creed. We earnestly hope that Mr..
Williams will meet with unbonnded
success In his chosen field of labor,
and as he comes well recommended
as ministerial worker We have no
doubt of his success. The Herald
Joins with the community in welcom-
Ing Rev. Mr.. Williams and his es-
Unable wife to our midst.
June III, ISIS
]. g. Mitchell arrived in Meeker.
We had another outbreak Of rail-
road building.
Isaac Baer and family came in
from IIeadville to spend the sum-
iner.
A personal item says: wv. H.
and Mrs. Miller of Axial, were visit
ors to the City in the early part of
the week and had the baby's picture
TAKEN"
Mrs. Judge Walbridge kindly ten
dered the hospitality of her house to
Rev. and Mrs. Williams while the
latter we're getting things in shape
preparatory to going to housekeeping.
And THE HERALD wishes to re-
cord that this good, kind hearted
Christian lady was an attendant at
the twenty-fifth anniversary services
at st. James church last Sunday,
both morning and evening-well and
hearty despite her advanced years.
Last Sunday forenoon Rev. A. l..
Williams held his initial services in
Meeker in the school building. A
large congregation listened to Mr..
Williams and all were favorably i'm
pressed with him as Il preacher. Mr..
Williams has clear, distinct voice
and good delivery, and gives evidence
OF intellectual and oratorial ability
that will at no distant day place him
we'll up in front ranks of his profess
sion. Meeker is exceedingly FORUM
ate in securing the services of man
of Mr.. Williams ability and genial
disposition to look after her spiritual
welfare.
AS usual, THE HERALD was true
prophet.
Lyman Ellis of Danforth park.
gave the trout day off, Sunday, and
attended divine service. Pretty good
for a late city man.
.sSalty" couldn't stand Rifle more
than about three days, at a time, so
came over Thursday to get n Whit Of
White river ozone.
Mcsdames Otto Metzger, Frank
Harker, Henry T. Wilson and John
Smith have gone to Juniper Springs
for . two or there weeks stay. Mr..
Robert Metzper took the ladies' over
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Who says the prayers Of the right
eous availeth not? The HERALD has
been praying for rain for 10, these
many weeks, and Tuesday afternoon
and evening It's prayers were an
swsred by . copious down-pour Of the
moisture that gladdens the heart Of
We dry farmer. More coming.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

st. James Ladies' guild; Ice cream
and strawberry festival; at Rooney's
hall, Monday, June 18th.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

STATE OF COLORADO,
COUNTY OF MO BLANco.
!, A. c. Moulton, cashier of the above
named bank, do soiemnly swcnr that the
above statement Is true to the host OF my
knowledge and belief.
A. @. MOuLToN. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
1T h dny of June, lpla.
iSeal) r. h. SCOTT. Notary Public.
MY commission expires March ~. lpl1.
Attest-Co-P Partners: J. A. RENpLE,
W. D. SlMMS,
A. b. MCWILLIANy
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

at the CLOSE OF business,
June 4, 1913:
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts ,......... Sl5Q,57B VI
vsrdrafts, secured and unsecured NM W
U. y. Bonds to secure circulation. l0,O00 %
Bonds securities, etc-.........l.....-.. 2,0l2 81
Furniture and fixtures. .-..-...-.--.-.... 526 10
Real Estate owned ............. 2,0OO III
Due from National Banks tnot re-
serve agents. e,oi7 20
Due from state and Private Banks
and Bankers, Trust Companies
and Savings Iianks .........-........... 100 ~
Due from approved reserve agents g., 100 20
Checks and other cash items LIS 81
Notes of other National Banks 100 W
Fraction paper currency, ntckcls
and cents -. .........,...s....,... Is Is
Lawful money reserve In bank.yiz:
Legai.tender notes rs % II, 0s0 Is
Redemption fund with u. y. Treas
urer Is per cent OF ctrculatiou). zoo 90
Total SsiiI, in5 ~
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in .............S 10000 90
surplus fund .................. 10000 %
Undivided profits, less expenses
and taxes paid ....'................l.- 1875 Is
National Bank notes outstanding 10000 ~
Individual deposits subject to
check lpT ,5ls 10
Demand certificates of deposit lO,Uss Is
Time certi ticates OF deposit ........ I,.rss 10
Cashiers checks outstanding -..-... 30 IS
Liabilities other than those above
Atatcd 10
Total .............. ........ S2b3, In6 81
STATE OF COLORADO,tss
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14
THE MEEKER HERALD

"Kiddies,' commence practicing.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

..Salty" couldn't stand Rifle more
than about three days, at a time, SO
came over Thursday to get Whit Of
White river ozone.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Mcsdames Otto Metzger, Frank
Harker, Henry I. Wilson and John
Smith have gone to Juniper Springs
for . two or there weeks stay. Mr..
Robert Metzger took the ladies over.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14

Lyman Ellis of Danforth park.
gave the trout a day off, Sunday, and
attended divine service. Pretty good
for a late city man.
The Meeker herald., 1913-06-14
tCharter No. 7rs)
Repor. d the Condition
or
The First National Bank,

At Mesker, In the State OF Colorado,
ut the CLOSE OF business,
June 4, ipi3:
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-10
STORY BY ABE ATTELL
Jewelry Salesman Knocked Out
by Former Champion.
"champ Box Fighter" Beats Salesman
First Punch and Then Proceeds
to Give the Drummer One
Good Artistic Lacing.

Abe Attell added another scalp to
his diamond belt recently which even
the busiest little prizering historians
In town not only failed to tell in full
to an anxious American people, but
didn't even so much as mention. Let
Abe tell about it himself as he re-
lated the story to Bat Masterson and
a New York Sun reporter at Shanley's
recently;
II am sitting in John the BARRIERS
being all primpted up after once
over, a hair cut and SINCE when into
the drum blows another gentleman of
my own race. The gent has tray
of jewelry he is selling and John the
Barber steers him to my chair. | fall
for ring on the tray, and the jewelry
salesman, thinking / am an actor
which, bee-lieve me, / ain't-taking
ten per cent off and letting me have
the ring for $780, And | tell him to
wait till / see my wife and I'll be
back in half an hour and buy the dia-
mond hoop.
Outside the shop I meet friend,
who tells me something of lot OF
private Importance, and l rush down
town with this friend and forget all
about the salesman and the ring.
Three days later l am in John the
BARRIERS again and / am just start
ing to take off my collar when up
springs the gent that had promised
to buy the ring from but forgot.
You low life!' this gent I'm speak
ing about yells at me. I should wait
here three whole days to be made
sucker by loafer like you, is it, Ell?
I should lose three whole days Of
not selling jewelry. For this give
you smack in the face And this
party I'm conversing about takes a
careful aim with his right mitt and
winds up to lean his right against my
map.
"A half hour is supposed to elapse.
The party is now sitting sort of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-10
ATHLETICS MUCH IN FAVOR
Many Excellent Performers Being De-
veloped in Other Countries With
Idea of Defeating Yankees.

James e. Sullivan, who was long
president of the Amateur Athletic
union, is one of those who believes
that the American athlete will have to
look well to his laurels or he will be
defeated in the Olympic games at Ber-
lin in 1916. Mr.. Sullivan understands
conditions both in this country and
abroad better than any other man and
is in {; position where he can speak
from first hand knowledge. He has
been in Europe of late and has exam
ined into conditions as regards ath-
letics in several countries. He finds
that in all of them athletics has taken
on a big boom and the representatives
of the leading European countries on
track and field are working with
might and main to beat out the Yam
KEGS when they come together again
in the international contests. A num-
Der of wonderful young athletes are
being developed on the other side and
in the opinion of Sullivan they will be
able to meet the Americans on at least
equal terms when the next Olympiad
rolls around.
James e. Sullivan has devoted his
while life to the cause of athletics.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-10
Making Tomorrows
=LUOrLd=
LOOKING INTO A PEOPLES HELL-THE LOT OF THE BRIT
SH LA30RER
By URLTER WILLIAMS, Ii. D
Dean efs School Of ou,nah,nn Unersy A1asour0
ISH LAI30RER.

Londoner. In ali London there are
daily 10000 unemployed, absolutely
without work though seeking it.
ton live in poverty of various de-
grees. If infant mortality is escaped,
life is to many grown-ups cruel as
death. Charles Booth divides all Lon
don population into five classes:
first, the lower class, occasional Ia
borers, loafers and some criminals;
second, the very poor, casual labor
hand-to-mouth existence, chronic
want; third, the poor, including alike
those whose earnings are small be-
cause of irregularity of employment
and those whose work though regular
is ill-paid; fourth, the regularly en-
ployed and fairly paid working class
of all grades; fifth, lower and upper
middle class and all above this level
In every 100 persons in London SO
by this estimate are placed in COM
fort in the fourth and fifth classes
and 81 in poverty in the first three
classes.
COl1Olt1On ID tIOL peculiar "
London. 1t may be seen by even the
most casual traveller who goes out of
the narrow beaten track of the per
sonally conducted" tourist in Liver
pool, Birmingham, Dublin, Glasgow,
Manchester, Leeds, in any of the more
populous cities of the United King
dom. Nor is the presence of drink the
primary cause of this distress, but the
absence of food. Poverty, with the
great majority, is not result of
drunkenness, but drunkenness is a
result of poverty. Low wages and
unemploy is the universal
testimony by those who have studied
the question at first-hand in these dis
tricts we are now traversing-a the
primary cause of slums.
"Home" on $3.50 Per Week.
A visit to an East London home is
revelation to the most hardened slum-
worker-if the term home" may be
applied to the ill-furnished single
crowded room on back alley. But
how do these people live?" is the in
voluntary inquiry. A single budget
of expenses in this room will answer
for many. 1t is the actual budget of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-10

mother who, working at home in
this single room-wbich is dining
room, kitchen, sleeping room, work
shop, all-for the pitiful wage of
$3.50 week, is the sole support of
herself and little daughter. For rent
of the room she paid SO cents a week
and for her other housekeeping ex-
penses for the week: tea, one-quarter
pound, four cents; sugar, two pounds,
six cents; flour, three cents; oatmeal,
three cents; margarine. substitute for
butter, onehalf pound, seven cents;
six eggs, Clipped, seven cents; ham,
five cents; Goals, six cents; vege-
tables, three cents; bread, nine
cents; sundries, six cents. The
weekly total came to about $3.50,
leaving 80 cents a week for clothing
and other expenses.
And this is sample budget of the
poor who, among the less we'll paid,
are fairly well-to-dol No word pic
ture could more wildly present the
poverty of the working woman in the
slum districts of Great Britain's great
cities.
In the United Kingdom the system
of death duties. or inheritance taxes,
as they are termed in the United
State. exists by which the wealth of
all who die passes under the state
review. Every estate of $500 and up
wards comes within the tax limit
In the last reported year 699. 1888 per-
sons died. of whom no less than $780,
600 were too poor to be taxed.
Laborero Flee Farms.
Let US look into the lot of the rural
laborer 1t might almost be said
there are no rural laborers. In every
small village, on every farm we hear
the complaint that the laborers are
leaving the land. Harvests are I'M
gathered this month at the proper
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-10

structive movements let us look
at some of the conditions which have
given birth to great reforms in the
British Isles.
Doctor Jowett, famous British
preacher. now of New York, said in
a recent sermon in Birmingham that
the tourist mood was not the medium
for discovering the changing secrets
of country. The tourist did not see
a people; he saw only their ward
robe, the outward appearance of
their cupboard. '"The tourist wants
the picturesque; he doesn't want to
look into a peoples hell" Doctor
Jowett cried. "He doesn't want the
smell of death tragedy, if you like,
but old tragedy; all the blood must
be dry" See the life of the common
people, the slums in town and coun-
try and what is being done for and by
them to make conditions different"
wrote DR.. Raymond Weeks, professor
OF romance languages at Columbia
university This letter, in part reply,
seeks to show something Of the Brit
ish laborer's life and Of the life of
the British unemployed. The inside
of the cupboard, for thousands daily,
is literally bare.
Life, in it's color, is curiously like
the color of the coins in Great Brit
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ain. With sovereign ahead life's
golden; with half crowns it has a sill
yer lining; with only pennies and
ha'pennies it becomes coppery and
dull. And the empty pocket, means to
many an empty world. 1t is not a
far journey by the accelerated under
ground tube trains from Hampstead
to South London and the East End,
to where the coins, for those who
have coins at all, are all coppers and
life is dull and drab.
Stun Slaughter of Infants.
Take life at its beginning. In the
crowded district of Southwark, Lon
don, within the shadow of the
Southwark cathedral, one in three of
all the babies born die before they
are one year old. The slaughter of
the infants is followed by the robbery
of a great part of the life of those
who survive. Let us compare South
wark with Hampstead, a middle-class
district where many Americans lodge
and Britons live. Not mere rhetoric
but figures from the official reports
present the damning difference. Ac-
cording to these reports the Hamp-
stead child at birth has fifty years
expectancy of life, the Southwark
child only thirty-five years-fourteen
years less to live The same figures
show that the Southwark child who
lives to be twenty years old has
eight years less of life expectancy
than the Hampstead child Of the
same years Not only does slaughter
of the infants exist but lessening of
the lives of the grown-ups. This ex-
cessive waste of infant life is asso-
ciated with immaturity of birth, due
TO social conditions. overcrowding
poverty, and the Industrial employ
nent of married women.
Pcver he norton of the East