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The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
WINNING A WIFE.
Artemus Wards Story of How He
 Wooed Miss Bessie PeasIey.

Artemus Wards Story of How He
 Wooed Miss Bessie Peasley. There was many affectin' ties which made me banker arter Betsy Jane. Her fathers farm lined our'n; ! their cows and our'n squencht their thurst at the same spring; the measles broke out in both famerlies at nearly the same period; our par Betsy's and mine-slept reg ularly every Sunday in the same meetin' house, and the nabers used to observe, FHow thick the Wards and Peasleys air.
 TT was a earn, sill nite in Joon. All natter was husht and nary zefter disturbed the screen silens. sot with Betsy Jane on the fense of her farther's pastur. We'd been romp- in threw the woods, killin' Hours and drivin' the woodchuck from his native lair.
 l cleared my throat and trem- blingly sed. Betsy. you're a ga- zelle.'
 I thought that air were putty fine. 1 waited to see what effect it would have upon her. It evidently didn't fetch her, for she up an sed:
 ''You're sheepp
 Sez 1, Betsy, think muchly of you
 s1 don't believe word you say so there'' With which observashun she hitched away from me.
 "I wish thar was winders to my sole," sed I, "so that you could see some of my feelin's. There's fire enough in here,' sed 1, strikin' my buzzum with my fist, ''to bile all the corned beef and turnips in the na- berhood."
 should have continued on in this strane probably for sum time. but unfortunately I lost my ballunse and fell over into the pastur ker smash, tearin' my close and seveer- ly damagin' myself ginerally.
 Betsy Jane sprung to my assist ance an dragged me forth. Then drawin' herself up to her full hite she sed:
 "I won't listen to your moments no longer. Just say strate out what you're drivin' at. If you mean get tin hitched, I'm in.
 1 considered that fair enuff for all practical purposes, and we pro ceeded immijitly to the parsons an was made one that very nite.-Arte- mus Ward.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
Post Office Schedule

Mail for train No. g closes at 7:15 a. m. daily. Mail for Indian Wells, closes at 7:30 a. m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
 Mail for Train No. 2 closes at 6:30 a. m. daily.
 Mail for St. Johns, Springer vile, Edgar etc closes at goo a. m. daily.
 Mail for Snowflake. Ft. Apache closes at 9:30 q. m. daily.
 Mail for train No. 8 closes at 6:15 D. m. daily.
 Mail for train No. 10 closes at 500 p. m. daily.
 The office is open for money order business from 10:00 to 400 p. m. every day except Sunday. The General Delivery window will be open daily except Sunday from 9:30 a. m. to 500 D. m. On Sundays between 800 a. m. and 10:00 a. m. only.
 The patrons of the Post Office are requested to kindly bear the above information in mind and thus aid in promoting the effic- iency of the office.
 E. J. SMITH,
 Postmaster.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
BEDS HARD AND SOFT.
Contrast In Methods of Sleeping In
 Different Countries.

contrast In Methods of Sleeping In
 Different Countries.
 The American or European in order to get good nights rest or dinarily requires a soft pillow un- der his head, but the Japanese stretching himself on rush mat on the floor puts a hard, square block of wood under his head and does not sleep well if he does not have it.
 In China they make a great to-do with reference to their beds. These are very low, scarcely rising from the floor, but are often carved ex- quisitely of wood. Like the Japa- nese, the Chinese never makes his bed any softer than is possible by the use of rush mats.
 It is a curious fact with refer ence to the sleeping habits of the various peoples that, while those in northern countries do not appear to be able to sleep well unless they have lots of room in which to stretch their legs out fully, the in- habitants of the tropics often curl themselves up like monkeys at the lower angle of a suspended ham, mock and sleep soundly in that way.
 The robust American will cover himself with a pair of blankets and throw his window open to the air even in the dead of winter, and sometimes he will not complain if there is a bit of snow on the window sill in the morning.
 But the Russian likes no sleeping place so well as the top of the big soapstone stove in his dwelling.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
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[Observer]
 Fred T. Colter recently sold to the Slaughter Brothers 27 o Q and two-year-o'd Hereford buns, which Livestock Inspector Brink ley claims to have been the finest bunch he ever inspected. The price was $1, 605.
 C. Scheele. manager of the Schuster interests. returned on Thursday from the mountains. Mir. Scheele is more than pleased with the lamb crop and says it is the best they have ever had. Other sheepmen are bringing in similar reports, and with plenty of feed insured by the recent showers, it looks like a banner year all around.
 County Attorney Fred w. NeI- son left last Sunday for Phoenlx to look after business for Apa- che county in connection with bridge building and the proposed bond issue. MT. Nelson returned last evening, accompanied by his son. Leland, who attended school in Phoenix the past year. While at the capital MT. Nelson had an interview with both State Engi- neer Cobb and Governor Hunt, who favored reinforced concrete instead or steel bridges. They assured him that the state money for the work would be available as soon as the plans and specifi- cations could be drafted. As to the location of the bridges, that point was also settled upon by the gentlemen from the state de partment, Division Engineer F. R. Goodman and Assistant Engi- neer Atwood. who met with Mr. Nelson at inc washouts. The site for the Beaver was not ma
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19

Crawling out of this .blistering bed in the morning, he delights in talk ing a plunge in a cold stream even if he has to break through the ice to do so.
 In Lapland the native crawls, head and all, into a bag made of reindeer skin and sleeps warm and comfortable within it. The East Indian, at the other end of the world, also has a sleeping bag, but it is more porous than the Lap lander's. It's purpose is to keep out the mosquitoes rather than to keep its occupants warm.
 The American clings to his feath- CT pillow, but he has long since dis -carded the old fashioned feather bed for the hair or straw or felt mattress. The feather bed has been relegated to the country, and many persons who slept on it in their childhood found it unendurable in their later years.
 But the German not only sleeps on a feather bed, but underneath one as well. The feather covering used in Germany, however. is not so large or thick as the one used as mattress, and the foreigner who undertakes to sleep beneath it often finds his feet suffering from cold, while his shoulders are suffering from heat.-New York Sun.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST
 FROM APACHE COUNTY
Herald News. 1

Hon. J. R. Armijo came down
 Sunday from his sheep camp iu
 the foothills, and reports that
 conditions among the herds were
 never better. He reports one of
 the best lambing seasons in
 many years.
 MT. Purcell and Bud" Greer
 are both in town from their sheep
 camps and report that the lamb
 ing season has been one of the
 successful in many years. Shear
 ing will soon begin and prospects
 for good clip are making these
 gentlemen as well as all other sheep growers, mighty happy.
 Freight wagons are constantly seen on the road to Holbrook loaded with wool from the focks of Apache county. The growers here are receiving good prices for their clip. and with an excel lent lambiDg season just com pleted, are, beginning to feel that low tariff !" isn't hurting them any.
 Another fine rain which began yesterday shortly after o'clock added much to the already bright prospects for good crops and an abundance of feed on the open range. The ground has not yet dried from the soaking of some days ago, and while the rain yes terday was not heavy, it was amply sufficient to soak the sur face well. Reports from outlying districts have not yet been re- ceived, but it appeared to have rained heavily up the rlver, and | it is the hope of everyone that ! the showers were of sufficient | ly general nature to increase the volume of water in the Lyman reservoir. The rainfall in May -2. 10 inches = was a record | breaker for this county, and should there be more rains this month, it will prove just as un- usual for June.
 The question of whether or not Apache County shall issue One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars in bonds for the purpose of improving our roads, which has been agitating everyone for some months ap- pears to be in line for settlement within the near future. At the meeting of the Board of Super SOrs, Tuesday a petition was pre- sented asking for a bond issue in the amount specified above and also that committee or commits sion consisting of Messrs. Becker L. R. Gibbons and J. H. Greer be appointed to lay out the system of roads to be built and to have general supervision of the work subject to the Board of Supervisors. Mr. Becker acted as spokes man for the committee that waited on the Board and he , was hacked up by practically , every infututiaI business man in this part of the County. The Board after considering the mat .er advlsed the committee that 1 t could not see its way clear to ; ssue such bonds upon petition alone and that in it's Judgment m election would be the only ] proper method to handle the lffair so that 1t might be satis- 'actory to all.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19

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The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
DUMAS TWENTY FRANCS.
II Was Proof, He Said, That He Was
 Not a Spendthrift.

II Was Proof, He Said, That He Was
 Not Spendthrift.
 The two Dumas were more like intimate friends than father and son. In fact, the son, with his more peaceful and reserved tempera- ment, often assumed the position of counselor to his father. It de- volved upon him to disentangle the thoughtless knots tied time after time to the end of his life by that great careless, joyous, overgrown boy. This comes out in the "Remi- niscences of Maurice Dreyfus" M. Dreyfus was well acquainted with both men and has all sorts of aston ishing and even pathetic things to relate.
 Dumas the younger used to say, My father is big child intrusted to my care the moment 1 came into the world," and Dumas the elder was fond of calling his son 'the best of my works" He was just as proud of his sons successes as of his own and was brimming over with delight when. on the first per formances of his sons plays, his name, according to the French GUS tom, was proclaimed at the end of the evening from the stage, an an nouncement followed by loud clap ping.
 Father and son were both of her culean build and excelled in all manly exercises. The elder took great liberties with his constitution, but it seemed as if nothing could undermine or injure it.
 With all his gigantic industry he did not succeed in amassihg wealth. The large sums brought in by his countless popular novels melted away like snow in the sun.
 One day in 1870, at the beginning of the war with Prussia. he appear ed at Puys, near Dieppe. where his son was taking summer holiday, and greeted him with the simple announcement, My boy, l have come to lay my bones in your house." A room was quickly made ready for him. He undressed and lay down, never to rise again. He hung his waistcoat over the back of the chair by his bedside, and as soon as he was alone with his son he said to him, Alexander, look and see how much money there is in my waistcoat." Father" said the son after fumbling in the pockets, 'there are only 20 francs left" On which Dumas the elder quietly re- marked: :'"Look you, my boy, every body says I am spendthrift, and you yourself have even written play about my spending powers. Now you can see it wasn't true. You have read in my memoirs that came to Paris with only twenty franc piece in my pockets. You see, it is still there"
 When he died a short time after it transpired that apart from this twenty franc piece he left behind | him considerable debts, so that it cost his son no little trouble and difficulty to straighten out his af- i fairs.-Hamburger Nachrichten.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
HeaG of Shrine Will Visit
 Arizona Next September

The greatest gathering Tn the
 history of Arizona Nobles of the
 Mystic Shrine IS promised for
 the 24th day of next September
 when Imperial Potentate Fred
 erick R. Smith, and a galaxy of
 members of the imperial council
 will exemplify the work of the
 order upon the sands of the bot
 tom of the Grand Canyon of Ari-
 zona in the presence of delega-
 tions from the temples of the
 shrine in California. Texas, Now
 Mexico, Arizona and 'ColorSAs.
 Already the invitation has Esas
 forth and been accepted by the imperial potentate who will shortly begin a great journey through the entire west and southwest. beginning at Saint Paul, Minn.. on September 6 next and ending at Winnipeg, Canada, on October 19, and taking in during the trip all the important cities that are situated in a clrcIe the outer edge of which reaches both Phoenix and San Francisco.
 Further than this, the visit made by Imperial Potentate Smith to Arizona will be the first official sojourn of the head of all shrinedom to Arizona since the temple here was organized. Be- side himself there will be a long list of notables from all parts of the country, included in this parts will be Henry F. Niedring- haus of Moolah Temple, St. Louis, who is imperial chief William s. Brown of Syria Temple, Pittsburg, imper- ial treasurer; Benj. w. Rowell of Aleppa Temple, Boston, Mass, imperial recorder; and Elias J. JacobY of Murat Temple, Indian apolis. imperial high priest and prophet. Will O. Washburn of 0sman1 Temple, St. Paul, has charge of routing the party.
 The telegram confirming the visit of distinguished shrine and lis party was received by Shirley Christy, illustrious po- entate of Ell Zaribah, the Phoenix, shrine, and arrange nents were immediately started o make the event the greatest n the history of the work in Arizona and unique in the his ory of the entire order.
 Potentate Smith is illustrious of Damascus Shrine of Rochester, N. r., the second hrine organized in the United States. For several years he le been prominent in the i'm ,erial council and was elected at he recent meeting of the shrine t Atlanta.
 Special trains will be run from 'hoenix, Fl Paso and Albuquer- Iue and San Francisco to take n the great doings. Among the ,lans will be the journey down he trail of the full panopied losts, winding down the sides of he great gash in the earth fully
 mile to the sandy spot where
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
The Shrinking Glaciers.

It appears that, save over a small area, the glaciers of the world are retreating to the mountains. The Arapahoe glacier in the Rockies has been melting at a rapid rate for sev- eral years. The glacier on Mount Sarmiento, in South America, which
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
How About!

How about mailing copies of the News to f friends. etc.. to points not so blessed with sure ty to health. happiness and pros perity as is to be had in Navajo county do it.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19

terialIy changed, but for the Milky bridge they decided to chaage the location to a point some distance further down be- low the sand drift.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19

When the warship hits a rock the naval appropriation goes in- to the sinking fund.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19

IF YOU NEED help of any kind a line or two in the NEWS may fill your needs-try it.
The Holbrook news., 1914-06-19
Neus ... NeOs
 From r'e Capitol sf6rlzOOn

Issued Arizona News Bureau)
 G. NJ. Willard is state game warden of Arizona He succeeds Frank w Rogers, who died in Los Angeles hospital of bronchial pneumonia. MT. Willard is a
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1914-06-19
Rifle Club Now Organized

The Clovis Rifle Club is the
proud possessor of a handsome
ly engraved Certificate of Men,
bership in the National Rifle
Association. which was received
Tuesday. They also received
the necessary papers to enable
them to order the guns and
ammunition at the Government
rates. 1t was necessary to have
these things before they could
perfect a final a n d complete
organization. They will meet
in the Armory Saturday night
f o r the purpose o f ordering
these things.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1914-06-19
E of c Carnival
Starts Monday

The Carnival shows which
will be in full blast for a week
will exhibit Monday the % and
continue until Saturday t h e
10Th. 1t is the big DeKrekos
Celebrated Carnival shows and
entertainment will be held un-
der the auspices of the Clovis
Chamber Of Commerce which
will receive Is per cent of the
gross receipts for the whole
week. From Carlsbad, Artesia,
Roswell and Portales come re-
ports about the show and all pro-
nounce it first class and give it
a clean bill of health. They
have plenty of attractions to
hold the interests of the grown
ups and a Carry-all and other
Juvenile attractions for t h e
children. Among some of the
attractions might be mentioned
Edna, the smallest and most
perfect lady in the world (2l
inches tall, 21 years old, a anative
of Colo.), Saida who was born
in Egypt and the woman who
produces "Cleopatras dance Of
DEATH" with rattle snakes, etc.,
Walter Cole the spider boy who
is FIVE feet tall and weighs Ga
pounds.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1914-06-19
Jupiter Pluvius
Does it Again

A dandy rain fell in Clovis
and over the greater portion of
the County, Monday afternoon.
In the larger psrt Of the
county, particularly on the west
side it rained the night before
and part of the day. Mr.. Bird
sail of near Havener who was in
the city that day said that they
had a heavy rain in his locality
and the same report was brought
to the News by MIR. Helm of
near Grady who was in the city
after supplies Tuesday. Mr..
Helm says that the crop pros
poets in the northern part of the
county are as good as could be
wished for although in some few
spots the wheat is thin and will
not make a heavy harvest. This
he says is due to the fact that
some planted too early and the
wind blew out the seed in loose
soils.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1914-06-19

That the county treasurer be
instructed to make the forego-
ing and necessary transfers at
the earliest possible moment.
That the amounts shown to
be due the county by the dffer-
ent officials be Immediately paid
into the county treasury, and
the amounts shown to be due
litigants Immediately deposited
in a separate account in some
safe bank.
That the district attorney be
furnished with a copy of this re-
port for his information a n d
guidance.
That all officials be immedi-
ately required to adjust all ir-
regularities in the manner of
keeping their records, and to
observe more care in this re-
spect in the future. "
DEMAND RETURN OF SHORTAGE
The Santa Fe New Mexican in
speaking of the matter says in
part:
AT the time this examination
was made the books and records
were not being kept just exact
ly as they should have been."
This sentence of L. B. Woot-
ters, assistant travelling auditor
and bank examiner, in his COM
ments on the report of Walter
L. Kegel on Curry county affairs,
might be said to describe dis
tinctly t h manner in which
Curry county's finances have
been managed.
The most charitable view of
the situation seems to be that |
the Curry county officials have
shown negligence and careless
ness. They are given an oppor-
tunity to do better and a de-
mand has been made upon them
to make good alleged shortages. |
That part of the clerks and
sheriff's business pertaining to
the withdrawal of moneys from
the treasurer's Office has been
dealt with in q separate report |
by Mr.. W. L. kegel. The re-
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1914-06-19
Texico Election Wet.

The NEWS overlooked last
week to mention the result of
the prohibition election held at
Texico Tuesday. but it was like
the season very wet. In fact
it was so wet that some of
the moisture is said to have ex-
tended as far as Plainvlew. The
result was "a to 2 in favor of
"a.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1914-06-19

port covers the period from the
time these officials went into
office in January 1912 to April /,
1914"
In Mr.. Kegels report on the
various officials books, there are
some small sums still to be ac-
counted for" placed against the
names of several officials.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1914-06-19
THE PRINTING GRAFT


Sixty thousand Autographed
letterheads an d $4,000 litho.
graphed envelopes were ordered
and paid for in one full swoop.
Printing bills amounting to over
SO, 300 were allowed, besides
SO, 1S0 and 81, 006. 95 to the Clovis
Journal for printing the delin.
quent tax lists. The county
commissioners, W. H. Doughton,
Ben Crawford and R. D. Elder,
says the report, drew slightly in
excess of $500 a year. and mile
age. instead of actual expenses,
mileage being in the nature of a
fee and therefore illegal. The
report also declares that the tax
collections to pay interest on the
county bonds will fall short
about 5000.
The courthouse and jail build
ings. while practically new. are
declared to be not well taken
care of and not as clean as public
buildings should be.
County Superintendent o (
Schools L. C. Mersfelder, i s
scored because of what is deem.
ed extravaganza.
"A great many of the school
district warrants are made out
with plain lead pencil and in
some instances the amounts have
been changed"
OTHER OFFICIALS SCORED
Other county officials are
charged with various offenses,
principally shortage in accounts.
negligence of duty and inaccu-
racies, but the report being so
lengthy, the News does not have
ample space at this time to give
it all in detail. however the full
text of the article is on file in
this Office and is subject to pub.
lie inspection.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The report, which is without
doubt, the most scathing thus
far made on any county, makes
the following brief recommen-
dations.