La Junta tribune., 1914-02-21

Some OF the old politicians have
worn off the end Of their fingers
pointing with pride to the record OF
their party.
Say. Bni. Who sss that lady !
naw you with yesterday al the show
At Wonderly'."
"A~. that WASH, no lady. that's
my wife"
Out OF total OF 300 national
banks in this eountry s.s3s have al
ready applied for mem bership In the
reserve banks 10 be established un-
der tn. new banking system. The
time limit for application Is Febru-
ap -Washinrton's birthday !
The firs, day OF Lent this year
L. "wednesday. February 25th. and
the fast Uill close 90 Easter Sunday.
April 18th. The last day before Lent
Is known as shrove Tuesday. Good
Friday comes on April 18Th. and as
this commemorate the CrueiflIion.
80 Easter sunday commemorate the
resurrection and marks the first
fess; day after Lent.
.
81.
feet Ia length, viii b. among the er-
hibits BY the United States govern
m.nt a, the Panama Pacific Interna-
uonal Exposition or the $500. 600
appropriated by congress for federal
exhibits. 10000 has been turned
over to tn. Isthmiaa Canal Commis-
sion for tn. contraction OF the mo-
del The model. oomplct. In all
working details. ~ill allo~ the pass
as. OF toy boats. !, Sill b. bull, to
scale.
S~ink will not induls. IN baseball
during IN. coming season The ball
park a, s~ins will b. planted In
exnts ioup.s. and tn. owner thereof
viii Try and make an effort 10 drive
out a home run In that lin. OF en-
d.2sor instead OF on III. ball field.
Well. the Arkansas Valley Baseball
L.axu. sill furnish exhibitions OF
the national gam. at both La JuntA
and Rocky Ford during the season
that ALL be worth seeing. 20 s~ink
won't have to travel far.
.
In Kansas City a fight il made on
saloons In residenc. districts. Out
through Missouri gradually towns
ar. getting rid OF liquor under local
option elections In Russia the
council OF the empire T. adopting
drastic resolutions restricting the
-. % alcoholic drinks. The mc,--
rnrui f. no little lo,i manifestation
of local IDEAS II Is world wide. ~.
err Wh"re they ar" put,ins the
crlmps Ia John Bacl"yeur. Even
,ua.ly the liquor bu .inea IL scing to
d,fapp.ar-k knnsa. ,tlg star
Country toNn merchants haN.
been b.sirging congress this ~e..
for protective legislation to saw.
them from the competition Of mall
order houses and chain stores" Tn.
adyic. OF Governor Hodges. of Kan
aAs. Ia the small town merchants
and h. 4. himself on. OF thsm-is
NOR. helpful than any relief congress
could reasonably give. n. contends
that II tn. small town merchants viii
devote a. large a percentage OF their
tncom. to Intelligent advertising a.
the mall order houses do they viii
sot need to fear such competition.
.
Twenty years ago. February 18th.
~hen the thirtieth anniversary OF tn.
founding OF tn. Knights OF Pythias
Lodge was celebrated. &. W. Wonder.
iy. Who Is the oldest knight In Ia
Junta IN potn, Of membership In the
order. arrived home shortly after
midnight. after the celebration ~s.
over. ". had been In the house
Ssas than fifteen minutes when he BE-
came III. proud father OF = ten pound
daughter. Thursday night Of this
week he arrived home about 1880
o'clock. when the doinEs were all
ever. but this time he had his finssss
eress~d and history did not repeat
teAslf.
apeakinx Of Ewing Herbert. Who
Fslisq uished the Hiawatha possof-
fics last week after being postnassss
sl1tsss yeass. W. A. white. Ia the
eoDorta Oasettr. concludes: ''This
takes the blight off oae Of the fiasss
osa In Kansas. For ststeea years