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Graham guardian., 1914-03-20

The article above referred to was
published in the last issue of The
GUARDIAN, and was a comment on
the meeting held Monday afternoon.
March 9th, called by the Town
Council of Stafford. for the purpose
of discussing the question of passing
resolutions favoring an immediate
appropriation for the building Of the
San Carlos irrigation project.
At this meeting there were present
citizens from Pima, Thatcher, Solo
knoxville and Stafford. The visiting
delegation representing commercial
organizations of Tucson, Florence
and Casa Grande stated the object
for which they asked the meeting to
be called, viz, resolutions favoring
an immediate appropriation for
building the dam at San Carlos.
The question Of the priority rights
of the land owners of the Gila valley
for all water needed to irrigate val
ley lands was brought up and dis
cussed, and one of the visiting dele.
cation stated that there was no doubt
OF the dam being built: that it was
practically assured; but that it could
not interfere with any Of the present
water rights Of land owners in the
Gila valley; that the water for the
dam would be the flood waters Of
the Gila river and the waters that
had passed the valley.
He also stated that the govern
ment had secured all data relating
to the acreage of irrigated lands in
the Gila valley as we'll as the lands
not irrigated. and inferred that the
government would protect all irriga-
ton rights of the Gila valley land
owners.
These matters will be adjudicated
In court, and while the people OF
the Gila valley would not oppose an
irrigation project that would open
Nd more land and provide more
homes In the State and an increased
population, yet It is not only proper.
but the sight thing q DO. as advised
m 4 ypevoua fsstN ~ YsS SrAH
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20
SMILED UPON BY NATURE

Surely Arizona is a land that basks
continually in the smile of Nature.
No other country on top of earth is
80 rich in natural advantages as is
this wonderful State, and though su-
preme rs Arizona may be in many
ways, she is just now on the thresh.
old. and the future, not the present.
holds for this State the realization
and accomplishment of all that is
good and desirous. .. .
Other States have rich mines, but
none 80 rich as those which dot the
hills of Arizona; other communities
are rich in agriculture, yet no other
country in the known world can
match Arizona in the products of
the soil; other sections boasts of mill.
ions represented by cattle and I've
stock, yet the activities of mankind
have not yet extended to place
where richer returns are had in the
cattle and livestock business than in
Arizona. And so it is on down the
line--other countries and other
States boast of wealth in one partic-
lar line of activity or endeavor, yet
It remains for Arizona. youngest of
the sisterhood of States-Arizona,
land of richness and of promises
fulfilled--to combine all these ad.
vantages found separately in other
States, in one great commonwealth.
Truly Arizona is land smiled
upon and blessed by Nature. Death
and privation as the result of eli.
matte extremes are unknown; pov-
erty and starvation are things of
dread we know of only through
reading the news of other lands,
while happiness. contentment, and a
willingness to strive for better
things in the future are blessings
and virtues found in every home in
this broad, happy land of OURS
Dunbar's Weekly.
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20
HOMELESS CHILDREN

It is not so generally known as it
should be that there is in California
a society for the purpose Of finding
homes with suitable families for
homeless children. There are enough
childless homes or homes where
children are wanted to take care of
every orphaned little boy or girl in
the State, but the work of bringing
these together needs to be carried
to the people Of the State, 80 that
they will know where and how child.
rem can be had.
The Children's Home Society has
always on hand companies of child
ren from which selections can be
made. Just now the Society il
anxious to find more places for boys.
Life is lonely on some of our
California farms and ranches, and
there are little boys to be had for
company and they are many Of
then, just as sne boys as are found
anywhere. Plenty of good men and
women have hearts full of love and
charity and more than two thousand
children have been placed in homes
by this society for adoption.
The agent for the Society in this
State is Rev. A. H. Gunnett, 2414
Griffith Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal.
and correspondence in invited
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20

Arizona farmers are not meeting
the demands made upon them, which
would prove profitable to them as
well as the consumer. There is no
place on earth where pork can be
produced as economically as in Ari.
zona's alfalfa fields. The income
from the number of hogs that could
be easily carried in the Arizona
farms without noticing the expense
would return to the farmers an enor-
nous income. 1t would be the
easiest and quickest money they
could possibly earn. The alfalfa
fields will carry them from the time
they are farrowed until they are
ready to slaughter, except a short
period at weaving time, and for few
weeks when they are being finished
for the market. Stockman-Farmer.
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20

The Department of Agriculture
is trying to eliminate the danger to
cattle from poisonous plants on ma
tional forest ranges. Of these
plants, larkspur, loco weed, death
camas and water hemlock are the
most poisonous. Larkspur does the
most harm, because it is so widely
distributed and is particularly bad
for cattle. Ordinarily, horses will
not eat larkspur. and sheep can eat
it without apparent injury.
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20
II You Are Interested
in This Valley Don't
Read This

The manufacturers of BELLE"
Flour are citizens of this (the great
Gila Valley, they have this valley
at heart (no other). They spend
their money here; they live here;
pay their taxes here; they buy your
wheat that makes BELLE" Flour;
they leave their money with the
Farmers, the Farmers in turn spend
their money with the Merchants,
and this is truly Boosting the Giia
Valley"
BELLE" Flour today is GOOD.
, 1t is as good as can be made from
Arizona Wheat, with the best and
latest improved machinery and a
competent Miller.
| Again we say, BELLE" Flour is
GOOD; then why listen to any one
who insists on decrying Our Val ey
and its products, and who insist that
we must send our money from
HOME in order to get good -four.
Do you know that BELLE" Flour
is bad, or did Old Geronimo once
say it was; or, is it bad because it is
made in your home valley and the
money is kept here and earned by
our Farmers and Laborers? We
say to you positively, that BELLE"
Flour today is as GOOD and on an
equality with most of the imported
or shipped in fours, we know
KAN. IONA" and NEW BLEND"
Flours are stronger and better than
any imported flours
Do the Foreign Flour agitators
really care so much for you, that
they insist that you use their spec
iaI imported f1ours, or do they make
more money on the shipped in f1ours?
We are glad to state that every
Merchant in the Gila Valley is SELL
ing BELLE" KAN IONA" and
EW-BLEND" Flours. We espec-
ialIy recommend BELLE" Flour
because it is GOOD, and because
every pound used helps the progress
of this Valley.
Every person should ask them.
selves these few questions: When
+, the Gila Valley Milling Company
came into this valley two years ago,
what was the farmer getting for
his wheat, for his barley and for
his corn? How much were you pay
ing for your flour at that time?
Write down your answers; write
down honest answers and look them
over. Hasn't the Gila Valley Mill
paid the farmer from 10 to 25 per
cent more for his grain, and isn't
flour from 10 to Is per cent cheaper?
Your answer must be Yes" Who
is getting these differences? Every
Farmer and -four user in the Valley.
| BELLE Flour is BETTER to-
day than it has ever been before.
We are here to stay. 1t is to your
Interest to join us in our effort to
win. Ask for BELLE" KAN.
IONA" or NEW BLEND" Flour.
| If you do not like them bring them
to the mill and get your money
/ back. Remember. every Sack of
our Flour is GOOD. We guarantee
it; it is money backed. If YOU are
not satisfied, we make it good. Try
a sack of BELLE" Flour with your
next order and be convinced.
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20
MARCH 20. 1914
PROTECT WATER RIGHTS

The following communication was
received from Phil G.. Merrill, Chair
man OF the Board of Supervisors:
PIMA, ARIZONA,
March l6 1914
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20

When a man habitually complains
that his home town is dead it may
be taken for granted that he has
done his worst to make it dead, and
that he is even deader than his town.
A preacher once said at a funeral
service, The late respected corpse
was member of this church for
for forty years" There are lots of
towns like that unfortunate church
in that they have respected corpses"
in the population. 1t needs live men
and not dead men to build up a
town,
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20
ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS

1t is all right to have honest
goods on the shelves for people to
buy, but they are likely to remain
there unless people are informed
that you have the goods. That car
best he done by advertising in your
local paper. One principal way by
which mail order houses often get
the better of home merchants is
through the medium Of large Illus
trated catalogues that find their
way into almost every home two nr
three times year. 1t costs a small
fortune to print and mail these cats.
logues, but the fact that they exist
is the surest proof that it pays tc
have them.
OF course, no local ,merchapt can
afford to get out such a catalogue,
nor is it necessary. He can secure
the same results in his home paper
but to do it he must advertise gen
erously and sttrsctively, @nd ther
make good in the quality and price
Of his goods. In so duin9 he Cur
beat the mail order houses at then
own game.
To be sure there are in every
community people who will alwsy'
buy Of mail order house even il
they get fooled by 80 doing, as many
do, because it is a mania with them
But the great majority of buyers
would rather trade at home if as
sured they can get what they want
and it is up to the local business
man to meet that want.
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20

DIAN. February 9th, for the people
Of the Gils valley to get together on
some proposition that can be carried
out uccessfully to protect our prior
ity rights in the waters Of the Gila
river, as well as to secure all the
water needed for the lands not now
irrigated, but which can be irrigated
by planning another canal with
laterals that would reach every acre
Of land in the valley. and this should
be done now, before the Ban Carlos
dam Is started.
The meeting In Stafford was held
for the purpose OF indorsing resolu-
tions asking Congress to make an
immediate appropriation for the
boildiag oS the Ssn Carlos irrigation
project. The resolutions were not
adopted for any u.ner purpose than
to show the people Of the Casa
Grsnde valley that the people " the
Gila valley were in favor Of the
proposition that would give them
water to reclaim their lands. In the
passing of those resolutions We did
not give up any Of our rights in the
waters Of the Gila river that we now
have or that we are still entitled to
for the irrigation of all our lands
that can be brought under cultiva.
ton.
The GUARDIAN would advise that
every citizen of the valley should
make special effort to be present
at the meeting called by the Board
of Supervisors, in Brier's Hall next
Monday afternoon, and there discuss
the mater fully and see if We can
not get together on some PROPOSE
ton that will be agreeable to all
and that will protect US in our rights
for all the water needed for all the
land we can cultivate.
THE GUARDIAN does not believe
the people should wait until the
matter is adjudicsted in the United
States court, butts firm in the opinion
that the people Of the valley should
act now and without further delay
and adopt a plan that will protect
the rights of the farmers of this
valley.
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20
Stubborn, Annoying Cough.
Cured

MY husband had a cough for
fifteen years and my son for eight
years. DR.. Kings New Discovery
completely cured them, for which
| am most thankful" writes Mrs.
David Moor, of Saginaw, Alabama.
What DR.. Kings New Discovery did
for these men, it will do for you
DR.. Kings New Discovery should
be in every home. Stops hacking
coughs, relieves la grippe and all
throat and lung ailments. Money
back if it fails. All druggists. Price
Soc and s1.00. H. E. Bucklen & Co.
Philadelphia or st. Louis.
adv-3.4t
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20
lie BECOMES FAMOUS
Congressman Claude Weaver
Tells Why He Goes
to Church

Some members of congress be-
come farsous by making speeches.
Others achieve fame through the
enactment of legislation bearing
their names. Congressman Claude
Weaver, of Oklahoma. has become
famous by simply telling why he
goes to church. He wrote an arti-
s,e on tbs sGbject for one of the
large hraeaNnes. His colleague,
Congressman Scott Ferris, of Okla
holnH, hAu the article read on the
floor Of the house. The result is
,nal Cl~uue Weaver is now famous.
Here is why Claude Weaver goes to
church:
1t is sweet on summers morn
ing, when the air is equiver with
the love songs Of birds and fragrant
with the odor of roses blown, to
the music of the church, going bells,
an invitation to the world wearied
to enter God temple and find peace,
because the instinct of worship is in
the heart of man and the church is
the temple of the living God.
Il 70 to church because | find
there that peace which DeQuincy
desci lJeu as resting from auman
Iabuis, Il Sabbath of repose, re-
Spte granted from the secret burdens
OF Inc heart, as if ! stood aIoof from
tie upl oar of life; as if the tumult
and rever and strife were suspended;
as il there brooded over me dove
like ana halcyon calm.
Il go to church because l love the
music that | hear there, the mighty
roll of the great organ, mingled
with marvellous symphonies of that
divine stringed instrument, the hu-
man voice, untwisting all the chains
that tie the hidden soul of harmony
Il go to church because | delight
to hear the teachings of the preacher,
whose soul is dedicated to God,
whose field is as wide as Gods uni.
verse, whose theme is the destiny of
man, and whose words are the oracle
of fate. Marvellous is the spell Of
the preacher to whom God has given
genius and conservation and the
power of illustration drawn from
the old, sacred, immortal Book, and
from the miracles of nature, no less
revealed in the crimson tipped flower
turned up by the plowshare OF
Robert Burns upon the soil of Ayr
than in the long reaches of the star,
girt skies.
Il go to church because the way
is dark and l am far from home,
and because the church is the polar
star to light my pathway in the ray
less night.
go to church because the church
ministers not only to the spiritual
but also the material needs of life,
and because it is there that the
charities that heal and soothe and
bless are scattered at the feet OF
man like flowers; because in that
atmosphere vice and crime wither
and Gle.
Il go to church because l hear
I the teachings Of the philosophy OF
Jesus, the incompatible man; and if
you say His teaching is philosophy
and not religion, and that He was q
man not God. then the philosophy
of that Man has redeemed the world
from savagery and blessed mankind
with Christian civilization and hope;
because | see there the dawn and
not the sunset; and it is better for
man, if the hope is baseless and the
vision but an elusive phantom, to
cherish a dream so glorious and
beautiful than to be weighed down
and crushed with the quarried
mountains of world without hope
and without God"
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20
6ILA VALLEY MILLING co.
adv-42t
Chronic Stomach Trouble Cured

There is nothing more discourag-
ing than a chronic disorder Of the
stomach. Is it not surprising that
many suffer for years with such an
ailment when a permanent cure is
within their reach and may be had
for a trfe? About one year ago."
says P. H. Beck, of Wakelee, Mich,
Il bought a package of Chamber
lain's Tablets, and since using them
| have felt perfectly well. | had
previously used any number of diff
ferent medicines, but none of them
were of any lasting benefit" For
sale by Stafford Drug Co.
adv 4t
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20

President Wilson has signed the
bill authorizing the expenditure of
1856. 100000 for the first government
owned railroad constructed by the
United States, to be built in Alaska.
The road will be operated by the
government and will be constructed
along a route from the sea to the
interior for the purpose of develop
ing the agricultural and mineral re.
so,ffes iof Afasks.
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20

man year Of the University; this
scholarship to cover registration,
tuition and laboratory fees for that
year. but not the fees for student
enterprises.
Only members Of senior classes
Of Arizona high schools are eligible
to these prize scholarships. even if
others should be admitted to the
contest.
Graham guardian., 1914-03-20

received from Phil G.. Merrill, Chair
man Of the Board of Supervisors:
PIMA, ARIZONA,
March l6, 1914.
EDITOR GUARDIAN,
Stafford. Arizona:
DEAR SIR: In your issue of March
18th, notice an article giving an
account OF what purports TO be a
meeting Of citizens of Solomonville,
Stafford. Thatcher and Pima. with
representatives Of commercial or
CARNATIONS from Tucson, Florence
and Casa Grande. relative to the San
Carlos dam project. In the same
paper you comment in an editorial
upon the subject, and carry the in
ference that the rights of this valley
have been taken care of by the gov
ernment.
Since the articles referred to
appeared in your paper, quite a
number of the citizens of the valley
have mentioned to me that they had
heard nothing prior to then OF the
meeting referred To, nor had they
heard of any action taken by the
government toward securing data
relative to our water rights here in
the valley, and many question very
much whether we will not lose any
chance we might have of sppropriat-
ing water for any more acreage than
we have appropriated at the time
San Carlos dam is commenced, ii it
is put in. and have suggested that
in order to protect our own interests
we should get together on some con-
certed action with that end in view.
The members of the Board of
Supervisors have concluded that it
would be highly proper to call a mass
meeting of the citizens of the valley
to consider the question. and accord
ingly have called such meeting to
be held in Brier's Hall, at Stafford,
Monday. March 23d, at 800 o'clock
10 the Afternoon.
Trusting that you will give this
space in your valuable paper, ! am.
Respectfully yours,
PHIL C. MERRILL,
Chairman Board of Supervisors"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-07-22
The Test of Character,

But responsibility is the great char
acter developer. and very few Of us
really know what we can do until we
are put to the test The market is long
on men who can take orders. but short
on those who can inteligently issue
them. Responsibility requires GER
tain amount of initiative-the willing
ness to act when occasion demands
and the courage to fail under honest
effort and take the consequences. OF
course you may fail. but you can't tell
whether you will succeed unless you
try, and having tried to the utmost OF
your ability and failed is better than
never to have tried at all-better be-
cause in every loss there is the com
pensation of experience, while mere
inaction means mental and physical
Stagnation, the dam and sire of ami
hilation.-Maurice Switzer in Leslie's.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-07-22
A Word about Classified Advertisemer

A Word about Classified Advertisements
Do you realize that probably no COL
umn of the paper is read as thoroughly
as our classified advertisement depart
ment, because it is pretty safe to say
that the people who use classified ads
have something they are anxious to
sell and there are from time to time
real bargains listed here. The other
side to this is that if you have anything
to sell, to rent or to exchange, that an
advertisement Of from ten to fifty
words will bring you direct results, and
will do it for very little money. A
small ad might be lost in another
column of the paper but this is not the
case with those in the classified ad
column. The rate is only two cents per
word for the first insertion and only
one cent per word after that. If you
have anything for sale a trial will con-
vince you that this method of adver-
Using will bring you immediate and
direct results. The department is
actually a bureau Of introduction be.
tween the man who owns the goods
and the fellow who wants the goods
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-07-22
GLOVER GLEANTNGS

A large choir of men furnished music
Sunday.
Thursday evening the consideration
OF favorlte chapters in the Bible will
be continued. John IA will be the sub
ject.
The debate in the Mems class last
week was very interesting. The lesson
will be opened Sunday by another de-
bate.
Tuesday evening the Mems class will
hold their monthly social with literary
entertainment and refreshments.
The executive committee will hold
meeting at the church on the first Sat-
urday afternoon in August.
Five certificates of the League of
Worshipping Children, No. &c. were
brought in Sunday, Edward Chapman.
Mary Chairman, Paul Douglass, Leon
ard Drew and Harry King having com
pleted the 26 weeks attendance as evil
denced by the stars. Completed GER
tifcates will be displayed at the church
| if brought in for the seal.
| The Woman's Union are preparing
for fair to be held some time in Au.
gust.
WEST GLOVER
liza SWEET is visiting friends here.
| Mrs. Emma Skinner is away, visit
ing friends.
w. R. Stiles was at home last week
and got his hay cut.
Maurice Leland is working for w.
A. Magoon in haying.
| Roy Skinner and family were at
Lyman BARRIERS Sunday.
Carroll Magoon of Lyndon spent
Sunday with his parents.
Ida Wright has been spending a
short time with friends in Barton.
! Miss Jennie Magoon, who has been
suffering with ulcer, in her throat, is
much better.
The Willing Workers. met at the hall
July Is and work was, done for Mrs.
Annie Borland. =
The many friends of David Wright
are sorry to hear he is not improving
as they could wish.
Miss Clara Colburn of New York
City and Miss Lydia Colburn of Barton
spent short time with their sister,
Mrs. L. L. Hastings, recently.