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Bob Creek Briefs

Mrs. Don Colbert, Mrs. Carl Pantle,
Miss Ruby Case and Miss Marie Hicks
all came out from Ordway last Thurs.
day to visit the school.
Misses Cora Drescher, Ethel and
Edith KendrIck. Fritz and Herbert
Drescher motored TO La Junta last
Sunday.
Mrs A. F. Enyart. Grace. Fay,
Tessie and Frank Whitney'-attended
church 10 Ord way last Sunday.
Miss Glora Swote Is staying with
Mrs Enyart for a while.
The Ladies Aid will meet three
weeks from yesterday with Mrs Lun-
dahl
Mr. and Mrs. Tbos. Kidd spent Sun.
day afternoon In the J. v. Collins
home.
A. F. Enyart and Edd whitney
we're out 10 the Sand Arroyo district
Monday.
Miss Cora DreeSher is spending the
week 10 Ordwsy with relatives
Miss Lnla Brown Of Crowley Ia
visiting this week uith Grace Collins.
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Olney Springs

Olney Springs-The tirst meeting OF
the Ladies' Aid this fall was last
Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Hack
wurth's; there. was a good attendance.
the principle business OF the alter
noon was the election OF officers, each
officer was extended the courtesy OF
reelection and IA prosperous, busy year
is anticipated. After light refresh
ments the Aid adjourned to meet
with Mrs James Jewel in two weeks
Olnev Springs-Mr. Osborn has
purchased the five acre tract south OF
the pOstutfice. He is erecting home
and will soon be IA permanent citizen
Of Olney.
Mrs. NJ. J. Rayburn of Canon City
accompany ing Mrs. George Ray burn
and Mrs. Watson OF Florence motOred
down to Mrs. Bert Tabor's last We'd
nesday Afternoon. After spending
the night with Mrs. Tabor they went
on to Sugar City for short visit.
During the eighty mile drive they
only stopped once for water and oil.
Miss Emma Horn returned to her
home in Pueblo Saturday, her mother.
Mrs A. c. Horn. returned this Tues
day; both we're helping In the apple
harvest at the Bradbury orchards
while in Olney.
william Gardiner Of Otego, Kans. :.
stopped to visit with Burt Williams
on his way home from inspecting
some property In the San Luis valley.
Victoria Mlnyard OF Leleetka, Okla. /.
is expected to arrive 10 few days TO
make her permanent home with her
uncle, George Minysrd. of Olney.
Mrs. S. A. Dennis was sick the
lister part Of last week but has quite
recovered at present.
Mrs. George Hack worth of Crowley
visited at the Shipiey home Saturday.
Miss Edith Holmes. a teacher at
Numa, went to the State Teachers
The Ordway new era., 1915-11-12
Alex Gray Resigns Postmastership Here. His
Successor will Probably be Stephen P llgenfritz

Alex Gray, postmaster here for the
past two years and over. has resigned
office to become effective on Deem
Der |. His resignation was sent In
last September but was made public
here this week. MIR. Gray's reslgna-
tiOn was voluntary, and In resIgning
he made recommendation that
Stephen p. IlgenfritZ. one Of the
Democratic party's most ardent sup
porters, be appointed to fiji the
vacancy.
or the candidates W. L. Martin,
one Of the editors OF the Leader who
has been resident OF Ordway only
since the middle OF last summer is
cuntesting for the postum.
Mr.. Ilgenfritz has been resident
OF Ordway for the past ten years and
during that time has been active In
political affairs af1ilitatiDg hiU1self
always openly and squarely with
the Democratic party, both when
this section OF the country was u
part OF Otero county and since the
division. When the division was
made Mr.. lIgenfrilZ was appointed
clerk OF the district court. u position
he has held for the past four years.
Prior to coming to Colorado Mr.. II.
genfritz was resideDt Of Indiana and
when he left that state was vice
chairman OF the Democratic county
central committee Of Tippecanoe
county. He Is without doubt as 1T
ted for the position in an educational
way aud Knowledge OF such work AS
any man the Democratic party in
this county could select for the office.
HI. app"intmeut, judging from ex.
pressi"ns heard on the streets and
else where. will probably be made be-
cause he not only has the leading and
most faithful workers In his own par
ty supporting him here. but Repub-
IicaOs generally cUncede that he
should receive the appointment be-
Cause OF buLh his qualifications aud
the support he has gwen his 0rKant-
zatiUn for the past many years.
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1918 Five Gents Per Copy

first month We had our prisoners
here it cost US el26 to feed them
in our own nne Jail building.
The next month 1t cost us sl74.
and the third month s54. The
average per month since bringing
our prisoners here Is sllS %. or
twice the formerYverage. Is that
economy?
Now to you taxpayers we will
say this: What,we have said is
based on facts and figures. We
have pointed opt several things
but we have gone into detail only
ON these two items. This Is not
all +tt
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Taxpayers Do You Know Where Your Money Isl
Going and Why Your Taxes Have Grown to Be
Burden? Here are Some of the Reasons Why

Those who would stop their pa
per on account of this weeks is
sue, or because of anything it
contains relative to the way our
tax money is spent are those who
would sanction graft and tolerate
the extravagant use of the tax
payers money.
Taxpayers the New Era is
the one paper to which you can
look to have your interests pro-
tected-the one paper in this
county which is fearless enough
to stand openly for what is right
and to point out to you how your
money is being extravagantly
spent, and in some cases unlaw-
fully spent.
Taxes are high; a burden.
Complaints are registered from
every section of the county. It's
not the valuation of your prop
erty. It's the tax levy made
against that valuation.
Your taxes are high because
of many reasons, and not alone
because of levies made to buy
up county fairs. In fact taxes
have been entirely too high, and
no county fairs have previously
been financed. Many things con-
tribute to your high taxes, things
you should know and things you
shall know through the NewEra.
It's the tax levy made to carry
on an extrfavagant maniier 81
conducting the business of this
county; and this county's busi-
ness is your business, for what
ever it costs to conduct it, that
cost is taxed to you.
It's the taxes you must pay to
supply the sheriff with a more
costly home than most of us even
dream of ever having.
And that has been done.
It's the taxes you must pay for
feeding our prisoners at so cents
per day when the law stipulates
that it shall be done at actual
cost to the county.
The law Is not being complied with.
It's the taxes you pay for feed
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Local and Personal

Mrs. Helene DeLauDay who was
enroute to her home In Queen City,
Mo-. from the exposition In California
came to Ordway last Thursday and
visited until Tuesday afternoon with
her cousins, the Dean girls.
John II. Leary Sr. and son. John II.
Leary. Jr are here this week from
Westclitfe looking after business in
terests. The latter was formerly
general merchandise store Of Leary
Bros. s. Co.
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association and returned Saturday
evening
The A B. Q. will meet with Mrs.
Paul Newton Saturday. November 13.
Mrs Pyles visited her people In and
near Fowler from Wednesday until
Friday last week.
xftes yislsins<sitb MisstG epna In
Crowley for the past three weeks Miss
Opal Hanen is home again.
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provide money to pay salaries
which should be paid by fees
which should have been turned
into the county as provided by

lIlIO Iue COuHIy DIS pIOVlueu NY
law.
Taxpayer. read the above sentence
over again. Do you know what 1t
means?)
It's the taxes you must pay to
provide a salary for the under
sheriff and jailor when the law
does not authorize it.
That is being done.
It's the taxes you must pay for
the county commissioners to ira
vel over much of the state to see
Jail buildings so a more elaborate
one than any seen might be
built.
It's the taxes you must pay to
build the handsome home for the
sheriff when that same home and
the available rooms in the Jail
building are sufficient to provide
an Office for each county official
fand thus save rent, tight f6ei,
etc. on the present court house.
Such an arrangement could have
been made and last summer the New
Era made IL clear to voters OF this
county.
It's the taxes you must pay to
furnish lights for the sheriff
home when the law says it must
not be done.
That ia being done.
It's the taxes you must pay to
heat the sheriff's residence
throughout long winter months
when the law forbids it.
That Is being done.
It's the taxes you must pay to
cover interest on warrants which
are thirteen months behind be-
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Thursday Afternoon Cub

meet with Mrs. Downsy November ls
and the following program IL being
prepared:
Henry Nv and v. Mrs. Bashor.
Henry VI and VIII, Mrs. Gallavan.
How Shakespeare made history
plays, Mrs. Roberts.
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Methodist Church

Sunday November ~ Is World Tenn
perance Sunday. The evening ser
vice will be held at the Evangelical
church. The program to be given by
the young people.
Sunday SchuOl at l0a m
Morning sermon by the pastor at II
q. m. All welcome.
F. w PimlOtt. Pastor.
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w. C. To. Meeting

The v: =. T. vill hold their
second November meeting next Tues
day at 2:30 p. m at the home Of Mrs.
Leslie Long There will be pro
gram ana every mber should make
a special effort tO attend. Those
desiring transportation will meet at
Mrs Stewards
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Evangelical Church

Sunday schoul-lO a. III.
Preaching-lI:0O Topic, Daniels
Test"
There will be AZ young peoples
meeting The Young Penpie's Tenn
perance Union program will given at
7, held in this church.
C. Meeder, Pastor.
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Electric Lights on Farm

On page 4 Is an illustrated article
on how the farm can be lighted bv
electricity and something as to the
cost OF Installing a plant.
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Corn shelters aud corn cribs for sale
Tiede mann,s
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Hat Clearing Sale
Clearing Sale OF ladies and misses
hats. Mary Hartman.
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Christian Church

Bible schOol-9:45
Preaching-ll and 1880
Christian EndeavOr-6:3O
PRAYER meeting Wednesday-7:3O
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Teachers Meet Saturday

Teachers OF this county will meet
10 the school building at Sugar City
tomorrow, Saturday. Opening ses
sion will convene at 10 O'Clock.
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ing our prisoners for the same
price per day which Pueblo coun-
ty charged us for years for both
feeding and room rent.
That Is being done.
It's the taxes you must pay to
build a $40, 900 hotel that one of
our county officials might become
a hotel keeper and run it at profit
when you taxpayers collect no
rent for that hotel.
That very thing has been done.
It's the taxes YOU must paY to
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Buy your shorts at ii, denann's
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ATon For You Free
MIR. Beet Grower!!

will give one ton Of that
good lump coal the Tiede-
mann Mercantile Co. sells.
to the one raising the larg-
est number of tons Of beets
per acre. Exact land meas
urements must Be made.
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Whoopino Couch.

The Bureau of Laboratories % the
New York board Of health has been
conducting an extensive investigation
of whooping cough, and Dr. Paul Lut-
finger recently reported to the Medi-
cal association of the greater city OF
New York some Of the results of. that
inquiry
Among the most interesting con-
illusions reached is that the early part
Of the disease is the most infectious.
The bacillus that is believed to cause
it is rarely found in the sputum after
the first week of the paroxysmal. or
whooping, stage, so there would seem
to be no necessity for the child to be
kept in the house for more than a
week after the whoop appears"
Doctor Luttinger says physicians IN
derestimate the seriousness of the dis
ease and fail to report cases Only
26 per cent Of cases in a certain area
were reported, and probably not more
than 10 per cent are reported in
Greater New York"
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said the voice at the Mereside trans
mitter. Excuse me, as Hank Billings
ly used TO say when he happened to
shoot the wrong man Come over
when you feel like it-and have time.
You mustn't forget that you owe me
two calls Good-by"
After Margery Grierson had let her
self out of the sitting little closet IN
der the hall stair, she went into the
darkened library and sat for a long
time staring at the cold hearth 1t was
a crooked world, and Just now it was a
sharply cruel one There was much to
be read between the lines Of the short
telephone talk with Edward Raymer.
The trap was sprung and its jaws were
closing; and in his extremity Kenneth
Griswold was turning, not 10 the wom-
an who had condoned and shielded and
paid the costly price, but to the other.
Dear God!" she said softly, when
the prolonged stare had brought the
quick-springing tears to her eyes; and
IL could have kept him safei"
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Good Men Are Scarce.

Col. E Polk Johnson Of Louisville.
who fought for the Confederacy, read
something in the dispatches from the
front the other day that reminded him
very much of what happened when
he was serving in the western army
in the Civil war. Il remember it was
a wet, cold. rainy night in the middle
of winter" said the veteran, when a
long, lean chap in my regiment was or
dered to go on picket duty. He
thought the situation over for a min
ute and then he turned to the ser
geant who had brought the message
You go right straight back whar you
come from he drawled, and tell the
cap'n 1 Jest natcheIly can't do It I
got q letter from Gin'ral Bragg this
rnawnin', and he said good men was
gittin' almighty skeerce in this here
army, and for me to take good care of
myse'f'
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can't she take her Eo.a-molder fellow
and be satisfied, Sha can't swing to
both of EN-. Ump!-tke old man want.
ed me to skip out % a wild goose
chase to Frisco in that bond business.
and take the first train; Sure, I'll go
but not today; oh, no. by grapples;
not this day!''
1t was possibly an hour heyond Brof-
fins visit when Margery. having sue
cessfully read the sick man to sleep,
tiptoed out of the room AMI went be-
low stairs to shut herself inSo the hall
telephone closet. The nul2her she
asked for was that of the Raymer
Foundry and Machine works, Ind Ray
mer, himself answered the CALI
Have you heard anything YET from
Mr.-from our friend?"
Not a word. But I'm not worrying
any more now. I've been remember
ing that he is the happy-or unhappy
-possessor of the artistic tempera-
ment' and that accounts for anything
and everything. I'd forgotten that for
a few minutes, you know
'WeH?" she said, with the faintest
possible accent of Impotence.
HE has gone of somewhere to plug
away on that book of his; I'm sure of
it. And he hasn't gone very far I'm
inclined to believe that Mrs. Holcomb
knows where he is-only she won't
tell. And somebody else knows, too"
Who is the somebody else?"
Though the wire was in a measure
public, Raymer risked single word.
Charlotte"
None of the sudden passion that
leaped into Margery Grierson's eyes
was suffered to find its way into her
voice when she said: What makes
you think that?''
ooh, a lot of little things. I was
over at the house last night, and there
IS some sort of teapot tempest going
on; l couldn't make out just what.
But from the way things shaped up, /
gathered that our friend was wanted
in Lake Boulevard, and wanted bad
for some reason or other. I had to
promise that I'd try to dig him up, be-
fore got away"
"Wen?" went the questioning word
over the wires, and this time the impa-
tient accent was unconcealed-
ST promised; but this morning Doc
tor BERTHE called me up TO say that II
was all right; that I needn't trouble
myself"
! "And | needn't have troubled you,
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The sick E1an promised, and as she
was going away she turned to repeat
the caution. Andrew GaIbraith's eyes
were closed In WEAKNESS, and he did
not see that she was standing with her
back to the wall while she admonished
him, or that. when she had gone to
send the visitor up, the earpiece of the
house telephone set had been detached
from its hook and left dangling by it's
wire cord.
Miss GriersOn went on into the Il
brary after she had met the detective
at the door and had told him how to
find the upstairs room. When the
sound of a cautiously closed door told
her that Broffn had entered the sick
room, she snatched the receiver of the
library house phone from its hook and
held it to her ear. For a little time
keen anxiety wrote its sign manual in
the knitted brows and the tightly
pressed lips. Then she smiled and
the dark eyes grew softly radiant The
dear old saint" she whispered; the
dear. dear old saint!'' And when Brof-
fin came down few minutes later, she
went to open the hall door for him,
serenely demure and with honey on
her tongue. as beftted the role of
"everybody's good angel
Did you find him worse than you
feared, or better than you hoped?" she
asked.
He's mighty near the edge. 1 should
say-what? But you never can tell.
Some of these old fellows can claw
back to the top O. the hill after all
the doctors in creation have thrown up
their hands. I've seen it What does
Doc Farnham say?"
What he always says; while there's
life, there's hope"
Broffin nodded and went his way
down the walk, stopping at the gate to
take up the cigar he had hidden on his
arrival
$50 Galbraith's out Of it, lock, STOCK
and barrel" he muttered, as he strobe
thoughtfully downward. Il reckoned
it'd be Hathaway, as soon as 1 heard
the story O. that shipwreck. And now
amt so blamed sure that it's Ray
mer a-holdin' the fort in them pretty
black eyes. The old man talked like a
man that had just been honeyfugled
and talked over and primed plum up
to the muzzle- Why the blue bIazes
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great deposits of carbon. in coal. were
being formed in many parts of the
world This age has been divided by
biologists into the Mississippian.
pennsylvania and Permian epochs. of
which the Mississippian is the oldest
and the Permian the youngest. The
Fennsylvanian epoch alone is esti-
mated BY Schuchert to have covered
z,I6O,OOO years, and animal life is sup
posed to have existed on the earth for
over. $4,000. 600 years before that time.
.Geoiogic periods are recognized prt
marty by the animals and plants that
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-23

lived in them. so that the study of fos-
sis plays a very real and important
part in the progress of geologic
knowledge Rocks Of Carboniferous
age, as shown in their fossils, have a
wide distribution in the United States
and they are apt to abound in these
remains Of plant and animal life. The
fossil shells which are found in them
however. may vary greatly from point
to point. because the animals they rem
resent lived in different periods OF geo
logic time or in different regions IN
the carboniferous ocean
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-10-23

Johnson; 1 want you to shake hands
with an old newspaper pal OF mine
from New York, Mr.. Kenneth Girls
void Kenneth. this is MI Beverly
johnson, OF the Bayou State Security
bank, in New Orleans"
Thus cambridge, sometime star re-
porter for the Louisianian, turning up
at the climaxing instant to prove the
crowded condition Of an overnarroE
world, much as Matthew BrOfin had
once turned Up on the after-deck Of
the coastwise steamer Adelantado to
prove it TO him
While Griswold, with every nerve
on edge, was acknowledging the in
PRODUCTION which he could BY no
means avoid. Brofln drew nearer.
From the porch steps he could both
see and hear cambridge, cheerfuIIy
loquacious. continued to do most Of
the talking He was telling GriswoId
OF the streak Of good luck which had
snatched him out Of a reporters berth
in the South to make him night editor
OF one Of the St Paul dailies- John
son was merely an onlooker Brofin's
eyes searched the teller's face Thus
fa- u was q blank rather bored
blank
And you are on your way to St
Paul now?" Griswold said to the news
paper man Broffin. whose ears were
skillfully attuned to all the tone varia-
tons in the voice Of evasion. thought
he detected a quaver Of anxious i'm
patience in the half-absent query.
night, but Johnson. here, stumped me
to stop over. He said 1 might be able
to get a news story out of his sick
president" cambridge ratified on
Ever meet Mr. Galbraith? He is the
bank president who was held up last
spring. you remember; fine old Scotch
gentleman of the Walter-Scott brand"
When did you leave New OTleans?"
Griswold asked; and now Brofin made
sure he distinguished the note of anx-
iety.
Two days back; missed a connec.
ton on account Of high water in the
Ohio. Might have stayed another IL
hours in the good old levee town if we'd
only known, Ell. Johnson?" And then
again to GriswoId: Remember that
supper We ldU dl AAC
night 1 was leaving for the banana
coast? By George! come to think Of
it, believe that was the last time We
foregathered in the Say, Kenneth.
what have you done with your beard?"
Something clicked in Brofin's brain
The final doubt was cleared away.
Griswold was the man he had seen and
marked when the two were saying
good-by on the banquette in front Of
Chaudiere's-
Broffin's right hand went swiftly to
an inside pocket Of his coat and when
1t was withdrawn pair Of handouts,
oiled to noiselessness. came with it.
Deity the man-catcher worked them
open, using only the fingers Of one
hand, and never taking his eyes from
the trio on the sidewalk One last
step remained; if he could only man
age to get speech with Johnson first
During the trying interval Griswold
had been fully alive TO his peril He
had seen the swift hand-passing. and
he knew what it was the Brofln was
conceaIing in the hand which had
made the quick pocket dive He knew
that the crucial moment had Gomez
and, as many times before, the saw
age fear-mania was gripping him In
the cold vise-nip of it he had become
once more the cornered wild beast
CTO BE CONTINUEDO
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Oct. Fl, 1914.

British monitors bombarded Ger
man right wing on Belgian coast.
Allies rePuIsed German attacks
at Nieuport, Dixmude and La Bas-
see
Heavy fighting on the User.
Russians defeated German-Aus-
TRANS in northern Poland and
halted Austrians at the San.
Serbians repealed Austrian at
tacks in Bosnia
cattaro again bombarded.
German cruiser Emden sank
five British steamships in Indian
Ocean.
All unnaturaIized German and
Austrian residents in England of
military age ordered put in deten-
ton camps.
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scum. With a stan OF assistants. f.
busiIy excavating IN the Upnor hills
the most complete set OF mammoth re-
mains so far unearthed in England
The professor has Jet to determine
whether the bones belong TO the man
moth or the eiephas aDtiquus- The
teeth alone win furnish the necessary
evidence upon this point. and the por-
ton of earth where the skull lies en-
bedded has not yet been deIved IN
except so far as to disclose tie pres
ence OF tusk measuring some nine
feet II length
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was handed down from the top Of the
omnibus. Alertly watchful, he quickly
recognized Brofin among the porch
loungers, and saw him leave his tilted
chair to saunter toward the steps
Then the fateful thing happened. One
of the luggage sorters, clean-iimbed,
handsome young fellow with boyish
eyes and good-natured grin, wheeled
suddenly and gripped him
why, Griswold. old maxwell, I'll
be logged! Who on the face Of the
earth would ever have thought of find
ing you here? So this Is where you
came up. after the long, deep. McGinty
dive, is it?" Then to one Of his fell
low travellers: Hold on a minute,