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The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1915-06-04
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CLOVIS WILL PROBABLY
SECURE A FIBRE FACTORY

ANfg thOiAof WAAO AORAC
sents a Chicago company who
own and operate several fibre
plants in the country, one of
which was recently installed in
Tucumcari. was in the city Tues
day at the invitation of the
Chamber of Commerce and
spoke on the prospects of the
company locating a plant here.
at the Chamber meeting Friday
night. A large crowd of busi-
ness men and farmers attended
the meeting and all seemed
much interested and asked Mr..
Raymond many questions.
The factories which Mr.. Ray.
mond and his associates operate
make fibre from the Yucca plant
or bear grass" plant and he
exhibited at the meeting some
of the fibre made in the Tucum-
carl plant, which has just been
put into operation. This fibre
is made into binders twine or
rope and the short fibre is used
for upholstering work such as is
used in automobile cushions.
He has a market at present
for all the fibre that he can
make and keeps his plants run
ming day and night. The ca
pacity of the Tucumcari plant at
present is 1900 lbs every two
weeks but it can be made to run
a maximum of 165. 600 pounds.
Out of every 100 lbs of bear
grass they secure about 40 per
cent OF fibre, the balance being
waste. The waste makes first
class paper but as there are no
paper mills in the southwest, it
would not pay to ship it east.
He says that the raising of bear
grass for market is profitable
and that he paid one man at
Tolar $2900.00 in eighteen
for grass that he him
self cut. 1t amounted to %
cars. He pays $500 per ton for
the cured grass in bales.
If they locate a plant here
they expect to market 500 cars
a year. They employ over 100
men in the Tucumcari factory
and their pay to the employees
last Saturday night for nine
days was $1O45. 90. Their scale
of wages to employees runs from
SIPS to 800 per day. They
have paid out to wagons which
brought in the grass as much as
$40O. 90 in a single day and be-
sides this amount shipped in
many cars from other places.
If they locate plant here,
Mr.. Raymond said that it would
be much larger than the one at
Tucumcari as this is a better
field for operations and as to the
two towns, he said there was no
comparison. 1t is much easier
to get employees here in a larger
place he SAID. and that has been
one of the chief obstacles in
operating at Tucumcari.
He thinks this would be a
splendid location for a small
binder twine factory as New
Mexico alone last year shipped
in 45 cars of twine at "a, 600 los
to the car.
In company with Mr.. Dennis
he was west and south in the
bear grass district Wednes day.
going as far west as Melrose.
He has wired "a favorable report
to his partners in Chicago and
will have a proposition of some
kind to submit to the people of
Clovis by next Wednesday. He
eft Thursday morning.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1915-06-04

49, 49, NA"os ooJ % ehoe hO GA
poets the Supreme Court to soon
render a decision in his case a nd
that he has every reason to be-
lieve that it will be in his favor.
He says that he was "jobbed"
out of his Office to please the
Governor and that when the
proper time comes he is going to
make a county wide campaign
and explain to the people just
how the trap was set and he
was made the goat. f." He is
enthusiastic in the belief that he
will be reelected.
The Magic City Furniture
Company is having a new front
put in their building in the
furniture department. The re-
cess doors will be taken out and
it will be made one solid front
which will enable them to better
display their larger pieces of
furniture. 1t will have a marble
base. The entrance will be on
the north side in front of the
old stair way. r. l.. Pryor is
doing the work.
H. B. Danville, representing
the Southern Carnival Company
was in the city Monday and
signed up a contract with the
Clovis Chamber of Commerce to
bring his shows here for the 4th
of July week celebration. Un-
der the contract. the Clovis
Chamber of Commerce will
receive 10 per cent of the
re ceipts. which will be ex-
pended in entertaining t h e
people on the 4th.
Sheriff D. L. Moye left for
Dallas. Tuesday for the purpose
of taking into custody a man by
the name of Mahan, who is
accused of raising checks. and
who was indicted on that charge
by the last Grand Jury.
Mahan was arrested by the
Dallas authori ties on request of
Sheriff Moye.
Mrs. A. ]. Osborne has again
displayed her magnitude of
character which has always en-
deared her to the public. This
time she has adopted two little
orphan children from an
Orphans home in st Louis;
a pretty little girl of ten years
and her little brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Erickson
and Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Land.
of Ft Sumner, came up in their
car Saturday evening and re-
turned home Monday. Mr..
Land is president of the First
National Bank. Mr.. Erickson is
the leading merchant of the
prosperous Pecos Valley City.
Prof. W. E. Carroon an d
Misses Neva Odom. Maud
Evans and Fannie Howell left
for Silver City to attend the
summer Normal, in which Prof.
Carroon has hoon amniovad aa
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1915-06-04

Shipley Brothers Cattle Com
pany sold a bunch of beef stuff
to the Central Market this week.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1915-06-04

Prof. Bieler, of Portales, was
q Clovis visitor, Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04

Down in the warm dark cellar,
Tommy Tittle-mouse had spent the
winter very happily. His aristocratlc
cousin might stay up in the light at
tic all he wanted to, for his own part
Tommy Tittle-mouse preferred the
safer though duller cellar. 1t must
be admitted that Tommy Tittle-mouse
was far from brave-in fact he came
very near to being a real coward!
But with all his 'fraidness, Tommy
Tittle-mouse was such a kind, unset
fish little fellow that he was very
nice friend to have
Through the long winter Tommy
Tittle-mouSe lived on what stray
scraps he could find. He was too
tinid to venture often to the pantry
on the first floor, where his attic cou-
sin made frequent visits, and winter
was a lean season in the cellar
Tommy Tittle-mouSe never thought to
complain, though, he was happy and
satisfied when he was safe from harm.
Though he had to admit to himself
that he wouldn't mind more to eat
One warm day in the early summer,
when the house was SO quiet that
Tommy was sure everybody was away
for the day, he climbed up towards
the pantry He was so lean and hun
CRY that he had no trouble at all in
slipping through cracks and around
corners
When he was nearly at his destina-
ton he heard a sound How his legs
did shakel If his cousin hadn't poked
his slim gray nose around the stairway
that very minute he surely would have
died of fright. 1t was full minute
before he found his voice, then he
said "Oh, is that you, cousin; what
start you gave me. 1 thought surely
that was the cat slipping along the
Stairi
1.-The cat fidd1esticks," quoth the
attic mouse; you are afraid if there
ever was one Tommy Tittle-mouse!
And you look as lean and poor as a
church mousei Why, don't you eat
anything"
Eat anything" exclaimed poor
Tommy Tittle-mouse heart-brokenly
that's what 1 would like to do, I'm
SO hungry / can hardly seei And
cellari''
Then why do you stay down there, |
si1ly?" asked the attic mouse disgust
eddy. "I wouldn't stay a minutei"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04

ter into the court of the Caliph as he
sat banqueting with his ernirs, cut off
the head of the man who sat next to
him, kiss his daughter thrice, and re-
quest as a present four of his jaw
teeth and a handful of his silver
beard And this task, he adds, sis
light with that of reforming the JUS
tice of the peace" We have not sue
ceeded in reforming the justice of the
peace, but we have reformed the sys-
tenn by destroying the office. The Of
flee of justice of the peace is an an
cient and honorable one, but UNI
fortunately the incumbents of the Of
flee have not always maintained its
dignity. Age and tradition alone can
not justify it's perperuation. The Of
flee cannot today command the re-
spect to which, under other condi-
lions, it might have been entitled. A
change of title alone would tend to
elevate the tribunal in the minds of
the people; but in addition to
change of name, there should come
the various reforms. embodied in the
court acts passed in the
various states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
Globe Sights
By THE ATCHISoN GLOBE.

Every holiday makes an additional blue
Monday.
No woman should dance who weighs over
$50 pounds
If a man loves his wife how does he get
rid of a crouch?
Don't join a little group of serious
thinkers and neglect your regular work.
1t may also be said for the mechanical
piano player that it doesn't take lessons.
Try not to let yourself become old and
you will add several years to your exist
tence.
While a man usually subscribes for sew
eral different papers, he relies upon his
wife for the Real News.
An engaged man is frequently henpeck-
ed, but 1t comes at time when he hasn't
sense enough to run away.
A certain Atchison woman is a worker"
and so when she is especially nice to some
one. people ask, What is she up to now ?"
If a woman who is inclined to be COM
plimentary to everyone is popular she is
called ''tactful," but If she is not very
well liked she is called ..nolitic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
Jayhawker lots

Water, water everywhere, says the
Hutchinson Gazette, and not a hostile
ship to sink-in Kansas
If Noah were living in Kansas to-
day, he certainly would be building an
ark, thinks the Haven Journal.
In advertising it's job printing de-
partment, the Fort Scott Republican
announces: We print everything but
postage stamps.
A number of low-lying Kansas
towns, notes the Columbus Advocate,
are entertaining their old, sweet, girl
graduate, Miss Helen Highwater.
So far as the Ell Dorado Republican
dresses this season have been depend
ent upon what they could do with the
materials of last season.
Mushrooms grown in gardens are
not as popular as the varieties found
wild, explains the Winfield Courier,
as there is no glory in being found
alive after eating the former.
If a railroad president is a rail
head" and an oil company's presi-
dent is an "oil head" the Independ-
ident of maple refinery must be a
sap head"
Luther Burbank may be all they
say he is, but the Wichita Beacon
would like to see him raise a garden
in a city lot with eight boys in the
family to the north and a chicken
fancier on the south
The Hazelton correspondent of the
Barber County Index says that none
of the farmers in that neck of the
woods are going to find any fault with
the length of the wheat straw this
year, unless they find it too long.
A true incident, according to the
Emporia Times: us your wife going;
to California with you to attend the
exposition?' an Emporia man was
asked last week. mo, I'm going on
a pleasure trip was the absent mind
ed answer.
Speaking of alfalfa bees, the Little
River Monitor reports: Twas a very
busy scene in w. H. Burke's alfalfa
field, Monday, when thirty men
twenty-seven shockers and three
rakers were at work. The entire so
acre crop was put in shocks during the
day, and many of the men worked
only little over six hours.
A man walking along a country road
came to a railroad crossing where two
injured men were lying beside de-
molished automobile, relates the Atch-
ison Globe. He asked them the cause
of the accident and they told him a
train had struck the car. DO you
mind If 1 lie down beside your he
asked. He wanted in on the damages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
JUSTICES OF PEACE GOING.

1t is gratifying to note. writes Hon.
Milton Strasburger in the June Case
and Comment, that the acts abolishing
the office of justice of the peace. and
those decreasing the powers of the Of
flee, have alike uniformly wfthstood
the attacks of constitutional lawyers.
In abolishing the office of justice of
the peace we have not experienced the
difficulty anticipated Addressing the
Bar association of his state a quarter
of century ago, and voicing the
sentiment of his day, prominent law
yer, after pointing in humorous vein
to the defects of the system, said:
1.-THE magistrate is in full operation
in nearly all the states of the Union
Like the poor, upon whom he most
generally performs we have him al
ways with us. The task imposed on
the Paladin Huon by Charlemagne, as
the price of his rights, was merely
that he should proceed to Bagdad. en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
EUening Chat
Off With the Old.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

! In a neighbOrhOod in which I was
visiting a few weeks ago, the minister
whose church my friends attended
had just left for fresh fields and pas
minister andaI expected to hear moth
ing but regrets.
On the contrary this is what actu-
ally heard.
you must hear the new minister.
He has such a powerful clear voice
that you don't have TO strain your
ears to listen (The former minis
ter's gentle, lows pitched voice. had
been greatly admired)
Have you seen the new minister
Good looking, isn't he? I do like to
see minister clean shaven." (The
former minister had worn Van
Dyke)
I'VE go to church every Sunday
now. The new minister breaches such
interesting, broad gauge sermons
think there is such thing astoo much
religion even in a sermon, don't you ?"
| "a hit at the former pastor.)
And 50 it ran.
Now if ever a man gave his whole
heart to his people, their former min
Iy seemed to appreciate him. And vet
the moment his back was turned it
was off with the old and on with the
new.
81 thought Mr.. S. was a universal
favorite,'' I ventured to say once.
"Oh yes, we liked him." 1 was as
sured, but he had his faults 1t
seemed to me that that sentence
struck the keynote of this common
tendency to be off with The old and
on with the new in two shakes of a
lambs tail.
I'VE liked him but he had his
faults"
OF course he had, Madame. the best
of us have. And other people get
tired of these faults and think they'd
like to try some new ones.
Maybe the congregation got tired of
their minister's virtues, too. That's
just as possible. And now they've got
a new bundle of faults and virtues and
though, TO my thinking at least, the
virtues in that bundle are fewer and
the faults less forgivable, they are
new, and nothing covers a multitude
of sins and shoddinesS like newness.
| A friend of mine is always getting
"a really splendid maid this time" A
decided that she cannot any longer
endure the faults which have gradu-
ally developed in her treasure and is
going to try again. The new maid is
in her turn pictured as a find and my
friend is happy in her for a few
months until her particular fOibleS
commence TO wear upon her
In a new neighborhood I heard with
some surprise the fervor with which
the neighbors ran down the former
tenant of my house. Later 1 was Wis
iting in the neighborhood to which he
had moved and was even more sur
We're queer. restless, unsatisfia BILE
critics, aren't we? Perhaps the best
we can do is not to blame others who
react against us in the same way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
THE soLDrEa.s EASTER SONG.


Air: Tipperary.
Back from CORY battle came soldier
The streets were full of people in their
Easter garments gay:
Silver bells were ringing in the steeples
overhead,
The soldier lSie i, he was wounded. and this is
Its a long way to glory. it's a long
way to go
From the dim and quiet churches where
the Easter lilies blow.
Good-by to home and comfort, farewell to
sweethearts dear,
It's long long. long way to glory, and my
When the soldier Joined the coIors he was
full of thoughts of Fame,
But ne found among the trenches that
they never spoke her name.
coming home upon furlough with his
right arm in sling,
He was strong for peace eternal when the
chimes began to ring:
Its long way to glory, it's a long way
The route is marked in crimson with the
blood of friend and foe.
There's a girl 1 want to marry, we have
waited most a year,
It's long, long way to glory when my
heart is here.
Il would rather have a cottage. and
garden and a cow,
Than a v. c. on my bosom, and a laurel
War has led me through his shambies
Give us peace the wide world over, fold
away the battle flags;
It's long way to glory, it's a long way
to go,
It's a long way to glory and the hardest
road 1 know.
From the snowy Easter lilies may the
~. dove of peace appear,
It's long, long way to glory, for my
-Minna Irving in Leslie's.
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the runabout sped briskly along the
road until they reached home.
Before dinner, Blake, seeking his
wife, found her curIed on the rug
before the library fire. All the dainty
little ringlets were inviting his lips,
so he coolly knelt beside her and
kissed her.
Barbara sat very still. He stole
look at her face. 1t was turned visit
fully toward him.
That is because I love you and I
have the right" be said, proudly.
But-you married me SO that you
would not lose Uncle Moses's money"
she reminded him.
THE day before our wedding Uncle
Moses confessed to me that he had
already transferred their share to
your people, but 1 had learned to
love you, and 1 would not give you
up, although Uncle Moses had con-
science-stricken notion that 1 would.
But you, Barbara-you married
me-a man you didn't love-just to
keep your family from poverty he
concluded.
THE night before our >wedding,"
confessed Barbara, Uncle Moses told
me all and said it was not too late
to Withdraw
'And you chose to marry me
why? 90
''Oh, Blake. Can't you guess ?'' she
whispered 1915 by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
QUAKER fluctuations.
EFrom the Philadelphia Record

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
The rainbow follows the storm
Also 1T follows its natural bent.
It's one thing to broaden yourself,
but quite another thing to merely get
fat.
In baseball there are times when
even the -left-handed pitcher is just
right.
OF course gambling is a vice, but
man can't even win his spurs without
taking a chance.
Muggins- How does fellow know
when he is in love with a girl?" Bug
gins-"Oh, she'll tell him.
Would you say there was much
nope for the man who would rather be
on the level than climb upwards?
Life is grind" quoted the Wise
Guy. Sure" agreed the Simple Mug
That's what sharpens a mans wits
Some people marry for love and
some for money. 1t isn't everyone
who has the knack of splitting the
difference.
The hen that has just laid an
egg" says the Manayunk Philosopher,
'cackles about it almost as much as
the woman who is laying for her hus-
band
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
EyeSight in Warfare.

Among the causes for which vol
unteers are rejected in England and
conscripts in the other European
countries, defective eyesight stands
first as regards numbers, but the New
York Medical Journal calls attention
to the fact that what may be called
efficiency OF vision for such purposes
as those of war is largely a matter of
judgment based on experience.
The man with eyes a good deal be-
low normal, when tested at the re-
cruiting station, may in the field be
a better markSman than he who
simply because the former as the re-
suit of past training, is able to make a
better Interpretation of his visual per-
cepts, blurred though they are than
is the man with the clearer sight
SavageS are wrongly credited with
better eyesight than civilized people.
The only basis of the supposed super
iority is that in his accustomed haunts
the savage can make accurate deduc-
tons from many things which the
white man sees as well, but sees with
out significance.
The Journal also notes that science
has done about as much for war In
the way of extending vision as in that
of facilitating the movements of
armies by means of railways and mo-
tor-driven vehicles. Modern big guns
would be of almost no use against
their usually distant targets if the
gunners who do the firing had to trust
to unassisted eyesight, no matter how
good, and did not have the instru-
ments of magnification and precision
by which ranges are nowadays deter
mined.
The eyes of country jewellers are
better, it seems, than those of city
men, the difference being due to ha-
bitual looking at thing remote as we'll
as near, in the one case, while the ur-
ban eye does most of it's work on OBJ
jectS near at hand, and so it's powers
of Accommodation" are weakened.
Sailors carry good vision further into
old age than any other class because
of their constant practice at all the
degrees of visibility.
Next door to poor eyesigilt as a
cause for rejecting recruits stands de-
ficiency of height, and here again an
arbitrary standard is apparently ap-
piled with too much strictness, since
it leads to the rejection of many men
who in modern conditions would not
be more efficient as fighters If a few
inches taller-who are appreciably
less likely to be hit than they would
be if taller.-New York Times.
San Diego, Calf, has new city
water filtration plant.
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ships" three thousand years ago. Its
waters now, as then, flow from springs
on Mount Ida and drain the windy
plains Of Troy" but in all these ages
they have brought down a lot of
classic mud out of the Troad and with
it filled up the crescent bay used by
the Greeks long ago. When landing
parties went ashore in March from
the French and British ships to take
possession of the Sigeum promontory.
they hauled up their cutters on the
soil of "many-towered Ilium -
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Journal Entries

Some folk are so stuck up they
must drink mucilage cocktails.
i. r r
Too many people measure good
times by the expenses involved.
= + =
AS is the case with all excellent
teachers, the fees charged by Miss EX-
perience are usually heavy.
+ + +
In the line of contemporaneous fic-
ton, some of the summer resort liter
allure should have a high rank.
+ 4 +
The fellow who isn't willing to take
a chance has no good reason to COM
plain about the quality of his luck.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

IT fOIiI tIIe OIIICd6O 4NSWS.I
Hard work brings SucceSS-some-
times.
The man who is always behind
never gets ahead
II you want to make a lazy man
tired, offer him a job.
Some married men make good dan
ger signals for bachelors.
One can't always judge man by
what his neighbors say about him.
Our idea of real pretty girl is one
who seldom has to stand in a crowded
car.
A man doesn't necessarily believe
all you say just because he doesn't
call you a liar.
When there is a family reunion the
men present enjoy it almost as much
as they do a funeral
The average man is too modest to
say he is better than other men-but
he is willing to admit he is different
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04

Tommy Tittle-mouse hung his head
and looked very ashamed. Then a
bright thought occurred to him Why
not ask his cousin where would be a
good place to live? Why hadn't he
done that before? OF course his cley-
er cousin knew many places besides
the attic, where Tommy Tittle-mouse
was SO afraid of living. So, ouickIv
before his courage oozed away, Tomuv
Tittle-mouse said: Then if voi,
wouldn't live there, where would Won
live? Tell me that"
The attic mouse scratched his head
and twisted his tail three times. then
he said thoughtfully: 81 think con-
sidering everything, I'd live in the gar
den if 1 were you"
I'm the gardeni" exclaimed III.
amazed Tommy; I'D like that And
if you say it's safe I'll go this. 1a,.
day! : Copyright - Clara Ingram