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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-12-23

When the cats away it's up to the
mousetrap to get busy
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-12-23

These street musicians lead a lazy
life"
Not so. 1t is one long. daily grind"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-12-23

For any cut use Hanford's Bal
sam. Adv.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-12-23

Charity covers a multitude of sins,
and church roof covers a multitude
of sinners
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-12-23

Nearly every girl worth having has
been in love before.
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May Invade England.

Many experts consider German at
tempt to invade England serious
possibility. They point to the extern
sive movement of Teutonic troops in
Belgium toward the seacoast, which
they construe as preparatory move
to the embarking of an army at Zee
brugge and in the Scheldt for an at.
tempt in force upon the island OF
Great Britain.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-12-23
GERMANY PLANS
new OFFENSIVE
Mightiest Yet by Teutons Is
Expected to Be Struck
ARMY SENT AGAINST EGYPT
Attempted Invasion of England Not
Among the ImpossibiIites Ac-
cordins to Military Critics.
Troops Moving North.

London. - Another German often.
sive, probably the fiercest and might
est thus far attempted by the kaiser,
is expected by the allied commanders
on both the eastern and western
fronts.
Every report of the hurried move.
ments Of immense bodies OF German
troops across Central Europe, cou-
pied with the lull in the Balkans, in
dicates that the Teutonic allies are
about to place every resource of men
and munitions into a final effort to
sweep back the entente lines, create
CONSERVATION in the allied capitals
and compel an immediate peace while
the central powers still hold the whip
hand
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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
A NEW YEAR GIFT
Dividend No. 2. Amounting to Over
$4,000 VIII Be Paid Depositors
of the Old State Bank

A New Years gift that will be ap-
preciated by the depositors of the de-
funct State Bank of Rocky Ford will
be the receipt of Dividend No 2, con-
sisting of percent of all approved
claims against the lamented institution,
which will go out from the receivers
office in this city within the next few
days.
This dividend will come as most
agreeable surprise to the depositors,
many of whom thought they had already
received all that would ever return to
them of the funds deposited in the i'll
fated institution that failed to open its
doors after the new year of seven years
ago.
Checks aggregating few dollars
over S12, 300 will be forwarded the de-
positors in payment of this dividend,
and there is fair prospect that in the
course of human events another dividend
may be Forthcoming before their claims
are outlawed by time. There is yet
considerable property in litigation, as
well as some that Receiver Hall has
been unable to dispose of at anything
like its actual value, and until these
matters can be adjudicated the deposit
ors will still have something coming.
In December, 1909, Dividend No. l
of 15 percent was paid the depositors.
Dividend No. will bring the returns
up to 81 percent, so there is yet chance
that the 25 percent promised by the re-
ceiver may be reached-if we live long
enough to see the finish.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
KILLED BY TRAIN
Manzanola Farmer Meets Instant
Death on Monday

Shortly after noon on Monday, E. w.
Parker, well known and prosperous
farmer near Manzanola, was instantly
killed when Santa Fe train No. II struck
the open buggy in which he was riding
and threw him on the pilot carrying him
twenty-five feet before he fell to the
track.
Mr.. Parker's neck, back and legs
were broken by the shock. The buggy
was broken into splinters, but the
horse was unhurt.
1t is unknown how the accident hap
pened as he was alone and no one saw
the train strike the carriage. Just this
side of Hanzanola, where the accident
happened. there is an orchard running
along the right of way and it is thought
that Parker did not see the approach
ing train until 1t was upon him.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
BEET GROWERS
VIII Perfect Permanent Organization
in This City on Saturday

After a number of district meetings
in outlying sections the sugar beet
growers of Otero county have reached
the conclusion that only by thorough
organization can they hope to accom-
plish results, and to this end mass
meeting of the growers will be held in
Rocky Ford tomorrow Saturday after
noon.
At this meeting reports will be re-
ceived from the committee appointed to
communicate with like organizations in
the northern part of the state
whom they have resolved to work in
harmony and it is expected that per-
manent organization will be effected,
officers elected and a constitution and
bylaws adopted
In conjunction with the northern
Colorado beet growers tentative con-
tract has been prepared to govern the
growing of beets for this coming season
and this will likely be submitted at to-
morrow's meeting, and if it meets the
approval of the members the newly
formed association will in the near
future have a contract to present the
different beet sugar companies of the
valley for their approval.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01

effect OF both will be to centralize
the important parts and powers OF
state government; to increase the cf-
ficiency OF state government; to de-
crease the pay roll and to. in effect,
establish what might be termed a
Social silencer." In other words,
it is believed the enactment of these
two laws and their going into effect
will put stop to the general criti-
cism on the cost OF state government.
In addition TO the adjustment OF
all boards and bureaus and OF all
boards OF control, together with COM
missions and commissioners. it is the
intention TO abolish the Court OF APP
peals.
The general plan as outlined by the
leaders is the most stupendous change
in governmental affairs ever underta-
ken in the state. 1t differs from 9TH
er changes in that it is areduction in
the cost OF maintaining state govern
ment and not an increase. 1t means a
complete rcarranging OF the powers
OF governmental functions. 1t means
the Capitalization OF the power in the
hands of the few. II means the con-
ducting OF the state government with
a very few but necessarily efficient
men and women,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
Best Campaign In History

The Holly Sugar company is exper-
fencing one of the best campaigns of
its history at this place. They figure
that with no bad luck. the campaign
will close in about eight, or ten more
days. The weather has been ideal this
fall, as the farmers have had good
weather in which to harvest their crops
and the factory has not suffered any
break-downs which have stopped them
for more than an hour or so.
The farmers have been paid fair
price this year and most of them are
realizing that their beet crop is one
crop on which they cannot lose out like
they did the past year on the canta-
loupes. The company will begin to get
their 1915 contracts out just as soon as
the present campaign is over, and it is
expected that there will be much
larger increase in acreage in this dis
trict next year. Swink Advocate.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
NOW IT'S BASKETBALL
High School Girls and Boys Win
from Alumni Teams

While the interscholastic league
basketball games are yet in the dim
distant future, interest in this indoor
sport has been revived, and will con-
tinue to grow in interest in high school
circles for the remainder of the season,
if the rapid advancement in popularity
of the practice games may be taken as
a criterion.
The annual High School-Alumni
basketball games were played Monday
night to the satifaction of the spect-
ators who were out in goodly numbers.
They were the most strenuous and ex-
citing games ever witnessed on our
court.
The girls game was fast and furious
from the start. The school girls won
from the alumni only because of better
training and physical condition. They
are to be commended upon their con-
Quoted and the manner in which they
withstood the foot ball tactics OF the
alumni. The girls only need little
more experience to make champion
ship team. The final score was 81 to 81.
The boys game was anybody's game
until the last whistle. While very fast
and exciting it was more rough and
tumble than scientific. Although the
alumni boys got more blood the high
school won in the matter of points, Is
to ID. The game proved the school has
fine material for team hut only their
superior physical condition won the
game for them. With more system to
their playing they will be able to win
from the best teams of the valley and
can be expected to win the pennant.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
A MERRY yULETIDE
Five Hundred Youngsters Entertained
at Elks Home-Cupld Also
Celebrates

As was anticipated by The Enterprise
last week Christmas was right royalty
celebrated this year in Rocky Ford. Sc
far as heard from no person in this city
was overlooked by Santa Claus and his
coadjutors from the Associated Board
of Charity, the churches and the Good
Fellows, of whom there's quite host.
Nowhere was Christmas more pleas
antly spent than at the Elks home,
where the children of the city to the
number of at least 500 were gathered
for couple of the most enjoyable
hours they have ever known. In one
part of the spacious home the boys
were initiated in the use of boxing
gloves and other fascinating sports by
number of fatherly Elks, and in an
other room the little girls played games
and danced to music furnished by the
Grand orchestra. Under the watchful
care of ladies from the several Sunday
schools of the city the kids had jolly
good time, and as they left for their
homes each bearing sacks of candy and
fruit their lively prattle was most con-
vincing that they'd had a most enjoy
able time.
OF course Cupid had to take hand
in the Christmas festivities, and his
first victims were Allsworth M. Jessup
and Mrs. Ora l. Davis, who were united
in wedlock on Christmas Eve by Rev.
d. w. James. The wedding was SOL
emnized at the home of the bride, 2o3
South Tenth street, in the presence of
relatives. The happy groom is cabinet
maker in Lamar, where he has prepared
cozy home for his bride. The newly
weds have a host of warm friends in
Lamar and are receiving hearty con-
gratulations upon the happy event.
At the Baptist parsonage on Christ
mas evening Rev. James was again
pressed into service, on this occasion
performing the marriage ceremony for
Ward A. Brannon and Miss Fannie Rule
The young people are both well known
in this city and have large circle of
friends who will join The Enterprise in
wishing them every happiness in their
new relations. For the present the
newly-weds will make their home with
the brides mother at 200 North Third
street.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
A New Year ApostrOphe.

IA iNS" ASuA hPoSAA oPAA$'
A BABY smiles in its mothers face,
~ There at her breast in a soft en-
brace
A life beginning and all to learn.
Oh, mother heart that shall leap and
yearn,
Teaching the dimpIed feet to walk,
Teaching the honeyed mouth to talk!
oh, time, make haste for the baby dear
And spread the coming of each New
Year!
A youth with tho fire and blood Of
spring
And hope that rises on eager wing
Thrills at the sight Of maiden's blush,
Stirring his heart with the first hot
flush
OF love reguited, that finds its mate
And yet but little while must wait,
Watches and listens thy step to hear.
oh, speed thy coming, thou sweet New
Year!
In manhood's prime there is standing
one,
And all but his greatest task is done.
Beyond his reach, but before his eyes,
Greatest of all is the final prize.
Yet but a little he'll hold it fast;
A year and a day twill be his at last,
conquerins spirit that knows not fear,
Bidding thee hasten, oh, brave New
Year!
Gray 10 the crown Of a wholesome life
And peace the benison sweet of strife.
An aged man with his strength nigh
spent,
With nerves a-trombIe, his slight form
bent,
Erect in spirit and white of soul,
With steps that falter, is near the goal.
With eyes bedimmed, but faith that's
clear,
He Graves but thy rest, oh, blest New
Yearl
New York World.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
The Old Year.

0LD year, you are through,
And you slip from US now,
While we look to the new
That is making its bow
With the hope It will bring
Us the joys that we crave
And the welcome bells ring
While you go to your grave.
All, what is this life
But a year when all's said,
Joy, anguish and strife
And the tears that we shedf
Old year, in your days
We have laughed with delight
And have danced in the haze
OF your glorious light.
Many songs we have sung,
And our dirges we've played,
And our hearts have been wrung
When our loved ones we've laid
Cold and still in the ground.
We have sorrowed and wept
As we stood by the mound,
But our trust we have kept.
Old year, in your days
There was happiness too.
On our varying ways
Blossomed roses and rue.
There were pleasures and pain,
There were struggles and strife,
There were both loss and gain
In the round of your life,
But in summing it up
As you slip from our hall
You poured in our cup
More Of sweet than of gall.
A mixture of sweet
And of bitterness, too;
Some tasted defeat;
Successes some knew.
And that is our life,
When it's all said and done,
A portion of strife
And a portion of fun.
oh, may it be ehanted
OF me when I'm through
He lived and he planted
More roses than rue!
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
A NEW YEAR IS BORN
WHAT WILL 1T BRING US?

A New Year is born
Nineteen hundred and fifteen
What will it bring us?
Will it be year Of plenty-or of want?
Will it be of happiness--or of misery?
Will it be of honor-or of oboquy?
Will it be of fe-or of death?
WE ONLY KNEW 8
A New Year! Ft
What will it bring to country?
Will it bring continuation of that great which
Providence thus far bestow ed upon us?
Will it highway through the network of
which renced the soil of half the world with the
thousands upon thousands of the the most intelligent
enlightened peoples of all times?
Will be a bright and shining star to lead safely
through the appalling pers that beset the earth?
will the whitening blight of
pestience, and famine and determination?
Will of the humming wheels of industry and
gladstone song replaced
cannon shells and the bursting of bombs
and the groans mame the mutiate dying?
Which will it be?
IF WE ONLY KNEW!
A New Year is born!
Nineteen hundred and fifteen!
"And what of that?' you ask.
Not much Just ttle-and yet much!
Nineteen hundred and ffeen
words yet those words signify today
reckon year which Christ Christ
was our ideal perfect only
things
infancy of the year shall we keep before
whose ana whose deeds
self cam dim? 'r @fi i111
keep before the memory of the in whose
write "1915"?
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01

Superintendent Daniel Ward, Prin-
cipal Marshall and several of the Rocky
Ford teachers attended the parent
teachers meeting in Denver this week.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-01
PROGRAM
Pennsylvania, Kansas and Neb-
raska Day, January ], 1915

Music. Orchestra
Song, My Country ..... Audience
Prayer. DIR. j. l.. Weaver
Address ...............C Chairman
Solo Miss Ruth Farris
Nebraska. .... Mrs. M. w. Hall
Music Orchestra
Recitation. Mrs. o. E. Clark
Quartette ......... Misses Goblin
Pennsylvania. ...... Mrs. Mayo
Quartette. 50. Jacob Weist ct al
Reading. ..... Clark Kitchen
Music ......... Orchestra
Kansas Rev. Stamp
Duet. Mr.. and Mrs. F. Latson
Recitation. John Shottenkirk
Song ....... Misses Blakely
Music Orchestra
Election of Officers
COME. Bring your friends and
your baskets and enjoy the big
gest Reunion these states have
ever had.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-08-11
!. THORPE d. r: J


RI y John Croyleg called on his daughter,
q Mrs. Fred Wendell !, Sunday. &
SsS s. reynolds and daughter, Vera,
and grandd liter, Doris Russell, Of
Dundee spent Monday in Greeley,
II and while returning home were
caught in the rain and spent Mon
day and Tuesday at the George
Briggs home. n s5 &
Il Mr. and Mrs. William Rudy and
little son were callers In Thorpe on
Monday. 3sS.. i S
Martin Of Greeley was a bust
4 ness call Ter In Thorpe Monday i; sss v All.
5$5l " Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Durey OF Man
chester and Mr. and Mrs. Kearney
. and little son Of Illinois autoed to
Thorpe Friday. ;s$
gias3 Dale Burgess who has been assist
ing his father at Graham the 4s past
week, returned ito his home ,tiS in
& ThOrp Thursd az. s IS NJ %
Daniel sSark left here Wednesday
for Davenport for al few days visit
and from there he and his wife will
10 to- Iowa City, y: where Il. MI. Sark
will su Emit to- an op Grafton. Il.
MeryinB SchmOck spent Friday with
his little friend, Claude Lee. 5i..$
The sunday School program at
Thorpe was quite well attended on
last Sunday. i.j.5 q
S Mrs. G. RI. Briggs Of Edgewood
visited lat the James Faust home on
Thursday. m 2}55@ q III
Il There is new store being started
IN q horpe. Dale Burgess will be the
manager. s'5 U: 81
fS2s Mrs. illiam Chambers and Mrs.
Charles Smith were shoppe rs in Man
3 chester last Wee ne sday.
Albert ;Garmore, who has been as
n sisting on the Thorpe farm near
Thorpe, spent part Of last week in
Graham. n. A X EN- Sa5gS IA, u
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-08-11
INCREASE OF CONVICT Lk3c CT.

Different System Of Using convic;s In
Thirty States. j. h
Thirty states ut the beginning ri the
present year had on thyir slalu,e Looks
laws providing for the employment Of
state prisoners in road building. Ari-
IONA, h Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana,
Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jer-
sey, New Mexico. Ohio, Oregon, Vir-
ginia and Washington follow practical
" the same system, pro- iding that the
control Of this work shall be vested in
the state highway commission. The
highway commission or state engineer
makes requisition to the state prison
authorities for such number of pris-
oners as he can use effectively, and the
prison authorities turn over to him
such prisoners as are suitable for the
road work. 5} /: u 81 5sa !.
The prison commission or board Of
control OF state institutions Is held re-
sponsible for the development of the
convict road work In some nine states
colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Missouri North Dakota,
Oklahoma and Wisconsin. State pris-
oners are turned over to the county
authorities to be worked on the county
roads in Florida, Georgia, North Caro-
lima and South Carolina. This system
is not approved by the national com
mittee on prisons and prison labor
which holds that the State under no
circumstances Is justified in delegating
the responsibility for its convict wards
to county authorities ,55
The system lin New York state d.
vides the resp nsibility for the con-
struction work and maintenance Of the
camps between the state highway de-
partment and the commissio toner's Of the
counties in which the roads are to be
built, with the state superintendent Of
prisons In final authority. In Utah.
West Virginia and Wyoming the high
way department and the prison depart
ment cooperate in the control Of this
work. The prison department is fully
responsible for the care and discipline
Of the prisoners, while the road depart
ment is called upon to do the work
which tits equipped to do, the build
ing Of roads. I&$f .s,,.,,.5;, $12 ;.
The committee has found this latter
system essential to the successful de
yelopment Of convict road work. The
prison department Is In q position to
care for the prisoners and to handle
such matters as food, clothing, hous-
Ing, medical attention, the affording
Of caional facilities and recreation
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-08-11
Farm / I |: |. and !: Il .
.... Garden.
PINE MICE, ORCHARD PESTS.

They Are True Rodents and Live Upon
WI Seeds, Roots and Leaves.
Prepared by the United States depart-'
- -. ment of agricultural !, ~
Pine mice occur over the greater part
Of eastern United States from the Hud-
son river valley to eastern Kansas and
Nebraska and from the great lakes to
the gulf Of Mexico. Inhabitants chief
" Of forest regions, they are I'M
known on the open plains. Ordinarily
they live In the woods, but are partial
also to old pastures or lands not fire.
quently cultivated. From woods,
hedges and fence rows they spread
into gardens, lawns and cultivated
fields through their own underground
tunnels or those Of the garden mole.
The tunnels made BY pine mice can be
distinguished from those made by
moles only by their smaller diameter
and the frequent holes that open to
the surface. N n, y. 4.95.. f ~
While the mole feeds almost wholly
upon insects and earth and sell
dom eats vegetable substances, pine
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-08-11
] Making ii the The Lii. Little
4 i. Farm ar! |. I. Pay q
By c. c. BOWsFlELD

q. arF " -
An example Of what city man can
accomplish on land will be Of interest
in view of the general desire Of town
people to live in the country. x, u.
A young clerk who seemed to be in
failing health got possession of two
acres near town and concluded to do
something in the line Of fruit growing.
After getting down to business he saw
that by applying the strictest pfinci-
pies Of Intensive cultivation he would
be able to spare space for apple trees
and still get a living from his "green
STUFF as he went along. So he ex-,
pended q part of his little capital on
twenty-five apple trees, and as many
plum trees, with fifty grapevines, these
last taking up less room than one
would imagine, Us they grew against
the buildings. The porches; front and
Back, that had presented a bare APP:
pearance, benefited by this innovation.
Five hundred strawberry plants, a
hundred bushes each of raspberry and
blackberry and half a hundred rhu
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-08-11
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RoUTs AND LAND VALUES.

- The building Of a great deal Of
. we'll paved roads in Afanatee
:. county. Fla, has shown hov
good roads affect land values
: From 1911 to 1912 land laloii !
these roads increased on the
; average $40 an acre, while lands
.. mile from the road increased
: only $40 an acre. 2:sS5$s X A.
Dinwiddie county, Va is an:
. other Instructive case. The build
ing Of 125 miles of fine roads
caused land adjacent to the
roads to Increase in value from
$24.25 to $50 an acre, while
. lands ten miles away increased
; an average of 1882 an acre.
The state builds the road, and
the landowner sells it If he sells
the land. That would look queer
to a man from another planet.
The man miles away is taxed to
build roads, and the people along
the pike get the selling value Of
them. Rather queer. too, when
;, one thinks of it for a few min.
,utes. T.. T-s% /, ,s y. g.. s} Sn j.5t 3 IS -
= The figures are a powerful argu-
.. ment for good roads and also for
) n better way Of apportiontng the
burdens and benefits.-FErm and
) Fireside. g. r. rs. s WE