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The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
SStollHgt0l

X. G. Wool ey has been h"'i,
ing on the shop and garage ,il.
past week
Win. Edmunds coll,ded witl
Gene Elley. both on motorcycle,
Gene receiving broken leg anl
other painful injuries.
Mr.. and Mrs II. D. Nanc,
have moved into their new house
DIR. and Mrs. Nicho!son's .lou>l
is nearing completion.
II. O Nance and wife yren'
Sunday with the MilIer'S.
o. G.. Walling worked wiki
the broomcorn seeder at MIR.
Walkers Saturday.
There is new man in town.
We hear he contemplatei buying
W. A. Thompson's store.
Mrs. o. G. Walling cAlle1 nn
Mrs. G. e. Konkel Sunday.
C. w. Alcorn pulled ,lf anoth-
er real estate deal Friday.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
NUMBER 9
November IL

Good morning, Mr.. Editor.
Mrs. George Lester and Miss
Edlin have gone to Hutchinson
on short visit.
Chas. Collier is building barn.
John Runner helping him.
The Bosley children are at
tending school at Horseshoe this
winter.
Marion Doyle spent Sunday
with Valmer and Floyd Bosly.
Mr.. Young is building a new
house.
Cnas. Johnson has returned
from Lamar with lumber for a
store at No. 9.
Harry La Blanch went to La
mar this week.
Mrs. Goodrich's soE and daugh
ter have gone lack home again.
Joe Stewart, father and Char
ley Bosley took supper with Bos-
ley's Sunday.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
West Pretty Prairie
November l3

Frank Hughes is helping J w.
Dawson this week.
Mrs. }. C. Stigers went to
Pearley Bohl's Sunday to help
Mrs. BOIL with her work.
Mrs. Belle Harlow spen, last
Friday at ". A. Greath'use's
MIN Pierce delivered freight
from Holly to Geo b. Kpnkel at
Stonington Saturday.
Will Greenhouse accompanied
by Frank Pullian and Harry Mil
ler, won't down to the river
where MIR Greathouse has been
pasturing cattle, to get the
calves and few cows.
Ted. Shyer is cutting feed
for Roy Stigcrs this week.
Geo. Hughes and Frank Nor
gan started TO Holly Sunday
to get freight and Frank expect
ed his sister, Miss Pearl, OF
Tegarden, Okla, to meet them.
Mrs. Geo. Hughes and daugh
ter Miss May visited Mrs. Roy
St,eers Tuesday.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
West Flats
November 8

A young man from Texas has
taken possesson of the west half
of section 20 and is rapidly i'm
proving it.
Mrs. C. C. Campbell and
daughters Edyth and Mabel,
from Lamar, are visiting home
folks.
Mr.. Howell expects to have a
sale Thursday to dispose of some
of his horses. BE will return to
Kansas with his son.
Several of the young people
from this vicinity attended the
box supper at Lone Rock Satur-
day night. and all renort a hne
time.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Eone Rock

Aid society meets this week
with Mrs. ,ent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ullery were JOY
coy callers Sunday afternoon.
The Kidder brothers went to
Lamar the first of the week with
broomcOrn.
Franklin Dillon is the proud
owner of a new riding horse.
Mrs. L. G. Thompson starts
fol Wisconsin this week for an
extended visit with relatives and
old friends.
Mrs. Park is teaching a very
satisfactory term of school She
seems to be a thorough teacher
and ali proud that she is in our
school room. The influence that
such a noble character as Mrs
Park S will have over the child
ren will be a lasting blessing to
them.
Mr.. and Mrs Nelson and Leon,
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson and
children, and Mrs. Ed Vinyard
and children ate Sunday dinner
with the Rockhill's.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Plum Greek

Mr.. Grover went to the cedars
the latter part Of the week.
School was dismissed for a
short time this week on account
of sickness.
R. |. Johnson went to Lamar
the first Of the week.
Mr.. Richard came home from
Lamar where he has been work
ing for awhile.
Stanley Dobbs has his dugout
about completed.
The FIickcox boys have their
barn about ready for the roof.
Some of the young folks from
Maxey took Sunday dinner at
the johnson home.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Giving Up
BY Otto H. Rowland
(The Uncle Walt Mason of Baca County,

tlhe Ohcle wait mason OF baca Sounty
Some fellows say, Cl, what ;
the use of anything al al; when
the net result is I'm bopn,i to get
a fall. try to reach I ii. upper,
plain, but every time. | slip
and so 1 will not try again, be-
cause I've lost my grip" Now,
friends, it is foolish thing to
lose your grip on life, because
of pain or sorrows sting to give
up all the JOY and strife. OF
course there's not room at the
top for all the world % roost. so
you and I down here must stop
but We can give the rest a
boost.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
That Public Sale.
Circulation and
Advertising
What Gurn thinks about it.)

What Gurn thinks about it.)
w. A. Thompson's long expe-
rience in auctioneering has long
brought him in direct contact
with the proposition of circula-
ton and advertising, and has so
impressed him with the impor-
tance of both that in his folder
instructions to those contemplate
ing holding sales, he makes a
special feature of this part of
the business, as follows:
always advertise your sale
thorOughly-don't be afraid of
spending a few dollars on it, as
it may return to you many fold
on sales day. Set good heavy
bills that have an artistic ap.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
pleasant Ridge.
November 6

NOVelD Der D
Chas. Maxwell was down from
Lemar this week branding his
cattle.
Misses Lillian and Alice Ter
ry visited the Pleasant Ridge
school Friday, and report it
doing some good work.
I, David Loop and Willie Tansey
will soon have their dugout COM
plete. :,
Mrs. Mcclure spent this week
with Mrs. Jeffcoat.
Lornie johnson traded calves
with Mr.. Maxwell Thursday.
Walter Grondyke's parents
and sisters returned from Cali,
fornia, where they have been at
tending the fair for the past six
weeks.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Short Grass
November 10

Jesse and Frank Wade were
back in Baca county again last
week, on the lookout for land.
Frank Wade is a brother-in-law
Of Odis Whites
". a. Long and wife visited
with Walter Rrthrautf's Sunday.
Sunday school was organized
at Short Grass school house the
first Sunday in this month, and
is progressing nicely. Every
one come and help make it a sue
cess.
Miss Grace Neal visited with
her sister Mrs. Odis White Sat
urday night and Sunday.
Mr.. Nickells and little son re-
turned to his claim last week
from Illinois.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Wentworth

C. T.. Nelf ard fl. G.. Boaz went
to Elkhart Thursday on busi-
ness.
Sam Stalder of st. Joe, No,
came in Thursday for a visi.
with his brother, John Stalder.
Ira Strouser has returned to
Central, Kans., after a visit in
these parts.
School is progressing fine ut
the Harmon school, Miss
Rachael Alexander, teacher. Is
enrolled.
Mrs. Jas. Lang spent the day
With Mrs Minervie Nance Sat
urday.
Haney's brought in big six
horse load Of freight for Went
worth Thursday.
Corn on L. j. Mier place is the
finest in this part, it making 65
to 10 bushels per acre. That
sounds big but nevertheless true.
We only hope that these last
two seasons may be repeated,
for it will be the making of Baca
county.
Buc Boaz had bad run away
Saturday. His mules kicked
him in the head and then ran ov-
er him, hurting him severely.
but not seriously.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Horse Greek
Nov ember II,

A meeting was called at the
StalEaker school house on Sat-
urday evening for the purpose
of Organizing a literary society.
e. C. Roberts was elected presi-
dent; Cleve Stalnaker vice.presi-
dent; and Miss Waugh Sec'y.-
Treasurer. The society is to meet
at the school house every two
weeks, the date of the ne xt meet
ing being Nov. 20. There will
be u short program, including a
debate on Resolved, the United
States Should send ammunition
to foreign countries" The ev-
ening's entertainment will close
with pie supper and general
good time. Everybody invited
and welcomed and the ladies' are
all asked to bring pie. Come
and help US make it success.
Clevo Stalnaker is anxiously
awaiting the arrival of his new
Ford. Watch out, boys, he will
soon leave you all in the dust.
G c, Roberts made trip to
Lamar the last of last week.
Miss Waugh and Alta Hooker
took Sunday dinner with Mr..
and Mrs. Jay Bagby and family.
Mrs. Bagby and children spent
Monday with Mrs. Hooker.
Claude Hooker and Roy Nc
Donald made trip over the toll
line Monday and Tuesday.
Correspondent failed to sign
name. Sorry items came toe
late for last week If cores
pondent intends to send items
every week, we will send station
cry. Kindly let us know with
next letter..
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

Kansas City has been suggest
ed as storing place for NUM-
tions, because of it's safety from
capture by an enemy. For a
much better reason we would
suggest Baca county-'cause it's
the last place on earth that an
enemy would think of looking
for the stuff,
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

Spec king CIV fonetik spelling
THAR IL only wun va to spell bi
the fonik sistem, and that il too
spell it az u heer it, bi which al,
ded letters ar left out and nuth-
ing put in that u don't hear,
which givs to Inglish kind ov
Latiny apperence and signifi-
kance, sum whot akkording to In.
glish in p-e-Shakspear daz.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

1t will be remembered that a
certain house fell because it was
builded on sand, but because a
certain fortification in Russia
was Duilded of sand it has with
stood the shrapnel and shell of
the Germans for great many
moons; a case of the scriptures
reversed.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

If a handful of intrenched
Germans on the west side is sbl.
to hold indefinitely in check all
the armies of the allies that can
be sent against them, what
might we snrmise the effect to
have been in the civil war had
the south have resorted to in
trenchments? and if intrench-
ments is such powerful mode
of defense, how can we account
for the fact that it had never be-
fore been utilized!
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

''Sl' utSS w o'IShi, N'it away :
u.s. the newspaper that has ti"
large II circulation.
If poorly advertised sale
loses one buyer, ihat one buyer
may make Il differenc" cf ever II
few hundred dollars in your sale
1t hasn't appealed to some that
the diffe renee of one to six in
circulation makes the difference
of just so many sale bills. and
that if they pay $500 for an ad.
in paper having 100 circulation
they ought to pay $50 or SO for
the same ad. in paper having
800 or 700 circulation; and that
the results of an advertising
campaign will be in axact proper
ton to that circulation.
The newspaper circulation is
one feature of advert sing Il sale.
Anoth-r feature of eurH' impor-
tance, and S, recogl iZe0 ~ Auc.
Thompsor j. tie arnsl,c appear
ance II t..e bills
Given plenty Of time, bllck
smith could build your house
at the expense of the valuation
of Your property. Just 30 Il
printer Can do IL black ksmith's job
in getting out your sale bills,
the same as lie can with yollr
cards, letter heads, etc. and all
at the expense of yourself and
your business.
In advertising your sale, YOU
want to always bill the whole
county, and as Gurn says, do it
thoroughly,-not to be afraid Of
spending a few dollars.
Nearly everybody wants TO
know how many bills to get out.
Both Gurn ana the editor believe
that for ordinary sales 200 bills
should be printed-in connection
with a paper of large circulation
Up 70 this time Thompson has
cried about all the sales of the
county and the Herald has
printed about al! the bills of the
county, and so our combined
Judgment in the matter could
Mt be much amiss. =
We believe, and so does
Thompson, that the circulation
of a paper is of first Importance;
and in this connection we are
reac.y to back up our circulation.
We are now compelled to run off
$50 copies: and our subscription
books are open to public iuspec-
ton for verication or refuta-
ton of these figures.
If you want to sell anything,
N buy anything, or have lost or
found anything, don't forget
that the Herald is central for
ali the good people of Baca
county, and will put you in con-
nection with the man you want
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
The Heralds
Type Setting Machine

1t just simply had to happen.
AS the official paper of the
county news, p more rapid
means of getting up the news re
quired the installation of a ma
chine that would set up whole
lines at a time.
In the years to come, when the
Herald is ready to take its place
as one of the leading dailies of
the west, We shall have to
install another machine that will
set up whole pages at time.
Joe Scannell did the scannel-
Gus thing Of depositins the big
linotype machine on the front
steps of the Herald office last
Friday morning before our
breakfasts (Which we didn't
have any, were thoroughly set.
tied, or our muscles groomed for
the extra exertion, and insisted
that the machine be taken off his
hands then and there.
Because it was in the morning
of our publication day we might
have left him in his predica-
ment, but as the big machine
weighed about a ton it was only
a humane or Red Cross act to get
it off his hands as soon as pos
sible, and accordingly the entire
Herald force aud an early pro
cession of citizens were conscript-
ed to come TO the rescue, and
to aid IN the good cause of in
stalling the machire on the ship
decks of it's new home, the same
being the Office building of the
great ad. paper of the county.
and the pa per what's got the big
circulation.
The GREET County Builder be-
lieves with Bryan in peace; but,
after this rapid fire machine is
mounted and ready for action,
which will require a month or
more, we shall train its Shrap
mel shell on the first bald pate
that is seen above the parapet in
a menacing attitude.
The machine being Of high
tention power will require an en-
gine to operate it, which We
shall hoIe to have here in the
course of few weeks.
When the engine has been in
stalled and the machine is in op-
Grafton, we shall extend specia
invitation to Herald readers
and Herald friends to drop in
and watch the boy pound tie
stuffin' out Of the thing, in his
efforts TO make it conform to the
rules as laid down by Hoy)e.
Thanking all our many friends
for past favors and kindly words
of appreciation, and hoping that
prosperity may smile on all oul
good people, we remain Yours
for ~ Greater Baca County.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

The saw and-hammer artists
continue their activity i'll SPRING
field, with the PROBABILITY that
there will be no let up in the de-
mand for tnem tor some years
to come.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas
continue to pour their quotoes
into the closing up campaign in
the west of Baca and the east
enc of Las Amimas
Mir. and Mrs. Ralph Miller.
Campo. were presented with a
baby girl last week, DR.. MrMil-
len attending.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Big Elats

Mr., Campbell and Sherrel
West went to the cedars recent
ly.
Rhae Lackey and Miss Mary
Crlck visited at the Williams
home Sunday.
Herman Smith was helping
make sorghum at Alfrey's Satur
day.
Mrs. Glen Yokum and F'reeton
Yokley visited at Scobee's Fri
day.
Mrs. Jackman helped Mrs. Al.
frey cook for the sorghum max
ers two days last week.
Corn Husking will soon COM
mence on Big Flats.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Conner, little baby boy on the
14th. Mother and baby Going
nicely.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

Among the many remarkable
things of this war is the one
that while the allies have been
trying to move heaven and earth
for loans, Germany and Austria
seem to have money of their own
-havn't tried to borrow from
anybody on the outside.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

1t my he the best for that
country, but it's too burned still
down in old Mex for the good of
our jingoes and paragraphers.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

Wnen Springfield mas a thou
sand people there may be a lull
in it's building boom; and then
again that may be just the be-
ginning of its activity.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

We believe that one of the first
acts of congress should be to
warn Amtri cans to keep off bel
ligerent ships, and to announce
that a disregard of warning
would put them outsid e of the
protection of the United States.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

Prairie schooners have been
us common sight in Springfield
as autos on the streets or peo-
pie on the (where they ought to
be) sidewalks.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

In order to get BACK on the
first page 1or u little While, we
would advise Roosevelt to give
out a statement of who he thinks
should be nominated Ano elected
president next year.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Villas.

Miss Leton Ynkley is visiting
at M. M. Pritchard's for a few
days this week.
Dewey Pritchard and Glen
Yokum spent the first OF the
week in Lamar.
Mrs. YoNley was quite sick
the first of the week.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank Drumm
of Cedarvale, Kansas, have been
visiting their brother, Atwood
Drumm, at the Harrison ranch
Leila Pritchard and the Lepel
girls are home for a weeks va.
cation from the Lamar high
school.
Paul Pritchard has returned
from Denver where he has been
doctoring.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
FreeZeOut

Well, here comes Freezeout
again after a week S absence.
Roscoe and Edward Byers re-
turned Thursday from Ulysses,
kans., where they had been call
ed to attend the funeral of their
sister, Miss Nellie Byers.
G. w. Peters and Mr.. Culver
took dinner with SCOTS Sunday.
Billy Byers and Reid White
made trip to Lamar last week
after a load of freight.
Mrs. Gettings called on Mrs.
Scott one day last week.
Mr.. Gettines is hauling feed
from Joycoy this week
Mrs. Mary White spent las
Thursday and Friday night with
Miss Gladys ard Cecilia Am
mOnr.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19
Rodley

Everything but pr. So rlty
frozen up at Rodley.
! Mr.. Macy has new good arriv
ing for his store. We p cdici
IL prosperous business for hnn
and the store in our nei Shbor-
hood.
Mr.. Tanner has finished sor-
ghum making at Ballou's. He
made an abundance of good
sweetening.
Joseph Moorhead is at Fix
hart with broomcorn for Great
hous-; also Clark and others.
Victor Roberts c.ug;.t large
prairie bowler" Saturday night.
Hope you'll get them all, Vic.
Rogers and BIZ sons are in the
cedars.
Joe Hawkins is clerking for
Richards for Il fey weeks.
James Tanner has the honor
of freighting the first load of
groc for Macy'> new store.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

The new bank is going to be
the best locker in town, and will
be one of the frs. to catch the
eve of visitors and investors.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

The extract from the t't. Col
Inns "Scool Jurnel' recently cop
led In the Herald and recommend
ed to the Sentinel as a guide in
spelling, had no references to
type errors, but simply to the
fact that the Sentinel isn't going
the whole hog in its ado ton of
the simp system of doins things;
but probably that is accounted
for by the system having been at
one time recommended by Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
The Springfield herald., 1915-11-19

A letter from G. E. konkel of
Stonington says, Just wanted to
say that 1 am greatly pleased
with the ad. l believe it is as
good as ally ever run in the Her
ald;" and that's the way Cur ad-
vertisers all feel. Take a look at
the ad. pages of the Herald and
your first feeling is that that
page was build up by an artist.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-19

Since the German submarines be-
gan their cleanup everything is rum
ming 10 the construction of under sea
craft, and our new superdreadnoughts
are threatened with the wiscard.
Eve must put our navy under the
water before the invader does it with
shot and she'll" writes Simon Lake,
inventor of the even-keel submarine.
He would construct sort of sub
marine automobile to patrol the coast.
You know simon's business is invent
ing things.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-19
o. S. G. WRITES INTERESTING
LETTER FROM TACOMA

Tacoma, Wash, July 8, 1915.
Durango Herald:
Lest you forget me altogether,
feel that it's up to me to remind you
now and then that 81 still live"
For years l had it in mind that |
was the Jonah of Durango, the
worm, SO to speak, that made her
gourd vine to wither and refuse to
yield fruit, and that if | were cast
out to "slosh" around in some whales
insides until its indigestion made it
seasick enough to cast me out on
some distant shore her gourd vine
would renew its life and flourish like
cottonwood.
trust it's even so and fortune
has relented and smilingly unlocked
her golden treasures and poured them
with unrestricted hand, as the rains
fall upon the high and low alike.
Next to having fortune by the tail'
oneself is to know that ones old
time friends are up to their necks
in the swim"
One thing notice and that is you
have quite an influx of new people,
since the Herald locals concern more
names unfamiliar to me than other
wise.
In marriages especially do wife and
| wonder who the parties in interest
can be and the social columns TEEN
with names, that are as meaningless
to us as Dutch"
Either the little city on the banks
of the river of lost souls, where most
of our lives have been spent, is
gathering in strangers from the east
and from the vast; from the north
and the south, or our memories are
nightly at fault.
Well as the fellow said, "temups
do fugit," and like the tides the tides
don't give a peny whether Bryan re-
signs or sticks like cockle-b bud; nor
whether the watt of his wings re-
moves the last vistage of hair from
off fellows head or not, and if
we don't like it as the old folks used
to say.
Nothing more forcibly illustrates
the ravages made by time than the
changes made IN the Durango bar
within my own recollection.
l went to Durango in March, 1882,
when as now, the lawyers in practice
ranked as high in all that goes to
make up legal ability and to bring
the best repute, as they did any place
under the sun.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-19
GENTLENEss WILL CONQUER

To Western Farm Life.
very seldom write to any paper
or magazine, but | saw an article in
the last issue of your magazine that
interests me on how to handle the
horses. made a study of that all my
life. l bought horses and broke them
for a number of years. broke a
number of colts and young horses.
The best success | had was by put
ting the harness on them and leading
them by the side of a joined team
everywhere. They got accustomed to
everything in town and everywhere,
and when l hitched them up they
walked right off. l never put any
load on them until they know how to
pull. have had great deal of pleas
ure in getting horses that were spoil
ed, but there was nothing in it. l
had but two that could not be hand
led. got them all the way from four
years to twelve years, home raised
and western raised. One knocked
seven teeth out of me at one time
I worked her for year and sold
her for a fair price.
When my boys were small let
them play with the colts when little
and when they were two years old
they broke easy. Keep the whip off
Of theml bought a two-year-old
colt once off the range that had never
been fed or touched. He was so wild
he would not eat when we were in
the barn. For week or more the
drivers and there were lot of them
wanted to take a club and teach him,
but ! would let no one touch him.
When he found out would not hurt
him he was all right, l drove him
for years. He scared at nothing; my
children could do anything with him.
70 is like whipping a man or boy
that doesn't know his letters or be-
cause he can't run a bank.
! am now II years old and could
tell hundred tales like this. You
can't teach horse anything with the
Whip.--L. II. X. Denver, Colo.