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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25
TO SETTLE LABOR DISPUTES
Federal Body Should Fix Railway
Ratee and Wages.

Baton Rouge, La.-Commenting on
the prospective railroad strike for
higher wages, the Times says:
Congress should pass an act at once
giving the interstate commerce com.
mission authority to settle the labor
disputes, just as 1t has the right to fix
rates.
It is more important that the inter
state commerce commission have the
right to fix wages and settle disputes
than 1t is that it have the right to de
termine freight rates and prohibit re
bates.
Business can hobble along under
high freight rates. Death would fol
low n general railroad strike.
Both the railroads and the railroad
men may be able to Withstand strike
but the public cannot The public is
not in position to face general
strike of the railroads in the country.
The calamity is too awful to con
template.
1t would be more frightful than O
dozen Mexican wars. 1t should not be
in the power of a set of men to bring
such n disaster to the public.
The commission has the right to say
what the railroads shall charge for
their service.
This commission should be given
the right to say what they shall pay
for the labor that It takes to perform
this service.
AMI 1t should be given th.s authority
at cnce.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25
Notice. of Application to Lease
State Lands

Office of the State Board OF Land Commits
soners, Denver. Colo, August 10th, 1916
Notice is hereby given that Gerald A.
Guthrie. whose postotiice address Is Rocky
Ford. Colorado. has made application No
A62dI to lease the following described School
Lands. situate in OIero County. Colorado.
tO-wit:
% 5. Rang @ 10 W.
Notice is further hereby given that all
other persons desiring to file AN applicai ion
to lease this tract of land must Ii Ia inc same
In TINS oiiice pIio to September %. 1915, as
no other application TO lease the above
described lands will be considered after said
date.
JOHN +. VIVIAN. 1916
Register state Board Land Commtssi toner's
by Lucy PEABODY. Deputy Register
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25
HUGHES and FAIRBANKS.
For State Senator

For State Senator
To the Republican Voters of the Twenty
third Senatorial District:
| hereby announce myself as candi-
date for nomination as state senator at
the primary election on Sept. IL.
Should | secure this nomination and
subsequent election pledge myself to
use my best efforts to secure such re-
medal legislation as the people of Crow
ley and Otero counties may desire.
C. S. CULP
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

Or. J. H. Samuel, Dentist. Office over
Rocky Ford National Bank. Office open
Saturday evenings. Phone Ford 90.
Residence phone West l4l
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

For Bibles and Testaments, small and
large and at any price, see W. H. Stamp,
5o4 So. Eighth St., agent for American
Bible Society.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

JOllnstDu NJ GOSc-nu nre hen a
aunrters for stock salt stock dip.
cotion cake Tanlsnac- N Hess.
ssns.L fnnir-
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

For Sale.--2o Shoats. about rs pounds
each. Chester johnson. miles east of
Cheraw. l2tf
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

For Sale.-A set OF surveyors imple-
ments. Irquire at this office. loft
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

For Sale.-A medium. gentle single
driver. Inquire at this office. loft
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

Want several good reliable snappy
agents. None other need apply. One Of
best selling propositions on the market
Phone Ford 100 for appointment. F. E.
Baker, 81 II So | 9th St.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

Johnston ~ Go~crnu bnvr inst
received 81 ear of tAdS' Grow, chicI,
food and poultry sUpD1ics-
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25

For Rent.-Five room modern house
and furniture for sale. Apply to sol So
Eleventh ST. IA
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25
. ANT A DS

Pennants made to order: any wording
or size; at J. c. Tiemblay's.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-05-26
CHANGED HIS MIND

A handsomely dressed damsel en-
tered crowded street car. A rough
old fellow, wearing a dilapidated suit
of homespun clothes, rose to his feet
"Miss, take my seat. l don't look
as we'll as these ere gentlemen" he
said, nodding to several men, "but
I've got more politeness."
Without word of thanks the young
woman sat down.
"Miss," said the old fellow, with a
smile. 81 believe l left my tobacv.
pouch on the seat. Will you please
get up?"
No sooner was the seat unoccupiet
The Glasgow courier., 1916-05-26
MALTA ITEMS

May 20, 1910.
Miss Macarthur left for her home
at Lovejoy Sunday.
Judge Utter expects to be in Malta
the 25th on court business.
County Attorney H. L. Wolfe Jr.'
paid Glasgow visit Friday.
Mrs. R. w. Garland has been spend
ing the week at Freewater.
Miss Coughlin went home to Mime
sofa, leaving Monday morning.
w. H. Taylor of Saco, was gen.
ial caller at the court house today.
w. G. Schneider and Roy Lee, were
Zortman visitors Friday and Satur-
day.
Mrs. John A. Tressler gave lunch
The Glasgow courier., 1916-05-26
z9 Years
n Taken from
II Hn the Files Of
3ASO 4 De NdiIep
=== C0untp Ga
sette Of Mir teen Years Ago.

"A social mop was given at OdHhHy
Morrin's ranch Tuesday evening.
Ed Macy was among the visitors
from Nashua in Glasgow this week
A baby boy made it's arrival at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Mooney
recently.
The court house we'll walls caved
in last week. Siding is being driven
in with a pile driver under the drec-
tons Of Ed Vogel.
Jack Caldwell of Oswego, was in
town yesterday with bunch of coy
ote hides. He reports business on
the reservation good.
John Mcintyre is turning out to be
full fledged broncho buster. We'd
nesday he rode a raw one into town
from the horse ranch on the Porcu-
pine.
Lee Cornwall was in town Wednes-
day and reports that they are having
heavy lamb crop. The lambs are
late this season as he apprehended a
hard winter and arranged according
ly last season.
Mr.. Mann, night agent of the
Great Northern at this place, is ar
enthusiastic fisherman and devotes
many happy hours at angling. HI
was rewarded Wednesday by catch
ing a catfish of enormous size and Sc
old that there was heavy growth
of moss upon it's back upon which
was written one Of the earliest odes
of Horace.
A sleek looking individual present
ed himself at the Coleman hostelry
this week and fed upon its board like
a coyote on the bleaching bones of {
Minnesota dogie. He lasted foul
days and might have held out longer
but he talked too much and Coleman
requested the lodger to settle ant
that individual put him off by prom
isii.g to attend to i after visitnf
the post office. He never came back
Probably he forgot it.
A very pleasant wedding tool
place at the home of Mrs. Stanley il
this place on Tuesday evening. Th'
contracting parties were C. W. Kan
pher and Miss Bertha Stanley. Th'
house was tastefully decorated AM
/ quite few friends witnessed tn
Rev. St. Hill perform the marriage
ceremony. A magnificent suppe
was served after the ceremony. Th
young people carry the best wishe
of large circle Of friends. The,
will reside at the home of the bride
mother.
Thieves broke into small out
building in the rear of Brakeman
Owens house on Market street Thurs
day night and stole two grips fille'
with clothing. The loss was report
ed to Sheriff Kyle who detailed tn
trail work to old sleuth, Bob Conat
ser, who has rendered valuable ser
vices while in connection with Scot
land Yards. Hawkshaw mounted :
bicycle and started off on tour o
inspection of the Indian wigwam
about town early in the morning. H
! had not returned at night yet no ap
prehension was entertained for hi
safety as he is great friend of tn
reds having often traded beef an
groceries with them for beads, blank
cts, etc.
9 The war between Greece and Tur
8 key is over. Peace negotiations hav
: commenced in earnest and poor littl
{ Greece, deserted by all the boastin
8 Christian powers, will not have t
! sacr' fee any more blood on unhol
Moslem alters. Russia has show
= her hand and in such way as :
: make it potent that she is ambition
! and desires to be the power on tn
continent. Unless all signs fail
The Glasgow courier., 1916-05-26

Higher prices for milk and short
wheat supply ought to lead some con-
sumers to give more head to the CO.
operation movement.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-05-26
HAWLEY & WOODY, Props.

than the old fellow deliberately sat
down again.
"B'lieve I'll keep sittin' here, MISS"
he explained. "I've got little more
politeness than these ere gentlemen,
but have found out that I amt got
nigh so much common sense"
The Glasgow courier., 1916-05-26

Things have arrived at the pass
where Germany is much more inter-
csted in the alimentary canal than
the Kiel canal.
The Glasgow courier., 1916-05-26

"How much vas dose collars?"
1.-TWO for a quarter"
"How much for vun?"
Fifteen cents"
"Giff me de odder vun."-Yale Rec
ord.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-18

and suppression Of vice in the world.
II the Catholic priesthood should sol
their taboo or condemn q candidate
for office and a member Of their
church on a moral Issue common to All
men whether of one or another church
or Of no church at all. the Methodist
padres would understand that the
priesthood knew him or knew OF him
that which should put every Methodist
padres vote into the ballot Don
against him. And 1t would be done.
The illustration is unfortunate III
another way; II there are two churches
that favor their own communicates
more than others those W are tbs
Methodist and Catholic churches.
When a Methodist denies a Methodist
and a Catholic denies a Catholic there
is always a reason so strong as to be
practically irresistible.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-18
the BUSHES OUTLOOK.

In nearly all important industrial and
mercantile lines the trend is toward a
further increase in activity, and is ex-
ceptionally marked in some directions.
Manufacturing plants are being operat-
ed to their capacity. the shortage in the
supply of labor being practically the
only deterrent to additional expansion.
The demand for fall merchandise is en-
couragingly brisk, and the general bus
mess sentiment is optimistic.
In the central states the movement
of commodities continues we'll sustained
and reflects prosperous conditions.g In
the south the inquiry for staple goods is
increasingly active. while western CO n
mercial centers report substantial in
creases in business over last year. On
the Pacific coast the favorable crop
prospects in that region, together with
the generally high prices for agricul-
tural products, are indicative of still
further progress. Retail trade drags at
some points owing to labor controver-
sizes, but this condition Is regarded as
temporary, and demand for fall mer-
chandise, as a whole, is maintained IN
volume that reflects an expanding pur-
chasing power on the part of the people
generally. Distribution Of fall and win
ter dry goods makes an extremely ia
vorable comparison with this period in
the best of previous years. and practi-
cally all textile mills are operating to
capacity. Some of them are booked up
as far as they are to go, and tho there
has beer a further rise in certain fab
RIGS. new business IS being offered
which they cannot accept owing to their
inability to make deliveries within a
reasonable time.
Dun's report from Chicago show the
wholesale and retail distribution OF dry
goods continues with undated activ-
ity. AS in other lines of production new
wealth steadily piles up. bank deposits
the highest known. and mon
ey being cheap o commerce and in
vestment. Building permits, S1.3s5,1oo
in value, compared with $107,268 last
week and 1887 $50 in 1915. Real es-
tate sales aggregated 1926, $50. against
81, I56,276 a year ago.
Many buyers appeared in the whole
sale markets and general merchandise
especially dry goods, clothing. footwear
and food products, were In strong de-
mand, much being for at-once shipment
to western points. Spot demands were
reduced in the breadstufs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-18
LET STUDENTS TALK.
ISioux City Tribune.l

lSlOuX Sily AiiDdhC'J
Superintendent J. II. Beverage. OF
the Council Bluffs schools. has made
an important discovery. He finds that
teachers do too much talking in the
class exercises and that pupils do not
talk enough. In a recent address, Mr..
Beverage said:
"a stenographer vas once given the
task OF taking down every word used
in a class room of a dozen teachers.
She found that the teachers used 49,
500 words. and the pupils only 5000.
The teachers were monopolizing the
conversations"
It Is MI. Beveridge's announced pur-
pose to. encourage the pupils to do
more talking-ask questions. argue
with the teachers and with each other.
express personal opinions, and SO fix
information in their memories.
That would have been a very revo-
lutionary suggestion in the old Hoo
it does not jar a great deal now. Stu
dents are bound to have their wits
sharpened and their store Of knowledge
Increased thru personal participation
in class subjects.
Mr.. Beverage does not intimatA
anything OF the kind in his demand for
new conditions. but the thought In
trudes that old time pedagogs may
have had sinister motives in enforcing
rigid rules Of silence. Miscellaneous
discussion and questioning might have
strained the teachers store Of knowl.
ed1e.z The path Of safety plainly lay in
holding close to the days lesson.
When this new order gets under waJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-18
Ripping Rhymes
BY WALT MASON
Tired Tourist
y 49, "No">

I've seen such sights, Of wonder. in
Colorado's hills, wild canyons deep. as
thunder, and peaks that gave me thrills,
that,-I am weary, very; OF things that
are sublime, and for the old Nat prairie
I'm longing all the, time. The noun
tains rise in glory. each with its snow
capped dome; but back, in old Empory
a fellow feels at home; and when he's
done his labors, and earned his fifty
cents. he pow-wows with his neighbors,
familiar, kindly gents. The mountains.
grand and hoary, thots high and noble
bring; but back in old Empory there is
a creaking swing, where I sit in my
slippers. on pleasant autumn nights and
read of pirate shippers. and most n
trAncirg fights. And often when I'm
gazing on peaks that pierce the clouds.
on mountain, roads amazing. roamed
by the tourist crowds. I sigh like all.
creation. forgetting where I am. to see
the "Katy'' station. and look on So
denis dam. You read the grand old
singers, whose atanxas are sublime; and
while ron know they're dingers, they
tire you out In time; and then you want
|. stof ~ some plain, common skate;
and % 9 old Empory assaiini. 81 -.
emigrate
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-18

county seat of Adair county. 1t is a
lively, progressive town, but THE high
cost of printing was too much for its
two newspapers. The drain on the
advertisers was also too strong and
neither newspaper was making the
profit it should for the amount OF
energy and expense the publication
entaiied. hence the consolidation. The
Greenfield papers have set an example
that will have I'd DE followed III many
towns Of its size. There are too many
papers in TOO many towns. Only the
strong papers can weather the gale
that is now building the country
printing business. The weak and
poorly edited sheets will have to quit
The advertisers are getting wise to
the fact that one good paper is enough
if it covers the field, and Is much
better than two poor papers or one
poor paper and one good<paper. They
are going to support the good paper
and let the other paddle its owp canoe
or sink.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-18
THE REPUTATION OF TINE CHURCH.

II the Catholic priesthood should set
their church taboo or endorsement on
any brother man in Iowa, and openly
endorse or condemn him for office,
what would our Methodist padres be
doing about that time?-Britt Tribune.
The question Is fair whatever the
motive OF inquiry. 1t is also easy Of
answer. II the Catholic priesthood re-
pudiated a Catholic as being unfit for
office and advised its communicates
and ali voters to vote for another man
the Methodist padres, and the voters
in general would inquire very closely
into his record before they voted for
him. The suggestion would be that
something was wrong with a candidate
against whom The leaders OF his own
church were openly denunciatory.
If Archbishop Keane-he Of reverent
memory in the minds Of ali denomina-
,ions in Iowa-had boldly asserted that
a Catholic candidate for office was and
had been since he knew him opposed
20 a great moral movement in which
practically all churches without re-
spect to doctpinal difference have
joined there would be no sincere ques-
ton Of the archbishop's word or dis
trust of his conclusions. If the good
archbishop, whose leadership against
the liquor traffic was a great moving
force toward reform in this state, were
to nave announced that a Catholic
candidate were an ally of the liquor
interests voters of all denominations
would have known that ne knew
whereof he spoke. And IL every gath
ering Of the Catholic priesthood un-
animously resolved against the Cath
Ollie candidate he wouldn't get to drst
base in Iowa. When Z candidates
church turns against him it is as tho
his mother repudiated him.
The Catholic clergy does not vote
against its own Pensioners and COM
municants because the candidate Is a
Catholic. Neither does the Methodist
ministry vote against Methodists be-
| cause they are Methodists. The illus
tration used by the paper above quoted
is scarcely a fortunate one If it was
intended TO react against h priest
| hood or the ministers or both; for
| there are moral issues that rise above
do~c.rinal disputes and ritualistic Diff
ferences. On these, good men Of all
| denominations agree as they-asree Il
the building OF hospitals and the main
tenance Of refugees and the prevention
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-18

tors OF the Des Moines ReStster AStto
the ode prosecutions. rhsaM eraIds L
in poor company. st &i
The slight drop in the mercury shot
hard coal up IS cents = ton. Suppose
the blamed thing had dropped to zero.
E
The d%!niculty with the near beer sa-
loon Is that it Is too near.
MIR, Lorimer, ex-senator, says he's
going to be in politics thirty years
more. Well, IL he does as well as he
did this last time nobody will particu-
larly object to how long he stays,
w nat will Harding do about English"
inquiries the Des Moines Register. II
he does with Mr.. English what he has
been doing with the English language
he will have MI. English looking six
ways at once. facing one way in one
part Of the state and in the opposite
direction in other parts.
s
The question Of Harding's fitness to
serve IS the republican candidate for
governor Of Iowa has been settled by
a republican arbitration board from
whose ruling there is no appeal.-Sioux
City Journal.
Tut, tut. The Journal. never pleased
with primaries now proposes to make
it the court of last resort. What's an
election for anyway?
We shall have to hand it to Pancho
villa. He can do more with a little and
make nothing go farther than a widow
with six children. It's an awful pity
the fellow couldn't have been tanned
young and put to some useful purpose.
chs q wonder. When q man can start
a real sheol with a sulphur match
think what he might have lone with a
pillow n a span Of good work mules.
The record Is forty-three private
failures in five years in Chi
That some Of the wreckers
went to the p~enitentiary, however,
doesn't get the widow her money back.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-18
AN ANCIENT STORY.

lCedar Rapids Repubiican.1
The failure Of the Iowa Mercantile
Company Is no surprise TO any well IN
formed man OF business. Success was
from the start made impossible by the
transactions Of the promoters. The
promoters did not have enough inter.
est in the concern themselves. they
simply worked others. They paid too
much to agents who sold their stock
and they promised too many bargains
to their prospective stockholders.
But It is a repetition of the same
old delusion. nothing more, and a lot
OF good men and women who invested
In this mercantile gold brick now find
that 1t is only gilded clay. To do busi-
ness looks easy doesn't It? Yet how
few succeed at It. The profits are large,
we are told. They tempt nan They
see only the difference between the
cost price and the selling price. They
do not see the, costs Of doing business
and they do not see the things that
do not sell at any profit at all, marked
down to them out.
The newspapers did not hold u a
friendly hand to the promoters Of the
failure. They intimated It was a dan
gerous investment. II they had said
more the people who were then eager
to invest, would have charged the
newspapers with being subservient to
the established merchants.
That is what the promoters said
about the attitude Of the newspapers.
Bankers shook their heads, but of them
it was said by the promoters Of the
failure, that they did not want the peo-
pie to take their deposits and invest
them for bigger profits than 4 per cent.
So bankers who knew and newspaper
publicity were baked when they would
have served the people, 1t is the same
old story. Those who would give good
advice are discredited and those who
advise lily make their hypocrisy and
demagogism effective by pretended de-
votion to and interest in the welfare OF
the people.
When another man wants to do bus
mess with your money. 1t is generally
safe to ask him to step behind you,
where the original devil was invited
TO 90. Few men are consumed with
a burning desire to make money for
YOU; many, however. want to work
you to make money for themselves.