La Junta tribune., 1917-09-27

WiiuouA bNaH6 toio-
Only a man like Theodore Roose-
welt Is willing to fight for peace, II
Il is really necessary. That Is one
reason why Roosevelt was awarded
the Nobel peace prize.
A Rocky Ford poultryman has
closed contract with the Otero Gas
Company TO heat HIS incubators with
gas. and is having pipe line laid
TO his big poultry farm south Of that
city.
Buy what you need instead OF
what you want is the best rule to
keep down the high cost Of living.
No one ever wants to eat what be
needs, 80 food purchased according
10 this rule will last double time.
Use plenty of buckwheat cakes
nowadays to take the place OF wheat
cakes and biscuits A 10000. 900
bushel buekwheat crop was the fore
cast In August, and its going to take
some no, cakes and maple syrup to
use Il all up.
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II you think the farmer is making
erorbitant profits these days. we beg
10 advise THAI there are several mil
lions OF acres OF land In Colorado
which you car. put under cultivation
and have chance TO share in the
golden harvest.
II Is predicted that eggs will be
mp 10 dollar dozen. and meat
one dollar pound before the spring
time and gentle Annie is with us
again. II Is up to us TO prepare for
many meatless and eggiess days II
that is what we are to be up against.
-Four carloads OF machinery from
the disused sugar factory at Lamar.
have recently been shipped TO Or
nArd. California. where the American
Beet Sugar Company Is about TO un-
dertake experiments In the extrac-
tion Of potash from waste liquors.
A Wiley man attended q dance in
Lamar the other evening. and for the
first time saw them dance the new
tangled dances. Well. what do you
think OF the tango" remarked q
friend. "oh. I think II Is all right
n he msrries the girl" was the re-
piy.--wiley Journal.
They say that Uncle Sans board
bill for feeding his soldiers Is now
100000 day. We now have an
army and navy OF nearly 1000. 900
men, and at 40 cents day this
would mean nearly a million dollars
day for food. n the soldiers learn
how to exist on 40 cents n day they
will have the best Of some OF the
rest OF US.
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Down In the dry farming district,
forty or fifty miles south Of La Jun,a,
an old rancher was asked. How
would you like 10 sec {, raln'"
II don't care about II myself" said
the old man. but I've 10, a boy
SIX years old who would like TO sec
II rain once"
II rained the mex, day. but no, In
time to save the bean crop.
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An instrument known M IN,
measuregraph Il destined TO super
cede the yard stick. Not only doe
the measuresraph indicate mathe
mntiealiy the exac, length of good
measured. but Il also tells the tota
cost OF the purchase. This inyen
tion will be a special treasure Il
the clerks who don't know how ts
compute fractional values speedily.
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Eight thousand men are now a
work on the cantonment at Cam
Funston. which Il Ia hoped 10 hav,
completed by October LIST. II ia sal,
the heating plant will be the blrxe~
thing Of the kind In the country
and viii cost s1.ooo.ooo. A iaundr.
which will wash the clothes OF so.
900 men II also under construction
Il b . very busy place along viii
the $4,000 soldiers Of the nationa
army mobiiised there last week.
There must b plenty Of surpiu
ncnsy II Rocky Ford and Las A
inaA Rocky Ford nswspapess eiaia
tAAt $4,000 vas RAISED II . few mia
utes II that town one day last vssi
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