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The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06
Horseshoe

Crops are still uoing we'll IN
the sand.
Mrs. O G. Mason. went to Id
mar Wednesday to have dental
work done.
Johnnie Barnard aud Archie
Fortunes went to Lamar tins
week.
Fred Bosley and Sarah Phillips
proved up his claim this week.
Earnest Salone and wife were
visiting her mother Tennie HooV-
er, Sunday.
Claud Smith and wife were
visiting home folks last week
from Lamar.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

There was AN excellent turn
out Friday at the silo meeting,
but not so many farmers as
there should have been. The
silo talk was good one, and we
believe that some Of the farmers
attending will build silos this
wear. In the carly future we
shall give a special write-up or
the building and Importance o1
the much. talked of food preserv'
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

We have reliable information
that the survey on. the Santar IA
branch of the Santa Fe began
last week. The survey has
probably been completed to the
state line by this time-passing
a few miles south of johnson,
We don't like to say so, but the
indications are that the road Will
stop at the state line to build a
Santa Fe town. However, the
distance we from the state line a
town there cannot affect Spring
field, except in the delay of the
roads coming. The matter of
the roads stopping at the state
i !Ins sa! will i llP.kkeils h. kPeiRlRsg ar4 d~s:
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06
Baker

MANY farmers had to replant
the second time. Late planting
will do well if we get rain.
Tent meetings in progress.
Mr.. Roberts and wife of Texas
are conducting it.
Charles Bakers family are re-
covering from a Wholesale attack
of the measles.
]. W. Bowman of Rocky Ford
has been in this section apprals-
ing land for the Federal Loan
Bank of Wichita.
The Dobson brothers, Earnest
Buck and Mr.. Bemont have gone
back to Oklahoma for harvest.
The neighborS gave MIR. Boas
lift by putting in his crop for
him.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

From the Sentinel OF last week
we learn that they sometimes
send out a hundred gallons of
cream in a day, so it appears
that Two Buttes and Springfield
are about neck and neck in the
cream business. mhirh ,e--.--= ,e-.-='.==7-s, -,
speaks we'll for that wide awake
and growing burg, as well as
for Springfield.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

Make your calculations for the
greatest county fair this year
that has as yet been pulled off.
1t is intended this year to get
out the premium book early--by
the middle of this month if pos
slble, and as an inducement to
special effort, to offer prizes on
best collections and assortments
-plpbably S25.o0; and probably
alsdbn best locality displays.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

Gen. Pershing and several
brigades of his army are now in
France, and probably before this
time have taken their places in
the trenches. 1t is thought the
American army will be strictly
under American commanders,
but will work in full harmony
with the armies of the allies.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06
Grand View

Arthur Garvie returned home
Saturday.
The surprise party on jim
Acre and wife was well attend
ed.
Chris Dunivan is on the sick
list this week.
Elmer French visited at the
Hankips home the first of the
week.
Mrs, M. E. Han..ns and daugh'
ter Ollie ate Sunday dinner with
| Mrs. jim Davis and family.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

YOU get up to twenty cows-and
then quit them ii you want to.
The Herald will welcome any
letters along the line of making
morey in Baca county, either
in confederation of this article,
or in refutation of it.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06
A STORY
OF OLD MEXICO

OF OLD MEXICO
A certain American was pub
fishing paper down in old Mex.
The provisional president of that
unhappy country owed him for
whole lot OF back subscription,
and the newspaper man sent him
a very automatically worded
statement of his account, closing
with "viva live the provisional
president" f" might bis tribe in
crease" and his shadow never
grow less" etc, etc.
: The next day he found himself
in the presence of the provisional
president, who ordered him first
to be quartered, then scrung up
by the thumbs. then shot to plec-
as till he was, dead, and finally
his flesh was to be fed TO the
; fowls of the air and the beasts OF
|
the field.
All this was to happen the next
+ + day, but that night the provision
n al president told him that if he
y would turn over his gold watch
he might hike it.
v! And the newspaper man turn
a. ed over bis gold watch and hiked
ar but he bad no money, and ate
A wandering about for some day
to said:
IL "I might as we'll be shot t
re nieces as to starve to death.
will arise and go to the provision
at al short time Mexicano presider
la. and say to hiu,: "Only let m
have my dummy watch and wh'
Ire you owe me, and then you ca
Ss x,s6meAthstGiRRsyli; line a sho"f " n
is And the provisional preside
md saw him coming afar off, and
al ran out and fell on his nee
M thereby dislocating his left 5a
The newspaper man thereup'
cen fell in in dead faint, and t
his provisional president then C
ldy the brass buttons off his coat a
ng' fled the country.
IN Just as the newspaper m
'i was coming to, another provisie
10 Dl president came along and to
- his clothes, and he also Fl
If the country.
Their while the newpaper m
ou was wondering what to DO ne
w. ss to get his Honey, along ca
a ~ still another provisional preside
s., who hadn't paid. for his pal
- w = for teen years, and he put
.e Door newspaper man in the b
ket of balloon and sent him s.
ward: and that was the last e
seen of him on earth; but it W
.,;,. MT the last of him. After
great many haps and mishaps
finally landed right side up "
- care at the pearly gates, WI
~ - he beheld a great throng of
" delinquent subscribers who W
shouting to him eve did pay
.f our subscriptions
yoir Editor?"
.orn And the editor, seeing t
.ome great anguish of soul, turned
Il in st. Peter and said, st Peter
that cannot tell lie they all
der their subscriptions promptly
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

The fair association this year
intends to offer bigger prizes
thas ever, but the real big prizes
will be on collections and assort-
merits. Unless :he Lamur fair
makes it otherwise necessary.
the fair will be about the last
week in September.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

We don't think it necessary to
asl, YOU to "don't fail to read the
Baca county farming article
elsewhere. Making Money in
Baca County" will appeal to you,
and from the Importance OF the
subject we are certain no reader
will fail to read it from begin
ming to end. What we are go
ing to ask you, after you have
read it. talk it over with youl
neiehbor, and if he hasn't reac
the article loan him the papeI
especially if he is newcomer
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

AT Springfield on the night of
the third half inch of rain fell.
Ihe most of the county was Wis
tied, In some places with as much
as two inches. We Can all now
look forward to the extreme
probability of good crops in the
county this fall.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

$4,000 permits were irsued for
the importation of liquor into the
state from April "a to June 90
equal 10 about $40 barrels of
whlskey. Under the saloon
more whiskey than that was
shipped into Denver alone every
month.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

M. r. Sunday, Lamar's big
garage man, and brother Joe ana
their sister were at Springfield
Yesterday. This was M. II. S
first visit here, and was greatly
pleased with our town.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

Some idea of the revolution in
locomotion may be gotten from
the fact that from twenty to fifty
autoes are now on the streets,
while from none to q half dozen
other rigs may be counted.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

According to the Lamar pa
pers that little burg seems to be
loaded With Cross slackers
whereby some of the surplus
population are headed for place
a good deal hotter than the
trenches of Europe. Well,
Springfiellers came up with
their ones and tives and tens all
right, but whether that i; going
to pass all of them through the
pearly gates to the new Jerusal-
EN- we are not authorized to saw
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

In contemplation of the East
st. Louis riots of last week and
the slaughter going on in Europe.
we are up against the quandary
OF whether it is civilization or
earbarism that we are just lit
tie ways removed from.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06
MAKING MONEY
IN BACA COUNTY

In. The presence of "a .numbe
!, OF persons in the Herald offic
one day last week a man said
Why didn't you tell US tina
: this Is not an agricultural coun
try: People came here expect
ing to make money farming an,
now they will lose everything
This isn't any farming coun
try and the man who came her,
to make money farming woulc
starve to DEATH
We tuld him, as we lave toI6
Others, that
1t is rather strange people
would come here from the rair
belt, where nobody makes mon.
ey by farming alone, and ex.
pect to make money in this drv
| belt by farming.
That was the first proposition.
The second proposition was that
a man with proper equipment,
and an understanding of the
country, could make as much
money on 100 acres and up b.re
as he couid back east on the
same amount of land.
How could he do that:" ask
ed the man. The man was in
c1edulous, and no doubt a great
many of our readers are in the
same boat, while probably the
most of them. would say the
proposition is over stated.
Ihe answer to this question
brings US directly to the SUBJECT
matter of this article-malling
money in Baca county.
AT present prices, man can
make money here farming. To
DO SO he would want to plant in
forage crops the necessary |
acreage to feed his stocK-corn |
Tor his silage, and whatever else
TWO v.17 -, ,.-,z- -..sI,-s.sr0-,sa,
/. money crop-broomcorp and
becns. A man can easily aver
age ton of brush to four acres;
and at $10C-far below the price |
of the last two years, that would
give him $25 per acre. 500
pounds is considered an average
for beans. and at 1Oc-far below
the average price of last year
that would give $4,000 an acre.
On farm though Of 160 acres
we Wouldn't grow any money
crop. Instead, we would grow
forage and grain for the cows
the farm could. feed, which by
making silaGa of the right pro-
portion of it in connection with
forage, would easily be forty to
sixty head.
On the money crops at prices
calculated, on the basis of 100
acres in such crops, the gross
income at minimum would be
$1,000 to $4,000.
The COWS of course would be
the best cream stock, and with
forty to sixty such, with butter
fat based on prices for the past
ten years, the gross profits would
easily run upwards CT So, 900 Fer
year for the cream alone. Add
to this the calf increase above
the up-ksep of the hefd, and the
hogs the skim milk would feed
lin connection with following the
COWS, and you will begin to haye
some idea Of Baca county possi
5ilities. ,.-
/ We based our proposition O.
making as much money here OF
the same land as back east, par
ticularly on q proper equip
ment." a man can't make mon
ey hete on fifty to sixty COWS
when he hasn't money enough t
ouy one COW; nor can he max
money on broomcorn and bean
with scrub old team: nor can h
do it anywhere else on earth. ur
der the same circumstances.
AS indicated in our article las
week on "tbe transformation {
the next ten years" tractor
. and trucks would be among til
! first things in proper equil
: ment.
! With tractors, and especial
oultivator tractors-which al
. now being experimental will
" Gn o.roc. Do
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06
Ruth Sanders, now

freedom. Ruth Sanders, now
helping out in the treasurers
office, and school teacher jack
son attended the Salty college,
and it was largely on their rec
commend that the college cap
tured the ten last week. -Four
90 to their headquarters next
week, and the others in August.
The Herald is wishing them good
luck and success.
The Commissioners are III ses-
sion this week.
A patriotic program was held
by the Sunday school Sunday.
1t is reported that Wade Bur
nett, an old timer Of Baca coun-
ty, was killed the hrss of the
week No particulars.
j. F. Hawkins, Will kicenski
and Jno. Omaiey, all of whom
are doing their best agricultur-
ally to help win the war, we're
i up from the Re 6ley-Richard
+ country Saturday.
, Mrs. Barrier took charge OF the
/. Wagner to.cl the first of the
v week. Mrs. Barler's long ex-
e peri nee along hotel and restaur-
4 ant lines gives assurance the
successful management of the
# Wagner.
J. J.L. clements and son A. A.
,e were in from Clyde Monday
h They and others inform US tha
some kind of hard-shell bug i:
=. working on their beans, thu
! same coming OUT of the grass ad
er joining.
VS. The new big drug store is re
celving it's finishing touches
to and in now a short time the pei
ple of Baca county will have
N. drug store that would do cred
MT TO towns of many times the 81;
me of Springfield.
rat W. W. Maddox Tuesday hs
AN This neighbour Harvey Gunk
lsleee lSale @ sssss eBfsklKRd.Ks Emerson 's.
ent ii prosecuting he case. Civ
he $15. 90 aud costs.
ok, Tommy Konkel informs
aw. that the blow Saturday night CT
pom cred up everything in the or
the iline he had except his corn, a
cut that all the small stuff on san
and ground Jared the same We
However there is still plenty
nan time for broomcorn and mai
ion. especially with the ground so;
oolx ed as it was out there TuesJ
fed night.
Merchant Stroud put in his :
nan bringing down from Lamar
,ext biggest truck that has yet STIR
lme Springfield, bearing on its SIT
lent in big letters ''Stroud's CT
lper Store" It's Service and 81
the "2 Tons though they broul
bas down d, 400 on it, and the S
sky vice man who came along do
ever SAYS it is good for 5000 on g
was roads. They were four no
n a and. twenty-five minutes com
IS he down from Lamar. That ma
with two big trucks tor Springt
When merchant Jett having had
ex- mammoth one in service for 81
were time.
y up j. H. D. Terral reports
Mr.. Amarillo Ozark trail meeting
greatest thing in number
their ever attended-@ore deleg
d TO and visitors than the town
,r, T in inhabitants. Mr.. Terral
paid reports that the road by wa
"" Dumas and Chanringi sand
while the road by way OF
hart has great number OF
80. of sand that makes it very
to travel. it might be well
sequently for the Com. clut
''"n Jake up the line from Bois'
way of Charming and Duma
i'"'' We have a letter from p;
of the Clyde postotfice wal
Mea- to know what the trouble is
ced- their mail, and wanting u
have the matter invest.g
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

Z
inclusive of harvestfhines tl
and threshers and sin
connection of coursetract- l'
ors for the field and ) for II
the road; and of courwould Il
include barns for ly the c
stock and sheds for pur-
poses.
In addition we wamclude
and emphasize silos e one
other factor in the >ment.
We would want just gh of /,
them to preserve j, sue
culent state half the e crop
evized, the other haoe put
up in the usual dry s
We also based our osition
on an Understandable the
country. AS an illuson, the
man who came here, ed deep
In the Spring, and IMPLANTED
on top, would be up ainst a
losing proposition, aslld the
man who depended small
grain, truck farming,a num-
Der of other things thoightbe
mentioned.
But a proper equient, an
understanding of th.ountry,
money crops. cows silos-
what do they signify here is
n'traln for the crops, md this
Under any circumstant is not
a farming country? Col a 81, 900
to SIS. 600 equipment lake it
rain??".
Such quandarv wod. easily
appeal to the man within expe-
rience limited to tle.st veal
and SO far this-on ne ground
However, we haven't jmpted tt
any conclusions AS to poss iDili
lies, but on a concrete lnowledg
Of thirty years of the ourt try.
And here are the acts tha
serve as a basis for oar calcula
ions:
list. Not one yearof a failul
q IA e{q5aS erea.s1 1'aAyisaarsa
depended upon, and failure
possible up to. the third ar
fourth year-and of course a
ways possible with weed farr
ing"
End. During the thlrtef
wears since returning to tn
country, not one man-on sane
ground and doing good farmin
has failed to make Il fair broor
c orn or grain crop. Where ia
ure has resulted in these,
the.e has been, the lndlvidua
could look back
causes other than conditions
the country.
To put it in other words, if c
cry man could have put his or
in Just when it should ha
been, and could have cared
it and harvested if just as also
should have been, the failure
those failing would have be
avoided.
We will illustrate by one
full dry year during these tt
teen, when the government qua
showed just seven inches of II
fall in certain neighborhoo(
from the Augest OF one year
the August of the next year.
That said year certain ones
he neighborhood made a ton
brush To four acres, grew a
maize grain crop and some &C
grain. There was failure OF SC
farmers in that neighborhood
broomcorn and grain; b"t t
some made good in these un
the same weather conditi
lsho;ys that the failures W
avoidable.
For ourselves, we would h
anywhere from twenty to s.
cows for cream purposes, W
ever the amount cultivated.
On q uarter OF land, as
have stated, we wouldn't 6
any money crop; but on a
section TO a section cultivated
addition to forage and 6
crops, and broomcorn and be
, we would invariably include 1
, twenty to sixty good cream c
f. One good cream COW is II S
Keep the heifers, buy.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

If congress We're to coiiscflpo
Mr.. Income bodily when he gets
up to 100000 size, the howl that
would go up from the trenches
of Mr.. Income and his cohaTs
would drown the din of the Eur
opean battle fields; and yet VINO
can give us a reason why young
man should be conscripted bodl-
ly, and not Mr.. Income
when MIR. Incomes owner
will still be, left with the
principal of his millions and nun
dreds of millions of filthy lucre
IN wolluw iii? The time is com
ing when dollars will be d:alee'
first and men Afterwards.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

We advise the State Agr'cul, l..
tural college to see that tnelr
extension workmen are inoculat-
cd with keeley's gold bronze pc
fore sending them to Sprlngheiu'
Resides the scarcity OF BOOZE :,
down here since the state anu
Federal governments have so'
on the Job, the odoriferoas exu, u.
datiops of the stuff on the brea,a !.
of a college extensioner ooesn
make a good walking signnoalu
Either gold cure your unlor'u
mates, gentlemen of the 81 s'a9' a.,
college, or provide them WIN ~, ~
traitors or deodorizes before turn a,
inc them loose on the opel
range.
The Springfield herald., 1917-07-06

us never 50 dry but that il
could be dryer, and never so hot
but that it could be hotter.
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RHEUMATISM
Physician Believes Genuine Remedy
for the Disease Has Been
Found.

Rheun.a, the wonderful rheumatism
remedy sold by Mountain City Drug
Store, gives quicker and more lasting
relief that other remedies costing
many times as much.
Rhcuma passes the deadly poisonous
sccretions into the bowels and kid.
ncys. from which they are quickly
thrown oil i'll a natural healthy way.
Read what a reputable physician
says about Rheuma: II have made 4
most careful investigation Of the fors
mula employed in the manufacture OF
Bheuma, and heartily recommend Il
as a remedy for Ill forms OF riieumss
tism. | find Rheuma far in advance D 4
the methods generally employed in the
treatment OF rheumatism, and alto
gether different in compositions from.
the remedies usually prescribed s-Dr.
Lyons.
This should give any sufferer from
rheumatism confidence to Try Rheu:
ma.
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:: CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE

About this time | had another jolt
to my preconceived ideas of human
nature, Margie," said Paula, continu.
ing her story. 1T was the way Earn
est's wife treated me at this time.
you remember | told you Of meet
ing her and her adorable baby the first
day she came. After she had seen
Earnest she studiously avoided me and
when that was impossible she treated
me as though were one of the VAN.
ptre women one reads about but never
by any possibility needs.
Sometimes, Margie, think imag
nation is the most tyrannical thing
humanity knows. Most oil us are tor,
tured by letting our imagination set a
standard for those we love that no hu,
man being by any possible means could
live up to.
II think that is one of the most ter.
rible facts OF life-our brains and our
emotions can furnish such alluring
fancies that realities seem most pro
sale in comparison. No person could
be as good as our minds can picture
and am sure no one could be as bad
as we sometimes think some folk are
Maud Lawton, after talking with
her husband, took the stand that |
had tempted the poor man In such a
way ! made his life n burden. If by
any possibility he had seemed to pay
me any little attention it was because
| demanded it.
"She paid mo unconsciously The
tribute OF chasing me, girl of twenty
with those sirens OF history whom no
man could resist. Maud Lawton loved
her husband with doglike devotion
which made him god in her eyes
From the moment she joined him in
Philadelphia she forgot all his neglect
all his cruelty.
Ruth, who was much exercised over
the influence Earnest had over Maud
told me Maud had not seen her hus
band before but onca since Earnestine
was born.
"'He was perfectly horrid about
the baby she said, and when he knew
she was coming, he left Maud without
money and did not return until Earnes
tine was six months old.
He would not have come then Il
had not gone to his manager and toll
him Of Maud's dire poverty aud that !
would have him arrested for non.sup
port of his wife and child. Then he
came over where Maud lived and act
ed like crazy man, but | made him
arrange to pay her twenty-five dollars
2 week. This he did until he became
\ infatuated with you and then he ap,
parently forgot ne had a wife and
child.
maud came hero because wrote
her the exact circumstances, but such
Is his influence over her that she has
come to think him poor abused man
who for short time under the design,
ng influence Of regularfor'sure yam'
pire,,
For a moment, Margie, l was too
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aStounded to speak and then | laugh.
ed. To think poor little /, whose only
mistake was pouring out all my girl.
ish heart to him in perfect love and
trust, should be described as a VAN.
pire was too ridiculous
THE next few days, Maud's treat.
ment of me got on my nerves, particu.
larly as she took great pains to keep
little Earnestine away from me. Tina.
adorable baby. with the inconsistency
OF childhood took great fancy to me
and would run to my arms the momenS
she saw me.
why can't go to pity yaidy, muv
ver?' she asked frettully one after
noon when her mother had restrained
her from throwing herself upon me.
Her mother whispered something
to her, and she answered with pout,
1 don't care. like pity yaidy nore'n
faVVer, anyway. FaVver squeezes my
arm till 1t hurts when l don't tecp still
when he wants me to sit in his zap.
and pity yaidy always kisses me and
yoves me-
'Earnesttne used y for l. ard loved
to hear her talk, but evidently her dear
daddy had put ban on the vampire
woman where his innocent child was
concerned.
"Since then Margie, have met
many women who thought husband
could do no wrong They lay all his
peccadillos to the other fellow, but at
the time | was terribly hurt to think
that anyone would give me the i'm.
preston that the sight OF my young
arms about her child was abhorren.
to her"
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CARE OF WOODWORK.

Wash Il section of the woodwork
with one duster and Immediately dub
dry with the other buster before pro
ceediug to the next section.
To polish woodwork or floors with
kerosene the necessary apparatus is
the can of kerosene. kerosene plate,
kerosene mitt, handful of cotton waste
or old soft cloth, and WOODEN or flan.
nelette cloth.
Put very thin layer of kerisene in
the plate and dip the NIT into it.
Rub section of the wood hard with
The mitt. being careful to clean out
the corners thoroughly. Immediately
rub as much kerosene off the section
aspOssible with the cotton waste. Then
clean the next section.
When all the wood has been clean.
cd and first section has stood at least
an hour, polish 1t with the wooden
cloth