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The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-09-21

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The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-09-21
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department Of the Interior

U. > Land OJ16ce u Ste1I18 SOs0
August IS 1917
Notiee : hereby given that Hsanah ~ FiaGe..
OF keotA Colorado who. on September 2. 1914.
made homesaead sntIy. No. O2lA75. fos ESNWi.
NE3 Sec. 8: NiNWt. Seetloa 9. Townshto n:
Rsnae So W. 9Th r MerttiAA. has fled notice al
inienfion to make three year proof. to establish
ciajm to the land above described. before u. s
Coamssioaes. Clyde l. Stanley. II keota. COLOMBO.
on tie IS day a October. 1917.
Clajnant n1snes q Witnesses: Joshua r. neltss.
bran. John Wharton. Lester II. Snydes. Charles
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The mirror., 1917-01-11

men studying the advertisers
market problems and therefore
offering specialties for use in a
logical, reasonable way to solve
such problems.
The mirror., 1917-01-11

deavor to shed some light on the
causes and conditions which have
brought paper up to it's present
high price. Also the effects this
high price has had on the nation;
and few of the remedies as I see
them.
The fundamental cause is the
scarcity of material used for the
manufacture of wood pulp. About
forty years ago when the use of
wood pulp was first introduced,
there lay before the manufacturers
a territory ranging from Minneso-
ia to Pennsylvania (including the
states bordering on Canada) and
as far south as Virginia, which
contained an almost virgin supply
of the species of tree used for that
purpose, viz, spruce. Where the
other species had been numbered
off, this remained, as its wood is
so light in weight that it is hardly
fit for any other purpose.
If at that time sane methods of
numbering had been in vogue (such
as advocated by Clifford Pinchot
and other noted authorities) the
present condition of affairs never
would have arisen. But through
lack of foresight and careless
methods combined with that ever
alert enemy, Fire, this supply has
been practically exhausted and
what little remains is so far from
the mills and railroads that the ex-
pense attached to transporting it
is prohibitive.
Another contributing cause for
this condition, and one that is di-
rectly traceable to the present
great conflict is the astounding
increase in the price of acids and
dyes. Few of us know that the
manufacture of paper is largely a
chemical proposition, the quality
and color of it depending on acids
and aniline products. AS most of
our chemicals are imported from
Germany, and as the imports from
that country have practically
ceased since the beginning of the
war, you can imagine what seri-
Gus effect this curtailment has had.
To be specific: Casein, alum and
soda ash, all of them very neces-
sary ingredients in the making of
paper, have increased three bun
dred per cent in cost in the last
three years. Rosin, used for sizing,
sold originally for 1915 a barrel,
now commands $3.50; bleached sui
phite, another important item, has
doubled in price, and common
bleach, which was a cent and a
quarter a pound, went up to seven
cents, and is now practically un-
obtainable. Aniline colors which
formerly sold for 40 cents a
pound are now selling at 500 for
the same weight. Let me repeat
that last once more: Aniline colors
which formally sold for 40 cents a
pound are now bringing 500 for
the same weight! Can you imagine
ito These last mentioned chemi-
calls are used extensively to give
the paper the proper hue, so you
may now understand why so many
publications are yellow in fact as
we'll as in reputation.
In addition to the two causes
already mentioned is a third one,
and one that doesn't reflect much
credit on the sagacity of our busi-
ness men, viz, the enormous in
crease in the demand for paper
products over the supply. Nova
days when any commodity is
raised in price we hear the inevi-
table cry of supply and demand!'
But in this case it is a fact that the
facilities for supply have not in
creased in proportion to the de-
mand. Far from it. Our tariff
laws are partly responsible for
this. And the irony of it is that
The mirror., 1917-01-11

going to spend 40 time in discuss
ing what sales plans are practical,
but shall devote my entire atten-
ton to discussing the application
of plans assumed to be practical
and useable in the sale of adver-
tising specialties.
| believe that selling advertising
in any other way than through
practical sales plans passed with
the passing of the term ''advertis-
ing novelty There was a day
when advertising specialties might
all be classed as novelties-the day
when a speciality salesman could
open his grip and become instantly
the center of gaping and admir-
ing crowd-a day when most ad-
vertising specialties were bought
on the whim of the advertiser, who
made his selection on what he him.
self thought cute or unique or par
ticulary novel; when the buyer
spent his money for specialties
very much as he spent money for
cigars or for the entertainment of
customers. In some ways those
were the happy days.
l shall never forget one day l
spent number of years ago with
a salesman of the old school calling
upon his trade in a prosperous
western town. Don't think l didn't
learn a few lessons in salesmanship
from him, for this salesman was,
and, having changed with chang
ing conditions, still is a successful
salesman.
We started out bright and early
in the morning without plan or a
sample. We wandered from man
ufacturer to retailer and from re-
taller to manufacturer, losing very
little time in transit, but those
business calls were an enigma to
me all day. l Was introduced to
each customer as though l were a
candidate for local Office. All [
could absorb in the way of business
was that the salesman was getting
line on the amount of advertising
material the customer still had on
hand, whether he had got out any
new lines of goods since the sales
mans last call, and so on. also
gathered every once in a while
that appointments were being
made with customers for the even
ing and next day, mostly at the
hotel. Before the first appoint
ment the trunk and cases of SAM
pies were opened up and while the
salesman made some suggestions
from time to time, the sales, to
quite an extent, amounted to the
buyer picking out the thing that
appealed to him from the appalling
array on display. Those happy
days have gone.
Advertising specialities, whether
they be calendars, diaries, watch
fobs, or signs. are no longer
novelty and the sooner every pew
salesman learns that his customers
will not be startled when he ap-
proaches with the samples, the
better for that salesman!
The modern salesman with an
extensive line of specialties has
very much the same job on his
hands as the advertising manager
of department store. His job,
therefore, is to try to build his
selling talk just us the advertising
manager of the store builds his by
finding out certain things: Cd He
must know WHAT people can use
the goods. (2) He must know
WHEN they can use them. (3) He
must know HOW they can use
them. When the department store
man knows those things, he is
ready to sell the goods in his store
and not before.
1t is we'll known that the depart
ment store manager has one of the
most difficult jobs in the world. II
The mirror., 1917-01-11

the sponsors of these laws.
During President Taft's admin
istration they succeeded in having
news print paper put on the free
list. Timber. labor and water
power, which enter so largely into
the manufacture of paper, are all
cheaper in Canada than in the
United States. For this reason
we put protective tariff on pa
per. When, as stated above, this
was taken off. Canadian paper
mills began to 20 after our trade.
With our sources practically ex-
hausted and theirs untouched they
we're in a favorable position to do
this. And they did it, and are do
ing it. Of course our mills
couldn't compete with them on this
basis. Many shut down, others
curtailed their output and the re-
suit is that we are practically at
Canada's mercy. And when, as
Mr.. H. suggested in his paper at
recent meeting, the administration
is changed in that country, we are
likely to see still further increase
in the price of this product.
1 have given you the causes for
this state of affairs, now 1 should
like to mention some of it's effects.
At this moment hundreds of small
newspaper publishers are being
driven to the wall. Even the
larger publishers are facing the
alternative of either raising the
price of their publication or reduc-
ing the size of their issue; in fact,
many of them are doing both. And
because of this many people who
depend on the small country jour-
nal for their news of the world,
are deprived of it. and others who
cannot afford periodicals at the in
creased price, are forced to forego
this pleasure. So you can see it's
effect, directly and indirectly, is
national in scope.
There have been beneficial effects
as we'll. This panic has awakened
the nation to the fact that we have
been too dependent on other
countries for certain of our neces-
sites. For instance, in the mat
ter of dyestuffs we have had to de-
pend on Germany for the bulk of
it, when we had natural resources
right here. The administration has
encouraged and instituted expert
ments and researches along this
line, and while the results do not
reach the standard of Germany's
finished product, they have been
successful enough to induce
shrewd business men of foresight
to venture into this new field.
Now, if Congress will follow up
this good work by enacting a tariff
law that will put this new industry
on fair basis of competition with
Germany after the war, the
chances are they will have given
entrance to a new and permanent
field Of endeavor. And if this
panic is the means of creating such
an industry, who shall decry it2
If the same attention, concen-
tration and energy that has been
expended on the methods of manu-
featuring had been given to the
conserving and improving of the
sources of supply as well, it would
have been impossible for the pres
ent panic that is facing the indus
try to-day to occur.
It is a long step from the time
when the ancients ground their
material to a pulp by hand and
then rolled it into the famous
sheets of papyrus on which the
records of ages have been written,
until the present time when it is
done by mammoth machinery.
The progress in manufacturing
has been wonderful. but for the
sources of supply, the basis of it
Continued on page 81
The mirror., 1917-01-11
Interesting Things About
Pipes

Walter Raleigh, of course, most
people say, but this seems open to
doubt As Mr.. G. L. Apperson
points out in the ''The Social His
tory of Smoking" there are sew.
eral claimants. 1t has often been
stated that Capt. William Middle
ton of Myddleton (son of Richard
Middleton, governor of Denbigh
Castle), a Capt. Price and Capt.
Koet were the first who smoked
publicly in London.
Another Elizabethan who is often
said to have smoked the first pipe
in England is Ralph Lane, the first
governor of Virginia, who re-
turned to England with Drake in
1886. Lane is said to have given
Sir Walter Raleigh an Indian pipe.
and to have shown him how to use
it. The truth probably is that,
whoever actually smoked the first
pipe. it was Raleigh who brought
the practice into common use.
Long before his death in 1913 it
had become fashionable in all ranks
of society. Raleigh is said to have
smoked pipe on the morning of
his execution, before be went on
the scaffold, tradition which is
quite credible.
In November, 1911, a curiously-
shaped pipe was put up for sale in
Mr.. j. G. Stevens auction room,
Covent Garden, London, which
was described as that which Ra-
leigh smoked ''on the scaffold." :"
The pipe in question was said to
have been given by the doomed
man to Bishop Andrews, in whose
family it remained for many years.
and it was stated to have been in
the family of the owner, who sent
it for sale, for some two hundred
years.
The pipe was of wood, construct
ed in four pieces of strange shape,
rudely carved with dogs heads and
faces of Red Indians. According
to legend, it had been presented to
Raleigh by the Indians. The auc-
tioneer, Mr.. Stevens, remarked
that unfortunately a parchment
document about the pipe was lost
some years ago, and declared, IF
we could only produce the parch-
ment the pipe would fetch 500
pounds" In the end, however, it
was knocked down at Is guineas.
OF all the giant pipes, that of
the South American Indian tribe
of Oyatopoks is the largest. 1t
remains burning night and day,
filled with a species of herb, as a
substitute for tobacco. The huge
pipe is surrounded by as many as
100 men at one time, with as many
more aspiring to get around it,
who fix long tubes of reed into the
numerous holes with which the
side of the bowl is bored, and thus
indulge in regular smoke-fest. It
is suggested that they may have
conceived the idea from the witch
es of Macbeth around the
cauldrOn.
The pipe commonly in use
among the Russians is of wood,
tipped with red copper and lined
with a thin sheet of tin rudely
nicked and turned over at the rim.
The stem is of dogweed and is tied
to the pipe with rough thong of
leather, to which is affixed a pick,
made of copper wire, to clean out
the pipe when necessary.
The pipe used by the Chinese
has a straight stem from three to
five feet in length. To the stem of
the pipe is sometimes attached
tassels and silken pendant orna-
ments. The stem is usually made
of bamboo.
Cigar and Tobacco Journal.
La Junta tribune., 1917-03-15

+. T. webber. who has been down
In the Mesa Verde country near Du.
range, Colo, during the past year,
was In La Junta one day last week
the guest of $. Il. Mendelson. Some
time ago Mr. Webbcr sold one-half
OF his farm In the Horse Creek coun-
try to +. r. Lewis, and while here
closed the deal for the transfer Of
the other one-half to J. 4, Gauger
He tells an amazing tale of far
mer down In the Mesa Verde country
who mad. a fortune this year out
OF his potato crop, This particular
farmer has been growing potatoes
In that country for twenty-five
years, and not until this year did
he ever realize enough to make both
ends meet This year he had lis
acres In potatoes. and sold the en-
tire crop for $3.50 per bushel, the
gross amount received for II being
$4,000. After dedcuting all expenses
he found that he had f52. 900 In cold
cash on hand. and has that amount
10 his credit In one of the banks Of
Durango.
This potato farmer VIII now be
able 10 live on Easy street In great
splendor for III" res, OF his natural
life. and does not seem to be much
La Junta tribune., 1917-03-15
Light Company Takes Over Propert,

The Arkansas Valley Railway.
Light and Power Company closed the
deal last "Wednesday for the transfer
of the distributing stations at Ord
way and Sugar City, and are now In
charge OF the entire field east of Pu-
eblo, as far as Sugar City on the
Missouri Pacific, with La Junta
AS the eastern terminal on the
Santa Fe. The company will now
have charge OF the light and
power service for the towns OF Ord
way. Sugar City. Olney Springs. and
Crowley. The purchase carries with
II the plant at Ordway, and the fran
chises at Ordway and Sugar City.
The ordway company has for the
past three years been purchasing the
current they used from The Arkan-
sas Valley Railway. Light and Power
Company. receiving service from
the station at Rocky Ford. Last year
the company extended their lines
IRON Manzanola To Crowley and Oh
ney Springs and acquired the bust
ness OF these two towns. and have
now acquired the interests OF Hen
drie a Bolthoff. and created n new
ated new territory which viii be
known as the Crowley county dis
trict.
Harry II. Lyons. for the past five
years meter inspector OF the light
company. viii have charge OF the
new district as manager. Mr.. Lyons
was installed In his new position last
Thursday. Albert Burbank. OF the
local light office. win be cashier Of
the new district with headquarters
at ordway.
La Junta tribune., 1917-03-15

Yes sir, I'm Kansas booster"
live, and don't think much of a man
who won't stand up for his own home
town. Kansas City is the greatest
town on earth, We boosted and made
1t great-and we're not going to stop
boosting. We Kansas City folks are
doing all We can to help Kansas City.
Kansas City is our joy-our pride.
It's Kansas City first-Kansas City
people, Kansas City stores, Kansas
City factories. That's why Kansas
City is growing. And here's some
thing for you to burn into your
brain" the visitor continued. "If
you send dollar to Kansas City It's
gone forever. Kansas City people
spend their money with other Kansas
City people. They buy OF Kansas City
stores and they boost goods that are
made In Kansas City. II a dollar
happens to get away from our peo-
pie, II 1t happens to slip off to some
other town-up to st. Joseph. for in
stance-and We are not able to get
1t back, we feel like the Podunk ball
team feels when some husky lad
knocks the only ball into the middle
of horse pond at the beginning OF
the ninth inning. It's a calamity-a
calamity that's what II is-and We
suffer by II. But | want to tell you
II isn't very often that such a thing
happens in Kansas City. We are very
careful to keep our money at home.
The Kansas City booster Is made
of the right stuff He rings true. And
now, Just put the proposition to your
self--are you made of the right
stuft' Are you sticking up for your
home observation-disclosures industries,
home stores, home people7 Are you
backing up every movement that is
started to make your town n better
town? Have you got vision OF big
things for your community? II you
are not a booster. you are one OF Just
two other things-you are n drifter
or knocker-and drlfters and
knockers generally end up In tn,
same ccf'ap heap
La Junta tribune., 1917-03-15
-. Varieties" win Invade Valley

The Heinz Pickle Company. manu-
facturers OF the famous 81 varie-
ties" is to invade the Arkansas Val
ley this summer The farmers in
certain sections OF the valley have
already agreed to plant certain
acreage to cucumbers To be taken by
the company and work will begin
shortly on two sailing stations. Nego-
tiations are now under way. It is re-
ported, which. II they succeed. viii
mean third station.
Manzanola and Swlnk have al
ready been promised stations Far
mers In these districts have con-
tracted sufficient acreage to assure
the success of the stations and work
will start Immediately.
Agents Of the company are at pres
ent In the Rocky Ford district ar
ranging for the contracting of acre
age there that will enable them to
erect similar station at that point.
The Heinz company has eleven
sailing stations In Colorado. All. how
ever. are In the northern part Of the
state and this is the first intlmatlons
that the southern part of the state
would be invaded by the company.
The raising OF pickles by the far
merR never has been ntt.mn,ed I'm
La Junta tribune., 1917-03-15
Unusual Accident

Kenneth Richards. the young son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. J X. Richards, was
the victim OF n most serious accident
last Sunday evening when he fell
upon fence, running one OF the
pickets into his mouth. tearing the
flesh off the lef, Jaw bone and pen.
ctrating through the cheek, The lit
tie fellow was hurried to the hos
pitai whore he was placed under the
Influence OF chloroform while the
physician extracted four large splin,-
crs from the Jaw and dressed the
wound.
Although the aecldcn, was most
serious one III. patient IL now re-.
ported to be getting along nicely.
La Junta tribune., 1917-03-15

The killing of j. w. Black at Ord
way recently by A. F. Enyart, presi.
dent OF the First National Bank. is
being investigated by detectives
from the Burns Detective Agency
Blacks home was In Nebraska City
Neb., and while In Ordway in con.
ference with Enyart Sunday after
noon of February 25th, he was shot
Enyart. after the killing, sent word
from the bank that he had killed a
man. He was taken In custody by an
officer and an inquest over the body
OF Black was held the next morning
Upon the verdict OF the jury that the
killing was in self defense. District
Attorney Chas. b. Hughes refused to
prosecute and Enyart was released,
Blacks friends and relatives are
not satisfied with the handling of
the case. and believe that the dis
trict attorney railroaded Enyart to
freedom. The inquest was held after
everything had been cleaned up at
the bank and in the directors room
where the killing took place. and they
contend that Black did not get JUS
tice, as no testimony was introduced
other than that OF Enyart and his
associates.
The district attorneys office is be-
ing criticised oh the ground that he
should not have taken the verdict OF
the coroner's jury as final especial
ly as much evidence not produced
could have been brought In in justice
to Black
Black was interested In the estate
OF Logan Enyart of Nebraska City.
Logan Enyart was brother of A. +.
Enyart who came into possession of
the bulk Of the Logan Enyart estate.
The two brothers had been In part
nership in many business transac-
tions for number OF years prior to
the death OF Logan Enyart about
five years ago.
La Junta tribune., 1917-03-15
Labor Ticket Nominated

Last Thursday evening the labor
ing men" of La Junta held meet
ing at the city hall for the purpose
OF placing in nomination a ticket for
the coming city election. The or
ganization was effected by electing
Walter Dillon chairman and |. b.
Johnson secretary. Candidates for
the various offices were nominated
AS follows:
For Mayor-Thomas l.. Davis.
For City Clerks W. Brown.
For City Treasurer. w. Fisher.
For Alderman. First Ward-C. II.
Moore.
For Alderman, Second Ward-H.
B Schuyler.
For Alderman, Third ward-J.
V Welch
Schuyler and Welch have thus far
declined to accept the nominations
rendered them. and at the present
time the Labor Ticket is up In the
air, Another mass meeting was held
at the city hall last night to decide
definitely whether or not to place
ticket in the field. The call for
the mass meeting. signed by W. W
Dillon. chairman. and / y. johnson,
secretary. made the following decla-
ration:
The man who labors Is the man
who supports every business enter
prise In the city of La Junta II Is
his money that foots nine-tenths OF
all the bills. In the face of this
recognized fact the laboring inter
esb Of the city have voiced their
complaints that they have absolutely
no recognition in the government or
policies OF the city which their
money and presence makes possible.
In order to give labor chance
TO obtain this recognition a few men
recently gathered together and en-
deayored 10 select city ticket that
represents their interests to their sat
isfaction. Nearly every man who has
been approached with a proposition
10 accept place on the Labor
saket' has made his EXCUSES and
slid from under" Even the meet
ings we have called have been very
poorly attended by labor or its rep
resentatiyes. Those who have start
ed the movement are tired OF carry
ing the whole burden. 1t IL labor's
fight. II you are interested enough
TO come out to this meeting and help
nominate ticket Of your own and
then help elect II, well and good.
IL you stay away from this meeting.
the few who have been trying 10
push the matter will withdraw and
! ave only the present ticket In the
field"
La Junta tribune., 1917-03-15
'heraw wilI incorporai.

cheraw. the metropolis OF IN. Hol-
brook Valley. viii incorporate. The
citizens OF that burg held an cleo
ton last Monday. and by a vote OF
~ 10 IL decided the question In
tn. affirmative. The commissioners
appointed by the county court to
conduct the necessary prclimina
made their report to Judge MeDan-
icl one day this week. and In the
very near future an election will be
called 10 elect mayor and six trus-
tees 10 conduct the affairs OF that
infant municipality during the next
two years. The question OF voting
n bond issue Of $4,000 for the
immediate constructor OF n munlc-
ipal water plant will also probably
be one OF the question. TO be de-
cidcd at this election. Cheraw will
obtain . water supply from an Or.
tcsian we'll. and with an up to date
pumping plant II 10 thought one we'll
will b. sufflcient for The needs Of
the commuaity for several ysars.