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The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16
Oberquell & Wright

Deep we'll drilling and repair
ne- will be lle fer tie winter.
address your orders to Ebert,
Colorado.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16
Classified Advertising.

For Sale Seed Wheat-1OO bushels
Turkey Red at $3.50 per hundred.
Bring sacks. N. E. Curtis, Calhan, Colo
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Regular Services

Regular Services
Morning.
Bible School 10 a IN.
Communion II a IN.
Services ll:l5 Il. IN.
Evening.
Y. p. S. C. E. at 7 p. m.
Preaching s p IN.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16
WANTED-To buy or trade rose
comb Rhode Island Red Cockrels.
Mrs. John H. Fickel.
NOTICE

Having sold my interest in the
Rice Motor and Tractor Co., l am
now taking on two cars on my own
account, "The Dodge and Chalmers.
w. F. Ahl, Elizabeth. Colo.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16

For Sale-19 weaned Duroc pigs at
$500 each. N. E. Curtis. Address,
Calhan, Colorado. Ranch 31Ia miles
south of Fondis.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16

w. f. Carver and Frank Thompson
have been visiting the Carver home
this week.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16
NOTICE

NOTICE.
Wanted-Men with rigs for Raw.
leigh retailers. c. B. Rayan, Ebert,
Colorado. "a
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16


date quarters adjoining his store
There will be an entertainment
followed by box social at the Sid
ney school house Tuesday evening,
November 27th. EVERYBODY come
Ladies bring boxes and gents your
pocketbooks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Long are the
proud parents of ten pound hey.
born Wednesday morning at a. m.
Mrs. Lena Schimpf is visiting in
Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Oaks went to
Denver Monday where Mr. Oaks
shipped a lot of cattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Neuman are
attending the Auto Show in Denver
this week.
Mrs. Anna Peterson returned from
Denver Sunday.
Mrs. George McKimmie was in
Elizabeth Sunday visiting and talk
ing Red Cross.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Gatewood and
Mrs. Tom Jewell autoed to Denver
Saturday. Gatewood's returned Sum
day and Mrs. Jewell remained to
have some dental work done.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16

THESE RATES ARE NET
Business locals s cents per line each insertion ;
discount to regular advertisers carrying display
ads. Advertising accounts payable monthly.
Legal advertising at Legal Ratee.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16

L. t. Harper Is preparing to move
his restaurant into new and up-to-
date quarters adjoining his store
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16
Survey of Entire Situation

The United States In the employ
ment of its man power and material
resources desires to use them to the
greatest advantage against Germany.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16

Mrs. George McKimmie was in
Elizabeth Sunday visiting and talk
ing Red Cross.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-16
ADVERTISING RATES:

Amount Of One One Two IThreeIsix Ione
Space. Week Mon. Mon. Mor. Mor Yes
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
AROUND THE CITIES.

Sioux City's boosters last week enter
tanned the Greater Iowa Boosters club and
took in a fresh stock of red pep. The object
Of the state club is "to make the wheels
of progress turn faster
Philadelphia boosters are shaking hands
with themselves on the location Of huge
Westinghouse plant on the edge of the city.
Enthusiasts figure the plant good for an
increase of 10000 in population.
Louisvi is talking up for next year
centennial celebration in honor Of the acquisi-
tion of that territory from the British by
George Rogers Clarke. Boosters believe
the celebration is good for $4,000 visitors.
The New York couple which won the
spotlight by dressing in black for the mar
risge ceremony took less chance with the
fates than a Salt Lake couple. A fruit cake
baked forty-six years ago was served at the
latter wedding.
Chieago's right to regulate bilrboards has
been sustained by the state supreme court
"The decision" say the Tribune, seems to
indicate that things offensive to the eye,
as well as those which offend the nose
and ears, may be declared nuisances and
abolished"
Federal and state authorities in Chicago
are waging war on the bonding business,
controlled chiefly by underworld grafters
who shadow the courts for victims. The
state has nabbed the queen of professional
bonders. who scheduled the same property
four times for an equal number of patrons.
Half dozen of the clan are in the tolls Of
Judge Landis' court.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Fashion and the H. c. L.

The tabled guest Of Diogenes for an honest
man proved no less failure than the present
search for the root cause Of the high cost Of liv-
ing. Earnest and devoted men and women, sngly
and in groups, assailed the problem from every
angle. State and federal authorities instituted
open and still hunts. Consumers leagues and
household leagues pursued the villain hither and
thither. Each and all arrived at common
destination without reducing the cost in the
slightest degree Failure is not due to lack of
ZEAL intelligence or searchfu power. 1t springs
from striking blind trail at the outset and get
ting nowhere. The real cause of high living
has been tracked to its lair in direction gen.
orally ignored, and the honor Of discovery be-
longs to Miss Jane M. Newcomb, research
teacher in the Pennsylvania State college
Miss Newcomb asserts that fashion makers
arc the principal conspirators with which man
kind must grapple II it would live within its
mems. Every inch cut off woman's skirts means
an extra pound Of beefsteak inside to keep the
wearer fit for the elements. But the worst OF Il
is, as the discoverer points out the girl or woman
who struts the streets in short skirts silk stock
ings, and chest barred to the winters winds must
cat so much to keep warm that she becomes
dyspeptic, nervous and irritable" The tyranny
Of the fashion plate thus increases the normal
consumption Of food swes the demand which
boosts prices, and opens up innumerable leaks in
the purse. Further search is waste of time.
Speculation in food is side issue. The problem
resolves itself into the simple one of stretching
the gowns at both ends and shortening the de-
mand for food Without the essential props of
fashionable brevity the high cost Of living tum-
bles as a house of cards
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Imagination Versus Facts.

THE market price of silver has made another
spurt but the quotation for an ounce OF silver
is still less than half that for bushel OF wheat.
Remember how a certain statesman used to tell
US that an ounce OF silver and bushcl OF wheat
would always exchange as equal value p
Omaha Bee.
No; we do not remember any such states
man, nor do we remember any such assertion.
Neither does the editor of the esteemed Omaha
Bee. The trouble with some people who try
to quote history is that they rely too much
upon their Imagination The great trouble with
some people who try to discuss finance is that
they rely too much upon the same source for
their facts.-York Democrat
The trouble with some other people who try
to quote history is that their memories are either
short or they seek to impose upon the shortness
of other peoples memories. In this case, the as
sertion OF the equal value OF ounce OF silver
and bushe1 of wheat was the common reliance
OF sixteen-to-oners during the campaign OF 1896. II
was sometimes referred to as the India wheat
argument" We have not time to go through
again the accumulation of documents left over
from the free silver campaign but find at hap
hazard in Mr.. Bryan's First Battle" page 240)
the doctrine explicitly stated in speech by Sen
ator Newlands there quoted approvingly by Mr..
Bryan in which he says
The Indian wheat-grower receives today.
just as he did twenty years ago, an ounce OF
silver for bushel OF wheat; he sells it for that
price to the Liverpool importer who also offers
to the American wheat t-grower an ounce of silver
which, formerly worth $l10 in gold, is worth
today only 65 cents.
That puts it, in brief, as repeated over and
over on the rostrum, in the campaign literature
and in the newspapers, that the price Of the wheat
was fixed in India, not by demand and supply, but
by the traditional exchange of an ounce for a
bushel and that the price Of wheat in India gov
erned the world price and held American grown
wheat to the same basis Of value. The assertion
in question we freely admit, is not now after
twenty years Of disproof very live issue, but
the editor OF the esteemed York Democrat must
not be allowed to deny the facts Of history and
get away with it.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Expansion of the Dry Belt.

Prohibition is moving forward by leaps and
bounds. The record Of progress last year, great
as it was falls far short of the speed indications
OF 1917. In every direction the movement is for
ward-the drys to bone dry" condition and the
vets retreatng under the pressure.
Twenty-six states comprised the dry roster
when the year opened Indiana and Utah have
already joined the number, statutory prohibition
having been enacted in each state. The question
Of wet or dry goes to a vote Of the people in
Wyoming. Minnesota's legislature is certain to
submit a constitutional amendment on the sub
jeet, and similar procedure is indicated in Illinois,
In Missouri there is no doubt the issue is to be
pressed to third test next year unless the legs-
lature enacts law Tightening the lid Alaska is
bone dry by congressional enactment and the
District Of Columbia is SO close to the dry belt
that nothing less than the rush Of business at the
close Of congress will save it for a time. That
congress feels the pressure is evident by action
on these measures, supplemented by the sweep
ing prohibition riders on the postofice bill and
the committee report on the submission OF con-
stitutional amendment. From every point OF
view the situation is extremely heartening for
the drys and correspondingly dark for the VETS
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
RR AR. kABAesEI
M HUSBAND Se0NS NE N
MS SlER-WAN SHALL
7 W?
- MRS, BllvlI2
W6
MkNBE NE isNT ASLEEP
w

Mrs Gibble-How many fresh eggs do
you use in making your poverty pudding?
Mrs Gabble-The recipe calls for nine,
but since we formed the Economy league |
cut 1t down to eight.-Judge
Eyer not workin', Dinny? Are yez out
of job?"
"shure, the boss discharged me yesterday
an OF got mad an quit"
"Aw, go on! Yer too sinsitive"-Boston
Transcript.
Have you taken any chance in lottery
since we were married. dear?" asked the
sweet young thing.
mo: that was the last one" was the
cold reply of the husband.-Yonkers States
man.
Now this stock fell forty points last octc-
ber, jumped sxty-two notches in Noven-
ber, and fell eighty points in December.
What's it going to do next?"
Gosh, l been used to playing the races
dunno how TO figure on past performances
like that."-Washington Star.
mo" remarked the determined lady to
the indignant taxi driver, who had re
me, ] haven't ridden in cabs these last
twenty-five years for nothing"
Haven't your" he retorted bitterly.
well, you've done your best. New York
Times.
Author-Watter, this beef 10 as tough as
leather.
Waiter-Really, sir, am disappointed in
you l have always heard that you were
an original man, and here you are saying
the same thing they all ssy.-Puck.
so Jimmy has been half drowned again.
has he, going out in rowboat against
my express order? Well, l am going to
cure him of his love of sea travel by the
homeopathic method"
"'How's that?"
81 am going to take him to the wood
shed with me on whaling trip "-Balt-
more American.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
BEGINNINGS IN DEFENSE.

The first school for gun firing was estab-
lished by the War department at Sandy
Hook in 1910.
The first torpedo school of the United
States navy was established at Newport. R.
l., in 1869.
The Trenton, of the United States navy,
was the first warship in the world to be
lighted by electricity.
The first ironclad steam war vessel was
designed by Thomas Gregg of Pennsylvania
and patented by him in 1914.
The first line-of- battle ship built for the
United States navy was the America, COM
pleted at Portsmouth. N. H.. in 1880.
The United States Naval academy dates
from 1S45. in which year it was first opened
on the grounds Of Fort Severn, near Annap-
oils.
The first warship built under the present
organization of the American navy was the
United States, launched at Philadelphia, July
10. 1797.
The first United States naval hospital
was established at the old navy yard in
Philadelphia during the second war with
Great Britain.
Inc nrst American Wafship oi tne sefe"-
propeller type was the Princeton, which. was
launched at Philadelphia just seventy-ive
years ago.
Most of our navy yards date from 1900,
in which year sites were purchased for the
yards at Boston, Brooklyn, Portsmouth and
Washington.
In the early days Of the United States
navy chaplains were appointed by the presi-
dent, and it was by no means the rule that
the appointee was an ordained clergyman.
The present United States military acad-
emy was developed from small mathemat-
ical school which had been established at
West Point in 1901 under the direction Of a
private citizen.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Shafts Aimed at Omaha

Blair Pilot: H. Best has suggested that a
paper mill be started in Omaha to work over
the waste paper now being saved up and sent to
paper mill in Wisconsin. This is GOOD idea
that the newspaper men Of Nebraska will gladly
help put across The Omaha Commercial club
should get busy at once.
Norfolk Press: Old-style business methods
and new-stye thieves seem to work together ali
right. An Omaha business man banked his
money only once a week and an industrious
burglar heard the glad tidings 1t cost the busi.
ness. man 5000 to learn that he should visit
the bank every day.
Hay Springs News: If the local newspaoers
would publish one-half Of the dope sent out to
them by the Omaha Commercial club Omaha
would be the best-advertised city in the world.
The elub specializes every sparring match and
bull hight as great attraction for Omaha, al
ways forgetting to enclose even comp.
Ainsworth Star-Journal: The Omaha automo.
bile show is to have special day for the farm
ers to view the automobile. II makes us smjIe
when we read it, for evidently some OF those city
people and good many Of them, too, seem 10
think the farmers don't know an auto when thev
see il yet We just invite them to come nm "a
Brown county and we can show them two autos
owned by farmers to one by the city man. and
they are not all Ads either,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
The High Cost of Inherating


writer in the New York Times-Annalist has
looked into the state laws affecting taxes on in
heritances, into the existing federal tax and into
the proposed new federal tax and has applied his
data to a consideration OF the question: What
would be the cost Of directly inheriting $4,000.
900 in each of thirty two states which he names!
Taxes on inheritances were already high in forty
states when federal income tax was first i'm
posed. In all OF these states. except California,
the tax was doubled by the federal tax, while the
proposed increase will make the amount collected
by the federal government so per cent greater
than it now is. The proposed new law has been
made part OF an emergency revenue bill endorsed
by the democrats in caucus of the house and now
before congress.
Following is table which the Annalist writer
compiled to show what in thirty-two states would
be the tax on $l0,000000 under the existing state
laws and what it would be with the proposed new
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
TICKLISH TRIFLES.

"Fu get a terrible scolding for coming
home so late"
you don't know how 10 manage a wife,
Do something to district her attention.
what can / do?"
"I generally leave the corner OF IS bin
sticking out of my vest charlottesville
Courier Journal.
Uncle Ezra-Ss Eph Hoskins has gone
to Palm Beach. wonder IL there'll be
enough going on to suit him.
Uncle Eben-Woll, Eph amt taking any
chances. He's took his checker board along
Life.
There is one thing In lawyers pro-
fesaion which is different from any other"
What Is that?"
THE longer he is at ii the more he has
of a brief career."-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
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Ambulance Corps Volunteers.

New York, Feb. 16-To the Editor
of The Bee: | am permitted to send
you the enclosed very human letter
from the front (letter exceeds our
space limit written by one of the first
rate Americans who are serving with
the Harjes-Norton volunteer ambui-
ance sections, which are under the
American Red Cross If you like to
state that anybody who wants to JOIN
the volunteer ambulance service in
France should apply to me, we shall
be glad ELIOT NORTON.
WHY QuibbIe About Consistency?
Omaha, Feb. 15.-To the Editor of
The Bee: In recent World-Herald
there appeared an editorial on THE
Clamor for War" 1t appears that DR..
Lyman Abbott, President Hibben of
Princeton and certain other mill
tarists" put paid advertisement in
the New York papers last Monday, in
which they stated, among other things,
that at is no longer question of
whether there shall be war with Ger
many. There is war with Germany
The Herald editor can not find words
harsh enough to express his opinion OF
these men and of their wicked attempt
to bully the president and congress.
Strangely enough the Herald did
not say a word last week when Amos
Pinchot and certain other pacifists put
paid advertisements in papers all over
the country, limiting that Mr.. Wilson
was no longer to be trusted and bid
ding all men to write to their con-
gressmen and urge them to desert the
president. Appended to this advertise
ment was a lop- cared voting blank"
cunningly worded so that no matter
whether a man voted "yes" or mo"
he was voting against Mr.. Wilson and
for the German kaiser.
In every crisis we have had with
Germany the Herald has acted in ex
actly this way. First it prints a rous-
ing editorial on standing back of the
president and upholding American
rights and honor: then it begins to
shift its attitude, and the next thing
you know it is siding with the Bryan
Ford Pinchod crowd and helping
them to hold the president back by
his coat-tails.
Each time we have had trouble
with Germany l have noticed that it
always has been the peace-at-any-
price faction that has started the first
scare-your- congressman an-to-death. On
the other hand, If a group Of men
grow weary of Mr.. Wilson's painstak-
ing attempts to isolate the bacillus of
an overt act if they get the idea that
the microscope is no longer the instru-
ment indicated, and If they start to
educate the public along these lines,
the same paper is always ready to
rend them apart AMERICAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
The Day We Celebrate.

Myron L. Learned is celebrating his
fifty-first birthday. He is a native OF
Vermont and studied in Boston law
school. He was associated in law
firm with John L. Kennedy from 1888
to 1907, since which time he has been
practicing on his own account.
William F. Wappich was born Feb
ruary 10, 1860. at Keokuk, Ia. He be-
gan his residence in Omaha on his
twenty-seventh birthday and has been
here continuously since, with a brief
intermission. Ak-Sar-Ben would have
a hard time to put up an initiation
without him.
II. ]. Day was born right here in
Omaha just thirty years ago today.
The rubber market is of great interest
to him. as he is associated with the
John Day Rubber and Supply COM
pany here.
f. W. Dooiey started life in New
Brunswick, N. j., thirty-seven years
ago today. He was for some time
manager of the Woolworth store here,
but has recently been promoted to
Chicago.
Adelina Patti baroness Cedar
strom), for many years the worlds
greatest singer, born in Madrid seven
ty-four years ago today.
General Alvaro Obregon, minister OF
war in Mexico, born in the state of
Sonora thirty-seven years ago today
Brigadier General William Crozier,
chief of the bureau of ordnance Of the
War department, born at Carrollton,
O.. sixty-two years ago today.
Rt Rev. Nicholas A. Gallagher,
Catholic bishop of Galveston, born in
Belmont county, Ohio, seventy-one
years ago today.
George Sisler, first baseman Of the
st. Louis American league base ball
team, born at Nimisila, O., twenty
three years ago today.
]. Weldon Wyckoff, pitcher of the
Boston American league base ball
team, born at Williamsport, Pa, twen-
ty-five years ago today.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

The federal estate tax at the rate at present
in force would deduct $84l 900 more from the to-
tal bringing the double tax up to $2,290l50. With
the proposed so per cent increase the federal gov
ernments share would be 81 ,26l $780, raising the
7l06sO, or Hl0 per cent, and leaving balance
Of $7,7Oo.S50 The table which follows presents
comparison Of the existing rates Of the federal
estate tax and the increased rates which are pro-
posed in the pending emergency revenue bill:
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
THE BEACON LIGHT.


Old Glory floating In the breezA.
Ger lands that love thee we'll
With all thy rights upon the seas,
Remember, War is hell"
You came to US when days were dark,
Conceived in truth and right
AT birth you were a glowing spark,
You're now a beacon light
You're loved and honored round the world
Because your Missions peace,
And everywhere you are unfurled
The hopes of men increase.
Your sons are brave as brave can be,
And at attention stand
All are prepared to follow thee
When given the command.
But II, perchance. there is a chance
To keep US from the fray,
We truly hope some circumstance
VIII point the peaceful way.
For If we fall into the nav
OF this world holocaust,
Who will there be to plead for law,
When all the world Is lost?
Then strive for peace with honor bright,
And hold thy neutral place
You shine tonight the only light
To save the human race.
Omaha. r. +. WILLIAMS
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

There are thirty-two states which have in
heritance tax. laws that apply to the supposi-
titious case Of Mr.. Anyone. Twelve other states
exempt direct heirs in their inheritance tax laws,
but in these instances the rates applicable to COL
lateral heirs usually are higher. These twelve
states are Delaware Iowa, Kansas Kentucky,
Maryland, Missouri New Hampshire, Ohio PENN
sylvania, Texas, Vermont and Virginia. There
ARE orda ss Nam
leo and South Carolina.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

Twenty-Five years ago today every live demo-
erat in Nebraska foregathered at Lincoln and
celebrated the reinauguration Of Governor Boyd
at the state house. Nothing like the turnout was
staged before or since, History deals with the
event as political episode. 1t was more than
that. 1t was the most imposing display of plug
hats that ever enlivened the splendors Of Lincoln
scenery
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

Two Of the leaders in the bomb massacre at
San Francisco have been convicted Of murder.
1t is meager conclusion for a deliberately
planned slaughter Of innocent people, but II full
fills the limit OF the law
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

Our amiable democratic contemporary, the per-
sonal organ of the SENATOR learnediy discusses
the question of literacy as fitness test for i'm
migrants. When the literaey test was passed
over the presidents veto the senator was re-
corded as mot yotinpp
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

Universal military service is objected to
chiefly on the claim that the people Of this
country are not amenable to rigid discipline
Nonsense. The way the boys in the trenches line
up and stand at the pie counter without hitching
mocks the base calumny
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.

At meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation Messrs. Coburn, Long and Liv-
esey were appointed a committee to
see upon what terms school site
could be secured in Kountze's new
addition west of Sixteenth and north
Of Lake.
Miss Katie Powers and Miss Bertha
Birkett have been appointed to the
position Of teachers in the city schools.
All night a row of messenger boys
crowded the door at the Capitol ave-
nue. entrance to the exposition build
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

Those country papers indulging in uncompli-
mentary remarks about omaha's subscription to
land bank stock should take it back. Let them
observe that the stock subscriptions for Omaha
head the list Of the twelve banks and equal nearly
one-fourth OF the total