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The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Buster

More rain is needed for the
growing crops.
NJ. p. School has returned
home from Hooker, Okla.
Chas. Fosnight bought tn.
goods Of r. F. Mahony & Go.
Mrs. Crane entertained the
young people last Saturday night.
Those spending Sunday with
Troy Burton's were: Jr" Cum
minRs and family, w. A. Martin
and family, Chas. r. Fosnight
and family. H. Nickel's and fam
lily, Pat Bennett and wife, Mrs.
Milton and Mrs. Bnrks and little
daughter. Robt. Crane and iami-
ly, Earl Crocker and wife, Miss
es Golfer, Martin. Bland. Nan
ME and Pearl Burks, Messrs. Or
ice. Milton, Keenor, Lasley and
Burks. A nice time was report
ed.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

AZ we stated In our dry-farm-.
ing articles Of nearly three years
ago, there are usually series Of
like seasons-two or three on the
dry order, then probably as
many on tho fair order. etc.
Accordingly next year may be
again dry, bu. probably on a de-
creasing order. However, next
year may be the first in series
of fair seasons-and let US hope
that it may be so.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

The Stonington News is thu
latest to be launched on the tur
bulent waters-armed fore and
aft, 1t will valiently assist the
other papers in torpedoing the
high cost of living in the United
States, and militaryism i'll the
Old World. The News is neat
and newsy little four-column
auarto, and is a credit to the lit
tie Kansas City in the eastern
part of the county.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
SOW WHEAT.
Mr.. S. M. Konkel. Springfield.
na C:.- Ao a ~,ook ,oonu

Mr.. S. M. Konkel. Springfield.
Dear Sir:-As great many
acres in Baca county planted
last spring in row crops will
yisld but little or nothing, and
as by 4 little more work this
would be in fine condition for
wheat, I would like to ask if
some arrangements couldn't be
made to provide those who are
unable to buy with seed on the
share plan.
If this could be done every
farmer in the county ought to be
induced to plant twenty acres.
would suggest that each of
the county officers, every busi-
ness man, every stock man, and
every well-to-do man In the
county furnish the seed for at
least twenty acres for a fourth
share of the crop.
The government now guaran-
tees 500 per bushel, so If crop
makes anywhere from five to
thirty bushels per acre it would
be q good proposition.
Hoping that some organization
can be effected for this purpose,
Very truly yours
|. McAdam
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Graft

William Won Buskirk, Pearl
Tomlin, Bill Forbes and Innes
Graves have returned home on
account of the draft.
Mrs. Seymour has returned
from Wichita accompanied by
her daughters Clara and Grace
and son Theodore.
Mrs. Scarborough and son Bry-
ant made trip to Lamar last
week.
Mr.. John Graft has gone TO
Kansas City on business.
A farmers party was held at
the home of Mrs. Seymour last
Wednesday evening. About for
ty young people enjoyed the
games.
Miss Thomas and Miss Dance
made trip to Lamar last Thurs
day.
Millard Schaeffer and wife and
baby have gone to Oklahoma.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Big Flat

High wind, no rain yet.
Sunday school well attended
last Sunday, and Endeavor also.
j. V. Jackman made a trip to
Two Buttes Thursday.
Several Of the young people
went 10 the reservoir To fish this
week.
Mr.. Lock is putting down a
well on his homestead, Calvin
Eskridge helping to do the work.
Mrs. Dewey is helping Mrs.
Williams few days this week.
Wes Burbridge is putting in
some crop. He thinks the late
crop will do better than the ear.
ly il we yet rain soon.
John Alfrey traded in Two
Buttes Wednesday,.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Rodley

Quite difference in tempera-
ture. Saturday registered lO8 in
the shade. Sunday morning 81.
Several at Sunday school.
More than usual. Why can't
others come.
Mrs. Blount's mother of Beav-
er county, Okla, is visiting at
Blount's.
Miss Bertha Jenkins, accom-
panied by her aunt, came in
from Newton, Kans., Saturday
for a visit at the home of F. M.
Jenkins.
Homer Knott was accepted for
the navy Saturday. He will be
sent to Coney Island soon.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Graft

Miss Lizzie Scarborough came
to spend her vacation with her
mother.
Leonard Bryant is home again
after six weeks in the harvest
fields.
The Misses Scarborough en-
tertained the young people at a
social last Friday evening.
Theo. Seymour, who has been
visiting his parents for ten days,
returned to Wichita, Kans.,
where he will join Co. A. of the
End regiment Kansas national
guards.
Misses Ruth and Grace Sey-
mour will attend institute in
Springfield for the next ten days
VIM. Van Buskirk and Jack
Tucker left yesterday for La
mar
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Mustang

Mrs. Nicholson and two daugh-
ters, who have been visiting Al
the Pritchard home, have return.
led to Enid, Okla.
Misses Bunting and Murray
visited at McKellsrs' the week o1
the 22nd. q
Friday night burglars entered
the store room on the Smith
ranch west of here aud made
their getaway" with several
hundred pounds of groceries,
consisting of flour. sugar, rice,
and about 300 pounds OF mutton.
When Mr.. Smith discovered the
theft the next morning he trail
ed them to Mustang creek and
the trail seemed to lead towards
the east from there. We have
not learned at this writing wheth
er they have been captured or
not. The supposition is that the
guilty parties were familiar with
the surroundings and knew that
the supplies were stored there.
Several oil experts called at the
Mustang we'll last week. Among
them were some who are promi-
nent in the Casler, wyoming.
field.
Roasting ears will soon he ripe
and we are going to eat all we
want, no matter who wins the
war. ("If this be treason, make
the most OF it"0
Mr.. Honeycut purchased some
cattle from Lee Pritchard last
week and took them to his ranch
near Plum Valley.
The church which is being
built west of here is nearing
completion. It is to be q union
church.
Miss Mayme Nicholson is Wis.
iting in Kansas
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

Mrs. Taylor of Catsby, Okla.
was a pleasant caller in Richards
the 9th.
Charlie Millican and Miss Ha.
eel Philbrick attended the ball
game at Richards the 4th.
Miss Chesnut of Coldwater,
Kans,, is visiting Miss Ruthie
Chestnut north OF Richards.
The social given at the Frank
Thompson home Saturday even
ing was we'll attended.
E. G. Chestnut sold Dean Rich
ards a truck last week; both of
our merchants now have their
own trucks, to do their freight
ing at any time.
[Gootl report and good newsJ.
f. H. Mitchell and wife ac-
companied by T. o. Maynard and
family autoed to Murray Sunday
evening.
Adam Kicenski and wife en-
tertained few of their friends
Sunday afternoon, serving ice
cream and cake.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Big Flat.

Quite a number fro:1 the flats
attended the picnic at the Holly
crossing on bear creek.
Calvin Eskridge and family
traded in Springfield the first of
the week.
Mr.. Lock put down well and
put up a good windmill.
A surprise party was given at
Sam Smiths Saturday the 2Sth
of July in honor of their son
Herman's birthday. Upwards
of IS people were present.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Pride

Rev. Wolverton OF Elkhart,
Kansas, is holding meetings at
Pride school house this week.
Frank Park of TeXhoma is Wis
iting tn. Sheldon families this
week.
]. e. Hager and family Of
Elk City. Okla, arrived here
Wednesday to visit their son
C laude.
Mrs. Dick Crea9he of Lamar
was a weekend guest at the
Harman ranch.
James Dye OF Gray, Okla, is
visiting friends in this neighbor-
hood.
Claude Hager and wife and his
mother, father. and brother are
sight seeing in Colorado Springs
this week.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

This here editor is going to
lose out on a great big bean
crop if the rains don't come
with the change of the present
old moon. We have about the
sixtieth part of an acre all in
good old Mexicans, with which
we expected to slay the great
dragon know as "The High Cost
of Living" but if as it now
looks We fall down on our main
stav and chief reliance, we will
just have to turn the aforesaid
vampire over to Bro. Jones and
get along the best way we can.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Diamond Ridge
Some crops are needing r

Some crops are needing rain.
F. Mrs. ]. H. Benson has gone to
Hutchinson to visit with relatives.
The quilting at D. H. Collins
was well attended last Wednes-
day, all having pleasant time.
G. 1. Wray made a trip to Elk
hart Thursday, returning Friday.
A. A. Davis and family made a
trip to his sons this week-in
the hills.
Mrs. N. j. Armstrong is here
from Durango, looking for a To-
cation.
Mr.. Russell took the cream to
town this week.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

We are wondering if Baca
county farmers may possibly
start suit against Bro. Jones to
force him to make good on the mill
ion. dollar crop assured some time
ago by the million. dollar rain h..
gave them. They are probably
wanting to know whether Jones
used all that water up himself.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Moooseland

George Bodkinsand John Bew.
ley came out from Kansas last
week.
Albert Harris and Henry ALL
phin got back from Syracuse
Saturday.
Clyde Graham has got his we'll
fixed again.
The two Konkel boys visited at
the Hutches home Sunday.
Charles Finley, Jean Bewley
and George Bodkins helped Will
mer Bewley to brand cattle We'd
nesday.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
OUR ExHoRTIVE KEIeHBoR

The old lib" that stood 40
long as a monument to the hon.
esty and integrity of our ultra
Conscientious contemporary has
been removed And now if he
will remove tIese white ones''
from his letteyShead and purify
his business mAthods he will un.
idoubtedly gst Esof that swfui
crouch and be able to lt'ok the
world in the eye with a smile
Democrat.
The above powerful effort to
take the place of the late lament
ed Artemus Ward has reference
to the old sign on the side of the
Herald building that was put
there by our illustrious prede-
cessor to celebrate his victory in
the legislative halls of the county
of Baca in getting the Herald
designated as the courty's Off
cial organ.
Although the present ram rod
er of the Democrat wasn't then
ou the job, the innocent little
sign seems to have cotton On his
nerves by transference, and like
Rachael weeping for her children
he has ever since refused to be
comforted.
And that reminds us of An in
nocent little sign that this w. B.
A. W. wit recently had printed
in book form on the front end of
the Democrat building. enc verse
Largest Subscription
List" ="
Facts are the Democrat didn't
have the largest circulation then
and never did have. When the
present editor took over the pa.
per it purported to have circula-
tion of 800 or 400. Then that pi-
ano got a circulation of some
thing in the neighborhood of 300
or 400, the parties being prevail
ed upon to agree to be punished
by taking the Democrat out OF
the office whole year-for the
privilege of helping some friend
to set a piano. Thus the Demo-
crat aud piano each had acircula-
lion of something like 300 or 400.
We believe the editor of the
Democrat will admit he recently
acknowledged that the Herald
has the larger mailing list, so we
he should have cleaned
mis- own house before indulging
n exhortations to his neighbors.
And while he is at it, it might
De just as we'll for him to hold a
over that unsus-
,ecting lettle joke published both
n the book on the front endgate
If the Democat Office and in the
,ead of the paper-"most news.
Our proposition is that the
Herald has several hundred more
subscribers than the Democrat
ind the piano combined, and an
several more hundred
,aid up to date or in advance.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Baker
August /.

August
Arch Frink is looking after
business near Ensign, Kans.,
Leonard Johnson and BERTHE
Moore left Monday for Garden
City.
William Beckman returned
home Sunday from Pratt. Kans.,
where he has been for the past
month.
Jessie Hall, who has been Wis
iting here from Missouri. left
Wednesday for her home. Her
aunt, Mrs. Beckmau, accompan-
led her as far as Nickerson,
Kans.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Trying Again
To Fool his Readers

The man who leaves off the es-
sential part of statement in a
quotation and thus attempts to
deceive somebody, is on a par
with the man who attempts az
advantage by sending out anon
ymous letters, and deserves
the same place in the estimation
of the public.
We have had occasion before
to call attention to Jones's nau-
seating style of misrepresenta-
tion and falsitication, resorted
to in the bare hope that he might
happen to have some readers
who don't take any other paper
on earth. and consequently
would never knoy the difference.
The Sentinel's quotation last
week with reference to the re-
giment Of LOCO men attributed a
statement to this paper that was
actually never made, the essen
tial part Of the statement being
left off-3n the presumption
that his readers would never
know it.
Another stat emant out of the
same factory was that the Her
aid last fall virtually claimed"
that "Baca county wonld be
ruined if Wilson were defeated. "
Once before when calling atten-
tion to Jones' eEregious misrep-
resentations and falsiGcations
we gave him a chance to win $5
for his Two Buttes Sunday school
class, if he could 20 to the files
Of the Herald in his office and
find the statement he charged it
with making; and we are going
to give him another chance to
make good.
Go to the tiles in your office
and find a statement in which
the Herald virtually claimed"
anything of the kind. or ever
said that anything would happen
to Baca county if Wilson we're
defeated, and then 90 to the
First State bank in Springfield
and get $500 for your Sunday
school class, the bank being
hereby authorized to pay over
the V, as in such case provided,
and charge the same to our ac-
count. ft
Along with these false presen-
tations of what the Herald said,
the Sentinel wades through lot
of drivel and gibberish, mixing
in with it's senseless illusions
the statement that the president
virtually demanded" the puo.
of the registration lists
that slackers by the public may
be known. Now, if the Sentinel
ever heard of Stacker being ap-
pretended except,by the demand
of his registration card, it would
do we'll to tell whe, e and when it
was.
To close, ii Jones can have the
fairness and honesty to correctly
quote the Herald's regiment
proposition, and then will go to
work and earn the V offers for
his Sunday school class, we are
certain his conscience ought to be
clearer, and we believe that in
future his statements by his
readers will be given more cred
ence.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Paradise Flats

Crops are looking fairly we'll,
BUT needing rain.
Helen and Charlie McAda,n
have returned home after a
pleasant visit in Lamar.
MIR. and Mrs. Sam Hagerman
are the proud parents of fine
baby boy.
A large crowd attended the
ice-cream social at Earl Eslick's
place Wednesday night. -, -,
Mrs. Lucius McAdam and son
jim, Walter Cloyd, Florence
CJoyd and Burton Hines went to
the Dam on fishing trip. They
expect to be gone several days.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

Greatly to the credit of our
representative. Allyn Cole, his
bill for the regulation of food
prices passed the house with
only two dissenting votes. How
ever, IN the senate it found a
committee pigeon hole, and that
was the last of it.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
North Flats

Alva Adams has been working
for j. B. Bickford.
A surprise party was given al
Hooker's Tuesday night. it being
Rays birthday. About IS wera
present, and all report a fine
time.
Smart's have been hauling hay
from Two Buttes.
Chas. Henson has been build
,ing a rock house.
Earl Kaufman returned home
from Oklahoma Monday and his
brother Jesse went back in the
same car.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

We have received great
many commentators on our last
weeks war editorial, and have
been toli of few cases where
parties after reading it changed
their views of the war situation.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

An inch rain fell from Maxey
east through north part of coun-
ty Monday, and an inch to two
inch. from Estelane eastward
through south part of county,
with dashes here and there else
where.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

The close OF the war may come
this year-by revolution, or it
may come next yearly victory;
but the chances are that 1919
will see the final grand roundup.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Grand View

Clint Crawford of Rosston.
Okla. is visiting his father. j. A..
Crawford.
D. D. Duniyan and wife made
a trip to Springfield Saturday.
Lucille CARVE of Maxey is
here visiting friends for a few
days.
]. W. Davis and family, E. T.
Lilly and daughter, and Mrs.
Harm went on a fishing trip to
the Cimarron river Thursday, re.
turning Friday.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Lawful Fence.
Sec. 25S7.

Sec. 1857.
A fence of three or more barb
wires. with posts securely set
in the ground not less than 18
inches in depth, said posts not
less than than three inches in di-
aneter where top wire crosses
post, and set not more than 33
feet apart with stay between
or posts 16a feet, top wire 46 inch
es from the ground, second
wire IA inches below the top
wire, 3rd wire II inches below
End wire, all wire to be tightly
stretched and securly stapIed,
and all corner, end and gate
posts to be securely braced.
Provided that when posts are
closer than 33 feet they may be
smaller, but must offer same
resistance.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10

The publication of the 400
names has knocked the eternal
stuffin out of our capital cases,
and are consequently compelled
to leave out whole lot of letters
and other important matter, the
non perishable parts o. which will
be served next week.
The Springfield herald., 1917-08-10
Richards

turning Friday.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30

least until after the next regular
harvest season.
The logic of these facts is con-
elusive. Instead of fastening to
get high prices for hogs now on
hand, increase the hog crop by
every possible means in order TO
have more hogs to sell at equally
high prices next fall.
The advantages of this course are
particularly pertinent and applica-
bic to Southern farmers. With US
the hog crop and the necessary feed
crops can be started earlier and re-
suits become available sooner than
in any other section Of the country.
March and September are the most
desirable months for the appearance
Of pigs. Feed crops for the brood
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30
CONSIDER THE HOG

The market reports for March
9TH showed that on that day hogs
sold at Chicago Union Stock Yards
for $15.05 per hundred. Other
markets paid corresponding prices
and tens Of thousands Of head sold
at these figures. These were the
highest prices ever paid in any
regular market for shipped hogs.
TO the significance Of these facts
we wish to direct attention.
The preferable and most prof.
table packing-house hog weighs
about 175 pounds. At the price Of
$500 per hundred this hog will
bring $26.25. There is no reason
why the hog of this weight should
be over seven months old. This
means that the life of the profitable
hog is spawned by the length Of a
single growing season. In other
words, the investment is made, the
hog crop produced, marketed, paid
for and the investment with its ac-
crued profit back in pocket inside
of one year.
The first serious thought suggest
ed by the present high price of
hogs is the danger that farmers will.
be tempted to sell breeding stock,
and thus "kill the goose that lays
the golden egg.
The most pertinent argument
against this course is that there is
no reason for believing that present
prices are temporary. On the con-
trary, there is every reason for be-
lieving that these prices, like other
high prices for staple foodstuffs, ara
to continue high for some time. at
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30
Nations Call For The Navy.

President Wilson late Sunday exercised his full legal limits
mandernchief Of the ordering that this branch Of the service
be recruited the maximum Of strength, which 81 900
Secretary Navy Daniels Monday wired the editor the Times
Recorder concerning the call and urged the united cooperation Of the
press yng the nations call this particular time. He
$500 enments congress
recently authorized increase many neededad
needed now.'
In Americas today representatives Of the in the
crung They Chief Master Arms William g. Burgess
and Boatswain Fertile Their headquarters the
postofice and they will be glad furnish all information possible
country preparing evenuy and is the naval
of the coun strength where the people Of the United States
must look.
your country and be thousands stand back Of
president his protection American rights and American honor
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30

sows may be satisfactorily planted
all through the spring, Then with
advance summer peanuts. sweet po-
tatoes, root crops, summer forage
and fall grains provide for the
whole herd the hest crops for the
growing and finishing o. the hog
crop.
Secondary considerations like re-
lief from the boil wsevil attack. ad-
vantages Of diyeFsiicatiOn and The
fertilizina value OF The crops fed
must not be overlooked.
Kill not the SOW that produces
the golden PIC.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30
LOVING SECTION
Alloy Ride.
{ ByM

Master Sol and Goode Yeoman,
Fred Christine and Mag Sadler, Mat
tie Pearl and Vera Wallace, Annie
B. Lee, and Lucille Fouehe.
Linda Forester told Sol to stop
the car and she got on the seat with
him and put arm around him.
Annie Blanche Lee and Christine
sadler cried because Cato hurt him
self.
We are glad to know that Ma
tie Pearl Wallace and Master Sol
Woman are still loving each other.
Linda Forester Rugged Sol Yeo-
man Sunday evening.
Sol Woman took Matte Pearl
Wallace to church.
Cato Fouche took Annie Blanche
Lee to church Sunday night.
Cato Fouche and Annie B. Lee
are in love.
Master Garnet Pruett is loving
Matte Pearl Wallace.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30

Old lady-does this car run by
Jordan Park2
Conductor-No it runs by lee
tricity. Macon County Citizen.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30

Now is the time for all good
men to come to the Gid 81 their
country.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30
PRUETT'S WEEKLY
JOURNAL
LEEsBURG GA.MARoH 50 1917.
SCHOOL NEWS

Misses Ruby and Jewell johnson
went to Albany Friday and attend
d the moving picture show.
Misses Vera and Matte Pearl
Wallace went to Albany last Satur-
day,
Miss Ruby Johnson spent Tues
day night with Misses Olivia and
Annie Mary Hay.
Miss Christine Hines went to AL
bany last Saturday.
Miss Annie Mae Jackson has got
the mumps.
Miss Linda F orrester went to
Cobb last Sunday.
Miss Lowell Manning has been
out some this week.
Mr.. Homer Hay and family were
at Weston last Saturday on a little
business.
Miss Jewell Johnson spent Mon
day night with Miss Olivia Hay.
Miss Edith Clifton was out of
school some this week.
Master Cato Fouche was out
Monday morning.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30
Local and Personal

DR.. and Mrs. T. H. CLARK went
to Douglas Wednesday,
Who will be the first man to APP
pear on the streets in a new straw
hat?-Douglas Enterprise.
He sure will have to be mighty
little if he gets in it.
The editor is glad to have Miss
Annie Mary Hay to write Locals
for Pruett's Weekly Journal.
Mr.. T. J. R. Johnson of Atlanta,
Jas the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
G. Pruett Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. w. F. McAfee was in town
Saturday on business.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-03-30

2RUETTs WEEKLY JOURNAL.