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The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
JUNIOR RED CROSS
TO THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF
COLORADO.

TO THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF
COLORADO.
Denver, Colo, Sept. 20, 1917
My Dear Children:
The President of the United States
has proclaimed the wish of the Amer
lean Republic in reference to the Red
Cross service of School Children. To
this Proclamation | call your atten-
ton and urge your allegiance.
With it | join the Proclamation of
the State of Colorado, summoning
the children in each school to form a
Junior Red Cross.
AS President of the National Edu-
cation Association, | claim the CO.
operation of the teachers in the di-
rection of this work.
To this three-fold call, I feel con
fdent every school child and every
teacher in the State of Colorado will
respond with immediate and enthus'
iastc organization work.
A complete plan OF organization
will be forwarded in a few days
This plan is issued by authority ol
the United States government ano
the National Red Cross.
Let Colorado try to lead all tho
states in this great work OF LOVING
service. This mighty endeavor t'
light the gloom Of battlehelds witt
the hope of life restored and home
regained. Children of Colorado
through Red Cross service may yo'
become the messengers of America
love for the world.
Your loving friend,
MARY C. C. BRADFORD,
State Supt. of Public Instruction, AM
! President National Education Assn
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
LYCEUM NUMBER GOOD

The Homeland Quartet" first
number on the high school lyceum
course, appeared at the Christian
church Thursday night and their per-
formance left nothing to be desired
This male quartet presents popular
program of uniform merit; their
work showing best in well-balanced
harmony Of voices and highly humor-
Gus selections. The memory will re-
main of a hearty laugh caused by the
dyspeptic's lament ana .he burlesque
on grand opera.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
THE GEORGE GATES
HOME RANCH SOLD

Last Saturday the deal was COM
pleted transferring the George Gates
home ranch east of Monte Vista to
Corbyn Wright. The consideration
was $4,000 per acre and included
something over 400 acres.
The Gates ranch is one of the best
known in the Monte Vista vicinity
and is good land. The improvements
are extensive and substantial. Crops
raised on this ranch this year in
cluded alfalfa, grain and a splendid
Weld of potatoes, at n reported yield
of over 200 sacks to he acre.
Corbyn Wright, the purchaser, is
one of the progressive young farmers
of this community and has made a
success of farming on his quarter
north of the river.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
OPERA HOUSE SOLD

w. S. Woods has contracted to
purchase the Broadway Opera house
and contemplates remodeling the
same into a modern undertaking es-
adjustment. The building will be
arranged into office, flower sales
room. chapel etc, with living rooms
1T the rear and will serve admirably
for the purpose.
This removes Monte Vista's only
place for holding large meetings, hog
roasts and public affairs. besides the
schools will have lost the only prac-
ticable athletic hall. The result will
be that the plans for large auditor
ium contemplated in the new school
buildings, must be completed and as
soon as possible.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
HIGH SCHOOL TUITION
WILL BE RAISED

The local school district is plan
ming to build one of the best indus
trial high schools in Colorado, pro-
viding for vocational and industrial
training more fully than any other
school in this part of the state has
as yet planned to do. When these
courses are established next year, it
will undoubtedly be necessary to
raise the high school tuition to SIS 90
or $1,000 per month. This will be
expensive to students outside of Dis
trict No. 8, but it is not expected to
decrease the enrolment of non-resi-
dent students, but rather to increase
it. as the new courses will be espec-
tally attractive in the training they
offer. For the present school year It
is expected that the tuition charge of
$3.50 per month will be maintained
in The high school, with tuition of
$500 in the grades.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
POSTPONEMENT OF BUILD
ING SCHOOL IS NECESSARY

meeting called by the president
OF the school board at Commercial
building Tuesday night was attended
by representative number of Monte
Vista citizens and the matter of the
proposed new high school building
was discussed at length.
The school board discovered when
they opened bids for the construction
of their new building that the cost of
completing the same according to the
plans decided upon was far in excess
of the funds in hand and much high
er than the estimated cost at the time
of making the bond issue. The ex-
cess cost is explained mainly by
war di-ions-advance in price
of all structural materials. Lumber
is now $40 per thousand feet higher
than a few weeks ago; brick sell for
$500 to $500 thousand more;
steel has advanced more than 25 per
cent, etc. So that the school board
was confronted with the problem of
going ahead and constructing the
best building they could for the
money or to delay construction until
conditions were more favorable.
The meeting Tuesday night was
for the purpose of getting the sent-
ment of the people and the consensus
of opinion decidedly favored post
ponement of building 1t was point
ed out that the district is short about
$4,000 of the amount needed to
build high school of the size and
equipment demanded by this comup-
ity and that to put up a building for
temporary purposes only would be
short-sighted and unbusiness-like.
Present at the meeting was resi-
dent of an adjoining school district
and suggestion was made that the
Monte Vista plans of building new
schools should be enlarged to accom-
modate the surrounding vicinity. ir-
respective of present school district
boundaries. The idea of commun-
ty high school instead of a district
high school was favored and will no
doubt receive consideration from the
board of district nine.
Monte Vista is the center of large
and prosperous agricultural commun-
ity and should not be selfish in the
matter of schools The plan of other
towns similarly situated which give
the children of the entire contiguous
territory the very best educational
advantages of high school and vo-
cational branches, could be very well
followed here. In this valley, situat-
ed so far from the large towns and
cities, there is an especial need for
schools Of high class and efficiency
and there is no reason why this com
munity should not have the best AS
4 community builder and inducement
for prospective settlers, there is none
more effective than good schools
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
MONTE VISTA TEAM
WINS AT DURANGO

One of the biggest attractions of
the Colorado-New Mexico fair at Du-
range this week, is the series of base
ball games played by Monte Vista
and Alamosa teams. Both teams are
very strong and the close scores indi-
cate the kind of baseball thev are
putting up. Monte Vista has Frank
Burger of Topeka, Kansas, and Cecil
Hugglns as their best moundsmen
and is further streng hened by Zeke
Sieber and Clark of Montrose 1t
looks like the Monte team of former
days with the McIntoshes, Busch
boys, Brownie, Sieber and Higgins.
The results reported of the first
three games are as follows:
Tuesday-Monte 4, Alamosa /:
Burch and Hinkre, Burger and
Busch, batteries.
Wednesday-Monte 10, Alamosa
5; Huggins and Mcintosh Burch and
Hinkle, batteries.
Thursday-Monte 5, Alamosa 4 .
This game was won il. the last half
of the tenth inning.
Same teams will play today and
tomorrow.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
STOW DEPARTMENT STORE
BURGLARIZED

Slows store was broken into last
Friday night and $4,000 in money
taken. The robbers first tried to
pole as battering ram, but must
have thought they were making too
much noise so they climbed up a
ladder to the roof of the building and
came down through the skylight into
the store office. The money was in
a drawer and easily obtained. No
loss of merchandise was noticed
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

Through the courtesy of Carl B.
accurate information regarding the
potato situation. Mr.. Stow makes a
thorough study of conditions affect
ing the harvesting, storing and ship
ping of our big potato crop and the
growers are assisted in handling
their potato business by having the
best available information in ad-
vance.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

PlfS Catherine Bowling died Sat
Pay night about 12 o'clock at the
He ol her daughter, Mrs. H. Con-
cause of her death being heart
pure Mrs. Bowling had been an
a'lu Tor seven years and a sufferer
Ill asthma. She was born at Phil
F'phia, Penn, in 1852, and leaves
mourn her loss, an only daughter,
Il conner of this city, her husband
lug died several years ago. Mr..
Mrs, Conner took the body to
|"'er Sunday night and the funeral
"e'o from the st. Joseph's ca
ua'' Wednesday afternoon and
'meht made in Mt. Olivet ceme-
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
flZENS WILL GIVE ROUSINC SEND-OFF To-
|[DER BOYS NEXT WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8

The Red Cross Chapter and
bnte Vista citizens will give
! next contingent of men,
lifted to serve their country,
toval farewell next Wednes-
N The county clerk has ap-
ed for an order from the
bvost marshal to entrain the
Us at this station instead of
4 Norte, as nearly all who
i HI leave this time are from
bnte Vista, and the permis-
n will probably be granted.
The people should endeavor
/ |give the boys a good time on
] day of their departure and
best entertainment and
eeriest thing that can be
he is little enough.
Sixteen men will leave We'd
sday. These will be selected
I'm the following list:
5ohn Sanford Crooks
William owen
Dale George Young
tarl F. Magnusson
These four are hold-overs from
yiOus examinations.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

Mr.. Perkins who has been connect
ed with "Everybodys' Store" has sold
out to his partner, B. d. Savage and
left Sunday morning in his car for
Emporia, Kansas, where he will Join
his wife. Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Goff
accompanied him and will visit for
two or three weeks with Mr.. Goff's
sister, Mrs. w. II. Crawford at Hor-
ton. Kansas.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
THE HAYNES CAR

Telinde & Spencer are showing a
new Haynes, 7passenger touring
just brought in from Denver. This
car is high class'and makes a beauti-
full showing. In performance It is
smooth running and wonderfully
efficient at all speeds. The prospec-
tive purchaser, looking for a car in
this price class. should see the
Haynes.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

Mrs. James Neeley received word
this Friday morning that Mrs. S. l..
Spencer of Center had been operated
on at st. Anthony's hospital at Dem
yer yesterday morning and was re-
covering nicely. Mrs. j. j. Spencer
and Mrs. John SHAFT leave this even
ing for Denver to be with her during
her convalesconce.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

VIM. G. Reid. an inspector of the
Public Utilities commission, has
headquarters in Monte Vista during
the potato shipping season. The
commission has men stationed at all
the heavy shipping sections of the
state to see that the transportation of
food stuffs is properly handled.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
CHARGED
IN DIVORCE SITITS

Bert Smith recently filed suit for
divorce against his wife, Mrs. Edith
Smith, alleging adultery and extreme
crueltry. Mrs. Smith appeared in the
county court Tuesday and applied
for an order for attorneys fee, evil
IDENTIFY expecting to fight the case
when it comes up.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

The East End Red Cross club held
profitable working meeting this
week and several new members were
added. Next Wednesday the club
will meet at the home of Mrs Lloyd
Telinde, the Rosebrough residence.
on Stallo street. More volunteers
are wanted.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

Victor hewitt has enlisted in the
u s. army and has gone to Wash
ington. ID. C. cantonment for train
ing He Is commissioned a second
lieutenant in the Forestry regiment.
Mrs. hewitt expects to 20 to Wash
ington soon to see her soldier boy.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29
~ q. STOCK MARKET
"' 10 Monte Vista Journal

| mas city, Mo, Sept. 2S-Cat-
Ia Nur ", thousand, steady to strong
|. "euheSday I. w. Bromley, OF
@o "''l'e' Colo, 165 steers, VT
Ia fio'oO, l39 steers, VT. 1860
Ia nv Iva steers, $50 pounds
l. ,s a lour thousand, ten higher
lmh. y, p eight thousand, strong;
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

Jake Pursley has applied for an in
terlocutOry decree of divorce from
his wife in the county court this
week, charging adultery, etc. Mrs
Pursley is well known in Monte Vis-
tl.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

urge b. Hawkins sold to Chase
o0nu this week 81 hogs for
,nIl' 2O,S45 pounds at $18.25
+ loo pounds.
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

The following have been discharg-
temporarily on agricultural
'unds, until Dec. /, 1917:
Ephriam Clark
llaron Bray
Adolph John Knoblauch
Horton Jarmin
Walter Bogart
lose E. Gallegos
arthur Edwards
zee NJ. Moninger
The Monte Vista journal., 1917-09-29

Frank A. Stallard
lanes Walter Brown
Glen A. Perry
Harry Bert Smith
CARLOS Mascaranes
claude Travis
Dtis H. Rowlette
Cooper Peter Stephens
Adolph Duran
Fec. Edward Thomas
Earl Clinton Perry
Ohm Peter Anderson
Elmer Fawver
Fabriel Trujillo
Earl Allen Heaton
Alvin Edward Stephens
Fred Landon
as Orville Simpson
he above list was received today,
Itlfed back from the Distric.
)rd
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THE NULLIFIED COMMONS

In all the changes in British politics the
biggest and the most significant is the
abandonment of the tradition that the Brit
ish Premier is the leader of the House of
Commons. Hitherto his primary role had
been, in debate, in close contact with his
own followers behind him, and looking into
the eyes of the opposition. to frame and de-
fend and explain a policy which was the
expression of the corporate will of the
House The pretense, even the felton, of
that conception of democracy is gone. The
House may question and debate and 1t
may still vote 1t might in theory rebel
and assert its sovereign power. In prac-
tice it ia too depressed too bored, too in
timidated, even to dream of self.asserton
The reason is simple. The country has
acquiesced In Mr.. Georges reading of its
nullity, and the House knows that the
country has acquiesced. The visible sign
of its acquiescence is that the press no
longer troubles to give an Ineligible or
impartial report of debates. Mr.. Dillon in
long and powerful speech made some
startling revelations about the pressure
which prepared the unlucky entry of Ru-
mania into the ranks of the Entente His
charges and his questions were ignored by
the spokesmen of the Government and they
were omitted in all the reports and sketches
of the daily press.-H. n. Bralsford. in
the New Republic,
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Jackson's Inaugural

w. P-Jacksons inauguration day cam
In the spring Of 1929. Such a concourse
Americans Of every character focked IL
Washington as at no previous or later in.
auguration. The ceremonies which at
tended the Inauguration were of tho
simplest kind. No parade, none of the pomp
and show of military cheftan marred
the day. At 80 o'clock Jackson proceeded
to the Capitol on foot. uncovered and pre-
ceded by the central committee of the Dis
trict of Columbia. He was surrounded on
the right and left by gigs. wood wagons,
vehicles of every sort, crowded with men
and women eager to be near the chief ana
followed by the officers of his suite, worthless
of the Revolution and hundreds Of strangers
without distinction of rank. Upon reaching
the Capitol he made his way to the Senate
chamber and was inaugurated at noon on
the east portico. The customary address oc-
cupied but a few minutes in delivery ana
ranks with the brefest in our history. The
speech delivered, a cable that had been
stretched across the steps was torn away,
and with a wild shout the crowds surged
up to grasp the Presidents hand. II was
with difficulty that Jackson could make MS
way to horse, mount 1t and ride to the
White House.
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CAREFUL!

THOUSANDS of men lie needlessly dead
in Flanders and on other fields of war
because in the first rush of patriotic men
to enlist England permitted skilled work
ers to go to the front. In this tre-
mendous struggle of industrial forces, the
outcome of which depends on the pro-
ductive power of the nations as much
rs on their fighting men, 1t is imperative
that the sources of supply be un-
diminished
Philadelphia is the very center Of
American production. Our shops are
filed with skilled laborers. The patriot
ism of many of them will take the form
of enlistment. Let them understand that
they can enlist for production as well
as for fighting. Let no skilled man be
taken from a lathe to be put behind a
gun. We must profit from the mistakes
made by other unprepared nations in
their great rush to make ready. We
must conserve our fighting resources. and
the first place to conserve them is in
the factories whence come the means of
iebting.
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THE CZAR MEANT WELL

Stanley Washburn, who was in Russia
from the beginning of the war until his re-
cent return to his home in the United States
from the Russian front, where he was
special correspondent for the London Times,
had an interview with the former Gear last
November At that time he had just com
peted his second book on Russia's activities
in the war ''Vctory in Defeat" and bore
to the Czar personal letter from the
Queen of Rumania. He says:
"In all of this disorder / think one
must not believe for a moment that the
Czar himself was ever pro-German at heart
I have talked with him number of times
and know intimately innumerable OF his
aids I think there has never been a
better intentioned sovereign, but from in
fancy he has been surrounded with malevo-
lent influences preying on him for their
own profit He soaked up autocracy with
his milk and sincerely believed in 1t as the
best government for Russia. Most of the
evils done In his name he probably knew
very little about. He is q kind. gentle.
diffident personality with no desire for any
thing save the righkc e,s kt,st s, Y.
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NOT WHOLLY UNPREPARED

WE ARE not wholly unprepared. Our
w bulging treasure chests are an imle-
ment of war than which there is none more
powerful. The wealth of England no less
than her navy drove Napoleon into exile.
We throw into the scales a might of
wealth unprecedented. Never in all his
tory has any nation, or any combination
of nations, possessed such quantities of
gold as we possess, and our other evil
dences of wealth are enormous.
The natural course of events since the
opening of the war has compelled a
financial preparedness such as no Amer
lean ever dreamed of. So, too, our muni-
ton factories have become great reser-
voirs Of supply. We are incomparably
better off In this respect than England
was. or even France. What we ask
more than anything else is coordination
of our might. We have all the things
that an army or a navy needs, but. in
a large sense we have neither the army
nor the navy. We can get both. and
that Is what we are doing. The task
ahead IL diffIcult one. but there are
great assets concealed In our liabilities s.
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CHILDISH OBSTRUCTIONISM

YTNHE suspicious attempt at Harrisburg
l. to be hurriedly humane to Philadel-
rhia's future should be defeated. Mere
defeat, which seems probable, is not
enough. The upstate members, who
already have. shown "A determination to
defeat factional measures of Philadelphia
politicians, will have the chance to snow
under the amendment designed to change
the status of this city's borrowing
capacity. That capacity was increased
by 3 per cent of assessed valuations, this
increase to be devoted to borrowing only
for transit and port development. Now
the attempt is made to let this per cent
include other than transit and port loans.
What is this development that has sud
denly loomed up as so much more i'm
portant than transit and port? What loan
is Philadelphia planning to contract that
has not been contracted? There is no
excuse for this amendment unless it is
TO divert money from transit and port
II Is not a good time for any such propo
sition to be put seriously before the pub
lie We had hoped we had passed that
stage of obstructionism.
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OUR KEEL CANAL

Ask the average person what has been
A the chief factor i'm preventing com,
pete victory of Britains fleet over Ger.
manys and he will answer, "rhe Kiel
Canal"
Take home the lesson of that strategic
waterway and then consider our own
blind folly of neglecting to deepen the
ancient absurdly shallow ship passage
between the Delaware and Chesapeake
Bays. improvements to the Delaware
and Chesapeake Canal have been monoto-
nously postponed for generations. Now
war confronts us and il is strikingly cvi-
dent that if our torpedoboats and smaller
war craft could steam through inland
waterways. natural and artificial. from
Norfolk, Newport News or Baltimore
direct to Philadelphia, we could afford to
laugh at certain possible phases of Ger
man seacoast menace.
In a letter to the Philadelphia Bourse
Joseph f. Ransdell president of the
Rivers and Harbors Congress, pertinently
declares that "if there ever was time
when the friends of waterways should
bestr themselves that time is now 1t
is the plain duty of the coming extra ses-
sion to heed such words.
A bill should at once he passed and
provision made for Government control of
the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal and
the development of it to satisfy vital
strategic needs Further indifference to
such a step is criminal unpreparedness.
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we would not dare tackle her. as with her
strong fleet she could land 100000 men and
supplies on our coasts in less than month,
and thereafter pour in millions and the
heavy artillery. which we do not possess.
and against which our small army would
be simply offered up as a sacrifice.
If our submarine chasers work in the
war zone they must use the Allied ports as
bases, which they would be very welcome
to do.
To talk of attacking U-boats and in the
same breath to assert that this is not a
declaration of war shows stupend0us
ignorance of current events and of Ger
many's methods of procedure.
National interests today are SO interlaced
and complex that it is quite impossible to
define exactly where American rights begin
and where they end. When Uncle Sam
goes out TO shoot burglars he does not mind
if he pots Il few who robbed his neighbors
along with those who robbed him There
never was, never can be and never will be
such a mean, small-souled policy followed
by America as "Anti-Humbug" selfshy
promulgates. President Wilson and his
counselors are gentlemen not cheese.parng
hucksters. JAMES DEWRANCE.
Philadelphia, March 23,
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population Of the country. the demand
seems extremely modest The case takes
on different aspect when the huge pro-
portion of reflections over acceptances is
considered. SO many men are turned
down for slight physical defects that a
hundred per cent increase in applicants
is said to be essential before the gap is
filled. There are many easy yet potent
ways to develop naval recruiting. Town
and city shopkeepers throughout the
land can aid the cause by displaying navy
placards prominently in show windows.
No preparedness meeting should neglect
20 emphasize the navy's need of more
man power. All the pages of American
army history are not bright. But the
navy, on which we all rely for first blows
has a dazzling record which must be
maintained.