The Keota news., 1917-11-23
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Dry Farming, County Roads and
Court House.


ton, because I been on the ocean
and never git seasick. A fellow In
my business has got too accommo-
date hisself to all kinds OF conditions
and every kind Of vehickel. ! recken
could ride camel's back after all
the exercise I've had on the bucktn'
Fords and the anglin' Saxons.
allus brag on the car I'm rtdtn' In
and when she goes over a big bump
and my head hits the rafters ! sez.
Mighty fine springs you're car has
got" After hxin' q leak ! allus in
sist on takin' my turn at the hand
pump. because like the exercise.
but l tell 'em l sprained my wrist
last week and CANT do much. You
got to use judgment in ridin' with
your friends.
Knapp. bein' the county agent. We
kinda roasted him about the roads
in the east part of the county. Weld
has Just built q courthouse OF white
marble that cost $4,000 and this
years taxes will finish payin' fur II.
which is all we'll and good to look
at and show to people. but a little
hard on the farmers over around
New Raymer and Buckingham. that
has got 60 miles to 20 over bad roads
SOS to pay their taxes on the new
courthouse. Them marble palaces
fur county officers to occupy Is al
right but Id a heap ruther see .
roads and git along with q brick
buildin'. even II 1t amt Mt to show
too tourists. Them farmers in east
ern Weld has got the right idee.
They spend their money fur fine rur-
al high schools. providin' ut place
to eddicate their children.
1t don't do to give the county Of
icers such a swell place to smoke
cigars in. It's too hard to pry 'em
loose from their jobs when things 10
so pleasant. They git like prisoners
in warm. comfortable jail and
don't care when their sentences ex-
pjres. and will steal chickens to git
back in. Weld county hain't had no
trouble keepin' the new jail occupied
since II was finished. It's a pleasure
to be confined in a place that's got
all the comforts OF q swell hotel and
Is a better home than most Of the
prisoners was ever in before. I'm
sayin' this because I Judge the build
in just west of the Greeley court
house to be the Jail. II it's the Elks
Lodge then I'm in bad with the lodge
members: II it's the jail then the
prisoners has got kick comm. 20
it's as broad a. 1t is long. somebody's
hit and the hitter and the hittee
takes the consequences.
Greeley IL q enterprisin' town and
like to visit with 'em. l hope they
won't take 1t too hard what I said
about the court house. because
told them people around New Ray
mer l was goin' to roast the county
commissioners fur neglectin' the
roads and buildin' marble palaces.
Havin' did my duty like a man
now apologize to the Greeley people
and hope they don't hold 1t ag'in me,
because l admire good public build
ings as we'll as anybody
There's lots Of things fur the sight
seer in Greeley. The high school 10
another fine building-aner in arch
itecture than any Denver school. !
and nobody ought to ever go to I,
Greeley without seein' Ed. Foster.
the Penny Ante man of the Weld |
County Democrat. Foster used to
run that column in Fort Collins. but |
the people didn't support 1t because
1t suggested poker and poker is one
OF the games nobody in Fort Collins |
plays at home. They try to keep the |
town holy and unpolluted and II any |
of 'em gifts to feelin' wicked they
take trip to Cheyenne or some
where. All of them northern Colo |
RADIO towns is more or less that way. |
They don't stand fur no wickedness |
inside Of the city limits.
THOMAS JEEEERCON pVyTN AM