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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02
THE FARM AGENT.

Oh, County Agriculturist, you are
a chap we can't resist. for you extend
helping hand to all the farmers
in the land. You kill for them DO
tato bugs and woolly worms and Slim
my slugs; the codlihg moth and hop
pergrass are filled with terror when
you pass. You show us how to spray
our trees for insects and for dread dis
ease, for crown gall and for fire
blight, for trusts and rots and mil
dews white: You teach us how to
soak our Wheat till sinking smut s
knocked off it's feet Improve the
corn by ear row test you ring into
our ears with zest. You sound the
foot and mouth" alarm, you tell new
ways to stock the farm: For you
there is no stumbling block you know
just how to farm the stock, you ap-
prehend the thousand needs of cat
tie, horses, cows and steeds. You're
not afraid of rugged toll: you aid
the tiller of the soil to live in happi-
ness and peace. Until the orb of
day shall cease to gaze at this tellur-
al sphere-till satellites shall disap-
pear-till stellar lights shall hide
their beams and nevermore the glow
worm bleams - Til cheer thy deeds
through marsh and bog, in meadow
land and in the fog, in hurricane and
in the mist. oh, County Agricultural
ist@J. Philip Vinson.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02
FARMERS OPEN WAR
ON PHARMACY BOARD

The Farmers Association of the
General Assembly declared war on
the State Pharmacy Commission yes
terday when it went on record as
unanimously opposing what it termed
.the commissions arbitrary and un-
fair rulings" Chairman H. o. Averill
of Washington appointed a committee
Of five members to appear before the
committee on public health and safety
to advocate change in the present
laws which, it is claimed, would pre-
vent country stores from selling fam
lily remedies. The meeting of the as
ISOLATION, held directly after adjourn
ment Of the assemly yesterday, proved
to be one Of the most lively held in
connection with the present session.
The motion to appoint a committee
to appear before the committee on
public health and safety was made by
Representative Robert o. Eaton of
North Haven and the members ap-
pointed are Senator III. HI. III. Lyman
Of Middlefield and Representatives F.
M. Ross of Essex, w. w Cooper OF
Colebrook, E. S. Backus of Thompson
and F. P. Sherman of Monroe. The
association also went on record yes
terday as favoring liberal appropria-
tion for the suppression of the gypsy
and brown tail moth in the state. An
appropriation of $4,000 has been ask
ed for the purpose.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02

frost; of thousands Of English birds
frozen, and of starving wolves howl
ing in the streets and attacking the
citizens in Vienna and other cities
The conditions under which people
lived added to the horrors Of these
grin onslaughts Of King Winter In
England, but few Of the cities were
lighted during the long winter nights,
and even those which had a few oil
lamps in the streets were little better
lighted. The lamps were far apart,
and burned but a few hours in the
evening, when they burned at all, the
wind often blowing them out, or the
oil freezing. Throughout large part
of the winter the roads in the old
''merrie England, like those Of con-
tinental countries were impossible
for coaches, and travellers had to go
on horseback or on foot, or take
refuge in the slow stage-wagens
which at their best had an average
winter speed of less than two miles
an hour. Bold, bad highwaymen fire.
quented the roads, and traveller, if
he did not lose his way and freeze
to death, was at least likely to be
relieved of his valuables Even in
the latter part of the eighteenth CEN
fury the newspapers recorded SUCH
to them-insignific and far from
unusual items as this: 1.-THE town has
been without water for three weeks,
except what is got by melting down
the Ice and snow" and Many people
have been found dead in the stack
yards and sheds without the town"
Finding people dead of cold was evil
IDENTIFY so common as to be dismissed
with a couple of lines, and the vic
Tins were not even mentioned by
name.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02
Neighborhood Prayer
Meetings Scheduled

Neighborhood prayer meetings will
be held in private homes but two
more weeks. 1t is likely that in adj
dition to the coming of Evangelist
Rees for the West End another evan
gelist will be procured for the East
Side. Prayer for the Evangelization
of Society," Is the topic of this week s
meetings which will be held in the
following homes:
East Side Division-Mrs. Mary
Playfoot, 1857 Kossuth street; Mr..
and Mrs. Charles A. Nichols, 81 Put
nam street; Mr.. G. M. Hanchet, 5S5
William street; Mrs. Esther Curtis,
geo Harriet street; Mr. and Mrs.
John S. Wooster. "a Park street; Mr.
and Mrs. Augustus r. Millner,/ 336
Dover street: Mr.. and Mrs. William
Mirphin. 392 Huntington road; Mr..
and Mrs. Addison Hoyt, 891 Kossuth
street; Mr.. and Mrs. c.. o Hoyt, 81
Alpine street.
Central Division - Miss Annie
White, 121 Cottage street; w. B.
Cook, 165 Black Rock avenue; H. w.
Smith, 1913 Myrtle avenue; Mrs. Will
lam FL. Vessels, 236 West avenue;
Froebe1 Kindergarten Rooms, 863
Lafayette street; Misses Fannie and
Helen Wordin. 510 State street; C. S.
Hodges, 249 Olive street; Mrs. r. l..
Severn, 1914 Park avenue.
West End District-Mr. and Mrs.
Sven Swanson, $3.50 Fairfield avenue;
Mr.. and Mrs. Macleod, 500 Wood ave-
nue.; Mrs. F. w. Hawkins, 500 Dewey
street; Mr.. and Mrs w. B. Johnson,
16 North avenue extension; Mr.. and
Mrs. Leo L. Hubbell, GAL Laurel ave-
nue.; Mr.. and Mrs Burpee Shaw Jack
man avenue, Stratfield.
East End District-Mr. and Mrs
d. r. Hopkins, rs Jefferson street;
Mr.. and Mrs. r D. Hillebrant, 1852
Central avenue; Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Cotton, S34 Ridgefeld avenue; Be-
rean Memorial church. East Main
street; Mrs. A. J. Brown, 284 New
field avenue.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02

lrmer Want Ads. One Cent. Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02

is taught in the schools. It should
be taught here.
Given the women pays more at
tention to the baby of few months
than to the old man. Women adore
their babies here. What has the
child done in it's short life to deserve
such attention while man VINO has
done a life time of service is neglect
ed?
II have been asked: "In which
country would you rather liver
have spent "a years in each, three
months practicing medicine in South
ern Germany. The answer is: The
attraction to me is equal. Neither is
better
Europe has too many laws. The
people of all Europe are narrow
minded while the average American
is broad-minded. Little states make
people narrow-minded.
''I left Germany because am a pa
cifist.. hate and despise militarism.
once remarked in Germany to an
officer: 1--WE don't need all this bfsi-
ness He SAID: Young man, you
don't understand. We need it aw-
fully bad. We don't like it, but we
have to have it,
To-day 1 believe he was right. I
didn't understand.
. Prussia got its militarism since
1915, following it's Acknowledgement.
You will find that words relating to
military matters are not Prussian
words, but of French or Italian origin.
There is not one single word of the
kind that originated with the Prus-
slams.
1.-THE German. most admire is Ru-
dolf Virchow. I believe he was the
greatest medical man of the nine
teenth century. The ovation he was
given at the age Of 80, at the Interna-
tional Medical Congress in Paris in
1901 was there-was a tribute to
German science"
IT am for suffrage. am not a pro-
hibitionist, but I despise the Ameri-
can saloon. The secret of reforming
the saloons is to make them places
where ladies can be taken and served
beer. Beer only should be sold there,
besides meals and temperance drinks,
wines and liquors should be reserved
only for patients in bed.
~ am an American citizen T am
also what might be called an internal
uonalist.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02
OLD-FAsHIONED WINTER

This is the day when the humble
ground hog passes his decision on the
duration Of winter. AS is well known,
that intelligent animal, failing to see
his shadow, abandons his hole in the
firm assurance that spring is at hand.
whereas if the day be sunny and
bright, he returns to his burrow to
snooze for six weeks longer. The cold
and iconoclastic statistics of the
weather man have pretty effectuauy
killed our faith in the ground hog,
but these same statistics indicate that,
however much or little of winter re-
mains to be endured, the rigors of
the o1d-fashioned winter shall not
fall to our lot.
The twentieth century winter is a
very different and much milder sea-
son than our grandfathers knew, if we
are to accept the testimony OF the
oldsters, and it is not only milder but
briefer. This seems to be'true of Eu-
rope as we'll as of America, and this
fact has permitted warfare to be ac-
lively carried on at time OF the
year which in earlier centuries would
have been deemed impossible Even
in our own country and time the biz
yards which howl and rage over the
west seem, to the older inhabitants,
to have become tame and impotent
compared with those which they ex-
perienced in their youth.
In the history Of Europe from the
fourth to the eighteenth centuries one
reads of the Dardanelles, the Black
Sea, the Adriatic, the Danube, the
Thames, and of all the rivers of Italy,
being completely frozen over; of snow
fifty feet in depth; of travellers by
hundreds perishing of the cold; of
forest trees in England split by the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02
STOEHR PRESIDENT
OF BUTCHERS ASSO


Josph Stoehr was elected president
of the Retail Butchers & Gocers' as
ISOLATION at the meeting of tho or
ganization last night. Other officers
are:
First vice president, Andrew Hama
vich; second vice president, Henry
Koehler; recording secretary, Geo.
Hayward; financial secretary, John
E. Porter; treasurer, D. L. Sullivan;
sergeant at arms, M. Weigand; first
trustee, John L. Schleichert; second
trustee, NJ. Weigand; third trustee,
Daniel Black.
A vote was taken to consult with
the health department in the effort
to have an ordinance enacted to re-
quire a license of butchers, the Ii
cense to be dependent on an examina-
ton of the shops to be made by the
health inspectors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02

investigation would clear Mr. Haze
might imply the committees convlc-
ton that Mr. Hale had enjoyed spe-
cial privileges from the company.
Refusal of the committee TO 'ap-
point, he continued, might leave doupt
in the public mind as to the situation.
The committee considered the case
in executive session 1t is expected
that a report will be made in the Sen
ate, early next week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02

The nominations of Henry D. Say
er of Richmond Hill, as State Indus
trial Commissioner and Walter H.
Knapp Of Canandaigua as State Tax
Commissioner were sent to the SEN
ate by Gov. Whitman.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02

Inventory is over at Radford B.
Smiths and new goods are coming in
every day. This store always spec
ializes in sheets, sheetings, pillow
case muslin, blankets and comforta-
bles, and is maintaining its reputa-
ton for low prices in spite of the
high market prices. When in need
Of such goods it would pay to look
over their stock before buying else
Where.-Adv
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02
DISCOVER ANOTHER
CASE OF SMALLPOX
IN GREENFIELD HILL,
Especial to me Faru.S~.

Fairfield, Feb. 2.-Another case of
smallpox has been found in Fairfield
and for this reason the date for open
changed DR.. c. II. Sprague reported
to Health Officer w. T. Magic that
Mary LaHaye is i'll OF the malady.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-02
BRIDGEPORT PHYSICIAN TESTS
GERMANS C0MPUL sorry DIETING
And LOSES 8 POUNDS IN MONTH

Dr. Herman Duesing Announces Result of Trial Cee-
brates 25th Anniversary of Passing Government Med
ical Examinations in Bavaria With Donation to War
Relief Fund-Gives Views America and Father
land After Is Years In Each
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-18
BUSINESS
MkY BE- 0VERDOhE,
LETTER Points OUT
INTERESTING COMMENT ON "EPI-
DEMlcy or BANK CHARTERS BY
STATE EXAMINER VAN STONE

That a recent epidemic" Of both
state and national bank charters in
New Mexico has aroused fear that the
banking business may be in serious
danger of being oyerdone. is an inter
esting announcement contained in let
ters that all New Mexico banks are
now receiving from State Bank Hx-
amlner GeorgeaH Van Stone.
MIR. Van Stone suggests that com
ment on high interest rates prevailing
in the state may have created "a pos
sibly illusory impression that the
banking business is a very profitable
one, which impression may have had
something to do with the numerous
applications for bank charters The
suggestion may have some effect on
the interest rates now being charged.
The state bank examiners letter fol-
lows:
To All New Mexico Banks:
Not wishing nor attempting to in
any manner dictate In such matters
l am taking the liberty of offering
the following for your consideration.
As you all know there has recently
been an epidemic" of both state and
national bank charters with no signs
Of its subsistence.
In the minds of close observers OF
the situation there is a fear that quite
possibly the banking business is in
serious danger Of becoming overdone
in New Mexico.
The state is unusually prosperous
and bids fair to so continue. But we
have all seen times that were not so
prosperous, when every nerve had to
be strained to hold what had been
gained during preceding times Of pros
perity; such times win recur.
From time to time there has come
into this office comment upon the high
interest rates prevailing here and
there about the state; doubtless this
comment has been more or less gen.
eral and has created a possibly illu-
sorry impression that the banking busi.
ness is a very profitable one. which
impression may have had something
to do with the numerous applications
for bank charters.
In the investigation of applications
for bank charters due weight and con-
sideration is always given to existing
banking facilities and the manner in
which business. is being cared for by
going institutions in the communi-
ties affected. Naturally the question
Of interest rates has an important
bearing upon this.
The chief duty of this office under
the bank act is to protect the public
and a necessary corollary to that duty
is the duty of protecting the banks in
which that public deposits it's funds
and to the performance of the latter
duty the banks themselves can lend
powerful assistance, n way being an
economically scientific handling of
this matter Of interest rates.
Very truly yours,
G. III. VAN STONE,
State Bank Examiner.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-18
Las Cruces Minister
Pleases Congregation

Rev. Arthur NJ. Baker left for his
home at Las Cruces last evening after
filling the pulpit at the First Presby-
terrain church on Sunday and also
talking to.the ~convicts at the ~peniten-
tiary in the afternoon. He spent yes.
terday visiting the Masonic Cathedral,
the museum and the various other
landmarks and sights OF Santa Fe,
marveling at the beauty of the CAPT
tai city and the great promise it ap-
pears to have Of becoming one Of the
most distinctive and interesting resi-
dence cities in the United States. Mr..
Baker is at work at present on a novel
which has for its background the leg
end OF the Kneeling Nun of Santa
Rita but expects after that is pub
lished to write a story for which the
cliff dwellings and Santa Fe will fur
nish the local color.
Mr.. Baker preached to a crowded
church on Sunday forenoon after max
ing a talk in the Sunday school. His
theme was the "Unwearying, the Sus-
tanning God" The theme of his even-
ing sermon was "The Unhurrying
God" and both sermons were master
ly efforts. That Santa Fe is the cross
roads at which people from all cities
meet was demonstrated at the morn
ing service, when Mr.. Baker discov-
cred in his audience, three former
members of his Milwaukee congrega-
tion, two members OF his former Sill
yer City charge and two from his Las
Cruces congregation.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-18
.BACA TENDERS HIS
SERVICES TO ]. S. 4
ADJUTANT GENERALS FRIENDS
URGE HIM AS COMMANDER or
ssPANisH-AMERIcAN BATTALION.

l. A... aYS .HHHr HNHHfHh = .a*FHH H. hNe -
Adiutant General James Baca has
rendered his services to the war de
partment, and is prepared to take ur
any work assigned him.
General Baca has asked for no par
ticular commission. Some Of his
friends, however, are urging that ne
be assigned to command a battalion
of New Mexico men made UP prin'
cipally of Spanish-Americans.
From now on there will be little
work in the adjutant generals de-
partment, and General Baca feels that
he can be Of greater usefulness in the
army and is anxious for active serv-
ice. Before his appointment as adju.
tant general, he made an enyiable rec
ord as captain of e. company OF the
National Guard, both before the call
to the border and during the border
service.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-18
sHovELFUL OF ANTHRACITE fsHAtF
POUND SUGAR, HALF LOAF BREAD,
OR HALF PINT OF MILK, WARNING

t~cbnsumefs II has seemed hardly worth
while to give time and thought to the
saving OF coal. Conditions have SUD
denly changed. Today 1t is every.
body's business to save coal. Coal is
he foundation stone or industry.
Without 1t the production of equip
ment for war must halt. One mans
careless and wasteful use may mean
an idle factory or d cold house Tor
his neighbor. With the world look
ing to us largely for its coal supply,
with increased demands at home a
scarcity Of available labor, with over
taxed transportation facilities, the
consumer Of coal must pause and
give serious consideration to the
problem which conffonts the coun-
try"
'If the people can be reused to an
intelligent consideration of the burn
ing Of coal, they a begin to save
ten per cent OF the production, or six
ty million tons, at once. With more
effort through instruction and a mod
crate ~remodeling Of coal-burning
equipment, which could be accomplish
gu uurinS tne war, a IurLncr ConSiuoi-
able saving could be made.
possible to supply the needapadplh
1.-THE possible saving when present
ractice is compared with the best
ideal practice is very large. II it
we're possible to supply the need OF
this country for light, heat, and pow
er through the highest type Of me-
chanical devices, and If we could make
skilled user out of the average user,
we could probably get along with
half as much coal as we r o con-
Stunning. This ideal is far beyond
present realization. We cannot scrap
II out-of-war power plants. We must
start with doing the best with what
We have. We must begin saving coal
once"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-18
Five New Mexico sn
Counties in Food
District of Clements

I'll Paso. Texas. Oct. 15.-Five coun.
ties in New Mexico, as well as all
counties Of east Texas, Will be I'M the
district in charge of George II. Glenn
ents. of Ell Paso. in the campaign OF
the federal,food administration board
which ends November 4. MI. Glenn,
ents returned ID Ell paso Saturday
from Albuouefoue. where he had been
in conference with members of the
food campaign committee Of New Mex.
leo
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-18
! fRy spselai correapondsntl

washington, d. O., Oct. 16.[.Tht
householder must realize that whef
he throws a shovelful of anthracite
coal into his furnace its value II
equivalent to half a pound OF sugar
Or half ailoaf Of bread, or half q pint
of milk" wa
This is the manner In which Van ii
Manning, Director OF the Bureau OF
Mines, Department II the Interior, en-.
d~eavored to impress the state assis'
tants OF the Fuel Administration with
the necessity for the economical use
OF fuel. The state deputies had beer
called together in Washington by DIR.
X. A. Garfield, the fuel administrator.
for a family council concerning the
urgent work to be taken up in each
state.
"The householder must therefore,
appreciate that 1t is now worth while
to examine his house and to overhaul
his feating equipment, continued Mr..
Manning. "Wcathe strips, double
windows, windows, pipe coverings,
clean flues and chimneys, and tight
fittings in ash pits, doors hampers
and furnace parts will pay. Damper
control is one Of the chief secrets OF
ecomnical heating. Clean, heating
surfaces are most essential, as SCOT
is a poorer conductor OF heat than
asbestos. Care, attentiaon, and TAX.
ing pains will be the greatest factor
In saving domestic coal"
M. Manning said that about twenty
per cent of the six hundred million
tons OF coal mined in the United
States is used for house heating ard
that it is shoveled by o than fif-
teen million people.
Americans have been SO wasteful
OF coal as OF other resources, contir-
ued Mr.. Manning, largely because
coal has been abundant. To many
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-18
Irrigation District
Organizer Addresses
Farmers at Carlsbad
{BY 9petiaL Coffespondeht.1

Carlsbad, N. M, Oct. He. w,
Burr, the organizer Of irrigation dis
tficts for the United States Reclama'
ton Service, was In Carlsbad the first
of the week. Mr.. Burr addressed a
few of the farmers and business men
Tuesday night. Since the publication
in the Reclamation Record Of Judge
Kings article on Irrigation Districts,
the subject has been N Of great in
terest to the actual farmers Of the
project.
Mr.. Burr made it plain that the
service does not desire TO urge the
organization of these districts unless
the people desire them and answered
numerous inquiries.
From the farmers viewpoint the
greatest advantage would be the abil.
ity to secure cheap money from the
federal farm losn aet and the cultiva-
ton of the idle lands.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-18
SuPfRNTtNDENTS
OF CITY SCHOOLS
GET IN FIRST WITH
SECTION PROGRAM
INTERESTING PROGRAM AN
NoUNCED FOR IMPORTANT
BRANCH OF STATE EDUCA-
TioNAL ASSOCIATION

The New Mexico city superintenG-
ents have the honor Of first completing
their section program for the N. M. e.
A meeting here next month. 1t is a
most interesting program and gives a
line or the general Importance of the
work to be done at this big conven
ton, the largest ever held by the edu-
Gators Of New Mexico. The program
is as follows:
Program
City superintendent section N. M.
E. Al, 1917.
Monday 8 a.. M. 7
Improved Methods in the Admins
tration of New Mexico City Schools
Supt. j. WI Riley, Roswell, 30 min
utes. Discussion led by Supt. w. M.
Wilson, Portales. is minutes.
The School Board and the City SUI
perintendent+Supt. y. j.. G. Swinney,
Gallup, 30 minutes. Discussion led
by Supt. w. F. Wall, Springer, 10 min.
utes.
Supervised Study-1n the Junior
High School-Assistant Slipt. b. N.
Pope, Roswell, 20 minutes. In the
Elementary School - Supt. Mahan,
Deming, 20 minutes.
New Mexico City Schools and the
Present War-Supt. Byron J. Read.
Silver City. 80 minutes. Discussion
led by Supt. Walter Mcfarland, Las
Vegas.
Tuesday, 8 a. m.
The New Mexico Course of Study
and Tts Raiatinn n fha fs;fv cbont
Supt. Il. J.. Roth, Santa Fe, 80 min
utes. Discussion led by Supt. W.. p.
S. ,Hadwick. Tucumcari, 20 minutes.
The Problem Of the Selection of
Teachers for New Mexico City
Scholarship. Guerne, Silver City, 90
minutes. Discussion, round table, 10
minutes.
Address-A Little Look at Modern
Drama-tSupt. Frank ID. Slutz, Dayton,
Ohio.
Business session.
Election Of officers.