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The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07

For immediate sale will sell tre-
mendously cheap high grade piano
stored near Ebert. Liberal terms to
responsible party. Quality guaran-
teed. If interested in a proposition
of this kind write THE DENVER
MUSIC COMPANY, Denver, Colo, for
particulars.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Regular Services

Regular Services
Morning
Bible School 10 a. m.
Communion IL a. m.
Services Ills a. m.
Evening.
Y. P. S. c. e. at p. m.
Preaching p. IN.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07
Classified Advertising.

WANTED-To buy or trade rose
comb Rhode Island Red Cockrels.
Mrs. John H. Fickel.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07
Oberquell & Wright

Deep well drilling and repair
naTWill he Ieie for the winter.
address your orders to Elbert,
Colorado.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07

Touring Car szf5; R0adthr S7f5, Coupe sIoo5
B0hn< SI025; Seaan SI005. EOB Denaii
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07
Additional Locals


Lewis Rinnert has bought Geo.
out and will farm there
next year.
Miss Minnie Elsner, one of our
young women who has been suffer
er for some years. was taken to st. |
hospital and operated on |
last Saturday. Her many friends |
hope for speedy recovery
Leo Bagniski is home from Denver
where he is attending the Sacred
Hart College.
The Ebert grange had an all day
meeting and election OF officers Fri
day.
Grandapa Harper has been quite
sick but is better now
Mrs. Carl Rhudy came out from
Denver Thursday and reports her
brother, Harry Evans. about as he has
been for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. John Tickle are Wis
iting in the East.
Frank Lamar is tearing the lumber
shed of Gates down TO move to his
place south of town.
d. A. Cox arrived at home in time
to do justice to the Thanksgiving
turkey.
Mrs. e. NJ. Duncan spent Sunday
in Elbert.
MIRO Pow nrnvpn raturnad 10 bar
home after couple weeks visit in
Elizabeth with her mother.
C. A. Blackmen of Sundance, Wy
oming, was in Elbert Monday ship
ping out some thorobred cattle he
had purchased here.
young cattle from Harry Talbot near
Kiowa last week.
The Friendly Club met with Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Clark Sunday. Had a
fine time-went early and stayed
late.
Secretary Mrs. Ralph Brazelton of
the Red Cross received communica-
ton that the Denver office would
send a lecturer to us December 14th.
Everyone is urged to attend. No
charge will be made for admission.
Mr. s. Adams returned from Colo
RADIO Springs Tuesday where he has
been with his sister who is in the
hospital for an operation.
]. E. Mayors was Denver visit
or Wednesday.
Mrs. Tom Wray and Harold were
shopping in Denver this week.
DR.. Chandler of Calhan was called
ta attend Mrs. Gus Tuchs Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas Dittemore re-
turned from their trip East and re-
port very pleasant trip with no ac-
cidents
Miss Sue Brewer, who teaches at
Sidney, spent her Thanksgiving va
cation in Colorado Springs.
DR.. and Mrs. Denny went to Denver
returning Wednesday.
Born-to Mr.. and Mrs. Sid Fore
man November 30th SON
Born--to Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Harding November 9Th in Idaho a
son. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Harding are
former Ebert people.
Born-to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Cox
2sth a son. Mr.. Cox was
g Fondis boy, now living in Arizona.
A6olph Johns and Hans Larsen
were in Kiowa Monday interviewing
the commissioners. That is Hans was
but there seemed to be some doubt
as to whether it was clerk or commits
sioners with Adolph
The Newberry VS. Mitchell force
was to have been enacted in Colora
do Springs Monday and those con-
cerned went down but it was post
poned till the June term of court.
Ernest Wrockloff was out from
Denver visiting home folks Friday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Nelson took
Mrs. Logan and daughter to Denver
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb accomp-
anied Mr.. Nelson on his return home.
The bazaar and dinner of the Pres
beterian Ladies' Aid was success in
every way.
DR.. and Mrs. Denny were Denver
visitors this week.
Arthur Trees, who has been at
camp Funston and also In Cali
fornia camp. is back in Elbert on a
New members who have recently
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07

FOR SALE-Sewing machine, incu.
bator and brooder. All good as new.
Selling on account of leaving for
John H. Lunday.--
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07
NOTICE

Positively no hunting allowed
on the Hanna ranch, near Fondis
If caught will be PROSECUTED
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07
NOTICE

Having sold my interest in the
Rice Motor and Tractor Co., am
now taking on two cars on my own
account, "The Dodge and Chalmers"
W. F. Ahl, Elizabeth. Colo.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07

For Sale-320 acres, 8 miles N. E.
of Fondis. Farm and timber land.
Address, Box 475, Elbert, Colo. "A.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07
OUR SOLDIER BOYS

The Elbert boys at the front will
be remembered at Christmas time by
a present each. The following names
are those who have donated:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
MANN AND'CLARK

TAMES r. MANN did the obviously
patriotic thing yesterday when he
announced his willingness to retire
from the speakership contest in favor
of bipartisan or nonpartisan organ
ization of the House. He decried the
introduction of partisan politics at this
critical stage of national affairs and
urged the reelection of Champ Clark
and the elimination of party in the
consideration of affairs in which the
whole country is vitally interested.
How trifiing the verbosity of Champ
Clark in reply! II reject the plan; l
will be reelected in an hour" said the
Speaker, and he voiced the sentiments
of the Democratic party at Washing
ton.
Even in the midst of wars alarms
party preference is the keynote of
Democratic doctrine.
stand by our grand old Demo-
cratic machine" is a poor cry to send
broadcast over the land to a patriotic
people intent only upon the honor and
safety of the nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27

the joint committee appointed from
the members of the School Board and
the Chamber of Commerce to select an
architect. No criticism has been heard
of the man unanimously recommended
by the gentlemen of the committee nor
should there be any serious criticism
of the other architects who were un-
der consideration before a final choice
was made. It is not matter of abuse
of individuals, but only a question of
maintaining a proper position before
the community; let us have an end OF
the whole matter. Now is time for
broad and intelligent consideration of
all the matters involved, to the end
that the buildings so seriously needed
may be started and the school children
of Harrisburg given the opportunities
for education which they deserve.
So far as this newspaper is con-
cerned, it has no criticism to offer of
any of the architects who have COM
peted for this commission, but it be-
lieves the committee which has made
recommendations after full inquiry and
investigation has performed an inn
portant pu.iic duty which entities its
findings to the support of the school
directors
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
Most Powerful Foe
(From the Fourth Estate)

(From the Fourth Estate)
l am more powerful than the COM
bined armies of the world.
/ have destroyed more men than all
the wars of the world.
| am more deadly than bullets and
have wrecked more homes than the
mightiest of siege guns.
l steal, in the United States alone,
over 800 million dollars each year.
l spare no one and / find my vic
tins among rich and poor alike; the
young and old; the strong and weak;
widows and orphans know me.
/ loom up to such proportions that
cast my shadow over every field of
labor from the turning of the grind
stone to the moving of every railroad
train.
l massacre thousands upon thou
sands of wage earners in a year.
] lurk in unseen places and do most
of my work silently. You are warned
against me, but YOU heed not.
i am relentless, | am everywhere; in
the home, on the street, in the fac
tory, at railroad crossings and on the
sea.
l bring sickness, degradation and
death and yet few seek to avoid me.
/ destroy, crush or MAIN; l give
nothing but take all.
] am your worst enemy.
| am Carelessness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
The Pilgrim Seed

Out of a land of comfort and of ease,
Holding for conscience's sake the
world we'll lost,
Our dauntless fathers dared the winter
seas,
The savage arrow, and the hungry
frost,
Knowing the danger. counting well
the cost.
The legend of their courage we recall
We thrill with pride to know that in
our veins
The glow of that heroic blood remains.
We thrill-and that is all.
We pile our heroes cairns, each year a
stone;
It is our joy the starry flag to wave
For those who died for freedom of our
own
And those who died for freedom of
the slave.
Laying our laurel on each patriots
grave,
And echo with a glibness undismayed
Words bled from the deep hearts of
those who paid.
Shall not their blood suffice?
We who have grown so perfect in the
Where is the holy lightning of the
0eeu
We of the facile heart SO quickly
stirred
And soothed with dreams ere it has
time to bleed,
Vainly we call ourselves the Pilgrim
seed
Where is the Pilgrim soul that braved
the sea
For a pure conscience? God awake the
men
OF power to make America again
A country of the free!
Let there be a seal upon our speech.
Forbear while our mighty dead to
name.
CLASP we instead the hands their spirits
reach
To draw us through the saving fires
of shame.
Until our noblest heritage we claim
Our ohildren's right to say. when we
have died.
"How just they we're! how generous!
how bravei"
The cross of Christ shall scarce avail
to save
A heart uncrucified.
Josephine Burr in the Out
look.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
We Have Been Friends

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade;
Since first beneath the chestnut trees
In infancy we played.
But coldness dwells within thy heart
A cloud is on thy brow;
We have been friends together
Shall light word part us now?
We have been gay together;
We have laugh'd at little jests;
For the fount of hope was gushing
Warm and joyous in our breasts.
But laughter now hath fled thy lip.
And sullen glooms thy brow;
We have been gay together
Shall light word part us now?
We have been sad together
We have wept with bitter tears
Ger the grass-grown graves where
slumber'd
The hopes of early years.
The voices which were silent there
Would bid thee clear thy brow;
We have been sad together.-
O, what shall part us now?
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
PATRIOTISM

YESTERDAY a woman well up in
L years called at the Harrisburg
offices of the Red Cross and
asked to be given materials that she
might knit socks for American SOL
diers. She could not see well enough
to do the finer grades of sewing, she
said, but her fingers were trained to
knitting, as nimble as ever, and she
simply had to do something for her
country"
She was of German birth.
Yesterday a well-known Harrisburg
baker offered for the use of the gov
ernment one of his large, modern
bakeries. Il take pleasure in doing
this and take pride in performing this
small service for my country" he said.
He, too, is of German birth.
This is patriotism,
How many of us have done as
much?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
Requiescat in Pace
[ [Emporia Gazette.]

It was fitting that Colonel Bill Sapp
of Galena should pass from this planet
after the prohibition sentiment of the
State and the nation had legally, at
least, made it impossible to use liquor
in prohibition territory. Colonel Sapp
was the last of the old Democracy,
which made it business to capitalize
with the issue of personal liberty the
votes of the Germans who liked their
beer. He drank no very great amount
of liquor. But he believed in liquor as
a political asset. And he got rather a
long distance from the natural base
of his abilities and of his creed.
He was an honest, conscientious
man in his private relations. He was
lovable and courteous personally. But
as a political influence he was all bad ;
a net proposition with no discounts.
AS a friend, a business partner, as a
companion on a journey, and as hail
fellow well met. Bill Sapp was alto
gether a joy. But as a politician his
death brings a negligible loss to his
State, his party and his country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
:9oed;ca i~
Pe~~oqeSa"i@
BY the Ex-Committeeman

The McNichol faction in the Legis-
lature, with assistance of Democrats,
last evening took the honorS away
from the Ware faction in the contest
over the Heffernan bill to prevent
Philadelphia city police and hremen
from participation in politics. Ihey
got the bill, reconsidered after its de-
feat of Tuesday, placed on the post
poned calendar and then sent back 10
committee. Democrats and lndepend-
ents who had gone along with the
Ware men last week swung over TO the
other side.
The contest was attended by some
interesting debating. Messrs. McN1chol
and Beyer twitted each other and Mr.
McNichol charged that there was an
attempt to drag factional politics
through the House again and asserted
that upstate men were not interested
in the squabble in Philadelphia, to
which Mr.. Boyer rejoined that the
measure was needed reform, spon-
sored by the Committed of Seventy.
McNichol said he did not know II
the mayor of Philadelphia was OPP
posed to the bill.
The vote to reconsider was 81 to SS.
The Senate did not seem to know
exactly what to do about the PoWell
report last night and there came near
being an outcropping of some factlonal
differed and Senator Eyre seemed to
think that things should be studied.
Finally it was decided to have the re-
port made available to take up at any
time.
The resolution to make the Lieu
take the place OF the
Governor when the executive is away
ten days or so will have to be passed
by this Legislature and the next before
it could go to the people. 1t would
be effective only if passed by popu-
lar majority.
-Schuylkill county Democrats ap-
pear to be run better than the Demo
Gratis in the House. They held meet
ing at Pottsville yesterday and. agree
ing to forget differences, will form an
organization to get busy for election
of county officers
The House last night got back
some of its old-time appearance as the
members of families of members were
given the privileges of the floor. There
were many visitors. but they had tc
stay in the portion about the Speakers
rostrum. The "sidelines" were closed
Several lobbyists were decidedly
indignant last night when barred of
the floor. They had an idea thai
favorites were being played and pro
| ceeded to memorialize members.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
HAVE MERCY, MEN.

HTITH all due respect to those
wv advertisers who help fill our
pay envelope Saturdays, we
unhesitatingly brand as scoundrels of
deepest dye certain of them who
have been offering through the col
umns of the HARRISBURG TELE-
GRAPH brooms. mops, soap, carpet
beaters and the like at bargain prices.
We know to what nefarious scheme
these wretches are up and at the
risk of our job we're going to expose
'em to the much abused married men
of this community. They're conspir-
ing against our peace of mind and
our household happiness, that's what
they're doing. They know we'll enough
that the housecleaning bug is buzzing
in every Harrisburg woman's bonnet.
OF course. we are aware there's no
stopping the ravages of that insect
short of tearing up all the carpets in
the house. taking down all the beds,
removing all the window curtains,
sleeping for a couple of nights on
the floor and eating for days from the
window sills. It's a regular yearly
catastrophe that nothing can prevent,
but what we object to is hurrying
matters, in bringing down on our poor,
helpless heads disaster before it is
due. For goodness sake, you store
keepers, stop. If you're content TO let
things take their ordinary course may
be before the housecleaning season
just naturally rolls around of it's own
accord most of us men will be safe
and comfortable in some advanced
first line French front trench
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
CAMP HILL-TAKE NOTICE

TAMP HILL should sit up and take
~ notice of what some of its people
are doing. There was formed
last night the Locust Street Com
munity Club of that town for the pur-
pose of beautifying the thoroughfare
named, the Introduction of uniform
grass plots and planting, the keeping
down of weeds on vacant lots and the
general betterment of conditions.
This is a wholesome sign in any
neighborhood. Good citizenship is
contagious. If the Locust Street Com
munity Club lives up to it's tenets its
influence will spread to all parts of
the borough. Camp Hill is an at
tractive suburb and it's people are
thoughtful of the appearance of their
town, but, like all other places, it is
capable of much improvement. Other
localities should take lesson from
the Locust street organization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
The Striped Kimono

The seafaring young man had writ
ten his mother an unusually affection
ate letter. He was coming home, he
said, and was bringing her striped
Japanese kimono. The mother got the
sense of most of the letter unaided, but,
finding herself unable to grapple with
all her sons big words. she handed it
to the district visitor for second per-
usa1.
"a striped Japanese kimQno" the
visitor exclaimed, when she came to
that part of the letter. How nice"
"Nicew exclaimed the perpleXed old
lady. you may think so, but would
YOU kindly tell me what l am to do
with such thing? L suppose l can
keep it tied up in the back yard; but
ness only knows" Topeka State
Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
BOYS! DO YOUR BITw

DoYs! Do you want to do your
IL bit" for your country this COM
ing spring and summer?
OF course you do.
And you can, too, although YOU are
not old enough to shoulder a musket
and march away to war.
Here's the answer: Make a vege-
table garden; no matter how small
your lot, make a garden. And if you
have no available land, go on a scout
ing trip about the neighborhood and
locate a vacant lot. Tell the owner
you want to turn it into a garden to
help supply Harrisburg with food in
time of war, and if he is a true blue,
patriotic citizen he will be glad to let
you have the use of it.
Thousands, perhaps a million, men
will be taken from the factory, the
Office and the farm in few weeks
These men will become consumers in
stead of producers. They must eat
and so must all of us who remain at
home. 1t may be necessary, most
likely will be, to send foodstuffs across
the sea, to France and England and
TO Belgium. Prices are high now and
the supply is low. BY increasing the
crops of vegetables by home gardening
the coming summer we will strike a
hard blow at the high cost of living
and at the same time perform a patri-
otto service to the country.
Take Germany or England, for in
staLce. Both have men and guns
aplenty, but both are feeling the stress
of hunger. More garden truck is the
answer. To be true patriot you need
not don a uniform and go into the
trenches. They also serve who only
stand and wait" but they serve more
who make two potatoes or two heads
of cabbage grow where none grew
before.
You can have a lot of fun, lads.
help feed the city and earn a pretty
penny for you own pocket at one and
the same time if you will go into the
home-garden business.
Get busy and do your bit"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
The Genius Myth
[Thomas Sergeant Perry. ]

Thomas Sergeant Perry.l
Indeed the whole conception of gen.
ius as something that lifted it's pos
SCISSOR far above the common herd by
an inexplicable quality-an idea which
was carefully nurtured by writer's who
had the ear of the public-was one
that had wide ramifications; and
demigods acquired full rights of citi-
zenship in modern society. Genius
became as ready and satisfactory an
explanation of every form of con-
spicuous merit as instinct of the
actions of animals; and in the lordly
company of those who possessed it the
ordinary qualities of human nature
appeared unworthy of contemplation.
The great man theory ruled trium-
phant in literature as in society," and
snobbishness was one. of the forms in
which it's recognition found express
sion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
SELECTING AN ARCH1TEcr

WITHOUT further discussion of
wv the special qualifications of this
or that architect and with a
view only to meeting public expecta-
ton with regard to the important
school building program authorized bv
the people last November the dispute
over the selection of designer for
the buildings should come to an end.
1t is too bad that the controversy has
$50 long prevented final action on the
building proposition. The people of
Harrisburg never contemplated that
such an issue would be injected into
an undertaking which involves so
much of the present welfare and the
future of the youth of Harrisburg.
1t ought to be possible for the nine
men comprising the School Board to
adjust their differences of view and
unite harmoniously upon-th choice of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
Democracy Is on Trial
[Burris A. Jenkins in the National d.
fense Digest.

[Burris A. Jenkins in the National De-
fense Digest
Orations on brotherhoods, poems on
fraternity, even millions for relief and
beneVolence, do not seem to bring on
the brotherhood of man to an alarm
ing extent. A strong schoolmaster,
even though he be a Hoosier one, is
in demand. Besides, if the worst came
to the worst and we should have to
fight, our sons would prefer to die for
their country from bullets and not
from embalmed beef. Were it not bet
ter, then, to learn something about
supplying armies?
The fact is that democracy is on
trial for it's life these days. If the
crowd psychology is to count at all in
time to come, if it is not to surrender
its voice to absolution, it will need to
demonstrate it's power to influence and
to be heard. President Eliot has well
declared that If democracy is to en-
dure 1t must show that it is as eff
cient in military matters as is mon
archy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
Malice in Kulturland
New York Evening Post. ]


Horace Wyatt's malice in kultur-
land" (Dutton; rs cents, neD, par
ody on Lewis Carroll's classic, which
transports the observant Alice to Ger
many, is full of goodnatured humor
shot here and there with real wit. Ihe
best of the pure parody is in the
poems. 1t is the Austrians, and not
the oysters, who are taken for walk
by the Kaiser and the Chancellor, al
ter 1.-THE wise Italian winked his eye"
and declined to follow, and 1t is the
Austrians who protest shortly after
against the feast that is made of
them:
THE time has come" the Kaiser
said,
ITO talk of blood and wars;
OF me, and Germany, and God;
And culture and the cause;
And why the sea is much too hot,
And whether bears have claws"
please, sir" the simple Austrian
cried,
Turning a little blue,
I'VE did not know that was the sort
OF thing you meant to do"'
The Kaiser is thus addressed by the
Crown Prince:
"You are old, Father William" the
young man said,
"And the end of your life is in sight;
Yet you're frequently patting your
God on the head
Do you think, at your age, 1t is right?'
"In my youth," said his sire, II estab-
lish my case
AS a being apart and divine;
And 1 think if l try to keep God in
his place,
He ought to support me and mine"