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The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
AMERICAN METHODS
OF BEET GROWING
COULD BE BETTERED

In America the sugar beet industry
is, as yet, in its infancy and the
agriculturists still have many prob
lens to study. II we compare the
average yield in leading European
countries with those in this country
we would notice that our yield Is far
below the European returns. The
average yield of 1914 in the United
States was 1915 tons per acre. as
compared with 14.17 tons per acre
in Germany; 1852 tons per acre
in France.
These discrepancies cannot be en-
tirely caused by the difference in
soil and climate. A great deal of
damage in our beet fields is un-
doubtedly caused by poor thinning.
In this country this delicate work
in most cases is left in the hands of
disinterested laborers. The thinning
contractor is paid by the acre, and
in most cases pays his men also by
the acre and deducts 10 per cent for
commission. These men try to go
over as much ground as possible, to
the detriment of the sugar beet crop.
There is no selection Of the health
lest beets by the thinners.
The great trouble with the average
beet grower is that he does not spend
enough of his own time in the field
while the thinning is going on. In
most cases he starts his crew at
work and then leaves them to finish
it. By personal supervision the
farmer will find at the completion Of
the work that he will have better
and more even stand, less weeds and
also less trouble.
| We must keep in mind that there
1 is a triple object in view in thin
ming:
1st-The selection of the strong
est beets.
2nd-The even distributions of
certain number of beets per acre.
3rd-The destruction Of all weeds
between the beets In the rows and
two inches on each side of the beets.
The next important point to dis
cuss is when should the thinning
commence? As a rule, under aver
age conditions, the earlier the beets
are thinned the better for the
growth and yield of the crop, but not
before all the sprouting seed In the
ground is up, nor all Of the weeds
have a reasonable start.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
BOX SPRINGS NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. McKelvey and
family of Rocky Ford were visitors
at the Colbert home Sunday.
Bert Mcclure and family motored
to Box Springs Saturday and spent
the day with A. S. Mcclure. Mrs.
Mcclure returned home with them
and left there Sunday for Kansas.
Mrs. Charles Wilson entertained
a number of friends last Friday
evening at supper party for her
father, Mr.. Fleming. The evening
was spent playing cards, after which
light refreshments were served.
The Misses Augusta Travers,
Maude Colbert and Mia Knight,
Messrs. Harold Mcclure and L. D.
Lum were dinner guests at the
Crooker home Sunday.
School opened Monday. October s,
with an enrolment of seventeen
pupils.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wilson mo-
tored to Rocky Ford Sunday and
took Mr.. Fleming there for few
days visit: He will then leave for
his home in Illinois.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
TELLS OF CAMP LIFE

John Hopkins, ono of the Ordway
boys at Camp Funston, writes his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Hopkins,
giving them some idea of camp life.
He Is in Battery e, 341st F. A.
John says that they get up at 6
o'clock in the morning and answer
roll call. then have breakfast at
6:3O. From that time until 8
o'clock they have for their own
choosing He says:
1--WE have good officers. They are
all young men and don't believe in
overwork, but the worst feature is
being kitchen police, and every fell
low has to take his turn in doing his
share. This is pretty place, with
hills to the north and south covered
with trees"
John states that there will be
about $500 men at Camp Funston
when the boys all arrive and that
most of them are there now. The
day he wrote he and Tom Adams
were doing kitchen duty and as they
have their cots adjoining they have
a great deal of fun md are enjoying
life.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Warranty deeds and patents filed
in the office of the county clerk OF
Crowley county for the past week,
as reported by the Crowley County
Abstract company, Ordway:
United States to John F. Lease,
Sc " and n ~ swA sec. 4, neA NV Il
and nwA neA sec. 9-19-54, patent.
United States to Joseph Kuntz,
swA of neA and VIZ Of seA 1920
56, and lot 4 of nwA OF 2-21-56,
patent.
]. F. Rose to Ernest F. Greene,
swA 17-21-57.
United States to Pascual Montana,
seA 4-22-56, patent.
Pascual Montana and Antonia S.
Montana to Prutoso Montana, swA
4-22-56.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
F. G. ADAM INJURED

F. G. Adam was kicked by horse
Of last week and severely
injured, the blow having been dealt
him In the right hip and almost
crushing the hip. For time it was
believed that he had received inter-
nal injuries. He was treated here
and later in the day taken to hos
pital in Rocky Ford, where he is get
ting along quite well, considering
the seriousness of the case.
Mr.. Adam was loading a car Of
horses at the stock yards in Ordway
shortly before noon Saturday. The
last of the number to go in the car
failed to enter and upon being urged
kicked, striking Mr.. Adam ter
rife blow.
Mr.. Adam is the senior member
of the firm of F. G. Adam & Son,
auctioneers Of this county, and he
will necessarily be laid up from his
work for several days.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

DR.. B. E. Moody. eye, ear, nose
and throat specialist of La Junta,
will be at W. T. Stocker's jewelry
store Saturday, October 13, 1917.
Mrs. George Bundy was up from
Haswell this week and spent a few
days with her mother. Mrs. Lydia
Riley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd W. Pyles left
Sunday for Fort Collins, where Mr..
Pyles will study agriculture and live
stock judging at the Agricultural
college.
Judge and Mrs. c. c. Woodbridge
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. A. s. Kitch,
Mrs. Beulah Mcdowell and daugh-
ter, Miss Ruth, and Miss Olive Walk,
all of Rocky Ford, at 6 o'clock
dinner last Sunday.
C. T. Bradley returned home from
Jenkins, Mimi, Tuesday, where he
had been for the past two weeks on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Downey and
two daughters, Margaret and Mil
dred, and Aileen Gallavan motored
to Haswell Sunday and spent the day
with Mrs. Downey's sister, Mrs. N. A.
Ferlin, and family.
Miss Millie Young returned to her
home at Loveland Sunday after
spending the past month with her
uncle, Frank Bruno, and family.
| Misses Sarah Belle Wharton,
Trudie FAIRIES, Aileen Prendergast,
Vera Jackson, Oretta Stuts and Co.
rine Thomas were the guests of
Messrs. Harry Lynch, Paul and Tom
Fountain, George and John McIver
and Wesley Sewers at a chicken din
ner at the JeRue last Thursday even
ing.
Colorado Teachers college at
Greeley, which began its fall term
this week, has enrolled Miss Bonny
Walker Of Ordway among its stud
ents. The college has been material
ly strengthened this year and now
has faculty of seventy-five.
Typewriter ribbons for sale at The
New Era office.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
KING CENTER

Charles Auckland has been push
ing the harvest of the third cutting
of alfalfa and baling and loading 1t
into cars for shipment. He is still
cutting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Graft and Mr..
and Mrs. James Thomson and Mr..
and Mrs. John Gerringer of Sugar
City. were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Heinitz on the Auckland ranch
Sunday. The Heinitz family will
move to Sugar City for the winter.
William Auckland, who went to
California a short time ago, has
started on his return trip, making
the round trip by auto.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
WATCHES WORLD SERIES

s. c. Michel Jr.. one of the
young farmers in the northwest part
OF this county, is interested in the
war, but the past week he has been
very much interested in the battles
between the Giants and White Sox.
He has seen most of the men on the
two teams play and that made the
result of the championship games of
unusual interest to him. He was
here Tuesday and of course Incl
dentally" made inquiry as to the
world series of games.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
BoGGs BROTHERS HERE

NJ. T. Boggs of Denver and his
brother, L. s. Boggs of New York
City, were here the latter part of last
week looking after their property
interests. They have ranch just
west of Ordway under lease by
Mumm brothers. L. s. Boggs had
been visiting with his brother In
Denver and was on his return to his
home in the east. He is located, as
for postofflce address, at Bayside,
Long Island. He was very much in
terested in Crowley county and
stated that the country here looked
exceedingly good to him.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
LEASES RANCH

Mrs, M. E. Sanford was here the
mast week looking after property In
terests. She has been spending the
summer in Denver and returned
there Tuesday, where she and Mr..
sandford will remain flor the next
couple or three weeks before re-
turning TO their home In New York
CITY Mrs.. sandford owns what 4
s.nilfarly known - the ordway
rsncn She has leased the ranch for
Z period o. thrse ysars 70 + Kuri-
: rrna ~ !. xuno>its tWo 1Ayaases
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The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12

1t we will fight to finish.
The German Junkers will awaken
to find out that America is no non
entity and no cipher in the fray, as
they predicted that our country
would be.
America will throw the fear of the
Lord into these international bullies,
iron crossed bandits, piratical adven-
turers and kaiserbund oil-carriers.
American soldiers will make his
tory in Europe.
There is no other alternative left
to us.
| In six months from now America
will have the most magnificent army
of men in the field that that the sun
Of heaven ever shone upon.
| They will be the lberators of
Europe and of the world.
The name of every man in 1t will
be inscribed on tho muster roll of
immortality.
Thrones will crumble in every land
where the Stars and Stripes are un-
furled. ~
Liberty and justice and free insti-
tutions will be the heritage which
the American troops will leave in
| Europe on their departure for the
glorious homecoming crowned with
/ laurels and carrying branches of
olives.
| Where are you in this fight?
! Are you with us or are you
against US?
| Are you giving sour country a
whole hearted support?
| Are there streaks of yellow in your
makeup, or at least streaks that are
not white?
| Have you the brand of Judas or
of Benedict Arnold on your craven
and guilty brow?
| Are you plotting to shoot the
American soldiers who are going to
the front in the backs by agitating
against the cause and country for
which they are willing and ready to
sacrifice everything they hold dear
in life and to suffer privation,
wounds and to die?
Are you true or would you betray
your Uncle Sam?
II so-well the law forbids US to
finish this sentence in print.
Doublecrcss your friends and your
own family IL you are doublecrossed
and must doublecross somebody, but
do not doublecross your country.
| Be loyal and right or get out.
Yo, are both fool and knave
if you are, not on the square with
the land either of your birth or
adoption.
This country is true to its colors
and American men and women will
ostracise you, IL they will not do
worse things to you, If you are false.
in your own heart even.
You amt fool;rs anybody but
yourself.
You won't be permitted TO use
your rantankerous mouth and to
shoot off your runaway bazoo In
singer, reviling your country and Its
institutions and lying about its pub
lie men and then hide under the cloak K
of the very liberty which you would
help murder off and throw to the
dogs by playing into the greedy
grasping hands of the militaristic rui-
ers of imperial Germany.
A man who is false to his own
country and his own flag to the ex-
tent of being a copperhead or
traitor is a rank criminal and belongs
| To the criminal class.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
LADIES' AID SOCIETY TO MEET

An important meeting of the La
dies Aid society Of the Ordway
Methodist church will be held at the
home of Mrs. I. H. Stanley Thurs
day, October 25. This will be the
last monthly tea and business meet
ing of the present hscal year and in
addition to the annual election OF
officers it is planned to discuss mat
ters of special import relative to Red
Cross work and other activities
which the organization may assume
as its share in the patriotic program
of the community.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
A PROFITABLE CROP

Up in the northwest portion Of this
county certain farmer has rs acres
of beans and seven weeks ago he had
an offer of $4,000 for the crop as it
then stood in the field. 1t is dry
land crop. but demonstrates what
dry land will produce in looks suf-
ficient to attract handsome offers.
The offer was turned down and the
farmer is not sorry that he did.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
VACANCY is FILLED

Miss Hazel Barnet Of Orleans.
Ind, has been selected to fill the
vacancy in the High school faculty
in Ordway, that of music and draw
Ing. She has arrived and taken up
her work. This position was filled
the past two yeas by Miss Edith
Melton Miss Barnett and Miss Nc
Int: sh, in charge of domestic econ
ou.y, are from the same Indians
town.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12

We meet who were born and
raised in this county every day who
talk seriously and repeat the thread
bare pro-German arguments which
they derive either directly or indi-
rectly from the German language
press published in this country.
The editors of these same newspa-
pers are not loyal to this country.
Most Of them are not even natural
lied citizens of the United States.
Some are spies who ought to be shot.
to be deported. Still others are trait
ors or copperheads.
They were not for this country be-
fore the war ever started. We have
sat in saloons with them ard talked
with them for hours. They try to
belittle every institution and other
things that exist in the United States.
From the government ana the flag
and the laws and the American peo-
ple to the city and the rabbits and
the birds and the grapes and the
peaches ard the prunes and the food
and the amusements and the drinks
and the institutions. Nothing in this
country is good enough for them.
When you hear these conceited
braggarts talk everything is finer
and bigger and better in Germany
than it is in the United States.
They talk as IL it were punishment
for them to remain in the United
States, sort of banishment, still
they stick with the tenacity OF ticks.
They never go back. But they bite
the hand that feeds them, like the
cur in the story, to borrow the words
of the now famous song.
These fellows talk socialism and
even anarchism, but when they amt
kissing the dust at the ;eet OF the
kaiser they are carrying cobs not
only for the toadies and the flunkies
OF royalty who write the won" be-
tween their first and last names.
We never saw Herr Won" yet
who wasn't a downright deadbeat
They are lazy lot of loafers and
vagabonds. Our parents, who were
beth Lorn il. Germany, taught us
fr'.m our ts,''est boyhood years to
keep our haud on our pocketbook
when one of these Adelege Herren,
or sprouts of the stuck-up, arrogant,
brow-beating German nobility was
around the neighborhood anywhere
and to avoid and shun him like a
rattler.
AhsFi 40 ouI 4SAS -
where We were born and where our
wife and children were born.
This country has been mighty good
to us. It threw open the doors OF
opportunity and bade US enter. 1t
gave US liberty.
Under TIE protecting wings OF the
American eagle we enjoyed security
and peace until the German warlord
and overlord and autocrat and tristo-
crat and despot. whose progenitors
drove our parents out Of Germany
and away from their homes. lifted
the lid off of hell" and commenced
the sanguinary saturnalia and orgy
Of fiendishness and bestiality which
destroyed the tranquility OF the
world, and drenched France and Rus
sia and the Balkan States Of Europe
in blood and converted Belgium INTO
the worst human slaughterhouse OF
which history makes any record.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern dragged
the United States into the war.
We stayed out of the war as long
as we could, but now that we are IN
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
A Germans Views On Patriotism
And Advice To Countrymen Here
Fred j. Kern lmplores German American Citizen. to r.
America, Which Has Given Them the Greatest
of Liberty and a Portion of Her Richie.

Fred J. Kern of Beeville, Ill., is a naturalborn cerm.
publishes in Bellevle community with large per
centage of German-Amercan population Here is how he
makes his stand for patriotism and loyalty America as writ
ten by himself He does words in letting the
world know where he German takes thrust
at the knockers, the traitors and copperheads:
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
LOOKING AFTER PROPERTY

Mrs. Katherine Dryden of Battle
Creek, Mich, arrived last week to
look after her ranch property here.
She owns the farm known as the
Trotter ranch, north of Ordway. She
resided here for year, but has been
living in Battle Creek for the past
two years.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
APPLES

Our lowest priced food. Harvest
ing began at my Crowley orchard
September 25 and will begin at my
Olney orchard October 1. Some help
needed. West Orchards.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
WARRANTS CALLED

The following Crowley county
warrants have been called for pay
ment: No. 284A, registered on
August z, 1917; Nos. 306A to 323A,
registered on September 5, 1917.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
AMONG EXHIBITORS

James Carpenter brought in some
corn Tuesday which has since been
on exhibit. He had two ears which
had twenty-four rows of grains each
and an average of about sixty grains
to the row. 1t is yellow dent va
riety and fine lot. He stated that
he had picked out some nice ears to
take on his Nebraska trip that he
might prove to Nebraska corn grow
ers that Colorado can also raise corn.
Claude Mattingly has been cutting
down some fine ensilage and judg-
ing by some Of his corn on exhibit
at this office it will be about as rich
a feed for cattle as peach butter and
hot biscuits are for humans. He is
raising white corn and the ears are
indeed whoppers, a foot long and as
big around in proportion to length.
A big sugar beet has been occupy
ing a place in the New Era display
window the past few days, one of the
large ones from the F. G. Adams
beet field, and along with 1t has been
big purple top turnip grown by
William Bouldin in his town garden.
Bouldin's garden has produced
about everything this season which
is cookable.
Jacob Pantle has a good apple
crop this season and his Jonathans
are an excellent lot, almost perfect
in quality and big crop in quantity.
He has other varieties also and two
of these, the Jonathans the principal
ones, have been on exhibit at this
office this week. Mr.. Pantle has a
nice orchard and last year and the
year before the hail practically
ruined the crop, but this year he
escaped the hail and came thru with
fine lot of fruit.
Harvey Doyle raised some garden
sunflowers this season which are ex-
ceedingly large and une on display at
this office measures forty-four inches
in circumference.
Dry land potatoes which will
yield 1875 to $50 bushels to the acre
are some of the fruits of the labor
of ]. F. Rhine, residing in the north
west part of this county. He
brought in some this week and four
were sufficient to make an attractive
exhibit. They are large and well
formed. Mr.. Rhine states that crops
are good in his part of the county,
beans especially yielding we'll.
Robert Clinton has a town garden
and among other things he raised
some fine turnips. One of them. on
display at this office. weighed three
pounds.
Walter Stevenson, one of the boy
agriculturists, has a couple of nice
onions on display. He is justly
proud of his product. for they are
his own onions and demonstrates to
his own mind that he, too, can grow
them for he has two varieties. They
were grown on the Burke ranch.
Max Hinshaw spent most of the
past summer on the Geer ranch north
of Ordway. He planted some potato
peelings and from them grew crop
of potatoes. One, which he brought
to this office and which has been on
display the past week, weighed two
pounds. Max is not yet in his teens,
for in fact he has hardly reached his
tens, but he is fast learning how to
form
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
APPLIES, APPLES!

Plenty of them at from Is cents
to $125 per box, according to as
sortment. Ready for market now.
One and one-half miles northeast OF
Olney Springs. H. T. Craig.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
APPLES

Apples by the box or wagonload.
Ben Davis, Ganos, Missouri Pippins,
Fancy Winesaps and Jonathans Csc
to 800 per box. D. c. ROBERTS.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
P rincess Iheater

Program for the Week
TONIGHT
Metro presents Harold Lockwood
in "Pidgin Island"
SATURDAY
vitagraph. "The Great Divide"
Scenes laid in Grand canyon.
MONDAY
Comedy and Western.
TUD1DAY
Triangle - Constance Talmadgc
ana wilfred Lucas m THE Moro
scope Mystery.''
uaahth uDeseds. searl q Double
Gst 4 Ooasdys HAtHe Nests.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12

INSURE YOUR LIVESTOCK WITH
Joe Grill, local agent. tt
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12
APPLES

35c up to $1.25 per box. Jacob
Pantle.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12

PEACHES FOR SALE
]. T. Hester has q big crop of
peaches and will sell at the orchards,
Box Springs district.
The Ordway new era., 1917-10-12

80 stsss : eEs sss
!. The New 1ra's cireelatton in
crowley county = q large a.
any, other TIVE nswspaDers in the
wsrll combins1.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-03-08
SPEECH OF scaooLcHlLpREN
Movement to Improve and Later Make
Perfect 10 Work Undertaken
III BY Brooklyn Association.

DR.. Frederick Martin, supervisor
OF the classes to correct speech de-
fects in the public schools Of the city,
was the speaker at the monthly meet
ing Of the Heads of Departments as
ISOLATION. His subject was speech
Improvement"
Doctor Martin told Of the organic
zation of classes for speech defects
and improvement throughout the
city under bis direction, lie said
that one of the objects OF these
classes was to give lessons to teach
ers that they might obtain better
speaking in the classroom. That a
teacher demand perfect articulation
from her pupils he said was one Of
her duties. He said;o yanu sol
"Too often teachers are so inter-
ested in their subjects that they all
low children to answer mumblingly,
thereby creating speech defects which
only become paramount as the child
grows older. Children of the lower
grades are often excused Of imper-
feet speech because the teachers call
itffbaby talk and think the child
will routgrow IT. Often they allow
children to lisp because their teeth
are out, and as the teeth grow in the
child has formed an acute habit Of
lisping.1 We have $4,000 cases Of
speech defects in our elementary
schools at the present time"
Under the direction Of Doctor
Martin and his 26 assistants, vocal
gymnastic" drills will be held in the
schools daily. The object of these
drills will be to get better voice sup
port, proper placement of the tone
of sound and an open-mouthed, ro-
tund Internationally Eagle.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-03-08
AIeHER .PRIce FOR RABBITS.

When the native Australian or the
longtime resident hears the cry,
@Rabbo, wild rabbo! Rabbo" he
knows that he can get cheap din
ner that viii also taste good, for the
rabbit huckster is going by. But
rabbits are now not nearly so cheap
as they were before the war. The
demand for meat Of any Lind has
raised the price. The supply, howl
ever is, almost inexbaustible, and
since refrigeration and capning have
been undertaken on large scale,
rabbit flesh has become an important
item in the food supply Of the world.
One Australian firm last year
canned 3S5.C36- rabbits, and mill
lions go to England and other coun-
tries in cold s.oyage.-Iouth's Conn
panlOl.
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TACTICS

First Pugilist-How do you stand
In with her dadi js.JfgHD
Second Pugilist-Close as ! can
His infghting is punk. s}
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2 STATIONARY.

Passenger-Conducto do you cal
this q fast train2
Conductor[Yes, sir
PAssenger-What Is It fast tor
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-03-08

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