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The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
Miss Alice Jack

We owe Miss Jack an apology
for not giving her the customa ary
notice along with the announce
ment before this time-but bet
ter late than never.
Miss Jack is one of the best
teachers in the county, and az
such is well and favorably known
n number Of schools in which
She has taught. She taught
school several years in Kansas
before coming here. in al max.
ing twelve years of school work.
Miss Jack took CLAIM cut in
the Lone Rock country four years
ago, and proved it up some time
ago.
There isn't any doubt Of Miss
Jacks qualifications to fill the
office to which she aspires, with
credit both to herself and to the
county.
See Miss Jocks announcement
elsewhere.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
THE KEATlNG-MAR1 DEBATE

The worst whipped puppy
that ever came down the pike
That was Major John A. Mar
tin at the end OF remarkable
debate before the congressional
assem- bly, at Denver last wesk.
Our people have heard the
smooth, even talking Heating on
different occasions. but tn ey
have never heard Keating when
aroused and under fire.
The transformation is remark
able-we might say electrical.
The even talking monotone is
gone-melts away with the ar
dor and stress of the occasion.
The analytic solutions, sequenc-
es and logic remain the same;
but the eveness and smoothness
of expression gives way to the
trensient sentence and rounded
period, the monotone to a grace
full and pleasing emphatic ness
of both gesture and expression.
the common place narrative to
as fine a quality Of satire and
nicely couched sarcasm as ora.
tors usually indulge in, while
his whole demeanor is that of
one conscious of TIE right and
determined to defend it,
Martin opened the debate. and
for two hours and fifteen min
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
A Good Letter
From Chas. Finley

Colorado College, Colo. Springs.
Colorado. 7-21. 1918.
Mr.. Konkel:-
This is radio or wireless tel
egraphy school.
Anyone wishing to take me-
chanical work should not
come here, but should go to
Fort Collins or Boulder. There
are about 200 men here from all
over the state.
We arrived here Monday even
ing and were assigned our
hunks and blankets then vaxinat.
ed IN the right arm and inoculat-
ed in the left arm.
The next morning we were as
signed to our separate squads
and quarters and given shirt
and pair of unionalls.
Then we got down to business.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
StOnington 81: s. %

Rev. Jacob Funk, Brethren
preacher from Wiley. Colo, is
holding series of meetings at
this place with good attend.
ance and much interest.
W. A. Thompson and B. F.
Ross were the delegates from
here to the D. c. D. meeting a:
Lamar.
L. V. Campbell and family and
Dr. Nicholson took linner at the
Holt home last Friday. The
many friends of Mrs. Campbell
are glad to know she has almost
recovered from her recentillpess.
Frank Elley has been engaged
by Ross, Thompson, and Holt to
take care OF the catt...
Miss Pearl Brill has resumed
her position in the bank.
Mrs. Bushnell and daughters
are here visiting the Greathouse
and Nance families.
Earl Taylor and family visited
here the last week. Mrs. S. L.
Thompson accompanied them
home for 8 weeks visit.
j. L. Altman finished his work
here and returned to Springfield.
j. K. McKinnis and family re-
turned from their visit to Texas.
A neice of Mrs. McKinnis came
home with him for a short visit.
B. F. Ross last week purchas-
ed the fine faru- of Mrs. M. 3.
Chambers and her son Levi, and
they will have a sale Monday.
Levi goesto war, and Mrs. Cham.
bers and daughters will move to
Hooker, Okla, where they will re-
side.
The Commercial Club is plan
ming to have big street fair at
Stonington some time during
Septemb ber.
The two trucks workin. be-
TIVE en- here and Elkhart are kept
busy hauling for our merchants.
S. l.. Thompson has ordered
another carload of binders, head
ers and barbed wire.
w. A. Cakes returned from
Pueblo last week, where he was
called to the bedside of his daught-
err Grace, who was operated on
for appendicitis.
Mrs. Minnie Botchkiss had
etter from her son Willie, who is
lin France, saying he had been
wounded and was now in hos
pital in France.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
Sentinel TWaddle

We dislike to waste good spa, e
on an idle, rambling talk about
everything except the facts anu
the question at issue.
Jones, in nearly a column OF
such rubbish last week, says the
Eerald's claim to have published
several tunes more government
information than has the Sentin-
el"-is untrue. The Herald nev-
ar made such a statement, it be
ing another case of Jones trying
to fool his readers by a partial
quotation. The balance of the
statement was, outside of his
patent insides, which nobody
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
Richards

T. l.. Stagner and family spent
Sunday at the Dave Stagner
home.
Mrs. E. C. Chestnut and family
returned home last week after a
pleasant visit with home folks in
Oklahoma.
T. o. Maynard family and mer-
chant Mitchell and wife attended
the Babtist meeting in S.. ming.
ton Sunday.
Merchant Murphy, wife and
daughter and Miss Minnick visit
ed M. w. McClendon home Sun
day afternoon.
The ice cream social given At
the Sam Osteen home the evening
of the 22nd was a success in ev-
cry way-100 guests present.
Mrs. Bertha Smith and Jim
Burleson traded in Richards Sat
urday.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

The Sentinel says Stonington
and Springfield turned down She
Agricultural college canning
demonstrator- Grace Breed,
Notwithstanding that her servic-
es were free. No one in Spring
field was authorized to cancel the
published announcement of her
date here, and we have not been
able to learn of any person who
did SO. Will the Sentinel please
to enlighten us as to who cancel
ed the lady's date at this place?
All Springfield would be glad to
know.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
.ERSONS
)StOries nd Incidents
Or Old Boston
J. And the Old Days
Bv the Writer
Newspapers, Towns
And Town Lots.
BY the Writer
Westola Continued.

w SSt'a NIoIliiiiuSd.
We are continuing Wes.ola for
the purpose of telling the story
of one Of the worst billiards. that
ever struck this country, in con.
noetion with the remarkable ex.
oerience of one of the citizens
of We stola in the storm.
The blizzard turned itself loose
about four in the morning, and
continued all that day with a fe.
rociousness that is rarely equaled
in lifetime.
We are not certain whether it
was the hotel keeper or the news
pape, man that had the harrow
ing experience, but believe it
was the latter.
Anyway, along about 500 or
900 in the morning the man,
whose name is not now remem-
bered, thought he could make
his way to the barn or shed,
about hundred yards east of
the house, and essayed to do so.
The storm was in the north
west. so with it partly at his
back he managed to edge his way
to the barn in safety. Then af-
ter feed'nl; ,r'" .se and COW, he
started back 10 the house. prob
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
Elder

Mr.. Charlie Bosley and wife
were in Springfield Tuesday.
He found out while there he
would b. .i.ed be ycen the 5th
and 18th or August.
Several from here viii leave
for the camps in Augu.5 and
September.
Ivan Findley took off I couple
Floads of wheat this week.
Ernie Buzzard took off cou-
pie loads OF wheat this week.
He will bring back lum Der Tor
granary.
Jack Bowers went to the ced-
ars after a load CT wood this
week.
Tourists are beginning to get
as thick as Russian thistles. A
tourist hotel wouldn't be bad
idea at Edler.
One of the tourists from Okla
homa went into ecstacies over
the condition OF the crops here.
He says everything in the parts
of Oklahoma he saw was burnt
up-corn laying on the ground.
Come to Baca.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
Everything is like clockwork

here.
1 will send you a scedule of
what we do here except Satur-
days and Sundays: We arise at
5:45, Breakfast 6:2O. Drill l hr. (,
School 3 hr. a. M. Dinner 11:45,
School 3 hr. y. NJ. Drill 1 hr. /,
p. M. Supper 5:45.
Then in about 80 minutes we
go back to the mess hall and
study our text books for two
hours.
We must all be in our rooms at
nine o'clock and be IN bed and
stop talking at $50.
We take examination Saturday
forenoon, then have Saturday
noon until Sunday evening off
after we are assigned our uni
forms.
The city auto club to.,k US al
around and showed US the sights
Saturday afternoon. I guess we
saw all there was to see here ex'
cept Pixies Peak.
Today Sunday we haye been re
arranging our hunks, making out
our allotment and insurance pa
pers, and having our finger
prints taken.
Some of the fellows go from
here to take officers training.
Anyone who wishes to stud,
.Iadio, wireless, or who has al
ambition to become an Officer
and is willing to work hard fol
it, will do well to come here.
Hoping this letter will help t.
put someone on the right track
| am, yours truly,
C. a. Finley
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

Anyway, you'll rotice the
press has never been hailed be-
fore the public. for profiteering
as result of the opportunities
afforded by present war ,condi-
;tionsACcrtes MeFS1d. EM1ent-
ly the Cortez' editor hasn't got
the Wall Street Sentinel on his
exchange list, else he would have
known of one exception to the
rule; the Great County Builder,
by reason of its wonderful news
features and thereby its unpar.
alleled subscription and adver-
tisirg patronage, being the one
lone exception.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

At the D. G. ID. convention at
Lamar it was decided to devide
the ID. G. D. trail into districts,
and each year to hold regular
district meetings. The districts
were arranged as follows: Colora-
do Springs to Lamar, Lamar to
Guymon, Guyman to Canadian,
Canadian TO Childreth, Childreth
to Dallas. Sec. Palmer has the
calling of these meetings, and
the people of Springfield will be
glad to learn that Mr.. Palmer
has promised the aext district
meeting to Springfield, 1t VIII
be called here probably in May.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
Judge Terral Designated

At the judicial convention at
Denver last week Judge Joseph
E. Terral was designated for one
Of the two judges of the third iu-
diclal district.
The present incumbent, Judge
McChesney, was unanimously
designated as one nf the wo. and
Judge Terral was given The first
place on the ticket for the other
judge, he receiving 35 votes to
Hoilenpeck's 81.
Hon. Lon Beavers of the Lamar
Land Office placed Judge Terral
IN nomination, in one of the most
fervent and eloquent addresses
VIC have yet heard him make.
and he usually makes a mighty
good talk at that.
It's now upto Baca county and
the east end to see that Judge
Terral is put across in the pri.
mary, and fair play for the east
end ought to see it done.
With one candidate in the west
end and one in the east end, we
are very sure each of them wo uld
stand a better chance of elect on
than with both candidates in
Trinidad,
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
reads -

kC0oSs
Jones saw that by quoting half
the statement it would give him
a chance to shoot ran domly and
aimlessly into space, so stills the
prickings of his conscience at the
deed and let's her go Galleger"
heaven or no heaven.
Further on in his rambling talk
he says, IF the Herald dares to
say that they publish all that
they get, then they do not get
what others have been getting,
for it is not published by it,"
There isn't a paper in the Unit
ed States that publishes all it
gets from war sources. What
the Herald gets OF this nature
would fill every column of an
eight or twelve page paper every
week, and we couldn't do this
without loosing out on that great
'profiteering" income.
We are afraid the little broth.
er wanders SO eften from the
straight and narrow path Of
truth and rectitude that he will
lhave a hard time to explain mat.
ters when he finally moves up tc
the Pearly Gates and st. Gabriel
wants to know about it.
i The Herald never made the
statement implied. What we
said was that We get an aver.
age OF a column a week in plates
on food, ard that every column
OF it has been used-besides
what is set up in this office, which
alone is much more than Jones
sets up in his office.
AS to the stuff that comes in
Jones' patent insides week OF
two after io happens, we will say
again if Jones has reader " be
will make an affiaavit that he is
not taking daily or outside
weekly. we will Immediately sub
scribe for Il weekly for such per.
son, whether there is just one, OF
the whole several dozen of his
subscribers. -.--. s.
But, Bro. Jones-''the love ol
Mike, when did we say it?"-
that protiteering should not be
interrupted till the war is over.
| You accused US Of making the
accusation without "semblance
|of foundation" so we made three
Quotations from the Sentinel in
substantiation of the statement
made.
Stop your twaddle, get down
to hard tacks, and harmonic
those three quotations with your
emphatic denial of the statement
that you didn't want protteerinR
interrupted till the war is over.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

Bro. Wheeler of the Enter
prise sayeth as follows: Those
articles that Bro. Konkel is rum
ming in his paper under the Cap
ton of Persons, Stories and In
cidents of Old Boston and the
Old Days." are to say, at least,
very interesting. We watch for
them each ISSUE"
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

The republicans Wednesday
designated the following primary
ticket: Chas. Howell county
clerk, Miss Alice Jack county
treasurer, w. p. Powell and Tom
Oxenreider assessor. M. Long
sheriff, 1. A. Humbert and Mrs.
Mary Jones superintendent, DR..
Verify coroner, Geo. Elley COM
missioner, Douglas surveyor,
The ticket is good one, but we
believe the democrats on the 10Th
inst. can and will put up better
one.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

Girls and women of Baca coun-
ty, you have a chance to join the
the U. S. Student nurse reserve
and thus to take training for SER
vice as nurses. $4,000 young
women-19 to 35. are wanted.
Address Woman's committee,
State Council of Defense, Den.
yer, Colo, and get particulars.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

A letter from Congressman
Keating informs US that he will
be in Baca before the primaries.
Mr.. Keating says the outlook; in
the Pueblo saa-ofs the district is
very encouraging THAT tn e
way we took their tirst-line
trenches at Denver seems to
have demoralized them.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

Democrats don't. forget that
next Thursday you. elect dele
gates to the county Assem- bly, for
the designation of county Offices,
and that ~ the same time you
are to elect a commit 5eeman and
committee womsn for your
precinct. All good democrats
should be at the precinct caucs5.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

Tota, amount of beans shipped
from Colorado in 1917, over 46
and a half million pounds. Total
amount from Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming,
a fraction over a million pounds.
Who's sneezing at Colorado?
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

At the D. 9. d. convention at
Lamar two weeks ago it was de-
cided to hold the next annual
meeting at Ardmore, Okla,
probably some time in July.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

What Champ Clark. speaker
of the house, thinks of Congress
man Keating, as given in letter
to a Colorado friend, will be pub
lished next week. It's rich.
Watch for it.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

Don Vanwormer Of Morton
county, who lost out recently
i n the supreme court and order
ed to the pen at once for life, has
jumped his $25, ZOO bond and is
supposed to be in Mexico. The
governor of Kansas has offered
$500 tor his capture, and his
bondsmen a full S1,000-Sl, 500 in
all.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

futes worked over keating's rec
ord to prove his disloyalty and
anti.union proclivities.
Martins oratory consists of
occasional pungent. epigrams, a
tedious mixture of logic and
/ and sophism, big jumps and en-
phatic declarations. His princi-
pal fault is tediou sness of detail.
The same talk could be made in
less than half the time and be
much more effective.
1t is only doing Martin justice.
however, to say thatat the end
of his talk, notwithstanding that
when he was, through he had
tod nothing new, he had a whole
lot of fellers wa vering, several in
our own delegation. But the
spell that was thrown over them
by the Turing sophistry and en-
phatic declarations was soon bro
ken when Keating took the floor.
If only that disloyalist
Keating hadn't have been
there, or would have sat
still and said nothing-the Mar
tin two hours and better would
sure have made a killing.
Keating talked one hour and
fifteen minutes, during which he
not only curried Martin up one side
he and down the other, but trim
med the whole bunch backing
him up in the campaign.
Probably as often as two doz-
ell times during Keatings talk
the Keating admirers jumped to
their feet and cheernd when he
made specially good killing,
and scores of other times during
the course of the address cheer
ed and yelled their approval.
We haven't time here to cove 4
the arguments pro and con, but
to show Martins insincerity,
will mention a fact brought out by
Keating-that the first 45 min
utes of Martins talk was about
thing. that Keating did in con-
'tgress eigka months prior to the
last election-and Martin sup.
ported him then on the stump
and approved of every thing he
did-never suspicioned Heating
of wanting to dismember the
Union until thee. +. and I. bunch
4, wanted him to run for congress.
Well mention one more thin <
showing up Martins want of
sincerity-and the bunch back
of him. The harpihg of the
whole bunch is that Kea.ing did
ut back the president; but at a
convention held in Pueblo four
years ago. that same bunch con
trolled the convention. and the
convention refused to indorse
tine administration of the very
president they are now condemn
ing Keating for not standing
by.
The sequel to the story is that
Martin was in that convention
] and was virtually bribed to keep
still by the offer of U. S. senator
ship, which accusation not being
denied by him is admittedly true.
In conclusion, the squirming
/, of John A. Martin during the
scathing reply of Cong. keating
reminded US of the squirming Of
a little boy while his parent was,
admonishing him, and he knew
the strap was going 10 follow the
admonition.
However, there isn't any get
ting around the fact that Keatipg
has a hard fight on his hands. and
that it will take good work on the
part of his friends to beat the re-
actionaries who are arrayed
against him.
A C411 Tokfor
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

We want to say here that il
[Herald has the most extensive
local correspondence of any pa
per in the county lor in the east
or westl, which is feature that
a county paper should be proud
of. Mr.. Konkel has organized
that division well. and keeps it
up admirably. -1w Buttes Sen
tinel
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

The republicans want it under
stood that politics is not adjourn
ed" until they get the Offices
which puts off the adjournment
Indefinitely.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

More touristshave gonethrough
Spring field during the last month
than had gone through during
the lasttwo yearsbefore. That's
a good omen for the future.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02
IDLY with q bucket of milk.

ably with bucket of milk.
1t was probably two or three
hours later when he staggered
and fell on his own door step, his
feet and hands frozen solid, and
his face also badly frozen.
For a long time he hovered he
tween life and death, but we
never heard whether amputation
had to be resorted to or not, but
if not he was probably left in a
very crippled condition.
DECATUR.
1t is probable the present den-
liens of Springfield would be
surprised to learn that in the old
days they had a powerful rival
in a town just to the north of
them. Probably no one in the
present Springfield ever heard of
the town of Decatur; and we are
presuming that if any of the
Springfield and vicinity old tim
ers ever did hear of it, they have
long ago forgotten about it. in
which case the following from
the Western World of June %,
1888, will probably recall. the in
cident to their memories:
"The new town of Decatur,
six miles north of Springfield, is
making a steady growth. Sew
er.l Of the business men of
Springfield, so we are informed,
will move to the new town.
All we can hear in Lamar is DE
Gather, Decatur, Decatur.
The wish is often father to the
thought. and upon these. fanci-
full structures are often built.
Boston was in entire sympathy
with any move in the direction
of rival town to Springfield,
and of course made the most of
the talk of Decatur.
But Decatur was a real town,
and there was at the time a 10.
of shouting for it. The town
was located six miles north and
one west of Springfield, was
l.res.lArfy laid out ana codsistes
CT four forties at the corner II
four sections.
There were two stores, a black.
smith shop and postoffice. be-
sides probably half a dozen res
licences.
Jas. A. Bickford. now living
not far from the old site,
had a grocery store, E. F. Mar.
tin, now of Two Buttes, former
ly connected with store here,
had hardware store.
The town was started IN 1883,
and passed in its chips with the
going down of the country and
the other towns in 1889
The joke was on the postmast-
err, when the country went down
he wanted to quit, hut Ghe COVER
ment made him stay with it'll
the last doy was hung" and the
last dog wasn't hung till his term
of four years was up, when of
course the postoffice was discon-
tinued.
Our worthy townsman, Lee
Holmes, owns one quarter Of the
old site, but we haven't heard of
his intention to revive the old
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

Reports from all over Baca
county show that, with the ex.
ception of a few very small spots,
crops are looming up better than
at any time at this stage of the
game in the history of the coun-
ty, so far as remembered.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

Price fixing may be the reme-
dy.-The Two Buttes Wall Street
Sentinel. Is the little brothu,'
now trying to retrieve his rep
that was lost when he made his
great drive against the e Y
chumps Of the county? That is
|commendable; but IL Bro. Jones
really vans to find that lost rep,
an ad. in the Herald would be the
quickest way loget at it.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

All sugar is now sold by q gov
ernmental card system-began
the first inst. Sugar cards at
that time were issued with one
coupon to each member of the
family. The coupons are good
for three pounds of sugar month
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

We lave declar ..on of prin-
ciples By Hon. Thos. j. lyman
that certainly puts Tom in the
progressive class. We shall
quote the same in the early fu-
ture.
The Springfield herald., 1918-08-02

See the announcements else
where of w. P. Powell and Tom
Oxenreider. Complimentary no.
tice next week.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-08-28

Irancher of Cora, Idaho. She is well
known in Moscow, having completed the
high school course here and having
since taught in the schools OF Latah
county. The groom is student OF
Pullman college, and would have grad
Iuated this year. He with others spent
the summer at San Francisco taking
officers training.
Before going to Camp Lewis the
Young man spent fortnight visiting his
finance, but they very senslbly acted
upon the advice of their friends and he
got away to camp without having be-
come entangled in the meshes OF matr1-
mony. But when they met at lamp
Lewis cupid saw that there was no one
present to interfere with their happiness
Mrs. McWhinney will return soon'
having been engaged to teach the IN
the Viola school The groom, OF course,
will share the fate of all brave soldiers
and NAV start to France any tirne
Miss Pinnell made a trip to Peck'
Idaho, this week in the interest OF her
work
Jasper Kidwell, of near Portland, IS
here visiting former friends. In Janu-
arv Mr.. Kidwell met with very pam
full accident which almost lost him ms
left arm. when it was caught in the ma
chinery of wooden mill and almost
torn from his body, being crushed ana
rnutilated in such manner as to be OF
no use to him again, probably.
Mrs. A. D. Wilcox returned Monday
from week at the G. A. K. encamp-
ment at Portland.
Mr. Powell of Kansas is visiting bis
GRAND daughters, Miss Loea and Ger
trude Powell, and grandson, Arthur, on
his way home from the G. A. K. en-