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The Meeker herald., 1918-03-02
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
NOn-C<al Land


NUT1CE FOR PUBLICATION
Eon-Coal Land
Department OF the interior, U. 8. Land Once At
Glenwood Springs, Colo. February Z, 1918.
NOTICE 10 hercby given that Robert Retgan,
Of Piceence, Colorado. who. on February n
i sSia m qs homestes1 Entry, sersa, Eo' o
Bee 3, 8, u VI, 66 y, has Md
notice Of intention to make Final TAres-YeaF
described. before Henry J. Hay. q. u.
Commissioner, Ut Neekef, Colombo, on she
18th day Of March. f0l8.
Edward J. Rico and Bort L. Taylor, Of
Ptceance, Colorado; A. 0eorHe Smith and John
Beard. Of Meekor. COLOMBO.
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Mr.. Thomas Baker was In Tuesday
on q business mission.
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District Attorney Frank Delaney
IL again about, after several week.
illness.
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Jim. come b.ckl Beavers" gone
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Blooded Bulls for Sale

Sixty head Of coming two-year-old
short horn and Hereford Bulls, for
Sale. Colorado bred. Call and see
them 1t Harp ranch Meeker.
70 Harp and Wyman
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St. James Church.

st. James Church.
LENTEN SERVICES
Third Sunday 10 Lent:
Holy Communion, 7.8O .. m.
Church School, o.45 q. m.
Missionary Day service and sermon,
II 90 .. m.
Evening Prayer and Sermon,
$50 p. m.
Wednesday, March 9Th:
Evening Service and address,
7.80 p. m.
Choir rehearsal after the service.
Thursday, March 7th:
Holy Communion, 1000 =. m.
Children's Service, 4.l6 p. m.
Subject Of addresses:
Sunday-"Who was conceived BY
the Holy Ghost, born Of the Virgin
Mary"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. under Pom
thus PLATE, was crucified, dead and
buried"
The rector will be glad to have the
names Of any who are thinking Of
Confirmation. Glasses are being
PHILIP NELSON,
Priest In Charge.
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National Surgical Dressings Com
mittee
MEEKER, COLORADO, SECTION.
Business Meeting-First Friday In
each month.
Weekly Meetings-Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Friday afternoons.
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Methods. Episcopal Church

Sunday School, 1000 = m.
Preaching Sunday II 100 .. m.
Epworth League.Sunday 7:l5 p. m.
Preaching -..... Sunday 500 p. M.
Ladies' Aid. Wednesday $3.50 p. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday 1880 p. m.
Choir practice. Thursday 500 p. m.
Your presence and cooperation are
desired In these services.
Phone 4s-J r. H. ROSE. Pastor,
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1t 10 . happy husband whose earn
ing capacity can keep pace with his
wifs's yearning capacity. = Luke
McLuke.
The Meeker herald., 1918-03-02

Thursday, March 7th:
Holy Communion, 1000 =. m.
Children's Service, 4.l6 p. m.
The Meeker herald., 1918-03-02

March came In liks . lamb.
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Choir rehearsal after the service.
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Wednesday, March 9Th:
Evening Service and address
$50 p. m.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20

Herzegovina to Serbia, is the only al
tentative, but it seems hardly an al
tentative after the RECOGNITION all the
Allied states have given to the Czecho-
Slovaks and several of them to the Jugo-
Slavs.
AS to Turkey we in America have no
legal right to enter into any discussion
OF the Turkish and Bulgar questions, be-
cause we have not made war upon either.
But the solutions to be expected are
simple and logical. We may expect to
see Bulgaria get back her Thracian prov
lnce, north of the Ems Midia line. won
IN the First Balkan War and lost in the
second; we may expect to see her receive
from Rumania some portion of her old
Dobrudja province also lost in 1913, but
unnecessary to the safety Of a Rumania
now become really considerable state.
The decentralization Of the Darda
nelies and Of Constantirople. which is
part of Mr.. Wilson's programme. is
equally part Of the programme of the
Allies The restrict on Of the Turk to the
Osmanli- peop ed regions of Anatolia ex-
lists in both programmes, as does lib
Grated and protected Armenia AS to
Mesopotamia and Syria, the French and
British who have liberated them are like
ly to stay, with the full approval of the
inhabitants; Palestine may be an inter
natiCnalized state and the balance Of the
Arabian districts have already achieved
independence under their own SOVEREIGN.
There is left the question of P land.
and it is the most difficult of all. IF Won
give to the new Poland, which VIII in
dubitably include Ru san and Austrian
Polish districts and IS become a state
of upward OF $4,000 900 people. those
German, or rather Prussian. circles in
which the Poles are clearly a majority.
you will deprive Germany Of much of
Sllesla, all of Posen and considerable
fraction of both East and West Prussia.
East Prussia viii be isolated from the
main German mass by strip of terri
tory extending down the west bank Of
the Vistula to the Baltic at Danz o: a
hostile frontier win be carried almost r.
Frankfort on-Oder, and this within
s'"iking distance of Berlin itself.
But, by contrast, without Posen and
Slesla, so far as it is Polish, the new
Poland viii be incomplete, and there will
survive a Polish question. And without
Danzig and window on the sea the new
leland viii be economically and indus
Wlally at the mercy Of Germany. exactly
as Serbia was at the mercy of Austria
hungary in the evil times before the
present war And the Serbian grievance
was one OF the causes OF the world CON
migration. Finally, nowhere in Eurone
mas the persecution of a subject raca
been more brutal than in the Polish cir.
Giles OF Prussia. To turn the pruss:an
Poles back to the cid slavery would fhns
be to. do violence to all the spirit of the
PRESIDENTS declaration.
Such, briefly, is Mr.. Wilson'S nro-
eraflhe OF peace, as modified by events
WIN nave occurred since his January
declaration. It divides itself into the
'edress ng Of the immediate wrongs Of
me present conflict expressed in the c n
quest and devastation of countries at
'@cHed by Germany and Austria, the
a0oAu of certain wrongs surviving
from 1866 and 1871, in the case of. ItsIy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20

But the application of this principle
goes little further and is expressed in
the demand for the "righting of the
wrong" done to France and the cession
to Italy Of her unredeemed provinces
and cities. Now, | do not purpose in
this place to discuss again the question
CT Aiaace-Lorraine CT that of Trieste
and the Trentino. If Germany AMI
Austria are not prepared to evaeuate
Metz and Strassburg Trieste and Trent
as a condition precedent to any armis-
tlce, tlen it is inccnceivable that there
should be any armstice
II Germany can preci ptate a debate
between the United States and Great
Britain, on the one hand, and France
and Italy, on the other, as to the neces-
slty fer a return to each of it's own. then
there Is an end of the alliance against
Germany; there is a reopening of the
war, with every prospect of losing it;
Tor neither France nor Italy will con-
sent TO an armistice in advance of the
restoration of what is rightfully theirs
1t seems to me that all of US Americans
should from the very outset of all peace
discussions insist in our own minds ana
thought that three things are imme-
dlately necessary to demonstrate Ger
man good. faith: First, the evacuation
Of territory taken during the war. Sec
ond, the evacuation Of certain other ter
rtcry, specifically Alsace-L Lorraine and
the Trieste and Trentine districts, which
are quite as properly bases for an evac-
uatlon as Champagne and Venetia.
Third a pledge to restore ravaged and
ruined provinces and cities, this pledge
to be accompanied by proper guaran-
tees, of which the occupation of the west
bank of the Rhine is the most essential
With this brief statement | shall dis
miss the questions which involve France
Italy and Belgium. If Germany is not
prepared to comply with the irreducible
minimum which l have indicated. not
one of the Western European nations
VIII consent to an armistice. and I do
not believe that Mr. Wilson will become
the proponent Of any armistice. I do
"ot Vhliih lhat there is any more reser.
Walton IN his declarations with respec-
TO Alsace-Lorra.ne than to the Italian
lrredenta. do not believe that there
Is an American who can read into the
Fres dents demand for the "rightinp If
the wrong done France in 1871" anv
ether meaning than that what was theu
stolen shall now be returned Nor do
neileve, in the wholly remote contin-
gency that such reservation did exist
that the people of the United States
would agree with the Chief Executive
On the question of Alsaca-Lorra. ne tho
mind of the American people is made
up and it is made up in the sense
which the French mind is made I'M An
the prime pies which Mr.. Wilson has sub.
scrlbed to and eloquently championed
IN recent months would go into the dis
card II the wrong of 1871 were pernet-
uated in 1918, or, for that matter. in
1919.
We have, in addition, to consider the
PRESIDENTS demands as to Russia.
Austria and the Balkans. Here he ;s
plainly moved by the same UNDERLYING
notion. He means that the varions ma.
uonalities shall be assured the r;oh+ ~
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Germany we shall discuss only the de-
tails of the application of those terms
after we have agreed on the terms them
selves. This is where Mr.. Wilson and
his fourteen points" come in, not a mo-
ment before.
We must be clear about all this
Terms of peace settlement have nothing
IN the world to do with an armistice
They do not become matters of discus
sion until the fighting is over and the
military decision had. They cannot be
mentioned by the enemy until he has
conquered or surrendered Two con-
testants may agree to a truce to endure
while peace is negotiated, but this is
neither an armistice nor the condition
which now exists. There is no question
Of negotiated peace to-day. We are
all agreed as to this. We mean to have
military decision and then an abso-
lutely untrammelled application of Allied
peace conditions. Therefore the matter
Is still in Foch's hands and must re-
main there until the military phase is
disposed OF. After Foch, Pesident Will
son can participate, but obviously, un-
less Foch's work is done completely
there will be no chance for the Presi-
dent or any one else to begin the con-
struction of peace.
We may for moment assume that
Foch has completed his work and that
the Germans have agreed to surrender
Internationally, to evacuate the regions
they have occupied, and have consented
to an Allied occupation of the left bank
of the Rhine. Then we come to the ques-
ton Of peace; then the terms of perma-
nent settlement must be fixed by all the
Allied nations in conference, each with
equal right to be heard and to have its
will accepted. Here is the point at which
Mr. Wilson's fourteen" conditions at
last arrive.
But of these fourteen conditions we
shall see at once that not less than five
nave no bearing in a peace conference
We are to meet to fix the conditions which
are to be exacted Of Germany; they
are conditions based upon the deeds of
Germany and her allies; they have been
summed up as conditions which must in
clude restitution, restoration and guar
antees. But five Of Mr.. Wilson's
points" concern the organization of in
ternational society after the war; they
deal with open covenants, freedom Of
navigation, the removal of economic bar
riers between nations, adequate guaran-
tees for the reduction of ornaments and
finally the constitution of a league of
nations.
These are not matters which are prop
erly before conference engaged in the
task of making peace with beaten
enemy. We cannot impose any of these
things upon Germany; they have no
value save as voluntarily accepted prin-
ciples--and we have to impose on Ger
many at first many things which will
not in the nature of things be accepted
voluntarily. We cannot reorganize
world relations at the same time we are
llquidating this war. To undertake this
would be absurd. One more condition
included in Mr. Wilson's fourteen. that
dealing with colonial readjustments, is
equally out of the discussion, and for the
same reasons. We can discuss what dis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20

live their own lives in accordance with
their own customs, faith, language. But
since January, 1918, there have been
many changes in the east and south Of
Europe, largely the result Of the Rus
sian revolution and the German actions
expressed in the treaties Of Brest- Litovsk
and Bucharest. We have ourselves sub
scrlbed to the freedom of the Czacho-
Slovaks and this nuliies the ancient NO.
tlcn of preserving Austria Hungary as a
federation of autonomous races. More
than this, in the Balkans Bulgaria has
surrendered and there remains no prob
lem for settlement between the Balkan
states which is properly before any world
conference
AS to Russia, evacuation of all eff Rus
STA now held by the Germans dis, SEES of
the first problem; the creation of free
Poland, including all of the Polish-speak
ing tribes of Austria. Russia and Ger
many erects barrier between Germany
and Russia and eliminates the Russian
phase from immediate discussion. We
may assume that it will be the mission of
the Allies not of Germany, to aid in the
restoration of Russia to SANITY and pros
perlty; but since we insist upon the re-
tlrement of Germany from all Russian
territory, Finland, Lithuania, the Cour
land, Poland and the Ukraine this phase
IS not OF immediate moment.
Actually the question now arises. What
shall be the verdict of the Allied world
with respect to Austria? Shall we still
act IN the spirit Of the President as re-
veaied IN January, or in the light of the
subsequent action of our government and
all other governments since? Obviously
IN the latter fashion, and this means the
absolute destruction of Austria. If
means the erection of a Czecho- Sloval
state, including Bohemia, Moravia and
the Slovak regions of Hungary. 1t
means the creation OF a Jugo Slavic
state, including all the Austro- HUNGARIAN
territory between the Brave. the Adri-
atlc and the new frontiers Of italy east
OF Trieste, this state to be united with
Serbia and Montenegro on the south
Instead of one nation there will then
De tour, the Germans ealIng provinces
OF Austria, the Notwithstanding
regions of Hungary, Juyo-S ava and
Izecho-Slovakia. In addit on. the Ital-
lan-speaking districts will fall to italy
and the Rumanian-sp speaking regions. in
the Bukowina, in Transylvan and posi-
bly, III the Banat will be united with Ru-
mania, to VIII. oh Bessarabia, a Rumanian-.
speaking province Of old Russia, has al
ready by voluntary act united itself.
Finally, the Polsh-speaking regions Of
Galica will naturally go to that po'ana
which Mr.. Wilson has already outlined
as including all indisputably Polish bands
What remains, the Ruthenian portion Of
Gallc.a, could most properly be ASSIGNED
to the Ukraine, to which it belongs ra-
caily and linguisticany Roughly sneak.
ing, then, Austria falls into seven PARTS
four constituting Independent states
three being united to the Italian. Rp-
manlan and Polish states, which adioin
modified solution, which EXTENDED no
further than the cession Of The Ir-
redenta to Italy, the Polish districts to
Poland, the Rumanian regions to R,l-
mania, the Serb pso~Saces of Bosnia and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20

position we shall make of German colo
MES, certainly, and we shall; but this is
another problem entirely
Now, there are left of Mr.. Wilson'S
points" eight, which are Individually to
be put before the Allied conference
which makes peace terms. These are:
% The evacuation of France and the
righting Of the wrong done in 1871;
(2) The evacuation of all Russ an terri
tory; 90 The evacuation of Belgian ter
ritory and the subsequent restoration of
Belgium, which means its indemnifica.
ton; (4) The reimbursement of the from
tiers Of Italy to include within them the
Italians now under Austrian yoke-and
by analogy, this must include the evac-
uation of Italian territories now in Aus
trian hands; (5) The bestowal of au-
tonomy upon the subject people of Aus
tria-Hungary; CO. The evacuation and
restoration of Rumania, Serbia and
Montenegro, with the assurance to Ser
bia Of free and secure outlet on the
sea and q reimbursement of Balkan from
tiers on proper lines; GU The bestowal
upon the Turkish fraction of the Otto
man Empire of a secure sovereigntv.
and upon the other subject nationalities
OF security and the opportunity for
autonomous development; (S) An indie.
pendent Polish state should be erected,
including all regions indisputably Polish
and possessing secure access to the sea.
Now, through all these terms there
run sev"r"l G ear prime pes. The Presi-
dent demands that the Germans shall
ret.re lrom All their conques is, and by
Germans he means the Central Powers.
he asks that in all cases the conditions
OF July, 1914, should be restored Now,
there is no longer any need to debate
this point; the Allied victories have
settled the fate of Belgium, France,
Italy Serbia and Montenegro so far as
they existed in 1914. We may dismiss
from the reckoning all claims cnce ad
vanced by Germany, and still pressed,
last January, when Mr.. Wilson made
his momentous declaration.
But the President supplemented this
demand for evacuation by claim for
reparaticn in the sense of restoration
so far as Belgium is concerned. Here.
too, no debate is conceivable, and there
is revealed in the German press a full
recognition that Belgium must be in
IDENTIFIED But what of France? When
the President spoke there had been Nd
such recurrence of destruction and VIC
lence as has now turned Northern
France into cinder heap. Certainly
there must be an indemnity for all this.
and the Presidents words indicate his
belief that wanton damage should be
paid for.
We may, then, place at one side as
beyond debate the two principles of
evacuation of occupied territory and in
identification for wanton injury OF all
sorts, whether the territory be Belgian.
Italian or French. We may accept as
fundamental facts in discus ing peace
the determination of Mr.. Wilson, speak
ing for this country, to compel the Ger
mans to make restitution of stolen ter
ritory and re toraticn in the case of
property and wealth either stolen and
removed from Germany or laid in ashes
by German "terribleness."
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-21
1t pays to trade with R. L. Nc
Donald.
Mortgages Sale Of Land

North Carolina, Richmond County
Under and by virtue of the power or
authority contained in acertain Mortgage
Deed executed by James Little and his
wife Lizzie Little. to H. R. Walden on the
18th day of February 1918, which Mort
gage deed is duly recorded in the office
of Register of Deeds for Richmond coun-
ty in Book 95 at page Is, default having
been made in the payment of the indebt-
edness secured by said Mortgage Deed
the undersigned will on the 9th day of
April 1918, in front of the Court House
door at Rockingham, N. c. at twelve
O'Clock Noon offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash the following described
lands to.wit:
Lying and being in Richmond County
State aforesaid in Rockingham Township
and described and defined as follows to-
wit:
A certain lot of land situated lying and
being in the Town of Rockingham, N. c
Beginning at stake in the southern
edge of Falling Creek street, and runs in
southern direction at right angles from
said street l42 feet to the run of Falling
Creek; thence up the various courses of
said creek about east so feet thence
about north and parallel with the first
line and so feet east of the same said
Falling Creek street about 240 feet;
thence west with Falling Creek street so
feet to the beginning. Being lot Mum.
Der 9 in plat Of lots made by R. A
Johnson, for Richmond Morgan, it being
the land conveyed by H. R. Walden, to
james Little, 18th day of May 1913.
.n H. r. WALDEN,
Mortgage
Bob v. Howell, Attorney.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-21
Mortgages Sale of Land.
North Carolina,
Richmond County

Richmond County.
Under and by virtue of the authority
contained in certain Mortgage. Deed
executed by Lucy A. Sloan to the Bank
of Rockingham on the 29th day of De.
cember, 1916, which Mortgage Deed is
duly recorded in the Office of the Regis.
ter of Deeds for Richmond county, N. c.
in book No. 100 at page 283, default hav.
ing been made in the payment of the in.
debtedness secured by said Mortgage
Deed the undersigned will on Saturday,
March 3Oth, 1918, in front of the court
house door at Rockingham, N. c. at IL
o'clock, noon, offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash, the following described
lands.
FIRST TRACT.
Beginning at stake near the S. A. L
railroad, corner of Lees three acre lot
and runs with his line N. 8 IL w. SCI
chains tosPearce's line; thence with his
line N. 81 E. ESQ chains to an iron stake
thence with church lot S. II E. ATE
chains to another corner of said church
lot; thence to the beginning containing
four acres. more or less.
SECOND TRACT.
All-the undivided interest, title an6
estate:ot the said Lucy A. Sloan in the
following described tracts of land: (1)
Beginning at W. B. Whitakers line, the
4thss corner of the Sloan 50.acre tract
and runs S. AZ w. 22.5O chains to stake
in McSeen's line; thence N. rs w. IL
chains to stake; thence S. 36 w. IS
chains to Jim Watson's line; thence N
81 Wl25 schains; thence N. so E. As
chains; thence with the Sloan land to the
beginning, containing liz acres, more OF
less. (2) Beginning at McNair's corner
near Hoffman, and runs S. AZ IL w
ESQ chains; thence N. S. IL W.25chains
thence to the beginning containing q
acres, more or less. 81 Fifty acres re
corded in the Office of the Register o.
Deeds for Richmond county, North Caro-
lima, in book WV" at page 349 ETC., ane
all other lands belonging to the estate o.
Thomas Sloan, deceased.
The interest of the said Lucy A. Sloar
in the said tracts of land being what de
scended to her as one of the heirs a
law of Thomas Sloan, deceased, ane
what she has purchased from w. S
Sloan, Annabella Davis ct all
This the 26th day of Feb. 1918.
The Bank of Rockingham.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-21

The wife of w. F. Garris died at her
home after long illnesss of pneumonia,
near Rockingham on Thursday, March
18th. She was devoted wife, and every
body who knew her loved her. She is
survived by husband, six daughters, four
sons and one brother. She was sixty
two years Of age. She was laid to rest
at Bear Branch. ~
Oh, how we do miss our dear friend.
Her chair is absent, and her sweet face
we will never see again till we meet her
at judgment bar. )
She was raised on the Walls ferry road.
She was the daughter of the late Atlas
lowers. She was true member of the
Methodist church of Lilesville township.
She had made Richmond county her
home for about 20 years.
Leo Williams.