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The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

No great battle was ever won
by the soldiers sleeping at their
posts. Arm yourself for the
children OF the whole county. get
into the tight-and stay IN it til!
the last votes are cast on school
meeting day.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Ola Roston and old Mirnearo
lis might want high schools-
but. hang it! you can't mako
high schools out of niles of rock
end boles in the ground.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Tn three. four. six. ten wears
gor will have children -eadv for
no h'ch school and bv that
'me we ran have ~ xscd hicl'
school as any in the west-by
starting in now.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Those caring enough for the
children of the county to want a
high school. should take the
County High School Exponent to
the polls on election, day and
work from morning to night for
the cause.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

ing, and may be sometime dur.
ing the next five years it will be
done.
When the Towns Put In
High-School Buildings
When Springfield is q city o.
some thousands Of people, as we
are hoping it will be before many
years, several other towns in the
county likewise. 1t will construct
a high-school building; and it's
high school will then mean to the
rest of the county just what the
Lamar high school now means to
the whole county-the bar of
tuition up against everyone out
side of the city limits
As it will then be a city high
school instead Of a county high
school-provided the county sys.
tenn is now voted down
And the town ever gets up into
the thousands.
Let's take Two Buttes on the
money part of the proposition.
They have school house, so far
as we know adequate for their
population, but when it came to
putting up high-school building
for real high school. or any 9TH
er kind. Two Buttes, as we'll as
Springfield, would be able to do it
when it's population got up some
where into the thousands
When they would have both
the money and the pu pills to do it:
and again. as also in the case Of
Springfield, the bar of tuition
would be put up against all out
side of the city limits.
Let's take Stonington. They,
two years ago we believe, succeed.
ed in voting bonds for a school
house. after a red-hot campaign
and hard fight; and of course
they still owe for that school
house.
Stonington is live wire and
modern; but until they were hard
hit ny the lightning Of population.
as in the case Of both Two Buttes
and Springfield, the construction
of a building. for q real or any
other kind of a high school, would
be out of the question: and when
that happened and they thus got
the building and the high school,
the bar of tuition, salso in the
case OF 2 Buttes and Springfield,
would be put up against all the
rest of creation.
IL will be seen that the union
high school would in the first
place, even if possible. be unfair
and unjust to all the rest Of the
county; on account Of the bar Of
tuition would mean no more to
them than the school al Lamar or
Holly-even if they were real
high schools; and that in the sec.
ond plaIe they are an impossible.
lity for the want of the neces-
sary adjuncts Of both bupils and
money
THE SOLUTION
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

The lands Of Ignorance are the
breeding places OF Bolshevism
and sovi.ts. Where schools and
high schools are. these nnx'ous
weeds have no soil tn flourish in
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

The whole question in a nut
shell resolyes- itself into this
shall ~ nhish NE high ashdc'
eduSation Of our hoys and sirls
at home?
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Districts adjoining incorpor-
ated towns are not interested in
union high acknowledgements
none of them would be within
walking distance of such schools.
Hence none will ever be formed.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

No districts adjoining an in,
corporated town have been abl"
to see ANYTHING in union high
school to them. hence none have
been formed and none ever will
be formed.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Spring6eld's. Two Ruttes' and
Storington's ambitions for .
high school have been laudih'e
but high schools must have
something besides ambition to
huild upon.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

The county high school will
carry five to one It every man
and woman in the county does
his duty OH school meeting day.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Let US keep our county high.
school pupils at home. and our
teachers normal funds at home,
and buy home grown products
that's the scheme that will
build a Greater Baca County.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Whether you have children or
not you don't want to live in a
country of Bolshevist ignorance.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Ambition is a mighty good as
set, but it, takes numbers and
money to build high schools.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

You are interested in the boys
and girls, whether you have any
of your own or not
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

It's simply a question of
whether you want high school
or don't want it.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25


monopolize school privileges, and
by such monopoly either to bar
our children or to make US pay
ten. twenty. or fifty times what
they have to pay for their own
children. it's up to us to protect
ourselves and our children if
we can do it.
That is the exact condition that
all those districts that are not
joining an incorporated town
would find themselves in under
the unicn high-school system.
Granting such schuols were
possible, all the pupils of the rest
of tie county wonld have to pay
tribnte to the districts abutting
the towns of Springfield and Two
Huttes, or of Stopington we're
they to incorporate and organize
just as all Baca county now
has to pour her sheckles into the
lap of Lamar. or some other OUT
side town, if they want their
children to go through the high
school course.
And, do you know?-those 9th
er districts are about 95 per cent
of the whole county--all barred
by tuition from the high-school
privileges of the children of
Springfield and Two Buttes, and
stonington. should they incor-
porate and organize.
You must adioin incorporated
town to get into a union district:
and how long do you think the
communities of the county would
have to wait before Lycan, Mo-
non, Westola, Konantz, Went
worth, Baker. Lamport, Rich
ards, Pride, Nowlinsville. Rod
ley. Villas. Campo, Reenier. Car
rizo, Elder, Oklarado. Utleyville,
Clyde, Joycoy, Graft. Campbell
vile. Estelene. Setonsburg. Is
real, Maxey. Hornsville, and all
the other locality towns in the
county would become ipcorporat.
ed?
Think YOU that would be fair
and just proposition-a high
school with the doors open to the
children of the district in which
it is lncated-and closed to all
other children of the county.
Let us tell you-the peopls of
this 95 per cent of the county
would just have to grit their
teeth and hear it. or shut their
eves ana take their medicine-if
thew didn't have any way of pro.
tecting themselves.
Ruti it happens that the means
of protecting themselves, in this
narticular case. is in thoir own
hands-the opportunity of every
home, every nook and corner.
and every town getting inside of
a hioh-school district, and thus
the selfish aims Of monopolizing
high school privileges would be
forever Guarded against.
Whom the Union
Would Accommodate
1t is well for com munities 10
understand that high school
in one part of the county is no
more available to them than any
other part of the county so long
az it is outside of walking dis
that that walking
distance hardly extends three
miles out of town.
Here at Springfield we have a
few every year whose homes are
in the country three,
some five, and so on up to thirty
miles; but
Everyone of them had to move
here TO go to school; and
1t follows as a consequence
that a union school would not
accommodate a single pupil out.
side of the town in which the
school would be located-so far
as bringing the school closer to
them, or their living at home, is
The point is this-if they've
got to move to the school any
way. and live there, the cost of
to one place is no more
than the cost of moving to an
other place in the county; and
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Springfield has been trying it
for ten years. and no nearer the
goal than when they first began.
Two Buttes aud Stonington
have been trying it for sIx years
and In the same boat.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

frightfuI.
To accommodate the whole coun.
ty by localities, as the plea is
made by certain parties for tive
certain localities. there would
have to be high school at least
in every district-39 high schools
in the county-39 high.class in
structors. 80 real high school
buildings-as Lamar has, SO
high class laboratory equip.
ments, as a high school should
have.
But-let us put three of these
districts into locality union high
schools-l3 such triple costs
Thirteen times the cost to the
county of one central school
Does that look good to you?
But. pshaw! 80 locality schools
are impossible, 13 are impossi-
BILE, 3 are impossible, and one
would be impossible without the
county back of it.
1t Benefits Springfield
Do You Say?
The court house benefits
Springfield.
Would you compel the county
to do without court house, be-
cause of that?
The county fair benefits
Springfield
Would you refuse to be taxed
by your attendance and exhibits
and the spending of your money
here, because of that?
The regular courts and the
county officials benefit Spring.
field
Would you discontinue then
and turn anarchist, because Of
that?
So the list might be carried on
-ad in finitum.
Anyone whs would put up the
bar of town against something
that the needs Of the county call
for-that everybody says should
be had. shows the measure of
his caliber. and is to be pitied
really rather than censured.
Other County, Schools
There are a great many county
high schools in the state, several
of them even with the advantag-
es of railroads, while some of
the sparsely settled counties like
ours have county high schools as
good as any in the state.
Tax Payers
There is only one system that
will give US high school in Baca
Only one system that will Give
us hikh-class instructors, a high
class equipment
Or a high school Of any kind.
One word more about tie
building. When that comes up.
which it would in year or two,
1t will have to be voted on justa as
the question IF organizing has te
be voted on, and the county could
then turn it down, if it wished tn
DO so. Hence, the building at
this time has nothing to do With
the proposition one way or anotb.-
or.
Tax Payers
It's For You
And Your Children
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

anu Cn6G WOulU De 6fnp.e IOr lne
first year-for both the instruct
or. and the equipment that
would want to be put in at this
time.
There were last year $3.50 tax
payers in the county. The mum.
ber this year will approximate
5000. On per capita basis It
would be- S1.20 to each tax
payer. On a property valuation
Lasis it would amount to so cents
on the $1,000.
You wouldn't stand for 50
cents on the $1,000? Then how
long would the people of Two
Buttes, Stonington, and other
places in the county have to wait
for high school, as the cost of
teachers and equipment is the
same for a union high school as
for county high schools-prs.
vided they were possible at all,
and they were actual high
schools.
OF Equal Interest to All
Located in Baca County.
Z Whether you live in tho sx-
treme corners of the county. or
elsewhere within its borders.
You have an equal interest In the
county school-really as much il
on the out edge, as if nearer the
school.
We have shown that practical
ly all pupils outside the town in
which the school il located have
10 move TO the school. so II the
school is outside uf walking dis
tance (somethinR under three
miles), and they have to move to
it anyway. the cost is the same
whether the distance is five
miles or fifty; and distance is
neither an advan.
tage nor . disadvantsge-if out
side of walking distance, as al.
ready stated.
OF course the school is more
convenient to those living in the
town in which 1t is located: but q
railroad or q county seat can't be
brought to every man's door, and
neither can . high school. what
ever kind 1t may be.
Actually
Of As Much Interest
To T. B. and Stonington
As 1t Is to Springfield.
OF course not 80 convenient,
but in every other respect of as
much interest to those towns as
to any other part of the county
as much As to Springfield itself.
We are all in the same boat
haven't either the money or the
pupils for q high school. 40 after
wigling through ono or two years
Of the course. have to send our
pupils outside Of the county, or
drop them out of school.
A county high school wouldn't
prevent those towns from contin-
uing TO take certain high school
branches. just as they have been
doing. and at no more cost than
shey have been. and with the
same local pride they have here.
:ofore shown. But
Their credits for those one or
;wo years would come through
The county high school, instead
If the Lamar high school, and
hey would then finish up at
nome in a school of free entrance,
instead Of having to pry the
1oors Of an outside school open
with a tuition.
The Big District
The District Normal
The County High School.
During the middle ages of the
;onnty's history there were
chool districts here as big as
astern counties-had to be SO for
he want of pupils.
During this time ak whole
counties had to be punched TO-
'ether to have a TEACHERS nor.
1al-had to ha for the want of
eaeher material iu any one coun
Y for educators to fool away
heir time with,
The county hisn school is a
ara}lel case-eno0ah pupils in
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

luOSS uchA W tuSu any hOIc
than those in any other part Of
the county. as the pupil anyway
would have to move to town to
live in order to go to school.
Let us take the case of Villas.
eleven miles away from Sprirg-
field. When school opened in
Springfield last fall four Of their
pupils moved here to take high
school studies
Would it have cost them any
more or less if they had lived at
Lycan. Lamport, Carrizo, or
Maxcy? and did our school &C.
commodate them any more be-
cause they were eleven miles
away, than if they had been fifty
miles away? M
Putting it againin a nutshell
a high school practically would
MT accommodate q single pupil
outside Of tue town--so far as
bringing it nearer to them is
concerned.
The Union School
An Impossibility.
Think of this-all the money in
the world wouldn't make a high
school without pupils; and; con-
versely, all the pupils in the
world wouldn't make high
school without money.
Think hence of the condition
when you haven't either one of
these necessary adjuncts.
Let's take Springfield For
ten years we've been having high
school studies here. but in fact
we are no nearer high school
than when we started in-have-
MT the pupils nor the money,
and won't have until our towns
population has gotten up some
place into the thousands.
Is the 95 per cent going tc
wait for that-only to find them
selves barred BY tuition when it
does happen?
Let's take Two Buttes. Six
years ago they added some of the
high -echool bfaH:hss.. and were
justly very proud of having done
so; and we believe that dur
ing this time they got up some
place into the teens in the num-
Der of pupils taking such stud
les.
They now have eight such pu-
pills: but as a fact it wouldn't
mean anymore if they now had
fifteen or twenty, as high schools
are built out Of pupils that are
numbered by the hundreds and
thousands-instead of by the
dozens.
Let us illustrate the number
proposition by an actual occur
rance, as it was related to US.
When Pratt, Kans., was a town
of few hundred, they wrote to
a state educator at Wichita
and said - I'VE want you to
take the principalship OF our
high school" +"
"All right" said the educator.
"I'Il come out next week and
look the field over"
He came to Pratt the next
week. and was disgusted to
think they had wanted him at
the head of their school.
Men," he said to them, you
have laudible ambition, and
some time you may have high
school, but just now you haven't
money enough to hire me to
come here;' and he took the
hack and went back to Wichita
Pratt was then about such a
town as Springfield is now, and
its inducements for an educator
to take their schoo! was abou,
the same as Springfield could
now offer.
On the money side of the prop
osition, Springfield, Two Buttes
and Stonington couldn't either
Of them build and equip a real
nigh-school building-simply out
Of the question.
As an illustration-Springtield|
mas a good rural district school
house, but it has been inadequate
for our town for many Years, and
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25
Editorial Short Stops

Talk, work and vote for the
boys and girls.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

How wonld n high school for
verr homo in tn. county strife
YOU?
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25

Read every word of the high
school write-up.
The Springfield herald., 1919-04-25
Tax Payers
It's For You
And Your Children
And Your Go..t

Aiid lOuT 70 Unty.
Ms for you, because any other
system would eat you up exper-
imentinv on imposibilities-the
union high school, the every dis
trict high school, the every
schoo! house high school. or the
every home high school.
It's for your CHILDREN, because
it's the county high school-or
drop out of school life at the end
of the grades.
There are q. few parents who
can send them to Lamar or Gree
ley, OF to Denver, but even in
those cases it's not like sending
them to as good school at
home.
It's for your county. because
every industry or enterprise that
can be built up at home adds va!
ne to your county; and what
adds value to your county adds
value to your home.
Why build up the schools of
Lamar, of Holly. Of Elkharr. or
of Boise City? Build up school
in your own county; and by join
ir z in one school. it can De mage
an good as any of them.
The County High Schoa'
For Now and Tomor:opr
Tax payers-don't maxi te
mistake of saying you havan't
my children to send to high
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-01-16
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

At s:45 Sabbath morning let every
teacher, officer and scholar be in Their
place in the Sabbath School. We cor.
daily invite everybody old and young
who do not attend Sabbath Scho. any
where else to come with US. The Sab.
bath school gave fully $500 to the
Armenian Fund, and doubtless more
will follow Feb. 3rd and 10th.
ll:00 o'clock the Rev. Caldwell's
subject will be What Constitutes a
Good Church Member"
700 o'clock the evening service, SUBJ
ject will be "A two-fold reason why we
love the Bible"
The Gospel in song will be a lead
ing feature in both services.
We earnestly invite you to be pres.
ent with us in the worship of God, and
also solicit your prayers on behalf of
the unsaved and for the advancement,
OF Gods Kingdom in Tucumcari.
JOHN CALDWELL, Pastor.
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Thursday. January l6, 1919


Whereas Brother Isaac R. Kirkpat.
rick did lay down his life for his coun-
try or Nov. 10. 1918.
Be it resolved that We the members
of Tucumcari Lodge |. O. o. F. No.
IL do convey to the bereaved parents
our combined sincere and heartfelt
sympathy and recommend them to the
care of our Heavenly Father who alone
can comfort and support them.
BE it further resolved that the mem
bers recognize in the death of our be.
loved brother that he laid down his
life for his country, thus paying the
supreme sacrifice.
Greater love hath no man than this
that he lay down his life for his friend.
BE it further resolved that a CODY
of these resolutions be sent to the be-
reaved parents and a copy spread up.
on the minutes Of the lodge and a copy
sent to each of the local newspapers.
WIN. NICOL,
j. NJ. DOUGHTY,
c. E. HUNTER
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-01-16

January 6, Z, and 3. 1919 "
Thursday Jan. 8, 1913. t ohs VN
Friday and SATURDAY. ooar.
1919, Logan. ''""' 10 and If
Monday Jan. 10, 1919, GloD..
Tuesday, Jan. Il, 1919. E, nh.eo'
Wednesday, Jan. Is, 1919 e"uee'
only. Allen. ''''' lorenzo
Thursday, Jan. lG, 1910
Friday and Saturday, Jam psrd'
1919. San Jon. II and a
"Wednesday, Jan. %. 1910 H.
thursday and Friday, Jan. "a n .sas
1919, Montoya. 50 andA
Monday, Jan. 81. 1919 p,u
Tuesday, Jan. IS, 1919. ' H..
only, Cameron, Leach's Storo 'O'ehoa
Tuesday, Jan. %, 1919
only, Prairie View. School "efn'n
Wednesday, Jan. %. 1919 pe,-
Thursday, Jartr3O, 1919, Fo aa.a'
Friday, Jan. 81, 1919, XIII D..
Store. "'"' u IS
2a,ulua!; req. ! 1919, jordan.
Monday, Feb. 3, 1919, McAlisss,
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1919. Hopss
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1919, so,x
only, independence School House ~
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1919, af,....
only, Curry. "N''SR
Thursday, Feb. G, 1919, to,,,,..
only, Ina. '''e''a
only, West. "'e'n"a
Friday, Feb. Z, 1919, foreman nj.
Hanley. 0~!'
Wednesday, Feb. IL, 1919, Revusl,,
Thursday, Feb. l3, 1919, Anniston
Friday. Feb. II, 1919. Rama. L.,
ey's Residence. ~'
Saturday, Feb. Is, 1919, at Pa,,,,
School House.
Any person failing to meet M. !,
these appointment may make r,,r,.
to my office in Tucumcari at anv -.
within the limits fixed by law as oiv.,
above, or blank for making renSi,,,
Will be sent upon application, BY mai
or IN person. to my office.
a penalty of twenty-five per cent |,
addition TO the regular valuation NV
be added to the value Of all propsA
not listed for assessment within n.
time and in the form prescribed b,
law. No exception a be made i,
this law. Very truly,
b. l.. FRANCIS,
Tax Assessor, Quay County. n. !
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NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
In the District Court, County of QUAY
In Vacation Term. 4 II laio .

i'S'i'c' court, county OF Quay
In Vacation Term, 4. d., 1919
Jemima Elizabeth Britain, formerly
Jemima Elizabeth Wagner
,,,,,. VS.. No. 2l2O
William +. Wagner
The said defendant, William f. Wac.
ner is hereby notified that a suit in
equity has been commenced against
him in the District Court for the Cou,.
ty of Quay, State Of New Mexico, nv
SAID Jemima Elizabeth Britain. for.
merly Jemima Elizabeth Wagner. prav
ing for partition of the West half of
Section Ia, Twp. SN., ring. 34E., Ouav
county, N. NJ, their rea! property ar.
cording to their respective rights and
that she be awarded to her an md,
vided half interest or part and the NV
q Section IA, Twp. SN., Rng. 34E
be granted to her and that Ed Il
saxon be appointed as Special Master
to make the deed of conveyance, $50 0o
attorneys fee and cost of suit,
That unless he enter or cause m Lo
entered an appearance in said suit nm
or before the LIST day of March, A. n.
1913, decree PRO CONFESSO there,
IN VIII be rendered against you.
SSeaD T. n. LAWSON, Clerk.
c. II. ALLDREDGE,
Tucumcari, N. NJ. 1.,r p,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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NOTICE TO PUBLIC

- ~
The laws Of the State Of New Mex
loo require that every ~inhabItant OF
,he state. Of full age and sound minu
shall in each year make a llst Oh al
]nroperty subject to taxation OF when
he Is the owner or has the control or
management. Such list must he on
the form prescribed by law by the
state Tax Commission ana must oe
made and filed in the office OF the oouh.
80 Assessor on or after the first day o.
January and not later than the last
business day of February OF eacn year,
In compliance with law ana o the
convenience Of tax payers viii be at
the various places in Quay county on
tho respective dates as follows, Tor
the purpose Of taking lists of property;
Thursday, Jan ?, afternoon only
Lloyd.
FRIDAY. Jan. 3, 1919, Norton.
Saturday. Jan. (, 1919, Quay.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,