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The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27
CITIZENS BANK
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY

ON Tuesday. the oath. the Citizens
Bank celebrated its third birthday, the
institution having been established
three years ago The bank observed
sort Of an "at home day at this time
and the patrons aud friends were
given favors cigars hcing passed out
to the men and carnations To the lad
les. Statement cards were also pre-.
sented showing the condition of the
bank on the eve Of Its being three
years old. This statement showed de-
posits to the amount of $SO3'952 81, II
most commendabe showing mdcrd toi
J a three-year-old
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27
MRS. WHEELER IN CLOVIS

Mrs. Eva Wheeler Of Los Angeles
spent Wednesday IN Clovis. She is one
Of the ten women selected by the Ma
tional W. c. 7. U. for the temperance
jubilee work, and is Il woman of rare
versatility ana Judgment Her pro-
gram at the High School Auditorium
at one o'clock was much enjoyed by
pupils AMI, faculty and at 1880 that
evening she addressed n large audience
at the Methodist Church. Mrs. Wheel
or is n reader of unusual ability and
Cows people hope she will come this
way again. An Offering Of $4,000 was
taken for welfare work. OF this
amount, $4,000 goes to the National
committee for distribution and the re-
mainder will be used for local work
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27
BIG W. o. W. PIE SUPPER

The Woodmen Circle, and the wool-
men of the World will give pie
supper next Tuesday evening April LIST,
at s o'clock at the Woodmen Hail.
All members are requested to he pres.
ent bring yohr wives and swecthcarts
be sure and bring a big pie with you
the proceeds will he used to purchase
uniforms for the w. o. W. degree
team, good time is assured. -
H. NJ. STOKES, Clerk.
W. II, MARSH, G. G.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27
SCHOOL NOTES
School Election Next Tuesday

School Election Next Tuesday
The biennial school board election
will he held next Tuesday from nine
O'Clock until five o'clock all voting
being done at the Skurda Hardware
store on North Main Street. There
will he two members 10 elect, W. l..
l.uikart and W. II. Taylor being the
ictiring officers.
The Plymouth Singers will give Il
program at the high school on next
Tuesday night. This is the last num-
Der of the lecture course conducted by
he teachers and the business men. 1t
promises TO lie II good number. The
Advertising states that there will he
Negro camp-meetlug songs. selections
from Comic Opera. clever reading and
fun for all. As many know we have
not had the support of the citizenship
that should he given While 1t Is true
he influenza epidemic worked against
Is. nevertheless there has not been
interest for this kind Of entertainment
is there should he. II was the mten-
ton Of the teachers to bring something
10 the city that would he educational
as well as entertaining. Some people
say: "Oh. II we could just have
something high class" Anb they
never come to the high class numbers
# the lyceum course. We can't carry
! II to you. But II It is brought to the
sity II ought nbt take much urging.
md stormy advertising. to interest an
,ver flow house. Please give the last
number your attention for which We
IRE sure you will he well paid, and
will remember the treat
The basket hall season Is over and
our boys have made an excellent show.
ing. As the figures show Clovis ties
Roswell and Albuquerque for the state
championship However in n tourna
nenf Clovis would have Il walk away
rhe slight defeat Of last Friday night
It AlbuQueride was due to hard rend
ing circumstances. The trip over thu
mountains was disastrous. One drlvei
got lost and then snow bound. Tn,
last player reached albuquerque jus
twenty minutes before the whistle blew
Tor the game. Clovis was scared II
the first half. and perhaps Justly a'
the big negro showed up like haunt
Ing wolf. Hunt spent most Of the frs
hnlf admiring him. but upon being re-
minded that Il was basket bal
yame he was standing IN. he got busy
md assisted in keeping the Albuquer
Ilue boys scoreless,
Clovis high schOol is now numbered
among the schools Of the North Cen
tral Association. This means on
graduates may enter any university II
lie United States Of the North Centra
colleges and universities, which mean
practlcally every one. This is Il rec
ignition the superintendent has beel
working for for three years.
The high school basket ball team
E meets the alumni team Friday nigh
; ar the last game Of the season. Ad
: mission will be- ten cents, Come vel
'or tho alumni. They will need 1t.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27
v. A. HAVENER NAMED
DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Judge W. A Ilavener was last week
appointed by the Governor ms District
Attorney 10 serve the three counties Of
Curry De Bacca and Roosevelt. This
hill was passed by the recent session
of the legislature and gives the north
end Of the judicial district an attorney
all 10 itself Judge fIavener Is chair.
man Of the county republican organ
izatlOn and Is one VI the leading mem.
bers Of the Clovis bars lie will assume
the duties Of his new office at once
and. has announced the appointment
Of X. H. Rowells MS assistant district
attorney.
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INSPECTING PAVING

city Engineer Oscar Dobhs. City
Manager H. Il. Brown and Aldermen
Johnson, Dcnhof and Jcrnlgnn went to
Amarillo Wednesday 10 inspect the
several different kinds of paving that
city has used.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27
GASOLINE INSPECTOR APPOINTED

Temple j. Mollnnri Of PIrta'cS has
just been appointed gasoline inspector
for the Fifth judicial District which
iacludes Curry County. This office
was created by Legislative session Just
closed aud the principal duties Of the
msn holdlng down me job will be to
SEQ that the new 'iw placing n iaX on
gasoline ls properly lnforced.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27
PAVING ON THE WAY

+ The machinery Is now in mo
: tiOn to start the paving in Clovis
: It will be about the first Of June
= before the work will actually
: commence,
4 4 + 4 = = 4 & = 4 4 4 4 = + 4
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27
CHAUTAUQUA IN MAY

y The Redpath-Horner Chautauqua
= organization has written the News
: that the Chautauqua will be held
= In Clovis In May this year start
= lrig about the 18th,
4 >.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27

We will pay you is cents per pound
for your hens and 21 cents per pound
for your turkeys. A. D. Austin &
Son.
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TINE CHANGES
SATURDAY NIGHT

Run your clock up an hour next 7
Saturday night for the new time I
, goes into effect Sunday morning. I
The daylight low proved so pop !
: ular last year that no effort has :
; been made to 90 back to the old :
: way.
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The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1919-03-27

/ treat oil diseases and disorders of
women. DR. II. r. Gibson. 3-6-tfc
The mirror., 1919-04-17
Theodore RooseVelt'S
Message

To the Soldiers and Sailors of the U. S.
"The teachings of the New Testament
are forshadowed in Micah's verse: What
doth the Lord require of thee but to do
justice, and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy Godi'
''DO JUSTICE; and therefore fight val
iantly against the armies of Germany and
Turkey, for these nations in this crisis
stand for the reign of Moloch and Beelze-
bub on this earth.
"LOvE MERCY; treat prisoners we'll;
succor the wounded; treat every woman as
if she was your sister, care for the little
children, and be tender with the old and
helpless.
"WALK HUMBLY; you will do so if
you study the life and teachings of the
Savior.
"May the God of Justice and Mercy
have you in His keeping. Loyal Worker
The mirror., 1919-04-17
A War of Old Generals

"Old men for counsel and young men
for war" is an adage old as history. Nearly
all wars have been fought by young men.
The young men had a great part in the
present war, although the age percentage
was higher than in wars of the past, be-
cause of the enormous demand for men.
But the distinction of this war is the fact
that most of its generals in high command
were men of mature years. Several were
taken from the retired list after the great
war began. Most of the great martial f.
cures in history had their marked success
while young men. Alexander died at 33,
Hannibal crossed the Alps at %. Charlie
magne began the conquest of Saxony before
he was 80. Godfrey of Bouillon was made
king of Jerusalem at 38. There are only a
few exceptions. Ceasar was 81 when he
crossed the Rubicon and Cincinnatus was
81 when called from the plow.
Three of the great figures at Waterloo,
The mirror., 1919-04-17
N ! R R 0 R E 7 7 ES

Christian Science services were held in
the chapel Sunday morning.
Miss Woods School of the Mime
apolis kindergarten Normal Teachers As
sociation visited this institution Saturday,
April S. The young ladies were escorted
through the institution by the Warden and
took keen interest in the working of the
different departments.
One hundred and fifty farm children
of the state, most of them prize winners in
last falls garden and corn contests, with
instructors from the University farm school,
visited the prison Friday afternoon and
were conducted through the institution by
the Deputy Warden. These boys and girls
were the guests of the St. Paul Association
and their visit here was part of the enter
tainment provided for them by that organi-
zation.
The mirror., 1919-04-17
What Am and What | Do

The Thrift Stamp Speaks Through Anne
Gertrude Sneller
l 60 with the soldier across the sea,
And hundred millions fight through me.
carry the gun for his hands to hold
And the blanket to shield him against the
cold.
Where blood and anguish and fire are blent,
take him food when his strength is spent;
stand by his side when his senses reel,
And the wounds that he bears l haste to
am Duty, armed for bitter fight;
am Freedom, holding the torch of light;
l am Sacrifice, bringing priceless gift;
[ am Love, in the form of nations thrift.
Ladies Home Journal
The mirror., 1919-04-17
Hunting the Four-Feoted
RogueS

Skilled hunters in the employ of the
United States government are waging per-
sistant warfare against the wild animal that
prey on sheep and cattle in the Western
States, and by their efforts are encourag-
ing stockmen to increase livestock produc-
ton on the federal forest reserves as we'll as
in the range country. These hunters, who
are members of the Biological Survey of
the department of Agriculture, have killed
more than seventy thousand predatory ami
mails during the last three years, and, ac-
the stockmen of the Rocky Mountain
region about FIVE million dollars each year.
The total kill since the fall of 1915, when
the work was started, includes more than
sixty thousand coyores, eight thousand bob
cats, almost two-thousand wolves, two
hundred mountain lions and almost as many
bears. The government experts estimate
that the annual depredations among cattle
and sheep that single predatory animals
cause as follows: wolf, one thousand dol
lars; stock-killing grizzly bear, 6ve-hun-
dred dollars; mountain lion, five hundred
dollars; bobcst, fifty dollars and coyote
fifty dollars.
Last year the pelts of predatory animals
that these government nimrods killed
brought approximately one hundred thou
sand dollars. Ordinarily the Biological
Survey has about three hundred profession
al hunters iu its employ. They work in the
following states: Montana, Idaho, Wash
ington, Oregon. Nevada, California, Utah,
Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, Ar
izona. New Mexico and Texas.
Recently government hunter shot two
male wolves that had killed one hundred
and fifty sheep and seven colts on two Wy
omlng ranches, while another trapper
bagged pair of old wolves that had a re-
cord of killing four Thousand dollars
worth of live stock year. A third trapped
eighty-hve coyotes and two bobcats in one
month; he used two hundred traps over a
trap line about seventy-hve miles long.
Two wolves; seven mountain lions and a
huge grizzly bear, the largest of its species
ever killed in the Yellowstone Park region,
were the recent kill of another of Uncle
Sans harpshooters.-Sel.
The mirror., 1919-04-17

Righteous Wrath

There are many kinds of hate, as many
kinds of fire;
And some are fierce and fatal with mur-
derous desire;
And some are mean and craven, revengeful,
selfish, low,
They hurt the man that holds them more
than they hurt the foe.
And yet there is hatred that puri6es the
heart,
The anger of the better against the baser
Against the false and wicked, against the
tyrant's sword,
Against the enemies of Love, and all that
hate the Lord,
o cleansing indignation, o fame of right
eous wrath,
Give me soul to see thee and follow in
thy path!
Save me from selfish virtue, arm me for
fearless fight,
And give me strength to carry on, soldier
OF the Right
Henry Van Dyke
The mirror., 1919-04-17
Be Straight

Whether on business or pleasure you re
bent,
Whether your money is boarded OF spent;
Whether yotr seat is a wayside stone,
Or fortune has seated you high on a throne.
Whether you live in palace or hut,
Whether you ride or trudge in a rut;
Whether unknown or whether you're great,
There's only one way to succeed - be
straight.
Whether you preach, or whether you sing,
Whether you act or fight in the ring,
Whether you're striving to right a great
wrong,
Or just to help some poor fellow along,
Whether you're playing for money or fun,
Whether you stay or whether you run,
Whether you quit the game early or late,
You should lose if you re crooked, but win
if you're straight.
Whether master or somebody's dog,
Whether the main shaft, or only a clog,
Whether you're single, or whether you re
wed,
Whether your happy or worried instead,
Whether you've welded the pen or the
sword,
Whether living for here or the Great After
ward,
Your key went unlock the Great Golden
Gate,
If your heart isn't right and you haven t
been straight.
-Ed,cdrd p. adams
The mirror., 1919-04-17
Motion Picture Show

He looks like your jolly, self-complacent,
"well-satished-with- th-myself' travelling man,
does Smiling Bill Parsons. In his vo-
cabulary the principal word is optimism,
and as for "pessimism, he never expert
enced the sensation or heard of the word.
In his two Capitol Comedies, "Widow's
Might" and "Birds of Feather Gold
wyn releases of two reels each, shown on
the auditorium screen Wednesday, April 9,
his extreme optimism got him into so many
ridiculous situations that at one time (when
he was in jaiD he nearly became pessimistic.
However, his good fairy hovered over him
and everything became gloriously rosy
again.
Smiling Bill'' is ably assisted by Miss
Molly Malone, who is pretty, cute and
good comedienne. The supporting cast is
very good, and the scenes and settings
Especially the cafe scenes) were all that
could be desired.
AS this was the first appearance of "Smil-
ing Bill'' and Miss Malone on the audi
torium screen, it is to be hoped that it will
not be the last, for they made an immense
hit with the inmate audience
"What Are You Doing to Help the Red
Cross?'' one-reel Ford Weekly, was shown
in between widows Might and "Birds
of Feather This picture no doubt was
released during the time of the war before
the armistice was signed, but it was highly
entertaining, inspiring and instructive. B
Following is the orchestral program:
March-Dixie Queen Brooks
Selection-Head Over Heels Kern
Fox Trot-Have a Smile Rule
Waltz-Beautiful Ohio io--Ea Earl
One-Step-Come on Papa Leslie and Ruby
Caprice-Heart's Message Santlemann
One-Step-Good- bye France Berlin
Fox Trot-You Cannot Shake That
"Shimmie' Schenck
March-My Chocolate Soldier Sammy
boy ---------------A Alstyne
R. ]. Reichkitzer, Director.
The mirror., 1919-04-17
A Peculiar Investment

knowing that you are always interested
and open for an investment in live busi-
ness and possible means of meeting at
least part of your taxes, l take the liber-
ty of presenting to you what seems to me
and others a most wonderful business in
which you no doubt will take lively in
terest and perhaps write me by return mail
the amount of stock you wish to subscribe
toward the foundation of this company.
The object of the proposed company is
to operate large cat ranch in or near ST..
Paul where the land is A and can be pur-
chased for this purpose.
To start with we will average about
100, 900 cats. Each cat will average twelve
kittens year. The skins run from 1Oc
each for the white ones TO 75c for the pure
black. This will give us 1000, 900 skins
year to sell at an average price of Soc
each, making our revenue 500, 900 a day
gross. A man can skin so cats day, at 81.
1t will take 100 men TO operate the rapch
and therefore the net profit will be $500
per day.
We will feed the cats on rats and will
start rat ranch next door. The rats null
tiply four times as fast as the cats. If we
start with 1000, 900 rats we will have four
rats day for each cat which is plenty.
Now then we will feed the rats on the car
casses of the cats from which the skins
have been taken, giving each rat n Of a
cat. 1t will then be seen that the business
will be self-conducting and au tomato all
the way through. The cats will eat the
rats, the rats will eat the cats, and we will
get the skins. This is not including the
millions of rat tails which can be used for
novelty pen holders, and also the back
bones of the cats which can be made into
portiers to hang between the doors which
would also be a novelty. We can get an
The mirror., 1919-04-17

Napoleon, Wellington and Ney, were each
As. Washington became commander.in-
chief of the revolutionary armies at 43.
Taylor and Scott were both past 80 in the
Mexican war, but only one of the leading
generals of either side of the Civil War
was past 50 when the war began. Lee was
54, Grant was 80, Sherman not quite Al and
Merritt were mere striplings. Hancock
was SO at Antietam. Meade was 48 at
Gettysburg. Beadregard took command at
Shiloh before he was Al. Stonewall Jack.
son was 81 at Bull Run. Thomas was AZ
at Chicamauga, the same age at which
Andrew Jackson won the battle of New
Orleans.
At the beginning of the great war Kit
chener was "a. Haig will be So next June.
Petain is 81. De Castelnou is 81. Foch
was 81 October 2, while Hindenburg was
II on the same day. Pershing is So. Mao
gin and Ludendorff are each in their mid
die SOS. The Italian generals are of ad-
vanced age. The conditions of fighting were
such that line and brigade officers were SUBJ
jected to the severest examinations to de-
termine their physical fitness. The age of
retirement was placed low, with the gener-
al in command held personally responsible
for exceptions. But it is clear that the
men who had the planning to do were un-
usually mature. The theory that older
men would be unable, because of fixed
habits OF thought, to adapt their plans to
the changed conditions OF war-making is
completely retuted by results.-Sel.
The mirror., 1919-04-17
The Far Away Lily

started to wade out where the white ILL.,
les peep
Thru cat-tails and leaves where the water
is deep;
With ease could gather those near to the
shore,
But the one fartherest out is the one l
adore.
A sportsman comes near with a fine string
And says to me: "Neighbor, you'd bet
ter keep out;
It's mirey beyond, and if you can't swim
Your chance to return is exceedingly slim.
If that lily you wish, I'll show you the
trick;
I'll get you the beauty and not wade the
creek"
Then he cast in his line with the silver
spoon hook
Which twirled round the lily far out in the
brook.
He landed for me, this creamy-white prize,
And said, with wink of his honest blue
eyes:
"Fair lilies are oft, in humanity's brook,
In like manner caught, with silver spoon
hook
James Russell Price
The mirror., 1919-04-17
The Telephone
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service with authority over $500 postal
employees and was known as developer of
system, and his experience was immensely
valuable in strengthening ont the tangled af-
fairs of the telephone.
Just at this time the Western Union
launched the Edison transmitter. 1t was
beyond all argument superior to the tel
ephones then in use, and the lessees of Bell
telephones clamored for transmitter as
good as Edison's, and the months that fol-
lowed were the darkest in the childhood of
the telephone. Month after month the
little Bell Company lived from hand to
mouth.
This continued until Francis Blake in
vented transmitter equal to Edison's and
sold it to the Bell Company for stock.
This put the Bell Company on an equal
footing with the Western Union in the
matter of apparatus. 1t encouraged the
few capitalists who had invested money.
The general business situation by this time
had become more settled, and in four
months the Company had 10000 telephones
in use. From this time onwards the tele-
phone had strong friends in the fnan. ial
world.
For IL months no one disputed Bells
claim to be the original inventor Of the
telephone, and after Bell had explained it
in lectures and after several hundred ati-
cles had appeared in magazines and news
papers, there began to appear such a sue
cession of claimants and infrirgers that the
forgetful public came to believe that the
telephone, like most inventions, was the
product of many minds, and there sprang
up the most costly and persistent patent
war that any country has ever known, con-
tinuing for IL years and comprising over
500 law suits.
These ended in victory for the Bell Com
pany, and in an agreement with the West
ern Union, in which the Western Union
agreed to admit that Bell was the original
inventor, that his patents were valid, and
to retire from the telephone business; and
the Bell Company agreed to buy the West
ern Union telephone system and to pay a
royalty of 20% on all telephone rentals to
the Western Union, and to keep out of the
telegraph business.
This agreement was a master stroke of
diplomacy on the part of the Bell Company,
and its stock went .sky-rocketing until it
touched $1,000.00 share. The pioneer
days of the Bell Telephone Company were
over; there was no more ridicule, everyone
knew that they had whipped the Western
Union.
While Bell invented the telephone, it was
left to others to build the switchboards and
invent the signal systems, and there has re-
Gently been invented an instrument called
the multiplex. The nature of this devel-
opment is such that, if desired, wires may
be used partly for the telephone and partly
for telegraph. A pair of wires is available
either for five simultaneous telephone con-
versations, or for forty simultaneous tel
egraph messages, or partly for one and
partly for the other.
The mirror., 1919-04-17

option on plenty of ground and must have
enough treasury stock subscribed to pay
boys for gathering the animals for transpor
tation and such other expense as the devel
opment of the business will need. Prices
of stock will be announced as soon as we
install a machine for skinning the cats and
preparing the skins for the glove factory.
Hoping you will take this opportunity
to get rich very qnick, we remaid.
Yours very truly,
A. THINKER.
P. S. This is no skin game.
Loyal Worker
The mirror., 1919-04-17
Panacea for all Poverty
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we are now living in an age when we must
think, think, think, and act.
The professors diagnosis of the case is
somewhat radical and is liable to give Of
tense to some of the nom producing gentry
who no doubt think that great wisdom and
ability will die with their exit. and the
world will 60 to pieces. But perhaps not,
and perhaps the professor is right.