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The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15

Miss Mildred Walthall returned to- day from a three weeks visit with relatives at Hope.
 Call Star Pressing Shop when you want quick service. All work guar anteed. Phone 26S. 13d3
 The Logan Wholesale Grocer Con- pany has purchased Dodge Brothers two-ton motor truck from the Smyth- Calhoun Motor Car Company.
 Mrs. R. B. Meyers and sister, Miss Lila Meyers will leave this afternoon for Little Rock for visit and from there they go to Ardmore, Okla.
 Shell Marsh, travelling representa- tive of the c. J. Lincoln Drug Com pany of Little Rock, is among the business visitors to the city today.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15

Hemstitching Machine now installed at my home. Work promptly and neatly done. Price 10c per yard. Mrs. w. R. White, Jr., phone No. 57. If
 F. c. Inman, manager of the Fair Store, arrived home today from a business trip to St. Louis where he purchased his Fall line of dry goods.
 Sidney Gee arrived in Prescott last night after a number of months in the American Army of occupation in Germany. He received his discharge from the service recently.
 Miss Ollie Cantley, who has been visiting relatives in Oklahoma, and in this city, leaves today to resume her duties for the government in Washington, D. c.
 MT. and Mrs. Jack Walloch and family have moved into their new home recently purchased from J. E. Began on East Elm street Mr. and Mrs. Began are building a new home just beyond the residence of J. S. Began.
 Mrs. w. R. Nelson left this morn- ing for Springfield, Mo-, where she will visit home folks before going to Chicago where her husband is taking an optical course. She was accom- panied as far as Hope by Miss Mar jorie Nelson and T. D. Nelson who are visiting here.
 Thomas c. Thrasher, Jr., son of Mir. and Mrs. T. c. Thrasher, arrived in the city today and will spend few days furlough with home folks. He has been at the Great Lakes Naval Training School for the past four years, this being his first visit home since his enlistment.
 Hon. Thomas c. McRae of Prescott was in Hope today. MT. McRae has formally announced his candidacy for governor, and although it will be several months before the primary is held, MT. McRae believes in starting to looking after his candidacy carly Hope Evening Herald.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15
COUCH HUDSON

News was received here today of the marriage last Monday afternoon in St. Louis of Miss Elizabeth Couch of this city to Woodlan Hudson, whose home is at Camden.
 The couple will arrive in Prescott within few days. Mrs. Hudson is associated with Miss Virginia Watson in the management of the Quality Shop here, and Mrs. Hudson went to St. Louis to purchase her Fall line of millinery and ladies' read-to-wear.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15

Germs are plentiful in the summer air, we breathe them every minute. In health they do no harm but to those who have bad liver, disordered stom- ach or constipated bowels they mean a spell of sickness. The best way to in sure your health is to take Prickly Ash Bitters. It purifies and strength ems the system. Price $1.25 per bot
 tie. Hesterly Drug Store, Special Agents. co d
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15

Good appetite, vigor and cheerful spirits follow the use of Prickly Ash Bitters, the remedy for working men. It purifies the stomach, liver and bow els and makes work pleasure. Price $1.25 per bottle. Hesterly Drug Store. Special Agents. o d
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15
COMPANY BEING FORMED TO
 DEVELOP MINERAL LANDS

Little Rock, Aug. 15.-There is be- ing formed in Little Rock company which will employ several geologists of years experience to make a careful survey of all parts of Arkansas. The object of the survey is to give the company information about mineral lands of the state, which they will leas eand develop.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

Rodney Hamilton made business trip to Texarkana today.
 FOR SALE-A Jersey milch COW. Cheap for cash. Phone 3S3. 15d2
 The coolest thought for the Rom hottest day = ice cold = 10
 cents everywhere.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-15

Monuments and tombstones made in Prescott. You can save agents com- mission by calling on us before you buy. We can save you money on any thing in our line. Patronize home in- dustry. Prescott Marble 6 Granite Works, W. H. McBryde, prop. 13d8
The sun., 1919-10-05
Finding Homes for Others.

REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION.
The sun., 1919-10-05

could no longer perform the simple de-
votional duties of a son and father and
husband in his own home there were
those who had no son. no father, no
husband in that larger home, the world.
/ fancy that his worry over the COM
fort of the old Spanish nurse and his
personal attitude toward her is typical OF
the way in which he has transplanted
his devotions. And who would have
cared in his way about the comfort OF
ambitious and penniless actresses3
For that matter, 1 thought CRATE
fully, who would have noticed or cared
how bored was at moving save Anson
Fairchild?
/ am to see him soon and will care
fully record his stories.
AS the time approaches have a feel
ing of anticipation greater than any
Rave known for months.
New York, the cold, the hard hearted
city in which have often sought amuse
nient in vain, Is to welcome me into Its
secrets.
As I walked up town, as do for my
health at times, seem to be fascinated
by faces. That coldly formal bit OF
perfection in the limousine at the curb,
with her white hair and her perfect
features, her black winged hat ashanti
her CLEAN of snow white gloves, her
film of lace and fur, her costume, and
her eyes with as restrained a light In
them as that In the pearls at her throat
does she look more frankly into the
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darkness when the night shuts down
and she can see her life pass like a
pageant before herr Does she know the
pangs of spiritual suffering for which
she can never weep? Or is she empty
and placid the clock around? think
she can be viyenish II need be.
A man and a girl go by. he arguing
bitterly. He is heavy and dark, coarse
and jealous With his. thick hand he
grips her arm above the elbow. She Is
pretty little thing, inconsequent and
exasperating. Her tilted nose tits ever
higher, her cheeks flush and her eyes
shine with the light of the coolest FEM
mime logic. 1t is clear he is making no
Roadway mistaken sympathizer
might long to punish either of them. But
he would overestimate the difficulty, for
even now she has taken her other hand
and patted the great paw on her arm.
She is flirting her way back into his
good graces. Incredible strength and
divine weakness indeed that can hold
these two together
An ambulance flashes by and a ragged
creature in a trailing skirt with be-
sotted countenance beneath her battered
hat clutches at me as reach the curb.
"Aint It TERRIBLE" she says. pointing
to the ambulance. ct never can stand
to see them things. My God, it's terri
ble!" And she wrings her vermin bitten
hands.
And so see already with new eyes.
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or the family doctor, and he delights
to lend his assistance in crisis.
My meeting with him was a pure
coincidence, but has resulted in one of
the most broadening friendships of my
life, and has shown me not only one
character capable OF rare and deep
feeling and fine sympathy but many
such, for his acquaintance in New York
is practically unlimited and his imme-
dPte friends form a coterie extremely
warm heatred and loyal.
l was seated next to him in a Broad
way car and was conscious only of his
shoulder against mine, although / had
noted his slight stature, his gray hair
and beard and his modest and con-
siderate manner when he took his place
beside me.
was in very bad humor, for ]
am a busy man, IL bachelor, and II
bored me to have to turn my attention
TO the matter of housing myself this
winter. I was going futilely over the
advertisements, turning the pages OF
my paper with much Impotence.
To my surprise hand was laid upor
my arm. a hand whose square, strong
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widow and the Logan tribe and many
more.
"It isn't as though didn't see some
Of them sometimes" he said. why, just
yesterday 1 found place In model
tenement in which to house the old
Spanish nurse whom the Cuban girls
no longer need. And I fully expect to
help Emilia and her young husband ind
their home.
1.-THE streets of New York." he said,
ARE a network in which are enmeshed
practically every variety of hupan ex-
perience. The poor become rich and
the rich poor, strong people triumph and
weak people fail, property is willed
away from families and into families.
A house contains a happy family this
year. next year husband and wife are
divorced and squabbling over the rights
to It, Young people fall in love, or get
radical notions or social ambition. Old
people die. Any one OF New York 5
houses holds an epic in itself. And
through my experience the turning point
in the human drama has often touched
my hands. l have lost many a clue to
the destinies of family, and many I
shall never lose. But here Is my street"
he smiled. and IL you want to join
a company of frugal gentlemen at supper
some time, and hear some Of the tales
we can tell, we shall be glad to receive
| you. We can show you that in spite
| of the rush and hurry of the modern
world, the drama of human existence
goes on"
The sun., 1919-10-05

doubt whether there Is any man
IN New York who has retired from
business to find himself in as unique
q position with regard to his fellow
humans as one Arson F'airchild. Per-
haps 1t is because he himself Is a
unique character, not only shrewd and
able, but gifted with an extraordinary
understanding of human nature and a
thoroughly honest. open and warm
hearted manner. Certainly when his
was the prosaic calling of a real estate
man some years ago the most difficult
client who ever came to an agency
or answered an advertisement became
tractable and reasonable in his hands.
And before his magic touch city blocks
resolved themselves into collections of
homes.
No longer the active man he once
was, but knowing New York like a book,
he sometimes undertakes the task of
discovering a new home for an old
client.
He is sometimes summoned in haste
by family he has once placed, almost
as though he were the family lawyer
The sun., 1919-10-05

REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION.
The sun., 1919-10-05

homes were become more tense. more
vital, more infinitely moving because of
these silent houses with their closed
stone lips. Could 1t be possible that
Arson Fairchild had the magic power to
unseal these lips7
resolved to avail myself of the op-
portunity he had held out to me.
Unable to see my way clear to an
early acceptance of his offer, / was Inn
PEELED by my curiosity during the wait
ing time to ask a friend about this ex-
traordinary individual.
"Oh, yes" he said that odd old duck
Is we'll known. You're lucky to meet
with his approval. There are lot of
people he hasn't any patience with and
he doesn't scruple to let them know II.
For all his accessibility TO his friends he
las built a perfectly impenetarble bar
rier between himself and those unsym-
pathetic with him, and he lives perfectly
serene within it."
The Sorrow That Ennobles.
I/learned one thing more that cast
light upon his statement that the world
was home.
Arson Fairchild lost his whole family
wife, mother and lovely children, In the
most hideous way imaginable--by fire
It was many years ago, but the stagger-
re blow 1t struck him sent him desolatd
through a decade.
Then It came over him that II he
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I wonder II those who see me-color-
less, unprepossessing looking bachelor.
that the mirror / pass filings derisively
back into my own eyes-realize how
much I long not only to see but to feel
more. much more. of this human quality
OF the city.
For the first time in my life 1 know I
am hungry for friends.
(To be continued>)
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FLUSHING TO HAVE
NEW HOME COLONY
Attractive Houses Being Built
Near kissend Park.

The Operators Associates, Inc, have
started the largest and most UP to data
private house development ever under
taken in Flushing. 1t is their intention
to make 1t most complete in every de-
tail. They have built six houses of the
Colonial and English Gothic types and
several more are in course Of construo-
ton.
This development is bounded by Par.
sons, Franconia, Burlng and Queens
avenues Included in 1t are Georgia and
Hyacinth places Kissena Lake and Kls-
sena Park, which are owned by the CITY
are only five minutes walk from the
property.
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I watched him cross Columbus Circle,
feeling that a new interest had come
into my life. one that drew me away
from my single minded pursuit OF my
business which I sometimes suspect has
destroyed my power of looking tenderly
upon my fellow man.
The sense of loneliness that I have
always blamed little on the only girl
1 ever wanted, who spurned my offer of
matrimony, melted away for q moment
and the passengers in the Broadway car
filed the hollow places in my heart. i
found myself scanning features closely,
searching for hidden struggle or happi-
ness or sorrow.
Perhaps it Is true that the world
| could be home and every one the family.
As l passed street after street i
seemed to understand that an endless
tale might be told by the inhabitants
seemed to understand, too, that the
comedies and tragedies, the joys and
the sorrows of the inmates OF these
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fingers seemed to spell authority. The
cuff that Swallowed the hairy wrist had
had Its frayed edges clipped away, and
was otherwise mended.
ats. something of problem this
year" said a voice., isn't it2"
I turned to look into the warmest,
friendliest gray eyes imaginable.
You see I'm interested because that
sort OF thing used to be my business,
so TO speak. But now I've made the
world my home, and like to see other
people comfortable in It too. feel as
though we were all the same family.
I'd like to help you IL 1 may. That
helpless, hopeless look you had-forgive
me-" he smiled whimsically, 81 can't
bear to see 1t. II you could come to
see me some evening"
/ thanked him for his courtesy and
pocketed his card, feeling, l admit, a
trifle bewildered.
We, fell into conversation as strangers
will. and l soon had the curious feeling
that 1 had always known him. He had
remarkably quiet humor and an air
as though there were time to be per-
fectly~ comfortable and happy and
friendly whether the world snatched
luncheon at an automat or not.
l gathered that he was no longer in
terested in money making for it's own
sake, having a small private fortune but
was intensely interested in he human
side of things
"Its a wonderful city," he said, al
you know who makes its atmosphere
The streets mean to me the families
know who have homes in them. Some
of the homes 1 myself have selected"
Finding Homes for Others.
And he named over few of his &C
quaintances on Broadway. There wer,
Doris Hazelton and her sister, who
came to New York to go into schoo
| of acting-"they were fastidious," HI
said, land paid more than they coulC
afford for that apartment. They'll b,
needing me soon, 1 think. And Their,
was that Cuban planter and his family
He had big apartment but he ha
made more money and moved to Parl
| avenue
| was astonished to find out what hi
memory seemed to contain of names ant
family details. Park avenue meant I,
him the Taylors and the Adams and tn
CAROLS; Madison avenue the Ran
dolphs; Twenty-third street the Edge
combs. And then tucked away in hi
! mind was the matter of the Faiss
The sun., 1919-10-05

REAL ESTATE AT. AUCTION.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-12-12

n, R q E, containing 900 acres. Tn
improvements consist Of well, windmill. an,
fencing. value 5000. No bid on the allow
for less than FIVE DOLLARS cS.0) PEI
acre, which is the appraised value there
Of, and in addition thereto the successfu
bidder must pay for the improvements thai
exist on the land.
Each Of the above described tracts vii
be offered for sale separately.
S Vi the 0''0""s terms and conditions
Except for the land selected for the
Santa Fe and Grant County Railroad Bond
Fund. the successful bidder must pay "a
the COMMISSIONS of Public Lands OF his
agent holding such sale, one-twentieth OF
the price offered by him for the land,
balance Of such purchase price, fees for
advertising and appraisemeDt and all costs
incidental to the sale herein, each and all
of said amounts must be deposited in
sale and which said amounts and all OF
them are subject to forfeiture to the State
OF New Mexico, il the successful bidder
does not execute within thirty days after
Land Office, said contract TO provide that
the purchaser may at his option make
payments OF not less than one-thiItieth
OF ninety five per cent OF the purchase
prior TO the expiration OF thirty years from
the date Of the contract and to pro.
vide for the payment of any unpaid balance
at the expiration of thirty years from
the date Of the contract with interest on
deferred payments at the rate of four
per cent per annum payable in advance
on the anniversary of the date of the
contract, partial payments to be credited
on the anniversary of the date of the
contract next following the date of tender.
The sale OF land selected for the Santa
Fe and Grant County Railroad Bond Fund
VIII be subject TO the above terms and
except that the successful bidder
must pay in cash or certified exchange al
The time OF sale, one-tcnth OF the purchase
price Offered by him for the land, i)ui
per cent interest in advance for the balance
OF such purchase price and will be re-
the payment of the balance Of such pur,
chase price in thirty equal annual instal
with interest on all deferred Pay
at the rate of four per cent per
in advance payments and interest
on October LIST Of each year.
The above sale of land will he sub
TO valid existing rights. easements,
OF way and reservations.
All mineral rights in the above described
.anss are reserved to the State.
The Commissioner of Public Lands oI
agent holding such sale reserves The
right TO reject any and all bids offered
At said sale.
Possession under contracts Of sale for
he above described tracts will he given
IN OF before October lst, ll1O.
Witness my hand and the official sen,
4 the State Land Office Of the State OF
New Mexico this ninth day Of October, !
N. A. FIELD.
Commissioner Of Public Lands,
State OF New MeY 60. !
First Publication October II, 1915.
asst Publication December 26. 1919. !
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-12-12
EPIDEMIC DISEASES
IN THE SCHOOLS

Closing schools as a means Of con-
trolling epidemics Of mea les, whoop-
ing cough. scarlet fever, diphtheria,
smallpox, and poiiemyelit should be
considered as a last resort, "a be used
only when thorough and systematic
application Of other measures fails
10 effect control As a method il 4.
clumsy, unscientific, and unsatisfact-
Dry, for Il fails 10 control and result.
in the loss Of school time and money.
The modern method Of careful daily
inspection Of infected schools, isola-
ton Of sick children, and quarantine
Of contacts. is both more effective
and economical
Such is the summary Of report
made BY a comm ttcc Of The Bureau
OF Education cooperating with a
similar committee OF the American
Public Health Association.
There has been a progr -s.ivc ahan-
donment of faith IN, and practice OF,
clos ,ng schools as a means of con-
trolling epidemics affecting school
children. Such executions as occur
relate TO the following special con-
diiions: inadequate medical super
vision o. schools; severity Of CD de-
mics that defies al efforts al control;
and epidemics IN which the etioiogy
q the disease IS unknown, such as
i~nfantiie paralysis, epidemic menin-
gifts, and possibly = few others.
The Successful control Of epid mic
disease among school children re-
qrires-
T. Keeping the schools open, with
the possible exception OF parsley
settled d stricts when medical ms
p~ection oannot be obtained ard where
aggregation takes place only IN The
schools.
2 Careful ds'iy Q. frsquent per-
odioal inspection # schools.
3 Careful provision D, exclusion
OF cases and oo-tacf., emphasis heing
placed or ci MIC DAT ratarr .hap
upon fixed ,erio1- Of s~ciuslon
q Systema &c hon- v~is..Atioa
{ Rcisnce o. O. Mural sad ply
seal clearing rs.her .han upon
di-'nfecta sc. o. trmiga-
ton.
The carrying ont Of such a pro-
states Dr.. = r Walls, Safe
Commissioner Of Health. ~necessita-
tes. OF course. Tire providing BY the
community Of an active. trained
officer. who shouid. Together with an
zdsqrste staff devote his entire .i-ne
20 health WORK
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-12-12
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
PUBLIC LAND SALE
GUADALUPE COUNTY

Otf,e. Of tn. COMMISSIONS Of Public
Santa Fe. New MEXICO
Notice is hereby given that pursuant O.
the provisions Of an Act Of Congress sp-
proved June zrh, 1910, the laws OF The
State Of New Mexico, and rules and re
sulations Of the State Land Office. the
Commissioner OF Public Lands will of'c'
at public sale to the highest bidder a.
10 O'Clock A. NJ. on Thursday, January
0nd, 1890, in abe town of Santa Rosa,
County of Guadalupe, State Of New Mex
the ioTio~inP described tracts Of land.
via:
Sale No. 1851 sEANEH, NNSH. 81
NwH, SwHSwH, Sec. Is; SHNH. 81, Sc
3; FL. NHNWH, sEHNwH, NEHswH.
Sec. IS; T n, r. 10 e. containing
l,240m acres. There are no improvements.
No bid on the shove described tract 81
land will be accepted for less than THREE
DOLLARS $500 per acre, which y H.
appraised vakpe thereof, and IN addition
thereto the successful bidder must pay
tr the improvements that esisi ~ -.
hsd.
SsIe No. 1913 SENSEL, Sec u. SEH
NEH. Sec ~; T . n. r p E con
tanning 500, selected for the Santa Fe and
Grant County Railroad Bond Fund. There
ere no Improvement. No bid on the above
described tract Of land win be accepted
ar less than FIVE DOLLARS $500 per
sere, which is the appraised Sslue there
u, and in addition thereto the successful
bidder must Say for the Improvement. that
ssiss % tks lssd