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The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
BABY ELK HERD GROWING
June 18th Will he Day Long
to be Remembered in
Lamar.

At a largely attended and enthus-
iastic meeting of Lamar Lodge No.
1919, B. p. o. Elks, last night another
big list of candidates was voted in,
and the number now eligible for the
class Of June 14th is well past the
hundred mark. The work of the even
ing was strenuous, but the room was
packed and all members were enthus-
iastic over the prospect ahead. After
the regular work a splendid lunch was
served and the whole crowd remained
until late hour. At least fourteen
new goats have been placed in soli-
tary confinement and are being fed on
oats soaked in tomasco sauce especial
ly for the occasion and the regular
team of manhandlers is going through
daily athletic training preparatory to
doing a good job. Plenty Of doctors
will be on hand to set all broken limbs
and their services are free. During
the day there will be one continual
round of pleasure, the greatest holi-
day event in the history of Lamar.
Three miles and half of marvellous,
gorgeous and miraculous parade, wild
west shows, illuminations, fireworks,
and all kinds Of thrillers. One sensa-
ton will follow the other in continu
Gus procession until the last candidate
is-made happy.
The initiation of this big class will
bring the membership Of the order
over the 500 mark and make the neces-
sity of that new home more impera-
tive than ever before. 1t will also
make the date of the beginning of work
on the structure much nearer as the
growing membership insures a larger
sale Of stock.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
Fairyiew

Lewis Vile took load of sawlogs
to Lamar the first Of the week.
Hugh Rinehart and Mary Bowman
were married last week. They go to
their claim south of Las Aninas to
live.
Jim Poor has sold his ranch to Clark
Mitchell He will give possession next
fall.
Dorothy Hoskins and Grant Cooper
of Dolby Springs, Okla, were married
on May 16. They expect to farm in
Oklahoma.
Edgar Poer is rebuilding what il
known as the old Edd and Murt Tan
ner places. They are going to make
it their home.
Jay Reeves expects to go to Kansas
soon to harvest.
There will be Fourth of July pie
nc at the Lewis Vile reservoir on
Clay Creek. Every one invited to
come and bring a well filled basket.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
WIN AND LOSE AGAIN
Lamar Base Ball Team Again Breaks
Even on the Weeks Play.

The Lamar team has once more
scored just an even break on the
games played during the week. They
went to Holly again on Sunday and
defeated the strong team which Man
ager Sam Smith has gathered to re-
present that city by a score of II to
4 in a game that was well played by
both teams. On the afternoon of De-
coration Day, however, at the home
Grounds in Lamar there was very
different story to tell. The La Junta
team was our opponents and both
teams seemed determined to give the
large crowd of spectators Il run for
their money Heavy hitting and lots
of it was the order of the day and the
fielders did not seem to think it was
"ethical'-that sounds real profession
al-to stop ball which another play
er had started on long journey. Both
sides were at it from the start as the
score l6 to s in favor of La Junta will
show. The Lamar team was crippled
by several of the regular players be-
ing out of the game and Dyche, the
regular pitcher. had pitched game
the day before and was not at his
best. The old reliable, Fred Littler,
went in at last to relieve him and
held the hits down to more modest
numbers for few innings. The fol-
lowing box score tells the harrawing
details:
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
Bergdoll-and Others

Bergdoll saw the wholesale liberia
tion of conscientiously objecting slack
ers, equipped with new suits of clothes
and full army pay up to the day of
their discharge. and saw no reason why
he should be Disseminated against.
Bergdoll is wealthy and his methods
have always been sensational, but in
other respects his case appears to diff
fer not at all from hundreds of others
who wilfully refused to take up arms
in the defense of their country. The
latter were pampered and petted and
sent home to their mothers the NOM
ent all danger was over. Why should
Bergdoll be singled out by Secretary
Baker rs a special object Of attack ?
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
Getting Facts Concerning Neglect

The Rules Committee of the House
has granted the committee investigat-
ing the Federal Board of Vocational
Education judiciary powers. The action
was taken on the request of Repre-
sentative Simeon d. Fess, of Ohio, Re
publican, chairman of the committee
Representative Fess has stated that a
speedy and thorough investigation of
the board will be made. Twenty-six
specific charges have been lodged
against the Board by Harold A. Lit
tledale, of the New York Evening Post
including neglect in the payment of
compensation to disabled men. The
board is also charged by Mr.. Little
dale with disregard of laws made by
Congress, by filling executive posi-
tions with friends, issuing orders to be
"hardboiled" with disabled men, and
other offenses.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
GENERAL COLORADO NEWS

Surveys of farming conditions in all
counties in the state now being made
by county assessors for the State I'M
migration department reveal the fact
that a very considerable number OF
farms in the non-irrigated districts
that were cropped last year have for
various reasons been allowed to lie fall
low this year. In some counties the
amount of land under cultivation this
year is less than it was last year
while in other counties the farm lands
temporarily abandoned have been more
than compensated for by the breaking
of raw land on farms that have been
used in the past only for pasture. APP
parently the abandonment has been
heaviest in the north-central part OF
the state, where unfavorable weather
conditions caused partial or complete
crop failure last year. In the extreme
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
On the Job Again

L. Writ Markham, who for four
weeks has been in Des Moines as
lay delegate to the big national Meth
odist quadrennial conference, return
ed from his labors on Monday morn
ing and is again looking after his var
,ous interests in Lamar. He reports
a big session of the leading church
body and says that he enjoyed every
thing connected with it. However, Des
Moines, he says, can't compare with
Lamar except that its profiteers has
anything ever heard of before backed
off the boards.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
WASHINGTON NOTES
Farmers Support Anti-sirike Bill

oupfcsf
, Washington, June 2--(Special Cor
respondence) Representatives oil ma
tional farm organizations have indors-
ed the bill introduced by Senator Mics
Poindexter to protect interstate COM
meree from strikes of railroad work
ers. Among those who have testiIied
before the subcommittee of the Senate
Committee on Interstate Commerce
are Gray Silver and Charles A. Ly-
man. of the American Farm Bureau
Association; r. d. Bowen, Of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Agricultural Associa-
ton; A: Z. Loomis, of the National
Grange. and f. A. Calvin, of the OKLA
homa Farmers Union and the Associa-
ton of Presidents Of State Farmers
Unions. "If farm products cannot De
transported because of railway strikes
i, is the same as if they had never
been produced" stated Mr.. SILVER
Farmers are interested in square
deal to the railway men but they are
onnosed to the strike as a means oil
settling disputes. They believe 1t the
duty of the Government to assure con-
tinuous transportation.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
Would Ship Coal in Su miner

The Frelinghuysen bill to estaoiish
seasonal rates for the transportation
of coal has been favorably repor'eu
To the senate Interstate Commerce
N,on,mittee from the subcommittee AS
revised by the subcommittee the Dill
would permit rate reductions up to a
.meximum Of 10 cents per ton anu
ould apply to transportation on ohe
Eat Lakes as well as by rail. ne
t;on in rates is advocated to keep
Ne mines in operation the year rouno
nd TO enable the public to buy eoai
at a lower price per ton during .he
summer months. In the House oil ne
representatives. the Committee on RAN
wavs and Canals has favorably report
ed a resolution offered by Representa-
tive Charles ]. Thmopson OF ohio' di-
recting the Department Of Commerce
TO report on the cost of transportation
of coal by canals in the United states
in compairson to the rates charged by
the railroads. The development OF
certain waterway projects Will be con
sidered il the report shows that AMP
ment of coal by water would be ehe''p-
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
WIN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Lamar High School Debating Team
Wins the Final Contest for
State HOnOrs.

The Lamar high school debating
team made its last trip of the season
..Sst Friday going to Boulder for the
final contest for the state champion
ship. The same team that has been
making these trips almost weekly for
the past month or so end always bring
ing home the bacon was once more in
line consisting of Miss Vivian Potter,
Jerald Beavers and John Will Merrill
with Miss Louise Watkins, instructor
in English, as coach. Montrose was
the only other high school team un-
defeated and the final contest between
the two teams was held last Satur-
day morning at Boulder with Judges
picked from the Denver schools. The
question for debate was government
ownership of railways and Lamar had
the affirmative side. The decision of
the judges was unanimously in favor
of the Lamar team, giving them
clean cut title to the state high school
championship and the silver cup CIV.
en- by the state university for this an
nual event will be among the trophies
of the Lamar high school. The team
has had to win five debates to gam
the title and has won three unanimous
decisions and two to decisions, thus
getting the favorable decision Of thir-
teen out of fifteen different judges
that have passed on their work. The
first question debated was compulsory
military training and they were forc-
ed to alternate first against and then
in favor of it. but they always won
the decision, and have certainly earn
ed the championship hono-s. Their
coach, Miss Watkins, is entitled to the
highest praise for the careful and ef-
ficient work she has done in training
them and much of the credit for the
schools victory is due her.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02

eastern part of the stgte and in Las
Animas and Baca counties, in the south
east, where weather conditions gener-
ally were favorable for mop prcduc-
tion, the amount of land in cultivation
will be considerably greater than it
was last year. The high cost of seed
and farm equipment and the scarcity
and high price of farm labor are the
causes which have brought about the
abandonment of the largest part of
the land which was cultivated last
year and is lying idle this year.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
More One-Man Rule

In announcing his plans for "an ov-
erturn in Congress" Mr.. Gompers has
decreed ian end to the kind of legis-
lation typified by the EschCummins
railroad Law and the Kansas court of
industrial relations law" In other
words, Mr. Gompers is to write the
laws, both State and National, here
after if the schemes Of the labor lead
ers do not miscarry.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
Finest Fishing in Country

Fishing parties to the Two Buttes
reservoirs are now the order of the
ay and there ere numerous ones there
almost any day. The reservoir has
not been much for irrigation for the
pas: year but as popular resort it
is hard to beat.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02

The acute shortage of stock feed
that overlook many farmers in all
parts of Colorado this spring during
the severe snow storms apparently is
having the effect of causing an in
crease in the acreage devoted TO rough
feed crops in all stock raising districts
of the state this year. Reports being
received by the Immigration Depart
ment from county assessors show an
increase in the acreage devoted to such
crops as millet, sorghums, sudan grass,
sweet clover and similar feed crops,
especially in the non-irrigated districts
while in many counties there is ap-
parently a decrease in the acreage de-
voted to grains, potatoes, beans and
similar crops. The acreage of corn
will be increased in most counties, and
there has been a very material in
crease in the number of silos since the
report for 1919 was compiled, so that
the amount of feed available next win
ter and spring should be considerably
greater than that for the past season.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
Passing of Wilson's Pets

Carranza is dead and the new Mex
lean government has offered n reward
of $4,000 for the capture of Villa dead
or alive. With those two proteges of
the Wilson administration eliminated
from Mexican affairs there is hope that
the republic may regain its former
place in the family of nations.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
To Plant or Not to Plant Broom Corn

Rumor among broom corn growers
and broom corn jobbing interests is to
the effect that the coming season will
see a return of the old time broom
corn prices of from dollar a bale TO
forty dollars ton.
The reazons Tor this prediction are
several. For the past few seasons
there has been more broom corn pro-
duced than consumed. This has caus-
ed an accumulation of broom corn in
the larger broom corn markets until
Chicago has the largest stock Of brush
in its history. Wichita is in the midst
of a broom corn jam. Other markets
are crowded with broom corn beyond
belief.
Now, comes reports that farmers IN
the northwest broom corn districts are
expecting to plant to broom corn the
wheat acreage blown out this spring'
This would mean that next fall broom
corn would simply be unsaleable and
prices go to nothing.
In face of these facts it would seem
that it WOULD be almost unwise for
farmers to plant broom corn this
spring if they can possibly raise any
thing else. Broom corn cannot be cat
en- or fed,-there being only one pur-
poge for which it can be used, to make
brooms.
The entire world s short on food
stuffs and long on broom corn. why
raise crop for which there Will be
TO demand next fall when you are
needing money.
TO PLANT OR NOT TO PLANT
BROOM CORN This is a question
now uppermost in the minds of many
farmers, especially where the winds oil
March and April have literally blown
fall wheat out OF the ground.
This has forced many farmers TO
decide and that quickly just what crop
to plart to assure the greatest possiole
net returns from their summers farm
ering operations.
In considering this subject the older
farmers are not letting the high prices
maid for broom corn in 1917, 1913 and
1919 drive from their memory the
many years when the prevailing prices
were between one and two cents
pound, and sometimes even as low as
81 90 a bale, and many farmers unaole
to find a buyer for their crop even at
these figures.
Many of the younger generation VINO
have started farming for themselves
the last several years would do well to
advise with some of the old timers IN
tie business who have had bitter ex-
perience in the uncertainties of rails
ing broom corn.
Many things have tended to make
broom corn a practically hazar r1ou'
crop to plant during the present year
Trade Review.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
Start Work

The McCue Mere. Co. started work
this week on the addition to the First
National Bank block. and the hase-
ment excavation is rapidly being COM
pleted. The work will be pushed rap
idly.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02

Home run, Reynolds.
Two base hits, Cummings, Caulk,
Mcclure, Turner.
Stolen bases, Green, Pennington,
Cash, Shear, Cores, Littler.
Double play. Cummings to Rose.
Base on balls, OFF Turner Z; on
Dyche 2.
Struck out, by Turner 5; Dyche 2;
Littler 4.
Hit by pitched ball, by Littler tShel-
ly).
Sacrifice hits, Caulk, Rose.
Wild pitch, Dyche.
The Lamar register., 1920-06-02
Well Said

Instead Of every man doing his bit
every man is doing his neighbor," re-
marked Senator George b. Mclean of
Connecticut the other day, in referring
to the causes of the high cost Of liv-
ing.
The Jasper news., 1920-09-09

How 4 came about that my promise
to meet uorInAh went unfuihlied can
best be explained by narrating the
events Of the evening after returned
to the Grandteck. II was nearly ave
when left the detective. strolled
leisurely down town and had dinner In
the cafe where on one occasion had
seen the scar-faced man. fingered
there for long time over my coffee
hoping IN vain that he might appear.
/ even ventured to cautiously question
the waiter and head waiter, describing
the man as best could. but both Of
them insisted that they never had seen
any such person. As walked home
! kept a wary eye out to make sure
! was not being followed, but appar-
emily no one was now shadowine me-
It was nlne-thirty when reached
home. II had been arranged that Bar
bara about ten would signal me that
we might have chat from our re-
spective windows. As sat In my
room waiting for the time to come. I
was reviewing the case in all Its as
poets. Indeed there was hardly wax
ing moment thatJ was not thinking Of
the many mysteries about us. was
wondering II, when the case was
cleared up the mysterious whispers
that we all had heard would also be
explained. l recalled Claire Brad
ford's unexpected visit to my apart
ment the evening before and her con-
fusion when had captured her.
wondered II the explanations she had
offered had been the truth. Was she
really trying to locate the source Of
The Jasper news., 1920-09-09
A SECRET PASSAGE.

synopsis.-spalding Nelson is oc-
cupying the apartments of his
great-uncle, Rufus CASTOR. The
Gastons, leaving on a trip. tell him
about mysterious noises and "whis-
pers" that have scared them. He
becomes acquainted with Barbara
Bradford, who lives In the same
big building. He instinctlvely dis
likes and dlstrusts the superintend-
ent, Wick. The mysteries in his
apartments begin with the dlsap-
pearance Of the CASTOR pearls from
the wall safe. He decides not to
call In the police. but to do his own
investigating. 1t Is soon evident
that someone has access TO his
rooms. Becoming friendly with
Barbara, he learns that her apart
ments are equally mysterious. She
tells him that several years before
her sister Claire, who lives with
her, had made a runaway mar
riage with an adventurer, from
whom she was soon parted, and the
marriage had been annulled. Claire
Is engaged to be married and some-
one has stolen documents concern.
Ing the affair from the Bradford
apartment and Is attempting to
0lackmail the Bradfords. Nelson
takes Miss Kelly, the telephone
girl, to dinner with the idea of
pumping her. German, a hotel de-
tecuVe. recognizes her as the wife
OF Lefty Moore, n noted burglar.
Nelson tells his story to German.
The Jasper news., 1920-09-09

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The Jasper news., 1920-09-09
CHAPTER VII-continued.

sand the number she called uD-
the private number-dld you find out
about that1"
Sure, that was easy. It's one Of
the apartments in the Granddeck-
Henry Kent's. Who's hep
Il never heard of him. I'll try to
find out, though"
Il would, but be careful how you
go asking questions around the place.
The Moore woman may have a pal.
They generally work In pairs"
The ease and celerlty with which
Gorn1an had learned all these things
about the girl impressed ne greatly,
and said as much. He received my
compliments with a deprecating wave
Of tie hand.
Nothing to Il. boy, when you know
the ropes. But last night you told
me y2u had taken the girl out to try
to pump something out Of her, What
vas it5 What's doingT
From beginning to end [ told him
the whole story in oil of Its perpIex-
illg details, starting with the day that
I had received my great-uncle Rufus
note that had led to the chance meet
ing with Miss Bradford, bringing In
my discharge and the disappearance
of the CASTOR pearls, and explaining
what made me think these facts were
in some way involved with the at
tempt to blackmail the Bradfords.
"What do you make Of itF 1 asked
as 1 ended my narrative. "Who do
you think Is at he bottom of itf"
81 don't think" he retor.cd. an our
business 1t does not pay to think too
quick. You're apt to convict the wrong
party"
"But you must think something" !
protested.
II think" he said slowly and medi.
tatively, "that there's lot of crooked
work going On-Tll say that much.
And you and Miss Bradford's pretty
close to being the center Of It,"
what can we do about it?"
"There's a way / learned from a
lawyer that amt bad. He'd take his
client and put him in the center of a
big circle With lines running in all d.
uiiDlg ihpubiyg
identity, no proof Of guilt, lack of
Jurisdiction, escape on legal technical
lty-he'd mark out every possible de-
Tense. Then he'd follow each line out
and see where 1t led and what plan
the opposing lawyers would be likely
to spring on him. Generally he got
his man off,"
r y don't quite see how that applies"
! "YOu don't, ehl" ..-...sv..-.1s-.-
He traced ON Imaginary circle with
his foreflnger on the table In the little
back room where we were sitting.
O. Here's you and Miss Bradford In
the center, surrounded by lot Of mys
terlous deviltFy. Wen make two cir
cies. This inside one is the things
that hav0 happened to both Of you
the wall safes opened, the papers
stolen, the pearls gone, the anOnymoui
notes. the blackmall threats, the los
OF your Job, the voices you've heard
Now on this outer circle we'll mari
down all the people wh1 might b.
mixed up iE these things-mind ye,
say only might be. First, there
Lefty Moore's woman-we know she
The Jasper news., 1920-09-09
"She's been murdered.
Get the police quick"
CTo BIZ CoNTINUED.l
rlma Maaaurad hY candIsa.

The Chinese. besides using water
clocks, also Invented joss-sticks. which
burned uniformly. The joss-stick Is
somewhat similar to what good old
King Alfred Of England Is said to
have used way back 10 the eight hun
dreds. he was great educator. and
discovered that tallOw candles could
be used for dividing the time which
he allowed hia mobiles In which 70
make complaints Elainst each other.
The Jasper news., 1920-09-09
Taking the sunny side.

Every street hns two sides. the
shady side and the sunny. When two
men shake hands and part mark which
Of the two takes the sunny side; he
will be the younger man of the two
Bulwer-Lytton.