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Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
TOWN COUNCIL

There was meeting of the towr
council Tuesday night, and the fol
lowing is summary of the business
transacted
Guy Wallace was appointed mar.
shal and street commissioner, with
instructions to impound all livestock
running at large in the town limits
after six o'clock A. M. May oath
He was also instructed to collect
dog tax as soon as tags are pro
cured, and enforce the dog ordi-
nance in its entirety. He will work
at repairing streets and cutters and
crossings, cleaning up, etc., to re-
ceive fifty cents per hour for such
work and 75c per load for hauling
off trash when same is piled con-
venient for handling. Property own
ers will be required to do the lat.
ter work.
Bill of B. H. Calkins in the sum
of SO for blueprints of town plat.
and New Mexican of S4 for poll
books were allowed.
The status of the water and sew.
er bonds was talked over and it
was agreed that an offer to make
a bid Of 90c on the dollar which
had been received would not be
considered. Also a proposition to
let a contract and turn the bonds
over to the contractor in payment
The committee on water works
and sewers was instructed to inves.
tigate the advisability of getting
the bond issue ready to take ad-
vantage of any easement in the
money market, and report.
B. Fl. Calkins was employed to
survey and plat the cemetery.
A petition was presented asking
that the council enact an ordinance
against gambling. This matter was
discussed at length and the mayor
and clerk were constituted com
mittee to seek legal advice as to
the extent of the councils power
in this matter.
The matter of drafts of occupa-
tion tax and sidewalk ordinances
entrusted to Attorney Fred H.
Ayers was brought up, and it was
decided to give Mr.. Ayers a little
more time in view of his duties in
district court, but that he be asked
to submit drafts as soon as possible.
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
MONEY STR|NGENCY
HOLDS UP BONDS

1t seems very probable that the
water works and sewers proposition
will have to be hung up for a time
No bids were received on the
bonds, the money market having
frightened to such an extent during
the past few months that bond brok.
ers are afraid to venture.
/ Bonds voted by DeBaca county to
build a court house and jail-$37,-
500-were sold at SO cents on the
dollar, only one bid having been re-
ceived. This means direct loss to
the taxpayers of $3.50 on the sale
of the bonds. There will be a fur
ther loss on the buildings because of
the extremely high cost of every
thing.
1t has been learned that the town
council may, if they wish, advertise
for bids for the construction of the
water works and sewers, offering
the bonds in payment. The writer
does not know what the attitude of
the council may be in the matter,
but considers it improbable that they
will take such a step. 1t is more
likely that they will just let the
matter rest for the present, until
conditions change for the better.
An offer was made to place a,bid
on the bonds at 80 cents on the
dollar, but it was not considered.
The following letter from the state
sanitary engineer explains some
phases of the subject very clearly,
and we print it for the information
of the people of the town:
May ID, 1920.
"Mr. !. L. Ludwick,
Village Clerk,
Estancia, New Mexico:
at is a rather discouraging mat
ter to have to advise your people
after they have proceeded so far as
to vote bonds for a greatly needed
water supply and sewerage system,
to defer to later date the installa-
ton of these systems, but present
conditions are such that a postpone
ment of construction is imperative.
My reasons for this advice are as
follows:
81. New indebtedness cannot be
financed at present except at a Sc
we're sacrifice. Bonds carrying six
per cent interest can hardly be sold
at 95, and even at 80 the market is
limited.
SO. There is no prospect of ma.
terial improvement in money rates
before an early part of 1921.
"3. Prices on construction ma
terial are abnormal. There are in
dications, however, that the peak has
been reached, and there should be
some improvement at the end of the
year.
"a. Practically all available con-
struction material has been contract
ed for this season, and even if the
money were available it is doubtful
if deliveries could be obtained on
many items within a reasonable
period.
"5. Contracts can generally be
obtained on more favorable terms if
bids are called for in January, than
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
AMERICAN LEGION CAMPAIGN
This is American Legion campaign

lHlS lS hlueIlCdl beRlOH campaign
week.
A special effort will be made 10.
cally and throughout the nation to
enroll eX-service men and women
who always have intended to join
The Legion but have put off doing
SO. The financial obligation of be-
longing is very slight, especially
when organizations such as the I.
W. W. are considered, whose dues
are twice those of The American
Legion, and of the Communist Par
ty of America, that usually requires
a $50 campaign contribution from
deyotees.
In addition to the $500 posts Of
America, The Legion has active posts
in England, France, Canada, Poland,
Argentine Republic, Japan, China
Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, Alaska,
Philippine Islands and Hayti.
The platform of The American
Legion is set forth in its constitu.
ton as follows:
"For God and Country, we as
sociate ourselves together for the
following purposes:
"To uphold and defend the con-
stitution of the United States of
America; to maintain law and order;
to foster and perpetuate one-hun-
dred-per-cent Americanism; to pre-
serve the memories and incidents of
our association in the Great War;
to inculcate a sense of individual
obligation to the community, state
and nation; to combat the autocracy
of both the classes and the masses;
to make right the master of might;
to promote peace and good will on
earth; to safeguard and transmit to
posterity the principles of justice,
freedom and democracy; to conse-
crate and sanctify our comradeship
by our devotion to mutual helpful.
ness"
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
ABOUT BEANS
To the Member Bean Grower:

To the Member Bean Grower:
Bean planting in New Mexico i:
drawing near and you will undoubt
edly be interested in information
concerning the bean situation and
the prospects for next seasons CROP
of our Rocky Mountain States.
1t appears from the Bureau Crop
Estimates, generally accepted as Of
ficial, that the shrinkage in the bean
acreage for 1919, compared with
1918, was 33 per cent in California
40 per cent in Michigan, and 70
per cent in Colorado; an advance
information from the pacific coast
is that the coming seasons acreage
in California will probably not ex-
ceed SO per cent of last years acre
age; with the probability that the
Michigan acreage will be further cut
this year; so it would seem that our
New Mexico and Colorado Bean
growers might be interested in this
information, since it follows that
these growers who put in about the
bean acreage that they can well take
care of ought to have very good
prospects and no cause for regret
when harvesting time arrives.
Beans are the only important food
product now selling at prices no
higher than the cost of production
and have done so for the past two
years and no doubt closer to the
actual cost of production than any
other staple food, therefore, the
most economical food in use today,
and we are now engaged in bring
ing to the attention Of the consum-
ing public the proven superiority of
beans in food values in comparison
with potatoes and rice now bringing
unheard of prices, that the house.
wife may realize that beans at pres
ent prices are altogether out of pro-
per proportion to the real value in
comparison with competing foods.
We wish you to give this matter
of more acreage a careful consider
alton and if you see where you can
care for more acreage than you
have heretofore put in, put in more
for the prospects are that we will
have about all the pintos that will
be grown this season and that ought
to be guarantee of good prices.
There will be no carry over this
season for the trade will take all
that was grown the past season..
We wish you would consult with
the secretary of your local and ad-
wise him of what you decide to do
and also let him know about what
your acreage will be. We want to
know this for our own satisfaction
Thanking you and trusting that
this circular may be of some benefit
to you, we are,
Yours very truly,
New Mexico Bean Growers Assn.
Per w. A. FIELD, Secretary
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20

District court convened Monday
morning with Judge Mechem presid-
ing. There were present also H. B,
Hamilton, district attorney, and his
assistant R. L. Hit, G. S. Pedra-
gon interpreter, and ]. Benson New
ell, court reporter. Besides the To-
cal attorneys a number from Santa
Fe arrived the first of the week to
look after business in court, among
them Col. Prichard, Judge Wright
and E. P. Davies. Most of the
time has been consumed so far in
getting the grand jury and other
machinery of the court organized
for work and calling the docket and
setting cases for trial. The grand
jury is now at work and the work
of the court is proceeding on the
usual lines.
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
BEAN MARKET FOR APRIL
(The Rean-Rap

"a good-sied boost in the price of
nearly all varieties of beans was a
feature during the latter part of the
month. Starting in, deals in beans
were few and far between, with the
price about at its low point. This
condition continued until about the
10th, when the strike of the switch
men was getting under way. The
strike, by the way, was. the most
important factor in shooting the
price of beans up.
"The big cities saw the rise in
beans first. Tied up by the strike,
food products dwindled in available
quantities. Potatoes especially, be-
came almost impossible to get, and
the price went sky=high. Rayeotts,
on the part of hotel men and stew
ards, joined in some cases by Or
ganizations of consumers, were in
stituted in many cities, and these
consumers cast about for some sub
stitute.
Beans and rice, both high in
starch content, caught the attention
of the public. Dealers, quick to see
the advantage, in many cases boost
ed the game by inserting large ads
in daily newspapers calling attention
to the value of beans as food. The
result was seen almost overnight.
wholesale grocers report such
demand for beans as was never be
fore known. In the face of an al
most entire cleanup Of the spo
market, bean prices have shot up
ward. At last reports, Michigan {
H. P. beans have risen from $6.75
to SITS, with indications that tn
price may go still higher, and, un
der any conditions, the low-wate
mark is left behind for goad, 1t
stated by many of the strongest Jot
bers, that the price is up to sta!
1.-THE rise in Michigan prices
which in the last few months hav
held the price down all over tn
country, has had its effect. Calitoi
MIA noted an immediate jump, a fe'
hours after Michigan prices went W
Kotenashis are strong at greatly II
creased prices. Pintos have bee
stronger than for long time.
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
MARRIED

V. C. Joiner, one of the popular
statesmen at the Lumber Co. store,
went back to Jonesboro, Arkansas
recently, and brought home a bride
formerly Miss Jessie Denton of
Jonesboro.
They were married May 11th.
Mr.. Joiner and his bride have the
good wishes of large circle of
friends here for a long and pros
porous welded life.
They are at home in the Garvin
house recently vacated by Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Cain.
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
WACCENER WAKING UP

To whom it may or may not con.
Germ
Furniture business is not what |
want to follow. l was just here to
make some money to pay some hon
est debts. have enough and still
my house is full of goods. l don't
want them-positively will not have
them-and l want the folks to come
and haul them off or | will throw
them out.-Waggener's Store, Es-
tancia, U. S. A.
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
Notice.

The Estancia summer school will
open June 7th for term of eight
weeks. Registration blanks may be
found at Mrs. Eva Watson's estab-
lishment and at Mrs. S. B. Douglas
residence All who desire to attend
will please enroll within the next
ten davs.
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
$40 Reward.

For return of pocketbook lost
yesterday between Estancia Savings
Bank and Lumber Co. we'll. Con-
tanned A $40 bills and few dol
lars in change, Return to this Of
flee.
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
Brood Sows for Sale.

Six brood sows bred to registered
Duroc boar, $25.00, $500 each if
taken at once.-Fred M, Calkins,
Barton, N. M.
Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1920-05-20
Dairy Cattle For Sale.

Dairy Cattle For Sale.
I have rs head of dairy stock
mostly Holsteins, some very fine
cows among them, for sale.-Johr
Berkshire.
For Sale.
Southeast quarter of Section 81
township 9 north, range 10 east
$750.00 cash. Address J. H. Smith
207 Park Ave-, Lawton, Okla.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

played the bagpipes. His son has gone
TO Argentina, but, he says. when he
dies somebody will rise up 40 succeed
him. for the shepherds played at the
birth of Christ, and so long as the
world shall last there must always be
those who pay this devotion"
And see how the antique links up
with the present:
Every writer on Sicily tells of the
painted carts of Palermo; but he who
has not seen the fiesta at Trecastagne
has missed one Of the great cart sights
of this island. Every carter who has
his old cart repainted times the work
to have 1t fresh and shiny for SAINT
Alto.
Against background of dragons
blood red the paladins of Carlo Magni
tilted in the lists. crusaders fought
Saracens, San Giorgio slew the dragon,
or SAINT Agata wrought miracles. CO.
lumbus discovered America and Rug
giero repeated all his real and legend
airy Sicilian victories.
"Looll. the starry fiagl' said Michel
linu, pointing out cart which showed
the Stars and Stripes wreathed with
the Italian tricolor as frame TO its
pictured panels. The paint was shin
ing new. Stepping closer. we saw
that the cart bore the date May 1,
1918. On one side was blazoned
, a rendition of Washington Crossing
the Delaware. fanked by Lincoln
Receiving a Group OF Freed Slaves.
On the other side were Washington's
Farewell to His Troops and Wash
ington's Farewell TO Lafayette. On
the tailpiece was the Assumption of
the Virgin. with, at one side, Envy,
green and sCowling, and on the other,
Fortune, In yellow. with streaming
banner.
1.-THE owner OF the cart came for
ward. He was called Bernardo
Pappalardo, and he said he had worked
four years in the woollen mills of
Taunton, Mass. He had saved little
pile and came home with it a year
earlier, to Catania. Needing a cart,
he had sent to Boston for picture post
cards to help In it's decoration. a
motto set into the lace like iron work
below the portrait OF Garibaldi read:
This cart is thus elegant to give an
answer to the ignorant
There is much detail Of their or
binary and workaday world-their
fairs and festivals, their work on the
home hearth and in the open fields all
flowing in steady volume from a SEEM
ingly inexhaustible supply of material
uncovered at first hand by the author
and gathered together in a volume
vi ich wi ho nf iv,fa
est to the casual traveller or reader
but Of permanent value to students of
languages and customs. And the
photographs add much to the value
and veracity of the book
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
BOOK REVIEW S
With the Sicilian Peasantry

puzzled mind. II is the fruit of the
authors forced sojourn for several
years in the land of Theocritus. and
to those of us who remember back to
tho early COS II serves fortunately
to recall the exceptionally brilliant
newspaper work of Mrs. Heaton, be-
fore illness necessitated her retire
ment
That this retirement was rich in re-
suits. however, the volume which she
left nearly completed at her death
amply demonstrates. For the authors
gift OF tongues was happily augmented
both by scholarship and opportunity for
travel and first hand study. and the
material gathered here has been pa
tiently collected and sifted, directly
from the natives themselves. with
whose dialects she was perfectly ia
miliar and in whose poor homes she
was an honored guest. SO the book
deals with things hitherto unrevealed
to those who were not of their own
blood
The text is divided into three parts:
The Old Magic" Fairs and Festivals"
and Island Yesterdays" and some
forty photographs are well repro
duced; what scenes of indescribable
beauty and of unbelievable hardship
are not reflected in them! Mrs.
Heaton. with her camera and her ir-
resistible aura of good faith, pene-
trated the reserves and arcana of these
humble lives as none other has been
able to do. In "the old magic" of the
Sicilian peasants we find their antique
superstitions still persistent and domi-
nant; Donna PruVidenza's Lemon" Is
fantastic tale; "Elf Locks and Love
Charms" a whole book of legends and
protective verse-prayers. Other titles
are "The Hairy Hand" and Jesus as
Destroyer; and in the latter there
are many traces of the same naive
and by no means irreverent humor
that is found in the so-called "Apocry-
pha of the New Testament"
Here is a paragraph taken from
among thousand details of Christ
mas celebrations:
Presently there appeared in the
doorway the old piper who has played
the novena in Taormina for thirty
years. From morning till night Of the
nine days before Christmas Gagini
trudges the i'll paved ways between
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Short Stories by
Scott Fitzgerald
D. pAyrr r0vYr
By DAVID coYLE.

Hot of the bat comes another volume
from that profound and prolinc phi
losopher, Professor" Scott Fitzgerald,
"F7appers and Philosophers" (Scrfb-
ners). Following closely ON the heels
OF hts mastery monograph on IAfe
in its osculatory aspects. this coilec-
ton of short stories comes to elucidate
the Professors position on various
minor phases of his great subject. One
cannot of course mention Mr.. Fitz-
gerald without adverting to his clever
ness, which is almost as well IL
Illustrated In these stories as in This
Side OF Paradise" TIis faculty of
characterizing people In a sentence In
a way to make one thank Heaven one
the use of the limited but pungent
vocabulary of his type; his Ingenuity
In the Matching of unusual plots, all
point to a case of cleverness- In its
most uncompromising form.
The first story in the book. The
Offshore Pirates" is an amusing farce.
in which the heroine and the reader
flap their ears in unison. AS a piece
Of stage managing 1t is well worked
out, and produces the effect intended.
In his handling of the sea motif. M
Fitzgerald shows kinship OF spirit
IL
whose sense Of hnmor is robust enough
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Serious Fiction About Negroes

In her foreword to her book of
eight short stories dealing with the
American negro. Children of the
Mist" (Appleton), George Madden
Martin thus characterizes the race
she is portraying: Sweet and lovable,
mystified. baffled and exploited, dis
couraged and embittered, these hap
less people, children who after fifty
six years of freedom still see as In a
glass darkly!" II the stories that
follow are the expansion Of this text,
1t is equally true that they lead one
to suspect that the same mist that
comes between the American negro
and the programmes of his leaders
prevents the character of the negro
from becoming more than an enigma
to his white neighbors.
The eight stories in the present
volume are alike in one respect, they
are all serious attempts to draw the
negro character faithfully and justly.
If they SAVIOR too strongly at times of
the sociological tract. if they reveal
too clearly at moments that they were
written with a purpose" they are at
least serious. The negro of Children
of the Mist" is not the crap shooting,
subtle. lazy fellow of wit now so omni-
present in popular stories about the
negro. Whatever Of the dogmatic Mrs.
Martin allowed to creep in in her
moral zeal, she has written in funda-
mental and universal terms of her
theme as 1t must be written OF IL we
are ever going TO do more than laugh
at the negro when he pleases US and
lynch him when he displeases us.
The eight stories range from the
last days of the civil war to the days
when America entered the world war.
1aker, together, they reveal the weight
of the burden that freedom placed upon
this race so rudely entered upon a
course in which they were to be handi-
capped by blinC prejudice and igno-
rance and the callous strategy of po-
.itical and economic power. The
stories are. quite naturally, of unequal
merit. In Fire from Heaven" for ex-
ample the author fails to make Docia,
the product of an educational institu-
ton such as Tuskegee, more than a
wooden puppet; the pathos of this inept
Prometheus Is lost. Nor is the exotic
and pagan note of The Blue Hand
kerchief!" sufficiently convincing; this
mixed breed girl Susy. with the blood
OF the Indian and the negro and the
white in her veins. loses her appeal
when she is made the victim of coinci-
lence and melodramatic incident. True
enough, this all may have happened,
but 1t is too true to be fiction.
Pom" is the outstanding story of
me eight. Pom is Of the new genera
ton Of negroes, in whom the new and
old are ever at war. That is the mean
ing OF the struggle in the soul of this
hoy between the immemorial supersti
tons Of his race and the half learned
lessons OF the new freedom. Pom
learns that freedom comes from within;
but that first lesson comes only after
infinite travail and pain In IAN Tnskip
Niggah." the story of Miss Lavinia
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Through a Window

Anne Douglas SedgWick Is so ac-
complished a writer, such a master of
style, that she has no fear Of land evil
IDENTIFY no compunction at) sitting In
the seat perilous. The intensely ro-
mantle story Of "The Third Window"
(Houghton Mifflin Company Is a cool
treatment of subject which Is seldom
discussed or pondered coolly In It's low
est terms by either men or women.
The story has been (and will continue
to be) widely read. and either admired
extremely and cherished as a beautiful
expression of ones own inarticulate
longings or turned from with n certain
regret-partly for that Mrs. de selin-
court should have employed her ex-
quisite art upon thing which many
persons feel to be unutterable, and
partly for personal reasons almost
wholly undeflnable; the two regrets
overlap. The suavity of her diction
can hardly charm them away.
1t Is tale of a young English lady
whose husband has been killed in the
war. who was disposed to marry man
who was the husbands close friend
and comrade, and also her own he had
been in love with her for years. It APP
pears. An elderly cousin of the dead
husband, to whom his memory was
utterly sacred, instinctively resented
the idea Of the second marriage. Table
rapping was the means employed to
intensity the young widows idea that
II she would look through the third
window at the end of the living room
in the fine old house she would see
her Malcolm standing by the fountain
In the walled garden; and II he were
really still "here"-how could she re-
marry? This edifying speculation is
pursued to the death. Eut the story Is
beautifully written.