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The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
Dairy Notes

Holbert and Jennings bought nine
producing cows recently.
w. A. Barnhart sold his seven Hol-
stein cows and bull to the Pendleton
Bros. of May Valley.
The herd of cows owned by Elmer
Lind and Otto Havey have the dis
tinction of being the highest produe-
ing herd in the state associations for
the month of October.
r. A. Jarboe of the Clearvicw dis
trict bought a Registered Holstein bull
from the Model Dairy at Holly.
The Dairy Breeders association sold
fifty head of Holstein cows and heifers
the last week. The following farmers
buying them: C. Durham, f. d. Gel
singer, E. C. Scriven, II. Blosser, Geo.
Case, Virgil Bolinger, jesse Bridges
and Ray McGrath.
Although the drop in the price Of
fresh milk has made dairying look dis
couraging to some yet in comparing
local feed and milk prices with other
parts of the state we find that we are
much better off than they. Bran, corn,
chop, maize. and barley can be bought
chenper here than at any other place
in the state and the price of fresh
milk is as follows: Johnstown, S2.10;
La Junta $3.50 per hundred for milk
testing 3.5 per cent, while here the
market is $3.50 for 3.5 per cent milk.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
OLD FORT BENT
The La Junta Fort Just Trading
Post and Not Used for
Defense.

There have been many stories afioat
about old Fort Bent at La Junta and
its history and the following account
given by A. Z. Reynolds. one OF the
few early settlers left, TO a meeting
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution at meeting held in La
Junta will be of great interest to ..i'
who desire facts in place of romance;
Mr.. Reynolds was there first in 1867,
and his recollection of the place goes
back further than that of any of the
old timers around La Junta. His ae-
count differs considerably from some
of the others.
He made very careful measurements
some years ago and discovered that
the old fort WIS built as an irregular
square. The side facing towards La
Junta was 1876 feet long, and the OPP
posite side only 1877 feet, difference
of thirty-two feet in the length. The
northern and southern ends were about
the same length, 125 feet.
According to his recollection, the
walls were only two or three feet thick
and some eigth feet or less in height.
According to his account, there was
no thought of defense in the construc-
ton of the building, but it was simply
built up as a trading post, using adobe
blocks because it was the only material
avrilable. The most serious trouble
ever encountered with the natives was
when few Indians would get drunk.
There never was two story build
ing there and the two round towers, or
bastions, which are shown in drawings
and descriptions of the place, he says
are only Pigments of the imagination.
II there ever was anything of that ma
ture in existence, it must have been
made of cottonwood or some other per-
ishable material which left no trace
of its existence at the time he first
saw it.
The roofs were made of cottonwood
girders, after the style Of the early
days, and covered with mud. In short,
it was the very simplest and plainest
kind of a building that could be con-
stlucted at the time for the purpose
of trading post. There was little
three pound cannon there, but that
was all in the line of artillery that
they had and there was no evidence to
show that there ever had been any
more.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
NATIONAL GUARD MEETING
business Mems Auxiliary Holds Ban
quet and Boosting Meeting at
the Ben-Ma

A large number of business men be-
longing to the Business Mems Auxil-
i.ry me. at the Bcn-Mar hotel with
number of invited guests for banquet
and 4 meeting to boost the organiza-
tior of the National Guard company
here. The officers of~the auxiliary, +.
NJ. Wilson, CRANKY Hillyer and X. L.
Christy called the meeting to encour-
age the enlistmcnts for company
bere. The meeting was well attended
and after a good feed number OF
speakers were called on and made talks
along the line of the need Of COM
pany here and the benefits It would
be TO Lamar. Major Bartlett spoke OF
the difference in the present form OF
the guard over that of the period pre-
yious to the war and the special inn
provements and advantages Of the pre-
sent form OF organization. The con-
,litions of the member of the company
are particularly superior under the
new organization.
The evening was spent in discussions
Of every phase of the situation and
much enthusiasm was created. Ten
new members were enlisted at the
meeting including several ey-service
men. This brings the total enlistmcnts
up to about fifty.
Arrangements are being mode to Sc
cure-thc X. p. hall for regular week
iy meetings of the guard members un-
til the new armory is constructed. The
present enlistments are sufficient to
ensure the organization.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
GETTING 1T STRAIGHT
Leader Man Turns Defeat into
Screaming Victory.

Describing the local football teams
defeat at the hands of Pueblo two
weeks ago the versatile editor of the
Las Animas Leader pulls the follow
ing:
playing invincible ball, in which
the defense held like stone wall, and
the back field played rings around
their opponents, the Las Animas high
school foot ball team held the fight
ing Centennial high school at Pueblo
to a 9 to 6 game on the Pueblo field
Saturday afternoon"
Whatever the team may have done
the editor cure plsyed rings around
the English language. If he could do
all that on 4 measly little setback of
9 to 6, We tremble to think what he
will do to our boys who handed them
a real jolt last Saturday to the tune
of q 81 to Z beating.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
RED CROSS DRIVE A SUCCESS
Campaign Short but Effective in La
mar-County Returns Coming
In Slow.

The Red Cross membership drive
was a great success here and it is ex-
pected that when the lists are all in
the county will be far ahead Of its ex-
pected membership. In Lamar the var
ious teams under the leadership Of the
city chairman, o. II. Rhodenbaugh,
made almost as quick work as origin
ally intended. They started when the
first whistle blew but not many OF
them succeeded in covering their terri
tory in the half hour allotted. However,
long before noon the seven hundred
expected was exceeded and the total
stands at about eight hundred and fif-
~ now.
The returns from the county have
been much slower in coming in but the
reports are all favorable to large
membership being secured and Coun-
ty Chairman X. J. McGrath thinks
when all returns are in it will be found
that the Prowers County Chapter has
secured much larger membership roll
than was expected of it.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
wilkinson Mcllvaine

Thomas A. Wilkinson of Murphys-
boro, H., and Viola j. McIlvainc of
Lamar, Colo, were married at 1880
o'clock Friday, November IL, by the
Rev. J. ]. Patterson of the First Bap-
tist church in Winfield, Kansas.
Mr.. Wilkinson is with the Oklahoma
Pipeline Company and is man of
sterling business qualities.
The bride is q Lamar woman and
comes to Winfield highly respected by
her friends there as woman worthy
OF the friendship and respect of any
church and community.
They will be at home to their friends
at 920 East sth Avenue, Winfield,
Kansas, after November goth, 1920
Winfield Courier.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
Health Inspection

Monday morning, November %, at
the request of the parents and teach
ers Of Clover Meadow School, Miss l..
Pearl Armitage, Lamar public school
nurse, made an inspection of all the
pupils. There were several cases of
diphtheria and typhoid fever in the
school district and the teachers felt
the need of some kind of an investi-
CATION, so called upon our Red Cross
nurse.
After an examination of twenty-nine
pupils, only five were found who did
not have either throat or teeth trouble.
Under such conditions it certainly
would seem that we need a county
nurse who can carry on this work and
devote her entire time to such con-
ditions as may arise in our rural
schools.
Although Miss Armitage is willing
to devote as much of her time as she
can spare, nevertheless, we are all
aware of the fact that she cannot do
1t justice, so let US give the rural COM
munity our hearty support and boost
for county nurse who will fill a much
felt need and at the same time tend
to insure the health of the coming
generation.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
COLORADO CROPS
Colorado Takes Lead in Sugar Beets
and Alfalfa.

While Colorado's total agricultural
products look small compared with the
big farming states east of US owing
to the fact that only the past few years
has it been regarded as the chief re-
source of the state and especial at
tention paid to it, yet in two of the
nations leading crops it already takes
the lead on total production as well as
average production per acre. On av-
ercge the state leads in several crops
but owing to small acreage the total
production is not impressive.
The two crops which according to
the government reports Colorado leads
in are sugar bets and alfalfa. About
thirty per cent OF the nations sugar
beet crop comes from Colorado and
about ten per cent of the alfalfa hay.
Prowers county helped very materially
in making this record, being the larg-
est producer of alfalfa in the southern
half of the state and second in sugar
beets.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
LAMAR TRIMS LAS ANIMAS
Football Dope Receives a Bad Jolt BE-
cause Savages Get Savage.

The sensational writers of the day
make much to do about the eternal
Triangle" but it has nothing at all on
the Arkansas valleys football triangle
or tangle-whicheve you call it.
Las Animas beat Rocky Ford. Rocky
Ford then beat Lamar. Last Satur-
day Lamar beat Las Animas. Can
you beat it?
A large crowd of boosters turned out
al the football game last Saturday
afternoon to help boost for the Lamar
boys in the game with, Las Animas.
The advance dope looked like Las AMI
mns was to be valley champions but
the Lamar Savages had struck their
real stride at last and were genuinely
savage on that occasion. The game
was hotly contested but was mostly
played in Las Animas territory. The
only score Las Animas made was on
a fluke play. Both teams scored n
touchdown and goal in the second
quarter. Lamar scored touchdown
and goal in the third quarter and again
in the fourth, making the score 81 to
z in favor of Lamar.
This game tied the valley champion
ship up in such mess that it will
take three games yet to settle it.
Rocky Ford plays Lamar here on
Thanksgiving Day and Trinidad plays
ut Las Animas. The two winners will
then arrange a game for the final
honors.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
Explained

The staggering majority for Presi-
dent-elect Harding has confounded all
political explainers heretofore, but the
Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch has at last
offered a reasonable explanation. 1t
says the democrats attempted to send
their ballots by mail and Burleson
can't be reasonably expected to deliv-
er them until after March 4th next.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24
An Appeal
To the Republicans of the Country and
All Those Who Aided Them:

: All Those Who Aided Them
The Republican the election has been
with the quality of candidates and the righteous
This success is the partnership accomplishment Repub
everywhere and of hundreds of thousands OF Wewls
of good regardless of past party Affiliations
To all of these appeal because it is the mutual espon
sbiy of all who share alike in the consequent mutual
benefit of good government 1900
The plan limiting contributions to $1,000 adopted
by national organization has left your party unmor
1t faseq has been most advanced step in placing the of
politics the highest plane and has brought an interest on
thousands who before have been concerned
Some weeks before election it was apparent that the expenses
provided for in budget with the strict would
exceed the contributions but were unwilling either to
leave any legitimate essential to complete
change the method of raising money We were
then sure and we are now sure that every desires
that the expenses of the campaign be distributed IN TINS
presidential campaign this year than that of
1916 when dollar went nearly twice far does today
Four the bulk of the campaign fund from $50
contributions while this year the approximately S2oOoOOO
contributed to date for the presidential election came from
victory the raising deficit would be easy
deed committee willing to abandon the policy
determined 1t a fight of all the people The
result speaks for itself lifted burden from the minds of
millions and points the better and happier days We
ask for that additional help from all which is merted
both by the successful conclusion of the effort and by the
consequent contribution to the welfare of all of our people
and the glory of the nation
yeory and all that it means to the country It might wen
certainly safe constitutional progressive government
Let us by general and giving put the seal of
the policy of putting national administration
from possible embarrassment of special obligation
to any man. men or group of men Let us make the con-
tribution whether large small and whether not
have heretofore given, with and
appreciation always within the maximum limit hereto
fore fixed.
Let the cornerstone political
structure the roll of those who have helped make
sibe campaign OF which, in methods and results may
Republicans and patriots be justly proud.
Most earnestly that this aid be quickly that
committee be enabled to discharge the pays obga
tions and turn further constructive work behalf
and country
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE,
Will H. Hays, Chairman.
Checks should be made payable to Fred w. Upham,
Treasurer, James G. Blaine Jr Eastern Treasurer
and sent to the Committees Office 10 West 44th St.
New York City. N. Y.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24

Les Jones. who had the Springfield
mail contract before the government
took it over itself, received hand
some big bus last week and is now
running a bus line to Springfield.
The Lamar register., 1920-11-24

c. F. Pfile of Oklahoma City, one
OF that city's most successful oil men,
is here today with ]. R. Eckies.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-08-21
$500 EXEMPTION
FOR HOUSEHOLD
SUPREME COURT DECISION BEN
EFTTS THOUSANDS FAMILIES
IN HINNEHAHA COUNTY.

Pierre, Aug. 21.-Upholding the
original contentious of Attorney Gen.
eral Byron S. Payne, the state su-
preme court, in a recent decision ia
voring the plaintiffs, H. l.. Eveland,
H. C. Preston and Hugh Smith, as
the state tax commission, versus II.
II. Johns, county auditor, of Lawr-
ence county, defendant, held that
South Dakota taxpayers are allowed
exemption on household effects to
the amount of $500.
This decision is farreaching in ef-
feet for it not only concerns every
property owner in that particular
county but in every other county as
WE'LL.
The decision asserts that "the
county auditor shall deduct, after
county equalization, the exemptions
authorized by this act, fixed at $500
from the total amount of assess
ment, and levy taxes upon the re
mainder."
The case was in the nature OF
test affair and the decision is re
suit of proceedings by mandamus in
stituted by the state tax commission
against the defendant as county au
ditor of Lawrence county to compe
the deduction.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-08-21
$4,000 ROBBERY
AT |ROQUO|s
SILKS AND TIRES ARE SELECTED
FROM BIG STOCK.

Huron, Aug. 21.-Robbers entered
the A. c. Brown general merchandise
store at Iroquois, and the Ford ga
rage owned by Guy Crawford, of Iro-
quois, and made off with $4,000
worth of automobile tires. No clew
as to which direction the robbers
took upon leaving the town has been
found.
The robbery was committed some
time between the hours of 8 O'Clock
last night and o'clock this morning.
1t was not discovered until the store
keepers opened their places of busi-
ness. The thieves gained entrance
TO the Brown store by taking out a
piece of the door and after taking
out piece of the door unfastening
the lock on the inside. The screen
door was removed first.
The garage from which the tires
were stolen was entered through the
back door also. 1t is thought that a
skeleton key was used, as the win
dows and the doors were found to be
intact.
Only large tires were taken from
the garage All of the smaller ones
and those likely to be of little value
were left, showing that the thieves
were able to take their time in their
| selection and were in no great hurry
| to finish their business. The silk
| goods which were stolen from the
| Brown general merchandise store
| consisted of silk hose, women's silk
waists, silk neckties and several bolts
of silken goods. Only the very best
| grade of silk was taken at this place
the cheaper grades remaining un
touch. All of the woolen goods Of
any value in the store was taken.
| A posse has been organized and il
combing the countryside for the rob
bers, but as yet no trace of them ha'
been discovered. The sheriff o
Kingsbury county at DeSmet ha
been notified and is also aiding in th'
search.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-08-21
SOUTH DAKOTANS
WELCOME IN JAPAN
SPECIAL PLAY PLANN Ed
PARTY WILL LEAVE FOR
HOME AUG. 25.

Shimonoseki, Japan, Aug. 21-
Headed by Senator Thomas Sterling,
Vermillion, South Dakota, the con-
gressional party touring the Far
East arrived here for a seven day in
spection of Japan. A reception COM
mittee from Toxic, with Prince Toku-
gawa as spokesman, greeted the con-
and at once escorted them to pri-
vate train which will take them to
Kobe, the largest commercial port in
Japan, where a two day fete will be
staged by the Japanese government
in honor of the visitors.
Along the whole route hamlets and
towns have been festooned with
American flags and the visit of the
Washington delegation is being made
a holiday. At Koyto, which the
Americans will visit Thursday, once
the stronghold of shotgun and sam
urai a ceremony has been arranged
i'm which the customs and manners OF
old Japan will be depicted. From
Kyoto the party will go to Toxic
where they will take up residence in
the Seiyoken hotel preparatory to
making the return trip to Seattle
Aug. 25. Trips to Nokko Hakone
Kamakura, Perry's bay and other
scenic and historical spots in Japan
have been arranged by the American.
japanese association of Toxic.
Other northwestern people in tht
party besides Senator Sterling are;
Senator Edwin S. Johnson, Yankton
Congressman and Mrs. James A
Frear, Hudson, Wis; John Burke
Fargo, n. D., and Congressman c. c
Dowell, Des Moines, Iowa.
y In honor of the American party
the japanese government will give {
garden party at the palace Aug. %
at which the prince and members o
| the Japanese cabinet will play thu
| hosts. At p. m. the party will ad
journ to the Imperial theater for din
ner and a special presentation by ;
Japanese company of 1.-THE American
Ambassador" play written by Kid'
| Okamoto.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-08-21

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 21-In the
midst of parliamentary debate on the
suffrage amendment, members of the
ture this afternoon voted against re-
consideration of the resolution rati-
flying the suffrage amendment. The
anti-suffrage members contended no
quorum was present and refrained
from voting. There were SO eyes.
After the vote the suffragists rang
the liberty bell, contending they had
won and the fight was over. The
house then adjourned until Monday.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-08-21
HUNT ON FOR AUTO
MOBILE THIEVES
POSSE SEARCH HILLS NEAR THE
TOWN OF WESSINGTON AND
ARE FIRED UPON.

Huron, Aug. 21-Descriptions Civ
en- by the Maxwell Bros, proprietors
of a garage at Arlington, S. d., which
was the scene of daring robbery re-
Gently, are claimed by the local po-
lice officers to coincide with the de-
scriptions of Van Mulholland and
Robert Ennerts, who are wanted by
the Beadle county authorities for sew
eral offenses. The circumstance led
to the formation of an armed posse
at an early hour this morning headed
by Deputy Sheriff A. ]. Larson, of
Beadle county. The sheriff and his
party proceeded to the hill region a
few miles south of the town OF Wes-
sington. The washington hills have
recently been suspected of being the
headquarters of gang of automo-
bile thieves who operate out of that
locality and prey upon this region.
At the home of Mulholland's father
in-law the posse at his hint found a
Dodge car containing ten of>the tires
which were stolen from the Arlington
garage on Tuesday night. The pres
ence of the party was discovered al
the farmhouse and the posse was
fired upon from ambush of nearby
cornffeld. Every effort ITO locate
| those doing the shooting was withou
effect. 1t is understood that anothel
posse will be formed here tonight t.
proceed to the rendezvous of th'
| gang near Washington.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-08-21
ROUNDUP OFFICE
A BUSY PLACE
MIR. BANGS AND FORCE WORK
LONG HOURS TO MAKE THE
CONTEST A SUCCESS.

A recent call at round up head
quarters gave an insight into the
publicity end of the big round up
that is to be staged at the fair
grounds Aug. 26-27-2S. Mr.. Bangs,
the general manager, has an office
force of six people busily engaged
with routine business which consists
of stenographic work, correspond
ence, advertising, etc. all of which
keeps everybody working busily 16
to Is hours every day
The effort of the publicity depart
ment has been to advertise the con-
test widely over great part of
southeastern South Dakota. The pos
ters, lighter literature and other
forms of advertising matter are
scattered over a one hundred mile
radius from this city and the work
is thoroughly and Systematically
done by experts. Thirteen thousand
mails; 10000 dodgers and the same
number of flash cards have been sent
to over SO cities and towns in this
section of the state.
All the people under Mr.. Bangs,
and the manager himself, are favor
ably impressed with Madison and her
agreeable people, who are according
the round up folks every possible
courtesy. The whole force, top
hands and all. are cooperating and
boosting for the big spectacular con
test that comes to Madison for the
first time. 1t is the biggest kind of
an event, judged from the number
of stock and people who are back of
it all, to give the public something
real western and really new in stunts
and performances.
Should Madison's population be
| disturbed in their slumber some of
these nights by a chorus of war
whoops, it will mean that round UP
people are relaxing from the pressure
of intense labor necessary to make
the big event a complete success.
The Madison Merchants associa-
tion recently extended an invitation
to Governor Norbeck to be present at
/ iCd5t dullh6 ohC VI thC iOuhu w
dates. A reply stated that the chief
executive had an engagement in
Todd county and could not be pres
ent however much he would like to
do SO.
Through the Madison Merchants
association the matter of special
train service .was placed before the
| Sioux Falls chamber of commerce
and that body sent back a communi
cation stating that everything woult
be done to secure the desired trans
portation facilities.
Top hands for the round up arr
telegraphing their coming ahead o
the scheduled dates. Mr.. Bangs re
ceived a message today stating tina
Kenneth Hayes, Buffalo Brady, Mix
Hastings. Oklahoma Curley, Padd.
Ryan, Kenneth Cooper, Hippy Bur
! mister, Johnny Mullins, Roy Kane
and others from Interior, s. ID.
would be on hand in time for the bi
contest.