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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
MRS. G.S. SN[ELSER
PASSES AWAY IN
DENVER TUESDAY

The sad news of the death of Mrs.
Guy S. Smelser was received by MEM
bers of the H. ]. Smelser family here
Tuesday evening. Mrs. Smelser, who
had been critically i'll at the home of
her parents for the past several
weeks, passed away Tuesday after
noon, Mr.. Smelser being at her bed
side when the end came. Mrs. Smell
ser had been in poor health for sever
al months, having underwent two OPP
erations at hospital in Denver,
everything known to medical science
being employed in an effort to restore
her health, but to no avail.
The death of Mrs. smelser is Sc
we're shock to the husband and rela-
tives as well as to her host Of friends
here, who held her in high esteem, she
being very popular in social circles
The deceased was married to Guy 5.
Smelser, well-known real estate man
of this city, in June, 1919, few
months after Mr.. Smelser's return
from France, where he had served in
the World War. The happy and pop
ular couple had nothing but the
brightest of prospects before them. A
coy bungalow was erected in the
north part of the city, and they had
lust gotten comfortably situated
when Mrs. Smelser's suffered failing
health, terminating in her untlmely
death.
Words cannot express the deep
sympathy extended to the bereaVeo
husband and relatives by numerous
friends, in this, their dark hour. The
ANGEL of Death has taken favorlte
from our midst to the Great Beyond
it being the bidding Of Him VINO Is
wise and knoweth all things. May
this be a comforting thought to the
bereaved ones in the departure OF
their loved one.
Ruth Lungren was born in Denver
Colo, February Ia, 1892, being q
wears, one month and 20 days OF age
at the time Of death. She was mem,
Der of the Presbyterian church o.
South Denver, having protested he'
faith in God at an early age, and was
an active church worker. She leaves
to mourn her loss besides the nus
band, her mother and father, Mr.. ane
Mrs. w. E. Lungren of Denver, one
sister, one brother and number Of
other relatives.
Funeral services will be held IL
Denver today, Thursday from tn
parental home and interment made II
Denver.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
BURYING GEORGE"

"Let George Do It" has been a tav-
orite phrase, satirizing the people who
when asked to do public work, always
PASS the buck to some one else.
The St. Paul, MINI. Association re-
Gently decided that so much had been
laid on poor old George, that his over
worked back had broken under the
load, resulting in his sad and greatly
regretted demise. Therefore at one
of their entertainments, hearse
drawn by two forlorn old horses was
pulled across the stage, accompanied
BY group of town criers, members OF
the advertising clubs. They informed
the audience that George had died OF
a broken back, the result of years OF
Let's bury George here in Jules,
burg, If you see job of work that
needs doing, take hold and do 1t your
self. or be willing to serve with 9TH
ers in getting it done. A city where
that spirit prevails is sure to go
ahead.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR
live WIRE STAFF CORRESPONDENTS

Sunday many friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Helm called to see the new
baby.
A small child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
French is quite i'll at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Meyers and
George were Julesburg visitors Sat
urday.
Mr.. Holmes Laughlin is having his
house that is occupied by Mr.. Eliza
Connerly's family. lined with plas-
ter board.
Sunday Mr.. Geo. Myers and family,
Mr. Leo Drake and family drove over
to the south table while joy riding.
Mr.. Lou Hagemeister of Lisco,
Nebr., spent Monday with his brother,
Charles, south of town.
Mr.. Sam Schafer is preparing to
build new house soon in the east
part of Ovid.
The Jankovsky Mercantile Co. have
installed a new filling tank on the
south side Of their store.
Ovid Consolidated School Notes
Come to the box social and program
next Wednesday evening at 8 O'Clock.
Bessie O'Connor is having a long
siege with pink eye.
Beatrice Drummond became i'll and
was excused from school Tuesday af-
ternoon.
Martha Busse is absent this week
The school will use the proceeds of
the coming box social to purchase a
piano. Don't forget the date, April
goth, at 8 o'clock, in the new school
building
We are sorry that Arthur Bratton
will not be able to continue his school
work with US this year.
A brother of Miss Martha kissack
visited school last Friday.
Ovid Consolidated School Will Play
Engaged by Wednesday" at the
New School House Wedhes-
day, April 10th
Present Time, Three Acts. Martin
Henry, the LATEST man in the coun-
try. Miss Persons, maiden lady
with ideas. Lucille, Marie, Mabel and
lane, college girls. Mrs. Watson, a
gentle person, her son Arthur and his
friends. A cook, some gypsies and
many other characters.
Synopsis-Lucile is coming home.
Tell Arthur and we'll have them en-
gagged. Ma'am, Shall l kiss her!
Did l hear right. Lively little
scheme. Pm dying of the shock.
The above is only one feature of the
program to be rendered by the school
children. Come and vote for the
most popular young lady. All ladies
are expected to bring box. The
proceeds will be used to purchase a
piano for the school.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
CLEANUP DAY
TOBE HELD HERE
FRIDAY, APRIL q

Get ready for the big Clean-Up
Day which will be held IN Julesburg
FRIDAY. April 18TH. On that DAY .
general cleanup OF our city Will De
staged. as the Juiesburg Womans
CLUB. Julesburg community CluD ana
City officials are now making pre-
paratsons Tor a systematic cleanup
OF both the business and residence
sections OF our city. Inc pupils OF
our schools Will assist, and all our
citizens are urged to lend their COOP
Grafton IN making Julesourg clean.
The Civic committees of the Jules
burg Woman,s Club and Julesourg
Community Club Will nave charge;
more detailed announcement OF the
plans will appear in next weeks IS
sue OF the Grit-Advocate. City off,
Gals and members OF the womahs
club and community club held meet
ing last Thursday morning, and 1t
was decided to hold a Cleanup
day, it being thoroughly realized the
great benefits to be derived from such
a campaign.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
THE DAWNING"

Because so many could not get into
the Congregational! Church two weeks
ago and therefore could not witness
the Pageant entitled The Dawning,"
it has been decided to repeat the pro-
gram next Sunday evening This will
give to those who did not see the
pageant chance to do so and anoth-
ed crowded house will undoubtedly
greet this fine production.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
OVID NEWS
The Consolidated School will Civ

The ConsoIldated Scho0i VIII CIV
a program and box social in the new
building Wednesday evening, April
goth.
Mr.. Daibert Bratton went after Ar
thur Saturday and returned Monday.
We are sorry to see Arthur's crippled
condition and hope he will soon be
able to throw his crutches away.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Dunkle, Mr.. Bal
lard and little Mary Margaret Of
Julesburg were callers at the Drum
mond home Sunday evening.
The members of the Busy Bee Sun
day school class enjoyed a weinie
roast Sunday evening.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
EXPERT OIL MAN TO MAKE
INVESTIGATIONS HERE

A meeting of the board of direc-
tors of The Julesburg Oil & Royal
the Home Land Co.'S offices. At this
ties Co. was held Tuesday evening at
meeting it was decided to secure the
services of reputed oil expert who
has located seventeen producing wells
in other fields, and this man is ex-
pected to come here in the near fu-
ture to make a thorough investiga-
ton of the structures in this section
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
PLAYERS CLUB
WILL PRESENT
ONE-Am PLAY

The Julesburg Players Club will
present one-act play, "Miss Civiliza-
tion," at the Hippodrome theatre Fri
day evening, April 22nd. This play
will be given in addition to the regu-
lar motion picture program. The
play depicts blood-curdling, thrill
ing hold-up, in which three experien-
ced thugs attempt to rob home in
which there is only girl and moth
err The mother is i'll and the girl
alone and unafraid. She calmly looks
into the face of three big revolvers,
outwits them, and holds them until
the arrival of the police.
The cast of characters is as fol-
lows:
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14
STH GRADE CON-
&NCEhEM AND
FELDDAY MAY Is

Eighth Grade Commencement and
Field Day, Julesburg, Monday, May
10Th, under the supervision Of County
Superintendent Of Schools.
Mrs. c. F. Schroeder cooperating
with the County High and Grade
School Of Julesburg, an Eighth Grade
Commencement and Field Day is b
be held at Julesburgg, Monday, May
10th.
The afternoon will be devoted to
field sports and games. In the even
ing county graduation exercises will
be held in the County High School
Auditorium. 1t is hoped all rural
schools not Immediately adjacent to
the Branch High Schools at Sedgwick
and Ovid will plan to attend the exer-
cises. 1t would be q splendid thing
if all the eighth grade pupils Of the
County could be present at the field
exercises, though we realize that the
graded and consolidated schools may
not wish to take part in the gradu-
alton exercises. The eighth grades
Of the Julesburg and Ovid and SsAg-
wick schools are to take part in ths
Field Day.
Teachers of the County have shown
much interest in the Field Day and
for their benefit list Of contests IL
published below. Any information
needed will be gladly given by Mrs.
Schroeder.
FIELD DAY PROGRAM
Both boys and girls are eligible to
try for any prize though the general
order in indicated.
Team Contest
No Prize
l. End ball.
2. Tog -OWar. Best team of five.
3. Relay race, team Of four. ~
yard run or four blocks. Winner
$500.
4. Horse shoe pitching stakes,
eleven yards. Score 21-nearest shoe
counts l, leaner or contact 3, ringer
5. Two to team. Winner $500.
individual
S. Standing broad jump. $50 to
first, ribbon second.
6. Running broad jump. $50
first, ribbon second.
Z. Hand spring. $50 first, ribbon
second. Contest judged by straight
ness Of turn and ability to bring feet
to place touched by hands.
8. Longest ball thrown. Regular
baseball. $50 first, ribbon second.
9. Best target throw. $50 first,
ribbon second. Base ball thrown to
hit 2-foot ring, SO yards.
10. Hop-stey jump. $50 first,
ribbon second.
II. Standing high jump. $50
first, ribbon second.
10. Running high jump. $50 first,
ribbon second.
Ia. Vaulting. $50 first, ribbon
second.
Is. Best loaf cake. q. light
$50 first, ribbon second.
b. dark-$.5O first, ribbon second.
l6. Best sugar cookies. $50 first,
ribbon second.
II. Best loaf bread. $50 first,
ribbon second
10. Best kitchen apron. $50
first, ribbon second.
10. Best button hole. $50 first,
ribbon second.
20. Best darning. $50 first, rib
bon second.
q. Best patching. $50 first, rib
bon second
%. Best pen and ink map:
a. U. S. $50 first, ribbon Sec
ond.
b. Colorado $50 first, ribbon
second.
c. Sedgwick county. $50 first.
ribbon second.
%. Best pencil and charcoal
sketch. $50 first, ribbon second.
"a. Best water color sketch. $50
first, ribbon second.
25. Best written letter addressed
and mailed to Mrs. Schroeder, County
Supt. of Schools, Julesburg, Colo
first, $500, second $1.OO.
Judge equally on general neatness,
penmanship and composition.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1921-04-14

Cast OF Characters
Alice Gardner ---Stella Smelser
"Uncle" Joe Hatch, alias Gentle
man Joe" Frances Rock
Freddy, the Kid" karl Mcintyre
Harry Hayes, alias "Grandstand"
Harry Penney
Don't miss seeing "Miss Civiliza-
tion." 1t is a real thriller from start
to finish. Rememb crit is in addition
to the regular picture program.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23
THE GATEWAY OF DEATH

so OFTEN the death There " crash moving an the busy city street. and bodies which alive bmmng with and hearts which filled with longer beat Spirits which lived these of Or the weaed body perhaps lies bed of sickness The heart struggling agant dreadful thing which through the arteries o m and at last stiffness Something within passed ahead and the house where life obng wonder o ter questioning the grave in fathlessness, there hopeless and dsmayed
 But death be mystery what shall of fe We say the life fledbut fe We cannot tell Ill the death of life and yet for scores faithful graphing with living prop which he could What of Gods children who walk darkness? What of infant lives lived where truth What burdens pressing down on shoulders them? What of virtue ruced and wee
 throne? of little children starving for the crust the swine? What of mothers and God who break tne loving unworthy children? If know not what life B why life i what earthly there be Tor our knowing where it goes?
 the end of the mystery o
 fes Death leads from this gropng the sunlight God where look back on life h knowledge Gods with Gods understanding oVe the things which baed us here mere the sunlight which all the while shining above the couos which dkned pathway there and know the love "c " in of biterest anguish God covering us
 beloved is dead Oh foolish hearts beloved
 the mystery that lie proVioeo the pain which cushes your Through the and gate of death ne mas happiness into light and in his newfound gad daily growing tha' -Ae wait long for to
 x MIDDLETON S. BARNWELIA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23

Drunk"
 Immediately after revolution in Texas began to show it's face he threw him self into the thick of it and very soon reached the top. When came to the front" he said, ''everybody got drunk. It was necessary for somebody to keep sober. took the job. And from that day to~this no intoxicating drop has ever passed my lips"
 His canvass for governor of Texas after the Kansas-Nebraslxa contretemps was the wonder of the time, a yoke-mate to the wondrous campaign of Henry A. Wise for governor of Virginia At the outset he was believed to have no chance of election. When the returns were all in he had swept the state
 It ii not the chatter of an old man to say that we have in these days few, if any, such leaders. Times have changed The conditions of public life have changed. I will not say for tho worse. But I see no such figures at the fore.
 Anyhow, Houston has been well named, and Texas should be proud of all it i'm plies. HENRY WATTERSON.
 The Galvez. Galveston, January 8, 1921
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23

To the Editor of The Houston Post:
 1l MUST be allowed my contribution to II the placing of the portrait of Gen. = Sam Houston. I am quite sure that no living man knew him as we'll as did I lived under the same roof with him-Willard,s hotel in Washington City flor many years; as child was his pet; as a youth his admiring protege; and I have never escaped the spell he cast upon me.
 In his middle life General Houston was impressively handsome. He pos sessed the Texan gift of narration. or a summer afternon on the shady side of the house, with little group about him. he would by the hour tell stories of his adventures. To me they were marvellous. sometimes risque-but they never de- generated to the vulgar. He rarely, if ever repeated himself.
 Eccentric, and sometimes bizarre, he had a proper dignity. No one ever slapped him on the back, or was hail. fellow-well-met with him. He was 8 roble speaker before an audience; a clever debater -in the Senate and on the musings; his voice full. round and flex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

some men will do almost anything Tor money except work for it.
 And what has become of the old fashioned girl who used to wear a ''shimmy?"
 There wouldn't be many divorces if married couples tried half as hard to keep each other as they did to get each other.
 Some of the debutantes (whatever that is) seem to have an idea that SO long as you are good bridge player you do not have to be a good cook.
 The women won't believe 1t. But man doesn't care a dang whether the lace she is wearing Is real lace SO long as the girl who is wearing it is a real girl.
 Married women get so many prom ises and sd many disappointments that 1T they didn't talk about what they were going to do they wouldn't have any fun at all.
 Tell a pessimist that you feel as young as you ever did and he'll tell YOU that is sure sign that you are get ting old
 Williams in real life do not go around hissing and glaring. They go around purring and smiling.
 Rule | in the Big Book kept by the recording angel reads as follows: "A lie is excusable when 1t shfelus some one from unhappincss."
 It is too bad that men do not appre- ciate how much woman appreciates a mans appreciation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23

why it has not done so. None should know better than engineers the slow ness with which the stream has been equipped to do business.
 Lock IS is the logical sequitur of what has gone before. To open the Warrior to the gateway of river bank coal and then close that gate does not smack of sound development acumen. Lock IS, like other things that are sound and rest on perma- nency of public benefit, is, in the end,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23

ible It was not possible to down such e man. <
 He separated himself from the ex- treme southern men. voted against the bill and lost his seat in the Senate of the United States. Everybody thought him politically dead. He returned to Texas. announced him. self a candidate for governor, personally campaigned the state and was triumph antly elected.
 His career was a romance and reads like fiction Elected when a very young man to the governorship of Tennessee, he married lovely girl, and. a few weeks later, of a sudden resigned his office, abandoned his wife and disap- peared. No one knew why the one and whither the other. After six or seven years, my father, then member of the Tennessee legislature. received letter from away out in the Indian country, saying Mrs. Houston should be granted her divorce A nobler, ptrer woman never lived. The fault was all mina'
 He had become an Indian chief in western Arkansas. 'They called me in those days" he used to say, Big
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23

DISTINCTION, January 22.- MhM Special )-will reindeer rais-
 WV ing become ' the major in- dustry of Alaska, eclipsing the value of the fisheries product. and sur passing even the worth of the gold output at the height of the pros pectors' activities in the late nine ties?
 That question is raised, according to a bulletin from the Washington D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic society, by representatives of government experts and Alaskan herders themselves who are petition ing Congress for federal aid in nGnt- ing disease among this new meat sup ply source-aid similar to that ex- tended the cattlemen who would com bat the tick among beef animals.
 Here is a remarkable example oi how government bread cast upon the waters may return" continues the pull letin. .'for it is less than three decades since the first reindeer were imported into Alaska from Siberia to help the Eskfmos. The bureau of education department of interior, performed the humanitarian service which unwit- tingly marked the beginning of an in- dustry which now registers more than 200, 900 animals, in addition to the more than 100000 which have been butchered for food and clothing since their importation.
 Recent reports of the plans to introduce reindeer herds in Canada to augment the Dominion's meat sup ply and to utilize Hand not known to be available for any other form of husbandry. make -tse status of the in dustry already established in Alaska a subject of special interest
 "Given another 10 years, with some thing of the same aid which rhe gov ernment extends to other animal in dustries, 1t is predicted that Alaska will range more than 100000 rein- deer. number which Is held to be greater than the aggregate of the herds of Norway. Sweden and Finland combined.
 Alaska is estimated to contain an area equivalent to that of California and Arkansas combined which is suit ble for grazing reindeer. and not suit able for framing or other animal rais- ing. This vast area would afford pas ture for millions of reindeer.
 Already the biological survey. de- partment of agriculture has estab- lished an experiment station in Alaska and further appropriation Is being asked for three reasons. The reindeer men wish scientific study of reindeer diseases and means. Of prevention, ex- pert advice Howard improving tho |stocR, and preservation of the moss growing grazing areas.
 More than 1000 Eskimos still own 70 per cent of the reindeer. a firm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-23
lFORNEY CHAPTER U D. C--By Frank Willis Barnett

defense of their property, their homes, and their institutions. l know of no better way to get into the heart of the old south than to become acquainted with the life stories of Robert F.. Lee and "stonewall' Jackson, the two su-t perb leaders and Christian soldiers whose names are honored not only on this side of the Mason and Dixon line, by the men who wore the gray but on the other side by those who wore the blue.
 As southern man I dare not here enter upon the glories of southern women, for like the balance of men born and reared in the south, am lia- ble to have brain storm and become ecstatic. Let me, however, place this wreath upon the heads of the Daugh- ters of the Confectionery, who not only each year place flowers above the graves of the sainted dead who sleep. some in unknown graves in the ceme- teries which dot the land, but who on other occasions keep in memory the lives of our great warriors and states men.
 I confess that when I arrived in An niston on Wednesday and no one was at the station to meet me that I feiD like a stepchild. I had no idea, how ever, of missing q chance to speak and so committee or no committee to greet me, I walked to the office of the Annniston Evening Star. and asked friend Ayres to tell me where and when I was billed to speak. He kindly put me in his car and rushed me to the place. Just as I got out. Dr. Leon Iad- mer came up and said. T was asked to meet you, but your train must have rolled in ahead of time.-
 I knew full we'll that thsrs had been slip up somewhere as tho Annis- tality. I found out one thing which did not know was on the programme and that was the meeting was to bo foa- lowed with a luncheon. the kind that the loving hands of only southern women can prepare and serve to the old veterans. Mrs. Thomas Ingram and her excellent committee did their part we'll. I am at home wherever -'eats" are scheduled. Good fellowship reigned supreme. Toasts were given by Mrs. s. F. Kennedy, Mrs. Thomas Herren- Mrs. Kirk Perrow. Rev. S. E. Hodges, Rev. Leon Latimer and Captain Parker.