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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
French Girls Letters Cause Divorce

~ TTAWA, ILL.-Letters saturated
with love, written to Or. A. j.
Weirick of Marseilles, ILL.,, by
French girl he met and loved overseas
during the war, were produced yester-
day in court by the Doctors wife Of
twenty years standing, and won her
divorce and $4,000 alimony. Or.
Werick, physician with a wide circle
of friends, did not appear to contest
the action. 49,
When the United States declared
war DR.. Weirick enlisted in the medl-
cal corps, was commissioned a captain
and sent overseas. When the war was
won, Captain Weirick returned, but
unfortunately for his future marital
peace, brought with him in trunk
many letters written to him by GER
tain French girl, who, his wife as
serted yesterday, was Marguerite
Caeen of Lemon, France, The billets-
doux were read, few of them, in
court Here are samples, signed
"Guette," French dlminutlve for
Marguerite:
81 have very nice white. dog,
which love, because he is just like a
baby. Oh, love, would like to have a
baby who was yours, too. l hope to
have one in year. Don't you like
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
Pretty Molly and
Her Slogan
BY FRANK II. WILLIAMS


q. 1922. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.
Pretty Molly Malone had slogan
that meant lot to Jack Hoffman, but
Jack didn't know it.
Jack only knew that he tingled all
over clear down to the tips of his toes
in his large goOd-loCking shoes when
ever he gazed into Molly's big brown
eyes, and longed to tell her she was
the sweetest girl in the world and that
he'd be the happiest man ever if only
she'd let him lead her to a preacher
and put wedding ring on her finger.
But it is not quite the whole truth
that Molly was the only girl for him.
He also knew that she treated him
rather disdainfully, that she had lot
of other beaux and that it didn't seem
to mean much in her young life
whether he came around or not. And
that was a very disagreeable thing to
know and no one can blame Jack for
fighting back this distressing knowl-
edge and trying to fool himself all the
time into belief that he didn't know
1t at all.
But the knowledge of Molly's purely
platonic attitude toward him would
rush over Jack like dark cloud every
now and then when, as tonight, he
called up Molly for date and was
turned down because of a previous
engagement with another fellow.
"Geew grumbled Jack over the
phone after Molly had said, "Tm
sorry" in the sweetest voice imag-
Unable. I'm about as popular with
you as the smallpox. Aren't you ever
going to break a date with another
fellow SOS to have one with me?"
"Why, jack" exclaimed Molly, re.
provingly, you wouldn't like it if
broke date with you to 60 out with
someone else, would you"
THAT isn't the point at ALL" ex,
claimed Jack. Here 1 am lying down
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
Martial Law in Too Lively Texas Town

officials with the military authorities.
MeXia was a sleepy farming town
of 5000 people until oil was found
near here and today it is a busting
city of 10000 people.
A tented city arose over night. Oil
development followers packed arriv-
ing trains or came in wagons, trucks
or on horseback.
The accommodations were few. Men
and their families slept in the open
or in tents or wherever shelter could
be obtained. A cot in a tent scared
in price from so cents to SO a night
1t cost So a night to sleep one night
in crude plank structure. The only
bathhouse was in a barber shop.
The oil development was rapid
There are six solid miles of derricks
and drillers' outfits and wooden build
ings where there had been open
prairie.
Gambling, drinking and dancing
halls soon began to flourish and kept
open every night Liquor was re-
ported openly sold and small fortunes
were said to have been lost at the
gaming tables.
Among those arrested were County
Attorney Eubanks and Deputy Sheriff
Steele.
To add to the excitement a $750,0O0
fire threatened to wipe MeXia off the
man
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
TESTING Colors.

The fading of colors in dyed mate
rails and wall papers is said to be
caused by the invisible ultraviolet
rays in sunlight. Formerly, observes
an expert in such matters, the carpet
makers and dye merchants in Europe
tested the colors by sending their ma
terials to be exposed in the strong
sunlight of the South. Now they get
the same results by using the electric
mercury-vapor lamp and a quartz
tube. BY exposing the materials to
the ultraviolet rays thus artifcially
produced, they can in few days, and
in any climate, test the permanency
of the colors.-Chrlstian Science Moni-
for
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
Delicacies In New York Colonies

HOLSTERS tails, sun-dried, are n
great deicacy with the Greeks, and
are imported regularly. A kaviar is
imported from the Hellenes and all
along the Asia Minor seaboard. 1t Is
the roe of the bashra which Is sailed
down, mlld-cured and sun-dried to q
firm compactness which makes the ar
ticle almost as hard as wood. Then
It Is STEPPED in and given an effective
coating Of beeswax. This will pre-.
serve it for years, and the slightly fra.
grant beeswax film will hold It's faint
honey-like odor for as long. This Is
the real original Turkish kayiar.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09

that? Be a good boy who loves his
girl and not any other. And |, myself,
am yours forever. One thousand kisses.
"GUETTE."
Another reads: "My lover, just re-
ceived your two letters and the money.
thank you, darling Really, was
very sad, because l had no letters. l
thought you had forgotten me.
know, lover, you are not the same as
the others, and l am sure you will
come back to take your little girl, who
loves you so much, and l hope you
1--we also. Lover, you promised to send
me picture. Don't forget. My lover,
thank you, and be sure am always
and forever your little girl, who loves
you"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
Didn't Advertise 1t.

isn't it queer that Methuselah
lived to be 969 years old, and many
other men lived to be very aged in
Bible times, without a woman living
to be that old?"
ut isn't bit queer. 1t merely
shows that women were the same then
as now. What woman would ever con-
fess to being a thousand years old?"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
Shave With cuticura SOAP

And double your razor efficiency as
well as promote skin purity, skin com.
fort and skin health. No mug, no
Shiny soap no germs, no waste, no irri-
tation even when shaved twice daily.
One soap for all uses-shaving bathing
and shampOoing-Adv
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
A Bostonian Lesson.

Pronounce Cannes" with the Bos-
tonian "a" as in dance" to rhyme
with "aunts" and not with "ants."-
POStOn Globe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
Well, Is 1t?

ut ought not to be necessary" said
Doc Braney, 'for man to cultivate
low tastes to avoid being unkindly sus-
pected as a 'highbrow.' Washington
Star.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09
Unkind.

"My face is my fortune" she said.
"Well," lie replied, never mind that.
The richest people aren't always the
happiest
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09

Practical jokers prosper in their jok-
ing because so few have the DISPOSE
ton to retaIate. ..
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09

Two Varieties of Hard Luck.
There's two kinds of people always
in hard luck; them th't did it, but
never thought; and them th't thought,
but never did it.-Josh Wise.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-09

and letting you walk all over me and
everything and I don't seem to be get.
ting anywhere with 1t at all. 1t just
rifles me all up to have you treat me
only as If l was a good friend and
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16

teach" Soul salvation and com
munity regeneration was his goal.
1t is our task. "Ye are the salt of
the earth The salt must come into
contact with that which is to be
preserved. We must touch the
people In vital influence
Edison declared the moving pic.
ture to be the future means of the
worlds education. The movie is
here to stay. But 1t must not 20
unregulated and teach vice and
crime by suggestive scenes of vice.
immortality and violence. We must
/ save the future fatherhOod and
motherhood of the land. Thousands
OF rOughneck pictures now lead to
degeneration where one good film
leads to regeneration. OF the 1900
moving picture producers 80 per
cent are Jews. who declare that
pictures that feature the sex ap-
peal and show the process OF crime
and violence earn for them many
times over the revenue that other
pictures produce and they are In 1t
for the money. They get Is to 100
Thousand dollars for good pictures
but from $50 to $500 thousand for
suggestive films The play life
program Is last making criminals.
1t is undOing the work OF home and
school and becoming a school of
crime. s,3OO,0O0.0O0 are now being
spent In detecting and prosecuting
crime. five times all that is spent
on missions and education. $4,000
girls went over the precipice last
year, largely influenced by the
movies. The young people Of today
seem sex mad. The Federal Govern
ment is now investigating spread
of disease among men and women.
Evil pictures are now undermin-
ing the marriage vow. There is now
one divorce for every ten marriages.
In some states 1t Is one to three or
five. Canada and England have one
divorce code: we have 4S.
The north half of Colorado is now
already organized. All institutions.
religious. civic and social are asked
to cooperate. In January when the
special bills are to be up before
the legislature along these lines
monster petitions from all over the
state to aid In hygenic and moral
welfare laws. Pledges were taken
at the close OF the meeting
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16
HYGIENE AND WELFARE
BUREAU MEETS N HOLLY

AT the union services of all the
churches held at the High School
Auditorium last Sunday evening,
the Rev. John q. Dickson of Lin.
coin, Nebr., gave a fine address Of
great interest before small audi
ercc. The in0emancy of the wealth
er kept many at home. The address
was proceeded by n song service
under the direction of Rev. r. +.
/ Ssarffe and devotional exercises con
',lcted by Rev II. NJ. Graham. Mrs.
Doty sang. MY Father Knows"
Tire poaker is the state organi-
zei for the National Hygiene and
Welfare Bureau of New York City.
The purpose of the Bureau is to
organize every state of the union,
creating sentiment against immoral
ity. vice and crime now so rampant
in the country, to regulate the
picture shows, carnivals and pleas.
llic resorts. to organize county units
pitul III No'OlJtlalt w il1l WY NOutl-
els to censor all cxhibitors-and
finally and most important of ALL
introduce laws into the legislature
to deal with the picture show In.
dustry, a national divorce law, etc
Eventually 1t is hoped to pass a
constitutional amendment that will
regulate moral conditions in the
country. The speaker declared that
the prevalence of prostitution, the
rapid spread of venereal disease, the
vicious teachings of the rough
neck" movies as a school of crime,
were a greater menace to the nation
than the saloon ever was.
More than half of our young men
are afflicted with the black plague
and the present wave of crime
must be laid at the door of rough
neck movies, on the testimony of
the criminals themselves.
Only few people in any cOmmun-
ity dominate that community, these
are often not the finerspirited peo.
pie. The simple life and habits of
old times made the home dominant.
Today with more complex condi-
tions the community is the unit of
influence. The National Hygiene
and Welfare Bueau is getting back
of the community in an organized
way. Eight states are already or
ganized. Colorado IS next. in order
of organization.
Jesus had a two fold program.
We read, He began to do and to
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16
Dorcas Glass Entartains

One of the most enjoyable even
ings of the season was spent Friday
November 10th, when the Dorcas
"lass of the Presbyterian church
entertained their husbands and
friends at the Commercial Club
rooms. This is an annual event and
's always looked forward to by
those enjoying the benefits of the
class. The gathering was called to
order by the president. Mrs. Allen,
and as is customary at all Dorcas
meetings a prayer offered and the
devotional given by Mrs. Klein.
Many new and beautiful thoughts
were given to lis from the twenty
third psalm which was followed by
yer" appropriate vocal solo by DR..
Leonard The entertainment was
then given in full charge and every
one participated in the games and
songs, after which delicious refresh.
ments were served. The Club rooms
were beautifully decorated, which
added much to the occasion. There
were about sixty people who enjoy.
ed this pleasant evening and many
left wishing it could be made a
quarterly occasion instead of an an.
nual.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16

The first real snow storm hit this
section Saturday night and Sunday.
!. Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers, living 25
miles south, returned from two
weeks stny ut Lamar, last Tuesday
Their little daughter, Hazel, who
underwent a successful operation
Mt the Lamar Hospital for appendi-
citis, returned home with them.
Miss Elizabeth Partridge. employ
ll by the Land Company, in work
.at the Lamar Court House, makes
daily trips to the County Seat.
Mrs. Berger departed for Halstead
Kansas, Tuesday.
. Mrs. Dicks and son went to La
Junta TO her sisters, Mr.. j. C. Inge.
to attend the funeral of friend
Of the family.
Mr. and Mrs. Holmes were La
Junta callers Friday.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Sec the great actor. the man Of q
thousand faces-Lon Chaney in THE
Trap" Friday and Saturday at the
Star Theatre.
WANTED-Men and women to can
vass. Whole or part time. Salary
one dollar an hour j. H. Chandler.
National Organizer. 500 Fifth Ave.
New York City
The Resler Coat and Suit Co, will
have full line of Ladies Coats.
Suits and Dresses on display at Mi
lady's Hat Shop. Monday, Nov. 20
Holly .Jewelry & Music Co. Bldg.
C. II. Goelbert went to Syracuse
on business Monday.
The Pentecostal Holiness meeting
has been transferred from the Ar
mory to the Simpson building, the
building Just west OF B. GOOdman's
repair shop A cordial invitation
is extended to all.
The Christian church have been
holding special meetings all this
week at their Tabernacle. The
Tabernacle has been weather board.
ed and put in condition to be
heated for the winter.
Mrs. Tucker was Lamar visitor
last week.
II. w. McCurdy OF La Junta who
has been here for the past month
weighing beets, returned home Sat
urday
John Duncan did yeOman service
in helping the II. S. young people
sell tickets for the football game
last Saturday.
Mrs. Sam Fisher and son went to
Swink Monday to attend the funer.
al of her sisters, Mrs d. p. GOads.
little baby. The child. only two
months old. died quite suddenly
and was buried Monday at Rocky
Ford.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16
Expert Commendation OF Our
Schools

Prof. J. r. Shredder of the Uni
versity of Colorado at Boulder was
inspecting the schools here yester-
day, being the guest of Prof. Ilse.
His work is to visit County Super
intendents and accredited schools,
give correspondence courses in ru-
raj education, direct special classes
and aid generally in settling school
problems. :
He had only words of praise for
our schools here and congratulated
us on so able man as we possess
in r.. j. Ilse. He said the Holly
schools are especially efficient and
well directed and that the results
were superior.
The Resler Coat and Suit Co, will
have q full line OF Ladies' Coats,
Suits and Dresses on display at Mi
lady's Hat Shop, Monday. Nov 20
Holly Jewelry g. Music Co Bldg.
See the great actor, the man Of a
thousand facss-Lon Clancy, in
"Ths Trap" Friday and Saturday at
the star Theatre.
Mrs. H. L. Christman went to La
Junta Tuesday to visit with her
daughter over the holidays.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16
A NEW PASTOR At THE
CHRISTIAN TABERNACLE

Rev. Ed S. Mckinney of Lamar
has assumed the pastorate of the
Christian church here for once-a-
month service. He will preach also
at Sheridan Lake, Joy Coy and Hart
man, using the fifth Sunday as a
union meeting In some central
place. He goes to Hartman on the
first Sunday and comes here on the
fourth Sunday of the month. He is
lately from Tex,s and comes here
as local evangelist and general
pastor.
In his opening service last Sunday
morning he spoke on "a FOretaste
of Heaven" from Deut. 1:25. The
spies had brought in a large cluster
of grapes and declared the land
spicd out to be "goodly land "a
land flowing with milk and honey"
and said with confidence we can
take the country"
This is our confident hope of
heaven. Heaven is the home of the
soul: it is the best things of earth
raised to the nth pOwer:-the sym
pllony of the souls hope. There are
longings and STRINGS In us that
earth cannot satisfactorily heaven
can fulfill. Like the bees the soul
has "hOming instinct for heaven.
AS the fish has fins and the bird
wings so the soul of man has the
hope of heaven. As Plato says,
"lhe soul abhors hell" and job, "If
a man die shall he live again?" The
embalming practiced by the ancient
Egyptians and the burial OF the
Indians belongings in his grave
with him all point to humanity's
white hope. So Jesus declared, II
am the resurrection and the life"
We create here much of our heav-
en- and hell and carry it with us.
Paul says we shall see him and be
like him and John speaks of the
land where no tears, sorrow or
death can come. We are living in
n world of sin but he is able to
keep that which we have delivered
unto him.
But we may have false sense
of security, as people before the
world war confidently declared that
there would never be any more
great wars, especially for enlighten-
ed America. There Is no security
for us except as we become children
of God. Seek ye first the King
dom of God" If we have Christ
we need not worry. Luther's wife
once appeared before her husband
in mourning and declared to the
surprised preacher, God is dead!'
| knew because you look so gloomy
and worried We have many trials
but Christ is sufficient.
Life is u school but we are only
in the primary department here
our graduate work will be in heav.
en- where n great work awaits each.
We get foretaste of heaven here
only as we bring hope, joy and bless
irgs to others. This Is alifc OF ser
vice Not the idle but the busy
life is happiest. Only the cOmpul
sion of love makes life worth living
Christ founded his religion in love
We show forth that love by service
for others. If one compels you to
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16
THE WET AND DRY ISSUE
COMES TO THE FORE

the permission for the manufacture
and use OF beer and light wines
would sutisfy those who are now
violating the law. as well as be
beneficial to vinegrOwers and farm
CTS. This class are sineese. but are
subject to education. When they
can be shown that such concessions
are only the entering in of the
wedge and that no advantage would
accrue to any class save the liquor
producers, this class can be switch
ed over to the dry side.
Fit the main ipoint now is that
this isa.lc bids fair to become the
l:rcat and disturbing interest in
1924. Some prophecy that neither of
lie old parties viii dare to offend
the strongly entfenched wet inter
asts and that both will put in n
wet plank or farble the issue. But
will they dare do this? There was
time when such issues might be
CLOSED over and the people fooled
by the party cry of menace but
TINT time is gone. Tie people now
.hink for themselves and vote their
convictions. The party shibboleth
is no longer coercive.
Now suppose either of the old
parties should include or dodge q
liquor plank, what would be the
result? A third party would arise
to expouse the dry side with all
the more desirable issues of the old
parties, What would they not do
to divided wet vote! 1t would be
the doom OF the old parties and
ring the knell of old party loyalty.
1t does look as II the Democrats
land Republicans faced dilemma:
to ignore the wet issue might defeat
tie party that did it. For both to
eyEpuse the wet plank would be
itn divide the wet vote and leave
'''tfse way dpef t6 q dry party. A
strong American party whats
the matter with that name?l oppos
ing the un-American Schlitzer, An
henser Busches; and incorporating
few other good old American
ideas, would roll up a vote that
would forever smash the old parties
and bring victory to the new party
in 1924, and wholly new align
ment in 1923.
The only thing needed for such
d new party would be leader-a
Moses to lead it out. He would
have to be man as big as johnson
Pinchot or Hughes, whom the Re
publicans can produce, and bigger
than McAdoo or Cox who are demo
cratic eligibles. If Bryan, or Ford
or even la Toilette could be found
to lead the new American party 1t
is conceivable that it could even
beat both the wet party and the
party dodeing the issue, ii such
should be the case.
OF course, two years may make
great changes, but the present out
look looks like big scrap two
years hence. In the meantime
renewed fight will be on between
the forces for and against the pro
hibitory lazy with the advantage
with the ConstitutiOnalists.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16
Aged Man Found Dead

Joseph Gest, 67 years old, who
lived northwest of Bristol. started
to walk home from Bristol in the
cold and snow of Saturday night.
IT is presumed that he became daz
ed and confused by the storm and
wandered out of his way in going
home, till in weak an chilled con-
dition he sank down on the ground
in stupor and perishcd with the
cold.
His body was discovered in Edgar
Smiths pasture Monday morning
He had no family but lived alone
on a dry farm. He hnd recently
been troubled with rheumatism and
was not very strong.
Mrs. Ben X. Woods was here yes
terday visiting her sister, Mrs.
Claude Yates.
Katherine Vaughn of Colorado
Springs, who has been spending the
week end ut the ]. N. Swafford home
returned home Monday.
Mrs. Pringle was taken to the
Lamar hospital yesterday.
Officers Grant and Morris. special
Santa Fe service men arrested Ed
ward johnson in Holly yesterday
for carrying concealed weapons.
He was sentenced in local justise
court to 80 days Imprisonment. He
was taken to Lamar yesterday but
will be transferred later to Pueblo.
The Resler Coat and Suit CO., will
have full line of Ladies' Coats,
Suits and Dresses on display at Mi
lady's Hat Shop, Monday, Nov. 20
Holly Jewelry & Music Co. Bldg.
C.. a. Cox OF northwest of town
went to Los Angeles, Calf, Tues
day to visit relatives and other
friends,
Don't fail to see "rhe Kentucki-
ans" with Monte Blue. at the Cow
Club Theatre, Friday and Saturday.
It's a Paramount Picture.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-16

go with himo a mile 90 with him
twain. The 'Trwo-miIe' religion is
acquired by the faithful servant
He is greatest who serves most.
Heaven is a place OF manifesto
tion. All things shall be revealed
there. There shall we see our lost
friends alive. there shall our fondest
dreams be fulfilled. In this life Is
the promise of life after death. In
heaven we shall reap the ull reward
denied us here. Then there will
be a great home coming. Let us
appreciate his help now and await
the hope to come.