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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-08-19

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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-08-19
Annual Financial Statement

OF school District No. Two, County of
Rio Blanco. state of Colorado. from
July !. l1.i, to June n. ige..
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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-08-19

Now liz The Time To Buy Win.
ter Coats below Wholesale prices.
al2 THE TooGERY.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-08-19

Dr.. l.. G. Shepherd and wife from
Norfolk, Va, are In on . brief visit
TO Mr.. John Shepherd and family.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-08-19

Special Dinner sunday. August
10th at Royal Cafe. 80 cents.
MENU
Chicken. Vegetables.
Mashed Potatoes.
Gravy. Pie.
Co6cc. Ice Tea.
Please make reservations Saturday.
al9 Mrs. MAuDE WELLS.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-08-19

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!, THE MEEKER. HERALD
JAMES lyrTLr. EDITOR AND PaopRirroR,
SATURDAY. AUGUST 10, Ip7s
District court meets next Tuesday.
Several light showefs during the
week.
The County Fair is only two weeks
off. Get ready for 1t.
J BE considerable OF farm animals; 1t
pays.
Charles o. Thompson Of A xlal, min-
gled with his town friends last Sat
urday. .
Mrs. Ruth Msyer and Ezra Baer
were registered at the Mesker hotel,
Sunday.
Miss Clero(a Robertson leaves for
Denver today. She will attend school
there this winter.
III. l.. G. Shepherd and wife from
Norfolk, Va, are In on . brief visit
to Mr.. John Shepherd and family.
New Liuc Of Fall Hats. sec
them at THE ToGuERy.
Oscar Shehorn Is In Denver this
week attending the Merchants Car
nival; also enjoying a needed outing.
10 and 20 cent table. See them
al2 THE ToaGERY.
Heavy rains visited Oakridge park
and other surrounding sections,
Thursday afternoon, but Meeker only
had . sprinkle.
Milk For Sale-See Mrs. II. \.
Wilson at the Ed. Fairfield residence,
corner Garfield avenue and Fifth
street. al0-2B
Mrs. A. g. Crandaii, who has been
In for some weeks visiting her father,
Mr.. Ben Nichols, and daughter, Miss
Irene Bloomfield, departs tomorrow
for her home at Ogden, Utah.
AT A. OldlAnd l. Co., . good assort-
ment OF Taffetas at the exceptional
price Of Sl4.O6, and also our 100 spe-
cial Nets and Chiffons. ai9
Mrs. q. 8. Smart, from Fort Smith,
Arkansas, and Mrs. H. b. Brown
from Pueblo, Colo, are In on-A visit
with their brother, Mr.. G. H. Crock
EFT.
Chicken Sandwiches, Cake, Ice
Tea, and Hot Coffee served In the
park by the Catholic Ladies', Friday,
September LIST. 1922. al2-2s
ApricOts, 3 aud 4 cts per pound.
Pick them yourself.
THE GREEDY BROWN RANCH,
al2-l0 Rifle Creek, Colo.
A Harvard professor says the aver
age man has a vocabulary Of 1900
words. And he needs twice As many
when he stumblcs over a rocking chair
In the dark.
The call now Is for rci-blooded Am.
orleans. The old blue-blooded crowd
arc out Of date
Garden truck is getting ripe. Time
for canning is here.
A correspondent asks. what is ar
lstic temperament Oh, merely a
stsge name for bad temper.
The senate is still talking about
passing tariff bill.
Iron Pyrite and Galena Crystals for
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-08-19

o. H. Lunny of oakridge, was shak-
ing hands with town friends, Monday.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-08-19

Plenty Of tomatoes and early
peaches on the Meeker market. these
days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
Not So Bad, After All.

In view of the criticism that has been
heaped upon the Georgia Legislature Tor do
ing nothing" people will be interested IN the
news that at the last session OF the Texas
legislature fewer laws were passed than at
any session ever before held in that state.
Calling attention to what was then consider
ed commendable record the New Orleans
Times Picayune expresses the growing teel-
ing in the country that we have leglslated
to excess on the belief that all evils may be
corrected by the enactment OF a statute. len
thousand bills year are said to be passed
by our legislatures not counting the massive
output of congress
But what is the explanation OF the mac
tivity on the part of the Georgia lawmakers
1t cannot be charged to ideness, for the SEES
sion in spite of its barrenness in respect OF
new legislation was aobve the average IN
the matter of industry. Nor can it be charged
that there were no important questions TOR
consideration. In fact, a number OF import
ant questions were up. Unfortunately, the
session opened with the coolest If not the
most strained relations between the exec
utive and large part OF the general assem-
blv. especially the senate. Almost all OF the
governors pet projects were killed Other
measures failed because of factionalism in
both branches of the legislature. The result
was an almost barren session. 1t is further
noted that while the legislature reduced the
output of new laws it did not reduce public
expenditures as the people desired and as is
being done in some other states
We do not need many new laws at this
l. Il lief Of we
are aware of the history of bills introduced
Oftener than not they call for an appropria-
ton and by the time several OF those INTRO
duced, for whatever purpose, are adopted
and signed the taxpayers have found the
cost of their government increased again
Remembering that one is inclined to view
with measure of satisfaction the outcome
at Atlanta.
Everybody knows that this is no time to
increase the cost OF government.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
The High Cost of War.

The United States veteran bureau reports
that during the last fiscal year $481 100000
was expended on behalf of the disabled vet
Grams, or at the rate of more than $1,000000
per day. The disbursements for the current
fiscal year are estimated at $513,693 900, or
at the rate of 81, 100000 per day. Even at
that high figure the peak probably has not
been reached, it being estimated that event
ually annual appropriations of $l,000000,OOO
will be required To this sum must be added
the additional compensation that is to be
awarded the veterans. While the country will
not begrudge dollar of the money expended
in aid of the disabled soldiers the figures
make clear the staggering cost of war. 1t is
not the first cost of war that counts, but the
aftermath
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
Hybrid Cattle.

Out in Texas, where the opinion prevails
that the residents of that state know more
about cattle than anybody else in the whole
country. something new has been evolved
by Colonel Goodnight, who promises to be-
come the Burbank of the fauna field He has
developed-or is developing, as he puts it
hybrid cattle and hopes soon to have a food
animal that will far surpass any hitherto pro
duced on the wide western ranges OF America
The hybrid is a cross between the buffalo
and the Polled Angus of the COW kind
Cross breeding OF the two widely separat-
ed species, pedigreed cattle and the buffalo,
or bison, has developed, according to Col.
Goodnight, a few hybrids that possess two
ancestors. The buffalo has IA ribs on each
side and the COW only IS. 1t is the hope Of
the breeder to develop hybrids that have two
extra ribs, thus insuring more hardihood and
longer and deeper line This, he explains,
will take much patience and time because OF
the obvious necessity OF careful selection as
to types.
The buffalo has much more hardihood than
cattle. He can stand extreme weather III
which cattle succumb The buffalo can SUR
vive in any and all climates, which the cat
tie cannot do High attitudes dangerous
to cattle, but do not affect buffalo. Colonel
Goodnight expects the hybrid to adapt itself
to the same conditions of environment in
which the buffalo thrives so we'll He says
of the hybrid
"As far as | have been able to test
them the cross, when high grade, IS inn
mune to all diseases | have sent them
to the gulf coast our tick infested Coun-
try none of the full bloods have died,
and Of the one-eighths one out Of three
have died.
They thrive and do we'll on less food
than other cattle. They put on more flesh
for the food they eat than any animal
known, but do not carry the great extra
fat which is a waste IN common cattle
Their tallow is worth from 2H to cents
more on the pound,
At once live stock men will be interested
in this cross breeding, which has been not
ably successful for number of years. Col
one Goodnight insists it is practical, and that
it will improve both quality and production
of food animals. Greater hardwood immuni-
ty to disease and improved quality of meat
for food ought to impress growers favorably.
Another thing that will interest the lover OF
natural history is that once this cross breed
ing has proved to be successful on a large
scale it will mean that the American bison,
a famous and romantic figure on the plains
70 years ago, will not become extinct.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
RUDE RURAL RHY MES
GARLIC.

Our garden crops have come from far
where other chimes and peoples are From
mountain valleys of Peru the snappy bean
comes to you. In Mexico sprang Indian corn
in India the cuke war born. The cabbage
halls from Europe's sea land, hot weather
spinach from New Zealand. But there's one
poppy garden plant we natives mostly do not
want When long OF yore its fumes arose and
helped to shape the Roman nose, favored
fighting men They mixed it with the war
riors hash and with the ROSTERS morning
mash. 1t kept the legions primed for war till
fear of Rome spread near and far, and doubt
less made game fighting cocks OF pacifstlc
Plymouth Rocks. A shrinking rabbit led up
thus would lick a hippopotamus. Hence
sprang old tales of sudden death from drag
onS Staying with their breath. ~
bob ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
AGREE ON ONE THING.

Louisville Courier Journal: MI Reed S VIC
tory in Missouri over Mr.. Long tor the
democratic nomination as United States SEN
ator closes a campaign noted for its rancor,
for the doubtfully wise intervention OF for
mer President Wilson in the race and for
the injection OF the wet" and dry" issue
into the contest. Mr.. Reed was the wet
candidate Also he attracted the anti-Wilson
votes among German and Irish circles that
little liked Mr. Wilson's war policy. Repub-
leans in great number entered the demo
cratic primary to vote for Reed, especially,
III St Louis and Kansas City, the Reed
strongholds, outside of which Long impress
lively led. By some persons Reeds victory
will be interpreted to be a triple one-frst,
for the anti-Wilson sentiment in the demo
cratic party; second, for the Reed personality,
which is admittedly forceful; and, third, TOR
the movement favoring return OF light wines
and beer-the only proposition perhaps up
on which Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Reed may be
found in agreement
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
Time to Be Impatient.

Passing the strike bill along to the con-
sumner is lust what should not be allowed.
Nevertheless, that is what is now being done.
Coal prices already have been advanced in
Georgia since the miners agreed to return to
work. and it is safe to say that similar ad-
vances have been made in other states. What
is the consumer going to do about it? What
relief can he hope to secure short OF inter
vention by the government? To bring about
that intervention the consumer will be Obliged
to complain frequently. loudly, persistently
He will have to make himself heard with an
iu7istence that congress will not dare to DEFY
Patience and submission will accomplish
nothing. 1t is time when patience has ceas-
ed to be virtue. The consumer has been
the goat long enough. Let's have a new deal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
The Call of the Country.

There are laughing, singing rills,
Fumbling down the country hills,
And their babbling, lifting laughter my soul
with rapture thrills.
How they leap like merry rovers,
Down to mingle with the clovers,
With a JOY that seems unfettered and voices
glad and free!
They are luring-ca!ling me
There's river road that winds
And a lovers lane of pines;
There are flowers, wild and fragrant, and
there are morning glory vines;
There are field larks on the wing.
And the wild birds stop to sing:
And there's the dreamy booming, buzzng
of the honey drinking bee
All a-lurng-calling me
Oh the rustic OF the corn
And the JOY OF harvest morn!
And the gathering OF the rural folk to rustic
vigor born.
Not afraid of sun and weather.
Nor OF sharing toll together
Oh the.- simple hearts and true. free from
guile and full OF glee,
Are Turing calling me.
Oh the music OF COW bells!
And the drink from deep wells
And beatng sheep on pastures green. all
weave their magic spells.
Oh the smell OF rain and sod
Its like getting back to God.
And returning to Eden's garden when | heed
the countrys plea
That keeps luring-calling me-
Alma /. Lonsdale in Kansas City Star.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
Cows and Chickens.
From the Minneapolis Journal.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
The proposal to have a national poultry
show in connection with the national dairy
show is good. Cows and chickens go well
together whether on the farm or in great
exhibitory events All that is needed is pigs
to complete the farm triangle Sophisticated
city folks like to talk learnedly about blood
ed stock and great dairy adventures for ev-
cry farmer. Such talk is harmless, and may
be helpful! But the hard headed farmer
knows that there is difference between
keeping a few cows, such as he and the boys
can look after, and plun&ing into the intri-
cacies and high expenses OF modern dairying.
Such farmers will keep chickens and hogs,
as well as COWS. They will perhaps buy a
hlooded bull in neighborhood to improve
their stock. But they will shy at overriding
the dairy end OF their multifarious farm work,
lest they get in over their heads So it's a
good idea to show folks who come to town
not only the cows but the chickens-both of
which pay well, when not overdone.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
Good Old Gravy.
From the Omaha World-Herald.

A French sauce is all right so far as it
goes but it only goes about half way to-
ward satisfying a hungry mans appetite. I'm
deniably it has flavor, but it stops there. 1t
lacks substance and what the American diner
wants is something that will stick to his
ribs" What he really wants, whether he is
conscious of it or not, is gravy, good old
fashioned, home made gravy, rich with the
juices of roasted meat, thickened with -four
Drowned just so and reduced to just the right
stage OF semi-fuidty with whole milk Gravy
is the sauce Americana, 1t is the American
housewives gift to the American husband.
Cooked as it ought to be cooked by one who
learned cooking in kitchen it has the flavor
of ambrosia. Served as it ought to be served
with hillock of mashed potatoes or a slice
Of bread hidden beneath its creamy surface
it satisfies the appetite completely, perfectly.
It's the browning feature of the dinner the
one dish for which there can be no substitute.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
GOING "BRAVELY" TO GALLoWs.

From the Savannah News
1t is no great compliment to man con-
demned to death to say that he went I'M
finchingly to his death. The chances are that
the great majority of men who have been
hanged and electrocuted in this country did
not have to be supported by officers. did not
negro man who preceded Frank DuPre on
the scaffold in the tower in Fulton county
went just as bravely to death as did DuPre
The difference was in the amount OF popular
interest in the two cases that DuPre was a
young white. man and Mcdonald was a ne
gro.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

Indianapolis News: The phrase, knock
wood" comes from an old Danish myth. Here
is the authentic origin; According to Danish
tradition whenever an old Danish sea captain
was about to start on long journey in his
wooden vessel he would tap on the side OF
his ship silently by. 1t was superstition that
the elves of the forest would come out to
bless his ship because it held millions OF their
kind in its timbers. Whatever the cause, Dan
ish ships submitted to this quaint ritual seem.
ed 10 acquire immunity from the perils OF
the sea So the superstition became Gus
tom And the old. idea has come down to
modern times That is why one knocks on
wood" whenever he does not want his luck
to desert him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

Coca-Co1a is a beverage that everybody
knows about. Perhaps everyone does not
know, however the dividends there are in
this familiar article. The Coca-Cola COM
pany reports that during the first half of the
present year its gross receipts totaled SlO,-
III, 220, on which its net income was S3,72l,-
041, or $674 a share on the common stock.
More than $1G,00O000 was spent in nckels and
dimes across the soda water counter i'll six
months for this beverage alone! And yet
there is some talk in this country about peo-
pie being hard up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
The Glory of Corn.
Meredith Nicholson in the Cosmopolitan.

Meredith Nicholson in the Cosmopolitan.
Poets and orators have celebrated the glory
OF American corn; but corn remains its own
best interpreter 1t seems forever to be utter
ing a message. Even on MINDLESS nights there
are infinite STRINGS and whisperings as
though an invisible spirit walked the burrows
No other plant known to our fields is at
cnCe so interesting, so opulent or so decora-
tive as corn when it has sprung to full
height ard the grains await their transmuta-
ton into ivory or gold. A field of wheat is
thing OF beauty and grace, tremulous and
shmmering in the lghtest airs, but corn
challenges attention like a militant host that
marches with banners flying.
Corn gave to the American pioneer what
was truly the hard won bread of democracy,
and corn remains a fitting sign and symbol
Of American ideals. 1t is finely representative
of the vigor and whoesomeness of American
life Planted in hope it is watched and tend
ed with full confidence of reward 1t publish
cs broadcast its lessons of patience, industry
and tolerance. No stalk Jostes or tramples its
neghbor Each full, ripe ear is a renewal of
the old pledge between America and nature
its mighty and answering ally.
That only holds men together" wrote
Whitman, (Which aggregates all in a living
principle" The corn's serried ranks in the
vast plains of the Mississippi valley give the
impression of harmonious whole, no stalk
more favored than another but all drawing
life in amity from a common soil, and warm
ed and quickened by the same sun, dew and
rain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
DESERVES PRAISE
FOR WHAT 1T DID NOT DO

From the Swainsboro Forest Blade.
The session just closed of the Georgia leg
isature is accused, perhaps justly so, OF
doing nothing, but we want to tell you that
it took mighty hard work to keep something
from being done. If all the bills calling for
big appropriations and bond issues that were
presented had been passed the people could
have said truthfully that something had been
done-something that the state would never
remember getting over Some times it is bet
ter to keep things from being done than it
is to do things.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

Bill Biffem, of the Savannah Press, is
candidate for representative in Chatham
county on the port issue. If there is any one
who is judge of good port we imagine a
Savannah edtor-legislator would fill the bill
We are for old Bill, and wish we could move
our franchise long enough to vote for him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

In both Mississippi and West Virginia the
women candidates for United States senator
were defeated in the primaries. In West Vir-
ginia Mrs Izetta Jewell Brown, OF King
wood, received 10000 votes, but was $4,000
votes behind Maj. Matthew NJ. Nicely, the
winner on the democratic ticket Inasmuch as
Mrs Brown owns million dollar farm in
Preston county why should she desire a
United States senatorship. anyway
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

Tomorrow will bring the state primary, and
politics will be at an end for a while. The
campaign has been remarkable for the lack
OF interest on the part OF the people. Geor-
eia has never before experienced anything
like it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12
In LIGHTER VEIN.

Charlie was cashier iii bank in little
country town. He had been engaged to May
Brown, but, alas, rift came in the lutte!
They quarreled.
And please remember" said May, in tear
fully naughty tones, as she handed back the
ring, that when we meet again we meet as
perfect strangers"
few days later the fair maid entered the
bank to cash a check. He took the slip Of
paper eyed it back and front and then, in
stead of counting out he money, handed
back the check
His time for revenge had comet
I'm sorry, madam" he said coldly, but
it is against the rules of the bank for the
cashier to cash checks for perfect strangers.
You must find someone in town to identify
you"
Henry Allen Wilson, secretary of the New
England Anti-Tobacco League, said in an
address in Portland:
Carefully compiled statistics show us that
for every cigar man smokes he shortens
his life three days, while with every cigarette
he shortenS his life a week"
At this point a prominent Portland physi-
clan rose in the rear of the hall.
'"Are those statistics absolutely accurate?"
he asked.
Absolutely, sir" said Secretary Wilson.
"Why?"
Because it's rather important" explain
ed the physician. you see if your statistics
are accurate I've been dead over three hun
bred years"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

One OF the freely exercised privileges OF
Americans one of their favorite indoor sports,
is telling other people what they ought to
do. Every private conversation, the speech
es OF multitude OF after dinner and chau-
tauqua and other speakers, the sermons from
the pulpits and the editorials in the news
papers are filled with more or less dogmatic
assertion OF what people ought to do. Judged
by these expressions it would seem that
most everybody is doing everything except
what they ought to do, from the president
down. It's great sport, this telling people
what they ought to do How exceedingly
wise we all are!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

OF course it may be possible that Uncle
Henry Ford expects that some OF the coal
operators will guarantee him all the coal he
needs at approximately the same price ne has
been paying. He has set the critical date at
September 10th, and much may happen in
week.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

President Harding's liking for obsolete
words is illustrated by the use of his word
Improvement" in the sense of appreciation
in recent letter of public nature. ZAP
provement" has been on the obsolete list for
good many years. How does the president
remember all these old words?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

Under the control OF w. G. McAdoo the
railways OF the country cost the government
S40,000000 and it is one of the messes that
has not yet been cleaned up. The present ad-
ministraton no doubt will ponder long and
seriously before now taking these carriers
under control.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

Thomas R. Marshall, who recently came
home from Europe, reports that everyone III
Germany seems to feel sorry for himself
The German" says Mr. Marshall regards
himself as the most abused man on earth
Perhaps the Germans would get along bet
ter if they were to devote less time to feel
ing sorry for themselves. No state OF mind
is nl1ite so hopeless as that.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-12

Freedom of speech is a great thing in this
country, but it begins to look like freedom
to work would be a far greater thing. A
mans right to a job and to work al. it ought
to be protected in the constitution. ii 1t IS
not already protected.