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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-07-05
COMMUNICATION
Julesburg,. Colo,

Julesburg, Colo,
July 8, 1928
Julesburg Grit-Advocate:
notice in the Denver Post that the
Association of Automobile Makers
are offering 500 prizes for sugges-
tions or essays telling how to make
automobile traffic more safe. If
remember the prizes aggregate
100000
Now. as the people of Julesburg are
all hard up for money with which to
pay their bills, and the grocery men
can hardly get money with which to
keep their doors open for trade and
% satisfy their customers, would
suggest that some of our people get
out their writing materials and write
essays on the following subjects and
so bring some of the 100000 to our
town and put it in circulation.
First subject-Parents keep their
,hildren of from three to five years OF
age out of the streets and away from
parked automobiles. or else kill the
narents and so stop the increase o1
hat kind of uncomfortable brats.
Second-That every auto owner car.
" double -barreled gun, loaded with
,uckshot. with which to effectually
Sim the lights of every auto driver
Who has bright lights and does not
lin them when meeting another car
,r who has lights showing over four
feet above the ground at fifty feet
distance as provided by law.
Third-That every town and village
have a special force of safety police
who will arrest all drivers who turn
corners or cross streets at a speed
Of more than a two-mile- minute
clip, and swear at the walkers on the
crossing who get close call.
Fourth-Seeing that we have 9
state law speed limit. 35 miles pei
hour. how can people with new Bucks
and Chevrolets be kept within the law
1t seems as if there is as much fun to
break the law as to break the booze
law.
1t is my suggestion that both be
altered, to driving speed of 80 miles
per hour and the booze law repealed
and as substitute keg of booze and
dipper be placed at every cross road
and law passed that everybody
drink at every keg. If it is so much
fun to break the law we might have
a lot of sane and sober auto drivers
A, A. WESTON,
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RESOLUTIONS

Resolved. In as much as Our
Heavenly Father has taken from our
midst Helen Claypool, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvis Claypool, and
Whereas, Mr.. and Mrs. Claypool are
members Of the Farmers Union, local
No. 273, Ovid, Colorado, be it there
fore
Resolved, That the Union show
good fellowship and respect by extend
ing sympathy to the bereaved parents
in their sadness and loss, and
Be 1t Further Resolved, That the
secretary be instructed to have the
above resolution published in the
Julesburg Grit-Advocate, the Sedg-
wick Sun and the Colorado Farmers
Union,
And that a typewriter copy be Civ
en- Mr.. and Mrs Claypool, and that
said resolution be spread upon our
minutes.
N. G. PETERSON. President.
EARNEST MAYHEM, Secretary,
BLAIN CANNADY,
Com n, ;Ytoa
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COMMUNICATION
Denver, Col

July 8, 1923.
Dear Editor:
In your issue of June 7th. "a Mar
riageable Girl" takes slam at us
Door single fellows that we can't
dodge. Suppose that you bite into our
side of the apple.
There may be girls in Julesburg
who would make wonderful cooks, but
| all we have seen yet are these new
tangled can openers. which don't
make a hungry guy even open his
peppers to take a slant at the grub
which they turn out. Us men are
happiest when we don't have to face
"Heinz 81 varieties" three times a
day. but can sink our nippers into a
good old dinner like Mother used to
make. A girl who can slap a dinner
like that onto the table is a girl af-
ter my own heart. The government
says that men are getting skinny
and there you are! We second the
motion.
AS for Sunday nights, haven't we
been pleading and begging and urg-
ing for years maybe. to the girl to
say the word that will make us the
happiest man in the world? Haven't
we worn holes in the parlor carpet
in front of the sofa with our knees /?
Night after night we plead, and say
it all over again the next week, un-
til we think we are a continued story
that has no end. And when we think
we have about conquered the little
maverick. she goes and marries the
other fellow, and has the crust to
ask US to be the best man at her we'd
ding! Can you put that in your BEL
fry? And after the wedding bells
she hands out line Of gush to US
like this: "0h, please come and
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see US. John and will be SO glad to
have you'll" Holy mackerel! We are
men. not dolls!
And then again. they expect US to
spend SIT q week on them for amuse-
ments. shows. and auto rides when we
only draw $11 salary. If any girl
an figure out the answer to that she
has a brilliant future before her. l
know girl who has different dress
for every day of the week, and anoth-
er for every night. Think how a man
would have to rub the grind-stone to
meet that! And yet "A Manageable
Girl" says "On the jog, boys!"
And these flappers! Ouch! I ad.
nit that we like to look at 'em, and
all that, but these frilly little tow
heads couldn't settle down to home
life no more than scared jack-rabbit.
We have a good time with 'em, but
We know better than to draw a life
sentence with 'em. Do you wonder
that we are gun-shy?
found out recently that most OF
| the beautiful doll faces haven't b t
of brains. While the smart brainy
girl is as homely as an Airedale pup
The Lord Almighty sure made. one
grand mistake when He separated
brains and beauty.
AS for me, show me girl who has
both beauty and brains, and I'll swal-
low her bait, hook. sinker and all. and
she will be Mrs. before she knows
it. All l need is her name and ad-
AN EXPERIENCED BACHELOR,
P. o, Box 4. Denver. Colo
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PIANO FOR SALE

We have piano of standard make
near Julesburg on which customer is
unable to make the payments. We
will sell this piano for the unpaid bal
ance of the account for cash or pay
ments to responsible parties. For
further information write to the
Jones Music Company at Grand Is
land, Nebraska. julius
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Arthur o. Wright, Pastor
CHURCH OF CHRIST

Arthur o. Wright. Pastor
Splendid, intelligent, thoughtful
audiences graced the services Sun
day. The court room was a scene of
activity from ten to twelve and again
in the evening. The Sunday School
came very close to its aim in attend,
ance. Let's surge over the line Sum
day. Tune up the Lizzie, Buick, Cadi-
alac, Packard or the mules and arrive
at 9:45 A. M. What have you done to
help the church? What are you do
ing or what are you going to do?
How far does your faith reach? Fiji
teen or twenty miles? We challenge
you to hear the sermons Sunday.
Mrs. Frickey entertained the Aid
last Thursday. 1t was a joyous out
ing for our women. Much work, ex-
cellent business meeting, talk by the
pastor on Cooperation" and 1histor-
ical reading of deep interest by Mrs.
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CHOICE CHERRIES

Earl Richmonds, best favored pie
cherries on the market, now ripe.
Drive over and pick your own. Rea-
sonabIe prices. Carl Anderson, 2h
roof buildings. $3.50 per crate by
parcel post prepaid. J5-A2*
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every household when it is consider
ed that life insurance policy holders
and savings bank depositors are part
ners in the operation and development
of our railways"
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LAUNDRY WORK

For laundry work see Mrs. Hewg-
ley on East Second Street. Washing
and ironing, SOC per dozen; rough
dried, 3Oc per dozen. Ironing only soc
per dozen. We sew on buttons. Phone
l7lW. J28-Ju19
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NOTICE

We will buy any kind of cattle and
hogs at all times.
SMYTH & RICHARDS,
I Julesburg. Colo.
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FOR SALE-Household furniture, in
cluding Majestic Range. like new.
rugs. bed room furniture. Duofold,
Library Table, Lamp, and many
other articles. Call at Grit-Advo-
cate or call 93M.
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WANTED-Married man to travel
and sell paints and oils for the
Lennox Oil and Paint Co. For
further information see or write to
R. A. Watkins, McCook, Nebras-
ka. J2S-Ju12+
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WANTED-Farm hand. A Yamada,
R. F. D. Box 54, Julesburg, Colo
RADIO. jl6-jul7'
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FOR SALE-h section improved land
and " section prairie on south tab
lie, 9 miles southwest Of Julesburg.
For terms address Mrs. Ottilie He
wicker, Remsen, Iowa. tt
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FOR SALE-32O acres near Arapa-
hoe, Colo. About 100 acres of ex-
ira good wheat. $500 per acre
if sold in 80 days. Address box
346, Cheyenne Wells, Colo.
J21-Ju12s
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FOR SALE OR TRADE-New 1920
Maxwell touring. Also good steam
threshing outfit. Henry Lutkehus,
Chappell, Nebr. jl4-jul5'
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FOUND-On court house lawn, pair
of glasses. Owner may have same
by calling at this office and identi-
flying property and paying costs Of
advertising. J28-Ju5
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FOUND-Gold pin on streets Of
Julesburg. Owner may have che
same by calling at the Grit-Advo-
cate and paying for this advertise
ment. 1t
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FOR SALE-Advance Rumley grain
separator, in good condition. For
particulars phone or write Great
Western Sugar Co., Sterling.
July 5-12
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FOR SALE-Eight foot Mccormick
binder. complete, in good repair.
First $4,000 takes this. H. o. Ma
toush. J5-12s
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FOR SALE-Make me an offer on
SEA 9-1O-43, Sedgwick County,
Colo. L. l. Binkly. Ill Platner St,
Council Bluffs, Iowa. J2i-Ju2"
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PIANO FOR RENT-Write r. C.
Hunter. Las Animas, Colo. Give
references. J5-A23*
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FOR SALE-Internation Combine
Harvester, in first-class shape. has
been kept in machine sned. Price
$4,000. Oscar R. Millsap, 16
miles southwest of Julesburg. J5-tf
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FOR SALE-Three pure-bred Duroc
sows, two to farrow in September
and one in October. L. L. Glenn, 6
miles east of Julesburg, Motor
Route B. It,
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GO TO Church
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Christian Science reading each Sun
lay at 1900 A. NJ. at 208 East Sixth
Street. A welcome is extended to all
visitors.
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FOR SALE OR TRADE-Ford speed.
ster. Robson Oil Co.
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Regular. morning services
Sunday School at 1000 A. M.
Public Worship at 1900 A. NJ.
There will be no evening services on
account of the chautauqua.
Publicity Committee.
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AN EXPERIENCED BACHELOR,
P. o. Box 4, Denver, Colo.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-07-14

performance OF your buildings grade
compares with the performance OF
the corresponding grade IN other
cities OF the country. To have each
grade In the city excel the standard
score In ability to handle the funda-
mental skills taught in the element
airy school should be one Of the
chief aims Of our work. ~
TN the short time remaining of
this school year, I would suggest
that particular effort be put forth
to improve our work In arithmetic.
A systematic and continual use Of
the Courts or Studebaker Practice
Tests in the fundamental, together
with a careful study Of individual
and class weaknesses, Is the most
effective way to better our perform
ances. I~take 1t that one Of the sets
of practice material named above
Is available to every teacher of
grades 4B to ga in the system. To
supplement the use of this material,
I hope to place in the hands Of each
teacher, during the next week, some
material on locating and remedying
individual and class weakness in
arithmetic which may be Of some
help"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-07-14
GARY RAID BEARS RESULTS
City, County and Federal Officers Find Nest of
Three Stills in an Aliens Home in Lieut..
McDermott's Sector of Authority.

Dominick Scallcia, or Spallaci, IS
one report has it, seems to have
been distilling booze by wholesale
at the alien suburb of Gary, fer
ninst the steel plant. Three stills,
sixteen gallons of moonshine and
33 barrels of mash were found on
his premises last Tuesday night, as
the result of big raid by a small
army of officers.
The lawless alien was arraigned
pleaded not guilty and then held to
the district court. Some pinch
hitting lawyer for the underworld
undoubtedly will get fat fee out
Of the accused.
For weeks, months, even years
Lieut.. Bob McDermott has not slept
nights because of worry over the
lawless conditions in Gary and his
inability to check the cheeky aliens
up there, particularly in such acts
as moonsnining, blindpigging and
trying to bride the peace officers.
City, county and federal authori-
ties finally decided that it was their
duty to go to Lieut.. McDermott's
assistance. A big raiding party WIS
organized and it certainly brought
back the bacon, SO to speak. 1t
was In charge OF Capt. F. A. Jas
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ARITHMETIC test FIGURES
BOBUP TO WORRY BENTLEY
Director Fred D. Knight Asks Questions, Reviews
Facts and Presents Figures that Should
Be Illuminating to Earnest Voters.

A school campaign is on and
Supt. Bentley NOT only is running
true to form, by trying to control
the election q directors, but he is
shooting propaganda and trying to
cover up conditions that his sub
ordinates Inadvertently have per-
mitted Bentley's critics to see. Con-
corning some of the structural
weaknesses in the local schools, fol-
which Supt. Bentley may very Prop
efly be held responsible, director
Fred d. knight concisely says, viz:
''On April 20, 1923, Supt. Latham
in reporting ID school tests, stated
the percentage of pupils who could
perform fundamental operations in
arithmetic with speed and accuracy
Having obtained copy of this re-
port, we called the same officially
to the attention of the School
Board, with q request for serious
consideration.
Nothing was said by Mr.. Latham
In his report about pupils who were
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-07-14
FIGURING AND PENMANSHIP
ARE SUBORDINATED TO ART
Assistant Supt. Latham Informs School Principals
That School Children Sadly Lack Ability
to Do Simple Sums in Arithmetic.

On director of assistant
Duuth schools
decidedly below the standard Of
principles arithmetic
ability ubstract multiply
Latham hired by Supt
school politics
the official communi
submitted
saddle educational
the fact that the
study emphasized
majority tried the facts presented
by employing
however asking
comparing not considering
and presumpdous Bentley
efforts
the public despcable his attempt
Mr. notice
the
laid with fractured limb Miss Susan M house
faith
is assumed that Bentley wildly tore his hair when
and that despsed minority
bersh a situation public.
to Latham sent his statement in
faith and close keeping with actual facts was
public
Rpsaw printed both the statement by the minority
principals the May
communication free from Bentley Juggling
assistant superintendent notice to the principals is
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-07-14

mer, chief of sheriff Magie's clean
up squad.
There were nine deputies from
the sheriff's offices, nine federal
agents and four members of the
city police department. Great care
was taken to prevent notice of the
impending raid to leak out. Sad to
relate, there are those connected
with tie police department, as well
as many lawless birds around town,
who protect their friends by 'tip-
ping off" impending raids.
In addition to catching the alien
with three stills, still and copper
container were found at 1920 One
Hundred and Fourth Ave. w. The
container had a capacity of over
100 gallons of mash. The illegal
apparatus was setting ON two gas
heaters and it was so large that
the door had to be taken off to
get it, out. ~ "
At 1113, 104th avenue, Madam
Crompotich broke a quart bottle OF
evidence, hence her arrest. AS may
be guessed, her ancestors did not
come over in the Mayflower.
A similar raid on Raleigh st. and
adjacent avenues in West Duluth
might relieve tina distressed Lieut.
Englert.
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equal to standard. Mr.. Latham
stated that the ability of pupils to
handle the fundamental operations
in arithmetic is decidedly below the
standard of expectancy. He also
stated, as city, our pupils are
decidedly below standard in their
ability to apply the fundamental
operations of arithmetic.
"After a lapse of something more
than two months, it now is claimed
by Supt. Bentley that while %
per cent. of our school children are
above standard in addition, this
does not mean that 72 per cent.
are deficient. II the situation was
not dad and is not bad, then what
did Mr.. Latham mean in twice re-
porting pupils decidedly below
standard in their arithmetic We
are not satisfied to have Duluth
school children below the average
of so cities in their. arithmetic
tests. This Is a situation which
should be remedied as soon as
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-07-14
ANOTHER LINCOLN STORY,

In 1862 an intimate friend of
President Lincoln visited him at the
White House in Washington. He
found him rather depressed in spirits
as result of the continued reversos
which the Federal troops were the
suffering.
This being President isn't all
that it is supposed to be, ] it, Mr..
Lincoln?" said his visitor.
"No," the President replied, with
a faint twinkle in his eye, II feel
sometimes like the Irishman who,
afte- being ridden on a rail, said:
III 1t wasn't for the honor OF the
thing, I'd rather walk.
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operations OF arithmetic to specific
problems as measured by Bucking-
hams Problem Scale. There is no
doubt but that a considerable part
of this weakness is due to the
pupils inability to add, subtract,
multiply, and divide with accuracy.
A large proportion of the deficien-
cies which are not explained by the
above statement are probably due
to lack Of knowledge of when
to add, when to subtract, when to
multiply, or when to divide.
"a. With the exceptio. Of minor
amount of deficiency in grades IA,
SB and ga, every city-wide grade is
above standard in silent reading as
measured by the Thorndike-McCall
Reading Tests.
Satisfactory Spelling Tests.
"5. With the exception Of grades
3B, 5B and ga, the performance
in spelling Is quite as satisfying as
in the case Of silent reading. mas
much as the tests were given in
October, and the results compared
with standard scores devised from
tests given three months later in
the school life Of pupils, it is safe
to assume that the standard score
would have been Appropriated by
practically every city-Wide grade
had the tests been given in January.
"6. Summary-The school pupils
of the city are normal group
in mental ability. They have been
taught to read and spell with an
average degree Of skill. Our i'm
mediate problem is to teach them
how to add, subtract, multiply and
divide and to apply these operations
to specific problems.
principals are requisite to dis
cuss the results herein given with
your teachers as soon as convenient.
Your building score for any specific
grade is a combination of the scores
made by all the pupils in your
building enrolled in that particular
grade even though the pupils are
taught by more than one teacher.
Improvement Strongly Urged.
"a comparison of your building
score with the city score will show
you whether the performance of
your pupils in a particular test is
above or below the performance
of the pupils in the city taken as
a whole. Again, a comparison of
your building score in each grade
with the standard grade-end score
will give you an idea Of how the
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FULL TEXT OF MIR. LATHAMs ALARM.

Herewith, ! am giving you re-
port on the testing work carried on
under the direction Of the depart
ment Of research, during the present
school Year. City, building, and
standard grade-end scores are given
for the Haggerty intelligence exam
nation, Courts Arithmetic Tests,
Series ''B", Buckingham Scale for
problems in arithmetic, Thorndike-
Mccall Reading Test, and Ash
baugh's Spelling Scale Tests.
"An examination Of the city re-
suits in each test as compared with
the standard grade-end scores Will
reveal the following congratulations:
81. The pupils in the Duluth
elementary schools are practically
normal in mental ability in so far
as that characteristic can be meas
ured by the Haggerty Intelligence
examination. Therefore, the ind1-
yidual teacher assigned to the aver
age class room of the system can
expect to have a group OF pupils
equal in mental ability to the aver
age group to which she would be
assigned in any other city OF the
north central states.
20. The ability Of the pupils in
the Duluth elementary schools to
handle the fundamental operations
in arithmetic, as measured by the
Courts tests, is decidedly below the
standard Of expectancy. The per-
centage Of pupils who can per-
form each fundamental operation
with a speed and accuracy above
the standard score is given below:
Addition, 2S.4 per cent; null
tiplication, 25.2 per cent; sub
straction, 29.1 per cent; division,
89.5 per cent.
Chief Weakness Pointed Out.
"From this table it would seem
that, as school system, we are
weaker in addition and snbstracti'
than we are in multiplication and
division, and it would be time we'll
spent for us to devote our energies
during the remainder of this year
in an effort to improve the skill of
the pupils in the fundamental Jpera-
lions. AS soon as fifty per cent of
the pupils in each room can equal
or excel the standard score, then
Duluth will be doing work along
this particular line equivalent to
that Of the average city.
SO. AS city, our pupils are
decidedly below standard in their
a ility to apply the fundamental