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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
RAWFORD'S TO
 CARRY BANNER
Birmingham Ford Dealer In Contest With Mem
 phis Dealer

The Crawford Auto shop has been chosen to take up the gage of battle flung by the Memphis branch to. the Atlanta branch of the Ford Motor com pany, The championsaof the Memphis crowd is Hull -Dobbs Motor company of Memphis r,.
 To decide the winner, a contest cov- sring the sale of Ford cars and trucks during the month of August has been arranged and the Crawford organisa- ton. being recognised as one of the strongest under the Atlanta branch, is expected to bring the honors to the Magic City,
 The entire organization is enthusias- tic and has adopted slogan of "A new car sale every working hour" and as there is about 225 working hours in the month 2 corresponding number of sales must be the result7if the. slogan is lived up to. A
 To do this the boys at Crawford's realize that they will have to hustle and ask that their friends tip them off to anyone contemplating the purchase of a Ford car or truck.
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exports which reached new high active during the half
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living, what he would be doing right now-making hay and killing weeds and grasses, that's what he would be doing and its going to be my job while you are off frolicking around-a curious idea sum, to exist in the minds of non- producers, that farmers have nothing to do on the farm after the 4th of July and during the cold disagreeable winter months. There are some farmers to be sure, mostly renters, however, that are easily deluded into the notion that real hot dry weather makes vacation period, usually taken by them, when all work stops and the time spent in watching the grass grow.
 Questions And Answers
 '(Q.) I have a lot of pears of the kind that don't seem to ripen on the trees and as I am a stranger in these parts would like to know the proper time to gather such fruit?-B J., R. F. D. Clanton, Ala.
 Al Not knowing the name of va riety you have, can only say that good l plan is to cut open one of the fruits and if the seed appear to be Inatured, 1 the fruit is perhaps very near ready to harvest. There is no harm, however, and often beneficial to the fruit to remain on the trees for month or more after full maturity and even longer. l (Q.) Will you please inform an amateur gardener if the bunch butter bean like the snap bean is of no account after short bearing period or will the plants produce profitable second crop Miss O., Ensley, Ala.
 | (A.) The bunch butter bean has a much longer life and bearing period than any snap bean. If all beans are promptly removed and none allowed to kbecome dry the butter bean will co,.N tinue to bloom, put on new growth and bear successive crops throughout the entire season. There is no plant that better responds to thorough and ire quent cultivation and but few more profitable and finer from disease and insect pests.
 0. I have. some wonderful daisies and would like to know the record for plant; also what variety that blooms collection? Mrs. w. s., Tuscumbia, Ala.
 A. There are some double types of | fore pleno, that produce more than a hundred blooms of small chrysanthe- mum-like flowers to a single plant. The latest one and very desirable, too, is arcticum, known as the Arctic daisy and is practically immune from south ern winter conditions and often blooms all during the winter months.
 0. What has become of the old fashioned lilacs and have other varieties taken their place? Mrs. E. F., Flor ence, Ala.
 A. The old fashioned lilacs still per sist but they have become hybridized and now produce q race of unrivaled beauty, the most popular of which are perhaps the pale double lilac, single white, double white, double blue, deep purple, reddish purple and various shades of pink and red. Like the human race, they have made advancement. 0. I have two boys that would like to send to a summer course at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
MUNCHAUsEN AGAIN
Mature Taking Stin Popular Form Of
 Diversion


 Nature taking Is a form of diversion which has passed out of public notice in recent years, although some allied sport appears to have been occupying the thoughts of students of animal life in the disturbed spring time Its first symptoms were observed when method of ridding a part of n suburban town of the pest of rats was seriously dc scribed in court by is inventor.
 He had driven the,slast veatige of a rat from his infested property by giY- ing one of the largest of them coat of tar and feathers, tying a streamer to his tail and setting him loose among his companions. So alarmed were they at the sight of such an unusual speci- men of their kind that their sudden flight completely cleared the property of the nuisance, The scope of imagina- tion revealed in this little drama pre- pared cautious readers for what might be reported later.
 A hitherto unsuspected California habit of hunting rabbits on motorcy- cles was next reported from the west. Strange sounds at night kept the farm ers near San Bernardino awake without explanation as to it's cause until the discovery that riders on motorcycles; pursued the rabbits rapidly until they were so exhausted that it was simple matter for the riders to stoop down, pick them up by the ears and toss them into the easily filled game bag and then start again in pursuit. Two such won- ders of animal life were destined to bring to the knowledge of the world others equally unknown and fabulous.
 The demand for something equally out of the ordinary was supplied by British Columbia. The extinction of thG salmon there is again threatened, Ii is not the canneries this time which will bring by their greed the premature end of a great industry, but the cruel dispo sition of the hair seal. Not satisfied with penetrating the trick of the fisher men who sought to hide their nets oi fish by means of another net over thu catch, the seals love to torture the fisl once they have caught them. sjust as fh, cat does the mouse. It is this habit O throwing them out of the water, catch ing them and tossing them back agail which is the present despair of the fish ermen, who see their means of iveli hood threatened by the heartless prankl of the hair seals. |
 Little attention was paid in a timt of such unaccustomed wonders for { plan to give away reindeer steaks al advertisements on an Alaskan .railroat or the mere static existence in a Utal lime pit of a skeleton of a brontosaurus which five million years ago must havt weighed twenty tons. The final honor were won by carp ina New Jersey lake, which carried Q rowboat and. it! occupants along so swiftly that only { shot from the shore saved them iron drowning.-New York Sun.
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The ciIy man goes oQs lo luncu HUH Il to l o'clock, consumes perhaps on iced cantelope. sliced tomatoes, iced tea, milk or coffee and other delicacies that may appeal to him, then makes up his mind that 1t is too hot to work and spends the afternoon at the ball park, golf links or perhaps fishing or some other less strenuous pastime. The latter or tiller of the soil is on the job a sunup and contends with the forces of nature until the bell rings or horn blows for dinner. Quickly after the monday meal, boiled dinner the product of his own tail he is again battling against the forces of nature amid the heat waves that often reach the height of 100 degrees or more anl unlismayed stays on the job until tho shadows morking the death of the day have dis approved. The former takes his drinking water to the field in gourd, jug, keg or bucket. In a short period it becomes as warm as his awn blood yet it must serve the purpose of moiSturing his parched throat. Is it any wonder that his dreams are usually cast amid scenes of shady work and cool water?
 Give Plants ElboW Room
 | need sufficient elbow room to do their l best. Look around Birmingham or any other place for that matter and observe how esthe. shade trees are crowded, the bright flowers choking to death for moisture, air and plant food, due to congested conditions, such pretty and valuable shrubbery striving to make a showing, rexerting efforts under crowded conditions that would show wonderful reSnlts under covered methods of plant- ing.
 Observe the vegetable garden, no wonder so many of them are abandoned when3it is sun that the owner in his desire to produce the maximum on a small piece of gtound has planted so thickly that there was not enough mois- tures and food to go around, in conse- quence of which all perished together. The same condition obtains out in the country where plenty of land is avail able, nearly every corn field you see is turning yellow showing a large per cent of barren stalks. One of the prin- i cipal reasons for such conditions is too many plants on the land for the amount of available moisture and food to sup port extended growth. We try to lay our troubles on the hot weather when old sol is not to blame for anything.
 No Vacation For Farmers
 The writer just overheard a conver- sation between cotton broker and a farmer. The broker was telling his friend of vacation trip he was, plan ming to include week in the Canadian forests with competent guides where there would be much sport, particularly in the fishing line and that all sorts of good things to eat and drink would fea- ture the trip. The broker said to the farmer: Come along with us, the trip will do you good and you should by now have your work in such shape as to be able to take it easy for a month or two. The farmer said: Look here, Tom you were raised on a farm because I have known you from childhood and you know very we'll if your old daddy was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
Autos First Half Of
 Year Ouer 100000
Exports Set New Mark And Dealers Look For
 Active Autumn Trade

Despite the depressing influence of cold, rainy spring and early summer, the automobile industry has forged ahead with a vigor which has come as pleasant surprise to even the most optimistic, A review of the first six months of the year shows that trade practically has continued on the high level set by 1923 and gives no signs of abating. With the new, smart models for 1925 making their appearance there is every indication that the next six months win snrpass the similar period of last year and set another, record in production for the industry.
 June production of motor vehicles, as reported to the meeting of the; di- rectors of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce held last Thurs day in Buffalo, brought the totals for six months to POOP, ,0S4, or within 1 E per cent of the number made in the first half of 1923, which was 2,031 ,003.
 The June figure, based on shipping reports, was 249,86S.
 The most favorable factor in the automobile world is the steady. increase in exports, which reached new high
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
IMAGINATION
Attribute In No Wise Restricted In
 Uses

Uses
 Many persons fail to credit either themselves or their friends with imagi- nation because they think of the word as denoting the quality of mind that enables a man to besa poet or q novelist or a composer, and they know that neither they nor their friends could ever write poems or novels or compose music.
 But imagination is not so restricted in it's uses. Any creative effort, how ever prosaic and practical in it's pur- pose, is likely to be inspired and direct ed by imagination. Whoever plans for the future necessarily inyokes the aid of imagination. Whoever worries about the future is either receiving the warn- ings or suffering the terroFs of imagi- nation. Whoever sympathizes keenly with a friend in sorrow or distress is acting on an impulse that is prompted by imagination.
 In short, imagination is a universal human attribute. Everyone possesses it in some measure. In few persons it attains a power that marks them as having genius. In nearly everyone it is susceptible of growth through exercise.
 Much of a mans happiness depends on his applying imagination to his indi- vidual problems and his social relations. In growing and marketing crops. in manufacturing articles of necessity or luxury, even in retailing merchandise, there is not merely the opportunity but the need for exercising imagination. What will happen if I do thus and sop is the question that every man has to be constantly putting to himself. The answer, to be sure, is supplied partly by his reason, but it is also supplied partly by his imagination. Reason will take hi mas far as the next corner, but it will not enable him to see round it :; imagination may.
 Some persons are not gifted with imagination of that convenient peri scopic type; their imagination is of the kind that enables them more readily to put themselves into the place of other peopie and to understand their thoughts and feelings than to picture the material consequences and results of their own acts.
 Imagination is of two kinds, the shrewd and the sympathetic Those per sons are fortunate who have some of both.-Youth's Companion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
Buy It Here!

You need not hesitate to buy used car. You take no risk when you buy here. Hundreds of satisfied customers are our best advertisement and they will testify as to the fairness of our policies.
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 Almost every car you see giving daily service on the streets is a used car. So why hesitate to buy one that is in better condition than the average car in the hands of an owner2 We have some ex- cellent values this week. Look our stock over before buying.
 You may buy from us with confidence YOU WILL BE SATISFIED.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
You Need Car Now!

Through the hot Summer season a good, dependable motor car will pay you and your family immense dividends in health and happiness. Now is the time when car is most useful and most need ed. One of our satisfactory used cars will prove of great value to you for shopping, outing and business purposes.
 Better values can never be had than at this time. Why postpone the purchase of a'better car when our prices and terms make it so easy to own good carp
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total in May. Passenger cars exported from the United States and Canads (plants in which United States com panies are financially iHterested) total ed 18,665. compared with 1S,123 in April. The truck figure was $500, compared with 3,170 in April. Assem- plies of American cars in foreign coun- tries reached 12,850.
 Production schedules in June, which ;tapered off to 20 per cent under May, are on a conservative basis. Excellent prospects for cotton in some parts of the south, favorable crop out look in the corn and wheat belts and poor farming conditions in New Eng land are excepted to further strengthen the market in the fall.
 Production of cars and trucks for 1923 and 1924 was as follows:
 1923 1924
 243,554 316,224 276,955 367,524 s 355,073 382, 2,456
 1882, TAG 373,199 E 394, 4,190 312,S13 37S,575 249,S68 Sales of trucks have been especially active during the first half of the year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
Ice Water In Summer
 Is The Farmers Dream
McVay Contrasts Life Of Man In City With That
 Of Man Caring For Crops

IS the cities where ice water and the breeze of electric
 easily available that hear persistent complaint about the hot
 weather The office situated in the of electric poor day who directs the destiny sveninch hoe for %hnsa nanorfn .
The Delta independent., 1924-12-26
MONEY JUDIcIoUsLY EXPENDED

A local citizen commenting on the
a well-known commodity had expend-
ed in the past decade something like
$24, 100000 for advertising, remarked: :
And yet he has amassed a fortune
Of many millions, a fortune so great
that probably even he does not know
er didn't accumulate his great for
tune in spite of the vast sum he ex-
pended for advertising, but very
largely because of It. He educated
the public in the use of his product
by advertising and since has steadily
increased his sales by keeping his
product constantly before them
And such is the way the majority
Of the great fortunes amassed in the
buhness world have been made.
Business and many lines Of industry
today appreciate the value of adver-
tising as neved before and are max
ing bigger appropriations for pub
licity.
William Wrigley, Jr., spends 3d.
100000 a year to tell the public
about chewing gum.
Ford expends $G,OOO,OOO to acceler-
ate the sale OF Lincolns Ford cars,
and Fordson tractors.
The electric light and power in.
dustries of the land expend over $4,-
100000 in advertising
The Campbells pay out S1,5OO, 900
to tell the people about their soups
and canned vegetables
The advertising appropriations Of
electric railway companies total over
$2,500,O00 annually.
To keep their tooth paste, powders,
soaps and perfumes before the pub
lie the Colgates pay out yearly the
sum OF $1,1S5,OO0
The firm Of Proctor & Gamble ex.
pend $1,17OOOO a year to advertise
their soaps.
Gas companies pay out about s2..
100000, judged by local expenditure.
and that in nearby cities, chiefly to
The Delta independent., 1924-12-26

throughout the state The name and
number of each lodge is being en-
graved on one side, while the en-
blematical symbols of the order
Charity, Benevolence and Friend
ship''-are engraved on the opposite
side. This attractive cup with its
gold lining is about twenty inches
high. and is now on display in the
window of Decker's jewellery store
In Hotchkiss and vicinity the
Christmas spirit predominates over
all other things. Everybody appears
to be cheerful and charitable, and
general good will toward men is man
fest. The general health of the
community is good, and no cases OF
want and misery have developed.
Hundreds have availed themselves of
the opportunity of sleigh riding. and
it appears as if we are all enjoying
a delightful carnival and don't fully
recognize the situation.
The Delta independent., 1924-12-26

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Miss Edith Fetz spent Wednesday
at the Blide home.
A. Linn. Sr. has installed new
electric plant to light his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mattress enter.
tanned Mrs. Perry Jones for Christ.
mas.
Mrs. John Carr and children are
spending Christmas with Mrs. Carrs'
mother, Mrs. Hand, in Delta.
Miss Goldie Cox arrived Thursday
from Greeley to spend her vacation
with her parents.
Mrs. Ralph Kinnear returned Fri.
day from Luray, Kansas, where she
was called by the death OF her father.
Mrs L. Jeffries and Mrs. NJ. Shelf
field were guests of their brother.
Carl Wise and family for Christmas
Mr.. and Mrs. Worthy Russell en-.
tertained John Puffer and family for
Christmas.
Miss Amy Slack camc mp from Del.
Ia Sunday to remain until after the
holidays.
Miss Ruby Davis, who Is teaching
the Maher school. is spending her va.
cation at home.
Mrs. Il. Jeffrles, Mrs NJ. Sheffield
and Carl Wise spent Saturday at
Grand Junction.
Miss Erma Puffer, who has been
visiting Mrs c. Bowen. at Grand
Junction, came home Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Marshall spent
Christmas with their daughter, Mrs.
M o. Carter at HotchNss.
Misses Effie Puffer Nola Lewis
and Bernice Kaser, who are attend.
ing the Delta Business college. are
home for the holidays.
Misses Anna and Olga Nelson are
spending their vacations with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs Charles Nels.
on.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Reltch entertain.
ed the following Christmas Day: Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Hutchinson, and
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Davis and Ruby.
Mrs. John Taylor delightfully."- en-
tertained the 800" club at the home
of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Blide Saturday evening.
The W. c. T. U. will hold n meet.
ing in January as their meeting falls
on New Years day and so many can
not attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. O. Brown, Doris
and Charles spent Christmas with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Roller, Hotch-
kiss.
Misses Mary and Veda De Greffen.
reid and Messrs. Wayne Bruton and
Delmer McClurg. who are attending
The Delta independent., 1924-12-26
HOTCHKISS
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Arthur Carpenter left last week for
California, where he expects to re-
main until spring.
Tuesday night was by far the cold
est night here so far this season, the
mercury registering Is degrees be-
low at Sunrise Wednesday.
Christmas services at the various
churches proved to be very entertain
ing, much time and work having been
donated by the church workers to
make their Yuletide exercises in
structive as well as entertaining.
Our postoffice officials report the
heaviest holiday mails ever handled
here in the history Of the Hotchkfss
office, both in and outgoing traffic
The office has been kept open even
ings of this week to accommodate the
public. Carriers however, We're not
compelled to daliver mail on Christ
mas day.
Many of our people were lamenting
the probability of green Christmas.
but have now changed their tune as
snow has been falling for several
days past and we are now enjoying
real genuine Christmas weather
Among the many college students
who have come home to spend the
holidays with their parents, we no
ticed Thelma Sayre from Delta; Ruth
Giller, Ruth Fisher, Minta Butts and
Ruth Ray, from Gunnison; Selma
Roller and Naomi Myers from Greel-
ey, and Gene HENDERSON, from Boul-
der.
Quite an enthusiastic meeting was
held in the high school building on
Tuesday evening, discussing the ad-
visibility Of voting bonds for new
school building for the Hotchkiss
consolidated schools. As near as we
can size up the situation the major,
ity of our citizens will vote in the
affirmative.
Thursday evening Of last week the
x. OF p. lodge held a very interesting
meeting, initiating five men into the
third degree. Those becoming full
fledged knights were c. s. Ellsworth,
Robert Whitney, Verne Myers, Rich
ard Sylvester, and "Bud" Dodge. Sew.
eral auto loads Of members from
Montrose were present. A luncheon
and smoker ended a most pleasant
evening. A special feature Of this
meeting was the presentation by the
Minteore lodge OF a beautiful silver
Good Fellowship" silver cup, owned
by the Colorado Grand lodge, TO the
Hotchkiss lodge to be left in their
possession for limited time, when
It will be forwarded to the Grand
Junction lodge, while entransit
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Western State college. are spending
their vacation at thelI homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Blide enter.
tanned the following Christmas Day.
John Taylor and family: Milo
keough and family; Messrs. Dot
Blide and John Crouch.
Mr.. and Mrs. I'd. Smith entertain.
ed the following for Christmas. Mr.
and Mrs. c. J. Lawlor: Mr.. and Mrs
Carl Smith and sons: Mrs. E. Walk.
er; Mr.. and Mrs Emmett Walker
and family; Mr. Otis Walker and
family OF Paonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Qualls Bruton enter.
tained the following on Chrlgtmas
Day: Mr. and Mrs. Ira Brooks. Of
Cedaredge; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lew.
is and Nola; Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Bruce and yerna; Profs. Stout and
ulbank. Of Cedaredgc
At a meeting OF the Farmers Tn.
ion held Friday afternoon in the
basement Of the church the following
officers were elected. President
John Durhn; vice president. Sam
Bruce; secretary and treasurer. Ter.
rill Ellington Mr. and Mrs. Worthy
Russell and NJ w Bennett were
elected delegates to tho convention
to be held in Denver in January
The Delta independent., 1924-12-26
Baptist Church Notes
O. L. ASHBURN.

The Baptist church extends to all
the seasons greetings. and wishes for
all an ever Increasing happiness and
prosperity of soul. May each Of us
unflinchingly and unfailingly Garry
on" throughout the coming days that
come to us, and prove ourselves
worthy of the love and sacrifice Of
him who was born on Christmas day.
We very much appreciated the fine
crowds last Sunday morning and
evening We especially commend the
orchestra for its work Next Sunday
evening the orchestra will render
several special numbers and you will
do well to hear them We wish to
commend the members of the orches-
ira for their faithfulness.
The pastor was very agreeably sur
prised to find the basement to the
church all finished upon his return.
This adds wonderfully to the value
Of the basement. We thank Mr.. ]. l..
Cribb very. much for the clock pre-.
sented to the church. as this was a
much needed addition TO our equip.
ment.
Church Calendar:
9:45 a. m, Sunday School.
11:00 a. m, sermon.
$50 p. m, Senior and Junior b.