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Show I Richmond News H The delofatfn who attended tho B Republican ronrentlon at Loir&n bat- urday, wer J. h McG'irror. jr, H. H Merrill, C. Z Harris. 0. A. Larson. H vin. Merrill, Win. Hope, J. P. John-H John-H aon! 3nmca Tnoinaasen, Chaa. Qrlf-H Qrlf-H filths, a,nd A. A. Thomas. Thoy re-H re-H turned woil satisfied with the day's Wk ork. 3s We are glad to note Richmond had V9 a lull' delegation to the convention. m Oa account of th!a being the bo called H rock ribbed Domocraoc tqwn It la H usually difficult to get UopubV cans in I terested, but this year seems o be H an exception The fact that tho Hull H Mooso will have a ticket In the foil teems to have stirred up many of H tho doubtful, and don't care voters. "Ibis clahs of voters as a rule so fur I ns wo havj been able to correctly H observe, are anxious to get Into .be jfl KcpubVcan ranks. One young man H who will vote for the first time llm year was supporting a Taft bnilgvs. flj Upon being asked vh' ho chose ibo H badgo he promptly replied, "I am H nfrald of Cleveland wages, and bs ng B a laboring man, I want none of then. " Three farmers, who have always I been considered doubtful have recjrt-fl recjrt-fl ly Jo'ned our ranks. One says: "I B have a few cows, I can sell them to-fl to-fl day at 7G.O0 per head; in Cleveland fl days, I sold just such cows forfH.O') fl per head. My land is worth $150.00 fl per aero now, then It waB $30.00. I fl feel fairly well off today, but $30.00 fl land and $14.00 cows would make me fl feel pretty poor. I may pay a little fl more for shovels, pitchforks, and ma- fl chlnery. hut tho difference in the fl sale of one cow now and the sale of fl .. one cow then, would buy ray pitch- fl forks, and shovels, and pay tho dlf- jfl ferenco in the price of tho machinery jfl I would buy for ten years and I raise fl ten cows a year, no Republican pros- jfl perlty suits me. Even if.lt does make fl the rich richer, my observation is fl that it makes the poor richer too," jfl Another said: "I am a farmer, I raise fl oeets principally, for awhile I felt fl sore because I thought the building jfl of so many sugar facton'es should fl make sugar cheaper, and becauso It fl didn't I damned tho sugar company, fl and the rich but now I have set aside ( jfl my prejudice and desire to look tho , fl matter fairly In tho face. Last year jft I cleared $40.00 per acre off 20 acres aPL of beets besides giving good wages ra -'J' to my boys and myself for tho fc'mo mg wo put in on beets. Suppose sugar fl Is 50 cents a sack higher or even $1.00 jfl my family uses but five sacks a year fl which would amount to but $5.00 at jfl tho most. Well tho Increase Inj tho fl prjee of bcots has been 25 cents, so B tho increase In tho price of one acre of beets pays for tho difference In fl tho price ot all tho sugar I uso for fl a year. One dollar added to the price of a sack ot sugar makes but llttlo dlf ferenco to mo, but 25 cents added to fl a ton ot beets makes mo a mighty nice profit. No, I can't see how a B heet raiser can be a free trader. I'm B glad Taft vetoed their free trade B business. He's my man. fl The third man said: "I own a dry fl farm, I get my V.vlng In a small way fl from my email irrigated farm, but I fl mako my monoy from dry farming, fl I averago about 3000 bushels ot wheat Ffl a year. For a while I was against fl the tariff, and like many others, I fl complained about tho wealth of the jK rich and kept thinking the reason I was poor was becauso ot tho .moan-1 nees of the other 'fellow, but I have now recovered from the tranco of pre- , jud'ee and can see my success do- . tends largely upon myself. In 1896 I sold 3000 bUBhels ot wheat for 33 I 1-3' cents or $1000.00. This spring I Struck the market Just right and I sold 3000 bushel of wheat for $3000 supposo I do have to pay $10.00 more for a wagon, $20.00 more for a binder, bind-er, $5.00 more for a rake or $10.00 hioo for a mower, why tho difference In tho price ot my crops in 1896 and 1912, would buy all tho wagonB, mowers, mow-ers, rakes, and binders. I would use in ten years and the difference in the othor nine crops has matlo mo r ch. No, it maybe alright for some peoplo to be Democrats, but a farm-I farm-I cr never." Now hero Is four good Republicans votes como to us voluntarily th's fall nn,d wo look for many more doubtful and don't caro votes beforo election day. Wo look for at least GO such votes while the Hull Motfse will not cast to exceed five votes in this prea net. That don't look Ilko Republican Repub-lican defeat does It? Our district schools started Monday Mon-day under very favorable conditions. The enrollment was nil that could bo expected at this time of tho ear, especially es-pecially In consldertitlon of tho fact that tho wet season has materially delayed all farm work and everybody Is behind with their harvest'ng and threshing. , Tho fact that the plumbers fai.led to complete their steam heat contract at the high school Is causing much Inconvenience there ns the weather Is too cold to hold school without having hav-ing tho rooms heated. This iVfllcul-ty iVfllcul-ty overcome, our high school will be In excellent shape with an enrollment of 45 students now with a prospect of J an Increase of at least 15 more In a short time. Now that tbresh'ng Is drawing to a close all farmers who had growing grain in tho hail belt reallzo their loss Is much more than they expected. expect-ed. The O. 8. L. engineer was here this week arranging for transfer cf a etr'p of land three rods wide on I the west side ot the depot running from the milk factory north to the Harris road. They expect to put tho loading and unloading enr lot facie west ot the main track, tnke up the present loading track east of tho do-! pot and put our depot grounds Jn gen-oral gen-oral In decent sbnpe. The city will then grade the depot street at the brink of the hill so as It will look much better and be on a much less grade, thus doing away with tho prosent steep hill. .This Improvement Im-provement will be hailed with Joy by tho good peoplo of th's district. Tho Y. M. and Y. L. Mutual convention con-vention ot the Benson Stake was held at tho now Central school at Smith-field Smith-field last Sunday. Elder L. R. Mar-tlneau Mar-tlneau and Sister Lovsoy ot the general gen-eral board were present. Thero was a good attendance of officers and members and a general spirit of Improvement Im-provement and rejoicing was everywhere every-where manifested. The usual fall loss of too many milk cows coming In contact with too much lucern pasturage Is with us. The losers this year so far as we have been able to loam are, J. W. Hendricks, J. Alma Carson, and Fred Wh ttlc. Mr. Whittle was also unfor-tunate unfor-tunate in losing one ot tbls $300.00 Norman marcs last week. It waa not luccrno that killed her. She had been sck for a week and despite the efforts ef-forts of Dr. McQuUton and othcts she d ed. Tho loss at this time ot the year falls quite heavily upon Mr. Whittle. From the number of peach peddlers and the number ot Richmond outilts going to and coming from I)n gham It looks liko we are having Peach Day here. 4 Monday forenoon Dr. Adamson had quite a damaging run away, but no one was seriously hurt, as wo are Informed In-formed at this wrltj'ng. Dr. Adamson teacher ot tho parents' class Is doing do-ing missionary work in tho interest ot his class by tractlng the town this week. Joseph Peart and family ot Downey Down-ey aro vlrt'tlng relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Wlllard Robinson and Wm. Robinson of Stnr Valley stopped off a day or so to visit rcl atlves hero while on their way to llrlghnm for fruit. David Smith, Jr., Is nursling a badly mnshed finger and Is therefore obliged ob-liged to abandon his work at the Condenser Con-denser for a whllo. Andrew Fcltmnn is still critically '11. Ho Is 69 yeais or age and those in attendance havo but llttlo hopo of his recovery. Mrs. M.J. Daty, widow of the Iato Bishop Daty, became suddenly 111 Saturday and Is In a dangerous condition. con-dition. Mrs. Sarah Ann Merrill lis also seriously ser-iously ill at this writing. We aro Informed other members of tho Schow family aro now stricken with smallpox. Mrs. Marian Schow Is quite sick with tbo malady. Our city physician is making all efforts possible to keep tho disease from spreading In which ho has the support sup-port ot the community. |