Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1924, Page 2

PAGE TWO. be Casper Sund apy Cribune 15TH BIRTHDAYICAMPAIGNING IN THE EARLY DAYS — A TRIP OVER MOUNTAINS IN CONCORD STAGE COACH GALE [o OTAGED BY STORE WERE Golden Rule Will Let The Public in on Celebration. One of the oldest business firms in Casper, the Golden Rule depart- ment store will observe its fifteenth anniversary April 10 aid as is fit- ting will stage a great anniversary ‘sale nll this week, one of the most comprehensive sales the establish- mont has ever held. The growth of the Golden Rule ts so bound up with the growth of Casper that the suggestion of the name draws forth memories on the part of the older Casper residents of many pleasant relations with the company. A decade and a half ago, W. J. Lindsay saw the opportunities which the cil town afforded and leased a small one-story building almost di- rectly across from the present de- partment store. At that time Mr. Lindsey hired three clerks and though the business was a rushing one as business was considered in those days the clerks were able to handle it efficiently. Only a $6,000 stock was carried. A few years ago the proprietor saw that he would have to have larger quarters since there was no reagon under the sun for letting a Iarge volume of business slip through his fingers when he could take care of it and could serve the people merely by having a structure in which to handle it. Accordingly he made plans for a four story de- partment store. This was built, the company using the lower stories while the structure was belng com- pleted above, The store was built with elevntor service and everty- thing that a modern department store could possibly need and it stands today as a symbol of good business methods in a fast growing town. Where 15 years ago Mr. Lindsey had a stock of $6,000 he now has a stock of $300,000, and while at the beginning of: his venture he em- ployed only three clerks he now em- ployes 60. The work of serving the patrons is so great that it has been necessary to hire a general manager and John J Chapman holds this position with the store. Another personality who has much to do with the efficiency of the atore is J. A. Lujan, manager of the dry goods department. The Golden Rule just recently completed the interlor of the second story which is the ladies’ ready-to Wear department, it being neces- sary to remove some offices to do this. It also added an army goods department in the basement. The Golden Rule management ex. pects a great week starting tomor- row since it will off-- rare bargains in every departmen JOE L. MARQUIS IND SID NARTIN OPEN NEW CAFE Business in Cottman Block Is Named “The Marquis.” ‘The newest cafe to open in the aity is “The Marquis,” located in the new Cottman bullding on West Seeond street just off Center. J I, Marquis, widely-known business man and former sheriff of Natrona County is the proprietor; and sid Martin, late of the Henning Coffee Shop and favorably known to the public ee a caterer of high quality and extansive experience, is the manager The cafe is ‘centrally located and will no doubt attract patronage from all over the clty for that rea son, well as on account of the popularity of its owners and man- agers, The Marquis occuptes the ground floor room immediately wert of the " n entrance and will ha two entrances, one direct from Second sireet and one from the lobby of’ the building The furniture and furnishings are beautiful and of the highest quali f their kind. Sidebands, counters, tables, chairs, booths and all else are, of solid owk in the dark dull finish. The main cafe has ample seating and lunch counter capacity for the accommodation of guests while the balcony will readily accommodate a hundred r The cold storage, atock room and cloak room fe ‘loyes is located in the basement with an elevator opening into the kitcher The kitchen has the highest type of modern equipment with particu. lar concern for sani Conyenience is the key note tn this department Everything within arms reach, steam tables, r age and food su .. Pr in the chief cook in charge kitchen and James Proudtit is the pastry cook, The new cafe will open today for noonday luncheon and this evening will serve an elaborate dinner trom nix o'clock to elght. The Marquis will doubtless promptly assume the place of one of the most popular eating plac | the city. La Dogs Attack Writer Who Wears Wolf Skin Coat. By ALFRED J. MOKLER. During the pdlitical- campaign in the fall cf 1898 a “speaking tour” was made from Casper to Bates Hole and the Muddy district by Frank W. Mondell, candidate for congress on the Republican ticket, who had received the nomination at the state convention held in Doug- las, Timothy F. Burke, a promi- nent attorney from Cheyenne, and half a dozen candidates from Cas- per, on the Republican county ticket. The publisher of the Na- trona County Tribune went also. Half a dozen of us, including the two distinguished visitors, were passengers in a Concord coach, drawn by six horses, driven by Ol Rice. The distance from Casper to the White Brothers’ ranch in Bates Hole, where we stopped for supper, is about thirty-five | miles. We left Casper tn the early afte six horses were fresh frisky, and they galloped out town at a pace that exceeded the speed limit in these up-to-date days—but there was no speed limit in Casper then for either man or beast. They could travel as fast and go any route that ‘suited them and no officer of the law would interfere, so long as they kept going straight. The men in the coach and the driver on the boot felt fully as frisky ms the horses. They were all young fel- lows twenty-six years ago. But after traveling about twenty miles over the rough road the horses com menced to fag; the sharp crack of the driver's long whip did not seem to put the pep in them or get the speed out of them that it did at the beginning. The men in the coach, after being rocked and jolted and bumped for twenty miles through the valleys, over the hills and through the canyons and glades, also lost some of thelr spirits, and some of them felt the necessity of consuming some of the “spirits” from the two-gallon jugs that were being taken along to give to the doubtful voters to conyince them that the only way to save the coun- try from going to the bow-wows was to vote the Republican ticket— straight, from the highest executive to the lowest constable. During the campaigns days there were alwa many “doubtful voters, and it sometimes required several quarts of liquor and an unlimited number of cigars to convince them which was the proper ticket to vote. The last man that made a contribution to them generally thought he had them, but at the end they were as uncertain as they were at the be- and of would have in those a great ginning, but the candidates ou each of the tickets had to make the con- tributions or be termed as pikers, and a piker in those days could not get very far in any game. It was during this campaign that mere than forty votes were pledged to a certain Republican county candidate out of the sixty odd that were cast in the Freeland precinct. When the returns came in the ¢an- didate received® just one vote, but the forty men all maintained that they were true to their pre-election promise. It would have been a most trying situation for the repu- tation of those forty men if that one man had failed to reach the polls that day. But getting back to the trip. It was long after dark when we reached the White Brothers’ ranch. The passengers, as well as the driver and the horses, were weary— and we were hungry. We found Jim and Ed White and a bountiful supper waiting for us Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, the finest white bread, good butter, Jellies and jams and pumpkin pie comprised part of the menu. No one failed to perform his full duty at this part of the program. After supper and cigars the drive was made to the Freeland school house where the meeting was to be held. All the Democrats and Re publicans and doubtful voters from every nook and corner in the “Hole” were present, and they all helped to make the meeting a grand suc- cess. It was a social event with the people in the “Hole” rather than political.¢ After shaking hands all around and half an hour's social chat and visit; some one of the men took up his position behind the teacher's desk and called the meet- ing to order, He said it was a “Republican meeting, and like the Republicans did everything, they would proceed with the business without any frills or fussing.” 1 think-it was Fred Place, then the “king of Bates Hole politics,” who acted as chairman. He introduced Timothy Burke, and after the <us- tomary hand-clapping, Mr, Burke launched out on @ speech that con- sumed an hour and a quarter of valuable time. ‘The subject was a legal one: “Justification of the Habeas Corpus.’ ‘When he finished everybody was delighted, and he was accorded a tremendous ap- plause. Frank Mondell was then introduced. Frank was then and is yet. a “regular, fellow,” oven though he has served more than a quarter of a century in. congress, and has been highly honored in many other ways. His speech was to the common people, from a com- mon man, and he brought the audi- ence out of the dumps “and the habeas corpus proceedings and put enthusiasm in their hands, a shout in their throats and limbered their legs, and they. clapped their hands, cheered and stamped the floor in approval of all he\ said. At 11:30 the first part of the meet- ing was declared to be closed. The seats were all carried out of the building and a temporary table was placed in the center of the room. Baskets and boxes filled with ap- petizing food were brought in and spread upon the table. It was a feast fit for a king, No one failed to partake and appreciate it to the fullest. The table and such as was left of the lunch was then removed and the announcement was made that there was to be*a dance. A man with a fiddle—it. would be ealled a violin nowadays—and a boy with a mouth-harp furnished the music. Three sets of square dancers filled the room. The music started, the cailer cried out: “Honor your partners; all join hands and circle to the left, grand rjght and’ left, allemand left, swing on the corner,” ete. The square danced) predominated, but there were a few waltzes, and an occasional polka and schottische. The dance con- tinued until the next day at noon, but at 6 o'clock in the morning some of us returned 4o the White ranch house, and after breakfast Frank Mondell and the writer occupied the same bed. It is said that politics make queer bed fel- lows, but in those early days, when even the newspaper publishers were honest and there were no corrupt congressmen, nothing was thought of a congressman and the publisher of a country newspaper sleeping to- gether in the same bed. Ol] domes, graft and senate investigations were then unheard of in'this part of the country, and the United States senate spent its time in an attempt to enact some laws for the good of the people, instead of playing politics during all of the session of congress. After’ dinner we started over the “hog-back"” for the Muddy. We reached” the V—V ranch house in plenty of time for supper. It rained on us most of the way over, and be- sides being weary and worn, we were wet and cold. But the warm wel- come given us by Mr. and Mrs. Brooks. the comfortable room and splendid supper made us feel that the long, hard trip was well worth taking and we were in good trim for the meeting, to be held in‘the school house that evening. Quite a number of people had driven out from Casper to attend this meeting who did not go to the Bates Hole meeting. The people of the Muddy took care of their guests with food and entertainment, and were entitled to fully as much credit as has been given the people of Bates Hole. About the same sort of program was carried out. Mr. Burke made his habeas corpus speech, and jt seemed to be longer and deeper than when we first heard it; Mr. Mondell again pleased his audience, On account of the rain much mud was carried into the school house and deposited on the floor, and one of the ladles from Casper will never forget that after a waltz the soles and heels of her shoes carried great balls of gumbo and the sides of her Doubtful’ Voters Lose Out on Prohibition Act. shoes were besmeared with clay which had been scraped from her partner’s muddy,shoes while going through the trying and painful or- deal of the dance. The dance continued until long after breakfast time, but Marion P. Wheeler and I left for Casper short- ly after midnight. We were in a one-seated top buggy. The roads were muddy, the night was dark and our progress was slow. “It t us more than four hours to drive the eighteen miles. On account of the damp, cold night some kind-hearted man loaned me his wolf-skin overcoat to wear. He said good editors were hard to find in these parts, and he did not want me to get pneumonia. When we arrived in Casper it was early in the morning, but yet dark. After we had put up our team in Charley Bucknum's livery stable I. started home on foot and quite alone. I had not walked a city block until a dozen dogs were howling at my heels. I started to run and had not gone another block until the pack was twice that number and four times as ferocious. I could not imagine what was the matter. TI had been out Jate at night many times before and had never been chased by a pack of dogs. They surrounded me and I could not go forward, and I decided to kick my, way through the pack but they jumped on me and snapped at me, and,I fought. them until I was al- most exhausted. My heavy wolf. skin coat interferred with my gym- nastic gyrations, and to better do- fend myself from the attacking ani- mals, I flung off my heavy coat, de- termined to make the fight of my life. No sooner had I thrown off my coat than the dogs looked at me in surprise and slunk away, and they seemed to say that they thought it was a wolf that had invaded the sacred precincts of Casper. Never again would I wear a wolf-skin over- coat in a town where the dogs were not accustomed to such things. / After dancing all night and be- ing served with a good breakfast at the Muddy school house, the Casper people left for home, arriving here at about noon, . Nearly all the candidates.on the Republican ticket were elected by safe majorities at the general elec- tion in November, and those who made this and numerous other cam- paign tours through the country felt that, although the duty was rather arduous, they had done their full part toward saving the coun- try from going to ruin and decay. eee Next to New York City, San Francisco has the most hotels of any city in the United States, You’ve never seena “Bull”. smoker “switch”! s Try and get a “BULL” Durham smoker to “‘switch” to any other cig- arette. He'll tell you straight off that there’s no way to get the same deli- cious flavor and tobacco taste, the in- variable quality. And the economy! 100 cigarettes for 15 cents, thar Menarionei. INCORPORATED 66 GENUINE BULL” DURHAM NOW EIGHT CENTS A BAg 100 CIGARETTES for 15} SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1924. phere of comfort and friendliness. The wants of the customers will be supplied from the stock room in the rear of the store. i The store will be owned by J. B. and J..D. Cather, brothers of R- C. Cather of the Wyoming Trust com- pany of-this city. J. E. Cather has been the proprietor of while J. D. Cather has been in the clothing and shoe business at Req Cloud, Neb. J. B. Cather has already brought his family to Casper, his wife being a graduate of Darlington seminary, Priladelphia, and an accomplished musician. “ The family of J. D. Cather will arrive in Casper-in the near future. Tribune Agent at Field Camp Hurt Harris Miller, representative of the Casper Tribune at the Midwest home camp at Salt Creek, suffered an injury to one of his eyes when he was struck by a snowball. He was brought to Casper and placed under the care of Dr. George Smith. It was thought at first that he might lose the eye but he is re- ported to be doing nicely. BOOT SHOPPE. 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