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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-02-01
STATE oFFICnRs-M1NNnsor.

STATE OFFICERS OF LADIES' AUXII,-
larry.
President-Mrs. ]. ]. Daley, 1904 Central
av., Minneapolis.
Vice President-Mrs. Mary Reilly, Brain
erd.
secretary-Ella Keating, l47 Pleasant ay,,
st. Paul.
Treasurer-Ars. Katherine Mcdonald.
Duluth.
Insurance secretary-Miss Nargarst Ora.
dy. saltwater.
Insurance Treasurer Mary Sullivan.
Rochester.
State Medical Director-Dr. D. W. Buck.
10y. ct. Paul.
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MEATH.

On New Years day young man
named Carr, son of a farmer living at
Killallin, was out shooting wild ducks
when the gun accidently went off, with
the result that he was almost instantly
killed
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For further iuformatiorl n5fross 1,,e yjoe
Pres, REV, BRUNO DoERFLER, o. s. h
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-07-11

the water and drank deep and turned
his eye this way and that to express
satisfaction. He liked the water just
down from the sky. Then he faced
outward and firted his long, slim
black tail into the water, throwing it
under his lifted wings and shaking
himself
Next he took n dive and got into it
with both feet, his wings shaking the
drops over his back and in among his
gray feathers. How he enjoyed it!
Hereabouts one can rent or buy al
most on his own terms houses and
farms. One five room cottage, two
rooms upstairs, rents, with house, or
chard and garden, for $3.50 a month.
Another, Il great, old, many roomed
mansion, built sixty years ago, with
barn, lawn, vegetable and flower gar
den and pasture field, rents for slightly
over 500 a year. AS one drives
through Fairfield county with a person
who knows the land the person will
point to this, that and the other aban-
doned home and say:
. u iOu'SS ou Stlll Dby vi 1CLlL
for almost nothing" The doors are
barred, the fences fallen to decay. the
walks overGrown with grass and
weeds or bouncing BEETLES and yellow
lilies. Somehow one of these deserted
farmhouses gives you the impression
of an abandoned graveyard.
Why are these farms abandoned?
1t is that the amount of brains and
energy necessary to get a good living
on them Will bring greater returns
elsewhere. There seems no outlook for
New England lands of this sort except
to be sold to wealthy people for fancy
country estates. Some of the old Con-
necticutters that still hang to their
ancestral acres do fairly well taking
summer boarders, who are becoming
annually more numerous as city folk
discover the beauty and healthfulness
of this region. 1t is an excellent local
ity for poultry rearing and small fruit
culture and an ideal one for dairying
on moderate scales
SUSAN PEPPER.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-07-11
Lives Of
) Striking
y Miner.c
IL x ~ -
[special correspondence.l

Wilkesbarre- Pa, July Tin times of
peace and prosperity the conditions of
life among the miners in the anthracite
coalfelds, of which this city is the CEN
ter, are very much the same as those
prevailing elsewhere in the ordinary in
dustrial walks of life. There are pros
porous and well to do miners and i'm
provident and ne'er do well miners
and miners of all grades between the
two extremes.
1t is a mistake to suppose, as many
do who are unacquainted with the
conditions here that coal miners or
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-07-11

| with jealous eye, to refuse to make ex-
penditures that in previous years she
deemed absolutely necessary.
| 1t Is not the miners proper nor their
dependents who suffer most keenly, at
least so far as the question of subsist-
ence goes, from the effects of a long
| continued coal strike. 1t is the Poles,
| Hungarians. Italians and Slavs, who
are not, except in few instances, min
ers according to the local definition of
the term. They work about the mines,
inside and out, as laborers and helpers
at wages very much inferior to those
paid the miners, from which it is quite
impossible for them to save much if
anything even if they were inclined to
do so, which as rule they are not.
When the miners lay down their picks,
these laborers, which form q large
proportion of the working force of z
mine, are necessarily thrown out of
employment and are i'll prepared for
the shutdown. They have nothing put
by for their future, and want and hun
ger soon come upon them. They live i'll
the worst habitations that the regions
afford, large families of them accumu-
lating in small rooms, many in house.
Their condition even during prosper
miseration. Most of the members of
these families cannot speak English,
and the people who seek to succor
them are made to understand their
wants with difficulty through some
addle headed interpreter.
The Slavonic tribes and the Magyar
Hungarians as q general rule live in
the same settlement. The Italians live
by themselves. All are in abject pow
erty, living in rude Shanties which
they have thrown together upon the
companies lands. If there is any diff
ference in the degree of poverty, the
condition of the italian mine laborer Is
the more pitjable.
One of the most notable of these
italian settlements is near Latimer,
near where the shocking tragedy oc-
CURED in the last great strike. The
principal mine in that direction is the
Pardee mine. The mine laborers have
made homes for themselves back of the |
mine. They built their wooden huts at
the edge of the culm bank of such tim
Der as they could find discarded from
tunnel shores or lying unclaimed along
the road.
The streets are not streets, but little.
narrow alleys. 1t would be impossible
to drive horse and wagon through
them. The houses are ali one story
high and of the most primitive con-
struction. A respectable farmer OF
Pennsylvania would hesitate before
his hogs to them.
In nearly every one of the homes of
the italian miners there is a family of
at least five children. That is the aver
age, and many of these sheds shelter
as many as twelve children.
The browning glory of the italian
village is its goats. The milk makes
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-07-11

HOMES OF FOREIGN MINE LABoRERS AT
TAYLOR, Pa.
one of the principal forms of diet of
the children. That and. black bread is
about all they get.
The homes of the Huns and Slavs
are very much like those of the Ital-
ians in construction and surroundings,
though somewhat more Clearly and
comfortable. The houses are only one
story high, built of lumber discarded
from the mines. The roofs are shin
gled, though usually lealky in places
and REINFORCED with strips of sheet
iron, also from the mines. Behind the
houses are struggling little gardens
planted with potatoes, corn and beans.
In front OF one house I saw q dove
cote built on tall post and paiuted
yellow, red and blue, the favorite col
ors Of the Hungarian race. 1t present
ed marked contrast to the Imprinted
home of the human beings beneath it.
Hard as is the lot of the American
miner In the anthracite field during q
prolonged shutdown, it is not to be
compared to the suffering and distress
OF the foreign element in the coal belt,
whose condition at best is one of pow
erty and squalor.
CARROLL WALLACE ROSS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-07-11
A LITTLE JOURNEY.
AMONG THE ABANDONED FARMS m
CONNECTICUT.
The Bobwhite Rears Her Brood In
the Untrodden Grass of Ancient
Dooryards, and Her whistle Echoes
BACK From Empty Barns.
Especial Correspondence

BACK From Empty Barns.
| Especial Correspondence
Stamford, July IL am just return
ing from little journey among aban-
doned farms. Last night L spent in n
farmhouse whose former occupants had
left and gone long since into more stir
ring life. The old farmhouse is in Fair
field county and upon one of the high
est tablelanGs of Connecticut. Radiant
green valleys, dark green bits of wood
land, slope off this way and that
north, south, west. Eastward the blue
waters of the sound heave and glitter
in plain sight a dozen miles away, with
the Long Island coast hazily outlined
beyond. The air is like new wine, only
more so. You feel yourself drinking in
the sun cure while you breathe. The
radiant atoms that ride upon the air
and bid it wake up.
True to the traditions of old Con-
necticut, 1 rose at 4 o'clock in the
morning. 1 went downstairs and sat
upon the veranda, viewing the land
scape over. In such n spot the immor.
tai gods disported for a playground
when they were young. did not know
the world still held so many native
birds. Robins poured upon the ether
their songs of liquid gold. In a great
cherry tree one sat in plain view and
eyed me impudently while he nibbled
cherries and called to his mate:
"Cheery, sweetheart! CHEEKY, cheeryr'
The great dooryard, once trodden
compact by the restless feet of genera
lions of children, is overgrown with
grass foot high. In this long grass
quail after quail, elsewhere so shy OF
man, has built its nest and reared its
young. Fearless coveys of little brown
creatures darted hither and thither.
But the best of all was to watch the
catbird take his bath. 1t had rained
the night before. Tubs at the house
corners to catch water were full. a
merry tee-chee-chee-a dainty bird gig
gle it was-and a catbird darted down
from cherry tree and rested upon the
edge of tub. He dipped his beak into
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-07-11

Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Wilder, of Jen-
nings, visited the family of G. A.
Bailey in this city Saturday and Sun
day.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
Rockdale

Mrs Ole Anderson was caller at Cam
bridge last Saturday.
G H Tellefson visited in Edgerton a
couple of days last week.
Mrs Casper Holm and son, Gerald, of
Stoughton are visiting relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs Charley Dessain of Oak
land were callers in town Saturday eve.
A few friends of Mr. and Mrs Ole G
Olson surprised them last Friday even
ing, the occasion being the Both ami
versary of their marriage.
Married, at the home of the brides
parents, Mr. and Mrs n Holverson, last
Wednesday evening, Miss Nora Holver-
son and Mr. Oluf Herried. Both bride
and groom have spent their lives here
and their many friends wish them long
and prosperous journey through life.
The bride is the elder daughter of Mr.
and Mrs n Holverson ana the groom
is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs Andrew
Herried. They were attended by Chris
tine Holverson, sister of the bride, and
Emil Herried, brother of the groom
The bride was beautifully attired in
white muslin and the groom in conven-
tional black. Only the immediate rela
tives were present. The ceremony was
performed by Rev Holverson.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
Albion Prairie.

Prayer meeting will be held at the
home of George Sherwood.
The Ladies Aic of the p M church will
meet with Miss Sherwood.
Walter Marsden is entertaining one of
his friends from Milwaukee.
Mr. and Mrs A Staff of Utica spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs S Hail.
Miss Mae Marsden will give paper at
the League, subject, Education"
The Ladies' Aid of the M E church will
meet Thursday of this week with Mrs A
Vickers.
Messrs Humphrey & Saunders were in
Milwaukee to purchase goods for their
store at Amos. They believe in having
goods fresh and up to date.
The high winds that have prevailed to
some extent the past ten days we did not
mention last week as The Reporter got
the news of all sheds and windmills that
were blown down. Most of them are be-
ing replaced with new ones. Rain has
fallen and the dread of dr. weather is at
present relieved
The statement of the Hillside Farm
ers' Cooperative creamery for the month
of March is as follows: No. lbs milk re-
ceived, 16l, 446; No. lbs butter made,
1851; amt received, S1,881.30; cast per
10 to make OPT; average oil test, 374;
actual yield of butter, 4.36; average price
received, .2675; average price paid for
milk, l.04; price for per cent milk, 1.12;
total expenses, S190.37.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
Deerfeld.

A D Conkey of Milton Junction was in
town Tuesday looking over the creamery
with view to purchasing it.
Rev Grevstad was in Albion Wednes-
day where meeting of the board of di-
rectors was held to elect teachers for the
coming school year.
About dozen young men and women
have arrived direct from Norway this
week They have been greatly sought
by farmers who wanted to employ them
Probably the best crop of tobacco that
has been sold to the Deerfeld market
this year is crop Ell G Klinefelter pur-
chased of ex-Sheriff Dan Bachtel near
Madison. Considerable of it measures
2S1s inches in length and is spready and
thin with good color.
Fire at $50 o'clock Wednesday night
destroyed completely the portable pho
tograph gallery back of E D Nelson's
store which he has been using as poul-
try barn. Origin of fire is not known.
Firemen and citizens responded quickly
to the alarm and soon put out the fire.
judge Zimmerman in the county court
issued an order adjudging Andrew Helm
dial sane and ordering his immediate dis
charge from the asylum at Mendoza.
This action was taken after hearing in
which the patient testified that he was
sane. Other witnesses were Drs G A
Harper and F A Lyman, Miss Alice
Heimdal and Knudt Evenson. The hear
ing was set as a contest but the wit
nesses in favor of keeping Heimdal in
the asylum did not appear.
Don't waste your money on worth
less limitations of Rocky Mountain Tea.
Get the genuine made only by the Madi-
son Medicine Co. A great family rem
edy. IS cts. Perry & Doty.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
StOughtOn.

Mr. Walton Ell Pyre, who will soon have
finished the season of playing with the
Otis Skinner Go, will spend the summer
giving instruction in elocution and will
take classes in this city.
William Seamonson sold his farm of
80 acres in Pleasant Springs Wednesday
to O O Hougan for $4,000. By this
transfer are at last joined two farms
which, it has always seemed should
have been one homestead.
Cheeny Haley met with a painful &C
cident while coming to town Thursday
with load of tobacco. The pole to his
wagon fell down and the team ran away,
throwing him from the top of the load to
the ground breaking his collar bone.
Besides the suffering it also deprives
Mr. Haley from attending to his farm
work at the busy season of the year
when his services are most needed.
AS an event by which to remember his
retirement from the passionate of church
which he has served we'll for more than
twenty years, Rev A Bredesen was given
royal farewell surprise at the opera hall
Tuesday evening by about five hundred
of his Pensioners. A short musical pro-
gram was rendered, after which Rev r o
Brandt, of Mcfarland, on behalf of the
| congregation, presented Rev Bredesen
with the sum of 1925 in gold as fare
we'll gift.
Thursdays Democrat: The case of the
state against J Ell Joice, alleged to have
defrauded depositors of the defunct
Dane County Bank, Of Stoughton, will
be called before Judge Donovan in the
municipal court today. M Clancy
appearing for the defendant, will present
affidavits asking for continuance for
some weeks. The defendant will appear
in court. The district attorney will en-
ter no objection to the postponement.
N Altemus shipped twenty three fat
steers to Chicago market on Thursday
| which netted him, after paying freight
and commission, Sl,739.O0. These same
steers were purchased in Chicago last
fall by Mr. Altemus for about 80 cents
and sent back at nearly cents per
pound. They had gained in weight
about 400 pounds each. Mr. Altemus
feels highly elated over the deal and says
| it pays we'll to feed even fifty cent corn
His son, Theodore, accompanied the
stock to Chicago and disposed of them
at fancy price.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
Indian / ord.

Mr. Jake Lackner has returned to his
home in South Dakota
Miss Pearl johnson Of GAINESVILLE was
calling on friends the first of the week.
Miss Jessie Wood left Monday after a
short visit with relatives and friends.
We have been requested to state that
ground feed is once more for sale at the
mill.
Mrs Frances Sinclair and son, Bert, of
Little Rock, Ark, are visiting at Henry
Shuman's.
Miss Ethel Heath and Mr. Schafer of
Monroe were very welcome callers at
John Scarcliffs and w Prices Sunday.
Mrs Lackner, Mrs Wood, Leo Green
and Jessie Wood spent very enjoyable
afternoon last week at Millar's green
house.
The following officers of the Juvenile
Temple were elected and installed last
Thursday: T, Wilma Hurd; V T, Ger
tie Tubbs; r S, Fay Price; A S. Willie
Thomas: f S, Florence Hurd; T, Mar
garet Chamberlain; M, Archie Lackner;
D M, Ruth Scofeld; G, Charley Thomas;
S, Ruby Scofeld; G, Emma Sebell; P G
T, Nellie Mccain.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
Milton junction.

The entertainment given Saturday
evening by the students of the high
school was we'll attended and was sue
cess in every way.
Owing to i'll health, George Addie
yesterday resigned as assessor of the
town of Milton.
The Ministerial association of the
GAINESVILLE district was in session at the
Methodist church Monday and Tuesday.
There was good attendance on the
part of the ministers, all but six of the
thirty pastors in the district being pres
ent.
Mrs Mary Clarke died Tuesday at the
home of her brother, Henry Maryatt,
with whom she has resided for the past
six years. Mrs Clarke was 76 years old.
She came with her parents from New
York in 1915, and at various times resid-
ed IN Minnesota, Nebraska and Missis-
sippi. She leaves two brothers, the one
with whom she resided, and D @ Mary
oft OF Washington state. Funeral ser
vices were held at the house Thursday.
A novel feeling Of leaping, bounding
impulses goes through your body You
feel young, act young and are young
after taking Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cts.
Perry & Doty.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09

Albion.

AlDIOn
Mrs W II Jordan is very sick.
re Green and wife spent Monday ir
GAINESVILLE.
Mrs j @ Emery went to GAINESVILLE or
Wednesday.
Arbor day exercises at the graded
school Friday.
AB Campbell has been granted an
increase of pension.
Eslie Jeffrey is canvassing for life of
Rev DR. Talmage.
VIM Potter and wife of Beloit spent
Sunday at G f Walters.
VIII Tyler and wife spent Wednesday
and Thursday in Madison.
Rev Babcock lectured on temperance
at Milton Jet Saturday evening.
AL Conger of Milwaukee was visit
or at j 6 Msore's one day last week.
Kenyon Coon arrived home Wednes-
day evening for visit with his parents.
Fred J Crandall of Chicago visited
Albion friends the early part of the week.
Mr. and Mrs L Spike of Stebbinsville
visited with G Ell Taylor and wife Sun
day.
Edw Painter and wife of st Paul are
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs j Ell
Painter.
Wallace Drake and family visited for
a few days last week with his father, f
FL Drake.
Nj Babcock and wife visited with L
A Babcock and wife of Milton Friday
and Saturday.
&c Virgins, who has been here set
thing his uncles estate. returned to his
home in Kansas Saturday.
Misses Nellie and Minnie Coon of Mil
ton visited at the home of their uncle,
O L Coon, from Friday until Sunday.
The Albion Edgerton base ball game
on the campus Friday resulted in favor
of Albion by a score of II to 7. On Sat
urday Albion defeated Deerfield high
school team, score to 2. On Friday the
Cambridge team will cross bats with AL
bion on the campus.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09

Fred P Grove and family are visiting
at Orrin Pomeroy's.
B Shaw has finished w T Posts
WE'LL some lao feet deep.
John Mussehl has disposed of his
black roadster to Jefferson party.
L F Patten has again left for Beloit
where he has employment in the Fair
banks, Morse & Co.'S works.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
StebbinSViIIe.

Corn planting will be started this week
Patrick Brown is under the doctor's
care.
Thomas Burns is having his we'll drill
ed deeper.
Tobacco is about all bought up in this
section now.
Miss Alice Cook of Edgerton visited
her parents on Sunday.
Jay Shaw is very busy now drilling
wells. He has number to do at present.
There seems to be plenty of tobacco
plants around here since the recent fine
rains.
Some farmers are buying hay, corn
and oats. Granaries and hay mows are
empty this year.
Mother, Yes one package makes two
quarts of baby medicine. See directions
There is nothing just as good for babies
and children as Rocky Mountain Tea
50 cts. Perry & Doty.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-05-09
Porter.

| Andrew Nichols has new buggy, and
now the girls smile.
| A B Fessenden has so far recovered as
to be able to be out again.
| Mrs Bert Raub and children of White
water are spending the week at q w
| Nichols.
Mr. and Mrs D Casey and Mrs S Wat
son and daughter of GAINESVILLE were Wis
| itors here this week.
DR. Cleary of Edgerton was called last
| week to attend little Vera Boss who had
an attack of indigestion.
Mrs Nate Dicks and baby return to
their home in Richland Center this week
after months visit here.
John Bates captured five young wolves
on his farm here Sunday. He went to
GAINESVILLE Monday and received his
bounty.
The monthly school report of district
No. 7, Nellie j. Douglas, teacher, is as
follows: Number of pupils enrolled, %;
average daily attendance, 20; names of
those neither absent nor tardy for month
ending May 2, Frank Hantke, Hattie
Hantke, Frank Murphy, Minnie O'Neil,
Erwin Nottestad.
We extend congratulations to Mr. Judd
Mccarthy and Miss Katie Ford who
were united in marriage by Rey Father
Harlan on Wednesday, May 7th. The
bride is an accomplished young lady
who has spent a number of years teach
ing lin our public schools, while the
groom is an estimable young man who
has many friends. They will make their
home on the Gilley farm recently pur-
chased by the groom.
Sumner.
MI Batsee of Albion is painting for
M A Robbins this week.
Mr. Stafford of Ft Atkinson is spend
ing few weeks with Fred Burleson and
family
The Sumner Creamery Go paid an av-
erage dividend of SLIP per hundred for
March milk.
The Burleson Bros have traded their
threshing machine and engine for new
threshing outfit.
Mr. Curtis, a real estate agent of Fort
Atkinson, was at this place on business
last Wednesday.
Thomas Bickle and son, Claire, of
Milton Junction visited relatives at this
place Saturday and Sunday.
A E Kump, real estate agent of Fort
Atkinson, was here with a man from
Whitewater for the purpose of buying
the store.
Miss Amelia Jensen, who has been
very sick for the past month, is on the
gain. DR. Newman Of Evansville is at
landing her.
Mr. Decker of GAINESVILLE was in this
place looking after tobacco one day last
week. A few choice lots still remain in
the growers hands.