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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15

The Review has no inclination
or desire to pose as chronic kick
er, nor does 1t wish to criticise the
Superintendent of the City Water
Works, but the complaint through.
out the city In regard to the long
and continued accumulation of air
In the main line or supply pipes,
mas become so general that we feel
justified In making inquiry into the
matter with the hope of having
the nuisance disposed Of. When
the water Is first taken from the
main line 1t has the appearance OF
milk and 1t takes several minutes
for 1t to become clear, and even
then 1t has a peculiar taste, which
1t Is said Is due to the accumulation
of air to great degree. We do
not pretend to know how to get rid
of this accumulation OF air, neither
do we know whether or not 1t can
be gotten rid of. But we
do say, In behalf of the
consumers. that If there Is any way
possible of getting the accumulated
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15

A. J. Yoke has just closed an
important deal with the United
Engine company, of Parkersburg.
Some ninety days ago Mr.. Yoke
took hold of a patent-right OF a
new gas governor, which In that
time he had perfected, manufac
tured and placed on the market.
The Oil Review, knowing Mr.
Yoke's perseverance In all Of his
undertakings, predicted at that
time Its success o. to the time of
the present deal, Mr. Yoke manu-
factured 1t at Adrien, Mich. 1t
proved 70 be a winner from the
start. The demands became so
great and the factory so far away
from the basis of oil operation, that
Mr.. Yoke set about at once to have
them made near the center of the
oil field. The past week he closed
a deal with the y S. Engine COM
pany, OF Parkersburg, by which
they became the owners of this new
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15
SELLS PATENT RIGHT

device, and one man at IS work
on 1000 of them, which will be
completed In few days.
By this deal Mr.. Yoke received
a handsome sum of money, and be.
comes the salesman for the regula-
tor. He will start for the Kansas
and Indian Territory In fe~ days
to introduce them 10 that territory
The U s. Engine company IS
one of the largest factories In West
Virginia, and Mr.. Yoke Is be COR
graduated In placing this device
with a company that knows the
needs of the oil fraternity and capa.
BILE of filling the demands.
Mr.. Yoke has with his tireless
energy In the past week also gotten
the control of a p:tent Friction
Tong, which he hopes to have On
the market In the near future.
Mr.. Yoke Is one Of our practical
oil operators, and ever on the alert
to push to success every needed i'm
provement.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15

"Chrlstmas comes but once a
year" and in the opinion OF many
1t Is an elegant suficleucy. There
Is no gainsaying the fact that a
good many are just as we'll salts
fed that 1t comes no more fire.
quently. 1t Is of course true that
many, probably a majority; cele-
brate the great holiday In the
proper spirit, and look forward TO
its coming with the most joyous tx
pectations, but 1t Is equally true
that there are many others who
look upon Its advent as an annual
inflction, dreaded season OF an
noyance and perplexity, during
which sel6shness, greed and In
gratitude are more frequently en-
countered than the opposite char
acteristics of charity, benevolence
and good will.
The practice of giving Is beau.
tiful one, so long as 1t Is conducted
along proper lines. 1t Is not, or
should not be the value of the gift,
and when 1t assumes the character
of commercialism and an individual
makes gift In expectation OF get
ting a more valuable one In return
and Is disappointed In case this
expectation Is not realized, 1t Is no
longer beautiful, but on the other
hand becomes hideous. When 1t
comes to simply Swapping" pres,
ents the Christmas spirit Is lost
And 1t cannot be denied that the
tendency Is In tina. direction.
Parents as a rule overdo the
matter Of Christmas presents when
their children are young. The boy
or girl of 80 and 40 years ago de-
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

rived much more real satisfsctioI
from an expensive present than The
one of today does. Parents OF to
day Destow sGch valuable presents
upon their children when they are
Young, that when they are a little
older grown there Is nothing good
enough for them. When lad or
lass of a dozen years turns up his
or her nose, and displays a
lack of gratitude simply be-
cause the gift Is not more
valuable, 1t Is good evidence
that there has been a plethora OF
presents before And tits mach
the sam. with the grown folks. The
husband whose wife has about
everything she desires, experiences
more and more difficulty each Sue
ceeding year In fuding something
suitable and satisfactory. And II
Is the same with the wife whose
husband IS we'll supplied with
meauS.
These are only a few OF the
numerous reasons why people take
up such heavy burdens each recur
ring holiday season when they
commence hunting for Christmas
presents, Were ell purchasers TO
restrict themselves to merely some
little remembrance - something
which they could afford, 1t w1uld
certainly be much better than to In
dulge In extravagant purchases,
which very frequently causes the
assuming of debts by the donor
and which are burdensome for
many weary months. And the
recipients should always remem-
Der that there Is nothing so un-
kind as base ingratitude.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15

Messrs. z. A. Durham, Robert
Mccormick and Ralph Broadwater
have returned from a pleasure trip
of ten days to the sunny south.
They report as having enjoyed the
trip very much. The other num-
bers of the party are expected home
this evening.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15

Quite a large delegation of peo-
pie from neighboring towns, ar
rived In the city on the afternoon
trains to do their Christmas shop.
ping.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

In the Middlebourne oil district
the South Penn OIL company have
made a location on the Boreman
heirs land SO feet northeast of the
Mary Stealey we'll No. I.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15

The boy with the sled and skates
Is now In the very heighth of his
glory.
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15
Gorton's Famous Minstrels

Gorton's Minstrels will appear at
the Auditorium Dec, 18TH with an
entirely new, novel and thoroughly
up to date attraction. The costum-
ing and stage effects are on a most
expensive aud elaborate scale, and
the company comprises the best
and most capable performers.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-15

Honor Is too big price to pay
for any honor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
The WhOIesome Cellar.

Better coat of plaster on foundation
walls, inside and out, and a cement
floor than oriental rugs or a piano; bet
ter than oil paintings or table silver,
for a dry cellar spells health with
large II, and bric-a-brac, silver and or
molu are as dust and ashes when
health and vitality are gone
When you are sure your cellar is dry
consider the second proposition.
Keep it clean.
OF course no one would even permit
such an unthinkable thing as bits of
spoiled animal matter to linger in the
cellar. Vegetable matter is nearly as
bad, for the injurious gases generated
by decay float all through the house.
If you must have a garbage pail, keep
it out Of doors, where the freshening
wind may dissipate it's odors The eel
lar is improved by a coat of white
wash, which can easily be renewed.
If you add a little carbolic acid to your
wash, you disinfect as well as clean.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
TIE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Optimism. Ambition and Industry
Keep the Young Folks Young.

Optimism, Ambition and Industry
Keep the Young Folks Young
Few Of us wear the same garments
continuously-the modern tendency is
said to be rather to the other extreme
and it is natural that the cape of good
hope should not be always on our Shout
ders. Apparently there is not sufi-
c1ent number of these garments to go
round, for optimism never affects all
the world at the same time Even in
household it is sometimes found that
when mother is cheerful father invari-
ably retires into gloom.
But if everybody were always bright
and hopeless these characteristics
would no longer be looked upon as es-
Unable, and the conclusion one comes
to is that, considering the hurry, the
world was made nearly ds well as we
ourselves could have made it. One of
Mr.. Barrie's characters remarks that
an optimist is a lazy man. Certainly
against the man who fuses about
prophesying disaster the charge Of In
dolence cannot, unfortunately, be
brought.
The pessimist gets great reputation,
because if his dismal forebodings are
not realized in fact no one feels in
clined to blame him, and il By chance
they do occur he takes every means of
proclaiming his amazing powers of
foresight. The prophets of the world
only need doggedness and longevity,
and the law of chances makes it likely
that they will be right some day. Thus
it is that a name is earned for indus
try. AS matter of fact, most men Sc
lect the role which is the easiest for
them to play.
Ambition so often goes hand in hand
with hOpefulness that the optimist can
not be fairly charged with slothfulness.
No man would waste time in dreaming
dreams if he thought it were quite i'm
possible they should ever come true.
Young men studying industriously re-
mind themselves that they may be
president some day" The statement
that it is love that makes the world go
round has been proved by scientific
men to be fallacious. They would have
more difficulty in contesting the argu-
ment that it is hope that makes the
world go on.
Bachelors are notorious experts Gn
their own opiniopl on the bringing up
of children, and that is why l dare to
suggest that youngsters should always
be allowed to be enthusiastic about
something. Unless they acquire the
habit in early youth they will never
get it later on, and the grownup per-
son without enthusiasm is so useless as
to be deserving of scorn. By learning
to ride hobby well in the days of
youth children are preparing them
selves for the more important steeple-
chases later on. 1t comes in the scheme
Of training which they have to under
go. But keep them young, all the same,
while you can. They will be grown up
long, long time. w. P. RIDGE.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
A DIsGRACEFUL SCENE.
Four Boys Between the Ages of Seven and
Fifteen Found Intoxicated.

The most disgraceful scene ever wit
messed in a court of justice in this city
occurred Monday afternoon, when
four children ranging in age from
seven to fifteen years were arraigned
before Justice Geo. B. McCarron on a
charge of intoxication. All of the
children were badly affected by the
liquor, and it was necessary for the
officers to walk the boys up and down
the room in order to keep them awake.
side, and after dinner Monday they
went to one of the saloons and secured
pint of whiskey and a pint of beer.
BY three O'Clock they were ready for
the county lookup or any place de-
signed for DRINKS.
The four children were found by
Police Officer Stevens and taken to the
Office of the Justice. They stated that
they had secured the liquor from the
saloon owned by Walter Kulick. The
latter when brought into Court denied
his guilt, and claimed that if the child
ren had bought liquor in his place it
had been sold to them by the partner
in the business. This explanation
failed to satisfy the Justice and Kulick
was fined five dollars and costs. He
paid the fine.
The Justice then turned his atten-
ton to the drunken children, and gave
them lecture which they will prob
ably remember for many day. The
children all promised that they would
in the future shun the flowing bowl,
and they we're allowed TO go without
the customary line of a dollar and
costs.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
BOTH AT REST.
Lathrop A. UdelI and Wife MayhaIa Hug
gett UdeIl.
(Contributed.)


Within a week two souls but lately
joined in holy wedlock, have passed to
their reward.
On April 8, 1908, following upon a
surgical operation performed but a
short time before, Mrs. Mayha1a Hug.
gett Udel1 died at Evanston, ILL.,, aged
~ years.
She was born in Rhy Abr, Kent Co.,
England, December IL, 1860. When
nine years of age she came with her
parents to Footville, Rock Co., Wis
consin. January 21st, 1908 she was
married to Mr.. L. A. Udell of Salem,
Wisconsin.
Her death was most sudden and un-
expected and found her husband with
but little physical strength to with
stand the shock. Besides her devoted
husband she leaves to mourn her loss
an adopted son, an aged father and
mother, five sisters and three brothers.
Mrs. Udell died in the triumph of
faith. She had been life long Chris
tian. At the age of 15years she united
with the Methodist Episcopal church
of which she had ever been an active
member.
Funeral services were held at Will
mette, ILL.,, and at Liberty, Wis, with
interment in Liberty Cemetery.
"There remaineth, therefore, a sab
bath.rest for the people of God" Heb.
40.
Lathrop A. Udel1 was born in Salem,
kenosha Co., Wisconsin, May IA, 1850.
On March LIST, 1876, heEwas married
to Miss Emma Hoffman. After a
happy married life of "a years she died
August 9, 1900, aged AZ years.
On January q, 1908, he was married
to Miss Mayhala Huggett, whose
obituary appears IN these same col
umns.
With his wife dead and himself
stretched upon bed of suffering, SER
iously Ill, it seemed to himsthat his cur
of sorrow was full and that the stroke
was heavier than he could bear.
Turning from the transitory things Of
earth, he looked forward to death as a
happy release from-.the trials of this
world, and on April IA, 1905. died, aged
So years. He leaves two daughters,
May and Florence, one brother Thomas
c., and two sisters, Mrs. E. A. Ken.
nedy and Mrs. George Faulkner.
Funeral services were held at the
home and Liberty church. ERev. C. r,
Montague of the Salem M. E. church
officiating.
Lifelong friends and neighbors
tenderly laid his body away beside that
of his wife in the Liberty Cemetery
"The Lord is nigh unto them tina,
are Of broken heart, and saveth them
that are of a contrite spirit. Psa. 34:l8
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23

THE spectacle Of four children, none
of them over fifteen years of age,
brought up before Justice McCarron
on a charge of intoxication is one to
shock even the hardened habitues of
the Police Court. The practice of per-
uniting children to enter saloons and
buy liquor is becoming altogeter too
cou1n1on, and it is time the police put
q stop to it. Even the most strenuous
advocates of the "open door" policy as
applied to saloons will hardly contend
shat they are fit places for children,
aud the law which forbids the sale of
Iiouor to children and minors should
be more strictly enforced. The fact
that there are parents who, either ig
norant or careless of the danger to
which the children are exposed, habit
uaily send their children to the saloons
for liquor, offers very poor excuse for
the regular violation of law INDUCED
in by the saloonkeepers. The plea
that the seller thought that the liquor
sold to minors was for older people
should carry little weight in Court, and
this particular class of offenders should
be held to the strict letter of the law
and heavily fined for every violation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23

THE bill pending IN Minnesota for
tate aid innmaking roads and state
highway commission is worth study.
Wisconsin will probably at some fu-
ure time have such system.
AS outlined by one of the newspapers
the Minnesota plan is substantially as
follows:
The three state commissioners re-
quired by the constitution are supple
rueuted by secretary, who shall be a
civil engineer and expert in road build
aug, and who will be, virtually, the
working force in the commission. The
county commissioners select the road,
or portions of roads, to be improved,
aud, if the state commissioners APP
prove, such become thenceforth state
roads, beyond local jurisdiction except
as TO repairs, which the County Board
Saust make. The provisions for good
construction, supervision, immunity
from jobs and graft and for judi
cious expenditure seem to be ample.
The state bears one-third of the cost,
abe money being derived from the in
come of the internal improvement
fund, and also from an annual levy OF
oue-twentieth of a mill on the taxable
property in the state. This latter
would yield about $140,O to which
4he internal Improvement fund would
add probably $4,000 more. Should
she amount of work done in any.year
exceed the available fund it is to be
prorated among the counties in which
roads have been Omade. Initiative
rests ia the first instance with the
county commissioners, but resident
Owuers within mile of road may pc
Gitiou for state road, whereupon it is
made ma ndatory that they proceed al
in the case of their own inception
The county becomes responsible fol
the remaining two-thirds of the cost
although the commissioners may re
quire the township in which the i'm
provement is made to pay such portion
of the cost, not exceeding a third, al
the commissioners shall Designate
Eau Claire Telegram.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
NEW MODEL COATS.

tucked shirt with white lawn collar
and tie of soft plaid or spotted silk-a
fetching combination.
Bodice and skirts alike combine to
give length to the figure, and many Of
the latter are SO cut that they droop a
little in the 'front.' which is hidden by
the belt. This slopes down to a point
IN the front
Many Of the new serges are trim
med on each seam, but have no lining
and drop fringes, gimps and ornaments
appear on most costumes.
Everything we have is trimmed and
retrimmed. Simplicity is nowhere, but
style has been left to us.
AMY VARNUM.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
MAY CHANGE THE SYSTEM.
Board of Health Will Probably Select the
Chief of Police as Health Officer.

Board of Health Will Probably Select the
Chief OF Police as Health Officer.
The new Board of Health held it's
first meeting at the City Hall Monday
night after the regular meeting of the
City Council, and Mayor Pfennig was
elected as Chairman of the Board.
City Clerk Jacob was elected Clerk.
The Board is considering a plan to
elect new Health Officer. For many
years the Chief of Police of the city
held this Office, and the Board seems to
favor a return to the old custom. At
the meeting of the Board Monday
night, DR.. J. B. Spalding who has held
the Office for the past two years, for
mally applied for reelection, and with
his application he presented recon-
mendations from the different physi-
clans of the city.
Several ballots were taken for the
election of the Health Officer, but none
of them we're decisive, and the matter
will be taken up at the next meeting
of the Board. If the City Attorney
holds that the Chief of Police can be
elected to the Office it is probable that
he will be selected. On the last formal
ballot cast there were nine ballots for
Chief of Police F. w. Reinold, and
this is supposed to have expressed the
sentiment of the Board on the ques-
ton.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23
FRESH FASHIONS.
ORIGINAL WRAPS AND LATEST TAILOR
COSTUMES.

The Short Cape Coat and the Three
quarter Sack-P1aited Straw TOque
and Fancy Leghorn Hat-White
Shirts to the Fore.
The wrap that must ''go'' with sew
eral things requires thoughtful eonsid-
Grafton, and wrap should never look
like a wrap. To look bundled up,"
under any circumstances, is fatal to
fashion.
Some other hue than black is safest
for the useful little occasional wrap"
of the present, Which is to be worn
over light colors. A shade which is
neither fawn nor ivory nor gray, but
rather sort of ivory, with just dash
of gray in it. proves the best on the
whole. Then the new ducks egg
green harmonizes we'll in many cos
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-23

EITHER the order requiring dogs to
be muzzled should be rescinded or else
tue police should go out with the dead
wagon and shot guns and gather in
about half the canine population of
the city. Fully as many dogs are run
ning about the city unmuzzled as wear
them, and the owners of some of the
dogs that have muzzles appear to
think that the muzzles are designed
rather for an ornament than for the
protection of the public and permit
4he animals to run the streets with
their muzzles hanging about their
mecks instead of where they belong.
Most dog fanciers are of the opinion
chat an ordinance requiring all dogs
TO wear license tag under penalty of
being shot if found without it would
serve the problem of keeping down the
surplus canine population of the city,
but there is considerable proportion
of the population who believe that the
streets of the cityswould bessafer for
children, and for grown people too, for
that matter. if all dogs were muzzled
for some time yet. The fears of these
poop may be ground ess, but it is GER
taiuly useless to keep the rule in force
unless all dog owners are made to live
G1p to it.