Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-07-19

editors have graduated rom The
Crescent office after careful and hin
ly instruction at the hands OF the
Ryan brothers. There are none OF
these graduates who do no. recall
with feelings of gratitude the friendly
interest, the wide, considerate help
given them by the Ryans. No re.
union could afford tlem more pleasure
than one which would find them as
sembled IN Appleton mingling with
these veteran editors and former en-
ployers and instructors.
For nearly so years the name OF
Sam Ryan has been familiar with all
Wisconsin newspaper people. not TO
mention vast army of others. Bul
HIS brother James has been but little
known outside of Appleton. He close
the business department of the paper.
which he continued to look after until
few yea's ago, when he was sue
ceeded by his son, Samuel j., who nas
proved a marked success in building
up and expanding the business ii
always preferred that the Judge hold
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| be the display member of the firm.
II there are men, women or children
who know ex-senator James Ryan.
and do not like him, they have man,
aged to keep the matter a dead secret.
He is a most likable and lovtrle man.
| Everybody admires MIN. Like the
! judge, ne is an able writer and editor.
He has been mayor, state senator anu
| postmaster.
May these two veteran Wisconsin
editors live to enjoy many birthdays
! of the paper with which they have
been continuously connected for more
| than nalf a century.
Millionaires are common sort OF
men after all; some of them, at least
y couple of them MT at Ashland
few weeks ago. They lid not look so
very different fror, the lumber
jacks who had 3dst accompanied
1 them ont of the pine woods. They
wore slOucn hats, their faces were
tanned, their hands rough and their
appeites ravenous. They were
Frederick Weyerhauser of Wisconsin
and Illinois. and Edward Rutledge of
Chippewa Falls. They were looking
after some of their timber in northern
Wisconsin. Thai evening they left on
the train for Hayward. Two OF tieir
foremen were with them. Soon after
the train started, Mr. Rutledge said,
Mr.. Weyerhauser, have you a pack
of cards?"
Il have"
DO you want a game?"
Yes, it will help pass the time,
and these two millionaires, with eacl
a foreman for partner, played high
five" the entire distance and enjoyed
it as thoroughly as any one could.
Mr.. Rutledge is several times a
millionaire. Fad there is not much
rick u saying that Mr.. Weyerhauser
ranks only second, if ne does not
] first, among the wealthy men of the
northwest. President ]. J. Hin of the
/ Great Northern, st. Paul, may be IA
! few millions better off than Mr.
| Weyerhauser, but certainly not many
Each is worm more than a hundred
millions. Mr.. Weyerhauser mas, dur,
ing the past four or five years, bought
| hundreds of thousands of acres of the
best timber land in Oregon, Washing
ton and California.
Two beardless boys, cousins, met
on farm near Kenosna in 1860
| They did not meet again until after
the war in which one had worn the
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ranks, and the other bar OF first
lieutenant, also won from the ranks
The lieutenant remained in Wisconsin
and the major removed to a neighbor.
ing state. They met in Milwaukee
last week. both great lawyers. the
I lieutenant with a good record as a
state and a United States senator and
now a federal judge, and the major
with a record as mayor of Kansas
City, several terms in congress, com.
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army
and now a senator of the United
| States from Missouri
II would be difficult to find better
matched or handsomer span of iron
Erays than the long ago lieutenant,
now Judge J. V. Quarles, and the long
ago major, now Senator William War
ner. Best of all, they have earned
their honors.
You may remember that Major
Warner is the second soldier-senatoi
Wisconsin has given Missouri. Major
| General Carl Schurz, the unsuccessful
! republican candidate for lieutenant
| governor OF Wisconsin in 1857, wa,
Mis-oUri's first republican senator
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