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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-06-27

No BUSINESS done by the city
council in Il long time has caused
so general an expression Of salts
faction as the purchase Of the
outside equipment of the Elec-
trio Lighting plant. The price
is said to be about $4,000 and
bonds are to be issued to pay for
it This was the right solution
of a difficult and delicate pro
blem and we understand that
concessions were made on both
sides for the purpose of reaching
an understanding. Personally
the writer is opposed to Munici-
pal ownership, at this time in
any community in northern
Wisconsin or anywhere else
where the state of our political
development is based upon the
ability of the successful official
to deliver the spoils. We believe
that good and efficient service
whether it is IN the management
of a city lighting system or IN
the management of a lighting
system for private owners, can
only be gotten when there is
genuine merit and honesty, and
this service can certainly not be
given when every political wind
will change the personal of the
management. We do not wish
to discourage anyone. We are
glad that this long standing con
troversy is settled, and we hope
the city will be able to raise the
money and then we honestly
hope that the city will be sue
cessful in the management of
the new institution. No one but
narrow minded citizens will have
cause to regret the settlement>of
this question. We are not Of
the opinion that the owners Of
the plant have been figuring on
SHINING the city,, neither do
we believe that they ought to
permit constellation of their
property simply to satisfy those
who were bent on making poll
tical capital for themselves. No
honest citizen can accuse them
of being unfair, that they have
not been willing to meet the re-
representatives. Of the council half
way whenever there was reason
to believe that q settlement of
the difficulty was possible. The
members of the city council and
the city officials have also been
honestly and earnestly endeavOr-
ing to arrive at correct solution
of the vexed problem, and the
people have just cause to CON
graduate them. The mem bers
of the lighting company and the
members of the city council are
all citizens and property holders
in this city. Their money is in
vested here, their families live
here, and they are all as inter
ested in the welfare of the city
as anyone else. 1t behooves the
citizens of the city to give loyal
support to the city officials and
councilmen in their effort to
secure a municipal lighting plant
for the city.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-06-27

FOR SALE-Twenty acres of
good land out on Washington Ave
nue.. JOHN WALSH.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-06-27

diangle across sec. IS to or near the
eight post, east Of the southwest COR
ner of sec. Is thence east on the town
line of Bayfield, and town of WASH
burn distance of about 234 mile to
connect here with the Four Mile
J Creek road, at the n. e. corner of
sec. q, town 40 and range 5 W.
Signed by
Chas. Drummer c. III. Patton
I. Herring G. Q. Hoyde
John Donohue /. J. Stem
| NJ. Ansbaugh Peter Scove
II. Olson E. A. Westling
L. M. Palm c. Fl. Flynn
Fred A Rowell John Hanson
G. A. Perly Nils Westerlund
Thos. Francis Peter Kjarvick
T. NJ. Marion John Flonness
Frank Strom John Agre
Chas Smith Ole A. Sitten
Thee. Bender Ole Olson
M. Gjertson Anton Wegin
E. G. Bergen Ole G. Wick
Gunder Olson John Friberg
0. P. Swanby Chas. Peterson
Martin Thorsby Christ Gleddi
A. G. Kinney H. r. Hochdonner
John SoderStrom
1t was moved by M. Thoreson and
seconded by L. Nilsson that the clerk
be instructed to write to the city
council and notify them that the
bonds with interest for 1906 haven It
been paid yet and also for 1907
which soon will be due.
Motion carried
1t was moved by M. Thoreson and
seconded by c. Young that the rest
OF the road petitions be laid over till
the next meeting.
It was moved, seconded and car
ried that the following bills be
allowed and the CLERK be instructed
to draw orders to their respective
amounts.
GENERAL FUND.
Allen Butterfeld, settling booth
on election day S1.00.
Henry Moergeli Assessing $4,000
Mike Thoreson, service as chair
man, $500.
Chas. Young, service as supervisor
$500.
L. Nilsson, service as supervisor
$500.
And. Berge, service on account the
division, $500.
M. L. Prestgard, stamps and sun
dry expenses s2.15.
Carl Wiley, rigs, 5000.
Mrs. Prestgard, board to And.
Berge, $3.50.
Total s13665.
HIGHWAY FUND
Aron Johnson, road work, 1925.
e. Bergman, hardware, S15.23.
And Berge, road work, $3.50.
Nils Rowe, road work, S1.75.
Jacob Bjork, road work, $1,000.
! Ed Johnson, road work, S14.OO.
G. Wangberg, road work, SO. Is.
Matt Jakinen, road work, 1925.
Fred Johnsgaard, team. work, So.
Olaf Peterson, road work, ST.. Is.
Peter Anderson, road work, ST.. rs.
Peter Kosberg, road work, So. CO.
John Bartness, road work, SIT. 80.
M. S. Miller, road work, S13.13.
G. H. Hanson, road work, S14. 70.
Cornell Froseth. road work, 81. So.
Gust Nilsson, road work, So. 33.
| G. o. Hovde, road work, $500.
Fred Johnsgaard, stamping and
clearing road on sec. 20, T. 40, r.
$35. 90.
Mike Thoreson, stumping and
=
clearing on same, $500.
Total S207.O4.
1t was moved by G. Young and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-06-27
CrNn TIC Your CATTLE & HORSE
NANU UN D G

Calf, Sheep & all Kinds of
F1 RS kINS
To be tanned for robes,
overcoats, rugs, ETC.. to be
returned to you, Left soft,
smooth and moth proof.
We guarantee satisfaction.
Send for circulars, shipping
tags and information.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-06-27

seconded by L. Nilsson that the meet
ing be adjourned.
Meeting adjourned at 500 p. M.
M. L. Prestgard,
Town Clerk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-06-27
HIDES
TANNED
| FOR
ROBES

The Foster Robe & tanning Co.,
1928 Fifth st. S. E. Minneapolis. MINI
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-06-27

PROCEEDINGS OF THE TOWN
BOARD OF THE TOWN OF
WASHBURN.
May IS, 1907.
A regular meeting was held at the
town clerks Office.
snt-Mike Thoreson Chas.
Young and Lawrence Nilsson.
The meeting was called to order
by the chairman at 200 p. m. The
minutes of the last meeting was read
and upon motion accepted as read.
1t was moved by G. Young and
seconded by L. Nilsson that the fol-
lowing described roads be laid OUT
and The damage be placed at one
dollar (s1) per forty.
/. Beginning at the center of see.
20 in township 40, and range 4w.,
running thence north on the quarter
line for one half of mile.
2. Commencing at the S. e. Cor
ner of sec. II in township 40, and
range W., hence running south on
the town line of town of Bell and
town of Bayfield, distance of about
so rods to the military road thence
diangle across sec. IS to or near the
eight post, east OF the southwest COR
ner of sec. Is thence east on the town
line of Bayfield, and town of WASH
burn distance of about 234 mile to
connect here with the Four Mile
Creek road, at the n. e. corner of
sec. 81, town 40 and range 5 W.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-06-27

entered at the post-Offtce at Washburn
wisconsin. as second-class mail matter.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15
HAS NO USE TOR KINGS.
And Does Not Want Uncle Sam to Har-
 bOr One.

One of the proud boasts of this na-
 tion is that no king ever set foot with in its borders. For a king of any na- tion, European, Aslatic or African, to visit this country would mean the burning of gunpowder in naval and mil
 itary salutes and the rendering of per- sonal service to royal parsonage by the soldiers of free republic. Besides, there would always be the danger of international complications should any indignity or violence be offered to or inflicted on a royal visitr while within our borders.
 King Chulalongkorn of Siam is con tcnplating 8 visit to the United States on his way home from London. Should he come he would be the first king to visit this nation. That precedent ought never to be established. This is no place for Chulalongkorn, for he is a king.
 King Carlos of Portugal is to visit Brazil next year. and it is intimated that he would like to visit the United States before he returns. King Carlos is big, fat, jolly monarch, somewhat like our secretary of war in avoirdu- pois, but he wears a crown of kingship, and while he wears a crown he ought to keep out of the United States.
 There is talk of King Edward visit ing Canada and it has been suggested that if he does visits should be ex- changed between him and our Pres- dent. If our President Is foolish enough and unpatriotic enough to go to Cana da to kowtow before the king of the nation from which UT great-grandfath- CTS wn our liberty with blood there would be no way, perhaps, to prevent him, but the only way for the King of Great Britain to visit the United States is to come as Cornwallis and Burgoyne and other representatives of his great grandfather came about 1S0 years ago.
 King Edward visited this country once when he was Prince of Wales, but he did not come as Prince of Wales He travelled incognito in his ducal title, and there were no naval demonstrations, no United States sol- diers doing homage to British royalty, no booming of cannnos nor other opera bouffe spectacles to his visit
 The spectacle of our President salut- ing foreign flags as he did at James, town was beneath the dignity of the United States. If such thing had been done by Grover Cleveland when he was president, the papers which now ap- plaud everything Roosevelt does would l never get over their burning indigna- tioE.
 We have over SO,OOO,OOO sovereign peo- pie in this nation, and there is not room here for one king. Keep the kings away from the United States.-Colum- bus (O.) Express-Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15

sack and the wide-hipped trousers in vogue. The tailors get out fashion plates which no one sees unless he
 goes into back room of a shop. We hire first-cass artists who make hand- scme pictures that appear in all the newspapers and magazines. We want good looking pictures, and So we have
 to have something artistic, something nifty, to draw. Tailors often try to force in positively ugly styles We 1 never do. None of our pictures had any young man looking overwhelmed Tn coats reaching to the knees. We create ordinarily the mans impress
 sion of what is the style by presenting
 the pictures of tasteful clothes and
 thus we create the desire for that sort
 of clothes. So even the man who has
 his garments made to order requires his tailor to cut them according to our ideas, not the ideas adopted in conventions of merchant tailors.
 We hear 1t said that certain individ-
 uals create the styles. King Edward is credited with dictating styles in hats. Certain New York men of
 fashion are said to originate the styles
 not only for this country but for Eng
 land, and so for the world. Yet it is a matter to be noted that the very
 long sack coat started neither in Eng
 land nor in America, but in Germany
 and was common in Italy before eithen of the English-spealzing nations ap-
 peared in 1t. Germany, too, originated
 the built-out shoulders, device long used in that empire to make its sol- diers look brawny and r-inspiring to neighboring Austrians and French men with their inferior military estab- lishments and smaller punches of pad- ding.
 Individuals may originate styles but only within certain limits. The most fashionable man in America could not restore cooked hats and knee brooches. He could not introduce red trousers. though he might easily restore red waistcoats The range of variation
 in cut. fabric and color through which fancy may move to-day is vory small No matter how artistic or how beautiful a thing may be in itself, un-, less you can induce the public to ac- cept it you canot year it. Popular caprice is a strong factor. In some seasons the public will accept oolored hatbands, but in others 1t will rend with ridicule he who wishes to wear them. Fashions seem to arise like any popular movement, unconsciousIy, sub consciously mysteriously, like wave of moral reform, like a revulsion of feeling against popular hero or against a popular scoundrel. Tailors can give merely some direc- tion to these movements, Not often have they been able either to origin-, ate or control them.-Chlcago News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15
Department of Normal Trsiplnr

President Charles H. Morrill,, princi- pal of State Normal School, Randolph. Vt
 Thursday, July 4-1O:45 to 12:45-Gen- ersi subject: Normal School Exten- sion; What ought the Normal School t2 do for the Training of Teachers while in service" Edward D. Collins, principal of State Normal School, John son, Vt Discussions: Clarence A. Bro deur, State Normal school, Westfield, Mass. Other speakers to be an- nounced
 In connection with this session, by arrangement with it's president, George c. Purington, principal of the State Normal School, Farmington, Me. there will be meeting of the New England Normal council.
 Important additions will be made to the programs of both general and de- partmental sessions. Some few changes also may be found necessary for the convenience of speakers or the adjust ment of the programs. A final official program, for use at the convention, will be issued before it's opening on July l.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15
NO LONGER ~rHE TRADE SECRET.
The New Doctrine of Publicity in Re-
 gard to Modern Invention.

The New Doctrine of Publicity in Re- gard to Modern Invention.
 Complaint is strenuously made in these days by certain interests against i what they call the new doctrine of 1 publicity, It is urged that 1t is unfair, injurious and hitherto unheard of that 1 a concern should make known it's bus- 1 ness methods to the public, advertising 1 to competitors the secrets of it's trade l and thereby impairing it's own pros , poets and profits.
 The truth lies in just the opposite direction from this argument. Time
 was each nation, district and even fam fly, jealously hid the knowledge of any
 new process used by it. So the secret
 of making glass, of tempering sword
 blades. of weaving cloth, of bleaching
 linen. was held fast locked by each
 little locality anxious to preserve d
 monopoly for the improvement and reap
 monopoly prfit. The distinguished mark
 of modern science in it's application to
 modern industry is that it has no se-
 crets. Every new invention is speedi-
 ly made known to the whole civilized
 world Patent laws hitherto have held out promise of special reward for some inventions. It is becoming a question
 whether new method of rewardlng
 Inventors shall not shortly arise to re- place the old monopoly plan. A thous-
 and things most valuable to mankind are unpatentable. How will you patent or even copyright an idea, an improve
 ment in jurisprudence, a short cut in government, a new method of making the popular conscience effective? These are not patentable. Yet they are among he most valuable inventions.
 An so, returning to the original ques- tion, the day of trade secrets and monopoly privilege is ending. At every trade convention, at every craft gath ering, at every professional associa- ton new discoveries in principle and new methods of practice are offered free to those engaged as competitors in the same business. It is recognized that no man is able to think a thing through to it's ultimate application His sugges- tion Is instantly seized upon by others CHM NN'fS'9 DoNh " lliii anu to soClely vastly improved. If this is true of me- cEanical and professional invention 1t must be true of business improvement. | The methods by which a great busi- nes is organized, the plans by which it's capitalization is secured, it's relations to other organizations and individuals, on any Just theory of progress deserve to be known. Every individual and every institution gets great deal more out | of society than it gives. This is partic- I ularly true of institutions, specially chartered by society. Trade secrets are out of date.-Lincoln (Neb) State Jour nal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15
MAKING STYLES FOR MEN.
Popular Caprice Seems to Be the Lead-
 ing Factor.

ing Factor.
 Who make the styles? The tailors lately held convention and then an- iiounced their decrees exactly as if
 tailors could determine the styles. Such and such things will be worn say they. as they have said through a pe- riod of many years, Yet sometimes these things were worn and sometimes they were not. For the public very often revolts at the dietum of the tailor, and does very much, if not en- tirely, as 1t pleases Not since the old blue swallowtail with brass buttons went out has anyone worn colored evening clothes; yet every three years at least for the last twenty years the tailors of England or America have tried to bring them in. In 1893 they tried so hard that suits of plum color were made up and exposed in shop windows of the principal cities. They
 wore labels containing that adjective so dear to tailors--' correct evening. dress" But, outside of some houses of correction, no one donned plum color. Nor did anyone don bottle green, dark blue or cherry in the years that these colors were gravely declared to have superseded black.
 Who made the styles? The tailors have failed utterly to bring in new styles of evening clothes. Since 1898 they have failed on several occasions in attempts to drive out styles of day wear. The Spanish war brought in the military sack, form-fitting, tiaring at the bottom, Three times the tail-, ors' convention ordered the military sack banished. But it's distinctive cut remained. It grew shorter and then longer, but that was all. So with the trousers, wide at the hip. Three times they have been ordered to dis appear but they do not
 Some of the big clothing houses where ready-made garments are de- signed say that they make the styles. "Yes, we do," said clothing man a short time ago. I've kept the military
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15

harp, both in earlier and later times.
 The decadence of the music of the temple may be dated, as we have said, from the commencement of the con quest of the Egyptians, a correspond ing deterioration also being observable in the make of the harp, until at last 1t resumed the old how-form shape. and finally was transferred from the hands of men to those of women
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-10
BOLD ROBBERY.
Thieves Get $500 from Yerxa Store
in Fargo.

Fargo, N. D., Oct. 8.-What is un.
doubtedly one of the most daring rob-
berries which Fargo police have beer
called to solve in years was success
fully carried out when the Yerxa
grocery store was entered while
clerks were in the building and about
5000 taken from the safe, which was
found open.
According to the story told the po-
lice by clerks the robbers must have
entered the rear while all were busy
in front. 1t was not until change was
wanted that the loss was discovered
by the employees.
Chief of Police G. B. Wade investi-
gated and was very frank in his opin-
ion of the guilty party. 1t is possible
that sensational development will fol-
low in the near future. A man is
suspected by the officers and a war
rant may be served on him soon.
The store is owned by T. E. Yerxa
of Minneapolis, who is hunting at the
present time. His arrival in the city
will be awaited by the officers before
any action is taken.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-10
The CRAFT OF
STANDARD OIL
EVEN THE RAILROADS WE'RE
COMPELLED TO PAY ENOR-
NOUS TRIBUTE.
Railroads Paid Rockefeller Higher
Prices than His Competitors De-
handed for the Same Identical
Products.

New York, Oct. 8.-Testimony TO
the effect that railroads purchased
their lubricatdng oils from the STAN
dard Oil Company at prices that were
higher than those of it's competitors
was brought out by Frank B. Kellogg
today in the federal suit for the dis
solution of the so-called oil trust.
Phillip Harrison manager of the
New York Lubricating Oil company,
which was engaged in long strife
with the Standard in the lubricating
oil industry, was on the with
stand all day and testified that, al
though the products of his company
had proved satisfactory to the rail
roads and We're sold at prices under
the Standards figures, the railroads
declined to renew their contracts
with the New York Lubricating Oil
company.
Mr.. Harrison said he was never
openly told by the railroad officials
why the contracts were not entered
into again, but he had a well defined
idea of the cause.
The New York Lubricating Oil
company entered into contract to
supply the Louisville & Nashville
railway for period of two years,
said Mr., Harrison, and six months
before the contract expired President
Milton Smith of the:railroad informed
the oil company that it need not en-
| deavor to secure a renewal of the
| contract.
Mr.. Harrison testified that he had
informed President Smith that if he
was permitted to bid for the business
he was prepared to reduce the price
of engine oil from the current con-
tract price.
Notwithstanding the fact that Pres
ident Smith had praised the quality
of the oil and that it was offered at
a lower price than that asked by the
| Standard, Mr.. Harrison said the Lou
isville & Nashville railway entered
into contract with the Galena Sig
nal oil company, subsidiary to the
oil combine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-10
SAID TO BE SIMPLE
EASILY MIXED RECIPE FOR KID
NEYS AND BLADDER.
Tells Readers How to Prepare This
Homemade Mixture to Cure the
Kidneys and Bladder and
rheumatism.

Get from any prescription pharma.
cist the following:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce;
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ONnces.
Shake well in a bottle and take a
teaSpoonful dose after each meal and
at bedtime.
The above is considered by an emf
nent authority, who writes in a New
York daily paper, as the finest PRE-
scription ever written to relieve Back
ache, Kidney Trouble, Weak Bladder
and all forms of Urinary difficulties.
This mixture acts promptly on the
eliminative tissues of the Kidneys, en-
abling them to filter and strain the
uric acid and other waste matter from
the blood which causes Rheumatism.
Some persons who suffer with the
Affections may not feel inclined to
place much confidence in this simple
mixture, yet those who have tried it
say the results are simply surprising,
the relief being effected without the
slightest injury to the stomach or 9th
er organs.
Mix some and give it a trial. 1t
certainly comes highly recommended.
1t is the prescription of an eminent
authority, whose entire reputation, it
is said, was established by it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-10
News of Wisconsin
Interesting Happenings in the Various
Cities and Towns of the State.
LEAPS INTO ICY STREAM.
Deliberate Suicide Is Ascribed to Tn.
known Milwaukee Man.

Barton.-One of the strangest mys-
teries that has ever troubled the po-
lice of eastern Wisconsin is con-
tanned in a drowning here, in which
Ed Remlinger met his death. Walk
ing along the railroad track near here
the man suddenly disrobed and
jumped into the icy Milwaukee river
He was seized with cramps and sank
to his death, after calling for help
He was accompanied by another stran-
ger when he made the leap. This man
has disappeared. Fishermen on
Turtle island saw the mysterious
death.
While Remlinger made out that he
lived in Sheboygan, the police finds
he went under an assumed name and
never saw Sheboygan, in all probable
ity. In fact, it is believed his home
is in Milwaukee. 1t is believed that
the man once was well-to-do. At least
he gave evidence of refinement and
education.