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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
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A NEW DEPARTURE.

For the first time in the his
tory of the county the courthouse
and grounds are not ii the care
Of the sheriff; The county board.
retained the old janitor and gave.
him a raise Of salary Of SIS dol.
lars month in order to place.
him independent Of the sheriff.
This was done on a petition.
signed by Ole Lundq uist and
twenty one leading Fepub licans
Of Willmar nuch the same push.
that secured the change il post
office asfeW weeks ago. The new
sheriff could not be trusted 6.
make such earrang ements as has.
always been cust omary to leave.
with the sheriff. Depriving the.
sheriff 81 the janito ship Elm ar.
rasses him serio rusty unless he.
makes terms with the janitor.,
II this COUNT the sheriff Is the
,jai lor5 il fact living ia the Jail,
ana caring ior The priso ners, but.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

under the law he cannot draw
the pay allowed the jailor. J On:
the other hand there is not suff6:-
Gent pay allowed for jailor to
permit a man being employed
expressly for that position. Per
haps Mr.. Bonde can arrange the
matter satisfactorily, we do not
know, but the fact, nevertheless
remains that the 'party leaders"
presumed to dictate in the mat
ter of the janitorship, and those
who pulled the strings knew that
j. would embarrass the new
sheriff. We have heard several
explanations, but no one
doubts for an instant that had
Lundquist remained sheriff he
would have retained the janitor,
ship. The people of the county
will do well to watch" closely the
doings of the Willmar politicians.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
Mail Order Houses and .:..
Their Effects on the Country

I .
The most important question of the
present day is the commercial. prob
lem of our city and county. While
not confined by any means to our own
vicinity we wish to stay at home to
discuss this question as much as is
possible for 7 believe of all places j
strike on my travels our, own city IS
suffering as much from this source
(mail order business) as any place /
come across. at.@ ss.s s2 & & H.. @ss3s
Ss It is evident on all sides that the
home merchant does not enjoy the
thrift and progress that he is Justly
entitled to, while the expansion 81 the,
large mail order supply houses has
showed an increase Of acreage Of floor
space, branches, etc, that has been
immense. Their wealth Increased.
as we'll % number, Is per cent from
S18aO.to 1900 and quite evidently more
since then, The nation s wealth ii the
same period increased AS per cent
while the retail concerns numb ered. a.
increase of but about II per cont With
. falling OF yalue 81 stocks
carried & zz. .Is
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

G. F. Spencer is much dis
pleased because the county board
did not see fit to award the off,
cial county printing to his OBJ
scure little sheet at forty per
cent of legal rates, and is saying
bad things about all the publish
ers of legitimate newspapers of
the county. It is encouraging
to note that Spencer is beginning
to realize that even a printer is
entitled to some compensation
for his work, for his bid this year
was 100 percent higher than the
one he submitted last year. This
would indicate that he himself
has become convinced that his
last years cry of big graft was
to a large extent buncomhe of the
''sour grapes" order.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

Thus showing conclusively. the re-
tailers are barely holding their own
in numbers and suffer a great diminu-
ton of returns for their share of the
country's annual income - .-.. RI.
= AS class the retailers are aware
Of this impending danger of their ulti-.
mate humiliation, and have sought
and are now seeking by divers means
TO meet the unequal conditions, such
as retailers associations and vari-
Gus other ways Of combating the.
catalogue supply houses. In spite of
all these attempts to stay the tide. Of
incident by reduction Of standard Of
living, organizations, and other.
eli orts, little or no progress Of mo-
ment has thus far been made nor can
I see any relief coming unless every
man in the county wakes up to 9 real
station that unless he discontinues to
ipatronize and enrich distant mail
order supply houses and begins to
purchase and support home merchants
that he will soon live in q country 81.
which he cannot speak with pride Al,
have given but . synopsis Of con.
ditions existing, and will now ask
with all frankness, is there any reason;
why such cond itions should exist?
b Ny answer IS that 40 man can give
any just reason for II, because no.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

Martin E. Tew gives his lecture on
the "Wonders of the West" at the
opera house Friday evening of this
week, for the benefit of the Orphans
Home at Eagle Lake.
he has given much time, thought,
study, travel and money in prepare
ton of this entertainment.
Not only has he travelled over the
great west many times, but last April
he made q, special trip to the earth
quake region, spent month among
the ruins and refugees, took hundreds
of pictures and got the facts first and.
The lecture would be interesting
enough without pictures. But to
make it doubly so he uses 100 artistic
coiored views and Is subjects in NOV
ing pictures-all from actual photo
graphs. These, together with his
lecture, bring the natural beauties of
the great west and the scenes and in
cidents Of the greatest disaster in
American historysalmost as wildly be-
fore the audience as if they were in the
midst of the things portrayed.
4 Get your tickets and reserve your
seats early. Prices SO, IS and Is cents.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

The Duluth Real Estate ex-
change is trying to get a recount
all over the state on the good
roads and the wide open tax
amendments. They claim that
the former really carried while
the latter was defeated, but that
on account of an error in the
tally sheets the votes were re-
versed, thus defeating the former
and carrying the latter. St.
Louis county, that is the Steel
Trust, is opposed to the tax
amendment as it will make it
possible for the legislature to lay
a tonnage tax on iron ore, hence
this attempt to reverse the result
of the election.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
:. Phi1os ophy 81 Uncle Silas,&
Chicago, Ill. j an. III ] 1907,

Chicago, ILL, Jan. II 1907. i;
DEAR TRIBUNE Folks: Yes, and
I made .er s''7'' the first clatter out
of the box.) -. r. 4
WE'LL as. I was a goin' ter say, I
reckon some O. you folks are a sorter
wantin to know how things are gettin,.
along in Chicago, 50 I'll jest sit down
and drop q few lines, but don't be
afraid fer yer toes fer wont drop en-
very hard. -..t,t
. Yes, the. hollerdays have all coined.
and gone down here in this rushin'
metropolis, and I am a .:calculatin'>
that Christmas will soon be- over. np
there in Minnesota too. In fact down
here in Chicago we are pretty we'll
along in Januwary already and, TO-
admit the truth, the New Year. resolu.
tons are about all in. And as fer as
I can jedge the unbroken resolutions
are now about as sea se as hens teeth.
as the kentry correspondent always
says about the news.
But there is another thing down here
that is most as scarse as them proven
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

remember as how he said the Mime
sofa farmers weren't i getting as big
dividends as were the farmers of llli-
nois and Iowa. Now l don't know if
Jim knew what he was a talking about
or not, but I reckon there is one thing
that can easily be proved-that Jim's
road is agetting more fer haulin'
freight and express in Minnesota than
the companies in Illinois and Iowa,
and that whether the farmers Of
Minnesota can as we'll afford to pay
it or not. -
Z But I notice that Jim has interpreted
the, hand writin' on the barn door and
has recently made a spontaneous re.
duction in some of the freight rates.
Well, I've always said: Jim's a wise
old guy.
also seed in the papers as how the
Minnesota state food commissioners
was a goin' to get law passed to
prohibit the farmers from sellin'
rotten eggs. Well that's fair huff.
A farmer as will swear blue streaks at
the robbery OF the trusts and then will
knowingly bring in spilled eggs to the
kentry merchant, won't be comm in
fer an overly lot of sympathy from
nobody no how. A mans man and
a sneak is a sneak whether he Is a
dealin' in eggs or oil stock. That's
what I say, anyway.
But, as I've said before, I'd rather
have an occasional rotten egg only
the rest of them are fresh, than to
have nothin' but the kind the common
herd have to eat here in Chicago
eggs that have been layin' in the
cold storage since before the French
and Indian war. With a good
straight rotten egg, there's an explo-
sion, general CONSERVATION, and a
hurried stampede from the table, but
with this antiqu ated hen fruit from the
cold storage there is only lingering
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
will Debate Friday Night.

The Willmar High School debating
team will E o to Montevideo this week
to contest for honors with. the team at
that place The debate will be held
on Friday evening and the debaters
from Willmar who will contest for the
Journal cup are Carl Jacobson, Har-
rison Sherwood and Albert Porter.
The Willlmar and Montevideo teams
are the only teams in this district
this year who have entered the debat-
ing league. The subject for debate is:
Resolved, that the-policy OF en-
larging the United States navy is pref
cradle to>the policy: of maintaining it
at it's present strength and efficiency
The Willmar, team will uphold the
affirmative and the Montevideo team
the negative. 81 .=z@ ~ .
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

Gov. Johnson's message is
printed on another page. It is
well worth careful perusal. In
one thing he is like his predeces-
sors-he ignores the county op-
ton question, which is the only
thing that will settle a matter
that keeps the people in hun.
dreds of communities torn up and
at swords point. But he advo.
Gates the initiative and referen.
dun which would mean the same
thing.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
MAKE THEM PAY TAX.

Bob Dunn supplements the
governors message with a sug-
gestion to the legislature about
an iron tonnage tax of five cents
per ton Of iron ore mined, the
proceed of which, amounting to
about $1,5OO,000 a year, should
be used for the opening up and
improvement of the highways of
the state and for the reclamation
of the states swamp lands. The
suggestion regarding the tonnage
tax is good. The state has prac-
tically been robbed Of it's i'm
mense mineral wealth and it is
only just that the corporations
that have absorbed this wealth be
made to pay tribute to the state.
AS to the suggested use of the
money so raised, it would depend
entirely upon how it were done.
The draining of the states swamp
lands would be a very good in
vestment, provided the other
lands benefited by such drain
age were made to pay their just
share Of the expense. If such
provisions are not specifcal y
made there will be a lot of jobbery
in so arranging. the ditching as
to benefit the lands belonging to
corporations and rich speculat-
ors, without cost to them. A
big "good roads" fund would
also be prolific source Of jobbery
and graft unless very strict and
specific regulations we're adopted
governing it's use and providing
for an equitable distribution
thruout the state. There would
be a scramble for the building of
macadamized automobile roads
out of the big cities, where the
roads are generally in fair shape
now, and the frontiers, where
assistance in building passable
roads and bridges is most needed,
would not have enough pull to get
their fair share of the money!
The farmers, who are the ones
most deeply interested in the
roads, are not shouting for costly
macadamized roads. They be-
lieve as a rule that properly con-
structed dirt roads with good
drainage will answer their pur-
pose. Assistance from the state
for draining the road beds and
building substantial bridges is
ali they ask for. If macadamized
roads are to be built the state
will have to do it all in most in
stances, as the farmers will re-
fuse to be taxed to build roads
from which they will be driven
by reckless automobilists. -
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
CREAMERY PATRONS CORNER



One of the primary elements of sue
cess in the dairy business is cleanli-
ness. Unless the raw material is de-
livered to the separator in a clearly
condition the product from the milk
cannot from natural causes be of the
best.
~
In the first place, the COW should be
perfectly healthy. Her hair should be
reasonably sleek, giving her general
appearance of health. Her stable
should be situated so that she will have
plenty of sunlight, and be kept perfect
ly dry. The stable should be provid-
ed with a drop behind the COW sufficient
ly large to hold the droppings for a
day or two, and she should have
plenty of bedding SO her sides and
tanks will not become soiled with
animal refuse. Plenty of bedding can
be used, and as it becomes fine and
trodden to pieces it can be used as an
absorbent for liquid manure, which is
very valuable as a fertilizer and
should be saved and carried back to
the land. Usually little dust, straw
or small pieces of dirt or animal refuse
will stick to the hair of the COW as she
gets up. This can be removed best by
having small piece of gunny sack
: at hand and wipe the sides of the COW
and the udder little with this cloth.
Being little rough, it is much better
to remove anything that sticks to her
sides, udder or teats than anything
else I have ever seen. Even if she has
lain down in the manure in the yard
the gunny sack is the best thing have
found for cleaning the udder. 1t car
be used dry. The udder and teats Of
COW should not be washed for the
reason that the operation of washing
causes the COW to give down the milk
and the process Of washing thoroly and
| wiping takes some time. It has beer
noticed that after COW gives dowr
milk once and it is not MIXED at tina,
time she will not give down as we'll the
second time, and the continuance of the
washing process for,some time will
cause the COW to dry up much sooner
than she would otherwise do. -:
*x*
| There are cases when the udder anc
teats need to be washed. The water
used should be warmed and the wash
ing done gently and speedily and driec
with a cloth at once, and the milking
commenced as soon as possible after
wiping.
would always advise milking in the
| stanchions. Let the barn have many
windows and doors, and while milking
the windows should be open so that a
draft of air can always circulate thru
the stable. The air should be- as pure
as possible in the stable, using care
not to stir hay or feed during the milk.
ing time, so the milk will become con.
taminate with as little of the bacteria
around the barn as possible.
49,
The person who milks should be
clean of person, with clean hands, and
should milk dry* Wet hand milking
is thing of the past with the dairy
man who is keeping up with the times
and is furnishing clean, pure milk.
Xxx
All utensils-pails, strainers and
cans-should be scrupulously clean.
First after using they should be rinsed
out with cold or lukewarm water, after
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

The nomination of George B.
Cortelyou for secretary of the
treasury is still held up by AID
rich & Co., otherwise known as
the U. S.. senate. Wall street
does not want the nomination
confirmed until it gets assurance
that the treasury of the country
will be at it's disposal, as it. has
been under Shaw and his prede-
cessOrs.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

William Alden Smith will bel
the next senator from Michigan.
He will represent the sugar rust,
having won the confidence of that
octopus by his spirited fight in
the house against the Philippine
tariff bill. SO X, T..
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

Just as cheap from your home mer-
chant providing you will pay him in
advance for everything the same as
you do when you send for an article
to the mail order supply house.
If the mail order supply house
patron doubts this statement, let him
bring his catalogue to any good relia-
Die merchant at home and prove to
himself what I say is right.
Now let us reason for just O. moment
from the standpoint of interest to our
neighbors and ourselves, Is it not q
fact that EVERY DOLLAR we send out
OF our county makes our community
just. that much poorer, and visa versa,
EVERY DOLLAR that we expend in our
own community enhances us just that
much more, and makes a richer
country for US. feel that 1 must, in
order to be plain, strike harder, and
tell you that your home merchant is
entitled to your patronage that so
justly belongs to him for the, reason
that the men in our community. are
but few who at one time or other did
not have to depend on the country
merchant to bridge him over from one
month to one year until he could mar
ket his crop, and in some instances,
even loan him money to pay help. etc.
Could that same man go to the mail
order supply house and court such
favors? No, he only goes to the big
mail order supply house when he has
the cash, but when he has produce
and needs assistance then the home
merchant is his salvation, forgetting
that when the merchant carries him
from month to a year that many
times that same merchant is driven to
borrow money at high rate of inter-
est to retain his credit with the Job
~bers or wholes alers, just to accommo-
date his (mail order supply house
patron) friends? 1 will repeat and
say that the merchant in yournearbv
town is entitled to your patronage
for your own good for the reason that
he makes a market for your products.
Now should it not be an object to
every man to build up home market
for his products? Does it not enhance
the value of your land when you can
point to some thriving nearby town,
with a ready market, with good
schools and church advantages?
1t needs no argument because every
sane man and woman knows that land
SO situated is worth more then if it is
isolated and distant from everybody
and everything.
1 want to say in conclusion that we
must stand by our home merchant if
we want thriving and prosperous
country for our offspring and future
generations. Let us stand by our
home merchants, for by so doing we
are standing by each other and allow.
ing one hand to wash the other.
Nothing can hinder us from enjoying
prosperous community. On the
other hand if we continue to patronize
distant mail order supply houses, We
will see our lands and town propert,
deteriorate:
Think this over carefully and an
sure you will agree with me that il
pays to buy from your home merchant
Sincerely,
G. S H.,
Commercial Traveller.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

ing down and clear off the atmos-
phere. And let me tell yer right here
that the bracing breeze from Minneso-
ia is one of the finest things as ever
strikes this town. I admit it's cold
like, but it clears the sky and lets the
blessed sunshine'i in. 1t freezes up the
buckteria bugs and drives away rheu-
matism and the blues. It Gusts dejec-
ton az puts smile on folks.
Now I haint sayin' but as Chica-
60 ordinarily has smile on. Fact
is, she has got several. smiles. One
of EN- is that self satisfied grin she
puts on when she thinks of how she
has got cinch on the whole bloomin'
kentry around and how. she is giving
her rivals all the shake. Then there
is the smile she puts on to draw trade,
and again then there is that other
artificial one that conventional s'iety
must be worn at all special 'casions.
But when Holus lets old Minnesota
winds loose and they scatter the
clouds and the sunbeams come peekin'
down between the sky scrapers, seems
most like as if there was different
kind of smile comes out on the folks.
Seems more like that genuine old
fashioned kind that comes from the
heart.
Yes and when you get out on one OF
them minnesota mornings" you jest
feel fine. And then down on the street
pool of water about 4x5 may be
froze over and. when about Is or &c
young boys try to ''skate" on it all
at the same time it's enough to make
an old crabid dyspeptic millionaire
fergit his sins and laugh too like he
used to do when a boy.
Talking about millionaires, do vol
know, my old friend Jim Hill from ST.
Paul passed through Chicago several
weeks ago on his way to Wall Stree,
where he is interested in s'stock farm
in" too. Well, didn't see him MOI
do I know as he tried to hunt me up
but heerd as how he had made 6
speech before the heavy. weights of the
commercial world here and I seed his
pictu' in the papers. He is reported
to have said among other things thai
what this kentry need was more rail
road track. Well, sir, the very nex1
day his busom friend Hartman comes
out and says W at was needed wasn'
more railroads but more cars. But
to jedge from the sad thing that hap.
pened the next day after that, when q
train of old rotten immigrant cars
packed full of poor Russian immi.
grants tried to pass a freight train on
| the same track it seemed to me as
though both Hill and Hartman were
pro badly right If there had been a
double track the accident wouldn't
have occurred, and if the cars had
been modern and strong so many
human bein's wouldn't have been
killed.
And talkin' about Jim's speeches.
I jest got to thinkin' about his famous
Willmar spec oh as I heerd a year ago
last fall when 1 brought my prize
pumpkins in to see the high dive. 1
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
=, . :
Notice Of Dissolution Of Partne Or shin

= - 1885, x ;. l. .s--a
Notice Of Dissolution Of Partnership.
Notice Is hereby given4thas the firm
consisting of Victor E. Lawson and J.
Emil Nelson, who have heretofore
been doing business at the City of Will
mar, County of Kandiyohi and State
of Minnesota under the firm name and
style OF Tribune Printing Company,
has this day been dissolved. The
business will be continued by Victor
E. Lawson under the aforesaid firm
name of Tribune Printing Company
All accounts due the above firm are
payable to Victor E. Lawson.
Dated January II, 1907.
VICTOR E. LAWSON.
J. EMIL NELSON.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

All of the western railroads,
from Chicago to the Pacific coast,
have raised the wages of engi-
.neers. From $1,000 to 10000
men will be benefited by the
rise, which will total between
five and six million dollars a year:
They did not have to strike for it
either, but perhaps LaFollette's
strike at the long hours of service
had something to do with it.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16

bal hen teeth and
that is sunshine.
Chicago weather
isn't noted much
fer bein' overly
bright and CHEEKY
but now for a
spell it has been
unusually damp,
mild, cold, foggy,
rainy and dreary.
Once in a while
the rugged winds
from the North
vvook o1~@ .
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-16
Hub Creamery at Auction.

The Hub Creamery Company offers
for sale its plant, two miles west Of
Spicer, Kandiyohi Cos Mimi, con
sisting Of d we'll equipped creamery
with first class machinery, . dwelling
house, coal and supplies, etc, at pub.
lie auction on the premises, on Mon
day, the 18th day Of Feb 1907, at 2
o'clock p "a: Six months time will
be givenson bankable notes drawing
fper cent interest. z.:s 5E3= s}5s
b order of Board, 81. S.
o. n. GRUE, Directo
w llmar, Route 5.