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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18

The frail bridge of time upon
which we tread sinks back into
eternity at every step we take. The
milestones along the way tell US we
have reached a hating ground in
which the chimes of memory chant
funeral dirge for woman of ma
tional honor. They are saddening
memories that come stealing over
us as we know and think of the life
and death of Lisbeth A. Turner.
AS we pause in the hustle of daily
routine and make this time one of
holy thought in tribute TO her
memory, we do SO, not to obey the
mandates of official authority alone,
but to do our part as we would in
the last ceremonies for our dead.
Out from the scourge Of war and
bloodshed came the birth of inspir-
alton in which was the impetus to
a life of DEVOTION in deeds where
there was need of human sympathy
and helps which gave TO Lisbeth
Turner name honored by the ma
ton. Five and more decades have
come and gone since Mason and
Dixon's line was stretched across
the face of our country and it took
the blood of untold thousands to
wipe il out. Then came the death
losses into the early home of Mrs.
Turner, but the spirit of patriotic
sacrifice was everywhere found and
loyalty gained it's right to be writ
ten in letters of gold. This was the
time for action to such women as
Lisbeth Turner. So in her own
way, as time and opportunity Of
fered, she labored wherever there
was need of ministering hands.
War closed and "the remnant of
that mighty host" returned to their
homes with no thought OF any spe-
cial banding together, simply known
as "the survivors of the war of the
rebellion" until 1882. After year
or two of agitation they were called
together and the Grand Army of the
was formed, with what
success their present numbers at
test. Then came Paul Van Der
WORT with his clear-sighted vision
Of the future needs of the old veter-
an and his needy ones and insisted
that much depended on the forming
Of an auxiliary to the G. A. R. 1t
was then that the call came for the
wives, widows, mothers and sisters
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18

of Union soldiers and marines and
other loyal women to meet with
them in Denver in convention, which
they did in the summer of 1888,
when the Woman's Relief Corps
came into existence. At this meet
| ing Lisbeth Turner was elected
treasurer, serving in this national
office three years. Then she was
elected senior vice president.
About this time came the project
of preserving the Andersonville
Prison property as monument to
the heroes who starved and died in
it's stockades. Lisbeth Turner was
elected chairman of the Anderson
vile Prison Board, and after strug-
gle and defeat, which intensified
her purpose, in 1897 the prison
property became absolutely that of
the Woman's Relief Corps and
hundreds of dollars were pledged
for its improvement and mainte-
nance. A tract of this land was set
aside for the erection of tablets or
monuments by states or organiza-
tons which wished to honor their
dead in this way. 1t was Mrs.
Turner who solicited funds for a
memorial arch at AnGersonville
which was formally dedicated; also
for the pavilion built oyer Provi-
dence Spring. 1t was Mrs. Turner
who received the first five hundred
dollars for the erection of monu-
ment to Stevenson, the man who
originated the G. A. r. movement,
and again she devised the plan for
the Woman's Relief Corps bringing
TO the u. S. for burial the remains
of Paul Van Der WORT from a rent
ed vault in Cuba. 1t was Mrs.
Turner who was SO fittingly called
upon to unveil the thousand
dollar monument erected by the
state of Massachusetts in honor of
those who died in the prison pen.
In 1906 Mrs. Turner was elected
Life Chairman of the Prison Board.
She was woman who had little
thought of per sonal gains or am
bition. This would have been I'M
worthy of the woman. 1t was not
what office conferred upon her, but
how much she might confer upon
her office. We would abate nothing
in praise and honor from her who
has accomplished so much in a
pathway hedged with difficulties,
but we would add word of appro-
val to the staunch who have stood
behind every movement.
But Lisbeth Turner does not
stand alone. as figure of womanly
worth. We can recall the number
less women who have stood ready
equipped to step into any avenue
wherein was need of help. Lessons |
of sacrifice are unfolded to us on
every hand and we can only feel
how dwarfed and narrow are our
efforts, but it may perhaps be said |
of us, she hath done what she
could" and so
while the sun sinks low the dying flowers
Are passing with the dying hours.
The night is here, the night is long.
Gone is life S light, gone is life's song.
Death is but night, when passed away,
Then comes the light of eternal day."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18

The MINES ota Supreme Court
has rendered a decision that the
state attorney general, as the chief
law officer of the state, possesses
and may exercise, in addition to the
authority expressly conferred upon
him by statute, all common law
powers incident to and inherent,
in the office. The decision also
states that officers of municipal
corporations are agents of the state
bound to enforce all state laws,
and, if they fail to do SO, any citizen
may appeal to the state attorney
general who will GUST them from
Office and cause them to be fined &C.
cording to R. L. 1905, Sections 1861
and 1862.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18
Rust, Not Green Bug.

The fear of Wisconsin farmers
that the green bug" which is Gre
ating havoc in wheat fields of the
South has invaded this state and at
tackled the oat crop, is unfounded,
according 10 Prof. J. G. Moore,
agronomist at the college of agri-
culture of the University Of Wiscon-
sin. Extensive investigation of the
fields affected has revealed the fact
that rust IS responsible for the poor
condition of the oat crops, and the
green bugs found on many plants
in some districts are but common
aphides. Discussing the situation,
Prof. Moore says:
Farmers have become alarmed
because oat fields have taken on
reddish brown color, and plants are
making little growth. While the
stand is good, the plants have not
reached the height usual for this
season. Looking for the cause,
farmers have found a green louise
or aphis on the plants. In some
districts the louise was SO numer-
Gus that the poor condition of the
crop was attributed to it, probably
because of the excitement in the
South regarding the green bug in
the wheat fields. Extended investi-
cations made in the past Week by
the university experiment station
show the aphis more numerous than
usual, but in no case is it found in
sufficient numbers to cause the
damage attributed to it. The aphis
would simply suck the juice from
the plant causing it to wither and
the leaves 10 seem punctured by
needle. No doubt the aphis has
done some slight damage to infest-
ed plants, but large number of
plants show the disease where no
aphides are found.
Practically all damage done may
be attributed to oat rust, found on
all plants. Reddish brown blotches
appear on the leaves of the plant,
somewhat elongated, which later
turn dark brown. In nearly all
cases the leaves turn brown at the
end and die back to the stool. This
is because the rust takes up the
nourishment which would naturally
go to the tissues, and they starve
and turn brown. While most farm
ers are acquainted with rust, they
have overlooked it as the cause of
the present trouble because it ap-
peared so much earlier than usual.
Prevailing weather conditions have
been exceptionally favorable for the
development of the fungus, and at
the same time have retarded the
growth and weakened the plants so
as to make them more susceptible
to attack. 1t is impossible to pre-
dict how seriously the oat crop will
be affected. There is no way of
combating the disease, and the
farmers can do nothing but watch
weather conditions until harvest.
The indications are that the crop
throughout the state will be very
light, as practically the whole state
is affected, the south and east more
than the north and west"
For SALE.-Houses, Farms, Acres
n%,d otc oil II Wicnnncia Deter
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18

A Detroit minister says he is GER
tain that the Devil rides in an auto
mobile. Carrie Nation says that he
pilots schooners over the bar.
From all accounts he must be a
sporting old party.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18

John Till, the Somerset doctor is
doing business at the old stand.
One day last week w. j. Johnson,
the liveryman at Hudson, took "a
sufferers to the plaster doctor, and
ten the next day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18

The ST. Louis Globe-Democra
which has been keeping a record of
the accidental drownings of the
season up to date had on July IL
the sum of Isl that had gone by the
water route.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18
Memorial of Lisbeth Turner.

Written and read by member of I. N.
Nichols W. r. c. at a memorial service for
Lisbeth A. Turner, Life Chairman of the Ander-
sonville Prison Board, who died at the Prison
Park Home April 2, 1907.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18

For SALE.-Houses, Farms, Acres
and Lots, all in Wisconsin. Peter
Hastert, River Falls, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18
Sanderson's Studio.
RIVER FALLS, WIS.

STUDENTS ADMITTED AT ANY TIME.
English, Latin and German Courses OF -Four
Years. These lead up to the Diploma which
becomes Life State Certificate.
elementary Course of Two Years. This leads
up to Five Years State Certificate.
No Tuition to those who enter these with In
tention to teach In Wisconsin.
Tuition by the quarter In Preparatory, 90 so;
Grammar Grades, $500; intermediate, $500;
Prim airy, 81 so; Kindergarten Is Free.
The Model Schools are MODEL and merit the
excellent patronage they have always re-
ceived
For otherinformation address
w. J. BRIER, President.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
BUSINESS ROORBACkS.

OF all the silly roorbacks that have
been given circulation during recent
wears. the most asinine is that Ely
is going to the demnition bow vows.
The camp is not on the toboggan. 1t
is not slipping rapidly and smoothly
down the plane into the tank of OBJ
livion. 1t is not fading away like a
mirage on the desert. 1t is not van
ishing from the face of the earth,
and it will never be classed with the
dodo and the sphynx.
Sensational stories concerning the
decline of the camp have been cir
culated in all parts of the country.
1t is supposed that these canards
have been instigated and Industrious
ly circulated by men who have an
Interior motive, who wish to damage
the district, or to hurt those who
have their money invested here.
In the face of these assertions that
the camp is in stormy weather the
words spoken by prominent mer-
chants and investors at a business
mems meeting Monday night, are
most welcome These men who would
have no object in telling falsehoods.
who could not be benefited in any
way by making misleading state
ments to each other, declared that a
greater volume of business had been
done by them during October, up to
that day, than had been transacted
during the entire month of Septem-
Der. Several merchants said that the
volume was at least twenty-five per
cent greater, that money was easy
locally and that collections were
good.
These expressions are the best an
tidotes to the poisonous stories that
have been circulated, that could be
devised.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
PROPER ADVERTISING.

The work that is being carried on
by the Boosters club for the better
ment of conditions here is of such
character that it cannot but be
beneficial to the camp. mis- organic
alton, while it has been in existence
but short time, has taken an active
part in the business affairs of the
community, and with good sense and
discriminating judgment has done
things that have counted for the ben
eft of the district.
The latest, but not the least i'm
portant action on the part of the or
ganization is the disseminating of
news through the media of the news
papers of the different parts of the
country as to actual labor condi-
tons here. The committee has caus-
ed to be advertised in various news
papers with wide circulation in min
ing communities, that there is room
here for first class white miners,
walters, cooks and white laborers.
The advertisements are couched in
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
THE END IN SIGHT.

1t was a graceful acknowledge
ment of defeat for the Western Union
Telegraph company to grant gen.
eral increase of pay to all their key
men. The strike has had a PERM
cious effect upon the business of the
entire country and is as much re-
sponsible for general business condi-
lions as any one other cause, many
profess to believe.
The Western Union in granting
this increase in pay, has virtually &C
knowledged that the principal con-
tention of the strikers was just, and
it is to be hoped that the strikers
themselves will be reasonable and
not longer continue to add to the I'M
settled business condition of the
country.
1t is to be hoped that they will
gracefully meet the concession of the
company.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
No Chesterfield.

a Christian scientist of Boston
was praising the late earl of Dun
more.
Lord Dunmore," he said, was a
good Christian scientist and good
man. Tall and robust and supple, |
can see him still with his short, gray
beard and his kind face. His only
fault-a fault due to his aristocratic
upbringing, no doubt-was the ex-
aggerated value that he set upon cor
rectness. He insisted on correctness
in eating, in dress, In everything.
AT dinner in Beacon street last
year | heard him tell story about
an incorrect self-made man, or 'nou-
veau richie" as he called him.
This man was dressing one even
ing to go out. His wife hustled into
the room, before ne started, to look
him over.
But, George, she said reproach-
fully, aren't you going to wear your
diamond studs to the banquet
No. What's the use? George
growled. My napkin would hide 'em
anyway.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

conservative language. No glitter
ing promises are held out, but a sim
pie statement of fact is made that
this class of workmen is desired here
and can find employment.
simultaneously, the publicity COM
mittee has sent to the papers in
which the advertisements are car
ried, short newsy press items stat
ing labor conditions in the camp to
be good. and showing that there are
openings here for good workmen.
This is the kind of information,
which, when printed in papers of gen.
eral circulation, does real good to a
community
The club is to be congratulated
upon its efforts to give the right i'm
preston abroad as to actual condi-
tions here. 1t cannot be otherwise
than beneficial to the camp and the
state and will go a long way to-
ward counteracting the effects of mis-
leading articles that have been pub
lished tending to give a "black eye
to the state.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
THE FOOL VS.. NEVADA.

Golfers Weekly, New York self
styled literary publication, subsi-
died sheet of Wall street, is again
hitting Nevada. That servile sheet
hates the name of Nevada, hates ii e
state and the people in it, an ii
never loses an opportunity o. using
its hammer
Lying, villifcation and bIaclxmail,
used in come tion with nc Slnirched
and dirty hammer, have been the
weapons it has employed in it's filthy,
weak attempt to belittle Nevada. a
state that asks no favor, has no fear
of Golfers and its motley crowd of
buttinsky editors.
Such rot as this shows the pitt
full ignorance of the pin-headed, slab
sided fools, who control that meddle-
some sheet. Nevada is in no need
today of succor. There are not in
the whole state as many poor people
as can be found in one tenement
house in New York city. There is no
suffering of any kind. There is
plenty of work for all at the highest
wage offered by any state in the
union. The poorest paid laborer in
Nevada receives more for his daily
wage than the artisan receives in
New York city. We have no hordes
of people seeking shelter and char
ity. We are not compelled to send
people elsewhere, in order that they
may pick up crust of bread to pro-
long life. We do not send people
to prison because they are in debt.
We have no frightful panics to send
our people to suicides grave. We
are not controlled body and soul by
Rockefellers, Morgans and Loebs.
We have an independence that no
man in New York city dare assert.
Our percapita is thrice as large as
that in New York. Our rate of taxa
ton is not one-quarter so great as
that in New York city. We have con-
tributed the money that has built
great cities, and the money that has
placed in New York some of her lead
ing enterprises. We have gone about
our business in a mild, even-temper-
ed manner, without trouble and pow
erty, when New York city was in the
very thrOes of a revolution, when the
streets were trodden by hundreds of
thousands of hungry people And
that was not SO very long ago.
No, Mr.. Golfers, California and
Utah are all right, but Nevada will
never be split up and annexed to
them. 1t would take a majority vote
of the people of this state to do it,
even should those other states desire
annexation, and this will never be
given. At such an election the an
neXationists could not poll twenty
votes in the state. Nevada will re-
tain her present form upon the map
long after the batter-brained car
casses of the controllers of Golfers
are faded into dust.-Nevada State
Herald
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
An Ingenious Question.

Frederick Starr, the University OF
Chicago's brilliant professor of an
thropology, described at dinner a
wonderful native boy whom he had
met in his African travels.
This boy" said Prof. Starr, oft
en- saw me reading, and the process
at once interested and perplexed him.
Through an interpreter one day he
questioned me about it.
Reading again, sair?' he asked.
Yes, my boy" said I.
Well, sir, said he, 4 have often
seen you reading. You read books,
magazines, large newspapers. Now
there is one thing | want to ask you:
What part is it you read-the black
or the white?'"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
MAKE THEM MOVE.

The murder at Ely last Saturday
night of Constable Gilbert should act
as a warning to every town in Neva-
da to make short shrift of that class
of people who live off of women of
the under world Gilbert was killed
by one of this class, while in the dis
charge of his duty as an officer Of the
law. His life was worth more to him
self and the people than those of all
the macquereauX that ever imposed
themselves upon the state. This class
of mankind go far toward making up
the criminal element of any section
that will tolerate them, and is not
worthy of permit to live IL COM
munity that pretends decencv-Ne-
vada State Herald
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

Two Wisconsin counties report
their deer. In Nevada the question
before the house is the inroads the
bears" are making on mining stocks.
The bears just now seem to have the
call, but wait wee.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

1t looks like hard times in Ely,
doesn't it, when a special agent for a
business house collects between 81 81,
900 and $4,000 in forty-eight hours
and then sells $4,000 worth of goods
to the men from whom he made the
collections?
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

William b. Atwell, postmaster at
Searchlight, Nevada, is an embezzleT
from the United States funds to the
extent of at least $4,000 according to
information from the southern camp
1t is reported that diphtheria has
broken out at the Indian school near
Carson.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

Would it not have been appropri-
ate for the men who affiliated with a
we'll known fraternal organization
which was instituted last night to
sign the charter with quill pens?
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

Work on the great Goldfield hotel,
which was being constructed at an
estimated cost of 100000, has been
stopped by the promoters. The story
has reached here that the promoters
of the project are without funds.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

Announcement has been made that
freight rates from San Francisco
and other points to Fallon, Church
i'll county. have been reduced from
10 to 20 per cent. That section is
rejoicing.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

The telephone boycott in Butte has
been declared off Every business
man in the Copper City will now con-
slider himself an amateur bell ringer
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
Reason Enough

Guest-Waiter, bring me some
rice pudding.
Waiter-Boss, | can't jes recon-
mend de rice puddin' to-day.
Guest-What's the matter with it ?
Waiter Muffin, 'cept dar ain
none.-TeXtile World
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

When local securities begin TO soaI
skyward, those brokers who have
sold short will realize that they have
"coppered" their bets.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

After varied career in which he
was the pioneer of several western
cities, as we'll as being the first man
to establish a silver-lead smelling
plant in Nevada, California, George
Collier Robbins. aged S4 years, and
for the past twenty years a resident
of San Diego, passed away at his
home in that city last week.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

The peace officers have declared
that the village COW will now have to
take a back seat.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

When one asks for a street ear
transfer in San Francisco nowadays,
Pearly Gate.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

The secretary of the navy will now
begin to root around among the ac-
cumulated matters on his desk at
Washington.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23
STATE NOTES

DR.. George A. Turner of Goldfield
was recently elected president of the
Nevada State Medical society. He Is
only % years of age.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

Justice Allen, for many years a
prominent resident of Catalina ISL
and, Cal, was found dead in his bed
in Goldfield last week
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

According to the returns just made
to the county treasurer the bullion
tax collected in Esmeralda county for
April to June, inclusive, this year, is
S17,S7S.10. The state law provides
that bullion tax of $40 per 800
shall be paid on the net output of
each mine. Part of this amount goes
to the county fund and part to the
state fund
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

Settlers are now going into
Churchill county faster than at any
time in the history of the Truckee-
Carson irrigation project. Every
train takes in half a dozen or more
homeseekers, and large percentage
of them are remaining in the coun-
try. They are an excellent class of
people and have enough money to
make good
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

The suit of Mrs Sardis Summer
field against her husband for divorce
has been dismissed in the district
court at Reno by an agreement OF
the parties. The defendant made a
formal answer to the complaint and
almost Immediately thereafter the
parties held a conference and the
suit was dismissed. Symmetrical is
ex-United States district attorney fo1
Nevada.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-23

May may, but then again, he may