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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

will continue open until FIVE o'clock in
the afternoon. Said election will be
held in each voting precinct in said
county at the place Of holding the last
preceding township meeting and in the
city Of Crystal Falls at the place. Of
holding the last preceding annual city
election.
Dated May 4th, ieOs.
w. j. Richards.
Chairman Board Of Supervisors.
John Wall.
County Clerk.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

deeds Of the county Of Iron. In the
State Of Michiga on the twenty fifth
day OF October. A. ID. 1905, at ten
o'clock In the forenoon. In liber seven
OF mortgages on pages 800, 500 and 56i
and whereas the amount claimed TO be
due upon said mortgage. at the date OF
this notice. Is the sum OF six hundred
nintey-four dollars and twenty-six
cents, and no suit or proceeding has
been instituted at law 10 recover the
debt now remaining secured thereby,
OF any part thereof; and whereas de-
fault has been made in the payment OF
the money secured by said mortgage.
whereby the power Of sale contained
therein has become operative; now.
therefore. notice Is hereby given that
by virtue Of said power OF sale, and In
pursuance thereof and OF the statute In
such case made and provided the said
mortgage will be foreclosed by sale Of
the mortgaged premises At public ven-
due to the highest bidder at the front
door Of the courthouse in. the city Of Cry
stall Falls. in said county, that being the
place Of holding the circuit court with
in said county, on the twenty -ninth
day Of July A. d. 1905. at ten o'clock
i'm the forenoon the description Of
which said mortgaged premises con-
tanned in said mortgage is az follows i.
All that certain piece or parcel OF land
situate and being in the City Of Crystal
Falls, in the county of Iron and State
OF Michigan, and described as follows.
towit: Lot numbered three hundred
forty-seven (347l, according to the plat
of the Second Addition to the village OF
Crystal Falls, recorded in the Office of
the register of deeds of said county OF
Iron, excepting, however, the ores and
minerals, and the rights appertaining
to said ores and minerals, reserved in
any prior recorded conveyance or con-
veyances Of said land. together with
he tenements, Entertainments and ap-
purtenenances thereunto belonging OF
in anywise appertaining Or thereupon
situated.
= Dated May. first, 1908
Thomas J. Bosanko and Andrew l..
Robbins, co-partners as Crsytal Falls
Lumber Company. Mortgages.
Fred III. Abbott.
Attorney for Mortgages
! Business address
Crystal Falls. Michigan.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23
Probate Notice

State OF Michigan.
The Probate Court for the County Of
Iron.
AT session OF said Court, held at
the Probate Office In the City Of Crys-
tai Falls in said County, on the 10Th
day of May A. D. i0Os
Present Hon. Isaac w. Byers,
Judge OF Probate.
In the matter Of the estate Of John
Worden, deceased. Elizabeth Worden
having filed in said court her petition
praying that certain instrument in
writing, purporting TO be the last will
and testament of said deceased. now on
file in said court be admitted to pro-
bate. and that the administration. Of
said estate be granted to said petitioner
or to some other suitable person.
1t is ordered. That the fifteenth day
Of June A. ID. 1908, at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon, at said probate Office, be
and is hereby appointed for hearing
said petition.
1t is further ordered, That public
notice thereof DO given by publication
Of a copy of this order for three sue
cessive weeks previous to said day OF
hearing. in the Diamond Drill, a news
paper printed and circulated in said
county
Isaac W. Byers,
Jud0e of Probate.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

Judge Stone handed out stif treat
ment to couple Of saloon keepers who
were brought before him the second
time for violations Of the liquor laws
at Marquette this week. The Judge
persists in dealing out to second offend
ers such dose that they will not care
to be arraigned the third time and in
this course he is doing more to regulate
the liquor traffic in the peninsula than
any move that could be made.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23
Notice Of Purchase Under Tax
Sale.
First publication May 20 last June IL
Tax Notice

Tax Notice
TO the owner or owners OF any and
all interest In the land herein describ-
ed. and to the mortgage or mortgages
named in all undischarged recorded
mortgages against said land or any
assignee thereof OF record:
TAKE NOTICE, that sale has been
lawfully made of the following des-
cribed land for unpaid taxes thereon.
and that the undersigned has title
thereto under tax deeds issued therefor,
and that you are entitled 10 a recon
veyance thereof, at any time within
six months after return of service OF
this notice. upon payment to the un-
dersigned OF to the Register in Chan
Gerry Of the County in which the lands
lie, of all sans paid upon such pur-
chase. together with one hundred per
cent additional thereto and the fees OF
the sheriff for the service or cost of
publication of this notice, TO be com
puted as upon personal service Of de-
claration as commencement OF suit and
the further sum of FIVE dollars for each
description, without other additional
cost OF charges. If payment as afore-
saia is not made the undersigned Will
institute proceedings for possession OF
the land
Description Of land, S1S OF So OF
Sec. 81, Town North 40, Range West
80. Tax for years 1891, and 1895 TO 1904
both inclusive Amount paid $500. 90.
All in Iron County, State of Mich
igan.
q. F. Sanborn Company,
By G.. r. Sauborn,
President
corporate Seal,
Countersigned
A. 9. Miller,
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

the democratic ranks but u is pretty
certain that Bryan viii be the nominee
as he has the big majority Of the dele
gates selected and is getting stronger.
Had johnson entered the race earlier
in the game he would certainly have
given Mr.. Bryan harder tussel with
the chances In favor of his winning out.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department OF ne Interior
United States Land Office,
Marouette Mich.

Aulltu a1lUbtE lA0hA OaANNt
Marquette, Mich.
April If. 1908.
Notice is hereby given that in com
pliauce with the provisions Of the act
of Congress Of June y. 1878, entitled
An act for the sale OF timber lands In
the States OF California, Oregon. Nev
ada. and Washington Territory, az
extended to all the Public Land States
by act Of August 4. 1892. William H.
Morrison. ct Crystal Falls, county OF
lion. State Of Michigan, has this day
filed in this Office his sworn statement
No 1870, for the purchase of the south
west quarter Of southwest quarter OF
Section No. 8. in Township No. 43 N.
Range No. 80 w. and will offer proof to
show that the land sought is more val
liable for its timber or stone than foI
agricultural purposes and to establish
his claim 10 said land before Clerk OF
the Circuit Court at Crystal Falls,
Mich. on Friday the Goth day Of June,
1908.
He names "a witnesses Hiram q.
FrIbley, Edward Moral. william Ga
BIRTH and Chester Thomas AL Of
Crystal Falls. Mich, Any and all per
sons claiming adversely the a6ove-des
cribed lands are requested TO iile THEFT
claims ia this Office on or before said
Goth day of June. 1908.
James J. Donovan.
Register
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

A general conference ~ the Metho-
dist Episcopal church Is in session at
Baltimore and it deliberations are Of
more tnan passing notice. These gem
cral conferances are held every ten
years and the legislation passed at these
gatherings is the law of the church for
the following ten years The present
conference has taken some stepe for
ward that tend to bring the body up
with modern ideas In general One Of
the-most important, in general way.
was the lifting Of the ban that has
been in existence from the time Of
Wesley against dancing and other forms
Of amusement another measure OF
Importance within the organization Il
the proposition 10 re-unite the Metho'
dist Episcopal and Methodist protestant
churches. The proposition Is beinl
seriously considered br both sides
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

H. ooks very much a II the coming
pres dental candidates on the two great
parties have been decided upon The
ropuhlican delegates, elected - far, are
IN majority for Taft and It Is now
proc ted that the war secretary viii
have the nomination on the fret ballot.
A. airy rate raft's selection IL assured.
The atmosphere IL not quite 90 clear In
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23
Board Of Edudation
Crystal Falls, Mich

Crystal Falls, Mich.i
April Z, 1908
Regular meeting OF the Board Of
Education held at the Secretary s
Office. Present J. F. CorcC ran. J.
II. Parks, w j. Richards.
Minutes OF the Last regular meeting
read and approved
= Upon motion the following bills were
allowed and ordered paid
Il. Wehse Supplies 20. "
C. Falls Iron Mining Co. Supplies LOO
Jos. Lachapelle Fuel 40. 90
VIM LYONS Fuel 10. 90
VIM. Eldred Fu.l 1000
J. f. Corcoran. Agent, Insurance l3o. W
City of C. Falls Lights and water 40. 80
NJ. II. Il. Beckley Supplies 100
The Diamond Drill printing $50
Mrs John Gurskie Labor LIZ
w. d. Hill Expenses BIO
Mich. State Tel Co. Rent ~, 10
A. Flanagan Co Supplies IL $50
Parks Hwd Co Supplies 80, 40
Motion made and seconded that Supt.
Hill be allowed 500 90 towards the ex-
penses Of securing commencement
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

There is a regular cat and dog time
among the democrats Of Michigan and
it's all over Campau. The auti-Campau
men seem TO have had the best Of IL
and to have succeeded in reading Mr.
Campau out Of the party.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

Michigan was honored by the Repub-
lican national committee last week
when Hon. J. O. Burrows was selected
as temporary chairman Of the coming
republican convention.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

The White House conference Of last
week contained very able representa-
ton from Michigan in Governor War
ner President Angel OF the university.
Chas p Blair and our own Chase S.
Osborn.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23


Regular meeting Of the Board OF
Education held at the Secretary's office
Present: ]. E. Corcoran. ]. Fl. Parks. :
And. Nelson. W. J Richards u
Minutes of the last Regular meeting
read and approved.
Motion made and seconded that the
following bills be- allowed and ordered
paid:
Saddler Bros Supplies : $3.50
", H. Rezin Supplies q Mag
azines es.45
Northrup, King * Go. Supplies $50
II. Niedecken Co. Supplies 800
W. f. Lyons Fuel $40
Yale AZ Town Mfg. Co. Supplies 3.is
John T.. McGillis Auditing 1900
A. J.. Robbins Auditing s00O
w. ID. Hill Expenses 1910
John Jarvi Fuel 100
q. X. !. Mining Go. Supplies loss
Andrew Nelson Supplies a. Labor S47g
Elmer Edbreg Labor i6SQ
Carl Edbreg Labor 10. so
Herman Holmes leaning 75O
Carried.
Upon motion the Board adjourned.
w. j. Richards, Secretary
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23
o, dos

Flnt publication May 2s last June
0, 1905
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23
First publication May last July =
1908.
Notice OF Mortgage Sale

Whereas the Finnish Socialist Society
a corIi0ration organized under the laws
Of the State Of Michigan, made and
executed certain mortgage bearing
date the eleventh day OF October A.
ID. 1906 10 Thomas J. Bosanko and
Andrew l. Robbins co partners doing
business under the firm name Of Crystal
Fails Lumber Company, which has re-
corded In the Office Of the register OF
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

Secretary.
Place Of Business Ashland Wis
consin
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

Motion made and seconded that supt.
w. d. Hill be rs-engaged as Superin-
tendent OF Schools for the ensuing year
at salary OF si7oOoo and that he be
engaged on extra work during the sum
mer and allowed $500 90 Carried.
Upon motion the Board adjourned.
". ]. Richards. Secretary.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-05-23

First publication April ~ last May
20, 1908
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
Cicero on Old Age

In his great essay, Concerning Old Age" that Roman philoso-
pher says: They advance no argument who say that old age is not
engaged in active duty and resemble those who should say that the
pilot in navigation is unemployed, for that while some climb the
mast, others run up and down the decks, others empty the blge
water, he, holding the helm, sits at the stern at his ease. He does
not do these things that the young men do, but in truth he does
much greater and better things Great actions ire not achieved by
exertions of strength IT speed or by quick movement Of bodies, but
by talent, authority, judgment, of which faculties old age is usually
SO far from being deprived that it is even improved in them.
"AT men cannot be scipios or Maximi, SC a s to remember the
stormings of cities, battles by land and sea, wars conducted and
trumphs gained by themselves. The old age also of a life passed
in peace and innocence and elegance is a gentle and mild one, such
as we have heard that Of Plato to have been who in his 81st year died
while writing; such as that Of Isocrates. who says that he wrote that
book which is entitled The Panathenaican,' in his cath year, and
he lived five year safer; whose master, Gorg1as, the Leotine, COM
pleted one hundred and seven years, nor did he ever loiter in his
pursuit and labor; who when it wa asked of him why he liked to be
30 long in life said: have no cause for blaming old age-an ad-
mirable answer and worthy of a manof learning.
For the short period of life is long enough for living we'll and
honorably; and If you should advance further you need no more
grieve than farmers do when the Iovehness of springime hath passed
that summer and autumn have come. For spring represents the time
of youth and gives promise Of the future fruits; the remaining sea-
sons are intended for pucking and gathering in those fruits. Now.
the harvest of old age, as I have often said. is the recollection and
abundance of blessings previously secured. In truth, everything
which happens agreeably to nature is to be rSckoned among bless
ings."
Truly Cicero himself never conceived Of q pleasanter, more
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
Went Out to Fight

When the civil war broke out he enlisted in Company A, Second
Nebraska cavalry, but before the regiment could proceed south the
Minnesota massacre occurred and the men we're ordered to the Red
After being mustered out in Omaha Mr.. Yost returned to his claim,
which he soon sold and then took a homestead twelve miles north
of Fremont, where he lived until 1880, during all of which time he
was a member of the school board. He had tried bookkeeping in
Deadwood, S. D., for a time in 1876. In 1880 he went to Norfolk,
Neb, and bought a hotel and livery business. His wife had died In
1875 and in 1881 be married Mrs. France :. Williams. He came to
Omaha in 1893 and since then has been in the employ of The Bee
mittee to revise the city charter three years ago. He has always
taken an active interest in the building up and improving of Omaha
and is a member of the Federation of Improvement Clubs. He is also
active in the Grand Army of the Republic. He has four sons borne
by his first wife and a daughter by his second. They ire as follows:
Rev. John P. Yost of Planview, Neb; Louis X. Yost, superintendent
of the Western Union telegraph between Ogalala and Denver; Suln-
van S. Yost, a ranchman in Oregon; Frank Yost, with the Nebraska
Telephone company, and Miss Anna Dorsey Yost.
Mr.. Yot drove the first mail wagon probably in Nebraska. This
was between Fontenelle and Omaha. He made the round trip of
100 miles every two days. With j B. Robson he operated the first
threshng machine in Nebraska in 1859, when they threshed all the
grain grown north Of the Platte river with their eight-horse power
outfit He retains as relics the compass which was used in survey
ing and laying out the town of Fontenele and also an oil painting
of his old homestead shanty.
Milford will be a lively town the day the pioneers are there.
These men and women are not really old. To look at their gray
hairs and wrinkled faces one might think they are, but that is a
deluson. The spirits Of most of them are as young as they were
fifty years age. They exemplfy the philosophy Of Cicero, that calm
defer of age and time.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
ASSOCIATION OF TERRITORIAL PIONEERS


the teacher. Il decided she was a pretty nice girl" says Mr.. Host
and beore l LETT town l got acquainted with her and the following
September / married her."
The young couple lived that winter in the groom's house In
Fontenele. he had built a house on his claim during the previous
summer and in the spring they moved out and occupied 1t. There
many adventures visited them, such as were common to all pioneers
one day when the husband was away a prairie fire swept up on the
horizon. A tiny ied of wheat stood near the house, protected only
by a narrow piowed "hreguard." Mrs. Yost rushed out with a mop
and pail of water and fought frantNauy to put out sparks and
flames. When the mop broke she snatched of her skirt and, dipping
it in the water, continued the fight and saved the wheat
Another Indian outbreak occurred in 1853. This is the one dur
ing which Governor Black is said to have given his famous order
that twenty barrels of whisky and a sack of -four be brought
instantly from Columbus as lighting proyender for the soldiers.
Once Mr.. Yost, working in his garden, was startled to see an
arrow alight on the ground near him. He hurried to the house,
where he found an Indian shooting at pigeons on the roof. The
Indian turned at his exclamation and drew an arrow against him.
But with a hoe handle Mr.. Yost knocked the bow and arrow upon
the ground and beat off the warHke aborigine.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
Mormons Crossed There

The Mormons migrating to Salt Lake crossed the rocky ford at
this point, a fact remembered by the oldest inhabitant of Milford,
who in her childhood days witnessed the train of Latter Day Saints
as they wendell their way westward, many of the women pushing
two-weeled carts loaded with provisions and eQuippage. The eleva-
ton on which is situated the Soldiers home surmounts the rock
ribbed banks of the Blue. wherein are indicated three distinct periods
of formation, presenting to the geological student a rich field for
Blue at this point is picturesque. romantic and inspiring. The decay
studding the hinsides and canyons and peopled with plumaged
songsters OF varied hues, stand as mute sentinels of the past.
A fine body of men and women re those who came to Nebraska
before the present generation was born, who with unfaltering cour-
age and unhagging industry titled the soil. erected homes, raised
families and built cities, railroads and all those great institutions
which are the visible sign of a strong commonwealth. Today they
are old. but their influence is no less great, for they are wise In
counsel. For many years they have helped their children to succeed,
instnling their own virtues into the younger generation and thus
strengthening the state and infusing rich, red blood into its veins.
Did Agamemnon in his most trying hour before the besieged
bodiesr No; but it is related that he prayed that he might have ten
Nestors for the sake of their wise counsels. And he doubted not
that with the counses OF ten Nestors Troy would quickly perish.
Neither let the stylishly tailored youth of today imagine he knows
more of galantry toward the fair sex than these pioneers. In
courtesy, in neatlyturned compliment toward their life companions,
no men can excel the pioneers. Nor can any woman receive these
compliments with more grace, with more charming bushes than the
sturdy, good women who helped bear the burdens of The early days
and did at least half Of the work in converting the primevaI wilder
ness into the smiling home Of a happy people. There is no dispute
upon this subject. The men with one accord declare that without
of these women whom they took in their youth to travel the path
OF life with them, the great state which is now Nebraska, filled
with fertile farms and wealthy cities, would 'stnl be the primeval
wilderness, roamed over by the buffalo. the coyote and the Indian
The "poneerettes I" indeed, have an assured honored place in the
ranks of the early settlers Of Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05
President Yost is Typical

Absalom N. Yost of Omaha is president of the State Association of
Pioneers. His life is a typical one among them. He was born April 5,
1886, in a log house o N a farm which stood then nearly two miles from
the town of Cincinnati, o, but which IS now one of the best residence
sections. When he was still a child his parents moved to Spencer
county, Indiana, where they lived until Absalom was 8 years of age.
There he began his school days in a log school house, where Miss
Adelhne Worthington was schoolmistress, The next move of this
pioneer family was to Lockport, ILL.,, whittier they went by way of
the thriving town of Chicago. While they lived there the mother
died and the father moved with his orphan children TO the town of
Lockport
At the age of 10 years Absalom was bound out to a farmer
named John Battle, in De Kalb county The conditions of this con-
tract were that the boy should work for his master until he attained
the age Of 21 years. He was to work without wages and when dis
charged at his 2st birthday the farmer should give him two suits
of clothes and a Bible. In 1859 his emplyer decided TO go west and
they started with three yoke of oxen and a big covered wagon. Alb
salon rode in a saddle on one of the oxen. driving the others. They
spent the summer travelling through Illinois and Missouri and made
their winter quarters in Lucas county, Iowa, where farming opera
lions were begun the following spring. In 1854 they Joined a party
Of fourteen men from Quincy, Ill. and came to Nebraska. where the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05

there were plenty of deer, wild turkeys, elk and buffalo to provide
food.
Young Yost had been helping Colonel Miller, father of DR.. George
Miller, in surveying that part of the country, and the colonel pointed
out where the young man could get a good claim, He took it and
proved up upon it. The town of Arlington now stands on that piece
of ground. The following spring he met his wife. He had made a
trip over into Iowa to get seed corn and wheat. He stopped for the
night in the village of Council Bluffs. There was a spelling bee
that night and the Council Bluffs school went out to "cean up" the
Mosquito Creek school. But there was a girl, Miss Anna Dorsey,
16 years of age, in the latter school who frustrated these plans.
She spelled down the whole Council Bluffs aggregation, including
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-05

Fontenele for 800. In the fall they returned to Iowa and the fol
lowing spring brought out their families to Nebraska.
The first Indian scare came when the Indians swooped down on
the coloney one morning in July of that year and killed two men.
Volunteers we're called for and Battle declared that his hoy" would
make the pernous ride. That night young Yost, mounted on a feet
horse, rode the fifty miles to Omaha and notified Governor Cunning
OF the Indian outbreak. The next day General Thayer with a de-
tachment of men FASTENED to FonteneHe, but the Indians had dis
appeared.
November 80. 1855. was the day when the big blizzard started.
The snow came for three days and nights. The settlers lost more
than half their stock and were showed in for weeks. Fortunately