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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-11-20
Real Estate Transfers.

Peter r. Dine ct al TO Mary f. Heale,
ard h; lot blk 4 Union adm Lawtor
500.
Phoebe Mcdaniel to Mary Healey;
same as last 500
Lewis Dine to Mary r & Wilson Hea
ley; lots Ii, II, blk u MON adm LaUton
500.
Robert Hall and to Chas w Max
field; W "a sec Lawrence $500
Ava Burt and to Geo A Huff, jr; 3
80 rds u "a sec l3 Paw Paw S225.
Lucia 5. Ludwig to David ~ Fred
Funk; . u IA sec q Geneva $500.
Morris Kent aud " To Marie Ide; lot
IL blk 2 tx pei MattaNan 5000
Chss Rooster, guardian, to Mabel
Koester; pei in vii Paw Paw $500.
Edward Was, to David REID, lots 2,
3, blk 3 Home adj South Hav q 81
jas Robinson ct al to Leroy Robinson;
lot II blk 6 Samson's adn Hartford 81.
Wm IL Patterson to Arden Treat; W
y Nv "a sec u Decatur 81.
j barrows to Mrs Nancy White; pei
% n fir "A sec ID Columbia Sl50.
VIM Moses and to Joseph Wylie;
und = of 1876 on secs 20, 20 Waverly
81
Abram Nye and W to JAS Nye; W = 5
"a " "a sec 36 Columbia $500.
Viii Comstock to Geo. Comstock and
W: lots l, 2, 3, A. blk % BiIeley's adm
Lawtou 81.
j r. Scoring gdn Will { Root to Ed
SOB. Root; pei vii Bangor S672.67
Dudley Ryder and " to Chas Showers
and wife; 201a IA ; "a "a sec % Paw
Paw Sll0O.,
Leroy Robinson to Amanda Roblnson;
lot | / blk 6 Samson's adn Hartford 500.
Amanda Robinson Ell al to Hiram l.
Robinson and "; lots l. J., IL blk 8 same
adm Sl40
Max Truckenbrodt to- Kathie Truck
enbrodt, % a 5 "a e "a sec 10 Covert
81.
Mary Acton to- Colomo Nursery Coz
"a u "a sec 33 Covert $40 40
Hugh Gibson and " to Juan McKeyes;
5 p lot 2 blk and lots 3, 4, DIX Tyler's
adm Lawton $500
Milan Virgins and W To Alison Yockey;
q - ; Wv IA sec 3 Bioomiugdaie
$500.
Chas o Monroe and W to Robt Hamlin
aud W; lot % blk Monroe's subdvn OF
sec III South Haven $50.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-11-20

Estate OF Lila aud Cora Lmbeck, mi
rors. Annual account of guardian filed
Estate of Gertrude Priest, minor
Petition for appointment OF aud nounina.
ton of guardian filed
Estate of Edna Buchanan, minor
Same rs last above.
Estate of A bsolom Walker, deceased
Petition for probate of will filed. Hear
ing, Dec. IA
Estate of John Pollock, deceased
Same as last
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-11-20
PICKED Up ABOUT
THE COURT HOUSE
Business Of Official Nature
Transacted by Van Buren,
County Officials.
LIST OF MARRIAGE LICENSES
Many Real Estate Transfers and
Many Probate Matters
Disposed Of
New SUITS.

Marshall Furnace Co. vs. julius q.
Dewey ct al. Bill to foreclose lien.
Paul Brandt vs. L. Newton ct al. Bill
to quiet title.
In the matter of Willis j Banks
Petition to discharge mortgage.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-11-20

Everybody's friend-Dr. Thom's
Eclectric Oil. Cures tooothaIhe. ear
ache, sore throat. Heals cuts, tr Uses,
scalds. Stops any pain.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

brand-new dump-cart and about 5000
as peace offering.
The boy says that when he left
home it was with a determination to
convince his father that he could do
better if allowed to have his own way
in the matter of trading than by spend
all of his time tilling the soil. His first
few days were of a strenuous nature.
Being without funds, he felt the pangs
of hunger many times, but after trav-
cling several days he met Fred Fos-
Warner, N. H., who gave him a job
driving cattle from place to place and
allowed him to trade on his own ac-
count. For his first weeks wages he
took yearling heifer, and before he
reached the next town he had traded
it for a carriage. The carriage was
hitched behind the team that followed
the cattle, and was sold before he had
gone five miles further for about four
times what the heifer cost him. This
was the beginning of his trading after
he left home, and he continued to
trade until he thought he had enough
to convince his father that he knew
his business. Mr.. Ovens says he is
convinced. The trip took nearly
week, and the boy says they averaged
26 miles a day.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

Paris Pattern No. 1922, All Seams
Allowed. = Developed in steel-gray
serge, this is a very stylish and suit.
able little school frock for the grow
ing girl. The waist has two backward
turning tucks at the front, which pro-
vide ample fullnesse and the short
plated skirt is attached under the
belt, which in this case is of brilliant
colored plaid silk. The dress
closes at the center-back with very
small plaid-covered buttons; medium
sized serge-covered buttons trim the
front of the waist. The pattern is in
five sizes-6 to ID years. For a girl
of ten years the dress requires SIS
yards of material q inches wide, 4$
yards 36 inches wide, or 3s yards az
inches wide as illustrated, u yard
of plaid material 81 inches wide.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number of pattern.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

resigned. Mr.. Higgins is Democrat
He was born May IA, 1883, in Kansas
City, Kan, where he now is living. He
spent two years in the University Of
Kansas and then took the course in
the Kansas City School of Law.
The young judge has some strict
ideas as to the dignity of court of
record. 81 shall allow no smoking in
my courtroom, either by the court or
by the members of the bar, while a
case is on trial." he said, on taking
the oath of office. Another thing l
shall not tolerate is the practice of
attorneys who sit with feet propped
up on the tables in the courtroom
while the court is in session."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
Thoughts Upon the College YeII.

The college yell's a senseless thing
of crazy words tied on a string. "A mix
ture of excited sounds in some cere-
bral junk shop rounG; blend of WOW
and siss boom ah with zip and VOW
and rah rab rah and fathers who send
sons TO school to master all the rote
and rule, to delve in logarithmic maze
and spread all knowledge to their
gaze ask why their sons learn all this
fuss, while diffe?ential calculus and
the binomal theorem remain an utter
blank TO them-but you can bet tho
fathers seem delighted when the foot.
bali team to which their sons belong
makes good; oh. then the fathers Gas
they ihould) arise and let their whisk.
ers feat upon the wind that fans each
throat, and whoop and shout and roar
and yell the selfsame savage cry we
tell The fathers, bland ana full CT
guile, have known that class yell al
he while.-Chicago Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
SIZE......
Wants Women HatIess.

A minister in Brooklyn Baptist
church requested the women of his
congregation to take off their hats,
and furthermore informed them IL
there was any woman who did not
want TO take off her hat she could go
home The hats came off. He told
them that In the days of Corinth the
headdress of a woman was the badge
of servitude. and he declared that in
Tokyo he had seen crowd mistake
woniaB's large hat for an airShip.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
THE YANKEE PRoDleAL SON.
Boy Leaves Home Penniless, Returns
with Fatted Calf.

Ware, Mass. = Unlike the prodigal
son who returned to eat his fathers
calf, Arthur Ovens, the 19.year.old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Ovens of
this town, who disappeared the night
of May IL, penniless and with only the
clothes he wore, returned to his home
at IL o'clock one Sunday night recent
ly, and brought the fatted calf with
him in the shape of pair of four.
year-old steers weighing more than
5000 pounds. He also brought a
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
In the Country's Greatest Busi-
ness, Handling Five Times the
Worlds Gold Output, the
Worker ReapstheLion Share

est item on the list-$2s, 900 paid
in wages to telegraphers and dispatch
ers, an army of 10000 men "at the
key" This is more money than all
the telegraph companies in the coun-
try spend in wages.
And then the item at the top of the
list-$210, 100000 in wages to shop
men. You know, perhaps, that rail
roads have shops, where they mend
broken wheels and put new paint on
cars. But did you ever know that the
railroad shops of the country employ
an army of 100000 men earning $780,
100000 year in wages? This repair
end of the railroad business is bigger
than the business of the Steel corpora
tion itself-more men and more
wages.
The army of shopmen has big job.
In the shops Of the big railroads loco
motives and cars are built as we'll as
repaired. The smaller roads buy their
equipment from the independent build
ers, but there Is no road so small but
that 1t has its shops for repairing
equipment. The railroads own 2,200,-
900 cars-of which $4,000 are pas
senger cars. Made up into one train
these cars would stretch around the
earth, and to every fortieth car there
would be locomotive, for the rail-
roads have $4,000 in service. You
could carry every man, woman and
child in America in this train, allow
ing only 40 passengers to a car. It's
the business of the third of million
shopmen to keep these two and a
quarter million cars and locomotives
in running order.
A bigger army still is that on the
track-430,000 men, made up of $4,000
section foremen-the bosses-and 1885,
900 humble workers, the lowest paid
men in the service, averaging eight
dollars a week. But they take six dol
lars out of every 500 of railroad rev.
enue, or $15O,000,000 a year, and no
small part of this money finds its way
back to "the old country" Many a
| good American citizen of to-day
earned his first money in this country
as a member of track gang.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
MISSIONARIES LITTLE JOKE.
He Lensthened the Day by Several
Hours for a Korean Village.

The Koreans in the vicinity of Seoul,
the capital city, and around the treaty
ports are fast losing their early guile
lessness in trying to follow the march
of western civilization. In the noun
tains of the interior, however, condi-
tions are much the same as in the
days when Korea could Justly be
termed the Hermit nation" and the
inhabitants knew little and cared less
about Occidental progress.
Among the American missionaries
who were in the habit of making pro.
tracted trips in the interior of the
country there was one who, in addition
to being a jealous worker, was also
good deal of a wag.
On the occasion of one Of his inland
journeys he found himself at nightfall
in a small village, where he was to
spend the night in the straw thatched
dwelling of one of the native converts.
Tbs sleeping chamber was the usual
tiny room, heated by system of fiues
beneath the mud floor and rendered
nearly alright by closely fitting oil
paper windows and doors.
1t was fearfully hot, and about mid.
night the American could stand 1t no
longer; SO he strolled out in the open
for breath of air. The village was
wrapped in slumber, so just for a joke
and with no Interior motive the mis-
sionary let out lusty imitation of a
ROSTERS crow. This was Immediately
| taken up by a wakeful bird in court
yard near by, and in a few minutes
every fowl was adding his morning sa-
lutte to the general chorus.
Now, watches and alarm clocks
were an unknown luxury in the vii
lage, and the people were accustomed
| to time their rising hour by the roos
| ters. In few moments, therefore, the
| sleepy Koreans came struggling out Of
| their little huts, and after starting the
| fires on which to boil the morning rice
| lighted their long bamboo pipes and
squatted round in little groups to wait
for sunrise.
Their amaZement can be imagined
when the hours went by and still there
were no signs of light in the east
''Irun chame," said one to another,
as with open mouth he pondered over
the phenomenon.
Years have passed since then, but in
at least one village in Korea all events
still date back to "the night when the
morning didn't come Youths Com.
panion.
Pr!ce of Food Increased.
Increase in the price of grain and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
is YOUNGEST JUDGE.
Richard j. Higgins Elected to Bench
Though Only 25 Years Old.

Topeka, Kan.-The youngest mem.
ber of the judiciary in the United
States probably is Richard J. Higgins,
25 years old, who was elected judge of
the court of common pleas in Wyan-
dotte county, Kansas, to fill the unex-
pired term of Judge William G. Holt,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
Third Largest Railroad Army.

The train crews, with 100000 en-
ginemen, firemen, conductors and
trainmen, make up the third largest
railroad army. but they head the wage
list with $2S5, 100000 year They get
more than dollar out of every ten
received by the railroads.
Here is shown the makeup of the
railroad army:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

Paris Pattern No. 264S, All Seams
Allowed.-Made with high or low neck
and with or without Mikado sleeve
bands this is an extremely pretty style
for the afternoon or best waist for a
young girl. The long tight-fitting
sleeves are finished with a point over
the hand and the waist closes at the
center-back. Wide tucks across the
front, stitched to nearly the bust-line,
give the required fullness, the tuck
over the shoulder to waist. The pat.
tern is in four sizes, IA to II years.
For miss of is years the waist re-
quires 33s yards of material 20 inches
wide, 25s yards 81 inches wide, 2
yards SO inches wide, or 1A yards AZ
inches wide; as illustrated, Il yard
of net IS inches wide and Az yards
of insertion.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
20 Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and ba
sure to give size and number of pattern.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

The average yearly earnings of rail
road workers is little more than
$500. A ten per cent. wage advance
means only $50 for each man, but it
adds $1OOOOO,00O to the billion-dollar
pay roll-a sum equal to third of all
the profits distributed to the half mil
lion owners of the railroads in the
most prosperous year in their history.
Similarly, ten per cent. advance in
freight rates, such as is now proposed,
would add s1S0,00O,000 to the revenue
Of the roads, or more than two per
cent. on all the outstanding $S,000,000,-
900 railroad stock. The business is so
big that fractional changes in receipts
or expenditures, if spread over the
country, produce results of astounding
proportions.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

The other three-quarters is spent on
various materials, coal and steel being
the principal items. The coal bill for
the locomotives is the biggest single
tem-$1S5,O 100000 Besides the coal
bill, there is spent for locomotives
$100OO,00O on water, s6,OO0,00O on oil,
tallow and waste, and $4,000,000 on
other supplies-more than S200,000,O00
in all. The tie bill is big-S40, 900, 900,
bigger than the rail bill-s25, 900, 900.
Stationery and printing costs $14,000,-
900, advertising $7,O00,O00, wrecks and
other damage $22,OOO,O0o, clearing
away wrecks $5OOO,OOO, killing and in
juring people $1S,000,0OO, insurance
$500, ,000-and so on through score
of items all in the millions.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

~ HICAGO.-The biggest busi-
NJ ness in the country is rail
M roading.
"a If all the railroads in the
W~ country there are $500 of
them) could hoard from day
TO day the money they gather in for
moving passengers and freight, at the
END of a year there wouldn't be dol
lar left anywhere else in the country.
Every piece of metal and paper cur
Tency in the country would be in the
railroad treasures.
The railroads earn in a year five
times the whole worlds. output of
gold, thirty times this country's gold
output; they take in four times as
much money as the Steel corporation,
five times as much money as the gov
eernment itself-more money than is
represented in all our trade overseas.
It's a big business that takes in
.$2,600 100000 in year; this is $1,000
900 a day-seven million dollars
day.
And s3,50O000 of this money, every
day of the year, goes into the pay en-
NelCpeS VI lut tut luS
money gathered in by the railroads
half of this $4,000, 100000 year-is
the workers share of this biggest of
American businesses. So in two years
the railroad workers receive in their
pay envelopes as much money as
there is in circulation in the whole
country.
Big figures these! There is the
humble trackman, usually an alien
from the slums of Europe, who dog
gedly obeys the orders Of the track
foreman. Out of every 500 gathered
in by the railroads, six dollars goes to
him-five times as much as goes to
the railroad officials. The figures are
big, you see, whether you start from
dhe bottom or the top.
Let us see what becomes of every
800 received by the railroads in their
a-half-billion-dollar business.
Workers on railroads q, 200 900 men). s 40
Dealers in railroad materials Chiefly
the steel and coal trades). ).............. 25
The state (taNes) Observation-Disclosures.
Creditors hundreds of thousands of
bondholderS) ...............,.,........... IL
The owners $500 600 investors). .......... IL
For the surplus Improving the prop
eTly) .,..,.....,.....,..'....... Z
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .SlOO
Workers actually get $50 out of
e
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

aries paid the heads of transconti-
mental roads. The average daily earn
ings of the officers and men of the
railroad forces is here shown:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

Total wages ...................H'ooo'o
When you look over this billion-dol-
lar pay roll you get an idea of the big
ness OF railroading. Take the small
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
Pt!ce of Food Increased.

Increase in the price of grain and
foodstuffs throughout India has be.
come a serious matter on account of
the poverty of the masses and the low
wages paid for labor, according to a
report made by Consul-General Viii
liam b. Michael to the bureau OF
manufactures. He says that food
stuffs have advanced 40 per cent. dur
ing the last two years in India; rents
from 80 to 60 per cent.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
Share of the Owners.

A glance at the table at the begin.
ming of this article shows that after
the railroads pay out of their revenues
40 per cent. for wages, 25 per cent. for
materials, etc., and three per cent. for
taxes, there is still left 32 per cent. OF
the revenues. The creditors-that is,
the bondholders, spread all over the
face of the earth-owning $9,000,000,-
900 of American railroad obligations,
get 13 per cent. of the revenues. This
nets them 81 per cent. on the par
value of their bonds. There is still 10
per cent. left. OF this IL per cent.
goes to the shareholders-the half mil
lion owners. They receive $300,000,O00
a year out of the $2,600,0O0,000 earn
ings, which nets them only 3.6 per
cent. on their $S,00O,OOO,000 of stock.
The other seven per cent of the earn
ings goes into surplus.
Such, in brief, is the story of the
country's biggest business, the opera
tion of 100000 miles of railroads.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

Workers actually get 500 out OF
every 800, for from the $25 paid for
materials trails, cars, engines, build
ings, etc) $40 goes to workers in
these industries. Every time you
spend a dollar at a railroad ticket Of
flee or freight office, you are paying
80 cents for wages.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18
4 ellIion.poIIar Pay Roll.

Now let's see just how the $40 out
of every s100 of railroad revenue is
distributed among the railroad work
ers:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18


Dividends to Shareholders.
Having taken a look at the railroad
business from the viewpoint of the
100000 workers, let us see how it
looks to the $4,000 owners. The rail
roads earned last year, gross, $2,600,-
100000. The small end of the railroad
business is the passenger traffic. The
receipts from 900,0O0,000 passengers
were $570,OO0,000. The average rate
paid was a trifie over two cents a
mile. The figures show that the aver
age American made ten railroad trips
In the year of an average length of 80
miles, paying $3.50 for the service-so,
800 miles appears to be the average
railroads. The railroads also received
more than $1O0,O00,000 carrying mail
and express matter, mostly on pas
senger trains.
But the 100000 freight cars are the
big earners. They brought in $780,
100000 last year, 80 times as much
money as all the gold mines of the
money as all the gold mines Of the
world produced. Great is the Ameri-
can freight car, even If 1t does go
banging along on a fiat wheel! 1t
earned this huge amount of money by
sheer work, for 1t charged only three
quarters of a cent for carrying a ton
of freight mile But even three-quar-
4f fAn int
pretty fast in the big way we run our
railroads. A 50-ton car, at this average
rate, earns 371a cents a mile; this is
$1S.75 mile for a 50-car train-and
in the 3,00O-mile journey across the
country this runs up to $56,000. Big
cars and long hauls make possible the
low American freight rates.
Where Freight Comes From.
A word as to where all the freight
comes from. More than half of all the
tonnage carried on the railroads is
the product of the mines-a third Is
coal and coke. The soft coal tonnage
Is enormous-a quarter of all the traf-
fic-becatfse this is the great fuel in
lnuuslIlal pldhlS iiohi Soas' W So
Hard coal-the householders' fuel-is
a big item in freight, but not nearly
SO big as soft coal. Manufactures
stand next to mine products in i'm
portance, with about seventh of the
total tonnage, and in this class the
steel industry takes the lead. Lumber
and other products of the forest rank
third; agricultural products fourth,
with merchandise and miscellaneous
freight last. A 1,OOO-ton train, loaded
with freight in the proportions in
which the countrys freight tonnage is
divided, would carry:
Tons.
NT,,,a ,,,od,ots - 53l
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

So much for how the railroads earn
$2,6000O0,000. Now let's see what is
done with all the money. Two-thirds
of all the money received by the rail
roads has to be spent to run them
The railroads spent on operation last
wear:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-18

Total operating expenses. Isl. $50, 100000
Included in this billion and three
quarters Is the b!ll.oadollar pay roll.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-09
TO PROBE WATER
WATER COMMISSION WILL
STUDY EPIDEMIC'S CAUSE.
II Delaware Is Found to Be Impure Sup
ply May Be Abandoned-State Geol-
ogist Thinks This Impractical.

TRENTON. Jan. s.-Another State de-
partment has taken a hand in the typhoid
fever epidemic now prevailing in Trenton.
Burlington and other cities in the Della
ware River valley. The New Jersey State
Water Supply Commission, created under
a law Of the last Legislature, yesterday
decided to make an investigation of the
city's water supply, with a view Of ascer-
tanning the exact condition of the Dela-
ware River water which Is being used for
domestic purposes in Trenton and other
places.
The commission has directed it's engi-
neers to make an examination Of the river
water and to report to the board at its
next meeting. II 1t is found that the
water is polluted some other source OF
supply may be secured.
State Geologist Kummel takes excep-
ton to the views Of the commissioner
relative to the abandonment of the Della
ware River as a source of water supply
He says that the nature of the soil here
and all along the river prevents the ex-
ended use Of wells and points out that
the population Of the State is increasing
SO rapidly that within a few years only
the river will be adequate to meet the
needs of the people.
Two new cases Of typhoid fever de-
veloped here yesterday, and 1t Is reported
that 1t is still spreading In Burlington ant
other towns down the valley.