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The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
AN OBSERVER.

Once upon a time / CHANGED to
stand in a meat market soon at
ter six O'Clock Saturday night.
Men from the machine shops
were there getting supplies for
Sunday dinners. l noticed with
surprise how little some Of them
bought. enc in particular took
only a bit Of liver, remarking as
he handed over the few cents
asked for it, this is all that is
left of all my last weeks
wages. Just then in came
Charley, therotund saloon keeper
whose place ison the street lead
ing from the machine shops to the
market. Heis a big pempus fell
low, and walking up to theeomt-
ef with a I-am=mouaTch-of-all-I-
survey ain ordered the incest
roast in the shop. pulled oat
big roll of bank bits, handed one
to the clerk to pay fen tbe meat
and went out. / saw Jm, the
liver buyer. watching HIM mood
~. and a peculiar jook= ON his
face as his eyes rested On the
biH Charley paid, then glanced
from the nice, Juicy roast which
was to be Charley's dinner. to
the insignificant bundle in his own
hand.
As Charley passed out, jim
turned to his shop mates and said
See here; don'tyou know we're
fools That bill Charley paid for
that roast is the very one | paid
him for liquor not half an hour
ago, It's gone to buy his family
a good Sunday dinner, while
mine can have nothing but liver.
Next week | am going to keep
away from his internal saloon
and see if my folks can't have
roast beef for their Sunday din
ner. :" Let's all try it, " they
said, and went out discussing the
question of Sunday dinners VS..
whisky.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
SCOOL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.

Now, let us give DR.. Hartzog
the hearing he so justly deserves.
He will speak at the school house
Friday afternoon and at the op-
epa house in the evening of the
same day. For this lecture DR..
Hartzog gets $50, He is favor
ing Prescott with it free of
charge. Now, let us show our
appreciation of his excellent kind
ness by giving him a good house.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE.
The Vaughan Realty Co. Has The Following
Bargains 10 Close Out This Week.

A beautiful home with eastern
exposure, concrete walks, six
rooms. Lots 150x125. Title per-
feet. Within four blocks of the
depot. A bargain at $1250, $500
cash balance to suit purchaser.
One pretty cottage home in
outh Prescott next to city limits
5 rooms. Lots 115x169, good
water, very desirable and cheap.
100 acres hardwood timber
land, A miles southwest of city
Hickory and oak. "A bargain az
$1,000 per acre.
One 7 room splendid home on
West Main street. Lot 130X300.
on corner, good water, barn,
garden and bath. cheap at 81, 600
A nice cottage home. A rooms;
good water. Lot 62 1-2 X 15C,
within one block of Public School
building on Elm street. Rents
for 800. 90 per year all the time.
You can buy it for six hundred
dollars, five hundred cash and
rents will pay balance for you.
A splendid blackland farm of
60 acres 2 l-2 miles from city and
IA mile from public school, all
enclosed with good fence, 1-2 in
cultivation, balance in pasture.
Good well and plenty of water.
Good new house, barn and gar
den. Improvements worth $7OO
You can buy it all this week TO,
$3.50. IL cash, balance to suit
purchaser.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
II WILL SEEK IT YET AGAIN.

William James, professor OF
Psychology in Harvard Universe
ty, says:
Gould the young but realize
how soon they will become mere
bundles of habits, they would
give more heed to their conduct
while in the plastic stage.
Every smallest stroke OF vlr-
tue or of vice leaves a scar. The
drunken man excuses himself
from every fresh dereliction by
saying, I won't count this time.
Well he may not count it, and a
kind heaven may not count 1t,
but it is being counted, none the
less. Down among the active
nerve-cells and fibres the mole
cules are counting it, registering
it and storing it up, to be used
against him when the next temp
tation comes. Nothing we ever
do is, in the strict literalness,
wiped out. Of course this has
its good side as well as its bad
one. AS we become permanent
drunkards by so many separate
drinks, so we become saints in
the moral. and authorities and
experts in the practical and SCI
entific spheres, by so many sep
arate acts and hours of work.
How careful then ought we to
be if we want to come up to the
best that is in us. Let us take
the foxes, the little foxes that
spoil the vines. .
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
ALL over BUT
THE VOTING.
DOnaghey is Confident of His
Success in TOddY'S
Primaries.
Little Rock, March %.

Everything is over but the
voting, said George W. Dona-
ghey, candidate for Governor,
when seen at his hotel this morn
ing, Il was never 50 confident
as now. | expect to receive
more than 60, 200 votes today. In
this, the closing hour of the cam
paign, want to say to the peo-
pie of Arkansas that if | am
chosen as their Governor it will
be my aim and ambition to adj
minister the office in the inter
ests of the people. pledge the
people my word that if | am
Governor political machinery will
go out of existence in this State. .
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26

80 acres also 2 IL miles
city, we'll improved, good 4
barn, well, and 60 acres M
state of cultivation. S65O, 1
Also 80 acres timber red
adjoining, $500. Enough Y
to pay for both tracts.
must close to meet pressing
CATIONS. :. .
Close by st. Mary's WOOD
Co., one of the best hons
Christian Ridge. Wes
street, six rooms, good Y
Darn, garden, tenant houxs
rooms, concrete walk entlre'
alley entire length. Lots,
400. Rents worth SIT perm
You can buy it all this wee
$50, one half cash, balaa
uit purchaser.
240 acres creek bottom
acres in cultivation, one n
well, good farm house anu :,
fine stock range and U
Price $1,000 per acre.
A coy cottage, 5 rooms
and other conveniences' Y
block of business portion =,
on West Main street-ren
so. 90 per month. You ca
it this week for $3.50. w.
Long list of desirable pl y
see me or write me at ON
Never too busy to llsle'
proposition.
Never too busy to buy d
ALEX. VAUGn
Prescott
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
DECORATION DAY.

Tn as much as other towns and
communities nave day apart
10 decorate the graves Of Con-
fedeate Soldiers, 1t has been sug-
ecsted that Prescott should not
fail to take part IN honoring our
deathIess dead. = VII not
the daughters of the Confederacy
me forward and help in this
work? Let US hear from you.
O. L. MONCRIEF.
Col. Commanding.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26

1t has been suggested that if
all three of the candidates for
Governor could serve the people
as chief executive for three
weeks prior to the primary. since
they all stand for cleanliness and
a saving to the public treasury,
more good would be done to the
state and for the people in that
length of time than has ever been
done or will be done during the
entire term of any one man as
governor.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of any
individual, firm or corporation appear
ing in The Picayune will be promptly
corrected if brought to the attention Of
the publisher Statements of facts,
however will not be retracted.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
NOTICE.

| am now candidate for ~
filler of southwest Arkansas
ject to the action of the 81 !
| acknowledge no superior ]
bushes. Jas. SnodgI'
Prescott
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26

The w. C. T. U. meeting is
postponed for this week as we
want to give DR.. Hartzog a large
hearing Friday afternoon and
evening. Let everybody go.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
Prescott. Ark, March %.

Prescott. Ark, March %.
To the Old Comrades of Camp
Walter Bragg:
You are requested to meet at
the court house, in the town of
Prescott, on Saturday, the 4th
day of April. at 10 O'Clock. AS
there will be special business of
Importance to transact, as well
as the election of delegares to
the Birmingham reunion, it is
important that a good attend
ance be on hand.
By order Of the Commander,
O. l.. MONCRIEF.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
attest 1!

Little Rock, 3-26-0S, 1l:22 am.
Col. 7. c. McRae, Prescott:
Official returns from forty-fve
counties give me thirty-ei
Will carry ffty-one.
Geo. ". Donaghey.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26

Senator Jeff Davis has helped
Kirby OUT.
A lady o. refinement and Gull
ture went into one Of our local
dry goods stores yesterday and
made a purchase. When the
clerk began wrapping the bundle
she noticed in large flaming let
tiers his advertisement on the
wrapping paper and said;
Just turn those on the inside,
please. Newspapers are the
place to advertise. Don't at
tempt to make walking-adver-
tisements of your customers.
A Prescott widow says that it
has been six years since she
heard a noise like popping the
question.
The winds and waves are al
ways on the side of the ablest
navigators. Gibbons.
Just as soon as the smoke
clears away from tomorrow's
battle the city election will be at
hand.
The first ballot in box No. l,
on the east side of town, was
cast by ]. B. Stone. In box Ne.
2. on the west SIDE of town, Pre-
siding Elder Ware voted the FIRST
ballot Both were ayowed Dona-
ghey men
Ellsworth started To Emmett
y Yesterday Got five miles out.
Train wrecked. Ellsworth walk
ed back. Time: One hour and
thirty minutes. Have you seen
Ellsworth?
One Of the features OF today's
primary is the bet on by J. B.
Stone and Col. Otis Moneref. Il
Donaghey is victorious today Col.
Moncrief is to wheel Nh Stone
around town=iu a wheelbarrow.
and 10 Ge event that Kirby
proves lhe winner the wheeling
wD take place with Stone be-
tween the shafts. When the
smoke clears away the probability
is that Col. Moncref will have a
load of Stone" to wheel.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26
Pen,
Paste and
Scissors.

Johh Halton and Buck Andrews
also ran.
Senator Jeff Davis has helped
Kirby OUT.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-26

Ellsworth started to Emmett
Yesterday. Got five miles out
Train wrecked Ellsworth walk
ed back. Time: One hour and
thirty minutes. Have you seen
Ellsworth g.?
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
Northwest News
STORM CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE
Two Barns Destroyed by Lightning at
OwatOnna-Apple Trees Stripped
of Fruit.

OWatonna, Mimi, Aug. 18.-The Sc
verest electrical storm ever known te
this locality visited Owatonna early
yesterday morning and perfect
cloudburst accompanied it.
During the storm the barn at the
city hospital was struck by lightning
and totally destroyed. The fire de-
partment was called out in the midst
of the storm, and their efforts proved
Intellectual The loss on the building
Is $4,000, while the loss on the con-
tents will considerably increase the
total. The barn on the William
Young farm, east of the city, was
burned to the ground. Seventy-five
tons Of hay were destroyed. The barn
was filled with cattle, but all escaped
without injury. The structure was
an unusually fine farm building and
the loss will be in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
Straight river raised five feet dur
ing the night and did considerable
damage to adjacent farms and fields
Maple creek also went on a rampage
and broke it's banks.
Wherever corn was high the storm
has laid it fiat. Thousands of bushels
of apples were torn from the trees
scores of which have been stripped OF
their fruit. Telephone lines all over
the country are out of order.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
State News of Interest
INSANE COST $444,573.4e.
Of this Sum $342,o63.84 Is Paid Back
to Counties Having Asylums.

Of this Sum $342,o63.84 Is Paid Back
to Counties Having Asylums.
The cost for care of chronic insane
patients in county hospitals, as audit
ed by the state board of control, is
| $444, 573.49.
Of this amount the state pays $342,-
| 063.84 and the counties pay $102,-
| 509.65. OF the amount paid by the
| state, $54, is paid for state at
large PATIENTS that is, patients which
have no legal residence in any county.
A county maintaining a county asy.
| lum is paid So a week patient, be-
sides clothing bill for each patient
cared for. Of this amount $3.50 a
week and the clothing bill is charged
back against the county from which
the patient comes, and the state pays
$3.50 a week Counties operating asy-
lums receive $3.50 a week from the
state for each patient of that county
cared for in the asylum. The total
number of chonic insane patients In
the county asylums last year aver
| aged 1890.
The following statement shows the
amounts paid for care of chronic in
sane patients, including the amount
paid by the state and the amount paid
by the counties:
Brown, $12,554.31; Chippewa, s19,-
41617: Columbia, $9,179.36; Dane, S.
SO2; Dodge, $8,629.14; Dunn, $15,-
$1,000; Eau Claire, $21.177.62: Fond
du Lac, 13,175.05; Grant, $9,019.19;
Green, $10,991.31; Iowa, $12,795.80;
Jefferson, $10,482.27; La Crosse, $12,-
22340; Manitowoc, $40, 323.85; Mara
thon, $22.6S6.96; Marinette, $13,518.17;
Milwaukee, S17,S61.36; Monroe, $5,-
4244O; Outagamie, s15,325.02; Racine,
$15,S75.42; Richland, $17,362.43; Rock
County association, $12,322.6S; St.
Croix, $19,69O.94; Sank, $9,63S.41; She
boygan, 14,110.19; Trempealeau, $13,-
1884; Vernon, 15,836.17; Walworth.
$9,169; Washington, $14,464.48; Wau-
kesha, s10,935.05; Waupaca, s14,-
69O.62; Winnebago, $18,53298; total,
$444,573.49.
The state board of control has also
audited bills for the care of inmates
of other Institutions, for the following
amounts:
For patients in the state hospital
for the insane at" Mendoza, $52,674.35;
Northern hospital, Winnebago, $685.
51S.19; industrial school for byos,
Waukesha, $17,213.62; home for the
feeble minded, Chippewa Balls, $751;
312.35; tuberculosis sanatoriUm at
Wales, $2,3S710; total, S310,105.61.
The cost for care of chronic insane
patients is $11 900 more than last year,
w
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
ALONE AND ILL IN WOODS.
Homesteader Brought to Ashland
After Desperate Plight.

After Desperate Plight.
Ten days alone in the woods, para
lyzed and with practically no food,
Chris Bergland was brought to Ash
land and taken to st. Joseph's hospi-
tai, where his condition is serious
Bergland, who is eighty-two years Of
age, lived on homestead near Bay
field and is without relatives in this
country, so far as he knows. He says
that ten days ago ne had stroke of
paralysis, and since then he was
alone in the woods and all that he
had to eat was corn cakes, which he
managed to make from ground corn
and water.
He was unable to move about and
had not another homesteader happen
ed along and found him he would have
persisted. He is almost dwarf. His
back is terribly bumped, and when he
stands erect he measures less than
five feet in height. His exact condi-
ton has not as yet been ascertained.
A part of the time Bergland subsist
ed on uncooked meal, but when discov-
cred he was too weak to crawl to the
meal chest and expected to die.-W.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
LIKE FISH OF LABRADOR.
Lake Superior Whitefish Said by Elk
pert to Be Identical With Those.

Lake Superior Whitefish Said by Elk
pert to Be Identical With Those.
1--WE have made the interesting dis
covery," said David Starr Jordan of
the international fish commission,
after visiting the Bayfield, hatchery
and before leaving Ashland for Du-
luth, that the whitefish of Lake Supe-
rior and of Lake Erie are quite differ
ent in respect to color and shape. AS
to the quality of the fish, that is a
matter of taste, as both are fine quail
ity. The Lake Erie whitefsh is of a
pale silver color on it's back, while
the Lake Superior whitefish is identi-
cal with the Labrador variety"
Mr.. Jordan says that there are not
as many fish in Lake Superior as
there would if the water was not
SO cold and deep. Lake Erie, he says,
is vast spawning ground on account
of it being so shallow and the water
comparatively warm The conditions
are much more favorable on Lake
Erie and the water is fairly swarming
with fish.-W.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
WOMEN QUIT IN A HUFF,
Resign When the Home Economics
Course Is Switched.

Resign When the Home Economics
Course Is Switched.
Because the department of home
economics has been transferred from
the college of letters and science to the
agricultural college of the state uni
versity, Miss Caroline NJ. Hunt, head
of the department, and her assistant
Miss E. A. Huntington, have resigned
and left the university.
Other women will be secured to
take their places. Prof. Hunt has &C
cepted position in New York city,
and Miss Huntington will do post
graduate work at Cornell university
II is charged that some of the goods
used the course as filler" because
it was considered easy.
The transfer of the department to
the college Of agriculture is expected
to make the course more practical and
useful.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
CHORAL SOCIETY TO MEET.
Over Two Hundred Norwegian Sing
ers Will Gather in Eau Claire.


ers Will Gather in Eau Claire.
The annual musical festival of the
Northwestern Wisconsin Choral union
Of the United Lutheran church, at
which gathering there will be over
200 singers from the various cities in
the northwestern part of the state,
will be held in Eau Claire Saturday
and Sunday, Aug. 90 and 80.
The Saturday session will be devot-
ed to business and the election of Off
GERS for the ensuing year. On Sun
day a big concert will be held at the
West Side United Norwegian Luther
an church under the personal dlrec-
ton of Prof. Andrew Anderson of this
city, who is the director of the entire
union. Nine Brunie will also render
number of selections. There will
be over 200 voices in the monster
union of choirs.
The present officers of the organiza-
ton are Rev Granskou of Stanley
president, and Martin KrOhg of Eau
Claire secretary. AS the meeting
place for next year Chippewa Falls
has been prominently mentioned.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
AGED WOMAN IS
SLASHFD TO DEATH
Found FOully Murdered in Front
Yard of Her Residence at
Grand Rapids.
NO REAL CLUE TO MURDERfRS
Evidences of Desperate Struggle Found
in Her HOnse-Sheriff Sends
for Bl0OdhOundS.

Duluth, Aug. 10. - Mrs. George
Cochran, aged seventy-one years, was
murdered last night in the front yard
of her residence in Grand Rapids,
MINI. The whole northern part of the
state is shocked at the tragedy, and a
motive is wanting. The woman was
Slashed to death with a knife, and
there is no real clue to the murderers
as yet
The discovery was made at 1 o'clock
yesterday morning by Ben and Mi
chael Lieberman, who were walking
home at that hour past the Cochran
home They heard faint cries of dis
tress in the yard and made an investi-
CATION. They were shocked to find
the aged woman covered with blood
and in a dying condition.
Blood Spurts From Many Wounds.
The woman expired in the arms Of
her w0uld-be rescuers, and at no time
after they found her was she in condi-
ton TO make a statement. At the
moment the men discovered her the
woman was trying to rise from the
ground and blood spurted in jets from
numerous wounds.
The men Immediately investigated
the house and found evidences of a
severe struggle. The furniture was
upset, the stove torn down and cur
tains pulled from their fastenings.
Some Of the woman's clothing was
torn from her body.
Sheriff Hoolihan is working hard on
the case. He sent for bloodhounds
and they will be given the scent.
Robbery could scarcely have been
the motive, for the woman was poor.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
BADGER RED MEN ELECT.
Wisconsin Lodge Association Closes
Convention at la Crosse.

Wisconsin Lodge Association Closes
Convention at la Crosse.
At the closing session of the con-
vention of the Improved Order of Red
men of Wisconsin at La Crosse, the
following officers were elected: Great
prophet, e. c. Raymond, La Crosse;
great sachem, Con Fiege, Augusta;
great senior sycamore, Charles Grit
fiths, Ashland; great Junior sycamore,
Phil Smith, Milwaukee; great keeper
Of wampum, J. e. Langdon, La
Crosse; representative to the great
council of the United States, G.
Holmes Daubner Waukesha; trustee
for three years, J. E. Buresch, Racine;
trustee for two years, Clarence Carl,
Superior.
The place of holding the next con-
vention will be decided by the officers
later
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
Remedies High School Course.

Recognizing the fact that number
of non-essentials have crept into the
course of study Of the graded and
high schools of Chippewa Falls, Supt'
George w. Swartz has begun to re-
wise the course, with view of putting
more emphasis upon the Three RS"
A -five-year course will be added TO
the high school to enable pupils to
give longer time to and study more
thoroughly the English branches. This
course will also benefit the very young
as we'll as backward pupils, who are
unable to get through in four years.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
Humane authorities at La Cross

Humane authorities at La Crosse
are searching for the husband of Mrs.
Mabel La Sarge, who was left i'll and
destitute with three children IN a
howell in the southern part of the city.
The woman was found in a dying con-
dition and since the family has been
taken care of by the officials, one OF
the children, six weeks old boy, has
died of neglect All the food the fam
ilv had for several weeks was brought
in by neighbors, and the members OF
the family were in terrible physical
condition. The husband has disap-
peared and cannot be found.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
CHURCH HAS ANNIVERSARY.

The Elk Creek Evangelical church
celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at
Menomonie last week, services being
conducted by former pastors. The
church, which was erected in 1877, has
been entirely remodeled and redeco-
rated in white and gold. A fine new
altar, pulpit and baptismal font, to-
eether with replica of Thorwaldsen's
state of Christ give the interior a rich
appearance. The congregation is con-
sidered one of the richest in this VII
Iinity.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-08-20
CUT WILL BE LiSHT.
Present Logging Plans Call for Small
Output.

It is learned at Couderay that the
lumber companies who do the logging
through that section do not expect to
cut more than 40 per cent of the usual
amount this year, all due to the lack
of demand for lumber. Some of the
lumber companies will not log at all, as
they have enough lumber on hand for
next year. There is still 100000 feet
of logs landed near Winter OF last
years cut that will be hauled to the
mills at Eau Claire as soon as the
lumber is needed.
If the demand for lumber should
take a jump, heavy logging operations
also would follow, but it is not expect
ed. Camps usually open up the latter
part of this month and in September,
but there is no sign of any move be-
ing made so far, and the outlook for
heavy logging operations is poor for
the coming season.