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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-01
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List of unclaimed letters remaining
at the Watertown pos-otfice for the
week ending December %:
Boese, E.
Branded, Miss Blanche
Engelmann, Edw.
Gibbons, Miss Eliz.
TIinzelmann, Mr..
Lloyd Guy
Iaher, Tim
Meyer, Caroline, Lebanon
Nodine, c. L.
RObiey, Chas. J.
Radlof, Miss Mary
Ryan, z. J.
Schartenberg, c.
Wilson, J. H.
Zimmerman, J. Z.
To obtain any Of the above lett
the applicant must call for adv
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same. If not called for in two W.,
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Office. H. T. Eberle, P. Nj.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-01

Peter Thauer. enc of the indepen-
dent and progressive farmers of tke
town of Emmett. and first Vica-PTesi-
dent of the Personal Liberty League
was in the city Tuesday, hut The
Leader man failed to see John Scheb-
erie, who is generally with Nj.
Thauer when he comes to the city.
| have cured to stay cured Mr.
Thomas Cuthbert of Brandon, Wi,
of a rupture, in three treatments
without the use of knife or operation.
He never lost one days time. If you
are ruptured, write him or cell and
see me personally, Nov 4, at New
Commercial Hotel, Watertown. Dr..
Goddard Milwaukee Specialist. Con-
sultation Free.
Smoke --latest Out" SC cigar.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-01
NAY Go West

Conductors William Wittig and
Charles Mclaughlin have received re
quests from the Milwaukee road to
take charge of construction crews on
the Pacific coast extension with head
quarters at Seattle, Wash. Both men
are former residents of Watertown,
having been born and reared here.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30

the picture. The cut of this dress.
although including the long hip and
suggesting the vatican plat from
yoke to belt, is such that it admits
of a decided waist line. This shaped
belt of shiny leather is made of three
pieces, which fit 1t about the figure
very snugly.
The straight patent leather worn
with the striped linen morning frock.
although made of one piece, is also an
outlined belt and fastened with q
square leather covered buckle.
Now, the French woman oversteps
the mark when she wears her beloved
shiny belt with the fitted foulard gown
of princess cut, but to her the girdle
seems an irresistible accessory. Paris
ians always feel privileged to perform
remarkable feats in fashion making,
but fortunately the sensible American
is given to adaptations. She will, in
all probability wear the extreme pat
ent leather, but instinctively with
gowns made for it; with models hav-
ing blouse and skirt and distinct
waist line. The leather belt is at its
best worn with turnover collar and
four-in-hand or with Puritan col
lar and Windsor tie.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30

Paris loves the pulled.in waist line.
While she has held bravely and long
to the high-waisted skirt on many Of
her gowns. and, indeed, with an ardor
net known In America, she has
grasped the opportunity with the very
first gown that admitted of it, to put
on a leather belt, and a close one at
that.
She has worn this belt during the
summer with some of the foulard and
lingerie gowns and with the best of
her linen morning frocks. She has
strained point to wear it with
dresses that were scarcely built for it.
In this particular fashion period
through which we are passing, the
belt is frequently impossible with the
half-fitted princess of the moyen age,
except 1t be the loose leather belt of
the silken girdle run through slots
opened beside the princess panels.
The pulling in of a closely fitted
princess is about as awkward as any
thing that could well be imagined,
but the Partisan woman, who always
finds her opportunity, has worn a
shaped leather belt successfully with
model like the white pique shown in
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
IN DECORATING THE HOUSE
Several Simple But Most Important
Principles Which Should Be
Understood.

There are a few principles, simple
but most important, which should be
understood by every woman who sets
out to be her own interior decorator.
Do not hang curtains of one color
against wallpaper of another.
If possible to avoid do not put diff
ferent papers on the walls of rooms
which adjoin, with wide archways or
folding doors between.
If it is necessary, the character Of
the rooms, to have slightly different
kinds of paper, let them be as near
alike as possible in color The design
does not make so much difference.
Do not join carpets of opposite col
ors.
When it is not possible to have car
pets alike in rooms joined by wide
openings, rug should be laid over
the seam to hide it.
Oriental rugs, beautiful as they are,
should be used with discretion. In a
small, many-colored room they are
likely to howl at each other.
They are very good when used to
Digit up one-tone room.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
Biting the Nails.

There has been issued from the
Paris press brochure which created
large amount of interest in French
medical circles, both on account of its
originality and the experimental re
suits which 1t embodies II is from
the pen of DR.. Edgar Berillon, so well
known in the surgical world by rea
son of his connection with Charcot in
the latter's hypnotic experiments, and
as secretaire general de la Societe
d'Hypnologie ct de Psychologist OF
Paris, and medical Inspector of the
state lunatic asylums. The work is
scientific treatise on onycophagie, OF
finger biting, and contains the results
of series of observations in the pub
lie and private schools of France, and
extending through period of more
than seven years. In his thorough
scientific treatment of what the world
has never before considered worthy
of prolonged or special study Berillon
arrived at results really remarkable.
His experiments led him to pronounce
the habit far more widespread and
pernicious than others promptly treat
ed, and forced him to conclude that,
if not a disease itself, 1t is an unfail-
ing mark of incipient degeneration of
the nervous system, which, unrecog-
nized, may be productive of the most
evil results,-Dundee Advertiser.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
THE BANG is HERE AGAIN
II VIII Be Worn by the Ma.
jority of Women Next
Winter.

Although much protest was made
last winter about the temperance
of the bang" across the forehead, 1t
seems to be rather firmly intrenched
now.
The majority of women will wear
1t this winter. In large measure 1t
will be becoming. 1t will compel
women to lift from their foreheads
that low-hanging mass of hair, now
the fashion, and substitute it with
tiny, wavy fringe.
1t Is absurd to cut the hair to make
this bang. One can buy it by the
piece in any hair shop and attach 1t
under ones own hair by an invisible
hairpin.
One should be extra careful not to
get 1t thick or straight
The poodle bang, once so fashion
able in the eighties of the nineteenth
century, also promises to return. 1t
has already done so in Paris, but
there 1t, like the wavy fringe, only
accompanies the flattened pompadour.
Both of these have been introduced
to give softness to forehead from
which the hair has been lifted, and
also to give a showing of hair under
the hat.
They should never be worn with
the hair severely parted in front.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
A Ribbon Pinholder.

For this pretty pinholder five differ.
ent lengths of 1h-inch satin ribbon
are suspended from brass ring
crocheted over with heavy embroidery
silk. To the ring is also attached a
bow of the satin ribbon, just by way
of decoration. The lower end OF
each ribbon is looped through a brass
ring and hemmed. These rings are
not covered. To make this an accept
able present. each ring is filled with
safety pins, slipped ON and clasped
Two sizes of black pins may be used
and three of nickel. including the
very smallest SHE'D pins.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
White Net Frock.

A standard white dress, and the
most advisable If you are making it
right now, is the point d'esprit or fine
wash net, for the very obvious reason
that the whole season is no longer
before you, and you, therefore, will
not want to make dress for summer
only. The point d'esprit dress is a
most useful as well as beautiful lit
tie dancing frock. If it be made in
one of the pretty fluffy ways that
these sheer dresses naturally call for,
the yoke and lower sleeves may later
be removed and bit of lace added
as finish. With the addition of little
wreaths of artificial pink roses or
small punches of red rambler roses,
the frock will be ideal for winter eve.
nings,
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
strangers alike succumb to the mill
tary eye of the Hoodoo priestess

strangers alike succumb to the mill
tary eye of the Hoodoo priestess.
One of the most remarkable expert
ences of my life is how | came under
this influence; but some 20 years
since, finding it could be made bene-
fetal by keeping the possessor of this
gift always supplied with an abun.
dance of fruit, especially bananas,
sank my personality and became an
observer in this by-way of science.
DR.. Wilson of the Pennsylvania mu-
scum, says that hypnotism is merely
fear, adducing many interesting in
stances of the same, and it may be
that the domestic hoodoo is founded
upon such basis. But what is there
in a respectable-looking colored wom-
an TO bring various nationalities of
men,, women, and children under sub
lection? Even horse maliciously nib
bling a tree on the front pavement,
listening to the "mantrim" she pro-
nounced against his race, trotted off
instanter and apparently warned all
other horses, since no second one has
attempted trespass.
The most remarkable power pos
sessed by this conjure queen is that
of GEOGRAPHICALLY calling other colored
women for work or for society. Often
quite early in the morning she will
announce:
Il fell languid. Cannot work to-
day, but will call Hannah" Then to
the dog
go out and stay in the yard, so
you can tell me when Hannah
comes"
The dog obeys, and in few mo-
ments loud barking indicates that
Hannah is at the gate. After another
little nap the edict goes forth
Henrietta had better bring home
my Dress" and before many minutes
the neat little colored dressmaker
trots in with profuse apologies and
the new gown. Next it occurs to her
that her clock is either too fast or too
slow, so she goes to the fence and
summons the householder on the 9TH
er side to regulate 1t for her. which
he agrees to do with the greatest po-
likeness.
| had so often seen the clock go
over the back fence that once | ven
tured to ask If Mr.. Moss were a clock
maker.
"oh. no. said the conjure queen.
he only fixes clocks for me-"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
The HOOdOO

By e. S. Bladen

In the year 1900 the United States
sloop. of-war Ganges came into the
port of Philadelphia with two slavers
she had captured and $50 negro men
and women, entirely naked, were ac-
commodated in Independence hall,
where an appeal was made to citi-
zens to clothe them, to which there
was a prompt response,
These negroes were chiefly Mandin-
gos. tall, well-lormed, and with beau
tiful bronze skins, prisoners ofwar to
the neighhoring tribes. who sold
them. Among the lot there were a
few Congos. They and their descend
ants never left Philadelphia, and be-
tween the latter and southern negroes
there is an antipathy as strong as
death
Having been for the most part
adopted by the members of the So
ciety of Friends, they and their de-
scendants became imbued with the
domestic virtues and acquired quite
elegant and aristocratic manners.
Among them alone of all the colored
population of the United States Is to
be found an occasional negro old
maid. While they intermarried with
one another, in the first generation
there were seldom more than two or
three children in a family, and in the
third generation but one. Though not
church people, as are the majority OF
the colored race, they have mild fes-
ivities in their own circle and sort
of community of feeling that induces
them to take care of their old or sick,
but the most remarkable characteris-
tic is that some of them possess the
art of hoodoo.
Where an isolated descendant of
these $50 negroes of the year 1900 has
not attained competence, she usual
ly attaches herself TO a white family
of good BIRTH and hoodoos not only
her employers, but the whole neigh.
borhood. Guests. business people, and
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
Use Twisted Cotton.

Some women waste their time in
Misunderstanding dainty garments with
embroidery thread. The embroidery
thread being soft, when the garment
is Numbered it is pressed into the ma
terial and loses its individuality.
Twisted cotton, which comes by the
ball in various numbers, and which
is sometimes used for crocheting, is
the most satisfactory thread with
which to do this dainty work.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
e!naham Cushion Covers.

Pretty cushion covers are made OF
dress Bingham in plain colors, old
rose, Alice blue, green or yellow, to
correspond with the color scheme OF
the room. The covers are feather
stitched in white to inclose inside the
edge and are finished with buttons
and buttonholes, so that they can be
Numbered when necessary.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
Notice 10 COntractOrs.. Cement Walks.

ONCE OF the City Cocncil. Spanish Fork City,
Utah. Sept. list. 1909.
Sealed proposals will be received at this ONCE
until O'Clock p m, Sept. 23rd, 1909 for the
work OF constructing cement sidewalks and
cross walks. In Paving District No. 4, Instruc-
tious 70 bidders, together with plans. speci1cu-
lions and forms for contracts, and bond. can
be obtained upon application at the ONCE OF the
mayor. The right Is reserved TO reject any and
ell bids. BY order OF the City Council.
+. NJ. SMELL, Mayor.
LARS w. NIELSEN. Recorder.
arst pub sept g, last sept 20 90
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
Rsfune for Mem over Elfty.

However, the proper place for ev-
cry man of 80 who has not acquired
competence is the countryside
land. On the land, he can, If he
wishes, be independent of everybody.
And he can get to the land, and make
a living off it, if he has enterprise
enough to entitle him to any sort Of
consideration.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
Learn 10 Relax.

Relaxation is the secret of taking
the mental. moral and physical kinks
out of ones system in the warm
weather. 1t will take all the insight.
ly lines from your face and prevent
new ones from forming
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30
Remedy for Burns.

A simple remedy for burns is made
by adding to cupful of olive oil u
,easpoonful of carbolic acid. Apply
oandage soaked In the mixture.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-09-30

Blouse OF tussah silk trimmed in an
original way with fagoted bands of
the same material. The jabot is of
the silk and lace.
The sleeves, trimmed to correspond,
have tucked strap of the silk on the
outside, finished with the lace.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-10-29
Water Shade Trees,

How many people neglect to water
their shade trees and flower beds !,
The editor of this department knows
n Texas man who is still gathering
fresh roses from his bushes. when all
his neighbors, in fact. most OF the resi-.
dents of his town. can only point TO
their withered, parched bushes and
trees. This man. on the hottest day
OF the year. had his home grown flow.
ers on the table. and they were nj.
most rs fresh as flowers would look
in early summer. lie simply waters
his trees and flowers: waters tbem
right. and they return him. for his
service, beauty of bloom.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-10-29
SINGLE CROP
FARMING BAD
Specialization Is Profitable In
Favorable Scasons. But Oftcn
There An Failure.

One-crop farming is In vogue In
many agricultural districts. II a manu-.
tacturer employs an operator he fur.
aishes him with steady employment at
all seasons of the year. The profit OF
abor is the manufacturers reward. II
pnly one commercial article is pro-
duced the quantity is increased to
give the operator constant employ
meDt.
The farmer is n producer of agricul-
tural necessities which enter into
daily consumption and to concentrate
all his energies and capital TO produce
n single crop leaves him part OF the
season without employment. The far
mer is his own employer and does not
have to divide the profits OF his prod
ucts. and therefore should arrange his
system of husbandry to insure steady
production OF some agricultural output
that enters into daily consumption.
Unquestionably specialization farm
ing is profitable in favorable seasons.
but occasionally there Is a partial or
total failure of the crop and the far
mer wants some reserve product to
tide him over a disastrous season of
special crop exploitation. In some To-
cailties the soil is admirably adapted
to potato culture. In another section
to onions. and still another to horticul-
ture. When any of these lines of hus-
bandry are followed they pay large
profits in favorable seasons. Another
class OF farmers are interested In
wheat or corn production. both of
which are profitable branches OF agri.
culture.
The farmer engaged in specializa-
tion crops finds himself unemployed a
part of the year. II his labors are rea.
sonably rewarded for time devoted to
raising and marketing a crop of wheat,
corn. potatoes or fruit. It should be his
ambition to add to his agricultural op-
erations the production OF other things
that will pay a profit the balance of
the year. To obtain the largest posi-.
BILE recompense from agriculture the
farmer should arrange for steady EN-.
p!oyment the year around.
Special crops can be exploited in
conjunction with live stock husbandry
II the farmer raises a crop of clover II
leaves the soil in elegant condition for
a crop OF potatoes. while the clover
will make excellent feed for live stock
a crop of potatoes leaves the ground
in prime condition for wheat seeded
down to clover. Live stock industry
in conjunction with special crop pro
duction will not only give the farmer
femuneratiye employment at all sea
sons. but the rotation OF crops and
feeding live stock will keep up the
fertility OF the land.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-10-29
Unique Relationship Of Potato.

An authority tells us that the pota-
to has a large and unique relation
ship. Tobacco. tomatoes. eggplant
and peppers belong to the family.
Probably that is why the potato bug
is SO often destructive to these crops.
1t is asked: How can a potato grow
other potato vines from the eyes,
since 1t is not a root, fruit or seed ?
That is answered by way of illustra-
ton: A stem of almost any plant
will produce another plant from the
place where the leaves come out on
1t. II one will break on a piece Of
rose bush and plant 1t in n favorable
place 1t will produce another rose
bush. just as potato will produce an
other vine.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-10-29
Try This In November.

Thousands upon thousands OF fam.
lilies who have not been regular eaters
Of Quaker Scotch Oats will begin on
the first of November and cat Quaker
Scotch Oats once or twice every day
for thirty days OF this month; the re-
suit in good health and more strength
and vigor will mean that every other
month in the year will find them doing
the same thing.
Try 1t! Serve Quaker Scotch Oats
plentifully and frequently for the thirty
days of November. and leave OF n cor.
responding amount Of meat and greasy
foods. You'll get more health. more
vigor and strength than you ever got
in thirty days Of any other kind OF
eating.
While you are trying this see that
the children get a full share.
Quaker Scotch Oats is packed in
regular size packages and large size
family packages.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-10-29

An excellent method for planting
Eees straight is a follows:
First stake of the ground. then
take piece Of inch lumber Ike Of suf-
fcient length to reach across the
hole or excavation; bore k-inch
hole in each end, cut notch in the
middle to accommodate the tree
trunk. A. Make or have the black
smith make two as-inch iron pins one
loot long with ring in one end, C. To
use. place the board into notch A.
shove your pins well down in soil
through holes B, b. Withdraw one
and swing the stick around like a
gate. replace the pin in the ground
to mark the place. then dig the hole
to accommodate tree, swing the stick
back in place. replace pin in hole
through the stick and into the hole
In the ground put the stock of tree
Into notch A. and fill in the dirt and
It will set straight with the other
stakes.
AS ornamental trees and shrubs are
pruned to aid in the production of
flowers and foliage. the Towering sea-
son necessarily controls the time OF
pruning.
Many of the early blooming shrubs
develop their flowers the year before;
with these heavy pruning should be de-
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-10-29
Where Inspiration Sits.

Mrs. Quilluser came tiptoeing softly
into her husbands study, rested a
hand lightly on his shoulder and
peered over at the sheaf of half-writ-
ten sheets on his desk.
What are you working on now,
dearest?" she asked gently.
"On Mary's mittens," he answered
pleasantly, but without looking up.
Mrs. Quilluser studied a moment, as
If planning. Dearest, Willie needs a
pair of shoes more than Mary does
the mittens. have already promised
them to the poor boy. Hadn't you bet
ter work on Willie's shoes first, dear?"
"All right, Nellie, all right" he re-
piled kindly, turning his eyes up into
Nellie's great patient ones.
Then he pushed back IAN Ode to
the Dancing Leaves" and cheerfully
began to write a Sunday special on
"A New Substitute for Coal.'-Puck.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-10-29

, layed until Just after their Towering
season. Deutzia. spirea. forsythia and
many other popular shurbs are of this
character. Soon after their Towering
season is over they begin to develop
buds for the next year.
Shrubs needing heavy trimming
should be pruned in early winter.
This will result in larger blooms on
the remaining buds. Such plants as
the hydrangea and the clematis.
which make their Towering buds on
shoots grown the same year, should
be pruned heavily while dormant, as
this will give greater profusion Of
shoots on which to develop new buds.
When pruning hardy deciduous flow
ering shrubs all deadwood should be cut
out. struggling branches either short
ened or removed and all suckers aris-
ing from the roots should be de-
stroyed. Where shrubs are planted
in clumps branches should be cut out.
1t is a good idea to cover the wounds
with white lead or grating wax, as
II n stub is left uncovered the healing
OF the wound will be left until the ssub
Is rooted out and the rotting stub will
be lodging place for bacteria and
fungus. Cut the branch on clean and
close to the main stem. avoiding any
stub. and cover the wound with graft.
ing wax melted and applied hot.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-10-29
Silk Stockings Indispensable.

Susan b. Anthony was a woman of
simple taste In dress. but her close
friends knew of one pretty feminine
vanity she always held to. She had
weakness for silk stockings. Being
pressed on one occasion for an ex-
PLANTATION of what most women at one
time regarded as an unnecessary ex-
travagance. she laughingly exclaimed: ::
"Oh. ! Just love 'em. They are an
inspiration. II I have my silk stock
ings on when I rise to make an ad-
dress. I feel Just like I am walking
among the clouds. They help me to
soar away on flights OF eloquence. l
wouldn't be without them"