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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

from a few DAYS visit in Milwaukee
and Oconomowoc.
Miss !1vora Ghlk"hcsEy : spc4-Lg
f-W Cay = Ill Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. l.. Forkenbridge
spent today in Milwaukee.
A boy boy baby was born to Mr..
and Mrs. John Powers yesterday.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Miss Macpherson ReSiQnS

Miss Maude Macpherson, librarian
of the public library for the past sew
eral years, has rendered her resigna-
ton. The library board has not TAX
en- any action as yet. Miss Macpher-
son has received many flattering Of
fers from several cities and may pos
sibly accept one in Washington
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Elected Seventh Time

At the annual meeting of the state
board of health at Madison yesterday.
DR.. w. F. Whyte of this city was re-
elected president. This is the sew
enth time the honor has been con-
ferred upon the Watertown physician,
which certainly should be gratifying
to the recipient of the honor.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Personal Mention

Emil Behl was business visitor in
Pardeville today.
Miss Katie Heinrich was home from
Waterloo over Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Burke of Mil
waukee spent Sunday here.
John Kohler, who has been visiting
at the home Of his son, Paul Kohler,
for. the past few days, returned to
his home in GAINESVILLE today.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Better Than Spanking.

Spanking does not cure children OF
bed wetting. There is constitutional
cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum-
mers. Box W, Notre Dame, Ind, will send
free to any mother her successful home
treatment. with instructions. Send no
money. but write her today if your
children trouble you in this way, Don't
blame the child, the chances are it can't
help 1t. This treatment also cures adults
and aged people troubled with urine
difficulties by day or night.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Funeral of Miss Marguerite BOYLE

The funeral of Miss Margaret Boyle
who died in Chicago, took place from
st. Demands church this morning.
Her mother, Mrs. Hugh Boyle, sisters
Ella and Julia Boyle, Chicago, and
brother and sister, John and Jane
Boyle of jamestown, N. D., and Neal
Boyle of Portage were present at the
pbcpnufpG
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

voc is visiting her mother, Mrs. Viii
liam Fuerstenau.
Mrs. F. c. Francis was a Milwaukee
visitor today.
Mrs. H. A. Long of Columbus was
caller in the city today.
The Misses Eta and Martha Tous-
saint of Fort Atkinson spent the day
at the home of A. j. O'Brien.
Henry Peters went to Milwaukee
today to attend the funeral of his
nephew, edwin Nell who died Mon
day.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
MARRIAGE Licenses

Charles F. Stengel, Carrie K. Rein
Ell, Jefferson.
William Gorder, Helen Fuerstenau,
WATERFOWL
George w. Moody, Berlin, Daisy D.
George, Lake Mills.
Edward Rauber, Oakland, Annie
Manth, Pennington.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Was Born Here

The funeral of Mr.. F. L. Trealoff
of Oconomowoc took place there to-
day. He was born in Watertown
February 26, 1856 and left here when
young man. He was a harness
maker by trade
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
In Social Realm

Miss Ella Koenig entertained a few
friends informally ct her home in
Western avenue this afternoon in
honor of her birthday anniversary
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Good Woman Called

Mrs. Mayer, wife of Ex-Mayor
Christian Mayer, died this morning at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Will
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

Attorney @. r. Blumenfeld looked
after the interests of clients at Jeffer-
son Tuesday.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Personal Mention

UISUIIuI VIGIIGIUII
Miss Ella Wilder has returned
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
Special Town Meeting

Notice is hereby given to the
electors of the Town of River Falls,
in the county of Pierce, state of Wis
consin, that a special meeting will
be held at the Opera Hall in the city
of River Falls on the 10Th day of
October, 1909. at O'Clock in the
afternoon, for the purpose of rails
ing money to pay the current ex-
penSeS of the town, which were ex.
traordinarily high this year, partic-
ularly on account of the town being
compelled to erect a new bridge
over the Rocky Branch and to re-
pair highway damages caused by
floods. There is not now on hand
enough money to meet the necessary
expenses of the town.
And, that on examination of the
bridge near the residence of Mrs. G.
NJ. Bredahl, it was found to be of
sufficient strength to last at least
another year, and it would seem
best for the interest of the town to
cancel the appropriation for a new
bridge and vote like sum to defray
the current expenses of the town for
the present year. This question is
for the voters to decide at this meet
ing, a request for such meeting hav-
ing been duly made to me in writing
by twelve qualified voters of said
town, specifying as aforesaid the
objects for which such meetil lg is to
be held.
Dated the 9th day of Sept, 1909.
GEORGE MARTIN, Town Clerk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO
From the River Falls Journal of
October 7, 1873

The contract for building the
school house in the Chaplin, Browell
and Patterson district was awarded
to N. H. Campbell.
The following names were on the
program for the second annual meet
ing of the ST. Croix Valley Teachers
Association, held at the River Falls
Institute building Oct. IA, 1873: E.
F. Case, H. S. Baker, ]. r. Hinckley,
Miss Eunice Pratt, F. P. Chapman,
r T. Reed, Ida o. Powell, Miss F.
Hoyt, J.. A. Taylor, and Andrew
Sather.
Weather fine for October. Fall
blowing is progressing rapidly.
Geo. Elliott is now building a new
house. 1t is near the spot where
the old one burned down.
On Monday evening last, at juno
ton Mills, Oliver Heasley got his
hand in an elevator. 1t was badly
torn, but amputatio was not deemed
necessary.
David Stiles died at Dubuque last
week. He had lived oyer one hun
dred and seven years and was said
to be the oldest Free Mason in the
United States He was living at
Prescott two years ago, and his
name will be remembered by many
of our readers.
At the st. Croix County Repub-
lican Convention held at Hudson
last Saturday, H. S. Clapp was nom
mated for Assemblyman, Joseph
Kelly for sheriff, A. H. Weld for
superintendent of schools, Geo.
Clinton for district attorney, Lauritz
Thoen for clerk of circuit court,
James T. Star for coroner, L. M.
Mackin and Clinton Williams for
bridge commissioners. ;
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
Studies Children in Home and
School

Children of all ages, at home and
at school, in church and on the
street, on the farm and in the city,
both rich and poor, have been made
the subject of a special study by
Prof. M. v. O'Shea of the depart
ment of education of the University
of Wisconsin. The result of his
latest researches in the subject are
published in a new book on Social
Development and Education.
Problems, in the solution of which
parents, teachers, and lawmakers
are interested, are treated fully and
explicitly by the author who has
studied various methods of training
children at home and abroad, so
that his views are based on the re-
suits of actual experiment rather
than upon theory or sentiment.
Children in actual situations, social
and moral, are considered in the
book as to the result in effect on
their conduct and character of the
different methods of training.
From a large number of problems
in child training and exercises for
tests, there have been selected some
fifty applying to each of the subjects
considered in the seventeen chapters,
sach as duty, justice, respect, docil-
ity and correction. These are
grouped at the close of the book, as
an aid to those who wish to- study
the social development and educa-
ton of children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
Pierce County Teachers
Meet at Ellsworth

A meeting of the Pierce county
teachers was held at Ellsworth last
Saturday under the direction Of
County Supt. Oscar Mattson. A
large number were in attendance.
Several of the teachers from the
local Normal drove out for the &C.
casion.
Miss Abbie Terpening presented
model recitation in first grade
reading which was much commend
ed in the disc ussion. Prof L. Fl.
Clark spoke on Making the Teach
ing of Arithmetic Effective" Supt.
Mattson gave an account of his
plan of holding declamatory con
tests among the pupils of the rural
schools, and in order to assist the
teachers in preparing the contests
Mrs. 1ruesdell was asked to give
some Suggestions on How to Pre-.
pare a Defamation" Prof. ]. H..
Ames spoke on The Teacher as a
Character Builder" and President
Wilson further discussed the sub
ject. Prin w c. White spoke on
the subject Points for Beginners,
which was discussed by Miss Pearl
Collamore, and this was followed
by an exercise in penmanship by
Principal w. P. Sansum of the Ellis
worth schools.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
Northwestern Wisconsin
Teachers Association

The Annual Meeting of the N. w.
T. A. will be held in Eau Claire,
Friday and Saturday, Oct. Is and Is.
From present reports this years
meeting will be one of the largest
and best ever held in the history Of
the Association. The law now per-
mits school boards to allow their
teachers to attend without loss of
their wages. 1t is to be hoped that
all school boards will encourage their
teachers to attend. 1t is in such
educational gatherings as the N. w.
T. A. that teachers are encouraged
and enlightened in their work, and
this means better schools for every
one
Among the leading speakers on
the general program will be State
Supt. c. P. Cary; President Cotton
of the La Crosse Normal School;
Supt. Albert Brunstad, of Chippewa
County; Prin. c. ]. Brewer, of New
Richmond; Prof. D. D. Mayne, of
the University of Minnesota; Supt.
Schulz, of Eau Claire; Supt. c. G.
Pearse, of Milwaukee. Many of the
strongest educators of Wisconsin
will take part in the sectional pro-
| Grams Eriaau a frarpaor,
A speaker of national reputation
will be secured for the lecture, Fri
day evening, October Is.
This coming meeting promises
much in the way of educational in
spiration and practical assistance,
and it is to be hoped that teachers
generally will attend.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
Patriotism and Waste
Discussed by Van Hise

President Charles r, Van Hise of
the University of Wisconsin, in an
article entitled Patriotism and
Waste" in a recent number of Col
liers', discusses the obligation now
resting upon the American people
to conserve the natural wealth and
the productive vitality of the CONT
nent.
Speaking first of the manner in
which the Communication amendments
to the homestead act have resulted
in fraud and speculation, resulting
in unlawful concentration of great
and immensely valuable tracts in
the hands of large holders, he con-
tinued with a discussion of the
means whereby the government has
been despoiled of more than ten mil
lion acres of valuable timber land
at tenth of the real value; the con-
centration of the national wealth of
resources in private hands and their
dissipation in wanton waste, as the
natural gas, the petroleum, and the
forests destroyed by fire; the cor
porate ownership of the water
powers; and the criminal waste of
the fertile elemcn in the soil.
THE various forms of waste of
our natural resources, in reference
to which we can give definite esti-
mates, and which are remedial,
amount to at least billion dollars
per annum," DR.. Van Hise says in
his article. yet the request of
President Roosevelt for $4,000 for
the use of the Conservation Commits
sion was denied, and the clause was
introduced in the Sundry Civil Bill
preventing the scientific bureaus Of
Washington from cooperating with
the commission
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
OLlvET
Mrs. Eunice Hanvelt is on the

Mrs. Eunice Hanvelt is on the
sick list.
ALT. Hanvelt bought cow of H.
F. Tousley recently.
H. F. Tousley delivered stock in
Spring Valley last Saturday.
H. F. Tousley has rented the
Manning place to Geo. O'Connell
Mrs. Mary Edick spent Tuesday
at Ole Juve's in the town of Gilman.
Miss Gilmore arrived here We'd
nesday to keep house for Mrs. E. G.
WEIGH.
Dora Smith went to Anoka
Thursday for an extended visit with
friends and relatives.
Henry Patterson and Mrs. C. V.
Arnold spent Saturday and Sunday
at H. G. Patterson's.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Springstead
and Mrs. Eugene Van and child
rem visited at Arthur VANS, near
Grange Hall, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Chapman
from near the mines, and Mrs. Q. II.
Grape visited at Ira Browns in the
town of Rock Elm Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Pomeroy Of
Elmwood and Mrs. Frank Whitney
and Robert Yates of Rock Elm
spent Sunday at w. L. Yates.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Garfield Of
the town of Rock Elm and Mrs.
Mary Parker of Spring Valley
spent Sunday at H. F. Tousley's.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
KORNA
Threshing is about finished.

Threshing is about finished.
Anton Nachazel has returned from
Dakota.
Dave Gray of Big River was out
this way Sunday.
Miss Anna Nachazel returned to
St. Paul Saturday.
Joe Kordovsky, Sr., is doing some
plastering for John Doorack.
John Pechacek visited his sister,
Mrs. J. Stetka, in Minneapolis re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Dusek of
Prescott visited their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. Dusek, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vine. F,ait spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. P. Ohm
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Janovetz
and John Johnson and friend of Min
neapolis were also guests at the p.
Johnson home Sunday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
CLAY CORNERS

AISLE Asleson is on the sick list.
Potato digging is the order of the
day.
Oscar Olson sports fine new
buggy.
Mrs. Sri Herum spent Tuesday
at Asleson's.
Sophia Shella was caller here
Tuesday afternoon.
DR.. Kerr of M artell made trip
through here Monday morning.
Mrs. Thor. Hoseld, who has been
sick for some time past, is improving.
Ida Bergseng and Inanda Sheldrew
were callers here Sunday afternoon.
Chris. and Louis Larson of Bel
denville are threshing in this neigh
borhood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claus Hendrickson
gave a party to a number of their
friends last Sunday.
Martinus Hoseid and Alfred
Christensen left this week for South
Dakota where they intend to file on
homesteads.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07
WEST TRIMBELLE

L. Fosbender has purchased new
gang plow.
Frank Buck made business trip
to Prescott recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Simon visited at
L. Fosbender's Sunday.
E. LANCER of Lost Creek is visit
ing friends in this vicinity.
Mrs. T. Yanash Of Ellsworth. is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. P. Frank
John Frye of River Falls was
here last week looking up old &C
quaintances.
Mrs. Vince Mark and daughter
Anna, who had been visiting with
the formers brother, T. Beschta, OF
River Falls the past week, returned
home last Monday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07

The wholesome, harmless green
leaves and tender stems of lung
healing mountainous shrub, give to
DR.. Shops Cough Remedy its cur
alive properties. Tickling or dry
bronchial coughs quickly and safely
Weld to this highly effective Cough
medicine. DR.. Shoop assures mothers
that they can with safety give it to
even very young babes. No opium,
no chloroform-absolutely nothing
harsh or harmful. 1t Gains the dis
tressing cough, and heals the sensitive
membranes. Accept no other. De
mand DR.. Shops. Sold by K. 5.
Freeman & Son.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-07

CDR. Thomas Eclectric Oil is the
best remedy for that often fatal
disease-croup. Has been used with
success in our family for eight years"
Mrs. L. Whiteacre, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
Copyrig ht 1909 by Hart Schafner & Marx

Hardly need it be said that such instruc- tion must have no flavor of dogmatism nor t1nge of denominational narroWness.
 It seems an anomalous condition into which American society has drifted when We refuse to yield to the philosophical demands of the situation and acknowledge the religious basis upon which morality rests AS well might we expect to gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles' as that we should pluck the ripe fruit of moral conduct from the human plant which draws not its sustenance from the soil of religion.
 Formal worship in the schools once day will plant the seeds of worshipful rev erence for the character of the Deity and daily dependence upon His bounty in the fallow soil of childish hearts. Then who is there among us who would not with confidence look for a hundred-fold harvest of righteous conduct in the ripe years of mature manhood? Shall witnesses jurors and clients cease to swear that they will be truthful and just as God gives them to see truth and justice? Shall congressman. judges and presidents cease to promise an allegiance to such standards of equity and study are contained in the book which they reverently touch with their lips?
 Shall the Congress of our nation be de- nied the privilege of daily prayer for di- vine guidance and moral discernment? Shall the President of the United States turn from the ancient and hallowed cus- tom of calling the people of our country to an annual thanksgiving for the blessings of a great God? Shall the significant in- scription, Tn God we trust" be stricken from the "coin of the realm to gratify the whim of an accidental, self-trusting occu- pant of the Presidents chair? Shall the laws of our land undergo such revolu- tion of character that one day In seven shall no longer be set aside as a season of worship and rest?
 When all things shall come to pass. then, and not till then, let us feel that we may safely or justly deny to American childhood these incentives to moral growth.
 The content of the curriculum for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09


 to treatment as medical inspectors, sani- tariums and hospitals cannot, for the present, be classed among the possbili- sfes
 The certain success or the inevitable failure of the movement will be deter mined largely by the attitude of interest CT indifference manifested by the teach CTS of Alabamas childhood. The prob lem is not less Fundamental because it IS new, neither is the duty one that we should shirk because of the imposition of an added burden.
 Local Taxation.
 While we would not have any one to con clude from the frequent mention of the inadequacy of available school funds that the prime business of the educational system of our state is the expenditure of money. still our citizenship must be taught that indifference and penury have produced their inevitable resultant of an alarming percentage of illiteracy. Tho increasing needs of a growing educational sentiment appeal to the material resources of the state to unloose the pursestrings of devouring greed and thereby hasten the day of universal intelligence. Of the four possible sources from which to se- cure ample revenue, we have exhausted two so that we must now look to the other two for such increase as our prog ress will demand. Since the child who goes to school in Alabama is to be a citi- zen of the United States as well as of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09

teaching of fundamentaltmorality should involve at least the three great ideas of the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the moral order of the universe. It will be found easy to lay a secure foun- dalton for the first two of these great truths in the Genesis account of creation. In fact it may be safely assumed that most children will have more or less definite idea as to these important truths before they cross the threshold of the school. Has not our observation of child hood taught us the great psychological truth that almost the first inquiry to be propounded by the infant mind Is one which seeks the origin of self and of the persons and things of it's environment? The answer which conscientious mother hood gives to this query of her immortal offspring stamps upon the plastic life the foundation truth of all character that ''the hand that formed us Is divine"
 With the assumption of the existence of this truth, the teacher will find the way made ready for the assertion of the prin- ciple that there is an established moral order In the universary of this pre-exist- ent Creator, and that each creature. by the deeds of his body and the thoughts of his heart. is to determine his relation thereto Here, then, Is to begin the real work of the teacher in the formation of ethical standards and the direction of moral conduct
 To make a practical suggestion I should say that this work may be most properly done by such exercises as the daily reading, memory or quo tation of passages bearing directly upon the virtues which we seek to call into exercise. Since the body of laws proclaimed from Sanal seems ample for the regulation of moral stan dards In any age of the worlds his tory, 1t seems that to this we should turn as the basis for ethical teach Ing. As Moses under the spell of heavenly inspiration, carved these un- dying precepts upon tablets of stone so let the teacher. impelled by rever- ential responsibility, engrave the po- tent truths of the ten comma m dments
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09

upon the walls of childh ood's charac- ter. Supplement the authoritative pro- hibition of the decalogue with the sacred beauty of the Psalms the superb philosophy of the Proverbs, the divine profundity of the Sermon on the Mount, and the hallowed sweetness of the Lords prayer, and we shall have the consciousness of having laid the foundations for a strength of character adequate to withstand the tempests of greed and unrest that assail our American manhood.
 Compulsory Attendance.
 Compulsory education, as popularly understood, consists of statutory re- qurement by the legislative authority of the state that children within cer- tain fixed limits of age shall, unless prevented by specified causes, attend a session of some accessible school for given number of months within each year We have given ourselves with commendable diligence within the last decade to such items of improvement as increased appropriations, better school houses and more efficient teach CTS yet with all these, we have been ' forced to see that our schools have in large measure failed in the accomplish ment of their missions of universal in telligence for the reason that non-at- tendance has failed to bring many of those who are designed to be the chief beneficiaries under their influence. We seem to be face to face with a crisis In educational affairs in Alabama which demands thaN we make perma nent choice between parental indiffer- ence on the one hand and laws for compulsory attendance on the other.
 There Is an ultra conservatism among some of our citizens which refuses to leave the well worn paths of generations of glorious ancestry be- cause of a silly and suicidal dread of the wilderness of the untried. Over against such timidity 1t seems only nec- essary to place the record of our great
 
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