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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

member Of the National Civic Fedora
ton she investigates conditions under
which women labor, and she has do
mated much of the funds necessary to
establish clubs and restaurants for
working people, such as the new club
rooms and restaurant for street car
employees on Third avenue and the
restaurant for workers at the Brook
lyn navy yard, where food is sold at
cost and men are made comfortable
with baths and gymnasiums. Miss
Morgan's idea is to help the poor and
those working on small salaries to
help themselves, to create better con-
ditions, not merely to alleviate.
Two young New York women, Miss
Dorothy Whitney, who inherited a
large portion of the William G. Whit
ney fortune, and Miss Mary Harri-
man, daughter of the late railroad
king, are interested in the Junior
league work among New York's public
school children, and will donate the
money to start dental clinics for poor
children. Miss Hartman has recent
ly equipped an old Staten Island fer
ry boat and donated it to the Red
Cross committee Of Brooklyn to be
used in the fight on the White Plague.
1t will accommodate 100 patients and
three meals will be served daily on
the floating hospital.
Miss Whitney has also given liberal
ly to diet kitchens among the poor
and is interested in the equal suffrage
movement
Interested in Woman Suffrage.
Two New York matrons promise to
spend goodly segments of their for
tunes to advance the cause of votes
Tor women. These are Mrs. Clarence
Mackay, who has personally assumed
the expenses of headquarters for the
Equal Franchise society, of which she
is the founder, on the twenty-ninth
floor of the Metropolitan Life build
ing; and Mrs O. H. p Belmont, who,
as the leader of the Equal Suffrage
party, has assumed the responsibility
of headquarters at sos Fifth avenue.
Mrs. Mackay, before entering upon
her career as leader in the franchise
fight, gave large sums to support
Long Island charaties, to the building
of new church for Trinity Episcopal
parish at Roslyn, l.. l., and to it's new
parish house Large sums she gave
also for the betterment of the public
schools Of which she was a director
and to arouse patriotism in the minds
of public school children in New
York city and it's environs.
Mrs. 0. H. p Belmont donated
100000 to the Nassau hospital at
Mineola, l.. l., and has been inter
ested in diet kitchens among the poor
of New York.
Miss Giulia Morosini, who inherited
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23
HARD TO TELL TRUE STATUS
Stylish People Not Always Those Who
Have Fat Accounts at the
Banks.

You'd be surprised to know how
people impose on men of our cloth"
the Sky Pilot said. "How we get
taken in. You know l spend a good
deal OF my time begging, building up
churches by means of donations from
the generous rich. Well, last summer
some very stylish people came to my
congregation and were very nice to me,
very nice indeed They invited me
to their home, a beautiful summer
place up on the Hudson. | lunched
with them once, then they invited me
to dine. l thought they were lovely
people. Well, when we had arrived
at the coffee I looked them over and
thought to myself:
This is an suspicious time, it
seems to me, to put in modest petit
ton for that old church out there in
Kansas that's in such need of a few
Donations I was about to speak, in
fact | had cleared my throat, when
my hostess anticipated me.
what do you think she wanted?
Wanted me to try to get few hun
dred dollars for her from rich people
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

l knew. She said she was in good
deal of distress; that the place they
were in was rented one, and unless
they got the requisite rent they would
be dispossessed and homeless.
Il could hardly believe it. Surround
ed by such luxury and penniless! You
never can tell anything about these
rich people by appearances. Never.
had just about enough people on
my list to beg for, SO l made my ex-
cuses as best l could and got away.
That fall l happened to be telling
the story to party Of friends when a
stranger among them spoke up. If
you'll find those people for me- he
said, I'll give you a hundred or two
for your old Kansas church. 1t was
my house they rented and they
skipped without paying me a penny
But how could / find them when
the police couldn't ?"-New York
Press.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23
WESTERN CANADA

During the early days in the pc
riod of the growth of the grain crop in
Western Canada, as well as throughout
the ripening and garnering period,
there is yearly growing an increasing
interest throughout the United States,
as to the results when harvest is com
p)eted. These mean much to the thou
sands of Americans who have made
their homes in some of the three Prov
inces that form that vast agricultural
domain, and are of considerable interest
to the friends they have left behind.
The year 1909 is no disappointment
The crops of wheat, oats and barley
have been harvested and it is now
safe to speak of results. Careful es-
Inmates place the yield of spring wheat
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

of Infectious Diseases" with $4,000
shortly after the death of her son,
Jack, from scarlet fever. Her interest
In the Rockefeller Institute for Med.
ical Research has also been very
great. But her individual charities
are to her the most absorbing. The
Baptist church, of which she Is a
member, has been her chief bene-
ticiary and many tired church work
er and unappreciated pastor has re-
ceived from her check representing
long rest or trip abroad.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is greatly in
terested in the fight on the White
Plague and has given literally to san
itariums, particularly for children.
She also gives to orphanages and in
dustrial homes for girls and is inter-
ested in young art students and music
ians.
In Pittsburg the name of Margaret
Carnegie is not unknown, for in the
name Of his little daughter Mr.. Car
negie has endowed many social move
ments, including Kingsley Settlement
House, hospital beds, etc. The Margaret
harrison Carnegie School for Women,
part of the Carnegie institute scheme
of education, is named for his mother
and it is generally thought that Mar
garet Carnegie, aged IL years, will be
trained to carry out her father
scheme of benefactions.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

the bulk of the many millions accumu-
lated by her father, Giovanni p Mo-
rosini, the New York banker who died
ing the perpetual role of Lady Bounti-
full for the benefit of needy ones. and
particularly children in the Bronx.
And at Christmas time she is Lady
Santa Claus. distributing wagon loads
of dolls and dollar bills and other gifts
among the poor. Her donations to
charitable and other worthy institu-
tions are large.
A young woman who is making
Pittsburg sit up and take notice of
her methods of spending money is
Miss Helen Prick, daughter of multi.
millionaire father, who is himself a
most liberal giver. Miss Tricks name
is on the endowment list of Kingsley
Settlement House and nearly every
hourishing charity in Pittsburg, but
1t is in individual cases that her lib
crafty shines most clearly. Her
loyalty to her native city, from which
she will not be lured by New York
London or Paris, is a cause of rejoic.
ing among Pittsburg social workers.
Fights infectious Diseases.
The two American billionaires, John
D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie
still order the management of the
charities, but their women folk are by
no means idle. Mrs. Rockefeller has
always been home-loying woman
who left charities, their Investigation
and relief, to her husband, but Mrs
Harold F. Mccormick, formerly Edith
Rockefeller, has her own methods Of
conducting charity work With hel
husband she endowed q new .Journal
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

parts of the world the production OF
wheat is diminishing today; but as It
diminishes Canada's will increase;
therefore, it is safe to predict that in q
few years from now large part OF the
world will be looking to western Can
ada for it's wheat supply, and espe-
cially will the United States. In many
parts of western Canada it Is possible
to have a hundred-inile square of
wheat, without break A writer says:
I'VE were driven west and north of
Moose Jaw through 20 miles Of dead
ripe wheat. acres of stocks and we'll
worked summer-fallows. One Of these
fields would yield 40 bushels to the
acre, and another man had oats that
would yield 80 or 100 bushels to the
acre. In this district wheat will aver
age 30 to S5 bushels. The conditions
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23
ern Canada,

this is pioneering don't for the life
of me see what our forefathera had
to complain Of He didn't know
though, for the pioneering of his fore
fathers was discomfort and hardship.
The opening up and development of
western Canada, with its railroad lines
to carry one to almost the uttermost
part of it, the telegraph line to flash
the news to the outside world, the tel.
ephone to talk to ones neighbor, the
daily and weekly mail service which
brings and carries le ers to the
friends in distant parts: the schools
headed by coIIege-bred ana mighty GER
tificated teachers; the churches
manned by brilliant divines; the clubs;
the social and festive life; what is
there about any of this to give to the
man Who goes there to make his home
the credit of being q pioneer? Moth.
He - Us u
the old niiddie-IHeSt Sta III. IN Otiler7
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

rious districts found the farmers and.
other citizens without exception
filed with expectant enthusiasm over
this years prospects No district was
found which could not boast Of fields
OF IS bushels per acre wheat, or So to
SO bushels per acre oats, and OF 40
bushels per acre of barley.
1t is not an unusual thing IN many
parts OF western Canada for a farmer
TO have 10. 900 to 10000 bushels Of
wheat. In the Rouleau district II 3is:
said that there are several farmers:
who will have 1000 bushels of oats
any many fields viii return one hun-
dred bushels to the acre.
II takes an army Of men to handle
the Western Canada crop. and ii sis 81.
stimated that 30, 900 people have ,eel
brought In this year to asssstatn 10;
great Undertaking there being excurs
s.!ss::s !s..,::.s
every fof the past II
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23
An ominous Question.

At luncheon the italian prima
donna. Nine. Cavaiieri, described a
French actress yiYidly.
'She is charming, but she is tickle, :,
said Nine. Cayalieri. con her wed
ding day--she is now divorced-he her in
fatuated young husband bent over her
and murmured fierceIy:
The first time you deceive me I'll
kill you!
She laughed softly, looking up into
his somber eyes.
- And the second time what viii
you dog she said. - New York Trsb-
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23


were never better and throughout the
district the people are. assured of q
most prosperous year
1t would be unfair to close this ar
ticle without quoting from an expert
crop-corresponden regarding the two
Battlefords in Central Saskatchewan,
on the line of the Canadian Northern
Railway. Writing on August 18th of
this year. he says:
1T is necessary to drive about six or
seven miles out of the town Of North
Battleford in order to see the best.
crops of the district. This morning I
was driven about 20 miles to the
north and west of the town and in all
the drive did not see poor crop. I
saw one wheat crop which the owner
estimates will yield 40 bushels per
acre, and I believe it."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

He then crossed the Sass
katchewan river to the South
town, or Battleford proper,
and continues his report:
Conditions around the old
town are as good If not bet
ter than those To tho north
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

~ central SdHdQd + arNlcF FlnlSnln0
at 80 bushels per acre, winter wheat at
ever 10 bushels, and oats exceed so
bushels per acre. Barley also has
proved an abundant yield. What will
attract the reading public more than
volumes of figures will be the fact that
those who have been induced through
the influence of the Government to ac-
cept of 100 acres of free grant land
or, by the persuasion of friends to
leave their home State of Dakota, Min
nesota, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, In
diana, Ohio, Nebraska or the other
States from which people have gone,
have done well. Financially, they are
in better position than many of them
ever expected to be, and in the mat
ter Of health, in social conditions, they
have lost nothing.
One person who has just returned
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

from a trip through
the Lethbridge Dis
trict, where winter
wheat has a strong
hold with farmers,
says:
I'VE saw some mag
nificent sights. The
crops were, in fact, all
that could be desired"
In a few years from
now these great plains
over whose breadth for
years we'd
hundreds of Town
thousands of School
herds of cat House
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

"A VIEW YORK.-How is the Amer
s: !: !: :: :: ::
IVA lean woman spending the for
Va tune which the American man
VA is amassing?
How does the American wife
dau0htn,, oil
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23

Miss Morgan In Good Work.
Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of j.
Pierpont Morgan, is typical social
worker of to-day, deyoting her gifts
and energies to the educational move
ment for the working classes. AS q
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
INTERNATIONAL TYPoGRARHi
CAL UNION LEADER sPQ
kANE'S GUEST.

President James M. Lynch of the
International Typographical Union
of North America will arrive in
Spokane tomorrow. A telegram was
received from him this morning by
members of the local typographical
union, in charge Of arrangements
for his entertait ment, giving this
information.
Mr.. Lynch expects to remain In
Spokane but one day, hence the
long program of entertainment fol
him is to be crowded into a single
day. He will be entertained by
local officers until 4 O'Clock tomor
row afternoon, when an informal
smoker will be given in his honor
at the typographical union hall, 8
Madison street. At 5 o'clock a spe
cial meeting will be called and al
$40 o'clock President Lynch will
speak. This 10 minutes will give
those in the job shops a chance tC
reach the hall for the address.
About 100 members and guests OF
the union will go to the Hall of the
Doges, in the Davenport restaurant,
at 5:45 o'clock to attend banquet
given in honor of the international
president. Representatives of the
building crafts, fire. some of the jot
print shops and the newspapers
will be among the guests.
Mr.. Lynch has taken in some Of
| the Canadian cities on his western
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
MASS MEETING
WILL DISCUSS THE
COMMISSION IDEA

A mass meeting for the consider
alton of a commission form of gov
eminent will be held tonight in the
First Presbyterian church, corner
Second and jefferson. at s o'clock.
A fellowship lunch will be given by
the men of the congregation at 6
o'clock, after which an adjournment
will be taken to the church audi.
forum. Warren w. Tolman and
others Of. the commission that is re-
vising the city charter have been
asked to speak.
At noon tomorrow the members
of the charter revision committee
will tender luncheon to John z
White of Chicago at Davenport's
Friday evening Mr., White will ad
dress the charter makers at the
council chamber on THE Commits
sion Form of Government"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
AN OWL
CONGRESS

An Owl congress. to be attend
ed by various varieties of the
"aproned" species of the wide eyed
hooters" will be In session in the
lower Pacific halls on the evening
of December 2S. There will be a
pair of each species. though 1t is
not promised that each pair shall
be mates, but 1t is going to be one
OF the "hootenist" times that ever
rivaled the dreams of rarebit
fiend.
The police will be called on to
double their forces to administer
soothing syrup and heart balm to
Ill mated pairs-maybe--and dwell
ers of the neighboring blocks are
aluready planning excuses for alb
sence from home till 1t is night
time in Owldom. That is about
3 a. p. X.
In short, the evening of Deem
Der rs is designated as the time
for the annual apron party of the
Brotherhood of Owls. Feminine
members of Owl households are ex-
pected to make two aprons OF a
kind before that time. They are to
wear one of them conspicuously
displayed, to the dance and to wrap
up the other and throw 1t into the
big basket at the door.
II. A. Owens, q representative
member of the feathery tribe, Is
authority for the claim that men,
especially of the owlish sort, are
inquisitive anyhow and il won't be
long after reaching the hall that
the fair young maker of the "two
aprons alike" will see some hooting
knight proudly strutting up and
down the floor behind the Tapping
folds of pinafore No. 2, looking for
her. Then 1t is time to swap with
the lady in the next chair II you
don't like the looks of what your
apron Is bringing to you.
At a meeting of the Brother.
hood OF Owls last night, and after
q class of about 80 new candidates
had been successfully tortured. the
initiation fee was raised from SIS to
$25. II. A. Owens says the victims
were getting to much fun for their
money.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
WHERE ARE BEST FARMERS
!. ! WIVES, IN EAST OR" WEST?

OAKLAND, Cal, Dec. 16-Which
side Of the continent produces the
ideal farmers wife?
Hey! Now look out! That Is a
mighty ticklish question.
You bet it Is. But Farmer Jas.
Furbush of Witipquin, Maryland.
answers it. He speaks right out
in Ineetin'," too.
Farmer Furbush, aged SO, does
not think much of eastern women
as presiding geniuses of the kitch-
en- and the dairy. So when he be-
gan 60 look about for heip-mate
to take the place of his deceased
first wife, he turned toward Cali.
fprnta.
He sowed three-line want ads
thick among the California dailies
nearly a year ago, and now he Is
going to do his reaping in Oak
land. He regards Mrs. Margaret
Ferguson, Of 1862 Eighth avenue,
Oakland, widow Of 80 with four
children, as an ideal farmers wife.
After Farmer Furbush has gath
cred the last of the crops from his
1913 acre farm on Chesapeake Bay,
he is coming to Oakland to make
the Widow Ferguson his wife.
THE women of the east are not
my style he says. They don't
think enough about the kitchen and
other household affairs, and al
though I do not expect wife of
mine to do much work, want her
to know how to do It,"
Mrs. Ferguson says she wants to
get back on a farm, for she was
reared in the country. Her father
is a farmer in Mendocino county,
Cal. Her oldest son is 10, and
wants to be a farmer. y
After she had read Furbush's
advertisement for farmers wife
and answered 1t, sending along her
photograph, Furbush and his three
children compared her picture and
letter with the many others
brought by the postman. Father
and children thought Mrs. Fergu
son looked more like the ideal
farmers wife than the rest, and
they liked her admiration for the
farm because 1t had been her old
environment. A few more letter;
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
BURNED $50 BILLS; OPENED WINE WITH
ALL; NOW WRATHY WIFE AWAITS HIM
(By United Press)

CHICAGO Dec ia wife with fire questions
the Car Equipment Co of West Pullman She
illumination Detroit
zling the wires with What she
Why he ordered champagne for everybody
Why didn't a a he
pinned a 0 q coat tail
Why a o
adj by he o lis theirs
Why he donated $40 bills a change
the Rev. Edward Collins,
Why bills pockets In tho
Why a $50?
Why calmly to
Henry The Indignant
osterman he had
been guilty similar in Washington
about this
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
HER SAVINGS
ALL 60 Up
Fires Ruthless Hand De-
stroys Savings of Aged
Feather Cleaner.
F I r E M A N S " E 8 SO

Fire starting from a defective
flue In little old house at S22o
Stevens street this morning de.
stroyed furniture and implements,
the value of which represented the
savings from months Of hard and
tedious toll of Mrs. WinsIow, a fee.
BILE old widow who has earned her
living by cleaning ostrich feathers.
The house belonged to Mrs. New
port and the damage in all amounts
to about $500, yet represents a lit
tie fortune lost to the aged feather
cleaner. She carried no insurance.
II had Just paid out $3.50 for i'm
plements and stock to carry on my
business and l guess the whole lot
of it is destroyed" Mrs. Winslow
tearfuIiy told reporter. "The fire
started behind the stove and l put
1t out by throwing water on 1t
once, but it broke out further up
the wall and / couldn't reach 1t.
Everything seemed to be Attire In
an instant and had to hurry out,
leaving everything, even a few dol
lars l had laid away"
Just at this time fireman, with
clothes dripping with water, emery.
ed from the dilapidated old house
with three blackened silver dollars
in his hand and gave them to the
distressed old woman.
"Oh, thank you," she said. This
is a part Of what had saved.
don't suppose ! can find the rest
of it. 1t wasn't much, but 1t is SO
hard to save. l suppose l can
brighten this up and it will be all
right. | have lots Of ostrich feath.
ers there in tub to be cleaned
and they will be saved. am
thankful for that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16
CREMAI0RY
To RAISE
"QDOR"
MAYOR PRATT, ON RETURN,
MAY HEAR OF LIVELY RUM
PUS FROM. THIS DE-
PARTMENT.

One of the first things to be laid
before Mayor Pratt after his return
from his holiday vacation in the
east will be large sized insurrec-
ton in the crcmatory department.
This may not be very pleasant
task for the mayor to undertake
after two weeks Of comparative
ease and quiet, but 1t is coming,
just the same. .... ....
Crematory superintendent ID. G.
Harmon today said that he will lay
the matter before the mayor him
self, to know just where he stands,
X he Ia going to continue at the
head of the crematory department
hs.AproDoses to show the men en-
proved In the scavenger and garb-
age work of the city Just who is
boss.
And when Mr.. Harmon said this
CLEAN shot from his eye that be-
tokened no love for some of those
In his employ that have been tell.
Ing tales out Of school.
1t does not take much to raise an
"odor.. in the crematory depart
ment. The business Is naturally
Inclined to be odoriferous. but with
a little stirring up can be made to
attract public attention at most any
time. This has been the case more
or less since the city OF Spokane
went into the crematory business
When Superintendent Harmon
proceeds to ventilate crematory az
fairs before the mayor. he will find
that he has stirred up real hor
nets nest. All tho situation has
needed for some weeks 10 for some
one to set the gall In motion, and
Mr. Harmon says he will do this
himself.
When the smoke of battle clears
away there may be several execu
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-16

SWITCHMEN'S STRIKE

The cost of the switchmen'
strike for higher wages rivals
that of the fight between the
l. w. w. and the city authori-
ties, though it has existed less
than hal fas long as the revolu-
tionist's struggle has gone on.
Sums compiled from figures
furnished by those implicated
in the fight would indicate that
the switchmen's troubles have
already cost nearly $4,000, and
some believe that should the
entire expense be known of the
fight from November 80 to De-
cember 16 1t would amount to
nearly $4,000.
The most of this represents
the wages of the men out of
work and those who have been
out of work as a result of the
grievances of the switchmen.
At the present time, it is fig
ured that the strike is costing
the switchmen of Spokane
alone about $175 daily. In adj
dition to this, actual extra ex-
pense of the merchants must
be considered.