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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29
Mysterious s25o,ooo Gift.

Who is the mysterious donor of $780,
600 for a clubhouse for the Newport
branch of the Army and Navy Young
Mems Christian association? The name
of the person has been kept secret, but
it was announced today that a site on
Washington square has been bought for
more than 100000 and the deeds win be
recorded in short time. The first
rumors credited Miss Helen Gould with
the gift, and later Mrs. Gibbs, widow
of Mai. Theodore X. Gibbs of New
York. was mentioned as the probable
donor
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

From some of the Eastern states there
have now and then come stories Of farm
ers in a condition of desperation on ac-
count of injuries inflicted upon their
growing crops by deer which they are
rigidly prevented from hunting. 4
Michigan farmer who has suffered in a
similar way refuses to fume or fret and
at the same time submit. He has chosen
the novel course of bringing suit against
the state to recover damages There
always have been people in every state
where game laws prevail who have ques-
toned the right of the state TO prohibit
the shooting of deer, squirrels, rabbits or
other wild creatures by farmers on their
own premises. The argument that by
enacting laws for the protection of game
animals the state assumes responsibility
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29
Willing to Help.

"But, darling" murmured the loveorn
youth, ''every night for two weeks l
have been on my Bonded knees before
you. Have you no pityY
Il certainly have, Horace" spoke up
the pretty flirt, as she reached for the
handbag; there's a whole quarter. Go
have your trousers pressed. After SO
much bending they must be baggy at the
knees WASH.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

The new overland wireless telegraph
record of clear communication between
Duluth and New York city, a distance
of 1891 miles, is announced closely upon
the heels of the new ocean wireless rec
ord reported by the army transport Blu
ford, which exchanged messages with
stations on the Pacific coast when four
days westward from Honolulu, or $500
miles from the American continent The
difference between the two records re-
veals the strength of the disturbing in
fuences on land, which are more evident
in the day than at night, when wireless
telegraphing is easier and clear.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

The farmers of Minnesota and North
Dakota who are reported to be storing
their grain in granaries owned individ-
ually or by small groups of neighbors,
are wandering from the domain of agri-
culture into the field of speculation,
and are as liable to experience loss as
they are to achieve gain. AS a rule, the
agriculturst who makes the most of the
market as he finds it when his products
are ready to go to the consumer secures
a better average price than the farm
err who holds off and speculates on his
judgment as to what the markets will be
in the future. Instances where profit is
the reward of storage enterprise on a
small scale are always bruited far and
wide, as matters of interesting news, but
the losses suffered by misjudgment in
that regard are submerged and kept out
Of sight by those whore lot it is to grin
and bear" misfortune.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

Kaukauna'5 announcement of the in
stalation in one of her paper mills of
a German machine which utilizes every
ounce of material carries reinsurance to
those who have been viewing with alarm
the rapid foray of the paper mills upon
growing brush in the United States and
Canada. The uses to which paper is
put are now so numerous, and the con-
sumption is so tremendous, that any
achievements in the direction of con-
servation are welcomed by the paper
trade and by paper consumers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

The shock of his commitment to the
Tombs gave Banker Morse sleepless
night, and he was unable to get rest
until physician had been called to
administer sleeping potion. When he
was first sent to Jail it was said that
he owed eight million dollars. Now, his
friends allege. he has paid off all of this
immense sum with the exception of half
a million. To effect this he has turned
in property which he might have kept
for himself The man who win take
care of his obligations in that way, how
ever reckless his inanciering may have
been, has makeup not devoid of ster.
ling metal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

After spending many thousands of dol
lars in the construction of woven wire
fire-control masts for twenty-five battle
ships, the Navy Department has reached
the conclusion that such masts are value
less, and that armored control stations
of lesser height must be provided. This
is the manner in which naval progress is
made-through experience at heavy cost.
Great Britain has been doing most of
the experimenting and spending. What
she has learned for the benefit of other
nations is worth the cost of a fleet.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29
Hogs XIII a DrOver.

At Chilliwick, Wash, James r. Hos
ker. in company with Charles Garter, 2
farmer. was driving hogs when one OF
them attacked Hosken and he lost his
footing. Other animals Immediately
jumped on him and gored him with their
tusks. Hosken died from shocks and
loss of blood.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29
Latin Quarter students as Builders.

Visitors to the Latin Quarter of Paris
recently were treated TO an unusual spec
tacle. owing to a strike of carpenters
employed on building to be occupied
by art students. Nothing daunted, the
young bohemians belted up their paint
ing blouses and with their velveteen cans
over one ear set to work on the building.
students at work. The future artists
found the labor very fatiguing and
worked in shifts two or three hours at
a time.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

One of the results of yesterdays hur-
ricane in Cuba is likely to be the re-
moval of the wreck of the Maine from
the harbor of Havana. While the blow
was at it's height a Spanish brig was
swept from its moorings and carried to
the point at which the Maine lies part
iy out of water, just about as it was
left by the explosion. The brig stuck
so fast to the wreck that two tugs were
required to pull it off. Heretofore it
has been assumed that the wreck of the
Maine. while unsightly was not a prac-
teal detriment to the harhor. This opin-
ion will not be advanced hereafter.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

The initial steps have been taken by
the governments of Great Britain and
the United States for the submission
of the Newfoundland fishery dispute to
The Hague court for arbitration. The
case of the United States has been sub
mitted to the British embassy in Wash
ington, and the case of Great Britain
has been laid before the embassy of the
United States in London. Four months
hence, the counter cases Of each gov
eminent will be exchanged, and two
months thereafter the entire matter will
be laid before the court at The Hague.
The deliberate manner in which cases
of this kind must be conducted is con-
dueive to cool-headness during the ses-
sion of the court, and dgnified accept
ance of the result by the losing govern
ment. There will be few wars in the
future if governments seek this formal
method of adjusting their differences.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

The former Milwaukeean who has un-
dertaken the raising of minks in the vi
cinity of Marshfeld will have to be care
full in the housing of the ''varmints, or he
will be ''raising CAIN for his neighbours
chiaEauS
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

The swift gasoline launch is being
utilized by Chinese smrgglers of opium,
and the revenue cutters in the waters of
the Far East will have to be flyers, if the
Illicit trade is to be stopped. The Chi
nese are up-to-date in their methods
when they aim to accomplish things
GOOD ar OWL
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

Although not the largest or longest
river the Amazon is the most wonderful
river in the world, with a mouth 100
miles in width and with force Of va
ter that repels, or at least oyerlays, the
ocean to a distance Of Erore than nifty
leagues
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

for damage they occasion is one that will
appeal TO the sense of fair-play of every
farmer. if not every citizen.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

Instructions in baby mindinS, are
given to the students of the London gar.
den schools. Babies are borrowed for the
purpose.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

Advertising Pays. Try It.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29

Il
conviction that men and women spoke
| different tongues, and were more anti
| podal strangers than any two men.
however disparate by birth or circum-
stance, could ever be. But he said to
himself tonight that Lucy had died I'M
der like naggng tongue-Lucy had
died for the lack of love. Alma was like
| Lucy--to lose her for the second time
The moon was almost at its height.
| The tremulous and tender glamour it
had earlier cast was swallowed up in
solemn radiance. The mist filled the
valley now, a blank and desert sea.
| isleted here and there by dark tree
tops. The world was carved in black
and white, enchanted. motionless. waiting
for the event. Expectation laid hold
upon the old man, sitting silent at the
heart of the silence. He did not know
what was preparing in nature, but knew
his own part,
In a aalf-hour, Alma's lover would
steal in the shadow of the matrimony-
vine, already frightening as the moon
climbed higher, around the corner of the
| low eaved house, beneath the window in
the peak In another half hour she
would be gone, forever No, he forgot
that night the door of the never closed
she'd where the ladder lay was locked,
and the key was in his pocket There
would not be time to fetch another; she
was no heroine of romance TO tear her
bedclothing into strips; the intruder
would 90 away alone. and the next
morning he--her father-would have his
GIRL again. Her mother would never
Know: the secret would be his, the key
Nv which to read her heart, and she
would wonder as the days went by how
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

paign. The whole ticket carried by a
good majority and four of the most
able n progressive men in the city
wer made commissioners.
Now Everyone Boosts.
MANY of the Oldest citizens shook
their heads and said sagely, You can
never eliminate graft and politics
from a city's government But II did
MT take those commissioners long to
show the knockers that the graft and
politics could be eliminated. The first
thing the street commissioner did was
to have the disgraceful asphalt re-
moved and to lave %sunproof, water
proof bitulithic paving put in its place.
Today that paving looks like new.
The City lark was enlarged and beau
titled, so that now every visitor to
Dallas is taken and shown Ghe city's
pride, the new park system. An elab-
crate boulevard system was also laid
out and is now completed. But the
most important result of the commits
sion government Is the fact that ev-
cry citizen in Dallas is aiding in the
work Under the old regime there was
always someone knocking 1he city Of
1cials, but there Is none of thai now.
Everyone knows and respects the
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

& Bell and recommended a like propo-
sition as offered the Hospital. Re
port adopted, and Committee instruct
ed to INFORM Messrs. -Gibbany & Bell,
and if proposition accepted to enter
into contract on behalf of the City.
Report Of Supt. of Waterworks read
and ordered fled.
Finance and Sanitary committees
reported on bill of Mrs. l.. r. Hartley
and recommended that the bill of $50
for house rem while under quarantine
be allowed n paid. Report unani-
mously adopted
Police Judges report for May read
and ordered filed.
Ordinance No. 1874, introduced by
MI. Wiseley. Read first and second
time under suspension. unanimously,
and ordered published
Report of City Treasurer read and
ordered filed.
Executive Session.
The Mayors appointment of o. A.
Haymaker as Alderman from First
Ward to fill the unexpired term Of J.
w. Thomas, resigned, read by Presi-
lent of Council and upon ballot receiv
ed a majority, and h Mayors appoint
| ment was declared confirmed.
Council went into recess subject to
call.
w. T. PAYLOR,
City Clerk.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

city officials were forced to give in TO
the general demand and pave the
streets. But they chose a poor grade
IF asphalt at a high price, with the re-
suit that in a year there wasn't a
street in town thai anyone could drive
a motor a over without breaking an
arm or a leg. The hot sun of the
South melted the poor grade of as
phalt and made great holes in every
business street. The city park was a
joke. 1t was simply a bit of woods
with a narrow road cut through it,
and no care was taken of it by the
men paid for that purpose.
Finally the citizens could stand the
rotten state of affairs no longer. Two
years ago twenty business men of Dali
las put an independent ticket in the
field and made the commission form
of government the issue of the cam
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11
OFFICIAL COPY OF CITY
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
CONDENSED Report.o



Tuesday evening, June 1, 1909.
Council met in regular session.
Mayor presiding. ALI members pres
emit.
Minutes Of previous meeting read
and approved.
Petition from owners OF Victoria
Heights asking permission to change
plat of said Heights granted unani-
mously.
Semi-Annua1 report of Electrical IN.
spector read and ordered. filed,
Finance Committees report read
and ordered filed.
Water, Sewer and lights committee
reported on petition Of st. Mary's Hos
pdtal for sewer extensions, and rec
commended petition be granted, provid
ed the hospital use sufficient water to
meet interest on total IS Of extern
sion, and actual cost Of such extern
sion. Report unanimously adopted
and the City Attorney instructed TO
prepare contract to this effect.
The same committee reported ON
similar application of Messrs. Gibbany
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

and work against them both at every
opportunity; but on things that are
not in themselves harmful, 1 do not be-
who believe in the commonsense plan
of the right thing"
Thus Will Robinson In h Register
tribune. Now let us see what his rec.
ord on this really was.
On December 20, 1907, he voted in
favor of reducing the saloon license
from two thousand to one Thousand
dollars.
On May 6, 1908 he voted against the
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

the general welfare of Dallas in the
two years that the commission form
of government has been in existence
there than was accomplished in any
other ten yearsAin the city's history"
said Orville Thorp, general manager
of the Kansas City Life Insurance
Company for the state of Texas, who
was at h Savoy Hotel recently. Mr..
Thorp has lived in Dallas for seven
years n has followed the local poll
tics with a keen interest.
Parks and Pavements a Joke.
"Seven years ago." he continued,
"the agitation for paving the streets
of the town became so great that the
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11
commissioners, and Is ready to help
them in every nossihla MaN.

commissioners, and Is ready to help
them In every possible way. 49,.
Accompanies More With Less Gost.
1.-The election a shortgtime ago was
a farce. After a great deal OF peFsu9eE
sion a man was induced to run =
gainst S. J. Hay, the. fornaer mayprs,
commissioner who was a candidate
for reelection. He was showed under
by an overwhelming vote, and each
commissioner was reelected by a tire
mendous majority. They had proved
in the two years that they had serv-
ed the city that the commission form
of government accomplished more with
less expense than any other form of
city government which has yet been
devised"
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

THE RECORD SAYS OTHERWISE
81 don't believe in open saloons any
day Of the week, or any form Of gamb
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

/ passage of h city anti-gambling or.
dinance.
Later in the ear when the bawdy
house ordinance was introduced in
the city council, ne moved to refer it
to the fire committee, a majority OF
whose members afterwards voted
against the passage of the ordinance.
Failing to bring this about he vot-
ed against this ordinance at every op-
portunity and tried in every way to
defeat it, finally voting against its
! passage on final vote.
These are the facts as written in
the official record OF the city.
ALL LADIES HATS AT GREATLY
REDUCED PRIcES.-JOYcE-PRUIT
| COMPANY.
Legal blanks, all hnds.-Record.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

Legal blanks, all kinds.-Recora.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-17
BLACK CAT CAUSE OF IT.
PoHWoW Doctor at Last Discovers
Secret of tuberculosis.

Bethlehem, PA prominent mar
ried woman, her masculine neighbor
and a coal-black cat figure in a genu-
inc old-fashioned powwow story that
has just come to light here.
Fer more than a year the woman,
living on East North street, has been
iii with tuberculosis, and, as her con.
1.t1On became worse, she followed the
advice of friends and called upon a
well-known powwow doctor of South
Bethlehem
Two questions were put to the pa
lent before the powwow doctor told
her the certain cause of her sickness:
Did you hand something to black
3at?" and Did man recently hand
something to your"
The woman answered both ques-
lens in the affirmative. She was then
old that the man was responsible for
Ter Ills. To prove this she was in.
structed to throw something at the
black cat the next time she saw it,
and the man in question would be-
come lame.
When the cat appeared at the
kitchen door meowing' for milk the
next morning it was a target for a tin
.adle. Now the remarkable fact de-
5elops, according to the abundant
-est!mCny Of neighbors, that on the
;uccec ding day the masculine neigh
DOR of the woman, the man whom the
IowWow doctor accused, was noticed
! be walking lame. He told the in
Quirers he had rheumatism
The powwow doctors prescription
IS inst the woman will recover if she
is careful not to take anything handed
to her by her masculine neighbor, and
50 she has moved away and is getting
we'll, they say.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-17
Talking Postal Card Coming.

The talking postal card is the inven-
ton of a French engineer and has be
come so popular in that country that
the American rights have been Sc
cured, and the device viii be placed
in the cities of the United States. The
person wishing to send talking post
al card to a friend enters the booth
and talks into a machine that records
the words on the specially prepared
postal card. When the recipient re-
ceives the card a hundred or thou
sand miles away he or perhaps she
takes the card to the nearest postal
booth and inserts it in a machine
which talks the message it contains.
The record on the postal card is indie
structtble. and the exact voice OF the
sender is heard.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-17
The Origin of Moving Pictures.

The beginning of moving pictures
was III this wisev says the Chicago
Tribune: Sir John Herschel after
dinner in 1926 asked his friend
Charles Babbage how he would
show both sides of a shilling at
once. Babbage replied by taking a
shilling from his pocket and holding
it to mirror.
This did not satisfy Sir John, who
set the shilling spinning upon the
dinner table, at the same time
pointing out that if the eye Is placed
ON level with the rotating coin
both sides can be seen at once
B Abbage was SO struck by the eX
pertinent that the next Gay he de-
eCribed it to friend, DR.. F1ttOn, who
Immediately made working model.
On one side of a disk was drawn a
bird, on the other side an empty
birdcage, when the card was re-
vOlved on silk thread the bird APP
peared TO be in the cage. This
model showed the persistence of
vision upon which all moving
pictures depend for their effect
The eye retains the image Of the
object seen for a fraction of a sec
ond after the object has been re-
moved. This model was called the
thaumOtrope.
Next came the zoetrope, or wheel
of life. A cylinder was perforated
with a series of slots and within
the cylinder was placed band of
drawings of dancing men. On the
apparatus being slowly rotated the
figures seen through the slots ap-
peared to be in motion. The first
systematic photographs taken at g.
gular intervals of men and animals
were made by Muy bridge in 1877.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-17
Three Names in Three Hours

Savannah, Ga-At one minute to
IL o'clock Mrs. Roxie Spalding, ten
minutes later Miss Roxie Phillips and
at five minutes past two Mrs. Roxie
Martin was the record of a Savannah
woman who as the clock was striking
the noon hour was granted a divorce
from S. F. Spalding and allowed to
resume her maiden name.
When the decree was announced she
left the courthouse with John B. Mar
tin, whose housekeeper she had been
and together they called on the city
clerk for a marriage license. They
then went to the Office of Justice Van
-gesseh and h5td the justice been in
they would have made even a faster
record getting married than they did.
They had to wait on him and lost two
hours. BY two o'clock Miss Phillips
was married again and had become
Mrs. Martin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-17

G. R. Kruger, the Jeweler, 1860
Virginia Ave, Indianapolis, Ind,
writes: IT was so weak from
kidney trouble that l could hardly
walk hundred feet. Four bottles
of Foley's Kidney Remedy cleared
my complexion, cured my backache
and the Irregularities disappeared,
and I can now attend to business
every day, and recommend Foley's
Kidney Remedy to all sufferers, as
it cured me after the doctors and
other remedies had failed"
j. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-17
BOOST SCHOOL FUND.
Proposed Changes in the Inheritance
and Primary Laws.

Assemb?yman Merlin Hull Of
Black River Falls has introduced a
bill in the Wisconsin legislature to
provide that the moneys collected
from inheritance in the state, as the
result OF the operation Of the inherl-
lance law, be turned into the COM
mon school fund. The school fund
amounts to about 81, 700, 600 annual
ly and the amount collected by the
state from inheritance amounts to
an average of $25O,0G0 annually.
Re would turn this last sum into
the common school fund annually
to be distributed for the benefit to
the common schools of the state.
Assemblyman Hull presented an
other bill providing that the
primary election be held on the
fourth Tuesday in September, in
stead of the first Tuesday, as aC the
Npresent time. It has been found
that Labor day coming on the first
Monday in September interferes
with getting out full vote at the
primary. It would also allow a
longer time for campaigning be-
fore the primary. 1t shortens the
time between the primary and the
general election.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-02-17
LONGEST Tunnel For Russia.

Russia is on the eve of undertaking
Che construction of the longest and
most difficult tunnel cutting in the
world. 1t will be twenty-One versts
or more than fourteen miles long, ex-
ceeding in length by two miles the
Simplon tunnel, at present the longest
in history. The Russian tunnel is to
be cut between Vladikavkaz and Tiflis.
in the mountains of northern eau
casus. 1t is estimated that the tunnel
Will cost 100000, 600 and that the work
viii take ten years.