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The Boyce Construction
 Company

Are in the field for business and have the most complete moving out fit in the city and do general build ing business. Also general repairing business. Fix all clas9 of roofs, shin gle, tin and composition. Make high class screens. When you are ready to build, move or repair you do your self an injustice to proceed without getting our estimate. Call old phone n or S97. D. W. fsOYCE. Mgr. :
 THE BOYCE CONSTRUCTION co.
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ns Ceieetion.

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is System

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SHEET MIIETC Classical and Popular- OAILLI HOoIOs Music a Instruments Rock Ark
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R0II ERC Engines. Sawmills WEIR DoADA1NOs FRITZ MFG. CO, Little Rock, Art
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GOING TO HOT SPRINGS? By By, al, al

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RRICK Rock Cement. Lime and Plaster, DAeANns ARKANSAS BRICK & MFG. co. Little Rock, Ak.
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25
Dinner in the Horse Car.

Lined up side by side. like tents in
soldiers encampment, the cars now
form a camp which is maintained by
the Ethical Culture society of New
York as a summer retreat for it's
working girl members. From May
to October these girls are privileged
to enjoy all the advantages Of the
camp for $3.50 a week.
The matron in charge attends to
the cooking and superintends the
daily life of the girls. A few girls
working their way through school and
desiring work for the summer are
chosen to help the matron attend to
the cleaning. The most substantial
cars stand in row by themselves
and form the sleeping apartments.
Two cots to a room is the average,
but if a third is desired it is added,
although this makes the place pretty
crowded.
The cars are Invested of wheels
and rest on firm foundation. Both
doors can be kept open if necessary,
as we'll as the windows, thus really
affordfng as much fresh air as
though the girls slept out of doors.
At distance another group of cars
comprise the kitchen, dining room,
pantry and storehouse. The kitchen
is as neat and convenient as those on
dining cars. A street car is very con-
veniently transformed into a dining
room by leaving the seats intact and
running long table up through the
middle. Close at hand under the
trees stands the ice chest and nearby
a cement sink with drain leading to
the stream below the camp. Behind
the cars are croquet ground and
tennis court.
Throughout the clump of woods
that adjoins the camp hammocks are
swung, where the tired, fOotsOre
shopg4Tl may rest in quietness. Not
the least of the charms of this unique
camp is the creek that flows by its
very doors. The clear, sparkling
water is itself an invitation for
plunge and the girls are not slow to
avail themselves of the privilege. The
water is not deep, only here and
there Of sufficient depth for swim,
but wading is a delight that never
grows old.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25

Mr.. Pethcod ScroggS of our vii
lage, has almost more trouble than
any other man in Betzville, his twins
are so identically alike. 1t makes it
all the worse that both twins are
identically the same age, for it would
be easier to tell them apart if one
was a few years older than the other.
Pethcod says he does not often COM
plain about the ways of nature, but
that if he had had the inventing of
twins, he would have left an inter-
val of, say, four or eight years be-
tween them, or, if they had to be of
the same age, he would have sort of
distributed them into two different
families. He says he considers two
twins at once in the same family as
almost personal insult.
Last Wednesday one Of Pethcod's
four-year-old twins wandered away
from the house and got lost in the
big woods back of Uncle Jed Free
mans farm, and it worried Pethcod
and Mrs. Scroggs nearly crazy. It
was about five o'clock when he had
feeling that maybe one of the twins
was lost, but he didn't know wheth-
er 1t was John or Joe. He went out
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25

this city, is a Chicago product. She
was born in Buffalo, N. Y, January
Is, 1916. But she was graduated from
the Chicago high schools, the Chicago
Normal school and obtained the de-
gree of Phi. D. from the University of
Chicago.
In 1868 she married William Young
She began teaching in 1867. From
1887 to 1889 she was a district super
intendent of schools. For several
years she was professor of education
at the University of Chicago. She has
been one of the popular educators
in the public schools of Chicago. The
women principals of the city have for
several years had club named after
her. The activity of this club in push
ing her candidacy was largely re-
sponsible for her success at the re
cent election.
Mrs. Young is the author of several
books on pedagogical subjects. Among
them are Isolation in the School,"
ethics in the School, "Some Types
of Modern Educational Theory" and
a monograph on Evolution and Edu-
cational Method" She is also the
author Of Literature in the Elemen-
tary School" and several other books.
In addition to her work in the school
Mrs. Young is an active member of
the National Educational association.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25
TWO MEN RUN TOWN
Take Charge of Every Enterprise
in Dexter, la.
Dictate Prices, Do All the Hiring and
Firing and Are Heads of Many
Different Corporations-A
Unique Departure.

Des Moines, Ia.-One man, w. j.
Pilkington of this city, has assumed
the huge project of taking full charge
of the business of a whole town.
Every enterprise in Dexter, Ia, is
under his direction, is being run &C
cording to his ideas and the systems
he has installed, and he is entirely
responsible for success or failure.
The task Mr.. Pilkington has as
sumed is perhaps without parallel
in the business history of this country,
and is an idea so radical that if it sue
ceeds it's adoption is certain in other
communities.
Mr.. Pilkington starts out with the
idea that the application of city meth
DDS is what is needed to stimulate the
business of country town. He is the
editor of the Merchants Trade Jour-
nal and his headquarters are at Des
MoineS.
For seven months he will be the
power back of the throne who will
dictate every business move that is
made in Dexter, and if at the end of
that time progress has not been
shown it will be an end of the ex-
pertinent But if there is big gain
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25
BETZVHI-E TALES
Mr.. Pethcod Scroggs' Identical Twins
Ellis Darker B11Hef:1
wv Author f"Pi9s isPi9s~ Etc. W.
By PETER NEWELL

important, and that a petition ought
to be drawn up, petitioning the chair
man to appoint a searching commit
tee to search the woods and find Joe
as quickly as possible, but it was too
late by that time to get the petition
ready, so the meeting adjourned, to
meet the next night, and Pethcod was
instructed to have the petition all
ready.
He went home feeling a lot bet
ter in his mind, since he had got mat
tiers moving along in the right di-
rection, and the only thing that trou-
bled him much was John, who in
terfered with the regular household
affairs the next day. Pethcod had tied
him to the pump ia such way that
the handle of the pump was tied in
with him, so the family could not
pump any water, and Pethcod was so
busy drawing up the petition that he
had no time to unite John. Our duty
to a lost child should always be fore
most.
When the meeting met the next
night the petition was accepted and
resolution to get up search COM
mittee to find Joe in the big woods
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25

into the yard, and there was one of
the twins, scooting around as lively
as could be, and then Pethcod ran
around to the other side of the house,
and there was the other twin-or at
least it seemed so-but he couldn't
he sure, the twins are so lively.
Pethcod says he ran around the
house for over an hour, and some
times he thought it was both twins
and sometimes he thought it was only
one, moving from place to place, but
at last he got so puzzled that he took
the twin and tied it to the pump, and
then when he went around the house
he saw that there was no other twin
there, and he knew the other twin
must have wandered into the big
woods and got lost.
1t was getting on toward dark by
then, and Pethcod knew that the
only thing to do was to get up a
search party and search the woods,
and he would have done it. immedi-
ately, but he couldn't decide which
twin it was that was lost. He stood
and looked at the twin that ne had
tied to the pump, and sometimes he
thought it was John, and sometimes
he thought it was Joe, but he couldn't
be positive, and until he could be
sure he wasn't going to start a search
party, for it would be plumb foolish
to start out search party TO find a
twin that wasn't lost.
About the time he was getting per-
fectly discouraged Mrs. Scroggs came
out and he told her what was the mat
ter, and she stood awhile and looked
at the captive twin, and then she
spoke right up.
That's john" she said positively.
'All right then" said Pethcod, and
he went right down to the post office
and gave the alarm that Joe was
lost in the big woods, and Uncle
Ashdod Clute Immediately got on a
box and organized a public meeting
to consider the best thing to do. The
first thing he did was to nominate
himself chairman Of the r7eeting, and
he appointed Pethcod secretary, and
named a vice-chairman and a second
vice-chairman. So that got things
started all right, and Pethcod wrote
a letter to himself, stating that Joe
was lost, and then he read the letter
to the meeting, and it was the unani-
nous opinion that the matter was
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25

it will be up to the town to go ahead
on the same lines.
In Dexter, Mr. Pilkington is repre-
scented by Guy @. Pogue, and the two
men together control all the banks
and business houses. They spend the
money, formulate policies. superintend
the buying, authorize retrenchment in
some departments and expansion in
others, place the advertising, regulate
the employment of help. fix salaries
and in general show what ought to be
done to boost the town.
Mr.. Pilkington has been in com.
mand for nearly two months, and the
early stages of the experiment indi-
cate possibility of big returns for the
courageous act on the part of Dex-
ter's commercial leaders in being will.
ing to accept plan SO unusual.
In the five months yet to intervene
before the contract is finished, Mr..
Pilkington hopes to increase the sales
of the various enterprises so that the
profits will be doubled.
Thirteen business men, representing
all the stores in the town, and two
banks, agreed to place their business
under the direct supervision of Pix
ington and to abide by his decision
and his judgment in business matters
They are:
G. A. Blohm, groceries and meats.
Crane & Son, general merchants.
]. G. Stanley, druggist.
F. H. Nolte, jeweler and optician.
J. W. Bryant, harness dealer.
J. M. Besig, harness dealer.
F. G. Downey, general merchandise.
S. Callison, jeweler and optician
G. r. Hunter furniture and funeral
supplies
A. G. Bryan novelty and racket store
f. B. Pohle, druggist
Dexter Savings bank.
State Bank of Dexter
Owing to his inability to leave his
business in Des Moines, Mr.. Pilking
ton has placed Guy Q. Pogue in
charge of the stores. Immediately
after taking charge the same business
methods were introduced in every
store and an invoice of stock and open
book accounts were turned over to
Pogue with a statement of the re.
ceipts, expenditures and profits for
the same seven months last year.
Sales slips were introduced into
every house, and where they were not
already in use they were furnished
free of charge. Every business is
conducted just as before, except that
Pilkington and Pogue dictate the pol
icies and the buying.
Besides authorizing the buying the
superintendent places the advertising
writes the ads. and decides whether
it shall be circular, letter or newspa.
per publicity.
Although the city government was
not turned over to Mr.. Pilkingtion, he
practically dictates what it shall do,
as most Of the councilmen are mer.
chants and are heartily in favor OF
the movement to boost Dexter and in
crease the business of the town.
Since June 1 the streets have beer
kept clean and in good condition, sew
eral public improvements have been
started and people have awakened to
the need of civic pride. The expert
ment is being watched by manufac
turers, jobbers, merchants and travel
ing men throughoUs the United States,
and as a result Dexter is securing an
abundance of free advertising.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25

went through with a rush, and in less
than three hours the search commit
tee had got it's torches and lanterns
and was on its way into the big woods
to find Joe.
Just about then Mrs. Pethcod
Scroggs became so thirsty her tongue
hung out, and she simply had to have
a drink of water, so she went out to
the pump, but the minute she saw
John she gave scream, for 1t was
not John at all, but Joe. She knew
by the way he snored that she must
have been mistaken when she thought
he was John, and she was SO cha
grined and startled that she forgot
all about being thirsty and started at
full whoop after the search commit
tee. She went leaping through the
big woods yelling as loud as she
could, and just as she came up with
the search committee the committee
had found Joe, and were singing a
song of triumph that Dave Gifings'
boy had thoughtfully written for the
occasion to the tune of John Browns
body. 1t went like this:
Joe, Joe Pethcod, he is found and he is
found
Joe, Joe Pethcod, he is found and he is
found,
Joe, Joe Pethcod, he is found and he is
found
He is found and he is found.
They had just finished the, first
verse when Mrs. Pethcod ran up
screaming:
stop! Stop! Stop finding Joel" she
cried. ut is John that is LOST"
But she was already too late, for
they had found Joe. So there was
nothing to do but to call meeting
of the committee, and the COMMITTEES
decided, quite properly, that as they
had started out to find one twin and
hadn't found him, the whole list of
parliamentary rules were broken by
finding the other, and that there was
nothing to do but go home and start
over again the next day. So they told
John to stay where he was and they
would come out and find him the
next day, properly and In his right
name. Then they passed a resolu-
ton of censure against Mrs. Pethcod
for giving wrong information and
went home, and they would have
found John properly the next day,
only the little skeesicks tagged along
behind them all the way home.
Copyright, 1909. by W. G. Chapman.)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25
USE FOR OLD HORSE CAR.
Two Dozen Form Summer Camp
Home in Pretty Valley for Work
ing Girls of New York.

New York-As Of pennies and pins,
the final disposition of old street cars
is a mystery. About two dozen Ave-
nue. A cars silently stole away from
New York couple of years ago. Up
the Hudson valley they journsyed on
fiat cars until they landed at Noun
tainville, little hamlet in Orange
county, noted especially for its sum-
mer boarders. After a still overland
trip of mile or more they came to
rest on the banks of a little stream
that hurries through the valley.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25
EEAD CT CHICAGO SCHOOLS
Mrs. Ella F. Young Appointed Superin-
tendent - Achieves Career as
Author and Educator.

Chicago.-Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
the new superintendent of schools 81
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-30
APPLE SHOW PLANS
|. DISCUSSED
CONFERENCE is HELD BY PRES
iDENT ALLEN AM EXEC
CUTlVE COMMITTEE.

| There WAS d conference last night
at the chamber Of commerce rooms
between the members of the executive
committee and President Allen of the
/ Fair association, relative to the plans
for tho apple show, which is 10 be
held here this fall, the dates having
been announced as October 18 to %,
inclusive.
/ Mr.. Allen spoke briefly in review OF
the work that has been done already
and set forth what he considered the
lasting benefits that will come to
Missoula as a result of the show being
held here. These benefits, however,
are not all Missoula's; they will be
shared as they should, by the Bitter
Root, Plains and Thompson valleys,
where there is fruit raised.
There was unanimous agreement
with Mr. Aliens remarks and there
cnsued d detailed discussion as to the
plan to be followed in making the
apple show a complete success. AS
an Outcome of this discussion the
chamber of commerce guaranteed to
assume the financial responsibility of
the apple show, supplementary to the
thousand dollars which the county
commissioners have already donated to
the fund. .,
Secretary lIrfert of the chamber OF
commerce is to be the secretary of the
apple show, and he was last night au-
thoriZed to, employ clerk to assist
him in the work, his time to be di-
vded at present between the heavy
business incidental to the reservation
opening and the preparations for the
fair. Mr.. Lrfert after the meeting,
announced the selection of William
G. Ferguson as his assistant and he
will enter upon his new duties this
morning. In the meantime, it is up
to the bushes men to get together the
funds necessary to carry out the plans
for the show.
Manager Harnois will give up the
use of the Union theater to the apple
show for a week, and this big hall
will be divided into booths and stalls
and there will be the best and biggest
display of Montana apples ever made.
There was no dissent last night and
the details of the plans will be an
nounced in few days. Mr. Allen
thanked the chamber of commerce and
promised them a good fair.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-30
ROADS AND Fences
TO Be BUILT
FOREST SERVICE WILL EXTEND
TRAIL EAST OF PHILIPS
BuRG-oTHER NOTES.

Supervisor D. G.. Kinney of the
Missoula national forest, announced
yesterday that his men would, dur
ing the month of july complete the
Rock creek road, east of Philips
burg, and increase it's length SO that
it will be extended as far north as
the Rock Creek ranger station. Part
of the road has been reconstructed by
the forest service, acting in common
with the Granite county officials.
During the next month the men of
the Missoula forest will construct
fence pastures at Seeley lake and at
Georgetown lake.
Mark Poe of Rattlesnake creek has
been appointed as guard ON the Mis-
soula national forest, and will be as
signed to the district north of Mis-
soula.
Nels Amble of Quartz has been APP
pointed as guard on the Lolo national
forest and will work near the Clear
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-30

Wind from tho northeast.
A thunder and lightning storm ar
rived about $50 last evening and
helped lay the dust. 1t is reported that
1t extended to towns east of Missoula
gathering ia Intensity as it went.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-30

60 home. ~ was not prepared for
sueh u rush and it has given me a
new idea Of the benefits of good ad-
vertlsing. That half-page in The Mis-
soulian this morning did me lot of
good. Repeat the dose for tomorrow
morning and tell them the lots are
going fast. 1t is a sure thing now
that the railway will be close to
these lots and that will help some
more.' ...N.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-30
Incorporation PAPERS
FILED FOR new ROAD

Articles of Incorporation were filed
in the office of the clerk of the dis
trct court yesterday for the Mssoula
Belt Railway company, which has a
listed capital stock of $4,000. George
r. Smith, Susan O. Smith and DIR.
Joseph Oettinger are named as the
directors of the news company and
the stock is declared to be divided
into $50 shares of 500 each. 1t is
understood that the new road is mere
ly to include all the junction track
and sidings which the Missoula Gas
company will use to connect it's plant
with the Northern Pacific and with
the Puget Sound railways
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-30

Back In "Old Nilsson in the days
when he was a young man. they used
a to call Judge Witten
FROM OLD big Jim" Yesterday
MISSOURI morning. the Judge met
onr big Jim Froman
also from Missouri--and there was
nothing to ii after that but feast of
"Reminiscences. Each one got out his
husking peg and there was more corn
shucked for an hour or two than was
ever seen before In Montana. There
was an olor of persimmons and the
two hobhed for catfish for awhile and.
as the stories progressed each Of the
members Of the reunion Wore a smile
that was good to see Judge Witten
decided to postpone a proposed auto
mobile trip, as he har 20 take walk
with Froman through the oak woods.
When the talk was over. the judge
declared that he liked Missoula bet
ter than ever and his interest in the
Flathead opening increased many
fold. And Froman--he declared he
didn't care whether school kept or not;
he had had the best time he had en-
ioyed since he caught lot of Ital
ians fishing without anv license.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-30
MERCANTILE FIRM
IS INCORPORATED

The articles incorporating the, Os-
car Hemgren company of Bonner were
filed in tho office of the clerk of the
court yesterday The new company
has a capital stock of $4,000 and is
organized to conduct a general mer-
cllandise and stock business in Bon
ner. The directors of the company
are named as Oscar Hemgren, May
Hemgren and w, Ray Church.