Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-18
Among Our Ne1ghb0rs.
Sifted out by Ludwig 8. Dale.

.udvig s. Dale.
charity, should begin at home.
The poet laureate of Hutchinson
was on the job. however. and one
morning the editor found the fol.
lowing classic in his mail:
The artesian wells Of his neigh
bors.
Worries our editor very much,
But the burdock in his own back
yard
He never stops to touch.
Our editor, like MRS. Jelleby"
Sees things 80 far away,
The burdock in his corner lot,
I'm afraid will always stay.
Unless some kindly neighbor
Who has no artesian well
Will take the scvthe and 60 for
The unsight]y weeds like-well!!
The editor published the poem,
pleaded guilty and at once adver-
tised for a lumber jack, saying that
it was too burned hot for him to
cut the trees himself. Frank Lem
attire answered the ad. and cleared
the timber, and now the Leader has
enough cord wood piled up to defy
the coal trust for several seasons.
Thus again has the power of song
been demonstrated.
Mankato will experiment with
crude oil for sprinkling certain
streets. 1t is said that two sprink.
lings of oil a year will keep the
streets drier than sprinkling daily
with water.
E. H. Whiting of Douglas county
raised 1850 quarts Of Strawberries
from a patch Of one acre this year.
This brought him about $500, and
besides he had all the berries he
wanted for himself as we'll as for
his neighbors.
Breckenridge has had a good deal
of trouble with its water but It
seems that the light problem will
also have to be met very soon. 3D.
itor James of the Telegram says
that in spite Of the fact that he has
lived more than two decades in the
city and has made innumerable trips
over the same walk to and from his
place of abode he had a terrible
time getting home one night last
week. Lest anyone should assign a
false reason for his being unable to
keep the path the editor assures US
that he had had not a drop all eve-
ming. 1t is up to the council to in
vestigate this-the light question OF
course-and order more illumi-
nation in order that the Telegram
editor may continue to send forth
his messages of interest and good
cheer.
A business man in Mankato re-
fused to pay his subscription to the
Mankato Journal saying he had
never ordered it. Editor Morrison
says he is glad that he has that fel-
lows name off his list and he is
just waiting for chance to write
his obituary.
Even cyclones have their uses.
Up at Big Stone City one of the
twisters caught a number of boys
out on the lake and they were all
nearly drowned. One of them in
his fright revealed that he was the
runaway son of DR.. J. H. McCabe
of Chicago. His father was noti-
fled and at once came and took him
home and the family is now happy
again. At GAINESVILLE the other
day the cyclone dug up whole
potato field and when the owner
came to the patch he found the
tubers all sorted and ready for mar.
ket. Again up in the northern
part of the state it carried away an
old barn which for years had been
an eyesore to the entire neighbor.
hood and tore the shingles off q
house which the owner had just
been planning to re-shingle any.
way. So it seems that even these
terrors have their uses both aiding
Fate as we'll as acting in many in.
stances as great time and labor saw.
ers.
The new Lincoln penny won't &C
into the slot machines. Good gra.
cious! Where was the lobby fol
the Slot Machine Trust?
Mrs. J. J. Ekander and sons re-