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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-12
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

John NJ. Penn of Poeasset hereby an
nounces for the office OF county COM
missioner, District No. l (nortbern),
subject to the Democratic primary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
EXCESS RATES.

Our attention has been called to a
fight the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' association of Milwaukee is
waging against the express companies
of this state in behalf Of the shippers.
Every person in Wausau who has any
dealings with any of the express COM
panies ought to be interested in this
fight. The association above men
toned recently brought evidence be-
fore the Wisconsin Railroad commits
sion, substantiating its Claims that
Wisconsin people are being discrimi-
mated against in the matter of express
rates, and tables of comparisons be-
tween rates in this state and those in
other states are interesting.
One of these tables deals with rates
between Wausau and Milwaukee. AS
comparison, the rates in nine other
states and the Canadian Express Co.
are used. The rate of the Wells Fargo
and American express companies on
100 pounds of merchandise between
this city and Milwaukee, 1S2 miles,
is $1.25. In only one other state men
toned in the table, New Hampshire,
is the tariff rate as high. In New
Hampshire the rates have been at
tackled and the matter is now before
the courts.
In South Dakota the rate on 100
pounds for like distance is only csc.
The table shows that Wausau people
are paying all the way from 5 to 80
per cent more on 100 pounds of ex-
press matter than are people in the
nine states included in the table.
Another thing which looks queer:
The express companies charge soc for
carrying 10 pounds from Wausau to
Milwaukee, which is at the rate of So
per hundred.
Lawyers for the Wells-Fargo, United
States, American and National express
companies were on hand to fight the
evidence brought before the commits
sion, and strenuously objected to the
introduction of rate comparisons.
Public sentiment in this matter can
do much toward stirring up actions
which will result in giving to our
people better rates. One of the COM
panies above mentioned, cut dividend
watermelon few months ago, which
amounted to several million dollars,
the profits for only one year.
From circular letter sent by the
Wells-Fargo company to agents in one
state, it is ascertained that the COM
pany has been shipping chicken coops,
empty egg crates, ETC., by freight and
charging the shippers express rates.
The letter advised the agents to keep
mum.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14

head with benignant "God bless
you my boy, God bless your" If he
did not you are the only boy in town
who cannot boast of that distinction.
Speaking of the Forest house re-
minds me of the old Walker stage
line. How many of the young folks
of today who have seen the stage
coaches in Buffalo BilPs Wild ANest
can realize that the same style Of
thoroughbrace coaches used to run in
to Wausau? And yet it was but yes
terday, seemingly, that John and
Billy Evelyn and John Shealy cracked
their whips over six steaming horses
as they rounded the corner at Third
and Forest streets and drew up with
such coaches in front of the hotel
with flourish. Those stage drivers
were heroes to us boys, and many a
time did we vie with each other in
carrying feed and water TO their tired
horses in order to be near those
heroes. At that time my highest
ambition was to be stage driver.
We are some of us crossing the
meridian of life, but / believe a few
notes from Mike Rousseau's fiddle ut
wasn't a violin would set US back
thirty years. He played by ear, and
if he ever missed note the hiatus
was concealed by nis stentorian voice
calling the changes for quadrille or
other dance. Gathering pitch from
the pine logs and selling it to John
Boyd, the boat builder, was another
past time that brought few stray
dimes TO our pockets.
saw Mat DeCoursey's name recent
ly and that recalls his famous trotter
''Thunderbolt, and in the same
breath we speak of McIndoe's "Bitter
Sweet" and Kickbusch's primes" "
than whom no other horses ever
brought greater renown to the sport
ing lists of Wausau. How many
names l could mention like the Kick
buschs, Parcher, Stewart, B. @.
Plumer, Stafford, Chubbuck, Hoefing-
er, Manson, Corey, the Thayers,
Wylie and may Others whose lives
are so interwoven with earliest Wau-
sau that one might well collect their
biographies and call 1t the History
OF Wzusau.r
Over forninsr the court house stood
the pioneer bank Of the city and
county-the Bank Of the Interior,
owned by j. A. Farnham, which later
on became the Marathon County
bank, one Of the city's boasted hnan-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
l.. s. HARVEY MARRIED.

AT noon today, at the home Of Rev.
Wylie, Mr.. L. l.. Harvey, of Indianap-
oils, Ind, and Mrs. Theodore Dickson,
OF Denver, Col, were united in holy
wedlock, Rev Wylie officiating at the
services. Mrs. Dickson is the sister
of Mrs. Wylie, and has been here
visiting her for the past several days.
Mr. Harvey is an employee of the j. L.
c. Machinery company, of Racine,
Wis, and came to Hot Springs for the
purpose of taking away the bride.
The couple leave this afternoon for
indianapolis, where they will make
their future home. The friends of
the couple join the News in wishing
them many happy years of married
life.-Hot Springs (Ark.) Daily News,
May "a.
Mr. Harney is son of Mrs. V. l..
Harvey 81 indianapolis, formerly of
this city,) and he was born in Scho-
field and resided there and in Wausau
until he went TO take position with
the ]. /. c. Co. of Racine some five or
six years ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
BANK BLOWN.

Residents OF Wausau Junction last
evening noticed the mysterious and
suspicious movements of three men
near the bank Of that village. Going
closer to see what the men were up
to, the three warned the citizens to
keep their distance or there might be
some new faces in heaven. What the
residents saw startled them. The
men were engaged in drilling holes in
the bank and were inserting high
explosives, caps and fuse. The whole
populace was aroused. One man
started to look for telephone, that
he might summon the sheriff's force,
but in his excitement he fell into the
turn table pit. Another made an ef-
fort to notify the sheriff by shadow
graph. At about that time the three
men were seen to run and take shell
ter back of a stump. Soon deafen-
ing explosion rent the air and the
bank was blown, fragments being car
ried in all directions. The villagers
held consultation Of few minutes
duration and hastily decided TO defy
death and capture the three men at
all hazards. They swooped down on
what remained of the bank, but the
capture resulted in no business for an
undertaken. The three men who set
off the explosive were the calmest in
the bunch. They blandly informed
the Junctionites that they intended
filling washout in the town of Wes-
ton today, and had chosen the sand
bank, near the village limits as
source of supply. They were merely
loosening up the sand with dynamite
that their work today might be facili-
tated. Thus the Bankers associa-
tion's detectives have been cut out of
another pleasure trip.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
HAVE COMMENCED EXCA-
WAITING.
Men and Teams Now Busy on the Sui
phate and Fibre Plant

The east side of the river now pre-
sents busy scene with the large
number of men and teams at work
on the plant of the Wausau Sulphate
& Fibre Co. Seventeen teams and
about fifty men were at work yester-
day excayating for the mlin building
of the plant which is to be structure
five hundred twenty by ninety-two
feet. The excavations for this build
ing viii go down fifteen feet on the
north end of the building and nearly
as far at other points. The plant to
begin with is to comprise four build
ings of considerable proportions three
of them TO be located on the site of
the old planning mill and yards on the
east of the river, and the fourth the
electric light and power plant to be
located on the site of the old saw
mill at the end of the mill slough.
A dam for the purpose of generating
this power will be built where the
old mill dam is now, some time this
summer A new guard lock will also
be built just below the present one.
For time the engine house and
boiler plant of the Joseph Dessert
Lumber company will be used for a
temporary power house and pumping
station, or until the power house for
the new plant can be erected. The
temporary office building, located at
the top of the hill near the railroad
crossing is being rushed along rapidly
with large force of carpenters and
win be ready for occupance soon.-
Mosinee Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
A Woman's Great Idea

is how to make herself attractive.
But, without health, it Is hard for her
TO be lovely in face. form or temper.
A weak, sickly woman will be nervous
and irritable. Constipation and Kid
ney poisons show in pimples. blotches,
skin eruptions and a wretched. COM
plexion. But Electric Bitters always
prove godSend to women who want
health, beauty and friends They
regulate stomach, Liver and Kidneys,
purify the blood; give strong nerves,
bright eyes, pure breath, smooth,
velvet skin, lovely complexion. good
health. Try them. soc. at w. w.
Albers-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14

far as "Maine's rifles" (that must be
where the paper mill is located) and
the close of day finds us home again,
tired and sunburnt, with a most pro-
digious appetite. Did we catch any
fish? I have forgotten, but wasn't 1t
a fine outing and didn't it add several
days to your life?
The last time / was in Wausau l
saw the old "white schoolhouse," but
it had turned its back to the place
where it formerly stood as though in
sorrow for the good old days when
our schoolmasters taught as the Irish
man fiddled, "be main siren tn, be
iabers." The names of Attwell,
Pound, Metcalf, Briery and Butler
will recall to our old schoolmates
many pleasant recolIections, and to
some of the boys who got caught at
it, some unpleasant impressions, the
mutilated Biographies testifying to
the fact that those impressions would
have been deeper had not their covers
mysteriously found their way to the
back of the culprit beneath his shirt
and coat. If we could find those old
wooden seats we would probably find
deeply craven in them the initials OF
every boy end most of the girls, for
that natter who ever sat on them
studiousIy endeayoring to forget that
they we're there for any other reason
than as punishment for being young
Then there we're the writing schools
at night when we covered ourselves
with ink and candle-drippings, spent
our parents money and got every bit
of fun out of it that could be had.
When one thinks of the number who
have passed into the Grandpa and
Grandma class" with tear for those
who have graduated from the scnool
of life and are now enjoying their
eternal vacation, one can hardly
wonder that he finds gray hair now
sud then in his erstwhile raven locks.
saw an account of Levi Flem-
ming's birthday in the PILor not
long ago. How ne could hew a stick
of timber with a precision of todsy's
saw mill, as well as entertain . crowd
of boys night after night with rs
stories of travel and wartime X
periences and that, too, withoaI ieay-
ing an unworthy impression. Nc
need TO ask II you remember the
genial host of the Forest house Who
that ever knew him could forget
Charley Singies Did he ever stop
you on the street and pat you on ths
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
OCCURRENCES OF LONG AGO.
ITEMS OF NEWS BOILED DOWN FROM THE
PILOT NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO

as / had seen old smokers do. /
turned over the papers and felt an
inward satisfaction that had made
long stride towards manhood with
so little exertion and so trifing ex-
pense. Directly experienced little
more warmth than was just comfort
able. / laid it to the stove and moved
back. The heat increasing, / moved
back again, but was still uncomfort-
able, and noticed for the first time
that / was sweating, the large drops
stood on my forehead and all over my
body and / could feel them chasing
each other down into my boots; was
cold and clammy TO the touch as
water snake, and in addition, began
TO feel :. little unpleaSantness about
the stomach; it seemed to me that
what had eaten for dinner was try
ing to turn over and stretching up as
If to look out. Looking around |
noticed that while the neighboring
cigars had shortened not to exceed an
inch, mine had receded as to be held
with difficulty. The truth burst up
on me. 1 was sick, d,cf,l sick, and
prepared to go to my room. AS |
arose to go, voice said, Sick amt
We, smoked too fast | made no
answer and as / went out the same
voice continued Little boats should
keep near the shore,' but / was in no
condition to reply, Notwithstanding l
regarded the remarks as most damag-
ing to my reputation. | was weak,
my legs would hardly sustain my
weight, and were inclined to bend
and twist about in every direction
but preferred backwards or sideways.
l started for my room, taking the
opposite side of the street from the
cigar stand and finally reached 1t In
the fourth story of the hotel. 1 may
be prejudiced, but it has always
seemed to me that those were the
highest stories / ever heard Of The
sufferings of the next 48 hours will
never be forgotten and from that day
to this, tobacco in any form, has not
touched my lips. This experience
substantially, think, illustrates the
origin of the habit of smoking In very
many instances and satisfies me that
its origin is never found in the
promptings of nature, but always in
associations of one kind or another"
G. H. Mueller has been appointed
to take the census of Marathon county
the coming summer.
Circuit court is In session, Judge
Cate presiding. Among the lawyers
we notice G. L. Park of Stevens Point
and J. d. Raymond of Plover.
The snow is drifted in places to
the height of Is feet.
Hon. G. Hoefinger returned home
from Madison on Monday. He was
accompanied by brother-in-law, Mr.. |
R. Dix and young brother, both of
Fond du Lac. Mr.. Hoefiinger has
proven an able and active legislator, |
having carried through the assembly
every bill introduced for the benefit |
of Marathon county.
R. H. Walrod and family departed |
for the East the past week. After
visit of several months they will go |
to California.
The crew of J. G. Clarke, we learn,
Is showed in at the camps, some go
or 10 miles above Wausau. Mr.. Clark !
started out this morning with four
teams to try to break road to them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
FIFTY YEARS A MASON.

At the Masonic hall there was a
very pleasant gathering of the MEM
bers of the order Tuesday evening.
The occasion was commemorative OF
the fiftieth anniversary of 5. Fl. Al
bans membership. A banquet was
served to over one hundred Masons,
quite portion of whom were visitors
from neighboring cities. At the close
Mr.. Alban was presented with a
handsome gold-headed cane to which
he responded in appreciative words
Rhinelander Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
GEO. w. GHOCA DEAD.

Last week the PILOT told of the
serious illness of G. w. Ghoca of
Waupaca, who was stricken with
paralysis, two weeks ago last Sunday.
He never fully recovered from the
stroke and died on Tuesday, June 7th,
1910. He was sixty-tiye years of age,
as the PILor stated last week. Mr..
Ghoca and family were residents of
Wausau the latter part of the 70'S, he
having been elected sheriff of-Mara-
thon county and served from rs to
81. He was a member of Crusade
Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Stevens Point and q member of the
Masonic bodies at Waupaca. He was
buried Thursday afternoon with
Masonic honors.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
Beware Of 0intments for Catsrrh
that Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely damage the whole system
when entering ii through the mucous surfaces
Such articles should never be used except on
pTSsscriptionS from reputable physicians. a.
the damage they will do is ten fold 10 the good
YOU can possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure. manufactured By +. j. Cheney
is taken Internally. acting directly uINOn the
Mood ana mucous surfaces OF the system. In
buying Halls Catsrrh Cure be SURE you get
the genuine. lt il taken internally aud made
In Toledo. Ohio, hy f. !, Cheney < 90. Testi-
moniais free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c. pep bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
sATuRpAY. MARcH 19. ls7O.


Mormon Bros. have disposed of their
stock of drugs to R. E. Parcher and
the same was moved to his store on
Main street.
The heavy snow storm of a week
ago has blocked up the roads to such
an extent that Wausau has received
no mail since.
This issue of the PILoT contains the
lecture delivered by Hon G. w. Cate
|of Stevens Point, before the Pine
!. not literary club March 14th, 1870.
II took up six columns and was in
small type. 1t was on Habit" and
lecture that we would republish to-
day, if we had the space. Mr.. Cate
was circuit judge for many years and
was known throughout Wisconsin as
lawyer who had few equals. In his
lecture he told how he took his first
and last smoke andit will be appreci-
ated by all who knew the judge. He
said
"Soon after leaving quiet farmer
home to pursue the studies of my
profession, being about 16, | formed
the acquaintance of number of boys
about my own age; city boys, we
country boys called them, 1t soon
got to be habit for them to meet at
the Office where l was staying. These
boys, without an exception, were
smokers and always brought cigars
along with them. | early perceived
the superiority and was not long in
discovering, as | thought that the
only reason for it was to be found in
the fact that they were smokers,
while that was luxury tabooed at
our house since my earliest recollec-
tion. 1t worried me good deal. l
appeared TO be black sheep in the
flock. A cigar was usually offered me
and | was often rallied in way that
plagued me excessively. During the
succeeding fall-being the same that
preceded the election of President
Polk, reading room was established
down town, where many were in the
habit of going every day Immediately
after dinner, look over the mails from
the South and West and get the
political news. | was there every day
and was not long in discovering that
nearly everybody smoked, particularly
those whom l regarded as the smart
est men in town, and the few who did
not smoke were persons of little or no
account. / was ambitious in those
days and determined to make my
mark in the world, and would avail
myself Of every advantage in my
reach. / became convinced that the
mark l could make would be very dim
and perhaps not visible at all without
the prestige smoking would give me.
The result was that | considered 1t
my duty to learn to smoke and lost
no time in carrying it into execution.
The next day l stopped with others
at small cigar store kept by very
pretty girl-and by the way, | had al
ways promised myself that If | should
conclude to smoke, / would buy my
cigars at that standard procured a
cigar of the finest brand, bit of one
end and lit it, for by judicious and
timely observation | had already
learned which end to bite off, and
which end to place in my mouth, and
was soon in the reading room looking
up the news. / succeeded in filling
the portion of the room | occupied
with smoke and squinted through it
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14

cial institutions. / used to think,
when quite a small lad, that Farnham
was not just the right kind of man
for banker, for II he made the
money he handed out to some people
In the short time he worked In the
bank he might work longer hours and
a little faster ard make enough for
all of US.
wonder if the First National bank
has a picture of the original bank
building of Silverthorn g. Plumer,
that stood about half a block south
of its present honey When W. G..
and Geo. Silverthorn and d. L. Plumer
established their banking house. l
doubt whether in their mildest dreams
they ever thought to reach the height
the bank has attained.
Right here | recall an instance
where a man announced himself a
millionaire far in advance of the fact
but with a certainty that carried con-
viction. When d. L. Plumer was
county surveyor he boarded at our
house, and upon his return from a
lengthy cruise in the northern part
of the state he startled the rest Of
the boarders and the family by calm
ly announcing that he had made a
million dollars while out on the trip.
He was joshed considerably about his
newly gained wealth, but mother
finally clinched the agreement by say
ling "Well, If Lon Plumer says he
made million dollars on this trip it
is So" Later on the Northern Chief
mine, on the Gogebic range, proved
Mr.. Plumer's assertion, though he
discla.ms all knowledge of ever hay-
ing laid claim to such wealth in adj
vance.
cannot pass by the name Of Rev.
Thos. Greene, typical Englishman,
severely correct and yet withal a
genial pleasant old gentleman. Twas
he who started church building
about the time of the war and the
frame of which afterward blew down
and was replaced by smaller edifice.
/ remember him, however, more in his
capacity Of school superintendent, his
visits to the schools always bringing an
event. The entire school was place.
on it's best behavior, but one day, l
think when Mr.. Briery was principal,
his dignity took fall. AS he came
into the room the teacher gave him a
chair, inadvertently placing it so that
one of the back legs stood directly
over a knot-hole in the platform, and
as he leaned backward the chair over
turned and spilled his dignity. He
arose and departed amid the uncon-
ltrollable laughter Of the entire school.
have written along ramblingly,
with no thought of time or space,
mixing events chronologically, prob
ably giving more space to that which
includes only personal impressions,
and little or none to that which would
appeal more strongly to those Of my
own years who lived through the
same time, but my apology for doing
50 is that events came 70 me in kalei-
doscopic form and / write them as
they come. hope, however, that
what l have written may be an In
centiye TO some 1ne with more yig-
orous pen and better memory than /
possess TO follow up the lead and give
US "reminiscences Of the Wausau be-
fore the advent Of the iron horse.
like TO think OF those old days,
and Of those with whom associ>oed
then, not as the me.i whC carry the
master-keys Of big slty's business
but as ''the boys" and / can think
Of no finer sentiment than that OF
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14

the poet Il quote from memory, who
wrote:
Yes, mere boys-always playing with
tongue or with pen
And | sometimes have asked, shall we ever
be men 2
Shall we always be yop.nrLl and happy and
gay
Till the last dear companions pass smiling
awayf
Then here's TO our boyhood, It's gold and Its
gray;
The SHOWS Of It's winter, the dews OF its May:
And when we are done with our life-lasting
toys
Dear Father, take care of Thy children-the
Boys"
A. b. MIbLARD.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
ADVERTISED.

List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the Wausau p. o. for the week
ending June I, 1910. In calling for
same please say advertised"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-16
COST OF DYING.
Harry e. Smot Has Called Meeting to
Check Undertakes.

Chicago, April 16.-While the cost
of living is n wv acknowledgedly high,
the cost of dying is now and always has
been exorbitantIy high, according to
the conclusions reached at a confer
ence at the City club.
Accordingly a committee was ap-
pointed to look into the subject and
secured estimates on funeral and other
expenses attached to the different burial
customs in vogue in Chicago. Harry
E. Smoot, chairman Of the committee,
said yesterday that the purpose of
calling a meeting to consider the cost
of funerals and the incidental expenses
attached to euch emergencies, was to
find out if some form of legislation
could not be devised to protect against
extortion when there is death in the
family