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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
SEEKS DEATH IN ROAD
Woman PrOstrates Self in Front
of Several Automobiles.
When Arrested She Screamed al Want
to Die, ! Want to Die"-BeIieved
Victim of Suicidal Mania.

New York. Jan. 4. = Automobiles
on their way to and from Williams
burg bridge who had to make the
sharp turn at the fountain, Bedford
and Division avenues, Brooklyn, were
scared out of several years growth by
young woman who persisted in
throwing herself directly in the path
of their heavy cars.
The woman would stand close to the
curb until machine hove in sight,
and then running forward would
stretch herself out on the muddy
asphalt. This occurred no less than a
half dozen times in an hour
Two policemen were sent to the
fountain, and they found the young
woman covered with mud and her
body mass of bruises waiting for
another automobile to become her Jug
gernaut When they took hold of her
she screamed: Il want to die, want
to die"
She resisted the police and fought
them all the way to the station, two
blocks away. She was so violent that
an ambulance was summoned from
the Eastern District hospital Dr.
Levin said she was a victim of suici-
dial mania. She gave her name as
Mrs Lena Cohen.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
WALDWICK.

COrbin Burgess from Lead, South
Dakota is back for visit with his sis
ter, Mrs Thomas league.
Miss Nina Reynolds left Saturday for
visit at Freeport, Ill.
Mrs. Robert Uren is ON the sick list
this week.
Mrs. Elmer Uren spent a few days
last week at Dodgeville.
Thomas Adams came up from
Orangeville, H., Saturday for visit
Mrs. d. c.. Williams returned home
last week from Mineral Point, where
she has been visiting.
Mrs. Saunter Jackson spent last
Wednesday with Mrs. Chas. Harker.
Mrs. r. Hoare and baby returned to
her home at Blanchardville, Friday.
Miss Melvina Harris of Mineral Point
is staying with her sister, Mrs. N. HI.
Cooking.
Mrs. Chas Harker and Chad Harker
spent few days the last of the week
with Mrs Thomas Uren.
James Cant and youngest son Of
Blanchardville, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Cant.
VIM. Shelves and daughter, and Mrs.
Richardson spent Wednesday with Jack
Shelves and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Whitford, who
had been visiting here a few days, re-
turned to Mineral Point, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Ching and Mrs.
Huxtable spent Wednesday with Mrs.
Clara Buckingham.
Harold and Retta Campton of Miner
al Point are visiting Mrs. Howard
Nicholas.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
EDITING AN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
Strenuous Times In Getting Out an
Early French Work.

Many adventures befell the French
eighteenth century encyclopedia. More
than once the production of that work,
regarded by authority as revolution
airy, had been stopped, eight days Of
imprisonment in the Bastille for the
printer being one incident. At the
very last moment, after Diderot had
corrected the final proofs, the printer
and his foreman secretly SlaShed the
articles right and left, cutting out
everything that seemed even possibly
dangerous, and burned the manu-
script. Diderot discovered the atroc
ity too late when referring to one Of
his own mutilated articles. But the
most remarkable point is that for
years very few persons knew of what
had happened, even the contributors
remaining in ignorance. They had
had enough of their own articles when
writing them.
Voltaire tells pleasing story of
Louis XV.'s conversion to the mer
its of the encyclopedia, according to
the London Chronicle. The talk one
night at a Trianon supper turned on
sport and thence to gunpowder, as to
the composition of which the party
could not agree. Nine. de Pompadour
lamented their all round ignorance.
For instance, she herself did not know
what her rouge was made Of or how
her silk hose were manufactured.
"'Tis a pity" said the Due de La Val
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05

liere, "that his majesty confiscated our
encyclopedias, which cost US 100 pis-
toles"
The king recalled that he had a
copy, and three Wallets were sent for
the twenty -one volumes and staggered
back with seven each. GunpOwder,
rouge silk stockings, were all found
there. Some found answers to legal
problems that troubled them. The
king discovered the rights Of his
crown set forth and in his satisfaction
he allowed the confscated copies to be
returned
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
BEARDED Women,

The bearded woman is not a fiction.
A bearded woman was taken by the
Russians at the battle of Poltava and
presented to the car. Her beard
measured over yard. The great Mar
garet, governess Of the Netherlands,
had a very long, stiff beard. Mile.
Boes de Chene. born at Geneva in
1884, was exhibited in London in 1858
in her eighteenth year. She had a
profuse head of hair, large mustache
and a strong black beard. There are
other instances of bearded women
about the authenticity of whom there
is no room for doubt = New York
American.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
Closing Hour For Drug Store.

Mineral Point, Wis, Dec. 20. 1870
We, the undersigned druggists of this
city, agree to close our respective stores
at o'clock, on each evening, except
Saturdays, beginning on Tuesday Jan.
3, 1911, except in such cases as are in
need of medical supplies or the filling
of physicians prescriptions, which can
not be put off till our regular opening
time. Signed, CHAs. l.. IvEY,
PRIDEAUX & BLISS,
ALEX. Metz.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
TACTICAL EDUCATI ION.


That excellent educator Prof. NJ. V.
O'Shea, in an article in the January
Education, shows that the University
of Wisconsin, is very closely in touch
with the people of the state and is in a
marked degree helping them to solve
new problems and to their work Alright.
"THE SPIRIT OF OUR UNIVERSITY
is entirely i'll accord with the predomi-
nant spirit Of progress in the element
airy and secondary schools Of the state,
says Prof. O'Shea. ut would be within
the bounds of truth to say that the uni
versity has led in establishing vital,
dynamic educational ideas in this com
monwealth. Nothing could be farther
from the fact than to say that the uni
versity is aristOcratic and tending away
from the masses. 1t is ever drawing
closer to them. It's field of investiga
ton and instruction is relating ever
more directly to the new problems con-
fronting our people
& GRADUATE WORK NECESSARILY.
Il "There are some" continues the au-
thor, who profess not to see that grad
nate study will be of service to the
state. These men once could not see
that high school education would be of
service to the state. and they were hos
tile to it as a public institution. With
great difficulty they have accepted the
high school and the usual college work;
but they resist the idea of providing
adequate facilities for advanced work.
'No one would be so foolish as to say
that the undergraduates in our colleges
have time to assimilate all that has been
discovered in any branch of learning.
If there were no provisions for some
students to go beyond the undergraduate
course, our society would come to a
sudden halt in it's development. Nations
that have not made provisions for ad
vanced study and research cannot con-
tinue to develop. Those countries that
have made most liberal provision for
advanced university work are the most
progressive in the world today"
UNIVERSITY TEACHING Is GOOD.
Prof. O'Shea goes on to point out the
fallacy of those who argue that if the
university gives its attention to ad-
vanced work, the elementary work will
be neglected, and the undergraduate
will not receive any intelligent attention.
Most of the effort and large part of
the best ability i'll the university are
devoted to the welfare of the under
graduate Students" declares Prof.
OShea. THE most capable teachers
are often young men who are thorough
1y interested in teaching. Many of
them have had experience in secondary
schools and when they come to the
university are really experienced teach
ers.
Zone often hears it said by persons
who do not know the situation that the
old and ADLER men, the full professors,
never teach freshman, and sophomore
classes, but turn these over to green
novices. AS matter of fact, the be-
ginning classes in many departments of
the institution are taught by the full
professors. This is generally true to all
the large freshman and sophomore
classes in every department..
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
M'CANN TAKEN TO JOLIET
Former Chicago Police Inspector an
Inmate of the Penitentiary.

Joliet, ILL.,, Jan. 4.-Edward Mccain,
former Chicago police inspector, con-
victed of grating in the west side "red
light" district, is now a convict In the
Joliet penitentiary.
He was met by Warden Murphy per-
sonally and taken into the receiving
room After the usual formalities the
warden gave Mccain a number by
which he will be known while in pris-
on serving his indeterminate term. He
was then given bath, shaved, provid-
ed with a suit of prison clothes and as
signed to a CELL
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
BALANCE.

Error and evil are located in de-
6ciency or excess. Even excess in
virtue is evil. an excess Of humility
being abjectness; Of courage, rash
ness; Of prudence. cowardice; of
patience, indifference; of economy.
parsimony; of generosity, waste; and
so also an excess of learning is
pedanry; of ease, Incidence; of
comfort, self indulgence; of zeal,
fanahcism. Right and justice are
found in moderation, in the golden
mean, in the true balance, between
OVERRIDING and underdoing.-Or-
lando ]. Smith.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05

Notwithstanding the vast amount of
other important work laid out on the
tressle board for the Wisconsin legisla
tive session Of 1911, the Democrat hopes
that the adoption Of the Massachusetts
form of ballot shall not be overlooked.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
ENDS LIFE IN ClSTERN
Mrs. Garrett MorreII, Weighs Body
and Dies-Leaves Note.

Trenton, N. j., Jan Airs. Garrett
Morrell, of Hopewell, put on her hus.
bands overcoat, placed two f1atirons
in the pockets, tied a bag of coal
around her neck, stuffed cotton wool
in her ears, nose and mouth and
jumped into a cistern. Her dead
body was found some time later.
She left note to her husband say
ing: Don't worry, it's my head" She
was discharged from Mckinley hos
pital in this city on Christmas day,
having been a sufferer from a nervous
breakdown.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
HOLMAN WINS LONG RACE
Breaks All Worlds Records for Mara.
thon Race Against Big Field.

Edinburgh, Jan. 4.-Holmar, an
American, won the pedestrian mara
thon at the Powder Hall grounds.
Forty runners took part in the con-
test. Holmer took the lead at the
nineteenth mile and broke all worlds
records from that point to the finish.
He made the distance in two hours,
go minutes and 81 seconds. White,
of Dublin, finished second and Bouch-
ard, of France, third. The distance
was &c miles. So yards.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
THE IOWA COUNTY COURT
Proceedings Before Judge AldrO
jerks, County Judge.

Reported by w. Ii. Thomas, Register in
Probate.
Estate of Fred w. Matson, adjust
ment of claims.
Estate of Benjamin j. Davies, ad-
justment of claims.
Estate of Martin Slama, final hear
ing.
Estate of James Williams, hearing
petition to amend records.
Estate of Jane West, hearing petition
for administration.
Estate of Jacob Halverson, hearing
petition for administration.
Estate of Leonard Berg, Sr., will and
petition for probate of same.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
MINE EXPLOSION KILLS EIGHT
BIow-Up Occurs in Sydney, NJ. s. w.
Six Bodies Recovered.

Sydney, Jan. Am explosion at the
south side of Sydney No. colliery,
Sydney mines, resulted in the death
of eight men.
The bodies of six were recovered
by fellow workmen, who organized
rescue parties. The explosion caused
heavy fall of stone and coal from the
roof and imprisoned the men.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
A Remarkable Cough Medicine

is valuable friend. Foley's Honey and
Tar fulflls this condition exactly. Mrs. Charles
Kline, II. Sth St., Easton, Pa, states: Several
members of my family have been cured of bad
coughs and colds by the use of Foley's Honey
and Tar and am never without bottle in the
house. 1t soothes and relieves the irritation in
the throat and loosens up the cold. I have
always found it reliable cough cure. Sold by
all druggists.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
Monitor Windmill
When in Need of a Mill Try One
of the Celebrated Monitor Steel
Mills with FOrce-Feed Oilers.

MONITOR Vaneless Power Cleared
Mills.
MONITOR Gas Engines: I, 2, 4, 6, 10
15horse power.
MONITOR Single and Double Cleared
Platform Jacks, and Sim
gle Overhead Jacks.
MONITOR Force, Lift, and Three
way Pumps, in 90 styles,
to suit any kind or depth
of well.
MONITOR Feed Grinders, Corn cob
Crushers.
A complete line of Tanks. Wood tanks
made from select pine, fir or cypress,
and everything pertaining to the farm
water supply.
Estimates furnished for installing complete
gasolene pumping plants.
Also furnish Repairs for the Samson, Free
port and Ideal windmills.
Repairing of pumps and windmills speciality
JOHN ]. COLLINS,
Phone 165. Mineral Point, Wis.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05

Money ought not to be allowed to
control elections IN Wisconsin. IF vast
sums Of money can be used with i'm
punity at the primary Or the general
election Of 1912 the present legislature
will be guilty of culpable negligence.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
HE Terrible Accident.

Admiring Young Listener-And how
did you lose your leg?
Old Salt-Well. young man, one night
in the dogwatch. while was carryin'
the baby jib. stepped on a starboard,
tack and blood pisin ensooed.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
MINERAL POINT
POULTRY SHOW

At New Auto Hall, January 8 to
IA, 1911.
Wisconsins big and best poultry show
will be held by the Mineral Point Poul-
try association in the new auto hall,
Mineral Point, January to IA, 1911.
The official premium list announces
$40 in cash specials. The officers of
the association are, John L. Gray, pres
ident Marshall Day, president;
w. j. Jeuck, treasurer Allen Tucker,
secretary; John Peter, Jr., show secre-
tary. The Judge is James A. Tucker
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1911.

Governor McGovern starts Of right
with DIR. Duncan McGregor as private
secretary.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05
Blank tS, Robes,

and other winter horse goods at the
store of w. III. Kaump.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05

Want advs., page 1, column 6.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-01-05

Subscription. SIPS per year in Advance
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28
Meeting of Old Settlers

At the annual meeting of the Old
Settlers held at the Commercial Club
Saturday July IS the following officers
wer elected for the ensuing year:
]. c. Davis, president; John Emig,
vice-president; E. A. Dickinson, trea-
surer; F. A. Losekamp, secretary.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
Arrangement Of grounds at Charles
Shugart's ranch-Charles Shugart, w.
w. Burgess, George Shugart, William
Gerfn.
Amusement committee Al Pesh,
Thomas Burke, Ole Sands, DR.. G. W..
Hoxsey.
The annual meeting will be held on
August 20th, at the Shugart place, in
the Chewawa river valley. A special
train will be run over the Wenatchee
Valley & Northern railway and free
transportation provided for all old sett-
lers and their friends.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28
QUINCY VALLEY SOIL GOOD
Reclamation Service Studies SOil--Iook for
Water Route from Wenatcfee Lake

On July 81 the government COM
pleted a geological survey of the Quincy
valley, which comprises 1880 square
miles and includes all the area covered
by the topographic sheet OF the town
ships south Of Moses Lake.
All soils have been tested for alkali
and other substances that might be
harmful to vegetation, but nothing
detrimental was found except in the
pot holes. Samples of the soil have
been sent to the United States depart
ment OF agriculture, at Washington.
A large portion of the land surveyed
is irrigable, and with sufficient supply
Of water, the soil would be very pro-
ductive. A great diversity OF soil oc-
ours and all can be cultivated except a
few acres Of rough or rocky lands.
The formation OF the soil and rock of
the Quincy valley goes to prove that it
was the basin Of a large lake at one
time.
The survey will show the location
and type of all soils. The Quincy soil
in general is said to be the best alfalfa
and fruit land.
There are three crews OF irrigation
engineers, two sent out from Washing
ton, D. c., and one sent out by the
Quincy Valley Water Users Associa-
ton, now in the field to find out which
route will be the best to bring water
down from Lake Wenatchee to irrigate
the valley.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28
SEATTLE TEAM LOSES GAME
Champs Win Great Game from Brown S
ftuing---State Tour Abandoned

The Champs played their last game
defeating the Brown & Huling
team, Of Seattle, 3 TO 2.
The game was fast from start to finish
and was simply pitchers battle; both
twirlers allowing FIVE hits. Up to the
eighth inning the score was 2 TO 2.
One more run came for the champs in
the eighth and that settled it. The
visitors tried hard to even it up in the
ninth but there was nothing doing
It had been the intention of the
management to send the team on a
tour OF the state, but the necessary
games could not be arranged and it
was decided to give it up.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28
A PLAGUE OF MOSQUITOES
Stop ShingIe and Saw Mills and Cause
Death Of Children at Sumas

A Bellingham dispatch Of July 10
states a plague of mosquitoes was re-
sponsible for the closing today OF three
shingle mills near Sumas, the death OF
several babies near the same city and
several cases of blood poisoning at
Geneva, on Lake Whatcom.
The shingle and sawmills were closed
because the men found it impossible to
work in the clouds of mosquitoes that
descended upon them. A telephone
message from Sumas states that a two
year-old child OF a rancher living near
the town on the Canadian Side became
lost in the fields and was so severely
bitten by the insects before being found
by its parents that il died within an
hour.
At Geneva, a suburb Of Bellingham,
one resident has been taken to the
hospital suffering from gangrene OF the
hand or arm, and three children of the
same neighborhood who are attended
by physicians are declared to have con-
tracted virulent form of blood poison.
The mosquitoes are said to have come
from across the border, in the British
Columbia country.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28
ROYAL iiaWaiians at the Scenic

A large and very appreciative audi
ence greeted the Hawaiian singers at
the Scenic theater last Thursday even
ing The program consisted principally
of their own native airs. The Hawaiian
music is of that peculiar, drowsy kind,
that is well suited to the minor keys.
While four OF the performers were
doubtless Hawaiians the fifth was prob
ably of Milesian descent, though that
did not detract from his skill as man
dolin player Accompanying their songs
with some kind of stringed instruments
seems to be their favorite way Of enter
tanning. Their voices blended very
harmoniously. Altogether it was most
enjoyable entertainment and very salts
fastory. It was unlike most Of the en-
tertainments given here in that there
was not a single response to encores.
1t would seem that Hawaiians never
come back.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28
NORTHWEST NEWS LETTER.
Insurance Code Increase State Revenue
"Western Tuskegee' Near Sultan
Seattle, July %, 1911.

The members of the Washington
State Editorial Association will wind up
their annual meeting, to be held this
year in Hoquiam, August 3-5, with a
shore dinner and an old-fashioned dance
at the new Pacific Beach hotel, on the
ocean, three miles from Moclips. This
will be an exceptionally interesting
event. In addition to all the editors
any publishers OF the state, the paper,
type and supply dealers Of the state
and the Northwest have been urged to
attend. The railways have offered
rates TO the convention. Secretary
Smith says he has tried to mail invita-
tions to all of the craft; but il any have
been overlooked, he wants them to
come anyhow, as there's big time
ahead for everybody.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28
GoIdendale People Erect Monument

Goldendale, Washington, people
have just done graceful thing in hon
or of an old pioneer who died in 1873
and left his property to the public
school fund. For years his grave has
been neglected and the county com
missioners Of Klickitat county have de-
cided to remove the body to the Gold
endale cemetery and erect a suitable
monument recounting his benefactions
to the community. His name is Joshua
Brown and he is remembered with
gratitude in the Klickitat country.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28

Charles w. Wappenstein, former
police chief of Seattle, has been SEN
fenced to serve from three to ten years
in the penitentiary. His attorneys
fought by every possible means to stave
of the decision pending an appeal TO
the supreme court for new trial; but
the lower tribunal held that he had
been fairly convicted Of accepting a
bribe. Wappenstein will not go to
Walla Walla until the judges at Olym-
pia pass on his fate. In the meantime
there are still seven other indictments
against him, all of which will be taken
up in order.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28

The Ohio state board OF health has
made a resolution recommending the
introduction of sex hygiene in the pub
lie schools. The Ohio board is said to
be the first in the country to recon-
mend fearless handling Of this subject.
DR.. f. R. Moras, OF Highland Park,
opposed all such teaching as ill-adyised
and disgraceful.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-28
The deyelopment movement now 50

The development movement now so
strongly under way throughout the
Pacific Northwest will be given an add
ed impetus by the annual convention
of the Oregon Development League,
August IA, IS and l6, at Astoria, Ore
gon. Washingtonians interested in the
work are expected to attend, particularly
as it will be held during the Astoria
Centennial. A splendid program IS now
being prepared.