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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
DIRECTORY
CITY Officers.

Mayor Gustav A. Herring
Clerk Hart p. Axelberg
Treasurer Nels Lee
Assessor Nels Westerlund
Chief of Police Boyd Cameron
Health Officer Il. Il. Spears
Pound Master Joseph Boushey
Aldermen-E. Bryan John OSullvan, II.
H. Peavey o. M. olson o. Wescott, Hans
AMPLY. Andrew Peterson, Ole Hanberg.
Barker Thompson, Nels Martinson, VIM.
Potvin, Angus Ross.
Standing Committees
judiciary rules and ordinances-O Wescott,
John OSullivan and VIM. Potvin.s
Finance and claims-E Bryan, o. M. Olson
and John O'Sullivan
Licenses and Assessments-Nels Martnson.
Ole Hanberg and Barker Thompson,
Stationery and Printing-Wm. Potvin, o.
Wescott and A. Ross.
Education and Public Buildings-A. Ross.
Hans AMPLY and H. H. Peavey.
CHARITIES ana Cemetary Grounds Ole Han
berg, And. Peterson and Nels Martinson.
Sanitary Affairs and Sewerage-John O'Sulli-
van, O. M. Olson and Ole Hanberg.
Public Property and Public Grounds-And
Peterson VIM. Potvin and o. Wescott.
Sidewalks. Grading and Paving Streets-B
Thompson, H. II Peavey and e. Bryan.
Repair OF Streets and Bridges-H. H. Peav ey
Barker Thompson and E. Bryan
fire and Water works o. M. Olson, Hans
Amply and Andrew Petersen.
Lighting Streets and Public Buildings-Hans
Amply Nels Martinson and Angus Ross.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie and son Ben
ton, OF Ann Arbor Michigan are
visiting Mrs. Howard Benton. They
leave for home Friday afternoon.
Geo. Fox was seized very sudden
ly with severe illness last Thurs
day morning which necessitated his
removal to the hospital in Ashland
in the afternoon. Either the trip or
the doctors over there scared the
desease so that he was able to re-
turn home after three or four days
much improved in health.
BY Stubs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

NOFICE--The piano sale which is
being conducted for the Cable Piano
company by factory agent Robert
Robertson, will last one week more
at the cut prices now being Offered
This is a good time to secure a COCO
piano at little money.
If you want bueberry crates OF
lath crates we can supply you fol
less money than you can make them
for. We have lot OF them. In.
quire of f. A. Bell or William
Burns.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Method For Old Orchards.

Professor w. N. Munson recommends
for treatment of old orchards to pillow
as early as possible in the spring, har-
row at once and apply about 500
pounds Of fertilizer to the acre, then
harrow about once in two weeks until
the middle of August, when a cover
crop of rye or spring vetch should be
sown. In working among the trees he
finds the traceless harness of great
value. The exact time and method Of
tillage are not so important as to be
sure that fair amount of tillage is
given.-American Cultivator.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Picked Out the Largest.

There was good but grouchy short
stop In one of the minor league clubs
few years ago who had grudge
against an umpire. Before the game
the player Dragged to his teammates
Of what he would do to the umpire
IL the umpire started anything on the
field There, was no trouble, it hap
pened, and when the club got back to
the clubhouse the shortstop told his
teammates how lucky the umpire was
that he did not try to renew the trou-
BILE between them.
II was ready for him." said the
shortstop, "for would have laid him
out. have two large pool balls in
my pocket brought out from the
hotel, and I'd have soaked him with
them. They were the largest l could
find, too, for / picked out the fourteen
and the fifteen philadelphia Satur-
day Evening Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Lending a Big Carny Fish

At last they have him. or think
they have. The reach for DIR.
Wiley's official scalp has been most
persistent and vindictive. ever since
the pure-food law was passed. Il
has been his business to interpret il
ia the first instance aud to enforc,
it.
He has done 10th and that, so far
as .the public eau Judge, without
fear or favor, but with decided dill
gence. He has crossed swords with
hundreds of crooks and with other
hundreds of those honest people who
are always convinced that their pro-
duct is wholesome because it is
theirs. DIR. Wiley has refused to
recognize this sort of discrimination.
He has made enemies galore and
they have flooded the country with
every sort of attack upon him. Now
they think they have him. The com.
mittee on personnel Of the depart
ment employees has recommended
his dismissal, ana Attorney General
Wickersham has endorsed this find.
ing. The crime unearthed is a helm.
Gus one.
The awful offense for which the
committee and Mr.. Wickersham
would have him removed without
hearing or shadow of consideration
for his vast service to the govern
ment is stretching OF the law to
permit the employment of DIR. H. H
Rusbv of Columbia college, one oil
the great chemists of this country.
But She United States allows for
such an employee giving such SER
vice, without regard to quality,
about the average salary of a reli.
able drug clerk. For special work
it allows the wages of a first class
bricklayer boss. 1t was essential tC
the enforcement of the pure-fooc
laws that there should be no mis-
takes, and that ability to rank witt
that employed by evadors of the Law
should be at DR.. Wiley's command
So he took the $500 year allow
ed as salary for chemist and use6
it to pay DIR. Rusby at about sir
times that rate for such of his tim,
as was demanded. No one says b,
was not worth this, or that be dix
not return value received, but tn,
law was evaded for the good of tn,
people.
Doubtless DR.. Wiley deserves
reprimand; doubtless his hand,
should be slapped and congress.
should provide regularly what h,
provides irregularly. But we mis-,
our guess If President Taft does
more than this on any such charg,
or for any such offense. News Tri
bune.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
SUNDAYS
Read these Connections

hehu LneSe connections
The 6;lb a. I'm, boat out of Ashla connects
with the morning N P. out of Washburn.
Che 7:15 IN. boat cut of Washburn con-
meets at Ashland with the outgoing morning
trains on the N, p. and Omaha. All Of the
incoming morning trains at ashland connect
With the $40 q, m. boat for Washbprn. The
morning N. P, the train from Duluth con-
meets at Ashland with 1850 3. M. boat fer
Washburn. The p. M boat out If WASH
Durn connects at Ashland with the afternoon
N. p. for Duluth. $40 p. M; the Omaha for
1t. Paul, $40 p, m. and the O. & N. w, fol-
hurley, 4:2O p. m. The SEQ p. m. boat cut
Of Washburn connects at Ashland with the
evening south bound trains. The w. O. O.
& N. w. and N. p. evening trains connect at
Ashland with the 7:25 boat for Washburn,
and the evening N. P. at Washbu I'm connects
with the p NJ boat for Ashland.
LISTEN:-2 whistles ara blown Is minutes
md whistles minutes before leaving time.
CAPT. JOHN &c. DOaERTY, Manager,
New Phone No al No. Fiheld Place
Ashland Wisconsin.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
An Annetjzer,

OF sporting offers made by the large
eaters of old that made to Charles
Gustavus of Sweden when he was be-
sieging Prague is worthy of recall. A
peasant offered for the kings amuse-
ment to devour a large hog then and
there. General Koenigsmark, as runs
the tale, suggested that one with such
an appetite ought to be burned as a
sorcerer, on which the peasant said to
the king, "Sir, if your majesty will
make that old gentleman take off his
spurs l will eat him before l begin
the pig"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Feedino I,,anueIs.

The use of roots and especially man
gels for dairy cows is still much prac-
ticed in many portions of the United
States and Canada The English farm
ers say that mangels should not be fed
until they have been stored about
three months for the reason that dur.
ing the period of storing the mangei
man.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
For Tyinc Up Shocks.

A handy thing to use in tying up
corn or fodder shocks: Bore three
eighths inch hole in broomstick; pass
through this a piece Of clothesline six
inches shorter than hay baling wire.
In the end of the line tie three inch
ring Go around the shock with the
line and stick, place the stick through
the ring and pull it through. Then
you can tie the shock with baling wire.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
For an Unde-qround Tank.

We have the assurance of the Sci
entific American that the best material
for an underground tank is heavy
black sheet iron thoroughly painted
with iron paint or some preserving
compound. This is said to be more
durable than galvanized irop especial
" in some soils and where electric cur
rents exist.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Today.

Today.
Say not tomorrow. Today is your own
To parcel as you will.
For who can tell that when the day has
flown
He snall be living still?
Oh. blest is he whose daily balance sheet
Brings perfect work to view,
Whose closing day leaves no task 1ncom-
plete
For other hands to do!
Tomorrow's but a jackie lantern sprite
That fees the laggard's clasp.
Today's the power whose hand OF gracious
might
Holds fortune In its grasp.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
Chemicals With Manure.

This Is the way some of them use
manure when fertilizer Is to so ON the
crop: A load of manure Is put in the
spreader and thirty to forty pounds of
the chemicals scattered over it. The
result is that the whole thing is evenly
scattered. Rural New Yorker.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

MORE DoUR AND SOLEMN THAN EVER.
refreshment When he got back to bis
compartment he found the ScotchmaB
sitting where he had left him and look
ing more dour and solemn than ever.
"It's long, wearisome journey" said
the Englishman when the train started
by way OF making conversation.
The Scotchman looked at him with
an angry frown.
so it ought to be- he replied frig-
IDLY: sit costs two pounds nineteen and
ninepence."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Miss Ruth Berge gave a dancing
party at the Kenfield residence
Tuesday night in honor of Miss
Rhodes of Chicago. our postmaster's
niece who is visiting him. Miss
Rhodes singing and violin playing
were features OF the entertainment,
greatly enjoyed by all.
For the benefit of the economical
ly inclined, it is stated on good au-
thority, that of the maker that
one ordinary blanket will make up
to-date walking skirts for two fair
sized women. This is a discovery
made by one of our picnic parties
who picked blutberries right after
rain last week, and might be used
by others in like predicament.
Mrs. F. T. Beers and children re-
turned from the East to find their
home much altered and improved.
Mrs. and Miss Sawyer returned
to st. Paul Sunday afternoon after
spending week here renewing old
friendships and acquaintance.
E. e. Kenfield has his own opini-
on of man who has good home ia
one place. and acquires important
business in another. He expressed
it again Sunday afternoon when re
left for Cass Lake.
The Mon day club and Five Hun
dred clnb were entertained Monday
afternoon by Mrs. S. A. Oscar and
Mrs. Walsh at the Walsh residence.
They spent two hours playing five
hundred at which game Mrs. Weed
took the prize. In the eating con-
test which followed Immediately,
the hostesses serving a delicious
lunch, there was no prize awarded.
Mrs. Geo. Morgan s family were
rejoiced by her return from two
week 3 visit to Minneapolis. Cor
proof notice Georges face.) Her
brother Dave Keene. stepped on a
rusty nail. resulting liz blood poi
soLing and a visit to the hos pital
there. She reports him better.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

Women loves a clear. rosy com
plexion. Burdock Blood Bltters
purifies the blood, clears the skin,
restores rudy, sound health. For
Sale by all Druggists.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
scotty's View of 1t.

Two men, an Englishman and a
Scotchman, were travelling from Aber
deem to London in train. They
reached Carlisle without exchanging
word, and during the stoppage there
the Englishman got out and had some
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
The Nav With Weeds.

Possession is said to be nine points
of law. This is certainly true OF
weeds. When they once get possession
of a field 1t takes about nine times
the labor to get rid of them than would
be needed if they had been held in
check from the start
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20
(Contributed)
He Saw the Show

"Well, say. sleepy. are your
Guess it don't do you any good to
20 to picture shows at night"
But ma said l could if YOU d take
me-"
Eyes, I know she did, because she
said those particular pictures were
as good as circus, with bucking
bronchos and branded calves. be-
sides being something you might
not get chance to see again, and
she hated to have you miss it,"
well there wasn't no school next
day neither. +"
mo / reckon II there had been.
) ou d of stayed home. Guess likely
you'd better anyway. Your ma has
ideas about men folks being out late
at night, my boy. Anyway the
place tor small boys to grow proper
at night is in bed. You see when
school begins, If you can't beat
those boys that hang around outside
the shows nights"
Huh, guess don't have to wait
for school to beat 'em. What's fists
forP fuse to school,"
II can tell you one thing mine will
be for If ever catch you loafing
down on the streets. You won { be
asleep while Tn showing you
either"
No, spose you'll drum on me an
I'll be making music. /"
Just so. and it won't be the kind
they make at picture shows either.
Guess Til 90 to bed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-07-20

The Dane buys our cottonseed
and Iinseed meal and exports
butter, keeping all the fertility
on his soil. Can the Dane teach
US anything7
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
In Spite of Peace Talk.

Notwithstanding all the talk about
universal peace, the heads of the mill
tary service are demanding a larger
army. There are hints from the War
College as to the possibility of a Japa-
nese invasion, and Gen Wood has in
formed a Congressional committee that
the millions spent for the construction
of impregnable forts at the gateways to
our grand Atlantic seaboard cities, as
we'll as more millions which are to be
expended on the Pacific side, will be
wasted if sufficient army be not pro-
vided to defend the intervening
stretches of the coast from attack
Gen Wood says 10000 men are
needed for such a coast guard. AT
present, there are about $4,000 infantry
and 10000 coast artillery scattered
about the country. The National Guard,
which is Included in his scheme, NUM-
bers about $4,000 men, In order to
give the Chief of Staff what he asks
for and maintain Our foreign and Canal
Zone services, and the more elaborate
fortifcations planned on the Pacific,
about double the present number of men
is needed.
The present army organization of the
United States may be inadequate. Gen.
Wood is not alone in his belief that
a maximum of 100000 men could well
be utilized 1t would not be surprising
if, within the next five years, an excess
of that maximum would be authorized
in spite of all the peace talk 1t must
not be forgotten, however, that it is one
thing 10 get Congress to authorize a
larger army and quite another matter
to obtain the recruits necessary for such
expansion.
We already have considerable diff
Guilty in maintaining our present mill
tary quota, and certainly no one, either
in Congress or out of it, will dare sug-
gest conscription.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
THE WATCHLESs AGE.
Tin. DiaIs Controlled by Wireless
Current.

From the New York Mail.
II you are fortunate enough 10 be the
owner of a valuable watch, please do not
allow this narrative to induce you to
throw 1t away. 1t will serve its intended
purpose. no doubt, for several years TO
come. Yet assurances are given that the
watchless age is rapidly approaching,
and that when II arrives the timepieces
now in vogue will be valued chiefly as
curiosities. Such at least is the state
ment of a gentleman who is himself ex-
tensively engaged in the manufacture of
watches in the Middle West.
In a few years, according to his esti
mate, when a person desires to know the
time he will take from his pocket thin
metal dial bearing marks and hands like
those used in the watches Of to-day.
Then by pressing a tiny button on the
rim the dial will receive a wireless cur
rent from a great controlling clock located
perhaps hundreds Of miles away. and in
an instant the hands will indicate the
current time. The possibilities of the
scheme thus outlined are bewilderIng.
But in the meantime-loOk out for your
watch!
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
Keeping Busy in Summer.

Still another subsidiary body of the
Chamber of Commerce has fallen into
line with the summer activity policy
adopted by other committees of that
organization. The Retail Merchants As
sociation, which is composed of men,
bers of the Chamber engaged in the re-
tail Business, met Friday and decided
to start at once the formation of credit
and collection bureau and to use the
summer months for that purpose.
This is encouraging evidence OF a
new. public. sentiment From time i'm
memorial the heated period from June
to September has been given over to
a compulsory dolce far niente in this
city. Now, however, our merchants
have begun to realize that much efec-
tive work can be done before the open
ing of the fall season, and they are de-
ternined to make use of the valuable
time of the next two or three months
for the purpose.
When we finally break away from the
old ideas regarding summer, the change
will mean much for the industrial prog
ress Of the city.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
Panama's importance.

Rear Admiral NTahan. in Century Magazine.
The military or strategic significance
of the Panama Canal is that it will be
the most vital chord in that system Of
transference by which the navy of the
United States can come promptly 20
the support on either coast of the local
defenses. which, it is to be presumed.
will be organized as Australia contem-
plates; even though the presumption be
oversanguine. in view OF our national
ignorant self-suficiency. With a compe-
tent navy, and with the Panama Canal
secured, not merely as to tenure. but
with guns Of such range as to insure
deployment in the open sea at either
end, a necessary condition of all sea-
coast fortifcar4on. invasion will not be
attempted, for 1t can lead to no ade-
quate results.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
Baseball Wives.

From the American Magazine.
In the early days a woman with ball
club was a rarity. Now it is common
for seven or eight players to take their
wives on long trips and sometimes their
children. Managers admit that the women
have a restraining and refining influence,
but they are not wanted. Often mana
gers make wry faces when notified that
some Of the men are taking their wives.
The women take the minds of the players
off the game-sometimes a good thing,
but more frequently a bad one. If there
should be quarrel the wives are certain
to take sides. Two of the Cubs lost their
tempers one night and clashed. 1t was
over in a minute and both were sorry.
Chance, sitting as a judge, passed this
sentence: 'rn fine you each SO. and if
either OF you dares tell his wife I'll make
1t $780,"
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
Building Operations.

Washington, is beingI improved stead,
lily and rapidly In tile downtown or
business section alone more than score
of important operations are in course
of construction. Four of these build
ings aHe being put uptat an expenditure
of a million or more feaeh. Others will
costS hrndreds of thousands of dollars
EVENT the casual pedestrian must be
struck wit, The building sactivity every
wherekobservable-
This reconstruction is of a private
character in contradistinction to what
the government is doing. The Wash
ington Herald referred to khe latter
phase of lthe city's development last
week whentcommenting upon the plans
of the government to erect three new
structures at a cost of $.oooyooo. The
investment of individual and corporate
capital keeps pace with ,the expenditure
of Federal funds and demonstrates that
the growth of the city is not alto
gether. dependent uponfits position as
the Nations Capital.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO.
A Prose Poem by WelI-known Washington
- Architect

colorado silent
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solenni nterf
greatu unkn
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behold o a world
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mpenetrable
The Washington herald., 1911-07-09
A HUMAN RATTLEBoX.
Freak Who Can Rattle His Ribs and
Move HIS Heart to One Side.
From the Detroit Free Press

Freak Who Can Rattle His Ribs and
Move HIS Heart to One Side.
From the Detroit Free Press
For five minutes the other afternoon
the beating of typewriters and the slash
ing of gems Of literature ceased in a De-
troit newspaper office while the staff
watched a man toss his heart about in
side his body at will and dislocate any
bone in his body he chose.
The human rattlebox,' he calls HIM
self. but his real name is Ellis Whitman,
and he was in Detroit to give demon
stration before the members of the De-
troit Osteopsthie Society.
Whitman can disIocate any bone in his
body in a twist and as quickly replace
it. He can rattle his spine against his
ribs and throw his heart from the place
1t is uopularly supposed to be located in
the body to a place in the vicinity of his
stomach. To prove that it's no fake, he
let's you feel it go.
Whitman teaches the osteopaths a lot
Of things they don't know about their
own profession by disjointing his body
and then putting it hack into human
shape. He is probably the only man Iiv-
ing who can move his heart. but doc
tors have warned him not to toy with.
that useful organ too much. 1t nearly
spelled slow music and flowers for him
once. he says.
Whitman says there's no trick about
his unusual talents, but that he was
born that way. Five years after his
birth he says his mother used to admins
ter the rod frequently because he amused
himself by throwing his shoulder out of
place. This freakish pastime was called
to the attention OF physicians. who dis
covered HIS extraordinary talents. Then
Whitman was sent on the road, and he
has been travelling up and down for twen-
ty-five years, appearing only before ply
sicians and osteopaths. He abjures the
stage and the circus side show because
he can make more money this way, and
If he appeared for the amusement of
the multitudes IT would get him in bad
with the medical profession.