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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-10-12
CITY SCHOOLS
Report Cards Issued.--A Word to
Parents in Regard to Marks.
4 HIGH SCHOOL BAND
And High School Orchestra OF
Ten Pieces.

Gil IIGNSS.
Report cards for the high school are
out this week Parents are urged to
examine these marks. AS usual marks
below rs are very unsatisfactory and
will be in red ink. If the parent or
guardian will sign the card we shall
now that the card has been taken
home and examined. Parents or guard
ians will please be free to see the
teachers and talk oyer the marks. Red
marks are due mostly to two causes:
1st, absence and tardiness, which if
allowed by the parents, naturally lead
to a loss of interest and lack of APP
probation of school work. 2d, dissipa-
ton of energy and interest by being
ont so much at night.
A high school band of about sixteen
pieces and high school orchestra of
about ten pieces are among the new
features of the new year.
We are beginning to think of basket
ball. Those wishing to play had better
examine t,,oir marks and see if they
are qualified.
State Super dent Cary called the
superintendents to Madison for their
annual meeting, Friday and Saturday
of last week.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-10-12
Duck Shooting.

Darlington Democrat: Bert Bruce
went up the river short distance
Saturday morning, wearing his hunting
clothes and carrying his shot gun He
returned in a little while wearing a
smile and earring six wild ducks, or
ducks that had been wild.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-10-12
STREET PAYMENT
What the Cities of Platteville and
Mineral Point are Doing i'll
this Line.

Platteville Witness; The question of
paving is becoming vital one where
paving has to be done, We have two
different kinds here-brick, and com
bination of cement and granite.
Our brick paving has cost. if we re-
member correctly. from $3.50 to $500
per running foot, ON each side.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-10-12
Special Notice.

On account of the change of firm all
persons indebted to +, W. Philips will
please call and settle.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-10-12
Instructions In Music

Instructions given in piano playing,
violin and band Instruments Apply to
Phone 276. J. w. ALpERsoN
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Everybody's Question Box-Answers to Queries

give you the name Of an excellent recipe
book.
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Times Inquiry Department:
KindIv tell me OF an unfailIng remedy for
seuiHs 'o'0o 40 SALLY.
A household authority recommends
washing light materials that are apt
IN fade in bran water instead OF ordln-
ary soap aand water. 1t is made by poll
ing two quarts of clean bran IN Two
gallons of water for one-halt hour'
strain this through a cloth, squeezing
II 10 get the glutinous mass, ana III
this wash the material. using neither
soan nor starch. This will make the
goods like new. and will prevent fadlng.
Ordinary salt and water will set dell
cate colors, and there is an OK gall
soap which is also said to set colors
in wash goods. This may be ootaineu
at any large grocery store.
Times Inquiry Department:
say recently in the Inquiry Column that
dr1y cornmeal would clean white Ielt nat
Now I have a very light tan colored hat;
and I write to ask you II corrmeal couio
he used on this, the same as on white ieI''
without injuring the color ITuy ITr y9IrTsir
You will find the cornmeal equally
successful on any light color. unless
the hat is very much soiled. Apply
the cornmeal with a piece OF sort
white flannel.
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FoR LITTLE FOLK JUST BEFORE BEDTIME
The Sandman S Stories
THE SURPRISE.

; Nellie's mother gave him a piece of sill
yer, and the monkey danced while the
man played the organ, but the music
was SO bad they asked him to stop.
The monkey wanted to get to the
children because they were eating, and
he Jumped to -he side of the wagon
and took of his cap.
One little girl offered him a bag to
help himself 10 peanuts, and. quick as
flash, he pulled it from her hand and
ran to the top Of the wagon. A limb
OF tree oyerhung the covered top,
and I'D went the monkey. pulling the
chain out Of his masters hand as he
jumped.
confusion. The man chartered in a
foreign tongue, fearing he had lost his
pet. and the monkey chartered In
monkey language. thinking they wanted
chain became entangled in the tree,
and his master was able to capture
him. When he had him safe he boxed
his ears and said something which prob
ABLY mean: You are very bad mon
key" for the monkey. put his paws
over his face and made a noise just
like child crying.
Poor little fellow" said the children;
don't hurt him.
The organ man smiled and shook his
head. Il no hurt him." he said as he
held the monkey close to him and pat
ted him. The monkey reached up his
paw and patted his masters cheek.
The children said good-by, and the
merry party drove along '.
Just before they reached the grove
they met man with a cage Of birds
Tell your fortune" he said, lifting his
! cap. So they stopped again and Nellie's
| mother arranged to have the fortune
of each boy and girl told. -
The man brought the cage to the step
| of the wagon and reached into the cage
! with a stick. One of the birds hoped
! on it and then picked up a printed slip
| of paper, and with the bird still on the
| stick the man held II toward a little
girl, who took the slip from the birds
| bill. All the birds helped to tell the
fortunes and each boy and girl had
| slip of paper when the carriage drove
away which prophesied long and happy
| life.
| Nellie thought II strange they met
| these performing animals, but her
mother told her they were on their way
to the city and it was yet early in the
| day.
| At last they reached the grove. where
| they played games until 1t was time
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Senator Warren and Wife, of Wyoming,
Are Entertained at the White House
Gen. Marshall, Wife and
Daughter Leave Today

Gen. and Mrs. William L. Marshall,
u. s. A., and Miss Maitland Marshall
left Washington today for Monterey,
Pa, where Mrs. Marshall and her
daughter will spend the remainder of
the summer. General Marshall will re-
turn to Washington Monday. joining his
family for the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. l. Weller are spend
ing the summer at their country place,
Arundel on = the Bay, Anne Arundel
county, Md.
at the French embassy. will leave
Washington toward the end of the
month for New York, from where he
will sail August 3, for two months
sojourn in France. Mr.. de Saint Phalle,
of the embassy. who is now In Canada,
will return to the city about the same
time.
Mrs. Mary Ware, Of West Point. Miss,
sister of Mrs. Fred Beail, and MISS
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Beall' at llS'
Columbia road.
Capt. and Mrs John G. Knapp, and
the latters mother, Mrs. Randolph
Harrison. will close their residence
On Twenty-second street tomorrow,
and go to Jamestown. r. l., for the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron s. Adams and
Miss Adams are at the Royal Muskoka
Hotel, Muskoka, Canada.
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Miss Marie Louise Howser, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. II. r. Howser,
will leave Washington tomorrow for
Verona, n. j., where she viii be the
guest for a week or ten days OF Miss
Mau.
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W aseating II several Of her boy and
girl friends arrived and her mother told
her that the party had begun.
At s o'clock twenty little friends were
on the porch and a large wagon with
long seats on each side was drawn to
the door by two big horses. Then the
lunch arrived in large hampers and was
stored under the seats.
Then Nellie's mother told her she was
to have a picnic party in grove some
miles away. Nellie was as excited as
any Of ner little guests, as she never
had he lrd of a picnic party and she
wondered what her mother had planned
to amuse them. The air was clear and
cool and the birds were singing in the
trees as they rode along, and the little
folk thought that everything was help
ing to make the day beautiful.
They were quite a way out Of the
city when they saw a man coming to-
yard them leading what looked like a
huge dog. but when they were nearer
II proved to be a bear.
The driver stopped his horse, and the
man with the bear said: He dance for
YOU" Nellie's mother gave him some
the bear stood on his hind legs and
danced around in a circle. He looked so
clumsy and awkward that the children
screamed with laughter. Then the bear
nut his big paws around his master
and they danced together.
His master next loaded wooden gun
and the bear pulled the trigger and then
looked at the children and laughed, or
at least It looked as though ne did, Tor
his mouth was open very wide.
One little boy threw a piece OF candy
to the bear, who ate II, and then came
TO the end Of the wagon and put his
paws on the opening looking for more.
The boy gave him the bag to get him
away, for the children were a little
frightened to have him 50 near.
The bear sat on the ground and emp
tied the bag in a very short time. The
horses were the only ones who did not
enjoy the funny bear, and they were
impatient to move on. AS they rode
away the children waved their hands to
the bear and he waved his paw, until
they were out of sight.
They had gone only a short distance
when they met a man with an organ
and a monkey. and they stopped again.
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for lunch, and then the hampers were
unpacked. And such a hungry little
people you never saw. There were
sandwiches Of all kinds and ice cold
milk, little cakes and cookies, peaches,
pears, and bananas
After lunch Nellie's mother read to
them, and then they rode home by an
other route, stopping at a pretty little
house covered with vines and roses,
where ice cream was served. for Nellie's
mother said a party was not complete
without ice cream. 1t was almost din
ner time when they reached Nellie's
house, and each little guest scampered
toward home, but first they told Nellie
and her mother they had had Just the
incest time at the picnic party and they
never would forget all the fun they had
on the way to the grove.
"I think my party was the incest kind
of a surprise" Nellie told her mother.
"and / am sure the other children were
as much surprised as I was"
Tomorrow's story-"Mr. Fox Forgets."
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Tomorrow's story-"Mr. Fox Forgets.
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Colonel Bailey and Wife
at Lenox for a Few
Weeks.

Col. and Mrs. C. ]. Bailey and their
family have closed their Washington
residence, and have gone to Ienox'
where they will spend several weeks
at the Aspinwall.
-
The. Spanish minister has gone to
guest of her sister, Mrs. Chandler An
derson, at York Harbor, Me-, for sew
eral weeks
The Rev. and Mrs. Philip NJ. Prescott
and Miss Marguerite Prescott nave gone
to Narragansett Pier for the summer.
=
Mrs. A. R. Fenning has gone to As
bury Park, and Is not expected to re-
turn to Washington until late In Au-
gust.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wescott
To Summer In Mexico.
Mr.. and Mrs. Westcott are leaving
Washington in a fortnight for York
Harbor. Me-. where they will spend
the remainder of the season.
Mrs. Fleming Newbold will leave
Washington tomorrow to spend the
summer at Cape May, n. j..
-.r-
Mrs. John F. Connor and her chill
dren left town today for Port Dover,
Canada. Mr.. Connor will join them
later in the season.
Mrs. John Melton Hudgins and her
little son left Washington today for
Jamestown. r. l., for a stay of sew
eral weeks before going abroad.
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give you the name Of an excellent recipe
book.
Times Inquiry Department:
have a handsome hat trimmed with pink
silk chiffon and in wearing 1t 30 much the
IA e to know what shade
% that could use It on
------- nat- Very truly yours. X. Y. z.
An expert dyer has told ME that 1t
will be impossible for you to have the
ribbon dyed. as the light spots are so
sunburned that they. will rot II the at
tempt is made to dye it. You might
try washing the ribbon in cold water
and ammonia, and perhaps this will
bring the original color ba1k. II not,
fear there is nothing you can do.
Times Inquiry Department:
Please tell me II there is much at the
Blue Ridge mountains in Maryland.
READER OF THE TINES.
There Is plenty Of fresh air, beautiful
scenery, and fine spring water, besides
any number Of fine hotels. many sum-
mer visitors. and amusements of various
sorts.
A correspondent writes asking infor-
nation regarding High island, In the
Potomac river, near Glen Echo, said
to be used by scientists for experiment.
al purposes. VIII some one familiar
with the subject please enlighten this
department?
70 decide a bet, a reader of The
Times writes regarding the distance
from Eleventh and F streets northwest
to Garfield Hospital. He Is informed
that s. is nearer correct
A subscriber. Manassas, Va, is in
formed that music stores in Washington
claim never to have heard of an in
strument for recording compositions
such as is mentioned in his letter OF
July O.
The Washington times., 1911-07-14
Cardboard Protects
Lace From Scissors

1t is a difficult matter to cut away the
material under lace without severing
a wrong thread occasionally, unless
means Of overcoming the trouble are
employed. Use a piece of cardboard
four inches long, rounded at one end,
and cut wide enough to slip between
the lace and material.
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President Host At An In
formal Dinner Last
Evening.

The President entertained informally
at dinner at the White House last even
ing in compliment to Senator and Mrs.
Warren of Wyoming, whose marriage
took place recently.
Dinner was served on the terrace.
Others in the party were Senator and
Mrs. NewIands, Senator Crane, Major
A. w. Butt, U. S. A.; the secretary to
the President, c. D. Hines, and Judge
Heron, Of Cincinnati, brother-in-law
to the President.
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New Chilean Minister
And Family to Sail.
The new Chilean minister, with Nine.
Quarez and their children, who have
been at the Shoreham since their ar
rival in Washington, the latter part of
June, will sail for Paris tomorrow to
spend the remainder of the summer.
r
Miss Genevieve Clark, daughter of
the Speaker of the House and Mrs.
Champ Clark, has returned to Wash
ington after a visit of several weeks
at Deal Beach, N. j., She will accom-
pany her mother, who is leaving short
ly for visit to Colorado Springs.
-
DR.. P. ]. Lennox, of the Catholic Uni
versity, and Mrs. Lennox will sail from
New York Saturday on the Arabic to
spend the remainder Of the summer
abroad. They will visit England.
Wales, and various places on the con-
tinent, attending the international con-
gress on alcoholism at The Hague In
September and will return here oc-
tober l.
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Times Inquiry Department.:
Is 1t dangerous to walk along the street
with a police whistle in the pocket during
a thunderstorm?
For one who Is compelled to be out during
such storms, where Is the safest place to
walk on the pavement or on the street?
Is there any danger in walking under trees
when you are not near the main oody OF
the tree? sCAhi
1 do not think the police whistle
would make any difference.
Between the pavement or the street,
II does not seem to me there is much
Of a choice under such circumstances.
Better stay as far away from tree
and Its branches as passible. for ex-
perts all declare that 1t is dangerous to
be in the neighborhood of trees dur
ing thunderstorms.
Please give me some OF the names Of
magazines which buy short stories and
poems Very truly. Med.
Scribners, Munsey's, Harper's, Nc
Clure's, Everybody's. Hampton's,' and
the American are all published in New
York, and all accept available stories
and poems. The address New York, Is
sufficient.
Times Inquiry Department:
Can you give me the best household cook
book that contains everything young house
keeper should know about cooking?
Very truly, MRS. NEWLYWED.
II YOU wifi send a stamped addressed
enyelope II will give me pleasure to
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r<TIMORROW Is my birthday"
said little Nellie Stewart, you
promised I should have a
party, mother"
You shall, my dear! her mother re-
piled.
But you are not getting ready for
IT," said Nellie. "and we have not in
vited any one"
wait and see," said her mother,
"you will have your party, I promise
you, but it is to be a surprise"
How can 1t be SURPRISE" said
Nellie. II know all about it,
THAT Is the surprise, you do not
know all about it." her mother replied,
you only know that you are to have a
party, but you do not know what kind
Of a party It is to be-"
Nellie went into the kitchen several
times that day, but there was no spe-
cial preparation being made and ~she
began to wonder II II could be possible
that her mother would give party for
her without refreshments.
The next morning Nellie was called
for an early breakfast and while she
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flowing, and close. and boil in boiler
for % minutes. Take out the jars
open each one for a moment, close
quickly, return to the boiler and boil
for 40 minutes longer. This same
recipe may be used for peas and lima
beans, only they should be boiled halt
hour longer.
The Washington times., 1911-07-14

Times Inquiry Department:
Please publish a recipe for canning S!IIhs
beans, and oblige, sUBSChlbEN'
After stringing them. wash and cook
in kettle of boiling water five min
utes, drain and fill into glass jars. Then
add to four quarts of water two ounces
of salt, fill the jars with this to over
The Washington times., 1911-07-14
LOCAL MENTION

Do You Like Soft Crabs? Got EN-.
Maryland Lunch, zoos Pa. ave; go 9Th.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
MUST EAT OF PRISON FOOD
Relatives of Prisoners no Longer Per
mitted to Bring Dainties to Feed
Men Being Held Pending Examina-
ton in Court

Sheriff Andrew Stahl has declared
new set of rules for the government of
the county Jail and in the future the
jail will not be made a lounging place
for friends of the prisoners. For years
the friends of prisoners have been per
mitted to come to the Jail to see the
men but the new Sheriff has declared
that these visits do not in any way
promote the cause of Justice and in the
future when prisoners are placed in the
hands of the sheriff they will spend
their time in the jail and not in the
office visiting with friends. The new
rule provides that no one shall be adj
mitted to see prisoner until after he
has been arraigned in court. After
that the man will be permitted to have
conferences with his attorney and ON
stated occasions the members of the
prisoners family will be permitted to
visit him. The second rule that is
being enforced is the ~rule providing
that the prisoners at the jail must
abide by the food furnished by the
sheriff and the little baskets of food
that have been handed in to the pris-
oners have all been cut off. Sheriff
Stahl declared that some Of the people
who were bringing food to prisoners at
the jail needed it at home and he sent
away q number of baskets declaring
that he would attend to the feeding of
the prisoners and that if they did not
like the fare they would have to ar
range to get out of Jail. Another rule
that is being strictly enforced is the
rule against smoking in the Jail. The
prisoners are not allowed to smoke in
any part of the Jail and if they man
age to get tobacco struggled in to them
it will be promptly taken away from
them.
The new rules are not popular with
the prisoners and there is lot of
discomfort being shown. One of the
prisoners has declared that he will go
into court and plead equity" to the
charges against him and take sent
ence to the state prison at Waupun
rather than to continue to live under
the existing rules.
The friends of the prisoners have be-
gun to understand that the new sheriff
means business and that his regula-
tions will carried out and the influx
of visitors is already at an end and
the bringing of baskets of food has
been stopped. Tt is the plan of the
sheriff to keep the management of the
Jail strictly III keeping with the laws
of the state and in the future all pris-
oners taken to the Jail regardless. of
race, color or previous condition of
servitude will be forced to live up to
the very letter of these new regulations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
OFFICIAL NOTICE.

Once of the City Clerk, city of Ken
osha.
Notice to property owners on Lake
avenue between Milwaukee avenue and
Howe street, in the city of Kenosha,
Wisconsin.
Notice is hereby given to the owners
of real estate on Lake avenue between
Milwaukee avenue and Howe street,
that a final determination has been
made and was made by the Common
Council Of the city of Kenosha on the
3rd day of January AID. 1911, of the
benefits to be assessed to the real estate
by reason Of the proposed improvement
upon the said avenue bv grading the
said avenue and curbing the said avenue
with cement curb and combined con
crete gutter, and paving the said ave-
nue. by brick paving upon a concrete
foundation or an asphalt macadam upon
a concrete foundation and otherwise
improving the said avenue.
Given under my hand in the city of
'Kenosha, this 5th day of January, A.
D. 1911.
George W. Harrington,
w3S City Clerk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
ChicagoCo Companies aveOver
1000 Men at Work on the
Lakes of Kenosha Co.
RECORD HARVEST PROMISED

The annual ice harvest ON the lakes
of Kcnosha county is on in earnest to-
day and the great Chicago ice com
panies have more than two thousand
men at Work and more men are being
put on just as rapidly as they can be
secured. Already more than 200 men
from Kenosha have found employment
in the ice fields and places are open
for hundred more. With the ice
more than thirteen inches in thickness
the big houses are being filled as rap
IDLY as possible and hundreds of car
loads of ice are being shipped to Chi
cago and other cities nightly. In past
years it has been the plan of the COM
panies to ship all of the early cut of
the harvest hut this year it has been
found impossible to get the cars ready
for the harvest and the houses are be
ing filled first. The Chicago companies
which began operations include the
Knickerbocker, Jefferson, Tewes, Heag-
ele, Lawler, Smith, Getting Brothers
and Boyle Ice companies and in addi-
tion to this there are six independent
concerns now cutting ice at Twin lakes
The only buildings going up are at Pad,
docks lake where the Tewes Brothers
are erecting two large rooms which it
is expected will be filed this year. It
is. expected that one-sixtb of the ice
supply of the city of Chicago will be
cut on the Kenosha county lakes this
season.
Thus far the managers of the com
panies have had no labor troubles to
contend with and it is claimed that the
men employed are stickers.' Not q
single man has quit work on any Of
the lakes. The ice men are anxious to
get the bulk Of the ice harvested by
the latter part Of January and to this
end every possible man that can be Sc
sured is being put to work. All of the
big boarding houses about the lakes
are now in full swing and the score of
saloons about the different lakes are
reaping about as big harvest as the
ice companies themselves. Tt is estim-
ated that more ice will be cut this year
than in any previous year in the history
of the industry in the county. The
Kenosha county lake ice has reputa-
tion in Chicago aud fancy prices are
demanded for it and for this reason
every house win be bullying with ice
before the season is declared at an end.
The supply for Kenosha is being cut
on Twin lakes as in other years and
special houses have been set aside for
the keeping of this ice.