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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-12-16
M. E. CHURCH SOUTH

Sunday school, $3.50 a. III. H. T.
Jones, Superintendent.
,Epworth' League $3.50 p. m. 8. E.
James, President.
Preaching 1885 a. IN. by Pastor.
"Tn Remembrance Of Me- "
The Quarterly Communion Service.
Preaching 7:30 p. m. by Rev. L. 8.
Cunningham, Of clarKsburg, Persid-
ing Elder. ~ " q e,'s" - Is'H
Il Sis, Ii, The sttomcial visit Of opir
Presiding Elder and a large, cohgre,
CATION should greet him.
Quarterly .confeEseppes Monday at
1880 p. m. ''s ~ I (,
r. PALATINEi Baptist CHURCH.
s,.-.s eeorsb sspruut ,Pastats. ,.s;s
/ VIM. A. iiustead, superintendent .ol
Sunday school. :.
$3.50 Sunday School,, q,
/ 1875: az address by, President
Wo6dley. u
G:S0 B. Y. p. u.
q 7;so an ADD address BY sn,pat Jos Res
: II. will be a special day with US and
YOU VIII, have, an opportunity to hear
two Of the best, educators OF the
State. Come. w.
You will miss something Il you arc
not at Sunday school.
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FARMlNeToM MEIHopIsT ,EPIs.
~ coPAl CHURCH 7"

Rev Samuel o. zones, Pastor r,l
Morning Sunday iscloolpc9: 2os -
Morning. teachlng!S10. 96pisubject
Mans Gteatest Dutstf .gl;tnc. 4
Eseninsa pEoFlh sLagie, ssss9: a.
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The ~. Il Temple Christian Endeay.
os WIN hold cllrIstmas basaaf IN
The Manley hotel Friday ana Saturday.
Dec. 10 and Je. xxxx'
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large Sunday lsehoolEcis antlci
DIAMOND sTREET NJ. e.

The public generalIy d. Invited.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
MANkATo WILL CONTEST.
Nephews and Nieces Of Matthias stoffel
Put in Claims.

Mankato.-A contest over the es-
tate of Matthias Stoffel, who was found
dead in his bed in the house where
he lived alone, has been started. A
short time ago Mrs. Anna Hall, of
Beamer, Neb., and Mrs. Theresa Rem
ner, Of Darfur, Mimi, put in claim
for the estate, amounting to about
$4,000, as Stoffel left no children and
was widower. They said they were
adopted children and asked that an
administrator be appointed. Eight
nephews and nieces object to the ap-
pointment of the person petitioned
for and say the two petitioners were
never adopted by Stoffel, and ask that
another be appointed administrator.
The court yesterday adjourned the
hearing until April 6, to allow Mes
danes Hall and Renner to produce
proof of their adoption.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
PLAN MANkATo.sr. PETER ROAD.
Commercial Club to Survey Route Of
Proposed Electric Line,

st. Peter. AT ameeting of the
Commercial Club, H. E. Hance, of
Mankato, addressed the members on
behalf of the interurban electric line
that is proposed between Mankato and
st. Peter, and asked the club to raise
q part Of the expense of making a per-
manent survey, estimated at $500, say
ing that Mankato has already raised
its share. .- s -.
He produced letters from business
men, farmers and others in Iowa
showing the benefit of such lines to
the towns and farming communities
on them. He said that eastern pro-
moters stand ready to finance the pro-
posed road, having agreed to furnish
60 per cent Of the capital If Mankato,
st. Peter and Kasota would raise the
rest.
Mayor Ed. Borneman, M. b. John
son and A. M. Jensen were appointed
committee to raise the 5000 required
of st. Peter for the permanent survey.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

But whatever the exact mode of disposition,
the significance is the same-the obsolete vessel
Is considered funk" though it still be
capable Of usefulness in small way. When it
was announced last year that the powers that be
at the naval headquarters had designated some
$5OOOO,O0 worth of warships to be sent to the
scrap heap there were gasps of establishment
from good folk all over the land who had thought
that when we built a warship we made a perma-
nent investment. Yet that shock is likely to
have frequent repetition. Indeed, it looks as
though the discards every calendar year would
reach or exceed the fifty million mark on the
basis of original cost. The year 1911 is not very
old and yet it has brought tidings of the pros
pect1ve compulsory retirement of number of
costly ships-some of them completed only
few years ago and supposed to embody all the
lessons we learned during the Spanish-Amerfcan
war
Every merchant knows that it is not good pol.
Icy to hold on to dead stock" simply because he
paid out good money for it once upon a time,
and SO Uncle Sam Is following an approved bust
ness principle in this scheme of taking frequent
inventory of his naval possessions The plan of
actually getting rid of surplus craft came about
through the sale junk few years ago of the
last of the old Civil war monitors These brought
fair prfces-better proportionately than have
been bid for some vessels less ancient Then.
all of a sudden, with the appearance of the Brit
ish battleship "Dreadnaught" there was unex.
pectedly ushered in the present era of the "all
big gun" ships, an era that in effect brought to
an untimely close many promising careers in
warshipdon-cut short, in other words the use
fitness of number of unarmored and lightly
arn1ored craft that might have continued in the
vocation for which they were built for many
years yet had it not been for this new fad for the
heavily armored sea warrior
Battleships are, according to present IDEAS the
longest-lived Of all warships. OF the more than
thirty heavyweights Of the naval fighting force
which have been constructed by the United
States, only one has as yet been condemned to
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

the brief space of a decade or two-not worn
out, to be sure, In the literal sense of the word,
but out of date that it is not very serviceable
just is womans gown made in the fashion
Of several years ago.
1t is appalling to people who think that a
house wagon or carriage plano wears
out more quickly than it ought to realize how
much more rapidly, proportionately, an all-metal
warship, built to Withstand an enemy's shot and
she'll, will outive its usefulness without ever
having fired hostile shot been made the tar
get of an enemy's gun. And the worst of tat
least from the standpoint of the people who
think that altogether too much money is being
spent for death-dealing paraphernalia- that
the active life of the average warship appears
to be steadily growing shorter. Time was, not
SO very long ago, when the active life of a war
ship was supposed to be at least twenty years,
but SO rapidly do fashions in war craft change
IN this effete twentieth century that the busy
career of a fighting craft Is much shorter
than score of years.
Partly because of these tendencies to short
life on the part of warships and partly because
he has come to be the owner of the second larg-
est navy In the world, Uncle Sam has been
mighty busy this past year or two revising his
category Of warships. He has been wedding
them out right and left, If such term may be
used. It is customary to say, In the popular
form Of expression, that Uncle Sam has been
selling out his WORKOUT warships, and yet,
strictly speaking, that hardly expresses the sit
uation. For one thing, the ships are not liter
ally worn out, as has been explained above, and
hen again the government has not been selling
out" In all instances. Indeed, in the case of
some of the obsolete ships put up at auction the
bids received have been so low that indignant
naval officers have been wont to remark that the
navy department has been giving away" its
has beens" In not few instances the govern
ment-sometimes because no outsider would pay
a rational price-has been driven to using it's
old warships in ways never anticipated when the
ships were built.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

snarps a chance to foresee just what is liable I'd
happen in the naval battle of the future and to lay
their plans accordingly.
While out battleships even though some of them
built full twenty years ago, continue IN tash'
ion very different fate has befallen the steel
monitors which once ranked next to battleshtps
in the estimation Of our naval authorities and
everybody else Uncle Sam mad nearly dozen OF
these armored monitors-a distinctive Yankee In
vention that originated during the Civil war-but
they have all been sold off relegated to fgnont
nous duty. This fate has even befallen the Ne
vada the Florida Clater the Tallahassee) and the
others of the quartette of modern monitors which,
were constructed for coast defense, only little
more than decade ago and cost million and
half dollars each .- ..:
An immense collection of warships that Is rap
idly passing is that made up of cruisers such as
the Boston, Marblehead Detroit and score Of
others. Some of these have already been retired
from service while others are yet employed for
Excepting peace" in Central America and for patrol
work. particularly in shallow waters where the bat
tleships can not readily find anchorage. However,
they have neither the speed nor the armor ID
enable them to take a hand in up-todate warfare
on the, seas as it would be conducted in this day
and generation by any up.to'date power and SO
gradually they will have to give way The same
Is truo Of some of the gunboats built long ago
though not few Of them are yet adapted to patrol
duty where iAsse is no danger of heavy fighting
and as for our p1o.eer torpedo boats why they are
far outclassed that the battleshp fleet has been
using them up by one for several years past
targets during the sem1-annual target practice,
Since the navy department found that adequate
bids cannot be obtained for many of the vessels
which it is discarding but which are perfectly ser
viceable in SO far seaworthness is concerned.
it has been considering the suggestion made by q
number of congressman that these vessels be
turned over to the naval militia of the various
states for as training ships or practice ships
Vessels such the cruisers Charleston and st.
Louis would be ideal for such purpose.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

actually played it for en- hour as Il
swan to and fro in mtdstream.
1T is such stories which brfna
down on fishermen the unmerited re,
proach of being liars.
Once when I had been desrribin;
some memorable fight with one of tn,
big fish of the past wru1e:
~ live over those tens. momens
again and again
Did the printer so interpret rx
Not at all. What he preferred w21
f" I lie over those tense 1ser n
again and axainf'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
1911 Graduating Class
University Of Minnesota

Clara Shepley, Minneapolis.
Eva r. SherWin, Monticello.
sshl %sns S 9Rs!nase'd'
Alice Smith, Minneapolis.
Ve erpn = s Smiifhh G GT;otoa; & D.
RRaxansth starr. Minneapolis:
Theodor stenens. New Vim.
3fena sti fiesv1&Gii nin Ma@ifap0l'
Joseph J. .Stratte, Dawson.
Mary D. Swain, Elysian.
Eisnehe sTE ennison AMan entieeeiio:
NAY A. Thompson, Los Angeles. Cal.
Aass TTl1ts9a; Ms!a tiiiMs{e7
EE afma = 4 3,, Turnquist, Minneapolis.
Aifred Xoilum; HAYWARD.
anSseR T wa WsFs M m1eaeaRSl'''
Anna Vents, Red Wing. 80.
a aE %efsof Wfns Ttsss9Ma a ma!5z
H E1orsng 3 n Wbqt 81 Yyaley City N
M Minid9ed W w"d,: Jamestown; n D.
Georgia NJ. York, Minneapolis.
G Sfaneae 4 THog 7ssba Min sf p9lis
l
Frank Zoubek, Excelsior. -.
Education.
Joseph Il. Anderson, Amboy. ..
Fred A. Andert, Morris.
Frances E. Blake st. Paul, r-
Minnie e. Brattland, Ada,
Georgia L. Burgett, Faribault.
| Jennie Clark. st. Paul
Alice L. Corbett, st. Paul.
Helen L. Currier, Minneapolis.
Margaret e.. Davis. Minneapolis.
Ida F. Davidson, Granada
v1v1enne r. Doherty, Minneapolis,
Grace ,. Doremus, Duluth. ."
Marie Erd, Duluth.
Wis.
Pearl c. Hanson, Duluth.
Ruth p. Hermann, Minneapolis.
Dora Jensen, Minneapolis.
Nettie Moulton, Dawson.
Wesley E. Pe1k Minneapolis.
Ruth e. Peterson, Ortonville.
Use 3: Probst, st. Paul.
ALA 3. Ransom, Minneapolis.
Frances H. Relf, st. Paul.
Bess Shannon, Minneapolis.
Mary E. Spencer, Hankinson. N. ID.
Vera E. Stricken, New Ulm.
Earl Sweet, Blue Earth
Elsie l.. SWitzer, Minneapolis.
Clementine Whaley. st. Paul.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

ever was during her active
career. It is most essential
for the planning of the bat
ties Of the future that our
naval experts shall know in
advance just how modern
high explosives, when fired
from present-day guns of the
heaviest class, will act when
they encounter the resist
ance of the armor on a bat
t1eship. Tests with such
a1.mor set up as a target on
shore do not give exactly
the same conditions that
would obtain in a fight at
sea. The discarded Texas,
however, anchored to re-
ceive gun fire just as though
she were a hostile battle
Is- s,,:11 rr91y@ thu rouo3
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

SIZE.
Wireless Around tho World,

In report from Singapore, Consul
General Dubois says that he heard
that it would cost only about $5,0o0,-
900 to connect the British possessions
all over the world by a wireless
telegraphy system. The annual cost
Of operation would be about 81, 000, 900,
but that does not seem much when
the advantage Of uninterrupted com
munication from Montreal to Cape
Town is considered. Stations would
be required at Montreal, Glace Bay
and Vancouver, Canada; Hongkong.
Singapore. Perth, Adelaide and sgd.
ney. Australia: Wellington, New Zea-
land; Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria,
Egypt: Alden. Bombay, Colombo, Nom
basa. Durham, Cape Town, Bathurst,
Sierra Leone and st. Helena, Africa.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
WATER SUPPLY FOR mooRHEAD.
City Council Drilling for Vein Of Pure
Artesian.

Moorhead.-After working for near
ly five months in an effort to find a
suitable water supply for the city, A.
J. Hanson has struck water at level
Of 189 feet. Although this is as far
as he is now directed by the city
council to go, Hanson states that he
does not believe that he has as yet
arrived at the right level of water, but
that few feet more would yield an
abundant supply. The drill has struck
q vein of gravel and Hanson is of the
opinion that it is beyond this vein Of
gravel that pure water in abundant
supply is to be found. IL
The present well will be ten inches
inside diameter, and is but the first of
a series of wells which the city in
tends drilling If an adequate amount
Of water can be found. It is the plan
to do away with the present water
supply from the river and to substi.
tute one Of pure artesian water.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

For one wild moment he thought
there were visions about, but the ex-
PLANTATION was soon apparent. A trout
had first seized the worm and had
then in turn been seized and gorged
by heron. Away tapped the heron,
only to find that 1t had captured
something of unusual weight.
"Still, it bravely flew toward It's
nest in .he treetops, and the angler
might never more have recovered his
rod had it not got entangled In some
telegraph wires, with the result that
the cast snapped.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
Duluth Naval Mllitia to- Particinate

Duluth Naval Militia to Participate.
Duluth.-The Duluth naval militia
on the retaining ship Gopher will help
in the celebration of the opening Of
the new training station at Lake Bluff,
ILL.,, about three miles north Of Chi
cago. The activities will take place
between June and 10, with celebra-
ton OF naval manuevers. Nine war
vessels, smaller craft Of the navy, now
being used at various places for the
training Of the naval militia, are to
assemble in Lake Michigan of Chi
cago. for the maneuvers. They will
participate in celebration that will
last during the greater part of the
summer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
'HANNAFoRD IS DEAD.
Former Member Of Legislature Is Vic
tim Of Tuberculosis.

Monticello.-Al Hannaford. for fonr
years treasurer Of Wright county and
legislative representative from the
Forthwith district for the same length
Of time. died in his home here VIC
tim Of tuberculosis. He was 81 years
Of age and leaves widow and one
son. Mr.. Hannaford was an old time
resident Of this county and for many
years was prominent in politics.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

the graveyard. This exception is the Texas, and
perhaps the officials were all the more ready to
get rid of her because she was "hoodoo" ship.
Readers will remember that she did not behave
any too We'll during the Spanish-American war.
and since then she has been afflicted with such
a steady run of i'll luck that many of the blue
Jackets grew superstitions about venturng to
sea in her. Thereupon she was made a station
ship" at a navy yard and now within the past
few weeks the navy department has decided that
she is truly useless and she will be used as
target. In this function she may be of more
benefit to the navy, though Indirectly than she
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

II remember telling this story to
man who before I had even got as
far as the telegraph wires interrupted
me with the assurance that it was
mere everyday commonplace to what
had once befallen friend of his when
mahseer fishing In india.
1T seems that his angling friend
was casting with large spoon, and
in back cast dro7e it into the ear of
tiger which had been going to spring
on him from behind. Goaded by the
pain, the brute sprang clean over him
and into the river. and the fisherman
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
SEED TRAIN At BRECKENRIDGE.

Breckenridge. The good-seed spec
ial train of the Northern Pacific rail-
way stopped in this city and was
greeted by body Of business men and
the city band The meeting was held
in the Commercial clubrooms. which
were crowded with farmers. Tho
speakers were A. D. Wilson, O. N.
Olson and Thomas Cooper Of the state
agricultural college; ]. Y. Bopp. as.
sociate editor Of the Northwestern
sFarmstead, and D. A. ilson, deve1op-
ment agent Of the Northern Pactaa.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
kAsoTA MAN KILLED ~ TRAIN.

Horse Stops On Track and Passenger
Hits Rig.
Kasota.-Martin Anderson died at
Mankato as the result Of injuries re-
ceived while driving across the Chi.
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
tracks. His horse, it is said, stopped
in the middle Of the crossing and the
rig was struck by an approaching pas
senger train. The horse was killed
and Anderson, although hurried to a
Mankato hospital, failed to recover
from his injuries.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
ENCOURAGES PEARL HUNTING.

Ankeny Declares That 1911 Will Be
Another Good Year.
Misunderstanding to w. R. An
keny, Of Bellevue, Iowa, who is an
authority on pearls, the 1911 pearl
season may be expected to net as
good returns as that Of 1910. The low
water Of 1910 permitted the location
Of fine clam beds, many Of which will
be worked the present year. While
bushels OF white gems were found last
year. there were only few extraor-
binary pearls.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
Time 9avIna.

A new variation OF the now lone
familiar while you wait" sign 10
found in an uptown avenue where I
barber shop and . tailoring shop
stand side BY SIDE In front Of the
building hangs sign on which are
displayed the name Of the tailoring
concern and the name Of the barbe1
shop and this announcement.
Butts cleaned and pressed While
ron ~ gsttin3 shaved. 9
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
FISHERMEN ARE HANDICAPPED
Circumstances Very Hard for Them
When They Have Big Stories
to Tell,

A fisherman who was worming for
trout on the Ythan," says writer in
Bailey's Magazine, ''had just laid his
rod down to visit his sandwich box,
when, without warning, 1t suddenly
rose in the air and scared away like
a Bleriot hiplane over Esslemont
+, Woods
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
BOYS BLOUSE.

No mother win mind making a num-
Der Of blouses II she employs as sim
pie a design as the one illustrated It
is the plain sailor blouse, which all
boys like, closed In the center Of the
front and with large ornamental col
lar trimming the neck The sleeves are
tucked at the wrist and patch peck
ct is placed on the left bosom.
This blouse must be made Of the
material best suited to the weather
and the climate in general. Flannel,
serge, certain colors In cheviot, gtng-
ham. madras, percale, etc.
The pattern (16s4) is cut In sizes
3 to IL years. Medium size requires
u yard Of sc inch material.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" Of this paper.
Write name and address plainly. and be
sure to give size and number Of pattern.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05

This is an apron that really protects
and no matter what the wearer is do
Ing her gown will not suffer-
The entire apron is cut in a single
piece, but in order to fit it little
to the figure dart is run in under
arm at each side. The apron is cut
quite deep. around the yoke line and
the armhole is also large. The fas-
tening is effected by single button
just at the line Of the shoulders in the
back
Bingham is the material best liked
for real utility aprons and 1t is best
adapted to this one. The edges may
be hemmed or bound with some cheap
cotton braid matching the Bingham TN
color. There are a number of white
calicoes with a marked design that
makes pretty aprons. though less serv-
lceable.
The pattern (4s30) is cut in sizes 80
to "A inches bust measure. Medium
size requires yards of 36 inch ma
terial.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
70 Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number Of pattern.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
ANOTHER SKY scRAPER.
George Benz Announces Huge New
Building for Minneapolis.

BuIId1hg Tor minneapolis.
Minneapolis. = George Benz, presi-.
dent Of the George Benz & Sons
(liquor dealers), and owner Of a vast
amount of real estate and controller
of several theatrical enterprises in st,
Paul, will erect a 100000 building
for Office purposes in Minneapolis. It
will be located in the heart of the
business district, but Mr.. Benz de-
clined to give the exact location.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-05
HANDsHAkE CAUSES DEATH.
Winona Hotel Man Loses Life In Pc
culiar Manner.

Winona. Henry c. Williams.
aged forty-six, proprietor Of the
Davenport hotel, died after physi-
clans had administered chloroform as
an anaesthetic and were working oy.
er him. He had greeted friend
by shaking hands and dislocated his
shoulder. Physicians were called and
heart failure caused death after the
patient had been anaesthetized.