davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
Anent A Municipal Court

Though the kindness of Hon. G. F.
Viebahn, the Leader has received copy
of Assembly bill No. 7O8 providing for
the establishing of municipal court in
this city. By the provision of the bill, all
the fees received are to be turned over to
the treasurers Of Jefferson and Dodge
counties, and the treasurer of the city
of WatertOWn as the records will show
the several amounts to which they are
respectively entitled. Quarterly account
reports shall be made to such treasurer
of all fees received and fines collected.
The judge Of such court shall receive a
salary Of $500 per annum, and the clerk
of said courts, a salary Of 500 per annum,
which shall be in full for all service. As
was stated in an article which appeared
in the Leader recently, the fees should
more than pay the salaries and the nom
inal expenses necessary to conduct such
court. Should there be objection to the
establishment of such a court in Water
town, it will not be because of expense,
but opposition to this city, and any man
living here who is against municipal
court is certainly no friend to the city,
and those outside of the city, will be
actuated by opposition to the locality
rather than the court or the expenses
which it will entail upon it's taxpayers.
The counties of Jefferson and Dodge and
the city of WatertOwn, should the hill
become law, will pay one-third each of
the salaries of judge and clerk, and the
same proportion of the expenses, but as
has been previously stated, the fees ought
and no doubt will exceed the salaries
paid and expenses incurred.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
The Spring Election

We do not know of any vailed reason
why the seven aldermen whose terms ex-
pire this spring should not be rejected:
Carl HuenfeId in the first ward, A. Ii.
Hartwig in the Second, j. P. Humphrey
in the tn I'd; joint. Ryan in the + ut !;
1" lillian Schimme' in the fifth; Jrhn
Kehr in the Sixth ana Ger Rr"caen
ridge in the seventh. FIR sup vi-prs,
there dose not appear to be any up Isl
tion to j. F. Prentiss. Albert Hoge, Nico-
las Murphy, W. D. Stacy, Albert Borchart,
John Mu h and Frank Auer as far as ,he
writer has been able to learn.
For school commissioners, who must
be ele ted this spring in the odd W .rds
no opposition nas been manifested
against the rejection of the present COM
missiOners. George j. Chhey, j. W.
Moore, A. Tanck Jr., and G. A. Vaughan.
For justice Of peace W. D. STAGE will
continue to succeed himself as long as
he wants the Office.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
MUST CHANGE CONDITIONS

The writer has been thinking and
figuring, and has arrived at the
following data. According to life
insurance anticipations the dura-
tons of mortal life is but S. years
and mans productive period as far
as labor is involved is II years,
but to be fair, we will admit that it
is II years, from FL to SO years.
If he earns 81 per day during the
period mentioned, and works every
day, he will earn approximately
$4,000. Then it naturally follows,
that the man who has accumulated
500, 900 has had the earnings Of
10 men and has not paid their
board or other expenses. The man
who has accumulated 81 900, 900
has ABSORBED the earnings Of 100
men and if man amasses a for
tune of $40, 900 he has had
900 men toiling for him during
the period mentioned, and if the
accumulations reaches the enormous
sum of 500, 900, 900, an army Of
10, 900 men have contributed toward
it by their toll, and the same ratio
holds good as the swollen fortunes
increase to higher figure. Thus
it will be seen, that there area
multitude of industrial serfs in this
country who think they are free,
yet they are owned by capital and
are really slaves but do not realize
it. Can conditions be changed?
That is question to be solved in
the future and it is a very serious
one, and its solution calls for the
earnest thought and effort of our
best men and women. The writer
is not a socialist, but cannot shut
his eyes to the conditions, which,
may in time produce discord and
national disorder and misery, in
which, possibly, there may be
bloodshed and great destruction of
property. Someone said. Indeed,
| tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
Burial of Mrs. Sarah Callahan

Sarah Turnbach Callahan was born in
the town of Altoona Blair Co., Pennsyl-
vania, February, 18th, 1881 and died in
Milwaukee, February Dist, 1871 at the
advanced age of eighty years and four
teen days. When twenty eight years of
age she came to Wisconsin, settling on a
farm near Portland, Jefferson G., unty.
where she spent the greater portion If
her life.
Inc last few years, she lived in the 7Ih
ward of this city until advancing wears
necessitated making her home with her
daughter, Mrs. Anna Hall of 1884 South
Pierce street, Milwaukee. Mrs Callahan
was straight forward Christian
woman, uniting with the Methodi-t
Episcopal church about twenty years ago
of which she remained an interested
and faithful member until her death.
She was active in body and mind to the
last, even making her bed on the morn
ing of the day of her departure; later in
the day she sought rest. Upon saying: II
am 80 weary" soon after passing away
in perfect peace. The funeral was held
from the home of her daughter, and the
nearby Berean Presbyterian Church con-
Quoted by Rev. N. L. Eversz Of this city.
The interment was in Forest Home
Cemetery. Besides her daughter, Mrs.
Anna Hall, she leaves one son, John Gala
han, of TAI, South Pirce Street, Milwau-
kee, to mourn the passing on, of good
mother
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
Glee Club Comma

The Lawrence GIee Cub concert will be
held in the Methodist Church. The
church will seat 40" people. The floor Of
the Sunday school room will be raised so
that the rear seats will be as desirable as
those nearer the front -Four hundred
tickets are issued 80 every ons buying
will be assured as good seat as any in
the house. The Glee Club is much stronger
than last year. A Lawrence Pennant and
a Lawrence Pillow will DE given to the
boy or girl selling the largest number
of tickers. One price SOC straight. Boost.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The Slxty-hrst congress has
passed into history and there is one
consolation, the Sixty-second can
not possibly be worse.
The only Cannon in the House
of Representatives has been fired;
that is as speaker.
Considering the notoriety surround
ing the Office, it seems rather remark
able that $500 senator should be will
ing to pay 100000 for his job.
Denmark annually exports to England
220OO0,00O pounds of butter, valued at
100000, or forty cents per pound.
Denmark is about one third the size of
Wisconsin.
Make no mistake! There is no battle
between Insurgent and Regular, Demo-
GRAFT and Republican. It is the old,
never-ceasing battle between the forces
of Freedom and those of the Despotism.
Whenever one comes to a difficult prob
lem in life, if he will simply seek for
and abide by the right on the simple
question Of right and wrong. he cannot
get very far from the correct solution.
Better to be a leader than a trailer,
and far better to be a trailer than an
idler, carping at the fact that the wheels
OF Progress are not as bright and shiny
as Imagination pictures them. Get off
the fence and push!
That $25O,OOO appropriation for tariff
inquiry secured by President Taft shOnld
furnish the siIews of war for another
glorious struggle over the tariff-and
the befooling Of the people for at least
another congressional session.
"The short horse is soon curried"-and
if the matter is left wholly to indiffer-
ent labor, perhaps neither he nor the
long horse are curried at all.
Get rid of your grouchl Don't try to
sell it; nobody wants it. Don't try to
give it away; that would not be doing
fairly by friend. Just forget it.
Occasionally you meet a man who not
only rubs ones hair the wrong way,
but who carefully pulls out a tuft here
and there to see how it is attached.
Twenty years ago Henry George was a
wild-eyed visionary; today his ideas are
in the lead, with New Zealand and
Great Britain marching behind them.
Hold family election and vote out
the cheap flashy story paper; then in it's
place, put something interesting, and at
the same time instructive and full of
merit.
Andrew Carnegie says that the Roose-
velt administration did the spade work,
and the present is sowing the seed.
Some millions of neutrality-suspicious.
Americans are wondering what the har-
vest will be.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER

Gen. Grant said that the Demo
cratic party could always be relied
upon to do some foolish thing to
help the Republicans out of bad
place.
The situation has changed now,
and silly Republicans are helping
the Democrats out. Witness the
vote Of those Insurgent Republicans
IN Congress, against the reciprocity
treaty with Canada. Was there
anything ever seen more conspicu-
Gus for inconsistency?-Fort Akin
son Union.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
A Successful Operation

Recently DR.. C. J. Habhagger preform-
ed very successful OPERATION, Albert
Bittner being the patient. For years.
Mr.. Bittner had been great sufferer
with bladder trouble, which occasion
ed him great pain and several times
came near causing death. By the opera
ton, the doctor removed from his blad-
der stone formation with edges con-
siderable larger than a marble which no
doubt had been growing in his bladder
for years. Since the operation. Mr.. Bittner
has improved in health and feels like a
a new man and is loud in his praise of
the doctor, who he feels had saved him
from the grave.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
Against The Health Bureau

Editorial from Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin. Feb 10, 1911.
1t is not wonderful that there is orga-
nized opposition to the proposed legisla-
ton for the establishment of national
health bureau. Neither is it wonderful
that sympathy with this organization
and hope that it will succeed in killing
the bill are expressed by highly intel
lectual and cultivated people, whose
voices are usually among the first to be
raised for propositions promising pro-
gress. There is some suspicion of GER
tain of the forces back of the bill, bnt
more distrust of the arrogant use which
would be made by any human beings
charged with the powers which the
measure is designed to create.
Can there be any doubt that the setting
up of such power would be inimical to
progress? In regard to the desire for
government oversight of medical prac
tice in Great Britain, Herbet Spencer
said:
"There is an unmistakable wish to es-
tablish an organization, tax-support
class, charged with the health of mems
bodies as the clergy has charged with
the health of their souls. Ard whoever
has watched how intitutiOns grow-how
by little and little very innocent-look-
ing infancy unfolds into a maturity.
with vested interests, political influence.
and strong instinct of self-preserya-
tion, Will see that the germs here peep
ing forth are quite capable, under favor
able circumstances of developing into
such an organization.
In such words great man who was a
true friend of liberty and progress utter
ed warning which should not be lost
upon the people of the Uni.e1 States.
This country gave the world the great
discovery of anasthectics. Would it
have been welcomed from obscure physi-
clans if when preached as new theory
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

OF the legal fees paid newspapers
tor the publication of legal notices.
The individuals introducing such
bills invaribly have crouch against
some publisher, and in order to
satisfy their spleen make the bill
general in its scope. The fact is,
as every publisher knows, that the
prices now paid for such publica-
tons are too low rather than too
high, and the fees should be raised
rather than lowered, and the writer
IS confident that the members will
see that no injustice is done the
publisher by any act of the present
legislature.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
Agents Wanted

A young man or woman who can de-
vote all or part of his or her time driv-
ing through the country and taking ord
ers for an article of value to every farm
er. No investment required. Position per-
manent with an assured good income.
Applicants will please give the names of
three responsible business men for refer
ences as to ability and character and at
the same time state whether you can de-
vote all or part of your time to the work
and what territory you can cover. P. O.
Box 907, Des Moines, Iowa.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
Why They Did Not Comply.

Sunday, January %, always will be
remembered in New York family, be-
cause Of an incident which happened
In Charleston, 8. c., in 1865. On that
date a baby girl was born there. On
the day of her birth the mayor Of
Charleston issued proclamation or
dering all noncombatants out of the
city, SO that they might be In no dan
ger from the Yankee troops" under
Sherman, who was threatening to de-
stroy the city. A copy of the mayors
order hangg framed In her home. On
the margin OF the paper Is written In
the hand Of the woman's mother:
Martha and were noncombatants.
but we remained"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
Time To Subscribe

The Inter Ocean Farmer and the Wa
tertOwn Leader for about the price of one
paper. Every farmer should have the
Farmer, for every issue contains useful
information for the farmer, which will
more than pay the subscription price.
Arrangements have been perfected by
which sample copies of the Farmer will
be sent to our rural subscribers. Both
papers for only So, and the offer should
be taken advantage of quickly.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
A Measure of StrenQth

The capital and surplus are the mea-
sure Of banks strength. The statement
of the Merchants National Bank OF the
front page Of the Leader show this bank
to have capital and surplus of three
b indred thousand dollars.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

there had been a government bureau Of
health? The chances are much against
the suppOsitiOn, and this will be admit
ed by all candid persons who are famil-
lar with human nature and cognizant of
what has happened in the past.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

and suggests, that our state legis-
lators take some action either ap-
proving or disappearing the action
OF our senator's. Just wait, until
the vote on the Canadian reciproc-
ity pack has been taken and then
the legislature should adopted a
resolution commendatory of the
senator who votes in the interest of
the people by supporting the pact,
which 80 per cent. Of the people of
Wisconsin want ratified.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
1T is USUALLY A CROUCH

About every session Of the state
legislature bills are introduced hav-
ing for their purpose the reduction
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

young man or boy who has some
knowledge of the printers trade, is
wanted at once at the Leader Office.
Smoke --latest Out" Sc cigar.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

WILL OF pei CCIil. OI tuS people OF
Wisconsin want ratified.
Down at Danville, Vermillion
county, Illinois, county treasurer
embezzled the trihing sum of $37,
500 of the county funds. Was he
punished? No, but settled with
the county for 335 cents on the
dollar, the money had been srent
for political friends. One of our
citizens of the political independent
class expressed himself as being
confident. that the defaulter will
succeed Cannon, for he has all the
characteristics to make him a sue
cessful representative.
A banker in New York looted the
bank of which he was manager and
vlce-president. The bank officials
of the bank urged for clemency and
his discharge. But having plead
guilty the Judge was obliged to
sentence him to one year and three
months and in the meantime his
poor depositors starve.
1t is mighty convenient to have
the pink eye" and be confined to
ones home, when it becomes neces-
sary to stand out in the opening
and be counted for or against a
proposition. Possibly, it might
injure political future by being
honest and fearless on great oc-
casions.
In order to get a slap at Senator
Stephenson, our state assembly
adopted a resolution censur;ng the
| majority IN the United State senate
IN voting to permit Senator Lor-
mier to retain his seat. A lot of
cheap skates censuring the senate
in order to make capital for the
Democrats who are enjoying the
| fracus.
The governor did wise thing in
appointing John O. Emery as his
own successor. The fact that his
appointment was opposed by GER
tain interests was his strongest re-
commentator. Mr.. Emery is
honest, and not afraid to do his
duty, and in discharge of the same
neither knows friends or foes.
1t must have been a rare sight,
that awful Cannon and John M.
Nelson going hand in hand to vote
against the Canadian reciprocity
pact. We fear that John Ms. vote
was but an echo from the senate
and not in the interest of his con-
Stifl1entc
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

acquaintance and neighbors were dis
cussing the kind of party he was.
eve ought to raise fund to bnild him
monument" one man suggested.
Rats" chOrused the crowd in protest.
who'd give anything to build him a
monuments"
Everybody would" insisted the first
speaker. WED raise it by unpopular
subscription"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
For an Idle Moment.

"Mary, / think our daughter Lucy
ought to take up callisthenics."
so do |, John. 1t would do so much
for her. What sort -Delsarte?"
"No;-domestic-t a dishrag
hustling dishpan, Juggling dirty dishes
and prOpelling brOOm!'
"What is that patient doing over there
in the cOrner?"
He's a crazy circus man who is
drawing up catalogue for an entirely
original menagerie,''
What animals has he cataIogued so
far?''
ga sun dog, moon calf, an ocean
greyhound, sea puss and an Irish bull. +"
One day small Madge heard her mother
say there wasn't match in the house.
"Never mind mamma" said the little
miss when l say my prayers tonight ILL
ask God to send us a box"
'But why ask God for matches?"
queried The surprised parent.
4" Cause, answered Madge. aunt
Jennie say matches are made in heaven"
Aman travelling westward on through
express, one day last week, left his seat
in the crowded dining car just after he
had ordered his luncheon. He went to
get something he had forgotten in the
Pullman.
When he returned, in spite of the
fact that he left a magazine on the
chair in the diner, he found a hand
somely dressed woman in his place. He
protested with all the politness he could
muster, but the woman turned on him
with flashing eyes,
'Sir. ''she remarked. hautily, edo You
know that l am one of the directors
wives?"
"My dear madam" he responded, 'if
you were the directors ouly wife l
should still ask for my chair"
every man in my congregation
should pray to be kept humble and pOOrl
thundered the minister.
81 don't need to-" piped up a little
man in front pew.
"And why is it unnecessary for you
to pray to be kept humble and pOor?"
shouted the minister.
81 live with my wife's folks"
The meanest man in town having
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10
THOUGHTS BY THE WAY.

We are in hearty accord with the
Milwaukee Journal in it's opposition
to a partisan Judiciary for Mil
waukee county. Elect the best men
next spring regardless of their
party affiliations, be they Repub-
hcans, Democrats or Social Demo-
Gratis. A mans politics does not
either qualify or disqualify him as
a Judge. Merit, character and
legal knowledge should obtain in
making choice. The party which
insists, that only men identified
with it shall be elected to the bench
should be defeated in its efforts to
lower the standard of a pure indie
pendent Judiciary.
The Milwaukee Journal calls
attention to the vote of our two
Senators on the Lorimer matter,
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

The meanest man in town having
died and been buried, bunch of his late
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

A man who was walking through a
train inadvertently left the door of one
of the cars open. A big man sitting in
a seat in the middle of the car yelled:
Shut the door, you fooll We're you
raised in barn?" -
The man who had left the door open
closed it and then, dropping into seat.
buried his face in his hands and began
to weep. The big man looked somewhat
uncomfortable and, raising, finally
walked up to the weeper and tapped him
on the shoulder.
:'My friend" he said 81 didn't intend
to hurt your feelings. I just wanted
you to close the door,"
The man who was weeping raised his
head and grinned. ''Old man." he said
81 am not crying because you hurt my
feelings, but because you asked me if !
was raised in barn. The sad fact is
that | was raised in a barn, and every
time hear an ass bray it makes me
hOmesick."
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-03-10

Donald Mcdonald, a farmer of Hoot
Ava, n. B., had married a women with
a wooden leg. Needless to say, all Hoot
Ava was amazed for Donald Mcdonald
was man with an eye to the main
chance, and it always had been cOnjec-
tured that when he did marry he would
marry good strong woman, who could
work we'll in the fields, draw the cart if
need be, and SO forth. r..
'LOsh, mOn," whispered Sandy. meet
ing Mcdonald one day on the road, why
did you do it? Was ye in loye?"
"Love be blethered," returned Nc
Donald. '1t's mebby not very bonnie
thing to marry woman wit a wooden
leg, but, mon, she'll be awful handy at
settin' time when I'm putin in my
eabOages and taties. She can just gang
on in front and make a hole VII her
stump while l follow ahind an put in
the seed-'
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-12-07
CHURCH HOLIDAY.
VIII Celebrate the Feast
Of Immaculate Conception.
Friday.

Next Friday the Catholic world Gel
ebrates the feast of the Immaculate
Conception, meaning thereby to
commemorate the event of. Mary's
conception and birth without the
stains of original sin upon her i'm
maculate soul. This is a feast day
or holy day of obligation, on which
all Catholics must. even at the sac
rifice of convenience or comfort, at
tend Holy Mass. In Whitefish Mass
will be celebrated at 8 o'clock a. m.
at which communion will be given to
all those desiring to receive the
same. Confessions will be heard on
Thursday evening and Friday morn
ing. According to a. new decree
from Rome, all Catholics are per-
mltted the use of flesh meat en- next
Friday in honor of the event.