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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23

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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23
BIG BOATS IMPRAcTIcAeLE.
Lake Superior Scout Suggestion Of
1,2OO Footers.

Some of the lake captains are scout
ing the idea of the possibility of 1900
foot boats on the lakes for the present
generation at least.
In reference to the prophecy recently
made by Supt. Sabin of the 500 canal
Capt. John Tower of the steamer James
Il. Reed, says: The OO-footers are
too unwieldy. They haven't enough
power for their size to turn in a
heavy storm. This was proved in the
great storm six years ago. when so
many vessels came TO grief on the
south shore course. The talk about
l20O-footers Is foolish"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23

A bakery has been recently put into
operation in Glasgow in which all the
processes OF making the dough and
shaping the loaf are done automatical-
ly by electricity.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23
Swans Mistake Fatal.

Under curious circumstances a
large black swan killed itself in Mel
bourne lately. After shower of rain
the bird mistook a galvanized iron
roof for a sheet of water, and sweep
ing down onto 1t was killed.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23
RIPE STRAWBERRIES.

Few places in Michigan can claim TO
be closer to the banana belt than on
tonagon. Chas. McCorry. conductor on
the Ontonagon Railroad brought a ba-
sin full of strawberry and raspberry
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23

Local Office Y. S. Weather Bureau
Houghton, Mich, oct. 20. 1911.
Forecasts Til 7 p. M. Tuesday;
Copper Country: Tonight clearing.
Tuesday fair.
Upper Michigan: Fair tonight, tenn
pcrature near freezing Tuesday fair.
Lake Superior: Moderate to brisk
west TO southwest winds.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23
WHAT
| WENT
THROUGH
Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Natick, Mass. II cannot express
what went through during the chanpa
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23

Until then there viii be HYSTERICAL BOOMS anywhere
America Then things should become normal and PROSPEROUS
if the present danger of labor strikes is AVERTED
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23

The government owns all railways
In Japan. "A 7,ai
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23

Advertise in The News for results
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-23

III THOUGH AMERICAN FINANCES ARE IN A SOUND CON-
I'D DiTloN, THERE WILL BE A PERIOD FINANCIAL QUE
il tube UNTIL AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL
TON, WHICH ALWAYS UNsETTLEs THINGS
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
Canadians are Wary.

The Republican argument that a
high tariff is necessary to maintain
"the high American wage is shown
up as false, by the presence Of sev-
eral American manufacturing commun
tiles Of agents Of Canadian manufac-
turers, who are gathering figures to
show that Canada cannot compete a.
gainst American wages.
The Canadians, for innstance, are
learning that men work in the steel
mills twelve hours a day, and seven
days a week for a dollar and a half
a day. It is because they do not wish
to compete against the cheap for
eign immigrant labor employed by
the steel and other trusts that some
Of the Canadians are urging the de-
feat Of reciprocity.
And yet, the republican protection
lists have argued all these years that
the great danger of American labor
was the possibility that it might have
to compete with the cheap labor of
other countries. The information
gathered by the Canadians knocks
the legs from under that ancient con.
tention, so far as Canada is concern
ed, at least.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
A White House Influence.

In the haze of scandal that hangs
over the Taft administration the form
of Charles P. Taft, capitalist. busy
multiplying his dollars, is plainly dis
cemlDle. AS the curtain is lifted on
each succeeding scene of scandal the
president is in evidence, and around
him, shaping his course, are men who
are the acknowledged agents of those
forces that are trying 10 shape human
ity to the dollar.
When he was elected he inspired
in the many who are known as pro
gresSive republicans the belief that
he had made his choice between pub
lie and private interests. Perhaps
he had. But always before him he
must quite naturally see his brother
and his brothers. wealth. From his
nativity, wealth and its emblems have
been the be-all and end-all of the son
of plutocracy. Yet he means we'll.
He has a good heart. His great hand
leap is that he has so many about
him who know exactly what they
want and to whom the public good is
the last consideration.
Therefore it would seem that it
matters little what large schemes are
promised or prophesied, so long as
Mr.. Taft sits in the executive chair.
The president has as little chance to
succeed as the executive of the ma
tion, as man in any other walk of
life might have if he tried to serve
two masters.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
Put "Punch" Into Your
Advertising

When you are attacked by someone
who wants to do you bodily injury,
If you are the average American man
you straigh:en out your body and
give the miscreant a direct hit from
the shoulder that lays him out-a
candidate for the hospital.
That is called punch.
But there are other kinds of punch.
Every kind Of human action original.
ed by a human being may be strong
or weak according to the energy put
into it by the person. The effect of
those actions on the rest of the world
or on any particular person, when
those actions make a deep and para
lying impression, is called punch. We
talk about the punch of a theatrical
play, meaning the strong, permanent
blow of its action on the feelings of
the audience. A story has punch and
the most ordinary clerk in your store
can give punch to his daily work and
life that will leave a lasting impress
sion on the people with whom he
comes in contact. 1t is punch that
makes you succeSSful-without punch
you cannot even hope to start on the
road to prosperity.
Punch should enter into every ac-
ton of your life. If you pray, put
punch into it. If you sell goods in
your store, put punch into the sell
ing talk. Punch shows sincerity Just
the same as that blow from the Shoul
der on the part of the man. If you
look a woman or man in the face
and put punch into the arguments an,
suggestions you use to sell the goods
you will create an impression that 70
believe in what you sell and that fact
alone goes a long way towards con,
summation of the sale.
When you look carefully over the
written accounts of the man and wo.
man who have made history and beer
really great in all walks of life, you
will find innumerable instances OF
punch, showing clearly that success
was built on it, as much as on their
other actions.
Many men and women believe all
that is necessary to secure success in
life is to conceive an idea or set of
ideas and carry out the actions in col
nection Herewith along we'll defined
rules. They even become initiative
and follow the rules laid
down by the great men
and women have enumerated. That
is the road to failure. No matter how
good your plans are or well laid the
methods Of carrying them out, you
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
National Road Building to be Demot
critic Policy.

Speaker Clark plans to make good
roads an issue of the next campaign.
As a member of the Lincoln Memoir
ial commission Mr.. Clark is advocat-
ing the building of a great highway
from Washington to Gettysburg, "as
nucleus of a great system Of ma
tional roads built by the government
in cooperation with the states The
majority of the commission favors a
marbel arch in Washington, which
the Speaker says would form a fine
meeting place for English sparrows,
but which would not fit in with the
practical character of the great Lin
coin. The Speaker has induced the
President to defer action until legis-
lation can be passed permitting the
building of the road. He will then
work for the adoption by the govern
ment of a naional road building pol
icy. ...
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
A County Fair with a Purpose.

West Chester Pa-Managers of tn,
Chester County Agricultural AssOcia-
tion vino are preparing for their an
nual fair which will be held at Shell
ler's track, this place, September 5, 6
Z and 8, want to keep the boys and
girls stay on the farm. They want to
see the boys take interest in the corn
which is grown in the country and
they are anxious to see the girls good
cooks.
The management have noted the
tendency of the boys to look city
wards and the girls to neglect house
hold dnties for office work, in the
towns. They have made a special Of
fer for the boys and the girls. A
prize is offered to the boy between IA
and 20 years, who can raise the best
ten ears Of corn, six stalks of corn.
and the best potatoes. This prize is
twelve weeks course in state col
lege.
The girl who can show the best
pound loaf of wheat bread, a dozen
ruSk, one pound Of cake and five var
ietieS Of Jelly will receive a prize
equal in value to that of the boy.
John H. Darlington of West Chester
president of the association, said of
these offers: 1T is surprising how
many boys and girls are acquainted
with real work on the farm. Once
they get into it they learn to love the
work and the lure Of the city has less
effect upon them. l consider the Of
ferng OF prizes for their work and the
display one of the best influences of
a county fair and no one can tell
how far-reaching the effect will be-
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18

Max Moore, who, for the past elev.
en- months has been employed In this
office as street man and manager, re-
signed his position Saturday evening
and left the next morning for North
Bend, Oregon, where he has two
brothers in the agricultural line. Mr..
Moore goes to look over a PROPOSE
tion that has been offered him there,
and II it looks good will take it up,
in which event he will remove his
family to that point. Mr.. Moore was
an excellent employee, always attend
ing strictly to his business. We very
much regret his leaving US. His son,
Harold accompanied him, as did also
L. c. Miller, who got taste Of the
west last spring and thinks he wants
more Of It.
G. A. Porter was in Larned Satur.
day last looking after a building con-
tract.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18

A raw deal is what A. A. .Diel Of
Hoisington thinks he got when he
got married, at any rate he has
brought suit for divorce from his
wife. Neva Jane Diel.
Tom Harper is down from his
ranch in Trego county on a visit.
Roy and Ina Davis have returned
from a visit with their sister, Mrs.
Faye Coffman, at Cullison. Mrs. Coff.
mann returned home with them.
Mrs. j. H. Gregg was up from Ellin,
wood Saturday Of last week visiting
her sister, Mrs. viii Rubart.
Miss Katie keenan, is visiting
friends in Kansas City and also spend
Ing a few days at Excelsior Springs.
John Garner came up from Morton
county last week on a business trip.
Mrs. S. S. Hawkins has returned to
her home in Shawnee, Okla, after a
visit of several weeks with her par.
entss, Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. McAdams. .
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Wood of Otta,
wa, and Mr.. and Mrs. /. L. Wood, Of
Hoisington, visited with Mr.. and Mira
j. E. DeMotte, last week.
The Misses Ida and Martha Gagel.
man, Flora Smith and Mrs. Harry )
Allen visited with Mrs. Oscar Lunde
in Hoisington last week.
DR.. Spiers Of Ellinwood was an
early Monday morning visitor to this
city on professional business.
The ball game last Friday between
the High School and the Clerks OF
the city league team, resulted in a
victory for the former by the score Of
. to l, the Clerks getting their lone
some run in the 9th. inning,
Miss Mabel Biggs visited with Miss
Edna Robinson at Heller several days
last week.
Death entered the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wash Shafer of Shafer, Kans.,
last week and took therefrom their
ten months old child. Mr.. Shafer,
who is a brother Of Mrs. George
Greene, Sr., and Frank Shafer, Of
north of town is we'll known here.
His many friends extend their sym.
pathy.
D. W. Dawson and c. S. Allison
were in Kansas City Saturday Of last
week on business.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
Wickersham An Issue.

That Attorney General Wickersham
will become a campaign issue by 1912
is regarder as certain by those who
are looking ahead. Wickersham has
permitted Taft to become besmirched
in the Pinchot and other matters.
Wickersham was on the side of Bal
lnger against Pinchot just as he is
at present against DR.. Wiley. Devel-
opments in the steel trust investiga-
don furnished fresh evidence that
Wickersham exemplifies the alliance
between the Republican party and
mOnopolists. In the opinion Of many
the sequence Of all this will be that
Taft will get many a whack over Wick
ersham's shoulder.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
WILL HAVE TO REGISTER BABIES

Topeka, Aug. S.-Kansas babies
ought to be just as important as pure
bred hogs, sheep COWS, horses and
poultry but for thirty years the birth
OF pure bred farm stock has been an
event worthy Of recording while most
people seemed to think there was no
use recording the fact Of their baby s
birth. But all this is changed new.
The Kansas vital statistics law went
into effect today when the various
registrars OF the state received their
supplies and all the births and deaths
since July l will be recorded in the
state house, as well as in the regis
tration district where the birth or
death occurred.
Last fall the need Of birth record
was impressed on Kansas people and
the 1911 legislature enacted the law,
although It did not give sufficient
money to enforce it properly. Some
twenty years ago a boy was born in
Topeka Of foreign parents. Some
years ago he returned to Europe with
his parents and last fall he, now
young man, decided to come back to
Kansas to live. But the United States
immigration officers would not admit
MIN to Kansas as he had no proof of
being a native born American. The
young man was held at Ellis Island
for several months until the Rev.
Father Hayden Of the Catholic church
here hunted up the physician who Of
ficiated at the birth of the boy and
the physician discovered in some of
mis- old accounts a record of his at
tendance. The government officials
accepted this record and the young
man is now working in Topeka.
The recording Of deaths is import
ant to the state health officials as it
will show the plague spots where GER
tain disease are most prevalent and
will enable them to adopt corrective
measures to stop the disease. Hardly
a day passes by that the state officials
are not asked for birth and death re-
cords by the government, other states
insurance companies, administrators
Of estates and foreign governments.
Often the settlement of estates de-
pends on he age of certain persons
or the date of deaths. Heretofore
there has been no record of this kind.
Hereafter there will be a record.
There are AS local registrars. One
in every organized town in the state.
Each of these registrars has certain
country territory in his district and
each birth and death in the district
must be reported to him. He reports
each month to the state registrar, w.
j. V. Deacon. The state regards bab-
les of so much importance that it re-
quires the counties to pay % cents
each for the registrar of each one.
This money goes to the local regis
trars. While the law has been in ef-
feet over a month it could not be en-
forced because the state printing plan
could not get out the blanks which
must be furnished to the registrars.
The blanks are now being sent out.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
MORE RUSSIAN THISTLE NEWS

The Russian thistle, the curse OF
Western Kansas and Eastern Colorad'
Is invading Reno county.
Scores of the thistles are being
found by farmers, and If they go to
seed tHSfaIl, Ihene will be widespread
devastation by the pest, which will
kill out growing grain in fields.
The county commissioners of Reno
county, recognizing the importance of
quick action has issued a notice to
all township trustees ordering them
to comply with the law requiring that
such injurious weeds be killed in all
the roads.
The trustees are now looking after
this, and in every part Of the county
the road overseers aided by the farm
ers, are waging war on the thistle.
Reno county has been free of this
pest, but It is claimed that the bal
last brought in by the Missouri Paci-
fic, from Western Kansas, for ballast
ing the track of this division, con-
tanned the seeds of the thistle.
The county commissioners have
checked the matter up to the railroad
company, which is endeavOring to
stamp out the pest along its tracks
and on is rightOf-way, the section
hands along the road all being order
ed to kill of the thistles where they
find them.
1t has been suggested that if the
farmers would all carefully look over
their fields they could, in a few hours
eradicate what might prove to be a
great pest next year afer going to
seed.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
CUT YOUR rHIsrLEs.
Now Is the Time To Cut the. Rsas
sian Thistle.

W. Q. Elliott, Jr., was a caller az
the office Saturday and showed Us q
sample Of what he said was the gen.
uine Russian thistle. We will have
to take his word for 1t. While We
have read about them all our lives We
do not know one for sure when we
see 1t. Mr.. Elliott tells US they are
growing thick along the river and a,
long section fences. There Is no
use wasting time telling how they
Will spread and Of the damage they
will do. We all know they. are decid-
edly undesirable occupants of the
farm lands. What we want to DO
is to kill them off and the only way
to do this is to cut them now before
they get full grown and started to
tumbing on all over the neighbor>
hood and then some. We must all do
our duty in this matter, the same as
in other things. Keep the weeds cut.
We will always have them with B,
but the more we neglect them the
more We will have. Don't wait for
the neighbor over the fence, but beat
him to 1t once.-Sterling Bulletin. g.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
Competition or Trusts. Which?

When the Sherman antitrust law
was passed legislation was directed
toward the prohibition of monopolies.
Roosevelt, Taft and Wckersham have
not the idea Of trust dissolution.
They advocate instead that the ex-
istenee Of the trusts be recognized
and legalized, but that their greed be
curbed by government regulation. 1t
remains to be seen whether the peo-
pie are ready to confess that the
competitive system is obsolete; to
abandon system, which affords free
reign for Individual enterprise, and to
establish in its place a centralized
government with the business Of the
whole country in its hands.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
WE ARE ON BIG MOTOR ROAD.
Coast to Coast Road Passes Through
Council Grove.

In returning from Colorado this
week, T. W. Whiting and party pick
ed up the pathfinders sent out by
the Pan-American Exposition to be
held at San Francisco to establish the
most direct automobile road from
Frisco to New York.
Mr.. Whiting picked them up at La
mar, and upon arriving at Great Bend
induced them to come by way of
Council Grove instead of the southern
route by showing them it was much
more direct road.
Mr.. Whiting piloted them as far
east as Usage City. and they admitted
the roads were better than the south
ern route, besides being much shorter
They are making a map of the route
showing each turn and every place
in the road that needs atter-Ton.
This will be one of the official
routes to the exposition, the other
being called the northern route, pass
ing through Omaha. They are ex-
PON'Ih6 iO,OUO Ndlo W udhC lIC u
to the coast and that at least one
half Of them will take this route.
Upon their arrival in New York
they will return with a party compos-
ed of Is cars on a trip to the Pacific
coast and will take this route. The
route through Kansas is almost on an
air line from Great Bend to Kansas
City, passing through Mcpherson, Her
ington, Council Grove, Usage City and
Ottawa.
This will throw a great number
Of travellers through our city in the
next few years and we should be
prepared for them 'giving them
roads that will advertise us through
out the country. And had it not been
for Mr.. Whiting the route would prob
ably have gone south of us.-Council
Grove Guard.
And in the meantime Great Bend
has been put on the map again as
the terminus of another route.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18

Miss Clara Buckland has been Wis
iting friends in this city the past
week, on her return from a visit with
her brother, Bert, and family, at Flor
ence, Colo, and Will Woodward and
family near Spearville. Miss Buck
land has been retained for the coming
year as teacher in the city schools
of Hutchinson having given excellent
satisfaction there in the past.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Schroeder came
in from Garden City last week for
visit at the parental home of Mrs.
Schroeder, Mr.. and Mrs. P. ]. Maus,
Mrs. Schroeder formerly having been
Miss Teresa Maus.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18

Tom Ely transacted business in
Kansas City last Saturday.
Fred Hagerman, one of the big men
from the east side of Rush county,
was down Saturday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Brown are
home from a several weeks visit in
Missouri and Iowa. Mr.. Brown IS
mother, who accompanied them, re-
turned with them.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18

Elmer Curry Of near Heller has
completed his studies at the Salt City
business college and returned to his
home.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18

Roger Lee left last week for Chi
cago, where he expects to get on the
Tribune reportorial force.
Barton County democrat., 1911-08-18
Business BUILDING
By DUNDAS HENDERSON
Advertising Manager Of the c. E. Zimmerman Co, Chzso

must put punch into their execution
10 make them successful.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-16
Radford Social Nesw
[snecial to The mines .pispetch

ISpecial to The Times Dispatch.l
Radford. Va, April l5.-The Council
Monday night voted an appropriation
TO continue the High School for the
fun term. of nine months.
Sidney Brown has purchased of H.
#. Einstein. siNty-iive acres on the
other side of the river.
DR.. Fox, professor at Roanoke Col
llege, preached in the Ltheran Church
here Friday night.
The Music club will have recital
next Friday night.
Robert Mcfarland has moved his
family from the Terrace TO the Tan
ner cottage. on the ridge across the
river.
Mrs a. Purity. of West Virginia, is
visiting in Brooklyn.
Mrs Mary Bryant has gone to Chris
Mrs. II. G. Grayson and children, OF
Broadford, have been visiting Mrs. r.
V. Cox.
J. IL. Grayson. of Elizabethton
Tenn. paid visit here Sunday
A. j. Bocock is al home in Freder-
icksburg, for a months stay
Mrs. Chester Bullard has been visit
ing at the country home OF Mrs E.
". Earhart.
Mrs j. II. Grayson is visiting rela-
tIves here.
Miss Bessie Graham has returned
from Lynchburg business college
Miss Anna Reinkampen is visiting
Miss Lillian Beinkampen. in Gary, W
va.
i Miss Kathleen Clark is home from