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The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-14
Good Roads G EGIoHgND1eS

By means of seed corn selection, the corn crop Is moving northward.
 Poultry manure Is particularly gooc for forcing the growth of onions.
 It is none too soon to begin to think about putting up a silo for next fall
 For the West there Is still no bet ter variety of early potatoes than Early Ohio.
 A proper kit for farm work is about as handy a thing as the average farm CT can buy.
 The asparagus should have had a coat of manure last fall, but better late than never
 Tobacco stems strewn on the ground at the base of rose plants will help to keep away insects.
 Big prices for sweet wotato plants demand first pulling, or no later than the second at the most.
 No land is so rich that it's owner can afford to waste the manure that is made by his farm stock.
 Don't plant the large varieties of cu- cumbers expecting to raise as many as If the cluster kinds were used.
 Some enterprising gardener should work ur fancy trade on Al vege- tables in the neighborhood of cities of 5000 or over.
 Nurse the young clover and the al- falfa, plan for more of both another season, also large acreage of root crops and pumpkins
 Alfalfa does not attain maturity un. til the third or fourth year; therefore do not SOW 1t expecting to get the best results in less time.
 For general or common use, caus- tic or burnt lime or ground limestone are employed almost exclusively for the correction of soil abnormalities.
 Two blades of grass where only one grew before are all right provided each blade is as good as the one, and also provided that the cost Is not too great
The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-14
EUROPEAN ENEMY OF CARROT
Rust-FIy, of Recent importation, Does Much Damage to Roots-Ex-
 ceIlent Remedy Given.

The carrot rust-hy is a very serious enemy to the plant. It is compara' lively recent importation from Europe having first been observed in this coun. try about twenty-five years ago. Its attack may first be noticed In spring, when the leaves of young carrots turn a reddish color, and on examination the roots will be found to be covered with rusty blotches-hence the name of the insect
 The parent of the mischief is a small two-winged fly, quarter of an inch long, body dark green, head and legs pale yellow and the eyes red. From the eggs, which are laid on the stem below the surface of the ground,
The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-14
Romance at
 Last

Nancy Baffins had lived to be thirty years old, and never a bit of romance had come into her life. When that is said, it is to be under stood that she had never had lover. 1t must be further understood that Nancy wasn't ravishingly handsome and she didn't have a form to remind one of a willow bending this way and that in half-gale.
 Living in the country as she did, and knowing many hired men as she did, some folks thought it queer that Nancy Baffins had not entangled one of them. But the old maids romance came at last. Steve Croker came to work for Farmer West, the next neighbor on the north, and within a week he was in love.
 It might be said that Steve had sized himself up before sizing Nancy. He was bow-legged. He was iop- shouldered. He had but one good eye. He was little deaf in one ear He had red chin-whiskers, and if he didn't look out for it, when he talked he found himself stammering. No Steve Croker was no Apollo, and he knew it. For years he had realized that unless he found and fell in love with a homely woman there could be no happy freside for him.
 T have found her at last" he said to himself after his first peep at Nancy And from that bour On thera was song in his heart.
 Just as soon as they were engaged, which event took place after Steves sixth evening call, she began to poster him. That is, she asked him if he was willing to die for her.
 "I dunno about that" was his doubtful reply. You see, if I should die you'd lose me and I you"
 Nancy was disappointed in Steve. He wasn't hero, and evidently didn't want to be.
 You don't love me-" said Nancy.
 Yes, I do. I love you oceans and oceans"
 But If there was an elephant after me?"
 "A big one?"
 "R 2 as a haystack."
 "Yes, yes"
 Say, Nancy I'd walk up to him and kick both his tusks off and then boot him into the next county!"
 That satisfied the old maid for a day or two, and then she got to think
The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-14

the young maggots make their way into the root, and tear the tissues in a similar manner to the cabbage mag. got; the attack causes the rusty blotches to appear. The maggots of a later brood infest the full-grown roots and continue their work of de struction in the root-house during the winter. Celery and parsnips are also attacked.
 Preventive measures seem to be the only remedies available. To deter the fly from laying her eggs, the rows of young carrots, when ready for thin ming out, should be sprayed with kero sene emulsion, or dusted with sand oI plaster in which coal oil is mixed. hall pint being used to a pailful of the material. The application should be made weekly, and especially after hoe t.sg, until about the middle of July.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-14
IRRESISTIBLE CHArGE.

If great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope, will forward 1t; and they they who persist in op- posing this mighty current in hu- man affairs will appear rather to re- sist the decrees of Providence itself than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate.-Edmund Burke.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-14

ing how remote such a contingency was, and she found herself on the edge of a grouch. She didn't sigh for an imaginary hero, but one on the spot-an up-to-date one.
 A few days later Steve came over to help her pick cherries. He had climbed to the top of a tree when Nancy called up to him:
 Steve, do you love me?"
 AS much as all the water in Lake Erie!" he answered.
 Then be a hero. Let go and come tumbling down!"
 And break my dinged neck! No sir-e-e! I've got to have a neck on me after we get married"
 There was another pouting spell. and Nancy didn't throw kisses after the nonhero as he climbed the fence and started for home. It does seem as if male lovers ought to be more obliging, but take them as they run and they are a selfish lot Nancy re- alized it and was of1ish for a week. It might have been for longer had not Steve come to say:
 q don't know anything about this hero business you talk of, but I'll tell you what I'm willing to do for your sake"
 "Oh, Steve. you are nice nOw!'
 We have lost a pitchfork In the horse pond and are going to drain the water off tomorrow. I'll wade through it first. if you say SO"
 Twill you?"
 q surely will. There's two feet of water in it."
 "Only two feet?"
 And as much as a foot of mud. I may get mired and lose my life"
 "Oh. but you wont-I know you won't! Steve, it isn't bit heroic for a man to wade around in a horse pond"
 Then what in thunder am I going to do?"
 The poor girl couldn't tell him. and her pillow was wet with tears that night. Steve was good, but he was so unromantic and unheroic. Why couldn't he be just little diff ferent?
 There was another of" spell with the lovers, and then one day, as Steve was hoeing the corn he had planted when he first fell in love, he saw Nancy driving into town with the old white horse. She had passed by a quarter of a mile when he heard the below of Bakers old bull on the highway. He ran to head the animal off and turn him back, and presently was in the middle of the road and waving the hoe and calling out. Then the bull seemed to come for him. and he knew no more for three days. AS he opened his eyes tear fell on his cheek. It was a tear from Nancy Baffin's left eye, and she clapped her hands and exclaimed:
 He lives! He lives!"
The Prescott daily news., 1912-06-14

Of course I live replied Steve but what has happened?"
 Why, you are a hero!"
 How"
 You faced Bakers old bull fer my sake and let him break three of your ribs and an arm, and we are going to get married as soon as you are well again. Brave and gallant chevalier, nave some of this chicken soup!"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
Baseball LANGUAGE.

Baseball language, like West Point
French, is something different. Like
all successful literature, it embodies
the attempt of the intellect to sur
mount obstacles. In poetry the OBJ
stacle is rhyme and rhythm; in
drama 1t is the "unities," the prin-
ciple OF suspended interest, the need
to iell complete story in less than
three hours. In baseball writing the
obstacle is the fact that there are
only two things in the game, batting
and fielding; that in each of the two
big leagues there are about $50
games to be reported, one very like
another, and that the sepience Of
''fandom" Is such that it's members
by scanning the scoring tables can
visualize game as completely as the
broker can visualize a scene on
change from his ticker.
The problem of the sporting column
is to ten the reader something he
cannot get from the score, and so to
report day after day for six months
the interplay of batting and fielding,
that one days story shall be unlike
another's. Hence the flights of fancy
which turn a ball into pill, a
pitchers arm into salary whip"
and his "fast one" into his smoke"
Hence the conception OF an elnerg-
ency pitcher as at once the wreck
ing crew" and old doc Orandall."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
FINGER PRINTS TELL TALES
Absolute Identification Certain When
the PractIced SIeuth Takes Up
the Trail.

Many years ago Mark Twain in
his delightful story of "Puddin' Head
Wilson," declared that every mans
Identity, and often, even his destiny,
Is always on his finger tips. Twice
on one day this has been recognized
In different parts of the country. 1t
was found that the men who used a
launch for the purpose of taking dyna
mite from the Giant powder works
were not the McNamaras. Several
finger prints completely exploded the
theory. They are, however, the tracks
| by which others may be overtaken.
| There could be no doubt that ed
gar r. Jay" arrested in st. Louis for
| forgery a week after he had mar
ried. is Jay Gould Hay, alias Jay
Gould, alias julie Lee. He can not
escape the identity of his finger prints
at the Indiana and Missouri reforma-
tories.
1t was only last year that there
were two remarkable warnings to the
criminal class to wear gloves. Charles
Crispi was arrested and convicted for
burglary in New York solely because
| he left behind on window glass four
finger marks. They were only few
hairline etchings, but they singled out
| Of millions Of people the only one
who could have made them. 1t was
| difficult to obtain jury that would
| convict on finger print evidence alone,
| but when 1t was shown that there Is
only one chance in sixty-four billions
that two finger prints will be alike.
that there was no great likelihood OF
any two of the 1,600,000,000 people
now on the earth being able to make
| the same finger markings, the prison
er gave up. Again, In New York, was
the remarkable case growing out Of
the murder of Isaac Vogel, an timer
| ate jewel broker. 1t was single I'M
print Of a finger on silver cigarette
| case that led to the arrest of JOSEPH
| Roberts.
Thus far finger print evidence is
associated in~the public mind with
criminologJ. But the day may come
when people registering to vote will
be required to press their thumb
down next to their names. Philadel-
phia reformers, who are battling
against the fioater and duplicate vot-
ing system, advocate it. They Insist
that 1t is only step beyond requiring
the voter to write his mama at regis
tration and again--by the eide of the
first signature-when he comes, to
vote. 1t is thought the finger print
would stop aoaters.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
LABOR DAY.
Picnic at The Shooting Park West Of the
Fair Grounds.

September I'd is Labor Day, and the
same will be observed in Wausau. 1t
is arranged to hayean industrial pa
rade, which will form at the north
end of Third street, near the Murray
foundry, and headed by a band
will march to the shooting park If
the day is fair, it will prove largely
attended and pleasant event.
Addresses will be made by Mayor
John Ringle and Carl Sandberg, of Mil
waukee, the latter will talk upon the
labor question. The balance of the
program at the grounds will be as fol-
lows:
Tug of War-Granite workers VS..
Brewery workers.
Baseball Game-Clerks VS.. Cigar
makers.
Hammer Throw-Open to ALL
Shotput-O Open to all.
Mems foot race.
Fat mems race.
Creased pole contest.
Women'S foot race.
Young ladies' race.
Women's tug of war.
Peanut race.
Girls foot race under ten years.
Girls foot race, between ten and fif-
teen years.
Boys foot race, under ten years.
Boys foot race, between ten and fif-
teen years.
Boys sack race.
Boys tug of war, between ten and
fifteen years.
Boys wheel barrow race.
Boys weiner contest.
Girls cracker contest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
Brides Love of a Clay Pipe.

Rather than give up smoking her
cherished clay pipe an Irish bride
named Johanna Wood has left the
workhouse at Faversham, Kent. Her
husband, who was also an inmate of
the workbouse, has left with her.
With a careless disregard of the
fact that they were both practically
destitute, the man and the woman,
whose ages are respectively sixty-two
and forty-nine, were married on De-
cember IL. The honeymoon was spent
at the workhouse.
Mrs. Wood" stated one of the
workhouse officials yesterday, seem
ed to find her greatest source Of pleas
ure In tobacco. She smoked clay
pipe and would not have parted with
1t for anything. On being taxed with
smoking In the workhouse she said:
I cannot do without my pipe; have
smoked since I was little girl She
was told that she must either give up
smoking or leave the workhouse. She
elected to take the latter course and
left with her husband. London Daily
Mail.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
BARGAINS IN
LANDS and CITY PROPERTY
CR0CKER-THAYER LAND GO.
3l2 Scott Street. Upstairs
CITY

A residence and nearly 2 lots al
432 9Th Ave. South.
A lot on the corner of Bird Ave
and Clark ST., where the ST. Cal
turns.
lots, corner of 9Th st. and Wan
sau Ave.
2 lots on Sturgeon Eddy road
one-half block from Grand Ave.
3 acres near street car track; good
land; east side, inside the city.
City lots in Maple Hill addition
and acre lots in Forest Park addi-
ton. This will be the best residence
district in the city where there are
parks and springs, beautiful trees
and the river view, and the best OF
neighbors.
House and lot on Stuben st.
IL room house on Maine ST. with
all modern improvements, 2 blocks
from street car trace. Will be sold
cheap.
2 acres of land on Sherman ST.,
west side. Will be sold for $1,000.
A home on Steuben St, with
furnace, electric light, sewer and
everything modern.
A large house on Main St, in
good neighborhood.
2 dwellings and lots at the corner
of Garfield and 18th SITS.
A Groom house on Steuben st.
with all modern conveniences, bath,
electric lights, heating, ETC.; up-to-
date, in every respect. In good
neighborhood.
5 acres of land inside of city
limits, 4 blocks from ST. car line
A 10-room house on the cor. of CT.
st. and Lincoln Ave, st. car runs by
the door.
4 lots in Mary Poor's End addition.
/ acre of land and modern house
in Johnson's addition.
JSeveral residence properties in
the city to trade fol- farm property.
A 10-rooa house with 2 acres of
land, on east end of Franklin St, 90
large apple trees that are over ~
years old.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
2 acres in Spencer's addition.

Lots sold cheap in the Croker
Thayer addition O. banks of Wis
consin river.
2 one-half acre lots for sale in
Books Schofield addition, will be
sold cheap.
COUNTY
80 acre farm, town OF Hewitt.
Good house, barn and granary and
good water. The farm will be sold
for $500.
80 acres of land six miles from
city. Big Sandy river runs through
this land.
40 acres Of timber land within one
mile of railroad, near Kelly station.
400 acres 3 miles west of city on
Little Rib, will be sold in pieces of
five acres up; good running water.
This will be sold cheap with terms
to suit the buyer. Every laboring
man should own a piece of land,
where he can put in his time to
good advantage when he is out of
employment.
50 acres of cut-over land within
one mile north of city limits on
Merrill road, about acres clear, a
good creek through the land.
209 acres in town of Hewitt, IL
miles from Wausau; 65 acres clear;
100, 900 feet of standing timber;
good water; large house with fur
mace, and also large barns with
other buildings necessary for up-to-
date farm.
80 acres of land J mile from city
limits.
40 acres at Trapne City on Merrill
road 90 acres clear; rood, big
house.
OUTSIDE PROPERTY
For sale--360 acres in Langlade
Co. Price $500 an acre. Easy
terms.
40 acres Of timber land near
Rhinelander, with 100000 feet of
hemlock saw log timber, within 2
miles of Wis. river.
200 acres of timber land near
Crandon, three miles from r. K.
track; 500, coo feet ofsaw log timber.
$50 acres timber land in Oneida
Co. G. q N. w. Ry. runs throu9h
it. mile from Monicc Jet. 900, 600
#. saw log timber, also pulp and
cord wood. Price now So, 500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
First publication July 30, last Aug. Il
Probate Nntice.

State of Wisconsin, County Court for Mara
thon County.-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at the special
term of the county court, to be held in and for
said county, at the court house in the city of
Wausau. i'm said county. on the fourth Tues
day, (being the 9th day. of August. A. ID.
1912, at 10 O'Clock a.. M. the following matter
will be heard and considered:
The application of William Rux to admit
to probate the last will and testament
of John Fischback, late of the town Of Rib
Falls, in said county, deceased, and for letters
teStamentary thereon to be issued to William
Rux of town of Rib Falls
Dated July 90. 1912.
By order of the court ~
CLYDE L. WARREN, County Judge.
REGNER & RINGLE. Attorneys.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
FIFTH WARD

Lots ana ?. Blk ii re-
i lot 10. blk il 100 30
Office, vol 50. D 2s7 25;O
A. Warren's list Addition
That part of lot Is blk 5, lying n of right
of way of e MAST P Roc 1874
A. Warren's Sd Addition
Lot /, blk 10 S57 Lot 6, blk is 8t7
81 OF lots and s. blk 10 13;s
SIXTH WARD
Lot 4. blk ]. Eva Quaws Sd Addition IS rs
SET ne4 nw4. sec 26, L %. RI 80 Is
II Deeds. vol liz, p 40 sec .. %, RI 1915
That part of set net des in Office of Reg
of Deeds, vol 1873. q 1872. sec %, 49, RI 8M
That part of nw4 ses. com 1925 feet and
% It OF ne cor of said 40. and thence
S 800 1t TO starting point, thence to
the line OF 10, thence to line of
land des in vol rs, 252 thence to a
point due s of starting point, and
thence to place of beginning sec g.
L %, RI 152
SEVENTH WARD
Lot /. blk 8 SAG
Wisconsin Valley Land Cos I'd Addition
That part of lot 2 deS in Office of Reg of
Deeds, vol l0l. . 81. sec IS, L %, RI 30 16
EIGHTH WARD
A. Warren Jr's I'd Addition
Lot 2. blk 81 Is 76
Kiefer, Miller & Ringle's Addition
Lot !, blk 6Oa Lot 2, blk s57
Lot 3. blk7 s57 Lot 4. blk 247 Al
NINTH WARD
13x120 IT strips of LAND along side of blk
of MarQuardt's add ton go
Lot s, blk 5 81 80
Dunbar's Addition
=
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20

First publication July q. last Aug. 20
Summons.
State of Wisconsin. Circuit Court Marathon
County.
]. ID. Mylrea. Plaintiff,
VS..
Anna c. IverSon and Alex IverSon
her husband, Northwest Tlresher}
Company. a corporation, Fred
Loeb. Albert Gaier. 7. A. NIanley
and Frank Zell. Defendants.
The State of Wisconsin to the said Defendants
and to each of them:
You are hereby summoned to appear within
twenty days after service CT this simmons
exclusive OF the day of serviC and defend the
above entitled action in the ,ourt aforesaid:
and In case of your failure so 4 do, judgment
win be rendered against you according to the
demand of the complaint; of whiCS a copy is
herewith served upon you. NJ
REGNER < RINGLl.
plaintiffs Attorneys
Post address: WauSau. Marathon Co. Wis
Note:-The defendants above named viii
take notice that the original summons and
complaint in said action is now ON lie in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court of Mara
thon county at the court house in ths city of
Wausau. Wisconsin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
DELINQUENT TAX LIST.
Notice of the Expiration of the Tiffle
for Redemption of Land Sold for
Taxes for the Year A. ID. 1919.
Office of the County Clerk. I
Marathon County. Wis.

Office Of the County Clerk. -
Marathon County, Wis. I %
10 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that the following
lots or tracts of land sold On May 18th, A. D.,
1910, for the taxes due and unpaid for the year
County Clerk of Marathon county, Wis. that
opposite the description of each tract or lots
name of the person. if any. to whom assessed
and the amount of the taxes. interest and
charges calculated to the last day of redemp-
ton due on each.
and charges set opposite the tract described
shall be paid on or before the nth day of
May 1912. the said tracts of land will be for
feited and will be conveyed to the purchaser
in pursuance of the statues in such cases
made and provided.
Dated Wausau. Wis. July 16 1912.
JOHN KING. County Clerk,
Marathon County, Wis.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
Too Much.

Willis-What was the cause Of his
death?
Gillis-The doctors said 1t was an
excess of pure joy. He had just
made his face feel like the advertise
ment, put on a suit of clothes that
made him look like the advertisement
and was smoking a brand of tobacco
that smoked like the advertisement
Satire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
First publication Aug. Is. last SEPT. 5.
Notice to Creditors.

State of Wisconsin. County Court fer Mara
thon County lin Probate.
Notice is hereby given that the time up to.
and including the first Tuesday OF March
1913 is hereby allowed TO creditors of John
Zinser deceased to present their clainls for
examination and allowance. Also that all
claims 50 presented. will be examined and adj
justed at a regular term of said County Court
TO be held al the Cocrt House in the City of
Wausau ON the first Tuesday OF spril 1918
Dated August & 1912
BY the Court.
CLYDE l.. WARREN.
HENRY MILLER. County Judge
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
To,on of Elderon.

T. q, r. 10
des sec amt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
Sounds Plausible.

"Why do you suppose our ancestors
had those atrocious daguerreotypes
taken?"
Il suppose to prove that they might
have been worse looking than they
really WERE"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-08-20
First publication Aug. n. last Sept 3.
Probate Notice.

state Of Wisconsin. County Court fa Mara
thon County.-In Probate. 4-
Notice IS hereby given that at % Ssscial
term OF the county court. TO be held 81 and
for said county. al the court house III the city
Tuesday. (being the 10th day. OF September.
A. ID. 1919. az 10 O'Clock s. m. the following
matter will be heard and considered:
The application of Emma Danielsm to adj
init to probate the lest VIII and test Amenf OF
Theodore Danielson. late 81 the city OF Wau-
san In said county. deceased. and f,r letters
testamentary thereon to be issued to Emma
DaEielson OF Wausau. Marathon county. Wis
c0nSin.
Dated August 19, 1919.
By order OF the court,
w. j. kREGKI. Register in Probate.
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