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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-01-05
TOWN BOARD PROCEEDINGS.
Nov. 27. 1911.

Special meeting called for the pur-
pose of instructing clerk in regards to
the refund of the Conner Land q Lbr.
Co. Meeting called to order by Chair
man T. A. Richardson at 2:45 O'Clock
. IN. All members present.
Whereas, the office Of constable of
the town Of Wabeno has become vacant
by the death of Frank Thielke. There
fore we, the undersigned supervisors of
the Town of Wabeno do hereby appoint
Bert Goodchild constable of said town
discharge the duties of said office
antil same is filed by election.
Given under our hands and seals this
9th day Of Nov 1911.
T. A. RICHARDSON,
Chairman.
JOHN SCHUsTER,
VIM. RABBIT,
Supervisors.
On motion by John Schuster and sec
onded by VIM. Rabbit, supervisors,
ma. Bert Goodchild, town clerk, be and
Is hereby authorized to go to Green
Bay, Wis, and consult the town ettor-
leys, Martin, Martin & Martin, with
reference to the refund of the Conner
Lbr. Co. tax suit and other business
referring to town matters. Carried.
On motion by John Sciluster and sec
onded by VIM. Rabbit, that the town
lna shall be and is hereby authorized to
employ help to clear the snow from the
mann sidewalks in the town Of Wabeno.
Carried.
On motion made and seconded that
the town marshal notify each and every
saloon keeper to C - his place of bt ST.
ness at eleven o'clock p. m. each night
and to stay closed until six O'Clock a. m.
without further notice. And be it fur
tner resolved, that all curtains and
screens be left open during closed hours.
Carried.
Resolved, that the sidewalk on the
hill at the hospital is dangerous to the
public. Therefore be it resolved, that
the town marshal be and is hereby or
dered to have a railing built on both
sides of said walk on hill. Carried
On motion made and seconded tire
Board adjourned until O'Clock p. m.
Nov. 27, 1911.
BERT GOoDCHILD, Towu Clerk,
Special meeting o. clock p. m.
Meeting called for the purpose of act
ing upon bills and transact such other
business as may come before the board.
Meeting called by T. A. Richardson,
chairman All members present.
The clerk then read the following
bills that were allowed by the Board
and signed by the chairman and the
clerk was ordered to draw mp orders
in payment of same:
G. w. Jones Lbr. Co., lbr. to
cemetery S 1923
DR. j. j. Curtin, services
Fred Zelmer 91.90
Chas. Symes, ibr. to town 101 80
VIM. Hubbard, board to pau
pers Z9.Zo
NJ. .. Boehm, drugs to pau
pers 1850
Frank Miesen, wood to town 4 5
L. P. Kommers, gasoline to
town 1888
Joseph T. Sims, legal services 500
A. E. Rusch & Co., supplies
to town 600
Bert Goodchild on salary 1900
Ed Moore, order to j. B.
Enders 10 90
John Volk, labor on road 400
John Bath g g 1900
j. b. Mallow, order of j.
Hammer $50
Peter Braun, labor on road LOO
Aug. Neuman " q 8.72
j. B. Mallow, team g 72.75
On motion the Board adjourned until
call of the clerk
BERT GooDCHILD, Town Clerk.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-01-05
Farmers Attention.

have fine Registered Duroc Jersey
Boar for breeding purposes. Call or
write f. E. ALDERToN, Laona, Wis.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12
NOTICE. OF JrDICIAL SAFE.

Pursuant to a decree of the Circuit
Court OF Mingo county, West Virginia
made and entered on the 18th day of
cause of First National Bank of Will
hanson vs. M e. Bevins, will on
Saturday the 21st day of December,
1912, at the front door of the court
house of said Mingo county, at 10
o'clock, a. m, of that day offer for
sale by way of public auction to the
highest bidder, the following de-
scribed real estate:
One-half of lot number %, of
Railroad Addition to the town of No
Ian (formeriy town of Duncan) in the
county of Mingo and State of West
Virginia; being the same real estate
that was conveyed unto the defend
ant M. e. Bevins by Nancy J. Dun
can and husband by deed bearing
date the % day of February, 1904,
of record in the Clerks office of the
county court of said Mingo county in
Deed Book number 2 at page 4S1.
Terms of sale: Cash in hand on
udy VI odlC oullCIGI1b W pay CO0Io vi
suit and expenses of sale and for the
residue the purchaser will be given
credit of six and twelve months,
payable in equal installments, giving
his interest bearing notes with APP
proved security for said deferred in
stallments and the legal title to be
retained as additional security.
B. RANDOLPH BIAS,
Special mmissioner.
Guy White, clerk of the Circuit
Court of Mingo County, West Virgin
ia, hereby certify that bond with Sc
curity approved by me as sufficient
and in the penalty provided by said
decree has been given by said special
commissioner
GUY WHITE, Clerk.
BY A. w. DAMRON, Deputy. q
nov28-1912
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

There is reason for believing that
woodrow Wilson may have decided
upon. three men for his cabinet
Congressman Mitchell Palmer OF
Pennsylvania and Albert Sidney Bur
Lesson of Texas, and Josephus Daniels
editor Of the Raleigh tN. ca News
and Observer. All three were ardent
supporters of Gov. Wilson during
the campaign precedent TO the Balti-
more convention, while in the conven
ton the Pennsylvania and Texas
delegations We're ever alert fl his
interest. Congressman Palmer in
particular made distinct impression
by his ability and qualities Of leader
ship. Editor Daniels. long a clo )
friend of William J. Bryan, was inde-
fatigable during the campaign IS the
head of the publicly bureau Of the
democratic national committee tn
New York city. The fact that MS
newspaper copies the report that this
editor is booked for the cabinet helps
to give 1t the color of authority.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12
AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS IN
WEST VIRGINIA.
An Alarming View.

We call to the special attention Of
our readers the alarming facts found
in the following paragraphs taken
from advance copy of the report of
the State Board of r gents to the
Governor:
The first cause for alarm about our
agricultural conditions is found in
fact that the rural population is
drifting toward the towns and cities,
but we are likely to associate this
movement with some faraway state
of the country as whole. This
movement is going on at an alarming
rate here in West Virginia. In spite
of the fact that the population of our
state as whole Increased 274 per
cent during the last decade, the pop
ulation actually decreased in a large
number of our farming counties, as
shown in the following tables.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

frankie Hornbarger, Trixie Stew
enson, Alva Combs, Allie Mae Slater,
Raplh Foulkes, Leroy Blackburn,
Ernest Wayman, Pat Warwick,
George Wiles
Fourth Grade, Miss Station Teacher.
Frank Cantees, Clarence Christy,
Ernest Grubb Basil Murphy, Tom
Stepp, Clyde Stepp, Beatrice Austin,
Tina Duty, Margaret Mcnamara,
Gertrude Mccoy, athryn Preece, No
ra A. Runyon, Adelaide Sampselle.
Fifth Grade, Miss Hansford, Teacher.
Carrie Allen, Goldie Justice, Au-
Stosnider, Annie Sharp, Gertrude
Trent, Irene Warwick, John Irwin,
Terry Mabe, Curthus Stissel.
Sixth Grade, Miss Dixon, Teacher.
Elwyn Bishop, Almer Cousins,
Aubrey Dickinson, Lee Lawson, Den
ME Mccoy, Robert Stephenson, Will
lie Turner, Cullen williamson, Mary
Kirk, Fannie Livingston, Kate Kea-
die, Minnie Mccoy, Dollie Slater,
Helen Wayman
Seventh and Eighth Grade, Mrs.
Ward, Teacher.
Clyde Spaulding, Fern Ball Mil
dred Barrows, Lucille Lawson,
Maud Moore, Helen Persinger, Bar
bara thompson, florence Boggs.
Ungraded, Miss Mohler, Teacher.
Ethel Trent, Edward Martin.
High School, MIR. Davis and Miss
Wiles, Teachers.
MERLE Stevenson, Willie Brown,
William Cuross, Clothilde Elswick,
Lily Lewis, Eveyn Vaughan, Mary
Lillian McEvoy Reford Walker,
Trimble Hunt, Gray Golf, La Samp-
selle, Gage Hutchinson, Ethel Halsey
Ebert Milard Oscar Philpott, LATE
Chain, Mathew Chain, Landon Will
| hanson.
East Williamson, Miss Robinson,
Teacher.
Edna Austin, Leila Ratcliff, Ida
! Craig, Eta scott Ruth Horn, Ethel
Hopkins, Linnie Perry Eta Cantrell
Minnie Mercer, CLEO Smith, Walter
Lusk, Arvel ChahnS James Justice,
Robert Lusk, Basil Alley, Walter
| Perry, George McNeeey
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12
WILSON WILLING TO HELP.
Late Inauguration is o. K.-But He
Must Take the Oath or Office as
President on March Fourth.

Gov Woodrow Wilson is willing to
take the oath Of office as president of
the United States without ostentation
on March 4, and that the formal cere-
monials that every fourth year at
tract thousands of citizens to Wash
ington be postponed until the last
Thursday in April according to dis
Jatch from Bermuda. To that ex-
tent he he's Endorsed the propaganda
in favor of a later Inauguration,
which has been advocated in and out
Of Congress. in order that the event
might be conducted at time when
the weather usually is propitious
at the national capital. Many per-
sons have urged the president-elect
to sanction a postponement of the in
augural ceremonies without realizing
that this cannot be done without an
act of Congress, and that it Is i'm
possible now to affect the forthcom-
ing ceremony so far as the taking OF
the oath is concerned.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

The New York Timesrealizes that
be proposition to make Col. Goe-
rhal3o general of the army resembles
he way in which colleges apply the
itgree of LII. d. ito all sorts and
Conditions Of men, the idea being to
Gcnor the individual, leaving the
itness OF the act to be what 1t may
Here is the different.a which the
FINES applfes::
The general Of the army is war
2eader. The title becomes extinct, as
should. in a long term Of peace.
TO bestow ii upon gifted ana
successful engineer would be unjust
ana iaappropriates Congress has the
light TO make this preposterous
! s4pplication of the title of general,
commander in war Of all the land
@ic es Of the republic, and it has not
lie right to make Col. Goethals chief
i stice of the supreme court. But
nat high office would be as appropri-
ate as a reward to a great engineer
FOR professional services as to make
I'm the fighting head of the army.
The Times is right about this mat
ter Recognition of the engineering
.eat which Col Goethals has super
Hscd is in order, but let'it be by some
fit method The enthusiasm Of those
members of Congress who have been
impressed with the work at Panama
should be subdued sufficiently so that
Congress may not discredit the army
If the United States in the eyes Of
the world Springfield Republican,
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12
NOTICE OF RENTAL

Pursuant to a decree of the cir
cult court of Mingo County, Wet
Virginia, made and entered on the
18th day of March, 1912, in the
chancery cause of Levi Gibson vs.
S. U. &. Dhodes, ct ais, | will, on
Monday, the 9th day of December,
1912, at the front door of the court
house of said Mingo County, West
Virginia, at one o'clock p M, Of
that day, offer for rent, to the high.
est bidder, for a period of five vear:,
or for such part of said time rs
shall be necessary to secure suf-
ficient amount Of money to pay off
and discharge all Of the judgments
decreed as liens against it in said
cause, the following described real
estate, situate, on Ben Creek, in
Stafford District, Mlngo County,
West Virginia, to-wit:
A tract of 1861 acres, in fee,
situate at the forks Ben Creek
A tract of "a acres, in fee, situate
at the head of right hand fork of
Ben Creek
A tract of 2 acres, in fee, situate
ION the right fork of Ben Creek
A tract of 3tv.l4 acres of sur
face, situate near the forks of Ben
Creek
A tract of 60 acres of surface,
situate at the head of Ben Creek.
A tract of 1874 acres of sur
face, situate on the left fork of Ben
Creek.
Being the property of James Hat
field
TERMS OF SALE: Une-third of
the rental price, cash in hand, and
for the residue the renter or lessee
shall be given credit of six and
twelve months, evidenced by iis
notes, with personal security to be
approved by the undersigned Spe-
cial commissioner, and bearing in
terest from dd,e, at the rate of six
per cent per annum.
G. r. G.. WILES,
Special Commissioner
l, Guy White, clerk of the circuit
court of Mingo County West Virgin
ia, hereby certify that Dond, with
security approved by me as suffi-
cient and in the penalty provided by
said decree, has been given by said
special commissioner
GUY WHITE, Clerk,
BY A. w. DAMRON, Deputy
Nov I4-4t.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

The war department at Washing
ton is making plans to care for the
feeding and shelter of army>of vet
eIans confederate as well al federal,
who are to attend the encaWpment
Ct the Grand Army on the battlefield
of Gettysburg next July, when Ehe IF
tieth anniversary of the. great battle
will be celebrated. 1t is roughly esti-
mated that 10000 veterans must be
placed under canvas and fed next
July. The bulk of the VISITORS must
be sheltered in tents. AS the average
age of the survivors Of the battle will
be about 70 years next July, this will
he somewhat hazardous proceed
ing.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

The movement for better schools is
growing. steadily throughout the
South. At the meeting of the 100
county superintendent of schools of
North Carolina held last week at
Greensboro, it was noted to ask the
next state Legislature for a child la
Dor law raising the minimum age for
factory labor to 16, and for a law re-
.quiring at least six-months' term
for all school districts, all normal
children to be required to attend
school at least four months Of the
year between the ages of 5 and 49,
Such a law well enforced would soon
greatly raise the standard OF literacy
in the state
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12


Gov Goldsborough Friday aii-
bounced at Baltimore, Md, the ap-
pointment of William =. Jacks6 Z,
republican national committeeman
Tor Maryland TO succeed the late
United States senator lsidor Rayner.
" hich meets in January, 1914, fills
What will then be an unexpired term
Of three years. The legislature at
That time also will elect a successor
10 Senator John Walter Smith, demo
graf, whose term will expire in 1871 5.
The conviction of Hyde, former
city chamberlain of New York, brings
another Of the vexatious and 5cnndar
lousl chapters of the Gaynor admin
istration to a close. The Becker and
Hyde cases have not been a source
Of JOY TO the mayor Hyde was once
his close friend and law partner and
was his personal appointee to Office
No faint of ulshonor has attached to
Mr.. Gaynor in the Hyde bribery
affair; indeed, throughout all the
troubles of his administration the
mayors personal record has been
clean. Ills faults are now intimately
known to all New Workers, and they
are serious in their way. Yet in
after years, Mr. Gaynor will be re
membered as a mayor much above
the average in personal distinction
mad effective service for the city
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12
The Stranger.

stranger knocked at mans door
and told him Of fortune to be made
I'm, said the man, ut appears.
that considerable effort will be in
volved."
''Oh, yes, said the stranger, you
will pass many sleepless nights and
toilsome days"
Um," said the man, "and who
are your"
Il am called opportunity
Um," said the man, you call
yourself opportunity, but you look
like hard work to me-
And he slammed the door. Pitts
burg Post
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

Mr.. Cannon will indeed say fare
We'll tot congressional life at the close
ci the session. He has seen 38 years
OF service in the House. The com
Plimentary dinner which it is planned
to tender hihI before final adjourn
lIent viii not be out of place.
While very wicked member of the
disappearing band Of elder states
men, Uncle Joe retains to the last the
breeziness, Of his native West. And
he has alwas been such game old
Gentleman.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

The military experts seem to think
that ore of the principal lessons of
the war in Turkey is the superiority
of artillery to infantry in stopping
charge quickly. That was the clas-
steal view, but the improvement of
magazine rifles has led to increased
emphasis on musketry in recent
years. However, great deal de-
ponds on the rifleman. A hundred
thousand Beers or marksmen like
Jackson's at New Orleans would
stop charge in short order
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

The most astonishing detail
brought out at Atlanta in the inves-
tigation of the big strike on the Geor-
ga railroad was that one of it's prin-
opal causes was the discharge Of a
hagman for sending in bill for so
cents for luncheon The price was
- cents, but he was obliged to eat
two to appease his appetite, and was
discharged for what seemed like dis
honesty So 25-cent meal cost
$3.50, 900.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12
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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12
Teaching Her to swim.

A small boy went up to another
in the street and said: Can you tell
Teller how to learn girl to swim o.
oh" said the other kiddie, you
goes up to her gentle like, leads her
gently down to the water, puts yer
arm gentle round her waist"
oh, go on" interrupted the boy,
what's the matter with yer? She's
my sister,"
Yer sister! Oh, shove her int
Philadelphia Record
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

NOTICE:-To avoid .nisunder-
standing with our patrons, we wish
to advise that our Ice once closes
at 4:3O O'Clock p. m. each week day
and twelve o'clock, M, Sundays. If
oTr wagon should hanDen to miss
you, please phone the office before
the time stated above. Any discour-
tesies on the part OF our wagon, we
will appreciate it if you will notify
the Office.
MARK RUSSELL & co.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

The same census bulletin from
which the figures above were taken
shows that the purely rural popula-
hampshire, Monongalia, Doddridge,
Gilmer, Richie, Tyler, Wood Pleas
ants, Jackson, Mason, Cabel and
Monroe
1t is time for our lawmakers to
take notice when the population in
fine farming counties like Jefferson
and ackson fell off from per cent to
8 per cent in decade while it in
creased more than so per cent in in
dustrial counties like Ohio and Lo-
gan. In 1890, 81 per cell, of the peo-
pie in West Virginia lived outside Of
incorporated towns and cities; in
1900 the percentage. had dropped to
rs per cent; in 1910, it went down to
20 per cent; and by this time it is
even lower
The second cause for alarm is
found in the fact that increase in
production falling below increase in
population of West Virginia AS
stated in preceding paragraphs, the
population of West Virginia increas-
ed II per cent. during the last de-
cade Increase in population means
increase in ability to produce, hence
the natural conclusion would be that
the ordinary farm crops of the state
would show an increase similar to
that of population. Moreover, we
are very sure that the demand for
food and clothing increased with
population, and when our state pro-
auctions fall behind the ordinary de-
mands OF our population we become
ali important state. This means that
the money of our state flows from
our own stores and banks to outside
merchants. Indeed, it means that
we are conducting losing business.
Before further comment the facts
should be examined.
In 1899 the farmers of West Vir-
ginia raised 16,510.780 bushels of
corn. Ten years later, in 1909, they
raised 17,119,097 or 81 per cent.
more than in 1899 in spite of the
fact that the population in the same
time increased 27 per cent.
The per capita production of corn
by decades in West Virginia follows:
In 1879, PA bu.; in 1899, is bu.;
in 1899, 173 bu.; in 1909 IA bu.
There has also been a decrease in
numbers of live stock during the
period under discussion that is
worthy of our consideration. The
situation is well shown by the follow
ing table:
1900 1910 Decrease
Cattle 639,7S2 620,288 3 ,. G.
Sheep 96S,843 10000 s D. G..
Swine 422,844 328,1S8 26 D. c.
Horses 1888 1921 3 p. {.
We haze a just pride in the S., 900
600 annual coal sale lin West Vir-
ginia. We should have equally Just
shame in the fact that we import in
to West Virginia annually about S.
100000 of farm products which the
state should produce A careful in
vestigation made short time ago
showed that West Virginia imported
about $10,000,O0O worth of hay,
corn, oats beans and potatoes; about
$16,oOO.000 worth of animal pro
ducts and about $34, 900, 600 worth
OF other farm products. Thus if
took all of our coal to pay the farm
ec Of other states. The time is ripe
for our legislators and citizens to
give these alarming conditions ca.e.
full consideration
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

4 may have escaped general notice
IN the East that while Colorado was
swing Wilson $4,000 pldurality, the
tate was also adopting constitutional
amendments providing for the recall
il administrative officers and judges.
pheTe are now at least four states
where elective judges may be recalled
Oregon, California, Arizona and Col
3rado Wilson carried each of these
states, except possibly California, yet
,je has opposed the recall as applied
the judiciarye
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

Notice is hereby given that WILL
LIAM WORKMAN has this day 1ilet
with ME, the undersigned Clerk, II
pursuance Of, the statute, an appli
cation for a state license to sell Al
retail spirituous liquors, wines, etc.
in the NJ. F. Copley Building a
Kermit, West Virginia, for the re-
naming portion of the license yeal
ending June both, 1913. V
Given under my hand this 18th
day of November, 1912.
JAMES DAMRON,
Clerk Mingo County Court
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-12-12

Sarah Bernhard is in Aaerica
egaln after two FEARS absence, and is
to play in vaudeville houses il tn
West, where she looks for&lr1 20
seehk more Of the orall people
than she has ever seen here J4fore.
To make up her $4,000 weak, ct
popular prices" there wiz have to
be some great audiences. But thera
is no rival to Sarah Bernhard5 tie
plain people can be depsaiod / ron.