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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-26

The Bowman Dalry company LAS
opened its books at the bottling plants
at Bristol and Salem to contract for
its supply of milk for the next six
months, commencing Oct. LIST, offering
an average Of $170 for the six months
which is nine and one-sixth cents less
than the price requested by the Milk
Producers Association.
The company also offers 10 cents
q hundred additional for milk testing
for butter fat above-65 per cent.
Milk that goes below this test will
be paid for at the regular contract
price.
At first many of the farmers refused
to sign the contracts, thinking that ten
conts would be deducted if their milk
failed to come up to the test, but now
that they understand the matter, many
Of them have signed up, although all
protest that the price offered is far
too low. The Borden company with
two plants in the county, is paying the
same price, but offering no induce
ment for better milk.
The price per hundred paid during
each month and a comparison which
Tor the last three years follows:
1909 1910 1911 1912
October
$l.55 $1.7O $40 $3.50
November
$l.7O $1.9O $1.85 $1.75
December
$1.75 $500 $1.9o $3.50
January
$1.75 5000 $1.S5 $175
February
$1.7O $19O $3.50 $1.7o
March
$1.55 $1.70 $1.65 $3.50
The following are the averages for
the four years:
1909 1910 1911 1912
$l.662.3 $1.862.3 $1.791-6 $1.70
The Bowman people claim that most
Of their patrons produce milk that will
easily test above IS per cent, and their
price is really an average of $50 for
the six months The milk dealers give
as one reason for the lower prices the
statement that there was an over pro
duction of milk last winter. G. HI.
Potter, president of the Elgin board of
trade and prominent in the producers
circles, said: There is a big profit
for large dealers at the prices paid
this winter and but little or no money
for the producers at the Borden prices
The Bowman people are not giving any
too much and the talk that manufact-
urers are indulging in to the effect
that there is an over production of
. milklis to be taken with allowance.
The prices quoted by the factory
owners are the lowest in several
years" said j. P. Grier, secretary Of
the Milk Producers Association, "with
the higher cost of production and the
burden of the new ordinance of Chi
sago, The "trust" should have given
better price.
Many patrons of the local plants
had signed the contracts Saturday, but
far from one-half of the usual number
who sell their milk to the company,
but it is probable that before the week
is over the greater majority of the
names viii be on the contract books.
None of the farmers about here are
increasing their herds and many of
them are selling some of their dairy
COWS on account of the low prices and
the shortage in the hay crop. It does
not look as if the dairy companies will
be troubled with an cover production =
this winter.
There is talk that. a federal investi-
cation of the so-called "milk trust''
viii be asked by the Milk Producers
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-26

Mrs. w. H. Carson and daughter
Margaret, attended the Dyer-Willer
wedding at Milwaukee Saturday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-26

Mrs. F. S. Robinson is spending a
few days in Milwaukee as the guest
of Mrs. O. S. Larned.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-26
SIGN Up CONTRACTS
Milk Producers Accepting
The Prices Offered by
Bowman Co.
AVERAGE PRICE MUCH LOWER

Borden Company Offers Same Price For
The Dairy Products and Farmers are
Forced 70 Accept or Feed Their Pro-
duct to The Hogs.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
Not Enough Farmers.

The high cost of living, about
which we hear so much, is Just now
doing its supreme act. Living is now
higher than at any time since the
Civil War That is to say. the prices
we now have to pay for the necessar-
les of life in a normal state of gov
ernment and industry are surpassed
only by those eXacted under normal
conditions when all the laws of ma
tional economy are overturned This
Is a serious matter for the average
man.. 1t is not harming certain
classes whose incomes are increased
by the increase of the cost of COM
modities-they are breaking even, OIL
have something on the credit side
We can hardly place the average
working man in that class. He NAV
have had some increase in his wages
but never in proportion to the in
crease in his outgo, and he is there
/ fore the high-cost victim in the end
There seems little doubt that tn,
existing conditions are not entirel,
due to the greed of the minority
The trusts have something to do witt
high prices, the middleman has some
thing more, the retailer has still an
other portion. But the nation is no
producing enough. Farming is praC
ticed insufficiently to meet the de
mands of the population. There i
scarcity all along the line. Cattl,
hogs, chickens, sheep and all stoc
are neglected because so many me
who would make good farmers ar
staying behind in the city.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
HOW TO INTEREST PEOPLE IN
YOUR ADVERTISING.

A flood of light on this question,
over which merchants have so both
cred their heads, and for which spec
ialists draw lavish salaries, was
thrown the other day by a homely
little story of domestic life.
Benjamin, boy, was playing with
his kid sister. There was friction.
Mother interfered.
Just what are you trying to do?"
she asked.
Trying to amuse Julie" said the
youngster.
Then why don't you play jules
way?"
Much OF the advertising for which
good money is paid, in fact most at
tempts to interest the public in all
kinds of enterprises, fail because
"they don't play jules way" They
fail to study the desires and temper
ament of the people whom they are
trying to interest.
The average merchant who takes
up the problem of writing an adver-
tisement for the first time thinks
about in this line
Il have been in business here ten
years. ] feel confident that | have
the best goods In my line in this
town" He gets up an advertisement
reading something like this. John
Smith, Reliable Dealer in Groceries
and Provisions. Cuctomers' interests
given prompt attention. We carry
the best goods for the least money.
Give us a call Telephone asa"
That Is not playing the game Ju-
lies way. 1t takes for granted that
every merchant thinks he gives the
best service for the money.
If you would play the game jules
way, stop a moment and think what
the public Is looking for,
This is day of high prices. The
public, with worried look on it,
face, is looking FOR low cost goods
1t is a day of shams, and the publ,
is looking for good quality.
Prove that you have those tw,
things, and the business is yours
The only way to prove it is to tel
the public enough plain, cold, com
mon sense facts about some particu
lar article or articles, that they cal
see for themselves that the thing il
good value.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
The New Balkan Union.

The sudden appearance of new
and formidable corporate power, the
Balkan Confederation, is already an
important factor in the game of Eu-
ropean politics. AS long as the four
Balkan states, Bulgaria, Servia, Mon
tenegro and Greece, acted separate
ly, they were helpless. AS long as
agents of Turkey or the powers were
able to stir up Servians against Bull
, garians, and Pulgarians against
Greeks, to mutual quarrels and mu-
tual slaughter, the foolish and wick
ed game went on and the Turk prof
tied. Moslem atrocities upon Chris
tians were counterbalanced by Chris
tian massacres of Turks, until mur-
der, rapine and desolation were the
order of the day in Macedonia
Meanwhile, the great powers solemn
ly made proposals and wrote diplo-
matte notes. Program succeeded
scheme, and agreement succeeded
program. Up to the first part of last
month the plain truth would seem
to be that neither Turkey nor the
| great powers intended to do anything
at all. When the Balkan states real
zied the truth of the adage that in
union there is strength, and acted
! upon this realization, the moral au-
! thority of the so-called concert of
Europe disappeared. This feeble
concert, having shirked or ignored
its duties of guardianship, the sub
jects of this guardianship asserted
themselves, and the Balkan Confed-
Grafton was born, a new and nreg-
nant fact in the maze of European
politics. Hardly had the notes OF
Bulgaria, Servia and Greece, and the
! declaration of Montenegro been
handed to the representatives of the
Porte, when the old concert revived
/ somewhat and attempted to coerce
the little states and persuade their
| big antagonist into reconciliation
But all signs indicate that it is too
late. The Balkan war will go on or
the reforms demanded in Macedonia
and withheld for so many years will
be realized, and the Turks, with the
consent, if not under compulsion of
the powers, will give absolute guar
antics of the execution of these re-
forms.-From "The Progress of the
World" in the American Review of
Reviews for November.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
ALL PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF
DEATH.

Every man who thinks at all is
afraid of death. He may be more
afraid of something else, of loss of
honor, health or money, of going to
a dentist, or, like the man in Pick
wick, of life without buttered muf-
fins, but he chooses death only as
a bad alternative for a worse If he
is not afraid of another.
A man will go up to the clouds in
a balloon who wouldn't go down into
twenty feet of water in a submarine.
A steeplejack may be afraid of dogs
and lion tanner of riding in an ele-
yator. We know man who has
made great reputation for coolness
under fire of battle, who gibbers with
fear whenever he has the stomach
ache. One man fears fire, another
burglars, another railway trains, an
other measles.
Conduct in an emergency depends
on many things besides those alb
stract qualities known as coward
ice" and courage" A man is apt
to act calmly when his surroundings
at the time the peril presents itself
are customary and familiar, when his
nerves happen to be sound or wher
he has time to mediate on his actor
and weigh carefully its consequences
Again, man may be persuaded tC
shame or glory, as the case may be
by the example of his neighbor. On,
person afflicted by binding fear ma,
turn a hundred men into a panic
stricken mob or he may convert then
into throng of heroes through thei
very horror of his conduct. And on
man who has established his mora
equilibrium quickly can instantl
convey fortitude to the others. Coul
age and cowardice both like con
pany.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
CARDS, DANCING AND THEATER


John Wesley, founder of Method
ism, never vetoed any amusement
but cock fighting. But the modern
Methodist church has been austere
enough since 1872 to prohibit the
trinity of amusements named above,
to leave this to the conscience of in
dividual members.
If you leave a child alone in the
house with the jam pot and a long
spoon, he will get indigestion and
smear his clothes, even if you tell
him not to. If he is allowed to have
his jam at the table with the grown
ups he will get what he needs to
stimulate his appetite, and keep we'll
and clean. The same principle ap-
plies to amusements.
The diversions named above, at
their best, render very distinct SER
vices. Card games wake people up,
teach them to decide and act quickly.
Dancing promotes physical self-con-
troll, gives the gawk at least the bear
ing of a gentleman. The drama
teaches truth with a force that no
oratory, pulpit or otherwise, can ever
acquire.
The Christian who is forbidden
these diversions thus loses a chance
to become socially more efficient and
to become of more service in the
world.
While it is very true that thees
amusements at their worst are de-
moralizing, it is also usually true that
a man who has self-control enough
to avoid such diversions altogether
has self-control and discrimination
to use them in way to get good and
not harm from them.
Once the pipes of an organ in
church were deemed to be peculiarly
haunt of the devil, and novel read
ing was sin. By and by men were
sensible enough to see that the Lord
might as well have the organ pipes
working for Him as for Satan, and
that an enormous amount of human
suffering was being saved by the
publicity given to abuses by writer's
like Dickens. In the same way one
never hates lies and hypocrisy quite
as much as when their true effect is
set forth by the realistic pictures of
the theatre.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07

book agent, for having been too ig-
norant to appreciate his Compendium
of Useless Information, she rejoins
her dishes.
She washes dish. Then the milk
man claims her attention. She
washes dish. The telephone rings,
and voice from way yonder de-
mands, who is this?" (And blessed
be Ebert Hubbard, say |, for his re-
cent flaying of this almost universal
form of annoyance-this incessant
telephone query, "Who is this?")
Then, the voice deciding that it has
the wrong number the woman goes
back to her dishes with an irritation
that was absent before, an irritation
induced by that voice from way off
yonder. She washes dish Then
she remembers that she must get in
her order for her groceries, to avoid
delay. She goes to the telephone
and orders a quarters worth of
Hamburger steak where once a
dimes worth would have sufficed
and a few pounds of potatoes, and
then goes back and washes another
dish.
And so her morning goes! 1t is a
hurry-flurry to get things slicked to-
gether in some kind of shape, so she
can rush off to the afternoon bridge,
at which she is due. Then home to
cook hasty meal for the man of
her and the children of her, if she
happens to have any.
And so on-a wild scrambling
from morning till night, either in the
kitchen or around the card table.
The woman in the country has no
such divefsions-no such distrac-
! tions, no such Interruptions, She
! works hard-yes she works
methodically and uninterruptedly.
There is no wild excitement in her
life, but there is peace. There is
no hurry-flurrry, no bridge, no So
ciety with a capital S, but there is
comfort There is no snobbishness
no insincerity, no striving for place
but there is security. There the spirit
of true democracy reigns; there the
class linesaare drawn by mental and
moral qualities-not by those Of
wealth or social position.
In the city, for those who strive
is unrest and heart ache, and false
sense of values; in the country it il
perfect freedom and the real joy o.
living.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
OUR OWN FASHION LETTER

The good Cardinal CavaIlari, pa
tfiarch of Venice, tells us in a pro-
test against present day feminine
fashions that the men are disgusted
with the clothes women wear,
No doubt the opinion OF the men
folks has some weight in Italy and
In Europe. Maybe it has in America
in isolated cases, but not at all in
the matter of clothes.
The American woman pretty thor
oughly understands the masculine
gender. In her dissection of all male
character she finds him a liar, or a
conceited puppy or a booze-fighter,
or a smoke chimney, or a crouch, or
buffoon, or an migrate, or a sissy,
and ten times out of ten, more or less
selfish. So, why should she pay the
slightest attention in the world to
any mans disgust over such a per-
sonal affair to her as her clothes?
Another thing: This matter of
following the dictates of fashion ism t
so one-sided as man tries to make it.
Whether he has only S. or $50 to
spend, man wears the style of duds
in fashion at the moment. If he
doesn't care one way or the other
they make him take the style any
way
What can be more outlandishly
awkward than the generally accept
ed shape of his shoe, with the toe
that looks almost human in its agony
of distorted pain?
"Frills of fashion" is supposed tC
refer to feminine frills, but what's
a vest but a frill? What earthly use
is it except as background for deco
rations of soup and pudding?
The coat is, to be sure, usefu
garment, but somebody please ex
plain quick why men put buttons OF
the DackS or the sleeves and nal
belts around the backs. No frill
here. OF course not! And why thu
open space at the top into which al
the weather in creation can tumbl,
and play with mans throat ant
lungs?
If the authors of the worlds pop
ulation didn't take themselves s.
blamed seriously they'd see, ever.
time they went out on the street, tn
continuous vaudeville scream in tn
lids of the passing human males
Take the derby. Always was and
an inverted soup kettle. The slouc
hat? Verify, the clouchiest, clowies
thing this side of Thibet!
No, the male of the species has n
monopoly on modesty and simplicity
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
A STATE IN BUSINESS.


The state of Wisconsin, a leader
in progressive government, has taken
another step forward The state has
now entered the life insurance bust
ness.
Any resident of Wisconsin may
now secure a life policy offering
many advantages by application to
the state officials.
Wisconsin is the first common
wealth in America to take this long
step in governmental care for the
people.
The state insurance plan is but the
first step in program which if car
ried out as planned will bring to the
citizens of Wisconsin, through CO.
operation with the state government,
old age pensions and many other fea-
lures of government aid which are
enjoyed by residents of foreign coun-
tries but by none in America.
The legislature of 1911 authorized
the issue of policies of life insurance
and annuity contracts by the state
through the life fund without re-
sponsibility on the part of the state
beyond the amount of the fund.
This act has aroused wide inter
est, not only throughout the state and
in other states, but also in foreign
countries.
By the act the insurance depart
metn was allowed two years in which
to put the system into operation, and
the department has now prepared
/ forms of applications and policies,
schedules of premiums, tables of
costs of insurance and reserves and
other data and forms for carrying
out the provisions of the law.
The state of Wisconsin is prepared
to take applications for insurance in
the life fund. The first policies Will
/ DC loouCu dO oOOn DIS
a sufficient number of applications
are approved.
Absolute certainty in the fulfill
ment of the contracts is the first con-
isderation. A mathematical reserve
is provided for on the safest basis in
use by American life insurance COM
panies. Provision is made for a
death rate corresponding with the
American experience table of mortal
ity. The reserve is required to earn
interest at per cent.
Applicants must be between the
ages Of 20 and So inclusive, and
may choose any one of the following
plans: Ordinary life, 20-payment
life, 1O-year endowment, endowment
at age 65, or term to age 65.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen,

This is secret=--just between us
folks. Those who live in what is
called the congested districts don't
know anything at all about real COM
fort and joy. For the greatest joy
the world can bestow is the Joy or
home-building. And in the city, with
no space at all to breathe in, how
can they really build?
They can erect houses-yes. They
can fill them with rare treasures or
cheap limitations, according to the
dictation of their purses-yes. They
can even fill them with the Spirit of
Home-yes. But the real, genuine
joy in BODYBUILDING quiet
places have the noisy places beaten
off the may-if | may indulge in the
vernacular.
Now this is one advantage that
| the woman in the country has over
| the woman in the city-she can do
her own work! | fancy every city
woman would scream and then faint.
a. this juncture. Yet l contend that
there is greater peace of mind, more
genuine comfort, in a servantless
house, if that house be not too pre-
tentious, than in one where the con-
venience of the family is secondary
to that of the help.
This is the difference between the
city and the country housewife. In
morning hours, the housewife makes
an effort to wash the breakfast dish
es before doing the multitudinous
tasks that lie before her during the
day.
She gets the dishwater we'll soaped
and of the right temperature. The
telephone rings, and upon answering
it is informed by Susie Welloff, who
keeps three servants, that she was
just dying to talk to her, to ask hel
what she thought of that new rule ir
auction bridge. And does"she believe
{ that Mayme Cheatem really does it.
; And what did she think of Kit Wealth
; erbees new suit? Wasn't it the linn
| it? And didn't she recognize Sail!
} Makeshift's old gown that. she haC
| tried to disguise under new trim
mings? Wasn't it laughable? Ant
was she going to Nell Colts bridg,
, that afternoon, and what was sh
Y going to wear? And, Now goodbye
3 dearie. It's such a comfort to cal
e you up-you always do me so mucl
. good"
s The housewife goes into the kitch
h en- and thoughtfully tests the dish
{ water, which has grown cold. Put
ting it on the stove, she goes to an
o swer the front doorbell, and tells tn
:. book agent that she already has NOR
books than she has room for. Yes
: she realizes that her library will b
d incomplete without that particula
: set-but-
Y So, with the added burden of hay
ing encountered the contempt of tn
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07

1t is not much use for one to ex-
pect a heavenly abode n the world
to come unless he tries to put some
thing of heaven into his earthly
home.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-11-07

Phone job orders to the Tidings.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-17
Darlington. CumminS

Mir. Warren Cummings and Miss Helen Darlington swere united in marriage at the home of the brides parents, Mir. and Mrs. J. c. Darlington, last night at S:30, Rev. II. w. Steen per. forming the ceremony.
 These two young people are well known in this city and are very popular among our young folks. Mr. Cummings is a young man who stands high in the es- teem of our citizens and has held a position with Jack McKelvey in his barber business for a number of years. Miss Darlington is one of Prescott's charming and accomplished young ladies and we join the many friends of this young couple in wishigg them a long, happy and prosperous life.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-17
TO THE VOTERS OF NEVADA COUNTY

Rosston, Ark, Jan. 15, 1912- 1 will give my reasons for asking for the office of Tax Assessor. I was born and raised in Nevada county and my interest has aL ways been in and for my county and 1 have always depended on the farm for support of my family, until for the past year my health has failed me to a great extent, so 1 decided that 1 would have to try something else for a support and not depend al together on the farm as my health would not admit hard lab or. So 1 thought as I had never asked for a county office 1 would ask for the Tax Assessors office. Feeling that my past experience in justice of the peace office for four years has qualified me for this work, Feeling too that I would take a great delight in this work.
 So 1 ask the voters to careful ly consider my claims and if I get the office I will serve the people to the very best of my
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-17

ability. I will appreciate your support as much as any boy that will be in the race. But if you decide that 1 am not the man for the office and not worthy of your support I would ask you to vote for the other man.
 Yours Respectfully.
 l.. c. Mitchell.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-17

people in the capacity of peace officer and he is asking you for election to this office on his record.
 Mr. Carruthers will call on you between now and the time of holding the primary and we ask you to carefully consider his claims.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-17
|AMES M. CARRUTHERS
 FOR CITY MARSHAL

In our regular announcement olumn today will be found the ame of James M. Carruthers as
 candidate for Marshal of the own of Prescott, subject to the ction of the Democratic primary be held in this city February }.
 Since the resignment of Sim ohnson as Marshal of this city, IT.. CarrutherS has served our