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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-08-06
XA = MAMRE.
I-7Il a. Ma0nB

Mamre, Aug. 4-Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert Sorenson entertained friends
and relatives from Willmar last Sun
day.
Mrs. Harry Odell and son, who
have for some days been visiting at
the O. F. johnson home, returned to
their home in Willmar Sunday.
: Miss Esther Olson Of Michigan is
working at J. 0. Hagman's. :.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Thompson
and daughter Esther and Mrs. Lag
ergren autoed down from Grove City
last week. to visit at the G.. A. Berg
man home in Pennock and also other
relatives: +
Miss Minnie Danielson assisted
Mrs. F. N. Anderson with housework
last week. ~: .--
= Miss Frances Albourne Of Mime
apois visited a few days at Jonas
Johnson's. -
F Miss Ella Holmgren visited at the
home. Of her friend, Lydia Carlberg
few days last week.
Mr.. Simons and sons Neal and
Wesley came down from Dawson,
last week to spend a few days at D:
E. Rodman's. ~ .-z5
Gust Swanson came up from Min
neapolis last Friday to visit at his
parental home and other relatives
and friends here. ~ .
Ole Woxland and family autoed
down from Ambrose, N. D., last week
to visit at his sisters home, Mrs. R.
Rasmussen and Mrs. O. P. Wangs-
ness. r .>.@
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Loven of Sal
EN- visited friends around here last
Sunday.
Jacob Vanstrom and daughter
Florence from Dawson are visiting
with Mr.. and Mrs. D. Rodman.
Henry Abrahamson returned home
last week, after attending the teach
ers' training school at st. Anthony
Park.
Mrs. K. A. Krantz had for guests
Wednesday, Mrs. Anderson and
daughters, Myrtle and Esther, Of Sc
atle, Wash, Francis Hedin, Lydia
and Marie Erlandson, Mrs. E. Ost-
+, lund and children of Willmar.
Mrs. Anna Swenson and son Eddie
and Miss Englund Of LaBolt, S. D.,
spent Wednesday afternoon j. O.
Hagman's. ~. =
An ice cream social will be given
at J. O. Hagman's next Saturday
evening, August 9th. Everybody
welcome .@ =.
liver Berge and Mr.. Rustad made
a business trip to Peter Rodman's
last week.
The little baby girl of. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gust Swanson was baptized
last Sunday and she received the
name Hedvig Linnea Elizabeth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Erickson and
family Of Willmar and Mr.. and Mrs.
n. Abrahamson were guests at G. &.
Nelson's Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Nelson and children
Of Chokio, Mimi, are visiting friends
and relatives in Pennock this week.
8sst equipped 10 take fanny gxoup
pictures Il Waunnar a& The aanons
etsA1e-Adv.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-08-06
Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to our neighbors and friends
for all the kindness, assistance and
sympathy shown us during the ill
ness and after the death Of our be-
loved. husband and father. We are
grateful to: Rev. Michaelson and to
the donors Of the many beautiful
flowers. We shall never forget what
was done for u.s. IS.
Mrs. Christ Jensen and Children.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-08-06
Function of the County Agricultural
Agent.
by A. D. Anderson, County Agent
of Pope county,

by A. D. Anderson, County Agent
of Pope county,
One function of the county agent
is to act as a go-between for the
farmer and the various departments
advocating better methods of farm
ing. 1t is we'll known fact that the
average farmer is isolated from 9TH
er farmers and that one farmer
knows little or nothing Of what 9TH
er farmers are doing. The county
agent can act effectively by bringing
the good methods Of the best farm
ers to other farmers. There are few
neigaborhoods in which some one
farmer is not making more Of a sue
cess than his neighbors. Sometimes
it is necessary to have an expert to
find out why this man is succeeding
and the rest are not. The conditions
that make one farmer successful
ought to make his neighbors succeed.
To study conditions first hand IS
another function of the county agent.
An instance will help to illustrate !:
One part of our county is not grow
ing very good clover. Until lately
the reason was not known. It was
thought that the soil simply needed
to be inoculated with the bacteria
Of clover; that the land was run
down in fertility and humus and
needed the growing Of clover or some
other leguminous crop. The county
agent is called to see if he can find
out the reason why this soil will not
grow clover. He starts out with his
soil augur, some litmus paper, and
some hydrochloric acid. The soil is
tested for acidity and found to turn
red litmus paper still redder, and
blue itmus paper red. He tries the
soil with some hydrochloric acid and
finds there are no bubbles, thus he
knows that the soil is plainly acid,
and until this condition is corrected
there is no use trying to raise clover
or any Of the legume plants. Lime
is plainly needed. The county agent
goes to another part Of the county
where there is a mari deposit and
finds there is not much trouble ir
getting mari from this place to the
place where it is needed. A couple
Of loads to the acre is all it takes t<
make this sour land smell sweetly
Of clover. After clover, other crop:
can be raised. There are severa
thousand acres Of this sour land !,
the county and until they have beer
treated they are not producing then
maximum crop.
While travelling through the count,
the agent finds little plant. It J;
new to him but looks as though i
might develop into a bad weed. H
takes it up to his Office, looks it u
in his plant key book. He finds it i
a weed and bad one. He then get
a warning and mails it to all tn
town officers in the county. Yello1
posters are printed and put up in al
parts Of the county, and DANCE
from the spread of this noxiou
weed is practically eliminated. On
Of the functions Of the county agen
is to warn against weeds.
The cattle of the county are Of a
colors and kinds. The county agen
gets the farmers together in tn
school house and homes, and talk
better live stock. He takes severe
farmers in his automobile to sc
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-08-06

Miss Eva Sorenson, who has been
one Of the instructors at the sum
mer school at the state ~" visited
with the Misses Sanderson few
days last week enroute for her home
at Mcintosh. Miss Sorenson, who
taught the Normal department here
last year, will not return to Willmar
in the fall, having accepted the posi-
ton as supervisor and instructor Of
the primary department Of the Vir-
GINA schools.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-08-06
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS.
All owners and agents of real pro-
sperty in the City Of WiIImar are
hereby notified to cut and destroy all
noxious weeds and grasses growing
on their said property or on the bou-
Ievard or in the street in front of
said property.
The State law is explicit in this
matter and failure on the part of
property owners to comply with this
notice Immediately will be promptly
prosecuted according to law. This
notice goes into effect on the lst day
of August.
ALFRED .GILBERTs0N,
ct Chief of Police.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-08-06

Simons Studio. The portraits behind
the name has put meaning into the
names behind the portraits. II. =. Rim
ons, Photographex.-Adv. -
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

for the villain had just been arranging
with one of his confederates to rid
himself of the hero of the play by toss
ing him down the aforesaid well. The
villain, after the laughter subsidized. ar
ranged his part of the plot by cancel
ing the order to have the hero tossed
down the well and instead to have
him tied TO a railroad track. However,
the audience refused to take the play
seriously after the we'll disappeared.
There is probably more real Christ
mas sentiment in plays that have to
carry children as a part of the produc-
ton than in any of the others. With
these shows there is usually Christ
mas tree between the matinee and the
evening performance in which every
one joins in and makes merry.
A hard lot is that of the actor who
happens to be playing what is known
as ''the small time" around the holt
days. "Small time" contracts call for
three shows day, and on Christmas
day an extra one is usually added. A
vaudeville actor on big time" prob
ably has more time to appreciate
Christmas-if Christmas really can be
appreciated away from home-than
any other because he is usually in the
theater but an hour in the afternoon
and an hour in the evening. and the
rest of the time is his own unless the
house manager has promised to task
him to go over to some club and en-
terrain the guests at their Christmas
reception. OF course the actor doesn't
have to do this. but if the manager is
Of any standing at all in the vaudeville
world the actor usually finds it expe-
dent to grant the request
But the man probably who spends
the lonesomest Christmas of them all
is the poor advance agent-recognized
on the program as business manager.
advance representative or manager in
advance. Unless the advance agent is
close enough to his home town to
Jump for Christmas he usually gets
a genuine attack of the simon pure
blues. True. the advance man who has
been on the road for any length of
time can usually be depended upon to
meet people he knows. but they are
people who live in the town. and he
usually finds himself dining alone
when the time comes for him to eat
his Christmas dinner"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

ence. This comes from the fact that
IL the dog doesn't like a show he will
start to howl. and he has to be re
moved from the theater before the per
Torrance can be continued
Only a month before a we'll known
concert singer was appearing at the
theater. She had about finished one
of her best selections when the dog
poked his nose over the railing Of an
upper box and began to howl his dis
approval That led to the temporary
Punishment Of the dog critic from the
theater. Bat when the stock company
came along the manager heard about
the dog, and willing to take a chance
that's dogs Judgment Of his show
would be favorable. he suggested that
the dog be allowed to sit b. a big well.
which was a part of the scenic effect
in one of the acts, just for the sake of
realism.
Now. this same manager had con
cIuded to give his company a dinner
ON the stage after the performance,
In the course of the play the dog was
brought out and tied to the well.
Everything went all right Until the
dog shifted the turkey and the other
good things at the side of the stage.
and without waiting for the finish of
the act he made for the food. dragging
the "heavy rock walled well' behind
him.
This action on the part of the dog
critic-actor disturbed things generally,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

Saving Up For Christmas

A we'll dressed man in Market
street car rendered the conductor a
one dollar bill in payment for two
fares and, receiving his change. care.
fully selected the ten cent pieces and
placed them in n separate pocket.
From the LIST of September until
Christmas l never spend dime, he
explained to his companion. Every
time l get one keep it separate from
my other change, and when l get home
| deposit my dimes in one of those
savings banks that don't open until
they contain $40. l am one of a
very large family addicted to the
Christmas present habit. and some
times l am obliged to give as many as
thirty or forty gifts. By not spending
my dimes l create a Christmas fund
without really feeling it. l have done
this for several years and find it an ex-
eellent plan" -Philadelphia Record.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
Why She Shops Early.

''I'm going TO start my Christmas
shopping right now and get it over
with" said Mrs. Jones at the breakfast
table.
"Ah, to aid the poor, tired shopgirl
and help the movement for early de-
liveriesr' her son remarked in tones of
commentator.
Never thought of that" was the
disconcerting reply. I'm going to buy
all my presents at Smart & Co.'S, and
shops like theirs have handsome de-
livery wagons. l want all the neigh
bors to see the wagons stop at my
door. Last year l bought lot Of these
things at expensive shops, and not a
parcel was delivered until after dark.
Eor all the neighbors know they might
have come from those pay by the week
stores in unmarked wagons"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

A Fin de Steele Catastrophe.
Twas the night preceding Christmas,
And Santa far away.
He lacked enough of gasoline
To run his deerless sleigh.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
SWAPPING THE CRANBERRY.
Dinner Game Suggested, but Not Rec
commended.

Dinner Game Suggested, but Not Rec
commended.
This is a game to be played at the
Christmas table. When the cranberry
sauce is brought on each guest must
place a cranberry on the end of a
knife, holding the knife in the left
hand with the right hand close behind
the cranberry. At the word SNAP"
given by the hostess, the cranberry
should be snapped with the first fin
ger of the right hand at the target.
The game shall be continued until each
player has shot away all of his cram
berries. The score is counted thus:
Hitting the hostess with a cranberry
counts one.
Hitting grandpa counts two; grand
ma, three; Uncle VIII, four; Uncle
Tom, five, and so on, depending on
whom the guests and those around the
table are.
A cranberry that goes on the floor is
out of play, but one that falls in any
persons lap or sticks in the hair or
on coat or dress can be picked up
and played again. Anybody that hits
anybody else squarely on the nose
counts fifty to the lucky players score.
This is a highly diverting game and
one that all will enjoy, especially the
hostess.-New York World.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

all about Aunt Louis Christmas pres
ent, He was a very little boy. but not
too little to be ashamed.
Did you spend all of your coppers?"
mamma asked gently, and Freddie
nodded his head and gulped.
Il don't think Aunt Lou will like
pipes quite as well as a rose, do you?"
mamma asked. Never mind, dear;
wrap up the pipes for her."
But Aunt Lou doesn't want pipes"
Freddie said chokingly.
Didn't you buy them for Aunt Lou,
dear?' mamma asked.
They are for me-" said Freddie in
q low voice.
And what have you got for Aunt
Lou who always gives you such a
nice Christmas PRESENT."
Freddie crept very close and asked
"Win YOU please give me cents?"
That would be mammals present,
dear and not yours. You saved the
coppers for Aunt Lou, and if you have
bought pipes with them you must give
her the pipes"
Christmas day Freddie gave the
pipes to Aunt Lou. His papa laughed
His mother smiled, and a merry twin
kle appeared in Aunt LOUIS eyes. She
caught sight of little red. mortified
face with two blue eyes trimming
with tears. That was too much sor
Aunt Lou. Not for worlds would she
add to Freddie's distress.
Bubble pipes!" she cried joyously.
Now, isn't that splendid? Why. bub
bic parties are all the rage now. I'll
he able to give a party myself tomOr.
row afternoon, and you must all be
sure to come"
little smile was beginning to dim
PIE around Freddie's lips, and he was
blinking away the tears that had gath
cred. ones broke" he said in little
wavering voice.
rs it? Why. yes! And right close
To the bowl! Isn't that fine? Why.
lets of girls l know always curl their
hair on pipestems and think they're
FAR Nicer than curling tongs."
After Freddie had gone to bed NAM
ma told papa and Aunt Lou all the
story about Aunt LOUIS present
You're a darling, Lou" papa said
rs he kissed his sister. I'm really
ashamed of myself for laughing"
Aunt Lou smiled. "Will you come to
my bubble party?' she asked.
"Ill do more than that" papa an.
swered: "I'll buy the prize for it"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
Hyman Wiener
The Charles Town
Junk Dealer,

lis in the marketfor ali kinds of junk.
We also pay the highest prices for all
kinds of beef hides, horse hides and sheep
pelts furs and feathe rs.
You can call me at any time over the
phone, No. Isqw.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

Christmas matinee was confined almost
exclusively to few Of the first class
theaters in New York city.
On the road it is different. The ac-
tors have to work just as hard as they
ever did. and opposition from local
managers win probably prevent the
elimination OF the Christmas matinee
outside of New York.
With some companies Christmas is
not the disagreeable occasion that it
is with others. One or two owners
make it practice to instruct the man
ager with the company to have a
Christmas dinner prepared at the ex-
pense of the show. Sometimes a cater
err is called in, and the dinner is served
on the stage between the matinee and
the evening performance. In that event
the dinner usually proves prolific Of
material for the house press agent, and
the affair is duly recorded in the daily
papers. Sometimes it is served on the
stage after the evening performance.
Other times arrangements are made at
some hotel.
1t was one of these after the per-
formanee affairs that came pretty near
putting a travelling stock company out
Of business in town out in Iowa last
Christmas. This theater. by the way.
boasts of the only dog critic in exist
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

y Mai little NeFSe, pdEdpuTdSeu
B from one familiar to soldiers,
just about sums up the real
Christmas sentiment existing
among people connected with the the
atrical business. No, that doesn't
mean that the actor, the manager and
tae advance agent do not appreciate
the giving and receiving of presents
from their friends. But it does mean
that people connected with the stage
have come to look upon the Christmas
time as Il season of short pay and hard
work
1t isn't generally known, but it is
none the less true, that most actors
have clause in their contracts which
calls for half pay the week before
Christmas. This clause was inserted
in the days when the week before
Christmas really was a tough" one in
the theatrical business. But nowadays
there are many productions whic
pack the theaters to the doors the week
before Christmas as well as any other
week in the year Nevertheless some
of the managers live up to that con
tract and deduct the half weeks pay.
That is one reason why actors aren't
particularly merry at Christmas.
There are other managers who
make a practice of laying off their
companies the week before Christmas
and some of them ten days or two
weeks before In that case there is
no salary at all forthcoming. That,
probably, is another reason why the
average actor cannot understand why
Christmas is an occasion to be undulv
joyful.
1t was only last year that some of
the managers came to the conclusion
that stage people. like other human be
ings. might like to spend some part Of
the Christmas holiday with their
friends and relatives. Up to that year
it had been the custom of all man
ayers to give special matinee on
Christmas day. That meant, of course
that about all the actor had to do on
this festive occasion was to rush To
the theater almost as soon as he had
acquired his regular amount of sleep,
give an afternoon performance and
then. if fortunate enough to have
friends or relatives living in the city,
to hurry through his Christmas dinner
with them or leave before it was half
over to 30 back to the theater to play
the evening performance.
But a few of the managers changed
that last year by emitting the Christ
mas matinee and giving it on the day
following There We're other managers.
however, who not only gave the Christ
mas matinee, but acted on the sugges-
ton of their more charitable competi-
tors and gave the matinee the day aft
err too. However. this omission of the
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
This Would Be Walt whitman,s styIe

This Would Be Walt Whitman's Style.
1 sing the Christmas pie,
The -four, the lard the butter that com
pose 1t;
The richness of it's stuffing.
A divine nimbus exhales from it.
1t attracts with fierce, undeniabIe attrac-
ton.
( am drawn by it's breath no less than
Jack Horner, who holds it upon his
knees.
[ am one with the plum concealed in its
mammoth vastness.
[ loosen myself. pass freely and am at
the door of Horners lips, smacking
to taste its ingredients.
But he does not know how to get at you.
pie.
He sits, sleepily considering the pose of
his head, his pulled out lips betray-
ing his gluttony.
Presently fine smile comes on to his
face. He lunges into the pie with
firm thumb Its crust yields.
He possesses himself of its richness.
Oh, young men. I would not have you sit
in a corner considering pie stuflngs.
Be bold You-whoever you are-are all
lowed the eternal purports of a pie.
q loved certain Christmas pie ardently
and it gave me indigestion.
Yet out of that l have written this song9
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

Algernon Charles Swinburne's Style.
Here where the world is quiet,
Here upon Christmas day,
With plums and a pie for diet.
In corner sat Horner,
No feast was ever sweeter,
No finger was ever fieeter
To yank plum with glee to
A mouth that gapes Away.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
A Feel I'm the Christmas Air
By JAMES wHITCOMB RILEY

BY JAWES WnIINUMD
THEY's kind o. feel in the air to me
When the Christmas times sets in
That's about much of mystery
AS ever I've run ag'in.
Fer instance, now. whilse gain in weight
And eineral health. swear
Theys a eoneness somers l can't quite state
A kind o. feel in the air.
They's feel in the Christmas air goes right
To the spot where man lives at!
1t gives teller appetite
They amt doubt about that!
And yit they's somepin-I don't know what
That follers me here and there
And hants and worries and spares me not
A kind o. feel in the air.
Theys feel, as say. in the air that's jest
AS blamed-on sad sweet.
In the same ra-sho feel the best
And am the spryest on my feet
They's allus kind o sort of ache
That l can't locate nowhere
But it comes with Christina and no mistake
A kind o. feel in the air.
Is it the racket the children raise?
Why. no!-Cod bless em. no!
Is it the eyes and the cheeks ablaze.
Like my own Wuz long ago?
Is it the bleat o. the whistle and beat
O. the little toy drum and blare
O. the horn? No. no! 1t is jest the sweet
The sad-sweet feel in the air.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
Actors on
Christmas

There's lots of work.
And there amt no play.
SO what's the use
or a Christmas day?

TSHAT little verse, paraphrased
B from one familiar to soldiers,
IL just about sums up the real
Christmas Santimanf avictinU
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
In the Great William Shakespeare's
Style

Sweet pastry, do not scorn me. do not
gibe
And frown at me with crusty surliness.
1 know that in your flaky depths is hid
den
A mammoth plum, which. DDS my little
life!
I'll have it If must swing for IT, Thus
Jacques,
Who thereupon. with smashing stab of
the thumb
smote through the crispy lid. which erst
held tight,
And with triumphant shout "'ods bodi-
kins.
A good lad Il" withdrew the sought for
plum.