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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-02-05

March II, 1919.

HANCOCK -: MATCH IT. WI
/ this day delivered TO Calvin p. MoOn,
agentfor Benvenue Granite Company, true
ana attested copy OF the within writ for is
appearance nj court as within commanded,
JOSEPH T. SNOW, Deputy sheriff.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
IMPROVING THE WHOLE STATE
University Of illinois Takes Unique
Method to Reach Public.

The University of Illinois has been
sending u an Australian ballot. for
farmers" upon which the following
ten items are listed opposite squares to
be checked after the heading: Il VIII
and returned to the university:
PLANT or improve my windbreak:
screen uusightly objects; save old trees
on avn. roadside or field; plant some
thing to attract friendly birds; plant
bushes and vines against foundations
of my house: make a good. open lawn:
improve views of my house and the
prairie; help the children make a f1ow-
er garden: plant a border sacred to nj.
tive trees. Illinois shrubs and prairie
flowers: repian my home grounds
Without agreeing to pay anything !
seriously desire help on the above mat
tiers. and If / get it l will tell you what
improvements I make and the cost"
The University Of Illinois is also
waging an active campaign for the
planting Of all roadsides with trees and
has a department for that special work
under the leadership Of Wilhelm Mill
Ter, Phi. D.. assistant professor Of land
scape horticulture.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
On. Man Power Profitable.

There was a town in Maine that
found it was constantly getting deeper
and deeper into debt, and the people
appealed to a certain man to take the
Office of chairman Of the board Of &C.
lectmen. He refused unless they would
elect him to every other Office In the
town at the same time. It was found
that It could be done under the law.
with the exception Of two other select
men. and the men taking these places
agreed to have nothing to do with the
town affairs and let the one man run
the whole thing. He took hold Of the
matter, and at the end Of two Years
without increasing taxes, the town va
out Of debt and had q surplus In the
treasury. Jean o. Michaud, the man
who did that thing, says that be ac-
compiished the work BY '"~supsrvisinR
expenditures" That % tho one thing
needful In all city, county and state
government There 8 No such super
vision; anywhseo now. and because
there q not taxss ars Msh-omaha.
Woeid-HseajA
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
HOME MERCHANT SHOULD
NEVER HAVE DULL TIMES
New Schemes Often Effective In
Stimulating Trade Activity.

Nothing wins so we'll as constant
work. Often we hear a merchant COM
planning about dull times. Perhaps his
neighbor is doing a rushing business.
for the simple reason that his neighbor
keeps busy. If customers are not COM
ing in SO rapidly as he might wish the
busy man takes time to get buster and
devises some new scheme to bring
trade to the store.
Perhaps he busies himself in real
ranging his goods in attractive manner
on the shelves and in the showcases.
If he finds some Of the clerks who are
complaining of its being dull he imme.
diately gets those clerks busy getting
out old goods and arranging them in a
name that he can carry on a clean
ing up sale to advantage.
There Is always lots Of work to do.
How many times do we find merchants
who complain of dullness sitting inside
and vainly endeavoring to look through
windows covered with dust and dirt
How many times do we find the man
: who says there is nothing to do look
ing at a display of dirty goods!
Don't you forget tiff you have any
business to look after you have some
thing to keep you busy all the time.
Nothing nike keeping busy about the
store. It is sure to pay in the end.
Even the novice can keep busy reading
some good trade paper and posting up
on commercial ideas and make a win.
ming thereby.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
PAY EVERY BILL WHEN DUE
ALWAYS THE BEST MAXIM
The Only Successful and Safe Way to
Transact Business.

mo man can, do business of any mag
nitude." said a retail man recently. "or
would care to. for that matter, without
credit. but the very ease with which
credit may be obtained may be a pit
fall and one into which a good many
retail merchants have fallen and unless
human nature changes are likely to
fall in the future.
~ But there is mi safe course to fol-
low which at least will prevent COM
1plications arising as a result of care
essness, and that is to adopt a rule to
pay every bill and interest account
when it is due. Many a bill has been
Slet run over when to pay it would be
just as easy as to omit doing so. and
loose ends of debt accumulate in a way
that is surprising when a full summing
up is made of them.
Then. too. it is true that If the debts
are left at loose ends some n may
take it into his head to gather the
loose ends together and so tie up the
man who should have looked after
them. This may be a bad metaphor.
but it is certainly good logic.
$50, as l said in the beginning" said
the merchant, 1.-THE best thing to 10 is
to pay all bills when due. wen If to do
so;you shall have to borrow the neces-
sary money with which to take care Of
them. since doing so at least has the
merit of concentrating the indebted
ness and placing 1t where provision can
be made for its handling easily when
opportunitY offers to take 1t up"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
HOW ONE TOWN SOLVED
ITS AMUSEMENT PROBLEM
Pittsfeld, Mass, Now Has Good Plays
N Of Educational Value.

Two years ago the citizens Of Pitts
field. Mass. decided that it would be
we'll to try to make their local theater
an institution of some value to the
community instead Of having 1t con-
Quoted after the manner Of theaters in
most Of the smaller cities and towns
Of the United States. Their expert
ence may be of value to other places
suffering from similar evils.
The theater was in q rundown con
dition and under management which
had let it go from bad to worse. The
Pittsteld men got together and chip
ped in enough to buy it out and out
and put 1t in good condition in every
way. They did not confine their eff
forts to the front Of the house. but
even went so far as to put. in decent
dressing rooms with modern convent
ences. They made tempting terms
and tried to secure attractions which
would give Pittsfield something be-
sides a constant succession of cheap
musical shows and fly by night enter
tainments. In this they were fairly
successful. but found that they were.
like other places. the victims Of the
erratic booking system which controls
theatricals in America. In addition
they found that conducting the enter
prise was taking more Of their time
and energy than they cared to devote
to it. Therefore they turned the house
over to William Parke. who had had
a considerable experience at the Castle
Square in Boston. and aided him in the
establishment of a stock company.
Mr.. Parke was so encouraged by his
early experiences with the Pittsfeld
public that he took the theater over at
a rental which is satisfactory to its
owners. and Pittsield now has an at
tractive. we'll conducted theater. at
which are regularly presented by a
well trained company the standard
plays and the more recent successes as
fast as they are released for stock COM
pany use
With the knowledge that their thea
ter could be relied upon a new theater
going public has developed not only in
Pittsfield itself, but in the territory
which is accessible by trolley. Finan-
cially it has not been a great success
so far. but has been self supporting to
an extent that makes every one con
cerned willing to 60 On with the enter
prise. The experiment is of value to
other communities that find themselves
in the same position as Pittsfield.
In Northampton. Mass, they have
tried out the experiment of q municipal
theater with considerable success, but
this idea is not so likely to commend
itself to American communities. There
is a reasonable existing prejudice
among most Americans against using
public moneys for purposes of amuse-
ment, even in the form Of an educa-
tional theater. There can, of course.
be no such objection to such an enter
prise as that in Pittsfeld, and the Of
tener it is copied the better for dra-
matte art in America. The stock COM
pany is about the only practical school
for the stage that we have in this coun
try and today is supplying the best
new material that comes to the metro
politan theaters.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
DEVELOP TRADE
BY COOPERATION
What a Wisconsin Town Did
Merits Emulation.
COMMUNITY SPIRIT TELLS.

S0sovosS Vvsop wv TIC wac SS'S'0
the Citizens Learned to Keep Trade
and Profits at Home-Three Hundred
Per Cent Tax Increase In One Year.
Delavan, Wis.,. is an excellent exam
pie Of a village center around which
has developed n Of the most prosper
GUS and cultured agricultural commu.
mites. twenty-five years ago. weight
ed with a $4,000 railroad mortgage, it
was a sleepy town. with grass grown
streets and untidy yards. Poorly kept
roads radiated through the rural dis
tricts. Little was done for the farmer
other than to supply in m Indifferent
manner his simpler requirements, and
farm lands were not valued as highly
around Delavan as near Two Of the lar
ger towns in the county.
About this time an awakening took
place. The citizens paid the railroad
bonded debt in year. even though
the taxes were increased nearly 300 per
cent. Then followed a new high school
building. city waterworks, sewerage.
electric light plant. improved streets
and country roads A woman's i'm
provement club cleaned and raked and
scrubbed the town and established a
standard of civic pride that has made
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
CLEAN UP W
BOY SCOUTS ASSIST THEM
Ladies Work With Hoes and Rakes to
Beauty Cornwall, N. Y.

When the board Of health Of Corn
wall. a village near the city Of New.
burg. N. T.. after repeated appeals.
failed to clean up the Moodna creek.
a stream which had long been made
the dumping ground Of all kinds of
refuse and constituted a constant men,
C to health, the women of the town
took the matter into their own hands.
Wealthy women organized an improve
ment society. which a nicknamed
1.-THE tin can committee" and set about
the cleaning up of the creek and ad-
jacent properties.
Thanked by a squad of boy scouts,
many of the most prominent women of
the town marched to the Moodna with
hoes and rakes and began a cleanup
of the banks Of the creek. On the first
day their labors, which had progressed
finely, We're interrupted by rain, but
the following week their work was
finished. Plans are now being perfect
ed to keep the creek and its e~nyirons
in a condition where it will be neither
an eyesore 0 a menace to the health
Of the community.
At the conclusion Of their labors the
women said that the Moodna had
been made the dumping ground for all
sorts of garbage and what they did
was .'by way Of protest against this
custom, which Is calculated to make
the beautiful country unhealthy and to
give an unfavorable impression Of the
artistic nature Of It's inhabitants to the
travellers within our boundaries"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06

Delavan one Of the show towns OF
southern Wisconsin. The Chautauqua
assembly was organized in 1895. and
an additional opportunity for intellec
tual and spiritual uplift was given gu,
countryside. The business part of the
town u practically rebuilt. Enter
prising merchants, with fine stores and
excellent stocks of merchandise. nc.
lively. competed with the larger neigh.
boring cities Of Beloit. GAINESVILLE,
Whitewater. Burlington and Lake Ge'
neva for the farmers trade with ever
increasing success.
The merchants, in addition to the ex-
cellent values offered throughout the
year, established q Delavan week sale
in midwinter, ut which time every
storekeeper made especially low prices
on goods and also contributed money
to provide free entertainments at the
opera house and picture shows for all
visiting farmers and their families. In
trying out IL new process creamery
100000 was spent. Farmers institutes
and poultry shows were held. Con-
certs. theatrical entertainments and
winter lecture courses were maintained
and were patronized by town and coun-
try people alike. Baseball games. field
days, carnivals and celebrations were
of frequent occurrence. A free public
library was established. and out of
about 1900 patrons cards outstanding
over 400 are held by farmers and their
families living from one to seven miles
outside Of the town.
The result Of all these things has
been that the town has made the farm
ers prosperous and the farmers have
made the town prosperous. Real es-
tate is fully 20 per cent more valuable
in Delavan township. according to the
last assessment figures Of Walworth
county. than any other township in the
country.
A live town is a better market than a
dull one for all kinds, of farm produce.
with keener competition among bust
ness men. And If the farmer can read
lily sell his produce in a town he is Ger
tain to buy the town merchants wares
in return. Fine stores with large and
varied stocks of up to date merchan-
disc IRE big assets to any town and are
equally valuable to the neighboring
farmers. They spell prosperity for
both.-American Agriculturist.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
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MENU.
Oranges.
y Boiled Cereal.
Potato Omelet.
Cinnamon Buns.
Coffee or Cocoa.
BREAKFAST omELETs.

BREAKFAST oMELETs.
HREAMY omelets give zest to the
morning meal. They tempt the
appetite of those who are apt to
slight the first food Of the day. They
are just the things for those who COM
plain Of no appetite for breakfast.
Some suggestions for n%ourishing ONE
let's are given here:
A Plain Omelet.
Drowned Omelet.-Take four eggs.
four tablespoonfuls Of milk. one-quar-
ter teaspoonful Of salt and a dash Of
pepper. Mix the beaten yolks Of the
eggs with milk and seasoning. Fold
into this the stif1y beaten whites.
Pour into a hot skillet in which a little
fat has been melted. Cook with a
very low fire until brown on the un-
lerside. Dry in the oven.
Fish and Eggs.
Fish Omelet-Take q level teaspoon
full each Of -four and butter and cook
them together. Add gradually one
cupful of hot milk and a little pepper.
Soak over night one heaping cupful Of
Goldfish cut in small pieces. In the
morning cook until soft that it may
shred easily. Mix with thickened milk.
Then mix the whole with one pint Of
cold boiled potatoes chopped fine. Put
a tablespoonful Of butter in a spider.
When hot turn in the fish and cook
slowly until a thick brown crust has
formed; then fold over and turn out on
a hot platter. Garnish with fried ba-
o and parsley.
A Vegetable Novelty.
Potato Ome!et-Take one table
spoonful Of drippings and one table,
spoonful of grated onion. Add. chop.
ped. the potatoes which are left I'VE
from dinner. Place in an iron pan.
Dust with one teaspoonful Of salt and
one-eighth %teaspoonful of white pep.
per. With cake turner or spatula keep
turning the potatoes until they begin
to brown. Do not add the drippings.
Beat four eggs with four tablespoon
fuls Of cold milk. Pour over the hot
brown potatoes and mix we'll. Let
set for a minute: then double like an
omelet BY pushing the potato into half
the pan. Turn out on hot platter.
sprinkle with chopped parsley and gar
nish with sprigs of parsley.
Baked Omelet.-Beat the yolks Of
four eggs until lemon colored with
one-half te%aspoonful of salt Add one
cupful of milk and the stiff beaten
whites Of the eggs. Pour in creased
pan and bake in moderate oven twelve
minutes.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
The Ideal City Of Today.

It controls Its physical foundations;
It is not controlled by them. It sub.
ordinates property to humanity; It per.
mits the freest possible play Of indi-
vidual initiative so long as the indi-
vidual does not interfere with the COM
mon veal. At the same time It re.
serves to itself the right to determine
where the freedom Of the individual
must end and the activity Of the city
begin. and when the city does make an
Investment II keeps for itself AZ large
4 portion Of the speculator's profit % It
can. IL pays for it, parks and its
b6ulsvafds. IL docks and III wharfs
from ont the resale Of surplus land
witch Il acquires Ia sxceGsgo Of u nseds.
Los Angsiesi Times
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
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VEAL.

THE best veal, which Is that OF 9
calf about two months old. is
pale pink or flesh colored in the
lean parts. The fat should be clear
white. The hind quarters are the
choicer cuts. Slices from the legs are
called outlets. Breast and shoulder OF
the forequarter make stew meat or in
ferior roasts. The ribs are sold as
chops. Roasting pieces and steaks are
cut from both leg and loin.
Novel Way Of Baking.
Dreamed veal.-Take three pounds Of
veal. boil and season it and when cold
pick to pieces. as for salad.
For dressing take three pints cream
and when hot thicken with five tea.
spoonfuls of flour mixed with four ia
~blespoonfuls Of butter and salt to taste.
Put veal in the pan, pour dressing over
and cover thickly with breadcrumbs.
Bake in a slow v
= With Mayonnaise.
Veal Jelly.-Take a veal shank. cover
with cold water, let it come to a boil
and skim carefully. Add one medium
sized onion. a bay leaf. small piece of
red pepper. salt and six whole cloves.
Boil slowly till the meat fails off bones.
Take out the meat. strain the liquid
and let it cool while the meat Is picked
into small pieces. Remove the grease
from the liquid. Add to the meat, put
into bowls to cool. Serve on lettuce
leaves. with mayonnaise dressing.
Served Cold.
Spiced Veal.-Cut some lean cold veal
into pieces about one inch square. Pour
over them sufficient scalding vinegar
to cover, adding to each pint of the
same one dozen whole cloves, q half
stick Of cinnamon, a t%easpoonful of
salt and a small red pepper OF a dozen
pepper corns. Allow the veal to stand
in this pickle for at least twenty-four
hours. 1t is then ready for use and is
nice served for cold luncheon or sup
per. -
Nicely Seasoned.
SteWed Veal.-Take three pounds OF
lean veal, cut it into pieces and cook III
one unc of butter. together with half
a dozen small onions. After cooking
for ten minutes add two tablespoonfuls
Of -four and moisten with a quart Of
white broth. Stir we'll and season with
a heaping t%easpoonful of salt and a
teaspoonful of pepper. Add two or
three carrots cut into small squares, an
ounce Of salt pork cut up into pieces
and a bouquet Of herbs. Cook for forty
minutes longer. remove the herbs and
serve hot.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
Smoke Costly to Chicago.

Smoke belched by locomotives costs
Chicago $7.93s.27G every year, accord
ing to statistics just published by AL
derman Theodore Long. which will be
submitted to a committee of the city
council that is considering IN ordinance
for the Identification Of railway ter.
minals. The total smoke damage ex-
ceeds the city's receipts from saloon
licenses. and the average loss to each
family Of $15.48 is figured as greater
than the annual personal property tax.
Alderman Longs figures give the daily
number of locomotives in Chicago as
1886 and their daily coal consumption
5.601 tons. Damage by smoke Of all
sources Is estimated at $1s.461,l06 an.
nuully.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
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USING HAM.


VAT HEN there is cold ham. especial.
wv ly if mere fragments have been
left, it is sometimes difficult to
know just how to use it.
The following suggestions along this
line may be Of use to the housewife:
Baked Chopped Ham.-Grind the
leftover ham or shoulder in a food
chopper. Put in Il dish a thin layer Of
breadcrumbs. u layer Of ham, then u
layer Of piccalilli. and repeat until all
is used up. the last layer to be bread
crumbs, and bake in v until brown
on top. >.
In Individual Dishes.
Ham and Eggs.-Take deep oatmeal
dishes and put a little cold chopped
ham in each. making a hollow in cen
ter. Drop an egg in each, season with
salt and pepper and a small piece of
butter OH each. Bake in a moderate
oven until whites are firm.
Ham in Cups.-Butter half dozen
custard cups and fill with equal guam
titles of stale breadcrumbs and cold
ham chopped fine and seasoned we'll.
Beat three eggs and add one cupful
milk and divide among the cups. add
ing more milk II necessary. Set cups
in pan Of hot water and bake in mod
crate oven until firm In center. Turn
on platters and serve with white
sauce.
Odd Recipes.
Ham with Currant Jelly.-Take one.
half tablespoonful butter. one-third
cupful curr.ant jelly. few grains cay
enne. one-quarter cupful sherry. one
cupful cold baked ham cut in small
strips; put butter and currant jelly
into the chatting dish and as soon as
melted add cayenne. sherry and ham:
simmer about 1--WE minutes.
Cold Boiled Ham.
Deviled Ham.-This is a good way to
use up the fragments left from a boiled
ham. Grind the pieces very fine.
throwing away hard parts and most Of
the fat. and to each tumblerful add
two hard boiled eggs. boiled q long
time. 10 that they will he mealy and
not damp. Melt q big piece Of butter
and season the whole literally with
pepper and mustard-with salt II need
ed. Chop the egss ane. and II there
seems to be too much white leave
some Of 1t ont. Pack down nrmly into
9tumblers and seal. with melted fat
over the top, Il you Wish to keep 4 ..
while.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
Baked Eggs.

Na.tr .=ttI oS"SS .S9os .N-. . Poi" -
Baked Eggs With Cheese. Brush an
earthenware dish with a little butter
and put in four round slices Of toast.
Break four eggs ON the toast cover
with three >tablespoonfuls of grated
American cheese and one cupful of
cream auce. Place in hot oven and
bf':c twelve minutes.
Italian Egggs.-Put into q bowl the
yolks of three eggs with a tablespoon
full of chutney and a tablespoonful and
q half of olive oil and beat we'll. Break
half a dozen eggs into a teacup. put
them one by one on the sauce and set
the dish into a moderate oven until the
eggs are set. but not Overdone. Serve
on the same dish very hot.
Eggs With Meat.
Baked Eggs With Sausages.-Make
a cupful of thick tomato sauce or chop
the cnnned or stewcd tomato fine with
out straining It. seasoning It with on
ion juice. salt and pepper. Mix with
this a couple Of link ssausages that have
been cooked and chopped into small
pieces. Pour the mixture into q dish
and break upon 1t as many eggs as the
space will allow without crowding.
Set In the rel and cook until the
whites Of the eggs + firm.
Baked Eggs and Ham.-Add a tea
spoonful Of onion Juice to a cupful Of
finely chopped boiled ham; beat six
eggs light. stir the ham into them.
season with q little pepper. a table
spoonful of minced parsley and turn.
the mixture into q frying pan IN which
iis q tablespoonful OF melted butter.
Stir the mixture AZ for scrambled eggs
until the eggs thicken Or cook Il as you.
would an omelet. loosening Il from the
bottom with an ,omelet knife and fold
ing II when done. sssfs
y ~ >
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-06
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SUPPER E
Baked Eggs With Cheese.
Parker House Rolls.
Hot Apple Sauce.
Sponge Cake. Tea.
EGG SUBSTITUTES FOR MEAT.
Sponge Oak,

EGG SUBSTITUTES FOR MEAT.
ITO reduce the cost of living the
clever housewife has at her COM
mand many expedients for pro-
ducing appetizing and nourishing dish.
es. Eggs are now moderate in price.
and these may be prepared in many
ways that will supply as much nutri.
ment as the higher priced flesh foods.
Eggs r so digestible that they may
be, served to the small folks Of the
family or form part Of the late supper
when necessary.