The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-10-09
THINGS
SEEN and HEARD

We were quite interested the
other evening in hearing a discus
sion OF how to better finance the
city and these are some of the
suggest ions that were made: Run
the schools during the summer
months aud close them down during
the winter and thus save on the fuel
bill, (" increase the valuation of the
farm lands within the city limits
and raise more money bv taxation. ="
"cut out the manual training and
domestic science in the public
schools" ELECT officers that realize
the condition of the city and will
keep the expenses down to a
minimum" "cut out some of the city
MIGRANTS that are not used.
A farmer from the Washington
avenue district was in the first of
the week and reported that hogs
in that district were dying off with
cholera and that apparently nothing
had as yet been done to stop the
spread of the disease. Had the
farmers in the district kept in touch
with what is being done at the
University at Madison they would
have known that the state is IS erdng
out to farmers at the cost of pro-
duction serum which will prevent
the disease spreading if it is used in
time.
Farmers get busy and send to
Madison for some of this "dope"
and prevent a further loss among
YOUR hogs.
The other dav we heard business
man kicking because so many of the
people were sending out of town for
their goods when, as he said. ''they
could do better right at home" We
asked this business man what he
was doing toward stopping people
for going away to buv their goods,
and whether he was doing any
advertising whatever to q attract
people to his store We learned
that he was not doing a thing, ex-
cept simply keeping his place of
business open from ten to fifteen
hours each day. The mail order
houses keep everlasting at it with
their advertising and keep people
informed as to what they have.
How in the world can this business
man expect people to know of his
bargains when he fails to let people
know what he has. Better try a
little advertising brother.
Alex Gackowski and number of
h is neighbors believe that the city
officials should spend little of what
they pay in taxes toward furnishing
light and at the council meeting
Tuesday evening Alex appeared as
spokesman 70 the bunch and gave
the council a neat little address,
stating some of the reasons why a
light should be installed on the
corner of Bird avenue and 7th street.
Alex gave a very convincing talk
but the council cried "povertv and
turred deaf ear to the proposition
Frank Bennett, of Barksdale, one
of the best deer hunters in this
vicinity. has started wearing his
hunting cap and has begun polish
ing up his gun in anticipation of the
deer season which opens on the 18th
of November. Others are just as
anxious as Frank but they are not
showing it quite as much.
You can't run across farmer
these days but what is more than
satisfied with the way the crops are
turning out this fall. All of them
report bumper crop.
There are very few persons that
knew that Ike Berman was an ex.
pert landscape gardner until he
began the work of fixing up the
court house grounds in this city,
Ike is in the clothing and furnishing
business but some time in his early
life he must have learned some good
ideas about gardening. He has
charge OF the work that is being
done on the court house grounds ant
is certainly making the yard lool