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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
FIRE CAUSES A SEVERE LOSS
Hay Shed and Contents Burned. The
Cause Unknown.

On Saturday fire destroyed a hay
shed, with its contents of hay and corn
fodder, on the Muenster farm in the
northeast part of the city The place is
occupied by Samuel R. Harris and he
had about ten tons of hay with large
amount of cut corn stored in the barn.
The contents were covered with insur
ance in the sum of $500. There was no
insurance on the building.
The cause Of the fire is unknown AT
about 10 o'clock a. m, smoke and fire
were discovered bursting out of the
roof of the shed but the fire had gain
ed too great headway to be ex-
tinguished.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
New Express Rates.

Madison. Wis, Oct. -: \ tentative
settlement Of the suits brought by the
express companies to prevent the en-
forcement of the railroad commission 5
order reducing express rates was
brought about today by an agreement
which practically amounts to acquies-
cence Of the companies in the commits
sion's order.
The agreement provides that the
rates ordered by the commission shall
be made uniform with those ordered
recently by the interstate commerce
commission and TO become effective
Dec. /.
Z. S. Mack and Charles r. Stockton,
attorneys for the companies and At,
torney General Owen and Walter Drew
deputy attorney general, We're in con
ference all day and later it was an
nounced that the hearing on the appli-
cation of the companies for restrain
ing order shall be continued until Dec.
/, at which time it is expected the con-
ditions of the agreement will become
effective.
1t is said that the settlement is a
decisive victory for the railroad com
mission, which was represented at the
conference today by Halford Erickson
and David Harlowe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
Tried For Murder

The right of conductor to put ~
tramp Oft n moving train is to he tried
IN murder case as Lancaster next
month. Conductor Harry French, La
Crosse Burlington railway, is charged
with kicking Edward Murphy, tramp
oil his tram while it was in motion,
Murphy fell under the wheels and was
killed. French was arrested for murder.
He was released ON $4,000 bail The
Order of Railway Conductors is dnanc-
ing Freuch'S defense
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30

MIR. AND Mrs. THOMAS A. EDISON.
that are forming into one big idea. one
great working principle that will make
life safer and happier for children.
And that is what the round Of life
means to Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. She
is the one boss that the wizard
obeys They call her the missus'
down at the big graystone works in
West Orange Every man III the place
knows she is the only person he ever
minds. And they know. too. that if
his life is prolonged and preserved for
the good of the world it is because
there stands beside him this quiet,
handsome, steady nerved woman with
the little smile upcurving her lips.
Mrs. Edison is of medium height
and rather plump. Her hair is brown
and waves back from her face girl
ishIy.
How do we take care of Mr.. Edi-
SOM" she answered. "Well. first of
all. he needs quiet. We all guard him
against any noise or confusion or in
terruptions. When he is home here he
needs perfect rest. Sometimes he stays
down at the laboratory for twenty
hours at stretch and longer without
sleep. but when he does come home ne
will lie down and fall asleep as easily
as a child and perhaps sleep straight
through for twenty hours without wax
ing So the house must always De
quiet for him.
NO. he has no regular habits" She
answered this with little smile and
shook her head. NO regular habits
at all-nO regular time for rising. no
regular diet. nothing like that. He
has been called Il vegetarian. but he
eats wild game and beef and lamb
only they must be we'll cooked.
Exercise: Not what other people
call exercise Nou see he is on his
feat down at the works all day That
Is enough exercise. he thinks. so he
does hardly any walking outdoors, but
he loves his garden. and motoring q
his favorite recreation. We have our
ride together in my car every day. !
am Just going down for him now We
ride for two hours before dinner. and
he looks forward 10 it. for never let
him forget that he must be ready when
/ come for him"
Mrs. Edison is the woman at the
switch that regulates the current Of
his life
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
Revising Greeley's go West, Young
Man."

The Marinette Eagle Star suggested
that were Horace Greedy writing today,
instead Of telling the young men to go
west. he would advise them to go
north. That there is no doubt about
this being the case is suggested by the
fact that many Of tie Wisconsin papers
have taken the matter up and all agree
that the Eagle Star is right Upper
Wisconsin is today the homeseekers
best chance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30

On Sunday, Nov. the public library
will open from ? to 3 p. II. On the
following Sundays in November it will
also be open during the same hours. 1t
is hoped that the Sunday opening will
give an opportunity TO many to read
the newspapers. magazines and books
with which the library is provided.
Citizens are reminded that the library
is supported by public taxation and
that all are entitled 10 its privileges.
Ten magazines are regularly received
also a Chicago daily paper, as we'll as
the local aud county papers
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
Good Cattle Shipment.

Seven cars of high grade cattle We're
shipped from this station for Monday $
market. The following well known
farmers were the shippers:
Maurice Clauer, one car Sidney
Shepherd, Jr., two cars; Gus Torger-
son, one car; Henry Kieffer, one car;
Collins Bros. two cars.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
effective.
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT T
Homer Goldthorpe Seriously Injured
by the Accidental Discharge
of a Rifle.
and David Harlowe.

A very distressing accident occurred
to Homer Goldthorpe while hunting on
Saturday. As he was about to return
home and was climbing into the buggy
his gun in some way was accidentally
discharged; the bullet entering his
right arm, tearing the flesh into shreads
and iniuring the bone. He is now at
DR.. Gratiot' hospital having treatment.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
THE PEOPLES FORUM
A Parents Reply 70 Prot. Gotham.

farSnt HSpS 10 Fro'' SSNnsH'
To the Editor of the Democrat In
last weeks paper Prof. Gotham asks
eyery citizen to express his ideas upon
the question of the courses to he otter
"a by the public school, We gladly
comply.
Professor, we are in the business Of
raising boys and girls; we raise hogs
and cattle wheat, corn and such like
as an Incident
The only product worth mentioning
IN history will be the real men ani
women we turn out.
We appreciate your estimate of the
expense involved but even if it were
much more, the question is not, can
we afford it, but If it is better, can
we afford at any cost to get along with
ont the work you propose?"
There are already too many boys and
girls spoiled by getting ST. much "mere
book learning" that they are too smart
to work and yet don't know enough to
earn a decent and honest living without
it,
We have seemed in the past to edu
cate our children for one or two class.
rs. one of the learned professions or
commercial life. that is the work of
distributing the product turned out by
the producing classes.
We have seemed to imagine that pro
duction would go right on without aid
from the schools,
There was no substitute for the ap-
prentice system, which even with it's
faults, made better citizen that one
who has schooling enough to make him
too proud to do hard labor, and not
enough to compete with trained minds
in the world forum.
There are no better citizens than the
producing class, Let the school aim to
increase their tribe. Let the boy learn
the use of tools; let him be taught
gardening, agriculture and stock rails
ing. Let him learn that he is king,
who in the sweat of his brow earns his
daily bread by producing for the
worlds need Let him learn the dig
nifty of labor. Let him be taught the
delight of creating something out of real
things.
Why should we have to wait until
school days are over to get the real
practical work we shall need SO much,
as soon as we meet the real world for
which we are in training2
Then why should pupil grind over
a task hard to understand and more
difficult to remember, and with no idea
what relation the facts taught bear to
actual life when if the problem is made
concrete he can understand easily and
remember for life without difficulty.
Train the hand to execute the picture
of the mind in wood, or pie crust, and
you have done more to really educate,
than by any other means.
Not only so, but the testimony of
those cities which have been teaching
manual training and domestic science
for years. is that. with the boys, they
take much greater interest in their
school work. more Of them complete
the entire course and some who could
not work before, found themselves"
after the manual work began, and
completed with honor. With the girls,
many kitchen and home felt the pro
found effect of the training and if the
home was helped every good institution
was helped with it. Put me down as
unqualifedly in favor of the new work,
r. A. BARNES.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
STUDIES Prison
FROM The INSIDE
0SbOrnO Serves Self Inflicted
Term For Purpose.
TREATED JUST AS A CONVICT

Gets the Same Fare and Dons Regu-
lar Prison Clothes--ls Bathed as He
Enters and Assigned to Cell--Wiu
Determine Effects OF Prison Lite on
Mind
Auburn, \, Y Emulattng the ex
ample OF Governor Hunt ot \rtzona,
who in March, t9l&, had himscf lock
cd up with ,ouNirtS tu share their rN
pericurc nt prison life, Thomas Mott
osborne chairman of the state com
mission to, prison reform, has entcred
Auburn prison and Is serving self
imposed sentence for the purpose of
studying the effect OF discipline. food,
labor and the goucral prison system on
Il ConNivts mind.
Mir Osborne entered the prison az
any new convict would do, Went
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
The Want Column.

There are very few second hand
ranges or cook stoves for sale this year.
Recently lady advertised for one in
the want column and the next day she
got just the stove she wanted.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
Death Of RomeII Cooking,

Died at Highland, Oct. gath, Romell,
infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Cooking of this city. The funeral took
place from st. Philips church Sunday.
Mrs. Cooking had been visiting her
mother when the child took sick and
died after very short illness.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30

Sunday, 24th after Trinity Holy
Communion and Sermon l0:30 Il. m.
Sermon. The Everlasting Kingdom, y
Psalm XIV, g.
Sunday School at II 90.
Evening Prayer and Sermon, 1;3O
p. III.
Sermon, The Saints of God" Phil.
", 3.
All are cordially invited to worship
with us. REV. VIM. F. PHILLIPS
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
Kansas Families Come to Wisconsin

The Glidden Enterprise notes the ar
rival of five Kansas families VINO will
make their homes in upper Wisconsin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
Trinity Church Notices.

Friday 900 p, M, meeting of Guild
with Mrs. Mary White.
Saturday, All Saints Day, Holy
at 900 Il. m.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30
"J|M," THE DOG WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A CHAUFFEUR


rom Picture Take
that Jim $
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-10-30

Want advs. will be found on page
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
ST. JoHNSToWN.

Warren f. Fowler has sold his farm
and moved to Bndgeville, much to tn,
regret of the people here, as he was of SC
much help in the church.
Miss Cora Wiley has gone to Dover
where she has accepted a position at the
Capitol Hotel
Mr.. w. C. Short has returned to her
home in Wilmington, after spending q
week with her mother.
Mrs. Ellen Hatfield gave turkey din
ner last Thursday, in honor other grand
children.
Burton Williams is recovering from an
attack of lagrippe.
Frank Elliott is on the sick list.
Col Thomas Curry made a business
trip to Baltimore on Tuesday.
Vim. Williams is on the sick list.
At the coming Conference we hope the
bishop will return our pastor, as he suits
the people.
Miss Bertha Dickerson is visiting her
uncle, George Dickerson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mai, and Mr..
and Mrs. Adamcheck were the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Schultz on Sunday.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
HARRISON.

Mrs. Lydia Mcgee is visiting friends in
Harbeson.
Mrs. George Simpler feft on Wednes-
day for Philadelphia, where she will enter
hospital for treatment.
Warrington& Veasey wish to thank the
people of Harbeson and neighborhood for
the help rendered during the FIRE, which
destroyed their store and goods.
After spending few days here, Mrs.
Lena Vaughan, Of Philadelphia, has gone
to visit friends at Ocean View.
Augustus Redheiffer, who has been
quite i'll with e1ysipelas IS improving.
Capt. Mcgee took a party of1adies over
to Milford in his car on Wednesday.
Why Jesus sympathizes with us,
will be the subject for the Sunday morn
ing sermon at Beaver Dam. The pastor
will sing, Hell Help Us in Sorrow, "
one Of his own compositions. Everybody
is Invited
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
HARRINGTON

On Tuesday morning. March 18th
Mrs. Henry Dickerson, aged about 6!
years, died at her home in Harrington
She was sister to the late Chancello
WolcOtt.
Miss Ethel Camper has been very
sick with typhoid fever.
Miss Mary E. Thomas, who has been
suffering with la grippe, is able to be
out again.
Mrs. B. Frank Ross has given her
| friends a graphic description of the dv-
Mantle explosion which happened while
she was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Evans Of Baltimore. 1t was distinctly
felt here.
Mrs. Matte Smith has returned from
Washington.
Mrs. Eli Galloway and Mrs. Vertie
CANAL have been out of town visitors.
Miss Elma Griffith is visiting Lewes.
Many relatives and friends of this
town attended the funeral of Mrs. Nor
rls Harrington at FELTON, on Saturday.
She was formerly of this town and a
sincere christian.
Miss Bertha Thomas has been the
guest of friends at Burrsville.
Mrs. Alfred Raughley has been a la |
grippe victim.
Mrs. Luella Paris, of Philadelphia, is
a town visitor.
Alex. Smith had the misfortune last
week to be bitten by mad dog. DR..
Riley is in attendance and he is doing as
well as can be expected.
Miss Edythe Simpson is in Washing
ton.
Wesley Blades while working as a
carpenter had his eye hit by nail.
Master Henry Bullock has been very |
u of diphtheria and pneumonia.
Miss Fleming recently entertained her
sister, Miss Elizabeth Fleming, and
friend, Miss Weston, of Philadelphia.
Robert Sedgwick while working in
he woods for Charles Murphy had his
eg broken and body crushed. His neigh
'ors have done everything to alleviate
lis sufferings.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14

THERE is a very large demand
for a day current service of electric
ity in Milford, and the revenues
would undoubtedly be increased
from the electric light plant now
owned by the town, were this given
to the people. This is no idle
dream, it is a fact which can be
demonstrated any time the Light
and Water Commission will give
the people an opportunity to prove
II. If this matter is POSTPONED
much longer, there will certainly
be gas plant permitted to furnish
fuel and power for many things in
the town, which should be con-
served for the municipal owned
public utility. One hundred cleo.
trio fans, thirty or more motors.
scores Of electric irons, and many
electric convenience would gladly
welcome the advent Of a dav cur
rent. The statement by those who
oppose the already needed conven-
fence, that the consumption ofelec-
trio current would not reimburse
the cost of maintenance, is only
the unsupported opinion ofindivid-
uals. Make a convass OF the pos
sible users, and we are satisfied |
that it will surprise the most skep-
teal. What the people now want
S comfort and economy in their
ZONES, and a day current would
lelp many a woman to make her
lone duties more easy, and as the
ay Of servants is almost at a close,
must be be done soon.
cts have the day current, and see :
hat the result viii be. ID
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14

THE problem Of beef supply i:
one which is felt to be most serious,
and one which the people of thi:
country have got to face promptly,
and at the same time put into effect
a plan for the increase of the mum
Der of beef cattle from which the
supply Of meats must be drawn
The National Live Stock Associa-
ton at its last meeting held a dis
cussion relative to the desirability
of law prohibiting the slaughter
of heifer calves under three years
of age, this killing being not only
a great economic waste but the
main factor in the decrease of the
number of cattle within the United
States. A case in point lies in the
figures furnished by the Indiana
polls Abattoir Company wherein to
equal the meat and money accruing
from a herd consisting of two hun
bred steers, it took eight times the
number of calves which if kept
might have more than trebled the
market value.
According to Mr.. Horace H.
who calls attention to this
expensive policy, the slaughter of
calves in 1910 was twenty per cent
Of the total cattle killed in the
country, and whilst the beef for
sale had thus doubled in ten years, |
he number of younglings sacrificed |
vas out of all general proportion to
he rest, being for the year seven
lines greater than happened a dec
de before. 1t would be difficult to
ind a more striking example Of
lappy-gO-lucky recklessness or a
-raver stumbling block in the way
f adjusting supply unto demand.
The remedies proposed are, a
tOppage Of this wholesale calf
laughter, and teaching of the
lrmers the superior advantages of ,
eef cattle raising so as to increase
lpplies.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
REDEEM

Several of the farmers in this section
of the county are busy blowing for their
spring planting.
Miss Nora Dutton is on the sick list
Captain William Jefferis, who has been
home with his family all winter, has re-
turned TO his work in Philadelphia. All
of the people in this section hate to see
him leave.
Miss Mable Hinnaman has gone to
Georgetown to take position as nurse.
James Alexander has come to see his
mother and will take her back with him
for few days visit
Mrs. Clara Dutton is better at this
writing.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14

THAT proposition to keep the
present Legislature virtually in ses-
sion for the next two years, in order
to prevent possible appointment
OF Republican to succeed Senator
du Pont, was a very Democratic
idea. The fraud Legislature and
Constitutional Convention Of 1923
were used in the same way. The
Democratic majority in both these
bodies was secured by a successful
venture in mob rule. They were
both in session at the same time.
The Convention destroyed the
Courts to prevent the adjudiction
otcauses resulting from the action
OF the Board Of Canvass in refusing
to count the ballots in several dis
tricts in Kent county, and returned |
Democrats in districts where Re-
publlcans were elected. The Leg
islature adjourned to meet a year
hence without arranging for the
organization Of the new Supreme
Court to which the pending politi-
cal contest involving the election of
a United States Senator, had been
referred. That was the trick sue t
cessfully played to prevent the t
election of Republican from this '
State to the U. S. Senate. Il
The proposition to repeat that S
rick to prevent the possible ap- e
oointment of Republican Senator s.
y Governor Miller, was a PROPOSE a
ion to repeat dastardly Demo- o
ratio Outrage. Sentinel. al
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
WILLOW GROVE.

Fox chasing is popular with the wom-
en- as well as the men in this section.
and in the past week there have been
several lively chases which were attend
ed by both men and women. The Wv
oming folks seem to enjoy the snort
hughly, as they have been present in
large numbers with some fine hounds.
I. w. Kemp is helping to remodel
the Hotel Wellington, at Bridgeville.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Draper have
been visiting Claude Draper and wife.
Edna Vaughn, Of Cheswold has been
visiting Angela Dill.
Miss Alma Ward is visiting near Sea
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14

THE citizens OF any prosperous
town are always public spirited
and united. Stand together, work
for the interests of the whole town
Always stand ready to do your part.
Don't grumble and spend your time
in prophesying failures but help to
make every enterprise a success, be
it great or small. Be energetic and
enterprising and your example will
be initiated.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
BAD ROADS KEEP SEVERAL NIL.
LION CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL

The following is an extract from a
very interesting and important contri-
button to the current issue of Farm and
Fireside.
''Out of twenty-five million children
IN the United States, less than eighteen
million go to school.
'Of those seven million children who
do not go to school, half of them live
in the country, where bad roads muddy
roads, rutty roads, dangerous roads
not only prevent them from getting to
and from school, but by their impover-
lshment of the farm prevent the exist
ence of any good schools for them to 90
to
Many children are killed each year
walking railrOad-tracks to school. Why ?
They have no roads to walk on. Many
children each year have no schools to
go to. Why? The roads are so bad
there IS no profit in farming, no money
for schools, no progress. no growth, no
ambition. Hundreds of thousands of
children yearly have to do with a little |
schooling, little part of a term at
school why -? Because Father needs |
their help on the farm-he isn't making /
money enough to spare his children's |
time for schOol-Gays, because he has to |
pay so much for hauling his crops to |
market he has no profit left for extra
hired help
Isn't it your problem too. Mrs. /
Mother Isn't it worth your while to
agitate the ques ton Ism itworth your
while to bring it up in church, in school.
in society, in club, in neighborhood-to
talk, to inquire, to agitate, to educate.
those who don't know, and perhaps
don want to know, to understand that
the expense of good roads is like the
expense of a new threhshing-machine,
pillow or pair of horses, sure to come
back many fold in the course of time. :"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14

THE storekeeper who does not
advertise and who does not system
atise his business might as well
put up his shutters. Judicious adj
vertising- means financial success,
Never in the history of the CONNER
cial world has advertising occupied
such a dominant place as it does to-
day.