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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06
Maine's Grange Halls.

Maine oranges are well equipped
with grange halls Of their own. A re-
cent census of this feature Of grange
enterprise shows that out OF the 43O
oranges in that state more than 80 per
cent own their own halls. Further
more, the inventoried property Of these
oranges amounts to more than mil
lion and quarter Of dollars. It is
owing to these conditions that the
oranges OF the Pine Tree State are
rated as the most prosperous and sub
stantial in the entire country. It is
record Of which they may well be
proud.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06

Occasionally somebody makes I
will bequeathing money to help pay
off national debt. In 1888 Colonel
Thomas Norton Of Southwick, Eng
land, bequeathed $780, 900 for this
patriotic purpose. Probate was op-
posed, and the Judge who tried the
case decided that the colonel was in
sane. such q legacy being .only as 4
drop Of water poured into the sea-
The legacy was therefore divided
among the members Of the Norton
family.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06
A Children's EVENING.

We have nowhere seen more effec-
tive employment Of children in an
evenings program for the grange than
that at Lyme. N. 81. The various
schools in town furnished the pro-
gram, which consisted of songs. recita-
tons, dialogues. flag drills, etc. Five
schools were represented by ninety
children, and 200 grangers and guests
enjoyed the program. After the ex-
ercises the hall was cleared. and a
series Of marches and drills was given
by the Children. The teachers heartily
co-operated with the lecturer of the
grange in making the evenings pro-
gram success.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06
WHISTLER AND RUsklN.
!. ~ the Origin Of the Celebrated
aFarthing Verdict" Suit.

I'd the Origin Of the Celenrateo
aFar+hins Verdict Suit.
oMuch that was characteristic OF
whistIer's wit and temper came out
during the famous libel SUIT ne
brought against Ruskin,' says Don
q seitz in "Whistler Stories. "The
most amusing feature of it was the
exhibition in court of some OF the
snocturnes and arrangements
which were the subject of the suit.
The Jury of respectable citizens.
whose knowledge of art was prob
ably limited, was expected to pass
Judgment on these paintings. Whls-
Tiers counsel held up one Of the pic
lures. \.
]" Here, gentlemen he said, is
one of the works which have been
maligned.'
"Pardon me- interposed Mr..
Ruskin's lawyer, you have that pic
ture upside down.
"sNo such thing'
ooh. but it is SOP continued
Ruskin's counsel. 4 remember it in
the Grosvenor gallery. where it was
hung the other way about.
."rhe alteration ended in the
correctness of view Of Ruskin's law
yer being sustained. The error Of
counsel helped to produce the cele-
brated farthing verdict. Ever after
Whistler wore the farthing on his
watch chain.
"The suit had it's origin in Rus
kin's comment upon the .Nocturne
in Black and Gold described as "a
distant view of Cremorne gardens,
with falling rocket and other fire
works The picture is now the
property of Mrs. Samuel Untermy-
er of New York. On the opening
of the Grosvenor gallery in 1887
Ruskin wrote in 'Fors Clavigera:'
sThe i'll educated conceit of the
artist nearly approached the aspect
of willful imposture. | have seen
and heard much of cockney impu-
dence before now, but never expect
ed to have coxcomb ask 200
guineas for finging pot of paint
in the public's face.
"When Whistler was being exam
ined during the trial. Sir John
Holker, the attorney general, asked,
How long did it take you to knock
off that nocturne?'
"'l beg your PARDON said the
witness.
"Sir John apologized for his flip
pancy, and Whistler replied: About
a day. may have put few touches
to it the next day.
"'For two days labor you ask 200
guineas?
No; | ask it for the knowledge
of q lifetime
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06
Poverty Stricken Astronomers.

Astronomers only in, government
employ receive pay from the gov
eminent. Others receive pay from
the universities. But the majority
have no pay and are often sorely
pressed to get living. They de-
vote every moment from youth to
death in studying the supremaly
magnificent laws Of the sidereal uni
verse. History reveals that many
have suffered in the cold for want
of sufficient clothing, since no heat
of stove can be anywhere near a
telescope. And a number have died
in extreme poverty. New York
American.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06
FRED WOOD WILL BUILD LAR
GEST PLANT IN STATE

According to adviccs given respon-
sible parties in Anacortes this week,
Fred Wood, manager of the E. K.
Wood Lumber company. in Belling-
ham, now that he has secured addit-
ional property at Burrows Bay by
purchase at the Havekost auction,
will construct one of the largest, it
not the largest, lumber and hingle
mills on the Sound and that the mill
will be built as soon as the lumber
market will warrant it.
The builders of the prospective
mill believe that the opening of the
Panama canal will create al extern
sive market for lumber. If the firms
present plans are carried out, tim
Der grown here in Skagit county will
be manufactured into lumber and
shipped to all parts of the world, as
the Wood company has large timber
holdings in the upper Skagit valley.
It has been known for some time
that the Wood people had purchased
property at Burrows bay with view
to building a mill on it, and a few
months ago had even gone so far as
to draw up plans. To make the pro-
posed sight an ideal one the COM
pany wished to secure land in that
vicinity owned by the late T. H.
Havekost. Until the sale of this
property on the 18th, it was tied up
in the estate.
Fred Wood, manager of the COM
pany, purchased several tracts at the
Havekost sale and increased his hold
ings in that vicinity to omething like
800 acres. He now owns property
around the lagoon on the south side
of the point, acros the north side and
waterfront on the north side.
1t is said that the proposed Wood
mill will be at least 100000 capacity,
if not larger. This would mean that
Anacortes would have one of the big
gest lumber manufacturing concerns
on the Sound. The building of such
mill would add an appreciate a.
mount to the city's payroll and hast
en- the development of the western
part of the city.
Lumbermen unite in saying that the
proposed mill site at Burrows bay is
ideal. AS the Wood company's hold
ings now exist they will have lagoon
in which to store their logs, plenty
of room for mill buildings and yards
and waterfront on the north that will
enable deep sea vessels to take on
cargoes. The Wood company has ex-
tensive timber in the upper Skagit,
which, it is said. could be convenient
ly converted into lumber at the pro-
posed site.
With the addition of such a mill
as the one proposed, to her already
long list of manufacturing concerns,
the city of Anacortes would take high
rank among the lumber manufacture
ing centers of the Sound.-Anacortes
Citizen.
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sorbonne Members Once Theolooist.,

Sorbonne Members Once TheoIo9iete
The Sorbonne was originally q
society of ecclesiastics at Paris,
founded by Robert de Sorbonne in
1852. The members lived in COM
mon and devoted themselves to
study and gratuitous teaching. They
soon attained a European reputa-
ton as faculty of theology, their
Judgment frequently being appeal
ed to from the fourteenth to the
seventeenth centuries. The influ-
ence Of the Sorbonne was declining
when the society was broken up in
1889. The buildings are now de-
voted to education.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06
COUNTIES GET GRAIN
SACK APPORTIONMENT

The state board of control mas
fxed the apportionment of peniten
tiary grain bags among the various
Grain growing counties according to
the production of grain last year In
o.cb respectively. Thurston county
gets no bags. The apportionment is
as follows:
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06
Grange Day e the Dairy shox.

Grange Day at the Dairy Show,
The national dairy show which Is to
be held in Chicago from Oct. % to Nov.
| has set apart. one day Friday. Oct.
24-as grange day" The manage
ment advertises that it will make ar
rangements for hotel rates and tickets
for DELEGATIONS coming together for !
visit to the show on that date.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1914-02-06

GRANGE AND EDUCATION.

The Massachusetts, Fund - Rural
Schools Discovered.
State Master Gardner Of Massachu-
sets told the assembled grangers at q
Pomona field day meeting that the
grange educational fund to help rural
boys and girls to get an education was
being literally supported and that the
Great Darlington grange had made the
largest contribution to the fund OF any
grange in the state Hinsdale grange
Of Berkshire county was the first to
enter into the contest among oranges
for greatest advancement in. commu-
nifty work.
At the same meeting Rev. Margaret
Barnard of Rowe, Mass. leading COM
munity service worker, said: I'VE must
bring the school, the church and the
grange together in this work of help
ing the community and promoting its
interests. The rural districts must
stand together and work for their own
interests"
DR. David Snedden of the state board
of education spoke on the educational
factors Of the state. He remarked
that the state had now only an fndi-
rect control of the rural schools. He
stated as his belief that the country
ought to have a system where the
teachers will become permanent resi-
dents of the community after time.
1--WE need a permanent teaching serv
ice so far as possible" said he. land
composed almost entirely of men, He
explained that men, when they marry,
usually settle down and grow up with
the community. whereas it is not so
much so with the female teachers.
Another matter discussed by this
speaker was the community agricul-
tural college. He believed that the
present educational system was not
reaching the farmers or those who are
to be the farmers of the future.
The agricultural college is teaching
those who will be the advisers of the
farmers of the future, but not so much
the ground tillers. The state board is
investigating how far it can go toward
establishing local public schools for
boys Of fourteen years or over who are
fitted to take a three or four years
course in agriculture only. The legis-
lature of Massachusetts has made pos
sible the establishment Of eight rural
and two county agricultural schools OF
this type, and it is now watching re-
suits with interest.
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The grange is growing in member
ship rapidly. but sanely. There is moth
ing Of the mushroom variety in this
growth. 1t is based on good founda-
tons and largely because farmers are
coming to see that. organization is as
necessary for them as it is for men en-
gagged in any other form of labor. The
grange offers the opportunity the farm
ers are seeking. 1t is the greatest
farmers organization in the world. in
that it seeks to help the farmer along
educational and social lines as well as
financial simply. and its present men,
bership of about 100000 makes it a
force with which those who make our
laws must reckon. In the first nine
months of the present year 1865 new
oranges were organized. and Is were
reorganized. and. says good authori-
ty. "as nearly as can be compiled at
one set time there are now fully 1.O0O,-
600 grange members in the United
States" There are approximately
1000 local or subordinate oranges,
holding about $4,000 meetings each
year, whose total audience mounts up
to more than 100000 people in the
year. Discussions in these many meet
ings Of those questions that bear most
directly on the farmers interests can
not fail to have a deep and lasting in
1uence in holding public opinion and
therefore state and national legislation
along those lines that make for the
welfare Of the tiller of the soil.
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11
ENDsMEsSAGE T0c0L 0NIEs
King George Thanks British People
for Their Loyalty.

King George Thanks British People
for Their Loyalty.
London, Sept. 10.-The official infor-
nation bureau gave out message
from King George to the British
colonies. It is in part as follows:
During the past few weeks the
peoples Of my whole empire, at home
and over seas, have moved with one
mind and purpose to confront and
overthrow an unparalleled assault up
on the continuity of civilization and
the peace of mankind.
'The calamitous conflict is not of
my seeking. My voice has been cast
throughout on the side of peace.
II rejoice that every part of the
empire is with me in this decision.
Paramount regard for treaty OF
faith and the pledged word of rulers
and peoples is the common heritage
of Great Britain and of the empire.
Ny peoples in the seH-governing do
minions have shown beyond all doubt
that they whole heartedly fndorse the
grave decision it was necessary to
take
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11

friends n this city the first Of the
week, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Nj.
Davis.
A. Fem and Perry Gibson and little
son returned Tuesday evening from
Hamline, where they attended the state
fair.
j. B. Connell, who is employed in the
northern part Of the state, is home for
| a visit this week.
Loren B. Roberts and family return
ed Yesterday to their home in Minnea-
polls, after weeks visit with Mr..
Roberts parents, DR.. and Mrs. L. N.
Roberts.
Miss Winifred Renick returned We'd
nesday from a visit with relatives at
Duluth.
E. A. Savage, s. Longfellow and Sig
nor johnson went to Minneapolis yes
terday for the state fair. They mace
the trip in Savage's car.
Mrs. r. F. Dietrich and Mrs. r. ).
Gallus returned yesterday from Colby,
Wis, where they were called by tnelr
fathers death.
Mark Millspaugh made a business
trip to Pine River yesterday.
Arthur P. German, private secretary
to Congressman C. A. Lindbergh, was
in the city on business yesterday.
Fred Richie returned "Wednesday
from the southern part OF the state,
where he has been employed. He will
90 to Hanover, N. H., to attend col
lege soon. ~
Mrs. H. w. Hilborn returned to her
home in Portal, N. D., yesterday, after
a visit with her parents, MI. end MIS-.
Dura Corbin.
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11
RlDICULES ALIEN MENACE
British Home Secretary Speaks in
House Of Commons.

London, Sept. 10.-Home Secretary
McKenna, speaking in the house OF
commons, declared that there is no
organization among the aliens in Eng
land, the purpose Of which is the car
rying out of hostile acts, and he ridt-
culed the suggestion made in some
quarters recently that there are 250,-
900 Germans in this country with
arms in their possession.
Continuing the secretary said that
the police and military are alert for
individual cases of espionage. Be-
tween 5000 and 5000 such cases al
ready have been investigated, but only
ninety suspects have been held.
Mr.. McKenna said that 50,302 Ger
mans and 16,141 Austrians have been
registered in the United Kingdom,
while there are $500 naturalized Ger
mans in the country.
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11
RUSSIAN IATOR
CHARGES AUSTRIAN
Machines Crash TO Earth and
Both Men Are killed.

London, Sept. To- Captain Nester.
On. one Of the most daring Of Russian
saviators and the first Of his country
men to loop the loop, has sacrificed
his life IN successful attempt to de-
stroy an Austrian aeroplane. says .
Petrograd dispatch to the Reuter-
Telegram company.
According TO report from the
front Captain Nesterof was returning
from Reconnaissance when he saw an
Austrian aeroplane over the Russian
forces.
s The Russian 1vfator immediatelJ.
sha11ed the Austrian Ct full speed.
Both nachines PLUNGED to the earth.
The two ayiators lpee etfug t1stant
death
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11
KAISER cAbL ES
TO PRESIDENT
.6efman Emperor Makes Aceu-
sations Against Allies.
.DEPlOREs L0UYAIN BURNING

While Contents Of Message Are Kept
Secret Il Is Understood Emperor
William Protests Against Alleged
Use Of Dumdum Bullets and Partici-
cation in the War by Civilians Of
Belgium.
Washington, Sept. 10.-President
wilson received a personal cablegram
..e...l Emperor William Of Germany
protesting against the use by the allied
armies of dumdum bullets and the par
ticipation in the war by civilians of
Belgium The message expressed also
the German emperor's deep regret at
the destruction of the Belgian city Of
Louvain.
my heart bleeds for Louvain," is
one of the phrases which the emperor
is understood to have used. He de-
clared, however, that the population
of Belgium had offered such re-
sistance that his generals had in many
cases found it necessary to administer
severe punishment.
The contents of the message was
closely guarded. No one at the White
House or state department would even
admit officially that it had arrived,
even though press dispatches from
London and Copenhagen gave an out
line of the dispatch.
The reason for the secrecy was not
divulged. Persons who knew the con-
tents of the message, however, de-
clared it did not ask the president to
take any action, but simply laid be-
fore him the emperor's contentious in
connection with the controversy that
has arisen over alleged atrocities by
the German army in Belgium.
The knowledge that an official COM
mission is en- route from Belgium to
lay before President Wilson the Bel
gian side of the case is believed to
have prompted the emperor to make
personal explanation of the incident
to Washington.
It is not known what reply Presi-
dent Wilson will make, but the atti-
tude of the Washington government
toward protests of this kind in the
present war has heretofore been one
of neutral auditor. All the belliger.
ents are anxious to lay their protest
before the American government be-
cause they wish through it to reach
the court of public opinion. Realizing
this as their chief desire the admins
tration has not attempted to pass up
on the merits of any of the protests,
leaving the discussion of means of
ending such excesses as are complain
ed of to future international confer
ences.
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11
CITATION FOR HEARING ON FINAL
ACCOUNT AND FOR DISTEI.
BUTTON SIS.
Estate Of Nelson p. Peck
state of Minnesota,
County of Morrison,

0A
County of Morrison, -
In Probate Court
In tn Matter of the Estate Of Nelson
d. Peck, Decedent:
The State Of Minnesota to all persons
button of the estate. of said decedent:
The representative of the above named
decedent having filed in this court her
final account of the administration
of the estate of said decedenf,
together with her petition praying for the
adjustment and allowance of said anaI
idue of said estate to the persons there
unto entitled;
Therefore, You. and Each of You, are
hereby cited and required to show cause
if any You have. before this court at the
Probate Court Rooms in the Court HOUSE.,
in the City of Little Falls In the County
of Morrison, State of Minnesota. on the
Sid day of October, 1914, at 10 O'Clock q.
M, Why said petition should not be
granted.
Witness, the Judge Of said Court. and.
Seal Of said Court, this 6th day of
September, 1914.
fCourt SeaD s. F. SHAW
2I29 Probate Judge.
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11
COME AND GONE

Miss Alice Hayne Of Brainerd is Wis.
iting with Miss Lucy Reniek this week.
Charles Hanger, formerly Of this city
hut now located at Minneapolis, is in
the city for a visit with friends.
Miss Gertrude Lyon returned Tues
dav from Minneapolis, where she visit
Cd with her sister, Mrs. C. G. Wright.
Mrs. J. F. Muske Of Swanville was
in the city between trains Tuesday.
Miss Gunda GoOdmanson went to St
Cloud Tuesday to resume studies at the
normal.
Mrs. John Proulx Of Chippewa Falls
Wis, is visiting with her sister, Mrs
L. Gaudet.
Albert Jones returned Tuesday to
Minneapolis, where he is employed, az
ter visit at the home of his sister
Mrs. Oliver Berg.
Miss Hazel Palmer went to st. Cloud
Monday to enroll at the normal school
Mark Millspaugh returned Monday
from business trip to Detroit.
Herman Hyson went to Kelliher on
business Tuesday.
C. D. Auyer and daughter, Miss
Ann, returned Tuesday from visit at
Belle Prairie.
Miss Mae Draxton returned Tuesday
to st. Cloud, where she is employed,
after a visit at her home in this city.
Miss Mary Zerwas returned Tuesday
to steele, N. D., where she is employed,
after an extended visit with her par
snts, Mr.. and Mrs. N. Zerwas.
W. H. Ryan returned Tuesday night
from visit and hunting trip to Be-
Hidji.
James Johnson returned Tuesday to
Anoka, where he is employed, after a
short visit with his parents.
Mrs. Ivy Lockhart returned to her
home in Minneapolis the first OF the
week. after visit with friends IN
this city, the guest of Miss Florence
Hall.
Miss Marceline Lemay returned on
Tuesday evening from visit at Great
Falls, Mont.
T. H. Dewey went to Minneapolis
Wednesday to attend the state fair.
Mrs. Geo. Schroeder and son return
el Wednesday from Minneapolis,
where they visited friends for week.
Miss Regina Burton left Tuesday for
Minneapolis to visit friends, before 60
ing to Milwaukee to resume studies, at
college.
Albert and Edna Hedman went to
Minneapolis Wednesday for visit
with relatives and to attend the state
fair.
Paul Krause went to Minneapolis
Wednesday for visit with friends and
to attend the state fair. From there
he will go to Chicago to take employ
ment.
Mrs. J, Shetland Of Fargo, N. D., is
visiting at the home of Mrs. Cecil
Kelly this week.
Miss Jessalyn Hall returned Wednes-
day afternoon from visit with friends
at Brainerd and CROSBY.
Miss Alma Fortier left Sunday for
Eveleth, where she will teach the COM
ing year.
Rev. w. H. North and family have
broken camp at Mound Lake and re-
turned Wednesday afternoon to their
home in Billings, Mont. They visited
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11
CITATION FOR HEARING ON PETI-
TION FOR DETERMINATION. OF
DESCENT OF LAND.
Estate of Mary Terhaar
State of Minnesota
County of Morrison

In PROBATE Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Nary
Terhaar, Decedent:
The State of Minnesota to all persons in
descent of the real estate Of said decedent: :
The petition of B. J. Terhaar having
been filed in this court, representing that
said decedent died more than five years
prior to the fling thereof, leaving GER
and that no will of decedent has been
proved nor administration of her estate
the descent of said real estate be de-.
termined by this Court:
Therefore, You, and Each of You, Are
hereby cited and required to show cause
# any you have, before this Court at the
Probate Court Room in the Court Houees
in the City Of Little Falls, in the County
Ct 6aT "f Of % o
a. M, Why said petition should not be
granted.
Witness, The Judge of said Court and
the seal thereof. this 9Th day of Sep
tember, 1914. f9#
JCOURTl E. F. SHAW,
| SEAL ! 2729 Probate Judge.
Little Falls herald., 1914-09-11
DEMAND FOR FERTILIZER D
CREASES IN MINNESOTA

; Washington, D. G., Sept. 9.-There
are l.436 arms in Minnesota that use
fertilizer, and the annual purchases
amount to $74,653, according to re-
cent report Of the United states Cen,
sus Bureau. Ten years ago the ANIMAL
expenditure for fertilizer in this state
was $251,12O Fertilizer purchases n
Minnesota have decreased $176,467, OF
70 per cent during the past decade.
Less than one per cent OF the tasms
Of this state use fertilizer, and the av-
erage for the United States is ~ Per
cent.
In the entire nation there are j..
$4,000 farms that USE fertilizer. snd
the present annual exp.'t1t L.. is LID
100000. Ten years ago it was $685.
100000 for the entire nariol.