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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-06-04

andrews HISTORY OF AUDUBON COUNTY
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petuate and hand down the history of our time to
posterty.
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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-06-04
AUDUBON TOWNSHIP

Grace Ferguson of Mechanics
vile came Monday to visit her un
cles, Alex and Charles Ferguson.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-06-04
NORTHEAST OAKF|EED

Russell Shelley was in this vicin-
ity tuning pianos last week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-06-04

Margaret Bills did some sewing
for Mrs. Kline of Extra "Wednesday
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-06-04

Mrs. Spencer of Cedar Rapids
came Saturday ITO visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Fred Searls.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-06-04

John Sherman who visited friends
here. left for his home at Iowa
Falls Monday. 4 -;
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

solidated districts in Minnesota, Iowa,
North Dakota and elsewhere. These
people have been awakened to the SER
ious needs of keeping pace in school
progress.
There has always been opposition to
every new idea that ever originated
and to every progressive effort along
all lines but the progress did not cease
because of opposition. The educated
are not opposing consolidation today.
We know there are serious difficulties
to overcome but what has ever come
to us that has not cost some effort?
The things really worth while are the
ones that take our best efforts.
If every opposer will honestly seek
the truth regarding the matter it will
be easy to persuade him hat CONSOLE
dation has been a success wherever
it has been tried. All the objections
that we hear have been raised in every
community where the work has been
started but a trial has proven con
clusively that all these obstacles have
been met and overcome. l believe that
the real issue in most cases is the add
ed expense although some try to con
vince themselves and others that their
objections are based on other issues.
No one claims that consolidation
will be cheaper. Our schools are
cheap enough as it is in nearly every
particular but as a matter of fact con-
sidering the cost per capita they are
expensive. With our present force
consolidated we could educate the
children we are educating at a smaller
cost but it is the lack of educating the
other children who we should educate
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
RURAL SCHOOL
CONSOLIDATION
MISS GERTRUDE STEDMAN HAS
ARTICLE UPON THIS I'M
PORTANT SUBJECT
CONSOLIDATION IS NOT ANY CHEAPER
Says Miss Stedman, But Cheapest is
Not the Best-look to the Good
Accomplished, Not the Cost

Knowing the interest in rural school
consolidation at the present time the
Register has asked Miss Stedman, the
county superintendent, to prepare an
article upon this subject. Miss Sted'
man has been especially interested in
this movement and knows the subject
thoroughly, SO that the following from
her pen will we know be of interest:
The consolidation of rural schools is
no longer in the experimental stage.
Consolidation of forces in every line
of work has proven in each case that
in Union there is strength"
North Dakota has nearly Two Hun
dred consolidated schools, a large mum.
Der of which have been organized
within the last year. One can scarcely
pick up a daily paper without seeing
accounts of the formation of new con-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
THE MODERN MOTIVE

The pyramids of Egypt were once
placed first among the v wonders
of the world. The Panama canal has
been added to the list, but 1t is hardly
just to rank 1t as the eighth in the
order order Of Importance. 1t is said
100, 900 men worked twenty years to
build the largest pyramid. Engineers
estimate that Col. Goethals, with the
one-hundredth part o. that number and
with modern machinery, could build
its counterpart in a year. This is a
good illustration of the progress OF
the world. Another illustration Is the
fact that If Goethals, or any other en-
gineer and builder, had the men,
money and machinery, he would not
build a Observation-Disclosures (lowa)
Hawkeye.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

Between sixty and seventy people
attended a social gathering under the
auspices of the local Masonic lodge at
the opera house Thursday evening.
Hollis orchestra of Pipestone furnish
ed the music for those who desired to
dance and those who did not care to
shake their feet found other pastimes.
A lunch was prepared by the good
wives at Masons and served at about
twelve o'clock. While the writer is
mot a mindreader, we believe the
function was duly appreciated and en-
joyed by the guests.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

with a heart that beats in rhythm with the things that are lovely and good
"a fail to find delight in Dickens or the quiet mrth of Charles Lamb.
fomances, too. have their place, and thrilling tales of every sort The
boy n las missed the Arabian Nights" and "Andersons Fairy Tales" has
missed much "Ivanhoe" and "Kenilworth" have in them a ring that is true
to tn best within. Scottish Chiefs" The Last Days Of Pompei" and Charles
Reades wonderful book, "The Coster and the Hearth" represent a type Of
story that must live because it arouses and convinces. The excitement Of
Jane Eyre" is normal and healthy.
1t is much to be regretted that 10 many o our young people entertain a
strong prejudice against a book as 10 as they learn that it wa written by a
great nan You don't believe it? Then jus. try it O the next time oppor-
tunity offers. Ask your young friend If he has read Victor Hugo, or Stevenson
" Macaulay. Ten t o ne the answer will be: mo; he is too tedious" or
"He is too dry" Very good. Now ask him if he re- read any book of these
writers. need not tell you what the answer will be. You know 1t already.
In fine, your young person who feeds o N Marie Correl, Mary J Holmes
and Mrs. E. D. E N. Southworth, who revels in parted at the Altar" or
ing than Victor Hugo, Stevenson or Macaulay. Why? Because re have
ordered him to study these great writer's in u high schools and colleges,
and he cannot believe that W e would order him to study something that is
interesting!
Let US rid ourselves of this incumbus, this intellectual nightmare, this foul
bugaboo, by teaching the students in u schools, personally and din the class
room, that it is az easy % acquire a taste for good stuff in literature as it is to
learn to like olives. The worlds voracious readers are the readers of good
books. That is in itself a proof of the pudding.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

Last Wednesday noon at the Ger.
mar Lutheran church occurred the
marriage of Will Kiecksee to Miss
Sophia Oldenburg of Beecher, ILL.,, Rev.
Engel of Elkton, performing the cere-
mony. The bride wore a dress of
white embroidered wolfe and was at
tended by Meta Kiecksee and Laura
Suhl who were also dressed in white.
The groom was attended by his
brother Henry, and Louis Lamp.
These young people have known each
other for many years, having been
schoolmates in the old Illinois home.
They will go to housekeeping at once
on the VIM. Meiberg farm southwest
of town. May they have a pleasant
voyage through many years Of married
life.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
Newspapers Are
Essential Part of
Modern Life
BY HOLLAND.

EVERYBODY reads papers
II these days. Most per-
sons read two or three and
sometimes more. They are
as essential as breakfast, as
regular as supper. Whether
you are interested in politics,
baseball. the Chinese ques-
ton, the tariff, fashions or
cookery, you look to the pa
pers for Information.
And you get the informa-
ton you seek along with
much other news, gossip,
fact, fancy and entertain
ment. The day is not COM
plete without the paper. You
start the day with a glance
mt it, and you are likely to
lay 1t down to prepare for
slumber.
The paper that Is SO essen
tial to you is equally essen
tial to your neighbor. He,
too. reads 1t and finds therein
the things he wants to know.
Its appeal Is universal, its
circulation coextensive with
mankind.
That Is what makes the
newspaper the best Advertise
ing medium that civilization
has devised. 1t reaches ev-
erybody. or at least the frac-
ton that 1t does not reach Is
so small as to he negligible.
And even the few who may
not read the newspaper VIII
be guided by those who do.
so that an advertisements win
bring business from thooo
who never see IT,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
voL0A

From the Tribune:
Peter T. Thompson, who left here
several months ago and entered the
national sanitarium at Hot Springs,
this state. passed away at that place
last Saturday and the interment o
place there. The deceased was about
80 years of age and was a son OF MT.
and Mrs. Thomas Thompson of Volga.
township. He was a Philippine vet
eran and for a long number OF years
he has been a sufferer from rheuma-
tism, and his entrance to the sanitar-
ium was for the purpose Of receiving
treatment for that trouble. In addi-
ton to his aged parents the deceased
leaves five brothers and two sisters to
mourn his passing away.
John X. Haugen, who moved from
this county to Texas In 1908, passed
away in that state on January ~,
aged Sc years, 6 months and Is days.
The deceased was born in Norway and
came to this country in 1882. He was
married to Miss Bertha Moe on June
Z, 1885, who survives him. To this
union IL children were born, all OF
whom are alive and in Texas. The
family lived south Of this city in Oslo
township for many years, but In 1908
moved to the southern state. A couple
of years ago Mr.. Haugen became
afflicted with knee trouble Of some
kind, which gradually grew until am
'putation became necessary, but 1t
seems that the poison had SO taken
hold of his entire system that the am
putation failed to give the hoped for
relief and his death followed. The old
B~rookings county friends and neigh
bors of the Haugen family will unite
with this paper in extending their-@ -
cere sympathy to the bereaved family.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
ELKToN

From the Record:
Uncle Geo. H. Walradth and wife
will celebrate their Golden Wedding
tomorrow, Saturday, February 81. We
hope these good pioneers of Richland
will have a jolly time, and live to-
gether for many years to come. Uncle
Walradth has been a Record subscrib.
er for many years, and Is paid in ad-
vance at the present writing. When
his subscription expires, the Record
will go to him free of charge the rest
of his days on earth. Cheer up.
George, and continue to be a good
boy!
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
Good Reading

Good reading is not necessarily stupid reading.
Bill Nye is worth while after dinner and Mr.. Dooley
is superb. George AIDE is exhilarating sometimes, and
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
About the County


From the Pioneer:
There were a couple of fire scares
at the creamery Saturday afternoon.
The first time, the roof caught fire
from sparks from the smoke stack, 1t
is thought. The second fire was also
in the roof but started from the inside.
No great damage resulted.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26

ing, increased value Of farm lands and
a higher plane Of living for the great
majority Of the citizens of our beloved
state.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
BRUCE

From the Herald:
II is rumored that The Blind Girl
of Castel-Cuillie" given last week by
the Ladies Aid Society, is to be repeat.
ed some time in the future. 1t is to be
hoped hat it will be done and that the
ladies will be fortunate in having bet
ter weather for their evening. The
satisfaction which the performance
gave justifes a repetition. 1t is con
slider m of the best amateur enter
tainments ever given in Bruce, and is
ent should be encouraged, in every
town both for the pleasure given and
for the educational value.
Charles Ewes, one of Brookings
county's old settlers, passed away last
Monday evening at his sons home in
WATERFOWL. He was sick but a few
days as he was in Bruce two weeks
ago today. Uncle Charley Ewes was
one of the first settlers in this COM
munity. He first settled on a farm
north of town which he sold and NOV
ed to town, and he and his son Bert
built several of the business and dwell
ing houses in Bruce. He was an old
soldier and was injured during the
war from which he never recovered.
The funeral will be held at the Meth
odist church on Friday afternoon at 3
o'clock. The Rev. Dennison will ofic-
late and he will be laid to rest in the
Bruce cemetery. He was about 70
years old. His o and family have
the sympathy Of the entire community.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
Reception and Stock Seeing Fiesta

on the eeeni"g Of the above day Thursday March 5-oe shall
from 7:3O to $50 hold q Reception and Stock Seeing Fiesta. During
this time not a single thing 'oH be sold -you cannot buy a thing There
pnU be music and pOssibIyH bite or tuO to eat Come out and lei this
spEendid array of uptOthe-minute merchandise and meet your neiqhb0rs.
From 40 $3.50 Thursday erening, March 5, 1911. You aoH be welcome
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
Grand Opening
OF SPRING MERCHANDISE

ON Thursday, March 5, u shall IN every department of this big
store display and offer for sale the finest line of Spring Merchandise euer
brought to BrOOkings County.
We shall not attempt to enumerdte here eUe q portion of the HOus-
ands of items contained an this stock. Let IS simply sag that our Dry
Goods, Cloak and Suit, Mems and Boys Clothing and Grocery DEPART
ments WH upon this day be repete Uih the Uery latest and finest mG
chandise 1t mas possible for as to purchase. The stock is not only larger
and better but it has been priced loWer than euer before. Also kindly
remember that on all cash purchases zoe aHoW a discount of fre per cent
in all departments ercept the Grocery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-22

Sam Thompson and John Kraemer
have gone to Breckenridge, Mimi, to
assist in putting up some buildings
for the Shepherd Bros.
Platteville has been given assur-
ances that the Northwestern railroad
station here will be made over, en-
larged and improved this season,
something that will be welcomed by
all who have occasion to make use of
Of it,
VIM. Bride and family have moved
to McClusky, S. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Robinson spent
few days in Prairie du Chen last
week.
DR.. and Mrs. Oelteher were in Chi
cage last week.
The G. A. r. post announces that
hereafter the regular meetings of
that organization will be held on the
second and fourth Saturdays of each
month, at three o'clock in the after
noon.
Samuel Gray has recovered from
his recent illness.
Miss Elizabeth McGregor came
home from Madison to attend the
marriage of her sister, Jessica, to
DR.. Frank Murphy, of Mason City,
Iowa, which took place at the Nc
Gregor home in this city Monday of
! last week.
The city band gave its first open
air concert on Tuesday evening of last
week. 1t sounded good after the
long winters intermission.
While Albert Kay and Henry
Ostendorf were coming home from
Cuba City, Sunday evening, their
auto collided with horse, which in
its fright jumped upon the machine,
crashing the windshield and doing
considerable other damage. Mr.. Kay
had his face cut in the accident, it
being necessary to !, take several
stitches in a cash in his forehead.
Mrs. Ann Wittenhiller is very
seriously i'll.
Geo. Merrifeld has purchased a
new auto.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-22
USE GOOD ENGLISH

Use Good English, And People Will be
Glad to Listen to You.
This is Lesson XIV in a series Of
short, simple lessons in English, by
C. R. Rounds, Inspector of English,
Wisconsin State Normal Schools.)
LISTEN
How many who are now reading
this, always say "Listen!" before they
make any statement to their friends !?
This expression, which had very wor-
thy object at the start, has degenerated
until, in most instances, it means alb
sOlutely nothing. When it first came
into use, about twelve years ago, it
gave touch of intimacy and interest
to ones conversation, and was, on the
whole, rather attractive; but now it
is used by many people so commonly
that it no longer arouses the slightest
curiosity. 1t adds no emphasis what
ever.
Suppose you we're to fine yourself
for every useless "Listen!" that you
utter; would it not be good thing?
There are many such expressions.
They once had a good, clear, useful
office; but through being used too
much, they stimulate no interest what
ever. The worst of it is, when careful
users of English desire to use these
words where they belong, scarcely any
one gets their real force. 1t is as
though people got the habit of yelling
"Fire!" several times day without
meaning it at all. If that should hap
pen, we should all soon get so that we
would pay no attention even though an
alarm for real fire might be sounded.
Next week we shall note some of
these words that we use so extrava-
gantly. In the meantime, suppose you
study your own speech and see how
many silly, useless, harmful exaggera-
tons have crept into your speech and
become fixed habits with you. Then
suppose you start in at once to set a
watch upon your tongue, to make it
say just what you mean, no more and
no less, for one day. You will be
frightened, maybe, to see how difficult
it is to hold yourself to clean, clear,
chaste, honest statement of exactly
what you mean.
Copyright, 1914, by c. r. Rounds)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-22

special Correspondence 70 the Herald.
House cleaning is all the rage here
now.
Mrs. VIM. Taylor and children
spent the week end at Bloomington.
Chas. Rogers and wife arrived here
from Pardeeville, Wis. They expect
to reside here.
J. A. Jamison has a motorcycle.
Toay Garner and wife were at
Bloomington Tuesday.
VIM. Gates and wife, of Cassville,
were callers the first of the week.
There was a picture show in the
hall three nights last week, closing
Wednesday night with dance after
the show. II
VIM. Oldridge, of Dubuque, haC
business here Friday.
Fred Gates is able to be out again
after being quite i'll for couple Of
weeks.
Chas. Thompson and wife were al
Lancaster Friday.
Victor Jiriek has quit the creamery
business here and returned to Bloom.
ington.
Matte Burns, Mae Pascoe anC
Mrs. Dollie Stout were at Blooming.
ton Saturday.
There will be donation supper il
the town hall Saturday evening, May
End, for the benefit of the minister
Come and see "The Joys of Coun
try Life" April 3Oth, 1914, at the
Knotwell school, District No. 8, Bee
town. Ice cream and cake will bt
served. Admission 10 cents. Mis-.
Mae Brockert, teacher.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-22

and have moved their mill to Ben
Harms in HARRISON.
Nelson Baker and Anthony Smith,
spent Saturday in Platteville.
Mrs. J. Brogley, .Sr. is visiting
her sister, Mrs. John Whitcher.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. E..
D. Bitney, is being cared for in the
Cunningham hospital.
A little daughter was welcomed at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Brogley, March 27.
Mrs. August Wolfe died suddenly
of heart failure, Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Goss were up
from Cassville, for few days visit
they have returned to their home.
Mrs. Ellie Dobson and Miss
Brechler were at Lancaster Saturday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-22
D. A. R. CONGRESS is OPENED
Delegates Meet to Elect Vice-Presi-
dents-GeneraI and to Transact
Routine Business.

Washington, April 20.-Women from
all parts of the country who are de-
scended from soldiers of the American
war of the Revolution met today in
the Continental Memorial hall in the
twenty-third continental congress of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton.
The congress is of less consequence
than those at which presidents-general
of the organization elected, being only
to consider routine business and elect
ten -presidents-general. President
Wilson, who is much interested in the
b. A. R. organization, delivered the
opening address.
Tonight Mrs. Story, president-gen-
eral, will receive the delegates at the
Memorial hall. She will be attended
at the reception and throughout the
convention by girl pages, one repre-
senting each state in the Union. To-
morrow the delegates will be received
at the White House by the president
and Mrs. Wilson.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-22
BURTON.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
Miss Mabel Martin, of Beetown,
visited last week at Geo. Turner's.
Mrs. H. C. Chapman and two little
daughters of Albion, Ind, who were
here for an extended visit with rela-
tives, received a telegram last Tues
day that her husband was seriously
i'll with pneumonia. She left for her
home the same evening.
George Keehner lost two valuable
horses last week and Thompson Stoney
one.
Harry Wamsley and Otto Schaal
who attend high school at Potosi are
taking forced vacation on account
of the measles.
G. F. Freidlein, of Dubuque,
general agent for the DeLaval cream
separator was here few days last
week to assist the local agent J.. j.
Martin. They were successful in
making several sales. e7.
Ed Reed operator at Blake attended
the dance here Wednesday and visited
day with relatives.
Leo Stoll, of Potosi, was here
several days repairing autos.
Friends assisted Mrs. John Stoll
at shingling bee Saturday.
Birdie Johnson returned to her
school duties at Cassville after spend
ing her vacation at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Shinoe at
tended the funeral of their friend, a
Mr.. Bliss in Dubuque, last Thursday.
Geo. Morgans, of Lancaster, tuned
several pianos in this vicinity last
week. Any one owning a piano will
not make mistake by letting Mr..
Morgans do their work.
Mrs. Adam Roschi was Cassville
visitor Saturday.
Miss Sylvia Bossert came home Fri
day from Clear Lake where she, has
been teaching school the past year.
A fine new fence has been ordered
for the Burton cemetery.
There was no church or Sunday
school Sunday on account of! bad
weather.
Miss Mae Keehner visited last week
at her brother Lewis.