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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18
Legacy To Dead Woman

An administrator was appoint
ed week ago for the estate of
Isabella Smith, deceased who is
legatee of the estate Of j. j.
Hartenbower, of Los Angeles,
Calf. of whom she was a sister.
Mr.. Hartenbower died in los
Angeles, June 8 and left an es-
tate of personally amounting to
about $154, $50. Of this one
half goes to his widow, under
the California law. The re-
mainder is left in ten equal parts
one tenth part of which goes to
Isabella Smith of Salisbury.
There is $77, $3.50 to be divided
into ten parts, making the
Smith legacy amounting to
$1,000. The entry in the pro-
bate docket shows that the lega-
tee is dead and that the money
goes to her estate.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18
SEPTEMBER WEDDINGS
In Spite Of Prospects Of a Hard
Winter Cupid is at
Work.

The recorder was busy this
week as the marriage list indi.
Gates and the prospect Of a hard
winter had no terrors for the.
matrimonally inclined. Below
are some Of the weddings.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18

N. o. Tate writes that he will
close out his real estate interests
at Howard, Kas. He claims to
have some fine farm property at
very reasonable prices.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18
Services Sunday

Rev. w. L. Myers writes from
Turney. Mo. that he viii be here
next Sunday for the regular ser-
vices and, at the morning service
will be glad to meet all Meth
|Odists and friends for the first
service Of the new year.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18
COURT At SALISBURY
Session Opens Monday Sep
tember 21, With Judge
Lamb Presiding.

will be conducted by Judge
Lamb and the following cases
are set up for hearing on the
docket:
First Day Monday September 21
West ct al VS. West ct al, par
tition.
State vs. Eubanks, parole.
Sunderland VS. Hackney Mfg.
Co., change of venue.
Hardwick VS. Wabash R. R.
Co., mandate.
Pankey VS. A. T. & S. F. Ry.
Co., mandate.
Audsley VS. Audsley, man.
date.
Love VS. Scott, mandate.
Taylor vs. Western Union Tel.
Co., mandate.
State VS. Wilson, parole.
Second day Tuesday September %
State vs. John Barnes, murder.
State vs. Jennings, murder in
first degree.
State VS. Taggert, carrying
concealed weapons.
State VS. Johnson unlawful
fishing.
state VS. Jerry King, Roy Bry-
ant, Ed Stevens, Harry Strick-
land, Frank Nestum, Ed Groves,
peace disturbance.
State vs. Pearson, violating
local option law.
State VS. Harris, assault appeal
j. P.
State VS. Litzel, violating local
option law.
State vs. Holley, murder.
State VS. LittIer, felonious as
sault.
State VS. Shaner, forgery.
State VS. Syler, seduction.
State VS. Holtmeyer, robbery.
Third Day Wednesday Sept. %
Hood ct al VS. Unknown Heirs
VIM. Dalton quiet title.
Foster VS. Unknown Heirs Jno.
Harvie, dec. ct al quiet title.
Pryde VS. Grant ct al quiet I'll
tie.
Minich VS. Cross ct al quiet
title.
Piltz VS. Kain ct al quiet title.
Loeb ct al VS. Clark ct al quiet
title.
Adams ct al vs. Keyte ct al
quiet title.
Adams ct al VS. Sanders ct al
quiet title.
Shannon VS. Unknown Heirs of
Chas. Hammock ct al quiet IT,
tie.
Huenton ct al VS. Wiley ct al
quiet title.
Jones VS. Pinegar damages.
Prather vs. Prather, mainten-
ance.
Dunlap ct al VS. Crispin ct al
partition.
Hubbard VS. Hubbard ct al par
tition.
White VS. Herminghouser in
equity.
Kennedy VS. Tel. Co. damages.
Ward VS. Tel. Co., damages.
Ryan VS. Tel. Co. damages.
BrOokshire VS. Purvis, suit on
note.
Horton and Jack VS. Wabash
E. H. Spellman VS. Wabash
damages.
Fourth day Thursday Sept. "a
Lawton VS. Ridgeway change
of venue.
Staubus vs. Phoenix Assurance
Co. damages.
Velie Carriage Co. VS.. Elliott
& Son. suit on note.
Lang VS. Westlake, set aside
and cancel.
Hooper VS. Hooper, suit on
note.
Kennedy ct al VS. A. 7. & S.
F. Ry. Co.. damages.
First National Bank Of Bruns-
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18

Mrs. Rube Hnnker and dangh-
ter Of Salisbury were Wednesday
visitors to Miss Dot Wayland.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18
Marriage Licenses

George Hershey, Keytesville.
Mable Brewer, Keytesville.
Harvey Lunsford, Keytesville.
Florence Huckabey, Keytes-
vile.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18
Finish Western Trip

MIR. and Mrs. George Mackay
arrived home Monday from theil
western trip and left again
Tuesday for their home in st.
Louis. They left here a month
ago in their Ford car for the
west to tour Colorado. They
visited Manitou, Colorado
Springs, Denver and other points
and were returning when the
rain forced them to put their
car in a garage and come home
from Kansas City via rail. During
their absence their children were
at the home of Miss Kate
Dewey.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1914-09-18

A water spout near Lebanon
Monday afternoon knocked the
fine fast flyer Of the Frisco from
the track near Lebanon, Mo.
and killed one, drowned 26 ind
seriously injured 18. Passeh ers
were drowned in cars upa in
20 feet Of water. The fiTe&an
was pinned under the engine
which was submurged. The
conductor broke a window and
popped to the surface above the
car. The smoker and chair cars
only left the track in addition to
the mail and express. 8 pullman
escaping by breaking from the
others.
Spectators are manipulating
the wheat market to suit them
selves. A 2Ocent drop in a aweek
caught many for big losses, bui
the fellow with the wheat and
nerve will surely gain BY hold
ing. The price is rising again.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
APPLY FOR INSTITUTES

Wisconsin towns desiring COM
munity Institutes for fall should
make application to the depart
ment of general information and
welfare of the University of Wis
consin Extension division at an
early date.
The community in it e will
deal with whatever problems the
community has, such as health,
recreation, chfld welfare, TOW n
and county cooperation, CONNER
cial organization, women's, cona-
munity problems, town develop
ment, etc. Special emphasis will
be laid on community development
this year and big community de-
velopment exhibit will accompany
each community institution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
0LD-TIME DRUG STORE

Probably no feature of the mu-
scum of the Wisconsin Historical
society at Madison proves more
attractive to the thousands Of
sightseers who visit it each year
than the old New England kitch-
en- with it's representation of t h
home life of our forefathers. Some
years ago the project was conceiv-
ed of installing in the museum
typical Wisconsin drug store Of
half century ago. The druggists
of the state long since donated the
necessary articles for the exhibit,
and with the reorganization of
the museum now under way h G
long-delayed project is being car
ried into execution. Whatever al
terations in the real drug stores
of Wisconsin the progress of time
may bring, habitues of the old
time 'corner drug store" may rest
secure in the knowledge that at
least one example of their favorite
gathering place will m ain I'M
changed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
THIRTY-SIx YEARS AGO ITEMS
Taken From the River Falls Journal
of August 8, 1873.

Charley Knowles is building
house on the lot south of j. A.
Shorts.
Jay Loucks has rented the Pierce
House and will take possession the
18th inst.
]. T. McCleary of Maiden Rock
has been engaged as principal of
our graded school.
AS high as five dollars a day
was paid for harvest help in this
vicinity this season.
G.. w. Farnsworth returned last
week from an extended CONNER
cial tour through Montana.
Rev. N. T. Blakslee has been en-
gagged ito fill the pulpit of the
Congregational church at this
place the coming year.
The River Falls Institute will
open about the middle of Septem-
Der under the supervision of Prof.
D. M. Woodbury. and his sister,
Miss Della Woodbury., of Bethel,
Vermont.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
OBITUARY

Sebastian Bethel, a resident of
Oak Grove for fifty-one years, died
at ST. Johns hospital in st. Paul
last Sunday afternoon where he
had been taken that morning for
an operation for appendicitis.
Mr.. Bethel was born in April,
1858, and came to Oak Grove with
his parents when years of age.
He was united in marriage to
Lucy Granbois on November II,
1881, who still survives him. He
leaves besides his wife, two sons
and one daughter-Laurence at
home, Jesse at La Crosse and Mrs
Emmett Murphy of Oak Grove.
Mr.. BetzeE was a good citizen
and neighbor and will be greatly
missed in the community where
he had SO long resided. The fam
lily has the sympathy of all in their
great loss.
The funeral was held yesterday
morning from the Big River Cath
Ole church, Rev. Haverstadt con-
Quoting the services.-EllsWorth
Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
PRIDE IN CALMNESS.

t'I want to have the pride of feel
ing that America. if nobody else,
has her self-possession and stands
ready with h er calmness 0 f
thought and steadiness of purpose
to help the rest of the world. And
we can do it and reap a great per-
manent glory out of doing it, pro-
vided we all cooperate to see that
nobody loses his head. | know
from my conferences with the Sc
cretary of the treasury, who is in
very close touch with the financial
situation throughout the country,
that there is no cause for alarm.
The bankers and businessmen of
the country are cooperating with
the government with a zeal, intel
ligence and spirit which make the
outcome secure" Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
SHOCK THRESHlNG NOT
ADVISABLE IN WIS.

"FulIy ten per cent. of the val
ne of the Wisconsin grain crop is
lost each year because a larg e
number of farmers persist in the
wasteful practice Of threshing from
the shock"
This is the statement of r. A.
Moore, head of the agrinomy de-
partment of the college of agrl-
culture, University of Wisconsin.
AS secretary of the State Agricul-
turaI Experiment association, Mr..
Moore is familiar with farming con-
ditions throughout the state, and
makes this assertion from person
al observation and experience.
"When we consider the advance
that has been made in this state
in breeding pure-bred seeds, it is
astonishing to see the large amount
Of inferior grain that goes on the
market. Up until harvest t i'm e
Wisconsin grain is as good as any
that can be produced, but after
it is cut some farmers allow it to
deteriorate through lack of prop
er care. After d reasonable drying
in the shock, grain should be put
into barns or stacks, even though
the Initial cost is a little more
than leaving it in the shock and
threshing from the field.
"Mouldy and dusty grain is the
most serious evil resulting fr o NJ
leaving grain in shocks. Farmers
often have difficulty in getting a
threshing machine at the desired
time and when one does come they
feel obliged to use it, regardless
of the condition of their grain.
Thus it often happens that t b e
grain is threshed when it is wet or
during a rain, and then put into
bins while still damp, where it is
almost sure to mould. Again, a
farmer may not be able to get
thresher for months. In the mean
time his grain gets wet and lies
Ill IllG SuOCh6 IDL4l ~ OC5 LILO ~
groW-becoming at times total
loss.
among other elements of loss
which enter in when grain is left
in the shock are birds, mice n d
floods, all levying tax on the har-
vest that is an important factor
in determining the farmers loss
or gain.
''On the other hand, when grain
is protected by storage in barns
or stacks it goes through the
natural sweating processes an d
will not heat and get m u ty if
stored in deep bins after thresh-
ing. Grain should usually remain
in the stacks for three or four
weeks before threshing to be in
the best condition for marketing
or storage"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
ELLSWORTH
From the Record

Herman and Vivian Colamore of
River Falls are spending the week
at the home of their grandfather,
F. A. ~Collamore.
Archie Campbell and Montague
Sanderson were at River Falls on
Monday consulting President Crab
tree about their entering the Nor
NAL school this fall.
The annual premium list of the
Pierce County Fair will be out in
a few days and all those wishing
copies of the same can secure them
by calling at this office.
Max Fien was out from River
Falls on Tuesday. Max told us he
came out or business but that was
just bluff He occupied a very
prominent seat at the afternoon
performance Of the circus.
The h a d o m e face of Chas.
CroWnhart, a former Pierce county
boy, at present chairman of the
Wisconsin Industrial Commission
and a brother of S. S. Crownhart
of this place, was reproduced in
the Sunday Pioneer Press in con-
nection with story to the effect
that Mr.. Crownhart has purchased
a piece of property near Scion
Springs, this state, on which
stands an old house generally sup
posed to be haunted.
The largest instrument ever filed
here is being recorded this week
by Register of Deeds Magee. The
instrument consists of 123 pages.
1t will require about sixteen days
to record it. The instrument is a
trust deed recorded by the Wis
consin-Minnesota Light & Power
Co., who recently purchased vari-
Gus electric plants of the Chip
pewa Valley Railway Light and
Power Co., of which the local plant
is part, and involves some $780,
090. 10000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
CONGREGATIONAL

The Sunday School picnic which
was postponed last week on ac-
count of the rain, was held in the
park on Tuesday of this week.
Rev. William J. Gray leaves this
week to take a well-deserved and
needed rest. Rev. ID. B. Spenser
will fill the pulpit during the
absence of Mr.. Gray.
The Who-So-Ever S. s. Class
held their quarterly business meet
ing last Tuesday afternoon. Aft
er the meeting a picnic supper was
INDUCED in and all had g o d
social time. A report of the busi-
ness and he election of officers
for the next quarter will be given
in next weeks issue.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM

The White House authorized this
quotation from the presidents re-
marks:
"It is extremely necessary that
you should be extremely careful
not to add in any way to the ex-
citement. Of course, the Europ-
can world is in a highly excited
state of mind, but the excitement
ought not to spread to the United
States. So far as we are concern
ed, there is no cause for excite
ment. There is great inconveni-
ence for the time being, in the
money market and in our ex-
changes and, temporarily, in the
handling of crops, but America is
absolutely prepared to meet the
financial situation and to straight
en- everything out without mater
ial difficulty. The only thing that
can possibly prevent it is unreas-
enable apprehension and excite
ment.
II would urge you not co give
currency to any unverified rumors,
or to anything that would add to
the excitement. [ think that you
will agree that we must act to-
gether as Americans in seeing that
America does not suffer any I'M
necessary distress from this war.
The situation in Europe is, per-
haps, the gravest in it's possibili-
ties that has arisen in modern
times, but it need not affect the
United States unfavorably in the
long run. Not that the United
States has anything to take adj
vantage of, but her own position
is sound and she owes it to man
kind to remain in such a condi-
ton and in such a state of mind
that she can help the rest of the
world.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
by M. V. O'Shea, Professor of Ed
ucation, University of Wisconsin,

Here is a typical example of the
way many parents help" their
children in their school work. 4
boy, ten years of age, engaged ir
writing a little essay which hac
been assigned as a home "a k
wished to use the word ordinary.
| 1t seemed a little strange to him
and he had got into the habit o.
always asking for assistance when
ever he came to anything new
either in spelling or in any other
study. So he called out to his
mother, "How. do you spell ordi-
nary?" The mother spelled it. for
him, and he wrote it down as she
dictated. She did not ask him to
make an effort to spell it himself.
After she had spelled it she did
not require him to spell it after
her. She made no test to see
whether he had really learned the
word, or whether he had simply
written it mechanically in order
to get through with the special
task in hand. 1t is practically GER
tain that he did not learn to spell
it, because he was not in learn
ing frame of mind He simply.
wanted to be helped out of his
present difficulty; and he wa s
utterly Indifferent to a possible
future need in regard to this same
word.
In this respect he was entirely
natural. Nature does not make an
unframed child anxious about flu
ture needs. If a child on his own
initiative were constantly thinking
of future needs and learning what
would help him to m e n
needs he would cease to be child.
The difference between an I'M
trained and undeveloped q,
and one who is we'll trained and
we'll developed, lies mainly in the
fact that the latter is conscious OF
future needs and plans to meet
them, while the former is CO n
cerned only with the situations
Immediately before him. If he can
get out of a present difficulty, he
is satisfied; he does not consider
that that difficulty may arise
again, and he had best be prepar-
ed to meet it. The chief work in
education is to develop what we
call thoughtfulness or foresight in
children.
To return to the boy receiving
help in spelling ordinary. The
parents in that home always do
the work for this boy whenever
he asks them for aid. He fire.
quently brings home tasks from
the school, as he should do, be-
cause the typical child cannot do
all the work that he ought to do
during the school hours. When
a boy has reached the age Of ten
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
GENEROUS Mr.. HANN

(From Hudson Star-Observer)
Hon. Cassius D. Hawn, the Pierce
county member of assembly, is not
one of those ungrateful legislative
representative of the people who
is ready to turn his back to his
constituents after having been
honored with a high office. He
has just come out with a politi-
cal announcement which reads as
follows:
To the Electors Of Pierce
equity -
''Feeiing that l owe Pierce
county another term of my
service in the legislature
hereby announce myself a can
didate for member of assembly
to succeed myself. l cordially
solicit your support at the
primary election Sept. 1.
-Cassius ID. HaWn."
Such instances of voluntary self
sacrifice are exceedingly rare in
these progressive days, nor can we
call to mind a parallel case in the
degenerate days we have left be-
hind US. Cassius is not a man tC
plead political bankruptcy, but
with a heart tuned to sympathetic
pitch for the imperative needs o.
his dear people and a sensitive
feeling of distaste for anything
having the appearance of indebt-
edness or shadowing bankruptcy
Honest Cassius steps into the
breach, takes a heroic stand anC
slapping his breast, exclaims il
mellowing accents, II owe my
country another term and By the
Gods of war will pay my debt
cost what it maym
No lean and hungry Cassius il
he, but one of the honest elect
whom an admiring constituency
will no doubt have sweating anc
grinding for them at Madison
again next year, adding to tn,
wealth of our bulky statutes anc
ponderous tones of law.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
DIED
MRS. LENA BONSNESS

Mrs. Lena Bonsness died at Mar
tell July 19, and was buried at the
Rush River church July q, Rev. M.
Thorsen officiating.
Mrs. BOnsnesS was one of the
town, having lived there about
fifty years, and was known and
respected by all. She was seven
ty-nine years Of age. She is sur
vived by three sons-Ole, of SIAM
pede, N. d., Ed. and Nick, at home
and four daug Mrs. C..
Winger and Mrs. r. o. Winger, of
Little Falls, Mrs. Harry Harris, of
ST. Paul, and Mrs. Fl. L. Hagestad,
of Range. Fer husband, E. O.
Bonsness, died several years ago.
Spring Valley Sun
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06
EDUCATION TALKS TO PARENTS
HOW PARENTS CAN HELP CHILDREN IN STUDIES

he should have at least a half
hour Of work at home every eve.
ming provided he does not acquire
bad mental habits in doing it.
Unfortunately this particular boy
his fast acquiring mental habits
which will handicap him heavily
later on. That is to say, he is not
learning to help himself, at leas
so far as his work at home is con
cerned. His parents either do not
want to take the time to make
him self-helpful, or they do not
know how to do it. Possibly they
want to relieve him from the strair
and stress Of solving his own diff
ficulties. Many parents feel that
they serve their children best
when they bear their school burd-
cps for them. But suppose when
lbs mother was asked by her boy
for assistance in spelling ordinary,
she had required him to spell each
syllable which he could have done.
In, quarter of a minute she could
have led him to spell that word
largely on his own initiative. II
she had followed this method
whenever the boy asked her for
assistance in spelling, she could
soon have trained him so that he
tWOuldn't need to ask for assist
ance. When he came to a new
word, he would break it up into
syllables, and he would thus be
able to spell most, at any rate, OF
the words he would need to use.
If the mother could make use OF
this method for several years,
she would train him to be self
helpful. But when she simply
does the work for him, she neither
teaches him, nor develops him in
the way of solving his own pro-
blems.
The inference should not be
drawn from what has been said
that the parent should do nothing
for his child. Occasionally, one
finds a parent, who, when child
asks him for help in solving
problem will say, do it YOURSELF
Often a child keeps working away
at a problem which he cannot pos
sibly solve because he has not
been trained properly. To say to
such a child, do it yourself" is
often to discourage him, and to
cause him to waste time. There
is a middle course between doing
nothing for the learner, and doing
everything for him. This middle
course is to cause him by approp-
riate questions to take necessary
steps to help himself. This is real
ly what teaching means, whether
it be in the home or in the school.
Telling is not teaching, and re-
fusing to give any assistance is not
teaching. But to guide and stimu-
late the learner SO that he can
work his own way through prob
lens in teaching.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-08-06

Indications are that Balsam Lake
is to at last have a railroad. The
Balsam Lake and Eastern Railway
Co., with a capital stock of 100000
have filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state. This
company proposes to build a rail-
road from Balsam Lake to Cen
turia, a distance of over six miles.
Following are the incorporatoFs !:
j. w. Parks, w. r. Taylor, I'll. w.
Radcliffe, Ira Parks, George Wade,
Henry Rold, A. G. futile, Alton Ely
and S. c. Observation-Disclosures Adj
Ivocate.