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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
TO POTATOE GROWERS.

j. G. Milward, Secretary of the
Wisconsin Potato Growers Associ-
alton, has sent out circular saying
that requests are coming in from out
side of the state for standard varieties,
for seeding purposes. The associ-
alton feels that the stock of high
quality which was grown in Wiscon-
sin during 1913, should be used for
Wisconsin planting this year. There
fore growers are urged to write the
secretary at once and make reserva-
tion for seed for 1914 planting. The
secretary also gives out the informa-
tion that the annual report of the
association will be issued the latter
part of March and it will be sent free
10 every grower in Wisconsin upon
application.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
PEOPLE OF WAUSAU, WIS, FIND
IT PAYS TO UNITE IN EFFORTS
Local Pride and Interest All Concerning Welfare of City
Soon Felt by Newcomers Who Join With Residents in
Furthering the Success of Valley Center

WAUSAU, Wis. s.-Permeating this
city is local pride and civic interest
that is doing much for the unity, adj
vancement and prosperity of the
place. The growth is steady and the
municipality is regarded as remark
ably free from retarding factors in
social, civil or other lines of activity.
A few months residence not only
ac1uaints one with the way in which
people here pull together TO help the
community but enlists his coopera-
tion, and so progress goes on with an
ever increasing form of helpers.
Business men give freely of their
time and means for the benefit OF the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
EXPLAINS NEW
ELECTION Law.
Atty. Gen Owen Interprets Town Eiec-
tion Regulations Should circu-
late Call for a Causus.

Because of so many requests for
opinions regarding the new town
election law, Attorney General Walter
G. Owen has sent an opinion to
William w. Storms, district attorney
of Racine county, covering opinions
on all questions thus far suggested.
at was the plain intent on the part
of the legislature to eliminate all
party contests in town and village
elections and substitute therefor a
purely non-partisan election" says
Mr.. Owen. THE caucus referred TO
in the law is to be non-partisan
caucus of all the electors of the town,
of whatever political afliliation, and
it is the nominees of such caucus that
will be entitled TO a place, as caucus
nominees on the official ballot at the
election. 1t follows that there is to
be no party designation of candidates
on the Official ballot.
"rhe fact that the law does not
provide any method of calling the
first caucus is evidently due TO an
oversight on the part of the legislature
and creates some uncertainty and
confusion as to how the first caucus
shall be called. Inasmuch as no
method is provided in the law itself
tor the calling of the first caucus 1t is
apparent that such first caucus cannot
be called under legal authority"
MIR. Owen suggests that where
caucuses have not been held a num-
Der of electors should circulate a call
for a caucus to be held at a given
time. He says that the voters should
be well notified of the time of hold
ing the same.
THUS to make it plain" continues
Mr.. Owen, "this year the election
occurs on April I. The last day for
holding the caucus will be on March
30. There also seems to be some un-
certainty as to whether both those
whe are nominated at the caucus and
others who are nominated by nomi-
nation pa .s -.e entitled to positions
on the ballot. Upon this subject the
law is plain. The names of those
who are nominated at the caucus are
to be placed on the official ballot.
Mr.. Owen says that candidate who
has been defeated at the caucus may
be nominated by nomination paper.
if he receives the requisite number of
signers on a nomination paper.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10

The Country Club has an attractive
club house with ample golf links and
tennis courts. The grounds are beau
tifully situated on the east bank of the
Wisconsin river, adjacent to Roths-
child park, and are reached by the
interurban railway. The Wausau
Club has a fine club house near the
center of the city which is used by
the club members and for many social,
musical and literary gatherings An
excellent cafe is operated in the club
house fo, the use of the families of
the club members anC their friends.
Wausau has 26 fraternsl organizations.
There is a. daily newspaper and four
weekly papers.-Christian Science
Monitor, Boston, March 5.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10

mentioned. Wausau claims to lead
all Wisconsin cities in the average
attendance in the public schools in
proportion to population; about 2
per cent of the population of the city
attend the public schools, and there
were S5 in the last high school
graduating class.
While the pine forests which sur
rounded the ''far away" tWausau is
an Indian name meaning far away"l
settlement on the banks Of the Wis
consin river in the early days of the
community's existence have almost
disappeared, vast areas of hardwood
and hemlock timber in northern Wis
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
OCCURRENCES OF LONG AGO.
ITEMS OF NEWS BOILED DOWN FROM THE
CENTRAL THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO

Miss frankie Gooding left for Lock-
port, ILL.,, Tuesday.
Wanted.-60 loads of dirt by G. f..
Crosby to place on his lots, corner
Fourth and Grant streets in the
spring.
Albert Millard has stuck out his
sign as carpenter and builder.
VIM. Homrig had his hand terribly
lacerated in Werlich's mill on Satur-
day. He will be laid up the balance
of the winter.
James Madden, while at work in J.
E. Leahy's camp, met with a severe
accident last week. The axe with
which he was chopping, flew off the
handle and was buried in his leg just
above the knee, causing a dangerous
wound. He will be laid up for some
time.
Judge Parks continued illness still
prevents him from holding court.
Fred A. Sheldon delivered lecture
at Music hall on travel from Naples
to Jerusalem. 1t was given under
the auspices of the Temple of Honor.
The Otter rapids dam gave way
last week and there is breach of 60
feet which will have to be repaired
before it can be again used to make
a freshet.
"Big Sam" and Little Sam" of
Rural, came up Saturday. Everybody
knows that means "Ashmun."
Married. d.-Tuesday, Feb. Is, j. ].
Sherman of Milwaukee, to Miss Mary
Dengel, of Wausau, Rev. FIR. Richard
officiating.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
HERD OF ELK FOR STATE.
Forest OF Villas County to Get Fifty
Animals.

A herd of elks is going to be graz
ing in the woods of northern Wiscon-
sin soon. The office of the state
game warden has received notice
from the biological survey that the
state may have fifty elk from the
Jackson Hole country. These ami
mails, which were applied for by the
state, will be quartered in the north
ern woods, probably in Forest or Villas
county. They Will be protected and
looken after by the state game ward
en-, in the hope they will propagate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
DEER DELAYS 500 TRAIN
Frisky Wild Animal Makes Engineer
Think He is Seein' Things.

Engineer John Orricl of the Green
wood ekoosa train reported Satur-
day morning when he arrived here
from the south that between Arpin
and this city his train had 20 be
slowed down to permit half-grown
deer to get off the track. The deer
took its time, following the track for
nearly a mile before taking to the
woods. ds.-Marshfield Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
A FREE LECTURE.

A free lecture on Christian Science
by William r. Rathvon, c. S. B., of
Denver, Member of the Board of
Lectureship of The Mother Church,
The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
in Boston, Mass, will be given at the
church, this city, March
18th, 1914, at S:15 O'Clock.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
The Mothers Favorite.

a cough medicine for children
should be harmless. 1t should be
pleasant TO take. Ii should be effect
ual. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
is all of this and is the mothers favor
ite everywhere. For sale 10y all dealers,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
HENRY B. HUNTINGTON
LAW AND REAL ESTATE.
Scott ST.. Opp. Court House. Wausau. Wis.
Over 5000 Acres

of fins Farming and Hardwood Lands for Sale in
ard Taylor Counties, Wis.
Fine Residence Property Business Property Building Lots
and Acre Property for sale in the city.
MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
SOME FAMOUS SIEGES
INVESTED TOWNS THAT LONG
HELD OUT AGAINST FOE.
That Of Greatest Duration Was at
Richmond. Which the corfeder.
at.s Defended for Four Years
Gbraltar's Great Exploit.

The defense Of Liegr by 10000 Bel
gians against three German army
corps numbering 10000 will 70 down
to history as one Of the most brilliant
feats of arms in the annals of war,
says London Tit-Bits.
The Franco-Prussian war Of 1901
was remarkable for its segos. Bazainc
held out at Metz against the Germans
for nearly two months and hnaily sur.
rendered with 5000 officers and 49,
600 men. For this he had to submit
to court.martinl, and was sentenced
10 20 years imprisonment. Afterward
came the siege Of Paris which lasted
six months Thousands Of shells were
raincd on the city every day by tho
Germans, and no fewer than 10000 OF
the inhabitants succumbed to disease
and hunger.
That lengthy sieres are quite posi-
bic even in these days Of huge guns Is
illustrated by Chukri Pasha's gallant
defense Of Adrianople last year for 1856
days. Then there was the compare.
lively recent great siege Of Port Ar
thur in the Russo.Japanese war In
190i.05 which finally capitulated after
being blockaded by Admiral Togo for
2l0 days The name of General Stoes.
sci will rank with those OF the great
soldiers of modern times.
In Ottoman and Russian military
history there has never been a siege
like that Of Plevna In 1877, when o.
man PaGha dened the Russians for IA
days, and finally surrendered on De
cembcr 10, with 10000 men and 100
guns. owing to provisions and am
munton running short. In the same
year Kars long the buwark of the
Ottoman empire in Asia, was stormed
by the Russians after a siege OF five
months.
TWENTY-FIVE years earlier the for.
tress had been brilliantly defended for
eight months against the Russians by
the Turks under General Williams.
who had hut $4,000 men against 10000,
Even these sicEcs. however, are
EDlit Ilsil 4IsH+EhlilNAll Wien YUM
pared with some others The long.
est siege occurred in the American
Civil war, when ihc Copfoderatcs de
Tended the town ~ Richmond for
1,iS5 days. or Just o3G- four years.
Sebastopol in the Crimeau war ~
out for II months. while General CF
don defended Khartum against IL
Sudanese fer 200 days. The sieges OK
Ladysmith. Kimberley and Mafeking
I'm the South African war, lasted 12O,
123 and 2Gi days. respectively.
There is probably however, no siege
which Britishers like to read about so
much as that carried out by France
and Spain In their endeavors to carry
the Rock of Gibraltar, 1888. Alto
gethcr the siege lasted nearly four
years. and MS the world knows. re-
suited in n complete triumph Of Brit.
ish arms In spite Of the fact that the
enemy numbered 10000 to 10000 men.
while the defenders could only muster
7,O0O.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
EurcEean Harvest.

The American tourists we're equal in
value TO good harvest and this year
there will be q loss to Europe. II the
war continues into the season next
year this loss viii! be serious, from
European point of view. 1t is estimat-
ed that the tourists spend thousand
dollars apiece in their tour Some go
cheaper, others spend more. This year
there were 100000 in round numbers
accounted for and they probably spent
more than the average, certainly II
their losses on baggage and eXtortion-
ate discount of travellers checks are
counted in, for there is a stack OF
trunks, suit cases and satchels Mt Co
logne piled ten feet high around the
cathedral, all belonging TO Americans.
Over 100000 pieces OF baggage had to
be abandoned in flight. If the war cuts
out the touring season next year 1t
should save at least si20000,000 for
home consumption. Americans will
have a chance to see their own coun-
try. II there were small hotels with
fare az good and prices as reasona-
BILE as are provided in Europe there
would be many more tourists In this
country at all seasons.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
RED CROSS SEALS
viii be sold by School Children

The American Red Cross is sending
surgeons, nurses, medical supplies,
food, clothing and money by the ship
load to Europe to relieve the fright
full distress caused by the war but has
not relaxed its efforts to relieve the
perennial distress caused by the white
plague Of our own country. For some
years il has financed the Red Cross
Christmas seal edcational campaign
in the United States and this year
again offers opportunity to everyone
in every community to do his share
Of work, or to make contribution, be
it only one cent, to further the move
ment to conquer the greatest enemy
Of man--tuberculosis. In Missouri,
where 1873 people died from it in the
year 1913, and where $4,000 are now
suffering from this disease, the cam
paign is being conducted under the
general management of the Missouri
Association for the Relief and Con-
troll of tuberculosis from the Office
Of its secretary in Columbia.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25

lnasmuch as the disease has come
to be regarded by medical investiga-
tors as essentially a disease of child
hood it seems particularly appropriate
that the seals should be sold and that
the circulars explaining the nature of
the disease and the means employed
to prevent infection should be circu-
lated, by school children.
This years seal, printed in three
colors and portraying Santa Claus in
gleeful smile, full of Christmas cheer,
will delight their hearts.
Opportunity to help carry on the
crusade against the disease will be
given to the children of the Farming
ton schools as well us to those of ev-
cry school in St Francois county and
in the state. Last year $3.50, 1877 seals
were sold in 500 different communities
in Missouri and it is expected that in
this years campaign these figures
will be increased by fifty per cent.
Beautiful Santa Claus blotters in
three colors will be given to children
who sell seals. Rural teachers should
order consignments.
This town and this county must do
its share in tho fight to suppress the
disease. Buy the seals from the chill
dren or at places where they are for
sale. They must be purchased from
the secretary in Columbia. Every seal
you use and the whole of every cent
you pay, will help save some child
from infection.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
FOREST NOTES

Only 7 l-2 per cent of last seasons
400 fires in national forests of Utah
Southern Idaho, Western Wyoming,
and Nevada caused losses in excess of
500.
Virginia uses more wood for boxes
and crates than any other state, fol-
lowed by New York, Illinois, Massa-
chusetts and California, in the order
named.
Those familiar with the eastern
mistletoe only have no idea of the
great losses due TO this parasite in
the forests Of the west, where il counts
next to fire and insects in the amount
of damage done.
In parts of the west where trees are
scarce, sage brush is used for fuel.
In Nevada the large main stems are
trimmed by Indians at $500 cord
and delivered to the user at about So
80. Sage brush burns rapidly and is
rather dirty, but produces good heat.
a log raft containing one million
feet of cedar, said TO be the largest
ever floated on the Pacific, recently
made the trip from British Columbia
to Puget Sound. 1t was 100 feet long
and 20 feet wide; it stood 10 feet out
of the water and 20 feet under.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
Promises to the Reerulta.

A glance at the crowds at the re-
cruiting Office shows that there is no
need for the imaginative drawing up
of advertisements of enticement to the
colors, says the London Chronicle. BY
way OF contrast one is reminded Of
earlier methods. Look at this appeal
for young men for the light dragons,
which appeared in the Times of Sep
TENDER. 1901:
Your pay and privileges equal two
guineas week: you are everywhere
respected; your society Is courted;
you are admired by the fair, which. to
gether with the chance OF getting
switched to bIxom widow, or brush
ing with q rich heiress, renders the
situation truly enviable and delight
full"
What young man could resist this!
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
SHEDDING WILL MAKE 1T SHED

Shedding the pillow will make it shed
next spring. Yes, if you paint the
pillow with axel-grease, tallow or
heavy oil or old grease, you will find
it will work as an accident policy
against profanity in the driver and
sore shoulders on the horses next
spring. Letting all our farm machin-
cry stand out doors all winter would
cost Missourians more than u million
dollars. Put up straw shed, il
nothing else--why not?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
HOW WE GET THE NEWS

Day before yesterday perfectly
nice lady called us up and with tears
in her voice reproved US for not men
tioning the fact that she had had a
friend visiting her last week. We
told her that she had not let us know
anything about it and that therefore,
we did not know that she had IA vis-
itor. Then she said, "Well, you should
have known. | thought you were
running a newspaper" Wouldn't that
rattle your Stats. Some people think
that an editor ought to be cross be-
tween Argus and Anna Eva Fay.
They seem to think that our five sens
es are augmented by a sixth that let's
us know everything that happens,
even if We see, hear. feel, taste or
smell it not. Dear lady, editors are
only human, or at least, almost hui
man. If you have n friend visiting
you, if you are going away, or have
returned from visit out of town, if
Johnnie falls and breaks his arm, if
your husband chops his toe instead of
stick of wood, if anything hap
pens that makes you glad, or sad,
happy, or mad, call US up. Tell us
about it. That's the way we get it
in the paper.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
A LIVE ONE" FROM IOWA


Nearly two years ago lynx-eycd
real estate man espied a fine, pros
porous-looking farmer walking I'D
and down on the depot platform of
well known Missouri county seat
town. Stranger here" the real es-
tate man blandly ventured. "Yes sir"
said the farmer with quiet dignity.
Looking for a farm ?" was the next
question. Eyes sir" was the same
quiet response--and with this the
real estate mans face lit up and he
plunged into an eloquent description
Of the many fine farms he had for
sale and was about to telephone for
his Ford when the farmer said: "I'm
much obliged to you, but | don't want
to buy a farm in this county. am
just trying to see what Missouri is
like and SO have dropped off at a
number of different places. am
from Iowa where ! recently sold
good farm. | have been reading a
good deal in my farm papers about
this man Jordan, the Farm Adviser in
Pcttis county, and ! thought if the
state looked good to me otherwise. I
would like to live and own farm in
a county where the farmers are as
progressive and wide awake as that.
| am on my way to Petts county now
and if can find farm that suits me
there ! expect to buy it,"
So firmly and quitely did the Iowa
farmer say these things that the real
estate man instantly realized that
there was no further need of barking
up hollow tree-but, after medi-
tating over his experience for IN hour
or two, he hunted up the president of
the Commercial Club and told him his
story. The president in turn called
the Board of Directors together with
the result that 40 or so wide-awake
farmers were invited to town for a
conference the following day-and by
the end Of the week the campaign for
Farm Adviser was sizzling in ev-
cry nook and corner Of the county.
The Commercial Club promptly offer
ed to put up $500 year for three
years as a part Of the Farm Agents
salary. The county newspapers got
up behind it enthusiastically and al
though at first the county court was
luke warm, it finally yielded--and to-
day this county has one of the most
efficient and successful Farm Agents
in Missouri. In his countrywide fight
against hog cholera alone he has
earned his salary many times over
Y anscores Of farmers who at first OPP
jpaed the, plan are now enthusiastic
ally for il.
And who knows but what had not
this Give one" from Iowa started the
ball rolling, this county would be
drifting along in the same old fashion
this very moment? 1t only goes to
show that people never lose anything
by being progressive--for men with
red blood in their veins want to live
and move among men who are "doing
things As the old saw has it. Birds
of feather flock together. William
Hirth in the Missouri Farmer.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-25
ODD BITS OF NEWS

Worcester, Mass.-The Rev. Fred
erick Nicholson, pastor Of the FRS,
Spiritual church, recently appealed to
Chief of Police Hill for protection
against love-sick maidens and schem
ing mothers. He said his life has
been made miserable by lovc-letters
and telephone calls.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Ihat Wisconsin
will not become a prohibition state.
in this or the next generation, whether
woman suffrage prevails or not, was
the prediction made by Mrs. Sophis
Gudden, Of Oshkosh, at the press SEES
sion Of the Wisconsin Woman Suf-
frage association, held last week at
Milwaukee.
! Clarinda, la-Mrs. Martin Lucas
offered to crank an automobile for
Mrs. Abbie Gilmore and in doing SO
broke her arm. Mrs. Gilmore helped
Mrs. Lucas into the car and started to
crank the machine. She, too, broke
her arm.
Merrill, visa house was shipped
to the fair here recently by parcel
post. The house was of the take
down variety and was sent piece by
piece.
Atlanta, Ga.--Several people here
have been afraid to eat oysters re-
Gently because when the oysters were
put into hot water they turned bril-
liant pink. Health officers say the
oysters are perfectly good to eat bu.
they cannot explain their "bushing"
Of the bivalves.
Somerset, Ky.-Miss Lena Hamm,
kentucky's first policewoman, started
duty recently. Her uniform is of pc.
lice-blue trimmed with white braid.
Omaha, Nebr.-Night school has
been started in Nebraska's state
prison and 1870 prisoners attend class
es in shorthand, type-writinc, book
keeping and all common school branch
cs. A number of the prisoners are
taking extension work from the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
Montclair, n. J.-If you have a re-
liable "anti-fat" remedy, Chairman
Thomas 7. McGlynn, Of the Montclair
Fire Department would like to hear
Of it. The Montcair firemen have so
little work to do that they are fast
putting on too much weight for the
good Of the service
New Orleans, La.-At the CONVEX
ton of the U. S. Brewers Associa-
ton, just closed, the fact was reveal
ed that, through the new war tax, the
u. S. Government is getting three
times as much revenue from beer as
the brewers get,
Muskogee, Okla.-Miss Flora Wet
2ell, telephone girl, started to ans
wer n call recently and could not
speak, Her physicians say that she
may never speak again. The cause
of her loss of voice is unknown.
Auburn, Ala.-The Crimson White,
first class weekly paper, is Just ed
tied and published by the students
Of the University Of Alabama 1t is
run along the lines of regular
weekly paper and is credit to the
students in charge Of the sheet"
Logan, Utah.-"Queen Utana" is
claimed by the Utah Agricultural
College to he the champion long-dis-
lance layer among the hen tribe. Dur
ing five years ending November l,
1914, Queen Utana" had laid SIC eggs
averaging 81 ounces each. Queen"
weighs l-2 pounds and during the
five years has produced lO7 popnds of
eggs.