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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-11
Wilson'S First Years Work

Washington, March 3.-President
wilson today rounded out the first
year OF his term of Office as chief ex.
ecutlve OF the nation. A glance back.
ward over the twelve months that
have passed since President Wilson
was lnaugurated March 4, 1913, shows
that his administration has been un'
usually eventful and active. Seldom
except In time of war, has any presi
dent ever had SO many things going
on at the same time.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-11

Helena, March 5.-That the Great
Northern has planned more construc-
ton work in Montana this year is in
Dictated by a resolution adopted March
) by the board of directors authoriz.
ing the construction of a branch line
sixty miles long. closely following the
north boundary line of the Fort Peck
indian reservation from a point ap-
proNlmately due south of Scobey to
the northwest corner of the reserva-
ton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-11

earn-$7.50O a year. How many OF
them could earn half that amount III
any other employment. Yet these are
the men Sent by the people to admin
lister the vast machinery of our ma
tional government. 1t is time surely
for the people to exercise more care
in selecting their representatives and
senator's.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-11

Great Falls, March 5.-As a result
of an attempted holdup in Belt last
night In which one of the thugs was
shot by an officer, Emil Simpola is in
the county Jail here and Walter Mel
mi is in the Columbus hospital under
guard OF a deputy sheriff. The pair
with another Finn, are alleged to have
enticed Louis Dahn, a stock buyer OF
Sand Coulee, out Of a saloon to a
bridge, where they assaulted him and
attempted to rob him. The town
marshal hove into sight and started
shooting. succeeding in bringing down
Niemi and afterwards arresting Sim,
pola.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-11
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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-11

on. Inc men paid their fare across
tie ferry to Oakland-ten cents each.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
sILVERNAIL FOR SHERIFF.
Well Known Paris Farmer Enters Lists
for Prize Political Office.

City candidates for the nomination
for sheriff on the democratic ticket are
not to be allowed to have everything
their own way and announcement was
made today that there would be a
strong contender for the democratic
nomination for the prize office in the
county from the town of Paris. Ward
NJ. Silvernail, one Of the best known
farmers of the county, has announced
that he is after the nomination for
sheriff. Mr.. Silvernail was born and
raised in Kenosha county and few
men in the county are more widely
known among the people residing in
the rural districts. While he has
never before been a candidate for any
political Office Mr.. Silvernail has been
active N politics and for years he has
been considered one of the democratic
leaders in the western part Of the
county. While in Kenosha today Mr..
Silvernail announced that petitions for
his nomination would be IN circulation
about the first Of July.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
Kenosha County Gets First
Tuition Bill From Racine
Co. Agricultural School.
EXPECT INCREASE IN STUDENTS

There will probably be a large num-
Der of students from Kenosha county
enter the Racine County School of
Agriculture and Domestic Science next
year as they will go to this institu-
ton at the expense Of the county
This is one of the new laws pass3I nv
the last legislature and it was brought
to the notice of the county solons this
morning when J. A. James, head Of the
school at Rochester, filed with the
county clerk bill for $11S for tuition
Of Kenosha county students who have
attended the school during the year
just closing. Four students from this
county, all from the town of Salem,
took course in the Racine county
school. Three of them were in school
for thirty-two weeks and the tuition
of each of these is placed at $32. The
other student was in school twenty
two weeks. Under the law the county
board has no alternative but to levy a
tax covering the amount Of this tuition.
Under the law the Racine school NAV
charge Kenosha county students as
high as a dollar a week for tuition,
but the amount may not go above the
dollar a week. The Racine county of
ficials have taken the limit. No eff
fort has ever been made to have a
school Of this nature erected in Keno
sha county and many Of the members
OF the county board believe that it
will be much cheaper to provide agri,
cultural education for the boys Of this
county at the Racine school. The
school also offers instruction in domes-
tic economy for young women. When
it is generally known that the tuition
must be paid by the county it is ex-
pected that the number of students
entering the Racine school from this
count will be greatly increased.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

Madlson among people who are aware
OF this movement for the aiding of the
woman suffrage issue, that one Of the
main reasons for the movement is the
fact that the La Toilette leaders who
are behind the movement have reason
to believe that it gives opportunity for
very distinctive issue between them
selves and Gov. McGovern in the com
ing campaign. The La Toilette people
think the governor is unalterably OPP
posed to woman suffrage, taking, of
course, as basis for this belief the
fact that he vetoed a bill which. had ii
been given his signature, would have
meant the submission of the woman
suffrage question again to the voters
at the coming general election
Just what effect a declaration in
favor Of woman suffrage by a candi-
date who is making statewide can
vass for a nomination will have, It IS
hard to say. IF the vote on the refer
endum bill submitted to the voters Of
Wisconsin at the election two years
ago IS any criterion, the voters of Wis
consin, by a large majority, are op-
posed to woman suffrage. The vote
was, however, on the direct issue and
whether all the voters who at that
time expressed themselves as opposed
Ito woman suffrage would allow the
support of woman suffrage by any
candidate to alter their attitude to-
ward that candidate is, of course, an
other question.
Senator La Toilette has been a sup.
porter of woman outrage for some
time, and it was unquestionably
through his influence that a plank was
adopted in the republican candidate
convention of two years ago pledging
the support of the Republican party Of
the state. to woman suffrage The ques-
tion was agitated considerably in the
last campaign, but from the present
activity of the La Toilette people on
the question the woman suffrage cues
ton is likely to be more important
issue in the coming election contest
than it was two years ago, even
though at this time there is no referen-
DUN bill on the subject before the peo-
pie for their sanction or rejection at
the polls.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
Cupid to Have June Harvest
of Weddings Regardless
of the Eugenics Law.
NO STING IN CERTIFICATE PLAN

The eugenics law has capitulated to
cupid and the officials in charge of
the marriage license bureau in Keno
sha declare that June is not going to
show any falling off in the number Of
marriage licenses issued. The coming
of June was the real test for the
eugenics law. June is always recog-
nized as the month for weddings in
Kenosha and in every ether city and
eugenics or no eugenies cupid is going
to have better than d normal harvest
in this county. 1t is certain that the
record for marriage licenses issued in
the county in any month will be
broken this month.
Bridegrooms who fought shy Of the
eugenic certificate earlier in the year
are beginning to learn that there is
more bark than bite in the certificate
rule and that it is about as easy to get
a eugenics certificate as it is to get
the three dollars to pay for it. Physi-
clans assert that they are conscienti-
GUS in the issue of these certificates,
but only one incident has reached the
public Of a prospective bridegroom
failing to obtain certificate.
This man was In jail suffering from
loathsome disease and it would have
been nothing less than criminal for any
physician to- have issued a certificate
to him. People coming from other
cities find no trouble in working out
the certificate plan. The fact that no
special test is demanded under the law
has made it easy for the physicians.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
number Of marriages is now showing a
big increase over the earlier months of
the year a lot Of couples from Kenosha
county are being married in other
states, particularly Illinois. Not one
of these couples has complied with the
law by fling in the clerk IS Office the
certificate Of a physician or a report
of the marriage. County Clerk Jones
declares that while he knows Of cou-
pies who have married in another state
and who nave flled no certllcate OF the
marriage he insists that it is not his
duty to seek to prosecute such brides
and bridegrooms. The law is decidedly
weak along this line as it provides that
lit must be proven that the couples
went to the other state in order to
evade the Wisconsin law before they
could be forced to pay the penalty
provided by the law.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

system should be given due eonsidera-
tion in making appropriations It's af-
fairs should be open to the widest pub
Lefty, the same as any other insti-
tuition. y
"Better laws and their more efficient
administration are more to be desired
than many new enaetments by the
legislature New laws should come
from demand of the people, and not
be enacted because advanced upon
theory alone.
sThe encouragement of agricultural
development should also include bet
ter marketing methods for farm pro-
ducts for the elimination of waste and
expense, to the end that the farmer and
consumer may both be benefited. The
national government is now giving
consideration to this question and the
state should join in the movement to
the fullest extent practical.
The problem of improving our public
schools to secure greater efficiency at
minimum cost and make our schools
conform to the practical needs of the
communities is another in which such
progress should be made as experience
will justify"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

Some recent occurrences in the NUM-
cipal court viii go a long way to con-
vince offenders released under the pa.
role law that the bargains they make
with the court must be kept and that
the law is not merely designed to pre-
vent favored few serving time under
their sentences. Criminologists and
the administrative officers of the
courts believe in the parole law as a
rule and declare that it has great
value as reformative measure, but the
general public gets its impressions of
the workings of the law from the eases
of violations of paroles which are
brought out in court from time to time.
Naturally the public gets very little
information regarding instances where
the law has operated successfully and
made useful members of society of
men who would never have overcome
the stigma of prison sentence and
the opposition to the extension of the
parole system is based on the knowl-
edge of the exceptional cases of viola
tions which comes to the public.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

a Thereais a superstition among the
politicians and near politicians that
the candidate first in the field has an
advantages over his rivals for Office
and from the demands made on the
county clerk for petition blanks it
looks as if lot Of men were deter
mined to let nobody get start on
them in the race for county Offices.
Nobody can find any basis for this be-
lief in the records Of past perform
ances Of candidates, but that makes
no difference with this crop Of candi-
dates and they are beginning their
campaigns the minute the law allows
them to. They cannot see where the
voters are entitled to any rest from
politics.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
REJECTED MANY APPLICANTS
Applications of More Than 100000 Re-
ceive Favorable Action in the Three
Year Period Family Hazards Cause
Men to be Turned Down.

During the years 1911, 1912, and
1913 there were received and acted up
on by the supreme medical directors of
the Modern Woodmen Society, as
shown in their triennial report, which
viii be submitted to the head camp in
Toledo, 1892 03 applications, of which
206,3 1926 received favorable disposition
and $3.50 were rejected.
These applications we're divided into
four class: Original applications, for
reinstatement, applications for hazard
Gus occupation, and those referred to
the supreme board by state medical
directors on which Judgment was de-
sired as to the eligibility Of the
applicant.
The original applications numbered
I212, 1885,, applications for reinstatement,
| LOLA; hazardous occupation, S27, and
1889 were referred by state medical
directors to the supreme board. Of the
original applications 204,338 were ap-
proved and 1874 were rejected; for
reinstatement 933 were approved and
10 rejected; for hazardous occupation
1913 were approval and rejected and
of the 1,089 applications referred by
state medical directors 279 were re-
turned to them with advice to approve,
382 with advice to reject and 428 with
advice to make further investigation.
So the total number of annlieations
covering the four classes named include
those referred by state medical direc-
tors and returned to them with adj
vice as to final disposition.
The board also reviewed CSC mis-
statement cases which were referred
by the executive council.
The report shows that Of the appli-
cations rejected by the supreme board
1925 were because of family hazard,
753 moral hazard, 2,341 of physical
hazard and 1,150 Of personal hazard.
There were also, as shown by the
report, 62,479 letters dictated, type
written and mailed, and there were
1926 applications that required in
vestigation by the board during the
term.
An interesting part of the report is
that relating to the deaths. The table
here given shows the total number
of deaths in the society from dis
eases and causes from 1884 to the
close of 1918:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

The religious themes of Dir. Charles
W Eliot, ex-president of Hazard, have
proved stumbling block to many who
profess to find in them merely the
impious and iconoclastic fundament Of
modern heresy. His ''new" religion
has principally offended those who hold
that truth is sealed book whereto
no word must be added, wherefrom
none is to be subtracted. There are
many, however, who still believe WIN
DR.. Eliot that religious truth is plas-
tic, and its Interpretation adapts it.
self to the needs of the time. Creeds,
symbols, and rites, DR.. Eliot holds. in
the current Christian Register, are sub
ject to revision, Certainly religion IS
not exempt from the law of progress
and the outward manifestations where.
in the life of the spirit finds express
sion change in conformity Herewith.
An early president of Hazard was ex-
PEELED from his office and his house in
midwinter because he was opposed to
the total immersion of infants in ban
tism. 1t never was urged that DR..
Eliot should resign because of his re-
ligious views. His immunity shows the
altered temper of the twentieth cent
ury. Day unto day uttereth knowledge
and it is an error to presume that this
is true Of the physical realm alone.
If it were so, it would mean spiritual
Observation-Disclosures Public Led
ger
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
TO REBUILD SISTER HOUSE.
Plans Being Made for Improvement of
Property of Sisters of Notre Dame.

Plans are being made for the re-
building of the Sister house of the
Sisters Of Notre Dame at St. George
church and after the end of the pres
ent school year the members of the
sisterhood will go into retreat at the
Notre Dame Convent in Milwaukee
and during their absence the work Of
rebuilding vii go forward. It is plan
ned to make the home of the sisters
modern in every way and the work
will be completed during the coming
summer months. In order to aid the
fund for the work the Knights of St.
George gave a minstrel show at ST..
George hall on Wednesday evening.
The entertainment was largely attend
ed and it proved a most pleasant event
for the large crowd attending.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

The usual warning against state en-
ployees under the civil service engag-
ing in politics has been sent out from
Madison, but a lot Of the active gen
tlemen who are cashing the pay
vouchers will not take the warning"
too seriously. More of them have lost
their jobs through not attending to the
political part Of their duties than by
being too active in advancing the poll
tical interests Of the men in the saddle.
But it must be admitted that it is very
exceptional to find minor officeholder
who does not know "what he is there
for" and who has not full apprecia-
tion of his duties and responsibilities.
The warning against political activity
has never been meant" before and
the minor oficeholders are pretty safe
in concluding that they can proceed
along the usual lines with impunity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

The people Of the county have learn
ed that the eugenics law is farce
as it is administered at present and
the usual number of licenses are being
taken out for marriages in the county.
SO far as can be learned but one IL
cense has been refused under the law
and that was in the case of a prisoner
\ in the county jail whose condition was
known to every official Of the county.
Apparently all that is required is the
three dollar fee and certain amount
of red tape to secure the certificate
on which the county clerk must issue
the license. Any move that is made
in the next legislature to repeal or
amend this law will have backing from
Kenosha county. The law as it stands
now throws no safeguards around the
marriage relation and it is being
operated merely to screw three dol
lar fee out of prospective bridegrooms.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
GET INTO CHICAGO.
Chicago Papers Claim Reorganization
of G. & M. viii Bring This Result.

Chicago Papers Claim Reorganization
of G. g. M. Will Bring This Result.
That, when the plans for reorganiza-
ton of the Chicago & Milwaukee Flee
trio are completed it will be possible
for the company's cars to run right
into the heart Of Chicago is evident
from this item in the Tribune:
Friends of the reorganization com
mittee of the Chicago & Milwaukee
Electric say the financing of the re-
organization is being worked out in
New York and probably will be com
leted within the next three weeks.
It is proposed that judicial sale shall
be had shortly, thus winding up the
legal preliminaries.
The reorganization committee con-
trolls 90 per cent of the 1922 five per
cent bonds of the Illinois division and
90 per cent of the 1925 bonds of the
Wisconsin division.
Before the resale Of the property
had been ordered the proposed new
bond issue had been underwritten by
the National City Bank of New York,
and it was planned that Samuel In
sui should be chairman Of the board
Of directors and use his influence to
bring the Milwaukee electric cars into
Chicago over the Northwestern ele-
waited. Since Mr.. insult is now chair
man of the executive committee of
the Chicago Elevated Railways, and
as president Of the Commonwealth
Edison company has purchased for the
latter concern a controlling interest
in the elevated lines, he should be
able to carry out the original plans.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

The Cigarmakers Union No. AT have
elected the following officers: Pres,
E. Gales; vice pres, T. E. Reilly;
fin. secy., John B. Trant; treasurer 3.
Weise; sergeant at arms, L. Gitlitz.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

Miss Katherine Donahue, who was
operated on for appendicitis at St.
Mays hospital in Racine during the
past week, is recovering.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
THURSDAY, JUNE 1s, 1914.

The one best bet is that nothing can
Pbe pulled off anywhere without some
body from Kenosha- being in it in
some away.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

The Adams Express Company has
rented one Of the rooms IN the Ripley
building on Wisconsin street and the
offices of the company viii be opened
in that building the first day of July.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

William Sinner of Kenosha and Miss
Eta Salera Of Red Wing, Mimi, have
been granted license to marry,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18
TOWN DESTITUTE
OF MERCHANTS
Causes Great Loss to The
Local Community.
INCONVENIENCE SOON seen.


a Fireside Discussion of offs" In Gaze
There Was a Simultaneous Misrs-
ton of the Local Merchants and
Dealers-Rights Eneroached Upon by
Dangerous Outside System.
Copyrighted. 1914, by Thomas J. sullivan.l
Napoleon said that Imagination rules
the world. 1t is the divine attribute Of
the imagination that when the real
world is shut out it can create world
for itself and with a neeromantic
power can conjure up glorious shapes
and forms and brilliant Visions to
make solitude populous and eradicate
the gloom Of dungeons.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-18

7 TIC VITIdtI VFsII. IN1ItSIS
Notwithstanding that this is only an
imaginary situation. It is too true
that a condition of this sort is 10 be-
experienced In thousands Of the small
er towns and villages in this country.
unless some radical change takes
place among consumers In checking
the growth OF the small town killer,
the fast forming retail trust
Why not profit by the magination OF
Alice and William
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1914-02-27
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