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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18

Mr. and Mrs William Smith visited at
Dodgeville the past week.
Mrs James Fox and daughter Sylvia
were Mineral Point callers Friday.
Mr. and Mrs John Trembling of Ed
mund visited the past week at the Ray
Roberts home.
Harley Hicks was a Mineral Point
caller Friday.
George Alton of Mineral Point was a
business caller here the past week.
The mill on the Sake Pollard mine on
the Gilman property is rapidly nearing
completion and expect to begin opera
tons underground in a few days.
Mr. and Mrs John Alton visited at the
George Alton home at Mineral Point
Monday.
Sake Pollard on the Granville prop
erty are working two shifts. milling
from IS to 20 tons of high grade ore
daily.
SAKE Pollard on the Hinkle are load
ing cars this week to Vinegar Hill
Smith Co. This mine is operated by
force of men from % to 30 in number
working two shifts underground, run
ming mill one shift and producing 8 to
10 tons daily.
Optimo No. 2 is working one shift
milling from s to 10 tons daily.
The Vinegar Hill Co. are finding some
very good cuttings on property joining
st. Croix mine.
Stoner Bros are very busy at this
writing putting jigs in the new mill
Optimo No. 3 are getting some very
good cutting on the J. J. Rule property
Shaft on Optimo No. 3 is now down on
top of glass rock, the mill on property
being rushed to completion. The dam
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18

for milling purposes is already installed
and they expect to be milling ore il
| about six weeks time.
Drilling machines are very busy in
| this district at the present writing
When present new mines begin produc
| ing ore, Linden will be the banner min
ing camp of southwestern Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs William Gilman and
family visited at the T. G. Cretney
home at Ridgeway the past week.
Mr. and Mrs E. G.. Halverson and Fred
Schaffer of Dodgeville visited at the
Thomas Hicks home the past week.
Mr. Parsons of Canada is visiting at
the J. Richards home
Clarence Goldsworthy, who attends
high school here, visited Saturday with
his parents at Mif1in
Bert Ovitz is moving his household
goods from the farm to his home here
on Main street.
Ross Bros. have been busily engaged
in cleaning their dam the past week.
Mrs Alfred Hughes and son Clarence
and daughters Gertrude, Ina and Inez
motored to Ridgeway recently.
Mr. and Mrs Ed. Batten of Edmund
visited the past week at the Thomas
Batten home.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
LEGLESS MAN A GOOD FARMER
Does All Kinds of Work on His Place
and Is Prosperinu.

and Is ProSPerln9.
Battle Greek, Mich.-As an example
of pluck and energy consider Myron L.
Briggs. Mr. Briggs, who has no legs.
does practically every kind of farm
work and is prospecting.
Briggs is about forty-five years old,
strong and healthy. He bitches up his
three horse team and cuts his own
hay, wheat and oats, then goes out and
cuts more for Eeighbors who have nc
binder.
He can climb up a ladder over the
high crossbeam into the hay NOW and
throw down Or NOW away hay almost
as rapidly and as we'll as any able
bodied worker He can hitch up his
team and drive out into the field alone
and pillow or harrow all day. using
seats on each implement. He rides a
two horse cultivatOr and cultivates
corn and potatoes by hand stick at
tachment that operates two cultivatol
gangs.
Mr. Briggs lost both legs in street
car accident in Grand Rapids about
sixteen years ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
SERVANTS MUST PASS TESTS
Examinations Planned by Montclair
Women-Wage Put at $25 Month.

Examinations Planned by Montclair
Women-Wage Put at $25 Month.
Montclair, N. J.-WOrk and wages
for Montclair household servants are
to be standardized. 1t is proposed by
the local Housewives league to have
a central testing station. which will be
conducted in cooperation with the
board of education. Applicants for
positions will be required to present
themselves there and undergo tests in
cooking, serving and other household
accomplishments.
To those who pass the tests certifi-
Gates will be awarded emitting them
to employment at the rate Of $50 a
month where one servant is employed.
The Housewives league by canvass
of the women of the town has con-
Guided that this is a fair wage. 1t is
asserted that efficient help is available
in Montclair. but because a system has
not been maintained in the past many
residents have gone out of town in
search of servants.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
Eluebird a Friend of Man.

Like the robin, the bluebird is very
domestic, but unlike the robin, it does
not prey upon any cultivated product
or work any injury whatsoever to the
fruit grower During the fruit season
in fact five-sixths of it's food consists
of insects. 1t seems, therefore, that
the common practice of encouraging
the bluebird to nest near houses by
placing convenient boxes in which 1t
may build it's home is thoroughly JUS
titled.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
RIDGEWAY.
By JAMES KELLY.

Miss Mary Burns of Dodgeville visit
ed with her sister Mrs Oscar Anderson
of this place recently.
Mrs Oscar Anderson and son Earl
Miss Gertrude Toay and Mrs. w. H
Powell spent Saturday evening with
Dodgeville friends.
Mrs D. B. Hamilton left Sunday fo1
Miles City, Montana, to visit with he1
sister Mrs Edward Larson. Mrs Ham
ilton intends to spend a month at the
fair in San Francisco before she returns
Mrs Horner and Mrs McCan OF
Oconomowoc are visiting at the McCan
home.
Rev Father Rohuer of Mt. Horeb
was the guest of Rev. Father Uren of
this place Tuesday and Wednesday.
P. Fl. Meiss and son George and Miss
May Conley autoed to Madison Tuesday
and accompanied Mrs. Meiss and son
Martie home. Mrs Meiss has been
visiting with her folks.
hOUGIU LlOyu VI IN. H., 10
visiting friends in this village.
Miss Ina Beaumont is visiting rela :
tives and friends at Beloit
Rev. L. P. O'Reilly, Andrew Dornan
and Dan Resan of Mineral Point at
tended the funeral of Rev. FIR. James
Mahoney, which took place here We'd
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs Mike Walsh of Blue
Mounds spent Wednesday with Mr. and
Mrs James Laughlin.
Mrs Tobin and Mrs Kiley of Dodge
vile spent Wednesday with friends here
Mrs Nora Dunworth of Madison visited
Saturday and Sunday at the home Of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs j. T. Ryan
and with her daughter Alice Dunworth
Mrs James Laughlin and niece Helen
A. j. Kelley, Miss Loretta Short. Ida
Smaller and James Short motored tC
Dodgeville Saturday and report very
pleasant trip.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
Degeneration.

ggs-"Say, Jiggs. Who are
those three gentlemen standing at
the conservatory entrance?" Jiggs-
"Why, they represent three genera
tons. The ruddy old man with the
fine head of hair, Bugs thin
haired one next to him is his son, and
the dissipated fellow with the bald
head is the grandson. National
Monthly,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
The Whirliaiq of Time.

'rhe change of a generation in hui
man nature is intinitesimal and then
some. Now it is the bright red auto
mobile, second-handed, for which In
dams are trading away their valuable
lands; nothing but a twentieth CEN
fury bead
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
Riqht in Line.

My ancestors naughty little He
loise Aldyne told her nine-year-old
playmate Hermione Mcclure, came
over before yours did. They came
over in the first boat. the Maytlower."
We'll, mine came over" Hermione
said stoutly, her blue Irish eyes
flashing with spirit. lin the very next
boat, the JunetloWer. Judge.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
Tied by PreiudiceS.

The confirmed prejudices of a
thoughtful life are as hard to change
as the confirmed habits of an indolent
life; and as some must trifle away
age, because they trit1ed away youth,
others must labor on in q maze Of
error, because they have wander d
there too long to find their way out
Bolingbroke.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-11-18
Unclaimed Letters.

MINERAL POINT, Nov Is, 1915.-Let-
ters addressed as follows remain unclaimed al
the Mineral Point postoffice:
Vincenzo LuCidi c.. r. White.
In calling for above, please say advertised.
GEORGE CRAWFORD, Postmaster.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
WEST INDIAN YOUTHS
G FOR JOHN BULL

Kingston. Jamaica, (by maiD.-Re-
ports from Jamaica and other West
Indian possession Of the British empire
indicate that a sufficient lumber Of
men to form a complete regimental
unit will be ready to sail for England
soon, although no definite word has
been given as to when the call for
them will be made. Already hundreds
OF the pick of West Indian youths have
volunteered and at THEN own cost and
charges nave FOUND their way to Eng
land to offer themsei yes as recruits
for kitchener's army, and ever great
er numbers have enlisted in the va
rlous Canadian c-ontingents which have
gone or are going to the front.
The colonies are not in a position
to equip the men; they are merely fur
nishing the raw material, which will
be trained and armed in England. In
addition to providing for a complete
regiment. h islands will undertake to
fill the gaps caused by inevitable losses
from time to time, to the extent of at
least SO per cent of the original num-
Der.
All the British colonies in the West
Indies have voluntarily subscribed
pire's needs-for the purchase of aero
planes, machine guns; and for incl
dentals. such as smoking supplies for
the men in the trenches. In the case
of Jamaica h government voted a
sum of $250.OO0. which was used to
end a cargo Of sugar to the mother
country. while by public subscription
funds nave been collected to the sum
of 100000 for other objects. In a
country here the average earning of
Is per cent of the population is not
more than 1920 a year, and where cit
liens or opulence are scarce, 1t is de-
clared that the islands showing has
been a remarkably patriotic one.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
husbands sacrine,

Mf H O0O
E1ihu Root was discussing In New
York the recent constitutional CONVEX
ton.
But there was one group" he said
happily It saw reason later 0n-but
me group there was which had about
As true an idea OF self-sacrifice az
Smith.
Smiths wife said to him n eve.
ming. anxiously:
~ know. John, dear. this high cost
Of living 10 terrible. but do you really
think we can get along without q SER
vant?'
Wei have to- Smith answered.
firmly. unless ! get q raise. Why.
hang It. Il the worst comes to the
worst you car do the cooking for your
sell and ! can get my meals at q res.
taurant.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
THE SPARTAN MOTHERS
OF THE kAlSER'S REALM

Berlin Letter in the Boston Globe.
n morning I saw a colonel about 60
years old taking breakfast at the Hotel
Bristol: his wife and their three children,
two girls and a boy. were with him. The
father was leaving for the front. but 1t
was apparently a merry party, Laughing
of them. with kisses all around, an en-
the boy.
AS the colonel turned to 20. the boy
called after him: Remember. father q
year from now I shall be IS and then I
can join the army and win the iron cross"
Ihe mother and the girls smiled and the
father called back. Don't be too hasty;
then" .
The father gone. the young people went
but the mother remained behind to dry
her eyes. which were brimming with
tears.
That is the way the German women meet
this war and its terrible losses, with out
ward courage n calm but with the
deepest inward sorrow that so many must
be taken.
One day I was watching the crowd that
one can always find scanning the lists,
looking over the James of those who
never will return. A. carriage drove up
must nave been between 70 and 80. dressed
In the deepest mourning. got out: She
stood there looking over the lists and final
y, uttering an exclamation. fell in q
Water was brought and sprinkled over
her face. and in a few minutes she re-
gained consciousness. I heard her foot
man say: "Poor lady! She has lost her
fifth and last son." Finally struggling
to her knees. n evidently completely
oblivious to her surroundings, h lifted
her clasped hands and said:
"Thank God that my sons have been
permitted to die fighting for their kaiser
and their fatherland."
When her footman had helped her to
her feet h started to get into her car
riage, when along scame limping. each
wounded soldiers. The old woman turned
to them and said: "Would you not like to
TAKE Wifl Do E r you IN eo %y e and as fd 9ne m fees I ann ann
greatly in need of some exercise?"
The soldiers rode off in the carriage and
walked away to her sonless home. The
Spartan breed has not died out yet. and
now. as always. 1t is the women who
show the most lasting grit, measured by
endurance
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
Medical Examination Day.

During tuberculosis week. which
will be celebrated throughout the Uni
ted States from December 6 to Decem.
Der IL, a national medical examination
day will be observed on December 8.
Groups and individuals will be urged
to make arrangements for physical ex-
animation on that day. A circular de-
scribing in detail how the advantages
o. medical examination day may be
obtained and indicating certain physi-
cal impairments which everyone
should look for will be sent on request
from the Office Of the National Asso-
iation for the Study and Proven
ton Of tuberculosis, 105 East Twenty
second street. New York city.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
CHAPTER NXI1-(Continued).

II knew him we'll. He will speak in
his own good time. A strange, unac-
countable man, John. A secret
man. 1 have been thinking OF
him in the last few days.
thinking a great deal. Perhaps you will
not mind saying to him that l have ex-
pressed a desire to come and see him
some day. He will near YOU"
He left Payson standing there, star
ing after him with a look of wonder in
his eyes.
Joan Bright went up to the grey
house on the hill with the two Mid
thornes. In the dim old library she
abruptly faced Eric, holding out her
hands to him. There were tears of ut
ter JOY and gladness in her eyes.
Eric" she said softly, II truly be-
lieve / am the only n who has not
changed. l am still just what l was
n the beginning"
He lifted her hands to his lips. Love
does not change" he said, a deep thrill
in his voice. ut goes on just the same
until it is killed, but it does not change
while it is alive. Love is life, that is
the secret of it. All. it is good to be
alive, after all. Yesterday l could have
died. Today I shudder at the thought
of it. l love today because you are the
very heart of 1T, you are the life Of 1t.
1t throbs with you, Joan darling. To-
day l love life because l o you"
And because l love you," h added.
Mary was a silent, enchanted listen
er. Her eyes glowed with the deep.
mysterious light, her lips moved with
their lips.
She waited until he look Joan in his
arms. Then she stole quietly from the
room. They did not hear. they did not
see. They had forgotten her. She went
upstairs and took up the portrait of a
man from her dressing table. She
kissed it and held it tight to her breast,
and was no longer lonely.
At last Joan remembered. With a
quick start of confusion she released
herself from Eric's arms, and turned
a burning face, expecting to meet the
smile of the girl who had come into
the library with them.
"Oh, 1 wonder she began, after a.
searching glance about the room which
revealed no living witness to the
ancient encounter.
She Strengthened her hat. What a
dear, dear girl she isl"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17

dragging sensation across my loins,
difficulty in collecting my thoughts
and was troubled with short
ness Of breath. Dodds Kidney Pills
have cured me of these complaints.
You are at liberty to publish this let.
ter for the benefit of any sufferer who
doubts the merit of podds Kidney
Pills"
oodds Kidney Pills. SOC. per box at
your dealer or oodds Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Dodds Dyspepsia Tab.
let's for Indigestion have been proved
Soc. per box.-Adv.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
REAL SKIN COMFORT
Follows Use Of cuticura Soap and
Ointment. Trial Free.

BY bathing and amounting these fra
grant supercreamy emollients impart
to tender, sensitive or irritated, itch
ing skins a feeling of intense skin
comfort difficult for one to realize who
has never used them for like purposes.
Cultivate an acquaintance with them.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard. Cuticura. Dept. Ky.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
Something Like rhrtft.

SOTUeenJUO euNo tUVttSs
They were a very saving old couple
and as a result they had a beautifully
furnished house.
One day the old lady missed her hus-
band.
Joseph, where are you?" she called
out.
I'm resting in the parlor." came the
reply.
What, on the sofy?" cried the old
lady, Mortified.
mo, on the floor"
ION that grand carpet!" came n
tones of anguish.
No; I've rolled it up"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
GERMAN PROMISES AND
GERMAN PERFORMANCES

V -
Arnold Bennett in the Saturday Evening
Post.
The deep human instinct which attaches
men n women to Q particular spot OF
the earth's surface 10 80 powerful that al
most certainly the second incarnation Of
sYpres will be initiated; but that 1t will
be carried very far toward completion
seems to me to be somewhat doubtful.
To my mind b new Ypres can not be
ruins Of the old: and the city. U re-
main for many generations-if not for.
ever-a .ghastly sign and illustration OF
what cupidtty and stupidity and vanity
can compass together when physical vio-
lence 10 their instrument.
the war. 10 plain. It will instantly become
a Of the show places Of the world. Ho-
tells will appear out Of the ground: guides
and t0uts viii pullulate at the railway
station: tho tour OF the ruins win be
mapped out. and the tourists and globe
t%rotters Of b whole planet will follow
that tour In patches. like staring sheep.
Much money VIII be massed by q few per-
sons out Of the exhibition Of misfortune
and woe. A sinister fate for q commune
Nevertheless the thing must come to
pAao: and 1t 10 well that It should come to
Epess. The greater the number OF people
the hope ct progree for mankind.
If the facade Of h Cloth Hall can be
11ved, some such inscription ~ the fol-
lowing ought to be inctsed along the
s:s6sr July III Il. isi4. the German minister a
sursnce that Germany had no inssntion
OF violating the. neutrality OF Belgium.
-Four days later the German army Invade
Belgium. Look r0unds
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
CHAPTER XIII.
H CUP IS FULL.

Ok0O4 III 0G&S SoA AAA9 OeS
q warm spring afternoon q fortnight
after the trial of Eric Midthorne. There
had been six funerals at the Seanan's
home during h past two days, n
.Jabez vas reflective. Something GER
tainly was wrong at headquarters. He
could not understand why the grim
reaper had been allowed such privi-
leges. Gross neglect on somebody's
part; that was quite clear. Six in two
days! Why. said he to himself, it must
have been downright criminal care
lessness on the part of the COMPOUNDED
ships surgeon, letting able bodied:
healthy people die j k that. Not OF
them was a day over Is, he calculated
not a single one Of them. There had
been no epidemic that he was aware of
no cholera, no small pox, no any
thing that you could put your finger
on. Then. what the dickens did they
mean down there. letting people die be-
investigation, a very rigid one. said
Jabez firmly. Some to think Of it. Jack
BeasOn, bO'S'n, was nigh onto 80, but
he was as spry as a rabbit the las
time he came up to the gate. What
business had he to be dying?
Somehow. without really giving q
thought to 1t, the ancient gate keeper
sought put the only spot where the
sunshine struck brightly through the
tree tops, and there he placed his stool.
It occurred to him that the warn sun
was unusually grateful to his bones.
No doubt. 1t was the gloom Of those
six funerals that had got into his ar
row, but there was no getting around
the fact that the sunshine had q most
pleasing effect.
The SUMS rays struck the orner Of
the cottage whore h rain barrel stood.
So It wa there that he put his stool.
With rare inconsistency he leaned his
back against the. damp slaves Of the
barrel, and smoked his pipe in blissful
contempt Of the rheumatism and other
ills that lay behind him. Sunshine! No
one ever came to grief by getting too
much sunshine; that IL. Is didn't
overdo Il. The days seemed shorter
Jabes. You could set up At sunrise.
attend { . few things here and there.
and the first thing Y0u knew the sun
vas setting. And tho nights. too.
eeemed shorter Of late. Better get what
little sunshine there VA. said he.
49, something radically wrong some-
where. He rat mp suddenly. confronted
by an unCanny question: would there
~ more funerals on the morxoW3
The squirrels SfrlSeod about him ~
noticed. They aatsup on their toals and
w n -, ~ .nnk .dm1zaSss pe.tss ss i aes aan3
OR hemild spitA6tsv ithswhieh a
ButShe puf6sd ~ ~ his cola pipe, and
N tlSou6htsNe far away.
aS@ASSfEong xoeoo called out = ereetine
n,. Hs .xCks srSn ! n,s 2
movod aW1ys1rom the rain barrel and
e1eamed WaEMaaeninst the cottageWa
= do~1onspace1 ~ thoslo1t
Four young people Mors etandtng D.
torse him: 70 fub6sd. his1eyssb lineed
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17

refreshing. l felt
heavy and sleepy
after meals, was
always nervous
and tired. had a
bitter taste in my
mouth, was dizzy,
h a d fl g
specks before my
eyes, was always
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
Making Hubby Happy.

George, dear, you remember Just q
few weeks before we were married you
said that anything that you could do
to make me happy, would make you
very, very happy?"
YES, darling. What is it,"
George, l really must have another
new gown. I hope you won't deny
yourself that happiness"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
Wanted His RIGHT.

The Sergeant-Look here, before
you're served out with your uniform
you'd better hip down to the wash
houses and get a bath.
The Recruit-Wot? come ere to
be a soldier-not a bloomin' mermaid!
London Opinion.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
a GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Mr.. F. c. Case of Welcome Lake.
"a, writes: Il suffered with Back.
.che and Kidney Trouble. My head
ached, my sleep was broken and UNI
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
Used Whenever Quinine is Needed
Does Not Affect the Head

Because Of It's tonic and laxative enect FAX.
ALIVE BROMO QUININE will be found better
than ordinary Quinine for any purpose for
which Quinine is used. Does not cause ner.
v.ousness nor ringing in head. Remember there
tive Bromo Quinine. Look for signature Of
E. w. Grove. 25c.-Adv.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17
But few men work overtime in an
effort to make their wives happy.

To keep clean and healthy take DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver. bowels and stomach.-Adv.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17

It is not until he begins to peddle
horseradish from door to door that
a man is willing to acknowledge that
he is a financial failure.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17

DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
ago. They regulate liver and bowels.-Adv.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17

(Continued next weekly
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-17

Few people have cause to regret the
letter they didn't write.