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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

people and have the biggest picnic
of the season at Jordan Spring,
May 21st.
If you want to see diversified
farming, visit the Central Settle
ment. A little Of everything can be
seen growing, the latest being
tobacco. Mr.. Winslow, tobacco
culturist of the Central railroad, was
here Monday distributing plants
and giving instructions how to grow
the weed.
Wonder why people are so anxious
to give the farmers free cotton seed.
Have received 6 bags to-date, one
coming in from Richmond only a
few days. Wish they had sent corn,
peas, peanuts. ehufas and such
things as that, as am not much on
cotton. VITO
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06
COL. VIM. P. BULLARO WRITES
STRONG ARTICLE FAvORING BONDS
1T Is Not Wise To Be Left Behind IN
Questions Of Civilization and Progress"
He Says,

| deem it unwise to try to hold up
the Commissioners before hand.
! can not imagine any public Off
cial's bargaining with any interest
whatever to expend public funds in
return for votes. It would be
something like this: When we
become possessed Of available funds
then you come before us and in
proper and orderly manner present
your just and reasonable demands,
and we will give it all the consid-
Grafton it deserves consistent with
the public interest; and without
the slightest prejudice against
Yon;" and as you would have JUS
ktice and right on your side You
should not fail.
There was State election not so
long ago and a friend came to me
soliciting my support for certain
candidate and as | did not quite
see it that way he said in effect:
Why, the very people who threw
you down when you were once a
candidate are the ones who are
now boosting for the candidate
whom youfavor. ! replied in ef-
fleet that such considerations did
not influence my mind in the
slightest; that if | had to wait to
make up my mind on any
public question until | knew who
was liDed up on either side then !
would be allowing myself to be
swayed by passion and prejudice
and not by reason and good judi
gment, AMI hence would not be a
good citizen fit to exercise the right
of the elective franchise. The poet
expressed profound truth when he
wrote
First to thine own self BE true
And then it follows as the night
the day
Thou canst not be false to any man.
Now it must heapparent to these
good and level headed people Of the
Central Settlement that this bond
issue is in the interest of all the
people of this county; and as their
friend l would urge them to vote
solidly for the bonds; and when
the funds are available then go in
force before the Commissioners
with carefully prepared and reason
able demands, Take along, if need
be, everym&n, woman and child in
the district; also all the interested
4
people in Red Bone. Go in force
and camp in that room where the
Commissioner are in session. !
am not joking. ! am very much
in earnest. Tell the Commissioners
that you are citizens and tax pay
ers of Lee County and voted solidly
for those bonds and now you want
Just recognition without prejudice;
and having justice, right and reason
on your side you should prevail. If
! can serve you in this behalf then
call upon me.
Yours truly,
VIM. P. BULLARD
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

The merchants who advertise in
The journal want the people of
Lee county to do their trading in
Leesburg. They have the goods
and are not ashamed to ask you to
come see for yourself.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06
INTERESTING ITEMS
FROM CENTRAL
Badly In Need Of Rain. Big Pic
MIC There Soon.

corn and other seed planted will
come up for lack Of moisture, and
small grain crops are badly hurt.
Mr.. English has received his
gasoline engine and is erecting a
water works system at his home. 4
Joe Avery is seen down this way
pretty often Of late. He is trying to
hook some Of the fnny tribe in the
Muckalee.
A dry April and wet May will
make the farmers have big fight
with General Green.
have just been informed that
the big picnic down on the Mucka-
lee will be held on Friday, May 81.
Your correspondent has been prom
Used chicken pie cooked in butter,
and a big hunk Of barbecued pig,
Just because he started up this pic
mic talk in the Journal. Come
down, Mr.. Editor, and ! will see
that you get plenty OF matter" to
fill up your inside"
Say, if we are going to have a fair
this fall it is getting high time to do
something about getting out a
premium list, and place an order
for the illustrated ad matter.
It looks like the dodgasted snakes
are going to take us down here. 3
or A are killed every day, often right
around the homes of the people.
Oats have come out wonderfully
since the rain came last Tuesday,
the first in A weeks. The crop is
not as good as it would have been
had the rain arrived several weeks
ago.
Mr.. Mcdonald and family Of Red
Bone spent the day with the family
OIL E Veal last week.
Messrs. English, Carter, Camp
bell, Virgins and Christopher were
attending to business in Albany Sa-
turday.
Just as | predicted, too much
truck planted, and it brings very
little in the Albany market.
1t is high time to begin to figure
on that basket Of good things for the
picnic at Jordan Springs, May 81.
The farmer who uses negro labor
cannot make any calculations on
what he is going to do on Monday,
as they rarely show up.
1t is said that there is a lot Of
gambling among negroes going on
around Forester. Officers of the
law should get busy.
There will be meeting at the
school house next Sunday at $3.50
Pm to arrange for the Sunday school
picnic.
Several petitions are being cir
cuIated ameng the people asking the
county TO build bridge and open
the old Graves mill road.
Century is to be an Express sta
ton. Arrangements have been per-
fected by truck growers Of the Cen
trail Settlement tothat effect.
Every county In Cne state needS q
rural police, but Lee and other
counties in the black belt need it
badly. This law would have been
on the statute book years ago if
Georgia legislators had as much
sense as goat.
The county commissioners are
specially invited to attend the pic
mic on May 21st and meet the peo-
pie who want the road and bridge
across the creek.
The Red Bone school and the
Central school will join in with the
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25
Self Denial Is Rare.

THE average human being does not
want to live hygienically!" exclaims
the editor of Clinical Medicine. And
he backs up his assertion with the fol
lowing:
Once we published an account Of a
case Of diabetes we had treated with
some success. A distinguished retired
army officer read it and as a conse-
Quence called upon us. We began to
explain the regimen necessary when
he interrupted to say: I don't want
any diet. | want you to give me
treatment that will allow me to eat
anything | want. in any quantityr We
resigned.
Mr. Man doesn't want to stop drink
ing or smoking or working or playing
too much. What he wants of us Is the
means to keep on as he has been liv-
ing. Madam does not relish our advice
to cut down her bridge parties loosen
her corsets and quit gorging. She
wants medicine to restore her youth.
take off her fat and enable her to keep
it up until she has had enough.
"They all come to us, not for reform,
but to be enabled to go on SHINING"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25
DON'TS FOR PRUNING.


Don't wear hobnailed boots when
pruning. In climbing about the trees
they readily injure the bark.
Don't leave your pruning to the hired
man. The more you understand your
trees the better you will prune them.
Don't use dull tools. They make
the work harder and produce rough
wounds.
Don't start all main limbs at the
same height. Weak crotches are the
result
Don't leave stubs in cutting off limbs.
They rot back and cause decay In the
trunk.
Don't let suckers grow. They are
worthless and draw upon the trees
food supply.
Don't leave the larger wounds bare.
Apply good white lead paint or cover
with grating wax.
Don't slit the bark, bore holes or
drive nails into the tree. They only
offer places of entry for fungous dis
eases.
Don't use a Ratchet for removing
suckers. The Ratchet is not tool for
scientific pruning.
Don't handle the tree roughly. 1t Is
delicate structure and will amply re-
pay careful MISUNDERSTANDING Sta
ton.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25

were given 2 grant to dam the same
river in Barron county in Town 3d.
II, the legal head Of the dam to be
limited to eleven feet.
Back in 1854, Adm Randall, the
dedication OF whose monument in
Eau Claire recently, as an act Of COM
memOrative generosity on the part OF
%. H. Ingram, has recalled his check
cred and interesting career, received
authority to put in a dam in Town
3O-7. The Eagle rails Dam Compa-
ny, in 1867, was siyen authority to
interrupt the flow Of the river in
Town 28-9. The same year John 0.
French received the right to erect
dams at several points on the river in
Town 30-7. In 1891, d. r. Moore re-
ceiyed his grant for a dam in Town
1910. The same year Stanton Bar
nard was given grant for site in
Town 28-8, and in 1891 VIM. F. Bar
ley, Henry w. Early, John Hummer
and Joseph Eisenach received author
ity to erect dams within the limits of
the cities in Eau Claire and Chippe-
wa counties. In 1899 Angus J. Nc
Giloray was a grantee of a right to
dam the river in Town 30-7 in Chip
pewa county
Other names which appear in the
records are these Ct Daniel R. Davi-
son, VIM. L. Davis, on the Chippewa;
The Cornell Land & Power Company
at Brunette Falls; John w. Thomas,
e. II. Harmon, at site in Sawyer
county; John Arp.n Lumber Compa-
ny, in the same county; James Brach-
lin and T. r. Steas On the Vermillion,
in Barron county; william A. Rust,
on the E2u Cla:-a Jacob Bye, on
the Eau Claire IN Clark county;
George Clayton and Charles E. Parks
in Marathon county
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25

upstream and done some logging in
the pine forests as early as 1892 Be
this as it may, the fact remains that
he put in, with H. l.. Dousman, an
agent of the company, the first saw
mill erected on the Chippewa, and
that it was actuated by water
wheel.
This was before the days even Of
territorial requirements for legisla-
tive authority The plant was oper-
ated fer four or five years, made q
loss, was sold in 1914 to Jacob W.
Bass and benjamin. Brunson, and lat
er became the scene of the earliest
endeavOrs in the valley, of the late
IT. s, Allen, Of Chippewa Falls. The
whole construction went out in a
3ood on June 5, 1916.
In 1913 a Mr.. Bloomer, who was
merchant at Galena, ILL.,, sent up q
gang Of men to put in a mill on Dun
can Creek, at Eagle Rapids. He failed
to get far on with his work and be-
fore the year was over sold his begin
nings to Mr.. Allen.
The legislative history Of the dam
sites on the rivers discloses the
names of many a pioneer adventurer
whose life story and work are a part
of the history of the valley, and will
be touched upon more particularly
later on in this series Taking the
Red Cedar, for instance, outside the
operations of the Knapp. Stout & Co.
group Of operators, there are records
of dam authorized in 1851 in Dunn
County, in Town 27-13, the grantee
of this permission being Burridge b.
Downs. In 1903 Daniel G. and Han
nah c. Baldwin were given the right
to construct a dam in Dunn County,
in Town 29-11. In 1905 SeWall A.
Paterson, P. NJ Palmer and others
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25
JEAN BRUNETT PUT IN THE
FIRST ONE AT CHIPPEWA
CITY BACK IN THE sos.
KNAPP, STOUT & COMPANY
WERE GIVE. MANY RIGHTS
The Early Legislative Grants, Which
Are the Basis of the Titles to
the Powers Of the Chippe-
wa River Today.

The commercial development Of
the water powers on the Chippewa
River began, in a crude way, over SO
years ago That was coincident with
the beginning of the lumber indus
try in the valley, before the days Of
that the fertile prairies would be-
come the seats of wonderfully pro-
ductiVe farms, even in the days when
whole ''forties" of the six hundred
year old Wisconsin forest could
be bought for less money than is to-
day required to purchase an acre of
farming land on the Eagle Prairie
between Chippewa Falls and
Boomer.
The pioneer was John H. Knapp,
that wonderfully resourceful lumber
man whom Captain William Wilson,
of Fort Madison, Iowa, attracted to
the possibilities of the Wisconsin for
ests nearly 70 years ago. He and
his associate put in mill on Wilson
Creek, near Menomonie, which in
1850 seems to have been an import
ant mechanical establishment. At
any rate it had, when Andrew Tain
ter joined them in 1850, an up-and-
down saw operated by f1utter wheel,
and the same year they put in a dam
and installed what was the wonder
OF those days as a piece of motive
power in the Chippewa Valley, an
iron water wheel
Later came the developments of
the water power of the river, some
for the moving of machinery, most
of them for the storage of water
power for the floating of logs down
river from the scenes of the log
& lg operations near the river and
creek banks to the mill sites where
they were cut into square timber or
lumber. The laws required the con-
sent of the legislature for the estab-
lishment Of dams on. the river. and
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25

The names of the original dam build
,ers on the Flambeau include those OF
o. D. VanDusen and Josiah Arnold, fol
a site in Rice County, Angus McG1t
vray. for one in Chippewa; A. e. Ped
erson for one in Rusk County, and
Chas. A. Gesell for one in Iron county
MANY minor powers were granted OF
squatted on by other people from time
to time.
These grants, where they were moi
made purely for log driving purposes
were rights which attached to the pro
perties where they were located anc
they form the legal basis of many OF
the water power rights on the r1vel
today True they were not so extern
sive originally that they provide fol
the greater falls that are now neces
sary for the development of greai
quantities of electric energy, but they
as a rule, provided for the control O..
the mill sites and the additional heac
is usually acquired by the purchase OF
the comparatively worthless lands thai
fringe the river banks, and which ars
flooded by the raising of the head.
With this article we show two i'm
portant paper making industries based
upon the water powers Of the Chippe
wa River. In a later article some fur
Their Developments of the interesting
early history of the industry will b.
given.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25

it is matter of legislative history
Of Wisconsin that more such pTiyi-
Ieges were sought and obtained by
John H. Knapp, and his associates,
Andrew fainter, William Wilson,
Thomas B. Wilson, II. S. Stout and
J. Fl. Douglass, either singly or col
Iectively than by any other group of
industrial adventures.
Thus we find that as early as 1855
John H. Knapp and his associates
took out a charter on the Red Cedar,
or Menominie, River in Town 26
North, Range 10 West, in Dunn
county. In 1868 they took out an
other permit on the same river and
in the same county for a site CT
Town 28-13.
In 1866 they got permission to
build another dam on the Cedar in
Town 1929. In 1880 they were
given a grant for log driving pur-
poses only in Town 28-13. In 1882
they built dam in Town 37-10, this
being also limited in its use for log
right granted them in the same year
in Town 1910. In 1889 they erect
ed dam by legislative permission on
the Red Cedar in Town 28-12.
These powers on the Red Cedar
were supplemented by many others.
On the Chetek they acquired rights
in Barron county in 1865, this time
for a dam in Town 1910. In 1874
they had gained rights on Lightning
Creek, in Barron county on Town
24-14 and in 1879 they extended
their operations so as to require still
another dam on Bear Creek in Bar
ron County, in Town 36-11. In the
same year they received a grant for
O. dam in Ten-miIe Creek in Chippewa
county, in Towns 1914 and 34-14,
this again being limited to log driv-
ing. In 1880 they were given au-
thority to construct a dam on Hay
River, in Barron county, on section
34-14, this latter being adjacent to
the one on Ten-mile Greek. In 1885
they covered HemlOck Creek, in
Chippewa county, with dam in
Town 500, and in the same year put
in another on Miller Greek in Bar
ron county in Town 1918. That year
also witnessed the building of dam
by the same interests on Little Bear
Creek in Town 36-12.
Numerous as were the Knapp,
Stout & Co. dam constructions, they
were not nearly all that we're built,
for these primitive logging purposes
on the Chippewa and it's tributaries.
Some time about 1887 Jean Bru-
nette had come on the river The
American Fur Company had sent this
pioneer Frenchman, IN company with
some others, to build a saw mill at
Chippewa City, five miles above the
Falls, under rights obtained from the
Indians under the Treaty of Prairie
Du CHEN in 1925. Jeaon Brunette
claimed that this was not his first ad-
venture on the river, as he had been
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25
Better Still.

But" said Il student of one college
to friend who was attending a rival
institution, your college never turns
out gentlemen"
"Of course it doesn't" replied the
other ut allows gentlemen to go right
on and graduate. Providence Trib-
une
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25
grape Rot,

Just before the blooms appear on the
grapes the plants should receive an ap-
plication Of bordeaux mixture. The
greatest pest of the grapes in most Sec
lions Is the rot, and unless the bor-
deaux mixture is applied regularly ev-
cry three weeks the fruit Is sure to
rot and spoil.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25
Natural Enouuh,

Grubbs-Why does young Litebrane
insist ON wearing his hair pompadour?
Stubbs-He can't help it. His hair,
following the rule that prevails
throughout nature, abhors a vacuum
and seeks constantly to make it's es-
cape.-Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25
Makinq Him Wise,

Jones-Do you know, fancy have
quite literary bent. Friend-All right,
my boy. Keep on and you'n be worse
than bent; you'll be broke.-Stray Sto-
ries.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25

OVERLAND PROSPERITY
To All Overland Dealers:

Many thanks if making ouriv miserable.
We thank
tempted to cut out the telephone
no" none of have much time
additional
We have shipped of
ears up to the middle of September last
We received to
to
last
Right week.
regular shipment
roy Our present demand would fifty
hardly dealer who hasn't within
carloads delivery
ers
The whole is
ing the world by of
competitive Dealers
mas secured dealers
has secured orders quantities
O hot
with demands
IT, OF
the wonderful Overland
right
cleanup this has to hameit he
hasn't proper appreciation of the wonderful opportunity
In Model
alned-even improved
automobile
buying under dollars
couldn't
getting all the
Iyeng
wonderful value all the
back there in Toledo factory that allowing nothing
increasing production
Northwest Wisconsin Overland CO.
j.. A. TAYLOR
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25
Great Triumnh.

''Well, how did you come through
that afternoon tea?"
Game through all right. Didn't spill
anything on anybody but myself
Kansas City Journal.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-25

Minds are not conquered by arms, but
by love and generosity.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-02-20
LIkes Sunday Dinners.

Robert had always visited his aunt
on Sunday. One week day she asked
him to stay for dinner. She prepared
Just what she had-no dessert. When
the meal was finished the aunt noticed
Robert was expecting something.
Soon he looked up and said: Aunt
Emmy, you have lots better dinners
than this, don't you? Guess III come
on Sunday next time.
News.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-02-20

forever. Me an Jim, the two elfess,
we're pretty even matched, an it was
more a game of give an take.
But Martin was a soft an gentle
kind. an YOU beat him at pretty near
everything. Finally you beat him out
for the woman he loved as only the
tender heart of him could love, an
that sent him wandering on his lonely
quest for peace.
whether twas peace or strength
he found, 1 don't know, an now | new
er will know: but he was coming
home. You knew he was coming, an
whether you feared an hated him III
never knox- that either. but ION met
Evening journal., 1915-10-14
SMYRNIANS have MANY
OCTOBER VISITORS
speeial to THF FNENING IOIIRNAI.

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
SMYRNA, Del. Oct. 14.-Mrs. L.
Irving Handy. Jr.. of Haskell, n. j..
was the guest last week OF her father
ln-law and mother-in-law here. the
Hon. L. Irving Handy and Mrs. Handy.
Mrs. Leland Harmonson has returned
home from a months visit to friends
at Atlantic City.-Mrs. John II. Hof
fecker was the guest over Sunday OF
Mrs. Aubrey Vandever in Whining.
ton.-Mrs. Alice Read and Mrs.
Charles H. LeFevre were guests over
Sunday of Philadelphia relatives
Cummins e. Speakman of Pennsgrove,
n. j., spent Sunday here.-Mr. and
Mrs William FAIRIES are visiting their
son. Gilbert FAIRIES. at Chester
Heights, Pa.-John Hall of Delaware
College and two classmates, Irving
Reynolds Of New Jersey and Frank
Tyson Of Canton, Ohio. spent Sunday
with Mr. Halls parents here, Mr.. and
Mrs Hervey p. Hall-Mrs. Julia Hy-
att. Mrs. Marion Mclaughlin Mrs.
Joseph Carter and Miss Julia Price Of
near Smyrna, took an automobile trip
to Elkton on Monday. Mrs Hyatt and
Miss Price remained there for a weeks
visit and the other members OF the
party returned to Smyrna, on Mon
day evening-Mrs. Horace Van Dyke
and daughter, Edna. are visiting Mrs.
Van Dykes parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles S. Price, near Middletown,
Del.-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jefferson
we're recent Philadelphia visitors
Miss Bertha Smithers spent last Sat
urday with her niece, Miss Katharine
Price at the Women's College. Balti-
more.-Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pretty