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The Prescott daily news., 1915-10-14
Awarding the Prizes.

In awarding the prizes a score card of four points will be used and the value of these points will be in the percentage designated blow.
 Best net return pr acre-33 l-3 per cent.
 Most complete and best kept record. -25 per cent
 Largest yield per acre.-25 per cent
 Nature of land Bottom or hilN.- Is 2-3 per cent.
 Owing to differences in prices of cantaloupes in different cars and diff ferent markets, and to differences in freight charges, all ol the constants will be allowed a uniform price for their canteloupes in casting up the net returns per acre. The same will be dopa in tho caSp of corn
The Prescott daily news., 1915-10-14
Prizes.

Four individual prizes are offered and these prizes will be contested for by all the members of all of the clubs. They are as follows:-
 First prize-$40.00 cash and a gold medal.
 Second prize.-S25.00 cash and sil- yer medal
 Third prize.-$15.00 in cash
 Fourth prize.-$10.00 in cash.
 A club prize in the form of hand some silver loving cup is also offered. This will be awarded to the club whose members make the highest average by the score card.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-10-14

ly rivalry in the production of larger and more profitable crops.
 Membership.
 Any boy not under twelve or over twenty years of age who will agree to abide by the rules and to do his best to make a creditable showinp will be eligible to enter the contest Tn case the county has a contest and tho boy desires to enter that contest also he will be permitted to do so.
 Crops to be Planted.
 Each boy in the contest will have one acre of land which he must divide into two equal parts, one part to be planted to corn and the other to canta loupes. See for both corn and can teloupes, as we'll as fertilizer-the best of all that are obtainable-will be furnished by the Prescott and Northwestern Railway Company, but each boy will be expected at the end of the crop season to repay the company the actual cost of the seed and ferti- lizer.
 Rules.
 1.-The corn and cantaloupes must in every case be planted on adjoining pieces of groudn, unless, for urgent reasons, express permission is given for them to be planted separatly.
 2.-Each contestant will be expected to do as much of his work himself as he can, and any work that is given or hired must be strictly and accurately accounted for.
 3.-Each contestant must keep a full and accurate record of all labor bestowed upon, and all expenditures in connection with, this contest acre. including cost of seed fertilizer, pre- paration of land, planting, fertilizing. cultivating and gathering and mar keting or housing of the crops.
 4.-Each contestants report on his yield and the cost of his crop must be in the form of a sworn statement. The Prescott and Northwestern Rail way Company reserves the right to have the yield of each crop measured by disinterested parties, if that should seem necessary.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-10-14

r,t.red as second class mail matter
The Denver star., 1915-01-16
Races Must Eat in
Separate Places.

Birmingham. Ala.,-Res-
taurants and lunch counters
which have heretofore catered
to both white and colored
trade will be compelled by a
new law to either cater to
one race solely, build parti :
tions in their places Of busi- :
ness, or go out of business en-
tirely.
Judge A. O. Lane, city COM
missioner in charge Of the
police department announced
that the owners of these
places would be given week
or two in which to conform to
the law. fie thinks the law
will be obeyed without re-
sistance.-Age.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16
Commits Crime
Then Accuses Negro.

Because he needed money
to pay a furniture bill was the
reason given in the police to-
day by William R. Stone, jan :
itor of the public library at
Takoma Park, as to why he
stole $I4SI from a drawer in
the place early yesterday
morning and then inform
ed the police that a colored
man had been in the library.
Detective Webber of the
tenth precinct told Judge
Mullowny that Stone admit :
ted to him that he took the
money, and also stated he had
cut his arm with a pen knife
so that his story of an en-
counter with coiored man
would seem plausible. Re-
becca p. Warner said the
money which was taken from
the drawer belonged to her.
Stone admitted the charge
and then said he needed the
money to pay a furniture bill
and took it for that reason.
The court imposed a sentence
Of six months in iail.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16
Negro Shriners of
Georgia Face Fight

Atlanta, Ga..-rhe hearing
of the injunction proceedings
instituted by white Mystic
Shriners against colored Mys-
tic Shriners is scheduled tobe
heard in the Superior Court
next Wednesday. AS the
validity of various branches
of colored Masons is to be
attacked, it is likely that the
case will finally reach the
United States Supreme Court.
Age.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

The University Museum of
the University of Pennsyl- :
vania has added a large col =
lection of curios from Cen
trail Africa; 1t includes war
weapons. ornaments for men
and women, baskets and
cloth. According to the
Philadelphia Tribune, the col
lection is very unique and
shows that these primitives
were skillful workers and had
considerable sense of beauty"
The Denver star., 1915-01-16
The Negro Insurance Ali

The Negro Insurance Ali
ance, an organization COM
posed of the colored insur.
ance agents of St. Louis, re.
Gently held a smoker and ban
quet. Among the subjects
discussed we're: 81 he Re
lation of the Agent TO the
Client" Future of the
Negro in the Insurance
Field" Payment of Claims
and How to Hold Your Bus
mess"
The Denver star., 1915-01-16
THE BLACK MANS BLOOD

The reading public and the
courts are confronted with a
wearied hasco in Detroit.
Mich, over the question of
the black race. 1t appears
that one Arthur Little, a
wealthy white man, was mar
ried year ago to Alma Wade
who is described as a golden
haired blonde, with beautiful
gray eyes, but who he now de-
nounces for having, as he says
Afro American blood in her
veins, and on that ground he
is suing tor a divorce.
Mr.. Little, perhaps, may
not know that to hunt up the
ancestry of an Individual is a
dangerous thing and full of
unexpected surprises, and
that, if cheerfully searched,
he might not only find his
convict forefathrrs and wan
ton foremothers, but farther
back he would surely find. the
rudest of barbarians, and that
he who claims to be men,
Der of the Anglo-Saxon race,
has only to thank God for the
law of changes which has
made it possible for him to
improve upon that type.
which vas then mixture of
Celts, Goths, Danes and Sax
ons; hence there is no race
superiority in existence and
if we ask what is white, we
can only say that it is a term
used to designate the absence
of color and that is all, and no
sign of race purity so far as
blood is concerned. Mrs.
Little, we hope, will be grant
ed an absolute divorce from
her husband as it is easily
seen that he is not a fit man
for any good woman to be
tied to, regardless of color
Advocate.
! The Great Cosmopolitan
Negro race is so good and so
generous, as to sincerely
wish Mrs. Little success in
proving herself white and
it will aid her if necessary.
The Negro race does not
want any person, classed as
Negroes, who are not. and
who prefer to be something
else,
The magic word Negro" will
yet be the proudest name in
the English and American
language.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16
Interesting News
Concerning the Race.
Sensalese Braves Suffer.

London,-Troops from the
tropics are suffering intensely
from the cold in their posi-
tions in the Belgian trenches.
This is especially true of the
Sengalese. In many cases
their toes or feet have been
frozen so badly that amputa-
ton has been necessary.
"In one hospital l saw Sen
galese operated on without the
use of an anesthetic," said
Mrs. Floyd. "Iheir toes had
been frozen and Immediately
amputation was necessary.
"All the toes of one Sen
galese we're removed without
even a groan from him. Sud
denly he leaped from the op-
Grating table and began
searching for something. The
doctors and nurses could not
discover what he wanted. de
found pipe, filed it. and lay
down, smoking to deaden the
pain. Then he began to
pray in a low voice. Present.
ly a nurse offered to bring
luncheon to him. but he re-
fused. He walked. to the
convaiescent's table. where he
ate with his friends.
The courage and herolsm
of these men is simply beyond
belief. They never com :
plain. They always urge the
nurses to attend to others :.
But their sufferings in the
cold climate are pitiful."
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

The League Enterprise, OF
Kansas City, Missouri, is do
ing splendid local and mail
order business this season.
They are "Disseminators OF
Negro Art and Literature
and have extensively adver-
tised their goods as suitable
and appropriate Christmas
gifts.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

The Colored Graduate
Nurses of indianapolis, In
diana. have organized and
perfected a system of city
service by which they supply
nurses on All hours notice.
Mrs. E. P. Sykes is president
of the association:
The Denver star., 1915-01-16
1874 LYNCH|NG RECORD.

Fifty-two persons were
lynched, last year, in this
country, of whom forty-nine
three women, one only seven
teen years old we're Afro
Americans. Of the total, "a
per cent of the lynchings
were in the two states of Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana. This
pre-eminence is an old story
for Mississippi, but a new one
for Louisiana In 1918 the
former state was guilty of
more of these offenses than
the other, while Georgia
came second. Of the fifty
two lawless executions re
corded, only seven-two
white and five colored-were
of men accused of crimes
against womankind. The
1914 record shows an increas-
ing tendency to lynch for any
cause, however trivial, and also
to disregard sex. In palmer
words, the old pretense upon
which lynchers formerly tried
to excuse their heathenish
activity has been largely alb
andoned by the new genera
ton of lyncher-murders.
These latter day criminals are
franker; their madness ig-
nores logic and everything
else. They slay because they
like to slay, and too, in the
face of the fact that not one
of the Afro-Americanslyn lynch
murdered ever receives any
thing that even savors of a
trial, to say nothing of fair
one, something practically
unknown in the Southland.
North Dakota and Oregon,
each,with one to its discredit,
we're the only Northern states
in the total of fifteen that dis
graced the country with lynch
murders last year. Some
years ago, there were only so
or 81 lynch murders in a sin
gle year. So last years lynch
record and that for 1913,
which was the same, as to the
total number, came very near
being the minimum record to
date.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

Mr.. Hugh 7. Lowery, form
erly steward and chef of the
Pasadena Country Club. has
opened a catering establish =
menr in Los Angeles. Cal.
He is reported to have in
stalled very fine equipment.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

fail should There absolutely necessity for such
legislation. " by strike million people, throwing them
the class of undesabes when there
sign of it that people, In
African hordes threaten Congress will have become
pased 1t is much important do things that make for
peace homepresen peace-as make effort thwart
future disturbance-more The present know The
future is uncertain. To build it the Of the
present will be certain calamity while the future purely
speculative.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

Bourne's Pharmacy, Of At :
lantic City, New Jersey, was
one OF the prize winners IN
the contest recently conduct
ed by the Welch Grape Juice
Company for the best window
display.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

According to the New Age
of Los Angeles, California.
Ellis Warren Of that city has
supervision over the hauling
and shipping department Of
c. Leonardt, contractor. The
fact that this firm has erected
most of the sky-scrapers in
Los Angeles, emphasizes the
Importance of Mr.. Warren's
position.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

The Clef Club of New
York City has donated S75.-
90 to charitable organizations
in Philadelphia.
The Denver star., 1915-01-16

Professor Edgar H. Web
ster, of Atlanta University, is
contributing a series of arti-
cles to the Savannah, Georgia.
Tribune.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
WISCONSIN LANDS
EXCEL IN VALUE
Writer, After Trip Through Other
States, Finds Conditions in Badger
State Unsurpassed.
BETTER THAN THE WEST"
Wisconsin Legislators Have Chance to
Show Fidelity of Purpose in
Making Laws.
BETTER THAN THE "WEST"

(By A. D. Campbell, Manager Wisconsin Ad-
yancement Association, in Milwaukee SentinelD
Congressman Reilly of this state has
been quoted as saying that the way
to learn to appreciate Wisconsin is to
travel through the west. Thiswa my
conclusion after trip Though the
west. But l would add to what Mr..
Reilly has said, that the way to get
into humor to appreciate Wisconsin is
to travel almost anywhere in the
United States. l recently made trip
through considerable portion Of ILL
nois, reputed to be one of the best
states in the union. l made this trip
by auto so that | could better see what
the conditions were. | came back with
a higher appreciation of our own state.
[ would recommend such a trip to
those who are inclined to discount our
opportunities.
Better Than Illinois.
The portion of Illinois through
which we passed is very similar to
much of Wisconsin. 1t was too late to
see the small grains in the fields, but
the farms were not as clean of foul
growth, the buildings were not as good
the livestock was not of as high grade
and the homes were not as well kept
as in similar districts in Wisconsin.
In this portion of Illinois farms cost
$500 to $3.50 per acre against 500 per
acre less in the best districts of Wis
consin. That 800 means an interest
charge of about S. per acpe per year.
1t is an item worth serious consider
alton.
Now, making further comparison
with Wisconsin, / believe that the far
mers of the portion of Illinois visited,
Notwithstanding it's $500 to $3.50 land,
were not making any more than the
farmers of upper Wisconsin, where
land can be bought and fully improved
at a cost Of $40 to $50 per acre. In
fact, am confident that the upper
Wisconsin farmer can secure more,
acre for acre, than the farmer of the
Illinois district in question. Here is a
difference in the interest charge on
the investment that in very few
years will pay for the land in upper
Wisconsin.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
Healthfulness and Livestock

From time to time the federal gov
eminent has published data showing
the loss of livestock from various
causes in the several states. Wiscon-
sin has always had high rank in the
tables. This state has always been
very free from loss of swine from
cholera. 1t is true that cholera has
attacked the hogs of the state and
caused heavy losses in limited locall-
ties-but this loss has been but frac-
ton of the loss in other states.
Laat year the feOt and mouth dis
ease got into the state, but this year
it was kept out completely although it
came nearly to the state line. And so
of the other animal diseases, we are
fortunate that they do not attack our
herds and fiocks. 1t is not necessary
to offer any reasons why this is so, 1t is
sufficient that it is the fact.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
Welcome Cold w Gather.

Those who are acquainted with the
GREAT benefits that come from the cold
of Wisconsin winters to subsequent
crops will welcome the freezing wealth
er of the winter that is now approach
ing
The effect of frost in loosenlng the
ground to great depth, opening it for
the entrance of water and air and
loosening it to provide larger field
for plant roots, accounts largely for
the difference between the large crops
OF the north and the small ones of the
south.
Welcome the winter, no matter how
cold ii is.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
1t Was Pretty Cold Last Winter,

To a great many people the above
words will mean little. To others in
Wisconsin they will have great
meaning. A man of national reputa-
ton as a farm specialist not long ago
said that the people of Wisconsin
should be thankful for their cold
winters.
Last winter Wisconsin fields froze
to more than the usual depth, the
ground was greatly Ioosened and took
in az immense amount of water. This
loosening of the soil also made room
for plantroots. A big crop followed
as big crops usually follow cold win
ter and deep freezing.
Let us hope that the ground will
freeze deeply again this winter.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
HOME cONVENIENCES.

A home convenience should save
steps, save strength or save time,
Many steps and much time and en-
ergy may be saved by having the work
table and sink of the proper height
and properly located. Provide high
stool on which to sit when working at
the table or sink SO that it will not be
necessary to stand while preparing
vegetables and other foods. Wood
tables, covered with enameled iron or
a composition top, will be more sani-
tarv and easier to keep clean. These
will serve the purpose of moulding
boards.
MANY steps are saved by having
shelves and hooks over the kitchen
table. and drawers and a flour bin in
the work table. Many utensils, as
we'll as sugar, spices, flour, and other
materials can then be kept within
reach when one is working at this
table. The stove should be near both
table and sink. Have some of the draw
ers tin lined and covered for holding
bread and crackers. 1t will then be
unnecessary to carry bread to the cell
lar and put in a boiler after each
meal For one working in large
farm kitchen, table or tray on rollers
will save many steps in getting uten-
sis or food from one part to another,
and getting food and dishes to and
from the dining room.
There are numerous small devices
which make the household cleaning
easier. A mop wringer which fastens
TO the mop pail saves time and strain;
the dust pan with a handle saves
STOPPING; the dustless buster prevents
scattering of dust from one piece of
furniture to another; the dustless mop
lightens the daily care of a floor; a
soap dish hung on the side of a pail
when cleaning saves the soap by not
having it soften in the water and pre-
vents the soap being laid where it
might cause white spot on furniture
or floor. A canton flannel bag, which
ties with string over the broom, is
convenient for wiping off walls and
ceilings.
The greatest aid in keeping the
house clean is the vacuum cleaner. 1t
may be used on the rugs, mattresses,
and upholstered furniture, CT it will
take up dust from the bare fioor.
While good arrangement and the
many small devices are necessary to
make for convenience in the laundry,
the greatest saving of strength comes
from the use of power machinery. II
power, such as water, gasoline engine,
or electricity, can be used, the hardest
task in the household is made easy.
An open floor drain connecting with
sewer pipe will carry off waste water
from tubs and washer.
paper pad and a pencil should
hang in the kitchen on which so write
when any supplies need ordering.
The fireless cooker will save fuel
and hours of watching food. 1t is es
pecially useful when the housewife is
obliged to be away from home part
of the day.
An expenditure to secure any device
which conserves the time, energy and
thought of the house worker is not
only economic bnt it is just recegni-
ton of the value to the home of the
happy, rested woman who then can
live with the family as well as for it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
First pub. Dec. 8, last Dec. 10, 1915

First pub. Dec 3, last Dec. 10, 1915.
Forest County, &C In just ;e's
Town of Wabeno. Court.
To Guido Stemper:
You are hereby notified that a sum-
mons and garnishee has been issued
against you, and your property garni-
sheed to satisfy the demand of Louis
Kommers, amounting to $41.84 and in
terest; DOW unless you appear before
Edward N. Hammes, a justice of the
peace in and for said county, at his
offine in said town of Wabeno, on the
fourteenth day of January, A D.,
1916, at nine o'clock in the forenoon,
judgment will be rendered against you,
and your property sold to pay the debt.
Dated this second day of December,
1910.
LOUIS KOMMERs,
Plaintiff
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
y OIIIN II IIOOI LIkg
Plaintiffs Attorney,
Crandon, Wisconsin.

First pub. Dec. 8, last Dec 10, 1915.
Town of WabenO. Court.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
Soil is Depleted.

In the Illinois district-on 200 mile
drive-we saw perhaps dozen fields
of alfalfa. In drive of chat distance
in the older portions of Wisconsin one
would have seen scores of fields of
this great forage plant. Everywhere
1T was the same old story-corn, oats
and wheat-that has depleted the soil
during the last fifty to seventy five
years and appears to have the right
of way indefinitely. Our people are
wiser in Wisconsin.
Congressman Reilly is right. Will he
be right when the westerners again
come to congress for more millions
with which to build irrigation dams
and bitches with which to fool more
people from the middle west. Or will
he take the position that if congress
wants to put land in condition for
cultivation it can do so to better adj
vantage right here in Wisconsin? This
question will be up to Congressman
Reilly and his colleagues within few
months-it is an annual demand. 1t is
we'll that he took the western trip
now he should spend few weeks in
upper Wisconsin where he will find the
grandest stretches of unimproved
lands upon which the sun shines.
We IN Wisconsin have asked moth
ing from congress, except that it snail
not attract attention from Wisconsin
opportunities by unduly and unfairly
booming distant regions. We ask moths
ing now, for our state is going ahead
handsomely, but if congress can not
get along without devoting scores of
millions of dollars to farm making we
offer the suggestion that it will do
better by itself and the settlers who
are to use the land by spending the
funds on the fertile soils of upper Wis
conSin.
We hope that Congressman Reilly
and his associates from this state will
go fully into this matter. There can
be but one conclusion, and that is that
for the homeseeker upper Wisconsin
is so far above any other undeveloped
region as to leave all others out of
consideration.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10
CHURCH SERVICES

GERMAN LUTHERAN. Regular
services every Sunday morning at 10
o'clock except the End Sunday of each
month. English services on the first
and third Sunday evening of each
month. Sunday school every Sunday
morning at IL 80. Bible class on the
first and third Sunday of each month
at 2:15 o'clock p. m.
REV. VIM. A. KUETHER, Pastor.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-10

First pub. Oct. %, last Dec. 10, 1915.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, IN CIRCUIT
COURT, FOREST COUNTY.
Conner Lumber & Land Company,
Ga corporation
Plaintiff,