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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26
MAYBE MILLIONS FOR POLK.
Hop Vine Fiber Makes Fine Paper
Says Scientist.

There may be great wealth in store
for Polk county hop growers who
have almost given up hope OF future
prosperity in the face of increasing
prohibition. Announcement has been
made of the results of experiments
undertaken by the Institute of Chem
zeal Technology at Brunswick look
ing toward the discovery of new and
cheaper methods of manufacturing
paper from vegetable fibers. Willow
tree bark and broom fiber did not give
satisfactory results. Experiments
were then made with the fiber of hop
vines. of which there is a plentiful
supply in Germany.
1t was found that when The tibers
are treated with lye separation is
difficult. They are more easily sep
arated by soaking in a 90 per cent
solution of an inorganic acid. The
same results can be obtained by a
steam pressure of half an atmosphere.
Separation of the fiber is easier when
working with old hop vines that have
been stored for long time in the
open air. 1t follows that storage in
the open air or, better still, artificial
storage in a warm, moist storehouse,
is the best method of furthering sep
aration. In this way a return of 20
per cent of good fibers was obtained.
The remaining wood, when treated
with soda lye under pressure of
three atmospheres, produced an excel
lent paper pulp, and the roots of the
vines yield an especially long fiber.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26
Club Becomes Active.

The Airlie Commercial club, which
had been dormant during the summer
months, held its second meeting on
Tuesday evening. and started some
thing that. if carried to successful
eonsummation. will result in much
good to the entire community. c. v
johnson. president of the organiza-
tion. is enthusiastically, and persist
entity. boosting for better conditions
and his projects are receiving the
support of the members of the club
The latest undertaking is an effort to
secure a road improvement TO the
Benton county line in order that a
fence may be built around the home
dollar.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26

first time | have ever carried on a
conversation over the telephone. Try
ing to talk 3400 miles ON my first at
tempt at a telephone conversation
may seem a pretty big undertaking,
but engineering skill has made it cas-
ier to talk 3400 miles than it used to
be to talk "a miles" Mr.. Edison
heard an address by one of his admir-
ers transmitted over the phone after
it had been reproduced on phono-
graph record, and he also listened to
a rendition of Anna Case s bird song
as it had been reproduced on the Edi-
son phonograph.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26
GRANGE HEARS SPEAKERS.
Rural Credits and Cost of Living Are
Questions Discussed.

The Monmouth Grange is attract
ing wide attention among the farm
ers as well as the business men of
that city because of its discussion of
practical problems. AT recent meet
ing the subject, "The High Cost of
Living and How it May Be Reduc-
ed," was presented by E. r. Ostrom
and E. C. Cole, followed by gen
eral discussion. Ira C. Powell gave
a talk on "Rural Credits" from the
standpoint of the country merchant
and also from the standpoint of the
farmer.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26

Mr.. Piasecki has been requested by
the Salem lodge of Elks to tender to
each and every member of that order
whose residence is in or around Dali
las, an invitation to attend a ball to
be given by that lodgs on November
thirty. and he is complying with that
request. This is the first of a series
of dancing parties TO be given by the
Salem Elks during the winter. and
will be followed on December , by a
"high ink" To which all Elks Of tine
surrounding diggings are also invited.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26
Plan to Establish Market.

With view to establishing a mar
keting place in Portland for the sale
of produce Polk county members of
the Grange, Farmers union and So
ciety of Equity have been invited to
meet representatives from the coun-
ties of Washington. Claekamas. Mar
non. Linn and Benton, in McMinnville
next Saturday for the purpose of CON-
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26
Will Exhibit at Portland.

Mrs. Winnie Braden has started to
condition her excellent flock of chick
ems for exhibit at the big poultry
show at Portland early next month.
Mrs. Braden has a prize-winning
flock and if she Is as fortunate with
her own poultry as with the county 5
products. there will be another set
of blue ribbons in Dallas soon
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26

pleting an organization. This plan
Of marketing the products of the soil
has been under discussion for some
time past and there is strong prob
ability that permanent organization
will be effected at this gathering, al
though it is not known whether Polk
county will participate in the project
or not.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26

W. 7. Sherman post. d. A. R., add
ell the name of Mrs. Martha CosPer
10 its rnll al a meeting on Saturday.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-26

The public schools of this country
are doing a good deal to erase the cit
izenship hyphen.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
WILSON IS PREPARING
new MOVE IN MEXICO
President Completes Formula
tiOn Of Announcement.

Cornish, N H., July 28.-President
wilson is at work preparing the prom
1sed announcement of the move this
government is to take in pursuance
OF his new Mexican policy. The pres
ldent shut himself in his study at
Harklakenden house and wrote rapid
ly on his typewriter for about half an
hour. 1t was the same typewriter on
which he wrote the first note to Ger
many regarding the sinking of the
Ldsitania and others of the most i'm
pcrtant state papers of his admins
tration. 1t was understood that he
practically had completed the formu-
lation of the announcement which
Secretary of State Lansing indicated
at Washington is to be made in
few days.
The president is known to have
two radically different courses under
consideration. One of these provides
for the abandonment of further efforts
to prevail upon the Mexican leaders
to establish peace among themselves.
The first step in the pursuance of this
policy would be the restoration of the
embargo on shipments of arms and
war munitions into Mexico which he
lifted nearly two years ago in his de-
termination to drive the dictator,
Huerta, from control at Mexico City.
The other course which one of the
presidents chief official advisers on
Mexican affairs has urged consistent
~, is that a conference of Mexican
leaders be called by the United States
government in an effort to have them
agree upon provisional president to
be recognized by the United States.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
PASS RESOLUTIONS
ON EASTLAND LOSS
Wisconsin Assembly Extends Its
Sympathy to Sufferers.

Madison, Wis, July 28.-The as,
sembly adopted a resolution intro
duced by Assemblyman Carl Hansen
of Manitowoc, expressing the SYM
patty of the Wisconsin Electric COM
pany and other sufferers of the steam
er eastland disaster. The resolution
was as follows:
Whereas, Mysterious as the never
silent murmur of the seashell solemn
as the weird moan of the far off
waves, the whole world stands aghast
and shocked over the frightful calam-
ity which has fallen, through the sink
ing of the steamer Eastland in the
Chicago harbor with terrible loss of
life, which, like the shadow of an I'M
heralded eclipse, darkened the i'm
penetrable curtain that wells eternity,
its unknown shores no longer chart,
less to those who thus sacrificed their
lives; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the members of this
assembly hereby voice and extend our
universal and profound sympathy to
the officials of the Western Electric
company of Chicago, ILL.,, and through
the president of such company to all
those who have been called upon to
suffer the loss of those dear to them
through such terrible disaster; be it
further
Resolved, That this resolution be
entered in the assembly journal of
this day and that a suitable copy
thereof, engrossed, duly signed by the
speaker and chief clerk of the as
sembly, be sent to the president of
the Western Electric company at Chi
cago."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29

Like "Citizen'' who writes for the
s'voice Of the People" we hold no
brief for the street railway company
but like him we can see that the knock
ing out of the street railway company
would seriously interfere with the de-
velopment of the city and the opening
up Of suburban territory where moder-
ate priced homes can be secured by our
increasing population. We take it for
granted that there is no argument on
the proposition that city whose peo-
pie own their homes is a more desirable
place to live in and do business in than
city large proportion of whose in
habitants are transient boarders. For
merly the street railways were willing
to run lines into new territory and
operate at loss for time when there
was a reasonable assurance that a
profitable business would be developed
in the future but it is another story
when the development of new sec
tion means that the jitneys will get
most Of the business. The only solution
Of this problem appears to be the
"zone" system of fares and higher
fares will undoubtedly retard the
spreading out of the city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29

tenance and repairs, $3.50, available
July l, 1915, and $4,000 available July
1, 1916; for silos, cisterns, greenhouse,
etc, $4,000, available July !, 1915, and
1900 July ], 1916.
Home for feeble minded, Chippewa
Falls; Operation, $4,000 annually; for
maintenance, $1,000 available July l,
1915, and $3.50 available July |, 1916;
for purchase of farm machinery, live
stock, and piano, s2,525, available July
1,1915, and $4,000 available July /,
1916.
Tuberculosis sanitarium, Wales:
Maintenance, 1915, $500; 1916, $4,-
$50; improvements including cottages,
$4,000 in 1915 and $4,000 In 1916.
Workshop for Blind
Workshop for the blind, Milwaukee:
Operation, $s,455 annually; furniture
and machinery, 5000 annually. EN-
ployment of convicts in road construc-
tion, $4,000 annually. (Applies to
Waupun inmates.)
tuberculosis camp, Tomahawk: Oper-
alton, 1915, $4,000; 1916, $4,000;
maintenance, $500 annually; for new
shacks, $4,000 annually.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
FRENCH WIN UPHILL BATTLE
Forces of Republic Completely DOM
mate Valley of Fecht.

Paris, July 2S.-The French forces
in the yosges completed the conquest
of a highly important crest of hills
which the Germans had doubly forti-
fed. These hills dominate the prin-
cipal valley of the Fecht and the high
way leading through it to Colmar.
Consequently the French artillery
placed on the new positions will be
able to make life for the Germans in
the valley beneath very uncomfortable
If not absolutely impossible.
The attack was begun Monday. BY
evening the summit of Lingekopf was
cleared of Germans and the French
troops were digging themselves in.
Two additional crests in its vicinity,
simultaneously and Baronkopf were
also taken. All of the fighting was
$50 feet up hill.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29

In a previous generation, vacations
were the rare exception. Ministers and
teachers got them. Bushes men didn It
usually care to quit. If they withdrew
their noses from their ledgers, they
might lose $3.50. That would be ter
rible. AS for the working people get
ting any outing, that was unheard of.
Factories probably worked in more
unremitting way then. Orders were
given for large lots long time ahead
Most shops were busy in the summer
making goods for the next winter. To-
day more orders are given for quick
deliveries. Factories run at high pres
sure, then times are dull Many work
ing men may not get any formal and
regular vacation, but there are times
when the shop is shut down when they
get all the loafing they care for.
A farmer S wife some years ago who
took ten dollar bill and went over
into the next state to visit a relative,
was declared by her neighbors to have
committed an act of folly. Farmers
worked from dawn to dusk in summer
and in the winter they hibernated.
Today the farm people do a great
deal of travelling. Not in summer, as
they have too large interests at stake.
But read the rural correspondence Of
any country paper during the other
parts of the year. Notice what a lot Of
going and coming there is. Farmers
and their families may not go much to
costly hotels. They may be able to
afford it as well as many of the people
that do. They don It care for bridge
and tangoing and afternoon tea and
piazza gossip. If they want time off,
they visit relatives and friends, look
/ over other sections of the country, and
see how other farmers are doing it.
Their time off perhaps pays them bet
ter returns in money than any weeks
i'm the year.
4 So the American people have their
going shoes on. In the case of people
of wealth, it gets to the point of mere
ITestlessness. With most others, there
is no more travel than is needed for
Inversion and for an intelligent con-
Eeption of other parts Of the country.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29

AS one travels about the country dis.
tricts in harvest time, he gets the i'm
preston that agriculture is hard and
exhausting work. He looks at the per-
spring workers in the hay field, and
thanks goodness that he is growing soft
and lazy in some indoor job. He pit
les the toilsome farmer, reputed to rise
at four or five o'clock and work until
dark, and condemned to tasks that in
Ivolve much physical effort.
Theoretically, the modern farmer
may be supposed to put the more labor
ious tasks on hired help. But help is
scarce, and to save crops in times of
exigency he must frequently take hold
and work with his own hands. Only
thus can he spur on tagging employees.
In our modern culture we have all
become too afraid of hard work. Many
man is wearing his life out in the bad
air of an Office, who would greatly bene-
fit his health by going into farming.
Also he would make an addition to the
! depleted food supply of the country.
/ But digging in the dirt, pitching
hay, hoeing corn would make his back
ache. He has probably tried it some
summer in the back yard garden. He
found himself exhausted by an hour S
work with the spade. A great many
boys also are physically incident No
matter how hard they may play ball,
any active muscular exertion at regu-
Jar tasks seems intolerable. No doubt
this is one, of the great reasons why
boys used to rush to the big cities.
The fact that anyone is physically
wearied by brief muscular activity does
not prove that he could not do active
work. 1t takes some time to develop
muscle. But any person with a sound
constitution ought to be able in year
or two to perform the farmer IS ordin-
/ airy tasks with energy and bouyant
feeling The hours of labor may be
j long in summer. But the rush of over
work is no greater than in other pro-
fessions. And there are several months
in which a farmer has larger control
over his own time than any one else.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
Prof. Otis L. Trenary to
Have Stenc sraphy -Steno-
typy Institute Soon.
WILL Be IN |SERhlNN BUILDING

Prof. Otis L. Trenary is to open a
new school in Kenosha. Announcement
was made today that following the
lease Of his College of Commerce to the
board of education to be used in CON
nection with the city commercial school
courses Mr.. Trenary has leased suite
of rooms in the Isermann building and
in the near future will open an institute
for teaching stenographyl and stenoty-
Ply. The school is not to be a large
one but it is expected that it will ap-
peal especially to high grade students.
1t will have a student body limited to
thirty-fve and Mr.. Trenary announced
this morning that he had already re-
-ceived applications for twenty Of the
thirty-fve seats. Stenography and
stenotypy will be the only two subjects
taught in the school and it is expected
in a measure to serve as a post-gradu-
ate school for commercial students. 1t
is expected that Miss Jennie Rhodes
who has been in charge of one of the
departments of the College of Com
merce for some time will be associated
with Mr.. Trenary in the school work.
Mr.. Trenary expects to give very
large proportion of his time to teach
ing and he feels that there will be a
larger personal element Of instruction
in the institute that has before been
offered.
1t is not going to be large
school, said Mr.. Trenary this morning
IN discussing the new institution.
Stenography. and .stenotypy are the
greatest developments of recent years
in the business world and I have so
many people who desire to continue
work in these lines that / have decided
to open this school. It will be ready
for the reception Of students the latter
part of August and it will probably be
open during the entire year. We plan
to start the first term the thirtieth Of
August. We have made ample provis-
ion for the enlargement of our quarters
should the demand for instruction in
these branches show the need of it.
We are going to cater especially to the
demands of the state and federal civil
service boards. There is very wide
demand for workers in these branches
and the supply has been entirely mad
equate. We hope to turn out high
grade students who will be able to as
sumo on leaving the institution the
most responsible positions. Co-opera-
ton with the courts, big offices of Ken
osha concerns and other Offices is going
to make it possible for US to give our
students actual training in offices dur
ing the time they are attending school
and we believe that this practical
teaching will be of the greatest value. -
Prof. Trenary was one Of the first
business college men in the country to
realize the value Of the stereotype in
modern business and he is strong adj
vocate of the new Cuisines aid. -
Students from the Kenosha school have
won high places in the business world
by using the stereotype and it is de-
clared that there is very active de-
mand for graduates of this department.
More detailed plans of the new in
stitute will be announced later in the
month.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
BODY is FOUND IN ClsTERA
Aged Woman, Failing In Health,
browns Self at Sons Home.

Milwaukee, July 2S.-Despondent be.
cause of i'll health, Mrs. Hanna Gin
now, sixty-seven years old, committed
suicide by drowning herself in a els
tern at her sons home, 1910 Port
Washington road, some time Sunday
night, according to report to the
coroner.
The body was found by William
Goetz, a neighbor, who glanced into
the cistern. The aged woman was
last seen by her son, Richard, at
o'clock Sunday night. She lived with
him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
CARRAKzA IN MEXICO CITY
zapata Evacuates Capital in Face OF
Gonzales Attack.

Washington, July 28-First CHER
Carranza appears to be regaining
some of the ground he recently lost
In various parts of Mexico. Advices
received at the state department in
dlcate that the Carranzistas under
General Gonzales are back to Mexico
City, which the Zapatistas vacated in
the face of the advance of the army
Of General Gonzales, the Carranza
commander.
The latter quilted the city after
ward.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
Davenport Star ito Braves.

Davenport, Ia, July 2S.-Jesse
Barnes, who leads the pitchers of the
Three-I league, was sold to the Bos-
ton Nationals and reported to them at
Cincinnati today. Barnes was drafted
by Davenport from the Keokuk Gen.
trail association team in 1912.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
Hurt When siIo coIIapses.

New Richmond Wis., July U.s.
Walter Munson of Clear Lake. a con-
crete construction contractor, was per-
haps fatally injured when he plunged
to the bottom of a silo on which he
was putting the finishing touches. The
whole structure gave way, precipitat-
ing him into the bottom with mass Of
cement, stone and timbers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
Crop Conditions Good.

New Richmond, Wis, July 2S.-The
rye harvest is practically completed in
st. Croix county and the cutting OF
barley is well under way. Crop con-
ditions generally are excellent Corn
has been making good progress lately.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29

The appointment of Christian P.
Norgord by Governor Philip to be the
state commissioner Of agriculture will
be a popular one in this county. He
made most favorable impression on
thousands Of Kenosha people at the
institute held in this city this spring.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
MASSACRE 100 MEN IN HAITI
Political Prisoners Executed Include
Former President Zamor.

Port Au Prince. Haiti, July Is
General Oscar, governor of Port Au
Prince and supporter of President
Guillaume, caused to be executed at
the time of the outbreak of the revo-
lutionary movement in this city, all
the political prisoners in the hands
of the government to the number of
about 100 men.
The victims of this massacre in
cluded General Orestes Zamor, a for.
mer president of Haiti.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
Austria Calls Last Landstrum Class.

London, July 28.-The Morning
Posts Budapest correspondent esti-
mates that the calling up of the last
landstrum class in Austria-H Hungary,
which he says, will be completed Oct
{, will add 100000 to 100000 men to
the army This class includes men
between the ages of forty-three and
fifty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29

The regular summer series of teach
er's examinations will be held as fol-
lows: At Kenosha, August 16 and IL,
and at Silverlake August Is and 10,
1915. Come prepared to write with
pen and ink on legal cap paper. Work
will begin promptly at 8 O'Clock each
morning. d&w
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
SPEEDING AUTO is DITCHED
Five Passengers Hurled Into Brush
Practically Jnhurt.


Marinette, Wis, July 2S.-Five per.
sons escaped death or serious injuries
when five passenger ninety horse
power automobile belonging to Albert
Beltz of Marinette crushed into ditch
OH the Peshtigo road, three miles from
this city. The passengers were thrown
many feet into a thicket. but escaped
practically unhurt.
The machine, going at an estimated
speed of thirty miles an hour, plunged
off the road, down three foot en-
bankment and into the underbrush
fifty feet before stopping. Beltz was
showing one of the passengers how to
operate the car.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
THREE KILLED ON COASTER
Train Jumps Track When Forty Feet
Above Ground.

New York, July 28.-Three people
We're killed and thirteen others had
hair breadth escapes from death when
tWo-car train of pleasure seekers
on the Ocean Beach Roller Coaster
ccmpanys scenic railway, the Rough
Riders" jumped the track forty feet
IN the air and hurled them from the
cars.
The dead are: James Mcdonald,
driver of the train, twenty-four years
old; Mrs. Annie Hartman, sixty-five
years old, of Brooklyn: Miss Ruth
Cuddy, forty years old. of Long Is
land City.