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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-05-12
BULLETIN OF MAIL
COURSES is ISSUED

The General Extension Divi-
sion Of the University of Mime
sofa has just issued a bulletin
of correspondence courses for
the current year, showing 10
distinct courses, most of them
of University grade. They cover
languages, sciences, engineering,
education, history philosophy
and music.
About Is courses have never
been offered before. Most of the
new courses will come in the line
of engineering.
All the courses are offered by
regular members Of the Univer-
sity faculty. The courses offer
opportunity to begin the study
of French, Spanish, Norwegian,
or Swedish, without going away
from home and without drop
ping any lucrative occupation.
No one need now bewail his in
ability to go away to school for
now comes to his very door and
an education. The University
offers a choice of 10 different
courses that may be taken by
mail.
No one pretends that CORE
spondence study is the best way
to obtain an education. 1t is a
longer and more difficult way
than attending the classroom at
a college or university, but many
people are so situated that they
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-05-12
Special Election

State of Minnesota, County of Red
wood. SIS.
A petition having been filed with
the undersigned auditor of said coun-
ty, signed by number of qualified
electors of said county equal to more
than twenty-five (25) per cent of the
total number of votes east in said
county for governor ct the last pre-
ceding general election, praying that
an election be held in the said coun..
ty to determine whether the sale OF
Intoxicating liquors shall be prohi-
bited therein.
1t is hereby ordered, that special
election for such purpose be held in
the various election districts in said
county on Monday, the 7th day OF
June, 1915, and that notice thereof
be given as provided by law.
Dated the Goth day of April, 1915.
L. P. LARSON,
41-5t County Auditor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-05-12
One More Hero of
Iroquois Fire
"Just Plain Drunk" Rose to
Heroic Effort Under Stress
of Fire

A newspaper want ad. pub
lished a year after the great Iro-
quois disaster disclosed to a few
neighbors the most dramatic,
the most humorous and the most
poignant incident of that mem
orable day, and yet it missed
publication and so failed to be-
come part of the history of an
event that is itself historical.
A good woman and her two
small children sat in parquet
seats numbered 2, 3 and 4 in the
fifth row, at that Hateful matt
nee. The aisle seat was pres
emily occupied by a talkative,
amiable and slightly squiffy man
who Immediately made himself
obnoxious to the mother by
opening conversation with one
of the children who sat next to
him.
In order to shield the little one
from his attentions, the woman
changed seats so that she her
self now sat next to the tipsy
and conversational stranger.
''Suits me BETTER" he laughed;
"I'd rather talk to you, any
how"
That was too much for the
gentlewoman, and, while the
play went on, she edged into the
aisle and went to the rear of the
house to ask help to quiet or ex-
pei the intrusive neighbor.
1t was then that the great fire
started. In an instant the packed
audience was in a turmoil of ter
ror and stampede. The woman
was caught in the maelstrom of
maddened humanity which
stormed for the exits, while
down in the forward rows sat
her two precious children at the
mercy of both fire and mob.
She was caught like a straw
in a whirlpool, struggling to
get back to her babies, but borne
always outward and downward
until at last she fell exhausted
on the pavement of Randolph
street. Madly she tried to fight
and tear her way back into the
theater, which yet poured its
frightened and gasping hundreds
through the choked doorways
She made no Roadway, but at
the moment of widest horror
she saw above the scared faces
of the outpouring crowd, the
white face of her little daughter
And then came the MAN
the drunk, the gabby, convivial
offensive Of the fourth row.
He had one of the kids on his
shoulder and the other under hi;
arm, and he staggered out OF
that charnel house of death anC
dread with no other thought ex.
cept to save those children.
The mother grabbed them
hysterical now with joy, and the
hatless and-let us hope-sob
cred hero disappeared into the
crowd. No, gentle reader, she
never saw or heard of him again
a fact which may spoil a rom
ance, but which is a part of thit
newborn bit of history. The lit
tie want ad. published long af
forwards failed to catch his eye
or, if he saw it, perhaps he was
more ashamed of his conduct a
the matinee than proud of hi.
singularly heroic action at tn,
end.-Minneapolis Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-05-12

Plenty of water and a prompt
response by the fire department
and other citizens to the alarm
of fire was all that saved the
west business portion of Fair
fax from a disastrous scorching
recently. The alarm was sounded
by DR.. Crandall, fire being dis
covered by his wife in the wood
shed adjoining their barn just
back of Gumpolen's store.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-05-12
LIKED OUR BOYS
Cottonwood Baseball Players
Anxious to Return COurte-
sizes Received Here

The High School baseball
team played a fast game of ball
last Saturday at Redwood Falls
with the high school team of
that city. Up until the seventh
inning the Cottonwood bays had
the best of it and would have
won, but for a few costly err
rors which their wide awake
competitors were not slow in
making good use of by promptly
running in two scores to the
good.
The game was fight to the fin
ish and some excellent playing
was done on both sides as the
score of six to eight would in
dictate. Huddleston did the
pitching act and struck out fif-
teen men to the two Redwood
pitchers nine. Anderson took
care of the receiving part Of the
game in his usual effective man.
ner. The boys are loud in their
praises of the treatment accord
ed them by the Redwood boys,
and are looking forward to the
time when they can have a game
here so they may return the
courtesies.-Cottonwood Cur
rent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-05-12

Hester has a Community club
of over seventy members. The
membership consists of town
and county people, who are
banded together for the better
ment Of all. There's an idea
worth copying.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
PROMINENT MEMBERS OF
WOoDMEN CIRCLE HERE.

Many prominent members of the
Woodmen Circle, the woman's auxil-
larry to the Woodmen of the World,
are in the city, and will receive a
most cordial welcome from Pensacola
club women and the members of the
lical circle, Oak Grove, No. A. Among
these are Mrs. Elkourie, wife of
Chief Surgeon Col. H. A. Elkourie;
Mrs. Gentry, wife of Brigadier Adju-
tant T. Gentry; Mrs. Younger, wife
or Past Adjutant C. H. Younger;
Mrs. Fender, wife of Major Fender;
Mrs. Gilbert, state guardian; Mrs.
Cora Fielding. state manager; and
many others who arrived late last
night or will arrive today. Supreme
Guardian Annie B. Manchester, of
Omaha, Nebraska, who holds the
highest Office in the gift of the order,
will arrive before the close of the
week, and will be a guest at the San
Carlos. Mrs. Fielding and Mrs. Gill
bert are the guest of Mrs. Karen B.
Nelson, grand manager of the state
of Florida and guardian of Oak Grove
circle, No. A.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31

into Maine. He found out that two
and half more sound babies were
born in Maine than in Munich. Sew
enty-one and a half babies out of
every hundred in Munich. Therefore,
it is up to you mothers and those Of
you who expect to be mothers to move
into "dry" territory, for it's better
for your business. =.
Sometimes ] am asked why we wo-
meE want the ballot. We do not want
it to clean up politics. No, am con-
WINGED politics is mess. Il you men
can't do any better than you have
with all the time you have had, there's
no use for us to try. We want the
ballot to drive the liquor business out
so we can help our business. The
liquor men know why we want the
ballot, and that's the reason they are
fighting u.s."
DR.. Geisel quoted statistics to show
the immense cost to the nation OF
caring for imbeciles and criminals, "a
majority of whom abe in one of the
two conditions because of alcoholism.
She commented on the recent state
ment from Russia that the people of
that country had saved as much as
$30,000,0 900 in month since vodka
was eradicated. In spite of the war,
whereas they had never in the history
of the ration saved more than $15,-
100000 in a year.
'If you want to know how to save
money!" she commented. 'Dry up"
every vestige of boosted twentieth
century civilizations" she continued
''is held in the palm of Americas
hand. The best sons and sires over
there are being killed off and the
world is calling on America for men
Well rear men if the American gov
eminent will give US chance. We
are asking you to get out of the way
The business that will ruin our bust
ness ought to be put out of the wide
wide world. Give US chance to rear
the sons that will answer the worlds
call and give it men"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
ONE MORE WEEK FOR
CHILDREN TO BE ENTERED
IN BABY CONTEST.


The parents of Pensacola are ask
ed to bear in mind that this is the
last week in which entries for the
Better Baby Contest will be kept
open. After the period of entries
closes examination of the babies will
take place.
For this week a series of meetings
in various sections of Pensacola have
been planned in order to create inter
est in the splendid work which is be-
ing carried on under the auspices of
the Pensacola Equal Suffrage league.
Yesterday afternoon meeting was
held at School No. 81 on Bayou Chico.
There was a talk by DR.. w. G. Payne,
followed by Victrola concert.
Wednesday, September LIST a meet
ing will be held at School No. 2.
Gregory and Eighth avenue, begin
ming at four o'clock. DIR. ]. H. Eel
lows will give talk to the parents
living in that part of the city and
there will be several Victrola selec-
tions.
Entries should be mailed to Mrs.
Frank billiard, 1901 North Davis
street. Or phone 1886.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31

a large picture of @the men in the
trenches" the soldiers all in readiness
to repel an attack, while in the rear
trench one can see the wounded"
in the bgnks which have been irn-
provised for them. II is a clever piece
of work.
On one side hangs his grandfather
Matthews sabre, relic of the Civil
War, and the Cross of Honor of his
grandfather MCGUIRE, also soldier of
the sixties, and on the opposite side
of the room, near the book cases, are
thelsco accoutrements, both land and
sea, which he assures you he can as
sumo, uniform, lnapsack, and entire
necessary paraphernalia for scouting,
--in three minutes and twenty-eight
seconds.
If the Boy Scout movement can
train boys in the concentration of
mind, the application and the determi-
nation that show then. development in
this boy and his accomplishments, it
is indeed splendid movement.
Mr.. Matthews has been with the
Jennings Naval Stores company for
several years, and his record with
them has been fine one.
The baseball masks and mitts and
the dumb bells show that their owned
is athletic, the old army pistol, also
belonging to his grandfather Mat
thews, the sabre, and the crossed
honor, indicate that his bent toward
soldering is inherited and the stuffed
crocodile from South Africa, which
is his mascot, and his "coat-of- arms
which he declares to be the postage
stamp, because it "sticks till it gets
there" prove that he does not think
life is all serious. When talking about
his work and his ambitions he show
ed himself not only modest but with
a sense of humor which will heir
him over many hard places.
He leaves for College Park Friday
and carries with him the good wishes
not only of the boys with whom he
has been associated, but many of the
older generation who wish for him
the success that is sure to come if he
carries into his future the principles
which have guided him in the past.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
Mr.. WHALEY NO
BETTER.

kilograms received yesterday from
the bedside of the Rev. Percival H.
Whaley stated that his condition had
not improved. His sons, Arthur
Whaley of New York, and Percival
H. Whaley, editor of the Philadelphia
Evening Ledger, and his son-in-law,
DIR. Brainard of Charleston, are with
their father at the Mayo Brothers
hospital in Rochester, MINI. Advices
from DR.. Brainard are that there is
practically no hope of Mr.. Whaley's
recovery.
Seldom has any news been received
with more universal regret than the
announcement of Mr.. Whaley's ex-
IRENE illness. AS the rector of Christ
church he was loved not only by his
own congregation, but the poor of the
city blessed him and he knew no creed
or sect differences, where his help
could be given. Many hearts are filed
with grief for he was, indeed, the
ebeloved pastor of his flock"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
Proper Thing Now Is to
Peel Off Soiled Skin

Those who abhor sticky, greasy, shi -,
streaked compilations should religiolxly
avoid creams. powders and rouges during
the heated days. There's no need for
them, anyway, since the virtues of mer-
colized wax have become known. No
amount of perspiration win produce any
evidence that you've been using the wax
As it is applied at bedtime and washed
off in the morning, the complexion never
looks like a makeup. Mercolized wax
gradually takes off a bad complexion,
instead of adding anything to make 1t
worse. II has none of the disadvantages
of cosmetics and accomplishes much more
n keeping the complexion beautifully
white. satiny and youthful Just get an
ounce of 1t at your druggists and see
what few days treatment will do
Use like cold cream
Another effective summer treatment
heat tending to cause wrinkles and
habbiness-is q skin tightener made by
dissolving ! o. powdered saxolite in Il
pit. witch hazel It's use Gas a face bath5
leaves no trace. Adv
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
SUPREME DUTY OF
WOMAN.

The people and events department
has a good friend in ldr. George w.
Johnston, who occasionally sends a
notice of interest to its editor. The
following sent to this department by
Mr.. Johnston, will be read with great
interest by the hundreds who heard
DIR. Caroline Geisel speak at the fy-
ing squadron meetings in Pensacola.
DR.. Caroline Geisel Of Battle Creek,
Mich, who his lecturiny at the Rush
county Chautauqua and the Teachers
Institute here this week, gave the
women a new conception of their bust
ness. She said too often women had
been accused of falling down on their
job" because they had been showing
too much interest in every day affairs.
Il am just old-fahsicned enough
but wait : minute. / am suffragette
Ito harE back to God and what He
appointed us to do, rear men," she
said. That's our JOB here on earth,
rearing men. Sometimes it takes two
women and then it's an awful Job.
And again a third one in the form of
a second wife is called in to complete
the task, and even then they may
make mess of it. What the United
States needs its men. The strength
and integrity of the nation depends
on our business.
''Mr. Banker, we can get along with
out your business. Mr.. Merchant, we
can get along without your business.
Mr.. Farmer, it might go hard, but we
can get along without you. But they
can't get along without our business,
because they always need men.
81 remember hearing the national
corn king speak to a crowd of corn
growers. He told them 10 go through
their fields and pull out the small ears.
Don't waste your time raising nubbins
he said.
'But that's what we've been doing
for years. Raising nubbins has re-
duced the standard height for standing
armies of the world six inches in fifty
years. If we aren't rearing as good
stock as our mothers did, there's Z
reason for it.
'tWhy Is the race deteriorating ?
Eugenists say it is because the sires
are not right. Men are sapping Out
their vitality and it is showing in
their children. Does a raan think he
pays for his glass of beer when ht
lays his nickle down en- the bar
Never. He pays for his glass Of BEEF
in his baby"
DR.. Geisel quoted from a celebrated
German scientist who investigated thu
results of alcohol on children il
Munich, the greatest beer-drinkine
city in the world, and in Maine. Sh,
said his observations proved that tw,
and a half more sound babies wer,
born in "dry" territory than in 'swet.
Continuing she said: @He went up t,
rocked-ribbed Maine" you know
where prohibition doesen't prohibit
Ever hear that before? The onl!
reason prohibition doesn't prohibit il
because New York and New .Hamp
sEire are so wet" that they slop owe
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
THE STORY HOUR
ON WEDNESDAY.

The Story Hour of Wednesday af-
ternoon under the direction OF Mrs.
James F. Phillips, president of the
City Story Tellers' League, will take
place at Reynald's Music Store and
there will be no charge of any kind.
All of the children are invited and
Mrs. Olga White Barnes has promised
to entertain them with some of her
delightful stories. On the Victrola
program Of the various song birds
will be given and there will also De
three national songs, "In Scotland,
an Ireland" and 'Gn England" The
program will open at 4:30 and pronis-
es to be on much interest.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
MR.. PERKINS
SPEAKS.

Attended by many from Pensacola
as well as a number from the Olive
the meeting held at the
Olive Baptist church on Sunday eve
ming was very largely attended, and
was featured by an address by Mr..
J. B. Perkins, United States marshal
of the northern district of Florida.
Mr.. Perkins held his audience for
more than an hour and in a logical
and convincing manner, presented his
arguments for the Acknowledgement of
women.
The devotional exercises were in
charge of the Methodist minister, and
a delightful musical program was
given, comprising two solos by Miss
Dimple Mcmillan, a duet, piano and
violin, by Prof. A. c. Reilly and Mr..
Bertram Coleman, and a song eff
Men Would Only Vote AS They
Pray" by Mr.. Lehman, who was ae-
eompanied by Mrs. Lehman. Mrs.
Mary B. Morris, who is one of the
most ardent suffragists of this sec
ton, made the announcements,
Among those who attended from
Pensacola were Mr.. and Mrs. J. B.
Perkins, Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Reilly,
Miss Marguerite Ingraham, Miss
Faith Binkley, the Misses Nicholas
Miss Dimple Mcmillan, Mrs. Coleman
Mr.. Bertran Coleman.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
A TYPICAL YOUNG
AMERICAN.

Herbert Matthews, assistant mas
ter of Sea Scouts, leaves Friday for
College Park, where he will enter the
Georgia Military Academy. This
Pensacola boy has made a distinct
and enviable place in the community
life, and is certain to win success if
he adheres to the rules which now
govern his actions. In manner court
eous, with high ambition and won
derfully cultivated stiek-to-itiveness,
he has, from early childhood set him
self to win the things worth while
that life has for the taking for ambi-
tious American boys, who are willing
to sacrifice ease and comfort to the
higher things which lead to force
full character and a successful career.
While but child he perfected
wireless apparatus, one of the first
amateur machines for sending wire
less messages in the United States,
and at the first Interstate Fair he
exhibited this apparatus in the fair
buildings, so perfect in construction,
and in its working possibilities, that
the fair had almost drawn to a close
before the Pensacola public realized
that the Herbert Matthews who had
received and sent messages over this
machine constructed by himself, was
a mere child. Employed at that time
with the Gulf Transit Company, he
had rigged his wireless on the grain
elevator Of the Louisville and Nash
vile, from which aerie he received
and sent messages.
Since that time, having become in
terested in the Boy Scout movement,
Mr.. Matthews has served as assist
ant scout master Of the Boy Scouts
and the Sea Scouts. 1t was greatly
through his efforts that the Boy
Scouts were organized to aid in the
Safety First movement during the
shopping period of the past two
Christmas seasons, and their thought
full courtesy has been much commend
ed: Herbert's room is very represen-
tatives of his character and ac-
tivities. There are many books which
on examination prove to be closely al
lied with some phase of his special
interests, either wireless telegraph, or
scout work, or wood craft, or mechan-
ical engineering, biography or his
tory. There are maps and pictures
of historical significance. At one end
of the room is the wireless appara-
tus, at another a carefully worked out
..trench," constructed of pine box
filed with sand and miniature sol
diers. This follows in every detail
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
ARMY CAMP NO MORE
ON THE TEXAS COAST

Washington, Aug S0-Secretary
Garrison today announced that the
war department had determined not
to re-establish the divisional army
camp at Texas City, destroyed by the
recent storm.
No decision has yet been reached
as to its future location. Major Gen.
]. Franklin Bell, commanding the di-
vision, recommended Texas City camp
be abandoned.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
DRAGONS TEETH.
(By Richard Butler Glaenzer in The
Nation.)

(By Richard Butler Glaenzer in The
Nation.)
When / review the dark
Year that is gone,
wonder whether God regrets the ark;
If it is He who locks away the dawn:
dare not ponder why our prayers to
Christ
Have not sufRced.
August, so fair, so rich
With fruitful life,
BATTERED her golden harvest for a
ditch,
Her scythe of silver for a butchers
knife:
She who wore once the grateful
farmers wreath,
Sowe6 dragons teeth.
Alas, no Cadmus crop
Sprang from the earth,
But fiends whose bent no royal word
can stop.
The blood they spill but teens with
viler birth;
So sweet to them is hatred's poisoned
breath,
They thrive on death.
Twelve fateful moons ago
Man prospered, proud
OF primacy.I How swift his over
throw
Blacker and lower broods the horrid
cloud:
What viii its depths disclose? Thy
Peace, 0 Lord,
Or Flaming Sword?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
GUESTS IN
THE CITY.

Mr.. and Mrs. 0. G. Moore and
children returned yesterday to Mari
anna, after a visit to Mrs. Moore's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs w. o. Keeling
and family. Mrs. Moore and children
were in the city for several weeks,
and enjoyed many pleasures and
courtesies from friends who knew
Mrs. Moore in her girlhood, and are
always glad to renew the pleasant ac-
ouaintance. Mr.. Moore is editor of
the Mariana Times-Courier, and has
MANY friends in Pensacola, not only
of the newspaper fraternity but also
among its business men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
A COUGH REMEDY THAT
RELIEVES

It's prepared from the healing
Pine Balsam, Tar and Honey-all
mixed in q pleasant, soothing Cough
Syrup called DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-
Honey. Thousands have benefited by
its use--ne need of your enduring
that annoying Cough or risking
dangerous Cold. Go to your dealer,
ask for 9 25c original bottle DIR. Bells
Pine-Tar-Honey, start using at once
and get rid of your Cough and Cold.
(Adv.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-31
NOTICE TO TEACHERS

The next uniform examination for
teachers will begin on September 7th
500 a. m. A certificate of character
and assessment of $1.00 will be re-
quired of all applicants.
Examination for white teachers will
be held at school No. 1, North Palafox
street, and for colored teachers at
school No. 8, w. Jackson street.
A. S. EDWARDS,
Superintendent.