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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-11-18
Farmers Have Good Year.

The 1916 crop season has been
most prosperous one for the Wis
consin farmer, according to w. +.
Calendar, field agent for Wiscon-
sin for the Bureau of Crop esti-
mates.
From the standpoint of the
general farmer in Wisconsin, the
1915 crop season just closed has
been a successful one, especially
when we take into consideration
the prices which are prevailing for
practically all farm products, said
Calendar. His hay crop was
large, in many sections of the state
a bumper one, and was cured under
almost ideal conditions, he has
been able to produce plenty of ear
corn for his hogs and his silo is
filled with much better quality
of silage than he secured last year.
His oat crop, while somewhat in
jured by the hot weather in July.
yielded on the average OF 81 bu-
shells per acre, his barley crop was
excellent, yielding 80 bushels per
acre, for which he has been receiv-
ing good prices. and his crop Of
rye ranged from fair to good. His
tobacco crop, if he had one, was
heavy and of excellent quality and
he has sold it for more than double
the price he received last year.
Even the frosted tobacco crop has
been sold at good prices Favor
able weather conditions have pre-
vailed for the curing Of the crop.
1t is only when we turn 10 pota-
toes that we 6nd one OF Wise n
SIM principal cash crops approach
ing almost a failure III some sec
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-11-18

tions. The average yield for the
state as a whole is the lowest since
1914. In the greatest potato pro
duciug counties in central WiscOn-
sin, the crop is extremely light,
some fields not being worth dig
ging, but even in this region we
find quite a few farmers with yields
of 100 bushels or better per acre.
In the newly settled counties in
northern Wisconsin good yields
have been quite general. Yields
of from Us to $50 bushels OF bet
t.r per acre are reported by the
county agents are not uncommon
and stories are told of new settlers
being able to pay for their entire
farm from the proceeds Of a few
acres of potatoas The usually
high prices prevailing are enabling
many farmers to realize as much
or more from the short crop as they
would from the usual crop with
the usual prices obtained. In
southern Wisconsin in many dis
tricts where potatoes are grown for
local consumption only, the crcp
is so short that the farmers have
not enough for their own needs and
potatoe, are being shipped in.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-11-18
SESSION WILL BE SHORT.
1t Is Predicted that 1917 Session of
State Legislature Will Be Short
and Harmonious.

The 1917 session of the state
legislature will be short and bust.
ness like with the maximum
amount of service and the minim-
um amount of politics, if Gov.
/ Philip has his way about it.
When the assembly and senate
convene early in January the more
important bills to be advocated by
the administration will have been
drafted and ready for introduction
These measures will be presented
early so that the session will not
develop into a marathon affair, as
It did two years ago.
, With both branches strongly Te
publican and friendly to the gov
e nor's program of economy, the
administration will occupy a more
favorable position than at the last
session, when the vote in the sen-
ate was very close and the pro-
gres sives were able to delay and
obstruCt important measures. In
the last Legislature the governor
was forced to offer a large number
of bills because he wished to carry
out his entire program during his
first term. He did not take into
consideration his reelection, and
he did not proceed along the line
of welcoming defeat OH some pro-
positions so that he would have IS
sues for his second campaign. Had
he been i'll control of the senate,
his entire economy and Consolida-
ton program would nave been car
ried out.
In the approaching session, the
administration probably will not
have as many measures to offer as
it did i'll 1915. The governors
extensive program two years ago,
however. was not responsible for
the length of the session. The
records show that more time was
taken up by the progressives in
their fight over comparatively un
important bills, including the one
to abolish the campaign pamphlet
in which candidates printed their
pictures and wrote sketches of
themselves. than was consumed in
disposing of measures of import
anCe.
If politics can be eliminated, the
governor feels certain the length of
the session can be reduced two or
three months.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-11-18
Total. .S11, ,447238


Last year the assessed valuation
of the county was S11 ,484 $50, Oh
S37,112 greater than for this year
Appropriations as follows were
made: State tax, $I6,792.74, por-
tion of state special charges on
county for charitable and penal
purposes, 81 ,983 SO; county super
intendent of schools, s. $50 90;
soldiers relief, $3.50 90; highways,
SIS,943 90; all other general county
levy, S54 873 S8; special state trust
fund loans, S365 10; illegal real es-
tate charged back, $4o6 40; delin-
quent personal property for 1914
charged back, S299.42; loans to
school districts, $1,000 IS; county
school levy, S8,435 so. In addi-
ton to the above appropriation for
construction of highways s. $50. 90
was appropriated for maintenance,
and with a balance i'll this fund of
about S25 900 there is available
for highway purposes next year a
total of almost $4,000.
The annual report of Assessor of
Incomes MN. Landraint was pre-
sented to the board for its consider
alton.
The report shows that there are
947 horses, mules and asses in the
county, with Gurney in the lead
with 158, Carey and Saxon next
with 136 each, Vaughn with 125,
the balance being distributed among
the remaining seven townships in
the county. The aggregate assessed
value of these animals is Sl05, $40.
There are 2,821 neat cattle in
the county with an aggregate as
sessed value of $50, ,4O7. Carey is
in the lead with $50, Saxon sos,
Knight 500. Sheep number POI,
assessed at S494. The greater mum
Der are in the town of Mercer with
Saxon next. The number of swine
in the county is given as 387, as
sessed at s., ,494.
There are 884 wagons, carriages
and sleighs assessed at S16,252.
The aggregate assessed value of
merchants stock in the county is
placed at S222 ,O29. Manufactur-
ers' stock is assessed at s., 900.
Logs, timber, lumber, etc, is as
sessed at Sl16, 6,375, steam and other
vessels at s., ,120, property and
franchises of water and light com
panies at 1,762. The total mum.
Der of automobiles is given as 78,
assessed at S28, ,675. Last year the
total number of cars was 40, an in
crease of 50, Vaughn is credited
with 29 cars. Montreal next with
10. Other motor vehicles are placed
at 6, assessed at 1915.
Bank stock in the county is as.
sessed at s4o,875 and all other
/ personal property liable taxation
is given as s697, ,497.
The aggregate assessed value Of
the total personal property in tht
county is s1,376,665 total real IS
tate, s., ,879, 96f, or total of SO
/ ESQ $50 as the aggregate assessed
value OF real and personal property
in the county.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-11-18
COUNTY BOARD MEETING.
County SOlons Meet and Fix Assessed
Valuation Of the Several Towns
in the County.

Tuesdays meeting of the county
board was devoted to the fixing OF
the assessed valuation of the sever
al towns in the county and the
making of appropriations for the
ensuing year, following which adj
journment was taken until Dec. 8.
The total assessed valuation of the
county is S11 447 ,238, apportioned
ac fOllOuc.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-11-18

Advertise in the News.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
APPROVES
BUILDING PROGRAM
PASSES MEASURE APPRoPRIAT
ING $315,e26 a43 FOR ADDl-
TIONS TO THE NAVY.
Would Provide for Building -Four
Dreadnaughts, Four Great aBttIe
Cruisers and Flfty-eieht Other
Warships in 1917.

Washington.-The naval appropria.
ton bill, with a three-year building
program, including the immediate con
struction of four dreadnaughts, four
great battle cruisers and fifty-eight
other craft passed the senate on July
Fl by vote Of II to 8.
1t carries $315,S26,S43, or $45,s57,-
58S more than the total as the meas.
ure passed the house.
Many proposals to curtail the enor-
nous building increases written into
the measure by the senate naval COM
mittee were defeated overwhelmingly,
and as soon as final passage was an
nounced the senate voted to insist on
its amendments and send the bill al
once to conference. The house is ex-
pected to insist upon its building pro-
gram, and long struggle is in pros
pect before an agreement is reached.
Two Democrats, Senators Thomas
and Vardaman, and six Republicans,
Senators Clapp, Curtis, Gronna, La
Toilette, Norris and Works, voted
against the bill, which has had the
support of leaders of both parties dur
ing the week of debate that preceded
passage.
Construction of 157 vessels. includ
ing sixteen capital ships, within three
years at an estimated cost of $685.
1S0,576, is contemplated in the senate
program, the largest ever proposed to
congress- OF the total appropriations
in the bill, s11O,726, 100 is for the first
years building expenditures.
AS It passed the house. the measure
made no provision for a continuing
building program and authorized only
seventy-two ships, including five bat
tel cruisers and no dreadnaughts.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
MARRIAGE NOT THE WAY OUT
Working Girl May Find Her lot
Harder Than Ever When She
Enters Wedlock.

One of the most serious obstacles
to woman's advancement in industrial.
life is the general feeling on the part
of the woman that 1t isn't going to be,
necessary to work for any great
length of time, because the knights
will soon be coming along, when she
will have home of her own, declares
Detroit Journal.
"What's the user" many O woman
has said when 1t was suggested to her
that she give more thought to her
task. 1.-THE work is only temporary
so what is the use of bothering ones
brain with thinkIS-g out details~
The exaggerated expectations of
girls as to the Improvement of their
lot when married in the matter of
work Is something wonderful Society
helps to accentuate this belief by
society frowning on woman workers
and insisting that they go to house
keeping and get out of the Industrial
grind.
Now a woman in "the lower walks
of life." as one puts 1t, which means
a woman who is one of family with
an Income less than will support all
father, cannot escape work by getting
married.
With married life on a small income
the necessity of work is more pressing
than when single. For married life
presupposes more than one stomach to
be fed or one back to be clothed. In
due time, ordinarily, there will be
three, four or five mouths to be fed
and backs to be clothed. Work7 Most
women know little about work until
they are married.
So married life is not an escape
from work The woman who does not
become q "helpmeet." instead of being
simply a "help eat" has missed her
calling In getting married, just as she
missed her calling when employed In
store or factory or office In not becom
ing efficient
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
BRITISH REPLY IS
NOT SATISFACTORY
CONTROVERSY OVER INTERFER.
ENcE WITH MAILS BY BRITISH
AND FRENCH VESSELS.
Ambassadors to England and France
Instructed to Ask Complete An
swers to Recent Protests Of
the United States.
tCopyright.)

Washingto to i'm
press upon the British and French gov
ernments that the United States de-
sires an early and complete reply to
it's last note regarding interference
with neutral mails were cabled by the
state department Monday to Ambassa-
dor Page at London and Ambassador
Sharp at Paris.
The step was taken after President
Wilson and other officials had studied
the British memorandum dealing with
specific complaints and deferring until
the future a reply to the American
contentious regarding the principles
involved
The official text of the memoran-
dunn, made public by the state depart
ment, reveals that Great Britain feels
''obliged to disclaim responsibility" for
the specific occurrences complained Of
in the American note until there has
been opportunity of investigating In
detail" In that connection 1t is point
ed out that there have been many in
stances of complaints, which on exam
ination proved to arise from the wrong
direction of letters, the irregular sail
| ings of neutral mail boats and from
other similar causes entirely outside
the control of his majesty's govern
ment.'
One of the subjects left for consid-
Grafton in the allies forthcoming final
reply is the American complaint re.
garding money order lists, which it is
declared Involves question of prin'
ciple on which consultation between
those governments is still in progress.
In replying to the complaint regard
ing mail removed from the steamship
Medan, some of which later was lost on
the Mecklenburg, the memorandum
says the facts set forth by the United
States ARE correct except that it is
not made clear, though it is the fact
that the neutral mail bags removed
from the Medan were all sent on and
that 1872 bags lost in the Mecklenbure
were without exception for enemy des
tination."
The communication concludes tina
the specific complaints in the Ameri
can note do not support the genera
charges against the efficiency of thu
British censorship which the govern
ment of the United States have pu
forward"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
BOY TOOK CHANCE OFFERED
indiana Judge Had Faith in Human
Nature, and II was Not Mis-
placed on This Occasion.

A Judge sitting as the juvenile court
in an Indiana town was trying a boy
on a charge of stealing stamps from
his employer. The evidence was pure
Iy circumstantial. The boy had
cleaned his employers desk and a
short time later he tried to sell to an
other employee the same. number of
stamps that had been missed from the
desk. The judge considered the evil
dence of the men who. worked at the
same place and then called the police
man who had arrested the boy.
Now" said the court, did either
of you see this boy take the stamps?''
mo, your honor, but the boy has
made full confession to u.s."
The court looked at the boy, who
WINGED slightly at this statement.
We'll" the court concluded, that
may be. But I'm for absolute justice
in this court, and nobody saw the boy
take the stamps. The defendant is
discharged"
The next day the boy returned the
stamps to his mployer.-Indianapo
News.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
Army Ignores Klpllna's Term.

Fritz" now seems generally adopted
by our soldiers and sailors as pet
name for the enemy. These soubri-
quets are evolved In war almost In
evitably. In the struggle between the
North and South the Confederates
were always known as johnny" to
their Yankee opponents.
"Fuzzy-wuzzy," however, as applied
to the big, black. bounding" warriors
of the Sudnn. has often been used by
newspaper writer's since Rudyari Kip
ling invented 1t, but the army Ignores
1t completely London Globe.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
rive Giant Fingers Bind cities.

The five giant spans of steel, which,
like gargantuan fingers clutch the two
sides of East river, binding New York
and Brooklyn together, cost Ameri-
cas- metropolis half as much as the
Panama canal cost the federal govern
ment. Three of them are suspended
from cables, the wires Of which, If
placed end to end, would more than
twice girdle the earth. If placed side
by side, these five great structures
would provide a roadway as wide as
the Washington monument is high, and
If placed end to end they would make
great bridge over six miles long.
Across the Brooklyn bridge alone 1885,
600 surface cars travel every "a hours,
with other vehicular traffic in proper
tion.-National Geographic Magazine.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
Went With the Load.

An Irishman, having arrived in New
York few days ago, got employment
with lumber merchant. Later he was
ordered to take load of lumber some
distance away. Having gone half his
journey, he came to a steep hill, and
while the horses were struggling to
get to the top his boss happened to
meet him, and seeing the horses in
such a difficulty, and Pat standing on
top of the load, he stopped him and
exclaimed:
do you think the horses haven't got
enough to do without hauling you up
this hill?"
Pat, fixing himself more comfortably
on top of the load, said:
"Is that what you stopped me fOr?"
Then, with a crack Of his whip, Pat
concluded:
Gee up, it's poor ship that can't
carry the captain"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28

shows that stand it real well. took
the Compound when my ten year old
daughter came and it helped me lot.
have also had my Oldest girl take it
and it did her lots of good. ] keep it in
the house all the time and recommend
it. Mrs. DEWITT SNcEBAUoH, West
Dandy, N. Y.
Sleeplessness, nervousness, irritable
ity, backache, headaches, dragging sem
Stations, all point to female derange-
ments which may be overcome byLydis
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for forty
years proved TO- be amost. valuable tonic
and invigorator of the female organism.
Women everywhere bear willing testi-
mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia
q. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
BOMB EXPLODED IN
MIDST OF THRONG
elk KILLED AND FoRTY-FIvE IN
JUREp BY INTERNAL MACHINE
AT SAN FRANCISCO.
Explosion Occurred During Prepared
neSs Parade, Blowing Gap Through
Crowd, Manning Men, Women
and Children.

San Francisco.-Six persons were
killed and forty-four we're injured by
the explosion of a timed bomb at the
corner of Stewart and Market streets,
Saturday afternoon, during the pre-
paredness parade.
The deed is generally attributed to
a mind unbalanced by arguments for
and against preparedness which have
occupied attention here lately
Frank Josephson, lodger in sail
ors' boarding house, has been arrest
ed on suspicion. When arrested, he
cried: IT didn't do it, didn't do it."
The bomb, concealed, in a suitcase
packed with cartridges, bullets. gas
pipe, glass and scrap iron, blew a gap
through the crowd, blasting men.
women. children and babies.
The one-story building against
which the suitcase stood was
wrecked.
The holiday throng, cheering con
tingent of veterans of the First Cali
fornia infantry of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, became a shambles. The
blare of fifty bands and the roar of
drums drowned the cries of the in
5ured.
1.-TWO women standing beside me
were blown to bits" said one woman,
Mrs. Kinsley Van Doom, of Oakland,
who, with her two children, was in
jured. The police say 1t is possible
that some bodies were blown out of
existence.
Every possible precaution, police Of
fcials said, was taken, but the limo
cent looking suitcase, standing where
country visitor, OF whom there were
thousands, might have set it down, at
tracted no attention.
The force of the bomb was aston
ishing. Handsfuls of empty revolver
and rife shells, blown through the
crowd by the explosion, were picked
up in the gutter by souvenir hunters.
A piece of lead pipe was blown two
blocks into the Northwestern Pacific
waiting room in the Ferry building. A
woman's gold watch, presumably be
longing to one of the victims, was
blown through the air and landed in
q fruit stand a block and a half away
Through the violence. the parade
wendell, without a break. The veter
ans of the Grand Army of the Repub
lie, waiting in Steuart street to fall
| Into line, escaped deatn Dy . halE' anu
proceeded with the march. An ambu
lance summoned to care for faint
ing spectator. stood across the street
when the explosion occurred. The pa
tient had his leg fractured and mar
aiding the attendants fell with frac
tured skull, but the ambulance stew
ard was uninjured. He placed boil
men and some other victims in hii
ambulance and rushed them to hos
pital.
All the newspaper offices in Sal
Francisco on Friday received a com
munication written in Roman scriI
with an indelible pencil, many of thu
words being heavily UNDERSIGNED
warning them that things are goini
to happen" but the warning was re
garded as a hoax.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
Willing Worker.

An amusing incident is told which
took place in one of the occupied dis
tricts of Belgium where the German
occupier doles out potatoes to such
of the starving people as agree to work
for him. One recipient presented him
self before the German authorities and
declared himself quite ready in return
for supply of potatoes to work for
the Germans and only for them, He
seemed quite decided and genuine in
his offer of work.
''Then you are quite willing to sign
the declaration" asked the German
officer.
Eyes, quite willing"
"And what is your trader"
~ am a grave digger" replied the
Belgian stodidly.-London Everyman.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
Knew Their Man.

A travelling salesman tells OF q
unique correspondence between a Chi-
cago house and Its representative In
South Dakota. says the Buffalo Times.
It appears that the drummer had
sent the following message to his em-
ployers:
"Snowing hard In Deadwood. Snow
plows stalled. Good here for a week.
Wire funds and Instructions"
To this the manager OF the Chicago
establishment wired as follows:
Telegram received. Hundred tele-
grnphed you. Lose no time. Play
poker, and remit winnings to house"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
Famous English scientist Dead.

London.-Sir William Ramsay. X.
c.. the famous scientist, died Sunday
morning. Sir William Ramsay was
born in Glasgow. He had been a
professor of chemistry at the Univer-
sity college, Bristol, since 1889. After
the discovery of argon, Sir William
discovered heliunl in certain minerals.
Next came crypton. He subsequent.
Iy found neon, then xenon. only one
part of which is to be found in sew
enty million parts of air.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
Affected His soasch.

"My father wants bottle Of red
dick" said Fanny.
'ReddicS," said the drug store man,
what is that2"
cit is something you write red
with"
"Then 1 guess you mean red ink"
MY father said reddick. but he
didn't get much sleep last night and
talks kind of thick this morning, and
that may be the reason"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28

On the registry of Lyons, France,
there has been recorded the birth of a
girl child. The father, a working
man, limping painfully, his chest dec
grated with the Croix de Guerre, ap-
peared in person to make the pre-.
scribed announcement. He gave the
child's first name as Verdunette. A
clerk suggested that it was an odd
name.
1T will at least serve to remind
her." said the honest man, "of the
place where her father got knocked
out"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
Making Quick Time.

Small Nellie had been to an ''Uncle
Toms Cabin" matinee. After the show
was over she said: Mamma, does
little Eva play again to-night?"
Eyes. dear, suppose So" replied the
mother.
We'll" continued Nellie, after mo-
ment's thought. 81 don't see how she
can die and go 70 heaven at four
o'clock and get back in time to die
agnin at EIGHT"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28
How. He Fooled Her.

One day mother left my. little broth
er with a neighbor while she went
shopping. When she returned he was
telling her what he had for lunch.
and in conclusion he said: she
poured water in my cup before she
poured the tea, but saw her do IL
and | fooled her cause just drank
as far down as the water! Chicago
Tribune.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-07-28

Twenty Drowned When Boat Sinks.
Copenhagen.-Twe persons were
drowned when two ferryboats collided
with each other on the Spree, near
Berlin. on Sunday, according to the
Politiken. One of the boats was
sunk