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French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
THE CALL.

Let all the welkin ring,
wilson again We sing
The tried and true;
In all the stormy night,
And every grievous fight,
His heart was for the right
That's ever due.
Not war at any cost,
Nor peace with honor lost,
His slogan cry;
But war, If war must be 9
To keep the nations free,
Or peace and liberty,
With honor high.
Along the roghest way,
In every darkest day,
Firmly he stood;
No frowning princes vaunt,
Nor boastful braggart's taunt
Could swerve him from his won't.
The nations good.
The man of wondrous thought,
Who noble deeds has wrought
With steady hand;
By friends and foe approved,
: BY all the people loved,
By suffering nations moved.
Of every land.
We pray Thee, God above,
Vochsafe to us in love
Still better ways!
To Thee may all be true,
And every ill escheW,
And render homage due
For brighter days!
We come in thankfulness,
And pray Thee, ever bless
Our President
Still guide in all his ways, .,r.
In dark and peaceful days,
And Thee our hearts shall praise
With pure intent!
Boone n. G.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
ANNOUNCEMENT For sENArrE

l hereby announce myself a candt-
date for the Democratic nomination to
represent the Thirty-second Senatoria,
district of North Carolina subject to
INC rules and regulations of the state
primary June 3.
adv RICHARD pom LOWNDEs
Flat Rock. N. C. 3-3O-tfn
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11

A reporter in describing the muir
of a man named Jorkins, said:
1.-THE murderer was evidently in quest
Of money, but luckily Mr.. Jorkin had
deposited all his funds in the bank
the day before, so that he lost nothing
but his life" n
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
Political Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE SENATE
|, The friends of v. C. V Shepherd
hereby place his name in nomination
to. represent the Democrats party in
the Th1rty-second Senatorial race
subject to the rules and regulations OF
tbs primary to be held June 8. 2-2S-tfc
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
FOR THE SENATE.

)! hereby announce myself a candi.
eaCe Tor h Democratic nomination
Tor the Thirty-second Senatorial dis
trlct subject to the rules and regula-
tons of the primary, June 8.
signed. T. B. ALLEN.
4-61tfc.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
FOR L%EGISLATURE

l hereby announce myself as a con-
dictate for the Office of Legislature of
Henderson county subject to the &C
ton of the Democratic primary to be
held June. Srd, 1916.
R. e. LFREMAN.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11

Electric smelling and refining are
said to produce a steel more h0moge-
'neous than open hearth steel OF the
same genera lcomposition.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11

All persons having claims against
the late Miss Ellen Memminger will
please notify Ed r. Memminger of
Flat Rock of the amounts of same.
4tc
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-05-11
FOR LRGISEATuRR.

The friends Of C.SP. Rogers hereby
nominate him for the Legislature sub
1ect to the rules and regulations, offhe
Democratic primary June 8. 4-20-tfc
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07
MORE LOCALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Nicholson mot
ored over from Saltwater Sunday.
4
Emil Carisch and family spent
Thanksgiving with relatives in Os-
SEQ.
The Baptist Ladies Auxiliary will
hold their annual bazarin the church
parlors Dec Is
DR.. and Mrs Leon Barney Of Du-
luth visited in the city from Wenes-
day until Sunday
Mr. and Mrs P w Ramer entertain
ed the normal school faculty at din
ner Monday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Wingquist mot
ored to Cannon Falls and Red Wing
Saturday and SUNDAY.
Raymond Chinook, son Of C T
Chinook of Kinnickinnic, is serious
ly i'll in Minneapolis hospital,
G.. w. Jensen and family spent
Thanksgiving at the home of DR..
and Mrs. E. H. Parker in Minneapo-
lis.
VIM Scroggie recently purchased
the city delivery business from Roy
Smith; who has moved to Cumber-
land,
Members of the Art Circle, with
their husbands, gave very delight
full surprise party in honor Of Mr. and
Mrs ] L WATSON Tuesday evening,
the occasion being the 25th anniver-
sary of their wedding The guests
brought many be. u it'll and useful
presents, and also furnished the
splendid refreshments which were
served 1t was a complete and de-
lightful surprise-the bride" was
att rel in a becoming housedress,
while the groom" was dolIed up in
conventional % suit of Alice-blue
overalls. decorated with deft touches
of samples from the days receipts
at the elevator.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07
Thirty-Six Years Ago
Taken From the River Falls Journal
Of Dec. 8, 1880

Thermometer Is below zero.
Miss Kate Putnam is acting as as
sistant in the principals room at the
public school
Clifton item-Victor Bailey and
Charley Blitsoe are keeping batch"
at the old J. M. Bailey place.
Luke Walton, the murderer, is
languishing with rheumatism in the
E ellsworth jail, being almost helpless.
Kinnickinnic item-Geo. Chinook
and Dick Deyarmond have gone to
the pinery to spend the winter log
ging.
Yet. Kennedy, a nephew of Ham
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07
Eastern Star Officers

The local o E S. elected the fol-
lowing officers to serve during the
ensuing year:
w M.-Miss Eugene Willett
w. P.-Mr Frank Ensign y
A. M.-Mrs. Bertha Finn
Sec Mrs Sarah Sanderson
Treas Miss Addie Hunter
Cond Miss Edna Symes
A. C Miss Merle Shepard
rustee. 3 years-Mrs. Evelyn
Knowlton.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07

West of Oak Grove, was accidentally
shot and killed while hunting deer in
this vicinity Dec. l.
julius Johanson, late of Spring
Grove. Mimi, has formed co-part-
nership with S. Hirsch of this village
for the purpose of opening drug
store.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07
SOUTH MARTELL

y..2..t I. I:
Miss Emma Helgeson has gone to
the Cities to work.
Miss Alice Albertson was home
from Ashland for Thanksgiving.
Miss Lucy Wadsworth spent last
week at her home in River Falls.
G. Baardson and sister Miss Lena
from Baldwin spent Sunday at N.
A. Baardson's.
Paul Bjerkeng left Friday o r
Madison where he will take short
course in Agriculture.
Rev. Meland and son and Mr..
Reiton from Red Wing spent Mon
day at Rev. L. K. Aaberg's.
Mrs. L. K. Aaberg and son Her
man motored to Baldwin Friday
and spent the day at Rev. John
sons.
Prof. j. M. May from River Falls
visited school Wednesday to make
arrangements w t h those pupils
who are interested in the corn show
to be held at River Falls, Dec. 10th.
Those from away who came to at
tend the funeral of the late J. b.
Iverson were Anthem Iverson from
Rudeser, N. D., the Thoen Bro,
from Minneapolis, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Thoen, Mrs. Swarstad and Mrs.
Lommis from Hudson, A. T. Moen
from Minneapolis, K n Ut Brekke
from Rice Lake and B. A. Baardson
from Hudson.
50.
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GILMAN
written for last week.
Emil Nicholson visited his folks
Sunday.
Miss Olga Budsberg visited at-H
L. Hanson's from Friday ill Mon
day.
A large crowd gathered at the
turkey rattle at Ed. Nelson's Sun
day.
There was party at Andrew Ly-
beck's Saturday evening. A good
time was reported.
Alfred and Nettie Hanson and
Miss Budsberg called on Fred Ho-
EN- Saturday evening.
Mrs. Fred Hojem and Nettie Han
son left Wednesday afternoon for
Minneapolis where they visited rela-
tives and friends few days.
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WEST TRIMBELLE
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+ 1: !:
Ben Brickner and bride arrived
home Friday evening. Congratu-
lations.
]. Fasbender and wife spent Mon
dav and Tuesday with relatives in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07
Tuesday Club
December 18th

December 18th
Music
The Russian Jew Mrs Bliss
The promised LAM, by vary Antin,
: Mrs Hubert
Hostess Mrs Allard
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07

Ellsworth.
Everybody istaking in court week
at Ellsworth. The roads are IN fine
condition and autos are numerous.
The Misses Agness and Gertrude
and Louie Hummer and Irv. and
Mabel Dean spent their Thanks
giving recess at their homes in Big
River.
John and Frank Mark were called
to Prescott very suddenly Friday
evening to see their father who was
seriously hurt when he fell from a
hay NOW. He is at present in St.
Johns hospital in ST. Paul.
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j. PLEASANT VALLEY i.
1. I.
i. 1: /: /: 1. ss*s:s.s
Mr.. and Mrs. John Everson and
daughter spent Sunday at Julius
Everson's.
julius Everson spent couple of
days in the city attending school
convention.
Mrs. Gust Holmstone and chill
dren spent Sunday at the Julius
EverSon home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Everson
spent few days with relatives in
Woodville and Baldwin.
s.s*s.s.s-ss.*s*44. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
i +
NEW CENTERVILLE
+ /. +
Mr. and Mrs John Nelson and Mrs
John Hurlburt visited at the Bert
Nelson home Sunday
Mr. and Mrs Winnie Follansbee of
Hurds6eld, N D, are visiting Mrs
Albert Follansbee at Martell.
Mr. and Mrs Eddie Jackman, Mrs
John Hanson and Miss Grace Jack
man returned to River Falls after
spending Thanksgiving al the Jane
Jackman home
The dance in Hurlburt's pavilion
was we'll attended and everyone ap-
peared to enjoy it. Don't forget
the next dance, Dec IS. Music by
Pratt's orchestra of RIVER Falls.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07

Following are the prices paid by
River Falls merchants and dealers
for farm products, etc., to-day:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07
The Local Market

CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-12-07
OAK GROVE

Byron Corcoran was a Big River
caller Sunday.
Miss Alverna Simon is recover
ing from her recent illness.
Miss Lena Hamilton entertained
company at her home Monday after
noon.
Robert Ray d family spent
Thanksgiving at River Falls with
relatives there.
Miss Collins closed her school IN
Dist. No. 2 last week for b e
Thanksgiving vacation.
Julius Reeck, Jr., returned nome
last Thursday from Fortuna, N.
D. after spendingth summer there.
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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
OEHIZI MDSQNIZ0
SbAF5P IN CLI2F

tober 8, 1854; was educated at thu University Of
the South at Sewanee, Tenn, where he studied
from 1869 to 1875, graduating with the degree
OF bachelor of arts. He graduated in medicine
at the Bellevue Hospital Medical college in 1879.
He served on the house staff of the Bellevue
hospital from 1879 to 1880; entered the United
States army in 1880, and served in Florida and
on the western frontier until the Spanish-Amer
lean war broke out in 1898. He went to Cuba
with the expedition which captured Santiago.
After the fall of Santiago General Gorgas con.
tracted typhoid fever, and was sent back to the
United States. He went with the eXpeditionary
force which occupied Havana in December, 1898,
where he remained as health officer until the fall
of 1902. During his ~incumbency as health officer
of the city of Havana the army medical board
made a discovery with regard to yellow fever
and found that it was conveyed by the Stegomyia
mosquito. AS health officer, with his sub.
ordinates he devised plans and measures whereby
this discovery was put into practical service.
AS a result of these measures Havana was
freed from yellow fever entirely in about eight
months, although the disease had been there
continuously for the previous $50 years. For
this work he was promoted by special act of
congress from the grade of major to that of
colonel.
For ten years Doctor Gorgas was stationed in
the Panama Canal zone, as the chief health Of
fcer of the isthmian canal commission. He was
ordered to Panama in March, 1904, and three
years thereafter Theodore Roosevelt made him a
member of the commission. He was chosen for
the Panama work because of his record. He
made Panama one of the healthiest places in
the world and. more than this, he made the liv-
ing conditions of the laborer on the isthmus as
sanitary, as comfortable and as desirable as the
conditions surrounding the laborer anywhere in
the world,
Two years ago when General Gorgas' term of
service on the isthmus was drawing to a close
because OF the near approach of the day of COM
pletion of the waterway, your correspondent Wis
tied the Canal zone. While there he was taken,
with some friends, to visit a hospital ON an is-
land of the coast. This hospital had been built
by the French. When General Gorgas went to
the isthmus he took the building. put 1t into
perfect sanitary condition and made it a place
of reception for convalescents. The hospital
never was full, because there wasn't enough
sickness in the zone to produce convalescents
enough at any time to tax the hospital facilities.
The fact that this particular building never was
crowded and that it was a small building at best,
perhaps furnishes one of the best proofs possible
of the commanding medical work which was
done in a place generally accounted as one of
the most unhealthy on the face of the globe.
During the visit to Panama a statement was
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
MGzNG aAMzARySxzHRSANc4M4Z ANr

made to your correspondent by General Gorgas
which was nothing short of startling in its ma
ture. He said: IF the governments of Vene-
zuela and Ecuador would spend a few thousand
dollars to stamp out yellow fever there never
would be another case of the disease known 10
the world"
For some reason or other the South American
countries in which the yellow fever still exists
will not spend the money necessary to stamp it
out. So it is that so long as the disease exists
there it is possible for some man, perhaps d
sailor, to be bitten by a feverladen mosquito
Just before he sails for another port and to carry
with him the poison. 1t is held by the high think
es that the countries of South America where
yellow fever exists should be forced to stamp
out the disease in order that the rest of the
world may be safe for all time from the menace
of the dread yellow jack"
Some time ago, during a process OF dredging,
a low spot on the zone was turned into a marsh,
and almost instantly the malaria mosquito be-
gan to breed there abundantly. Literally mil
lions of the insects appeared. Now, there was no
danger that they would spread malaria among
the zone people, because the insects had to be-
come charged with the poison first; but, of course,
it was necessary to determine how far the crea-
lures could travel, and this is the way they
found out:
An able-bodied and perfectly willing native
was put into a mosquito net tent, where he sat
and acted as bait. He was paid a certain amount
or gold IOr MS DdlJlnB WOTh anu ne, WITH OLlerS
who afterward were employed, said it was easy
money.
When the tent had a million or more mosqui-
toes in it the native came out and the entrance
was closed. Then the scientists sprayed the
tent and its confined mosquitoes with coloring
matter. The spray was so fine that it did not
drown or even drench the insects, but they re-
ceived some coloring matter on their wings and
bodies.
Other tents were pitched and in each was sta
toned a human bait. These tents were at GER
tain distances apart. All the mosquitoes in the
first tent were released and they were traced
by color from tent to tent until none were found.
In that way they found out how far the malaria
fever mosquito would travel.
Surgeon General Gorgas makes his headquar-
tiers in Washington. but he is a soldier constant
ly subject to orders and also to the dictates of
his own judgment. Amy day he may be obliged
to go straight to the front. not to meet the hui
man enemy, but the disease enemy. His is the
responsibility for the health of the soldiers in
Texas, in the Canal zone, in Hawaii and in the
Philippine islands. It is his to meet, physician
like and soldierlike, any emergency which may
arise. He ia one of the gentlest men known to
the service and he is also one OF the bravest.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
Prominent Russian Women.

From time immemorial Russian
women have taken an active part in
the social and political affairs of their
country. Not only have they played a
conspicuous role in revolutionary
movements, education, labor questions
and charity work, but they have fig
ured prominently in art, science, di-
plomacy and court i%ntrigues, Ivan
Narodny writes In the New York Sun.
Catherine the Great was a striking fig
ure in Russian history, and so were
Anna Joanova, Nine. Novikoff and
many others. The heroism of Mines.
Broshkowskaya, Sussulitch and Figner
displayed in Russian reform move
ment is well known. Pavlowa, Kar-
savina and Nazimova are well known
Russian stage celebrities. The in
huences that Nine. Denisova and
Countess lgnatieva have exercised in
Petrograd during the present decade
speaks %eloquently of the far-reaching
power of Russian women, although
their method is fundamentally differ
ent from that of their American and
west European sisters.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22
Questions on Evolution.

The Word and Way" says concern
ing the theory of evolution: "Notwith-
standing the bold and boastful claims
to the contrary, the missing link is
still missing, so far as any evidence
yet adduced is concerned. Maj began
as man. The sheep has always been
the sheep. The hog has always been
a hog. The grasshopper has always
been a grasshopper, and the flea has
always been a flea. In the absence of
any proof to the contrary, this is the
logical inference. The universal law
that everything produces after it's kind
has never been proved false. Why, If
the theory of evolution be true, has
there not been some observable and
provable evolution within the limits of
human history? Why have the hog
and the sheep and the horse and the
hornet and the doodlebug ceased
evolving? Any way, if this theory be
true, will it not follow eventually that
everything that is will evolve into
something else? Aren't the figs and
dates, the camels and goats, just to-
day what they were 1000 years ago?
And if they are today what they were
1000 years ago., why not what they
were 10000 or 100, 900 years ago."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-22

tarily of his own achievements on the sickness
stricken field, he is writing of one of the most
famous men of any nation. He does not belong
to Washington, nor yet to the United States, but
to the world.
Here is a doctor and a soldier whose record
in a way upset it's traditions and changed a line
OF legislative action which for years ran one
unvarying course. Last spring the congress of
the United States paid General Gorgas the high
est compliment that it is within its power to pay.
1t gave him the thanks of the congress of the
United States; it promoted him to the grade of
major general, and it so changed established
custom as to enable him to remain at the head
of the medical crops of the army for some
months after the four years allotted for such
service shall have expired.
In other words, through the action of congress,
General Gorgas, instead of being surgeon general
of the army for the term of only four years, will
hold that office until he retires from active work
at the age of sixty-four years.
The thanks Of congress, promotion to the rank
of major general and the provision which would
enable the incumbent to remain surgeon general
for a longer period than the usually allotted time
came to this doctor, as the resolutions of con-
gress show, because of his great work in routing
disease from the Panama Canal zone and in max
ing a former plague spot one of the most health
full districts in the world.
1t is virtually impossible to get the records of
all the great scientists of the world for purposes
of immediate comparison, but it seems to be
safe to say that no other man has been so hon
ored by educational institutions and by learned
societies as has William Crawford Gorgas. He
received his modest A. B.. from the University
of the South at Sewanee, Tenn, in the year
1875, and his M. D. from Bellevue Hospital Med
ical college in New York city four years later.
From that time to this honors have been piled
upon him, and he has borne them all with a mod
esty that resembles meekness. II is held by
many that doctor of science is the highest honor
which any institution of learning can confer
upon a man. Seven great universities, including
Oxford, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Brown and
Princeton have conferred the doctor Of science
degree upon this American army doctor.
To him have come LII DIS from Johns Hop
kins, and from many other universities. By the
decree of Yale. Georgetown and Washington uni
versities he is a doctor of laws. He has medals
from societies, from medical associations and
from national academies of science for dis
tinguished achievement in the interest of man.
kind" He has the Seaman medal from the
American Museum of Safety. and he has the
Mary Kindsley medal from the Liverpool Eng
and) School OF Tropical Medicine. He is a mem
Der, either active or honorary, of virtually every
great scientific society in the world. The hon
ors have sought him out. He has gone on with
his work seeking nothing except that which will
benefit his fellow man.
General Gorgas was born in Mobile. Ala, oc-