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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28
Reedsburg Man Defeats Col
George Breed of Chiffon
In Good Natured Cam
paign at Last Session
of Dept. Encamp-
rnent Of G. A. r.
NAME LIKES SENIOR VICE

Popular Kenosha Veteran Is Unani-
mously Elected as Senior Vice Com
mander Of the Department-Pass Res
olutions Praising Stand of United
States Senator Husting Ask Cover
nor to Reappoint Members of the
Board of Trustees of the Milwaukee
Home.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28
LIFE or NATION IN DANGER

Reverend Bishop Of the Church and
Distinguished Leader of Men In Bat
tie Front Stirs People to Patriotic
Cheers at Great Camp Fire Of Grand
Army Men - Boys Who Wore the
Blue Recall Memories of Service on
the Field and In Camp While Great
Audience Stands and Applauds.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28
NEW GRAND ARMY OFFICERS

Department Commander ....
Col William A. Wyse, Reedsburg.
Senior Vice Commander
-. Charles E. Likes, Kenosha
Junior Vice Commander 1880.
&C. F. Howison, Chippewa Falls
Surgeon =. ......
...... DR.. H. R. Bird, Madison.
Chaplain ...........
....n.... A. J. Hood, Muscoda
Adjutant General and Quarter
master General ........
......W. j. Mckay, Madison
Representatives to the National
Encampment to be held in Boston
in August-R. E. Osborn, Lacrosse;
0. j. Burnham, Richland Center; c.
F. Stemm, Kenosha; S. NJ. Bond,
Milton; George D. Breed, Chiffon;
Rock j. Flint, Menominee anu
Robert English, Bayfield,
Altenates-U. D. Wood, Black
Earth; Mark NJ. Buttles, Lacrosse;
A. f. Tucker, Berlin; H. A. Holly,
Waupaea; Joseph Stevens, Ashlando
Orville Strong, Dodgeville; w. G.
Human, Marshfeld; W. D. earle
ton, River Falls.
District Delegates-First district,
F. H. Lyman, Kenosha; r. J. Arth-
ur, Waukesha. Second district,
Henry stannard, Green Bay; E. K.
Cone, Sheboygan. Third district,
A. B. Van Meter, Oregon; NJ. j.
Briggs, DodgevilGe. Fourth district,
John M. Galloway, Milwaukee;
Graham G. Scott, Milwaukee. Fifth
district, Henry Hase, Milwaukee;
G. E. Estabrook, Milwaukee,; Sixth
district, William DeSteese, Fond du
Lac; L. H. Mowers, Ripon. Seventh
district, L. N. Kelley, Reedsburg;
w. B. Hood, Lone Rock. Eighth
district, E. NJ. Copps, Stevens
Point; john Evans, Waupaca. Ninth
district, Dennis Meidam, Appleton;
Israel Wood, Amigo. Tenth dis
trict, S. G. F. Cobban, Chippewa
Falls; J. M. Botsford, Eau Claire.
Eleventh district, A. n. Lent, Su-
perior; j. II. Hellweg, Hayward.
The encampment recommended to
Governor Philip for appointment as
trustees of the Milwaukee Soldiers
Home; Capt. Robert Law, Neenah;
Col. F. A. Walsh, Milwaukee; Col.
R. B. Lang, Racine; Capt. Charles
Cowan, Ripon; Captain Henry C.
Smith, Green Bay; Captain j. NJ.
Botsford, Altoona, and Col. o. L.
Rosenkranz, Milwaukee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28

Kenosha should join with the other
cities of the nation in providing
Home Guard. This is to be just what
The name implies. Some one to take
care of the wife and children of the
men who are doing your fighting at the
front. These men can expect nothing
less. It is possible for US to give them
nothing more.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28

Milwaukee has added another string
to her bow. They pulled off one of
those dare devil automobile races there
on Sunday without a single killing.
OF course, it was not all that the crowd
wanted, but at that it seems to have
been successful as an automobile race.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28

The man who gets ahead the fastest
is the man who learns fret that doing
enc thing well is a lot better than
doing lot of things poorly.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28

Gen. Samuel FalIows Makes
Patriotic Appeal for the
Life of the Nation to
Great Audience of
Veterans Wednes-
day Evening.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31
Sir Beerbohm Trees Tact.

As most people who have the pleas
ure of his acquaintance know perfectly
well, Sir Beerbohm Tree is a very tact
full man. He Is also an exceedingly
critical judge Of good cigar, and
heartily detests the smell even of r
bad one.
He was alone In railway carriaQ
when young man entered, and, sit.
ting down opposite to him, puffed
away heartily at a tweed" too awful
for words.
Are you aware. sir" inquired Sir
Beerb0hm in his most impressive man.
ner. that this is not q smoking car
riageT
With an apologize remark, the
youth flung his humble smoke out Of
the window. A minute later he oh.
served incredulously: But-but you
are smoking yourself"
"Quite So" replied Sir Beerbohn
blanAly. but I thought you might have
conscientious scruples. Er-have one
Of miner
The youth selected with alacrity q
prime imported Havana from the prof.
fered case, lit up. and soon the pleasing
aroma from two excellent cigars per.
vaded every corner Of the carriage.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31
Net profit after
paying for farm
and all cost. 80.
$2.472.67
$4,482. .18

S. Joseph and Sons Of Des Moines,
a., are looked upon as being shrewd.
careful business men. Having some
spare money on hand, and looking for
a suitable investment, they decided to
purchase Canadian lands, and farm
them.
With the assistance Of the Canadian
Government Agent. at Des Moines. H..
they made selection near Champion.
Alberta. They put 24O acres OF land
in wheat, and in writing to Mr.. Hew-
1T. The Canadian Government Agent
at Des Moines, one Of the members OF
the firm says: II have much pleasure
in advising you that on our farm five
miles east of Champion, in the Prov
inoe of Alberta. Canada, this year
f1916) we harvested and threshed TO-
6OO bushels of wheat from 24O acres.
This being an average of A bushels
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31
What is Castoria

.AsToRIA q harmless substitute for Castor on Paregor
Drops and Soothing syups 1t is pleasant It contains neither
O Morphne Its Is its
,+e For has been constant for the relief
consultation Fatuency, Wind Collie and Diarrha aayng Feveh
arising therefro by regulating the Stomach and Bowels
s;ds the assimilation Of Foods giving healthy and natural sleep
The Chidren's Panacea-The Mothers Friend
The Kna Won Have
has borne Fletcher under
Allow deceive youi this
All and arc but Experiments that
tr;Ae With and the health OF Infants and ~
Neutrality-suspicious. against Experiment /% <AZNz..
sisnatureo OF I<2Z /ZI<<<<<
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31
For Home Consumption.

Backyard farms should be conducted
solely for the purpose Of supplying
vegetables for home consumption.
There should be no thought given to
selling to your neighbors; plan the
entire farm" for your personal use.
Your neighbor has an equal opportu-
nifty to produce vegetables, and II he
has not availed himself Of his oppor-
tunity, the loss Is his.-A. T. Hastings
In Golfers Weekly.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31

quantities of rifles for the British army
are equipped to manufacture the En-.
field rife In more than sufficient mum.
Der. Therefore 1t has been decided to
adopt the Enfield rife. but manufac.
tured to use American ammunition.
Our government will continue to
manufacture the Springfield model, the
ammunition for which will be inter.
changeable with that Of the new En-
6eld.
Tie United States = In q very sntis-
factory position so far az all typs Of
ammunition are concerned.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31

ana ~ pounds to the acre. A con-
siderable portion Of the wheat was
No. 1 Northern, worth at Champion,
approximately $1.85 per bushel, max
Ing a total return Of $19,81O, or an av-
erage Of $S1.7O per acre gross yields.
And by aid Of thorough system were
able to keep the cost of growing wheat
at about Is cents a bushel."
Messrs. Smith & Sons Of Vulcan,
Alberta, are growers Of wheat on q
large scale and have demonstrated
that there is greater profit in Western
Canada wheat-raising than probably In
any other business anywhere. Speak
ing Of their experience Mr.. Smith
says:
II have three sections Of land Mt the
present time and am farming yearly
1900 to 1,4O0 acres of land. Ny re-
turns from the farm for the past two
years have been around 2O0To, that IL
for every dollar I have spent l have
received three, now do not know
where you can do that well.
"This is surely the country for the
man with the small capital as the land
Is still reasonable In price, payments
In long term and work Of all kinds for
every man to do. feel that II was
turned out here without dollar that
In less than ten years l could own q
section Of land and have 1t well
equipped"
Western Canada's soil and climate
Is suitable to granting large and prof
table yields Of wheat. Many 50 large
that those not acquainted with the
facts hesitate to believe the reports
sent out by the farmers In that coun-
try. As an evidence of their sincerity
In reporting correct yields affidavits
Of couple Of grain growers are repro
duced.
II, Newell ]. Noble, Of the town Of
Nobleford. Province of Alberta, do
solemnly declare that from 1000 acres
Of wheat on the said farm there was,
In the season Of 1915, threshed 54.S95
bushels Of wheat, being at the average
Of 81 bushels and q pounds per acre.
And that from 394.69 acres Of oats on
the said farm. there was threshed in
the said season of 1916, 4S,5O6 bushels
Of oats, being at the average of 122
bushels and 30 pounds per acre.
"And I make this solemn declara-
ton conscientiously, believing it to be
true and knowing that 1t is of the
same force and effect as II made un-
der oath and nv virtue Of Tho Canada
Evidence Act" NEWELL ]. NOBLE.
A Woman Takes Affidavit ~ to
YIeids.-On January 4, 1917, Mrs. Nan.
cy Coe of Nobleford made oath as fol.
lows:
In the matter Of yield Of wheat, oats
and fax on my farm for harvest of
1916, I, Nancy Coe, Of the town of
Nobleford, Province Of Alberta, do SOL
EMMY declare that I threshed from
115 acres on my farm Clio bushels Of
wheat (machine measure, which 1t is
believed will hold out in weights fully
about three-fourths of the crop al
ready having been weighed), being at
the average of So bushels and 8
pounds per acre, and that from 48
acres Of fax on stubble ground, l
threshed 093 bushels Of fax, being Mt
an average of 20 bushels and 80
pounds per acre, and that from sos
acres Of oats I threshed $50 bushels,
machine measure, being at an average
Of lis bushels and q pounds per acre.
advertisement.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31
ENFIELD RIFLE TO BE ARM
Can &c Turned Out Quickly and In
Quantities by Factories That Are
Now In Operation.

Manufacturing facilities for the
Springfield rife are not adequate to
supply the number required for the
larger force which the United States
may decide to send abroad and to re-
place the wastnge Of such a force.
For .rnatcly the existing small-arms
sAn...t~- which have been turning out
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31
FARMING NOW
A BUSINESS
inc Modern Day Farmer Applies
Business Methods and Seeks
More Than a Living on
the Farm.

A nationwide cry is being made for
more economy and greater production,
and probably never was the need of
1oodstuffs equal to that of the present
Grain prices are the highest in the ma
lions history and today the agricul-
tural fields of America offer induce.
ments that are unequaled in any other
line of commerce or business. The
ideal life Is that close to nature, en-
1oying the freedom of Gods great out
doors and fulfilling duty to human
ity by producing from a fertile soil
that which is essential to the very ex-
istence of less fortunate people who
are actually starving to death for food
stuns that can be produced so eco
nomically In the United States ana
Canada.
High prices for all grains, undoubt-
eddy, will be maintained for a number
OF years, and 1t appears a certainty
that the agriculturist will reap q
bounteous return for his labor and at
the same time carry out the demands
OF patriotic citizenship. A wrong con-
ception has been generally noticed as
to Life on the Farm" It has been,
to large extent, considered as only
a place to live peacefully and afford
living for those who are satisfied with
merely comfortable existence. Such
wrong impression has been created.
in a measure, by the lack of systema-
tic business principles to farming in
general. But today farming and agri-
culture have been given supremacy
In the business world and require the
same advanced methods as any other
line of commerce. In no other busi-
ness does system adoption pay bet
ter than on the farm, and it Is certain
that there is no other line Of work,
that. generally speaking, needs 1t as
much. The old idea of getting living
off the farm and not knowing how 1t
was made and following up the details
Of each branch Of farming to get the
maximum Of profit, ut the least ex-
pense, Is fast being done away with.
Farming Is now being considered as
a business and living Is not sufficient
for the modern agriculturist; small
per cent on the investment Is not
enough, the present-day farmer must
have percentage return equal to that
Of other lines Of business. The prices
for produce are high enough, but the
cost Of producing has been the factor,
in many places, that has reduced the
profit. 1t Is the application of a sys-
tenn to the cost of various work on the
farm that it is possible to give figures
on profits made in grain-growing In
Western Canada.
Mr.. G. A. Wright of Milo, Iowa,
bought hundred and sixty acres Of
land in Western Canada for $500 in
December, 1915, and took his first crop
from it in 1916. After paying for the
land in full and the cost of cultivating
it and marketing the grain, he sold his
grain at $1.55 bushel "a low price
compared with the present market)s
had surplus Of $2,472.67. His figures
are as follows:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31

A writer says that brains will tell.
However, sometimes It Is brains that
keep a man from telling.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-31

Useless.
MA" said discouraged little ur-
chin; II amt going to school any
more"
"Why, dearT tender,y inquired his
mother.
"'Cause faint no use. ! can never
learn to spell. The teacher keeps
changing words on me all the time"
Cocoa shells are being fed to cattle
In course Of experiments by French
dairymen.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-04-26
FARMERS URGED NOT
TO KILL CALVES
tFrom Chicago Live Stock World


General farmer, and live stock pro-
ducers can DO then country no greater
service than by seeking to make Their
production reach the very limit OF pos
sibility.
Men who send to market immature
and young stock that could carry
greater weight are wasting the coun-
try's resources. In all human proba-
billy they are also sacrificing profits
they might reap. The unprecedented
prices have been and are temptation
TO cash in while the cashing is good /;
but when a man sends to market un-
derweight and young breeding stock he
is killing the goose that lays the golden
egg. He is making it harder for him
self and others to replenish feed lots
and pastures.
To be sure. no man can be expected
to go out and buy dear feed to make
1900 and l700-pound steers or $50 to
400-pound lard hogs, but it is little less
than an economic crime at this time
to send in half finished 1000 to l2O0-
pound steers and $50 to lS0-pound hogs.
Marketing of strictly dairy veal
calves is excusable, but every calf that
could grow into good beef should by
all means be kept.
Sending to slaughter pregnant cows
and heifers for beef should be abso-
lutely discontinued, at least for the
period of the war.
In our great national emergency
every man should consider how best
he can help along. The easiest way
for every owner of live stock to do
his bit" is to see that every animal
goes to market carrying as much
weight ass. is Practical to put on.
We are now drawing upon the May
and June and July supplies of beef,
pork and mutton.
Farming and live stock feeding is a
good deal of a gamble, but there never
was time since the American Civil
war when a feeder could feel as sure
of good profit on bringing his live
stock up to normal weight.
The higher the prices for grain, the
more certain is the feeder of profit
in putting weight on immature stock.
From one end of the country to the
other there is dearth of mature
stock. Feed lots, east, west, north
and south, are bare. Hundreds of
thousands of sheep and cattle have
been wiped out by the almost unprece-
dented severity of winter in the west,
and there is no spot on the map where
one can turn to find surplus of young
stock to put in feed lots or turn on the
pastures.
patr;of;cpo alopa o,1uht IN he s,lfficI
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-04-26
WRIGHT BROS. BEGAN
INVENTION in OREGON

One of the greatest chapters of con-
show that the invention 'of the aero
plane has equalled in importance that
of the steamboat, the steam engine or
the automobile, and scientific historians
will record that the contribution to
world progress of the heavier than air
flying machine was made by the late
Wilbur Wright and his surviving
brother, OrvilIe. But il is not gener-
ally known that the Wright boys be-
gan their work of invention, later con-
tinued in a work shop back of their
store in Dayton, o., at the quiet little
town of Philomath in the Willamette
valley.
The residence of Wilbur and Orville
Wright at Philomath was recalled this
week to S. E. Bartmess on receipt Of
''The Religious Telescope" a publi-
cation of the United Brethren church.
The Religio US Telescope of the April
IL issue tells of the death of Milton
Wright, United Brethren Bishop and
former editor of the publication, at the
home of his son, Orville, in Oakwood,
Dayton, o., suburb, on April 3.
The news contained in The Religious
Telescope of the death of the father of
the noted inventors was shown to Rev.
F. Fl. Neff, of Salem, who is here con-
ducting a series of evangelistic meet
ings at the United Brethren church.
Rev. Neff, too, recalls the residence of
the late Bishop Wright at Philomath.
Mr.. Neff does not know the exact date
of the departure of Bishop Wright and
his family on their return to Ohio.
Bishop Wright first came to Oregon
before he was married on November
"a, 1859, to Susan Catherine Koerner.
According to the photographed
sketch in The Religious Telescope, he
was converted in l843, while alone in
the field at his plow and not in connec-
tion with any revival services. He
was licensed to exhort in 1852, and in
1856 was formally ordained. In 1857
he was sent by the church as mis-
sionary to the Pacific coast, making
the journey by the way of the Isthmus
of Panama. For two years he preached
and taught in the region about Salem.
Wilbur and Orville Wright were
taught to respect the Sabbath day and
keep it holy. 1t is recorded that they
had planned one of the first demonstra-
tions of their flying machine on GER
tain Saturday. But on that day the
weather was so blustery that the
thousands who had convened to see the
workings of the new invention were
doomed to disappointment. The fol-
lowing Sunday was clear and calm.
l.. l.. l..
sembled at the shop of the inventors
and urged them to make trial flight.
One of the boys addressed the men
and women present and in few sim
pie words told them that they had
been taught to abstain from all labor
on Sunday and that no appeals would
cause them to diverge from the GUS
tom of the family.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-04-26
| Will Come Back Home to You

(Bv J. b. Polk, a former local resi-
dent.)
Just before the battle, mother, l am
thinking most of you;
While upon the field we're watching,
with the Mexicans in view.
We can see them over yonder, making
ready for the fight;
Now may God protect US, mother, as
He ever does the right.
When the order called for soldiers all
the Guards prepared to go;
Leaving home and friends behind them,
marching down to Mexico.
If ne'er return, dear mother, do not
weep, tbs better so,
For we must put down the bandits, and
bring peace to Mexico.
When Carranza proved traitor, and
always thought he would;
Sending men to hunt for Villa could
result in nothing good;
Now we'll make a general "clean up, "
from Juarez to Tampico;
And the country will look better when
we leave Old Mexico.
War is "hell in operation, down below
the Rio Grande;
But that much deluded nation did not
seem to understand;
When they fired upon Old Glory on the
plains of Carrizal, >
They had put in operation "War, "
which Sherman said was "hell."
But before this war is over all the
world will understand;
That it is for peace we're fighting,
down below the Rio Grande.
| will make this promise, mother, to
my country I'll be true;
And if God above is willing, 81 will
come back home to you."
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-04-26
AN OLD CONFED.
WOULD JOIN NAVY

Another gratifying example of loyal
ty was demonstrated at the U. S.
Navy Recruiting Office, Little Rock,
Ark, when j. L. Leigh applied for en-
listment in the U. S. navy.
Mr.. Leigh requested that he be en-
listed at once and sent to the largest
battleship afioat for service on that
vessel, and he was greatly disappoint-
ed when informed by the recruiting
officer that he exceeded the required
age limit by forty some odd years, he
being SO years of age.
Mr. Leigh is warrior of experience,
having enlisted in the Confederate
army at the age of 19 and having
served for four years, which ended in
April 1865, under General Lee at APP
pomattoX.
1t is most gratifying in these times
of need to find such loyal spirit in the
Boys of 1861" and such an example
as shown by our wothry veteran, Mr..
Leigh, will no doubt find a like re-
sponse by the Boys of 1872
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-04-26
SOCIATION WILL GO
0 HEILBRONNER BLDG.

The Apple Growers Association Mon
day announced the lease by the ship.
pirg concern of two large first floor
10 ms and baseWent and second floor
Office, the latter for the meetings of
the board of directors, of the Hebron
ner building. The cooperative agency
will vacate the quarters in the David
son building, owned by III. F. Davidson
who recently severed his membership
with the Association, and move the
clerical and administrative department
to- the new location. The Davidson
building has been used for these de-
partments since the Association was
organized in 1913.
The basement, the largest in Hood
River, will be used for the storage of
large block of fruit in case of neces-
'itv. The Association gets the corner
room. formerly occupied by the 5, 10
ami Is cent store, and the room now
occupied by c. N. Ravlin and H. l..
Hasbrouck.