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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-05

Edith kelton.
"B"
Viola Belcher.
Hazel Brown.
Mildred Brown.
VIM. Burns.
Marion Crossman.
Arthur Gilbert
Doris Goyette.
Hubbel Lathrop.
Floris Johnson.
Helena McDevitt.
Jennie McNaughton.
Rhoda Orvis.
Louise Schneider.
Julian Shaw.
Basil Walsh.
Evangeline Wilcox.
&c"
Marjorie Andrew.
Gladys Baker.
Jessie Bennett.
Rosa Brooks.
Myrtle Brown.
Helen Convey.
Cecil Davis.
Helen Clifford.
John Gleason.
Hazel Goyette.
Florence Kelton.
Clark Kelley.
Bertha Kelley.
Howard Manley.
N. H. Marsden.
Mary Mcbride.
Marcella McDevitt
Ruth Mclaughlin.
Fife Phelps.
Harriet Reed.
Ruey Root
Agnes Seymour.
Alice Sheridan.
Mavis Walsh.
Wilma Walsh.
Andrew Wilcox.
Fannie Wilcox.
Fora Wilkins.
Howard Wilson.
I'D"
H. P. Bennett.
Paul Buck.
H. B. Childs.
Ray Eaton.
Florence Eddy.
Kenneth Fairman.
Chas. Kinney, Jr.
Ruth Lovett.
Sylvia Lyon.
Winifred Marley.
Hazel Purdy.
Gladys Richardson.
L. F. Schlieder.
Waive Streeter.
Lawrence Ventres.
Gertrude Tully.
Edward Campbell.
James Williams.
Margaret Williams.
"E"
James Beebe.
Julia Burroughs.
James Burns.
Julia Buxton.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-05

When baby suffers with eczema or
some itching skin trouble, use Doans
Ointment. A little Of IL goes long
way and it is safe for children. Doc a
box at all stores. ao'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

Fellow Citizens Young and Old:
That starry banner which floats
so majestically above our heads is
your flag and my flag. 1t is the
flag of more than 100,000,000 free
people. There are sacred memor-
les in every fold; the blood of pa
triots has consecrated every stripe
and every star. 1t has been borne
on many battlefield, but always
on the side of human freedom, al
ways in defense of the right of the
people to govern themselves, and
please God-it always will be.
1T is our privilege and our duty
to honor, love, and revere it, to be
loyal to it in thought, word, and
deed, now and always, and to give
our lives for it if need be, because
it represents the best and noblest
ideals of human life and govern
ment. Judge Winslow.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04
NORMAL SCHOOL NOTES

We are we'll pleased with the show
ing made by the Normal eleven in the
game with Eau Claire Saturday, and
look for an even better exhibition
against Manchester next Saturday.
An all-faculty picnic was held at
the lodge in the park on Monday eve
ming. A splendid supper was served,
after which mixed program took
place.
A schedule of games is being ar
ranged for the Normal-High school
team.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04
CARD OF THANKS

We desire to use this means of
thanking the many friends of our
dearly beloved husband and father,
Philip Lowell, for their many kind
nesses at the time of his sad death,
and for the many messages of sym.
pathy that have been received by
the bereaved. We wish also to ten
der our thanks to the Order of the
l. N. Nichols Post, G. A. r., the |.
o. o. F. 1919 and Daughters of Re-
bekah as we'll as those others whose
handsome floral offerings were Sc
much appreciated.
Mrs. Martha Lowell
Nellie Fisher and family
Elmer Lowell
Mrs. Monroe Briggs and family
Richard Lowell and family
Mrs. Vernon Briggs and family
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04
Obituary

Philip Lowell, a we'll known citizen
of the town of River Falls and later
of the city, died at 11:25 o'clock last
Thursday night after an all-summer
sickness from Bright's disease and
dropsical trouble. The deceased
was native of England, born in
Carton, Yorkshire, England, April
1, 1916. While only little boy his
parents moved to America in 1853,
settling at Beloit, Wis, where they
remained three years In 1856 they
came to River Falls by OK team and
located on the F. G. Baird farm.
From there they moved to the farm
where Mrs. w. III. Lowell now lives.
Mr.. Lowell enlisted in military
service in 1864. He enrolled Sept.
End, 1864, at La Crosse and was
mustered out June 9th, 1865, at
Washington, D. C. He was a pri-
vate in Co. A 3rd Wis. Inf. 20 A. C.
July A, 1868, Mr.. Lowell was
united in marriage to Miss Martha
M. Cornish Of River Falls. To this
union there were born five children:
Nellie M. Fisher, Elmer E. Lowell,
Lillian M. Briggs, Richard D. Low
ell, all of River Falls, and Neva B.
Briggs of Eugene, Oregon, all of
whom survive him. He was Of "a
most charitable, unselfsh nature, al
ways ready to sacrifice his own in
terests for the benefits of others.
He possessed those higher manly
qualities which endeared him to his
family and his host of acquaintance
and his death will cause a deep void
in large circle of friends.
The funeral services were held at
100 o'clock Saturday, Sept. 20, at the
Cong. church, conducted by order of
l. O. O. F. and |. N. Nichols Post G.
A. R. of which he had been a mem
Der many yerrs, and also a member
of Odd Fellow Rebekah lodge. A
beautiful funeral sermon was
preached by Rev. D. B. Spencer.
Music was rendered by a choir of
selected voices, Mr.. Ed. Pratt. Mrs.
Powell and Mrs. Tozer. The casket,
buried beneath the good old flag,
the red, white and blue, and an
abundance of flowers. was borne to
Greenwood cemetery, where inter-
ment was made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

Hardly a day passes when one OF
the dailies does not contain an ac-
count of fire which was started by
some careless person tossing ciga-
rette stub into an awning or base
ment stairway. Railroad men claim
that more fires are caused by burn
ing "snipes." thrown from car win
dows, than by cinders from the To-
connective. A little judgment used
by smokers would save thousands OF
dollars worth of property.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

Citizens of the town of Kenyon;
near Red Wing, Mimi, aroused by
utterances attributed to L. w. Mar
tin, an organizer for the Non-Parti-
san League, last week formed Ku
Klux Khan for the avowed purpose
of preventing outspoken disloyalty
and incidentally Furnishing Martin,
The woods near Kenyon were scour-
ed until Martin was found.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

Do not fail to call and see the clas-
sy new hats at Sampson & Peter
son New Millinery Store at Ill
Walnut St., Hudson, Wis.-adv.
Jos. L. Kuechenmelster. editor of
the Minnesota Lake Tribune, pub
lished at Minnesota Lake, Mimi.
was Journal caller Saturday. Mr..
Kuechenmeister came down to see
his brother, who was employed on
the Times last week and who had re-
turned to St. Paul without his know
ledge.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

Miss Olive Hanan spent Sunday at
her home in Baldwin.
Mrs. ] H. Patterson and grand
daughter, Irene Larkin spent Sum
day with ST. Paul relatives.
j. A. Holmes, chef at Nelson's
restaurant for the past year, left
Friday to spend the winter months
with relatives at New Orleans.
Raoul Gendron came down from
ST. Paul Monday to see his father.
DR.. A. E. Gendron, VINO left that
day for Fort Benjamin Harrison.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

Miss Marie Deneen has resigned her
position as teacher at the Normal, and
accepted position in the University
high school at Minneapolis at sub
stantial raise in salary.
The first all-schooI matinee dance
was given in the gym Tuesday from
four until six o'clock. Music was
furnished by the Normal orchestra.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04
Modern Woodmen of America,
Notice

At the first regular meeting of
local Camp No. 921 in October, 1917,
the Beneficial members of the Camp
present will vote either to sustain
the amendment to the bylaws Gre
ating Patriotic Fund or to repeal
said amendment. Be sure to be
present at that meeting.
S. C. Hamilton, Camp Clerk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

j. L. Moody is in receipt of let
ter from Mrs. J. B. Jensen of Norge,
Va, in which she states that her
sons Barton and James are b h
serving under Uncle Sam, the form
er at Charleston. S. c., as a recruit
ing officer and the latter in Eng
land. Ellsworth Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

At last ST. Paul prize fighter has
been drafted. Mike O'Dowd, better
known as "the Fighting Harp" will
enter the service of Uncle Sam. Tom
Gibbons, the we'll known Sanity City
battler, did not pass the physical
examination.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

LA Toilette in bad in the East"
reads a headline in the New Rich
mond News, Can one name section
where he isn't in bad? Oh, yes
over in Germany.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

After considering the cost of food
stuffs in general, Twin City consul
mers will hardly notice the 12c per
quart limit for milk set by the State
Body. Yes they won't.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

1t is reported that Senator La
Follett's son, Robert, Jr., will join
the army in order to prove that he is
a full-blooded American if his dad
isn't.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

What is so rare as a day in June?
Well, some of the September and
October days have June backed off
the map.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

It isn't the original cost, it's the
up keep. Frinstance bird cage
when you own cat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04

Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Swift of Chip
pewa Falls were over Sunday visit
ors at the VIM Fisher home in this
city.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-10-04
Subscription $3.50 Per Year
Write to the Soldiers

The following letter was received
by Stanley r. Morse, who is at Camp
Grant, Rockford, H., and was writ
ten by Nils P. Haugen. of the Wis
consin State Tax Commission. In a
note to the Journal man, Stan says:
81 am not sure whether etiquette
would permit it's publication or not.
Ny one idea in having it published
would be hint to other prominent
men to write to the boys, as it is
great encouragement and If people
realized the grind we're at now they
would feel that we sure needed it. /"
The letter is as follows:
Madison, Wis,
Sept. "a, 1917
My Dear Stanley:
wish you God-speed on you way
and in your new relations. You have
taken the matter in the most manly
spirit, as evidenced in the columns
of the Journal. 1t is not wise to
mimify the dangers ahead. but the
aim is too important to hesitate or
falter, and the spirit of our boys
will insure that early and permanent
peace which every American desires.
Best wishes, good luck and safe re-
turn.
Sincerely yours,
Nils p. Haugen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18

words the bishop was only one of
the 32,76S human being who were
his forebears at that time.
You have mentioned the bishop,
but what about the other 32,767" |
asked. 1T seems to me that l ought
to hear something about them if l
am to judge you by the good blood
which you say is in you. The bishop
was all right. You're lucky to have
as much of him in you as you have.
But the bishops stock has been con-
siderably watered. | don't believe
he would recognize you. What about
the rest?'
THAT is the trouble with this
heredity game-if YOU carry 1t back
very far. Old Mother Nature is
wonderful leveler. She won't let
geniuses or boneheads breed in
straight line. To the weak she fire.
quently gives a child of incredible
talent-to keep the neighbors from
getting abusive. To the brilliant
and favored of the earth she often
presents a choice of ivory in the
shape of a dull son. Apparently the
idea is to carry the race forward to-
gether and not to play favorites.
Another feature of the scheme is
that it keeps us all Interested. Sur
prises abound on all sides. There is
no telling where the next giant is
coming from"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
The Wistful Days

What is there wanting in the spring
The air Is soft as yesteryear;
The happy nested green is here.
And half the world is or the wing.
The morning beckons, and like
balm
Are westward waters blue and
calm.
Yet something's warning in the
spring.
What is it wanting in tho spring?
o April, lover to us all,
What Is so poignant in thy thrall
When children's merry voices ring?
What haunts us in the cooling dove
More subtle than the speech of
love,
What nameless lack or loss of
spring?
Let youth go daily with the spring,
Call, her the dear. the fair, the
young;
And all her graces ever sung
Let him, once more rehearsing, sing,
They know who keep a broken
tryst.
Till something from the spring is
missed
We have not truly known the spring.
Robert Underwood Johnson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
Constitutionalizing Wilhelm

The German Reichstag processes
to be occupied with a wonderful
plan for reforming the political or
ganization of the cupire and estab-
fishing a modern constitutional gov
ernment. The outside world will be
pardoned for adopting a Missourian
attitude regarding this matter. 1t
may be possible tS institute a gen.
timely representative government in
Germany under present auspices, but
it doesn't look very probable.
For one thing, the German nation
doesn't seem to have awakened yet
sufficiently to demand the necessary
reforms with a voice powerful and
unanimous enough to command
obedience. For another thing, Kai-
ser Wilhelm himself doesn't reveal
any convincing symptoms of en-
lightenment. And he happens to
hold the key to tue situation.
The Kaiser has never admitted
that he is subject to the existing
constitution, which places little limi-
tation on his autocratic power. How
can he be expected to yield to a con-
stitution that really clips his wings?
There is only one will in Germany"
he used to say before the war, "and
that is my will" 1t has been Ger
many's good fortune to be ruled by
a monarch deriving his authority
from God alone.
The first thing to do is to revise
the Kaiser himself.-The Erie Dis
patch
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
WATERED ANCESTRAL STOCK
MAN tackled me for a job the
other day. After enumerating

n MAN tackled me for a job the
n other day. After enumerating
his various accomplishments
he wound up with 1lnal claim that
was intended to impress me with his
Importance once and for ALL" writes
"Sid" in the June american Maga-
zine. "He said that he was a di-
rect descendant OF Bishop Umpte-
ump-the most learned man of his
time in England. / asked what time
that was, and he said that it was
about 400 years ago. l told him that
allowing 20 years Tor each gene
ration-he must De the sixteenth
descendant. No, not the sixteenth ,
he said, but the fifteenth All
right l said, call it the fifteenth.
Now let's take a sheet of paper and
see what your crecentials really are.
Let's see-you had one father and
one mother, two grandfathers and
two grandmothers, four great-grand-
fathers and four great grandmothers'
eight great-great-grandf and
eight great : great grandmothers-
and so on
Carrying the multiplication back
to the fifteenth preceding generation
l showed that at the time the bishop
lived, my friend, the applicant, had
exactly 32,76S ancestors. In other
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
SCHOOL PROGRESS

TT is pleasing to note that at least
in one respect the Harrisburg
school district Is making progress,
While a majority of members OF
the school board insist upon O build
ing program that will give this city
about sixty per cent, efficiency DUR
ing the next generation, Superintend-
ent f. E. Downes is urging upon the
board radical changes for the i'm
provement of teaching conditions, to
the end that the children of the city
may be better instructed and a high
er degree of scholarship made pos
sible. Particularly important are his
recommendations for the appoint
ment of supervisors of physical ex-
ercise, social centers and evening
schools.
Superintendent Downes has laid
before the board highly important
paper in the special report published
elsewhere in this newspaper to-day,
but 1t Is almost too much to hope
that the board, as at present domi-
nated-meaning, of course, the ma
Jority who so outrageously betrayed
the interests of the taxpayers In the
matter of the high school loan
will have vision and thought enough
for the welfare of the school district
to adopt the program so we'll out
lined.
The school officials and school
teachers of the city are doing amaz-
ingly good work under most dis
conditions. With so much |
Inefficiency and utter disregard for |
the public welfare in the governing
body, it is all the more pleasing to
note these evidences of devotion to |
The school system and desire for its |
Fortunately the fall |
elections are not so far away, when
existing evils in some degree at least
2an be corrected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
Peace Without Germanv2

A profusion of possibilities make
their appearance with the publica-
tion of hints from European capi-
tails which time may dissipate into
mere rumors with diplomatic intent
for momentary purposes or evolve
into something substantial First
was the suggestion that Austria is
not averse to separate peace with
the Allies, preliminary to the more
positive statement that Italy, if she
sees fit can make peace with Aus
tria, the rather direct assertion be-
ing made that Austria has let Italy
know that separate peace would be
FAR from difficult and that actual
conferences have taken place in
Swiss territory between representa-
tives of the two nations. More i'm
portant. however, is the intimation
that other Entente Allies will put
nothing in the way of an agreement
between Italy and Austria, in fact
VIII encourage it, to divide the
strength of the Central Powers. Still
another report attempts to include
turkey in an agreement with Rus
sia and an alignment with the Allies.
weakening Germany's power in that
direction, and giving shape to the
new Europe while the war continues.
The possibilities which these hints
Dflng are SO vast that the mind al
most staggers at the swift changes
that may be wrought within the next
few months If the rumors are fixed
on facts. The disquieting element
in the situation Is the failure of
harmony in Russia, of which Ger
many mas no doubt taken full adyan
tage. German secret agents and
mischief plotters have been busy
there before and since the resolution.
and having found separate peace out
of reach the Germans will resort to
every means to keep Russia divided.
Pittsburgh Dispatch,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

ambassador Frederic Penfidd,
who is a Philadelphian, will write q
book on his experiences in diplo-
macy.
Prof. Louis w. Raneer, of Stats
College, who has been called to PortD
Rico, is well known to many peopb
here.
H. +. Haywood. of Conshohock-
en-, has been elected president of the
Montgomery county publishers.
Col. Lewis e. Beltler. the active
man in the defense commission work
was private secretary to Daniel III,
Hastings during his term as governor
and before that secretary to Edwin
s. Stuart when mayor of Philadel-
phia.
. Col. James w. Archibald, enki-
neer of the Girard estate, has given
up National Guard work because of
demands on his time on coal lands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
Humiliating Confession

1--WE have the most unscientific
and the most inadequate tariff pro-
vision that ever was written in the
books and the most inequitable pro-
vision, but 1 am going to do like a
lot of Republicans and Democrats
I am going to shut my eyes and vote
for it,"
That is the humiliating, ineXcusa-
BILE confession made by Claude Kit
chin, leader of the Democratic ma
jority in the lower House or Con-
gress on Thursday last when the
war revenue bill was reported from
the ways and means committee. The
recognized leader of the Democratic
party is simply telling the world of
the incompetency of his party and
it's leaders. A frank but pitiable
acknowledgment of the generally
admitted fact that the Democrats
are incapable of drafting or enact
ing laws for the country under great
stress.-Greensburg Daily Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-18
PASSING THE BUCK"

n classic example of passing
.Athe buck" the new revenue bill
offered to the House of Repre-
sentatives by Chairman Claude
Kitchin, of the ways and means COM
mittee, is entitled to first prize. In
it's Interpretation of the Constitu-
tional provision, ''all bills for raising
revenue shall originate in the House
of Representatives" the House need
go but one step farther-write, BE
it enacted" and let the Senate fill in
the blanks. The present measure is q
pitiful confession that the Demo-
cratic House has surrendered its
function as the revenue originating
body, and has turned that preroga-
tive over to the United States SEN
ate, to have, to hold, and to assume
responsibility Hereunder.
The most vicious provision of the
new bill is that which places "a duty
of ten per centum ad valorem in ad-
dition to the existing duty" on
dutiable imports, and ten per cent.
OF free goods. Some crystal-gazing
dopester on the committee estimates
that this will produce $20O,0OO,OOO
additional revenue. Probably it will,
but at what cost?
Using the calendar year 1916 as
basis, sixty per cent. of our i'm
use in manufacturing, and manufac-
lures for further use in manufactur-
ing, while fourteen per cent. consist
of manufactures ready for consump-
ton, eleven per cent. consist of
crude foodstuffs and food animals,
and fourteen per cent. of manufac-
tured foodstuffs.
In short, the American manufac-
turer is to be shaken down for an
additional duty of ten per centum ad
valorem on the materials he runs
through his mills, which make up
sixty per cent. of our import trade,
while he gets less than a protective
rate on his manufactured products,
which comprise fourteen per cent. of
our import trade. Then he is mulcted
for an excess profits tax and every
other tax which the mind of a DEM
ocrat can conceive.
1t was through no fault of the
Republican members that such a
blunderous provision was adopted
by the committee. They were simply
| outvoted. The provision reflects
Chairman Kitchin's determination to
make business pay for the war"
The measure finds few champions
on either side of the House. Damned
with faint praise it will be present
ed to the Senate where it will be
consigned to the wastebasket, and O.
new bill drafted, which can not be
worse, may be better. and will re-
lieve the House of it's responsibility.
If the tariff is to figure in the rails
ing of additional revenue, as it
righteously should, the speediest and
most effective method is to enact the
old Republican customs rates, en-
bloc, and incorporate them in the
new bill. That will provide an ad-
ditional $2OO,O0O.00O and give us
some sort of commercial prepared
ness pending the postwar tariff re-
vision which all agree must come
about.