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What inspectors Were Doing.

also. let me show you that for four
months there has been nothing done
about this letter. During that time the
postal inspectors were doing something
else, instead of protecting men entitled
to protection.
They were looking for site for an
automobile garage in Boston, to hold
the automobiles that were to have
taken the place of the pneumatic tube
service. This whole matter is an in
dictment against the justice due any
citizen. and 1 am going to carry 1t to
the floor of the House. 1 am going to
get more affidavits. ! say this thing is
going on daily. l have now letter after
letter from people saying their mail is
tempered with, and there is a gentle
man in this room right now who is
willing to testify to the same thing.
They can't claim this particular letter
l have brought here opened was burst
open in the mails, as it contained only
one sheet. Further, l want to state once
more. as clearly as l can. that they did
investigate my personal and private af-
fairs, and it was the common talk of the
Boston post Office
II contradict that statement" said In
spector Leonard.
rHow long has this gone on?" asked
Representative Heintz.
"All last session l led the fight
against the removal of the pneumat tic
tubes and because of that l was in
vestigated.
Representative Tague said he believed
his letters were opened in Washington
and added. Il don't believe there is a
would open my mail-not even for
Burleson."
The committee adjourned shortly
thereafter.
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minished by fully 90 per cent and Is
likely 60 fall away entirely in the near
future"
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To Mark Homes Of Enlisted Men.

A special flag to hoat over every
house that furnishes a man for the
Army or Navy 10 proposed by q bill in
troduced yesterday by Senator Pome-
rene Of Ohio.
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Federal Control Advocated.

Federal acquisition and operation Of
all natural resources-oil. iron and
other ores, timber, coal and water
: power-the owners of title thereto to
be paid only for their prudent invest
ment. but nothing for good will nor
for the value given by nature. and the
products to be sold at cost, at least
during the war.
In ending his address. Mr.. Leubuscher
explained:
+ I'VE must pay one hundred and i've
dollars in interest for every hundred
dollars We borrowed under the terms
of the liberty loan. but by taxing land
values heavily we can finance most of
the war expenditures currently. II
the federal government operates the
natural resources as we suggest the
consumers will be saved about 81, $780,
100000 a year. while with the water
squeezed out of railroads rates would
be reduced nearly $500. 0o0, 900 a year"
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To Break Up Land Monopoly.

4 The farmers Of the country ARE alive
TO the fact that heavy taxation of land
values is the only way to break up
monopoly in land, and to reduce the
high cost of production for farmers"
declared C. B. Kegley. master of the
Washington State Grange.
The speculator in farm lands is one
OF the greatest enemies of real farm
ers," he declared.
William Kent, federal tariff commits
eioner predicted government ownership
OF public utilities and federal price
regulation. Arthur E. Holder, legis-
lative agent of the American Fedora
ton of Labor told the conference that
the aims Of the committee had the in
dorsement of organized labor. Com
missioner Brownlow presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-31
Takes Time to Lower Prices.

'1t takes considerable time to lower
prices- he said The best we can do
for the present rs TO prevent a contin-
uing rise" During questions which
were asked him following his address
he stated that some "middlemen' were
getting excess or vicious profits.
REPRESENTATIVE Jeanette Rankin,
who was TO have been one of the speak
ers, was unable TO be present. Judson
King spoke briefly. Benjamin c. Marsh.
executive secretary, presided.
Announcement was made today that
a gift of $4,000 had been received
from Mrs. Joseph Fels of Philadelphia,
widow of the millionaire single-tax adj
vocate. This is the first step in a cam
paign to raise s250.000 to carry on
work TO attain various reforms sought
by the organization.
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Explanation Of Benefits.

As one of the benefits of the coop
erative societies he cited that the MEM
bers of these organizations in England
had been able to buy sugar at cents
pound through their cooperative
stores, while their non-nlenber neigh
bors had to pay IL cents a pound 1t IS
partly due to the influence of the CO.
operative societies abroad. he said. that
made the prices of commodities in sew
eral countries less today than they are
being sold in the United States.
That there is not much hope of an
Immediate lowering of prices of COM
modities was asserted by Harry A. Gar
field. representing the food administra-
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TALKS OF REMEDY
FOR HIGH PRICES
Dr.. Warbasse Earnestly Ad-
vises Cooperative Effort in
Lowering Living Cost.
SEES EXAMPLE IN EUROPE

The remedy for the high cost of liv-
ing is within the reach of the people
of the United States. without the IN
reference or aid o. politicians or legis-
1ators.
This was emphasized In an address
today by DR.. James Z. Warbasse be-
fore the conference on the high cost
Of living. Which is in session at the
Raleigh Hotel. DIR. Warbasse described
al length the cooperative societies
which have been formed in England,
France. Germany. iSeigium. Russia and
many other countries, and which, ne
said, have not only made possible the
reduction of the cost of living for their
members but have undertaken sue
-cessfully various social DEVELOPMENTS,
such as granting of old-age pensions.
Dr. WarbasFe explained that at pres
ont Great Britain has 10000. 900 Co
operative consumers" while the United
states stands with Turkey, Zanzibar
and Abyssinia in its cooperative devel-
ODmentS."
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1.-THE following offers an approximate
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-23
THURSDAY
K o o o o o 0 o o 0 }

A. L. Crump came up from Madison
Saturday morning, this being h S first
visit here since he left several years
ago. In the afternoon Mrs. Crump
came up and the two went on to Will
ton, returning here the first of the
week for a visit among their friends.
Kendall Keystone.
Wisconsin now has SO cow testing
associat 'ons, testing 4O,639 cows for
2,477 members Of these associations
A were organized before July l, 1916,
and 80 within the past year. The last
IL months have brought an increase
in the number of associations Of SO
per cent.
Corn has been forging ahead at a
great rate during the past three
weeks, and fields which earlier in the
season looked like almost complete
failures now promise good crop if
present conditions continue. Some
farmers are now predicting at least
an average crop in this vicinity.
Did you notice in your law pam
phlet that chapter 11S provides pen
atty of Imprisonment in the county
jail Of not more than ten days, or a
fine not exceeding $25, for any owner
or keeper of a billiard, pool or pigeon
table or bowling alley who permits
! minors under Is years of age to play
without written permit from parent
or guardian?
| The emergency food agent of La
Crosse county has tabulated the
amount of seed which he has dis
{, tributed to the farmers. Figuring or
/ the basis of increased acreage due tc
], the seed purchased, the increase
/ would amount to $50 acres of food
crops in addition to an increase o.
$50 acres. planted to clover. 1t Is
estimated that 200 men and boys from
| the city of La Crosse working from
| one to six days and longer would be
a fair estimate of the volunteer hell
! that has been supplied to the farmers
by the local labor agent. At the pres
ent time the labor situation is in ex
cellent condition. Men are still being
placed on farms in response to thu
emergency calls of the farmers.
On Wednesday afternoon the drive
of an Illinois automobile found tn
streets of Baraboo too narrow for hi
car. At the bank corner he undertook
to find drug store and at the sam
time turn about the iron policeman
Before he was aware Of where he wa
going his machine struck the iro'
light post in front of the First M
tional bank and the glass globe cam
down in beautiful shower.
A. B. Wood OF Cottage Grove, Ore
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state park superintendent was sue
cessful last evening in landing a
black bass at Devils Lake that tipped
the scales at over three pounds, and
hooked another one of about the same
proportions. 1t was lucky fishing
day for the Smiths, as Charles, the
animal trainer, also secured an un-
usually large bass.
Mrs. l.. C. Owen, Mrs. Eva New
come and daughter Ella of Milwaukee,
Miss Hilda Kahle Of Dubuque, Ia,
Miss La Ventia Promo and Mr.. and
Mrs. William OFT motored to the Dells
today
DR.. Charles E. Getchell and daugh-
ter have returned from Columbus, o.,
where the former attend the Ameri-
can Osteopathic Association conven.
ton. DR.. Getche1l took special work
for catarrhal deafness, diseases of the
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ashley have
returned to their home at Wyocena
after visiting Mr. and Mrs. James
Capener.
Private and Mrs. Phillip Machus,
who have been visiting here, at Dew
lis Lake and the Dells, returned this
morning to Camp Douglas, where the
former is in training.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Williamson,
who have been visiting the latters
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Thomp-
son, for the past month, left this
morning for a visit with relatives in
st. Joseph, Mo. They will also visit in
Los Angeles, Calf, before returning
to their home in Los Gatos, Calf.
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Douglas and stopped here for a short

Douglas and stopped here for short
visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pulvermacher
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Bunker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Geier and Miss Florence
Reible of Sank City came this morn
ing going from here to Camp Douglas
to visit relatives.
Mrs. c. Rathert and grandson, Ar
mand Stephan, of Chiffon, Wis, who
have been visiting here with the for
mers brother Charles Junge, left this
morning for Mora, Mimi, to visit be
fore returning home.
Mrs. S. A. Hewitt, who has been
visiting here with her mother, Mrs
Eliza Hunter, and sister, Mrs. Title
Du Bots, has gone to Delton to visit
before returning to her home at New
Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. e. Smith and daugh
ter Virginia spent the day in Camp
Douglas with their nephew, Ray Hill
Ter.
Mrs. P. Spaulding and mother, Mrs
William Thayer, have returned to
Reedsburg after visiting the latter's
sister, Mrs. w. H. Cole, of Delton
who is in hospital here.
Rev Charles G. Conan has return
ed to Ravena, Nebr., after visit with
his mother, Mrs. Nelson Conan, and
other relatives here. AS youths Mr.
Conan and City Attorney v. H. Cady
were near residents in the town of Elk
celsior Mr. Conan is an excellent
speaker and has taken several honors
in oratory.
Mrs. Atwood Smith, wife of the
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-23

Mrs. M. A. Warren and daughter
| Miss Lucille, have received the fol
flowing letters from Robert Osborne
formerly of Robert Osborne, formerly
of Baraboo, now on the front in
France. The address of the young
man is Convois Automobiles, S. S. U
IL, Par. B. c.. NJ, Paris.
| Two of the letters were sent to At
! torney e. j. Frawley, Boise, Idaho,
| copies of which have been sent to
| the Baraboo relatives. The first let
ter to Mr.. Frawley is dated July 8,
and reads in part as follows:
I just returned from twenty-four
hours of almost constant driving from
a poste that the Boche have been at
lacking. They were dropping shells
| and torpilles In all day. carried men
| who were shot from head to fot, some
with most Of their insides shot out.
1t is very hard to carry these brave
men over rough roads while they cry
'doucement" (easily). 1t will be a
| blessing when this terrible war is
over. | wish I could tell you how hor-
rible it is but I can't, and you will
never be able to know. No one ever
can without seeing it. The things |
see here make my blood run cold, and
every man l carry makes me hate Ger
many more.
Yesterday while driving to the hos
pital with blesse I had a blowout. |
walked about a mile to where one of
our cars was stationed and got it to
car and started back to my poste,
distance of twenty kilometers. When
I was a short distance from my pOste
[ could see stretchers in the road with
! blesses on them, but before I got
there I had another blowout. I had
to phone back to camp to have some
tires sent to me. After they arrived
[ fixed my car and had no more trou
BILE. 1t isn't much fun fixing a car
when shells are breaking around.
(Your knees get weak In the car
you always feel better, because you
can speed and get more comfort in
the seat.
I have not received any mail yet.
guess it is in Paris, and as soon as
they wake UP to the fact that | am
here / think I will get good deal Of
mail
She'll Bursts Near Car
The next 1etteris dated July II.
and in part reads:
Yesterday we left the front to go
on repos for five days before going to
different part of France, where
there is much fighting. We came here
n convois, eighty kilometers, and are
now in a small village which is situat
ed on the Marine river. We are all
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-23
Letters from Robert Osborne
Now at the Front in France

! glad to be here, not to get away from
the shells and hard work, but to be
able to have a good swim twice a day
Today was the first bath any of us
have had for three weeks.
The last day | was on duty | was
on with fellow named Clarke in 6
small village that the Boche were
| Smelling. A sick man was brought in
and Clark started to the hospital with
him. Before they were out of the
city a shell burst near the car and
much of the eclat went through the
car. The man in back yelled and
Clark turned to see what was the mat
ter, but he had jumped out of the car
and could not be found. Clark re-
turned to the poste, but we never did
know where the man went. We came
to the conclusion that he got we'll
when the shell dropped and went back
to the trenches.
think / will return in September
and finish school. will be able to
get through in French, and that is
what has always kept me back. am
now able to understand it little and
speak enough to make myself under
stood.
The meals we get here are better
than we had at Racine college. We
have steak, potatoes, soup, cheese,
jam bread, coffee and sometimes but
ter and cigars.
Will write again from the front in
five days.
Statue Never Hit
The last letter was sent direct to
Baraboo and reads:
Yesterday we left our little village
on the Marne and are now near the
front waiting for our division to go
into the trenches before we go to
poste. We have to drive in at night
as our new poste is only two miles
from the German frst-line trenches.
If the Germans saw us they would
she'll us and we would be sure of
getting crooked
have seen many interesting places
but the thing that has impressed me
the most was the cathedral at Reims.
The Germans drop shells into the
city every day and the cathedral is
badly ruined, but the statue of Joan d.
Arc has not been hit. The French in
the Champagne region claim that the
statue cannot be hit. I have heard
that after the war the cathedral will
not be repaired, but the flags OF all
the allies will float over it in me-
moriam to the honored dead.
Yesterday I received five Cardinals
Ca college publication from Madison
and I have had a great time reading
them I have taken great many pic
lures and expect to take many more
I will send some by mail when Iget
them from Paris, but / doubt if they
get through.
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YOUNG Mex
CALLED TO
i. S. ARMY

In addition to the list of names pre-
ciously published the following have
been passed upon by the Sank County
Exempt on board, and will enter the
service some time next month:
James Herbert Hall, Kilbourn.
George w. Buelow, Spring Green.
Willie Stewart, Spring Green.
Floyd Arthur Gross, Merrimack.
Martin William Mears, Sandusky.
Ernest Kossack, La Vale
Edward Alfred Lins, Spring Green
Anthony Hudzinski, Kilbourn.
August G.. Lucht, La Vale.
Gatsno Munerotto, Devils Lake.
Hiram G.. Thompson, Baraboo.
Angelo Sp no, Devils Lake
Erwin Crosby, Prairie du Sac
Claude Fl. Haskins, Baraboo
Forrest A. Fish, Reedsburg
George A. Dennis, Merrimack
Leslie Moffett, Lime Ridge
Raymond w Buelow, Plain.
Robert Lincoln Dickie, No. Freedom
Oswald Dapra, BarabOo
Benjamin w. Elsing Sank City
Adolph H. Schenkat, No. Freedom
Silas Martin Meyer, Lime Ridge
Clayton L. Miller, La Vale
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-23

J. A. Martiny spent Thursday at
the GAINESVILLE fair, where his son, L..
P. Martiny, of Chippewa Falls, re-
ceived all first prizes and champion
ships, excepting one on Guernsey cat
tie, and number Of premiums on
Poland China hogs. Riley Martiny &c
Son got the biggest share of the mon
ey offered on Duroc Jersey hogs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Stinson and
daughter, Mrs. Roche, of Hampton,
Ia. and Mrs. Addie Brandon of Des
Moines are visiting at the home OF
Mrs. w. Nehs, SO5 Second avenue.
Mrs. Stinson and Mrs. Brandon are
sisters of Mrs. W. Nehs, Mrs. Anna
Cooper and G. ]. Underkof1er, and
have come because of the illness of
their mother, Mrs. Susan Underkofer.
Mrs. Brandon has just returned from
a six weeks visit with her son, who
is in settlement work in New York
city.
Clifford M. La Mar, who received a
captains commission at Fort Sheri-
dan and who goes to Battle Creek
soon, has received notice from Madi.
son that he has been admitted to the
state bar. While at Fort Sheridan he
wrote during the examination at Mad
ison and thereby has been awarded
the double honors. Mr.. La Mar read
law in the office of Bentley, Kelley e.
Hill, is a young man of high charac-
ter, and just the kind that is bound to-
achieve success in the world. He
is now visiting at the home of his
parents, MIR. and Mrs. M. La Mar, in
Fairfield.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-23

has been visiting at the Potter home
on Potter street, Mrs. Ward Munroe,
friends in the Skillet Creek neighbor-
hood, and others. Mr. Wood is a son
of the late j. w. Wood for many years
resident near Skillet Falls. Mr..
Woods mother resides with him at
Cottage Grove and he reports that she
is in excellent health. The visitor is
vice-pres dent and general manager OF
the Oregon Pacific c Eastern rail-
way, his home town being near Port
land. He will be more Familiarity
known as Brier Wood, visited Bara.
boo about ten years ago and is now
returning from a trip to Chicago and
Kentucky, having property interests
in the blue grass state.
Mrs. Kris Kramer and family and
Mrs. w. Fl. Promo and family, with
their guests, Mrs. L. G. Owen and
Mrs. Eva Newcome and daughter
Ella Of Milwaukee, Mrs. Simon Cob
leigh Of Reedsburg and Miss Hilda
Kahle of Dubuque Ia, spent the day
at the lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. e. Wakefield and
son dney went this morning to
Camp Douglas to visit their son Law
renee Wakefield who is in training
there. Mrs. George Hoadlg and
daughter Clare and Dorothy Daven-
port also spent the day at Camp Doug
las.
Mrs. Mary Fansler, who has had
! charge of the depot lunch room here,
has resigned her position and left to-
day for Kilbourn to visit relatives,
and from there will ko to Mankato,
Mimi. to visit her daughter, Mrs. F.
3. Dalton Mrs. Fansler came here
from Kilbourn over a year ago and
has made many friends here who re-
greet her departure. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bernhard Meyers will succeed Mrs.
Fansler in the lunch room.
Stephen Hayes of Oshkosh and
Misses Pauline Smith and Fitch Shaw
have returned to their homes after Wis
iting a. few days with Miss Christine
Kier.
| Mr. and Mrs. George Bosshard and
children of West Concord, Mimi, are
guests at the home of Mrs. A. Gatti-
ker. Mrs. Bosshard is a nephew Of
Mrs Gattiker.
Mrs. Lester Brownrigg,- Mrs. Fred
fisher and Miss Grayce Brownrigg of
/ Merrimack spent yesterday at Camp
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-03-08
MINNEAPOLIS FIRM
PLACED UNDER BAN

The fraudulent advertising carried
on last summer by the National Mail
Order Brokerage Exchange OF Mime
apoiis. MINI. by the chain letter sys.
tenn stIll finds an occasional echo In
the Canon City postoffice. as indeed
II does in all other pos;offices of the
west Altho the Arm alluded 10 was
prosecuted by the government last
October. found guilty and all mail
withheld from IL on the ground that II
was conducting and carrying on a
scheme for obtaining money thru the
mails by means Of fraudulent pre-,
tenses. representations and promises,
n great many letters addressed to II
still find their way to the postoffice.
The Inhibited concern during the
days of its operations advertised that
all patrons that would send in 10
cents in stamps or cash and make
known it's offer to FIVE of their
friends and acquaintances by means
of letters thra the mails it would send
n 81 silk petticoat as a reward. The
silk petticoat offer was in fact made
to apply to all correspondents. but II
is needless to say that none of them
ever got one.
The exchange received more than
2.ooo.o0o letters before the govern
ment discovered thu fraud. Hun
dreds OF letters were sent to 1t from
Canon City.
II is said that the exchange received
at it's offices In Minneapolis one day
last September two wagon loads of
letters.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-03-08
HOW TO HAVE
EARLY VEGETABLES

(6y Lewis and Mary Theiss).
Quoted from the Pictorial Review for
March. 1917.
If you want vegetables at the earli-
est possible moment. you must make
a study of your particular garden
plot Latitude. altitude. exposure, all
affect the earIiness of your soil; but
the decisive factor is always Its phys
icai condition. Wet. cold soil is weeks
later than dry. sandy loan. Never
walk in your garden. dig it or handle
IL when it is wet. II will cake and
harden in Jumps. Ground is exactly
right for planting when it is moist
and yet will crumble in your fingers
like ginger bread. DO not plant un-
til your ground reachee this eondi-
ton. Plant as soon as it does.
Your ground must be rich. II you
can not get manure for it, buy bag
of complete fertilizer. containing III
trogen. phosphorus and potash. One
bag will last several seasons for n
small plot Buy q bashel or two of
lime. Save your wood ashes. If you
have a fireplace. Make a rectangular
pit, lined with boards and covered
with a hinged. ny proof lid. Here
throw your kitchen waste TO rot. oc-
casionally sprinkle in lime and FIRE
quently earth. Dig the resulting COM
post into your soil in spring like ma
.. SKf,aa D0aI ,chac u-fl lirhtan
your soil IL It is heavy and wet.
Plant first. hardy vegetables, such
as onions, lettuce. radishes. parsnips.
carrots, peas, beets. turnips, etc. A
cold frame will hurry things along
but 1t isn't necessary. If YOU want
onions early. take a small boS-one
that canned goods come in will do
put two or three inches OF earth in
the bottom. stick il full of onion sets
two inches apart each way and tilt
against the sunny wall of your house.
At night and when cold. cover with
glass. tack on oiled paper or throw =
burlap over II. Glass or oiled paper
can remain on permanently. Oil stifi
paper such as hardware man uses
and tack on with strips of wood. Last
year We put out such a box March
lst- The temperature was fifteen
degrees above zero and two days later
1t dropped to zero. Yet. when we
set our garden onions on April 10th
the box onions were over an inch
high. The cold had not hurt them.
and we had them to eat weeks before
our garden onions were ready. Keep
a box of soil in your cellar and you
will always be ready for use.