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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
BENEFITS FROM JURY DUTY,

B. Murray Peyton has been
known best as a banker and bust
ness man, the Peyton Paper COM
pany being his greatest achieve
ment in the commercial world.
But it appears that Mr.. Peyton is
a philosopher with a keen un-
derstanding Of the duties and
privileges Of citizen. While
doing jury duty in the district
court at Virginia, the successful
scion of one Of Duluth s pio-
neers and eminent money mas
tiers, when asked how he liked
serving the county in that capa-
city, said:.
cit is change from the every
day grind of work. 1t gives me
an opportunity to meet men with
whom I never would come in con-
tact otherwise. It demonstrates
to me that the average every
day citizen of the United States
comes pretty near being right,
whatever his station in life. It
teaches me that being an Amer
lean is something Of which to be
proud because Of the apparent
effort of all to ascertain what is
right and fair and then stick to
it, when on jury. 1 find that
majority of the men in this
country, whether using a shovel
to make a living or in business
on their own account, have a
wonderful grasp on the under
lying principles Of right, free
dom and justice. 1 have made
friendships while acting as a
juror that will last me through
life. From a money sense, while
on the jury, I may be a loser, I
am winner in securing a
knowledge Of the average run Of
people, far in excess Of my
money loss."
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
ALEX STEWARDS TRICK
MAY COST HIM HIS JOB
Chief Engineer of Board Of Education Displeases
Directors By Knocking John Hogan
Out of Painting Contract.

bureau knobs. "Is-that-so?"
he slowly remarked, being a bit
dazed by the information.
When the bill came up for au-
dit by the finance committee at
the last meeting Of the board, all
refused to pass the bill but let it
come before the entire board.
Director LeDuc moved that the
bill be paid but that, in the fu-
ture, Mr.. Stewart be informed, he
would be expected to obey the in
structions of the board OF educa-
ton.
Director Brewer supported the
motion but a majority OF the
members voted it down.
There the matter stands LIE.
gally, John Hogan has a claim OF
$33 that he can collect from the
board of education. Legally, too,
engineer Stewart can be held for
payment of the bill. Mr.. Hogan
is too peacable "a gentleman to
make row over the matter but,
it is limited, Mr.. Stewart may be
invited to hand in his resignation
if a majority Of the members feel
alike and little storm signals
rather indicate that they feel ex-
actly alike.
Mr.. Brewer met painter Hogan
the other day and tried to
smooth things, over for officious
engineer Stewart. "He's rather
deaf" soothingly said the little
director, "and he probably did
not understand orders. -
''He can read English, can't
he?" replied Mr.. Hogan, who well
knew that the boards instruc-
lions were plainly in writing.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
THE SYNDICATE OF Sin
DUCKS OUT OF OLIVER
Young Jew and Lady With Diamond i'm Her Front
Tooth Sparingly Dispense Beer at
the Old Stand.

The Syndicate of Sin at Oliver,
across the river from the steel
plant, was thrown into intense
excitement when the previous is
sue of the Rip-saw reached that
wicked little city. The bunch of
panderers and gamblers fastened
hence in a way that made Moses
and his bunch look slow when
they crossed the Red Sea, after
getting away with all the Egyt-
ian jewelry.
The members of the Syndicate
Of Sin made Superior their city of
refuge. Seeking shelter at the
dear old American cafe they blew
cigarette smoke into the air and
wondered and wondered who the
Judas was that tipped off their
sinful schemes.
After the Hegira, Hotel Oliver
was a lonesome looking place.
The two young girls disappeared
simultaneously with the Sinful
Syndicate. Even Sinful Syndi-
Gates require meal tickets, so to
speak. An older Magdalene re-
NAMED. She was the one with a
sparkling diamond in her front
tooth. Whenever. she opens her
mouth, spectators at once think of
Barney. Barnato. A young Jew
from somewhere was left in
charge and he and she of the
sparkling tooth sold beer from
the back room next to the
KITCHEN.
The Syndicate Of Sin came to
Oliver because Minneapolis got
too hot for it's members. They
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

Alexander Stewart, chief engi-
neer for the board Of education.
stands a fair show to lose $50
even if he does not lose his job at
5000 a month.
Mr.. Stewart formerly was an
engineer in a sawmill but, about
six years ago, was appointed to
his present position, presumably
through the influence of direc-
tor Brewer, for whom he IS rep
resented as once working as a
sawmill engineer.
At a recent meeting of the
board of education, on represen-
tations of director Davis, John
Hogan was authorized. to paint
the principals room in the Wash
ington Junior high school. Mr..
Hogan's bid was $33. The chief
engineer was given written in
structionS to have that work done
by and through Mr.. Hogan.
Now it so happens that Strom-
quist & Meyer, rival firm of
painters, stand exceedingly high
in engineer Stewart estimation.
Instead of notifying Mr.. Hogan
when to earn the $33 at painting
the room, a quick and personal
deal was made whereby Mr.. Ho-
gan's competitors did the job for
$50.
"When do you wish me to
paint the principals room?' Mr..
Hogan asked Mr.. Stewart one
day.
cit has been painted by an
other firm for $780," was the re-
ply.
Mr.. Hogan's eyes stood out like
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

The Denver Hog Ranch Com
pany, as told in the previous issue
of the Rip-saw, both collects and
disposes of the city garbage in
Denver. Unless recent changes
have been made, Grand Rapids,
Mich, has municipal collection Of
garbage, at municipal expense,
but disposal of all vegetable and
animal matter falls to Alvah II.
Brown who conducts a hog farm
five miles out from the center
of the ely.
Mr.. Brown was a city official
for a time and became much in
terested in garbage problems. He
visited all the hog farms in the
country, maintained wholly or in
part, by municipal garbage, with
the result that combination Of
private hog ranch and municipal
ly-collected garbage was the re-
suit.
The city owns it's own wagons
and teams for collection purposes.
The refuse embraces fish, meats,
vegetables and tin cans. Dish
water, sweepings, manure, ashes,
papers and other refuse are
barred out. Private collections
are not allowed, the hog farm
getting everything in the garbage
line from families, restaurants,
hotels and commission houses.
Collections are made two times
a week and deposited in water
tight gondola railway cars. About
seventy tons daily are secured in
July, August, September and
October. May, June and Novem-
Der furnish about fifty tons daily.
Other months yield from thirty
five to forty tons a day. The
owner of the hog farm pays rail
way freight from the station to
his farm. One car each week
day is shipped except in July,
August, September and October,
when two cars a day are filed
and forwarded.
Pigs and feeding hogs are
given the first chance at the gar
bage, from the forenoon to 5 p.
m. Sows with pigs are fed other
things, therefore require min
imum of garbage. Sows whose
pigs have been weaned but which
are retained for breeding pur-
poses, are given all night in
which to pick over the leavings
OF the day shift of swine.
In the morning, glass and cans
are picked out and the refuse
and droppings shoveled up from
concrete feeding floors for re-
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

The Federated Trades Assem-
bly, at it's last meeting adopted a
resolution introduced by delegates
from the Typographical union, re-
questing the Public Safety COM
mission, and also the local commit
tee investigating the high cost of
living, to make a thorough probe
Of the local milk situation to as.
certain if the prevailing prices de-
handed for this commodity are
warranted.
The official bulletin of the Safe
ty commission for Dec. Is con.
tanned an article pointing out the
beneficial results obtained from
it's investigation Of milk prices in
the Twin Cities, which resulted
in a material reduction.
The significance of this matter
is that the commission has failed
to give any relief from high food
stuff prices to the people Of other
sections of the state. It is only
reasonable to expect that profit
eering would be curbed if the COM
mission extends it's operations.
Many reasons have been sub
mitted tending to justify the sew
eral increases in local milk prices.
Distributors place the blame on
the producers, while the latter
shift it onto the former. The OBJ
ject Of an investigation is to delve
into the costs and percentage of
profit Of all those who handle the
milk before it reaches the con-
sumner, and disclose any irregulari-
ties or conspiracy to boost prices.
Conceding that the poor hay
crops and meat famine may have
something to do with the increased
milk prices, it is a foregone con-
clusion that an official probe
would expose an excessive margin
of profit by milk dealers.
Organized labor has taken the
lead in the attempt to reduce milk
prices-something Of vital con-
Germ to every Duluthian and which
should receive whole-hearted sup
port.-The Labor World.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
CHAMPION CORN HUSKER.

Webb Mcconnell, 81 years Of
age, who lives up in Shelby Coun-
ty, Iowa, has hired out to husk
corn under a most peculiar con-
tract. Providing Mr.. Mcconnell
makes an average of 100 bushels
per day for the fall he is to re-
ceive &c per bushel. If his aver
age falls below the 100 bushel
mark he is to receive no other pay
than his board. He has husked
corn for the same man for the past
four years and during that time he
has always made an average Of
better than 100 bushels. In the
year Of 1899 he husked total of
10.64S bushels.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
SOME PRICE FOR CORN.

Frank Wright, a farmer living
near Pacific junction, Iowa, re-
Gently sold 5000 bushels Of 1916
corn for . 81 a bushel, says the
Tabor, Iowa, Beacon. Mr.. Wright
had been offered various prices
for his old crop of corn and, at
one time, could have sold for
1925 a bushel. But he could not
make delivery at that time, there
fore the trade fell through.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
PERHAPS HE PROPOSED.

Girls should be careful about
going riding. with a fellow in an
old automobile, according to the
experience Of a young lady here.
While out riding the other day,
her fellow said something to her,
but the rafting of the machine
made it impossible to hear what
he said. However without think
ing she nodded her head as if she
understood, to make it agreeable,
and as he appears to be unusually
affectionate since, she is wonder
ING if he proposed.-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

Wright's friends thought he had
missed an opportunity that would
not come again.
Early the past fall, it became
evident that the seed corn situa-
ton was serious. That 5000
bushel crib Of corn took on new
value and offers for it were fire.
quently made. An offer made was
followed by a counter offer by
Wright. A compromise price of
So a bushel finally was accepted.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
EVILS OF IMPURE FOODS.
ECONOMY.

Crdluef, MILL, Dec. ~, IL.
To the Editor of the Rip-saw:
We hear much about the in
iquity of nations just now and,
sizing all of them up, we must
conclude than none are perfect.
I maintain that doped and
adulterated J foods are highly
responsible for the ills Of nations,
they being merely aggregations
of mankind.
To get good cattle, to say
nothing of good milk, proper
food must be fed them. The bet
ter the diet, the better the pork,
Undernourish and poorly fed
peasants cannot vie with we'll
fed Americans. What a man eats
affects both body and mind.
Pure food and plenty Of it makes
better men than impure food.
When the man is not properly
fed and nourished, the human
dies and the animal takes its
place.
Today, I maintain, at least IS
per cent of all our diseases are
the consequence Of doped, adul-
terated and carelessly handled
foods. Just 90 to the hospitals,
insane asylums and graveyards
for the proof. When we have
remedied our own evils, we have
a better right to judge others.
MARTIN s. FELLAND.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
SAVE BY CONCENTRATION.
Duluth, Dec. Is, 1911

DuIutn, Dec. 10, I9I1.
To the Editor Of the Rip-saw:
There has been some street
talks about saving coal and cash
by closing the public schools dur
ing the winter months. In my
opinion, it would be far wiser to
retrench in the matter of night
schools and some of the social
center work.
Any night school visitor will
tell you that the attendance is
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

The long-suffering public is
wondering where County Audi
tor Halden will break out next
with one of his grandstand plays.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
SAWDUST
AND
SHAVINGS

SHAVlNGS |
Commissioner Phillips should
get Commissioner Silberstein s
permission to speak to the city
firemen.
After calling his critics such a
nasty name, dear old Chief Nc
Kercher should scrub out his
mouth with naptha soap.
u 4 II
Commissioners Silberstein and
Phillips should go out behind the
city hall a4d settle their differ
ences with double-bitted axes.
At last, dear old citizen, we are
promisd information as to where,
why and how the Big Chief got
that Marmon car.
AS a campaign measure it has
been suggested that County Au-
ditor Halden have the Clifton de-
pot showed back to the place
where it properly belongs.
The people Of Park Point. re-
joice that prospects are so good
for an advance in wages for the
fine chaps who steer that old
aerial bridge across the crazy
canal.
Old chief Dash is taking his
winter life easily in his tepee. If
you wish to see him grab his TOM
ahawk and put on war paint, just
look cross-eyed at the Smithville
school.
Burning edible foods has lost
it's popularity with Michigan
street but the same old Food Mon
opoly remains. 1t is just as des-
picable and dangerous as the
Prussian autocracy.
No wonder the poor shop-lift-
ing lady hanged herself in her
cell the other night. She prob
ably was scared over the idea of
spending the long night on the
same floor with a lone man.
When we are Tightening up our
belts from wheatless and meatless
days, swashbuckling Bucks will
lingness to spend the public funds
in a referendum over air rifles,
makes a bad taste in the mouths
of well balanced people.
If the members of the FEEDER
ated Trades & Labor Assembly
have any notion Of living up to
the name applied to them by the
Big Chief, they will have to go to
Superior. Probably Uncle Bob
can give them the addresses OF
experts in that line.
The News Tribune expresses
the opinion that there will be no
serious opposition to the continu-
ance Of Judge Gilpin in the pro-
bate office. That will be good
news to Mzonner for it will mean
minimum expenditure for cam
paign cigars.
Fearing the dispute over pop
guns between sergeant-general
Buck and Commissioner Phillips
will terminate in a savage world
war, the dear old Commercial
Club proposes to save the country
by acting as mediator. Why not
call out the home guards before it
is too late?
You cannot make a silk purse
out of a .sow's ear and you cannot
make a gentleman from a man
with a foul mouth. When calling
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
THE PUBLIC PULSE

The communications printed below do necessarily express the
views opinions of the Rpsaw They printed
Of public entirely responsibility of the
pondnt All Communications be signed by the writer's
matter good faith but such will published 1t
nots
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

County Auditor Halden is get
ting mixed in his patriotic ef-
forts. It's food we want to save
and money we want to spend to
win the war.-Hibbing Tribune.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

Dear old Santa Claus may
come in tank" and steel he'll
met this year. Do not think 81
Prusian guardsman has invaded
the house if you see the jolly old
chap at your stocking.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

You cannot make a silk purse
out of a .sow's ear and you cannot
make a gentleman from a man
with a foul mouth. When calling
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

the members of the Duluth FEEDER
ated Trades & Labor Assembly
roughneck names, Big Bob should
remember that.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-14
5 \ I TILE CRY OF PEACE COMING
 TO C0RD0VA

How many are there who have neither seen nor heard of that stu pendous production, "The Battle Cry of Peace?" This and the Birth of a Nation" rank today as the two great masterpieces of filmdom.
 The Empress management tried last year to secure these pictures, but without success. This year 1t has been possible to lease the Alaskan rights for "The Battle Cry of Peace" and this wonderful feature will be shown in Cordova within the next two weeks.
 The story is too long to be told here. Enough to say that "The Battle Cry of Peace" is the most powerful plea for preparedness that has even been written, spoken or enacted. Who shall say what influence this picture has had on our national policy? It cannot be overestimated.
 Those who have seen it will not fail to see 1t again, and those who have not heretofore had an opportunity to view this great production, will wei come its coming. This film is a new copy direct from New York, and will be run in the Empress machine for the first time. No old and worn out film VOu will spa hut a new cnpy - clear cut and perfect in every part.
 Although this picture played in many larger houses outside for $1 and s2, it will be shown at the Elm press theatre for 25 and 50 cents ad- mission. Coming within the next two weeks.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-14
EXPERIENCES OF
 AMERICANS AT THE FRONT

PARIS, April 13. - Many times a day the little band of 55 American col lege students driving cars for the Am erican ambulance in the Balkans get their fill of the horrors of war.
 Ennis Brown, of Charleston, s. C., the first of the 55 to return, is here today. He told the story of Robert Montgomery, a Princeton boy from New York City, the only one of the company wounded up to the time he left on his way back to America.
 Our work is in and around Monas- tir." said Brown" and mighty rough going it is. Over perilous mountain passes and over country no man would think of travelling in peace time.
 Smelling of our territory by the big German guns is ceaseless. Even in the town we are constantly straffed. Montgomery was sitting in his ambu- lance one day talking to wee tot of a girl, who was interested to know all manner of inconsequent things about the ambulance and Americans in gen
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-14

eral As they talked and laughed, a German shell fell, blew the child to pieces and wounded Montgomery He is now recovering.
 "The boys drive their little cars un- der fire when necessary to carry a spark of human life back to safety where 1t can have a chance to flame up again. Back there in the little English cemetery, at Salonica, is one who will never return. He is Edward Sotwell, Cambridge, Mass, a former student of Harvard, accidentally killed on duty.
 "We buried him immediately" said Brown, "A French priest conducted the service while we stood around. Sotwell was the victim of an auto wreck, not long after we arrived at Salonica, after a hard voyage on a stuffy ship down the Mediterranean.
 From Florida we headed directly for Monastir," added Brown. We ar rived there just after the battle in which allied troops, including the Serbians, had driven out the Bulgars. Dead were lying everywhere. The Bulgars had retreated to lines north of Monastir, and as we drove in they were smelling the town. Bulgar and Turk irregulars occupied many houses and were continuously sniping the sol diers. None of us were hit.
 "The real danger commenced when the Germans took over the Bulgar lines to the north. The Germans moved in heavier artillery and gave Monastor it's daily deluge of steel Through their system of espionage and observation it was not safe for even small Ford ambulance to move through Monastir's crooked streets Shells would drop just behind ouI cars as they passed along, the range at times so exact that the explosions would follow the curves and corners.
 "The persistent smelling of Monas
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-14
Home Preparedness
 WOMEN AND THE FORAGE LINE

WASHINGTON, April 19. - Nation al preparedness for war has ceased to be the theme for argument. Congress and other federal agencies are now occupied with questions of ways and means. However. today we face the question of individual preparedness, about which little has yet been said, but which is as vital a question as the other.
 War is not only a matter of gun powder and lead; it is just as much a matter of food and forage Compara- lively few are in a position to serve their country in actual firing line, but there is no man, woman or half grown child who can not serve on the forage line, If only by tending bed of green vegetables. Such service may not be exciting; may not seem glorious-yet in the long run it may be as useful as the service of the man who dies for his country on the field of battle It is not conceivable that the time may come when such humble service, Ioy- ally performed by thousands of pat riots thousand miles away from any battle line, may turn the balance upon which hangs our very existence as free people.
 We produce more than enough food for ourselves, but in war there will be
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-14
HOLLAND AN UNW|LLl N G
 LENDER
(By Associated Press)

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, April 14. - Despite her efforts to prevent it, Holland is Becoming, perforce, a large lender to the belligerent states. Great Britain set the example of pay ing for it's large supplies of dairy and other produce in exehequer bills, and when Germany demanded the 3ame privilege, neutral Holland could not see it's way clear to refuse, however differently it might regard Berlin pa per. Holland has been trying 10 ap- ply the brake on this downward road that might land 1t in uncomfortable circumstances, but so far apparently
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-14

danger that people may starve be- cause our food reserves are in remote elevators and storage plants and our railroads are too busy handling troops and munitions to carry food to the civilian population. Thus the government would be embarrassed by the problem of meeting local short age of food at a time when all its energies should be focused upon ma tional defence. Incidentally, from time to time prices of some necessaries of life may become prohibitive, even though food be available. Hence it is as imperative that the individual meet the problem of home food supply as that congress should look to na- tional food preparedness.
 Individual preparedness in cities should take form this spring by the planting of hundreds of thousands of dooryard gardens, where before there was only sod or bare earth. In the country it should take the form of more intensive cultivation; even of a measure of training on the part of women and girls that they may be prepared to ride the sulky blow or the binder if the worst comes. Every where it should take the form of scrupulous care in the production, use and conservation of foods.