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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-26

WASHINGTON, d. c., July &c.
No attempt is made here to minimize
the seriousness of the situation in the
war theatres in Europe The United
States is in the war and will go through
with it; but any hope of short strug-
gle has gone glimmering with the ap-
parent almost complete collapse OF the
Russian war machine.
The development was not unexpected
by many army officers. When the Of
fensive of July was started by the
Russian forces, the most frequent com
ment heard here was that it was prob
ably the dying kick of the old Russian
machine.
For the United States, the Russian
collapse may have an immediate and di-
rect bearing. 1t will, if the German
general staff presses its advantage, re-
lease additional German forces to boil
ster up the western front where Amer
lGdu llOOpS are W bC ShSoSCo- IN
German line in the west has not been
seriously impaired at any point, officers
here believe They do not claim to
know specifically the situation all along
the battle front, but they are unable
to see that the British and French have
wrested from the Germans any key
position of such Importance that it can
be used next year to hurl the enemy
back toward the Rhine
1t has been noted in fact that the
one strategic advantage gained in re
cent fighting was gained by the Ger
mans. Many officers here believe that
when a small sector of the British line
in Belgium was overwhelmed the Ger
mans materially improved the situation
on their weakest front. That view is
based on the opinion that the only hope
of decisive attainments for the Al
lies in the west lies in rolling up the
German right flank, where it reaches
the sea in Belgium.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-26
Sftuation Belleyed NOt So Bad.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July "a
The Russian situation is believed at
the embassy here, not to be so bad as
reports Indicate. The disorganization
in the army is apparently confined to
@alicia, while both ends, a thousand
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-26

il to the comptroller general. mas
much as the legislature spends the
money.
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CONTINUED on Last Page)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-26
To Strike at Bases.

If that could be done, it is argued
that the u-boat could be stamped out
and the only offensive instrument of the
Germans be eliminated entirely or so
seriously impaired as to make it inef-
fective
The big question is whether it could
be done.
The price of victory of this nature
against the u-boats and German shore
batteries probably would be appalling
and there is nothing to indicate that
the effort is being seriously considered
at present 1t cannot be questioned,
however, that many army men, both
in Great Britain and the United States,
favor some such desperate attempt.
Reports received from France, official
and unofficial so far as known, give
no cheering picture of what must be
done. There appears to be no doubt
that the Allied line can stand against
anv force Germany can bring against
It. But to gather the necessary strength
for a successful offensive will take
time and ample sea transportation fa-
cilities il the United States is to fur
lish the needed surplus of men, air.
nlanes. munitions and food.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-26
Problems Increasing.

American transportation problems,
both on land and sea, are constantly
increasing in scope. 1t seems to be
rertain now that whole railroad sys-
lems will have to be set up in France
70 give the American line the flow of
war materials and men to press home
IN attack.
There is an old military rule that a
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-26

The Times-Recorder is the ONLY paper
in the Third Congressional District with
Associated Press Service.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
SEEK RAISE FOR U. FACULTY
Request for Special Legislative Appro-
priation Will Be Made
During Session.

Madison = A request for a special
legislative appropriation to make pos
sible an increase in the scale of sal
aries of professors and instructors at
the University of Wisconsin will be
made this winter, according to an an
nouncement made by President G. R.
Van Hise at a recent faculty meeting.
For the last seven years, university
salaries have been based on fixed
scale which provides for normal pro-
motions and increases. This scale has
remained the same for seven years, al
though the cost of living has been in
creasing at the rate Of 3.5 per cent a
year or more. To keep pace with this,
President Van Hise proposes an in
crease throughout the scale. If the
change from the old scale to the new
is made in part each year, it will in
volve an annual addition of about $780,
900 to the budget.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
INCOME TAX is INCREASING
Total of $5,344,39 to BE Collected
This Year, a Gain of $f,50o,o00
Over Last Years Amount.

Madison A total income tax of SIS,
S44,393 was assessed against corpora
tions and individuals of Wisconsin to
be collected this month, according to
the announcement of the state tax
Commissioners. This announcement
shows an increase of $1,5OO,000 over
the amount assessed last year.
Complete reports on individual in
come tax compiled by the commission
show that individuals will pay $780,
213 as compared with $1,376,899 last
year. The corporation income tax for
this year is $3,743,184 as compared
with $2,461, 070 last year.
The amount collected from corpora
tons during the last season shows an
increase of approximately $1,300,000
over the previous year, which indicates
prosperity among manufacturers, &C
cording to tax officials.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
SEE PROSPECT Of
NEW ORE REGION
DISTRICT AROUND BLACK RlVEF
FALLS MAY BE DEVELOPED
ON LARGE SCALE.
MUCH LAND BEING BOUGHT
Whiteside Mining Company Has Pun
chased Nearly $4,000 Acres
in the Past Five Years-Ore
Found Near Surface.

Black River FaIIs-According to
survey recently completed by the State
Geological society and in view of the
activities of mining companies, this
region, it is thought, may develop lntc
one of the richest iron mining dis
trict in the state.
Five years ago the Whiteside Mining
company of Duluth set a diamond drill
to work seven miles east of Black
River Falls. Considerable work was
done, but no one except the owners
and operators ever heard what the re
suit of the prospecting was. But after
two years this company began buying
land in that section where it had been
drilling, until at the present time IT
owns upwards of 10000 acres. When
the Geological society reported lnd1car
| ton of rich iron deposits, the White
side company was forced to come out
in the open, since no one who owned
land in the section would sell it. The
company has paid as high as $500 an
acre for some of it's holdings.
Another concern, the Crosby Mining
company, has been purchasing land in
this locality, and still is buying all it
can get. AS a consequence of these
two companies buying against each
other the price of mining ground has
in some cases been multiplied ten
times.
Now the Whiteside company is in
stalling machinery to open up mine
Three car loads of equipment were re
ceived a few days ago.
The ore in this region is not of a
high grade, it is said, but it is near
the surface and Can be mined at a
cost which is said to make it more
valuable than high grade ore deeply
buried.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
DRY BILL BEFORE ASSEMBLY
Measure introduced for Statewide Ref
erenedum on Prohibition Cues
ton al 1918 Election.

Madison-A referendum bill on the
question of .wet and dry was offered
in the assembly by Assemblyman Will
liam T. Evjue of Madison.
The bill provides for a statewide
referendum OH the prohibition question
at the November election, 1918. If
adopted, the measure shall become eff
fective Jan. 1, 1920.
Any person who shall violate the
provisions of the section shall be
deemed guilty of misdeameanor and
for the first offense shall be punished
by fine of not less than 500, or more
than $500, or by imprisonment for not
less than ninety days nor more than
one year, or by both fine and impris-
onment. In case of subsequent Of
Tense the penalty shall be by both fine
and imprisonment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
DONALD MAY BE CANDIDATE
1t is Rumored That Former Secretary
of State May Run For Governor
at the Next Election.

Madison Although the next state
campaign is nearly two years IN the
future, it is being rumored in Madison
that John S. Donald, former secretary
of state, is to be supported by at least
a part of the faction which opposed
Gov. E. L. Philip in the last campaign.
incidentally there is gossip in the
state capitol that the long regime OF
DR.. Charles Mccarthy, head of the ref
erence library, may be interrupted.
Gov. Philip has the appointment OF
two members of the free library COM
mission, and this commission fills the
position held by DR.. Mccarthy.
1t is known that the governor re-
Gently offered one of these places to
former Senator John M. Whitehead OF
GAINESVILLE, but that Mr.. Whitehead de-
clined any appointment for the pres
ent. The other place, it is said, was
offered to Judge Emil Baensch of Man
itowoc, and he may accept it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
TO PROPOSE CHANGE IN LAW
Senator Burke of Green Bay Will In
troduce Measure to Modify &,
Widows Pension Law.

Green Modification of the wild
ows' pension law will be proposed in a
bill which Senator Timothy Burke of
Green Bay will introduce. The senator
outlined his views on the changes he
believes should be made in the law.
ga residence of one year in a local
ity should be required of all applicants
for widows pension" said Senator
Burke. ''The applicant should prove
she is not the owner of property and
has no other source of income before
a court should grant the petition,
think. The law is being abused in
some counties now, and if the abuse
continues there will beia concerted eff
fort to repeal the law, and thus deprive
deserving women of pension"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
oconomwoc Has $4,000 Fire.

Oconomowoc = One of the largest
fires this city has experienced in years
started from an unknown cause in the
Peter ,Binzel building and destroyed
four business structures. The Louis
Hero confectionery store, the law off,
ces of William Fleming, the Lyke fur
niture and undertaking store, and a
saloon and boarding house were amng
the concerns located in the buildings.
The damage is estimated at $4,000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Mrs. Watrous PASSES Away.

Milwaukee-M Mary Ellen Bene-
dict Watrous, age 70, wife of Lieut..
Col. J. A. Watrous, U. S. A., retired,
and for many years well known desi-
dent of Milwaukee, died at her home
here, after a critical illness extending
over the last three months. Mrs. Wa
trous had been an invalid for the last
three years, and it was realized for
many weeks past that the end was but
a matter of time.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
VOTE $4,000 FOR
BOARD OF AFFAIRS
SENATE PASSES APPROPRIATION
WITH ONLY ONE VOTE CAST
AGAINST 1T.
STATE FAIR GETS SIPS 10000
New Bill Makes Provision for Annual
Event With Maximum Allow
ance - Act On Many
Appropriations.

Madison-The Whitman bill making
an annual appropriation of $4,000 to
continue the state board of public af-
fairs was passed in senate, Senator
II. e. Roethe of Fennimore being the
only member to vote in the negative.
This is the fist measure of large public
interest submitted to vote in the up
per house.
CIsely allied with the record break
ing pace of the joint committee on T.
nance is the work of the board of pub
lie affairs in the preparation of the
1917 budget. To date the finance COM
mittee has accomplished more than
any other similar body in the history
Of legislative sessions.
Thus far appropriations for several
Departments and number of assOcia-
tons which receive state aid have
been acted upon. The cmmittee is in
executive session a large part of the
time, because the members vote imme-
diately following the discussion OF
bills.
1t is understood the following appro-
priations have already been acted
upon and will be recommended to the
legislature.
Buttermakers-$60 year.
Cheesemakers- year.
Cranberry growers $3.50 year.
Cheesemakers and Dairymen's asso-
cations 900 year.
State board Of education = $4,000 a
year.
Executive department - $16,110 the
first year and $18,110 the second year.
Firemens' association-$6,0 900 year.
Geological and natural history sur
.vey-$50,00 year.
Board of health-$35, 600 for admin
lstration the first year; $1,000 to pre-
vent blindness among children; ST.
$50 for hygienic 1abratory.
Historical society-$52,000 year;
$4,000 for books.
State insurance department-$48, 900
year, cut of $4,000.
Law library-$4,0OO year.
Memorial hall-$2,000 year.
National guard 100000 year.
Printing board = $4,000 for two
years.
Agricultural Experimental associa-
tion-$5O,OOO year.
Agricultural department = $4,000 a
year.
State irA$125,000, with $4,000 in
1917 for maintenance and $4,000 In
1913 for the same purposes.
Attorney generals department-$3O,-
900 year, and contingent fund of
$4,000.
State banking department = $4,000
the first year and $4,000 the second
year.
The state athletic board will be ex-
pected to maintain itself from it's own
receipts.
According to the provisions of the
bill relating to the state fair, $125,OOO
is the maximum amount that can be
expended in staging the next fair in
Milwaukee, If the annual show results
in balance the money is to. revert to
the general fund.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Incautious Burglar.

A man who is given to doing "odd
jobs" about his house was very proud
of bit of painting he had accom-
plished.
About midnight following the com
pletion of the outside of the house
he was awakened by a noise. Creeping
to the window, he looked out, and to
his horror, saw burglar climbing up
a ladder to the second-story window
'sLook out there!" yelled the house
holder to the burglar. Look out for
the paint"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
BARRIERS May Raise Prices.

Racine-Barbers of Racine will hold
a business session within a short time
to further consider proposed advance
in their scale of rates for hair cuts and
shaves. There has been some agita-
ton toward boosting the price of hair
cuts to SO cents and the cost of a
shave to 20 cents.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Menasha After Tourney.

Menasha -Menasha bowling enthusi-
asts are confident of landing the 1918
tournament of the Wisconsin State
Bowling association. Seven teams will
be entered in the meet at Watertown
this year, the entries to be made up
from Menasha and Neenah bowlers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
VIII Build New Septic Tanks.

Marshfeld- city has let con-
tracts for the building of two new sep
tic or sewage disposal tanks, one on
the north side and one on the south
side, and has also begun work to triple
the water supply by sinking an enor-
nous new well. The total cost of the
work will be about $4,000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Jail Breaker Is Shot.

Green Bay William Olson, 35 years
old, was shot four times by Patro1man
Frank Morgan when he resisted arrest.
Olson escaped from the county work
house and the policeman attempted to
capture him.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Takes No Dictation.

Church, What's become of your
stenographer and typewriter?
Gotham-Flew de coop.
Left youY'
"Sure thing"
"Your wife the cause?"
ooh, no."
Got another job?"
"Nix."
'What happened then?'
"She became suffragette.'
"Well, couldn't she hold her job just
the same?"
"Say, boy, did you ever know of
suffragette that could be dictated
TOT"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
cuernsey Breeders Meet.

Ladysmith-The Guernsey Breeders
association of Rush county held ban
quet at Bruce following the annual
meeting. County Representative Ic.
sails and w. u. Kinyon of Eau Claire,
and County Representative House
holder of Rusk county, were the prin
cipal speakers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Ho-HUM! BUT IT'S DULL;
NO LOBBYISTS ABOUT

Madison What has become OF
the lobbyists?
The opening of legislative
session has never been so dull,
so businesslike, and SO devoid OF
sidelight thrills.
Madison is as quiet as a Qua
ker's meeting.
81 think we ought to introduce
resolution to find out if the lob
byists have cut us cold" play
fully remarked Frank Hanson.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
To Fight White Pine Blister.

Madison-White pine blister, the sp-
pearance of which in Wisconsin has
alarmed foresters and lumbermen, is
believed to have been first brought
into the state in importations of young
trees from Germany in 1902. The state
will be asked for $500 for each of the
next three years to guard against it's
spread.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Stack Is Blown Down.

Sheboygan-The smokestack at the
American Parlor Frame company's
plant, seventy feet high, was blown
down. The stack fell few minutes
after a number of school children had
passed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Increase canitaI Stock.

Green Bay-An increase of 100000
in the capital stock of the Merely
Murphy Hardware company was au
thoized by the directors. This will
bring the capitalization UP to 100000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
-Four Pioneers Are Dead.

Beloit -Four of Beloit's oldest resi-.
dents died within the last three days.
They were: l. P. Cadman, SO years
old; Samuel Barr, aged 80, civil war
veteran; Henry Bentland, aged 80,
merchant; and Mrs. George F. Ackley,
65 years old.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Plan New High School.

Grantsburg-The local school board
is advertising for bids on the new $685.
900 high school building, which will be
erected here in the summer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Plan New Lodoe Home.

Neenah-Defnite steps will probably
be taken here in the near future for
the erection of a Masonic temple. The
structure will be erected on site pur-
chased some time ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
steuens Point Wins.

Stevens Point - Stevens Point re
tains the Yellowstone trail as a result
of the contest with Grand Rapids.
Now a new contest between the two
cities has begun over the federal road.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
Fire Loss at Hiqh Mark.

Madison-A total of 295 fires was re
ported to the state fire marshall during
December, involving losses of $5ll,
2S5. This is an increase over Novem-
Der, when the total losses were 1922
1910, but a decrease over December,
1Q15
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26
cottanes Are Eansacked.

Neenah-Many summer cottages on
the north shore Of Lake Winnebago
have been broken into and robbed.
The owners of the cottages are Nee
nah and Appleton people.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-26

Mrs. Annette A. Adams, assistant
United States district attorney, stepped
into the place of the district attorney
when he was taken i'll at the start of
the Bopp explosion plot trial at San
Francisco. Mrs. Adams opened for
the government, conducted the case
throughout it's course and secured q
verdict for the United States.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-04

in the private train Of Mr.. Nicholas
Eomanoff, late car of Russia, now
growing potatoes about three miles
northeast Of ToJolsk, Tobolsk-c co,
Siberia.
1t was an extremely handsome train
and don't know anythink that better
illustrates in compact form, the huge
and expensive folly of autocracy.
There were nine cars, each a mar
velous specimen of workmanship, in
side and outside. They were made of
steel and swung upon specially con-
structed springs of the finest tenn
pored metal, so that they rode as if
they were floating in the air.
In the original train there Was a
car for the car and his wife; Car
for the children a car for Baron Fred
cricks, the old chief boss of the i'm
pcrial household, and for the immed-
iato staff that attended upon the czal
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-04

wherever it appeared in Russia it was
thing before which men bowed as
a. symbol of autocratic power that
would last forever. And on June !.
around the table in it where the car
had signed his a5dication, 81. tho
Representatives, of three democracies,
the United States, hina and Russia,
and Knocked at vanished autocracy
n The cur had gone-but the people
remained. Il u. =.
WANTED-Rye for fall sseeting. Bis
marck Elevator & Investment Co.,
r. 'Bisn,;fffss.1k B1HR building. NV
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-04
Ne W||::.::Y0RK'S DRAFT
r.. tBAy... IN PARADE

New York, sept:%ss .-Untraincd, ana
without J xAiforms' the4y young men who
have been drawn to represent this
city in the new national army march
cd up Fifth avenue as. part of the
program arranged in their honor by
THO city before they leave for their
training camps. Each man will wear
All arm band, stamped with the let
tiers N. A. Although it is expected
that not more than onc-ffth Of the
city's quota Of 1851 will leave for
the training camp on the first call,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-04

and his family; car for those that
attended upon the immediate staff;
two cars for the armed guards and
those that attended upon those that
attended upon the immediate staff
that attended upon the car and his
family.
There was also q kitchen car CIV
en- up entirely to the repairing of the
imperial dict; a car that contained the
imperial dining room at one end ana
the imperial drawing room at the
other; and the imperial baggage car
For a reason that l shall tell you
later, the cars car was not used on
this occasion. Most of us had rooms
in Baron Fredcricks' car or in the
children's car. 81. .a.
In my room there was book case,
|, writing desk literally equipped, a
small closet, great many shelves, a
chair, and a comfortable couch that
became the bed at night. There was
also wash stand with running wa
ter. The wood work was all exceed
ingly handsome and costly. The
walls were covered with some kind
of satiny stuff in pink and blue,
think it was. The windows had double
curtains of heavy silk.
There was a beautiful thermometer
fiynd ont side of my window there was
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-04

room had hand decorated cold
cream jar, said to be extremely choice
and a work of art y'@ ''''' y
All the rooms had very thick, soft
carpets and hand painted ikons.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-04

\ beautiful Their.
Epmeter fixed III
side of my window,
there was a bcautl-
full thermometer on
the wall of the
corridor just out
side the window of
that corridor op'
posite my door.
There was a very
handsome baron.
eter done in brass
on my wall and
under it a very
handsome clock.
All the rooms on
that car were fur
nished with SINH
lar luxury. The