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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-19

! ents of his resolved ourselves into an
equally determined committee to pro-
tect him from the rade public and keep
his privacy sacred. For day we sue
! ceeded. Then the chase got too hot.
/ When the calculus class convened it
had seven visitors from other classes
and Pierce had to get up when Grabby
/ was called upon and explain that he
had been summoned TO Chicago on an
important mission connected with his
country.
In the meantime the one question on
the campus was: Would Mr.. Grab
benheim accept? Would he conde-
scend to become acquainted? Bangs
had taken the job of retailing the ru-
mors concerning Grabbenheim's wealth
and refinement. He had good imagi-
nation and he worked it to the limit.
BY Friday of that week Grabby had
become grand duke in disguise, and
when a letter from Chicago with a
Russian crest on it reached the class
president, twenty trembling hands
helped him open it at the bulletin
board, where it had been posted.
We had wired Snoddy Smith of last
years class, who was toiling upward
in Chicago at that time, to put us up
a nice letter. Cost us $1.97 to explain
it to him at night rates. Snoddy GER
tainly did well. Don't know where he
dug up the letter paper, but it was
paralyzing. Plain, you know, but oh,
so refined. Mr.. Grabbenheim from the
bottom of his heart thanked his class
mates, whom he hoped some day to
know, for the honor conferred upon
him. Odd he presume in believing the
college paper which he had just read
before his departrreD. Mr.. Grabben-
helm wished thai he might accept, but
all, dear friends, your strange Gus
toms, your strange but delightful Gus
t0ms--he could not hope to get help
here the president stopped and looked
at The letter for long time, while we
cursed Snoddy under our breaths and
Swore that if he queered the game by
his foolishness we'd get revenge if it
took lifetime-to get help to social
usages ct that dear old Siwash college.
How could he accept, knowing so little
All, no, dear friends, but lifetime of
gratitude. AS we say in Russia
Then followed a row of jackstones
and some splashes which looked so
Russian that even 1 got a little bit
dizzy. Snoddy was certainly rising to
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the occasion. But, the letter went on,
Mr.. Grabbenheim, who has not thus
far claimed the delight of knowing
personally his comrades in the pursuit
of all wisdom, would count it privi
lege and an honor to attend the ball
There was more, but that was
enough. All present Immediately gave
three cheers. Grabbenheim, the mys-
terry, was about to emerge. We, the
sophomores, would spring him on
dazzled college. We, the sophomores,
were the people by a terrific majority,
and who dared deny it?
Grabbenheim was the only subject
of conversation for the next few days.
Everybody knew all about him now.
position, but never attended. Mathe-
MATES seemed to be his only interest.
He was said to be wonderful in cal
culus What did he look like? We an
swered a thousand questions that
week-that is, we side-stepped them.
He was all very well, we explained,
too quiet, but oh, so-you know. Wait
until the athletic dance. And mean
time the sale of tickets scared and
scared. Grabby was again performing
a great college service. He was break
ing the record for receipts, and, good
ness knows, the baseball team needed
the money.
About that time another letter came
from Smith. 1t didn't come to US. but
to Miss Andrews of the senior class,
and ten minutes after she opened it
the whole school knew about it. Count
Grabbenheim had asked her for the
homer of dance. We saw through
it in a minute. Snsddy was getting
a little service out of Grabby himself.
| He and Miss Andrews were engaged
and he was simply heaping a little
honor on her in his usually reckless
and impudent way. oh, well, we
owed something to him, anyway. He
had helped us out noogy.
I am not entirely sure of what hap
pened next, because Just then things
seemed to go around and around for
several days. l had asked Miss Will
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fact, he ignored the classes altogether
and began TO get faculty notices for
cuts. But we didn't care about that.
In fact, it pleased US, because at the
end of the term the faculty would have
before it the task of firing the best
mathematics scholar who ever came to
Siwash because he had flunked in two
other studies, and it warmed our hearts
to think of the trouble it would have
deciding the INDEPENDENTLY If it
tried to talk things over with Grab
benheim personally.
In the spring we began introducing
Grab5eaheim to the campus. Rearick
wrote a few verses in his very best
vein and sent them into the college pa
per under Grabbenheim's name. We
got the athletic associations president
to appoint him on a couple of commit
tees. We fed the college reporters
for the weekly with personals about
Grabbenheim until the sheet was sat
urated with him. He had gone home
to Chicago to see his sick mother. He
was absent in Omaha considering q
fine position which had just been Of
fered him. He was attending a confer
eGce at Kiowa. People began to ask
who this Grabbenheim chap was. But
nobody seemed to know. Most of us
thought he was a junior, but we hadn't
met him. He was very exclusive, we
had heard-he had title over in Rus
STA and had come away to avoid the
nihiiists or something of the sort. Pity
he didn't mix more with the fellows.
About April we didn't have time to
do much of anything besides arrang-
ing Grabby's career. He got buster
and buster. Bangs cribbed an arti-
Gle on Russian social conditions from
somewhere and entered it in the sophie
more essay competition. 1t was SO
good that the faculty held meetings
about it and tried to find Grabby in
order to encourage him.
Still we weren't satisfied. Every
night some of us met to discuss Grabby
and improve him and hang some new
and startling ornament on his record
or disposition. Once we almost made
him over altogether into German Of
ficer in exile for fighting a duel
Pierce fought hard for it, but we voted
him down. But we did consent to run
him for office. This was another pet
dream of Pierce's. He declined to
be happy until Grabbenheim had been
elected to some college Office and had
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To Dream or to Do

How often the world regrets the loss
of achievements that men have cor
templated-and never achieved inc
inventions that the unpersistent nave
never worked out; the pictures tha'
artists have rested content with see
ing only in their brains; the DooA'
that have never got beyond their "u-
thors' outlines; the epics that poe'S
have only planned; the mndreus %
altruistic deeds existing only as lHf-
pulses; how often mankind has re
GREETED such losses. But instead OF
feeling sorry about it, pity the WouIu,
be doors. William James counSe'r
these victims:
Every time a resolve or q me sto"
of feeling evaporates without oearins
practical fruit it is worse thah u"
ch%nce lost; it works so as poslliVel'
to hinder fudire resolutions ana emu
TOMS from taking the normal pam -
discharge.
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had an affair with a girl. Working
up a love affair for a man who ex-
listed only in the disordered brains of
few disorderly sophomores was too
much of a job for US. But we thought
we could manage the election, and so
we finally picked out place on the ex-
ecutive committee of the spring ath-
letic dance and put Grabbenheim up
for it.
Pierce pulled it off in fine shape at
the class meeting. He rose, he ex-
planned, to do peculiar thing. He
wanted to nominate man whom most
of the class had never seen-the best
mathematician who had ever come to
Siwash-a man of noble and distin-
guished bearing-a future king of ath-
letes and a defender of the old school
on many a field-but man so shy and
reserved that it had seemed impossi-
BILE to drag him out into college life.
He was about to nominate Aloysius
Grabbenheim ("Sergius, you fool"
Bangs whispered frantically) as a
member of the committee for the
sophomore class. The honor might
encourage him to mingle. Though he
would probably decline, it would show
him that Siwash hearts beat warmly
for him, etc.-gurgle, gurgle, gush.
Pierce was a great little iam-spreader,
and the class ate it all up. 1t elected
Grabbenheirl, though Sfmpkins made a
frantic speech against honoring an I'M
known, who didn't have interest
enough to get acquainted around the
campus. Simpkins almost burst over
the performance, but he was kind. oh,
how kind Simpkins was. He held
Grabbenheim's fate in the hollow of his
hand. At any minute he might have
exposed him and annihilated him, but
did he do it2 No, indeAd. Sipapkins
was a real mamie RETAINED. The
water in that clay quarry was 'awfully
cold that spring.
Grabby's election produced ire
mendous sensation around college
The whole school resolved itself into
q committee to find him and drag hin
triumphantly forth. And we L par
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We plotted fiercely all night. The
dance was only three days away and
time was short. The next day Pierce
and l disappeared from our accus-
toned haunts in the afternoon. We
had with us tools and a lunch. The
old main building stands open until
six, and it wasn't hard for us to ram
BILE casually up to the third floor with
out meeting anyone and insert our
selves INFO Professor Woggs room.
1t was no trick at all to get out of
Professor Wogg's room and into the
chemical laboratory. The locks were
up-to-date, but the doors weren't. They
cut like cheese. 1t was just nine
o'clock when we finally stood before
our prey, and the moonlight filtering
through the big narrow-paned windows
made it unnecessary to use lights.
We worked mostly with acids. They
are so satisfactory. We mixed them
all together ard poured them wherev-
err they would do the most good. We
burned villainous remarks on the wall
paper. We used litTnus paper by the
bale and test tubes by the barrel.
When we got tired of acids we went
in for smells. The smells we discov-
cred were superb. 1 smeiled lot of
them the second day I was on the
ocean last year-Just at meal time.
They were yellow-brownish green
smells that tie your stomach up in a
knot and wiring it cut like towel
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-01-25

The following resolution was pre-
sented and was upon motion adopt
ed:
Whereas the County Agricultural
Agent is in need of some equip
ment for his office, therefore be it
Resolved that the special commit
tee appointed May End, to have
charge of this work, be authorized
to purchase such equipment as may
be necessary, and that bills when ap-
proved by the Chairman of said
committee, and presented to the
County Clerk. shall be paid. The
Chairman of this board and the clerk
are hereby authorized to draw coun
ty orders for such bills.
Dated this 18th day of December,
1916.
GEO. MERIT.
The following resolution was pre-
sented and was upon motion adopt
ed:
Resolved that the Committee On
Public Grounds and Buildings be
authorized to fix up a room in the
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On roll call the foregoing resolu-
ton was adopted by unanimous vote
Of all members present.
The following resolution was pre-
scented and was upon motion laid on
the table:
Resolved by the County Board OF
Bayfield, County that the county ad-
vance to Eben Olson, contractor on
he Washburn and Ashland road the
sum of 100000 taking over the steel
and track equipment now held by him
at Nash, the same to be deducted
from the contract price when the
final settlement is made for the work.
H. MARION JUEL.
Inventory of tools and equipment
belonging to the county was present.
ed by the County Highway Commits
sioner and was accepted and ordered
filed.
The following resolution was pre-
scented and was upon motion adopted:
Whereas, the county has no up to
date map. and whereas it is quite
necessary for the use OF all taxing
officers, and property owners, there
fore be it resolved that county sur
yeyor r. w. Smith be and he is here
Nv authorized to prepare map OF
the county showing all town bound
aries. roads, school houses, and such
other information as is necessary to
lake the work valuable. that all town
clerks be requested to furnish such
data. as may be required by said
County Surveyor. Resolved further
that the sum of $225.00 be set aside
for this work.
Resolved further that the County
Clerk be directed to have plate
made Of such map and also have
: 900 maps printed on good paper, and
TO furnish each town clerk with 100,
the rest to be placed on sale by said
County Clerk.
Dated this 18th day of December
1916.
L. N. CLAUSEN.
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basement of the Court House for the
use Of the County Agricultural
Agent.
Resolved that bills approved by
the said Committee for this work be
paid and the County Clerk and
Chairman are hereby authorized to
draw orders for same.
Dated December 18th, 1915.
GEO. MERIT.
The following report was present
ed and was upon motion adopted;
To the Honorable County Board,
Bayfield, County. Wis.
Gentlemen: We, the Undersigned
committee on Printing and Stationery
beg to recommend that the follow
ing bills be allowed. and that the
County Clerk be authorized to draw
orders for amounts shown in column
headed allowed"
Dated this 2Sth day of November
1916.
Respectfully submitted.
ERICK JOHNSON,
C. T. ANDREAS.
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The foregoing resolution was adopt
ed by the following vote:
Aye-Galligan, Thoreson, Foss, Sor-
omen, Kekhofer, Miller. A. G. Johnson,
Iverson. Yderstad. Hopkins, Vester
Duffy, Erick Johnson. Ellerman,
Kranzfelder, Andreas, Robillard, Bell,
Handberg, Robinson, Andrew Johnson
and Mertz-22.
Nay-Holston, Stone-2.
The following resolution was pre-
sented:
Resolved that the sum Of $5.440.O0
be and the same is hereby added TO
the levy for general county purposes
to be used for the purpose OF remodel
Ing the Court room in the Court
House. that such work be done under
the direction of the Committee on
Public Grounds and Buildings in ac-
cordance with plans and specifications
prepared by Henry Wildhagen, archi-
tect.
Dated this 18th day OF December,
1916.
GEORGE MERIT.
The foregoing resolution was adopt
ed by the following vote:
Aye-Galligan, Barnes, Holston,
Thorsen, Foss, Soronen, Kickhoffer,
Miller, A. G. Johnson, Iverson, Yder-
stad, Hopkins, Vester, Duffy, Erick
Johnson, Ellerman, Stone, Kransfeld-
er, Andreas, Robillard, Bell, Hand
berg, Robinson, Andrew Johnson and
MertZ-25.
Nay-H. H. Peavey.
Resolved by the County Board of
Bayfield, County in adjourned session
assembled this 3rd day of December.
1916, that the following state and
county taxes be levied on the taxable
property of the county and the spe-
cial charges on towns and cities, be
levied on the taxable property Of the
said towns and cities, named therein
for the year 1916.
Resolved further that the county
clerk be and he is hereby directed to
spread the following amounts on the
tax rolls OF the several towns and
cities and collected as provided by
law:
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Total ,,...... SlS, ,o0S
Dated this 18th day of Nov, 1916.
PAT GALLIGAN,
c. E. FOSS,
BARNEY KEKHOFER,
NJ. HOPKINS,
JOHN KRANZF'ELDER,
Committee.
The foregoing report was adopted
by the following vote: Aye. Galligan,
Barnes. Juel. Foss, Soronen, Kekhof-
or. Miller, A. G. Johnson, lverson,
Yederstad, Hopkins, Vester, Duffy, FL
lerman. Kranzfelder, Andreas, Robil-
lard. Bell, Handberg, Andrew John
son and Mertz. Aye-20.
Nay-Holston. Thoreson, Etick'
Johnson and Stone. May.
The following resolution was pre-
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Clerk be authorized to draw orders
for amounts shown in column head
ed allowed"
Dated at Washburn, Wis, this
28th day Of November, 1916.
Respectfully submitted,
F. H. BARTLETT,
D. G. BELL,
q M AXNESS
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scented:
Resolved, by the County Board of
bayfield, County, Wisconsin, in annual
session this 2Sth day of November
1916. that the valuation set opposite
the respective towns in the following
list, containing all the towns, cities
nd taxing districts in Bayfield, Coun-
ty, be and the same are hereby fixed
as the valuation of the several towns
and taxing districts as determined by
Arizona republican., 1917-06-17

horseless carriage in America. He is especially known, however, as an au- thority on motor transportation and was appointed United States commis- sioner of motor truck transportation for the Panama Pa cific exposition As an executive of the Steamotor Truck company, MT. Hill will devote his attention especially to trucking problems of large users. Speaking of the application of steam to motor trucks, MT. Hill said:
 q have watched the development of the motor truck industry from it's beginning and have been identified with the manufacture of both the electric and the gasoline truck. From my knowledge of the problems that have been solved and the handicaps under which we have labored, I regard the progress made in the last few years as phenomenal. Yet with the entrance of the steam truck into the field 1 firmly believe that the industry is just beginning to find itself. q have gone into this proposition down to the very bottom and am firmly convinced that the biggest thing that has ever come into the truck field is the Abner Doble steam ] power plant.
 Tt is a significant fact that although
Arizona republican., 1917-06-17

fridge. Those reasons are economy, more efficient delivery and big ad-
 vertising value.
 Personally, I want to emphasize the fact that l am strongly biased in favor of the Overland delivery car. We have tried many makes of motor delivery vehicles, ranging from the lowest priced delivery car to more expensive cars, and the Overland 1 has given us the best service A couple or three weeks ago, our gasoline mileage for the Light Four Overland in our country service amounted to 21 3-S miles to the gal lon of gasoline. That Is better showing than we got from any of the other makes of cars which we own and, furthermore, the Overland stands up under hard service better than its competitors which we have used ir our business.
 To-day, the Lakeside Biscuit com pany is using fourteen motor de- livery vehicles. We figure that that number of cars is the -'Iivalent of twenty five teams and wagons. It is perfectly obvious that it would cost more to maintain twenty five teams,
 wagons and teamsters than it would foureen delivery cars and drivers.
 
 hicle delivery is self evident. From the standpoint of efficient delivery service, the team and wagon | has practically nothing to offer ir comparison with the motor ears. With the latter system. you not only cover more territory, but you cover it in | less time than you covered the linn ited territory with the old method
 of delivering goods. In his respect. no one can appreciate the motor car S advantages better than the retail l baker, who, if he is up to date. must answer the delivery requirements of | his customers at all hours and his /! goods must be delivered in the right
 condition. Fine pastry, which had stood in an old fashioned delivery wagon for three or four hours, meant | the loss of d customer to the baker
 who was delivering it. With motor
 car, the pastry would have been de- | livered fresh from the oven to the customer.
 Tn my own business, I consider that the advertising value of de- l livery car is one of the most import
 ant points in it's favor. A modern ve- ! hicle, like the Overland, with it's
 clean lines and attractive appearance,
 is bound to give prestige to it's owner III tle III 9t pidSe, It SiNeS lilt HI = 1 preSsion of cleanliness.
 The most important point in deal i ing with food values is cleanliness. Motor cars have furnished the best l avenue to cleanliness, as far as de- ! livery is concerned, that has been de- i vised up to this time.
 For these reasons the Lakeside | Biscuit company uses motor cars ex- | clusively for delivering it's goods and
 it will continue to do SO And every
Arizona republican., 1917-06-17

of his spare moments. given over to the perfecting of his scheme. proved it's worth. but he was without capital and unable to exploit his invention.
 In Chicago he formed an alliance with E. l. Rosenfeld, who, after great effort, managed to obtain the com paratively insignificant sum of $1500 with which working capital was com menced When the first attachments were placed on the market, interest rapidly developed and funds were ac- cumulated for increased production. Fifty thousand dollars were set aside for advertising purposes. Inquiries came in by the hundreds and the lit tie factory was completely swamped.
 Orders were there but no means of filling them. At that critical time several steel men were interested in the concern, and materials necessary to fill the orders were secured.
 In 1916 ten thousand attachments were built and sold; and in the first four months of this present year the entire output of the previous year has already been doubled. During the month of May the contract for solid rubber tires with which the rear wheels of the truck are equipped amounted to s4000G0 Illustrating the lfilnenSe production WnlCn IS taking place.
 Small initial cost of the attach ment of $S50 for a one-ton truck and low hauling cost-in' some instances as little as s cents per ton mile together with a well planned adver- Using campaign constitutes the se- cret of the company's success.
 Recognition of the genius of F. l. Rosenfeld was given recently when the directors chose him as president of the concern. MT. Rosenfeld con- tinues as general manager in addi- tion to assuming his responsible duty as head Of the corporation A. D. Smith. the inventor of the attachment, is chairman of the board of directors. The company is known as a firm of young men and Mir. Rosenfeld has gathered about him the strongest men in the motor truck industry. These assistants have been carefully chosen and are men who have made excep- tional records in their particular
Arizona republican., 1917-06-17

the Steamotor Truck company will not be able to produce truck before early fall, yet we have already sold to some of the largest and most con- servative truck users in the country enough to keep our factory busy all next year.
 q actually received an offer the other day of substantial bonus for the first ten trucks to be turned out of the factory. It was made by one of the largest users in Chicago. We also received recently another order from a large user for dozen trucks. one of the stipulations being that they be the first delivered from the factory. This competitions for the first trucks we turn out is merely one bit of evil dence of the confidence truck users have in the DOble steam power idea as applied to their transportation problem"
Arizona republican., 1917-06-17
TORPEDO BOAT ! CHASER HAULS ! AUTO FRON SEA

A Mitchell automobile, which was lost in transit while being ferried across Chesapeake Bay, has been re- covered by the torpedo boat destroyer Benham. When the torpedo destroy CT lifted it's anchor, the automobile was found caught in it. This is the information received here by T. L. Bolton, local Mitchell representative.
 The interesting account given below IS taken from the American Marine Engine, copy of which has just been received by MT. Bolton:
 At last the automobile of old Father Neptune has been found. and whether or not it was due to his exceeding the speed limit on the bot tom of the Sea or due to a shortage or gasoline cannot be stated, but at any rate the machine has been brought to the surface and taken to Norfolk.
 When the torpedo boat destroyer Benham attempted to raise one of her big anchors a couple of miles off snore In Chesapeake Bay recently. preparatory to leaving her position near the submarine nets at the en- trance to the bay. trouble was found Tn raising the starboard hook. When Ine anchor was finally hoisted on