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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17
SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION
SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCTED

A large number of delegates from
the women's auxiliaries of the Order
of Railway Conductors of Stevens
Point, Merrill, Tomahawk, Green Bay,
Fond du Lac and other places, attend
ed the school of instruction of the
auxiliary conducted in this city last
Wednesday and Thursday. The meet
ings were held at the Eagles hall.
Mrs. j. H. Moore of Toledo, Ohio,
grand president of the auxiliary, was
in charge of the school. The sessions
opened Wednesday morning with the
address of welcome delivered by Mrs.
]. E. Dexter, president of the local
auxiliary. Mrs NJ. d. Vinckle of Ste
vens Point responded in behalf of the
delegates. This was followed by the
Green Bay delegates putting on the
opening ceremony.
On Wednesday afternoon the pro-
gram included. initiation work, which
was put on by the Stevens Point dele-
CATION. Several candidates were mi
tiated into the auxiliary during the
afternoon from various divisions.
A banquet and dance furnished en-
tertainment for Wednesday evening at
the Eagles hall. The decorations were
elaborate, the hall being done in flags
and bunting, also in streamers of red,
green. and white, the auxiliary colors,
and potted plants. The tables were
prettily bedecked with larkspur and
roses, the red, white and blue color
scheme being effectively carried out.
Mrs. John Ray of Abbotsford, dis
trict deputy of the order, acted as
toastmistress and several responded
during the banquet hour. Vocal and
instrumental selections were also
given. Following the banquet a pub
lie dancing party was given.
On Thursday morning a demonstra-
ton of installation work was given
by the Fond du Lac division. The
afternoon session closed the two-day
meeting, when the Wausau auxiliary
put on the closing ceremony
Mrs. Moore explained the work of
the order carefully during the two
days and gave interesting talks.
Besides the delegates from various
places mentioned above, Mrs. John
Ray of Abbotsford, district deputy,
and Mrs. Ben Powers, of Chicago, gen
eral chairman of the grievance COM
| mittee, were in attendance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17
FARM LANDS

$500 acres of Marathon and Lin
coin county farm lands for sale to set
tiers. Price, $40 to SIS per acre, on
very easy, terms. Louis Scharbau,
Owner, 615 First ST., Wausau. Wis ad.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17
Doing Good

Few medicines have met with more
favor or accomplished more good than
Chamberlain's Collie and Diarrhoea
Remedy. John F. Jantzen, Delmeny,
Sask., says of it, 81 have used Cham
berlains, Collie and Diarrhoea Remedy
myself and in my family, and can rec
ommend it as being an exceptionally
fine preparation"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
Dancy Items

Haying has started in full blast.
Old meadows are mot good but new
seeding is reported first class.
Mrs. Arthur Buzzo left Sunday even
ing for her home at Messaba, Mimi,
after spending some time with her
father, M. H. Altenburg, and other
relatives.
Material is here and work under
way for the transmission line from
Mosinee to Stevens Point. We hope
in the near futuresto be enjoying cleo
trio lights in residences and places
of business.
Miss Evelyn L. Knoller left Sunday
evening for Duluth and Winton, Mimi,
where she will spend some time with
relatives. At Winton she will join
an automobile party, with whom she
will enjoy tour into Canada.
H. c. Head of Amigo, was here the
past week with some prospective pur-
chaserS for some of his land he owns
in this locality. Mr. Head owns a
canning factory at Amigo and states
the pea crop this year very promising.
Mrs. j. P. Sill, daughter, Miss Alice,
and son, Stanley, and Thomas Hooper
OF Mosinee, canoed down the Wiscon-
sin river to Dancy Saturday and spent
the afternoon and evening at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Knoller,
The party returned via automobile
Two Austrians who are employed in
making auto tires in factory at
Waukegan, ILL.,, were here the past
Upnly ond
they will improve next year. They
stated many others are planning on
buying land to fall back on in case
business in the cities dulls down later.
The big Red Cross dance in E. Top
hams hall last Wednesday evening.
was a big success. 1873 tickets were
sold. Only those who had tickets
were allowed in the hall, and there
Were nearly as many spectators on
the outside. The music by Cones
Fourth regiment orchestra of Wau-
sau, was first class and greatly en-
Joyed by all. From 9 o'clock until
z the floor was packed. After all
expenses are paid there will 500 to
the good. The ballroom was beautifully
decorated with some of the Red Cross
decorations that were used at the ball
at Rothschild park pavilion few
evenings before. This was gotten
through the courtesy of Roman
Deutsch and was greatly appreciated.
among those who attended the ball
from away were: Ed. Marched. Inter
national Falls, MINI. Earl Clements
ana wlfe, Charming. Mich: Matt Con-
III, Iomahawk; Miss Alice KaTanaugh
and Miss Schneider, Dan Callahan and
wife, and Delos Prehn of Wausau.
Mrs. w. Cawlay of Custer. besides
those from all the neighboring towns.
Mosinee Items
Mosinee Times
Mrs. B. Keefe and Mrs Maroarat
Bernier of Wausau, were Fourth of
July visitors here.
Sarah Walters of Wausau snent the
week here at the home of her brother
and family, Louis Walters.
Miss Florence Norman of wausau
visited here last week at the home of |
her uncle, c. S. Blair, and family.
The paper mill resumed operations |
again Monday morning after week,s |
smut down for repairs and general |
overhauling.
Robt. Freeman was in from, ualaor
Tuesday renewing old aconai,+anoaa
ar. freeman does not get around es
: equen'iy as In former yeas
George Jones. twenty-si, year old |
som oL MIS- Magdeline Foltz. of the !
Iomn OF Moslnee, died Satin day even
ing from tuberculosis, ate an in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17

The crop conditions in the city and
county are exceeding all expectations.
The grain crop, except corn. is SUI
perb, the hay crop is immense and
the vegetables, more especially pota-
toes, never locker better. The corn
crop is Interestingly small thus far.
owing to the damp and chilly weather
of last month, but it may take on more
life and energy during the present and
coming months. if not hit by an early
frost before ripening. The potato
production. from present appearances.
indicates an extraordinary and bug
less yield thus far. the pest not vet
having put in its destructive appear
ance to any alarming extent. Taking
all in all together. the people of this
locality will have plenty to assist its
neighoors and friends both near and
far, provided. however, calamities do
not visit this peaceful locality.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17
Pslmo Tablets

transform weak, broken-down, nerv-
ous wrecks into magnificent types of
physical perfection. They restore
the nerves and kidneys to their normal
conditions and make you look and
feel years younger. Guaranteed. SO
cents. Book Free. The s. r. Fell
Co., Cleveland, o.
For sale By w. W, Albers. druggist
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17
Chamberlain's Collie and DiarrhOea
Remedy

Now is the time to buy a bottle of
this remedy so as to be prepared in
case that any one of your family
should have an attack of collie or
diarrhoea during the summer months.
1t is worth hundred times it's cost
when needed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-27
Labor's Paw
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Small Boy: Dad, what is a
scab?
Dad: A scab, son, is a hard,
crusty, repulsive substance that
forms over or around tester.
8. b.: What is tester?
Dad: A tester is an unhealthy
condition of the system or of af-
fairs, as when person has small
pox or business refuses to give
labor living wage. In an effort
to better things, the wage earn
ers strike for better terms. Then
scabs begin to appear. Some are
torn off and thrown away, others
stick around as food for swine,
vultures and other unelean ami
mails that live on carrion.
s. B.: But don't wage earn
ers get we'll paid these days?
Dad: | should say not. Only
a short time back common labor
was paid s2.25 day, and for his
days pay a man could buy one
sack of flour ($1.25) and II
pounds of sugar ($D. Now the
same labor brings $3.50. which
looks big, but he can buy only a
sack of flour (s3.25D and have
rs cents left to buy small
spoonful of sugar with.
No, son, the wage Garner i:
getting the worst of it and will
contiue to get it as long as the
dollar is held sacred.
DAD.
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The w or
BY BERTON BRALEY

BY BERTON BRALEY
The Man with the Grin may win,
perhaps,
If-his cosmos glows with the
proper spark,
But out of bunch of likely chaps
The one I'm picking to make his
mark
To lead the others and set the
pace
Is the keen-eyed lad with the
fighting face.
For the smile may help and the
grin may aid
But it's grit and labor and
brains that count,
And the hard rough way that the
game is played
1t takes struggle and fight to
mount,
So the Lords of Destiny make a
place
For the keen-eyed chap with the
fighting face.
He needn't be grim and he may be
gay 4'.t
But he never must quit while
the game is on,
He must learn to stick in the
worldly fray
When loss seems certain and
hope Is gone,
And the fellow who plays that part
with grace
Is the keen-eyed chap with the
fighting face.
So smile your warmest, but grit
your teeth
And fight your hardest when
fights your cue,
The lad who captures the victor's
wreath
Is he who battles his best, all
thru;
II fame and fortune you would
embrace
Be the keen-eyed chap with the
fighting face!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-27
M'NEIL'S
GUARDS
DRAFTED

Charles Pope Gillilland of Steil-
accom-, a guard at McNeils island
penittentiary, was called to the
selective army Monday by county
draft board No. 1. The warden
did not claim exemption for Gill;
land.
Other men called were Oscar
Paul Larson, Long Branch; Robt.
William Schultz, Spanavay; Del
bert E. Hadley, Hylebos, and Ever
EFT T. Moore, 6433 Puget Sound
ave.
The claims Of Reuben w. STAN
ger, George p. Wahlquist, Brem-
erton; John William Forsyth, ,,
Gertrude; Harvey j. Peterson,
Dupont; Edward b. Wilson. Rus
ton, and William Fred Hartman.
Ruston, were allowed on the
ground of dependents, and they
were excused.
Fred Peterson, 1309A Com
merce ST., Joe Mercep, Ruston.
and Nels Keend, 1908 Market St.
all aliens, also were excused.
The board is now going over its
cases to see II any will be changed
by President Wilson's decision to
exempt married men.
LAS l read the presidents
words said Chairman Thompson,
they do not seem to me to exempt
anybody unless his wife would
actually have to go to work to
support herself If her husband
were taken. They would do SC
in that case"
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TO PROTECT
MARRIED MEN
United Press Lensed wire.)


WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 81.
"A new fight in congress to pre-
serve the rights of married men
under the draft is pending. Fear
full lest the soldiers insurance will
be regarded as sufficient for null
lifying dependency claims from
the head of household, amend
ments will be offered to clearly
define this point.
The provost marshal generals
office holds there is no ground
for exemption for married men ex-
cept dependencies. If law pro-
viding for the dependents both be-
fore and after the death of the
man supporting them is passed,
the claim for exemption would be
weakened"
I'VE must safegard the married
men under this BILL" Senator
Weeks said today. THE danger
is very great that tremendous
injustice will be done if the act is
construed that way"
Senator Lewis said the measure
must be made to say exactly what
it means. 1T is certainly not III
tended to mean that married men
which dependents shall be forced
into the draft army" he said.
This point promises to be the
only one upon which any great fire
will center when congress takes up
the bill.
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Parsons Paw
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
This union has no concern with
any personal quarrel certain Ia
coma paper may have with Mr.. T.
Meredith Parsons, but we beg
leave to call your attention to the
fact that the matter OF the COM
pensation he receives for acting as
our business agent is a matter
solely between this union and him,
and no concern of that papers.
Any portion of the initiation
fees he may receive has been voted
him by the members of this
union and his claims are scrut-
nized and audited by our financial
Officers and allowed and appropri-
ated by vote of the union. An ex-
act copy of the minutes relative to
some follows:
From the minutes of Jan. IL,
1917.
Motion made and seconded to
pay the members bringing in ap-
plications two dollars $1,000 OF
the initiation fee.
Amended to pay Business Agent
Parsons of the Building Trades.
one-half (1a) of all fees for all
applications he procures.
The motion carried as amended,
with the time specified to May l,
1917"
From the minutes of May 8,
,1917.
MAY 1, the time of agreement
with Brother Parsons as Business
Agent for the Local working on a
$3.50 basis for procuring applica-
lions having expired, a motion
was made and seconded to pay
him a salary of $4,000 per week.
including the salary he receives
from the Building Trades Coun-
Gil. and $500 car fare. After
some discussion, amended that he
be continued on same basis of
$3.50 until September list, on all
applications. Motion carried as
amended"
The above excerpts from the
records of this union proves con-
clusively that the agreement be-
tween Carpteners' Union No. 40
and Mr.. T. Meredith Parsons. is
bonafide and all statements that
are in any way or manner derogo-
tory to Mr.. Parsons and his
financial transactions with this
union are unfounded.
Very respectfully yours.
(Seal l.. RICHTER,
Recording Secretary Carpenters
Union No. 40.
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In the Neck
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
Last week we ordered a spe-
cial shipment of goods from San
Francisco to come on the boat
leaving the Bay City ON Thursday.
The shippers advised us that
the boat leaving there Saturday
would make better time, as she
would reach the Sound in 60
hours. We agreed, expecting the
goods on Tuesday.
Tuesday, then Wednesday came
and went.
On Thursday afternoon we
learned that the boat was in Sc
attic on Tuesday sure enough, but
went from there to Vancouver
and other ports, taking with her
lot of perishable Tacoma goods
which people in this city were
frantically clamoring for.
Talk about service. Any poor
little two-by-four town on Puget
Sound or B. G. can get better
service than this city.
Common horse sense would die
tate that Tacoma goods would be
reshipped at Seattle If the load
could not come direct.
We have drawn the atten ton
of California shippers to this
worse than rotten service. No
wonder goods in transit get lost
or devoured by rats.
In 1897 Tacoma jobbers had
the cream of the Alaska business.
The Pacific Coast S. s. Co. ar
ranged its sailings so that Taco
ma iobbers could only fill Alaska
orders with California goods five
days old, while Seattle could ship
fresh goods.
II. s. Emerson Co., the largest
Alaskan jobbers. had to move to
Seattle in consequence. and other
Tacoma concerns had to establish
branches there to hold their bust
ness.
Soon there will be an army of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-27
United Press Leased Wirc.)

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-The
rights of Belgium enter into the
very heart and essence OF the
whole war and every claim OF JUS
tice must be met to satisfy the
conscience of humanity, Cardinal
Gibbons of Baltimore declared to-
day, in statement to the United
Press.
Commenting on the amplifica-
ton of the pope's peace appeal
published last week, the cardinal
further expressed the opinion
that it will give a new impulse
to civil liberty, the whole wide
world over"
The cardinals statement re-
ceived by the United Press from
Deal Beach, n. j., follows:
Justice Must BE Done.
81 read with great satisfaction
the cablegram of the United Press
simplifying the pope's peace pro-
posals, published with the APPROX
al of the cardinal secretary OF
state, and tho they are given 70
the public only now, still | have
reason to believe that they formed
an integral part of the pontifical
mind from the very beginning.
mo plan of society emanating
from the holy see can be consid-
cred complete that does not rec
ognize every claim of justice as
far as the ripeness Of the times
permits.
New Impulse to Liberty.
"Tho it must be evident to
every thinking man that no peace
can be possible after a war as
great and terrible as the. present
one without a spirit of cOncilia-
tion and of mutual willingness to
make concessions and condona-
tions, still l think 1t must be held
that that rule applies only to mat
tiers of detail and of secondary
Importance, nor do / believe that
anybody will be disposed to con-
slider the rights of Belgium as a
question of that kind and not
rather as one of the first import
ance, entering into the very heart
and essence of the whole conflicr,
wherein, in order to satisfy the
conscience of humanity, every
claim of justice must be fully met
and satisfied.
Further, the clear statement
of the cardinal secretary of state
that the form of government Is to
be left to the free choice of every
people, marks the very corner
stone of civil liberty, and IL is my
impression that that strong CON
firmation of the holy see of the
old American principle will civ
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-27
In the
Editors Mail

0,00O men at Camp Lewis. I'm
der present conditions Seattle will
get fresh California stuff on Tues
day, while Tacoma on the same
boat will not get her goods until
the following Thursday or Friday.
Camp Lewis will have more
people than all Alaska inside a
month, and the only way for the
government to get service for the
city and the army post is for the
government to take control of all
coast shipping during the war.
Tacoma wholesale houses have
protested in vain regarding the
wretched service they get from
the steamship companies. 1t is
now up to Uncle Sam to do some
thing Great Britain had to COM
mandeer the railway, and her
greatest blunder was that she did
not seize the coal mines.
j. A. SPROULE.
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vers." Ambulance drivers were
being schooled in the vagaries Of
the gasoline motor.
Lieut.. Col. e. K. Persons, COM
handing officer, believe in hard
work and plenty of it. Today 60
ambulances, 10 big trucks, and
500 men were off on a long hike
to Valley Forge.
Wear Pajamas.
The men are under the strict
est military discipline. They get
plenty of close order drill, besides
instruction in first aid and drill
with the stretcher.
Some of the men are under
canvas, some in new huts and
others in exhibition buildings.
The Usaacs, by the way, are fam
Gus in the army as the only wear
ers of pajamas. Today the boys
of Washington were being inocu-
lated.
Allentown frankly likes the
usaacs. They spend 1000
monthly in the town.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-27

TO FOOL
DIVERS!

united Press Leased Wirc.l
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. 81.
of smoke producers
to protect American troop, food
and munitions ships from submar-
ines are being turned out today
by a government contractor In
Delaware.
On and after Oct. l no ship of
any description may sail from an
American port unless equipped
with them.
On that date, too, all vessels
must be painted by system OF
camouflage worked out by the
naval consulting board.
The smoke screens will be used
only as a last resort. Twelve
smoke boxes will be on every YES
sells deck. There also will be one
huge, tho practically invisible,
smoke funnel.
Should one Of the kaiser's u
boats detect the spirit-like trap
pings of one of these American
ghosts of the sea, the smoke fun
mel will be started and the smoke
boxes dumped overheard.
TIL action of the sea water on
one of the ingenious combinations
of chemicals will throw off great
clouds of dense black smoke and
the ship can slip away. The smoke
funnel costs about 1925 and the
smoke boxes $25 each.
The government hopes to save
thousands of tons of shipping by
these precautions, and has also
stipulated that after Oct. every
ship sailing must be protected
with guns manned by a naval gun
crew and must use smokele:s coal
while travelling thru the submar'
! inc zone.
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Extra Pay
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDlIOh The llMEo,
l am sending a piece clipped
from the Seattle p. |. of Aug. II.
Would like you to answer same.
First, are the policeman and
fireman's wives entitled to any
more pay from the government
than the wives of our laboring
class?
Is 1t not just as costly living
for the laborer's wife as for the
policeman's wife?
The city OF Seattle seems to
think because the men of the po-
lice and fire departments have
been called to war, that their
wives are entitled to more pay
from the government. Would like
to hear others views on this
same subject.
Why are they entitled to more
money? There is many a poor
man called and drafted who has
sickly wife and has no means
of support only his daily wage.
Is not she entitled to the extra
$50 a month for doctor bills and
extra nourishment that she really
needs and ought to have?
If the city Of Seattle wishes its
firemen and policemen's wives to
have more a month than the gov
eminent allows, let that same city
pay it to them; but If the gov
eminent pays it, let that same
government serve all alike equal
ly whether it be laborer's wife
or a farmers or policeman &
or any and all classes of mems
wives.
Please find a space in your pa
per for this question and oblige
a reader of your paper. l an
glad there is one paper not afraid
to print the truth.
MRS. n. FROST.
junction City.
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SUGAR WILL
BE CHEAPER
united Press Leased wire.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 81.
American householders are to
have cheaper sugar-but they
must not use so much of il
Herbert Hoover, returning from
Chicago today after a conference
with meat packers, said beginning
Oct. / there will be cut of "
cents pound below present
prices.
At the same time he warned
that the allies are already on
sugar rations and II will be neces-
sary for the American public to
economize.
Under an agreement between
the food administration and the
beet sugar producers their crop
will be available at lower prices.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-27
DOCTORS ASK
A CAMP HERE

More than 800 doctors from
Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Taco
ma and other cities, and their
wives and families, took mess at
American lake Sunday noon.
The affair, which was to rouse
interest in obtaining medical
training school for Camp Lewis,
was under the direction of Capt.
Northington, DR.. II. J. Whitacre
and Lieut.. Spiro Sargentich.
In after-dinner addresses the
doctors urged congressman to ad-
vocate a medical training camp
here, so that those who apply for
commissions in the medical corps
may not be sent 1000 miles for
their three months training.
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national army.
Decorated for Bravery.
IF anybody has an idea any
of these men are slackers," said
my officer guide, che is mistaken.
The percentage of casualties
among ambulance men is as high
as in the trenches. There are
men here, aiding in the instruc-
ton, who have been decorated
with the French Croix de Guerre
for bravery under fire.
These men must learn to get
their cars up to the front line
dressing stations and back with
the loss of as few seconds as pos
sible. Motor trouble, bad roads,
shell craters and enemy fire are
no excuse"
Boys Interested.
No circus ever interested the
Allentown small boy more than
the Usaacs at the fairgrounds.
Loud explosions assailed my ears.
They came, / found. from a dozen
specially-selected decrepit "fliv-