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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-28
GIRLS MUST LET MARRIED
MEN ALONE.

Chicago. June 2S.-The court
Of domestic relations has de-
termined to deal harshly with
pretty young women who pur-
sue other women's husbands.
Judge Simmons put one on
probation for six months and
told her not to pursue John
Conway, a druggist.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-26
able kid, ivory top, sole and heel Be
low, a shoe with vamp of gold and
green brOcaded cloth with white
HOUSEKEEPING CAN BE DONE WITHOUT
DISCOMFORT IF DONE SCIENTIFICALLY

BY BIDDY BYE.
Scientific housekeeping has been
as carefully worked out as scientific
warfare, but only the exceptional
woman understands its strategy.
Too many bOusekeepers know no
more of up-to-date systems than the
common soldier in the trenches
knows of his generals plans.
One kind of housekeeping STRAIT
egist-if she has the priceless to
Palm Beach or a matinee while her
home is being cleaned. She puts her
establishment in the hands of a
cleaning corporation. Her walls and
woodwork, rugs and pillows and dra-
peries, mattresses and bedding, attic
chests, Easements and cubby holes
are treated by a vacuum or steam
process, so thoroughly that only the
sneakiest invisible germ escapes be-
ing carried away in a bag and Gre
mated.
Then other artists follow, adding
the latest decorative touch to give
that feeling of newness without
which no kind of housekeeping is
quite satisfactory.
Domestic strategists of another
kind never clean house at all. These
are the real experts. According to
their science, a house must be Kept
in perfect sanitary condition every
day in the year.
It never needs to be pulled apart
and put together again, except when
it is done over" The curtains seem
to remain forever fresh in such a
home, and there is never a speck of
dust behind the piano.
Housekeepers of this kind abhor
that Old-fashioned chaos known as
spring housekeeping. There is moth
ing at all new about their methods
except its practice. Women work by
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-26
reindeerskin tops. At right, shoe
with a pressed champagne leather
top and patent buttons.

habit oftener than by theory, and
one persistent habit of mind is that
man shall be reminded heavily of
housekeeping just at a time when !
his fancy so lightly turns to love,
But any actual relief from the an
nual spring agony is only for a few
women. The many must move in
accordance with the accepted GUS
tom and do their own stretching and
reaching in the great cause of do
nestle sanitation. And as some
compensation for the ordeal, they.
will emerge with better figures than
the Palm Beach refugees.
Like the LADY of leisure who
lounges through this hard season,
the woman who manages her own
vacuum cleaner and stepladder has
her own peculiarly suitable and styl-
ish costume simple and comfort
able combination of overaIls and
shOrt-sleeved, lOw-necked smOck or
loose waist.
But even when CARRIED in the cor
rect costume and mUnitiOned with
the requisite cleaning compounds,
vacuum cleaners, polishing mitts and
moth-pToof bags, woman can still
make a fine mess Of the job if she
turns hef home inside out and up
side down..
It is not good sense to be a martyr
to hOusecleaning, and no woman
need be if she will adopt three rules
laid down by domestic science teach
ers.
The first is to begin with the attic,
the last is to complete the job at the
outside cellar door, and the big rule
for every day is to clean one room at
a time.
This plan is adaptable to any size
and style of house. 1t insures the q.
uninterrupted comfort of all of the
occupants and proves the housewife
an adept instead of a bUngler.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
OUR NOBLE SELF
DULUTH NEEDS A BATH.

For several months past, The
Beacon has received occasional
copies Of the Rip-saw, published
at Duluth. MIMI. by our old
friend and a former Tabor Col
lege student, John L. Morrison,
son of j. L. Morrison Of Tabor
and brother of Miss Matte Nor
rison Of the Tabor College fac
ulty.
The Rip-saw came into exist
ence as campaign measure and
it's editor did not mince matters
in exposing certain features in
Duluth city affairs and St. Louis
county matters.
The Rip-saw has met with such
a hearty response by the people
of Duluth that Mr.. Morrison has
decided to make it a permanent
feature.
After reading the several issues
of the Rip-saw that have reached
this office, we are of the opinion
that Duluth needs a good bath,
and Mr.. Morrison is just the man
who can do the job if anyone
can. Here's hoping that the Rip
saw will meet with merited sue
cess.-W. G. McClintock in The
Tabor (Iowa) Beacon.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
AUDITOR HALDEN's Sue
CESSOR.

The trenches are filled with
good fellows who very much
desire county auditor Halden 5
place in the marble-lined court
house when the people Of St,
Louis county exile him to pri-
vate life.
Boldly, anxiously, even brave
ly, at least a dozen heads are
visible above the breastworks,
They are fair and easy mark for
sharp-shooters. Eventually, all
but one Of the bunch must sue
cumb.
We have utterly no desire to
be king-maker. Our only wish
is to clean out the marble-lined
courthouse where cleaning is
needed. We firmly believe that
the people should sweep that
maze of cobwebs away from the
Spiders Den so as to see what
has been going on for thirty
long years. They should also
put a man in the county aud.
itor's office who can and will
spend his time in auditing, not
in fitting here and there, med.
ding with this and that, butting
into one thing and boosting up
something else.
The people Of St. Louis county
should fully inform themselves
as to the need and desirability
Of a change, after which they
should pick a big, broad-gauged:
competent, conscientious, faithful
citizen to do their auditing.
A year hence will be ample
time in which to pick such a
man and draft him into the pub
lie service at a very handsome
salary.
The Rip-saw can and will
show the people the wheels and
even take the works apart but
it is their right and duty to put
things together again just as
they should be and as they de-
sire.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

John L. Morrison, who re-
Gently established the Duluth
Rip-saw, announces that the
paper is to be issued regularly in
the future and is to be perman-
ent publication. For the present
it will come out every two weeks
but eventually it will be pub
lished weekly. The Rip-saw car
ries no paid advertising but has
twenty-eight columns Of live
stuff devoted largely to Odin
Halden, our county auditor, and
to some Of the city officials of
Duluth. Evidently Editor Morri-
son is trying to find out just
where Halden keeps his "goat''
and it is earnestly to be hoped
that Lis eyesight may remain in
tact until the discovery is made.
Tower Weekly News.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
THE MINNESOTA POINTERS
SADLY IGNORED.

The Park Point Traction Com
pany does not charge Z cents for
a ride on it's system. You can
go over all it's lines for a single
Scent fare. But, if you start
at the lower end, you stop at the
ship canal. To get uptown,
among the banks, cabarets and
sky-scrapers, requires an addi-
tional two cents, Z cents in all.
Not being able to deliver a big
batch Of votes, no one seems to
care a whoop for the afflicted
people across the canal. They
never are pampered or babied.
Often they are slapped and even
kicked. They did, however, make
the school board back up once
when it tried to Smithville their
schools.
The Park Point Traction Com
pany has very polite and COM
petent employees, including the
general manager. The service is
even better than the company
can afford or the patrons prop
erly support. But that 7-cent
tax to get uptown rankles, and
depletes the purses Of the pa
irons.
IF a 1O-cent fare from Wood.
land to Morgan Park is a high
crime, then a 7-cent fare for a
three mile ride up Minnesota
Point to the banking center is
a grave misdemeanor.
The people of Minnesota Point,
all the way from Capt. Charley
Winters place, clear down to
Capt: Pryor's lighthouse, near
the Superior entry, would be SUI
premely happy if the city paid
the Park Point Traction Com
pany what the system reason
ably is worth and then used it
for a feeder, with a single s.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

$40 a day for IS days. No
knuckles are raped in that case.
Look at Halden's petty door
mat thievery in sending the
county carpenter to his private
home to do work at the expense
Of kindly old st. Louis county,
thereby saving his personal purse
that much of a drain.
Let the, Biwabik Boswell
search the records and note how
many courthouse employees have
secured the county each cam
paign in the selfish interests of
Halden, all at county expense,
instead of helping audit in the
auditors office.
The less said about road funds
and county roads the better.
There's concealed dynamite in
county road matters, as the BIZ
wabik eulogist may find out some
Of these bright days:
Halden's Biwabik battler fol-
lows the official lead in claiming
all the credit for anything done
to put St. Louis county in the
place where it natural y belongs.
In the mind Of the a pditor and
his champion-a mutual admira-
ton society of two members
the courthouse is Odin Halden
and Odin Halden is the court
house.
Of course the Biwabik boy is,
comparatively, recent arrival in
st. Louis county. Let him care
fully and fully trace the tracks
of Odin Halden for the past 80
years, especially from the time
he faced the penitentiary 20
years ago for malfeasance in Of
flee up to this very hour. The
one true, logical conclusion must
be that Odin Halden always has
been for self; that his solemn
promise to a friend has been less
than a mere scrap Of paper; that
his eyes ever have gazed
covetously on the county treas
ury; that his cunning brain ever
has schemed ways and means
for tapping that treasury; that
his fingers ever have itched to
handle the treasury contents =;
that in some large ways and
many small, despicable ways,
those auditorial fingers have
reached the golden hoard.
The role Of martyr and public
beneficiary lily becomes Odin
Halden. Before any halo sur
rounds his noble brow, his manly
form may be encircled by striped
raiment. If the governor Of the
great state of Minnesota acts as
quickly as many now urge him
to act, an apologist will be a
veritable Balm Of Gilead for the
occupant of the Spiders Den up
there in the marble-lined court
house.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

to pay 40 cents a dozen, if the
retailer gets his normal profit,
instead Of about, rs cents a
dozen. Whatever the advance
is, the consumer pays the bill.
This big advance, just because
one banana-bearing boat has
been taken over by Uncle Sam,
shows exactly how the big fruit
companies on the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts are "doing their
bit" and, at the same time, edo
Jig" the ultimate consumer. The
Food Hog is no pipe dream. He's
a pinching reality.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
THE DOUBLE-BARRELLED
BOYS.

Quite a number of county and
city employees are double-bar-
relied boys-pie-counter benefic-
iaries who hold two public jobs
at one and the same time and
draw the salaries concurrently,
like the sentences Of q complae-
ent judge.
Some Of these boys, personally
very good fellows, declare that
there's nothing wrong in their
double dose Of pie-counter bene-
fits. While the law may forbid
double benefits to some public
servants, it does not in many cases.
This makes two or three public
jobs really and truly private
snap, rather than a public trust.
While we may be old-fash-
toned and not posted on what is
good form in these troublous
times of war, it never has been
the custom nor considered good
manners for pie-counter bene-
ficiary to take more than one
piece of the pastry at a time.
Manners make the man and
methods mark the man. Public
sentiment can either end or con-
tinue this selfish practice. If
not ended what in the world
are we going to do when fe-
male suffrage becomes a reality
in the North Star state?
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
NEW DULUTH GETS JUSTICE

Although coming tardily and
even grudgingly, New Duluth at
last gets common justice in the
form of an extension of the Du-
luth street railway.
New Duluth now stands a real
show to become a real part Of
the city of Duluth. Property
owners in that splendid suburb
now have a real chance to save
the possessions to which they
have chung so tenaciously, but
precariously, for so many long,
weary years.
New Duluth now can advan-
tageously offer highly desirable
industrial sites and beautiful
home sites for industrial work.
ers. New Duluth fully expects
to add 5000 in population to
the city before some of the older
and more selfish sections cease to
blush over the way they have
stood in the way Of the coming OF
better days.
The Duluth Street Railway
Company has softened its heart
and bent it's stiff neck. The city
has dropped it's condemnation
bluff and accepted a compro-
mise. Municipal ownership Of
this very important public util-
ity is at least deferred. Consid-
ering these troublous times, the
delay will cause a minimum OF
disappointment.
The people Of New Duluth and
Gary will be more than glad to
pay a 1O-cent fare for the sake
of ceasing to pay a 25-cent fare
and actually becoming a part OF
the city. Not later than January
1, 1920, the universal scent fare
and transfer privilege will apply
to the entire city.
The outcome of all the recent
wrangling, vituperation, hysteria,
litigation, disappointment and
rank injustice to helpless suburb
is exactly as suggested by the Rip
saw weeks ago. The experiences
of the past two months were un-
necessary. But some men and
corporations apparently have to
pow-wow, bluff, bicker and fight
before a deal can be closed.
This happy settlement is a vic
tory for give and take, common
sense and reason, common justice
and good policy. It's rebuke to
mud singing, journalistic jim.
jams, baronial stubbornness and
corporation stiffness of neck.
During all this turmoil, The
Duluth Rip-saw and The Steel
Plant News have been New Du.
luth's two best friends. The Rip.
saw hereby begs to congratulate
the sturdy people Of New Duluth
on their final but long-deferred
receipt of common justice. May
they prosper greatly and live
hannilv hencefOrth.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
BANANA PRICES BOOSTED

A couple Of weeks ago the U.
s. government commandeered a
vessel belonging to one Of the
fruit companies that serves the
banana belt. Immediately, ban
anas were advanced two cents a
pound, either by the fruit COM
panies or the commission houses,
or both. This means that ban
anas must sell at 5 to 51a cents
a pound instead of 3 to 31s
cents, compelling the consumer
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
DULUTH MUST BE CLEANED

Safety commissioner Silber-
stein might as we'll give the
town a moral cleaning. Some
one else will be assigned the
job if he ignores it. Now is a
good time to begin. The decent
policemen on the force are ready
and willing to do their duty.
They know the dirty places and
will be pleased to 60 after them.
This result must come. Better
firm, quiet means than rough,
noisy ones. e
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

cent fare to any part Of the city,
after Col. Robertson and his
Canadian clients are pried loose
from the big system.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

An Iowa cynic says that the
preachers "Sell you mansions in
heaven for cash on earth"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

Soil, do your Little Bit ana
other popular behests of the day,
appeal very strongly to county
attorney Warren E. Greene.
Recently Mr.. Green was Sc
verely attacked with the notion
of planting some spuds, not only
anticipating pleasure in seeing
them open their eyes, hustle to
maturity and then repose quietly
in the family potato bin all win
ter but, possibly, helping Uncle
Sam that much and even appeal
ing effectively to the Farmer
Vote should a call to congress
become loudly imperative.
Going to a seed potato broker,
Mr.. Greene told his needs.
"What breed of potato would
you recommend, Jerseys or Ply
mouth Rocks?" he asked.
"I'd advise Burbanks," re-
piled the potato magnate.
"Have you any of that
breed?' queried Mr.. Greene.
II have and they will cost
you $14 a bushel.'
"Give me one-fourth Of a
bushel," decided the embryo
agriculturist.
On the way home, Mr.. Greene
fell in with j. d. Stryker and
Col. Tunnel. He at once began
to tell them about his thorough
bred spuds. "They are Bur
banks" he proudly Informed
them.
Rather enviously, both men
asked the rare pleasure Of feast
ing their eyes, if not theik appe-
titles, on such expensive PROPOSE
tions as Burbank seed potatoes.
Mr.. Greene hauled one out,
handling it with extreme care
so as not to break it and waste
the yolk.
"That's not a Burbank; that s
an Early Ohio;,'' said MIR. Stry-
ker.
"Perhaps an Early Ohio got
in by mistake; here's a Bur
bank" remarked the county at
torney, as he pulled forth an
other spud.
"That's not a Burbank; that's
an Early Rose,'' scornfully ex-
claimed Col. Tunnel.
Mr.. Greene felt a bit both
cred. "Well, look at this if you
wish to see a real Burbank" he
declared, as he pulled out a
third potato from his package.
Both companions laughed him
to scorn. They told him the
third potato, exhibit "C,'
to speak, was merely spud, a
mongrel, plain, plebian board
ing house variety. "Look at its
eyes and it's skin and it's lack of
figure,' they exclaimed. eff
you do not know more about
law than you do potatoes, then
you got your office under false
pretenses.
Mr.. Greene went home ex-
ceedingly sorrowful. He de-
cided that even gardening has it's
handicaps and disappointments.
On Friday, February 8, 1895,
the late Capt. Ray T. Lewis was
on his second year as mayor of
Duluth. Page Morris, now fed
eral judge, was city attorney
One Ellsworth Benham was get,
ting away with the position of
assistant city attorney. Miss
Mary Stokeley was stenographer
for the twain.
On Friday, February 8, 1895,
John L. Morrison was city hall
reporter for the Duluth Herald
On the morning Of that Hateful
Friday, according to a report in
the Herald Of that date, written
by Charles F. Macdonald, city
editor, Morrison dropped into
the city attorneys office,
through the public door, walked
up to Mr.. Benham' desk and
said:
"Hello, Benham, anything new
today?"
"No, sir, we have no news to
give you. Is there any public
business you wish to transactg''
was the reply.
"Why, no, except to get the
news" was Morrison surprised
answer.
"Well, then, you can get out
| of lono onl &c 1,o,, lor,% ~~o@
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23
TALES OF THE-T0WN.

came down on Morrison s head,
but, fortunately, he lodged so
that only a glancing blow was
received.
Morrison, thinking to hold his
temper and fists, made no effort
to retaliate but fell back towards
the door. Benham followed him
up and struck at him again with
the weapon. Morrison warded
off the blow. By that time he
was at the door and called to
Fred j. Voss who came across
the hall from the treasurer's Of
flee.
"This man is assaulting me
and l wish you to witness his
| actions. ;" announced the reporter.
Benham made another advance
and Mr.. Voss stepped in front
of him.
"Hold on, Benham, don't do
anything YOU will be sorry for, -
said the city treasurer.
II am acting under instruc-
tons from Page Morris,' replied
Benham.
"Has Mr.. Morris ordered you
to club meY'' demanded the re-
porter.
Benham made no answer. Mr..
Voss returned to his office after
he thought Benham had cooled
down.
Reporter Morrison once more
stepped forward and politely
said:
"Mr. Benham, I'll ask you
again if there is any news in
this Officer"
! Incidentally, it may be re-
marked, city attorney Page Nor
ris was conspicuously absent from
his desk that forenoon.
! Benham, convulsed with rage,
his face registering insane pas
sion, made another dash at the
reporter but was easily warded
off. Miss Stokely, the Junoesque
stenographer, rushed out Of her
room and cried out:
"Don't, Mr.. Benham, DON'T"
The stenographer came near
receiving a blow on her own
blonde head. Others came for
ward and the wild man sub
sided.
| Mr.. Macdonald, the Herald 8
city editor, called at the city hall
to investigate after Morrison
had reported the trouble. Mr..
Voss corroborated facts as told
in the foregoing. He said that,
so far as he was able to say, the
reporter was in no way to blame.
j. P. Dodge, then fire-warden,
saw almost all of the fray and
declared there could be no doubt
but that Benham was entirely in
the wrong.
/ Benham was interviewed. His
story was substantially as the
one narrated above. He alleged,
however, that the reporter had
not conducted himself in a cour-
teous manner when seeking the
news.
Morrison has bad eye," he
remarked. "He glares at me in
manner greatly irritating"
The assistant city attorney
then added that he and Page
Morris had talked the matter
over and it was decided to keep
Morrison out of the office.
"That was some days ago.
added the assistant city attorney.
"This morning, I decided to act.
Without saying anything to any
one I went to police headquarters
and got this billy, (producing a
rubber club about a foot long,
a weapon to use in such cases. It
cannot hurt anyone seriously and
was made for just such uses.
Morrison is large man and
perhaps stronger than I, there
fore l meant to be prepared"
The Investigations of city
editor Charles F. Macdonald sat-
isfied him that the assault was
entirely unwarranted and that
Mr.. Benham's own admissions
sufficiently proved that, al
though, in his own mind, he con-
sidered he had justification.
When asked why he had not
complained to the Herald, if
Morrison had not conducted him.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-23

Reporter Morrison endeavored
further to find out why he was
thus treated when, suddenly,
Benham drew a poiceman's rub
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