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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Seek Aid of Motorists.

DO your bit and help Hoover by
carrying home the farm food products
you need" is the slogan Of a bulletin
which is being sent 10 every automo-
bile dealer and garage owner in the
state by the Good Roads Association
of Wisconsin.
With 10000 automobiles in Wis
consin and their carrying capacity the
association figures that an enormous
tonnage of farm food products can be
hauled in these cars, thus relieving
our oVer-burdened railway transporta-
ton. The basic fact of their appeal
is this:
There are over 10000 automobiles
in the state of Wisconsin. These au-
tOmobiles are being used regularly III
the summer and fall months for tour
ing in the country On these trips the
owners can very readily pick up farm
food products which they need and
carry them into the city, resulting IN
Il saving to them in the cost OF all
the product and the economic waste
from rail transportation and passing
through the hands Of the middleman
In addition to making each pleasure
trip a food-pr0ducC~carrying trip, spe-
cial trips can be made into the country
by owners A couple Of such special
trips to buy from the farmers would
supply the average family.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
DRAIN LAND AND
INCREASE CROPS
Country Could Reclaim Several
Million Acres of Fertile Fields
by Tile and Ditch.

To do it's "bit" in the war; the ma
tional drainage congress has started Il
publicity campaign to stimulate better
drainage.
To reclaim and put under cultivation
100,000,000 acres of wet and overlooked
lands of the United States is the ulti-
mate aim, but to drain the lands that
can be drained the most easily is the
first step.
working along this line in Wiscon-
SIM" says e. r. Jones, secretary Of
the Wisconsin Drainage association,
1--WE are advocating drainage plans
which can be installed completely with
in the next year or two. Those that
require five years are not so urgent.
"Just last week." said Mr.. Jones, Il
laid out $500 feet of drain tile in wet
swale through a farmers cornfield. 1t
is too late now, but if that tile had
been installed earlier it would have
saved five acres Of corn. The tile and
labor cost $500; If it had been put in
early enough to save that five acres,
the corn would have paid for the tile.
Next year another crop will be saved
and this saving will be repeated each
year.
"Ths farm is only a single instance.
There is one such farm in every three
in Wisconsin, A little time and lit
tie effort will stop great many wastes
resulting from poor drainage.
Do the Little Things Now
"Some time ago / noticed water
standing in three dead burrows, about
four rods apart on an acre of excellent
fiat clay land that had been seeded TO
oats. ] found the farmer who put in
the crop, and with my Instrument
convinced him that we could give the
dead burrows an outlet
"'Some day. he said, I'll take q
pillow and pillow d furrOw across the
ends of these dead burrows to let the
water get away
an five minutes we had a team I'M
hitched from q manure wagon and
hitched to pillow. We plowed the fur
row where it would do the most good
blowing twice where it crossed q little
ridge. The water followed US so fasf
that we had to walk to the side OF tho
furrow to keep our feet dry. In hair
an hour all the burrows were empty.
We trimmed the side Of the furr0@
with spade 50 that it could be crossed
with binder.
1T did not take an hour to do tho
whole Job, and it may save crop oE
an mere Of land. This is an example
Of what can be done anywhere"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
State Cares for 1898.

The population report of the state
and county public institutions just is
sued shows that there are 1898 per-
sons under public care in the state OF
which 1885 are males and 4,553 are
females. Besides these there are 3,086
persons on parole. Upwards of 1900
patients are on parole from the insane
institutions of the state.
The report shows that there are
8,098 insane patients in the state I'M
der public care. OF this number, 6,184
are in the county hospitals for the in
sane, 104 in the Central hospital for
the insane at Waupun, 1927 in the
two state hospitals for the insane and
513 in the Milwaukee hospital for in
sane.
There are 702 patients in the state
receiving treatment for tuberculosis in
public institutions. OF this number
495 are being cared for in county sana-
tOria, p in the Tomahawk lake camp
and 1856 in the Wisconsin state tuber-
culosis sanitarium at Wales.
The population of the industrial
school for boys is 412, state prison
S94, state public school 206, home for
the feeble-minded 1,O99, and Wiscon-
sin remorat0ry at Green Bay 303.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06

center of the picture will be level
with the eye of the observer.
Undoubtedly we have all expert
enced seeing some Of the following I'M
pleasing conditions in homes.
Lighting fixtures out of reach-so
high chair is needed for lighting
them.
Long curtains with design out of
keeping with the rest in the room,
and Topped tightly back with tasseled
silk loops.
A round handicapped table with a
table lamp crowned with highly col
ored globe.
The sofa and arms of chairs covered
with tides
Sofa pillows covering the sofa, on
chairs and in the corners Of the room.
Walls almost covered with pictures
badly grouped.
Pictures with largS white mats out
of all proportion to the size Of picture
and framed in gaudy, gilt frames.
Cheap highly colored prints of mean
ingless value in gilt frames. Cheap
china and bric-a-braCk everywhere.
In such rooms the VISITOR finds much
to disturb one, and an Indication Of
lack Of appreciation Of value Of sur
roundings by the housewife
Such people had better make a
clean sweep; redecorate and furnish
under careful advice. a few i'm
pr0vementS might be briefly suggest
ed for those who cannot afford to be-
gin over.
Send the carpet to a house to he
made into pretty reversible rugs.
Stain or paint the floor tone, Co
match the furniture and woodwork, or
perhaps the woodwork would also
need staining.
Hang curtains straight and shorten
length to bottom of window frame.
Place table at the side Of room rath-
er than in the middle and change the
gaudy lamp for neat inexpensive
brass reading lamp.
Danish the knicknacks and keep on
ly the pieces of good proportions,
good designs and good colorings. Ban
ish the tea table set with dishes, Avoid
all things that belittle room and give
it a fussy appearance.
Change the dark, gaudy patterned
wall paper for Il plain dull finished pa
per or paint. Hang pictures low,
straight and by two straight wires,
rather than by one wire suspended In
triangular form.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Industrial Accidents increase.

From July I, 1916 until June 30,
1917, 2O560 industrial accidents oc-
Cured in the state of Wisconsin. In
comparison, 16,O51 accidents occurred
during the fiscal year, 1915-16, an in
crease of more than % per cent dur
ing the last l. months. In view of the
increase in accidents, the industrial
commission is redoubling its efforts
along the lines of safety and SANTA
ton. 1t plans to issue monthly bull
letins on safety and will distribute
practical information among employ
ers as to how accidents may be pre-
vented. All employers in the state
will be urged to become members of
the national safety council and to pro-
vide bulletin boards for the display Of
safety posters.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
WHAT TO AVOID
IN THE HOME
BY LAURA 3. BREEsE,
Department of Farmers institute, Uni
versity of Wisconsin.

Better inoffensive plainness than
offensive ornament"
It is rather easy to buy carefully
and wisely for a new home selecting
things that will make a pleasing har-
mOny in a room, but it is more diff
cult to make improvements upon what
one already possesses.
Many homes today are burdened
with unpleasing furnishings Some
times this is a result Of a gradual ac-
emulation of articles that have no
relation to each other or the room in
which they are used and consequently
many become insists.
There can be insists in house
furnishing, just as there are insists
Of people in business and one is as
sad q picture as the other. Furni-
ture misfits are more easily corrected,
however, and great deal of pleasure
and satisfaction may be experienced
by the housewife who can bring about
this change.
A little study Of the laws Of good
taste and fitness of things will help
her through such problem. A few
''do nots' may be of practical use.
DO not choose a carpet or rugs with
conspicuous patterns pink roses
as big as cabbages, for example. We
still find such sold, but if housewives
would not demand such the merchants
would not keep them.
Do not choose a wall paper of large
and protruding pattern-of shiny sur
face and with large flowers or grapes
or birds, ETC., apparently plastered up
on the surface. Ordinarily, papers or
wall finishes Of subdued tones, and Of
inconspicuous or small patterns are
the best background for the other fur
nisbings in a room.
Danish the whatnOts or many
shelves filled with useless trash as the
china cat, the wax flowers in painted
vases on carefully preserved peacock
feathers, etc. OF what beauty are
such things? What lot of needless
care to the housewife!
Avoid hanging pictures too high
near the ceiling, as we sometimes see
them They should be hung so the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Diaries Average Good.

That Wisconsin dairy conditions are
Dairy aHd Food Commissioner George
J. Weigie, who made public the results
Of a state wide investigation.
For the year ending June 80, 1917,
the various inspectors and members of
the dairy and food department have
visited 30 cities for the purpose of
collecting samples of milk and cream
offered for SALE" says Commissioners
Weigle AT the same time inspection
has been made of the places where the
milk was produced and handled.
In these 30 cities, sol samples of
milk were collected from nearly as
many dealers or persons selling milk.
In a few cases duplicate samples were
collected from the same dealer If more
than one wagon was used. The aver
age per cent of fat In the SOL samples
was 9.S per cent. Only seven samples,
or 1.O1 per cent of all samples collect
cd contained less than 3 per cent of
fat. and 295 or 1850 per cent con-
tanned from per cent to SO per cent
Of fat The BAT samples offered for
sale as cream contained an average of
PAL per cent of fat, with 20 or $40
per cent of the samples containing less
than IS per cent of fat. 1t was found
that 50 per cent of the cream samples
below Is were bought in one large city
and some of the other ten low-testing
samples were bought from parties sell
ing a limited amount
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
W DOING ITS BIT
TO HELP THE NATION
Many Students and Teachers
Serving in Fort, Field, or
Factory.

* nm asking OF you not simply serv-
ice during The war, but that you set
aside selfshness after the war and do
y0y;f part. be it small or great, in con
tributing to the solutions of the mighty
problems of the future which will con-
front this nation and the world In
The great economic and social readjust-
mentS wisdom of the highest order will
be required Selfsacrificing, thought
ful service to the nation will be needed
in every field of endeavOr High-mind-
ed service, following the war, which
puts in the foreground the greatest
good and the largest freedom to the
greatest number, will furnish an oppor-
tunity such as seldom during the his
tory of the world has fallen to the lot
of young men and women. One of the
ideals Of this university is that Of so
cial responsibility and service to So
ctety.
You graduating today have the good
fortune of as high a call to service as
has been the fortune of any generation
existing during the unnumbered mil
lions of years of human development.
II look forward with hope, with con-
fidence, with pride that you in proper
ton to your numbers and your ability
will do your share in the reimbursement
of this nation and the world which will
follow the world war" President
Charles II. Van F1ise to the members
of the graduating class Of the Uniyer-
sity of Wisconsin.
AS during the days Of the Civil war
the University of Wisconsin is answer
ing the country's call for men and
women trained and willing to perform
some needed service.
Many former students and teachers
have commissions in the army, many
are training in officers reserve camps,
some have enlisted in the regular army
and state forces, others are in the avia-
lance corps. Some of the university
Instructors have been called to Wash
ington to act as interpreters for the
government or to serve in advisory ca
Dacities on important boards. Many
students, as well as instructors, are
engaged in various lines of food work.
Some including the president of the
university are helping Hoover forces
I'm Washington others are working
throughout the state organizing food
production work in countless some are
directing children's garden work, 9th
ers are giving canning demonstrations
and speaking on various subjects at
meetings which are being held all over
the state for the purpose of discussing
the best means of helping Uncle Sam
in the present crisis.
Unusual preparations are being
made for the opening of the univer-
sity in the fall. 1t is believed by the
authorities that large number of new
students, persons who were not liable
to selective draft or called for special
service, will present themselves for in
struction SO that they may be better
prepared for service when they are
needed during the later years of the
war and the critical period that will
follow
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Held as Draft Evaders.

Wausau-Conrad ]. Schubert and Jen.
ME keller of Clark county are in jail
here awaiting the action OF the federal
grand jury on charge of perjury, the
commitment having been made by
United States Court Commissioner J.
P. Riley. It is alleged that to evade
the selective draft Schubert made af1.
davit that he was the lawful husband
of Jennie keller. Charles Lucht, who
was asked to testify before the exemp-
ton board, is held under $4,000 bond,
which he furnished.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Railroad Employees Loyal.

Green Bay - Demonstration of the
loyalty and patriotism of the railroad
employees of this section of the state
was displayed when 1000 employees of
the Superior division and their fam
lilies held a patriotic meeting in the
armory of Battery B. The meeting
followed a parade. in which about 500
men marched.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Wausau Has Connanv.

Wausap-A Wausau company Of the
Wisconsin National guard has been
mustered into service with fifty-three
members. The officers are Cyrus G.
Yawkey, captain; Fred G. Becker, first
lieutenant; A. P. Woodson, second lieu
tenant. Thirteen names are on the
roll and will be mustered later.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Two Drown From Rocking Boat.

Ladysmith - Laura Schleau and
Rachel Stewart, in company with a
member of the Rice Lake militia COM
panys while boating on Rice Lake,
rocked the boat so it capsized. Both
girls drowned. Their companion is in
a hospital after a desperate effort to
save the girls.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Chippewa Gets New Depot.

Chippewa Falls - The Wisconsin
Construction company of this city was
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of the 500 passenger depot on
East Canal street. The approximate
cost of the depot will be around $780,
600. 1t will be 1O3 feet long and con-
structed of brick and stone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
STATE NEWS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD
IN A FEW LINES.
TREASURER SENT TO PRISON
Pleads Guilty of Embedding $1,4e0
from Rib Lake School Funds and
Is Sentenced to Waupun for
Term OF TWO Years.

Ashland 49, On pleading guilty to a
charge of embezz1ing $1,490.22 from
the school funds of the village of Rib
Lake, George F. Hazen, former pros
porous resident of the village, was
sentenced to two years at Waupun.
He had been treasurer of the village
school district for the last three years.
Hazen is 81. years old and has wife
and five grown children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
urnes Raisinu More Pics.

Madison - George F. Comings, Eau
Claire, one of the best known Equity
society leaders of the state, has issued
an appeal to the farmers of Wisconsin
to raise more pigs. He quotes from
official sources to show that there is, a
world shortage of fats and then de-
clares that this situation can be most
easily relieved by growing pigs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Stephenson Takes Trip East,

Marinette - Ex-United States Sena-
tor Isaac Stephenson, accompanied by
members of his family and Thomas B.
Reid, editor of the Appleton Post, have
gone on a months trip through the
East. They will visit the former sena-
tors birthplace at New Brunswick,
and will stop in Boston, Montreal, Que
bee and st. John.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Can Abate Nuisance.

Madison-The attorney general has
advised the state board of health that
it had authority to require the abate-
ment of an alleged nuisance created
at Cottage Grove, Dane County. by a
creamery corporation and private per-
sons turning refuse into pond in the
town of Cottage Grove.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Brown Head Of Oshkosh Normal,

Oshkosh-When the 1918 sessions
of the State Normal school open in this
city on Sept. II, it will be under the
direction Of a new president, H. A.
Brown of Concord, N. H, who was Sc
lected by the board of normal school
regents in session at Madison on July
q to succeed John A. II. Keith, who
has resigned to take a position as
president of the State Normal school
at Indiana, Pa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Girl Drives Delivery Car.

Watertown-Other Wisconsin cities
may lay claim to the honor of employ
ing women in lumber yards, factories
or as messenger girls, but Watertown
is the first city, so far it is believed, to
have the distinction of having the first
delivery girl on account of the war.
She is Miss Edna Ullrich and is driv-
ing delivery motor car for a meat
dealer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Autoists Have Close Call.

Wausau - An automobile driven by
Henry Kruse of Mosinee, carrying
four passengers, broke through the
barriers and plunged down forty-foot
embankment to the edge Of the Wis
consin river at Kronenwetter. The
machine was demolished but the occu-
pants escaped with slight injuries.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Train Hits Auto; Farmer Killed.

Madison-C. D. L'Auglair, 80 years
old, farmer, was killed by train on
the Chicago and Northwestern rail
road, six miles south of Madison. The
train struck an automobile in which
L'Auglair and his brother, John, were
riding, the latter saving himself by
jumping. The dead man was drafted
for the army and expected to leave for
camp at Battle Creek, Mich, Sept. 5.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
New University Studies.

The war has modified in a degree
the courses of study at the University
Of Wisconsin. instruction on the
theoretical side of aviation and food
conservation will be given a prominent
place in the course of study. The
university reopens September p. The
food conservation course of study has
been introduced at the suggestion of
Food Administrator Herbert Hoover.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
nisnosaI Of Dead Animals.

The very common practice OF using
the pasture as a burying ground or rot
ting place for the carcasses of animals
cannot be too strongly condemned.
The best way is to burn carcasses.
However, burying is safe if hole at
least six feed deep is dug and the rO~
mains are we'll covered.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Soldier Held for Abandonment.

Beloit- Enlisted a while ago in the
Canadian army, Benjamin Hamblin
was arrested here on a charge of aban-
Comment when he came home on a fur
Tough. He said that at the time of his
enlistment he supposed he was joining
the "Sammies." He has no desire to
quit the army.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Chicken Stew Features Picnic.

Wausau - The Knowlton Business
Mems association held it's first annual
fair and old fashioned picnic. There
was a large display of farm products
and a feature was a mammoth chicken
stew, in the making of which 100
fowls were used.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Municipal Mart Deferred.

Eau Claire-The city council is hold
ing off definite action on the resolu'
ton to establish a municipal fuel depot
here under the provisions of the law
passed by the recent legislature to see
what effect the federal control of fuel
will have.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
German Ends Life BY Hanoinc

nterprise-Hanging lifeless with a
rope around his neck, Otto Forsphand,
a German, SO years old, was found at
his home about mile from this vii
1age. He had made an improvised gal
lows by mailing up a rafter and
Sprung the trap" by kicking a chair.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Child browns in Pail.

De Sota-During the absence of her
mother from the house, Louise, 8
months old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wesley J.. Smith, residing on farm
four miles from here, was drowned in
six inches of swill when she fell head
foremost onto the pail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Gives State Bank Ruling.

Attorney General Owen has given an
opinion to Commissioners of Banking
Kuolt that a state bank may move it's
main office TO another location in the
same municipality. and that the same
rule on this point regulates branch
banks as well as the parent institu-
tons.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
SUNLIGHT Kills Disease Germs.

Nature has generously furnished US
q most active agent for the control of
disease in the form of the suns rays.
Nearly all disease-producing germs are
promptly killed by sunlight. This
fact shows why barns should be built
with plenty of windows.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Child browns In Water Tank.

New London - Margaret, the 16-
month old daughter of August Pur-
chatzke, of Bonduel, was drowned in
a water tank on the home farm when
she wandered away after being left
unmatched by her mother for few
minutes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Six Horses Die in Fire.

New London-The barn on the Fred
Dagman farm in the town of Belle
PLANE was burned, together with six
horses, harnesses and all the hay and
products stored in it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-06
Honor Neenah Soldier.

Neenah-Mayor c. B. Clark enter
tanned at luncheon in honor of Nee
nah's City Attorney, Captain G. c..
Fem, u. S. R., who left for Battle
Greek, Michigan, where he will take
up his duties as soldier.