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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-28
PUBLIC SALE.
or Large Boat and Club House.

Nv Samuel IL. Lunt, Auctionecr.
Bv virtue of a decree of the Cir
emit Court of the City Of Alexandra,
virrinia, entered at the September
Term, 1917, in the Chancery cause
therein depending of Clarke and
Winston Co., Inc, who sues etc,
Complanants, against Alexandra
Motor Boat Club, Inc, Defendant,
the undersigned Special Commission
ers Of Sale were therein ordered to
expose for sale, at public auction N
front of the Royal street entrance
Ia the Market House, in the City OF
Alexandria, Virginia, defendants
Large Boat house and chattels, To-
Gated near the plant of the AleXan-
dria County Lighting Company.
Alcxandria City, Virginia.
Therefore in pursuance OF SAID de-
cree the undersigned Special Com
mis5ioners Of Sale will expose to
sale at public auction to the highest
bidder said large boat house and
chattcIs, ON TUESDAY, October 9th,
1917, at Y NJ. in front of the Royal
Street entrance to the Market Build
ing, Alexandria, Virginia, being de-
scrihcd as follows, to-wit:
The boat house on the west bank
Of the Potomac River. belonging to
defendant, southeast of the plant Of
the Alexandria County Lighting
Company, and the personal property
If defendant therein.
Tcrms-C&sh-er one third cash
and balance in > equal instruments
at { and T. morths, secured by re-
served title or trust deed. Convey
ancing to he at cost of purchaser.
WALTER U. VARNEY,
LEO p. HARLOW,
ROBINSON MONSURE.
Special Commissioners of Sale.
In the Clerks Office of the Cir
cult Court of Alexandria City, Vlr-
ginia. September Term, 1917
!. Newell S. Greenaway, Clerk Of
aforesaid Court, do certify that
Robinson Moncure, one Of the above
said Special Commissioners of Sale,
has duly given bond as provided by
law and decree entered in above
namcd cause with United States
Fidelity and Guaranty Co., as his
surety, for The due performance Of
his duties as such.
NEWELL S. GREENAWAY,
231-td. CLERK.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-28
T. F. RYAN SUED FOR TAXES
Citizens Of Nelson County Want /,

Citizens Of Nelson County Want 4"
Collect &c29.375
LynchDurg. Va. Sept. 23.-Judge
2. T. Gordon. Of the Nelson COUNT
Circuit Court. heard arguments to-
day in the suit at Livingston of
R. X. Andersen and other Nelson
county taxpayers, against Thomas
EF,crr.nne RYAN, John T. Fitzpatrick.
treasurer Of Nelson county. the Mel
son county board Of supervisors and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-28

faction is Fernandez Guell. formerly
c.litor of the German newspaper
recently suppressed By the govern.
mcnt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-28

Total loans ........... -. 81 -
,,.,crdraft. secured s.; unsecured *o,-
II < bonds (other than Liberty Bonds OF I"lJ :
u. s. bonds deposited to secure clrcu'a"on 'p"'
= & hords and certificates Of Indebtedness pie"ee"
to secure u. S. deposits lpar vaiuc' '.;;.i..i
II & bonds and certificates of indebtedness Plcu''c"
TO secure postal savings deposits llar ,"!ue'
Total IT, S. hunds( other than Liberty l'o'u''
and certificates of Indebtedness .....'''
Liberty Loan Bonds, unplcdged 49,. - r.
bonds and securities Pledged as collateral ior
state or other deposits tpostal c%cudea' oi
bills payable .......l. .;..:
Securities other than u. S. bonds I not lnciuulHS
stcr!) owned unpcdged Observation-Disclosures
Total burds securities, etc .............'.c
stock of Federal Reserve Bank $50 per cent oil
Subs"rplcnS) ................ 80
Value of banking house ..............'..'''
Furniture and fixtures ..........::...; '''''''.
Real estate owned ether than banking house.
Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve banH.
Cash in vault and net amounts due from hatioha!
banks ,'.'''-'',
Net amounts due from banks and bankers, ann
trust companies other than included IN lt"h''
I hocks on other banks in tic same city OF town
as reporting banl; tother than Item l'...
Checks on bank located outside Of city or town
of reporting bank and ether cash items;
Redemption frnd with u. 5. Treasurer ana due
from U. S. Treasurer ....................
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-28
nURRIEANE HEADED NORTH

Vessel 100 Miles South OF Gun
Coas. Reports Wand Blowing 1876
Miles all Hour.
Washington. Sept. 23.--lhe latest
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-28
LIABILITIES.

;aTi'al STICK paid in ...................'..
81
Undivided profit; ...................:.:'
less c"-rcnt expenses, interests. and taxes psia
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05

labies of mothers are in the collected
ballads and folklore of many people.
Nowadays the whirl of machinery
makes all the noise. The workers in
mills might find it unsatisfying to
sing at their work, but it is doubtful
if they would sing, even if their
voices could be heard; while singing
in an office or store would pretty sure
ly be stopped byf the boss" or police.
Thousands congregate every nightein
the silence of moving picture theaters
and even in the churches, where
singing by the congregation used to
be customary, the attendants now
usually listen in silence to a paid
singer. Singing in this age is largely
confined to the professional perform
er, drunken men and gFamophones.-
Indianapolis News.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
HIS PREDICAMENT

Uneasy lies the head that wears
a crown" is a familiar saying that
fits some of the rulers in Europe. The
situation of the Kaiser is the most
serious. Recently there has come the
fall of Bagdad and the rapid advance
of the two English and the Russian
armies in that portion of the Turkish
empire. About half Of the occupied
portion of France has been evacuated
by the Germans after holding the land
for two and one-half years. The Gear
of Russia has abdicated and the revo-
luton seems to be proving a success.
The fall of the house of Romanoff,
like a row of dominoes set on end,
may mean that other houses, too, are
to crumble. The Zeppelins have been
almost failure and the U-boat cam
paign has not proven as gratifying to
the military powers in Germany as
anticipated. The Kaiser's offer of
peace was rejected and to make an
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
THERE IS A KICK IN IT

There is a federal statute prohibit
ing the spring shooting of ducks and
geese. The law has been tried out in
the courts and found to be good. Take
no chances by shooting game on it's
way north to the breeding grounds.
1t may be a great temptation to see a
large flock of birds, but let the old
gun hang where it is. A federal
statute is not city ordinance or a
state law, and when an offender is
caught there is little monkeying with
him A federal statute is constructed
with kick in it, and the kick usually
hurts if the offender gets in front of
it. The advice of the writer Of these
lines is to look upon spring shooting
IS if it were a key of powder at your
feet.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05

other offer would mean that he was
acknowledging his weakness. Added
to the rejection came the declaration
of war by China and the broken rela-
lions with the United States. His
armies are not advancing, an iron
ring apears to be closing about the
empire, and the food shortage is a
matter most serious.
Then, too, there are many of the So
cialists who desire the war to end
and are in opposition to the conflict
the Kaiser is carrying on. They con-
tinually point out the weakness of
the government, and the world would
not be surprised to hear of his abdi-
cation any day Added to the losses
of men, territory and expectations, is
the lost hope of big indemnity
The officials in Berlin have pointed
out that Germany cannot hope to
make her enemies pay for the war
This has been the case in the wars
of the past, but unless something I'M
foreseen happens, no big sums will
be forthcoming from either England,
France or Russia.
Aside from all these misfortunes,
the Kaiser is seriously i'll. The war
has weighed heavily on him and has
Slapped his strength. In some of the
small countries the kings have had to
fee from the Kaiser's troops, but a
worse fate may await him, only time
can tell. While. Germany still main
tains hold on the government, yet the
war cannot always las>, anu with
nearly the whole world against the
central powers, the outlook for the
chief ruler is anything but bright.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05

The Kansas City Star says: The
government Of Italy is offering a bo-
nus of 81 for each acre planted in
wheat this spring.
In England Sir Arthur Lee, director
Of general food production, says: ITO
grow enough to stave off starvation
this summer we must plant every
available acre in the British Isles.
We hope to make two thousand trac-
tor plows fill the gaps caused by the
shortage of labor"
Germany is preparing to plant even
the roadsides, and forests are being
cleared so there will be more land
for crops.
Every nation in Europe is facing
starvation for large part of the pop
ulation unless more food is grown than
was produced last year. There will
be world shortage of food America
will have to export vast amounts to
feed other nations. This situation
will make prices continue high here.
That calls for the planting of more
land-not only in the country, but in
the city as well, in every back yard
and vacant lot.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
Land and Sky in South Dakota

The weather has been very nice
since we came here. The spring will
be somewhat backward on account
Of the great amount of snow The
fields are becoming bare (March 2S),
but there will remain for some time
the great drifts which have gathered
around buildings, groves, hillsides
and ravines.
The robins are here and lots of
geese, ducks and prairie chickens
can be seen every day.
The country is so we'll dotted with
nice groves that we do not miss the
timber so much, but old friends and
familiar faces are the part in the new
situation that is most lacking. Land
land, land, all is land here, with a
great big, broad blue sky over all.
Following the heavy snowfall OF
the past winter we look forward to a
great harvest. The News will be a
welcome visitor. Hope your Glen
vile correspondent will keep busy.
Yours truly,
S. S. PEARSON.
Hartford, S. D.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05

to their native land compelled to
fight against the Fatherland? Who
can foresee the consequences of our
failure to remain the great neutral
nation and as such to lead the other
nations back into the pathways of
peace?
Patriotic men tell us to stand by
the president, but Mr. Woodrow Will.
son is only man. To stand by the
president may seem good, but is it
not far better to stand by our coun-
try? I thought, as l voted, of our
country plunged into this horrible
European war, of the awful cost OF
it, the terrible butchery of our boys
on land and sea, and the dreadful
after-effects, domestic and foreign.
Prefers the Constitution
Standing by the president may
seem good, but standing by the con-
stitution is better. / thought of my
oath to defend the constitution. AS.
lawyer l know the power to de-
clare war is not in the president but
in congress. How can l delegate to-
him a power to do that which is an
act Of war? He has not the power
under the constitution to make war;
and l have not the power under the
constitution to delegate to him the
authority to make war.
Standing by the president may be-
good, but is it not better to stand by
justice? England prevents our trad"
ing with Germany as Germany is now
trying to prevent us from trading
with England. The president protests
feebly against England and does
nothing more; but he holds Germany
to strict account. To me both are i'm
the wrong. But this measure avow~
edly is directed at Germany alone.
Germany has been ruthless in de.
, strdying lives by submarines. but
England too, has been ruthless i'm
! the use of mines, though so many
, lives have not been lost, because
Englands blockade of Germany was
made effective by mines and war
ships II we do not enforce our rights
to trade with Germany, why should
we do so in the case of England?
, Why not treat them alike? Is our
justice no longer blindfolded? Should
we not hold the scales with an equal
, hand? Is war better than justice.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
st. Petersburg, Fla.

In its broad sense, rum means all
intoxicants. Alcohol is a wonderful
dressing for fresh external wounds,
but it is always a. curse as a daily
beverage. | know rum only by OBJ
serving its effect on those who drink.
Many try to believe beer is harm
less, but it contains enough rum to
make it the entering wedge, asking
for a stronger drink, and / have never
known one who drank it daily who
did not eventually become addicted to
stronger drink. Life is never bettered
by it's use, which always tends to a
lower morality. The saloon never
gives us the finest specimens of hu-
mainly, but harbors a senseless rou-
tine of morbid feelings, worthless
pastime, and hilarious, but sodden.
joy, followed by regret And no IA
Their, however besotted, rejoices to
see his son spend his time and money
there, saying nothing of the loss of
home joy and the weakening of the
human race. The weary workman
who takes a drink to rest himself
should know it is like applying the
lash to tired horse, and what you
seem to gain is lost in vital force. We
can have no real reform until men
who do not buy rum can be elected
to fill the offices of the commonwealth.
A licence to sell rum is an acknowl-
edgment that it is a curse. Local
option cannot kill rum. Only the
power of the general government caa
do that. China will stop opium using
because the government is behind it.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
Taxing Cats

That bill to tax cats is not bad
cats may go hot foot after rats and
mice, but cheap little traps are al.
together more effective, and they
neither disseminate disease nor deci-
mate bird life. If one keeps cat,
surely he should be willing to pay
a bit for the privilege.
Then fewer homeless felines would
be foraging on useful birds and leav-
ing germs of contagion for humanity
to pick up.
Dogs must be licensed
So should cats.
They are in the same category.
This bill is not to be ridiculed.
Cats are tagged in other states; why
not here?
The Spoor bill for seasonable frog
protection raised a laugh when it
was introduced a few years ago, but
who would think of repeating it now?
Time may come, who knows, when
butterflies and bumblebees will come
under the aegis, too, because of their
value as pollen carriers.
So let's not treat lightly the cat
act. It is pre-eminently sane.-Mad.
ison Democrat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
PEOPLE DON'T SING AS THEY
USED TO

Singing, so far as most people are
concerned, is lost art. Thousands
attend operas, recitals and musical
comedies, tens of thousands wind up
monographs, but as for singing them
selves informally at their work or
play, they have forgotten how. In
times past people of all ranks sang
together as matter of course. Sail
ors sang at their work, peasants,
shepherds, cowboys-all had their
fayorite and appropriate songs. The
songs of children at games, the lul-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
SENATOR DEFENDS
ARMED SHIP FIGHT
Believes That Neutral Governments
Could Bring BeIligerents to Time
By "Mere Suggestion That
Supplies Be Withheld Entirely

In the latest number of La Follette's
magazine the senator comments OF
the filibuster against the armed neu
trality bill. He says it wasn't a fiji
buster. He tried to defeat the ship
armament bill, he says, insofar as
permitted by the tyrannica1 action OF
a majority" He also refers to a" per.
version of the rules to prevent speak.
ing against the BILL"
He says the bill would have put
American gunners under British al
miralty orders and meant war. He
deplores the action of the president
in advocating passage of the bill late
in congress, adding:
"The president made it clear that
he desired to be left alone to exercise
extraordinary and autocratic powers
affecting the destinies of the country
and the world until December--the
time for assembling the new congress.
at was the evil system of one-man
power and secret diplomacy that
plunged the helpless people of Europe
into war"
He advocates a call to neutral gov
ernments for a conference to bring
the belligerents to time, and a mere
suggestion" that supplies would be
withheld entirely from belligerents.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
Is THE FARMER TO BLAME?

All sorts of frantic moves have been
made to account for the high price of
food. In most instances no reckoning
has been had with that ever working
law of supply and demand. With a
large number of articles there has
been an under supply, as with pota-
toes for instance, and an over con-
sumption. No other cause could have
carried them to such a price as they
have brought Then there is the fall
ing off of acres under tillage and the
decrease of farmers, especially in the
eastern states.
In Pennsylvania, for example, since
1900 to 1910 the production of grain
has fallen off millions of bushels.
Thousands of acres have gone out of
cultivation, and the rural population
has decreased from 81 per cent in
1890 to So per cent in 1916. In many
of the eastern states there are actual
ly less farmers than there were TWEEN
ty years ago. Could these changes
take place and prices of food be kept
at the low Ievel?-W. D. Hoard in
the Fort Atkinson Union.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
Query From St. Louis

l wonder if any of the News" read
ers can inform me of the meaning
and origin of a phrase which, although
in general use among card players,
seems to be spoken in various ways.
Some people say Boards the play"
others, Boards played" and | have
also heard Boards the board" Just
what the term is in it's correct form
and how it originated would be sub~
ject of much interest to the writer.
READER.
1920 Forest Park Ave,
st. Louis, Mo. ~
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
Making Fun Is Serious Business
indianapolis News.

Making fun is serious business"
says Charlie Chaplin in the April
Woman's Home Companion. "It calls
for deep study and concentrated OBJ
servation. Fun that causes some
people to laugh makes others froWn.
That can't be helped. What matters
is-to make most Of the people laugh
most of the time. How to do this is
the problem.
"The principal thing you've got to
do to keep an audience in good hui
NOR is to make them think they are
superior to you in intelligence. You've
got to be the clown.
pride comes before fall, we are
told Well, there is nothing SO funny
as upset dignity. Visualize a bloated
capitalist with dundreary whiskers,
light trousers, SpatS, trOck coat, SILK
hat, all the insignia of million dol
lars more or less.
"Now when the capitalists whis-
kers are pulled by an abandoned fun
ny man, the audience is convulsed.
There is fun in striking contrast One
minute there is picture Of pride and
dignity, austere, exclusive, apart from
common humanity. If I reach out
casually and hook that chap with the
crook Of my cane, drag him almost
off his feet, pull his Dundrearys and
step casually on his silk hat, wave
of mirth surges over the house. Per
haps people don't know why. But
do. 1t is because they never in all
their lives believed anybody would
have the effrontery to pull a million
aires whiskers or step on his hat"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05

around the pier, and spaces were
opened when the ice harvest was
made. A message sent out from Wi
mona a short time ago stated that
many fish in that region had died
because the ice was thick and fresh
air kept from them.
5 s S
Floyd Carpenter has been feeding
and protecting flock of cartridges
at the Carpenter & Carpenter farm.
At first there were but three birds,
but now there is large flock. He
has fed the birds and by giving pro-
tention they have increased greatly.
It is wonderful what good results
may be obtained with wild life when
a little attention is given.
+ i / !
''We are always glad to get the pa
per-" writes Mrs. B. Rath, $50 Long
avenue, Portland, Oregon.
+ + / +
Mrs. Charles Yott, 6907 Bonsallo
avenue, Los Angeles, Calf, says:
"Baraboo was my home for many
years, and like to hear from the hap
penings there. We have had the cold
est winter in the history of Los An
geles. We may have had as many
days as cold in other winters, but
never so steady cold as the one just
passed. Fuel is very expensive and
there is much Sickness"
i i i i
A little knowledge is sometimes
dangerous. When the four or more
killed the deer near Black Hawk they
carried the carcass into barn to be
quartered. They insisted on the own
er Of the barn taking section of the
venison, but he refused. Later it be-
came noised around the neighborhood
that the owner Of the barn knew con
siderable about the killing of a deer
in his neighborhood. The rumor
he was summoned to appear in a Bar.
aboo court. When placed on the stand
to tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, he at first re.
fused He said he would pay fine
but would not tell on the young chaps
who killed the deer. This does not
go in prosecutions. He said he did
not want any enemies in the neigh
borhood and would do anything in
reason rather than tell what he knew
When he saw it was useless to hold
| out he gave his testimony. Although
he had done the best he could, the
truth came out. The young men
should not blame the owner of the
barn; they are the ones who are guilty
of wilfully breaking the law. The
owner of the barn escaped fine and
justly so.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
Coming Back Soon

We expect to be back in Baraboo
about April 90, and while this is a
perfect place for a winter home, beau
tiful Baraboo will look mighty good
to us with the familiar faces of our
many friends.
S. THOMAS WILLIAMS.
ST. Petersburg, Fla.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
BUYING CATTLE To
ADD TO HERD

Floyd Carpenter has been in Lon
don, Canada, buying cattle to add to
the splendid herd of Shorthorns own
ed by Carpenter & Carpenter Mr..
Carpenter, Jr., is now in Illinois, and
will go to Iowa before returning to
BarabOO.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
LICENSED TO MARRY

George P. King, Granton, Wis.
Alta Dehler, La Vale.
Barnford Carkuff. IrOnton.
Minnie Compton, Ironton.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05
THIS and Tbat
One on the Brakeman

The brakeman opened the door of
the car and called out the name of
the station the train was approaching.
The elderly woman reused herself
with jerk.
"Where are we, Bobby?"
81 don't know, grandma" answered
the little boy.
Didn't the brakeman say some
thing just now?"
"No. He just stuck his head inside
the door and sneezed."
Help me with these things, Bob
by" she exclaimed hurriedly. "This
is Oshkosh. It's where we get off, "
Erie Magazine.