The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-12-13

wiring THIS letter with Two myers
on an old (good for nothing) Oliver
typewriter, while the girl is doing
some other work. For fear Judge
Calder might worry about my
safety, will say that my stenograph.er
is as shy as a church mouse and not
of the chicken variety.
| found in New Bern that the
Chamber of Commerce (Which these
organizations are called in the East
and South was re-organized under
the graduated dues system, some
paying as high as 500. year and
the lowest for clerks, etc. $l2 year.
Their population is IL 900 and they
have 800 to spend each year.
The salary offer was about the
same at all these points / visited,
but K ingston won me out because it
is so beautiful and so wide-awake.
The city is SO miles from New York
and on the far-famed Hudson river.
/ strongly urge that the Washburn
Commercial Club re-organize under
one of these plans, through an ex-
pert campaign bureau of good repute
and DO 1T NOW. With a trained
secretary and healthy financial con-
dition, organized for three years
subscriptions, you can still accom-
plish much and even more than your
first secretary did. If, as Mr.. Maxcy
stated, your secretary 7blazed the
way" then that is honor enough.
War conditions as found in the
East are very different in many ways
from that of the Northwest and
Middlewest and not altogether in
favor of the East, either. One sees
the soldier boys everywhere, es-
pecially on trains and in larger cities.
In Washingtontheyare conspicuous by
their numbers, and our uniforms are
mingled with those of foreign lands,
worn by officers here teaching the
BOYS the warfare of the trenches.
desire to nail the base lie that
disorder prevails at the eastern
camps. A New York woman lawyer
seeking notoriety in spreading false
hoods about bad women at Camp
Upton. German sympathizers are
accused of behind the movement to
spread these yarns and in selling
liquor to soldiers, to discredit our
army.
In the East and south, while the
liberty loan and Red Cross, Y. M. C..
A. and other FUNDS are well support
ed, it is true that sacrifices are not
being made in food saving and wheat
less and meatless day obseryances as
in Wisconsin. They are money
mad in the larger cities of the East
and in all parts of the South. Hum
dreds of new coal mines are being
opened in West Virginia, and every
body is thinking first of what they
can make out of the war. This is
not true of this city and the country
regions of the East.
Kingston is locality rich in his
torical lore of the revolutionary
period and they have learned
patriotism many generations ago.
was surprised and pleased to learn
by manuscript placed in my hands
by my father, that our forbears, 200
years ago, located around here in
Ulster county--Dutch people from
Holland. There are some OF them
living here who spell their name
vHeermance | have not looked
them up, as l am living in the pres
ent. / always did.
Washburn and her people were
representation trip around the cour
try, such as / recently took. We have
in Washburn the human material fol
making it a splendid manufacturing
city, and the human element is whai
counts. The material resources ano
advantages there speak for them
selves. Bye and bye shall write
letter that will be more carefully
prepared, touching on the matter Q
Washburn's industrial and com
mercial future. Meanwhile, | vii
take some of the matters up witt
President Downs.
Please remember me faithfully. a
| | shall always remember each ant
every one of my friends there. Keel
an eye on Judge Calder, Loui
| Wardner and George Morgan, par