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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-21

vote by working the "range can
didate racket.
Road engineer Acton is cred
tied with fearing Thomas F. Nc
Gilvary. Last January, when Mr..
McGilvary was in training camp
down on the Atlantic coast, he
would and could have been ap-
pointed county road engineer, had
he been at home, on the ground.
That fact gave Mr.. Acton the scare
of his life and he would be worse
scared yet if McGilvary happened
to be elected, for the latter I'M
doubtedly would insist that he
perform his statutory duties by
taking charge of the county roads
as we'll as attending to the lesser
duties Of the county surveyors
office.
Such a course of action would
eliminate Mr.. Acton as road en-
gineer, and, incidentally, save the
taxpayers $4,000 a year, quite an
item in these war times and after
"a years Of expensive occupancy
Of the courthouse by Halden.
Mr.. Acton is reputed to be quite
an able engineer, but he utterly
failed in his attempts to bridge the
gulf between auditor Halden and
county commissioner Little, al
though he made plans and specifi-
cations to that end. He is consid-
cred an able politician, and, Of
course, is a confirmed Halden
booster.
When county road engineer Coe
proved Objectionable to county
auditor Halden, prime minister
Walker, commissioner Fraser and
several others dominated by Hal
den, led by the King of the Court
house, went to st. Paul to hire Ac-
ton. He was taken from a job at
81, 800 a year, when men fully as
able, living in Duluth, paying
taxes here and having homes here
could have been induced to take
the position at salary not exceed
ing $4,000 year.
Halden's within and dislike of
st. Louis county talent has cost
the taxpayers quite a handsome
sum.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-21
CHISH0LM'S OLD CHIEF
RUNS AMUCK IN DULUTH
George DOnOhue Wrecks Grand Hotel, Abuses
Divorced Wife, Curses Police Officers and
Spends Sad Sunday in Jail.

over the Grand hotel, adjoining
the Sellwood building on the
west. Gossip among her many ad-
mirers intimated that the gallant
! conductor, who was separated or
living apart from his own dear,
lawfully welded wife, set Edith
up in business. When out on his
runs, he smiled and smiled to him
self over the beauteous bird ex-
clusively his, in the Grand cage
in dear old Duluth. =.
There are sour, dyspeptic men
who hint that Edith did not per-
nit herself to get lonesome when
"Old Honey Con" was away, but
that's another story, too.
Some time before dear old Oil
yer closed it's weary lid, George
Donohpe came to Duluth and then
went to the Wisconsin oasis,
where he acquired scrappy jag.
Returning to the city he invaded
Madam Edith's Grand hotel. He
talked loudly and roughly. He
| called some of her guests terrible
names. He chased the former wife
of his bosom about the place. He
smashed costly vases and broke
up expensive furniture. He ripped
up Edith's silk dresses and made
her costly furs look like poodle
dog after fight with a wildcat.
Col. Donohue rambled tt trough
| that place like the Huns through
Belgium and he left it in just
about as dilapidated a condition
as they did that unfortunate coun-
try.
One decent guest, an Orpheum,
actress, called the police and had
Donohue put behind the bars. He
called the officers some genuine
fighting names and they got even
by leaving poor old George be-
hind the bars, over Sunday. He
played checkers with his nose I'M
til Monday morning when old
night school friend McKercher
showed up. He was shocked to
find old chum in that place and,
forthwith, turned him loose, with
out requiring bail or permitting
any charge to be entered against
the rampageous fellow.
That is not the first time, it is
alleged, that chief McKercher has
used his own judgment as to turn
ing loose lawbreakers who have
been arrested, jailed and charges
preferred against them. But that s
| another story, too.
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Mabel Rossman, Emerson, $1,000:
Olive Scott, Kenwood, $3.50.
Arthur e. Berg secured raise of
salary from $3.50 to $140 a month.
w. d. Burke was appointed head of
the mathematics department of the
Denfeld junior and senior high school
at salry of $500.
Information Clerk Hired.
It was voted to hire an informa-
ton clerk in the administration de-
partment. Tuition of children attend
ing the Proctor school was fixed at
$40 per child. DR.. Schroeder was en-
ployed as medical inspector, part
time, at $50 a month.
1t was decided to open night
schools Sept. 16. Glasses will be avail
able as follows, viz:
Citizenship course-English, his
tory, civics, writing, number work,
community singing, fancy needle
work.
Commercial Course - Business
English, business arithmetic, book
keeping, commercial law, stenog-
raphy, type-writing, penmanship.
Other subjects - Automobiling.
cooking, cabinet making, chemistry,
electricity, architectural drawing,
Frenh, gymnasium, machine shop,
mechanical drawing, sewing, radio
and buzzer work, telegraphy, Span
ish, woodwork.
This year, basketry, pottery and
art jewelry work will have tuition
charges to cover actual cost of in
struction and supplies.
Supt. Hoke reported that, on Sept.
5, 13,949 pupils were enrolled in the
puplic schools as compared with 49,
425 for the same day a year previous
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George Donohue recently had
to spend Sunday in Duluth's dirty
city Jail because he got drunk on
Oliver booze and then ran amuck
in the Grand hotel when his friend
McKercher was not on duty.
It is alleged that running amuck
by Donohue and not being on
duty by McKercher is nothing new
for either man, but all that is an
other story.
George Donohue was a Hibbing
policeman once upon time. For
"a while he was chief # police of
Chisholm, the home of county
commissioner O'Neil. Incident
ally, the versatile Donohue was a
deputy sheriff under Meining for
a time.
At Chisholm, one fateful night,
if information be correct, Dono-
hue wendell his way home, only
to find the wife of his bosom held
too tightly to the bosom Of a gal
liant soldier who had not yet gone
to Europe to make the world safe
for democracy. He did not even
make the Donohue premises safe
for his heroic self.
With his war club in one hand
and his pistol in the other, Dono,
hue compelled both his wife and
the soldier hero to admit in writ.
ing that their relations had not
been discreet and proper, after
which he told his recreant spouse
to get put of the house and keeI
out. .
Madame Donohde went to see
Victor Power and he told her she
better keep out of the house Of
her lord and master, otherwise hi
might become peeved and prose
cute her for adultery.
In due course, DonOhue got {
divorce and Madam Donohue came
to Duluth, City of Virtue, as tn,
Chisholm editors call the place
She at first worked in Greek
curio store, in the Manhattan
building, but she was so easy t.
look at that customers gazed OF
her pulchritudinous person in
stead Of buying curios, therefor
her services were waived.
After that, - Madam Donohu,
lived like a lady at the Astoria
hotel. In due course, a gallan
railroad conductor sat up and tool
notice Of the beauteous creature
1t was not long until he was coo
ing to Edit" over the telephone
In due course, Edith" tool
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$248,701.70
New Teachers Elected.


New Teachers Elected.
New teachers were formally
elected as follows, viz:
Dorothy B. Brown, grades, $3.50;
! Olga c. Ness, grades, $3.50; J. c.
Bracken, principal, $3.50; J. w.
Meyer principal, $1,000; Hattie A.
Wolf, principal, s140O; Ruth Wilson,
home training, 5000; Miles D. SUIT
ton, commercial, $780,; Catherine
e. Mcmahon English, $1,000; Helen
B. F. Thwaites, English-history,
$1,025; r. M. Mathews, mathematics,
$4,000; Gladys Greenman, kinder
garten, $3.50; Ann Murphy, home
economics, $1,000; Marion Lewis,
! kindergarten, $3.50; Margaret Pal
| mer, head of Art Department,
s1,45O; Gladys Bevis, grades, $3.50;
c. w. Schroer, manual training,
$1,400; J. F. Bartlett, manual
training, $1,450; Maize Mortland,
English, $1,400; Gladys M. Bevis,
grades, $3.50; Viola Porter, grades,
1915; Sarah J. Loan, grades, 5000;
Claudia E. Reeves, manual training,
5000; Lillian L. Sloan, grades, 1915;
Irene Schoelkopf, kindergarten or
grades, $3.50; Leone Snodgrass, Eng
lish, $3.50; Elsa Johnson, grades,
$500; Lucille Droke. secretary Nor
gan Park school, $50 per month:
Edward M. Grace, printer, $115
per month; Mabel Harker, ply
sizes laboratory, 5000; Nellie C.
trude Fredin, secretary Central High,
$3.50; Lillian Gray, English, $1,000;
Ellen Malin, mathematics, Sits;
Dorothy H. Chadwick, home train
ing, 5000; e. r. Faith, mechanical
drawing, $780,; Miss J. H. Dodge,
nurse, $50 per mo-; Alice Hollins-
head, sub-normal children, $1,000:
Marie Christensen. grades, $3.50;
Frances Brossard, mathematics,
$1,000; Marguerite Hammer, grades,
$3.50; r. M. Fraser, manual train
ing, $1,000.
designations of teachers were &C
copied as follows viz:
Ruby Harris Anderson, Emma
Sidenberg, Gladys Shaw, Mary Small,
Clara Simon, Florence M. Hagen,
Mamie Keough, Alice Hicken, Jessie
Case, Gertrude, W.. Thomas, w. S.
Donat, w. E. Shoemaker, jeanette
Gibson, Florence Whitney, Millicent
P. Scheideker, Edna Olson. Marjorie
Harrison Steele, Dorothy Bateman,
Laura Corbett,s Bertha Violin. Ella B.
Carver, Freda Frankel. Agnes Al
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-21
SAWDUST
AND
SHAVINGS

Even the locomotive whistles
up at Proctor are footing: "Carss
for Congress-"
Commissioner Silberstein evil
IDENTIFY proposes to give Douglas
county a Roland for it's Oliver.
When it comes to official slack
ers, what's the matter with eoun-
ty surveyor Andrew Anderson be-
ing the very prince of the burchg
Billy Sundays conversion of
Bernard Silberstein to the grand
cause of prohibition stands out as
the brightest jewel in his casket
Of accomplishment.
Although Noah A: Young gets
his votes and draws his pay in st.
Louis county, when he needs
$1,000 worth Of high grade furni-
ture he goes to Minneapolis.
When it comes to the selection
Of their judges for the district
bench, the people seem to have
surrendered their rights by a sort
of verbal power of attorney, in
perpetuity, to the Bar association.
When the chief of police has his
private bedroom on the same floor
as the cells for women it makes it
much more convenient for him to
administer the third degree to any
female lawbreaker.
Mayor Baxter keeps scrubbing
away at the morally dirty srots IN
Superior. In due time he Should
produce a Spotless Town, even if
it does make out Silver Joe Kon-
KEEL false Jeremiah. -
When it comes to practical
demonstration of the refined art
Of copious expectoration, it is con.
fidently asserted that county SUI
-perintendent of schools Young can
beat any educator in the coun-
try.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-21
THE POLITICAL POT
AS the Pie-counter Boys and Patriots Make Merry
Medicine in City, County and State, the
Old Pot BOils and Bubbles Fercely.

that letters are in existence that
will prove a wide difference be-
tween Mr.. Miller's private think
ings and his public utterances.
Organized labor first showed
their dissatisfaction with Mr.. Mil
Ter and brought out William l..
Carss. The union men are being
rapidly joined by all other classes,
regardless Of political belief.
Although the women cannot
vote yet in Minnesota, a large
number Of intelligent, Influential
members of the gentler sex are
strongly opposed to Mr.. Miller and
will use all their heavy influence
against him. Women have a pow
erful pull in these terrible war
times.
Unless someone gets cold feet,
there will be four candidates at
the November election for county
surveyor. These four are:
Andrew Anderson, the present
incumbent.
Thomas F. McGilvary, a prac-
ticing engineer, with office at No.
615~Palladio building.
Charles G.. Krelwitz, practic-
ing engineer who resides at No.
1912, Tenth avenue E.
Roy Rich, Of Eveleth, a division
road engineer under county road
h engineer Acton.
Andrew Anderson slipped in
last time because the Scandinavia
ans thought he was one Of them
and because the Scotch thought, he
| was one Of them. He beat Col.
Lionel Ayres. Complaint is made
that, ever since his election, he has
not lifted a hand to perform any
duties prescribed by the statutes
for his office. The law says that
the county surveyor shall have
charge of the roads, but the COM
placent and kindly commissioners
decided a year ago last January
to hire R. H. Acton, a man amen
able to Odin Halden control. He
costs the county $4,000 a year.
County surveyor Anderson, who
never surveys anything but his SAL
airy check, gives no pro quid quo,
as city attorney Samuelson might
say.
Thomas F. McGilvary has been
a surveyor and engineer for many
years in st. Louis county. He WIS
nominated 26 years ego for
county surveyor. He served Du-
luth for some years as city engi-
neer. He offered his services to
the government when war was de-
clared with Germany and le Sc
cured a commission, being dis
charged for physical disability.
At present, in addition to his pri-
vate practice, Col. McGilvary has
charge of certain county ditch
work, holding that position by ap-
pointment Of a majority of the
! board of county commissioners,
against the out-and-out wishes of
Odin Halden, so-called King of
the Courthouse.
Charles G.. Krelwitz stands we'll
as a surveyor and engineer. He
is a son of one Of Duluth's pio-
neers, therefore most, if not all,
; of his life has been spent in St.
Louis county. He is resident of
Duluth and has a son in service
across the seas in sunny France.
Roy Rich of Eveleth is repre-
| sentd as looking like a sturdy
young man. Being an employe of
the road department, it seems
likely that his candidacy is fav-
ored by road engineer Acton and
county auditor Halden. 1t is pre-
sumed. too. that he will Get a big
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-21

William L. Carss, the popular
candidate for congress, is pushing
his cause steadily and effectively.
The people are ralying to his flag
with flattering unanimity and en-
thusiasm. Organized labor is with
him to man and the farmers not
only turn out en- masse to his meet
ings but formally pledge him their
votes and then literally contrib
ute to his campaign fund.
Mr.. Carss spoke at Hibbing on
Labor day. He has spoken at Her.
mantown, Midway, Adolph and
other rural points. Two Harbors
gave him an extremely cordial re-
ception. Last Sunday he carried
his gospel and the fight to Inter-
national Falls.
Carss' committees are active at
Carlton, Barnum and Moose Lake.
Cook county is rapidly organizing.
Knife River, smaller than Two
Harbors, will make just as'good a
showing in proportion.
Wednesday night, candidate
Carss spoke in Duluth to an ap-
preciative meeting at the West
End, a Carss campaign club be-
ing organized: From this time on:
ward the Carss campaign will be
pushed aggressively and with
every pound of energy that his
supporters can command.
A great many voters, business
men as well as workingmen, have
espoused the cause Of Carss be-
cause he is a resident Of the dis
trict. For nearly a quarter Of a
century he has lived at Proctor,
maintained a home, and reared a
family. He belongs to Proctor, St.
Louis county, the great Eighth
district and the state of Mime
sofa.
Candidate Carss has no burning
ambition to give up his residence
in Minnesota. After his election
to congress he hopes and expects
to run that old engine through the
Proctor yards during the summer
vacations.
There is just as much complaint
against congressman Miller's lack
of personal residence in the Eighth
| district as there is in his voting
record in congress.
Mr.. Miller is not credited with
owning property in Duluth. He
| maintains no home in the Zenith
| City. The present Mrs. Miller
| never was in Duluth but once and
that was when her husband got
scared over the condition Of his
| fences and came back here to put
extra staples on the wires.
Mr.. Miller maintains no office
in this district. When he went
through the last campaign he rent
ed desk space in the Torrey build
| ing.
The young voters do not even
know congressman Miller by sight
and the veteran voters have nearly
forgotten what he looks like. They
fear that, some bright day, he will
receive an appointment to some
fat office half way round the
world, whereupon he will turn his
back on Duluth and the Eighth
district voters for all time to come.
The last time Mr.. Miller blew
through St. Louis county and the
Eighth district, he had just re-
turned from France, where he
went at public expense, and told
about the war to the home folks,
while he stood with the old flag
wrapped around him. :
There. are severe flaws picked
in congressman Miller s record be-
fore the United States was well
into the fight and it is alleged
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-21

$40 a month, Stanley Teslaw and
R. D. Bigelow have resigned at Nor
gan Park. Gerard Peterson replaces
Vaillancourt at the Central building.
Frank Peterson also has left the
Central building for Morgan Park at
a salary of $3.50 per month. Peter
C.. Holm has been hired at the Gen.
trail building at $3.50 month.
Lester Park Janitor Quits.
Nils Hilson has resigned as janitor
at Lester Park and Louis Eng has
succeeded him at a salary of $115
a month. James M. Cummings now
is engineer at the Endion school at
$40 a month. John Adolphson has
quit as engineer at Lester Park and
Tom Olson hired to succeed him at
$125 a month.
Ben. Wood has resigned at the
Lowell school and N. Hurd hired to
succeed him for 5000 a month.
Olaf Peterson has been transferred
from the Monroe to the Grant school
and Nils Samback hired for the Mon
roe job at $40 month.
Gust Frederickson, employed as a
steam-fitter on the repair crew, re-
ceived an increase in salary to $3.50
a month. julius Anderson. truck
driver, had his salary boosted from
SIS to SIS a month. The wages of
the janitress of the Smithville school
were increased from $16.50 to $3.50
a month.
Supt. Harwood believes that his
new system of mailing the janitors
their checks each month will save
$500 year.
A force of ten men is engaged In
making repairs at the old Washing
ton school and excellent progress was
,, reported.
improvements in Sanitation.
At the Adams school, the fresh air
intake will go directly to the out
side, the change costing $3.50. At
the Central high school there are
only four lavatories, therefore four
more will be installed at a cost OF
$3.50. Toilet and closet facilities at
the Oneota school will be improved
at a combined cost of 1925.
The cracked stack at the Central
high school has been thoroughly re-
paired. The Irving school rest room
is completed with the exception OF
| lights and fills long-felt want with
principal and teachers.
The committee on administration
and finance reported that certain
bonds, maturing in 1921, have been
retired. The attorneys in the Mrs.
Matlock injury case seem unable to
agree on cash settlement. The
books of the board of education are
being audited by James S. Matteson.
Treasurer's Monthly Report.
Treasurer Colman submitted his
monthly report as follows:
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-21

When it. comes to being all
things to all men and playing both
ends against the middle, county
auditor HaHen is entitled to- the
championship
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-09-21
DIRECTOR c. G. PROVED
ENLIVENS THE SESSION
FIRST MEETING OF NEW SCHOOL YEAR
.: HELD IN GLENCOE BUILDING.

Minneapolis Man Considered for Foreman. Of
Engineers and JanitOrs-Duluth Plumbers
Make Protest-ObjectiOns to Play Grounds Near
School Buildings-Much Shifting in Janitors.
New Teachers Elected-Information Clerk
Employed-Night Schools Opened on Large
Scale. -.~;x-. ~. :*-,t~ ...
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Married Women as Teachers.
When the committee on schools re-
ported that three married women
had been employed as permanent SUBJ
stitutes, director Firoved raised a
question as to the propriety of that
and put himself on record as being
against barring single women by hir-
Ing married women with husbands to
support them.
1t was explained that, in these par
ticular cases, two of the women have
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-28
ANOTHER GERMAN LIE

" HE German lie still persists and
the pro-German liar is as busy
as ever, in this country. The
latest, which General Pershing has
been at pains to deny. is that the
American high command in France
IS putting colored troops wherever
there is the most danger.
This is so silly that it scarcely
needed to be refuted. and as Cen
eral Pershing point out, while negro
soldiers of the American expedition
ary force have so distinguished
themselves as to win medals of
honor. the great burden of the fight
ing has been borne by white troops.
which is altogether proper since they
are in far greater numbers than
their eolored comrades.
The colored men will give good ac-
count of themselves in this war, as
they have done in the past, but they
will not be asked to do more than
their share. and they know it. This
is their first opportunity to fight for
democracy since they came into
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-28
RAILROAD NAMES

The report that the government
railroad administration is to discon-
tinue special names for fast trains
is thus unfavorably commented upon
in the editorial pages of The Rail-
way Review:
The thermometer ran up to
around ninety at Washington this
week, and the silly season" opened
with an announcement that the rail-
road administration will abolish the
names of passenger trains. such as
Twentieth Century Limited Black
Diamond Express Congressional
Limited, Overland Limited ETC.,
because such names are advertising
and hence taboo. If this is done the
next step will be to abolish names of
roads. like New York Central Lines,
Santa Fe System,' Pennsylvania
Lines etc, and designate them sim
ply as divisions 1. 2, 3, etc, of the
United States Railway Administra-
ton. Then go the names of stations,
such as Chicago. Pittsburgh. Balti-
more, etc, for all of these are 'ad-
vertising,' and, finally, we shall have
to address each other as Citizen
with penitentiary convict number,
as our cognomen. If the statement
as published is true, it must be that
some one mas SpEdlleo his DTdln III
an endeavor to discredit government
control. But we prefer to believe
it the product of a reporters desire
to get something to make good copy,
rather than a fact-although it
seems to be a fact that passenger
fares are to be put on actual mileage
basis. At time when the govern
ment is advertising to an extent
never before dreamed of through the
generosity of the press, and profit
ing enormously by it. there seems to
be conspiracy to discredit advertis-
ing as being only AN agency of COM
petition When it comes to de-
nouncing names as advertising this
sublime idea makes itself supremely
ridiculous. BY the way. what be-
comes of that wonderful list of Pull
man-car names the sorigin of which
has been the great amusement puzzle
of travel? And as for economy.
think Of the paint required to paint
all the names off and substitute num-
bers!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Justice Edward ]. Fox, the
newly-appointed member of the SUI
preme court took a prominent part
in the deliberations at the State Bar
Association.
District Attorney H. H. Row
and, of Allegheny county, has been
given thanks by ministers for stop
ping Sunday baseball.
A. A. Newman, of PHILADELPHIA.
prominent in the Zionist movement.
Is delivering series of talks in the
western part of the state.
John G. Pew, who leaves Pitts
burgh to become head of the Sun
Shipbuilding Company, was given a
dinner By prominent residents of
the steel city.
DR.. j. w Crabtree, the veteran
secretary of the National Educa-
tional Association, has arrived in
Pittsburgh for the opening of the
big convention.
George r. Mclean, the new
Democratic state chairman, is prom
inent in Luzerne county affairs and
is of a famous Democratic family.