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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-08

Pass. No. 10 a. m.
*Pass. No. ---------------3:30 a. m.
PASS No. 4, daily----------5:13a q. m.
Pass. No. 80, except Sunday-6:03 a. m.
Pass. No. "a, daily---------7:03 a. m.
Pass. No. 16, daily----------7:55 a. m.
Pass. No. 10, except Sunday-9:05 a. m.
Pass. No. 46, except------2:05 p. m.
Pass. A, Sat. and Sun. only-4:50 p. m.
Pass. No. 40, Sundays only--5:20 p. m.
Pass. No. 6, AZ p. m.
Pass. No. 48, Sunday only--7:50 p. IN.
Pass. No. IA, except Sunday-8:12 p. m.
West.
+Pass. No. Is, daily--------2:26 a. m.
Pass. No. 55, daily----------5:57 a. IA.
Pass. No. II, daily---------12:18 p. m.
Pass. No. 6----------------1:O p. m.
Pass. No. %, except Sunday-7:00 p. m.
Pass. No. l, % p. m.
"These trains stop at Watertown
Junction only.
Train No. 80 arrives from Milwau-
kee and departs for Madison at 1888
a. m. except Sunday.
Train No. Z arrives from Chicago
and departs for Madison at 1929 p. m.
daily except Sunday. !.
Train No. 423 arrives from Chicago
and departs for Madison at 700 p. m.
except Sunday.
Train No. 81 arrives from the east
at 5:55 p. M, except Sunday.
Train No. 80 arrives from the east
at 1850 p. ~ daily.
Train No. 40 arrives from Madison
at 9:05 a. M, except Sunday.
Sunday excursion train arrives from
Milwaukee at 10:G2 a. m. and goes
through to Madison. returning at 500
p. m.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN.
South.

Chicago passenger---------6 $50 g. m.
Chicago passenger--------- a. m.
Chicago passenger--------1 1880 p. n
GAINESVILLE passenger------g. 10 p. M
$500 a. m. train makes close con-
nections for the west at Jefferson
Junction.
Both 11:O7 q. m. and 7:16 p. m.
trains make close connections at JET
ferson Junction for Madison and all
points west.
North.
Green Bay enger-------7:66 q. m.
Green Bay. Sundays only----S:10 a. m.
Green Bay passenger-------2: AZ p. m.
Northern Michigan 80 p. m.
Rockford passenger arrives, at Wa
tertOwn at $40 q. m. and goes no
farther.
The 1855 q. m. train makes scOnhec-
ton at Clyman Junction for trains
east.
The 1870 train south makes comet
lions at Jefferson junction for points
east.
A train goes west from Clyman
Junction at 4:45 p. m.
+Daily.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL
Ank
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HOME GAMERS
TO HAVE SUGAR
Limit Manufacturers of Less
Essentials to 80 Per Cent
Amount Used Last Year
GRANT HOME GAMERS rs
POUNDS.

1uc w lSCOnSln FOOO administration
Is making every effort to provide can
ners with the requisite amount Of
sugar. Canning is a most efficient
means of conserving food and enables
the public to live during the winter on
vegetables and fruit which they grow
in their war gardens during the sum-
mer.
Consumers Limited in Use.
In order to insure sufficient supply
of sugar for home canning, manufac-
turers of non-essentials and ordinary
household consumers are limited in
their purchase of sugar. Manufacturers
of nou-essentials, such as soft drinks,
gums, and confectioneries. are allowed
only 80 per cent of the amount of
sugar they used last year. Housewives
in town or city may buy not more than
5 pounds of sugar at one time, and buy
ers from the country may purchase not
more than 10 pounds at once.
Certificates for Home Gamers.
A certificate system has been put
into effect permitting purchases of Is
pounds to the housewives for canning
and preserving. Families are not to
purchase larger supply than will be
required for this use. The certificate
blank which the housewives must fill
out in buying large amounts of sugar
for canning Is given to the grocers by
Mr.. Magnus SwensOn, Food Admin
strator for Wisconsin:
II hereby declare to the United
States Food Administration that have
purchased from. twenty five
pounds of sugar for my use for pre-
serving and canning purposes only,
and l agree not to order sugar from
any source in excess of my require
ments for this purpose"
Signed ....................
Address
On each Monday, the certificates
signed during the previous week must
be mailed by the merchants to the
County Food Administrator.
A grocer has permission to refuse to
honor certificate if he is convinced
that the applicant does not intend to
Use the sugar asked for in canning or
preserving. In case of dispute, the
town or county administrator can be
questioned.
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J. C.. Draeger
Electrical Contractor
PHONE NO. SILL

We Take Care of Everything in the
Electrical Line-Repair all Kinds Of
Electric Apparatus-Old and New
House Wiring-Prompt Service Ever
: Office-116 N. THIRD WATERFOWL
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Knitting Women
BY
KATHLEEN NORRIS.
BV

COT million sweaters furnished by the Red Cross to
American soldiers half made by the hands Of the knitting
of Americ
We are the knitting women; weaving swift
Our webs of olive drab and navy gray;
We the women, keeping thought away
BY this new work of love, this eager lift
Through which men, facing the bitter fight
Under the stars Of far and foreign lands,
Shall know that still million women's hands
Uphold them in the darkness and the night.
We are the knitting women, knitting fast
web of love million hearts sent
AS one, with ev'ry marching regiment,
Loves democracy is at last
High stricken France the black smoke towers;
Beneath it, in the hurry and the noise
Are eastern, western, northern southern, boys,
No longer yours mine,-forever ours!
We the knitting women weaving strong
A web of prayer; eyes with tears dim,
But, wife mother shall search for him
Across the seas, morning and even-song.
Lord God,-we pray-look down what dol
Bless this work. help us to play our part.
The God of Battes-Father still Thou art
The God of waiting-watng women too!
The Brinkley argus., 1918-12-13
Brinkley, Ark.
Dec. 6, 1918

Dear Santa Claus, Please bring me a Little doll and a doll bed, doll buggy, a set of dishes, and some apples, candy, nuts. Don't forget our teacher Miss Della and the little Belgium children. and our soldier boys too.
 Your friend
 Nelta May Pankey
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Love from
Albert HannmOn.
Dear Uncle Santa.

Dear Uncle Santa.
 Bring Marby some toys. Wolfs all fixed up for Xmas. We live in a green house. It's part white too, have you snow house? has it any window cur tains? you must bring me a dolly or something like that. Don't bring a boy toy. When you come here look all around our house and you'll find some cake. You old fellow l love you. I'll get up and hug your neck but 1 wont look. I'll try not to look but you'll ex- cuse me if 1 don't. wont you Santa?
 Your friend,
 Margaret P. s. My name is Margaret F1dmmOn.
 Holly Grove, Ark.
 Dec. 9,191S. Dear old Santa Claus; Here comes two of your little friends from Holly Grove our names are Aubrey and Marjorie Cooke would be pleased to have you bring me a tool chest "a pair of gloves and some fire works and sister Marjorie would be very glad if you would come her way with a nice doll and a trunk to put her dolls clothes in. of course each of us will want some fruit nuts and candy our ages are six and four years old and please Santa doAt forget our little sister she is just seven weeks old. your little friends.
 Marjorie and Aubrey Cooke.
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Brinkley, Ark. Dec. 6, 1918
Dear Santa.

Dear Santa.
 Please bring me big baby doll, a little table, some chairs, some books and a little tele- phone.
 Please remember my teacher. And please remember mother and daddy. your friend.
 Francis Sharp Bogle.
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Brinkley, Ark. Dec. ', 1918.

Dear Santa Claus:-
 I want new doll and doll buggy and some doll dishes and Santa if you have any thrift stamps please bring me enough to finish my card.
 From your friend
 Irene Evelyn Miller
The Brinkley argus., 1918-12-13
Holly Grove, Ark.
Dec. z, 1918.


 Dec. z, 1918. Dear santa:-
 I am a little girl who loves you, I want you to Bring me a doll, a trunk some orangessome apples, candy, and don't forget the other little children, will close Annie Bell Green.
 Brinkley, Ark.
 Dec. 9th, 1918. Dear Santa:-
 I will write you letter to let you know what l want for christmas. want a doll, ,friuts and nuts. Don't forget my bro ther and my sisters, mother and father and don't forget the Beli- gam. your friend.
 Oracle Cobb.
 Clarendon, Ark.
 Dec. 2, 1918. Dear Santa Claus,
 am little girl six years old and would like for you to bring me a doll, a Xmas stocking, candy apples, oranges and some nuts. Remember the little boys and girls in France.
 Winnie Kelly
 Holly Grove, Ark.
 Dec. ', 1918 Dear santa:
 I am a little girl off 9 years old, writing you to let you know what I want you to bring me, a doll a little set off dishes some fruit some candy some nuts. I will go now, your little friend.
 Freddie May Green.
 Zent, Ark.
 Dec. the 9 1918. by a little girl that go to school. Dear santa claws I want a doll and buggy and nut and candy and a Rubber ball and a baby bear and little bed dresser and trunk and some dishes and and wagon and hose and a little Baby rattle and a little go cart for baby and a bags of beads and little hose that her can get on.
 Katherine Junior. Dear Old Santa,
 I want one of the germans guns left from the war. Please bring my little sister a doll and mother a set of furs. Come by here last and leave me all you have left. We may have a Xmas tree and you may put the toys under that. Put candy and fruit in the stockings how fat are your reindeers? Why don't you get an airship? you could come then twice a year.
 Love from IT
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Brinkley. Ark

~ r> VI 6iOFCo, d lOOI ball and some candy, nuts and fruits. Don't forget the French and Belgian orphans and don't forget my two big brothers in france. and Eugene in New Orleans.
 Your little friend
 William Lawrence
 Brinkley, Ark.
 Dec 8; ISIS Dear Santa.
 l want a nice story book about the Boy Scouts. Send me some paints to color Bring my little brother ball. Bring me foot ball. some nuts and candies.
 I want a Boy Scout suit; and bring a captain cap.
 So this is all I
 Your friend
 William Mcfarland Dear Santa Claus:- Last year I lived at an Orphans Home and you found me there, so please come to see me this year. You'll find me at my own home in Brinkley, Ark. and I will not expect much this time just a gun some candy nuts and a book of thrift stamps. If you can spare train please bring me one. Remember the poor boys and girls too and besure to give them a Happy Christ mas.
 John Lynn Strong.
 Brinkley Ark.
 Dec. Eth. 1918. Dear Santa. N
 l will write you to let you know what l want you to bring me Xmas. 1 am a little girl eleven years. go to school. I want a kewpie doll and a box of handkerchiefs and some apples and oranges and don't forget my little brother Henry, he wants a ball and a gun and a horn and don't forget the little Belgim children. That is all I want
 Your little girl
 Jimmie Morris.
 Brinkley, Ark.
 Dec 9, 1918. Dear Santa Claus:- 1 am going to write you few lines to tell you what I want. l want a doll and buggy. my little brother wants a gun and some skates. Don't forget the little Belgiums poor children. My sister wants craddle and 8 big doll and buggy. My name is Lurah May Chaney. My little name is Robert Elmo Chaney. My sisters name is Ella Frances Chaney.
 your friend,
 Lurah May Chaney.
 Brinkley, Ark.
 Dec 1918 Dear Santy I go to the Brinkley school my teachers name is Mrs Strong and Miss Annie May Allen. I want you to bring them something for xmas and bring me some candy and some nuts that is all 1 wish and don't forget my 2 sisters and 2 brother in laws and my 2 nieces also my brother Marvin in france and all the other poor soldiars that cant be at home on xmas also rember my papa and mama ana my little sister frankie Jacobs good by dear Santy
 Clara Bell Jacobs
 Brinkley, Ark.
 Dec 1918 Dear Santy I go to the Brlnkley school my teachers names are
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doll bring my protner q |tventytwo and bring my |nother some nuts.
 your friend,
 Royal Langston
 Dec. 6. 1918 Dear Santa claus want a pair of skates ana a little calf And some candy, apples nuts, Ind oranges and some thrift tamps
 That all
 your friend,
 H. B. Allen.
 ' Brinkley, Ark.
 Dec 9th 1918 Dear old Santa claus Vill you please bring me a lot uts, candies and toys l want a bot ball and some thrift stamp nd visit all the soldies boys Way from home and loved he's so don't forget to come. your little friend
 Dunaway Gill inkley, Ark. ec 1918. ear Santa, Bring me some ples and neger-tOeS and a oy book. and some firecrack- and some candy. Don't for Et those Belgim children and ling my sister a dolly and a FEY and some nuts and some (ger-toes.
 I close. from Fay Tolbert.
 Brinkley Ark.
 Dec. , 1918 lar Santa Please bring me a lgcle, a foot ball he nuts.
 he candy.
 he thrift stamps. | a story book. et of tools and |5OO bill.
 rr friend
 Billy Barrett.
 Brinkley, Ark.
 Dec. 9, 1918. Pr Santa Claus, Tease bring a billy-goat gon to me.
 axe the Belgians many nice or lgs. fns mother, daddy, and , q something and don't for q the poor people. Y smember my teacher, Miss sA Baggott,
 Lovingly,
 Ira WOodfin, Jr. II Brinkley, Ark. to Dec 6, 1918 D Santa Claus. OIR ''Aids Will soon be here.
  da 'u' new doll and doll bed. cnalrs candy and fruits. Y uoht forget my teacher. Y pella. bring her something ana oesure to visit all little ',sn sa, Of our country. and uieil of our allied count riease don't forget our over there.
 your friend.
 Gladys Smith.
 Brinkley, Ark. dO Dec. 6, 1918 u Santa Claus:-
 t'l sn' a doll and two books sv0 Thrift stamns for Ptmas. ''s'iiips TOT so,a M,ss Della Baggott two
 ua' pins and a box of |un| f. Mother and me a |uII a Sl', Snn Jim. Bring little hothoa and a book too,
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1918-03-08

of about twenty-five feet of garden
hose in fair condition. One end of 1T
was introduced into the shack through
a knOthole, and the other was secured
by wire, round the faucet of hydrant
in the stable. Thus, If members Of the
order were assaiEed by thirst during an
important session, or in the course OF
an initiation, it would not be necessary
for them all to leave the shack. One
could go, instead, and when he had
turned on the water at the hydrant,
the members in the shack could drink
without leaving their places. 1t was
discovered, Also that the section OF
hose could Be used as a speaking-tube;
and though it did prove necessary to
explain by shouting outside the tube
what one had said into it, still there
was a general feeling that it provided
another means of secrecy and an addi-
tional safeguard against intrusion. 1t
is true that during the half hour i'm
mediately following the installation of
this convenience, there was a little
violence among the brothers concern
ing a question of policy. Sam, Roddy
and Verman-Verman especially
wished to use the tube ito talk
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1918-03-08
Platinum Substitutes,

Since the development of "palau,"
the palladium-gold substitute for plat
mum, trials have been made with mix
lures of these two metals in varying
proportions. The alloy containing 60
to 80 per cent of gold is to be known
as 'rhOtanium," and has a specific
gravity of 16 to 1875, is malleable and
ductile and can be welded without flux
or other agent. 1t proves entirely
satisfactory for most chemical and
electrical purposes for which platinum
is used, though it is not suitable for
use with hot concentrated nitric acid,
nor for electrolytic anodes. For jew
elry it is thought to be even superior to
platinum, as it is harder and stronger
and takes a better finish and it has
practically the same color, can be
worked as readily and does not tarn-
ish or cOrrode.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1918-03-08
Sam and Herman and Of Rigid Attention

through" and Maurice, Penrod and
Herman wished to use it ito drink
through" AS consequence of the
success of the latter party, the shack
became too damp for habitation until
another day, and several members, as
they went home at dusk, might easily
have been mistaken for survivors of
some marine catastrophe.
Still, not every shack is equipped
with running water, and exuberance
befitted the occasion. Everybody
agreed that the afternoon had been
one of the most successful and impor-
tant in many weeks. The Order of the
In-Or-In was doing splendidly; and yet
every brother felt, in his heart, that
there was one thing that could spoil ii.
Against that fatality, all were united
to protect themselves, the shack, the
ritual, the opera glasses, and the wa
ter-and-speaking tube. Sam spoke not
only for himself but for the entire Or
der when he declared, in speeding the
last parting guest:
swell, we got to stick to one thing
or we might as well quit George Bas-
sett better not come pokin' aroundw |
mo, sir!' said Penrod.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1918-03-08
There Was Something Different and Spiritual About George

brought down from the attic quietly,
though, as he said, it wasn't any use
on earth up there" There were two
lame chairs from Periods attic, and
along one wall ran q low and feeble
structure intended to serve as bench
or divan. This would come in handy,
Sam said, if any of the party chad to
lay down or anything" and at pinch
(such as a meeting of the association
it would serve to seat all the members
in a row.
For, coincidentally with the develop
ment of the shack, the builders became
something more than partners. Later,
no one could remember who first sug-
gested the founding of a secret order
or society, as a measure of exclusive
ness and to keep the shack sacred to
members only, but it was an idea that
presently began TO be more absorbing
and satisfactory than even the shack
itself The outward manifestations of
it might have been observed In the in
creased sOlemnity and preoccupatiOn
of the Caucasian members and In a
lew CtTbllOLiAl OUScI tlLSCo CApOoSu
TO the public eye AS an instance of
these latter, Mrs. Williams, happen
ing to glance from a rearward window,
about four o'clock one afternoon, found
her attenNOn arrested by what seemed
to be a tiag-raising before the door of
the shack. Sam and Herman and Yer
man stood in attitudes of rigid atten-
ton, shoulder to shoulder, while Pen
rod Schofield, facing them, was APP
parently delivering some sort of ex-
hortation which he read from scrib-
bled sheet of foolscap. Concluding
this, he lifted from the ground a long
and somewhat warped clothes-prop,
from one end OF which hung whitiSh
flag, or pennon. bearing an inscription
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1918-03-08
Copyright, 1917. Wheeler Syndicate. Inc9

and the effect upon him was what
alienated his friends. Then these alien
ated friends were brought (by odious
comparisons on the part of grown peO-
ple) to condition of mind wherein
they suffered dumb annoyance, like a
low fever, whenever they heard
Georges name mentioned, while asso-
citation with his actual person became
every day more and more irritating.
And yet having laid this fuse and hav-
ing kept 1t constantly glowing, the
grown people expected nothing to hap
pen to George.
The catastrophe befell as q conse-
quence of Sam Williams deciding to
have a shack in his backyard. Sam
had somehow obtained vastly piano
box and a quantity of lumber, and,
summoning Penrod Schofield and the
he eXpounded to them his building
plans and offered them shares and
benefits in the institution he purposed
to found. Acceptance was enthusiastic;
straightway the assembly became q
union of carpenters all of one mind,
and ten days saw the shack not COM
pleted but comprehensive. Anybody
could tell, by that time, that it was
intended for shack.
There was door on leather hinges
it dropped, perhaps, but it was door.
There was window-not glass one,
but, at least, it could be Cooked out
Of" as Sam said. There was a chin
ney made of stovepipe, though that was
merely decorative, because the cooking
was done out of doors in an under
ground furnace" which the boys ex-
cavated. There were pictures pasted
ON the interior walls, and, hanging from
a nail, there was crayOn portrait of
Sans grandfather, which he had
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1918-03-08
SEEKING HAPPINESS FUTILE
Experience Not Gained by Pursuit, but
Comes to One Who, Does Kind
Deed Without Thinking of 1t.

Those who seek happiness never find
.it-a truism that has been going the
rounds since philosophers began get
ting their words into print or upon
craven tablets observes the Dayton
News. But it is well to repeat 1t oc-
casionally, to keep it ever before the
masses of humanity, that it may be-
come so much part of our creed and
faith that the youngest among US and
the Oldest may realize the full meaning
of the expression.
There is no greater unhappiness
than that of pursuing happiness, for
happiness is never Overtaken by those
who pursue it. Happiness comes to
him who is not thinking of it; to him
who is doing something for others,
with never thought of his own hap
piness. No man has ever yet followed
a course of conduct with his own hap
piness in view and achieved his pur-
pose.
Service to Others-that is all there
is to life that savors of happiness. The
service need not be great; it is given
to few persons to be of great service.
And those who are of great service do
not realize it-they do not start out
with that in view.
To be kind and courteous and con-
siderate of the comfort of Others-that
is the service which brings happiness.
The man who helps a crippled old
woman upon the street car is happier
for doing so. The fellow who stops to
wipe away the tear from the eyes of
a child who bruised its hand; the wom
an who visits q sick neighbOr to see if
she can be of any use; the man who
puts another in position to help him
self-these little services are quite
great in the realm of things that go to
make for happiness. And they are
possible with all of US.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1918-03-08

George Bassett was boy set apart.
Not only that; George knew that he
was boy set apart. He would think
about il for ten or twenty minutes at a
time, and he could not look at himself
in a mirror and remain wholly without
emotion. What that emotion was, he
would have been unable to put into
words, but it helped him to understand
that there was certain noble some
thing about him which other boys dld
not possess.
Georges mother had been the first
TO discover that George was boy set
apart. In fact, George did not know
it until one day, when he happened TO
oyerhear his mother telling his auntS
about it. True he had always under
stood that ne was the best boy in town
and he intended to be minister when
he grew up but he had never before
comprehended the full extent of his
sanctity, and, from that fraught mo-
ment onward, he had an almost the
atricaF sense of his set-apartness.
Penrod Schofield and Sam Williams
and the other boys of the neighborhood
all were conscious that there was
something different and spiritual about
George, and, though this conscious
ness of theirs may have been little OBJ
scure, 1t was none the less actual. That
is to say, they knew that George Bas-
sett was boy set apart, but they did
not know that they knew it. Georges
air and manner at all times demon
strated to them that the thing was
so, and, moreover, their mothers abb
sorbed appreciation of Georges won
derfulness from the very fount of 1t,
for Mrs. Bassett's conversation was Of
little else. Thus, the radiance Of his
character became the topic Of envious