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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-26
Legal Notice
First pub. Wed. Dec. 18-4t

First pub. Wed. Dec 18-4t
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY
Court, Jefferson County-In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Mary
]. McGraw, late of the city of Water
town, in said county, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the time
for creditors to present to said court
for allowance claims or demands
against said deceased is limited to four
months from the 18th day of December
A. D. 1918, and that said court will
receive claims and demands present
ed against said deceased at the court
house in the city of Jefferson in said
county, on any day before the expira-
ton of said four months; and that the
said court will examine and adjust
such claims and demands at a term
thereof to be held at the city hall in
the city of Watertown on the 18th day
of May, 1919, at the opening of court
on said day, or as soon thereafter as
the parties can be heard.
Dated this 18th day of December, A.
D. 1918. By the Court:
R. B. Kirkland,
County Judge.
Skinner e Thauer ATTORNEYS
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FLEAS INJURIOUS TO FOWLS
sticktight Variety Found in Many
Southern States Is of Importance
Few Other Types.

From the United States Department of
Agriculture.)
Southern poultry raisers have an
additional poultry pest to combat
aside from lice and mites. 1t is the
sticktight flea, or Southern chicken
flea, which in many parts of the South
and Southwestern states is of great i'm
portance. 1t has been reported as in
furious to poultry as far north as Kan
sas. This fO14a of flea attacks a num-
Der of diffeHseshosts including poultry,
dogs, cats, I'D some wild animals. I'm
like other species the adult fleas re-
main, during the greater part Of their
lives, attached to the host animal, it
has been stated. In the case of pOul-
try infestation fieas are most common
on the heads of the hosts, where they
are to be seen in groups or patches.
This habit Of attacking in clusters
seems to be well marked, and an in
tested fowl often may be recognized
at considerable distance by the dark
flea covered areas about the eyes, comb
cessively abundant they may be found
In similar patches on the neck and va
rious parts of the body. The injury
is most marked in young chickens,
which when fairly heavily infested
often die quickly. Older fowls are
more resistant, but have been known
to succrmb to very heavy infestations;
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King Named Pennsylvania.

1t was Charles II who gave the
name Pennsylvania to the American
colony. The founder would have
named it New Wales on account of
its rugged and beautiful scenery. A
good story is told of how Charles once
turned the tables on his Quaker SUBJ
ject when they met in the park. "Why
dost thou remove thy hat friend
Charles?" asked William Penn. "Be-
cause wherever I am it is customary
for only one person to remain uncov-
ered." Penn was much at home with
kings. James II used to go to Quaker
meetings to hear him preach. He
knew Anne as a little girl and that
queen counted him as an old friend,
but William III was not so cordially
disposed. When Peter the Great was
occupying Evelyn's residence at Dept
ford he went to Quaker meetings and
knew Penn. Indeed, that destructive
tenant and absolute monarch and mill
tarist said that whoever could live as
a Quaker would be happy.
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ons, with conditions most serious in

gions, with conditions most serious in
Finland.
Bohemia, Serbia, Roumania and
Montenegro have already reached the
famine point and are suffering heavy
toll OF death. The Armenian popula.
ton is falling each week az hunger
takes Its toll, and in Greece, Albania
and Roumania SO serious are the food
shortages that famine IL near. Al
though starvation is not yet imminent,
Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur-
key are In the throes of serious strin-
gencies
In order to fulfill Americas pledge
In world relief we will have to export
every ton of food which can be ham
died through our ports This means at
the very least minimum of 2O,OOO,OO
tons compared with 100000 tons pre-
war exports and 11,82O,OOO tons ex-
ported last year, when we were bound
by the ties Of war to the European
allies.
II we fall to tighten the black spots
on the hunger map or If we allow any
portions to become darker the very
peace for which we fought and bled
Will be threatened. Revolt and anarchy
inevitably follow famine. Should this
happen we will see In other parts of
Europe repetition of the Russian de-
bacle and our fight for world peace
will have been In vain.
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seat OF government the little nations
first thought was to express her graft
tude to the Commission for Relief In
Belgium for preserving the lives Of
millions of her citizens.
Germany, on the other hand, need
not figure In such map for Ameri-
cans because there is no present indi-
cation that we shall be called on at all
to- take thought for the food needs Of
Germany. Germany probably can care
tor her own food problem II she Is
given access to. shipping and is enabled
to- distribute food to the cities with
dense populations, which are the trou-
BILE centers.
England, France, the Netherlands
and Portugal, all of which have been
maintained from American supplies,
have sufficient food to meet immediate
needs, but their future presents seri-
GUS difficulties. The same is true of
Spain and the northern neutral coun-
tries-Norway, Sweden and Denmark
ports have been open and who
have been able to draw to some degree
upon foreign supplies
Most of Russia IL already In the
throes Of famine, and 10000, 900 people
there are beyond the possibility of
help. Before another spring thou
sands OF them inevitably must die.
This applies as well to Poland and,
practically throughout the Baltic re-
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us 1t anything serious?' he asked
as he entered the gate.
my old cat has had f1t!"
"Is it possible |" he replied without
cracking smile.
"And but for this young lady here,
who told me to throw cold water on
the gasping creature, she'd have been
dead by this time!'
'Tt was fit, suppose?"
That's it"
aged cats are subject to them, !
believe"
What, will she have another?"
VERY likely to-"
but what would you advise me to
dor
1T seems to me the better way
would be to get rid Of her. If there
was anything I could do 1 should
cheerfully do 1t, but as there is not 1
will 60 on"
Miss Ruth had kept shoulder to
the conversation, and her face was
sober as she turned to the widow and
said: II have heard that aged cats
are apt to run mad"
LANDS Of mercyr
"You think a good deal Of her, no
doubt, but the safest way Is to get rid
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Mrs. Bakers
Old Cat
~
BY DON LA GRANGE
right, 1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)

And who was Mrs. Baker.
She was a childless widow who had
reached the age Of sixty. She had
sufficient income to keep her out
Of the hands of charity. She had
her little home in the outskirts Of
the town, and her companionship for
the last ten years had been her cat.
It was an old gray cat 1t was a
acknowledging cat. 1t was cat
which had once been kitten and
frolicked as kittens do, but that time
had long passed and the date had ar
rived when she must ponder over
what the future had in store for her.
It was this bordering and wondering
that nude her sit around without
ambition and permit the rats and
mice to come and go unafraid and
untouched.
Onaa certain summer afternoon Miss
Ruth Brighton, wishing for sight Of
the trees, birds, lambs, hollyhOcks
and toadstools Of the country, took
street car ride for half a mile, and
then walked for the same distance to
find herself in front of the Widow
Bakers, cottage. Just as she arrived
the old woman ran out Of the gate
and screamed:
Murder! Police! Fire!'
Who was being murdered? Where
was the fire? Where the police7
"Come in quick ~
Many a girl would have taken to
her heels and clipped it along for a
mile without stopping for breath, but
Ruth Brighton. didn't. She followed
the old lady to the porch, and with
her looked down at the gasping, out
stretched cat.
"She's dying!" walled Mrs. Baker
as she wrung her hands.
"Maybe it's only a fit and we can
save her. Get dish Of cold water"
The water was brought and thrown
over the grimalkin, and after a long
minute she opened her eyes and re-
turned to the land Of the living.
81 am thankful to heavenl" piOusly
exclaimed Mrs. Baker as she rolled her
eyes to the sky.
That day Osborne Chalmers had
decided to take q half holiday and a
walk into the country in the after
noon. He also wanted to see the
trees and birds and lambs and holly
hooks and the rest OF the things that
make a farmers life so joyful and
innocent that he never sells 10 eggs
for dozen for fear Of hurting the
feelings Of buyer.
Mr.. Chalmers saw crow. He saw
a COW. He saw smartweed and may
weed and burdocks along the high
way. BE was just going to see lot of
other things to influence him to
buy an S0-acre farm and raise rs acres
of turnips when he saw cottage, an
old woman, a girl and blinking old
cat.
"Will you come here?" called the
Widow Baker as he slackened his
pace.
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Rats sOnelfmes ia TDOT these 11eas ID
considerable numb ers, therefore their
destruction will aid in the control work
as we'll as doing away with another
Troublesome chicken pest.
TIA borough cleansing Of poultry
houses and runs and the application Of
crude petroleum Will be found to aid
In the control Of other important enc
mics Of fowls, such as mites and chick
en- ticks or "blue bugs"
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and certainly the feas materially re-
duce the egg production, retard the
growth Of fowls, and diminish their
size.
The eggs are deposited by the adult
flea while 1t is attached to the host.
They fall to the ground under the
roost in chicken houses or under sheds
frequented by the poultry and there
continue to develop. When dogs and
cats are infested, the immature stages
develop largely in the material used
by them for beds. They require COM
paratively dry material in which to
breed, but large amount Of air moist
ure is favorable to them. Adults OF
this species continue to emerge from
infested trash for four or five months
after all hosts have been removed /;
hence it is easy to understand why
chicken houses may still have many
fleas In them after being unused for
considerable periods.
A few other species Of f1eas are Oc-
casionally found in poultry houses.
Some Of these may be normally bird
infesting species, while others are at
try. Infestations by these 1eas have
been reported from several places in
the Northern states, particularly In the
Northwest. The presence Of the feas
Ia usually first detected by persons en-
tering chicken houses and being at
tackled by them. These fleas do not
remain attached to the host cOntinu.
ously as does the sticktight flea.
AS preliminary step it is well to
see that the poultry are kept away
from other animals as Tar as possible.
Especial care should be exercised to
keep dogs and cats from lying about
the chicken yards or places frequent
ed by the poultry. All animals, and
the poultry as well, should be exclud-
ed from beneath houses and barns, as
such places are favorable for flea de-
velopment and difficult to treat if they
become infested. These precautions
should be followed by a thorough
cleaning out of the chicken house and
outbuildings frequented by the poultry.
All OIL the IudleTldI SuOuIu Dc III ulcu
good distance from the buildings and
scattered. The places where the IDEAS
are thought to be breeding should
then be sprinkled with crude oil.
It is rather difficult to destroy the
sticktight flea on fowls without injur-
ing the host 1t is desirable, however,
In the case of heavy infestations to de-
stroy as many of the fleas as possible.
This can be accomplished by carefully
applying carbolated vaseline to the
clusters of fleas on the fowls, or greas-
inr hem with kerosene and lard-one
pa kerosene to two parts lard. In
all asses care sho-1ld be taken that
the applications Of grease are con-
fined to the seat of infestation. 1t is
ir' portant tina. dog, and cats be freed
from sticktight feas. This may be
accomplished by washing them in a
saponified cOal-tar creosote prepara-
ton. or by greasing the most heavily
infested parts with kerosene and lard.
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old cat
"rm so glad to see you!" ex-
claimed the woman as the clawed
and scratched and bitten couple en-
tered the gate. "The cat has got over
her fits and is playing around as she
used to when she was q kitten. 1t
must have been the fright that did it."
When the wounds Of the victims had
been dressed the widow sent them on
their way with:
II did think the whole world was
hard-hearted, but this incident has
shown me to the contrary. You are
passing by here when you find my
cat in a fit. You come to the rescue.
You come back the second time to
find her ready to have another fit, and
you carry her off and give her such a
scare that her health is completely re-
stored, and she is good for another
ten years Of life. May a widows
blessing attend you"
Miss Ruth and Mr.. Chalmers
walked away together.
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Plcture-TransmittinQ Set.

An apparatus for transmitting pic
lures electrically is among the latest
scientific toys. 1t is described and H.
Illustrated in Popular Mechanics Mag
azine The sending and receiving in
struments are synchronized by steel
rod, although another system may be
used for longer-range work. A photo
graph must first be reproduced on q
copper plate, which is rolled over the
cylindrical platen Of the sending ma
chine. A needle held against it trav-
els from one END Of the roll to the
other, and the picture is reproduced
On paper at the other end of the line.
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house. III See # I can't buy her an
other somewhere"
And Mr.. Osborne Chalmers found
himself saying to himself: "Darn
that old cat! Why should I keep
thinking Of her I never gave a cat
two thoughts before. Reckon it was
because I met good-looking girl at
the critter has another fit she'll turn
up her toes for good. If l knew
where I could find young cat be-
neve I would carry it to her."
Providence even went one better
than that. 1t put the idea into Miss
Ruth's head to take another country
walk and see how the old cat got
along. Ii she had another fit and
died of it she would surely promise
another cat. Accordingly, she walked.
II believe I'll just take walk out
there" said Mr.. Chalmers. "Seems
too bad for that cat to die, when
perhaps word from me would gave
her life to be a JOY to the old woman
for years yet. Besides, If the cat is
dead 1t will be rather up to me to
supply another. And that young lady
that was there the other day"
Miss Ruth arrived at the cottage.
The cat sat on the porch. She hadn't
had another fit, but she looked as If
she was going to have one at the
first convenient opportunity.
Eyes, she looks bad" agreed Mrs,
Baker, "and 1 am going to ask a
great favor of you. You see, I am
lame, and l can't walk far, and I want
the old cat taken away and dropped
on the road somewhere. If she is
carried mile 1 don't believe she can
find her way back again."
"But how'll l carry her" asked
Ruth.
II didn't know that you'd ever come
back, but I've thought it all out.
Well put her in paper flour sack
that l have saved. When you get
about mile away empty her out
say 'ShOor and that will be the last
Of her. She'll find a home some
where"
Miss Ruth agreed to do the err
rand and after a time started back
with the captive. The cat made no
great objection to being sacked up.
1t is possible that she rather longed
for change of environment.
A cat in a flour sack meOws and
snarls and splits. She claws and
70 nd no fIp
sack to and fro and back and forth.
Miss Ruth was hurrying along
with that sacked cat when she saw
young man approaching. 1t was
Osborne Chalmers. When he saw
the webbing sack held out at arms
length he suspected it's contents and
fastened his steps. He was too
late, however. What is to be will
be. 1t was foreordained that that
cat was to claw her way out, and
out she came. The feline could
have made peaceful and honor.
able retreat into the roadside
bushes, but she did nothing of the
kind She clawed off Miss Ruths
hat and scratched her face-she
clawed and scratched the face of Mr.
Chalmers when he went to the rescue
Then she inflicted two or three bites
and went her way.
The humanitarians were sadly in
need of repairs, and they made for
the Widow Bakers
The widow stood on her porch with
8 glad smile on her face. So did her
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Returned to the Land of the Living.
Of her. If she runs mad she may bite
you"
But how am going to get rid Of
her?"
'She ought to be carried off and
drowned"
That was all about the cat for a
week, as far as the two outsiders
were concerned. They both had their
walks. and returned to their homes.
Very few people would permit a
Widows old cat to disturb their peace
of mind, but In this case the occasion
was furnished by Providence for a
special purpose, and in about three
days Miss Ruth found herself saying
10 herself:
II feel bad for that poor old wom-
an. That cat has got to 60, and it
will be very lonesome around that
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Electrical Contractor


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junction only.
Train No. 33 arrives from Milwau-
kee and departs for Madison at 1898
a. m. except Sunday.
Train No. 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. 80 arrives from the east
at 1850 p. M. daily.
Train No. 40 arrives from Madison
at sos a. M, except Sunday.
Sunday excursion train arrives from
Milwaukee at 1J:C2 a. m. and goes
through to Madison, returning at 500
p. m.
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First class job work at News offica
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-26
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN.
South,

Chicago passenger -------- 5:28 a. m.
Chicago enger---------11:07 a. nc.
Chicago passenger----- 1880 p. n,
GAINESVILLE passenger----- 7:15 p. m.
5:2S a. m. train makes close con-
nections for the west at Jefferson
Junction.
Both 11:07 a. m. and 7:16 p. m.
trains make close connections at JET
ferson Junction for Madison and all
points west.
North.
Green Bay nger-------7:55 a. m.
Green Bay, Sundays Only----8:10 q. m.
Green Bay senger-------2:42p p. m.
Northern Michigan 80 p. m.
Rockford passenger arrives at Wa
tertown at $40 a. m. and goes no
farther.
The 1855 a. m. train makes cOnnec-
ton at Clyman Junction for trains
east.
The 1:30 train south makes cOnneC-
lions at Jefferson junction for points
east
A train goes west from Clyman
junction at 4:45 p. m.
*Daily.
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CHICAGO MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL
East
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-02-17

touching of button. the driver can
hear any instruction wen In the or
dinary tone The Old days OF the
clumsy speaking tube are gone, the
Hudson people say
The bodies for the Hudson com
rany are made by Hiddle 4 smart.
of Ameshury Mass. who a quarter
OF century ago were the leading
coach builders Of America Their
output for ~ motor car compHny
now consists ~ all aluminium bodies,
with a polish higher and more dur.
Hhlc than IN" polish of piano The
Hudson touring limousine Tor four
passengers is priced at S3229
The Cadillac company also shows
fine models In closed cars
The west is waking up to the
fart that tho greatest comfort In
touring IN to be found In closed cars"
"a salesman said last night The
east has realized this several Years
u got It's knowledge from England.
who're II wns handed down from the
old stage coach traditions never
lot man buy an open. car II | feel
that he can afford tu pay the little
more Than closed one costs. be-
cause know i'm the long run he
VIII got moro satisfaction out nf the
closed model our motorists are
learning the value ~ huviug their
cars weather. proof"
MANY dealers talked last night of
the usolessnes. Of passenger trains
provided the motorist lives In u
state whore there are real roads to
drlvq on Most ~ tho HIGHER priced
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-02-17
THIS WOMAN WANTED
A MAXWELL MOTOR
So She Saved Her Change for
a Whole Year and
Bought One.

Perseverance Tor one whole year
by woman was recently rc..,rdcd
uN her attaining her greatest desire
Mrs. j " Brooks Of Tboningop
town, Ala. is the principal In tho
case tier on" craving ambition was
10 own motor ear That she was
WlillnE tu sacrifice many nleasures
lo Obtain tho rpnl wanted is proved
BY her msthod -of saving money.
Nhle possessing comfortable
livelihood Mrs Crooks did MOI M
'ess sufficient cash To Justify her la
planklng 10 down for "a car Sn she
decided iu save her money 10 make
thc purchase. \ unique feature nf
her saving plan was that she decided
to hoard am The pennies. nickels.
quarters and hlit dollars handed To
her In change
For some reason unexplained. Mrs
Brooks did not include dimes In her
collection she PROBABLY figured out
that dimosAre most often. received
Ia change
For the past year Mrs Rrook,
'avcd the dedgnatoA PIECES OF
change. She dropped them In small
rornmeu sacks At the end OF a
year she had five OF these sacks
crammed with small coins She
saved herself lot OF trouble hy
Keeping track Of the. money she
dropped iu the ,HCkR So wh-h the
appointed sum was reached she
knew ~ II took four mon an one
day 90 count the money
When the years yaNinR' totaled
t5li she took % down town TO the
Long Lewis Hardware company. The
hard ware dealers urp "A lgo tho local