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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-01
A Proclamation

Our state has been blessed with a
large crop of grain. 1t is particu-
larly fortunate now that this is true,
because OF the great need for bread
to support our army and our allies.
It is of first Importance to our gov
eminent, and to the cause of the
war, that this valuable crop be
promptly and economically harvest
ed.
In common with the other agri-
cultural states of the northwest,
there is a great shortage of labor
on our farms, due primarily to the
fact that large number OF our
Young men Of military age have
gone into the army or navy, and to
the further fact that increased num-
bers are employed in the manufac'
lure of essentials for the govern
ment.
| am advised by the Provost Mar
shall General that military necessl-
ties compel him to demand that
every man who has been called be
promptly forwarded to the military
camps for training, and that he can
not now grant furloughs or defer in
duction into the service because OF
cifipc
The situation must be met IN
some way, and | feel confident that
the people of the state who are not
eng aged in farming will be willing
to give their aid, so far as it is pos
sible, in harvesting the crop.
To meet this great emergency, |
call upon the people of the cities,
villages, and towns to give as much
aid to our farmers as possible,
thereby dividing their time between
their business and the farm
wherever such service is necessary,
or to organize the labor that can
possibly be spared temporarily and
offer the same to the State Council
of Defense for distribution wherever
it is most needed.
| am sure that much can be &C
complished in this way, and | urge
upon the people of the state to take
this matter up in earnest, and in the
sense that it is in compliance with
our patriotic duty to save our grain
from ruin, in order that it may be
used to feed the people who are de-
pendent upon US.
In testimony whereof, have here
unto set my hand and caused the
Great Seal of the State of Wiscon-
sin to be affixed. Done at the Capt.
toll IN the city of Madison this 22nd
day of July, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand nine hundred and
eighteen.
Emanuel L. Philip,
Governor.
BY the Governor:
Merlin Hull,
Secretary of State.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-01
Card Of Thanks

We wish to thank the friends and
neighbors for their kindness during
the sickness and death of our dear
husband and father, and for the
many floral offerings.
Mrs. S. Hannah
Mrs. Will Davidson
S. E. Hannah
Frank Hannah
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-01
BORN

Born July 22nd to DR.. and Mrs.
Charles Reed of West Mineral, Kan
sas, daughter. Mrs. Reed was
formerly Miss Cassie WEIGH who
taught 4th and 9Th grades at the
Normal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-01
18, 1917 to July l, 1918.
Financial Report

IL, 1917 to July l, 1918.
Financial Report
PIG members at $1.00 each $216,
Proceeds and donations from social
gatherings, school districts, mem
bers etc $353.88. Amount due the
chapter 517.40, Miscellaneous ex-
pences 50 48, Total S569.88.
Knitting
20 pair of stockings.
IA pair wristlets.
9 .Mufflers.
9 Sweaters.
Sewing
Is doz. hospital bed shirts.
Il doz. refuge garments
Chris Madsen, Treas.
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Home Culture Club
August Z.

August Z.
History Lesson-Brazil O. f today.
Social and financial conditions
Our Commercial relations w t h
Brazil. and our opportunities and
OBSTACLES to trade.
Leader-Mrs. Mabel Flower
Hostess-Mrs. Effie Haddow.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-01

Office stationery or all kinds
printed on the best of stock, at
the most reasonable prices At the
Journal office.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-01

Mr.. and Mrs. John Sherburne
spent Monday afternoon with
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Sherburne in
Saltwater.
The Washington times., 1918-12-22

ing one. Everybody knew that he was a
fine man save for a few faults-and who
is without faults?
The patient listened to her as audi
snces listen to the speeches he delivers
from the stage. What eloquence so great
as that which makes us believe anew in
ourselves?
The conversation ended as you may sup
pose. Georgia Gardner accepted the mat
rimonial remnant. though she protested
against the self-given name.
She had a story to tell, too, but a story
Of one chapter, and brief.
She was born in Springfield, ILL.,, not
quite twenty-three years before. She had
gone to school, like other girls" People
had said she was pretty and she had gone
10 Chicago and entered the chorus. A
manager who thought she was more than
pretty, twas positively handsome, silly
thing" had raised her to show girl. She
mad been ambitious to leave musical COM
edy. A chance had come to understudy
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Washington times., 1918-12-22
.

Goodwin. Why?" friends asked her.
To which the flve-wiVed ones new
fiancee replied: why not? He's q fine
man. Edna Goodrich and the others who
divorced him said the same. And he has
a sense Of humor. That's 80 per cent Of
getting along without much laundering IN
life. Besides, he marries his women. He
doesn't lirt and forget. It's the marriage
license and the church and q benefit oe
clergy honeymoon for him."
Mr.. Goodwin had planned q long tour
in why Marry?" The pretty understudy
will accompany him. The wedding, they
said. would have to be a quiet one. Why
strike the tomtom to emphasize q new
matrimonial experiment?
The Washington times., 1918-12-22

Maxine Elliott had mounted on his Shout
ders to heights Of stardom and left him
when he had done all he could for her
She had even declared. that he had not
taught her to act! Migrate!
Edna Goodrich? Yes, she had taken
most from him because she had brought
the least. An unrecognized actress, he
had lifted her to the honored place of his
leading woman. And when she divorced
him she was mercenary, even greedy, she
and her mother. Oh, that mother! Miss
Margaret Moreland? 1t had looked as
though that marriage might be happy
one. But five years had proven otherwise.
Yes, II was true that she was all woman.
Yet she had possessed the faults of the
others, save the angel
And now he was an old man, his fortune
gone with his youth. He was half blind.
His friends had fallen away. He was
remnant"
She would not permit him to so call him
self. He was a great man, a most fascinat-
Copyright, 1918, by Star Company.
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you are G. G. Bless your heart. I'm glad
you came; was feeling bit blue"
THAT will never do, governor"
She mentioned another star who has
seduously kept the secret of a missing eye
that had been replaced by the opticians
art. She argued that sixty is not ancient.
General Foch was sixty-thfee when the
war began. Think what he has done
SINCE" she reminded.
1t is pleasant for a man to hear such
thoughts, especially IL spoken by a con-
fident, kindly, even an affectionate voice.
The star had no sense of STOPPING from
the high heaven of his eminence to the
little understudy. Never save when he
The Washington times., 1918-12-22

married Eliza Weathersby, his elder in
art as in years, had be welded distinction.
Marriage with him had brought it. He
had never been niggardly of his lustre
So spontaneous was it-inexhaustibly, in
deed-he was willing 20 share 1t, provided
the sharer were young and very beautiful
He fell to thinking when she had gone,
and when she called again the next day
he talked with &C. G." about the women he
had loved and married. He repeated the
Characterization In NAT Goodwin's Book:
My first wife was an angel; my second a
silly woman; my third a Roman Senator,
my fourth pretty little thing: my fifth,
all woman. My whole desire was by rep
etition TO let hope triumph over expert
ence." He told her, too, what he had said
In moments OF bitterness to a few of his
nearest friends: "The trouble with my life
is that / have loved beautiful women and
they have all trimmed me-"
Tfmidly she asked for facts about the
sainful Mesdames Goodwins. Yes, II was
rue, he told her. Save in the case of the
arst Mrs. Goodwin, who was an angel and
more than wife, they had all mulcted him
OF gold or Of glory. They had been IN
grateful, he asserted. SILLY Nellie Baker
Pease" had forsaken her husband for him,
unsought, and had been insanely Jealous
OF their son, N. c. Goodwin ILL.,, who died.
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man with the bandaged eyes.
That, too, had been brief Joseph Vein
handler had seen her on the stage in The
Rose Maid" He had fallen in love with
her. They had married by way Of Ho-
boken. But soon the family influence
against her was apparent. He had kissed
her one morning, saying he was going to
the office of his millionaire and obdurate
parent. He never returned, She had re-
ceived one letter from him. 1t bore Ger
man postmark. II was a sad little letter.
She could repeat it because she knew 1t by
heart.
"My Dearest Georgia: My blood runs
cold when think of my wife in New York
alone, do nothing now but dream. l
just simply dream, day and night, of our
sweet past. The cigarettes in the little
silver box on the tablesand our little games
Of pinochle.
Its heartbreaking, tell you. How
we used to embrace and kiss each other
The thought drives me crazy. The future
is black to me. l go to sleep every night
with the same prayer-that / may never
wake up again. Your own, JOE"
&c. G." had been sorry for him, but what
woman could respect a man who permitted
himself to be taken by his family from his
wife? There had been a divorce. That
was all.
"And so you're going to marry Nat
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voice.
ITS very good of you to come to see
me, child" Pain and depression had
wrought a change in the man Of many
wives. His tone was fatherly.
But a Romeo cannot long remain a
Lear. In the slow days of his recovery
the oftmarried actor felt an accession Of
that which he had thought dead in him. 1t
could not be mistaken. Too often had he
been acquainted with it Twas the rising
tide of romance. 1t was a restless tide.
With each Of his divorces it had gone out,
but with the meeting Of new beauty It
had come in again with such force that it
had carried him straight into the port of
matrimony.
Sitting in the big chair in the darkened
room, he beat the arms of the chair with
nervous fingers and stared into the black
ness caused by the bandaged eyes.
SIT would be ridiculous for me to go
through with it again." he said to himself
Again and again he said it. 81 can't dodge
facts. I'm sixty-One. Born July %, 1857.
It's in the birth register at Boston and
spread in all the Who's Who's in America
Besides, feel it. I'm not as active as l
used to be. Hardening a little. No, by
George, there's nobody about. Pm going
to be honest. Hardening good deal
around the joints. l don't trip up and
QOHu the Of tue 1duuDS dS uS6Q
to do. Suppose should walk more. No.
think I'll ride. It's easier. But won't a
man with one eye ride to fall?
'Still, she does seem interested in me-
What a pretty little thing she is! And
that laugh is like the clink Of ice in a
pitcher the day after. But she's only
twenty-three. Let me see. Twenty-three
from sixty-one leaves thirty-eight. Lord!
I'm old enough to be her father. / could
have been her grandfather. Yes, by jove,
l could.
''What would they say to me at the
Lambs? Or wouldn't they say anything?
Some Of them didn't the last time. That's
worse than guying And the newspaper
fellows! Wonder IL / can stand another
rash Of paragraphs?
Anyway, II l do ! won't say anything.
De Wolf Hopper never did. This would
put me ahead Of him by two. Well, it's
kept Hop young. Why shouldn't it do the
same for me? And there's King David.
They gave him child wife to bring back
his youth. And DR.. John Wyeth. He is a
doctor, too; founder Of the Polytechnic Hos
pital. He married a girl of twenty-three
And he's seventy-three. What other men
have done
Il don't deny that life loses its SAVIOR for
me when I'm alone. Women brighten the
furnished surfaces Of life. Still, / wonder
IL 1t isn't up to old Nat to make a digni-
fed exit from the stage Of life? All! there
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z TAT GOODWIN, freed by his fifth
M divorce from the thraldom Of mat
rfmony, had said: Enough. More
than enough Never again!" But within
a week of his decision he encountered at
the stage door a girl with laughing eyes.
The door had swung back and he had en-
tered the dusky corridor head on" He
collided with a soft, slender figure, from
whose enwrappingG furs rose faint cloud
Of scent.
81 beg your pardon" He pulled his
hat of the dome on which remained q
sparse showing Of what an adnirer long
ago called his honey colored hair" Very
awkward of me, I'm sure"
A laugh like the sound Of leaping
brook in June made answer: mo damage
done, Mr. Goodwin" A slight slam Of the
door followed her exit into the sunlight.
The comedian CROPPED his way through the
dusk
who's the little hummer?" he de-
manded.
"The girl who Just went out? oh, she's
only the understudy."
ct didn't ask what she is but who she
Is" The actors tone was irritable.
Surely she has a name, my mani"
Eyes, sir. Her friends that come around
here after the show-she has lots Of EN-
call her C. G. I've seen her take the
letters addressed to Miss Georgia Gard
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The acquaintance thus
unconventionally begun adj
vanced with the good-hu-
mored rapidity Of stage
friendships. It met q serious
interruption when arrived
the news, "Mr. Goodwin has
had a serious accident. He
mistook chloroform for an
eyewash. His eyeball has
been burned. He viii prob
ably become blind"
The members Of the COM
pany we're sorry, but they
believed that the afflicted
man should remain undis-
turbed. The humble little
understudy was not Of their
mind.
Nobody is too great to
be human" she persisted.
I'm going to see him."
To the dark room where
the distinguished patient
sat In gloom of spirit went
the little cheer-carrier. She
poised in the doorway. dart
ed bird-like toward the dis
consulate figure with the
bandaged eyes. She clasped
its limp, nerveless hand in
her warm one.
"Oh, Mr.. Goodwin, / am
50 very sorry." There could
be no mistake as to the dis
tress in the vibrant young
voice.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-02-21
EARLY MATCHING IS DESIRED
It will Increase Number and Size Of
Fowls and to Farmer It Means
Much Larger Profits.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.)
To the country at large early hatch
ing by every chicken raiser means
much. Early Matching will increase
the number and size Of fowls and the
number of eggs produced next year.
1t will mean bigger birds and birds
that will lay in the winter months.
To the individual farmer it means
more profit. He will get more chickens,
as a larger proportion will live; he
will get more actual meat, not only be-
cause more will live but because his
chickens will be larger; and he will
get more eggs, when eggs are scarce,
for early Matched pullets will lay In
the winter.
The recognized importance of food
in the greatest war makes it seem that
the hen must take her place among
those who are helping to win it for the
forces Of democracy. This place will
be an important one in proportion to
the response this year to the call for
increase chicken and egg production.
The hen, of course, always has shown
a willingness to do her duty, and
doubtless she Is willing now. All that
is to be done Is for her masters, the
farmers Of the nation and the city
dwellers who are helping on a back.
yard scale. to make sure that the hens
opportunity will not be neglected.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-02-21

Our boys are defending this country
on the high seas and on the land. Our
own defense against a common enemy
Is to keep the system clean by Kidding
the body of the toxins. or poisons, which
are bred in the intestines. When you
feel tired, sleepy. headachy, when your
breath is offensive. or pimples appear
on the face and neck, It Is time to recog-
nize the danger and protect your bodily
health by taking something for the liver
such as DR.. Pterce's Pleasant Pellets.
The machinery of the body needs to
be oiled, kept in good condition, just a.
the guns or machinery of a ship. Why
should a human person neglect his own
machinery more than that Of his auto
mobile or his guns? Yet most people
do neglect themselves. Their tongue
has a dark brown color. skin sallow.
breath bad, yet they fail to see that
their machinery needs attention.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets have
been known for nearly half a century.
They r made Of May-apple, leaves Of
aloe and jalap, made into a tiny pellet
and coated with sugar. They are stand
ard and eficacious. You can obtain
them at any drug store in Walls for
twenty-five cents. Ask for DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets-and get no otherl
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-02-21
MADE USE OF STEAM W
Centuries Ago, Men Were Familiar
With Its Possibilities, but Did
Not Develop Them.

A real curiosity in the United States
patent office is a working model of the
first steam engine, built by a clever
inventor named Hero a century and q
half before Christ was born.
A modern engineer would cal! 1t q
steam reaction turbine. 1t consists Of
a sperical vessel pivoted on an axis
and supplied with steam through one
Of the pivots. The steam escapes
through bent pipes in opposite direc-
lions, thus causing the globe to re-
volve.
Hero was the first steam engineer.
Having hit upon the idea that the ex
pansive energy of steam could be used
for power, he developed n number Of
devices for its mechanical employ
ment.
One of them was a hollow altar, be-
meath which a fire was built. Under
the altar was q vessel containing wa
ter. The latter, converted into steam,
opened the temple doors by pressure
upon a pair of vertical posts on which
the doors swung. When the fire cooled,
the doors closed automatically.
The ancients 1000 years and moro
ago used steam power for turning splits
and various other unimportant pur-
poses. But 1t does not seem to have
occurred to them that this source Of
energy might be made available for
mechanical utilization on a large scale.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-02-21
MAINTAIN ROADS
ALREADY BUILT
Military and Economic Needs
Must Govern 1918 Con-
struction.
BUILDING PUT ON WAR BASIS
How the Federal Aid Road Is Admin.
istered-lmp7oved State Laws One
Resuit-AnnuaI Expenditure
of $3o0,0o0,0oo Involved.

That Is the policy which David f.
Houston, secretary of agriculture, be-
lieves should be followed in highway
construction during the war. 1t means
that road building in the United States
will be put on a war basis; that the
highway which is vitality important
from a military standpoint and for the
movement of commodities will receive
priority of consideration in projecting
programs of construction.
In carrying out the policy thus an
nounced there has been sent out by the
office of public roads of the depart
ment of agriculture, schedule forms on
which the states are requested to set
forth their proposed federal aid work
for the 1918 working season. These
schedules call for a description of
each road, the character, quantity and
rail haul of the materials to be used,
the probable cost, the amount of fed
eral funds desired, the specific purpose
of the improvement, its bearing upon
the war situation, and what effect a
delay of the work until 1919 or later
would have. With the information
thus assembled and classified, an eff
Gent road-construction program is as
sured. While it is impossible to make
any definite statement regarding the
transportation of road materials, the
expectations are that the transporta-
ton situation will be improved and
that the shipment of such materials
for essential projects can he made.
Expenditure Of $500, 000,0 600.
Road construction and maintenance
in the United States involve an annual
expenditure of some $500, OOO, 1000, and
there is scarcely a section of the coun-
try that is not seriously affected by a
marked disturbance in road work.
In the administration Of the federal
aid road act Of July II, 1916, which
provides for cooperation between the
federal government and the states in
the construction Of rural post roads
and of roads and trails within and
partly within the national forests,
very satisfactory progress has been
made by the department of agricul-
ture, according to a recent report of
Secretary Houston. The office of pub
lie roads and rural engineering, which
is intrusted with the burden of admin
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-02-21

istering the act, has extended it's or.
g%anizatfon to provide the requisite ma
chinery. Ten district officers with an
engineer in charge have been estab.
llshed in as many areas.
Forty State Projects.
Under the provisions Of the act 40
states have submitted 1873 projects in
volving a total of approximately 1,73O
miles, according to the secretary's re-
port. OF this number 139, embrace
ing 1882 miles and calling for an es-
timated expenditure including federal,
state and local funds of $7,947,114.5O,
have been approved. These projects
involve federal funds to the extent of
SO, 55,573.76 {, or ,23.75 per cent of the
total allotment, $14,55O,OOO to the
various states for the fiscal year 1917
and 1918. Six projects covering 40
miles have been disapproved. Agree.
ments have been entered into or are
in the'course of preparation in the case
Of "a projects, ~aggregating 1874 miles
and involving $190,600.S4 of federal
funds and a total of $2,225,944.74.
The full effect of the federal aid
road act cannot be measured by any
comparison Of funds expended in 1916
and made available for 1917, as many
of the legislatures did not meet until
early in the calendar year 1917. 1t is
significant, however, says the secre-
tary, that while the expenditure Of
state funds in 1915 aggregated $4O,-
$4,000 it is estimated that the expendi-
ture of state funds in 1917 will reach
approximately $60,0O0,O00, or an in
crease Of nearly so per cent. These
funds are distinct from local expendi-
lures and indicate an advance in state
/ participation in highway work.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-02-21
EAT LITERALLY
OF POTATO CROP
War Duty to Save Large Yield of
Tubers by Eating Them.
HOW ALL PEOPLE CAN HELP
Heavy Loss Of This PerishabIe Food
I May Result If Americans Do Not
Use It More LiberaIIy-Less
V Bread Is Needed,

You may know it already, but It will
Dear repetition now when it is i'm
portant that everybody eat literally of
the big potato crop; that potatoes are
an excellent food for your body; that
they are good fuel; that one medium
sized potato gives you as much starch
as w slices of bread; that, like other
vegetables, they give you salts which
you need to build and renew all the
parts of your body and keep it in order.
" Potatoes furnish starch which burns
In your muscles to let you work, much
as the gasoline burns in an automobile
engine to make the car 90. When you
have potatoes for a meal you need less
bread. Potatoes can save wheat.
An old king is said to have tested
each cook before hiring him by asking
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-02-21
TRANSPORT OF FARM PRODUCTS

Farm products will not be denied
transportation facilities, according to
a statement Of the director general of
railroads, issued after a conference
with representatives of the United
States department of agriculture. No
list of "non.essential" agricultural
products has been issued, nor is such
an order contemplated. The director
general believes that under the plan
now being formulated it will be posi-.
BILE to provide adequate %transporta.
ton for farm products this year. Farm.
ers should place orders for cars when
needed with local freight agents a.
has always been the practice.