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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25
LAWLESSNESS AND VICE
SURROUND LITTLE GIRLS

helpless as the two women
thought. With them clinging to
him like dogs to a bear he pushed
his way out Of the sinful place
and reached the street.
"What's the number of this
building9',, inquired the chap,
thinking to make complaint to the
authorities.
Rosenberg then threatened to
have the sucker arrested if he did
not move on or if he tried to make
trouble.
The police seem unable to get
rid of such undesirables as the
Burnsides family, Max Rosenberg
and others. That is the big reason
why certain citizens of Superior
are credited with the organization
Of Law and Order League, a sort
of Vigilance Committee, which
Will employ militant measures to
stop lawlessness, crime and dis.
regard Of common decency.
The boys tell a good joke that
"Chet" Bell played on a sucker
from Duluth. The highlander got
into one of "Chet's" taxicabs
Bell stopped it near his place and
took his passenger inside for en-
tertainment. While the booty Du-
luthian was being amused, a po-
liceman extracted "a pints of
strong stuff from the taxicab and
slowed it in the rear of the Bell
bevo parlor. "Chet'' then es-
corted the Duluth man to the
taxicab and drove him to the billy
side Of the bay, minus the stuff
with which he expected to wet his
whistle in Minnesota's biggest dry
city.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25

SUPERIOR, Jan. 24.-(Special
to the Rip-Saw.) -While Claude
Torrance is over in France help
ing Uncle Sam make the world
safe for democracy, Policeman
Ole Peterson is accused of max
ing the Torrance home unsafe for
decency.
Claude Torrance was a decent
taxicab driver in Superior. He
needed his country's call to fight
He donned his uniform willingly
and went across the seas to lousy
trenches and bloody fields. Uncle
Sans 10y al son left behind a
wife, Genevieve Torrance, but
whose police court name is Gene.
We've Millette.
Ole Peterson had no taste for
lousy trenches and bloody battle
fields. He was very partial to
his job as a Superior policeman.
He also seems to have developed
a decided taste for another man. S
wife, although he has a wife and
son Of his own, both of whom are
IN the hospital as a result of
surgical operations.
Policeman Peterson is charged
with throwing his hat behind the
door of the Torrance home and
with occupying the bed and
board that should be sacred TO
soldier Torrance. It even is
charged that policeman Peterson
carries a key to the Torrance
flat. Neighbors who know say
that he not only haunts the Tor
rance premises when off duty, but
he has spent as high as two and
three hours in there when ac-
tually on duty. The Torrance
. telephone enables him to make
his hourly reports and a negli-
gent roundsman fails to check up
the Peterson steps. Perhaps the
roundsman has fish of his own to
fry or chickens of his own to
chase.
1t is said in behalf of Mrs. Tor
rance that she probably would be
true to her husband and decent
with herself if Peterson did not
ply her with whisky. In further
extenuation, it also is alleged
that Josephine Levinsky, alias
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25
CARRIED A SMELL
TO MESAbA RANCE
Peter McCartin Was Arrested
Because Demijohn Broke
in Steamer Trunk,

Peter G. McCartin, a returned
soldier, believes that the federal
pussyfooters on the Mesaba range
can find a more fruitful field for
seeking illicit booze in pool halls,
stores, shops and homes Of CHS
holm and Hibbing than in his
steamer trunk.
McCartin enlisted instead of
waiting for the draft: He served
in France in the signal corps, with
Wisconsin troops, in the Thirty
second division. Being injured in
the trenches, the Badger hero was
in the hospital five months. His
entire service was nine months.
Getting able to work, McCartin
secured a job with the Great
Northern Power Go. at Hibbing.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25
BEAVER COLONY
IN B|b0N SWAMP
Five Hundred Little Animals
Make That Place Their
Very Busy Home.

The largest beaver colony in
northern Wisconsin, according to
Game Warden Allen, W. Powell,
is that in the Bibon swamp be-
tween Mason and Drummond. The
Bibon swamp, across which the
main road between the Twin Cities
and Ashland is built, is about IL
miles long, inaccessible except in
winter. In this swamp, there are
hundreds Of beaver at least 500
and perhaps many more. 1t has
long been a favorite spot for
poachers, and the game wardens
arrested one poacher last winter
who had accumulated A beaver
pelts there.
Occasionally the beaver makes
new dams and floods the roads, in
fact the one across the swamp has
always been an uncertain quantity
and the wardens are then called
upon to save the road by catching
the beaver.
Fresh cuttings and beaver dams
and slides can be found all thru
the swamp in winter after the
ground is sufficiently frozen to
make it safe to penetrate the
swamp. Other colonies exist in
many places in the Lake Superior
country, in fact the few remaining
beaver in the United States are
those among the swamps Of the
upper Michigan peninsula and
upper Wisconsin.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25

His physical condition, he alleges,
required a stimulant, therefore he
put a demijohn of booze in his
steamer trunk when he left Chip
pewa Falls. Somewhere between
that point and Superior, the demi-
john was broken and what booze
that did not run out was absorbed
by the raiment within.
When that steamer trunk ar
rived at Hibbing, the booty odor
emanating therefrom caught the
sensitive noses of Indian agents
Hess and Chase. They arrested
McCartin for introducing whiskey
into Indian territory.
Being taken before U. S. COM
missioner Poirier at Virginia, Nc
Cartin, was held to the Federal
grand jury. He was lodged in
Jail in Duluth and laid there from
January 5 to II, when he was re-
leased without trial or ceremony.
When thrown into the bastile, the
Indian territory agents are alleged
to have said:
cit will do you good to spend
some time in JAIL
When McCartin set about to get
back to the range he found that
some one in sheriff Magie's en-
tourage had permitted a young
convict to don and wear away to
st. Cloud an overcoat worth $40, a
cap worth $40 and gloves worth
$3.50. He was promised that the
articles would be recovered and
returned but hope was not run
ming high in the McCartin breast
last Saturday.
II am not blind-pigger,' said
McCartin to the Rip-saw. "What
liquor l put in my trunk was for
my personal medicinal use, owing
to my condition after five months
in the hospital. The container was
broken and the liquor was gone.
l must have been arrested for in
Producing smell or odor into In
dian territory. The law, as I un-
derstand it, says intoxicating
liquor, not smell or odor. I was
locked up for IL days and turned
loose without a trial. I feel that
I have been misused.
eff those federal agents really
seek willful law violation, why do
they not pull pool halls, shops,
stores and homes in Chisholm and
Hibbing, where booze flows as free
ly as lemonade at a Sunday school
picnic?"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25
FARMERS STORE
PAYS AT KELSEY
Postmaster Anderson Destroys
Brain Food and Changers
Take Up Cooperation.

Once upon a time, the Rip-saw
office sent bundle Of sample cop
les of the great family journal to
Kelsey, trusting that the scholarly
postmaster Charles Jerry Ander-
son, would put the samples on his
counter so that any who were SUI
fering with mental starvation
could get a package Of the incom-
parable brain food.
Charles Jerry, however, was
welded to his idols, just like
Ephraim, Of holy writ. Charles
Jerry was blind follower Of Kong
Odin, therefore he looked on the
Rip-saw as chad medicine" as the
Indians say. He is credited with
throwing that bundle Of sample
copies into the waste basket.
The boys in and around Kelsey
who vote, appreciate the truth
about public matters and buy
things to eat and wear, felt the
need. Of a Rip-saw at that time,
therefore were much peeved be-
cause Charles Jerry tried to starve
their brains. After talking things
over, the Cotton & Kelsey Farm
ers' Stock Company was organized
and a stock Of goods put in. This
cooperative store gave Charley
Jerry opposition, much to the dam
age Of his feelings and his bank
account. Duluth Food Hogs and
Fat Boys tried to help Charles
Jerry by refusing to sell the CO.
operative store stuff at wholesale,
but the farmers went to Mime
apolis, where their trade was ap-
preciated. Today, the Cotton &
Kelsey Farmers Stock Co. has 46
shareholders and it's mercantile
enterprise is prospecting. Some
day, it is believed, the postoffice
will leave Charley Jerry's place
and go over to the store where the
farmers do their business.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25
rowly escaped a run of the dread

rowly escaped a run of the dread
disease.
A doctors comfort and conven-
fence, as well as professional eth
les, had their selfish preference
over the life of a dear little girl
whose hands and mind might, some
day, have served thousands to
their great benefit.
A fond father finds his burden
Of grief almost greater than he
can bear. A loving mother hard
ly can endure the long, sad days,
as she. subconsciously listens for
the childish steps that never again
will come. Bright little brothers
never will have the tender care
and helping hand of an elder Sis
ter. Playmates ever must miss Il
sweet little neighbor who ne 7sr
quarreled with them. A little seat
in the Matt Carpenter school is "a
cant. Those little mittens, so care
fully rolled up and put away in
so orderly a manner never again
will protect those childish hands.
The toys, keepsakes and that
empty little bed face a stricken
family day after day, month after
month.
It all seems so unnecessary.
It was not a question Of medical
fees that kept the doctors away
from the Gonser home. There was
money in the house. Any fee
would have been paid for the ask
ing to save the precious little life.
Professional neglect and profess
sional ethics caused the untimely,
unnecessary death Of Viola Con-
ser, if facts have been correctly
stated, and there is ample reason
to believe that they have.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25
TAKERS INCENSE
SH|PbU|LDERS
Employees Of Local Shipyar&
DiSCIaim Connection With
Moose Temple Dance.

Some bold Superior schemers at
tempted to make a financial kill
ing in the name of the shipbuilding
employees Of Duluth. They sold
tickets to a dance for Monday
evening, January 13, at Moose
Temple, at the corner of Lake
avenue and w. First st.
Later, the affair was boldly ad-
vertised in the daily papers as
being given by the employees of
the McDougall-Duluth shipyard.
The cheeky schemers were not en-
ployed in any of the local ship
yards and were not even union
men. so the Rip-saw is officially
informed.
The Napoleons of high finance
were Emo Archambault, Harry
Markell and Ole Enger, of Su-
perior, and Leonard Scheiderlein,
Of Duluth, so local shipbuilders
allege.
The union shipbuilding en-
ployes of the city are highly in
dignant over the stunt. They re-
pudiated the advertisements and
discQaimed all connection with
the dance.
Local union No. CIT of the
Boiler Makers, Iron Shipbuilders
and Helpers of America was or
ganized December 1. Already,
over 1000 members have joined
the organization and there are
heavy accessions at each meeting.
This union now plans to give
dance some time in February. It
will be authorized and backed by
the union and will be a ball worth
going many miles to attend.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25
Continued from Page ~

so cents on each bottle that she
sold.
Burnside, by. the way, once
served a year in Waupun for en-
bezzlement, a distinction that in
creases his influence and popu-
Qarity in Banks avenue social
circles.
Madam Jim Burnside declares
that her immunity from arrest for
fitting the lid and polluting the
public morals is due to the fact
that she belongs to the Rebekahs.
The throne of Max Rosenberg,
so-ealled king of Superior's un-
derworld, seems to be tottering.
His queen, Virginia Reed, is
credited with seeking asylum in
Duluth, so unwelcome has her
presence in Superior become. Max
nearly crossed the dark river last
summer when he was shot by his
partner, Willie Stevens. Only a
few weeks ago, he was fined
heavily for fitting the lid. Abate-
ment proceedings are under way
agains: his cafe quarters. It is
believed that the owner of the
building soon will GUST his i'm
perial majesty.
1t is reported that Col. Burnside
plans to usurp Max's throne as
underworld king and to put his
hustling consort in as queen in
place Of the fair Virginia Reed.
What Max and Virginia have
done in and around the cafe
America is terror to snakes as
well as against the criminal or
dinances and statutes.
A big, powerful chap with
limited desire for high moral en-
deavor, when paying for eats and
drinks in a booth, displayed roll
Of $500 in Max's presence. Call
ing the fair Virginia, Max ex-
claimed:
"There's a man what's got lots
Of money and he wants to spend it.
If he doesn't do it, take it away
from him. l will protect you.''
The queen of the underworld
offered her society to the chap at
the rate Of SIS for every five min
utes. He replied that he could not
afford to pay so much for female
society, even if the fair charmer
were queen. .t..
The couple had gone to rooms
over Bingham''s hardware. When
Max saw that Virginia was not
easily getting the big fellows
money, he sent a second woman to
aid the harpy.-
eco in there and clean him up"
Max told the woman.
The queenly Virginia and her
assistant then started to take the
mans money away from him. He
yelled loudly in alarm.
'sGet him. Get him. excitedly
screamed Max to the women.
The fellow was not so drunk and
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25

To man Up a tree, it looks as
If the Autocrats have deserted
their superintendent of the public
schools.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-25

What shall it profit a nation
if in making the world safe for
democracy" it loses it's own free
dom.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-09-25
MEMS WORK SHOES. /.

/ Lot good wear shoes value $500
at per pair - 1925
l Lot heavy army shoes, worth
$3.50, going at, per pair : : --$6.75
l Lot 16 inch soft leather boots,
worth SIS, going at, per pair $1,000
l Lot solid service scout shoes
worth $500, going at, per pair $3.50
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-09-25
DRESS GOODS

DRESS GOODS
The best AA Bleach 35c. value
at, yard = --25c.
1 Lot short length bleach l to 10
yards to a piece, worth q IL at
the yard - - 19c.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-09-25
HOMESPUN

O1N-
l Lot yard wide Druid LII white
homespun, value 80 cents at the
yard d-------------- --2Oc.
l Lot White Homespun worth zoe.
going as long as it last at the yd 12112c
1000 yards Delco Chambrey, the
best material for work shirts,
worth 33 1-3 at the yard - Csc.
l Lot Riverside Check Homespun
worth 33 1-3c at the yard = 27 1-2c
1 Lot Homespun Checks, worth
27 lie, going at the yard = = zoe.
Calico and Percales, many colors
to select from, going at the yd.-- --10c.
1 Lot yard wide percale, light and
dark shades worth 35c. going
at the yard - 25c.
Best table oil cloth - 35c.
UNDERWEAR
Haynes Union Suits, worth $500
each now each = -$2.48
1 Lot Union Suits, good value \
worth $500, going at = 1925
l Lot Heavy fleeced lined shirts
and drawers, worth SIPS each
going at - 98c.. /.
1 Lot heavy ribbed shirts and
drawers worth $500 suit, going
at - - S2.48
HATS
StetsOn Hats
at --------S6.50, $500 and $500 Each
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01
IEAlouS Lover SAID
TO HAVE killed GIRL
THEN SHOOTS SELF
Shooting Takes Place After
Alteration At Cumberland.

Cumberland. Nd. NOV. H. Miss
Nda Harrison, - years old. who
was employed in the family of
George V. Ruhl Polk street head
ef the Union Wooden Mills was
shot and killed here late Friday aft
e-noon by Oldhcrt Y. Gray son. aged
~ painter, son OF Martin C. Gray.
son. grocer. #93 Oidt9wa raad. Miss
Harrison died while being taken 10
AlIeeanX Hospital.
Grayson turned the revolver on
himself. making two wounds direct
~ under the heart. lie was found
itIing en- the pavemen5 in front q
tha home Of Howard AoCreey. \
Polk street, with blood streaming
rom his wounds He was removed
a AlesanF Hospital. where he IN.
defwent IN operation, but his re-
rHferT is doubtful.
6raysen aid To- patfa'man CLAY
wilson - sAas her because she
tened me down for anofer fellow -
meaning 4 brother OF Mrs. Ne
tFoeTy.
fae siFl WAS attractive abl from
lie vicinity Of Romucy. ". Ea. She
has an aunt here
G5gvsen sought Miss Harrison a.
". Rum home this afternoon aaH
Il f0u"8 she VAS Ont llr ashe5
many cue tious as Ia AcGreels
tEo'6cr. Ms. Rnhl went te tbe dan.
y Harrison returned from
III ~ the Ho@r of Nsf AfeCreer
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01
MARKED DECREASE
IN FIRE|LOssES
Dwellings Comprise Surpris-
ingly Small Percentage. Y

4 marked decrease in the total
Gre LOSSES in the Uaited States and
Canada Is shown by the following
data giving the total losses 20
property by fire during the months
Of June. July August and Septem-
Der, 1919. As is usual. more than
half the total loss has occurred in
eoneested and mercantile districts.
which are largely left during tho
night without sufficient watehman
er fire alarm service.
As viii be noted, dwellings com.
prise surprisingly small percentage.
especially in view of the fact that
We are frequently confronted with
statements that wooden dwellings
and shingle roofs are the greatest
menace 10 life and property.
Warehouses and factories. It.6
per cent. $50 707 600. business see
ion, > per cent, ts.972.00o; oil IT,
anerics. mills and tanks, 1o.3 ptr
cent. S7.275 GOO: tornado. sc pkr
cent. S6.000.000 saw mills. yards
and mill work. ~ per cent. s5,12t
200. grain elevators ana crops, 3
per cent s2,776.oeD: dwellings 81
per cent, S2776000: wharves. coal
sheds. hrIdGes and boats. "a per-
cent. S2,665, 900; hotels. 80 percent
50 165 900; stables and barns, IS
per cent, sl.227. 200. garages. is
per cent. s929,B00. theaters schools
aud churches. Ia per cent. s662.00
timberland and forests, 3 per cent.
$3.50 .o0Q. government property,
per cent. $4,000; total, s7o.91s,000
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01

there had been big Yields Of other
gra.Hg and feed crops.
Although Alberta has an enor-
moe aer-a4e # irrigated lands, q
l,rrat campaign FOR a further in
crease vas launched at the recent
Abe a Industrial Congress, held -
HedieHr fiat Inthbridge, Calgary
ind Edmonton. Tho provincial and
dominion g9vcrnmcnts are uniting
ta afranga practical program.
This movement Is attracting renewed
attention - the irrigated lands now
ready l9r ase ard which are rapidly
e'uv taken Up = farmers. most Of
them from the United States.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01
IN MEMoRfAM.

IN sad but loving remembrance
OF our dear son. Franklin Mckee.
Yer who departed his life one wear
aso today Nav. !. 1919.
You are not forgotten dear son.
. Nor will you ever be.
For as long as life and memory
lasts.
l will remember thee.
mourn for YOU dear Franklin.
But not with outward show.
For the hearts that mourn sincerely
Mousns silently and low.
Friends may think IN soon forget
YOU,
Aud my aching heart be healed
Bur they little know the snrrow.
That within my heat "a con.
cealed
It pd Ry his Mother aud Father.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01
MEETiN cor TEAMS

Al members Of The teainR in cor
nection with tho IS million cam
paign will be held in tho Sunday
school room Mt the First baptist
church at 2 o'clock Sunday after
noon Allen r. Emmert, organizer.
requests that every member be pres
eHi as business Of importance de-
mands attention.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01
CHURCH RsMooslEo
INTO STABLE

Columbia nm Cal. Nov. -
Who're pews once held worshipers
in tho Methodist Church building
here stalls now void horscs. The
ediAse vas bought hy Frank Davis.
stage-linc owner. and remodeled in
to n stable.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01

son. who was afraid ef him.
After shooting Miss Harrison.
Grayson ran into the street and was
seen loading his revolver and turn.
ing IL on himself.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01

NJ Stockton Sponaeiler. of Boil
var. the venerable father OF Mr.. T..
r. Sponseller. West Martin street,
penf the day recently with the lat
ser, accompanied by another son,
General Supervisor Guy Sponseiler
or the Baltimr and Ohio. OF Cum.
bertrand
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01

L. S. IN 3 YEARS 50 P. c
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-01

AVERAGE RENT INCREASE IN
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-05-15
People Adapt Taste to
Foods Nature Provides
in the Most Abundance

Men usually adapt their taste to
those foods which nature provides in
the most abundance and most easily
procured, according to q survey made
of the American continent. In the
northern part of Canada the Eskimos
and Canadian Indians place their chief
dependence for food and clothing upon
the caribou, or American reindeer, but
are changing to the seal, where the
caribou migrate southwark. In the
early days the Indians Of the plains
relied upon the bison. Along the Co
lumbia river, noted for its salmon, fish
was the prevailing food Of the Indi-
ans, while acorns and smaller seeds
formed the principal diet of the In
dams in California. On the plains OF
Argentina in South America the qua
naco took the place Of the caribou of
the north in the economic. life of the
natives. III the Atlantic coast region
from Argentina to Hudson bay the
Indians cultivated maize, manioc and
other crops. History proves that the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-05-15

Science says that old age begins with
weakened kidneys and digestive organs.
This being true, it is easy to believe
that by keeping the kidneys and diges-
tive organs cleansed and in proper work.
ing order old age can be deferred and
lie prolonged far beyond that enjoyed
by the average person. t.
For over 200 years GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil has been relieving the
weaknesses and disability due to advanc-
ing years. It is q standard Old-time
home remedy and needs no introduction:
GOLD MEDAL Harlem Oil is incloscd
in odorless, tasteless capsules contain
ing about 5 drops each. Take them as
you would a pill, with a swallow of
water. The oil stimulates the kidney