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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-06-19
KENTUCKY DRYS
FOR AMENDMENT

Statewide Prohibition Federation
Urges Adoption OF Constitutional
Change as Safeguard Against Posi-.
bic Failure Of National Amendment.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-06-19

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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-06-19
Patriotism Chief Need.

What every country needs most is
patriOtism--the love of its citizens
not alone that patriotism that leads a
man TO willingly die for his country in
time OF war-that, indeed. is we'll
but that higher patriotism, that greater
love that enables a man TO live for
his country In time of peace; TO live
for IL day by day, showing forth In his
daily life the beauty and grandeur of
good citizenship; that enables him to
say 10 the CRATER and the corruption
list, Thus far shalt thou go but no
further" that enables him TO say to
those who would debauch or corrupt
the youth OF the land, "Away with
you. The health and the morals of our
youth like the ancient Ark of the Cove
nhnt of God constitute the hope and
the prosperity of the nation, and like
that sacred Ark, no man may touch
them with unhallowed hands and live"
II is his duty 10 so develop his life
as 10 transmit undimmed and undimin-
ished all the yigor and strength OF
mind and soul and body, given him by
God. TO his posterity in order TO there
by insure under the memorable laws
Of evolution a higher, holier and a
nobler race 10 come after him.
Crime Of Liquor prinker.
Whoever therefore debauches his
body with liquor and thereby trans
mits disease, immortality and inefh-
cheney into the life OF posterity com
mits a crime no prescience OF his can
forsee, no power OF his can stop or
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
WHEN COL. f.. c. GRIDLEY
HUNTED GOLD.

The late Col. E. C. Gridley came
from Pennsylvania, the state of coal,
and iron, therefore his system was
loaded with the terms of speculation,
exploration and a desire to wrest
wealth from old Mother Nature. He
was prominent in iron explorations
on the Mesaba as we'll as one of the
heaviest real estate operators at the
Head of the Lakes.
At one time, thirty, perhaps thirty
five years ago, Col. Gridley pros
pected for natural gas and petroleum
near a station called Howell, on the
Shortline Park branch of The st. Paul
& Duluth. Just where Howell was,
the writer confesses ignorance, but it
must have been between Duluth and
Carlton.
Saturday, October 20, 1892, Col.
Gridley and James T. Hale, the lat
ter now q, member Of the state tax
commission, left Duluth for Howell
with all needed tools Tor washing
dirt and gravel for gold. AS no gold
has been mined between Duluth and
Carlton, it is assumed that the two
prospectors found nothing. But both
of them were men who believed in
making old Mother Nature show at
least her hand, whenever and
wherever met.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
VIII - THE ID. & i. X. CUT PAS
SENGER FARES.

The Duluth & Iron Range railroad
reduced passenger fares from 4 cents
to ~ cents mile on November l,
1892. At that time the companJ was
privileged to charge any fare that it
desired but other railroads in the
state were held down to cents a
mile, by legislative act.
The D. & I. r. was Minnesota's
pioneer ore-carrying railroad. 1t was
built from Two Harbors to Tower and
then from Two Harbors to Duluth.
1t brought down the first ore in COM
merical quantity in 1884, carrying
little less than $4,000 tons that year.
The Duluth & Iron Range was
built to the Vermilion iron range
when not to exceed $4,000 tons Of
iron ore were actually "in sight" at
the Tower and Soudan mines. Out
side Of that very limited tonnage, the
enterprise was started and carried
through On faith and, possibly,
willingness to take chance.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
SATURDAY, JANUARY IL, 1919.

town and city, having trades or be-
ing trained in commercial pursuits,
hence unattracted and even unfit
to subdue the friendless, stubborn
hinterland.
Any returning soldier who
wants a stump farm can and will
get it, when and where he desires.
The boys who lack trades, COM
mercial experience and fitness for
skilled work, more likely will seek
a place at the pie-counter and at
shaking the plum tree, rather than
exile to an inhospitable stump
ranch.
The outlook is that few besides
soldier heroes will hold political
jobs in the United States for the
next fifty years. County attorney
Green saw that when he deserted
his office in this kindly old county
and got a desk and a title as Major,
under Crowder.
Others may have seen the fu-
ture as clearly as Major Green,
but they gave much more of a sine
qua non, or pro quid quo, as Ma
son Forbes might say, than did the
closely calculating son of the Nut
meg state.
Major Green has refrained from
putting himself in a position
where he will ask for an office and
be given a stump ranch. There
are others as wise and canny as he,
undoubtedly.
Stump ranches in Northern
Minnesota for soldiers may. get
some cheap publicity for realtors
and bubble chasers but they are
not likely to appeal to very many
real soldiers from real trenches at
the real front.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
UNION OF THE HOUSES OF
CROSSWELL AND MERRILL.

Away back there in 1892, Thomas
d. Merrill was associated in the lum-
Der business with his father. Thomas
Merrill, of Saginaw, Mich. He was
located in Duluth and making prog
ress.
At the same time, Mrs. Charles NJ.
Crosswell, widow of former Gov.
Crosswell, of Michigan, was Gin the
full bloom of womanhood," as one
aspiring society writer expressed it.
Mrs. Crosswell bore the maiden
name of Musgrove and she was mar
ried to Gov. Crosswell when he was
an elderly man and she was very
young. Her eyes were SO bright,
sharp and so fascinating that no
lorgnette was needed by her in the
inspection of this and that in those
days of long ago.
Thomas D. Merrill and Mrs. Cross
we'll decided to form a matrimonial
alliance. 1t was consummateG at
Adrian, Mich, October Is, 1892, Rev.
Mr.. Williams of Charlotte, Mich, per-
forming the ceremony that united the
houses Of Crosswell and Merrill.
The function was most brilliant in
character. 1t was rose wedding, in
fact. Breitarger, the noted florist of
Detroit, decorated the scene of events
with hundreds of American Beauty
roses. The brides dress was made
in init .tion of the American Beauty
rose, the silken material shading
down from white to the peculiar
shades of the rose. The bridal gar
ment was trimmed in point de Vene-
tan lace.
The bride possessed little daugh-
ter, Sally Hicks Crosswell, only five
years Of age, and she wore a quaint
dress of white satin, brocaded with
little red rose. The child's hair was
done up on the tor of her head, a Ia
Joshua Reynolds . ortraits.
The red. red rose idea was further
carried out in the elaborate wedding
menu.
The newly married couple came to
Duluth and took apartments at the
Spalding hotel. Their first ''At
Homes" were held on December z
and December IA, 1892.
Since then, nue., water has gone
er the dam.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
BLIND PIGS AT GILBERT.

The following bit Of news from
the Gilbert Herald undoubtedly
will be a surprice to the sheriff
and county attorney. viz:
Trouble is due to overtake
somebody soon. It is an indisput-
able fact th;.t there are blind pigs
in this town or in the immediate
vicinity. The condition Of a num-
Der Of our young boys on Christ
mas evening was enough to make
some Of our easy going people sit
up and take notice. When it
comes to the point where intoxi-
cants can be sold with impunity
to children between the ages of ID
and 16 years, it would seem that
drastic measures should be taken
to find out where they got it and
the culprit given the extreme pen
atty of the law.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
STUBBORN STUMP LANDS
FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS

This plan to stick returned SOL
diers on stump lands in northern
Minnesota may be fine for that re-
gion but hardly satisfactory to the
boys.
When Canada offers farms to
returning soldiers, she has plenty
Of accessible, fertile, easily i'm
proved lands to offer. Then, too,
q great many Of the Canadian SOL
diers come from the farm while
most Of those from northern Mimi
,esota and Wisconsin come from
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
HIGH GRADE SAMPLES OF MESABA ORE
EDITOR CHASES A CREASED HOG.
BY CLAUDE Nj. ATKINSON,

the good people of Da know when salvation at they
will seaport Editor Morrison OF the Raw, his effort rid the
city OF IT'S eternaY sucking and saiated ehe
Under the guse of Commission merchants"
Editor Morrison that wicked chief of police of
and the chief had the syste and ali of the tools and
light WITH too Editor Morrison has the will to do the thing
the food hogs that act milestone bou the neck the City
Virtue.
The people of Duh, good and bad alike rail enah
teeth the rank injustice done them by the
city, bot they hesitate to lend helping hand destroy the
Publicity the preliminary remedy and Editor Morrison giving
a fearless and telling
IF Duh really break its shackles hod turn to and
give Editor Morrison the assistance his effort desrve
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
FINDS THAT GOOD CAN COME
OUT OF NAZARETH

editor Morrison of the Duluth
Rip-saw is to be congratulated
upon his fearlessness shown in
publication Of the rot uncovered
in Michigan street." says Walter
B. Brown in the Chisholm Tribune
Herald. "Without any question
this expose on the part Of the Du-
luth editor will lead to results. The
result may be an official investiga-
ton Of the books and business
methods Of the Michigan street
food hogs and robbers or it may
result in those of the editorial fra
ternity marching to slow music
behind the remains Of our lucky
Duluth brother. Again we will
say that Editor Morrison is to be
congratulated for that part of his
publication which is worth a dol
lar copy.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
SHARVY'S SEIZURE OF HILLS
CARS AND ENGINE.

The Eastern Minnesota Railway
was not originally part of the Great
Northern system but it was James
J. Hill property, just the same.
It happened that John J. Moran,
by help of the late o. w. Baldwin,
secured judgment in the sum of
$4,000 for personal injuries. The
case was tried three lines and taken
to the state supreme, court twice.
judgment was confirmed but the Hill
people failed to cash up.
At about 8 p. m, Tuesday, No
vember /, 1892, sheriff Paul Sharvy
seized a locomotive and six passenger
coaches, the entire train that the
Eastern Minnesota expected to run to
st. Paul that night. Sharvy chained
up the wheels and left men in charge.
The railroad company was compelled
to borrow N. P. R. coaches and a ter
minal engine to get a train to the
Twin Cities.
Baldwin refused to accept a per-
sonal bond for release of the rolling
stock, even that of James J. Hill be-
ing unacceptable. The fighting law
yer declared that if the money were
not Forthcoming by p. m, Nov. .,
he would seize every freight car and
engine on which the sheriff could lay
hands. That was followed by threat
10 seize certain sections of the East
ern Minnesota's trackage.
The supreme court finally allowed
a writ OF error and the defendant
company prepared to appeal the case
to the supreme court of the United
States.
Despite the appeal, Baldwin must
have retained possession of the en-
CINE and cars for, on Friday, Nov.
II, 1892, the st. Louis grand jury
indicted Judge James Spencer for
grand larceny in the first degree. He
had managed to grab the rolling
stock away from the sheriff and the
latter was very wroth. Judge Spen-
Ger was released on $4,000 bail and
his hearing It for an early day.
Memory and records fail to tell
what the final outcome was but, for
some weeks, there were exciting
times around the Union depot aad in
the courts.
Baldwin's legal action and sheriff
Sharvy'.' seizure resulted in q Dear
raid on the Hill stocks. The G. N. r.
stock dropped ] 1 points in New York
and in London. The old wizard Of
the Northwest, through his brokers,
made handsome killing in the stock
market.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
WHEN HUOT BURNED OUT.

Considerably more than a quarter
of century ;go, Victor Huot con-
Quoted a confectionery store near the
corner of Lake avenue and West Su-
perior St., on portion of the site
now occupied by Freimuth's store, if
the writer mistakes not.
At the same time, Gray's bakery
occupied a site next to Huot. The
old Saddle Rock restaurant haC Just
moved out of a third building. All
three of them were rather dingy, i'm
paired old wooden buildings.
At about 9 p. m, Monday night.
October "a, 1892, fire broke out and
Quilted the bunch of buildings. A
general alarm was necessary to con-
quer the fire and, when the flames
were fully extinguished, the old
buildings were pretty badly singed.
Smith Brothers owned the Huot
building which was damaged at least
to the extent of $3.50. Loss on con-
tents was about $500 with $4,000
insurance.
Gray's bakery stock lost about
$500 and the building, belonging to
James Weber, was singed to the ex-
tent of about $3.50.
The old Saddle Rock location be.
longed to the late James McCahill
and it suffered about the same as the
two other structures.
Victor Huot disappeared from the
ken Of Duluthians and, after many
years, came back to the Zenith City
and Oh ned his present popular and
pretentious place . 223 West Supe-
rior st.
If the writer is not mistaken,
Huot's old place was repaired and
Thomas F. Brady, now municipal
Judge at Hibbing, conducted refresh
ment parlors until a partner robbed
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

was behind Silberstein for COM
missioner. The bunch is heavily
responsible for the four years of
unsafety at the hands Of the wob-
bly, old gentleman. No one feels
so badly stung as that very clique,
yet the damage done through the
unwise and unsafe action four
years ago cannot be repaired for
many years.
Any aggregation Of citizens, or
clique of professional pie-counter
patriots, guilty Of giving Duluth
Silberstein and a McKercher, is
utterly unfit to dictate the ap-
pointment of an assistant city
clerk, to say nothing Of the policy
and principle involved.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
REV. A. w. RINGLAND'S PRESBY'
TERRAIN PASTORATE.

v-hen Rev. Adam w. Ringland be-
came pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church, FEBRUARY 8, 1884, approx
mately 35 years ago, there were 100
members. Only 70 were present when
he preached his first sermon.
When DR.. Ringland preached his
eighth anniversary sermon, the mem
bership rolls bore 434 names. He
continued his passionate until Oc-
tober %, 1892, when he announced
that Re would resign to take the
presid icy Of Manchester college. He
had, in fact, resigned once before but
the parish refused to accept the resig-
nation.
The members O.. the First Presby-
terrain church were very , III to &C
cept the second resignation but the
good Doctor saw the hand of Provi-
dence in the call, which was unani-
nous. His beloved people in Duluth
decided to let him 60. John c. Hunt
er and D. H. Twomy were named as
a committee t. join with DR.. Ring
land in requesting that pastoral rela-
lions be dissolved. It duly came
about and the presidency of Mime
sota's Presbyterian college was duly
assumed.
DIR. Ringland made a number of
changes after that. For a time he
was located in Chicago. He pos
sessed a strong commercial instinct
and alternated pastoral work with
business undertakings. Unless DR..
Ringland has changed his location
and business within very few
months, he now is located at Meal
lister, Oklahoma, where he is en-
gagged in the real estate business with
his son.
McAllister, Oklahoma, by the way,
Is one Of Hon. Beriah Magoffin's win
ter stamping grounds, he having a
son down there in the cattle business.
But that's another story.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
MILLER NOT INDISPENSABLE.

In a recent issuA Of the Ely
Miner, Peter Schaefer pounded
out sentiments on his old stand
pat typewriter as follows, viz:
Just a few weeks ago, there
was elected from this district
a man to replace Clarence B.
Miller in congress. Since then,
developments prove that Mr..
Carss needs to hustle some to
get within sighting distance
Of the popularity enjoyed by
Miller. 1t now comes to light
that Clarence B. Miller is
slated for any position he may
name within the gift of con-
gress. He is recognized as
one of the big men Of the ma
ton. So far, he has not signi-
Mr.. Miller's little band of re-
fled what he wants, if any
thing. Whatever it proves to
be, it is his for the naming.
Mr.. Miller's little band of re-
tainers in this district must be
credited with working faithfully
and hard to show that he is in
dispensable and to throw fears
into the dear people that the
grand old Eighth district will 60
to wrack and ruin without &C.
B. NJ"
Knowing the difference in
value that Washington guardians
of the spoils put on a live one
and a dead one, we have had an
idea that Clarence's chance to
shake the good old plum tree was
very slim. But, if Lodge, Mann,
ct al, give him a chance, far be
it from us to begrudge him it's
receipt.
Is it not barely possible, too,
that the foregoing expression by
an intensely partisan brother
means one boost for Miller and
two bricks for CarssY If so, any
such bricks are wasted. In the
past, Mr.. Carss has mixed with
many men much larger than the
average congressman and given
an exceedingly good account Of
himself.
The Proctor Carss has ample
steam to run on record time and
steady enough a hand not to bump
into the rear end Of a freight train.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
WATCH LITTLE TAMMANY.

The representative people of
this city should see to it that city
offices and clerkships are not made
plum tree to be shaken for the
benefit Of party politics or any
clique of pie-counter politicians.
When it comes to putting a man
on the city payrolls, that act
should be based solely on his fit
ness, ability and efficiency. Polit-
ical affiliations, race, creed or even
color should not enter seriously
into such a selection.
It is stated that the boss of a
local political band, commonly
called Little Tammany, most of
the members being dominated by
appetite for the political pastry,
rather than high and unselfsh
ideals, recently demanded the
right to dictate the appointment
OF a deputy city clerk. To his
credit, be it said, city clerk Ash
Indignantly resented and refused
the demand. The city commits
sioners should see that such an
improper demand is rebuked and
that Mr.. Ash is permitted to select
a deputy entirely satisfactory to
himself.
If these professional pie-counter
boys were loyal to party and
guided only by wishes for the best
welfare of the city, there would not
be so much objection to their die
tation. But, we gravely fear, pol
icy and place come far ahead Of
principle and best municipal well
fare with them.
Only recently, they supported q
man as democratic candidate for
governor who now proves to have
been secretly helping the cause Of
Burnquist and Nelson. Four years
ago, the entire clique, to q man,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
THE USUAL WAY.

A bunch of farmers is to be
prosecuted for setting fires that
recently caused the loss Of a thou
sand lives and ten million dollars
in property. The railroads set
more and destructive fires than
the farmers but, as usual, they get
a clean bill by the plunderbund
administration. And some won
der the why Of the socialist party
and the Non-partisan league
Bear River Journal.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
REMEMBE ED INJUSTICE.

"Charley, DEAR" said young
Mrs. Torkins, "are we going to
have freedom of the seas?"
"Why are you so interested2"
81 haven't forgotten the way
we were treated at the beach last
summer. Idon't believe anybody
has right to rope off the ocean
and then charge you fifty cents
for the privilege Of taking a bath
in it. Washington Star.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
REsENTs FOOD HOG STUNTS.

RESENTS FOOD HOG STUNTS.
A Bear River merchant who
spent his boyhood days along the
apple orchards Of the Empire state
is learning anew how to grade ap-
piles since buying Of the Duluth
Food Hogs" says Col Peterson in
the Bear River Journal. "He
does not take kindly to some of
the fruit they send him but the
culled apples supplied him are but
a sample of what the Michigan
street Food Hogs have been I'M
loading on the, range people for
several years past. -
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11
TALES OF LONG AGO
The Rip-saw Historian Digs Into DOngs i'm the
Dim, Distant Past and Unearths Interesting
Incidents of Days That Are No More

him bind and forced him to quit the
game.
Everything that glittered in Duluth
in those days was not gold and did
not turn into gold.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

Tie Rip-saw has moved from
the Fargusson building to suite
No. 112, Manhattan building.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

The Rip-saw has lloved from
the Fargusson building to suite
No. 112, Manhattan building.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

The Rip-saw' has moved from
the Fargusson building to suite
No. 112, Manhattan building.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

Postmaster General Brleson evidently thinks he second Nc
Adooa who IN anywhere and make good He
the telegraph and telephone business of the nation we'd
suggest that he FIRST learn little something abot running the posoe
business before be takes anything else.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

The Rip-Saw has moved from
the Fargusson building to suite
No. 112, Manhattan building.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

President Wilson surely made hit In France He
only attending strictly to business, bot having fine time we
the nippng the republican puppets home
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

Some Of the wise sog Editor Morrisons expose
the methods of the Du food hogs bot the stuH there the
and Editor Morrison will make big winning for himself and the
r7 large he keeps the fail going long enough Id enough
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

State Auditor Pes that his intention keep
state peat boys for of the people, Well not enthusiastic
abou until find OFT who Jake by @the people,"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

onen of the charges made by the Dh against Bob
Mkerehsr former chief Of police Of Dul and the chances
that Editor Morrison hasn't told ha-e Pa Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty surely has acquired member Of which
be pfoud.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

horrible shock the pderbund to find that the forest
tires started by the Industrial
ers Of the World.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-01-11

With skunk skins bringing four dollars and fifty cents
der that independent little animal carries its tail high.