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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23
KINDLY COUNTY Will SUE
STREET RAILWAY COMPANY
Studebaker Truck Gets Sadly Damaged IN Accident When
Bert Kribsback Permits His Employees to Take
Vehicle on Oliver Excursion

The generous old county plans to
sue the economical old street railway
company for smashing up a Stude-
baker truck on or about May 20, OF
this year.
This Studeoaker truck belonged to
the Second commissioner district
and, therefore, was in the legal Gus
tody Of County Commissioner Naugh.
ton. The talented commissioner is a
busy man, what with summer pleas
uring, drawing cartoons for the Her
aid and keeping an eye on the polit-
ical future, therefore he leaves the
real control of the trucks to Bert
Kribsback, who gets more as super
intendent Of roads in the Second dis
trict than "Ham' Little did as COM
missioner. But that's another story.
Bert Kribsback is the chap who
constructed a bunch of broken-b backed
concrete bridges some years ago, or at
least bridges whose backs broke later.
He has a bunch Of good boys work
ing for him in various capacities and,
as the kindly old county pays the
wages, Bert evidently does not believe
in muzzling the OK that treadeth the
masters corn, so to speak:
On the last Sunday in May, Harry
George. driver Of the Studebaker
truck, had occasion to 60 out to the
now tool house that was under con-
struction in the hinterland. He asked
kindly old Bert if he could have the
truck for a bit CT ride if he got
back from the tool house in time.
ia, wohl!" replied Kribsbaek.
Harry George got back at about
p. m. He and a few of his friends,
one Of whom was Bill Schiller, never
had seen Oliver, a most moist little
oasis at that time, where, graft, beer,
booze and redlight ladies held sway.
"Let's take a look at Oliveri" was
the cry, so to Oliver went Harry
George, his friends and the Sthde-
baker truck. On the way back, be-
tween Gary and Smithville, at about
1880 p. m, the truck got out Of the
straight and narrow way and, before
it could be wiggled back into place,
a street car came bowling down the
track and bumped the stalled Stude-
baker so badly that "Len' Nc
Namara charged nearly $500 for re-
pairing it.
Now comes Dame Rumor with tale
to the effect that State Senator
Charles E. Adams, special county attor-
uey and dean of the double-barrelled
boys, proposes to sue the much-abused
old street car company for the cost
of those repairs, taking it for granted
that the truck was on the county g
business and on mission that made
it unlawful for a trolley car to bump
into it with damaging force and eff
feet.
The Duluth Street Railway Co. does
not pay out damages without cause,
therefore it's minions are checking up
the facts in the case. It is intimated
by some of the investigators, if the
Rip-Saw is rightly informed, that Old
John Barleycorn is held more or less
responsible for the accident and that
11:30 p. m. on a Sunday night, was
an unseemly hour for a respectable
Studebaker truck to be out in that
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grand organization ever are above sus
picion.
Perhaps w. A. Cant's congressional,
lightning rod is coming down instead
of going higher. He actually refused
recently. to make a speech at a pub
lie meeting.
Double barrelled boys have not yet
struck a pace on the Mesaba range
but annual construction of "warts'
on the branch courthouses is coming
into fashion.
The city commissioners do not even
slap the greedy Bell telephone inter.
ests on the wrist while they are en-
gagged in grabbing all the telephone
candy in the city.
One copper stock society dame in
the East End refused to support the
Rip-Saw editor for the school board
because "He treated poor, dear Mr..
McKercher so badly"
If Billy McEwen were just bit
more generous, he might have given
John E. Jensen the job of counting
noses in the Eighth congressional dis
trict for Uncle Sam.
If these double-barrelled boys do
not see what they want, let them speak
up so that the legislature, in special
session assembled, can legalize the
handing of it to them.
\
Trout that cost IL cents pound
in Grand Marais set back the buyer
at least IS cents pound in Duluth.
There are Fish Hogs as well as Meat
Hogs, Fruit Hogs and Potato Hogs.
Warren E. Greene, poor old st.
Louis county's absentee attorney, has
been appointed lieutenant colonel.
He now may be expected to don gold
plated spurs, at least six inches in
length.
Little Tammany is credited with
having received hard jolt in the jaw
when Billy McEwen picked that cen
sus- taking plum. Time will tell,
There IS an abundance Of camouflage
in modern politics.
With Rev. John George Schaibly
on the committee on schools, the help
less teachers will just about have t.
patronize his 60-cent church suppers
when he sends out invitations with
plenty of underscoring in red.
Woodrow Wilson, the Duluth News
Tribune and even the nimble Herald
squirrel have discovered the existence
of Food Hogs. The Rip-Saw gave
ample information Of the presence of
the animals in local jungles fully two
years ago.
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section Of the eitY-not only far from
its happy garage but far, far from
the Second commissioner g district.
One informant told the Rip-Saw
that the boys on the truck were well
stimulated and that one of them was
covered up with blanket to conceal
his iHebriated condition.
A RipSaw inspector called ON Harry
George, driver Of the Studebaker truck.
He said that only four went to Oliver
on the truck. He stated that he, per-
sonally, does not drink and that he
had nothing to drink on that excur-
sion. AS to the others, he preferred
for them to make their own state
ments but, certainly, no one was "laid
out" and covered by blanket.
Nh. George further says that the
truck got into q rot and, before It
could be worked ont, the street car
struck it with. such force and effect
as to smash It up and to break his
collar bone, an accident that kept him
in the hospital several weeks when
he was carrying no accident insur-
ance.
The Duluth Street Railway Co., like
Brer Rabbit, is ''layin' low and sayin'
nuffin'." That -canny old corporation
usually does it's loudest talking IN
court, under the guidance Of clever
lawyers.
The Second district has something
like six trucks and such automobiles
as are necessary for the convenience
and comfort of the commissioner and
Supt. Kribsbaek. Until recently, empty
tanks have been filled at the kindly
old county's gasoline supply at the
county Jail. Anyone who desired could
come there and claim to have a county
car and demand the key to the gaso-
line depot. One chap who got the key
one time did not even bring it back.
It is assumed that he did not wish
to bother, the custodian by asking for
the key, therefore kept it.
All that now is changed. No one
but the sheriff is permitted access to
that tank without special credentials.
It is believed that the new system
will work a hardship on a lot Of Joy
riders but save the poor old county
many dollars.
Although it's another story, here's
funny thing, viz:
Last winter, a collector for the
Pittsburgh Coal Co. came to the GUS
.todian Of the coal cellars at the county
Jail for him to 30. X. =" bill for four
tons of hard coal. The Jail employee
refused to do so on the grounds that
the county Jail never had received the
four tons.
Several times collectors came but
failed to get the stubborn servants
countersign. Finally high-up Off
cial of the company came, urging that
the bin be eountersigned. "It's gone
some months now. Sign up so that
we can close the incident" he said.
The stickler for teehnicalities stood
pat. Who got the coal and who paid
for it are a couple Of little mysteries.
st. Louis eonnty's business affairs are
replete with little mysteries, to those
who scratch around little here and
there.
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SAWDUST
AND
SHAVINGS

The union men marched down a hill
and then they marched up again.
The people ask cheaper bread and
the consumers league hands them a
Stone.
Little Tammany's recent clam-bake
is said to have been the most enjoy
able of any ever held on Isle Royale.
.
The palmy days of the Food Hogs
are to be numbered if present signs
of the times are safe and sure indi-
cation.
If Proctor retains her present brutal
chief of police, then Superintendent
Grubbs should be brought back to run
the schools.
If the people owned their own tele-
phone system in Duluth, they could
much more successfully fight the
greedy Food Hogs.
Now watch those Three Irrespons-
ibles, Hoke, LeDuc and Schaibly,
make the peoples money disappear
from the school treasury this year.
Many are wondering what signif-
icance to attach to the fact that A. L..
Ordean and Oscar Mitchell headed the
Welcome Home parade last Saturday.
- 4A
The kindly old Salvation Army GER
tainly "got a hand" in last Satur-
days parade. The motives Of that
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that those who came down here were
sincere, all right, but someone behind
them is the niger in the fence. Spend
ing q million clearing off land would
be waste of money. It wouldn T
help to prevent fires and it would only
help someone get land cleared off %
that it would be more valuable and
saleable."
The Duluth & Iron Range railroad,
in which the Duluth newspapers are
SO interested; the weyerhaeusers and
Twin City spectators have much Land
in the forest area Of the state.
"The only way. to protect against
forest fires is by tho ranger system,
which is the cheapest way" said Cox.
ri am in favor Of protection, but It il
too late now for this fall. The legis-
lature only. allowed us $4,000 q year
for fire protection" %.
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It was found that use of automo'
biles to transport voters to the polls
would not be legal in the recent road
bond election. In the school board
election, no more attention was paid
to the provisions Of the corrupt prac'
tice act than an elephant would pay
to a gnat. Prominent white men in
Morgan Park loaded up colored women
and proudly drove them to the voting
places. Publication Of snapshots OF
such doings might entertain the Rip
Saws readers.
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THERE WERE OTHERS.

$50 our engagement is at an endf"
said the blond youth.
"It is certainly at an end" replied
the tickle brunette.
"I suppose You win return the en-
gagement ringi"
III certainly will If you call around
some night and pick It ont"
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For the past year or two, W. A.
Cant seems to have taken every OPP
portunity to preside over public meet
ings or to make speeches at divers
little gatherings. Political sharps de-
clare that such custom and habit may
be taken as a sure sign Of prospective
political doings.
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The Second commissioner district
owns its automobiles something after
the way in which q lover buys Amer.
lean Beauty roses-in punches Of half
q dozen.
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KNEW TIE BRAND.

INA; do cows and bees 60 TO
heaveni"
"Mercy, child, what question:
Whyf"
Cause, if they don't, the milk
and honey the preacher said was up
there must be all canned stuff. -
Truth Seeker.
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INFLUENZA GETS FATHER:
FARIBAULT GETS MOTHER
HOMELESS CHILDREN ARE EARNED OUT BY THE
GREAT STATE OF MINNESOTA.

Mrs. Ella Eisenberg, Deserted by Husband at Cloquet
Keeps Family Together and Pays on Home-Fne Wipes
Out Worldly Possessions Seen in Duluth With
Means Nearly Exhausted-Mrs. Bauer Loses Heavily at
Brookston- Unjustly Called Policeman Sailor Son
Sleeps in Box Car-ElderB Mother Cuts Timber and
Handles Hay With Own Hands.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14
SANITARY SQUAD
 50 TRANSFERRED
Sergt. Kenneth Sharpe Hopes
 to Sail for Home Soon
Writes Interestingly of Experiences
 Over There"

q am in small town named Juigne. Sable is the nearest large town about two niles of and Le Mans about 50 kilometers from hee Ny rev address is Jui2ne fSarthe) 77th Division 4 r. Q 739, France.
 eI have just come up from down stairs where ] have been talking with the tws o4l ladies who live in this house at tEe saue time warming my self 4 little at the old. biz fireplace
 We did not actually get orders to move until the f9th Monday was q busy day. Captain Sehafer took over the burial and salvage woHt and had C. shew his clerks something about the work. Then ] had to get our feia desk in oraer and get iB e9eEy= thing we wanted to take l aiso had to get mF own stuff ready to move
 We were very fortunate in being able to get g field de5k iron! the mel ical supply depot at MesVes There were no contents in # and the han dleg were off but ] had one of the fel- lows make two rope handles. ] start ed to pack up my stuff after supper and with this and getting the field desk ready and getting all of our rec erds ready and packed 1 vas up un- til after midnight I had everything ready except rolling the blankets up, which l needed that Hieht, to make the roll on my pack The guard vas told to call me at 5 co q. m and we were to have breakfast at 5530. 1t seemed as though l had only just got to sleep. when the guard came in and woke me. As soon as l got on my shoes, l went out and awoke the fel- lows. sending one over to wake Sergt. Whitehonse. the first sergeant of the ether squad. got one of the fellows te help me and got my roll all made before breakfast 4 truck was to be there at 6 co to take the barrack bags, officers baggage. record boxes and ralions down to the station. but they couldn't get 1t started on account of the cold So we left q detail Of men to load it when it came, and the rest of IS started for the station with our packs. The truck came not leng after we got there. but it was q small one and only had half of the baggage and it had to 20 back They had no spe- efal cars for us; it was the regular train and we were to get into any of the second or third class ears We four non-coms, with the field desk and our bags, got into a compartment of one German car which had been turned over to the French. We help cd ourselves to the plates on the doors giving the number of the car. Any thing is fair in love and war. and this is war. The car was not heated at all and we got pretty cool before we got to Montargis our first stop and change Our train was not due to leave until sos and we were allowed to go out into the town
 ''I left a detail of men to guard our coach and baggage and then we fou non-coms went out. IL was dime time and we finally found nice biz hotel uptown whe~e we got our din ner. Before dinner we went into one of the churches and looked around
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14

coming. as usual. so the captain had to hunt around to find someone to re port to We had dinner out of the few rauons that were divided as our share At the station was room where they heated the water to put into the tanks which are placed in compartments of ears which have no steam heat We made use of this and everybody got good shave and wash. 1t certainly made everybody feel and look better after travelling without any conveniences. know we all felt so tired and all in. not having much sleep on the trip. The captain came back and said he had found shelter for the night in the shape of barn in a small town outside of Sable. He said that every available space was taken and there were already more troops quartered in the vicinity than there should be We finally got to the barn. where we are still quarter
 ed, with the captain having a room in the house to which the barn belongs.
 "The 77th Division is located in this whole area, occupying blllets Tn many small towns The only other or ganization in this town of Julgne IS the 306th Ambulance Company, a part of the 302nd Sanitary Train of the same division. They are located just a short way up this street in a while building, there being LIS men in the company, and we are attached to them for rations Capt. Sell stayed only over the first night and then moved up into room in the priests house. which is much better. These rooms in this house are reserved as officers bilIets. 1 stayed two nights in the barn It is fairly clean, quite a little hay and straw. and does pretty well as quarters. Of course. there is no heat and just now 1t is preety cool. | asked Capt Sell if he would ask Lieut.. Young if Kennedy and l could have the room in the house until some officer came for billet He said we could and we found that there were two rooms both of them having the dandy big French beis The lady of the house said We could sleep toEeth- er or take the two rooms, the price being the same either way. l still have my old habit of rolling my head. so the boys tell me, and so We thourht we had better take the two rooms
 "Capt Sell has not been able to find out just what our work is to be but says that We shah probably be split un \ few men will be loente ! wherever there are sel3iers stationed,
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14

to make inspections, look after the sanitary conditions. etc He plans 10 divide this area into two parts with Segrt Kennedy in charge of the two and a corporal in charge of each d. vision The captain is to have desk in the Division Surgeon's office and l shall be there with perhaps one or two other meH from the squad. We are practically attached to thls dlvls- ion as we were to the 76th, and l hope that We go back with them IL was rumored that the division was to leave March 3, but that rumor has been stopped and it is officially an neunced that they are to leave the first of April. This is New Iork's own division, from Camp Upton, and the divisional insignia Is the Statue or Liberty in yellow on a blue field. do hope that we go with them, so we can get ahead of the fellows we lett back at Mesves who said we would De stuck here for perhaps six months. We are going to carry out all of our work as though we were gong, so that we shall be ready in ease It IS true.
 Sable is town of about lO,0oo and hope to go down there to work. This is a very small village but quite clean. Right over back of us are two big lime kilns which have not been Tn use for some 30 years. There IS very nice chateau at the top ot the hill where General Alexander, com manding the 77th, is staying. Soles-- mes is the town between here ana Sable and there is an immense old biz abbey there which is now used for a French hospital They say 1t is wonderful on the inside and l m tend to go throueh it. This last Sun, day Sergt Kennedy and Corporal Rice went to fingers. about n kilo, metres from here and Kennedy sald it was the best place he had seen out side of Paris. 1t was just like spring here for these last three or four days, Birds are chirning, the grass IS stlii green. and the birds are actually com inv out of the trees. The re, lows picked small daisies and dandellons and mn enclosing some violets
 .We wil always be Sanitary Sqaad No. 5n for We are an iasene2de2t or ranizafion. But we will probably De attschel to some other unit when We 1eonse back. for we are such a small teing that it is the only way for them to do We hone this other unit will be the 77th Division
 "Yours. Kenneth
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14
The Shows Reveal That Leadership

Ar,ono fine cars that are ever powerful and equal to every emergency, the Hudson Super-Slx holds undisputed leadership as every automobile show this year has proved. Its refnements both mechan- ically and in appointment, mark the latest develop ments It's supreme leadership IS still shown by the activity of it's sales exceeding that o any other me 
 It is that situation which calls for early action on the part of buyers
 Factory production nisconcentratedo onciosed models for which there IS an ever and immediate demand. No open car models will be available except the few that some dealers now have, before carly summer. Prompt choice may insure your getting Hudson Delay may mean disappointment just as 1t has to thousands each spring jn the past three years
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14
WILL. DEDICATE
 NEW SYNAGOGUE
Congregation Sons of Zion to Hold Services Sunday In
 New Place of Worship
Purim Sunday, Commemorating An cient Deliverance, to Be Occasion
 of Ceremony

Dedication of the newly remodeled synagogue at the corner of Main and Bridge streets, will be Sunday by the Congregation Sons of Zion, according to arrangements now being complet- ed. The edifice Is now in excellent condition, and only the dedication ex- ercises are necessary to make it a permanent place of worship by mem bers of the faith.
 In the neighborhood of S5000 has been spent to put the building into condition and to supply the furniture and fittings, and 1t is believed the synagogue will be the best apportion- ed in eastern Connecticut. with pos sibly the exception of the one in Nor wich
 The occasion for the dedieatory ex- ercises will be Purim Sunday, which is a holiday in commemoration of the liveranee of the Jews from the ma chinations of Haman. Rev. J. La monowits will conduct the ceremony and the Megliah. which tells the his torical story of which the holiday is in eommemoration. will be read.
 The building committee having charge of remodeling the building is 'Louis Wolfe, s. Diamond and s. Ka- minsky.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14
But a Greater Proof is Now at Hand

Those records made Hudsons the choice of 6O00 users And the performance of those during the past three years is greater proof ot Hudson Super Six endurance and performance than were those more dramatic tests about which all motordom showed such interest at the time they were being made.
 They proved that the performance of individual cars merely reflected the character of every Hudson New advancements in refinenents have been made as the Hudson Super Six has grown n favor New body types have served to make 1t the pattern car in that respect as well as the most enduring travelling machine built
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14
MISS RUTH CHILD NAMED AS DE
 EATER AT MT. HOLYOKE

The Mount Holyoke teams for the intercollegiate debate in which the other colleges participate are Rad elitfe, Smith, Barnard, Vassar and Wellesley have been announced.
 Among the debaters is Miss Ruth Child of Putnam, who is named as an alternate. Miss Child was one of tn debating team at the Putnam High school before she graduated.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14

Speedway and cross continent tests were used to reveal the endurance of Hudsons, when the Super Six was new car.
 The records made then such the great Plkes Peak Hill Climb up the worlds highest roadway the 24 hour record of 1879 mesthe unmatched round trip trans continental run between San Francisco and New York in 10 days, 2l hours are memorable milestones in automobile history.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14
What the Speedway Proved Then 60,O00 Hudson Super-sixes Now Confirm

For three years the Hudson super-Six has been the 1arocs selling fife car n the world. It's position IS more firmly entreaehod today than ever Every new .t car every new model that has come out slnee the Super Six made its debut has been silent tribute to Hudson leadership.
Putnam patriot., 1919-03-14
EAGLES TO GIVE ENTERTAIN
 MENT

Putnam Aerie of Eagles will give an entertainment and lecture on "Eagledom" in the interests of the membership drive. The entertain ment will be held in Phoenix hall, Danielson, Sunday, March 23, at ? o'clock. Admission is free and ger tlemen only are to be admitted.