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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12
WASHBURN TO ENTERTAIN her
KAHKI AND BLUE CLAD BOYS
BANQUET, PROGRAM AND DANCE TO
BE HELD NEXT WEDNESDAY EVEN
ING. COMMITTEES AT WORK.

Washburn is going to extend
the hand of welcome to the boys
of the Chequamegon Bay region
who served during the world
war in the Allied armies by CIV.
ing them a banquet, program
and dance on Wednesday even
ing, June 18th.
This was planned at a meet
ing held at the Com mercial Club
rooms last evening when several
com mittees were appointed to
arrange for the affair. This
entertainment will come separ.
ate frcin the county celebration
which will be given for all the
soldier boys of Bayfeld county.
The com mittees in charge will
arrange for a monster banquet
to be served at six o'clock next
Wednesday evening. This will
be followed by program and at
the conclusion of the progrs m
there will be q big dance. The
entire affair is for the soldier
and sailor boys of the Washburn
region, including the towns of
BAyview, Washburn, Barksdale
and Bayfield,.
The young ladies' of the city
and district are invited to attend
the dance to be held during the
evening.
The banquet will be an elabor-
ate affair to be attended only by
soldiers and sailors OF the re-
cent war. The program follow
ing will be only for the soldiers
AMI sailors but the dance will he
for the boys and their sweet
hearts or lady friends.
For some time the people of
this city have planned some sort
of a "welcome home" for the
boys but have hesitated in CIV
ing it until all of the boys had
returned. AS many of the boys
were leaving the city it has been
planned to hold the entertain.
ment at this time and then at
some future date to hold another
for the boys who are still away
but who expect to return later.
Returned soldiers and sailors
who can attend the banquet
should report their names to
Amos M. Hansen not later than
Monday night and as soon be-
fore as possible that plates may
be arranged for.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12

county is now expending from
year to year in patching up the
dirt roads would easily build the
better road which would require
but little attention.
The better road question is
worthy of the consideration of
the county board.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Knnte Monsou
of Minneapolis has been visiting
in the city drring the past week
at the home of Mrs. Monson's
parents Rev. and Mrs. Chr.
Christensen. After q short
visit in the city they will leave
for Gardner, ILL.,. where they
will visit for 2 time before leav-
ing for Madagascar where they
will engage in missionary work.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12

Raymond Brown has resigned his
position at Markham's Drug Store
and has gone back to his former po-
sition as scale tester at the dynamite
plant.
Carl Taberman visited at Ashland
Sunday afternoon.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12
Washburn, Wisconsin. Thursday. June
COUNTY BOARD TRIES TO
SOLVE. NOTIFY ROAD PROBLEM

| for dinner and after dinner the
trip was continued over the Sand
River road toward Cornucopia.
The first part of this road was
found to be in good condition for
travel, but the last half of the
road runs through sparsely
settled country and is in poor
condition.
Reaching Cornucopia the
Board turned in the direction of
Washburn for the return trip.
The road across the "barrons''
was found to bein excellent con-
dition. This is a natural trail
across the plains and the less
work done on it the better for
the road. The north end of this
road needs Strengthening and
has been brushed out and may
be completed some time in the
near future, The barron road
will not likely be touched.
The big expenditure needed
on the road running from Cor
nucopia to Washburn is the
bridge over the Sioux river in
the town of Washburn. This
bridge is a wooden affair which
was erected nineteen years ago
and which has been repaired
from time to time. ut has been
condemned as being unsafe for
travel. The board spent con-
siderable time in making ex-
animation of this bridge and the
proposed relocation on the Sec
tion line, but this was not con-
sidered feasable and when a new
bridge is built it will likely be
built on the present site.
At the Tuesday morning meet
ing Supervisor Nigard of the
town of Bell proposed that the
county bond itself to construct
the bridge but this was voted
down and a motion entertained
to expend enough money on the
bridge to make it safe and pass
able and to defer the construc
tion of a new bridge until times
become normal again. 1t is es :
timated that the cost of a new
bridge and the approaches
would be in the neighborhood of
$40, 900.
Arriving at Washburn the
Board put up for the night and
rain set in which completely
knocked the plans of the COM
mittee. The members were on
hand brigh5 and early Tuesday
morning to begin their journey
again but on account of the
heavy rains and the threatening
condition of the weather it was
decided to postpone the trip un-
til the 10Th of June when the
Board will meet again to COM
plete the balance of their trip.
By gaining first hand know
ledge of road conditions the
board members feel that the trip
will be a very profitable one and
that the members will be able to
save the county lot of money
which would not otherwise be
saved.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12
Woman's Council to Provide Second
Playground for Children
To Select the Site West of Washington
Avenue. Proving to be Popular
Place.

Hats off to the Woman's Coun'
Gil. When that live wire organ
|ization starts out to do a thing
you can rest assured that good
LOB will be done. That has been
demonstrated time and again in
the past when they have taken
hold of things of a civic nature
and it is being demonstrated
again in the efforts of the ladies
to provide Fairgrounds for
the children of the city.
Recently the ladies established
and equipped a playground on
| the former site of the Washburn
Hotel. This has become such a
popular place for the children of
the city that the ladies now
favor the idea of establishing
another playground in the west
end of the city at some point to
be selected by committee.
To do these things costs money
and effort and the ladies
are willing to supply the
effort needed to promote the End
playground if the men of the
city will donate some time and
money to equip the place. The
city has in the past willingly
donated the services of men in
arranging for the work under
taken by the council. but we feel
that as this playground is a
thing of a public nature for the
training of the children to play
under healthful conditions. that
the City Council should also
lprovide a small working fund
for the organization, say 500 or
5000 and the ladies' say that if
this is given they can equip the
playground.
Public spirited citizens who
believe in the development of
the youthful mind along proper
lines are also invited to donate
money, time or thought to i'm
Iprove playground. Those
wishing to donate money may
leave their subscriptions at the
Times office and the funds will
be turned over to the Woman's
council. Those willing to donate
time or labor or material should
call up Mrs. Sprague, President
of the Woman's Council.
/ 1t is the intention of the
|Woman's Council to provide
| directors for the playground so
that the play of the children
may be regulated and until this
is done, the people residing near
the playground are asked to un-
dertake supervision of the
grounds so that the younger
children will have an opportuni-
ty to play as well as the older
children. Parents of children
using the grounds are also asked
to direct their children to share
the pleasures of the grounds
with the smaller children.
The equipment at the grounds
include swings. teeter- totters,
giant strides, travelling rings,
horizontal bars, sand boxes, run
ming tracks, etc.
: The community should fee
thankful that they have an or
ganization like the Woman's
Council to devise ways and
means to provide things of q
Icivic nature and they should be
given the backing and support
of the people for their every
action along lines of this kind
has been for the betterment OF
the community.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12
Unable to Keep Up Dirt Roads with
Immense Traffic Over Them
They Go to Pieces After Every Wet
Spell. Better Roads the
Only Solution.

That better roads must be
built between Ashland and
Washburn and Washburn and
Bayfield, in order to with stand
the immense amount of traffic
to which they are subjected tc
is getting to be the opinion of
some members of the county
board who have given the mat
ter attention.
For the past four or five years
the county has been expending
money on these roads and today
they are no better than they
were two years ago and many
are of the opinion that the only
solution that will give this ter
ritory better roads is to begin
permanent improvement in the
way of reinforced concrete CT
ether good road material that
will stand the heavy traffic.
In speaking about the highway
between Ashland and Washburn
at the state road school held at
Madison last winter, County
Road Commissioner John Fri
berg likened this piece of road
to a double track railway where
automobiles and other vehicles
are passing every few minutes.
He said to the school, Il would
be willing to bet my summers
wages that there is not another
road IN the state as long as the
one between Ashland and Wash
burn that is subjected to more
travel and there are many peo-
pie who are familiar with con-
ditions on this road that would
back Mr.. Friberg up in his
statement.
The road between Ashland
and Washburn is a dirt road Of
clay material, which the county
is now graveling in order to
make it passable in all kinds Of
weather. Part of the system
runs through the town of Barks-
dale and this town had put
crushed rock on about five miles
of the road way, but even this
crushed rock road is giving way
with less than a years travel
because of the immense amount
af traffic which it has to with
stand.
The road between Washburn
and Bayfield, is also a dirt road,
part of the distance the road bed
| is of clay material while the bal
ance is of gravel and loam. This
piece is also heavily travelled.
Ed. Stevens, who was confined
to his farm residence during the
past few weeks on account
of illness kept a record of
the number of cars passing his
place. The highest number for
10 hours of one day was 275 cars
A teams, two motorcycles and 2
pedestrians. During a three
week period n4r. Stevens says
the average would be ..round 175
vehicles eack day, not counting
those that pass during the mig hit.
Bayfield, county has not given
better roads a trial. although
Through southern and central
Wisconsin many concrete roads
are to be found and they are
giving satisfaction in every in
stance. Many of the county
board members are beginning
to feel that the county should
try out the permanent type of
road and should begin by build
ing mile or two each year un-
til the road between Ashland
and Washburn was completed of
that material and then other
roads could be built.
Some.argue that the expense
is great but those favoring bet.
ter types of roads say that taking
1.-The amount of money which the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12

A card party will be given next
Thursday evening, June 18th, at the
st, Louis Hall Refreshments will
be served. Everybody invited.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12
Start Visit of County and State
Trunk Line of Highways
But Rain Comes on Evening of First Day
and Trip Had to Be Postponed
Until June 10Th.

On the first of the present
week the county board OF Bay
field county started their tour
Of the county and state high
ways with the intention of COM
pleting the tour in three days
and good start was made on
Monday but rain came so hard
on Monday night and Tuesday
morning. that the trip had to be
abandoned at this city and the
board adjourned to meet again
on June 10th to complete the
tour.
At the spring meeting of the
Board a recommendation was
! made by the Highway Committee
that the entire board make a
a visit of the county and state
system and 80 we'll did the MEM
bers think of the proposition
that it was decided to make the
trip.
A start was made from the
city of Washburn on Monday
morning when the board left for
the north route. Stops were
made all along the system where
expenditures of money were
needed or where changes were
desired.
AT the spring rqeetinQ. atAhe
suggestionof the State Highway
committee, a resolution was
adopted proposing a. change in
the road from the Bodin farm
on the Hcughton road to the
Onion River. The proposed
road would run along the beach
, comb for a distance of about
two miles. joining the present
road at Chequamegon Springs.
This proposed site was visited
by the Board and while members
were of the opinion that it would
make an excellent drive, yet
some were afraid that it would
be another long bridge" propo-
sition and that it would require
q vast expenditure of money to
maintain the road. Those favor
ing the proposition say that the
present road will have to be
widened. two bridges built. and
vast amount of filling done,
and that the beach road would
be the most economical to build
and maintain. This proposition
was taken up at a meeting held
on Tuesday morning and the
Board voted not to change the
road.
Near Pixies quarry the Board
visited the site OF the "washouta
where a part of the roadway has
caved in near a large stone fill.
1t appears that this part of the
road was not properly construct.
ed and the Highway committee
will await a conference with the
State Engineers before any i'm.
provement is made. This fill
will require a lengthening o1
the culverts and a widening o1
the fill in erder to make the work
stand.
When the touring party
reached the site of the tri-count,
tuberculosis sanitorium sug
gestlOn was, made that the SlIt
be visited and this was done
The site of the new sanitoriun
is one of the most beautiful t
be found in this part of the
country. 1t lies on a side hill
protected from the east anG
north winds, and overlook
beautiful Sylvan bay. Worl
has been started on this institu
tion by Contractors Tomlinson &
Egan and they propose to have
the building ready for receiving
patients by early fall.
The road from Salmo to Bay
field is in fairly good condition.
At Bayfield, a stop was mad'
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-06-12

Miss Anna Schultz, who has been
in the city for few days visiting at
the home of her pareats Mr.. and
Mrs. S. Schultz, left for Duluth
Wednesday.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-24
Influenza Blamed for
$l8,OOO,OOO Claims
88,757 Metropolitan Policy
Holders Die From Sept. l
to Jan. Is

Between September 1 and December
81 influenza caused the deaths of ST.
313 policyholders of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. In the first
two weeks of January 7,444 deaths from
influenza were reported and it was
said yesterday at the annual meeting
of Metropolitan agency managers that
the epidemic had entailed the payment
of death claims aggregating $1S,00o,-
600.
There are 800 agency managers. rep
resenting all parts of the United States
and Canada in attendance at the meet
ing. The session yesterday, at / Mad
ison Avenue, was devoted to a discus
sion of government insurance of SOL
diers and sailors, and Its continuance
after the war. Haley Fiske, vice
president of the company. said:
"You should advise soldiers and sail
ors to keep up their insurance, and to
convert what they have (Which is one
year, renewable term) into some other
form offered by the government. Term
insurance involves increase of pre-
miums with age. The cost of the insur-
ance to the policyholdcr is less than
would be furnished by any private
company, since the government plan
intends that considerable part of
the actual cost shall be paid out of the
general revenue"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-24
Law Urged to Porhibit
Ticket Scalping i'm State
New York Assemblyman Also
Introduces Bill Forbiddins
Cutting Programmes
Staff C0rrcsnnndcnce

StdH Cores spOndcnce
ALBANY, Jan. ga state wide anti
theatre ticket scalping bill was intro
duced in the Legislature by Assembly
man Peter j. Hamill, Democrat, of New
York City, to-day. 1t would end all big
ticket agencies if it became a law. 1t
would superscde the ordinance recently
passed by the New York City aldermen
which licenses ticket brokers and pro-
vides that not more than so cents cx-
cess over the printed box office price of
the ticket sail be charged.
The Hamill bill would not only pro-
hlbit theatres from selling tickets
above the printed box Office price, but
specifically forbid any person or cor
poraton establishing an agency or office
for such purpose. Violation would be
made a misdemeanor
Another theatre bill bv Assemblyman
Hamill would prohibit theatre mana
gers from cutting their shows short
Mr.. Hamill said that many "continu-
ous' vaudeville theatre managers made
1t practice when there was a large
crowd waiting to see the next perform
ance to cut out several numbers on
the program.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-24
Staten Island Urges
Survey for Subway
Relief efforRichmond
Civic League Asks Board of
Estimates 10 Approve Ap-
preparation; President
Points Out Urgent Need

The Staten Island Civic League,
through its president DR.. J.. A. Drev-
fus, has sent letter to the Board
of Estimate usging that body to ap-
prove the request of President Van
Name, of Richmond, for an appropria-
ton for surveys and plans for the
transit relief of that borough. The
letter urges that, in any event. pro-
vision be made for tunneu direct
from Manhattan to and through the
island.
Referring to his plea for direct
tunnel, DR.. Dreyfus cited the decision
OF the subway conference in favor Of q
route via Ellis Island, Bedloe Island
and Robins Reef to and through Staten
Island. He declared, however. he would
not oppose route from Bav RIDGE.
Brooklyn. If the city felt it was not in
nnancial condition to undertake the
otner: The letter from Or. Drevfus to
'he Estimate Board follows:
Inc Staten Island Civic League
supports the request for an appronria-
lion Tor surveys and plans for the in
cluslon of the Borough of Richmond in
the city's subway system.
I'm making this request the Staten
island Civic League asks that the pro
posed authorization by the Board of
Estimate and Apportionment specif-
cally provide for the preparation of
plans for subway from Manhattan
via Ellis Island, Bcdloe Island and
Robins Reef to and through Staten
Island.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-24
Liberties Bureau Seeks
All Objcctors' Release
Wants Presidents Amnesty to
Bring ''Long-Delayed JUS
tice' at Once
BY BRIGGS

Describing Secretary of War Bakers
release of the 113 conscientious object
CTS from Leavenworth Prison as an
act of long delayed justice, the Civil
Liberties Bureau, whose former di-
rector, Roger N. Baldwin. is serving
years sentence for refusing to sub
NIT to physical examination. issued
statement yesterday asking for release
OF the remaining conscientious OBJ
lectors who are serving sentences.
The statement follows in part:
AT last. ir many cases after months
of confinement in the moral filth of
Leavenworth Prison, where the soil
tary cell, the ball and chain, and until
recently shackling to bars, were ac-
cepted forms of discipline. these men
sc free. But they leave behind some
hundreds of other men whose con-
tinued confinement is made 30 seem
the more unjust and demands the cure
of general amnesty.
"A]l objectors alike refused certain
military orders; ali men alike, now
that peace has come. should be freed,
or else our profession of belief in
conscience and the value of loyalty
to conviction is sheer hypocrisy Every
conscientious objector might have been
freed from prison even after his con-
viction if in no other way than by the
road of the "restoration battalions," :"
designed TO restore soldiers to the
army. The President can grant 3
general amnesty. Nothing less will
meet the political and moral demands
of the situation"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-24
y. S. Soldiers Grimes
In Paris Denied Here

pEPORTS that American SOL
AN diers are responsible for
wholesale crimes in Paris, as pub
lished in the "Matin" a few days
ago, were shown to be false in
every particular that could be
checked up by the New York
police yesterday.
According to the "Matin's"
story. it had been necessary for
the New York police to send Dep
uty Police Commissioner Evans
to France to corral the criminals.
Commissioner Enright pointed
out that there is no deputy Com
missioner Evans" in the depart
ment, and never has been. More
over, he said, there is no New
York police official in Paris.
The French newspaper told of
numerous assaults being COM
mitted on the streets at night, say
ing that in one week 13O were at
tributed to deserters from the
American army.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-24
Mothers to Get Medals
Memorials To Be Sent 10 Parents
of Fallen Men of 3O1ih

For every man of the 304th Field
Artillery who died in France a bronze
medal is to be struck and given to his
mother or father or other member of
his family. Not all the dead of the
304th have yet been reported, but it
was announced yesterday that Mrs.
Robert Bacon, wife of the former Am
bassador to France, whose son is Cap
tain Elliott Bacon, of Battery C, had
already sent out twenty Of the medals,
the cost of which is being met by
anonymous subscribers.
The suggestion of thus honoring the
memory of the slain soldiers was made
by r. j. Mahon, whose son is captain of
Battery D. The medals are more than
two inches in diameter On the face
is the emblem of the 304th Field Artl-
lery, while the reverse side bears the
name of the soldier, the date and place
of his death and an inscription read
ing:
"To Commemorate the Glorious Dead
of the 304th Field Artillery, United
States Army"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-24
Sentences of Kent
Motors Promoters
Finally Confirmed
for New Trial and
Rehearins Denied by U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals;
Two to Go TO Atlanta

Promoters Of Kent Motors Corpora
ton, an organization which was ex-
posed by The Tribune, have lost their
final legal battle to avoid serving sem
tcnces imposed by the Federal courts
upon conviction of using the mails to
defraud.
Archibald Palmer. of 800 Broadway.
who was the special United States at
torney in the prosecution, announced
yesterday that the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals. which already
had denied motion for new trial
also denied a motion for a rohcaring
on an alleged technical error. The
court sat in Philadelphia. Its verdict
means that the promoters must begin
their sentences Immediately, Mr..
Palmer said
Frederick II. Clarke, his father.
Henry f. Clarke; Fred J. Nagcl, and
John A. Simpson were the men sem
fenced. The Clarkcs were accused Of
incorporating the motors company with
the younger man as president and the
father as treasurer. Frederick H. was
a lawyer One of his concerns was
the Security Company of America.
When the Kent company was organ
'zed, it agreed to pay to the security
company Inc price OF 100000 shares, at
$40 share. par value, for inacial aid
The only factories the company could
show were made up Of two shacks in
Newark. Ten cars were assembled, it
was alleged, at cost of $4,000 each
1t had been announced that the cars
would sell for $685.
Nagel and Simpson, who have Offices
at l270 Broadway, were the brokers
who handled the stock
At the trial it was shown that about
5000 of 10000 shares in the treasury
had been sold. 1t is not known how
many Of the shares retained in the
name of the Security Company of
America were disposed Of
The elder Clarke is IS years old.
He was sentenced to pay fine of
$500. Frederick H. Clarke was SEN
fenced to pay a fine Of $1,000 and to
serve three years in the Atlanta pen
itcntiary. Nagcl got a year and a day
at hand labor there. Simpson paid
fine of 81 900.