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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-06-12
Local Overflow

Alex Walther, Miss Clara Beck
man, Martin Walther, Emil Bossert,
and "A. R. Rudow composed an auto!
load to Strasburg Sunday evening to
take in the chautauqua. Upon arriv-
ing there 1t was found that the troupl
had not left Pollock and that no pro-
gram was possible that evening.
The members Of the senior class
Of the Linton High School went over
to Braddock last Friday evening and
gave their classsplay there 10 crowd
ed hall, after which they gave al
dance with a Bismarck orchestra fur
nishing the music. Several from,
Linton went over to take in the dance
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Germaine are
the proud parents Of 9h pound
girl that arrived Tuesday morning,
June 10th. Mother and daughter do
ing well, and Daddy had to take al
lay-off for day or two to get ac-
quainted with the newcomer.
DR.. Baer and 7. p. Lee drove down
from Braddock Saturday night Of
last week, the former to attend Mrs.
! w. B. Lee, who was seriously i'll, and
the latter to be with his sister-in-law.
Commissioner Lee remained over for
thu meeting of the, county board this
! week.
A large concrete sleeping porch is
being built at the rear of the VOL,
verton Hospital. An automatic cleo
trio pumping system was recently in
stalled by Chas. Gillespie; and mod
/ ern heating plan. will be installed in
the near future. A first-class hos
pital has long been needed in En-
mons county, and DR.. Wolver.on is
rapidly putting his new property in
shape to meet the demand. Within
a few months the doctors brother
will graduate in medicine, and will
be associated with him N the hospital.
4 Linton took steps Tuesday night
to organize baseball team. J. A.
Lang and NJ. T. Barger were chosen
to handle the team, and practice will
begin at once. A game with Stras-
| burg is scheduled to take place at
Linton Sunday next. Grounds will
be laid out in the park south of town
which l.. d. Seaman is arranging to
donate to the city. There are num-
Der of pretty fast ball-tossers here
and an all-home team should prove
!! a pretty successful venture to pro.
J vide entertainment for the summe,
; months.
s. F. Wright, of Hazelton, was il
', Linton Tuesday. He was accompan
. led by Mark Yeater, who was recent
, ly called to Hazelton from his hons
in California by the death of hi.
mother, Mrs, w. L. Yeater. Mari
was an Emmons county boy for man!
, years. When the Spanish War brok'
out, he enlisted in Co. A at Bismarcl
] and served in the Philippines. Dur
E ing the past fifteen years he ha
. been in Alaska and on the Pacifi
: coast. He will soon return to Cali
!. fornia, and then will come to Hazel
ton for longer visit.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-06-12
LAST ThOOeHTS
OF ROOSEVELT
Desired Republicans to Close
Ranks and Give Attention
to Domestic Issues.
TANGIBLE EVIDENCE OF WISH.
Colonel Harvey In North American; Re.
view Presents Facsimile Of PEN .
elled Memorandum Left BY
q, Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt's last thoughts
were Of the grsnt domestic issues Of
Ills country, issues whose determine
ton will decide the veal or woe of the
next generation. He saw In united
Republican party, just given a vote Of
confidence and a commission to formu-
late and curry into action policies Of
reconstruction, the guarantee of the
prompt recognition and successful
handling of these domestic problems.
Tangible evidence Of this Is a memo
randum. the last penciled thoughts of
the late President. To Colonel George
Harvey and the North American Re
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-06-12

When the Townleyites speak Of the
state-owned bank as 'our bank" they
speak advisedly.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-06-12

He who doesn't take care Of his
credit will soon have none to take care
Of. This will apply to state as well
as to an Individual.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-06-12

The Courier News appears to be very
much Interested In t2xation-in Min
n0sOta.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-06-12

Was Bill Lem!.e sticking around
when Frazier concluded to deprive the
voters of the right to vote the four
initiative measures?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
WHAT is A BLOUSE?

COME Darwin of the garment makers
~ may write a treatise on the evolution
of the blouse which will be more popular
than the famous book on the origin of
species by the British man of science.
He ought to get some inspiration for
his monumental work from the celebra-
tion of blouse week" now in progress in
$4,000 retail stores throughout the
United States.
The dictionary does not give the
searcher after knowledge much satisfac-
ton. The advertisements of blouse week
produce the impression that blouse is
shirtwaist to be worn by women. But
the dictionary says that it is a loose,
shirtlike overgarment sometimes reach
ing to the knees, as the smockfrock of
the English workingman; or just below
the waist, as the blouse of the French
workingman and artist; or we'll below
the knees, as the garment of the Rus
sian peasant. Nothing of this kind is
shown in the advertisements. But when
the dictionary says that blouse is also
loose waist usually belted, worn by
women and children, one begins to get
nearer to the thing worn today.
The modern shirtwaist, adapted to all
sorts of occasions and made of silk or
cotton or wool, has famous ancestry.
Without doubt it was worn in some
form by the famous Helen, whose face
"launch'd thousand ships and burnt the
topless towers of Iliump Judith who
taught the Persian Holofernes what a
woman could do, was familiar with the
garment. Nell Gwyn used the blouse to
capture the fancy of Charles H. And the
peek-a-boo waist of modern times has
wrought more havoc among the men
than all the fans of the coquettes of
Madrid and Seville and Barcelona.
Yes, the man who would write his
tory of the evolution of the blouse would
write history of the progress of civili-
cation from the fig leaf to the fashion
plate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
is ALL RIVER TRAVEL SAFE?

ONE of the most appalling and signii-
cant things about yesterdays tragedy
on the Delaware river was the size of the
hole which comparatively small tug
boat made in the side of another vessel
used to carry thousands, of people be-
tween this city and Gloucester every day.
! The ferryboat upon which four people
were killed was old and it was made of
wood. Like a lot of other vessels that
still ply in the river, it had become rela-
lively unsubstantial through age.
The long -drawn-out discussion about
a bridge to Camden has not only wasted
time and opportunity. It is safe to pre-
sumo that it has caused the ferry COM
panies to think twice before they invest
in new equipment.
When the authorities get through with
the investigation started to fix the re-
sponsibility for yesterdays collision they
might go further and let US know
whether there are other vessels in the
river no better able to resist the effects
of comparatively light collision than
the old boat that was damaged yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
BERGER'S FINISH

VICTOR BERGER could not have done
any actual harm in the House of
Representatives. Yet he had no right to
be there.
few people who do not know Ber-
gers record as turbulent Socialist and
an obstructionist in the way of the gov
ernment's war plans, guilty of offenses
that warranted his conviction under the
espionage act, have been disposed to be-
lieve that he was shut out of Congress
because of his political views.
Berger's noisy speech Monday was
an effective answer to any one who hap
pened to be in doubt about his rights to
a seat in the House. 1t was fiamboyant,
narrow and bigoted. There is one blath-
erer less in Congress from which Ber-
ger is eliminated That in itself is some
thing.
Berger was a nuisance in Milwaukee.
He was elected to Congress by follow
ing made up largely of pacifsts and Mil
waukee Germans. Congress itself has no
right to bar man because of his politi-
cal views. 1t is with the electorate that
the privilege of discrimination lies.
But Congress has the right to bar
man who was convicted of systematically
opposing the legitimate functions of a
government which he was sworn to up-
hold when it is made clear, as it was in
Berger's case by a jury's verdict, that
be was actually guilty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
MORE SALARY FOR THE MAYOR
CHAIRMAN GAFFNEY, of Councils

finance committee, offers thor
oughly sensible suggestion when he says
that the salary of the Mayor should be
raised from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
1t has been thirty-three years since the
salary was fixed at its present figure,
and the duties. responsibilities and de-
mands required of the incumbent have
multiplied many fold. So have the
talents and abilities necessary for sue
cessful administrator.
What other corporation doing busl-
ness as huge as Philadelphia's could get,
or would even think of trying to get, a
man for its chief executive at such a
figure as $4,000 year in these days of
high costs?
The sneering hint that Chairman Gaff-
ney is offering the suggestion as Ware
political bait need not cause anybody
much hesitation. The next Mayor cut
his political eyeteeth long years ago and
is not to be caught with chaff. Besides,
the extra $4,000 will come from the
pockets of the people, not a councitmanic
faction.
Mr.. Moore has asked for no rise, nor
have any of his political associates asked
for him. But if the city is going to keep
out of the piker class it can well afford
to put it through now before he takes
Office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12

studied discourtesy and general bad
manners on the part of the man who
acts for the Department of State
Yesterday when the Prince of Wales
passed through the West Philadelphia
station the British consul appeared in a
conventional frock coat with the conven-
tional cane to offer the conventional
card and the conventional word of defer
ential greeting.
Mr.. Nye was said to be obviously an
noyed by the appearance of Mr. Porter.
He did not hide his annoyance. Neither
did the British consul. And there you
are.
Mr.. Nye's sort of temperament is one
of the things that the government could
get along without.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
What Do You KnotU?


1. What is the meaning of the expression
'"To go to Canossa"?
2. What congressman has been ousted from
the House of Representatives because
of his opposition to the war?
3. What is a mesquite?
4. What is the "Ranz des Vaches"?
5. What kind Of bird is a merle?
6. What Is round in music?
Z. What is the capital of the Dominion Of
New Zealand?
8. What is a gowan?
8. The metal in an American silver dollar
is now worth more than the face value
of the coin. How many years has it
been since this condition prevailed be-
fore?
10. When did Thomas attempts live and
what famous book is he reputed to have
written.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
OUR HAUGHTIEST SERVANT

COONER or later the Department of
- Justice and the Department of State,
Independently or in unison, will have to
explain the Mr.. Nye, commonly known
as Bill, who is supposed to guard dis
tinguished guests of the nation on their
trips about the country.
1t is said that notables who travel
under Mr. Nye's wing usually are
treated as if they were under arrest for
high crime. The crowds that gather for
glimpse of them are never sure, from
the look of things, whether Nye escorts
royalty or whether royalty is a sort of
humble and deferential escort for Nye.
In Los Angeles, when this august
functionary was permitting the king of
the Belgians to look around bit, there
was trouble with lady who happened
TO be the wife of the mayor. She slapped
Mr.. Nye's face. In this city, when Mar
shal Joffre arrived K. I. Stotesbury was
forced into clash with Nye because Of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
Answers to Yesterday,s Quiz

1. Jackson Day is celebrated on January 8
in honor of Andrew Jackson's great
victory over the British at New Or
leans in 1915 and not In recognition
of his birthday, which occurs in March
2. The paleolithic man had rough stone
implements. The Neolithic man had
learned how to polish them and im4
prove them.
4. The Wasatch Mountains are In Utah.
5. The oldest known book in the world
consists of a set of moral maxims
written by Ptah Hotep, the Egyptian,
about $500 b. c. The papyrus was
found in his tomb near Thebes, Egypt.
6. Yenustiano is President Carranza's first
name,
z. There are about one and three 6fths
kilometers in a mile.
8. Ariosto wrote "Orlando Furioso."
o. The wireless signal, s o s, was
agreed upon after the sinking of the
steamship Republic off Natucket in
1909. @, Q d was the call at that
time. 1t was a signal somewhat diff
cult TO catch. s o s, which stands
for no set of words, is much simpler.
1t represents call for immediate at
tention In grave emergency.
10. Hesiod was a Greek poet and pbiloso-
pher who fourished about the eighth
century b. O.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN
(Selected definitions)

(Selected dehnltl0ns)
DEFINE me, some one, If you can,
~ The elusive term of gentleman.
Says We're de We're, "a man is he
Of pure blue blooded ancestry"
Says Newman Prig, "He's best defined :.
As one who has a cultured mind.''
Says Midas, Culture? Blood? Pooh ! Dash |!
The true criterion is cash.
Says Priest, HE is in thought, deed, word
Christ like person-Church preferred. -"
Says Books, whoever in he let's,
He never fails to pay his BETS
" 'Tis clear enough he's one," says Shirk,
''Who for his living doesn't work.
"a PAL" cries Bella Flapps, "who's prime
AT giving girls top hole time
Between these various views they voice,
Come, pay your cash and take your choice
R. M. Freeman, in the London Westmin-
ster Gazette.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12

tor of Polish Catholic church has said
that between 200 and 300 of the steel
workers who were members of his con-
gregation were satisfied almost to a man
with their wages and their hours. They
were saving money and educating their
children. But they could not speak Eng
lish. Their leaders told them that they
must strike and offered specous reasons.
They were not familiar enough with the
facts to combat the arguments offered
and when the strike was ordered they
followed their leaders out of the mills.
We cannot afford to have so large a
mass of un- -Americanized workers in the
country. The first duty of the state is
to see to it that these men gradually
acquire the language of the country. 1t
will not do for the employer to be indif-
ferent while he hires foremen who speak
the language of the foreigner and re-
moves from the man every inducement
to learn English.
The need of Amercanization attracted
some attention at the beginning of the
war, when there was considerable talk
about hyphenated citizenship. That need
has not passed with the ending of hostili-
ties. A new APPROXIMATION has been
threatening us, namely, that of labor
on-Americanism with least emphasis
placed on the last word in the trlogy.
There is before Congress bill appro-
priating Sl0,000,000 to be apportioned
among the states in proportion to the
number Of foreigners to whom the Eng
lish language is being taught It's pas
sage would help; but the states and the
cities and the towns must cooperate or
it will amount to nothing, and the fertile
field hospitab'e to the seeds of the kind
of radcalism that hourished in the Old
World will spread itself out ready for
the hand of the sower
The kind of radicalism that has lately
been preached will not triumph. But its
propagandists can make lot of trouble
for the rest Of us. We want to be spared
this trouble. We want to settle the in
dustrial ills in an orderly peaceful and
American way.
What that way is was indicated by
the submission of the coal strikers to the
mandate of the government and their
already indicated willingness to adjust
their grievances by a conference with
their employers, which both sides shall
enter in a conciliatory mood.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
The Way Of a Maid With a PAPER

WHENEVER we see young woman with
W a newspaper in a trolley car we begin
to feel self conscious IL we discover. as we
usually do, that it is the paper honored by
our contributions. We saw such youne
woman the other night. She got on at Fif-
teenth street and sat down opposite us. con-
sciously unconscious of our ill concealed
curiosity.
After "a few moments devoted to com
posing herself and giving the other occu-
pants of the car the once over she got her
handbag snuggled down safely in her Ian and
opened the paper. Without so much as A
glance at the first page she turned to the
last page. Her eyes Immediately dropped
to the southeast corner where photograph
of one of the inpumerable local beauties
appears every day. Her expression said as
plainly as if she had put it in words, ~
am better looking than that girl land she
could have made out pretty good case for
herself) why don't they print my picture?"
It was with great difficulty that we re-
sisted the impulse to suggest to her that
she send her photograph to our Office. II
would adorn any mans roll top. The rest
of the pictures on the page did not occupy
her more than five seconds. Then she turned
to the comics and fingered over Petey and
Andy and Min and-sniffed at the Girl Across
the Way. When she was through them the
page OF scnoOl sports attracted her.
She was busy reading this page when we
left the car, so We are still in doubt whether
she ever reached the Saucepan. We wanted
her to reach it because if we do not please
the young women we regard ourself as
failure. They are the novel readers and
playgoers and constitute the public to which
we men of letters address ourselves.
The action of this young woman in begin
ming to read the paper at the end, as all
well brought up young women begin to read
novels, suggested to us that we ought To
see if we cannot induce the managing editor
to let us print the Saucepan in the back of
the paper so that the young women will
find it before their interest in good things
has become jaded through the multiplicity
of other good things that those who habit
ually read the paper backward always find
before they have arrived at the only part
/. Of the paper that matters to US.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
The YARN Day
SUMMER'S airs and graces

GUNNER airs and graces
~ Light the darkening hill,
And charm the dusky places
Where autumn's somber laces
Hang heavily and still.
Skyward flames and flashes
Leap beyond the town
Her palaces are ashes,
The destined north wind crashes
Her frail green altars down
Another exile turning
For one last look around,
With gifts of tears that yearning
Hearts leave at times of turning
On all beloved ground!
Wistfully in valleys
Desolate and gray,
Where winter waits and dallies
In all the streets and alleys,
She trails the airs of May
And stoops with April's graces
On every stoOp and stair
To sing of blessed places
And kiss the children's faces
And stir their shining hair.
She leaves them with wond rous
Secret and they cry:
"a lonely, lovely lady
A sweet magician lady
Has just passed by "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
Quandar

Ever since I have been conscious of the
awful reality of life I have been seeking
road-a consistent road-to success.
One night had a dream.
It seemed that I was just starting out in
life, and my motto was, Enjoy life while
you are young"
Which did.
And time sped, and presently I was an
aged man, having known the pleasures of
life, but was now homeless, penniless,
hopeless-a failure! / had neglected my
opportunities when I was young; too late
now. Oh, if ] only had my youth again
And 10! it seemed that ! was again young
Just starting out in life And my motto
was, "Work, study, employ your time wisely
while you are young
SO ] did.
And time Sped and presently I was an
aged man. Estates and millions were mine
also carriages and servants. l was a sue
cess
But was not happy.
In my eagerness to attain success / had
passed by the joys of youth, had missed the
real pleasures of life now it WAS too late
Oh, that l might be young just once more
But the alarm clock was ringing and
awoke, more puzzled than ever before.
CLAYTON ALCOTT.
Three Of Gotham
There are three classes Of New Workers..
fyhsra is the New Yorker who lives a.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
THE SAUCEPAN

daylight hours in a skyscraper looking at
Hartford and Newark.
There is the New Yorker who never leaves
terra firma and who only knows the sky
scrapers through the Sunday magazine Sec
ton.
There is, finally, the New Yorker whose
whole life is spent in the subways and who
never sees New York
BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
A PlaIntIve Pastoral

Once. when I was bad and peevish kid,
NV parents told me that it was shameful
thing
To be a "calf."
But since I've been misfortune's constant
goat
I think that it would be happy, peaceful
thing
To be COW.
HORACE HOOK.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
"Some Cow!"

Dear S-Here's an, advertisement ] no.
ticed in this mornings paper, given by a
Long Island farmer:
'"For Sale-A COW that gives five quarts
of milk a day, also two grindstones, one
set of harness and hay rake" Some cow
we'll say, Yours, A hHADDh'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
Or Distilled

Anonymous letter writ
or Distilled! ers are getting the goat
of Internal Revenue
Collector Lederer with complaints of illegal
liquor selling. But the writer's should realize
that it is hard to locate offenders as still
waters run deep.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12

1t was a double Armistice Day. On the
anniversary of the close of the German war
the coal war ended
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12

Bacon from China is sold more cheaply
in England than the American product.
which indicates that the open door is useful
for egress as well as ingress
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12

We may look upon the conferences con =
cerning wages of railroad men with eoua- :
nimity. Members of the brotherhoods are
also Americans first.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S
LETTER
Lure Of the Past Responded to by
Historical Societles-knigh Hears
Result Of Local Election
While in Paris
MO MATTER how much we may look for

MO MATTER how much we may look for
~ ward there are those in our midst who
constantly and very properly respond to what
might be termed ''thc lure of the past.
States and cities have their historical socie-
ties and counties fall into line. all persuaded
that their history is worthy and that their
traditions should be preserved. The
Chester County Historical Society, organized
in 1893. marches along with the procession
headed by George Morris Philips and in
Guiding among its directors and coun-
scllors Gilbert Cope Edward S. Paxson,
Judge ]. Frank f. Hause, Mary Ingram
Stile and Mrs. William p. Sharpess. The
Chester county historians are getting ready
to talk matters over early in December
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12

The William Penn statue is wearing n
Red Cross button. Well, William has de :
served il.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12

If the prince had only, had time to change
his pajamas for breeches he might have seen
something Of worth while city