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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-09-18
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE.

| will buy and pay the highest market
prices for hides. furs, all kinds Of junk
rags, rubber, metals, scrap iron, etc.
If you have anything to sell in this line
just ring up phone No. so and will
call for them. 2w' A. NEWMAN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-09-18
Ants Remarkable Biting Power

Every one has observed trees that
have been followed out by ants, and II
Is apparent that their biting powers
are equal to working In the hardest
woods. In tunnellng ants are expert,
and authentic cases are known Of their
tnnnel.rg under fitches ers
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-09-18
The Best Advertisement.

The best advertisement any merchant
can have is q satisfied customer. No
greater Recommendation can be given
an article than the following by E. b.
Milburn, Prop, Guion Drug Store,
Guion, Ark eve have sold Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy for years and
have always found that it gives per-
feet satisfaction.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-09-18


am so terribly disqualified as a ia
Their" she added; my boy does so
need some one to help him with en-
gnes and tracks"
Ransom found himself shaking with
sympathy for Harold
"And my tiny daughter" he told
her has one tragedy after another
with her dolls Only yesterday she
tore what she calls her very bestest
dress. Poor little soul she certainly
needs more mothering than I seem
able to give her"
Mrs. Ainley's blue eyes were posi-
lively g.istenlng with tears of sym
pothy for motherless little Joy
Sill she suggested, "if they can
iust play together perhaps they viii
manage TO be more contented."
II viii have to make small open.
ing in the fence for them, Ransom
said eve DOM want them scrambling
over the fence
"Oh If YOU only would it would he
a SpIen(sd way out of the difficulty.
DO you think you can saw through
those thick boards?"
Tn sure | can" Ransom said. and
decided his next heroine should have
reddish hair and that peculiarly mag
netic smile which was being waited to
him from the window. He decided also
that he must see the smile often If he
W. n AZ Z ! IL, ~
novel. But if the boards are too aw-
fully heavy I may have to remove
couple Of them, which would make a
gate quite big enough for grownpo
people TO pass through; thar is, If
have your conSentT
1t was then that Mrs. Ainley chose
to blush.
Il suppose it would be much simpler
than saving them" she said
Ransom thought swiftly If he could
INST finish off his story late that night
he could work on the gate during the
afternoon. The story must be complet-
ed. He sent another glance up at his
neighbor and realized that the gate,
too, must be tinished-it was essential
to his happiness. SO long as the fence
remained In its present perfect diyid-
ing state he would fret, and if he fret
ted he could not write stories Some
thing gentle and lovable about his
neighbours personality told him that
stories. He seemed to sense that a
greater income was going to be most
necessary soon.
1T really should be done right
away" he told her; "the children
won't be happy now that they have
found each other until they can play
together, and l Will try to help the boy
with his tracks"
"And | will mend the bestest dress"
said his heroine.
Ransom's neck was getting a bit
crooked from continued looking up to
his neighbours window, but somehow
he knew the outcome was going to be
worth getting a stiff neck over. He
felt that he must come in for more
bodily discomfort after his carpenter
ing efforts. Authors are not built for
manual labor.
"Tonights sun viii set on two gar
dens made into one" he informed her,
"and our children will be happy as the
day is long"
"Some falls are all for the best" she
said laughingly while her eyes rested
with added tenderness on her son,
"The very, very best" Ransom sup
plemented, while his eyes rested on the
mother of her son, And If there was
tenderness in them it could not be
seen from so great a distance as the
window next door.
However, the gate would be finished
soon.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-09-18

Miss Carroll Draggs of Fennimore
was a weekend guest at the w. j..
Davis home
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26
BACK TO NATURE BUG.

Cook county has a citizen who
insists on living in the wilderness
on a diet of porcupine meat. His
name is Peter Albrom. In the win
ter while wandering around in the
woods, he froze his feet so badly
that his toes had to be amputated.
The authorities took the man in
charge and he had . covered suffi-
ciently to walk around when he
made a bee line for the hinterland.
One evening after supper he told
Mrs. Cranson that he would take a
walk around the house for exercise.
He did not come back but tracks in
the snow showed that he had hiked
over the hill. The next day his
tracks were seen north of Pine
Mountain, nearly fourteen miles fgom
Grand Marais.
Albrom had been well cared for
and there was no good reason for
him to take to the tall timber in
such an unconventional manner.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26

company with two others and for q
place on Lower Tower. So the ho-
tel on Broadway was disposed of and
the pair moved into private quar-
tiers. What Mrs. Anderson did to
keep from getting lonesome is an
other story, but the husband had to
go away for his health, as he was
troubled with kidney disease. He
died before the year was up.
Great. gloom in the Anderson
home! But, presto! Enters Oscar
Ahlgren, register of deeds, to help
the woman take care of the estate.
He was promptly appointed admin
istrator and had, among other
things, charge of the division of the
spoils when the saloons were driven
out of business last summer. He did
so we'll with his administrative stunt
that the widow thought he would be
able to offer consolation in the great
sorrow, therefore Ahlgren moved to
the coy little flat on Fifth street,
where he became a cherished star
boarder. Later, they were married,
it is said, and now he is reputed to
be after saloon license "when the
town goes wet"
Whether it is intended to run it
in connection with hotel conducted
by Mrs. Anderson-Ahlgren, remains
to be seen.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26
new INDEPENDENCE FOLK
USE TOWN FUNDS FREELY
high Wages and Short Days Are Authorized for
Road WOrk-Last Town Election Was
Much Like DOnnybrOOk Fair.

state senators Bessette and Adams.
When he gets three more barrels to
his salary-shooter, he will become a
human six-shooter, just like Col.
Gilderman Of Proctor.
Constable John Fjerem not only
took in the town meeting but he
was accompanied by Old John Bar
leycorn, who has become his con-
slant chum.
Constable John distinguished him
self some time ago by arresting Old
John Barleycorn when he was lying
concealed in a big brush pile on
Fjerem's back wood lot. He took
the old Stacker to his bachelor farm
house and sentenced him to 80 days
Imprisonment in the cellar. There
Old Barleycorn laid, wasting away,
wasting away.
Some time ago, Old John Barley
corn made partial escape from the
Fjerem cellar and ran down into the
cellar of a Canyon merchant.
After his capture of Old John Bar
leycorn, constable Fjerem acquired
a habit of patrolling the Miller
trunk road with his constable'S
badge on his breast and a sack on
his shoulder. On that sack were
the words Ladies' Home Journal"
but weary pilgrims who met the hon.
est farmer and received first aid at
his hands, were seen to smack their
lips and to rub their tummies In
great satisfaction.
It is stated that all the prohibi-
ton cranks in New Independence
propose to run constable Fjerem for
the legislature in 1920.
Written complaint against con-
stable John Fjerem has been filed
with the town board. The complaint
is based on the allegation that farmer
Fjerem appeared at the polls in an
intoxicated condition, bearing booze
on his person as well as under his
vest. The trustees do not seem to
know what to do in the matter but
their action is awaited with deep
interest.
New Independence now has no
qualified justice of the peace, John
o. Johnson refusing to qualify,
therefore blockade runners and blind
piggers, If caught on the famous
Miller trunk road, will have to 60
to some other place than New indie
pendence for trial and possible pun
ishment.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26

while the police claim that their
stories are true and have furnished
evidence to that effect without ever
getting a conviction.
Oscar AhIgren Marries.
!. Oscar Ahlgreq, until last fall reg
lister of deeds in Douglas county, has
budded out as a wet leader, by rea-
son of marrying into the estate of
liquor establishment, or one that
would have been so, If the town had
not gone dry.
In the pa1my days Of Superior,
Andy Anderson ran saloon and
hotel at 1912 Broadway That is,
he ran the saloon and roped in all
the money he could. and his wife
conducted the hotel above; It is re-
ported that this hotel was extremely
popular for many years, due chiefly
to the friendly disposition Of the
landlady, towards male guests and
tho number OF comedy chambermaids
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26
MYSTERIOUS COMPANY AT CL0QUET
Brick Ceaners-Dn Pickles for Fire Victims

very much pleased with the increas-
ing local demand for the product of
their mills, do not anticipate the
necessity of seeking a foreign mar
ket for their lumber output for sew
eral seasons, and would probably
welcome a fire as an annual affair.
Thus would the White Pine lumber
industry be saved in these stressful
times.
The Honorable Fred D. Vibert
again distinguished himself in the
Senate on the 18th of the month by
assisting as executioner and pail
bearer for the Workman's State In
surance Bill, which met it's doom
that day. Up to this time, the Sen
ator had posed as a great friend Of
this measure, because as he expressed
it, he Represented working mems
constituency" That there was dan
ger of this workingman's measure
passing was recently discovered, so
the Lumber Barons evidently ordered
the Senator to turn a complete sum-
mersault. He had company in the
persons Of Senators Ole Gjerset, Of
Chippewa county, and Patrick H.
McGarry, of Cass county.
Great expectancy has been aroused
in Cloquet by the news that the state
prison board has donated ten barrels
of Liberty cabbage and ten barrels
Of dill pickles to the Minnesota For
est Fires Relief association. This
donation presumably will be distri-
buted throughout the burned region
and Cloquet sufferers hope for and
expect their share.
Liberty cabbage is the baptismal
name given to old-fashioned sauer-
kraut by made-over, profitably pa
triotic citizens, like Doc. Schaibly, of
Duluth, and those of similar ilk.
Out of Difference to the ancestry
of the Weyerhaeusers, modern baron
robbers of the pine, instead of an
cient robber barons of the Rhine,
one of the toadying Duluth dailies
spoke of the contribution as sauer-
kraut. Use Of the old name, howev-
er, is not considered patriotic by the
professionl patriots, who profit from
their gospel of picking at notes in
the eyes of others, when all kinds of
beams are in their own eyes.
The cry in Cloquet now is: "Give
us our share of the dill pickles and
Liberty cabbage or give us DEATH"
OF course some of the union men
may not be able to swallow prison.
made pickles but many Cloquetians
can and will waive that technicality.
People who are glad to get and to
eat scabby spuds have no qualms
over eating scab-manufactured cab
bage Ind pickles.
If the Florence Nightingale bird.
les were here, it might be expected
that they would devCur all the dill
pickles. Those rare, imported Flor
ence Nightingale brides have gone,
however, therefore some Of the fire
sufferers hope to get a bite or two
of that great spring tonic, the dill
pickle.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26
Stewart McCutcheon Slandered.

SCCWdIG VACSuICuCOu S1d4UCTCus
Stewart McCutcheon, the Allouez
gambling and speak-easy king, was
an alderman from the Tenth ward
during the old aldermanic form Of
government. It is alleged that he
is a much slandered and maligned
individual. His pool room is IA
vorite hangout for the people Of the
locality and If they bring along
liquor and drink it there, McCut-
cheon cannot help it, his friends say.
There is man by the name OF
Daley who conducts lunch room
or restaurant in connection with The
McCutcheon place, and he needs q
rest once in while At such times
he-gees into the back room, to sleep.
In-order to have a-eOnEenient way
Of calling him when a customer ar
rives, a system Of bells has been in
stalled. That is a perfectly natural
and common arrangement, yet the
police have spread the story and
even tried to show in court that this
system was used for the purpose OF
warning gamblers of the arrival of
the police or suspicious individuals.
McCutcheon Is a Saint.
Now, anyone with half a sense of
justice can see that such would not
be the case. Why, even a justice of
the peace could see that, although
the police testified at recent trial
that they had come upon a crowded
room playing for such big stakes, in
spite of the warning through the bell
system, the players having not been
able to get all the money from the
table while the officers were break
ing in the door. So it should be
plain to any ordinary mortal that
McCutcheon is a saint.
OF course, people are ready to
SANDER righteous persons. The
women of Allouez so SANDER McCut-
cheon, when they complain to the
city commission that their men
spend their wages at the McCut-
cheon joint; that they come from
there under the influence Of liquor
or at times plank drunk, bringing
no money with them to pay for food
but, in place of that, goodiy por-
ton of bad temper, fighting ability
and abuse for wife and family. The
women are mistaken when they say
that their husbands lose or are
wheedled out of their money in the
place. So says the judge, at least,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26
PRINTING PRESS
Will CUT COSTS
School Board viii Purchase Big
Machine for: Manual Train -.
.-s--.@. 49, "e-- = %. q
Ing PTintery.

The manual training high school
proposes to go heavily into the print
Ing business. Following recon-
mendation by business superintend-
ent Harwood, at the last meeting OF
the school board, it was voted to
buy a printing press at cost OF
$500. Mr.. HARDWOOD assured the
board that, with this press, the pub
lie school printery can compete with
private printeries and do all the
work required for the public schools
at real saving.
Supt. Harwood reported that the
public school printery already Is do
ing a large amount Of work for the
administrative offices and the schools
in general. Up to March II, 1913,
if Mr.. Harwood's figures are safe
and sane, the printing department
has saved the board of education the
grand sum of $872.19.
Lack Of a large press has pre-
vented the public school printery
from coming fully into its own, Mr..
Harwood's report stated. Half a
dozen big jobs done by outside print
cries cost the board $5,875. With
this big press, the jobs could have
been done for $500, thereby saving
the school district $2,275, as we'll as
giving the manual training students
just that much more practice.
The different school print shops
in the city at last are in charge OF
old union men and master printers.
It is taken for granted that mas
ter pressman with a union record
will be employed.
Out at West Duluth, under the
notorious Schultz regime, for which
regime a number of the boards con-
sistent Autocrats were chiefly re-
sponsible, a chap had charge of the
printing department who did not
know the difference between "side
stick" and shooting stick" On a
bet, he could not have told the diff
ference between a female" printing
press and male" printing press.
That chap never had seen over six
months practical experience IL:
printing. He had been hired for
some other branch of manual train
ing but was moved into the printing
office at the Denfeld high school.
When a real printer became super
visor Of that printing office, he found
| half a dozen different fonts of type
| in one case and other condition.
about as chaotic. The history OF
that West Duluth printery in the
Denfeld high school would make g
| grand compilation of "don'ts" FOL
practical printers.
| Supt. HARDWOOD now is open tt
| the wiles of printing press sales.
men. Many are wondering If presi.
dent McGiffert will stand for union
| pressman. He will not stand fol
unionism at the Clyde Iron Work:
but, possibly, he will not feel quite
so autocratic in school board mat
tiers, especially with the July election
drawing rapidly near.
Time will tell, dear old taxpayer
and public school patron. Time Ger
tainly will tell.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26

CLOQUET, April 24.-(Special to
The Duluth Rip-Saw. Articles Of
incorporation of the Cloquet Fire
Reimbursement Company have been
filed in the office of the Secretary Of
State at st. Paul. This organiza-
ton comes to life without capital
and it's objects are indicated in it's
articles as follows: "The investiga-
ton of the fires that caused the city
Of Cloquet to burn last October. the
prevention of the recurrence of such
a catastrophe. and the promoting of
the general prosperity of the city
Of Cloquet. "
In it's usual covertly smooth man
ner, the tentacles of the lumber oc-
topus can be seen by intelligent Clo-
quet citizens to be reaching out and
taking the unsuspecting into. a
scheme which really has for its OBJ
ject self-protection against an out
ragged and dispossessed citizenship.
For some months the Rip-Saw has
given it's readers news of the quiet
formation of big association among
fire sufferers Of Northern Minnesota,
the objects of which are to definitely
determine the various fire origins
and the enforced collection Of dam
ages from those interests found re-
sponsible for rhe fires.
It is the concensus of opinion in
Northern Minnesota that the rail-
road and lumber companies were
mainly to blame for most of the
fires of last October IL, and certain
vested interests of Cloquet, fearful
that a carefully planned investiga-
ton would show up their participa-
ton in the fire horror, at once set
about to oounteract the objects of
general investigation by prompting
number of its suave and slippery
political medicine-makers and law
yers to initiate a movement among
the towns citizens that was to be
strictly "local.' Thus they have
succeeded in inducing a goodly num-
Der of Cloquet's citizens to join In
a movement to have the railroad
| and lumber companies connection
with the fire investigated by the
friends of these interests. This is
on par with allowing horse thief
to be tried by jury of his fellows.
Unfortunately, some of the good
citizens of Cloquet have been
nulcted by the clever schemers back
Of this movement, but it is hoped
that, before the stage is reached
where they are to be tied up body
and soul to the ambitious young law
years of the Lumber Barons' domain,
they will have seen through the ne
farious scheme.
The shrewd promoters of this Clo-
quet scheme have never particular
lied as to what they were going to
do, say some Of the wiser citizens
and business men. of the town, but
this much can be relied upon: that
should the blind followers of these
ENJOYS of local interests once be in
duced to sign contracts with the law
yers Of this organization or any 9TH
er lawyers that this organization
Il
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-26
SCAND|NAV|ANS
ARE AMERICANS
First to Discover New World.
Support English Language
and Public Schools.

"Scandinavians have as good
right to the title Americans as any
other class of people, by right Of dis
covery, by right Of loyalty and devo-
ton to our government from it's
very inception, by right of unified
support of American institutions, and
especially the public school," Arvie
Queber declared in an address on
Americanization at an entertain
ment given in Tower hall by Supe-
rior lodge No. IS, Scandinavian
American Fraternity, one evening
last week.
"Of all deeds the Scandinavians
have to their credit in this country
none is greater than the unified sup
port of the American public school,
which in my opinion is the very
foundation of our government" de-
clared the speaker, who is a we'll
known Superior newspaper writer.
"Our people have had separate
schools in the churches to teach the
children the language Of our fathers,
but never in the history of our peo-
pie in America have we tried to es-
tablish a school in competition with
the little red school house. The sep
arate schools we have established
have been supplementary to and not
competing with the public schools.
We have established higher institu-
tions of learning, but our colleges
are principally English and a d.
ploma from any Scandinavian college
in this country is sufficient to gain
admission to any American univer-
sity.
1--WE believe in the use of the
English language, not because we
think it unpatriotic to speak any
other tongue, but because it Is the
language of the country and aids
progress to the nationality. But we
deplore a movement to hamper edu-
cation by prohibiting the use of any
language, and especially the lam
guage of the Norwegians and Danes,
who first discovered Vinland; the
Spaniards, who sent the expedition
which made the second discovery Of
this hemisphere. the Italians, who
furnished Christopher Columbus and
Amerigo Vespucci, the. latter Of
whom gave this half Of the world
its name; the Swedes |, who colon
lied this country Se03years ago and