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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20
YOUR LIBERTY BOND

The United States Government
borrowed money from you to finance
the War. You hold the Govern
ment's promise to pay you back.
This promise is called Liberty
Bond or Victory Note On this
which the Government borrowed
the money from you
For instance: If you hold
Bond of the Third Liberty Loan, it
states that on April 18th and Octo-
ber1 9Th of each year until maturity,
you will receive interest on the
amount you paid for the Bond
Other issues bear other rates of in
terest and other maturity dates, all
of which are clearly stated on the
Bond
Now if you keep your Bond until
the date when the Government pays
you in full for it, you do not need to
worry if,in the meantime, the price
is low one day or high the next. You
and Uuncle Sam are living up. to
your agreement with each other, and
neither will lose by it.
On the other hand, if you sell your
Liberty Bond now, you will find that
the man you sell it to will not give
you a dollar for every dollar you
paid for it. The price has been
brought down because so many peo-
pie are offering to sell their Bonds.
If the market is flooded with toma-
toes, you can buy them cheap, but if
everyone is clamoring for tomatoes
and there are few to be had, the
price goes up. The same is true of
Liberty Bonds. Short-sighted' people
are dumping them on the market,
and wise ones are buying them.
The best advice that can be given
to the owner of Liberty Bond is
this: Hold the bond you bought
during the war; it is as safe and
sound as the United States Govern
ment itself.
Buy as many more at the present
low rate as you can afford. If you
hold them to maturity, you are
| bound to make the difference be-
tween what they sell at now and
their face value. You will also re-
ceive good interest on your invest
| ment.
Hold on to your Liberty Bonds
and buy more.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20
LINDEN

Rev. Harry of Cuba City was a
business caller here Wednesday.
Misses Lulu and Mildred Rule
were Cobb callers Wednesday even
ing.
Gerald Weisen of Kenosha is Wis
iting with relatives and friends here.
Mrs. George Alton of Mineral
Point spent a few days Of the past
week with relatives and friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Halverson
were callers here Friday.
The Senior class was entertained
with a six o'clock dinner at the home
of Miss Florence Taylor by the high
school faculty Friday evening.
Frood Smith was a Dodgeville cal
Ter Saturday.
Lester Baker returned to his home
in Sparta after spending a week here
under the care Of DR.. Hernandez.
Miss Ethelma Stephens was a Min
eral Point caller Friday.
Mrs. Will Liddicoat is a patient at
Dodgeville General Hospital.
Miss Elva Rhinerson visited here
Saturday evening.
Will Smith was a business caller
at Mineral Point Wednesday.
Messrs. Curtis Fault and Glen and
Lester Oldenburg were Dodgeville
callers Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Liddle of
Kenosha are visiting relatives here.
H. w. Cochens Of Milwaukee was a
business caller here Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Tredinnick,
J. T. Tredinnick and Ellen Tredin-
nick were Mineral Point callers Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Molling of Ken
osha spent the week end at the Otto
Ovitz home.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. S. Mackay visited
relatives in Richland Center Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Burton, F. F.
Oldenburg and daughter Gladys Wis
tied with relatives in Dodgeville Sun
day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20

Madison, Wis.-Some interesting
statistics concerning Iowa County
have just been compiled for the state
department of agriculture by J. A..
Becker, joint crop statistician for the
state and federal departures. These
statistics cover farm labor supply,
daily milk production per COW, price
received for milk, and total value of
milk product. From these it appears
that the present supply of farm la
Dor in the county of Iowa is IA per
cent of normal; that the present de-
mand for farm labor is 100 per cent
of normal. The COWS of the county
in 1916 were MIXED an average Of
253 days each and their average
daily yield was 17.6 lbs, for which
an average price of 1894 per cwt.
was received. The total value of the
milk product for the year was
$4,7O5.S8.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20
TOO MUCH SMALLPOX

Reports from several parts of the
state indicate that more than the usu
al number of cases of smallpox is
occurring this Spring. Any number
at all is more than should occur be-
cause if there is one disease in which
we have an easy means of prevention
that disease is smallpox.
A hundred years ago smallpox was
an exceedingly common disease, caus
| ing as many deaths as consumption
| today. Pock-marked faces were so
common that the absence of scars of
the disease was noted as a means of
! Identification of escaped prisoners
and other missing persons.
Jenner's discovery of vaccination
as a means of preventing the disease
was begun by reports from a dairy
ing district in England that persons
who had been accidentally infected
by cowpox escaped smallpox mas
much as cowpOx was relatively a
mild disease, Jenner deliberately in
fected persons with it as a protective
against the deadly smallpox.
In most contagious diseases an in
dividual has to depend for his person
al protection largely upon the care
his sick neighbors and friends take
to protect him. In the instance of
smallpox he has, in vaccination, the
means practically in his own hands.
Any unvaccinated person who sick
ems from this disease has nobody but
himself or his personal guardians to
blame.
Some of the most advanced health
officers and sanitarians have gone so
far as to suggest that all public and
police regulations in respect to this
disease should be suspended, because
nothing that quarantine can accom-
plish in the way of prevention offers
the protection that vaccination does.
the opportunity of thoroughly under
standing the truth about vaccination
however, few responsible officials
would have the courage to put their
theoretical suggestion into effect. In
the meantime people who do under
stand should not take chances they
can so easily avoid by being vaccin-
ated.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20
A MERCILESS JUDGE
One Who Shows No Favor.

A merciless judge is Father Time.
Before him the weak and the want
ing go to the wall For years the
following statement from a Mineral
Point resident has withstood this
sternest of all tests.
Mrs. Nelson PEBBLES, Commerce st
Mineral Point says: when living
in Illinois I used Doan's Kidney Pills
and found them all right. l was
not very well and / suffered from
colds settling in my kidneys and the
muscles of my back. My kidneys
were weak and irregular in action.
I read of Doan's and what they had
done for some people l knew l used
them and the trouble went away"
Statement given June IL, 1879
On December Is, 1919, Mrs. Pee
bles said:"I have the same high re-
gard for Doan's Kidney Pills to-day
as I had when / gave my former
statement in 1913 praising them.
They cured me of very severe case
of kidney complaint and my cure
has been a lasting one"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney PilIs-the same that
Mrs PEBBLES had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20

Mrs. Edgar Thomas and son Tom
Of Livingston visited last week at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Everette
Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Humbert
and daughter and William and Doris
Harker Of Waldwick wereSunday Wis
itors at the Raleigh James home.
Mrs. John Proctor spent Wednes-
day night with Mrs. Jane Dunn.
Gerald Salmon and Charles Day
were in Chicago last week to pur-
chase some cattle.
Simon Waters and Fred Jung
bluth were callers at Jonesdale We'd
nesday evening.
The next meeting of the Ladies
Aid will be Mrs. E. J. Fitzsimmons'
1t will be held at the church May 26
Everyone welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Llewellyn Dunn of
Mineral Point spent the week end
with Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Godfrey.
Mrs. Charles Kotch and daughter
Of Waldwick spent Sunday at the
William Mite home
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Neudroff of
near Hollandale were recent visitors
at the James Waters home.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20

Bloomington Record: Mrs. Clin-
ton Barr, state vice chairman of Wis
consin Women Democrats, served the
Democratic State leaders with an I'LL
timatum that raised their hair, when
she made the following statement:
eff you put a plank in the platform
at San Francisco which gives light
beer and wine or makes other con-
cessions to the vets, the women will
not vote for the Democratic party"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20
SHARP AXE OR DULL AXE

The body who drops out of school
under the delusion that the money
he will earn will be worth more to
him than an education, makes IA
tai mistake. AS the wood chopper
canafford to stop chopping long enuf
to complete his education. The diff
erence between meeting life's prob
lem with a trained mind and a dull
mind is even greater than the differ
ence between chopping wood with a.
sharp axe and dull one.
The Commoner.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20

Mrs. John Burns is visiting her
daughter Mrs. Henry Strand near
Hollandale.
Miss Amy White, who teaches
school at Dodgeville, spent the week
end at her home near here.
Andrew Tannler of Chicago trans
acted business here this week.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20

Blanchardville Blade-Mr. and Mrs.
C. Vickers, Jr. and children and Mrs.
Henry Uren motored to Mineral
Point Sunday and visited with rela-
tives.
Blanchardville Blade Chris Ire
william of Mineral Point visited here
Sunday.
6lanchardville Blade Mesdames
c.. H. Olson, G.. w. Noble, John Hal
diman, F. J. Nc Kenna and w. F.
Nc Guigan motored to Mineral Point
Friday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20
THE SCHOOL board
Mineral Point, Wis, May 10, 1920.

Mineral Point, Wis, May 10, 1920.
An adjourned meeting Of the board
of education was held in the council
chamber on above date.
Meeting called to order by Pres
ident Gratiot.
Members present: Commissioners
Gratiot, Tucker, Huxtable, Ludden,
Shipman.
On motion the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
W. NJ Gratiot; Vice-president, Allen
Tucker
The following committees were ap
pointed by President Gratiot:
TEACHERS AND employees
Tucker. $500. Ludden ....... Huxtable
SUPPLIES
Huxtable $3.50 Mauger. .... Brewer
FINANCE
Shipman Ludden HuXtab BILE
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
Mauger w HuXtable .,.... .Ludden
On motion the following bills were
allowed:
W.. J. Penhallegon. material used
IN h. G..... o.5U
American Express Co.. express charges. 400
d. G. Jacka, fuel. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 51.23
Baxter & Kelly. mdse. for Domestic
Science Dept. ESQ
Gundry & Gray. mdse. for Domestic
Science Dept....... ........... l.43
j Nancolas chairs INSTRUMENTATION. 24.00
j. j. Hanscom & Co., stationery and
SupplleS... ..,................ z.z5
nj. P Public Service Co.. power. light
and mdSe... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 80 81
M. P. Telephone Co.. rent and toll.... $40
G.. C. Birchard & Co.. supplies used
In instruction.. ....,........... $50
Scott, Foresman & Co., textbooks. ...... 9.11
The Gregg Publishing Co., notebooks. 2.O3
Charles Scribner's Sons. textbooks Sc 81
A. Flanagan Co.. maps and
OCner supplies. .....-......... 5o.|S
Albert Pick & Co., towel cabinet.-...... 237
J. D. Wallace & Co., inch Bench
Jointer for NJ T. (bal duel. ....... 10000
w. M. Welsh Mfg. Co.. supplies used
IN instruction. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Is w
Motion carried that the teachers COM
mittee be authorized to fill all vacancies
in the teaching force.
Motion carried to pay the Methodist
Brotherhood $4,000 for the use of
Epworth Hall during the basket ball
season.
Motion carried that the clerk receive
competitive bids on IT'S tons of Franklin
County coal.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
Attest
FRED J. JEUCK, Clerk.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20
WILLIAM A. SEARS. D. G..
DENTISTS
w. ]. MORGAN. D. D. S.
CARE OF cHILDREN's TEETH SPECIAL

CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH A SPECIALITY
Uses Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is safe and
absolutely painless.
All the latest appliances used in the profess
sion.
Office over the N. T. Martin hardware store
Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
Hours a. m. to 8 p. m.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20

Mr.. Nc Adoo talks occasionally;
and talks right to the point. He
holds fast to the good old Democra-
tic thought of principles, not men.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-20

Hollandale Weekly Review Mrs.
Willard Noble of Mineral Point Wis
tied Mrs. Geneva Noble last Saturday
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
Danger in Reading

Richard LaGallienne warns against
reading too much and thinking too
little In recent interview he says:
1--WE Americans bolt our books as
we do our food, and so get far too
little good out of them. We treat our
mental digestions as brutally as we
treat our stomachs. Meditation is the
digestion of the mind, but we allow
ourselves no time for meditation. We
gorge our eyes with the printed page,
but all too little of what we take IN
with our eyes ever reaches our minds,
or our spirits. Books are the strong
tincture of experience. They are to
be taken carefully, drop by drop, not
carelessly gulped down by the bottle
Therefore, if you would get the best
out of books, spend a quarter of an
hour reading and three quarters of an
hour in thinking over what you have
read"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
President OF France
Very Versatile Man
A Lover, Political Economist,
Expert Dancer, Etc.


Versatility is one Of the most
marked traits of the new President of
France, Paul Deschanel. He is an
orator, a political economist, and au-
thority on parliamentary law, and an
expert in the psychology of woman.
He has discoursed on the theme OF
romantic love without compromising
his official dignity, and he bows pub
licly with SO gracious a gravity that
the dancing masters Of Paris encour-
age their pupils with the remark:
Monsieur Deschanel could not have
done better.
He climbs mountains in Switzer.
land, executes graceful pen sketches
of his intimate friends, and rarely
loses game OF cards. His compre-
hension of his fellow-creatures is so
instant that he can assent to the re.
dictionary proposition of a French
monarchist and agree with a revo-
lutionary Socialist of the left wing
simultaneously.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
Would Build
For the Eskimo

Americans need never worry about
that portion of its population which
has something to do That part which
has nothing to do is more or less OF
perpetual menace because of the
half-baked ideas it persists in adding
to the general confusion of life. Note,
for example, an official of the United
States Bureau of Fisheries, who has
started movement to "modernize''
the eskimo by providing him with q
concrete house in place of his pictur-
esque and cozy. hut or "igloo."
We are not at all worried that the
Eskimo would ever join in the enter
prise to make his home dreary pig
pen, but cite the case merely as
typical of the alterations of people
who haven't enough to do. The Es-
kimo changes his place of abode more
often, undoubtedly. than he does his
underwear. This is to say, every two
or three weeks. Instead of cleaning
up the accumulation of filth, he de-
serts it and builds new house, which
is neat and sanitary. According to
Stefanson, it is "as warm as your H.
brary," which he means, of course.
that it feels that way to one dressed
according to the modes of the Arc
tics.
What could be done with an ugly
concrete dwelling to improve on this
manner of life? Some folks are never
happy unless improving" something
in nature which comes from the hand
of the Creator.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
Poll Gets a Lease


The United States Government
owns the Poll Theatre property in
Washington and for several years the
house has been operated under an ar
rangement through which the theatri-
cal interest could be ordered to vacate
on thirty days notice in case Uncle
Sam wished to erect new structure
ON the site. Recently, however, Mr..
Poll succeeded in getting a ten year
lease without the thirty-day clause
and he will now spend about $4,000
remodeling and redecorating the thea
tier. The Shubert interests will con
tinue to book attractions there.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04

Ever since J. Fenimore Coopers
time, the white inhabitants Of the
world have held queer and diversified
ideas as to the character Of the North
American Indian. These conceptions
ranged from the ideal of the noble
savage as portrayed in 'Deerslayer"
and the Last of the Mohicans' to the
belief of the frontiersmen of the '80s
that the only good Indian was dead
Indian.
The modern representatives of the
original inhabitants have had to
shoulder reputation for sloth, lazi-
ness and general uselessness in many
cases. That this latter conception
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
Keep On Keeping On

KEEP ON keeping on, there is plenty
to try for;
Don't wiring your hands and lie
down in despair.
Things that you want you have nc
time to sigh for,
While you are moaning another gets
there.
Things worth the having make effort
more pleasing,
For the best fruits you have always
to climb.
Never give in. though good fortune be
teasing;
Keep on keeping on, and keep on
all the time.
There is no sense in forever COM
planning,
Grumbling and growing are bad for
the soul.
Struggle and climb, to all good things
attaining,
Noble endeavor will get to the goal
Life will be fuller and cleaner and
brighter
If you press on with purpose
sublime;
Nothing good fortune loves more than
fighter,
Keep on keeping on. and keep on
all the time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
China Furnishes Another Rasputin

While ricksha coolies and teahouse
gossips tell each other that Bolshe-
vism means three acres and COW all
around, and even the sober middle
class Chinese think there may be
some remedy in it for materialism, it
is interesting to learn from Merlin
that the most powerful man in SOVIET,
Russia today is a Chinese or Confu-
clan buriat named Ipak Yen, who was
formerly a BARRIERS assistant in
Blagovestschensk, and was nearly
hanged as spy during the Russo
Japanese war.
For several months Ipak has had
working quarters in the Kremlin, and
has a palace in moscow, where he
keeps UP great state and parades his
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
Scientists Now Say
Plants Have Souls
Good Morning-Glo Will
You Have Some
Hooch?"

Scientists who have made a close
study of plant life are inclined to
believe that they possess a form of
life energy that closely resembles the
soul life of man. Plants eat, sleep,
drink, rest, become fatigued, react to
stimuli, become drunk when fed with
alcohol and recover as If from a Gag"
In other words, they live and die in
much the same way as do all the rest
of living things upon this globe
In writing on this subject in Azoth.
the occult magazine, Hereward Car.
rington mentions a number of inter-
esting facts that investigators have
discovered. Among other things, it
has been found that plants like to
turn night into day. Contrary to
popular tradition, they do not go to
sleep promptly at sunset, but as a
rule they retire to rest long after
midnight and do not wake up until ten
or eleven the next morning.
Professor Bose found That it took a
plant some time to recover from
drunkenness when alcohol was admin
istered in large quantities. Ether
caused temporary arrest of the func-
tions, while chloroform was usually
fatal. The most extraordinary par
allelism lies in the fact that those
poisons which arrest the beat of the
heart in particular way in human
beings, arrest plants pulsation in a
corresponding manner.
Great Britain lost 1000 prominent
athletes in the great war,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
indication OF the
Speculative Builder
Builder Must Make Proht.oI
He'll Not Work

Great Britain needs 100000 new
houses at once. When these are built
she needs 100000 a year to replace
the houses that have decayed and to
keep up with the increase in popula.
ton.
The shortage of houses was at frs,
a joke, but it has now become mis-
cry. In many British cities there is
absolutely no way Of getting house
except by buying it.
Premiums of $1,000 are being freely
offered in London for small apart
nsents, and hundreds of thousands OF
people are living in one-room homes.
This disastrous situation has been
brought about by the destruction OF
speculation and private initiative in
the building trades. Its primary cause
was too much state regulation and
its secondary cause was too much
stacking on the part of workers.
The government official and the
labor leader set out to Danish profit
from the building trades. They did.
They succeeded beyond their dreams.
Then they found that the life of
the building trade was profit-that
they could never have any houses at
all without the aid of the speculative
builder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
The Juvenile Band

The Juvenile Band of Mansfield,
Wash, is an organization Of which
any city might be proud. It consists
OF about 20 boys and girls ranging
from to Is years of age. The sma-
performers play in an artistic man
ner concert repertoire. The band
gives monthly programs in the city
theatre and is frequently assisted by
local singers and instrumentalists.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
Pineapple Cloth

Aside from its edible qualities. the
pineapple is little known in this
country. In China, however, it is
especially cultivated for the use of
the leaves in making cloth. The fibre
is extracted from the leaves by sim
pie process, and made into thread 1t
is then run on to bobbins and spools
and is ready for weaving, the old ma
tive looms being employed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
Woods Great
Laying Food Secret

Nearly all commercial laying
foods now sold to poultrymen can be
improved by adding gluten feed. When
so improved and fed as dry mash,
the increase in egg yield is remark
able," writes DR.. P. T. Woods.
"Take four measures of the ground
grain, ready mixed, commercial lay
ing food; best yellow gluten feed
three measures; coarse wheat bran.
one measure; mealed alfalfa or
mealed clover, one measure; best
meal, one measure. Mix these and
keep them before laying stock all the
time. In addition, feed fresh green
food freely. To each twenty-five hens
also give as first morning feed in
scratching litter, one quart of clean,
bright, cracked, yellow corn. At noon,
feed in litter one pint hard sound
wheat and one pint heavy clipped
white oats to each rs hens. Keep
water, grit, oyster-shell and charcoal
always before the fowls.
This plan is for laying stock for
market eggs only. 1t is too forcing
for best results for breeding stock.
Early Matched pullets. and hardy. Wig
orous yearlings that do not bag down
behind. are the best to force for eggs"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-06-04
Explicit

"Can you send man out?" was the
telephone message received at the
garage. my car is on the main pike
four miles from town."
Eyes, can send a man, but it will
simplify things if you can tell me ex
actly what is the matter with the
car"
81 can easily do that. The thingum
bob has jammed, thus fouling the
what's-its-name."