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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-05-27
live CECIL NEWS ITEMS

Mrs. Gladys Medlock was Cecil
visitor on Saturday.
Warren Slender was a business
caller in Cecil on Thursday.
Miss Bernice Franklin OF Rhea
was calling on her Cecil friends on
Monday.
]. ]. McEntire Of Killarney" left
on Saturday for business trip to the
county seat.
Messrs. G. Willant and A. Il. Nash
made a short trip to Arlington on
Monday.
Mrs. Geo. Miller of "Highview"
visited with Mrs. Weltha Combest at
Cecil on Thursday.
]. Mcintosh, local sheep buyer was
hunting up his old friends on Willow
creek on Tuesday.
Geo. W. Wilson of Butterfly
Flats" is spending his vacation
amongst his friends in Heppner.
Rev. Father Cantwell OF Heppner
visited with Mr.. and Mrs. j. ]. Nc
Entire of Killarney" on Tuesday.
Mrs. A. E. Ross and family have
returned to "The Lookout" where
they will reside for the summer.
Mrs. c. A. Minor of Heppner and
daughter, Mrs. Phil Brady, heard
CALI Gurci at the Heilig while in
Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Farnsworth and
family, also Sox Mogan, autoed to
Heppner Sunday returning home on
Tuesday.
The Mayor" and daughter, Miss
Violet Hynd, and nephew, Robert
Lowe, made a short trip to lone on
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Logan and
family of "Fairview" visited with
]. w. Osborn and Mrs. Weltha Com
best on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Willant and son
Jack accompanied by Mrs. Peter
Nash visited at the home OF Leon Lo-
gan on Wednesday.
nE.n ptoro,oo us;ptars opd fap,iIv
and Mr.. and Mrs Earl Calkins and
family were looking up their Cecil
friends on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs, Jack Hynd and fam
lily OF Butterfly Flats spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Franklin at
the Montgomery ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Henriksen of Will
low creek ranch, have been at their
Hamilton ranch for few days and
returned home on Tuesday.
Walter Pope. who is still having
treatment at The Dalles hospital,
was able to spend the week end with
his old friends around Cecil.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Nash, acom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs, G. Willant
of Roseburg spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. John Nash OF Ewing.
Peter Bauernfend spent Monday
and Tuesday in lone attending 10
business matters in connection with
the estate OF the late Peter Benson
Henry and John Krebs OF The
Last Camp" left on Sunday for their
ranch on Skinner creek, where they
will be busy fencing for some time
before returning to Cecil.
Dickinson Bros, Claude Robinson
Harry Burke and Glen Farnsworth
who have been working for Osker
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-05-27

Huber al the Cecil camp since Nov
ember left on Friday for Corvallis.
Thos. II. Lowe and son, T. ".
Lowe, Of Cecil and w. G. Hynd Of
Rose Lawn" left on Thursday for
Portland where they will spend some
time before visiting Shepherds
Springs in Washington.
Harry l.. Hayes, who has been
studying in Hood River for the past
few months arrived In Cecil on Tues
day and will work on Willow creek
ranch for A. Henriksen, one OF Ce-
eil's most prominent stockmen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Hynd who have
been in Heppner for day or two re-
turned home on Wednesday accom-
panied by their brother w. G. Hynd
of Sand Hollow and their niece Miss
A. c. Lowe of the Highway House. "
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-05-27
cARD or THANKS

To all those who took part in AMI
assisted in making the Memorial Ser
vice at the Christian church the sue
cess it was, and especially Mrs w
o. Livingstone, who delivered the ad
dress, we take this method Of extend
ing our thanks.
Members Of Raiwlins Post,
Grand Army of the Republic.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-05-27

Pat Brady spent the week end in
Heppner from his sheep ranhc "a,
Six Prong, Wash. Mr.. Brady will
spend the summe with his sheep near
BiekeltOn.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-05-27

County agent L. A. Hunt left on
Saturday for Burns to attend the an
nual convention of State Cattlerais-
ers. He expects to return home to-
day.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-05-27

Select your fires ac-
cordin6 to fhe roads
they have to travel:
In sandy or hilly coun-
try, wherever the going
is apt to be heavy-The
U. S. Nobby.
For ordinary country
roads--The u. S. Chain
or Usco.
For front wheels-The
U. S. Plain.
For best results
everyw here-U. S.
Royal Cords.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

Christmas Day has long been dedi-
Gated to the joy Of human life. This
joy is not only shared by the little
child who sees a reindeer behind
every bush and shrub and who revels
in the wonders of the shop. windows,
but is claimed by those who have
reached the road tinged with silver Of
maturer years. The joys of the day
are not confined to the temperate zone
with it's covering of snow but to the
far north where there is no day and in
the far south where summer fingers.
The day more nearly belongs to the
people OF the world than any other
day-a time of greater universal en-
joyment. Those who have met failure
those who have encountered disap-
pointment, those who feel the road is
crowded for them. find in this day
more Of human interest feeling. In
the Christmas tree all may take coun-
sci; it breathes a guidance by which
men may live.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

theatre affects the eyes one should
visit an occulist This is the advice
given by the United States Public
Health Service, according to writer
in The American Journal of Public
Health (Chieago), who says:
THE fact that millions of people
go to motion picture shows through
out the United States daily without
experiencing any discomfort to their
eyes, or that such eye trouble that is
found is not traceable to 'overindul
gence' in the movies. would seem
to indicate that motion-pictures are
not injurious to the vision. In this con
nection it may be pointed out thai
employees of motien-picture playhous
es who spend a large part of the day
looking at the pictures, do not seem
to be troubled with their eyes any
more than the average individual
1t is safe to say person may witness
a picture-play lasting about an hour
and half each day without straining
the eyes or experiencing any discom-
H
fort, provided the eyes are good and
there are no hidden defects to the Wis
ion.''
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
THE LATE ALI. 7. RINGING WAS NOT MADE
NERVOUS WHEN HE FOUND A POAcHER ON HIS
FINE PRESERVES AT OAK RIDGE NEW JERSEY

Robert H. Davis has written an arti-
Gle on "Anglermaniacs" which has ap-
peared in Field and Stream. The arti-
Gle contains a picture of the late ALT.
T. Ringing and a fishing incident
which came under the observation of
Mr.. Davis. Mr. Ringing resided on a
fine estate at Oak Ridge, New Jersey,
there being lovely woods and a fine
stream. One day while walking over
his grounds Mr. Ringing came upon
fellow fishing on his place Mr.. Davis
writes of the incident as follows:
Without the slightest delicacy he
horsed the bass shoreward, ran down
the tree, kicked the fish three times
good and hard in various places and
added him to the stack. The circus
man was quite impressed.
What will you take for that plug?"
said ALI. @
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
8ARABOO WEEKLY NEWS
Thursday, December 80, 1920
HOLD TIGHT TO YOUR JOB

Now is good time to hold tight to
your job. The lack of employment is
rapidly becoming the greatest prob
lem. 1t has not been long since
farms, factories, stores and other lin
.es were looking for help; now thous-
ands of men and women are being
turned away. There is as much work
to be done as ever; possibly not in
exact the same way. During the read
justment every one should hold fast
to that which he has. In cities men
are standing two blocks long in an
swer to an advertisement. That is
significant.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

40 gross tons for every sleeping
car passenger. The surcharge is not
paid to the Pullman company, but goes
to the railroad to compensate it for
the additional amount of equipment
hauled. In periods Of congestion,
there is no feature of railway service
which yields the traveller so much for
his money as the difference between
standard rate and the Pullman charge.
remarks an exchange.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

mains attached to the estate
Also during her natural life, or SO
long as she may. remain a widow, the
use of the real estate at Ringing Park,
, except that portion about to come to
Mr. Ringing from Uhler Coil; also a
Lone-half interest in the waters of Pet
ersburg Forge Pond This is limited to
her use and if she marries it goes to
the son, Richard T.
g. To the son he bequeathed a one
fourth interest in the co-partnership
of the Ringing Brothers Worlds
Greatest Shows, the Barnum & Bailey
Greatest Shows on Earth, and the
Adam-Forepaugh & Sells Brothers
Enormuos shows. The intent of the
will, it states, is to give to him all the
interest owned by Mr.. Ringing, real
and personal,
A. To the son he gave all the house
hold furniture at sc Gramercy Park,
New York, and. stock in the Gramercy
Park club; also the farm in Greenfield,
lots IN Baraboo, tract secured from
Uhler Coil, and one-half interest in
Petersburg Forge Pond.
s. To the son he also gave one-half
of the residue of the estate.
g. To the executors and trustees
the other half was bequeathed.
The net rents go to the wife, Eli
zabeth, in lieu of her dover rights.
7. At the death of the wife, her
share in the property goes to the son
Or his heirs.
Note-After the will was drawn
one brother, Henry Ringing, died.
Since the death Of the father the
farm in Greenfield has been sold b.
the son to Attorney John M. Kelley.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

II dunno. What's Il worth to your
inquired the rube.
Give you a dollar"
Make it two and I'll go you"
" You're on"
Thus the plug passed to Mr.. Ring
ling.
Many time have 1 seen ALI. in
Madison Square when the All Silver
Cornet Band was lambasting the
grand march and the elephants were
trumpeting and the spangled hordes
were marching to the harmony of the
only Steinway calliope ever manu-
featured by the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, but never have / beheld upon
his face such an expression of beati-
tude and joy as on that historic even
ing when a zap poacher sold him a
faded bass plug on his own preserves.
Angling makes kindred of us all.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
ENTER SECOND
WARD BUILDING

81
The Second ward school building
has been ransacked and the interior
Of the structure looks like it had been
a hobo's paradise for about a week.
When school convenes again it may
be able to find out if anything of value
has been taken. The authorities have
their suspicious who has been making
his headquarters there.
North Freedom Visited
The report comes from North Free.
dom a home was entered a few
nights ago and the owner did not
know a thing about it until-the next
day. During the same night the pool
hall was entered and $40 walked off
with the burglars.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

During the past year the American
people have been swindled out of more
than $25,OOG000 by promoters of
wildcat" moving picture schemes.
Evidently the oil SPECTATORS are not
smooth enough to capture all "easy
money" If people must gamble on
uncertainties they should at least ven
ture into places where there will be
partial return.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
NATTONALIZING ALIENS

Judge Evan A. Evans or Baraboo
recently at indianapolis, delivered an
address on the naturalization of
aliens The following are among the
main points held:
/. The immigrant who comes to
this country to reside permanently
and who does not apply for naturaliza-
ton within given period of time
should be sent back The last draft
disclosed there were 100000 aliens
in this country.
2. The immigrant should be com
PEELED to learn our language, not
only to speak but to read it.
8. The decree of any court natural
izing an alien should expressly pro-
vide for it's vacation if it be made to
appear that the citizen after natural
ization, by word or act, disprove the
protested loyalty asserted when the
oath Of citizenship was admitted.
In the discussion of the above prop
ositions Judge Evans gave cogent
reasons for their enforcement and in
order to carry out the provisions Of
the law would charge each applicant
for citizenship the sum of 800 to go
into a trust fund to be devoted to but
one purpose-tO assist immigrants to
get upon their feet. He does not
think 500 too great, for many lodges
charge from $50 to $50 at the time of
initiation and would it not be worth
while for person to pay the above
sum to become a. citizen of one of the
greatest countries on earth The
foreigner should realize it means some
thing to become a citizen of this
country and his imitation should be a
step in his life that is worth while. He
may then be in an attitude to contri-
butte to the welfare of this republic.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
TIME AT SEA DIVIDED
INTO SEVEN WATCHES

In the time division of the twenty
four hours of the day into watches on
board ships at sea there are five watch
es of four hours each and two of two
hours, every watch having it's distinct
i've name. Beginning at noon the af-
ternoon watch is from IL m. to 4 p. m.
first dog watch, 4 p. m. to p. m. ;.
second dog watch, p. m. to s p. m.
night watch to L p. M middle II mid
to IL midnight; middle watch, IL mid
night to 4 a. m; morning watch, 4 a.
N. to a. m; forenoon watch. a. m.
to noon
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
COURT AT MADISON
REFUSES DIVORCE TO
MRS. TRUMAN SWAN

Mrs Elsa Irene Swan was denied
a divorce from Truman Swan in Su-
perior court. In making the decision
the court declared that the pictures
of Mrs. Swan taken in Henry Villas
park were made after her marriage to
Swan. It was also the opinion of the
court that her alleged cruel and I'M
human treatment from Swan was with
out truth, as well as her claim that
the defendant called her vile names.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
MEMBERS OF ASSOCIATION
HAVE HONOR ROLL COWS

Members of the Baraboo, Reedsburg,
and Spring Green Cow Testing asso-
Citations, own cows which have made
Wiseonsin's honor roll by producing
a pound of butter fat day for year.
Their names are listed in circular
Profitable Cows, issued by the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, in cooperation
with the Wisconsin Dairymen's asso-
citation. A complete record is given in
this publication of these banner cows,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
FORMER PORTAGE BOY HOME
AFTER LONG YEARS IN SERVICE

Frank Kruger, an old time Portage
boy, now in the regular army, is visit
ing in the city. He is stationed at
West Point in the supply department
of the big military sch0oi. Frank is
a son Of John Kruger who years ago
conducted q dray line in Portage.
Three Of the Kruger boys were with
old Co. F. in the Spanish American
war and went to the front in com
mand of Capt. Frank T Lee, whose
funeral occurred recently.
Mr.. Kruger has only five years to
serve when he will be eligible to re-
tirement after thirty years of service.
Portage RegisterDemocrat
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

together with the record each made,
the kind of feed given and the name
and address of the owner
The members of the local associa-
ton who owned cows qualifying for
the honor roll are:
Baraboo association: Ed. McGilvra,.
Baraboo.
Reedsburg association: John c..
Gfese, Loganville; kirkpatrick Bros.
Reedsburg; Conrad G. Kruse, Logan
vile and Edgar A. Wood, Logsnville-
Spring Green association: Henry
Lins. and Leon Peck, Spring Greek.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
SENATOR C. STAUDENMAYER
OF CALEDONIA is DELEGATE
NATIONAL PARKS CONFERENCE

Professor F. A. Aust of Madison, is
one of seven delegates appointed by
Governor Philip to attend the nation
al conference on parks January 1912
in Des Moines. The other delegates
are Walter j. Brennan, Lancaster;
Judge A. H. Long, Prairie du CHEN;
Judge w. r. Graves, Prairie du Chen:
Judge A K. Owen. Phillips; Senator
R. j. Nye, Superior; Senator George
Staudenmayer, Portage.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
GIFTS MADE TO
LOCAL SOCIETY

i The Sank County Historical society
has received the following:
Oscar Altpeter gives a picture of
Old Fort Dearborn with surrounds
ings as it appeared in 1855.
Franklin Johnson gives certificate
of merit granted for superb exhibit
of fruit made at the Columbian expo
sition. A beautiful bronze medal ac-
companies the certificate of merit, one
side bearing likeness of Columbus
and the other the following:
* s. * y * $. * ~ & i X * * Sc *
* Worlds Columbian Exposition =
= in Commemoration of the *
y Four Hundreth Anniversary X
* Of the Landing of Columbus y
= MDCCCXCII &MDCCxCIII *
* The Sank County Fruit *
* Exhibit 81
* * * * =. * * * ). 81 - s. s. * a
D. Joseph Johnson gives package
of iron spikes and nails removed from
timbers below the Kilbourn dam.
George Mogler gives bullet moulds.
E, B. Trimpey gives a picture of the
Ringing family, view at Ableman,
and Of the Give Pick Quick Orphans"
W. W. Warner, Harry Clatsworthy,
Henry Flint, Clarence Luce and Frank
Baker. This was a literary social
club in Baraboo about 1878 or 1879.
The members gave character parties
and the picture shows the five mem
bers in unique attire.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

While the fab in wholesale prices
of commodities since April l has been
the most precipitous and severe In
American economic history, the fall
has not been at all evenly distributed
says the Springfield Republican. Coal
and coke actually rose. 81 per cent
between April / and December /
Fruits declined but II per cent, chem,
icals and drugs 79 per cent and build
ing materials 8.4 per cent.
The severest breaks in wholesale
prices in the period mentioned came
in naval stores, 56.6 per cent; textiles,
545; metals, 1855; .breadstuffs 32.7;
hides and feathers 29.9 per cent; and
a group called miscellaneous" 46.3.
Livestock fell 1877 per cent and pro
vision 12.1.
These figures (Bradstreet's) are
of special interest because they per
nit some comparison between the fall
in foodstuffs with that of other
commodities. The agricultural in
terest of the country has been very
hard hit, yet breadstuffs have not
declined to the same extent that
naval stores, oils, textiles and metals
have. The four commodities, bread
stuffs, livestock, provisions and fruits
which all come from the soil and are
the agriculturist's special contribu-
ton, have suffered an average price
decline between April / and December
l Of 1856 per cent, while even the de-
cline in breadstuffs alone has not
equaled the decline in textiles or met
ais.
1t is only fair for the west to note
these facts New England as a tex
tile manufacturing center is hit no
less than the great farm region of the
Mississippi and Missouri valleys. A
wage reduction of over % per cent is
now forecast in eastern textile mills.
From the, farmers standpoint, this
should mean cheaper supplies in all
textile lines; but the wage earners of
the mills must have compensation for
lower wages in cheaper food and 9th
er elements of the cost of living.
How much more commodity prices
will fall in this period no one can say,
but in view of the fact that the most
precipitous previous drop in our his
tory, in the first six months of 1866,
was 25.5 per cent, it would seem
probable that the decline of 34.2 per
cent in the past seven months had ia
ken in for the most part the present
downward movement.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
THE PUBLIC AND PRICES

Prof. Giddings used to tell his clas-
ses that every dog in a pack would
run faster and harder because he
saw the others running. Whether or
not that is true of dogs-and / am
willing to take the Professors word
for tit is certainly true of the
American public. A year ago they
were running after high prices, with
their tongues fairly hanging out of
their mouths and dripping in expecta-
ton of the big profits they were
going to make. To-day they are
bounding every scared commodity
price down the hill to it's last stand.
zero.
Three-quarters of century ago,
when Mrs. Brown whispered to Mrs.
Jones that she had heard somebody
say that the village bank was short
of money everybody in town knew
within an hour or two that the bank
was about to fail-and the result was
that all the good townspeople were
at the bank door clamoring for their
money. Ensued "the run on the
bank"-true and tried old property
of the Victorian melodramatist
Today the newspaper and the tele-
graph have made the whole country
INTO a little village-almost the
whole world, indeed. Everybody at
his breakfast table reads what every
body else thinks. Mrs. Browns whis
per is megaphoned and wirelessed all
over the commercial world
The grocer reads in the morning
paper that Mr.. Stonehead Conspieler
of the department of theoretical as
ininity at Washington, says a sugar
famine is imminent. One hundred
thousand other grocers read the same
thing, and they all try to buy sugar
at once. Also the public all try to-
lay in sugar to last a year. Result
25 cents a pound Next result, sugar
comes here from Patagonia, New
Zealand, New Hebrides, Iceland, the
Caspian sea, the Sargasso sea, and
other places, if any, where they don't
believe all they read in the papers.
And when the 100000 have bought
what they want, and the public has
bought all it wants, they all find
there is plenty of sugar, so they all
try to sell at once. Result: 10 cents
for sugar. Next result, everybody
there is such a thing as
sugar, and serve it; all the women
start to canning fruit because sugar.
IS cheap; everybody begins to eat
candy; even Europe plucks up cour-
age enough to buy a little, sugar
Meantime, grocers won't buy much
they have had sugar experience
enough for a while. And I suppose
by-and-by we. shall wake up to theI
fact that we are out of sugar again.
and shall again fall over each other
to bull the Magazine of Wall
street.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

A fellow down east played mean
trick on a newspaper He wrote a
poem, sent the first lines to the edi-
tor and asked if any one could supply
the remainder of the poem. Later he
sent the entire production and the
editor printed the whole of it.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
COST OF RAIL TRAVEL.

Explaining the reason for the Pull
man surcharge, about which many
travellers are complaining, the Illinois
Central points out that in 1919 it haul
ed liz gross tons of car weight for
every coach passenger carried and 4
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

Several New England towns have
voted for Sunday sports. The blue
sky law in that quarter does not look
so blue
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30

Orders have been received at Pitts
burgh for steel rails valued at about
$4,000, 900 This is a better omen
than Sancho Panza held up.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-30
THE JOY OF THE FARM

John Burroughs, the naturalist, says
the farmer should find life sweeter
than those in other occupations, even
though it is often less highly season
ed. In the city a resident is often be
set on all sides but on the farm he
enjoys greater freedom. Strictly speak
ing the man on the farm is the only
one who has home.