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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

Stood absorbed in the great cathedral
at Pisa watching a hanging lamp
swaying to and fro in the breeze.
There was something about the
swinging OF that lamp that fasci-
mated him and, timing the move
nient by his pulse. he finally dis
covered what it was. Sometimes il
moved but slightly and sometimes
il swung through a wide arc, but he
noticed that the swing was always
accomplished in exactly the same
time, regardless of its length. This
discovery was to revolutionfxe clock
construction. for il led TO the use
of the pendulum. Nowadays we
call this principle "isochronism,"
which means Unequal arcs in equal
time.
The pioneer who introduced the
clock Industry into America more
than two centuries later bore no re-
semblance whatever to the Italian
youth in the beautiful old-world
cathedral. II was "whitlin and
whistlinr Yankee, one Eli Terry. a
Connecticut carpenter who had that
honor. He carved clock wheels out
of wood in his own home and then.
mounting his horse with a clock
iashed on either side of the saddle,
he went about the country peddfng
his wares, some of which are tick
ing at this very moment His was
not very heroic figure perhaps. hut
he was a mighty pioneer and the
clock industry Of America rode in
on horseback with him.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

a certain regular course. There
came another great moment when
in the gloom of the dark ages a
monk named Gerbert. after patiently
tinkering with wheels and springs
in his bare cell. finally achieved
some sort of clock action.
The First Watch
The world had to wait six hundred
years for the next really great hap
pening in time telling. In 1911. one
Peter Henlein, an obscure mechanic
Of Nuremburg. produced a bulbous
monstrosity known as a "Nurem-
burg Egg"-wtich was the first
mechanical pocket timepiece ever
made. From this egg" have been
hatched all of the millions Of watches
produced since that day.
1t was later in the same century
that young Italian named Calico
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03
.. K MCbERN WATCH FACTORY 8.
OUTPUT 10000 A Day

His neighbors, however, shook
their heads at him when he hired
Seth Thomas to help him and pro-
ceeded to turn out more and more
clocks.
"You are losing your mind. Eli"
they told him in solemn warning.
"The first thing you know the
country will be so full of clocks that
there will be no market for Them
You are getting reckless and rum
ing your own business"
When the American watch in
dustry came along in its turn half
q century later, il met the same dole
full predictions. A watch worker re-
turning to his home town on q visit
was asked by his neighbors what he
was doing.
Il am working" said he "for .
company which makes seven com.
plete watches day"
Great was the merriment at this
reply.
Why" one incrcdulous friend
exclaimed, even If you could
make that many where on earth
could you sell seven watches dayl"
This incident occurred in 1880.
within the lifetime of men now liv-
ing. Today. one single company
among the many now engaged in
watch manufacturing, is turning out
watches at the rate of twenty thous-
and every working day. and alone
has produced more than sixty mil
lion timepieces in the short period
Of twenty-five years.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03
:. rRE Il q cK SIND Ow :.
EARLIEST TIME DEVICE

through long ages OF experiment.
finally confined in a tiny silver
casket. and given. not to some prince
for a fabulous sum. but to Every
man and for a dollar. To compre-
hend that compact mechanism is to
grasp the scheme of things entire
history, and the dreams of men.
evolution with its upward urge. the
intricacies Of mathematics, the rnys-
teries of astronomy and the ordered
interplay of all the wide labors of
men"
Gift to the Public
Not only Is the story in the book
one Of fascinating human-interest
but she story OF the book-of how
it came TO be produced-is, in its
way equally interesting.
Ordinarily. people expect to re-
ceive gifts on their birth Jays. not
give them. In this case. however,
one Of the officials of great manu-
featuring concern which was ap-
preaching rs twenty-hfth annivers-
airy, suggested to his associates that
they might celebrate the occasion BY
giving instead Of inviting gifts.
After long deliberation it was de-
cided 80 make gift that would be
of educational value not alone TO the
entire wa ch and clock industry of
which tn, manufacturer was a part
and to the hundreds Of thousands
directly Or indirectly engaged in the
industry. but to the general public
as well--a gift OF knowledge. Il
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

eether are all the threads OF this
universe. What compact. corre-
lated, battling mechanism is this
world
A Pocket Universe
"For nv little watch. just small
silver spot upon my wrist. is the
child of what remote ancestors, the
product OF what long and struggling
evolution II is microcosrn-a
universe in miniature. We trace here
the long undulatine line Of the
genesis OF the timepiece. From NOV
ing shadow, down through the sun
dial, the ciepsydra or 'water-thief.
the sandglass, the discovery Of the
law of the pendulum. the constfuc-
tion of the FIRST rude clock-mechan-
ism, the secret OF the 'escapcment.'
the Matching Of the 'Nuremburg
Egg the making OF useful time
piece out of a mechanical toy and
scientific curiosity, the growth OF
Matchmaking in France. Switzer.
land and England and the advent
Of Yankee ingenuity in the business.
"You who love the strange and un-
usual may we'll peruse these pages,
for they unfold the curious tale Of
cumulative invention. much more
marvellous story than any fairy tale
or the doing OF antique kings. The
Thousand and One Tales Of the
Arabian Nights are not more inter-
esting than this account Of how the
stars and the passing hours were
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

Did YOU know that Mark Twain.
the least superstitious OF men, firmly
believed and frequently propheoied
that having arrived on this earth
in the year that Halley's comet was
observed in 1895. his life would
come TO a close when the comet
next made its appearance in 1910.
and that his prophecy was fulfilled! !!
Have you ever realized how vitality
mankind has been Influenced by the
movement of the sun, the moon and
the stars since the very beginning OF
time? How did the caveman ever
know what time IL wass
Have you ever stopped TO wonder
what would happen in the complex
affairs OF our modern civilization ii
humanity were suddenly deprived of
all artificial means Of telling time ?
These and hundreds of other
questions are answered and innun-
erablc interesting and curious facts
are given in remarkable new book
entitled Time Telling Through the
Ages.'--an interpretative history of
time telling since the dawn OF civil
lization--now being published by
Doubleday. Page & Company. This
work constitutes gift TO the public
and a large preliminary edition is
now being distributed TO public IL
braries throughout country and in
other ways that will make it easily
accessible ID readers everywhere.
"As ] have fead the pages of this
book" writes DR.. Frank Crane, the
noted newspaper essayist. II have
realized as never before how fasci-
mating Is the romance of mankind's
tean, play. how amazingly woven to.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03
Quite Otherwise.

"Your charges are simply ou'rn-
eeous." complained the guest who was
al the shore hotel for his health.
Hold ont" protested the landlord.
"you forget Tn not at this hotel for
the same reason that you are"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03
Asr Drawback.

"How could that girls dressmaker
gain such reputation"
"why not?' =
Weren't all the dresses she made
miss fts1'
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

Invalids apparently dying of tuber-
culosis often regain their health on go
ing TO Queensland.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

Chesapeake Bay is the most southern
OF deep water bays
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

Indians hold ths Giis monster in
great fear though us 'site is no, nee
cssarily fatal TO human beings.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

riny years ago Boston was the
only place In the United States whcrs
the process OF diamond d-cutting Was
carried on. =.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03
Remarkable Pictures

In planning the illustrations for
the book. an artistic novelty was de-
cided upon and the camera was
was called into play for series of
daring experiments in Photographic
illustration. Fifteen historical COM
positions were worked out. models
we're secured, costumes and settings
prepared and the result was a series
Of Illustrations that are generally
conceded to be unprecedented in the
field Of Photographic art
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

taking research. OF a mountain of
individual pieces Of information.
The dramatic and fascinating story
which resulted is perhaps less
study OF time-telling or of time it.
self than of man in his relation to
both.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

was also decided that the gift should There have been
take the form OF book which the history of time telling The
the fundamental
and aeracng subject of Time of the ongamed
Inc work OF preparation required day,
the accumulation through shadow of rock always
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

gether are all the threads OF this
universe. What a compact. corre-
lated, battling mechanism is this
world
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-03

White whit to
with the skins removed
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
FARMERS PLUMB PLAN
is NOW TO BE URGED
Would Give All Hands 20 Cents Per
Hour, Basic 8-HGur Day, SatUT-
day Half Holiday

Washington. Jan. %. - Representa-
tive Carl W. Riddick. of Montana
friend of the farming interests in Con-
gress and himself farmer. has had
read into the Congressional Record a
facetious burlesque on the Plumb rail
road plan which was prepared by the
Railroad Defense Society. 1t is in the
form of an act and is as follows:
The government of the United States
shall have the farms appraised and
shall take them over. paying the own
ers 4 per cent government bonds.
a commission shall be formed to
run. the farms thus taken over to be
composed OF fifteen members. five of
whom shall be farmers. five shall be
farm employees and five shall be ap
pointed by the president of the United
States The five farmer commissioners
shall he elected by the farmers. The
five employee commissioners shall be
elected by the farm employees, They
| shall hold office for two years. and
their salary shall be fixed by the com
mission.
THE commission shall at once pro
ceed to employ proper persons to Oper-
! ate the farms. as far as possible. en-
ploying the present operators and their
wives and children when working to
continue on farms now occupied.
/ THE commission shall fix the rate
Of pay for farmers and farm employees.
but the first year the following rate
shall govern:
Farmers operating 100 acres and
under shall I've paid ninety cents per
hour
For farms 100 TO 200 acres. $125
per hour.
For farms 200 acres and up. $500
per hour
Farm employees. 20 cents per hour.
"All farmers. farmers wives. chill
dren and employees to work on basic
eight hour day. with time and half
for overtime Sundays and holidays.
There shall be half holidays on Sum
days.
The commission shall fix the price
at which produce is to be sold. and
prices are not to be reduced until the
business permits the dividing of 5 per
cent dividend to the farmers. Any
profit above ; per cent shall go to the
United States"
Such farmers Plumb Plan would
put the farmers in as favored class as
the railroad Plumb bill would put the
railway employees. 1t would relieve the
farmer of liability Of crop failure and
put the result of all such failures on
/ the public. It's enactment would not
preclude any other class from seeking
like favors
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
BEWARE OF CHEAP SEED

Seed clover is the highest in price
this year ii has ever been. and for this
reason we find that many farmers are
tempted to buy cheap seed. Many seed
companies are advertising clover seed
at price which is lower that the mar
ket. You will note that all of those
companies advertising clover seed at
very low prices are located outside of
the state of Wisconsin,. Because of this
fact they must do mail order business
in order net to come under the control
Of the Wisconsin pure seed laws.
One seed company located in Iowa is
selling clover and timothy mixtures
which has about 1870 annual yellow
blossom sweet clover in it. This they
sell at S29.70 per bushel. This means
that the farmer is really receiving
81 II pounds of clover seed in each 100
pounds purchased.
Besides the particular company re-
ferred to there are others following
such practices, and / have sent to each
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

FARM EDITOR WILL
IMPROVE HIS RANCH

The Big Seven Live stock Ranch
will he substantially improved when
spring opens up. There are now 40
acres cleared and 60 acres more will
be cleared and seeded this year. Be
sides this work. $500 viii he spent in
finishing the house, and III building an
addition 30 thc barn. This addition
will be 1SX40 which added to the barn
already built Will make barn room of
1Sxt4 feet. $500 more win he spent for
fencing and brushing in the 600-acre
pasture which is now enclosed. except
for the back end, with. woven wire.
There is a good drilled well 50 feet
deep with the purest kind Of water.
This farm is high and dry. being half
way between Flambcau and the Thorn
apple rivers. The whole farm could be
drained with a team and pillow. No wa
ter from any other farm flows across
it. The land was "cut over Il dozen
years ago, and big fires have done
their work so well that the timber is
all killed and the logs and stumpS are
rotten.
About 200 acres of the pasture are
well seeded to clover, timothy and sand
vetch now. and more will he seeded in
the spring The farm is on the Big
Falls road. six miles northeast of Lady
smith
There are two big mares. Il twoyeaI
old colt. five head of COWS. a pure bred
bull, hogs. chickens. wagon. sled. and
necessary machinery now on the place
j. $. D0mer has heen living there this
winter but on account Of rheumatism
will not be able 10 rent the farm or do
the clearing in the spring. so there is
a good opening for some man who wants
10 farm and work at wages clearing
land when not busy with the farm
work. The deal carries free house
rent. garden. water and wood for the
cutting. The right man could take
this farm and make himself indeDend-
ent in a few years.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
CONRATH & SON WILL
ERECT NEW BUILDINGS

Frank Conrath and son. Anthony,
own a fine 120-acre tract or iand III the
east edge of Conrath. They are gong
to improve this farm for future home
for the Younger member OF the firm. y
barn s36x6O will be built this summer
and later a house 26X:30 will he built.
Timber for these buildings will be ia
ken from the land. These men have
purchased a new F0rdSon tractor ana
will use it in their operations. The
farm will be cleared and fenced. ana
the buildings will be modern When
this work is done this will be one of the
best farms in that neighhOrhood.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
MAKING PLANS FOR
THE NEW BARN

Bulletin No. 266. put out by the
Agricultural Experiment Station of
Wisconsin. is very instructive TO the
settler who is figuring OH building d
new barn
One Of the main features in building
Il barn is to have plenty of light y
barn set north and south is considered
Letter than one set east and west. The
plan given has big door in the side to
drive i'll with a load of hay. This is
the Wisconsin, style.
The Iowa style is to put the hay door
on the end up in the gable of the barn
and utilize all of the NOW room for
hay. There is Il big advantage i'll hav-
ing the cows face out. and having big
doors at each end so as to drive through
the barn with manure Spreader or
sled. thus enabling one to put the
manure out on the land as easily as he
could otherwise clean the barn.
The hay is handled easier when the
managers are OH the outside as it can be
put down all along the side of the barn
in comparison to one or two holes
where COWS face the center
If a Easement is built it should not
be set into Il solid bank unless a space
is dug out and walled up to provide
light and air With these suggestions
and one of these bulletins one can
figure out just the kind of barn he
wants to build.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
Great Shorthorn State.

Wisconsin has LAO breaders of
Shorthorn cattle. according to the re-
cent announcements made by Frank
Harding, secretary of the American
ShOrthOrn Breeders association. There
are very few statSs which surpass
Wisconsin in the number of breeders
of "reds, whites and rOanS.h
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
MUCH SOIL FERTILITY LOST
Prevent Washing or Erosion by Keep
ing Eilly Lands in Sod and
Filling Guliies,

Much soil fertility is lost every win
ter by soil washing or erosion. Put
stop to it by keeping the billy lands in
sod, planting cover crop, under-drain.
age, filing the guliies with brush. etc.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

bank. cheese factory, creamery and
newspaper in the county. letter from
the Wisconsin seed laboratory giving
the analysis Of the seed sold by some of
these houses
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

Dilo w - w Aist iAi0 81
of Wisconsin's T.
100000 acres of
swamp land will
do if given Il
chance. No man is
more interested in
making the swamp
lands make good
than +. II. Jones,
who is in charge
of t h e drainage
work of the college
of agriculture. Mr..
Jones knows the
ms and outs of
drainage. for it
xroc hN xr-hn xx-orl-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

This is the Bank that keeps your
Liberty Bond insured against fire,
theft and loss without charge to yOu.-
STATE BANK OF LADYSMITH.
"The Peoples Bank"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

Property owners should increase
their fire and tornado insurance in pro-
portion to the increase of materials
F. ~ Doyle Company.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

Fire, cyclone and automobile insur-
ance. Oldest and strongest companies.
+. Nj. Doyle Company.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

1 buy, sell and exchange farms and
city property. Call at my new land
office opposite the Baker hotel, office
faces east.-WilsOn, The Land Man,
Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
BELIEVES IN SWAMPS
Wisconsin Has Millions of Acres
Calling for Drainage to Help
Them MAKE Good"

Where cat tails grew abundantly.
banner corn crop now fiourishes. This
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

ed out the system on Il tract of the
university farm which is lower than
Lake Mendoza, upon which it borders.
The crops are luXuriant on this field.
And the pumping station there is. one
of the most successful in the state.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
BIG BARN BURNED

The barn belonging to w l.. Brown.
near Barron. burned to the ground
Jan. - Twenty-eight head Of Guern-
sey cattle. 100 tons OF hay. 400 bushels
Of oats and other feed, harness. and
other equipment were burned. The
loss is more than $4,000. partly in
Sured.
the fact that incendiarism was the
cause. Blood hounds were put on the
trail and stopped at the home of H. w.
Heider. who was taken before NUM-
cipal Judge Taylor at Barron. where
he plead guilty to the crime.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

G.. l.. Sedner who bought the Harry
Lucas farm Z miles northeast of Lady
smith. and moved onto it last Novem
Der. is busy this winter getting out logs
that he will use to enlarge his house
and to build new hay shed. which
will be about 30X40. Mr.. Seidner says
he likes this country and believes there
is big future III store for the man
who gets piece Of this land now and
hangs onto IT,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
RUSK COUNTY FARM ITEMS
News That Will Interest Our City
Readers as Well as the Tiliers
of the Soil

A page advertisement i'll the Mil
waukee Journal of Jan. - shows a
cartoon of the farmer taking S1.00 per
busheI for his potatoes, then dark
space. and another cartoon of the con-
sumner paying $500 per bushel for the
spuds. What happens i'll the dark: is
the title of the cartoon The adver-
tisement is by the American Farm Blu
reau Federation and is the real open
ing of their campaign to better the
conditions of the producers and con
Sllmers of the United States
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30

Get Savings Bank for the children.
$1.OO starts an account. 40 interest
STATE BANK OF LADYSMITH
THE Peoples Bank"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
FARM

Out Mount Pinson way, fronting on good pike road, is one of those un- usual homes, built by and has al owner as a home. which has 9 rooms and is modern to the dot. Furnace? Yes Title bath? Yes Hardwood floors? Yes. Hot and cold water? Yes. And 100 acres of very fertile land, N with large barns, stalls. etc. Good tenant house and plenty of fruit and water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12

Read and think; 7-room, 2-story home, on large corner lot all con veniences; quick possession; good condition; price, S4,000 very easy terms: no mortgage to assume.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12

FINE FARM-4.ooo acres 30 miles of Birmingham; station and rail road; valley and upland; beauti- fully watered. weU< improved: sev- eral dwellings. fine barn. good tim Der; $10 per acre for prompt sale: reasonable terms; consider improved property part payment. B.. F. Eborn. 315 Empire Bldg. NJ. 8173.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12

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