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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
CABLE FAIR
HELD SATURDAY
WONDERFUL EXHIBITS FOR
CABLE DISTRICT
Games, Sports and Contests
Furnish Amusements During
The Afternoon. Hayward
Band Furnished Music.

The Cable district community fair
was held on Saturday of last week
and it was one fthe finest exhibits
of agricultural products ever held in
this part of Bayfield, county. The
exhibit hall was filled with the finest
crops grown in the Gable district
and those who attended stood in won
derment to view the exhibits, and
to remark on their fine quality.
The department of cooking, fancy
work and educational work was al
so fine and showed keen competition
for the premiums offered.
The afternoon was devoted to
sports, there being double header
base ball between Mason and Cable
and Drummond and Cable. There
was also a steer roping contest which
was very interesting to the people
present.
The Hayward band furnished the
music for the day and everyone at
tending reported a most enjoyable
time.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
LOCAL COMPANY
REPAIRS BOAT
Repair Steamer VIM. p. Palmer
In Record Time. Fix Shell
Plating and Fit New Ceiling.

The Steamer VIM. P. Palmer, COM
manded by Capt. Ben. McLaren, left
this port last Saturday evening after
careful overhauling of the shell
plating rivits, forward, and fitting
of new ceiling on both sides of the
forward hold, by the Anchor Ship
building company. The work was
in charge of Mr.. r. Curr and was
done by crew of local boys. The
work was completed in two days and
was considered record job in dis
patch and workmanship.
The Steamer Palmer came into
this port loaded with nitrate Of soda
for the ,du Pont company. The
boat had sprung leak, caused by
the rivits on the forward end letting
go. The leak only appeared when
the boat was heavily loaded and Capt.
McLaren decided while here to have
the rivits overhauled and other work
done while the boat was in port.
The Anchor Shipbuilding company
was engaged to do the work and the
Captain was more than satisfied with
the dispatch and workmanship style
in which it was DONE.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
STOCK MAKES
GREAT SHOWING
MOQUAH BREEDER CAP
TURES MANY PRIZES
Carriers Off Many Prizes at
Fairs Where His Stock is Ex-
hibited. Bringing Fame to
MOquah Regicn.

That Bayfield, county produces
some of the best live stock in North
ern Wisconsin has been demonstrated
by August Johannek of Moquah, and
this man deserves a great deal of
credit for the wonderful showing
which his stock has made during the
past few weeks.
Mr.. Johannek has exhibited his
herd of registered Guerensy cattle at
the Tri-State fair at Superior where
he took four first, four seconds, and
three third prizes; at the Barron
county fair at Rice Lake where he
won three first; three seconds and
two thirds; and at the Bayfield, Coun
ty fair at Iron River where he won
sixteen first prizes.
Besides the above mentioned prizes
he won Grand Champion on his herd
sire at all three fairs and herd
sweepstakes at two, the Barron and
Bayfield, County fairs.
Men like Johannek, who have carv-
ed farms out of the wilderness and
who are developing herds like this,
are making future for Bayfield,
county and are deserving of the sup
port and encouragement of every
citizen.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
Weeping wine and Suds
Over the Dough Boys
WILL BOOST
HOME PAPERS
Week of November 7-12 Set for
Nationwide EndeavOr.

Subscribe to your home towr
paper"
This is the slogan of new natior
wide movement backed by the Ma
tional Educational Association and
other agancies.
The movement has back of it fan
more than selfish desire on the
part of the newspapers to acquire
increased circulation, for it is, in
effect, step toward the perfect uni
fication of America by the strength
ening of ties that bind everyone to
his native soil.
The campaign is, moreover, an ex-
cellent opportunity to boost the
home town. The men and women
who were born and reared here have,
some of them, been away for many
years and many important changes
have taken place-changes in which
they would be greatly interested. 1t
is more often the case than not that
private correspondence overlooks
these changes, however carefully one
might attempt to write "the news
in letter.
The newspaper, on the other hand,
prints all the items of interest, large
and small, and is the ideal medium
through which to keep in touch with
in the old home town.
In order to stimulate this move
ment we are this week offering an
extra copy of The Times to every
subscriber who calls or writes for
it. This extra can be sent, with
special subscription blank which
we will furnish, to any member OF
the family, who is away from home
Or, if perferred, we will mail a copy
free of charge to anyone you desig-
nate.
Do it now.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
TO CROW GRAPES
IN CITY LIMITS
F. SCHIMMEL TO OPEN
FRUIT FARM
To Open Ten Acre Farm in Du
Pont Park Addition Where he
Will Grow Grapes and Other
Small Fruits.

Frederick Schimmel of Iowa, who
recently purchased ten acres of
land in Du Pont Park Addition, in
the northeastern part of the city
limits, intends to open up a fruit
farm where he will grow grapes and
other small fruits.
1t is Mr.. Schimmel's intention to
set out an acre Of grapes at the
start and to plant other small fruits
on the balance of the ten acres.
The Iowa man is determined that
success can be made of the grow
ing of grapes in this region. He is
an experienced fruit grower and
knows the business from start to
finish.
Mr.. Schimmel is not the first per-
son in Bayfield, county to engage in
the growing of grapes on CONNER
cial scale. Over in western Bayfield,
county on the farm of C. H. Wiehe
there is an acre of grapes and this
year, being the second since rne
grapes were set out, over thou
sand baskets were marketed. These
grapes from the Wiehe farm, ap-
peared on the Duluth market some
time before eastern grapes appeared,
and they are said to be the finest
that have ever been sold in the
Duluth Market having an extreme
iv fine color and flavor.
The people Of this part OF Bayfield,
county will watch Mr.. SchimmePs
efforts with interest. The land which
Mr.. SchimmeI has selected for this
fruit farm lies on the southeast
slope of the hill. The soil is a
sandy loan with clay sub-soil, and
is ideal for the growing of fruit.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
MONEY FOR HIGHWAY
CONSTRUCTION AND
/ MAINTAIN NANCE


MADISON, Wis. There is a rather
general misunderstanding as to the
source from which the state secures
the large sums required for high
way construction and maintenance.
In a general way it may be said
that the mrney used for construction
comes from three sources in appro-
ximately equal amounts-one third
from the Federal Government, one
third from the State and one-third
from the county.
In the final approtionment of Fe-
deral aid granted prior to the pre-
sent session of Congress, Wiscon-
sin has received $7,OO6,O17.51. The
state in order to secure this has had
to provide the same sum. This
Joint Federal and State fund is ap-
portioned to the counties on this
basis: One third in proportion to
area, one7third in proportion to as
sessed valuation, and one-third in
proportion to highway mileage. Then
each county is required to provide
an amount at least equal to one
half the sum apportioned it from the
Joint Federal and State Fund.
The state in order to meet the
requirement to duplicate the Federal
appropriation provided for a tax
that would bring in at the first OF
each of three years 1920, 1921 and
1922 the sum of $1,7OO,0OO. In ad-
dition to this the sum of $785,0O0 for
each of the three years, and the ad-
ditional sum of 100000 per year for
those years were appropriated from
the geDeral fund of the state.
In addition to the sums named
there is used in highway construction
and maintenance something over
SO 100000 per year received for au-
tomobile license. Since. the iegis-
lature in 1919 provided for a dupli-
cation of the Federal appropriations.
to be used in condition, the state S
share Of the auto-license receipts has
been devoted to road maintenance
These license receipts are disposed
of as follows:
First the actual cost of admins
tering automobile registration IS paid
from the license fees received; one
fourth of the remainder is then paid
to the counties in the proportion that
the license fees received from each
county bears to the total license ICES
From the remaining three fourths
there is first set aside sum not to
exceed $168,OOO for the State High
way Commission to pay the cost OF
administration. The balance then
is used by the State Commission foi
construction or maintenance, OF
both, of the State Trunk Highway
System.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
LEAGUE SAYS TO WATCH
THEIR ACTIONS
Would Attempt to Enlist Sup
port for Beer and Wine in Or
der to Fill Their Own Pockets
at Expense of Dough Boys.

MADISON-Replying to the news
items stating that Congress would
be urged to legalize beer in order to
raise the fund with which to pay the
soldiers bonus, the Wisconsin Anti
Saloon League issued the following
statement:
The American Legion and the SOL
dier boys generally will never en-
dorse this proposition. Beyond any
other class of people, they are de-
voted to the u. S. Constitution. Pro
hibition is part of that Constitu-
ton. If beer were legalized it
would be notification of that Con-
stitution through legal technical
evasion. Soldiers who offered to
die for the Constitution are not 60
ing to live notification.
There is another reason why the
soldiers will not "fall for it." They
know there is not an ounce of pa
triotism or. Americanism or love for
the soldiers in beer. When the sol
diers' lives were at stake in France
beer used grain which should have
been feeding mules to haul up guns.
They used grain which was needed
to make alcohol with which to make
high explosives. They filled trains
with beer and kept out rations and
ammunitions. They used coal which
should have gone to ship yards. When
beer stood between dividends and
duty it chose dividends and because
the Wars most gigantic profiteer. If
beer had possessed an atom of love
for the soldiers it would have shut
itself up for the period of the war.
| If it had done this the people would
have opened it up after the war and
nobody could have stopped them. But
beer stayed open in dollar madness,
and the people closed beer in right
eous Indignation.
Legalizing beer is an attempt to
make the soldiers liquidate their own
claim by buying enough beer to pay
their own bonus, pluM fat profit
for the beer interests and fat salar-
les for the beer lobbyists and cam
paign contributions for the beer poll
iticians. To complete the travesty
the beer and wine politicians here in
Wisconsin who are now weeping
wine and suds over the dough, boys
are the very same politicians who,
when the dough boys, lives were at
stake, opposed every appropriation
and harried and hindered and ham,
pered an dham-strung every move
to speed aid to them. The beer
bonus proposition marches with the
goose-step. The American soldiers,
with the 32d Division Of our own
Wisconsin boys at their head, halted
the goose-step before it got within
sight of Paris; and the same crowd
with the. smae leadership will bar
the way to Washington.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
RAIN MARRIED
DRUMMOND FAIR
WEATHER MAN HAD 1T IN
FOR DRUMMOND
Fine Exhibits Were on Hand
And Weather Prevented
Crowds From Attending.

The weather man seemed to have
lit in for the Drummond people last
Friday when they attempted to stage
their second annual community fair,
and wet weather kept crowds from
attending, but those who were pre-
sent saw fine exhibit, and were
we'll paid for their visit.
The Drummond people had made
great plans for their fair and had
large number of exhibits on hand,
showing the wonderful crops that
were being grown in the famous
Drummond district, and all arrange
ments had been completed for TAX
ing care of immense crowds, but the
day started out with the sky over
cast, and during the day rain fell
intermittently; breaking up the sports
and games and otherwise marring
the pleasures of the day.
A dandy base ball game was start
ed with. the Cable and Drummond
teams opposing each other. The
regular Drummond battery was plac-
ed against an imported battery but
they succeeded in worsting the visit
ors until the ganse was called on ac-
count of rain.
The day closed with dance in the
evening.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
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MARRIED THURSDAY

Miss Ethel Leighton, daughter of
5lr. Judd Leighton of this city, and
Mr.. Theodore Lee of Bibon, were
married. on Thursday afternoon OF
last week at the home of the bride in
this city, Rev. D. w. Davis officiating
at the ceremony. The young couple
will make their home at Bibon where
the groom is employed.
The bride is one of the popular
young ladies of the city while the
groom is well know in the Mason dis.
trict. Both have "a wide circle OF
friends who join in extending con.
gratulations and best wishes.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
UNEMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS

| Optimistic observers In Washing
l,ton purport to find that a new sur
vey of the labor situation, particu-
larly in industrial centers, indicates
there is room for optimism that the
coming winter will not find the ma
ton with an unemployment situa-
ton of any serious character. Estl-
mates of the Labor Department tend
| inp to show that 5,735,O0O men and
women were out of work are alleged
to have been based on figures showing
the number of employees released
from industrial plants and manu-
featuring concerns after the peak
business of the war period began to
recede into the stage of depression.
Certain officials insist that those IL
cures do not accurately reflect the
extent of ,idleness since they claim
that surprisingly large percentage
of that number went back to the farms
or the small pursuits of pre-war DAYS.
Secretary Davis in statement at>
temps to set the country right in its
Interpretation of the figures sent
| few weeks ago to the Senate by the
Department of Labor that there were
/ at the time5, ,735, ,O00 fewer women
and children on the payrolls than in
1920. He laid emphasis on the de-
claration that this does not mean
that this number is unemployed.
False deductions were drawn from
| the statement, Mr.. Davis explained
due to the fact the figures were a
comparison with those of a year when
employment undoubtedly was greater
than at any time in the history OF
the country. The United States,
having just psased through wal
when every effort was made to have
women and children enter employ
ment to "help" starving Europe
found many of these still on the pay
rolls in 1920. Persons who ordln-
arily are regarded as dependents
therefore, and who have gone back to
their homes from the factories are
included in the figures.
.While we have our unemployed
| Mr.. Davis added, "let us not forget
the 12.OOO,OOO who are still at work
| and that in 1914 there were 100000
| unemployed. + A further encouraging
| fact is that $500, O,O0O, 900 is now avail
able throughout the country in the
| form of bonds, already issued or ap
propriated by the State, county ant
municipal government for public
work. Undoubtedly this will be or
ganized intelligently."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
HAVE LEASED WIRE

MADISON, Wis. The Department
of Markets has installed an exten-
ion of the leased wire circuit of the
u. S. Bureau of Markets and Crop
Estimates and is in direct conncc-
ton with the large terminal mar
kets of the country such as Mimi
eapolis, Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas
City, Pittsburg, Washington and
New York.
The project is being carried on CO.
operatively with the Bureau of Mar
kets and Crop Estimates of the Y.
S. Department of Agriculture and
Mr.. M. M. Littleton, who has been
in the employ Of the U. S Depart
ment of Agriculture for the last four
years, will act as telegrapher-
Reports that are sent over this
leased wire will consist of the mar
.ket conditions and prices on live
stock and meat, fruits and vegetables
and butter and cheese. AS soon as
market reports are ready for Chi
cago, for instance, they will inn
mediately be dispatched over the
lesaed wire and are available m the
Madison office within few minutes
after the market has been quoted.
The Department of Markets is work
ing out cooperative agreement with
Prof. Terry of the Physics Depart
ment of the University of Wisconsin
for the dispatching of these market
reports by means Of wireless tele-
graph and wireless telephone. There
are approximately IS licensed am
ateur wireless telegraph operators
in Wisconsin and the point is tC
send out the wirelss telegraph re.
ports from the University station
and to have the reports picked uT
by the amateur operators OF the
state and have them furnish the re-
ports to County Agricultural Agents
Farm Bureau Secretaries, Farmers
Cooperative Associations, shippers
dealers, newspapers, and in fact any
one interested in receiving the re
ports. In addition to the quick dis
patch of the market reports by wire
less telegraph and telephone tnere
will be mailed out from the office, O
the Department of Markets each da!
bulletins giving complete reports or
the markets conditions and prices
on the various products in the large
central markets. These reports ar
sent out free of charge to any per
son interested in receiving them ant
making application for them to the
Department Of Markets.
A complete set of equipment fol
printing and dispatching the report.
has been installed in the office o
the Department Of Markets. TIL
service is expected to be of grea
value to the producers and dealer
of the state.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
TO CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY
Knights of Pythias Order to
Stage Celebration on 28th An
niversary of the Order.

On Wednesday evening of next
week the Knights of Pythias Lodge
of this city will hold celebration,
the occasion being the 28th anniver-
sary of the founding of the local or
der, and big time is being planned
including banquet to which all
local Knights and visiting members
are requested to attend.
There will be program in con-
nection with the meeting which will
be held in the Pythias hall in the Odd
Fellows building.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
TO MAKE CITIZENS

At the opening of Circuit Court for
Bayfield, county to be held on Mon
day, October 3rd, petitions for citi-
zenship will be heard by the court.
Petitioners are required to be pre-
sent with their wife and two sub
scribing witnesses.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22
NOTICE

The monthly meeting of the Bay
field County Teachers Association
will be held at the Court House on
Saturday, September Gath. The
program is as follows:
Roll Call-Answer by quotations
Discussion-Problems arising the
first month of school.
Other discussion.
Adjournment,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-22

Remedies to meet the situation in
various industries and geographical
divisions of the country, it was ssid,
would be suggested by the Confer
eDce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
Optimism the Keynote of
 Labor Day Celebration

7NHERE was no lack of enthusi-
 I asm in Birmingham's celebra- tion of Labor Day. Despite the talk of hard times and unemploy- ment, the working man, his wife and his children seemed to have caught the optimism that is help ing the whole nation to "carry on in the belief that the worst is over. If the happiness mirrored on thou sands of faces yesterday at the vari- ous resorts of Birmingham, and in particular at East Lake, where the formal celebration was held, was any indication of how the masses feel in this district, they are not asking for sympathy.
 There was good reasons why Labor Day should be observed in the true holiday spirit. The Bir- mingham district has fared much better than many other parts of the country and has been quick to recover from the i'll effects of the World war. Everyone, from the captain of industry to the humblest toiler, is looking forward to a great revival of business and steady em.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
-------------- . SECRET ORDERS OLD
the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Do you notice what an increase there, has been in the wearing of em- blem and fraternity pins, these days?' asked Jones.
 'I suppose you think that is just an up- to date fad, don't you returned his friend of antiquarian bent. well. let me tell you, 1t is not. Watch charms were invented at least 5000 years before watches, and fraternity badges equally long ago.
 The very same symbols which the Joiners' are wearing in their lapels and on their fobs today are survivals of forms which were in popular use for the same purpose when Nebuchad- nezzar was a kid in school. You see, it was like this: In the days when kings could seldom write their own names and their subjects attributed every natural phenomenon to one of their multifarious gods or devils, there were always a few at least who knew some of the trt.h.
 "Glimmerings of true science were beginning to dawn on mankind, but humanity wtls too close to bar barism for such a thing as a law of nature to be understood. When it was perceived that certain laws did exist they were set down to the will and desire of one or another divinity. and when taught to a selected few were hedged about with all sorts of obligations not to reveal the secrets of the gods to the profane'-a word which originally meant Outside the Temple Architecture, geometry, arithmetic. music. asthonomy. the al- phabet and the decimal system were once called mysteries and the pro- cess of solemnly soaring the prospec- tive student nearly if not quite to death as a warning to silence before letting him in on the secrets was the preliminary to all education. Ahd each order had its symbol, or pin"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06

ployment, not alone in Birming- ham, but everywhere in America.
 The economic experts who have been preaching the doctrine of op- tinism agree without exception that the period of acute depression has been passed with far less disloca- ton of finance and industry than might have been expected. The av- craze citizen probably does not realize that America has weathered the gravest crisis in it's history with extraordinary ease, all things con sidered
 The festivities of Labor Day sounded the approach of better times predicted for autumn.