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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06
TWO OLD PROBLEMS.
The Moving Train and the Bullet
Fired From a Rifle.

The Moving Train and the Bullet
Fired From Rifle.
A correspondent sends these two
questions to the Scientific American:
"t1rst.-If train was running at a
speed Of sixty miles an hour and a
man is sitting on the back end Of this
train with a gun that would shoot at
the rate of sixty miles an hour and he
shoots from the back end of this train
In opposite direction, what effect
would this condition have on the bull
let?
"Second.-If the man with the gun
was on the front end of this train and
was to shoot back at man on the
back end of train and train to be 60
ing sixty miles per hour and the gun
would shoot at the rate of sixty miles
an hour, what would be the result?"
10 which the editor replies:
"First.-In the case you propose the
bullet after it left the gun would still
move forward with the speed of the
train and backward with the speed
given 1t by the powder. Since these
two speeds are equal and opposite in
direction the bullet would drop to the
ground directly under the point where
it left the gun.
"Second.-In this case the man at
whom the bullet was shot would he
killed If the aim was good. This NAV
be made clear perhaps by asking if
you could not throw q hall on n train
to man to the rear of the place where
you were standing? Could you not
toss biscuit to person in the next
seat in a car either toward the front
or rear? If you could toss a biscuit
you could fire bullet in either direc-
ton and with the usual result when q
bullet is fred. This matter seems very
simple to us. We do not know why il
causes so much discussion"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06
COOPERATIVE THEATER
ORGANIZED In SEATTLE

The first cooperative dramatic the
alter in America has been organized in
Seattle by twenty-six actors, musicians,
stage craftsmen, and members of the
administrative staff of the former
Wilkes theater, who have put their own
money into the society, which they will
wholly manage and control themselves.
The first performance drew a record
crowd, and the company assures the
public that the same high standard will
be continued. They are not in the the
alter business, they say, to get rich, but
to secure steady employment and de-
cent living for themselves and to pro-
vide clean entertainment for the pub
lie.
The Seattle Cooperative Theatre
follows out the plan made famous by
the great Moscow Art Theatre, one of
the finest play houses in Europe, which
is owned and managed by the artists
themselves. Co-operators in several
cities are successfully OPP
Grating cooperative motion picture
houses, and a group of players from
Greenwish Village, New York City, are
at present producing their own plays.
The Seattle enterprise, however, is the
first time that the entire personnel of
a dramatic company in America has
united in establishing cooperative
theater.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06
BIDS FOE HOG BANNS
TO BE OPENED In APRIL.

With the ground already broken and
construction begun on the dairy barns
on the greater agriculture college
grounds, plans for beginning work on
the hog barns are now nearing COM
pletion. Bids for building the hog.
barns will be opened Monday, April
y, in Governor Parker's office.
According to ]. B. Francioni, assist,
ant professor in animal husbandry,
Louisiana State University, the main
hog barn will be a complete working
plant, lZ3 feet long by "a feet wider
and will be constructed of concrete:
and wood. The building will be two.
stories high in the center and will have.
an office, weighing room, room for a
Waterman, locker room, two feed mix.
ing rooms, storage room, and a boiler
room, besides the pens. The pens will
be so arranged that during some hour.
OF the day the sun will shine upon eve
ry inch of the floor surface.
More than 100 acres will be devoted
to the raising of hogs, part of the land
being lowland, and the other part high
land. Three types of hogs will be rails
ed, the DurOc Jersey, Hampshire, and
Poland China.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06

The British Cooperative Wholesale
Society is reported to have taken over
an entire coal mine, the ShilbottIe COL
llery, to secure coal at labor cost for
the 100000 antilles now supplied by
its retail stores. and there can be no
question but that the British co popera-
tors will make a big success of the
venture. 1t may be news to many Am
encans that cooperative coal-mining
has been previously carried on success
fully in the United States, notably in
the State of Kansas at Usage City.
twenty-five years ago, organized as a
voluntary Labor Exchange, they car
RED on operations successfully for a
number of years. | visited them on
Labor Day in 1898 and was one of the
speakers at the celebration of that day,
and what | saw. and what they told me,
showed these orkers fully competent
to successfully operate an industry
with which they are familiar. And
what more than anything else delighted
me was the fact that men from practi-
cally all the different nationaIities of
Europe and natives of America could
work together harmoniously in COOP
Grafton.
COOPERATIVE coal mining is already
carried on to-day in this country The
entire town of HimIerville, W. Va, at
tests the success of the Hibler Coop
erative Coal Company, owned by 400
miners, who also own the local bank,
a cooperative weekly paper, and an
electric power station to supply their
homes with light at cost. In the Tug
River district of Kentucky the workers
have organized the Nebo American
Coal Company, with acapital of $780,
600 supplied comparatively by the min
ers themselves. The United Mine Work
ers' Cooperative Store at BoonviIIe,
Indiana, owns its own cooperative coal
mine; and a cooperative mine at Dug
ger in the same state has a production
Of over three hundred tons a day.
There can be no peace in the coal
so long as greed for profits
and not service is the aim of the men
who control it. 1t is an economic and
social crime in this twentieth century
for the men who do the hazardous,
heavy work of mining the coal that
keeps US warm and turns the wheels
ofg industry, to be compelled to strike
IN order to secure a living wage and |
fair condition of labor. There is only |
one way to end this crime. and that is
by cooperative ownership and control
IF the nations coal resources for the
benefit of all instead of privileged
iew."
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06
A Darino Feat.

Shocks was one of those conceited
make believe, bold hunters and was al.
ways spinning his yarns about his ex.
periences in Africa, and he generally
wound up by saying he never yet saw
a lion he feared. One night after be
had finished EARNING he was a little
taken aback by one of his audience,
who said:
That's nothing. l have laid down
and actually slept among lions in their
wild, natural state"
Il don't believe that. I'm no fool. /"
said the bold hunter.
"It's the truth, though"
"You slept among lions in their wild.
natural stateP'
Eyes; l certainly did"
Can you prove it? Were they Afri.
CAM"
well, not exactly African Lions
They We're dandelions. Chicago Her.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06

OF odds until we brought the country
back to health. The inhabitants were
dying by the thousands, and no matter
what efforts we made to appease their
sutferlngs, there was the same opposi-
ton shown until we appealed to the
Peruvian Government who sent soldiers
down to quell the aggressiveness of the
people. But the grand work is done
and yellow fever is no more in Peru.
The four years spent there has added
twenty years to my life. Saving an ig-
norant mob from themselves is en- I'M
envlabIe task and is uncomfortable TO
the ordinary Individual" was the state
ment given by DR.. Hanson.
1898
Sheep men in North Carolina have
developed plan to send their wool d.
rect to the wooden mills, which has
proven satisfactory to the grower and
the manufacturer.
1893
Pictures of livestock are now ready
TOR distribution to high schools, rural
schools, and farmers clubs The pic
lures are of uniform size, ~ bv IS.
inches. and they are sent free. Ad-
dress department of agriculture, Wash
ington, D. c.
**
The pecan saved the day for the
farmers of Louisiana. 1t is estimated
that approximately $8,0O0,O0O worth
OF pecans were sold from the native
trees which grow wild on the alluviaI
land over the state.
1888
Rock La Serre, boy pig-raiser, of La
tayette. La. received a total of $78I
tor SOW pig which he sold at the
State fair for $35, after getting $43 in |
prizes at different places where the !
pig was exhibited.
"pUS
- RIDING prize Shetland pony, Jean
LINER Woodbury.. five-year-oid miss, |
appeared as the youngest exhibitor in
the San Francisco Calf, Horse show
1898
Miss Bell Kearney, who is fighting
for the United States senatorial NOM
nation in Mississippi, has established
headquarters in Jackson, with Mr.. John
clark in general charge.
1893
According to the latest statistics from
ne different countries in Europe: Eng
and has 100000 out of work. Ire
and's Industries are idle from internal
trife. France has 100000 unem-
'loyed, and another million at work in
construction at starvation wages.
AUSTRIA only needs the preacher to say
he last few words to see her finish as
n industrial nation. The Scandinav-
an countries can no longer run the in
ustries of the separate nations that
onstitute Scandinavia for the want of
onsumers for her products. Germany
working with vim to supply all that
,ill buy the goods that she will sell for
ny price, and as a consequence of this
ne German is to-day getting less of the
God things of life in return for the
lergy expended than any other nation
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06
BY THE WAY

How the law can be twisted and I'M
twisted to suit, was demonstrated in
New Orleans last week. The City had
entered into a contract with the street
railway for the use of its street for a
stated term Of years anil at a stated
price. The agreement was entered In
to between the City and the street rail-
way company, that no charge for pas
senger rates should ever be more than
five cents per mile. Now the courts
have decided that the City was all
wrong; that it had no right to tell the
street railway company the price of
fare about the City streets. The courts
decides that, although the City is a
rate-making body" still the city can
NOT make rates. Beat that if you can,
Mister Reader!
Mrs. Hartung sobbed her story while
she held her baby close to her breast
IN Chicago court where her husband
was held for burglary. MY husband
was out of work; we had spent all our
earnings, and were hungry. We appeal |
ed to relatives but got no help; and
fearing that our baby would starve, we
put the baby in the carriage and |
watched outside the homes while my
husband went in and rifled the ice box
es for food. Her story was verified by
the police who stated that the home
which he had entered were not modest
ed, excepting the food that was stored
N the ice boxes. six months in Jail.
Next!"
1898
The contest between the fly and the
gwatter now begins. The swatter has
flys rush in where angels soon will
Iread. :.
After four years of determination,
combined with pluck, the Peruvian
government and American doctors have
ridden Peru of that monster, yellow fe-
yer.
- ~ - -
It was test of human endurance
and intelligence against ignorance and
and we won, said DR.. Hen
y Hanson. Our chief obstacle was
he ignorance on the part of the public.
n one town the whole population rose
against us because we closed the
churches. Nothing could have made
sane people more angry; the town
vas doomed; yellow fever was all
round; people were dying by the hum !
lreds daily; they went to church every |
lay to pray for the recovery of some .
member of their family, and unconsci- :
,usly spread the disease. To tell them :
his simple fact was like putting out
flame with oil. They mobbed our !
'ffice, attempted to kill our director, :
md we had to escape through hole !,
made in the roof of the building. We !
we're eventually compelled to withdraw :
rom that place because of the bitter :
less of the inhabitants, and left them :.
. the mercy of the Creator. After -
Yards the town was entirely wiped out =
y the scourge. The outside world will Il
tile realize the immensely of the work q
arried to perfection against all kin6 eT
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06

We can do anything in the plumbing
line. Give US a trial, when you want
to put i'll the new bathroom; we can
Tx 1t up in sanitary manner and leave.
it SO that you will be proud of il.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06

FOR SALE. = Al acres of land:
u acres cleared and under cultivation.
4-room house, and barn. 100 peach
trees; 20 apple trees; 20 grape vines;
Strawberries, blackberries, and dewber-
nes; some figs. Well improved
terraced: Price. $llOO. Main road.
Al T. WELDON. Rte |, Box %. Lees
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06


The Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
XLIII.-WYOMING
& ! ! !. !. !. !: !. !. !. ]. ! ].
~ 1T rs to Wy
ES/e3a$ Nm falls the hon
HSl MSg KmR or of being
BEl fISB the first state
N,A o/ to grant equal
%$SsS9S,I 20 litical
~ - rights to
women. In fact when congress,
in 1868, created the Territory of
Wyoming from parts of Dakota,
Utah and Idaho, a constitution
was adopted which gave women
the right to vote.
There were rumOrs of early
Spanish explorations in Wyoming
but they seem unfounded by
fact. Probably the first white
men to visit this part of the
country were Sieur de la Veren-
deze, and his sons who passed
through this region in 1743 in
search of locations for trading
posts. In 1904 the Yellowstone
was first visited by hunters, all
though the fame of its scenic
beauty was not given much Gre
dence until 1870 and it was set
aside as a federal reserve in
1872.
The first permanent fort in
Wyoming was erected in 1884
where the Laramie river flows
into the Platte. Later when the
stream of immigrants passed
through this region on their way
to the California gold fields a
string Of forts were erected
along the Oregon Trail to pro-
tect the travellers from attacks
by the hostile Sioux Indians.
Through Wyoming went not
only the Oregon Trail, which
was opened up by Lieutenant
Fremont and his guide, Kit Car
son, in 1912, but also the Salt
Lake Trail. Along these routes
many travellers crossed Wyo-
ming, but few stopped and set
tied there as the country was
the most arid of all our states.
The discovery of gold in 1867
led to the founding of South
Pass City and in the same year
Cheyenne was laid out by the
Union Pacific Railroad company.
Wyoming became the forty
fourth state of the Union in 1890
and is eighth in size with an
area of 1894 square miles.
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06

If you fail to get your copy of the
Democrat, please let us know aobut it.
Phone l79.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06
Classified Section
TRADE FOR LLANO STOCK

100 cres in Minnesota; fair buildings;
drilled we'll and windmill; mail and
Phone; s miles to town; mile to-
school. About 40 acres wood; 30
acres fenced; 50 acres in tame grass;
balance natural meadow. Lime-clay-
soil. Price $35 an acre ($56OOOO).
lime on $1,000 at 10: balance in
cash. Will take Llano stock up to,
as cash, par vaIue.-C. J. S.
care Llano Colonist 147
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06

1t is impossible TO improve men with
,s't shaeapa them M as thew are.=
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06
WILL TRADE FOR COLONY

SIOCK-40 acres of bottom land,
most! y under cultivation, under Cotton
wood Ditch, Cottonwood, Call; Five
miles from town and three miles to rail-
road; best land around this part of
California. Will take $500 Colony
stock, balance easy terms.-H. A.
ABBY, Cottonwood, Cal.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-28
EARLY MORNING
FIRE DAMAGE
Contents of Harness Shop Near
Total LOSS.-CauSe
Unknown

A baker on his way to work about
:45 a. M, Tuesday morning discov.
cred the interior Of the harness shop
of Howard & Lowers in the Verhyen
building at e. Second-st and Miner
av., to be on fire. He notified Mr.. Yer
hyen and an alarm was sent in to the
fire station. Alter a short fight the
firemen extinguished the fire, but had
to use water as well as chemicals.
The damage was mostly to the stock
of leather harness, tools and fixtures
and the loss is heavy though some in.
surance was carried. Two theories
are advanced or the cause of the fire
crossed electric wires and spOntane
Gus combustion from Oil and rags.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-28
LAND co. ASKS FOR
RE-ASSESSMENT
Hearing on Murry Assessments
Held Before Tax Com.
Yesterday

A hearing in the matter of the ap-
plication of the American immigration
Company for re-aSSeSSment of the
real property of the town of Murry
was held in the circuit court room of
the court house yesterday afternoon.
The hearing was held before Judge
Charles Rosa, Of Madison, chairman
of the Wisconsin Tax Commission,
who was accompanied by stenograph-
er who took the testimony given. The
town of Murry was represented by
Atty. L. M. Thomas, and the immi-
grafton company by Atty. Johnson, of
Hayward. The secretary of the land
company and the company's head cruis-
er, Tom Mclean, were also present.
The land company, by its represent
atives, appeared before the board of
review of the town of Murry at its
meeting in June and made objections
to the assessments of its lands, of
which they own about 5000 acres in
that town. The board of review up
held the assessments of FL. f. Cot
ton, the town assessor, and the COM
nany gave notice of intention to apply
for a re-assessment of the town.
The board of review of Murry is
composed of the town board, p. NJ.
Brown, chairman, Chas. Lund and
Goodwin Leppert, and Floyd Graves,
clerk, and II. f. Cotton, assessor.
Messrs Brown, Graves nd Cotton were
present at the hearing yesterday.
Among those who testified as to the
amount of timber on the lands and the
quality of soil, etc, were Isaac Perry,
timber estimator, Emil Johnson, farm
er of the town of Murry, Floyd Graves
and III. f. Cotton, and others.
The American immigration Com
pany owns thousands of acres of lands
in Rusk county, most of which are in
the western towns of the county. The
company has made objections before
to their assessments in Murry, but
were never able to move the assessor
in his Judgment or figures.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-28
BIG LOT SALE
WAS A SUCCESS

The lot sale held Friday, Saturday
and Sunday by r. M. Thomas in Brook
lyn Gardens, a suburban residence dis
trict at the northeast edge of the city,
was a decided success.
The sale was conducted in novel
way. A dollar bill was given for
nearly every bid and if the bid was
not high enough to satisfy the seller,
another dollar was given to the bid
der and he was told that he did not
buy the lot.
The sale was opened each day by
drawing for 500 and closed with draw
ing for $40. At the close of the sale
Sunday, $100 was given to ten persons
whose names were drawn.
Boxes of bon bons were given to the
ladies every time the sale of lot
was started and 500 boxes were dis
tributed by lot or handed out.
About so lots were sold and settled
for, the purchaser paying % per cent
down and agreeing to make monthly
payments on the balance with privi-
lege of paying cash and receiving a 5
per cent discount.
The sale was managed on the square
in every way and the majority of the
purchasers bought lots with the in
tention of building homes for them
selves in this fine district.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-28
MOTHER OF s RUNS FOR
SHERIFF IN TAYLOR co

4 woman candidate who says that
she will be an ''hOnest-tO-goOdneSs
sheriff if elected to office is in the field
for the Republican nomination in Tay-
lor county.
Mrs. Charles PitZke, 3S, wife of a
farmer and mother of eight children,
is the candidate who is asking cleo
tion from the voters of the county.
She claims that if named for the of
flee she can handle all of the duties.
Physically, Mrs. Pitzke is the equal
of almost any man. She is six feet
tall. of a sturdy build and in the best
of trim from outdoor work on the
farm.
The candidate says that she has dem
onstrated her ability to efficiently han
die the position of sheriff if elected to
it, by the fact that she has raised a
family of eight children. No one chal-
lenges her physical qualifications, Mrs
PitZke says.
She is carrying on an active cam
paign throughout the county and is
confident of the Republican nomina-
tion at the September primaries
against her male competitors as chief
county law enforcement officer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-28
BIG BASEBALL
TREAT SUNDAY

The Ladysmith ball team will be
put to an sacid" test Sunday after
noon when the White Bear, Mimi,
team meets them ON the diamond here.
Paul Cassner, the White Bear pitch
er. who will next year captain Notre
Dame, is classed as one of the best
college pitchers in the northwest. He
made wonderful record last year by
pitching nearly all shut-out baseball.
This year he is throwing for the Ma
tional Lead Battery Co, of Minneap-
oils, and his last four games have
been shut-outs. Sundays game will
be one game every baseball fan should
see. No doubt some day Cassner will
be in the big show
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-07-28
BOY ACCUSES
MAN OF ATTACK
Sequel of School Board Diff.
Guilty In Town of
Willard

An assault and battery case Occu-
pied the attention of Justice e. A. Kir-
van most of the day Monday. 1t was
the sequel of school district meeting
in district No. 5, towns of Willard and
Marshall.
Robert Thummel, also known as
Robert Wisbar. is charged with as
sault and battery on the person OF
Stanley Izdepski, 12-year-old son Of S.
A. Izdepski, farmer. 1t appears from
the testimony that Stanley was sent
by his father to the home of Thummel,
member of the school district board,
to get a school order; that Thummel
told the boy that it would not be le-
gal for him to issue the order and read
the law to the boy on the subject and
had the boy read the law, but it seems
that the boy did not understand it and
insisted on getting the order.
The boy had rife with him. Thum-
mel sent him away, but he came back
and again demanded the order, and
Thummel claims that the boy threat
ened to shoot him. He took the gun
away from the lad and unlOaded it
and it was at this juncture that the
boy claims the school officer struck
him across the side of his head with
the back of his hand
The boy denied threatening the de
fendant and explained the presence
of the gun by saying that he accom-
nr1N f,,
as the Thummel home, Beach being on
his way to another farm to shoot
crows Beach had a gun with him
and invited young Izdepski to 60 along
and help kill crows. He said the run
about car was full and there was no
place to put the gun down when he
returned to the house to make the sec
Ond demand for the school order af-
ter being first sent away.
Defendant Denies Charge
The defendant denied striking the
boy, but admitted taking the gun away
from him and taking the cartridge
out of it. He said this happened near
the house, while the boy said it hap
pened two rods from the house
Testimony was introduced, or at
tempted to be introduced, to show the
! dangerous character both of the de-
fendant and the Izdepski boy, but some
of it was ruled out. Witnesses sub
poenaed on behalf of the state were
S. A.. Izdepski, c. A. Beach, Don Pill
grim, Mrs Pilgrim. Witnesses testi-
flying for the defense were S. Mindy-
kowski and the defendants mother
Mrs. Wisbar. The latter can speak
only German and Mrs Kirvan, the
Justices wife, was sworn in to inter
pret witness testimony, which did not
agree in all details with that of her
i sons.
/ The court decided to take the mat
/ ter under consideration until July 2S
and adjourned court until that date.