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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Fall From Fence Results in
Broken Arm.

Saturday afternoon, Homer Argall,
the IA year old son of Elmore Argall
of this city, met with very painful
accident. He was hurriedly climb
ing wire fence near his home when
one foot caught in the top wire and
threw him to the ground, the full
force of the fall and his own weight
resting on his right arm. The arm
was broken in four bones near the ell
bow joint, section of the joint it
self being separated from the bone.
Surgical aid was summoned at once
and the limb set in the usual man
ner. An x-ray taken the following
day showed that the arm was set
right and at present is healing rapid
ly. Fortunately Homer can write
with his left hand and is able to re-
turn to his studies in the Eighth
grade.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
GOOD OUT OF EVIL.

1t seems that out of the great evil
of the World war at least some good
will come. It is cheering to believe
that henceforth poison gases are to
be employed to extermiate the boil
weevil instead of being used to ex-
terminate men. Here is the Milwau-
kee Journal views in regard to the
matter.
Few and small are the dividends
of war, so few that it is cheering to
read of something useful accomplish
ed through study of the means of
destruction. 1t is the prediction of
Gen. Fries, chief of the chemical war
fare service, that poison gases devel-
oped during the war will eventually
exterminate the boil weevil which
plays such havoc with cotton crops.
1t has been calculated that the boil
weevil cut last years cotton crop by
100000 bales or 100000, 200
pounds. If this destruction can be
averted, then just that much more
of the labor of man will not be vast
ed, but will go to the use and COM
fort of his fellow man.
"And this is good coming out of
evil. But not very much good COM
pared with the enormous evil. What
would be the progress of the human
race if it could devote the time, the
brain work and the money that it
spends on war to the kindly arts of
peace which enrich and upbuild the
racer"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Badly Injured in Fall From Tree

Joseph May, fourteen year old SON
of Peter E. May of Ferndale, was Sc
verely injured Saturday afternoon
when he fell from hickory nut tree
from which he was picking nuts.
When reaching for limb of the tree
he lost his balance and fell ten feet
to the ground He sustains broken
thigh bone, two ribs, his left arm
and a fracture of the forehead, just
above his left eye. He was taken at
once to st. Joseph's hospital at
Dodgeville and latest reports are
very favorable. He has moderate
temperature and although his injur-
les are very painful he is getting
along fairly well. !.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Wisconsin Cow Testing
Association Notes.

The Mineral Point Cow Testing
Association is the high club for the
month of August with 107 forty
pound cows. Barneveld comes Sec
ond with SO and Shirley, Denmark
third with 80. Ed. Marguart of the
N. E. Dodge County Association has
high cow, registered Ayrshire pro-
ducing 93.4 pounds butterfat. The
second high cow is owned by Will
Uren of the Mineral Point Club, a
grade holstein producing 819
pounds butterfat. The third high
cow is owned by Ernest Veers of the
New Holstein Club, a registered
holstein producing 1913 pounds
butterfat.
The High herd in the state of
Wisconsin are herd of two register
ed holsteins producing 52.2 pounds
butterfat, owned by D. w. Nerhoof,
Cedar Grove Association.
The second high herd are four
teen G.. & P. B. H., owned by J. C.
Smith of Dodgeville association, with
an average of 50.7 pounds butterfat.
The third high herd are sixteen
! grade Guernseys, owned by Ray
Standish, Richland Association, with
1874 pounds butterfat.
The fourth high herd are twenty
one grade Holsteins, owned by J. T.
Mcneil, Mineral Point Association
producing 48.0 pounds butterfat.
Iowa county is fast coming to the
front for high producing dairy COWS
If it was not for cow testing associa-
tions those great cows would go tc
j to the block "unhonored and ''un.
| sung" as many others must have
| gone before.
Jim Regan, Sec. M. P. G. T. A.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Iowa County Court Proceedings.

Estate .of Richard H. James, de-
ceased, order for appointment of ad-
ministrator.
Estate Of Joseph Whitford, de-
ceased, order to hear proof Of will.
Estate of Jennie A. Reese, deceas-
ed, order admitting will to probate.
Estate Of Preston Hird, deceased
final judgment.
Estate of Sarah e. Jones, deceased
final judgement.
Estate of Peter Grimm, deceased,
order admitting will to probate.
Estate of William o. Hoskin, de-
ceased, order admitting will to pro-
bate. - aa
Estate of Christian G. Ihus, de-
ceased, order for appointment of ad-
ministrator.
Estate of Matt Schmit, deceased,
order admitting will to probate.
Estate of George Henstock, de-
ceased, order for appointment of ad-
ministrator.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
NEW STATE PARK.

The dedication of the State Park
at Tower Hill will take place next
where in this issue of the Democrat.
1t is gratifying to know that this
place of scenic beauty is to be pre-
served by the State and make meet
ing place for the people of southwest
ern Wisconsin for all time to come.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
RADIOPHONE TRIUMPHS.

- Elsewhere in this paper is printed
a report of the tranmission of a
message sent from a station in
British Columbia to New Zealand, a
distance of $500 miles. A later re-
port says that at Leipsic, Germany, a
message was received from New York
City and reproduced in typewriting
by the radiophone receiver. Verify
the triumphs of the radiophone are
marvellous.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
NOW is THE TIME TO SUB
SCRIBE.

The present is time when people
generally make up their minds in re-
gard to what publications they will
take for the coming year. Publish
ers of weekly newspapers add most
names to their lists during the time
from October 1st to January 1st. 1t
is pleasing to the publishers Of The
Democrat to know that for months
past not single person has discon-
tinued his or her subscription on ac-
count of being dissatified with the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Another Peach Tree In Mineral
Point.

Z John A. Trevillian has a peach
ed about $50 nice peaches this year.
The tree is not large one but has
done well as it has grown from slip
planted eight years ago. Several
times the gas fumes from the acid
plant at the Zinc Works have injured
the little tree and the soil is not
very healthy in this spot. 1t seems
that certain hardy varieties thrive
particular variety of peach is not
known to us.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Buy Treasury Certificates NOW

On and after October 1st, Treasury
Savings Certificates will be sold at an
advance of So on. 500 certificate.
Up to Oct. 1st, they will be sold at
the present price-$80 for S10O GER
tifcate. Afterwards the price will
be $50. This is prehaps the last op-
portunity that will be given to buy a
government security that will yield
IS per cent in five years. Now is the
time to buy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
A Plum Tree Unfruitful Nine
teen Years Fruitful This
Year.

A plum tree at the N. T. Martin
home on Maiden Street after being
unfruitful more than nineteen years
bore plums this year. Mr.. George
Varlin, who occupied the home for
nine years, says that the tree bore
no plums while he resided there,
which was up to ten years ago, and
that the tree did not bear until this
year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
KEEPING UP WITH THE
TIMES.

Report says that at Brucevi1le,
Ind; a son with four teeth was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Grouse;
and an authenticated report stated
born who five minutes after birth
distinctly said, mother" three
times. Are we living in fast age?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
A Little Hard to Please.

Burlington Standard Democrat:
How aften have you cussed the ex-
cessive heat of the past few months?
How soon will you be cussing the
bitter winter months? Aren't you
just little hard to please, anyway?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Finds an Improved City.

Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Spratler,
accompanied by friend came here
by auto from Milwaukee on Sunday,
for, a visit with relatives and friends.
Mr.. Spratler moved from Mineral
Point about thirty years ago. Since
that time he has visited here occa-
sionaliy. He says that our city is
improving right along.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Reyisits Mineral Point.

Joseph Deller of Milwaukee, was
visitor in this city one day last
week. He is engaged in university
work. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. G. Deller. The family removed
from this place nineteen years ago.
For the last ten years or more A. G..
Deller has been manager of the Cas-
well building, Milwaukee.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Breaks Wrist i'm Fall from Tree.

Mr.. Bates, resident of Milwaukee
and at present in the service of the
Mineral Point & Northern Railway
Co., fell from tree while picking
nuts Saturday afternoon and broke
his left wrist. The break is not a
bad one and is the only injury with
the exception if few minor bruises
and cuts.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Will Go to Beloit.

Platteville Witness: Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Fielder plan to leave Platte
vile, Oct. 1st., for Beloit, where they
will make their home. Mr.. Fielder
will be engaged in the practice of
law. . Their many friends here will
regret their departure from our
midst.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
DR.. Ross Will Speak At Social
Work Meet.

DR.. e. A. Ross, professor Of sociol-
ogy at the University of Wisconsin,
who has just returned from an IL
week study of social conditions in
Mexico, will be one of the speakers
at the annual meet of the Wisconsin
State Conference of Social work, to
be held in Madison Oct. II to IA, ac-
cording to Aubrey Williams, secre-
tary of the conference.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Fennimore Times: Not very en-
posits in Wisconsin take a slump of
nearly ten millions of dollars the
past year. People have as much con-
fidence in the banks as always, but
they haven't as much money as they
used to have.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
HIGHER PRICES FOR
CATTLE.

THE cattle market has been show
ing a decidedly upward tendency of
late. Prices for beef cattle during
the week ranged from 81 to $12 per
hundred weight. Cattle dealers are
receiving far better returns than
they did last season.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Birthday Surprise Party.

About seventy-five relatives and
friends gave Mr.. and Mrs. James
Ferrell, surprise party Friday even
ing in honor of their birthdays.
They were entertained by music and
games. Ice cream and cake were
served as refreshments. All report
a delightful time.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
GRAND ARMY ENCAMP-
MENT.

1t is expected that the attendance
of veterans at the encampment at
Des Moines will reach 10000. 1t is
the fifty-sixth annual encampment
of the G.. A. R., and gives promise of
being one of the most notable Of the
organization.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Wireless Heard $500 Miles.

Victoria, B. C.-The wireless sta
ton at Estevan, $50 miles southwest
of here, Thursday spoke to an opera
tor at Raratonga, New Zealand,
$500 miles away.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
Fruit Plentiful.

Fennimore Times: Must be some
fruit around Platteville. Platteviile
grocers are ordering fruit jars by the
carload.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28

Don't drink it boys Fight against
this humanity curse, and you will
have performed the greatest possible,
service to mankind for present and
future generations.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The Teachers Training Glass has
received two new members since the
report ublished-Alonzo Holmes,
a graduate of last year, and Gladys
league, a graduate of the class OF
1920. All the students taking the
course are very enthusiastic about
the work and are doing we'll.
Although the game at Richland
Center resulted in a defeat for the
home boys, they played good game.
The sandy field on which the game
was played was one of the reasons
for the one-sided score. All the
plays used by our team are quick
starters and in the loose sand it was
next to impossible for them to play
a speedy game. At the end of the
first half the score had been held
down to to 0 in favor of Richland
Center but in the last half, the dis
advantages proved too much for our
team.
For the past two weeks two full
teams have been on the field for
practice. In former years it has
been difficult to get enough men out
to make scrimmage for the first
team but this fine turnout not only
helps the first team a great deal but
has made it possible to have a Sec
ond team. Next Friday the new Sec
ond team will play it's first game at
Dodgeville before the first team
game Both teams will win at
Dodgeville, no doubt
On Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o.
clock the team will meet the Lam
caster team on the fair grounds to
play real game of football. The
Mineral Point and Lancaster High
School teams are evenly matched
and a game worth seeing is expected.
| 1t is hoped that better crowd will
! be on the grounds to witness this
game than were there at the last
game. The team has shown itself to
be one which any school and city
should be proud of and they deserve
the support of everyone. The High
School should have larger delega-
tion on the grounds and about fifty
per cent more PEP!
An orchestra for this year was or
| ganized on Monday evening under
] the direction of Miss Ruffswold.
About twelve students were present
with their instruments and the first
practice was good start. The in
strumentation and names of those
in the orchestra will be published
later.
/
: The commercial classes this year
are unusually large, shorthand and
/ typewriting being popular courses.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28

Burlington Standard Democrat:
The settlement of the great coal
strike assures us that the people will
not freeze this winter. For so much
we are thankful. But it does not
contain any assurance that the same
conditions will not prevail year
hence, with all OF their attendant ills
and inconveniences to the nation. A
better way Of settling labor difficult
ties should be found, and that
agency should be the congress and
the federal government.
De Pere Journal Democrat: King
Alcohol is still on the job reaping an
ever-increasing number of victims
and is yet supreme master over all
that yield to his most powerful in
fuence.
1t is sad to contemplate that there
are men among us who deliberately
manufacture or distribute, contrary
to our country's laws, this damnable
poison that is reaping such heavy
toll of human souls. And sadder yet
is the fact that all attempts to stop
King Alcoho's ravage seem ineffec-
tive and powerless.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-28

The commercial classes this year
are unusually large, shorthand and
typewriting being popular courses.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-10-20
them what they want done.

them what they want done.
"Many of them, who assisted in Sc
curing the passage of the State Park
Bill in 1921, have given the subject a
lot of thought since then, and we
want to profit by that consideration
as well.
at cannot be emphasized to strong
ly that really adequate action is an
immediate necessity. The immediate
threat to the great stand of timber
bordering upon the Naches Pass
Highway, the Indian Valley timber
on the Olympic Highway, the Chuck
anut Summit stand on the Old Pacific
Highway near Bellingham, the fam
Gus Index timber-just to name a few
outstanding eXamples-gives great
emphasis to the truth of that state
ment. Failure by the 1923 session to
act, can result only in irreparable loss
to the people of Washington and of
this and many succeeding genera
TONS"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-10-20
FOR 1910 PLAN.
Editor the Echo,
Dn,, Gil.

Editor the Echo,
Dear Sir
Initiative bill No. 46, better known
as the "30-10" plan of raising school
finances, having come in for consid-
cradle "panning" in your columns, |
think it only fair to give its propo-
nents an opportunity to defend it.
That there is need for a new and
equalized method of school-tax dis
tribution has been quite generally
recognized since the report of the
governors school ADMINISTRATION code
commission two years ago. That the
state tax, as applied in "30-10,' is the
only equitable tax that can be levied
for school purposes, is an idea that is
being more generally recognized by
forward thinkisg citizens everywhere.
Ordinary folks are coming to feel
that wealth should be taxed wher-
ever it is found and the money thus
obtained be appropriated for the use
of the children wherever they may be-
Children are not pieces of property.
They must be educated in the vicin-
ity whree they reside, but property
can be taxed anywhere in the state
and the money distributed equitably
to all of our schools"
In many localities in this state we
find instances of great concentration
of wealth. Children living in such
communities have every educational
advantage which it is possible to pro-
vide while their parents pay a mini
mum rate of taxation, ranging from
21a to 8 mills. On the other hand
are many districts which are not ma
turally rich and do not enjoy the in
come derived from taxes on some
public utility. These districts, even
tho paying 20 mills for school pur-
poses, are unable to provide the ed
ucational advantages to which every
boy and girl in this state is entitled
There are 176 school districts in
Washington unable to maintain
school more than seven months in the
year altho they pay the maximum
millage allowable under the law.
Surely it is unfair to these latter
children, not the future citizens of
any particular community, but of our
whole state, should be denied the OPP
portunities which might be theirs
were there an equitable method of
distribution of school revenues.
"30-10" is designed to derive rev.
enue from the wealth of the whole
state. 1t will do this thru a state
wide tax of $50 per census child and
countrywide tax of $40. Oppo-
nents have repeatedly claimed that
the measure is an attempt to raise
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-10-20
EAGLE CREEK.

Mr.. and Mrs. Heath and family Wis
tied at the Parker home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Chase spent
Sunday evening at the H. A. Ander-
son home.
Mrs. Curtis Chase and Mrs. H. A.
Anderson spent Tuesday afternoon
with Mrs. Martin Christensen.
Mrs. Ed. Reynolds and children of
Leavenworth, spent a couple days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H
Sharpe, before leaving for Belling-
ham on a visit to her sister, Mrs.
Sparks.
We are glad to learn that the Par
kins, of Waterville, have purchased
the Kenyon ranch and are now occu-
Dying their new home.
Mr.. and Mrs Otto Anderson and
Mrs. H. A. Anderson and children
and Mrs. Hoffman enjoyed Sunday
dinner with Mrs. Bjork. Mrs. Eresch
Mrs. Larson and daughter Ruth, and
Mrs. Sands were evening callers at
the Bjork home.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-10-20
THE LEAVENWORTH ECHO

more money fer school purposes. 1t
proposes to collect from the state for
every census child whereas we now
raise but $40, true, but it will give
the local school board an opportunity
to lower the district levies CORES
ponding amount.
Let us see how it would work To-
cally. Leavenworth under "30-10"
would pay into the state school fund
$15,610, and because our valuation is
low in comparison with the state av
erage, would receive back for the sup
port of our schools $20,379. Now is
it reasonable to suppose that our
board of directors, all of whom are
taxpayers, are going to maintain a
local tax of 1873 mills for the general
fund when the increased revenue
from the state will be able to main
tain the same educational advantages
as heretofore at a reduced millage?
| hardly think so.
Washington has Al rural school dis
trcts with an qualified assessed val
uation in each of less than $4,000.
At the other extreme, it has Al rural
districts with more than a half mil
lion dollars each. The Al poor dis
tl'icts have $1,042,939 to educate 406
children. The Al rich districts have
500 ,90S,279 to educate 401 children.
These are some of the conditions that
give rise to injustice to the taxpayer
and inequalities of educational oppor-
tunities for the children. "30-10"
asks that one-half of the cost of the
common schools be spread equally
over the 80 districts.
The constitution of the state of
Washington says, at is the para
mount duty of the state to make am
pie provision for the education of all
children residing in it's borders" The
state should be the unit of education
because efficient citizenship is the end
of education.
Thanking you for space to present
this very incomplete article, l am,
Very truly yours,
S. P. FREEMAN.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-10-20
PRESERVE
SCENIC RE-
SOURCES

Seattle, October 19.-Whether the
Republican party's platform plank in
favor of preservation of scenic re-
sources and highways" is actually to
bear fruit in action by the 1923 legis-
lature, or is to be allowed to remain
unconsidered, is a question to which
the Natural Parks Association of
Washington is seeking an answer.
David Whitcomb, Seattle, president Of
the Association, has written to every
Republican legislative nominee, ask
ing for his or her attitude toward that
plank and toward the association S
recommendation and seeking con-
structive suggestions from the nomi-
nees.
"The Republicans, recognizing the
genuine and widespread public de-
mand for some adequate action to
preserve the best of our destluctibe
resources, were progressive enough
to endorse such action in their plat
form-action which brought consider
able pleasure and satisfaction to the
Natural Parks Association" Whit
comb states. 1--WE realize, however,
that there is a great gap between
plank and performance. So we are
taking this means, not only of ascer-
tanning how the prospective legislat-
ors stand or the matter, but of Civ
inc their constituents a chance to tell