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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

imenas Metnuo 81 me d Rip-saw,
Fsto ST dobio "a to-"
Those words, translated into Eng
lish, have the following meaning,
viz:
"Vile wretch, get out Of my
house. You are a. bad man and
you aye ashamed of your name.
You put me in the Rip-saw. How
much did you get for H?''
The complaint, signed, sealed
and filed, goes on to- say, viz:
'Said language was malieiously
spoken of and concerning this
plaintiff, Sam Frederick, by said
defendant, Joe Opacak, and was
heard and understood by said
plaintiff, Sam Frederick, and the
other persons named who were
present; that said language thus
used was base, false and defama-
tory and known by said defendant,
Joe Opacak, when spoken, to be
base, false and defamatory."
The complaint further alleges
that, in the forenoon of June IT,
1928, near Fifthy-seventh avenue
West and Raleigh ST., while Sam
Frederick and Anna Frederick, his
wife, were walking towards the
house of John : Vrdo1jak, Madam
Mile 0pacak maliciously expressed
herself to Vrdaljak as follows viz. !:
Emo TT omega lupeza kurve idu
u kucu, trcf zatvori Yrata medal
tt u kucu, trcsi n zatvori vrata |
medal inn kucu."
Being translated, those alien
words mean, VIZ!
.Thare. Is tie vile wretch and
the prostitute. They are going into
your house. Run, and close the
door and don't let them into the
house." II
The conplaiA< alleges that Ma
dam 0pacak.s words were spoken
| In the presenceI o. John Vrdo1jak
and understood By him: that those
alien words wee base, false and
defamatory and known to be SO
by Madam OpacAk.
The plaintiffs 4urthur set up the
charge that the language was ut
tered for the purpose Of ipjuring
the good name land reputation Of
Sam FredericIdnt1d Anna, his wife,
and both were INJURED BY It, even
I to the extent Of causing them to be
looked upou xifh suspicion and
held tn rid1ea and contempt IN
THE community which they lived
flat that time. <3I11 to the damage
lot shese plain - n the sum of
/ SO, coo.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

GRAND MARA1S,, Aug. II. -
Especial to, the Rip-saw. when
the good women Of this North
Shore village learned that a posse
Of federal agents was raiding the
moonshiners and blindpiggers in
this sector of Cook county, they
got together and held a. grand cell
ebratien. Instead Of bibbing moon
shine. they slipped tea and coffee.
The rejoicing, lasted until it was
time for most Of them to go hoI-e
and get supper.
The raiding party struck this
neck o. the woods on Tuesday,
August IL, and it embraced P. A.
Nelson. Frank Otto, Harley Paris,
U. s. deputy marshal Pearce and
Indian agent Hess. Quick and eff
feetive work was done, although
several escaped who richly deserved
to be caught.
The first call was at the livery
barn and garage Of Dave Lind.
When questioned, Col. Lind denied
that he had anything 20 do with
the place. In the face Of dis
covery of moonshine on the prem
Uses, the tricky chap finally was
forced to spend the night in jail,
greatly to the regret and even re-
sentiment of certain county officers.
Two weeks before the official
visit, John A. Johnson sold a bottle
of moonshine to federal prohibition
agents. When the raiding party
called Col. Johnson to book he
started to get fresh, but the Cf-
isers quickly made meek man out.
Of him.
Colonel Carl Sjoberg, former
Grand Marais policeman, also
charged with selling moonshines
whisky, is alleged to have been in
cahoots with Lind and Johnson.
In the course Of human events,
the naughty trio will face a federal
judge and take. a big dose of legal
punishment.
Later-Affer reaching Duluth.
Lind was let go, much to his Joy.
The raiders next visited the homes
of Martin and William DroulliaFd.
While the officers were searching
the Lind garage, word reached the
Droulliards that a raid was on
therefore they got rid Of most of
their Illicit wet goods. ~
The DrouIliards. by the way. are
American Indians. not aliens from
hungry Europe. Their mother who
lives in the house next to that Of
the boys threw out a bottle Of
moonshine as the officers approach
ed, The bottle was so badly smash
ed that nothing was salvaged but
the smell of the Illicit stuff. In
dian agent Hess went into the
house and found a quantity of
rhu5arb and dandelion wine.
BY that time, word was well over
town that the federal men were.
raiding the IaWless folk, which in
formation started the celebration
by the good women OF the place.
The officers next went to the
farm of L. G. Gauthier about two
miles north of Grand Marais. There
was information that Gauthier and
Earl Bonner, alias "Slim'' Bonner,
a renegade Canuck, have been
cooking" at the farm for a long
time. A search failed to reveal the
still but quantity of moonshine
whisky was found.
Gauthier had trouble with his
wife some time ago and she deserted
his bed and board. Bonner is re-
puted to possess criminal record
in Canada. He has guzzled moon
shine so hard and so fast that
tuberculosis has q strangle hold on
him. 1t Is not believed that he will
live long enough to face a federal
judge.
Jack Hfrsch, q Pigeon Point
hombre, charged with running a
still, was turned ovef to the Cook
~ -
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
IT WAS A WINDY DAY.

The .silver-tongued orator was
decIaiming before the HicksvilIe.
veterans. His speech. was replete
with glowing but ancient metaphors
and coIorful references to the flag.
.How proudly she waves over
this camp ground" shouted the
speaker. 'sBut why doesn't she
wave over Kataganzu, Loiiapaiooza.
the Island of Bazzazza? Why"
Perhaps" Interrupted a small
voice from the rear, "they aren't
getting as much wind as we are
ON this camp ground. Judge.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
RAN TRUE TO FORM.

"A great gathering Of churchmen
had been In session-in the city of Dem
yer for about ten days, and the por-
ter in one of the hotels made this
remark to travelling man who
had inquired as to the convention.
"Yassuh boss" the darkey COM
mented, "dis bunch of preachers
is sure different from most folks
'wot comes to Denver for eonven-
;tions. DEFY blew into this town
with the copy Of the ten command
ments In one pocket and ten
dolIah bill in the other, and we
porters don't believe that dey have
broken either of them yet"
Judge.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
PENSION FOR MRS. HARDING.

Three living widows of Presidents.
Mrs. Francis Folsom Cleveland
Preston. Mrs. BENJAMIN Harrison
and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. ara
drawing pensions of $1,000 q year
for life from the Governnaent, and
lie precedent is followed, Afrs. Hard
ing will make fourth Tbs fact
that the late President Harding left
an estate of about $50 ,oD % ana
that Mrs Harding x,si he IN x:ssz.
circumstances. is. not likely to in
terfere with the precedent Cong 1aazz
sometime ago established OF pro-
viding for the widows Of Presidents.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

'The ultimate cost of this fifty
miles Of road under the bond-issue
plan would be $51,275 mile,
more than half Of which would have
been expended on interest and cleo.
ton costs, and with no allowance
'or source Of income arranged for.
maintenance Of the roads SO built.
"Now turn to the actual cest of
fifty miles Of paved highway under
the plan Of paying for every mile
as 1t is paved:
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

Because his wife scolded him for
forgetting to bring home basket
of tomatoes, Pennsylvania physic-
ian shot and Killed her, then turned
the gun ON himself.
Such trivial matters should not,
be referred to st. Peter. Having to
ailot everyone to his special reserve
seat I'm the hereafter, he is q
mighty busy saint and ought not
to be asked to arbitrate things that
Earthlings should be able to settle
among themselves.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

ire supplied with
lad Of roads, and
1za rapidly, as they
Inder the bond Issue
is put on genera
I'd no man pro-
mt of more than
IS roads, on the
|eople Of the county
the highways.
ed that, under this
automobile tax in
though not in
the direct taxa
both in amount and
,;-a,.s. s ,,r,sr.,, ~
8 .sn15 49,
.s 49, ~ - -. !.
= a.; .a-a J
49, 49, 9, =. -. . -.
. $3.50. 49, ..oH 10 - ;
s.,a,,1 = 800 pro.s ~, ~ !,
~ 49, an 800 mS,
- -. oa1s
!, .or,aaa -
!, 80 80 = ps sha ,,sr y
! =, - - 49, 40
'.4 ra5n 1gnu M;,i - ha na
rt .p
8 ns;d Far IN
,,,s;ntoa !. s -
81 ,,s 70 MD d,,ri, !, >
~, e - T Trs cost a e
e rasad (. 80
-. socd cond;t;an
ya~ts 80 ~ &c ,,,s,,ld
~, 49,, An aoa e9 sor
'eF9 ~ q o vp,'1 Iyndor
- INC bsc cosf If The
s:;1,~ e ths ) ono
], ,1o,,1d - s1oe !.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
SATURDAY The DIHfr

~ - I'll
away l. infefes
| In the cost Of bd
as In other nd
| remains in the
| payers, Ihile th|
| exactly the SAM
{ tpplied often ID
would have been
| plan. No burdeH
| tons yet unborn
| fits to, the ext
| the cost Of q
| necessity of the |
Eor state building
| It will be mott
| plan, as the
| creases in amol
/ rate-each yeaI
| ton Is reduced,
| in rate. These
| show only a
| Such a progra,
| finitely' extendef
| and the rate
| reducing propor'
| Under suGa a p
| course, the time
| the auto tax !
! built each year.
| IF dome in e
| the end OF fort
| term Of road-bu
| West-San deg
| 1000 miles Of pi
| foot of which
| which the peopl
| cent, and for
and repair they
the entire IOrLy
these 1000 mi
maintained and
at the end of
| be $4,000, 900
| maintenance, or
| the bond issue I
| building and p;
| miles Of highwi
$50, 600, WNhou
| sideration any
| maintenance. /,
| Thus, the bar
| under the bond
| nearly twice TIL
| cost. and main
| pay-as-you-paVe
the treasurer Of
Rarely has a pl;
saving been pre-
tmunitg, yet its
ability, and hon
| it. probably viii
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
NONCoNFoRMfTY.

The world is full of more or less
diyerting situations and the minis
ter's little boy is out there in
front of the house at this very
moment, playing rum runner.
Ohio State Journal.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

ing rate of increase IN divorce
should bring. this country to tht
support Of the Capper uniform dis
vorce bill, which attacks this prob.
lem vigorously. Uniform marriage
and divorce laws possibly would
not check the Increasing tendency
to- divorce In the United States, hut
they would put a stop to the conn.,
merciaiizing Of divorce BY some
of the states specializing IN it.
Furthermore, legislation can pre-
vent demonstrated and llasty mar
riages. the marriages OF the unfit
and the immatures and can fix the
lawful causes Of divorce, by federal
law. Generally speaking. there is
too much law, but ALSO there Is
too much divorce. A uniform mar
riage and divorce law would substi-
tute one law, for As make-shift
laws. Capper's Weekly.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
THE. OLD, OLD STORY.

"My wife saved me from being
robbed last night"
How was that?"
"A burglar got in at the window
and went through my pockets for
my money, but found none-my
wife had been there before him. !"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
HER CANNY way.

SO the engagement is off,
:" Yes. She was SO indignant
when she heard what he's done.
that she tore, off her engagement
ring and flung it onto her right
hand. Elk.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
SHE DIDN'T GET THE JON.

A Western woman. who IS q
imother-in-law, advertised for a COM
'petent white girl. A young and
pretty woman answered the ad in
person Mother-in-law asked her age.
Pm older than look" said the
young thing. Pm married" Mother
|in-law asked why she wanted a Job
housekeeping. TITS all on account
of my mother-in-law." the girl am
severed. She doesn't know yet why
she didn't get the job.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

"The ultimate cost, which under.
this plan is the original cost, by the.
pay-as-you-pave plan Is $4,000.
That is to say, the money thrown
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

to attain great popularity in the
various states, otinS to the oppose
tion Of the money pQWer and Of the.
politicians. 4
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01
$156,250 $296,S75

$1250,O00 s1.293,75C
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-09-01

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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04

I 30 different states. Immediately the
amazing possibilities were realized and
the Postoffice Department began al
once the extension of the service an
nually until now there are II, 1S6 rural
routes supplying mail to approximately
G,425,77O families or 29,742,542 indi-
viduals. Not a single postoffice of i'm
portance in any state of the Union is
without its rural routes running out in
every direction and serving the farm
ers with their daily mail. In the year,
1897, the annual pay roll OF rural
route carriers amounted TO the insignifi-
cant sum of $14,S40. Last year the
Postoffice Department paid its rural
route carriers the huge total sum of
S1,315,961. The distances covered by
these routes was 1,1SO,44S and the car
riers Travelled during the year the dis
lance of 357, 254,3G5 miles.
4S4 New Routes i'm Year.
The present administration Of the
postal service from its very inception,
has left no step untaken III extending
the benefits of rural mail delivery TO
the farming population throughout the
country. During the last year 434 new
rural routes were established. This re-
suited in the delivery of mail daily TO
approximately 62,030 families or to
more than $4,000 individual residents
of the farming districts. In addition,
improved facilities were accorded to
some $500 families by the lengthen-
ing and readjustment of 3406 existing
rural routes and about 26,9IO families
were provided with additional service on
1S6 routes which were increased from
tri-weekly TO daily delivery. These
changes have had a direct effect of Civ
ing every modern postal convenience to
nearly 10000 families or TO more than
6S4,000 persons living in agricultural
sections.
But the delivery of mail daily TO the
farmers that has resulted in this mi
raeulous change in their monotonous
existence is not the only thing the Post
office Department has done for them.
In many sections of the country the
farming districts are lacking in trans
portation and railroad facilities and
into this situation the governments
postal service has stepped to supply
these deficiencies. Star routes have
been inaugurated going into these terri
tories with the result that a daily SER
vice by horse-drawn or motor vehicle
carries letters, parcel post packages
and daily newspapers to them regularly
from the outside world. Last year
there were 1915 of these star mail
routes involving travel aggregating 49,
20S,6J6 miles.
Parcel Post System Broadened.
The farmers likewise have reaped I'M
told benefits from the parcel post sys-
tenn and the present administration OF
the Postoffice Department has conduct
ed its operation with special view of
serving them. An innovation that has
developed during the last year or so
is the shipment Of products of the farm
by parcel post. In parts of Kentucky
tobacco crops in their entirety in some
instances have been moved to distant
points by parcel post and the same
means have been used in transporting !
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04

How the farmers in the United
Etates have been transformed from g
kate of isolation to one of immediate
ontact with the outside world and al
Is activities, is told in statement
repaired for the press by Postmaster
eneral Hubert Work, which answer
he auction: What has the Post.
Efice Department done for the farming
|bpulation?"
Twcnty-six years ago the farmers Of
| bis country with their wives and chill.
rem, led an existence of almost COM
etc isolation. They. dwelled upon
|idely-scattere farms, the soil OF
|hich they titled, some of them miles
rom each other. Except for a period
| al trip to the nearest town in their
healthy every week they had little or
ID communication with their neighbor
pr the outside world. They received
b mail except that which they got
lemselves, by going to the nearest
|pstoffice at infrequent intervals and
|ey read weekly farming journals in
|rmittently. They were detached, lone
and solitary.
Receives Mail Every Day.
| Today the American farmer may
bow not only everything that happens
\, the immediate neighborhood of his
Trim, but be is in constant contact
tn the public affairs of the entire
A ton as well as the other nations of
He world. A mail carrier passes his
1rm every day. He delivers at his
Lpnt door, or within a few hundred
rds Of his front door, his fayorite
etropolitan daily newspaper on the
nv date of its publication. He leaves
10 personal letters for the farmer and
members of his family and business
tiers from the merchant in the nearby
|rn or from the produce and grain
|alers in the city to whom he sells
products of his farm. The rural
lite carrier brings parcel post pack
es. He. sells the farmer stamps and
,ney orders, collects mail and takes it
the postoffice to be dispatched to its
stination within the short space of a
hours. He is the medium that has
nsformed the isolated and secluded
habitants of the rural districts of
United States into up-to-date and
smopolitan citizens, alive to the cur
ht topics of the day and equipped to
their proper role in the destinies of
{grest republic.
'rhe Postoffice Department made its
Sd experiment in rural delivery ser
e in 1896 on three routes simultan-
lsly in West Virginia. Nine months
- the establishment Of these initial
ltes, the service was broadened to So
ltes leading out Of 43 postoffices in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04

fruit in Florida and California. Re
Gently in Colorado the farmers sent
large quantities of celery to the mar
ket through the mails, while farmers
in other sections of the country are be-
ginning to realize the advantages and
tie possibilities of using the parcel post
to send the products of their truck gar
dens to the market. An eager co-Opera-
ton from the POstOffice Department has
been extended in this connection.
The annual census of the brood SOW
and pig production was undertaken this
year by the postal service at the re-
quest of the Department of Agricul-
ture. Attem9ts to obtain similar CO.
operation in previous administrations
have failed. At first tried out a year
ago in only seventeen states, it proved
SO successful that the survey was ex-
tended to cover the whole country. The
sow and pig enumeration is being con-
Quoted by rural route carriers, who
have been supplied with printed forms
that they fill out after personal inter
views with the farmers along their
routes. The purpose of this census is to
obtain accurate statistics of the number
of hogs being raised in the United
States by the Department of Agricul-
ture in furnishing vital information to
the farmers upon the volume of produc-
ton and the most certain method Of
marketing.
Last year the disbursements of the
PostOffice Department ran into some
S4S4, 100000. OF this amount it is
estimated that over one-third was ex-
pended in the maintenance of an ade-
quate mail service for the farmers of the
nation through the operation of rural
routes, star routes and postOffices in
the smaller communities thus making
permanent that wonderful metamorpho-
sis that transformed the rural inhabi-
tants from a state Of isolation 10 one of
immediate contact with the throbbing
and teeming world.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
. FARHER JHG/y/NG FO1
REG/5ZEl2ED kiETTER..

Postmaster General Work Tells How
Postofice Department Has Helped
to Bring Farmer Into Immediate Con-
tact With the Outside World and All
90 Its Activities, and Also Aids Him in
Marketing His Products Through Es-
tablishment of Rural Free Delivery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
TOURING IS NATIONAL -PASTIME THIS SUMMER
Passing Cars Filled With Tourists
 Counted By Thousands

With fine hard roads stretching forth like so many ribbons through out most sections of the country and with the development of motor cars to a point where they provide luXur ious ease of travel and absolute de- probability, America has become a nation of tourists. The fact Is more pronounced this summer, with its vast increase of cars, than ever be- fore.
 Literally hundreds of thousands of cars whose license tags bespeak great distances from home. dot the highways throughout the country during the summer months" says E. H. McCarty, general sales mana ger of the Nash Motors company. Along about this time of the year 1t is interesting to note the appear ance on the streets of almost any large city license plates bearing the inscription of practically every state in the union.
 Drive for an hour over any of the great transcontinental highways and observe passing cars filled with tour ists and note from their license tags the great distances they have travel ed entirely independent of former modes of transportation. An Iowa merchant has occasion to go to New York. Let's take the children and all go in the car, suggests his wife
 
 their very front door and ride over roads of a kind that only a few years ago were undreamed of.
 -"The tourists time is his own and he drives at will. He may stop at a hotel for the night or he may choose an attractive camping site thousands of which are now along the main travelled roads of the coun- try.
 Another interesting phase of sum mer touring has been the adoption of the fully equipped sport car as most desirable type of automobile for cross-country travel. The more thoroughly equipped car is the one best suited for this purpose. With extra wheels of a design that makes possible an easy and quick change, the tourists mind is carefree and when his car is equipped as well with motometer, bumpers, and trunk for luggage. he finds full measure of endowment"