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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-09-27
Civic CLUB PLANS
FOR CONVENTION
Years Program Mapped Out by
Mrs. C. w. Brady, President,
Contains Many Interesting
Subjects for Meetings

Final arrangements for welcoming
delegates to the state convention of
the Nevada Federation of Woman's
Clubs, to be held in this city COM
mencing next Thursday and con-
tinuing three days, adjourning Sat
urday evening, October A, will be
made at the meeting of the Civic
Club to be held next Tuesday, &C
cording to announcement of Mrs.
Geo. w. Brady, president of the
club. 1t is expected that at that
time final details of the Winnemucca
women's part in the convention will
be worked out and any additional
committees which may be necessary
will be appointed. During the meet
ing it is also expected that a suffi-
cient number of new members will
be elected to entitle the local club
to two more delegates to the state
convention, a goal set several weeks
ago and which if successful will
bring the club membership to the
$50 mark. Hostesses for the meet
ing next Tuesday will be Mesdames
j. Hunt, w. ]. Bradlay and M. T.
Eastman.
The full years program, as
mapped out by President Brady and
printed in pamphlet form by The
Silver State for distribution among
Civic Club members, is as follows
SEPTEMBER FOURTH
Reception to New Officers
Definite Objects of Club Purpose
and Force of the Federated
Women's Clubs. Mrs. Margaret
Brady
Hostesses: Mrs. C. E. Swezy
Mrs. N. Adamson
Mrs. w. L. Akin
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-09-27
Methodist Church

Methodist Church
Sunday school will be held next
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. AT
II am. the morning church service
will be held. The Epworth League
will meet at z pm. and evening
church service will be held at
o'clock. A cordial welcome is ex-
tended to all. ]. H. Westervelt,
pastor.
at Willow Point.
A picnic party was given Sunday
by the young ladies in honor of
the visiting young men from Reno,
Fernley, and Sparks.
A dainty luncheon was set in the
lobby at the Auditorium for fifteen.
In attendance were Misses Gertrude
Washburn, Ora Williams, Helen
Washburn, Arlie Cathcart, Ruby
Riley, Fermina Echeverria, Acqui-
lima Gastinago and Lena Echeverria
and Messers Halbert Bradshaw
Chester Freemonth, Pablo Eche-
verria, Floyd Lye, Cecil Riley,
Glenn Gillian and John Riley. After
refreshments were served the happy
people INDUCED in games and other
amusements.
Glenn Gillian is making regular
trips to Winnemucca, hauling
freight for the Buckskin National
Mine Compay.
]. w. Becker, j. Roy Bradshaw
and H. K. Harvey returned Tues
day from a business trip to Winnie
mucca.
John Hill came in recently from
the Buckskin Mine, where he has
been employed since the early
spring. Mr.. Hill came down to seek
medical aid.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-09-27
MARCH FOURTH

mAhCIl roOhA
Community Singing
Library Day, in charge OF Mrs. u
McB. Rose
Hostesses. Mrs. P. A. Sanders
Mrs. G. A. Brady
Mrs. A. Livingstone
MARCH EIGHTEENTH
Community Chest Rattle, in charge
of Mrs. C. Muller
Hostesses: Miss M. Bradshaw
Mrs. E. A. Leach
Mrs. j. Pike
APRIL FIRST
"Co-operative Marketing: Its Rela-
ton to Nevada's Prosperity
Mr.. J. Wilson
Hostesses: Mrs. T. d. Brown
Mrs. T. A. Brandon
Mrs. S. A. Johnson
APRIL FIFTEENTH
Community Singing
Arbor Day, in charge of Mrs. 5
Roberts
Hostesses: Mrs. J. A. Callahan
Mrs. w. P. Stephenson
Mrs. D. Christen
MAY SIXTH
Community Singing
Business Meeting
Hostesses: Mrs. H. Erskine
Mrs. d. McB. Rose
Mrs. L. T. Eggleston
MOTHERS DAY
In charge of Mrs. C. E. Swezy
MAY TWENTIETH
Community Singing
Play Day, in charge of Mrs. F. J
Button
Hostesses: Mrs. L. Kramer
Mrs. w. Blattner
Mrs. Sturgeon
JUNE THIRD
Community Singing
Election Day
Hostesses: Mrs. J. T. Miller
Mrs. G. Rutherford 4
Mrs. C. E. Renner
JUNE FIFTH
Club Luncheon
OFFICERS
Mrs. G. W. Brady, President
Mrs. H. Erskine, Vice-President
Mrs. E. M. Bosch, Secretary
Mrs. C. E. Haviland. Treasure,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Mrs. Geo. w. Brady
Mrs. H. Erskine
Mrs. C. E. Haviland
Mrs. E. M. Bosch
Mrs. d. Mob. Rose
Mrs. E. H. Gilman
Mrs. c. E. Swezy
Mrs. C. Muller
Mrs. F. J. Button
Mrs. C. P. Hoskins
Mrs. j. A. Callahan
Mrs. J. TT Wartaryan
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11
clue Valley I'm More Pioneer Work

young concern to undertake, for if
we failed we would be in for heavy
loss. And all the time the strong drift
of the farmers away from dairying
had to be reckoned with.
We went to work. We placed large
advertisements in the most read farm
paper in that part of the country, tel
ling the advantages of the hand sep
arators and offering to buy the cream
from them. Other creamery men
laughed at US. They were still forcing
the farmers to haul whole milk to
their creameries and, when the milk
supply dwindled, running Swimming
stations and thus keeping up the en-
ormous expense of making butter, all
of which had to come out of the but
terfat price.
But Blue Valley kept on. We sent
men with hand separators out on the
farms to show the farmers right in
their own yards how the machines
worked. We held meetings in many
Of the smaller towns, rented halls,
hired bands to parade the streets be-
fore the meetings, furnished speakers.
all to get chance to demonstrate to
the farmers the value of the hand sep
arator and of dairying under the new
system.
It was the hardest kind Of pioneer
work. Naturally the farmer was sus-
picious of the new machine, of the new
system and of Blue Valley, which also
was new to him. and he wasn't inter-
ested in milking cows. Sometimes he
just listened to the band but didn't go
near the meeting, and the speaker had
to preach the dairy gospel to an empty
hall.
Hand Separators Sold For Cream
The farmers were hard up in those
days too. They had no money with
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11

which to pay for hand separators when
they did buy. So Blue Valley had to
sell the machines on what we called
a cream contract. 1t was not note
good at a bank, or contract enforc-
able in court, bat just an agree lnen.
between Blue Valley and each farmer,
permitting US to deduct a stated
amount from each payment of the
cream he shipped us, said amount to
go towards paying for the separator
Blue Valley trusted the farmers,
and they trusted us. We just knew
that once farmer had tried the hand
separator and the new system Of sell
ling cream, he would see how valuable
both were to him and how much bet
ter they suited his kind of farming
than the hauling of whole milk. We
also knew that our St. Joseph cream
cry would furnish him a market for
his cream that would induce :lim to go
into dairying instead of getting out.
Also, it had been the experience of the
Blue Valley men and is to this day,
that every farmer will gladly pay tor
actual, value received, be that of goods
or of service, or of both.
Blue Valley was trying to give him
both-a hand separator and a cream
market-and we succeeded. At least,
thousands of farmers approved, for
within three years of the opening of
the Blue Valley Creamery in st. Jo-
seph and the beginning of our hand
separator campaign, thousands had
bought separators from US in this way
and were selling cream to us regular
ly. Every machine not sold for cash
was paid for with cream. The farmers
after actual trial were satisfied that
they were getting value for their
money and for their cream, or Blue
Valley would never have received
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11

No matter how profitable new
thing may be for a man, he must De
convinced before he will buy it. Most
If ns agree that life insurance is
something every man shuld carry lor
the protection Of those Depending on
him. Nothing in a mans lie Is surei
than his death and with most OF US
hat means that the family support
stops then and there. Therefore, NE
insurance seems the plainest and most
desirable duty to most men. But even
60. we have to have life insurance
AGENTS tell us about it, solicit our busl-
ness and push us to do this PLAIN anu
desirable duty to ourselves ana Iaflin
les. Insurance no doubt wound DC
cheaper, if we took it out without tne
agents. for they have to be paid out OF
the premiums, but even so most men
wait and put it off until an agent gets
to them.
So with the hand separators, when
Pine Valley began the pioneer work
of getting the farmers to use them 1or
their own good. It wasn't enough tnat
the hand separator was a good tnlng
for the farmer. 1t wasn't enough to
fix up a creamery for making butter
from hand separator cream. 1t wasn't
enough to announce that such a cream
ery was open for business in st. 10,
senh. We actually had tc sell the hand
separators too.
Blue Valley Hand Separator Campaign
So great was the faith of Blue Val
lev in the value of the hand separator
to the farmer, that the company en-
tered into a contract with large
Eastern firm manufacturing hand sep
arators. for the sale of its machines In
fhe states of Missouri and Kansas.
This contract was no small thing for
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11

their cream long enough to get paid
for the separators. Blue Valley never
lost money by trusting The farner, nor
VIII anybody else who actually renders
INN service, and neither notes nor
contracts good in court are necessary
where each party to an agreement has
confidence in the other.
Blue Valley Promotes Dairying
The most important result of this
Blue Valley campaign, however, was
not the sale of hand separators nor
the making of thousands of Blue Val
ley patrons for our creamery in st.
Joseph, but the awakened interest in
dairying which the Blue Valley cam
paign created. The farmer found in
the hand separator way to keep a
few cows and sell his product at a
profit and at the same time attend to
his corn, beef and hogs, which had
become his main business. Towns in
which Blue Valley speakers had talked
to empty halls became points at which
much cream was sold.
Blue Valley gave the dairy COW in
Missouri and Kansas a better chance
by furnishing an improved market for
her products, just as Blue Valley has
done at all other points where a
Blue Valley creamery has been es-
tablished since then.
Selling of cream was new thing in
those days and so was the handling
of this large volume of business. Blue
Valley was the pioneer and so had
nothing to go by. Naturally we
made mistakes, which taught US
some good lessons in economical
creamery business. Next week we
shall tell you about one lesson of
great Importance to all farmers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11

escape. The older boys, following
Wesley's directions, made rope lad
ders of sheets. Then, as the flames
crept through the corridors, the boys
were let down from an outside bal
cony just as the fire department hove
in sight The young star was the
last to leave the house.
Nobody will deny young Barry, a
hero himself, the right to play the
leading part in Heroes of the Street, .
announced by the Caughren thestre
management is coming next week.
The supporting cast in this picture
directed by William Beaudine includes
Marie Provost, Wilfred Lucas, Aggie
Heron, Al Walling, Philo McCul-
ough, peaches" Jackson, Joe BH ter
worth, Phi Ford, Wedgewood Novel;
and Lillian Leeds.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11

About twenty years ago, as briefly
referred to last week in this history
of the Blue Valley Creamery Co.,
MANY creamery men in Minnesota
called the hand separator system,
first introduced on large scale by
Blue Valley, menace"
The Menace" long ago proved it
self a blessing to the farmers of Min
nesota and of the whole country.
Every farmer in this part Of the
country can figure out for himself just
how much time and money it would
have cost him to be without this
menace" all these years. Then he
will realize how much money the
hand separator system has saved him,
and how it has made it possible for
him to keep the number Of cows he
does today with the help he has. Just
imagine the fix the farmers around
Sank Centre would be in right now,
if they couldn't keep the number OF
cows they have. thanks to the hand
separator! -
Yet, while Blue Valley was busy
down in Missouri and Kansas helping
the farmers build up the hand sep
arator system and perfecting the
manufacture of butter from hand sep
arator cream, many creamery men In
Minnesota were busy trying to pre-
vent the farmers from patronizing
the dealers selling hand separators.
These creamery men meant well,
and many of them honestly doubted if
good butter could be made from the
hand separator cream. Their cream
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11
About Blue Valley

arators into the hands of the farmers
everywhere in that section of the
country. 1t was not an easy task. The
machines were new to everybody and
their value appeared so doubtful to
many people that even farm nipple
ment dealers refused to handle them.
They said the farmers wouldn't buy
them, and even if the farmers were
induced to buy them, they wouldn't
pay for them, because they wouldn't
use them.
There was another and more diff
ficult obstacle. AS already referred to
in these articles, the farmers of Mis-
souri, and Kansas were abandoning
dairying, on account of the low prices
on butter and the better prices on
corn, beef and hogs. 1t was a case of
not only inducing the farmers to buy
hand separators, but of inducing them
to milk cows.
The young Blue Valley Creamery
Co. had big pioneer task to tackle.
Like the pioneer task of cutting out
the mlddlemen in the butter market
and selling Blue Valley butter direct
to the retailers, in order to pay the
patrons the highest possible price for
butterfat, as already told in this space,
Blue Valley set about introducing the
hand separators and inducing the
farmers to dairy, determined to sue
coed. And, thanks to the hard common
sense of the American farmer, Blue
Valley also succeeded in this pioneer
task.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11
WORTHY MEMORIAL.

Tn a determined effort to carry to
completion the project adopted py
tbe Minnesota Editorial Association
tn nrovide industrial training for the
cr;npled children of Minnesota as
memorial to Michael J. Bowling, an
nouncement is made by J. r Landy,
chairman of the associations COM
mittee, that the campaign Will De car,
ried into every county in the state tnat
has not thus far raised its share OF the
100000 sought
Serving with Mr. Landy as officers
of the committee ore E. X. Whltlng,
vice chairman; Hattie S. BordeWlch,
treasurer; H. C. Hotaling, secretary;
Harry Wilbern, associate secretary
HEADQUARTERS have been established
at SO Second ave, S., Minneapolis:
Already there has been raised S3o'-
OOO of which the members of the MIN
nesota Bankers Association have CIV
en- $4,000 and $4,000 by the editors
While no specific quota will De SCI
for any county, it is recognized tnat
aside from the contribution OF tne
bankers, 3 cents per capita will ralse
the balance. "With the appeal OF Ill
tie children with crippled bodies wht
seek an opportunity to live out tnel1
lives in self respect, there is M
doubt" said Mr.. Landy, "but ever!
county in the entire state will give it,
full share"
The memorial is to be comblna
ton hospital and rooming place FOL
crippled children. This is particular
ly fitting and appropriate as Mr
bowling went through life Wltnou,
feet or hands. The story OF MIKE
Bowling and the way in when MI
feet and hands were frozen OIL whel
he was ID years old is long one ou'
II has in it all the elements of human
interest of many tale in fiction. Ii
spite of this terrible handicap the
bow determined to educate hlmsen
and become self-supporting. WITT
the help of friends he was able u
finance two terms of schooling a.
Carleton college, and with this as
foundation Bowling commenced nj:
business career teaching rural school
AS he taught he studied, and In vaca
ton time, with the aid OF artlncla
limbs, performed many and varlou:
sorts of work, painting, insurance
underwriting, editorial work. etc.
taking mans place and asking no ad
vantage. In later life ne devoted nj!
time to newspaper work, banking
and took an active part in politics
being the choice Of many of the vot
ers of the state for governor IN tn
campaign of 1920. At the time OF nj
death MIR. Bowling was president O.
the Olivia State Bank and preslden
of the Minnesota State Bankers AS
ISOLATION. mike" Dowling's life stor.
has inspired thousands and will con
tinue to be a living inspiration.
Every dollar contributed to the Dow
ling Memorial Fund will be used to
building hospital for crippled child
rem and for no other purpose. 1t vii
help many little children, crippled ant
unfortunate, awaiting their chance t.
get treatment at the State School TO.
Crippled Children. 1t is to care fo
some of these that the Memorial dorm
itory is planned.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11
premiums totaling nearly 100000

premiums totaling nearly $2,OO0,O00
with losses Of only $691, 1922. The
Workmens Compensation Act is adj
ministered by state commission and
the new idea is to have the state col
lect the premiums and pay the losses
1t is known that quite a few of the
members of both the house and SEN
ate favor the new idea and that they
have strong backing in a large num-
Der of small business concerns who
regard the present compensation rate
as excessive and burdensome If state
insurance does prevail it will not be
without stiff fight on the part of the
companies engaged in the bus ness
who are now marshaling their forces
for the attack. It's loss would rob
them of some decidedly rich picking.
y, b
Congressman A. j. Volstead of liq-
uor law enforcement fame will be-
come private citizen next March and
friends say that if he desires he can
still enjoy the spotlight bv becoming
member of the official staff of Will
Hayes, the head of the moving D
ture industry. According to friends
Volstead has been offered legal DO
| sition by Hayes and that his salary,
if he accepts, will be $1,000 a week
Next to Lord George of England
| Congressman Volstead is the most
talked of man in all of Europe and
America. This fact is verified by
Chautauqua agents who are consist
antly in search of much talked of &C.
lebrities for lecture purposes.
| A bank guarantee bill also an act
making workable the Rural Credits
constitutional amendment adopted al
the late election have been prepared
by the House Agricultural COMMITTEES
and will be presented at the BODY next
month. Other agricultural Legislation
is also being prepared. Legislation
designed to give agricultural relic
is going to figure heavily at the com
ing session and much of it will be bit
terly fought because of it's SOCIALISM,
! character. w. A. Wilkinson is tn
head of the house agricultural com
| mittee and the burden of putting tn
various acts over fall on him.
Congressman Harold Knutson of tn
Sixth district for the United State
Senate two years hence to succee
Il Knute Nelson is the latest addition t
the growing list of mentioned eligi
bles. The Wadena Pioneer Journal re
CARDS Harold as promising timber
Another notable mentioned for Unit
ed States senator is Senator Henri
Benson of st. Peter. Senator Benso
, has also been suggested as possibl
gubernatorial material.
= That bill will be introduced to til
, legislature returning the state board c
r control to it's former membership
, certain. Rep. DIR. A. B. Cole of Fergu
7 Falls is advocating such and he hs
s a number of house and senate bach
ers. DR.. Cole also wanted the nun
Der of state boards reduced and TIL
r state university relieved of some {
its frills and fads. .n
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11
The "N7enace" Proved a Blessing

cries, like those in Missouri and
Kansas, were fixed up to skim the
whole milk; they themselves were
accustomed to make butter from fac
tory-skimmed cream, and they didn't
know just what might happen if their
patrons bought hand separators. For
one thing, it might make the patrons
more independent. in their dealings
with the local creamery. The hauling
of the large load of whole milk, and
of skim milk too, automatically forced
the farmers within a certain distance
of a creamery to patronize that one
factory. The farmers had no choice as
to where they should sell their milk.
But there was no telling, in the minds.
of these creamery men, just where the
light load of cream would go, once the
farmers got the little hand machines
and became Independent of the haul
ing of the big load of whole milk.
They Feared Competition
So they dubbed the hand separator
system menace, tried to build a
fence around their patrons against
it's coming in and fought as best they
could to protect" the farmers and
the dairy industry, as they called IT,,
against the hand separators which
were supposed to lower the price Of
butterfat, undermine the local cream
cries and, for certainty, make the
creameryman's job less Independent
and more difficult to hold, on account
of the competition which the new
system would make for him.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11
Lee Declined Command.

On April Is. 1861. President Lincoln,
through Francis Preston Blair, tender
ed General Lee the command of the
army of the United States, which was
declined. OF this action Lee said:
81 declined the offer he made me to
take command of the army that was
to be brought into the field, stating
as candidly as could, that though
opposed to secession and deprecating
war, l could take no part in the in
vasion of the southern states"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11

same weakness affected me and it
was certainly nuisance. | began look
ing around for a medicine that would
cure me and hit upon Doan's Kidney
Pills, which / got at Dowswell's Drug
Store. They effected speedy cure
and what is more, it has been per-
manent one"
6Oc. at all dealers. Foster Milbuln
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. M-adv.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11

There are no doubt many farmers
right around Sank Centre who re-
member all this opposition of cream
cry men to the hand separator system.
This opposition held back progress and
for time prevented many farmers
from getting the profits the hand
separator system offered them. In the
long run, however, the farmers took
the matter in their own hands, swept
the opposition aside and adopted the
new system. They saw the profits and
savings in it, saw how we'll it fitted
into their kind of farming and, as is
always the case, knew best what would
serve them best in the long run.
Today, practically every farmer has
hand separator, the creamery no
longer skins the milk but makes but
ter from hand separator cream, and
none of the predictions of failure, of
undermining, Of ruin, has come true.
The menace, as many creamery men
the country over called the hand sep
arator system, has proven itself ore
Of surest profits to the farmers, ana
dairying in Minnesota as we'll as else
where has made enormous progress as
result of that system.
Blue Valley Busy Building Up
While others were busy knocking
the hand separator and were standing
in the way Of progress and profits to
the farmers, the newly organized Blue
Valley Creamery Co. down in st.
Joseph, Mo-, in 1900 was doing every
thing possible to get the little sep
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-11
Wall Paper.

Persons who "don't know what ails
them" may find cure in choice OF
a wall paper that suits their tastes.
It has been proven that wall paper
can produce nervousness and irrita.
biltty, If its tone clashes with the feel.
ings of anyone In the house.