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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-26
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that Spec
ial Meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners of Custer County, will
he held at their office at the Court
House in said County, at Challis, Ida
no, on Monday, December the Sth., at
ten o'clock In the morning OF said
day to consider and take action upon
the following business Of the County:
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS. The State of Idaho has
made farm loans secured by mort
cages upon lands situated within the
County of Custer, State of Idaho,
which loans are unpaid and In full
force and effect; and
WHEREAS, The State and County
Taxes for the. year 1920 upon some
of the lands securing said loans have
become delinquent and tax deeds will
issue therefor to said County in the
early art of the year 1925, and
WHEREAS, The Commissioner of
the Department of Public Investment
of the State of idaho has prepared
certain resolution for this Board to
consider now
1T is THEREFOR DEEMED MEG
ESSARY AND FOR THE BEST IN
TERESTS OF SAID CUSTER COUN
TY to act upon said resolution at the
earliest dcte possible. and
1t is further ordered that this
Board meeting IN Special Session on
the date hereinbefore mentioned will
examine and either allow or disallow
all claims against said Custer Coun-
ty' Idaf except the salaries or
County Orf'cers.
Dated AZ Challis, Idaho, this Gath.
day of Mover Der, 1924
EMMETT DONAHUE,
Clerk Of the Bocri Of County Com
missioners of Custer County, Idaho.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-26

Haley = 5000 Q o. gavern~acn,
land is 70 be opened IT S cement
Gar h
~ rcf ICED z24o cars rceland
d lettuce in o21 at $40 per car
net rront.
NNa.ci al - ST 10 bond issues in
excess of s2Oocoo,ooo lore authoriz-
ed by voters at the November cleo.
ton.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-26
Mexico's Loraest Pyramid

The pyramid at Cholula. west of the
city OF Puebla and about CO miles
southeast of Mexico City Is the largest
In Mexico. Its base is 1,4OO feet
square and the altitude is 200 feet.
Its volume is 180,668,6O0 cubic feet
This pyramid In Mexico has a greater
number of cubic feet Of masonry. al
though 1t is not so high, Than TIM
great pyramid ip Egypt
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-26
ALIAS SUMMONS For Service

In the District Court of the Sixth Ju
dicial District Of the State Of Idaho
In and for Custer County.
The First State Bank of Challis
Idaho, corporation, Plaintiff, VS.
w. X. Huntington, Defendant.
The State of Idaho Sends Greetings
to the Above Named Defendant:
You are hereby notified that com
plant has been filed against you in
the District Court Of the Sixth Judi
cial District Of the State of Idaho, IN
and for the County Of Custer by the
above named plaintiff, and you are
hereby directed to appear and answer
the said complaint within twenty
days of the service of this summons
II served within the said Judicial
District, and within forty days Il
served elsewhere; and you arc fur
Their notified that unless you so ap-
pear and answer said complaint with
In the time herein sps Gifted. tn
plaintiff will take jud 'ment against
you as prayed in said complaint
Witness my hand IN, he s
said District Court this .,.h g..
November, 1924.
(SEAL) EMMETT DONAHUE,
Clerk
Whitcomb, Cowen & Clark, .Attorn-
eys for Plaintiff; Residing at Mackay
Idaho.
LIST pub Nov. IL last Dec. II.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-26

Courtesy Is a science of the highest
Importance. It is like grace and
beauty in the body, which charm at
first sight, and lead US on to further
intimacy.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-26

Write Fred Thunell 1872 So. IL East
| Salt Lake City. Wholesale represeu,
tative Of the Baldwin Plano CO.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23


fort of a supreme struggle, and
even then man may fail to make
much money. but cash cannot be
compared with health and happi-
ness.
II you have lived and earned
the respect and confidence of your
neighbors and friends-if you have
lived, loved and laughed-if you
have health, you have collected
from the world it's best rewards.
You owe the earth you stand on
and the air you breathe, a lot.
What an idea, 'The world owes
me a living! The world" simply
means earth and air. If you feel
that the people should support
you without struggle on your
part, they will eventually support
you in the-County House. Van
Amburgh-Silent Partner.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
ADVERTISE CONSISTENTLY
ADVISES CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.

Small retail dealers should adj
vertise consistently, if they ad-
vertise at all. They should plan a
campaign as whole. These are
the recommendation in a PAM
phlet, Small Store Advertising" "
issued by the Domestic Distribu-
ton Department of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States.
Every merchant, the Depart
ment says in its foFeword, must
make himself known in order to
conduct a profitable business.
This is done in various ways, the
greater part of which is descrih-
ed as publicity, and of all these
ways, advertising is the most eff
fective. 1.-THE purpose of the PAM
phlet is stated to be: To enable
the owner of the small retail store
to make the most economical and
effective use of the money he has
available for advertising
Although every repetition of an
advertisement, circular or a
letter costs money, says the De-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
OCTOBER DAYS

October has the glorious colors
Of the woods and charm of the
hunters moon. The wind drags
the dried leaves after it, the erick-
ct raises his powerful voice in the
thicket, and the sleek cattle come
down from their endless banquet
on the hills.
The entrance to Devils Lake
state park is a bower of gold, yon-
der slope is an enormous orien-
tai rug and that ivy clinging to
the oak looks "as if the man with
THE red paint had tipped his pot
over from the top of a high lad
der"
The winter berry has lost its
leaves and the shrub is now aglow
with the bright red-ripened fruit.
The shagbark, the butternut and
the oak pelt the earth from above,
and the poplars have adorned
themselves in enviable yellow
tresses, bespeaking autumn days.
'
Over the fields lie the pumpkins
awaiting the harvesters; apples.
redder than the sunset, soon
must be gathered; and a thous-
and signboards seem to tell that
autumn is approaching the end OF
the road.
The city dweller should hurry
to the highways to see October IN
all her splendor. The whole land
scape is rich in color which will
fade away with each gust of wind
and shower of rain.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23

On Monday, M. G. Crandall Wis
tied Sun Prairie, east of Madison,
not having been there since about
1877, nearly half century ago. His
grandfather, Benjamin Knight, To-
Gated at Sun Prairie about 1841
and his grandmother was the first
adult person to die there-1846.
Mr.. knight died in 1866, and these
are among the Oldest graves in the
Sun Prairie cemetery. Their daugh
ter came to Baraboo as student
in the Collegiate Institute and
here became acquainted with Mr..
Crandall's father, r. B. Crandan
also student in the institute.
They were married at Sun Prairie
in 1865, soon after the bridegroom
returned from the Civil war, and
their wedding journey was from
the Dane county village to Baraboo
in an all day October rain. Mr..
Crandall later became county
superintendent of schools in Sank
county.
M. C. Crandall frequently visit
ed Sun Prairie in his youth and on
Monday was able to locate the
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
OID-TIME, SCHOOLBOOKS

OId-time schoolbooks were like
ly to be painfully solemn and did
actic; levity was abhorrent to their
conscientious compilers. But in
our day they afford amusing read
ms.
Lindley Murray, a grave and
heavy-minded Quaker, was averse
not only to laughter but to smiles;
in a footnote to the once famous
Lindley Murray's English Reader
he carefully apologized for a brief
passage that he feared was too
playfully expressed. But no one
who read the passage and the
footnote could ever discover the
playfulness! Modern readers, how
ever, can discover good many
passages that are the cause OF
mirth, however unmirthfully they
were intended. He desired to be
impressive in his account of
Niagara Falls; he gave its height
and pronounced a eulogy upon its
grandeur; and then he provided a
complete anti-climax by adding,
"It is said that the Indians have
sometimes passed down it in their
canoes in safety"
Some little time ago a remin-
iscent writer in the New York
World declared that the Webster
Spelling Book and the Webster
Reader had doubtless had the
longest history of any schoolbooks
in the United States-one. cover
ing at least three full generations,
Youths Companion.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
Visits Sun Prairie In Dane
County After An Absence Of
About Forty-Seuen Years

graves of his grandparents and the
home sites of his relatives and
numerous friends. The buildings,
of course, are not standing at this
time. Mr.. Crandall also found
some of the Haydens->and others
who knew about his relatives.
At Token Creek, so named be-
cause it is supposed Indians made
an offering of tobacco and other
sacrifices to the stream, E. E,
Lawrence was visited. Mr.. Law
rence's father located there about
1910 and the son resides on the
old homestead, there having been
no transfer of the property since
it's purchase from the government.
Mi. Lawrence is related to the
burlington family, also former
residents of Token Creek. The
Burringtons- came from Dane
county to Baraboo in the very
early days, also the Moores and
others. Mr.. Lawrence asked for
J. r. Hofstatter and number Of
other friends in Baraboo.
Mr.. Crandall was accompanied
by H. E. Cole.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23

(whom do you think?l William
Dean Howells, I went travelling for
several weeks with the big show
owned by the Ringing boys. Since
then AL and ALT and Otto have pass
ed on, but when | travelled through
the dark belt of the South with the
circus all of the brothers were alive
and very much in action. All of
them were square shooters. The
circus man of the old days was a
loud and cursing vulgarian The
Ringing boys were quiet, reserved,
courteous and kindly. They would
not tolerate an employee who was
impolite and dishonest. In every
town they made a host of friends.
They won spectacular success
simply by being decent and friend
ly and, of course, giving a mighty
good show on the side
They had the work divided up
and every brother handled his du.
ties without any suggestions or
criticisms from the others. Al had
charge of the performance under
the big top. Otto handled the
money. ALT was the hand-shaker
greeter and all round entertainer,
Charley directed the advance pub
licity. John attended to trans
portation and made all of the con-
tracts with railways. Ma
He knows every foot of track on
the continent He. =, moves the
greatest show on earth all over the
map without hitch, or mishap.
And he is still diffident and smiling
and genuine, as he was up In Bara-
boo, Wis, the year that he and the
other boys put on their first hall
show for the lumber-jacks.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
Black Hawk Couple
WeStieId Guests

Mr.. and Mrs. Christian SprecheT
and family of Black Hawk were
guests at the Harry Verthein home
in Westfield Sunday
Will Stackhouse and daughter of
Baraboo called on Mr.! and Mrs
Dan Schultz Sunday sif
Fred Alvin returned to his home
in Sank City Sunday after spending
the past week with his daughter
and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. lido
Braun. a"j2H
Mr.. and Mrs. John Verthein spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George
Gassner near Black Hawk
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Repka and
family of South Westfield were Sun
day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Kopf. f493i
!. Mrs. Mary Schultz spent a few
days last week with her son and
wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. Schultz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wells of Bar
aboo, Will Fearer, Roy and Lola
Chamberlain of Madison and Rob
and Elisabeth label called at the
John Verthein home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. lido Braun and son
Wilferd spent Sunday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. John Repka.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schanke
and family called at the, Harry Yer
them home Friday evening.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
George AIDE Writes Of John
Ringing, Known Country
Over As A Circus King

now fighting their way through the
lower grades of the public schools.
The following concerning Mr..
Ringing is furnished to the Wash.
ington Evening Star by the Bell
Syndicate, a copy of the paper hav-
ing been sent to this Office by Mrs.
A. M. Ringing:
While | have been writing this
essay my old friend John Ringing
has been standing in the Festibule,
waiting to be introduced. | was
led into writing the high-brow stuff
about Opportunity when began
to think about John Ringing and
his brothers-Al, ALT, Otto and
Charles. To my notion they have
been benefactors of the noblest
sort. They have brought more
happiness to the American people
than any five preachers that ever
lived. They found the new business
in the hands of vagabonds and put
it into the hands of gentlemen.
They started with nothing what SO
ever In a little town up in Wiscon-
sin and became the circus kings of
the world by adopting and obsery-
ing the simple rule that it is better
to be straight than to be crooked.
Over twenty years ago, acting
upon suggestion made to me
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
TRAGIC FATE OF
COUNT HARASzTHY
Clipping From Old Scrap Book Tells
What Befel a Picturesque Figure

Clipping from old scrap book
tells what befel picturesque figure
Mrs. S. Thomas Williams has
given the Sank County Historical
Society scrap booh made many
years ago. The book contains
two newspaper clippings about
Count Augustin Haraszthy. He was
a noted character at Sank City in
the forties, provided fuel for Fort
Winnebago at Portage and once
was proprietor of a store near the
Maxwell dam in Baraboo. When
he left for California, he wore a
blazing red pair of stockings which
extended above his knees and was
otherwise Enthusiastically dressed.
The following from the New York
Tribune is one of the clippings
which tells something of the count
and of his tragic fate.
This community has recently suf-
fered the loss Of an old and valu-
able citizen in the person of Colon
ell Agostum Harszthy, one of our
early pioneers. Colonel Harasz-
thy was born in Hungary in 1912,
and at an early age migrated >
America, living for some years in
Wisconsin and Iowa. Thence he
went to Texas and across the
country to California. He was
noted as a Democratic politician at
one time, and UNDER Pierce held
the position of Superintendent of
the United States Branch Mint in
San Francisco. Subsequently lie
became Superintendent of the
great Buena Vista Vinecultural So
ciety of Sonoma county, California,
and for some years dispensed 4
friendly hospitality at the CON-
pany's vineyard, near the town OF
fSonoma. Two YEARS ago he re-
signed that position and went to
Nicaragua, where he obtained from
the government the right to manu-
facture distilled liquors for twenty
years on terms that would have
realized for him eventually hand
some fortune. While going from
Leon to his home, he left his horse
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23

to cross a river to look for a mill
site, and fell from log into the
stream and was devoured by alii-
gators. He leaves a large family
of grown-up sons and daughters.
Colonel Haraszthy was in the flush
of vigorous manhood, though 81,
a brave, enterprising, hospitable
and liberal man, and his shocking
death will be widely deplored. The
members of the "Colfax party" will
remember him we'll, as also will
old Californians and intelligent
travellers who have visited Califol-
MIA within the past ten years.
The Milwaukee Sentinel in copy
ing the above extract, adds:
1t will have a painful interest to
many of our readers, who will re-
member Count Haraszthy. A ma
tive of Hungary, and occupying q
good social and political position
in his native land, he was among
. the earliest of his countrymen t.
tseek a home in free America. He
came to Milwaukee in the summer
/ of 1910. His marked appearance 9,
in semiimilitary dress, bright
and cheerful in his manner, but en-
tirely unacquainted in American
habits and ways, will be remember
ed by our older citizens. He soon
left with his family and household
goods for Sank Prairie, then an
outskirt settlement where he re-
NAMED till 1850, though spending
much of his time in Madison, where
he engaged in several business
schemes, but with no great sue.
cess. In 1850 he went to CalifOr.
MIA across the plains, taking his
family. The above extract is in
correct in stating that he ever
lived in Iowa or Texas. He went
direct from Madison to San Fran
cisco.
Thomas w. Sutherland, formerly
United States District Attorney foE
the territory (since dead, with his
family, was of the party. We
think neither of them ever revisitA
ed Wisconsin
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23

John Ringing is made the sub
ject of a syndicated article writ
ten by George AIDE, the well known
author. The title of the article is
FLOWERS for the Living" in which
AIDE pays tribute to some of the
living notables of this country. He
says that the large majority of the
American men and women who
have advanced to a place OF res
possibility and who control wealth
or power started from out-of-the-
way places on the map, were born
of parents who could not boast of
riches and social emminence, and,
therefore are living proofs of the
fact that America is still the land
of opportunity. AIDE also says that
the alibi, the young man Of today
hasn't the chances that the older
fellows had 80 or 40 years ago,
has been used by every rising gen.
Grafton during the last 1000 years.
The financial magnates, the rail-
way kings, the college presidents,
the popular authors, the influen-
tial statesmen, the famous COM
posers of music, the merchant prin
ces, the leaders among women, and
the whole assembly of brains and
culture ruling our domain in 1860
will be the boys and girls who are
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23

church in Reedsburg Sunday morn
ing and evening.
Mrs. Martha Prouty has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. w. Skin
ner and other relatives for the
past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore of
Hillsboro visited his sister, Mrs.
Theo Collins the first of the week
Mrs. Steen was called here from
Harmony, Minnesota by the SER
ious Illness Of her daughter who
is at the Reedsburg hospital. She
is now on the gain.
Riley Stone drove to New Hol-
stein Saturday to accompany his
family home after visiting her
people,
Mrs. Charles Fisher left Friday
morning for Virginia where her
husband is now located.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Eisinger
have returned to their home here
after spending two months in
Michigan and Ohio.
Mrs. Paul Sass and son spent
part of the week at Sank City.
Theron Case spent a few days
at the home of his mother in this
city.
Mrs. NJ Pelton who resides on
a farm four miles from Reedsburg
brought five beautiful white roses
to our city "Wednesday. l(Green
Bay has nothing on Reedsburg).
These were gathered from bush
which had been in bloom all sum-
me;.
Miss Mittie Brownlee of .Elroy,
Wis. inspected the Woman's Re-
lief corps Wednesday.
M. and Mrs. Will Jones enter
tanned company Sunday.
Carl Du Bots and family of
Baraboo was in our city Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Huntley is not so
well as in our last report.
Mrs. N. Winnie Of Baraboo was
in our city Saturday.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will meet with Mrs. Roy
Mepham Wednesday afternoon.
Grandma SHETLAND has been
quite poorly of late.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO
READ

The fall and winter is the time
to read. DR.. Arthur E. Bostwick,
who is head of the st. Louis Pub
lie Library gives the following adj
vice:
HE who complains that he
has not time to read is one who
does not fundamentally care for
that method of making contact
with the minds of others. We al
ways find time to eat and to sleep
and to do other things that we con-
slider necessary TO. the upkeep Of
our physical life. When we have
realized that mental food is equal
ly necessary to the maintenance
of our intellectual life, and that we
like best to get it from the print
, ed page, we shall take as much
time as is necessary for this also.
"We are apt to blame our schools
and colleges for not achieving var
ious things that they could not be
expected to achieve. After all, for
NAL education merely turns man
out with certain equipment, and
even it's ability to do this is con-
ditioned on the mans Unborn quail
| tiles. You can not equip a dog
| to do research work in physics
but, on the other hand, neither
can you equip a man to follow q
trail by his sense OF SMELL Sim
ilarly John will always be John
and Peter will always be Peter.
AS some one has said, if we break
a potato in two, and give half to
each Of the boys to eat, half of it
will turn into John and half into
Peter.
"The reading habit requires
plenty of time. Fortunately, with
him who acquires it intensively,
it is a primary consideration, and
other interests and occupations
must necessarily yield to it. have
seen people reading under circum-
stances that would seem to render
it impossible. | myself must con-
TESS to having read habitually
while walking from a suburban
train to Hoboken ferry-boat, un,
| til !. fell over a baggage truck and
nearly broke my neck. / knew a
4 boy of seven who, locked in an at
1 tic for his sins. picked up Queen
Victopia's Diary and passed a
pleasant afternoon. Plenty of noon
day lunchers read while they eat
and seem not to acquire indiges-
ton. A maiden on a farm once
| told me that she kept an open
book at one end of her ironing
board. You can pick up lots that
way said She"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
La Vale Farmers
Busy With Work

While the beautiful weather con-
tinues the farmers are busy finish
ing up the farm work.
Some Of the farmers. have winter
wheat which is looking its very
best.
After an extended visit with her
sister, Mrs. Arthur Davis, Mrs. Ly-
man Berry is on her return trip to
her home in Santa Barbara, Cal.
The Chas. Gates family visited
in the country Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Schaefer, Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. Meier attended mis-
sion Fest, of the St Johns Lutheran
church in Wonewoc Sunday.
Miss Ethel Miller and friend,
Arthur Mooney visited relatives
here
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Meller of
Madison visited her mother, Mrs.
Emma Krug and Professor Branton
and wife.
The hunters are looking after the
squirrels.
There is an abundance of buttei-
nuts this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Whitley of
Madison visited the Chas. Schwartz
family Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Peters visited
here over Sunday with the rClaud
Dudleston family, The ladies are
sisters.
Jams Courtier is among the sick
this week. H
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Courtier are
entertaining their daughter Stella
whose home is in Iowa.
The child welfare committee IS
in our town today Oct. 20.
The Vaudeville show was well
attended Saturday evening.
Church attendance was very
good last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Honisch Wis.
listed relatives in Norwald Sunday.
Frank Ames went fishing Satur-
day afternoon with a piece of salt
pork for bait. Something was
playing around his hook and sud-
denly pulled the bobber under. Mr..
Ames pulled large pickerel out
which weighed 9A lbs. 1t meas.
ured feet from tip to tip.