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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28
RAISE RENT ON
UNCLE SAM
He's Got to Pay Mere or
Go Out Into Street
GETS EVICTION ORDER
Government Pays Nearly a
Million in Rentals

WASHINGTON oct sS-Uncle
Sam is discovering certain things
about rent
In Washington heis paying an an,
nusl rental o. tSSi6Ss Tor 5s build,
ings. Housed In these arr tho dc.
partment Of justice, the department
% commerce, the interstate com
mercc commission. the civil service
commission and many important hu,
rcaus,
For the department Of justice
building the government pays SIS. 600
4 year rent. This is not enough
according 20 tho owner. and ne has
given the government so days 10 get
out. The landlords Instructions
won't he followed literally. but an
increase in rent probably Will be paid
untl a new building can he com
pleled.
The eviction order, however has
served 10 center attention on the
government building situation, Bc.
sides paying 1851. So rent. the guy
eminent Is stil occupying most Of
tho temporary stucoc buildings
erected during the war Many val
uahle records arc stored In these un.
safc structures. including most ot the
files OF the internal revenue bureau
senator Smoot. chairman OF the
public buildings commission. In the
last congress faihered $4,000. oOo
hin 10 provide start on modern,
adequate buildings on ground already
owned by the government hut the
bill did not provide sufficient guar
sn;ee for badly needed new post
offices In Pit,sburg. Cleveland. Gin.
cinnati and other cities, and Il failed
OF passage.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28
TAX REDUCTION PROGRAM
WILL CUT S3O0,0o0,0oo
Committee Begins Drafting Bill That Will
Save Taxpayers Millions

Excise ta1es The Mellon plan
which. calls FOR REPEAL 0f taxes gn
automobile tracks. tires and acces-
sourT and retention of the auiomo-
Hls sales Tax Probably some ~
tho other minor excise taxes win be-
repealed. althS u cannot be daIded
definitely until the treasury depart
mcut reveals how much revenue
each Of the taxes Yields. Tho com
miiteo generally does not favor the
Garner plan for eliminatios o. All
excise taxes by extension Of the
public debt retirement
Publicity Repeal ~ tie present
provision for publicity Of the name
~ the taxpayer ana tho amount Of
the return
Capital stock Repeal Of the capi-
tul stock tax.
Corporations Increase ~ the fiat
corporation tax 20 1914 or "a per
cent TO absorb tho amount of the
reduction 10 ho made in the capital
stock levy. presumably m admins
tmtlye change which VIII make no
appreeiablo difference IN the amount
most corporations have 20 pny
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28
HONOR S0LONS
Chamber TO Have Special
Meeting November s.

Honoring state legislators before
they meet in the special session
November .. the Chamber Of Com.
merco viii hold special meeting
November 9.
Representative Marx Moulton. Of
Benton county. with be the priuci.
pal speaker. other speakers win
be: Floyd Dnnskin, speaker OF tho
house; Senator Ralph Metcalf.
President David whitcomb OF, tho
Chamber; President Henry suxzallo
OF the University; Nathan Eckstsln
and Adiutant General Maurice
Thompson.
Governor Hartley and Lieut. Gov
ernor Lon Johnson notified the
Chamber that they will be unable
10 attend.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28
Tut! Tut! Jack, Seattle
Wouldn't Hire Blue Ok

rT,uTi TUT said the major. $50
L much fuss about tho Denny re.
grade. BY Joyc' Reminds me Of the
summer I chummed around with
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28

Not satisfied with competing with
each other six days out Of the week.
more than 900 Seattle grocers viii
vie with each other until midnight
"Wednesday
The competition viii not be Ia
their stores, however. which Will
close az the usual time. but In tho
Eagles Auditorium. where the So
attic Retail Grocer association VIII
hold their first annual harvest
festival
The grocerS promise big time,
They are going TO have popular
girl and popular man contest and
prize viii DO offered for the best
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28
Fire Destroys Part
Of Coca Cola Plant

ATLANTA, Ga. Oct $50 my l.,
Pl FIRE broke out I'm the bottllng
plant u tho Coca Cola company
herr early today. destroying the
plant and burning 10 death Warren
Moore. night Waterman
4 man known as Irish" Knylor
his wife and son, who occupied
rooms on the second floor OF the
building, arc missing
The loss IL estimated AZ 5000, 900.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28
Temperature Drops
Turnout Midwest

KANSAS CITY. NO. oct. 2s.-By
T.. P)-Tho Midwest felt the fiut
grip OF winter today with the mcr-
curry down 10 - degrees during tho
night A biting wind with fiurrles
of sleet and snow accompanied the
drop In temperature.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28

stunt put on by any house In the
grocery business.
Wednesday noon Miss Mayfiowcr
tMiss Loretta Dmsgeil was running
riut ia the popular-giri contest
with a big lead However an the
votes are not yet turned IN and the
many other contestants arc hoping
10 overcome her lead when the final
count Is taken r. G. Busse and
Gus Isaaeson arc fighting J, ou,
for fat place in the popular-man
contest. but they too. arv keeping
wary eye peeled Tor dark
horse"
Dancing VIII 10 one OF the enter
talnpcnt features.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28
Bagley Indicted
in Nanaimo Case

NANAIMO. d. c.. Oct. 2s.--Grand
jurors yesterday returned a true bill
against Williams BagIey. Nanaimo
Royal Bank Of Canada holdup sus-
pect. He will be tried ut the fail
assizes now in session. The bank
was held up and robbed by eight
men December IL. 1924. They
escaped with $4,000.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28
Inventors Meet
Again Saturday

National Association OF Inventors,
Seattle branch. will hold It's regular
monthly meeting in room 3i5 Cham.
Der Of Commerce building. Saturday,
October 81. at 2:15 p. m.
Professor f. Howell. Of the Uni.
versity Of Washington. win give
lecture on mining and inventions.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28

You can remove paint from win
dow glass by softeHing II first with
then washing.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-28

los ANGELES. Oct g By u.
Pl--The Phoenix Furniture com.
pany's plant here was swept by
fire today the loss approSlmatlng
go 600
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
A Mystery Solved

We have been training a little
vine upon the West end the back
porch, and we are kept busy tying
and Tightening cord and Irvine and
then we began to wonder, why it
was, the strings became loosened
and sagged so? This morning, we
found out, bird slim and dark in
color Eve do not know its name)
hoped on the clothes line then on
to the porch railing and began to
peck away at some Irvine fastened
around a nail. The bird getting
some Rawlings flew away and be-
fore it came again, we put bits
of odds andNends of darning cotton,
on the nails head. When the bird
returned, it gave forth a shrill
whistle as it lighted, and then help
ed itself to what it needed!
And we thought of an old say
ing as we watched the bird, Its an
i'll wind that blows nobody's whisk-
ers".
l.. A. DUDLEY.
Lake Wisconsin, June 10, 1926.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
AUTOMOBILE SATURATION

Two or three years ago there
was much discussion amongst auto
mobile dealers and others as to
when the saturation point in the
automobile industry would be
reached. Evidently that day has
not yet come, according to figures
recently made public. Here they
are:
Total automobile production in
the United States and Canada in
April, 1922, was 202, 1872; April
1923, 351 ,469. In the United States
alone total automobile production
in April, 1924, was 46,505, and in
April 1925, 391, 3O1. The total pro-
duction of automobiles in the Unit
ed States for the first four months
of this year was 1,189,175 as
against 1,34O,734 for the first four
months of last year.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18

ficers of the two houses to wire a
request to the secretary of the
navy that he direct the great diri-
gibIe to pass over the Wisconsin
capital! 1t was fine thought, yet
the assembly voted it down with
a laugh, apparently with no con-
ception whatever Of the signiti-
canoe of the suggestion. A week
later millions upon millions of per-
sons IL many states were grieyous
ly disappointed because the aerial
wonder failed to make the sched-
uled voyage-a circumstance that
was the best possible vindication
of Mr.. Prescott's foresight. The
Nilwaukeean is said to be much of
joker, and surely now it was his
good turn to laugh.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18

one half interest in tan yard, one
80 calibre rifle, bullet mold and
powder horn, rifle made by Ben
Miller; so gallons Of soft soap,
hams, bacon and lard, 40 gallons
sorghum molasses, 6 head of fox
hounds, all soft mouthed except
one.
At the same time I will sell my
six negro slaves, 2 men, Go and SO
years old; boys, II and IS years
old; 3 mulatto wenches, 40 and 80
years old, will sell all together to
same party, will not separate them.
Terms of sale, cash in hand, or
note to draw 4 per cent interest
with Bob Mcconnell as security.
My home is two miles south OF
Versailles, Kentucky, on the Me.
Couns ferry pike. Sale to begin at
8 o'clock, a. m. Plenty to drink
and eat.
j. L. Moss.
Every line tells of something
long since passed into disuse. How
times have changed! Will a sale
bill in 1899 in Sank county be as
far out Of the world then as this of
1S49 in day?
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18

substantial validity. We are doing
our best, and the varied character
of our knowledge may in some de-
gre make up for its lack of solid
basis. All the same, it is a good
thing to have at least one subject
that you know more about than
the newspaper does. 1t makes lit
tie difference what it is. 1t may be
spiders or old china, or the history
Of music or printing, or anything
you please. But have more than
a mere newspaper knowledge OF
something. and you will find It
giVees an additional significance to
life.-Youth's Companion.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
NEWSPAPER KNOWLEDGE

Most of us get the bulk of our
knowledge of the world about us
from newspapers, and there is no
denying the Importance and value
of what comes to us in that way.
We snatch up the twenty or thirty
great pages in the morning or eve.
ming, turn them over impatiently,
form n strange habit of skipping
and picking and tasting, tuck away
in our memories a hodge podge of
facts and events and incidents, and
out of that construct the ground.
work of our equipment for dealing
with life.
First it is politics. We read a
few sentences of a speech in Wash
ington or in Texas or in Idaho.
Then we glance over the financial
columns to see whether our favor
lite stock is doing all we expected OF
it. Perhaps a scientific lecture
holds us for moment, some dis
covery that will prolong life or
ease it or end it, or we take a
vague Whit at the new books.
"A neighbor may be dead, and
we wonder what he did with his
money, if he had any; or his dau,
glitter may be married, and we crit
icize her picture. Then taste of
sensational murder makes a saw
ary dessert.
We can rove over the whole
world in a few moments. The av-
iators take us to Iceland or to ST.
IBERIA or to Patagonia. An earth
quake in Japan-it must be I'm.
pleasant for the Japanese, but we
cannot give them more than flash
CT sympathy, because our eye is
drawn to the cratic performances
of the Bolsheviks or the decorous
doings of the frock-coated League
in Geneva.
1t is all informing, all educative,
in a sense; but it is pitifully sup.
CRITICAL. The newspapers informa-
ton in itself is not always accur.
ate, and the scraps and shreds of il
that we carry away cannot be said
to form a mental foundation of
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
Local Tourists
Report Roads In
North Are Bad

Mr.. and Mrs. G. N. Burquist
have returned to their home here
after an enjoyable motor trip of
1000 miles through the northern
part of the state. They first Wis
tied Eagle River, Wis, where they
spent few days with friends, and
went from that resort to Duluth
where they visited a brother Of Mr..
Burquist, DR.. A. r. Burquist.
Moorehead, Mimi, the old home
of the Baraboo man, was the next
stop. This was. the first time Mr..
Burquist had returned to his home
in Is years and their stay in Moore
head was most pleasant.
Mr.. and Mrs Burquist arrived
in Baraboo last night and they re-
port much bad weather and roads
north of here in bad condition. IN
several places it was necessary for
JHelr Car 10 SIOp Willie WI hAlCh
repaired damage done the high
ways by the storms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burquist are the
parents of Mrs. Ferd Efinger of
this city and they have made their
home here for some time. Mr..
Burquist represents the Milwaukee
Journal, travelling through seven
teen counties of the southwestern
part of the state, and making his
headquarters at Baraboo.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
THE FEDERAL CONSTITU-
TEON

When you hear an individual
speaking adversely of the federal
constitution, read what Miss Flora
Longenecker, lion, New York,
high school contestant in the Ma
tional Oratprical contest at Wash
ington, said:
"Our Constitution has more safe
guards to person and property than
any other political document in
history; it has a longer list of per-
sonal rights; it limits the powers
of government and at the same
time limits the power of the people
so that mob rule may never pre-
vail. 1t is sufficiently restrictive
to prevent 1mpulsive action, yet
sufficiently elastic to meet the de-
mands of progress. How wisely
the authors of the Constitution an
ticipated the requirements OF the
nation is best attested by the fact
that in spite Of our unprecedented
progress and the rapidly changing
conditions under which we have
lived, only nineteen, amendments
have been found necessary. In ev,
cry way our Constitution has stood
the acid test Of time. Domestic
and foreign wars have left it un-
shaken. 1t has withstood all at
tacks from Within and without.
But what Of the future? Our Con-
stitution has been attacked in the
past and it is inevitable it will be
attacked in the future. Our danger
in this respect lies not SO much
from without as from within-our
peril will arise from the ignorance
and Indifference of our own citi-
zens. This being true, then it nat,
urally follows that our safety lies
in education"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
LOOKING BACK AT EIGHTY

Here's an editorial written by
A. B. Farquhar, who died the other
day at the age of So, says The Ma.
TONS Business. It's the last chap,
ter of his autobiography, and it
sums up life as he saw it after he
had passed the four score mark:
"And now, in conclusion, what
does it all mean? What have these
years taught me? Nothing of a
startling nature-the incidents fade
but these principles remain:
81. That it is, as rule, safe
to trust human beings. Compare
lively few are unfair, if you are
fair yourself.
"2.-That troubles and apparent
difficulties are but stepping stones
TO progress-the most practical
way of learning and, as Greeley
said "The way to resume is to re-
sumo"
"3.-That there is nothing that
will take the place of work. either
to gain success or to gain happi-
ness or to gain both-and / think
it is possible to gain both if, in the
striving and working for success,
the dollar is not put above the man.
"4-That one can and must keep
faith with oneself.
"5.-That God is not Knocked.
You cannot break his laws without
suffering.
"6.-That ones only dangerous
enemy is oneself. In the ultimate
no one can hurt you but yourself.
THAT friends are among the
greatest assets-and the way to
get friends is to be friend.
"S-That one should never seek
anything for which one does not
give value. This avoids the dispo-
sition to speculate-which is one of
the greatest dangers that beset
the business man.
Following these rules, the world
grows in interest and life is hap
pier with gathering years"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
A BIT OE VISION

In the assembly at Madison is
one man of vision. No doubt there
are others. But the one certainly.
is Frank L. Prescott, representing
Milwaukee district. His clear
perception broke out few days
before the picturesque dirigible
Los Angeles left New Jersey for
the Norwegian celebration at Min
neapolis. It's route across Wiscon-
sin had not been publicly defined.
At this juncture Assemblyman
Prescott presented a joint resolu-
tion instructing the presiding Of
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18

And go feed the chickens,
For you know the little chicks,
Can yell like the dickens.
Louisa and l both send lots of love
And wish you all the blessings
That can come from the One alone,
Now if this message should make
you sick,
Or you begin to tire,
Just open the lid and chuck it in
the fire.
PERRY PORTER.
San Jose, California.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
OLLAPODRIDA
Montana Letter

H. w. Savage, well known in
Baraboo, writes the following in
teresting letter from his Montana
home:
"We were getting somewhat dry
out here until week ago but Mon
Gay when we got a fine rain; wet
down about II inches in the sod.
Then last Sunday night it rained
all night and all day Monday and
it has given us a lot of moisture.
The winter wheat will make now if
we do not get any more rains ais
summer. The spring wheat is a
bout inches high but has not
showed up in the boot yet. do
not mean that all spring wheat is
that high but mine is.
1--WE are cultivating corn which
is a to 5 inches.
+ Il will give you my crop and
stock standing: tI4
81 acres alfalfa, 76 acres spring
wheat, 81 acres winter wheat, s
acres oats, Q acres barley, 60 acres
corn, II head horses, 48 head cat
tie, 50 spring pigs, 2 last fall
pigs, Z old hogs, 68 old hens, 172
spring chickens, 10 old turkeys, 63
young turkeys, and more eggs, both
chickens and turkeys, setting yet.
H. w. SAVAGE,
Box 95,
Acton, Montana.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
Thursday, June Is, 1925
THE ELNDAMENTALIST

Another Kansas Methodist con-
ference has declared rather over
whelmingIy against the fundament-
!" alists. The conference at Great
Bend has recorded its approval Of
the teacher in Southwestern col
lege who is accused by the cranks
of teaching evolution. The Meth
odist church, which has always
been liberal, is living up to it's ira
ditions.
Everywhere the fundamentaIiSt,
o.w who threatened To become a pest
a few years ago, is losing ground.
The civilized world realizes that
:, modern biology and physics have
revealed some important truths
which those who translated the
Bible centuries ago, and those who
wrote it ages ago could not know;
lust as modern astronomy in prov
inc that the earth is round and that
it moves around the sun, has prov
q, ed many things which the early
translators and Bible writer's did
not know. But in proving that
these men were men, not demi-
gods. science has not weakened the
essential philosophy of what these
g. early day writer's knew of human
ity and it's destiny.
OF course new researches will
bring new truths. But no truth
will ever overthrow the philosophy
{ of Jesus of Nazareth; no new facts
revealed by the microscope VIII un-
dermine the fundamental wisdoni
of the proverbs, or the social jus
tice which inheres in the ten COM
mandments. These things by their
eternal verify prove their origin in
something deeper than the common
:, mind Of common man.
In the meantime the Kansas
Methodists are going in the right
dirertion The study of the the
DRY of evolution will not undermine
any sane faith of any intelligent
student. 1t is after all only a the
DRY. Further research may estab-
y" lish it; or possibly require the
erection of some other theory Al
that is good in the Christian faith
will survive, no matter how fal
science looks into the theory oil
creation. Back of creation is law
God is Emporia Gazette.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
HOW TIMES CHANGE
II IS hard to realize how the e

It is hard to realize how the ex-
ternals of life in America have
ehanged in two generations. In Is
years practically every form of pow
eser used by man for extra human
salabor has changed; mans machin-
ssery has all changed. His whole
social environment has changed.
There recently was discovered
and reproduced the contents of an
old sale bin printed in 1849 for a
sale held in Woodford county,
Kentucky. 1t is interesting to note
some Of the items included in this
farm sale of rs years ago. Read
the list carefully. 1t catalogs the
things in a world as dead as that of
the Pharoahs-yet only two gener-
saations back Here it is:
s. Having sold my farm and l am
leaving for Oregon Territory by OK
team. will offer on March /, 1S49,
all Of my personal property to-wit:
All OK teams except two teams.
Buck and Ben and Tom and Jerry;
milk COWS, 1 gray mare and colt,
1 pair of oxen and yoke, l baby
yoke, OK carts, l iron foot OF pop
ular weather boards, pillow with
wood mole board, 500 to 1000 three.
foot clapboards, 1900 ten foot
fence rails, one so gallon soap ket-
tie, IS sugar troughs, made of white
ash timber, 10 gallons of maple syr
up, 2 spinning wheels, 80 pounds
of mutton tallow, l large loom
made by Jerry Wilson, 800 poles,
100 split hoops, 100 empty barrels,
one 93-gallon barrel of Johnson
Miller whisky, years old; 20 gal
Ions of apple brandy, one 40 gall
Ion copper still Of oak tanned
leather, l dozen real books, 2
handle hooks. 5 scythes and Grad
les, dozen wooden pitchforks,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-06-18
By The Way

This office has received IL copy
of the Yearbook of the Public
Museum Of the City of Milwaukee"
which contains two articles about
rattlesnakes, the experiences Of F..
G.. Keitel Of Merrimeck being Civ
en-. The articles are by L. T.. B.
Pope, curator of lower zoology in
the museum, and he brings out two
interesting things ebOIr these
snakes: sex is not determined by
color and a warning is not always
given before striking.
AS to an antidote, whisky is use
less except for a 3ii sht s:im1llnt.
If bitten on the arm or leg tho
fow of blood should he CIT off by
a igature, rubber being the best.
Cuts should be made into the
wound, the flow of blood fastened
by suction and the wound thorough
ly washed with a solution Of per-
manganate of potasil-cnough cry
stalls in water to produce a deep
wine color. A surgeon should al
so be summoned and additional
steps taken to prevent serious re-
suits.
Mr.. Keitel and others iii the
woods carry permangase Of potash
to be used if necessary.
y & X
A book to be read with thorough
enjoyment is a novel of some four
hundred pages by DIR. Victor Kut-
chin entitled, Love Among the
Ruins. The story is an intimate
human interest narrative that holds
the attention of the reader from
the opening chapters To the close.
The author possesses keen insight
into human nature AMI his charact-
ers are real flesh and blood people
met more often outside of books
than within them. A wholesome
philosophy of life pervades the
book with unexpected flashes of
humor which are delightful.
The story follows the fortunes of
the hero from youth ID maturity
and pictures with yixidncss the
hopes and ambitions, the mistakes
and disappointments that come as