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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-10-24

Thompson, leader Of the minority
commissioners has been cOvertly
asked to resign. He IS not expected
to.
THE NAVY wants a bigger and
better dirigible than the Inflated
Shenandoah. The line Of testimony
given the court of inquiry now in
vestigating the crash is directed
mainly at revealing the experience
experts have acquired since the
Shenandoah was completed. Ac-
cording to present plans the Navy
will 90 before Congress with plea
for funds with which to build a
dirigible two or possibly three times
the size Of the Shenandoah. This
type, experts claim, would be better
able to resist squalls.
A COALITION Of Democrats and
Progressive Republicans against the
Mellon tax plan appeared a certainty
today. Mellon would reduce income
taxes Of the wealthy and seek COM
plete payment Of the war debt within
the next Is years. The insurgents
want payment deferred for 62
years, the average time allowed
foreign debtor nations. They also
will insist that single men be
exempted up to $4,000, and married
men $4,000 This proposal is OPP
posed by Mellon.
A BRAND new experiment in
rearing children is now under way in
the national capital. Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, assistant at
toney general, has adopted two
year old girl With the aid of two
friends, one a doctor and the other
an expert in home economies, the foe
of the vets proposes to put her views
on child development into practice
Mrs. Willebrandt believes that a child
Of normal parents can reach a high
level of intelligence by proper train
ing None Of the three women have
children Of their own
Being poisoned at security pact
parley is the rumored fate of the
German foreign minister. So security
is thing apart from security
meeting.
A Pennsylvania minister is the
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-10-24

Being poisoned at a security pact
parley is the rumored fate of the
German foreign minister. So security
is a thing apart from a security
meeting.
A Pennsylvania minister is the
father of girl triplets. Looks like a
hard winter for the ministerial purse.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-10-24

Epson School Program and News.
Miss Martha Peterson Of the Epson
school announces that the Epson
school program viii be given at the
Town Hall on Friday, October 80,
in the evening.
The literary society of the Epson
school has been organized with the
following officers: President, Leo
Miller; president, Margaret
Bugge; secretary, Gertrude Miller.
A box of reading books has
arrived at this school from the Free
Travelling Library Commission at
Madison The books will be used By
the pupils for reading circle work
There are ten pupils from this school
now at this work
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-10-24
Standard Tests Given Third to
Eighth Grades.

Standard tests in arithmetic from
the third to the eighth grades in
elusive, are being given by the
supervising teacher and superintend-
ent during the months Of October
and November.
These tests will be given again in
the Spring to note the progress made
by the pupils If your pupils have
been scored below in the tests, work
with them; if the pupils have scored
above, work with them just the same
for the result of your work will be
shown in the next tests.
If you had these same pupils last
year, you will know where you have
failed; therefore, work SO much the
harder from now on. If you are a
new teacher you will know just
exactly the work your pupils should
have covered therefore, work with
them to bring them up to grade.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-10-24
A Modern Roman Road

pEACHING into her distant corners
N were the Roman Empires military
roads. built that the courier Or armies of
Caesar might have highways that were de-
pcndabe
Through the industrial heart Of America
from New York to Chicago highway ior
the Voice has just been dedicated to service.
likewise designed % afford depcndabiIty 10
is travellers TN. IS lbcWo5ds longest teIc-
phone cable which. buried beneath the streets
q crowded citlcs, and elsewhere held alott ON
heavy poles. NOW offers communication iaciI-
ties that are practically free from tile hazagds
OF storms and other dangers
In aitoFd'ng rapid and dependable transit to
thoughts voiced every minute between great
clues, # serves Large territory both alone
and IS part d i national wire system thar Is
beng further extended through cables in
response . the peoples need
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Believed EUil Spirit
Lurked in Watch Case

Until comparatively modern times
the wearing of watch was considered
proof of the owners gentility, though
the invention can be traced back to the
Fourteenth century. Watches were
worn attached to a chain suspended
around the neck, fashion which still
survives with women.
From the following story Of one
Mr.. Allen, reputed sorcerer, who died
in 1880, watches must have been very
uncommon in his day.
Being at Holme Lacey, in Hereford
shire, Allen happened to leave his
watch In the chamber window. The
maids entered his room to make the
bed, and, hearing a curious ticking
sound coming from case, concluded
that 1t was their masters devil. One
Of them took it up with tongs and
threw it out of the window into the
moat.
The string attached to the case
caught on the sprig of an elder that
grew out of the moat, and this con-
firmed their belief that the case con-
tanned an evil spirit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Had Wrong Willie

It's something startling to be called
to the telephone by an unknown per-
son. A youth in a downtown office
was called to the phone recently "Are
you William G. Smith," a voice asked.
Eyes, sir" replied meek Willie, who is
just sixteen and is not at all sure Of
himself. swell, this Is Mr.. Buzzwuzz,
lawyer. Don't you know that you owe
your wife ten months alimony? When
are you going to pay it?" "But I
amt married" pleaded Willie. whats
that-lying out of 1t? Wen send some
one to arrest you right away"
Mister" Willie almost cried, honest
/ amt married. I'm only sixteen and
my mother wouldn't let me-" "Only
sixteenth guess 1 must have the
wrong number" the lawyer declared.
There are too many Smiths in the
world."-Philadelph Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Pork and Vegetables
Staple Chinese Foods

Pork is the chief meat Of the Chi
nese. 1t is used by practically all
classes of people in all parts of China.
A meal without pork is considered to
be unusually simple, and with the ex-
ceptlon of vegetarians Is used by
slaves or very poor people only, the
North China News says.
Fresh pork Is such a common food
that wealthy people will not even
touch 1t. During New Year festivals
and birthday or wedding celebrations
a whole dressed hog or a half Of 1t is
often purchased and consumed by the
family and their guests.
Lamb, however, may be substituted
for pork, but beef is considered more
or less sacred and Is very seldom
used for food. The quantity of meat
eaten is small; it is usually served
cut into small pieces and mixed with
vegetables Ia great variety of ways
Vegetables are used much more free
ly by the Chinese people than by Amer
leans. In addition to the common
ones. such as potatoes, spinach, cab
bage, radlshes and the like many
plants and weeds are eaten which are
not usually considered as food in
America. Thus radish leaves, shep-
herds purse, bamboo sprouts and
large number of sea weeds are used
as food.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Dickens Great Artist,
Not Mental Specialist

Mr.. Micawber. Miss Elite and the
numerous other queer characters who
populate the pages of Charles Dickens
books are correctly depicted from the
viewpoint OF the layman who sees
what he thinks he ought to see, but not
when viewed by specialist in mental
diseases.
This is the opinion Of DR.. Charles w.
Burr, professor of psychiatry in the
University of Pennsylvania medical
school, who has applied to these fic-
tioa characters the methods which he
uses in diagnosing mental disorders
when called into a criminal court as an
alienist.
Dickens was an artist" says Doc
tor Burr, land not a specialist in
mental medicine. Just as the dying
Of great actor on the stage Is alto
gether unlike death as the physician
sees it, so life seen with an artists
eyes Is unlike life seen by the pro-
fessor traine in the learning of the
schools. Death as it really happens,
acted on the stage, would he fiat, stale
and uninteresting. Dickens describes
a fairyland, not seldom a fairyland
into which devils have intruded. This
is the secret of his wide appeal spread
Ing through space and lasting through
time."-Sclence Service.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Had to Time Their
Walks by Almanac

Ouvrard, the great French army con-
tractor, was at one time wanted" by
the officers of the tribunal of COM
merce for some offease. According to
the law he could not be arrested as
long as the sun was not up. AS re-
suit he was in the habit of taking his
constitutional for an hour before sun
rise every morning, judging the time
by the almanac. II. G.. Kitchen con-
tributes to the Kansas City Star.
In spite Of his care, however, he was
arrested one morning on his saunter,
and the authorities proved that the al
manac was wrong, and that as a mat
ter of fact the sun rose ten minutes
earlier than the book stated.
Consequently, Ouvrard brought legal
actions against both the compiler and
publisher of the book. The courts up
held him and the latter were forced to
pay damages.
This walking by the almanac" was
no unusual thing in France. Balzac
was at one time under the necessity
of timing his public appearances in
this way.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Most People of Siam
Pass LiUes on Boats

The ordinary Slamese citizen may
be said to possess no home at all.
He lives with his wife and naked
babies on a boat in a canal, writes
Lyman Bryson, in the Atlantic Month
". Costumes are adapted to water
living, and a people addicted to bath
ing can slip off their front porches,
that is, their front decks, into water
at any hour of the day or night.
Along the shores are the gilded,
glittering, flame-like temple spires, and
even a few ugly business buildings on
a blazing hot and dusty main street.
Scattered about in compounds and
paradises are the dwellings of princes,
most of them In European style.
His majesty's throne room palace of
Italian marble, which cost millions of
ticals, began to settle in che mud
when it was half built. 1t rides now
in an understructure of concrete, an
ingenious boat which was put under
1t, and supports it as long as the chug-
ging engines keep the water pumped
out of the basement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
"City" of Ell Dorado
Nothing But a Myth

Some time ago, when the ruins of
an Aztec city were discovered in the
Amazonian forest, they were popular
ly supposed to be those Of Ell Dorado,
the golden city to which Raleigh and
many other adventures were said to
have been lured, some to their death,
and few to fortune in Elizabethan
times, when the widest stories of the
New world found credence.
Eel Dorado sounds like the fanciful
names which the Spaniards and Portu-
guese gave to the cities they estab-
nshed, such as Ruenos Aires, Santi-
ago, Los Angeles, and SO on.
But the fact is that Ell Dorado Is
not city at all, and never was, al
though 1t would make a fine sounding
name for some new capital.
The story goes that Orellana, the
lieutenant of the great Pizarro, pre-
tended he had discovered a land of
gold between the Orinoco and the
Amazon, but when these high hopes
proved delusive, the ruler was smeared
with oil and rolled in gold dust, and
dubbed Ell Dorado, the gilded man.
Whether there is truth in the story Is
difficult to determine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Dress for Dinner

Dressing up for dinner is not ex-
cluded to the class of people we call
society. 1t should be a practice in
every home, even though the dressing
up consists Of clean gingham dress.
And it should not be excluded to the
wife and mother, but each individual
should observe this rule as well. Chill.
dren should be taught the habit in the
highchair days.
This custom not only takes the
family out of the "shiftless class" but
aids digestion as well. An unkempt
person at the table spells the appetite
of the rest Of the family and makes
the dinner less appetlzing and less at
tractive. And when the member OF
the family who has cooked that dinner
has labored so hard over it that she
Is "just too tired to dress" she has
defeated her purpose.--Exchange.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04

Has a dog the right to select his
own master? 1yhis question arose re-
Gently in case brought before Lon
don court when the owner of valu-
able dog sued a neighbor for Illegally
harboring the animal. The defense
set up was that If man had what
was described as IAN instinct for
dogs" and a dog liked him and fol-
lowed him, he was not legally bound
to communicate with its owner If he
knew the owners name and address.
In other words, the defendant at
tempted to extend the law of self
determination to animals. The same
dog, he said, had followed him home
on three occasions. Twice he returned
it to the lawful owner, but on the
third occasion he allowed 1t to re-
main. The court fined him $40.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Youthful Mountains

AS old as the hills means little In
Haiti, for the mountains there are
very young and the earth's crust very
mobile.
DR.. Wendell P. Woodring Of the
United States geological survey says
that the rising of these hills prob
ably causes the earthquakes which at
intervals shake the northern part of
the country. Some of the coral reef
caps cover marine terraces that rise
like gigantic stairs from sea level to
a height of about 1900 feet. These
terraces, begun in Miocene times, are
preserved because of the aridity of the
climate and underground drainage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Hen Appears to Haze
Little on the Ostrich

The next morning we forded scores
of small streams, so cold that they
were like ice water, as they are fed
by melted snow from Mt. Kenya. Up
to this time we had seen little game,
as the plains animals don't come into
the mountains; elephants and rhino
and buffalo could be found In the for
ests towards Kenya, but they are sell
dom seen from the road. Now we
commenced to see the Kenya harte-
beeste, small herds of common zebra,
many ostriches and few Grants
gazelle.
The ostriches are funny creatures
they would feed until we were opposite
them, then they would start running
along parallel with u.s. We would put
on all our power and race them for a
mile, but they always beat us. AS
soon as they were hundred yards
ahead they would put on an added
squirt and cross the road, often slip
ping ard falling as their feet struck
the hard roadbed. When they had
reached the other side they would
stop and watch us go by, seemingly
perfectly contented and satisfied that
they had crossed the road. This would
happen a dozen times in an hour
they always did the same thing, no
matter which side of the road they
happened to be grazing on.--Martin
Johnson in the Worlds Work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
The Orange in London

Oranges made their first recorded
appearance In this country in 1890,
when a Spanish fruit ship arrived at
Portsmouth and the queen, Eleanor Of
CASTLE, purchased from its cargo 10
citrons and seven oranges. The next
mention Of them does not occur until
1899, when 'pomes d'orring" figured
among the delicacies at the coronation
banquet of Henry Nv, who may have
become acquainted with the qualities
Of the fruit during his exile. By the
Sixteenth century oranges seem to
have become common, and 1t is re-
corded that the lords Of the star cham
Der In 1909 had them served daily at
dinner at a cost Of I'd per day.-Lon-
don Mail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
md E. B. Carisch. Defendants.

and E. B. Carisch, Defendants.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
That under and by virtue of judg-
ment Of foreclosure az. l.. gs S73.aa, ,.-s3de
cred, entered and docketed II the
above entitled action in the Circuit
Court for Pierce County, Wisconsin,
on March 10Th, A. D. 1924, and
supplementary judgment at the foot
of the aforesaid Judgment dated
March 25th, A. D. 1925, 1
the undersigned sheriff of Pierce
County, Wisconsin, will expose for
sale and sell at public vendue at the
front door of the Court House in the
Village of Ellsworth, in said County
on the 18th day of June, A. D. 1925,
at 200 p. M, to the highest bidder
for cash, the premises described in
said judgement and therein directed
to be sold, situated in Pierce
County, Wisconsin, and described as
follows, to-wit: "The West Half Of
the southeast quarter, and the East
Half of the Southwest Quarter of
Section 20, Township 81 North,
Range 10 West" or so much thereof
as may be necessary to satisfy the
sum of $2,9S703 which will be due
thereon at the time of said sale; and
the further sum of S6,000.OO to be-
come due thereon on October 1st, A.
D. 1888, with interest thereon 1t the
rate of sec per annum, payable an
nually; and the cost of this sale.
Dated April 9th, A. D. 1926.
FRANK L. BAKER, Sheriff of
Pierce County, Wisconsin.
White & White. Attorneys,
River Falls, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Phoraohs Built Well

The stone used In the construction
Of the Egyptian pyramids was from
the Turah quarries. 1t Is established
that it took 100000 men working for
ten years to make a causeway 5000
feet long to facilitate the transfer Of
the stone, and 20 years more to COM
plete the pyramid Of the Cheops. This
pyramid contains 100000 blocks of
stone averaging some 40 cubic feet.
The blocks came from the Mokattan
hills as well as the Turah, both Of
which were on the opposite side Of
the Nile.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Valuable Air Cnrgoes

Precious stones will be part Of the
cargo of the airplanes now ready to
fly over the LOO miles Of tropical
jungle between Kushasha, the capital
Of the Belgian Congo, and Kutango,
in the interior. No fewer than % air.
dromes and landing grounds have
been built in the swamps and Jungles
around the Congo, providing contin-
uous chain of alighting grounds. The
principal "cargoes' on the air route
will consist of diamonds, gold and
ivory, which will be brought from
the interior to the capital in a single
day instead OF in week as by pres.
ent transport methods.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Fair Warning

A china store, situated at the inter-
section of two Paris streets much fire.
quented by motor trucks and taxis,
very often receives the engine Of an
omnibus or the wheel of truck or a
taxi carburetor through its plate glass
show window. Consequently, two
watchmen have been posted before the
door, on either side of which Is a
notice reading, mo Thoroughfare." No
doubt the plate glass will now be
safe from the impetuosity of drivers
whose feet itch for the accelerator.
From lie Figaro, Paris. TRANSLATED
for the Kansas City Starr
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Fight Decided Name

In 1903 the community now known
as Barre, Vt, was undecided as to the
new name for the town, the original
name of which was Wilbesburgh. A
change was decided on In 1903. Even
tually the prospective names narrowed
down to two, Holden, sponsored by
Capt. Joseph Thompson, and Barre.
offered by Jonathan Sherman, both
names being after Massachusetts,
towns. The controversy developed
into fist fight. Sherman winning.
The city fathers and the legislature
honored the victor by naming the
town Barre.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Play Had Little Part
in Puritan Training

cit is not inconsistent even with the
American mind that myths should
flourish among u.s." says Caroline e.
MacGill in Scribner's Magazine. per
haps the subtlest and most widespread
Of all our myths is that myths cannot
exist In the freedom and vigor OF the
great open spaces 1t is a peculiarly
dangerous myth, because Of its mind
closing tendencies, binding US to the
better concealed OF the popular fall
lacies.
Many of our myths center around
liberty and freedom, until one would
suppose that they were something in
digenous to the soil of this western
world. Yet we know that freedom
except for the few, was about the last
thing the original settlers wanted. An
examination of the records of the
northern colonies will show how ex-
ceedingly little freedom there was of
any kind from the ordinances OF Ply
mouth to the famous statute Of 1886,
which removed the last vestige of
freedom from children above six, COM
polling them to be employed, even
doubly employed, after that age. 1t
is very well to talk about the stern
economic conditions which made 1t
necessary for each child to be so far as
possible self-supporting, but the stat
ute itself, alas! makes 1t quite clear
that the real thorn was the sight Of
children presuming to play. Such las
civlousness on the part of the limo
cents was utterly at variance with the
puritan temper"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04

the Regular Term of said court to be
held on the first Tuesday of July, A.
D. 1925, at the Court House in the
Village of Ellsworth, County of
Pierce and State of Wisconsin, there
will be heard and considered, the ap-
plication of Minnie Kay for the APP
pointment of an administrator of the
estate of Emery Kay, late of the
Town of Martell, in said county, de-
ceased;
Notice Is Hereby Further Given,
That at the Regular Term of said
court to be held at said Court House,
on the first Tuesday of October, A.
d. 1925, there will be heard, con-
sidered and adjusted, all claims
against said Emery Kay, deceased;
And Notice Is Hereby Further
Given, That all such claims for ex-
animation and allowance must be
presented to said county court at the
Court House in the Village of ELS
worth, in said county and state, on
or before the 9th day of September,
A. D. 1925, or be barred.
Dated May 90, 1926.
BY the Court,
Warren P. Knowles,
Judge.
W. t. Doar, Attorney.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
Violin Vornish

Harris 1.-THE Violin and It's Maker
contains the following: 1.-THE varnIsh
of Bergonzi is often fully as resplen
dent as that of Giuseppe Guarneri or
Stradivari and shows him to have been
initiated in the mysteries Of its manu-
facture. 1t is sometimes seen to be ex
tremely thick, at other times but spar
ingly laid on often of deep rich red
color, sometimes Of a pale red and
again of rich amber, so that the vari
alton of color to be met with in Der.
gonzi's yiollns is considerable"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-04
"Wosted" Medicine

The particularly well-known man
entered the doctors consulting room
and took chair.
swell, what can do for your" asked
the doctor.
II don't think much Of that cough
medicine Of yours" answered the man.
ooh, I'm sorry to hear that" was
the reply. "What Is the reasonT"
why" said the other. There's SO
much dead waste In 1t. I hadn't taken
more than a quarter Of bottle when
my cold disappeared. and there is the
other three-quarters just thrown
away"