Clintonville Town Talk July 21, 1905

              Clintonville Town Talk
F.H. Brady Clintonville, Wisconsin, Friday, July 21, 1905 Volume I, Number 4
Are Good Doctors
Drs. Hasso A. Meilike, G.M. Goodrick, E.A. Miller and W.H. Finney.
Guard the public health
Just a word or two about four of Clintonville's Most Popular Professional Men.
In pursuance of the plan announced by this paper in its initial number, Town Talk this week presents some sketchy information about the physicians of Clintonville.
The guardians of the health of any community are of necessity prominent characters therein, and this is especially true in this city, for the reason that the medical men of the town are conceded to be of much more than ordinary ability.
This is not saying enough; but your doctor is apt to be over-critical of public praise, and we will let it go at that.
Dr. Hasso A. Meilike.
Dr. Hasso A. Meilike came here in 1877 and engaged in the drug business.
He left in 1882 and entered a medical school in Minneapolis.
In 1886 he was graduated from the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In the same year he engaged in the practice of his profession in this city, where he has since resided.
It is not necessary for Town Talk to speak of the success he  has achieved.
Everybody knows about it.
Certainly, it has been deserved.
In 1903 Dr. Meilike was appointed by Governor LaFollette as a member of the state board of health, the term continuing until 1910.
His ability again received official recognition when, in 1904, at St. Louis, he was elected vice-president of the American National Congress on Tuberculosis.
Dr. Meilike has always been actively interested in the welfare of Clintonville.
It was because of such interest that the people made him mayor of the city for eight yeras, his last term ending in 1899.
Dr. G.M. Goodrick
Dr. G.M. Goodrick was born at Brazier Falls, St. Lawrence county, New York, October 17, 1860.
He came with his parents to Michigan in 1866, and to Waupaca in 1868.  In Waupaca he attended the high school, but went from there to the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1883.
In the same year he became associated with his brother, Dr. N.W. Goodrick, in the practice of medicine at Freeport, Ohio.
That connection continued for four years.
In the fall of 1887 he commenced his practice in this city-and the reader knows the rest.
It has been in every way creditable to Dr. Goodrick as an able and conscientious physician.
He has seen the sun rise and set from every hill top within twenty miles of this city.
He has been health officer of the city for a number of terms, holding that position at the present time.
In June, 1897, during President McKinley's first year, Dr. Goodrick was appointed United States examining surgeon, being one of three constituting the New London board.  
He yet holds that position.
Dr. E.A. Miller
Dr. E.A. Miller was born at Gervais, Oregon, April 12, 1870. 
He came to Chicago in 1892, entering Rush Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1896 after a full course of four years under the famous Dr. Nicholas Senn.
He commenced practice in Clintonville in the year of his graduation, and has been here ever since.
At first he was associated with Dr. John Finney for two years.
After the latter died in 1898, Dr. Miller was alone for a year, until Dr. W.H. Finney finished his schooling and came home to take up his father's practice.
From that time the young men were associated until August of last year.
Dr. Miller was company physician for the North-Western from '98 to '99, during the time between the death of Dr. John Finney and the coming to Clintonville of the latter's son, Dr. W.H. Finney, who was then appointed to the place.
Dr. Miller has been health officer of the city for several years, proving efficient in that capacity as he has proved able in his general practice.
Dr. Miller, by the way, is just now fitting up new offices over Kalmes' drug store.
Dr. W.H. Finney
The good book says that a "a prophet is without honor in his own country."
There is truth in this and sometimes it is apt to operate to the disadvantage of an ambitious young man who takes up some profession or business in the town where he was born.
It is not so in the case of Dr. W.H. Finney of this city, who was born and grew to manhood among the hills and dales of Waupaca county.
His father, Dr. John Finney, was the first regularly established physician here and gave his son the benefit of a long and thorough course in school.
After graduating from the Clintonville high school young Finney was sent to the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and then to the Northwestern Medical College of Chicago.
He was a bright student and took readily to surgery.
Upon  his father's death he began to practice in Clintonville and was soon appointed railroad surgeon for the C. & N.W.R.R. Company.
He attracted a large practice from near and far and has a brilliant future before him.
He is a genial young man and Clintonville people take pleasure in viewing his successful career.
McHugh-Mathusek Feud
John Mathusek was arrested on a criminal charge.
The warrant was sworn out by Mrs. McHugh, who refuses to give bonds for the costs.
John Mathusek of Bear Creek was brought before justice Quinn, Monday, on a criminal charge, the warrant being sworn to by Mrs. Francis McHugh, wife of the man who shot the officers, Monty and Lang, mentioned in last week's Town Talk.
Quinn very wisely asked for bonds for costs, which Mrs. McHugh refused to give, and the case was thrown out of court.
Mathusek is the man whom McHugh accuses of committing all kinds of depredations around his premises.
Mathusek, it is now believed, never had anything to do with the alleged troubles of McHugh, as the opinion is fast gaining ground that McHugh's imagination is responsible for the stories he is telling about his neighbors.
Several of Mathusek's neighbors were in court Monday to testify in behalf of Mathusek.
Mathusek is away from home much of the time when he is accused of troubling his neighbor.
It is a neighborhood quarrel that should be stopped as soon as possible.
Local Electrical storm
Visited the city last Monday and did some damage.
Shade trees and telegraph and telephone poles are blown down, and crops are injured.
Clintonville has experienced hotter weather for the past three weeks than it has for the past three years.
On Monday noon it culminated in an electrical storm, accompanied by a high wind.
No great damage was done to buildings, but many shade trees, telegraph and telephone poles were blown over.
The afternoon train from the north and the evening train from the south were both delayed by trees that were blown across the track, and by telegraphic communication.
George Sutherland came down from Antigo on the afternoon train and reports that near Elmherst much damage was done to houses and barns.
The greatest damage done in the vicinity of Clintonville was to crops, especially corn, fields of which were broken down and actually blown away.
Staging falls with workers
Four men are injured while at work on the railroad round house.
An accident occurred last Wednesday morning in the C. & N.W.R.R. yards, where the building of the new round house is going on.
A defective staging fell, precipitating a number of men to the ground.
L.J. Morris landed upon a rock.
He was injured more severly than the rest, receiving bruises over his entire body.
Willis Carter's right arm was badly injured, and his body shows numerous bruises.
H. Zoch's left arm was injured and he received many bruises also.
The men were brought down town and were cared for by the company's surgeon, W.H. Finney.
New Clintonville Industry
Huhn & Below will manufacture cement brick, walks, and window sills.
Huhn & Below is the name of a new firm in Clintonville. 
They have formed a partnership for the manufacture of cement brick, cement window-sills and caps, cement walks, etc.
Their place of business is near the old Humm slaughter house where they are erecting a building 16x40 and getting ready to "do things."
There is a demand for such products, and Town Talk thinks they will succeed.
Mr. Below is the gentleman who has been making the fine cement walks about town this season.
Will give a Bowery dance
In M. Dietzler's dancing pavilion adjoining the city park.
Tonight is the night. 
This evening, at the bowery owned by M. Dietzler,
just adjacent to the city, one of the best dances of the year will be given.
The floor is in good condition, the order will be first-class, and everything will be done to insure a good time to all.
The grounds will be wellighted, and the music by the reliable city orchestra.
Come out tonight and see if everything is not just as we say.
Will Build Cigar Factory.
Herman Kratzke, the well known cigar manufacturer of this city, has engaged Herman Kroll to build a building for a cigar factory in the 2nd ward adjoining his residence.
The structure is to be 16x32, one story high.
Herman makes the following brands: "Miss Sly," "Clintonville Belle," "Black Squirrel," "Forester" and "Leader."
Interesting Family group of Waupaca County Pioneers
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dixon came up the Embarrass River in a Scow in 1850, Settling at Palmer's Mill.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jane came here from Vermont Thirty-seven years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dixon are their descendants.
The Dixon Family.
In settling a new country the pioneer has much to contend with.
As a general thing he is not possessed of riches, except those of health and courage, and his battle for existence is a hard one.
Many have failed in their fight and dropped fainting by the wayside; others, strongers, or perhaps endowed with a courage as sublime as that of the soldier who volunteers for the "forlorn hope," press on and eventually win.
In after years the pioneer is delighted to recall incidents which at the time of their occurrence were thought almost too  hard to endure.
These happenings are interesting to him and also to those who have followed in his wake, working just as hard, perhaps, but not environed by the romance of more primitive times.
Town Talk presents today the portraits and a brief history of a half dozen people who have been closely identified with the early days of Waupaca county.
If an Indian or perhaps a wandering cruiser had parted the thick undergrowth upon the banks of the Embarrass river along in 1859, he might have seen an old scow boat being slowly paddled up stream by a half dozen sturdy fellows.
The scow contained, besides a variety of goods, Daniel Dixon, his wife and seven children.
They had left their home in the eastern states, traveled by rail to Oshkosh, by steamboat to New London, and were making their weary way up the Embarras river to Palmer's mill, now known as the village of Embarrass.
Mr. Dixon was a native of New York, and his wife was born in the north of Ireland.
when their long and tiresome journey ended they loaded their few household goods on the bank, and Mr. Dixon proceeded to take a mental inventory of his worldly possessions, which consisted of the wife with the seven little ones, a small amount of baggage and a $20 gold piece.
Nothing daunted, he went to work and got possession of a tract of land near the mill, since known as the George Allen farm, rolled up a log house by hand, put on a bark roof, and hanging up a blanket for a door, moved in.
There was a specimen of your true American.
That their family were resourceful and bound to succeed is easily understood from a little story told Town Talk by Mr. Dixon's son Ned, who relates that when their small sum of money disappeared his mother went over to the miller's wife and traded some pieces of china and a table spread to her for some bags of corn meal from the mill.
Dixon worked at lumbering and clearing up his farm, walking over to Semple's, laboring all the week and bringing his week's pay home on his back Saturday night.
Twenty-nine years ago he and his wife and several children left Embarrass and went to Oregon, where the two old people died not long ago, near Clatskanie, Columbia county.
The Clatskanie newspapers had this to say of Mr. Dixon the time of his death:
"Daniel Dixon, an aged and highly respected citizen of this vicinity, died January 25, of senile pneumonia.
He was born in Niagara county, New York, February 15, 1825.  
When a boy his parents moved to Canada, and there he grew to manhood, married and lived several years, moving from there to Wisconsin, and later to Oregon, which he reached in 1877, spending two years in Cackamas county, then coming to this beality, where he secured a homestead about two miles from town.
On this homestead he spent the remainder of his days.
"Mr. Dixon had an impressive personality, very decided in his convictions, and very ready to defend them in argument, if necessary, but beneath a rugged exterior he had a kind heart, which responded to calls for self-sacrific.
His wife, some four years his senior, passed away last June.
Six sons and two daughters survive him.
Of these, George, Isaac and William, with a daughter, Mrs. Anna J. Branham, in California.
Deceased was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his home was a stopping place for ministers in an early day."
The Janes Family.
Edwin Janes and his wife, whose maiden name was Bushnell, were early arrivals in this vicinity from St. Albans, Vermont.
Mr. Janes was born Nov. 22, 1828, and when young in years headed westward until he arrived at Clintonville, 37 years ago.
He purchased a piece of timber land about a mile and a half north of town, on the Shawano road, and built a log house.
Here he brought up a family of three children.
He was a mason by trade and worked alternately at his trade and farming.
He was a soldier in the war of the rebellion and was honorably discharged.
His regiment was the 50th Wisconsin Infantry, and he was a member of Company A.
John C. Spooner, now United States senator from Wisconsin, was his captain.
Mr. Spooner told the writer that Janes was one of the best men in his company, and whenever the senator came here he always inquired for his old comrade.
He sold his farm to Ned Dixon, his son-in-law, in 1899.
Mrs. Janes was the counterpart of her husband, mild mannered, kind hearted and ever ready to answer to the call of sickness or distress.
She was a native of Georgia, Vermont and died in this city in 1890.
Edward Dixon and Wife.
Edward and Clara Dixon, who at the present time reside upon the old Janes farm and adjoining lands, are children of the subjects of the foregoing article.
Edward Dixon is a son of Daniel Dixon, and was born in Canada, coming to Wisconsin at a tender age.
His lot has been one of the many who tried to carve a home from the wilderness.
He bought a piece of land near the Janes farm and, toiling in the woods and on the river, supported his family and gradually pulled himself out of the financial mire until at present he owns 110 acres of choice land, equipped with modern buildings and all kinds of machinery.
His residence, just completed, is large and beautifully situated upon a rise of land near the Shawano road, and when his plans are completed Dixon will have the prettiest grounds for miles about.
In working these wonders in the wilderness Mr. Dixon modestly gives the greatest credit to his wife, Clara, daughter of Edward Janes, and his five faithful sons and daughters who are progressive in their ideas and of an inventive turn.
No difficulty is too great for them to surmount, and they take great pride in their home.
They are people who think a farmer is as wise as anyone, and more than that they prove it by their conduct.
They are now operating a cheese factory upon their farm, one of the slickest and neatest little affairs you ever saw.
They sell their own product, keep a set of books, use business like methods, and give a visitor at their farm a "distinct shock," as the story writer says, when Ire realizes what business ways may accomplish when applied to farming.
Clintonville and New London business men play ball
They pound the ball and chase it around the field for more than two hours and a half, the New Londoners finally winning the hard-fought contest in the tenth inning by a score of 19 to 18. 
Complete story of the great event.
Everybody knows what happened to the business men's ball club down at New London Wednesday afternoon.
In fact, the score of that contest was on everyone's lips long before the conquored ball tossers reached the city they call home.
new Londoners had telephoned it; they were happy because the so-called amateur club of that burg had beaten Clintonville twice.
Captain of the home nine had banked on winning the game.
He had most of his men out practicing every day, and they looked good to him.
The old adage, "There's many a slip betwixt cup and lip," proved true in his case.
The men he depended on didn't show up, for reasons best known to themselves, so it was a picked nine that made the trip on the "special" car attached to a freight.
The men who lined up at the station were: Editors Barnum and Cotton, Guy Werner, the tonsorial artist, mine host Dietzler, of hotel fanre, Barrister Hoxie, Rudolph Schmedieke, the dry goods merchant, Ed Ullman, the well-known horse buyer and all 'round sport, Henry Jackson, of the creamery, and Henry Folkman.
Dr. Goodrick went down ahead of the team and intended to play, but his professional duties prevented.
He watched the game from the grand stand after the third inning.
Of the opposing team it was alleged that but four, the first and second basemen and two fielders, were business men, the balance being well known young men who, while not professional ball players, knew much more about ball playing than they did about selling goods over a counter.
Despite the many errors in the play, the game was amusing to the seventy-five persons present, many of whom were ladies.
It was "which and tother" throughout.
The home team took the lead in the second, Clintonville tied the score and went one better in its half of the second, only to lose it by one tally on even innings.
The end of the fourth showed the score 8 to 7 in favor of the home team, and it continued so till the ninth, when Clintonville tied the score by good batting and battery errors of their opponents.
The score was 18 each.
The visiting team wanted to stop there, but the people wanted their money's worth and objected stenously with the result that play was resumed.
One hit and a base on balls was all that was doing on Clintonville's side, and the game looked bad for the latter.
The first man up for the home team smashed out a hit to left, went to second on a bad throw, to third on a sacrifice, and home when Dietzler muffed Stofer's high fly in right.
Here's the story of the game:
Clintonville          AB R H PO A E
Folkman, 3b           7  3 5 1  4 2
Barnum, ss            5  3 0 1  6 3
Cotton, 1b            6  0 0 12 0 1
Werner, p and c       7  4 6 12 2 4
Dietzler, 1f          7  2 4 0  0 3
Jackson, p and c      6  1 1 0  8 1
Schmedieke, cf        6  2 3 0  0 3
Hoxie, rf             4  1 1 1  0 0
Ullman, 2b            6  2 1 1	1 3
                      54 18 21 28 21 20
New London
Jelleff, 1b           8  4 4 13 0 0
Stofer, cf            7  3 2 0  0 0
Popke, c              6  5 1 10 3 1
Dick, 2b              5  2 1 3  5 0
Krause, p             6  1 4 0  6 1
Viel, ss              5  0 1 0  1 2
Lindow, 3b            7  1 1 2  0 1
Anderson, rf          6  1 1 1  1 0
Van Doren, lf         5  2 1 1  0 1
Schaller, p           1  0 0 0  0 0
                     56  19 16 30 16 6
Clintonville,  0 3 1 3 3 2 1 2 3 0-18
New London,    2 1 2 3 4 2 0 2 2 1-19
Two-base hits-Jelleff, Krause.  Stolen bases-Clintonville 12, New London 12.
Passed balls-Werner 4, Popke 5.
Hit by pitched ball-Jackson 2, Krause 2.
Base on balls-Jackson 7, Krause 4.
Wild pitch-Jackson 3, Krause 3.
Struck out-Jackson 11, Krause 9.
Left on bases-Clintonville 12, New London 13.
Umpire-Carley. Time of game-2:35.
Notes of the Game.
Ed. Ullman was so blinded by the sun's rays that he couldn't see the ball all the time  the air three times.
A fan in the stand insisted in saying that Schmiedeke wore pantlets.
He didn't, though.
He wore white overalls but couldn't turn them up because he wore half hose.
Folkman made a home run on his single in the first and a three-base throw by Lindow, but the captain of the opposing team said the ground rules prohibited more than one base on a wild throw; hence no run was scored.
Player Dietzler insisted on eating hog and cabbage for dinner.
He was warned that such a diet was not conducive to good ball playing.
His record was two runs a strike-out a stolen base and the wrench of a muscle that lamed him for the balance of the game.
The best feature of the game was a base hit made by a 12-year-old kid who took Dietzler's place in left.
He could hardly lift the bat; the pitcher tossed the ball over the kid's head, but the kid met it and drove it over third base and a run came.
It was the only time the crowd cheered the visiting team.
Got after the old man
Trouble in the home of Gust. Eahart, in third ward.
He says that his wife and son attacked him with pitchforks and drove him from his home.
There is trouble in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gust. Eahart of the third ward.
Mr. Eahart says that his wife and 19-year-old son attacked him Thursday morning with pitchforks and clubs and injured him severely.
He also avers that he did nothing to start a "rough house" and also that his wife and this particular son are continually making him trouble.
He appealed to Judge McNeil to assist him in obtaining a divorce.
The judge side-stepped.
The family has been engaged in previous ructions and then again the dove of peace has settled upon the ridge pole of their comfortable home.
The Talker is ready to make a small side bet if anything more serious occurs.
Population of the city, 1,837
City Clerk Gause has just completed the census.-Small increase shown.
City Clerk Frank Gause has kindly furnished Town Talk with a few figures pertaining to the census he recently took of the city of Clintonville for the state of Wisconsin.
Of the inhabitants he finds 1837 as against 1653 five years ago, a gain of 184.
His books show there are 408 families residing in the city, and 26 veterans of the civil war.
Saturday sale.
J.F. Meisner will sell all of his lawns, dimities and shirt waists, at half price, Saturday.
Kaukauna beaten
The browns are the winners in an exciting game of eleven innings
The score is six to five
there was ragged work on both sides, but the locals braced up at the right time.
During the long series of games in which the Clintonville Browns have been mopping up the earth with the other fellows, some strangers were heard to say more than once, "Just wait till Kaukauna gets here!"  
Well, that team got here last Sunday-and the last hide on the fence out at the Brown's slaughter pen is marked Kaukauna.
It was a hot game on a hot day-a game marked by some ragged work all around, but one in which the locals finally pulled themselves together against the worst sort of luck and batted out a victory after the score was five to three against them in the sixth.
It took eleven innings to do it.
Kaukauna started with three goose eggs, while the Browns got a score in the first and two in the second.
In the fourth the visitors got a run on errors, and in the sixth they put up four more of the same sort.
It was right here that the browns had a yellow streak most unusual with them, but it didn't last long.
With defeat seeming certain they made a brace and stopped the scoring against them right there.
For themselves they got their fourth run in the seventh inning.
They had the game won right there, but lost the chance through bad base running due to no coaching.
In the eighth George Williams smashed the ball for a complete circuit, but was sent back to third by Meisner.
But on the next play he crossed the plate on a passed ball, tieing the score.
Nothing doing in the ninth.
In the tenth Frank failed to make a double out of a single and was thrown out at second from left field.
Ed hit safe for one bag but was killed at second when Jones made first.
Floyd's hit to pitcher was fumbled and he was safe.
Jones taking second.
But ;lafjdslk;fjad got to second before Floyd did, and the visitors then had what proved to be their last chance.
They were easy.
In the eleventh and last inning Ed opened with one to third, which was fumbled.
Henry Jackson put one in the same place with the same result; and then Sid smashed a high one into right.
It looked easy to the fielder, but it had wings, and when he was chasing it in a wild race for the Pigeon river Ed came home from second and Kaukauna was in the soup.
Pitcher Ed Flanagan was badly spiked in the ankle by the man on third, but no one heard him do any hollering about it.
Next Sunday the Clintonville ball team will play the Appleton Atheletics here on the home grounds.
The Appleton boys play good ball and an interesting game is expected.
George Williams got a hot foul on the mask and a wire was driven into his  head, causing an ugly wound above the left eye.
But he stayed in the game and made the cracking hit that tied the score.
T.E. McFarland, of Chicago, for ten years official scorer of the "White Sox," is transacting some business here and attended the business men's base ball game at New London and kindly furnished Town Talk with the score and also an excellent report of the game.
Mr. Nye of the Wittenberg Enterprise is a fair man who believes in fair play.
If he had seen the game in which the Wittenberg team was beaten here he would not have wronged the Browns and Umpire Miesner by the sweeping charges in his paper.
He was not here, and his fault is that he permitted some one to string him in the account of the game.
Mr. Nye knows that a picked team from all over the north woods was sent down here in Wittenberg uniforms and beaten fairly by a score of three to one.
And he ought to know that such defeat would make some soreheads and knockers.
But he should not have allowed the latter to vent their anger through the medium of his paper in abuse of a square umpire and a team of ball players who are true sportsmen.
Just because this town has got together a lot of boys who are too much for any sort of combination that has been sent against them, the other fellows are sore and jealous.
That's all there is to it.
Play ball, and if you are beaten take your medicine like men.
Don't whine.
Don't call the umpire a thief.
he's all right.
Play ball.
Cut with piece of ice.
Will Dufrane had his right cheek severely cut a few days ago.
He was up at the freight depot where they were loading ice.
In fun, one of the section men threw a small piece at him, striking him in the face below the eye, hurting him so bad that three stitches had to be taken in the wound.