Clintonville Town Talk September 1, 1905

              Clintonville Town Talk
By F.H. Brady Clintonville, Wisconsin, Friday, September 1,1905 Volume I. Number 10.
How about it girls
Are you classed with the gang that is always at the depot?
They meet every train
A flock of girls at the depot every night flirting with the traveling men.
Railroad men and the city police have complained lately to Town Talk of the crowds of girls that morning and night, particularly at night, gather on the depot platform.
They say that fully three quarters of the people that assemble there have no business to be there whatever, and are what in plain English may be classed as loafers.
They are not only in the way of the railroad employees but also are obtaining a bad name for themselves by flirting and indulging in unladylike conduct with strangers.
They go there in droves, thoughtlessly, perhaps, but doing themselves incalculable injury by their presence and actions.
Not only girls of mature years but "kids" in short dresses, pushing about in the crowd, and shouting until you can not hear the locomotive whistle.
It is something fierce to stand back and observe them.
Whether their parents know of this or not is a problem Town Talk has not cared to solve.
No doubt the editor of Town Talk will receive some dark looks for this article but that cuts no ice with him, he is old and out of the game anyway.
He has also been through the mill and knows what this foolishness leads too.
He isn't writing this article to ridicule anyone, to throw mud at anyone or hurt the feelings of any person, but it is something that ought to be stopped, and when these girls get older if they heed his advice to "stay away" they will thank him for butting in.
The Town Talk man visited Oshkosh last week and fell in with an old friend who is on the police force.
During the talk that ensued he said "Brady we have a girl over in the city lockup, whose home is in your town. 
We picked her up drunk in a saloon and run her in.
She is young and pretty, but is in horrible shape, and its a d-d shame."
This girl used to be found in line with the others at the depot.
What do you think of it?
Rockefeller in Church.
The only public place in the world in which Rockefeller appears with any regularity is at the services of a Baptist Church in the community where he happens to be living.
He is particularly devoted to the services of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church of Cleveland, and rarely from May to October does he miss the Sunday meetings and he always appears at the annual Sunday school picnic.
Here he seems to be at his freest, here he even makes little speeches on occasions.
And yet to one who from a pew watches Mr. Rockefeller in the bosom of his church it seems as if the Sunday service can be nothing but an ordeal.
The writer was once present at the annual October gathering in Mr. Rockefeller's Cleveland church where he says goodby for the season to the Sunday school, of which he is the honorary superintendent.
He sat through the session of Sunday school, his back to the wall (they say in Cleveland Mr. Rockefeller always sits with his back to the wall when it is possible.  
So many things can happen behind one's back in an assembly!) incessantly peering into the faces of those before him.
No child in the assembly was so uneasy.
Through out the church service which followed, this same terrible restlessness agitated him.
He sat bent forward in his pew, for a moment, his eyes intent on the speaker, then with a start he looked to his right searching the faces he could see, craning his neck to look backward.
Then his eyes would turn again to the speaker.
But not to stay there.
A few moments later he was searching the aisle to the left, craning his neck to see behind him.
Those who have observed Mr. Rockefeller in church over a long period of years say that he has shown this uneasiness for years.
Unconscious habit, perhaps.
Fear, fear of the oft-repeated threats of the multitude of sufferers from the wheels of the cars of progress he has rolled across the country, so many a man who knows him will say.
It does not matter what it is.
It is pitiful, so pitiful, that one cannot watch John Rockefeller sit through a church service and ever cease to feel that he is one of the saddest objects in the world.
For what good this undoubted power of achievement, for what good this towering wealth, if one must be forever peering to see what is behind.
The Taggart Case.
The malodorous Taggart case may be expected to bring forth the usual crop of sermons on the wickedness that is to be found in camps and army posts and there will be plenty of critics who will attempt to judge the whole by a very small part and assert that the entire social life of the army is corrupt.
Such statements are a gross libel on the larger proportion of army men and women.
In all branches of the service will be found hundreds of officers whose lives are as clean as those of any business or professional man and their wives and daughters are as true women as can be found in the best civil circles.
The Punkin Husker.
Lawrence Russell, author of "The Punkin Husker" which appears at the opera house on Saturday evening, Sept. 2, has invaded a comparatively new field for material for his absorbing story of rural life, the "white capper" district of Indiana.
The play is full of homely wit, drollery and lively interest, absorbing the attention of the audience from the first scene to the fall of the last curtain.
The company presenting it under the management of Wallace J. Derthick is exceptionally well balanced and capable and the elaborate special scenery carried by the company gives a setting most real and lifelike.
The company carries its own band and orchestra.
A Good Citizen.
Lewis W. Moore, editor of the Hume Border (Mo) Telephone, gives the following description of a good citizen:
A good citizen is a man who takes pride in his home town, pays his honest debts, speaks well of his neighbors, takes his home paper and pays for it; who doesn't squeeze every twenty-five cent piece until the agonized scream of the eagle can be heard for a mile.
He will measure twelve inches to the foot every way, will bathe and change his shirt once a week, and will see that the woman he loves does not have to use a hedge fence for a clothes line or break up ash barrels for fuel.
They want a fixed bridge
The town of Matteson wants a non draw bridge.
The people interested in the Wolf River should make protests as it will close the upper Wolf.
New London Press: Application has been made to the Secretary of War by the chairman of the town of Matteson for a fixed bridge over the Wolf river, and the people are notified that a hearing on the question is called to be held at Oshkosh at eleven o'clock a.m. on September 5th.
This is really the first move toward making the Wolf river a non-navigable stream.
It is a foregone conclusion that the river will be improved from this city up as far as navigation is scheduled by the government, and boating on the river is increasing at a terriffic rate-and let the old river retain its prestige.
Of course it would save quite an expense in the erection of the proposed bridge not to be obliged to provide a draw, as is now required.
All persons interested in the welfare of the river should send in a written protest to W.V. Judson Cenkin Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Oshkosh, and don't delay, as the protest should be in before September fifth.
Picnic September 10.
The Evangelical Lutheran Christus Congregation will hold their school picnic at the city park on the second Sunday of September.
There will be vocal and instrumental music, the latter furnished by the Clintonville Bank and also amusements for young and old.
Both dinner and supper will be served at a very low price, also refreshments of different kinds will be sold on the grounds.
Everybody is cordially invited and remember the date is September 10.
Railroad shows big increase
Annual report of North-Western Road shows a big gain in earnings.
The annual report of the operations of the Chicago & North-Western Railway company for the year ending June 30, 1905, was given out Tuseday.
The average number of miles operated was 7408. 
The gross earnings were $44,745,275 of which $13,339,713 was from passengers; freight $39,292,830; express, mail and miscellaneous, $3,112,730.
The operating expenses were $65.40 per cent of gross earnings, or $36,459,334; and taxes $2,189,976.
The net earnings were $17,095,963.
Other charges were: Interest on bonds and interest $7,006,576; sinking fund, $225,900; total, $7,231,576.
Deducting this from the net earnings, and adding income for investments, $553,435, leaves the net income $10,417,822.
The increase in earnings over 1904 was $2,410,641, and the increase in operating expenses and taxes was $1,422,202, making the increase in net earnings over 1904, $988,438.
Meat in Germany High.
The price of meat in Germany is rising-has risen, in fact,-almost to famine rates.
The advance is due to regulations closing the frontiers against Russian meat and American tinned meats.
The butchers in all the provinces, after ineffectual appeals to the minister of agriculture, resolved co-jointly with the municipal authorities to appeal to the Emperor, requesting his intervention on behalf of the lower classes.
Is Legally Dead.
The banker Edward Decker, of Algoma, who disappeared from the car ferry Pere Marquette No. 18, April first, has been declared legally dead, letters of administration having been granted to his wife who wishes his estate probated.
Settle Your account.
All parties indebted to John Weston are notified to settle their accounts before September 15, 1905, or they will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection.
The kids shut out
The Menasha Browns never saw the ball during the entire game.
Bunch of fanning mills
The manager of the home team ought to book first class baseball teams.
The Clintonville Browns shut out the Menasha Browns in this city last Sunday, the score being 6 to 0 at the ninth inning.
The Menasha team were clearly out classed by Clintonville and the game was of the tamest variety.
Flanagan pitched and Williams caught the entire game.
There has been almost too many of these kid excursions to Clintonville to play ball this summer, and the people who pay their money to see a ball game are getting weary of it.
It is no amusement to see the Browns hammer the life out of a lot of high school kids, neither does it add to the prestige of the Browns.
The management should draw a high card once in a while.
The Woman with the Hoops.
Did you ever see a woman with hoops on?
A group of women look like a whole village.
A cross section of a woman in hoops looks like a circus tent with two center poles.
A near-sighted man took a bunch of ladies for a harvest field, and they were shocked.
Still, hoops have their advantage in the economy of space.
Instead of carrying her arms and shirtwaist front full of bundles, a woman can hang them on little hooks inside her hoops.
I never did like the shirtwaist dray line, anyhow.
When a fellow embraces his lady friend he doesn't want to get his arms full of soap, uneeda biscuit, patent medicine bottles and new socks.
Still there would be little choice if the lady had her hoop skirts hung full of canvas-covered hams and things.
Once a lady tried using her hoop skirt as a bundle carrier while out shopping and then got off a street car backwards and when she stopped lighting it looked like a cyclone had hit a country store.
Roosevelt is now the hero
The part he played in the peace conference is highly commended.
In conclusion the Standard says: "We come to what, from an international point of view, may be regarded as the greatest victory of the three.
It belongs as we think to President Roosevelt.
He may, for instance, have held out to Japan inducements which would have the double effect of securing peace with Russia and rooting up the weeds of disagreement between Japan and America.
Japs give world a lesson.
Speaking of Japan's waiver of the indemnity clause, the Globe says:
"It has been an act of extraordinary courage and magnanimity on the part of the Emperor and his council.
The act which seems justified by the results, the Emperor of Japan has given the world a lesson in moderation and, as we believe, the result will show in practical wisdom."
Japan gained what she wanted.
The Globe also claims that Japan gained what she went to war for and says:
"To the ancient chivalrous feeling of the old Samurai there must have appeared something sordid in continuing the conflict, not for glory or for the safety of the empire, but for a cash payment which had assumed the form of a liquidation for damages.
Moreover we write in the dark.
We have no glimmer of the secret condition which in all probability form part of the terms of peace.
Nor do we know how far the situation was affected by the Anglo Japanese treaty."
Should bless Roosevelt.  
"The revolutionary movement has roots a generation deep and its causes are entirely independent of the war, which it preceded, though its growth has been fostered by the misfortunes of the conflict.
The agitation and turmoil will no doubt find an outlet in the coming elections for the Douma regardless of the outcome of the war."
In conclusion the prince pays a high tribute to President Roosevelt, whose name should be blessed throughout Russia."
Great victory for Japan.
"A great diplomatic victory for M. Witte, but a great moral victory for Japan," is the verdict of Prince Oukhtomky in his editorial in the Viedomsti today. He says:
"Japan has acquired a predominant position in Asia, while Russia's prestige has suffered a correspondingly heavy blow.
However, Russia is only reaping the reward of a war conceived in injustice and resting on a policy of agression toward a weak nation, against which I and others warned the government.
It is impossible to tell what will be the result of the peace in the international situation.
Powers involved not happy.
An anomalous situation exists as to the impression created by the conclusion of peace.
While the outside world applauds, in Japan there is evidently great disappointment in the terms and in Russia, where it would seem that there should be universal rejoicing over the great diplomatic victory Mr. Witte has won, the government seems to receive it coldly.
With the people it will make Mr. Witte a great and popular figure and add to his laurels, but at court evidently the victory that Mr. Witte has achieved makes it all the more bitterly resented.
Will not attend state fair.
Governor La Follette will not be able to attend the coming State Fair owing to previous engagements.
This is the information which Secretary John M. True of the state board of agriculture received from the executive office today.
The board had hoped to get the governor to make an address or at least to be its guest of honor on some of the days during the fair, but it has been disappointed.
It is understood that the governor's lecturing tour will extend into fair week.
Speaker Irving L. Lenroot of Superior, one of the aspirants for the governorship, arrived here today and will probably remain an indefinite time.
He is doing some political work, but its exact nature cannot be learned.
He declines to talk for publication.
The New Railroad Line
It is said that the road will not touch Kaukauna.
The greater part of the new line has been surveyed and work will begin immediately.
Kaukauna Times: It is reported in railroad circles here, on good authority, that the Illinois Central, the Wisconsin Central, the North-Western Railway company and the Valley Railway company have no connections whatever with the Green Bay, Oshkosh, Madison &  Southereastern Railway company of which C.H. Hartley of this city has just been appointed general manager with offices at Oshkosh.
The company with which Mr. Hartley is now connected is composed of twelve well known capitalists of Oshkosh; Menasha, Shawano, and Antigo, who have large holdings in the northern part of the state.
The members consist for the greater part of those who a few years ago endeavored to build a line from Madison to Green Bay but failing to get sufficient support gave up the project.
The new line projected by the Green Bay, Oshkosh, Madison &  Southeastern Railway company extends from Crandon to Madison.
It will penetrate a virgin forest, and passing through the Stockbridge Indian reservation will touch Shawano and Appleton Junction.
Green Bay and Kaukauna as well as several other Fox river valley cities will be passed up.
The new line will have the Soo road for its northern outlet and the Illinois Central for its southern outlet.
It is possible that the road may not remain long in the hands of the company that builds it should any of the old lines make a fair offer.
Should the Illinois Central purchase it the company would have direct connections with the copper country and the City of Mexico.
The greater part of the new line has already been surveyed.
The work of construction will commence at once.
Sea Birds Disappearing.
No one knows better than the sailor or the shore hunter how the sea birds may be exterminated, and no one better than the Indian or the trapper of the deep woods how some times the wildest and most abundant land species may disappear.
The wonderful great auk, or garefowl, has, within the memory of men now living, been hunted from the face of the earth, so that its skins and eggs are now worth their weight in gold.
Practically the beautiful wild pigeon which once darkened the skies with its vast and cloud-like flight has met the same fate, though small colonies of it in remote spots undoubtedly still exist.
The eastern pinnated grouse is also practically extinct.
In the Chatham island alone, in the Pacific, seventeen species of birds have become extinct.
On all islands of the sea and at all the shore spots to which sea birds resort the work of slaughter is being carried on quite relentlessly.
Largely for purely humane reasons and incidentally in the interest of science the National Association of Audubon Societies is engaged in the work of trying to save the sea birds from extermination.
Several species are being systematically destroyed for their feathers.
Fashion, of course, does not care whether these beautiful creatures are exterminated or not.
The scarcer they become up to the point of their actual disappearance the greater are the prices realized for their feathers and the deeper the joy taken by the wearer of the ornament.
And when at last they are all gone-why, there will be another of God's creatures to put through the same process.
This association has forty wardens guarding some of the key colonies of these sea birds.
This may guarantee them from total destruction at present, but does not insure the maintenance of the birds of the species in question in such number as to render their preservation sure.
Peace made at last
Japan surprises world; waiving money and giving Sakhalin.
Russia to have warships
She also retains the right to maintain a navy on the pacific waters.
1. The recognition of teh preponderating interest of Japan in Korea.
Agreed to by the Russians.
2. The evacuation of Manchuria by the Russian and Japanese forces.
Agreed to by the Russians, who occupy two-thirds of the territory
3. Transfer by Russia to Japan of the leasehold of Liaotung peninsula, which includes Fort Arthur and Dalmy.
Agreed to by the Russians.
4. The return to China of the civil administration of Manchuria.
Agreed to by the Russians.
5. The concession of Sakhalin island by the Tusrians, the Japanese military forces occupying it by force of arms.
Russia refused and compelled the Japanese to return to them one-half of the island.
6. Transfer to the Japanese by Russia, without compensation, of all docks, magazines, and military works at Fort Arthur and Dalmy.
Agreed to by the Russians.
7. Transfer of the railroad between Fort Arthur and to Kushien.
Agreed to by the Russians.
8. Retention by Russia of main line of railroad from Kunshien to Valdivostok.
Agreed to by the Russians.
9. Russia to reimburse Japan for the cost of the war.
Rejected by the Russians.
10. Russian warships interned at various neutral ports to be turned over to the Japanese.
Rejected by the Russians.
11. The limitation of Russian naval strength in the far east.
Rejected by the Russians.
12. Granting to the Japanese certain fishing rights on the Siberian coast.
Agreed to by the Russians.
Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 29.-The long and bloody war between Japan and Russia is ended.
The terms of peace were settled by Mr. Witte and Baron Komura at the session of the conference this morning and this afternoon preliminary arrangements for an armistice were concluded and the actual work of framing the "treaty of Portsmouth" was by mutual agreement turned over to Mr. de Martens, Russia's greatest international lawyer, and Mr. Dennison, who for twenty-five years has acted as the legal adviser of the Japanese foreign office.
The treaty is expected to be completed by the end of the week.
This happy conclusion of the conference, which a week ago would have been shipwrecked had it not been for the heroic intercession of President Roosevelt, was sudden and dramatic.
For the sake of peace, Japan, with the magnanimity of a victor, at the last moment yielded everything still in issue.
Russia refused to budge.
Russia refused to budge from the ultimatum Emperor Nicholas had given to President Roosevelt through Ambassador Meyer.
No indemnity under any guise, but an agreement to divide Sakhalin and reimburse Japan for the maintenance of the Russian prisoners were his last words.
They had been repeatedly reiterated in Mr. Witte's instructions and in the form of a written reply to the Japanese compromise proposal of last Wednesday they were delivered to Baron Komura this morning.
Mr. Witte went to the conference declaring he was powerless to change the dot of an I or the of a T in his instructions.
Emperor Nicholas' last word had been given, not only to him but to President Roosevelt, the head of a foreign state.
Declare Japs blundered.
Although Mr. Witte is not a diplomat, they declare that he has outmaneuvered the Japanese, yielding one by one to the conditions until he forced them into a corner on the main issue of indemnity and left them no escape except a surrender or to convert the war into a war to collect tribute.
the Russians declared that diplomatically the Japanese made their colossal blunder when they agreed to consider the conditions seriatim.
The Japanese correspondents, although they said but little, plainly showed their dissatisfaction with the terms during the afternoon.
They stood aloof, silent in the midst of the general jubilation, for as the afternoon advanced the air was filled with the sounds of rejoicing.
Bells were ringing in Portsmouth and Newcastle and the fleet in the harbor was adding to the din with sirens and bells.
One of the Japanese, however, gave the true note when he remarked:
"Tell me that the mikado has approved it and I shall be satisfied."
Russia agrees to pay a reasonable amount for the maintenance of 65,000 Russian prisoners.
The amount will be fixed later.
It will probably be $100,000,000, as Russia will be extremely generous.
Great victory for Russia.
The evening Standard says: "Russia has won one of the greatest diplomatic victories in the history of the world.
It is summed up in M. Witte's 'pas un sou' (not a cent) of indemnity.
Nor are we inclined to begrudge M. Witte his hour of glory.
He fought magnificently for Russia and, thanks in a large measure to his tactful ability, she has been able to save her face.
Referring to the results gained by Japan, the Standard says:
"Perhaps she is the only nation on the face of the earth which would have rested content with what she set out to accomplish."
Mrs. Marguerita Frieders 
is stricken by death, Sunday, from advanced age.
She leaves a husband and six children four boys and two girls, to mourn her death.
The death of Mrs. Marguerita Frieders, wife of Peter Frieders of this city, occurred Sunday.
Mrs. Frieders was nearly seventy-three years of age, was born in Germany, coming to this city about eight years ago.
She was afflicted with a bronchial trouble and that combined with the infirmaties of old age caused her demise.
She left a husband and six children; four boys and two girls.
She and her husband had resided for many years with their son John Frieders, of this city.
Phillip Frieders, of Appleton; Jacob Frieders, of Stratford; and Mrs. Schultz, a daughter, of Roselle, attended the funeral.
The interment was at Appleton, the old home of the deceased.
Mrs. Frieders was a quiet lahy devoted to her husband and family, and highly respected by those who knew her.
Peter Frieders, her aged husband, will probably soon make his home at Antigo.
Float down Wisconsin River.
Ernest Mead and Robert Talbot, of Geneva, Ill., passed Saturday and Sunday as the guests of J.F. Meisner and family.
The young men who are employed in the general offices of the C. & N.W. Railway, in Chicago, were returning from a unique trip to Rhinelander.
At Rhinelander they started down the Wisconsin river in a fourteen foot canoe, leaving the river at Merril.
They were capsized at "Grandmother Falls," but recovered their boat minus their camping outfit.
They returned to Chicago Monday morning.
A little news of welcome
The Welcome Brass Band to play at the Rustic Resort, Sunday.
A party consisting of C.T. Swanson, Will Elmore, Bert Clark and J.J. Armstrong, took a trip berrying north of Keshena and met with poor success.
They went Monday returning Wednesday.
F.B. Larsen is at present staying at the Maywood.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Elmore of Lake Beulah are visiting friends and relatives here.
A little daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. H. Russ Wednesday.
Isaac LeBeau is nursing a fractured ankle.
Miss Marie Zedler of Lomira is visiting at the Kiefer home at Bear Creek Corners.
Several from here went for berries up in Langlade county Thursday morning.
The Misses Kiefer, Zedler and Reinke did shopping at New London Monday.
Mike Hoffman went to Shiocton Wednesday night to play for a dance.
We are all going to the Lakes Sunday because our band will be there.
Will hold a conference.
Men prominently identified with La Follette movement in Wisconsin politics will hold a conference in Milwaukee during state fair week, and at that time endeavor to lay plans for the future conduct of the faction.
This plan it is claimed, is in pursuance of the express commands of Gov. La Follette himself, who has become alarmed over the disaffection gradually manifesting itself in the ranks of the men who seek political preferment and who are reaching out after places.
Under cloak of attending the fair, it is intended to gather in Milwaukee and in the nature of a preliminary caucus of the faithful, decide in favor of the Lenroot candidacy if Chairman Connor can be sidetracked with an offer of Senator Spooner's place.
Print on Tuesday
Town Talkl will change its publication day to Tuesday.
The public better served
You will not receive both papers on the same day and will get fresher news.
Town Talk will, after this week, be published on Tuesday evening.
The other sheet is printed on Friday, and it is reasonable to suppose that the public will be better served in this way than by receiving both papers on one day.
If a merchant advertises something on Friday which his competitor wishes to duplicate or go him one better he has to wait a week, and a week is a long time now-a-days.
Besides, a great many people take both papers and when they do this they get fresher news and are better satisfied.
Town Talk thinks it a good enough scheme to try anyway.
Look out for Town Talk hereafter on Tuesday.
An Investigation.
An investigation which the district attorney of New York has in hand promises to show up a series of marriage brokerage places on the east side, where professional bigamists are employed to inveigle young girls into marriage contracts for the purpose of defrauding them out of their savings.
The matter was brought to the attention of the district attorney's office through the complaint of a pretty young Hungarian girl, Celia Speilberger, who told an interesting story of her unfortunate marital experiences.
The girl paid $500 and was married to a saloon keeper reputed to be worth $10,000.
The husband disappeared after three days.
Investigation shows he had half a dozen wives.
Would he serve the chicken
If Christ were on earth would he serve the high priced fowl.
Fairmount, Ind., "Brother, are you sure Christ would not serve fried chicken if He ran a restaurant?" asked a minister delegate to a Wesleyan conference here, as he used his pewter fork to lift a morsel of mutton from a tin plate and washed the meat down with a draught of coffee from a tin cup.
"Not when chickens are as high as they are now, and you brethren are allowed to pay what you see fit for your meals," was the reply of the host.
He was A.F. Norton, the Marion grocer, who conducts his business "as Christ would do."
"Then brother, I think we shall have to seek our sustenance elsewhere.
Do you agree with me brother White?" he continued, turning to a pastor at the stool at his right.
"I do," was the reply, so for their next meal they went where they could get the clergymen's perogative with yellow legs.
And others went with them, and that's why Norton, who had secured the concession at the conference hall in order to feed the clerics "as Christ would feed them," has shut up shop and has gone back to Marion, where he has made good for several years with his golden rule system.
The restaurant lasted just two days, and now the conference management is on the lookout for somebody who will take charge and manage it on a commercial basis.
There were many others than ministers at the conference, and non-clerics wre pretty well satisfied with ham and mutton and beef, but habit is greater than forbearance, and the pastoral mouths dropped pathetically as at each meal, even after asking for it, they got no chicken.
"Brother Norton, please change the go-as-you-please system of payment, let us give you a stated price and then sell us chicken," pleaded a rotund elder.
"No. You brethren are religious people and consistency is your watch word.
I can never abandon a thing in which I have launched," was the reply.
Under Norton's plan of remuneration he left it to the individual conscience what price to pay or whether to pay at all.
He paid his help well and served bountiful meals-but there was no chicken.
The way he understood it, Christ was for all simplicity, so the dishes were of tin.
Many of the persons who ate at the place-when it started-objected to the unassuming table service at the second meal, and at the third eating was something of a feat, for the plates and cups were all crumpled up.
Norton is widely known as the man who runs his groceries according to his conception of Christ's idea of business.
He opened a store in Marion several years ago, sold goods for cash only, refused to make deliveries, paid his employees every night and cut prices.
For Sale
5 yearling Bull calves, three fourths Red Pole stock, at Folkman' farm.
Chas. F. Folkman.