Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 227, 4 August 1917 — Page 8

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T1IK RICHMOND PALLADIUM. AUGUST 4, 1917

LUMBERING DAYS OVER FOR MENOMINEE RIVErt MARINETTE, Wis., Aug. 4. The lodging and lumbering days of the Menominee river, one of the most famous streams of its kind in the country, virtually are over after more than a half century of driving and manufacturing. The last of the annual log driveB, comprising approximately 12,000,000 feet which is only about one-third of the cut of the largest Menominee river sawmills when this industry was at its height has just reached here. There will be a few logs com Ing down the river in the future, but they will be driven by local lumber companies and will consist principally of pulpwood. This year's drive Is the smallest in the history of the Menominee River Boom com pany. The five remaining sawnv" t Menominee will, in the futi: : all their timber brought in I the last of the logs tributary 10 tu j local stream having been put in. The first logs on the Menominee river were driven by the Menominee River Boom company in 1868. In that year 62,809,804 feet were piloted from the upper waters to the local booms. Last year the total was approximately 15,991,850 feet. During the period from 1868 to 1916 inclusive, the total number of logs driven down the Menominee river totalled approximately 10,810, 341,028 feet. The exact total for this year is not yet known. The difference in the size of the logs is as notable as the difference in the total sorted. In 1889, the busiest year that the boom company ever had, the number of logs sorted was 642,137,850 feet. These logs averaged about 150 feet or seven tto the thousand. Last year they averaged 38 feet, or about twenty seven to the thousand. The Menominee river in its hey day was the greatest lumbering stream in the world.

50,000 Camp Fire Girls "Enjoy Summer Outing More than fifty thousand Camp Fire Girls will have spent a week or more in camp by the end of this summer season. Last year 45,502 girls out of a membership of approximately 90,000 went camping on money they had earned themselves. The average monthly gain in membership for the nine months previous to the declaration of war was 2650. After that event the monthly gain jumped to 3347, and on July 1st the total membership was appr6ximately 100,000. These girls gain pleasure and health from these outings, but they gain other things equally important. They learn self-reliance, team work and the spirit of co-operation in household work. They undertake the care of their camps, the cooking and cleaning up, turn and turn about, and absorb as much household craft as they do woodjcraft on these excursions. The camps vary infinitely. Some are in tents, some in old cabins, some in improvised shacks, some even in their own back yards. President Wilson is honorary president of this movement which is giving to the girls health, happiness and self-reliance, and to the nation capable, healthy women, fit to be the Mothers of the Nation's sons. More than half of all the Camp Fires started since the movement began in 1912 are still in existence.

OUR FRED

Fred climbs upon a chair and cries, "Now look at me, how very tall!" Bump, thump, upon the floor he lies; Now look at him how very small. Fanny Fizlo.

STINGY DAVY.

Davy was a very pretty little boy. He had light, curly hair, dark blue eyes and rosy cheeks. But he was very stingy. He did not like to share anything with his little brothers and sisters. One day he went into the kitchen where his mother was at work, and saw on the tble a saucer of jelly! "Can I have that jelly?" asked Davy. "Mrs. White sent it to roe," said Davy's mother. "She has company to dinner, and made this jelly rery nice. But I don't care for it, so you may have It if you won't bo stingy with It" "If I divide It with them, there won't be a ppoonfol AtttaMK" he

thought. ' It is beter for one to have enough than for each to have just a little." - So he ran to the barn and climbed up to the loft, where he was sure no noe would think of looking for him. . Just as he began to eat the jelly he heard his sister Fannie calling him. But he did not answer her. lie kept very still. "They always want some of ev

erything I have," he said to himself. "If I have just a ginger snap they think that I ought to give them a piece." When the jelly was all eaten, and he had scraped the saucer clean, Davy went down into the barnyard and played with the little white calf, and hunted for eggs in the shed where the cows were. He was ashainrd to go into the house, for he knew he had ben

very stingy about, the jelly. "Oh, Davy," said Fannie, running into the harn-yaid, "where have you been this long time? Wc looked everywhere for you." "What did you want?" asked Davy, thinking that of course his slater would say that she wanted him to share the jelly, with her. "Mother gave us a party,,, said Fannie. We had all the doll's dishes set out on a little table under the

porch and we had strawberries, cake and rnisins. Just as we mt down to eat, Mrs. White saw us from her window, and she sent over a big bowl of lie cream and some jelly, left from her dinner. We had a splendid time. You ought to have ben with us." "Poor Davy! How mean he felt! And he was well punished for eating his jelly all alone. How did he like that. Fanny Pique.

A Windy Sheet

THE HICKS VI LLE BREEZE

Almost the. Truth

Issued Today

Hicksville "Somewhere in America"

Price Yours

CHURCH BOARD MET WITH MANY NEW IDEAS The church board met last week at the home of Mrs. Elisa Boggs, three and 'alf miles west of Cranes' Jorner. The main discussion was about the purchase of a Chandalier for the church; Miss Sally Hopkins got up and said she was not in the favor of going to the expense of buying a chandalier for the reason there isn't any one in the church who can play one.

AT THE MOVIES

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Salbastan Jellyneck who is the town sport has been hanging around the box office of the town movies here lately. No wonder when Miss Geet's cousin who is visiting here from Beanville is at the window. MOVIE NOTES PhHo Floss manager of the Murty-Ka-Doots announces a brand new movie for next week entitled "The Dynamiter's Revenge" or ''Blown to Atoms" in ten parts.

HIRAM BRANDY GETS SCARED AT CROSSING

The other day while Hiram Brandy was driving a load of corn across Main street in the city, got terribly frightened when a city policeman yelled at him and pointed his club. Hiram was not use to the city traffic rules.

SNAPPED

Since Ebeneazer Crushwash bought his new camera: He has quite a coV lection of Hicksville's pretty girls in his album.

NOT ENOUGH WIND Blunk Miller, who has two wind mills on his farm east of town says, "he is going to take one of them down next week, because there ain't enough wind to run both of them.

DICKSVLLE BREEZE

Published every once in awhile to tell the news of the community. HUCKELBERRY FINN Editor. Produce or grain taken in ou subscription.

Kerosene May make Good Light But Won't Work on Cats

Martha Dueberry read in "The Fireside Hint" that kerosene was good to kill fleas on cats. Martha tried it and it worked alright, as it killed all the fleas and her two cats too.

AS TOLD IN THE VILLAGE STORE Huckleberry Switchbacks says that Ingersoll watches may keep good time but is heck to carry of them when you need a little cash in a hurry. Asa Dusenwal says there are two kinds of people in this world. Some who own automobiles and ethers who don't. Squire Higgans had two teeth pulled last week while he was over at Valley Ridge. Another hoe-down dance will be given next Saturday night, providing everybody gets in off the farm early enough. Bill Gist has started his threshing machine to making its season's rounds. The mud has been so bad since the rain that Higgens Corner is pretty well deserted for the past week. Tilford Muttes beat Uncle Zeb Zarron in a game of checkers down at Squire's store last week.

A FEW LAUGHS The Lightning Bug Is brilliant. But he hasn't any mind and goes trailing through the ages. With a little headlight behind. Jim Tlmpkins told Bill Whistletree, he should wrap his potatoes up in paper before he planted them. Of course Bill bit right away and found out it was to keep the dirt out of their eyes.

HOLDUP

Grub Hardtack, the village ruffian went to the city last Wednesday and it has been reported he held up a policeman. Grub hasen't been around here since and there has been two strangers in town for the last few days, and it is though Grub Is due for a long jail sen tence.

THE TALLEST MAN IN HICKSVILLE WILL BE OUR NEXT MAYOR

Mr. Jason Dusenberry, said to be the tallest man in Hicksville will be our next mayor so comes the report from Lucas' Gap. Jason is a mighty good citizen of our town, and will make a good official. Jason isn't married either.

A MOUSE TRAP TO CATCH A TRAIN

They tell. a good one on Squire Perkins the other day when he was to the city. "He went in the five and ten cent store, and told the clerk he wanted a five cent mouse trap in a hurry to catch a train.

BILL WIGGINS FALLS; AND IS SLIGHTLY HURT Bill Wiggins", the ex-sheriff, ex-justice of peace, expostmaster and assistant station master of Hecksville was painfully Injured about the barn, so the report comes from Silas Moot's store. Bill is getting up in years now, but you can throw a good man away so Bill says. He fought in the Civil war and is a very well known member of the G. A. R.

ADVERTISEMENTS For sale a three-year-old calf call at Silas Pekrin's farm for demonstration. Farm help wanted at Squire's Corner. Sundays off and use of the rig.

As Our Society Gets Together

The Triple X Sorority founded by Mrs. Piltsburg Flower, instituted a chapter in Hicksville last Wednesday. The following officers were elected: Miss Bella Donna, Pres.; Miss Gwendolyn Drops t itch, Vice-Pres.; Miss Helitrope Kankan, Secy, and Miss Tressibel Openwork, Treas. Their meeting will be observed every Wednesday. The main discussion for the next' meeting will be "Our Neighbors Business." The most popular song in Hecksville now is "Down By the Old Mill Stream." Armanda Wilks was the first one to execute it. Miss Golda Bololing hai? returned from her annual vacation. John Adams who used to

run the old grist mill down at Eckle's corner, passed thru the city last Sunday in his new flivver on their way to the Box Supper at Star school house. Lucy Kutts, who has been taking a correspondence course in Millinery, will open up a store next week. Luke Richwater's youngest boy has his back terribly sun burned. He had been swimming. " The morning train is late ind won't be in till tomorow. The Ladies needle society 3f the Corner church met at 'he home of Lucy Cleets Wednesday. Red lemonade was served.

TOWN COUNCIL MEETS IN NEW TOWN HALL The city. council met last night for -the first time since the new town hall has been completed. . All the town board was there, and a very distinguished visitor Mr. Tim Watkins, who was town constable of Hicksville for several years. Mr. Watkins gave a long and speedy talk about the progress of our town and he made a remark we were almost Metropolotianized. Of course that remark brought loud cheer from those present.

GOLDEN WEDDING AND GOLD FISH

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. Jacob Spottsvinsky, the Main Street Merchant, sent his parents two beautiful gold fish for their Golden Wedding Anniversaray last week.

FLIVVERS WILL BE FLIVVERS; READ THIS Constable Plum has been laid up for the past week with a broken wrist. Constable Plum was cranking his machine when it flew out of his hands and fell on his wrist. Uncle Zeb Zarrow is tending the calaboose while the constable is laid up.

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NEW UNIFORM MAKES SAM LOOK WISER

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Sam Smith who has been away to the military school returned home for a short stay-this summer. Sam was all fixed up in his full dress uniform and all the girls are after him now, where Sam use to be the black sheep of the town.

DID WILLIE ATTEMPT SUICIDE OR NOT? While Willie Skoots was cleaning an old shotgun over in Bill Smoothes barber shop, the gun accidently went off and blew two of Willie's fingers off. It was first reported it was an attempt of suicide as Willie had had some love troubles.

THE COUNTY RACES

Miss Clemastine Blossom has just finished her new novel entitled "Are You Married or Are you Happy."

OH! ARCHIE FAIRED PRETTY WELL AT THAT

Archie Upkeep's barn was destroyed by fire last week at a loss of nearly three thousand dollars. The loss was partly covered by two thousand dollar mortgage.

Hen Jones and Hector Williams have entered their two nags in the Hopkins county fair to be given all during September.

GOODBYE MARY! It has been reported that Mary Stilks has gone to New York to join the movies. Mary certainly done fine in the home plays that the Corner church gave here last winter. We wish Mary success.

SNOOTS BROS. NEW BUGGY A BEAUT Willie Snoots and his younger brother have bought a new red buggy with bright yellow running gears. 1.00k oui fiirls!