Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 27, 1912, Page 4

——; IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER 27, 1912 OOO SSOP POOP OPOS OOO Cohasset Locals Mr. Woida made a business trip to Deer River Monday. The Methodist Ladies Aid society owill meet on Thursday of next week with Mrs. John Snyder. Mrs. Wm McLaughlin was a visit- or at the home of her parents, Capt. and Mrs Cochran, yesterday. Rev. Mr. Blanchette arrived from Melrose Sunday and in the evening held services at the M. EB. church. Revival meetings at the Christian church are well attended and consid- erable interest shown in the work. « F. Tellin, one of Deer River's prominent pusiness men, was trans- acting business in Cohasset yesterday As an indication that spring is not so far off. it might be mentioned that traveling men are out taking orders for next year’s millinery goods. } Noah Gaulette, who has had charge Joe Violett’s barber of a chair in shop for some time, left last week | for Aitkin, where he acepts a similar | position. There will be no meeting of the Catholic Ladies Altar society this | week. Announcement of the next regular meeting will be given im these columns. Mrs. Wm. Khuen went to St, Bene- dict’s hospital last week with her five-year-ol@ son, where Dr. Hursh removed the child’s tonsils. The little fellow returned home the next day apparently none the worse for his experience. The Cohasset public schools are opserving Thanksgiving in a fitting manner. Yesterday afternoon, Miss Steenberg’s classes in the fifth and sixth grades, entertained with a spec- ial program. Supt Baldwin has charge of an entertaining program for this afternoon. The senior Sunday school class of the Methodist church is busy making} preparations for the presentation on}! Christmas Eve of the cantata, ‘“Christ- mas at Grandma’s.” The cast is! about completed and the preliminary rehearsals indicate that some very good talent will be displayed. Mrs. O. E. Skelly entertained aj party of friends Friday evening last | at cards. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Morris O’Brien, Mr. and Mns. B. E. Curtis, Mr. J. H. Grady, ; Miss Mamie O'Brien, Mrs, Paul Fah-| ronholz and Miss Anna Skelly. A dainty lunch was served by the hos- | tessv i Cashier Skocdopole of the First Na/ tional bank, is enjoying the experi- ence of looking after household af-| fairs as well as taking care of Co- hasset’s financial interest these days. Mrs. Skodopole is visiting at her old home in New Sprague, Minm. She will be home the latter part of this week | accompanied by her mother, Mrs. | Sachs, who expect to pend the win- ter here. “This mild weather brings no sol- ace to the wooden heart of the coal | man, but it is a delight to most every, body else,” says Postmaster Carrier, the sage of Cohasset. Mr. Carrier also assures the Herald-Review rep-| resentative that if he had been wise to the weather stunts that has been pulled off for the past months he would now have a two- | couldn’t shalke off The Methodist Ladies Aid society is holding a bake sale at Mrs. Fletcher’s millinery store today, by special invitation. There are a num- ber of bachelors in Cohasset who wish to treat themselves to some rare deli- cacies on Thanksgiving and the repu- tation for fine baking which the M. E. ladies have earned, assures Mr. Bach of cakes, pies, etc. ‘like moth- er used to mafke.” FOUR CAR LOADS FOR ONE SETTLER W. H. Harthan Moves Onto Emil Dennis’ }Farm +Four Miles From Cohasset. When such famous hunters as John Nelson, Mike Stapleton, W. W. Fletch er and Charley Brown go after big game—they get big game. This quar- ‘tet returned from hte north country Monday, each supplied with all the law allows, one deer each. They could have had more, but as respect- ers of the law and true sportsmen, they yileded mot to temptation. They could have been home Friday of last week were it not for the poor marks-| mauship of John Nelson. The boys put him on many good rumways, and drove the deer to him, but somehow he the ‘buck fever and his companions had to wait until he got his nerves steadied down. Un-) der the law, every man must kill his own game and hence the delay {in getting back. Any one of the other three could have killed two the first day out, put of course that wouldn't do—according to the reading of the law. Fletcher finally hound- ed a fine buck within ten feet of John’s ‘‘stand’”’ and when the smoke from five shots cleared away the ani- mal was a corps. Then they hurried) home, They Got the Game. It Is Uncle Sam’s Most Reliable Lighthouse Keeper. WEVER FALTERS IN ITS WORK. By the Aid of the Wonderful Sun Valve It Lights the Acetylene Beacons as It Sets at Night and Extinguishes Them as It Rises In the Morning. ‘The sun is the most trustworthy of |Hghthouse keepers. The sun or the heat from it lights many hundreds of beacons along our coasts and water- ways evening after evening and ex- Hinguishes them punctually every morn- ing. They are guides on land and sea that are never touched by human hands from one month’s end to another. The way in which the United States gov- | ernment; through its lighthouse board, has utilized the services of the sun and made that great lamp of heaven a faithful and unerring servant is most | interesting. The discovery of acetylene gas was the first step toward retiring the lonely keepers of the little lights in faroff | places. Modern magic was not slow in recogniging the fact that by the ap- tific principles the lighting of the great chains of beacons. that girdle the coasts | of the two seas and the gulf and cover the great lakes and every navigable stream in our huge country could be much simplified. The United States did not become in- terested in the acetylene light and its automatically generating gas buoy until | about the year 1906 and did not adopt it until 1908. Then the engineers of | the lighthouse board devised some | wonderful improvements, among them | the utilization of the sun. The self lighting and self extinguish- ing acetylene beacon is a very simple | thing, but it depends almost entirely on the “sun valve,” which is one of the most wonderful but least complex of the achievements of modern science. In the first place, the source of light for these lone beacons is dissolved acetylene, which is stored under pres- sure in steel cylinders. One of these eylinders can be charged with enough The Cohasset section is attracting’| gas to last a small beacon three years. a very desirable class of settlers, many from Iowa. This week W. H- Harthan and his brother James ar- rived from Mason City, Iowa. Last spring the former was here and after investigating the lands hereabouts, he Usually, however, in the case of float- ing buoys, a six months’ supply is all that is necessary, as such buoys are overhauled and painted twice a year. Knowing the size of the flame and its hourly consumption of gas, it is very easy to compute how long a cylinderful bought the Emil Dennis farm) about! will last and how often it will need to four miles southeast of town, and now comes to take possession | light will need. of it, He brought with him four car loads of stock, household goods, four hundred bushels of corn, farm im~ plements, etc., Included in the ship- ment was several head of fine Hol- stein cows and farm horses. The Dennis place has about thinty acres now under cultivation, and Mr. Harthan expects to make it a model modern farmstead. James Harthan alt so expects to invest in lands. here amd will also become one of the enterprising settlers, who are fast making Coasset te center of a ric agricultural] section. PULITZER LEFT $18,000,000 | Gotham Publisher Gave $1,500,000 in Public Bequests. New York, Nov. 20.—Joseph Pulit- zer, late proprietor of the New York World, who came 9% America prac- tically penniless, « at the time of the Civil war, in which he served as a Union soldier, still was in reduced circumstances, left a gross estate, tax- able in New York state, of $18,200,000. Mr. Pulitzer left more than $1,500, 000 in public bequests, which are ex- story brick business block completed. empt from taxation. | SPECIAL SALE} Beginntng Wednesday, November 23rd and lasting until the holidays, I will offer my stock of DRY GOODS MILLINERY FANCY Including Hats, Trimmings, GOODS Etc. at greatly reduced prices. Mrs. W. W. Fletcher Minnesota Cohasset, amd | be visited. That is all the care the The sun valve does the rest. The scientific principle upon which the sun vaive depends is that light waves become transformed in different degrees, according to the nature of the intercepting body. Sunlight upon dark surfaces is converted into heat, and heat produces expansion. This expan- sion is especially perceptible in certain | metals. In a carefully sealed and substantial- ly mounted glass jar nearly a foot high and about one-fourth that in di- ameter a thigk btack rod is placed per- pendicularly through the center. It is | supported by three slenderer rods of highly polished copper. The big black rod is of copper also and is coated with lampblack to make it absorb light to the greatest possible degree. The sup porting rods reflect light without ab sorbing it end do not expand or con tract to the same extent as the largest rod. The thick black piece of copper in the center of the jar is extremely sen- | sitive to light and heat. As the sun appears and the atmosphere grows warmer in the morning this rod length- ens. It pushes down into the metal ehamber in which the glass jar rests and touches the end of a lever. It presses down on this lever, which is controlled by a spring and cuts off the flow of the gas to the lamp. When the sun disappears from view In the evening and the temperature of the air falis the process is reversed. The rod contracts and releases its pres- sure on the lever, allowing the gas to flow upward to thé lamp. The gas is ignited by a little pilot flame that is never extinguished. Thus the beacon is lighted at the proper time and is put out when it is no longer needed, al- though along desolate coasts it may never gladden the human eye for months at a time. The engineers of the lighthouse board say that the precision of this device is almost incredible. It can be used with equal certainty in equatorial heat and in polar cold, for it responds with the utmost accuracy to small variations in temperature. It is used on lonely is- lands in the Pacific. There are nearly a hundred of these sun valve beacons in Alaska. In summer they are aids to navigation, and in winter they guide the travelers on dog sledges over the frozen wastes.—Harper’s Weekly. Deadly. “I understand that a number of wo- men have learned to smoke cigars,” said the frivolous observer. “I don’t believe it,” replied Mr. Meek- ton. “The kind of cigars that women buy nobody could smoke.”—Washing- es plication of certain well known scien- | AN IRON WILLED MONARCH. One Man Rule as Exemplified In Fred- erick the Great. Frederick was an intensively active, highly capable, strong willed and self reliant commander. He concentrated all power in his own hands, reducing his ministers to clerical work and his generals to the duties of personal lieu- tenants. Below him the Prussian ad- Facaretics was a thing of stiff and mechanical obedience, lacking in ini- tative and individuality. Several of Frederick’s military losses were due to the fact that he gave his generals such minute orders and was 80 severe in case of disregard of in- structions that they did not dare to use their own judgment when unfor- seen conditions presented themselves. He personally foresaw and provided for everything, and he inspected fre- quently and thoroughly. His discipline was severe, his organization good, his calculation accurate and limited to what was possible. His movements, which were skillfully disguised, were rapid. So superior was Frederick to his op- ponents in strategy that they were obliged for safety to keep their troops in so concentrated a form that there was not sufficient space for effective maneuvers. He was more capable in marching and maneuver than in bat- | tle, more capable in battle than in | siege. His great defect as an administrator lay in the fact that he dwarfed the | growth of those below him and so edu- | cated no talented corps te bear the | political and military burdens of the state when he should be obliged to lay them down. He apparently could do things only through himself. Havy- ing a supreme contempt for the capaci- ties of most mortals, he had no mind to make experiments which might have | changed his opinions. Although he | knew for many years that his suecces- sor was to be a man without ability, he handed down to him a system which required a Frederick. We may say that he brilliantly administered a system which was badly organized.—Edward D. Jones in Engineering Magazine. FLUNG FROM A WINDOW. Horrors of a Death Sentence In the Middle Ages In Bohemia. How many people know what refen- estration means? Yet it was once a popular method of executing criminals and was the mode of capital punish- ment used in Bohemia in the middie ages and later. Defenestration means “throwing from a window,” but that did not always include all the arrange- ments made for the doomed man’s exit from the world. In Prague in 1419 the council cham- ber of the hradschin, or town hall, was | used as the place of execution. There, '{m the presence of the assembled no- |bles, their invited guests and the dig- initaries of the city, the unhappy wretches were cast from a window }eighty feet to the courtyard below. If his crime was an ordinary of- fense the prisoner was merely dropped on the stones and allowed to lie there bruised and broken until death put an end to his sufferings, succor being for- bidden. But if he was guilty of treason or any act of violence against a noble he fell on the sharp spears of a squad of soldiers or dropped to the tender mer- cies of a pack of fierce dogs specially trained for the purpose, or he might !~ flung to wild boars previously en- a by being pricked with spears. rhe last time defenestration was practiced was just before the Thirty Years’ war, when the imperial com- missioners brought an unwelcome mes- sage to Prague and were promptly thrown from the window. This pre- cipitated the war and abolished the custom.—New York Press. Executioner Sets a Fashion. In England fashions have been kill- ed at executions, but in France over a century ago fashion in men’s attire was set by Sanson, the public execu- tioner. Sanson, who had high ideas of the dignity of his office, was famous for the richness of his attire when offi- ciating on the scaffold. Just before the revolution he was forbidden to wear blue, the nobleman’s color, and by way of protest he made himself even more gorgeous. He took to green, and that color, as well as the peculiar eut of his clothes, was adopted by many of the young dandies of the court. Breaking Scotch Idols, No less an authority than Sir Aleck MacKenzie declares the fiddle is Scot- land’s national instrument and lays no claim to the bagpipe. Another high class expert asserts the bagpipe was born among the Seljuks, the ancestors of the modern Turks. Weel, weel! Next thing it’s likely some expert will tell us that the Hielanders were not the inventors of bare knees.—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. One Fisherman's Idea. First Angler—Look! This fish was al- most caught before; see the broken hook in its mouth. Second Angler— It should have had sense enough to steer clear of hooks after that. First Angler—Oh. come, you can’t expect a fish to exhibit more sense than a hu- oa gl a, Use ~ “How Olds That IHC Wagon?” HE other day a Kansas farmer walked into the 1H C local dealer’s place of business to buy his third I H C wagon. The question of the age of his first IHC wagon came up. He thought he had had it H about five years. The dealer looked up his iA old books and found that the wagon was pur- te | chased on the 15th of July, 1905, being now i seven years old and practically as good as new. A man may forget when he bought hisI HC wagon Weber Columbus New Bettendorf Steel King but he cannot forget the long, faithful service he gets from it. I H C wagons are built to last long and give satisfactory service. Where you find a man owning an I H C wagon, you will rarely see him with any other make at any time. The wood parts of I H C wagons are made from selected, high-grade, air-dried lumber. The metal parts are mostly steel of the strongest and best kind. Weber and Colum- bus wagons have wood gears, while Steel King and New Bettendorf have steel gears. The best wagon for your purpose is sold by the I HC local dealer who will give you the best of reasons for buying it. Get literature and information from him, or write International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) St. Cloud Minn. IHC Service Bureau The purpose of this Bureau is to furnish, free of charge to all, the best information obtainable on better farming. If you have any worthy ques- tions concerning soils, crops, land drainage, irri- gation, fertilizers, etc., make your inquiries specific and send them to I H C Service Bureau, s Building, Chicago, USA ne patsy | | BASS BROOK HoTEL Cohasset, Minnesota A MODERN HOTEL in EVERY RESPECT | John Nelson Proprietor Village tors 90 DOWN AND $5 PER MONTH We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter over. Wealso have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY SUBSCRIBE FOR THE HERALD-REVIEW