MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1921 PAGE TWO ECLIPSE CORNER A "THRIFT!!" Trapping Season Profits and OBITUARY Sport Awaits The Farm Boys Weekly Shavings Edited by Ann Wilmina Howe Vol. 355. ^Splinters Monday, January 24, 1921. The death of Mrs. Ann Wilmina How^ of Le Roy, January- 19, of Trapping season. Winter brings NEW HOUSES FOR OLD QUIT CHAFFING the skin stretched as tightly as possible. apoplexy com'es ^s a shock to her. out the best fur en animals and at Many houses have been abused, dpfaced Do you have sheep on your farm? many friends in this city and thruout the same time gives J&e farmer artd Successful traping, eveh as a side and finally abandoned, which if If you know anything about sheep, the county. «, the Federal Reserve Board, the results President-Elect Asks for Simple his boys idle days and the zest for issue, requires careful study many taken in hand, could be converted into you know how important it is to keep Ann Wilmina Howe was born December of the many surveys of agriculture, following a line of traps, say specialists Ceremony With A Minimum farm boys though have made comfortable beautiful, convenient homes. chaff and dirt off the necks of the 27, 1846, at Beloit, Wisconsin. industry, labor, crop report, etc. That of the Biological Survey, United of Pomp And Furbelows— sums of pocket money and Wood can be "worked" so easily, sheep. We recently learned of a rack Her parents were William and Anna forms the basis for identifying Government's States Department of Agriculture. even accumulated a nest egg toward that there is no need to tear down or feeder that will feed grain and haj relation to progress. The L. Thomson. She was married to Ed without getting a grain or a bit their, education by selling peltries. a good building which can, with little By J. E. JONES mujid D. Howe, March 28, 1866 at financial reports are very good, the chaff near the sheep. We made on It is the 'season when the rural expense be made over the often into Useful bulletin^ on the subject [can It is not surprising tlyit Presidentelect Lime Springs, Iowa. After her marriage situation with agriculture is equally of these racks and it is surely a winner. dweller in nearly any part of the United a distinctive home that has that "dif- be obtained from the United States Harding should have refused to she moved to a farm near Oak Any sheep man will O. K. it, bad—very bad. Over two million States can harvest a prop to Department of Agriculture, Washington, ferent" and home-like effect that is and it doesn't cost much., You car remain silent in the face of constant Dale, Howard county, Iowa, until laboring men are unemployed. There which he has devoted no other labor. so hard to get in a new house. A few Make one yourself, or we'll make D. C. streams of criticism of supposed extravagance are a lot of business smashes 1901 when she moved to Le Roy, taking! Game changes like like removing removing partitions, Much Abroad vnn in the^ coming inaugural, place, but the shelves of the nation! which has been her home ever since. Germany's Fleet 1/ changing locations of doors and windows and to have aske«l the committee to She joined the Presbyterian church in Rabbits scurry from the underbrush Lumber and things made of wood are depleted—bare, in many cases. Growing Despite or stairways, cost little and the must daily grow more expensive and "call it off." x" 1888 and has been a loyal, faithful muskrats and minks skitter Factories must get busy. From the results are so satisfactory that you "v.* Heavy Handicap T— -1_ member. She was at the meeting Saturday around streams and marshes. In some Most of the expense in connect oil angle, therefore, of Federal vision, sit back and wonder why you didn't |dlfflcult to obtam- think sf it long ago. afternoon, just before her localities foxes still prowl thru the with the inauguration of a President the situation is 50-50. By CARL D. GROAT Those who try to get something for It is wiser to build no.w and enjoy the death. She was also a charter mem- woods looking for stray mice and unwary falls upon individuals. The people of (United Press Staff Correspondent.) "Big business" chips in its voice to to nothing are foolish enough to kick benefit of the improvements than TTT birds, and occasionally venture the city of Washington view the affair about the quality. Berlin, January 5. (By Mail.) Ger- w^it and lose the use of this com- observe, from its conning towers of W'* C' °*Le R°/' ber of A woman of Scotch ancestry, strong to the hen yard. The slinking weasel much in the same light as other ort-giving and money-making space man shipbuilders are laying their industry and finance that "confidence character and greatly loved by all who is abroad, and in regions of protracted for several years, and then biuld a NO AMBITION should have precedence communities do their seasons of carnival, plans for the future on the development is strong." And its prognostications are costs which probably will be higher? over the desire for a home knew her. Mrs. Howe will be greatly snow Hfle puts on the protective Fourth of July celebrations, and of oilburning rather than coalburning that in consequence there will be a there, is no worthier ambition for any coloring of white which transforms missed by mot only her family, but by the like. And they subscribe to it in ships. At present, there is person than that. revival of business activity. Government her host of friends. Her daughters him into ermine of fcommerce, one of exactly the same spirit, for mixed some development of motor-ships, using authorities are agreed with private J. J* CLEMENS from China and Manila are both at the most valuable small pelts. The seasons of patriotism, civic pride— Diesel motors like those W^ich institutions that the period of LOAD^/ PIECE OR A CAR j. home now. Mrs. Garvey and C. Howe racoon comes from his tree and the and' a very few for profit. So that it drove the U-boats. Builders, however, I liquidation has about finished its Manager arrived Thursday. skunk from his burrow on an occassional may be seen that the talk about the entertain divergent views as to the work. She leaves to mourn her loss, Mrs. warm day. Both will be out greed in Washington business men is practicability of the motor ship, the 47. Phone No. Just how correct the guesses mayjE Solon Springs, Wiscon regularly with early spring. So it is ridiculous. GarV/ey Brenan group holding more enthusiastically be, we cannot state—but in digest of Kashing, a good time to get out the various But the thing that evidently has nettled McGinnig a brief for this type than do aU their predictions and prophecies Mon_ China Rowe Glendive traps and plan the catch. Mr. Harding is the quibbling the Hamburg builders. puts "Prosperity" still out at sea, and Associated Insurance Agency tana Mrs. C. B. Powell, Manila, P. over the expense of somewhere in the Wild-animal trapping looks easy Fourteen ship lines operating in sailing towards American shqpes on a I C. Howe, Wilton, N. Mrs. G. W. neighborhood of $100,000 for the to most farm Jaoys until they have Germany have recently increased ship that will arrive from six weeks Moor, Lime Springs, Iowa one sister, Government's part of the celebration. tried and failed. Success demands ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE their capacity from 311,500,000 to six months. If she does not land Mrs. E. Stewart, Bismark, N. The Republican committee and knowledge of the. animals and their marks to 447,000,000 marks, in part i. W. DeBuhr O. Niehuis somewhere within that broad interval eighteen grand children and three the Democratic committee, did not habits. The red fox, for instance, to meet higher costs and in part to M. H. KENASTON of time, then every statesman, every great grand children. Her husband stint themselves in holding their conventions must be caught by wiles as cunning prevent foreign lines from getting a prophet, and every son of a prophet, Btiik Office Austin NlC Bldg. Phone Bridge 102 died December 28, 1899, and one son, in Chicago and San Francisco, as his own. Traps and the ground grasp on the concerns. German lines -i, is very much mistaken in signs. Eddie, died March 12, 1873. but a false cry of economy is where they are set must be free from are now operating to all parts of the Lumber Trade Under Suspicion The funeral services were conducted raised when it comes to what is a human scents. Steel traps are cleaned world, and the prospects for the future nominal appropriation for grandstand Investigations by the Department by Rev. Paul Heilegman and the by boiling with pungent twigs or by are regarded as -rather gpod, Mrfe Me Well and Strong" of Justice is announced of lumber W. R. C. seats and other necessary conveniences burying or leaving -jn running water despite the fact that the process of I manufacturers, with particular reference to make the public comfortable. for a day or two, after which, they rebuilding merchant marine is necessarily Anna Smith Schneider Congressmen who are right to national and regional associations, should be handled with leather or slow. Anna Smith was born in Johnsburg ANOTHER WOMAN WHO THANKFHL FOR to show their attitude towards on the job when they are shooting the waxed cotton gloves. Breeding Recent alliance between steel concerns forty-three years ago on May 4th, national legislation, control of prices, peoples's millions for "ducks and grounds, hunting grounds, and peculiar and shipbuilders make it possible 1877, the oldest daughter Mr. and PE-RU-NA reforestation, etc. drakes," play politics when it comes habits of the animals should be for a broader development thai! Mrs. N. C. Smith. The early years of to carrying on a befitting inaugural. The Federal Trade Commission and well studied beforehand. Traps are would otherwise have been the case. her life was spent on the farm of her Another wholly different side to sometimes set in springs that do no? the Senate committees on Housing And, the shipbuilders are happy at the parents near Johnsburg. She attend the situation is interesting, and the and Reconstruction have already generally freeze over. A little island faft that their workers are showing ed the St. John's Parochial School "I have taken *evcral bottlM of Pe-ro-M fact is that visitors to Washington tnd find Its great fwneflt. I had twins In indicated that there is apparently considerable is built up some time before the trap a healthy willingness to "stick to the and from her earliest years was al (toBacb ami boirela, but bxthciieof KT for the inauguration will doubtless manipulation of the basic is set. No. 2 or No. 3 steel trap is Pe-ru-na snd I am weU and A job." Purchases of ships from outside ways identified as a leader in the so strong again. IalwayakeepafewtMttlca be saved a good deal of inconveniences conditions, as indicated above. Whether embedded in the soil with a piece of are necessarily limited by high In the houte." MIE. OBOAB GBAY. ctel and church affairs of that community. B.F DNo.2, Box 19, by the turn in events. The or not the shortage in houses can moss covering the pan. bit of tainted A exchange. There is considerable Nichols, Iowa truth in that Washington has never successfully be wished on to the lumber meat, preferably game, is used in chartering, but the tendency is, as before On the 12th of January 1904, she recovered -from the over-crowded manufacturers has not yet been for bait. The trapper should walk in 1 na and during the war, to develop Mrs. Gray's experience is just more evidence that IVru was married to Anton Schneider at condition "occasioned by the war. is quite as good a remedy for catarrh of the stomach, bowels or pointed out. the water and avoid any telltale odors. fixed lines on fixed trade routes. I the Sacred Heart Church at Adams. other organs as it is for coughs, colds and nasal catarrh. TMMnS "Sorry, but we can't accomodate & Pe-ru-na fs a wonderfully fine medicine to have in the house OT LMJUd It is estimated that Germany now Live And Let Live Policy Improves. She was the mother of three children for everyday ills. I you," is a familiar answer one gets has 419,000 tons of^her own shipping The growing tendency in the activities In making a land set, a shallow Send to the Parana Company, Columbus, Ohio tar Aw —two sons, Zeno and Isadore, and a Sold Everywhere when applying for rooms at the leading booUM mnd medical advice. as against 5,240,000 before the war, before the Interstate Commerce hole is made to conceal the trap and daughter Louise, four years of age. hotels. Lmi with about 185,000 tons of new shipping Commission, and in the reports the stake and chain which hold it. From the time of her marraige to her Any kind of an inauguration means The earth removed should be placed in sight. The recent alliances with that come to that body from all parts de^th she lived the life of a good big c^wds in Washington. The plain, of the country, is a tendency on the on a cloth,- and all that It not used American lines are hailed here as Christian mother, devoted to her simple^ kind which Senator Harding part of all localities to grant to their should be carried away. The trap is1 great assets, offering the chance even HAVE A CAR home and children, faithful in the asks ior will tax Washington to the public activities rates and conditions tually for the German merchant marine covered with dry earth, free from duties to her church. limit,, and these facts, at least, favor WHICH MAY that match up to new prices and conditions anything which would clog the jaws. to have anew "place in the sun Death came unexpectedly. Well curtailing the magniture of the event. that are fojind in the commercial and happji Thursday morning, less Foxes often follow paths or trails, HAVE BROKEN But after all, isn't the Presidentelect Time to "Get Up." and industrial lines. Street than three days later she was gone to and, taking advantage of these, the An author who has helped to make and the country being cheated PARTS. BRING railway, gas, electric light and other the Hereafter. Following a slight indisposition trap may be set where the fox in a portion of New England famous presided by the politicians who for political utilities show new strength in the investment Thursday noon, alarming stepping over a log naturally would at a banquet in a suburban IT IN TO US reasons, "holler for a cheap" inauguration? market, in consequence. town sonje nights ajro. He had fittingly symptoms began to develop and altho place his foot. A large carcass placed The American way suggests eulogized the principal guest of AND The Rudderless Ship everything possible was done by near the set funishes a lure, and a dignified ceremonial in keeping Have It Welded tlie evening, and in conclusion told this the medical men in charge, the inevitable many trappers use specially prepared Reference has heretofore been made with what the occasion represents to story: "An old farmer drove Into town happened. scents. Gray and kit foxes are, less in these columns to the inability of the country as a whole. Such a ceremony one da.v and,'going into a feed store, The funeral servieces were held at wary, and may be caught easily by the ^Federal Power Commission to is not likely to occur in the inauguration bought half a peck of oats. Stabling the Sacred Heart church Tuesday the same methods used for red foxes. function. From the hearings that his horse by the side of the road, he of the new President and morning at 9:30 o'clock. The Mass have been held in Congi*ess, and from gave hirn a royal lunch.: When, it was Muskrats live in. ponds, streams, Vice Fri-'-'sn! for tl»e Dead was celebrated by Father ended the fanner hitched up, got into statements of the Commission, it and marshes, and may be detected A Noisy Propaganda the buggy, took up the lines and addressed Graeve who also conducted the appears that the water power act is a either by houses of mud and weeds Ihe most determined effort is REPAIR DEPARTMENT th? :iag, 'Now that you've funeral services. The funeral was one legislative fact, duly passed and supposedly or by holes in mud banks. They may bsmg centered on Washington to been fed. git up!" The toastniaster of the largest ever held in the Sacred sailing' like a great ship on the A. H. ANDERSON. be caught in No. 1 steel traps set in concert public opinion in favor of turned" and looked at the guest for a Heart church, testifying eloquently uncharted sea of industry. But the runways which they make thru Irish independence. Distinguished .moment, and sat Jowns to the esteem in which Mrs. Schneider the law says every power project must the weeds. A piece of carrot, parsnip, visitors from the Emerald Isle, including was held. Interment was made at the be carefully examined, and.all facts or sweet apple, suspended over the the widow and sister of former Sacred Heart Cemetery. obtained before licenses can be issued. trap, forms an effective bait. A box Mayor McSwiney, have been supplemented Up to date the Government has appropriated trap with an inward-swinging wire by the spectacular appeai*ance Ludwig Sween a salary for a Secretary, gate, set in *the .water, also catches of the present Lord Mayor of The funeral services over the body only, whereas- as executive staff of them. Muskrat fleslj^ is a prized delicacy Cork, who came over as a "stowaway" of Ludwig Sween were conducted at perhaps a, hundred or more is required in many localities. —but from all accounts one of the the Bear Creek church last Friday at once. The Water Power Act de luxe species. Minks are caught^ in No. 1 steel morning at 10:30 o'clock, a goodly is, therefore, similar to a big ship, traps set in holes in the banks of While some of the newspapers, number of old friends of the family minus a rudder to steer it, or''engine notably the Hearst publications, are small streams or in driftwood, with a being present in spite of inclement and tfoilers to furnish it power of printing stories of imaginary strife chicken or rabbit head, a fish, or a weather. Rev. Nestande of .Lanesboro propulsion. between England and the United piece of muskrat meat placed beyond gave the funeral address and was States enthusiasts in the capital have the trap. Ttraps are also set an assisted in the service by Rev. H. C. THE THE been parading night after night, encirling inch under water between abutments DO YOU M. Jahren. A firing squad of American the White House in their pedestrian or a bridge or between ledges or REMEMBER THIS? Legion members in command propaganda stunt. bowlders. Twenty-five Years Ago of Hobert Goodsell fired the volley MODERN OLD Skunks are usually trapped with While the spirit of Americanism as over the grave and tapswere soundedas Art Lovell has returned from his No. or No. 2 steel traps set unbaited it is found in the Capital favors freedom the body was lowered to its last trijj to Chicago in the capacity of at the entrance of their dens. for all peoples, yet it is not overstating BLUE- 5 earthly resting place. FASH­ Care should be taken to fasten the chaperone to a car load of cattle. matters at all to say that the James Keenan is expected home chain so that the ..skunk can no get Irish movement is not making a favorable PACKING HOUSE NOTES BIRD from California before many days. back into his hole. They also may be IONED impression in the Capital. Playing Fireman Sam Jones was over from caught in box traps and drowned ring aroun'd the rosy with the White P. C. Simmons of Jersey City, N. Wells Sunday to see his best girl and without being removed. trapped Lot is about as popular as was the J., has joined the Horn^el student A ELECTRIC returned this morning. skunk may approach slowly and killed WASH picketing by the woman's suffrage course. Mr. Simmons was formerly without disagreeable consequences party. Some day these different militant Mrs. Arthur Cole has been called with Swift & Company. He began by striking it a sharp blow across the to Kansas City on account of the propagandists will /realize thiat it work last week. WASHING BOARD. back with a stick. •, serious illness of her mother. is distasteful to people of finer sensibilities Charles Winters has left the Geo. to have their executive mansion F. E. Hambrecht of Le Roy was in Racoons are caught in No. 2 or No. A. Hormel & Company to -engage in the city today. 3 steel traps set at the entrance to made the center piece for spectacularparades agricultural work in Wisconsin. MACHINE —OR— and performances. There their holes and baited with meat. Mi&s Winnie Belding very pleasantly Fred Trefgar has gone to Mason f-'i is no appeal to reason in such grotesque entertained a number of her They also may be caught in traps set City, Iowa, where he will assume tr performances. friends last Saturday evening upon slightly under water close to the bank charge of his farm for a short time. of a stream, with nothing more than How Far Off Is Piosperity? the occasion of her fourteenth birthday. He expects to return to Austin again *2% Congress is doing but little cheese a small mirror or piece of bright tin About twenty guests were present. soon. -f paring, and the appropriations for the fastened on the pan to attract their George Erret, foreman of the cutting See Ovir Wirvdow-See years business will doubtless exceed •R. E. Shepherd, A. C. Page and S. curiocity. Rabbits are easily captured room of the Geo. A. Hormel & four billion dollars. Mr. Burleson's A Emerson were the delegates from in box traps or snares. \s Company, has resumed work after a Us airplanes will be suspended, and mails Austin to the meeting of the Masonic Skinning The Catch seige of small pox. will return to the railroad routes. The Grand Lodge at St. Paul this week. Fox skins should ba. stripped off Leon Khumaski, of the sausage Shipping Board will be given equally whole like a glove, and stretched fur •Rev. W. H. Hormel invested in a packing cooler, has departed for his reduced appropriations—and in these fine Portland cutter Saturday, sold side up. Mink and weasel skins are native country, Poland. Leon has leen measures a few "measly millions" by Oscar Ayers, and gave it its initial stripped in the same manner and the employ of the Hormel-Company in will be saved—if partially wrecking trip to Oakland yesterday. "cased" fur side in. This is also the it for the past five years. Hfeving Reliable our new merchant marine for want of best method with skunk skins. Racoon heard no word from his wife and family Hardware sufficient money to permit it to function Frederiction, New Brunswick. and muskrat skins are dried in ravaged Poland he decided to Si According to returns of the Chief a is "saving." In any event burden-some flat, fastened to bdard. Care should return and endeavor to locate them. MINN. i"The Store That Satisfies." AUSTIN, taxes cannot be escaped in the Game Warden, 1,275 moose and 2,480 always be. taken to cut the skin as George McCourt of St. Croix L. present year. In Washington one deer were killed in the recently as little possible in getting it off. All Wisconsin, is a recent addition ^alls, terminated hunting season. watches the figures of the Treasury, flesh and fat be and should removed, to the Hormel live stock department.