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Published in the interest of those connected with Consolidated Water Power & Paper Co. and its subsidiaries: Thunder Bay Paper Co., Newaygo Co., Ltd. and Newaygo Tug Line.

A 'Trip 'To 'The Newaygo 'Timber Company Camps Intimate Giimpses of the Operations of Consolida~ed Power & Paper Co's Timber-Cutting Subsidiary,

'in Ontario, Canada.

, , WAY," calls captain G. S. Scott and Adeline V, tug,

l""'-...:....:lolll'n of the Newaygo Timber Co. glides from its dock at Port Arthur to venture upon the waters of Lake

~~= Superior. Like a recep­t ion committee we are greeted by the Welcome Islands on our starboard side when five mi!es out. In the distance is the sentry of the Lake, asleep, the 5leeping giant.

"The reign of the Thunder G'ant, Whose anger in flash and roar

llad held the Great Lake in terror Is now forever o'er."

(Nanna Bijou)

We pass the giant on our port side. The now fast disappearing shore

line of Port Arthur stands out as a miniature tape laid out irregularly up­on a flat surface. The sun's rays have fo rmed a gigantic pyramid as the wat ­er caps reflect glittering shafts of dazz' ing sunbeams. Trowbridge Island comes into view on our starboard side ; we are now about seventeen miles from Port Arthur. We are approach­ing Silver Island, a mound of silver t hat was in its flame of prosperity fifty years ago, having given up mil­lions of dollars of silver to the adven­turer of old.

We reach Myles Bay, our fir st stop, and unload provisions for the Rafting crew at Camp 24. P roceeding through

By J. J. Plzak

Spruce-cutting scene at Camp No. I.

Magnet Channel we reach No. 10 light house. Dusk is faEing now and the refl ect ed solar beams paint pic­tures to our minds fancy upon a crimson sky. We pass between the Barcley Isl::inds. Deeper and deeper g row the shadows, casting g rotesque figures upon the water. Darkness has fallen as we glide into the bay about one mi!e from the dock. By the aid of a row toat we reach land and after a two and one-half m:le walk on roads paved with Cana­dian clay we reach camp. After a good supper we retire camp style. At 6 A. M. we arise and after break­fast hike out about three miles to where the cutting operations a re go­ing on. The path, that's what they call it, leads through swamp land, and af­ter go'ng into muck up to the hips a few times, I am told that I have com­pleted the first degree of the Royal Order of Spruce Woodsmen.

As we near the cutting operations we a re greeted by the sound of the st eel axe as it plays its merr y tune upon a spruce tree. The din of a fall­ing spruce tree fill s the air. The cut-

Road, over swamp, lending to Camp No. 7• t er then l:mbs the tree and cuts it into Camp in back &'round. 8-foot lengths. His measure is his saw,

four f eet long. After cutting a suffi­cient number of 8-foot pieces he piles them into cords, four feet high and four feet wide.

We return to camp and, after hav­ing our dinner, start our hike to the dock. Our return trip by boat is some­what rougher. The lake has kicked up quite a fuss and its "Ride 'em Cow­b?Y·". After several hours of tossing, p1tchmg and diving, we reach Thunder Cape. The lights of Fort William and Port Arthur appear like tinkling jew­els in the distance. In three more hours we are <locked and our trip is ended.

The next trip is to the farm, Camp 1, and Camp 5 at Nipigon Bay. Camp 1 offers some rare scenery. We arrive late in the afternoon and hike up a 800 foot hill reviewing the cutting op­erations on ou r way up. From this high altitude we can see the camp be­low in the valley. The Black Sturgeon River winds its way through thou­sands of acres of spruce t rees. Soon it will hold our logs and drive them to the bay, whence they will be rafted to Ashland across Lake Superior. It is a beautiful panorama that is laid before our eyes. Our return trip requires co n s ide r ab 1 e caution as we a re up 800 feet and must be careful not t o slip down the steep

Blacksmith shop nnd water-tank sled for icing road, Camp No. 5.

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cliff. After reaching camp and clean­ing up we are greeted by the musical tune played upon a large steel tri-

One of the best teams at the

farm.

angle. This means chow, and we sure partake of the deli­cious meal. Fifty men are seated in t his dining room. Quietness prevails as each man eat s his me a 1 and leaves. The best of table etiquette is noticeable. There is a variety of food on the table and

plenty of it. No gry.

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After supper the men return to their bunks and spend the evening chattering, playing cards, or filing their saws. At 10 P. M. everyone re­tires and another day in the woods closes.

To leave camp without describing a Finn bath would be cheating the read­er. The Finn bath at Camp 5 is a large low room made of logs. It is twenty-five feet !ong, fifteen feet wide and seven feet high. This room is div­ided into two, the warming room and

Scene show:ng the horses and bu:Id­ings at the farm.

steam room. The men enter the warm­ing room, remove their clothes and go into the st eam room. In one corner of the steam room is an oven made of stones. A wood fire is built on these stones and after one and one-half hours of heating the stones, water or snow is poured onto them, developing steam which fills the room. Along the walls of the room are tiers usually two or three high, and it is here that t he men roost after the steam starts to fill the room. The men remain on these perches from fifteen to twenty minutes absorbing the terrific heat. After they have been fully satisfied t hey return to the warming room and after washing off the perspiration by throwing bucket s of water on them­selves they wipe themselves dry. This constitutes a F inn bath. It is known that some of the men even go out into the snow from the st eam room to dry off.

One hates to return to a made-to­order method of living after spending time in the best that nature has to offer.

Lyceum Course Entertainment to be ghJen at Biron this Winter

T HIS year again, Biron is fortunate enough to have its Parent Teachers

Association sponsor the University of Wisconsin Lyceum Course. The com­mittee has gone to great expense to bring three of the finest numbers, availab!e to Biron this winter.

On Sunday, October 21st, the first number will be shown. The De J en Company in one of the best programs available. "Counterfeit Miracles" is not only entertaining, but also educa­tional, as it will expose some of t he fake spiritualistic beliefs.

The second number will be on Sun­day, November 18th. The Kellam Duo will put on a varied program that is bound to please all. Between the No­vember 18th and February 3rd num­bers, t here will be two very good mov­ing pictures.

On Sunday, February 3rd, will be the last program, but one of the finest. This will be the Geraldine Brace Trio. These young ladies play various in­struments to perfection.

And now the most surprising f eat­ure is the price of admission. Season ticket s are being so!d for only $1.00 for these five high class entertain­ments. Children season tickets are 50c. Single admissions for adults, 50c t o Lyceum numbers and 35c to the mov­ies. Children single admiss:ons will be 25c for Lyceum numbers and 15c for movies.

Bowling in Full Swing at Wis-cons·n Rapids and Biron

T HE Consolidated bowling teams have started out with a crash.

While t hey have not smashed all rec­ords, the appearance of the teams in their new bowling costumes knocks the opposing t eam for a loop and en­sures success. The teams are compos­ed of men from Biron and Wisconsin Rapids Divisions. The Major team bowling in the Elk's League have buwled five games and their record is as follows:

Total Pins

John McDonald - ----- ------1392 Henry Groch _______________ 1275 Nick Weste r _______________ 1465 Ernest Rasmussen _________ 2565 Art Gazeley - - - ------------ 1592 Wesley Eberhardt __________ 1447 J. W. Franson, Capt. --- - --2786

12,522 total p ins or average of match, or 834 per game for season.

Ave. Per Game

154.G 141.6 162,7 171 159.2 160.7 185.7

2504 per

The average of men bowling in Minor League in Wheelan's Recreation League is as follows for the first four matches of the season:

Total Ave. Pins P er Game

Fred E berhardt ______________ 1723 157 J a mes Simpson ______________ }412 157 H. Vanderhei ------------ ---1643 136 C. Lyn n - -------------- - ----1650 150 T. Molepski _________________ 265 132 V. Pavoloski _________________ 271 135

J.. R arrett - - ---------------- 633 127 R. Cole - - ---------------- ----1019 127

Team's average game is 718 p'ns. Team's standing in league 666-2 3.

"My Vacation"

SCOOP, the Conso!idated News cub reporter of Port Arthur Division

intervewied recently several of the boys who have had their 1928 holi­days, and t o use their own words, the reporter, who is an expert on short­hand, took down their replies to his questions word for word, with the fol­lowing results:

John McArthur: "Well J ohn did you have a good

holiday this year ? " "Did I hae a good holiday. Mon an

ve dinna kin the fine lassies that thr ;rre doon yonder railway, at a place called Parry Sound. O'Course ye kin they'rre a mite blackish, but thr arre no breeds amongst the who'e clan. Some folks call them Indians, but if I canna tell Scotch plaid when I see it, Aberdeen is in Greece."

Gordon Brown: "No, big game is not Yery plentiful

around here. I'll neYer forget the last time I was in Africa. We were trail­ing a flock of ( 17) seYenteen tigers, that is myself and Friday my gun­bearer. All of a sudden there was a crash, worse than if a!l the artillery used in the last war was to be fired off at one t:me. Friday lost his head, but I realized that the noise had come from behind me. Without turning my head, I reYersed the rifle under my arm-pit, fired one shot, swung around and two dinosaurs lay dead at my feet. Then another time,- Hey where are you going?" - and the reporter had disappeared around the corner .

Wallace McComber : "Oh, I was abroad . Visited Kamin­

istiqua, International Bridge, The Cas­cades, Duluth, and several other of the larger cities. You 'II excuse me for not talking very much a s the roof of my mouth is still sore from the sunburn it got looking at the tall buildings in Two Harbors."

Bert Oby: "Well it's like this, I knew the wife

needed lots of things done around the house, things which she should really do her self, you know, but I thought I would give her a lift ,and anyway she said to do them, so- ? ? ? ?

Cyril McKenzie: "S'funny how you can't get away

from your work. Do you know, the first day I was out camping I caught so many fish t hat I did not have time to count them that night, so next day I decided to take an inventory, and there were so many fish to be listed as trout, speckled, 6½ x 32 inches, 14, 18, and 24 pounds that I didn't have time to fish any more and it kind of spoilt my trip, after I realized how I'd spent all my t ime taking inven­tory.

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Stevens Point Items The bowling season started with a

bang on October 1st, with F . C. La­Brot, Mill Manager, rolling the first ball down the alleys for a near strike. Just like the opening of the baseball 5eason when the mayor of the city pitches the first ball. Anyway, there wa a great deal of excitement and racket, and it looks like a successful :;eason. So many applications were handed in this year that it was neces­sary to have six men on a team with the seventh ready to step in and t ake the unlucky bowler's place who couldn't hit the head pin. Beside the regular teams there are a dozen or so irregular bowlers. It is rather early in the searnn to get a line-up or give any idea of how the t eams will finish, but at this writing Bader's Packers and Gumey's Cubs are at the top.

During October Mr. Dunn of the Dunn Paper and Sulphite Co., and Mr. Zielski of Detroit Paper Co., visited this mill. They make a competitive grade of paper at their respective mills, and it is always interesting to exchange ideas.

There are a few at this divis'on who like to take their vacations in the fall, and they cannot be blamed for Octo­ber offer s a great variety of pleasure. Those who took their vacations during Oct ober were Wm. Longhurst, Mike Donermeyer, Henry Laszewski, Bert Podolski and Clarence Anderson.

Fred Powers was called to Burling­ton the middle of October on account of the death of his father in law.

We are looking forward to a peace­ful winter. All through the summer and fall baseball was the main topic, with Janikowski doing most of the talking, it is understood that he knew what he was talking about. Politics a re now the main topic of discussion and it is hard to say who is t aking the lead in this di~cussion. Dan Nugent and Vernon Alpine appear to be hold­ing their own, and no matter what ar­guments are put up to them, it is im-

possible to change their views on the situation. Now that election is over it will be a dead place around here, un­less it will be possible to get Siebert and Powers to t alk over the bowling situation.

Annual Squirrel Hunt Take.r Place

Steib Hypnotizes Dog to Success

O N October 31 John Schnabel, Frank Steib, Earl Otto, Tom Ute­

gaard and their guest, Ray Kendall, went squirrel hunting. When a gath­ering of this kind cuts loose in the woods most anything can be expected. M:ghty were their preparations -rifles, shotguns, sling shots, dynamite, weiners, black coffee, sweet cookies, mustard. They arrived in the Ark­dale country about 8 :30 A. M. There was much excitement while the boys were putting their guns together. F in­ally they proceeded into the woods. They hunted for several hours, and nothing doing. This caused much sput­tering, especially from John Schnabel. He told Tom Utegaard that had he known this he would have asked Earl Otto to place a requisition for squir­re!s.

About 2 P. M. Frank Steib thought he could hear the bark of a dog in a farmer's yard across the forty. Being careful not to attract the attention of the farmer and create too much dis­turbance among the animals on the farm, Frank Steib proceeded across the forty on his hands and knees t o get this dog to follow him. He suc­ceeded very nicely and got back into the woods with the little dog who measured sixteen inches long and at least four and one-half inches high. The gang was just fini shing their din­ner. They filled the do~ full of dill pickles and weiners until he was con­tented and happy and consented to be one of their gang. They again pro­ceeded into the woods, their newfound friend showing his appreciation of the

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Who Gave Mr. Beatz the Fish?

Mr. A. L. Beatz was so proud of the fish that he forgot to bring over the pole and line so it could be pre­sented in the picture. Since he is pro­prietor of the Biron Park Hotel, it took a good sized fish for every one to sample it.

"No sah! I don't want no dahvoce­ment! What ah wants is sepahment maintaineousness, wid all de dignifica­tions appahtainin there unto!"

fine banquet he had had by busily chasing squirrels up trees. There was much hollering on the part of t his crowd-"here he is, there he goes, hit him, he's going in a hole, etc," and with five men in the party each shoot­ing about 60 t imes a minute, some shot s accidentally found the squirrels. When the smoke cleared away and dusk overtook the boys they found out they were the proud possessor s of twenty-one squirre!s.

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ACCIDENT RECORD OF CONSOLIDATED MILLS IMPROVING

FEW MEN LOSE TIME

:,:==================================:=~ BIRON M'.ll went three consecutive

months without a lost-time injury ; Stevens Point, Appleton and Ashlnd Mills two consecut:ve months without Jost-time due to injury. Wisconsin Rap:ds M:JI had a clean slate dur:ng October except for injuries sustained on the new· construction job.

Bearing in mind that there are al:out 1000 men working in the mills above mentioned (this number not including those working on new const ruction work) and when records show that no lost-time accidents oc­curred in any of these mills during October (leaving out construction at Wisconsin Rapids) it is quite evident that everyone from the management to the worker a re cooperating on safe­ty. So much for the major accidents. Frequer.cy of M"nor Accidents High

With the inst allation of m echanical guards and safety equipment and the continuous warnings on the part of foremen to "be careful today", the ma.:or accident is well taken care of. But the bigger problem is the minor accident. During the last three months there were 95 injuries at the above five mills requiring the attention of professional medical aid.

In comparing the cost of the m'ljor accidents as compared to the minor accidents during the months of Aug­ust and September, past, (October statement being incomplete) we find that for every dot' ar spent on a major accident $6.00 is spent on a mi­nor accident.

Another report, that of the Ameri­can Research Council, who made a study of 13,898 plants for the years 1922-1925 inclusive, reveals that the minor accidents appear to be more important from the standpoint of inci­dental loss than has been realized. This report shows that productive time lost in minor cases is three and one-half

times that lost in major cases. The loss of production value in the minor cases is three t imes as great as in t he major cases. The report further shows that about 80% of these minor accidents can be prevented by apply­ing proper methods of care.

Lost-t' me accidents have been re­duced materially; why not reduce the minor accidents?

Safe Practices m We/Jing and Cutting

(The second and final ins tallment of th'.s arfcle.)

Acetylene Cylinders Precautions to be observed in hand­

linr: acetylene also fol'ow from a few well-known properties of this gas:

1. Acetylene will burn and under certa in conditions form explosive mix­tures with air.

2. At pressures over 15 pounds per square inch acetylene may decompose v;olently if subjected to heat or shock. This act:·on is an inherent property of acetylene itself, and is quite distinct from the formation of explosive mix­tures of acetylene and air. Because of the property mentioned in the pre­ceding paragraph. acet ylene cylinders must be especially constructed in order to carry acetylene under pres­sure. As in the case of oxygen cyl­inders, safety devices are provided. These are t he fusible plug type, and melt, releasing the gas, if the cylinder is exposed to fire.

Storage

Acetylene cylinders shou'd always be stored standin~ upright with the valve end up and h. 'l. well ventilated locat;on . 'Fhey sh,mld NOT BE STORED in t he same room or com­par tment with oxygen cylinders. They may be stored in the open but should

be protected against accumulations of ice and snow. Cylinders stored inside buildings should be located remote from highly combustible materials and be protected from mechanical injury or tampering.

Use After the regulator is attached to

the valve of an acetylene cylinder and the valve is opened, it is advisable to test for leaks by applying soap.y water. In the case of a leak around the valve stem, close the valve and t ighten the gland nut.

Never use acetylene from a cylinder without first att aching a regulator. Acetylene regulators should never be adjusted to deliver a pressure greater that 15 pounds per square inch.

Blow Pipes Welding and cutting blowpipes are

sturdy pieces of equipment, and with reason able care in handling will give years of continuous service.

Proper results can be obtained only by using the proper size tip or nozz'e and the ga~ pressure as r ecommended in the manufacturer's chart for the work at hand. When a new cylinder has been connected to the equipment, the blowpipe valYe should be left open long enough to expel air before light­ing. For lighting oxy-acetylene blow­pipes, always use a friction lighter.

In using a new blowpipe for the first time, be sure to tighten the pack­ing nuts around the valve stems. These are purpose'y left loose in order not to compress the packing too much. Occas:onal tightening of the packing nuts will prevent the de­velopment of leaks at this joint. When the packing ceases to operate proper­ly, it should be replaced with new asbestos cord packing soaked in g lycerine. BIO\vpipe tips should be in­spected frequently to make sure that there are no obstructions. If the tips become clogged, unscrew them and use a soft copper or brass rod to clean out the passages. Never use a hard or sharp instrument of any sort. Always Protect the Eyes w:th Goggles

One of the most important safety rules is that properly designed gog­gles should be worn at all times while welding or cutting is being done. Eye protect ion is essential for several

Lost Time Accidents for the Month of October Name of Injured Division Oscar Olson Wis. R.

John Marcoux Wi•. R. Winfred Moon Wis. R. Paul ~~ulik P. A.

v. Carnia!o P. A.

J. Lammincn P. A.

o. Karpinen P. A.

L. Harju P. A.

Dep1utment Foreman Construction G. Marcoux

Construction G. Marcoux Construction G. Marcoux Wood Room M. Janz

Wood Room M. Janz

Mach. Shop Mr. Chase

Nc•ygo Cp. No. l A. Sellers

Ne'ygo Cp. No. 1 A. Sellers

Days Lost Nature of lnjur) 3 days _______ p :erced left wrist ·with a nail when tearing

off forms. plus _________ 'Struck on head b~· a falling brick. day _________ Cut on top of head caused by a falling brick. ______________ ~truck on top of !,cad w ith stick of pulp wood,

breaking one of hts top teeth and loosening four of his lower ones.

______________ 1lrokc first and crushed second fingers, le ft hand, while working on stacker.

1 _____________ Foreign matter in left. eye. Cause: Emery wheel- Disability : infection.

2 days ________ While lifting heavy pulpwood, foot slipped and he str ained his back.

3 days ________ Strained back while lifting ,tick of pulpwood.

reasons. The br ight flame and par­t icularly the st rong glare from molten metal a re sufficient to cause serious eye strain. Flying parts or bits of hot metal t hat a re spattered about mav cause serious trouble if t hey sho~ld happen to strike unprotected eyes.

F or welding and cutting, goggles should have lenses of a special colored optical glass designed to minimize glare while allowing the operator t o see his work clearly. Goggles should be light, comfortable, and well venti­lated.

Confined Places When work is done in a confined

space, special precautions are neces­sar y. Provision should be m ade for adequate ventilation, either by m eans of an air fan or blower. Never use oxygen for this purpose. All connec­tions on blowpipes and hose should be tested for tightness before t aking the equipment int o the confined space. It is unnecessary to add that the : ylinders of oxygen and acetylene should alwavs r emain outside the con­fined space: While work is in p ro­gress, one helper should be assigned t o the duty of watching the oper ators. He should be r eady t o close the cylinder valve inst antly on sign al, or t o render any other assistance neces­sary.

Equipment having jacket s or inter­nal chambers a lso presents a specia l problem. Unless such internal spaces are Yented the heat of welding may expand the confined air and cause rupture. Usua'ly such jackets or chambers have ports or openings that sen-e as vents, but it is well to make sure of this. A piece that is unna­turally light should be suspect ed of being hollow. If it pr oves to be hol­lo·::, an d if examinations show no ,·ent opening, one or several should be cut or drilled before applying the welding blowpipe to the piece.- "Oxy­Acetylene Tips".

Interlake Acid Plant Overhauled )fax Boehm does not believe in

leaks. He and his r epair crew have been climbing and crawling all over and aboYe and beneath the Acid Plant. ..\cicl tanks have been cleaned and recovery lines renewed. Tower pumps and ducts had a once over from Henry Schultz and his trust y m onkey wrench. Burner fan and cooler were repaired. F ina lly the combustion chamber in the burner room had a new coYer in 5talled .

If there are any leaks left it must be because Max has lost his glasses and Emil Bohatcheck can't smell any more.

However, leaks are t o an acid p lan t what the devil is in r eligion. Both must be found and kicked out.

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Biron Employees Shoot Their Limit of Ducks

Here are shown two machine ten­der s of Biron Division, Douglas Gros­kopf to left and C. A. Sipe to the right. Both men enjoy hunting and on this occasion shot their limit of 15 clucks each in a f ew hours.

Mrs. T. H. Molepske Enjoys The Out-Door Life

Mr s. T. H. Molepske, who at one time was employed in the Cost De­partment at the Wisconsin Rapids Div., enjoys the out-door life and is shown with a catch of the best eating fish on the market .

Enjoying a Fall-Outing

Bertha Berg and Bernice Turbin, Ahdawagam employees, enjoying a fall outing.

A hdawagam Notes No accidents of any kind during the

month. 100% score. Max Krey, the genial firem an, is

laid up with LaGrippe. Robert Hodge recent ly motored to

La Crosse to witness the H omecoming game of .La Cr osse N ormal.

Donald F ogarty traded his P ontiac ca r for a F ord. On a r ecen t evening he put in six gallons of gas and drove to Milladore. On r eturn trip he was within a half mile of home when car ran out of gas. 37 miles on 6 gallons. Who said filling stations were as nu­merous as mushrooms?

Wm. Hillmer t ried his luck at squir­rel hunting . He says it will be some years yet before he get s enough hides for a coat.

Arr ived at t he h ome of George Smallbrook J r . on Oct . 11th, George the third, weight t en and one-half pounds.

Leonard Olson of the shipping de­partment took a week's vacat ion and went hunting and fishing. Made some excellent cat ches but failed t o take any pictures.

F red Zager's Chev coupe and a Ford tour ing car tried to pass a st reet in­t er section at the same t ime. $4.60 for parts put the Chev in good shape again.

Frank Shymanski (in Butcher shop ) "Can't you wait on me? Two pounds of liver . I 'm in a hurry."

"Sorry Sir," replied the butcher, "Two or t hree ahead of you an d you surely don 't want your liver out of order."

Guide on sightseeing bus in Chicago. "We are n ow passing one of the oldest public buildings in Chicago."

Harold Getzlaff- "Wot for?" Wm. Mackaben and F rank Kersten

are the two newest members of EBA at Ahdawagam, having received their policies during Oct ober.

Infant Daughter of Biron Employee Succumbs

The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Paulson died shortly after birth Wednesday, October 17th. F une­ral services were held at the home and buria l was in Forest Hill cemetery.

Mr. Paulson is employed in the fin­ishing department at Biron.

Consolidated News Receives Honorable Mention

Consolidated News won honor­able mention in Class II of the con­test conducted by the Employees' Publications Section of the Nation­al Sa,fety Council.

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Published Monthly by

Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company General Office, Wisconsin Rapids.

Editors ____________________ W. L. Mead, C. E. Jackson Business Manager_ _______________________ J. J. Plzak Art Editor ____________________________ Grim Natwick

ASSOCIATE EDITORS: L. J. Barrett_ ______________________ Wisconsin Rapids Earl Akey ____________________________________ Biron Ross Joy ______________________________ Stevens Point G. R. Stearns ______________________________ Appleton Earl McCourt _____________________ Port Arthur, Ont. Martin Lipke ___________________________ Ahdawagam Les. Bennett_ _______________________ Newaygo Camps

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A NATIONAL DECISION

ADECISION has been made. Herbert Hoo~er, not Al Smith, is President of the Umted

States. The American people have decided it. Tremendous as this decision ·was, involving is­

sues of deep consequence to our country and our relationships with other nations, yet the steps leading to the picking of one man or the other, of one set of policies or another, was not at all dif­ferent from the way an individual, a small group of individuals, or a workman, or a foreman, or a board of directors goes about making important decisions throughout the year. The great day has arrived in politics when all the people can have all the facts set before them, weigh them, and make a choice. Stump speeches and emotional fol de rol are of no avail. The radio dial is turned, and millions of people hear the voices of the candidates themselves. The papers give full accounts of the records of parties, candidates, and platforms. The facts are put on the table.

It is our opinion that the fates of the two candi­dates were decided, not on the promises for the fu­ture, but upon past records. "By their works ye shall know them" is an old proverb which hold:;; more common sense than all the rosy pictures of future promise. We also opine that "once a Re­publican always a Republican and once a Democrat always a Democrat" are words quickly passing in­to oblivion. It is no longer so much a point of party loyalty as of party facts. E lse, why did Re­publican Massachusetts and Rhode Island swing to Smith, and Solid South Democratic Florida Tennessee, and North Carolina give their electorai votes to Hoover? What held followers of bolting La Follette, Blaine and Norris in the Republican ranks? People forgot they were born under one banner or another and voted as they believed. It is as it should be.

ANY DECISION The subject of decisions is an interesting one.

Industries, departments of industries, individuals, stand or fa11 in success or failure, depending upon the every day judgments which are made. There seems little difference in so many cases in saying yes or no yet one may be right and the other ab­solutely wrong. So difficult it appeared in past times to weigh the balance one way or the other that people relied upr1n supe1·stition and let the stars decide. If a certain constellation appeared in the heavens, the time was declared advantageous for making war, Oracles were consulted, coins were flipped, men had little faith in their indivi­dual judgments.

That was only two thousands years ago. Ima­gine the criticism which would arise now if t he executives of a company sat around a table and flipped dimes, heads or tails to decide important sales, production, financial or safety problems.

Later on decisions were made by so-called de­ductive reasoning. The earth is flat, it was said. Therefore, since all flat surfaces end somewhere, if you travel far enough in one direction you will fall off. Certain uncontested trnths were given, and further facts deri,·ed from these truths. There was a terrible hubbub, all science was shaken on its foundation, when, litt le by little, many of these uncontested truths proved to be lies. Magellan started in one direction and continued until he arrived back at his starting point.

Finally inductive reasoning was introduced. Scientists learned to obsen-e minute detail, to col­lect an enormous amount of data, definite facts about the earth , the trees, the rocks, the minerals, the human body, the human mind, economics, so­ciet y, of everything which could be seen, felt, heard, smelled. From this encyclopaedia of facts, they began putting two and two together and forming general conclusion .

From this point true prorrress began. It is by in­ductive reasoning that modern decisions are made. We get the facts, as many as we can, ,ve question, observe, draw from expe1·ience, and then give our opinions. Opinions may differ and there must be discussion, argument, experimentation ; but, giv­en the facts and a sincere and honest desire to be right, mistakes will be few.

Care Necessary In Closing Switches About the first thing an electrician learns when he

starts to operate is to close a witch. This sounds very simple but there is really a trick to it. When a switch car­rying electric current is to be closed it should be closed quickly and firmly so that there will be n o arcing or burn­ing at the contacts. The moment an arc occurs between the switch blade and switch stud the capacity of the switch is reduced as it will not carry the current for which it i s intended without heating. This same holds true for oil circuit breakers, starting compensators, motor start­ing switches, in fact any switch that carries current. Clo -ing switches quickly and firmly not only increases the life of switches but decreases the danger of injury t e yourself. Should there be a short circuit beyond a switch. the fuse or protective equipment would open the circuit ; however, if you close a switch gingerly and a short circuit exists you will most likely try t o open the switch, draw an arc, possibly burn your hand or injure your eyes, a ll of which has happened.- W. F. Thiele, in Superintendence.

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Wedding Bells

The bride is Miss Irene Cook, daughter of Leo Cook, oiler in the Wood Room at Wisconsin Rapids Div­ision. She was married on September 8 to Dr. T. W. Destiehr. They will make their home in Milwaukee. The attendants were Mr. Wilbur Turbin of Merrill and Miss Dorothy Cook, sis­ter of the bride. The little flower girl was Dorothy Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E rnest Anderson. The bride was well-known by many people in Wisconsin Rapids who wish these young people much happiness in t heir wedded life.

Time Flies

This picture is the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Cook, father and mother of the bride in the picture above. They were married twenty-two years ago and have lived in Wisconsin Rapids during their wedded life. Mr. Cook has been employed with the Consoli­dated for many years.

George Fisher, Machine Tender, has traded his Chevrolet sedan for a new Pontiac coach.

John McDonald, Storekeeper, was called to Stevens Point on Nov. 2nd on account of the death of his mother, Mrs. John R. McDonald, sr.

J ohn Bengert, Backtender, passed cigars to a ll his fellow workers on Nov. 2nd. The reason w a s an eight and one-half pound boy, Frank John, was delivered to his house.

Shirley Bramble, of the power house, spent his vacation visiting with home folks at Janesville.

Vern Robert s, grinderman, moved from Wiscon sin Rapids to Biron and is living in apartments of the Biron Park st ore.

Carl Zettler, finisher, traded his open model Overland for a new Chev­rolet four-door sedan.

Fred Brunka, painter, was called to Green Bay on October 21st, due to the death of a relative.

Walter Gonzagowski, sawyer, was forced to remain at his home in Adams a couple of weeks on account of sick­ness.

Clark Gaffney resigned his position as beaterman to open a general store at Nekoosa to be known as "The Nekoosa Cash Store."

David Newman moved from the Kempfert farm into the village and is now living in Company house No. 5.

Ben Manley, finisher, moved from his home at Meehan and is now living in the village in Company house No. 31.

Fond .Nle111ories On October 15, t wenty-five years

ago, occurred the wedding of Otto Federwitz and his bride. Mr. F eder-

witz says he recalls the past twenty­five years with much pleasure and he hopes his wife and himself and their three children can be together at least twenty-five years more. Otto is well-known among Consolidated men, having been employed in the Pulp Mill for the past seven yea rs.

Good Bye Boys

October 22 Kenneth Kruger, of the Wisconsin Rapids Laboratory, was united in marriage to Isabelle Ross­man of Stevens Point. Rev. Mewaldt of the Moravian Church performed the ceremony. They were attended by the bride's brother, Roy Rossman, and Miss Jean Gladowski. They will re­side at 620 Fourth Avenue North.

B iron Employee W eds Ray Passineau, electrician and son

of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Passineau, of Rudolph, was united in marriage to

Miss Norma J ames, da ughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam James, of Port Ed­wards on Saturday, Oct ober 27th. The· ceremony was performed by F ather Cysewski at SS. P eter and P aul church of Wisconsin Rapids. The couple a re now living in Company house No. 30 at Biron.

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WOMIEN ARIE JP>IEOJP>LIE

Tlze Happy Mountain

AM a firm believer in the idea that most discord among men and nations is brought about as much by lack of sympathy and understanding as by jealousy and greed, and the book, "The Happy

Mountain" by Maristan Chapman, be­sides having the proper sympathetic touch, is a delectable piece of writing and well worth some of your time. It is a story of the Cumberland Moun­tain people, simple alike in its subject and its style and a tremendously ef­fective piece of character study.

The author is a woman, thirty-three years of age, whose life has been spent largely in the hill s whereof she writes, with a European interlude dur­ing during the war that must have seemed dreamlike to her. "Suddenly transplanted to England, she served as secretary to a member of parlia­ment, engaged in nursing, learned and lectured on business science in war training schools, became a secretary in the British aircraft service, married an engineer, and was sent back to America to inspect airplane motors at Dayton."

Not long ago "The Atlantic Month­ly" published her first story and with it the following explanatory letter which might also form a prelude to her book: "I try to get soundness and sureness into the simple stories of the mountain people as they are. They have strength and simplicity and much fun, self-reliance and complete lack of self-pity. Mostly they have fun and no happening of life can dis­turb them. My object is to show a class of people, too long looked upon only as a class, to be live and k'l1ow­ing individuals; to make their eyes the eyes through which the outlander may see their world, and thus seeing ex­perience an understanding kinship with them and at the same time feel a sense of adventure for himself in seeing an unexplored corner of life."

"The Happy Mountain" is the story of a mountain boy, of the urge within him to journey "Outland", to see how men lived on the other side of his mountain, to see the great cities, the sea maybe, and to get a supply of books. And then before he gets very far at all the urge of love that brings him back again to his mountain sweet­heart, with the realization that, ex­cept for externals, man is the same the world over, that cities are mainly unsightly, smelly places, and that there are so many books in the world that their number appals him.

Eleanor Mayhew

As you read you have to refer oc­casionally to a glossary at the end of the book, but in. my quotations I'll give the ordinary term. In places the style becomes almost Biblical and it is always virile. Glen Hazard, the little mountain town which makes the setting for the story, is not lovely nor even picturesque. "Sunk between Cragg Hill and Red Hill, Glen Hazard had the look of being dropped in the hollow and mixed by the four winds. The General Store, the Company's Store, the Hotel, and two or three sagging warehouses made up the town, but it seemed crowded owing to the stacked lumber surrounding it on all sides and bounding its black cinder streets. The trains had just room to get through it, and the Hardwood Lumber Mill, belching smoke and steam beyond the depot, and covering the town with grime almost equal to a City's, blocked the low valley to the north. The bridge over the creek nar­rowed down traffic to the Company's Store, and the four legs of the tower took up some more space. The towns­men lived in box huts hung up on the sides of the two big hills that shut in the town from the east and west; while on the South, where the railroad tracks snaked through the Gap to the Outland places, the deserted trestles and dumps of a worked-out coal mine spread their black skeleton s. By the time saddle-horses had been hitched in town's centre and wagon teams slung t o trees up the slopes, there was no more than free walking space in Glen Hazard."

Small wonder that Wait-Still-on-the Lord Lowe (Waits Lowe we shall call him hereafter) wanted to get away from it all. His own home was one of the box huts that clung to the moun­tain side and his own people were bent and gnarled and colorless but kind and wonderfully phi]osophical and proud of the boy. "He was a brown and healthy boy, with lightness in every muscle; with black, wild hair brushed back yet bent upon coming forward again; eyes so dark brown in the late evening light that they might have been black holes in his head; and a pert nose standing out over a stern mouth. He was darker of eye and hair than a true-born mountain boy should be, anct he carried hi s head eagerly, with his faun's ear pointed for adventure."

The spring evening the story opens Waits tells his mother of his need to leave his birthplace and to go out to see the world. She offers but small ob­jection knowing full-well that the cravir,g must be satisfied before he

will ever be content. Within a day or two he breaks the news to his father who tells him what he is to learn for himself, that life is the same the world over, that if it is wonders his son is looking for he will find them right there at home: "You've no need to look afar for wonders." And again, "What you have need of, young-un, is Experience. When you have had t;me to take you-r share of that, you'll not talk in such high falutin' style. Ex­perience is what learns a man to stay home and mind his own affairs."

Remembering his own you'th he can­not rightly make any objection to Wait's going, so it remains only for the boy to bid farewell to Allandene Howard, whom he loves and hopes eventually, when his desire to roam has been satisfied, to marry. She does not want him to go. I think she wants to be promised to him before he leaves and the fact that he will not become formally affianced galls her. She says good-bye with head held high and heart heavy but Wait does not or will not accede to her unspoken wish.

As becomes a mountain boy Wait starts on his great adventure afoot and he goes slowly at first as though loathe to leave his home-place. He early has two udventures, one a quar­rel from which he issues victorious but which almost cost s him a wife lat­er on, and the other a sudden ac­quaintance with a fiddle. He watches a fiddler at a dance and develops a deep craving to be able to draw sounds and stories out of such an instru­ment. He feels keenly his lack of words to express shades and tones of thought and thinks he can make a vio­lin talk for him. And a fiddle eventu­ally becomes one of his treasured pos­sessions, his second love.

On his journey "outland" he comes to a mountaineer's cabin where he asks lodging for the night. It seems to de­pict what we think of as the home of "poor white trash", but let me quote.

"Night was fully come ere Wait called out at the house in the clear­ing. The dogs set up a great noise, till the man of the house came out and hushed them. He stood in the doorway and waited for the name and where­from. This given he told his own name of John Bruton.

"How about me spending the night at your house?" Waits asked. "That's as pleases you," Bruton answered him. "You're right welcome, if you can stand what we can offer."

When Waits had gone through the door he had to look about for a place to put himself, £or the house had bu t one room and a staunchways lean at

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b::ick, and everything was full up of children. Also, as if a person did not know where to step already, three of the dogs came back withindoors.

"A woman was sitting in a low chair near to the fire, cradling the least child to sleep, while she had a story a-telling to the other ones. Twin boys, so little they could not walk save by holding each other's hands, were journeying along the far wa!l, their heads looking like curly yellow flow­ers in the shadows beyond the fire­light. A tall girl and boy sat on the edge of the big bed. the three lesser children were upon the floor at their feet watching the mother by the fire. And the mother looked into the fire from whence she seemed to be draw­ing, with her wide eyes, the story she was telling the children."

Into this crowded room came Waits bringing with him a whiff of other places and mayhap some news. But the news-starved woman cannot ask him questions, that would be a terrible breach of mountain manners. She waits for him to speak and listens so eagerly till her husband orders her to bed. Waits dare not speak directly to her but he speaks for her. He guesses the husband is cruel and doubts not that he chastises her if he is so mind­ed. The thought comes to him to bring her back a book or two but he sus­pect s her man would burn them just to see her suffer. The family does not enter into the narrative again but Bruton and Waits have a talk about "book-learning", of which Bruton says, ".Book-learning is no more than get­tmg your head all crowded up with other folk's notions. They write 'em down to get shet of 'em, but likely as not, time the book's in your hand and you've taken the weight of it into your head, they're changed their minds, and keep thinking fresh thoughts, while you sop up their old ones. Put on n'er faggot, Martha."

When Waits had got this saying by heart, he said, "Hit don't harm me to know their dead thought."

"What you want with other men's dead thoughts when you might be using your headpiece to have live ones of your own?"

"Some thoughts never die" said Waits, "and maybe there are big thoughts in books I'd never figure out, out of my own head."

Time passes. Waits meets up with a good-for-nothing tramp who gives him pame to think that he too may develop into such a no-account person if he cannot rid himself of the wan­derlust. He spends some time with some wood-cutters, one of whom teaches him to play a fiddle. To make some money he works on a big farm as a carpenter and marvels at the business-like efficiency but re­sents being treated like a piece of

machinery instead of a man. With the money he earns here he naturally buys himself a violin, and finally in midsummer finds his way to the city.

As might be expected it is a disap­pointment to him. The crowds of people, rushing madly about, confuse him. He is no longer an entity but only a speck among countless thous·· ands. His country dress and manners provoke mirth which he resents. The food disagrees with him; the drinking water seems polluted; the streets, with houses almost touching, distress him. At night, with the electric lights on and the ugliness hidden, it is more bearable.

His trip to the Public Library is a revelation to us who accept a library as a matter of course . To Waits it was an overwhelming experience. "They were around him like prison­wall s-N o ! Not like that, for that he felt drowning in them-waves and waves coming over him like maybe an ocean-sea of books. In every one un­counted words must be crowded to­gether, words shut against each other in the dark of pages each word tell­ing of something strange. Waits drew a breath of soft air that tasted very curious, and plunged into yet another room that the boy (the guide) called "Fiction-whatever that thing might be." "Venger (his violin) twisted un­der Waits' arm asking to play the tune he saw in these colored books, but everywhere, except in the big front hall, there were little framed pictures of the word "Silence." Funny silence Waits thought, with the books mak~ ing such a clamoring.

Waits, living a free and untrammel­led existence since he was born, can­not understand why the man in the room next to his in his cheap room­ing-hcuse objects to his playing on Venger at some unearthy hour of night, nor does he understand why the policeman in the park tell s him to move on and quit his noise when he plays his fiddle in the park.

Waits at length comes to the end of his slender resources and looks around for work of some kind in the city. He decides on the railroad yards and on his way there passes through the station and happens to meet an old friend, Jim Foster, who is conduc­tor on No. 6 which goes through Glen Hazard. In the course of their conver­sation Waits learns that a stranger is courting Allandene and then and there decides to go home, this time by train. With what he has on his back and Venger under his arm, he starts on his homeward journey.

"Surely he had taken himself by a surprise being on this train. It was not the place he had meant to be when he set out that morning. But a man can't keep on hi s way while a red-headed foreigner is meddling with his rightful girl. It was a pity he

would never get so far as to view the ocean-sea.

"Heap-o'things is a sadness in this world," he thought. "Seems a man's bound to buy whatever he gets with the price of some other thing he loses. One thing mostly contends my mind­happen a ll the things I set out to find was overcoming as books-I'm best in my home-place, before I get struck curious."

And so Wait3 comes home again and finds that the man who is aiming to take his girl from him is Burl Bracy, the man with whom he had his quarrel just after he left home, and whom he badly mauled. To the old quarrel is ac@ed the rivalry for the girl, and Bracy is smooth-spoken and easy­mannered, while Waits is at a loss for words and has the rougher ways of a mountain man.

At the last, of course, Allandene and Waits are "pledged" and Allandene says "Wise foks will pity me for mar­rying a man with wild, restless eyes like yours. You look too much like the hills their self to be safe. You're brown as the forest firescald, and all you'll do for years to come is to in­herit the sun and tramp the walkable ways 'n' be glad. Such a man to wed! But, some way, I'll risk you, even so, because I'm minded maybe the chil­dren will take after you."

The mountain folk in Glen Hazard, with all their fo ibles, are so human and their reactions to contacts and conditions are "even as yours and mine." Waits' father and mother are finely drawn, and Allandene's uncle, a preacher, Virgil Howard, is a charac­ter that will stay with you. And if you have not a kindlier feeling toward the men who lnhabit those mountains when you lay your book aside, look into your own heart for the lack of it.

Hank Hahner Leaves Another Landmark

Thursday, October 18, was a "good­bye day" for veteran bricklayer fore­man, Henry Hahner at the Interlake. "Another job done" Hank was heard to mumble to himself as he scourerl off his trusty trowel and wrapped up his gold plated brick fiammer in his best silk handkerchief and bade good­bye to everybody. Behind him, the new Interlake Digester building towered in massive, yet graceful beauty.

A Stunt Try this out and see if you get the

same answer: In what year were you born? What is your age? In what year did you take your

present position? How many years have you work­

ed at this job?

Total ______________________ 3,856 -Keolite News

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Huntiug Moose

LIVING as they do in a sportsman's paradise, Port Arthur, it is custom­

ary during the months of October and November for the usual number of sporting liars to assemble in the bush and t ell another. Buck fever is of course the u sual r eason why the best heads that they ever saw still run at large.

Not all the best alibis are put up by the visiting brethren . The resident sport contributes his share. The case in mind was discussed by the retired hero in the Thunder Bay office next day. "Did you ever notice," said he, "how a fellow get s out of the knack of using his shooting iron. Just be­fore I saw the big fellow we started up a r abbit. I was going to take a shot at him but I didn't. If I had I'd have shot the moose sure. You know how it is. I haven't used the gun since I shot the one last fall and I drew a full bead on him. He was only 75 feet away. I must have shot clean over him. You know how it is." That is alright, Alex, but don't forget the Newaygo horse that suffered from your deadly aim last season.

Wausau hitting the Point line for a two yard gain. Stevens Point-Wau­sau game.

Stevens Point high school band at the game.

Kubat, Rapids, swings around end for 20 yards.-Merrill-Rapids game.

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Appleton High Wz"ns From Oshkosh I 5 to 6

Playing straight football without trying a single pass Appleton High upset the dope bucket by defeating Oshkosh 15 to 6. Kunitz scored two for Appleton in the first quarter from a long end run and he scored again in the fourth quarter on a fake play. Kranhold made a place kick for goal from an extremely difficult angle in the first quarter.

Oshkosh only scored in the third quarter, when Barlow caught a long pass over the heads of the Appleton team and ran twenty-five yards to a touch down.

Lawrence Drop Close Game to Beloit 7 and 6

Lawrence College lost its first game of the Little Five Conference at Be­loit Saturday Oct. 27 in the last quar­ter of the game. A long pass which Barfell grounded fell into the hands oi a Beloit man who was downed on the two-yard line. On the first play a Be­loit half was stopped on the line of scrimmage only to fumble and the ball was downed back of the goal line by a Beloit man ,and the kick was made giving Beloit the game 7 and 6. A last minute aerial attack was stopped by the final whistle when Lawrence was but a f ew yards from a touchdown.

"We Want a Touchdown"

Action Glimpses of Point, Rapids and Appleton football teams.

Just before the snap, Appleton­Oshkosh game.

Grundeman, Merrill, makes needed yard for touchdown.- Merrill-Rapids game.

Biron In Line for a Strong Basketball Team

B IRON has organized a mill basket­ball team and expects to show up

in great style this season. There is plenty of good material t o de,·elop a first class team and the bo,·s are out each week for good hard w~rk. Wood County is t o organize a league and Biron will be one of the first to sign up.

The following will make up the team for the coming season:- J eff Akey, Paul Bengert, Bernard Swee­ney, Theo. Welton, Art Leverance, Ralph Turner, Ollie Prusynski, John Herriot, George Welton, Chas. Mul­len, Jr. with T. H. Molepske as man­ager.

The first game was played at Biron on Nov. 16th with the Eau Claire Business Institute, of which George Peterson, former Biron star, is manager. The score : Eau Claire 38, Biron 14.

Wised Up "Any part of the city for fifty

cent s!" yell ed the taxi driver. "You can't sting me again," retort­

ed Silas. "I bought the city hall last year and they wouldn't g ive it to me."

Clausson, Point fullback, gains twenty yards on an intercepted pass. Stevens Point-Wausau game.

Red-hot action, Lawrence-Marquette game, Whiting field, Appleton.

Grundeman, Merrill, fails at line plunge.- Merrill-Rapids game.

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Haff owe' en, the Scout Way By Ted Frank, Scoutmaster American

Legion Troop 4, Applet.on, Wis. and Foreman of Bleach Plant at In-

terlake Division

H ALLOWE'EN must be celebrated by the boys some way, so why

not a clean indestructible and enter­taining way.

The Scoutmasters of Troops 2-4-11-13 and the Executive of the Valley Council, Mr. Clark got together and planned a . real Hallowe'en Party for the Appleton Scouts.

Troop 11 went to the Scout Camp on Lake Winnebago, six miles from Appleton, immediately after school to spend the night. Troops 2-4-13 came out at 7 :30 P. M. and surrounded the camp and gave them a real surprise call.

Then things started. Songs were sung for awhile by the whole gang of 60 or 70 boys. Then all of the different troops put on a stunt. Harmonica so­los, vocal solos and comic recitations followed.

The whistle blew and all went on the level hill to play games. They played for about a half hour and were lined up in single file, about a block long . Then one of t he Scoutmasters led the noisy gang through Ghost Val­ley. Ghosts popped up and disappeared in all directions. The moon was even spooky. Some one had left a rope be­tween two trees to trip over. It started to rain at one end of the valley. No, it was only a sprinkler can, but it surprised many. Something happened at every turn. They finally worked back to camp, all talking at once.

All sitting around the fire place, a kerosene lamp turned low, stories were told. Mr. Clark sure told som e stories. One boy yelled "Now let m e tell one," so you might know how exaggerat ed they were.

Ten o'clock and all yelled, "Let's eat", so the apples and doug·hnuts and cider started disappearing .

The scouts were t a ken home in cars and a large truck, and by 11 o'clock all were sleeping soundly with no guil­ty f eeling to trouble them.

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ASHLAND By W. H. Nasi

T HE season's loading of pulpwood was completed on October 15th.

The total loading for the season being 69,848 cords, which quantity of wood was contained in the six rafts towed from the Canadian side this summer.

The Tug "Butterfield" has been laid up at Ashland for the winter.

The following three views of the Pulp Hoist show the manner in which t he wood is loaded on cars:

The cars are pulled back and forth by a steel cable attached to a car mover which is operated by electricity. The slides, transfer and loading apron have an endless chain which carries the wood.

The above view of No. 6 raft, which was the last raft to be towed across Lake Superior this summer, was t ak­en at Ashland just prior to the dump­ing of the raft into the storage pond. The raft contained approximately 12,-000 cords of pulpwood. Notice the towing cable running from the tug to the head-block. The continual pulling on the raft for eight days, when it is being towed across the Lake, causes the wood to pack three and four feet deep at the back of the raft, which accounts for the empty space behind the head-block.

Not Yet Proved.- "Where did you get that cigar?"

"Somebody gave it to me." "A friend? " "I don't know yet."- The American

Legion Weekly.

Gust Pilz Weaving Rugs

RAGS, "the tail end of nothing to most of us," serve as a means of

livelihood for Gust Filz, who for many years worked in the Interlake Boiler Room, now retired because of ill health. Mr. Filz learned the art of rug weaving while confined at the Bradley Memorial Hospital at Madi­son. He has just recently purchased a loom and is now weaving many beau­tiful rugs in anticipation of heavy sales during the holiday season.

Rags have come to their own in the healing of broken men. Their value in keeping hospital patients from brooding over their troubles, in re­storing deadened m uscles to useful­ness, and in leading blunted and twisted minds back toward normal in­terest s is emphasized by prominent doctors. The art of rug weaving is taught in the large Veteran's Hospi­tals. Weaving rags into rugs with looms operated either at the bedside or by foot seems to be the most satis­factory form of occupational therapy for general medical and surgical cas­es, as well as for the neuropsychiatric cases. The rugs can be simple or in­tricate in pattern and color, and for this reason offer an excellent medium for the exercise of originality. Fur­ther the rugs are useful and saleable, and in some instances men discharged from the hospital have been able to buy or make looms and become par­tially or wholly self supporting.

Those interested in rugs for Christ­mas presents or personal use will find Mr. Filz's assortment immensely at­tractive.

Interlake Crane Crews Sling· Wood

October 6th saw Interlake yard jammed up with pulp wood cars. Cy's crane crews cleaned up 867 cords on Saturday but the switch crews prompt ly filled the tracks again. The two crane crews worked Sunday and cleaned up another 550 cords in four­teen hours. After averaging almost forty cords per hour all day these two crews had busted all previous records at Interlake.

Action on the Ashland Pulp-wood Hoist

Wood being run up the slides on to the transfer on top.

Wood being carried along the trans­fer towards the loading apron at the end of the transfer.

Loading apron which is lowered and lifted up as the load on the car in­creases.

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Interlake Contributions

Rudolph Haraldson who has been working in the Wood Room for the past several months has recently join­ed Ellef's crew of husky millwrights.

Frank Diestler, who spent a few months in the yard following his ill­ness this spring, is now in charge of the chip hoppers in the Wood Room "Attic."

After putting in several weeks learning the ropes as a cook and acid maker and brushing up a little exper­ience in the laboratory, Frank Aldrich is now back on regular duty as cook's helper.

Bereavement

Mrs. Charles Deeg, 78, mother of Harry and Clarence Deeg, both em­ployed at the Interlake, died suddenly at her home Friday evening, October 12, after an illness of only four hours.

Survivors are her husband, former­ly employed at the Interlake for many years; two daughters, Mrs. A. Baker of Frederick Maryland, and Mrs. C. Grishaber, Appleton, Wis.; six sons, Henry, Charles, Aaron, Clarence, Clif­ford and Harry.

Mr. and Mrs. Deeg with their fam­ily came to Appleton from Frederick, Maryland, in 1902.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the home and at Zion Lutheran church, Rev. Marth in charge. Burial was at Riverside ceme­t ery.

Biron Employees Enjoy Duck Feed

Those hunters who are positive they cannot shoot a duck, might try their luck standing under the water tank at Biron. On the night of Oct. 21st. sev­enteen Mallard ducks failed to see the detour sign on the tank and collided with the tank, which caused their death.

This large number scattered about the ground were easily found, and all Biron men had to do was to pick them up and carry them home.

Right, International boundry at Pigeon

river.

Left, Kakabeka river below the Falls.

ALL ABOARD FOR PORT ARTHUR

By Bill Siebecker, Clerk in Wisconsin Rapids Storeroom

T HE sun was low in the

west when the Blue Streak roll­ed into Two Har­bors' T o u r i s t Camp completing, on our trip to Port Arthur, the first lap of the journey through Wisconsin's Land O' Lakes. As we now considered ourselves well in-

Gooseberry Falls to the hinterland, camp and supper were made in Oli­

ver Curwood style - my friend and I having read the "Call of the Wild" before we left.

In the morning we started out again over the gravel road leading for over a hundred miles along the shore of the lake, sometimes high on a cliff where you could see the white break­ers wash the r ocks below, some times only a short distance from the shore, and then again the Minnesota woods would hide the Jake for a short time. Castle Point, a high cliff upon which a red and cream colored lighthouse stood silhouetted against the blue sky and lake, rivaled the famed beauty of the castles on the Rhine.

There was so much that was pic­turesque, the game, the landscape, the fishermen s' shacks and n et s, the nu­merous waterfalls, a t housand things would catch one's eye. The landscape of rolling hills ran over the edge of the horizon, infinitely remote; almost every valley bore a river that plunged in rapid descent over the rocks and precipices. The Cascade River tum­bles over a series of falls and rocks for nine miles, finally emptying into the Jake. Gooseberry Falls is the most beautiful waterfall that can be seen from the road.

The beautiful Pigeon River forms the International Boundary, and when we had crossed the bridge a thrill came over us in being in a foreign country and under the protection of

Gooseberry River

October H its Neic: Higlz Mark In E.B.A. Memhership

Seventeen join E. B. A. past month making 809 total membership.

$296.75 paid out in Benefits and $80.25 for first doctors' calls.

0 N October 31, 1928 the member­ship of the E. B. A. had risen to

809, this new mark being r eached when seventeen men were taken into the 01·ganizat ion during that m onth, benefits paid out amounted t o $296.75 and $80.25 for first doctors' calls.

The new members ar e : Wm. Sie­becker, Wm. Bettcher, Harry Lubben, Ellis Otto, Edward Eberhardt, Paul Krumrei, Glenn .Athorp, Geo. Plyer, Bert Gilardi, Henry Jones, Vern Rob­erts, Arthur Fischer, Rudolph Mad­sen, Peter Schroeder, Bert P odolski, Frank Kersten, Wm. Mackaben.

Following is the list of those re­ceiving disability and hospital bene­fits during the past month:

Wm. Diegmann, $6.00; Hilmer Sandman, $8.00; Alfred Erickson, $22.00 ; J oe Weinbauer , $24.00; Henry Korth, $14.00; J ohn Acker, $2.00; Leo Gurney, $12.00; Nick Hilger s $2.00; Ed. Smolarek, $28.00; Aug. Bandelin, $34.75 ; Ed. Young, $24.00; Walter Fritz, $46.00; Henry Yeske, $2.00; Al­bert C. Miller, $6.00 ; Ed. Johnson, $8.00; Victor Fox, $2.00; Bernard Schmick, $4.00; Walter Gonzagowski, $50.00; Jake Huber, $2.00.

In addition to this, $80.25 was paid to doctors in first-call fees.

the Dominion whose officials of the law wore funny shaped hats.

A two-hour ride t hrough Canadian cut-over lands brought us into Port Arthur, the city of Paper Mills and the world's largest grain elevators. The town offers a haven for tourists, and many days can be spent on ex­cursions and trips. A short trip from Port Arthur will bring you to the roar of Kakabeka Falls, one hundred and t en feet high, the monarch of them all. The trip to Port Arthur will never be forgotten, and should be the ambit ion of all in the Consolidat­ed company.

Right, where the Cas­cade river enters

Lake Superior.

Left, Pigeon river as seen from the Inter­

national bridge.

GLIMPSES OF SCENIC-SPOTS TAKEN ON TRIP TO PORT ARTHUR

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CON.SOLIDA'TION.

November Is Here

D EER hunters are shining up their rifles. Turkeys are dieting to es­

tablish the hatchet. Hockey sticks will soon be coming in contact with the skulls of the opposing team. Father is wrestling with the storm windows but before he gets through with the job it will be under contract. Fond parents are getting glittering reports from the children in college but you can't fool everybody. The Presidential election is over for another four years and some of the voters are satisfied with the results. Watch the water pipes, they may freeze. Also the au­tomobile radiators. Oh I 'll always re­member

That cold day in November Before I bought a quart of anti-freeze. I was awfully digusted When my radiator busted God forgive procrastinations,. such as

these.

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Perhaps you haven't heard about it, dear reader, - so little has really been said, but the Scott Highway has been rather bad thi s year due to some construction work between the border and Fort William.

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REVELRY UNRESTRAINED

T HE other evening a jolly crowd of us boys gathered at the house for

a little game of authors and a taffy pull. Boys will be boys, so we pushed fun at each other until before we knew it the clock struck ten.

"Let's stretch a point," said Fred, the ring leader in every frolic, "and stay another half hour, - this is such great fun."

"By the way," suddenly blurted Mal­colm, who is never at a loss to put a question. "Do any of you boy friends use a camel's-hair brush?"

Who should answer but Hector, who is invariably as ready with an answer as Malcolm is with a question, and of course we boys strained our ears for a jolly rejoinder. "I never knew," said Hector, "that a camel u sed a hair­brush." whereupon we all hooted and chuckled except Hector who is gallant enough never to laugh at his own jests. But you can imagine the good humor we were all put into until we all went home with a bag of taffy to be enjoyed the next day.

BY SAM SPUFUS

Extry ! Extry !

Moses Found in the Bull Rushes

N EWSPAPER headlines of the tab­loid variety are a comparatively

modern institution; perhaps a neces­sary seasoning in our literary nourish­ment.

We were just wondering, sitting here, how greedily our forefathers, during the recent six thousands years, would have devoured the news of the day. Certainly the exciting episodes of past centuries were fully as thrill­ing as the present, for human nature is the same, whether then or now.

We can readily imagine Nebuchad­nezzar, or Ramses, or Shelmaneser, or Bezaleel, or Plato, or Gaius Cali­gula picking up the morning Sheche­mite Chronicle or the Athenian Dem­ocrat and feasting on headlines such as these:

WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN ABRUPTLY SHORN BY

SCHEMING VAMPIRE

SAMPSON WAKES TO FIND CUR­

LY LOCI{S SCISSORED BY

WOMAN PAL, DELILAH

Will Sue Female Deceiver Claiming

His Strength Gone Due . to Sudden

Disappearance of Long Flow-

in~ Locks.

FEATHERWEIGHT GIVES PONDEROUS CHALLENGER DEATH BLOW WITH ROCK

WARNED BY COMRADES, DA YID HANDS KNOCKOUT TO GOLI­

ATH WITH HOME-MADE SLING-SHOT

Crowds Cheer as Small Youth Rids Society of Dangerous Menace.

Skull of Giant Fractured by Terrific Impact. Young

David Exonerated at Inquest.

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INGENIOUS OLD SAILOR BUILDS MAMMOTH SCOW WHEN FLOOD THREATENS

SA YES FRIENDS AND ANIMALS AS WATER REACHES HEIGHTS

UNKNOWN BEFORE IN HIS­TORY

Noah Herds Elephants, Giraffes and Relatives in Improvised Schooner.

Tossed by Waves for Weeks. Receives Carnegie Medal.

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CAESAR ASSASSINATED BY GANG OF SENATORS WITH

BOWIE KNIVES

COPS SEEK BRUTUS AS CHIEF CONSPIRATOR IN ATROCIOUS

STABBING EPISODE

Political Rivalry Held as Cause of Murderous Assault in Which Pop­

ular Ruler Falls to Floor With Fatal Wounds. Mark Anthony

to Speak at Funeral.

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WOMAN BITTEN BY SNAKE THOUGHT TO BE SUICIDE

WELL KNOWN BEAUTY ENDS CAREER OF LOVE AND AD­VENTURE WHEN NIPPED BY

DEADLY REPTILE

"Cleopatra Wanted Death Thrill" say her Friends. Gossiping Tongues

Tell of Numerous Interesting Affairs Involving Notables.

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THE BACK SEAT DRIVER Look-out here comes a car, be

care-Shut-up, who's driving this car,

can't you see I'm Here's a sharp curve, don't go so

fast, You'll - -Never mind, I see it, I see it, I've

driven a car before, and besides -There you go IN THE DITCH, I'll

never ride with you again, you -Hold your tongue, the steering

wheel is in front, I can -Arterial, Arter ial, ARTERIAL,

can't you see the sign, what's - -Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, I can see the

sign as well as - -There you go passing a car when

I'm nervous, some day you'll -If you don't keep your mouth shut

I'll go sixty miles an -All right I won't say another word. Crash- bang- smash - ouch) WHY

DIDN'T YOU TELL ME A TRUCK WAS TRYING TO PASS!

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was $17 .03. There were three Scotch­men in the congregation.

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THIS BUSINESS OF BEING AN INDIAN CHIEF

A NY politician running for office, or any person desiring some ex­

tra notoriety should arrange some way to be made an Indian Chief. Any man or woman, of importance, can not truly claim success until he or she has his or her picture taken while he or she, in the presence of a few lazy red-skins, is h aving a big feathered headgear placed on his or her head.

It makes you a sort of a hero. It gives an impression of red blooded ag­gressiveness which touches every­body's heart.

Any good generous bunch of In­dians will undoubtedly do the job for you for a small reward, say five dol­lars or a keg of gum drops. State your t erms and you can be christened Powtowketonkamonankata, Chief of the Pugwumps. The n ame means Big Soul or Heavy Hitter or anything you like.

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REALLY?

H OW utterly convulsed we are to hear that Joseph Bacon runs a

meat market in Kansas City, and out in Iowa Ezra Taylor is really a tailor. Doesn't it just sla y you to know that F red Water s is a milk man in Mil­waukee and Frank Wright t eaches penmanship in a Minnesota high school. You'd die if you were told that Henry Ryder was a jockey in the Ken­tucky Derby and Arthur F oot e runs a shoe store in Indianapolis. But hold your pulse, - what better name for a prize fighter than Alex Thrasher. Now get ready again:- Max Nichol is

a banker, Donald Beard is a barber , John Stone is a jeweler, Mrs. Julia Capper is a milliner, and Harry Fife is a band leader. No, Agnes, we have never heard of a policeman by the name of Billy Clubb.

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Daily papers give an account of a young Los Angeles surgeon who re­moved his own appendix. These doc­tors don't even trust each other.

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SOME PARENTS KNOW LITTLE OR NOTHING

T HERE is a certain brand of mod­ern parents who believe that it is

a wise thing to leave children in the house alone. They do it with an air of bravado, seemingly wishing to invite the horrified surprise of the n eigh­bors. It is a smart thing to do. It gives them notoriety, and besides, their children are "diffe'rent."

The other day two children, one two years old and the other fourteen months, were burned to death in a Canadian town. The husband was at work and the mother was shopping. The house caught fire and the children were trapped. This m ay be a lesson to some parents who leave their children, but to some it won't be. Many edu­cated parents should have their chil­dren sold for their own protection.

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Her cheeks burned; there was fi re in her eyes as she blazed forth her scorching reply.

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AT THE THEATRES MADISON, WISCONSIN, WEEK

ENDING OCT. 27

At the Garrick - "The Cyclone" At the Strand - "The Tempest" At the Orpheum - "The Wind"

(None of these were written by Zona Gale.

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STANDING UP FOR HIS RIGHTS

Oct. 25-An auto crashed into the back end of a lumber wagon demol­ishing car and wag on and breaking several legs and arms. It was after dark and no light was hung on t he wagon. The driver of the team said that the law didn't require it in Rock County. Why not drink iodine- there's no law against it.

The farmer who refuses to put a light on the rear of his wagon should have his brains scatter ed over the highway - if he has any.

The T weijth A nnual Roll Call ef the American R ed Cross

T HE TWELFTH Annual Roll Call of the American Red Cross will be

launched Armistice Day, N ovember 11, and cont inue until Thanksgiving, which this year is November 29. It is an invitation t o every American to join and by membership, help support the yea r a r ound activities in behalf of the whole country.

The two outstanding demands on Red Cr oss service a re disast er relief and assistance t o disabled veterans, men still in t he various armed ser­vices, and t heir families, along lines not otherwise provided for by the Gov­ernment , or other agency.

In the fiscal year closed June 30, last , the Red Cross served in more than 100 disasters over t he country. In the same period, it assist ed, in va­r ious ways, an average of 40,333 dis­abled veterans each m onth.

There are ot her services of the Reel Cross ; First Aid instruction by its ex­perts is in demand in every important indust ry; water rescue m ethods a re t aught all year, throughout the Uni­ted St ates, to curt ail drowning acci­dent s ; its health services are found at work in isolated communities as well as in populous cities. Thousands of people render volunteer service in many fields of Red Cross work.

It is the greatest single organized force for humanit a rian purposes in the world.

Do It Better With Gas Last year gas killed four thousand,

nine hundred and fifty-two per son s. Thirty inhaled it, nine hundred and t wenty-two lit matches over it, . and four thou sand stepped on it.-Denison F lamingo.

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WHO'S THE GOAT At a recent Medic Convention a

stirr ing orator spoke convincingly on the popular subject " Posture Reflexes following Lumber Sympa thect omy and Decerebration in Goat s." You should have heard it.

- --0 - -No, Mabel, John Bunyan was not a

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SIGN AT KILBOURN "Wisconsin Rapids 66 miles." But

what 's a difference of ten miles be­tween friends ?

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WELL, WHAT OF IT? During the past year, in the United

St ates, t here were 55,729 prohibition cases prosecuted, resulting in pr ison sentences t ot aling 8,000 years and fines amount ing to $7,000,000.

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EVENTS OF THE MONTH INTERNATIONAL }

Nicaragua held election No­vember fourth, Moncado, the lib­eral candidate being the winner. Under the arrangement negotiated with the rival revolutionary leaders by Col. Stimson, now governor gen­eral of the Philippines, the election was supervised by American Ma­rines with Gen. McCoy in charge. Both the rival candidates pledged themselves to request the assist­ance of the United States in con­ducting the next election in 1932, which does not look like imperial­ism.

Cuba has appropriated $75,680,-000 for an automobile road from end to encl of the Island. Mexico is also starting a road program.

French Cabinet has resigned. It was an amalgamation of sev­eral blocks, or blocs. Bi-party gov­ernment seems to work best, and seems to be an Anglo-Saxon insti­tution.

Reparations seem measurably nearer adjustment as a r e s u 1 t of German-French discussions look­ing toward a meeting for final fix­ing of the amount. Germany now knows under the Dawes agreement, how much she must pay annually, but not for how many years she must continue to pay.

The Graf Zeppelin is the first lighter-than-air craft to make the round trip from Europe. But Dr. Eckner, designer and naviga­tor, has decided it is not good enough for steady service across the Atlantic. It lost part of a stab­ilizer or fin near Bermuda and for a few full minutes the passenger.;; did not know whether the insurance company would win or lose. And on the return trip the ninety mile an hour wind which gave so quick a trip, apparently gave a scare as well. He thinks a larger, stronger craft must be designed, which will endure any storm and forge ahead in the face of any except the most severe headwinds, just as ocean st eamers now do. Zeppelins are still experimental.

Down House where one of the greatest minds the world has ever known did its greatest work, the home in England of Charles Dar­win, has been presented to the Brit­ish Association for the Advance­ment of Science, for a Darwin mu­seum.

A New Telescope of great power is now under construction and, after the years necessary for

the completion of such an appli­ance, will be perched atop some California mountain, to search out the mysteries of the heavens, not­ably the star clusters of the Milky Way, which are now supposed to be great galaxies of stars some bil­lion light years away. It will be a reflector like the Mt. Wilson tele­scope, but two hundred inches dia­meter of mirror instead of one hun­dred, increasing its light gathering ability four times.

Tourists from the United States will spend in foreign countries during 1928, according to the estimate of the Department of Commerce, nine hundred millions of dollars.

.r NATIONAL } l.----Hoover elected - Smith de­

feated, that is the gist of the new There is a iory about a one sided election which is apropos; unfor­tunately it isn't proper even though apropos.

Shipping Board, acting under the Jones Act, has loaned the Export Steamship Corporation $4,-500,000 at very low interest, for the construction of four passenger -cargo vessels for the Mediter­ranean trade.

Edison was presented the med­al voted him by Congress, Secre­tary Mellon representing the gov­ernment. Coolidge's message was, "Noble, kindly servant of the Uni­ted States and benefactor of man­kind, may you long be spared to continue your work and to inspire those who will carry forward your torch." Great Britain's charge d' affaires presented him with his first phonograph, which had been in the Kensington Museum. Incidentally the Outlook reported Coolidge as saying, "May you long be spread," which is something different.

Straw Votes of the Literary Digest, Farm Journal and other organs, which indicated an over­whelming Hoover victory, seem to have been true indicators.

Corn Bo1·ers are worm - like larvae which live inside stalks and ear s of corn, ultimately turning in­to moths which lay eggs and re­peat the cycle. The European kind imported in broom straw about sixteen years ago, are the bad kind. The Department of Agriculture de­clares it is hopeless to prevent its progress or more than delay it. In­evitably it will overrun all our great corn growing states, includ-

ing Wisconsin. It may mean an agricultural revolution, but the an­swer seems to be changed methods; all corn must be cut low to the ground, roots and remaining stalks well plowed under, fodder put in silos or all finely shredded to de­stroy overwintering larvae. Such p~actices as hogging down, snap­pmg ears and leaving stalks and feeding stalks without shre~lding with much of the coarser stalk part left, must be abandoned. Perhaps farmers unwilling to adopt these ~ ethods must be compelled by law m order that their fields may not spread the borers to the fields of those more careful.

George Barr McCutcheon is dead. Best known for his Graustark . tories, he a lso wrote Brew­ster's Millions, publishing it under an assumed name, to prove his fame \\·as not selling his later nov­els. It at once became a best seller.

Frank Crane, preacher and writ­er, also is dead.

Connelly, President of Queens Borough 1ew York City, "vice" mayor as it were, after mulcting the Borough of some nine mil­lion dol!ars through manipulated sewer contracts, is subject to a maximum punishment of a year in prison and five hundred fine. Law is funny sometimes.

Locomotives not so long ago burned six to eight pounds of coal per horse power hour, although at the same time the best steamships used one and a third pounds and the electric stations under a pound. This has now been improved so that the coal consumption of the railroads for the first four months of 1927 was 2,200,000 tons lower than the same period in 1926 ac­cording to the interstate com~erce commission. The saving for the year was estimated as $17,000,000 dollars. It has been accomplished by great boiler capacity, large fire­boxes, high pressure through super heaters, three and four cylinder en­gines, and g reat cooperation from the men driving and firing them. Many old type engines are of course still wasting coal.

Longhorn Steers played a big part and a picturesque part in the development of the West. They were long of legs, wind and speed as well as of horn, but short of beef and they spread from Texas and Mexico to Canada. The government desiring a few longhorn cattle as mementos of the occasion, was compelle~ to search all Texas, fin­ally gettmg one bull and t en cows

from the prickly pear country, and two bulls and ten cows from the great territory between Houston and Beaumont. They will be trans­ferred to Wichita National Forest and developed into a modest herd of two hundred fifty or three hun­dred animals.

Captain Collye1· and Harry Tuck­er having lowered the west-east transcontinental record in the Lockheed-Vega p I an e Yankee Doodle, lowered the East-West rec­ord likewise to 24 hours 51 min­utes. An attempt to again lower the west-east route resulted in the death of both, due to a sputtering engine and fog and rain in the mountains.

{ __ W_IS_C_O_N_SI_N __ f Kohler and the entire Republican

ticket won.

Hard Roads will be to the fore again in the Legislature. The Commi sion will offer a project paYing 5,000 miles of road in ten year s. The present funds are not to be touched, being pledged for bond issues by counties; instead, the gas tax is to be increased to four cents. The commission pro­poses to take the choice of roads out of the legislature.

J CANADA l l _ _ __ .r Claiming that the company, lack­

ing sympathy for Unionism, had di~charged newly elected Union of­ficial , a number of employees of the Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company went out on strike.

The Canadian Automobile Asso­ciation urged the Federal Govern­ment of Canada to appropriate S50,000,000.00 for the building _and maintenance of Trans-Canada h1gh­wa\·s. The Manitoba Government wa: urged to complete their part of the highway of 38 miles from Eh·a to the Ontario - Manitoba boundary. The Customs interpreta-ion that a tourist who does bu i­

ne~s while in Canada must leave his car in bond or pay customs duty on it was discussed by the Associa­tion and t ermed "ridiculous."

George Starke, an inmate of St. Vincent De Paul penitentiary at Ot­tawa was released after serving one half of his sentence of two years and twenty lashes for the theft of

1,3 0.00 when the real criminal made a confession of the robbery.

Wheat crop of 1928 is of unusual high quality according to the Board of Grain Commissioners.

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i WISCONSIN RAPIDS }

An important event in the prog­ress of Wisconsin Rapids was the dedication of the Tri-City Airport. It is one of the best landing fields in the st ate. Visiting airplanes numbering almost fifty, from twelve states, gave the port a true air spirit. Races and stunts by three army planes thrilled the vis­iting crowds.

One of the features of the air­port is the tri-motored Ford Plane purchased by the Nekoosa Edwards Paper Company one member of the city triangle.

Governor Zimmerman dedicated the field after arriving here from Milwaukee in a record airplane trip of one hour and twenty t hree min­utes.

J STEVENS POINT l 1_ ____ .r Honorable James J. Davis, sec­

retary of labor in the cabinet of President Coolidge and director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, gave an address at Stevens Point on October 29th, under the auspices of Hoover-Curtis Club of Portage County.

Charles Paddock, veteran sprint­er and holder of 17 world track records, spoke to the High School students on October 30th. The title of his address was "The Spirit of Sportsmanship."

It is very probable that the con­struction of the new training school at the Central State Teachers Col­lege may be commenced this win­ter, following action taken at a meeting of the board of normal school rngl'!nts held at Madison.

PORT ARTHUR l ...____ ___ .r Corby Wilson, well known in

Port Arthur for his baseball ex­ploits, is declared 1928 winner of the Nipigon trophy given annually by the C. N. R. for the largest square tail trout. His prize-winning fish weighed 7 ¼ lbs., had a length of 26 inches and girth of 15 ¼ inch­es.

The separation of the Thunder Bay, Rainy River and Kenora dis­tricts from Old Ontario and joining with Manitoba, or the formation of a new province is being discussed by business men and public men of Fort William and Port Arthur.

Ted Whalen retains the Thunder Bay Country Club golf champion­ship as a result of hi s decisive vic­tory over A. L. McEwen. He also won the handicap tournament for

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the Russel Cup by defeating Jimmy Gibson.

Gordon McMichael and Tim Hea­ley have left for Chicago where they will attend the aviation school which is connected with the Avia­tion Transportation Company. Gor­don is a brother of Don McMichael, Beadle Mixer man at Thunder Bay Mill.

Lake Superior, according to soundings taken at Port Arthur, was .22 feet higher in September than in August, and .65 feet higher than in September 1927 and 1.00 foot higher than the average stage of September for the last ten years.

The number of tourist s and other visitors cros ing the International Bridge at Pigeon River into Can­ada was greater during the sum­mer of 1927 by 2,595 per sons than during the same period this year. The decrease in 1928 was due to the terrible condition of the Interna­tional highway ten miles north of the boundary.

Port Arthur building permits for 1928 passed the five million dollar mark, the highest in the city's hi -tory.

Contract for the Port Arthur General Hospital was awarded to M. H . Braden and work on the new st ructure was immediately started.

Pool Terminal Elevator Number Seven, the world's largest single unit grain elevator, was placed in operation during October. Barnett­McQueen Construction Company were the main contractors.

The new Port Arthur high school will open its doors, for classes in the shops only, on October 22nd. The class rooms will not be ready t ill at least December. Night school will not open till the first of J anu ­ary 1929.

l EVENTS at the MILLS f WISCONSIN RAPIDS MILL The new Finishing Room will

soon be housed in and be a part of our mill. The bricklayers have been busy the past two weeks and they soon will be through, after which time the roof will be put on enclos­ing the building and the car shed.

The Bleach Plant also is prog-

New F inishing Room

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New Bleach Plant

r essing rapidly and will be h oused in soon.

The extension on our wood hot pond has been completed and open­ed for use. The new slasher saw to be used in connection with the ex­t ended hot pond is being installed an d will be r eady for operation within a week or so.

Nice work has been done in con­nection with putting markings on the pulp shed roof to guide incom­ing airoplanes to the Tri-Cities air­port. The letters and figures placed on the Pulp shed are eighteen feet high while the arrow pointing to the airport is one hundred feet long.

BIRON MILL

Barking Drums Renewal Preparations are now complete to

commence renewal of steel work on Biron barking drums, and a crew of men will be kept actively at work until the job is finished.

By shutting down one drum at a time, it is hoped that the others will be sufficient to prepare wood for the grinder s, and any shortage which might occur in pulp supply will be made up of stock from stor-age. .

It is estimated that the work of renewal will occupy a little over three weeks.

Smoke Stack Repaired

The brick chimney of the Biron boiler plant is now being repaired. A portion of the brick work is to be renewed, and r epointing of all joints over the whole area will be done as a mean s of avoiding the penetration of moisture during the winter months.

A new four-point lightning rod and conductor will be erected to prevent future damage from elec­tric storms which are so prevalent in this locality at certain seasons.

INTERLAKE MILL New Interlake Digester Room

Beats Cold Weather Jack Frost lost out in his race

with the Inter lake Construction crew. November first finds the new building with roof complete, all g lass in windows, and all pipe tun­nels complete. Most of the outside piping is also done. It's a comfort-

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able feeling for the gang to look out through the big arched win­dows and not have to worry about frozen fingers and makeshift rain spouts.

Three steel shells are complete and the rivet er s a re drumming away on the fifth shell while ma­son s are lining number one. Elec­tricians and pipe fitters are run­ning conduits and pipes of all sizes shapes and kinds in every direction. Kessler and Meinberg need to watch their step or else stock will be pouring out of switch boxes and electric wires will be found clog­ging up relief lines to digesters. Van and Ellef have been appointed a special committee of two to keep things untangled.

PORT ARTHUR MILL NEWS

The Francis L. Robbins, owned by the Newaygo Tug Line, deliver­ed three cargoes of tract ors to the Fort William dock and has now been remodelled by millwrights of the Thunder Bay Mill to handle grain. It is expected that the boat will deliver three cargoes of grain to eastern ports before freeze up.

Mr. C. E. Jackson was hurriedly called to the home of his parents a t Madison, Wis., where his mother was seriously ill. Mrs. Jackson is improving rapidly .

Earl McCourt pleasantly spent ten days vacation at the home of his mother at St. Croix Falls, Wis­consin. While there Mickey attend­ed the Chicago-Minnesota home­coming football game at Minnea­polis.

The t emporary Harland drive motors on No. 2 machine, which were installed last spring to replace motors that were lost with the steamship Kamloops, were recently replaced with new Harland motors.

J LABOR l t _ ___ .f Interlake Advisory Committee Beginning Oct. 22 the noon lunch

period wi' l again be from 12 to 12 :30 P. M . instead of from 11 :30 to 12 M. as heretofore.

The latter period was adopted March 1, 1927 with the inaugura­t ion of the eight hour day for day crews for the purpose of having the working day divided into even four hour forenoon and afternoon periods.

After several months trial this did not seem to work out very sat­isfactorily, especially while the new digester building was under con­struction. The new construction crew took t heir lunch period at 12, and the Interlake maintenance

Biron Employee Went Raccoon Hunting-

Earl Greubel, drum tender , spent a couple of weeks in the northern part of the stat e hunting raccoons, and is shown here with the hides of three of the animals. He sold six hides before returning home.

The New California Steering Wheel

Wilbur Hayes has gone and done it. Ed Reed, carpenter boss on the new digester building noticed Wilbur's deep studious look and const ant ref­erence to his calculus books and slide rule. Hence one awful rainy day last week Gertrude McDonough and Mar y Crowe witnessed Wilbur's demonstra­tion of his California Safety Steering wheel. Inasmuch as his Chevrolet has not a top nor a lock, Wilbur after careful mathematical calculations, fig­ured that heavy rains plus a roll of electrical tape would m ake a robber proof lock.

On a wet day Hayes simply takes the steering wheel rim to pieces and puts it in his pocket for safe keeping on leaving his car. When desiring to drive he can quickly fit the detachable r ' m in place, wrap it t ight with tape, and WHOOPEE ! Hayes and the whole Interlake office fo rce disappear in a cloud of dust.

One Never Knows "Don't be afraid of that dog. You

know a barking dog never bites." "I know, but you can never tell

when he's going to stop barking." - Green Goat.

crew would therefore be forced t o do likewise. To prevent confusion and overlapping it was decided to go back to the old universal 12-12 :30 lunch period.

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Palace Theatre S .NDA Y, Nov. 25

"The Blue Danube" with Leatrice Joy 3 Acts of Vanudeville De Luxe :\10 .X .• Tl..: E. - WED., Nov. 26-28 Dolores Del Rio in "Ramona"

TH"CR. - FRI., rov. 29-30 ~1ilton Sills in "The Hawk's Nest"

S C.XDA Y, Dec. 2 '·Lady Be Good" ' (Mulhall and Mackaill)

3 Act s of Vandeville THC R. - FRI., Dec. 6-7

Lon Chaney in "Laugh Clown Laugh" SUNDAY, Dec. 9

··Circus Rookies" - (Dane and Arthur) Vaudeville

.\10.X. - TUE., Dec. 10-11 '· how Girl" - (Alice White)

SUNDAY, Dec. 16 ··The Actress" - (Norma Shearer)

Vaudeville '.\10::-.l". - TllE. Dec. 17-18

William Boyd in "Night Flyer" COMING XMAS WEEK

Colleen Moore in "Oh Kay !" Colman and Banky in "Two Lovers"

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Reginald Denny in "Good Morning Judge" TUE. - WED. - THUR., Nov. 27-29 Zane Grey's "Vanishing Pioneer '

With Jack Holt SUN. - MON., Dec. 2-3

"Buck Privates" TUE. - WED. - THUR., Dec. 4-6

Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton in "The Big Killing"

SUNDAY, Dec. 9 Rin Tin Tin in "A Race For Life"

MON. - TUE. - WED. - THUR. Dec. 10-13 Emil Jannings

In the production that is considered as the most perfect ever made

"The Patriot" SUN. - MON., Dec. 16-17

"Half a Bride" - (Esther Ralston) TUE. - WED. - THUR., Dec. 18-20

Fred Thompson in "Kit Carson" SUN. - MON., Dec. 23-24

Irene Rich in "Powder My Back" CHRISTMAS FEATURE

Richard Dix in "Moran of the Marines" t

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Elimination of Waste in Electrical Eqiiipment ARIOUS editorials have been written dealing with the op­portunities for the elimina­tion of wast e. These op­portunities solely to factory or mill. Engineers are con­fronted daily with problems

of this kind. Following are some of the things that bear watching: Water, Oil and Dust Ruin Electrical

Windings The more water, oil, dust and dirt

that we can keep away from electric­al machinery the fewer breakdowns we will have. Oil on the windings will invite dust to stick and form a putty over the coils and in the air vents of the machine so that heat cannot be dissipated as readily as it should be, and the result is local overheating of the insulation. The insulat ion will crack open due to excess heat causing moist air to enter these cracks and short circuit some of the winding in the coil, causing excess heating until finally it blows out due to a short circuit or ground. Not all failures are due to this, however, but it is one of the causes that bear wat ching.

Test With Meger for Insulation Resistance

Some of these defects can be test­ed with instruments. You can t est for insulation r esistance, bearing in mind that differ ent types of equipment will have varying values of insulation re­sistance. For inst ance, the wiring will usually show a higher value of resist­ance than the apparatus to which it connects. There is no hard or fast rule for determining what value of insulation resistance is best . New equipment will differ with equipment that has been in service for years.

The following will serve as a guide: For 110 volt equipment 250,000

ohms. For 220 volt equipment 500,000

ohms. For 440 volt equipment 700,000

ohms. For 2300 volt equipment - Infin­

ity is safest . Starting equipment up to 440 volts

is considered fair when t est s show 450,000 ohms of r esistance. Records should be kept of all tests t o deter­mine when to act. Needless Burning of Electric Lights

Wasteful A great amount of unnecessary

power is consumed by leaving electric lights burning when not needed. Then, also, the continuous burning of lamps deteriorates them very quickly. Much can be saved in dollars where a sys­tematic precaution is exercised. F or example, lights that are to light a dark corner are often put on the same

By E. E. Belter, Electrical Foreman, Wisconsin Rapids Division

circuit with lights in places where day­light would serve the purpose about ten hours a day. This necessitat es burning all the lights on the circuit with possibly only fifty percent of them necessary. Another common cause of waste is to leave lights burn­ing unnecessarily. Artificial light is needed for a short period and then some one forget s to turn the light off. The result: the lamp burns out days or weeks before its time should ex­pire.

Careful Handling of Extensions Saves Lamps

Many lamps are broken when used in extensions, due to rough handlmg, lack of proper guard for the lamp or the u se of the wrong type of lamp for portable light. Nothing but extension bulbs should be used in extensions.

Many new light outlets should be avoided when new machinery is being put in. Move the light from the mach­ine that has been discontinued to the new place if possible to do so. Size of Motor Should Correspond to

Load Cut down or increase motor sizes

where the motor load has increased or decreased, depending on conditions. If the load has increased to such an ex­tent as to cause extra heating, the mo­tor should be changed at first chance, for example a 15H.P. motor pulling 25 FI. P. When a new proposition comes up where a 15 H. P. motor is needed, a 25 H. P . should be bought for the new job and the two exchanged. In case of the motor being an induction motor it will also cause a poor power factor on the system and unnecessary heating when underloaded.

Improper Carbon Brushes Cause Needless Waste

Much wast e can come from improp­er use of carbon brushes. Every elec­tric machine has characteristics that differ, so each machine demands dif­ferent attention. Different grades of brushes are some times substituted and if put on a machine and run will result in very poor commutation, and the result is a lot of labor and lost time in getting the machine to its former state. Wrong brushes put on slip r ings will sometimes cause a brush to wear out in a week wher eas the proper brush may run a year or more. Another source of waste is the changing of brushes too soon · or not soon enough. When not changed soon enough it may cut deep into the com­mutator or ring, causing hours of m a­chining to get t he machine back into shape again. If taken off too soon

there is a lot of useful life left. Fre­quent inspection will acquaint the at­tendant as to a brush's normal life.

Cost of Carbon Brushes High

It may be interesting to know that carbon brushes cost from one to three dollars a piece. If you change a brush that costs three dollars when it is two thirds worn out you are wasting one dollar. Letting rough commutators and slip rings run causes fast brush wear. The r eason for rough commutators and slip rings are so numerous that space will not permit full discussion. One of the main causes of rough slip rings on synchronous motors and gen­ators is that the attendant forgot to pull the field switch and the current is left on long after the machine has come to rest.

Proper Starting of Electric Machinery

Important

Much waste can come from improp­er starting of electric machinery. The most frequent and common cause is pulling the starter into running posi­tion t oo quickly. This has bad effect s on the st a rter and motor. First, the starting current is several t imes in excess of the normal running current, which has a tendency to burn the con­tacts in the starter, and second it has a tendency to raise the coils out of the slots of the motor and cause chafing of the coils. In case of starting a large motor too quickly you may even cause a change in the frequency on the pow­er system, which in turn causes varia­tion on other motors to such an ex­tent as to cause breaks on the paper machines.

Faulty Bearings Are Wasteful

A lot of power can be wasted due to faulty motor bearings. Proper oil­ing of same is important, also the u se of the right kind of oil depending on type of bear ing, speed, location, t em­perature, humidity, belt tension or any other thing that may effect oil and grease consist ency. The most common cause of failure on roller or ball bear­ings with alemite cups is fluid fric- · tion. Too much oil or g rease is as bad as not enough.

Curb Needless Waste When Cutting Wires

Another source of waste is cutting wire longer t han is needed for a speci­fic job. When new wire is being cut to be pulled into conduit, the right length should be cut so nothing is wasted when the splice is made. Ex­tension wire left lying around to be trucked over and st epped on, and wire left hanging over st eam pipes, etc., will soon necessitate replacement.

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Biron Bus Is Used Daily By Schoof Clzifdren

With the opening of chool in September, the Biron bus carries a greater responsibility. Besides its regular tr:ps with working men , there i s an average of 30 chil­dren who occupy the bus to and from the schools in Wis­consin Rapids. It is more difficult to transport children and demands a ruly driver to keep them from getting in­.iured. Wes'ey Eberhardt, driver, can be seen through the window at the wheel.

6.Biron D irects Air Traffic

With the opening of the a irport in Wisconsin Rapids on the 20th and 21st of Oct., Biron helped with a large paint­ing on the roof of the pulp storage shed to direct air traffic to t he Airport. The letters read "Wisconsin Rapids 5 m:les", and the arrow indicates the direction of the port. The paint ing was done first with a coat of illuminum and then a coat of yellow. The arrow measures 100 feet with a :'lO inch stripe and the letter s are 16 feet with a 24 inch str;pe.

2 7 ,ooo Cords if Pu! pwoorl

27,000 cords of rossed pulp wood and a section of t he rough wood in s torage at the Thunder Bay Mlll.

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Pulp 'f esting and Laboratory Control (This is the twdfth and last article bf L~·man Heern an on the Manufacture of Pulp for ewsprint Paper,)

/mODERN industry ha made

I• great strides in developing

from the stage of an art 11 where operation is controll ed

I by guess to a cience wher · operation is controlled by ex­act knowledge. In metallurgy

the little puddling furnace where the Puddler stirred and guessed at when his batch of iron was done has been uperceded by the giant electric fur­

nace closely controlled by delicate in­struments and sensitive te t s. In dye­stuffs and explosives the entire pro­cedure has been revolutionized and even the raw materials have been changed so that now these industries are based on and controlled by exact chemical knowledge. Pulp and Paper Industry a Laggard

The pulp and paper industry has been one of the laggards in this gen­eral development of industry. Prnb­ably the reason is that the raw mate­rials (principally wood) are the prod­ucts of plant life and are not clearly understood from a scientific stand­point. The chemistry of wood is very complicated, and this complication is transmitted to the decomposition of wood into pulp and the subsequent handling in the pulp and paper mak­ing process. As a result much of the operation is controlled by rule of thumb methods, and where tests are made they are not regarded usually as conclusive evidence but are taken as indications which must be correlated to other observations.

Knowledge as to what happens in the pulp making process is being rap­idly accumulated by work done at the Forest Products Laboratories and other places, and the more progressive and better managed mills are depend­ing more and more on laboratory tests to control the operating stages in manufacture and the quality of the .finished product. It i obvious of course that exact knowledge opens the war to exact control and uniform quality.

The testing itself is made by fore­men of departments or laboratory men and the test s may be made on either physical or chemical properties. The physical tests are by far the most im­portant.

Physical Tests The freeness test i the determin­

ation of the ease or freeness with which pulp may be drained, and is based largely on the drainage effect gained on a Fourdrinier paper mach­.ine wire. It is made by pouring 1000 cc. of stock at .4% density into a cylindrical container with a f f!,lse bot-

Testing Laborato1·y tom u.f wire cloth. The hinged solid bottom is allowed to drop and the water drainage tht'ough the screen is caught in a separating f unnel. The larger amount of water goes through the bottom orifice while a side tube collect the water which is measured in ccs, to give the freeness number. Beside the density, which is very im­portant, the principal variable is the temperature. A high temperature g·ives a freer tock and a resulting higher test due to the reduced vis­cosity of water. Conversely lower tem­peratures give a less free property t o stock through the greater viscosity of water. 20°C. is usually taken as a standard temperature and all tests corrected to thi. standard.

Moisture tests in laps must be made becau ·e pulp is bought and sold on a bone dry or air dry moisture content basis. The method is very simple, the samples being placed in an oven at a temperature of 105°C. until dry. The sampling is really the most important part of this test and must be made with great care and the methods used should be approved by the parties in­terested. The method usually taken for wet lap. is the strip method where a narrow strip is taken across the width of the lap. For hydraulic press­ed pulp the modified wedge method is used where wedges are taken with their base. at the edge of the lap and t heir point in the center; and for roll pulp thf' auget' method, where circu­lar di sc:; are bored from the roll.

The den:;ity teo;t or thickness tesl which may be made on either thin ,;tock 01· th.ick slush pulp is the most important on in controlling screen­ing, deckering a nd slushing to paper machines. By means of it we can de­termine the percentage of pulp against water and the amount of dry pulp be­ing handled. This test is made by weighing the wet sample, filtering it by means of suction through a filter cloth, drying in an oven. and reweigh­ing the dry fiber.

Strength tests on both groundwood and sulphite are made by making a hand sheet of the pulp, drying it and testing the sheet on a Mullen or Elm-

endorf Tester. In sulphite, which can be developed in strength by beating, ii is customary in some mills to beat the stock in a mall laboratory beater, te -ting at intervals until maximum strength has been reached.

Color te ts are made by comparing the pulp with a standard ·ample, either with the naked eye or with a tintometer.

Dirt tests are made by counting the :;pecks of dirt in a sample of a given size. This counting is usually made easier by placing the sample over a strong light.

Chemical Tests

In the making of pulp for use in newsprint paper, chemical tests are u ed only to a very small extent, but there are everal which may be listed as of general interest.

The ro in or pitch content of pulp may be determined by extraction of a ample with alcohol and ether and

then evaporation of the ether extract and the weighing of the dried sample.

The acidity or alkalinity is some­t imes de irable to know and this may be determined by use of litmus paper, or if a more accurate method is de­sired a titration can be made or a pH test can be made with the LaMotte equipment.

The ash test can be made by drying the pulp sample, weighing burning, and again weighing the ash residue.

Jack Knows His Shavings ·

Jack Watts, roll grinderman at the Thunder Bay Mill.

hopping Around He: You're next. Haircuit or sham­

poo? She: I really don't know just yet.

I'm looking about a bit. I may be back later.-Carolina Buccaneer.

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Call 416 and our red trucks and wagons will do the rest.

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Save and Invest Do Not Gamble

Your surplus earnings safely iu­vested in sound interest bearing security will soon greatly in­crease your yearl? earnings.

The First Bond & Mortgage Company

Rond ,- - Mortga~es - Abstracts - lns11ranc1·

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Are You Prepared? You may have the best coal and a full bin of it - but if your home is poorly insulated you waste your coal. We have insulating materials for your home which will pay for themselves in a short time by the amount of coal they save. Call or see us - We will be glad to help you.

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High Grade Machinery for the Pulp and Paper Mill

POCKET GRINDER~Three and Four-Pocket. Designed for higher speeds and great­er pressures. The most rugged pocket grinder built. The grinding area of our large four-pocket grinder is equal to that of any continuous magazine grinder on the mar­ket at the present time.

WET MACHINES-Embody many improvements over other makes. lmpo.rtant changes in design permit 10% greater production than other machines of the same size.

DECKERS, THICKENERS, SA VE-ALLS-All sizes. Substantial construction. Single unit or battery setting. The Pascol arrangement of independent vats forming a con­tinuous vat for battery setting of deckers requires a minimum of floor space.

P ASCOL COARSE SCREEN-Our latest addition to the Pasc~l line. 3/ 16 perforations in screen plates rejects all knots and slivers and delivers r elatively fine stock. Elim­inates entirely use of knotters, bull and sliver screens.

PASCOL "RAPID'' BEATER-Offers opportunities for tremendous savings in floor space, labor and power costs. Delivers uniformly refined stock .

PASCOL JORDANS-Built in four sizes r anging in capacity from 20 to 150 tons of stock in 24 hours. For belt drive or direct connection to motor.

BELLMER BLEACH PROPELLERS-The universally known method of bleaching, washing and mixing :i\tock. Turns out clean and uniform stock u s i n g a minimum amount of bleaching fluid and at a low power cost.

PASCOL-HAYTON AGITATOR PUMPS-A new and efficient method of stock circu­lation and agitation. Readily adaptable to existing s t o ck chests of any size and shape. Particularly efficient on heavy density stock.

P ASCOL-HAYTON CENTRIFUGAL PUMP~Designed by the Hayton Pump & Blower Co., Appleton, Wis., to suit your maividua1 needs. Manufactured in Canada by us to their designs. Test ed before shipment.

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Flat Screens, Rotary Pulp Screens, Bull Screens. Stock Washers, Rotary Bleaching Boilers, Digesters.

Rolls of all kinds, Jordan & Beater Filling. Pasco! Acid Resisting· Bronze Castings.

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