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Dr. Johnson Gives a Straight Talk on Telephone Ques tion at Willmar. A simple statement of the actual telephone situation here in Willmar ought to be all that is necessary to induce any intelligent patriotic cit izen to vote for city ownership. The first point I wish to empha size is that the Northwestern Tele phone Exchange Co. cannot from the nature of the corporation satis factorily operate a local telephone exchange. The corporation is es sentially a long distance telephone company and its local exchanges are operated as feeders to the long distance business, and not operated with a view to the best interest of the locality. If there is any Northwestern ex change that is giving satisfaction anj where in the state of Minnesota, I have on diligent inquiry failed to find such a one. To mention neigh boring towns, there is Litchfield, Granite Falls, Olivia, Bird Island all kicking like steers at the treat- Mamre, May 31.—A great ice cream social will be given by the Cyclone Club on Saturday evening, June 12, on the south shore of Mamre Lake, near O. P. Ecklunds' place. The evening will be spent in various kinds of amusements, such as playing games, boat riding, etc., etc. I case of bad weather, the social will be held the follow ing evening. A very good time is expected and all are cordially invit ed to attend. Mrs. Eva Norman arrived last It's So Easy Call or send for our New Catalogue Wiggins' Co. Fifth Street. The A MOST PLEASING GIFT FOR THE GRADUATE Ris to Taxpayers. ment of the N. W. Telephone com pany—and almost all of them have had to install another exchange to save their citizens from oppression. One telephone exchange in any city is from the nature of the case an absolute monopoly. A telephone must have a connection with the central to be of use. A water plant, or a light plant is not a mo nopoly. People in this country can dig tubular wells and secure good water in their yards anywhere, and they can burn kerosene or gasoline. But a telephone central is, as I have said, an absolute monopoly. And every user of a phone is at the ab solute mercy of that one central. It is true that the telephone is in law a common carrier, and in theo ry it ought to serve all its custo mers impartially. But in practice, as human nature is constituted now, it does not do so. Railroads build up one town at the expense of an other, law or no law to the con- Friday from Willmar to visit for several days at the F. N. Anderson home. Miss Annie Swanson came up from Minneapolis Saturday to make a short stay at her home here. Rev. C. V. Bjorklundof St. Cloud called at the J. O.Hagman home last Thursday. He left on Friday for Murdock for a brief stay. Services will be conducted next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock at Lundby Mission church by Nat Franklin of Elgin, 111. James Abrahamson returned last Wednesday from Minneapolis. He has made a several months' stay in that city. Mrs. F. O. Carlson went to Min neapolis last Thursday for a week's visit. She will also make a day's stay with friends in Delano while on her way home. Peter Swedberg, clerk at the Mamre Store, made a trip to Will mar last Friday. He was accom panied by his cousin, Miss Anna Johnson. Swen Swenson lost a valuable horse last Wednesday night. Dr. Ilstrup of Willmar drove thru here one day last week. Miss Hannah Nelson of Pennock is staying at the home of C. G. Akerson. Miss Alma Odell of Willmar was a guest over Sunday at the Jonas Johnson home. Mr. and Mrs. P. Dahlsten of west Salem were visitors at the Rodman home. Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Hokanson of Swift county, spent Saturday and Sunday at Gust Danielson's. Dave Rodman went to Kerkhoven last Saturday, returning Sunday. Miss Alice Soderholm came up Question of Watches is largely a matter of taste nowadays the various makes being so nearly equal in time keeping qualities. If there is any difference of degree, surely none can excell the time- {y )ieces we so confident offer you that we guarantee their precis ion and accuracy. In plain and fancy cases we have an infinite variety. Reduction Sale on Watches and Chains at ELMQUIST'S trary. All monopolies are operated to make money out of the public for non-resident stockholders—and all the traffic will bear—and they have their local supporters every where whom they favor at the ex pense of the public at large. And all effort to regulate these corpora tions by law has failed, especially so in this state. Take the N. W. Telephone Ex change Co. as an example. In towns where it has competition its rates are low, or nothing at all as I am told, in order to hold a footing. In towns like Willmar, where it has no competition, it charges enough more than reasonable rates to make up for its losses elsewhere. It re fuses to comply with the charter of the city—the organic law which all ordinary citizens and taxpayers must obey. The citizens of Will mar have fixed up their streets and boulevards at great expense and now this autocratic telephone mo nopoly mutilates and mars our bou levards and shade trees and plants its poles in front of our doors with out as much as "if you please." When our city council sends a com mittee down to inquire what all this means, the company simply an swers the familiar, "What are you going to do about it?" But that is only the prelude. There is blood in the Willmar tur nip and it must be squeezed. And so 50 cents per phone per month is from Minneapolis on Saturday of last week. She intends to return today. Buster Brown. The Pennies In tne Mall Box. We're Uncle Sam's most favored pets, We're hearty and we're hale, We've nothing In this world to do But glide round with the mail, But one thing almost breaks oar hearts, And our nervous system shocks, It's the everlasting pennies That we're fishing from the box We carry stamps and envelopes, And postal cards and such, And we would like to sell afew 'Twould please us very much, But a man can't sell unless,you buy, No matter how he talks, So we have to keep on diving After the pennies in the box. It's alright in the springtime. Or when summer breeses blow* But a different proposition When its thirty-two below, When all your fingers and your toes Are frozen hard as rocks. It's most anything but funny Scratching pennies from the box. And now, quite confidentially, We'll tell you something more, A rural carrier (way out west) Forgot himself and swore, Says he "I can stand the snow drifts, I can stand the frosen locks, But blast the measly pennies In the blasted measly box." F. D. No 1 and 2, Pennock. DANGER IN DELAY Kidney Diseases Are Too Danger ous for Willmar People to Neglect. The great danger of kidney trou bles is that they get a firm hold be fore the sufferer recognizes them. Health is gradually undermined. Backache, headache, nervousness, lameness, soreness, lumbags, urinary trouobles, dropsy, diabetes, and Bright's disease follow in merciless succession. Don't neglect your kidneys. Cure the kidneys with the certain and safe remedy, Doan's Kidney Pills, which has cured peo ople right here in this locality. Mrs. Mary Olson, Swift Ave., Litchfield, inn., says: "It gives me great pleasure to tell others of the merits of Doan's Kidney Pills. For four years I suffered from kidney complaint. A dull, grind ing pain across my kidneys was with me constantly and any stoop ing aggravated the trouble. The kidney secretions were so irregular as to cause me a great deal of an noyance. I became tired and worn out easily and was so weak at times that I could hardly move. I finally began using Doan's Kidney Pills and received the greatest relief." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffa lo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's— and take no other. SALVATION ARMY. Major O. Engvall, the Divisional Officer of the Salvation Army, will visit the local corps here in Will mar June 8, and he will lead an ice cream social at the Army Hall on Benson avenue. There will be good music and song, including solos and duets, and recitations. Admission, 10 cents. Everybody welcome. Gloves, Skirts and Fancy Waists. Dresses, Silks, Laces. S 1 Best Interests of Willmar Demand Municipal Ownership Telephon Syste Ma be Acquire Withou Bond and Withou added. Six dollars per phone on 800 phones is $4,800.00 per annum. What reason is given to the peo ple of Willmar for this raise? A Commercial Club committee was down and examined the company's books and saw the reason for and agreed on behalf of the city to this raise, which the company in its generosity (sic) have deferred until now! But that committee says, "This story of book examination and agreement for the city of Will mar is a lie—pure and simple." What next? I don't know, but I hope the company will quit its poli cy of deception and let us candidly and frankly know what its program is. If it be the King George of Willmar and has the right to levy "taxation without representation" on the citizens of Willmar, let it say so openly. If the company is fairly and honestly entitled to $5, 000.00 more per annum for its tele phone service to Willmar, I for one do not object—but I for one want to be shown that its claim is just. I want to see a bill rendered for services performed. $5,000.00 per annum is $10,000.00 in two years— enough to build our sewer system. $5,000.00 per annum is equal to one half of our city taxes and one-third of our school taxes. $5,000.00 is a fortune to an ordinary family, and a competence to several families. Will the citizens of Willmar vote this gratuity to eastern millionaires I OI«mirtlng Bowman county felt the tremble of the earthquake which visited the neighboring states last Saturday evening at 9:30 o'clock, but as we had a hard windstorm at the time it was thought that our shanties were shaken by the wind and no thing more was thought about it until the Bowman paper stated that we had been visited by earthquake Then it finally dawned upon us, family men as well as bachelors, that our shacks had been tossed around by a more serious element than the wind but as yet no dam age has been repoited. The earth quake was felt between tie Mis souri river and the Rocky moun tains, and we see from the paper that the tremble was felt as far east as Little Falls, Minn., but as to the 1 to spend in riotous living—because some telephone hireling comes around and pat them on the shoul der and say they are good fellows? I hope not. But let me repeat that although the question of rates is of vital im portance, it is by no means the gravest charge against the N. W,. Telephone Exchange Co. It is the overbearing manner in which the company has treated the city of Willmar from the start that makes all loyal citizens of Willmar feel that they have been insulted by an overbearing bully in their own homes. It acquires its pretended rights to do business here by devi ous ways unbeknown to the citizens of Willmar, and when the people are aroused at the unheard of pre tense to rights in the city, its super intendent states publicly in mass meeting to our citizens that when the time comes that the local tele phone franchise expires, then his company will, of course, apply for another franchise and only ask for fair treatment. The people of Willmar took this fair talk for good and believed it was spoken in good faith. When the time came to renew the charter—then—well, then the company has one already! Then follows the council committee —and the ex parte Commercial Club committee, and finally the at tempt of the company to load its bulldozing program onto the back of the members of the latter com mittee. If this record of the com pany, which is well known to every citizen of Willmar, is not enough to damn it forever in the eyes of every respectable man in the city, then I have no more to say. Then a few dollars more'or less in craven tribute is immaterial. Then the great city of the Seventh congres sional district deserves to be the by-word and the laughing stock of the surrounding towns which when the company tried its bulldozing game on them arose in their might and threw the obnoxious brute out of doors. And now for the remedy. As I Coats, Suits S a a a Jackets F*rmm»lrig"| Corsets Shoes, Hats and Ties. PRICES LESS THAN CITY PRICES 1 THE MODEL PANTORIUDi J«w«lry Store Ladles and Gents Clothes Cleaners Phone 404 N. D. Bachelor Boy Writes. Rhame, N. D., May 23.—The many readers of the Tribune in this locality extend to Editor Lawson and the lady of his choice hearty congratulations, and wish them a long and happy voyage en the sea of matrimony, and may their days be many and happy. truth of that we do not know. We are sorry to learn from the "Norway Lake Nibbles" in last week's Tribune that Mrs. Henry Swenson had to be take to St. Paul to undergo an operation. Her many friends here sincerely hope that she may pass safely thru the operation and speedily recover her health. Mr. Swenson has had a heavy burden resting on him the past winter during his wife's ill ness, and his many friends here wish to extend their sympathy to him. Oscar Odland and Alex Anderson have been busy for a week or more removing a fence for a rancher in our neighborhood, but now have the job completed and they say they will not tackle a similar job again, as they found that digging holes for the posts was something else than fun. Oscar Edberg has his sod barn completed, and it reflects great credit on Mr. Edberg's ability as an architect, being one of the best as well as neatest sod barns in this locality. We can supply you with anything in Baseball Goods. If we have not the articleyou wish,we will get it for you. Infielders' Gloves, Basemen and Catchers' Mitts, Balls, Bats, Masks, Toe and Heel Plates, Glove Soft ener, Athletic Supporters, Score Books, Wrist Supporters and Rule Books. N N I S O O O 8 Tennis Rackets, Balls, Center and Backstop Nets, Tennis Guides. Carlson Bros. & Frost Druggists and Stationers. •nm ium Send for our Clean ing Price Book. Gents' Suits Pressed 50 cents. |P*ollnlng, R—pmlrlngl Skirts Pressed 50 cents. TA^.ST?F N. D. Bachelor Boy. 4 ana have said, there is no remedy for the oppression of corporations be fore the courts. Events or the last half a dozen years have conclusively demonstrated that public utility corporations are above the law, in the nation, the state, and the mun icipality. Hence another remedy had to be'found, and the legislature of 1907 passed a law authorizing cities of Minnesota to acquire and operate public utilities, in order to save their citizens from the oppres sion of private utility corporations. This law was passed at the urgent demand from municipalities from all over the state in the same fix that Willmar finds itself now. It provides that the public must first vote on the question to authorize the.city council to undertake a pub lic utility business, and it requires three-fifths of the votes to carry. The council of Willmar has now called an election for that purpose, to come off June 22 next. ji If three-fifths of those who vote at this election are for the propo sition of city ownership of public utilities, then the council can pro ceed to acquire the telephone plant we now have, or to build one of its own. The capital to do this busi ness with DOES NOT COME PROM GENERAL TAXATION, DOES NOT COME FROM THE FUNDS OF THE CITY. Don't forget that. Men will talk about bonding the city for a telephone plant. This is all bosh, and simply Northwestern Telephone Exchange wool for the eyes of the people. UNDER THIS LAW THE COUN CIL CANNOl BOND THE CITY FOR ONE RED CENT FOR A TELEPHONE PLANT. The coun cil can only bond the telephone plant for debt incurred in building or acquiring it. The council then issues telephone certificates bearing a certain interest. You see then the telephone users only maintain this telephone plant and not the general taxpayer. But who will buy the telephone certificates to furnish capital to build or acquire a plant? Why, the PJO^-(REEN|AKE Spicer-on-Green-Lake, May 31. —Mrs. A. J. Anderson will enter tain the Ladies Aid society of the Swedish Lutheran church on Thurs day, June 10, in the afternoon and evening. There will be no services in the Swedish Lutheran church before June 27, as Rev. Seastrand is going away. Nels Boreen left for Galvard Fri day, returning Wednesday. He was accompanied by his mother, who intends to stay with them for some time. Victor Norsten left last Monday for Minneapolis, where he expects to stay during the summer. He has been employed as street car conductor. A band concert was given in the auditorium Sunday afternoon by the Spicer and Kandiyohi bands. Some excellent music was furn ished. Miss Elsie Monson returned home on Thursday from Willmar, where she had been visiting for some time. An entertainment and ice cream social will be given at the Nest Lake schoolhouse, Dist. 9, on Fri day evening, June 4. Everybody welcome. Ben Hendrickson transacted busi ness at New London Friday. Alma Swanson returned home on Saturday from the G. A. college St. Peter, where she has been study ing music the past winter. Mrs. Mary Downs of Willmar vi sited with her son and daughter-in law Mr. and Mrs. P. Downs, this week. Mrs. Levander of Grove City was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Healy, last week. Mrs. Albert Anderson leaves to day for New London, where she will stay with her mother-in-law, Mrs. J. A. Anderson, for a ew days. Dan Downs has been appointed assistant mail carrier on route 2. Maude Howard, who has been teaching in South Dakota, and Stella Holt, who has attended the Normal at St. Cloud, came home Saturday for their summer vaca tion. Henry O. Thorvig returned home last week from St. Paul, where he has been employed in the light and power plant for some time. He will visit with his parents for a short time and then return to take up the engineering course in the State Agricultural school. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Anderson had a pleasant visit from Mr. An derson's parents, from Kandiyohi, last Saturday. AUTO LIVERY—Am now pre pared to furnish automobile livery on short notice. With a 35 h. p. Queen and an expert driver you can depend on getting there in time. Telephone 489, Halvorson's Garage, I Willmar. J\. mt?* •& telephone users, of course. Let the city council issue certificates in de nominations of from $25.00 and up wards at 5 or 6 per cent interest and the telephone users of Willmar will buy them for cash to anv amount that the council may need. Is that all? Yes. Why, how simple! Certainly, as simple and easy as anything imaginable and absolutely without any bonds on, or risks to, the city. The city council simply acts as the agent of the tele phone customers of the city to furnish them telephone service at reasonable rates. The city owns the streets—it can set itspoles any where, and it pays no gross earn ings tax to the state—as a private corporation would have to do. This law gives to cities virtually the same power that farmers have to form a co-operative company, but in charge of the municipality. Then Willmar is already well equipped to undertake this work. It has a light and water plant in successful operation. Put the tele phone plant in the hands of the Water and Light Board, and the ex pert linemen and electrician can do duly without much extra expense on the telephone system. What is the expense of operating and maintaining a telephone ex change anyway? It all depends on the capitalization of the plant and the economy of operation. One man buys an automobile for $5,000. 00 and another man buys one that will do equal service at less expense for $1,000.00. The former rides at 5o cents expense per mile, while the latter rides just as comfortably at 10 cents per mile. The former has a little more nickel plated trim mings to look at and keep in order —that is all. So with a telephone system. Watered stock, waste in construction, fancy equipment, and big salaries to sinecure officers can no doubt load down a telephone plant to a point where it can only serve those who have money to burn. But a simple bonafide telephone The Industrial School. The Second Industrial School for Teachers will be open at University Farm, St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, June 21st to July 10th, 1909. The great interest awakened in industrial education everywhere makes it imperative that teachers prepare themselves in agriculture, home economics, and kindred sub jects. This school is designed to meet the needs of superintendents, principals, teachers, and others in terested. Among its advantages are: Beautiful campus U. S. Experi ment Station one fare to either city Board and Room (3.50 per week) Shops and Garden, Green house, Faculty of Specialists Indus trial Pedagogy. For further information address J. M. Drew, Registrar, or J. W. Olsen, Dean, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. Real Estate Transfers. Town of Lake Lillian. May 28—Anna A. A. J. De Ward and Rimiera M. A. Prins to Olof Hoglund, ni of nwi, sec. 29, 80 a., $800. Town of Lake Elizabeth. May 24.—Mary Brown et al to August L. Boom, n£ of nwi, sec. 17, 80 a., $2400. Town of Whitefield. May 26—Anderson Land Co. to F. O. Grahn, ni of nwi, sec. 3, 80 a., $3700. Town of St. Johns. May 26—Martha Anderson to Geo. H. Otterness, swi of sei, sec. 25, 40 a., $1. May 26—Geo. H. Otterness to Johan E. Anderson, swi of sei, sec. 25, 40 a., $1. Town of Lake Andrew. May 24—Probate Court to Johan na C. Larson, sei, sec. 18 und. of w§ of lot 6, sec. 5 und. of wj of swi, sec. 17 and part of lot 4, sec. 34, 263.88 a. Town of Roseville. May 25—Winslow. Hones to Mrs. Lillie J. Payne, wj of swi, sec. 21, 80 a., $1600. May 26—Bank of Paynesville to Chas. A. Chisholm/sei of nei, sec. 16. 40 a., $235. May 26—Chas. A. Chisholm to exchange—built for service—is a very simple affair. The telephones never wear out. The lines some times blow down but loss from this is not extensive in this section of the country. Theexpense of bat teries is certain but within an easi ly ascertained limit. The operat ing force is girls at $20.00 or $25. 00 per month, and a superintendent at less than $100.00 per month. No fuel to buy nor expensive power plant to maintain and equip, and no extra insurance and fire risk. It is the safest and surest and best paying business in existence today. New London Telephone Co. charges 50 cents per phone for resi dences, and 75 cents per phone for offices and stores, and furnish free connections over all the lines cen tering there, and the company is making 12 per cent on the capital invested. If any one doubts this statement, he can go to New Lon don and see for himself. But we need not go outside of Willmar to find out what it costs to operate a telephone exchange. One of the old officers of the Willmar Tele phone Exchange Co. told me the other day that that company started on $2,500.00 capital and made over 50 per cent on the investment from the start. "Why," said he to me, that trick can be repeated again as easily as falling off a log"—and he added after a pause, "I can get the money from 25 citizens of Will mar in just 30 minutes to enable the council to begin operations." But if the present company is willing to sell right, I am in favor of the council buying it and moving it over to the empty jail if no other suitable location can be found. The spirit of '76 is not here now. We won't throw out the tea. It would hurt the feeling of some good people here who think a monopoly corpor ation is a sacred tiling. I for one am willing that this thing shall be settled in peace, even at a loss to the city. And I am sure the coun cil will do the right thing in the premises. Dr. C. Johnson. NUMBER of our regular patrons seem to have diffi culty in locating us since we moved in- to our new and better quarters, on Benso Ave., First Door East of Commercial Hotel. While we are glad to have you bring your work to us, we have tried to impress the fact that we are ready and willing to CALL FOR and DELIVER your bundle, no matter how large or how small. 1 In our new quarters we can surely give you satisfaction, if there has been any trouble along that line, for we now have everything conveniently arranged to work with, good light and plenty of room. Willmar Steam Laundry Phone 79 Benson Ave. Joseph Pelkey, sei of nei, sec. 16, 40 a., $440. Town of Colfax. May 26—Martin H. Engen to An dreas M. Engen, wj of sei, lots 2 and 3, sec. 28,146.77 a., $2000. City of Willmar. May 27—Olof A. Ferring to Martha Stalland, lots 13 and 14, bl. 8, Ferring's add., $200. May 29—Peter H. Grindheim to John Johnson, part of nwi of swi, sec. 14, unplattd parts, $2650. Nelson's Beach, Town of Harri son. May 28—A. P. Nelson to Nels Nelson, lots 9 and 10 and 11, sec. 16, $50. DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK If That one dollar ($i.oo) deposited in our SAV INGS DEPARTMENT each month will at the end of ten years amount to the snug little sum of One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00), that Ten Dollars ($10.00) deposited each month will in the same time amount to Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500.00) or enough to buy a home or start your boy in business? Why not educate your boy or girl in this line also by starting an account for them? We will furnish the text (pass) books. KANDIYOHI COUNTY BANK