Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-19
Wren Carpenter purchased team OF
Joseph Dupuis last week.

AOnu A4C&Pui~ "a 4uoAGJ AS'' 49,
tax roll in his possession and invitss the
taxpayers TO call; pour their tale OF woe
into his ear pay their taxes and look
| pleasant.
| ID. Graham and j. j. Roderick were
at State Line, the first OF iaat week, put
| ting up the seats, desks, ETC., i'll tlit
scnool house at that place. They also
put new seats in the Mayo school.
There will be q total eclipse OF the
moon on December 9th, visible on all o
the continents except Australia aud over
the Atlantic ocean. The moon will bt
totally eclipsed on hour and thirty rnln-
utes.
While here last week A. j. Bolgel
purchased the billiard table owned by >
| w. Smith, and had it shipded to Minoc-
qua, where he will have it setup and put
in his spare time practicing SO rs to be
come proficient in the game.
-STRAYED AWAY.-Some time in
October, black heller, two years Old
coming in in March. A suitable reward
will be paid for Information as to the
| whereabouts aud return of said heller to
S. w. Smith, Eagle River, Wis.
I'VE learn, through the Manawa paper
that Mr.. and Mrs. James Hughes, OF this
city, have rented q building i'll Manawa
and will run q restaurant. TheirfrlendS
here viii regret to lose them but still wish
them an at undance Of succeiIs in their
new home.
The dry kiln Of the Ross Lumber Co.,
at Arbor Vitae, together with 100000
lath, was destroyed by fire last Wednes-
day night. The dry kiln was the one
formerly owned by the Sheridan Lumber
Co., OF this city, and sold to tho Ross
Lumber Company some two years ago.
Merrill Advocate: Last Wednesday
evening, in response to invitations, a
number of friends gathered at the home
OF Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hubbard. The
party was given in honor of Miss Mary
Otto, of State Line, Wisconsin. The
evening was very pleasantly passed by
those present.
The members OF the Congregational
Sunday School will hold exercises at the
Congregational church. Instead OF hay
ing the customary christmas tree" to
hang the presents upon they will have \
minia tnre bout from which the presents
will be given. The exercises will be held
Saturday evening.
An exchange says it is very encour-
aging to a newspaper man TO devote
column after column to advising his
rea, lers to buy Of home merchants and
then go into a store and see stationery
in use that the merchant has had printed
away from home becapse he lmagines he
saves fifty cents year on it.
Christmas will soon be here. Don't
let the day 60 by without making some
one happy. Married men should make
their wife and children happy by some
present. The young men should do like
wise by their beat girl. In making your
selections go to Beardsley's, he has tue
finest stock of Christmas goods in the
city to select from.
Phillips Times: Our Assemblyman,
j. r. Farr, is at home this week, deeply
engaged in the study of Algebra and other
kindred games. Price county gave Joe
1864 votes. 1t IS safe to assume that
one thousand of them expect pass. The
Republican party.is pledged against this
practice. How Joe Is to meet the. de-
mands OF his constituents ia more than
he car tell at present. He may solve it
by the following problem in Algebra. II
6 : 6 9 6-35, what is K 6 Z
H. II 8 Il 10 straight. worth?
old naval officers on duty in Wash
ingtcn. who disclaim having any Of tine
sailorman's superstition, have been very
much struck by the fact that the Massa-
chusetts is the third naval vessel of the
navy with ':M' as the initial letter that
has encountered q dangerous obstruction
off Governors Island since the war be-
gan. The two others are the Montgon-
cry and the Mayfower. One of these
officers has been more impressed by the
discovery that Massachusetts" contains
13 letters, and he was not SO willing to
admit that the 'M'' ard ,l3 were mere
coincidence when somebody mentioned
the Maine rs another unlucky ship with
that initial, and that M" is the 18th
letter in the alphabet. Another singular
thing that has come to light is that there
are just 13 naval vessels now III commits
sion with "M'' as the first letter OF their
names. The.Iist does not include two
Spanish auxlliaries, the Manila and Men
dano captured by Dewey at Manila.
r. q A. M. Elect Officers.