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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-18

Miss Grace Trux. of this city has
been advised that she held the lucky
number, 100, which entities her, when
the proper requirements are arranged
to 100 acres of land in the Grow re-
servation. in Montana-same to be
allotted under the supervision of U.
S. officials. There were in all about
$4,000 entries and good luck smiled
upon Miss Grace, when the wheel of
fortune delivered her number in the
hands of the officials. She made the
entry as a matter of jest while on a
visit with friends in Colorado, in
company with other lady friends.
Her number came out early in the
game. Some place value on the
land at about $4,000 Miss Grace has
been offered 81, coo for it by ranch
man and he to fulfill at his own ex-
pense the requirements of the govern
ment. James McCrone, step-father
to the lucky young woman is now in
that country TO look at the land and
assist in arranging matters as required
by the government -Oelwein Record.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-18
$500 TO ST. Paul and Mime apo.is

and return. via Chicago, Milwaukee
81 st. Paul Ry. Special excursion
train leaves :55 a. m, Wednesday,
July %. Returning leaves st. Paul
6 40 p. M, Minneapolis 40 p. IN,
Wednesday July 20
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-18

The wives of two musicians met ON
the street one day. One was pushing
a baby carriage containing three girl
babies (triplets). The other just over
her honeymoon congratulated her
upon such bliss. Upon which the
proud mother said that she attributed
into the fact that after returning from
their honeymoon the band serenaded
them, playing "Three little Maids
from School," The young bride held
up her hands in holy horror and
exclaimed: "Gracious that same
band serenaded us and played 1.-The
Sextette from Florodora. "-Ex.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-18

While haying at the James Ryan
farm in Union Prairie Monday Tom
Hogan met with bad accident. He
was running hay tedder and went
between the horses to adjust the
harness when the team took fright and
started to run, throwing him down and
kicking him. The start was so sudden
that it threw the tedder out of gear,
thus avoiding a more serious acct
dent. -Waukon Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-18

Over one hundred lots are already
assigned and paid for at Charles City
Chautauqua, guaranteeing monster
"white city" itself, during Chautau-
qua. A new well is being drilled for
more water, new entrance and road.
way,-"Chautauqua Avenue" have
been decided to the city. and success is
written all over the efforts of Charles
City citizens to make their Chautauqua
and the entertainment of the people
who attend there, the best ever.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29

and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all, possessed of wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1s43 she married Isaac Pinkham,
o builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and a
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
urgent cases. BY tradition and ex-
perience many of them gained a won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest
in the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature SO
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods Of
all kinds; so, if we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex-
pressly designed to cure the various
Ills and weaknesses OF the body, and
It was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi-
zines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was rare combina-
zion of the choicest medicinal roots
Snd herbs found best adapted for the
eure of the ills and weaknesses pecu-
siar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pink
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this so far was done freely, with
out money and without price, as a
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. It's length and severity were too
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, as this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, SO when the Centen-
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
The three, sons and the daughter,
with their mother, combined forces to
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29

the congressional library. For
quarter of a century those heavy wood
en- planks have had the distinction OF
receiving every cent of the hundreds
f billions of gold coin, silver coin
gold bullion, silver bullion and gold
and silver certificates, treasury and
bank notes which have entered and
have afterward been dispatched from
the treasury building. The grand to-
tai of this wealth is scarcely suscepti-
BILE of estimation; it is simply fabu-
lous Do you note that covered dray
backed up to the block and drawn by
three big white horses? 1t is filled
with government notes which await
only the seal of the government to
make them legal tender. AS such
they will afterward leave the treasury
for distribution.
when that load is emptied an
other vehicle will back up to the
block perhaps an express wagon,
from which will be dumped million
dollars in coin Or bullion Then more
millions done up in securely sealed
packages of notes will be carried out
of the building, deposited upon the
block and thrown into still another
wagon, covered van or wire-netted ex-
press wagon. And thus the continu-
Gus performance of handling the
wealth of the nation in the public
streets of the capital goes on day by
day, year after year, unnoticed by the
public at large. And it all, from bags
of dimes to packages of notes prac-
tically without limit as to amount, as
we'll as all of the bullion, lands at one
time or another upon that old wooden
block"
81 should think some enterprising
thief might try to make raid some
day. suggested the visitor.
That's what the men whose duty
it is to handle all this great wealth
think, too, so they are at all times pre-
pared to welcome any gentleman
whose enterprise might prompt such
an action" replied the correspondent.
"And the funny part of it is this:
All this great accumulation of money
which passes over that block at inter
walls during the day is handled by poor
men who work for moderate wages,
perhaps not over SITS a month. This
would seem to prove that a man
hasn't got to be rich to handle big
money after ALL
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
ALL AT SOME TIME HEAPED ON
TREASURY BUILDING BLOCK.
NEGLECTED BY REPORTS
Only Object of Interest in Washing
ton Which Has Been Overlooked
by Those Who Have Written Up
the capitaI-Handled by Poor
Men.

See that building?" asked a Wash
ington correspondent of visiting
friend to whom he was showing the
sights of the capital. They were
standing on the East side of Fifteenth
street, near F.
Yes" replied the visitor, "and it is
the treasury building"
"The untold millions of dollars III
notes, gold and silver which the gran
tie walls of that structure has hidden
would make Rockefeller's pile look
like 80 cents"
Every true; l know that" rejoined
the visitor.
"And that building and it's money
and it's associations, and everything
else connected with it, have been
written up about a million times and
in a million different ways" added the
Washingtonian.
81 know that, too" replied his
friend.
Nevertheless, there Is one thing or
bject connected with that historic
pile of stone which has thus far es-
capped fame"
Impossible" exclaimed the tourist,
incredulously. ct thought that Wash
ington was annually raked with a
fine-tooth comb by writer's"
''It u.s." acquiesced the correspond
ent, 'and then it is remarked by still
others. Yet there is one object which
we will now make famous, which, as
have said, has escaped Do you OBJ
serve that low block, or platform, OF
heavy iron-jointed beams of wood
close to the curb opposite the base
ment entrance on the Fifteenth street
side, almost directly opposite from
where we are standing?"
Eyes" said the visitor, interestedly.
THAT block is the one thing In
town that hasn't been written up,
from the president to the frescoes In
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
A FOOD CONVERT.

Good Food the True Road to Health.
The pernicious habit some persons
still have of relying on nauseous drugs
to relieve dyspepsia, keeps up the pat
ent medicine business and helps Keep
up the army of dyspeptics.
observation-disclosures = is caused
by what is put into the stomach IN
the way of improper food, the KIND
that so taxes the strength of the di-
gestive organs they are actually Grip
pied.
When this state is reached, to resort
to stimulants is like whipping tired
horse with big load Every addition
al effort he makes under the lash in
creaSes his loss of power to move the
load.
Try helping the stomach by leaving
off heavy. greasy. indgestible food
and take on Grape Nuts-light, easily
digested. full of strength for nerves
and brain, in every grain of ii. There's
no waste of time nor energy when
Grape Nuts is the food.
Il am an enthusiastic user OF Grape
Nuts and consider it an ideal food,
writes a Maine man.
81 had nervous dyspepsia and was
all run down and my food seemed to
do me but little good. From reading
an adv. | tried GrapeNuts food, and
after a few weeks steady use of it.
fo1+ rroa+1v i1nnrOved
''Am much stronger not nervous
now. and can do more work without
feeling so tired. and am better every
way.
81 relish Grape-Nuts best with cream
and use four heaping teaspoonfuls al
a meal. I am sure there are thou
sands of persons with stomach trouble
who would be benefited by using
Grape Nuts" Name given by Postum
Co. Battle Greek. Mich Read the lit
tie book. THE Road to Wellvine," in
pkgs. There's a reason"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
CHICAGO MARKETS.
Livestock Quotations.

Cattle-Receipts estimated at 1900;
maket dull; beeves, 3.90@730; COWS
and heifers, 1.4O@5.30; stockers and
feeders, 2.50@460; calves, 5.25@8.00
Hogs-Estimated receipts, 11,000;
market slow and weak; estimated
Monday, $4,000 mixed and butchers
6.1O@6.6O; good heavy, 6.30@6.6O;
rough heavy, 5.S5@6.15; light, 6.15@
6.55; pigs, 5.SO@62O; bulk of sales
625@6.50.
Sheep-Receipts estimated at $500;
market steady; sheep, 3.20@5.50;
yearlings, 5.4O@6.2O lambs, 4.50@
IT'S.
Cheese-Firm; daisies, 13@13Ac;
twins, 12%@13c; young Americas,
1924 @13c.
Poultry-Live, weak; turkeys, 14c;
S1ac; springs, SC.
Potatoes-Easy, 35@45c.
Veal-Steady; so to 6O-pound
weights, 7c; so to S5-pound weights,
7h@81ac; IS to 11O-pound weights,
81a@9Ac.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
FOREIGN.

The banking house Of Zuckermann
& Co. closed its doors at Turin, Italy.
Fire destroyed two banks and sew,
eraI business houses in Wellington,
n. q.
The entire French cabinet resigned
as result of bitter church and state
fight.
The car restricts the right to vote,
DISTINGUISHING large classes of peas
ants.
The famous SeIby abbey in Eng
land, built in twelfth century, was
burned.
Colonel Van Orsdale led a force
of 300 men against Cuban raiders in
Puerto Principe province.
Many passengers were hurt when
a coupling broke in an American mail
train near the city of Cork.
Gov. Magoon found more than
1000 asylum patients crowded in
filthy and insanitary quarters at
Havana.
During a riot at a Freemasons'
banquet in Paris General Andre,
former minister of war, was beaten
with sticks
A million school children in Ger
man Poland have gone on strike
against the requirement that they
learn German.
Selection of General Picquart as
war minister of France aroused vio-
lent protests and enthusiastic approx
al in Paris.
Divers established the fact that
submarine Lutin is full of water, re-
moving all hope that men inside
might be alive.
Thousands persisted in floods in re-
public of Salvador. Deadly sulphur
water from a volcano annihilated
the whole town.
M. Clemeau, the new French
premier, in order to strengthen his
power, may embron the country in a
war with Germany.
The storm of agitation in Japan
against the United States for So
called hostile acts is 50 serious that
the mikado's government took steps
to curb it.
A report that the duke of MARI
borough and his wife, Consuelo Van
derbilt, have agreed on legal separa-
ton startled court and society circles
in London and New York.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
DOM ESTIc.

Five workmen were killed by fall
ing walls in San Francisco.
NJ. j. Carpenter reputed prince of
get rich quick" swindlers, died in a
Chicago police cell.
People of the upper peninsula of
Michigan start a political movement
to form a separate state.
Personal friends of the family at
tended the service in memory of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis in New York.
Ten men were burned to death at
Birmingham, Ala, in a fire believed
OF have been set by burglars.
The Chicago city council proposes
to make a war on vice and $50 extra
policemen will be appointed
A free monthly magazine for the
blind will be published soon by Mrs.
William Zeigler of New York.
Four highwaymen dynamited the
Floyd bank at Vergennes, ILL.,, shot a
citizen and escaped on horses.
Secretary Taft ordered a troop Of
cavalry sent out to quell warlike
band of Ute Indians in Wyoming.
The body of A. H Stevenson. an
attorney, was found in a Chicago ele-
vator shaft 1t may mean murder.
Mayor Weaver surprised Phila-
delphia by dismissing his advisory
board of thirteen prominent citizens.
The postofice clerks union mem
bers in Chicago refused to take the
places of striking mail wagon driv-
crs.
The countess of Carlisle was
elected president of the Worlds
Woman's Christian Temperance
union.
DR.. D. R. Stockley, the Evanston
physician accused of mistreating girls
tn his consulting room is to face a
grand jury.
A pitched battle was fought near
Sawyer, n. D., between five safe
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29

restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
so good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for tho
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money, and
little credit Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were stepped on the stove,
gradually filing a gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it, for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired a job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties OF
the medicine were, to a great extent,
self-advertising, for whoever used il
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877. by combined efforts the fam
ily had saved enough money to COM
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege-
table Compound have become house
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu.
ally in it's manufacture.
Lydia e. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work al
effectively as she could have done il
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful to pre-
serve a record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-received
careful study, and the details, includ-
ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent . vast collaborR-
ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
daughter in law, the present Mrs,
Pinkham. She was carefully instructed
in all her hardwon knowledge, and
for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when it's origina-
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years she has continued it, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham,
now the mother of a large family, took
it up. With women assistants, some as
capable as herself, the present Mrs.
Pinkham continues this great work and
probably from the Office of no other
person have SO many women been ad-
vised how to regain health. Sick wo-
men, this advice is "Yours for Health"
freely given if you only write to ask
for it.
Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound made
from simple roots and herbs the one
great medicine for women's ailments,
and the fitting monument to the noble
woman whose name it bears.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
CHINk GETS RICH.
Illinois Chinaman Returns to Native
Land With Big Roll.

Illinois chinaman Returns to Native
Land With Big Roll.
Kewaunee, ILL.,, Oct. 25.-Lee Bross,
a Chinese laundryman who for the
past two years has conducted bust
ness in Kewaunee, has closed up his
affairs and on Monday took a train
for the west on his way to the land
of his nativity.
The surprising feature of the depart
ure of Lee, however, lies in the fact
that the man had no less than SIT 900
on his person at the time when he
pulled out Sixteen thousand Of these
simoleons were in the form of a bank
draft and the remaining thousand n
the money of the realm of Uncle
Sam.
Lee wears white mans clothing, but
says he mas had enough of the occf
dent and expects to spend the re-
mainder of his days in his native
land where he can assume a place
of importance in the community be.
cause of his great wealth
In the six years he has been in this
country, he has steadily worked as a
laundryman, putting in much of the
night as well as the day at his work
All of his wealth is the savings from
his industry as he did not engage in
any species of speculation to increase
his wealth
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
OBITUARY.


Martin L. Newell, formerly assist
ant attorney general of Illinois, died
at Springfield.
Lord" William Sculley, who
owned 100000 acres of land in I'LL
nois, Kansas, Nebraska, and Mis-
souri,, died in London.
James E. Compton, president of the
Monroe National bank of Hamilton,
O., was found dead in the yard of his
country home. Heart disease is
thought to have been the cause.
Judge Caleb S. Ogden, aged 81
years and a resident of Waupaca, is
dean. The village of Ogdensburg was
named after him. He was brother
of Frank A. ogden, the Madison
millionaire.
Frank T. Robertson of Helena,
general manager of the Montana rail
road, recently acquired by the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul system,
and engineer of construction in Mon
tana for the Milwaukee, died in a
Kansas city hospital, aged At years.
John c. Simering of Baltimore,
died at the home of his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Tester, In
dianapolis, from the effects of an
operation performed several months
ago. He was born in 1916 and at the
time of his death was secretary of
the Maryland republican state com
mittee.
Brigadier General William Hemp
hill Bell, U. S. A., retired, died at
Arvada, Col, of pneumonia. General
Bell was born at Westchester, Pa,
in 1884. He graduated from West
Point in 1858. General Bell served
through the civil war, but the greater
part of his military service was on
the western frontier and in Alaska.
The body of Rev. Sam P. Jones was
taken to Atlanta, Ga, by special
train from his late home at Carriers
Vile Ca, and lay in state in the ro-
tunda of the state capitol. Ten thou
sand people viewed the remains,
which were taken to receiving vault
at Atlanta, where they will be kept
until the completion of the mauso-
leum at Gainesville.
The newsboys and bootblacks Of
Chicago are mourning the loss of
their best friend in the death OF
Isaac Woolf, who was found dead in
bed. He was 81 years old and was
president Of Woolf's Clothing Com
pany Mr.. Woolf was born in Lon
don Jan. 3, 1853, and came to this
country when child with is parents,
who settled in La Fayette, Ind. His
father and mother were poor and he
began his business life as a news
boy In 1880 he embarked in the
clothing business in Chicago. Mr..
Woolf was a widower. He is sur
vived by three children, Marion,
Lucille and Hamlin. For a number
of years he has given the newsboys
and bootblacks dinner.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
POLITICAL.

Senator Bailey's foes in Texas may
defeat him for denomination.
Vice President Fairbanks began a
tour of Oklahoma and Indian terri
tory.
Senator Beveridge declared in a
speech that the nation must prevent
by law accommodations of vast for
tunes.
The Chicago federation of labor de-
nounced William Randolph Hearst,
the independence league and Samuel
Gompers.
Charges that Hearst's independence
league paid 1914 cents for names on
a candidates petitions caused a SEN
sation in New York.
Charles E. Hughes declared for
public control of corporations and
says that all wrongdoing shall be
traced and the perpetrators pun
ished.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
SHOES FOR EVERYBODY AT ALL PRICES

Mems Shoes SIS to $3.50. Boys Shoes So
to $1.25. Womens Shoes. 50. 90 to $3.50.
Misses & Children's Shoes. 1925 to $1.oo.
Try w, L. Douglas WOmen's, Misses and
ChiIdren's shoes; for style, fit and wear
they excel other makes.
II | could take you into my large
factories at BrocktOn, Mas 5. and show
you how carefully WI. Douglas shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit better,
wear longer, and are of greater value
than any other make.
Wherever you live, you can obtain W. l.:
Douglas shoes. His name and price is stamped
on the bottom, which protects you against hf8n
prices and inferior shoes. Take no Snbstts
tate. Ask your dealer for w. L. Douglas shoes
and insist upon having them.
Fast Color Eyelets used they uOiH not wear bYassp
Write for illustrated CatalOg of Fall Styles.
w. L. DOUGLAS, Dept. IA, BrocktOn, Mass.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
FINAL CROP REPORT.
Secretary True Gathering AsricuI-

Secretary True Gathering Agricul-
turaI Data.
John M. True, secretary Of the
state board of agriculture, is round
ing up data for the final Wisconsin
crop report for the present year. The
forthcoming report will estimate the
yield per acre, quality and price Of
wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat,
clover seed, fax seed, corn, peas, po-
tatoes, sugar beets, tobacco and cab
bages. Mr.. True will try to ascer-
tain the proportion of the corn crop
that has been husbanded for fodder,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29
BID Derrick Wrecked.

Racine, Wis, Oct. 25.-While the
men were engaged in hosting stone
from freight cars at the yards of Rob,
erts & Co. supports gave way and a
60-foot derrick fell and was wrecked.
1t demolished two fiat cars and Nels
Hanson and San Anderson were slight
ly injured by falling timbers. The
damage is $1,000.