Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-30


BRIEF NOTES OF {
|; GENERAL INTEREST !
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The physicians of Logan county. O..
nave formed a union, eSta blished a scale
of charges, provided for a blacklist for
dead beats and decided that preac hers
must pay regular rates for medical serv-
ices.
Miss Mabel Brown of Providence,
Mass, solved the way to stop street
cars. She placed her dress suit case
between the rails i'll front of a car ana
sat on 1t, folding her arms, and looking
detlantly at the mOtorman, who prompt
~ stopped the car. Several had pre-
Vlously passed her without stopping.
1T took two Philadelphia girls to JUS
tlty the jokesmith's familiar quip about
Kitchen utensils as WOmen'S weapons.
Bessie Park. 10 years old, and her sis
ter Jeanette, aged 10, the other evening
captured negro burglar after Jeanette
mad broken a potato masher over his
mead. Knocking him senseless until the
police arrived.
The ministers of Coffeyville. Kan,
have formed ''uniOn' and adopted a
uniform price Of So to be eXacted from
persons not members of their congrega-
tons for a funeral sermon. This action
was taken following the experience of
one of the local ministers who was called
to Il neighboring town to preach Il flu
neral sermon and had to pay So out of
his own pocket FOR the privilege.
A calf with two tails was born recent
lv On tbn faIl,, Of Noit in,
naan, 4. Y. One tail is twice as long
as the other, but both are perfect formed.
Wallace n. Cheney has bought the calf,
and will keep it with his herd as a curl
osity. The calf has found out the bene-
fits of having two caudal appendages.
1t uses one of them to tieck flies from
one side of its body and the other does
similar duty on the other side.
No more skirt dances at the Iowa state
fair. The state agricultural board has
ruled that all costumes must be subStan-
tial-that decollete will be strictly for
hidden and no skirt must be more than
four inches from the ground. Further
order is made that 1.-The aforesaid female
attendants must be clothed. swathed, or
otherwise entirely covered with some
Opaque substance But one concession
is made-the girls may go barefooted.
H. IL L 11uiStl VI SlOlS county, l't.t
has been made the defendant in a $4,000
damage suit filed by Miss Alice Mckee,
chief operator Of the night telephone
service of Cambridge. Miss Mckee ol-
leges that DR.. Hansen called her some
uncOmplimentary names and even
threatened to throw her from the tele-
phone exchange because she did not get
Il message through as quickly as he
wished.
A case of wine which had been buried
tWenty-three years was uncovered few
days ago by workmen excavating for the
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
building foundations at Springfield, Mass.
Emil Lerche, hotel proprietor who
formerly owned the land, says that he
buried the champagne in 1884, when
never after able to find the wine and at
tributed its disappearance to thirsty en-
plOyes.
An unintentional passenger on the
Deutschland which arrived at New York
recently, was J. S. Burton, an Ameri-
can now residing in London. He rode
Cherbourg to visit his friend, A. NJ.
Chisholm of Duluth. Mr. Chisholm i'll
PRODUCED him to two beautiful women,
Mrs. Evelyn Donal and Mrs. ID. l.. Moi
fit. in whom he became so interested
that he forgot to return on the tender
and was carried on the voyage.
He had no trouble with the customs OF
ficers. as his luggage consisted OF 50 ne
bad borrowed from his friend.
Hundreds of women at Greenwich,
Conn. are wearing mems socks instead
Of long stockings; not from any "ad-
vanced woman" idea, but to keep cool.
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Siery counters III the dry goods stores.
The statesmen say women have bought
every pair of the smaller sizes of socks
of every colors The women prefer open
worked tan or black socks, but they VIII
take any color they can get Necessarily,
the women are wearing mems carriers TO
hold ND the socks. They buy carriers OF
several colOrs to match the socks. This
information was gained at the garter
counters.
\ fried chicken. peanuts 4. water mel
on. soda water, new straw e nay anu
natent leather shoes We're the 1rst pur-
chases made by Eddie Aikens: colored'
and ten years old who stole $3.50 from
the pockets of coat William Enoie; 4
blacksmith. had left carelessly IN N, ms
shop. Eddie had the time OF MS nle
he had bought at - cents apiece IRON m, a
street fruit stand. They and the other
delicacies made him sick and he was
taken to the hospital. The police police W 4hd<,
still looking for the thief WhGh thSS
we're notified that the stricken lad. think
ing he was about to die. had c9 con sea,
He handed back about $500 OF the stolen
money.
There hasn't been a wedding III ram IN
field. Ind. for fourteen months; an? tI I1.
list of old maids is growing alarhlihslS
large. 20 an ON
tertainment for the, public, library loV
PlainfeId girls, clad in old MAIDS COS,
tumes of days gone by, paraded the
streets carrying banners, some OF when
bore these legends: :.
20. Lord. for man.
"Tll sew your buttons on
Il once was young.
i've got my eye on YOU,
Let me darn your socks
ASK papa
One sweet young thing staiked
,,,b+;1v anart from her companions.