Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-06-14
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

DR.. Alfred Poor, secretary of the Poor
family association of Salem, Mass, and
one of the best known physicians in
New England, died in the Bertram home
for aged men after long illness. He
was a skilled physician, but never made
success in the profession. He always
said that his sign, "a. Poor, M. d."
| killed his success.
A mysterious blight which has been
christened the white house hoodoo" for
| want of a better name, which attacks all
| forms of plant life in a portion of the
| grounds surrounding the executive man
| sion at Washington, is causing no end
| of trouble to the official gardener, and
| he IS out with a liberal reward for who
| ever will discover the cause and remedy
the evil. Various kinds of plants have
| been set out and the earth has been fire.
| Quently changed but without avail.
The sensation in the convention Of the
| Federation Of Women's clubs at Nor
| folk, Va, is the declaration of Mrsf
| Mary Morton Kehew, in her annual re-
| port on legislation. that Speaker Cannon
of the House of Representatives should
! be dynamited because he blocked certain
| legislation the women are interested in
| 1T was all Speaker Cannon'S fault. as
he retarded definite action persistently,
and he ought to be dynamited," she said
Somebody ought to get behind him with
a good big charge and set it off. Moth.
ing short of dynamite would wake him
up"
"By George" is President Roosevelt's
| only swear word, according to Carol d.
! Wright, president of Clark college in
| Massachusetts, and one of the closest
men in the country to the President
Col Wright made the statement in a
talk before the college students.
During the 1902 coal strike, Col.
Wright said, President Roosevelt called
| on him to work with him in settling the
| difficulty. He said on that occasion:
,''We'IlI &c, into this coal strike if it
takes a leg"
Wright replied: yes, Wen go into
it il it takes life"
Eyes, by George, we will" said Roose-
| only swear word.
Elder J. w. McGarvey, president of
the Bible College of Kentucky univer-
! sity of Lexington, will be called on to
give his deposition in court to prove that
| the Bible story of Jonah and the whale
is true. He is to be summoned in the
| suit of the Bible College of Missouri to
recover $4,000 from DR.. Gustave A. Hoff-
man of St. Louis, DR.. Hoffman gave his
note for $4,000 to help the Missouri col
| lege, but refused to pay it because the
! college taught that the Jonah story was
myth. Other highlights of the Chris
! tan church besides President McGar-
vey will be called to give their deposit
| lions in support of the Jonah story, and
it is expected that they will repudiate
the Bible College of Missouri on ac-
count of its teachings.
!; h1l1I0r with tho
head of a pugilist and legs crooked into
| all sorts of shapes. came to the white
house at Washington recently by eX-
| press. The beast arrived In a crate and
with it a letter from S. w. Smith OF
Celina, O.. who had said he had heard
| that Pete was getting licked and thought
! he'd send a substitute.
The dog was addressed to the Presi-
dent. Secretary Loeb was at a loss to
know what to do with him. and tried
vainly to give him away. Failing in this
he was chained up in Mr.. Loeb's office;
The white house employees are fearful
that Pete will return unexpectedly from
! the hospital and that when this happens
there will be a tragedy unless the ONO
dog is disposed of in the meantime.
81 have come to collect one million dol
lars" said August FRANKIE. as he
reached the door of the White House at
Washington The doorkeeper, who from
| long experience is able to size up de-
mented visitors on sight, smiled and in
! formed FRANKIE he had been expecting
| him for some time.
He insisted that FRANKIE should furnish
| him proof that he was not an impostor,
and thus drew from the stranger his
| name and the information that he is 81
wears old and that his father lives at
| Dubuque. Ia.
| Il am a great man of God" FRANKIE
declared. land | want to see the Presl-
dent, because he is going to give me one
million dollars"
! The doorkeeper told FRANKIE that if he
| would accompany him for a short walk
he would be taken to the place where the
money was awaiting him. The walk led
| to the police station. FRANKIE was COM
| mitted to the government asylum. hIs
| relatives were notified.
| When Miss Prudence Van Glider a
| school teacher at Perry. Ia, came out OF
the trance she has been in for month
| and appeared on the streets she created
a sensation. 1t developed she had lost
| the power to use the English language
and is able to speak only in an unknown
| language.
Miss Van Glider while attending
meeting Il month ago in the MISSION con-
| Quoted by Mrs Scott NJ. Ladd, wife OF
the chief Justice of the Iowa supreme
| court. in Des Moines. suddenly fell to the
| floor in a trance and since that time mas
| been unable to speak except by signs.
Her first act on coming out of the trance
was to reach for a Bible. which lay on
n stand near her bed Then she opened
| it at the 116th psalm and motioned to
her sister to read. The latter read at the
| tenth verse as indicated by the girl. the
words of the verse are:
! II believed. therefore have | spoken.
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was greatly afflicted.
| Locked as her jaws have been for a
| month. nourishment has been gwen 10
her through a tube.
The admitted attempt of Rev. George
| Barnwell, pastor of the Edgewood Dap
fist church of Atlanta, Ga, to get Il