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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
NEWs-eETTING AT OYSTER BAY.
Men Who Write 1t Feature of Sum-
mer Life There.

The return of President Roosevelt
from his summer vacation at Oyster
Bay to washington marked the end,
also of the summer labors of the staff
of newspaper correspondents who are
detailed to cover" the president from
the moment he reaches Sycamore Hill
each year until he returns to his Of
f1ciai duties, says Lesie's Weekly
Ever since the president has been
spending his summers at the little
Long Island town the assignment has
been unique in the history of newspa-
per work. Nearly every New York pa
per and the two press associations
have men stationid there all summer,
year after year, and naturally they
form a considerable portion of the life
of the town. This years vacation was
the longest that Mr.. Roosevelt has
taken since he became president He
went to Oyster Bay late in June, and
returned on September 25, cutting his
stay five days shorter than he had
intended
Probably no other town or village
in the world has had so much written
about it as has Oyster Bay during the
past six or seven years. When the
reporters run short of presidential
news thew fall back upon the inhabit-
ants of tAe town, and every "charac-
ter" has been exploited many times
over in the public prints. Therefore,
it is not to be wondered at if the staid,
unromantic villagers welcome each
year the departure of the scribes.
Thanks to the strenuous life the
president leads, there is always some
thing doing-or, rather, there is al
ways something expected to be doing
and the life is not monotonous. The
place is good for at least two or three
stories a week, and if the men can keep
this average up the city editors will
not grumble The presidents annual
picnics, when be camps out all night
in some isolated spot on the shore of
the sound; his numerous trips on
horseback around the surrounding
country; how he works on his farm:
the many visitors who arrive all sum-
mer long, and the cTanks that The Sc
cret-service men have to deal with.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
GETTING Even.

mo, / don't believe in expensive
practical jokes" said San Francisco
business man, except by way of re-
taliation."
Now last year l received tele-
gram from friend who was travelling
in Italy. 1t came collect and cost me
seven dollars; and when / opened it..
all read was, Thank you, am WE'LL
Then 1 sailed forth and sought me
out cobblestone-a nice, large cob
blestone weighing about eleven
pounds. And I WRAPPED it in excelsior.
pink cotton and white paper, and I
boxed it up in handsome box; and
sent it by express, collect, to my
facetious friend far across the bound
ing pillows.
And when he had paid his little.
fifteen dollars, and had opened the.
box in st. Petersburg, if 1 remember
rightly, he found in addition to the
precious contents note from me that
explained, ''This is the load that rolled
off my heart on receipt of the nsws
of your good health We x ,s-
Home Companion 1
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
CATHOLIC cHAUTAUoUA.
Opens a. oconomowoc and Will Con-
tinue for Three Weeks.

Opens a. oconomowoc and Will Con-
tinue for Three Weeks.
Oconomowoc, Aug. Monday next,
the lecture course at the Western
Catholic Chautauqua at Spring Bank,
on Oconomowoc lake viii begin to be
continued until August %. The
Chautauquan association has pur-
chased the property upon which the
meeting is to be held, together with
the large hotel building thereon, and
other buildings, and are in position
to entertain between 300 and 400
guests. There are several hundred
people, including families from the
south, there at the present time, hav-
ing engaged accommodations for the
summer.
In addition to the hotel accommo-
dations there is to be a boys camp.
The lecture course will be under the
superintendent of Archbishop Mess
-ner. who is chairman of the commit
tee. assisted by Rev. F. c. Mcbride,
John T. Kelly and H. ]. Desmond.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
The Desert Blooms

An interesting part of the annN&l
report of the Secretary of the interior
is that which deals with the reclam2-
ton service. The report covers
twenty-eight irrigation projects. cover
ing 100000 acres. This work is ex-
pected to reach completion by 1911.
Water is now being distributed in
many of the districts, ana settlement
is Increasing, a crop yield of $40 per
acre having been secured in one Sec
ton in the State of Wisconsin. The
drainage of the swamp lands of the
country is a companion work to these
projects of irrigation There are 49,
100000 acres of now useless swamp
lands in the central and southeastern
states. Much of this land can be
drained and made available for settle
ment. The survey of the everglades
of Florida with view to drainage has
already been undertaken, and Secre-
tary Garfield urges Congress to push
the work along the general lines which
has produced such notable results in
the five lears' development of the irri-
CATION system. Boston Herald.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
NEW CORPORATIONS

Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the office of Secretary of State
F'rear as follows
Jay Amber Co., Fond du Lac, cap
ital stock, $4,000; incorporators, L. A.
Williams, w R. Breitenstein and
Fred B. Givens
Sheboygan Country Club Co., She
boygan, capital stock, $4,000; incor-
poratcrs, Francis Williams, Paul T.
Krez and H. f. Barrows.
Franciscan Sisters, a Missouri cor
poration, filed articles indicating that
a branch of this benevolent, religious
and educational order will be estab-
hshed in Wisconsin.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
Largest Hay Crop Since go.

Sandusky, O., Aug. 1.-The National
Hay association, with delegates from
all over the hay regions of the United
States, met in convention here and
predicted that the hay crop of the
country during this year would be the
largest recorded in ten years, or
since 1898. A determined war is to
be waged on the railroads of the
country to secure a reduction in the
tariff for the carrying of hay.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
WAR TO FINISH.
1t Is Declared on Kentucky Night
Riders.

1t is Declared on Kentucky Night
Riders.
Louisville, KY, Aug. 1.-The situa-
ton in western Kentucky between the
state troops and night riders is grow
ing critical There may be a clash
between the two at any moment.
The Illinois Central Railroad Off
Gals received warning signed with
crossed bones and skull that the
troops must be removed at once from
their property under penalty that
their trains will be derailed and
property destroyed.
The railroad appealed to Governor
Wilson, stating the threats of the
night riders, and asking the governor
to have the militia vacate their prop
erty. The governor replied in long
letter stating that the soldiers must
eat and sleep somewhere and if the
railroad property is best suited then
they have the power and right to
camp on the railroad property or any
other property paying reasonable
compensation for the occupancy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05

of the voters to be Mr.. JacksOn's sue
cessor. Mr.. smith is one of the
younger staunch republicans, whose
interest in the party has always been
intense. He has unusual mental
qualifications, was at one time princi-
pal of the north side school, has an
excellent business training and has
always been unbiased and impartial
in mis- opinions on public matters, y
says the Niellsville Times.s
Harry Bolens, editor of the Port
Washington Star, will be candidate
for the democratic nomination for
senator in the twentieth district For
the assembly John Detling, who was
one of the young and influential mem
bers of the last legislature, will seek
reelection in the first district of She
boygap county and ]. E. Curtiss will
attempt to capture the second dis
trict, now represented by Edward j.
Keyes.
Luther Lindauer of Kaukauna may
be the democratic candidate for con-
gress in the ninth. Friends have
started boom for him and it is max
ing considerable progress in the
ranks of the unterrified Mr. Lindauer
is well known pulp manufacturer
and owner of fast horses. He is said
to be very popular, and democrats
claim that he will make whirlwind
campaign.
John Strange of Oshkosh has de-
cided that he wants to run for lieu
tenant governor again and is having
nomination papers circulated as re-
publican candidate for that Office. Mr..
Strange ran for lieutenant governor
on the Lenroot ticket two years ago
and was defeated in the primaries.
Although as yet the nomination pc
titions of demor ratio legislative candi-
dates are not complete, information
from the democratic leaders is to the
effect that before tonight there will
be democratic candidates in the field
in almost every district in the state.
In fact, in districts which are almost
hopeless, democratic candidates have
sprung I'd and are now circulating
nomination papers. Thus it is nov
assured there will be candidates for
the democratic party in all of the SEN
atorial districts; and it is likely there
will not be over one of two of the
assembly districts which will not be
represented with democratic candi-
date on the ticket
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
Sheep Breeding is a Fine Way
to Build Up WOrn-Out Lands

/ natural state OF production, but where
there is only Limited capital the
chances are indeed discouraging for
beginning operations upon such farms.
Sheep are apparently the stock for
| the conditions found in this part of
the country.
Though the soil is low in producing
ability, at the same time in most in
stances the slowly growing vegeta-
ton is well adapted to seed grazing,
as sheep can be easily maintained
and grazed within temporary fencing,
not to exceed three feet in height.
Sheep do not demand close shelter; in
fact, the more naturally they can be
maintained during the winter season
the better. So long as the fleece is
kept dry there is no danger of injur-
ing the sheep. In the estimation of
the writer the sheep raising enterprise
holds out ready and easy solution
of the reclamation and building up of
many of our eastern abandoned
farms. Illustrations are numerous in
this state where farms which, while
not abandoned, but very low in pro
ductiveness, have been restored to 8
high state of production, and where
the once poorly constructed shelters
have been replaced by large modern
structures.
There are a large number of farms
throughout the agricultural districts
of the central and eastern states that
are not adapted to dairying or to
most kinds of livestock production on
account of the distance to acceptable
shipping markets. These farms are in
every way well adapted to sheep
raising because of the fact that they
possess good producing material for
fencing and ready water for stock use.
In most instances these farms can
under judicious management be made
into every productive and valuable
farms, not only affording homes for
large number of people, but provid-
mig every means for comfortable
livelihood. Recently I visited a local
ity in this state where the farmers
were attempting to build up farms by
keeping and feeding sheep. On one
of these farms I observed that the
owner had divided the land into two
80-acre farms.
One of the farms was fenced and
was supporting a flock of nearly 200
breeding ewes, with their annual
product. The other one was being Ell
ployed for the growing of crops Dur
ing the winter months the operations
of the farms were confined to feeding
stock. The lambs that had been
reared during the summer months
were fattened upon roughage and
grain produced upon the farm and
marketed late in the winter. The
breeding ewes were maintained in
the same way, and the manure was
returned to the land. The owner told
me that when he took the farm sew
eral years previously it was practic-
ally worn out and unproductive. I'm
der his system of handling the soil,
depending upon clover and sheep to
restore fertility, he was gradually in
creasing the productiveness of the
soil, and each year was able to en-
large his flock by retaining the desir-
able eve lambs. This is only one of
numerous instances that could be re-
lated demonstrating that sheep can
be prof1tably utilized in restoring
soil fertility and at the same time re-
turning good profits for the invest
ment.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
APPROVE DINING
RESERVATIONS
PRESIDENT OF ILLINOIS CEN
TRIAL hikes EUROPEAN
IDEA

Reservation of places in dining cars
by passengers is, according to Presl-
dent Harahan of the Illinois Centraf
system. one Of the good features
OF British and continental railroads. MI
Harahan, vino has just returned from
his twenty-ffth European trip, says
that crowding in diners or restaurant
cars as they are called there, is en-
5irely obviated by the custom of max
z reservations for seats at tables
when the railroad ticket is bought
Madison cars coming out of Chicago
or the Northwestern at $50 and find
ine the dining car full about all the
way to GAINESVILLE, Will be disposed to
agr3ce with Mr. Harahan.
Th8 meals Mr.. Harahan says, are ali
table .d'hote and served in two sec
tons. When the tables are all filed, two
walters staTa through the car and
se2Ts alst course to all. The second
Course flows at the proper time and
in this way carlded of people may
be quickly and satisfactorily fed.
Among Mr.. Harahan's observations
was that smoking by women ali over
Europe is increasing, they use cigar
cites usually in the restaurant cars
along with the men.
4 notice little changes in methods
Of railroad operation in Europe. Con
ditions there are so settled that there
is not much new. Corridor cars are
becoming more popular and more are
being introduced. France, Italy and
Germany are taking over more of the
privately owned roads until now they
are nearly all state lines. In Holland
two railroads, one owned by the state
and the other by priYa9e corpora
ton, parallel one another, l rode OIL
both and noticed little difference III
operation. In England there are no
state roads and / must say that they
appeared to be much better managed
and operated than Ehe government
ice that in Great Britain private own
ersnip shows in competition. On the
continent, where the government owns
most of the roads, there is little or no
advertising or bidding for business,
while in England the papers are full
of advertisements offering low week
end excursion rates to the people
In England the railroads are allowed
to pool under strict government super
vision The pooling feature does not
~
lines in England and Scotland are
constantly putting their different ad-
vantages before the public.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
Troons Chase Blacks.

Rehoboth. Del, Aug. 1-State mill
tiamen encamped near here and a
crowd of negroes in the vicinity en-
gagged in a riot in which one man sus-
tanned a fractured skull and may not
survive, and more than score OF
others were injured The soldiers
pursued the blacks with loaded rifles
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
FEWER SALOONS IN OHIO.
Number of Barrooms Decreases by
458 and Revenue Falls of 1897 ,207.

Columbus, o., Aug. According
to the state auditors report there
are ass fewer saloons in Ohio than
there were Jan. / last. This makes
a falling off of the states revenues
since Jan. / of $397207 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the revenue
this year and the $1,000 Aiken tax
will amount to about $5,00O,0OO. The
Aiken law levies straight $1,000 on
every saloon in the state. 1t is the
minimum license,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
RRIEFs ABOUT BADaERs.

Four Milwaukee men will start on
a walking tour of the globe Septem-
Der 10. The tourists will transport
their luggage in a wheelbarrow. They
are Matthew Schmederer. William
Junker and Paul Belz of Milwaukee
and John French of Kilbourn They
will carry letters of Identification
from Mayor Rose, Governor Davidson
and President Roosevelt
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
Disannointed.

Ma" said little Bobby, when
get to be a great big man I am
going to look for the north pole. Are
there any bears up there?"
Lots of them, my son, replied his
mother
What kind of bears, MAJ"
Polar Bears
ooh, pshaw! I Thought they were
Teddy bears. l don't believe III go"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05

a fortnight He was SO years old. Mr.
Budd was born at GAINESVILLE, Wis, in
1851, went to California in his boy
hood Elected to congress, he served
from 1888 to 1885, but declined renom-
nation. He was governor from 1894
to 1898. The present governor, ]. N.
Gillette, also " as born in Wisconsin.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
EARLY HARVEST.
1t Is Now Nearly over In the State of
Washington.

w dSIITIINNOTI
Spokane, Wash, Aug Farmers in
the Palouse wheat belt will begin deliv-
ering grain to the warehouses this
week Scores of combined harvesters
are in the field. Men are paid from
81 to 1926 a day, while machine men
receive as high as Sc day. Ranchers
report well-flled heads and plump
grain and predict an average yield CT
fall wheat 80 to 35 bushels the arce,
Most of this will grade No. 1. In the
hay fields on the bottom lands along
the Palouse river most timothy cut
one and a half tons to the acre.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05

There is very clever young Amer
lean woman now in London-Miss
Mildred Kearney. daughter of the late
Denis Kearney of San Francisco, the
famous sand lot agitator, who has
refused a sheaf of offers from London
music hall managers. Miss Kearney
is black-haired, blue-eyed young
woman and she. achieved her great
est success in Carmen, which she
studied in Spain, although her teach
er, NJ. Edouard de Reszke, preferred
her to sing lighter roles, such as
Nine. Butterfly, La Tosca and others
of modern grand opera roles. Miss
Kearney is going to sing in Russia
next fall.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
To Fill Small Bottle

Take toothpiclz or sharpened match;
moisten; lay across top of bottle the
fluid is in; hold in place with fore
finger and pour as usual The fluid
will run down the bit of wood into the
small vial Will apply to fountain
pens.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
Misstatennent

You told Titely that the man who
lent me SO would always have SO
coming. l demand an apology"
You're right; was wrong.
should have said the $40 would never
be coming. Kansas City Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
RAIL EMPLOYEES ARRESTED.
Conductor and Brakeman Charged
With Stealing Freight Merchandise.

Miles City, Mont, Aug. Com
ductor L. L. Lander and Brakeman
Ricketts, of Milwaukee were arrested
upon the arrival of their train. on the
charge of stealing merchandise ont
of the companys freight cars.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05

James H. Budd, former governor of
California and long prominent in dem
ocratic politics, is dead, at his resi-
dence in Stockton, after an illness of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

Karl Ludwig, pioneer IdIlhef VI
Greenville, and one of the best known
democrats in Outagamie county, has
announced his candidacy for the dem
ocratic nomination for assembly from
the first district.
Democrats of La Crosse county have
united on B F. Keller for the first
assembly district as their candidate.
In the second district e. ]. KEN of
Bangor and William CARRIERS of West
salem will contest for the nomination.
-
Earl G. Stats of North La Crosse
and Martin c. Crossberg of Holland
will seek prohibition nominations in
the first and second assembly dis
tricts of La Crosse county. respec-
lively
= w Leroy has announced his
candidacy for reelection as member
of the assembly for Marinette county.
Mr. Leroy has served three terms in
the assembly and in 1907 was for
midable candidate for the speaker
shin being defeated by narrow
margin by Herman l. Ekern OF Trem-
pealeau county. He is associate ed
itor of the Marinette Eagle-Star ana
a political and business force IN
northeastern Wisconsin.
H. II. Jackson of Colby who was
one of the strong members in the
lower house of the last legislature
has decided that for business reasons
he cannot again be candidate aild
". I. Smith of NeiIlsville las an
nounced hiatt he will seek the favor
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
PEOPLE OF PROMIN ICE

Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago
has issued a denial of the report that
she is engaged to marry Lord Robert
Innes-Ker, brother of the duke of
Roxburghe. There is no foundation
for the report that l am engaged to
any one. Please contradict il" she
wires from London.
Miss Alice l.. Barnard is dead of
heart trouble at her Chicago home
at the age of 70 years. She was one
of the Oldest school teachers in Chi
cago. For fifteen years previous to
III she was principal of the Jones
school at Harrison street and Ply
mouth court. She was born in Tenn
pIeton, Mass, July 20, 1929, the
daughter of William Barnard ply
stefan, and Alice Emerson, a close
relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
She has lived in Chicago since 1916.
The kaiser has been thwarted in
his attempt to prevent the marriage
of Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prus-
STA and Marie Sulzer, the notorious
dance hall woman, the courtship of
whom has scandaIized the courts of
Europe for two years. The marriage
of the couple on August Is last has
become public. 1t was nearly year
ago that the Sulzer woman, who was
the Baroness Biebenberg, secured a
divorce from the baron, to whom she
paid $500 to marry her in order
that she might acquire a title and be
eligible to marry Prince Joachim
The prince says he will live in Amer
lea.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-22

E. Miss Ida Holley. AbbeviIle. Ala,
 Maid of Honor, Army of Tennes- 5- see Department, U. s. c. V.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-22

Rainer of Union Springs has returned to her home.
 There will ba q theatrical perform anee followed by hop at the stand ard Club on the evening Of Dec. 10.
 + % The Rarb of faith is now considered styIish7 for poets only. and is worn loose.
 Mrs. Elliott Johnstone of Mobile. who has been veslting friends in Mont gomery. has returned home. Mrs. Walter Black, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Richard Kobby, and who was one of the most prominent women at the convention, has returned to her home in Troy.
 + +
 Miss Sarah E. Luther, the talented head of the English department at the Troy Normal school is on a short visit to Mrs. Belle Allen Ross, on Washington Street. ..'., ... .s< .s{ Mrs Frank Jennings of Eufaula. niece of Governor Conner, was in the City the latter part of the week to meet her sister, Miss Nell Conner, who has returned from a years stay in the West.
 Misa Lillian Jung of New Orleans Is the attractive guest of Mrs George. A. Johnston on Monroe Street. Miss Jung is one of the last seasons de- butantes ,and was maid at the Mitharis ball during the last Carnival.
 -s A
 Hiss Ethel Tresslar returned from Selma Friday night.
 + -s.
 The Magazine Club will meet with Mss Olivia Anderson on next Friday afternoon.
 Mrs. o. c. Wiley, the newly elected Treasurer of the A. F. W. C., returned to her homo in Troy yesterday.