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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
A GREAT SCHEME
NlPPED IN The BUD
The GeeviIIe Trumpet Blast of
Freedom Stands Pat.
By-Product Of Pork Fails Utterly
as q Weather Prog
nosticator.
BY ED MOTT.

Cold weather had come on quite
jarly that fall, and / was writing
hurry call for stove wood on subscrip-
ton to the Trumpet Blast of Freedom,
to go in the paper that week, when
one of the latest men | eVer saw
came into the Office. He was in his
shirt sleeves, and wore broad
brimmed straw hat. Without noticing
my surprise, and before I had time
10 recover from it, he came up close,
and in a mysterious undertone said:
'Am l correct in assuming that you
are the editor?"
/ told him he was.
And publisher"
Yes" l said. "And publisher"
Business manager went along with
It, l assured him. He then said:
"Then we can come to business.
see by scanning the columns of your
estimable paper that you are not run
ming any clothing store advertise
ments. The local tailor shops seem
to ignore you. The patronage Of the
outfitters of men as to garb doesn't
show up a bit in your paper, which
see you furnish at the ridiculously
low price of one dollar a year, in ad-
vance; one fifty If paid at the end Of
the year. Worth three times the
money. I say l see the shops that
make clothing their business don't
seem to have discovered you"
There was only one tailor and one
ready-made clothing store in Geeville,
and it was true that neither Of them
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Poultry Exhibit to Be Extensive.

TOuilTJ E[IiOIl 10 DC ENlcnSiNC'
The Wisconsin state fair leads
other fairs in many Of it's depart
ments. but the reputation gained by
the poultry department, coupled with
the value of the prizes offered, has
spread to the international exhibitors,
and the poultry exhibit at the coming
state fair for the first time will be an
international pet stock exposition.
Mrs. AIDA F. HOWE of Elm Grove,
who has built up the poultry depart
ment and it's reputation, is receiving
entries from Canada, England and
France, and the best and most ex-
tensive display of water fowl, pet
stock, poultry and pigeons that has
ever been huddled in cages under one
roof will be offered as an attraction
this year.
Mrs. HOWE has arranged for a
number of novelties that go with a
poultry show and make it interesting.
Each day throughout the fair modern
incubators with artificial mothers will
hatch and hover the up-to-date off
spring of vote for women" hens,
while an electric Matching machine
with glass dome will furnish per-
feet view of the last mysterious stages
of incubation, and the rapid transit
ton of a weak newly Matched chick
into a fluffy, Independent, lively crea-
ture.
Aside from the numerous choice
specimens from the leading poultry
yards of the state, there will be many
exhibits from a distance. Notable in
this display will be a large number of
rare birds imported from foreign coun-
tries. These will be an unusual at
traction, as a number of them are not
classed in the premium list, but will
be shown in order to give the fair pat
rons an opportunity to see the choicest
varieties of ornamental, as well as
practical fowls that have been devel-
oped in an almost worldwide range.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Expert Urges Babcock Test.

The Babcock test IS saving many
times its cost annually on many dairy
farms, and at the same time is en-
abling farmers to select their best
COWS and to improve their herds more
rapidly than can be done by any other
means. There should be Babcock
tester regularly used on every dairy
farm, and in every rural school in the
state"
This comment on a Wisconsin in
vention which made its originator,
DR.. S. M. Babcock, world famous, is
contained in a bulletin, How to Use
the Babcock Test" published by the
agricultural college of the University
of Wisconsin. The author is ]. l..
Sammis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

goin' in as pardners. And we want a
two-colyumn advertisement put in
this week, sure. Two colyumns, and
run 'em right along, for Joback &
Shippers is jest goin' to boom things.
Boom 'em heavy"
looked around and saw the nan
with the pigs milt cinch going OUT of
the door, and he looked SO hurt that
/ felt sorry for him.
Copyright, by w. G. Chapman-I
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Must Be Tested Again.

Three hundred persons in the state
who hold certificates issued by. the
Wisconsin live stock sanitary board,
authorizing them to administer the tu
berculin test to cattle, must get new
permits if they want to continue the
work. This is the substance of an
opinion given by Attorney General
Bancroft to DR.. A. H. Hartwig, state
veterinarian, who asked whether the
new law passed by the recent legisia-
ture relating to the testing of cattle
for tuberculosis affected permits is.
sued under the old law.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
CALL WISCONSIN,
THEIR BIRTHPLACE
WlnnebagoS Claim This State as
Their Garden of Eden"
INDIANS BELIEVE IN TALE
Dr.. Radin, Who Has Been at Work
Among the Redskins for Three
Years, Has Boxes of Written
Stories.

Madison.-In the mythology of the
Winnebago Indians, the story which is
now being recorded by DR.. Paul Radin,
the tribe has, III it's weird, ancient
story-narrative, which has been hand
ed down through the ages, much that
is as mysterious and wonderful as in
the story Of the childhood of the hui
man race that comes from the Garden
of Eden.
Doctor Radin is sent out by the
chronological bureau of the Smith
sonian institute at Washington to de-
vote certain space of time each year
to certain tribes. He has been at
work among the Winnebago three
seasons and has boxes Of written
stories, nearly completing the won
derful tale as it has come down
Will be printed by the government
and become an endless source of To-
cal color for authors
EthnOlogists, from a study of Ian
guages of cognate tribes and other
sources, had concluded that the Sioux
nation, of which the Winnebago are
a tribe, migrated from the Atlantic
coast about the Piedmont or the Blue
mountains of Virginia and North Caro-
lima, down the Cumberland gap and
the Ohio river, before De Soto discov-
cred the Mississippi river. Neverthe-
less the old Winnebago traditions per-
sistently claim the genesis of their
race as occurring in the beautiful oak
openings and prairies of Wisconsin.
Those who may be disposed to be
skeptical, may suppose the tribe as re-
siding upon this beautiful boundary
so long that their story has become
gradually changed as to location, yet
they believe in it all as firmly and per-
sistently as do those millions who ad-
nit the Bible as their source of his
tory as to the raising up of Adam
from a pinch of dust and Eve from his
ribs
The Christian race is not so for
tunate, however, as their dusky
brethren. For no one pretends to point
to the place of the white mans be-
ginning, while our dusky brothers
think they can locate their Garden Of
Eden They are certain it is in Wis
consin. They are certain it is along
the eastern border near Lake Michi-
gan, and in fact one clan, the Bear
clan. came up from the spirit world
out of Lake Michigan as a bear, and
shaking the waters from his long hair
on the shore, and looking about on
this beautiful land turned into a hui
man being.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
pIo That Turned PhiIosopher.


Once there was a pig with a sensi-
tive snout and quirky tail. His feet
were black with the muck Of the sty
and his thick yellow skin, once soft
and pink, was covered with stiff bris-
ties
The pig proved beyond peradven.
ture that his natural function was to
wallow and root and gorge, but one
day he took his snout out of the
trough and said, BLESS me, what's the
use of being a mere pig! l have spe-
cialized on swill long enough; 1t bores
me. This sty is fine, after It's sort
but as constant passion and environ
ment 1t gets on ones nerves. need
fad, folly, dash Of enlivening bit
tiers in the cup Of existence. Let me
see-oh, yes. I'll be philosopher. at
least Sundays, and tell the nightin-
gales how to really sing"
And it was so, and the reporters
waited on the pig and put his aphor-
isms into the daily papers and the
people said. "Oh. my!"
This was some time ago. The pig
has since passed into pepsin and pork
and lard and toothbrushes and fer
tilizer, and is now a very useful.
though thoroughly partitioned, con-
tribution to the :ocial welfare.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Boundary Not Yet Fixed.

Differences, which arose in the
Joint conference of the boundary COM
mittees of Minnesota and Wisconsin,
here, and precluded the possibility OF
reaching an agreement on the st.
Louis river dispute at this time, led to
the settlement by the two committees
upon December as the date for the
next joint conference.
That the boundary line should fol-
low the center of the main channel,
as indicated by the government maps,
is advocated by the Wisconsin COM
mission.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Roosevelt in Praise of Legislature.

Roosevelt In Praise OF Legislature.
DR.. Charles Mccarthy, librarian Of
the Wisconsin legislative reference
bureau, said that he had just re-
ceived letter from former President
Roosevelt praising the 1911 Wisconsin
legislature for the large amount Of
constructive legislation enacted. Col
oneI Roosevelt asked for copies Of the
most progressive" laws enacted and
for all available printed comment re-
garding them.
Doctor Mccarthy has just returned
from Boston, where he attended the
annual conference of the national
uniform legislation commission. He
was the only representative present
from Wisconsin, the two other com
missioners, E. A. Frost of Milwaukee,
and Judge z. Ray Stevens of Madi-
son, having been unable to attend.
Every state in the Union except Ne
vada was represented.
The new Wisconsin workmen's COM
pensation law, Doctor Mccarthy said,
was generally approved by the dele
gates to the conference, and those
who had examined it carefully be-
lieved that it would be held constitu-
tional. A petition for permission to
bring suit to test this law is now
pending in the Wisconsin supreme
court. Ten other states have already
used the Wisconsin law as model for
statutes adopted or to be adopted by
them.
An unsuccessful effort was made to
have the Boston conference approve
the federal government pure food
standards as standards for the various
states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

On the books for 1887 one shoat cost
Clarissa Putnam IS, ana she paid $40
for one horse for farm work. For one
days washing she charged 25 cents.
Corn meal was worth so cents a bushel
and pork was still cents a pound.
A great many ague pills were sold
in those days and cost so cents per
box, and the book shows where appar-
emily everybody had the ague. Two
weeks board cost Frank Spaulding
81. so that year, and wheat was 80 cents
a bushel In 1888 turnips and potatoes
cost from II to Is cents a bushel. That
same year Ira Price paid $1.74 for 81
pounds of beef Buckwheat cost so
cents a bshel and two bushels of corn,
cost so cents. Three days work brought
the worker 1925. In 1910 corn was sell
ing for so cents a bushel, and wheat
was selling for the same price. Four
chickens cost so cents, and take it all
around, the living prices were not high
but a man did not get much for his
work and the farmer was really getting
money for his corn and wheat, but his
potatoes, turnips, etc, did not bring
him much. In 1910 there is a charge
where John Ferren got $6.37 for So
days work, while "A pounds of pork
cost him $1.32 and 31s bushels of wheat
cost him 1882.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
OLD CHARGES Low
Book Kept by Merchant in 1884
in Kansan's Possession.
Corn and Wheat Brought Most
Money to Farmer.
CHEAP BOARD THEN
One Man Paid S9.I1 for Six
Weeks keep
WashwOman Charged % Cents
for Days Work.

Pittsburg. Kan. Sept 15.-W. p.
Baldwin, formerly clerk of Neosho
county. has a curio in the shape of a
ledger which was kept by his grand
father, who was in business in an east
ern town. The book was opened in
1894 and extends to 1910. According to
one charge, a pair of boots cost the
buyer 81, while the same man, Gold
smith Baldwin, bought IA pounds or
pork for 80 cents He paid for one
pair of ladies' shoes 81 which was not
so very high, compared with the pres
eHt prices pail for shoes. Cord wood
was not so very high in 1881, for it is
shown by the ledger that Us cords or
wood cost s2.34 and the same man
bought 126 pounds of beef for $5.67. The
same man bought , pairs of kid shoes
for $2.25 and 30 yards of sheeting for
$5.16, and later sold cords of wood for
Sc. %. In another entry Luke Parkhurst
was charged $3.50 for four weeks board
and entry shows where Parkhurst
bought 101z bounds of veal for 81 cents,
which in these days of high priced
meats would be a snap
June, 1885, Cavenish Meeting House
got s11.67 for ten days work painting,
and another entry is made where 112
days work was done for $1.67, and one
man got $6.12 for 51z days work. Ro-
salina Saunders paid 25 cents for a
yard of calico on November 1, 1885,
while Lucinda Estake paid 81 for q pair
of vici shoes. Elijah Parkhurst paid
S4.6I Tor 312 days WOrk pdperlnS d
house and for six weeks board he
paid S9.11. 1t cost the National Hy-
draulic company $3.50 for a barrel OF
flour, and pounds Of butter and
quarter of veal cost the same company
S114 Jaber Proctor paid 81 to a hired
man for driving cows to a pasture dur
ing the year of 1884. Horace Geer is
charged AZ cents for II pounds of veal,
and 81 cents for a half pound of tea;
for 5A pounds of pork the same man is
charged II cents, and for pounds OF
beef there is a charge against him
of Is cents. Clark Spaulding is charged
for 81 pounds of veal 10 cents. and in
another place he is charged Al cents
for 1915 pounds Of veal Five pounds
of fresh pork cost the same man 20
cents, while so pounds of fresh beef set
him back 81 The book showed that
Spaulding bought a great deal of meat,
but the prices run along about as they
are given here through the entire ac-
count. He paid 81 for six bushels of
potatoes and so on down.
Pays $50 for Horse.
Another charge on the book is against
L4eonora Kendall. who purchased S1S
yards of calico for 1924. In 1885 wages
got some better for all the charges
showed that 81 per day was being paid
for work and living went up CORES
pondingly but compared with the pres
emf dav ForiceS of meats very cheap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
FORM CLUBS TO HELP GIRL.
Miss Chamberlain Receives MANY
Proposals Of Marriage

Salina, Kan, Sept. 15.-FoIlowing
the announcement yesterday morning
by Secretary of Agriculture F. D. Co
burn that he would start a fund to
prosecute the men and boys and pos
sibly the women involved in the tar
ring of Miss Mary Cham berlain, the
Beverly, Kan. school teacher, anti
tar clubs are being organized in Lin
coin county today to assist the prose-
cution. These clubs are also raising
funds to be turned over to the county.
The notoriety given the case has
resulted in the receipt by Miss Cham
berlain of numerous offers of mar
riage from all parts of the country, so
her friends declare today. She has
received scores of offers of help to
fight her case. Many of these are
lengthy and state that various amounts
of money can be had If she Will sig
Nifty that she will accept.
Feeling in Lincoln county against
those who perpetrated the outrage has
not receded.
County Attorney McCandless has de-
clared he will prosecute the women
who are said to have instigated the at
tack on the school teacher if he can
obtain their names.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means so much
to me that for the sake of other suffer-
ing women I am willing to make my
trouble public so you may publish
this letter. - Mrs. CHAs. BARCLAY,
RED, Graniteville, vt.
No other medicine for woman's ills
has received such widespread and IN
qualified endorsement. No other med
icine we know of has such a record
of cures as has Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
For more than 80 years it has been
curing woman's ills such as infiamma>
ton, liberation, fibroid tumors, irreg-
ularities, periodic pains and nervous
prostration, and it is unequalled for
carrying women safely through the
period of change of life.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn. Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice is free
and always helpful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
BAD MONEY IN LAWRENCE.
Dimes and Quarters Are Poor Imita-
tions But Pass.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 15.-Counter-
Lawrence. The discovery was made
by Charles Pine, who has a lunch
stand. Pine found that three boys
we're giving him spurious dimes and
questioned them all closely. The boys
maintained that they had received the
money as change at other stores and
it is evident that they were really in
nocent.
Pine was not the only person on
whom the money was passed. Some
one gave David Passon bad quarter.
said to be similar to the dimes tender
ed at the Pine lunch stand
Last week LeavenwOrth became con-
siderably aroused over the fact that a
flood of counterfeit coins had been
circulated over that town. The money
was all of small denomination, being
five cent pieces, dimes and quarters
with a few fifty cent pieces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
PEST OF BUGS HITS KANSAS.
Wichita Business Section AImos
BIockaded by Green Ones.

Wichita, Kan. Sept. 15.-BilIions Of
green bugs settled in swarms over this
city Thursday night, stopping traffic
and practically suspending business
re arrival of the pests was sudden
and within a few minutes the streets
We're fcggy with the dense clouds of
bugs The cutters were filled with
them and the sidewalks in many places
were covered to a depth of an inch.
Pedestrian and occupants of automo-
biles and buggies were forced to leave
the business streets, where the bugs
formed literal blockade about the
lights Stores in many instances were
compelled to turn out their lights to
stop the invasion.
The sidewalks were so slippery that
passage upon them was dangerous in
many places The business section of
the city appeared as in a snow storm.
The appearance of bugs is reported
from Kiowa. Cherokee. Ala. Medicine
Lodge, Harper, Anthony and many
other cities are said to be suffering. In
Kiowa the bugs were piled to q. depth
of three inches upon the sidewalks I'M
der electric lights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
ROAST KNOX AND WILSON.
ATethodists at Horton Ask Taft to cat
tend'' to Them.

tend'' to Them.
Horton. Kan, Sept. 15.-The follow
ing resolutions were adopted by the
conference of the Atchison District M.
E. church, held here:
Whereas, Secretary of State Knox
and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
have officially sanctioned the brewing
interests of the world by their efforts
in behalf of the coming Brewers con-
gress in Chicago; therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the Atchison District
conference Of the Kansas conference
of the NJ. E church. representing a
Of 5000. that we protest
against this prostituting of their offices
to such low purposes; and be it fur
ther
Resolved. That the protests hereto
fore entered in this matter, have not
been adequately answered by the for
nal, printed replies of the aforesaid
secretaries, and will unless needed, be
more emphatiealy and effectively reg
istered at a proper time and place; and
be it further
Resolved, That we urge President
Taft to exercise his powers to prevent
further insult to the Christian senti-
ment of the nation and the expressed
laws of many of our states"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
DOCTOR LOSES TEST CASE.
John Peters Convicted of Practicing
Medicine without License.

Smith Center, Kan, Sept. 15.-In the
district court here Judge R M Pick
Ter presiding, John n. Peters was con-
victed for practicing medicine without
a license. Peters claimed to be a grad
uate of the Weltmer Institute of Sug-
gestive Therapeutics and had been ar
rested four times during the past month
by DR.. H A Dykes, secretary of the
state board of medical registration and
examination. Peters was defended by
Sol Long, R. W. Turner, and Mahin,
resented by L. c. UhI, Jr., county at
torney for Smith county, and Judge
F. L. Martin Of Hutchinson, the at
torney for the state medical board
This was a test case on Suggestive
therapeutics in this state Both sides
put up a great fight, however the case
of the state of Kansas VS.. Johnson,
from Stafford county. passed on by the
supreme court of Kansas, was strictly
followed by Judge Picker, in giving his
instructions to the jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
FRUIT TREE BoRERs AT WORK.

Orchards Being Damaged by Pests, K.
S. A. c. Professors say.
Manhattan, Kan. Sept. 15.-Fruit
tree borers are doing considerable
damage in some Kansas orchards and
lately the Agricultural college has had
calls for help. All inquiries are being
answered by T. J. Headlee, professor
of entomology, and specific instruc-
tons for eradication given.
Five species of fruit tree borers are
doing injury to orchards in this state, -
said Prof. Headlee today. s"They are
the shot hole bOrer, which bores small
holes in trees making them look as if
they had been the target of a shotgun,
the round-headed apple tree borer the
tW1g borer, and the peach tree borer.
With the exception of the peach tree
oorer, all these species prefer diseased
trees. For that reason the first step
toward keeping trees from borers is to
keep them in the healthiest possible
growing condition by proper pruning,
feeding and cultivation. All infested
wood should be cut out and burned.
Generally that will stop the work of
twig borer. If not. the trees should
be treated with deterrant wash com
posed Of one pint of crude carbo1ic
acid, one gallon of soft soap and eight
gallons of water The trunks and
larger branches should be thoroughly
covered with this wash.
Young apple trees can be protected
from the round and the f1at-headed
apple tree borers by wrapping news
paper or tarred paper from a point
Just above the roots to eighteen inches
or two feet above the ground
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
MAN DENIES UGLY CHARGE.
George C1evenger Denies Charges
Made by Sister-in-IaVv.

Salina. Kan, Sept. 15.-George
C1evenger charged with criminal as
sault upon Mabel Gertrude Varney, a.
girl of but 1 5 years. is in Jail here.
CIevenger denies everything. He de-
clares the entire story told by the girl
was invented by her. He denies that
he was guilty of a crime on either her
or her dead sister.
The story told by the Varney girl is
one of the most hideous that has been
pc ured into the annals of local courts
Even if C1evenger does disprove the
charges made here. it is said other
trouble is in store for him McPher-
son county has warrants for him on
similar charges
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

covered by him in Oklahoma buried in
the midst of the iron remains and
charred ruins of a plains wagon.
In that year Mr.. Hoff. who then
lived in Wichita, was buying cattle in
Oklahoma
The formation of the different lay
ers of fat and lean, the correct out
line, the bone formations at either end
and the size and shape are as true to
the genuine article as could be i'm
agined. 1t weighs 2S pounds and is
certainly a curiosity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

I I D In nervousness
and other annoying
symptoms, and I
can truly say that
E. Pinkham'S
V e G e t a Bile Com
pound has proved
worth mountains of
gold to me, as it
restored my health
and S tren 9Th. I
never forget to tell
my friends what
Lydia E. Pinkham'S