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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
FALSE BOTTOMS FOR RANGES
Economies Summer Coal consump
ton in Simple and Effective
Manner.

Here is an invention which will ap-
peal to housewives from two import
ant standpoints. viz, economy of coal
and reduced temperature for summer
cooking. The woman who thought
out this idea could not see why she
should load her kitchen range UP with
coal every time she wished to prepare
a meal, and then have half of the coal
left to burn out as waste and heat
the house to an uncomfortable degree.
Since, however, the live Goals must
be kept in proximity to the griddles,
thin fire in the deep firebox would
not accomplish the purpose. There
fore she developed the false bottom
shown in our illustration. AS will be
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
TO|NSPECTA LLFOOD
SOLOAT STATEFA|R
ViGtuaIS Must Be Served With
Attention to Health.
RIGID INSPECTION BY STATE
Confiscated Scales, Weights and Meas
ures Will Be Shown-RaiIroad
Will Have Agricultural Crop
and Land Exhibit Cars.

Madison.-If you go to the state fair
this year to remain the entire day and
decide to lunch at hamburger stand
or dine in one of the restaurants con-
Quoted by the various church and
other organizations, you can depend
upon it that the food you get will be
wholesome, clean and served with
every attention to health. This was
decided at the meeting of the state
board of agriculture when both Health
Commissioner Kraft and Dairy and
Food Commissioner Emery called the
attention of the board to the neces.
sity for restriction, inspection and pre-.
caution in feeding the public during
fair week.
The state dairy and food commits
sioner will have charge of the food
consumption at the fair, and the lem.
onade man, the red-hot man, the ice
cream vendor, and every other dis
penser of victuals will have to submit
TO rigid inspection by the state.
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Jansen has been offered space for an
SAulUlL VI COuu6CdI0Q SCdISS, W0lSUlS
and measures, and will present an in
structive exhibit for the benefit of the
people of Wisconsin, using his 'rogue's
gallery" collected in Milwaukee, in
addition to specimens of trick and
short weight scales and measures con-
fiscated
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad will have one of their agricul-
tural crop and land exhibit cars in a
conspicuous place on the grounds dur
ing fair week The exhibition car con-
tains grains, fruits, grasses and garden
products gathered from along the I'M
settled portions of the Milwaukee road
system.
Special exhibitions of one and five
mile motorcycle races will be given
each day by the Harley-Davidson COM
pany.
The Woman's Suffrage association
and the Political Equality league were
granted permission to erect tents and
promote the interest of their organiza-
tons.
An old-fashioned spelling contest
will be conducted. The contest will
be INDUCED in by the winners OF the
county contests held last spring.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
pustlese carpet sweeplna.

To give my carpets a thorough
sweeping without raising dust, | dip
my broom into gasoline (merely
moistening it, and sweep in the us
ual way This is superior to the ofdi-
nary way of using wet salt or corn
meal. the gasoline frightening the
carpets as well as absorbing the dust.
For my stair carpet, use a small
whisk broom, moistened with gaso-
line. and sweep the dirt onto a dust
pan.-Suburban Life.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Preparing Mushrooms.

Fry a quarter of pound of mush
room caps in three tablespoonfuls of
hot butter, season with salt, pepper
and a CRATE of nutmeg; add half a
cupful of milk, cover and let simmer
for eight minutes. Arrange the mush-
rooms on round of bread In mush-
room dish, pour the liquid over them,
cover with glass bell, and bake
about thirty minutes in moderate
oven. Send to the table without re-
moving the glass, which confines the
delicate flavor and the aroma of the
mushroom.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Military Day at State Fair.

Plans for military day at the
state fair were completed at a con
ference of the commanders of the Mil
waukee National Guards organization
and William MacLaren, F. A. Cannon
and Bart j. Ruddle of the special at
traction committee. From reports re-
ceived from the commanders of the
First, Second and Third regiments and
the Tenth Separate battalion, it is safe
to say that from 1900 to 1000 soldiers
will be in camp on the state fair
grounds.
First battery, field artillery, will be
in camp at Sparta with the regular
troops at the time of the state fair, but
arrangements are under way which
will secure the release of the battery
from its duties at the regular army
school of instruction for the day.
The following companies of infan-
try in the First, Second and Third regi-
ments outside of Milwaukee have sig
nified desire to take part in the
tournament and will muster about fifty
men each:
First regiment-Company B, Fort
Atkinson, Capt G. w. Garlock; COM
pany l, Neenah, Capt. B. ]. Schneider;
company L, Beloit, Capt. Charles L..
Buck.
Second regiment-Company K, Bea-
yer Dam, Capt William Bearder; COM
pany l, Marinette, Capt. S. r. Brear-
ley; company H, Manitowoc, Capt.
Walter Abel; company c, Sheboygan,
Capt. Ulrich Moecki; company A,
Marshfield, Capt R. Connor
Third giment-Company E, Eau
Claire, Capt. Earl F. Pearsall; COM
pany F, Portage, Capt. Guy L. Goodell;
company G, Wauwau, Capt. E. ]. Lu-
cas-.
Ten other companies of infantry will
reach a decision during the week and
the program committee will hold week
ly meetings to organize exhibition fea-
lures, one of which will be a sham
battle.
The military will be assisted by
Lincoln Beachey and G. G. Whitmore,
who will lombard the blockhouse and
fort with bombs while sailing through
the air.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
AoriouIturaI COLLEGE at Fair.

agricultural Colle9e at T air.
Better exhibits this year than ever
before, simpler in form, more con-
crete and educational; that is the
keynote of the plans of each depart
ment of the agricultural college and
experiment station at Madison for
their displays at the state fair at
Milwaukee, September 1916.
Charts and maps will occupy small
space in the soils booth, giving way
to large photographs of actual condi-
lions. Every farmer should visit this
exhibit to learn the different methods
of treating different soils and the re-
suits from the actual use Of these
methods in fields. For example, there
will be a large photo of marshy
field of corn, part of which was
treated with potash. That part is
standing six or eight feet tall, while
the corn in the untreated rows next
to it will not be worth cutting for
fodder Many experiments in treat
ing sandy, marshy soils, WORKOUT
clay loans, ETC., have been tried this
year. and the results will be shown
by actual photographs and samples OF
grains. Special attention is given to
the results of using lime and rock
phosphate to supplement manure.
The progress of the Wisconsin soil
survey will be illustrated by maps;
open gallon jars filled with the vari-
GUS types of soil, and labeled, will be
set where farmers may take them in
their hands and examine them and
refer to the places on the map where
such soils are found.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Wisconsin Patents.

The following list of patents were
issued to Wisconsin inventors: Lee
Garfield, Sparta, drill; Eugene Feren-
elk. West Axis, expansion reamer;
John H. Friberg, Maiden Rock, horse
collar fastener; Lawrence p. Hansche,
Racine, infants chair; Fred HOFFMAN,
and E. F. Niedecken, assignors to
Hoffman, & Billings Manufacturing
company, Milwaukee, basin waste con
nection; Thomas j. Kelly, Fond du
Lac. dam mold; John d. Lammel
Neenah, cutter lead,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30

Says Compensation Act Constitutional.
Jackson filed in the supreme court the
brief of the state against the applica
ton of the Filler & Stowell company,
Thomas J. Neacy and Walter Read, all
of Milwaukee, for leave to bring suit
against the Wisconsin industrial COM
mission, the secretary of state, state
treasurer and officers of the city of
Milwaukee to enjoin them from en-
forcing the new workmen's compensa-
ton law on the ground that it is I'M
constitutional.
Attorneys Carpenter and PCss, rep
resenting the petitioners, filed their
brief some days ago, and the states
brief is a reply TO that document. The
state contends in brief that the law is
constitutional.
THE act is a beneficent one" de-
clares Attorney Jackson, in concluding
his argument. 1.-TWO legislatures have
taken infinite pains that it might meet
the crying demand that led to it's
passage Time alone will prove its
worth, disclose it's isperfections and
reveal it's defects. 1t was conceived in
the interests of humanity If 1t realize
but part of what its sponsors vouch-
safe 1t will not have been enacted in
vain. Every consideration of public
policy would seem to dictate that it at
least be given fair trial before it be
condemned"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
tauds Workmen.s Law.

THE workmen's compensation act
accomplishes more at one swoop by
way of labor legislation than has
been accomplished since the organiza-
ton of the state" declared ]. d. Beck
of the Wisconsin industrial commits
sion as a meeting of the officers and
employees of the j.. l. Case Plow
works at Racine. Addresses were
made also by Chairman c. H. Crown
hart and by R. ]. Young, chief safety
Inspector of the Illinois Steel COM
pany.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
State Board in Session.

The new state board of public af-
fairs, at a meeting in the governors
office, decided to publish pamphlet
on the material and Industrial re-
sources of the state, to cooperate with
all agencies and organizations of the
state which are working to reduce the
cost of living, to employ an expert &C
countant to work out a uniform sys-
tenn of accounting for town, county,
municipal and state departments OF
government,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
EDO Rolls.

Beat two eggs into one cup of milk,
add one tablespoon Of melted butter,
one cup of flour, one teaspoon of bak-
ing powder; mix well, then add enough
-four to make the dough stiff enough
to roll. Cut into small rounds and
bake in a hot oven.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Prenared.

Gracious, what is all that crepe
for?"
81 had chance to get it at bar
gain, and, you know, my husband goes
in for fying!"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Whips.

One quart of cream, one pint of
milk, two lemons-the peel Of enc
grated, vanilla to taste, sugar; whip
until stiff and fill glasses.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Indian Cake.

One egg, one cup of milk or water,
one cup of meal, one-half cup of flour,
one-half cup of brown sugar, two tea
spoons of baking powder and a little
calf
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Cement 7 ak No. 2

Porzzand Cement does
not come from Portland,
Maine, or Portland, Ore
gon, and it was not first
made at either of these
places. 1t is called Portland
because it was given this name
by the Englishman who first
made it. He called it Portland
because he thought it resembled GER
tain natural deposits on the Isle of Port
land in England. Portland Cement is
the fine powder produced by pulyer-
izing the clinker resulting from the
burning together of various materials of prop
er chemical composition. In the case of
UnfUsr5aL Portland Cement, these raw mater
ials are blast furnace Stag and pure limestone.
There are many brands of Portland Cement
on the market, produced by different manu-
facturers. Uni1er5alis one of the best known
and highest grade Portland Cement5. You
can always tell it by the name UNiIer50iand
the blue trade mark printed on each sack.
Forty million sacks of UniUer5alare made and
used yearly in this country. If you have any
eoncrete work to do, you will make no mistake
byusing Uniz,eryal Portland Cenent UniUsrsaI
isfor sale byrepresentative dealers everywhere,
UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT co.
II W. ADAMS STREET. CHICAGO
ANNUAL OUTPUT 100000 BARRELS
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30

Mrs. Jinks-My husband is making
collection of stems.
Mrs. Booze A. Lott-My husband is
making a collection OF the contents of
stems.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30

Sheboy gan.-Joseph Kolb, one of
the few survivors from the Pere
Marquette ferry, No. Is, which was
wrecked off Sheboygan about year
ago, met with perhaps fatal accident
en- board the Pere Marquette No. 10,
while en- route from Manitowoc to Lud.
sngton. Kolb was an oiler on the ferry
and while performing his duty in some
manner his clothing caught in re-
yolving shaft and when Chief Engineer
Brown found him he was unconscious,
with all his clothing excepting his
shoes and stockings stripped from his
body
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30

Madison Wisconsin state
civil service commission announced
a competitive examination for can
didates for first assistant attorney
general at a salary of $4,000 year, to
succeed A. c. Titus, who IS sick. In
October the examination will be held
throughout the state for local income
tax assessors, salaries $500 to $4,000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30

Jefferson. jefferson county's old
soldiers held their ninth annual
reunion in Courthouse park. Ad-
dresses were made by former Gov. w.
D. Hoard, former Congressman S. A.
Cook, former Senator ]. A. Hardwood
and others. F. A. Foote was reelected
president and George Turner of Jeffer-
son secretary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-12-02
Mammoth Guns to Guard Panama Canal

two ends of the ditch will be defended
by seven forts in all, three at the At
lantic end and four at the Pacific open
ing. These works will constitute two
systems of forts-the four at the Pa
cific end operating together, and like
wise the three at the Atlantic end.
The Notifications will all be under
ground. A hostile fleet approaching
from the ocean will see nothing but
a slope of grassy greensward, whether
on the islands or on the mainland.
There will be nothing visible to shoot
at, for the great guns will be hidden
in concrete lined pits, from which
they are uplifted momentarily by their
disappearing carriages to deliver their
fire. Quite distance in the rear of
each of the two groups of forts will
be three large pits, each containing
four 12-inch mortars.
The locks of the canal necessarily
are vital points, and these will be de-
Tended by field Notifications"
is to say, we'll constructed earthworks,
with six-inch howitzers, three-inch
field guns, etc. These works are in
tended, of course, for defense against
possible attack by land force. The
war department is going to maintain
considerable body of troops on the
isthmus. 1t may be taken for granted
that the forts at the two ends of the
canal will be able to defeat any at.
tack from the sea.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-12-02
Government Busy Cleaning Out Opium

6 LOWLY the federal arm is sweepins
~ in the opium fiends. The recent
raid here by internal revenue agents.
when $4,000 worth of the drug, pre-
pared for smoking, was coniscated
and the distributing organization for
the District of Columbia broken up.
was one of series of big hauls in the
larger cities of the country in recent
months, as a result of which several
hundred thousand dollars worth of
the drug is now in government pos
session.
IN the last five months just such
hauls, many larger and more impor-
tant, have been made by means of
which agents have in many cases been
able to trace the drug to the illicit
manufacturers, thus dealing the most
serious blow Of all. In Terre Haute.
Ind, where. the richest haul of all was
made, nearly 100000 worth of the
drug was found when the inspectors
ra1ded small river shack where the
crude opium, was, being prepared for
distribution to smokers throughout the
middle west.
I'VE are learning how to 20 about it.
We are discovering the haunts of
them," said special officer. "It has
been hard job, because there is no
Interstate regulation. There is a bill
TOR that purpose before congress now.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-12-02
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1911.
RACES RISING.

when We consider that all the
races are moving on and up to a COM
mon goal it is fair to speak of them
all as overlapping races. And the
backward races are obviously rising
faster than the white race. They are
overtaking us. 1t fills us with admira-
ton and alarm to see how close Japan
and China are pressing upon us.
When we see the Afro-American pass
ing in forty-five years from total illit-
eracy to only so per cent illiteracy,
when we find that they have come to
own in this country farms equal in
area to both Holland and Belgium, it
is not hard to see that no people in
history have risen so rapidly as they
in an equal time. 49,. ....
I'm our united world the races of
men can never advance separately.
They must stand or fall together
Competition between them will be in
creasingly close in every line. There
is bound to be conflict ahead greater
and more far-reaching than the world
has ever knoWn-confiict between the
races. The only question is, on what
plane will that conflict be? 1t may be
a doubtful physical conflict with untold
suffering and, horrors of war. Or il
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-12-02

WASHINGTON.-In the United
" States there are in all about
100000 miles of roads of one kind
or another-enough to reach around
the earth 100 times. Much of this.
however, is of a character not wor-
thy OF the name road. Some of it is
little better than rock pile, and 9th.
ers are wide tracks through bitches
ana sWamps. Of the whole only seven
miles In each hundred can be said to
nave any improvements whatever, and
on the most of it the improvements
are such as to be unworthy of note.
Altogether not two per cent. can be
called first class. With the proper i'm.
proVement Of this network of roads
Will come saving that will richly
repay the nation.
Inc roads in the. United States may
not be the very worst in the world.
out they are bad enough as a. whole.
that is certain, compared with those in
other civilized countries. Europe is a.
network OF magnificent highways In
Germany, France and England one can
ride TOR miles without striking a stone
or puddle. This does not add to
pleasure alone. It is the means of
saving millions of dollars each year
to those countries where such roads
are maintained.
The cost Of hauling over our coun-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-12-02
chOa Shinino h1cin &c

The shoe shining business was at
one time monopolized by Afro-Ameri
cans, but that was many years ago
In recent years the Greeks have taken
up the business and hundreds have
grown rich in business. In Chicago
recently two Greeks, Georgis & Bugus,
OF 1874 South State street, filed a lease
for their eight-fOOt store at a rental Of
$275 month, in the recorders office.
William j. Georges, who is 81 years
old, came to Chicago five years ago
and obtained a place as a bootblack
with jim Bugus, who then had a shoe
shining stand in the Palmer House.
Later the two formed a partnership.
Last February, Georgis, who is known
to his patrons as Little joe" bought
a lot at SiXty-third street and Fifty
sixth avenue for $500, and erected a
brick building costing $500. Other
Greeks have amassed fortunes of $780,
600 to $4,000 in the shoe shining bust
ness.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-12-02
Nation Loses Millions bv Bad Roads

try roads is now about % cents per
ton TO the mile. In the European
countries as long as 10 years ego the
cost had been reduced to 10 cents, ana
1t is much lower today. On some OF
the roads going into London, by the
motor cars now in use, it is less than
TOUR .cents, and by wagon freight can
De hauled almost anywhere on the con-
tlnent for from one-half to one-third
its cost in the United States The
saving effected under this system
amounts to hundreds of millions of
dollars every year.
According to the report of the inter-
state commerce commission in 1906.
our railroads handled more than $780,
100000 tons of freight which originat-
ed on their respective lines. All this
mad to be taken to and from the cars.
great deal Of it was made up of the
products of the farm and the forests.
ana 1t is estimated that at least 200,-
100000 tons Of it had a haul of nine
miles at cost of % cents a ton. That
Dill alone would represent more than
$4oO,O00,0O0, and other freights and
hauling would run the sum to $780,
oO0,OO0 or over. Now suppose we cut
the: wagon freight bill in half, or to
Ii Il cents ton, which is still far
above the cost of hauling in Europe,
and the saving would be $250,0o0, 900
a year. In fact, the loss on our haul
ing is one Of the greatest leaks of our
whole Industrial system. To save this
waste of effort and money should be
among the chief concerns of our
people. 1t is gratifying to note that
they are awaking to the need of con-
s1stent and concerted action and tax,
Ing up the matter in earnest.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-12-02
Bar Unbidden Guests From Naval Ball

ID ECENT agitation over the new re-
~ strictions placed upon midshipmen
at the naval academy in the matter of
guests at academy dances has brought
forth from officials of the navy de-
partment remarkable statement 1t
was disclosed that heretofore the
doors of the naval academy have been
opened wide on the evenings of
dances, and all presenting themselves
at the doors dressed as for a dance
have been admitted without question.
Several embarrassing situations
have developed from time to time
Involving midshipmen in serious
trouble. Henceforth, it is stated, the
academy officials will require that no
person be admitted without presenting
card of invitation, and the names of
all persons to whom such cards are
issued are to be listed.
The invitations to balls and hops at
the naval academy" says the state
ment, have been either a source of
misunderstanding or a cause for at
tempting to stir up class prejudice.
Few, fathers and mothers with sons
at the naval academy but would de-
sire and expect the authorities having
their sons in charge to endeavor to
keep them apart from that special
form of temptation that haunts all
places where large bodies of young
men are collected together.
no domv. -.
smaller and the number Of guests