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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
DEATH BEFORE 100
YEARS IS SUICIDE
Prof. Munyon Says Ignorance
of Laws of Health Explains
Early End of Life.
NOTED SCIENTIST HAS
ENCOURAGING WORD
FOR DESPONDENT
MEN AND WOMEN

death before 100 years of age has
been reached is nothing more or less
than slow suicide. A man Cor woman)
who dies at an earlier age is simply igno-
rant of the laws of health
Such was the original and rather
startling statement made by PROFESSOR
phia health authority, who is establish
ing health headquarters in all the large
cities of the world for the purpose OF get
ting in direct touch with his thousands
of converts.
Professor Munyon is a living embodi-
ment of the cheerful creed he breaches.
he looks as though he would easily at
tain the century age limit which he de-
clares is the normal one. He said:
Il want the people of the world to
health, which the fruit of lifetime
devoted to healing the sick, people OF
America. There isn't a building in this
city big enough to house the people in
this State alone who have found health
through my methods. Before 1 get
through there won't be building big
Il want, most of all, to talk to the sick
people-the invalids, the discouraged
ones. the victims of nerve-wearing, body
racking diseases and ailments-for these
are the ones to whom the message OF
hope which bear will bring the great
est blessing.
81 want to talk to the rheumatics, the
sufferers from stomach trouble, the ones
afflicted with that noXious disease, ca
tarrh. want to tell my story to the
women who have become chronic in
ValidS as a result of nervous troubles. [
want to talk to the men who are all run
down. whose health has been broken by
overwork, improper diet. late hours and
other causes, and who feel the creeping
clutch of serious, chronic illness.
''To these people l bring a story OF
hope. l can give them a promise of bet
ter things. 1 want to astonish them by
showing the record of cures performed
through my new system of treatment
"I have taken the best of the ideas
from all schools and embodied them in
q new system of treatments individually
adapted to each particular case. have
no cure ais but my present method OF
attacking disease is the very best thought
of modern science. The success which
have had with these treatments in this
city and all over America proves its eff
cacy. Old methods must give away, to
new medical science moves. L know what
my remedies are doing for humanity
everywhere. I know what they will do
for the people of this city. Let me prove
my statements-thats all I ask
The continuous stream of callers and
mail that comes to Professor James M.
Munyon at his laboratories, Fifty-third
and jefferson streets, Philadelphia, Pa,
keeps DR.. Munyon and his enormous
corps of expert physicians busy.
Professor Munyon makes no charge for
consultation or medical advice; not
penny to pay. Address Prof. J. NJ. Nun
yon, Munyon's Laboratories, Fifty-third
and Jefferson streets. Philadelphia, Pa
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Plan Bio Industrial Show.

There is little doubt in the minds
of those interested but that an indus
trial show will be held next year by
all the manufacturers of Wisconsin.
Officers and members of the Wis
consin Manufacturers association
who have visited the show at Mil
waukee are enthusiastic over the
prospects of such 1t is pointed out
that such an exhibition would not
only be OF great Importance to manu-
facturers, but that the state as a
whole would be vastly benefited. 1t
would attract many thousands Of per-
sons from surrounding states and
show them what Wisconsin has to Of
fer as manufacturing common
wealth
Plans are already in an embryonic
state, it is said, and if completed the
show will be held in the Auditorium
in Milwaukee next fall.
1t will be purely a Wisconsin ex-
position. Every manufacturing cen
ter in the state will send it's products
and every article manufactured in the
state will be sent here for exhibition.
Name It-Wisconsin Makes It." will
be the slogan. People coming from
one part of the state will be enabled
to see what the people of another
part of the state make, and vice
versa.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Prison Twine Plant waits.

Wisconsin prison-made binder Irvine
is not product of the immediate fu-
tGre. When the wheels of the elab-
orately equipped Waupun plant will
begin to turn is a question clothed in
Indebtedness Of the deepest kind. This
is the situation as gathered from in
terviews with President w H. Graeb-
ner and Ralph E. Smith of the state
board Of control
President Graebner said about three
fourths of the necessary machinery is
in place, and that the board does not
propose at present to purchase the
rest. So many other important mat
ters are pressing for early attention,
he said, that the binder Irvine PROPOSE
ton may we'll wait. He would not
concede that the plant would be in
operation this year.
Mr.. Smiths statement was to the
same effect
The last legislature appropriated
$4,000 for completing the equipment
of the plant, and 100000, available
January 1, 1912, and 100000 more
available January /, 1913, for use as a
revolving fund in the operation of the
binder Irvine factory. The latter fund
is to be used by the board of control
to purchase raw material and for car
rying, handling and marketing the
manufactured product. The money
coming from the sale of the Irvine is
to be turned into the state treasury to
the credit of the revolving fund When
ever this fund shall exceed 100000,
the excess will be transferred to the
states general fund.
The board Of control is empowered
to fix the price of the Irvine and cord
age made in the factory, acting with
the warden of the prison. The board
also will supervise it's sale and is in
structed by the law to give preference
in the sale of such products to citi
Zens of the state.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20

and I would like to be sentenced at
once, replied johnson, when the
court asked if he had anything to say
before being sentenced.
The judge then pronounced the
life sentence, with one day each
year, the anniversary of the terrible
crime, to be served in solitary con-
finement, on~bread and water.
AS soon as sentence was pro-
nounced Johnson was hurried back
to the Jail and an automobile sum-
moned from a city garage.
Before he was bundled into the
auto Johnson was carefully searched
for weapons and anything else by
which he might try to escape or COM
nit suicide. He was on his way to
Waupun within forty minutes after
he was sentenced.
In a partial confession made to the
authorities, Johnson said he had no
motive in committing the crime.
On the night of the kidnapping and
murder Johnson said that he went
to bed drunk He could not sleep, he
said, and finally got up and put on
his clothes He went out to see it he
could find a saloon open to get more
to drink, but while passing the Lem
berger house he thought of having
seen Annie Lemberger sleeping near
a window, and some devilish i'm
pulse urged him to steal her.
He stepped over to the window,
quietly unfastened and raised it, and
then lifted the child from her couch
without putting his foot inside the
room. He said that when he lifted
her out she stirred uneasily and was
awakening To prevent her from
making an cutlery and arousing the
other members of the family he
struck her on the head with his
clenched fist. Then he hit her again
and again, until she became limp
in his arms.
Then he took her across the street
from the Lemb4rger home and laid
her down in a vacant lot which was
filled with high weeds.
Johnson said that after he laid the
child down in the weeds he began
to realize the awfulness of his crime
and he began to think of the best
way to get out of the affair without
being discovered He said that the
child did not show any signs of life
and he thought she was dead. He
lifted her up and Tan with her to
Lake Mononal bay, six blocks away,
and hurled the body into the water.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
BRUTE CONFESSES
TO Staying CHILD
"DOGSkIN" JOHNSON ADMITS
ASSAULT AND MURDER OF
MADISON GIRL.
PUSHED TO WAUPUN PRISON
Life Sentence Pronounced at Secret
Court Session and Prisoner Is
SIP rited Away in Auto-Johnson
Degenerate Through Drink.

Madison.-John A. (Dogskin)
Johnson, who steadfastly protested
his innocence, even while blood
hounds were hunting him down for
the brutal murder of Annie Lem
berger, finally confessed the crime
and within five hours began serving
a life sentence in Waupun.
Arraigned in Judge Donovan's
court, Johnson entered plea of not
guilty. The fear which tugged at his
heart as he was taken back to his
cell, however, soon caused him to
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20

send for a jailer. He said he wanted
to plead guilty and be sentenced
In court, a few minutes later, he
confessed the murder. and made a
partial confession On his way to
Waupun, after he had been SEN
fenced, he told the real story of the
crime. That story is locked in the
breast of Sheriff Brown and may
never be a part of the court record
johnson made an addition to his
confession to me while we were
speeding from Madison to Waupun, -
said the sheriff, after he had seen the
prison keys turned on the murderer.
''The nature of the confession as
now have it makes it terrible story.
| There are things in it which | shall
never reveal"
When taken into court the second
time, Johnson told the district at
torney that he was guilty of killing
the Lemberger child and asked that
he be allowed to withdraw his plea
of not guilty and substitute one of
guilty.
Johnson then stood up before
Judge Donovan and had the COM
plant charging him with kidnapping
and numbering Annie Lemberger on
the morning of Sept 6 read to him.
What do you plead to this
charged" asked Judge Donovan.
Guilty, your HONOR replied
Johnson, in an even voice.
Il have nothing to say further
than l didn't realize the awful Of
Tense l was committing at the time,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
State Accepts School.

The new state board of Industrial
education has formally organized and
accepted the property of the Stout in.
stitute at Menomonie, amounting to
100000 in real estate and equip
ment. H E Miles OF Racine is elect
ed president and Prof. Louis f. Rob
ert of Madison secretary. L. D. Har-
vey, who has been at the head of the
school since 1908, has been retained
as president of the institute. The in
stitute will open with an enrolment
of about 425 students.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Badger Delegates Named.

Governor McGOvern, by Private
Secretary McGregor, appointed nine
members of the legislature to repre-
sent Wisconsin at the meeting OF the
National Good Roads association IN
Chicago. September is to October l.
as follows: Senators ]. S. Donald, E.
f. Brown and Timothy Burke, and
Assemblymen John r. Jones, l.. E.
Gettle. A. Gulickson, Charles Lentz,
w. Z. Hudnall and w. ]. Gilboy.
Amendments also were made OF
five delegates to the second annual
conference of the Manufacturers Elk
mort association to be held in New
York September % and 26.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
CLOTHES sPRAYER IS NOVEL
Sprinkler Top That Can Be Adjusted
in the Top of a Water
Bottle.

Laundresses usually sprinkle
1othes before ironing them and the
method that has been in use for
years is to dip the fingers of one
land in a bowl of water and flirt the
irops over the garments. In addition
20 it's crudity, this method sprays the
clothes very irregularly. A New York
man has devised sprayer which is
ar superior to the fingers. 1t con-
sists of little metal sprinkler, like
those that fit in the spouts of water
ing pots, and fits into the neck of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20

bottle which is filled with water. BY
giving this bottle a shake or two
over the clothes the latter can be-
moistened far better than is possible
by the hand method and there is no
need of wetting the fingers. This
same implement can be used for
sprinkling plants quite as well as
watering pot and is really better
when the plants are indoors, as the
spray does not spread to the extent
that the spray from pot does.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Tes, New Water Power Law.

The Wisconsin Water Powers as
sociation will apply to the supreme
court 10 take original jurisdiction in
suit the association contemplates as
test of the constitutionality of the new
water powers law. The association ex-
meets to begin two or three suits to
test the law, each suit attacking the
problem in different manner, thus
covering all points, technical or other
wise. The principal question Is as to
Who owns the water powers, the state
or the owners OF power rights on the
gtric.is rivers.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
To Remov. Grease

Grease may be easily and thorough
~ skinned from soup if piece of
ice be used in the operation The
crease hardens as soon as it comes
In contact with the ice and adheres to
it long enough to be slipped into the
waiting saucer
When making broths for immedi-
ate use this method is found to be Of
great service.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Call Hiuh Officials.

E. A Edmonds, chairman Of the Re-
publican state central committee at
the time of United States Senator Ste
phenson's election, has been served
with summons to appear before the
senate investigation committee in Mil
waukee next month.
Other Appleton men who also were
subpoenaed are DR.. H. ]. OConnor
and former Deputy Game Warden
William Haslam.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Nav Prosecute Ministers.

Kenosha. Prosecution of several
Kenosha ministers is threatened on
account of their failure to report mar
riages performed. 1t is said hun
dreds of dollars are due the state
for penalties.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Dies Trying to Save Friend.

Sparta While riding on a locomo-
tive in the railroad yards here, Gus
Larengon, a laborer, slipped and fell
under the wheels Peter Bolavois,
his companion, tried to drag Laren-
gon out of danger and both were
killed
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Baldwin Cake.

One cup of sugar, one-third cup of
butter or shortening, one-half cup of
milk. one cup and one tablespoon OF
-four, three eggs, leaving out the white
of one. For frosting two scant tea.
spoons of baking powder.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20

Prof. Rastai Is Chosen Director.
B. NJ Rastall, associate professor of
business administration at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, was elected director
of the state board of public affairs
The salary is $4,000 He will devote
four days each week to the work and
will continue his labors with Prof.
John R. Commons in devising a uni
form accounting system for the city
of Milwaukee.
Robert A. Campbell of the Univer-
sity of California, was elected secre-
tary of the board at a salary of $4,000.
Mr.. Campbell, whose home is at Guer-
nee, Ill, is a graduate of the 1906
class Of the University of Wisconsin
and was associated with Thomas A.
Adams on the state board of assess
ment during his college days. He is
an expert accountant.
Adolph F. Meyer, brother Of Prof.
B. H. Meyer of the interstate COM
merce commission and also a state
university graduate, and ]. McC. Bell
of Milwaukee, were considered by the
committee for the secretaryship. Mr..
Never withdrew his name.
The board authorized the superin-
tendent of public property to provide
quarters in the capitol.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Fourth Victim of 500 Wreck.

Neenah.-The fourth victim of the
500 line wreck at Fremont was
claimed by death when Fred Fortune
of Detroit, aged %. died here
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Manitomoc County Girls Win.

ilwaukee.-Honors il the spell
ing bee" conducted at the state fair
were won by Emma Braun and SUI
san Ref, Manitowoc county school
girls.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20

Now, John, if 1 were to die you
would weep over me and tell every
body what good wife I was
mo, I wouldn't, believe me-"
'Well, I would for you, just for de-
cency's sake. And that shows I'm
not half as mean as you are"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20

Accept your limitations. Seize your
opportunities. Enjoy the good of
the hour. Improve the bad and II
you fail, let it drop. S. Blackie.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
ASYLUM Contract Awarded.

Asylum Contract awarded.
The Weinberg Construction COM
pany of Grand Rapids has just been
awarded the contract for the erec-
ton of the new county asylum build
ing at Shawano The estimated cost
of this building is $135,000 The
Weinberg Construction company has
just completed the Wood county asy-
lum building, the largest of its kind
in the state, which building will be
ready for use the latter part OF the
month
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20

The hurt of a burn or a cut stops when
Coles CarboHsalye is applied It heals
quickly and prevents scars Csc and soc by
druggists. For free sample write to
]. w. Cole & Co. Black River Falls, Wis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
Rlueberrv Biscuit

Add one cup of blueberries to bak
ing powder biscuit.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20

Do not yield to misfortunes. but
meet them with fortitude.- Virgil.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-09-19
BONDING FOR GOOD ROADS.

The plan of bonding counties for
the construction and up-keep of pub
lie highways appears to be meeting
with favor in many sections. Those
who have examined the plan maintain
that it is really the only business-like
and economical way to handle the
problem. Says the Eugene Register
"Jackson county figures that if it
can bond itself in the sum of mil
lion and a half for road improvements
that it can sell the bonds at premi-
um of hundred thousand dollars,
half that sum already being offered
in advance by one bonding company.
If Lane county, which has been
spending money on county roads at
over a hundred thousand annually
and has but few miles of permanently
builded highway to show for it, had
bonded itself in the sum of million
dollars and had spent it in building
macadam roads we would have had
solid, substantial roadways for the
next half century with little ex-
pense for keeping them in repair.
Bonding and systematic construction
is the correct solution of the road
building problem in this country" /"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-09-19

The Oregon City Courier voices a
self-evident ultimatum to its readers
and Others, when its editor says that
he will not father the fights of others
and that he sis papa to trouble
enough of his own making" This
declaration was called forth by the
submission to the paper for publiea-
ton of articles starting something
which the writers didn't have the
sand to stand behind, People are too
ready to ask the editor to get him
self into trouble over their fights
while they keep in the background
and permit him TO scrap it out, los
ing friends and business raking their
chestnuts cut of the fire. There are
few publications nowadays that will
print articles of this nature unless
the writer thereof is possessed of
enough manhood TO permit the use
of his name over his story.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-09-19
WAS PIONEER OF POLK
Mrs. Catherine McNary Called by
Death at Portland Home, Aged
72 Years.

Mrs. Catherine McNary, relict OF
Fl. M. McNary, of Salem, land an Or
egon pioneer of 1852, died Friday
aged II years, at the home of her son,
Lawrence A. McNary. Funeral ser
vices were conducted in Salem last
Sunday in the First Presbyterian
church, of which she had been q
member for many years. The body
was buried in the City View cemetery
beside that of her husband, H. M.
McNary.
Mrs. McNary was the daughter OF
Rees and Lily Frizzell, and was born
in Green county, Missouri, January
10, 1889. When 13 years old she
crossed the plains to Oregon with her
parents, settling in Polk county,
where, in 1854, she was married to Il.
NJ. McNary, an Oregon pioneer of
1845. After living for several years
in Polk and Wasco counties in this
state, and Klickitat county, Washing
ton, Mr. and Mrs. McNary, in 1876,
established their home in Salem,
which was the home of Mrs. McNary
until her husband died in 1891, when
she went to Portland and lived with
her children.
Mrs. McNary was the mother of
seven children, all of whom survive
her. She was the sister of William,
j. p, G. l.. and Joseph Frizzell and
Mrs. A. M. Holmes, all well-known
pioneers, who, with the exception of
Joseph Frizzel and Mrs. Holmes,
survive.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-09-19

Ineighbor, whose orchard was equally
as good, did not spend so much time
with his trees, with the result that
his orchard did not present SO pleas
ling all appearance. When the asses
sor came along he promptly placed a
much higher rate upon the clean or
chard than upon the other; thus the
industrious farmer had to pay for his
industry, and yet his farm would
probably not sell for a dollar more
than that Of his neighbor. 1t was
probably no fault Of the assessor 1T
was the result of the working out Of
a manifestly unjust and deservedly
unpopular method of revenue produc-
ing laws.
It is certainly unfair and unjust to
exact greater toll from capital
which improves the country and in
creases the value of our business and
our property, than upon the land
that lies idle and that hinders prog
ress and retards development. A
radical reform is necessary. 1t may
be that the single tax movement offers
a thorough solution Of the problem.
l. 1t has certainly been well received
where it has been tried and has re-
suited in progress and prosperity
unprecedented We believe that va
cant and undeveloped land held by
spectators, should be taxed at a
higher rate of interest than the hold
ings of the home builder or the capt.
talist who seeks to develop the com
munity. We believe that the man
who establishes a small business, or
industry, and gives employment to
others, should not be required to
contribute greater amount to the
revenues for sustaining government,
than his neighbor, who expends abso-
lutely nothing toward the betterment
of the community and, in fact, is
stumbling block in the path Of prog
ress, In short, we believe that the
man who succeeds in "making two
blades of grass grow where one grew
before" is a bright and shining
light in our citizenship and penalty |
should not be placed on his progress.
This may be single tax in all its
glory, and if such it be, let it come
That's where The Observer stands,
and the prediction is made right here
and now that the time isn't far dis
tant when some such method Of tax
alton and valuation will prevail in
this country, and from its inception
the prosperity and develop
ment of Oregon will multiply hun
dred fold
Therefore, The Observer hopes that
Col. U'Ren and his Clackamas
friends will be successful in their eff
forts to try the single tax.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-09-19
Graham Gives Bond.

FALLS CITY, Sept. 1S.-J. NJ
Graham, arrested for an alleged at
tack on Mrs. IL. w. Bancroft here
last week, when he shot himself il
the head, has been admitted to bail ii
the sum of $1,000 by Justice of the
Peace Flower. The amount was
placed at $4,000, but was re-
duced. Mrs Graham will go to Dll-
las tomorrow to get Graham as soou
as he is released from the county Jail
where he has been confined.