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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Married at Oshkosh.

The marriage of Herman Hal
pap ard Sophia, Flech, which
took place at Oshkosh a week
ago. was solemnized on Sunday,
the Rev. Schlef of the German
Lutheran church officiating.
They visited at the home of Mr.,
and Mrs. Henry Flech, uncle and
aunt for several days, arriving
last Friday. They will reside IN
the Halpap home on the county
road. Their many friends ex-
tend congratulations.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
EUGENIC LAWS EFFECT
impossible, Says Physicians,
to Marry for Months After
Application.

What the result of the eugenic
marriage law will be when it
gets under good hea1way, is a
matter Of considerable discussion
among men interested in quest
ions of social science and domes-
tic relations. Most of them ex-
press the opinion that the law
will efectual!y prevent marriages
in the state of Wisconsin and
will cause no end of complica-
tons and trouble for the county
authorities.
Reputable physicians declare
the law unreasonable in that it
will be impossible to marry for
months after they make their APP
pHcation, as it will take a long
time to make the necessary tests,
and even when the tests are
made they will be of little real
value, owing to heextreme diff
Guilty in detecting the presence OF
the disease feared ifitis dormant
Others say the law is uncon-
stitutional inasmuch asst is class
legislation to the extent that IT
is discriminatory, applying only
to males.
As vet there has been no appll-
cation made for either a license
or certificate of health in Villas
county.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
On Minocqua Streets.

Deer are now peacefully walk
ing through the streets of Min
ocqua since the peace-pact has
been signed by the warning fac
tions of that village. So says
the Minocqua Times last week
while speaking of several deer
being seen in the burg.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
AS Others Sees Us.

In upper Wisconsin the number
of new settlers and prospectors
has been greater in 9l3 nfor
many years, and this year and
1914 are counted on to make a
new high record, saws a Chicago
correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Ledger. The climate is a sort
of compromise between the sever
tiles of Canada ard the cold Of
central Illinois, where lands are
now SO high as to tempt the farm
ers to sell; and there is a dlversl-
fcation of opportunity in north
ern Wisconsin scarcely found else
where in the west There are
large areas of land given over to
second growth, where the big
timber has been cut off, and even
areas on which the timber IS still
in its primal state; but, still bet
ter, there is a river system which
affords opportunities for the de-
velopment of water power per
haps not to be found elsewhere
IN the country save in certain
parts of New England. 1t is es-
timated that ten of these rivers
have an aggregate of 100000 to
$50, 900 horsepower, or double
that amount if reservoirs are
constructed.
One of the best advertisements
that the region gets is from the
hunters and fishermen who visit
it from the first Of April to the
last of November. Many OF
these, men are capitalists or en-
terprising persons looking for
opportunities
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Grandfather Died.

Mrs. Louis Morgan has received
the news of the death of her
grandfather Thomas Stearns,
who died Saturday at Clarks,
Neb., from a paralytic stroke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stearns visited
here4ast summer, and were the
guests of Mrs. Morgan and Mrs.
Finn Law1er, the latter a neice.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Reightly Sells Farm.

N. L. Kinney has purchased
the Louis Reigntly farm adjoin-
ing the village limits on the north
side of the river, the transfer be
ing made this week. 1t is under
stood Mr.. Reightly will remove
either to Elcho or Chiffon, his
family now living at the latter
place.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Students and Teachers Return.

Saturdays and Mondays in
coming and outgoing trains on
the Monico-W atersmeet branch
were filled with students and
teachers who were either return
ing to Eagle River or leaving tor
outside points to resume work
after the holiday vacation.
The number of young people
who left the village on those
DAYS has lessened the popula-
ton to a great extent.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07

gill Mr.. LangilI is holding
down a homestead out from Ed
monitor, Canada. He writes
that he will be shy on turkey for
Christmas dinner but will eniov
a rabbit dinner of which there
are plenty. LangilPs homestead
IS located fifty miles from rail
road.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Needle Extracted From Foot.

Mrs. Arthur Kinney OF nree
Lakes was up Saturday to nave
q needle extracted from her loot.
7 coming down a fight Of stars ,1s
she had stepped upon a nee ,1
driving it into the arch OF her
foot head first.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Riordan Appointed Assistant.

D. E. Riordan, formerly of
Eagle River but now of Wausau,
has been appointed assistant at
tornev of Wisconsin for the c. &
N. w. Ry., the appointment to
go into effect January first. Mr..
Riordan was here yesterday.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Returned From St. Louis.

M. S. Fourier, who operate
the Butternut lake resort eigh-
teen miles east of Eagle River, re-
turned last week from a several
weeks trip to St. Louis and other
eastern points.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
( Legislative Meeting ny adj
journed until Feb. 5th a,id 9Th
as per notice elsewhere.
Resumed Duties at Bank.

Fred Morey, assistant cashier
in the State Bank, resumed his
duties Monday in that institu-
ton after ten days sick spell.
Thos. Macquaker of Chicago,
who filled Mr.. Morey's place re-
turned home yesterday.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07

Madison, were here yesterday
Accompanied BY F. H. Dildine,
local dam superintendent, they
investigated water conditions at
Long lake near Phelps.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
SOCIAL EVENTS
ssWsssssGsGGG =

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Adams
entertained last Friday evening
at their home in honor of Leslie
Adams of Lacrosse, who left tor
his home Monday Light re
freshments were served.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Investigating Water Supply.

A. A. Babcock ofthe Wisconsin
Valley Improvement Company
at Wausau. and c. P. Gross,
state waterpower engineer of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
orATH OF w. A. PHELPS

he Village of Phelps Died
New Years Day at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Nm. A. Phelps of the firm of
h, @H+ackIey-PheIps-Bonnell com
y, located at Phelps, this
P'r a+v. died at Grand Rapids,
Mich '1;cb., last Thursday after a
,bort illness.
He became i'll about two wee ks
20 and was then taken to his
q home at Grand Rapids. For
lumber of years he has made
Phelps his home.
Mr.. Phelps was a great lover
.fopt-door sports, his principal
~ .,;oyment being that of angling
T. was his desire to be the cham
ann in muskellunge each year,
and many were the big fellows
he broughtto gaff. Then follow
s5lake trout fishing, where, with
bunch of Jolly companions, he
eorId be found each spring camp
ID at Black Oak lake for week S
eriovment piscatoral. 1t was
Uncle Billy" to his intimate
friends. and they fully appreciat-
ed the privilege of being consid-
cred one of his close acquaintan-
ces.
Mr.. Phelps, together with his
son c. A. were the founders OF
the village of Phelps, OF which
about a wear ago it was changed
from Hacklev. He was a mem
her of the lumber firm which
operates in that village and was
beloved BY all.
At time of death Mr.. Phelps
was seventv-twO years old.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
LOST.

Ladies gold bracelet Saturday 5slsas
evening between Petry residence ! zee
: "a tailor shop. Reward II re- re-
ned to Mrs. D. Petry adv l !
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Have Purchased Cars.

1t is understood that S. w.
Smith, ". A. Bradford and ] I.
Nemacheck have each purchased
an automobile.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Con Ill With Pneumonia.

The Young son ofMr. and Mrs.
Herbert Warner OF oayne. .,,n -
nortcd very low with pneumonia
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
Word From Langill.

A letter written before Christ
mas was received Monday by
Finn LAWYER from James Ian
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07

The ROYAL Neighbors and Wood
men lodges entertained them
selves and their families royalty
last Thursday evening at an
open meeting and spread IN the
opera house.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07

Miss Rose We'll entertained at
the We'll home on Railroad street
New Years night for her. guest,
Miss Flora Becker of Chicago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
nR. A. w THORPE

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
once hours: to - m; 2 to 5; Z to pm
Over Strong & Manley. EAGLE RIVER, WIs,
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-03
LYNCHTNCS FOR YEAR

Only "A lynchings, known to be such
beyond doubt, occurred in the United
States this year. This is the lowest
plumber for many years, more than SO
being recorded last year and as many
as $50 in some previous years.
The record shows decided improve
ment In other respects than in numbers.
So far as the newspaper accounts show
none of the victims was burned at the
stake. Nor were any of the lynchings
accompanied by the so-called race riots,
which always added to the number OF
race victims and intensified antagonist
of the white and black races.
Harrison, Niss., furnished the neares
approach to ''reign of murder, when
two drug mulatto boys, on Sep
tember %, ran amuck and started riot,
in the course of which three white men,
four negro men and one negro woman
met their death.
As the boys met death while resisting
capture, the case cannot strictly be
called alynching.
In the a lynchings the victims Of all
but one were negroes, and all but two
occurred in the southern states.
North Dakota and Montana were the
two Northern states in which lynchings
occurred. At Ray, N. D., Cleve Cul-
bertson, white man, accused of the
murder Of three persons, was taken
from jail and hanged. At Mondak,
Mont, in April, J. G. Collins, negro,
who shot and killed the sheriff and
deputy sheriff of the county, was hanged
by mob.
The states in which lynchings occurred
and the number in each were as follows:
Alabama, 2; Arkansas, A; Florida, A.
Georgia, 8; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, A.
Mississippi, 8; Montana, /; North Caro-
lima, L; North Dakota, l; South Carolina,
1; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 6. There was
at least one lynching for every month
in the year, August, the hottest month
leading, with eight.
Nineteen. of the victims of the 4.
lynchings were accused of the murder
of whitemen Four were charged witt
numbering white girls or women. At
tempted criminal assault is on record a
responsible, for nine of the lynchings
Two negroes were lynched for frighten
ing white women, one for insulting ;
white woman, and another for being
concealed under the bed in a woman
room.
The decrease in lynching in Southern
states is, attributed largely to effort
made by governors, sheriffs and proni
nent citizens to prevent mob violence
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-03
alDDLEEowN. DEL. .JAE. : lala
FACING THE new YEAR

STVhe clock struck IL on December 81
/ and we are ushered New Year
with how many plans for the
future-new resolved, many alas!
that are made to be broken. But let
us welcome the untrodden paths and
grasp the new conditions with firm
hand, grateful for the blessings the
old year has brought to us.
If the old year has brought sorrow
and desolation, and hung Grape on our
doors, the new year will bring US the
leaves of healing, and we are glad to
part with the one and welcome the
other. If, on the contrary, the o'd
year has brought US only joy and COM
fort, we part from him sOrrowfully,
but meet his successor with the ardent
hope, that he, too, comes with bless
ing. The sober, iollity of New Years
day is like standing for one brief mo
ment on the threshold between time
and eternity. Here is the world we
know-yOnder the world that is new
and untred.
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-03
cIAnlS EnR YauR CASH

FtJST at this time the mail order houses
are active in flooding the country
With big, handsomely gotten up cata-
AOeues, quoting attractive prices on
staple articles and making all sorts CT
big sounding claims for your cash. They
do not offer to exchange their goods for
the farmers eggs, poultry, butter or
other produce. They don't trust a
penny's worth, but make you pay cash
before you get the goods and freight be-
sides. If anything is wrong with the
goods or they do not suit you, they will
not exchange them. They pay no taxes
into your city or county treasury, with
which our schools are maintained, roads,
bridges, and sidewalks built. They dc
not contribute to our churches, chari-
table institutions, nor to out poor, and
the the Zaltellle.ss- v-,,, send them are seldom
returned to this community.
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-03
U. S. Protects tbe Skrnk

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. The skunk
was today added to the list of natural
resources which should be conserved or
protected before determination, the de-
partment Of agriculture classifying
this animal as ''of great economic inn
portance" in a statement made public
today asks that it be given the same
protection that the federal agents now
are compelled to exercise in the pre-
vention of bird slaughter.
Some of the most destructive insects
ii agriculture are such as do their work
below ground and out Of reach of any
method that the farmer can apply, and
Il is against many Of these that the
skunk Is an inveterate enemy" the
statement asserts. 'NotWithsta tanding
81 Of this, it continues, there is
probably not an animal that is as ruth
siaurhtered as is this one.
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-03
60 NOTICE

The Annual Meeting of the CANT
WELL MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.,
will be held at the registration Office of
Joseph H. Enos, in Odessa, Del, on
Monday, January 5th, 1914, at which
time seven ~ Directors will be elected
to serve the ensuing year. The pre-
muins on Deposit Notes at the rate of
five (5) per cent. will be required to be
paid. The Directors have declared a
Dividend of eight (8) per cent. out of
the Surplus Fund, on all balances stand
ing to fhe credit of members, payable
on and after January 5th, 1914. Elec-
ton for Directors will take place be-
tween the hours of II o'locl5 A. NJ, and
l O'Clock P. M.
DANIEL w. CoRBIT, President
JOSEPH G. BROWN, Secretary
Odessa, Del, December 18th, 1913.
Middletown transcript., 1914-01-03
sPECEAL NOTICE

A special meeting of the Stockholders
of the Julian P. Thomas NJ. D. Natural
Food Comp any viii be held at the Office
OF the Company, so West 37th Street,
Borough of anhattan, City of New
YORK, on the 18th day of January 1914,
for the purpose Of taking action upon a
resolution adopted at a meeting of the
Directors 81 tins Company authorizing
the dissolution of>the Comany, and such
other business as may properly comebe-
fore said meeting.
JULIAN P. THOMAS,
President.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-04
ToocAREFUL

They were very newly married and
she was almost as. proud of her nut
husbands faultless. clothes as he was
himself.
And so when he asked her to press
his best suit for a very important
function Saturday afternoon she de-
teFmined to do it with particular care
and that she might not spoil his per-.
feet trousers she turned them inside
out before she applied the hot iron.
When Saturday came and he found
those treasured garments creased in
wards, he said the things that caused
the clouds swiftly to gather. And she
still thinks he is brute. -. sDdoa
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-04

ing match with the Stanford goods.
ct was living close to nature that
brought up my daughters from sick
ly infants to what~they are today"
said Dr.. H. H. Sheffield. ''They are
made to live simply and eat plain
food. Outdoors, sunshine and salt
water-these three things are ma
lures best tonics. They do not wear
corsets, drink tea or coffee and they
sleep outdoors. They walk from 8
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-04
OREGON COWBOYS, 500 STRONG, WILL R
WORLDS FAIR 'A-HORSEBACK"

Klamath Falls, Ore, May q
Klamath EIks and EIkesses, 800
strong, are coming to the Panama
Pacific exposition in stage coaches
and on horseback in the picturesque
regaIia of the cowboy. With jingling
spurs, and shaggy chaps, they will
ride from the Oregon line to San
Francisco, about 500 miles, camping
where night overtakes them Just as
those first pioneers did who made this
trip in early days.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-04

The experience will be new to some
but to many the rattle, of the stage
coach and the clink of the spurs is
music of the daily grind, for Klamath
is the COW country of the west. Here
the cowboy rOams in all his Unmo-
Tested pictuTesqUeness.
Among the Klamath Elks are men
who have conquered every outlaw"
They were cowboys and cowgirls
when the six-shooter was a treasured
friend; when cattle rustling was an
organized business and when the
rope was the law of the land. These
veterans of the range will come to
the exposition in coaches that figured
in sensational hOld-ups.
It will take from 10 to Is days to
cover the distance, and the party will
be equipped with camp outfit to avoid
the necessity of long rides.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-04

Above is pictured an outfit of Na-
math EIks showing the manner in
which they will come to the Panama
worlds fair. Below is as<lamath Elk
conquering an outlaw slugg sla
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-04

to Z miles a day besides their other
exercises"
Advice from DR.. H. n. Sheffield.
Don't wear cOrsets.
Don't eat. meat; don't drink tea or
coffee. ..
Sleep outside, live outdoors and
walk from to z miles a day.
Salt water, sunshine and pure air
are the best tonics.
Live simply and eat plain food.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-21

the average. You see, Mr. Pendle-
bury"
"Pendleton, please" interposed the
schoolmaster
''Pendleton, then AS l was saying,
three weeks is the limit We have
some tough scholars in Four Corners.
In spite of his anticipations, Mr..
Pendleton's heart sank as he took his
place at the desk and saw score of
boys and girls shuttle in. with broad
grins upon their faces, Four Corners
was a little mountain town in Ken
lucky. 1t was not the place Horace
Pendleton would have chosen for
making his pedagogic debut, but for
the fact that the young mans lungs
had been giving him trouble, and the
doctor had ordered him to go west, he
had compromised on the mountain
village, whose keen, dry air riValed
that of Arizona.
The school consisted of boys and
girls of all ages, from Jim Smith,
husky youth of some twenty years,
who was still struggling over the
mysteries of long division, and Miss
Susie Connor, a farmers daughter,
who attended principally to be sort
of matron to the little ones, down to
the staid little ones of seven and eight
years. But Pendleton soon perceived
that Smith, and not he, was the lead
er of the assemblage. When he gave
the signal, they followed him. For
the first day curiosity kept the bad
element in check.
1t was after school on that day that
Smith came insolently up to Pendle-
ton.
Say, you're the one-lunger, amt
your" he asked. eve don't want to
be hard on a Teller what's only got
one lung. So I'm going to make
things easy for you, if you act right.
Understand"
Before Pendleton had recovered
b;o Io ClO
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-21
THE NEW scHooLMAsTER

-
BY J. 3. Ayres.
: The farmer looked at the slim, be-
Specialized young man in front of him
Iand gave a contemptuous grunt.
$50 you're the new schoolmaster
of Four Cornersp' he said, ejecting a
rduid of tobacco from his mouth. Yes,
q guess can board you. boarded the
last three schoolmasters. My terms
lis $40 month, payable in advance"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-21
Next Moment He Found Himself
Lying on the Floor.

why in advance?" inquired Mr..
Pendleton quietly.
+ Because you won't last month";"
answered Silas Prettyman. None of
'em does. Take the last schoolmas-
ter, now. He was six-footer. Looked
: like bull Plenty of nerve, too. But
I he didn't last more'n six weeks. The
one before him gave up after two.
. The one before him lasted three.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-09-17
$4,000 TOGO
TO FAIR BY AUTO
CHAT MANY EXPECTED no JOUR-
NEY TO HURON IN THEIR
CARS NEXT WEEK.

Huron. s. D.-More than one hun
.dred workers are laboring at top
speed putting the finishing touches
upon the buildings. grounds, and ex-
hibits of the Thirtieth South Dakota
State Fair, which will be opened to
visitors at nine O'Clock Monday morn
Ing. Sept. IA. The work is better in
hand then ever before, and from the
Of exhibits and entertain
ment the 1914 Exposition will far
surpass that OF any former year.
The competitive displays Of live
stock. agriculture. county exhibits,
and educational work will tax the
capacity Of the departments concern
ed. The gay Midway is a riot of
color: the buildings are In gala at
tire. Of fresh paint, flags and bunt-
ing, Hundreds of concessions, in
Guiding the WORLD AT HOME
are rapidly being erected. On
Sunday, the exodus OF horsemen, au-
tomobiles. spe d kings. fireworks ar
lists, and concessioners will flock on
every train into Huron. Huron is
exerting every effort to take care OF
the congestion during Fair week.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-09-17
S. w. BALLARD
SERIOUSLY HURT
STRUCK By AUTOMOBILE IN THE
STREET LAST NiGHT-EX-
TENT OF INJURIES NOT
KNOWN.

S. w. Ballard, senior member of
the marble and monument firm which
bears his name, was seriously injUr-
ed about 10 O'Clock last evening
when he was struck by an automobile
driven by Mrs. j. C. Myers. The ac-
cident occurred in front of the Bal
lard home, 607 North Main street.
Mr.. Ballard was unloading bricks
from the rear end of a wagon stand
ing against the curb in front of his
residence, which is being remodel
led, when Mrs. Myers drove down
Main street from the north and hit
the wagon, pinning him between.
Mrs. Myers had been to the Omaha
station to meet the night train, which
was late, and had her attention at
tracted by the barking of a dog in
the back seat of the machine just
before the accident.
The injured man was taken to
the Northwestern hotel, just across
the street. A trained nurse was call
ed to care for him and he will be
kept at the hotel, because of the dis
mantled condition of the Ballard
home. Mr.. Ballard was ia a bad state
of shock as a result of the accident,
and it may be several days before the
seriousness of the internal injuries