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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
The Doorman's Plea.

The stage doorman of certain New
York theater is doughty Italian of
sufficient Drawn to guard a much
larger portal. Silvestro, as he is
called, has been somewhat envious Of
the snowy uniform of the theater's
carriage porter, in contrast to his own
unpretentious civilian garb. With q
preliminary respectful salute to Mr..
Hopkins, owner of the theater, on his
way to make up for "The Marriage OF
Columbine," Silvestro poured out his
soul with characteristic variations on
the idiom, "Scusi, meester, try do my
best, all de time. | love my job, love
dis theater, everything. Santa! love
you, l love Mr.. Hopkins, everybody
round de place. I give my heart out,
all the time, my soul, my life; nothing
/ would not give to serve you. Siete
soddisfatto? Den, please get me a
fine cap like da porter's one"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
BEST SPRING COLOR
BLUE SERGE MOST POPULAR OF
THE SEASON.
For Small Girls Wear Nothing Can
Be Better-Here Is Garment
That Will Make Up in Most
Satisfactory Way.

AS enduring as the rock of ages,
blue serge comes into its own every
spring. Not that it goes out at any
other season-but in springtime it Is
as omnipresent as showers, flowers and
nice earthly smells. Always popular,
serviceable and in the best of taste,
it holds an assured position that no
upstart, short-lived rival material can
GUST it from
For your small girls between-sea-
son coat nothing could suit your pur-
pose more satisfactorily than navy
blue serge, and a splendid design by
which to make up such garment is
offered in the sketch.
The odd feature is the belt, which is
an extension of the right side of the
coat. Starting from the neck, the
overlapping right side resolves itself
into a slanting five-inch band that
curves gradually into the belt. The
end is pointed and brought around to
the center front of the coat, then fas-
tened in place with three buttons, cor
responding with the three that hold
the top of the coat together. Snap but
tons at the sides and back of the belt
will serve to hold it in place. There
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
WASTE BASKET MADE NEW
Small Touches Rejuvenate Receptacle
So That 1t Is Again an Orna-
ment to Room.

has become yellowed and SCARED with
age it can be beautifully and easily
rejuvenated by a tight covering of col
ored silk or lining, and then second
and top covering of crocheted lace.
The round waste basket does not
agree very readily with the applica-
ton of crocheted lace, but the square,
octagonal or paneled waste basket can
be readily fitted up in this manner.
Crochet panels of lace the width and
length of each side of the basket.
First haste each separate panel, thus
crocheted, to the basket, through the
wicker, and then proceed to whip the
panels together with white thread and
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
SYNOPSIS.

.... crowd Of neighbors invade
I!g--so,1s home of Judge Ostrander.
:. 9! 49, and eccentric recluse, fol-
s.1G !uc~25ireF woman who has gained
5lg q tfraggh the gates of the high
s-sl,5s -r-izr5 surrounding the place.
s.5e va has disappeared but the judge
2: so-'I IN . cataleptic state. Bella, his
:l-..- anreqrs in a dying condition and
s1als @5pnt-rance to a gecret door. Bella
rJ5l11 H. g- nudge awakes. Miss Weeks
..,,, IN him what has occurred during
I-. .-azrrs He secretly discovers the
:ss.5olts of the yelled woman. She
'.s a!. ~ ba the widow of a man tried
,@ he indga and electrocuted for muir
.l. I.o .--s before. Her daughter is en-
9 IN n tba Judges son, from whom he is
s.s-gsd hit the murder is between the
5- "a. She mans to clear her husbands
.S and asks the judges aid. Alone
/, ~ h. room Deborah ScOville reads the
--,,5ogr clippings telling the story of
X. TT5-iar Of AlgernOn Etheridge by
IN, Seville In Dark Hollow, twelve
~, baf0re The Judge and Mrs. Scoville
WI At Spencer's Folly and she shows
r. b5y on the day Of the murder, she
r. Re shadow of a man, whiting a
IN md wearing a long peaked cap, like
r.. trsbands. Until long afterward she
IA MI know that her husband had not
IN that cap on the fatal day. The
n, engages her and her daughter
55tsr 10 live with him in his mysteri-
n. t1rra
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31

do so. Later, there must be a change
so particular man as the judge
would soon find himself too uncom-
Portable to endure the lack of those
attentions which he had been used to
in Bela's day. He had not even asked
for clean sheets, and sometimes she
had found herself wondering, with
strange shrinking of her heart, if his
bed was ever made, or whether he had
not been driven at times to lie down in
his clothes.
She had some reason for these
doubtful conclusions. In her ram.
blings through the house she had come
upon Bela's room. 1t was in a loft
over the kitchen and she had been
much amazed at it's condition. In
some respects it looked as decent as
she could expect, but in the matter of
bed and bed clothes it presented an
aspect somewhat startling. The
clothes were there, tossed in a heap
on the floor, but there was no bed in
sight nor anything which could have
served as such.
1t had been dragged out Evidences
of this were everywhere on the mar
row, twisted staircase. A smile, half
pitiful, half self-scornful, curved her
lips as she remembered the rat-tat-tat
she had Leard on that dismal night
when she clung listening to the fence,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
OLD IDEAS TO BE REVIVED |
For Home Decoration Crochet Work
and Netting Will Be Favorites
of the Future.

Lace assumes more and more an i'm
portant place in the domain of home
furnishing. 1t is so important that up
holsterers have to employ lacemakers
and are obliged to make lace purchases
on considerable scale.
Among other things, pianos and win
dows are draped with lace, leaving
room for legitimate upholstery to come
afterward All styles are available.
The Renaissance" combines with lace
of quite modern origin. And, combin-
ing with all and second to none IN
fashion or effect, is the old-fashioned
crochet The present taste for crochet
denotes a remarkable revival in this
kind of thing.
Another revival besides it, and max
ing common cause with house and
especially drawing room decoration, Is
the equally old-fashioned netting. For
long years past this species of hand
work has bene left almost exclusively
to fishermen and their wives.
It served for fishing nets and that
was about ALL But now it is coming
back as fast as it can to the place it
occupied, let US say, hundred years
ago, in the repeStoire Of fancy work
for women.
Then was the time when dainty
slipper-cased feet were put forward
and used in the service of the kind Of
fancy work known as knitting. Now
machinery does a great deal of the
work which human fingers aided by
the foot used to do.
But whether wrought by fingers or
machinery, it remains fact that old
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

copyright 1914, by Dodd. Mead g. Company

IN an attitude of devouring, interest.
thus for a long, slow minute. then
sne 1mpulsively raised her head and.
Deckon1ng the two men nearer, she
directed attention to splintered nor
llon OF the handle and asked them
what they saw there.
Nothing; just stick" declared the
sergeant. The marks you are look
ing for are higher up"
And you, Mr.. Black?"
ne saw nothing either but stick. But
ne was little less abrupt in his answer.
10 you mean those roughnesses? %
he asked. That's where the stick
was whitfield. You remember that he
had been whiting at the stick"
'Who?"
The word shot from her lips so vi.
olently that for a moment both men
looked staggered by it. Then Mr..
Black, with unaccustomed forbear-
ance. answered gently enough:
Why, Scoville, madam; or so the
prosecution congratulated itself upon
having proved to the jury's satisfac.
ton. It did not tally with Scoville's
story or with common sense I know.
You neutrality-suspicious. mel mean
that any one who read a report of-the
case, will remember how l handled the
matter in my speech. But the pref
udice in favor of the prosecution
will not say against the defense-was
too much for ne, and common sense,
the defendants declarations, and my
eloquence all went for nothing"
"Of course they produced the
knife?"
WAS it new knife, a whole one, ]
mean, with all its blades sharp and
in good order?"
yes. l can say that. I handled it
several times"
Then, whose blade left that?" And
again she pointed to the same place
on the stick where her finger had fall
en- before.
Il don't know what you mean" The
sergeant looked puzzled. Perhaps, his
eyesight was not very keen.
Have you a magnifying glass
There is something embedded in this
wood. Try and find out what it is"
The sergeant, with queer look at
Mr.. Black, who returned it 18th inter.
est, went for a glass, and when he had
used it, the stare he gave the heavily
yelled woman drove Mr.. Black to
reach out his own hand for the glass.
We'll" he Uurst forth, after a pro.
longed scrutiny, there is something
there"
1.-THE point of knife blade. The
extreme point" she emphaaized. 'It
might easily escape the observation
even of the most critical, without such
aid as is given by this glass"
mo one thought of using magni-
flying glass on this" blurted out the
sergeant 1.-The marks made by the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
Not Too Lona.

Conversation among group of Wis
iting housewives had turned upon the
boiling of eggs, and the little daughter
Of the house explained that she knew
how to boil eggs. and always boiled
them "just eight minutes" Eight
minutes, dear." cried one of her lis
teners, in amazement. Are you quite
sure you boil them so long? / should
think tina. would make the eggs very
hard" ooh, no, indeed, Mrs. Blank"
was the child's confident answer:
really. they're awfully lcose!"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31

and wondered now if it had not been
the humping of this cot sliding from
step to step.
But no! the repeated stroke of a
hammer is unmistakable. He had
played the carpenter that night as
we'll as the mover, and with no visible
results. Mystery still reigned in the
house for all the charm and order she
had brought into it; a mystery which
deeply interested her, and which she
yet hoped to solve, Notwithstanding its
remoteness from the real problem Of
her existence.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
New Cotton Fabrics.

Rodeline is the name of new cot
ton yelling which comes in all the new
silent colors." Fosforina, a new
highly finished gabardine, is also one
of the new spring novelties in fab
RIGS. The silent" colors instead of
loud shades, narrow and wide stripes,
small squares and spots are most in
vogue.
The new white gabardine wolfe is a
beautiful material for the one-piece
gown, not too hot nor too heavy, and
with a remarkable power of resisting
wrinkling
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31

an ordinary sewing needle. Bind the
top and bottom of the basket with
ribbon to match the first layer of ma
terial used upon the basket and place
not-too-large bow at the side. The
color used in making the basket
should, of course, match the color
scheme of the boudoir or bedroom for
which the basket is intended.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31
CHAPTER VIII.
The Picture.

Night! and Deborah Scoville waiting
anxiously for Reuther to sleep, that
she might brood undisturbed over a
new and disturbing event which for the
whole day had shaken her out of her
wonted poise, and given, as it were.
a new phase to her life in this house
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31

Try keeping the childrens shoes to-
gether in pairs by the use of clothes
pins. This will relieve the mother
and the owners of the shoes of con-
slant sorting and will keep the closet
floor from getting disordegly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31

fashioned netting is distinct revival
and that its presence in drawing
rooms throws an air of fashion around
them. The effects of embroidery upon
it are now more artistic than of yore,
nature as well as pictures often serv-
ing as models.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-31

are square, turned-back cuffs and a
collar of serge, on top of which may
be worn another set of white pique.
The sleeves are cut in one with the
body and the betting in of the coat
induces a gracefulness in the skirt
portion.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24

TO OUR CUSTOMERS
We take this opportunity to thank you
all for the very nice business you have
given us the past year, and hope that the
1916 business with you will show a sub
stantial gain.
With compliments of the Season, we beg
to remain.
Yours very truly.
". Il. DRAKE,
Matchmaker and Jeweler
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24

SHAKE
It's great to say Good morning
It's fine to say Hello"
Better still to grasp the hand
Of royal friend you know.
A look may be forgotten,
A word misunderstood,
But the touch of human hand
Is the pledge of brotherhood.
e. o. G.
BRODY'S DRUG STORE
J. b. Brody. Prop.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24

Some have little, some have less,
Some have not cent to bless
Their empty pockets. yet possess
True riches in true happiness"
John Oxenham.
K. BRAVES,
Harness and Shoes
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23
MIX-WALRATn REALTY co.
A. Fisher left fore Montana Sun

c. A. Fisher left forsMontana Sum-
day.
Mrs. Vera Worth and son Louie of
Nez Perce, formerly of this place, are
visiting friends in Orofino.
James Aspoas, the Weippe booster,
was in Orofino during the week on
business. He attended the meeting of
the Commercial club Wednesday even
ing.
Remember that Wednesday is Good
Roads day in Orofino. Make your ar
engagements accordingly.
Weippe will celebrate the Fourth
again this year. And if it does the
editor of the Republican will make an
effort to spend the day there without
getting arrested.
A silo for every farm in Clearwat-
er county. How is that for a slogan
for Clearwater county boosters?
Nat Brown came down from Weippe
yesterday.
FOR SALE-160-a acre stock and
grain ranch, improved, Is acres tim
othy with stock 81, 900 cash will ham
dle-Lettie A. Brown, Crescent, Ida
no. Apr 16 St.
Frank Sisk left Friday for Nevada
where ne will locate government land.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23
Local News.

w. H. Simmons, the Weippe mer-
chant, was an Orofino visitor yester-
day. He reports business conditions
in his section of the county as excep-
tionally good.
Robt. Weston is installing fine
soda fountain, and otherwise improv-
ing his store.
The foundation for the new post
office was completed this week, and
work on the brick vault is under way.
A cement sidewalk from the main
street to the new building is being
laid.
See Schilling about that watch.
Mail it. Estimate furnished on re.
pair and post paid back.
DR.. E. A. Schilling, optometrist,
can fit your eyes. Work guaranteed.
j. w. Blake fenced the front of his
home property this week. Up to this
time it has been an inviting range fol
lose stock.
Mrs. John Swank was taken t.
Lewiston Sunday morning for medical
treatment. She has been practically
an invalid since January.
Orofno, by a score of to 5, defeat.
ed the Leland nine on the local dia.
mond Sunday.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23
Notice of School Election

Weippe, Idaho, April 5th., 1915.
Notice isthereby given that on Mon
day, the 18th day of April, 1915, the
annual school election in and for
school district No. 26 of Clearwater
county, state of Idaho, will be held
at the school house in said district.
Polls will be open at o'clock. Two
trustees will be elected, oRe for three
years in place of M. J. Thomas, and
one for two years in place of j. F.
Dennison; also vote on special tax.
c. w. SPACE, Clerk.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23
Notice Of Village Election

Notice is hereby given: That on
Tuesday, the 9th day of April, 1915,
at the village hall, otherwise known
as Fire Station No. l, in the Village
Of Orofno, County of Clearwater and
State of Idaho, a regular biennial
election will be held for the purpose
of electing five village trustees.
The polls of said election will open
at 8 o'clock A. M. and close at z o.
clock P. M. of said day. By order
of the board. Dated this 18th day of
April, A. D., 1915.
H. l.. WALRATH
Clerk of the village of Orofino,
Clearwater County, Idaho.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23
Christian Church Services

There will be regular services in
the Christian church Sunday morning
and evening. At eleven o'clock Ell
der johnson will speak on the SUBJ
ject: THE First Church Trouble. /"
Evening subject 1.-The Supreme Au-
thority." Sunday school at 10
o'clock. Last Sunday Orofino started
a contest with the Christian Sunday
school at Troy, and Orofno wants to
make creditable showing. Every
new scholar, old or young, counts,
and you are invited to help Orofino
win. The purpose of this contest is
to arouse interest in Sunday school
work.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23
GREER.

County Commissioner Coontz has
sold his Greer hotel to A. Brice. Mr..
Coontz has run this house for the past
thirteen years, and is popular with the
travelling public. Mr.. and Mrs.
Coontz are moving to their beautiful
farm near Fraser.
George Lewis of Fraser visited
Greer enroute to outside points.
Mrs. c. E. Ferry visited the county
seat Tuesday.
Miss Emma Pesh was in Greer Wis
iting Wednesday.
Mr.. Koker took load of freight
up the hill for Erb Bros. at Weippe
H. Stockard and wife were in Greer
the first of the week.
Tony VIOLIN was down from Weippe
the first of the week.
Mrs. Sadie Palmquist and Mrs.
Preuit were Orofino visitors Tuesday.
The Greer ferry, which was recent
ly put out of business by a new steel
bridge, was originally put in away
back in 1862. 1t was operated by
Schultz and Gregg by oars without 9
cable. 1t was bought by John ReeG
in 1872 or 70. w. C. Dunwell ac-
quired it in 1875, or about that time
and sold it to Jack Greer and Johr
Molloy, ST., in 1877. William Gam
BILE got it about 1895 and now it has
been sold and moved down the river
near Fur Bluff.
A Mrs. Ermston has arrived from
the east and passed through Greer en-.
route to Pierce in search of health.
Mesdames Gamble, Warner, Pratt,
Carry, Shoemaker, and Grandpa Calvin
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. jess
Coontz Friday, paying them their re.
spects before the family moved t.
their farm on the hill.
Miss Burten, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Nc.
Kinney, Mr.. r. Quimby, wife ane
family, Mr.. Geo. Williams, and Mr..
w. Girkie were guests at the Calvin
farm Sunday.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23
A Statement
Greer, Idaho, April

Greer, Idaho, April 81, 1915.
To whom it may concern: ! wish
to say that l never have received
charity from anyone at the time of
my family sickness or at any other
time. ! have paid for every thing
have received of anyone except at the
time of Mr.. Browns wife's funeral,
when collection of $3.50 was taken
up. / am ready to return this. /
am sure those now circulating stories
with the intent of injuring me and
rejecting on my family will never get
any real pleasure out of their efforts.
am sure the public will find these
statements are untrue, and they will
react on their authors. have never
received a dollar from the county or
anyone else.
A. H. NORRIS.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23


The last session of the r'arent-
Teachers association was interesting
The subject for discussiol was THE
Home, the School, and the Street. -
and their relation to education. Mrs.
Frazier read an interesting paper On
The Home, and Prof. Reese The
School. = Attorney Hofsted led the
discussion of THE Street. Several
took part in the general discussions.
and at the close there was general
discussion on the subject of Spell
ing. This aroused considerable in
terest and as a result the following
poem is submitted for correction in
spelling and punctuation This con-
test is open to all pupils in the sew
enth, eighth, ninth and tenth grades
in Clearwater county. The work is
to be done by the pupil without the
aid of any other person or any book.
Each pupil is placed upon his or her
honor. The first prize will be an in
teresting book which tells in story
form some of the early history of the
Northwest. The title is Mcdonald
, in Oregon. A year S subscription to
the Clearwater Republican will be
given tie second conte slant, and all
papers must be IL tie hards of the
Clearwater Republican by May first.
Following is the poem, to be corrected
! and punctuated. The names of all
1 sending correct answers will be pub
lished. If no correct answer is re
] ceived, then the nearest correct ans
W RS will receive the prizes:
little buoy said mother deer
/ may eye go out too play
I the son is brite the heir is clear
owe mother don't say neigh
go fourth my sun the mother said
his ant said take ever Stay
your MES knew sled awl painted red
but dew knot lose ever weigh
ah know he cried and sought the street
with hart sew full of glee
the wether changed and snow and sleat
and reign fell fierce and free
threw snowdrifts CRATE threw watry
pool
he Flew with mite and name
sed he though eye wood walk bye rule
eye am no rite It's plane
! 'ide like to meat sum kindly sole
for hear gnu dangers weight
and yonder stairs a dangerous whole
to sloe has bin my gate
peace of bred a gneiss hot stake
eyed choose if eye were home
this crewel fate my hart will brake
eye love not thus too rome
j IN week and pale i've mist my rode
but hear a carte came passed
he and his sled were safely toad
back two his home at lassed
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23

We are giving the public this week
our idea Of live local newspaper,
with one exception we would give
much more short local news, and apol-
ogize this week for the reason that we
spent all the first of the week farm
ing'' a city lot back of the office where
we expect to raise some radishes and
other family necessities. Otherwise
the Republican is the kind of paper
we think Orofino needs, and the kind
of paper we came to Orofino to get
out. That we were delayed few
months in getting down to business
was no fault of ours
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23

The experts in our Kodak finishing
department will get the most from
every exposure you make. Send US
your films. Thatcher & King,
Lewiston's Kodak store, Lewiston,
Idaho. 1tf.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-05-28
Teachers Examination.

The June Teachers Examina-
ton will be held in. the high
school building in Odessa Friday
and Saturday, June 4 and 5,
1915.
The examination will begin at
300 a. m. and close at 600 p.
m. each day.
Order of subjects:
Friday morning-Geography
Language, Algebra, Spelling.
Friday afternoon-Grammar
Arithmetic, Literature, Read
ing.
Saturday morning Civil
Government, U. S. History, Ag-
riculture, Adv. Science.
Saturday afternoon Ply
siology, Writing, Pedagogy,
Adv. History.
H. T. PHILLIPS,
County Supt.