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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
To Push Safety in Factories.


S. J. Williams was appointed en-
gineer to the industrial commission, to
fill the position left vacant when O..
w. Price entered the employ of the
National Safety council. Williams has
been the deputy of the commission in
charge Of building inspection. His
home is in Madison, but he originally
came from Milwaukee, where he was
engaged in the contracting business.
He will have charge of the entire
work of the industrial commission in
promoting safety and sanitation In
factories and workshops.
Particular attention is given to
plants manufacturing supplies for the
government pursuant to requests from
the National Council of Defense. In
such plants it is necessary to maintain
a very high rate of speed, and this in
variably results in more accidents.
For this reason, the National Council
of Defense is urging that every effort
should be made to arouse interest In
safety organization.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
PETER TRAIT c0NFEsSEs HIS LOVE FOR LYDIA CRAVEN,
AND MRS. MERRILEEs SHOWS A MAGNIFICENT PEARL
NECKLACE WHICH SHE PROMISES TO GIVE LYDIA

SYNoPSISA webred Engishwornan,
plcIous finds when she boards the
efpoo TO New York. her
stan fascinating wealthy American widow
Inc girl introduces herself
America her
staff who is vastly find
innocent
passes the her private
Lucy dressing the dark
Versaon
of them Thaddeus
She
Lydia Craven The girl discovers father
rfees charming widow engaged be married
bachelor but she and Lydia like another Craven
secretly the British
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
BIicht Strikes Barley.

Optimistic reports of Wisconsin's
bumper barley crops are being dis
counted here by agricultural authori-
ties and officials. Barley stripe, a fun
gus disease, which wherever 1t occurs
is certain to shatter high yields and
cause heavy losses, has been found in
several of the important barley grow
ing sections of the state. Some farm
ers are reporting as high as SO per
cent of their plants killed. One of the
most serious ravages of this crop pest
has been reported from the farm OF
former Gov. w. D. Hoard.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
INSURANCE RATES
REDUCED AGAIN
Order Has Just Been Issued by
the State Insurance De-
partment.
ANNUAL CUT OF $500, 1000
The Reduction Made Last Year In
creased the income of the Com
panies Doing Business in State,
So They Had a Banner Year.

MadisOn.-The state fire insurance
department has just issued an order
reducing the fire insurance rates on
frame, iron-clad and brick veneer mer-
camille risks, and this order together
with a voluntary reduction filed with
the department by companies on brick,
veneer and frame basis rates, it is
claimed by the department, will effect
an annual reduction of 100000 in in
surance premiums.
Private fire insurance companies do
ing business in Wisconsin voluntarily
consented to q reduction" in insur-
ance rates in Wisconsin early in 1916,
amounting to total of 100000 an
nually.
Premium Collections Gain.
The total premiums collected by
these same companies actually in
creased over 100000 during that year,
the largest increase shown in any year
for a decade.
Not only did the reduction not ma
terialize, but the stock fire insurance
companies, despite unusually high
losses, had another banner year at the
expense of the people who pay fire
insurance premiums.
For every dollar collected by these
companies in Wisconsin last year, 90
cents was retained for profits and ex-
penses, and 45 cents was paid back in
losses.
These facts are shown in the report
of the state insurance commissioner
on the business done by fire insurance
companies for 1916. The people of
Wisconsin paid a total of $7,731, III in
premiums to the private companies
operating in the state in 1916, and re-
ceived $3,457, 1877 in losses.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
Favor Risk Rate Bureau.

Representative of 81 insurance
companies writing workmen's compen-
sation insurance in Wisconsin met in
the senate chamber of the state capt.
toll and organized the Wisconsin COM
pensation, rating and inspection bu-
reau. This action was taken in &C
cordance with a new law passed by
the legislature several weeks ago.
The headquarters of the bureau
will be established in Milwaukee.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
New Education Board.

The following appointments to the
new industrial educational board were
announced by Governor Philip: Rep
resentatives of employers, h. W.
Schultz. Sheboygan; Robert Cooper,
Kenosha; f. J. Kearney, Milwaukee.
Representatives of farmers, Miles L.
Hineman, Tomah; George +. Comings,
Eau Claire, and C. e. Hanson, River
Falls. Representatives of labor, OH
yer Ellsworth. Oshkosh; A. w. Tag
CART, Superior. A third place on the
board TO represent labor is to be filed
by the governor.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
Advancing Civilization.

AS a proof that civilization Is adj
vancing, it may be pointed out that
African traders, who used to supply
Uganda with rum, calico, brass wire
and beads, are now doing a flourish
ing trade in wrist watches.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
Attends National Conference.

Commissioner George P. Hambrecht
of the Wisconsin state industrial COM
mission has gone to Washington, ID.
c. TO attend a meeting of state off,
GERS in charge of the administration
of laws regulating child3 labor and
similar subjects.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08

Change OF Lie and
the bad feelings
common at tn a t
time. / was in a
very nervous condi-
ton, with headaches
and pain a good
deal of the time so /
was unfit to do my
work. A frien d
asked me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's
v e G g t a b lie Com
noJ1nd which I did
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08

Holland has 6,583, 226 people. S,270.-
$50 of them males.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08

Everybody believes in signs when he
pays 10 cents to get into the side show.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08
WOMEN Of
MIDDLE AGE
Mrs. Quinn's Experience
Ought to Help You Over
the Critical Period.

Lowell, Mass.-'tFor the last three
years I have been troubled with the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08

What do you think about this
man Quoin? Is he strictly on
the IeveI-or do you suspect him
of connection with the profes-
sional snuggIers aboard9
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-08

20 BE CONTLNUED.l
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09

where. Tho A. A. A. sanction for tho
drive number 1850, marks the frst
instance In the history of automobile
making that truck has been regis
tered for a proving-out performance
With the A. A. A. plate attached to
the instrument board.
The Maxwell left New York Friday!
Nov. 80. 1t will go thru Philadelphia.
Baltimore, Washington, Richmond.
Charlotte. Spartanburg, Atlanta, An
niston, Ga; MONTGOMERY. Ala; Macon.
Ga; Augusta, Columbia, S. c.; then
north to New York.
What goshalnighty tasks the Max
well company has found its one-ton
model to be capable of as a worker
is reflected by the fact that the A. A.
A. sanction calls for run of some
$500 miles. Moreover the truck is
carrying n load of one full ton. In
addition 1t carries It's driver, p. w.
Gibbs, and the A A. A. technical
observer.
A striking feature regarding the
Maxwell load is that the truck has
undertaken 10 deliver ore ton OF mer-
ch:,ndise from New York to Spartan
burg. S. c on n basis of exactly half
what II would cost to send the sup
plies by express. The load was sup
piled by the c. r. Williams company.
wholesale grocers, 65 hudson street,
New York. The consignment, COM
prising some 80 boxes, represents the
ordinary duty any business house
" ould expect truck to transport In
the course of It's days work.
schedule of Is miles an hour for the
entire distance. Accurate and au-
thoritative figures VIII be kept by
the technical official. covering the
gasoline economy Of the Maxwell, It's
lubricant consumption. water and so
on.
"I have myself been over the hard
roads the tuck is ercountering IN
the red clay and sand localities OF the
south and In the swamp sections OF
Virginia. 1t will run In Virginia In
roads TINT have for years been n ter
ror for touring cars" M, Smith as
serted. A.
.Jn other words I am having the
A A. A. jam into two weeks OF
truck work as much going as the
average American business man would
require of the car in two years
Mr.. Smith, pointing out that the
truck of light, economical and dur
able design is certain to command
still greater place as factor IN amer
ican industrialism because OF railway
congestion and hampered express
service, emphasizes that the A. A. A.
sanction test will be 70 complete as
TO enable any business house to ar
rive at definite tables of cost by the
week, month or year for truck de-
livery service.
The Maxwell company Will within
two weeks have available for the
first time in the histesy Of truck maxi
Ing, Mr.. Smith makes known, the
most authoritative and Illuminating
table the truck industry has ever pro-
duced. since II will have the rigid
sanction OF the recognized automo-
bile authority. the A. A. A.. in back
OF II
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09

refinery is still trying TO carburet such
oils In low temperature carburetor
methods, which means that wet mix
lures of oil end air go into the cylin-
ders, using the cylinders as inefficient
vaporizers. and the flame spreads
after ignition as the Justification
means. This is too wasteful, and linz
its the ability TO secure fuel economy
in the engines and limits the oil re
finer to the use of less than 20 per
cent of his crudes for motor fuels.
instead Of 40 to 80 per cent OF all his
fuels.
The next great Improvement in Pas
engines Is to operate them as super
heated gas engines, q method whereby
the engines receive super heated
homogeneous fixed dry gases, before
the ignition by sparks. This sort OF
fluid gas instantaneously flames COM
pletely at the moment OF highest CO NJ
preston and before the piston has
had time to get much past TIC top
dead center of compression stroke.
Super-heated homogeneous dry gas
methods of operating engines means
that the world tomorrow with super
heated gas engines can use n mixture
of present gasoline with present kero-
sense, half and half, which douhes
motor fuels over night, in fact. Added
10 lillS Is Ou per cent OF more OF uSel III
work per gallon Of that hybrid mix
ture.
Further, It will enable oil refiners to
triple the total volume OF motor easo-
lines by the cracking methods which
the bureau of mines has so carefully
tested, 90 show the way for better u.il-
iZation of crude oils In the refinery.
I'VE may shut our eyes and say I'M
possible. or that it cannot be done"
added Mr.. Deppe. But what Irust be
ultimately is sislply to do these simple
things. Because they involve large
sums does not offer any valid reason
why they cannot be done. Like Mar
shal Joffre's remark, gasoline saved
Verdun--so it will be finally If we win
this worlds war. Car makers and gas
engine men must recognize the neces-
sity of changing their carburotior
Ideas. 1t will also mean that within
four or five years all existing motor
cars will be scrapped by wear and
tear, and inability to use the lowgiade
fuels and. like old clothes which have
served us well, will be thrown away.
but the metals will be available for
new machines
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09
TRIP TO THE ORIENT BY
A CHANDLER SALESMAN
Fred kipe Relates Some of His Inter-
cstinc Experiences in the
AntiDOdes.

The American automobile manufac-
turer is not going to be caught nap
ping IL such a>thing as commercial
war follows the interpational military
conflict now waging. This may he
said to be true of the Chandler Motor
Car company, which has had Fred B.
Kipe, its special travelling representa-
tive, establishing Chandler agencies
thruout the far east for the past year.
lie recently arrived in California on
his way east and took in the big Los
Angeles auto show.
The story Mr.. Kipe tells is prob
ably the most interesting and compre-
hensive concerning motor car possi-
bilities in the Orient that has been
told. He left san Francisco November
5, 1916, and upon his return to that
port had covered $4,000 miles. Sam
pie Chandler cars in the roadster,
touring and sedan models had been
sent out in advance of his departure
TO twelve or fifteen cities.
The first stop on the long itinerary
was at Honolulu. Mr.. Kipe found
business conditions there very satis-
use increasing rapidly. In the city
of Suva, on one of the Fiji islands,
a Chandler was sold, altho there are
hardly a hundred miles of road on the
island.
At Auckland, New Zealand, there
had been a Chandler dealer for q
year. The firm name liz Chandler &
Co., and they were attracted to the
Chandler car because of the name as
well as the sales possibilities. Busi-
ness then was excellent, but It has
slumped since owing to lack of ship
ping facilities.
IN Svd.1au N W tho Chap11n
dealers are the oldest auto concern in
the city. The car business Is vigorous
and contracts calling for increased
allotments were made. Altho Aus
tralia had sent half million men to
the war, the country never was in
slch a prosperous condition, owing to
the demand for wool, leather and
other products. Road conditions
around Sydney are poor.
Melbourne, in Victoria, is further
ahead in improved roads, due to the
influence Of the Auto Club Of Vic
toria.
New dealers were established at
Adelaide and Hobart, and in Tas-
mania the visitor saw the most-up-to-
date garage in Australasia. 1t was
more nearly American than anything
seen on the entire trip.
In the. native Papuan town of Port
Moresby, New Guinea, there was a
settlement of ten white families. The
natives are semi-savage. There was
an automobile in the town, tho, a
Ford. In Makassar, the shipping port
and center of the bird of paradise and
aigrette industry for the Celebes is
lands, there are about twenty-five mo-
tor cars and the future prospects are
good.
Mr.. Kipe found Java n most inter-
esting country for the motor tourist.
There are good roads thruout the
island, and tho automobile business
Is thriving. Chandler shipments this
year will be 125 cars. The car is
sought because ofNits resemblance TO
European cars that are not now avail
able. In the Sultan's domain there
are the two towns Of Djockjakarta and
Solo.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09
SENATOR 'BANKHEAD
MADE LONG AUTO TOUR
Father Of Federal Aid Road
Act Travels Over One of
New Highways.

What one man can do In promot-
ing sood roads was emphatically DEM
onstrated by Senator John II. Bank
head, chairman OF the senate COM
mittee on post offices and post roads
IN the recent road trip over the Wash
irston-Atlanta leg of the new Bank
head highway. which ultimately will
extend from Washington to the Pa
cific coast
Though the father of the federal
aid road act Is in his seventy-sixth
year, he talked day in and day out
during the round trip, until he had
accumulated a speech making total
In excess Of n hundred. President T.
>. Plowman of the Bankhead High
way association is another who has
extended three score and ten and his
record OF educational talks nearly
equalled that OF his fellow Alabaman.
These two made the journey from
Washington to Atlanta in a car driven
ny President III. NJ. Rowe of the
American Automobile association. In
CITY after city and town after town.
not forgetting numerous crossroads
OF the country store variety. there was
an uninterrupted chain of enthusiasm,
expressed in hospitality. parades of
school children, and all sorts of meet
ings.
Between Washington and Atlanta
there are two contesting routes in
Virginia, one via Richmond and Pet
ersburg and the other over the Pied
mont route, which includes Danville,
Lynchburg, Charlottesville, and Cul-
peper. A route selecting committee
consisting of John Oliver La Gorce,
chairman of the National Geographic
magazine; NJ o. Eldridge of the Uni
ted States office of roads and rural
engineering, and Executive Chairman
A. G. Batcbelder of the American
Automobile association, will pass up
on the merits of the two Virginia
routes and make a recommendation
to the board of directors of the Bank
head association.
Between Atlanta and Memphis the
route has been officially passed upon
and recommended to the board of di-
rectois, which will meet in Birming-
ham the latter part of the month,
Next spring the route across Arkan-
sas will be decided.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09
ECONOMIC TREND OF
ALL TRANSPORTATION
Part Taken by Motors Show
That Improvements Are
Advancing Rapidly.

To the casual observer the motor
to adult proportions. But people felt
the same way about the railroads
fifty years ago-when the first loco
motive burned wood and ran on
tracks made of iron strips bolted to
wooden runners. SO 1t is reasonable
to believe that motor truck,
which is an inventionb of yesterday $50
to speak,, will advance as far in its
day as the railroad has.
The extensive use of trucks in prac-
tically every field of industry indi-
Gates an economic trend which all
transportation students are watching
closely-for this economic revolution
is irresistible. And not only are trucks
becoming adaptable to many new
uses, but new territories are con-
stantly being opened to their advance.
In commenting on the part that
til eS have played in the advance of
the rubber-tired freighter, Guy NJ.
Davis, sales manager of Fred Shaw
Motor company, declares that often
times new kind of tire or a tire i'm
provement has actually opened up
Whole new transportation 1leluS Tor
motor trucks and vastly broadcned
old fields.
'This has been particularly true In
the case of our hand -attachable truck
tire" says Mr.. Davis, (which is now
bringing trucks into much wider use
ir small towns and rural districts.
"As Its name indicates, it can be
applied to the wheel ~ hand, n par
ticularly desirable feature in tire
equipment. 1t has all the stamina and
cushioning power of the pressed-on
tire, and is Independent of speciS ma
ehinery for applying. Hammer and
monkey-wrench are the requisite tools
for applying this type of tire.
There Is now no need for truck
owner in the smaller towns or in
rural districts TO ship wheels away for
retiring. And for this reason many
towns that formerly were without
trucks are now five. ten and 15truck
towns Thus is business permitted to
run where II walked leisurely before.
80 successful has the hand-attach-
able proven in army transport service
that the United States government
specifies their use on all trucks
bought for army service"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09
MAXWELL DURABILITY
DRIVE FROM new YORK
Ton Truck Test Sanctioned by A. A. A.
Will be Watched with
Interest

Backing the Maxwell company's
knowledge of the work and gasoline
economy capabilities of the Maxwell
one-ton truck, knowledge based on
all parts of the United States cover
Ing the trucks performances every
where. l.. A. Smith. general eastern
supervisor for the Maxwell Motor
Sales corporation, New York. has
Just issued an official sanction Of
the American Automobile association
to cover an official truck performance
and durability drive from New York
to all the army camps In the south
and then back.
From several viewpoints this truck
demonstration will be the most un-
usual test ever carried out for the
information Of business men every
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09
Motorcycles In Australia.

The Imports of motorcycles into
Australia during 1916 amounted to
nearly s950,000, Of which 100000
came from the United States. Near
ly all Of the remainder came from
England. Goodyear motorcycle tires
are used extensively in Australia, and
large part Of last years shipment OF
motorcycles TO that country carried
these tires.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09
New Engine Designs Necessary.

Divested of excessive technlcalities.
Mr.. Deppe's explanation of the neces-
sary engine design 70" the lower-gradc
fuels was substantially as follows:
The gas engine world using oils re.
fined in high temperatures In tho oil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15

wrought by her own tireless agents. Lenine speaks, not for Russia, but for Germany and is openly charged with taking his orders from the German government. Whether this is true or not, he is playing directly into Ger man hands.
 But men like Kerensky and Kornil- off, and the leaders associated with them, are not going to stand by and see their country reduced to anarchy and eventual vassalage to Germany. They are going to fight. The issue has already been joined and blood is flowing freely in hapless Russia. The hope of the world is that the right side will win.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15

without expectation of fee or reward. His operatic bills will be interspersed with patriotic airs, of course. Italian music will predominate, but Won Weber and Wagner will be in the company's repertoire, and no one but a fanatic will criticize the manage ment for the stand it has taken.
 Mir. Kahn, passionate devotee of all great art, is conscientious, no doubt, in running his blue pencil through the list of German works, but what will season of grand opera in New York be with Wagner left out, to say nothing of Richard Strauss? ?
 Judging from the comments found in the musical journals, the weight of opinion is strongly in favor of Sousa's view. Music is the divinest of the arts and art is art regardless of the composers nationality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
Enioxed British Lecture

'I heard Nelson, the famous lectur- CT and statesman, when he appeared Tn the Lyceum course at the High schooi, said 1T. Kammeyer, and while his hu- nor was keen and his manner strlking' he wasn't in the good form he was when I heard him in Hyde Park, London several years ago in debate with Been Tillett, the labor leader, who was sweep ing things before him.
 Tt strikes me that Mir. Nelson re- quires the fires of debate to make hlin do his best. He is and has been an interesting figure in the public life Of England. I congratulate the Lyceum committee on having brought him to Blr- mingham. It seems to me that those having the programme in charge for this season have been most fortunate in the class of talent they have been able to secure. The work tho promoters are do- ing to entertain and instruct the people of this city is worthy of better sup port D