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Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
CONGRESS MAY
TAKE HAND IN
MAIL CONTRACTS

Washington, May "a deadlock
over mail contracts involving the
postoffice department and the Inter
island Steam Navigation Company
which has a monopoly of transporta-
ton between the islands of the Ha-
waiian group may result in applica-
ton for congressional action, accord
ing to Otto Praeger, second assistant
postmaster general.
Four-year contracts for carrying
the mails between the island are ex-
piring, and when new ones were pro-
posed in February, the department
found that acceptance of the bids
would entail an annual payment of
more than 100 per cent. over the $4o,-
600 formerly charged for the service.
The islands, scattered over several
degrees of latitude and longitude
above the equator, are still being serv-
ed, but the government has refused
to pay the new price, has offered in
stead Is per cent increase, and the
company has refused that.
LAS a-remedy, the department is
considering asking Congress for leg
islation which will compel transporta-
| ton companies to accept mail for car
| riage at the rates made for carrying
express Mr.. Praeger said. 'SThe
Hawaiian situation is typical of 9TH
ers arising in seaboard sections of
the United States. If we had now
power to compel the Hawaiian island
carriers to accept the mail as ex-
press, that situation could be cleared
up rapidly.
"Also, the same power, if granted
by congress, would operate to get bet
ter and cheaper service elsewhere in
the United States
Hawaiian mails are increasing in
volume, and in number of points of
Estimation to be served. the depart
ment records show. Mail goes by the
| trans-Pacific steamers to Honolulu,
and thence is distributed by the
smaller ships making the inter-island
| passa ges.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
GERMAN PRESS
ADMITS BRITISH
ARE CHIvALROUS

Amsterdam. May 4-Count Revent-
low, in an article headed British
Chivalry and Self Advertisement" in
the Deutsche Tages Zeitung COM
plains that the German press recent
ly went SO far as to admit that the
British are chivalrous to an enemy.
This he considers insufferable.
The count is incensed particularly
because the German papers express
ed satisfaction of the manner in
which the famous German airman
Capt. Baron Won Richthofen was
buried by the British, and says:
I'VE cannot accept these socalled
honors as sincere. It is all advertise
ment. Our enemies forget to tell ue
what enormous sums they received
for bringing down Richthofen. All
members of the flying corps who
buried our hero are nothing but wal
profiteers."
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
new ALTITUDE
RECORDS MADE
At TEXAS CANT

Dallas, Tex, May New achieve
ments in endurance and altitud
tests at the Texas aviation camps havl
been. recorded frequently this spring
Some of the latest are reported fror
Ellington field at Houston, where OF
a single day new camp records fol
both height and endurance were SET
An army flier whose name in withheld
by order of the executive authoriteI
at the post, climbed to 10000 feet
only a little less than four miles II
the air. On the same day, civilia1
demonstration for an eastern motol
company remained in the air, with
passenger for nine hours and SO min
utes and descended only when his las
drop of gasoline had been consumed.
The type of the machine used in tho
feat for altitude, was withheld by thd
suit, they said was gratifying and Of
great value in demonstrating thu
utility of certain innovations and inn
provements that have been under con
sideration for some time. The climb
ing quality and power and speed de-
yeloped exceeded expectations.
In the endurance trial some OF thi
officers had been of the opinion thai
the motor to be tested would stall
before the gasoline in the tank wal
completely exhausted, while the man
ufacturer's demonstration contended
of course, that the motor would con-
sumo every drop of available fuel
With a passenger he arose at SEE
a. m. and stayed aloft until he vol
pIaned to landing at 6:1S p. m
without a hitch to interrupt his flight
The engine continued running without
the slightest indication of stalling IN
til the last drop of fuel in the TAM
was drained into the cylinders.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
FAMOUS ITALIAN
SO YEARS OF AGE

Rome, May 6-Italy's most famous
old man, Giuseppe Greppi. count and
senator, has just celebrated his
ninety-ninth year. Eat well and you
will live well and long-thats my Sc
cret," he said. In his younger years
Count Greppi was a cavalry officer
and later entered the diplomatic ser
vice travelling IN European and ORR
entail countries. He lived for many
years in Russia where he was Italian
ambassador.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
new SHIP WILL.
ARRIVE SOON

An Atlantic Port, May 1.-THE
newest Norwegian transatlantic pas
senger steamer, built in Birkenhead,
England, for the Norwegian Ameri
can line, is expected to arrive in the
United States within "a hours, it was
announced here today.
The vessel, the Stavengerfjord, of
about 1850, is coming without pas
sengers, cargo or mail. She will be
put into passenger service at once.
Her first regular voyage will be to
her Norwegian home port.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
GERMANY Will
|. LIMIT SAND and
GRAVEL SHIPPIN(

The Hague, Sunday, May SIN an
nouncing to the Dutch chamber t.
day that Holland and Germany ha
reached an agreement, Foreign Mir
lister Loudon explained the settlemer
of the Germand demand for trans
port over the Dutch railroad by va
of Roermond. Germany, he SAID. III
agreed to exclude from rranspv-
aeroplanes, armbs and munitior
while ehere never had been any ques
ton of the transport Of troops.
The foreign minister said GermanI
had undertaken to limit sand AM
gravel sent through Dutch waterway
to a maximum of 100000 tons an
had promised not to use the materi1
for military purposes.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
Fine Socialist SIS
For Attack on Mayor

Ansonia, May John P. Mccarthy,
local Socialist, who was charged
with being responsible for the distri-
button of a circular attacking Mayor
Mead and Chief of Police O'Donnell
for alleged interference with free
speech, has been fined SIS and costs
in the city court, Notice of an ap-
neal was given and bonds were fixed
at 800.
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
ELECTS SELF TO
HOLD TWO OFFICES

London, May 6-Under the new
election law the smallest village in
England is Hopwas-Hayes in South
Staffordshire, which contains only one
voter. He constitutes the town meet
ing, of which he is both chairman and
clerk, nominating and electing him
self to both offices. He must audit
his own accounts and present them
to the authorities for approval
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
Connecticut Has Sent
500 Men Into Armv

Approximately 500 men from the
Connecticut recruiting district enlist
ed in the United States army during
the month of April. Bridgeport stood
third in recruits during the past
month, having enlisted 33 men. New
Haven headed the list with AZ, and
Hartford was second with "a re-
cruits
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10

state director Of the reail merchants
division of the National War Savings
Committee as follows:
Bethel, F. B. French; Bridgeport,
Isaac Moss; Danbury, Nathan Spiro:
New Canaan, Edw. Burdett; Newtown,
John L. O'Neil; Norwalk, Samuel
Keller; Stafford, Frank B. Sam
mis-
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
MOSS IN CHARGE
OF STAMP DRIVE
IN BRIDGEPORT

Hartford, May IA list of chair
man of the retail merchants commit
tees to supervise the sale of $780,
GOO worth Of war savings stamps n
the stores of Connecticut has geen
announced by Joseph T. McWeeney,
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
INSECTS CAUSE BIG LOSSES

London, May 6-Insect pests caus-
ed a greater loss in the food supplies
of the United Kingdom last year than
did the German U-boat, according to
the estimate of the Board Of Agricul-
ture
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10
AMERICAN PRESTIGE

I is ANNOUNCED that concession to American onin
ion Great Britain will suspend the conscrpton of Irish
until Home Rule has been provided The news is aternp 10
ccar psida Ihs thoughtful naturally seek the source
Republican farmer., 1918-05-10

Five persons were injured when al
new hook and ladder auto crashed
into a store while going 10 q false
alarm in Harlem.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
Delight of Berlin Life.

One of the beauties of autocratic
government, says the Springfield
Union, is shown in the snow-removal
order issued by the military author
tiles in Berlin, under the provisions
Of Which every property owner is re-
1uireJ to remove the snow not only
from his sidewalk, but from the road
way as far as the center of the street,
and - authorized to call on all ten
ants between the ages of fourteen and
sixty TO assist him in this work. Fail
ure If comply with the order is punish
able with fine of not more than 1915
or imprisonment for not more than a
year, and the police are authorized to
handle all such cases without the for
mality Of a trial
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
When Nobel Cut His Finer.

The great war might be traced back
to Nobel's cut finger, e. e. Slosson
writes in the New York Independent.
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist
and a pacifist. One day while work
ing in the laboratory he cut his finger,
as chemists are apt to do, and again
as chemists are apt to do, he dissolved
some guncotton in ether alcohol and
swabted it on the wound At this
point, however, his conduct DIVORCES
from the ordinary, for instead of stand
ing idle, impatiently waving his hand
in the air to dry the film as most peo-
pie, including chemists, are apt to do,
he put his mind on it and 1t occurred
TO him that this sticky stuff, slowly
gardening to an elastic mass, might
DE just the thing he was hunting as
an absorbent and solidifer of nitro
glycerin. So instead of throwing away
the extra collodion that he had made
he mixed it with nitroglycerin and
found that it set to jelly. The "blast-
ing gelatin" thus discovered proved to
be so insensitive to shock that it could
be safely transported or fired from
cannon. This was the first of the
high explosives that have been the,
chief factor in the great war
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
HOLD WOOL IN THIS COUNTRY
War Trade Board Takes Steps to
Meet the Requirements of Both
the Army and Navy.

Restrictions governing the exporta-
ton and Importation Of wool were
frightened recently by the war trade
board with view to conserving Amer
lean supplies and checking the increase
in prices, which have risen 200 per
cent.
No commodities containing wool will
be permitted in future to leave the
country, it was announced, if, in the
judgment of the board, the wool is
needed for the uses either of the army
or the navy.
Importers before they can obtain L.
censes will be required to sign an
agreement that they will sell no wool
to persons other than manufacturers
and that they will give the govern
ment an option to purchase all wool
imported at a price per cent less
than the price that obtained for the
same grade July 80. 1917.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
To Remodel Japanese Army.

The return Of distinguished Japan
csc officers who have been in Europe
studying the latest military tactics on
the battlefronts will be followed by
arr1y reorganization, reports the To-
kyo Jill. Under the new system one
division will consist of three regi-
ments instead of four, as now, and a
force composed Of two reorganized di-
visions will become the fighting unit
of the Japanese army. Increase in
the number of regiments is not coz
templated, but the number of divi-
sions will be necessarily augmented
Whether or not the new formation
will be seen in the Forthcoming an
nual maneuvers is unannounced. The
military arsenal at Tokyo is preparing
to build airplanes for army use, and
an appropriation of $3,750,000 will be
asked from the diet. The exact type
Of airship has not been decided.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
To Set Pace for the Nation.

One million individual investors In
war savings stamps In Wisconsin be-
fore February 10 will be the slogan Of
an intensive drive to be instituted
February by the Wisconsin War Saw
ings committee.
The campaign will be state wide and,
in respect to the number of indiv1d-
uals actually canvassed, will surpass
all previous war campaigns in Wiscon-
sin or in the nation.
AT meeting with State Director j.
II. Puelicher in Milwaukee, various
leaders in the different war cam
paigns were consulted and it was de-
cided to launch the war savings stamp
campaign in Wisconsin on February
3, this date being designated by the
American Bankers association as a
national thrift day.
To the II county committees already
enlisted under Mr.. Puelicher for war
savings will be added the strength OF
the Red Cross chapters throughout the
state and the women's organizations
under the leadership of Mrs. j. w.
Mariner.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
Seventh Annual Road School.

The seventh annual road school Of
the Wisconsin highway commission
will be held at Madison February to
9, inclusive.
The road school may not be so large
ly attended this year as in the past.
owing to an opinion just rendered by
the attorney general that a county is
not liable for expenses of members of
the state road and bridges committee,
and that the law does not permit the
expenditures of public funds for that
purpose. The week will be devoted
to discussion of various live topics Of
interest to road builders.
The commission announces that 1913
will be a road maintenance year in
Wisconsin, and the program is largely
devoted to topics and discussion which
will help Wisconsin's road builders to
save roads already built, and maintain
the new state trunk highway system.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
Wisconsin Not Busted"

The statement that an appropriation
of $4,000 had been made by the La
Crosse county board as loan to the
state, the money to be used to equip
the home guard. and that this was
necessary because Wisconsin was
busted" was denied by Adjutant Cen
eral Holway.
81 have ordered equipment" said
General Holway, "for all of the COM
panies of the home guard up to the
regularly prescribed strength of IS
men to a company. That equipment
will be paid for by the state. In the
case of La Crosse county request
was made to recruit their company up
to $50 men, When that request was
made to me La Crosse was told that
they might increase the strength of
their home guard, but it was made
plain that the equipment above IS men
must be paid for by that county"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
Shows Way to Shorten Hours.

IF Wisconsin women are to get a
shorter working day, they will have to
go to the legislature" said f. NJ. Will
COX of the industrial commission in a
talk before the Wisconsin Federation
of Women Wage Farmers.
1T is necessary for some Organiza-
ton to determine proper wages and
hours, and you can do it," explained
Mr.. Wilcox 1.-THE reason men get
twice as much as women for the same
work is because of their unions.
1.-The industrial commission does
much to improve conditions under
which women work, and is ever check
ing up employers and striving to make
their situations ideal. All sanitary
conditions are properly inspected and
proper heating, lighting, and lunch
room facilities are insisted upon. We
are also concerned with hours and
wages and can forbid employment Of
women in certain capacities"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
To Stop Coal Shipments.

Gov. f. L. Philip is considering
drastic steps to halt shipment of Wis
consin coal into other Satisfaction
that would cause big shortage in the
Badger state. The dispute over con-
troll of coal shipped into Wisconsin by
the state administrator, and now lying
on the docks along Lake Michigan is
raging again.
The trouble dates back to the APP
pointment of Federal s'uel Admins
traitor Garfield to w. III. Grovermann
of Minneapolis as district distributor,
and the taking of control over distri-
button out of the hands of State Fuel
Administrator William Fitzgerald. Pro-
tests from Governor Phillip put Fitz-
gerald again in authority, but now Doc
tor Garfield has given Grovermann
power to move the Wisconsin coal into
Minnesota, the Dakotas and Iowa.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
Call for Special Session.

Governor Philips formal call for a
special session of the Wisconsin leg
iSlature to convene on February 10 at
two o'clock in the afternoon, has been
issued. Financial matters, the tenn
pOrary appointment of United States
senator and broadening of the absent
voting law, more stringent social
disease statute, stronger provisions for
Furnishing persons for melting insurrec-
ton and sedition, law that will per-
nit the manufacture of skinned milk
cheese in this state when properly
branded, are among the more impor-
tant of the IS reasons given for the
call.
There is no plank in the call to per-
nit of fusion of parties and this sub
ject is not specifically mentioned. Be
cause of the strict constitutional pro-
vision relating TO special sessions of
the legislature and what may be con-
sidered, it is doubtful if any bill on
this subject can now be legally intro
duced.
Regardless of the expressed belief
that the special session will not con-
tinue more than one week or ten days,
some members of both branches of the
legislature declare the session may
consume a months time.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23

Customers Of Some Hotels Profit Very
Little by New Plan Of conserva-
ton of Food Supply.

The food administration is pleased
to pieces with the New York hotels for
saving more than a thousand barrels
of -four week and some II tons OF
meat a day by these wheatless-meat-
less occasions that are so popular now.
a writer in Golfers observes. Pro-
vision dealers report falling off in
sales, and all is lovely and statistical.
TITS fair picture to gaze upon, but
honor where honor is due! That pa
tient hero, the hotel patron, ought to
come in for a few kind words, since
he pays the full price and eats the
half portion.
"Save wheat-use corn"-bread Is 10
cents, corn bread is Is cents. AS
transient consumer, the other noon, we
paid 80 cents for q slice of beef as
large as postal card, plus one table
spoonful of creamed potatoes, plus a
bit of Yorkshire pudding about the size
of watch. No doubt 1t was all that
was good for us, but the price was
more. If the widely known principles
of economics are still working, we
helped make meat and bread cheaper
and paid as much as if we We're max
ing them dearer.
A patriot is noble thing, but isn't
1t better to be one than to trim one?
The hotel keepers of Manhattan are
playing both sides of the game and the
food administration furnishes a jazz
band of statistical admiration for their
efforts. These bonifaces who are
shrinking the meals and swelling the
prices need something all right, but
not governmental encouragement.
Meanwhile the hotel user can feel sure
that the war has not changed his func-
ton at all-he's the paying goat now
Just as he used to be.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
whlttet Answers Critics Of State.

WnittcI AnSWeFS SFlliCS ol SloeS.
in a speech at GAINESVILLE, before the
Twilight club, in which he reviewed
WiscCosin's part in the war, Speaker
Lawrence Whittet of the assembly
took to task those persons who refer
to Wisconsin as 1: disloyal state. He
reviewed the creation of the state
council of defense and told of its activ-
tiles.
Il think am violating no trust when
| relate few of the situations that
confronted the governor at the time
of the recent draft" said Mr.. Whittet.
From Milwaukee came the statement
that there was decided opposition to
the draft, and that bloOdshed would
surely follow if state militia was not
present to quell the disturbances that
were sure to arise. Governor Philip
personally Investigated conditions and
was unable to find anything to SUBJ
stantiate the charges that haG been
made. He refused to send militia. The
result is too well known for me to
make any comment here. 1t is repre-
seated to us that the only disturbance
that occurred in Wisconsin on registra-
ton day Was q fight in Milwaukee be-
tween two men to see which one
should register first.
Military records of Wisconsin since
the beginning of the war and the first
call for volunteers are cited by all who
are aware of the loyalty of the people
of the state.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
WISCONSIN TRADE
BODIES TO MEET
Commercial and Industrial Con-
gress at Madison February
20, II and ~.
WILL BE A WAR CONFERENCE
Various State Organizations Arrange
to Hold Their Annual Meetings
at Capital City on
These Dates.

MadisOn.-Many Wisconsin residents
will be attracted to this city on Feb
ruary 20, 81 and %, to attend the third
annual Wisconsin Commercial and In
dustrial congress. Secretary of Labor
Wilson has accepted an invitation to
address the congress. Secretary OF the
Interior Lane and Joseph w. FOLK
have also been invited.
Gov. E. L. Philip, Chairman Mag
nus SwensOn and the state council OF
defense and Richard Lloyd Jones are
cooperating with the committee in
charge of the congress-Andrew Mel
Vile, chairman; Prof. Richard L. Ely,
Prof. John r. Commons, Dean Reber
and Prof. f. II. MacGregor, executive
secretary-in bringing federal officials
and other prominent men here to ad-
dress the sessions.
Arrangements are being made for
meetings here during the congress OF
the two organizations of commercial
club secretaries of the state, the Wis
consin Retail GrOcers' association, the
Wisconsin Wholesale Grocers' asso-
citation, the state lumber dealers, the
state clothiers, dry goods merchants
and the Wisconsin jewelers. assOcia-
ton.
The congress will be converted into
war conference, according to Profess
sOr MacGregor. Business men of Wis
consin, he said must be prepared for
what is TO come.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
Millions of Fry Are Ready.

The state conservation commission
expects TO have a large number of
brook trout fry and lingering to send
out this year. Preparations have been
made at the Bayfield, hatchery for the
holding of large number of brook
trout fry until fall. when they will be
distributed for planting in streams that
overflow their banks at time of fresh
cts.
They will have several millions of
rainbow trout fry to send out. The de-
partment will save a million or more
of the brown trout variety for appli-
cants who wish them for certain
streams. They also expect TO have
many millions of pike fry for the
many inland lakes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
LUMBERMEN IN
CAMP NEAR OCONTO ARE
POISONED BY FOOD.
OTHER WISCONSIN DOINGS
Items of Interest Throughout the State
Gathered by Alert Correspondents
and BulIetined ins Brief for
the Busy Reader.

Green Thirty-eight men were
taken seriously ill at lumber camp
near Oconto as a result of poison in
their food. Frank Ziubach, chore boy,
was arrested on orders of District At
torney Neuman of Oconto county and
federal authorities came here to in
vestigate. Ziubach, it is said, carried
passports to Switzerland countersigned
by former Ambassador Bernstorff.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-01-23
State Loses Indian Land Suit.

A dispatch from Washington says
The state of Wisconsin has lost it's
suit to obtain title to 6,4O0 acres of
land, mostly timbered, in the Menom-
inee Indian reservation. The suit was
based on the provision of the ordinance
of 1873 setting aside one school section
in each township, and devotng it and
its income to school purposes. The
state claimed that this heia good on
the reservation as elsewhere, and
sought to restrain the Indians. unde
government supervision. from cuttin
timber for the mill on the reservation