Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-10-18
How a Wife Ruined Her Husband
Their Home and Their
Home Town.

nome lOWH.
Mrs. Bradley and her four beau
tiful children made a pretty pic
5ure on the long, spacious porch
of their attractive bungalow home
"a home situated in the heart of
residential district. 1t
was June, the birds were singing
and the day was of the kind that
fills you with the JOY of living.
Mrs. Bradley, attired in a dainty
lress in keeping with the season
was looking over a current maya
zine, awaiting the arrival OF the
members of the Literary Club
which she was to entertain that
The children, ranging
in ages from ? to IA were playing
with their toys and running in
md out of the house with laugh
ter and shouts of happiness and
10y filling the air.
There's was the ideal family life
in a home that had been built by
Fred Bradley from the earnings
that had come to him from a legal
business which had confined him
to the town he loved so well for
some twenty-five years, Bradley,
fresh from law seho9l, mad hung
out his shingla IN Bonneville, with
assets consisting of a good educa-
ton, fertile brain and much
hope. Financially, he was no bet
ter off than the riff-raff that now
walk the streets of Bonneville, and
the town, once so full of promise,
is full of such, the rea5sA there
fore being divulged later on in this
story.
During Bardley's first year in
Bonneville, he was compelled to
accumulate numerous worthy
lehtg, His business, naturally
small at first, did not bring him
the returns that would make it
possible for him to maintain him
self in a fashion becoming the
dignity of his profession. But he
had a likeable personality, he
seemed to be an honest young
fellow, and the merchants of
Bonneville gladly extended him
credit and the banks loaned him
money with which is equip his
office and gel agoing." He GER
taiply was treated royalty by all
the business factors in Bonneville
While he soon justified the faith
that was placed In him, he never
would have been able to make a
start If the helping hand had not
been extended to him.
Bradley was a type. Thousands
of men throughout the country
owe a great deal to the merchants
of their home towns, whose liber.
Ial credit and general helpfulness
during the struggling days en-,
abliRg them ta get chat all SC
necessary start in the right way
These merchants are entitled to
much gratitude from those whom
they helped in days gone by, but
unfortunately they don't always
get it, as will be revealed during
the development Of this story.
Bradley proved TO be one of the
real "live-wire" attorneys of the
town. He early established a rep.
utatiOn that was the envy of hi:
fellow members of the bar, anC
before many years had passed hC
was a wealthy man. In the mean,
time, he had taken unto himself
wife and soon his family grew
TO such proportions that is wa.
imperative that he build a home
This he did-and an elaborate anC
extensive domicile it proved to be
Wealthy man though he had be
come in the meantime, he found il
necessary to again call on many
of the merchants for credit anC
funds were borrowed from tn,
bank to meet his heavy current ex
penses. He was good for
every penny borrowed and every
dollar of credit extended to him
but the big point is that he coulC
not have gone out of town anC
secured such assistance. The fact
is that the merchants and banker:
of Bonneville literally made" thi:
man Bradley. They gave him hi.
start and they tided him ovel
those periods when his expenses
were greater than his income.
Well, the years passed by, Brad
ley accumulated a fortune that
was a large one for having beer
acquired entirely from a lega
practice in a town of only a few
thousand inhabitants and oui
story is brought down to date