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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05
YANKS GIVE NICK A PAIN

that Everett Scott 1000
celebrating Boys Week by hoping that fellow
his wish live that long all this talk about the 1000
had reminding Mrs Arock that needs thousand dollars
r
of tan. \ S
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05
Play Tomorrow.

The Stanley A. c. and the Seat
Pleasant A. c. are booked to mear
tomorrow afternoon at 2;3O at Seat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05

peeled for Tina
who is conceded.
to be lingering
somewhere i'll
w a S hington,
after having es-
capped or stray
ed from it's
keepers in a
m o m e mt of
t h o u G htlesS
absent minded
ness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05
Joe Is a Referee,

Joe jeanette, formerly a high
class heavyweight, is making
great success around New York
az a refereo. .s
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05

communicate Immediately with
somebody SO that she can be
returned in all possible haste to
her rightful proprietors.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05
Smith Is III,

Sherry Smith, veteran southpar
with the Cleveland Indians. is
in the best of health this spring
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05
Says SKILLET"
Finn, Esq:
Elusive Tina Completely
Battles City-wide Search
For Her 6,216-Pound
Carcass.
BY KIRK MILLER.

~ p to the moment of rafting
to press naught has been
~ heard of the whereabouts
OF Tina, the 6.216-pound dwarf
elephant that was mislaid from
the circus which left it's steam
cooled aroma here last Wednes-
day night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05

~ Police, detectives, Boy Scouts
and Campfire Girls have been
asked to keep be1ladonna eye
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05

No motive has yet been estab-
lished for Tina's sudden elope-
ment from the circus which holds
a heavy mortgage on her serv-
ices. So far as the menagerie
master knows, Tina was a salts
fled and contented girl.
She grabbed her three round
meals day of honey and bread
crumbs and received a buttermilk
peared on the calendar. No
popular, and kindness typifitd
her treatment by one and all.
II you have not searched under
your bed or in your boudoir for
this stray pet, do SO at once, as
a heavy reward is staring you in
the tonsils.
Should you meet Tina face to
face UP your alley or browsing
about in your pansy patch, do
not hesitate to walk up to her
and stroke her ribs. She Is very
amenable to kindness and readily
responds to her name.
Tina is somewhere in Wash
ington-that is an established ru-
NOR. Where she could be hiding.
whether it is behind a tree-box
or under the parlor rug is a dis.
tinct probability, but she hasn't
been seen to leave the city limits,
either by night or by day.
Pedestrians, please don't step
on her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05

Let's take up that infield of yours
now
You couldn't ask for much
better first baseman than Joe
Judge He can hit and field and
run; he's smart. Harris, at 81 nd,
Is one of the best fielding - I'd
basemen in the big league. and
. ought to keep on improving for a
efew years. He's just fair hitter
but hard man to pitch to.
Roger Peckinpaugh is still won
der at short, in spite of some in
iuries. That old boy sure can get
them and even though he is strict
~ a left-field hitter he's danger
Gus bird IN a pinch. Taking him
and Harris as a pair the middle
part of your field sis covered just
about as well as any in the league.
Now we come to third base. and
there you have another question
mark. Conroy looked pretty fair
against us i'll New York and was
going well until he was hurt.
O'Neill, who was out of the game
all asst season, looked pretty good
two years ago, but he needs work
and that and that alone will de-
ternnine if he has the goods.
Bluege carries himself well, too,
but you've got to suspend judg-
ment when dealing with young
sters 1t takes a full season to
find out how good they really are.
In the OutfieId you have Sam
Rice, one of the best there is.
GOSlin looks like good hitter,
en- the team. That fellow, Wade
ri wuyRan I1n
got into the lineup. / know
nothing about Fisher.
In Muddy Ruel and Patsy Char
rity you have two good catchers,
with Lapan and Hargrave to back
them UP. Your manager was
mighty smart player. l wish him
well and have no doubt he'll be
just as good manager as he was
a player. Washington won't have
any complaints to make on his &C.
count. He'll get everything in the
way Of ability out of the team, and
If the team doesn't finish well up
1t will be simply because the
players and not Bush aren't there.
The question, then, is this:
Where will the team finish? It's
q hard question to answer. The
pennant race, think, will be be-
tween the Yanks and Detroit The
fight for the other six places is CO.
Ing to be a hot one. Those Boston
Red Sox, I believe, will do better
than lot of people think they'll
do, and / don't imagine there will
be much difference between the
third and last place teams.
: Where the Griffmen will finish,
whether it will be third or last, or
somewhere in between, depends on
how the pitchers go, and, as say,
they're question mark.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05

If you see
Tina cluttering
up the side
walks anywhere
in your neigh
borhood please
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-05

Hollingsworth looks pretty good,
too, but the pitching staff as q
whole is a question. mark. Only
time viii tell whether it really has
the class. Allan Russell, with his
spit ball, ought to help a lot, and
Brilliant may hit his stride and
come in mighty useful. McGrew
is so tall he's a little erratic, but
when a fellow with his reach and
size gets perfect control and a
change of pace there's no telling
how far he will go. So everything
considered, Bush isn't bad off for
pitchers.
George Gibson, one of the smart
est catchers there ever was, sue
,cessful as manager of the Pitts
hugh Pirates and a corl1ing good
coach of pitchers, should do a lot
with the young pitchers. He was
a great help to John McGraw when
he was with the Giants, and when
he went to Pittsburgh he took a
team that had been shuffling
around without getting anywhere
in particular and made 1t a pen
nant contender.
And say-y0u've got to con.
slider Nick AltrOck when you're
weighing the Griffs' prospects.
A fellow who can keep a team
I'm good spirits ON and off the
field is worth lot, and not only
that but he knows just about
everything there is to know ab0pt
the game. don't mean to lead
him or anybody else astray but
don't mind saying 1 wish the
Yanks had Nick or a fellow like
him around that great big sta
dunn of ours.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
May Base Auto License
Taxes on Car Weight
tss4sgOsEo UNDER TERMS OF
BILL PROPOSED BY THE JOINT
HIGHWAY COMMITTEE

Weight is proposed as the basis 70.
automobile licensing in Wisconsin t
raise $8,000,000 for highway construo
ton and maintenance, under terms
bilEA. r. Hirst, state highway eng
neer, was instructed today by tn
joint highway committee of the legis
lature to draw. The committee aba.
doned the suggestion of Governor
j. Blaine that horsepower as well a
weight should be used in establishing
a new automobile license system.
After Mr.. Hirst had shown by ser
les of tables that a horsepower basis
of licensing would place heavy bur
den on light cheap car with larg
cylinder displacement, out of proper
ton to it's value, the committee asked
that he draft a bill with a minimum
fee of SO on cars of 1900 pounds, pro
crossing upward to the heavier mach
ines. They asked that this tax be sc
graduated as to raise $8,000,000 esti-
mated to be the need of the state tc
continue its highway building and
maintenance program.
This measure will be drafted and
considered at a meeting next week.
The committee also instructed the
highway engineer to at once draw VI
bill making available $711,000 nov
held in the state treasury out of use
This money, in excess of the amount
the law permits the state to spend or
maintenance out of license fees, will
be used to commence meeting the
$2,600,000 of federal aid for the year
Under provision of the. new high
way bill the mileage Of the STATE
trunk highway system will be increas
ed from $500 to 10000. The state will
meet with similar appropriation the
federal aid of $2,600OO0 annually fol
new construction on this system
while spending $5,000,000 for main
tenance each year.
In addition, it will continue to fur
nish $785,OOO of aid to counties, and
100000 for aid for bridge construc
ton.
Some of the committee members
have not abandoned the idea of a gaso
line tax to aid in providing fund!
needed to meet the contemplated pre-
gram of construction. Assemblyma1
George Nelson, chairman of the assen
bly, committee, is sponsoring this pro
gram.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
Three of Coolest Days
Mark Months Opening
PLENTY OF SNOW FOR LoGGERs
AND MILD WEATHER MAKE
GOOD WINTER

If there is anything to the ground
hog dope seeing his shadow on Febru-
airy second each year, then we are in
for six weeks more winter in these
parts, because last Friday there was
sun enough for Bre'r Hog and other
rodents to see their "shadder."
Be that as it may, there can be no
complaint on the brand of weather
handed out to us this winter. Snow
held off for a long time in the falk
and, when it did come, it came the
it was wanted, a little at time, so
that loggers and all others with trans
portation problems dependent upon
the beautiful white blanket, had al
most ideal conditions for road making
and hauling
In point of temperature there is
much more to be thankful for With
hard coal an unknown quantity, and
prices for bituminous sky high, farm
ers and wood dealers have made up
not been excessively cold. A short
cold snap before Christmas and an
other below zero spell starting in with
February, about sizes up the severe
weather this far January was a mild
month Hon. Citizen who scrutinizes
he thermometer with one eye and the
fuel pile with the other will tell you
! that Altogether it has been a real
winter, and if the grounding is right,
it will continue SO for a few weeks.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday were
easily the three coolest days of the
winter The mercury in the tube
dropped down to twenty thirty and
forty below, even more in some places
and with stiff wind blowing it was
the coolest weather recorded for a
long time.
Ice men harvested crop that ought
to carry them through the months
when that commodity is needed and
still leave a surplus, the frozen aqua
pura being Of fine quality this winter.
All clear ice about twenty inches
thick with an absence of frozen slush
fills the ice houses of wholesalers and
private individuals.
when winter comes" there may be
some who dislike it, but it is a fact
that "the overcoat country has much
in it's favor that milder regions lack.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
Present Session Plans
Change Highway Laws
THE HIGHWAY OPINION IN THE
LEGISLATURE is ALMOST
UNANIMOUS

Everyone who uses the roads, and
hat is practically everybody in Wis
:onsin, is interested in highways and
in what is going on in the legislature
regarding highway legislation. 1t
must be remembered that the legisla-
.ure decides all matters regarding
highway improvement, and what the
present legislature does may tell the
story Of highway work for years.
The big problem before the present
Legislature is that of providing funds
Tor road building and maintenance and
tc meet the federal aid. In the past
practically all these funds, including
The states share, came from tax on
general property This tax has reach
I'd a prohibitive point, and if highway
improvement is to continue, it cannot
secure its funds from this urce.
This opinion is almost unanimous i'll
the legislature.
The two big income and surtax bills
introduced in the legislature make no
provision for highway financing. The
only source left is to get larger
share of the funds from the user OF
the road-the user of the motor vehi-
Gle. Several propositions are under
consideration by the legislature. The
Legislative Committee of the Wiscon'
sin County Boards Association has
submitted certain proposals which
were approved by 80 per cent of the
county boards throughout the state
These proposals provided for the be
ginning at $500 a 2 per cent valua
ton tax, and 2 cent a gallon tax on
gasoline used for highway traffic pun
poses. Under this plan, the state and
county general property taxes to meet
the federal aid would be eliminated
and also the personal property tax or
motor vehicles.
The point legislative committee or
highways in it's deliberations thus fal
tend to the following program:
The raising of $8,000,00O to take care
of the states share of the cost o.
road construction and maintenance
This would provide $2,5OO,OO0 to NEE
the federal aid. 1t would make avail
able $785, 900 under the state aid law
which is now taken from the genera
fund, and also provide funds for main
tenance and other incidentals.
The committee is inclined to favol
increasing the state trunk ,highwa!
mileage from 1900 to 10000 miles
thus relieving the counties of thu
burden of taking care of $500 mile
of road.
Among the members of the legisla
ture in some quarters there is consid
cradle sentiment in favor of the gas,
line tax as means to measure tn
use of the road and have the owner
of the motor vehicles pay according
| to their use.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
THANKING THE INTER Sc

The Eagle River Band takes this
means to publicly thank the members
of the Inter Sc for their liberal dona-
ton of $1,000, the net proceeds Of
their annual masquerade dance. The
sum almost clears up the balance of
the bands Indebtedness incurred a
year ago in securing new instruments
there being but about fifty dollars
yet to be raised to clean the slate.
In preparation for this the band is
rehearsing for concert to be given
soon, which will also include a pro
gram of vocal and instrumental num-
bers by local talent The band. thanks
to liberal support accorded it, has
made wonderful progress during the
past two years and it is their inten-
ton to keep on giving the community
an organization of which it can be
proud.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
Judge Reid Tells About
Wisconsin's Advantages
EMINENT JURlST SAYS: MONEY
VALUE OF OUR LAKE AND FOR
EST PARKS is GREAT

The romance and beauty of Wis
consin as the nations playground
were described by Judge A. II. Reid
in a recent address to the members of
the Ladies' Literary club of Wausau
The Study and Philanthropy depart
ment arranged the program which was
given at the Wausau club following a
one o'clock dinner Fifty members of
the club were present and heard, a
splendid program.
The title of Judge Reds talk was
wisconsin, the Playground of Amer
ica.'' He told first of the ancient his
tory of the state, which biologists,
from the study of traces of the mound
builders, one of the earliest peoples
of the earth, have determined goes
back as far as the records of any
civilization on the globe. The speak
er told of the efforts of the early ex-
plorers who were headed by the in
trepid Nicolet, who left the New Eng
land settlement and by way OF the St.
Lawrence and Green Bay penetrated
into the interior of Wisconsin only
fourteen years after the Pilgrims first
landed at Plymouth. Following Mic
olet came Father Marquette and Joliet
who continued explorations, and the
| names of all three are prominent on
the maps of Wisconsin and neighDor-
| ing states.
The hardships confronting these
early explorers were graphically pre-
sented by Judge Reid, who said that
| the heroism of these men in penetrat-
ing an unknown and hostile wilder
ness exceeded even that of Columbus
in crossing the ocean for the first
time. According to the speaker Mic
olet spent nearly year in the 1nter1-
or Of the state, accompanied by eight
Indian guides.
The scenic beauty of the state was
vividly presented, the state parks,
many of historical interest, particular
/ Iy Dewey park and Devils Lake, being
described. Judge Reid estimated the
shore line of Wisconsin's more than
| 1000 lakes to be about $50 miles. He
told of the work of the state Lake and
Parks association to preserve the
beauty spots of the state for the enjoy
ment of the people by creating other
parks in addition to those now owned
by the state He approved the effort
to make Rib Mountain into a state
park and urged those present to use
their influence to assist the County
Park commission.
The practical money value Of these
lake and forest parks were demon
strated by the speaker who said that
Michigan and Minnesota, with fewer
such advantages than Wisconsin, are
drawing $75,OOO,OOO annually from
tourists trade and Wisconsin from
this source obtains only $12,0O0,O0(
Advertising, said the speaker, is re
sponsible for the showing of the other
state. Slides loaned by the WiscOn
sin Lakes and Parks association were
shown by Judge Reid at the close Of
his talk.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Our Sunday School has suffered
somewhat in attendance recently ow
ing to extreme weather but watch us
pick up with sunny weather. And we
welcome every Kid in town who does
not go elsewhere to come with us to
Sunday School
TIL subject of the sermon next Sun.
day is christian Prayer" We want
you to come and worship with us at
eleven each Sunday morning.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
HayWard'S Poems Draw
Favorable Comment
RUNS FARM AND WRITES BOOKS
OF VERSE DURING HIS
LEISURE HOURS

THE last house in northern Wiscon-
sin on state trunk highway No 3d."
That is the way the tourists in
northern Wisconsin direct people to
the home of E. F. Hayward, who is
becoming known as the poet of north
ern Wisconsin. Around his log barn
one may find him attending to his cat
tie and stock, happy and contented.
dressed no different from the thou
sands of other people who make their
home year in and year out in the
northern part of the state. In the last
II years three books of poems have
been issued and in them will be found
all of the thrills of new settler.
He likes the life in northern Wiscon-
sin
81 love the winters chilly blast,
The snow and sleety storm,
But love them most when they have
passed
And it is nice and warm
Poems From the North Woods is
his latest volume. It was written in
the pineries of the north, surrounded
by stump pulling and land clearing
by highway construction and home
building.
Being a nature lover and instructive
ly a pioneer, chose my present loca
ion as an ideal place to live-and die
said Mr.. Hayward in explaining how
ne came to settle in northern Wiscon
lin. I'm 1901 1 homesteaded 80 acres
Of jungle two miles north Of Conover
Villas county. have built log house
and outbuildings and cleared about 70
lcres, mostly by hand. I have fenced
t all and call it home
Three books have been written by
him during his leisure hours Two
Bits, in 1906; Philosophy in Rhyme
1914, and Poems From the North
Woods, 1922. A little poem on Thanks
giving has struck popular chord
mong the people of northern Wiscon
lin:
Winds a-shifting, snow a-drifting.-
Pine boughs bending to the ground;
ce a.snapping, Summers mapping
Til the Springtime comes around.
W@7sez.s n7e4alsro has 10 measure,
HuntiAgs gpod, and Arapping's fine;
leer a-jumping, heart a-thumping,
Hiding back among the pine
Ven'son baking, no mistaking
Smell it through the cabin door
ust the living for Thanksgiving,
King, or queen, could ask no more'
In the years past Mr.. Hayward has
lad correspondence with many of
he noted writer's of the country and
e has letters of commentator from
lila Wheeler Wilcox, Gilbert Hubbard
nd James Witcomb Riley. Many of
lis poems we're published in a paper
t Eagle River and attracted such at
ention that they are now being pub
ished by an Illinois publishing house
The clearing which the author has
made in the forests of northern Wis
3onsin has attracted so much atten-
ion during the last few years that all .
over the territory his farm, clay
meadow Farm has become known as
he last house in northern Wisconsin.
Milwaukee Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
Local Highs Won From
BirnamwOOd, 40 to 6
sNAPPiEsT GAME or SEASON RE
CARELESS OF LOCALS
LARGE SCORE

In the snappiest game seen on the
home floor this season Eagle High
credited itself with another victory,
winning from the Birnamwood High
by the score Of 40 to Friday night
Despite the large total rolled up by
the locals and the small score of the
visitors, it was without question the
best game that has been played here
this winter. 1t was whirlwind from
start to finish and good clean game
all through Very few fouls were call
ed on either side and what were called
were entirely due to the speed at
which the two teams were travelling
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08

When Cyrena Van Gordon, prima
donna of The Chicago Opera Com
pany was little girl at Camden.
o., and the great Campanini told
her she would be the greatest con-
tralto in the world, a fine cook was
spoiled. Later she got her musical
education at Cincinnati. Even yet,
however, her idea of q gala occa-
sion is to invade the kitchen to
cook "weal an 'ammerra dish
taught her by her grandmother.
This is the recipe "Take one pound
of veal and one pound of ham, cut
ting into small cubes Simmer un-
til tender. No seasoning is nee
essary. Thicker the gravy, place in
. baking dish and add two thinly
sliced boiled potatoes. Cover with
thin rich biscuit dough and bake 20
minutes,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
NEW MEMBERS INITIATED

At the regular meeting Of the Cath
oIic Order of Foresters Tuesday night,
seven new members were initiated
after which ceremonies a fine lunch
was served and a good time in gener-
al was reported.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08

Eagle took the lead in the start and
held it all through the game, playing
consistent ball, the score book show
ing that they made 20 points in each
half. Birnamwood got five of their six
in the first period but during the sec
ond were unable to locate the ring,
getting their one remaining point on
a free throw from a foul.
AS the score indicates, most of the
game was played in Birnamwood terri
tory, the locals basket being in dan
ger but a very few times. But at that
the home team had no snap. Birnam
wood was on its toes all the time and
did some excellent guarding, break,
ing up Eagles teamwork time and
again. Eagle outweighed their oppon
ents almost man for man and it was
apparent that this fact, coupled with
their speed, made them the easy vic
tors they were. Had Birnamwood a
little more weight with their speed.
there would be few high school teams
much better. Just at this time the
visitors are playing under handicap,
their center, around whom the team
was built up and upon whom much de
pended in team work, having broken a
leg recently. Had this man been in
Fridays game undoubtedly the score
would have been closer.
The visitors played clean game
are good sportmen and kept right at
it until the final whistle, regardless OF
the odds against them.
The score was as follows:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08
FIRST GRANDcHILD

n A. Colman was passing out Gig
ars literally Tuesday morning in cele-
bration of the arrival of his first
grandchild, message having reach
ed him that morning announcing the
birth Of daughter to Mr.. and Mrs.
Joyce Kelley in New York, the mother
formerly Miss Bessie Colman, being
his only daughter.