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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27
Human and Mexican.

The Mexican boil weevil is an
insignificant little cuss.
He is about one-quarter of an
inch long, but he has an appetite
like a hippopotamus.
Ever since he came across the
Rio Grande, he has been costing
us good United States money.
Last year he cost us two hundred
million dollars. One hundred and
fifty million of this was damage
to cotton crops and fifty million
we laid out trying to kill him off.
This year, Mr.. Mexican boil wee
vii will again tax us about two
dollars a head, or two hundred
million dollars.
There is another kind of boil
weevil which also infects our
country.
Sometimes it comes across the
Mexican border. Sometimes it
comes across the Atlantic.
1t looks like man, talks like
man and walks like man
but isn't. 1t carries red flag in
one hand and torch in the other.
It's pockets are full of bombs, it's
brains are full of dynamite, and
it's very breath is poison.
Beside this human weevil, the
Mexican boil weevil is nothing.
Where che Mexican boil weevif
costs us two hundred million dol
lars a year, the human boil wee
vii, most conservatively estimated,
costs American industry a billion
dollars a year.
The Mexican boil weevil bores
into the tender cotton plant and
lays an egg that matches grub
that kills the plant.
The human boil weevil bores in
to mems minds and inserts grubs
that destroy honesty, faith, loyal
ty, patriotism and industry.
1t gnaws at the vitals of those
institutions that have helped you
and me and every other worker in
America to our place in the sun.
Some men think they are so big
and powerful and strongly en-
trenched that they can afford to
ignore the boring in of the human
boil weevil. Such men are merely
emulating the ostrich.
History has recorded that sup
posedly great Roman fiddled
while a city of the first magni
tude was reduced to ashes.
What will history record of true
Americans during the present pre-
iod?
C. Y. CLEMENT.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27
Treating Them Rough.

WHY is it that the poorest part
If the days travel lies in the
towns and villages through which
be highway runs? A tour ex-
pert, says the Milwaukee Journal,
who knows more about Wisconsin's
highways and travel condition
than anyone else, said recently:
you can bIindfold me and nine
times out of 10 I can tell you
when we are coming into a town."
One can speed along for miles
on a marvellous highway and then
when he enters the outskirts of
town he finds the road wavy,
bumpy or filled with chuck holes.
After the motorist has passed
through four or five towns this
way the effect is decidedly weary
ing.
That's the way we keep 'em
from speeding" said an ingenious
official in a Wisconsin town that
permits yawning holes to go I'M
mended in its streets. If that was
merely an excuse it has just the
value Of an eXcuse-no more. If
he was really serious, his answer
shows how mistaken a man can
be.
The traveller passing through
that town has to slow down, of
course for his own protection. But
he is 50 busy with getting his
car through that he has no time
to look after the safety of others.
tie lodges first to one side and
then the other, weaves in and out
and IS far more of a danger to
others than he would be if he
went through a little faster on a
smooth pavement that permitted
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27

him to maintain perfect control
of his car.
Aside from safety, the impress
sion that town ought to be
eager to leave with those who pass
through, it counts for something.
A chuck hole street leaves just
one impression-a chuck hole
town. And the traveller is glad
when he gets through.
That, surely, is not the impress
sion that the live, wide-awake vii
lagos and towns and small cities
of Wisconsin want to make on
those who pass through their Dor
ders.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27
C. H. JOHNSON,
Colt. District Clerk.
20-1t.
Notice of Annual School District
Meeting.

Notice is hereby given to the
qualified electors of School Dis
trict No. 1, of the Town OF Wash
ington, that the annual meeting
of said district, for the election
of officers and the transaction of
other business, will be held at the
Mayo School House, on the first
Monday being the End of July, at
s o'clock in the afternoon.
Dated this 18th day of June,
1923.
GEORGE PUNCHES.
2O-2t. District Clerk.
Villas County News-$2.0O year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27
Notice of Annual School District
Meeting.

Notice is hereby given to the
qualified electors of School Dis
trict No. 1, of the Town of Con-
over, that the annual meeting of
said district, for the election of
officers and the transaction of
other business, will be held at the
Pioneer School House, on the first
Monday being the End of July, at
8 o'clock in the afternoon.
Dated this 10Th day of June,
1923.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27
G. Y. CLEMENT
Ford Climbs Porch.

To the versatility of Fords must
now be added porch climbing, one
owned by Mr.. Pozak climbing the
porch of P. Flanagan, intersec-
ton of Fifth Avenue and Lincoln
Street at Amigo last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pozak and two
children occupied the Ford, which
was being driven west on Fifth
Avenue at about 11:30 o'clock. He
was on the extreme right of the
street. Driving in the same dir
ection was tourist, At the inter
section of Fifth Avenue and Lin
coin Street there is slight curve
to the left. The tourist did not
allow Mr.. Pozak room to negotiate
the curve and the latter either had
to strike telephone post or turn
into the yard of Mr.. Flanagan,
situated on the northwest corner
of the intersection. The brakes
did not hold and the Ford climbed
the edge of the front porch with
the right front wheel and turned
over on its side. The occupants,
except for fright and a shaking
up. were not injured. The porch
was slightly damaged.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27
Civic Obligations.

Let every soul be subject
unto the higher powers. For
there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are or
dalned of God. Whosoeyer
therefore resisteth the power
reslsteth the ordinance of
God" Romans 10.
1 exhort therefore, that,
first of all, supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and
giving of thanks, be made for
men; for kings, and for all
that are in authority: that
we may lead quiet and
peaceable life in all goodness
and honesty" l Timothy 2.
Render therefore unto
Caesar, (civil authority the
things which are Caesars:
and unto God divine author
lty) the things which are
Gods" Matthew 22:21.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27
~ HEALTH CENTERS
Diver, Crandon and
bgs Lander Among the
Cities Chosen

Cites Chosen
~. nearly one year of opera
b'sl ,rbich the system was sue.
JOB .. II applied for thousands of
ssdoI9 and children, the county
oc.asS .o @'t conducted by the
.@'n hoard of health will be
"5' u J'' TO new locations this
alas 5s, IN accordance with the or
a1lD D nrsn, in order to make the
ga d, p'r more accessible for all
s11F = the country. The Is cen
@f' , " functioning will be es-
's !5:, bo in a different town IN
. y, county. The centers are con-
9.a ~, S'f for the promotion of ma
l-. wv and infant hygiene.
i' rl..o centers are held only
+ I-.' nurses are employed, the
'-s ,o recurring the preparatory
s W and follow-up activities of
4. Ssr public health nurse
-I T5 W., centers were located dur
a. -+ the first year as follows: Rock
u. l!,o+r ,Janesville; Green county,
, G5o,I, Dane county, Mt. Horeb;
3 5,r.' county, Fennimore; Racine
. 2p,, Union Grove; Walworth
. .,,, Genoa Junction; Jefferson
,, ,n Fort Atkinson; Jackson
,,,, Black River Falls; Clark
n AIM Colby; Wood county, Wis
on,n Rapids; Marathon county,
To1sau and Mosinee; Villas coun-
r Eagle River; Oneida county,
355,inelander; Forest county, Gran
In. Marinette county, Crivitz.
A county center will be opened
NON in Waukesha county.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27

European nations that accuse us
of being nation of dollar-chasers
are not averse to asking us to
chase a few of them their way.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27

News Want Ads bring results.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
k|LLED|N
LEAP TRAIN
Residents of Spring Lake Had
Been at Deal to Visit
Friends

SPRING LAKE, Sept. S:-John G.
Jarvis, sixteen years old, died in the
Long Branch Hospital at midnight
following injuries received two hours
previously when he and a chum
jumped for a moving train at Deal
and were thrown to the platform.
The other boy, Benjamin j. Belt,
fifteen years old, cut cut and bruised
and sent to his home after treatment
at the hospital.
Jarvis was the son of Mrs. Warren
S. Jarvis, of 100 Morris avenue.
Their winter home is 4 Wilde place,
Montclair. Belt. who resided during
the summer with his parents at the
Monmouth Hotel here, was said to
live in New York City during the
winter.
The two boys had purchased re-
turn tickAs l1te yesterday at Deal,
where they had gone to visit friends.
The train which they intended to get
stops at Deal only on being signaled.
When it did not stop the boys jump
ed for it. both being thrown to a
stone platform. Jarvis, who narrow
ly escaped going under the wheels,
received a fractured skull.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
IT'S GIRL!

'Bill' O'Toole, Evening News
correspondent at South Amboy, to-
day placed an order for a noiseless
typewriter. The genial William
last night became the father of a
bouncing baby girl, and he will now
be unable to write his news dis
patches on an ordinary typewriter
without waking the baby-hence the
muffler attachment.
Bill. whose reputation for accuracy
has never been disputed, claims that
the baby weighs nine and one-half
pounds. and that upon her arrival
she announced that she was a DEM
ocrat and started to cry for a copy
of the Home edition of the Evening
News. Bill even goes so far as to
claim that the baby bears a striking
resemblance to its father, but at the
city hospital, where the little girl
was born, the nurses refused to con-
firm that report, stating that the
baby was a little beauty. Both Mrs.
O'Toole and Miss O'Toole are doing
nicely.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08

Mrs. Lewiston first began the
business in a small store in what
was known as the Shangold block in
State street. Later the business was
moved to a larger store where the
Raritan Trust Company is now To-
Gated then to 342 State street and
finally 30S State street. The pres
ent store at 308 State street will be
maintained as a branch establish
ment. the main store being at 1856
Smith street.
The French Millinery Shop has al
ways carried the latest and finest
Paris creations and because of its
vast stock has become one of the
best known stores in the county.
Some time ago Mrs. Lewiston open
ed a store in New Brunswick.
The new store here Is n of the
most up-to-date devoted to the hat
business in this city, and it compares
favorably with the exclusive millin-
cry shops of New York City. The
store is finished in grey with sky
blue trimmings. Among the features
of the store are large display win
dows designed especially for the dis
play of the latest Paris creations;
a French parlor, which will be per-
sonally supervised by Mrs. Levin
ston, and a workroom where altera-
tions may be made if required. The
executive offices will also be main
tanned IL the new store.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
KEYP0RT

Rev. and Mrs. f. T. B. Reynolds
have returned from a vacation spent
at Marlboro, n. Y. Mr.. and Mrs.
A. s.. Van Buskirk, of Osborn street
were week end guests there while
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur S. Van Bus
kirk and children were visitors at
Marlboro TO two weeks.
M,e. Harold G. Smith and daugh-
ter Therese, of Pleasantville, N. j.,
were guests of relatives in the bor-
ough this week.
The local chapter of the American
Red Cross is actively engaged in
raising funds for the alienation of
the Japanese suffering from the re-
cent earthquake. Robert Rothwell
is chairman of the local chapter.
A large number of tickets have
been sold for the Tall Cedar eXcur-
sion to Coney Island next Tuesday.
Rev. Philip S. Smith, rector of st.
Mary's Episcopal church, will leave
on Monday for a months stay at
Washington. During his absence
Charles j. Lehn will read the morn
ing prayer in the church.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
]. ]. BROWN HEADS NEW
CARTERET TRUST COMPANY

CARTERET, Sept. S.-At the
meeting of the stockholders of the
Carteret Trust Company held Thurs
day the following were elected as
members of the Board of Directors;
J. j. Brown, Alfred j. Miller, II. I.
Haskins, Charles Conrad, Louis Neu-
berg, Isaac Alpern, A. A. O'Neill
Thomas Mulvihill, Paul Martens,
Samuel B. Brown, Abeel Canda, An
drew Christensen, Emil Stremlau
and ]. w. Dykes.
Following the election of the
board the organization meeting was
held. j. j. Brown, president of the
Wheeler Condenser e Engineering
Company of Carteret and a member
of the board of directors of the FL
deity Union Trust Company, the
largest banking institution in New
Jersey, was chosen president. Isaac
Alpern, president of the Perth Am
boy Trust Company and az officer
in many other financial institutions
was elected vice-president. Peter
Miller, former cashier of the South
Plainfield National Bank and assis-
tant cashier of the City National of
Perth Amboy, was named as treas
urer.
A get-together dinner of the
stockholders will be held next Thurs
day evening at the Carteret Inn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
SOUTH AMBOY FAMILY ASKS
PUBLIC TO HELP FIND YOUTH

SOUTH AMBOY, Sept. S:-No
trace of Daniel Ryan, the twenty
year old son of Sergeant and Mrs.
Patrick Ryan, who left home on
Wednesday night, and who later was
seen at the Empire Theatre, has as
yet not been found although Sergeant
Ryan and his three sons nave made
"a search throughout the county dur-
ing the past two days and nights.
The boy although twenty years
of age, looks much younger. When
last seen he wore a dark brown suit
light cap, white shirt, and a pair of
white sneakers. The boy is unusual
'ly quiet and at times his actions
are queer. With this in mind, the
family now feel that unless m
one stops and holds him until the
police are notified he may travel
until starvation overcomes him.
The people of this and nearby
cities are asked to keep a sharp look
out for the boy. Members of the
family are heartbroken and the
mother lies in a dangerous condit-
ion at her home in John street
awaiting some news of her missing
son. Anyone having any information
Should call South Amboy Ill and
the family will be notified.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
CARTERET POLICE HOLD
TWO MEN; INVESTIGATING

CARTERET, Sept. S:-Spencer
Gardner and William James, both
colored, are being held in the jail
awaiting further information from
the police of Philadelphia as to how
the two men gained possession of
clothing and other articles which
they have pawned a week ago in
that city. Gardner and James We're
arrested by the police charged with
disorderly conduct. Following a
search of their clothing a series Of
pawntickets were found. When ar
Paigned before Recorder Thomas L.
Slugg in the local police court he
decided to postpone the sentence I'M
til word from the Philadelphia au-
thorities was received.
James Brown and William Spencer,
both colored, were fined SIS each on
. d~isorderly conduct charge. The
ease of Win Winkowsky charged by
his wife with beating her was post
poned.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
JAMESBURG

Mrs. William Garwood and grand
children, Miss Lois Johnson, Richard
Johnson and Edwin Johnson, of
Ocean City, who have been visiting
relatives in town, went to South
Amboy on Thursday 10 spend some
time with the formers brother,
James Briggs and witnessed the fire
at that place that evening, being IN
the immediate vicinity of the fire.
Rev. and Mrs. William H. Murphy
of the Methodist church parsonage.
hava returned from a four weeks va
cation spent at Trenton and Balti-
more and a week at Ocean Grove,
where they enjoyed the Ocean
Grove camp meeting.
Common council will meet Mon
day night at borough hall.
Paul RAIDER has rented and moved
into the Mrs. John Monahan ten
ant house.
The local chapter of the Red
Cross has opened a campaign for
the objection of funds for the relief
of the japanese and the chairman.
John II. Baremore, will properly
forward any donations sent to him.
No drive will be held but the Red
Cross will request that all subscribe
literally and at once.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
COUNCIL MINUTES
Proceedings Of the Board of Aldermen of
the City Of Perth AmbOy, n. j..
July sOth, 1928

Adjourned meeting Of the Board Of Al
dermen Of the City Of Perth Amboy, \. J..
held July 3oth. 1929. adjourned from reg
uiar meeting OF July 18th, 1928. The
members present were Aldermen sohe1d.
Waters. Patten. Mcclure. Clark, Riedy aa1
Alderman-at-Large Calvin.
The following communication
Dear Sir
This Is TO advise you:
NOTICE
In accordance with the decision Of the
Board Of Public Utility Commissioners of
the State of New Jersey in the matter OF
the application Of the Jersey Central Trac-
ton Company, for the abandonment of its
lines, notice is hereby given that opera
ton Of said lines will cease with the COM
pletion of business, on the night of July
2sth, 1928.
Yours respectfully,
JERSEY CENTRAL TRACTION co.
Per WM. II. HITCHCOCK.
General Manager.
was received and upon motion Of Mr..
Riedy, was ordered spread upon the min
utes.
Application Of William Rosenvinge to
operate four additional auto buses between
Perth Amboy and South Amboy, was re-
ceiyed and referred to the Auto Bus Com
mittee.
Application of Wolf Cohen to operate
two additional auto buses between Perth
Amboy and South Amboy, was received
and referred to the Committee on Auto
Buses.
Application Of David wolfson TO operate
four auto buses between Perth Amboy
and Keyport, was received and referred 10
the Auto Bus COMMITTEES.
Application OF the Shore Line Bus Com
pany to operate two or more buses from
Perth Amboy to Keyport and Keansburg
was received and referred to the Commit
tee on Auto Buses.
Request of merchants and business men
of this city, that permission be granted to
James Doukas for bus line service operat-
ing through Perth Amboy and terminating
at Keyport, was received and filed.
Communication from the Mayor In ref
erence to counteractlng decision OF L. S.
Board of Engineers on Raritan Bay and
River improvement. was received
and referred to theA Committee Of the
Whole and the Mayor.
Communication from Thomas j. Mulvl-
hill, Secretary of the Board Of Chosen
Fr~eeholders. asking the cIty's cooperation
on the protection OF the new road on New
Brunswick Avenue. was received and re-
ferred to the Committee on Streets and
Communication from the Public Service
Electric Co. of Newark, N. j., acknowl-
edging receipt of resolutions covering the
maintenance of poles on State Street and
requesting the removal Of poles on Me-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
NATAWAN HIGH
SCHOOL BIDS
New Building Will Cost About
S. $4,000 = Award Con-
tracts Monday Night

MATAWAN, Sept. S.-Bids for the
construction of the proposed new
high school were received at a spec
ial meeting of the Matawan Town
ship Board of Education, held last
evening in the auditorium of the
present school building in Church
street. Estimates were as follows:
General COMMUNICATIONS w.
Mercer Construction Co., $115,8O0; j.
N. Wester, $117,489; P. A. Construc-
ton, $118,6S5; I. H. Flynn, $120,4OO;
e. L. Bovine, $122,469; Smith &
Disregard, S124,660; Michael Riesz,
$127,SS2; Greisen & Thompson,
$127,950; Monmouth Construction
Co., $130.1S3.50.
Heating and Ventilating:-G. w.
Stilwell, $4,000; Burns Lane Rich
ardson, $19,S97; E. G.. Britt, $19,-
744; G.. B. & H. B. Steinke, $20,150;
Austin Engineering, $20,762.
Plumbing:-G. w. Stilwell, $1,000;
Burns Lane Richardson, $7,997; Steel
& Schwarz, $500.
Electric:-John Martin, $1,000;
Arc Electric, $1,000; Bull & Caffery,
$1,000; Frey and Dale, $2,132.
The board will hold a special
meeting on Monday evening to re-
ceive a tabulated report from n
architects, John Noble Pierson and
Son, Perth Amboy, and to take final
action in the awarding of the con-
tracts.
The building will contain fourteen
class rooms, recitation rooms, liza
brary, two teachers rooms, two gem
eral offices, domestic science room,
manual training room, and an audi
torium to seal approximately $50.
The building will be constructed
Of tapestry brick with terra Gotta
trim. and cornice, will have fireproof
corridors, laboratories, boiler room,
Railways. 1t will be up to date and
equipped with modern high school
facilities.
It is hoped to have the work start
ed within a few days after the meet
ing of the board IN Monday even
ing, and construction will continue
through the winter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08
CASES OF
TYPHOID FEVER
Two More Residents of Crab
Beach Section of Wood
bridge Are Victims

WOODBRIDGE, Sept. S.-Two
more cases of typhoid fever have
been reported from the Crab Beach
road section within the past few
days, making eight cases in all dur
ing the past three weeks. One death
has occurred in a family. where SIX
have been stricken with the disease.
! Miss Grace Corners, nineteen years
old, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Con-
ners, and Peter Heating, htty-nlne
years old, residents near the nome OF
Mrs. Howard Mundy, who with hef
five children were taken with the
disease and removed to the Perth
Amboy City Hospital two weeks ago.
are the latest to be seized with the
fever.
Miss Conners was taken to the
Perth Amboy City Hospital TINS
morning. while Mr.. Heating was re-
moved to the Alexian Brothers Hos
initial in Elizabeth on Wednesday Oh
this week. ~
mother. who is a widow, and a Sis
ter and brother in the Grab Beach
road and Mr.. Heating has a wile,
three sons and a daughter residing
in the same street. None OF the
other members of these two families
have been attacked by the eve
Mrs. Mundy, who was 70
the Perth Amboy City Hospital on
Tuesday night, August 20, is salo y
he in a serious condition at thS
hospital. Two sons, Ralpn am
Thomas, and two daughters hen
rietta and Cora, taken to the nos
nitai several days before the mother
arc said to be doing nicely. FLOR
ence Mundy, twelve years old, d
daughter of Mrs. Mundy, died at the
perth Amboy City Hospital on I
urdav. August rs, a victim OF the
disease. urndv
fan,iIv were stricken and removed
TO the hospital, Health Oheer l.; T.
potter of woodbridge township,
started an investigation. He secured
samples of the water OF the GREER
at Grab Beach and some from a WEI
which the Mundy family were usinS
for drinking purposes ana Iorwas0
them both to the State Boaro OF
tIoaitb 81 Trenton. A report from
tbe annie of the well water came
hoclx and was said to have peeh
,ound 10 have been free from W
nhoid germs and that of the Sample
Of the creek water was reportsu
hack as not being examined as the
state health board was POSITIVE tnat
the waters of creek were polluted
from numerous septic tanks and
out-houses flowing into the water.
A meeting of the Woodbridge
Health Board will be held Monday
night preceding the township com
mittee meeting at the town hail.
when it is expected that some &C.
ton. will be taken in the matter OF
preventing the spread of the DIS
ease which has attacked these faml-
lies in that section of the town
ship.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-08

chanic Street, wal received and ordered
filed.
The following resolution offered by Mr..
Mcclure:
BE 1t resolved that $3.50 be refunded
to Richard Anzinio for return Of auto bus
drivers badge"
Upon motion Of Mr.. Waters. was adopted
by the following vote: Yea-Soheld, Wa
tiers, Patten, MCGUIRE. Clark, Riedy, CAL
win. Nay-None.
Upon motion OF Mr.. Patten. the Clerk
was instructed to write the Park Board
to have them remove a tree in front Of
property of August Staudt at 2e4 Water
Street.
Upon motion of Mr.. Mcclure. the Clerk
was instructed TO get into communication