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Evening star., 1924-08-17

Writts1 and illustrated ~ Edward
McCAAdliDh.
<<~ OMMT," said Brother Jack
- Rabbit one afternoon, what
ever become Of our mutual
friend, Gentleman Jim
Muskrat?"
Him. replied Tommy Turtle, "Oh
He got q fine executive Job wild d. Gov
eEnment--tyin' strings on almanac4"
'sYou don't say!" exclaimed Brother
Jack. what do you suppose d. boy g
drawin' In d. way Of sal2ry?"
"Oh!" said Tommy, hes lmockin'
down anywheres from 50 to 75 dollars
per annum!"
Brother Jack gave long whistle Of
establishment
"Ain't it awful" he said, '11ow some
folks goes forgin' ahead, while d. rest of
us stays right where we're at?''
"'Deed It H." replied Tommy. 81
guess you an mo just amt got d.
equilibrium dat = man needs to rise up
In aAge dayA"
A thoa1htful paasa thsn followed
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Answer to crossword puzzle in last
Sundays Star.
He Proved 1t.

John and Harry were lying down
summing themselves one Spring day.
A farmer approaching said, I'm give
the LATEST of you fellows a dollar"
John-"Im the LATEST person in the
world"
Harry (yawning and never raising
an eyelidl said. Just slip her In my
pocket
Evening star., 1924-08-17

although unable to make the ac-
quaintance Of young lady met in
q revolving door, began going
around with her"
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Hi&h Finance.

Teacher-Give an example of un-
productive spending Of wealth.
:. Young Man-Taking your sister to
q show.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
Most Useful.

Teacher-What is the most promi.
nent woman's club in America?
Pupil-The rolling pin.
Evening star., 1924-08-17

inspired the milliner who designed
and named the Tudor turban. But one
merely has tc speculate. Unfortunately
there are no explanatory notes at
Evening star., 1924-08-17

WrittsA and illustrated by Edward
McCaAdllDh.
Evening star., 1924-08-17

CERMAINE'S VERSION OF THE
BERETTA IS SHOWN in PANSY
PURPLE. WITH VELVET EN-
BROIDERY. ABOVE IS ONE OF
THE CABY TOQUES, SO NAMED
FOR ITS JAUNTYs BOW. THE
GIRONDIN SHAPE. AS CON.
CEIVED BY LEWIS, is TRIMMED
WITH A BOW CAUGHT INTO A
BUCKLE SLIDE OF PIERCED
SILVER.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
INCOME OF u. S. TOPS
EXPENSES BY BIG SUM

Washington. - Government business
up to December 81, comprising the
first half of the current fiscal year,
will show surplus considerably above
$1O0,000,O00. This was Shown by the
treasurer's official figures covering both
receipts and expenditures.
Latest figures of the treasury up to
the close of business December q dis
closed an excess of receipts over ex-
penditures of $1O5, 701 1850.
are chiefly responsible for the surplus.
By the end of the fiscal year treasury
officials predict the surplus will be
more than doubled.
From income taxes alone during the
six months the internal revenue bu-
reau collected $6S1, 1877, 10S, which is
an increase of $146, 194,690 over the
corresponding period last year.
Miscellaneous internal revenue taxes
also have increased. The total from
this source was $513382, OS6 as com
pared with $490,619.557 last year.
Customs revenues continue to gain
steadily, amounting to $263, $50. 250
compared with $24493S,1 100 last year.
Treasury officials declared customs
dues collected in the past six months
practically equaled revenues from this
source for an entire year in years pre-
ceding enactment of the new tariff law.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
MEXICO GETS ARMS
FROM WASHINGTON
United States Government
Sells War Material to
President Oregon.

Washington.-Th United States gov
eminent has determined TO help the
Obregon government in Mexico sup
press the revolutionary movement
headed by Adolfo de la Huerta, former
Mexican minister of finance. This
government has granted an applica-
ton from the Mexican government for
sale to it of quantity Of war mate
rails.
The action of the American govern
ment, surprising in some quarters and
Hkely to provide considerable con-
troVersy at the capitol, is approved by
President Coolidge on the recommen-
cation OF Secretary of States Hughes.
secretary of War Weeks. it is under
STOOD, did not seriously oppose the
ODregon request, although the policy
involved is not favored by officers of
the general staff of the army.
Hughes Confirms Decision.
Secretary OF State Hughes tonight
confirmed the governments decision.
IN a statement to correspondent
Secretary Hughes said:
The Mexican government has pre-
sented request to this government to
sell 1t limited quantity of war ma
terial. ThisNgovernment Gas expressed
It's willingness TO make the sale, in
view Of the relations between this
government and the Mexican govern
ment, which was formally recognized
last September, and of the Importance
Of the maintenance of stability and or
derby constitutional procedure in the
neighboring republic"
Get Springfield Rifles.
The munitions to he furnished Mex
leo will include Springfield rifles of the
American army pattern, to be taken
from surplus arsenal stocks; also some
millions of rounds of ammunition.
officials were extremely reticent as TO
the character and quantities of war
materials involved. 1t Is understood,
however, that the munitions will EN-
> brace between 10000 and $1,000
Springfield rifles and perhaps as much
as 100000 rounds of ammunition.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Four Years of Dry La1U
Called a Total Failure

MISUNDERSTANDING that com
plete failure has attended the efforts
of four yeas of attempted prohibition
enforcement" Capt. w. H, Stayton,
head of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment, announced
the calling of "face-the-facts" confer
ence here on January q to recommend
an enforceable substitute" for the
Nolstead act. Captain Stayton said
the conference would be attended by
antiprohibitionists from all parts of
the country.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
FRAUD HINT IN
DIVORCE CASE
Rhode Island Judge Grants
and Annuls Separation
in One Day.

Providence, r. Nina Wilcox Put
nam Sanderson. nationally known nov
elist and short story writer, was grant
ed divorce from her husband. Robert
j. Sanderson, by Judge Chester w.
BarrowS in Superior court on the
grounds of neglect to provide and was
allowed to resume her former name.
A few hours later, after an inves-
tigation by local newspaper. the re-
suits of which were placed before the
court, Judge Barrows announced:
Il shall recall the decision and ask
the lawyer to explain these statements
you have laid before me. / don't pro-
pose to have fraud perpetrated on this
court if I know it.
Dispositions Seemed All Right.
From the dispositions in this case
there was absolutely nothing unusual
about it so far as the court could see.
The dispositions showed on the testi-
mony of the woman herself and her
two corroborating witnesses that her
husband deserted her and left her des-
t1tute, that she had to support her.
self, and that she had lived in Rhode
Island for three years"
Mrs. SandersonA m her deposition,
claimed residence in this city for "just
little over three years"-the statu-
tory requirement being two years CON
tinuous residence-while the investi-
cation disclosed, the newspaper said,
that she had lived at IS Mckinley
street, this city, for year or a year
and half, and that she had actually
been there but a comparatively small
part of the time"
Polling List Is Cited.
According TO Town Clerk Marsden
of Madison, Conn, where Mrs Sander
son maintains a country home, her
name was on the towns voting list
for 1921 and 1922, and she passed sew
eral months last summer at her coun-
try place. Mr.. SandersOn was also at
the Madison home part of last sum-
mer, Mr. Marsden said.
In the 1929 "Who's Who in Amer
lea" Nina Wilcox Putnams addresses
are given as II Fifth avenue New
York city, and Madison, Conn At the
former address it was stated she had
not lived there in three months.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Saranac Toboggan Slide
CoZlapses; TuOo Are Killed

Saranac Lake, N. 1.-TWO persons
were precipitated to sudden death at
Dolph Lewisohn's Adirondack camp
when newly built toboggan slide
collapsed. The victims were Nathan
NJ Shelley of Saranac and Mrs. Maude
Shelley, his sister-in-law. Mr.. Shell
ley's daughter, Alice, suffered a broken
leg. No one witnessed the accident.
The slide, nearly mile long, had Just
been completed. Heavy masses of ice
along the supports caused the col
lapse.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
WILLIAM E. COREY TO
QUIT u. S. FOREVER

New York.-According to his assoc
ciates in the financial district, Will
liam E. Corey, steel magnate, is about
to quit America for good. News that
he intended to follow in the footsteps
of the late Viscount Aston and become
an eXpatriate beanie known when it
was disclosed that what has been char
acterized as farewell dinner was
given to him two weeks ago by a dozen
intimates of his long career in indus
try and finance.
Mr.. Corey's plans have remained a
secret, so far as motives and ultimate
purposes are concerned Everyone
knew that it was thwarted political
ambition and dislike Of newspaper
publicity that drove William Waldorf
Astor to England for life; no one has
told why William E. Corey will pass
the rest of his days in the south of
France.
Friends say he has ASSOCIATED him
self from dozen directorates as each
corporation had it's annual meeting.
Few had noted his steady withdrawal
until his recent retirement from the
directorate of the Cuba Cane Sugar
corporation, marking the end of his
corporate obligations.
He has given up all his downtown
offices, and now it is said his home at
991 Fifth avenue is about to be dis
posed of. Mr.. Corey is not yet fifty
eight years old. He was torn in Brad
dock, Pa, and worked in a coal mine
when boy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Belgian Enjoys Wife Won't
Dine With WiedFeIdt

Washington. - Washington society
and the diplomatic corps are excited
and wondering whether unpleasant
complications will arise over a dis
turbing incident at the recent official
dinner given by the President and
Mrs. Coolidge in honor of the diplo-
mats, wherein the wife of the Belgian
ambassador, the Baroness de Cartier
de Marchienne, declined to accept the
German ambassador, Dr. Otto Wied-
feldt, as her allotted dinner partner.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
No designations Pending,
Coolidge Cabinets Word

Washington.-A White House spokes-
man, Following the cabinet meeting,
sought 20 put an end to recent rumors
of a possible break In the Coolidge
cabinet with the declaration that no
designations are pending or contem-
plated. Recent rumorS have been that
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace might
resign as a result of differences Of
opinion over agricultural relief. The
White House statement denying prob
able designations was made with this
and other rumorS in mind.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Receipts of Liue Stock
in Chicago Are Enormous

Chicago.-Chicago's supply of live
stock for 1928 reached the enormous
total of 1S,543,000 head-by a good
margin the largest ever received. The
number of animals exceeded 1922 by
2,550,O00, most of the gain being in
the swine department, where the sup
ply passed all previous records. The
value of this enormous contribution is
placed at $500,000,O00, some $2O,0OO,OOO
larger than last year, because of the
increased number of swine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Legion Founder Resigns,
Disguised at Bonus Pleas

New York.-Every other method Of
expressing his opinion gone, Lieut.. Col.
Benjamin Moore, military aid to Col.
E. M. House at the Paris peace confer
ence and a charter member of the
American Legion, which was formed
in Paris in 1919, has resigned from the
Legion because it's policy of demand
ing a bonus for ex-service men "has SO
far deviated from the ideas of it's
founders that am utterly out of SYM
patty with them"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
"Traunaerei" on Violin
Wins Home in America

New York.-Her rendition Of Sch,
mann's "Traumerei" on her violin be-
fore special board of inquiry at Ellis
island convinced the authorities thar
Regina Kohn was entitled to classic.
cation as an artist and won her ad.
mission to the United States. She had
been threatened with deportation ha-
cause the Rumanian quota was ex.
hausted when she arrived MONDAY
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Mellon and HooUer Paint
a GlouOing Picture of 1924

Washington.-Two members of Pres
dent Coolidge's cabinet voiced the con-
tidence with which they feel the coun-
try should face the new year. Secre-
tary of Treasury Mellon briefly sum-
married. the fiscal situation as it i'm
proved during 1923 and emphasized
the Improvement 1924 will witness if
his tax reduction program is put into
effect by congress. Secretary of Com
merce Hoover reviewed the Industrial
achievements of the last twelve
months and predicted an economic fu-
ture characterized by even "better
times"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Enbezzlen1er7t Charge
Against ToUnLey Issued

Fargo, N. D.-A warrant for Arthur
c. Townley, founder and former presi-
dent of the National Nonpartisan
league, and ]. J. Hastings, former
president of the Consumers United
Stores company, Jointly charged with
embezzlement Of $72,903 of the stores
company funds, was issued here. The
alleged embezzlement is said to have
been committed in 1918. The two de-
PENDANTS have not been residents of
North Dakota since 1920.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Quiz Urged on Oh Stock
Sale to u. s. Soldiers

Washington. Senator Caravan
Oem., Ark made pubic a letter of
complaint from private soldier, as
sorting that he had lost money In the
Acme Production corporation, an oil
company of which Leonard Wood Jr.
was president. AS the result of this
complaint. which stated that other SOL
diers were victims, Senator Caraway
asked an inquiry by the War depart
ment and the postal authorities.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
MODS Storm Homes of
Jap Socialists in Tokyo

Tokyo.-Mobs attempted to storm
the homes of Premier Yamamoto and
Home Minister .Goto as a result Of tbe
recent attempt to assassinate Prince
Regent Hirohito. Police succeeded in
dispensing the mobs. Baron Goto is
accused of being Socialist, or at least
of having socialistic leanings. The be-
lief has prevailed since he extended
an invitation to a Moscow envoy to
visit Tokyo.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Children Burn 70 Death
in Oil: Mother Blamed

onawa. la. - Two children were
burned to death, a third narrowly
escaped the same fate at Ute, twenty
miles east of here, when the mother.
during moment of insanity. is de-
clared to have saturated their clothing
with kerosene and set them on fire. The
mother, Mrs. Fred vaus. and the third
child are in hospital at Mapleton, Ia.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Mabel Nornland C0llopses:
Is Taken to a HOSPITAL

Los Angeles, Cal.-Miss Mabel Nor
mand, motion picture actress, whose
chauffeur shot and seriously wounded
CORTLAND S. Dimes, Denver oil oper-
ator and clubman. was removed to the
Good Samaritan hospital suffering
from what her physicians say is a
nervous breakdown. The strain, excite
ment, and worry growing out CT the
shooting of Dimes caused the actress
to break down. it is announced.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Business Failures in 1923
Reach 1870, Saws Dun

New Notwithstanding defaults in
the United States during the current
year totaled 1910, and involved liza.
bilities of $53.532, 900, according to the
annual review of R. G. Dun q Co
To make this statement the final DAYS
of December were estimated While
the business failures during the wear
have been fewer than in the last few
years, they are still considered heavy
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Coal Company Bonkrupt

East st. Louis. Ill.-On the nerition
of eight creditors, Federal Judge Eng
lish appointed receivers for the Soutb-
ern Gem Coal corporation. The re-
ceivers named were c. B. Thomas, ref
cree in bankruptcy, and w. S. Wilson.
Pinckneyyille. one of the petitioners.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Confirm Loss of y. S.
Ship and 81 on Board

Constantinople. - Confirmation was
received here of the sinking of the
United States shipping board freight
steamship Conejos in the Black sea
Thursday. All on board were lost II
sailed from New York November <
from Naples Novembe "a, and arrived
at Constanza on December 4. The
Conejos was bound from Batum for
New York
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Teacher and Family of
Three Killed BY Train

Bellefontaine, O.-Four persons, one
man and two women and a child, oc-
cupants of an automobile bearing q
Michigan license, were instantly killed
when the machine was struck by Big
-Four train at Huntsville, near here.
The dead are Ernest R. Heron, a
Detroit school teacher, who lived at
Royal Oak, Mich, his wife, his mother,
Mrs. w. f. Heron of Columbus
Grove, o., ard his daughter.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Gasoline Goes Up Tuuo
Cents in Ten States

characteristic prices In the ten
states served by the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana were advanced two
cents gallon Friday when Standard
took the initiative and was followed by
all of its competitors in the Indiana
territory. 1t was the first general in
crease throughout the Middle West
since February 81. 1923, on which date
the service station price was marked
up to 20 cents.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Stranger Held in ". Y.
for Slayinp SIX Women

New York.-Frank Benner, who is
believed TO have strangled six women
to death and attacked several others.
was captured here. He confessed that
he is the slayer of Estelle Phillips, de-
partment store saleswoman. who was
stTaRgled in her room ten weeks ago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
2,348 Killed In NeuD York
in Autos or bv Thor,

New York.-Col. Edward S. Cornell
president of the National Highways
Protective association, announced tba+
the associations report shows 1913
persons killed by motor vehicles in tba
state during December and 2.349 dnr-
ing the year 1923. OF these 1877 nar-
sons were in autos bit by trains.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Wallace Defeats Johnson

Observation-Disclosures Johnson, the
dirt farmer senator from Minnesof,
and Secretary Wallace of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, attempted to ser
tie their fcud with a milking contest
Defeated by half pint, johnson chal-
lenged Secretary Wallace TO a con-
test with bucksaw.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Reserve Board Pictures 4.
1923 as Excellent Year

Washington.-ln its annual review
of economic conditions, the federal
reserve board announces that the
American people produced more, spent
more and saved more during 1923 than
in 1922. There was large Industrial
output, practically full employment, a
constant demand for goods and price
level that was more stable than any
since 1915.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09
Bandits Raid Mission

Hankow.-It is reported here thar
bandits have captured at Tsaoyang
three American Lutheran missionaries
Bernhard Hoff and his wife, and Mrs
Kilen. Mr.. and Mrs. Hoff are said to
be wounded Another report SAYS
three missionaries were killed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Marinette-Helen Brett 7-yeaTOd
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Bfetl'
Menominee, was seriously sCalded
while endeavoring to assist her mother
in removing pan Of hot water from
the oven. The water spilled and ran
down the child's body Both legs from
the knees down were horribly burned
Hopes are entertained for her recoT
cry.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Shawano-Hi Colwell, a veteran
trapper of Shawano county, who re-
Gently observed his eighty-fourth blrIi
day, has the distinction OF having Trap
ped as many muskrats this fall as any
of the younger men engaged IN inc
business. He is as rugged as mus
men of so, gets about the woods wl'n
ease and is an expert marksman'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Monroe-Fear that children on tho,
way to rural schools may be endanoon
ed by timber wolves was expressed .,
Monroe by Melvin Bowman, Adam.
township farmer, who brought TO tba
office of County Clerk Maize V Row.
en- the carcass of a thirty-three popn,
wolf that he shot after following #,
tracks four miles. The wolf Appeared
to be well fed and measured fftr
three inches from tail tip to tip d
nose.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Marinette-The estate of the late
Joseph A. J. Lauerman, Marinete,
who died a year ago, was appraised
by Elmer Grimmer, Leo ]. Evans and
J. M. Andrew, and the value fixed at
S15,760 real estate and $519,775,O2 per
sonal property, or a total for the estate
of $535,533.02. The federal inhett
lance tax was fixed at $14,52959, AID
the state tax at $19.277.36.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Darlington-The Lafayette coun''
beard voted $164,774 for road improve
ment within the county for 1874. lnS
is an increase of $56,598 over lS1o'
The board also voted herd OF hisn
grade Holsteins for the county pour
farm, but retrenched In other un'o
lions so it could appropriate more
money for good roads.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Sheboygan-The Sheboygan Foul
and Pet Stock association IS lnan
plans for it's annual poultry i
"open to the world" It opens |"
week on Jan. 8 st Eagles han'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Racine-Eugene Miller, a 1O.yes,.,,,
boy living on farm north of ~ ~ wv
will go through life minus the sigbt 1 :,
his left eye as the result of an so1 !
dent with which he recently me-, WIN
several of his friends from the citr l
Eugene was starting an air rife t.ra @'
practice behind his house, when on ",
of the boys accidentally sent ID
from his gun into Eugene's left ova
An eye specialist said the optic ,,on,s
have to be removed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Racine-Walter Blenck, 30, faI am
er living at Thompsonville, near a No =
cine, was instantly killed ana MN :,
Reske, Is, was probably fatally ,g "a
jured when northbound Mli"@u ',ol.
road passenger train struck the TuC1
on which they were riding al Gio'
ing half a mile south of FranksVlli0'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Stevens Point-While riding III a.
automobile between Stevens Polnt @r1
Bevent, Marathon county, Emil D@l-
man, 54 years old, died from a suuu0 :.
attack of heart trouble LOUIS p",
dowski, driver Of the car, ana jim
Susko, another occupant, did not i9@l l
ize the man was dead until In7S 10"
driven nearly ten miles.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-09

Oconto- Emil Tetzlaff, farmer -
siding near Gillett, suffered frac'ui "a "a
of several ribs, when his team "a
wagon, with which he was haulin6 io W.
to a sawmill, was struck by q pass
ger train near Fitzgerald. Both nol9 ~,
were instantly killed, the wagon W
molished and Tetzlaff hurled Se'''"'
rods.