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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-23
Old Historic Building Raced

Early last Saturday morning men
began tearing down the old build
ing on the corner of Railroad and
Division streets that belongs to
the Hall Lumber Co. This old
building which has shared in all the
spasms of Eagle Rivers history al
most from the beginning, has
served variously as a saloon, restau-
rant, millinery shop and lumber
Office has been more or less of an
eyesore in Eagle River for some
time. It was used as a storehouse
after the Hall concern moved it's
Office to the present building across
the tracks and was serious fire
trap. The site which is one of the
choicest in town will no doubt be
snapped up by someone who wants
an ideal situation for a business
block. At any rate the vacant lot
is better than the old wreck that
has so long encountered it.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-23
list Dec. 16-last Jan. 20--6w)
Notice of Sale

State Of Wisconsin, In Circuit
Court-Vilas County.
Amos Radcliffe, John GUIDE
CAST and S. J. Austin, Plain
tiffs, VS..
William E. Price, Ethel Price,
his wife, Ralph Jones, Harold
Calhoun, and Sophia Spelman
Finley, Defendants.
BY virtue of judgment Of fore
closure and sale, made in the above
entitled action on the 2Sth day of
January, 1925, the undersigned
sheriff Of Villas County, State Of
Wisconsin, will sell, at the front
door of the courthouse in the Viii
lage of Eagle River, on the 3Oth
day of January, 1926, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon of that day, the
real estate and mortgaged premises
directed by said Judgment to be
sold, and therein described as fol
lows:
Lots Four, Five, Six, Seven,
Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve,
Thirteen Fourteen, Fifteen, Six
teen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nine
teen, Twenty, Twenty-one, Twenty
two, Twenty-three, Twenty-four,
Tenty-fve, Twenty-six, Twenty
seven, Twenty-eight, Twenty-nine,
and Thirty: and Out-lOtS One. Two
and Three, Of the Plat of Shady
Rest, comprising Government Lot
Five, Section Thirty-six, Township
Forty North Of Range Ten East,
and Government Lot One, Section
Thirty-one, Township Forty North
of Range Ten East, Villas County,
Wisconsin.
Terms of sale cash.
Dated this 9Th day of December,
1925. H. G. Bowker, Sheriff.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-23
ADVERTISE IN FLORIDA
Michigan Boosts Itself Might
lily as Ideal Summer Resi-
dence.

Michigan advertises Florida as a
winter playground and Florida
boosts for Michigan as tourist
center in the summer. The desks
of the Michigan hotels are kept
well stocked with booklets of the
wonders of the southern State,
while Florida in turn hints that
Michigan is pretty hard to beat as
a summer resort region. Michigan
aas Information bureaus in Florid%
throughout the winter. It has sign
boards along the Florida highways.
The Michigan boosters overlook
nothing in their effort to attract
the summer trade to Michigan.
They're hard fighters--those fell
lows across the lake.
1t is time that Wisconsin also did
her stuff in the winter Fairgrounds.
The Land O Lakes association is
offered this opportunity to broad
cast the multitude attractions of
the North. It is the chance Of
life time. With the great rush to
Florida this winter, which has
never been equalled in history or
probably will never be again, we
have our greatest chance to get the
most desirable people in the coun-
try at one stroke.
At the present time our greatest
advertisers in Florida are our own
people. People who own their own
homes in our region or people who
operate our summer resorts. AL
though they are the best kind Of
boosters that country could have,
they can't do all the work.
Wisconsin must edge in on Mich
igan's drag in Florida. We have
more to offer than Michigan ever
thought Of. All we need is the
space, pep and place to spread our
selves.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-23
STATE-COUNTY PARKS
Establishment of These and
of Good Roads A Question
of Vital Importance.

Villas County possesses one Of the
greatest possibilities in the new
10000 acre Northern Forest Park
created last year. In time this vast
acreage, if properly policed and re-
forested, will be natural resource
that will be unequalled anywhere
in the north.
Practically worthless as farm
! lands, this territory once supported
vast stands of pine. Replanted
with pine, it will be a future fairy
land. This State and County park
idea is one that seems to be grip
ping the whole state simultaneous
ly, states the Milwaukee Journal,
which continues:
''The Associated Press, under a
Madison date line, tells us that
counties everywhere are supporting
State and County parks. They are
considering parks in conjunction
with roads, hooking up the one
with the other.
1T is wise thinking by supervis-
ors. What good is road unless it
goes somewhere? That it goes to
a market is assumed; that it must
serve agriculture, letting the farm
er bring his produce to the nearest
railway station or town, is obvious;
that it also must serve shoppers,
merchants, people generally doing
business one with another, is plain.
But modern highways have another
purpose: 1t is to draw great tour
ist streams to places where people
can find beauty or recreation or
social intercourse. That, too, is a
business proposition-worth some
$80000,000 to Wisconsin, perhaps
more.
AS Wisconsin sells lake shores
and river banks to private investors
and it is natural that they should
| buy Wisconsin sells more and
more Of the assets that make this
S80,000,000 business possible. By
and by there will be little left to go
to except to connect city and city,
farm and farm.
so, when Wisconsin counties
turn their attention to parks
State or County-they turn to a
very needful resource that Wiscon-
sins people must have, to sustain
the tourist business and to keep
lake and river banks for use by
Wisconsin people themselves.
Zone Of the best defined of the
parks movement is in southeastern
Wisconsin, where six or seven coun-
ties are planning to join in provid-
ing great forest preserve, either
state or inter-county, for use by the
people.
The supervisors in this south
eastern section can do nothing bet
ter than make reality Of this idea,
give southeastern people an out
door recreation ground and thus
set an example for other counties.
The sooner that is done the better
for the people,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-23
Arrange for Bass FRY

At the meeting Of the Minocqua
chapter Of the Isaac Walton Lea
que, arrangements were made for
getting a carload of bass fry. The
fine fry that were secured last year
from the Mississippi bottoms con-
WINGED everyone of the prudence of
this measure. The following off
GERS were reelected to head the
lssac Walton league in Minocqua
for the coming year. President,
Fl enry H an on; vice-president,
Frank Miller, secretary, A. H.
Rantz; treasurer, r. j. Collie.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-23
Drove Up BY Ok Team

John B. Lemmer, a resident Of
Marathon City for 6 years, died at
his home in that place Sunday,
Dec. 13. Mr.. Lemmer came to the
region Of Marathon City in 1859
making the trip by OK team. He
was born in Trier, Germany, Dec.
9, 1916. He is survived by nine
children.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-23
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/bV WILL M. MAUPIN

%E HE Christmas Bells Of MemoryI
SkS { Their sweet, melodious chimes
From out the past bring back to me
~ Those happy childhood times
Those days Of old when life was sweet
And days were fair to see,
And those we loved the best we'd meet
Around the Christmas reel
TheChnstmasBellsl low sweettheynng
Their song Of Peace on Earthl"
How sweet the story that they bring
About the manger birth.
The Blessed Babe Of Bethlehem
Ring, Christmas Bells, until
Men crown with royal diadem
And live amidst Good Will
The Christmas Bells--rngsw andclear,
Until the void shall see
No more Of hate, no more Of fear,
And men shall brothers be!
Ring out, ring out, 0 Christmas Bells,
Your sweetest CLARION call,
TIL round the world the message swells
To crown Film ord Of All!
1A 1nss w tarn Nnwsnnrnr I1ninn
Evening star., 1925-02-01

ment compulsion or interference at
all"
why hasn't the law of supply and
demand shut down these mines long
ago?" l asked.
Because it has been the unwritten
law in the coal-mining Industry to
work awhile and stop awhile. The
stops were due to strikes, lockouts or
car shortages. During such a stop the
entire country was usually without
coal, and prices naturally went up to
a point where 1T became profitable TO
operate again. Then both mine opera
tors and miners pitched in and made
enough during this coal famine to tide
them over the lean period. The public
paid. of course.
Let me illustrate" Mr.. Lewis con-
tinued. lighting a fresh cigar.
When an owner has an idle mine
II costs him lot just TO keep 1t idle.
the water out and keep steam in the
engines. He has to keep his props re-
paired, his passages ventilated and his
pits cleared of shale. This will cost
to select an arbitrary figure-s2o0 a
day. Now If there Is a period of four
months idleness. he spends $4,000.
which he must get back in an increa sed
extra $4,000"
Mr.. Lewis had been rafting figures
off at me almost faster than l could
Evening star., 1925-02-01

absorb them. and l still did not under
mand,' since it had failed TO close the
the surplus mines during the five post
war years. should now suddenly begin
to operate. When 1 pressed him for
further explanation, he replied:
Hitherto. the law of supply and
demand has been defeated by strike
practically every year. Wage agree
ments were signed for one years dura-
ton, and at the end of that time 1t
was customary to stage a strike which
helped both miners and operators and
hurt only the public. But at Jackson
vile last year we signed wage agree
ment not for one year. but for three
years. Which means that no strike
and no accompanying boost in prices
can take place for three years.
This also means that uneconomic
periodic famines and increased prices,
must gradually be forced out of the
field. They can't stand this three-year
stretch.
This may sound like harsh medicine.
but il is just as harsh for the miner
who has to find a new job and move
his family 1T is for the owner who
cussed out by my own men for this,
but 1t Is unsound national economies
to keep 40 per cent too many mines in
operation and 10000 extra men in an
industry which does not need them"
Evening star., 1925-02-01

League is q non-partisan organiZa-
tton, above and entirely free of all
party bias. 1t exists merely to fight
the fight of women for their full
rights on a basis of equality with the
long dominant English male.
The main planks in it's platform
are to obtain for women the parlia-
mentary vote as it is or may be
granted to men; to use the powers
already obtained to elect women in
Parliament and upon other public
bodies; for the purpose of establishing
equality of rights and opportunities
between the sexes. Translated into
everyday language. Miss Underwood
explains that the Women's Freedom
League believes women should have
say, 300 members in the ancient cita-
del of masculine exclusiveness-to
hold foreign ambassadorships, judge,
ships-all the Offices now open to men
exclusively whether by law, tradition
or custom.
we are still hopeful that Mr.. Bald
wins government will help u.s. said
Miss Underwood.
Men now have the vote at 81,
but it is withheld from all single
women under 80, and this, with other
fragrant sex Determinations against
women, brings the number of wom-
en- over 81. disqualified for voting up
to. the enormous total of 5,000,000
The magnitude of this discrimination
is apparent when one members that
only 100000 men above the age of 2r
are disqualified. Even If its opera
tion were postponed until the next
general election, the knowledge that
such a measure was on the statute
book would go a long way toward
dispelling the dissatisfaction among
so many of the 5000 600 yoteIess
women more than 81 years of age
"All parties have expressed them
selves in favor of equal rights ot
guardianship for mothers and fathers,
and We have every hope that women's
claim for equal opportunities and
equal pay with men throughout all
branches of our national life Yfl re-
ceive Intelligent and sympathetic con
sideration from the new goyernmt. l."
Evening star., 1925-02-01
England Still Is Wondering
Just How Her Women Vote

The last general election was the
fourth to be held since the women of
England received the franchise.
Although Al women stood for the
House of Commons, only four were
elected, and that is but half the num-
ber who emerged VIGOROUSLY in the
previous general election. 1t probably
will be many a year before an analysis
of the vote will reveal how the women
vote. That question still remains without
an answer in England. Isolated inci-
dents here and there, like the defeat
of the Liberal leader Asquith by the
woman voters of Paisley. who dislike
Mrs. Asquith. reveal the feminine
psychology, but about the only def
mite data is that S,092,000 women and
10,71s,000 men were entitled to vote
in the recent elections.
The women's organiza tions in Eng
land seem to think that they more
than held their own, although they
have only four of their sex in the House
of Commons.
We are overjoyed that two Amer
lean women should be elected gov
ernors of such important States as
Texas and Wyoming" said Miss Flor
ence- Underwood, secretary of the
women's Freedom League. This or
stitutional lines to obtain full rights
for the women of England. 1t is the
lineal successor of the militant or
ganization once headed by Mrs. Pank
hurst which made the welkin ring in
London with brickbats, window
smashing, dynamite and what not
when the suffragettes of pre-war days
decided that 1t was useless to rely
upon logic alone in their appeal to
John Bull.
Discussing the future campaign of
her organization for full rights for
English women on basis of equality
with men-the discrimination against
women in England would startle
Americans-Miss Underwood was op-
timistic although cautious with the
caution begotton of long dealing with
British male politicians. She ex-
planned that the Women's Freedom
Evening star., 1925-02-01
LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS
FACING BRIGHT OUTLOOK
Kellogg Will Follow Hughes Policies and
Attempt to Strengthen Friendly Rela-
tions-Important Conferences Ahead.

OF America has been due, It can he
safely asserted. to the success of the
various conferences. which have been
hold here and in other Anne rican capi
tais.
:. From a. practical point of view, one
or the most important of the coming
pan American gatherings Is the Pan
Anne ricana Road Congress, which is to
meet in Buenos Aires, be ginning May
52 next. This is a sequel to the visit
of the Pan American Highway Com
mission. to the United States early
last Summer. when delegates from all
the. other countries of the Western
Hemisphere made a tour Of inspe ction
Of roads and road building methods
and administration, which carried
them through practically all the East
ern and Central Western and some of
the Southern States.
Enthusiastic Over Future.
These delegates went back to their
respective countries enthusia site over
the project and possibilities of road
building. Since then national organi-
zatfons have been established in many
of the American republics for the pur-
pose of promoting the road building
idea. One of the great needs in order
to further economic development in
many of the Latin-Ame rican coun-
tries. 1t was ognized, is A system
of modern motor highways. This
thought was stimulated by the trip
to this country last year by. the road
experts from all parts OF Latin
America; and 1t Is believed that the
coming Buenos Aires conference. at
which practical plans along road
building lines will be discussed, will
result in much activity in this direc-
tion.
The United States will send a
strong delegation to Buenos Aires. It
is expected. In addition to the five
official delegates who will represent
the Government, there will be tech
nioal and administrative experts. who
willsgo from this country and who
will be able to furnish much useful
information in the discussions which
will take place. The delegates from
the United States will leave here
about the middle of April, and will
make the trip to South America via.
the west coast, so that they will have
the opportunity of seeing something
OF Peru, Chile and Argentina on
their way to Buenos Aires; and on
their way back they will stop also
in Uruguay and Brazil.
The building of motor highways
throughout Latin America, it is be-
,l1eVed, VIII open UP vast natural re-
sources and le ad to untold develop
ment and prosperity in those
countries. All, or practically all. of
the Anne rican republics will be rep
re sented, it is expected, at the Buenos
Aires gathering.
A pan-American conference on cap
ital cities is to be held in this city
April 2s, under the auspices of the
American Civic Association. Archi
tGcts, engineers, public officials and
Evening star., 1925-02-01
10000 Too Many Men Are Mining Coal;
40 Per Cent Too Many Mines, Lewis Says

Mr.. Lewis glared at me from under
his big bushy eyebrows, and L could
well understand why his powerful face,
crowned with its fighting red hair. had
dominated so many coal conferences.
asked this question:
What will happen to all these mines
when they are deserted? Can they ever
be reclaimed?"
Probably never. A deserted mine
fills up with water. The roof falls in.
and It's coal can probably never be
used by future generations. This
sounds like a ruthless waste in a way,
but some of the war-times mines were
of such low value that they should
never have been opened.
1T is a general practice among all
companies to leave about 80 per cent
of the coal in the mines, simply be-
cause it is improbable to take IT out.
Coal can only be sold on the market
for a certain price, and when the veins
get too thin they must be abandoned.
Markets are so glutted that in order to
sell coal at the prevailing market price
only the cream can be SKINNED from
the mine.
Must Have n PROFIT.
Put yourself in the position of the
mine manager You receive orders
from the owners to produce coal 1t a
profit of 10 cents ton. All right, you
come to a seam which slopes up and
another which slopes down. You work
the first because the cars will come
down by gravity, but you abandon the
second, which contains perfectly good
coal, because the cost of pulling the
cars up the grade would eat up your
10-cent profit"
Gould Government operation or
ownership save this coal?' l queried.
only at a very greatly increased
cost. You can't get away from the
fact that thin veins or deep coal cost
money to mine, whether done by gov
ernments, mine owners or the miners
themselves.
The United Mine Workers. although
they came out in favor of nationaliza-
tion of mines some time ago, are really
against such nebulous sort of thing
as Government ownership. Our Ameri-
can life and our American system of
business has been built up around the
principle of competition, and the
United Mine Workers believe in COM
petition just s much a 8 the execu-
tives who guide business.
Plenty of Coal In Sight.
Personally. l am not worrying
about the coal we abandon in the
mines, because scientists estimate that [
we have only scratched from one
tenth of / per cent to 4 per cent of
our total resources"
When l reminded Mr.. Lewis that
most of -onr remaining coal was To-
Gated In the Rockies, and could only
be hauled 1900 miles to Eastern mar
kets a a prodi gious price. he replied:
Yes. but in a few years we won't
be hauling coal at all Well burn IT
at the pit mouth and save the terrific
burden which the railroads have to
carry. Bv that time coal derivatives
will probabl prove more valuable than
coal itself. No one can tell what a
few years of need and science will
bring forth"
fCopyright 1925
Evening star., 1925-02-01
Prince Goes to Seek
Wells in the Desert

Prince Kemmal-ed- din Hussein has
left Egypt at the head of an expedi-
tion into the Libyan Desert with the
object of discovering wells, which
will render possible the opening of
the desert to camel transport. The
prince last year led an expedition
northwest of Dakhla, where he dis
covered a cache left by the German
explorer Rohlf, containing a tank and
bottle inclosing a message. His pres
ent objective Is Ocunat and Arkuna
recently discovered by the Egyptian
explorer Hassanein Bey.
DR.. Ball, director of desert SURVEYS.
accompanies the expedition, which is
equipped with wireless apparatus,
cinematograph apparatus and eight
Citroen caterpillar cars. The prince
bears the whole cost Of the expedi-
tion.
Evening star., 1925-02-01
Girls to Type Letters
Across the Atlantic

In the not distant future girls sit
ting In ordinary New York business
offices will be able to tick out type
written messages In London, more
than 5000 miles away
This revolution in telegraph meth
DDS was forecast by Donald Murray
at the Institute of Electrical Engi-
neers, in London.
The machine which has made this
vision possible is the startstop printer
or teletype, the business mans print
ing telegraph-the Ford car of teIeg-
raphy. 1t Is provided with a type
writer keyboard, which can be worked
at rate of forty to eighty words a.
minute over any distance from 100
feet to 5000 miles. Any girl typist
can use 1t.
Evening star., 1925-02-01
Copyright, 1921

civic leaders from the various pan
American nations are being invited
to participate. It~is planned to have
an exhibit of pictures, drawings and
plans of the 20 American capi-
tails. The American Civic Association
is taking advantage of the fact that a
group of Europeans interested in
housing and planning will be in at
tendance at the International FEEDER
alton of Town and Country Planning
and Garden Cities, to be held in con-
junction with the national conference
on city planning and the annual con-
vention of the American Institute of
Architects in New York, and is in
viting these delegates to come to
Washington to see what the Americas
have accomplished in the building of
their capital cities.
tCopyright, 1925