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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
AK OF IMPROVEMENT
ken's Civic Club Favor I'M
mediate Action in Street
Building.

The Tuesday noon meeting OF
H. Mems Civic Club registered an
Increased attendance, and mani
fested the popularity OF the noon
bour Several new members were
snrolled and much interest evlnced
a the Club and it's undertakings.
A lunch both substantial and APP
betizing was furnished by Mes
aames Ben Strong and John Frank.
PRESIDENT Weigand announced that
NJ expected speaker was unable to
eome. and threw the meeting open
for discussion of any matter that
members might wish to bring be-
fore it. Chas. Johnston was called
moon to tell of the American Le-
ZION Endowment campaign, which
To provide a much needed fund
II care for disabled veterans and
the orphans of veterans. Mr.. En-
mons, president of the village, was
then called upon to state his policy
and mat of the board relative to
the Improvement of the village
@ts. Mr.. Emmons stated that
it IS The intention of the village to
efapeI twelve blocks of our streets,
.and That this could be done, he be-
sheved, without laying upon the cit
izens any heavier tax burdens than
they had been carrying.
4 Fred Strong wanted to know if
Aiere was any good reason why the
f1ty should not proceed at once
with paving. Mr.. Emmons called
Tho attention of the Club to the
fact that the money appropriated
for that purpose would be forfeited
Il something was not done. Con-
siderable discussion followed as to
he best time to do the paving; and
The sentiment appeared to be prac-
Eically unanimous in favor of inn
mediate action. 1t was pointed out
HAT the conduits for the proposed
White Way could be laid beneath
He sidewalks ready for use when
he village is prepared to take up
hat matter.
The question of parking also
eame up for discussion. Mr.. En-
lions declared that he had paced
I'd streets in Rhinelander and in
milwaukee, and found many of
Hem narrower than Wall street.
IIe found in these cities cars were
compelled to park parallel to the
ebrb with three feet between cars.
Tie suggestion was thought a good
ohe and met with general approval,
while there were many express
Mons that something should be
Apne to remedy the present unsat-
sfactory conditions.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Mems Club to Picnic.

The Mems Civic Club of Waters
meet, together with their families,
Will drive down to Black Oak lake
next Sunday and hold their first
annual picnic at the Black Oak
Lake Resort west of Land o
Lakes. There are some forty-odd
members, and with their families
!olnlng will make quite gather
ing at the picnic. S. D. Warren is
president Of the club.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03

The new lodge will be 1913 feet
long by 80 feet wide, with kit
chen wing or annex 1924 feet,
and an office wing 30x32 feet.
There are over 1000 So. #. of floor
space. These figures do not in
clude porch II feet wide and 142
feet long, nor semi-circular coun-
Gil ring 24x48 feet, nor narrow
porch along the north end, nor
unloading platform on the south
side Of the kitchen wing.
It is being built of large logs,
peeled and laid horizontally. The
architects are Leenhouts and
Guthrie of Milwaukee. The con
tractors are Burnett and Herman
son of Wausau.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Black and White Chucks.

At the Outdoor Show recently
held in Chicago, Bert Warner
showed a black woodchuck which
he and his father had captured
near Sayner. 1t created quite a
bit of interest, being somewhat of
a freak. Over near Tomahawk
last week a woodchuck perfectly
white was captured and it is being
advertised as a big freak. Ac-
cording to a recent issue of the
National Geographic magazine,
both white and black chucks are
rare and quite valuable.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03

to use these boys camps to bring
together boys of all denomina-
tions. If | were to start out today
to map out a work that | should
wish to accomplish before die, it
would be to bring into close asso-
citation all religious organizations
of this Great Universe"
Mr.. Nash is very well known in
this section, he and Mrs. Nash
spending many summers at the
home of their son-in-law and
daughter Mr.. and Mrs. James Will
son on Pioneer lake. Last year
Mr.. and Mrs. Nash purchased a
summer home near the Manito-
wish chain of lakes and not far
from Boulder Junction.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Forty Head of Cattle.

Wisconsin penal and charitable
institutions are sending forty head
of their best high grade and pure
bred heifers to Rhinelander to be
sold at auction June u. A won
derful opportunity to. establish a
young herd of milk producers. 3-2t
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Has Established Land Office.

Eber Lyon this week opened a
real estate office in the lobby of
the Commercial Hotel on Railroad
street. His business will be that
of handling both resort and club
house sites on lakes in this en-
tire section Of the lake territory.
He will also operate his summer
cottages on Little st. German
lake, catering to light housekeep-
ing parties and families.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
ARE TO BE COMMENDED
Lumber Companies Showing
Right Spirit in Preserving
Natural Beauties.

Wisconsin and Michigan lumber
companies and highway commits
sions in general have failed to
preserve any timber along the
highways or lakes in the vast re-
glon of woods and waters
when building highways or cut
ting marketable timber; they
''hogged' it and utterly debased
every attribute nature gave to US,
seeking to grab every farthing
they could in order to make money.
They do not believe in preserving
something for the future genera
ton of boys and girls who need
the outdoors as much as we do.
There have been some who are
real men. Take the Curtis Com
pany up at State Line on Duck
lake; take the Wisconsin Michigan
Lumber company up around Lac
Vieux Desert, and the Hackley-
Phelps-Bonnell company in their
district of timber land. These
companies have left inviolate a
well defined strips of virgin tim
Der on the borders of the lakes
and have won much praise for
their humanity.
Another company to be COM
mended is that of the Won Pla-
ton-Fox Lumber company of Iron
Mountain, Michigan. According to
VIM. Reiman of that section Of
Michigan and whose home is at
Iron River, the lumber company
above catalogued are real nature
men and deserve public praise for
what they are doing Mr.. Rel
man stated to a News man. that
this company is leaving $50 feet
of virgin timber along every pub
lie highway which touches their
land, and 300 foot strip around
each lake lying within their hold
ings. All this has been done by
j. M. Fox, a member of the Won
Platon-Fox Lumber company, and
he believes the company is not
losing a single dollar by doing so.
1t is a safe bet that Mr.. Fox
sleeps better each night of his
life since he inaugurated this
scheme of Identification in his
state of Michigan, and it is for
we people who know of his works
in conservation to commend him
as real men so that others may
follow his bent for the better
ment of diabolical conditions
which most concerns now pro-
mote in order to fill their own
pockets.
And to those firms and men in
Northern Wisconsin and Michigan
who have given us like emolu-
ments, the Villas County News
heartily endorse as builders, anc
not destructionists.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Saw Good Ball Games

Eagle River fans saw two mighty
good ball games Saturday and Sun
day at Rhinelander and Amigo.
Those two teams played and Amigo
gave Rhinelander shutout the
first game and in the second
cleaned house in two-three score.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Married in MAY.

The announcement is made of
the marriage of Miss Florence Sim
mons to Nelson Brown, which took
place in Chicago on May 10Th. The
bride is a daughter to Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Simmons of Big Bass lake
east Of the village. The couple will
reside at Evanston.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Burned Several Buildings.

Starting from gasoline one even
ing last week, several buildings at
Hy Mont, the Fred Luderus resort
on Town Line lake just out of
Three Lakes, were destroyed. Sew
eral cottages and the main build
ing we're in danger of burning
during the blaze.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
HIGH Grade Cattle Sale.

Mark your calendar for June 13-
do not miss the sale of high grade
and pure bred Holstein heifers at
the Oneida County Fair Grounds,
Rhinelander, Wis. Sale starts
promptly at 1890. Be there. 3-2t
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Marcos Home Laundry.

Why not try Marcos Home Laun-
dry the next time you want your
washing done? All work guaran-
teed. We use nothing but pure
soap and Lux. Phone 1862 or
write Mrs. B. Marco. 3-8t
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Captured a Baby Fawn.

Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Colman while
o' lhelr farm home on Lake Emo
gene the last of the week, captured
q baby fawn which had been lost
rom Its mother. The little animal
y now being cared for at the Col
man home in the village and at
Tracts much attention.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Sale Broke Record.

Under the leadership of Mrs.
VIM. Penkosky, chairman of the
Legion-Auxiliary poppy drive COM
mittee, the sale of peoples in Eagle
River passed any mark set prev
iously. Not poppy was left and
many were re-sold in order to build
a big fund for the disabled soldiers;
other communities followed with a
record sale.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03
Appreciation.

The American Legion wishes to
express their thanks for the loyal
support that the public gave them
in their recent Poppy sale.
Poppy Committee.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-03

It is said that Dickens wrote an
entire book with a single quill pen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Buy Gas in South Dakota;
It's 4 Cents Cheaper There

PIERRE, S. D., Determined to wage
a finish war against what the state be-
lieves are unjustly high gasoline pric-
es, South Dakota officials Wednesday
announced that the highway COM
mission will sell gasoline for least 4
cents less than the price charged by
private companies
Undisturbed by legal preparations
for restraining the state from retailing
gasoline. officials laid final plans for
reopening seven state-owned stations
before the last of next week, with the
establishment of 25 others as soon as
equipment and fuel arrives
F. w. Marmon, director of gasoline
sales, said that the state price would
be % cents gallon in Mitchell, Madi-
son, Bookings, Huron and Watertown.
and p IL cents in Aberdeen. The pre-
vailing price at private stations here
was Is cents gallon.
Lightweight thousand gallons of
gasoline have been ordered for the
state, at prices ranging from II 1-2c
to II SAC gallon, and as soon as this
fuel is delivered the seven stations will
be in operation. Mr.. Marmon said
that the first station opened probably
would be at Watertown late next
Wednesday or Thursday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Ford Company Reports
Increased Truck Demand

Sales reports received from branch
es of the Ford Motor Co. throughout
the country during the past week show
an increased demand for trucks and
tractors with retail deliveries exceed
ing those of last year
Figures from these reports, which
cover the first twenty days of July and
which were just given out, give the
sales of one-ton trucks as totaling 12,-
1853, an increase of 80 per cent over
the same number of days in July last
year.
While the greater portion of the
truck sales cover the industrial in
stallations, there is a noticeable in
crease in deliveries in rural sections
where harvesting of crops is under
way or is just beginning. Another
feature indicating that farmers are
coming into the buying market in in
creasng numbers, comes in the re-
ports of Fordson Tractor sales. Re-
tail deliveries of FOrdsOns during the
first twenty days Of July numbered g.
664, an increase Oh 43 per cent over
the same number Of days in July a
year ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Woman Prison Refor1ner
Flees With Ex-COnvict

CHICAGO. - Mrs. Laura Schaefer,
219 Bluff court, Waukegan, who has
helped many prisoners ito go straight"
yesterday took her savings, is accused
of selling $1,000 stock belonging to her
husband, and clipping with Rex Stew
art, an eX-convict, in stolen automo-
bile.
That is the story behind two war
rants issued yesterday at the request
Of Sheriff Alhstrom, who believes the
couple are hiding in Chicago. Stew
art stole the car, the sheriff charges,
while Mrs. Schaefer is accused Of OBJ
tanning money by false pretenses from
the sale of the stock.
Mrs. Schaefer, the sheriff said, of
ten brought delicacies to prisoners and
gave them books to read. She was
particularly kind, he said, to Edward
Smith, convicted some time ago in
connection with the murder of Russell
Dickey, an express messenger, killed
on the Viking, fast train to the Pa
cifc coast.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Discovers Letter Thief
By Keen Sense of Smell

WASHINGTON.-The Post Office de-
partment was faced with a mystery in
the continual rifing Of registered let
tiers in the Southwest
The theft was narrowed down to
one of six post offices, but the Ques-
ton as to which one was hard to
solve.
A few weeks later an inspector took
one Of the letters that had been riaed
and resealed, held it to his nose and
calmly announced that the thief would
be taken within week.
He was. The inspector had prepar-
ed six lots of mucilage, each having
a different perfume.
This was distributed among the six
offices under suspicion. The thief
used the perfumed mucilage to reseal
the letter and gave away the location
of the office The rest was easy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Two Million Cars This Fall,
Hope of Chevrolet Co.

DETROIT 1.-THE record production
and phenomenal sale during recent
months enable the Chevrolet company
to reduce prices at an earlier date
that at first had been contemplated"
said Mr.. Grant, general sales manager
of the company. 1t is the result of
quantity production permitting quality
manufacture at lower cost"
Mr.. Grant pointed to the fact that
his company will have exceeded by
August 20 its total production for the
year Of 1924 after having established
production records for three success
sive months. The company will make
its two millionth car early this fall,
and will be the first manufacturer of
three-speed gear-shift cars to reach
that production mark.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Illuminating on the
lightning Express.

For one who rides the lightning ex-
press from Madison to Lancaster
there is little to do but look out OF
the window OF course the crop pros
poets are so promising and alluring
that one need not apologize for study
ing them from every possible angle,
but even at that one may get enough
in a 70-mile ride.
That old locomotive had a bad case
of the flu last week Monday, and could
not make the hills on 'high." Take
the run as she might, the engineer had
to throw her into low and then "step
on it." 1t made the few passengers
nervous and when the Sitter grade
was reached there was doubt manifest
on many faces. But with infinite
snorting and pulling the top was
reached, to the apparent relief of all
concerned.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Merely a Man.

About the only time a man regrets
his sex is when he must visit his bar
Der, or a barber, or a bobber When
the new reporter for THE HEHALD
came to town last week Monday he
brought with him the consciousness
that his struggling gray locks needed
attention by a professional barber. So
he started out to have the fringe
trimmed. One glance into the first
shop was enough-small chance for a
man there. No standing room even.
Girls filled every chair and stool; it
looked as if some were hung up on
pegs. We are too bashful to break in
to that kind Of a game, so we went
whistling down the street just as if
we intended to do that all the time.
And we looked into that window four
times a day for a week, before relief
was in sight. In the meantime, those
hoary locks had to be marcelled. Tt is
tough to be merely a man!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
ROASTING EARS.

Roasting ears make a good feed
Most folks like and all folks need,
Feed them to my pigs and steers.
On them I've kept my wife for forty
years.
In early times and former days
The settlers called corn Indian maize.
They ate the roasting ears alone
And made them up in good corn pone.
Fed to the COWS, it fills the pals;
Fed to the pigs, it curls their tails
On the cob or in the can
It's good for either beast or man.
But for the benefit of city chaps
I'd best tell how it's done, perhaps;
Fo. man in town, so I've hear say,
Ate the husks and threw the corn
away.
The husks and cobs you must not eat
They're no good, but the corn is sweet
OF the husks the ears you rob-
Then cook the corn right on the cob
Boil them till they're cooked all
through,
Put on salt and butter, too;
Then sit down and have your meal
And see how good they make you feel
The scientists have all agreed
About ten ears viii make feed;
The experts say, Perhaps they're
right.
Providing folks didn't dress too tight"
But no matter what the experts say,
You had better push away
And take a little rest
When you feel a swelling meath the
vest.
-A000V010JJS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Automobile 'Wabbles',
So Driver Is Arrested

MADISON.-P. H. Baldwin, 316 East
Main street, was arraigned in superior
court on charge of driving while in
toxicated. Baldwin was arrested on
capital square Wednesday last when
officer William Fredericks noticed the
cratic course of Baldwin's machine.
The alleged intoxicated driver plead
ed guilty in superior court and is held
under a deferred sentence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
GASOLINE ALLEY

baker prices were announced. The
announcement that yearly models
would be discontinued, has contributed
production economies directly respon-
sible for the price reductions.
A report of the finances of the cor
poration as revealed at the Directors
meeting showed that sales for the sec
ond quarter were the largest in his
tory, representing an increase of 48
per cent over the corresponding period
of 1924.
Although complete figures for July
are not available it is understood that
July sales will be at least 200 percent
greater than in 1924.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Fire Damages Factory
at Prairie du Chen

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN.-Fire of I'M
known origin damaged the Emmons
handle factory to the extent of $1,000
The machinery in the cutting room,
including machines for turning out
mining tool handles, was damaged be-
yond repair. The fire department
found difficulty in preventing the fire,
famed by high wind, from spread
ing to the company storage tanks, less
than 100 feet AWAY
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Held for Tobacco Theft;
Escape at Prairie du Chen

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN-Three pris-
oners at the county Jail held for hear
ing on charges Of stealing leaf tobacco
from a curing shed of farmer near
Soldiers Grove, have escaped. They
are Clarence Olson, julius Hansen and
Hans Peterson, all of Soldiers Grove.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
That Fennimore Park.

II IS quite a pretty thing, that new
park at Fennimore, only it is too
small to have any perspective, the
one thing desirable in landscape ar
chitecture. 1t looks a little fussy, just
a little. But we suppose Fennimore
doesn't care q bawbee what we think
about it. LII we were half a century
younger we might be attracted by the
winding paths-by moonlight, or in
the dark But we are not younger, so
there!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
New Trout Hatchery
Is Leased by State

MADISON. - One of the finest
stocks of brook trout in the country
has been acquired by the state Of
Wisconsin at Osceola, Polk county,
where it has leased a fish hatchery for
10 years at a cost of $4,000 a year. The
state has been purchasing from $4,000
to $4,000 worth of trout eggs a year,
and it expected the hatchery to yield
more than enough eggs to pay for it's
rental.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Buy at Homo.

One who walks down a business
street in Madison or Dubuque, is GER
tain to be impressed with the number
of stores that are conducting Clear
ance sales" Bargains are Haunted in
window fronts, and the papers publish
ed in those cities are filled with at
tractive advertisements.
These two cities are cited, because
they are fierce competitors at this
time of the year for share Of Lancas-
ter's trade. They count Lancaster as
in their trade territory" They make
bids for Lancaster money.
But they offer no better bargains
than do Lancaster merchants. Com
lpare the prices displayed in Madison or
Dubuque windows with those quoted
right here at home and one is con-
WINGED that it is not necessary to pay
out good money in transportation for
the sole purpose of getting a suit or
dress at a bargain.
Look, before you buy railway or
bus ticket to an alleged bargain en-
pOrium. Better buy at home.
papon+apca ic +bo Nov Of tho UiT-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
WISCONSIN COUPLE WE'D.

PLATTEVILLE.-Ro Birkett of
Benton, Wis, and Miss Eleanor Ben
nett of New Diggings, Wis, were unit
ed in marriage, at the high noon hour
u o'clock, Saturday, July 25th, JUS
tice of the Peace George L. Maxeiner
officiating. The beautiful ring cere-
mony being used. The couple was I'M
attended. They will reside at New
DiggingS. Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Gas Right of Way.

The section crew was pecking away
at the rank growth of weeds between
the rails. There was an air of poor,
henpecked life apparent-they did not
work cheerfully. Just over the fence
was the new highway, built for gas
wagons. The maintenance man was
dragging it. He sat erect on his ma
chine, chin in the air as he drove his
three big horses. He carried cheer
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-08-12
Court of the Iron

BtHCHs
These are great days under the
spreading trees and on the benches of
the courthouse square. The Scopes
trial down in Tennessee is mild and
childlike compared with the bench de-
bates and discussions one may chance
to hear. Moonshine and moonmakers
are the principal topics for settle
ment. And the way that punishment
is handed out to these two perennial
offenders is pleasing to the w. G. 7. y.
and the Anti-Saloon League. But oc-
casionaIly the lawless denizen of the
gulches and hollows has defense,
and this is not only able, but in some
cases it is presented with eloquence
and enthusiasm