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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
MARIE WE'LL
Villas County's First Nurse

the rear. Her front line service
dates from June 1915 to December
Of the same year During the bat
tie of Loos and the Autumn often
sive OF the British army, this hos
pital cared for more wounded than
any other British hospital thereby
winning honorable mention from
the British War Office. Miss We'll
returned to the United States in
December 1915 and resumed her
position as nurse in a Chicago hos
pital During our own little un-
p,easantness with Germany she
again enlisted in the service,
spending six months in the Base
Hospital in Camp Zachary Taylor,
Kentucky. As far as | can learn
Miss We'll was the only person in
the county who served under two
flags during the war.
At present Miss We'll is the
President Of the Woman's Auxil-
larry of the American Legion in
Eagle River. She is also Legion
member and the only lady in our
crowd. When it comes to being a
real live member she takes a back
seat for no male Legionaire. To
her the post owes the great pres
tige it gained in the state by its
work for the tornado suffers at
three Lakes. She headed the Le-
eion Relief Committee and col.
lcctcd subscriptions to the total of
two thousand dollars Try that on
your tambourine and see. what
you get. | think you'll stand up
and take your hat off.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

Brest, that place of despair,
opened its gates for us.
Mud MUD rivers Of MUD stretch
ed to the side and before US.
Days, weeks, faded away. Every
things so damn snappy
Oh? hell! What's the delay? Why
can't we move and be happy?
Cod, cold damp piercing cold, no
army coat could withstand it.
Work? Say, we worked all the time
No matter the job we would
man it.
Rain? Boy, it rained every day. Our
slickers were holey and faulty
While all we wished was the chance
to try our luck on the salty.
Then when our ship came at last
we packed up our duffie anc
started.
With never a sigh for dear sunny
France. Say DO, were we
downhearted?
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

The beginning and the end of
the A E. f. The worse dreaded
camp in France. Camp Pontenezen
built by Napoleon the Great and
unchanged since. The first thing
you see on landing is the great
Chateau of Ste Anne with walls
and foundations dating back to
Phoenician times, about as CHEEKY
as a Jail, and it's depressing atmos-
phere stays with you until you
leave the place. Then there is the
mud 1t cIings to your feet like
bark to a tree. 1t climbs up your
leggins like cuttlefsh. 1t drags
you down like the booze habit and
finally after your struggles cease 1t
engulfs you like the rising tide. 1t
creeps over the blackboard side
walks, it hides the roads. You eat
in it. You sleep in it, work in it
and often drown in it. 1t is with
you from the time you start climb
ing the hills till you start sliding
down again. In the foreground of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

One of the few men that the
army couldn't faze. Mud Jerrys,
major offensives, absences with or
without leave, all that the army
had to give and take were the
same to him. He went through
the worst Of it and didn't care a
damn which way things came or
which way things went. The army
was joyous occasion for Bill. He
took in about all there was in un-
quiet sectors along with the rest of
Battery B Of the 10Th Field Ar
tillery. Their batting average was
slightly more than three hundred,
they came, they saw, they battered,
that's the gang.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

the above picture, you see several
tons Of the stuff. 1t doesn't look
bad but two steps toward the sol
diers and you would be a different
man. In fact no one ever came
out Of Brest the same as when they
they entered. 1t had a miraculous
way of making you a hundred
years old over night. You ate if
you could swim to the kitchen.
You worked whether you could
swim or not, sometimes night and
day. Brest was the Paradise of the
Military Police. 1t was the only
place in the A. E. F. where you
couldn't razz them; if you did it
was a couple weeks longer stay. To
holler Who Won the War was
equivalent to a petition for a
longer sojourn in Pontenezen. Its
many faults, beauties and caprices
are given luridly and lucidly in the
following Poem by one who skipped
Of France via the Brest route.
Just listen:
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

"a Lazy Afternoon.
e. rc.0oV, had been taken out
lrgonno the day before. We
hr nc were in for little
sector work. We we're shipped
..u. To- the famous TouI Sector
X. eca within range Of the guns.
" wore lust outside the little
...a of Domgcrmain which is one
. ms fortrcssas of the famous
1m Chain. All of a sudden the
nm aircraft from the hills around
.m BEGAN To spit. High overhead
.s German plane, Just a speck
/. na ,y We promptly lay down
ou backs In the sun to watch
ma lun When say lay in the
mean Sun. That was one of
.e uu days that the sun shone.
lm plane was apparently headed
M,ac Army Headquarters in Toul
Homumjtion dump at Domger-
m Forccr and Gercer became
aombaruhucnt. The shrapnel
around the plane in little
au0n puffs, There were no
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

Is vain sir to eXtenuate the matter Gentlemen
may cry peace peace-but there is peace The
war is actually begun The next gale that sweeps from
The north will bring the clash of resOunding
arms Our brethren already in the field! Why stand
We here idle? What is it gentlemen wish? What would
they have Is life 50 dear or peace so sweet as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid
~ Almighty God! | know not what course others may
toae but for me give me liberty give DEATH"
patrick Henry
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

uTYRANNY like hell, is not easily conquered yet we
L have this consolation with us, that the harder the
conflict the more glorious the triumph What we obtain
too cheap we value lightly it is DEAFNESS only that
gives everything its value Heaven knows how to put
proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange
indeed if celestial article Freedom should not
be highly rated. (Paine)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

eve are ready to plead at the bar of history
and our flag shall bear a lustre Once shall
make good with lives and fortunes the great
faith to which we were born and glory shall shine
in the face of our people," (Woodrow Wilson,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

We could not view any interp0stion for the purpose
~ expressing them controlling in any other manner
oe destiny by any European power in any other light
an rs manifestation of unfriendly disposition to-
wards the United States. (The Monroe Doctrine)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

James Hayden Champion Roads,
Sherman said war was hell. If he
had gone through detention in
Farragut and been called a rookie
and a hayshaker, then got his navi-
cation gears twisted up in the
drills at Dewey, two weeks of de-
tail work in the sixteenth, another
in the seventeenth, and had made
the fifty hour trip to Norfolk-an
then-be told the war was over, |
wonder what he would have said.
(Another of those gentle Irish.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

He cut himself loose and came
down and gave himself up to M.
p. that managed to drag himself
away from the cafe long enough
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

Frederic j. Walsh Post Bigger
and Better-Join up.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

Chris Rasmussen CAT the 'FRONT.'
am dropping you a few lines
from the battle lines in France.
This sure is the life. 1t beats deer
hunting all to pieces. (Rather).
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

to do his stuff. We didn't get a
chance to 90 through the observer
though | suppose the M. P. took
about everything that he wanted
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

GEORGE G. DOBBS
Merchandise
COn0ver, Wisconsin
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

SERVICE GARAGE
Jay Cook
Eagle River, Wisconsin
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

We buried the pilot where he
dropped and went home. The next
day the end Of the world came. The
war was over. Villas Volunteer).
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08
SLEEP is A FORM
OF INTOXICATION
so ASSERT SCIENTISTS IN RE-
PORT ON RECENT TEST. CAN
BE LESSENED BY HABIT.

WASHINGTON, D. CA theory
that sleep may be nothing more than
intoxication and that by cultivating
better habits humanity may lessen the
hours so spent was advanced here to-
day by George Washington Univer-
sity scientists who conducted a recent
test on eight students.
The finding was tentative and the
research work will be continued, but
meanwhile the scientists say that if
the result pointed to any one theory
of sleep, it was that OF natural intox-
ication caused by the storing of pois-
ons in the human system during the
wakeful hours.
When the drunkard becomes intox-
icated, they said, he sleeps and gen
orally wakes up detoxicated In the
case of the students, microscropical
examination showed, cir blood
changes corresponded to those of a
drunken man and that their trouble
was cured by short period of sleep.
The students were kept awake for
sixty hours. 1t was found that insom-
mia played havoc with the visual sens
es, phantoms being reported by some,
and various distortion of objects by
others. A single nights loss of sleep
did not affect the ability of the sub
jects to drive an automobile but they
became rather dangerous drivers on
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08
JAPANESE FUNERALS LONG DRAWN

past Tor the watchers is served in an
adjacent room.
Mourning Rice.
The funeral ordinarily occurs in the
afternoon, but in the summer in the
early morning, when it is preceded BY
a mourning breakfast of plain boiled
rice over which bean curd soup is
poured
The rice must be eaten with sim
gle chopstick and only one bowl by
each mourner; to eat second bowl
OF mourning rice is believed to invite
another early death in the family.
The procession commonly marches
as follows
A guide; men carrying lanterns on
long poles, walking in pairs; men
carrying natural flowers, walking in
pairs; men carrying birds in cages,
walking in pairs; men carrying Ian
terms, walking in pairs; man carrying
incense box; man carrying tablet,
bearing name OF deceased; the priest
in a rikisha; the hearse, with pail
bearers walking alongside; mourners,
on foot, in rikishas, or in carriages
The man carrying the tablet is the
chief mourner. If he is a member of
the family he walks behind the hearse
instead of before it.
In Buddhist procession the bear
ers of the coffin wear blue; i'll Shin
to procession they wear white.
When the procession reaches the
temple the bier is placed in front of
the shrine, which occupies the same
position in a temple as the altar in a
Christian church
The chief mourner and the family
sit on the floor on one side of the
shrine, and the other mourners on the
opposite side, leaving space between
in which the priest conducts the fun
eral services. The priest comes in by
the front door.
Prayers are recited in chorus, &C
companied by gongs bells and GYM
balls, and scriptural passages are read.
Then the priest prays alone for the
peaceful passage of the soul.
After this prayer the mourners ad-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08

vance to the coffin and drop incense
into a censor which burns beside it.
This ends the temple ceremony, at
ter which the family stand at the exit
and thank the mourners as they leave
for their courtesy in coming to the
funeral.
Birds Let Loose.
The birds, which have been brought
in\ the procession, are liberated as an
act of mercy in the name. of the de-
ceased and the flowers are distributed
among the poor children who congre
gate at temple where a funeral is
in progress.
Burial of the intact body still oc
ours in some places, and is in accord
ance with Shintoism, the oldest OF
Japan's two main religions, but is pro-
hibited inside city limits.
Cremation is Buddhist practice
and is general While Shintoism, the
ancient aboriginal religion Of Japan,
and Buddhism, introduced from India,
are distinct they are not hostile and
apparently one may be both a good
Buddhist and a good Shintoist, as in
China one may worship indiscrimi-
nately in Buddhist or .Tacist temple
without mourning the displeasure OF
either sect.
Shintoism is the imperial religion OF
Japan, and imperial marriages and
funerals are solemnized with Shinto
rites, but the people seem to prefer
Buddhist ceremonies which were, at
one time, the only kind allowed to the
commonalty.
Toxic has a considerable number of
crematories, all outside the city, and
other cities provide for cremation,
which is the way in which seventy
five per cent of Japan's dead are dis
posed of.
For cremation the body is taken to
the crematory by the chief mourner
and relatives. After cremation is be-
gun the door of the incinerator is
locked and the key is taken away by
the chief mourner, who returns the
next morning, with relatives.
In their presence the ashes are plac-
ed in an urn which is carried to the
family temple and inferred in the fam
lily grave, really an underground vault
which will accommodate many urns,
the casket.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08

the second night. This was explained
as due to their tendency to drop off
to sleep while listening to the rythm
of the motor. Their mental faculties
and muscles remained up to standard.
1t. is quite possible, the scientists
said, that through force of habit one
person is able to obtain hundred
units of sleep in one-hah the time re-
CURED by others.
In short" they said, sleep has
not only length, but depth
IF this assumption be true the
length of time that people sleep is
very largely question OF habit. 1t
might be possible to cause their sleep
ing mechanisms to work faster, just
as by series of conditioned rehexes
we can make the salivary glands work
faster" The first two hours OF sleep
are much deeper than the last two,
it was declared, and this theory would
account well for dreams by placing
dreams in one of the stages OF sleep
having little depth.
1t was pointed out that if by build
ing new habits, or the discovery Of
some organ by which the hours OF
sleep could be cut down to six hours
a night the productiveness OF humani-
ty could be increased one-fourth Only
a series of carefully PANIED expert
ments it was added, could determine
whether reducing the number of hours
sleep, if gradually done, would pro-
duce bad results in the organisms.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08

News Of the death of Mrs. Harper
Wright, of Grandheld, Okla, was re-
ceived in PARROT Thursday DR.. Har-
per Wright is brother OF Mrs. Lewis
l.. Tilley.
Story Books for Children.
The little girls in the first and Sec
ond grades OF the Parrot school will
be delighted when the good ship
comes in laden with story books and
reference books for them. An order
has already been placed for a large
number of story books and reference
books for the children in these grades.
Mrs. Marvin D. Piece. the donor Of
this library for the primary grades,
expects the books at an early date.
Teachers Take Other Positions.
While at their homes for Thanks
giving Misses Luke and Maulden,
teachers in the Parrot school, receiv-
ed notice of their election to positions
in Florida school, There was an in
crease in salary and the teachers con-
sidered it a promotion in their profess
sion and accepted the positions. Mrs
c. f. Rutherford and Miss Louise
Pinkston are supplying until the va
cancies thus formed in the Parott
school can be filled.
Glad He's Back.
AT the annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south, at
Macon, Rev. H. L. Pearson was re-
turned as pastor of the Parrot charge
This will be his second year on the
charge and although the past year
was quite a successful one we hope
the year 1926 Will be even more sue
cessful. The many friends over the
charge are glad that Rev. Pearson and
family will be with them another year.
The Woman's Club.
In the absence OF the president, Mrs.
H. L. Pierce, Mrs. H. L. Arnold, vice
president presided at the meeting OF
the Woman's club on last Thursday
afternoon. The usual order OF business
was carried out. Several important
matters were discussed. 1t was decid-
ed that the club would begin on De
cember 18th and operate the tea
room on Saturday nights. The 1nance
committee. OF which Mrs. H. L. Ar.
mold is chairman, will have charge OF
the tea room on the opening night Al
ter the business session the meeting
was turned over to Mrs. Flowers
chairman OF public welfare committee
Parrott Personals.
Mrs. Lyman Mccain and children
and Miss Highnote, OF Oca!a, Ia
spent Thursday with Mrs. Billy Jen-
| kins. A.,
Miss Laura Yarbrough and Mrs.
Tom Yarbrough, OF Beneyolence' VS.
tied Mrs. L. G. Pinkston last week.
Miss Susie Mae Brown. OF Shell
man, was the guest OF Mrs. w. D
Flowers on Sunday night.
DR.. and Mrs. John T. Arnold at
tended the Chappell-Da Davidson we'd
ding in Dawson on Dec. 5rd.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Yarbrough and
Mrs. E. P. McLennan spent SATURDAY
and Sunday in Macon. =
Mr.. and Mrs. Riley Curry, OF Shell
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08
PARROTT PARAGRAPHS

man, spent Sunday night with Mr..
and Mrs. E. S. Pinkston.
Mrs. R. R. Holt, Mrs. Barton Mu-
NAV and Mrs. Glenn Crowell spent
Wednesday in Americas.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Thornton, Jr,
announce the birth of son on De-
cember 3rd.
Mr.. Malcolm McKinnon, OF Column
bus, spent Saturday and Sunday with
his parents here.
Mrs. Neil McFal1 and daughter, Of
Poulan, are visiting Mrs. Thornton
Lee.
Mrs. Hyran Clark, of Tampa, Fla,
spent Sunday with Mrs. L. G. Pink
ston.
Mrs. S. B. Pinkston, OF Albany Wis
tied relatives here last Thursday.
Mrs. Henry Lee has returned from
a visit to relatives at Jacksonville.
Miss Bertha Lee is visiting in Jack
sonville and Fernandina, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs H. L. Pierce were in
Cuthbert on Thursday.
Mr.. Luther Majors, of Sale City,
spent Friday in PARROT.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08
To Register Lands.

GEORGIA, Terrell County,-In the
Superior Court of said County.-To
whom it may concern, and to {. Z.
Lockett, H. w. Steiner, J. H. Nc
Lendon, T. K. Cobb and NJ. D. LANG;
Take notice that Mrs. E. R. Mercer
has filed in said court a petition seek
ing to register the following lands I'M
der the provisions of the land regis
tration act, to wit:
Whole lot of land number two hun
bred and sixty-one GOD in the Fourth
district of Terrell county, Ga.
You are warned to show cause to
the contrary If any you have, before
said court on the 18th day OF January,
1926. This oath day of January, 1925.
12-1-4t. w. S. DOZIER, Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08
HOG SALE WILL BE HELD
IN DAWSON ON THURSDAY
Should Be Brought in Early. Coca
Prices Are Assured.

Farmers who have hogs to sell are
again reminded OF the cooperative
sale to be held in Dawson next Thurs ,o 81
dav morning, December 10TH at lV'oo
o'clock = .ho Gale
,oa;n reouest that all hogs be on the
or Grounds al,l not later than 10 o'clock IN n
e erIpr'q that they may be weighed and 11
graded in time to be pulled out all at II
O'clock that day. They also call atten-
tion TO the fact that since the prac t,
Of shipping hogs the same day tney
are received the association chsise go
have been reduced from Z to l per
nas and at the same time the pens
I'D Ia scales have been repaired and put
" The price OF the hogs to be sold ,; on
Thursday is expected to be IN iine
with that received for those SOLD al
the last sale.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08
Sheriff S Sale.

GEORGIA, Terrell County.-Will
be sold before the court house door
in said county, within the legal hours
of sale on Tuesday, January 5. 1920,
to the highest bidder for cash the tol-
lowing property to wit;
One Ford automobile, body type
coupe, Motor number 10,775,l37. Said
property levied on as the property Oh
Bell Drug Company, incorporated, to
satisfy a mortgage execution issued
from the City Court OF Albany,
Dougherty county, Ga, in favor OF
Georgia Finance Corporation, trans
fierce, against Bell Drug Company. In
corporated. This December |, 1923.
i2-l-4t. E. T. WOODS, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08
MULLET SUPPER ENDS IN
THE USUAL FREE-FOR-ALL
Two Negroes Badly Beaten Up Sat
urday Night on Williams Farm.

A mullet supper on the farm OF Mr..
J. Williams, near the Chickasawhat-
chez church, had the usual ending on
Saturday night, when two negroes
were badly beaten up, on OF whom was
at first reported dead. However, 1t
proved to be not quite SO serious. The
injured negroes are Homer Williams
and his son. AS is generally the case
in such events, no one knows who did
the welding the weapon that did the
damage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-08
FOUR BILLION BUTTONS.

Buttons first were made by hand
in small shops. Now they are made
by modern machinery in factories III
which the yearly production is about
1000, 100000 buttons.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-01-02
Many Movie Stars Carry
Talismans for Good Luck

Many picture stars have lucky
pieces for talismans that they declare
have brought them success and hap
piness, says Photoplay Magazine.
Some Of them are listed below:
NORMA TALMADGE: A diamond
and sapphire pendant, the first gift Of
her husband, that she wears in every
picture.
COLLEEN MOORE: An ivory ball
cut from one Of midas sacred white
elephants.
CONRAD NAGEL: A gold collar
button worn by the great actor, Edwin
Booth.
DOROTHY MACKAI: A Navajo
Indian bracelet.
ANITA STEWART: An old shoe
worn by her brother when a baby.
BUSTER KEATON: Believes mis-
fortune would come to him If he
didn't wear a little fiat pancake hat
POLA NEGRI: A signet ring bear
ing the name of a coat-of-arms that
has been in her mothers family fol
years.
BETTY COMPTON: A scarab pend
ant surrounded with emeralds, giye1
to her by friend who found it while
exploring ruins in Egypt.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-01-02

Importance in this group of states and
because of the extent Of our rail lines
in your territory it is probably fair
to say that one-third of the benefit
from the Pacific Northwest advertis-
ing should go to Washington. Whether
or not it does, depends largely on the
interest and activity Of Washington
itself.
"The Pacific Northwest advertising
campaign by the Burlington, Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail
ways was undertaken in the belief
that the natural development Of this
great territory - Washington, Mon
tana, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon
can be materially FASTENED by con.
slant and well thought-out publicity;
that in this way the Pacific North
west can be established in the ma
tional consciousness as section hold
ing out great appeal to any man who
desires to improve his condition"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-01-02
sImported" Goods
Must Be Imported

WASHINGTON.-Use of the words
import" or imported" in advertising
in connection with the sale OF mer-
chandise not actually imported into
the United States was held by the
Federal Trade Commission to consti-
tute an unfair method of competition.