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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17

for the remarkable record which that
department has made. He served as
adjutant of the department from the
fall of 1920 until his transfer to ma
tional headquarters.
The new assistant national adju-
tant's first activity in the Legion was
as commander of the post at Fort
Dodge, Iowa. his home town. He was
elected to that position before the
first national convention Of the Legion
in 1919 and served until his appoint
ment as department adjutant.
Dr. r. j. Laird of Algona, Iowa,
took the department adjutancy fol-
lowing Barton's resignation Laird
resigned as national executive com
mitteeman. That position was filled
by Maurice Cahill of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, formerly alternate committee
man.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Cracks Whip in Church,
According to Custom

Our own country is so young in years
and its customs and conditions have
changed so rapidly during its brief x-
istence that we know nothing of those
curious customs which persist for gen
Grafton after generation in a venerable
country like England. In some Eng
lish manors singular practices are still
observed. For example says DR.. G. G.
Williamson in his book Curious Sur
vivals," at Caistor In Lincolnshire, a
most peculiar service was retained I'M
til the middle Of the Nineteenth CEN
fury.
The owner of the estate, known as
Brigg, held certain lands subject TO the
performance on Palm Sunday of every
year of the ceremony of cracking a
whip in the church, while the clergy
man was reading the first lesson the
tenant cracked the whip three distinct
times In the church porch and then
folded it up. AS soon as the second
lesson was commenced he went up to
the clergyman, presented the whip to
him, held it over his head and waved
1t three times, holding it in that posi-
ton during the reading of the lesson.
The whip had a purse tied at the end
of it, which was supposed to contain
thirty pieces of silver; it had also four
pieces Of elm attached to it, repre-
senting the Gospels. The three cracks
were typical of st. Peters denial Of
his Lord, and the waving of the whip
over the clergyman's head was sup
posed to be an act of homage to the
Blessed Trinity.
The origin of the ceremonial goes
back to exceedingly remote times and
is said to have been connected with a
penance imposed on some tenant for
an act of murder.-Youth's Companion
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Dog Adopts Chicks

Reversing the recent case in which
a Rhode Island Red hen adopted a
litter of puppies a four-year-old
poodle, owned by Theodore Gauthier
of West Springfield, Mass, is playing
mother to a brood of 10 chicks, the
Philadelphia Public Ledger says.
The chicks, incubator born, attract
ed the poodle's attention when brought
home by Mr.. Gauthier. Finally the
poodle was allowed to adopt them
after much whining and refusing to
eat. The chicks are being brought up
with an abnormal tendency to clean
illness, for Fiji ticks them as she
would q puppy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Dogs Carry Watches

A new kind of watch dog has
made it's appearance in London.
These dogs do not need any special
training to be efficient, nor do they
differ in pedigree 4Sm any of the
other useless laphounds that escort
their mistresses on sunny afternoons
along the Mall.
What makes these pets distinctive
is that on their collars they wear
tiny watches, often set with gems,
and sometimes with little bells that
strike the hours. A woman from San
Diego, Cal, is credited with having
started the fashion, which the Bond
street jewelers. were not slow to en-
courage.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17

One earthquake seems to have the
effect of breeding another, and New
England is getting to be fine place
for earth tremors. A slip which causes
an internal earth slide appears to
leave a vacancy which must be rec
titled by another. And thus the proc
ess goes on. A portion of this gen.
eral region south of Boston felt a re-
cent quake which the scientists tell
us conferred off Long island. Another
shake, they predict. will shortly be
felt in Connecticut, but fortunately,
they assert, it will not be of serious
nature-Lowell Courier-Citizen.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Interesting Reading

An old man, real patriarch of the
hills, wandered into the public IL
brary of a southern Indiana town,
recently, and stood for a few min
utes looking around. Finally APP
preaching the librarian he said, rather
defensively. Il reckon We don't object
to my readin in that book there, do
YEP" pointing with his cane in the
direction of the dictionary.
Being assured that he was free to
use the book, he seated himself COM
fortably, and seemingly, with much
interest, perused the pages Of the
book for some time.-Indianapol
News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Fire Destroys Wild Life

The greatest single agency of wild
life destruction is the forest fire, so
we are informed by government Off
Gals. For eight years, from 1917 to
1924, the average annual number of
forest fires in this country was A.
600. During this time 100000 acres
of forest land was burned over each
year or an area twice that Of Upper
and Lower Michigan was destroyed
by the red devastator. This loss to-
tails over $1S,000,O0O annually.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
A Round Oath

The bishop of London is said to fig
are in the following incident. He had
been salmon fishing in the Highlands
when two ghillies were heard subse-
duently discussing his merits, and one
of them remarked: Hes a very nice
gentleman, he is, but he do swear
something dreadful"
"Swear?" exclaimed the other,
aghast. "And him a bishop?"
aye" said the first. "a salmon
started to rise and asked him, Shall
row after that id flush, m'Iord p
And he said, Yes, dor"-Sporting and
Dramatic News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Tnia Taht Eht Hturti

About as logical an exposition Of the
subject as we have yet seen appears
in contemporary which says: "Af-
fairs in Russia have reached a state of
eraoin shrdlushrdlu. "-Arkansa Ga.
Eette.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Oils & Creases
Anthracite RiuaI Claimed

Dr. Hugo Strache of the Vienna
Technical college maintains that he
mas produced a charcoal that has heat
caIories equal to those of anthracite
coal. Wood, wood shavings and waste
are utilized, and because of the coal
tar products derived from them, the
cost Of the new charcoal is said to be
low. Doctor Strache has been work
Ing four years on the idea, which was
started when the coal famine threat
ened disaster in Austria.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Electric AerioLs

A London clergyman has invented
a wireless apparatus with specially
prepared aerials which lights an cleo
trio globe at a distance of five feet
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Austrian Interest Rates

Although interest rates were reduced
in Austria recently, the minimum rate
per year for short-term loans to first
class firms is approximately l6.a per
cent
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17

In loving our fellowmen we may
sometimes have occasion to sigh This
Is not a perfect world.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17

Many a man who has thought him
self wise has been declared otherwise
by a jury.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17

Up-to-date hairdressers have the
newest kinks at their fingers ends.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17

Figures may not lie, but estimates
have been known to mislead.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17
Source of StraD Hats

Straw, from which most straw hats
are made, is grown from special varie-
ties of wheat in China, Japan and
Italy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17

We know that in 5000 years more
evolution will have made US human
beings quite different, but how?
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-17

An effort made for the happiness
of others lifts us above ourselves
Mrs. L. NJ. Child.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06
CONSIDER THE GOSSIP.

Consider the gossip, that necrotic parasite
on the body social! She is the bane of Main
street and Broadway, peddling her nefarious
ware in all places high and low. In the smaller
community she is fearsome. Here she is the
evil genius of cooperative effort. Here she has
all under her scrutiny; her prying eyes seek the
perverse Of each coming and going.
Hear her cackle as she returns from the
hunt, her hat awry from her hurry through the
stink holes of scandal. The excitement of her
damaging news hurries her feet; her eyes gilt
ter in the happiness that she is about to under
mine a reputation. She sits tiff-backed in a
pose of virtue as she prattles her dirty tale. She
is gone Another uncean ear is drinking it in.
Watch her as she busies through life, spy
ing out every act suggestive of evil. Each dam
aging blow sharpens the vulture look of her
countenance. She becomes recognizable to the
stranger. Cursed by the narrow environment that
made her what she u.s. her intellect daily afro
plies. In all the worlds works she only
what can be reported to another's disadvantage
She is more deadly than the criminal for her
poison darts find the Achilles heels of all. Her
sting, like that of the insect, reaches even to the
intelligent, who see her only in pity.
Consider the gossip! And ponder what Hell
ent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06
INFLUENCE.

Let me remember, as 1 go my way,
How much it meant to me to meet friend
Who walked and talked with me but yesterday;
Let me be like him to the long days end
Let me remember once my head was bowed.
My difficulties seemed to weigh me down;
And then found a comrade in the crowd
And went laughing, testing, into town.
Time was that grief sat silent in the room
The home loved was desolate and bare;
Then came a ray of comfort through the gloom,
"A friend who understood was standing there.
No kindly word, once spoken can be lost
No kindly deed is ever done in vain;
Nor can we measure when paths are crossed
How much from us our fellow may gain.
1 would somehow my influence could be
So fraught with help and comfort and delight
AS that of friends who have encouraged me
And sent me brave and smiling to the fight
Edgar Guest.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06
ECONOMY is CONTAGIOUS

Coolidge economy, besides taking root in
various States, including Minnesota, also fol-
lows the flag across seas and goes over bound
AIRY lines.
Word comes from Manila that Governor
General Leonard Wood is arranging to cut the
government payroll thirty per cent Doubtless
this stroke of economy will evoke bowls of an
guish from the ousted officeholders and their
friends. We may delegations making
their Transpacific way to Washington to protest
against this scandalous interference with the
right of the Filipino to govern and overtax-
himself. Mr.. Coolidge will turn attentive ear
to them, no doubt and then advise General
Wood to go to it.
Down in Mexico, too, the economy idea is
flourishing. President Gales is showing great
firmness in reducing expenses. There were ten
thousand official motor cars, bought and main
tanned for offceholders. Senior Gales scrapped
the whole lot, including his own. He has ousted
from office hundreds of officials, including long
list of awe-inspiring generals" Such cold and
calculating cruelty hitherto unknown and I'M
imagined in Mexico, has filled officialdom with
terror.
There are at this moment in Minnesota a
number of unnecessary office holders who know
how to sympathize with their Filipino and Next
can colleagues. The axe is FURNISHED and
ght-Minneapolis Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

We have figured OUT to our own satisfac-
ton at least, reason why some people are
always laborers and never capitalists Its because
they don't keep their promises. man promis-
es to come Saturday and spade your garden-by
the next Saturday the soil is still unturned-you
hire someone else to do it, making the mental
reservation that you will never try to employ
the first fellow again. Next season he COM
plains that he hasn't enough work to keep him
busy and loafs around the streets and talks
socialism. The same thing is true all the way up
the line among the employed-about third of
them fail to keep their words and fail to make
any explanation. AS result patronage slips
away from them and they miss out numberless
chances to money well as losing out on
all chances for future employment. Dependability
is big factor in the success and advancement
of every worker whether it be the girl in your
kitchen or the attorney who handles the affairs
of huge corporations. Look about you and see
if we haven't rediscovered very old truth.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

The hollyhock has great landscape value
in hiding unsightly places, to work in the
border among the trees and shrubs.
They require deeply dug soil, made up of
equal portions of good loan and leaf mold,
and require plenty of water. -Horticulturist.
We don't know who the horticulturist is
who wrote that but he's all wrong. Hollyhocks
don't need anything but start and space-oh
very, very much space! They will grow up the
side of the back shed, under the rose bushes
climb the grapevine trellis hitch themselves to
the electric light wires, crawl into the house
along the telephone wire and do numberless other
stunts if permitted. Possibly we have exaggerat-
ed that just the least Bit but certainly they don't
require "loam and leaf mold" nor plenty of wa
ter. Our experience is that even the most arid
back yard will blossom into hollyhock grove
with mighty little care except to go out with a
shotgun and slaughter the bugs every now and
then. But watch them! They will trample all
over your treasured grass plot, and get such
a grip your heartstrings that you don't care
if they trample all over you too. We just ma
turally hate to have anything or anybody walk
over US but if it must be done we'd rather have
our precious and officious hollyhocks do it than
any thing else we can think Of.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06
THE AFTERMATH.
(Bv THE CUB

Redwood Falls, America: We hear that
Uncle Sam has put the Bethlehem Steel plah'
and Captain Kid in the same class, except tnat
tbe tack company uses a steel permit instead Oh
steel sabers.
It NAV be joke when the butcher weighs
in three pounds of hand with half a pound Oh
lamb chops but when it comes to Shipping 1he
War Department fifteen million dollars worth
Of short change the laugh is on the other SIDE
of the goatee.
Fifteen million fish may not mean much to
the Pacific Ocean or the amalgamated sucker list
of Wall Street, but it makes the well known u
S. Mint look like dill pickle at junk dealers
clam bake.
Charley Schwab, the Star of Bethlehem, used
to tax the Presidents playmates $25 for $2O
battleship. This was nothing less than clear
steal on Henry Ford. Especially when Charles
piled up enough excess profits to pay for tlfteen
million dog licenses at dollar per.
During the war when Bethlehem was turn
ing out sea going coal wagons faster than Rus
STA was turning out dead counts and starving
BARRIERS the Merchant Marine adopted Charley
My Boy" as it's most popular anthem. Now that
the Schwab has turned into sponge the gang
all gathers round and murmurs "How Come You
Do Me Like You Do?"
Rumor hath it that Schwab took his job as
Director of the Fleet Company reluctantly. The
same little bird says that arrangements have
been made to do away with football at Notre
Dame.
Anyway things might have been lot worse.
Suppose, for instance, Congress had decided to
hold an investigation, with all the usual blood
shed and other bad effects. Such as throwing
the senators golf count up to the two hundred
mark.
It is almost as bad as the time Max Ebben-
stein stumbled in on business meeting of the
Knights of the bleached bathrobe.
The only other case in history that can
compare with it is the one about the man in St.
Paul who deliberately stole Pioneer Press from
newsboy. There is no doubt that this man is
guilty. He may be out of his head, it is said
he sold the ST. Paul Dispatch in Minneapolis
after stealing it.
That sounds like the one about the doctor
who refused to remove his patients appendix
because it wasn't necessary
Or the car owner who admitted that he
hadn't driven those tires over fourteen
thousand miles.
What with this mix-up and having Betty
Blythe kidnapped by the bold, bad Bedouins, how
are we to know whether the cross word revolutions
is really over not?
The only thing about the whole kidnapping
affair that looks fishy is that the name of the
picture isn't so much as mentioned By the
time Betty has lived under one of those black
felt umbrellas for a. while she will realize why
camel's hair coats lost out so suddenly.
But after all, the scandals in congress are
the only things that will keep our minds off the
real difficulties of life, such as riding buck
ing typewriter and trying to find the ice box
in the dark.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

Fashioning a tourniquet from garter
and pair of pliers, to stop the flow OF blood
from an artery in his leg, severed IN a runa-
way accident, probably saved the life OF
Grant B. Murray, farmer near st. Charles.
He will recover according to the physician
We hope the young gallants who insist OF
"rol,inp em" learn from this what dire things
NAV happen if an accident befalls him who ha'
no garter handy Maybe they'll learn-mor'
nrohab,v thew won't. 1t takes real honest tt
noodness orav matter to absorb truth.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

Fred Hadley who, like of the rest of
us, is well past twenty-five recently moved to
California. And from there he hands this bit
of advice to the restless.
eff you are a person of middle age, think
twice before you pull up stakes and depart from
the old home to make new home in some other
part of the country, matter how alluring that
new section may appear to you. Moving means
the making of new friends, and that is not an
easy thing to do. 1t means starting out in life
all over again, and neither is that easy thing
to do. This advice doesn't cost you nickel, but
it may save you lot of money"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

Erudte Doc Curtiss Wedge of the Barron
News Shield hands this neat one to the kind of
critics all decent newspapers have: ITO the
readers who censured US for not reprinting the
story of the Cumberland scandal, we might sug-
gest that the works of Smolett, Sterne, Boccac-
clio, Balzac, lola, Ellis, Freud Fielding and De
Maupassant, which can be bought from any
bookdealer, have material much more salacious
and decidedly more interesting. Or do such tales
take on an added zest when their publication
means heartache, sorrow and broken families, to
our neighbors and fellow citizens?"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

One of the upstate editors remarks that all
editors along about this time of the year are
apt to suffer from an extreme and insidious ner-
vous disease which is only durable by the clink
of coin. In other words reluctant subscribers are
asked to "pay up" thus relieving the editors
nervousness about how June LIST taxes are to he
paid 1--WE know it is extremely bad form to ex-
plain thing like this but we were so afraid you
wouldn't all get the point.)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

'sThis took place in the local postoffice the
other day." reports Editor Tuttle of the Winnie
bago Enterprise and something similar is PROB
ably happening to the circulars every day IN
most of the 49s postoffices in the United States
ga woman opened her postoffice box and careful.
Nv assorted her mail into two piles. She placed
one pile in her shopping bag, then walked over
to the wastepaper basket and deposited the sec.
ond pile therein, saying to her friend as she die
so: 4 never take that advertising stuff nome
since I haven't time to be bothered reading 1t.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

young man some years ago was oequeatneo
by his father a cow and 10 acres IN New YORK
suburb. AS matter of sentiment he kept the
cow and pastured her on the 16 acres. He later
sold the whole property in city lots for $4,000.
AS city property, the taxes on this land would
have been $4,000. AS cow pasture and con-
seouently farm land, the taxes were only 81 500.
Who says cows do not pay?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

Life holds many dsappointments but few Oh
them are comparable to the weight that settles
on womans heart when having purchased
brand new and gay and utterly frivolous SUIT
for an April 3Oth trip, the SNOW makes her
don discarded fur coat. Don't talk to US ABOUT
Observation-Disclosures know!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

Edna Ferber's novel $50 Big won the
Pulitzer prize-showing once again that II taxes
a woman to do things properly. 1t now occurs
to ms that we always intended to write novel
inst like that but Edna beat to it. Twas ever
th,,s, We newer had an idea saved but somebody
came along and copied it!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

The Sanders Seed Company nao at It's VI
flee the other day dandehon with rooS AZ
least steen inches long Anyone VINO naroors .he
hope that these dear little plants ever WINE,
kill or are to be eradicated by any otner me'hoo
than digging until it hurts, may sho" an aoiiiir-
able optimism but darned poor horse sense
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06
Wild Poppy.

"What is de name of dis infant? de
manded the colored parson, who was
officiating at the christening of Mir
andy's latest offspring.
"Her name am Opium Bryant"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06
Gosh Ding, If Fred Hadley doesn't stop

Gosh Ding! If Fred Hadley doesn't stop writ
ing for Frank Days Daily Fairmont Sentinel,
a lot of us fellows who have been content with
the Sentinel Twice-A-Week are going to have to
ND and subscribe for the Daily. It just doesn't
seem right to have Fred Hadley sending out q
column each day and not have every newspaper
pusson in the State reading it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

Ashland, Wis.,, has Hawaiian Girls Or
chestra of two hundred thirty-four members.
One more reason why we are glad we hve IN
Redwood Falls instead of Ashland.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

State Forestry men have organized them
selves into Hoo Hoo club. We don't how
they ever got name like that away from the
high school kids.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

It is nice that the radio gives the bedtime
stories plenty early-then the kids can listen to
them before they go out to spend the evening.
This isn't original with us-the Eau Claire Tele-
gram thought of it first.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-06

The old fashioned book agent is now
travelling salesman selling anything from water
less mops to threshing machines; oil stocks ana
plain thin air-Le Sueur Center Leader