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LOCBEES: 'OF-Lagle River Lodze No 109 meets 7 Mondav at their hall over F. Beard drng store Brothers from other e are cordially invited % Nattery, Nec.. Mart Hirzel, NG. &‘-\; 4, Eagle River Lodge meets every .'"l“"‘l.““" fourth I'nesday at their hall ‘\f‘,"»"‘}}";i“"l"*. Visiting brothers cor " .m. 5.;“\ Hiciife, Sec H. ¥ir er, . M E: A—Fagle Waters Camp No. ipoieets each Friday at Jones’ 4L Visiting Neighbors are cor = ..I‘V‘ET('II. 2 Smith . s s N. M. Emmons. 1. Consul, Clerk. CHURCHES. €0 ‘:)‘I_N:“CA_‘TIONAL CHURCH. | b s the Church every Sunday at Tigeaa; 09 7:30 p. m.” Prayer meet ?imh;:i'a evenings at 7:30. sunday 3 Mple'ﬁﬁl{s ‘dl-z:h*‘ n(]inrning gervice, 1 Walragon oy 3::‘:0.1\ eavor one hour % H, C, Toop Pastor, ": \ ' CATHOLIC CHURCH. ‘ ;T-‘Aﬂ‘f\‘ \ : by 6 High Mass, 10 4. w. ( m‘\*”l Seriptural History, 2 i .',N“;’;P"X's. (nstruction, Ben b i Py NQi 4 M Sundyy. i) l"\;*.\ ofeach Month, Masses T 3 . s ‘:'\."1‘1"?!1‘\”: Obligation: Jan. Ist; .-_r_;‘{f.a“.‘i .An«__r, 15: Deec. 8th;; Ay aopecial Chiristmas regu biog (o chration:) High Masss Rin, o ,;"“‘1"‘;- with 5 Minutes! Ay ey and benediction iy sah 160 t Stations on Rip 0 PM. Special regu ki, ¢ Holy Week : < [, ! eek. Mass on pS At 7:30, e | LROSPFR (s ‘ ®R GOEPFERT, €. S. Sp. e Rector. . TIME TABLE, N North | ‘m‘\f}‘g 10:10 A South " : el ':'vooh. 12,07 P s.]',, Slspad.. il i' . 35 Jeet s :c. WN3 i 531 P “ee PR oe e o “teese fISET F. P.CLTRE, Agent. DR. G. A. BANGS, : PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. SPECIRLIST, EAGLE RIVPR, o WIScONsIN. \ Gasbline,’pumps and pump fixtures, Screen doors, Adjustable window screens fit any window, very conven int and very cheap. Doors and win dows, window glass, corn planters, po tato planters, plows harrows and culti vator:. Repair work done promptly and at reasonable prices. Stoves, adjustable grates and backs, sectional griddles, something new. Call and get prices at Richison’s hardware store before placing orders elsewhere. PERSONAL and GENERAL., —— Social, Personal and General Happen ings of the Week. o FOR SALE! 200 yards Calico, assorted colors, at 4 cents per yard, at McConnell’s. g Sawdust and shingle shavings for sale at the Gerry Lumber Co’s. —Mat Scheribel was at Conover Monday. —Henry Howlett came down from Conover, Monday. 3 —Mrs. Wm. Persohn has beeng quite sick for several days. - —The Denton House has been fitted ‘out with electric lights. ! —J. J. Roderick has had electric L lights put into his barber shop. .~ —FOR SALE:—A large-size Wonder heater. FEnquire at this office. EE"A good roasted coffee for 13 cents a pound at the Gerry Lumber Co’s. g Gold-Medal Flour is the Best. $5.65 a barrel at the Gerry Lumber Co’s. —(C. W. Leisman, the Antigo furni ture dealer, was in town yesterday and today. —You can supply yourself with tur- Keys and geese at Tim Donahue’s to morrow. - —T. I. Loughlin of Minocqua, spent 'a couple of days here the latter part of last week. ~ K& You can get Appleton German Knitting Yarn cheap at the Gerry Lumber Co’s. —S. J. Chafin, the photographer, s moved into Mclntyre’s house, near %& Town Hall. : —G. F. Sanborn spent Sunday with T. B. Walzh at Iron River, this state. He returned Tuesday. —Mrs. Geo. Thompson is expecting a sister here from Black Creek to spend the holidays with her. —The best dressed men in town all buy their clothes of J. B. Rogers, man ager of J. E. Sullivan & Co’s store. —F. P. Clure has secured a large watch dog to aid him in looking after the Company’s property at the depot. —J. M. O’'Brien spent a couple of days in town the latter part of last week, talking groceries to his custo mers. j‘ —Wm, Roy of Rhinelander, was in the city Tuesday to prove up on his homestead, before Clerk of Court Rad-! cliffe. ;‘ —Miss Hulda Rampart came down from Conover yesterday to spend the holidays with relatives and friends in; town. | —Mr. and Mrs. Vail Stewart came down from State Line yesterday to spend a few days visiting the family of | R. Stewart. : | §&Go to F. Beardsley’s for your | Holiday goods. He has every thing you want, for the baby or any other member of the family. Bt —Sam Walters left Monday for Three Lakes, where he has taken & contract to put in four hundred cords of pulp wood for F. 8:; Campbell, - —Jas. Langill has his sawing ma chine in his wood yard setup and about ready to run, and will soon be able to furnish dry wood to all who desire. EAGLE RIVER, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, DEC. 23. 1%97. ~ &&"Gloss starch 5 cents a package at the Gerry Lumber Co's. —Fred Morey made a business trip to Three Lakes, Monday. —Deputy-Sheriff Sutton of Minoo qua, was in town yesterday. €& Saxony yarn, 5 cents a skein, at the Gerry Lumber Co’s. & All kinds of Justice Blanks are printed and for sale at this office. —Max Sells and Gene Hobart drov to Crandon yesterday on business. \/ —D. E. Riordan and Wife returned yesterday from their trip to Milwau kee. #& Note Books, Receipt Books and Order Books printed and for sale at this office. & Millinery goods of all kinds at cost for the next fifteen days at Miss Carrie Stevens. —DMart Hirzel left Saturday on a business trip to MilwauKee. His wife [accompa,nied him. ~ —Mrs. Wm. Barnes left yesterday for a few days visit with her sister at Crozier’s Mills, Mich. —Wm. Laev of the Laev Lumber Co. of Three Lakes, was transacting business here Saturday. —Chas. P. Mitchell returned Friday from Milwaukee, where he went to purchase a stock of hardware.. —R. Stewart is at State Line, look ing after his logging interests there, during the visit of his son Vail, down here. —Mrs. Steve Aldrich was visiting friends here over Sunday and returned Monday to her : home near Three Lakes. —Jas. Donnelly of Three Lakes, one of the most prominent business men of of that town, was transacting business here Friday. —Alex. Higgins, who is studying law at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, came home Saturday for the holiday vacation. —E. D. Stewart came down Monday from State Line, where he had been spanding a couple of days taking in t camps in that vicinity. \7 —B. F. Jones expects to leave next week for quite an extended visit at Waupun, his old home. He has not been down before in two years. —D. E. Riordan’s father returned yesterday from Hayward, and will spend a few days here visiting his son before going to his home at Berlin. —Jas. Hobart, who has been study ing medicine at Minneapolis for the past few months, is spending his holi day vacation visiting with relatives here. §2 A top grade Flour at the lowest price. $5.65 a Barrel for Gold Medal at the Gerry Lumber Co’s. One-half Barrel $2.83. 50-pound sack $1.42. —Ralph Dickenson, who had had charge of the station at Bryant for a couple of weeks, during the absence of the regular agent, returned home Sat urday. : —Antigo is to have a shingle mill. A portion of the machinery of the old Sheridan mill has been purchased by Antigo parties and will be removed to. that place. : —John Radeliffe is - spending a few days visiting relatives and friends at Grand Rapids and Waukau. He went down Friday, his two little girls ac companying him. & —S. W. Smith, who was injured in an accident about ten days ago, is still confined to the house and is not yet able to have the plaster of = paris cate removed from his leg. f —Jos. Nemacheck came up from Wausau yesterday. His wife and chil dren accompanied him to spend Christ mas with Mrs. Nemacheck’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Persohn. 3 3 §Do you remember what you paid for that last Flour? $6.00 a barrel, was it not? The Gerry Lumber Co. are selling Washburn, Crosby’s Gold Medal at 85.65 a Barrel. ' ~j} —F. W. Mclntyre, who added a hardware department to his stock of geneﬁl“ih_éréﬁ'a'iidihe last summier, has decided to drop that line and has closed ‘out his‘entire siock to Chas. ¥ Mitchell.© ¥ e " Fred MoFaflate, who has charge came up Mondhy to Epend & couplé bf (days with his family and to be initiat ed into the mysteries of the ‘Wood ‘men's order. —dJonas Radcliffe was quite sick for a few days the latter part °of last week. —D. E. Riordan returned Thursday from a short visit with his brother at Hayward. —Mrs. A. King has been quite sick but is better now and is able to be up around again. —W. J. Neu, editor of the Daily News of Three Lakes, was a -visitor in this city Friday. —R. Otto of State Line passed through here Monday on a business trip to Oshkosh. ; —Miss Nott, milliner in Mrs. Mo rey’s store left Monday to spend the holidays at home. 'f —N. A. Colman left Saturday for Chicago to spend a few days visiting his brother and sister. —Don’t fail to attend the Christmas tree at the Skating Rink, Friday even ing. A very pleasant time may be ex pected. —-A. G. Richison has about comple ted she repairs on his dwelling house which he has begn making for several months. , —Mart Hirzel has the repairs on the Sell’s building nearly completed, and will be ready to move in about the first of the year. —Mr. and Mrs. Dan Graham left Friday to spend some time visiting rel atives and friends in the southern part of the state. » —F. W. Mclntyre and wife spent last Sunday visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Tripp, at Tripp’s Resort, a few miles west of here on the Rhinelander road. —Before buying your Christmas presents look over the columns of the REVIEW. Several of cur leading mer chants have announcements there that will interest you. —The Laev Lumber Co. has made Sam Walters an offer to run their mill next season. He has not made up his mind as to whether he will accept the proposition or not. ; ——J?hn Walsh, who has been suffer ing for sowe time with kiduney trouble, is gaining very rapidly and bhas so nearly recovered that he expects to be able to resume work next week. —The Central House will furnish the supper in connection with the Odd Fellows dance New Years Eve. Mrs. McLeod’s reputation as a cook isa guarantee that it will be a good one. —Miss Edith Crawford, who has been lying dangerously sick for past three months, is, we are pleased to say, gaining right along, and with no bad luck, she will soon be completely recovered. —Senator and Mrs. D. E. Riordan of Eagle River, are guests at the Plank inton. Quite a number of Eagle River people are also registered at the Re publican and other hotels.—Evening Wisconsin. —The entertainment and supper giv en by the Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor, at the Howard building last Thursday evening, was well attended and everybody enjoyed themselves. ~ -——Go to J. J. Roderick’s for your Christmas presents. A full line of rocking chairs, tables, picture frames, office desks and book:-cases. Can com pete with Seigel Cooper or Montgom ery Ward & Co. ¥ ~ && Christmas is coming and with it the childrens cry for presents. When in search of Christmas presents of any kind, call at Beardsley’s and look over his stock of toys, fancy glassware, Chi na-ware aad plush goods. —The Masons will have a semi-pub lic installation of the officers-elect, next Monday evening, over Dickenson & Cook’s store. - They have. issued in vitations to a few outsiders as well as to the families of the members. —Miss Mabel McGilvray, who was the teacher in the Kindergarten room here last winter, but who is.. teaching 1n the public schools at Hurley this winter, is'expected here the latter part of this week to spend a part of ‘hér holiday vacation visiting with her numerous friends in this eity. - Wmmb—rnnswwon'my AND. AC+ | ' tive'gentlemen or ladies'to trav el Tor Tesponsibls, established house in Wistonsin. - Monthly, $65.00 and ex petises. Position” steddy. ~Reférence. Eiclose sell-alitrossed stamped -envel ‘ope. The Dominion Company, Dep'’t. 'Y, Chicage.. & H:STORY OF EAGLE RIVER e et A Short Account of Some of the Most Important Events in Its Life, and o X Brief Mention of SBome of Its Lead ing Buesiness Men, Both Past and Present, by ——o____ Rev. Fatheyr Goepfert. = —O——— (Continued from last week.) Ancient files have perished: our ear ly archives have been consumed; but enough of primitive records can be found in the memories of the living to reconstruet the history of Eagle River and of Vilas county. After consulting one by one the first settlers in and around Eagle River, the chief town of our county, we shall continue our in quiry among the pioneers of Minocqua, Arbor Vitae, Woodruff, Star Lake, a city not yet three years, old, and all other places of importance and inter est. : : Formation of Vilas county, April 15th, 1893. We find our county’s orig in in no surer source than"*‘The Laws of Wisconsin,” passedat the biennial session of the Legislature of 1893, Chapter 150, pages 175-181. The following is the substance of this lengthy and important legislative document, pnblished April 15th, 1393. Section I.minutely defines the boun daries of the territory embraced in the new county of Vilas. Section 2 appoints Eagle River as the county seat, and regulates the terms of the circuit court to be held each year in our city. Section 8 reads as follows: ‘‘Within twenty days after this act shall take effect. the Governor of this state shall appoint in-and for the county of Vilas the following officers, to-wit: A coun ty judge, districb attorney, clerk of the circuit coufft, county clerk, sheriff, reg ister of deeds, county treasurer, county surveyor, superintendent of schools and coroner, who shall, within twenty days after due notice of their appoint ments, respectively, qualify and enter upon the duties of their offices, and hold the same until the first Monday of January next succeeding the first general election thereafter, and until their successors are elected and quali fied, except that the county judge shall hold his office until the first Monday of Januvary, 1898. Section 4 provides for the salaries of the aforesaid officers. Sections 5 and 6 define the respec tive boundaries of the two towns of Ea gle River and Minocqua; appoints the board of supervisors who, within twen ty days after thé passage of this act, were to meet and transact all business necessary to complete and perfect she organization of the county, and deter mine upon and make suitable provis ions for and places for bolding the cir cuit court at the time appointed there for. Sections 7 to 12 f‘ggulate the liabili ties, rights, compensations, taxes, sale of lands, transcripts.of records, appor tionments of and in fthe several coun ties of Oneida, Iron and Vilas. This Act was apprayed April 12th, 1893. 2 To us this Act seemß to be a master ly document and shows all voters what men of deep legal learning and intelli gence they must send to the House of Congress and to the Senate. A legis lator assumes a heavy burden upon his shoulders and none should wish to en ter the arena unless men of knowledge and integrity, ready to walk in the footsteps of Moses, Lycurgus or Solon, ready especially never in their words, votes and laws to deviate . from the laws of our Divine Legislator, our Lord, Saviour and Judge, Jesus Christ. ‘““Year after year,’’ says Fath er Rosswinkel, S. J., ina recent lec ture which he delivered in Detroit, Mich., “our legislators seem to meet for the avowed purpose of framing laws tending to the demoralization of our homes,” such as isin most of our States, as it is in France, the infamous law of Divorce, the deadliest family fiend, a law that fills our land ' with thousands of deserted ‘husbands and wives, breaks up every year thousands ‘of homes, and scatters throughout the NUMBER 29 world myriads of neglected, ignoragt and desolate orphaffs. Here is some thing worthy of t highest ambition of our legislators §o investigate and to remedy by the epgictment of stringent measures against§ two dreadful and hatefully shamef§l family fiends, the law of divorce, aj@d the ever-growing evil of family ded@rtion, two crimes if not speedily checled in our midst, will soon bring about tHe moral and mater ial ruin and death of our modern na tions. Vilas county was na .ed after the ‘Hon. Wm. F. Vilas, the distinguished ex-United States Segator of Wisconsin, who recently honorgd the writer of these lines by sen@ng him his elo quent address, whn, on April 20th, 1896, he presentgfl in the name of our State, to the Cofligress and Senate of Washington, t§ historical marble statue, a great@vork of art, of Rev. James Marqu ofte, the renowned mis sionary, explgger and discoverer of the Mississippi riger. Mr. Wm. F. Vilas, no doubt, fought nobly for our region, where his nagie must be revered by all with gratefulf historical justice, as long as Vila&county shall exist. April the 15th, 1893, is the legal birthday of Vilas county. It is then that our county and ecity officers and lawyers made their stately appearance. Just one week after, on April the 22nd, was issued the first number of the Ka gle River Democrat, by a stock compa ny composed of A. W. Shelton, Niles Colman, S. W. Smith, T. B. Walsh, W. J. Walsh, J. T. Nemacheck, W. J. Rielly, M. Holland, Max Sells and Jas. R. Howe-quite a Democratic legion of shareholders. Jas. Howe, its first edi tor, was soon succeeded by J.W. Small and M. Carpenter; then by R. Sherwood. Little by little the Demo cratic Printing Company was dissolved and N. Colman remained sole proprie tor, with Francis Colman and Wm. Diamond as editors aud managers. So ably did the Democrat defend its prin ciples and so great becameits influence that, for some years, it largely con tributed to keep the majority of the Vilas eounty voters on the Democratic gide. In 1896 the Democrat became the ‘“Vilas County News.”” In November, 1897, the News changed hands and changed its political creed. D. E. Riordan and G. F. Sanborn being pro prietors, editor and manager, while Wm. Diamond retains his office. In 1890, Messrs Arthur McKenzie and Fred Morey opened the Bank of Eagle River, a much-needed concern, on the corner of Wall and Main streets where these esteemed gentlemen ever since have did a general banking busi ness and paid substantial interest on time deposits. This institution in Ea gle River has ever proved to be of the greatest utility, not to our city only, but to our mills and industries, and to the men in the camps and on the drive. Since its foundation the Bank of Eagle River has been conducted with utmost prudence, justice and integrity,. rightful praise should be showéred on its two managers’ brows. en, dur ing the ‘“Hard Times.” jiany famous banks and commercial fifms tottered and fell beneath finance# 8 crash-the re sult of panic and mistghst universal, our home bank, ever;g;; and solvent, undisturbed on its cogy corner of Main and Wall streets, qggfietly transacted its daily business, @Buspected by none, trusted by all. Unger its wise man agement of its pai king and ever obliging directorgffour bank firmly withstood the fingneial storm, which, like a terrific, irpesistible cyclone, ra gingly swept ovel the earth, defying every obstacle, ahd leaving wrecks and desolation evergjsbhere along its cruel path. Our bank nobly kept its ground, continued its dgly work, widened its circle of usefuliess, delighted every one: thanks to E two sterling mana-~ gers. Ad Mulfos Annos! But this is bge Christmas season! Billions of cryftal, sparkling, glitter ing gems nowhine upon the snow, lit. up and reflect#l by our new - eleetric’ lights As m#ny heartfelt wishes'dand® choicest blessifigs does the writer bel seech the Infag#t Saviour to shower up on all the dwellers in and around Ea gle River, on Ghristmas night. =~ * ~ (To be continued.) ey ANTED-TRUSTWORTHY AND AC - Wtivo gentlemen or ladies to trav el for responsible, established house in Wisconsin. Monthly, $65.00 and ex penses. Position steady. Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envel ope. The Dominion Company, Dep’t. 'Y, Chicago. :. 