Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-01-26
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factory organization where profit in
worldly goods was intermingled with
the taking care of homeless children.
Father Francis Reilly died suddenly
at Whitewater. He was born in Clay
man, lodge county, March 26, 1859.
He attended the schools there and
was educated at the st. Francis SEM
mary near Milwaukee. Father Reilly
of Lake Geneva and DR.. Reilly of Chi
cago are brothers of the dead priest.
One sister in Chicago also survives.
D. S. Lusk, manager of the Fond du
Lac Fuel company, left for Chicago to
answer to his Indictment as one Of
the defendants of the alleged cOnspir-
acy on the part of certain coal dealers
to regulate the price of coal. Mr..
Lusk is vice president of the Illinois
and Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers
association.
The thermometer registered 20 de-
grees below zero at Mondovi.
The following finished the four-year
course in the state normal school at
Whitewater and received their diplo-
mas: The Misses Zella Coe, Vera
Fleming, Mae Finch, Myrtle Godfrey,
Ella Jacobson, Alma Livick, Kathrine
Miller and Emily Patterson and the
Messrs. Emil Artzberger, Geo. Coburn
and Karl Jones. ~
Prof. l. O. Quants, a member of the
Oshkosh Normal school faculty, is crit
ically i'll of heart trouble.
Rice Lake is trying municipal OWL
ership of water and light plants, hav-
ing bought out the local company.
Mayor R. B. Salter of Colby, we'll
known democrat, is suffering from
nervous prostration.
The Kenosha common council has
purchased forty acres Of land and will.
build poorhouse. The old one:is one
of the worst in the state. ~.
The Adams county supervisors have
unanimously adopted a resolution to
submit to the people a. proposition to-.
give $4,000 to anybody who will build
a railroad from Grand Rapids to Port
age, with not less than seven stations
in Adams county. At the present time
There Is uOI d Ul1IS VI Cll1l OcIu III CAO
county.
The condition of Gov. Francis A.
Hoffman of Jefferson is still critical,
but he is believed to be slightly better.
At the annual meeting of the Fox
River Valley Medical association at
Green Bay the following officers were
elected: DR.. Noerr, Menominee, pres
ident; R. E. Minahan, Green Bay, first
vice president; DR.. Bellamy, Wrights-
town, second vice president; J. S.
Reeves, Appleton, secretary and treas
urer; w. E. Fairfield, Green Bay; cen
sOr Z:
N. F. Bowling, chief OF police of
Oshkosh, has sent out a letter to vari-
Gus chiefs in the state warning them
that a move is on foot here to induce
the legislature to repeal the general
police civil service law of the state, SO !,
as to do away with the nOn-part1san
commissions that now select the Of
ficers and return to the old spoils sys-'.
TEN. .@t+
The 16-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tony Barth, residing in the town OF
Raymond, near Racine, was instantly
killed by the breaking of circular
saw which he was operating. The saw !
severed his left arm at the elbow and
the heavy balance wheel flew off and
hit him in the stomach, causing ill
slant death.
The annual meetings of the Badger
State Long Distance Telephone com
pany was held at GAINESVILLE to organ
ize a new company The promoters
are H. A. J. Upham, E. H. Van Dyke,
Chas G.. Russell and John K. Fish of =
Milwaukee, and Richard Valentine Of
GAINESVILLE Mr.. Valentine is general
manager, and it is the intention of the
company to start at once a line from
BelOit to Rockford; from Delavan to
Racine, and eventually to Milwaukee,
At Grantsburg the struggle. over.
who shall be countyH superintendent
has been finally settled by Supt. Will
Jams surrendering her claims to re
election and allowing Miss Mabel G.
Abistrom to take the place. Miss
Ahistrom got IS pr cent. of the votes
cast at the election, but attempts were
made to keep her quito technical
ties. IN =: