Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-17
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
The Cumberland Auto company has
been organized, which will, in addi-
| ton to handling autos, run an auto
livery.
The Messrs. Bartol are installing a
new bottling works in Berlin, for the
manufacture of all kinds of soft
| bottled drinks.
Material for the Outing Boat com
pany recently Incorporated at Ash
land with $4,000 capital is arriving
The main building is near completion.
Fire believed to be incendiary, de-
stroyed the E. j. Gardner Axle and
Machine Works at Carlisle, Pa. The
loss is $4,000 and insurance $37, 900.
The Commercial association of Eau
Claire has gone on record as favoring
having single assessor for the city
of Eau Claire instead of four as at
present.
The Amherst Jersey Creamery com
pany at it's annual meeting declared
dividend of 40 per cent. George B.
Allen was elected president and An
tone EVerson secretary
A cheesebox factory is being
erected at Little Chicago, twelve miles
northeast of Athens, Wis, by Emil F.
and Robert G. Hanke. The product
will be sold in that vicinity.
That the Danbury, Conn. hatters'
association will continue its campaign
along quiet lines was announced and
official denial is made of the stories
that preparations are being made to
picket the factories.
The Southern Pacific Railway COM
pany has established at Bowman, Cal,
base from which it will construct
improvements over the Sierra Nevada
mountains, costing $25,O00,00O and in
Guiding a six-mile tunnel
George Boyer of New London, has
sold his machine shop to Milo Smith
and Herman Bolinski, who will manu-
facture his newly invented governor
clutch for cream separators, the sale
of which he will push
Two acres of hotbeds will be seeded
by the Michigan Refining and Preserv-
ing company at Menominee, to raise
cabbage, cauliflower, tomato, and
other plants for TRANSFORMING on
leased acreage next spring
Superintendent Robert Moser and
crew completed the work of taking
soundings in the channel of Fox river
anG will go to Sturgeon bay to COM
mence similar work in the waters
around that port Little dredging
will have to be done next spring.
The government has started con-
demnation proceedings to obtain pos
session of land on Wisconsin point
required for the shore end of the
south pier of the shilling basin to be
constructed at the Superior entry to
the local harbor The property de
sired contains about nine acres.
The Sheboygan city council took the
first steps toward issuing $360,00O of
general city bonds for the purchase
of the water-works plant. The ordi-
nance states that the assessed prop
erty valuation of the city of Sheboy-
gan is $13.426,S17 and the total debt
of the city. including the waterworks
issue, is $3.50 900.
Three hundred exhibitors from Wis
consin and Minnesota points are com
peting for the prizes offered by the
Dunn County Poultrymen's associa-
ton at the show in Menomonie.
Ralph Whitney of Stewartville, Mimi,
judge of exhibits declares the show
second only to the Minnesota state
poultry show
A committee composed of DR.. P. F.
VI Jorgensen. G. H. Ripley, and John
H. Cleary has been appointed by the
kenosha County Medical society to
act with the board of directors of the
Wenosha Hospital association in an
effort to secure the erection of new
hospital in kenosha. The committee
has been directed to secure plans at
once for the construction of a modern
hospital