Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-10-26
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ard, seVenty-four years old, saw
street car for the first time and took
her first ride on a railroad train when
she was taken to the Northern hos
pital at Oshkosh for treatment. 1t is
said that Miss Howard has been i'll
since the mysterious disappearance,
more than forty years ago, of William
Potts, Waupun, whom she was to
have married
Fond du Lac.-Mrs. Ann Pier Car
penter, daughter of the late Edward
Pier, and who lived in the first house
built in Fond du Lac, died in her
home in Pine River She was eighty
years old.
Racine.-Committees of the city
council have decided to report at the
next session against the adoption of
al ordinance for the suppression of
smoke coming from factory chimneys,
licensing fortune tellers and clair.
voyants, and sane Fourth of July.
They will pass measures regulating
tenement houses, which are said to be
in fearful condition in some sections
Of the city.
Observation-Disclosures Laper, a sue
cessful farmer, died at his residence
here. He was sixty-one years old and
leaves widow and six children. One
Of the daughters is the wife of G. B.
Kelley, county superintendent of
schools in Green Lake county. Mr..
Laper was interested in many enter
prises.
Racine.-Arga Arnold, nineteen
year-old boy from East Lynde, ILL.,,
pleaded guilty in the municipal court
to stealing the $4,000 automobile of
Solomon Haas and was sentenced to
one year in the reformatory at Green
Bay. The boy also admitted that he
assisted in the theft of the $500
short time ago, which was found in
barn west of Corliss.
Ripon.-The freshmen class of
Ripon college slipped one over on
the ,sophomores in the class party.
The freshmen allowed it to leak out
that the event would be held at Green
Lake and sophomores tramped eight
miles for the purpose of breaking up
the affair, only to find they had been
led on wild goose chase. Further
search for the under classmen kept
the sophs tramping most of the night
without results. In the meantime the
freshmen were quietly enjoying their
entertainment at Fairwater, a small
village south of Ripon.
Eau Claire. A serious wreck
was narrowly averted here when
an engine and mail car of pas
senger train No. on the Omaha road
left the rails at the end of the high
bridge, just east of Eau Claire. De-
railment occurred at a derailment
switch which was open when the train
came along. Little damage was done,
but traffic was delayed two hours.
Rhinelander.-The coroner's jury
decided that Alex Garvey, a
shacker near Wolf Lake, was shot
and killed by Bill Brundage in self
defense. Brundage was freed. The
shooting, it is said, was the outcome
of a long quarrel. Garvey shot at
Brundage, it is said, who returned the
fire. killing Garvey, although he him
self was wounded and may die.
Racine.-The ]. l. Case Thresh-
ing Machine company will with
in two weeks have a flight made by
an aeroplane now being constructed
under the supervision of Louis Strang,
the well-known automobile racer. If
it is a success the company will en-
gage in the construction Of aero
planes.
Kenosha. A movement to Sc
cure state inspection of milk and
The providing of a permanent state
standard for sanitation and purity has
been started in this county. Petitions
are iii circulation asking the WiscOn-
sin legislature at its next session to
take steps to enact a law providing
for state inspection of all dairies and
milk shipped from dairies to points
In and out of the state.
Oshkosh.-Thomas Barlow, one
Of the four persons seriously in
iured in the smashup of George Eos
ter's automobile, died at a hospital
from pneumonia, resulting from in
ternal injuries.
Appleton.-Rev. Theodore Marth,
more than twenty years pas
tor of Zion Lutheran church of this
city, has been given unanimous call
to the pastorate of st. Stephens
Lutheran church, Wausau. He will
accept if the local congregation will
release him.
Madison.-Dr. William Lorenz, for
nerly staff physician of the Illinois
state insane hospital in Kankakee, has
entered the Mendoza institution as a
medical superintendent. The staff has
been reorganized with two superinten-
Tents, one for male and one for female
patients
Fond du Lac.-Children under
fifteen years will not be permitted