Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08

sorority has chosen the follow
ing national officers: Grand president,
Miss Lena Baldwin, Syracuse, N. Y;
grand vice-president, Mrs Knote,
Pittsburg, Pa; grand secretary, Mrs.
Sibley Haskell. Brookline, Mass.
grand treasurer, Miss Ellie Ball, Sc
attic, Wash; editor, Miss Polly Fen
ton, Milwaukee; assistant editor,
Mary E. Atkinson, Morgantown, w.
Va; business manager, Mary Rayne,
Madison; assistant business manager,
Matte Fargo, Champaign, Ill.,
Racine-Racine society circles
were stirred by the announce
ment that Miss Katherine Robinson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tur-
ner Robinson, had eloped with G. Ster-
ling Judson. Mr.. Judson, who is from
the east, a graduate of Yale and for
mer stroke of the university crew,
came here 8 year ago and was en-
ployed by threshing machine COM
pany, of which the brides father is
stakeholder and secretary.
Racine.-Local physicians are
charged by the members Of the
local board of health with failing TO
report suspicious cases which they at
tend, and as the result of the death
from diphtheria of Julia Quirk, aged
twelve, an investigation is being
made. 1t is said also that children
exposed to the disease have been
permitted to play with other children,
thus adding to it's possible spread
Darlington-Th sixteenth ami
versary of the dedication of the
Norwegian Lutheran church at Cherry
Branch, Lafayette county, is being
celebrated by the congregation The
edifice was erected In 1851 and is said
to be the oldest Norwegian Lutheran
church now standing in the United
States. 1t has been in continuous use
since 1851.
Couderay. trappers on the
Couderay reservation here are
making great preparations for the
trapping season, which opens in No
vember Both Indians and white trap
pers report fur bearing animals to be
very numerous this year all through
this section. A number of black bears
have been trapped lately.
Marinette.-Mrs Fannie Carlow
has been granted divorce
from James Carlow convict Gar
low charged Sheriff A. E. Schwittay
with forging disbarment papers in his
suit. He also made a vicious assault
on officer Bruce soon after the disbar-
ment suit, ana was sentenced to Wau-
pun for two years.
Appleton-The timely discovery
of a blaze in the basement of
the Stephenson science hall by a coed
in Ormsby hall, the girls dormitory at
Lawrence college, probably prevented
the $4,000 building, presented to
Lawrence colleges few years ago by
Senator Stephenson, from being blown
to atoms.
Madison McGovern re-
stored citizenship to Charles Mil
brath Of Milwaukee, who was con-
victed of embezzlement and SEN
fenced on April Is, 1909, to two and
one-half years in prison. Milbrath was
paroled on October 25, 1910, after serv-
ing a little less than a year of the
term for which he was sentenced.
Madison.-The state board of
control is completing census of
crippled and deformed children of the
state The board is communicating
with the district school clerks with
view OF getting complete census.
The subject of state care of children
who have become crippled as a result
Of infantile paralysis occupied consid-
cradle attention in the last legisla-
ture
Wausaukee- of the largest
wildcats ever seen in this vi
cinity and the first one of any size that
has been captured near Wausaukee
for some time, was caught in trap
set by Michael Huempfner near his
farm east of town. The animal was
found several hundred feet from where
the trap had been set, having torn the
trap from it's fastenings. That it was
not the Wildcats first experience with
a steel trap was evidenced by the fact
that the animal was minus foot,
which had been taken off in trap
some time ago, as the wound was en-
tirely healed.
Marinette. = 1t Is reported in
this city that three dams at the head
waters of ne Peshtigo river have gone
out, due to the heavy rains. The rush
of water was held by the big dam of
the Northern Hydro Electric company
at High Falls. Great damage to Criv-
it's and Peshtigo probably would have
resulted had not the big dam held
High Falls GIN is now backing up a
reservoir of water eight miles long Ii
it should break a condition like the
Black River Falls disaster might fol-
low.
Milwaukee Congressman Victor L.
n