Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-22


cred in the north wing of the
graded school building. BY prompt
response OF citizens and the depart
ment the fire was put out. 1t appears
that the fire may have been set. II it
had not been discovered in time 1t
might have resulted in a cont1agra-
ton, as the school building is located
in the residence part of the village.
Madison.-The Dane County Equal
suffrage association. with 'headquar-
tiers at Madison, filed a state
ment of campaign expenditure, listing
S273.14 as expenses to date. Other
statements of funds expended for cam
paign purposes follow: Ass0mblyman
]. C. Gilbertson, Eau Claire, Republ-
can candidate for congressman in the
Tenth district, S11424; Phillip Lehner,
Princeton, Republican candidate for
attorney general. $145.52; Walter c.
Owen, Maiden Rock, Republican can
didate for attorney general, S106.62.
Appleton.-Pleading guilty to shop
lifting, only to have the court
change the plea because her daughter
is on her deathbed, was the outcome
of the case Of Mrs. Laura Dunn,
charged with stealing a $40 switch
from a local store. The woman plead
ed guilty, but when the judge learned
her laughter was dying Of tuberculo-
sis he had the plea changed to not
guilty and adjourned the case.
shebo5 gan.-The new $25,OOe Ger
man Reformed church was for
mally dedicated before an audience of
500 people by Rev c. T. Martin, for
SO years pastor, assisted by other cler-
gymen. Tae church is more than fifty
years old, was founded by band OF
immigrants from DetmoId, Germany
John Barker, who, it is alleged,
passed forged checks on business men
at Portage and La Crosse, was arrest
ed at Winona, Mimi, and taken to La
Crosse for trial. Williams has been
employed at Waterfowl for some time
and is known as Charley the Painter"
Madison-That twenty-five states
and five foreign countries have
sent students to the courses of jour
nalism at the University of Wisconsin
during the last three years is shown
by the bulletin of the course just pre-
pared Wisconsin leads with 120 stu
dents, Illinois has "a, Iowa is, Indiana
8, New York 6, South Dakota &, Colo
RADIO 5, Minnesota 5, Ohio 4, Montana
8, Michigan 3, Pennsylvania 3, Ken
lucky 2, Oklahoma 2, Washington d.
c., 2; Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Nebras-
ka, Washington, Arkansas, New Jer-
sey, New Mexico, Louisiana and Flori-
da 1 each. The foreign countries rep
resented in the course Of journalism
are India, Japan, China, Turkey and
Mexico.
DeIavan-The deaf and dumb
who have been educated in Wis
consin will give an industrial and ag
ricultural exposition in conjunction
with the state fair on September 10 to
IA. The exposition will occupy a large
part of the educational building and
will be in charge Of Prof. Warren Rob-
inson of the state school faculty as
superintendent, assisted by Otto
Schulze, president of the Wisconsin
association, and Philip s. Engelhardt,
Milwaukee, president Of the Milwau-
kee Association of the Deaf
Green Bay.-Leland Knowland
has constructed a hydro-monoplane
Of the Bleriot type, and is now
building a four-cylinder aluminium en-
CINE. He is confident the machine will
fly. Knowland, who is seventeen, will
test his machine on water first, later
attempting a fight in the air. The
monoplane cost about $1,000 to build
and the youth has been working year
on 1t.
Neenah.-But for the presence
of mind of Alvin Baer, a six-year-
old farmer lad, Harold Meister, eleven
years of age, would have been
drowned The older lad fell from a
fence, was knocked unconscious and
submerged in pool of stagnant wa
ter His playmate ran to his assist
ance, and when found by farmer was
attempting to wake Harold up
Racine.-With a crash that could
be heard for blocks and which
caused the entire police force to go on
a still hunt for safe-blowers, the south
wall of the Thronson company's build
ing on Main street, which was recent
ly swept by fire, fell upon the roof Of
the Hammer building. The latter
structure was damaged to the extent
of $4,000.
Secretary Harper of the
state board of health is prepar-
ing the program for the annual con-
ference of local health officials, which
will be held in Madison on June II
and 49, The officials, who number
37S, will meet in the assembly cham
Der of the capitol.
Madison.-More than 500 univers-