Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-09-10

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! citizenship here and three were re
! jected.
Racine.-The Methodist congrega
ton of the village OF Yorkville
has decided to erect a new church
which will cost $4,000
Galesville.- Rev Thomas Deane OF
| Trempealeau has designed and con
structed cake eight feet in height to
be shown at the county fair here.
Richland Center-According to the
recently completed school census there
are 907 children of school age in this
city, gain of 23 over the 1912 figures.
Dodgeville.-From May 1 to the
present date County Clerk Gribble
has paid 1892 in bounties on 781
snakes. Last year bounties were paid
on more than 1000 rattlers.
Manitowoc.-Charles Salek, sew
enty years old, who had kept gen
eral store in this city for the last fifty
years, died at his home. The funeral
will be under the auspices of the Elks'
lodge.
Beloit-Carl Lass and J.. B.
Rice were seriously injured and four
other young men had narrow escape
when the automobile driven by w. e.
Clophar crashed into telephone pole
at Prairie and East Grand avenues.
The big car was ruined
Madison. - Charles Fl. Bernhard,
fifty-hve years old, a druggist of
Madison for nearly a third of a cen
fury, died. He leaves a widow, two
children and several brothers and sis
tiers, one Of the brothers being Phillip
Bernhard of Milwaukee.
Marinette.-Th force of his wife's
arm hitting him In the face
awakened Irving Duffano, Menominee.
Duffano found his wife apparently I'M
conscious He ran for physicians.
When he returned he found his wife,
forty three years old, dead Of heart
failure
Eau Claire.-Emmet Fahn, sixty
years old. of Bloomer, crawled into
the hay In a barn on Walter
Coughs farm, fell to the floor and died
from broken neck.
Stoughton-Dr. David Cuban, NJ.
c. Gerard, Paul Johnson and James w.
Hunall of this city won ribbons at the
Rock county fair at the poultry depart
ment at Evansville.
Neenah.-There are fully q dozen
candidates for the office of city clerk
here. The vacancy was caused by the
appointment OF J. P. Heating to the
postmastership
Fennimore.- William, Hugh and
John Meikle have arrived at their
home in the town of Livingstone from
Japan, where their parents are mis-
sionaries. They made the trip alone.
De Pere.-Mr. and Mrs. John Coenen
of this city have renewed their mar
rage vows on the sixtieth anniversary
of their wedding.
Racine-Wadewitz and Schenken-
berg, proprietors OF machine shop
here, have invented a self-starter for
automobiles which is being given a
try out on the city's fire apparatus.
Ladysmith.-The city Of Ladysnlith
is about to issue $4,000 of small de-
nomination certificates for the purpose
of extending water mains and sewers
and the erection of a water tower and
the drilling OF well.
Madison employment agen-
cies have already been licensed under
the new law which requires the pay
ment- of license fee Of $26 except in
cities in which the state has free en-
ployment agencies, when the fee is
800.
Portage-Auto thieves entered the
garage of J. A. Carroll here and stole
his car, valued at $500. They were
traced to Baraboo and Wonewoc. OFF,
GERS say two youths of about Is years
were last seen in the car
Beloit.-Jones, alias Elman Owen.
was taken to the state reformatory
at Green Bay to serve n four-year
term for enticing Catherine Nc
Gavock daughter of a wealthy rail-
road contractor here, from her home.
They went to Rockford, H., where
they were married.
Richland Center-According to the
statement of assessments for Rich
land county, there is $12,S29.617 worth
of real and personal property in the
county as compared with $2l. l65, $3.50
last year.
Madison Governor McGovern has
increased the salaries of his staff.
that of Thomas j. Mahon, fed
eral claim agent. recently appointed.
to $500 year and SO day for ex-
penses while in Madison; also actual !
railroad fare travelling tc and from
Washington. The salary of his prede
cessor was $4,000 per year and 81 a
day for expenses. Under the same
law which permits the governor to In
crease the salary of the federal claim
agent, the salary of Harry C. WILDER,
clerk In the executive Office, has been
Increased from $1,000 to $1,000. The
salary of Col Duncan McGregor, pri-
vate secretary, remains at $4,000 a
year Miss Sims salary as stenog-
~e pher has been increased from $1,20c
70 81 500 per year