Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-06-10
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Green Bay-Charles Betcher made
an unsuccessful attempt to COM
nit suicide in the police station here
when he gashed both wrists with
penknife.
Manitowoc.-The Merchants and
Manufacturers association of Milwau
kee will visit the Manitowoc county
fair on August &c, having accepted the
invitations of fair officials.
Wausau.-The congregation of St
Johns Episcopal church of this city
has determined to erect a new
building. The present structure is tC
be converted into guild hall.
Beaver Dam.-Former United States
Senator John M Thurston of Nebras
ka, who L. now a resident of Beaver
Dam, will deliver the Memorial
day address. He came to Beaver Dan
to reside last fall
Superior.-Hans Silver, a Haw
thorne farmer, was run down and
almost instantly killed by an Omahs
train while walking the track home
from Southrange In the early morning
hours.
Sheboygan.-Joe Daminus, thirty
shot and fatally wounded himself He
had undergone number of operations
and had become respondent. He WA
found unconscious in a lumber YARD.
with a bullet in his brain.
Oshkosh-Inf1rm with age, FREQ
Baebler, seventy nine, Oshkosh, com
mitted suicide by hanging at the
county poor farm. He used wire and
cord which he attached to a radiator.
He leaves several sons and a daugh,
ter.
Observation-Disclosures Heckner, q
woman who gives her home as Me
nasha, has filed a claim for 500 with
the council of Oshkosh, alleging that
she fell over defective railing on the
Sixth street bridge into the water and
was severely bruised.
Eau Claire.-C. A Stanley and Guy
Allen, solicitors for the Isaacs Pho
tographic studio, were arrested on
forgery charges made by Thomas
Lucas of Durand. A check alleged
to have been forged by Stanley on A.
G. Isaacs, was cashed by Lucas, and
arrest followed the refusal of payment
here.
Appleton.-Albert Diener, Appleton.
and Miss Ella Getschow, Shawano.
drowned when the launch in which
they were riding struck hid
den rock in the Fox river and was cap
sized Nine others were thrown into
the water but were rescued by Fred
Kilspert and Emil Lehman, members
of the Kingfsher club, who were in
row boat so feet from the scene OF the
accident. The bodies have not been
recovered.
Madison.-Mrs Amy D. Winship,
graduate student at the University
of Wisconsin, who has the distinc-
ton of being the oldest living coed
in the world, will not rest from the
pursuit of her studies this summer. She
is planning to attend the summer ses-
sion at Ohio State university during
the early part of the summer vacation.
Mrs. Winship has spent the last year
at Wisconsin IN the study of chemistry.
physics and the allied sciences.
Waukesha.--Th schedule for the
Carroll college football team has
been announced by Manager VIII
bur Imig as follows: September 26.
open; October 8, Marquette at Milwau-
kee; October 10, Lawrence at Apple
ton; October II, De Paul at Chicago;
o. 90 WJof
town at Waukesha; October 81, North
western Of Naperville. H., at Naper-
vile; November Z, Lake Forest at
Lake Forest; November II, Ripon at
Waukesha.
Depere.-The convention of Wom-
ans clubs Of the Ninth district
have organized the district as part of
the state federation, and the following
officers were nominated, to be elected
at the state convention next fall: Mrs.
E. A Morse of Amigo, president; Miss
Elizabeth Smith of Depere, vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Stephenson of Sturgeon
Bay. secretary, and Mrs. Germond,
Oconto, treasurer. The district will be
composed of clubs from Amigo, Apple
ton, Crandon, Depere, Green Bay, Stur-
geon Bay, Oconto, Kewaunee, Kau-
kauna, Marinette and Dunbar.
Nashotah.-In connection with the
commencement exercises at Nashotah
house, Nashtotah, the annual meet
ing of the Alumnae association
was held. New officers elected are:
The venerable Walter Gardner Bios
som, archdeacon of Madison, warden;
Rev. Henry Willmann, rector of Trim
ity church, GAINESVILLE, secretary; Rev.
Elton c. Healy, curator at Nashotahs
treasurer; Rev. Sydney T. Smythe, Phi,
D., warden of st. Johns Military
academy, Delafield, and Rev. F. Jen-
kins, directors. A motion that the
Alumnae association should support
scholarship at Nashotah was carried.
The business meeting was followed by
a banquet in Shelton hall rendered the
AfrpoDoo osaooiatiOn and DlaQS mad0