Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-04-21
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Menzner of Marathon was destroyed
by fire. The loss will exceed $4,000.
Park Falls.-Randolph five-year-old
son of Philip Oesterrich, farmer
here, was instantly killed when the
wheel of a farm implement passed
over his head
Neenah.-Fifty preachers will meet
here April Is, IA and Is, for the spring
gathering of the Presbytery of Win
nebago county. Rev. John Timothy
Stone of Chicago will speak
Edgerton-In a debate between
girl speakers from the Edgerton and
GAINESVILLE high schools on the ques-
ton of the adoption of federal prohibit
ton, the Edgerton girls won.
Black River Falls.-Adam Relyea, a
veteran of the Civil war and proml-
nent figure in Jackson county affairs
for half century, is dead at his home
here. He was nearly eighty years OLD.
Neenah.-H. R. Patch of Oshkosh,
who was defeated by one vote
by Reginald e. Saunders of this
city for superintendent of schools of
Winnebago county, will not contest
the vote. The salary is $1,000.
Antigo-Robbers broke into the
saloons of Lawrence Walk and
Vanooyen Bros. and stole SIG in
change from the cash registers. They
failed to open the safe containing
$500.
Madison-"The Dean of Women"
by Mrs. Lois K. Mathews, dean
of women at the University OF
Wisconsin, is the first book in its
field. 1t opens with a forewOrd by
President c. r. Van Hise.
JanesvilIe.-Under auspices of the
GAINESVILLE Commercial club, town
meetings are being held at which
the good roads problems are being dis
cussed. The club has offered prize
for the best kept strip of roadway,
and numerous entries have been made.
Oshkosh-The Wisconsin district,
Evangelical synod, will hold a con-
ference here on May 26 to 81.
Rev. H. Meier, president, Milwaukee,
will have charge. Rev. Theodore
Irion, ST. Paul Evangelical church,
this city, has large committee at
work making arrangements.
Beloit A union movement of
churches will have evangelistic
meetings in this city in October,
conducted by Rev. James Rayburn,
who carried on meetings in Stevens
Point, Waukesha and other Wiscon-
sin cities recently.
Kenosha.-The jitney business was
given a setback here when two
cars met in a headon collision on
the Ashland avenue road, mile south
of the city. Nine passengers in one
of the buses had a narrow escape
but none of them was injured. Both
cars were wrecked.
Bayfield,. men were drowned
and two escaped when a United
States mail boat was crushed be-
tween ice foes on Chequamagon
bay. The dead are: Nels Cizen, Sr.,
Clarence Wright and Charles Russell,
all of Lapointe Russell Angus and
w. S. Johnson were rescued by two
men in an open boat.
New Richmond - prairie fire
started from rubbish fire set by
a 500 line section crew swept over
a considerable area of open country
northwest of the city. Albert Buett-
ner's fine farm buildings were threat
ened and were only saved through eff
forts of those who went out from the
city in automobiles and fought off the
flames
La Crosse.-A safe in the saloon Of
Adalbert Delamater at Onalaska,
three miles from here, was car
ried to the rear of the place and
dynamited. The yeggmen carried
away 500 in cash. No arrests have
been made The police are looking
for tall man with small black grip
who was in the place. He has dis
appeared
Wausau.-Frank Martell of Man
Vile was held for trial at the
next term of the Marathon county
circuit court On a charge of murder
He was not admitted to bail. 1t is
charged Martell killed his son-in-law,
Charles Schroeder, following family
quarrel. Schroeder is said to have
visited the house seeking an interview
with his wife, from whom he was
separated, when the alteration took
place. The case will come up on
April 20.
Beaver Dam.-At the annual con-
vention of the North Central AGA
demic association held at Chicago,
the following officers were elected:
President, Edwin P. Brown, Wayland
academy, Beaver Dam, Wis; vice
president, Maj. H. G. Glascock, Culver
Military academy, Culver, Ind; Sec
rotary, Grover c. Good, Howe school,
Lima, Ind; treasurer, A. M. Hitch,
Kemper Military school, Boonville,
Mo-; directors, H. D. Abells, Morgan
Park academy, Morgan Park, Ill.,; VIII
bur Helm, Evanston academy, Evans
ton, ILL.,, and Col r. p Davidson,
Mathematician Military and Naval