Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-08-25
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| hurt when the automobile IN which
| they were riding was hit by freight
| train on the Northwestern railroad at
a grade crossing north of Mendoza
| Baraboo.-The Sank County Old
! Settlers association, organized more
| than fifty years ago, has gone out of
existence. The association owns a
valuable tract of land near DEVILS
Lake State park, which will be sold at
auction on August 25, to settle out
standing accounts.
| Madison-Governor Philip par
doned Bertha and Gustave Luther of
Waupaca county, who are serving sem
fences in the state prison at Waupun
! for an offense committed after they
had been divorced. The pardon is con-
! ditional on their remarrying before
| they leave the prison.
| Antigo.-The annual convention or
| the ginseng growers Of the state will
| be held in Amigo August "a and 25.
| The program will include paper by
| w. J. Zahl, one of the best informed
| and leading growers in the state. 1t
! is expected that between seventy-t1ve
and one hundred growers will attend.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Bernard
Moran of Rhinelaneer resigned as
member of the legislature and quail
fed as state supervisor of inspectors
of Illuminating oils, to succeed Louis
| F. Meyer of Milwaukee. Mr.. Moran
announced the reappointment of Will
| liam F. Willis of Milwaukee as chief
| deputy and Arthur w. Ovitt of Madi-
son as clerk in his Office.
Peshtigo.-Rev. L. R. Lund of this
city was elected president of the Nor
wegian Lutheran Young Peoples
union of northern Michigan and north
ern Wisconsin at it's closing meeting.
| The others are: Vice-president, Rev.
| o. C. Gallagher of Escanaba; secre-
| tary, Mrs. Mary Hanson of Peshtigo;
treasurer, George Johnson of Walsh,
| Wis. Marinette was awarded the next
| meeting.
Madison.-With five deputies in the
| field, the work of the new state en-
| tomologist, j. G. Sanders, in inspect
| ing and cleaning up the nursery stock
and orchards of the state is making
| satisfactory progress. Mr.. Sanders
| has started on an overland tour OF
| the Milwaukee nursery district extend
| ing from Waukesha to the lake shore.
His deputies will make their trips by
automobile throughout the nursery
sections of the state.
| La Crosse.-The State Hotel Mems
| association convention ended with a
steamer excursion to Winona. The
convention commended the establish
ment of hotel school to teach hotel
| accounting and detail. A hotel was
defined as ANY building or place of
| fered to the public for sleeping or eat
! ing purposes and containing five or
more rooms" This definition will be
recommended to the national associa-
ton. Elkhart lake, Grand Rapids and
| GAINESVILLE want the next state conven-
| ton
Superior-Two boys, aged six and
eight years, respectively, were blown
| to bits by an explosion of dynamite
| on a farm near Scion Springs. The
two lads were herding cattle on the
farm of their parent, Pearl Phelps.
In shack near where they were work
n,
| stored In some unexplained manner
| the dynamite was exploded and the
lads hurled into space. Only bits of
| their clothing were found by searchers
| who covered every foot of space for
| blocks around the scene of the explo-
sion.
| Minocqua-One of northern Wiscon-
| ~, o,+ 1,o11rd ruoc nom
mitted when Emil Thompson of Wood
ville twenty-eight years of age, was
| stabbed to death while in one of the
| buildings adjacent to Paquette saloon
| at Boulder Junction Besides small
cut on left side, murdered man re-
ceived ugly cash, severing three ribs
on left side and four on right. Small
piece of heart was also cut off. Har-
vey Kelly, who lives at Wild Cat
Springs, was arrested by Sheriff Hull
of Villas county Reported that he
was found in woods near home chang
ing clothes and that he had bloody
knife in his possession
La Crosse.-C. A. Hunt of La Crosse
was elected president of the Wiscon-
| sin Hotel Mems association at the
nineteenth annual convention here. E.
/ J. Carroll of Watertown was elected
vice-president, and Herman 0.
| Kletzsch of Milwaukee, secretary and
treasurer One hundred were in at
tendance. The eight-year-old fight for
a proper definition of hotel con-
sumed the business session. The dele
gates left for Davenport to attend the
Northwestern Hotel Mems convention.
Ray Smith, manager of the Hotel
Pfster, Milwaukee, former president
of the association, presided. Among
| other Milwaukee hostelry men here
were: H. o. Kletzsch of the Repub-
lican house; Ben Scherer of the Globe;
/ H. S. Hadfield, Maryland c. c. Ran
| dolph, Schlitz, Charlotte and Ram
dolph, and j. F. Byers, Plankinton.