Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-12-01
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ties Of Springfield, III.
Delavan.-Paul TURF, a Delavan
tombstone maker. has received
from Scotland a completed grave
stone, on which he paid freight bill
of $11.5i. TURF claims that workmen
on gravestones in Scotland receive
only 80 cents a day compared with
four dollars a day in this country.
Madison.-The common council Of
the city of Madison is consider
ing the advisability of contrasting
the cOnstitutionality of the provision
of the state highway aid law for levy
ing taxes on cities for the construc-
ton and maintenance of highways
and bridges outside of their boun-
diaries. Other cities in the state may
be invited to become parties of the
suit.
Madison-Fully so per cent of din
ers in Wisconsin hotels refuse to
use finger bowls. This is the OBJ
servation of state hotel inspectors
who have long watched phases of ho-
tel and restaurant sanitation. The no
tel inspectors report Roadway against
the use of the common sugar spoon.
In restaurants. in particular, is being
introduced the sanitary sugar dis
penser.
Gren Bay.-Rev. Joseph A. Marx,
who has served the Green Bay
Catholic diocese as its chancellor
for several years, was appointed pas
tor of st. Francis Xavier cathedral by
Bishop Paul Rhode. The bishop an
nounced several other appointments,
chief among them being that of Rev.
James Meager, a native of Green
Bay, to Chiffon, and Rev. George Cliff
ford to Menasha
Rochester The Racine county
board of supervisors, now in an
nual session at Racine, have voted
to purchase the 88-acre farm on which
they have had an option for the past
three years, for the Racine County
School of Agriculture and Domestic
Economy located at Rochester. This,
with the 40 acres now owned, will give
price is 500 per acre.
Madison.-Rev. Jenkin Lloyd-Jones.
Chicago's peace advocate and CO.
worker with David Starr Jordan,
addressed an all-university convo-
cation in the university gym. Taking
for his theme, Above All Nations Is
Humanity" Doctor Jones held up the
preparedness now being advocated
throughout the country as inimical to
the welfare of the people, an invita-
tion to, instead of protection against.
war.
Madison.-President Charles R. Van
Hise of the state university called
upon H. J. Thorkelson, business
manager, for a complete investi-
CATION of the causes for the col
lapse of the temporary north bleacher
at Camp Randall. OF the 1000 persons
precipitated to the ground about ff-
teen were hurt, the most serious in
juries being sustained by William H.
GIoger, WATERFOWL; Agnes Elliott and
Mrs. Frank L. Gilbert, wife of former
Attorney General Gilbert, Madison.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. corn growers
have been invited to participate in
a big corn show to be held in
st. Paul. Mimi. December l to 81.
1t is expected that eight of the princi-
pal farming states of the Northwest
will be represented by exhibits. Com
petition will not be between but by
states, each state being divided into
competing districts. The corn entered
for prizes from each district will be
judged according to 4 recognized
standard .or corn raised in that par
ticular section.
Menasha.-F'ifty years ago a little
girl, ten years old, took a tin
cup from the store of Ignatz Trilling.
q Menasha resident who was in the
hardware business. The woman, now
sixty years old and living 1000 miles
from where the theft was committed,
recently made inquiries of relatives if
Mr.. Trilling were still living. On learn.
ing that H. H. Trilling, a son. was
still in the business, she sent him so
cents with a letter of explanation. say
ing she had, in later years, deeply felt
the wrong she had done and that the
so cents was to cover the cost of the
tin cup, which was ten cents, with in
terest.
Monroe.-After being mourned as
dead for thirty years the disap-
pearance of Fabian Streiff from
New Glarus has been solved. He
started wolf hunting one Sunday
morning and no trace of him was ever
found 1t was presumed he had met
with an accident and had been eaten
by wolves. A letter received says the
old man tas arrived at a farm house
near Stockton, ILL.,, having walked so
miles from Morrison, H., on his way
home He had worked for a Morrison
farmer ever since his disappearance,
until too old to work any longer, when
he had been turned out penniless. He
will be cared for by wealthy relatives.