Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-17
Wisconsin Ne.Us
Iersely Told

seven years old, said to be the
oloest Odd Fellow in the state, and
Mexican war veteran, died at his home
here. Children in DeKalb county. Ill.
and In Webb City. Mo-, survive him.
Chippewa Falls.-Dr. Fred John
son. state deputy health inspec-
tor, was at Cornell looking after diph-
iberia and scarlet fever cases. He
quarantined Is homes The spread of
the disease originated in one home in
that village.
Wausau.-John Ramanski pleaded
guilty to charge of killing musk
rats during the closed season and
was fined $25 and costs. For failure
to pay he was sent to the county Jail
to serve 30-day term. The arrest was
made by Conservation Wardens Fos-
ter and Thorn of this city.
KenOSha.-TWo Kenosha county
boys who know how to raise corn
and one Kenosha county girl who
knows how to raise tomatoes and how
to can them are to attend the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin for the short course
in agriculture as a result of their be-
ing prize winners in the corn and to-
mato contest for boys and girls of Ke-
nosha county, which closed here.
Portage.-While playfully pointing
a rifle at his little seven-year-
old sister, the young son of Charles
Fritz, White Creek farmer, pulled
the trigger and fired, the bullet enter
ing the forehead and killing her in
stantly. The boy, who is eleven years
old, didn't know it was loaded. The
father had left the house short time
before to assist in extinguishing fire
which destroyed neighbours granary.
Marinette.-With 10 county exhib-
its already entered and a half
dozen still undecided, the 1915 state
potato show and convention, which
will be held at Marinette November
1918, is already assured of being the
biggest congress ever held in this
country. The individual exhibits from
the growers of many potato counties of
the state and also the school exhibits
exceed the entries of previous years
IN. 4ILIcuOlS cuO
counsel have filed with the state
railroad commission a petition and
complaint against all railways operat-
ing in Wisconsin demanding reduc-
ton of from 20 to 35 per cent for cities
in the Fox River valley central Wis
consin, Chippewa valley and southern
Wisconsin. Shippers are joined in the
action by the Wisconsin Freight Re-
lief association, representing some
forty organizations.
Kenosha.-Floyd Hartnell of the
town of Salem is champion corn
raiser in Kenosha county. He won
this honor in a contest against 100
other boys. Samples of pure-bred seed
corn were judged by experts Second
prize went to d. Dowell of the village
of Wilmot. Ninety-eight other cash
prizes were awarded. Miss Lillian
Wolf of Somers won the prize offered
for the best tomatoes grown and
canned in Kenosha county.
Naturalization. e. L. Philip of
Wisconsin and Gov. Edward F.
Dunno of Illinois have been asked to
participate in the big good roads cele-
bration which will be held in Milwau-
kee on Saturday, November q. The
occasion has been voted a holiday by
the county board of supervisors and
leading good road authorities of ILL
nois, and officials of Racine, Kenosha
and Milwaukee will participate as
guests of the Sheridan Road associa-
ton and the county board.
Oconomowoc. = Robert Howe was
sentenced to one year in the state
prison at Waupun by Judge Derse in
municipal court at Oconomowoc, hav-
ing pleaded guilty to the charge of
horse stealing. Howe, with j. Voltz,
were charged with the theft of team
of ponies and rig from Arthur Kerr
of Hartland and while in Waukesha
sensational Jail delivery in which the
noted forger, David Adler. and a pris-
oner, Brown. also made their escape.
Ladysmith.-W. R. Bishop, aged
eighty-four years, died at Sher-
wood. If it had not been for so
called accident ir Indifference on the
part of a few w. r. Bishops name
would have been put before that OF
Thomas A. Edison, for it was Bishop
who really invented the dynamo. Many
years ago Bishop took to Lawrence
university at Appleton what the stu
dents called heap of brass. Bishop,
who lived on the east bank OF Lake
Winnebago, pulled the heap of brass
across the ice on a hand sleigh ana
then walked six miles to Appleton. IL
was truly a dynamo, but the students
and professors at university ialo
the machine on a shelf in a dark cor
ner of the laboratory to be taken up
and experimental with at some future
date. A few months later Edison an
nounced to the world the discovery OF
the dynamo.
Chippewa Falls.-Only 1890 hunt
ing licenses have been issued IN
Chippewa county this season. me
700 IaSQ than last