Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-02-16
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Beloit.-James Monahan, seventy
nine years old, employed by the North
western company for half century,
| is dead here.
Grand Rapids.-The next session of
the Central Wisconsin Buttermak-
ers, Cheesemakers and Dairymen's
| association has been scheduled for
Stratford on February 10. The
meeting will include cheese contest
Grand Rapids.-Grand Rapids Eagles
are planning some big festivals
| during the coming few months, the
proceeds of which will go toward pay
on the expense of staging the state
Eagles convention here next June.
Merrill.-Fourteen students are at
| tending the agricultural short course
being held at the Lincoln coun-
ty training school and conducted by
County Representative A. H. Cole This
is considerable increase over the at
tendance of last year.
Birchwood-Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Thomas, owners of the Thomas
summer resorts here, have depart
ed for Florida, where they will inspect
the operations of resorts of that state,
to insure a more modernly-operated
tourist home here.
Baldwin-Postmaste Ed H. Viii
ford has received notice from
Washington to discontinue the postal
savings department of the local post
=, 10 in tba
postal savings bank had one depositor,
who had one dollar on deposit for
couple of weeks.
Sheboygan.-Mrs. Elizabeth Diack,
ninety-six years old, resident of
Sheboygan and one of the earliest pio-
neers, is dead. Mrs. Diack was born
September 26, 1919, at Aberdeen,
Scotland. the birthplace of Andrew
Carnegie, whom she knew when he
was a mere lad
Sheboygan.-Martin Johnson, ninety
one years old, for forty-five years
sailor on the great lakes and
one of the most noted Of the old sail
ors, who retired twenty years ago, is
in critical condition as the result Of
a fall in which he broke his hip.
Sheboygan.-After over fifty years,
during which time services have
been held in the Norwegian language,
Immanuel's Norwegian Lutheran
church has become Our Savior's Eng
lish Lutheran church. The change was
made at the earnest request of the
younger element, many of whom never
hear the Norwegian language except
in the different church services.
Antigo.-Five hundred and nineteen
cars of logs were delivered to
the sawmills in this city during
the month of January. Sixty cars of
lumber, fifty cars of hay and fifteen
cars of potatoes were shipped out of
the city in the same period. From
January Fl to 81, 6,713 cars were han
died by switching crews in the local
yards.
Marinette.-After sleeping continu-
ously for over week. Augustin
Beauchamp, six-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs August Beauchamp of Esca-
naba, passed away. The malady
which the lad suffered remains mys-
terry to the medical profession. Every
effort to arouse him was without avail
He grew weaker from day to day, oW-
ing to inability to take solid food
Corliss.-Perched on a window sill
of the dining car Of the Pioneer
Limited, and tapping with its beak
on the heavy glass, half-frozen
carrier pigeon was rescued by Dan
Healey, brother Of Police Chief Heaiey
of Chicago. The pigeon had silver
band on it's right leg, bearing the in
scription, wv. R. L., ST. Paul
New Richmond.-D. w. Davis, a
local poultry fancier, has two Rhode
Island Red hens which have just
come off the nest with broods or
chickens, one with twelve chicks and
the other with eight, that were hatched
in the henhouse during subzero
weather, where there has been no ar
tificial heat and where the water has
frozen solid every night.
Sheboygan.-A special committee
appointed by the trustees or the
Mission House college to investigate
the advisability of removing the col
lege from Franklin, this county TO q
more central and more accessible 10
cation, held a meeting here. Sites nave
been offered in Sheboygan and IN sew
eral points in Iowa and South DaKoIa'
The committee will report at the an
nual meeting of the trustees in May
Kenosha.-Mystery surrounds an
attempt on the life of Valerlan
Gill. twenty-four years old, Poie
who was planning to return 10
his native land to enter the army he
was found in room in a Russian lodg
ing house with two knife wounds just
under the heart and his throat slasneo
in three places. Five men who were
in the house with him were helo Dy
the police 1t was asserted that MS