Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-19
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Neenah.-Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Thomp-
son, well-known residents of this city,
celebrated their fifty-sixth wedding
anniversary here Both are in excel
lent health.
Beloit-Second Lieut.. Thomas Col
bert of Company L, w. N. g.,
who was commissioned last Janu-
airy. has resigned. First Sergt. Floyd
succeed him.
Antigo.-Fire destroyed the sawmfll
at the junction of the Wolf, Hunt
ing and Pickerel rivers. two and
a half miles out of Pearson. The mill
was valued at about $4,000 and will
probably be rebuilt at once, as it had
large cut ahead.
Oconomowoc. Anna Lutz, COOK,
was drowned and Ella Ketter. a
domestic, nearly drowned in an effort
to save her. when the girl went
through the ice on Pine lake, where
both were employed at the country
home of s. D. Herbst, Milwaukee.
Antigo.-Howard Hopkins, aged sew
enteen, pleaded guilty to forging
checks on many business men OF
this city, and was sentenced to serve
two years in the reformatory in Green
Bay Vernon Teal, who is charged
with being Hopkins accomplice, is held
in Rhinelander on the same charge.
Fond du Lac-Miss Louise G. Loe-
bel, secretary of the Wisconsin
State Spiritualists' association. does
not look for European peace in 1916.
Clairvoyantly, astrologically and psy-
chologically there are no indications
of early peace, Miss Loebel told a
meeting at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. E. Zinzow
Beloit.-Beloit has joined other
cities in refusing to pay to the
county and state the road tax levied
under the present law. The common
council directed City Treasurer David
Rogers to decline to pay to the county
treasurer $7,524.27 assessed as taxes
from the city for county and state
road expenses.
Antigo-Students of the Amigo
high school and pupils of the Filth
ward school, homeless since the high
school burned, will resume sessions in
a few DAYS, rooms having been secured
in churches, lodge rooms, city hall and
courthouse All departments will be
continued Immediate steps will be
taken for erection of a new building to
cost not less than 100000.
Boscobel-This city has recently
recovered from an epidemic of small
pox which once threatened to as
sumo a more serious aspect. The prin-
cipal reason it did not, according to
DIR. G. w. Henika, deputy state health
officer, was the fact that the local
board of health strictly enforced the
25-day vaccination clause in the
schools and also the quarantine law.
Madison.-The Wisconsin tax COM
mission has been requested by
Chief Justice Winslow of the supreme
court to give it's reasons for its con-
struction of the law relative to the as
sessment of public utilities. where the
latter extend over more than one as
.sessment district The commission had
given its construction Of the law in the
case of the Burkhardt Milling and
Electric company against the city of
Hudson
acknowledgements has started a
movement for the construction of
a big auditorium for public gath
erings. One interested Kenosha man
has offered the Kenosha retailers
free rent for site for term of twen-
ty years if the association will raise
the money necessary for the building.
1t is proposed to build a two-story
structure 100 feet square, entirely of
steel and glass and with halls suitable
for holding big meetings.
Madison. The Wisconsin State
horticultural society, at its an
nual meeting, reelected its old off,
GERS for the ensuing year. These off,
GERS are: President, N. A. Rasmussen
OF Oshkosh; vice-president, D. e.
Bingham of Sturgeon Bay; treasurer,
Senator L. G. Kellogg of Ripon; secre-
tary, Frederic Cranefeld of Madison.
Mr.. Cranefeld also is editor of the
Wisconsin Horticultural magazine,
published monthly by the society.
Milwaukee.-Forty members of the
Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fra
ternity attended the sixteenth an
nual banquet in the Hotel Blatz. The
speakers were: Drs. Daniel Hopkin-
son, E. V. Brumbaugh. j. Seelman,
George Nelson, A. F. Rheineck. e. j.
Rueth, E. l.. Tharinger, L. R. Mitchell,
Fred Russell. Charles Farnum and L.
NJ Miles, Dexter Witte and G. l.. Lar
son. Preceding the banquet six can
didates were initiated at the fraternity
house, 703 First street. They are Profs.
C. L. Turner and A. F. Schlicte of the
medical department of Marquette uni
versity and F. w. GCbar, Alfred Mer-
ten, George Gunderson and j. Hening-
son.
Milwaukee.-E W. Williams of
Richland Center has been award
ed the principal prize at the
cheese show being held in connection
with the convention of the Wisconsin
State CheeSemakerS' association in