Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-03-01
Badger News
Briefly Told

Merrillan.-Joseph Cisina OF the
town of Dewhurst, Clark county. nlty
five vars old, shot himself.
Madison.-Don E. Mawry, assistant
treasury agent, handed his resignation
to Governor Philip. Lillian Brown OF
Madison was named as his successor.
Oshkosh. Thirteen candidates
have taken out nomination pa
pers for councilman under the city
commission government system The
job pays $4,000.
Eau Claire.-Elmer Holum, four,
poured kerosene on the fire while
his mother, Mrs. John Holum, went
shopping. She found him badly burned,
but it is thought he will recover.
Manitowoc. - William Wenndorf,
lifelong resident here, dropped dead
as he was about to take a seat at
the table. He had suffered from pleu-
risy and it affected his heart. He was
fifty-six years of age.
Ladysmith-A. Fl. Mccormick OF
this city called Martin Hanson a
liar and the recipient of the compll-
| ment had Mccormick arraigned before
Justice Kirvan, who fined him one dol
lar and costs.
Appleton.-More logs have been
hauled to town the past few days
since the snow commenced to pack,
than h&ve been brought in during the
same length of time in years. The
| quality of the oak is good.
Amigo. - Ralph Keaye, an en-
ployee of the Kellogg Lumber COM
pany at Polar, will spend the next Id
days in Jail, he having pleaded guilty
! to the charge of stealing a five-doilar
suit from a fellow worker.
Ripon-Garfield Cox of Beloit
college won first place in the col
| lege oratorical contest held here. His
subject was: THE Challenge of the
War" Second place went to David
Anderson of Lawrence college. He
| spoke on Lincoln the Man,
Depere-Mr. and Mrs. John P.
| Dousman of this city lost all their
effects when the Maitland inn burned
| at Maitland, Fla They were spending
| the winter there. Mr.. Dousman is
| president of the John P. Dousman
| Milling company of Depere.
Depere-C. G. Wilcox has re-
signed as secretary of the Brown
! County Fair association Elmer Hall,
county clerk of Green Bay, has been
| elected to fill the position. Mr.. Wilcox
was formerly on the state fair board.
He resigned because he could not give
the necessary time to the position.
La Crosse.-The Upper Missis-
sippi river improvement association
will hold it's 1916 convention in La
Crosse September 13 and IA. The del
egates will have witnessed by that
time the dream of years-the opera
ton of a fleet of low-draft, power
driven commercial barges on the river.
Green Bay.-Fifteen banks of Brown
county organized the Brown Coun-
ty Bankers Development associa-
ton to work with the farmers, manu-
facturers and others in the develop
ment of this community. j. e. Griffin,
president of the Peoples Savings and
Trust company of Green Bay, was
elected president, and c. G. Scott, De-
pere, ecretary-treasurer.
Appleton.-Members of the Outa-
game County Game and Protec-
tive association said that there were
similar associations in nine or ten
counties, and that as soon as they
were formed in one-third of the state
an effort probably would be made to
or60 q RI
| ment 100000 which, it is claimed, was
paid from that department to the gem
| eral state fund.
Ashland.-The Du Pont Powder
company, which now has 1000 men
at it's Barksdale plant making high ex-
plosives for war use abroad, has de-
cided to photograph every employee to
prevent spies damaging the conpany's
properties This plan is being adopted
all over the country, it is said. Each
employee is photographed, front and
| profile, and provided with locket con-
| tanning this picture and his factory
number, which can be worn as watch
fob. Duplicates of the photographs are
| kept in the office of the company, so
that spies or miscreants cannot gain
access to the plant By the use OF an
other mans Identification locket.
Watertown-Fire of an unknown
origin badly damaged the Masonic
temple building. here and did DAM
age of several thousand dollars
to offices and stores on the first and
second floors and the lodge rooms of
the Masonic and Elks on the third
floor The building was valued at $780,
900. The principal losers are the Wa
tertown Daily Times, which was dam
aged to the extent of $4,000; the law
Office of Kading & Kading, which con-
tanned $500 library; Zabler Bros.
confectionery store; the J. T. Ryan sta
tionery store; office of Justice of the
Peace Ferd Schmutzler; Insurance Of
fee of Herman P. Bahr; hair dressing
establishment of the Misses liable