Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-12
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| Bay, pleaded guilty to the charge and
was given term of two years in tba
| reformatory at Green Bay
Oshkosh.-A fire lasting almost twd
hours broke out in the stockroom 81
the Athearn hotel, causing a loss Of
the greater part Of the stock. The
damage was over $4,000.
Sheboygan. = Rev. Father V. vi
Varagiris, fifty-five, rector of the ImI
maculate Conception Lithuanian CATH
Ollie church, is dead here after brie&
Illness with Bright's disease.
Delavan-By the election of ]. JE
Phoenix as president, Delaware
new Citizens league, which supplantsS
the old Commercial club. officially
came into existence. Mr.. Phoenix
also Is president of the Bradley Knit
ting company.
Neenah.-Rev. w. T. Dorward of
of Neenah's club members and guests
here. 1.-The Medicinal Value of Mer-!
ry Heart" was the subject of his ad.
dress.
Elmwood. ]. w. Charlton, pas,
tor of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Shell Lake, was married toI
Miss Mae Burdick of this place. Rev
Mr. Kneene of Spooner OBLIGATED, as.
sisted by the local pastor, Rev. l.. IL
Litchfield
Oconomowoc.-The Waukesha Coun-'
ty Historical society has received
a number of official and semioffi-
cial British publication, on the war;
questions, which are gift to this So
ciety by Sir Gilbert Parker of London,
England.
Grand Rapids.-The city of Grand
Rapids has decided to build al
new water reservoir which will be OF
100000 gallons capacity and will cost
about $4,000. This addition has been
made necessary through the increasedI
use of the water supply.
Grand Rapids.-At the first annual
meeting of the Wood County Test
ing association at Vesper the fol-
lowing officers were elected to serve
for one year: President, e. E. Buffers
secretary, Prof w. w. Clark; treasut
er, A. P. Bean.
Madison.-The industrial commits
sion has ordered that all LOG
cars in the lumber region have side
stakes that can be operated from tn
ends, the men standing in a safe place
Loosening stakes and letting the logs
off have caused many accidents.
Neenah. - Good road enthusiastic
from Neenah, Menasha and Apple
ton met here to discuss the mattel
of permanently improving the Fog
river road on the west shore OF Little
Lake Butte des Mortes between this
city and Appleton.
Monroe-Monroe awaits leap-year
girls with open arms. City Clerk
John w. Stewart has announced ina
the first bride who visits the court
house with the man of her choice VII
get a license free of charge. 1t is I'M
derstcod, however, the girl must nave
been the one to propose. Other ON
Gals will tie the knot and act as wig
nesses.
Occnomowoc.-Att the annual meet
ing of Oconomowoc Baptist churcf
officers were elected as follows
Clerk, Miss Amelia Weber; treasurer
Theodore Jaeger; assistant, W.
Weber; trustees, Charles GoeLscn
jacob Jacobson; Sunday schoot super
intendent. Walter Nelson; assistant
Rev. Glovier. The time OF the annu"H
church meeting was changed iEoli
January to October.
Oconomowoc.- engagement Oh
Miss Marietta Chaplin, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Chaplh
New York and Lake Geneva, ana mar
old Hartshorne, son of Mr.. ana MIS'
James Mott Hartshorne OF New YoIA'
has been announced. Mr.. ana WIS
Hartshorne and family have been ire
quent guests of her mother, Mrs. H. H.
Shufeldt, at the Anchorage, Oconomo-
voc.
observation-disclosures 8 population Oh
New Years day, 1916, was 2,4So,-
943, according to unofficisl esu,
mates compiled in Washington
brought down to date. This gives Wis
consin a gain of 153,083 in population
since the last official census in 1910
The figures showing the present pop.
uation of Wisconsin are par. of an un-
official estimate of the population OF
continental United States today com.
pared with the census totals of 1910.
Grand Rapids.-George w. Varney,
Superintendent of the Wood coun-
ty schools, has introduced a prac-
tical and popular method of affording
the children in the rural schools hot
meals. Moreover, it is educational.
Each child, instead of bringing indi-
vidual lunches, brings some one article
which can be cooked for dinner, and
the students do the cooking them
selves. In this way good variety of
food is gained and the students who