Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-27

recently from his ranch at Sprin
Coulee, Alberta, Canada, to answe
Stacker proceedings. He has beel
placed in Glass AL. Nelson sought de
ferred classification on the grount
that he is married and that he~1s en-
gagged in agriculture. The loca
board held that his marriage tool
place since the beginning Of the war
| Madison-The state of Wisconsin il
taking care of all dependents of tn,
soldiers now in the war who have {
legal demand on the soldiers for sucf
support. The work of caring for sucl
dependents is being looked after BY
the adjutant generals department anC
so far the state has expended $4,000
In looking after the work. The amount
which is now being distributed to de.
pendents monthly amounts to about
$4,000.
Madison-One million more pounds
of pork went into cold storage during
January than came out, according to
the report of Dairy Food Commission
er Weigle. The increase was due
partly to the anti-pork plea of the
food administration, the report says
Eggs are reported practically all out
of cold storage, because of new regu
Ations.
Madison-Senator J. E. Cunningham
of GAINESVILLE has been appointed by
the Republican state central commit
tee to succeed G. ]. Sumner, as mem
Der from the Second district J. NJ
Chappell, Ashland, was named as
member Of the Eleventh district to
succeed M. P. Barton, Rhinelander
Both Sumner and Barton have gona
to war.
Sheboygan = Sheboygan manufactu-
rers face shortage of two hundred
cars and all the warehouses are filled
with marketable products and no
chance of moving the goods out of
the city. It requires forty cars daily
| to handle the outgoing freight and
for weeks less than half this number
| of cars has been available.
Madison-There may be no resoIu-
| ton asking that the state officials see
| TO it that all saloons are closed on
| Sunday presented to the legislature.
| It is said some of the prohibition
| leaders in the state oppose such a
move, claiming there is no necessity
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| Gals see that laws are obeyed
New London-Exciteme has been
| caused by a mysterious illness that
has broken out among employees of
| the Wisconsin Cabinet and Panel
| company. The trouble was believed to
| be caused by the water and about fifty
cases are reported. 1t is feared that
some one has been tampering with
the water supply.
Madison = The total enrolment at
the University of Wisconsin for the
second semester is $500 students, ac-
cording to the first figures given out
by the University registrar This is
a decrease of SAB students or about IS
per cent of the enrolment in October.
1917, the beginning of the first semes-
ter.
Marinette = George w. Ross. aged
60 years, who died here recently, was
a veteran of the civil war and served
through that conflict as sailor on
the U. S. S. Vermont. After the war
he took trip around the world on a
United States wstrship, travelling
moro than 10000 miles.
Green Bay-More than 800 barrels
of wheat -four CT approximately 5000
pounds have been recovered in Brown
county since the drive against hoard
ed flour was started by Food Admins.
traitor Frank H. Smith. Part of it was
sold to Chicago baker whose stock is
exhausted.
Madison - The war will last three
more years, in the opinion of DR..
Charles Mccarthy, chief aid to Her.
bert c. Hoover, who arrived here from
Washington. The first great need is
ships and transportation: the second
is food" Mccarthy declared.
New London-PauI E. Thompson of
this city, former head of manual
training in the city schools, has been
promoted from a second to first
lieutenancy in the United States army.
He is stationed at Camp Custer, Mich
Menasha-On Feb. II the First
Congregational church of this city OBJ
served the sixty-seventh anniversary
of its founding.
Appielon-An enormous service flag
bearing 246 start has been purchased
by Lawrence college and dedicated to
those in service.
Green Bay = Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Gotto, residents of Green Bay for six
ty.three years, recently celebrated the
sixty-fifth anniversary of their marri-