Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-10-23

winter
The Neenah chapter of the Red
Cross shipped fifteen boxes contain.
| ing 2,555 articles for Belgians. The
boxes weighed 3,400 pounds.
John M. Butler, civil war veteran,
/ Peshtigo, is suing for a divorce, eharg-
ing cruelty and accusing his wife of
calling him a pro-German.
Harry SAKE, Fairfield farmer, paid
$50 to the Red Cross at Portage. He
was said to have made uncomplimen-
tary remarks against the society.
| The Wisconsin Association of Grad
uate Nurses filed articles with the Sec
rotary of state changing its name to
the Wisconsin State Nurses associa-
! ton.
Otto Henkelman of the town of Hew-
| lit, Marathon county, killed two
wolves, who were about to attack
litter of pigs. He reports many
/ wolves in the locality.
! Mrs. Rebecca w. Bass, a Wisconsin
pioneer, aged SO years, died at Fond
du Lac. She travelled widely and cele-
brated her SEVENTEEN year by tour
of the Holy Land.
J. c. Harcum, So, Fond du Lac coun-
ty food administrator and director of
the First National and Citizens State
bank, is dead He was prominent in
Masonic circles.
Owing to the Spanish influenza cpl
demic in the South the Ringing
Brothers circus closed it's season in
Georgia, Oct 2, and has gone to
Bridgeport, Conn. where it will winter
this season instead of in Baraboo.
Marinette is planning $4,000 Lib
erty loan memorial for the boys of
the county who made the supreme
sacrifice during the war. Subscrip-
lions will be voluntary. The plan orig
mated in Marinette
The Menominee River Sugar Co.'S
plant at Marinette, has begun the
manufacture of sugar, starting on a
ninety-day run. A great quantity of
beets arrived. In the process used, no
part of the product is wasted.
Matthias Rauner of Marinette has
six sons in the service - Edward, a
spruce cutter; Charles, in England;
Max, in Washington; Matthias, in
France; Ernest, in Rockford, Ill, and
Emil, recently indicted.
The steam yacht Bonita, formerly
owned by Senator Isaac Stephenson,
Mrinette, has been purchased by
Green Bay boat builders, and will be
converted into steam trawler, which
will be used by the government.
The joint crop report of the Wis.
consin department of agriculture and
the United States bureau of crop esti-
mates issued at Madison shows that
one of the largest grain crops in the
history of the state has been har-
vested.
Because of the shortage of American
cheese, state hotel chairmen for the
food administration throughout the
country have been asked to eliminate
all cheese from the free lunch coun-
tiers, serving at such lunches only
crackers, pickles and olives.
Because Health Commissioner J. M.
Furstmann, La Crosse, had taken a
stand against closing schools to check
epidemic of Spanish influenza, Mayor
A. A. Bentley called in two members
of the board of health and without
Furstman's consent, issued an order
closing all schools, churches and thea.
tiers.
Thirteen members of the Marathon
County Bee Keepers association this
year realized a total of $1,000 pounds
of honey according to reports received
at the fall meeting held in Wausau.
Lewis Francisco of Mosinee reported
the largest amount, eleven tons of
honey being the product of his bee
colonies this season.
Another vocation has been invaded
by women in Green Bay. They are re-
placing men as arc light cleaners on
the streets of the city. Five women
are now working daily at the new job
and making good, according to the city
officials. These women have taken the
places of men, who have been trans
ferred to the shipbuilding plant
In a statement issued at Madison,
State Treasurer Johnson takes excep-
ton to certain statements made as to
the finances of the state for alleged
political reasons, and warns the mu-
inequalities to prepare for decided
decrease in income taxes If the pro-
posed excess profits tax now pending
before congress becomes law.
The railroad commission issued an
order granting a 7-cent street car fare
to the Ashland, Light, Power and
Street Railway company. The order
provides that cash fares shall be q
cents with six tickets for 40 cents,
while school children's tickets are In
creased from 21a to 3 II cents. The or
der becomes effective on Oct. 16.
Erichinp in Green Bay has never