Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-04-10
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
News of the Badger State Arranged
in Condensed Form 5000.

Madison-The Wisconsin supreme
court held that where a father mis-
represents to an employer of labor
that his son is of employable age and
such son is employed pursuant TO
such representation and sustains in
juries while in such employment the
employer may maintain an action
against the father to recoup himself
for any damages he may have sus-
tanned by reason of the boys injuries.
Madison-The crop reporting board
shows an enormous gain in the milk
industry of the state, the former
standard of $100,000,000 dairy output
per year having scared to S179,0O0,0O0
for milk sales alone in 1917. Milk
averaged S2.10 per hundredweight for
that year. The average output was
ALSO pounds of milk per cow, or 181
pounds butterfat.
Ripon-W. E. Haseltine, secretary
and treasurer of the Ripon Light &
Water company, has received tele-
gram from Washington appointing
him captain Of the general staff corps
of engineers. Haseltine has been with
the light and water company for the
last eighteen years. He is ordered to
report in Washington not later than
April Is.
Appleton-Wisconsin men in the
Rainbow division are billeted in hay
lofts and empty houses, somewhere
in France" according to Lieut.. A. j.
Began, one of the three Wisconsin
Rainbow officers who have returned
from France. Lieut.. Began says
American tobacco is the most welcome
gift an American soldier can receive.
Beloit-Letters from Secretary of
War Newton D. Baker reveal that it
is a Beloit man Harry Wade, who first
brought to the attention of the war
department the plan to have gold stars
on service flags as an indication that
those in service have paid the SUI
preme sacrifice.
Wausau-Organizers state that they
are having little difficulty in getting
Marathon county farmers to act as
statesmen for the Liberty Loan in the
rural districts, and others are asking
about the bonds so that when they are
put upon the market they can buy
them intelligently.
Neenah-Co. 1 arrived safely in
France about March 4. The boys are
well and happy but can't write home
so often as they have been restricted
to one letter week. This informa-
ton was contained in a letter received
from Capt. r. l.. Smith in command
of the local unit.
Racine-The name of Justice Mar
win B. Rosenberg appeared on the
official ballot at Racine as Marvin B.
Rosenberg. 1t is claimed that the
error caused many men to vote for
Crownhart. 1t is doubtful, however,
whether the ballots will be thrown
out.
Wausau- Conservation and simple
exercises will be observed at the an
nual senior commencement this year,
in accordance with the suggestion of
the board of education. The class
opera and class play and junior prom
will be abandoned.
Wausau-Thieves forced entrance
into the saloon of Robert Bonek. in
the town of Weston and carried away
small safe. There is no clew.
Money in the cash register was not
taken.
Neenah-Neenah will send it's first
quota to the farms about April Is.
Ten boys will be placed on adjoining
farms in this territory and later con-
tingents from the classrooms will fol-
low in short order.
Menasha-Alvin Grove, of this city,
is given the credit for taking the first
swim of the season. 1t was not his
fault, however, for he fell out of a
canoe in which he was crossing the
stream.
Racine-Joseph Subian and Joe Par
wick, his brother-in-law, are under ar
rest following three fires which oc-
Cured at Ives, and which are believed
to have been of incend1ary origin.
Belo1t-James T. Wilkins, retired
farmer and Grand army man, died sud
denly of heart failure. He was a mem
Der of the Beloit battery in the civil
war.
Oconomowoc-Jens Anderson, aged
~ years, was killed in the city park
Dy falllng about twenty feet from a
tree from which he was. trimming
branches.