Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-11-27

be placed in the fund and all money
so received will be invested in gov
eminent bonds. About $4,000 will be
set aside this year. 1t is expected
there will be enough in few years to
erect handsome building at the
county seat here.
Wausau = The Marathon county
board of supervisors has made gener-
Gus appropriations for road and bridge
work in the county for 1919. Six
thousand dollars was appropriated for
new machinery, $1,000 to purchase a |
gravel pit, $4,000 for maintenance of
state trunk line system, and $42,419
for grading and surfacing roads; 49,,
622 was appropriated as the county's
cost of building bridges.
Misunderstanding instructions from
the government as to what shall be
done with the property north of Ra
cine, which it was proposed to use for
powder plant, A. W. Tissel, Whining
ton, Del, one of the board of mana
gers of the Dupont Engineering Co.,
was uudUlC W dlAOul1CC NhCAl VII
struction operations would resume
here. More than 1000 men have been
discharged.
Madison = George j. Weigle, dairy
and food commissioner of Wisconsin,
has issued warning regarding the
sale of the so-called "egg substitutes"
NIr oicci nnintc thof in,
order that the so-called "egg substi
tutes" can be legally sold in the state,
it is necessary that these products
meet all of the requirements of the
law and that they are properly labeled.
Eau Claire-Lieut. John B. Nelson,
former city editor of the Appleton
Evening Crescent, was killed by a
shell in the Argonne forest, France,
according to a telegram received by
his wife here from the war depart
ment. He was 35 years old and was
graduated from the officers training
camp at Fort Sheridan, H., year
ago.
ADMINISTRATIONS signed by nearly
5000 residents of Racine were pre-
sented to the common council urging
the appointment Of three policewomen
20 protect the moral life OF the youth
of Racine, it being alleged that condi-
lions here are serious and that pc
licemen are unable to cope with the
situation or remedy it as policewomen
can do.
Oshkosh - Tired of long suffering
and of being helpless, William Gid
den, sc years old, ended his life at his
home here by turning on the gas III
his room. He was found on his bed
by his daughter Glidden had lived
here thirty years. His wife, two sons
and two daughters survive.
Madison-Coming from behind with |
a rush Wisconsin scared above it's or
iginal quota of $780, 900 in the United
War Work Campaign and is now
heading for it's maximum 100000 |
,oal, according to figures announced |
by State Executive Chairman Emerson |
Ella.
Madison-H. A. Burd, Madison, was |
elected secretary of the Wisconsin
Council of Defense to succeed J. B. |
Borden, resigned, to take up his work |
as an agricultural director at the uni
versity. Mr.. Burd has been assistant
secretary of the council for year.
GAINESVILLE John Milton Mathews,
one of Janesville's Oldest citizens, who |
was with Sherman on his march to the
sea, died at his home in this city. He
served through four years of the civil |
war with the Twelfth Wisconsin bat
terry.
Oshkosh-Edwin R. Zweifel, former
sheriff of Winnebago county and for
MANY years a conductor on the inter
urban lines of the Eastern Wiscon-
sin Electric company here, died OF
pneumonia.
La Crossword has been received
here of the death of Frank w. Hop
kins. former Trempealeau county
citizen, at his home near Kent, Wash,
as a result of injuries received in
runaway.
GAINESVILLE = Lieut.. Frank Rau of
Company M, Wisconsin national
guards, has returned to the United
States. invalided home after being
wounded the first time in the battle OF
tbe Marine, and at Chateau Thierry he
received several machine gun wounds
in his left leg.
Bayield-Herring fishing is in full
swing and many tons are being re-
ceived on docks of three f5h houses
here. If favorable weather continues
no catch PROMISES to be record