Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-07-31

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ed to respon for entrainment.
! Madison-Unless the farm labor sit
uation clears itself Immediately Gov.
E. L. Phillip will probably issue a
proclamation calling on all business
and professional men and manufactu-
rers, except those engaged on war
work, to close their places of business,
at least one day week so their en-
ployes can go out and help the farmers
with the greatest harvest in the his
tory of the state.
! Appleton-Notices have been posted
in various paper mills of the Fox River
valley announcing important increases
of wages to become effective Aug. 1.
In some cases the increase will be a
horizontal one of Az cents an hour,
averaging perhaps about 40 cents per
| day, in wages of both men and women.
The notice of the increase came as a
total surprise to the employees.
| Madison-Robert LaFollette, Jr., son
of Senator LaFollette, who has been
ill for many months, has been taken
from the senator's home at Washing
ton, D. c., to Hot Springs, Va, on the
orders of his physician. Senator and
Mrs. LaFollette and their daughter,
Fola, accompanied him to Hot Springs
and prepared to remain there with him
indefinitely.
Waupaca-Charles Larson, of this
city, for the second consecutive year,
won the Interstate Trapshooting AS
sociation State Amateur championship
at the Wisconsin State Trapshooters'
tournament at Wausau. He will be
the states representative in the Great
American Handicap tournament. The
1919 state tournament will be held at
Milwaukee.
Madison-The war book of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin is now off the
press and ready for distribution
throughout the state. 1t is reprint in
a 260 page volume of the twenty Wis
consin war pamphlets which were pre-
pared by professors in the university,
10000 of which have been circulated
in the past six months.
Rhinelander - A napkin ring made
from a piece of German shell fired at
Verdun is the highly priced possession
of Miss Louise Handson of this city
who received it from a sailor of
France. The article is beautiful in de-
scription 'Verdun".
Birhcwood-O oliver, the only wet
town in the vicinity of Duluth and SUI
perior, has added five special police
men to it's force of one, since the vii
lage became an oasis in the thirst des
ert The only saloon in the town en-
ploys eight bartenders to handle its in
creased trade.
Wausau-L. S. Dell of Madison won
the premier event of the state trap
shooters program, the Interstate Trap
shooting associations Wisconsin han
possible 100. st. John of Green Bay
was second, with "a, and there were
six ties for third place.
Onalaska = Rev. Albert S. Gilbert,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church here, is employed daily in the
plant of the Onalaska Picking and
10 ,fo bn i, Nv
doing his duty as a citizen in laboring
during the rush season when help is
short
Sturgeon Bay-Cher1ies are being
sold by the fruit growers of Door
county for the highest price in the
history of the crop. Cases are sent out
at prices from S2.75 to So for each IT,
quart case This is due to the very
light yield from this years crop.
Madison = Dane county Democrats,
in conference Endorsed E. j. Reynolds,
Madison attorney, for the Democratic
nomination for congress in the Third
district. M. j. Briggs, Dodgeville, and
c. l.. Lathrop, Crawford county, are
also candidates.
Madison - Two University of Wis
consin goods, Margaret Lewis and
Alice King, swan Lake Waubesa, a
distance of about three miles. Miss
Lewis made the trip in fifty-five min
utes, Miss King in about sixty min
uteS.
Madison Prof. H. ], Thorkelson,
business manager of the University of
Wisconsin will leave for Washington
as soon as his affairs can be adjusted,
to accept an important post in the
quartermasters' corps of the army.
Cedarburg = Fire destroyed the