Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-05-15

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| ed this year. The Walter Brewing Co.
and the Appleton Brewing Co. receiy-
ed letters from Secretary McAdoo
suggesting the merger. The letters
say the move would be in line with
| the national conservation policy in
that it would reduce consumption or
food and fuel.
SpartaLTwenty-t two sticks of dyna-
mite were found on the tracks of the
Milwaukee road at the entrance of the
quarter-mile tunnel between this place
and Tomah. They would have wreck
ed the tunnel had not the Waterman
discovered them a few minutes before
| the fast mail went through A short
time before the discovery freight
train had gone through.
neutrality-suspicious. are now pend
ing between the United States war de-
partment and the officials of BelOit
college to have 200 soldiers receive
| intensive instructions at the college
during the next four months. The fine
| equipment of the college would be
used and additional equipment in
stalled The men would be trained in
radio work and motor mechanics.
Green Bay - Although approach
| ing his eightieth year, Louis Berend-
sen of Green Bay continues actively
at his work as city salesman for the
Northern Paper Mills of this city.
| Mr.. EBerendsen is believed to be the
| oldest salesman in Wisconsin. He
prides himself on a record of not hav-
ing missed day on the job in the last
twenty years. l
Madison-The board of veterinary
examiners of the State Department of
/ Agriculture has closed the examina
ton of graduate veterinarians for Ii
| censes to practice veterinary medicine
| and surgery within the state. Fifty
three veterinarians took the examina-
| lions, out of which number forty-two
passed and Were granted licenses,
Milwaukee = Thirty-nine Wisconsin
mem have been wounded in battles in
France, some of them severely,
| twenty-eight of whom are from Fond
du Lac, and eleven from other cities
| in the state, according to informa-
ton from Washington on Sunday
night, May 5, which included the days
| list of casualties. @r1eR
Marinette-Sam- Barto, an Austrian,
arrested at Niagara, was given ten
days in the workhouse by Judge Daily,
and at the end of his term will be
| turned over to the federal authorities.
He refused to fill out his question
naire and is also accused of making
| disloyal remarks. F5
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Fond du Lac--At conference of
J Republicans of the Sixth district held
| here, Florian Lampert of Oshkosh
| now member of the city council there
under the commission plan, was in
dorsed as candidate for congress. The
| district is now represented by j. H.
Davidson of Oshkosh.
Marinette-At the clost of a Liberty
| loan meeting in Grover, the national
| hymn was started. Three young men
| failed to rise. The presiding officer
requested them to stand which they
did. Fearing violence at the end of
window and fed.
| Marinette - The Marinette & Me
nominee Box company now has, a
| force of forty girls at work in its fac
tory doing the lighter handling of
lumber and box shocks. This is the
| first time that female labor has been
employed in the local wood working
| institutions.
NeenahAHenry Winters, prominent
Weyauwega farmer, died from injuries
| received when he drove his team and
wagon in front of 500 Line passenger
train at Weyauwega. The horses
were killed and Winters was thrown
hundred feet up the track.
Berlin = The Berlin Evening Jour
nal is conducting campaign to change
the name of this city to Boston 1t
invited suggestions as to what the
citizens wished to have the city called
! Madison = More than $3,500,000 in
government war risk insurance has
been taken out by the selective draft
men now attending the university
army training school.
Menasha-Joseph Ottman, ST., Me-
nasha's oldest citizen, recently OBJ
served his eighty-fourth birthday an
niyersary.
| La Crosse-La Crosse now has but
936 men in class one. Over 1000 men
from here have gone 10 war since last