Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-01-22


rs, and two were children under 1
year of age. The last death on record
occurred Oct. 5.
Madison-Almost 1000 students are
back at the university this quarter.
About $500 students have registered
Total enrolment last year was 4,043.
The men are back in their fraternities
and the women again are in Chad
bourne, Barnard and Lathrop. More
than 400 old university men are back
from training camps and it is estima-
ted that more than one-half of the
S. A. T. G. men have returned.
Madison = Summons and informa-
ton were issued at the request of Dis
trict Attorney Sauthoff against the
Madison Railways company on evi-
dence furnished by A C. Sundstrom
and Frederick Kilgust, alleging failure
to heat cars properly. 1t is alleged
that in a car leaving South Madison
at $3.50 a. M. on Jan. the temperature
was II degrees below zero.
Marinette-The city of Marinette
liquidated a debt of $4,000 to three
banks of the city, wiping out its en-
tire Indebtedness. Henceforth the
affairs of the city will be conducted on
a cash basis, according to Mayor JOS
eph Fisher. The major portion of the
money borrowed was for school budg-
cts.
Madison-The Beavers, a fraternal
benefit society, with headquarters
here, took over and reinsured the bus
mess of the National Fraternal league,
of Green Bay, which for sixteen years
operated in the Fox river valley and
has fifty locals in Wisconsin with g.,
600 members and carries $4,000,000 in
surance The home Office at Green
Bay is taken over by the Beavers.
Portage-Whi hunting rabbits at
Water Mills, near Portage, Miss Kath-
arine Allen accidentally shot and in
stantly killed Robert Hart, Is years
old The lad was a sophomore in the
L
of Leslie Hart of Tomah and had just
recovered from pneumonia.
ison-Announcement was made
at the university that Prof Charles K.
Leith, head of the department of min
eralogy at the university, had been
called to Europe to give advice at the
SC, 10 Tn1 n
to be called from the University of
Wisconsin faculty.
Milwaukee M. Gavin, col
Iector of customs has announced that
the duties collected for December,
1918, exceeded that of December, 1917,
by $1,997.45. The receipts for Deem
Der, 1917, were $13,199.O6, while the
receipts for December. 1918, were $15,'
1861.
La Crosse = Camp Robinson, near
Sparta, which served as an artillery
training field during the war, will be
used this winter as an ammunition
storage camp. Quarters are to be
provided for 800 to 600 soldiers and
thirty-six officers. Already several
carloads of dynamite have arrived at
the camp.
SUPERIOR will be advertised
for this spring for dredging an anchor
age and turning basin just inside the
SUPERIOR entry of the Superior-Duluth
harbor. The cost will be around $780,
600 and an appropriation of $36O,OO0
is available. The work will make the
Superior entry one of the best.
Oshkosh - Numbers of Oshkosh
women who were employed to take
the pIaces of men in industries who
were called to war have been or are
being released, but thus far the fem.
mine labor market does not appear to
be congested.
River Falls-The state normal
school here opened on Monday, Jan. 8.
after having been closed for more
than two months on account OF the
influenza epidemic.
Beloit - Herman A. Mason was
found dead in the cellar of his nome
here. He has been i'll and it is thought
by his family that he was attacked
with apoplexy.
Superior-Harold Johnson, Superior,
a member of the crew of the battle
shin Florida, witnessed the surrender
of the German fleet.
Ashland Ships that pass in the
night on Lake Superior, are no long
er guided by the rays from the light |
houses. The lights were extingulshec
RECENTLY and they will not be rehght-
ed until the lake is officially declared
omen for traffic in the spring. Ap-
nroximately 100 lighthouses directing
traffic on this waterway have been
closed.