Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-07-23

case brought by the Western Founda-
ton Co., Milwaukee, allowing Frank
Spajiji, an Austrian laborer, COM
mission to the amount of $2,010.14 in
addition to S777.75 previously drawn.
Spajiji has a paralyzed right side as a
result of the work in the construction
of a tunnel The company sought to
free itself under the contention that
it was an occupational disease.
Green Bay = UnreStrained running
of vicious dogs is said to constitute
grave menace to sheep raising in
Brown County. Because of no existing
legislation to protect them from their
neighbours dogs, farmers have in the
past had so many of their animals
either killed or badly multilated by
dogs so that they had to be put out OF
their misery, that they have steadily
been discouraged in continuing sheep
raising.
Eau Claire-Demand has been made
upon the council and the Police and
Fire Board by committee of the Rub
Der Workers Union that Chief of Po-
lice Elmer Sundby be removed from
office The union charges that the
chief has shown partiality in dealing
with the socalled lockout at the Gill
lette Rubber Company plant.
Merrill = The body of Private Otto
Lemke, who drowned in the Wisconsin
River at Merrill over a week ago, was
found considerable distance from the
scene of the accident by his father,
Albert Lemke, and brother-in-law,
Clarence olson The two had main
tanned a constant search for the corpse
since the drowning.
Superior = Lieut. Thorpe Langley,
Second Machine Gun battalion, First
division, American expeditionary
force, who has returned from twenty
one months of overseas service, is the
only officer OF the unit left alive. He
was in FIVE battles and has been
awarded the Victoria cross and the
croix de gilerre.
Madison-Daniel Florness of River
Falls has filed suit in federal court
here, charging he has not received one
cent of the $4,000 war risk insurance
of his son, Laurie Welter Florness,
who died Nov 6, 1918, in military serv-
ice at Camp Shelby, Miss. The insur-
ance was payable in monthly Install
ments of $3.50.
Neenah = An early merger of the
First National and Neenah state banks
was announced. The new First Ma
tional bank, as the institution will be
called, will be capitalized at $150,O0O
and will have resources of more than
S1,500,000 The present Neenah State
Bank Building will be occupied.
Madison-Dr Louis Z. Reber, dean
of the extension division of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, who has returned
from France, where he was director OF
the college of engineering in the A. b.
F. university, was awarded the Officer
d. Academic for distinguished serv-
ices.
Neenah-The Thorn airplane, which
recently gave an exhibition flight over
the Twin Cities and which is well
known to local people, has been sold
to a party of Green Bay men who pro-
pose to organize an aero club.
Superior-T wage scale of Supe-
rior and Duluth street car men will be
increased cents an hour after Aug. 1,
according to Herbert Warren, general
manager of the company.
Wausau-The new monastery OF the
Capuchin Order at Marathon City,
near here, will be dedicated Aug. IL
The institution will take care of forty
students preparing for priesthood.
Iron River-Clark Petersen was
struck by lightning and his clothing
torn to strips. Although severely
burned he will recover.
Appleton-ADout ZOU ueleSdIeS WERE
present at the opening of the 9th an
.nual Convention of the Wisconsin
Federation of Labor.
Menasha- The body of Mrs. Lucy
Bolton, IS, was found hanging by
rope fastened to hook in the bath
room at her home. Ill health and de
spondency were suffered by Mrs. Boil
ton since about year ago when her
mother died. She leaves one son, two
sisters and one brother.
Superior The street railway COM
pany has ordered six zone man cars
to be placed in service in Duluth and
Superior. The cars are supplement
tary to the present equipment and
will be placed on the shorter lines.