Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-11-19
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n0fdJOrS IOr the coming ISQSTdl COA-
sus, according to Edward e. Schultz,
Jefferson, who held examinations for
his enumerators. A number of rural
districts in Jefferson county have no
applicants.
One of the first cement block barns
to be erected on a farm in Portage
county has just been completed on the
Chef GARDINER place in Buena Vista
The building covers ground space SAX
81 feet and is adjoined by new silo
of cement blocks.
BY ignoring the faculty ruling which
prohibited the cutting of classes on
the Friday and Saturday preceding The
annual class rush, 200 freshmen and
sophomores at the university may be
barred from final examinations and
given no grade for the semesters work
in classes that they missed.
Employees of one of the largest in
dustrial plants of Oshkosh are work
ing out system to solve the high COST
of living. The 1900 workers at the
plant have been buying foodstuffs By
wholesale in carload lots. Teams
owned by the employing concern haul
the products to the homes of the work.
men.
Raymond Thoreson, II, usher at an
Eau Claire movie theater, learned OF
his adoption and the fact that he had
two brothers killed in service overseas
from a letter from the war department.
asking him to report at st. Paul. The
boy was adopted when year old and
had supposed his foster parents to be
his own.
e. E. Claflin, Mansion, thinks if
Jerry Van Huizen, Owen, can claim
to be the champion bean grower OF
Clark county with 6-pound bean, Mr..
Claf1in can easily claim the champion
ship of the state. He has giant New
Guinea butter beans grown from seed,
weighing 171a pounds and measuring
forty-one inches in length.
More than half as much snow has
fallen at Superior this winter as fell
during the entire winter of 1888,
according to records kept in the city
hall. The total snowfall SO far is 13
inches. At the end of last winter %
inches were recorded for the season.
October and November of last year
had a snowfall of but 014 inches.
The $4,000 breach of promise yer
dict that a jury gave Norma Guerke.
20, Green Bay, against Walter E. Kiley
former packing house official, was con,
firmed by Judge N. ]. Monahan. Miss
Guerke alleged that on Kiley's prom
Use to marry her she had received his
attentions on various motor car trips,
and that he then refused to marry her
The First Presbyterian church at
Manitowoc was left 5000 by Miss Har
riet Bacon, 81, a former resident, who
died at Cambridge, Mass. Miss Bacon
bequeathed her life savings to relig
ious institutions. A Cambridge church
also gets 5000. Years ago she was a
school teacher at Manitowoc. She is
survived by an invalid sister in Yer
mont.
Gov. E. L. Philip has called pri
mary on December 8, and a special
cy caused by the refusal of the house
of Representatives to seat Victor L.
Berger as represent from the fifth
district. Berger may run for re-elec
ton. Democrats and Republicans are
endeavoring to unite on a nonpartisaD
candidate.
AS the result of a largely attended
meeting of riparian land owners at
Oshkosh, it was decided to cooperate
with the water power users of the
Fox river valley and prepare a joint
petition to the war department asking
that the level of Lake Winnebago be
lowered eight inches in the spring to
take care of the high water and to use
eight inch flash boards on tie Men
asha dam in summer months to give
the paper mill owners sufficient power
to operate their plants.
The state highway commission gave
notice of three additions to the Mon
roe county system of roads. One is
made a part of the La Crosse-Cashton
Ontario highway, towns of Portland
and Jefferson; one on the Ontario
Wilton-Tomah road connecting with
the Sparta-Mauston road town OF
Ridgeville and one on the Sparta-Cat
aract-Black River Falls road. A dis.
continuance of the Sparta-Camp Rob
inson road as part of the state trunk
system, was also made.
Reinhold Rozinsky, Manitowoc, I'M
der sentence to two years at hard la
Dor for evasion of payment of SO per
month toward support of his two
minor children, and who was ordered
to pay an increase of $50 per month
when he asked for modification OF
the original order, lost out on his hab
Gus corpus proceedings also. Judge
Kirwan remanded him to the custody
of the sheriff. During the time that
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