Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-30

who owes the bill, as the board OF
health says it did not ask DR.. McRatn
to carry on the work at the expense
of the city.
Stevens Point-Motoring in Portage
county while intoxicated becomes
most expensive amusement as the re-
suit of a decree just announced py
Judge John A. Murat Any person
found guilty of driving an automobile
while intoxicated will be fined not less
than $50 and costs in my court here
after" is the statement which Judge
Murat has made to the public.
Sheboygan- Fraternal Order OF
Eagles has decided to organize the
largest bugle and drum corps IN WIS
consin. At recent meeting, plans
were made for an enlargement of the
present organization, to thirty men.
Theodore CRUDE is manager, Arthur
Kuhnert director, and Capt. Paul W.,
Schmidt. who has just returned from
the front, drum major.
Janesville-The need for carpenters
here is the greatest in history. Con
tractors are appealing TO other cities
for men to aid in the construction
work just beginning throughout the
| CITY. One hundred carpenters can cas-
lily be used, said G. Hayes, local con-
tractor. The employment bureau OF
| the Chamber of Commerce has calls
for fifty carpenters.
Antigo-F. G. Swoboda of this city,
for five years agricultural agent for
Langlade county, and for the last two
years supervisor of agricultural
agents in sixteen northeastern Wis
consin counties, has contracted with
the Marathon county agricultural COM
mittee to serve as county field agent
for two years, beginning May /.
| Antieo-For the third time the
Langlade county board has voted an
appropriation for a free county fair.
An appropriation of $4,000 was made.
BY this the county is assured of the
states appropriation, which is 80 per
cent of the fair premiums paid by the
county. An appropriation of $500 was
made for an exhibit at the state fair
| Plymouth-P. X. Wheeler has dona-
ted his remarkable collection of GU
rios, assembled during many years of
painstaking search, to the Plymouth
public library. Mr.. Wheeler has trav-
eled extensively from coast to coast,
and having novelties as hobby, he
acquired a rare collection of curios,
most of them educational in value.
| Superior - More than $250,000 will
be expended on street paving in Su
perior during 1919, according to City
Engineer e. A. Banks. The program
caus for seventy-four blocks of paw
ing, mostly concrete, more than six
miles, besides being sewer and con-
crete sidewalk construction.
ShebOygan-The annual fair of the
Sheboygan County Agricultural asso-
citation will be held Sept. 8, 4, and 6
this year. Horse racing will be con-
spicuous feature. Farmers from vari-
Gus parts of the county are planning
to enter large exhibits of products of
the soil and livestock.
Green Bay - Irwin Harris, first
Green Bay soldier to lost leg in the
war against Germany, returned home
on a thirty-day fourlough. He will re-
turn to Washington for discharge, and
then go to work in the Detroit post
office, where Uncle Sam has found a
job for him.
! Rhinelander = The manual training
class of Rhinelander High school has
sent to devastated regions of France
The boys have just sent the Red Cross
| twenty-five crutch-canes for GONZALES
/ cents.
Waupaca-Miss Charlotte Edwards,
matron of the hospital at the Wiscon-
sin Veterans home here for the last
nation.
/ Appleton Two hundred and sew
enty-tWo Appleton High school stu
dents have signed up to conduct war
gardens during the coming summer
The list includes 12S freshmen, sew
lenty-three sophomores, forty-nine jun
iors, and twenty-five seniors.
/ Kenosha - Michael Russo, farmer,
was released on bonds OF $780, He is
charged with having sold Kenosha
butcher the carcass of diseased cow.
he will be tried under the pure food
law.