Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-01-29
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Observation-Disclosures


Ridge.
Fred Beglinger, Winnebago county
judge, and Arthur H. Goss, municipal
judge at Oshkosh, are candidates for
reelection.
Mike StroebI, %, recently discharg-
ed from the army, was killed in saw
mill at HOLSTER, near Amigo when he
was struck by slab.
Appleton has mapped out program
for the reception of the returning sail
or and soldier boys. The Elks offered
their club for use of the boys for three
months.
Harry Pecotte, %, Oconto, was
scalded to death by a ship boiler, dy-
ing at the United States Naval hos
pital at Portsmouth, Va. He leaves
his parents, four brothers and two Sis
ters.
George w. Fraker, formerly Of Osh-
kosh, has been elected vice-president
Of the National City Bank, New York.
He was president and manager of the
Carolina Cotton and Wooden Mills
Co., North Carolina.
Anthony S. Gorski, IS, Chicago, and
Francis Burns, II, La Crosse, paroled
from the Green Bay reformatory, who
burglarized two stores at La Crosse,
were sentenced to ten years at Wau-
pun by Judge Higbee.
John Ruddy, an Oshkosh young man,
has invented a small gasoline tractor
for farming. He is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. d. Ruddy of the town of Mex
imi and has been a tractor mechanic
for the last six years.
Five 2-year-old steers, belonging to
Matt Saunders, Darlington, in a pas
ture that skirted the Pecatonita river,
ventured out toward the running wa
ter. The ice crumbled and they We're
drowned. They were valued a: $1,000.
Miss Elizabeth Mae Boynton, infant
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. r. D. Boyn-
ton, Grand Marsh, Adams county, is
said to be the youngest Red Cross
member in the state: She was one
hour old when her father took out her
membership.
Thous 4nds of dollars worth of ice
cutting apparatus will be lost as a re-
suit of the breaking up of the ice in
the Mississippi at La Crosse follow
ing two weeks of unseasonably mild
weather In addition, over 100 fisher
mems houses on the ice will be lost.
Theodore Komel, who sued Law
renee Hunt, proprietor of the Hunt
Boiler works, Marinette, for $4,000
damages, alleging blow on the jaw
in an alteration over wages, was
awarded $500 by jury. X-ray exam
ination established that the jaw was
dislooated but not fractured
The Citizens National bank at APP
plett recently celebrated it's solver
anniversary. During the entire life of
the bank, John ]. Sherman, now presi-
dent, Joseph Rossmeisel and G.. T.
Moeskes have served as directors.
Lamar Olmstead, was president for
twenty-one years, until his death in
1917
Seven hundred Elks from Wiscon-
sin and southern Illinois came to Ke-
nosha to witness the dedication of the
new $4,000 clubhouse. The ceremo-
nies of dedication were in charge of
Grand Exalted Ruler Bruce Campbell
of East St. Louis and his staff.
Thirty grade heifers and cows were
purchased in Winnebago county re-
Gently by T. M. JeffOrds of st. Louis
agricultural agent of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway, for ship
plent to farmers near Nevada, Mo-,
for building up dairy interests. They
cost about $500. This is the seventh
carload Mr.. Jeffords has bought in the
county since Nov. /.
Capt. Stephen Peabody, son of Dr.
and Mrs. H. E. Peabody, Appleton, will
leave for Turkey as a member OF the
commission to be sent to that country
to do reconstruction work. He re
ceived notice from the American com
mittee on Armenian-Syrian Relief.
Capt. Peabody received his discharge
from the army service in December
at Camp Mac Arthur.
In hospitals and camps of France,
soldiers are studying Wisconsin,
methods of growing potatoes, raising
sheep and poultry, judging dairy cows
and managing orchards. They are
reading how the rural church has be
come a social and economic force in
this state. The Y. NJ. c. A. selected
more agricultural publications from
the Wisconsin experiment station
Madison, than from any other IN the
United States.
OF the S111,000 raised in the war
chest contribution at Manitowoc, S8,-
600 remains, and the committee has
to decide the best purpose to which
this can be devoted. The proposal is
made to use it for building memo
rial, but there is disagreement as to
the form the memorial shall take.
Some suggest a monument for soldiers
and one for sailors. Others, backed by