Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-01-10

and lists Of buyers. In the monthly
summary which each tester receives
from the central Office these lists ap-
pear.
Eau re-Automobiling on skis is
the latest, and it's a success. T. Fl.
Field, Rice Lake, says so. Finding
difficulty travelling by auto on roads
covered with deep snow he racked his
brain to devise a remedy. Feasibility
of skis suggested itself. He secured
pair, rugged up an attachment to fast
en- the skis TO the rims of the front
wheels after removing the tires. He
then could travel the snow covered
roads twice as fast and with greater
comfort and safety than in an automo-
bile not thus equipped.
Watertown-Wit stocks of hard"
liquor growing less each day, Water
town is threatened with loss of caste
as one of the GASES Of the state. Sey-
eral saloonkeepers are making one
day trips TO Milwaukee bearing suit
cases. The price OF drink of rye or
bourbon has mounted to so cents over
the bar; by the quart, the price varies
from $13 to SIS. but the purchaser
who tenders a IS note in payment for
a half-pint gets a thank you" and no
change.
Eau CIaire-The city of Spooner has
just transferred to the Apple River
Mining Co, its waterpower site on the
Namakegon river and has contracted
to purchase its electric supply from
the company for fifteen years. the CON
tract containing a provision that the
water power shall be developed within
five years a transmission line will be
built from Spooner to Cumberland
next spring.
Beloit - B. F. Lanphear, desk ser
geant and finger print expert OF the
Beloit police department, is critically
i'll following an operation for ulcers
of the stomach. Lanphear fell uncon-
scious at his work and physicians or
dered an immediate operation. Doc
tors say he has a fighting chance for
recovery. Lanphear was widely
known in criminal identification cir
cles.
Kenosha - Andrew Kalinai, 40, sa-
severely burned by the ex-
plosion OF a gasoline tank in the base
ment of his establishment where he is
thought to have been manufacturing
an intoxicating beverage, is believed to
he dying Mr. Kalinai was cooking
grapes in the basement of his saloon
when il is believed he dropped light
ed match too near a can of gasoline.
La Crosse-A one buck law, closed
season on musk rats and closing of the
rivers around he1c TO seiners was de-
manded by members of the La Crosse
county conservation club in a meeting
with Assemblyman Orrin Fleacher.
The state conservation commission
will hold a hearing here on SEEMING
operations in the river.
heavy producer of pork. Every farm
er has a number Of hogs This is
great cheese center and the whey re-
turned TO each farmer after the cheese
is made from the milk is great pig
feed VIII Lidget, Seymour marketed
40 April shoats that averaged 81
pounds.
La Gro Sc Bound Rosseau. 16, con
ressed to being a hobo for four years
when arrested in the railroad yards
here. he took 10 the road when his
parents died in Fort Worth, Tex, and
asserted he had just left good job
heating rivets in shipyard at Seattle
because the wanderlust called him.
Sheboygah- of the 100000 CAPT
tai stock of the Sheboygan Housing
corporation has been subscribed for
ana within few weeks plans will be
formulated fc~ building hundred new
The manufacturers have
10 $4,000 of the capital
al the merchants $4,000.
Oshkosh - rhe Ninnebago County
Livestock Sales CO. was recent,
formed here by c.ttle owners to estab-
lish q livestock Gales pavilion.
Sturgeon Bay -- Rebuilding the toll
bridge between this city and Sawyer
was started All traffic across the
structure IS suspended The ice is in
eood condition for travelling.
Eau Claire Wolves are so plentiful
mt present around Cameron that wolf
hunters are averaging several wolves
a day
Sheboygan- coast guards gave
valuable assistance to disabled craft
Guring the past year. according to The
annual report issued by First SuEIman
Charles Suminow. Twenty four calls
we're received in 1919, compared with
only seven in 1918.