Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1920-02-04

county board has provided bond is
sue of $207 900 to pay for a concrete
road on stretch of nearly seven miles
between the two cities. Four bids,
opened in the Office of Division Engi-
Eeer William Conway at Green Bay,
were far in excess of the bond issue.
RhineIander-The order issued by
direction of state health officer, DR.. l..
Dorpat, requiring all school children
and teachers who had not been vac
cinated within the past eight years to
present certificates of vaccination be-
fore Feb. l or remain out of school
has been rescinded. Supt. of Schools
w. p. Colburn contended that the or
Ger was not justified by conditions
here and protested the order to the
board of health at Madison.
Brentwood - Following a family
quarrel Axel Nyren, As, farmer liv
ing three miles south of Lampson, was
shot and killed by Peter Asp, a neigh
boring farmer. Asp gave himself up
and is now in the Washburn county
jail. He claims self defense. Previous
TO the shooting Mrs. Nyren had
quarreled with her husband and had
gone to the Asp home where her hus-
band followed her. The shooting fol-
| lowed shortly afterwards.
Appleton-Wisconsi counties which
| bonded themselves this year for the
purpose of building concrete roads
may find it impossible to obtain ce-
ment with which to build the high
ways, according to information re-
| ceived here. Several large cement
manufacturers have already sold their
| entire outputs for 1920 and many other
firms have given notice that they have
enough orders on hand to keep them
running for months.
Plymouth-Kraft Bros. Cheese com
pany of this city have increased the
capital stock of the company from
| 100000 to $1,O00,O00. New ware
houses are to be built for the purpose
of concentration. With the action
taken by this company, Plymouth may
become the greatest cheese market
and concentration center in the world
during the coming year.
Neenah-Retail grocers here have
voiced a vigorous protest against the
action taken by several leading indus
trial plants in buying carload lots of
staple groceries and selling them di-
rect to their employees. These methods
are regarded in the light of unfair
competition by the grocers who claim
they are selling goods on the narrow
est margin possible.
Eau Claire-County officials and the
district attorney were much perturbed
here when the matter of collecting the
insurance of the barn of the county
Jail burned last week, came up. Six
companies had insured it for $3.50 All
present supposed the insurance would
amount to $500, but it proved that
each company pays near $40 to make
Up the $3.50.
Sheboygan-The total amount bid
for twelve houses, three barns and ga
rage to be removed from their loca-
lions to clear the site for the proposed
new high school building, is S8,990.50.
The common council is expected to
sell the houses to the bidders, to ex-
pedite proceedings for erection of the
much needed institution.
IF
Marinette county, and j. B. Laun OF
Keil, have purchased of Carl G. Scott
of Depere, the property of the Pesh-
tigo Lumber company's interests at
Crivitz. The deal includes the yard
| and stock of lumber at Crivitz. The
new firm will be known as the Crivitz
Lumber company.
Clintonville-The streets of Clinton
| vile and considerable of the surround
ing country road have been kept free
| from snow by means of a snow attach
ment affixed to a Four Wheel Drive
| truck. This attachment is in the form
| of a road grader blade and is pushed
ahead of the truck as is the snow plow
on a locomotive.
Fox Lake-Frank Ramp, Fox Lake,
| captured two coons bare-handed from
| a hollow tree. Selling the animals by
| the hind legs, he pulled them from
the hole and then put finish to them
by knocking their heads against the
tree. Coons are said to be rare in this
vicinity, and their hides are worth
about SIS each.
La Crosse-Failing eyesight and the
fear of approaching blindness caused
Daniel Kirkeo, Viroqua, to take his
life by hanging. He was 81 and is
survived, by his wife and four children.