Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1921-12-28

property without just claim. Sugges-
tion was made that the Indians
might sue and recover for trespass.
following the state action. but the at.
torney general believes otherwise.
Madison-County boards have no
authority to appropriate money as a
gift to a city for building part of a
trunk highway on city streets. the at
torney general holds. The Iowa coun-
~ board wanted TO give Dodgeville
$1,000 for its highway work. Unless
an absolute obligation rested on the
county TO do work upon the streets
in the city of Dodgeville, the county
board had no power to make an APP
preparation TO pay for the work" the
opinion read.
Superior-Mrs. Mary Cross Acker-
man Boland. recently married to Jo-
seph Boland of Superior, was SEN
fenced TO three years in Waupun
penitentiary by Judge Scion l.. Per
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guilty to a charge of bigamy. Boland
is husband number five, testimony
showed Herman b. sekerman of St.
Paul. husband number four, CHANGED
in town and caused her arrest.
Madison-All hazing at the Univer-
sity Of Wisconsin was formally abol-
lshed when the men OF he sophomore
class voted TO take that step. The
freshmen will continue to wear the
green cap. but hereafter il is intend
ed that the green cap shall merely
be a form through which the fresh
men will learn to know each other
rather than as a mark at which pro-
miscuous hazing is aimed.
Madiscn-Farms are not industries,
according TO the decision OF the rail-
road commission in the applications Of
the Wisconsin Potato Farm company,
near Green Bay, to obtain a spur track
from the Green Bay and Western
road. The commission dismissed the
application on the grounds that farms
were not industries. which might en-
title them TO the construction of spur
racks.
Neenah-Kansas farmers are build
ing up pure bred cattle herds from
Winnebago county's famous stock.
/ This month. another big shipment Of
pure breds consigned to Kansas stock
raisers was only one of many sent out
from Neenah within a short time.
Winnebago county's reputation for
pure bred cattle is fast gaining nation
wide fame.
Appleton-The high cost of pork
chops. lard and spare ribs doesn't
mean much to John Becher, town Of
Greenville farmer. Outagamie county
| one hog which he butchered a short
time ago will supply him with all the
pork his family will eat all winter.
The hog weighed 625 pounds after he
was butchered and dressed. He was
only two years old but was a husky
youngster.
Milwaukee-There are 12.4S1 men
and women in Wisconsin drawing
pensions for their own services or
/ services of their near relatives in the
Indian wars, Mexican war. civil war,
Spanish-American war and the world
war Commissioner of Pensions Gard
ner. washington. has announced. The
total amount paid to Wisconsin resi-
dents during the last fiscal year was
IS, 7O4. COS. handled by Mr.. Gardner.
West Bend - Two carloads, forty
three head. of Washington county
high grade Holsteins were shipped TO
Los Angeles last week. The cattle
were consigned to the Burr farms.
where a two carload shipment o: pure
bloods was recently sent
Marinette-A $4,000 damage suit
has been started by Mrs. Anna Good
man against Sam Mackevitch. a Mari
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husband. Abe Goodman, who was in
stantly killed when the Mackevitch
automobile, in which he was riding.
turned over.
Madison-The Wisconsin Horticul
tural society. at a recent meeting.
elected H. c. Christensen. Oshkosh.
president. and w. A. Toole. Baraboo.
vice president The secretary and
treasurer Of the society is selected by
the executive body. which has not
been elected.
Stevens Point-Struck by a falling
tree while al work in the woods near
Elderon. Marathon county, Albert
Somers. Polonia. died thirty minutes
later. Another woodsman was struck
BY the same tree and was slightly in
iured.