Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-11-21
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

MOnrO6-A membership CClIAASeAeS
to the Green County Agricultural So
ciety and Mechanics Institute issued
in 1854, the first year of the great
Green county fair. still sponsored by
the same association, recently came
to light 1t was issued to 0. F.. Pm
ney, after whom the Monroe G. A. H.
post was named following the civil
war and was discovered among family
relics by Fred Williams, Postville, Ia,
a son-in-law of the late Mr.. Pinney.
Fond du Lac-Crashing into fence
when the driver was blinded by the
lights of another automobile, ma
chine occupied by Harry Main, his
wife and three children, overturned
on highway Sc near Fond du Lac and
hurled the five occupants into the
ditch. Main was injured about the
body when thrown against the steer
ing wheel, while his wife was severe
ly cut by glass. The children were
badly bruised.
Monroe-A large barn, two filled
slos, four hundred bushels Of barley,
seven loads of corn, straw stack and
other valuable materials and equip
mept was lost in a fire that swept
the Anton Erickson farm at Argyle
The livestock had just been turned
from the barn a few minutes before
the blaze started. The house was
saved. Defective wiring is believed
to have been the cause of the fire.
Monroe shredder accidents
of any kind continue to be the buga-
boo of Green county farmers but the
most pathetic case on record is that
of Elmer Kuhnke, aged 26, who is now
in the Monroe hospital with his left
hand torn off and his right hand Grip
pied since birth. Kuhnke was operat-
ing the machine on his farm in Clarno
township when his hand was caught
in the rollers.
Janesville-Mrs. Catherine Dodge
Martin, Darlington, is the plaintiff in
a $4,000 damage snit against Rock
county filed in the Rock county cir
cult court Mrs Martin, Supt. J. T..
Hooper and Mrs. Hooper of the Wis
consin school for the blind were in
jurdd in an accident sometime ago
which they charged was due to the
neglect of the county highway depart
ment.
Glenwood City-Charlotte 3-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. v.
Ward of Glenwood City, drowned near
Gordon, Wis, where the parents had
gone deer hunting. She strayed from
the home of a friend on the Eau
Claire river where Mrs. Ward was
visiting while her husband was hunt
ing Mrs. Ward, missing the child,
searched and found her in the river.
Madison-The decision of the SUI
preme court upholding the constitu-
tionality of the Northern Wisconsin
tobacco pool is expected to give i'm
petus to the formation of additional
cooperative marketing associations
Under the pool marketing plan as de-
veloped in the tobacco pool it Is be-
lieved that producers will be able to
increase the price for their crops.
Wausau-The Wausau Silver Black
Fox ranch of Wausau recently shipped
to the WATERFOWL Silver Black Fox
Co. So silver black foxes. These rep
resented ten pairs purchased last
January and their increase of 33 pup
pies born last spring and which go
to a new modern ranch built at
Watertown. The So foxes are con
servatively valued at $4,000.
Superior-Only the untiring efforts
of squad of Superior firemen and
owners of property at Middle River,
twenty miles from Superior, saved the
entire colony of farm buildings and
summer lodges from being wiped out
by a forest fire that ragged in the
heavy timber near there recently.
Algoma- Darwin Holtz of Rio, was
instantly killed at Algoma when a.
flve-ton truck which he was driving.
was struck by Green Bay & West
ern road train at a crossing near AL
gonna. Side curtains of the truck are
believed to have prevented him from
seeing the approaching train
Merrili-Leo Rock, 8, was instantly
killed by his 12-year-old brother, Joe.
when the latter attempted to hand him
.22-calibre rifle. The boys, sons Of
Frank Rock, farmer near Tomahawk.
were hunting squirrels five miles
from Tomahawk when the fatal acct
dent occurred.
Madison-The property of Wiscon-
SINS street railway companies, and
light, heat and power companies, op-
Grated in connection with them, are
valued at $1O4,410,0OO, the state tax
commission announced recently.