Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-12-12
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

Stevens Point-The almshouse of
Waupaca county may be used jointly
by the poor Of Waupaca and Portage
counties. A committee of the local
board of supervisors is negotiating
with the Waupaca county poor com
mittee with this arrangement in view.
Waupaca is not using its almshouse
to the fullest extent and it is believed
the board may be willing to allow
Portage county charges to be sent
there. Portage county has had no
such institution since fire destroyed
the poor farm home some time ago.
Stoughton-Man chews tobacco and
survives. Cows try it and die Nine
head of cattle on the farm of Ernest
Haines, between Stoughton and Ore
gon, tired of the routine of fodder and
silage, nosed their way into an open
tobacco shed last week Each select
ed "cud" of moist curing leaves.
Four of the cattle are dead and the
other five are reported to be suffering
from acute nicotine poisoning. The
loss, Mr.. Haines estimates, will be
more than $1,000.
Madison-Sixteen carloads of poul-
try have been shipped comparatively
this fall by Polk, St Croix and Barron
county farmers as result of a meet
ing held last March by managers of
the livestock shipping associations of
those counties. Farmers are not only
profiting by shipping their poultry CO
Operatively, but they are getting into
the field of business, learning bust
ness methods and how to care for their
poultry to get the best results"
Observation-Disclosures to construct a
dam for power purposes over the
White river, in Waushara county, was
granted by the railroad commission
to the Dahlke e Giese Co., of Mesh
koro. The commission authorized an
adjustment of water rates by the city
Of TOmah, Which applied for increased
rates. Meter basis rates will replace
fiat rates wherever possible, under the
commissions order.
Cumberland-The farm home of
JOS Palmer near Cumberland, was
totally destroyed by fire. The fire
caught near the chimney in the roof,
and the whole upper story was ablaze
before it was discovered, most of the
furniture in the lower part of the
house was saved The house was a
large two story frame structure, val
ued at about $4,000.
Eagle Rivera female deer with
horns about six inches in length was
killed near State Line in Villas county
during the recent hunting season.
Several State Line hunters saw the
doe and claim that it resembled
buck from a distance. 1t has been
many years since a freak doe of this
kind has been killed in the northern
Wisconsin woods.
Madison-The late DR.. Paul S.
Reinsch, former United States ambas-
sador to China and later a professor
at the University of Wisconsin, left
an estate worth $4,000, but with
claims against it totaling $4,000 ac
cording to an inventory filed with the
register of probate. The $4,000 in
cludes real estate and personal prop
erty.
-Elgin Holmquist, IA. son
of Mr.. and Mrs Carl Holmquist, was
drowned at Bone lake, seven miles
east of Frederic, when he went out
on the lake on skates to look after
some traps he had set. When he did
not return for dinner, search was
started, which ended with the finding
of the body.
Birchwood-Owners of the Glover
Valley cheese plant, Brentwood have
practically completed the work upon
the factory which has been under con-
struction during the past several
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been made and the structure formerly
used as a club house will house the
machinery.
Clintonville-The Waupaca county
board of supervisors appropriated $40,-
600 for the erection of a building to
house the county training school for
teachers. This action of the board
marks the end of long struggle on
the part of friends of the school to
secure suitable building for it.
Dodgeville-The Iowa county board
helped gladden. the holiday season for
taxpayers, by reducing the county tax
levy $4,000 below the 1922 tax levy.
Nearly half of this reduction was eff