Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-10-24

is D0luS spent ny lHS COuuCll duu lOCdl
Red Cross for the building of public
park, also in the plan to beautify and
improve Cuba City.
Baraboo-An epidemic of scarlet
fever has broken out in Baraboo. The
Lyons school has been closed for a
week and many cases are reported
throughout the city. Lyons is a sub
urb of Baraboo. All social activities
have been called off until the epidemic
subsidies. Miss Norma Scott, county
nurse, is preparing to examine all chill
dren before the Lyons school is re-
opened. Several homes in Baraboo are
placarded.
Menominee Falls-The 1-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Kund-
ert, Menominee Falls, was drowned in
a tub of water in the kitchen of her
home. The mother had left the baby
for 10 minutes and when she returned
to the house found the infant head
down in the tub. A doctor who was
called tried in vain to resuscitate the
child. The baby could not be revived
after two hours of work
Oshkosh - Armin Globes, Fairfax,
Mimi, purchased fourteen head of high
grade Holstein cattle at Oshkosh and
shipped them to his farm in Mime
sofa, where they will form the foun-
dation of his future herd. An unique
feature of the buy is that formerly
cattle raised in his home state were
raised for beef only. This opens up
a new field for dairy cows from this
section.
Peshtigo-J H. Stibbe, prominent
merchant Of Peshtigo, was run down
by an auto while he was riding bi-
cycle. He sustained a broken rio,
Commissions to the head and painful
bruises. He was removed to st.
Joseph's hospital in Menominee,
where his son, Austin, %, has been
a patient since August as the result
of a fractured leg.
Mathematician Hoffman, IA, son
of Mrs, Mae Hoffman, was killed al
most instantly at Madison when he
fell headlong down the stairway in
his home His neck was broken. The
lad, student at the Brayton school,
had eaten a hasty luncheon, and was
hurrying back to school. 1t is be-
lieved that he tripped near the top
of the stairway.
Birchwood-Co work upon
highways No. II, near Long Lake, and
No. 43, north of Bruce, is practically
completed, and the state has elimi-
mated many dangerous curves, filled in
many places and cut down many hills.
A large cement bridge has been con-
structed on highway 43 and many sub
stantial fences have been erected
along IL and 43.
Fond du Lac-Louis Venue, Sc, a
pioneer shoe dealer of Wisconsin and
an intimate friend of the late Gen. Ed
ward S. Bragg, of Civil war fame, died
in the home in Fond du Lac in which
he had resided for more than so years.
Mr.. Venue made by hand the pair of
boots which Gen. Bragg wore when he
first entered congress.
Ashland-Voters defeated a proposal
to purchase the plant of the Ashland
Water Co. by majority of 1,0S4. The
vote stood 385 for purchase and 1,469
against at the special referendum held
recently. The purchase price was to
be $625,000, plus the cost of all mate
rails and supplies and all improve
ments made this year.
Baileys Harbor-Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Kopisky, Baileys Harbor, are canning
raspberries. The bushes were set out
early in the spring and are bearing a
second crop of berries.
New London-Claude Dexter, IT., of
New London, was accidentally shot by
his companion while they were hunt
ing. He will recover.
Janesville-Winter operations of the |
Rock County Sugar Co. at GAINESVILLE |
have begun with 300 employed to
take care of crop of $4,000 tons of
sugar beets, two times that of last
year.
Chippewa Falls = Injuries which
may prove fatal were received by Coz
don ]. Mcdowell, 35, salesman from
Eau Claire, when an automobile in
which he was riding collided with an
Omaha logging train on street cross
1g at Chippewa Falls.