Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-04-18

ter, made to the state board OF nealLn,
show forty-four orders were issued
against hotels to force sanitary or
structural changes to bring about COM
pliance with the state standard for
hotels. This ratio, which is 20 per
cent of the total inspections, is higher
than usual. Orders upon restaurants
to the number of thirty-one were 81
per cent of the total restaurant in
spections. For the industrial commits.
sion these inspectors supervise ire
and accident prevention conditions in
hotels and restaurants, and issued ten
orders for required changes in the
interest of safety.
Chippewa Falls-More than 1000
tons of limestone will be distributed
on farms in the western part of the
state this spring to cure land of acid
ity. So enthusiastic have farmers be-
come over this project that many
limestone crushers have been ordered
and will be put in use in the bluff
country where there are outcroppings
of limestone. There is great activity
among farmers near Mondovi, Durand,
Nelson, Alma, Cochrane, Misha Mok-
wa and Urine. In Buffalo county there
are many ranges of hills with lime
stone outcroppings that should prove
especially valuable.
Madison-The state supreme court
&c.I I'D Of
the Racine county circuit court in the
SANDER suit brought against the Rev.
John B. Petite, priest of ST. Roses
parish church at Racine, by Dennis E.
Fitzgerald, trustee and secretary of
the church. Justice Eschweiler re-
duced the $4,000 damages awarded
Fitzgerald by the circuit court to
$1,000. Fitzgerald, in two causes of
action, asked total damages of $4,000.
He set out that the priest had called
him a 'liar, hypocrite, traitor and
Judas, rejecting on the plaintiffs
moral integrity and official fidelity.
Madison-The executive committee
of the Northern Wisconsin Tobacco
Pool has ordered further partial dis
tribution of funds on tobacco delivered
by its growers. The amount ranged
from cents to s cents pound on
southern binder tobacco, according to
grades, and l cent a pound on the
cheaper grade of stemming stock The
committee estimates that the total
amount to be distributed to the farm
ers by this order will be 100000,
This will bring the total payment,
members say, to 100000.
notwithstanding the doors to his
home, Albert j. Miller of GAINESVILLE, So
years old, shot and seriously wounded
his wife, Minnie, and then put bullet
through his head. He died few min
utes later. Mrs. Miller, So years old,
was shot twice, the bullet entering her
right side. The shooting, police say,
followed quarrel, in which Miller ac-
cused his wife of being too friendly
with other men. Enraged at her de-
NAL, he forced her into bedroom and
locked the door. The shooting fol-
lowed.
Elkhorn-More than 80 per cent of
the children found to have defective
eye sight at the free eye clinic, held
in Elkhorn by the state bureau for
the care of the blind have carried out
the advice given by the examiners,
according to Miss Bertha Becht, Wal
worth county nurse. Only 81 out of
the 166 examined were free from eve
defects. Glasses were required for
most of the 129 children requiring
treatment. Near-signtedness was espe-
cially prevalent.
Sheboygan - Mrs Ernestine Erb.
stoesZer, SO, native of Germany and
seventy-one years resident of She
boygan county, died at Sheboygan.
She leaves thirty-one grand children,
thirty-six great grandchildren. Mrs.
Erbstoeszer was noted as woman
who never drank plain water. She
was a heavy coffee drinker and used
beer and wine.
Superior Alcohol poisoning from
drinking moonshine caused the death
of Peter Courval, 81, and Ambrose
Poirier, 20, at the Poirier farm near
Burberry, Douglas county, according
to a statement issued by Coroner q.
A. Downs. 1t was thought at one time
that the men were victims of a double
murder or suicide pact
Ladysmith-During 1922 over $3.50.
600 worth Of creamery butter was pro-
duced in Rusk county, according to
statistics compiled by the Wisconsin
Buttermakers' association. There are
seven creameries in the county.
Milton Junction-Ralph Winch, with
an average grade for four years of
1919, has been named valedictorian
of the Milton Union high school senior
class.
Oshkosh-The Oshkosh plant of the