Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-08-01
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State |
Arranged in Condensed Form

Brentwood Despite a dry period
which lasted several weeks, farmers
near Brentwood report a splendid po-
tato and grain crop. While the tuber
crop is in good condition, it is be-
! ieved that the total acreage in this
| part of the state will not equal the
acreage of year ago. Farmers failed
to plant potatoes in such large quaint
| ties due to the slump in prices last
| fall. The corn crop here and in this
vicinity is in good condition and the
oat crop also is believed to be nor
NAL. The hay crop is light this year.
| Eau Claire-Witness in Wisconsin
! liquor cases will no longer be free to
! incriminate themselves on the witness
stand in order to give testimony for
or against a defendant without liza
bility to prosecution in federal court
! on the basis of their sworn admis-
sions, was the basis of decision
handed down by A. J. Sutherland,
United States court commissioner at
Eau Claire, in the case of Leo
Bloczynsk, charged with violating the
federal dry law, and whom he bound
over for trial in federal court.
Madison-An order effecting a con-
siderable reduction in freight rates on
common brick, sand lime brick and
concrete products has been issued by
the state railroad commission. The
order makes two distinct schedules of
rates, one for common brick, sand
| lime brick and concrete products, and
the other, considerably higher, for
| face, fire and paving brick and other
clay products. Practically all brick
and concrete products moving locally
within the state will be affected.
Fond du Lac-A complete water and
| sewage system will be built at a cost
of $4,000 by the Village of New Hol-
stein next spring, as the result of
vote taken in the village July 10.
! Construction work will be started as
| quickly as bids can be obtained. The
proposal for the establishment of the
municipal services was carried by
four to one vote, after the matter had
| been balloted on, in several previous
elections.
Neenah-The First National Bank
of Menasha has started suit against
the city of Menasha to recover
| $4,607.98, taxes paid for the year 1921
under protest The complaint alleges
that the tax against the bank was
larger in proportion than that as
sessed against Independent financial
| interests which might come in COM
| petition with it.
Madison-The industrial commits
! sion has completed tabulation of re-
ports of representative employers
which shows that employment, in gen
eral, is still on the increase. The
outside industries show the largest
gains. Thus, building construction
| shows an increase of 7.S per cent;
highway construction, an increase OF
546 per cent, and railroad construc-
ton, 14.2 per cent increase in the num-
Der of employees.
| Wausau-Mary Lawando, % years
old charged with assault with intent
to kill in connection with an attack
on her stepmother, Mrs. Anna Law
ando, Wausau, on the night of july
10, is at liberty on $1,000 bail. Mary's
arrest followed a search of eight days
through large swamp six miles south
of Wausau, where she fed, following
the attack on Mrs. Lawando, to- which
she confessed. ai4
Kenosha-Twelve years at hard
labor at the state prison at Waupun
was the sentence imposed in Kenosha
by Judge J. G. Slater in the municipal
court on Edward Besner, alias Henry
Rich, aged SO, the ex-convict who at
tempted to kill Detective Charles
Rock when the latter went to arrest
, him.
Appleton-The Rev. E. ]. Lemieux,
assistant pastor of Holy Cross church,
Kaukauna and Wenzel Boyer, Chip
pewa Falls, his guest, were seriously
injured when their automobile over
turned between Kaukauna and Green
Bay. Boyer suffered seriously from
loss of blood.
Green Bay-Samuel D. Hastings, Jr.,
was elected president of the Green
Bay Association of Commerce at an
organization meeting of the new board
of directors He succeeds Fred Hurl-
but Leland H. Joannes was named
vice-president.