Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-06-27

new MahltoWoc portland Cement On
for work in connection with establ,sb,
ment of the plant at Manitowoc
M. Johns, president of the concern
was in Manitowoc comforting WITH
local stockholders when the awards
were made. The firm Of McMulIen q
PITT of Manitowoc was given the coD.
tract for driving of piling for decks
at the plant site. Another contract
was let for construction of large
warehouse for cement storage and
some smaller buildings, similar In
silos, used in the process of cement
making. Contracts for the building
of kilns and coolers were also closed
and much of the machinery was
ordered. When completed, the plant
will represent an expenditure Of
$1,000,000.
Superior-Ivan Glass, 80, Superior
resident, was found nearly starved to
death in haystack near Crosby
Mimi, by road crew, only his head
visible out of the hay. Glass disap.
peaYed from work at Crosby on May
Is. He informed his rescuers that he
feared three Ironton, Mimi, girls were
after $500 which he had in an account
in Superior bank and that he had
decided to hide from them. For if
teen days he managed to crawl to q
lake to drink, but finally became so
weak that he could not leave the hay
stack and had existed without water
for about ten days. He claims no
food has passed his lips for month.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT has been
begun for the plant of the Sanitary
Dishwashing Machine Co., and pour
ing of the foundation is expected to
begin within a week or ten days, it
leader of the movement to bring fac
tories to Burlington. J. Vandreuil,
president of the manufacturing con-
Germ asserts he expects to be able to
begin installation of his machinery
some time in July and that operations
should be begun before fall. The fac
tory will employ about a score Of
highly skilled workmen, it is said.
Rewey-Of 453 COWS tested during
May by the Rewey Cow Testing asso.
citation, 121 produced more than forty
pounds of butter fat. The high cow,
Permit, owned by L. Il. Grunenwald,
produced 1908 pounds of milk and
681 pounds of butter fat Consider
able improvement rs noticed in sew
eral herds over the record of May, 1922,
and one which averaged 1873 pounds
of butter fat this month averaged 1874
last year, with practically the same
cows. This increase is thought to be
brought about by improved feeding
methods.
Stiles-William Tappa, 35, laborer
living about mile from Stiles, was
three small children narrowly escaped
the same fate, when their home was
destroyed by fire of unknown origin.
Tappa, who had been i'll for nearly
a year, was unable to leave his bed
and persisted in the flames. The blaze
was not discovered, it was said, until
the roof of the dwelling was on the
verge of falling. His wife had barely
enough time to save herself and the
children.
Watertown-The little pig market
at Watertown conducted brisk bust
ness when several thousand porkers
hands at fair prices. A num-
Der of out of state buyers made the
market active although the offerings
slightly exceeded the demand, prices
ranging as high as SIS each for little
pigs weighing 40 to so pounds. The
Illinois buyers proved that these pigs
can be bought for fattening on prairie
corn farms at a fair profit III spite of
the threatened slump in pork prices.
Sheboygan-Joseph Rank Of She
boygan recently exhibited an unusual
ly large catfish that he caught in Wolf
river near Fremont 1t weighed thirty
pounds, measuring thirty-six inches
long and twenty-eight inches around
the girth. It's mouth, when pried
open, is seven inches in diameter. 1t
was caught with hook and line while
fishing from boat.
Kenosha = kilograms received in
Kenosha announced the death OF
Charles H. Gonnerman, 10, long prom
inent in business and social life Of
Kenosha, which occurred at Los
Angeles. Mr.. Gonnermann was a
prominent republican and former
head of Wisconsin lodge of Elks.
Waupaca-A large acreage Of SOY