Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-01-23
WISCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Arranged in Condensed Form

Wausau-Present indications are
that Marathon county in 1924 will
! build at least nine miles of concrete
road on state highway 10, extending
almost to Mosinee. This will elimi-
nate considerable section of gravel
road, laid in said, that has been
very expensive to build and maintain,
and which at the present time is prac-
tically worn out and would cost a
large sum to restore. The county
board will this month appropriate
$4,000 and turn this over to the state
highway commission to match with
federal aid.
Marinette- Despondent over long
continued i'll health, John Pollock, 81,
a patient in a hospital at Marinette,
for nearly year, shot himself
| through the head. The shot entered
the right temple, ploughing it's way
just above the eyes and coming out
| OF the left temple. 1t is believed the
optical nerve was destroyed as he
was unable to see after the accident
/
Crandon-For the first time in
many years the Forest county Jail in
| Crandon is practically deserted, there
being but one inmate. A few months
ago the Jail was sc crowded that it
was necessary to place cots in the
| corridors to accommodate the over
| nj nFic
believes that law violators in Forest
county must have turned over a new
leaf with the beginning of 1924.
Janesville-Gwendolyn McCaslin, q
yearold daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Darrell McCaslin, Magnolia Corners,
| is recovering from severe burns, the
child was in a high chair while the
mother was hopping the floor. The
child swayed and tipped the chair
over, the babe falling into the pail of
scalding water. She was taken to the
GAINESVILLE hospital Doctors said that
she would recover.
Beaver DANA string tying bee
of the Beaver Dam postoffice. A
great amount of string comes into
the office, and when it is saved and
used again a saving for the depart
ment is the result. During the war
the idea of saving the string and u.s.
ing it second and even a third time
was put into practice and is still be-
ing carried out.
Palmyra-John Mitchell, SO years
old, former assemblyman and the
| longest resident of Palmyra, is dead.
Mr.. Mitchell held almost every office
in the town, being at various times
chairman, treasurer, assessor and
member of the county board He was
born in England in 1841 and came
to Jefferson county few years later.
Appleton-Workmen alarmed by
the long absence of Valentine Kand-
Ter, fireman for paper mill at Com
bined Locks, near Appleton, started
search and found his body in a coal
| chute. Handler, it is believed, at
tempted to loosen a jam of coal and
was swept into the chute by the rush
of coal and suffocated to death Kand-
ler's home was in Kaukauna.
Sharon-Jacob Junghem, SO years
old, farmer of near Sharon, was
fatally injured when he was thrown
from a sled at the American Milk
company plant. Junghem, at first be-
lieved not seriously hurt, was taken
to his home, where he died. An ex-
animation revealed that his brain had
been punctured by nail when he
struck on the icy roadway.
Fennimore-Abe Baumgartner,
farmer of near Fennimore, while en-
gagged in blasting stumps out of a
field, placed dynamite cap in his
trousers pocket. After the days work
he attended to his furnace fire, when
the cap exploded, injuring his right
hand and making a deep wound in
his thigh.
Appleton-Hubert Vanderloop, 48
years old, froze to death in the snow
at Little Chute, near Appleton He
was alive when foundaby Joseph Van
Handel and attempted to talk, but
was too weak to make himself under
stood. He died fifteen minutes after
he was taken into nearby house.
observation-disclosures Obrantz.
woodsman who lived near Atkins,
froze his feet SO severely that ampu-
tation will probably be necessary. He
became lost in the woods when the
temperature was "a degrees below
zero.
Baraboo-When Mr. and Mrs. May
nard Cuver, who live in Bear Creek,
awoke from their slumbers on the
morning of Jan. 14th they found their
infant son dead. He had been smoth-
cred under the bed clothes.