Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-11-26
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.


split their ballots in the November
election, official returns of all but nine
counties tabulated in the secretary Of
states office indicate. 1t was the
biggest switching of votes ever seen
in Wisconsin. The Democratic candi-
date for governor ran unusually
strong. Judge Martin Lueck received
about 100000 votes. On the other
hand John w. Davis, Democratic can
didate for president, will have but
about $4,000 votes when the count is
complete. With nine counties still
missing, La Toilette has 317,816 votes;
Coolidge, 223,762 votes. Gov. John j.
Blaine drew about 100000 votes. 1t
is claimed that many of the votes that
went for Lueck, the Democrat, were
also cast for Coolidge. The Demo
cratic vote on the national ticket was
the smallest ever cast in a presiden-
tial race in Wisconsin. 1t is less than
half of the vote for Cox in 1922 when
he polled lib, APP votes. In 1916 Wilson
polled total of 193,042 in the state
Sheboygan-After the county board
of supervisors voted to request the
state tax commission for figures on
property sales in Sheboygan for the
last five years, to make comparisons
with the county assessors annual re-
port before adopting the annual equal
ization program 1. B. Wensink, county
assessor of incomes, provided the
data. Board members had previously
been told that he refused 10 give the
information.
Lake Geneva - Wisconsins new
champion COW for production of milk
in 10 months as a senior 3-year-old is
Walcowis Ollie Grace, a pure-bred Hol-
stein of the Mrs. Louis H. Dickinson
herd at Lake Geneva. She completed
her SO5-day test period with record
of 20,222.6 pounds of milk and 628.65
pounds of butterfat, equal to 1858
pounds of butter She made her
record milking from three-quarters.
Misunderstanding large quantities of
dirt and pebbles when a fernery fell
upon him at his home on farm near
Neenah nearly cost Fred, 2-year-old
son2of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Christian,
his life. Fred climbed onto the fern
cry to peer through the window at
his mother, who was at work in the
yard His weight upset it. When he
was brought to local hospital breath
ing had almost ceased.
Manitowoc-Thieves failed to heed
a notice which hangs over the safe in
the office of the Gaterman Manufac-
turing Co., Manitowoc, and which
reads: "Do not blow open. Only con-
tains records. Use combination which
is 3-6-5-9O." They broke open the door
but their efforts got them but 81.
Sledges and other tools from the ma
chine shop of the plant were used to
smash the safe.
Walworth county, by ac-
ton of it's county board, is the latest
to enter the plan to punish law viola
tors by confinement in the Milwaukee
house of correction. The board au-
thorized Judge Roscoe Luse of the
county court to enter into a contract
for the maintenance of prisoners sent
to the house of correction under SEN
tence from the county and circuit
courts of Walworth county.
Marinette-Gus Malinowsky, II. a
clerk in a shoe store in Marinette,
was seriously injured and two auto
mobiles and Malinowski's bicycle were
wrecked in the first accident of a
snowstorm that prevailed all day. The
automobiles in the accident were
driven by Tony Vail, a drug clerk,
and E. S. Martel, Suamico, Wis. The
snowfall was general in this district.
Laona-Injuries resulting from an
attack by bull caused the death of
Henry Setter, woodsman. Setter, who
was employed on the Alderton stock
farm, near Laona, was attempting to
drive the animal into the barn when
it sudden turned on him, knocked him
down and gored him. Setter died
~ithin an hour in hospital.
Stevens Point-Niore than a ton Of
carp was taken from the mill pond
at Lower Amherst in nets, with per-