Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-10-15
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around che Badger State

Important Events of the Week
Around che Badger State
Evansville-Arthur Allen, of Evans
vile, an elnploye of the Chicago and
Northwestern road, suffered a com
pound fracture of the right leg. He
was working on the section and while
the men were on the way home from
work, stopped the handcar on which
they We're riding, to put it off to meet
train, and while doing so, were run
into by another handcar which was
following them with another part OF
the crew. Mr.. Allen formerly was
heavyweight wrestler.
Madison-A. r. Hirst, former state
highway engineer and defeated can
didate for governor in the republican
primaries, began work Oct. Z, as gen
eral manager and chief engineer Of a
Des Moines Qowa) paving construc-
ton company. MIR. Hirst's salary will
maintain his residence in Madison,
however, and it is indicated that the
construction company may move its
headquarters to Milwaukee.
Fond du Lac-Sparks from the e1-
haust of a gasoline engine used to
pump water on the farm tenanted by
Clarence Egan, three miles west of
Fond du Lac, destroyed all the build
1ngs on the place with the exception of
the house, causing a loss estimated at
$4,000. An appeal for help was sent
to the fire department in this city
but the firemen were unable to check
the blaze owing to the lack of suffi-
cient water.
Madison--The Wisconsin tobacco
crop will be one-third less than last
year, latest reports to Paul o. Nyhus,
state crop statistician, show. The
crop is estimated to be SO per cent
of normal, compared to an average
condition of IS per cent A crop of
about 100000 pounds is in prospect,
it is said. Cool and wet weather, wind
and hail have all inflicted damage to
the crop, Nyhus states.
Fond du Lac-Tossing her 1-year-old
baby aside when gasoline she was
using burst into flames, Mrs. jean
nette Dowland, of Fond du Lac, saved
the child from injury at the expense
of possibly fatal burns to herself. At
tracted by her screams, J. Markheim,
neighblr, grabbed a blanket and wrap
ped it around Mrs. Dowland. Nearly
all of her clothing was burned.
Hartford = Frank Boyer, SIS, of
Singer, Wis, is in a serious condi-
ton at the Hartford General hospital
as the result of injuries suffered when
he was struck by a vampire motorist
while walking along the highway be-
tween Singer and st. Lawrence on
his way to church. The motorist sped
away and the driver of another car
picked up Boyer.
Neenah-Mrs. Helen Clark, 20, wife
of Henry Clark, former member of the
Winnebago county board and treasur-
er OF the town of Oshkosh for 16
years, died at her home on a farm
south of Neenah after an illness of
several years. Mrs. Clark was one of
the county's pioneer residents. She
was born in New York state, and had
lived in this vicinity for more than so
years.
Manitowoc-Max Boehm, one of the
oldest residents of the county and
who, when young man, walked from
New York to Manitowoc with cents
in his pocket, died suddenly at the
home of a daughter in the village of
Taus Born SO years ago in Austria,
Mr.. Boehm arrived in this country
when IL. A few years later he hiked
west.
La CrosSe-Automobile bandits are
operating on country roads near La
Crosse. En- route to La Crosse, be-
tween Genoa and Stoddard, John
Mueller was stopped by two men
standing beside car without license
plates and robbed of 81, his cigarettes
and keys. The bandits went south
after leaving their victim.
Madison-August Roden, so, former
business manager of the Wisconsin
State Journal, died suddenly at his
home in Clear Water, Fla, according
to word received in Madison by his
brother-in-law, A. O. Barron. The
body was shipped to Madison. Mr..
Roden was a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin.
Fond du Lac-Collision between an
auto and a street car i'll Fond du Lac,
caused the serious injury of six per-
sons, Louis Anderson, SO, AID Ben
jamin Miller, Sc, both of New London,