Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-11
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

approximately 200 Wis
consin boys and girls will be rewarded
for activities in agricultural clubs by
attendance at the annual club short
course here June 20 to "a, records re-
ceived by the college of agriculture
show. The attendants will be de-
ternined by scholarships awarded by
other organizations. The Milwaukee
Association of Commerce offers six
scholarships and Brown, Kenosha,
Racine and Washington counties Of
fer five scholarships in each county.
Hazel Green--To Pauline Ormsby
De Kol Canary, a purbread Holstein,
goes the honor of being the largest
producing COW of the breed in Wis
consin's 165 cow testing associations,
according to j. Cramer. Wisconsin col
lege of agriculture The animal made
a net profit of 1878 in less than
year, records show In 1913 consecu-
tive days the cow produced, in the
herd of Leo Kuhl & Son, Hazel Green
22,914 pounds of milk and S39 pounds
of butterfat, equal to 1,048 pounds of
butter.
Chippewa Falls-The Humbird post
office, entered by robbers who forced
a side window, was robbed of $50 in
stamps, according to Postmaster A. F.
Hahn who checked the loss. The rob-
berry was the second within a year.
Although a package of parcel post
was broken open, it's contents was not
taken Hounds were used in an effort
to trace the robbers
Superior-During May ore ship
ments from Superior ore docks
reached 2,011,112 tons, according to Of
ficials of the Great Northern, 500 Line
and Northern Pacific roads. This
amount is 217,639 tons in excess of
the shipments for the whole season
up to May 81 last year. The total for
the season up to May 81, 1924, is
2,250,856 tons.
Shullsburg- Alvin Russell and
burns received when a combination
coal stove exploded. Their farm
home, five miles east of Shullsburg,
burned to the ground. The mother
died in an heroic attempt to save How
ard, after successfully rescuing two
children, Kenneth and Donald.
Brooklyn-Goods stolen from the
Brooklyn Mercantile Co. totaled $1,545,
a check by officers of the company
showed recently. The loot included
81, 900 worth of silk. Police Chief Gil
man, Evansville, Wis, said he believed
the job was done by thieves who looted
stores recently at Milton, Wis, and
Poplar Grove, Wis.
Shell Lake-William Leroy Bene-
dict, 50, and his wife, 30, were killed
when their coupe was struck by an
Omaha passenger train on a crossing
south Of Shell Lake June A. They were
from Seward, Neb., where Mr.. Bene-
dict was a manual training teacher. |
They were coming to Wisconsin On a
fishing trip.
Oshkosh-Mrs. Katherine Pelot, As,
wife of Frank Pelot, Port Edwards, |
Wis, ended her life at the Northern
hospital, Oshkosh, by hanging herself
with a linen bandage to water pipe
valve The woman, who had been seen
at the hospital since last September, is
is survived by her husband and one
child.
Marinette-Frank A. Mitchell, for
mer postmaster of Menominee, died
twenty-four hours after being struck
by Marinette bakery truck driven by
Lynwood Rudolph. Conclusion of the
brain was the cause of death The
stricken man never regained con-
sciouSness.
Monroe = Stricken while milking
Nows on the farm near Monroe where
he was employed, Orville Kuhl, Is,
died within few minutes from mall
ady the nature of which is unkno7gn.
Since having case of chicken 1ox
he had complained of a pain in Rhe
shoulder.
Fond du Lac-Police are seeking
Walter Cantzler, "a, who rented a
Ford coupe from a Fond du Lac SER
vice station and mysteriously disap-
peared Cantzler left at $3.50 a. m.
Saturday, May 81. A $50 reward is
being offered for his return.
Oshkosh - The Wisconsin Public
Service corporation has announced a
cut in rates for electricity approximate
ino nor rent fnr Oshkosh The mi