Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-07-30
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around che Badger State

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pickcrs are now employed in the orch.
ards in the immediate vicinity of Stur
geon Bay and other northern points
on the peninsula. The pickers were
recruited from all parts of the state,
also northern Michigan, Illinois and
Iowa. The harvest is now in full
| swing. The trees are heavily loaded
with fruit and it is of choice quality.
| The Martin orchard is employing up
ward of 1900 pickers. The season
will continue for 25 days. The early
| cherries will be followed by the Mont
morencies, which are now turning red.
| Large shipments of the fresh fruit is
| being made and the plant of the Fruit
Growers Canning Co. is now operating
! Is hours a day.
! Manitowoc-A warrant for the ar
| rest of Cletus Chadek and Rudolph
| Schildhauer, Sheboygan attorneys, was
sworn out by Joseph Zajkowski,
| farmer of Centerville, who alleges that
the two lawyers beat him, inflicting
serious injuries, recently, when the
three met on a highway. According
to Zajkowski, neighbors rescued him
when the two attorneys had him on
the ground The trouble, it appears,
was the result of a settlement of the
| ZajkowSki estate. The attorneys are
said to represent Zajkowski's brother.
Green Bay-The residence of Ed
ward Newthols on the Cedar Greek
road, near Green Bay, known as the
mystery house, was destroyed by fire
after three other blazes had been eX-
! tinguished by neighbors who hurriedly
organized a bucket brigade. After
each fire, defective wiring was blamed.
Finally the owner tired of the blaze
habit, cut all the wires into the house.
| But another blaze started and, famed
by a high wind, RACED the building.
Charged with abducting
boy from his home in Appleton,
Frank Brabrandt, 80, married, is in
the Outagamie county Jail awaiting
hearing on charge of kidnapping.
Brabrandt was arrested att Marinette
where he had gone with Carl Roemer,
IS, whom he had enticed from home
with the promise to take him first to
the cherry orchards of Sturgeon Bay
and then to ranch in Montana.
Kenosha-Trying to rescue a play
mate who had fallen off the raft on
which they were playing, Peter
Swentcky, an 11-year-old boy, was
drowned in the lagoon at Anderson
park, a private park, at Kenosha.
| The lad was pulled out Of the water
by John Anderson only few minutes
later, but could not be resuscitated.
The playmate, John Horocheena,
crawled back on the raft.
Oshkosh-Armed with two boxes of
.38 caliber cartridges, which he threat
ened to use on his divorced wife, and
two bottles of carbolic acid which he
| indicated were for suicide purposes,
w G. Mcfarland, former taXicab
driver, was arrested in Oshkosh and
is being held for a sanity test. Nc
Farland according to police, is wanted
by authorities at Fond du Lac, Osh-
kosh and Kaukauna on worthless
check charges.
Sheboygan-Alfred Reinholz, 35, is
lying at St Nicholas hospital, Sheboy-
gan, probably disfigured for life, as
the result OF an automobile accident.
The car he was driving struck a tele-
phone pole, glanced off and smashed
second pole, which broke off near the
ground. The pole swung out suspend
ed by the wires, and back through the
car, hitting Mr. Reelholz in the face.
His companion, Henry Guelzow, 20,
was uninjured.
Fond du Lac-An electrical storm
set fire to high tension transformer
in the village of Oakfeld. John Han
ma, 72, seized a metal bucket full of
water and threw it on the flames
Part of the 11,000-volt current in the
power line passed up the stream Of
water and through the metal bucket,
stunning Hanna and throwing him
several feet.
Hillsboro-No trace has been found
yet of Robert Sterba, is, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Sterba Hillsboro, who
disappeared from his home in June.
The mother is near a breakdown
Robert is described as feet inches
tall and weighs about 155 pounds. He
has one upper front tooth shorter than
the rest, and small gray spot back
of The right ear.
Watertown-Ernest Kunert, n, a
prominent business man of Watertown,
is dead He was born in Austria and