Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

SNNA
highway So, William Baldie of Kau-
kauna lost control of the machine and
plunged into the ditch. He was
brought to the hospital here suffering
from a badly wrenched back and neck,
and possible internal injuries. Baldie
was on his way to Milwaukee, where
he is employed. When the car care
ened from the road it jumped a ditch,
tore up a woven wire fence and rolled
! over several times, finally coming to
rest upside down in a field fifty feet
from the road Baldie was pinned
under the machine.
Memo Parents of 200 children at
tending public and parochial schools
Nenno, have petitioned the district at
torney of Washington county for strict
enforcement Of the 12-mile an hour
limit on automobile speed in passing
schoolgrounds. The two schools are
on highway Is only a few rods apart.
The letter forwarded to the district
attorney with the petition states that
parents will hold to strict accountable
ty those upon whom enforcement of
the law devolves should a serious ac-
cident befall any of the children.
Fond du Lac-Caught by a stream
of boiling water while cleaning a boiler
in a Fond du Lac factory, Albert R.
Werner, 81, was so badly scalded that
he may die. He was flushing the boiler
with a hose while a helper turned the
the water on or off according to his
directions. Through a mistake the
water from another boiler was turned
into the tank Werner's wife, who
was just being discharged from a local
hospital after a long illness, was
Frustrated by news of his injury.
Monroe-The biggest Green county
Jail party on record is that which was
staged as farewell for Arthur Ault,
49, Monroe, just before he departed
for Waupun to serve a five year SEN
tence for burglary. With a score of
friends and relatives his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Ault, Orangeville,
H., motored the night before his de-
| parture and made as merry as posi-
| BILE at the Jail with homemade re-
freshments and gay flowers.
Marshfield-Two small balloons of a
lot of IA liberated at Marshfeld May
"a by a department store were re-
covered on the shores of Lake Michi-
gan at Pentwater and Manistee, Mich.
Stamped addressed cards were at
| tached to the balloons, which carried a
small merchandise reward to the find
ers The distance is estimated at
about $50 miles Other ballons were
found at Waupaca, 6S miles distant
| from Marshfield
Waupaca-The work on $4,000 paw
| ing project for 1924 started this week,
in Waupaca, the contract having been
awarded to the Chicago firm of t. G..
Coughlin Co. The new pavement will
! be of Trinidad asphalt and will cover
six blocks on School street. School
| street is the street upon which high
ways IS and % enter the city, and has,
for the last two years, been in very
poor condition.
Fond du Lac-After a search Of 40
| days, extending into nearly every coun-
| ty in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Michigan Sheriff F. w. Schlaak,
Fond du Lac, has found an auto stolen
! from the Ed Perrizo farm on May 6,
by a farm hand who had worked at
the Perrizo place but one day. He
escaped when officials at Seymour,
where the car was found, failed to
hold the driver.
Rosholt-Rosholt is fighting a scar
let fever epidemic which has spread
into a dozen homes. In number of
cases, children were i'll for several
! days before the nature Of the dis
ease became known. Rosholt is with
out a resident physician. Steps are
being taken by village officers to COM
bat the disease and prevent its further
spread.
Manitowoc-Th body of Harry Ris-
tenpadt, "a, first porter on the Ann
| Arbor No. 5, Manitowoc, missing sew
eral days, was taken from the river
by the police. No inquest will be or
dered as the drowning was either
accidental or case of suicide. Rls-
tenDadt disappeared on his way to
the boat after visiting with his par
ents.
Warrens-William Larson adver-
tised for strawberry pickers in Min
neapolis newspaper. In response, his
| first pickers of the season. mother
/ with three children-have arrived at
the Larson home, several weeks in adj
! vance of the season. They walked the