Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-04-15

siderable sum in insurance.
Kaukauna-The city electrical and
water department of Kaukauna have
filed petition with the Wisconsin rail-
road rate commission asking permits
sion to raise the rental on city fire
hydrants from $40 a year to $50, the
average amount being received in other
cities. The proposed rates will have
no effect on regular consumers. The
plan is merely to increase the rental
to offset city taxes on the utilities
property.
Baraboo-L. A. Gordon and Louis
Roche, new cOncessionaires at the
north end of Devils Lake state park,
plan extensive improvements for the
coming season, which will include a
new $4,000 building on the Jake front.
The new building will accommodate
a dance hall, convention hall, dining
room, lobby and information offices. 1t
is the plan of the new concessionaires
to make the state park winter play
ground as well as summer resort.
Kenosha-Walter Thomas Marlatt
81, editor and publisher Of The Keno
sha Evening 1,ews and Telegraph
Courier, died suddenly at his home in
Kenosha, following an attack of heart
trouble. Mr. Marlatt becam, publisher
of The Evening News in 1917, pre-
vious to which he had spent many
years in various journalistic capacities
In 1896, he became city editor of The
News and since that time has been
connected with this newspaper.
Fond du Lac-Fond du Lac has the
worst record of any Wisconsin city
visited by inspectors of the Wisconsin
Fire Prevention association, and con-
ditiOns ia the mercantile district in
respect to fire hazards are very bad,
G. W. Hutchinson, Milwaukee, secre-
tary of the association, declared in
summing up the reports of the two-day
investigations made of stores, factories,
schools and other public buildings.
MadisOn-FOr the first time since
1917 Madison IS free from diptheria,
DR.. e. V. Brumbaugh, city health Of
ticer, reports. The epidemic of humps,
which during February reached a to-
tai of more than 100 cases, declined
during March to 572, the monthly re-
port shows. There are % cases Of
scarlet fever, % cases of measles and
30 cases of pneumonia in the city at
present.
Beloit-Mr. and Mrs. Frank II.
Smith, Beloit, who have avoided i'll
luck through six decades of happy
married life babe defiance to the jinx
by sitting down to their slxtieth we'd
ding anniversary dinner at table with
covers laid for 10. The occasion also
marked the groom's eighty-seventh
birthday. His wife is S4 They have
lived In Beloir 20 years.
Fond du Lac-Charging undue in
timacy between his brother and his
wife, and that the brother has be-
come the owner Of a home they now
occupy, Michael Miller, Fond du Lac,
has named both as defendants in a suit
in which he seeks release from matri-
mony and reinstatement as a joint
owner Of the home.
Madison-Land intended for use by
a lodge, but upon which no building
is erected is not exempt from taxa
ton under the Wisconsin law, G. A.
Erikson, deputy attorney general, held
in an opinion sent to Fulton Collipp,
district attorney at Friendship.
Madison-Wisconsin's tax on stock
of national banks is constitutional and
valid, the state supreme court held in
the Hartford bank case.
Rice Lake-John Schnacky, %, died
al Ladysmith, infection having de
veloped after he had been given hypo-
dermic injections to relieve nervous
ness.
/ Beloit-A scholarship rank Of 95.7
/ in a class Of 167 has won Miss Mar.
garet Fitzgerald, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. j. Fitzgerald, the honor OF
being Beloit high school valedictorian
Oshkosh-About 80 carloads of baled
/ grass at the Deltox Grass Rug Co
plant, Oshkosh, was destroyed by fire
The blaze was believed to have started
from a cigarette stub. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Plymouth-A cheese exhibit compar
ing favOrably with the state cheese
makers exhibit held annually at Mil