Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-10-21


nesota to a greater degree than Wis
consin, federal reports indicate. In
the Wisconsin areas where the dis
ease was exceptionally prevalent dur
ing the summer months-Buffalo and
Trempealeau counties-it has largely
disappeared. The present area of In
lection involves Polk, st. Croix, Bar
ron, Dunn and Clark counties, each of
which has a few scattered cases. To
date this year Wisconsin, according to
the state records, has reported two
hundred and twenty-four cases Of in
fantile paralysis, and to Sept. l the
deaths had numbered twenty-six.
Sheboygan-Sever automobile
owners of Sheboygan, most of whom
are employed at Kohler, have reported
during the past week that they were
summoned to appear before the inter-
nal revenue collector at Sheboygan
and forced to pay special taxes under
the revenue acts Of 1921 and 1924 for
alleged transportation of workmen to
and from Kohler. One said he paid
$37. Other taxes were not made pub
lie. Charles Fischer, internal revenue
collector, refused to give out any in
formation.
Madison-The King case of Chip
pewa Falls, involving the right of
school board to bar pupils from the
first grade when they have not reached
a certain age, was dismissed by the
Wisconsin supreme court. The Chip
pewa Falls school board of education
has a rule against admitting any child
to school who would not become 6 be-
fore the end of the year. The son Of
William A. King was barred from
entering the first grade last year and
Mr. King took the matter to the court.
Madison-COmplete official returns
Of the special senatorial election Sept.
20 show that total of 352,1 1876 votes
were cast. Robert NJ. La Toilette, jr.,
republican, received 237 ,719, a plur-
atty of 146,401 over Edward r. Dith-
mar, Independent republican. Dith-
mar received 91,31S votes; William
George Bruce, independent democrat,
1913; John M. Work, socialist, H.
1870; George Bauman, socialist-labor,
795, and the other 430 were scattering.
Madison-The way was paved for
n Wncf cfdn hiob In
son when the city council voted to pur-
chase a site on Regain street for $97,-
800 The building will cost in excess
of 100000, it is said, and will be
sister school to the recently completed
East side high school, built two years
ago when the enrolment of the Cen
trail high was 1900. The first year
East sides enrolment was 600. Last
year 1t reached 900, while the Cen
trails enrolment again was at 1900.
AppletOn-Through the heroism of
17-year-old Neenah high school boy, a
tragedy was averted on Lake Poygan.
famous mecca for duck hunters. e.
Werner So, of Tustin, was rescued
by the youth, Leorman Bradke, after
his hunting skiff had capsized. The
man, heavily clothed, was nearly ex-
hausted when young Bradke reached
his side and pulled him into his boat
La Crosse-With the prohibition law
In effect six years, all records of the
La Crosse city police court were
broken lost month, when eighty-five
DRINKS and eight drunken drivers Of
automobiles were sentenced by Judge
G. w. Hunt. Fines for the quarter
ending on Oct. l were the largest in
history, $2,556 being collected in this
court, or an amount equal to one
years fines twentT years ago.
Sheboygan-A jury in circuit court
at Sheboygan awarded Nicholas Som
pres $4,000 damages in his suit against
the city for the drowning of his 6-year-
old son in a Lake Michigan sink hole
at the foot of former sewer outlet
year ago. The city Of Sheboygan
was held to have been negligent in
allowing the hole to go unguarded.
Sompres sued for $4,000.
Madison-Prof. Warren ]. Mead of
the University OF Wisconsin geology
department has tentatively accepted
a position in the geology department
of the University of California. Prof.
him leave Of absence, beginning at
the close of the current semester in
February.
La Crosse-The La Crosse board of
education has put a ban on secret
societies In the high school. The board
adopted a resolution providing that all
students failing to resign from secret
fraternities in the school be expelled.