Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-24


next thirty-fve years have been APP
proved by the state board of health
and construction work will be started
this summer, it was announced at the
city engineers office. The system, ac-
cording to estimates of the engineers
office, viii be large enough to care for
population of $4,000 people and will
create an entirely new disposal sys-
TEN for an area of approximately q
600 acres
Sturgeon Bay-Door county is now
on the tuberculoSis-free area of Wis
cOnSin, federal men having completed
the task of examining 10000 head Of
cattle. The showing made was excep-
tiOnal as less than 2 per cent of this
number were found to be reactors
Door county is the third in eastern
Wisconsin to complete the countrywide
test, the other two being Green Lake
and Florence.
Monroe-One hundred years of sue
cessfdl drug store service in Monroe
is the record of the Trukenbrod
family, maintaining pharmacy there.
w. f. Trukenbrod has served 81 years
behind a drug counter in Monroe. His
father, Jacob, served % years, and his
son, w. E. TrukenbrOd, has served %
years. w. F. and w. e. Trukenbrod
are still active in the store.
Fond du Lac-Nebraska stockmen
are in Wisconsin buying approximate
ly 1000 head of grade calves of every
breed to be used in establishing the
dairy industry in that state. One of
the requirements of the Nebraska
men is that only cattle with COW test
ing records will be purchased. Pre-
MUM prices for calves are being paid
by the Nebraskans. They range from
$50 to $50 per head.
New London-Fire started by a bolt
of lightning destroyed the Most Pre-
cious Blood Catholic church at New
London. The church was built 35
years ago at cost of S75,000 but it
is estimated that it will cost S150,000
to rebuild it now. Insurance amount
ing to $51,0 was carried on the
church and fixtures.
Barron-An output of HIPS pounds
of butter June II broke the days rec
ord of production for the Barron Co
operative creamery by nearly half a
ton. AT the annual meeting Of the
creamery company, e. ]. Mckinney
was again elected president. A w.
Arndt was reelected treasurer and
manager, as was j. Archie Nelson sec
rotary.
Beloit-The school of journalism at
Beloit college will be discontinued at
the end of the present term, Presi-
dent Irving Maurer has announced.
Some instruction in journalistic sub
jects will be offered in the future, but
students desiring to major in this field
will not be advised to seek their vo-
cational training at Beloit.
Chippewa Falls-The Rev. George
Bechtolt, Reedsburg, his daughter,
Miss Lettia Bechtolt, and two chill
dren were seriously injured at Chip
pewa Falls when the automobile in
which they were riding overturned
and pinned them underneath
Waupaca-Clyde Olson. Waupaca,
suit of being held under the water
by companion at the public bathing
beach until he waS unconscious. Use
of pulmotor was necessary to revive
the boy.
Fond du Lac-Severe recent electric
and rain storms which drenched south
western Wisconsin and burned many
farm buildings were responsible for
considerable damage in Fond du Lac,
Dodge and Calumet counties.
Sturgeon Bay-Laura De Keyser,
town of Union, won the Door county
spelling, arithmetic and writing con-
test and will represent this county at
the state fair.
Wabeno-Louis Reinke suffered a
severe scalp wound when a horseshoe,
hung above door as a good luck
token, fell and struck him on the head.
Plainfeld-David Liant, so year old
Civil war veteran, was killed at Plain
field when he touched a live wire
broken by the storm
Stevens Point-The frantic efforts
of fellow workmen saved the life of
Leo Pulchinski, Stevens Point, who
was buried alive by cavein in a