Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-09-16

tendance for the year was 23S, 14S or
1904 greater than the total attend
ance of 1924. The receipts made
corresponding gain. Last year they
were sos, 290.70 as compared to $780,
013.40 for the jubilee exposition. The
increase was $9,722.70 The daily at
tendance this year was larger fol
every day except Tuesday, when it
dropped about 500 under the 1924 fig
ure. The receipts were greater on
every day except Tuesday and Friday.
The 1925 fair offered the greatest num-
Der of exhibits of any Wisconsin fail
since 1920. The quality of the ex'
hibits, officials said, probably has
never been surpassed at State Faif
park. La Crosse county was awarded
the sweepstakes prize for the most
prize money won by any county in the
farm crops exhibits. Dodge, 'Milwau-
kee and Jefferson counties finished be.
hind La Crosse in the order named.
Observation-Disclosures will harvest the
biggest crop this year that the state
has ever known, according to Prof.
Ransom A. Moore, state agronOmist,
His opinion is based on close study
of crops throughout the state. 1.-THE
grain crop has been wonderful" he
declared. 1.-The potato crop, too, is one
of the largest the state has ever
known. Farmers are rapidly filling
their silos with corn which gives prom
Use of exceeding crops of former years.
Tobacco is good and the harvest will
be a large one" Prof. Moore denied
the seriousness of reported drought
in the state.
Fond du Lac-An ultimatum that
Wisconsin will be dropped from the
roster of the Yellowstone Trail asso-
citation unless the people of the state
subscribe more literally to it's work
was delivered by H. o. Cooley, man.
ager, at the annual meeting in Fond du
Lac. The membership quota sof the
state Is 2,210, Manager Cooley de-
clared, but only $50 have subscribed.
OF a total of sd, 562 raised by the as
ISOLATION this year, FTr. Cooley said,
only 81, 432 came from Wisconsin. In
1924, Cooley said, Wisconsin contrib
uted $3,4OO, while $500 was spent In
the state.
Wisconsin Rapids-Li lieut.. Com.
Zachary Lansdowne, captain Of the i'll
fated Shenandoah and killed when the
dirigible crashed, was widely known in
Wisconsin Rapids, where, on May q,
1913, he married Ellen Marion Mac
Kinnon, daughte~ of Mr.. and Mrs.
Falkland MacKinnon of that city.
Com. Lansdowne was a frequent visi-
tor at Wisconsin Rapids at the home
of his parents-in-law and was charter
member of Charles Hagerstrom post
No. 9, American Legion, there. The
first Mrs LansdOwne died in June,
1916, and Com. Lansdowne had since
remarked.
Waupun-Clarence A, Shaler, mil
liOnaire resident of Waupun has just
given $4,000 for the purpose of estab-
fishing a Shaler scholarship in the
Waupun schools, the principal to be
deposited with the First Wisconsin
Trust Co, Milwaukee. and the inter-
est to be delivered quarterly to COM
mittee of five citizens appointed by the
school board of Waupun.
Stevens Point-Charges of irregular
ity were hurled in city council cham
bers at Stevens Point when COM
munication was presented from S. A.
Martin, street foreman, and A. B. Erd-
man, a teamster employed in the
street department, admitting they had
been overpaid $500 in 1922. Both
agreed over their signatures, to pay
this amount back.
Monroe-Approximately one-fourth
the 1925 graduating class of Monroe
High school will seek higher education
this fall Twenty-tnree will go away
to school. seventeen of them to the
University of Wisconsin, comprising
the largest group ever sent from one
class to the state institution.
Kenosh 1.-Two young Kenosha
wives attempted to commit suicide by
swallowing poison after quarrels with
their husbands Blanche Barksdale,
%, tried to end her life after third
reconciliation with her husband failed
Mrs Louis Ruffalo. D. drank poison
when her husband scolded her.
Rhinelander-H w. Mckenzie of
Amigo, for many years district state
conservation warden. has been APP
pointed chief conservation warden of
Wisconsin. Mckenzie is recognized
as an authority on native fish and
game.