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summer, according to an investigation made, following a report from Madison that there would be 64 farms idle in the county. The Oconto branch of the Marinette Knitting Mill has not been abandoned. A letter received by the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, says that operations will be resumed as soon as business conditions warrant. Driven back to her old home town by slackness in the theatrical profession, which she had followed for several years, Miss Bobby Lee has opened a shoe shining stand in front of a La Crosse barber shop. Marshall Tanz, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tanz, of the town of Union, Eau Claire county, died from a fractured skull he recieved when he fell from a high seat and cut his head open on a farm machine which his father was driving. Dwight T. Parker, state banking commissioner, has announced that the First State bank at Sanborn, Ashland county, had been taken over by the banking department and the doors of the bank closed. The Sanborn bank is an institution of $10,000 capital and $57,000 deposits. Frozen assets is given as the cause of the closing. Edward Krueger, 60, a farmer living two miles west of Chelsea, was fcund dead in a field by his wife, who had gone to look for him when he failed to come home at supper time. He had been dynamiting stumps during the day and, evidently, had failed to get under cover in time after lighting the fuse. His head was mutilated. "Fair to middlin'," was the word passed around by fisherman in answer to inquiries if the fish are running well in the trout streams. Dozens of anglers have spent the last few days in the woodlands. The streams in the Menominee reservation are providing the best sport, according to the anglers, several of whom came back with nice catches. Thieves entering the home of Adolphus Menor, Marinette, selected 15 $10 bills from a roll of $800 and robbed the pantry of a batch of cupcakes made by Mrs. Menor. The money had been drawn from the bank for payment on an automobile. Police do not expect any great degree of difficulty in determining the age of the thieves or their previous experience in crime. Fox river claimed its first victim of the season when Walter Knuth, 8, drowned when he fell into the water while playing at the old Greiling dock, just north of the North Western road bridge at Green Bay. With several of his playmates, the boy was fishing sticks out of the water. He reached for one, lost his balance and fell in. The swift current soon pulled him out into midstream. The body was found four hours later. The work excavating for the new high school in Mineral Point is under way. Old buildings have been sold and will be removed. The new school of red brick with Bedford lime stone trimming is to be two stories high, 89x112 feet, with eleven class rooms, a domestic science department, manual training department and a big gymnasium in the basement. Athletics is to be made a compulsory part of the regular high school course. Fifty or more slot machines in Sheboygan saloons and other places of business have stopped operation by order of Mayor Schuelke. The machines had been permitted by the police on the misunderstanding that they came under the "silent salesman" law, giving something in return for money inserted in them. Mayor Schuelke, however, said they were operated in violation of the city ordinances on gambling, and order them removed. The Island Lake school in district No. 1, Town of Stephenson, Marinette county, was destroyed by fire. The building had not been in use this term, as the pupils were transported to other schools. The cause of the fire is unknown. The building was insured for $700. The furniture and books were removed to the Caldron Falls school last fall. This is the second school in the district to burn recently, the Crivitz school building burning in March. A pueer specimen of trout which was caught by an 11-year-old girl in Lowes creek near Eau Claire is puzzling fisherman. The fish, which weighed more than three pounds, was landed by Constance Rowell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Rowell of Eau Claire, after a hard tussle. The fish broke the bamboo trout rod before it was landed. It had the prominent markings of both the rainbow and the German brown trout, but the head was unlike that of any specimen of the trout family. Behind each gill was a large irregular splotch of bright red. Mrs. Eva Griswold, 50, former Racine newspaperwoman and wife of Dave Griswold, pioneer newspaperman of Racine, died at her home after a short illness.