The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-12-28
WISCONSIN ITEMS
Events of the Past Week I'm the
Badger State.

81. F. Sargent has been appointed
deputy sheriff of Chippewa county by
Sheriff Colburn.
The city council Of Marinette ha ap-
propriated 5000 to aid the new school
library.
The woman's gymnasium at Oshkosh
will be dedicated on Jan. p. An OPP
era will be given to celebrate the
event.
The claim of Attorney Gerrett
Thorn for services rendered in the
prosecution Of the Goldberg case was
settled by the payment to him of $597
by the Waupaca county board.
The contracts for extending the
Northwestern ore docks at Superior
have been let to Minneapolis firm.
About $4,000 will be expended in the
work.
Eau Claire will send committee of
citizens to Madison to appear before
the board of normal school regents and
urge the claims of that city as a home
for the normal school recently burned
at River Falls.
Rock River Encampment No. 3, l. o.
o. f., of GAINESVILLE, has just celebrat-
ed it's semi-centennial. Volney Atwood
and John NJ May are the only surviv-
ing members of the original lodge.
DR.. Byron Treat of GAINESVILLE is
dead, at the age of seventy three, in a
Chicago hospital. He was twice elect
ed mayor of GAINESVILLE and was a mem
Der Of the board of trustees for the
state school for the blind. Other
deahs in the state are: S. P. Taft,
aged seventy-seven, of Broadhead;
Mrs. Phelps of Janesville; Augustus
Parker of GAINESVILLE.
The Bank of Amigo has been re-
lieved of a receiver by an order from
the circuit coure. All depOsitors will
be paid in full, and after a complete
settlement is made a new organization
of the bank will be effected. The clos
ing of the bank has been a severe blow
to business in Amigo, merchants say
ing that their trade has fallen off so
per cent.
The American Woodworking Manu-
featuring company of New York, which
embraces all concerns of this kind i'll
the country, will enlarge the plant of
the Milwaukee Sander company OF
Green Bay, which it has recently ac-
quired, and will make that plant the
headquarters of the business in the
Northwest. f. e. Schmidt of the
Green Bay company, has been elected
one of the directors of the consolidated
interests.
The First Congregational church of
Baraboo has just celebrated the fifth
eth anniversary of it's founding, being
thus a little older than the state. OF
the charter members of the first con-
gregation, only Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin
Blake Of Baraboo are now living. The
first service was held in a log cabin,
end a house of worship was erected in
1851, The present church is a fine ed
ifice, erected in 1923, with a seating ca
p9city of 700,
An agreement has been reached in
the injunction suit of r, Law to re-
strain the city of Madison from enter
ing into a contract for the disposal of
sewage, the plaintiff claiming that the
system would not work efficiently
Mr.. McDougall, the contractor, will
now proceed to put in the sewage
plant The question of the efficiency
of the plant will be left to commit
tee to decide, and Mr. McDougalFS
bond will be increased to $4,000.
The board of directors of the Column
bian Catholic school at Madison met
in Chicago and made arrangements for
session of the school next summer,
July to g. A great many of the
former speakers will be heard next
year. Forty-six lectures, on a wide
range of SUBJECTS, will be given, be-
sides many other features. The school
will now be a permanent feature of
Madison educational life. John Harti-
gan of st, Paul has been elected sec
rotary, to succeed DR.. Edward Nc
Laughlin.
Rough on the Lawyer.