The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-02-08
WISCONSIN ITEMS
Events of the Past Week in the
Badger State.

man of Oshkosh died at the age OF
| twenty-three years.
| The furniture factory at Brilllon VIII
| be operated day and night for a time
in order to fill orders.
| Gray Bros of Whitewater intend to
build a large summer hotel at Lake
| Geneva the coming season.
Rev. H. S. Robbie, of the Congrega-
/ tIonal church OF Kenosha, has resigned
| to accept a call at Hancock, Mich
The Union club of Oshkosh has elect
| ed these officers: President, +. &.
| Stewart; vice president, Thomas DAILY;
Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Phelps of James
vile recently celebrated the siXt1eth
anniversary of their wedding.
secretary, w. ]. O'Rourke; treasurer,
| T. r. Frentz; director, e. q. Stevens.
! The annual dues were raised from $40
| to So.
NJ Olson of Eau Claire has taken
contract to build Il 10000 bushel ele-
vatur for w. W. Cargill at Elwa, La
| Crosse county.
The Wisconsin Central railway sta
| ton at Bancroft, near Plaintield, was
burned, together with considerable
| freight.
A corncob pipe factory will be re-
! moved from Missouri to Algoma and
| commence the manufacture of pipes.
| About fifteen men will be employed.
There are sixty-nine persons from
| Wisconsin who are employed by the
| department of agriculture at Washing
ton. Their aggregate salary is SAT ,4SS.
! Aaron Bennett of Viroqua has been
| 1I1o
Mcdowell . merchant of that place.
| Mcdowell is in a critical condition.
| The city directory nearly completed
| shows an increase of Green Bays pop
ulation of about 1000 people since the
last edition, little over year ago.
| A w. r. c., with twenty charter
members, has been organized at Bear
| Greek, Outagamie county. 1t is known
as Starkweather Corps No. 40.
Edward Rude was killed in Horan's
lumber camp near Thorp by falling
tree The body was taken to Gales
vile for burial.
f. S. Comstock of Chicago has pre-
| scented a petition to the city council
| of kenosha to be allowed to build an
other street railway in that town.
A fortune is awaiting Hugh Davis Of
| Racine in Connecticut. Davis is ma
| tive of Racine, but his whereabouts at
| present are unknown.
The Grand Republic mill at Superior
will soon be released from the hands
| Of a receiver and put in operation I'M
| der new management.
The La Crosse board of trade has
| just celebrated the thirtieth anniver-
sary of the founding of the Organiza-
| ton. A banquet was held by the 100
! members.
| The J. I. Case threshing machine
! factory at Racine will be run ten
hours a day in the future instead of
i eight hours. Twelve threshers will be
turned out every day.
The Pommerick brick factory at Osh-
| koSh will be removed to Fond du Lac.
| 1t is proposed that a stock company.
| capitalized at $4,000, take charge of
| the business in the new location.
| The Yiroqua Telephone company re-
| Gently provided a concert over its wires
| for every town and village on its cir
| cult, covering a large part of South
western Wisconsin.
Mrs. Mary Smader of Caledonia, Ra
| cine county, fell down stairs at her
home and broke her shoulder and
wrist, besides receiving internal ia
| juries She is siXty-five years Old
The Sparta Telephone company has
elected the following officers for the
coming year: President, Howard Teas
dale; secretary, Fred Gross; treasurer,
! William G.. Hoffman.
| The r. G. Kingsley Lumber and Box
| company has been organized at Mer-
x,sII fol Of
| Arson and John Landers are the other
men interested in the concern.
| The new brewery at New London is
completed and preparations for the
manufacture of beer will be com
menced at once. The plant has ca
pacity of 10000 barrels annually.
| Jacob Fisher, student of the state
| university, died at his home in James
vile, aged twenty-five years. H. A.
| Tice of Albion, n. Y, died at Weyau-
vega, where he was visiting.
| John Meyers and William Verthein
of Reedsburg were struck by train
| while driving across a railroad track.
| Both were seriously injured and the
| team was killed.
H. G. Mueller & Son will soon start
| their sash and door factory at She
| boygan. A large storehouse and dry
| kiln are being built in connection with
the plant which is equipped with all
| the latest machinery.
A new G. A. r. post with f1fty-four
| charter members will soon be organ
| lied at Berlin. This new post is the
| outgrowth of the fractional feeling
| which has existed in the j. B. Will
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