Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-14
State Items in Brief.

! MADISON - 1t is probable that p. ].
| Castles place in the land office will not
! be filled for few weeks.
OSCEOLA-Threshing has commenced in
! Polk county, and crop reports good.
! Oats are not up to standard.
NEENAII-Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Powell of
| Menasha, celebrated their silver wedding
anniversary with dance and reception to
which 300 guests were invited.
BELOIT = Baroness Belle. one of the
prize Berkshires of the A. J. Lovejoy x
Son farm. sold at auction to w. 5.
Corsa of Whitehall ILL.,. for $40
| BELOIT-Thc report of the assessor re
yeals the startling fact that there are but
| four watches in the possession of the peO-
| pie of Beloit.
| MOSINEE - Two thousand former resi-
coming day, and the village was deliberately
! decorated in honor of the visitors
KENOSIIA-The plans ana specifications
for the new federal building to be erected
! in this city at estimated cost of S52,OOp,
! have been received by Postmaster j. Il.
| Maloney.
| MADISON-A bad wreck on the North
| Western road averted when the &c
! centric on the engine broke while the
| train was running ut Il rate of stxty-ive
| miles an hour near Merrimac.
| MADISON - Commissioner of Insurance
Beedle has collected upward of $1,000 in adj
ditional taxes from the fire insurance com
| panies doing business in the state during
the past few days.
| MADISON-H. II. zigler, promoter of the
new interurban project, and Engineer
Joseph Ellis and his surveyors came from
GAINESVILLE and resumed the survey of the
route to Madison.
RACINE-Mr and Mrs. Frank X. Bull
and family and Frederick Robinson ana
family started from this city this morning
for an overland trip to Denver, Colo, III
two large automobiles.
SPRING VALLEY A harvest picnic
will be held here August -. Farmers
from Pierce and st. CrOix counties VIII
attend. Dairy Commissioners J. Q. Emery
will speak on Good Roads"
MARIN NETT Ex-senator Stephenson's
yacht Bonita will go to Escanaba Saturday
to convey the senator's guests to Mari
nette after their outing on the Escanaba
river.
NEENAT-By winning the race for cabin
launches j. II. and w. II. Kruger have Sc
cured the $500 silver loving cup offered by
Homer Fahrney of Oshkosh. The cup has
been sent to this city
OSCEOLA-Mr. and Mrs. c. c. Ladd have
sailed on the steamer Oceanic from North
ampton. England. for their home in Osceoia,
| and expect to reach here the latter part of
next week.
0SCEOLA-M. J. O'Rcilly and family are
enjoying an extended tour of the state in
their auto, having left for Oshkosh and
other points in the eastern and southern
part of the state.
CHIPPEWA FALLS-Myrman and Lar
son have been awarded the contract by the
Yellow River Lumber company of White
water to raise about 100000 feet of logs
from the Yellow river.
ASHLAND - President David Starr Jor-
dan of Leland-Stanford university, il menu
Der of the international fish commission.
says the whitetish of Lake Superior ar
identical with those of the Labrador
coast.
STOIrcIITON- Tho body If an unknown
man was found floating in Lake kcgonsa
by section men on the milwaukee, road
The body was badly blOated and there y
nothing upon it to Indicate the mans ideh-
tity.
GRAND RAPIDS-A mass meeting OF
growers of potatoes, hay, and barley VIII
| be held by the American Society OF Equity
in this city on August Is and 10. An at
| tempt will be made to devise means OF
maintaining prices
Belden. both of Saltwater Mimi, are in
the village engaged in the compilation OF
a book to he known as the History of the
of Saltwater will be the publisher.
SUPERIOR-On Friday the cornerstone of
the Masonic temple will be laid with the
customary ceremonies. Among the visitors
will be Grand Master Durgis of Racine and
Grand Secretary Perry of Milwaukee, The
blue lodge will escort the Knights Templar
EAU CLAIRE-Dr. ]. V. L. Lyman, who
has been spending several months at Carts
bad, Germany, for his health, has returned
LONE and will purchase the home of the
late f. w. Woodward and convert it into
a sanitarium.
RACINE-MaX Watson is at the county
Jail, insane, and will he removed to the
| Mendoza asylum. Several weeks ago he
saw two brothers drown in Root river
MatSOn could not render assistance ana
since the accident has imagined he was at
fault.
APFLETON-At the convention of the
Wisconsin Retail GrOcerS association,
which will be held in Hayward, Igust n,
% and 26, members will try and have
passed by the next Legislature Il law 10
assist them in making collections for gro
ceries within reasonable time