River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-08
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS


ISOLATION meeting came to close
at noon on Wednesday with the cleo
ton of the following officers: Presi-
dent, George F. Cooper, Black River
Falls; treasurer, G. L. Coward, Lodi;
secretary, F. e. Andrews, Bloomer. A
resolution was passed declaring the
price charged for session law supple
ments excessive and declaring that
the association print its own supple
ments unless the price is cut In the
afternoon the members were taken
on an automobile ride about the city.
Waukesha-At the twenty-seventh
annual reunion of the Society of the
Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Volunteer
infantry held here the officers were re-
elected as follows: President, George
S. Sawyer, Chicago; vice-president,
DR.. o. W. Carlson, Milwaukee; Sec
rotary and treasurer, Samuel R. Bell,
Milwaukee; historian, Fred Wardrobe,
Waukesha; chaplain, Thomas III.
Gault, Chicago; daughter of the regi-
ment, Miss Marion G. Bell, Milwau-
kee.
Racine.-The announcement that
Henry H. Hyde, secretary and gen.
eral manager of the Racine Gas Light
Company has resigned, caused sur
prise in business circles. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Hyde will go to Ia
coma Wash, to take the management
of gas company there. Mr.. Hyde
has been in charge of the Racine
plant for ten years, and is also Sec
retary-treasurer of the Wisconsin
Association of Gas Manufacturers.
presence of thousands of spectators.
| Fond du Lac.-The responsibility
| for the wreck of the Menominee pas
Senger train on the Northwestern
road on the night of June II, costing
the life of Engineer Thomas Melon
aid and injuring four others, was of
| ficially fixed. 1t is placed on George
Foster, engineer of the switch engine
that crashed into line of freight cars
| being drawn by another switch en-
CINE.
Washington D. C.-Postmasters
were appointed as follows: Bonduel,
Shawano county, Miss e. l..
1 tLSTutGk0, VICE II. ASEhlChO re-
signed; Lyons, Walworth county,
Joseph A. Strassen, vice T. H. Will
cox, removed; Morrisonville, Dane
county, Fred Dieruf, vice B. F. Wood
ford, resigned; Truesdell, Kenosha
county, Joseph H. Beland, vice G. W..
Michalski, resigned.
Superior.-The laying of the cor
ner-stone of the new 100000 high
school took place. President c.. r.
Van Hise of the state university de-
| livered the address. In addition to
President Van Hise, there were
speeches by Mayor F. r. Crumpton,
President ". E. McCaskill of the
NAL school, Superintendent w. E.
Maddox of the city school, and DR..
H. A. Russell of the school board.
| Green Bay. A warrant was is
sued by Municipal Judge Monahan
for the arrest of o. E. Bickford and
Frank Boyd Of the Green Bay reforma-
tory, charging them with manslaugh-
ter following the verdict of the jury in
which it was found that the death of
John Smith was due to cruel and in
human treatment received at the insti-
tuition.
Kenosha.-Active preparations are
being made by the members of Park
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church
in this city for the entertainment Of
the Wisconsin conference, beginning
September and continuing to Sep
TENDER 10.
Beloit-Contrary to expectations,
all the saloons having old licenses are
OPEN The council decided that IL
censes of last year expire July and
saloons run till that day. Many IL
censes were issued for the new year
at $500.
West Bend.-Sheriff Schoenbeck has
been notified by Gov. Davidson that
the law regarding the prohibition of
slot machines must be enforced in
Washington county. 1t is understood
that the order is the result of COM
plants made to the executive.
Ripon-The queen contest in the
street carnival, held here, resulted in
the election of Miss Adalia SCHNEIDER.
The coronation ceremony and presen-
ia of the prize by Mayor L. G. Kellogg
took place on the public square in the
Manitowoc.-The gas company filed
it's acceptance of the compromise ordi-
nance, which gives one dollar gas to
Manitowoc in 1911. This ends the
| fight that has been on between the
city and the company for three years.
Kenosha.-The Kenosha Home Tele-
phone Company issued an order to all
patrons by which country service over
the lines of the company will be given
| free in the future. Reduced cost OF
maintenance made this possible.
! Manitowoc.-John Hanse, Maple
Grove cheesemaker, was acquitted
here by a jury on the charge of keep
ing an unsanitary place, preferred by
A. E. Aderbolt Of Neenah.
| Wausau-There are prospects that
Wausau will get the 1910 convention
of the Wisconsin German-American
alliance. The next meeting will be
held in Milwaukee July 10.
Neenah.- Workmen were startled
when they dug up skeleton on West
North Water street, and for a time it
was believed that the mysterious dis
appearance of "Old Scout" Herman,
a hermit who had lived in the vicin-
| ity years ago, had been cleared up.
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