Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-08-25
NeLDs Notes of Wisconsin

Washburn.-People residing in the
towns i'll the northern part of Bay
held county and along the south shore
of Lake Superior between the head of
the lakes and Chequamegon bay are
becoming greatly interested over the
prospects for a new railroad through
that section. 1t is said that a crew
of surveyors, who have heretofore been
identified with work being done for
the 500 railroad, have been in that To-
cality for some time, making a mum
Der of surveys and the people believe
that this is the preliminary step to-
ward building the connecting link of
railroad between the two points. The
country through which the new sur
vey is being made contains several
large towns. among them being Port
Wing, CornucOpia, Perbester and Bark
Point. The only outlet that these
places have is by boat and by road,
and for years they have been clamor-
ing for Il railroad
Camp Cleghorn. The Wisconsin
grand lodge Of Good Templars closed
its session here with election of the
following officers: Grand chief temp
lar, Rev. r. w. North, Stevens Point:
grand vice templar, Edith Treleven,
Omro; grand counsellor, a. ID. Hill,
Grand Rapids; grand superintendent
Of juvenile work, Ida e. Leason, She
boygan Falls; grand electoral superin-
tendent, Thomas Edwards, Ashland;
grand chancellor, A. 3. Taynton. Mad
ison; grand secretary, b. f. Parker,
Milwaukee; grand treasurer Mrs. w.
S. Frazier, Milwaukee,
Kenosha.-With a record of q
wedding every two years for nine
years, Mrs. Bonnie M. Clark Of Chi
cago, known on the stage as Lillian
Mari, had her fifth marriage in Ke-
nosha, when she became the bride of
Joseph H. Engleman of Chicago, a
mechanic. Notwithstanding that Mrs.
Engleman had wept over the bier OF
three husbands and had stood in the
divorce court with a fourth, she is
not yet &c years of age, and she de-
clared that she was still convinced
that marriage was not failure.
Green Bay-Three people narrowly
escaped death by drowning when an
automobile driven by William Hoberg
ran into the open draw of the Main
street bridge. Two Of the occupants.
Hoberg and William McGinnis, were
thrown into the river, but were res
cued by a launch. The car did not 90
into the river it's hind wheels remain
ing on the approach while the front
ones lodged III the piling under the
draw.
Madison.-DespOnde because she
was unable to secure work, Elsie Tan
bert, 10 years old, attempted suicide
here by drinking carbolic acid. She
was taken to Il hospital, where, it is
said, she will recover. This is the third
time she tried to end her life. She was
recently released from an orphan asy-
lum at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee.-Dr. George r. Ernst
of municipal tubercuIo-
SIS institutions, declared at a meeting
OF public health committee that there
are about $500 cases of tuberculosis
in Milwaukee The meeting was held
to devise a campaign of cooperation
between the city and county officials
against the spread of tuberculosis.
Madison.-Peter White of Chicago.
an accounting expert, has been en-
gagged by the state board of public
affairs to advise with the board in plac-
ing Wisconsin's state accounts ON q
uniform basis.
Chippewa Falls.-Adolph Freinder
ich Of Milwaukee, aged 10, accidentally
shot himself in the right breast with
a 32-calibre rifle, and expired in five
minutes. He was in the woods eight
miles from here picking plums and
took his gun to kill crow. His two
companions heard two shots and ran
to see what he had killed and saw him
fall.
Grand Rapids.-The death of Judge
Webb has caused vacancy in the
Seventh Judicial circuit and friends of
George T.. Williams of this