River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26
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officers and the attendant ceremonies
Father Tulley said he did not object
to dancing in connection with the in
stallation. but did object strenuousIy
when the dances are of a public ma
ture. He said that hereafter he will
forbid Catholic societies from hold
ing such dances unless some person
is stationed at the door OF the halls
to sec that no Objectionable persons
are admitted. The pastor also spoke
against the practice OF young people
giving sleigh rides into the country
and holding public dances in country
halls until the early hours of the
morning.
Monroe.-Hundreds of dairymen
and cheesemakers will attend the
eleventh annual convention of the
Southern Wisconsin Cheesemaker and
Dairymen's association here, Friday
and Saturday. Among the speakers
will be H. c. Searles OF Fond du Lac,
Fred Nasty of Monroe, James Tibbets
of Mineral Point, PrOfs. F. G. Hast
ings and L. F. GRADER of the college
of agriculture.
Marinette. Otis G. Dale left
for La Junta, Col, where he has &C.
copied the pastorate of the Presby-
terrain church.
Eau Claire.-The directors of the
Lutheran hospital received a check
for $4,000, the gift of the late Sig
valid Quale, made shortly before his
death.
Oconomowoc. = The Oconomowoc
health resort, on Nashotah lakes, at
it's annual meeting elected: President,
DR.. A.. w. Rogers; vice-president,
Loren Edwards; secretary-treasurer,
B. G. Edgerton. The reports showed
the most successful year in it's his
tory. DR. and Mrs. Rogers entertained
the officers and stockholders at sup
per-
Ripon.-H. E. Danford, M. A, of
the University of Indiana, has been
elected to the chair of English COM
position and oratory of Ripon college,
formerly occupied by Prof. Fl. G..
Shurtliff. Professor Danford also fin
ished i'll oratory at Harvard and comes
to Ripnn from Kirkwood, Mo.
oughton-Hunting rabbits with
out a license on Monday cost Peter
Leikness, who lives two miles south
east Of this city, $50 before Justice
A. E. Gilbert.
Madison.-Oficer for the coming
year, elected at the state convention
of the Wisconsin Young Mems Chris
tian association here, are as follows:
President, Attorney Emerson Ella,
Madison; first vice-president, e. T..
Meilenz, Milwaukee; second vice
president, c. c. Cuttings, Racine; sec
rotary, A. A. Busse, Milwaukee, and
assistant secretary, H. E. Merritt,
Racine. H. F. Luisan, Milwaukee; j.
J. Merriam, Columbus; Waldemar Sex
smith, Wausau; R.. p. Breese, Wau-
kesha; E. E. BelenZ, Milwaukee;
Emerson Ella, Madison, and w. w.
Vincent of Milwaukee were elected di-
rectors.
Racine.-Charles H. Schlberg, aged
thirty-two, secretary of the carpen-
ters' union of Racine and prominent
German, was killed when he fell
thirty feet from scaffold on which
he was at work and fractured his
skull One leg was also broken. He
died about half an hour later at hos
pital.
Green Alexander Sharpe of
the Hudson & Sharpe company, found
ers, died ais a result of burns received
in an explosion of gasoline at his
plant. Sharpe was f1fty-eight years
old. He was well-known in manufac-
turing circles, having been connected
with this company for number of
years.
Madison.-The contract for decorat-
ing the gymnasium for the junior
prom has been let. The color effect
will be the same as last year-green
and white. The contract for the print
ing of the Badger, the Junior class
publication, has been awarded to an
Oshkosh firm.
Madison-When a sleigh in which
she was riding overturned, throwing
her to the pavement, Miss Alice j.
Ringing of Baraboo, daughter of one
of the proprietors of the Ringing cir
Gus, narrowly escaped serious injury.
She was unconscious when picked up
and taken to a hospital.
Misunderstanding r. G. Flanagan,
sitting in the circuit court at Crystal
Falls, divorced Mary and Charles Len
berg on the grounds that the husband
was intoxicated at the time the mar
riage ceremony was performed.
Madison.-Governor McGovern took
favorable action on the appointment
of Leonard Cleaver as superintendent
of the free employment bureau at La
Crosse. Mr.. Cleaver succeeds T. L..
Mullen. The bureau is similar to
other bureaus in Superior and Mil
waukee and is under the bureau of
labor and statistics, of which D. J..
Beck is commissioner.
La Crosse.-Evidently affected by
the unloading of vast quantities Of
cold storage products in the eastern
centers and Chicago, fresh eggs drop
ped to % cents, storage to 25 cents,
seconds to % cents, creamery butter
to 26 cents and dairy proportionately
here.
Fond du Lac-After fastening
his rife to the foot of his bed and
attaching a wire to the trigger, Mat
thew Hahn, proprietor of the Log
Cabin. laid down, jerked the wire and
killed himself. He had threatened for