Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-10
NetUs Notes of Wisconsin

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over sixty candidates passed the ex-
animation recently conducted here by
the state board of law examiners.
They are: c. w. Babcock, Charles
o. Bergemer, G. w. Bradford, Joseph
P. Callan, A L. Devils, John P. DON
nelly, Alfred E. Fem, W. w. Hitler,
Frank Jennings, f. G. Kennedy, H.
R. Manager, Thomas r. Manning, AL
fred Newlander, o. M. Peters, J. e.
Tierney, Milwaukee; l.. NJ Caldwell,
Pewaukee; Richard p. Cayanaugh,
Kenosha; R. w. Cook, Green Bay;
Arthur ]. Cunningham, Beloit; J. W.
Frenz, R. w. Mabel, Baraboo; c. e.
Kempley, Packwaukee; R. E. Cor
don, La Crosse; A. J. O'Melia, Rhine
lander; Mr.. Rittland, Elroy; L. J.
Sommers, Madison; D. Wheelock, De-
pere.
Milwaukee.-Dennison WheeIock
of Oneida, graduate of Marquette
college, is the first full blooded In
dian, as far as known, ever to secure
the right to practice law in Wiscon-
sin. He is from the great family of
WheelOcks, of the Oneida reservation
and this family has figured in foot
ball also. Jonas Wheelock, a rela-
tive of Dennison, was the captain for
years Of the Carlisle football team,
and for many years other members
of the Oneida family were in the
game there. A relative of Wheelock
is one of the few Indian clerggmen
in the country, being lay reader at
the Oneida Episcopal mission.
Madison.-Capt. James B. Mccoy.
aged 66 years, marshal of the Wis
consin supreme court, is dead here.
He leaves a widow and one son. a
rural mail carrier at Prairie du Sac.
Kenosha.-The Orpheum theater
was damaged to the extent of 5000
by fire just after a crowd OF 500
people had left.
Madison.-Tony Ertl of Cedar
burg and Henry Heine of Reedsburg
have been appointed by Gov. McGov-
ern as members of the state board
of barber examiners to succeed M. H.
Whitaker and Chas. L. Wehlitz. both
of Milwaukee, for two-year terms be-
ginning July 1, 1911.
La Crosse Mississippi river fish
ermen are organizing to start legal
action against government employees.
whom, the fishermen alIege, are sein-
ing understood bass from the Miss
issippi river and shipping them east
to stock the streams and ponds of
eastern millionaires.
Madison. - Miss Iona Bergh.
daughter of NJ c. Bergh. former
commissioner of banking, was mar
ried here to Arthur P. Jorgenson.
secretary of the Y. NJ c. A. at the
University of Wisconsin.
Baraboo.-Advices from Washing
ton state that President Taft has
nominated Frank E Schultz to be
postmaster at this place.
Milwaukee.-Orders have been is
sued by the postofice department for
the establishment Of postal savings
banks in Milwaukee and nine other
large cities of the country by Sept. /.
Figures showing the gross receipts of
the Milwaukee office to have been ST.
506,384 during 1910 decided the de-
partment to establish a postal bank
here.
Sheboygan.-No arrests have as
yet been made in the Sexton murder
case and the officers appear to have
lost the trail of the suspect who was
traced to Chicago.
Greenwood.-Lynn H. Miller, a
wealthy Iumberman of Tacoma
Wash, has shipped fagpole 1913
feet long to the Greenwood high
school, from which he graduated
years ago. The pole tapers from a
small base of IA inches to 4 inches
at the top. Four fiat cars were re-
quired to ship it from Tacoma
Fond du Lac.-Mrs. j o. Frisb.
who was bitten by dog suffering
with rabies, has been sent to the
Pasteur institute at Madison for
The police will shoot all
dogs on sight.
Mercer.-Game Warden Con
Asmuth arrested three hunters six
miles west Of Mercer for hunting and
killing deer in the closed season
They were in the act Of dressing their
game when the warden surprised
them. Their rifles were confscated
and each fined $25 and costs.
MISUNDERSTANDING has been
selected as home offices of the Wis
consin Merchants & Manufacturers.
Insurance company, 100000 cor
poration which has just filed its pa
pers at Madison and has been
granted q charter.