Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-08-03
NetOs Notes of Wisconsin

nounced by State Superintendent C.
P. Cary are as follows: Adams,
Maybelle Douglas, Plainville; Bur-
nett, Clara Jacobson, Grantsburg;
Chippewa, Bertha Trudelle, Chippe-
wa Falls; Clark, Julia Servaty, Neills-
Vile; Door, George Bassford, Stur-
geon Bay; Douglas, Olga Larson, Su-
perior; Dunn, John Klingman, Me-
nomonie; Florence, L. A Jones, Flor
ence; Juneau, Myrta D. Cuenot, Maus-
ton; Marquette, Duncan Reid, Mon
tello; Portage, Frances K. Bannach,
Custer; Richland, J. B. Logue, Rich
land Center; Rusk, o. E. Rice, Lady
smith; Sheboygan, H. c. Dornbush,
Elkhart Lake; Washburn, Neva Ad-
ans, Spooner; Washington, George F.
Carlin, West Bend; Waushara, Ed
ward Coates, Wautoma; Wood, Geo.
Varney, Vesper.
Fond du Lac.-An divorce court
precedents and records were shat
tered when Jacob Mertes of ST. Cloud
appeared before the county Judge
and declaring that his wife, aged rs,
had deserted him on his seventy
fourth birthday anniversary asked
for a divorce. Mertes, palsied and
gray, crept into the county court
with the aid of a staff and told
story pitiable and strange Mr.
Mertes declared he had been welded
four years ago, and that last June
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world.
Marshfield.-The Wisconsin Auc-
tioneer's association elected as presi-
dent, o. E. Allison of Kingston; vice
president, Will Ebbe of Marshfield;
secretary treasurer, J. H. DEM
hardt of Neenah. the assemblyman
who fathered the law now in force
prohibiting liquor being sold or given
away at auctions. Neenah will be
the meeting place next year.
lwaukee.-Henry Klein, charged
with killing Harry Payne, cigar
maker, on September 10, 1910, has
been found guilty of murder in the
first degree. Klein confessed to
Staying Payne by crushing his skull
with an iron bar, but entered a plea
of insanity at the trial.
Two Rivers. Because the board of
review refused to sanction an in
crease of 100000 in the personal
property assessment of the Hamilton
Manufacturing company, Fred AL
then, socialist assessor Of Two Riv-
ers, has carried thee matter to the
state tax commission.
Madison-The railroad commits
sion has ordered the Wisconsin Tel
ephone company to comply with the
rules of the La Crosse council, di-
recting that it's poles in that city be
removed and the wires placed under
ground.
daughter of Benjamin Jepson of
Randall, was killed in a runaway
and the mother may die. Mrs. Jep-
son, with the baby in her arms, had
started to drive to Twin Lakes The
horse became frightened at a piece
of paper, leaped to the side of the
road and the woman and child were
thrown out.
La Crosse-F. A Wenzel, a
wealthy merchant and manufacture
er, was drowned in the Mississippi
river when a squall overturned his
launch.
Fond du Lac.-On the eve of his
wedding to Miss Ona Kenney, Thos.
Ratz, son of John J. Ratz, superfn-
tendent of public improvements,
was seized with an attack of appen-
dicitis and short time later was
operated on at a hospital The wed
ding will take place as soon as Mr..
Ratz is able to leave the hospital
Madison-John F. Baker of this
city, who has been attorney for the
state anti-saloon league, is now a
deputy fire marshal by virtue of
state civil service commission ap-
pointment.
West Bend.-WhiIe Harry Ebert,
aged 10, and two companions were
digging a cave in a sand pit, a sec
ton of the roof fell in, burying the
Ebert lad. After fifteen minutes
work, rescuers found the buried boy,
still alive and without serious in
jury.
Marinette-Rose Wipynski, aged
is dead as result of burns sus-
tanned July 4 by fire cracker which
set fire to her dress.
Baraboo - Clarence Spencer is
dead of ptomaine poisoning as a re-
suit of eating canned goods