River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-17
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

D. D. murray, deputy SIdHu hH16AIs
Joseph M. Roth; chancellor, A. H..
Schubert; warden, Jacob Pedesky;
financial secretary, William Rossiter:
recording secretary, S. ]. Denigan;t
treasurer, M. F. Hayes; trustee, ]. M.
La Vague; inside guard, Joseph E.
Tikal; outside guard, Alfred ]. Mil
Ter; musical director, Wenzel Dvorak.
Watertown-We Cues consid-
ers himself young man, al
though he celebrated his one hundred
and third birthday. He is Bohemian
and came to this city early In the SOS.
Enlisting as soldier in company K,
Third Wisconsin cavalry, he re-eniist-
ed in the same regiment at the close
OF the war. AS a young man he was
engaged II the grocery business here.
After the war he continued in active
business until a few years ago.
Superior.-The clergymen Of this
! city are in earnest in their light
on vice and a committee of Revs.
n. j. Lockrem, Theodore Eckbald, Il.
T. Burns and Harry Milford has been
named to confer with Mayor Konkei
on the subject. Bishop Schinner. has
appointed Revs. Patrick Lee and G. j.
| Weber to confer with the magyar III
regard to the same matter on behalf
of the Catholic clergy of the city.
| Green Bay-Mounted on huge
boulder of Wisconsin granite at
/ the main entrance to the Woodlawr
cemetery, bronze Elk has been un.
| yelled by the officers and members OF
Green Bay lodge, B. P. o. Elks No
| 259. The monument, given by Thomas
Joannes, is in memory to the de-
ceased members of the Green Bay
| lodge.
Marinette. = Oscar Johnson, who
was undersheriff at the time OF
the recent Jail delivery, was indicted
by the Marinette grand jury charged
with accepting bribe and being the
one who liberated Edward Jameson.
the pickpocket suspect who was wait
| ing trial in the circuit court. Hitchonr
Marinette gambler, who was indict-
ed for offering bride, was reindicted
on that charge
| Superior-Rev. Harry Milfors,
pastor of a mission church, In adj
/ dressing the Ministerial association
here in the interests of morality,
showed many photographs taken in
the vice district, depicting prominent
men of the city in company with
fallen women.
Oconomowoc-Mr and Mrs John
Smell, pioneer residents of Wis
consin, on October observed their
sixtieth wedding anniversary at their
home in Oconomowoc. Mr.. Smell is
eighty-five years of age and his wife
is eighty.
Madison-Martin Marx Lowen-
thai of Bradford, Pa, student
OF the University Of Wisconsin,, has
been awarded the annual 500 prize
of the Wisconsin Menorah society,
given for the first time this year The
prize is offered by julius Rosenthal Of
Chicago for the best essay written by
an undergraduate student in the Uni
versity of Wisconsin on some topic
concerning the literature, the history,
or the achievements of the Jewish
people. Mr.. Iowentha1s prize essay
was on ''The Jew in the American
Revolution" The award for 1928
will be made at the university COM
mencement in June.
Janesville.-E. J. Van Pool was
elected president Of the Otterbein
Brotherhood of the United Brethren
church of this city. Others elected
were: j. A Roberts, first vice-presi-
dent; ]. o. Briggs, second vice-presi-
dent; G. J. Roberts, third vice-presi-
dent; s. H. Joiner, secretary, and
Charles Penney, treasurer.
La Crosse. - A fractured skull
proved fatal to the hve-monthss
old son of Frank Wolff, farmer near
this city The mother was about to
leave the farm on a shopping trip
when the horses ran away and she
was thrown to the ground with the I'M
FAINT in her arms. The child lived but
a half hour. Mrs Wolff was thrown
against a barn wall and was serious
ly injured.
Neenah.-Fear is felt here for
The safety of John Lamshack and
mis- son, Alexander, farmers near here,
who went to Clinton on the east shore
of Lake Winnebago, in a launch They
started to return during a high wind
and heavy sea. Thor lights were
watched for ten minutes and then
suddenly they disappeared. Nothing
has been seen since of the men or
their launch. Several searching par
ties have been on the lake trying to
locate them, but it is firmly believed
| they have been drowned.
Fond ou Lac.-Asking permission
of Sheriff Graham to bid her
husband farewell alone, Harriet Grim
nell, sixty-two years old. wife of Ira
Grinnell, prominent resident of the
village of Oakfeld, made murderous
attack on her husband with a knife;
The shrieks of the man brought the
sheriff from the next room in time to
disarm the woman and save Grim
nell's life. Mrs. Grinnell had been adj
iudpad insane and was about tn ha