The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-08-29
BADGER
NEWS BREVITIES

| CONFERENCE.-THE and Mrs John
Lindeman celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary.
Grand Rapids. Cirese, fruit
merchant, was bitten in the hand by a
tarantula while unloading car of
bananas.
! pleted d sentence of sixty days
for attempted assault, he was arrested
| at the Jail door charged with robbing
freight cars on the Chicago, Milwaukee
| & st. Paul road
| Oconomowoc-Gus Dathe, Jr.,
! of Summit, fell So feet from a
silo upon which he was working at
Nashotah, breaking his leg and suffer
| ing painful bruises He is nov at his
home in Summit.
| Madison.-Insurance commissioner
| Ekern returned from Chicago. where
! ne has been presiding at the joint
| meeting of the Associated Fraternities
| Of America and the National Frater-
nal Congress of America.
! Neenah.-Harry Gibson of this
city possesses an apple tree that
1 has OlOoSOAA4Co L"itC hliio otSSo1l, buC
| has produced no apples. It is thought
that the second blossoms are the cause
| Of the tree not growing apples
| Madison.-Attorney General ". c.
! Owen handed out TO the state
| board of public affairs an opinion
| in which he holds, under chapter 772
| D fthe laws OF 1913, that the statute au-
| fbnTi1fnI la Of 10 nf nj
| TO employ a secretary on fixed salary
| has been repealed
Appleton haven't done a
/ tap Of work since you have been
! in my family, and [ guess you
| don't intend to-, said John Reid mill
| hand, to his son. Joseph Riedl, aged
eighteen, against whom he preferred
| charges OF vagrancy. The boy was
sert to the workhouse.
| Racine.-Rev. / a Klein of East
| Bristol has been assigned as pas
tor Of the Holy Name church by Arch
bishop Messmer, who has accepted the
| resignation of Rev. A. c. Schwinn, the
former pastor. The latter will move
to Milwaukee to devote his time to the
care of his aged mother.
! Madison. G. Schmedeman, am
bassador to Norway, has appoint
ed as his secretary, Richard Rein
holt of Madison, senior universi-
| ty student. Mr.. Reinholt has been
prominent in university activities for
! three years and has been debating
III Wisconsin intercollegiate debating
| teams.
neutrality-suspicious. to come
under the workmeu's compensation
act are being received at an aver
age rate Of 40 per day. The passage Of
the law at the last session of the legis-
| lature placing all employers under the
act unless they shall elect to stay out
| is no doubt the cause. There are now
! 205,0 900 under its protection.
| Fond du Lac-At a massmeeting
i Of farmers OF the town of Os-
ceoIa s1,515 was subscribed for good
roads work in an hours time. This,
p; with s400 on hand and which Will be
supplemented by town, county and
state and, will give a total fund Of s10,-
| go which will be+ expended on five
miles of road between Eden and Arm
strongs Corners.
Madison.-After holding two SEES
sions here the newly created
state vice commission left for Mil
waukee. where. it viii hold meetings
for the next few days. Thin dresses
and slit skirts and other outlandish
d1 2sses that would have led to arrest
ten OF fifteen years ago." said Chief
of Police Thomas Shaughnessey, are
causes Of white slavery. Low wages
have very little to do with the Ques-
ton
Couderay-One man was Killed
and three others were injured near
Winter when handcar on which
they were riding was derailed by a
porcupine which was attempting to
cross the track in front of the car.
Five men were on the car. III coming
down q steep grade two miles north
of Winter the car struck the porcuplne
and left the track. Nels Nelson's
head struck a sharp tie and he was
killed.
Green Bay.-The twelfth biennial
session of the Lutheran Joint
synod of Wisconsin, Minnesota and
! Michigan heard the report of the Gre
Dental committee. More than $50
delegates were present. Prof. 10
hannes Meyer, New Uim, Mimi, read
a paper on brotherhood of Faith,
and discussions followed. Ia the af
| ternoon reports Of the treasurer and
heads Of several Lutheran institutions
were presented
Notwithstanding to word re-
ceived from Detroit, Dr. Sher-
man L. Devine. pastor OF the Wood
ward Avenue Presbyterian church of
that city, and until several years ago
| pastor Of the Pioneer Presbyterian
church OF Marinette, is soon to resign
his pastorate DR. Divine was tried
before the board of sessions of his
! church at Detroit and found not to be
guilty Of any misconduct. DR.. Divine
| was OF his way home from Europe at
the time and did not learn Of the trou-
bic until he reached this country.
Madison-The state board Of
health will meet the first week in
September to appoint state plumbing
board under the new law recently
| passed. The board vii! consist OF one
| master plumber, one journeyman
plumber and representative of the
state board OF health.
Hudson-Ruby Lemon, thirteen
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