The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-10-10
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asylum, where he was sent Septem-
Der g.
Green Bay.-Edward Vande Cas-
telle, former editor of the Depere
Standard, suffered a stroke of apoplexy
at Washington, and is in a critical
condition.
Ripon.-The street fair was a
grand success. Entries in dairying,
farm products. poultry, garden prod
ucts, fruit, cooking and handwork were
q feature, with big automobile and
variety parade. -
Oconomowoc.-A raspberry bush is
attracting notice at the c. A
Canterbury home at Oconomowoc.
The bush contains good crop of Der
ries, good-sized and as perfect as the
berries of the regular season
Depere.-A bull owned by Isadore
Vercauteren, farmer near here,
broke out of its stall and walked
INTO the silo, falling ten feet Vercau-
teren released it by filling the silo
with corn and letting the animal
tramp it down for him until the level
of the barn floor was reached.
Eau Claire-William, Stat, TWEEN
ty-seven years old, a resident Of
Eau Claire and a brakeman on the
Omaha road, died here as a result of
fractured skull which he sustained
when he was run into by work
train. stat was serving as fagman
for the work train. He laid down to
rest with the track as pillow. He
fell asleep and the train backed up on
him.
Madison-Miss Helen Chat. grad
nate of Tien Tsin (China) Acad-
envy for Girls, has entered the
University high school preparatory to
matriculation at the University of
| Wisconsin, where her brother is study
ing. She is the first Chinese girl to
AXE up regular work at the univer-
sity. Her action is proclaimed by Chi
lese students to be the beginning Of
| The co-educational movement in China.
Madison. - The state industrial
commission has decided to order
| compensation awarded to widows
| sor the death Of their husbands IN
act paid in monthly installments in
| itead of in full, because most of the
widows have been found incapable OF
| properly caring for the money award
| I'd to them and some Of them have
itarted out looking for new husbands.
La Crosse.-Covered with mud and
soaked with rain, Harry Burrows
and his bride, who was Miss
Bessie Collins of Chicago, together
with the bridesmaid and best man, ap-
peared before the officiating pastor at
Winona. The marriage ceremony was
performed to the music of dripping
water from the rain-soaked clothing OF
the shivering party of four. On the
way from this city to Winona the Car
was stalled in the mud. The bridal
party got out and plodded through the
| storm to the minister's residence
Watertown. = Harry J. O'Neil,
motorcycle rider who arrived from
in the motordrome at the inter
county fair, received injuries to his
head back and legs that may prove
fatal, when his machine sl1idded on
the boards made slippery by rain. He
fell 2e5feet This is the same motor
drom9 ana he was riding the same ma
chine which caused the serious in
jury to Orville Johnson, Anderson,
Ind, sixteen-year-old rider, at Chip
pewa Falls. Despite the driazling
rain which began falling at noon,
more Titan 10000 attended the fair on
Thursday.
Madison.-In the Office of Score
tary of State Donald was filed a
certificate Of dissolution of the Wis
consln yearly meeting of Freewill Bap-
lists. President r. Kisner and Secre.
tary George c. Allen certify that res
olution, adopted at the annual session
OF the organization at Honey Greek
June 26, provided that all property
from any source coming into the pos
session Of the Wisconsin yearly meet
ing OF Freewill Baptists should inure
TO the benefit of the Baptists' conyen'
ton on and after January 1, 1914. This
action by the Freewill Baptists was
authorized by an act passed by the
legislature.
La Crosse. Good heavens"
gasped Mary Fuller of Marion.
Mich, as Aviator George F. Niles
in a fight at the Interstate fair
grounds shut off the power and drop
ped thousand feet toward earth. He
will be killed." and she seized con-
vulsively the arm of Alfred ]. Kies,
rural mail carrier, who stood next
her Alfred took one look into Mary's
eyes and he never saw the aviator
again that day. Niles came down aft
er a time, but Kies and Miss Fuller
remained far from the earth. A half
hour later they had decided to be
married, and at once, and had start
ed downtown looking for a justice.
The knot was tied after the proper
license and hurry-up permit had been
ed to go out to the fair grounds again
to see the aviator who had brought
them together
Oregon.-The Farmers National
congress at Plano has elected
the following officers: President, w.
L. Ames of Oregon; first vice-presj
dent, R. H. Kirby of Dallas City, H.;
second vice-president, H. E. Stock
bridge of Atlanta, Ga; secretary, o
D. Hill of Kendalia, w. Va; treasurer
o. X. Unsiker of Wright, a.
Madison State Superintendent