Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-17
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS


ed president of the National Associa-
ton of College Unions at the first an
nual meeting at Columbus, o.
Mcmahon December 20 en-
ployees Of the Kimberly-Clark com
pany, paper manufacturers, from the
mills at Neenah, Appleton, Kimberly
and Combined Locks will hold safe
ty first" meeting at Appleton.
Madison.-The university will close
at noon, December 10 for the an
nual Christmas recess, instead of
December %, as announced in the
regular program. upon the request of
several thousand students.
Spencer-Ferdinand Miller, young
man who made his home with AL
bert Mantle, was found dead by the
side of the road about five miles north
west of this place. He had fallen from
a carriage while driving home and his
neck was broken.
Neenah.-City employees are at
work on a piece of PROPERTY ada
cent to one of the school buildings.
which viii be used for experimental
purpose in connection with the agri
cultural course being offered at the
local high school. Actual experiments
will be commenced next spring
Sparta.-Morris Shlimovitz, horse
trader, is offering up thanks that
it was an amateur hoIdup man who
took a lone quarter out of his trous-
| ers' pocket at Black River Falls. The
inexperienced bandit neglected to in
vestigate Morris vest pocket, where
there was wad of $3.50 in bills.
Janesville.-Funeral services were
held for Michael Smith, twenty
three years old, who ended his
life by asphyxiation during the abb
sence from home of his three months
bride Smith had been regularly EN-.
ployed at furniture factory here, but
has complained of i'll health of late.
Madison.-"A heavy snowstorm and
some good sharp cold weather
would do much to prevent the
spreading of the foot-and-mouth dis
ease" said DR.. o. H Eliason, state
veterinarian, in discussing the out
break of the plague at Oregon. If a
heavy snow were to come the ground
would be covered and the disease
would probably not be carried from
| one farm to another
Kenosha.-Herman c. Schulz,
wealthy Kenosha merchant, sixty
three years of age, was held in
sane and committed to the state hos
pital at Mendoza. Schulz set fire to
his furniture in a room at the cottage
of the Pennoyer sanitarium, where he
was patient. The flames were eX-
tinguished before they spread. Schulz
declared he had started the fire to at
tract the attention of the police. Will
liam F. Fisher was named as his guar
dian. Officials of the sanitarium de-
clare he can live only short time.
William Billstein of SUI
perior is the proud possessor of
dog with wooden leg. Last
winter his pointer dog, Max, caught
one of his hind legs in a steel trap. Be
fore he was released it was frozen and
had to be amputated. Since then vari-
Gus devices were tried, but none was
successful until Billstein obtained the
services of an expert artificial limb
manufacturer. He built a miniature
limb for Max, who is now lust as
good as a new dog" Sillstein thinks
Max will make just as good a showing
in the hunting field as any dog.
Madison-The students in the law
school of the University of Wis
consin formed a permanent organi-
cation, to be known as the Law School
association. The object of the or
ganization is to promote a more demo
cratic spirit and provide means for
association. Officers elected were:
President, A E. MacQuarrie, Superior;
secretary, Henry S. Rademacher, Mil
waukee; treasurer, Gwyn T. Fisher,
MinOqua. The regents co-operated
with the new organization by setting
aside funds to be used in furnishing
and equipping a room in the law build
ing as a cluDroom and place of meet
ing.
Oconomowoc.-The tenth annual
exhibition Of the Oconomowoc Poultry
and Pet Stock association opens
at the Auditorium and closes Sun
day night George N. Northup of
Granville, n Y, will Judge the poultry.
The association has u new silver cups
in competition this year and five of the
larger cups to be competed for, in ad-
dltion to the large list of other cash
prizes. Thes how is free to visitors,
plan which was found to be successful
last year. Judge A. G. Derse is presi-
dent of the association; Fred Pabst,
first vice-president; Frank Boyle, sec
ond vice-president; o. r. Eddy, secre-
tary, and F. S. CIausen, treasurer. The
board of directors includes N. w. Ev-
ans, Phil H. Jones, Paul Behrend, Carl
Mueller, Charles Behrend, Jr., George
Schuehle. H. W. VESSEL is superin-
tendent.
GAINESVILLE - With the advent of
ease" weather the early part of
this week activity began in the south
ern Wisconsin tobacco market, which
promises to hasten prosperity among
the farmers and provide work for hun
dreds of persons who are now out of
employment. Growers generally are
taking down the crop and are stripping
in preparation for early delivery.
Sheboygan.-J. G. Bradley, Hart
ford, Mich, graduate of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty
to passing worthless check before
Judge Michael Kirwan and was SEN
fenced to six months in Waupun.
Merrill.-Several dogs have been
poisoned during the last few days in
this city and it is feared that the
culprits will succeed in killing many
CANNES before they are caught. Two
years ago nearly every good dog in the
city was given strychnine and the par
tie doing the -.orIz -rora arorara tnradad