Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-02-20
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Items OF Interest to Local Readers Gath
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Not only the lumbermen but also the
icemen are now being favored by the
weather man.
Citizens of Pound and Coleman have
organized a stock company and will in
stall an electric plant in that town.
The Mcqueen Furniture Company
store at Oconto was completely Quilted
by fire of unknown origin Saturday
morning.
Citizens of Bowler are taking steps
to organize bank in that village and
a SIS, 900 issue has been fully subscrib-
ed by Bowler people.
The Allen Perry hardware store at
Advance burned to the ground Wed
nesday evening. The loss is partly
covered by insurance.
The Oconto Knitting Mills has added
about 20 employees, making a total of
over 12O now being employed. New
The Green Bay Turner's played the
Potomacs of Lena a game of basket
ball at Lena Friday eve., with a score
of 46 to % in favor of the Lena team.
Menominee has raised $500 as it's
share towards getting a membership
in the ". l. league and it is thot that
Marinette will raise an equal amount
in few days.
Wausaukee, Wis, Feb. 1.-THE
marriage of Miss Caroline De Groat
and Anton Edlbeck, Jr., was solem-
nized at St. Augustine's Catholic
church this morning.
VIM. Leroy, who had resided inMen-
ominee about three years, died Satur-
day night at his home. He had been
i'll week with pneumonia. He was 55
years and is survived by his wife
Mrs. Edward Dunn, wife of Edward
Dunn of Oconto head bookkeeper at
the Goodrich & Martineau store, was
probably fatally burned Monday morn
ing. Doctors late Monday afternoon
gave little hope forrecovery,
Dale Heckok of Shawano has cont
tracted with the publishers of the
Physical Culture Magazine to walk
from Shawano to Indianapolis in a.
days. He must earn his own way and
cannot receive any donations.
A steamlog hauler belonging to the
H. L. Co., was totally demolished at
Lakewood Friday when the engine
bucked on hill and the log train con-
tinued on the down grade, putting the
hauler completely out of commission.
Oconto, Wis, Feb. 12-In the case
of Trappa VS.. the Chicago & North
western Railroad company, the jury
returned verdict in favor of plaintiff
for the amount of $3.50. The jury
was then dismissed while the court
took up the court cases that were
ready for trial.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul railroad was fined 5000 by the
federal court at Madison for keeping
cattle on cars longer than twenty-eight
hours without food and water, for
failing to use safety appliance and for
working men continuously for more
than sixteen hours.
Wausau, Wis, Feb. 9-Fire this af
ternoon at the plant of the Wausau
Paper Mills company, at Brokaw, did
damage estimated at $150,000. The
grinder building, wood building, cleo
trical engine house and digester build
ling were destroyed.
Madison, Wis, Feb. THE state is
preparing to have printed a list of auto
owners in the state with the numbers
of their licenses. There are about 5000
names in the list The volume is sent
to chiefs of police and sheriffs and is
used for detection of speeders and
people involved in accidents.
A days search thru the woods for
u dtlSOH WOOOcHidH VI CHl-
3ine, who left camp saying that he
was afraid someone was ''going to
croak him." resulted in bringing the
man to Marinette where he was placed
under observation at the county Jail.
He is 62 years old, has wife and two
children.
John Swanson, aged about fifty
years and his soa, Emil, sixteen, were
found dead, crushed under tree near
their home four miles south of Mattoon
Thursday afternoon. The discovery
was made by the daughter and brother
of the unfortunates at about three
O'Clock 1t is believed that the accident
occurred between 1920 and II a. m.
Joseph Leroy, the Marinette man
who has been deputy revenue collector
| in this district of Wisconsin for Is
years, received official notice this
morning, while in Green Bay, that his