Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-22
Badger News
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Madison.-Butter Investigations are
being made by the United States de-
partment of agriculture and the col
lege Of agriculture of the university.
Amery.-Wild duck are more nu-
merous in this vicinity than in years
and sportsmen are enjoying unriyaled
/ hunting.
Washburn,-Rev. Christian Chris
Hansen, Norwegian Lutheran church,
has refused a call from a Philadelphia
church.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. savings in the
Rhinelander office have increased from
| $4,563 to s5,167 in the year ending Oc-
tober +.
Plymouth.-Wordh has been received
| here of the death of Rev William
Gardam. former rector of st. Paul's
Episcopal church in Plymouth, who
| died in Atlantic City, n. ].
! ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Dixie club
of the University of Wisconsin have
! entered into an agreement not to wear
silk hosiery and to contribute one dol
lar each to purchase a bale of cotton.
MarQuette,-The municipal commits
sion of this city has enacted an
| ordinance making the possession of
| government license prima facie evil
| dence that the holder thereof is en-
gagged in selling liquor and, therefore,
if he has no state and city license. he
is selling in violation of the law.
Kenosha.-Three Wisconsin women
were honored by the grand en-
campment of the Wisconsin Odd Eel
| lows here, when the Decoration of
| Chivalry was conferred upon Mrs.
Amelia Whitbeck and Mrs. Marie
Walker, Kenosha, and Miss Jennie
| Howard, Albany. Following was held
the encampment ball. More than a
| thousand people were in attendance.
| La Crosse.-Women in this sec
| ton of the state are taking up hunt
! ing in greater numbers than ever be-
| fore. In La Crosse county five women
have taken out licenses this fall. Mrs.
Elizabeth Trayanek called at the coun-
| ty clerks Office for her license and was
surprised to find four of her sex were
| ahead of her on the same errand. So
far 1850 hunting licenses have been
issued in this county this fall
| Merrill.--After a search covering a
period of 16 years, Mrs. Charles
Duplanty will once more see her
daughter. Mrs. DupIanty is living
in California, and the girl. now seven
teen, will leave Merrill within a few
| days to join her mother Charles Du-
! plainly longs to roam about the coun-
| try. Sixteen years ago this rowing
| spirit, it is said, cost him his wife's
| love. They were divorced and Mrs.
| Duplanty was given the custody of the
child. In some manner, however, Du-
! plainly spirited the babe away from its
mother. Recently Duplanty brought
the girl to Tomahawk from northern
Michigan. n Neighbors, the authorities
assert, complained of his treatment OF
! his daughter. She was taken from him
and brought to Merrill and the mother
| notified.
misunderstanding by the au-
thorities has failed to bring to
light the motive for the double trag
| edy, involving murder and suicide,
which occurred on Burt Volaska's farm,
eight miles southwest of Ashland. Burt
| Volaska, a farmer having wife and
six children, was deliberately killed
by his employee, George Casper, TWEEN
| ty years, old who worked for Volaska
about year Both men went into the
woods to hunt. Casper blew out Vo-
laska's brains, returned to the house
and informed Mrs Volaska of the deed.
Then he went into the yard and shot
himself When the woman took the
gun away from him he crawled to the
woodpile and tried to guillotine him
self with an ak. When a physician ar
| rived he was still alive and talked per
fectly rational, but refused to give an
explanation of the deed.
Superior. - Horace Bags, Who
helped clear a forest which has
since become the site of Racine, Elk
horn and other Badger cities and
| towns, died at the age of ninety-siX
years, at the home of his daughter,
! Mrs w. H. Carpenter, Duluth MINI.
| Cancer combined with the infrmities
of his age, caused his death. Mr..
! Bags was a personal friend of Abra-
| ham Lincoln, and when the war pres
| ident was in office frequently visited
! him at the White House. He also
numbered among his acquaintance
| Andrew Jackson, Franklin Pierce and
! Andrew Johnson. Born at Black Lake,
| n. Y, in 1916, Mr.. Baggs came West
via the lakes to Ohio, going from there
| by land to southern Wisconsin to set
| tle on a farm, passing through Chi
| cago when it was but a town. He
| lived at Elkhorn until twenty-eight
years ago, when his wife died, NOV
| ing then to Duluth. His body was
| taken to Elkhorn for burial.
Depere-The gasoline yacht Vesta,
belonging to ]. NJ. Hagerty, was de-
| stroyed by fire while lying at the
Wells dock The boat was allowed to
drift to the middle of the river, where
| it sank The loss is about five thou
| sand dollars. The boat was taken by
two Green Bay young men without Mr..
| Hagerty's permission.
Antigo.-Despondent because his
wife had instituted divorce pro-
/ ceedings and his daughter had
been committed to a home for the
feeble minded, Fritz Noetzleman Of
Alcho committed suicide by taking
poison. He was town supervisor.
Oshkosh-Ivan Thompson, sixteen
years old, has a broken leg and
Theodore Frentz, nine years old,
severe bruises and cuts the result Of
an auto collision with street car.
Mrs Theodore Frentz and daughter
Ruth. escaped without injury. The
boys were hurled from the front seat
of the auto into the street car from
the force OF the collision.
Madison-John J. Wright, IT, Anti
go. has been suspended from the uni
versity for the remainder of the cur
rent semester for hazing, according
to a decision handed down by the stu