Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-27
Badger News
Briefly Told

! Crosse National Guard will come to
this city TO try the craftsmanship of
the Sparta members.
Observation-Disclosures Odd Fellows
will meet here June 8 to Is. Commit
tees met TO complete the program.
One thousand delegates are expected.
Ashland. = Northland academy.
which was burned TO the ground re-
Gently, viii be rebuilt, and President ].
D. Brownel has started a campaign to
raise the necessary money.
Janesville.-Lake guIls are making
nests in the lower reaches Of the Rock
river for the first time in years, at
tracted by the hundreds of dead carp.
Beloit-Albert Snow, alleged to
have stolen 81 empty whisky jugs from
a brewery, was 'jugged" by the police.
Judge John Clark gave him a 81 fine.
kenosha.-Kemper hall will award
degrees to q class of nine young
women commencement week, begin
ming June 3. Ri Rev. Joseph NJ
Francis, Indianapolis, will deliver the
commencement address. The Kemper
Hall association of Chicago will at
tend the alumnae reunion June 8 in
body.
Amberg.-When George Young start
ed back from a weeks fishing
trip his automobile, containing him
self, his sister Dorothy and two
friends, backed into the river,
turned a somersault and sprawled on
its top. The four occupants escaped
without injury.
Fond du Lac-Floyd Mitchell, a
Friendship farmer, who was SEN
fenced to seven years in the peni-
tertiary by Judge Fowler after being
convicted on the charges of his thir-
teen-year-old daughter, attempted to
escape from the county Jail here by
cutting off the bars to his cell. He
was discovered by the sheriff and now
is confined in solitary cell.
Racine.-Deputy Clerk of the Cir
cult Court Helen Blythe has re
ceived recognition from government
authorities for the practice she insti-
tuted at the beginning of the Euro
pean war Of warning prospective citi-
zens that if they took out naturaliza-
ton papers they would have to fight
for the United States in the event of
war.
Green Bay.-Trapped in their
rooms when the only stairway
was cut off by fire, Jules Roubick,
eighteen years old, and his sister
Rose, thirteen, were burned to death
The rooms were over a blacksmith
shop owned by Jules Roubick, the
father, and the blaze was started from
spark in the forge The father,
mother and three other children we're
rescued, but we're badly burned. Both
bodies were charred beyond recogni-
ton.
Oshkosh. - Nearly two hundred
teachers and others interested in
industrial education, who have gath
cred here for the three days confer
ence, attended the banquet, closing
the first days program. Gov. E. L.
Philip, who was scheduled as the
principal speaker was unable to at
tend. Superintendent of Oshkosh
Schools NJ. N. McIver was toastmas-
ter. State Superintendent of Schools
G. P. Cary was the speaker. During
the day q large number of papers On
educational topics were read and dis
cussed.
Wausau.-The conservation of the
new $4,000 church of ST. John the
Baptist by Rt. Rev. R. H. Weller,
D. D., bishop of Fond du Lac, was a
significant event in the history of the
local Episcopal church. Pastors who
assisted the bishop in pontifical mass
were Rev. John Lloyd, Wausau, Cos
peller; Rev. w F. Willard James, Mar
inette, crucifier; Rev. A. G. Hiedner,
Grand Rapids; Rev. G. Reader, Mos
inee; G. Crockston, Tomahawk; Doc
tor Rogers, Fond du Lac, and c. F.
Hinton, Amigo. Bishop Weller con-
ferred the sacrament Of confirmation
on a class of candidates in the after
noon.
GAINESVILLE. = Agnes Baumgartner,
alias Anna Smith, convicted on
May 7 on a charge of forgery,
was sentenced a third time on that
conviction. By the last mandate Of the
court, which, it is believed will be
final, she is committed to the county
Jail for eleven months. When first
sentenced, Agnes was to have gone
to the state prison at Waupun for one
year. Her pieadings with the court,
and that of friends, resulted in Judge
Maxfeld's reopening of the case, re-
scinding that sentence and substitute
ing one of a year at the Wisconsin
Industrial home for women, which was
later found not to exist. Judge Max
field again reopened the case, rescind-
ed the former sentence, and with the
consent Of her attorney and the dis
trict attorney, sentenced her to the
county jail, under the commitment
law. 1t is believed she will be en-
ployed at the county poor farm, where
she has been living since her convic-
ton.
Lancaster-First hay of the sea-
son has been cut from the lot
that adjoins on the north the rectory
Of St. Clements church. A fine crop
of alfalfa was moved by hand, by an
artist of the old school. It lay in
rich, green windows as fragrant as
the proverbial and romantic new
mown hay"
JanesvilIe.-The resignation of J. C.
Kline as secretary Of the GAINESVILLE Y.
NJ. c. A. was accepted by the board of
directors. Mr.. Kline has been general
secretary 20 years. 2. F. Lewis, di-
rector for the same period and presi.
dent ten years, also resigned.
Green Bay.-State Tennis associa-
ton been formed, with E. R. Nina
han, Green Bay, president; ]. L.
Rogers, Oshkosh, vice-president, and
Peter Hoist, Waupaca, secretary-treas-
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