The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-07-09
Wisconsin NelUs
Tersely Told

Glenwood City.-Work has been be-
gun on new $4,000 Catholic church
in this city to replace the one de-
stroyed by fire last winter.
Two Rivers.-Mrs. Felix Greenwood,
the first white child born in Two
Rivers and a resident here all
her life, died suddenly at the age OF
sixty-seven years. During her life
Mrs. Greenwood was absent from the
city but one week.
Antigo.-Under a new ruling police
officers in this city are required
The old police force as result or
the examination was supplanted by
| new men. The old men, however,
question the change, and as result
they retain their uniforms and refuse
to be discharged and appear on duty
each night as usual. The new force
is also on the job regularly, thus CIV
ing the city double police protection.
Prairie du Chien.-A farmer in
Clayton county, across the river,
was breaking sod when the plow hit
an obstruction. Thinking it was a
boulder, the plowman got his shovel
and ,egan digging. Upon uncovering
the object, he found it was an old
fashioned iron kettle, copper wire fas-
tening down an iron cover. When ne
opened the pot he found it nearly
filled with Mexican SO and $40 gold
dot
to 1927 and 1902.
Marinette.-For the seventy-third
successive year in his life for
| mer Senator Isaac Stephenson
stood on the bank of the river and
watched log drive sweep past on
Saturday. The first drive he partici-
pated in was in New Brunswick, when
boy. Next year will probably mark
the end of river logging on the Me-
nominee river" the senator told those
standing with him. every year fewer
! logs have been taken down the river
and more transported by rail"
Sheboygan Joe Bodner, thirty
| years old. who has wife and
three children in Austria, attempted
to commit suicide by jumping into
Lake Michigan. The lake was rough
and the waves washed him on shore.
He tried it again and again, but each
| time the waves washed him on the
beach. Deputy Sheriff George Goodell,
who was near, rushed to the scene and
| Bodner told him he was crazy and
wanted to die because his wife and
| children could not get out of Austria
to join him. The officer offered to
| take him out into the lake in a
| boat, but he changed his mind.
Green Bay.-Henry Hagemeister,
aged sixty-one, former state sena-
| tor from this district, died at his
summer home near Sturgeon Bay. Mr..
Hagemeister was taken ill short
time ago with dropsy, and removed
upon advice of Chicago specialists to
his summer home. His condition be-
came critical and relatives here were
notified he could not recover. Hage-
meister is millionaire brewer, own
ing the brewery in Green Bay and one
at Sturgeon Bay. He is president
of Kelloggs National bank and owner
of the well-known Hagemeisser stock
farm. He was also interested in many
other enterprises in Brown and Door
counties. He is survived by wife, two
sons and one stepdaughter.
Whitewater.-The Congregational
church of this city has just closed
three days celebration of the
seventy-ffth anniversary of it's foun-
dalton. The church was first organ
lied as the First Presbyterian church,
on July 3, 1910. The organization
was perfected in a log cabin owned
by Deacon Prosper Cavath southwest
of the city. In 1916 the Congregations
al form of church government was
adopted. The church, which is now
served by Rev. L. R. Howard as pas
tor, has had twenty-five ministers,
and has occupied four church build
ings, the present edifice being erected
in 1881. The installation Of Rev.
howard as minister was one of tho
features of the exercises.
Green Bay.-Twenty-one persons,
| pdSSGu6C1S OA al AACOM1AS AASOA
urban car of the Wisconsin Pub
lie Service company from West De-
pere, miraculously escaped death
when the car was knocked off the
rails and tipped over by an engine
of a passenger train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road where
the two companies tracks intersect
on the South side. Although all OF
the passengers were thrown out OF
their seats and fourteen of them were
injured, none was fatally hurt. The
passengers sustained bruises and cuts
about the head, arms and legs. Only
two women, Mrs. Morris Murphy and
Mrs. Morgan Smith, who reside on
Rural Route Z, out of Green Bay, were
in the car at the time of the crash.
The balance of the passengers, nine
teen men, were all employed in fac
| tories and offices in this city. Green
Bay flies are blamed for the wreck.
| They made the tracks so slippery that
Emil Clabots, the motorman, was un-
| able to halt his car in time to avoid
the crash