The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-28
SOUTHEAST WIS. D0|NGS
ITEMS OF INTEREST CLEANED FROM EXCHANGES

Probably the highest price ever paid
for deer in Wisconsin was negoti-
ated on Thursday wlen the state con-
servation commission sold to a Mil
waukee hotel a 200-pound buck at 80
cents per pound, making the net price
$50. The venison was Served by the
hotel to its Christmas guests. The
buck came into the hands of the COM
mission by confiscation.
Capt j. E. Leahy, 73 years old, may
or of Wausau for three terms, veteran
of the Civil war, member of the state
assembly in the eighties, died on
Thursday.
The recent report of fifty-four stu
dents of the Methodist congregation
at the state university in their survey
of recreations for the Madison board
of commerce is already bearing fruit.
The board of commerce will illustrate
at once junior chamber of commerce
as a clearing house for all children of
the city. %
A mountainhigh load of gift boxes
from parents and friends of the 200
children of silence" attending the
Wisconsin State School of the Deaf at
Delevan, was unloaded Thursday and
stored away until Santa Claus made
his annual visit at daybreak Saturday
morning Nearly all of the pupils of
the school remained there during the
holiday season.
Emil Erdman was instantly killed
and his son, Louis, sustained a crush
ed chest and fractures of both legs
when an automobile, containing, be-
sides them, Mrs. Erdman and her baby
went dead" on a railroad crossing
at Doylestown. The mother and baby
escaped without serious injury. Erd-
man and his son were hit while at
tempting to push the auto from the
track %
The erection of an auditorium that
will hold 5000 people, from popular
subscriptions received from the alum
nj of the University of Wisconsin was
considered at a meeting of the Madi-
son alumni association Thursday
night The idea was suggested by
Prof julius Olson of the university,
who said that there was no adequate
room at the university for big meet
ings. o.
N n
versity of Wisconsin, a member of the
federal commission on industrial re-
lations, has presented to the univer
sity library file of all the papers and
testimony delivered before the COM
mission This in one of two sets in
existence. %
Mrs. w Sutherland, II years, mother
of the late President W. j. Sutherland
of the Platteville State Normal school
and resident of Fairdale, H., died
suddenly of apoplexy.
William NJ Napier of Lake Geneva,
a Wisconsin veteran salt sailor, who
helped to lay the first Atlantic cable
in 1865, will celebrate his seventy
fifth birthday anniversary and his gol-
den wedding tomorrow
More than 600 abstracts are being
made by the Langdale Abstract COM
pany at Amigo, for the transfer of the
Paine Lumber company lands in this
county to the Foster-Latimer company.
The abstracts convey $4,000 acres. The
value of the timber on the land is es-
timated at $750,O0O.
Mrs. Sophia Jung of Morrisonville,
returned from Des Moines with the
body of her son, Henry, 43 years old.
He left that section fifteen years ago,
and the first his mother saw of him
since was when she identified him
dead He had changed his name to
William White, and had accumulated
considerable wealth. The burial was
in>Leeds.
George Beecher, rural mail carrier,
had an arrow escape from death when
his auto mail truck was struck, near
Kansasville, Racine county, by Chi
cago, Milwaukee e ST. Paul train and
totally wrecked. Beecher was hurled
out of the machine but suffered only
slight bruises.
Dr. w. W Gill; head of the Madison
police commission, has been the vic
tim of burglars. His Office was en-
tered a few nights ago and rif1ed of
many of the drugs which were there.
The thief seemed to be searching for
morphine. o
A hearing is to be conducted at Nee
nah by the rate commission regard
ing the question of charges made by
the Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat
& Power company for gas and cleo
tricity in this city,
Initial action has been taken on the
proposition Of organizing a municipal
band in the twin cities. The leading
musicians of Neenah and Menasha
have met and discussed the outlook
for the forming of such an organiza-
ton. The project will receive tinan-
cial support from the city council
Mrs Jane Pugh Williams, who went
to Racine from North Wales, in 1850.
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