Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-11-11
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ing licenses have been issued in
Chippewa county this season. The
number is about 100 less than last
year. The drop is attributed to the
change in hunting laws affecting deer
in northern Wisconsin.
Depere. - Fifty prisoners from
Green Bay reformatory are doing a
stretch of concrete highway past the
reformatory grounds for about mile
This will complete the highway be-
tween Green Bay and Depere, most Of
which was done by prisoners working
under lease from the state
Oshkosh.-Mrs. Ben Hooper has
been invited to speak at Superior
and Grand Rapids by the Douglas
County Suffrage association. The lead
.ers in the suffrage movement in this
city claim that the defeats in the three
states will only strengthen their res
Olution to eventually win.
Depere.-Beniamin Stetson, twenty
years old, was killed while assist
ing in pressing hay in the town of
Glenmore. A clutch flew off the en-
CINE, striking him in the breast and
ripping it open. His windpipe was
severed and he breathed through his
side until he died a few hours later.
River Falls.-Two clippers from
Prescott arrived and planned to
camp on the Mississippi river bank,
but Chief Of Police Rauberg motored
out and gave them quarters in the jail
They were taken back to Prescott.
They gave the names of Harold Spen-
Ger and Helen Jane.
Rhinelander-Chur people have
organized to put out of business
Sunday saloons which have fiourished
ever since this was the center of the
logging industry. Mayor Anderle says
that if required to close the saloons he
will also enforce the laws against Sun
day movies and ice cream parlors.
Madison. = Concerted action by
school and city officials and the
state hygienic laboratory promptly
checked an alarming outbreak of diph-
liberia at one of the state charitable in
stitutions. When the disease was no.
ticed the city health officer telephoned
for $50 swabs from the laboratory at
Madison
Green Bay.-Summons and COM
plant in two actions, one by Mat
thew Ketter and the other by his wife,
Elizabeth, the former for $4,000 and
the latter for $4,000 damages against
tho p
railroad, have been filed in municipal
court A trais struck the woman.
causing severe and probably per-
manent injuries.
Kenosha = Suffrage propaganda
at a bargain is the declaration
of the Kenosha County Equal Suffrage
association. The leaders OF the move
ment here have decided to hold a sui
frage convention on Dollar Day IN
Kenosha on November II. The leaders
will have restrooms for the women
and while they are resting they will
be told the story of the battle to get
votes for women of Wisconsin.
W 1sau.-W. A. Walker of Racine
was elected president of the state
UniYersalist- Unitarian conference. A
H. Reid of Wausau was chosen
vice-president, Rev. A w. Alien
bern of Mukwonago secretary and
G. n. Pratt Of Racine treasurer. The
1917 convention will be held at Racine
when the seventy-ifth anniversary of
the founding of the Racine Universal
ist church will be observed.
KenOsha.-Kenosha county is lay
ing plans for the building of an
asylum for the care of the chronic in
sane. The matter will be brought up
officially at the coming session of the
county board of supervisors. The cost
of the care of the chronic insane to the
county during the last year exceeded
$1,000. 1t is expected that the institu-
ton planned will cost in excess of
100000.
Kenosha.-Miss Mildred May Vim
cent, daughter of Assemblyman D.
]. Vincent of Kenosha county,
was married to Ray NJ. Paddock, son
of Alva M. Paddock of the village of
Bristol, at the Vincent home in the
town of Salem. The ceremony was
read by Rev. J. A. Lawrence of the
Salem Methodist church in the pres
ence of a large number of invited
guests.
Madison.-The state railroad CON-
mission ordered the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company and
the Laona & Northern Railroad COM
pany to establish joint rates from
points on the Laona & Northern road
to points on the Northwestern road,
subject to review by the commission
1t also ordered the roads to reduce
switching charges to one dollar per
loaded car between the station of
Snyders on the Laona & Northern
road to the junction with the Chicago
& Northwestern road.
Madison.-Because he refused to
give to the federal court infor-
nation that the statutes of Wiscon-
sin contemplates shall be divulged
only to the state commission, A. j.
Myrland, secretary of the state tax
commission, was adjudged in contempt
Of court and ordered placed in jail by
Judge A. L. Sanborn in the United
States district court
Oconomowoc.-Felip Angeles and
his son Albert of Mexico City,
Mex, are spending a few days in
Oconomowoc purchasing cattle They
laughingly declared they were not
members of the Mexican army.
Madison.-Harry Sauthoff, district
attorney of Dane county, would
establish a farm for the employment
of men who abandon their wives. The
money which would come from the la
bors of these men would be turned
over to the wife When the Dane coun-
ty board meets next week Mr. SauthoR
will advocate this plan