Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01
WISCONSIN NEWS BRIEFS.

Oconomowoc. - The organization
# a local firemen's benevolent fund
association was completed at a meet
ing of the fire department. Officers
chosen are: President, DR.. George W.
G. Meyer; vice president, Herman
Behrend; secretary, George A. Dib-
BILE; treasurer, T. T. Cronin; trus-
tees, c. H. Kellogg, F. R. Poe and
P F. Dittrich.
Stevens Point.-Headquarte of
the Wisconsin conference of Seventh
Day Adventists may be moved from
Grand Rapids to Milwaukee to obtain
better railway facilities. Stevens
Point, Fond du Lac and Madison also
are mentioned and a committee Of
fifteen will make the decision.
Brentwood - The Zimmerman
Steel company of Lonetree, Ia, will
give a demonstration at Weirgor,
near here, to determine the actual
cost of clearing land. An accurate
record will be kept to learn the cost
of dynamiting each stump as we'll as
the cost per acre.
Madison-The University of Wis
consin summer session opened with
courses in nearly every college in the
institution. In the law school a new
system will be introduced. Instead
of tht ten weeks course, the summer.
session will be divided into two five
week terms
Observation-Disclosures graduates
of Marquette academy received d.
plomas at the commencement exer--
cises held in Gesu auditorium.
Thirty-one were graduated from the
classical course and FIVE from the
English commercial.
Kendall.-Charles Huber an aged
farmer living near Oakdale, was
badly burned when he rose in the.
night and getting the wrong bottle.
rubbed himself with carbolic acid in
stead of liniment
Monroe.-A sure way to detect
gasoline is drop lighted match into
it. This was the test made by Will
lam ZilmeF, local jeweler, with the
result several business houses were
endangered, although the timely ar
rival of the fire department kept the
loss down to several hundred dollars
Neenah.-Unsuccess a tt m p s.
have been made in this city and others
in the Fox valley where paper mills
are located to secure paper makers as
strikebreakers in eastern mills.
Grand Rapids.-Emmet Knuteson
was seriously injured when he was
struck by an automobile driven by
Martin Jackson, a rural mail carrier.
Knuteson was riding a bicycle
Beloit.-Luretta Johnson, 4 years
old, the little sunbeam" of the central
fire station company, is dead. Her
parents keep a restaurant next to the
station.
Oshkosh.-Joseph A. Mayer, Neenah,.
charged with selling liquor without a
license, on trial before Judge Goss, ad-
mitted selling bottle beer May %, and
was convicted, paying $25 and costs.
Oshland-Mr. and Mrs. 0. NJ. Holt
and family of Seattle, Wash, have.
arrived in this city, thus completing
an auto trip of approximately 3,778
miles. They were on the road over
Two mOuGuS- IuIB Is the UFSL auto
trip made to this city from the Pacific.
coast this year.
Grand Rapids.-Two new teachers
have been added to the teachers
force Of the city schools-Miss Eliza
beth COMA Of Milwaukee, who will
teach in the primary department, and
Miss May Hardie Of Wild Rose, who.
will succeed Miss Saecker as instruc-
tor in history.
FerryvilIe.-Mrs W. T. Robertson
Of this village is exhibiting new
tangled type of radish When the
radish developed it was encircIed by
suspender buckle.
Kenosha.--Automobi thieves stole
an auto belonging to George Harkins.
which had been left in front of a
store within stones throw Of where
a crossing policeman was stationed.
Westby.-Carl Lovestad passed
away in La Crosse hospital due to
injuries sustained when he was
kicked by horse.