Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-15
Badger News
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Allen Grove.-Edward l.. Hall has
been appointed postmaster at Allen
Grove. He succeeds his mother, Mrs
n. A. Hall, who has baen postmistress
"a years.
Oconomowoc.-Frank Majestic, who
was given a sentence of sixty days in
the Waukesha county Jail last week on
a charge of aiming a gun at his wife,
was adjudged insane.
Grand Rapids - The department
store of Robert Schrieber at Sher-
wood was destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $4,000. The origin of
| the fire is unknown.
Oconomowoc.-FTank Majestic, who
was given a sentence of sixty
days in the Waukesha county Jail on
a charge of aiming a gun at his wife,
was adjudged insane before the court
at Oconomowoc and was taken to the
northern hospital for the insane
Two Rivers,-Mrs. Felix Greenwood,
thu first white child born in Two
Rivers and a resident here all
her life, died suddenly at the age of
s1xty-seven years. During her life
Mrs. Greenwood was absent from the
city but one week.
| Beaver Dam.-Ernest KoehIer, twen-
ty-one years old, son of August
koehler, farmer drowned at The
! Long Bridge" on Beaver Dam lake.
/ The wind blew one of the partys hat
/ into the water. Mr.. Koehler, in en-
| deavoring to recover it, fell into the
water.
Kenosha.-Kenosha officials have
sent messages to New York to
! prevent Louis Faciente, an Italian re-
! servist, from sailing for Italy to join
| his regiment in the war against Aus
tria. Faciente, with a party of forty
Italians, left here, leaving his wife and
! four minor children with no visible
means of support
| Kenosha.-Diving into twenty-five
| feet of water at Paddocks lake, a
diver recovered the body of William
Goodfellow, fourteen-year-old son of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Goodfellow, who
drowned last Monday afternoon. The
| boy had caught hold of weeds in the
bottom of the lake in his struggle
| against death and the body had not
| come to the surface
Madison.-The governors confer
ence, composed of the governors
of the different states of the Union,
will meet this year at Boston, August
| "a. This date was officially an
nounced by Secretary Niles c. Riley.
The Boston meeting will be the eighth
meeting, the first meeting having been
held at Washington to consider the
feasibility of uniform state action 10
conserve natural resources.
Fond du Lac.-Mrs. Paris Van
Dorsten, aged thirty-fve, is dead
as the result of taking several strych-
nine tablets by mistake for headache
pills. The woman was alone in the
house when taken i'll. Her screams
attracted the attention of woman
passing the house, who investigated
and then called a physician. Mrs.
Van Dorsten was dead before the doc
tor arrived.
Beloit-Beloit will have new
twelve-room school, probably a junior
high school, on the West side
within a year. School district No.
voted tax levy of $12,767, ordered
the purchase of two portable schools
and authorized the school board to ad-
vertise for bids for sites E. J. Evans
was elected treasurer, to succeed Sen
ator L. E. Cunningham. DR.. E G. Helm
was reelected treasurer Of district
No. l.
Fond du Lac.-A swarm of bees,
the outskirts of this city, invaded
the downtown business section, and
proceeded to adopt large automobile
standing in front of the Commercial
bank building as their new home. The
entire police department was called
out to remove the bees, and several
members Of the force were stung,
and nearly a score of bystanders were
victims of the enraged bees, who re-
scented efforts to dislodge them.
Finally the queen of the swarm was
taken captive and all the other bees
followed her into a large box Traffic
on the downtown streets was resumed
after thirty minutes delay.
Somerset-This place is dry for
the first time in it's history, and
quite Inadvertently, too The people
recently voted at a special election by
an overwhelming majority, 90 to I, to
incorporate as a village. That left
the town board without authority to
grant saloon licenses in the territory
that is included in the village that is
to be. Inasmuch as the village board
has not been elected and will not be
for a fortnight, and it will then be
some time before the village govern
ment is perfected, Somerset will be
without licensed saloons for a month
or six weeks. The people have not
voted directly on the issue whether sa-
looms are to be licensed.
Waupaca.-It is announced that the
Sens OF Veterans are to erect cot
tage at Cnain-o'-Lakes, as result Of
action taken at the state convention
in Wausau. The committee in charge
consists of W. c. Graves of Prairie du
Chen, ]. F. Jardine, Waupaca; b.
S. Henry, Plover, and H. G. Siggelko.
Madison.
Plainfeld.-Early summer weather
has been ideal for dairying in
terests and this Is already being re-
f1ected in the quality of cream and
butter. Frequent rains have caused
luxuriant pastures. The winter rye
crop also is exceptionally promising.
Racine.-A jury in the circuit court
here awarded Enos Davis Of Lake
Geneva $4,000 damages in his suit for
$4,000, brought against Charles Z.
LANCE for the alienation Of Mrs. Da-
Wis. Lange, who has been termed
the millionaire conductor, is en-
pIoyed on the Milwaukee, Racine &
Kenosha Interurban line.
iIwaukee.-Frederick Underwood,