River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-12-30
Badger News
Briefly Told

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Milwaukee.-Con Congressman William
]. Cary has sent in the largest
order for Christmas seals that the
| Wisconsin Anci-Tuberculosis associa'
ton has as yet received. By special
delivery $4,000 Red Cross stamps were
sent to him at Washington
Antigo.-FirBt steps toward the for
nation of LABOR unions in Amigo
were taken vixen a temporary organi-
zation was effected. August Kunz was
elected temporary president and Henry
| Berner temporary secretary.
| anesVille-Active interest Is be-
| Ing taken by farmers in the coun-
| ~ in the formation of various units
IF the proposed Farm Management or
Eanization. Thirty farmers met at
GAINESVILLE anil organized the James
| Vile unit, and similar meetings will be
held throughout the county during
the next few weeks.
Ms1:towoc. = Becoming acquainted
| through a matrimonial journal, John
Adams, a Kiel farmer, and Miss
Mathilda Skippe, Chicago wom-
IN, were married last October. This
week they were divorced, his wife
claiming that she was obliged to en-
Adams $175.
Madison.-K.: J. Rowell, whose fu.
neral was held, made provision in
1907 that the public should know
the details of his life when he
lied. He found out from the local
papers that they would publish ali
obituary notice of 200 words, and
wrote the story of his life, giving di-
.ecti0ns for having it published when
he died Rowell was a machinist.
Madison.-Governor Philip com.
muted the sentence of Leo Han
ley, convict in the state prison, from
seven years to three and half. Han
.ey was convicted in 8 Milwaukee
court on March IA, 1914, of forgery. At
he Green Bay hearing the state boArd
If control granted eighteen out Of
.hirty-four applications for parole.
Madison.-The annual meeting Df
he State Horticultural society Will
be held here for three days, com.
mencing January 5. Among the sub.
jects to be discussed will be the bone
garden, landscape plans for farm
homes, summer Towering bulbs the
farm orchard, the farmer and his fruit
garden, spraying, pruning, cherry-leaf
diseases, the codling moth and market
ing fruits and vegetables. The open
Ing address will be by Gov. e. L. Phil
Lpp. Appearing on the program also
will be horticultural experts from vari>
ous cities in Wisconsin.
Green Bay.-With a busy winter
ahead, lumbermen face a labor
shortage. More timber will be got
put of the woods in northern WiscOn'
sin and Michigan than in recent years,
If sufficient labor can be secured
while conditions are favorable. On a.
count of the increased demand f0s
lumber the dealers believe they will
need all Of the timber possible to cut
this winter. The shortage in Labor
is due in a large measure to the fact
that many thousands of men left to
join the armies of their fatherlands.
Madison. Eight hundred and eight
cases of measles were reported to
the state board of health in No.
vember. In the same month last
year only ninety-four cases were re-
corded. The abnormal increase indf
Gates to what extent the disease is
spreading in Wisconsin communities
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the present month have brought over
| q thousand new cases. Nearly one
half of these are in Milwaukee and
about two hundred in Madison. In
| December a year ago 152 cases were
reported in the state.
Madison. - The Madison Alumni
| association of the Wisconsin uni
versity formed a permanent organ
| ization by electing the following Off
GERS: President, Chief Justice John B
| Winslow of the Wisconsin supreme
court; vice-president, Charles E. Buel;
secretary, Blanche Lyle; treasurer
Lillian E. Taylor; directors, State Rail
road Commissioner Walter Alexander
judge E. Ray Stevens and former AS
sembIyman E. N. Warner. The asso
citation decided to take an active inter
est in all matters affecting the welfare
of the university.
Milwaukee-It was three in the
morning when smoke awoke Mrs
Edgar Sanger, wife of one of the city's
best known automobile manufacturers.
Her husband was in Detroit and the1:
were only woman servants and her
children in the house. Wrapping the
baby in blanket and laying it on the
front porch of the $4,000 Sanger
home in the aristocratic suburb OF
East Milwaukee, she organized WON
ans bucket brigade and fought the fire
to a standstill. Whila her maids in
their night clothes poured pals Of wa
ter on the flaming walls and furniture,
she called neighboring homes and
women and men alike rushed to her
aid.
| Depere.-A community Christmas
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