River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-03-02
Seen and Heard
In Wisconsin

WIDOW OF William H. Hearding, is dead
at the age Of eighty-five.
Madison.-Stoughton, by a majority
OF nine votes, refused to adopt the
commission form of city government.
Depere.-A Holstein COW in the herd
OF Barney Bosar, near here, gave birth
to trlplets. The three calves are alive.
Janesville.-There are ten avowed
candidates in the field for councilman
and four are considering entering the
race within a week.
Racine.-Mrs. Margaret Bobilliard.
aged seventy-nine years, died at her
nome from the effects of injuries sus-
tanned in fall month ago.
Grand Rapids.-Mrs. John Olenick
has disappeared, leaving no explana-
ton. Her husband did not report her
disappearance for eight days.
Depere.-Thomas Wishart of this
city has just sold his farm in the
town of Depere, which he had owned
for the last fifty-six years. The farm
of 142 acres brought $4,000
Madison.-Plans are being com.
pleted for state trip for the Uni
versity Regimental band this spring.
Milwaukee, Fond du Lac and Eau
Claire will be included in the itinerary.
Neenah.-Instructio have been
received here to remove all build
ings from the site of the new govern
ment post office building in this city
1t is expected work on the new build
ing will be commenced by the first OF
July.
Kenosha-Plans have been com.
pleted for the organization of &
branch of the National Security league
In Kenosha on March l. A mass meet
Ing has been called at which Capt.
James V. Martin is to be the principal
speaker.
Green Bay.-The state board of
control is holding it's quarterly meet
ing at the Wisconsin state reforma
tory. Applications we're made by forty
one prisoners for parole. The board
will discuss plans for new cellroOm
at the institution.
Kenosha.-Dave Callahan, for the
past fourteen years yardmaster for
the Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way company in Kenosha, has been adj
vanced to the position of conductor.
He will begin his new duties at once
on g run out of Milwaukee.
ManitOWoc - Patrick W. Molony,
aged fifty, for thirty years a rail-
way mail clerk running between
Milwaukee and Eland Junction, died
after an illness of a few days. He re-
ceived his first appointment under the
Cleveland administration in 1886
Oshkosh-Alfred A Bachler, for
mer steward of the state hospital
for the insane, charged with lar
ceny and embezzlement by the bailee,
pleaded not guilty at his preliminary
examination. The case was set for
bond of $4,000.
Qshkosh-L. M Mann, assistant
engineer in charge of the Fox
river Improvement office, says that
Judging from the present outlook pros
poets for heavy floods this spring are
March it is expected freshets can be
handled without trouble.
Madison.-Phillip La Toilette, son
of the senator, who has been
confined to his bed in the infirmary at
the university for IA days, got up to
enter the freshman declamatory con-
test. He won first place and then went
back TO he'd. Young La Toilette,
freshman at the university, will be op-
Grated upon for tonsillitis.
Chippewa Falls.-Through the ac-
tivity of Conservation Wardens c.
T. Asmuth and w. P. Elliott the
school fund of this county is fattening
During the last six weeks the war
dens have arrested and convicted
twelve pot hunters for shipping par
tridges and venison out Of this state
to commission markets. The fines i'm
posed run from $50 to $64O in each
case.
Madison-Five men have been
chosen to represent the University
of Wisconsin in the intercOllegi-
ate debates with Missouri and South
Dakota in May. Milo Swanton, II.
Madison, and Raymond Hickman, 18,
Merrill, will take the negative against
Missouri, and Samuel Kline, rs, Mad
ison; William MacFadden, II, Fargo,
S. D., and Robert Peters, II, Blue
River, will assume the affirmative
against South Dakota.
Marinette.-A man who was muir
dered December "a, 1914, and whose
death has been mystery, was
identified Thursday as Joseph Heller
of Milwaukee, through tracing the
number of the shotgun to Milwaukee
sporting goods store, where it was sold
to Heller Lee Dargus, held in Green
Bay reformatory upon the testimony OF
two boys, Lester Besier and Adolph
Swanson, has been released, and the
police have sent messages East to or
der the arrest of two persons now sus-
pected. Heller's body was found un
der pile of railroad ties short dis
tance from the city, with shotgun