The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-03
Wisconsin, NesUs
Tersely Told

OpSHCcT LAS purchased the spencer
Record.
Grand Rapids-Rev T. c. Hansen
of Waupaca has accepted the pastor
ship of the Baptist church here. He
will begin his duties on Sunday.
Beaver Dam.-Mr. and Mrs William
+. Gordon, who were married in Beav-
er Dam fifty years ago, celebrated
their golden wedding at Gary, S. d.
Wausau. - Ener Benson of this
city was electrocuted at the plant
of the Wausau Sulphate Fiber COM
pany at Mosinee when his foot came in
contact with live wire.
Wausau.-The Wausau Soap COM
pany has been formed here. The
plant will have capacity of 10000
bars Of soap per day, one~half of which
has alread been contracted.
Madison = Associate Justice M.
B. Rosenberg, who succeeded Judge
John Barnes as a member Of the
Wisconsin supreme court, has appoint
ed J. E. Usher of Madison as his pri-
vate secretary at salary of $1,000 a
year.
Chippewa Falls.-Delbert Johnson,
aged fifty-seven, for fifteen years
boss of the Kaiser Lumber COM
pany's camp near Winter, was killed
instantly when tree which he had cut
down kicked back and the butt struck
him.
Grand Rapids.-Superinten Of
Schools Otto, Marshfield, has intro
duced a novel method of instruc-
ton. The students gather in the eve
ming and discuss lines Of business that
might be followed up after finishing
the high school course.
Milwaukee-The drinking water
supply in city schools was or
dered shut off by Health Commission
er RUTLAND in the fight against the
typhoid epidemic threatening the city.
The $4,000 school children in the city
were instructed to bring their own wa
ter to school. Each child is expected
to carry a bottle filed with water
which has been boiled.
Observation-Disclosures Payson Bacon,
eighty-two years old, one of Mil
Yankees best known pioneer citi-
zens, is dead at Daytona, Fla. Few
Milwaukeeans were better known
throughout grain trading circles in
the United States than Mr.. Bacon. His
long business career and work for a
proper adjustment Of freight rates
made his name familiar in many parts
of this nation and the world.
Superior - Information obtained
by the federal grand jury here
has resulted in an investigation by
agents of the department of justice Of
reports that white slave" ring makes
it's headquarters in Superior and has
agents in northern Wisconsin and Min
nesota The grand jury obtained it's
information from Wisconsin witnesses
in several Mann act cases.
Milwaukee.-Judge Page, in the
police court, ordered r. T. Baxter,
wife abandoner, put on a ten-day diet
of castor oil, because he says his liver
Is in such condition that he cannot
work and support his family. Baxter
then begged for workhouse sentence,
but this was denied Page admins
tered the ten-day bread and water diet
in solitary confinement to five other
husbands who left their families in
want.
Oshkosh.-War has been declared
by the organized enemy of cats
80 4, at A Nth yiCn
Society for Prevention of Cats
About" The society Classics the cat
in the same category with cock
reaches, mosquitoes and flies as dis
ease carriers The denunciation is
that cats are worthless, treacherous,
prowling, dangerous animals and
thertby forfeit the right of exist
ence.
Waterford-it took the combined
efforts Of Sheriff Hollick and five
deputies to overpower Ebenezer
Smith, sixty-five years old, a truck gar
dener, who on New Years eve barri-
caded his home against all outsiders
and ever since has dared anyone to en-
ter the yard. Smith is bachelor who
once before lost his reason. This time
he was of the belief that lovesick leap
year girls would lay siege to his heart
and home, as told him by a practical
joker He met the sheriff's posse at
the front door literally armed to the
teeth, as he held butcher knife be-
tween his teeth, Ratchet in one hand
and hammer in the other.
nesville.-Janesville younger So
ciety circles are agog over the
news that Keith Wild, only daugh-
teroof MIR. and Mrs. Charles Wild, pro-
prietor of the Hotel Myers, was Sc
cretly married on Valentine day at
Crown Point, Ind, to Robert Scott
Daley, young vaudeville actor, who
recently appeared at local theater
It appears that Miss Wild left James
vile on the morning of February IL
for Red Oak, Ia, to spend three weeks
with school friend. She met Daley
In Chicago, FASTENED to Crown Point,
was married and then continued her
trip to Red Oak