Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-24
WISCONSIN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of Interest to Read
ers of Badger State.
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That 1t Will Appeal
to All Glasses of Readers.

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George A. Gilman, SO, a resident of
Beloit since 1874, died suddenly.
Every Wausau organization is to
observe Tuesday, Feb 20, as Prosper
ity day.
George Houts, IA, of Ladysmith, &C
cidentally killed himself with a % cal
iber rifle.
The people of Grantsburg school dis.
trict voted bonds for $4,000 to build
a new high school.
The postotfice at Washington Harbor
has been discontinued for the reason
that nobody will accept it,
William Lawson, "a years old and a
resident of Wisconsin for over sixty
years, died at Oconomowoc.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, wealthy La
Crosse widow, willed her fortune to
a pet dog and friend named Otter
Amsrud, and Amsrud is oeao.
The 500 and Wisconsin Central
have paid to the state treasurer $780,
853 as one-half of their annual taxes
to the state.
At meeting of Tomahawk farmers
and business men an organization was
formed with view of establishing a
cooperative creamery and cheese fac
tory.
The railroad commission issued an or
| der requiring the Hillsboro Light and
Power company to reduce it's rates for
electric light service about 10 per
cent.
Miss Mary A. Bose, 20, who died at
Racine sanitorium, was said to be
the tallest woman in Wisconsin. She
was six and half feet tall and weigh
| ed only 100 pounds.
J. P. Horton, of the Grand Rapids
Milling company and for several years
an officer in the state millers' organ
ization, suffered stroke Of paralysis
while at work in his office.
Masons of Depere have pledged
themselves for sums ranging from $25
to 5000 to wipe out $4,000 debt on
the lodge building. About $4,000 was
subscribed, amid great enthusiasm.
AXel HendricksOn, death defer one
hundred times or more in looping the
loop on skis while 100 feet in the air,
submitted to an operation, having his
right leg amputated above the knee.
John Brukholtz, aged rs, wealthy
farmer of BrothertoWn, Calumet coun-
ty is dead as result of being suffocated
under straW-stack which toppled
over while he was trying to rebuild it.
Austin Denning, one of Star
Prairie's best known citizens, died at
his home following an illness of ten
days duration. He was one of the old
est Masons in that section Of the state.
Earl Phillips and Harold Seguneen,
youths OF GAINESVILLE, charged with
robbing the home Of H. A. Jorgensen
at Evansville, Wis, were sentenced to
three years in the Green Bay feforma-
tory.
Farmers of Nekoosa have organ
lied a new telephone company to be
known as the Lynn Creek Telephone
company and will connect with the
Wood Telephone company lines at Ne
koosa
Preparations are under way for the
program of the Central Wisconsin
state fair, which is staged at Marsh
field, and Secretary R. R. Williams
states the date will probably be Aug.
% to %.
The coroner's jury at Amigo
Investigating the death of John M.
Brown, farmer living near Elton, re-
turned a verdict declaring that he was
"wilfully and Intentionally shot by his
son, James"
Grand Rapids records were broken
this year in regard to auditing county
BOOKS, the committee finishing their
work in twelve days, against period
of forty days being required to do this
work last year.
The body of L. S. Hitchcock, war
veteran and resident of Marinette for
nearly forty years, was found near his
office on the second floor of a bank
building. Death was due to heart dis
ease, physicians say
Official notice was given to high
school clerk L. w. Eastling, that I'M
less provision was made for a new
high school building and more teach
ers, the special state aid would be
withdrawn after Feb /, 1917, from
Manana.
Announcement is made Of the marri-
age of Mrs. Edna Farr Fox, widow
of the late Clifton Arey Fox, formerly
widely known as story writer, and
William T. Marx, former cashier of
the Kenosha Postal Savings bank, at
Clovis, n. NJ
Stevens Point is probing the
case of Anna Kaminsky, aged eleven,
who froze her hands while going be-
tween her home and the schoolhouse
in Alban and has had all her fingers
and thumbs amputated except an inch
stump of her left thumb.