Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-05-04

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plus z. Johnson.
John Ridden, ninety-two years old,
Of Askeaton who was one Of the earli-
est pioneers of that section is dead.
Because of it's unprecedently in
creased traffic the Omaha road will
lay heavier rails north of Brentwood.
Geo. w. Jones, o: GAINESVILLE, killed
himself while lying in bed. He was
| respondent because of failing health.
The state board ordered read
justment by the o. l. Newton Sons
company, Sparta, of commercial light
ing rates.
! Corporal Lund, Superior, made high
score in the Third regiment gallery
rife shoot held at Hudson. Lund
scored 1873 points.
! The Commercial club authorized
the execution Of a contract for bring
ing a Gossard Corset company branch
factory to GAINESVILLE.
This has been the coolest and latest
spring on record in Eastern Wisconsin
and much alarm is felt for the clover
and winter grain crops.
Material Is on the ground for the
construction of $4,000 subway across
the Milwaukee road yards at the Mac
street crossing at Portage
Maple sap season is more favor
able than last year and producers re-
port that the output of syrup has al.
ready exceeded that of last year.
c. J. Snyder, engineer, went into the
! deep waters of Red Creek slough with
his locomotive, but escaped with only
few scratches. His fireman jumped.
1t has been ruled that it is unlawful
for dealers to sell raw milk in bottles
bearing a statement that the contents
Of such bottles have been pasteuriZed.
F. Lukaseski, IS, Grand Rapids, was
| instantly killed in the Port Edwards
paper mill while attempting to put
broken sheet of paper between a re-
volving roll
Marion Russell and many pupils
Of district No. 5, town of Hull, were
obliged to go to and from school in
boats during the high water that has
existed for two weeks.
The body of Annie Cleerman was
found at Depere on the North
Western railway. The train crew said
the woman was lying on the track
when the train struck her.
A gun and game club has been or
ganized by sportsmen in the village
Of Polar with a membership of TWEEN
ty-seven. The club plans to have
membership of 100 before fall.
John J. jeffrey has been appointed
Grand Rapids attorney, Joseph Wheir
is city clerk, J. L. Looze was ap-
pointed health officer and Peter Nc
Camley city poor commissioner.
The railroad commission of Wiscon-
sin has denied the application of
the railroads for an increase in switch
ing rates in Milwaukee making the in
terindustrial rates / cent per hundred.
Sealers of weights and measures of
the Wausau district will ask that the
legislature fix a standard weight for
loaf of bread at fifteen ounces and
secure regulation of the water con-
tent Of coke.
John Sande, Eau Claire, Wis, was
taken to a Fargo, S. D., hospital fa-
tally stabbed and his companion, Ed.
Landmark of Aitken, Mimi, was kill
ed when George Myers ran amuck at
Sutton, N D.
A new bank, the Peoples Bank of
Wrightstown, has been organized and
will open for business in few days,
with Thomas Pagan as president and
N. B. Remmets as cashier. It is CAPT
talized at 100000
The Rev. Peter Banka, of Stevens
Point, the assistant in ST. Peters
Polish Catholic parish, has been or
dered isolated because Of smallpox.
He is under the care of nun who
has had the disease.
Capt. Voth has been unanimously
elected chief of the Columbus po-
lice Anthony Nix night marshal, Her
bert Zeidler city attorney. This is
Mr.. Nix thirty-ninth year as night
marshal in Columbus.
The city council Of GAINESVILLE mas
met WIN Tie SCuUUl UOdIu W VI g
pare plans for erecting an addition
to the GAINESVILLE High school to care
for increased attendance and also to
safeguard the school from fire.
If arrangements in contemplation
can be made, University Of Wisconsin
cadets will meet University Of Illinois
cadets in a three day sham battle
somewhere on the state line" The
suggestion came from an alumnus.
Officials of Waukesha county ar
rested Joseph Lamesfelder, charging
him with being implicated in the
death Of George Shaftrie, a town of
Lisbon farmer, who was found by his
wife about midnight dead with a frac-
tured skull
J. Brown, the young man who was
convicted Of manslaughter in the third
degree for Staying his father, John
Brown of Elton, on Feb. s, was SEN
fenced by Judge Warner to four years
Imprisonment in the state reforma-