The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-03-10
WISCONSIN
| STATE NEWS

| brotherhoOds of the city will hold
their annual spring supper March
| Is, DR.. Charles Gilkey of the Hyde
Park Baptist church being the speaker
| Of the evening.
Portage.-Engineer Edward A.
| Hearted, who ran between Portage.
Horizon and Milwaukee since the
pioneer days. dropped dead while
with a party of friends fishing at
Dates Mill, three miles from here
! Oshkosh.-The massmeeting of the
| nonunion workingmen of the Paine
plant, who are on strike. did not
develop on Saturday. The regular
monthly meeting developed no steps
toward a settlement of the strike.
| Oshkcsh.-A. H. Melville of this
city, who is at the head of tie uni
versity extension division, has been
rendered the secretaryship of the Mad
| ison board of commerce. He has not
yet accepted
Stevens Point-Erick Lund OF
Marinette will not be able to act
as head sawyer at the John Week
Lumber company mill when it opens
late this month because Of a broken
leg caused by log rolling over him.
Stevens Point-Stevens Point peo-
pie will have a chance to vote
on the saloon license question this
| spring and an exciting campaign
is in prospect. Last year the dry
forces polled over 700 votes out of
total of 1900.
Madison.-F. A. Kremer, for many
years supreme president of the
| Defenders lodge here, has accept
ed a position as secretary of the Good
land Land company at Philips. Mr..
Kremer has held the position of secre-
tary of the Wisconsin Real Estate
Brokers' association for three years.
Stevens Point.-George M. Snod-
grass, principal of the county teach
ers' training school at Rice Lake,
has been named head Of the English
department of the Stevens Point Nor
NAL school, to succeed Prof. Fl. S. Hip
| pensteel, who takes a similar position
at Manchester college, Manchester.
Ind
Oshkosh.-After being out Is hours
a jury returned a verdict of $125
in $4,000 suit for damages for
false arrest in the case of Mrs. Ruby
Frank Abrams against John c. Pierce.
Judge Halsey of Milwaukee was
called in when an affidavit of preju-
dice was filed against Judge Burnell
of this city.
Washington.-Th following post
masters were commissioned: Fred
G.. Schliesman, Cambria; Henry S.
Steinbring, Fall Creek; Henry
Knapstein, New London; Philip A. Ba.
dour, Oconto; Ferdinand A. Lonsdorf,
Athens; Patrick J. Love. Coleman:
Henry r. Schuhmann, Kohler; julius
E. Hennig, Princeton.
Oshkosh.-About fifty women of the
Sixth district, Wisconsin Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs. met for
the purpose of making plans for
the annual convention of the district
at Neenah on April IL and Is. F. c..
Stewart made the address of welcome.
Mrs. w. d. Brooks, Green Lake dis
trict vice-president, presided.
Madison. - The attorney general
advised District Attorney NJ. E.
Dillon of Ashland that a mother
with dependent children is entitled to
a pension under the mothers pension
law if she is legal resident of the
county in which the application is
made. The attorney general held that
she need not have resided in the coun-
ty for year.
Madison.-State Dairy and Food
Commissioner George J. Weigle
says more scrubbing and painting has
been done in the Wisconsin cheese
factories and creameries in the past
three months than in ten years previ-
Gus. He attributes this fact to the
passage of a law by the last legisla-
ture requiring the licensing of these
places.
Madison.-Officials of the Wisconsin
Bankers association have an
nounced that B. F. Harris, chairman
of the agricultural commission of the
American Bankers association and
one of the leading banking and agri-
cultural authorities of this country,
will attend and address the banker
farmer conference to he held here
| March 1929.
Depere.-Oneida Indians ON a reser-
walton west of here have started
a campaign to make their reser-
walton one great up-to-date dairy
farm. They have for years been work
ing toward this end and are known as
the most advanced Indians in Amer
ica They have their own dairy and
creamery. selling large quantities of
butter to Chicago and the East. The
government has just completed a ST.
500 model dairy barn for them and
they want $4,000 for additions They
are asking for $4,000 for other model
farm buildings on their community
farm. They have also started action
to collect their 100000 share of ST.
100000 which was to be paid by the
government for the sale of their Kan