Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-05-04
WISCONSIN NEWS
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TO All NIaSS6S OF h6a0eF9.
The boating season has opened at
Oshkosh
Frank Work., mechanic of Racine,
was taken back to Elkhart, Ind, to
stand trial for alleged larceny.
Frank Tillman, SO, lifelong resi-
dent of the town OF Buchanan and one
of the earliest pioneers, is dead
Beloit High School debaters won
their contest from GAINESVILLE and
Rockford teams.
Yeggs blew the safe in Elcho post
office, about thirty miles north of
Amigo, and escaped with about 800
in cash.
Harry Tenpas, Waldo, was given
years at hard labor in the state peni-
tertiary on charges preferred by his
stepdaughter.
Salvation army opened headquarters
in Manitowoc. Maj. and Mrs. c. r.
Boyd of division forces at Milwaukee
are in charge of the organizing work.
Isaac Markley, aged 81 years Of
Beloit, was squeezed between
crane and pile of castings and in
stantly killed. He was almost cut in
two.
The large plant of the internation-
al Hoist company located at Amigo,
according to reports, will be sold to
Mayer Brothers, who will start a
foundry and machine shop.
of Commerce at Manitowoc has a
membership of 125. 1t is the aim of
the association to increase the city's
population to 10000 by 1920.
Many men were placed in peril at
Oconto when a broken steam pipe
flew at a terrific rate of speed through
the Holt Lumber company's sawmill,
strewing wreckage along its path.
General Charles King of Milwaukee
delivered his address to Kenoshans
on preparedness" when he was tie
guest of honor at the meeting Of the
Mems club of ST. Matthew's parish.
A branch United States re-
cruiting office will be opened within
the next few days in Green Bay, by
the United States army. Corporal
George E. Davidson will be in charge.
The Good Roads association of Wis
consin was named at Milwaukee and
orgG nized by enthusiasts of the state
at meeting there. Plans were laid
for a campaign to enlist $4,000 mem
bers
The United States Refining COM
pany, with headquarters at Beloit,
has instituted damage suit,
claiming $4,000 damages, against the
White Paving Construction company
of Milwaukee.
B. ]. D. Blackmore, Oconomowoc, is
charged with abandonment. Mr.. and
Mrs. Blackmore formerly lived in Mil
waukee and he was for several years
a travelling salesman for an electrical
supply house.
The Rock river road naturally at
tractive between Jefferson and Fort At
kinson is to be made into one of the
most beautiful drives in the state by
the Rock River Valley Park Pleasure
Drive association.
County superintendent of Schools
Arvenson, of Langlade county, reports
that about 260 girls have enrolled to
take part in the tomato growing con-
test and over GO boys have enrolled
in the calf raising contest.
Four enterprising mimrOds, F. Kill
met Edward Vida, F. w. Wachold
and Thos. Stehnia arrested by Manito-
woo and Sheboygan conservation war
dens. were each fined $25 and costs
for catching pickerel with a net.
People at Oconto may make appli-
cation for a Carnegie hero medal for
Charles Dagen, who saved Frank Flu
melle. seven years old, from drowning
by plunging into the ice filled river
and swimming eighty feet to shore
with the unconscious youth.
The sum of $16,SC0 has been
made available for the construction
of state and county aid highways in
Langlade county this year, according
to the state and highway appropria-
ton as reported by County Clerk
Rath.
DR.. B. T. Rogers, of Fond du Lac.
accepted the presidency of Racine
college and will assume his new du-
ties May l. DR.. Rogers resigned the
wardenship of the hall and as arch
deacon of the Fond du Lac diocese.
Two sisters living at Bluff Siding,
Josephine and Theodosia Wiczorek, 81
and 10 years old, respectively, were
drowned in the high water of the Mis-.
sissippi river within a short distance
of the place where the P. B. Crogan
family of four met similar death a
week before.
Dr. Joseph Shimoon, who a few
years ago was a student of Carroll
College, Waukesha, ana who was a
member of the 1903 class of the Jeffer-
son College, Philadelphia, Pa, was
burned at the stake and beheaded in
Persia, according to advices reaching
Waukesha from Philadelphia.
Long litigation over the lands in