The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-01-21
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convention Of the Wisconsin Fxneral
Directors and Embalmers' association
will be held here on August /, q and 3.
Madison.-The state board O. health
will appoint two new Deputies to
fill vacancies caused by resigna-
tionr in the Eau Claire and Rhine
lander districts. The latter is now
filed temporarily by DR.. |. F. Thomp-
son of Reedsburg.
Madisol.-The condition of Senator
LaFollette, who was taken ILL
with the grippe, Is much improved.
According to announcement from his
home he will not resume his speaking
campaign in the state. however. for.
three or four days.
Antigo.-Sales of Red Cross Christ
ga in 1915. Half of the proceeds,
$53.22, will be retained for health work
here, provisions for this retention hav-
ing been made with the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis association.
Racine.-Mrs. Rose Hanko, who has
been suffering from a mysterious
malady, resembling lockjaw. the after
effects of grippe, is dead. Attending
physicians claim it was not tetanIs,
though the woman's jaws were set and
could not be opened
Madison.-More.t than $1,00000Q more
taxes will be collected in Wis
consin this year than during the
year 1914. The tax commission esti-
mates the total on general property.
levied in 1915 for all purposes at $43,-
339,371.
Madison-As commander-in-chief Of
the Wisconsin National Guard,
Governor Philip made the follow
ing appointments: Byron o. Bell
and Fred Peterson, to be first and Sec
ond lieutenants, respectively, Of Com
pany l, First infantry, Neenah; Martin
Ackerson, to be first lieutenant OF Com
pany I, Third infantry, Superior.
Kenosha-How a man wandered.
his mind a blank, for more than
four months was revealed when let
tiers were received from Fort Lorraine,
O., announcing that Robert Weiman.
fifty years of age. who dropped out Of
sight here September /, was recover
ing from mental ailment in the Ohio
city.
Beloit.-Twenty thousand dollars
was the loss of fire in the
three-story building in the downtown
district in which the Beloit Shirt and
Overall company and the Halls Glove
and Mitten company had their facto-
ries. Each lost $4,000 ON its stock.
The damage to the building was about
$4,000.
Oshkosh.-Fafmers of Winnebag0
county will gather here at
grain and road institute January Is
and rs. Among the speakers will be
A. H. Melville of the university extern
sion division r. A. Moore, John G.
Donald, Milford Wits, IT. T. Bewisk
and C. P. Norgord, all Of Madison.
All rural schools will be closed for the
two days.
Madison.-Dr A. T. Rasmussen Of
La Crosse was elected president
of the Wisconsin Fish and Game
association here. Fred Carus. Mani
towoc, was selected vice-president and
E. p Troutman, Stevens Point, secre-
tary; Ray T. Graves of Sparta Is
chairman Of the executive committee.
A resolution was passed urging that
the conservation commission be given
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their function.
Midtown. - The Midtown Union
Free High school, one of the most
unique institutions of its kind in
this section. is ready to be formally
dedicated. Erected at cost of about
$4,000, the structure is owned almost
entirely by farmers. The district it
serves consists of about fifty sections
of land, and nearly all it's students live
on farms. Principal George DeGutre
was for number of years principal
of the high school at Amery
Madison.-The six students who VIII
represent the University Of Wis
consin in the intercollegiate de-
bate with Michigan on March 81, have
been chosen. Four of them are from
Madison. Their names follow: For
est Black, Tiffin, o.; Isador Mendel-
sohn, Madison; Guy Black, Fort At
kinson; Francis Higson, Madison; Le-
roy Burlingane, Madison, and Herman
Zischke, Horizon. Milton Moses, Chi
cago Heights, ILL.,, and Raymond Heck
man, Merrill, will act as alternates
Madison.-Oshkosh was chosen as
1916 convention city for the State
Builders association during the
closing hours of the Madison gath
ering. The convention elected the fol-
lowing officers: Joseph Tyrrell, Madi-
son, president; ]. MertZ, Oshkosh,
first vice-president; Mike Peters. Mil
waukee, second vicepresident; j. p.
Cullen, GAINESVILLE, third vice president;
Sydney NJ Jones, Kenosha, fourth
vice-president; H. G. Zickert, Water
town, treasurer; o. H. Ulbricht, Mil
waukee, secretary; H. L. Geisler, Mad
ison, secretary to the president; Jo-