Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-01-01
Badger News
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IN Russia
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS william
J. Cary has sent In the largest
order for Christmas seals that the
wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis associa-
tion has as yet received. By special
delivery $4,000 Red Cross stamps were
sent to him at Washington
Antigo.-First steps toward the for
nation of labor unions in Anttpo
were taken when temporary organi-
cation was effected August Kunz was
elected temporary president and Henry
berner temporary secretary.
Janesville.-Active interest is be-
ing taken by farmers in the coun-
" IN the formation of various units
u the proposed Farm Management or
ganlzation. Thirty farmers met at
GAINESVILLE and organized the James,
vile unit, and similar meetings will be
held throughout the county during
the next few weeks
Manitowoc. - Becoming acquainted
through matrimonial journal, John
Adams, a Kiel farmer, and Miss
Matilda Skippe, a Chicago won.
an, were married last October. This
week they were divorced, his wife
claiming that she was obliged to en-
dure inhuman treatment. 1t cost
Adams $175.
Madison.-K. ]. Rowell, whose flu
neral was held, made provision in
1907 that the public should know
the details of his life when he
died. He found out from the local
papers that they would publish an
obituary notice of 200 words, and
wrote the story of his life, giving di-
rections for having it published when
he died. Rowell was a machfnist.
Madison-Governor Philip COM
muted the sentence of Leo Han
ley, convict in the state prison, from
seven years to three and half. Han
ley was convicted in a Milwaukee
court on March Ia. 1914, of forgery. At
the Green Bay hearing the state board
of control granted eighteen out of
thirty-four applications for parole.
Madison.-The annual meeting of
the State Horticultural society will
be held here for three days, COM
mencing January 5. Among the sub
jects to be discussed will be the home
garden, landscape plans for farm
homes. summer Towering bulbs, the
farm orchard, the farmer and his fruit
garden, spraying, pruning, cherry-leaf
diseases, the cooling moth and market
ing fruits and vegetables. The open
ING qddFncc mill ha Nv II T
imp Appearing on the program also
will be horticultural experts from vari-
Gus cities in Wisconsin
Green Bay.-With a busy winter
ahead, lumbermen face labor
shortage. More timber will be got d,
out OF the woods in northern Wiscon-
sin and Michigan than in recent years,
if sufficient labor can be secured
while conditions are favorable. On &C
count of the increased demand for
lumber the dealers believe they will
need all of the timber possible to cut
this winter. The shortage in labor
is due in large measure to the fact
that many thousands of men left to
join the armies of their Netherlands.
VudQiSOU- uuuuICQ anu Elkuk
cases of measles were reported to
the state board of health in No.
vember. In the same month last
year only ninety-four cases were re.
corded. The abnormal increase indf
Gates to what extent the disease is
spreading in Wisconsin communities
at present The first three weeks OF
h.
a thousand new cases. Nearly one
half of these are in Milwaukee anc
about two hundred in Madison. liz
December a year ago 1872 cases were
reported in the state.
Madison. The Madison Alumni;
association of the Wisconsin uni
versity formed a permanent organ
ization by electing the following Off
GERS: President, Chief Justice John B
Winslow of the Wisconsin supreme
court; vice-president, Charles E. Buel;
secretary. Blanche Lyle; treasurer
Lillian Z. Taylor; directors, State Rail
road Commissioner Walter Alexander
Judge E. Ray Stevens and former AS
semblyman E. n. Warner. The asso
EIabiOn ueCIubu To take an active lntSE
est in all matters affecting the welfare
of the university
Milwaukee-It was three in the
morning when smoke awoke Mrs
Edgar Sanger, wife of one of the city's
best known automobile manufacturers
Her husband was in Detroit and there
were only woman servants and her
children in the house. Wrapping the
baby in blanket and laying it on the
front porch of the $4,000 Sanger
home in the aristocratic suburb of
East Milwaukee, she organized wom-
ans bucket brigade and fought the fire
10 a standstill While her maids In
their night clothes poured pals of wa
ter on the flaming walls and furniture
she called neighboring homes and
women and men alike rushed to her
cid
Depere.-A community Christmas
tree celebration was held in Ep-
worth League hall on the Oneida
Indian reservation There is much