Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-03-02

Scarlet FEVER has struck Racine no
less than sixty cases being reported
at present.
A Holsteifr cow in a herd near De-
pere, gave birth to triplets. The three
calves are alive.
Ener Benson was killed at the plant
of the Wausau Sulphate Fibre COM
pany at Mosinee.
Margaret Wilson, Grand Rapids, took
an overdose of morphine. 1t is expect
ed she will recover.
The Agenda. Ashland county, postof-
flee has been discontinued. Mail will
be sent to Butternut.
Pensions are granted to the fol-
lowing: May Fitzgeald, Racine, $12;
Mary ]. Turney, New London, SIP.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. F. Gordon, mar
ried in Beaver Dam fifty years ago,
celebrated their golden wedding at
Gary, S. D.
Many of Depere's business men are
talking favorably of the commission
form of the city since Green Bay has
adopted the form.
The use of long nose nursing bottles
for Wisconsin babies is condemned as
insanitary in the state board of
health's quarterly bulletin.
Mathew Kettenhofen, of Askeaton, a
former resident, died suddenly at
KEENAN,, Wis, where he was engaged
in numbering.
Fire from an overheated furnace
in the Sheboygan opera-house destroy
ed the stage and equipment, causing a
loss of $4,000.
Langlade county's maple strip will
be increased to a considerable extent
this spring unless the season is who'll
ly upfavorable.
Stories of mysterious aeroplane in
the skies and lowering over munition
factories of northern Wisconsin are
to be made the subject of an investi-
cation.
L. Schauer, S3, of Green Bay, the
only remaining man of a group of
pioneers in New Franken, is dead
Schauer was one of a group of settlers
sion at Allouez to attend mass.
Earl Paulson aspiring Racine pugi
list, convicted of forging checks
to the amount of SOS in order to buy
boxing gloves and other parapher-
MALTA, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to one year in state prison.
Irene Desblene, 4, of Coleman, went
to Butte, making the trip alone Her
aunt, Mrs. L. e. Bergeron, accom-
panied her as far as Milwaukee and
put her on the train for the western
city, where she will join her parents.
A debating team of five University
Of Wisconsin students will defend the
Badger institution in a triangular de-
bate with the Universities of Missouri
and South Dakota about the middle of
May.
Hilda Lipps, aged 8, may not recover
from traction company for injuries
alleged to have been sustained
through shock to her mother, Mrs
Pauline Lipps, before Hilda was born,
Judge Gregory decided. f'>
That the accredited high schoo!
list is an injustice and evil
that should not exist in Wisconsin, is
the declaration of G. P. Cary, state
superintendent of public instruction,
in a statement just made public.
Franz Ruser of the interned Hamburg
American liner Vaterland is coming
fo ha ho1 fn hn hn1 Fl, o1y
starting Thursday, in the Auditorium
for the benefit Of the German, Aus
TRAN and Hungarian war sufferers.
Three boys in Knockers at La Crosse
confessed to a series of store burglar
les. John Kindhammer, eleven years |
old, the leader of the trio, told the po-
lice of pop, candy and movie orgies |
in which the baby burglars spent their
loot.
Large land owners Of the towns
throughout Brown county have or
gained to oppose the issuing OF
bonds for concrete roads as passed by |
the county board on Jan. &C. They |
have engaged an attorney to fight the |
case.
Associate Judge M. B. Rosenber-
ry, who has been chosen to succeed |
Judge John Barnes as a member of |
the Wisconsin supreme court, has ap-
pointed J. E. Usher of Madison as his
private secretary at salary of $500
a year.
Next to corn shredders and close to
them, the feed and ensilage cut
tiers used in agricultural communities
are the most potent factors in proc 1c-
ing empty sleeves, stumps of severed
fingers and fresh graves, says the
Wisconsin industrial commission.
Margaret Robilliard, 70, of Racine,
who had not spoken to her husband
cincn tho hepinninp of the Furonean