Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-03-30
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The Debating team from New
Richmond lost the interhign school
debate with MondOvi
Meeting Of the Central Wisconsin
Holstein Breeders association occur
red at Vesper on March Is.
East Grand Rapids gets a fire house
and police station, the common coun-
Gil having decided to bond the city
for $4,000.
A novel and perhaps the first
farmers institute ever held on the
Menominee reservation was held
at Keeshena on March II and %.
The announcement Of the mar.
riage Of Leo Nash and Miss Mildred
MacKinnOn of Grand Rapids is given
out, the wedding to occur in June.
Mrs. L. j. Williams, pioneer of Beav-
er Dam, is dead at the age of sixty
three years. She is the mother of Dr.
Raymond l.. Williams of Milwaukee.
Central Wisconsin Fair Assn Of
Marshfield received an appropriation
of $500 from the common council OF
that city to be used for fair purposes
The Menasha Carton Co. filed an
amendment to it's articles of incorpor-
alton in the office of the secretary of
state increasing it's capital from $780,
900 to 100000
In an opinion Attorney General
Owen holds that only the two can
didates receiving the highest indorse-
ment at the primaries can legally be
candidates.
telegram says Mrs. Miles
P. McNally, wife Of one of New Rich
mond's best known attorneys, died in
Pasadena, CAL after a lingering i'll
ness.
project is being considered by
GAINESVILLE citizens for purchase of $50
acres Of land north of the city by pop
ular subscription for free amuse-
ment park.
Eighty Wisconsin companies in
Cured a penalty Of $40 apiece for fail
ing to file an annual report in the
office Of the secretary of state by
March l as required by a new law
Hungry Hollow. in Oneida county,
is sick of it's name. The move
ment to change to something more
appropriate is supported by the Rhine
lander News and practically every
Hungry HOllOwan.
While he was working with the
circular saw in the manual training
class of the Superior high school,,
Jacob Friis, son of Mr. and Mrs. c.
Friis, lost one joint of the thumb on
his right hand
Owing to seed corn shortage this
year, caused by unfavorable growing
conditions last season, Governor
Phillip issued a proclamation desig-
mating the week from March 27 to
April l, as seed corn week.
A general jail delivery was frustrat-
ed at ShebOygan when Undersherifl
Hugo Fesing became suspicious be-
cause one Of the prisoners was stand
ing at one of the rear windows of the
Jail every time an official entered
Three persons drowned and five just
escaped when a farmers wagon pitch
ed from a submerged bridge near
Galesville. Those drowned were: Mat
tie and Ole Buxrud, twins, aged
eleven; Matthew Steenberg, aged
fourteen
Several years ago Charley Crandall,
of Beloit, fractured an ankle
and had been lame since. Recently
he fell from a roof and broke the same
ankle at the same place and since the
injury has healed his lameness is en-
tirely gone.
Bert Hatton. aged %. whose home
is Niagara, will not go to Europe to
fight for the allies, even though he en-
listed in the Overseas battalion at
Vancouver, B. c., he having been
discharged by the Canadian govern
ment at the request of his father,
c. Hatton.
The marriage, a notable event.
of Gustav Meissner, president Of the
First National bank Of Oconomowoc,
and Miss Amalia Rohr of Watertown
was solemnized at the residence of
the Rev. Julius Klingman, pastor Of
ST. Johns Lutheran church at Water
town.
B. Majesty, nowhere" was struck
by one of the fast trains on the Chica
60 and Milwaukee Electric line. His
left arm was so badly crushed as to
demand amputation above the elbow.
Majeski, who is forty-one years of age,
was on his way from Milwaukee to
Chicago.
Death su'cmoned two old residents
at Grand Rapids. At o'clock Freder
lex Pfeiffer became i'll with apoplexy
and died few minutes later. Mrs.
Pfeiffer died a half hour later Of
heart disease superinduced by shock
incident to the death of her husband
after having called doctor. The aged
woman dropped dead at his bedside.
In the action of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad Company
against the Rosholt Creamery COM
pany of Rosholt to collect a freight