Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-23

! because the people demand it. Len
roots friends here say he would &C
cept the senatorial appointment.
Included in the list of
victims of the Tuscania disaster. who
have been buried or the coast of
| Scotland, are reported twelve Wiscon-
sin men whose bodies were washed
ashore and identified. Their names
and home addresses are: Raymond
Butler, New Richmond; Charles E.
Swanson, Rothschilds; Homer Llewel-
| lyn Anderson, Cumberland, Russell
| f. Bennett, Plainfleld; James P. Haw-
ley, Neenah; Otto Mowrey, Kenosha;
Claire Metzenbauer, Chippewa Falls;
Alvin N. Collins, Markesan; Otis
| Hutchins, Whitehall; George A. Rein
hardt, Jefferson; Orwell n. Casper,
Milwaukee; Fred A. Rudolph, Milwau-
kee.
Madison-The number of milk cows
on Wisconsin farms on Jan. l is l.
| 5000, compared to 1,750,000 a year
| ing 1917, according to the joint live
stock report issued at Madison. The
| average price of milk cows per head
is estimated to be SIS, compared to
SOS year ago. The number of cattle
other than milk cows on Wisconsin
farms on Jan. /, is estimated to be
1894. 900. compared to 100000 a year
| ago, or an increase of per cent.
Superior An agricultural high
school maintained by the county or
jointly by several towns and villages
is recommended by ]. w. Morgan,
member u the committee on common
schools for Douglas county, as a solu-
| ton to the problem of keeping the
farm boy and the farm girl on the
land. Manual training and other sub
jects might be taught at such a school,
he suggests. Douglas county has
power to maintain such a school.
GAINESVILLE - James Hessian, SEN
fenced by Judge Maxfield to five years
in the state reformatory at Green Bay,
has had his sentence suspended and
has been placed under the state board
of control for that time The change
was taken by the judge as a result of
| the evidence which Hessian gave rela-
tive to the selling of liquor in this city
! to soldiers who come here on Sundays
and holidays.
Oshkosh-Belieft that the words ITO
Il With the Kaiser, painted in
| large letters on a barn is an extra fire
| hazard, has caused a mutual fire in
| surance company of Winnebago coun-
| ty farmers to ask that the building be
Teinsured at a higher rate. 1t is
| feared that some pro-German will set
| fire TO it. How the sign was painted
or who painted it is not known.
Stevens Point-Believed to have
| frozen to death, the body of Mrs.
Mary Cisewsk. 20, of the town of
| Hull, near here, was found beside a
country road a short distance from
her home by neighbors. She was
scantily clad and was barefooted and
the opinion is that she wandered from
| home during the night and was over
come by the cold.
| Janesville-Plans have been made
! for purchasing uniforms for the men,
bers of the two high school military
companies which were organized
some time ago. BY giving dances and
benefit performances at the theaters
of the city, the boys have raised a
large sum to equip the 100 students.
| Hartford-Emil Won Schleinitz. Mi
waukee, who is spending the winter
at his country home, near Cedar Lake,
saw large gray wolf crossing the
ice Of the lake. He sent his dog after
the animal, but it got away. This is
She first wolf seen in Waukesha coun.
ty in number of years.
Oconomowoe 49, Joseph Adams. rs
years old. one of the most prominent
residents of the town of Summit, died
at his home there. NJ. Adams was
born in 1910 in England, and came to
Wisconsin in 1855
! Menasha - The sixty-seventh ami
tersary of the founding Of the Congre-
gational church of this city was cele-
)rated Feb. II. when Rev. II. A.
iner, pastor Of the church years ago,
delivered an address.
! Neenah-A loaf of bread, war bread
# that. twenty-five years old. but in
almost perfect condition. was unearth-
ID by workmen excavating around an
/ Did bake oven in the basement of
The Times building. The oven had
aot been used in the past quart or
century
Couderay-- John Soller. 50. of Eau
Claire, was killed on The Couderay
indian reservation when he was
.ruc} ~ a falling tree. He WIS en-.
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