Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-14

keeping with the high cost OF living.
The High Falls Company of Mani
towoc is to extend its lines TO Kel
nersville and the village will install on
electric lighting system. The houi
mill there will be electrically operated
Word has been received by Judge q.
F. Smith of Rhinelander that United
States Senator Irving L. Lenroot
would visit Rhinelander the first part
of September to speak on the league OF
nations.
Prof Frank Kleininheing, authority
on sheep raising from the state agri-
cultural college, spoke at the Crescent
school house at Rhinelander before a
large number of farmers on the posi-
bilities of the sheep industry in north
ern Wisconsin.
! The tractor demonstration and farm
ers' picnic held at the state expert
mental farm at Ashland Junction was
the largest meeting Of the kind ever
held in Bayfield, county. About 1000
/ persons attended. Professional tractor
I OPCl dhpi . save NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The assessed valuation of three La
Crosse breweries was reduced $780,
600 by the board of review, following
a hearing attended by manufacturers
of La Crosse. Prohibition legislation,
it was agreed, had caused large re-
duction in the revenues of the plants.
The largest drainage project in the
history of Oconto county was started
there, when contractors began digging
the Lena-Stiles drainage canal which
viii be fifteen miles long. twenty-four
feet wide and eight feet deep, and win
be built at an estimated cost of $780,
GOO. 1t will reclaim 1000 acres of ricn
land
DR.. w. c. McPheeters, formerly of
Wesleyan university, viii head the
English department of Lawrence col
lege, Appleton, succeeding DR.. NJ. L.
Spencer who resigned to head the
school of journalism in the University
of Washington, Seattle. DR.. Nc,
Pheeters was recently discharged from
the army.
When District Attorney Easton
Johnson, Elkhorn, heard rumor that
bootlegging was going on at Delayan
lake, he got busy and before twenty
four hours elapsed, had the goods E.
Kicker pleaded guilty and was sen
fenced TO Jail for six months. MI
Kicker is proprietor of the Log Cabin
Hotel at Lake Delavan.
The George Walters Brewing Com
pany, Appleton, is manufacturing 275
per cent beer and ii will be placed on
the market. The company began the
manufacture of near beer last May.
and will continue making that prod
uct. Nearly every saloon in Appleton
is selling 2,75 per cent beer which is
shipped from Milwaukee.
John Schmilke, former salesman for
the Standard Oil company at Rice
Lake, has purchased the Charles Sale
ice business. He worked for the
Standard Oil company for seventeen
years Capt. John McCullum, who re-
turned from France with the machine
gun company, will be the Rice Lake
agent for the Standard Oil company
Gov. Philip has appointed Peter
Eimon of Superior to the University
Board of Regents to succeed A. p
Nelson resigned. Mr.. Eimon will
continue as a member until February
1928 The reappointment of Hugh
McEwan, Fond du Lac, as a member of
the Board of Examiners in Optom
etry was also made. He will serve
until Aug. 8, 1924.
The shortage of sugar continues and
is having serious effect on plans Of
housewives for canning the immense
crop of berries that is reported In
many sections of Wisconsin. There is
practically no graduated sugar in
sight and the supply Of other varieties
is small with little chance of any con-
siderable quantity being obtained in
the immediate future.
The repairs on the Sioux river
bridge on the state trunk highway
system, three miles west of Washburn,
have been completed and the bridge
has been thrown open to traffic. The
improvements GbSl dbbuL SlsDub. ms
bayfield, county board has decided
that the next money expended upon
this part Of the road would be for the
construction of steel bridge.
+, Recognition of a deed of yalor per
formed by Vincent J. Prychla, vet
: eran Of the Sixth marines, came to him
at Quantico, Va, June /, on his arrival
there after spending a sixtyday fur.
Tough at his home at Stevens Point.
He was one of four "Csavil dogs" who
received the French croix de guerre
from Mai. Gen. Myers. The citation
commended Prychla for extraordinary
. heroism at Bourches, near Chateau
Thierry, June G, 1918.
The police and sheriffs forces are
az work In search Of two holdup men
who entered the confectionery store
5 of Z. w Gelayargue, 1710 Washington
j avenue. Racine, and at the point of re-