Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-01-24
News Of the
Badger State

Badger State :
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Racine All charges OF ineficiency
or misconduct in once found by the
special investigating committee
against Chief of Police Henry Baker
were ordered by the common council
referred TO the police and fire corn
mission for further investigation and
action. 1t was declared by aldermen
that public opinion demanded a thor
ough Pvobe of ali charges against the
police department, and that all infor-
nation would be placed in the hands
of the commission.
Manitowoc-Of the Sill 900 raised
in the war chest contribution here,
$4,000 remains. and the committee has
to decide the best purpose to which
this can be devoted. The proposal is
made to use it for building memo
rial, but there is disagreement as to
the form the memorial shall take.
Some suggest monument for soldiers
and one for sailors, Others, backed by
returning soldiers. favor a club for
the fighting men.
Madison-In hospitals and camps of
France, soldiers are studying Wiscon-
sins methods of growing potatoes,
raising sheep and poultry, judging
dairy COWS and managing orchards.
They are reading how the rural
church has become a social and eco
nomic force in this state. The Y. NJ
c. A. selected more agricultural pub
lications from the Wisconsin expert
ment station than from any other in
the United States.
Racine Two thousand women mem
bers of clubs and societies, active in
Red Cross and other patriotic work
during the war and whose work has
not ceased. have organized the Won.
ems Civic league, the object of which
is to unite women Of the county for
the betterment of civic and public
welfare The league will continue TO
work for the welfare of sailors and
soldiers until their return.
Poynette Eugene Hastie. so years
of age, was found burned to death at
his home, five miles from this village.
He had Just raurned from visit to
his daughter, and suffering from a
heavy cold, had supposedly started a
roaring fire. In some manner the
house had been set on fire, as part OF
the bed, together with the head and
shoulders of Hastie, had been badly
scorched.
Oshkosh--Thirty grade heifers and
cows were purchased in Winnebago
county recently by T. M. Jeffords of
st. Louis, agricultural agent of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway,
for shipment to farmers near Nevada,
Mo-, for building up dairy interests.
They cost about $500. This is the
seventh carload Mr.. Jeffords has
bought in the county since Nov. l.
Appleton - Capt Stephen Peabody,
son of DR.. and Mrs. H. E. Peabody,
will leave for Turkey as member OF
the commission to be sent to that
country to do reconstruction work. He
received notice from the American
committee on Armenian-Syrian relief.
Capt Peabody received his discharge
from the army service in December
at Camp Macarthur.
Green Manufacturers of high
grade machine tools will be under
taken on large scale by a new corpo-
ration, the Conradson Machine Too.
company, capitalized for 100000 in
Green Bay The company has ac-
quired a twelve acre site and will
erect a modern machine shop draft
ing department, experiment shop and
Office
La Crosse Thousands of dollars
worth of ice cutting apparatus will be
lost as a result of the breaking up o.
the ice in the Mississippi here follow
ing two weeks of unseasonabiy milo
weather. In addition, over 100 fisher
mems houses on the ice viii be lost
The ice has started to move just soutf
OF the city.
Grand Marsh - Miss Elizabeth Ne
Boynton. infant daughter OF DR.. an
Mrs. R D. Boynton. Grand Marsh,
said 20 be tie Youngest Red Cioa
member in the state. she was one
Lo4- ia rn4A neI I4.het tooA odt he-
membership.
henosha- Seven hundred EllSs froEl
Wisconsin and southerI Illinois cam
enoeha r. -vi+1es the dedication
Of the new $4,000 clubhouse I'll,
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staff.