Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-03-27

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The sum of sS3116 was paid to
thirty weight mothers in Sheboyga
county who are drawing aid under the
mothers pension law. The amounts
range from $35 down.
The Sheboygan association OF Com
merce has recommended to the legis-
lature the passage of law freeing
municipal and county highways from
unsightly advertising signs.
The Sheboygan Dairy Products Co.
has erected an ice cream manufac'
turing plant at Clintonyille. Its ma.
chinery is of the most improved make
and its daily capacity 500 gallons.
The Newton local, American Society
of Equity, Manitowoc. has formed a
livestock shipping board and Will also
erect warehouse for the storage and
sale of the produce of its members.
Edward Austen. the only Ashland
boy TO be captured by the Germans
has arrived home He was captured
two days before the armistice was
signed after he had been wounded
George Mcdonald was elected presi-
dent of the Western Wisconsin Poul-
try & Pet Stock association. He is a
La Crosse breeder of poultry. The
annual show viii be held Dec. 4 to s.
j. A. Bette and c. /. Wells of Dun
bar have purchased 2,640 acres near
Goodman, Marinette county, upon
which they expect TO conduct logging
operations. They were associated
with the Girard Lumber company for
many years,
Lake Winnebago ice will be used
during the coming summer as far west
as California. A crew OF men have
been busy cutting ice for the Califor-
MIA Fruit Packers association, which
is being shipped to warehouses be
tween Appleton and that state
Winnebago county will assist in the
endowment of beds TO the great Amer
lean hospital to be erected at Rheims
by the American Fund for French
Wounded. An effort will be made to
raise $4,000 and one means will be the
giving of ball in Oshkosh in April.
The war between commercial net
fishermen and rod and line men of
La Crosse county has come TO head
in the form az an action against eight
of the former. charged with pulling a
net in Black river and taking 10000
pounds of fish last December. Black
river in La Crosse county, is closed TO
licensed netting.
To eliminate jobbers and other mid.
dlemen is the aim of new associa-
ton OF groeers at LA Crosse. Thirty
five dealers agreed to the plan, which
provides for engaging one man to buy
for all members Lower" prices TO
consumers are bound TO result from
this plan" said Secretary Harry Tag
CART of the association.
Thirty-three parolmen to take care
of the county and state trunk line
roads, have been appointed in Shaw
ano county and it is estimated that it
win cost the county at least 100000
Z
season. They get S125 to S140 a
month with SIS per month bonus if
they remain all season.
The imminent maple syrup harvest
in Marathon county promises to be
very satisfactory. according to resi-
dents who have made business Of
gathering the sap in previous years.
If weather conditions continue favor
able, a record-breaking run" is pre-
dicted in Marathon county's large
tracts of sugar brush
The Fond du Lac County Council of
Defense viii continue to act as an or
ganization until the last Fond du Lac
county boy or girl is back from over
seas 1t will also undertake and sery-
ice asked of it in connection with the
Victory Liberty loan drive or any 9th
or war or patriotic endeayor until the
peace treaty is signed and the war Of
ficially declared at an end. This was
the unanimous decision Of the town
and ward chairmen and other work
ers of the council
Advance payment OF $153,335.70 as
state inheritance tax was made at
Marinette by the trustees of the late
| United States Senator Isaac Steph
enson, the date CHANGING TO be the
first anniversary Of his death. The
payment is the largest ever made in
4 the county and one of the largest in
/ the state The tax includes that OF
the Stephenson trust as well as the
estate. A large federal tax is yet to
be paid Marinette county will re-.
ceive 7h per cent Of the state tax
| Ii will amount to about $4,000
| Possibility OF transmitting certain
skin diseases from animal has been
referred to the veterinary of the state
department OF agriculture, BY DR..
Willard, Wauzeka. Crawford county.
7 because OF the number OF cases Of
ringworm, or BARRIERS itch, noted
among farmers in his vicinity In
vestigation revealed that almost all Of