Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-28


nasha land along Washington street
provided the municipality viii convert
It into parks.
DR.. w. L. Thompson Sheboygan, has
purchased an eighty-acre farm in
Fond du Lac County from Robert Nc
Claim for $4,000 He will keep a
herd of twenty-five cattle.
A social hygiene campaign has been
commenced in Wausau. Motion pic
lures viii be shown, lectures delivered
in the schools and other methods EN-
ployed TO make the campaign effective.
The Latex Tire and Rubber com
pany, Fond du Lac, recently organized
here. has broken ground for its fac,
| tory a two-story concrete structure
GO by $50 feet, with capacity OF ESQ
tires day.
Henry c. Klein. Sheboygan. who
years ago was bell hop at Foeste Ho-
tel, has purchased the iO0room Euro
pean Transient hotel in Minneapolis
He recently resigned as manager of
the Nelson hotel at Rockford, III.
Grocefs of Green Bay and the north
eastern part of the state TO the num-
Der of 1888 have made purchasing con
! tracts with the L. L. Creasey co-opera-
tive Wholesale grocery syndicate and
a wholesale house will be established
in Green Bay
C. P. Crosby, well known lumberman
Of Rhinelander, has purchased from
the Gagen Lumber Company a 1900
acre tract OF timber land near Gagen.
The deal was the largest recorded
there this season and the considera-
ton was $4,000.
l. When the Rice Lake Lumber com
pany at Rice Lake disposed of $4,000
acres Of land near Winter to the Ed
ward Hines company, the deal marked
the end of the Rice Lake company,
which has operated in northern Wis
consin for almost forty years.
Application for an increase of 5
cents in the fare on the line between
North La Crosse and Onalaska, three
miles, has been filed with the railroad
commission. The company asks per
cents and others Is cents for the short
ride.
The housewives purse the baby's
bank and a suit of clothes were the
loot gained by burglar who came TO
the William Knipschield home, James
vile, in a pea-green canoe. Just as the
family was leaving for au auto ride.
a man was seen to pull canoe up the
bank of the river at the rear of the
home On returning, the robbery was
discovered
To discover water moccasin play
ing his forked tongue over his temple
as he fish4cd near high bank OF the
Mississippi liver, was the experience
of Raj Johnson. La Crosse, automo-
bile man. He lived into the river and
escaped before the reptile could strike.
Mr.. johnson is sure, he says, that II
he had attempted TO brush the snake
away as he would have bug, he
would have been bitten.
After a search of several days, Chief
of Police O'Hare, Kenosha, has located
'Raky" Martini, alias John Crozone.
who is wanted in Kenosha on charge
of stealing bicycles and shipping them
to Chicago Martins wife and girl
named Mildred Perry were arrested
here weeks ago on suspicion. Martini
was arrested in Chicago and is being
held until the Kenosha oaicials arrive.
He has waived extradition.
An effort is being made 10 have the
old military road incorporated into the
state aid highway system. This road,
which was one of the first routes OF
travel, opened into northwest Wiscon-
sin was built by the government about
1862 and ran from Oshkosh through
Butte des Mortes, Young's Corners
Hortonville New London, Clintonville,
Shawano, Keshena, and the Menomi-
ME Indian reservation up to Post Lake
With approximately $4,000 in the
treasury OF the Racine County War
Relief Fund. il is proposed to use thar
amount in the erection of county me-
mortal hospital. provided that the
County Board of Supervisors will make
an appropriation of from $4,000 to
100000 and agree to maintain the
structure, which win be memorial TO
the soldiers, sailors and marines who
enlisted for service during the world
war.
That James Thompson, La Crosse,
who was defeated for United States
senator by l. L. Lenroot, Superior, two
years ago, viii enter again for this
place next year, is the belief Of close
political friends. He is accepting all
invitations to speak al public gather.
ings and is piling up considerable cam
paign timber in demanding that the
! government take action to punish cam
paign prohteers and stop gambling
in food commodities.
Miss Elizabeth Baker, Oconomowoc,