Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-01-08


Jacob Lutheran church. Shawano, for
fourteen years has resigned to accept
a call TO Lutheran church at Mil
waukee
Construction has been started by
Allouez Mineral Springs company,
Green Bay, on new factory, 200 by
48 feet, two stories high. Steel and
concrete will be used in the building.
A monograph has been added to the
instructors in Lawrence conservatory
of Music, Appleton. 1t viii be used to
give series of musical talent tests
prepared by Dr.. Seaborne and to make
vocal tests.
Assurance has been received that
Langlade county will be one of num-
Der in which the state highway com
mission will experiment with the use
of army tanks in keeping highways
free from snowdrifts
Having made arrangements for her
death at the undertaker's, Mrs. The
resa Trippler 10, asked for a room at
the hospital at Marinette and later
was found dead of carbolic acid pois-.
oning. She came from Manitowoc.
Chicago firms will not harvest ice in
Neenah and vicinity this winter. A
year ago hundreds of tons of ice were
taken from Lake Winnebago and
shipped to Chicago, but the dealers
claim they can manufacture ice
cheaper
Superiors population is 62,91S. ac-
cording to r. L. Polk & Co, compilers
of the city directory. This is an in
crease of $3.50 over last year. Scare
| ity of labor and material is given as
the reason for the late appearance of
the book.
Falling down flight of cellar stairs
at his residence, the Rev. w. j. Corr,
pastor M. E. church, Juneau, fractured
his left leg above the angle. The Rev.
Mr. Corr, well known in Wisconsin pol
itics, is state superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon league.
Door county will have the services
of county nurse after the first of the
year The county chapter of the Red
Cross has engaged the services of
Miss Carrie Paddock, one of the fore
most nurses in this section of the
state Miss Paddock comes from Ke-
waunee county.
Gustav Kuestermann, Green Bay,
50, former congressman and well
known in politics in Wisconsin, died
of lung trouble. Mr.. Kuestermann
served in the house of representatives
two terms, having been elected in
1907 He was strong advocate of
the merchant marine and one of the
Republican leaders.
The Rev. Michael Benhon died at
Eau Claire on his eighty-eighth birth
day. He was a Canadian, ordained in
1855 in the Methodist church. His
pastorates included Mineral Point,
Madison, Hudson, presiding eldership
of st. Croix, Monroe, Eau Claire,
where he is also presiding elder. Chip
pewa Falls, and Baraboo.
In spite of the fact that the tax
rate in Clintonville has been reduced
will raise a tax of $474,S84 This in
cludes income and surtaxes as well as
regular property tax. The number Of
names on the city tax roll this year is
practically double the number of any
previous year of the city's history.
UNFOLDING the soldier bonus act and
the soldier educational bonus act as to
constitutionality in respect to taxing
and administrative features, but with
reference to certain unfortunate mis-
fits in the construction of the laws,
the state supreme court handed down
its formal opinion sustaining the de-
murrer to the complaint in the test
case on the two laws submitted in
October
Eau Claire's campaign of winter
building threatens to be checked by
nail famine For home weeks build
ers have been using odd sizes instead
of the desirable 8, 16 and 20-penny
nails Dealers are sending frantic or
ders for few kegs. Formerly they
/ secured carloads This shortage be
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one of the effects of the steel strike,
dealers say.
More than $500 cases of venereal
disease have been reported to the
state board of health since July l.
Reporting of venereal infections was
made compulsory by the last legisla-
/ ture under a system by which names
are not disclosed, but which gives the
state authorities check on each case
until treatment has been completed.
The federal government has set aside
a fund with which to combat the vene-
real peril.
julius Bogwilo, Kenosha, charged
with the murder of his wife, was err
roneously committed to the state asy-
lum for insane criminals, according TO
lawyers interested in the case, who
say that he should have been commit
ted to the hospital for the insane.
The fury based its verdict upon