Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-31

HIJRi- Ely. WIS.
RAclne-F1fty delegates represent
ing eighty building and loan associa-
tions in annual convention adopted an
amendment TO the costitution chang
ing the name from the Lean and
Building Association league Of Wis
consin to the Wisconsin League Of
Building ard Loan associations. TIE
following officers were elected. Presi'
dent, +. w Krueck. Milwaukee; vice.
president, John A. Morris, Chippewa
Falls: secretary, Paul Berndt, Mnwau-
2,ee. treasurer, J. +. Lefeyre, Green
Bay: delegate national convention,
Thomas A. Pagan, Racine.
Marinette 49, Goodman. Wisconsin
electors voted to issue bonds for a
new high school TO cost $4,000. The
plans call for gymnasium, manual
training department, and other mod
ern high school features. A bank
building TO cost $4,000 is also one OF
the new buildings planned in this CON-
paratyely new lumber town. the loca-
ton Of The big hardwood mill and
chemical plant OF the Goodman Lum-
Der company.
CIntonville-M Fred Lentz and
two children are dead, Fred Lentz, the
nus band, was terribly burned and may
die and another child. 8, was badly in
jured from an explosion of acetyline
gas al the farmhouse near Split Rock.
The light in the house went out and
Mr. Lentz started for the cellar with
q lantern TO make an examination. He
had not proceeded Tar when a terrific
explosion occurred.
Nanltowoc-Bid have been opened
by the shipping board at Washington
for the sale of sea-going tugs now
operating at Sturgeon Bay, Green Bay
and Manitowoc They are part of the
"A used on the Great Lakes, which are
to be sold Terms OF sale call for IS
per cent OF the purchase price on de-
livery and the balance in semi-annual
installments over period of three
years.
kenosha Alleging that her hus-
band had married her merely because
he wished to avoid breach of prom
Use suit that was being threatened by
another woman, Mrs. Florence l.. Mar
tin asked Judge Tully in Municipal
court 10 grant her a divorce from
Lawrence +. Martin. They were mar.
ried June % at Waukegan. She asks
for half of their property.
Eau Claire George Tihbetts and
Arthur Ostermen, liverymen here,
were bound over TO circuit court after
hearing on the charge of stealing
tires. Harry Conley. II, was the prin-
cipal witness against them. He plead
ed guilty TO similar charge. Oster-
man is charged with having taken
four tires, Tibbetts with having taken
twelve, besides oil. chains and lenses.
Both pleaded not guilty.
Madison - Corp. A. Moore lost an
eye at Chateau-Thierry. He lost an
other one while diving off the pier at
the University of Wisconsin Having
become accustomed TO it, in a way.
it did not Inconvenience him so much
as it would most people. 1t was the
glass eye He calmly set TO work look
ms for it, but his search was fruitless.
Madison-The newest history of the
press. The author. Prof J. F. A. Pyre,
OF the university English department,
gives the growth Of the state uniyers-
ity from the time Madison was vii
lage OF a few houses in a wilderness
down to the time of President Van
Hise.
Chippewa Falls Wire has arrived
on the Wheaton Tilden Road north
west of Chippewa Falls, for the con-
struction of pens for silver gray fox.
The wire will run eight feet above the
ground and in very fine mesh for three
feet below ground. Pens OF various
sizes will cover two across. The farm
will start with 40 silver foxes.
Janesville-B Belief that a gang of
moonshiners operating out of Milwau-
kee is commencing operations in out
lying sections of Rock county is ex-
pressed by prohibition enforcement
officers now working in this territory.
Three arrests on the charge of work
ing stills have beea made in the past
week.
Gilman William Heagle. 40, was
killed at the stave and heading mill of
the Gilmon Manufacturing Co, when
a large drive belt he was adjusting
caught his clothing. He died in few
minutes. He is survived by his wife
and six children. His brother, Roy,
is foreman Of the mill
Madison-F. X. Shuttleworth. Mad
ison, was the first to file his nomina-