Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-05-01

| Racine-Mrs. l.. c. Hahn became
executrix OF the estate of Theodore w
Johnson who died four years ago leav-
| ing an estate valued at $4,000 now
worth $4,000 The property mostly
personal was ordered turned over to
Mrs. Hahn after Judge Michael Sheri-
dan of Milwaukee had examined the
/ final account of John d. Rowland, pub
! lie administrator Mrs. Hahn was
named in the Will as eXecutrix and
principal legatee. The will was re-
! fused to probate because of the claim
| that the signature was not Johnson's.
Superior-The first arrest for sale
of denatured alcohol here, resulted in
/ the sentence of Fred Smith to the
| Douglas county workhouse for three
months, by Judge F. S. Parker of mu-
nicipal court Smith pleaded guilty to
selling denatured alcohol in whiskey
/ bottles. According to Detective Viii
/ liam Mead, Smith purchased the dena-
tured alcohol for $1.25 a gallon and
retailed it in bottles at 81 pint.
! five gallon can and Is pint bottles of
alcohol were conf1scated by the police.
| Marinette-The convention for the
/ Ninth district of the Wisconsin Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs will be held
! in Depere May u and IS Mrs. Joshua
/ Hodgins, this city, will preside. Dele
gates are expected from Algoma, An
/ tigo, Appleton, Crandon, Depere, Dun
/ bar, Green Bay Kaukauna, Kewaunee,
Marinette, Oconto, Peshtgo, Sturgeon
| Bay and Wabeno. The club at Depere
has prepared an interesting program
OF entertainment and large attend
ance is anticipated.
Oshkosh-Teachers at the Oshkosh
| Normal school have not joined the
! American Federation of Teachers and
indications now are that they will
( turn down the proposition. Efforts
were meeting with fairly smooth sail
/ ing until circular letter was received
! by the teachers in which there was
statement indicating that the Oshkosh
/ Normal had federated. The teachers
are up in arms over the wording of
/ the letter
Sheboygan-Th Eastern Wisconsin
Electric company has requested the
common council to join it in petition
ing the railroad commission TO imme-
/ diately put into effect in this city
new schedule of fares. The company
proposes to raise the cash fare on city
lines from to cents. but offset the
increase by selling tickets at fifty for
! $50 or six for IS cents, giving regu-
/ lar passengers 5 cent fare.
Appleton-Th ambition of the Rev.
Father Wunibald, Capuchin mission
airy stationed at St. Joseph monastery
here, to return TO the Caroline islands,
/ from which he was driven four years
ago by the Japanese, is about to be
realized Father Wunibald has been
ordered to go to Germany and expects
to be back on the Caroline islands
within few months.
Manitowoc-Miss Julia Steiner, IS
years olQ, of this city, is charged with
conceahng the death OF her newly
born infant. The girl was in the hos
pital for two weeks. being removed
there when she became i'll. Physicians
who attended her said that she had re-
Gently become a mother.
Hurley-August Toniola and Celes-
tia De Stafani, both of Hurley, have
resolved TO make another attempt at
marriage. Toniola has been married
once before and his wife now has he1
third husband. They have family
of seven. The man is Al years old
and the woman 81.
Efforts to overcome the
housing shortage here are being
shown through the newly opened
Office of the building inspector, F. J.
Blair In three weeks licenses to
build "a dwellings have been issued.
Most of the houses will cost between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Beloit-The Rockford and lnterur.
ban railway again will file a petition
for an increase in passenger rates
/, from IS cents a mile 10 3 cents per
, mile between Beloit aud GAINESVILLE.
The Wisconsin railway rate commits
sion has just refused one request.
Ashland-Thirty thousand cords of
pulp wood will be RATED across Lake
, Superior this season from Nipogon bay
to Ashland. 1t will SO to the pulp
wood company at Appleton.
Grand Rapids-Abner Nash. well
a known Winnebago Indian, died on a
farm near here. Nash was known tC
have been at least IS years old.
k La Crosse-Unable TO find a resi-
k dence TO rent in this city, which has