River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-05-20
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Lancaster-Jack Green, negro, who
shot and killed George Duncan, auto
mobile mechanic. last November, was
freed by a white jury when tried on a
charge of murder. The negro ana MS
two daughters, Deena, IL, and May, ~
were the only witnesses called. Green
did not deny the killing, but pleaded
iustifiable homicide. He stated that
Duncan. who is a married man and
father of two children, had wronged
his young daughter and that even after
he (Green) had warned Duncan to
stay away from the girl, Duncan Kept
I'D his relations with the child.
Eau Claire-St. Patrick's Roman
Catholic church is going into the mo-
ton picture business. A picture ma
chine has been purchased to give
shows in the auditorium Of st. Pat
rick's school. Films that have passed
q strict censorship and educational
features will be exhibited at frequent
To provide clean and whole
some pictures is the idea behind the
move.
Clintonville The concrete factory
building for the Menominee Motor
Truck Co., which is to move here from
Menominee, Mich, as soon as the
building is completed. is rapidly pro-
crossing and will be ready for occu-
pancy by August. Clintonville sub
scribed s250,000 for stock in the re-
organized company. The new factory
will have capacity Of fifty trucks a
day.
Chippewa Falls-Frank Harrington,
IL, Is near death in the hospital as the
result of a fracture of his skull, acct
dentally inflicted by a boy chum.
Frank was driving cow home to his
fathers farm. The COW was balky and
Franks chum picked up chunk of
coal and threw 1t at the cow to speed
her up. The cow had started to run,
Frank followed, and the chunk OF coal
hit him squarely between the eyes.
Racine-Four members of the COM
mon council were brought to the city
hall in the police patrol and under po-
lice guard to attend meeting of the
common council. There was no quo
rum when the meeting was called, and
as important matters were to be trans
acted, Mayor Armstrong ordered the
police department to hail the absent
ees into the council chambers.
Kenosha officials obtained
from four men confessions that they
were implicated in the making OF
"moonshine liquor" in the still found
In barn on the Robinson farm. They
declared that a man whom they called
Pete" was the operator of the still.
Pete" is still at large. The moon
shine liquor" was tested and found to
contain 3 per cent alcohol.
Madison-Farmers SHOULD exercise
special care in the purchase of oil
meal or linseed meal at the present
time, according to w. II. Strowd OF
the Wisconsin state department of ag-
riculture, because an adulterated prod
lct branded as pure meal has been
shipped into the state under the name
II "Amco Old Process Linseed Meal"
Madison That the call for special
legislative session include the matter
IF authorizing municipalities to con-
,truct warehouses for the storage of
potatoes is the recommendation to
Gov. E. l. Philip by the division OF
markets in its report on the hearings
aeld in Milwaukee relating to the mar
xeting of Wisconsin potatoes.
Appleton Gideon Bibles will be
placed in every hotel room in Wiscon-
sin before Jan. /. 1921, it was decided
at the annual convention of the Wis
consin Gideons here. More than 5000
Bibles have already been distributed.
Funds to place $50 Testaments in APP
pleton hotels were raised here and the
was made.
Madison-On application of Gov. w.
L. Harding of Iowa, Gov. Phillip ap-
pointed C. L. Harrington, Madison, and
William Fl. Graves and A. II. Long,
Prairie du Chen, to confer with a
similar committee appointed by the
governor of Iowa, to make plans for a
national state park on the Mississippi
river.
Green Bay-Miss Lille Summers, a
nurse, was arrested in Milwaukee and
returned here and assessed fines and
costs amounting to SILT for locking
three young children in the home
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