Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-01-08
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,,t...nre Curran, II, anu w imam
15 who ran away from the state
han far dependent children at
sem Cbrje. mas night, were found
SpT Ta rosse, offering near depot
the new edifce of the Reformed
N of Porterneld was dediacted,
tS Rev Mr.. Buehrer, Green Bay, ON
w' MI The congregation has been
,',5ing services in the new state
bnl5ug IN Portertield.
r..d strathman, Colby, badly LAGER
his right arm while helping his
az a onerate a feed cutter The sleeve
his Jacket was caught in the cogs
" tbe machine, tearing the flesh be-
-, Inc elbow and shoulder.
pobsrt Weinkauf, who operates
Ion and dance hall in Texas, Wis,
80 GIVEN $1,000 bail TO appear at
,,,5ison for trial on charge OF tall-
IN make return of taxes received
~ omission to places Of amusement.
Meals at cost are being served the
.,a aronIoyes at the Gillette Rubber
". nan claire. For IS cents man
oan eel a meal and for rs cents big
@s5 The cafeteria is open twenty
,onr hours as the various shifts eat
al all times.
Harold schlosky, KEENAN,, accident
.,v shot his brother, Willard O.
pic,ipg no the weapon, an automatic
5as he accidentally pulled the trig-
90, The bullet passed through the
window and hit his little brother, who
gas in the yard, back of the ear. The
little fellow died in hospital at Toma-
hawk
The first foreign-made rennet, nee
sssary in the making OF cheese, which
was not shipped to this country since
the beginning of the world war, is now
baing supplied 10 Lafayette county
cheese makers. The rennet extract is
used for curding the milk. The local
factories have been using an Amerl-
can.made rennet, but the foreign prod
net is said to be superior. The supply
received was manufactured in Den
mark.
The average value of Clark county
land is SIS an acre in 1919, as COM
pared to S29.25 in 1909 The 1919 az
erage for land in counties surround
ing Clark is: Marathon, S56; Chippe-
wa. S54: Eau Claire, S5275; Jackson,
$3.50; Taylor $29.25. Clark county
land demands the highest price in this
section of the state, and for the en-
tire state it is close to the highest.
Milwaukee county land averages
y6)i25 an acre.
Judge Henry Graas, Oshkosh, is to
rule on the motion for a new trial in
the case of J. N. Tittemore, president
OF the Wisconsin Society of Equity,
against f. II. Shoemaker recently
found guilty OF criminal Islander. The
suit grew out OF stormy meeting OF
the Winnebago county branch OF the
Equity society. Witnesses stated dur
ing the trial that Mr.. Shoemaker
sought TO win the society over to the
Nonpartisan league.
The vocational school, recently es-
tablshed at Fort Atkinson, is being
carried on with marked success.
Classes comprise shorthand, penman-
ship. typewriting, bookkeeping, MILL
merry English. sewing, cooking and
drafting. Glasses in pattern making
and auto engineering will be organ
lied One of the most interesting ex-
periments is that of teaching English
To foreign born adults. Some of those
attending this class can neither read
nor write The classes meet in the
high school auditorium twice a week.
Trappers report a considerable in
crease in lur-bearing animals during
the past five or ten years in northern
Wisconsin and the lake country gen
orally although there are not as many
animals perhaps as there were gen
Grafton ago. During the days of al
mos. universal logging operations in
the timber country fur-bearing ami
malls appeared to have been driven
away bat the growth of second growth
timber On cutoyer lands, and the dis
appearance OF logging operations APP
pear TO have brought the animals back.
A4saars, mink, weasels, wolves, foxes.
s5an6s. and once in a while a black
Dear Furnish business for the trappers.
iAe present price OF furs makes the
business paying one.
The once despised poplar is now be
ing sawed into lengths convenient for
shipping and is being sent to the
paper mills Of Wisconsin. 1t is char
s'eEstic of cutoyer lands TO become
@-t.Nly covered with rapid-growing
poplar which attain considerable
-r-'. in three or four years, although
."-t for itself, the slow growing pine
would ln The course of time create new
In the interval between log
-#a- tract OF land, and its conversion
.l.o farm five or ten years later, the
Invariably becomes covered with
second growth timber. 1t has been
--.a t9a limited extent for fence rails
90. 4a. but the high price of paper
.a the demand for wood pulp