River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-09-15

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more expensive than the state, except
1 for protection of persons and prop
erty for which the state expended ST..
| 642,747, while counties expended $780,
0S8, cities $4,768,1O6 and towns and
villages s1,361,O62. Cities paid by far
the most on debts which cost them
$7,286.438 last year. The state debt
cost SILL 900, counties S1,320,272 and
towns and villages $2,077,761. Total
expenditures for the state were SILL
268,501, for counties $21,665,313, for
cities S37 500, and towns and viii
lagos $13,974,427 This does not in
clude schools, which cost $23,538,62S
! Manitowoc--After an investigation
of the typhoid epidemic which pre-
walls in the village of Mishicott, Mani
towoc county, DR.. G. E. Boyd of the
state board of health declares he
thinks the sickness due to the milk
supply. The bottles used for distri-
button of milk are said to have been
washed in contaminated water. DR..
Boyd, accompanied by Miss Viola
Nohr, county health nurse, visited the
village, where eleven cases have been
reported and one death has occurred
Portage-George Devine, AZ, &C
cused of shooting George Stone, a
neighbor, Aug. 5, is held under $1,000
bond for appearance before Judge
Chester A. Fowler in circuit court at
Portage. Stone was lured to his barn
at midnight by noises and on enter
ing the barn door was shot, the bullet
striking him before the ankle. Blood.
hounds traced footprints to Devine's
bedroom through fields the next day,
it is alleged.
Oconto-Alfred Mathewson, state
demonstration in the use of dynamite,
gave demonstration in the digging
of bitches with the use of the explo-
Esive on the farm of George Lemiroude
in the town of Brozeau, Oconto coun-
ty. A ditch $50 feet long, seven feet
wide and four feet deep was made
along the roadside with five shots of
dynamite. using 35 charges to a SHOT.
at an expense of SIS.
Madison-From 1000 to 5000 young
men and women will start pouring
into Madison the second and third
weeks of September from every state
in the union and from foreign coun-
sity of Wisconsin. The enrolment
last year of 1901 will be greatly in
creased, it is expected, and the city
is putting ON the finishing touches tc
receive the guests.
Madison-The cost OF instruction in
the city schools of Wisconsin last year
was $6.072.334, of which $5,449,242
was expended in teachers salaries,
report of the superintendent of public
instruction shows. Total expenditure
on city schools was s10,512,752 with
operation costing S1,253,043 and ST.
093, 1898 for general outlay, in addition
to instruction expense.
Stevens Point-Gov. John J. Blaine
has been invited to open formally
the new armory and stock sales pa
vilion in Stevens Point on Oct. %.
Leading National guard officers of the
state have also been asked to be pres
ent. A feature of the opening will
be a parade by batteries Of this city,
Amigo, Wisconsin Rapids and Merrill.
Superior-An eleven-year man hunt
for the slayer of Mrs. Eva Spaulding,
who was murdered on lonesome log
ging road in Bayfield, county in 1910.
ended when Undersheriff James Long,
Washburn, arrived in Superior with
Art Dodge, prisoner in handouts,
from Mohawn, N. D. Dodge, arrested
in the little North Dakota town, has
confessed the murder
Madison-City superintendent of
schools from over Wisconsin will
meet in Madison Sept 20 and 80, for
their annual conference, it was an
nounced by the superintendent of pub
lie instruction. Sept % the city SUI
perintendents' association will hold it's
meeting. Teacher training is to be
considered at the association meeting
Merrill-Warren E. Brooks, mana
ger of the Wisconsin River Improve
ment company, Merrill, reports the
lowest average water this season in
the Wisconsin river and its tributaries
since 1910, although recent rains have
raised the water level. The company
is doing no construction work this
year.
Fond du Lac-Mayor Huentze, Of
Fond du Lac, has invented a traffic
regulator. The new regulator is made
of cement and is Of the same shape
as the dome-shaped lights which reg