Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-01-28
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
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county, died at his houe in that CITY
Mr. Austin was born III New York in
1889. On June 4, 1861, he enlisted in
K company, Nineteenth Illinois infan.
try, and served throughout the entire
Civil war.
The Beloit Savings bank, one of the
purely cooperative banks in the west.
shows in is annual statement total
deposits of $3,332.000, and increased
deposits during 1920 of $5S7 900 The
total number of depositors is 9,416.
Semi-annual dividends of per cent
are declared.
The Oneida county board voted to
increase the salary of the county SUI
perintendent of schools from 81 500 to
$2,100 per year, beginning July /, 1921.
F. A. Lowell, present superintendent.
has held the position several terms
and is one of the most prominent
school men in Wisconsin. He will be
candidate for reelection next April.
The application of Archie Laison.
aged 40, De Pere, for new trial, will
be opposed by District Attorney Carl
f. Young of Green Bay. Laison was
found guilty of statutory offense
against two De Pere girls under 16
years of age. Recently Laison ap-
pealed for pardon, but 1t was rejected
by Gov. Philip. who was then in office.
Ole Hanson, former mayor of Seattle,
disrupted a Socialist meeting at Ra-
cine, when, under the auspices OF the
Racine Constitutional Defense league,
he invaded the meeting at which Irwin
St. John Tucker, who was indicted un-
der the espionage act during the war,
was the principal speaker. He chal
lenged, Mr.. Tucker refused The audi
ence threatened to riot.
The Marshfeld clinic has placed an
order for 81 900 worth of radium which
will be added to their $4,000 stock of
the product and win be used in cur
ing cancer. Since receiving their first
installmeut of the radium they have
reported surne remarkable cures and
with the additional allotment expect to
be able to handle about one-third more
cases than they have been handling.
While church is not ordinarily con-
sidered business enterprise, the St.
Augustine congregation, Chiffon, found
In its annual financial report that it
had been operated at a profit during
the last year The receipts were $12,-
1864 and the disbursements were
S7,437.57. The cash balance was
s5,53877. A great fair was held in
October, which netted $4,443.65 The
pastor is the Rev. James E. Meagher.
Union bricklayers in Kenosha ac-
cepted the proposed wage cut from
s11212 an hour to 81 an hour. This
action is believed to assure that other
unions in the building crafts will ac-
cept proposed reductions offered by
the master builders. The carpenters
have been getting $1,25 an hour. and
the employers offer 81 an hour. When
the employers made the proposal they
declared that failure of the workers
TO accept it would mean abandonment
of the closed shop policy.
There were 958 births recorded in
Eau Claire county during 1920, an in
crease OF more than zoo over last
years total OF 749, according to the
vital statistics for the county an
nounced by Register of Deeds A. M.
Anderson. Deaths last year totaled
SIC while in 1918 there were 442
deaths. During the year 339 weddings
were solemnized in which at least one
OF the contracting parties were from
Eau Claire county. During 1919 there
were only 264 marriages.
c. P. West, county agricultural rep
resentative; e. o. Barstow, secretary
OF the Rhinelander Advancement AS
sociation, and M. A. Ebert, chairman
OF the town of Tomahawk Lake, have
compiled a booklet advertising the re-
sources and advantages of Oneida
county. This booklet was ordered by
the Oneida county board and several
thousand copies will be printed and
widely distributed 1t will be profuse-
" illustrated and will comprise much
interesting information and data. Dur
ing the present year considerable
enort will be exerted in bringing in
new settlers and developing the wild
lands of the county.
Villas county must pay the 20 per
cent penalty for failure to, raise its
soldiers bonus tax when due unless
tne state legislature is willing to remit
me hne. Henry Johnson. state treas
urer, and Elmer S. Hall, secretary of
state, have refused plea from County
treasurer Adams that the penalty,
amounting to 81 3S2.78, be dropped.
Villas county failed to assets tax to
raise the $16,S35.53 which constituted
us share of the soldiers bonus. In
stead county officials proposed to sell
oonds for that sum. but when the
Oonds were offered they found no buy
ers As result the county was un-
aoie to meet the tax until about nine
months after it fell due. and Merlin
nun, then secretary Of state. ordered
me 10 per cent penalty apple