Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-11-26
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

MadlSOl-N lScOlsln viii be able tC
/ meet its share Of the federal aid ap
preparation. which amounts 10 1854
SIS next year. under the bill Just
signed by President Harding, the
highway commission announced. This
means an increased federal aid build
ing program, and viii call for equal
expenditures on the part Of the state
and counties. II IS estimated by the
state treasurer that $4,000. 600 OF high
way money will remain in the treas
ury at the end OF the construction
year. This viii be supplemented by
automobile license fees amounting TO
approximately $4,000 600. Counties
are expected 10 provide for bond is
sues amounting TO approximately S.
000, 600. and will be required TO meet
the federal aid OF S1.S94.S15. making
a construction program OF about SIS.
100000 for the year.
Appleton-Judge E c. Smith of
Seymour remains a judge without
court as A result OF a decision by the
supreme court that the county board
Of OCtagamie county was acting with.
in its powers when it abolished the
Municipal court al Seymour OF which
Smith was presiding magistrate. The
Municipal court was established By
the county board in 1917 under spe.
cial powers granted b. the legislature
and Smith was elected Judge A few
months later the board decided that
the court was unnecessary and abol-
ished II. instructnig the clerk not 70
pay the judges salary. Smith started
action in circuit court 10 compel the
county to pay his salary. but lost his
case. He appealed 10 the supreme
court and was defeated again.
Madison-With 221 students taking
five hours or more of law this semes-
ter, the University Of Wisconsin Law
school is much larger than usual, &C
cording to Dean H. S. Richards. The
enrolment at the close of last year
was 176. including students in the
College Of Letters and Science who
were studying law. There have been
245 registrations in the Law school
course but. o. these, a are registered
in the College Of Letters and Science
and are carrying less than FIVE hours
Of law work. First year courses have
enrolled 112; second year. "a; and
the third year So.
Madison Bodied hair is still in
vogue az the University Of Wisconsin
as shown BY a canvass among the
coed rooming houses OF the AS
girls at Barnard hall, 10 per cent
have bobbed their hair to the decree
of Dame Fashion. Nine per cent of
an even larger number have bobbed
hair at Chadbourne hall and among
the rooming houses it was found that
fully u per cent had shorn their long
locks. Despite these figures beauty /
parlor experts in Madison claim that /
the fashion IS slowly bur surely going
out
Madison the courts Of Wisconsin 1
have nearly 1000 cases involving VIC /
iations Of thu state prohibition law /
to try during the terms just opening /
an estimate made from reports re
ceiyed at Madison from number OF /
counties. shows. Offenders against |
the liquor laws are being arrested in /
ever increasing numbers, according TO /
". Stanley Smith. who says that pro /
hibition is just getting well under /
way in Wisconsin. He is of the opin- /
ion that an additional 100000 in fines /
viii be collected during the present I
court term.
Madison-John Till Barron county /
plaster doctor" was granted an alb
solute pardon by Gov Blaine. He was
serving a one-year Jail sentence for
practicing as a physician without a
state license. Gov Blaine said that
a report by three doctors testifies that
had the prisoner been held to the end
Of his term, which would have ended
Dec. 13, his health would have been
completely broken. Pardon is given,
he said, on recommendation of these
doctors.
Wausau-A resolution asking con
gress to enact laws to prevent the
extraction of butter fat from milk and
replacing it with cocoanut oil and
selling it as condensed milk was
adopted by the Wisconsin Cheese
makers, Butter Makers and Dairy
mems association in convention in
Wausau. r. C. Hastings, Marshfeld.
was elected president; Mrs c. L. Dix.
Auburndale. secretar. and C. A.
Voight, Wausau. treasurer.
Janesville-'T will call a grand Jury
whenever the county board will so
direct" said Judge George Grimm of
the GAINESVILLE Circuit court at the an
nual dinner of the county hoard %
Rock count The appetite for liquor
rs decreasing and viii die out in time.
Public thought will result in a sober
n a In - =