Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-03-11

county and $40 from state for wolves
to $3.50 for bobcats. The total mum.
her of wolves upon which bounty was
Maid during 1920 was twenty-seven, in.
dicating that either the wolk indus.
try is growing or that local wolf hunt
ers are more energetic than in former
years.
Stevens Point-Declaring the ALI
night saloon a detriment 10 the com.
munity, John S. Hofsoos, chief of POI
lice. recommended to the council an
amendment to the present ordinance
regulating the city's 'Volsteadized"
saloons. He said that many are oper.
ating on an all-night schedule because
there is nothing in the present ordi.
nance to regulate the closing. Places
where near beer is sold should oe
closed all day Sunday and week days
from Ii D. m. to 6 a. M, said the chief,
contending II hours is long enough for
any place of business to be open.
Stevens Point-A fortune has been
discovered in an old trunk at the home
of Mrs. Edith Van Houten who was
found dead in a chair in her home
here, where she had lived alone for
nearly fifteen years. Certificates OF
deposit notes, bonds, checks and cash
representing an aggregate value OF
$4,000, together with jewelry and
other valuables, came to light when
public administrator and county off,
cials ran across the trunk in an un'
used room in her house.
Madison = Late registrations have
raised the total of students enrolled
for the second semester at the Uni.
versity of Wisconsin to 6,716. The
College of Letters and Science leads
with total OF 3,07S Students The
course in commerce has 1,186; the col
lege of engineering, Lis: the college
of agriculture, 5S5; the course in home
economics, 237; the medical school
$50; the law school, 161; the school
of music, 119; and the course in
pharmacy, 85.
Racine-Eollowing preliminary ex-
aminations, seven statesmen of the Co
operative Society of America, arrest
ed in Racine for alleged violation of
the Wisconsin blue sky law. were
bound over to circuit court for trials.
1t is estimated that 100000 has been
subscribed in Racine for stock on the
promise to open grocery stores here
where goods would be sold near cost.
No stores have been opened.
Antigo-The Langlade Farmers Co
operative Co. has purchased from the
Great Northern Manufacturing Co. the
former Citizens Brewery property, ex-
cepting the office and bottling house,
sold previously. Part of the con-
sideration includes the cooperative
company's present store and ware
house. The old brewery will be re-
modelled for store and warehouse. A
railway spur will be extended to 1t.
Ashland Game Warden Allan
Powell has established a sort of pro-
tectorata around colony of beaver
aboaC two miles from Bayfield,. Signs
warning off trepassers have been put
up, and attempts will be made to pre-
vent the destruction of the colony
from poachers. 1t is Mr.. Powell's in
tention to have the colony preserved
in this manner, for sightseers, and 1T
is expected that it may be possible to
see the animals at work building their
dams.
B'rchwood-Henry Thorbeck. Bar
ron county farmer, has come to the
conclusion that raising cattle for beef
purposes some times does not provide
extraordinary profits Mr.. Thorbeck
shipped COW to st. Paul several days
ago which weighed 8S8 pounds, the
freight being $499. He received a
check to the amount of $3.41 and was
obliged to add $1.5S to the freight bill.
The cow was condemned at st. Paul
because of being in the last stages OF
tuberculosis.
Fond du Lac--Lime works at Mar
plehead, southeast of this city, are