Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-04-14

HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form
Madison-In the first three months
of 1923, the state hotel inspectors
made one hundred seventy-fiye sani-
tary inspections of hotels and three
hundred seventy-seyen restaurant in
spections. Their reports for the quar-
ter, made to the state board Of health,
show forty-four orders We're issued
against hotels TO force sanitary or
structural changes to bring about com
I pliance with the state standard for
hotels. This ratio, which is Is per
cent of the total inspections, is higher
than usual Orders upon restaurants
/ to the number of thirty-one were 81
! per cent of the total restaurant in
spections. For the industrial commits
sion these inspectors supervise fire
and accident prevention conditions in
hotels and restaurants, and issued ten
orders for required changes in the
interest of safety.
Chippewa Falls-More than 1000
tons of limestone will be distributed
on farms in the western part of the
state this spring to cure land of acid
ity. So enthusiastic have farmers be-
come over this project that many
limestone crushers have been ordered
/ and will be put in use in the bluff
! country where there are outcroppings
/ OF limestone. There is great activity
among farmers near Mondoyi, Durand,
/ Nelson, Alma, COchrane, Misha Mok-
wa and Urine. In Buffalo county there
are many ranges of hills with lime
stone outcroppings that should prove
especially valuable.
Madison-The state supreme court
I modified and affirmed the judgment of
the Racine county circuit court in the
SANDER suit brought against the Rev.
John 3. Petite. priest of St Roses
parish church at Racine, by Dennis T..
Fitzgerald, trustee and secretary of
the church. Justice Eschweiler re-
duced the $4,000 damages awarded
/ Fitzgerald by the circuit court to
] $1,000. Fitzgerald in two causes of
action, asked total damages Of $25. 600
He set out that the priest had called
him "liar, hypocrite, traitor and
/ Judas, rejecting on the plaintiffs
moral integrity and official fidelity
Madison-The executive committee
of the Northern Wisconsin Tobacco
Pool has ordered further partial dis
tribution of funds on tobacco delivered
4 by its growers The amount ranged
from cents to 8 cents a pound on
southern binder tobacco, according to
1 grades, and / cent a pound on the
cheaper grade of stemming stock The
committee estimates that the total
amount to be distributed to the farm
ers by this order will be 100000,
This viii Bring the total payment,
members say, to 100000.
notwithstanding the doors to his
home. Albert J. Miller of GAINESVILLE, SO
years old, shot and seriously wounded
his wife, Minnie, and then put a bullet
through his head He died few min
utes later. Mrs. Miller, SO years old,
was shot twice, the bullet entering her
right side. The shooting, police say,
followed quarrel. in which Miller ac-
cused his wife of being too friendly
/ with other men. Enraged at her de-
NAL, he forced her into bedroom and
locked the door The shooting fol
| lowed
Elkhorn-More than 80 per cent of
/ the children found to have defective
| eye sight at the free eye clinic, held
/ in Elkhorn by the state bureau for
the care of the blind, have carried out
the advice given by the examiners.
/ according to Miss Bertha Becht, Wal
worth county nurse Only 81 out of
the 166 examined were free from eye
defects Glasses were required for
most of the 129 children requiring
treatment Near-sightedness was espe-
cially prevalent
Sheboygan - Mrs Ernestine Erh-
stoeszeT, SO. native of Germany and
seventy-one years a resident of She
boygan county, died at Sheboygan.
She leaves thirty-one grand children,
thirtysix great Grandchildren. Mrs,
Erbstoeszer was noted as a woman
who never drank plain water She
was heavy coffee drinker and used
beer and wine
MISUNDERSTANDING 1922 over $780,
GOO worth of creamery butter was pro
duced in Rusk county, according to
statistics complied BY the Wisconsin
2Gttermakers' association. There are
says-, oyaa y74as.ias II, The county