Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-07
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

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salary of the undersheriff from 81 900
to $1,000 per year.
Through the activity of the Asso-
citation of Commerce of Plymouth, the
city council of that city has passed
an ordinance barring carnivals and
medicine shows, by making the licen-
ses almost prohibitive. Formerly the
license fee was So daily. Now it is
to be $50.
With 1906 women enrolled in the
various winter sports offered in the
women's physical education depart
ment of the University of Wisconsin,
registrations have reached the highest
total in the history of the department,
according to Miss Blanche NJ. thrilling,
chairman.
Albert Eaton and James w. Harri-
man, both veterans of the Civil war,
died at their homes in Necedah at
the ages Of "a and SO, respectively.
Both men were pioneers of Necedah,
having settled there when the village
was a thriving numbering town. Maj.
w. F. Dawes post, G. A. R., of which
they were members, now has only
three surviving members. The former
membership reached IS.
The disparity between the number
of applications for work and orders
from employers is increasing, the in
dustrial commission has announced
There were 1901 applications for
work at the eleven employment Of
fees of the state for the week ending
on Feb. II, as compared with 1901
/ requests for help. There were 2,180
placements, compared with 1910 in
the previous week and 984 the same
week year ago.
A state policy Of using money tenn
porarily on hand in the state treasur,
to aid and develop farming, business
and other enterprises of the state was
urged by Solomon Levitan, state treas
urer, speaking at the county treasur-
ers' convention at Madison. The
states money should be loaned for
the development of Wisconsin and
Wisconsin funds should not be loaned
outside the state, Mr.. Levitan con-
/ tended.
Eighteen women and eighteen men
will serve as jurors at the next ses-
sion Of the municipal court at Racine.
1t is the first time since women were
granted the vote that the jury panel
has been evenly proportioned in any
Racine county court. The remarka BILE
coincidence probably establishes a rec
ord for the state. The jurors are
drawn at random from box, in which
hundreds of names of both men and
women are contained
Joseph Trecek, AZ, was burned to
where he mistook a receptacle con-
tanning gasoline for kerosene in start
ing a fire. An explosion followed and
Tre$ek's arms and face were fairly
charred before the flames could be
put out His wife was also seriously
burned while trying to help him. The
wife and ten children, only two of
which are old enough to help the
mother make the living on big farm,
survive
A boulevard park just north Of the
city along the lake shore road doomed
as probability in Kenosha when the
Simmons company offered to cede to
the city 100 acres of lake shore prop
erty and to give the city 100000 in
addition in return for the riparian
rights for tract near the present
plant OF the company. The city COM
mission has Endorsed the exchange,
but it is necessary to secure passage
of bill through the legislature be-
fore the deal can be closed
A summer school of theology for
new ministers in the Methodist Epis.
copal conferences of Wisconsin will
ust. The school will be established,
according to President Samuel Plantz,
at the request of the board of exam
liners of the Wisconsin conference of
the Methodist church The new course
is intended primarily for young pas
tors. 1t is to be given each year to
beginners in the ministry to get them
into proper swing with the aims and
activities of the conference.
The rare presence of mind of sis
tiers in charge of st. Patrick's paro-
chial school, Racine, alone saved a
panic among the 300 school children
when fire broke out in the attic of
the two-story school building while
the children were at study. The fire
was discovered by a man passing by,
who notified the priest of the church
and he instructed the sisters to sound
the fire drill. While flames were
sweeping the upper part of the build
ing, the children formed in line and,
marching from the building, were not
aware that fire was raging over their
heads until they were outside and saw
the roof in flames.
Nakoma a suburb of Madison for
eight years, had its first fire when a