Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-04-28
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

+ Important News of the Badger State
! Arranged in Condensed Form
Madison-Constitutionality Of the
/ Wisconsin teachers retirement fund
law, enacted by the 1921 legislature,
was upheld by the state supreme court
+ IN decision denying the motion of
the state to quash a writ of manda-
mus ordering payment Of claims under
I the statute. The decision, involving
/ millions of dollars of claims and al
fecting 1900 teachers IN Wisconsin.
held that service of teacher. prior to
enactment Of the law must be comput-
4 ed in determining the benefits to their
estate after death. AS a result Of the
/ decision in the test case, Mrs. Ella
4 Dudgeon, Madison, widow of Richard
B. Dudgeon, who taught school As
+ years, RECEIVERS $4,000 from the state
/ teachers pension fund.
Janesville-With every farmer eager
| to start belated field work, the farm
help situation in Rock county is more
j serious than at any time in the last
+ year There are more than one hun
/ dred applicants for farm laborers on
/ file at the office of the Rock county
farm bureau, GAINESVILLE, and the good
+ jobs going begging. The increased de
mand for industrial laborers has re
+ In a
/ willing to work on farms. AS a result
! farmers are being forced to pay wages
that are out Of proportion to the re
turns they receive.
Juneau-The Methodist Episcopal
church at juneau celebrated its sew
+ enty-seyenth anniversary Sunday, Apr.
/ %. In 1916 the first oranization is
noted in the old records in the pos
/ session of the present pastor, the Rev.
I William ]. Corr. In April that year
I William Harrison and his wife moved
into the neighborhood and united with
I the church, then meeting in the home
of a Mr.. Ward, Some three miles
northeast Of juneau" From that time
there has been continuous pastorates
] by the itinerant pastors who supplied
/ the circuits formed among the early
/ settlers of Dodge county,
Marshfield - James A. Chapman,
/ whose left hand was torn off by the
/ Christmas package bomb and whose
/ wife was so seriously injured that she
/ died in st. Joseph's rospital, Marsh
/ field, Dec. IS. 1922, was the unani-
nous choice of the members of the
Wood county board to succeed himself
as chairman at the first meeting of
I the year Reuben A. Conner, Auburn
dale, was elected yice-chairman. The
I session Of the board will probably
I close the last of the week
Rhinelander-s Sister Virginia, for the
last year superior at St Mary's hos.
/ pital in Rhinelander, has been sum
moned to Rome on matters pertain
ing to the Sisters of the Sorrowful
i Mother, of which order she is secre-
/ tary. She has been succeeded by
& DAoAEA kDiAAA HAGAItAt " Llp lEAD bEGAA NAA
gagged at hospital work in Wichita,
Kansas.
Kenosha-R Ruby Furtoni, g. was in
/ stantly killed and her playmate, Mary
/ Kisielewosh, To- was badly burned
! by a live wire at Kenosha. The two
children were playing tag and ran
into a telephone pole guy wire carry
/ ing several thousand volts which had
+ become short circuited on the electric
/ transmission line near the pole.
/ Madison-H w Rood, one of the
| best known G. A r. members in the
state was seriously injured in Madi-
son when struck by an automobile.
/ MIR Rood is custodian OF the G. A. r,
rooms at the capitol He was riding
a bicycle to work when struck He
suffered a broken leg and head in
/ juries,
Madison Seed potatoes are not
+ food" in the legal meaning and a
/ shipper cannot be prosecuted under
the pure food laws because such po-
tatoes have been misbranded, the at
i torney generals office has ruled in an
/ opinion to State Dairy and Food Com
+ missioner J. Q. Emery.
La Crosse Mrs Joseph Meinertz,
AZ. wife of a farmer living near Mid
+ way 10 miles nor, of Ia Crosse. com
mitted suicide by throwing herself IN
der the wheels of a North Western
freight train She had been despond-
emit over i'll health.
Madison Farm work has been
much delayed in Wisconsin this year
/ because of the adverse weather con
/ ditjous. the semimonJhly report OF
crop conditions for Illinois Indiana.