Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-12-01

| r--oortant News OF the baoseh St0eS
Arranged in Condensed Form III
,,.5ison-Nore than $3.5OO,O00 will
aid into state and municipal
.r..srries in Wisconsin in taxes by
assrc utility companies, according TO
- of The Wisconsin tax commits
e;,r This total, the commission says,
80 NOT include federal or state in
+aves In the absence of def
r+e esr,res on tax rating, due to var
81 rsthods of application. it is e3ti-
I'D The increase in the tax over
! --+ vaar viii run well over is per
,t r. j. Brabant, statistician of
.so commission, says the final tax for
street railroads viii be $2,171,140. as
.,rosred with $1,949,910 for 1922.
ernsrf5r-Gust Fried, 50, county
g8 na,rolman of Scion Springs,
cher of eight children. is in SUI
rerfor hospital believed dying as the
nrt of being dragged for a half
mia undar a road grader on State
d sbwav II. Fried's clothing was
IAN from his body and half of his
face IS in shreds as a result of be-
inc iarked beneath the grader when
=. attempted to. stop the team of
tnrses from running away.
mr. town Of Rrodbpad
Fs- distinction other than being the
LARGEST shipping point of foreign type
cheese in America, it being that Of
having the champion cheese graders
a America. Mr.. G. Schneiberger, en-
Moved in that capacity with the Jacob
Marty CO.. estimates that he has
raded no less than 100000 pounds
of Swiss cheese the past year. The
aqss cheese run in weight from 80
ts gz5 pounds each.
Iapcaster-Dr A. H. Stolr native
Of Lancaster. now connected with a
hospital at Brookings, S. D., has be-
come ia aous in plastic surgery. He
operated three times on a girl of 5
wears born without hands. Instead,
two Jumps Of tangled flesh and abb
normal thumbs held the place of
hands. The little girl now has four
fingers on each hand, perfectly good
thumb. and normal finger nails.
Porgae-Columbia county board
has voted $4,000 for completion of
state trunk line No. %, between Port
ace Klbourn and the Wisconsin
Deus. The sum will be spent this
winter and next summer on improv-
ing this road which is to become the
main traffic way from Milwaukee,
Madison TO the Dells The City of
Portage appropriated $500 toward
he project
acknowledgements to an an
nouncement just made by the asses
s0r of incomes to the Barron county
board, the assessed valuation of the
property in Barron county has been
placed al 43.442, 706. The true valu-
alton Of the property has been placed
at $55,2S4749. Farm property repre-
seats a large percentage Of the total
valuation
Appleton-The $5,O00,0OO endow-
ment fund to be obtained within five
years by the seven colleges Of the
Wisconsin Colleges association-Law-
renee, Ripon. Beloit. Carroll, Mar
Qaette, Campion and Northland-win
be raised within the time allotted,
according to announcement of DR..
Samuel Plantz of Lawrence College.
La Crosse-Lous. Schroeder, en-
p.oye of the government in river i'm
prorement work, La Crosse, was
probably fatally injured when run
over by a street car. The motorman
testified that Schroeder stumbled and
TEL directly in front of the car and
that be stopped within five feet.
Schroeder has fractured skull.
APplAfoD-William Merkle of Mil
Vaukee poured a quantity of alcohol
INTO the radiator of his automobile
a. garage in Appleton and then
pushed a lighted match into the radi-
a'or opening to see if it was full.
10" Nerkel is nursing a face that
Is mass of burns, with eyebrows
and part Of his hair gone.
Iadisoa-Out-of-state visitors TO
Wisconsin spent about s100,000000 in
ae state. according to an estimate
made by the state highway commits
s7a This includes those who came
% the state by rail as well as auto
-o2as Tourists coming to the state
9 automobile are estimated to have
Spent }sS6Q00 900.
SPARTA crew of workers have
Ss-.@ To survey the new Sparta TO
sigsa highway Frank Webb,