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

month, highway construction on 94o,-
100000 building and maintenance pro
gram Tor city and rural road improve
ment will be under way in Wisconsin,
the state highway department advises.
A. r. Hirst state highway engineer,
reports the present should be an i'm.
portant road building year. There is
available for rural highway construc-
ton and maintenance, including state
and county trunk highways, approx
mately S34 $4,000, Mr.. Hirst points
out. in table summarizing the pros
pective expenditures for the year.
Cities, in addition, will spend approx
mately $10,150,000, this table shows.
Madison Wisconsin State MIN
ing school at Plattsville desires to get
into communication with young men
Of the state who for any reason were
obliged to leave school prior to their
completion of the high school course
and who later on felt the need of acct
dental education. The requirements
for admission to the mining school are
sufficiently elastic to admit students
who have had no more than one year
in high school and in cases of mature
young men they have sometimes been
admitted even though they had no
more than grade school training.
Merrill Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Truax,
formerly of Merrill, died within "a
hours at Fort Francis, Ont, and their
bodies were brought to Merrill for
burial. Mr.. Truax was formerly
member of the police force in Merrill
and Dec 81, 1889. suffered bullet
wound over his heart, the bullet re-
naming in his flesh until his death
Death was due in each case to infu.
enza-pneumonia
Phillips Town, village and city
treasurers of Price county have made
their returns to the county treasurer
and the amount of delinquent taxes
for 1922 is several thousand dollars
in excess of previous years. The total
for 1922 amounts to 100000 as COM
pared with 100000 in 1921, 100000 in
1920 and $4,000 in 1919.
Oshkosh-The Rev. Edwin w. Todd,
who was divorced recently from Mrs.
Jeanne NJ Todd on the charge of cruel
and inhuman treatment, presented his
resignation as rector of Trinity Epis.
copal church at a special meeting of
the yestry. BY unanimous vote, Mr..
Todd was induced to withdraw his
resignation and consent to remain in
charge for at least one more year.
Madison-The right of prohibition
officers to search homes attached to
places licensed to sell notwithstanding
beverages. without warrant. was up-
held by a decision Of the Wisconsin
supreme court. At the same time the
court in another decision held that it
was an invasion of constitutional
rights for officers to search an auto
mobile for liquor, without having a
warrant.
Birchwood-Th 1850 patrons of
the Barron Cooperative Creamery re-
ceived approximately $4,000 for
cream delivered to the creamery dur
ing February. The creamery received
$50, 234 pounds of cream and from this
amount 195,SS4.2 pounds of butter fat
were obtained The price paid for
butter fat was IS cents.
Manitowoc- Protestant ministers Of
Manitowoc at their monthly dinner
passed a resolution opposing street
carniyals showing in the city or coun.
ty. 1t asks that all organizations Join t
them in eliminating this evil infiu.
ence from our city and county"
Oeonto-M. L. Beaulleau, II, Of the /.
town of Mountain. is under arrest in I
the Oconto county jail at Oconto, held /
for the murder of his n-inlaw, ". (
NJ. Serbin. 45, as a result of a quarrel {
between the two at the formers home. /
Crandon-At the city election April /
3, Lulu p Shaw. daughter of the late
Samuel Shaw. founder of Grand IN, /
was elected mayor over Otto Book. /
Miss Shaw is the first woman elected /
to city office in Crandon.
Ladysmith- Twenty-Five new mem
bers We're recently received into the /
Ladysmith chapter of the Service Star /
Legion, making it one of the largest .
in northern Wisconsin.
Madison-N Marshall Cousins. state
of banking. announced +
that the State Bank of Three Lakes. +
Oneida county had been closed and .
that examiners Of the state depart.
ment have taken charge Of the insti-
tuition.
Madison William r. Curkeet Madi.
son, was appointed deputy attorney 4
zeneral by Attorney General Herman