River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-07-02

the bar by the state supreme court
and granted certificates to practice.
Maple Bluff, the suburban home OF
the La Toilette family for many years,
win continue to be occupied, for the
present at least, by Mrs. La Toilette.
A baby girl, just learning to crawl
was drowned in a tub of water which
stood on the kitchen floor in the Grover
Jones home at Lynxville.
Arthur, 6, son of Fred Wild, Med
ford, died three hours after his cloth
ing had been ignited by the explosion
of gasoline In can into which he had
thrown match. The gasoline was
being prepared to kill potato bugs.
A new five-year nurses training
course, emitting the nurse to both
nurses certificate and a bachelor OF
science degree, has just been estab.
lished at the University of Wisconsin
in connection with the new Wisconsin
General hospital.
Fire destroyed the planning mill OF
the G. O. Collins Lumber company, in
Rhinelander, entailing an estimated
loss of $4,000. Three carloads OF
lumber on a side track near the plant
| also were burned. AS a result of the
fire, fifty men were thrown out OF
work
A civic committee headed by Hugh
Mitchell, American Legion commander
has been announced to shape a De
Tense day program in Beloit the nigh
of July 8. The Legion, G. A. R., Unit
ed Spanish War veterans, churches
schools, women's organizations ant
city government are represented on the
committee.
In an opinion by Asst. Atty. Gen. T
L. Mcintosh TO Dwight T. Parker, com
missioner of banking, it was held that
building and loan associations can only
credit or pay dividends at the regular
dividend times as fixed by the bylaws
after the accounting has been made
and the items specified ascertained
credited or paid.
Fire believed by many to be of in
cendiary origin partially destroyed the
Emanuel Evangelical church parsonage
at Menomonee Falls. The Rev. VII
| liam Hillman, who was alone in the
house at the time, barely escaped with
his life by jumping from a window
when he awoke choking from the
! smoke.
Horizons woman justice of the
| peace Bessie Cole, eloped to Rock.
| ford, Ill, and was married to Gordon
Kavolski, one of Horizons best known
athletes. Miss Cole was formerly
resident of independence, having come
| to Horizon from that city about five
years ago as an English teacher. Mr..
Kavolski is captain of the Horizon
Athletics basket ball team.
Mrs. Kate Pier. so years old. died
at her home in Fond du Lac. Mrs
Pier was the first woman circuit court
commissioner in the. country, and grad
| uated from the University of Wiscon
sin law college in 1887. Mrs. Pier
was ~ years old when she graduated
and her oldest daughter was gradu'
ated with her. Four years later two
other daughters graduated, and all
practiced law in Milwaukee for many
years.
| The Wisconsin supreme court denied
a motion for rehearing in the Hartford
bank case. The decision sustains the
courts former opinion, holding the
present system Of taxing national
banks in Wisconsin to be constitutional
and valid. The taxes were assessed Oh
the banks stock on an ad valorem
basis under the state law, the bank
contending that such taxation was in
violation of the federal law providing
that national bank stock should not
be taxed at a higher rate than other
moneyed capital in the state.
Senator Robert NJ La Toilette left
net estate of $39,S00, according to
will filed in the Dane county Pro
bate court The senator left an estate
of S6S,000 with an indebtedness on
the property estimated at $4,000.
Mrs. La Toilette, the widow, Is named
as the sole beneficiary. Senator La
Follettes debts include a mortgage
Of $4,000 on the Maple Bluff farm,
with $4,000 for other personal obliga-
lions. The senator's personal property
is valued at $20,s00, while the value
of his real estate, the homestead, is
placed at $4,000.
The First National bank of Shulls-
burg was robbed and the town ter
rorized for two hours by five bandits
who cut wires leading into town,
blasted open the bank vault and de-
parted with currency and negotiable
securities amounting, it Is believed,
to about $4,000. The nine nitro-glycer-
inc charges which the men used to
open the vault destroyed books when
the interior of the bank was wrecked
and officials were unable to make an
accurate estimate of the loss. More
than Is shots were fired by the men
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