River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-08-20
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within Fond du Lac city limits, to be
used as public park, was announced
by Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Collins, owners
OF large properties in the city.
John Edward, 6, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Nelson, choked to death as the
result of humps and diseased tonsils.
He was taken i'll three days before he
died.
The Farmers and Merchants State
bank of Eagle River, which was closed
July s, has been reopened for bust
ness, Dwight L. Parker, state COM
missioner of banking, has announced.
The Wisconsin college of agriculture
has sold out" its class of graduates.
Requests for graduates from farm in
terests are being turned down because
all of the graduates have signed up
for jobs, it was announced.
The calendar for the August term
of the Wisconsin supreme court, one
of the largest in its history, was an
nounced by Arthur Mcleod, court
clerk The docket includes 259 civil
cases and 80 state cases.
Because they had knowledge of the
attempts Frank Davis was making to
saw his way to liberty in the county
Jail at Kenosha and refused to tell,
six prisoners have been deprived of all
their liberties at the Jail.
So effective were the tooth paste
advertisements read by two Fond du
Lac youths that they broke into the
vocational school and stole 100 tubes
/ of the cleanser. The boys arrested
are Is and IA, and have admitted the
theft, it is said.
Fire of unknown origin at the rear
of the Ganske & Lemmer Drug Co.'S
store, in the heart of Spooner, caused
more than $4,000 loss, and only the
quick action of Chief Ralph Jones and
his volunteer fire department prevent
ed the loss of the whole block.
Mrs. Joseph Reiner, an old resident
of Rudolph, who died at the home of
relatives in Wisconsin Rapids, was the
mother of fourteen children, thirteen
of whom survive. She is also survived
by twenty seven grandchildren and
one great-grandchild
Members of the Danish Brotherhood
of America to the number of 400 will
make Neenah their home for three
days when the district organization,
including lodges throughout Wisconsin
and northern Michigan, holds its an
nual convention Sept. 5, 6 and Z.
A campaign to sign up all present
members of the Northern Wisconsin
Cooperative Tobacco pool for the five
year period following the 1926 crop
will be commenced Immediately, 1t
was voted at the meeting of pool del
egates and members at Madison.
Damages totaling $10,252 are asked
in an action started In Eau Claire by
Roy Peterson, Menomonie, against his
uncle, Bert Cummings, owner of the
silver fox and stock farm at Fall
River. Peterson was shot and severe
ly wounded July TO by Cummings,
who mistook him for fox thief.
Building permits issued In Kenosha
in the last two weeks called for con.
struction work estimated to cost $780,
500, the highest figure this season for
a period of two weeks. OF this sum
/ S180,S00 will go into 81 new homes
and $4,000 will build three new fac
/ tory buildings for the Nash Motors
| Co
Sheboygan claims to have more
paved streets to the square mile with
| In the boundaries than any other city
/ in the United States All main high
ways leading into ShebOygan are
paved all the way through the city.
All in ALL with the completion of this
years program, Sheboygan will have
511b miles of paving, nearly 80 of
which is concrete.
The balance in the state treasury
dropped from $40, 23S, 69S,34 on July I
to SIT, 4S7 ,97S.26 on aug. 1, the finan-
cial report of Solomon Levitan, state
treasurer, shows. The balance on Aug.
/. 1924, was S16,949S77. Increased
disbursements were chiefly responsible
for the drop, the figures Indicated.
| Receipts during July amounted to So
\ O7O. 064.37, and disbursements $500
/ 7S4.45
/ Roy p. Wilcox, Eau Claire, was
nominated at the Oshkosh convention
as the regular republican candidate
for the United States senate to sue
4 coed the late Senator La Toilette In
! the special election to be held this
! fall. The selection came on the first
/ formal ballot, aicer the convention
had taken three informal votes. On
this ballot Mr.. Wilcox received seven
teen more votes than was necessary
for the nomination. There were some
scattering votes for other names, but
Wilcox had clear majority Of the
GAG votes and, on motion of w. l..
/ PieplOw. Milwaukee, the second high
candidates, the selection was made
unanimous.
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