River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-15
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

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had lain for an entire night in freezing
temperature after suffering stroke.
Jens Wilman, merchant at Ashland,
has been forced into involuntary bank
ruptcy by 80 creditors, according to
information received from Madison.
Allan 7. Pray has been appointed re
ceiver.
Miss Elma Anderson, former For
est county resident and now with the
department Of agriculture. has left for
Europe, where she will spend Is
months gathering statistics in connec-
ton with the operation of the Dawes
plan.
Fond du Laos loss from fire during
1924 was $66.144.75, according to the
annual report of Chief James Russell,
ir. OF the total $19,7O261 was on
buildings and S46,442.14 on contents.
The fire department apparatus trav
eled 1901 miles in responding to 293
alarms last year.
Harold Scott, II, town of Ringle,
and Marvin Krahn, IA, Wausau, are
being held on bail of 5000 each,
charged with malicious destruction of
school property. It is charged they
broke into schoolhouse in the town
of Ringle and demolished an organ,
large globe, clock and desks.
Professional gambling houses, which
are said to have flourished in Stevens
Point for several months, have been
ordered to suspend operations at once
and for all time by Chief of Police
John 8. Hafsoos. The cleanup order
bans punch boards as well as poker
and dice.
If postal receipts may be taken as
trade barometer, business In Neenah
Is steadily on the upgrade. According
to the report of Postmaster ]. B.
Schneider for 1924, the Neenah post
office gained 21.5 per cent In receipts
over those of 1923. The 1924 receipts
were 68,11S.S9. while in 1923 they to-
tailed $56,17401.
Eugene w. Roby, IS, mason contrac-
tor of Waupun, fell from a scaffold
In the dining room of the central state
hospital for the criminal insane and
died few minutes after the fall His
skull was crushed. Mr.. Roby was In
specting work done by his workmen.
He had lived in Waupun nearly all of
his life.
The first frame house built in Che
TEX was destroyed by fire caused from
an overheated stove. The house was
built so years ago and its present
owner. Mrs. Jennie Smith, has lived
In 1t for 40 years. When Mrs. Smith
i bought the property the taxes were 70
cents, but last year the taxes were
more than $26.
| S. w. Keys and Maurice Fitzsim-
mons accepted their reflections as
president and treasurer of the Fond
du Lac County Fair association, pro
yided the county assume the 100000
Indebtedness contracted by the organi-
cation. S. D. Boreham, who has
served as secretary for eight years,
declined reelection. His successor
has not been named.
BY a vote of IL to 5 the Kenosha
county board passed an ordinance to
regulate public dance halls in the
county The ordinance establishes a
plan for licensing dance halls at $40
year anu for issuance of permits for
each public dance at fee OF 81 each.
The 81 will be used for paying super
visors to act as censors of the dance.
The closing hour set in the ordinance
Is midnight Saturday and / a. m. other
nights No person under IT is allowed
to attend the dances unless accom-
panied by parent or guardian.
Judge Egbert Wyman, 70, one OF
the pioneers of Forest county, died at
Columbia hospital, Crandon. Death
was caused from cancer from which
he had been sufferer for some time
but it was not until about three
months ago that he was compelled to
resign his office of municipal Judge
Of Forest county. Judge Wyman was
the first district attorney for Forest
county, having been appointed to that
office by Gov. Rusk In 1885 when the
county was first organized. Previous
to that time he was employed in the
government land office at Madison.
Building in Green Bay amounted to
$3.50, 409 in the year just ended, ac-
cording to the building commissioners
report. The 1923 total was $3,460,951
Green Bay erected 148 new homes
last year. at cost of $750,000, and
% new business buildings, costing
s348,S77, as compared with cost OF
1,541 ,270 for 81 business buildings a
year before There were 281 garages
erected, at cost of $164,33 Thirty
nine homes and is business buildings
were remodeled at a cost of about
$150,0O0 Fifteen warehouses were
built; three clubhouses erected at an
expenditure Of S810,375 and one new
church was built, which cost $4,000
Harry Bowling, farmer, was treated