River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-06-25

1 dents at the commencement exercises
on June 13.
The Wisconsin Staatsverband Of
Catholic societies will hold its nine
teenth annual convention In Madison
July IL to IA.
The Reeseville band of forty pieces
! organized last year, has given its first
public concert. 1t is planned to have
weekly street concerts throughout the
summer
The building and plant of the Phil
| lips Times, a weekly newspaper pub
lished by George E. Sackett has been
destroyed by fire resulting from de-
fective wiring.
Paul Jacobs, aged 10, recent gradu-
ate of the Amigo high school, has
committed suicide by hanging. 1t is
believed that overwork In study I'M
balanced his mind.
Walter e. Wilson, cashier of the
| First National bank of Tigerton, is
dead of heart trouble. He served for
several years as register of deeds and
sheriff of Shawano county.
Ten valuable dairy cows on the farm
of Joseph Dawson, near Benton, were
killed when struck by lightning. The
animals were huddled under a clump
Of trees, about which was a barbed
wire fence.
At the graduating exercises of the
| United States military academy at
West Point, the following men from
Wisconsin received diplomas: NJ NJ.
Dawson, Viroqua; S. J. Horn, Colby (;
L. Nefrud, Coon Valley; A. S. Peter
son, Crandon.
Mrs. E. J. Morse, of Platteville, who
recently attempted her own life with
a pistol will recover, physicians say.
The bullet entered the right temple,
passed through the skull and lodged
at the brain lining. 1t was removed
by an operation
Plunging over high cliff and drop
ping % feet, Mrs. J. B. Fossion mir
aculously escaped death when trees
on projecting ledge, stopped the car
and saved it from a drop of another
30 feet to the waters edge at Little
Sturgeon, Door county.
Prohibition agents have clamped a
paddock on the door of the Andrew
Fischer Beverage company brewery at
Oconomowoc after pouring $50 barrels
of 4 per cent beer into a sewer. The
beer, at retail bootleg prices, would
have been worth SOL, 900, it is said. 1t
was the twelfth Wisconsin brewery to
be closed since the beginning Of pro-
hibition. Fifty state breweries are
left in operation under federal permit
to make near beer.
The Modern Woodmen of America has
decided to withdraw the quadrennial
! convention from Milwaukee and to
hold it in Chicago instead. Arrange
ments had been made in Milwaukee
for entertaining approximately 10000
Woodmen during the week of June
81. The convention is said to have
been withdrawn because the Woodmen
feared smallpox and because they felt
that Milwaukee hotels had not given
them cooperation.
Fred J. Marien of Milwaukee was
elected grand master of Wisconsin
grand lodge, f. & A. NJ, in closing
sessions of the two day convention at
Scottish Rite cathedral, Milwaukee
Mr.. Marien succeeds Frank Johnson
of Black River Falls. Other new of
ticers elected and installed are: Depu-
ty grand master, d. H. Mooney, Ocon-
to; senior grand warden, +. L. Wright,
Milwaukee; junior grand warden,
Frank jerks, Madison; grand treas
urer, G. B. Wheeler, Eau Claire; grand
secretary, w. w. Perry, Milwaukee.
Following the questioning of almost
100 students, University of Wisconsin
officials began an investigation of what
| is believed to be the most serious case
| of theft and sale of examination ques-
| tions ever uncovered at the state uni
versity. 1t Is said that original exam
| ination questions stolen from the desks
| of university instructors were copied
and the copies sold at So and so per
set. Officials have not yet been able
| to determine the extent of the dishon-
esty, but believe that large number
| of students may be involved.
In an order issued by the federal
| trade commission at Washington, the
| Wisconsin Cooperative Creamery as
ISOLATION, Madison, and its officers, dl-
! rectors and members are required to
/ discontinue certain business practices
found by the commission to be unfair
methods Of competition. The associa-
/ tion is composed of Wisconsin cooper
alive creameries mainly located in
| Polk county. The commission found
that the association had adopted a
resolution calling on dealers and citi-
zens of Polk county to discontinue the
sale, of oleomargarine and Ito elm
mate butter substitutes from Polk
county, inasmuch as they are iniuri-