River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-07-23

ruptcy, listing assets of $102015 and
Liabilities of $36,S28.
The Wisconsin Association of Post
masters will hold its annual conven-
ton at Amigo Aug. and 8, Jointly
with the League of District Post
masters.
Mrs Emma Lutien has been APP
pointed sheriff of Kewaunee county by
Gov. Blaine, to succeed her husband,
Joseph Lutien, who recently was killed
in an automobile accident.
Adyices received from Vancouver,
B. c., where the Gyro club is in inter
national convention, give Madison as
the seat Of the 1929 international con-
vention of the organization.
Wisconsin Fobes fifth, largest dairy
cow In the world, weight 2,240 pounds,
died at the Murphy farm at Egg Har-
Dor, Door county. The animal was
purchased a year ago for $6,500
With bullet hole through the fore
head, the body of Lawrence Spencer,
| so, well known woodsman, was found
| in the woods near the Minocqua ceme-
terry. A revolver with one chamber
empty lay nearby.
Lawrence college at Appleton Is In
receipt of another substantial gift
from George A. Whiting, prominent
paper manufacturer A large club
house will be built on the new Law
renee athletic field which formed an
earlier gift to the college from Mr..
Whiting.
Suit filed in Dane county circuit
| court Tuesday by the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Co., Milwaukee.
| asks that the state Of Wisconsin re-
turn to 1t S4S,5SS59 paid under pro-
test on Feb. %, 1926, as 3 per cent
| interest on which the company terms
"tax exempt" United States bonds.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Eau
Claire are handicapped In handling
their heavy crops by scarcity of farm
| labor. The farmers have appealed to
the police departments in neighboring
cities to call attention to those who
show up at the police stations for
shelter to the work on the farm.
A four year medical course, leading
to the degree NJ. D., has been estab-
lished by the University of Wisconsin.
Final arrangements to complete the
course for the third and fourth years
were authorized by the regents at their
last meeting. Third year work will
start next fall and the fourth year
will begin in the fall Of 1926. The
third year classes include medical
study and training in surgery.
Two Neillsville men, Erward Kurtz-
veg and Wayne Short, charged with
peddling moonshine liquor to national
guardsmen at Camp Douglas, were ar
rested by military and state prohibit
ton authorities. 1t is charged that
the men had 10 gallons hidden in the
woods a few miles from camp and
were taking soldiers out there to sell
the booze. An effort is being made
to trace the source of the liquor.
Delinquent taxes have for several
years been a growing problem in every
part Of the state, affecting both the
real estate and personal property lists.
According to figures reported for the
period, delinquent tax returns to coun-
ty treasurers in 1920 amounted to ST.
527, 1886 on real estate and $110,753 on
personal property. In 1925 the delin-
quencies had mounted to $4,479,693 on
real estate and $653,594 on personal
property.
Authorities in the villages of Mag
ara, Pembine and Wausaukee in Mari
nette county, and the village Of Flor
ence in Florence county, have been
advised by the state board of control
to remedy unsatisfactory and unsani-
tary conditions in their jails within
the next six months or have the places
closed. The actions follows the an
nual reports Of inspectors Of the board
of control, who during the last year
visited 325 city, county and village
jails in Wisconsin.
Litigation involving taxation Of 200
banks in Wisconsin will be passed on
by the United States Supreme court,
the decision of the Supreme court of
Wisconsin sustaining validity Of the
bank tax law having been appealed.
The statute now provides that banks
shall be taxed on an ad yalorem basis,
the same as general property. Many
of the banks in the state have refused
to pay under the general property law,
and in some of the cities compromises
were made by which reduction of
the levy was allowed.
The will of Frances Bull Fairchild,
widow of Gen. Lucius FairchiId, three
times governor of Wisconsin, filed In
the Dane county probate court, dis
closed an estate estimated at $3.50, coo.
With the exception of few small be.
quests, the entire estate Is bequeathed
to Mrs. Charles NJ. Morris, Milwau.