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Page 1: DAWES PROF. FUND I BADGER STATE MSSfcM;€¦ · DAWES ASSAILS CRITICSOF ARMY GeneralDefends Men andOfficers Who Fought in France— Assails Politicians. iIRISH-AMERIGANS ALUCKED Swearing

DAWES ASSAILSCRITICS OF ARMY

General Defends Men and OfficersWho Fought in France—

Assails Politicians.

iIRISH-AMERIGANS A LUCKEDSwearing Like a Trooper, He Tells

How Pershing's Co-ordinating theArmies and Supplies Saved the

Day Against Germany.

Washington, Feb 5.—Turning sharp-'ly upon house war Investigating ootn-

inlttees as a whole, Charles (I. Dawes,[former head of army supply proeure|meat service in France. told one ofjthem that the value of their work had(been rendered useless through lujee-itlon of partisan polities,j “I bitterly resent this effort to re

jflect upon the entire army been useNome poor devil blundered in Switzer-land," he shouted. “You eannol pul a

{blotch on the army. What the hell did•we go in for to steal money'.' It wa-

(not a Itepubliean or a Demoeratle war.jlt was sin Amerlean war and yei, asin rule, these eouiiuiltees try to bring |Mu partisan polities.

“You eon Id use your time Investigat-ing to a better advantage ritillt here(trying to stive disgrueeful government(waste. You eoitld save more tnone,\ ifor the people. Hut as to f ranco yonhaven't got evidence lo make a case

If one existed, it ml I don't believe it(does.”

The general pleaded that the tinny

!nnd its officers he "protected from 1inuickrakefs who pick 11 y specks.”. ‘‘l.ook nt tie- pinhead politielan-who are raisiiu; hell about promotionsifor men who earned them in Franee,”he exclaimed. "The.''re doing it forpetty reasons. It's a dirts shame. Iwasn't in the regiiliif tinny, hut I can■be fair."

.Representative flood (Deni,. Va )

(told (tenoral Dawes Ins Idea of Investlgalion was to draw a lesson forthe future; if had administration wasshown, to say so; If there was fraud(and graft to (hid It and see that theiguilly were punished.

“Y'es," (ieneral Dawes replied “hut'don't let tills thing go before (he peo'file as a partisan fight, everybodyWants to hear something had about(somebody else. lam not here to makecharges that would blinkon the name'of a soldier who cannot come in to be(heard."

Asked about grafters who followed(the Amerlean army to Franee, Mr.Dawes said: "Yes tin;, were there(some of (he most despicable characters 'on earth, trying to help the army byselling it till infs p needed at exorbitantligures. , There was one man wecaught and deported. What's Idsnatne? <di. what's the n-e, 1 am nota nmckraker. lie was a traitor and1 wish we could have shot him."

In the course of a five-hour exam-ination by a bouse war Investigatingcommittee Mr Dawes struck- with,sledge-hammer blows at erilles whobad tried, he said, to detract from theglory of the great achievement bypicking flaws and parading trivialfaults H.inxi miles away

Mr. Dawes was oppressed with no•awe of the congressional office, onIthe contrary, his Inquisitors experl-lenced anew sensation when they.'found themselves addressed h.v their(surnames with no handle thereto.

Mr. Dawes sharpls denounced the(present system of conducting the fedjernl government, an evil oi a hundred'years’ standing, he declared, with{which investigations might better be‘dealing Instead of try Ini- to -coop up'water already over the dam

Mr. Dawes was* questioned about analleged bargain forced bv (ircat I'oat-jaln by which Fuglnml was to give(the I 'idled Spates ship-- if lid- eoitn-,lry agreed to put live divisions of[American troops In the Kritish line.

“It was the thing to do to win tin*war." (ieneral Dawes said. They had

(to hold the allied Hues.“After this step was taken all were

fighting together. 1 do not like this 1'criticism of the Hellish, this spirit ofantagonism. I am not in sympathywith this Irish-Amerlean or hyphen'uteri stuff. Von see | am not a poli-tician nor am I expecting a job,”

Answering charges flint food and'clothing supplies might have brought

'more Hum the s4o(l,Odd,(ion paid byFrance, Mr. Dawes turned sharplyupon one of his questioners. Hep re-sent 111 1 ve Hiand, Republican, Indianaand shouted ;

"Now, Hiand, you're 'wax ofi 11 |just that sort of fool tail that toped(heat Hrltaln to hold on ~jt tooland attempt to drive a hard bargainThe stuff is there today, rottingThey are raising tin* devil it, F.n.dandnow because l.ngland did not ,eii it*supplies when v. *■ -old

Mr. Dawes stud, as a matter of fact,he thought 1 miei wa- charged toomuch.

Kill Twenty Three Soldiers in Riot.Valparaiso, ( Idle I-<■ I. 7, Tv *-nfv

(three soldiers were killed in a (lash■with workers at a niliale plaid inAntofagasta province. i-aidel Jones,‘administrator of tin* plan' reported(to have le-eii assassinated

Hotel Rums, Loss Million,Augusta, (ill. 1 eh. 7, The Pam Air,

Augusta's largest tourists hotel, was■destroyed by tire at 7’ "id o'clock In the(norning. The h. -, including personalbelongings of guests, is unofficiallyplaced at $1,000,000.

Car Kills Two Brothers.Dept-re, Wis , Feh r. Christian and

Sylvester Vanderheyden, nine andeleven years respectively, wa p* killedand their brother (Jeorge, sexen. rereived minor Injuries when they werestruck h.v an Interurhan ear.

Austria’s $20,000,000 000 Debt.Vienna. Feh. •>.- The debt of Aus-

tria now totals lla* gigantic sum of$‘20.000,000(too, estimated upon thepre-war value of the krone. An-nouncement was made here followingcabinet sessions. ,

PROF. ELMER E. JONES

Only two per emit of Albania's pop-it la 11on of n million Imvi* t In* rudi-ments of nn education, nnil puWicsclioots lire practically unknown. Thegovernment oHieials. largely Moham-medans, have asked I’rof. Klmer C..Jones of Northwestt'rn university, Chi-cago, to make n survey and to selectn permanent educational director. ITo-lessor .(ones starts for Allionlu 111 thenear future,

U.S. WEEKLY MARKET REPORTChicago May Wheat Declines to $1.4?’ 4 '

Board of Trade Discontinues Post-ing Argentina Gram Prices.

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1 *. 1 1*r| aial K.. -. |oi-r •*f lic*r with atlvam *?

• s- fr*m low point in Bueiim- Anaswhcit, i'llust•<| g. rural buying and ana ivaiiao in Amern.tn pri* ■* >. on the Rrd.however. ill*- markets suit* red a relapsean.l ' May wh* at fell toa n*‘W low price on ciop. Kxport demandral • . r ; liiw. l.ilt lin In*a U siiMh- wheatHold via l'mll I loir *l inand g*m rallyr ported slow. (’‘ldrago hoard of trndohas tlist •nflma-d p.ting Aigentlna grainprices, a mini .lint on American mar-l■••is Seaho.u*l r* ported IPdlaml took

In, t'a n on tin* .'ini In fhlcago• .oh market No 2 hard 4 to f.c over Chi-< ago March; n**w No. mixed < "in .nridi-r May ; yellow :•*.• under. Minneap-olis report* light flour trad*-, wheat *!*•-

Fo.mkl somewhat itnpt oved. Kansas Cjt.vmilling and *\ j.oi i demand dull. <a hNo, 2 dark hard winter win at f. :V averKansas <By Man h, For the week (*hl-'•'go March wheat down U*at $! r.UHMiv eorn N•. , at MV. MinneapolisMarch wheat down l P4 c, at $1.4* 1 1 ; Kania city March 1-'%<*, at Jl.lc WinnipegM . 14 v*. at II.C-V Chicago May wheal.$1 \:H

may ANI I’KKI* Minneapolis reportsTwin city tnarkep Hooded with low -tad.L • auisty and unsound stock selling at?■> T Hood Nn, 1 timothy would sell•‘t about |1! Mtnneapfdis, sj7. (*hl' ,ai?ii.I " ii.and limited for southwestern prairieif ( ■ i- ayn, top grade wouhl bring aboutifl'f hemand In general is. light, r" ,eiptsample

I * All i Y 818 >1 d’t’TS- Butter marketshave tail'd to re. over strength and |Vi-*OK ha been unsettl.-d throughout week.I chruary iird prices declined sharply ineastern markets i'hh-ago market ha >Oot pillowed declines fullv. hut weaknessin I last has aft. . ted Hading there Brices.

S'-ore dome-tie tiesh New York, I'M .1’ldlttd* Iphla, 41 e Boston, I7 Chicago,l.a-e (’ 11•■e s e prices have declined slight

I Iv. tendency still downward, Buyers looklor lower pi ices and operating eautiousUI ancy held cheese firm. Brices freshcheese. Wisconsin primary markets aver-ate. Twins, Kl V. daisies. L'a. doubledaisies, 2 1 1 , longhorns, -CUe. YoungAmericas, J.VI’ll ITTH AM) VKtJKT AIU.KS PofatocMd* * lined about 10* per IM lie at nortm-ni

shipping stations r aching 7'.-7!*c, sacked< hieagn i a riot market down log, at $1 to$1 I" Baldwin apples from cold storageniend> f o b 1 1uund 14 per hrl; Ihihlwinsar.d greenings sternly in * jty markets, atH to ? l"t large Jots. Yellow onionsdown about 1", p. r l<m Ihs f o h (h.slngaround I,ast*in consuming markct-ilost an additional lo to Jac, r*ae|ung

UK., middle western i.ntcis sllghtlvw-:iKci, at to $1

\AV\-: STi m' |< AND MI:ATS I’ornparcdwith a week ago. Chi. ago hog pij.-,lanced to ;.n higher, href steers*' ' ’ 'bed ncai 1 V $1 lower, hut- an , atticdown if, fi f. C.ler Hteeis lost f.o. pel

'■ al -a1 vc 'I to $1 > Ti , H |n * p-nd land, m.iiket slump*"! hadly, ranging

J ■ uiul i a w ccl< a go. la t <w * -■low n fine to $i fat lambs Si 10 to |1 ,1 hl' ll; - - |.r . I‘chi uai v:t Hog), hulk of■ah a $!L,T*| to flu medium and goodheel Steel'S s>> **o S *d; hutchel COWS a illheifers. $1 A. I" feeder Steers. *7. C. • ,1 gilt and merlluni weight calves;. |; 1,0 to

?iL* 00. fat lambs, 17 to 7. fV.-din ■lambs, |7.J7. to • yearlings, >.rv2fe7 7ffat ewes, t .7 l. $17.,.

TO PROBE SLACKER'S ESCAPECongress at Washington to Investigate

Millionaire Grover ClevelandBergdoll's Story.

Wa-liliiKt-ai, I i'll, t, |)ii|ln||i' sfn|istnwanl ii I'otiKn'sslmuil InvaHtlpitltni.if the i'Si:i|u* of Grover ClevelandIterudoll, uilllioimlre I'liilailelplilalai-Ker, have heeii Inken.

Chairman Kalin <>l the house milltars affairs <‘ouiiult(iM“, announeeil thathe had heell ills) rm leil |iy the eouillllll-’e lo ask the federal dislrlel allotney ill I Mill ti d< ‘l l ililtt for all impers inthe ease,

I’.el'H'lnll's l-'i i lit slaleiuenl lo Vluerhim iiews|.n|ier eorrespoiideiils InGermany that ho hud arranged Ids e<' lijie for II hrihe of S|(MI,(MKI umkes n’ ihoroiiyh and swoepinK luve-.|luaihm

| iioeessiiry," Chalruinil Kalin slated.

Guilty in Rum Charge.Milwaukee, I .h. 7 \ sealed vlr-

dlel of irullty iiiik presented to fedoral .Indue I . A Gelyer in the Mini of

; Joseph A. Itmhir. local enfe owner,

■ Imryed llh allomptlliK lo hrilif federa 1 officials.

Landis N-imes Ball Secretary.Chleimo. leh 7 .lud|{e I,mulls up

pointed hi Ih M O'Connor, a Chleatrniiltorney ns his “hnselmll seerelary"In aid him lii the work of nniiiaulnt:nrnini/.ed husehall I hrollghont thecountry.

Dakota Bank Cashier Slain.Mitchell S I'. Felt. 5 I! G Sta-

pleion, assistant cashier of thet ' li'Mim (S. h) State hank, vva - shotami killed hy rohhers udio escaped

i with a eonsltlerahle amounl of money,aeeorOlhK *• n report received hen*.

Kill Each Other In FeudFort Worth. Tex., Feh, r. a west

Texan fend of many years’ slandtiiK,Involving' prominent residents n f F.nh-hock eiimiiv, ' nlinlrmted when .Jamesc. I’owlei! and .lamer M Wright tlWtl

t at tat h other until both fell dead.

TEACHERS' FUNDiS INSOLVENT

Startling Disclosures as to Fi-nancial Condition Made

by Investigators.

CAN PAY ONLY 23C ON DOLLARSpecial Legislative Committee Makes

Report—Unless Legislature ActsIt Will Soon Be Impossible to

Pay Promised Annuities.

Madison,—Disclosures of a startlingnature were made by the special legis-lative committee which for the pasttwo years has been Investigating thelinaiieial condition of the teachers' re-tirement fund in this state.

The fund Is In such condition thatunless some steps are taken tit this jsession of the legislature to amend (he ilaw and place the fund on a solventbasis, It will soon he impossible to pay ithe annuities promised under the law. |

To pny the teachers In Wisconsinwho tiro at present contributing to thefund the benefits promised to themwhen they retire the sum of tfIH.HHI,-7HI. with Interest, from now on will heneeded.

To offset this obligation the re-sources of the fund consist of assetson hand, SHS.Y.tHMi; contributions of jteachers during the next HO years, sl,-lltll,OKl. together with all of the stateappropriations for the next Hi! years,which is equivalent to Sl,do.V_’!)2, mak-ing a total of $.'{,011,400.

Slated in other terms, if all present Imembers of (he retirement fund are;treated equitably, the fund t'ttu pay onlyCH cents on each dollar of promised ;helielils. To pay even this proportion ;to the present teachers will use op all iof their own contributions, til! of the;iieeiimulated assets anil all of the state ■appropriation for the next HO years, so

that now teachers would receive no us-slstaneo from the state during thatperiod.

Ft.der the law the state does notguarantee Ha* obligations of the fund |in any way; on the contrary, the lawrequires that tin* hoard of trustees of jthe retirement fund ratably reduce theannuities whenever, in the judgment ofthe hoard, the condition of the fundshall require such reduction. The ex :animation of the condition of tin* fundmade by the legislative committee |shows that a pro rata reduction of 'JHcents on the dollar will he necessary,unless the law is changed and addi-tional resources provided.

"If no change is made In the law,”said Senator Anlone Kuektik, chairmanof (ho legislative committee, “and an-nuities are paid to teachers now on ;the ret 1red list and those eligible, IIt means that the other 1 i.ddd teachersin Hie state must continue lo eontrih-tmle with little hope of ever receiving

a dollar of benefit for themselves."V hill to deal with Hie unemployment

situation will la* Introduced soonh.v Senator Henry A. Huber, Tills I * 11 1does not apply to fanners or employ-ees of the stale, cities, towns, villages

or school districts, or Individual em-ployers who hire less (ban three workmen.

(inly those who tire not able to ob-tain suitable employment are eligibleto receive unemployment compensationfor a limited period. Like Hu* work-men’s compensation act. which penal-izes Industries where workmen areforced to leave their work unem-ployed because of the liiek of safe-guards in Hie factory so this act pro-ehles that Indus) r,\ shall compensateworkmen temporarily when they areforced out of employment and are un-able to obtain other suitable employ-ment.

All employers that are not exempted.shall insure their liability for the pay-ment of unemployment compensationIn any mutual Insurance company thatIs already insuring or that is capableof Insuring employers’ liability underthe workmen's compensation act. Apremium Is put on good niunagemenl.Those employers that are most regularin the employment of their workmenpay the lowest premium.

No new commissions or stale ma-chinery will he necessary for execu-tion and administration of this act.The Industrial commission shall carefor the administration, In eo-operationwith the compensation Insuranceboard. The system will' functionthrough Iho stale free employment of-fices. Deputies already appointed h.vthe Industrial commission may passupon the applications for unemploy-ment compensation. In contested easesthe procedure Is similar to the workmen's compensation act. A state ad\ isory hoard of five, representing bothemployers and employees, shall he ap-pointed by the Industrial commissionto serve without pay, according toprovisions of the measure.

Bill to Pay Taxes Semi Annually.

Semi annual payment of taxes inWisconsin is the plan proposed by Asseiiihlyiiinn .1. H. French of Superior,who believes that luxes should he paidIn Jununr,' and July of each year. Fol-lowing the holiday season taxes comeus an unusual blow upon people andAssemblyman French believes Hint Ifthe lux paying period could he dividedthere would he greater satisfaction.Assemblyman French polnis out thatsuch a plan has worked out successfully iu the slide of Minnesota.For Reapportioning Districts.

Senator Bird offered a John resolu-tion creating a Joint committee for thework of reapportioning the legislativecongressional districts of the statepursuant to law under the census of11120, Hu* committee to consist of threesenators and live assemblymen. Thesenators are to be v hosed ny the sen-ate op nomination by Its committee oncommittees, and tin* assemblymen h\Hie speaker of the assembly, and anexpenditure of not over SIOO being anthorlzed. The resolution was adoptednud messaged to Hie assembly.

TH K MANIT 0W O C PIL 0 T

I Institutes in 20 Counties.Although no institutes will be held

the first two weeks lit February be*cause of the b.g get-together confer-ence at the college of agriculture, 37institutes in 27 counties will be heldduring' the List part of the month. Thucounties having institutes scheduled in-clude: Brown, Door, Marinette, Ke-wanee, Marathon, I’ortnge, Langlade.Waupaca, Wood. Chippewa, Whine*

I laigo, Monroe. Slmwano, Sheboygan,Manitowoc, Ozaukee, Outgaiitle, Ju-neau. Clark and Adams. The placeswhere institutes will be held are:February 15-10 Belgium, SheboyganFalls, St. Nnziniiz. Egg Harbor, ThiryHaems near l.usemhurg, Advance*Black Creek, Maimwn, Mather andShennington ; February 17-18 Ed-wards near Cleveland, Glcnbeulab,

Holland Town near S Ivanknnna,Brussels, New Franken, Coleman.Galesburg, Winchester mar Larsen,

and Watermill near Tonmli. February10-18—Dorchester; February 22-23—Forestvllle, Seymour, Rosbolt, Hatley,Tlgerton, Amin, Cadott and Niebullnear Hancock: February 24-2o—RioCreek, Amherst, Elderon, Rolling nearAntigo, Big Falls, Vesper, Colburn nearBoyd and Brooks.

Would Move Departments.Madison scored a temporary victory

when the senate committee on state

affairs laid to rest, by a decisive vote,the proposed project of removing someof the state departments from Madi-son to Milwaukee The proposed re-moval was contained in a bill intro-duced by Senator G. I*'. CzcrwlnskiMilwaukee, who asked for the appoint-ment of a committee of five legislatorsto Investigate •congested conditions inthe statchousi'. with a view towarderecting an office building in Milwau-kee or some other point.'' Flic com-

mittee made short work of the bill.Senator Czcrwlnski made u long pleain its bclmlf, which affected the actionof tlic committee only in the delay Itcaused in taking "f the vote. The kill-ing of Czerwin-'ki's hill by no meanscloses the subject. It is known thatanother attempt will be made.

Morrissey Gets Appointment.John D. Morrissey, Superior, was

appointed superintendent of publicproperty by Governor Blaine, succeed-ing M. F. Hlumi iicfcld. who Ims heldoffice for six years. Morrissey wasgeneral agent of the South Shore Rail-road company which recently wastaken over by the Soo line. Duringgovernment control of railroads, hewas general agent for the Soo line.In announcing tin* appointment, theexecutive otlicc issued a statement tothe effect that Morrissey had had morethan 30 years experience in purchasingcoal, equipment ami general merchan-dise.

10,560 Badger Flu VictimsInfluenza cost 10,5(50 lives during the

winters of 101S, 1010 and 1020, it hasbeen announced by the state board ofhealth. The board. In arriving at thedeath toll, deducicd from the listswhich assign H i the cause, the aver-age number of d'.nlis from pneumoniaeach year. The state board has askedthe joint finance coinniitte to increaseits appropriation from $14(1.000 m8245.000, to enlarge its public healthwork.

Justice Kerwin Is Dead.Justice James Kerwin, member of

the Wisconsin Supreme court since1004, died following a long illness.Justice Kerwin was the oldest memberof the Supreme court, having beenborn May 4, DSO in Meimshn, Winne-bago county. For twelve years lieserved ns city attorney of N'ccnnh andwas chosen to the Supreme court in1004, being reelected in 1013 withoutopposition.

Bonus Bill Killed.Efforts to extend Wisconsin's soldier

bonus law to Men from Ibis state whoenlisted outside of Wisconsin givingiheir residence us the place of enlist-ment, failed when the slate senatecommittee on education and publicwelfare killed Senator Czerwlnskl'sbill. The measure Involved settlementof approximately four thousand claimsfor a total of about $1,0*8),000.

Parker Succeeds Owens.The succesnr to Samuel Owens, as-

semblyman-elect from Greene county,who died at his home shortly after thesession opened, will be Ira W. Darker,cashier of the Markesun State bank,who was the only man to file papersfor the primary for the office, to heheld on February 28.

Madison Property Value $81,118,351.Madison's assessed value of all prop-

erly, according to Bulletin No. 1, JusiIssued by the statistical department ofthe stale |a\ commission, Is sBl,l Dv351. The ratio of the assessed valueto the true value Is given by the bul-letin ns 'J2.OS per cent.

State to Consider Boxing Bouts.Fifteen round boxing bouts to a de-

cision in Wisconsin will he sought ntibis session of the legislature, accord-ing to plan oi Assemblyman Frank1., Prescott, Milwaukee spo isnmn.

Would Speed Up Counting Ba.lots.Senator II T l.ange of Fan ' Inlre

will present a bill requiring two elec-tion boards, the Kansas plan. Oneboard woubt take ballots for half anhour, then reiln with their boxes tobegin the count, other boxes and an-other hoard taking its place, this alternation oeeinTln throughout the day,

the result being that, when tin* pollsclose, nil ballots have been counted ex-cept those deposited In the last half-hour. The claim Is made that thismethod Is no more expensive than theexisting one.

Few Teachers Stick to Job.Sclioolteacblng’ and Income tax' pay-

ing are not companions, In the opinionof George B. Skognio, senator fromRiver Fulls, who |m spent the lastseveral months avestlgutlng teachers’salaries In Wisconsin. At the end oflo years of servic,. the average salary

paid to Wisconsin teachers, and thatIs the highest, i s' I .800. < bit of 1 1,301teachers In the mti' from whom statis-tics were gath< ml, 8.270 taught onlyone year. 2,850 two years, 2,114 threeyears, 1,401 four years, and 1,005 fiveyears.

BADGER STATEHAPPENINGS

Frank Masterson. an inmate of thestate penitentiary at Waupun, who wasworking on the prison farm as atrusty, escaped. He had four monthsof a throe-year term to serve.

Approximately $40,000 fed' 1 ra 1money will be spent on the Ashland-Hurley-lronwood trail this summer.The six mile stretch of road betweenAshland and Odanah will bo straight-ened, and shortened about a mile. Itla on the Roosevelt highway system.

The Wood county jail is empty forthe first time in two years, accordingto Sheriff Mueller. Two yoars agowhen ex-Sherlff Bluett took office thejail was empty. Local authoritiesstate that they will not sell the jailus they feel it is a handy place to havearound in case of emergency.

The Holstein Breeders’ associationof Cameron, Barron county, have or-ganized, with Karl Hazelberg. Mikana,as president and Thomas Gullicksonas secretary and treasurer. The asso-ciation announced its opposition tothe manufacture of oleomargarine andother substitutes for dairy products.

Testa for soil acidity have beenmade in Barron county and in eachinstance the reaction Indicates the ex-istence of an acid condition. Thisproves that the supply of lime in thesoil is diminished below a point thatgives (he best conditions for plantgrowth.*

inmates at the Wisconsin state re-formatory, Green Bay, are going tohave anew brand of water to drinkbefore long. The prisoners are doingthe digging themselves and WardenCowles estimates that they will haveto go down about 350 feet before theystrike a flow.

The population of Green Day has in-creased I.USC or 3.5 per cent, accordingto latest figures. The population takenduring January by the governmentwas 31.017. The survey is based oncomparative figures of the publicschools enrollment and domestic waterservice for the close of 1919 and 1920.

Girls beat the boys in judging live-stock at the New Franken school nearGreen Bay. Girl students made a ch answeep of the high score, two of themturning in 100 per cent records. FourHolstein cows were judged and thegirls scored on every point. The paperswere graded by J. N’. Kavanaugh, coun-ty agricultural agent.

Residents of Franksville and Thomp-sonville, northwest of Racine, andfarmers residing between Racine andthe two places, will petition The Mil-waukee Electric Railway and LightCos. to extend the distributing systemto their territory in order that elec-tricity may be obtained for light andpower.

Between $15,000 and $1 S.OOO ofmoney for Rock county farmers is nowtied up in the 60,000 pounds of woolwhich was pooled last year and heldin storage in Chicago. There are about250 farmers having Shares in the peol.Wool is now quoted at from 23 to 25cents a pound, and the owners want30 cents tor the wool now held in Chi-cago. For the sum of 3 cents a poundthe wool was taken to Chicago, graded,sorted, insured and held in storageuntil a favorable bid is received.

August Wolf, 32, Sheboygan warhero, died at a hospital in Washington,D. C., where he had undergone twooperations within three weeks for ap-pendicitis and an adhesion. He wasone of the first Sheboygan boys tovolunteer for service and one of thefirst to go into actual service in Francefrom this section. He was wounded,July 29, 1918, in the Chateau-Thierrysector, where he was operating a ma-chine gun. He lost an arm in one ofthese engagements.

To give one an idea of the profit inhides at this time the experience ofL. Doty, a Blrchwood man, is worthrelating. Mr. Doty shipped a hide toa Chicago commission house. The hideweighed 22 pounds and he was allowed6 cents per pound, or $1.32. His re-turn showed the following chargesagainst the shipment: Commission, 7cents; freight, 68 cents; war tax, 2cents; drayage, 75 cents; storage, 59cents. Asa result of the transactionMr. Doty found himself 99 cents in thedebt of the commission house. Hesays he has retired from the hide busi-ness.

Following its own example of hold-ing the first land clearing school inhistory, as it did in 1920, the MarinetteCounty Land Clearing association willestablish the first traveling land clear-ing school in history as the featureof its 1921 campaign. The travellingschool will be mounted on a large mo-tor truck, which will carry all thelatest land clearing equipment, and acorps of instructors, headed by Secre-tary Larry F. Livingston. Arrange-

ments have been made to hold oneand twoday schools in 20 communitycenters of the county, so as to bring Itwithin reach of all the fanners.

Rock county ranks third in the num-ber of pleasure automobiles owned inthe state, according to the latest re-ports. The county has 8,683 motorcars as compared with 6,478 a vearago. The two counties ahead of Rockare Milwaukee with 36,186 and Danewith 13,592. In motor trucks the coun-ty ranks fifth with 471.

Farmers and union men of Marinetteand Menominee voted to form a co-operative company to handle clothing,

groceries and meats. The shares willbe $25 and will bear 7 per cent inter-est. The company will be capitalized;t $50,000.

During the month of December theBarron county creamery, the largestco-operative creamery In the world,received 355.895 pounds of cream fromwhich 102,076 pounds of butterfat wereobtained. The largest check paid forcream, 1425, was received by WilliamBartlett. The creamery has 9,266 cus-tomers.

The Wisconsin Association of Op-tometrists will meet In Green Bay July12, 13 and 14. according to E. W, Du-perssult, manager of the Northern Op-tical To. Leading optometrists in thestate will hi in attendance

i The population at the \

state reformatory, Green It;creasing, according to a repoby Warden R. M. Cowles. 1.

I the average attendance was 2-tfor the past six months it hasto 274.

Will Underwood, a pioneercoin county, but who has beetdent of lowa for the past. 25 yipeels to take up his residence n hlafarm west of Bloomington aftei ' ■ ehI. He will bring along 75 in, na

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P. W. Forward, well knownRamie eounty farmer, rut the ptraveling by jaunting to JacksFla., for his winter vacation intomobile. He used 109 gall

■ i Jollne on his 1,826 mile trlp.him about three weeks in easy

Many Green Bay people alobay shore are resorting over tin • iends. Due to the mild weathe;is petting to be quite a fad. i-i 1from the chilly nights, climatetions are little different from 1the fall.

Mrs. Harry Temple. Chicagomerly Miss Slacia Livingston,woman to hold the oilice of sutendent of Portage countyschools, died in Chicago. Sheformer resident of Stevens Pointhe town of Almond and wasknown in that locality.

The powder forces at the Barkdynamite plant, together withfamilies, held it jollification pathat the Dupont Y. M. C. A., the occa-sion being the celebration of the com-pletion of a full year’s work at theplant without a major injury occurringto any one of the employes.

Frank Kulinski, Caledonia township,was fined 1200 and costs by JudgeBurgess on a charge of violating theprohibition law. What is said to havebeen the largest still discovered in Ra-cine county was found on Kulinski’sfarm by Sheriff James. Another, butsmaller, still was also found on thepremises.

C. S. Ristow, Black River Falls, waselected preside ut of the WisconsinExperiment association, succeedingFrank Bell, Columbus. Joseph Drunker,Ridgeway, was elected vice president;Prof. R. A. Moore of the University ofWisconsin, secretary, and Peter Swarz,Waukesha, treasurer. The WisconsinSoy Bean Growers’ association was or-ganized.

Jacob Weillinga of Midway, LaCrosse county, has a sand farm, huthas been taking prizes at grain showsfor years. Hero is his record at thestate corn and grain show in LaCrosse last week: Third prize for fiftyears of Golden Glow corn; fifth prizein tlio single ear Dent corn exhibit;third among exhibits of Sudan grass;first among bundles of mature so?beans; second in the honorary classfor ten ears of Golden Glow corn.

Students and faculty members ofRipon college pledged $5OO to supportfor one year Miss Ruth Van Kirk,Ripon, an alumnus of the college, inher missionary work in China. Themoney was raised by voluntary sub-scription in a campaign led by MissDorothy Zufelt, Sheboygan, and MissLillian Picken, missionary from west-ern India. For the last three yearsRipon students have supported MissVan Kirk with the slogan, “LittleRipon in China.”

11l luck has been following the fam-ily of Mrs. Forest Eisner of Green Bayfor months. First, a daughter disap-peared from her home. Then two chil-dren died of scarlet fever. The oldestson lost a hand in a railroad accident.Scalded when a water pipe broke, thefather also was a victim. The latestaccident happened to the youngest ofthe family, and the only one so far toescape injury, while watching ahockey game, he was struck in the eyewith a hockey stick. Asa result thelad will probably lose the sight of hisleft eye.

No action will be taken in GreenBay towards the adoption of a day-light savings ordinance due to the op-position that has developed since theplan was first launched. Railroadmen were outwardly against the moveclaiming that the differences betweenrailroad time, regular time, and day-light saving time would cause a greathardship on them. There are about4,000 railroad men in that city.

Michael Rybicki, Stevens Point, for-mer service man, announced hiscandidacy for superintendent of Port-age county schools.

Mayor A. C. McHenry will continueas mayor of Oshkosh as the result ofone of the most spectacular electionsever held in that city, in which hadefeated his opponent, Walter A.Marflen, by a majority of 4,191 onTuesday, Feb. 1. The total vote of11, was the largest in the historyof Oshkosh, nearly half of that totalbeing registered by women. Mc-Henry’s total vote was 7,960 and hocarried every ward of the thirteen ex-cept two. Maiden’s vote was 3,769.Efforts to recall the mayor were sup-ported by the Citizens’ Good Govern-ment league. The campaign for therecall election was one of the hottestever conducted, with Mayor McHenryadvocating personal liberty and hisopponents coming out strongly fur en-forcement of the dry law.

Barron county citizens paid $46,859during 1920 for motor license fees on4,334 autos, and 144 trucks, 63 motor-cycles and 45 dealers’ licenses. Thepopulation of the county on Jan. 1,1920, wr as 34,281, showing one automo-bile for every eight persons in thecounty.

Hot lunches are now hole*, servedin a number of schools of Iron county,as the results of efforts of countyschool authorities. The hot lunch addsto, but does not take the place of thelunch brought from home. It amountsto serving of one hot dish such ascocoa or a nutritions soup.

Women are eligible to act as jurorsin Wisconsin since adoption of thesuffrage amendment to the constitu-tion, Attorney General W. .1. Morganhat held In ruling on a question ofG. M. McKey of Janesville, put at thedirection of Judge Grimm in the Cir-cuit court. Women are now judgedfully as capable as men under thelaws, It was held by the attorneygeneral.

Initial steps for the organization ofa ladles' auxiliary unit to the Prescott-Bayen “ I of the American Legionhave been 'aken In Sheboygan

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