Marshfield Times, The (Newspaper) - February 3, 1915, Marshfield, Wisconsin The Times THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR At Steond Clan Matter tht Wit Act of 1879 Marshfield Wood County Wisconsin Wednesday Februarys 1915 NUMBER CHICAGO BOOMING LENROOT FOR NOMINATION HIGHS STEP ALONG TOWARD OSHKOSH Superior Leader Once the Protege of LaFollette Now On His Own Work on Home Floor Keeps Record Clean For Tournament at Sawdust City FIRE LOSS 1914 MAKES RECORD FOR ALL WISCONSIN BOB WON'T LIKE I i The High school j ket tossers defeated their old time i opponents the Antigo High quintet 1 Friday evening by a score of 36 to i 1 12 I Although it was Marshfield's game from the first ten minutes of play the reputation of the Antigo gallon kept thc locals playing in their best form throughout the entire game Marshfield Has But Twelve Fires With Loss of Few Hundred T 11 tt i IT uesi lunn enure Said to Be Up Against Not the gamc did h the Hardest Fight of His Career in Putting Down Aspirations of Man Who Owes All His Place to DEPT COSTS BUT BLIZZARDS DELIVER KNOCKOUT TO ALL TRANSPORTATION PASS IT ON FARMER FACES LONG TERM IN PRISON FOR FORGED CHECK Every Through Train is Late and Mails Are Delayed KING WINTER ON JOB Joe Marsh and Wheeler got to discussing the merits of their various dogs in the Elks club one of those cold evenings last week j said J C I always knew that Rex j was a wonderful dog There was one morning in the summer when I got up on the wrong side of the bed and had John Shermanski Bound to a grouch on the whole world I came to breakfast ate a hearty meal and still had grouch enough so that I for- got to give the dog a bite He stuck around awhile and then went off to the garden pulled up a bunch of ers and laid them at my feet What were they inquired said J C as i NOT WORTH MONEY Circuit Court on Charge he buttoned up his started downstairs and Marshfield Republicans Democrats and bearers of other brands will be interested in the nt -si boom sprung by The Chicago Tribune's Washington The story in the Tribune is that Representative Irving R root of Superior protege of Senator R M LaFollette former speaker of the Wisconsin assembly and handy man for Senator Bob all these years is out for the Republican nomination We have no comment to make Stranger things have happened Here is the story in part and the con- you may make for sliced of both sides slacken Marshfield opened up the game by i scoring the first basket Antigo not to be outdone did tho same thing and for a while things looked dubious the local quintet But after a short i warming up the boys began to put on speed and their shots were accurate while the Antigo team couldn't seem to get started A feature of the game was the short shots used by Marshfield in scoring all their points Quite a few technical fouls were called though the game while being fast could not be called rough Another Bright Year Added to Record of Volunteer Department ing Prompt to Alarms and Efficient Work Wood Supply is Plentiful But Loads Arc Held for High Glooms Arc Working Over- time on All the Trades King Winter has been on the job pillow The fire loss in the city of during the last week The field during the year 1914 was is up again above but not ably the smallest recorded for any much above zero and for several days A lady residing at Grand Rapids cured her husband of staying out late at night by going to the door when came home and whispering through the keyhole Is that you Her husband's name is John and he stays at home now and sleeps with an eye open and a revolver under his Sum of Two Checks Was Only Whereas Penalty is From Two to Fourteen Years in Story of the Difficulty The first attempt at Ripon College The half ended a score of 10 to 9 in favor of the local school tvl allU Ud V O t V city over population in the state i it hovered at 20 to 30 decrees below to out thc simplified spe ung r These are sad days for m communications proved a failure aind the coal bin Evidently most according to that racy journal The If le of Wisconsin While exact figures are not obtainable there were but twelve fires which called out the fire ment and the loss is confined to It is said that one of fraternity students sent the something less than Following is the record of calls In the second half the Marshfield January 1 to January I bovs played Antigo off its The Secretary W H all the trades Mails are late and Highs scored ten baskets to the local travel is very suspended scored bv the Antigo team all shots i a- J hox I Ajl the trains arriving in the city being made after the bail was right damage lately have been late some being as under the basket Superior team work better basket shooting better pie in this neighborhood are thrifty arid forehanded however as the have received very few calls letter to his for assistance for poor families Please kom akros with The weather has havoc with 1 ln node of funds letter was returned with the Th floor playing and all around Washington D C Jan ia every department of thc game gave as usual will have the Marshfield five a well earned member of the Marshfield team played well and put up a snappy s residence game Captain was easily the I a candidate in 1916 for the Republican nomination for president but it may not be Senator this time Little militant statesman and politician is up against the fiercest fight of his career in bis for re-election to the United States senate next year For the first time also in a decade the ator will find himself seriously op- posed for the honor of going into the Republican national convention as the favorite son of Wisconsin The senator and his friends that they will be able to regain next year all the ground they lost last year in the triumph of the tive over the progressive Republican forces in the state They regard the result of the primaries and the tion as a fluke and are confident that Mr LaFollettee will be able to rally the state again to his support There are strong indications ever that the senator will find much opposition in his own faction of Republicans It became bore within the last week that there is a well developed movement afoot to boom Representative Irvine L Lenroot of Superior not only for the in opposition to lette but for the presidential tion Mr Lenroot is by many Wisconsin Republicans as the logical successor of Mr LaFollette as the leader of the progressive wing of the party in that state He is years old fourteen years younger than Mr LaFollette He is also a militant progressive He was identified with the won some three odd points so if revolutionary movement in the house of representatives in 1910 as a re- sult of which Speaker Cannon ousted from the rules committee and shorn of his czardom He has a keen analytical mind and is One of the foremost of thc frieds say that he would the house His friends say that he would make an ideal presidential if the progressive element should win control of the party next year You seem to understand iiw j T m L Shapiro as five hours behind schedule I Then I wj idence 108 W Gth 3rd ward ney fire March p m Soo depot box car loaded with potatoes Chemical apparatus used Small damage March p m Mrs man's residence 3rd ward game star for the home team He lead team mates in scoring rimming six baskets during encounter Thorn and Whitney were next with five kets apiece while Seehafer connected for two Eckel at guard was the mainstay of the team when it came to breaking up the plays of the lites Time after time he succeeded in retting the ball when the Antigo team was ready to shoot Eckel is one of the best guards the High school toam has had in several years For Antigo Mattby and McClellend showed the best form Mattby being their best man with three baskets The Antigo team showed a lack of consistency and their team work suffered as a result The team has improved its game since Nekoosa played here two weeks ago If it can the same form shown evening in all of the remaining games on the schedule it may yet be a tournament contender In the first game of the evening the a team composed of Eighth graders defeated the High school second team in a hotly ed game by a score of 14 to 12 Thc first half ended in a all The second half saw the at their best and as time was called the Invincibles were in the lead by one basket thus winning the game Next Friday evening Marshfield Highs will tackle their old time foe Grand Rapids Last year the local iy some three odd points so if ant to see a rattling good game be at the High school gym when play is called The locals consider this one of the most important games on their schedule so it will be fight from tho first blow of the whistle March Blum Bros box factory 4th ward No damage April p m Carl Stedder residence N Depot 5th ward ney fire May p m M Griffin your books I'll stand for frats and with a dances but it is the S 0 S you need V ii i iuj Jim i wji M glle of wind which drifted the snow with spelling High as five feet on some of thc roads made the daily passage wn Mannos is The Ab- mail along the different routes ol j bolsford clarion and is making quite the person of Philip Eckel another Passing forged checks is getting to be a common occurrence in this city Every now and then a case is Drought before the Municipal court the latest one being the case of John Shermanski a farmer who is said to have two forged checks ly according to the story told in court Mr Shermanski while under the in- fluence of liquor borrowed two blank checks and then proceeded to blow himself The way in which he got rid of the bad checks was very simple say the police After writing out the checks they say he then bought drinks for a small sum and would re- the difference in cash The first check cashed was in the drink emporium of Adolph Benter for His wants not yet satisfied the story goes that he then proceeded to scalp another innocent victim in city almost impossible Weather of the kind expe saloon keeper The amount this time was Both were dated January 16 On going to the bank to cash their checks they found out that the checks the kitchen pail is froze I were backed with no funds Then the i When the little icy come with gentlemen got busy with the result a paper of it but he must be getting Of feeding chunks of h m to the al over the northwest the last few d flak this days tends to make things gloomy and everybody in any line of business I when the frost is on the window and wiars a pessimistic aspect a chance in weather sleighing at the present time every breath that blows that Mr Shermanski was taken u idence 3rd and ward roof is best in several years and when the chilblains make us groan hailed before Hugo and chimney fire Damage Mav a m Charles on residence 9th and Cedar 4th ward outbuilding damaged Aug a m Roddis Lumber Veneer Co factory extinguished by automatic sprinkler system before apparatus left house p m Majestic hotel Central ave 2nd ward fire come in with their commodities and cold feet give us a pain j in Municipal court just as in former years the only safe to bet that we all that deters the buyer and seller from striking an agreement is the scarcity of money on one hand and thc exorbitant wood price demanded on the other Business and trade conditions are due for improvement very soon a more moderate whiter with a con- of good sleighing and some wish i Tile offense of forging a check I ries a heavy a Dec p m E D Hood res for the ending of the Eu- 709 S Cedar 4th ward Damage ropean war would he appreciated for summertime For while we and stew around Of two to fourteen years can be im- in breezy summer upon the guilty party While It's an easy thing to cool off and for- the risk now being run by Mr get our earthly i case is only an example of But different in the winter when j what could happen to those that the world is full of ice j sist in passing worthless checks his And the weather is as hard to beat as a warning to any small Dec p m August ke res 606 C st 1st ward ney fire Small damage by smoke and water The records of Marshfield's teer department show that the city has been put to very small expense for its maintenance during the year The actual cost to the city only The department contributed more out of its own funds These figures do not include supplies furnished by the or the department during the year The average attendance at fires during the year was 92 per cent of the membership A record is kept of thc j causes for absence and only two absence from the city or ropean war S P NORMALS COME TO PLAY COMPANY A Company A will play the strong Stevens Point Normal team at the Armory Saturday evening Stevens Point has played and defeated such teams as lola Bushey Business Col- ege River Falls and the Stevens Point City team They are a fast bunch of and are out for the Normal championship of this section Company A on the other defeat to the as any loaded dice We may boast about our climate and about our spring and fall But the balmy days of summer are the best ones after all ness were named in the 1914 record Six volunteer members sleep at department headquarters every night of thc year The department tains two teams a hook and ladder I truck and a always ready i for can administer Normalites Both teams have a good playing for G W Clemens a jeweler was asked by his pastor Rev J D to pray in services Two days later Clemens sent Doddridge a for for the prayer claiming it was j who wishes to get in bad with the law After hearing the accused man's indicates that whatever he did he did while under the in- fluence of Wegener bound him over for trial at the spring term of the circuit court Forged and worthless checks have become so common lately that every business man should be careful not to they a for benefit from the mon he preached claiming a balance genuine and that all the circumstances i are without suspicion due of This happened in Indiana where comes harder and less than in the Badger state BENEFIT SHOW AT THE ABLER TODAY 1 This afternoon and evening the i New opera house will be given over to a benefit performance in i moving pictures for thc Washington Talk about Henry The performance or rather Foss 505 South Vine street shipped j for there are three of his tools to Wautoma Washara umler the auspices SOME MOVING ty and moved one house of Teachers association of wing two stories high lathed throughout without plastered taking il apart One house he moved 9 miles The other house stories high ho moved seven and one- to moving houses half miles When it conies he has it on any one in the city Soe him before letting your All work is guaranteed that school which has been actively at work for some weeks The committee in charge announces three performances a NEW NEWS STAND The Made to Measure store owned by Walter Laabs has gone out of iness Mr Laabs intends to spend most of time on the road ing for the different cerns The store which is owned by Anton Sigert the owner of the Majestic Hotel has been leased to Mr William E Wollslager of Stevens Point Mr Wollslager will start a news stand I and in addition will run a confection for fast I u looke The opening game will be between and the Privates This i c on toam havin s h toam having wone one game Roth teams are con- P of the Company The first game start at Be out MARX The match is a little piece of wood with a lump of dormant hell on the end of it Matches arc just like men If you've got a bunch of them one is all right but let the tock get down to a single one and it's sure to disappoint you ed This fact too proves their value will With a full supply of either women or matches we consider them lightly i hut most men have the time when give anything for one NEEDN'T PAY YOUR TAXES TILL FEB 28 Council Takes Prompt tion Ratifying First Law of 1915 As It Affects Marshfield The manage of Marx of this city to Mr Leo Winter When the Creator had made all thc good and beautiful things in order ree matinee at four pry store and shoe shine parlors The lock and evening shows at and location is a good one for the Thc program includes the paper business as it wil liven up things for the north end of the city In p m following Pied Piper of The Children's Annual nastic Animated The Mysterious and A Hear Escape These subjects include a selection from films of the ty extension division and films by well known film companies SKK AMERICA FIRST See America writes Alfred Neumann of thc P J com- j hy Mr pany sending the editor of Hie Marshfield Times a picture ot the in- of the Old Adobe Glenwood Mission Inn at Riverside cal 1 he are seeing all the sights SEALER TO HELP ANYONE on the coast and of this one in he says The Inn partly here with invaluable con- tents is one of the show places oi world PUTTING UP DANGER SIGNS Marshfield Auto club has re- half a dozen large red signs lettered Danger Sound Klaxon are to be put v as soon as the permits on dangerous d turns in the vicinity of H G Hambright of the Ax states that more signs if they were available The common council met last night and it was expected that an ordinance would be passed so defining the duties of the sealer of weights and measures that this officer would be expected to j furnish his service to anyone calling upon him in case of a dispute The terms of the ordinance provide that the sealer shall scale wood hay etc free of charge when so requested The smoke ordinance which was turned down at the last regular ing has been and its sage was expected last night In its amended form it prohibits black or grey smoke being omitted from any stack except those stacks over a height THREE GEMS FROM PITTSVILLE This is the open season for the mouth disease at Madison The is in session No Mr Amundsen we have ty to pay for without paying for ad- supervision costs The question is bothering the whether or not the Indian who has secured citizenship rights can enjoy the same drinking es as his white of course booze By actual count of tipsey bucks it would seem that the line has not yet been drawn on any sort of Record CHIPPEWA MAN BURIED HERE Herman Swenson of Chippewa Falls died at that place January 29 Deceased was buried here Monday the body being shipped to this city from Chippewa Falls Mr Mr Swenson was known here having been the owner of a farm on the Richfield road some years ago v i bun of Fort Atkinson takes place that they might be truly appreciated clothing this morning at o'clock at St He then made the beasts and John's Catholic church Rev Fob insects u When He had finished He had lett over scraps that were too bail to put in the rattlesnake the hyena the pion or the skunk so Hr placed all these together covered it with wrapped it with ed it with a yellow streak and called it a Knocker Then as a compensation for this fearful product He took a sunbeam and in it tho heart of a child thc ve of a mother the brain of a man short time ago he resigned and wrapped these in civic pride covered purchased a drug store in Fort At- it with brotherly love gave it a mask kinson in partnership with his of velvet and a grasp of steel and or John Winterburn j called it a Booster Miss Marx is the daughter of Mrs He made him a lover of fields and Gerhard Marx one of Marshfield's j flowers and manly believer 1 fp- The bride is to wear while chiffon over crepe du chine Miss Ida gold of this city will he bridesmaid while Mr John Winterburn will act as best mar After a short trip to Milwaukee and Chicago they will return to Fort At- is well known in kinson to live Mr Winterburn Vv intt II this city and while he was here he managed the Sexton store Aii V t most popular voung ladies and is well by everybody She has been for several years at Sexton's drug store and at Mercantile company POSTMASTER AT MOSINEE President Wilson has sent to the senate the nomination of E F Butler as postmaster at Mosinee FOR NEUTRAL MINDS Los Angeles Is it any violation of neutrality for Americans to lick war Smile just smile Don't wail or sigh or moan or cry not worth while The road to luck is paved with pluck it may be many a mile But you'll cover it quick if you've learned the trick to ews in equality and justice Ever since these two were created mortal man has had the privilege of choosing his associates Some around our town drew the long breath Friday when they heard the council might extend the time for the payment of taxes out penalty another month And more will be doing the same when they read the heading of this article Thc legislature made haste with the new and Governor Philipp signed it first law of thc Philipp administration The law provides that city and village councils and town boards may provide for the extension of taxpaying time by a two-thirds vote said extension to be up to March 1 instead of February 1 On receipt of the news from ison a special meeting of the council was called for Friday evening and the resolution passed by a unanimous vote This is the first law under the administration It is safe to say that it will make more friends than the remission of taxes just before i the fall elections ever did town says a man who knows NOTICE TO RESIDENCE OWNERS has a liar or two a smart Alec some and of s j pretty girls more loafers than it i and are noti needes a woman that tattles an old I f d t pedestrians v be better off jnK upon their sidewalks bv sprinkling d on the stress j of sand ashes corners and make Remarks anout or said walks at such women the man who laughs the j times as the of same shall be ic laugh every time he says anything or as to render thc scores of men with the caboose of fogy the town would be better without men who stand on th corners and make remarks about their trousers worn smooth as glass men who can tell you just how the foreign war question ought to be tled foretell the weather and how to run other people's all of whom have probably made dismal ures of their own walk surfaces safe for pedestrians Signed Board of Public Works A farm colony has been proposed as a refuge for erring women Of course the men never err
