Monroe Weekly Times (Newspaper) - January 7, 1907, Monroe, Wisconsin VOL 17 Monroe Wis January 7 1907 per Year MAY COLLECT FORGERY CHARGED PENALTIES Railroads Subject of Fines Mail Trains Are Late If Martin of Browntown ed By the Bank of Browntown UNCLE SAM MAY GET Trains out of Milwaukee In December Late Beyond the Limit for Three Months Milwaukee and a frequent delays in the arrival and departure of passenger trains in Wisconsin delays which sub- ject the traveling public to great loss of time and inconvenience are likely to cause trouble in turn to the railroads that are at fault It is generally hoped that the state railroad commission will act at once in the interest of the public which it was created to protect The commission has complete jurisdiction over the matter of railroad service and can com- pel the railroads to run their passenger trains in an efficient manner Those who travel and therefore suffer are turning to the commission in hope and trust Other relief is at hand The Journal has discovered that congress has given the postmaster general authority to impose a line upon any railroad which beyond a fixed limit delays mail that its trains carry The de- at Washington recently issued the following The act making appropriations for the postal service for the fiscal year ending June That the postmaster general shall require all railroads carrying the mails under contract to comply with the terms of said contract as to time of arrivals and departure of said mails and it shall be his duty to impose and collect reasonable fines for delay when such delay is not caused by able accidents or conditions It is therefore ordered that every railroad company operating a route over which mails are carried shall on the regular affidavit covering failures of mail train service which it is ed to submit promptly at the end of each quarter to the respective division superintendents railway show in addition to and separate from such mail train failures the number of minutes late of each arrival not time of arrival of every train carrying mail which has reached the terminus of said route the terminus of such train run or any intermediate point designated the postmaster general and of which the company shall have notice Thirty or more minutes late as many as ten times during the er the extent cause in detail and place of each delay being given It appears from this order that if any train carrying mail is late a half hour as often as ten times during three months the railroad operating it is subject to a fine at the hands of the postmaster general Milwaukee and St Paul road may in consequence lose some of its revenue for carrying mails in consin The Journal Wednesday facts about six trains operated by that company all carrying mail which during December were late all the way from nine to twenty-six times the latter being the full number of train for that month Half hour delays in these trains were more frequent in a single month than the goverment contemplated would be the case in three whole months Morgan Ellefson of Brown town is again charged with forgery in a rant that was placed in the hands of Sheriff Durst Saturday afternoon The complaint is made by W L Bush cashier of the Bank of Browntown the BUSl I bank being out as a result of for- gery The amount of the forged check was and the check was cashed in Chicago the sum of being drawn and a draft being taken for the balance Mr Bush was here Saturday ing but neglected to bring the forged check on which the charge is based and returned later in with the essary papers and the warrant was issued Ellefson sometime ago forged some notes on a Monroe bank and after his arrest full settlement was made by his father George Ellefson of Cadiz and the charge was dropped This time the father refuses to have anything to do with the matter Ellefson is a young man being about 22 years of age CHANGES AT COURTHOUSE Recently Elected Officials Enter Upon Duties FOUR lEff MEN IN OFFICES Committee Puts In the Day Making Settlement With Outgoing Officers PLAN TO BUILD Milwaukee Road To Make Extensive at Platteville of the Milwaukee Platteville buying BACK IN LINE Browntown Telephone Co Again Connects Up With United The Browntown Telephone company is again connected up with the board of the United Telephone com- pany giving the 142 subscribers of the company in Browntown Jordan and Cadiz the benefit of the Monroe service and that of other local exchanges that are reached by the United toll lines The connection is of interest to Monro e telephone subscribers and restores connections with Browntown Winslow South Wayne and other points west and south having independent exchanges that it has been impossible to reach since the Browntown connection was broken almost a year ago the town exchange being the connecting The annual business meeting of the Browntown company was The recently elected officers of Green county were placed in office today All preparations for the change had been made and the new officers took charge as the county committee settled with the outgoing officers The committee first settled with B T Raymond the retiring treasurer and Geo E Thorp the incoming urer set about to establish himself there Register of Deeds F E Corson who succeeds S S Summers got into the harness during the morning although it was afternoon before the committee made its settlement with Mr Summers Summers had finished up his work Saturday J L Sherron had vacated the dis- attorney's office a few days ago and Wm H McGrath spent the fore- noon moving into the rooms Mr Grath has been a law partner of Thomas Luchsinger but the firm has Representatives road are now in right-of-way to rebuild the road so that it will enter the city from the north in- stead of from the east as at present This will bring the Milwaukee road in- to direct connection with some of the leading mines of Platteville Plans are also made to have a city depot which will be at the corner of Water and Main It is also reported that the freight depot and yards will be placed north of the town in order to the amount of freight of the mines The hauling or ore machinery and coal has made an enormous of business for that section The road is said to be making extensive plans for ment DOING ODD STUNTS NEW DAIRY MAP ISSUED Grten County Still In Lead As Cheese Factory Center DISTRICT NOW OUT Foreign Cheese Region Growing To the North and Maximum ment Reached Here January Producing Novelties In Weather Line been dissolved Mr McGrath goes in- to office with one case to claim his attention being the appeal from the county board which was taken by Judge J M Becker who claims fees that the county board did not see fit to allow him The matter will be heard at the spring term of the circuit court and will come before Judge Grimm The case is of considerable importance to the county as the decision will determine what salary and fees Judge to during the remaining three years of his term WANT NEW LAWS County Judges Plan To Make Court Work More Uniform The month of is doing a great variety of weather stunts day was one of the fairest days of winter The sun shown brightly the greater part of the day and the cury went up to fifty This morning another novelty for January was offered in the shape of a thunder shower be- fore breakfast followed by a heavy downpour of rain during the forenoon The ranged between forty and fifty making the weather a ed rarity for this season of the year MORTUARY RECORD Mrs Fred Zuhlke died at 6 o'clock morning at her home in Mount Pleasant Her death resulted from liver trouble after an illness of a few months She was born October 1 1861 and besides her husband is survived by five sons and one A bulletin on the subject of factory dairying in Wisconsin with map ing locution of cheese factories and creameries by II L and U S Bear has just been issued by the Uni- versity of Wisconsin Agricultural Ex- periment station According to the bulletin there are in the state cheese factories 1017 creameries 15 combined factories and creameries and skimming stations Green county has 200 factories a loss of M in five years Dodge county with 128 factories Sheboygan with 119 and Iowa with 105 are the only other counties in the state having more than 100 factories The dairy map shows Green county as the greatest cheese factory county in the state Discussing the regions dairy factory activity the bulletin says of the Green county Swiss cheese The most distinctive area by virtue It was really the Cradle of Liberty for here in the old capital or House of Burgesses gathered Patrick Henry Washington Richard Henry Lee ton John and Edmund Randolph Benjamin Harrison and many other patriots of colonial fame who made their pleas for better treatment from the mother country and from the old Raleigh tavern which stood near the capitol was sent out the call to the other colonies which resulted in the first Continental congress The ruins of the capitol are at one end of the Duke of Gloucester street and the College of William and Mary is at the other and when President ington planned the present capital city of the nation he had the Duke of Gloucester street in old Williamburg in mind and the beautiful Pennsylvania avenue with the capitol at one ex- and the White House at the other was the result very closely ed with the history of George ton and with the history of the nation as well From here young Washington set out on that memorable trip through the wilderness as the special messenger of Governor Dunwiddie to the French on the Ohio here he came as a bashful young member of the House of Burgesses here he brought his ful wife the widow of Daniel Parke Custis and whose home has also been in Williamsburg and here he also came with and rode with that great French general at tho head of the allied armies of the colonies and of French Williamsburg to town to capture Cornwallis The town and community abounds in romance and history and the many ob- of antiquity afford themes for days of study and research The GO TO JAMESTOWN Co E Second Regiment Invited to Ex- position at Norfolk Tho city of Fond du Lac by private subscription will raise to send Co E Second regiment W N G to the exposition at Norfolk Va next summer The company has received an invitation to take part in tho military and naval maneuvers Co E enjoys the distinction of ting first rank in a recent competitive drill against the crack military com- panies of the United States at St Louis and the people of Fond du Lac feel that they will win added glories at town Luther Kauffman who is employed at Borden's condensed milk plant had a nail pinched off one of his fingers while nt work them The legislative committee of the Wisconsin association of county judges will recommend about forty new laws and amendments to make the probate work in the different counties of the state more uniform Many of the old troubles of the probate court are to be done away with and that have beeh in the laws for years will be eliminated The most interesting portion of the report is two laws proposed in a ment to the report These laws relate to the salaries of county judges and the terms of office Tho first law provides that the salaries of the county judges in the different counties of the state shall according to tho tion of the counties and the amount of work required by the courts To this ond the law provides that tho sation shall be fixed by the state law as A county judge to receive for the first thousand of population in the county and an additional for each additional thousand of population up to forty-nine thousand when the compensation shall increase rate of for each three thousand people This salary shall be in lieu of all fees formerly paid to the county judges It is made a condition of the law that in no case shall the salary of the county judge bo greater than that paid to the circuit judge district The law would fix the salary of I ho register of probate at him al foes for his work The section in regard to tho terms of office provides that beginning with tho elections of 1909 tho judges shall be chosen for a term of six instead of four years It is understood that tho stale association of county will make every effort to tho passage of the laws proposed by the committee The judges will meet in Milwaukee on January 10 to consider this and make plans to urge the lassage of the laws To Sheriff M C Durst as soon as be assumed the duties of the office fell the task of locating a young man who is wanted for forgery and is supposed to be in Chicago Retiring Sheriff Durst turning over to him a warrant for Morgan who passed a forged note on the Browntown bank The jail has been vacated Durst moving to his residence on East Russell street He was at the office in the court house in the morning and sorted out the private papers in his desk Mr Durst will have the assistance of H L Ball whom he has appointed deputy sheriff Mr Ball has served the county as sheriff and made a able record which makes his ment one that will be generally proved County Clerk and Clerk of the Court Sam Blum who succeed themselves merely filed their bonds as did H L Ball county coroner and A C Stuntz surveyor All the officers had previously filed their oath of office and bond Miss Mabel Swartz the efficient deputy county clerk will be retained having filed her oath of office with that of the other officers None of tho retiring officers have made any plans for the future Judge Benjamin F Dunwiddie who has boon the able and distinguished presiding officer of the 12th judicial circuit for many years will be ed on the bench by Judge Grimm of Jefferson Tne latter has already filec his oath and his active duties will com- mence tomorrow morning in Rock when the jury comes back for he adjourned session of the November Advertised letters for week ending Jan 5 1907 John Foreign John Muller Foreign Mrs Elinor II Smith John O'Neal Julia Kaspar Yaun U A P M State Inauguration The inauguration of the state officer took place at today Simpl ceremonies were held in the at noon Gov Davidson wa driven to the state house in a carriag escorted by tho governor's guard Th procession was from the exc chamber to the senate chamber The university band furnished music The bonds of the state officers ha already been filed and the oath of was administered individually by Chief Justice J B Cassoday In the after- noon the several new incumbents re- in their respective departments Mrs Davidson held a reception at the executive mansion from 3 to 6 o'clock W H Timlin took the oath of office at the same time the state officers were sworn in daughter The funeral was held Sunday at 11 o'clock from the Dutch Hollow church Figi Melchoir Figi of New Glarus died Friday his death following the amputation of a leg He was taken to a Madison hospital for the operation and was brought home Monday in a critical condition His limb became infected as a result of an attack of diphtheria which the father contracted from a child which succumbed to the disease Mr Figi was not yet 30 years of age was one of the popular young men of the village and a son of one of the pioneer residents of New Glarus A young wife and child survive him The funeral was held Sunday Dunwiddie Mrs Martha Dunwiddie wife of David Dunwiddie died at Saturday morning The funeral was held today at Juda Christian who made his lome at Green County house in lis city died at 2 Saturday morn ng He was born ih 10 1815 and when 19 years of age 10 emigrated to America settling in Green county He was married in 1838 Miss Louisa Lemke and ten children were born to them His wife and children preceded him in death Besides the seven children who survive lim there are two sisters and three irothers Two nephews arc ministers n tho Evangelical church The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at o'clock from uel's Evangelical church Hev J F officiated character of the product as well as by the rapid growth which is taking place is that region which embraces the Swiss cheese industry The center of this industry for many years has been Green county hut the of the industry has been such that factories making Swiss and Limburger are now being installed rapidly in the region to the north and west The in- dustry has doubtless reached its factory development in: Green county as at the present time dation of small farm factories is occurring but in Dane Iowa fayette counties and the western tion of Rock there has been a able increase the number of factories in these increasing in the last five years from 183 to 301 which it is estimated that the factory output of this type of cheese approximates pounds In Lafayette county a considerable number of creameries have been converted into Swiss factories Although this particular phase of dairying is rapidly developing it is noteworthy that it is confined in the main to the residual clays of the non- glaciated region in the counties of the slute To some slight extent it has spread over on to the glaciated prairies of the Rock river valley and also over the Illinois border HISTORIC OLD TOWN Williamburg Va a Place of Interest To Every Lover of Liberty Debtors Prison the only one of its kind in existence in America the old powder magazine the court house one hundred and fifty years old and still in use the College of William and Mary the oldest in the United States except Harvard are all of national interest The Old Bruton Church is one of the most interesting places of the old capital For two hundred years its bell has tolled the death of the old year and rung in the new for the generations as they have come and gone Through its ancient tower entrance passed the court processions of colonial days the governors with emblazoned emblems betokening the authority and majesty of Old England's kings and queens It has been aptly called the ter Abbey of the New World for in the surrounding churchyard and under the church as well not only do the rude forefathers of the Hamlet sleep but a long line of those whose names are known to earthly fame and as the or reads from marble slab or memorial tablet he can well realize that he is reading from the pages of his country's history Tho opportunity to visil this historic landmark which will be afforded ing the Jamestown Exposition will no doubt be improved by nearly every visitor and a mingling with the ical associations of Williamsburg Jamestown and Yorktown will lend a deeper appreciation and enchantment to the scenes of splendor and cence of the greatest of all naval tary and industrial expositions Gco W Thorpe and family formerly of this city now reside near the city of Williamsburg Luchsinger A telegram received brought to Mr and Mrs Thomas the sad news of the death of only son Christ Luchsinger at 111 Sunday No further particulars were given except that the funeral would be held there Tuesday His parents were not aware that he was Remember il Tho Times for news Musical acrobatic and comical stunts the masked carnival ill and to hear that he was dead was a great shock to them He bad been located at Naperville for some years and was formerly engaged in farming but of late had been employed as stone mason He was born October 29 A daughter years of age survives him A few years ago he was badly injured by being kicked by a horse a broken arm and log Mr and Mrs left this afternoon One of the decided points of interest to visitors of the Jamestown exposition which opens April on Hampton Roads near Norfolk Virginia will be the quaint historic old town of Williamsburg Virginia less than an hour's ride by rail and ferry from the exposition Midway between Jamestown on the James and Yorktown on the York and but a few miles from either place this old town has more historical clustering about its fashioned houses its groves of mulberry and linden trees and its college court house and palace greens than about any other in America It received its charter from the king and is the oldest town in the United Slates its history being with the history of the nation It lias to seo its sister village of Jamestown fall nto decay and lie beneath the ruins of two hundred years It was the capital of the colony of Virginia for nearly a century and was the center of REAL ESTATE SALES Nicholas Elmer to Casper Elmer 15 acres sec 1 New Glarus township Clark Land and Loan Co to Mark Thorn int in parcel village of Albany William to August acres sec 35 Brooklyn township Casper Elmer to Nicholas Elmer int in 15 acres sec 7 town of New Glarus Tho who wero in- in the Bank of South Wayne have sold tho atock to local the report to tho Unit they had closed tho bank being erroneous The of the bank arc F E Troo president Andress Tree vice president and Oscar J Olson cashier the exciting scenes proceeding the revolution The old town has been the residence of more personages of world-wide in- than any other on earth Among these are five presidents of tho United States four 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