Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - January 29, 1921, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin WISCONSIN RAPIDS DAILY UNE SEVENTH YEAR NO. 2307, WISCONSIN WIS. JANUARY 29, 1921. PRICE THREE CENTS GERMANS TO 266 BIL COUNCIL PUTS HEAVY TAX ON THEIR EXPORTS AGREEMENT SIGNED BY BERS OF COUNCIL THIS PAY 12 PERCENT ON EX- PORTS Associated Jan. German ation plan as drafted by special committee of the Supreme Council of the Allies was signed by the bers of the council this The German disarmament agreement was also signed by the The cil also approved a plan for a two hundred franks appropriation to Pay In Installments Jan. Allied Supreme Council today agreed to a German reparation plan after the meeting of last The plan provides for the payment of Germany of 226 billion gold marks in. forty-two annuals to begin the payment of two billion marks the first two and in ad- dition to the payment of a twelve percent tax on German The plan is in the hands of the printers and will be signed this after- when the council meets for its second at four p. m. Call In Germany The plan will be conveyed to in a few days and Germany will to a conference on February 2Sth to consider the In the meantime the conference of executive will be resumed on February 6." SIGEL GIRL WEDS SHERRY YOUNG MAN The marriage of Miss Rose of daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John and Walters of took place Wednesday morning at ten o'clock St. James Catholic Church at Rev. F. Gills performing the They were attended by Miss Berdelia Bushmaker as maid of honor and Miss Rose Walters as and August akker as best man and FredT rib The bride was charmingly in a gown of white georgette satin and trimmed with She also wore a and parried a shower of bridal sweet peas maiden hair with long streamers of tulle and sweet Miss Bushmaker pink satin and Miss pink crepe de chine Both carried arm of carnations and the a wedding breakfast was served at the home of the bride's to a number of relatives invited The home was prettily decorated with a huge boll in the center of the Mr. and Mrs Walters will make their home iu where groom has rented a Out o' town guests were Andrew mous and Will of lown and Edwin Fredli of SUPREME COURT JUDGE DIES AT STATE CAPITAI Associated Jan. James B. member of the Wisconsin Supremo Court since 1904, died afternoon following a long illness Justice Kerwin was the oldest mem ber of the supreme court in the point of having been born May 4 1850 in GAS RATES Associated Jan. rates were authorized for the Milwaukee today by the Railroad The increase ranges from fifteen to twenty-five COLD AND SNOWS Associated Jan. predictions for the week beginning Monday Region of Great cold and occasional THE WEATHER Unsettled weather tonight and Sunday probably snow south portion colder Sunday and west portion MAN GA RASH WOULD CHECK UP SPEED LAW VIOLATORS Jan. limed at frequent violators of the traffic laws prepared by man Frederick J. of at the request of police and municipal will be considered in the legislature Under the proposed measure every county prospector will have a com- plete list of convictions in other and by reference can determine whether arrested have been convicted The would require court clerks to transmit records of all traffic law convictions te the secretary of Once a the secretary would bulletin the complete list to all PRICES STILL FALLING SAYS MARKET IT IKS AT 3UOXTHS; r. CUTS CLOSE OFFICE HERE UNTIL MARCH 4TH: DEPUTY TOR VISITS NEARBY CITIES FOR GOVERNMENT According to advices from L. W. Deputy Collector for this dis- the time for filing returns for the Federal Income Tax is All single with an income of per annum and all married persons with an income of more than are to make returns on their that means they are to fill out their tax return blanks which must be filed with the deputy collectors office not later than 15. Close Office Here The local office of the Federal uty in the Library building must He Closed between Jan. 31 and 4th, to permit Mr. Colburn to make the district over which he pre- which includes Wood and age Mr. Colbum states that he will return to his offices here on March 4th to assist all people in the Sling of their The last date for filing is usually the busiest one Cor the income tax officers and it is advised people attend to their re- turns before the eleventh Visits Other Towns Mr. Colbum will visit the cities nearby in this and Portage counties before the 4th of next He will oe in Nekoosa from February 28 to March 3. Information as to hip quarters will be given out at the koosa Jan. j prices continued to fall in consin during with the eral range at the lowest point in eral the Division of Market reports today in announcing the cost to the Breads and meats were shown to have been lower in price in large cities and while some of the other com- t particularly butter I eggs were cheaper in the smaller Hits I Farm products sold to local ers were also shown to have declined i in their selling although drop was said to have been marked than during the previous few The has become it was that the bottom I limit of prices had been reached in many of the The average retail prices for De- and January Jan. Dec. Commodity Average Average Oc 1.9e 10.3c c 54.Sc i 11.Tc 49-lb. sack j Pork 28 c Round Ib 26.6c 29 c Soft ton c Take Prop State average prices received bj farmers Commodity cwt. Cattle doz Mixed bu Average Jan. 2.01 5.13 5S 1 1.42 bu. SO Timothy ton Dec 2.20 9.IS 5.36 1.38 21.21 1IT MEDICINES WITH ALCOHOLIC CONTENT MEETS LOCAL PEOPLE ON WESTERN VACATION Associated 111. Jan. Stone director for this district has announced that a large number of patient a large per cent of will be barred from sale by five well known latent medicine medicines the manufacture Df which is to have done a arge busness since the advent of prohibition will be added to the list He stated that in the past six of 1920 his office issued five thousand permits to Illinois permission to sell patent which contained The proprietary association here of about two hundred large medicine manufacturers re- proposed to combine for the of eliminating the of such Mr. Stone stated that the latent medicines in the applications contained almost as high a of as and in many cases where the sale of hesc medicines was high it has boon ised for intoxicating Albert who resides at Third street who is the winter in has written back to a friend in this city telling of his trip to San Francisco and later to Los He states that he met Mr. and Mrs. Gerow of the Witter in Los and Mr. and Mrs. of who run the Butterfield Hotel He speaks of an atuo trip to Ocean Hollywood and ly Hills and while he states that it is beautiful there it costs about a breath and a man with good lungs would do well to stay in Mi. Haney is staying at the Stowed Hotel in Los Angeles anj asks that his friends here write him when they e MAKE NO MOVE ON READJUSTING WAGES CHARGE FARMER WITH TRANSPORTING WHISKEY Associated 111., Jan. of readjustment of railroad and working conditions was killed before tho labor committee of i the American Association of j road Executives after conferring late last and starting again this morning at eleven I VISITS HIS MOTHER Associated Jan. 29 Nicholas living in Kenosha county icar the Racine County line was under arrest on a charge of possessing and transporting barrels of whiskey stolen from ware house of the Badger com- It is not yet whether he will be brought before Chief Commissioner or be- fore the Grand Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Merrill spent Friday in Spaila going down to visit the doctor's Mrs. L. D. who had the misfortune to fall and break her right hip Thursday Dr. Merrill states that altho his mother is a woman seventy-eight years of age and also owing to the j of the fracture he found her getting along as comfortably can be WELCOME TO THE FAMILY Frank Third St. N. H. F. 3rd St. N. George 13th St. N. John R. F. D. 2. The above are the new bers of Tribune family whom we take pleasure in introducing to the other members of the une Dollar Day brought in many new subscribers to the Daily BUSINESS ORGANIZE OIL SYNDICATE R. F. JOHNSON ELECTED HEAD OF SYNDICATE WHICH WILL TRY FOR OIL KENTUCKY FIELDS WOULD DAMPEN SPIRITS OF ARDENT ELOPERS FIGHTING TAX THREAT BY INTERNAL NUE DEPARTMENT TO ASSESS NEUTRALIZED CREAM BRINGS OUT PROTEST j R. F. Johnson of this city has been i elected president of a new Oil j cate organization among the i ness men of Wisconsin Rapids and those from other nearby i The men have put up for selling one i hundred and fifty units at per They have started drilling on I their lease in Kentucky and will j probably know the of their i venture about Wednesday of next The other officers in the cate Name Officers Vice-President Martin Wis and and Gretna Greens by Wisconsh elopers will lose a large part of if a law being prepared bj of the approval various is by the The proposed would require married outside the register within ten days after their to make their riage Other provisions include 'a fee for such registration and medical examination in accordance with the Wisconsin eugenics claim some of the elopers 50 to other states to bo married order to escape the medical j as well as the farmers and dairymen j in this section and the opened a war on a proposed of cents per pound which the I reau of Internal Revenue has J. ed to impose on every pound of I cream used in the ture of Local j Trustees John Brandt and and dairymen are taking the fight up Harvey The new concern will be known thru the Wisconsin The tax was to go into effect February first but has been postponed until ary in order to give the case a Would Hit Farmers to the blow would be a heavy one on the meaning that they would either have to make of their daily to creameries or in hot weather it would reach a stage where it would have to be ed. The neutralizing process is one used by all when the cream to and according to a local manufacturer about eighty per cent of the butter made in the try is made from neutralized He stated that if the tax was put into effect it would cost the butter ers annually and would probably mean a very material ad- vance in the price of Blame Oleo Men The butter men blame the garine manufacturers for the tax stating that they are trying to make it appear that the butter made from the neutralized cream is adulterated Butter has been made that way for twenty a local facturer and practically all of especially in is made from neutralized The butter makers are taking the matter up with the farmers organizations and creameries in an attempt to defeat the CHARGE GIRL KILLED MOTHER IN QUARREL Associated Oak Jan. arc waiting for the heavy storm to abate before ing a fifteen trip to the tain range home of Frank o investigate the death of vi fe Murda upon returning from a coal where he had been found his fifteen year old daughter he confessed of her because the latter had objected to a new hand to take charge of the smaller Murda is an Austrian who has been working in the mines here a living for his wife and several small HOPES FOR TARIFF ARE DWINDLING Associated Jan. 29 that the tarritT would come to u vote in the Senate this session has been practically when the measure came up for what was believed to be its final day of debate in that WANT DONATIONS as the Wisconsin Rapids Oil Syndicate and hold a lease en a fifty-two acre tract of land in The spects there are very good for ing there being oil wells around their lease which are Work of drilling on the local land is under- way and it is expected that it will only take a few days to tell whether or not they will be Visited Wells one of the local has visited the wells and is very well satisfied with the prospects of the local company getting The wells in that section are not like those in many sections of California and in the other oil fields where they dig some times several thousand feet for a In the Kentucky fields the wells and after ging about so if oil is not found the venture is considered worthless and it ist given The exhorbitant experienced in some of the oil wells is caused by the deep the men which runs the expense into many thousands of GAN GETS AUTO FACTORY ATTEMPTS TO BUT FIXO MANY AR1 AFTER IT ROADS AVERAGE POOR THE STATE Jan. are in poor condition in the southern i counties where freezing weather has hardened the ruts that developed ing the last In the north the ground is covered with 2 to 6 inches of snow and sleighing is are also in use This week's re- ports 10. No auto traffic 11. Very Several cars stuck lately Black Impassable 12. Passable except for deep drifts 13. Difficult cars north of 1 14. Impassable in Florence Co. be- tween mile marks 11 and 10. 15. Good in Winnebago Co. IS. 19. Frozen rough with mud holes to Prairie Du to 20. Rutted but 22. Open in Waupaca Co. 21. Open 28. Muddy and 31. i 33. 40. Open for 41. 42. Rough 43. Passable except in Chippewa 57, 66, 78. Wisconsin Rapids will not be the new home of the Motors Co. of New who some time ago that they were for z plant and led Sec Fritzsinger of the Chamber ol Commerce to write the company ir. an effort to get them to locate here he reply to Mr. lettei would indicate that there are othe which would like to have the new plant in their if Hud Many announcement to the public of the formation of Durant Motors and the further of Mr. Durant that one of the for the manufacture of the car would bp located in the brought anr petitions from all parts of the coun try urging the location of in setting forth the special advantages to be Your com was among the received and your interest was great 1y appreciated by those To Flint Mr. Durani wishes me to say that he will be located at Flint his old home town Vis always contributed so much to He is grateful for your in him and your interest the sof Durant The Chamber of Commerce at all discouraged at the that it was worth while making in attempt to locate the plant if Other companies who are a change in location are also being offered local inducements HEAR ABE SILVER IS IN MORE TROUBLE CBy Associated Jan. great sensa- tion was caused here today when it was that Abe ly here from a seven-year had n arrested at charge of killing a member of a i Silver of the members of the band bandits who ran the ous house here in 1919, and had been to serve seven years in but was paroled by Judge Kelly after he had contributed to a local charitable Silver's home is in MEDDAUGH IS VICTIM OF COLLISION STREET CAR AND AUTO CRASH OX CROSSING NEAR DIES FROM IES Meddaugh of this city is and J. E. of is in Riverview body lacerated and and his as result of a crash between the Jones car and the six o'clock street car on the near the Friday Meddaugh died in the hospital at four o'clock this i fracture of the skull along with body injuries resulting in his Jones is badly bruised but his condition is not considered Coming From Nekoosa Mr. Jones and Mr. Meddaugh were from Nekoosa when the They had reached a near the pavilion Tig to they heard the street car whistle and saw the light from the As they proceeded they again leard the he but thot there was a large car behind hem that wanted to get Mr. Jones that he pulled off to the side of road intending to the car pass Mr. Meddaugh there's the street The next instant the crash came and he blow threw the Ford against a post completely the car and in- on the which resulted in who op- the states that saw he Ford approaching them and that they had whistled the lights on Ford made them hink car had Mr. says that the street car was into reverse and was slowing materially when it reached the Got Help Immediately Help from Nekoosa was secured im- arid after first aid been the men were rushed in ng the an operation was he did lot regain consciousness and passed iway this Jones was resting easily this ng and while he is badly bruised his condition is not considered men had been working in this city and went to Nekoosa Friday in company with S. L. Stevens o look at a team of They back to this city shortly before six o'clock and had driven about a north of Nekoosa when the Mr. Jones who is in Waupaca mcl his daughter in been notified of the accident and to reach Mr. Meddaugh is a single man and was in an auto accident here a few weeks ago when a car which ho was driving collided with a he ng received minor cuts and bruises at hat BEG PARDON The D. A. R. Chapter of this city I is receiving donations for the Hall which is being Anything of history which would typify Wisconsin in the money which had been spent on roads collections is being j under the bond but charged to tions con be sent to Mrs. Ivah In Thursdays under the head of Shows Where County i Fund is under the item ofi Highway Survey the amount was placed at 891.56. County Highway er Morris explains that while it appears on the books that the j survey fund is only for year and the balance of that fund was I GIRL NAMES FOREST COUNTY MINISTER Associated L. Duncan for the last five years pastor of a church at Carter in Forest County was bound over to circuit court for trial after a on charges of preferred by a fifteen year old according to announcements here GOT LOAD OF CARS that account temporarily for the lack of a better place to keep it. The garage re- a carload of new on there being one and some open car models in i LEATHER CLOUDY BECOMING UNSETTLED In California ures ranged considerably below y which is quite ibly cold for that The warmest place in the United States was Florida where t was 66 degrees above The place was Northfield where it was two The coldest January 28 since 1900 is 24 degrees below in 1904, while in 1906 was the warmest with a of 47 The sun rose yesterday at a. m. and set at p. m. Yesterday the extreme temperatures here were 10 and 20 Last year on the jame date the maximum and mini- mum temperatures were 35 and Indications for tomorrow and night are as according to T. Considerable ness tonight becoming A shower in the Southwest eastward from Utah and Arizona which will probably cause unsettled conditions followed by colder
