Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - November 22, 1923, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin WISCONSIN TRIBUNE TENTH 3176. WISCONSIN THURSDAY NOVEMBER PRICE THREE Today Shop Crosses 35. Methodists Are Men Are By 1923, by Star NOW is the time to Your Christmas Shopping It won't be really early after Save Show consideration for overworked es and get now what you cannot get later the first of al I that the stores have to This means women they are MILL EXPLOSION TAKES NINE LIVES Living up to the prediction made in this column when cotton was selling around the price went above thirty-five touching new high However don't The Methodist Episcopal Board of Public Morals has things to say about the stage in New it many at a down to the footlights naked from the waist and practically naked from the waist call it just plain so say the Much seems to depend on what ple are and and where In ancient Greece young girls ran in the races entirely hurting anybody's in- tentions were That makes the Many things on the are both unintentionally but never the less very as now prescribed to the are about as interesting so many of dressed beef in a butcher Managers ought to know Young ladies of Chicago's University decide that men are and are all with combine others others triviality hut nil Nothing new in that truthful Tlir miracle is that women have endured men's pre- tending to be interested in their versation for so many from dull modern roan back to lie must have had nothing at all to being so freshly made and having no .to bring home to his You do not wonder in the despair of she talked to the George une of the country's four richest ler and Ford are the other three comes from Europe cheerful are going to have prosperity here and Europe's troubles can't pre- vent getting debts from Eu- rope he quotes as can't press blood out of a That probably describes our of getting the chests of money we lent to Nobody will over that if we to our own business from now A few years ago even Henry Ford wouldn't have thought this He will through the from WWI station at using his 360 metre wave across a thousand miles of this three miles of the Atlantic to men and women in That miracle would have astounded those living when Old Testament was hope that in a few thousand with every human being able to talk at will with any other on men will decide to stop murdering each and follow Joseph In New York's Square Garden on Tuesday night thousands of white men and arid enjoyed themselves while two Siki and their faces and chests streaming with Five hundred years when historians ask what civilization was in the biggest city in the biggest country of the in 1923, that picture of two bleeding de- lighting the souls of five thousand white men and will answer THE WEATHER C o n d y and ably snow or rail ami portion ris GENERAL COUNTY TAX FOR 1924 TO BE SAME AS TAXES AND SOME COUNTY CIAL TAXES REDUCED ING REDUCTION JN TOTAL TAXES Tax payers of Wood County will feel little reduction in the amount of taxes to paid in 1924 over their This was ascertained today the meeting of the county board when the committee report was adopted calling for an appropriation of which includes the eral state tax and a special state tax for support of charitable and penal institutions and the county budget of general For 1923 the amount of was raised by the ty for the county general and special state By comparison there is found reduction slightly over to the taxpayers of the which when spread over the en- tire taxable property of the county will not show an Because the general tax of is a few dollars of amount raised for What Taxes Wy Below is a table taken from the re- port of the committee of the county board showing for what poses the taxes were State Special charges against County for Charitable and Penal In- County County County County Interest Asylum Principal Asylum District County and Judicial S County Vital Training Agricultural Agricultural Blind County and State County Interest County Board 1923 Deficits State Roads and County Board Concrete Roads for 1924. All other In the sum of general and special state and general county taxes listed above there are three er which are special charges levied against all the towns villages and cities of the county ex- cept the cities of Wisconsin Rapids and Marshfield and special highway tajc for bridges including county aid bridges except the village of and Marshfield ami a levy on the entire of 90 for the county school making a grand total of which gether with the amount above makes total of The total of all for last year was Schimmelpfenig and Smith on Ag. Committee A. P. Vesper with the highest of George Smith town of and W. J. city of third were ejected by a vote of tho county board as members of the ty agricultural They were elected out of a field of ing of themselves and V. IX consin Harry anil P. W. town of Their duties have much to do with the and state fair and with all agricultural work in v. Blinding Headlights Cost Life of 15 Year Old Girl Associated lights on an automobile so six young girls walking on highway 2f> from high school al to the Otto home thoro they failed to got off tho road and 15, ts and 17, is in the Watertown hospital with a broken To Circulate Petition For Vote On Ceasing Road Work Shortly after the adjournment of the County Board J. C. supervisor from Auburndale town and A. P. supervisor for town of announced jointly in an in- with the that there would be circulated a petition among the voters of the county for the the years 1925 and 192G, of concrete highway con- struction by the The petition will further ask that the proposal be voted on by referendum next spring at the annual Both Mr. fer and Mr. Bean stated that they would not personally circulate the titions but that there were dozens of people in every town in the county who would circulate They stated that under the law they would not be permitted to circulate petitions be- cause of their membership on the county board although they declare they will support the petitions in every j Circulate Dec. 10 I Mr. Kieffer stated that he and Mr. Bean had consulted competent legal advisors and had learned of the ner in which the proposition may be put to the vote of ing to Mr. there will sary signatures per cent of the number of voters who in this ty at the last election cast their vote for the office of The ber is estimated to be 1500 that number is Mr. fer shall be put upon the lot and the people will have an to express their views whether or not there shall be any more con- crete road program during 1925 and 192f5." Very Dissatisfied When questioned regarding the posed on the two year con- crete road Mr. Kieffer Mr. Bean and myself have been active for two or more years to pre- vent the huge road appropriations from passing the county board and each year we have lost the fight for the We know that we sent the views of a great majority of the people and we intend to use this legitimate method of preventing any more road construction during 1925 and 1920." DULUTH MAN IS VICTIM OF SHOT BY 3-YEAR CHILD 1UXKKK PIES INSTANTLY LOWING AT WAS RIFLE Stringent Dance Ordinance Adopted By County Board CHILDREN BARRED AND MID- NIGHT CLOSING MADE INSPECTION SYSTEM INSTITUTED A stringent ordinance for the censing and inspection of all public dances in Wood and ding the attendance at such dances of children under 1C years of age unless accompanied parent or legal was by the county board of supervisors yesterday after- iroon by a vote to 12. with members of the board nOt voting and one The which was drawn foi the counties of the by the attorney general's in- by Supervisor Reuben Con- nor of the village of Governing Dances The and regulations governing the conduct of public dances are in- cluded in section eight of. the in At no public dance shall the presence of any person under sixteen years of age be permitted unless such person is accompanied by parent or legal Public dances shall be dis- and public dance hails closed for the night on or before twelve o'clock ing New Year's when they may remain open until thirty No public dances shall be conducted between such closing hour and S o'clock a. m. The dance hall inspection tee upon written by special permit in writing en over the signatures of at least two members relieve any licensee from the provisions of this but each such permit except one dance only and shall be issued not more than ten days prior to the holding of such No pass-out checks any person to leave and reenter a public dance hall ing a public dance shall be The drinking or offering to another person of intoxicating liquors shall not be either in a public dance hall or on the premises on hich it is The participation in a lic dance of persons under the in- of liquor or drugs shall not be Idlers or loiterers shall not be permitted to remain either in a public dance hall or on the premises on which it is All dances held in the night time shall he kept well and sufficiently lighted at all Hall's Must He Licensed The ordinance provides that all lic dance halls must he censes to be issued upon the payment of a fee by a majority vote of the county board or by the chairman of the board subject to its approval when it Permits for each dance must be obtained from the county and a inspection fee must be paid for each township in the These tors will be notified by the county clerk when a permit for a dance been and will be required to attend such dances ami see the law js observed those in ance conduct themselves In- have the power to order any dance hall closed are required to file a written report each with the county of the ordinance punished by the revocation of license and by fine of from to or from SO days in the county jail to one year in state Need Drinks License Under the ordinance any ment at which drinks of any kind are sold in connection with a dance must have a to sell thus making it liable to search without a warrant under the provisions of the Severson prohibition enforcement act. The ordinance will be published in the Daily Tribune on wiil go into effect on December 15. Associated Nov. ally shot with his own Walter C. 40, teller of the American Ex- change was killed at at his Statements were made that the shot that ended his life was fired by his 3-year-old Mr. Harris had taken the the kitchen to clean it and Mrs. ris and two Jane and 6, were in an adjoining room from the kitchen Mr. Harris called to his youngest The two girls in to their ther when suddenly Mrs. who was heard a shot and Betty ran into her mother with blood on her dress and is Terrified Mrs. Harris ran to the door and then called for a Harry a heard the shots and Mrs. call for help and entered the He founo Harris on the floor a bullet in his left brest which passed through the body and lodged in the wall of the Big Majority Kills Regulating Parking Rights By a big majority the county board members killed a resolution would make the parking of an auto- mobile within 12 feet of the center ol a concrete highway a of- punishable by a fine of not less than or more than or a thirty day jail sentence in default of The resolution met with an overwhelming PORTAGE COUNTY OFFERED STATE HIGHWAY MAKES OFFER TO INDUCE OF CONCRETE ON HIGHWAY Stock Burns in Fire head of three seven ami a large number of chickens were burned to death when fire destroyed the barn of Chris near The cause of the fire is not Stevens ty has been offered by the highway commission for con- crete highway construction on way 10. provided that the county board an equal Letter Read The made in a letter which was read to the county day pointed out that Port age county had already received 000 in and federal aid during the past year and that the county ready outside its share of aid but that if the board would carry out its construction program for Highway JS and would appropriate in addition for Highway 10, I the would put another on i 10, making the construction there of approximately four miles of A resolution was offered by Super- visors Ben Halverson of New Hope j F. 15. Dent of and 0. A. I of Almond levying a I tax of to meet this state j propriation for I To for j Another resolution by the same j thiee provided for a bond j issue of for the Stevens Point road on the new route j laid out by the highway was laid over as j also the one relating to Road 10. Governor Elaine Calls For Observance of Thanksgiving Nov. 22 Blaine today issued his Thanksgiving Day calling upon the citizens of the suite to observe the The proclamation by custom and we have followed the tradition established by our fathers to set aside a special day for tho worship of God and rendering of The rigors of tho 1101 climate bring to us the winter after our harvests are As a nation we have been During the past war and want and hate and have held sway in rope thousands have died from ine in Japan lias disaster which has Tho enforcement of the ordinance rs i tho sympathy of the entire We placed in the hands of a special com- of the county to which Chairman Chapman appointed U. J. Straus of ben Connor of Auburndale and L. C. have lived in peace and in comparative have known sorrow in the of our and wo arc mindful of tho distress prevalent of This I As a nation wo have n will meet at tho court house with material things ir to inspectors for each parison with of other nations arc suffering the pangs of hunger and of Losses and not unexpected and such as we hove had our people have borne with groat but as wo have ed are inconsequential in comparison with the trials that have come to other a state wo havo much for to give Our labors been rewarded with no mean Ws have enough to moot our own needs and to share with our less fortunate brothers in our own country and in other In the words of oor will do well then to render thanks for tho good that has come to and show by our actions that wo havo become wiser and truer by tho that havo boon imposed upon Wo will thus prepare ourselves for the part wo must in a world which the full measure of We boon a favored We ought to bo a most generous have boon a most blessed We ought to he a most thankful Refinery In Louisiana Is Blast Scene Associated New Nov. svas continued today for additional bodies in the ruins of the Vida Sugar Refining company at ten miles east of which was razed late yesterday by a terrific boiler ex- plosion that killed at least nine sons and injured 15 five of them probably A check of the refinery payroll dis- closed that there are three employes still unaccounted and it is feared that they are buried under the debris of the plant completely ruined causing an estimated loss of Nine bodies have been taken from the TELLS ADVANTAGE OF COUNTY COURT f. E. TELLS 3IKMTVET1S OF THAT MAY BE 111 YEP The advantages of the county court of Wood county being extended er judicial powers by the state lature were clearly explained to the board late day by Charles E. Wisconsin Rapids who rep resented the County Bar To In his Mr. Briere stated that the salary question had been settled at a conference of the bar association members who recommended it to judiciary committee of the county board who in turn recommended it to the county the bar association's their own The salary agreed upon was for the county judge and for the clerk of with the provision the clerk court handle the duties of the county court in his former Under resolution as the county judge will not fees for his former all fees collected over to the urer while he will assume the and retain the old at a salary of per In the budget adopted From the finance set aside for county qse the salaries of the officials being included in tho sum set Six of Court County Judge W. J. who has held the office for a great number of the next election or until he is defeated or declines to seek the office held six of cour in the county four in consin at the court and two in in all probability at the city Judge Conway also abandon his practice and full time To Justice In explaining the added duties of the Mr. Briere that the county court judge would have diction over all criminal in a sentence to state prison could not be inflicted and in all civil up to He said that the ty court would cut out practically all justice court cases and would ally reduce the expenses of circuit court by justice in nil cases within its jurisdiction and would ten justice in both criminal and civil It was pointed out no large venire of jurymen would be called into court awaiting jury vice at the expense of the In closing it was stated that practically all of the leading counties have been given added jurisdiction in their ty courts and found the arrangement entirely Since the prohibition law came in- to existence the circuits been rushed each term to complete their at finding this impossible owing to the large number of With the introduction of in- creased judicial power to the county wherein cases be this will he greatly it was Name C. A. Normington to Vocational Board Vacancy P. A. has been elected by the board of education to fill the vacancy on the vocational board of education by Mie resignation of K. S. UNIVERSITY DEAN PUSHES PROBE OF BOOZE SITUATION GOODNIGHT IS GATHERING FACTS REGARDING ING WILL REPORT TO Associated Nov. of liquor among University of Wisconsin students during the recent homecoming celebration has been in- S. H. dean stated from Dean office are ing rooming house in re- gard to the presence of liquor in their Regents Will Hear The inquiry is the latest action a result of the resolution passed by a men's organization in Milwaukee er publication in the Daily student of an editorial on the liquor A report will ably be placed before the board of regents when it meets The re- sults of the inquiry thus far have not been made Hold Booze Runner Nov. man his name as Joseph who was taken into custody late by Madison officers when liquor valued at was was arraigned before Judge Hoppman in Superior court this morning and ed not Meanwhile police tinned a search for a second is said to have Sullivan to Madison in an Police stated today that a portion of the liquor brought to son was for distribution among sity The automobile con- the liquor captured in the university Local detectives the opinion the man captured last night was part of an organized liquor into Woman Kills Throws Self Train By Associated Green Ing behind a. tracks Of the an fied young committed suicide by throwing herself in tlie train about a mile west of A search or tlie scene of tjie vie a Ui repealed shawl nil top of a of. ties upon which the young woman apparently sut while waiting for the The girl was 25 of S in ami had Jark eyes and and a dark dross with a luce Board Favors Appeal in Halsten G. Halsten Suit After the members of county road and bridge committee had a resolution empowering the district to seek an appeal Ut the damage brought against the county by Mrs. G. r Karth was awarded damages of against the by a in cnl court here this fall as result of an accident near against the county by a jury n the county hoard voted in favor of the The resolution also empowered thv district attorney to carry the case tn the supreme court if Aviator Takes Pays Fine for Trespass Associated 111.. Nov. V. former district und both of. who with an fied woman in an airplane made a 200 fooi dive to earth near here were fined each because they landed without a After being held all day yesterday by Sheriff Alstrom the men worn released last night paying fines for
