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NEIGHBORING NOTES. No Town Tax for of the town of LeRoy, Dodge county, will not town tax this Reports pay showed balance of $3,000 in the treasury and incoming funds an additional assessment unnecessary. Lomira Bank Closed.-The Lomira State Bank suspended business on Dec. in order to permit a checkup of its affairs by officials of the banking deThe officers of the bank closed the on their own accord to insure the safety of the business. Former Cedarburg Man tian Lorence, former resident of town Cedarburg, died at the home of his sonin-law and daughter, Capt. and Mrs. Getta Woodward, U. 8. army, retired, at Milwaukee on Dec. 2. attained the age of 83 years and is survived by six children. Is Adjudicated Bankrupt. Skupniewitz, who conducted the Kewaskum Hardware & Electric Co. for several years, was on Dec. duly adjudicated bankrupt in federal court at Milwaukee. The first meeting of the creditors was held in the post office building at Milwaukee on Dec. 14. Joins Emergency Relief. -Overriding the veto of Mayor Rae Weaver, the Beaver Dam city council adopted resolution to join the Dodge county emergency relief committee and named Alderman Ed. LaFleur as member of the executive board to replace the mayor on that body. The November cost of poor relief in Beaver Dam was $5,230.32. Prominent Woman Dead.-Mrs. John A. Thiel, prominent Mayville club woman, wife of Atty. John A. Thiel, former district attorney of Dodge county, died at St. Agnes' hospital at Fond du Lac last Wednesday after an illness of one week. Mrs. Thiel is survived by her husband, three daughters, Marguerite, Marion and Dorothy, and her mother, Mrs. Wilfred Stewart of Madison. Funeral services were held at Mayville last Saturday. Spectators at Cock Fight Face Court. -More than 50 persons, apprehended as spectators at cock fight in the Shorecrest dance hall at Fox Lake last Saturday night, in circuit court before Judge C. M. Davison at Juneau last Monday morning. Sheriff Henry Lehman of Dodge county and deputies descended upon the dance hall, on the north shore of the lake, interrupted the fights, seized 26 birds and arrested Joseph Magin as keeper. Killed in Auto Accident-A former well-known resident of Dacada, Ozaukee county, Nicholas Deppiesse, the 25-yearold son of John Deppiesse, died in hospital at Orange, Calif., on Dec. 5, following an automobile accident. Word of the accident received on the day previous and Jacob and Marie Depplesse, brother and sister of the injured man, departed for the west, but returned to their home when informed while enroute that their brother had passed away. The unfortunate young man was born and raised at Dacada. Youthful Burglar Under Arrest.-Joseph Karus, year-old town of Hubbard, Dodge county, farm youth, is lodged in the county jail at Juneau, awaiting circuit court trial on the charge of burglarizing the Oscar Redlin hardware store at Iron Ridge on Nov. 27. Articles stolen in the burglary include shotgun, razors, three boxes of shells, 13 jackknives, three flashlights and two watches. Much of the loot was recovered, according to Sheriff Lehman, who claims to have confession of guilt from the prisoner. Killed by Train-Paul Riesmeyer, former Port Washington boy, was killed by North-Western road train at Janesville recently while making short cut to his home through the railroad yards. Mr. Riesmeyer was born at Cedarburg In 1912 he enlisted in the first regular cavalry of the U. S. army, serving until Feb. 1915, He re-enlisted at Jeffersonville, Mo.; 1917 and served overseas. Surviving the deceased are the widow, one son, his father, seven brothers and two sisters. The remains were interred at Port Washington Electric Co. Blamed for Crash.-Negligence on the part of the Milwaukee Electric Co. was found by Coroner George Horn of Ozaukee county when he conducted an inquest into the death of John Orakowski, 14-year-old Cedarburg boy who was killed by an interurban car recently. The youth was killed when the interurban struck his stalled truck, dragging it about five hundred feet down the right-of-way. The boy's body was thrown from the wreckage at point about 200 feet from the scene of the crash. He was dead when picked up. Testimony at the inquest indicated that the motorman, Mr. Turner of Cedar Grove, could have seen the stalled truck at a distance sufficiently far off to avoid a crash. Testimony further showed that the interurban had been traveling about fifty miles an hour. County Board Wields Salary Axe.Final acts of the closing of the Ozaukee County Board of Supervisors was the election of Alois Krier of Belgium to the county highway commission, succeeding Peter J. Jung. who is the sheriff-elect, and Henry Wiechert of town Cedarburg to the county agricultural committee to succeed Henry Kraus of Fredonia. The supervisors continued to wield the economy axe in cutting salaries and in addition cut their own pay from $5 day to $4.50 and reduced the mileage fee to cents. Other salary cuts were as follows: County of schools from $1,800 to $1,500 and travel and office expense reduced from $900 to $750; county nurse from $1,500 to $1,380; deputy county celrk, $1,500 to $1,380; register in probate, $1,450 to $1,350; highway bookkeeper, $1,200 to $840; county agent, $3,200 to $2,600; janitor, $1,275 to $1,100. Sewage Plant old east side sewage plant at Cedarburg was abandoned last week and all of the city's sewage is now handled in the new and