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NEWS OF THE BADGER STATE Mrs. Wilhelmina Giese, 69, a pioneer of Oconto, died suddenly while reading the evening paper at her home. John Grayearek, 50, a farmer of Zander, Wis., committed suicide by hanging. His body was found suspended from an apple tree in his orchard. Milk dealers of La Crosse increased the retail price of milk from 11 to 12 cents. The raise is due to the dry summer and scarcity of feed, the La Crosse Milk Producers' association announced. Henry E. Krause, who for many years had followed the lumber industry in northern Wisconsin, died in Rhinelander where he had lived for the last thirty-five years. Cancer was the cause of death. The Bayfield County bank and the Northern State bank, both of Washburn, have been taken over by the state bank department, Dwight Parker, commissioner of banking, announced. Frozen assets were attributed as the reason for taking over the institutions. Joseph H. Carnahan of Black River Falls was seriously injured when he was struck by an automobile near his home. He had gotten out of his car, leaving it with the driver, and went around the back of the car and stepped into the street in front of an approaching automobile. A verdict of accidental death was returned by a coroner's jury after an inquest into the killing of Louis Keiferle, run down by an automobile driven by Ed Hicken, a Fond du Lac county farmer. Hicken was freed of any blame in the accident. Keiferle's death resulted from nine broken ribs, one of which punctured one of his lungs. The state is faced with the possibility of paying an advance of five cents a barrel on cement for next year's highway construction. Last year's supply of 1,600,000 barrels of cement was purchased at $1.70 a barrel. Illinois has just rejected its best bid of $1.75 a barrel, and there is little hope of a drop in cement with the state to ask for bids about Jan. 4. Wisconsin banks show a healthy and improved financial condition at the present time compared with last year, according to a statement of the condition of all state banks, issued by State Bank Commissioner Dwight Parker. The statement covers business up to Nov. 7. The eight hundred forty-seven banks included in the statement have total insources of $584,588,196, the report shows. Postal authorities are preparing for the biggest holiday rush in the history of the postal sevice. "The entire mail service is at present working at utmost capacity on everyday mail-the holiday rush has not yet started," said Peter F. Piasecki, Milwaukee postmaster. "Regular correspondence and advertising is extremely heavy this month, which leaves but little leeway for holiday mail. The postal service will need fully ten days to handle the Christmas mail. Therefore all greetings and gifts should be mailed before December 15." James G. Monahan, former congressman, long leader among Wisconsin Republicans, and a prominent Mason, died December 5th, at Dubupue, Iowa, after he had been taken suddenly ill at his hotel. Mr. Monahan had appeared to be in his usual health, when he left Darlington on a business trip to the Iowa city. Te was 68. For 40 years a leader of the Republican party in Wisconsin, particularly in the southwestern counties, Mr. Monahan achieved his most notable political triumph in 1918, when he was elected to congress in the second district, defeating John M. Nelson, Madison, who held the seat for several terms, and who regained it in 1920. Edward J. Sailstad, former president of the Multitone Phonograph campany, of Eau Claire, supposed to have burned to death in a cottage fire at Lake Nebagamon, a resort south of Superior, Aug. 26, 1920, has been located and arrested at Napa, Cal., and will be brought back to Wisconsin to face charges of arson and unlawful disinterment of a body. In his purported confession, Sailstad told how he had exhumed the body of Allen McFee in Lake Nebagamon cemetery, placing it in the cottage he had rented, and then burning the dwelling in an effort to leave the impression that he, Sailstad, had perished. After his disappearance he in company with
