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Show COLOR' LINE WIPED WISCONSIN . i ' Madison Society Lifts Eye-. Eye-. brows Orer Expensive Inaugural Affair i . , . , MADISON. Wis., Jan. 5 An Inatigu-, Inatigu-, ral ball, said to have cost tt0,00, yesterday yes-terday took ita place In Wisconsin poll-tics, poll-tics, ranking In Importance with Vlc-t Vlc-t tor Berger's Socialism and Robert La-lollette' La-lollette' attitude during the war. Madiaon society folk who recalled ' the last formal Inaugural balf-Clght years ago, raised their eyebrows"loday - ever last night's Informal affair, at i which nearly 10,00 person' danced and nut even the color line wa drawn, j .The l-all followed Ooverrior John J. J Blaine's Inauguration. - - ' Authorities at Wisconsin university, ) who have been trying to squash the 1 "shimmy" and "toodle" among stu- dents, Investigated the report today that 1000 undergraduates danced the way they pleased last night In obscure nooks of the statehouee, while the few ri , 1 I. ... ...i.liw. af. flees. " Churches, which ueressfully opposed op-posed tha Inaugural bail during Governor Gover-nor 1'hlllpn.' ailminlstratlon. started a nuiet Investigation of the affaire. The report that the Milwaukee delegation' brought It own liquid refreshment along wa being given considerable attention at-tention by the church officials. Political opponents of Blaine de-clarrd de-clarrd the ball a "lavish expenditure" of state money. |