The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-03-31
GAINESVILLE

1t cost GAINESVILLE taxpayers twenty.
two cents apiece for the eleven hundred
odd votes Tuesday.
! Hon John Winans, who has been i'll
for some months past, is slowly improv-
ing in health.
John 81 Nicholson has gone on an ex-
tensive trip through the east and will
visit Buffalo, Boston, Pittsburg, New
| York and other points. He will be out
of the city about two weeks.
Notification from the United States
government that their bid of $4,000
| for the construction of new postoffice
| building at Hammond, Indiana, was the
lowest submitted, has been received by
Cullen Bros of this CITY,
Charles Kemmerer and Charles Schu-
macher, appointed to appraise the estate
| of the late Elijah P Wixom, have ascer-
| tanned that the deceased owned about
2lOO acres of farming land in Dane and
Rock counties. Valuable live stock is
also quartered on most of these farms.
Mr. and Mrs H F Bliss and Mr. and
Mrs F j Bailey, and party, who have
| been spending six weeks at Cleveland
Fla, have left that city and are visiting
in st Augustine and Jacksonville, and
are expected home Monday.
Atnol Rollins, instructor of Greek and
Latin in the GAINESVILLE high school, re-
| ceived notice that he had been awarded
| Wisconsin Rhodes scholarship. This
| is one Of the two provided for each state
state in the union by the will of the late
Cecil Rhodes, the colossus of South
Africa.
Jonathan Wright NASH aged SO, died
at his home in this city last Saturday
evening. Mr. Nash was one of the pio-
neer settlers of this city, coming to
GAINESVILLE fifty years ago. For many
years he was the leading grocer of the
city, retiring from business nearly twenty
years ago. He leaves four daughters,
Mrs Lee and Miss Helen Nash of this
city, Mrs Frank Behrendt and Miss
Sybil Nash of Chicago, and two sons, w
w Nash and James Nash of this city.
Major, the blue eyed cat which won
first prize for class and optics at the Mil
| waukee show last week, is dead in Chi
cago, and two legal actions, involving his
| possession before he departed this life,
are pending. Majors rare blue eyes first
saw the light in the Dauphin cattery of
Argyle Park, Chicago, which is the prop
erty of Miss Julia Welsh, assistant prin-
cipal of the Hancock school Miss Welsh
| is sister of Tomas E Welsh, leaf to-
bacco dealer, and taught the high school
before removing to Chicago. Miss Welsh
gave Major to her sister in-law, Mrs T E
| Welsh, as kitten, and Mrs Welsh pre-
Sented him to Mrs Thomas TAYLOR. who.
| in turn, gave him to her mother, Mrs w
| FL Perrigo. Then, Miss Welsh bought
| him of Mrs Perrigo for $50 and ''incor-
porated" him, selling half the shares to
| Mrs Lindsey A Woodward, who owns a
big Chicago cattery. Then he was taken
| to the Milwaukee cat show where he
! won first honors. His honors persuaded
| Mrs Taylor, now of Des Moines, that her
| mother had sold him too cheaply and
she replevined him. He died in the
hands of the constable, and now Mrs
| Woodward sues for the recovery of the
amount paid for her shares.
DR. j B Whiting, the oldest physician
in southern Wisconsin, died March 9th
His son, Maj Joseph Whiting, Jr, a sur
geon, died four weeks ago. DR. j B Whit
| ing was born in Barhamsted, Conn, Dec
| 16, 1922. In 1860 he was married to the
widow of Chief Justice Edward V Whit
on of Wisconsin, and moved to James
| Vile, where he has since resided. Just
| after the battle of Fort Donaldson in the
civil war, DR. Whiting was sent by Gov
| Harvey to take charge of the Mound
| City hospital, and upon the formation of
| the Thirty third Wisconsin regiment he
was made surgeon in charge. After the
! fall of Vicksburg he was given charge of
d large hospital near that city. Suisse
! quently he became surgeon in chief of
the military district of Natchez and d.
rected the work during the smallpox
| epidemic of 1854. In 1875 he was made
president of the Wisconsin Medical So
clety and in 1895 he was made surgeon
general of the national G A r. In 1889
ne was appointed by President Cleveland
as member of the commission to treat
with the Chippewa Indians for the sale
of their reservations at Red Lake, White
Earth, Leech Lake. Fond du Lac and
| Vermillion lakes in Minnesota.