The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-03-25
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
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In order to make more real the life
in ancient Greece and Rome, concern
ing which the high school students are
reading III the courses in Latin, the
Latin Teachers association Of Wiscon-
sin. in cooperation with the extension
division of the state university, has ar
ranged for a travelling lantern and a
collection of slides to be sent to the
|. high schools of the state
| The majority committee appointed
to investigate the senatorial primary
of last year has made report TO Gov
ernor Davidson, which censures the
free expenditure of money hy all four
candidates for the office, the most
economical of whom expended $4,000
in the effort to secure the nomination
alone There is no allusion to corrupt
ness
Sol Swingle Of Prairie du Chem on
entering the box stall of a white stall
lion he had owned for several years,
was vicious.y attacked by the animal.
1t knocked him down, knelt on him
and proceeded to chew him up. Swim
Slc SuCCtGOSu III SAub Will
which he beat. off the brute.
District Attorney A. E Schwittay of
Marinette county, after publishing a
cartoon in his newspaper violently as
sailing the character of at least doz-
en- prominent citizens, was shot at
through the window of his home at
late hour at night, but he escaped in
jury.
The formation of a new county Of
Superior TO be governed by commits
sion Of five men consisting of three
delegates from the city and two from
the rest of the county was suggested
at an informal conference OF local bus
mess men at the Commercial club
Agreements have been made by the
normal schools of Normal, Ill. Terre
Haute. Ind. and Oshkosh Wis. where
by. beginning with next year. annual
triangular debating contests will take
place, teams from the schools men
toned being the contestants
The farmers of Kenosha county are
not putting up a determined fight for
the schedule of milk prices set by the
Producers union and it now seems the
companies will have little trouble in
getting all the contracts signed
Philip Haevers, chairman of the town
of Preble. and George Cormier, who
holds a similar office in the town Of
Howard, have ordered all dogs in these
two towns either muZzled or kept at
home chained or locked up
William Miller, aged sixty-eight,
pleaded guilty at Racine to the charge
of forging a check upon Nicholas Lam
ser for $2S last September and was
sentenced to four years in the state
prison at Waupun.
The body of Robert Thiel bunch
kacb, was found floating in the Fox
river at Oshkosh He was in the habit
of fishing along the river and it is
thought he died from heart failure and
fell into the water.
The board of regents at the state
university has, it is said, decided on
employing a man for the position of
purchasing agent now held by Miss
Edna Fewson. relative of enc OF the
regents.
Frank Melczynski, aged nineteen,
was sentenced to term OF fifteen
years at Waupun for the murder of his
father with a shotgun in Eau Plaine
last December during a family quarrel.
The company F basketball five of
Portage who had won the United
States Amateur basketball champion
ship at Chicago, were given rousing
reception when they returned home.
Word from Washington is to the eff
feet that the plans for the federal
building in Stevens Point will be COM
pleted this spring and the erection of
the building take place next year.
Oscar Utech, aged twenty-five, Of
1915 Dillingham; court, Sheboygan, who
was found almost frozen in the door
yard at that number on Feb. %, has
just had both feet amputated.
Twenty-seven head of cattle, includ-
ing sixteen mich COWS, and three
horses, were cremated when the barn
of Matthew Donohue. near Ontario.
was destroyed by fire.
TOSCIldSIGIS nave DCSn dppO1ACCO IA
Wisconsin as follows: Mary ]. Foster,
vice ]. w. Noble, resigned, at Lake;
Mary Forst, vice E. G. Doherty, re-
signed. at Maple.
Peabody hall, the new $4,000 con-
servatory of music presented to Law
renee college by the late George T
Peabody, will be dedicated on Tues
day, April r.
The civil service commission will
hold examinations for rural carriers
on April 9 at the following places in
Wisconsin: Cassville, Gratiot. Melvina
Mindora.
Outagamie county will have a candi-
| date in the next race for the congress
| sional nomination in the Ninth dis
| trict, in Attorney A. NJ Spencer.
| resolution to submit the proposed
issuance Of water bonds to the voters
| of Medford at the spring election was
/ defeated at the counciI mnafinp