The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-03-10


March Is.
Mrs Mary Devlin, 80, prominent
among the pioneers of Kenosha coun-
ty, died at Austin, Mimi, following an
illness of ten days.
Judge W. B. Quinlan was married to
Miss Agnes Fitzsimmons at Newark
, Ohio. Judge Quinlan is judge in the
twentieth judicial circuit.
Hhe Wolf River Lumber company
about Amigo has practically COM
pleted its operations for this season.
The cut was started in September.
F. N. Plumb, resident of Hammond.
aged eighty years, veteran of the
civil war, died at the sapatorium in
Hudson, after a lingering illness.
The widow of Capt. e. S. Stone,
one of the earliest residents of the
town of Summit, passed away at her
home in Oconomowoc, aged eighty
three years.
Saturday, Mar. 4, and continuing for
seven days, hundreds of Wisconsin
communities will consider ways and
means of giving the babies more OF q
square deal.
'Fc~ forging his wife's Il name for
$1,000, John Shepack, one of the old
est insurance men Of Green Bay, was
sentenced to term of three years
at Waupun.
L. L. Walford, two miles west of
Cross Plains, Wis, died of a fractured
skull he sustained in an accidental fall
in the yard at his home. He leaves a
wife and two children.
At recent meeting the state
railroad commission granted the re-
quest of the Wisconsin traffic bureau
| of Wausau to withdraw from the Tit
temore freight rate case.
DR.. c.. F. Villas was named mem
Der of the university board OF visitors
by the board of regents. DR.. Villas
succeeds DR.. Ernest Copeland, Mil
waukee, who recently resigned.
William Birney, of Near Amigo, a
bachelor living lonely, life on a
farm, may lose his feet as the result
Of failure to secure medical attention
after his feet were badly frozen.
Mrs. Carl Brady, who died recently
in La Crosse at the advanced age of
ninety-seven years, had been resi-
dent of Wisconsin eighty years, hav-
ing first settled in Prairie du Chen.
Land for the buildings of the
new GAINESVILLE Tractor and Engine
company has been purchased and the
company will start erecting it's new
| factory plant as soon as the weather
| permits.
Nick Murray, Racine's and maybe
Wiscopsin's oldest carrier in point OF
| service, resigned after twenty-five
| years of work for Uncle Sam, during
! which time he calculates he has walk
| ed $4,000 miles.
At late meeting the University Of
| Wisconsin regents recommended
| the adoption Of a new course in the
university curriculum in ~-hich de-
| gree may be obtained without Ian
| guage requirements.
Conrad Fox, ST., 80, one of the most
prominent citizens of that vicinity,
died at his home in the town of Mount
Pleasant He was connected with the
Fox Lime and Stone company, and
the Fox Ice company.
Sen. La Toilette will get North Da
kota's Republican Endorsement in the
presidential primaries on March p.
NH
| and La Toilette is opposed only by
| Henry D. Estabrool1 of New York
The attorney general Of Wisconsin
| has advised District Attorney o. H.
| Bruemmer of Kewaunee that special
| election would be held in Kewaunea
| on April 4 to fill the vacancy in the
| office Of county judge of Kewaunee
| county
| Alfred Wolf, lately Of Racine, for
| mer financial secretary of the barten-
| ders' union, was arrested at st. Louis
| and brought back to answer to the
| charge of embezzling 1872. He says the
money was due him for organizing
the union.
Hunting licenses of Eugene and H.
Barry, aged thirty-three and twenty
| four years, and sons of Camp Doug
! las widow, were the means by which
the identity of the two men found
dead in a refrigerator car at Transfer
| was established
Mrs. Dell O'Neil of Spooner, mar
ried two years, suicided at Ash
land shortly after her, husband had.
expressed his intention, of leaving her.
He is alleged to have received let.
tiers from friends who claimed his
wife was unfaithful.
Mrs. Jennie l.. Hanson, Racine wi
dow and wife of Peter Hanson. who
lost his life on the Titanic. received
notice she had been awarded $11 200
by the New York courts in her suit
| for damages against the owning
steamship company.