The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-05-26
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letter carrier at Pittsville, Wis.
Peter Wirschem, aged 3, Civil wal
veteran, died at his home at Kenosha
The state has issued a charter
to the State Bank of Cascade, Sheboy-
gan county.
C. Voight of Weston was killed near
Kelly when he jumped from train.
His skull was fractured
Hector McMezin, As, and John Bell.
trand, thirty-ive, were ground to
death under the wheels of Chicago
and North Western train at Saxon.
Hayward pioneers, Andrew Thomp-
son, seventy years old, and Elsie
Evenson, sixty-five years old, have
taken out a marriage license.
The regular annual commencement
ing School for Teachers will be held
at the high school on June L.
President has nominated Wisconsin
postmasters: Frank E. Poll at AL
mond; Henry B. Taylor at lola; Chris
tan F. A. Mau at West Salem.
Twenty-eight out of fifty Green
Bay children in one section Of the
first grade at Whitney school are out
of school on account of measles.
William D. Layton, thirty-five years
old, living at Chippewa Falls rid
ing on a motorcycle, was hit by 500
train No. and instantly killed.
Rice Lakes goth Century Silo COM
pany's concrete stone factory has
started operations at that city. This
firm has large holdings at Milwaukee.
A case puzzling physicians cleared
up somewhat when the eight year old
son of Robert Shierl, Menasha, awoke
after sleep which lasted ten and
half days.
Winnebago has a woman official for
first time in it's history She is Miss
Bennett, who was named abstactor by
the county board to succeed George
LetourneuX
Theodore Sternberg, pioneer farmer
of near Wausau has been arrest.
ed on a charge of numbering his faith
er-in-law, Ferdinand Jacks, eighty
two years old.
Father A. Weisensteiner, sixty-seven
years old, for twenty-six years pastor
of the Catholic church at Maple Grove
was found dead on the floor of his
bedroom by his housekeeper.
When Adolph Nitschke, Sheboygan
county, lifted his sick wife, sixty years
old, from her bed, he heard her gasp
and found she had died in his arms
Heart disease was the cause.
Father John B. Scheyer is vicar
general of the Catholic diocese of SUI
perior and pastor of ST. Joseph's
church, Rice Lake, succeeding Father
Christopher Schmidt, deceased.
Anna Gust, daughter of a French
Island farmer, is the champion speller
of La Crosse county. She spelled
down the title holder of every school
in the district at a spelling bee.
d. HI. Foster, resident of Beloit, was
among those in railway wreck near
st. Louis He sustained bad wound
to the head and severe bruises, and
is now in a hospital in ST. Louis.
w. C. Croker, pioneer and we'll
known Spooner postmaster, has been
succeeded by J. H. Sullivan. Mr..
Croker held the Office continuously
for twenty-six years.
Ed Loberger and his brother Vic
tor, two Oconto youths, found dyna-
mite cap, and held it over a lighted
lamp. Edward lost thumb and fin
gers. Victor may lose the sight of one
eye.
Miss Lucille keenan,, daughter of D.
keenan, of the town Of Hansen, died
after an illness of few minutes. She
was sixteen years old, and a member
of the graduating class Of the Wood
County Normal school.
Mrs. A. Guil1uame, we1l-Known
La Crosse florist, and her little grand
daughter, Carmen Ere; mark escaped
death when a huge shade tree stand
ing close to the greenhouse suddenly
crashed down on the glass roof
Louis Reinhard, AZ, of Menominee,
E went out to his barn and was followed
shortly by a seven year old son, who
found his father dead, hanging from
rope attached to a rafter A widow
and four children survive.
The first woman who has ever
applied for citizenship papers in the
Sheboygan county is Miss Hattie
Lucherhand of Elkhart Lake, who
filed application for her first papers
She was born in Germany and is
school teacher.
COTE houses operated by the
Mems Interchurch council will be
opened in Superior as a substitute for
the saloons when the latter go out of
business On lily !, according to plans
being made by special committee of
the church organization.
The remains of Vern Newman, TWEEN
ty-one years old, of Tomaston, Mich,
were found in the rear of the North
Western depot at Saxon with his
head battered in and other injuries.