The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08

The Palace of Sweets, a store at
Oconomowoc, was robbed of S35 III
money, revolver and cigarettes.
The Chiffon National bank Sc
cured the Chiffon water works bond
issue of $4,000 at a premium Gf
$1,529.5O.
Ward Fish. of Racine, may lose
tanned while bathing in the waters of
Lake Michigan.
The state authorizes the Viii
ton State bank of Wilton, Monroe
county, to increase it's capital stock
from $4,000 to $4,000
Hilton, at Beloit, and formerly OF
the Grand at GAINESVILLE, is dead after
an illness of several weeks.
j. d. Treleven, II, resident of Om-
70 fifty years, where he was engaged
in banking and other business pur-
suits, is dead, following a long illness.
Mrs. Anna Taube, SO, wife of
Emil Taube and formerly prominent
in Manitowoc, died at her home in
Kenosha. She was a native of Mil
Waukee.
l. J. Blazel, Green Bay man,
paid a fine of $50 and costs in police
court. He is a grocer and sold beer
to his neighbors without taking out a
license, it was charged.
Herman Stegeman, coach Beloit foot
ball team last fall, was married to Miss
Dorothea Washburn of Chicago at
Holland, Mich, according to cards re-
ceived by Beloit friends.
South Germantown volunteer fire de-
partment's annual picnic was held
Sunday, Sept. 3. A parade of fire fight
ing apparatus, firemen and industrial
and automobile floats took place.
Peter O. Peterson, living at Mani
towoc, employed by the o. Torrison
company, who was injured when he
fell off load of hay, died at the hos
pital without regaining consciousness.
The Fond du Lac currant yieldl this
year is reported a failure. There will
also be a poor apple crop, according
to N. c. Rasmussen of Oshkosh, who
has been making a trip about the
state.
The Harvey Spring and Forging
Co., Racine firm, which has been
in existence thirty years, has put into
effect a profit sharing system by
which about 200 employees will be
benefited.
George Tully, who was formerly
the matchmaker of the Kenosha
Athletic club, plunged from the steps
of a lunch car to cement walk strik-
ing his head. He *tripped as he. left
the lunch room.
Mourned as dead for twenty-eighl
years, Peter Casper walked into the
house of his mother at Cooperstown.
In 1888 Casper left home and went to
Canada and nothing was heard of him
until he returned.
Joseph Chloupek, Manitowoc pi.
oneer, father of Judge Chloupek,
is dead, aged eighty-four. 1t is be-
lieved that his death was fastened
by shock he received several weeks
ago when he was attacked by mad
dog.
Thirty Louisiana business men
on a trip through Wisconsin's dairy
country visited Oconomowoc, looking
over the farms of S. G. Courteen, the
Carnation company, H. E. Reddelin,
E. E. Rosenkrans and Fred Pabst's
stock farm.
Falling into a cistern at Waupun
she had left uncovered and forgotten,
Mrs. Mary Dickson narrowly escaped
drowning, and it will be many days
before she RECEIVERS from bruises and
shock She lives alone and was not
rescued for many hours.
There was a double funeral held at
Eau Claire for Martin Van Do
melin and Eugene Smith, two of the
victims of the accident at the Dells
Paper and Pulp mills, which result
ed in three men drowning. The plant
closed and $50 employees marched in
the procession.
The report that the city of Ocono-
mowoc had an infantile paralysis case
gained a wide circulation in the city
and its vicinity. The infant son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Schields, who
was i'll of intestinal trouble, was
credited by rumor with being afflicted
with infantile paralysis.
H. H. Whiting, living at Jefferson.
the wizard buttermaker of Wisconsin
who has been making butter at John.
son Greek for some years, has accept
ed a position with the dairy division,
Washington, d. c., to do expert work
in the south, and his headquarters
will be at Atlanta. Ca
Chippewa county is in receipt of
rubber stamps from the state to be
utilized in the filling out of game IL
censes. The utilization of these
stamps is expected to save the state
$500 and is in lire with the admin
istration's announced intention to
plug every possible lack.
A case Of child plague YVES report.
ed to the state board of he It'll from
To-, C1airo A doofIs from tho dicooc.,