The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-12-22

q plan for a night school at Rice Lake
G. o. Stark of Rice Lake has been
named assistant postmaster at sal
airy of $1,000 year.
The business center of Park Falls
was practically destroyed by fire. the
losses aggregating 100000.
Mrs. Adelaide Mathews, a coloreG
woman who was born a slave, died
after a residence of many years in
Beloit.
Ole Hansen, seventy years old, re-
tired lumberman, fell dead from heart
table at Eau Claire.
With two cases of diphtheria, which,
have been treated at the Isolation hos
pital, discharged, Ashland is practi-
cally free from contagious disease.
Through the efforts of the Fort
ambulance has been given the city of
Rice Lake by Mrs. Britain of Beloit.
With the closing of navigation, the
keepers of lights and their assistants
in the lighthouses on islands in the
Apostle group will soon be leaving for
their homes.
Michael Heating, one of the earliest
pioneers and a continuous resident on
the same farm for over sixty years,
near Askeaton, is dead at the age of
ninety years.
The material necessary for the con-
struction of the new 500 line "cut off,
has been purchased, it is said. The
line will terminate at Cayuga rather
than Mellen.
John LaBelle, sixty-three years old,
for fifty years a resident of Marinette,
was found dead in his bed. He lived
! alone. Pneumonia was given as the
cause of death.
The new Lutheran church, built at
cost of $4,000, was dedicated at
Green Bay with special services, the
Rev. w. D. Ali of Oshkosh preaching
the dedicatory sermon
Herman Knab, adjudged insane in
county court, ended his life by hang
ing with a shoe string in the city hall
at Wausau. Knab had made several
previous attempts on his life.
The Whittier Motor Truck company,
recently incorporated with a capital
stock of S350,0OO, completed it's or
ganization at Kenosha by the election
OF Martin p Whittier as president
The Rev. FIR. F. G.. Tulley, pastor of
Our Lady of Lourdes church at Mar
inette, was the first Marinette man to
pay his income tax. Father Tulley
handed the city treasurer a check for
$3.50.
Real Spartan spirit was exhibited
by H. Hoffman, farmer in the eastern
end of Brown county, when he
brought his son to Green Bay because
a warrant for the boys arrest had
been issued
Ole Scar twelve years old, went
through the ice on Big Birch lake at
Brentwood while skating A sister of
the drowned boy skated through the
ice on Cedar lake recently and had
narrow escape.
David Colby, severty-eight years old,
a member of the G. A. R., Ct his
throat and died soon afterward at Be
lott. His frequent statement that he
would never live to be a sick mar was
recalled by his act
Squirrel hunting proved expensive
to Ray Terlen of Depere, who was ar
rested, charged with hunting without
license, and fined $50 and costs. The
squirrel he killed is said to have cost
in the neighbOrhood of SGT.
With the squealing of one of their
number, the police have uncovered an
| alleged gang of youthful thieves at Be-
lott who had loot in their possession
worth $500. The boys range in age
from nine to fourteen years.
z. B. Wallin, graduate of Oshkosh
normal and University of Wisconsin,
has been engaged by the board of ed
ucation of Depere to act as superin-
tendent of the east side schools TO-.
the remainder of the school year.
The lumbermen attending the North
ern Lumbermen's Craftsmanship con-
ference, the first craftsmanship con-
ference ever held in the north by the
lumber industry, were taken into the
Wisconsin forest and given a lumber
| camp dinner
Members of the Green Bay city
| commission have decided to make a
special study of the Green Bay public
school system with view to combin-
ing activities now duplicated and in
that way get greater value for the
money expended each year.
An Oshkosh wholesaler of shoes
claims one cause of the high cost of
living is the effort of women to fol-
low the dictates of fashion in high top
ped shoes, and he says the sex can
overcome the tendency toward $40
shoes by wearing Oxfords and spats.
Several Chicago people have avail
ed themselves of the Wisconsin com
mon law marriage contract privilege
recently. According to papers issued
by the Milwaukee county register of