The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-29

IlChpOCk0IS Ill CIOWuS dt UiOCH Day
during the Hughes speech, secured
/ about $500 and several watches.
j. F. Jude is named postmaster
at Lake Beulah, Walworth county,
vice r. F. Schfader, resigned.
Gov. Philip scored a victory in the
Republican platform convention in
Madison on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Roger Goodwin was made chairman
of the Rock county Democratic com
: mittee, at a meeting held at James
vile.
Mrs. Plank, daughter of J. S. Rock
well, widow of w. G. Plank, is dead
at Oconomowoc, after long period
of i'll health.
Mrs. Hannah Scott, Racine, died of
general debility, aged 100 years She
was born in New York on Oct. IA,
1916, and came to Racine in 1912.
| The Hupmobile United American
capitol car touring country reached
Madison completing visit to it's six
teenth capitol. The run was made from
Chicago.
Johnson Field Manufacturing COM
pany was damaged by fire, which for
a time threatened large portion of
the manufacturing district at Racine
Junction.
By completing the strip of concrete
road east of Fulton village the state
and county highway from Edgerton
! to Evansville, will be ready for use
by the public.
/ Little five year old Isaac M. Knit
ter of Stevens Point was knocked
down by a horse, stepped on by the
horse, and his neck was run over by
the buggy wheel
{ Eben E. Rexford, of Shiocton, said
to be the author of "Silver
Threads Among the Gold,' is in a hos
pital recovering from general debility.
His condition is not alarming.
| P. C. Regain, Waukegan dentist, for
mer Milwaukee resident, was instantly
killed when the automobile in which
| he was returning from q trip to FOX
, Lake, ILL.,, overturned near In2leS;de.
J Because Fred Krimberger's aim was
: poor, one of four burglars who rob-
! bed the store of the Sanborn Mercan-
tile company at Sanborn, of 500
would have been killed or wounded.
! The Wisconsin School for the Blind
) located at GAINESVILLE opened with
an attendance of about 100, the
largest ON record Extensive improve
ments have been made during the
summer.
Adjutant Gen. Holway and General
! Charles Boardman, Oshkosh, at Aus
| tin, Tex, reviewed the troops of the
| Wisconsin brigade on their march
from San Antonio to the Lone Star
state capital.
/ Following rural carriers have been
! appointed: Richard Center, Charles
] L. Taylor; Sank City, Malvin T. Sher-
! wood; Waupaca, James w. CareW, Os-
car E. Lojgren was appointed clerk in
| the superior office.
/ G. r. Rust, former newspaper
publisher, and president of the Rust
! Parker company, Duluth, died in the
locker room of the Northland Country
! club at Duluth, Mimi, presumably of
heart trouble, following golf game.
Swiss kilbi was celebrated at
/
to usual church observance, while
! field day, including a shoot at the
| Swiss Rife club, was held the
| closing day, with dancing in the eve
| ming.
| Douglas Anderson led petition in
/ the Wisconsin supreme court asking
! for a recount of the votes in the as
I HI oe
| forest, Forest and Oneida counties,
| claiming that the returns as made to
| the secretary of state were incorrect.
! Announcement is made by the Allis-
! Chalmers company by President Otto
| Falk that his company would cease
making shells, beginning Oct L. "Our
contracts with the Bethlehem Steel
company expire on that date" Falk
said, "and they have not been renew
ed"
1t has been learned that M E.
| Fuller, aged ninety-five, former head
of the Fuller-Johnson company, aid
wealthy landowner, had been married
in Schuyler, a little town near Oma-
| ha, Neb., to Anna B. Heritage, aged
forty-six. He formerly lived at Madi-
son.
On his way to the funeral of his
life long friend, Nicholas Entringer, at
| ST. Louis, Daniel Kempf, ninety ?two
years old, a Fond du Lac county pi-
| oneer, was killed by freight train
| Kempf attempted to cross the tracks
and had one foot on the depot plat
form when struck.
Geo. Cunningham, on reaching Osh-
kosh from Milwaukee, was arrested
| for drunkenness and is also charged
with procuring liquor for Indians
| from the Menominee reservation, who
were there for the federal grand jury
cases. He has been turned over to
the federal authorities.
Cap. w. NJ. Lewis, Racine, has pur:
| oboca1 cfncL in tbo IT