The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-12-29
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Lisbon citizens this year.
David l. Spencer. thirty-two, farmer,
died suddenly at his home in Dane
county from heart trouble.
Charles Keropki, Russian, was
killed by falling tree at the Union
Land company camps near Merrill
Wounds inflicted upon Roman jim
max year ago, when he was held up
and robbed at Green Bay caused his
death.
The state proposes to give every
farmer free weather reports by wire
less, if he will put up an apparatus on
his farm
Peter w. Beck, forty-two years old,
dropped dead from heart trouble at
the Continental store at Eau Claire,
where he was a department head.
While hunting rabbits in the town
Of Dewey ten year old Edwin Gin
kowski had his right arm nearly
blown off by the discharge of a shot
gun.
The twelfth annual show of the
Oconomowoc Poultry and Pet Stock
association closed after a five days
session. Nearly 600 birds were on dis
play.
The body of Matt Hanson, thirty
seven, of Meridian, who came to Eau
Claire to attend the potato grove rs
convention, was found in the Chip
pewa river.
Relatives of Elva Houp, who was
slain at Milwaukee by D. Bersansky,
in supposed suicide pact, deny that
the girl had been secretly married as
Bersansky's friends asserted.
Emil Rabichaud, twenty-six years
old, switchman in the employ of the
North Western road, was killed at
Florence when he accidentally shot
himself while hunting rabbits
The announcement of the engage
of the multi-millionaire packer, to
Lansing Hoyt of Evanston, came as
surprise to Milwaukee society.
With cheese 25 cents pound, many
of the states creameries are bound
to change into cheese factories or go
to the wall, according to G. H. Ben
kendorf. dairy school instructor
New automobile legislation provid-
ing for the codifying of the laws and
education of drivers in the law will be
urged by Assemblyman Carl Hanson
of Manitowoc before the next session
of the legislature.
Henry S. Hartmann of the Hart
mann Trunk company, at Racine, a
well known manufacturer of trunks,
is to resign as head of the firm and
move to New York, where he is to
have charge of the sales department.
The Wisconsin Buttermakers re-
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, E. J. Morrison, Chetek; vice
president, c. Jorgenson, Roselawn;
secretary, Professor G. H. Bekendorf,
Madison; treasurer, F. Werner, Water
loo.
Taxpayers of Oshkosh will pay at
the rate of S1.75 on every 500 worth
of taxable property for the coming
year The tax budget was adopted by
the commission council. The amount
to be collected for 1917 will be $685.
921.85.
The shoe without any leather may
come into being if the material con-
tinues to remain as scarce as at pres
ent, according to V. J. Schoeneclzer,
Jr., of the Schoenecker Boot and Shoe
company, who has returned from a
trip east.
The identity of the young woman
killed in an automobile accident near
Superior was cleared up with the ar
rival of her father, j. ]. HeuStad of
Minneapolis. Although known in the
Twin Ports as Patsy Fitzgerald, she
was in reality Edna Heustad.
Eight hundred and thirty-two per
sons "hit the sawdust trail'' in the
Forsythe tabernacle in one night in
one of the most remarkable religious
demonstrations ever witnessed in Mil.
waukee, according to pastors identi-
fed with the west side revival ~
Along with an informal effort by
local housewives to boycott eggs to
bring down the high price, the home
economics department of the Oshkosh
High school and the Normal school
are teaching students of cooking how
to prepare eggless articles of food and
cheap meals.
Kenosha promises to make bid fol-
being the banner road building coun
ty in 1917. In a day three towns ap
pealed to the county highway commits
sion for road bonds totaling $4,000
all of the money to be expended in
1917. This will mean a total expendi
ture of $21S,00O.
J. Frank equity, twenty-four years
Old. brother of G. L. County, one OF
the owners of the Peoples Tobacco
warehouse of Madison, is dead in
Meade, Kan, where he had gone fol
his health. The young man was weigh
master and assistant floor manager al
the tobacco warehouse at Madison
The necessity of a city protecting