The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-11-17

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Modern sanitary bubblers have been
provided for cows in the University
of Wisconsin barns this year.
Police are searching for the myster
ious asSailant who attacked August
De Blase, Beloit merchant, and slash
ed him from behind with a razor.
Business men of Ashland have or
ganized the Ashland General hospital
association and are trying to raise
money to open an emergency hospital.
John Coady, seventy-nine years old,
first city marshal of La Crosse, is
dead at La Crosse following an attack
of heart trouble while eating dinner
1t is estimated that during the last
year seventy-fve miles of new roads
were built in Marathon county, exc lu-
sive of work done under the state aiG
plan.
Inquest into the death of Patrolman
Frank Groeschner, killed when his mo-
torcycle collided with Gund brewery
truck driven by Otto BetZ, has been
ordered by the district attorney at La
Crosse.
new station has been established
at Rib View by the North Western,
the site of the new county sanatOrium
for the treatment Of tuberculosis, and
all day trains will make regular stops
hereafter
IF you want your life, Icave $500
under the Commercial lock-" This
warning, signed by Ralph Barstow,' >"
and several skulls ana cross bones,
was received by Chief of Police w. T..
Blair of Ashland.
Carl Pieper. assemblyman from
Dunn proposes a mothers pension law
which will specially give such pen
sions to unmarried mothers of $40 a
month, raised by tax on bachelors
and childless married people.
The Target potato show and state
convention in America will be held in
this city on Nov. q to "a by the Wis
consin Potato Growers association.
More than 1915 in cash prizes for in
dividuals has been offered.
Hubert E. Zilisch, youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. G II. Zilisch, long time
citizen of Juneau, was recently pro-
NOTED to the high office of first lieu
tenant of Company H of the First reg
iment of Kansas, now on the border.
The state normal school faculty is
to be increased shortly to forty-eight
by the addition of two new instructors.
w. H. Ashcraft, fifty-five years old,
GAINESVILLE leader and prominent bust
ness man, died suddenly of heart fail
ure
Howard c. Gardner cast his eigh-
teenth vote for president of the United
States on Tuesday, when he deposited
his ballot for Woodrow Wilson. Mr..
Gardner is ninety-three years old. His
first vote was cast for James X. Polk
in 1874 He lives at Green Bay.
Judge Fowler at GAINESVILLE handed
down decision against the state of
Wisconsin in their action brought to
have the Rock river declared naviga-
Bile and declare a million dollars
worth of buildings now standing ever
the river a nuisance and obstruction
10 the river.
pumpkin weighing 104 pounds
and measuring six feet two inches in
circumference, is believed by Joseph
Stigler of Calhoun to eclipse the fifty
two pound vegetable which Milwau-
KEGS commission row last week as
serted was the biggest one ever grown
in Wisconsin
Allen ]. Bartlett of Chicago and Miss
Anne B. Saxby OF Deer Park, Ill, were
married at the Congregational pars0n-
age at Oconomowoc by Rev. Samuel
MacNeill. Mr. Bal tlett is landscape
gardner at the new country place be-
inc established by F. w Mathiessen,
Jr., of La Sale. Ill
Sam Block, owner of a general store
in Pulcifer, Shawano county, is under
arrest in Iron Mountain on warrant
obtained by Fire Marshal Finnegan
charging Block set fire to the August
Neuman building on October Is, caus-
ing the destruction of the building and
merchandise estimated to be worth
$4,000
Patents gfanted to citizens of Mil
waukee were Johr Bogc.-' orger, fire
door; Ell. W. brackenbEry, drum Of
concrete mixers John ". LyistCn,
lubricator; W. 8. Hardee, interchange
able wheel hub; Carl l. Ingold, eye
glass frame; Charles J. Klein, electric
switch; Ray G NewhouSe, crushing
roll; Fred Schmidt, mail bag catching
and delivering apparatus; w. IT.
Trout, edging machine for lumber.
Two parties Of University Of Wis
consin engineers have left for trips
through tee manufa curing centers of
the country One group went over the
eastern route, which includes visits
to Chicago, Detroit. Buffalo, Cleveland,
and Pittsburgh, while the other party
took a trip through the central west,
visiting Chicago, Milwaukee, Gary.
Waukegan, Racine, and Lockport, III.
Over 100 took the trips in the two
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