The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-04
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will open six weeks reVlVal at Bar
ron ON September 10.
Reports show Barron county has
over three times as many Farmers
growing certified potatoes this year as
last.
Scott ellis, who resided at
Evansville, Wis, graduate OF Beloit
college in 1913, was drowned in Lake
Michigan near Dune Park, Ind.
Jerked from drowning at Milwaukee
a man walked away without Civ
ing his name or attempting to learn
that of the man who had rescued him.
Falling from a row boat at Gen
esee lake, near the town of Summit,
Waukesha county, Charles Dreyer,
twenty-one years old, of Ottawa, was
drowned
The light plant at Darlington was
struck last week by the lightning
and burned to the ground during the
storm All farm crops were badly
damaged.
The state has approved an amend
ment to the articles of Incorporation
of the First State Bank of Glenwood,
increasing it's capital stock from $685.
900 to $4,000.
Ira Luce, of Poynette, was commit
ted to Mendoza hospital. He was sus-
pected in connection with three fires
here which resulted in an examina-
ton b. the state fire marshal.
J. P Reiss, one of the owners of
of the c.. Reiss Coal Company of She
boygan, and a financier in New York,
Cleveland and Minneapolis, dropped
dead at Sheboygan of heart failure.
The military authorities of Can
ada have advised the relatives in Be
lott of the death on a French battle
field of Leon E. Carter, a former Be-
lott man. Carriers mother lives in
that city.
A citizens committee at Stevens
Point is in charge of plan to
establish a public swimming pool in
the Wisconsin river 100X400 feet III
size. Approximately $1,000 has been
promised
The state issued charter to the
State bank of Pigeon Falls, Trempea-
leau county, capitalized at $4,000.
T. J. Thompson, Henry Thompson, A.
w. Bradford and three others are the
incorporators.
Charles Rucker, found guilty by
a jury in the federal court there last
week of stealing wheat from box car
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of three years in the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kas.
During the last two weeks two
persons have been arrested and
brought before Municipal Judge Geo.
A. Calder at Washburn, where they
have pleaded guilty and been fined $50
and costs for blind pigging.
Ed. Kelley, Beloit ex-superintendent
of foundries for the Case works at
Racine, is urging congress to adopt
a plan he is advocating to build forti-
fcations and military roads all along
the seacoast by convict labor.
The insurance commissioner ruled
that If fire insurance agents charge
policy fee of 81 in excess of the regu-
lar fee they must show this charge in
their reports as part of their re-
ceipts for state taxing purposes.
The WOman's council has a move
ment for the establishment of bath
ing beach on the shores of Chequame-
gon bay near Washburn and they have
already raised sufficient funds to erect
a bathhouse and to equip the beach
Hazel Olson. a thirteen year old
girl of Beloit, saved Elixes Harris,
three year old boy, from drowning in
the Rock River. The girl was swim
ming and saw the child drowning and
got him ashore. The child's condition
is serious.
P. Heiser, La Crosse merchant quar-,
relied with his sister, who was serious
w injured Heiser then went to Black
river, slashed his own throat, jumped
in the river, but was hailed out by
boatman Both will recover Heiser
is under arrest
Carl W. Glendenning cousin of Mrs.
D. Smith of New Richmond. was kill.
ed in a factory explosion of the Dia.
mond Match company in Chico. Cal,
where he was employed. He was
former Oshkosh boy and the remains
were taken to that city for burial.
The women bathers of Oshkosh are
firm believers in preparedness, per
sonal defense, open hostilities and
armed intervention A part of their
bathing equipment is a long hatpin
which is being used freely and with
cutting effect on human submarines
The corn crop has improved, reports
indicate. fully fifty per cent in the
July heated spell and is already be-
ginning to tassel out, being little be-
hind normal. There is bumper hay
crop. Rye and barley will be ready
to cut next week. Oats is big crop.
Fifteen Sheboygan wives of former
national guardsmen, received special
delivery letters from husbands, mem