The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-10-06


carnival the first week of October.
E. II. Thompson was named scien-
tific assistant in beef cattle investiga-
ton of the agricultural department.
With autumn style show it is plan.
ned by the Chamber of Commerce to
have display of goods made in Man
itowoc
A 140-pound bear was killed by
Henry Johnson on his farm in the
town of Lincoln, about seven miles
southwest of Marshf1eld
Matt w. Schwartz, aged SO, died of
infantile paralysis, the first death
from the disease in Sheboygan and the
second case to develop there.
The Southern Wisconsin Christian
Endeavor union, meeting at Beloit, Sc
lected Monroe for the 1917 meeting.
M. H. Snow, Darien, was elected pres
ident
Alexander Fraser, who had been
the superintendent of the Whiting
Paper company mills at Menasha for
forty-two years, is dead at the age of
eighty-two.
Samuel r. Gallon, member OF q
company of Chicago, was instantly
killed by an automobile on the state
park near Ephraim when making a
film thriller
Edward Morgan, rs years old, died
suddenly at his home in Oconomowoc
following an attack of heart trouble
He had lived at Oconomowoc more
than fifty years.
After struggling in the water in
front of Manitowoc forty-f1ve min
utes, George S. Soller, a sailor on the
carferry Maitland, was rescued. Soller
fell into the river when the gangplank
tipped.
The cold wave that visited Milwau-
kee brought death to two and there
were seven other persons who needed
medical treatment as a result Of the
unaccustomed starting of coal stoves
or furnaces.
State canvass~rs issued certi-
fcate of nomil lion to A. M. Rogers
of Forest county as the Republican
candidate for assemblyman in the dis
trict composed of Florence, Forest
and Oneida counties.
District Attorney A. L. Drury Sc
cured warrants for the arrest of forty
drivers of jitney cars, charging viola
tions of the state regulations III failing
to follow prescribed routes and hours
and not giving bonds at Kenosha.
Forty applicants for citizenship pa
pers from about GAINESVILLE will ap-
pear before Jndge George Grimm at
the circuit court. A representative
from the United States naturalization
Office at Chicago will conduct the
examinations.
Christian Spieth, aged siXty-six, Of
Shawano county In the town Of Germa-
mia, a member of the county board
many years, has disappeared from his
home A large reward is offered for
any one giving information as to his
RhereabOuts.
Merlin Hull, of Black River Falls,
candidate for secretary Of state
on the Republican ticket, is quaran-
tined on account of infantile paralysis
in his family, and was unable TO at
tend the meeting of the state central
committee in Milwaukee.
Geo. Stocker has begun his duties
as instructor at Cornell college,
Ithaca, N Y, having been appointed
instructor in the civil engineering de-
partment. Mr.. Stocker has for the last
few years been member Of the facul-
ty of State college, New Mexico FRI
Miss Nellie Jones, principal of
Parker school, of Beloit, and Miss
Eva Jameson, principal of Wright
school, and Miss Jameson's father mar
rowly escaped death, when Miss
Jones' automobile overturned upon
them near Beloit All escaped with
bad bruises.
GAINESVILLE farmers are faring bet
ter with their frozen tobacco than
they at first had any hope for. Many
buyers are rebuying that portion of
the crop injured by the frost at prices
ranging from to s cents pound,
thus affording them a margin for the
seasons work.
The residence of Herman Rabe
near Amigo in the town of Polar,
well equipped with lightning rods,
was destroyed by fire after it had
been struck by lightning. The flames
spread so rapidly that the occupants
were unable to remove any clothing
from the house.
wired Secretary of War Baker that he
Governor E.. L. Philip has
will call a special session of the legis-
Iature to provide means for Wiscon-
sin troops on the border to vote I'M
less he is assured the guardsmen will
be returned nome in time for the No.
yember elections.
The jitney cases of Kenosha
are to be used as a supreme court
test of the right of the state to limit
the operations of the jitneys. Three Of
the defendants pleaded guilty and
fines of $40 and costs were imposed.
1.-The other thirty-seven gave bonds for
later appearance.
Eleven pure bred Holstein cows
no xuI0