The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-25
WISCONSIN NEWS
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to All Classes of Readers.

Brick, and pioneer resident OF Mani.
towoc. is dead.
State mortality for the last quar-
ter is higher than the average for the
preceding eight years.
The Stevens Point Lighting Co. pur-
chased a lungmotor, and will devote
it to public use there.
A P. Ritter, SO, New London resi-.
dent, died at the home of his daugi-
ter, Mrs. George Jillson.
Ray Starr, of Grand Rapids, was i'll
stantly killed when sewer in which,
he was working caved in, the timbers
crushing his head.
Mrs. Devine, colored, go, Beloit, was
careless in lighting her pipe in The
home of her son, Henry. Flames from
the match set fire to curtain and thc
house was burned.
Sydney Mennell, Kenosha, night Ell,
gineer of the plant of the Simmons
company, was electrocuted in the en-,
CINE room of the company at an early
hour in the morning.
William NJ. Perry, pioneer OF Osh-
kosh, member of the assembly in 1909
'07, prominent member of the G. A. r..
and one of the Libby prisoners, is
dead, aged seventy-four years.
Ten women of feeble minded home
at Chippewa Falls were successfully
sterilized and the patients are recover
ing, DR.. J. R. Lyman, Eau Claire, in
charge of the work, announced.
A dance held on Sunday at the
home of Sam Weinberg, near Bloom,
vile, ended in Thomas Cunts being
fatally shot by Peter Reinson, because
Cunts danced with Reinson's wife.
w. H. Blanchard, sup't. of trans
portation at the Wells-Fargo express
office at Milwaukee, was drowned
when his automobile dropped into the
Milwaukee river ON the State street
bridge draw.
A. F. Philbrook, pioneer of New
Richmond and veteran of the Fourth
Wisconsin Volunteer infantry died at
the Minnesota State Soldiers home at
Minnehaha after a long illness from
kidney trouble.
To meet the shortage in white news
print paper, the publishers of the
eight daily newspapers in Milwaukee
have decided to abandon the return
privileges of unsold papers to all deal.
ers and others.
A railroad handcare occupied by
Greek laborers and the auto of Will
liam Scotland of Sullivan collided on
the Concord street crossing at Ocono-
moWoc. James Millola and Tony La
polona were injured.
Extensive experiments are be-
ing made by o. r. George of the North
ern Potato company, and George Bey-
er, Oconto real estate dealer, in plant
ing one of the largest experimental pc
tato. farms in this state.
Twenty-eight barrels of crude potash
of commercial value have been made
at the plant of the Amigo Potash COM
pany, Each barrel weighs between
500 and 900 pounds. The total output
has been 22,400 pounds.
Caring for thousands Of automo'
bilists. who will attend the Wisconsin
state fair next month-Sept. II to Is
is now being considered by the Off
Gals This is one of the most import
ant subjects to be settled
De Pere will employ a visiting
nurse The question has been agitate.l
there for the last five years. The board
of health recommended the PROPOSE
ton, and it was supported by the
Woman's club and the school boards.
The little son of Edward Kohnke
fell off an icehouse chute at Half Moon
lake while fishing. The body was re,
covered in twenty minutes and doc
tors worked over him nearly three
hours with a lung motor without Sue
cess.
Herman Vande Hell, 70, one of the
earliest settlers of the town of Hol-
land, is dead He was one of the co.
ony that came over from Holland wits
Father Van den Brook in 1S4S, an1
has been a continuous resident on the
farm he first cleared.
When Fred Bender. an Oconomow 81
man, returned from the funera'
services CT his mother, Mrs Sophia
Bender, at Oconomowoc, he received
word of the death of his wife, who had
passed away at Milwaukee hospital,
following an operation of a few days
previous.
Mrs NJ. Anderson, seventyfour years
old, wife Of the Rev. David R. Ander
son, pastor OF Bristol and Paris Con
gregationa1 church III Kenosha county
died suddenly at the parsonage :;
Bristol, following an attack of ape
plexy, before a physician could be call
ed
To overcome the feeling of dread
which it is known that most freshmen
girls have at entering a strange uni
versity, the upper class women at tbs
University of Wisconsin have been re
vising their junior advisory system
and plan to meet trains and assis;
freshmen girls in various ways
Dominic Feck and companion
10th of Napit0woc while drivin