The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-12-15

/ ventlOn at Sparta.
The Amherst Electric company is
/ moving to secure franchise to light
| the village of Amherst Junction.
At charity bridge party Oshkosh
women raised $50, with which they
will provide for the care Of a war
| orphan in France,
| julius C.. Goodhouse, seventy-nine
| years old, died at his home at Maui
| ston after an illness of several months
| He was a merchant for many years.
| Mrs. Kate Reiter Schackmuth, aged
| fifty-five years, wife of Jacob Setback
muth, of Kenosha. was stricken with
apoplexy on the street and died with
| in a few minutes.
| Rusk county farmers were given op-
| portunity to meet and exchange ideas
when farmers Institutes opened at
Glen Flora and at Tony. They will be
| in session four days.
| John H. Bowen, Madison, has been
| appointed assistant chief examiner for
| the industrial commission. Mr.. Bowen
| is a lawyer and has had considerable
experience in this work.
| The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Oscar w. Nettleton was celebrated at
the home of the aged couple at Ra-
cine The Nettletons are well known
throughout Racine county.
| A girl giving her name as Lucy Biel,
aged twenty-one, of Delavan, Wis,
| was arrested in a Chicago .oop store
on charge of shoplifting. She said
| she was a cabaret entertainer.
The first prize in the buttermakers'
competition, gold watch, offered by
State Dairy Commissioner Weigle, was
awarded to L. L. Bolstad of Masco,
with high butter score of $3.50.
Fond du Laos community institute
arrived with three big meetings.
grain show, retail merchants meet
| ing, and community music and health
talks in the parochial and public
schools
Edwin Hinkel former city cl rk and
assemblyman, dismissed from. govern.
ment employ a few months ago, was
taken into custody on a warrant charg-
ing embezzlement of $1,13178 at Mil
waukee
Jason w. Hall, seventy-seven years
old, said to be the oldest express
agent in the middle west died after
thirty years continuous service in the
employ of the same express company
at Racine.
To see her two children, Lawrence,
aged II, and Della, aged Is, drown be-
side her as she struggled to rescue
them from the icy water of Kakagon
river was the experience of Mrs. Jo-
seph Durant of Odonah.
The body of Martin Void, sixty-f four
years old, well known citizen, was
found by his son hanging in the attic
of his home at Eau Claire. No cause
for the act is known. He is survived
by the son and a daughter.
The bust of John Muir by the sculp-
tor Pietro, donated to the University
of Wisconsin by Thomas E. Drifting
ham of Madison, was unveiled before
students, faculty members, and for
| mer classmates of the noted scientist
Gov. Philip has appointed Carl
Penner of Milwaukee to succeed
Shepard E. Barry of Madison, who re-
signed as member of the state
board of accountancy. The appoint
ment is for a term ending June IS,
1918
The state supreme court banded
down a decision signed by the chief
justice, denying Bob Moha, of Milwau-
kee, any money for his fight with
Mike Gibbons at Hudson, Wis, two
years ago, on the ground that he foul
| ed Gibbons.
Hans Webster, forty years old, a
farmer of Sturgeon Bay, charged with
the murder of William Johnson, who
died with a bullet hole in his head,
was bound over to circuit court which
will convene in March before Judge
Henry Graas of Green Bay.
Miner s. Macomber, thirty-one years
old, chemist at the Carnation Milk
Products company plant at Oconomo-
woo, who was burned about tee face
and upper part of the body by an ex-
plosiCn of ether in the laboratory, died
at his home as result of the acct
dent
! Henry Clay Arbuttle, nineteen,
styled the 'boy wizard in the manu-
facture of dyes, was bound over to
the municipal court under $4,000 bail
on the charge of larceny as bailee of
platinum valued at $4,000 from a Mil
waukee dye concern, by whom he was
employed.
In an attempt to reduce expenses,
the Hotel Hilton of Beloit, an
nounced that help must lubricate their
bread with oleomargarine, whereupon
every employed person in the house
gave notice that they would quit. But
ter was again ordered back to the
kitchen and peace was restored.
Oswald Voyer of Junction City pre-
scented Conductor William Hogan and
Engineer M. w. Buck, 500 line en-