The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-01-14
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to All Glasses of Readers.
/ VIM. Hooper, of Nekoosa, and ST.
/ pervisor since 1898, is dead.
/ H. c. Benedict, aged rs, of Powers
Lake, known as the father of sum-
| mer resorts on the Wisconsin lakes"
! died in Kenosha
| A sudden fire broke out in the stock
room of the Athearn hotel, causing q
! loss of the greater of the stock. The
! damage was over $4,000.
At present rate there will be more
| than 100000 automobiles in Wisconsin
| in 1916, according to an estimate by
Secretary of State John Donald.
This month the Massachusetts
Life Insurance company was licensed
| to do business in Wisconsin. This is
one of the large insurance companies
which left the state in 1907.
At Racine, Wis, Leonard A. Fila
| treau, secretary of the bartenders
union, is under arrest, charged with
having passed forged check on To-
cal merchant to the amount of $94.30.
Paul WenZel, Wausau youth,
charged with robbing Joseph Rady of
Green Bay, pleaded guilty to the
charge and was given term of two
years in the reformatory at Green
Bay.
Secretary of state is receiving an
nual reports of corporations operating
in Wisconsin. There are 11,00O do
nestle corporations and 1000 foreign
corporations doing business in the
state
The Mortenson Lumber Co. began OPP
Grafton of it's sawmill this week, to run
night and day, employing a crew of
seventy-five men. The mill has enough
logs to keep it running for at least
eleven months.
From Jan. 1, 1915, up to Dec. 80,
when fire at the store of Henry Esch
Sons company did damage now esti-
mated at close to $15, 900 the fire loss
in Manitowoc for the entire year 1915
was $2,87459.
At a meeting of the Wood County
Cow Testing association at Vesper the
following officers were elected to serve
for one year: President, E. E. Buffers
secretary, Prof. w. w. Clark; treas
urer, A. P. Bean.
Grand Rapids has decided to build a
new water reservoir which will be Of
100000 gallons capacity and will cost
about $4,000 This addition has been
made necessary through the increased
use of the water supply.
J. w. Charlton, pastor of Methodist
Episcopal church at Shell Lake, was
married to Miss Mae Burdick of Elm
wood. The Rev. Mr.. Kneene of Spoon
er officiated, assisted by the local pas
tor, the Rev. L. L. Litchfeld.
Commissioner Kuolt issued certifi-
cate authorizing Sheboygan Loan and
Trust company to commence business.
Valentine Detling is president and
John NJ Detling secretary and the cap
ital of the institution is $4,000.
Sheboygan reports there will be
no investigation into the death of Ar,
thur MANI, grocer and saloon keeper,
who at a. M. on New Years day, as
a climax to his New Years eve party,
ran his automobile into the lake.
Among it's late gifts the Wauke-
sha County Historical society has re
ceived a number of official and semi
official British publications on the war
questions which are a gift to this So
ciety by Sir Gilbert Parker of Lon
DON
August Schultz, aged II years, was
passenger train which just one month
ago struck and Killed Henry ]. Bidel-
er within two blocks of the same spot
Schultz walked directly in front of the
train.
At Kenosha the Simmons Man
ufacturing company has gone out of
business. A force of clerks, attorneys
and accountants transferred the assets
of the Kenosha oncern, one of the larg-
est bedmaking plants in the world-to
a new company.
Grand Rapids gets chautauqua the
coming season. Among the numbers
will be included Professor and Mrs.
Won Geltch of the University of Wis
consin, Dvorak trio of Milwaukee, Uni
versity of Wisconsin band and Ripon
College Glee club.
A robin is spending January in
Dodgeville and seems to be happy and
contented. T. NJ Evans was the first
person, to see the CHEEKY redbreast,
which appeared on Clarence street.
Since then Mr.. Robin has been seen
by several people.
At Racine Viggo Helding is held
on a charge OF manslaughter following
the death of James Shepherd, forty
years old, who died from conclusion
of the brain which he received Christ
mas eve when his head struck the
curling. Helding was released on $500