The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-05-05
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President Wilson has named Dennis
Blewitt to be postmaster at Fond du
Lac.
l. A. Beane is dead at his home in
Boone, Ia. He kept hotel in a num-
Der of different cities in this state
Miss Lois Howard, a popular young
freshman of Waupun, was elected
leader of next years Beloit College
Girls Glee club.
Oconomowoc is planning for
campfire and entertainment on Decor
alton day under auspices of Henry
Bertram post, G. A. r.
j. G. Lawrence, a Beloit sportsman,
killed seven young wolves and captur-
ed one south of the city in Illinois.
He will receive a large bounty.
F. N. Blatz, proprietor of the Hotel
Coleman, at Coleman, Wis, was
found dead in the high school base
ment. He was janitor at the school,
Grade separation so as practically
to include every important grade
crossing in Kenosha has been ordered
in a decision by the railroad commits
sion.
Erwin Losbe, of Baraboo, received
broken leg at Madison when
an automobile struck his motorcycle
and dragged him for a considerable
distance.
Capt. F. c. Kiser, Whitewater civil
war veteran, is dead. Captain Kisef
served two terms in the state assem-
bly,, 1880 and 1891, and was formerly
municipal judge.
E. j. Samp, ex-star athlete of the
University of Wisconsin, and grad
uate of that institution, has been
elected secretary of the board of com
merce of Madison.
Charles L. Alverson, So, president
of the City bank of Portage and cash
Ter OF. the State bank of Medford,
died from appendicitis. He was thir-
ty-second degree Mason.
The city sealers of Stevens Point
will label all packages sealed in the
stores in order to inform the Gus
toners and also prevent resealing the
packages at future times
With the subscriptions of $225,000
worth of stock, Green Bay is assured
of the new packing plant and stock
yard industry which was recently In
corporated under the state law.
T. Krumm, shipowner of Melrose.
Mass, has purchased the tug W. S.
Taylor of the Nau Tug Line company
of Green Bay. The craft will be used
in Atlantic coast towing service.
Christopher Price, one of the two
survivors of the historic battle be-
tween the Monitor and Merrimac, has
at last decided to ask for pension.
His application has been forwarded
to CONGRESSMAN M. K. Reilly.
At a meeting at Kenosha it was
decided to form a good roads club
for the towns of Pleasant Prairie and
Somers in an effort to secure the COM
pletion of the Sheridan road through
Kenosha county.
The Business Mems association of
that city has asked the citizens OF
Beloit to provide at least 400 addi-
tional houses this season to accommo
date the working forces in the shops.
Many workmen are now living in
camps.
Elevation of tracks and building via
ducts by the Chicago and Northwest
ern railway company through the city
of Kenosha at an estimated cost of
81 500, 900 is provided for in an order
issued bv the Wisconsin railroad com
mission.
Ella cambridge, child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Sandridge of Winthrop
Harbor, a village on the state line
south of Kenosha, was burned to
death. The clothing of the child
caught fire while she was rompins
with other children about bonfire.
At contest at Wabena by partiet-
pants from Shawano, Wabeno and
Oconto high schools, Shawano won
the two first in the declamatory con-
test, Miss Lucille Gilkey receiving
first and Miss Eulalia Emanuel sec
ond. In the oratorical contest, Shawn
no received second and third.
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Celina Marcuiller vs. the Milwaukee
road was decided by jury before
Judge Reid in circuit court in favor of
the company. The case was suit for
damages for an assault alleged to
have been made On her person by Ro-
bert Williams, colored, while she was
a passenger on the company's train
between Tomahawk and Chicago.
Officials of the Commercial an6
Savings bank, Charles R. Carpenter
cashier, and B. Hinrichs. president
who were indicted in Racine county
will probably be tried in Milwaukee.
The defendants fled affdavits TO tn
effect that they could not secure an
unprecedented trial anywhere in the
First judicial district. comprising Ra-
cine, Kenosha and Walworth counties
AS George Shaftrie. Lisbon far.