The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-06-16
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Arthur Lott is new rural carrier
at Stanley, Wis.
Reinhardt jain, a Fox Lake farmer,
caught with his bare hands a huge
hawk that raided his hen house.
Three were hurt when the Chicago
and Minneapolis limited No. 3, on the
500 line was wrecked at Atwood.
The state has issued a charter
to the Farmers State bank of Steu-
ben, Crawford county. Capital stock
is $4,000.
VIM. H. Farrell, aged 20, assistant
engineer at the Beaver Dam water
pumping station, killed himself using
a shot gun
The Star Prairie postoffice and AL
bert Olson's store were robbed of $500
in stamps, some change, kodak and
a quantity of jewelry.
Tickets are given Wausau children
for course in playing to be held in
connection with the chautauqua.
Forty-two clergymen and a large
number of lay delegates attended the
forty second annual council of the
episcopal diocese of Fond du Lac.
Because one vote majority puts
turtle Lake, near Barron, in the wet
column, seven men are seeking liquor
licenses for but two saloons, that be-
ing the lawful number.
A gathering unique in the indus
trial history of Beaver Dam occurred
at the Davidson theater when the Nal
ieable Iron Range company presented
life insurance policies to 254 employees.
On Saturday and Sunday June "a
20 a Norwegian reunion will be held
IN Cumberland to which Norwegians
from all sections of the northwest will
attend. This applies to those from
eastern Norway.
Forty tons of sheepshead near
Oshkosh, were taken out of Lake
W1nnebago in less than a week by one
crew of the Badger Fish company. In
one haul of 10000 pounds only about
The Viking club, a public-spirit-
ed organization of the Norwegian
Lutheran church people with a mem
bership of nearly 100, has taken up
the proposition of securing a new de
vt from the Omaha railway company.
Grace Cobb has resigned at the
deaf school in Stevens Point and ac-
cepted a position in the faculty of the
Kansas City Deaf school as head of
primary work. She is a graduate of
the Oshkosh and Milwaukee Normal
schools
Herman Stadier, an Oshkosh insane
man, was discovered to have been a
sufferer from smallpox a week ago.
After. being out of the city while aff1ict-
ed, he broke quarantine and has been
mingling with friends, neighbors and
strangers
The two sacrifices of blood by
George Beaver, a Pleasant Prairie
farmer, who twice submitted to opera
tiOns for TRANSMISSION of blood in an
effort to save the life of his young
wife, were in vain, as she passed away
at Kenosha hospital
'The Masque of the Golden Scroll"
in the University of Wisconsin Shake
spearean tercentenary celebration,
was produced in the university's new
open air theater by a cast that in
cluded over 200 goods who danced in
bare feet to special music, in cos
tunes of the sixteenth century,
Lawrence Clark, a Genessee boy,
fifteen years old, caught what is claim
ed to be one of the largest brook
trout ever caught in Waukesha coun-
ty. 1t was of the brown variety and
was landed on a four ounce trout rod.
The trout which was nineteen inches
long, was sent to friend in Milwau-
kee.
A proclamation names Wednesday
June IA, as flag day, and recommends
that the national colors be gener-
ally displayed on that day and spe.
cial exercises and ceremonies be held
in public and private schools and such
honors accorded the flag as the pa
triotic spirit of the people of the state
may prompt.
E. A Hatfield, of Kenosha, for
the last five years the assistant sec
rotary and general sales manager of
the Balm Wagon compny, has resign
ed his position and organized the Mis-
sissippi Valley Motor Car company
with headquarters at ST. Louis. The
company will be distributors for mo-
tor cars over large territory
Barney Ward, the recent parent who
was ridden out of East Troy on rail
following the death of his bride and
baby in a Milwaukee private materni
Nty home, has started an action against
eight East Troy residents, some OF
them leading business men. Ward
has been living at the Nickle Plate
hotel in Elkorn since his forced exit
from the village.