The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-05-05
Mill G. whipple was appointed rural

letter carrier at Elera.
Two unidentified men died in
wreck mile south of Deer Park
G. w. Ihrig, Oshkosh, travelling
salesman died after brief illness.
A promised potash factory at Amigo
will be operated under the name of
the Amigo Potash company.
Thirty thousand acres were sub
merged between Trempealeau and
East Winona by the Mississippi over
flow.
A letter mailed from Iowa relatives
over sixteen years ago arrived the
other day at the home of Fremen Eos
sum of Orfordville.
Cyrus Church, staying at Waupaca,
veteran of the civil war, and mem
Der of the Veterans home, was found
dead in Taylor lake.
The body of the man who was killed
at Beloit by the cars of the Milwau-
kee road remains unidentified. On
one arm is tatooed "W. Lund."
The police pension board at She
boygan at it's recent annual meeting
ing there was $21, 500 in the treasury.
Ex-senator c. A.. Shower, one of
the most prominent democrats in Wis
consin, died at his home in Fort At
kinson, after an illness of several
weeks.
Edward w. Berry, formerly OF Wau-
kegan, now of Kenosha, and said to
be wealthy, has filed suit in Municipal
court there asking divorce from Pearl
S. Berry.
Fred, M. Wilcox and Secretary L. A.
Carroll of the Wisconsin industrial
commission went to Columbus, O., to
attend the annual meeting of the In
ternational Association of Industrial
Commissioners.
Pensions are granted Wilhelmina
Klinzing, Algoma, $12; Mary ]. Wing,
Wisconsin Veterans home, $12.
There is no trace of Louis An
derson, deckhand of the steamer Paul
l., who it is supposed was drowned at
Fremont, Wis, while the boat was on
the Fremont end of the run
w. H. Berray, of Waukesha Argus,
has sold his interest in that paper to
T. M. Risk, principal of the Wautoma
high school. Mr. Berray has been the
senior editor for thirty years.
Maccoe Kueny, Is, has announced
his intention of stopping the sale of
cigarettes and the "makin's" to his
boy friends in Kenosha and has had
two dealers arrested and fined.
Inquiry is going on to determine
whether the Canadian government
violated neutrality laws in attempting
to enlist musicians from Ashland and
other cities of the northwest for SER
vice with the allied armies
When A. J. Janke. living at
Odenah, left his home for work he
stumbled on the body of his son, Ar
thur, in front of his house. He had
drowned in a mud puddle six inches
deep.
New Glarus friends say the suit
for $4,000 back wages brought by Fa-
bina Sheriff of that place against Har-
ry Reedy, wealthy farmer of Albany,
ILL.,, had been settled out of court for
$S,625.
John Seibert a tender hearted man
of Park Falls, while in Brainerd,
MIMI met a girl with hard luck story.
She was of the "clinging" type and
put her arms around him His watch
is gone.
The examination of Archie Fowler,
the Beloit man held on a charge Of
murder in connection with the disap-
pearance of Rudolph Walvig, was
postponed to May 4. Search for Wal
wigs body continues.
w. D. Hiestand, residing at Madison,
registrar of the University of Wiscon-
sin, has been elected second vice pres
ident of the American Association of
Collegiate Registrars, which held its
seventh annual convention at Column
bus, o.
A charter has been issued to
the Barronett State bank of Barran-
EFT, Barron county. Capital stock is
$4,000. Incorporators are Lynn H.
Ashley, Matthew Arnes, Martin Peter
son, Edward Anderson and CA. L.
LOOMS S
The plant of the commercial
Engraving company, at Sheboygan,
started operations as an open shop
following walkout of union photo
engravers in response to an order
:from1the International Photo Engrav-
ers' union.
Gov Philip named Prof. Meade of
the University of Wisconsin as expert
hydraulic engineer to inspect the big
dam being built by the Wissota Pow
-er company at Chippewa Falls and
see that the interests of the state are
properly protected.
The Mississippi river On second
rampage cut a new channel through
five miles of reclaimed farm land
south of East Winona, flooding ten
square miles to depths Of from five