The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-11-24

Phone rates between Stone Lake and
Hayward have been cut from rs events
to 10 cents by the Hayward Telephone
company.
Peter Deraitis, of Brentwood, wanted
to kill deer No. so he left his home
early Saturday morning. His body was
found Monday.
c. c. Hayward, principal of the con-
tinuation school at Stevens Point for
the last two and half years, has re-
signed, to take effect Dec. %.
Mrs. F. A. Tate, wife of DR.. F. A.
Tate of Rice Lake, is dead following
an operation for tumor Mrs. Tate was
one OF the first residents of Rice Lake.
Charles Frouek, aged fifteen, of An
tigo, blew out his brains on deer
hunt when shotgun was accidentally
discharged. 1t is believed that he fell
from stump
Manitowoc county was the first
county in the country to hold an an
nual convention of all it's county and
town road officers. The meeting was
held on Nov. IL.
Mrs. Harriet A. Swale, eighty-two
years old, for half a century a resi-
dent of Rock county, died in the same
downtown apartment in which she
lived for forty-five years.
William Renner, owner of palatial
summer nome at Brentwood and &
wealthy brewer of Akron, o., is re-
ported to have won a bet of $4,000
which he wagered on Wilson.
Richard Rothe, thirty-five years old,
was drowned in Lake Butte des Morris
while hunting. 1t is reported that his
skiff tipped over in a gale when he
went out to recover his decoys.
Efforts of the newly organized AS
ISOLATION of Commerce to secure a
working fund of $4,000 is meeting
with success at Green Bay. Almost
$4,000 has already been pledged.
With the filing of articles of incor-
poration of the State Bank of Francis
Creek, Manitowoc county got it's six
teenth bank. Twelve of them have
been established in the last decade.
The death of United States District
Attorney John Awkward caused in
definite postponement of the trial set
for Nov. Is of Robert Shields, wealthy
Superior, Wis, man, charged with vio-
lation of the white slave act.
Nels H Peterson and wife cele-
brated their golden wedding annivers-
airy Nov. IL at the home of their son,
Herman Peterson. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
son were married in 1886, at Sampsill,
Denmark They live at Cumberland
Mrs. Maurice McKenna, who was
recently elected from Fond du Lac first
vice president of the Wisconsin Fed
GRAFTON of Woman's clubs at Milwau-
kee, dropped dead while attending
wedding celebration at the home of
her brother
Game Warden Gurd Hubert III Bar
hon arrested Albert Jasperson, Gust
Anderson, Louis Nobock, Albert Rick
ert and John Ludwig of the town of
Turtle Lake, charged with trapping
,muskrat out of season. Each was fined
S25 and costs.
Charges preferred in behalf of en-
ervation against Ed Corbin is the
sensation of the term of the United
States district court, which was open
ed at Madison by Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Lands of Chicago.
A large meteorite fell on the Au-
gust Miller farm near Westfield and
the residents are preparing to dig it
out The meteorite entered the ground
at an angle of As degrees and made a
clean hole twenty-six inches in dia-
meter and quite deep.
Lieutenant Harvey Smith, Green
Bay, of the Second regiment machine
gun company, narrowly escaped being
bitten by a large rattlesnake while
his command was in camp at Leon
Springs The reptile struck at him
twice before it was killed.
With a large cat, the family pet,
curled up on it's face, the two months
old child of Mr. and Mrs Bruno No
vicki, was found dead by the mother
when she awoke at Superior. The
child had been smothered, physicians
claim, by the cat seeking a warm place
to sleep
Rev. Paul Hinkamp, First Presbyter-
ian church, and Rev. B. P. T. Jen-
kins, Grace Episcopal church, resign
ed from the Sheboygan County Min
isterial society because of the refusal
of the organization to try Rev. David
Thomas. First Congregational church,
on a charge of heresy.
Coed athletes at the University of
Wisconsin will have to obey strict
training rules from now on. No uni
versity woman who is on any of the
numerous hockey, swimming or base
ball teams will be allowed to break
training and keep in good standing
with the coach of her particular sport
The Rev. David Thomas, pastor of
the Congregational church at Sheboy-
gan, isn't going to resign and the pres
poets are that he isn't going to be