The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-05
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q resident OI G0ueSee lOI lOIIy-ulHc
years, is dead.
Milwaukee factories are in dire
straits because of the car shortage,
and embargo of eastern lines.
A Methodist congregation is being
founded at Junction City, which has
never had a Protestant church.
The Rev. Edwin w. Todd of Toledo,
o., has accepted call to become rec
tor of Trinity Episcopal church at
Oshkosh.
Arthur Stericker, tifty-one years old,
head of the Stericker stock fam and
business man, died after an illness of
five weeks.
Mrs Rebecca Miles, eighty-six years
old, persisted in the flames which de-
stroyed her home at Plainfie,d. The
cause of the fire is not known.
James Gunderson, farmer residing
west of Wautoma, sold a hog to John
Egan which tipped the scales at 785
pounds. The animal brought $63.45.
William Protz, manager of tinsel
concern of Manitowoc, will brave the
dangers of ocean travel and sail for
France to buy material for his COM
pany.
The semi-annual state medical ex-
aminations, to test he qualifications
of candidates for licenses to practice
medicine in Wisconsin, will be held
Jan. Gil.
At a farmers institute held at Mi
kama recently, is was learned that
500 bushels of potatoes from one acre
of land was not unusual in northern
Wisconsin.
J. E. r. Best of Boyceville fell from
a breaking plank while unloading 1um-
Der and is expected to die of his in
juries. He struck on his head and has
since been unconscious.
Absent thirty-nine years and given
up for dead, Pacificus Hubert reached
Fond du Lac much alive and with the
sole purpose of enjoying a Christmas
reunion with his relatives.
The freight embargo is seriously
affecting Depere industries. The one
hit hardest is the John P. Dousman
Milling company. 1t has run out of
wheat and can get no. more.
Members of the Elks' lodge at
Shawano distributed 12O baskets of
food in Shawano. A Christmas COM
munity Christmas tree was the feature
of Christmas days program.
After chase of several miles an
English hound owned by John Cost
ley at La Crosse trapped three foxes
and held them until the hunting party
came up and shot the animals
Judge B. B. Park of Stevens Point
narrowly escaped freezing to death
when he collapsed from illness on the
road in a temperature of nine below
zero while on his way to work.
George F. Perkins, who plead
guilty to rifling the cash register at
the Commercial hotel at Ashland and
stealing $25, was sentenced by Judge
Risjord to serve one year in Waupun.
Dr. Walter B. Gunnison, principal of
Erasmus High school, Brooklyn, and
prominent in educational circles
throughout the country, is dead Gun
nison formerly practiced law at Madi-
son.
After returning from the store where
he had been employed thirty-four
years and lying on the couch when
he had eaten his evening meal, L. F.
Nienaber suddenly expired at Mani
towoc
Tom Taylor, colored, terrorzed res
idents of Pewaukee village by build
ing a fire in a lumber yard, accord
ing to information forwarded 70 Sher-
iff John Sleep. He was given twenty
days for vagrancy.
Two men held in La Crosse in con-
nection with fur thefts there may be
members of the gang which operated
at Fond du Lac recently and stole sew
eral hundred dollars worth of furs,
declared local authorities.
Kenosha is going right ahead with
the building of the portion of the
Sheridan road through the town of
Pleasant Prairie and the county high
way commission has asked FOR bids
for 10000 barrels of cement.
Christmas in Kenosha was sadden,
ed by the death of little Janice Eliza
beth Rush, the four years old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rush.
prominent Kenosha people, who
choked to death on a piece of candy.
The biggest geese ever shipped
from Watertown, the center of the
worlds stuffed goose industry, went
ont, one flock of 100 birds averaging
twenty-eight pounds each, with the
biggest goose weighing thirty-eight
pounds.
Henry Clay Arbutle, aged nineteen.
pleaded guilty to the charge CT steal
ing $4,000 in platinum from the Inter
national Dye company, which employ
ed him as its chemist and also gave
him an interest in the business at
cost of $4,000, and was sentenced to
the Green Bay reformatory for three
years.
When the case against Harvey Hill.