The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-07-20

sale Hatters has been in session at
Milwaukee.
Duplicate copies of the registration
cards under the draft law are on file
at the. adjutant generals office.
Resources of Wisconsin state banks
decreased $3,191, 461.59 between May /
and June 20, 1917.
Mrs. Phoebe Hartopp, early resident
of Milwaukee and widow of John Har-
topp, is dead at the age of seventy.
DR.. J. NJ Bischoff, for twenty-five
years one of the leading dentists in
Stevens Point, has sold his practice.
Fifty counties were represented at
a conference of the woman's branch of
county councils of defense of Wiscon-
sin.
August Lukinski wanted a few fish
SO he used a trammel net in Isher-
woods creek at Stevens Point, and
was fined SIS.
Wisconsin liquor dealers ask that
whisky in bond be left there, but that
foodstuffs used in the manufacture of
liquor be discontinued
A. j. Rabehl, forty-five years old, of
Rice Lake, was instantly killed when
struck by an Omaha passenger train
on a crossing at Rusk.
Several hundred people were in at
camp meeting at Byron. Daily and
evenin gsessions were held.
Wholesale liquor dealers and dis
tillers of Wisconsin held a meeting to
protest against legislation in congress
releasing whisky from bond.
West Bend, where the German pop
ulation predominates to greater ex-
tent than any other city in the state,
has put German out of the schools.
The Rev. Father ]. j. Brennan, who
established ST. James Catholic parish
in Wausau twelve years ago, has
taken charge of a parish at Schulls-
burg.
John Welsh, manager of a Green
Bay paper company, has invented a
process whereby he says waste paper
can be reclaimed and made into news
print paper.
Alas The beer glass is shrinking.
Forty-fiye down town Milwaukee sa-
looms have bought nine ounce glasses
in place off the usual ten and eleven
ounce scoops.
While playing on the docks on the
~, Wv of int
ry linda, nine year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John linda, fell into the water
and was drowned.
In, spite of several thousand col
umns published on the draft law, Hen
ry Hartwick, Avoca, did not know any
thing about it on June 5. Hartwick
was arrested at Dodgeville.
State and federal aid is to be uti-
lized in the completion of the Sheri-
dan road through Kenosha county,
and $4,000 has been provided in equal
parts by the state and nation.
company of the home guards, or
ganized at Green Bay recently, voted
to become a militia organization and
offered it's services to the state, sub
ject to the orders of the adjutant gen
eral.
John Bates of La Crosse, who was
forced to kiss the flag of the United
States at Preston, Mimi, after using
it as towel to wipe dust from his
hands, enlisted in the United States
navy.
Waukesha's three theaters will be
operated by the Waukesha Amuse-
ment company, recently Incorporated
for $4,000, which bought the Colonial
opera houes, the Auditorium and the
Unique.
The industrial commission an
nounced a decision in which it holds
that it can determine the liability of
insurance companies which insure en-
ployers against claims under the COM
pensation act.
With the fling of papers for disso-
luton of the Volunteer Fire Depart
ment Insurance company, later the
Manitowoc County Insurance COM
pany, passes one of the old institu-
tions of the city.
Oshkosh relatives have received in
formation from Europe that Robert
Muscavitch, aged nineteen, former
Oshkosh boy, who enlisted in the navy
in March of this year, is dead "some-
where in France"
Relatives received a brief cablegram
that Sergeant Joseph Kannia, twenty
five years old, of the Fourteenth bat
talon, Canadian infantry, had been
MORALLY wounded in the fighting
around Lens July 5.
The legislature passed bill validat-
ing the bond issue of $4,000 by the
village of East Milwaukee, and $780,
600 by the village Of Whitefish Bay
for the construction of sewers, water
works and lighting systems.
Herbert Capeheart, former Kenosha
athlete who went year ago to fight
with a Canadian regiment in the Eng
lish army, is in the British field hos