The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-08


sacrifice for the war, she has given up
her free lunch.
Stanley Resop, fifteen, died at Ber-
lin after driving his fathers automo-
bile into ditch.
DR.. X. w. Doege, president of the
Marshfield clinic, has received his call
from the government.
Mrs. Michael Dogwell, aged twenty.
five, who was burned in gasoline ex-
plosion at Kenosha, is dead
Richard Grundgriper, a retired far
mer, ffty-fve years old, was drowned
while fishing in Lake Menomin.
Thomas M. Olsch, formerly agricul-
tural agent in Butler county, Mo-, has
been engaged as permanent food
agent in st. Croix county.
The Beloit Y M G.. A., which plan
ned to raise $4,000 toward the war
fund, has already obtained $4,000 and
the total probably will reach $4,000.
BY the capsizing Of his boat while
fishing on Beaver Dam lake, Peter De
Lange was drowned His body was re-
covered one hour after the accident.
The Kenosha cavalry company was
formally recognized as Troop E.
First Wisconsin cavalry. The troop
has been ordered for immediate serv.
ice
Merrill Guyant, the last retired
sheriff of Portage county, has pur-
chased a farm at Amherst and will
take up the raising of blooded Guern-
sey stock.
A Red Cross chapter was organized
at Jefferson with a membership OF
100. Lynn H. Smith is president and
Adeline Packard secretary. Work was
started at once.
George Park a deputy sheriff Of
the motor cycle squad, was acc'd snc-
! ally killed at Milwaukee, the result Of
running into a street car while chas-
| ing an automobile speeder.
Plans to obtain the necessary guam
| tity of coal for Milwaukee and tribu-
tary shipping points were made at
conference in Mayor Hoan's office.
| Governor Philip attended.
Sharpers, gamblers and women Of
| the underworld who consider it profit
able to hover near military trail In
camp will not be permitted to trail
Wisconsin's fighting forces.
The funeral of H. J. Hitchcock, for
| ty, at one time prominent in Univer-
| sity of Wisconsin baseball, was held
| at Berlin. Hitchcock was brother of
Mayor Charles w. Hitchcock.
! Axel Johnson, of Racine, was
probably fatally injured when he was
run down by a motorcycle. Johnson
was waiting for street car, and in
| lodging an automobile was hit.
! Albert Brankow, motorcycle terror
of county roads at Kenosha, who has
arrested over 500 drivers in three
years, has been enlisted as truck
| driver for the United States army.
Silas Evans, president of Ripon
college, has received a call from the
board of trustees of Occidental col
Iege, Los Angeles, to become its pres
ident. DR.. Evans accepted the offer.
! Company E of Fond du Lac likes
war rations, but it also likes pie and
other delicacies. Therefore, the
guardsmen staged a duty day.
| dance June 5, to secure funds for buy
| ing extras"
The Wisconsin State Osteopathic KID
ISOLATION held it's nineteenth annual
convention at Oshkosh. DR.. w, e.
| Elfrink, secretary of the Illinois osteo-
| pathic association, and DR.. H. w. Malt
by of Chicago were speakers.
Mrs. Louise Brayton, for whom the
| Brayton school in Madison was named
| died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
George W. Bird, at Madison Mrs
Brayton was 101 years old. She was
the first school teacher of Madison.
Percy Smith, forty-five years old,
| was electrocuted as he was working
at the top of an electric sign pole
| at La Crosse. The lineman received
| the fatal charge when he touched a
guy wire which had become grounded
Kenosha may lose the distinction OF
being the only city in Wisconsin with
community heating system. The
| Wisconsin Gas and Electric company
has appealed to the railroad commits
sion to permit it to abandon this fea
ture of the business.
Miss Alma Bollmann, thirty-one
while planting potatoes On her broth
er's farm near Sheboygan was render
ed unconscious and badly burned
when the galvanized iron pail she was
carrying was literally ripped to pieces
by bolt of lightning.
Miss Mavis Dillweg of Milwaukee
clad fully in mans dress of somewhat
military design, attracted attention
at Stevens Point as he was passing
through with some stock to take uE
her residence on a farm near Lady
smith. Her mother accompanied her
Corporal R. Miller, Privates R. G
Brown and Russell Mock, of the engjn
eering corps of the Ohio nat1ona
guard who were arrested in Kenosha
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