The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-08
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UUO gallons or oil which Will Dc uSeu
on the streets this summer.
Appropriation of 500 for the Brown
County Defense league has been voted
by the Green Bay city council.
Sixteen local normal and high
school students have enlisted to work
this summer in the Du Pont COM
pany's mills at Barksdale.
First Lieutenant Edward o. Witt of
Company A of Marshfield has been
elected captain of the newly organized
Phillips. company in the city.
DR.. C. A. Culver of Beloit college,
for the army signal service, is meet
ing with good encouragement.
Boy Scouts of Horizon are receiv-
ing strenuous drilling under the lead
ership of Ralph Hawks, who recently
returned from Culver Military acade-
my.
With a membership of more than
200, Manitowoc county's Red Cross So
ciety was launched at a meeting in
Community hall. J. E. Plumb was
elected president.
The assembly passed bill chang
ing the apportiOnment of street rail-
way taxes SO that the county will re-
ceive 20 per cent, the state Is and
the town IS per cent.
500 rilroad employees will be aided
in buying liberty bonds through the
deducting of minimum Of 81 monthly
from their pay, railroad officials at
Fond du Lac announce.
The annual convention of the Wis
consin Rural Letter carriers associa-
ton, which was to have been held at
Sturgeon Bay, May 80 and 81, has
been postponed until July.
Carl D. LIVINGSTON, thirty-five years
old, assistant professor of agriculture
engineering at the University of Wis
consin, died at the Madison General
hospital of malarial fever.
Eight boys, sent to Marinette from
Chicago to work on farms near AM
berg, have returned after four days
spent with the hoe and shovel. The
work was too arduous for them,
Mrs. George Anderson, %, Of La
Crosse, ate some fish for dinner.
Shortly after she was seized whit VIC
lent pains which ended in death. A
doctor said it was ptomaine poisoning.
Kenosha county and the town of
Pleasant Prairie sold and delivered
road bonds to the amount of $120,000
the money to be used for the perma
nent Improvement of the roads in the
town of Pleasant Prairie
Uncle Sam is planning to educate
his birdmen in Kenosha and it is an
nounced that efforts are being made
to secure a lease on the great ball
room on Washington Island to be
used as a school for aviators.
Herman Bernd, forty-two years old,
is dead at La Crosse as the result of
a chemical fire extinguisher exploding
while he was repairing it. He was
thrown to the brick pavement with
enough force to fracture his skull.
Seven people, one of them woman,
offered their services gratis as
registration officers On June 5, Mayor
Bentley found no clause in his instruc
tons which would prohibit him from
availing himself of the volunteers Of
fer.
Leslie Hatton, wireless operator,
who was rescued after the American
tank steamer Vacuum was tOrpedoed,
is resting at his home in Niagara,
Wis. He has decided to enlist in the
army and will apply for place in the
signal corps.
William Henry Wooden, of La
Crosse. killed his stepdaughter,
Hazel Oldenberg-Franzen, nineteen
years old and bride of six days, then
committed suicide by shooting himself
and then taking poison to make sure
Of his own end.
The Beloit Boys band of forty mem
bers will receive systematic military
training as we'll as instruction in mus
ic. The leader. Police officer J. H. Nc
Neill, was a soldier in England, and
some time ago organized the band on
a military basis.
John Falge, son of DR.. Louis Flage
of Manitowoc. is in British waters
with the United States fiotilla of tor
pedo boats fighting German subma-
rines. A message received by Dr..
Falge announced the arrival of his son
at British port May 4
Winfield r. Gaylord and A. M. Sim
ons were expelled from the Socialist
party county central committee. The
charges follow upon their refusal t
abide by the resolution protestin0
against the war with Germany, recert
ly passed by convention in st. Louis
Willard Bennett, a student in tbs
College of Dental Surgery, is the first
Rock county boy away from horse tc
file his mail registration card for the
draft. Inquiry at his home disclosed
the fact that he reached his twenty
first birthday anniversary on the day
his card arrived.
At a meeting of the physicians Of
Marinette and Florence county, hello
AT Marinette. resolutions were adopt