The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-15

| GAINESVILLE is planning to entertain
! the State Dental society on July 10 to
! IL. Elaborate plans are being made.
The Darlington High school gradu-
! ating class numbers thirty-eight, the
| largest class in the schools history.
| A group of women were at each
polling place and placed the presidents
! message in the hands of every young
| man who registered.
| Miss Alice Goranson of Aurora, hav-
ing won the county spelling contest,
will represent Florence county in the
state fair spelling contest.
! Charles Derrick, IS, Stevens Point,
+; was found unconscious on the floor of
! his home. 1t is thought that he was
injured in a gas explosion.
| Kahki arm bands were given by the
Women's Patriotic league to all who
has a membership of over 100, and is
I growing steadily.
Slipping off sidewalk Chas. Kind
chuh, sixty-one years old, father of
ten children, plunged head first into a
ditch and drowned in ten inches of
water at Waupun.
Aaron Savage stranger, is in jail at
La Crosse, charged with stealing
handbags and purses from five women
while they were praying in three diff
ferent churches.
While home on a visit from Detroit,
where he had been employed, Hugo
Beduhn, eighteen years old, was
stricken with pleuro pneumonia and
died at Manitowoc.
Miss Mary E. Prock, a pioneer
school teacher, died at Lakeside hos
pital at Oshkosh as the result of burns
inflicted upon herself with suicidal in
tent, while insane.
Governor Philip sent message to
the senate, vetoing the Wilcox bill,
appropriating $4,000 annually for the
construction of armories for the Wis
consin national guard.
Henry Ferge, sixty-four years old,
manager of the Northern Construction
company of Milwaukee and one of the
foremost building contractors in the
country, is dead at his home.
T. H. Spence of the Spence, McCord
Drug company of La Crosse paid a
fine of $500 in Judge K. M. Landis'
federal court for failing to have pro-
per label put on some cough medicine.
Ruby Geswein, who recently finish
ed the course of study in District No.
1 school, Concord, has not been alb
sent or tardy in eight and half years.
She lives two miles from the school
The senate killed the Wilcox rail-
road grade crossing bill, which aim
ed to force railroads to bear the cost
of removing dangerous crossings by
elevation or by building subways, IL
to IA.
Burdette Ellud, Ellis Denny and
Victor Martin, Beloit boys, left Beloit
to join American Ambulance corps in
France. Beloit has furnished seven
teen men for Red Cross work in
France
In the state senate by a vote
of 10 to u bill which was drawn in
the form the governor desired and
which prohibited only the manufacture
and sale of whisky, was indefinitely
postponed.
James E. Kinney, sixty, for twenty
years member of the Lincoln, Neb.,
police department, is dead at Madison
following a paralytic stroke. He had
been a member of the Madison police
force the last ten years.
The body of John Burke Poygun far
mer, who disappeared from his home
west of the village of Winneconne
May "a, was found floating on Lake
Poygun. About his waist was fasten-
ed 14-foot logging chain.
Frank Pickett of Summit is under
arrest charged with assault, and Ar
thur Best of Dousman is suffering
from knife wounds about the head and
body as the result of an alteration in
the streets of the latter village.
The Kenosha registration board
stole march on possible slackers
when before the registration places
were open the board had in it's pos
session list of all men of military
age employed in big plants in the city.
With one-half of it's membership Of
forty enlisted in various units of the
United States army, the Wallack club,
a Green Bay social organization COM
posed of business and professional
men, has disbanded for the duration
of the war.
twenty-five members of Company / |
Of Marinette and thirty members of |
Company NJ of Oconto have gone to
Camp Douglas, where they will assist |
in preparing the camp for the soldiers
who will arrive on June 15, or soon
after.
Wisconsin leads in the work done
under the national council of defense, |
according to John Willard, representa-