The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-11
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Wood county will be held at Grand
Rapids June II to 16.
1t is expected that 10000 people will
take part in the monster patriotic
parade to be held at Oshkosh.
The Onalaska common council has
decided to allow the use of the city's
back streets for the cultivation of po-
tatoes.
"A special force of twenty-five depu-
ties for "war emergency service" was
named by Sheriff Arthur Buchanan of
Douglas county.
Sheriff Michael Hallen has plowed
up the jail residence yard at Mari
nette. He will plant potatoes, onions,
radishes and beans.
The authorities of Beioit college
have decided to conscript all students
next fall for college athletics, but will
have no intercollegiate sports.
Secret service agents are working
clues that sailors from interned Ger
man vessels who escaped from deten-
tion are working in GAINESVILLE.
A former Calumet miner is head Of
a Finnish government. George Sirola
is head of the police department at
Helsingfors, second city of Finland.
The Bradley bill to repeal the state
fire insurance fund law is dead The
assembly refused to reconsider the
vote by which the bill was indefinitely
postponed.
Edward Dronek, who died at Fort
Bliss, Texas, while serving in the ar
my, was buried with military hon
ors at Oshkosh. He was twenty one
years old.
District Attorney Schlabach's or
ders to the sheriff to confscate all
gambling devices found in La Crosse
county was followed by an order to
close two wine cellars.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has Of
fered a coloneTs billet to Municipal
Judge Backus of Milwaukee, in the
First division of his proposed expedi
tionary army for France.
ManitOwoc bakers have advanced
the price of bread, this time from 10
to II cents for large size loaves. Sew.
eral weeks ago prices for small loaves,
rolls and cream puffs were raised.
Two former Superior Finnish news
paper men have become chiefs of po-
lice in Finnish cities as a result Of
the Russian revolution, according to
information received in Superior
More men of former Austrian citi-
zenship or descent than of any other
nationality have been accepted for the
United States army at the Superior
recruiting office in the last two
weeks.
Louis KrenZke, merchant of Stock
ton, was instantly killed when he
plunged thirty feet off railroad
trestIe. Krenzke and two companions
were returning to Stockton from Min.
nesota City.
Individual increase of pay was
given 5000 Allis-Chalmers company
employees on May 1, according to Max
w. Babb, vice president. The increase
is in addition to ten per cent bonus
established in January.
sirous of purchasing a small piece of
land for park purposes. The site in
question is located just north of the
Allis-Chalmers clubhouse and adjoins
the Mckinley school grounds.
A telegram announcing a proposed
merger of all Lutherans of the coun-
try was received from Lutheran head
quarters in Philadelphia by the Wis
consin conference of the English
Evangelical Lutheran synod
The Northern Hemlock and Hard
wood Manufacturers association at its
"war convention" decided to provide
the government with all the lumber
needed in the war emergency without
profit to the manufacturers.
Milwaukee will furnish about 1000,
and the balance of Wisconsin about
$4,000 of the first 100000 recruits, un-
der the provisions of the new draft
law, according to Lieutenant Fred
Best of the Wisconsin national guard.
The assembly killed the Jennings
bill providing for the establishment OF
industrial banks in this state. This
bill embOdieS the So-called Morris plan
of an Industrial bank to fight loan
sharks, and was endorsed by nearly
all of the bankers of Milwaukee,
Harry Craig, a former Cleveland
student at the University of Wisco7-
sin, who is member of the Badaer
ambulance corps. in France, has beer
decorated with the Cr6is de Guerre
for bravery in carrying wounded sol
diers through heavy German fire.
William (Red) Kelley of Mitchell,
S. D., end of last years football team
at Wisconsin university, and Arley
Mucks of Oshkosh, famous athlete,
left to take over a 200 acre farm in
South Dakota for the production of
foodstuffs. Both are students in the
agricultural department at the univer
sity.
Forty-six head of valuable cattle and
four horses persisted when a new barn