The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-19

Wilbur I. Dudley, president of the
La Crosse County Bank and pioneer
of the county, was found dead in his
room at his home in West Salem.
The Right Rev. Bishop Paul p.
i Rhode, in an interview at Green Bay,
| went on record as being unqualifedly
| in favor of universal military train
| ing.
Lauren Barker, veteran civil war
| soldier and prominent farmer of
| Brookfield, died in his home on the
| farm where he had been raised from
| childhood.
Professor Edward Dwight Eaton,
| president of the Beloit college for
| thirty years, has announced his resig-
| nation 1t is to take effect as soon as
a successor is appointed.
| The main building of the old Barker
| & Stewart saw mill on McIndoe is
land, Wausau, one of the oldest in the
| section, was burned to the ground by
fire probably of incendiary origin.
Under a decision by the state indus
| trial commission Mrs J. w. Spears
will receive $2,36089 for the death of
her husband, from the Wisconsin
Minnesota Light and Power company
| of La Crosse.
| The city of Milwaukee has engaged
Mr.. J. B. Hogarth, public utility ex-
| pert of Chicago, to assist the city at
| torney in the attempt to secure low
| er gas rates than the seventy-five cent
| rate now being charged
| George w. Blanchard of Edgerton
has been appointed executive clerk TO
| Governor Philip. Mr. Blanchard, who
| is an attorney, will have charge of the
outer executive office, and will assist
in the bill-drafting work
Elkhorn went wild with the an
nouncement that the Frank Holton
Band Instrument company of Chicago
has accepted $4,000 bonus to To-
cate factory there, which will expend
| 100000 year in wages.
Every known brand of cheese man
ufactured in the world was on display
at Fond du Lac when the twenty-fiSth
annual convention of the Wisconsin
| Cheesemakers' association opened
with 1000 delegates present.
| Mayor Wittig and other Marinette
| officials will appear before Governor
E. L. Philip in the near future, with
a view to obtaining possession of the
| Marinette armOry. The state will be
asked to deed the property to the city,
Mintho Belches, alias Mike Dillon,
and Tony PetkOf were arrested at
Linden and brought to Madison,
charged with having in their posses
sion plates and instruments used in
the counterfeiting of $40 gold certifi-
Gates.
The annual meeting and election of
officers of the Wisconsin Yellowstone
Trail association will be held at Osh-
kosh on Jan. Is and 10 at the Athearn
hotel, and large representation is ex-
pected from various points in the
state
Charles Rogers, son of Dr. Talbot
Rogers, warden of Racine college, is
in a serious condition at St Luke's
hospital suffering from internal injur-
les as a result of the overturning of
an automobile belonging to the col
lege warden.
Opinion that nominal fine was not
commensurate with the charge, Judge
Page in the district court at Milwau-
kee sentenced Harry Dublin, a stock
buyer of Deerf1eld, to three months in
the house of correction for selling dis
eased and immature veal
Peter Hanenberger of Eyota, Mimi,
arrived in La Crosse to assist the po-
lice in finding his seventeen year old
daughter, Louisa Hanenberger, and
Edward Gruhlke, who eloped and OBJ
tanned a license to wed after the girl
had sworn she was eighteen.
The Luther Home, a three-story
brick structure for old people, erected
by the Lake Superior Conference of
the Swedish Lutheran church at a
cost of $4,000, near Marinette will be
turned over to the conference commit
tee by the contractors Jan. Is.
Defective f1ues in the heating sys-
TENS caused CONGREGATIONS and panics
among the congregations and the Pc
tania Danish. Lutheran and German
Baptist churches at Racine Not per-
son was injured in their escapes and
the property loss will be $4,000.
AS the result of letter sent out
by Attorney General w. C. Owen Osh-
kosh saloon-keepers say they will
close Sundays, but add that if Osh-
kosh saloons must close they will
! make an effort to have the same rule
put in force in other cities of Wiscon-
sin.
) Ralph D'Aguilera, found guilty on a
: charge of assault with intent to com
) NIT statutory offense, was sentenced
, to seven years at hard labor Mrs
, Winifred Thompson said D'Aguilera,
chiropractor, attacked her when she
, went to him for treatment at Milwau-
kee.
Descriptions of Milwaukee's' 'phan-
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