The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
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for next winters supply of wood for
the municipal market.
The city council has authorized the
purchase of a fire automobile truck
at a cost of $500 at Stevens Point.
A meeting for the purpose of or
ganizing a county council of defense
was held at Sparta on May 8 at
/ p. m.
When Co. /, Second regiment, w. N.
c., re-enters the service of the United
States it will have among it's members
four brothers.
Frank Young, forty-four years old,
died from the effects OF injuries sus-
tanned a few days ago when bags of
cement fell upon him at Beloit.
Theodore Bartels, forty-three years
old, town of Black Wolf, hanged him
self. He is reported to have been de-
spondent over the high cost of living.
The first job of yeggmen at James
vile in eight years netted 500 from
the grocery of Byron Jones in an out
lying district early in the morning.
The city council has voted to en-
power the chief of police to engage
yards and to hereafter employ jail
inmates in work on the street at
Stevens Point.
Professors Joel r. Moore and James
T. Fairchild Of the state Normal
school at La Crosse enlisted in the
officers reserve corps of the United
States army.
The Cumberland defense council
has elected the following officers: r.
B. Hart, president; F. W. Miller, vice
president; w. N. Fuller, secretary;
Herbert Ewald, treasurer.
John Settler is in Jail at La Crosse
suspected of being the man who held
up the Northwestern passenger train
near Sparta He was arrested after
changing small coins into bills.
If the Manitowoc city council adopts
the report of it's license committee sa.
looms connected with dance halls will
be compelled to close at the same
hour as other saloons, IL o'clock.
David S. Rose, ror1ner mayor OF
Milwaukee, who recently returned
from a trip In the Orient, says China
will follow whatever policy the United
States outlines in the present war"
Three hundred shop men from the
Fairbanks Morse plant at Beloit will
plant forty acres of potatoes on land
owned by the company. The company
has purchased several carloads of
seed.
Otto M. Reiss, aged twenty-six,
treasurer and director of the G. Reiss
Coal company and the Reiss Steam
ship company of Sheboygan, is dead
following an operation for append
citis
S. w. Thomas, aged fifty years,
died at Oshkosh from scalds received
when he fell into vat of boiling Wa
ter used for cooking logs at the
veneer mill of the Paine Lumber COM
pany.
The Rev. r. S. Donaldson announced
his resignation as pastor of the Per
severance Presbyterian church at Mil
waukee to take charge Of extension
work in Presbyterian circles in San
Francisco, Cal.
1t has been decided to postpone in
definitely the saengerfest Of the
Eastern Wisconsin Association of
German Lutheran Male Choirs, which
was scheduled to be held at Sheboy,
gan on July 9.
A party of forty-one Oshkosh young
men have gone to Milwaukee to en-
list for the war Most of them intend
ed to apply for the coast artillery
service. Three of the number expect
to enter the navy.
Kenosha county formally took part
in the organization of Wisconsin for
the mobilization of resources, when
the county board formed a county
board of defense. John P. Sparta,
chairman of the board, will be chair
man of the defense movement.
Announcement was made that F. L..
Shippee, treasurer of the Black Cat
Textile company, and widely known
among credit men of the country, had
resigned his position and will sever
his relations with the company the
first of August.
The Home Guards composed of men
who volunteer for military service.
hut who are not eligible for conscrip
ton. is the latest Green Bay organiza
ton. DR.. A. II. Merar, veteran of tbs
Spanish-American war, is head of the
movement.
Workmen in the great Kenosha fac
tories united to fight the high cost OF
living with the incorporation of the
Kenosha Consumers Buying company.
The company has a capital stock OF
100000 which has been sold in
shares of $1.25 each.
Edwin Hinkel, former Milwaukee
city clerk, but recently employed in
the United States internal revenue
collectors Office, was sentenced to six
months in the house of correction and
fined 500 upon pleading guilty to en-
bezzlement of $1,132, received through
tie sale of war stamps.
.I am unwilling to join in the crusade