The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-01

| He is wanted at Grand RAPIDS, MICH.
Edward Torik, aged nine, died from
| brain fever, caused by being hit on
the head by batted ball at Kenosha.
Marathon county's portion of the
fund for the war work of the Y. NJ.
| c. A. was raised by ten teams Of
| ten men each.
The newly formed council of de.
| tense of Green Lake county was grant
| ed $4,000 by the county board at
special meeting.
Frank Wilkinson and Lester Roch-
| ow, twelve year old Boy Scouts, res
| cued Armin Furrer from drowning in
| the river at Oconomowoc.
DR.. Melvin A. Brannon, president Of
the University of Idaho, has been
elected president of Be1oit college, to
succeed DR.. Edward Dwight Eaton.
The government is urged to enforce
prohibition during the period of the
| war in a resolution adopted by the
Wisconsin conference of defense coun-
ellis.
A we'll has been drilled near the city
park at Fort Atkinson to a depth OF
| 500 feet and has natural flow at the
surface of over 800 gallons of water a
minute.
The study of the German language
will be eliminated from the Milwaukee
| public schools for reasons of econ
| omy," if School Director Augustyn has
| his way.
By vote of As to AZ the assembly
refused to permit the introduction Of
sale of whisky in Wisconsin after
July 1, 1917.
E. w. Leach, T. M. Kearney Jr-, and
DR.. T. W. Pope, all of Racine, have
been appointed as examiners of men
drafted in Racine county for service
in the army and navy.
The rains Of the last few days have
eXtinguished the last of the forest
fire about Wausau, and have done in
calculabIe good to gardens and seed
ed crops, farmers claim.
The tugs J. c. Ames, L. T. Brogan
and Erns of the Nau Tug line were
sold for an unannounced sum to paper
| mill interests in the Fox river valley,
it was stated by George D. Nau.
After destruction of it's plant by fire
of mysterious origin, the Superior
Telegram published it's edition from
the plant of the Duluth News-Tribune.
Loss of $4,000 was covered by insur-
| ance.
Fred Neuendank was found not
guilty in the circuit court at Wausau
of the charge of numbering William
Ebert during a quarrel in the town Of
Ringle On April II. He pleaded self-de-
| Tense.
The organization of a Red Cross
branch at Wausau is meeting with en-
! thusiastic support. It is estimated that
memberships in the county will ap.
proximate $500 before the campaign
| is ended.
| The state bank commissioner issued
! a charter to the Farmers and Mer-
! chants State bank of townsville,
Dunn county. The capital is $4,000
| H. F. Kyle is president and W. F.
! Thomas cashier.
| John Schaeffer, held on a charge of
| holding up, singlehanded, Chicago &
| Northwestern passenger train between
| La Crosse and Sparta some weeks
| ago, is an escaped lunatic, it developed
| when he was arraigned in court
A loyalty parade in which more than
| 10000 people marched was held at
| Chippewa Falls during patriotic
| demonstration by the citizens of Chip
pewa Falls. The streets and houses
were masses of bunting and flags.
Fire resulting from lightning de-
stroyed the planning mill, hardwood
! flooring warehouse and a large guam
! tity of lumber belonging to the E. j.
| Pfiffner Lumber company at Stevens
Point The loss is under $4,000.
Calvin A. Cary, civil war veteran
and one of the Oldest residents of
Manitowoc, died, aged seventy-three,
from stroke of paralysis. He was
| born in New York, and served with
! Company G., Thirty-sixth Wisconsin,
DR.. Charles r. Mccarthy, professor
of political science at the University
| of Wisconsin, has written Secretary of
State Lansing declining an offer of po-
sition as adviser to the Chinese gov
! eminent at salary Of $12,500 a year.
Miss Anna McPhal, aged twenty
four, started an action for $4,000
against Ned Ainsworth, aged twenty
one. Both parties reside in Chippewa
| Falls The defendant is the son of E.
L. Ainsworth, prominent banker and
| Zimmerman
| Kenosha had it's first pungent sor-
row of war when cable from Colon
announced that Aloysius F. Gross,
aged Twenty-Five years and widely
| known in Kenosha county, had been
| drowned while in service in the Pan
| anna canal zone.
George X. Klinkert, aged thirty
three years, son of Ernest Klinkert,
| head of the Klinkert Brewing Co., of
| Racine, while driving an automobile.
was struck by an express train on the
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