The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-31

from army service In Jackson county
is the Rev. George Keller of Jacob.
Milwaukee county teachers examin-
ations VIII be held this week by Coun-
ty Superintendent e. T. Griffith in the
library of the courthouse.
A home guard company has been
formed with a roster of 200 members.
Drills will be held Thursdays nights
at the armory in Oconomowoc.
Railroads of the state are appear
ng before the railroad commission
skiing for an increase of fifteen cents
Ger ton on interstate coal rates.
In a ball game for the benefit of the
Red Cross Ladysmith businessmen
defeated a team of professional men.
Fifty dollars went to the Red Cross.
Word has been received that the
first contingent of Wisconsin troops
rived at Waco, Tex. There are about
1000.
1t is proposed to organize COM
pany of home guards in Racine, and
a meeting has been called for next
Friday evening by local men of mill
tary experience.
DR.. Charles A. Yates of Bangor
medical member of the La Crosse
county exemption board, resigned TO
enter the officers training camp at
Fort Riley, Kan.
Planting of extra acres of winter
wheat and rye, as an emergency food
measure, is being urged of Brown
county farmers by the Brown
county council of defense.
Fred Cronce, of Townsend, thirty
three years old, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor in
Oconto hotel Loss of blood caused
immediate death. A widow survives
him.
University of Michigan athletics
have been assigned posts along the
Atlantic coast. Those who trained at
Lake Bluff naval station and who have
left for duty are: Smith, Raymond,
Hildner, Foster, Phelps and Hause.
Mrs. Augusta Seibel is dead, the re-
suit of bullet wound inflicted by her
husband, Heinrich Seibel, following
quarrel said to have been caused be-
cause his wife had persuaded him to
take out his first naturalization pa
pers.
Governor e. L. Philip pardoned
Mrs. Florence Gould, convicted of
statutory cffense and sentenced TO
Waupun for eighteen months, and f.
N. Shook, convicted of embezzlement
and sentenced to two years and one
half.
Food conservation and measures TO
eliminate waste will be among the i'm
portant matters to be considered at
the twenty-first annual convention of
the Wisconsin State Hotel association,
which opens at Eau Claire next Tues
day.
The regatta scheduled by the Inland
Lake Watching association for this
year has been abandoned, but most
of the clubs in Wisconsin will partici-
pate in an invitation event to be held
on Lake Winnebago The last four days
in August.
Ivan Peterson, Soldiers Grove hotel
man, frustrated an attempt to rob the
Bank of Soldiers Grove when he fired
a revolver at two strangers he saw
trying to effect an entrance through
rear window. The men were not hit
and escaped.
The state bank commissioners issued
a charter to the Cleghorn State bank
of Cleghorn, the postoffice address Of
which is Eleva, Eau Claire county.
The capital stock of the new bank is
$4,000 The president is A. D. Stone
and the cashier is Il. w. Pierce.
The industrial commission has an
nounced the appointment of state
board of examining architects. Mem
bers appointed are: A. c. Clas, Mil
waukee, term three years; Henry A.
Foeller, Green Bay, two years; A. C.
Eschweiler, Milwaukee, one year.
Governor Philip paroled George
Schmiedl Of Madison from the state
industrial school for boys, where he
was recently sent after being con-
voted of burglary. Young Schmiedl
was paroled on condition that he re-
turn to Madison and support his moth
err.
The annual convention of the Wis
consin State association of Deaf
Mutes will be held in Racine Aug. 80,
81 and Sept. /, 2 and and prominent
residents of this city assisted by lead
ing clubs are arranging for the enter
tainment of the guests, 500 being ex-
pected.
The Gould company of Onargo, ILL.,,
who have large peony farms in Ten
nessee and Illinois, have purchased
twelve acres Of the property Of Mrs.
NJ. B. Schuttler on Oakwood avenue
at Oconomowoc, which will be de
voted to peeny gardens. The consider
alton was $500 an acre