The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-07-27
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cost of food. Sandwiches will be sold.
Thomas E. Dyer, sixty years old,
farmer near Croswell, died as result
of injuries suffered when he was kick
ed by horse.
George Cummings, auctioneer and
live stock dealer, widely known in
southern Wisconsin, is dead. He was
fifty-four years old.
Secretary of State Merlin Hull will
address the postponed summer meet
ing of the Central Wisconsin Press as
sociation in Marshfield on July 27.
Fifty-four members of the Green
Bay home guards company have petit
toned Governor E. L. Philip to adj
NIT the organization into the national
guard.
Camilla Ferararo, charged with the
attempted murder of William Covell
at Kenosha on the night of July was
arrested in Milwaukee and brought to
Kenosha.
An aero squadron comprised of
100000 Spanish war veterans as a ma
tion-wide home defense corps is the
plan of National Commander-in-chief
D. V. Chisholm
While belaboring an unknown man
in Little Italy" at Milwaukee, Pas.
quale Crisco a section foreman, was
shot and killed by a third man. The
survivor escaped.
AS food conservation measure the
Retail Grocers' association at Oshkosh
will establish a central agency or
clearing house through which farmers
may dispose of all their products
The Bristol State bank, the largest
bank in Kenosha county outside of
Kenosha, located at the village of
Bristol, was taken over by the Wis
consin bank examiners and it's doors
closed.
At the annual meeting of the Oco1l-
omowoc fire department F. w. Mol.
denhauer was reelected president;
DIR. George w. C.. Meyer, vice presi.
dent; G. A Dibble. secretary, and F..
r. Poe, treasurer.
Erwin l. Shaffer, thirty-three, en-
islature, has confessed, the police say,
to an attempt to blackmail Mrs. Will
liam Villas, wealthy widow of Colonel
Villas, at Madison.
Reports from the village of Bristol
declare that depOsitors of the Bristol
State bank, closed by the state bank
examiners, will probably be paid in
full but that there may be losses for
the stockholders to meet.
Upon recommendation of the board
of directors it has been decided to dis
pense with the usual summer session
5 of the Wisconsin City Editors -asso-
citation, which was planned to be held
at Oshkosh the latter part of this
month.
Contradicting erroneous reports re-
garding the Price county Red Cross
fund, G. E. Tobey, treasurer, has made
public the following subscription re-
suits: City of Phillips, $2,637; City of
Park Falls, $4,000; balance of county,
$2,097.40
Packages of court plaster similar to
at Kansas City which on analysis
showed that the plaster had been pois-
oned with tentanus germs have been
sold by street vendors in Kenosha dur
ing the past few days.
Miss Grace Lusk, the teacher of
psychology, who shot and killed Mrs.
David Roberts as a result of jealousy
growing out of her acquaintance with
DR.. Roberts, was formally arraigned
on a charge of murder in the first de-
gree. The hearing was then adjourned
until July 80.
Believing that service in the army
will seriously interfere with the future
of medical students who will be need
ed both during the war and after
peace is declared, the state council of
defense has suggested TO Washington
that furloughs be granted for students
selected in the draft
Chairman Magnus Swenson of the
state council of defense continued to
push the fight the council is making
against what is called reprehensible
QIdCIlCOo ny 1lllIOl0 wal OpOlo IOlO III
attempting to sell coal in Wisconsin
under the agreement" which has
has been repudiated by Secretary Of
War Baker.
The coroner's inquest with regard
to the mysterious death of Louis 1.
Alsbacher, city treasurer; his moth
er, Mary, and David L. Gray, whose
bodies were found in the Alsbacher
residence which was sold to Gray, was
held and found that Gray had shot
Alsbacher and his mother, Mary, in a
fit of insanity.
That John Jacob Aston l. was the
first person to advocate manual train
ing in the Green Bay public schools
is the claim of courthouse officials
who, while examining old records of
the town of Aston, which now is a
mort of Grpou Row oapoa aorocc a pro.