The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-30

the two houses of the Wisconsin leg
islature of 1909 was held at the Park
hotel at Madison.
One of Waupaca county's earliest
pioneers, Mrs. John Gordonieere, is
dead at the age of ninety-three years.
at the home of her son, DR.. L. H. Pei
ton.
The four year old son of Edward
Goss may lose an arm as result of
the member being mangled in the roll
ers and knives of a feed cutter at
Reedsville.
A new variety of shortage being ex-
perienced in Wood county is a scare
ity of kerosene. Many towns have re-
ported complete exhaustion of this
commodity.
Thirteen freight cars, all loaded
with automobiles and farm imple-
ments, were piled in a heap at b.
lands crossing, two miles south of
Fond du Lac, on the 500 line.
The state board of the Wisconsin
w. C. T. U. will hold meeting at Ste
vens Point April rs and 27 to lay
plans for the state convention to be
held in Milwaukee in October.
Shut off by snowdrifts, which made
roads impossible, girl of eleven and
a boy of five remained two days with
the lifeless body of their grandmother,
Mrs. Carrie Butterfield at Odanah.
The first train over the Portage and
| Stevens Point branch of 500 line since
March 10, reached Portage March 81.
The traffic had been completely block
ed for eight days with snow and biz
| yards.
C. H. Schweizer, La Crosse attorney
says that he saw a sparrow commit
suicide in an office building by hang
! ing itself with a horsehair. He said
the bird apparently lost it's mate to
| another sparrow.
Many cattle are being lost this
spring in the Pleasant Hill district
near Grand Rapids through an cpl
demic of Indigestion. Attacks are sud
, den and usually prove fatal before
they can be treated.
A fuel and light famine which
| threatened when Sturgeon Bays only
supply was held in ice foes on an Ann
Arbor car ferry off Kewanee port,
was averted by only few hours when
| the vessel was freed.
Archie Crow, well known Kenosha
| man, was beaten into insensibi1ity by
| footpads at midnight and his money
and valuables taken. His sister and a
girl friend who were with him escaped
! from the hold up men.
The fourteenth triennial reunion Of
Wisconsin Association of the Deaf is
| to be held in Racine, Aug. 80 to Sept.
3. Over 800 members, mostly grad
yates of the state school for the deaf
at Delavan, are expected.
w. v. Kidder, publisher of the Open
Exhaust at La Crosse, has been COM
missioned by the government to gath
er statistics on 500 motorboats, some
| of which may be available in times Of
war as submarine chasers.
J. Youmans' lightweight years old,
pioneer of the county, died at Ste
vens Point and was buried with Ma
sonic services. He was an early lum
herman and for years conducted grist
mills at Springville and McDill.
Beloit students are trying to form
a signal corps unit of the reserve ar
my. Over 125 students have signed an
! agreement to join the reserve corps
and are asking for military instruc-
ton as part of their college work.
J. J. Steinbach, Evanston, ILL.,,
charged with arson in connection with
the $4,000 fire which destroyed the
ice houses of the Harry Lawler COM
pany at Twin Lakes on January 3rd,
was acquitted in the Kenosha circuit
court.
! Thirty-nine of the forty towns in
| Marathon county will participate in
| the preliminary contests for entrance
in the annual spelling bee" to be
held next fall. More than 1000 pupils
of rural and state graded schools will
{ participate.
Battery B of the First Wisconsin
field artillery at Green Bay was order
I ed to recruit up to war strength The
order was sent by Senator Timothy
Burke from Madison. A troop of caval-
ry being organized there was ordered
| to recruit to a strength of 105 men.
/ President r. H. Ashton of the Oh,
cago & Northwestern railroad in Ash
land said: 1--WE believe conditions
here are going to remain prosperous.
Not even the coming of war is likely
to interrupt your good times, at least
not within any time we can now fore
see"
/ The Black Cat Textile company
through its president, Chester c. AL
len, has offered to President Wilson
the entire output of the great plants
of the company in Kenosha and Ben
nington in case the nation needs them
for the equipment of the army or the
navy.
General Charles King, U. S. A., re-
tired, Lieutenant Caldwell of Fort
Atkinson aud Carooont Woods E!Iov