The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18

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sau has been allotted $125,000 of the
| $2,OO0,OO0,OO0 liberty loan by Secre-
tary McAdoo.
C.. Firehammer & Sons have sold
their extensive lumber yards, planning
mill and coal business at Horizon to
o, B. Cotton & Sons.
Thirty-three Green Bay High school
boys already have signed up to go on
| farm this summer and it is expected
that the number will reach 200.
BY a vote of 81 to IL, the bill to SUBJ
f! nit the liquor referendum to vote
; in April, 1915, was passed by the SEN
; ate. All attempts to amend failed.
Reports at Milwaukee that Father
Simeoni, Catholic priest, was killed by
the Black Hand were without vertical
ton. He is believed to be on his way
! east
Captain E. J. Bracken, stationed at
Grand Rapids, examined candidates
for the officers reserve training camp
! in Green Bay. About dozen men
passed.
The Horizon defense council re-
p, ceived through the state agricultural
| college a carload of seed potatoes and
! the 500 bushels were quickly dis
! tributed.
trainload of men, women and chill
| dren who are to work in the beet
! fields of Kenosha county, during the
| coming season were brought out from
| Chicago.
| Miss Susan Jeffris, sister of M G.
| Jeffris, has had the spacious grounds
of the old Jeffris home at GAINESVILLE
| plowed up in preparation for raising a
war crop.
! A lone bandit held up Roy White,
| ticket agent in the 500 depot at
j Rhine1ander and escaped with the
! contents of the cash drawer, amount
| ing to $1OO.84.
| C. J. Muller, for the last seven years
! pastor of the Church of. the Incarna-
| ton, Brooklyn, N. Y, has assumed
charge of the st. Peters English
! Lutheran paris in GAINESVILLE.
| Contracts for the construction of
eighteen steamers have been signed
| up by Superior shipyards, to be rush
ed out as rapidly as the facilities and
materials at hand will permit
Thomas Stavrum, La Crosses first
| clothing merchant, who died last
week, left an estate of $4,000, accord
ing to . petition in probate court there
| 1t is divided between eight children
Because of confusion arising out of
| toll Of hn inh
plan Green Bay went back to standard
time. About half of the manufacturing
! plants and all stores were using new
| time.
Through the efforts of the Brown
County Defense league eighteen citi-
Zens of Pulaski drove their automo-
| biles to Green Bay and presented
| themselves for enlistment in the regu-
| lar army.
| Kenosha bankers have announced
that the liberty bonds" will be sold
on the instalment plan, dollar down
and dollar a week. Two hundred ap-
| plications for bonds were filed the
| first day.
The state bank commission was in
| formed by number of banks of Wis
cOnsin that many persons who with
| drew their money on account of the
declaration of war with Germany had
redeposited it:
The lawn of the states executive
residence at Madison will be convert
| ed into a potato patch, and be work
ed jointly on shares by Governor E. L.
Phillip and Speaker Lawrence Whit
tet of the assembly.
! Alonzo Pond and Orson Loomis,
are raising purse of $3.50 to join sew
en- others of the college Red Cross
unit who have started for France to
serve as ambulance drivers.
The body of John Heath, late mas
| ter mechanic of the Northwestern
road, was brought to GAINESVILLE on a
special train for burial. The remains
were accompanied by fifty prominent
railroad officials and employees.
Ground has been broken for the first
building in a factory group for the
manufacture of the General Motors
tractor in Pontiac, it is announced by
| w. L. Day, general manager of the
| General Motors Truck company
Mrs. H. J. Stalker, wife of H. j. Stalk
er, one of the best known practicing
physicians in Kenosha, was seriously
| injured when thrown from an automo-
bile driven by her husband The au-
tomobile collided with street sign.
! In keeping with the recommends
tions of the Marshfie1d unit of the
wisconsin Defense league, Mayor A.
/ G. Felker, has promised to lift re-
| strictions on the raising of pigs in the
city limits. An ordinance will be pre-
sented to the council soon
The Wisconsin Wholesale Grocers'
association wired President Wilson,
pledging loyalty and cooperation. and
promising support in helping to elin:-
mate food speculation. Prs dent
Charles ]. Dexter, Milwaukee, and tie
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