The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-19
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appointed Miss Mary Whelan deputy
sheriff
improvements made in Depere dur
ing 1916 showed that the aggregate
cost Appropriated over $388.000.
Reaver Dams white way will prob
ably not be completed until spring, be-
cause of the severe cold weather.
The high cost of living is given as
the cause by Amigo firemen for their
request of an increase of $40 month.
Mayor Jacob Wittig issued an order
prohibiting punch board, dice and all
other kinds of gambling in Marinette.
Leo Johnson, seventeen years old,
died at Wausau from burns received
as a result of accidentally tipping
over a lamp.
Mr.. Gannett B. Day, one OF the
prominent elocutionists of southern
Wisconsin died following a two day
illness from pneumonia at GAINESVILLE:
The Ann Arbor Transportation COM
pany has purchased large, new
freigntef to be known as Carferry No.
6, the largest in the company's serv-
ice.
The total banking power of the state
has increased $4,000, 096.S0 in year.
according to the twenty-second annual
'eport of the state commissioner of
banking.
AS the result of a gangrene iIfec-
ton caused by scratch from cof-
fee percolator, Mrs. Antoine Cesek
died in a hospital week after the
injury at Oconto.
The distinction of paying the largest
personal income tax in Oshkosh is
held by George F. Gilkey, a lumber
man, who turned over to City Treas
urer Witte the sum of $2,403.67.
Pat Mccormick, who fought in the
Army of the Potomac during the civil
war, died at Green Bay at the age of
Seventy-five He was a member of the
squad which blew up Petersburg.
To establish an eight-hour day for
it's employees and to increase their
pay, Milwaukee traction officials have
petitioned the city council for permits
mission to charge cent for transfers.
Joseph Hanreddy, who bored the T.
900 foe water works intake tunnel un-
der Lake Michigan, and whose bill for
extras has been rejected by the city
council, retained counsel to start suit
for 100000.
Fire, which is said to have been
of incendiary L. w. w. origin, de-
stroyed the ice house of the Harry
Lawler Ice company at the upper end
of Twin lakes, in the western Fart Of
Kenosha county.
Joe BaStini kissed his wife good-by
and started for work He got as far as
the street There was a shot, a sour
rying of feet up an alley and the
Ghetto malta had claimed another vic
tim at Madison.
Thirty-ive new settlers were placed
on farm lands in the vicinity of Mel
len during the last year, according to
A. J. Meredith of the Mellen CONNER
cial club. This record exceeds that of
the previous five years.
At the twenty-frSt annual meeting
of the Sheboygan County Fair asso-
citation o. A. Graffron, for twentyone
years secretary of the association, was
defeated for reelection. 1t is planned
to raise $4,000 for new stock barn.
The Marathon county board of SUI
pervisors has adopted memorial to
the state legislature asking that the
hunting of deer, quail, prairie chick
ems, cartridges and black and grey
squirrels be prohibited for a term of
two years so that the supply of game
may increase.
w. ]. Underwood, sixty-fve years
old, until recently general manager of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad, died in Wauwatosa, Mil
waukee suburb 1t was largely through
his influence that the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul company extended
its lines to the Pacific coast.
Four men of a crew of fifty en-
gagged in storing ice in the gigantic
icehouse of the Chicago and North
Western railway in Oshkosh were vic.
tins of an accident. Fred Meyers was
probably fatally injured. L. Abrahams
had leg broken. M. Oleson and L.
Sweiger were internally injured
old, farmer boy of near Manitowoc
who was burned when a can of gaso
line, which he mistook for kerosene
exploded, died at the hospital after
suffering forty-eight hours. The boys
sister ran for assistance when the
house caught afire and her feet were
frozen.
Although her husband drowned two
months after his injury, Mrs. J. w
Spears of La Crosse was awarded So,
$50 compensation for his death from
the Observation-Disclosures Light ane
Power company. The industrial com
mission decided that injury received
IN an explosion at the plant caused
Spears to lose consciousness and fal
into the water.
The Holstein-Friesian COW, Segi:
Fayne Johanna, 11465S, has broker
the record for fat production in the
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