The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-07-13
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Governor Pnlllpp mas S1Snou the Dill
aimed at the high text book prices in
Wisconsin.
Joseph Petrick, motorcycle racer
and dealer, died after weeks illness
from pneumonia at Manitowoc.
Brack Gillespie was probably fatal
ly injured at Amigo when runaway
team crashed into his automobile.
John Hardman, farmer living near
Harrington, fell from a horse and did
not regain consciousness for fifty
hours.
st. Mary's Catholic church at Eau
Gale was burned to the ground after
it was struck by lightning in storm
which passed over this section.
Speaker Whittet says the legislature
probably will be unable to adjourn un-
til July II, because the governor still
has nearly hundred bills to act on.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Aiken, parents
of Mrs. e. p. Gleason of Milwaukee,
celebrated their golden wedding July
5. Frank Aiken is veteran of the civ
il war.
Secretary of the Treasury Will
liam G. McAdoo has sent a letter of
congratulations to the Kenosha COM
oittee which handled the sale of Hber.
= loan bonds in Kenosha.
Charles e. Kremer, Chicago, repre-
senting the Goodrich Transit conc
pany, filed a petition to limit the liza
bility for damages arising out of the
Christopher Columbus catastrophe
Jean Strope, graduate of the Rhine
lander High school two years ago, is
the first man from that city to reach
the war zone since the United States
entered the war.
A free hospital furnished and main
, tanned by the municipality has been
opened at the Simmons playground at
the lake shore at Kenosha for the care
of poor children of Kenosha.
The National Fly Paper company, a
company which had paid UP capital
stock of 100000 has been adjudicated
bankrupt in the U. S. court for the
eastern district of Wisconsin.
Twenty-four saloon licenses were
granted at Menasha. There were TWEEN.
ty-nine applicants. Orders have been
issued by Mayor N. G. Remmel for the
closing of all saloons on Sundays.
Lillian Bitters, twenty-four years
old, whose mother, Mrs H. M. Otter.
ser, resides at Brookside, Wis. was
struck and killed by southbound pas
senger train on the Northwestern
road.
Mrs. Herbert Engelbert, forty-one.
was shot and killed in her home at
Cumberland. Her husband, mail car.
ried on the route running from Cum
berland to Lorraine and Andrus, was
arrested, charged with murder
The greatest demonstration Racine
ever witnessed was seen when the en-
tire population turned out to bid fare.
well to the members of Batteries G.
and F, First Wisconsin Field artillery
when they left for Camp Douglas.
Twelve thousand people attended
the annual picnic and reunion of the
Racine County Old Settlers society,
held at Union grove. 1t was the
largest attendance ever known in the
history of the society of old settlers,
AS a result of the defeat in the legis.
Iature Of several bills intending to
compensate farmers in northern Wis.
consin who had their crops destroyed
by beaver dams, claim has been filed
against the state amounting to $13..
1892.
Official Kenosha has been served
with orders to show cause. Nineteen
members of the board of school com.
missioners and other officials of the
schools were enjoined by the city
against the erection of a new school
building.
Guy S. Lowman, professor of physi
cal education and varsity coach in
basket ball at Indiana university, has
been rendered the position of profes
sor of physical education and varsity
basketball coach at the University OF
Wisconsin
With the tearing down of the old
Brown county courthouse disappears
one of Green Bays historic landmarks
Built in 1857 at a cost of approximate
ly $4,000, it was considered at that
time one of the largest public build
ings in Wisconsin.
Senator La Follette's determined op
position to the war is voiced in an
editorial published in La Follette's
magazine under the heading ''The
Right of the Citizen to Oppose War
and the Right of Congress to Shape
the War Policy"
D. w. Jones, proprietor of an UNI
brella factory at Waupun. had one
rib broken; his daughter, Margaret
received a fractured ankle, and his
wife and another daughter were
bruised when the automobile in which
they were riding turned turtle neal
Green Lake.
Mics Elizabeth IlOyo of MankatO