The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-02
SCONSIN|
MiA,,EllAliM

Inc SCUOOlHOuS0 dC M0LSOT WdS W.
tally destroyed by fire. The origin of
the blaze is not known.
Five thousand dollars was asked by
Representative Reilly of Wisconsin for
Dor.
Truman Shoemaker, a brother of the
county clerk and pioneer resident,
died suddenly of heart failure at Wau-
paca.
The senate, 10 to IL, indefinitely
postponed action on the measure pro-
hibiting marriages of whites and
negroes.
r. L. Van Dusen was fined $50 and
costs at Spooner on charge of hav-
ing venison in his possession out of
season.
Menasha city officials are on ram
page after violators of the truant
law Parents in the Polish district are
the main offenders.
The first charity ball ever given in
Waupaca was that held by the Re-
bekah lodge, and the affair netted 5000
for the Associated Charities.
The assembly adjourned out of re-
spect to the memory of Assemblyman
I. J. Kvam of Rice Lake, who died al
ne madison General hospital.
A fire of supposed incendiary origin
destroyed 600 tons of hay stored in
the warehouse at Omro of the Deitox
Gross Carpet company of Oshkosh.
Italian Consul Castigliana of Chi
cago is behind project to establish
large Italian colony in the north Wis
consin woods, near Lake Nebagamain.
F. A. Hathaway, long prominently
connected with the work of the Y. M.
c. A in Duluth, has taken up work as
secretary of the Kenosha association.
Hugh Wilson, seventy years old,
one of POynette's early residents,
dropped dead at his home after he had
finished chopping a small quantity of
wood.
Fred Kuebke, sixty-six years old, a
city employee at Manitowoc, met death
when he fell by tripping on an up
turned rug in his home and struck
his head on the sharp end of funnel.
Merchants of Sturgeon Bay have
adopted plans for establishing a CO.
operative delivery system. Five de-
liveries a day on four routes will be
the schedule.
Word has been received at Birch
wood of the death of the Rev. J. D.
Higgins, oldest Methodist minister, at
his home in Los Angeles, Cal. at the
age of 100 years.
Thirty-five cents a day provides
three well-balanced meals for each of
thirty women students at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, who are experiment.
ing with economical living.
While the citizens never voted In
favor of a dry amendment, Algoma
was dry last week, due to freight serv-
zee between Green Bay and Algoma
having been cut off by the heavy
SHOWS.
BILLY, the Bear" was found dead
in his hut near Lake Owen. He has
been the most noted guide and hunter
in northern Wisconsin for thirty-f1ve
years. His real name and family con-
nect1OnS are unknown.
Fark Karloshiltus, twenty-six years
of age, leaped from second story
window of the Kenosha hospital while
in delirious condition, which follow
ed an attack of pneumonia. He was
not seriously injured.
A timber wolf six and half feet
long and big enough to pull down
cow was caught in a steel trap forty
feet from the residence of John Frank
at Mineral Lake, the largest wolf
brought to Ashland in years.
Judge Emil Baensch, who served as
a member of the Manitowoc board of
directors of the Building and Loan as
ISOLATION for twenty-seven years and
for several years was its president, re-
fused reelection at the associations
annual meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron X. Laid, De-
pere, observed their fiftieth wedding
anniversary at their home. The we'd
ding took place in Great Bend, Ind,
and shortly after they moved to
Brown county, where they have re-
sided continually since.
Announcement is made that regu-
lar courses in public health and sani-
tation will be offered in the schools of
Kenosha. The courses will be primar-
lily for the school children but thev
will also be open to any citizen OF
the city who care to take up the work
Relatives of the late Frank Nauman
of Beechwood have started contest
before Judge Krez to break the will in
which Nauman left large portion of
a $4,000 estate for the construction
of good roads in the county. Rela-
tives were not lmentioned in the will.
Officers of the Wisconsin-Minnesota
Light and Power company, which
owns large water power plants and
electric power property in the state,
closed a deal for the electric lighting
plants of ViroQua, Sparta and Tomah,
prosperous small cities in Monroe and
Vernon counties