The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-04-13
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The Central Wisconsin Breeders
association will hold its annual meet
ing on May 10 at Marshfield.
Fully 10000 participated in Beloit's
loyalty parade. There were $500 from
shops of Fairbanks-Morse company
A bank is to be opened at Tisch
Mills, with capital of $4,000. There
are already sixteen banks in the
county.
Thomas w. Tooley, thirty, and An.
ma Holscher, twenty-one, both of Ire.
vor, Wis, were licensed to marry at
Chicago.
Eugene Slawers, aged fifty-two, re.
cluse living in a tent in Fairfield, set
fire to his bed covering and died
from burns.
With the goal set at $1,000, receipts
on the sale of tags for Green Bay chap
ter of the Red Cross totaled more
than $4,000, it is announced.
Miss Bessie Williams, instructor in
the Plainfield High school, has resign
ed on account of ill health. Miss Ger
trude Gilsey of Beloit will succeed
ner.
Two state capitals, Springfield of IL
linois and Madison of Wisconsin, and
thirty-nine other towns in Wisconsin,
swung to the dry column at Tuesdays
election.
Grant Nelson has been awarded a
contract for another year to keep the
Racine county macadam roads in re-
pair. The county board decided to
purchase ten cars of road oil.
Under the command of Alfred Ter
rill, for years prominent among the
officers of the Illinois national guard,
Kenosha organized a new cavalry
troop for the Wisconsin national
guard.
The city of Two Rivers desires to
be represented in the Wisconsin ma
tional guard association, and has
made application with the adjutant
general for authority to recruit a
company.
The eighteen months old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Schwanke was badly
scalded when the rocking chair in
which he was seated tipped, throwing
him into a pail of boiling water at
Manitowoc
Finding that the mothers pension
law eliminated much of the work of
the poor superintendent Office, the
county board abolished that office in
the Second and Third districts of La
Crosse county.
Captain J. L. Sill of the revenue cut
ter Tuscarora died at Milwaukee of
pneumonia He was fifty-seven years
old and was the second oldest man in
point of service in the revenue branch,
having served thirty years.
A "petticoat masher,"a man clothed
in the garb of woman, has struck
terror to women in Kenosha The man
has operated in all parts of the city
kissing beautiful women and taking
all sorts of liberties with them.
Fired by the same national spirit
which prompted them to shoulder
their muskets in 1861, fifty civil war
veterans of La Crosse offered to form
a home guard company for service
during the impending war, in propo-
sition to Governor Philip.
The city of Kenosha, the largest
city in Wisconsin voting on the IL
cense question, voted to retain saloons
by a majority of more than 1900
votes. Every ward in the city with the
exception of the silk Stocking" Sec
ond voted in favor of the license.
Mrs Grace Sturgis, twenty-one,
coming from a we'll to do family, at
Peoria, ILL.,, and William Parker, TWEEN
ty-seven, of the same city, eliminated
a box car honeymoon by being SEN
fenced to thirty days in the county
Jail on a charge of disorderly conduct
A training camp for military officers
is to be established at the University
of Wisconsin. By faculty resolution.
the military department of the insti-
tuition, under the command of Major
c. F. Grain, will be utilized at once
for a course in intensive military
training.
Wrapped in part of a -four sack
and a portion of a woman's under.
garment and tucked away in an old
market basket the body of baby boy
was found hidden under the platform
at the North Western station at Lake
Elizabeth in the western part of Ken
osha county.
crowd estimated at 10000 people
thronged the down town streets OF
Racine, joining in the immense par
ade that led from the courthouse on
Monument square, in the heart of the
city, to the Lakeside auditorium
where monster patriotic meet
ing was held
A new association to be known as
the Lake Park Improvement associa-
ton, has been formed by residents liv-
ing south of Racine along the lake
shore. They will work for a five cent
fare on the Milwaukee, Racine, Ken.
osha line instead of the seven cent
fare now paid.
The work of the intercollegiate in,
tellisence bureau working under the