The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-11

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| Opera House block to Frank Betchkar
| at Berlin.
John e. Molle, president of the
Mol1e Typewriter company of Oshkosh
is dead aged forty-fve.
The Burger Boat works of Mani
| towoc has been given a government
! contract to build a ITO foot submarine
| chaser.
Troop H, which was being organized
at Green Bay has been disbanded be-
cause of inability to recruit to war
| strength.
The body of a stranger, man of
about forty years of age, was found on
the right of way of the Milwaukee
road at North Lake.
The first sale of the Fond du Lac
County Holstein Friesian. Breeders
association closed with 145 head sold
at an average of $500 per head.
Kenosha had just one May day Ia
Dor disturbance. Every timer employ
ed in the city went on a strike tieing
up lot of building in the city
Mrs. Christiana Ritchter, eighty
nine years old, widow of the late A.
NJ. Richter, is dead She was a resi-,
dent of Manitowoc for sixty-five year.
A message from Cincinnati brought
news of the death of the Rev Herman
Haas, until recently pastor Of st.
Johns Evangelical church at Mani
towoc.
All union plumbers, steamftters,
timers and sheet metal workers at
Sheboygan are idle. The union men
claim a lockout and the employers say
they struck
It now costs more to be buried than
heretofore, liverymen of Manitowoc
having announced an increase in car
riage hire prices for funeral as well as
for hearses.
The assembly passed the Gentleman
bill authorizing the board of super
visors of Milwaukee county to provide
for semi-monthly payment of salaries
of county officers and employees.
Military men estimate that about
one hundred and fifty men will be re-
quired from Marinette and an equal
number from the rest of the county
under the army draft bill as passed.
John F. Kettenhofen, former as
sistant cashier of the Mccartney Ma
tional bank at Green Bay, has begun
his work at Oconomowoc, where he
will be cashier of the First National
bank.
Chester Isermann, only son Of the
late Henry Isermann, enlisted in the
United States navy. It was the last
suggestion that his father made to
him before he died ten days ago at
Kenosha.
The Socialist split in Milwaukee
over the patriotism of the Socialists Is
growing wider with every indication
that Victor L. Berger, the Socialist
car, and former congressman is los
ing his grip.
Otto M. Reiss, twenty-five years old.
youngest of the Reiss brothers, own
ers of the C. Reiss Coal and Steam
ship companies at Sheboygan, is dead
after a weeks illness following an
operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Dorothea Dehnhoff died in
Menominee, leaving 1T living de.
scendants. She was ninety-three years
old and is survived by eight children,
sixty-five grandchildren, and forty
four great grandchildren.
Peshtigo boys have formed an or
ganization called the Lone Scout
Tribe. Their motto is ''Do a Useful
Thing Every Day." The rules of the
club are no smoking, politeness, loyal
ty, fraternity, friendliness and to be
true and just.
Elmer Rhenstrom, Kenosha star
football and basketball player who
won his "B" at Beloit this season.
quit college and enlisted in the avia-
ton corps. He was accepted for serv-
ice and will leave for school at San
Diego at once.
Albert w. Frantz, for the past TWEEN
ty-five years connected with the First
National bank at Kenosha and cashier
for the past ten years, resigned his
position to accept a position of man
ager of the Sunshine Fruit company
at Cocoanut Grove, Florida.
Governor Philip has directed the
seine Wisconsin rivers and lakes for
rough fish that can be placed on Wis.
consin markets at cheap price in or
der to combat the rising prices of
foodstuffs during the war.
Rev. Harding R. Hogan, moderator
of the Wisconsin Congregational as
ISOLATION, was taken i'll few hours
after delivering an address at pa.
triotic meeting at Sparta. He was
taken Immediately to a hospital and
a serious operation performed.
In the assembly Member Woodland
introduced bill providing for the
employment of men in cities on farms
and the recognition of their services
by badge or token showing that they
gave this service aid in the production
of large crop to feed soldiers in tie
field.
A. E. Manchester, for many years