The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-22
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Ashland's 100000 high school build.
ing is in ruins as the result of mys-
terious fire. Incendiarism is suspected.
Mrs. Martha A. Perry, prominent
California club woman, formerly Of
La Crosse, Wis, died in Los Angeles.
The Cooper Underwear Co., Of
Kenosha, broke ground for the build
ing of $4,000 addition to the plant
in Kenosha.
Patrick P. Freil, aged forty-five
years, a prominent and wealthy in
ventor of Kenosha committed suicide
by shooting himself.
Thirty boatloads of men dragged the
Wisconsin river at Grand Rapids in
an effort to recover the body of Nor
ris Kleberg, seventeen years old
Hiram C.. Wilson, eightJ years old,
a resident of Dane county for fifty
three years, died at his home near
Madison from ailments incident to old
age.
A deal has just been closed at Mar
shall whereby Bolas & Co., of Chi
go, will begin operations at once to
struct a large milk condensing
liant
A. S. Collins, aged sixty-fve, secre-
tary of the Wisconsin state board Of
printers, is dead at Beloit. He was for
many years publisher of the Wildrose
(Wis.) Times.
Judge Geiger of the federal court
decided that the Wisconsin and Mich.
igan Railway company is not exempt
from the provisions of the Adamson
eight-hour act.
Henry Holmes, thirty-two, was
struck and killed instantly by a train
while driving an automobile across
the interurban tracks at the Rapids
crossing at Racine
The graduation on June % from the
Annapolis naval academy of H. Robert
Herbst, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Herbst, of Sparta. is announced in the
Army-Navy Journal.
Harry Stephenson, aged twenty
three, of Minneapolis, is in a critical
condition following a fall of eighty
feet while trying to paint a smoke
stack at Stevens Point.
Louis X. Howe, aged sixty, one, for
twenty-five years editor and proprie-
tor of the Sheboygan Herald, the old
est newspaper in Sheboygan county,
was found dead in bed.
Mrs. Mary K Ferritt, fifty-eight
years old, wife of Eugene S. Ferritt
a resident of Madison thirty-eight
years, died suddenly at her home in
Madison from heart disease.
The state bank commissioner has
approved an amendment to the ar
les of incorporation of the Bank of
dreen Bay, increasing its capital
stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
Five hundred enlisted men from the
naval training station at Great Lakes
held high carnival in Kenosha, many
becoming intoxicated and thirty be.
ing taken to the police station.
BY vote of Lip to 80 Dr. H. NJ
Kallin of the University of Wisconsin
has been chosen Wisconsin represen-
tative to the National Jewish congress
to be held at Washington, Sept. 2.
Slashing his throat with a razor
Frank NJ. Bemis, aged forty-six, en-
ployed for more than fifteen years as
chief engineer at the North Hospital
for the Insane at Oshkosh, committed
suicide.
Mobilization of the Wisconsin ma
tional guard scheduled for June Is
has been Indefinitely postponed. Ad-
jutant General Holway announced
lack of equipment as the reason for
the postponement.
J. J. Bukolt is laying plans to erect
a three story brick building, about
50x100 feet in size at Stevens Point,
for hall and c1ubrooms for the men
of his two companies, printing estab-
lishment and general Offices
Resolutions expressing the convic-
ton that this is war for humanity
and worthy of Christian support were
introduced by the commission on So
cial service at the annual Fond du
Lac Episcopal diocesan council.
it's president, Henry S. Pritchette, of
Tered to complete the endowment of
S1,000,000 for the Marquette Medical
college, if the people of Milwaukee
provided two-thirds of the amount.
Beloit college celebrated the seven
ty-first annual commencement with
martial tinge to all the ceremonies.
More than 100 students have enroll
ed for military service and many al
ready have left to take up active duty.
With the close of the seventy first
annual commencement of Beloit col
lege, President E. D. Eaton, who has
resigned after thirty years service,
spoke his farewell word. He will be
succeeded by NJ. A. Bannon of Idaho
university.
Recheck,Eg of registration figures
at the provost marshal generals Office
disclosed that in Wisconsin 1921