The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17


Leo Riley and Samuel Hansen, far
mer boys of near Hartland, drowned
in Lake Keesus.
Alfred Bishop, aged sixty-seyen
years, was found hanging from tree
in some woods west of OconomoWoc.
Governor Philip may call a special
session of the legislature to settle the
question of closing saloons on Sunday.
Only five out of 100 of the men call
ed from Kenosha county under the
CONSUMPTION law did not ask exemp-
ton.
Ira C. Yingst head Of the Kenosha
Socialists and active in the state or
ganization, is held on a charge of dis
| loyalty.
When the Green Bay vocational
school opens Sept. 4, printing will be
one of the new courses in the cur
riculum.
Oconomowoc's Red Cross tag day
on Aug. raised about $780,. Mrs.
George w. Dixon was chairman Of the
ommittee
Arthur Metzig, eighteen years old,
of Wausau was drowned IN the Wolf
river near Hofberger's Landing while
swimming.
One man was killed and five injured
.yhen one of the machines in the au-
omobile races at the state fair at Mil
waukee blew tire.
E. w. Evans, former Wisconsin
legislator and father of Federal Judge
Evan A. Evans, Chicago, died at his
home at Spring Green.
Charles D. Mcneil, seventy-eight
years old, long prominent in Kenosha
county, died at his home. He was one
of the wealthiest farmers of the state.
The McKinnon Manufacturing COM
pany of Grand Rapids has launched
new industry in the state. It is now
| making soles for shoes from wood.
The Fox River Valley Envelope COM
pany has received a large government
,rder for envelopes to be consigned to
France for use in the American
camps.
Darwin e. Gilman, pioneer of Win
nebago county and for several years
In the wholesale wood business at Mil
waukee, is dead He was eighty-two
years of age.
The suit of Miss Frank Gray-Shaver
of Highland Park, ILL.,, against Baron
ess May de Pallandt was settled in
Menominie by the baroness paying
up a judgment.
| Margaret Vandcnbush, the fifteen
months-old daughter of Mrs. Matilda
| Vandenbush, drowned in a small basin
of water while her mother was in an
other room in the house at Green Bay.
Mrs Edward w. Behrnedt, one Of
the younger set of GAINESVILLE, was
struck by a rifle bullet fired by an un-
known assailant, which entered her
head above the left ear and came out
over the eye.
Kenosha is the first city in Wiscon-
sin to report full company of men
who claimed no exemptions. Alfred
! Charles Grosvenor, leader in the So
| ,ial life of the CITY,. is the first man on
| he roster list.
| Reginald II. Weller III, son of the
Rev. Reginald H. Weller, bishop of
Fond du Lac, Harvard graduate, ar
rived home from somewhere in
| France and proceeded at once to reg
lister for the army.
Leading women in Kenosha arc at,
| lacking the women of the city as
"slackers." Only 1000 of the more
| than 5000 women housekeepers in
| Kenosha signed the food pledge when
| the recent "ceusus" was taken.
Three persons were killed outright
| and two died from injuries, the result
| of collision of two passenger trains
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad in the yards at Milwau-
/ zee. The three victims were Chicago
ans.
| Kenosha is going to make an effort
to change it's form Of government,
| and petitions were placed in circula>
ton asking that the city council order
a special election to submit the ques-
ton of adopting the commission
form
Resolutions requesting President
Wilson to authorize the raising Of an
.rmy OF 100000 Poles in America to
.venge the Prussian atrocities i'll Po-
and were passed at meeting Of 400
Poles at Milwaukee. The meeting was
called by the Polish Federation of
| America.
Harvey Webster, the eighteen year
old son of Thomas Webster, living
northwest of Cumberland, disappeared
! over a week ago and it is presumed
| that he was drowned in Waterman
lake, northwest of Cumberland. His
| clothes were found in boat floating
| on the lake.
That he had been peeling bark in
the woods near Merrill, Wis, since
! April IL, and that his only companion
was a German who did not tel him
anything about registration, vas the