The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-07-20

Wisconsin has sent 1851 men into
the regular army between Anril and
Junc 80.
John Hulbregtse, thirteen years old
was drowned in the river at Sheboy
gan while swimming.
Joseph Rothe Of Green Bay was re-
elected president of the board Of di
rectors Of the Odd Fellows state
| home.
/ Company E of Fond du Lac will re-
spond to the call for service with zoo
men, of whom about 165 are fully
equipped.
The Dominican Sisters, with anoth
er house at Portland, Ore, are to
erect a large hospital in Kenosha in
the near future.
The federal employment bureau in
Milwaukee has been appealed to by
| the county defense council to supply
1aborers for farm work.
/ Governor Philip appointed Charles
| e. Waugh of Milwaukee a member OF
the state board of optometry exam
! iners for five year term.
Miss Grace Lusk, the school teach
er accused of the murder of Mrs. Da
| vid Roberts, wife of DIR. Roberts, was
removed to the county jail
/ GAINESVILLE will be the next meeting
| place of the Wisconsin State Plumb
ers' association William Voss of Fond
du Lac was named president
Fred Martin was held by Judge J. B
Clark of the municipal court for trial
without bond for the murder of FL. A
Krause at Beloit last spring.
Tony Shrader, Spooner, and Oscar
J. III. Schuenke, Merrill, were arrest
ed for alleged failure to register for
the draft.
Richard T. Hill, Menasha, commits
stoned as captain of infantry, has
been assigned to duty with the Fourth
Menasha regiment, w. N. G.
A $4,000 cattle sales pavilion, the
| first of it's kind in the Fox River val
ley, will be erected this fall at Fond
du Lac and the first sale will be held
in May, 1918.
Mr.. and Mrs Edwin A. Kolpin, well
known Kenosha people, were severely
injured in a collision between an au
tomobile in which they were riding
| and motor truck.
The navy advised of the suicide OF
r. F. Wingerter, a chief water tender
on the battleship North Dakota, who
Ieaped overheard and was drowned
He was from Eagle, Wis.
William Brandt and Walter Kamke
| of Merrill were arrested at Wausau
after having tried to purchase nitro
! glycerine at several places. Dynamite
| dynamite caps, fuse, and steel drills
we're found in their posse ssion.
Fifteen years ago, when boy, John
/ Grasel of Washburn, swallowed a
| needle. On July II he felt pain in
the calf of his right leg. injuring his
hand on a piece of steel while rubbing
| the sore spot. The needle was ex-
| tracted
Twelve alien enemies were arrest
ed at Milwaukee for violating the reg
ulations forbidding them to change
their employment or place of resi-
dence without first receiving a permit
| to do so from United States Marshal
| Randolph.
Kenosha is going to furnish real
| fighting parson" for Uncle Sans ar
| my in the person Of Rev. r. P. Cram
| er, pastor of the Bristol Methodist
| church and one of the best known of
| the younger ministers Of the church
| in Wisconsin.
| The little village Of Rosecrans, just
| over the Kenosha county line in Hi
| nois, had double funeral. Chester
| Winter. aged sixteen and Milton Ben
| nett aged eighteen, who tried to res
| cue him, were drowned in the waters
| of the Oplane river.
| Chief Of Police Bentley broke into
| the home of Louis Alsbacher, city
| treasurer of Mansion and found the
| bodies of Alsbacher, his mother, Mary,
and Daniel Gray, to whom they had
| just sold their place, lying in blood,
| all victims of Gray.
| The Rev. William H. Ziegler, for
| merly pastor of the First Congrega-
| tional church of Marshall, Ill., has ar
rived at Oshkosh with his family and
| assumed the pastorate of Plymouth
Congregational church, one of the
| largest in this city.
Layden Fogo, Richland Center SEN
| fenced for the Staying of George Bar
to, special policeman at the Richland
county fair last September, was given
conditional pardon by Governor
| Philip on the condition that Fogo
must refrain entirely from drinking.
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