The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-04
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organized a medical unit for national
defense.
Four companies of University of
? Wisconsin students have begun inten-
sive military training.
Frank H. Walsh of Milwaukee has
been appointed general manager of
the Crosby Transportation line.
August Krigel, highway commission
er, and Miss Norma Peske of Milwau-
kee were married at Grand Rapids.
A fine lot of new potatoes, dug on
the George Palmer place near Grand
Rapids, is on exhibition in bank win
dow
Continued rains on Lake Superior is
rotting the ice rapidly but vessel
movements are hardly expected be-
fore May.
Alderman R. X. Mcdonald has been
elected president of the city council
at Stevens Point to succeed Professor
F. S. Hyer
Mrs Zelma Nye, wife of DR.. Charles
Nye, was killed when she fell from a
train near Soldiers Grove. She was
1irty years old.
Citizens of Grand Rapids wired
Congressman Browne that the senti-
ment in that city was in favor of the
se1ective draft bill.
A Red Cross chapter has been or
ganized at the Stevens Point Normal
and already 225 young women stu
dents have agreed to join.
Thomas Kelly, 102, the oldest resi-
dent of the State Soldiers home is
dead. He served in the civil war in
the Second Missouri infantry.
A train of seven freight cars on the
Milwaukee road was destroyed by fire
near Hanover when a tank car con-
tanning $4,000 gallons of gasoline ex-
ploded.
Staff members Of the College Of
Agriculture offered their services to
the state council of defense to aid in
the campaign to raise a full crop in
Wisconsin.
The lure of dollar and half in
real money and the smile of a pretty
girl resulted in Felix Miczkvinski be-
ing arrested at Kenosha on a charge
of attempted murder.
Headed by E. H. Light, Beloit col.
lege secretary, number of professors
plan to plant and cultivate vegetables
in the Beloit college athletic field in
view of threatened war food shortage.
A municipal market to take care of
an excess growth of vegetables at
Stevens Point this summer is being
discussed. The gardening contest is
likely to glut the local market, it is
feared.
With excavation about completed,
the erection of $4,000 factory for
the Ideal Barn Equipment company,
recently organized at Horizon, will be
started soon. The buildings will be of
brick and concrete.
The Mackinnon Manufacturing COM
pany at Grand Rapids has added a
new branch to it's business. Waste
timber, formerly sold for firewood,
now is being utilized in making wood
en- soles for shoes.
Beloit college will send six students
with ambulances to France in Red
Cross work. A fund of $4,000
having been subscribed by alumni
students and faculty and Beloit citi-
zens for this purpose.
The Wisconsin Valley Electric COM
pany will turn out from $4,000 to 80
900 gallons of coal tar at it's gas plant
at Stevens Point this year, and some
of this may be used in the manufac-
States army.
Jack McPeak, Sparta, private in
Company l., Third Wisconsin infantry.
was in Jail at La Crosse charged with
having taken off his uniform in a To-
cal saloon and stamped upon it, call
ing it names and cursing the Stars
and Stripes.
Sheriff David W. Roberts of Wan
kesha resigned. Governor Philip
named Albert Morris of Oconomowoc
to succeed him A court action had
been started against Roberts on the
allegation that he was not qualified as
an American citizen.
Inc Wisconsin department OF aPrl-
culture cautions the farmer in south
ern Wisconsin that he may be CT
greater service to the nation and t.
himself if he plants other crops il
preference to planting an abnor-
mally increased acreage of potatoes,
With the close of the spring vaca-
ton students who SO desire were re
Iieved of academic duties at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin to devote all
their time to intensive training to be-
come officers. More than 1000 stu
dents applied for registration blanks.
Crushed by grief over the death of
his wife which occurred more than a
year and half ago, August Johnson.
fifty years of age, and long prominent
as a resident of Kenosha, fired bull
let from a twenty-five calibre revolver
into his brain at Kenosha and died in
stant1y.
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