The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-26

The Hayward city council has pass
ed stringent ordinance to suppress
all liquor traffic in the city.
w. S. Pullman, eighty-nine years of
age, one Of Racine's pioneer business
men, died after brief illness.
Cyrus Potter, ninety-four years old.
said to be the Oldest Odd Fellow in
the United States. is dead at Superior.
Four candidates took the civil
service examination for the postmas-
tership recently vacated at Brentwood
Oshkosh industrial plants are facing
famine in screenings" although there
is plenty of other grades of coal in
the yards.
The supreme court decided that the
occupation tax on operations of eleva-
tors at warehouses, as provided i'll law
enacted in 1915, is valid
Andrew and Peter Czech were
brought into the Stevens Point NUM-
cipal court and fined 1888 each for
breaking scarlet fever quarantine.
Pensions have been granted to
Catherine Turner, Richland Center,
$12; Evelyn A. Griffith, Cambria, $12;
Josephine Coates, Merrimac, s12.
Oran Koenes of Kenosha has been
appointed manager of the public util-
tiles owned by the Wisconsin Gas and
Electric company at Whitewater.
twenty-five University of Wisconsin
co-eds, members of the Gamma Phi
Beta sorority, were slightly injured
and three seriously hurt in runaway
sleighride.
Assemblyman Hart, Oshkosh, offer
ed a bill in the legislature providing
a penalty of 500 for any person who
shall knowingly furnish liquor to a
posted person.
Sheriff Breckenfeldt and posse had
a hard fight at the Case South works
at Racine, where 100 foundry helpers
went out on strike, demanding a
raise from 1925 to $3.50 day.
Statewide closing of saloons on Sun
day is planned by the Wisconsin An
ti-Saloon league as a result of ruling
by Attorney General w. c. Owen, that
saloons can be closed as nuisances.
Robert L. Clark, Oshkosh attorney,
former assemblyman and school prin-
cipal, and Miss Cora M. Durkee were
married at the residence Of the brides
parents, Mr.. ana Mrs. A. M Durkee at
Oshkosh.
With his dog trying to arouse him,
William Mccarthy, farmer, was
found frozen to death in the cornfeld
of his farm near Marshfield. Nc
Carthy's team returned unguided to
the barn
Martin Paulson, who won the
Stevens Point and state normal ora
torical contests last year, was chosen
to represent Stevens Point Normal
this year, winning over nine other
contestants.
A federal investigation of the high
cost OF living and federal regulation
of cold storage plants was proposed
in resolution offered in the assembly
by Assemblyman Charles C. Schiewitz
of Milwaukee.
Mrs. III. B. Sherman, wife of the
late HI. B. Sherman, who once man
aged the Plankinton house, Milwau-
kee, is dead, aged ninety-two years
She had resided in Beaver lam the
last thirty years.
The Waukesha county board auth
orized the purchase of the Herbert
Lindsay farm in Pewaukee village for
a tuberculosis sanitorium for $16,500
An additional $4,000 was appropriated
for improvement.
Professor Max Eastman of Column
bia, who was denied the use of a uni
versity building for an address on SO
cial economics by President Van Hise,
was the speaker before the conven-
ton of state suffragists.
An Endorsement signed by members
of the La Crosse Bar association,
urging A. C. Wolfe for tne post of dis
trict attorney, succeeding his broth
er, the late w. F. Wolfe, was sent to
Attorney General Gregory.
Assistant Postmaster Frank L.
French ic under suspension at Sparta,
while Postoffice Inspector J. F. Mich
olson is investigating shortage of
$4,000 in his accounts. French blames
"war babies" for his troubles.
The railroad commission has de-
MED the emergency petition of the
Milwaukee Traction Co., for an in
crease in fares to enable the COM
pany to raise the pay of its employees
and reduce the working hours.
Conrad De Long, ninety-two years
old, the Oldest pioneer of Sneboygan
county, died at his home at Sheboy4
agn Falls. He was one of the build
ers of the first railway in the county.
from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac.
Mrs. Sarah Flkt Clark, eighty-nine
years old, widow of James l.. Clark,
one of the most prominent pioneers
who founded the Star Match works.
the nucleus of the local Diamond
Match company plant, died at Osh-
kosh
Mrs. John Norton, whose husband
was one of the captors of Jefferson