The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-07-06

of the official name of the Lutheran
Synod in session at Milwaukee,
Kenosha citizens have threatened to
enjoin the board Of education from
the building of new school building.
The Thirty-second regiment, Wis
consin Volunteers, in the civil war,
held its annual reunion at Oshkosh,
Formal orders were issued closing
all saloons in Brown county on Sun
day beginning July i, by Sheriff Mic
Ryan.
Two resolutions pledging the loyal
ity of Wisconsin to the nation were
adopted by overwhelming votes in the
assembly.
The vote by which three towns in
Fond du Lac county went dry in last
April's election was legalized by the
state senate.
Possibility of a special session of
the legislature was forecast by Gov
ernor E. L. Philip in a final address
to the assembly.
Carl Frame, aged twenty-seyen, shot
=. killed Miss Lulu MILFORD, twenty
at Superior, and then committed
suicide Immediately after.
The body of an unknown man was
found on the tracks of the Milwaukee
road between Corliss and Truesdell.
He had been struck by a train.
After shooting and killing Lou Mil
ford, Carl Franz, believed to be a
woodsman, blew out his brains when
capture was imminent near Superior.
Three boats in course of construc-
ton at Manitowoc shipyards for Nor
wegian interests have been comman-
deered by the United States govern
ment.
John Murphy, proprietor of tin
shop at Racine is the parent of trip
let's, all girls, which increases his fam
lily to six daughters, after five years of
married life.
The city of Port Washington raised
$5,400 for the Red Cross war fund, in
a campaign that closed at noon on
Monday. The city subscribed $1,700
over allotment.
Over 1000 visitors, mostly represen-
tatives of the Catholic Order Of For
esters from all over the state attend
ed the initiation of class of 100 can
didates at Marshfeld.
State employees crossed wires with
the assembly and the employees lost.
The bill to increase their vacation
I'd he RI
was killed by big vote.
Mayhem v. Loudon, eighty years
old. a resident of GAINESVILLE for sew
enty years, veteran of the Fifth Wis
consin, former noted band leader, is
lead from a scratch on his hand.
Members of the Wisconsin delega-
ton in congress have sent kilograms
and letters to the Wisconsin defense
council pledging support in the CAM
paign against the high price of coal.
Amid impressive ceremonies the
newly completed Lake Street Metho-
dist Episcopal church, which cost $45,-
900, was dedicated at Eau Claire by
Bishop Charles Bayard Mitchell, St.
Paul
By proving that she was the COM
mon law wife of the late John Ma
honey, Mrs. Allie Mahoney established
her claim to her husbands insurance
of $1,000 in the Mystic Workers of the
World at Oshkosh.
One thousand more soldiers arrived
at the military reservation at Sparta,
making total of 5000 men now in
training at this point. Eight hundred
workmen are rushing the construction
of barracks and stables.
Salary raises affecting $500 min
listers, professors, assistant professors,
and teachers in Lutheran parochial
schools in the Missouri synod are
: likely to result from conferences re-
Gently held at Milwaukee.
Mrs. Lucetta Jenkins, eighty-four,
burned to death while alone at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Zebina Hol-
den, near Sheboygan Falls, when her
clothing caught fire from the kitchen
stove.
Wrapped in the Stars and Stripes.
the remains of Alloys F. Gross, thirty
years of age, and the only Kenosha
man to lose his life in the present
war. reached Kenosha The body was
buried with all the honors of a sol
der.
Protests against the present system
of taxation of bank stock and charges
of political trickery' in the defeat of
a measure to bring relief were made
by the legislative committee in its
report at the annual convention of the
Wisconsin Bankers association.
Kenosha had great patriotic cele-
bration in connection with the natur-
alization of sixty aliens. The. court
room was decorated in flags, an or
chestra furnished music and promi-
nent men of the city made addresses
asking for the highest form of citizen
ship from the new citizens.
Associate Justice r. D. Marshall of
the WISCONSIN supreme court was