The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-09
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lished the first caeese factory in Plain
field.
Former State Senator Harry c. Mar
tin died at Darlington of cancer of tbs
throat.
Cracksmen who attempted to break
into the Kenosha postoffice failed to
get $4,000.
The town of Arpin will vote on the
no saloon question at the coming
spring election.
Car shortage has forced the Super
ior flour mills to limit their output to
One-fourth capacity.
Sidney Smith, aged seventy-three, a
sas City of pneumonia.
On account of the shortage of local
all the schools in Colfax, Dunn county,
have been forced to close.
If sufficient acreage is secured the
Wisconsin Pea Canning company will
operate it's plant during the coming
summer.
Nathan Russell Larrabee, eighty
years old, the oldest resident of Ke-
nosha county, died at his home He
came to Kenosha in 1897.
William L. Marshall, resident of
Merrill for fifteen years, and postmas-
ter at Tomahawk from 1894 to 1898
died following a long illness
Beloit and Fort Atkinson broke
even in dual high school debate. The
Beloit team won at Fort Atkinson and
the latter team won at Beloit.
Fire which originated in the base
ment of the Golden Eagle clothing
store at Beloit caused over 5,00O
damage to the stock and building.
Emil Olsen is critically i'll at his
home in Westby, having sustained in
ternal injuries in a runaway when MS
horse dragged him long distance.
c. F. Kellogg, Grand Rapids, was
elected president of the Wisconsin,
Retail Lumbermen's association at the
closing session of the annual cOnven-
ton
Fred Millenbach, a resident of Port
Edwards, had his left leg amputated at
Riverview hospital The operation was
performed following a stroke Of pa
ralysis
The sentence of Arthur Deany, con-
victed of manslaughter in Monroe
circuit court in 1915, has been COM
muted from five to three years by Gov
ernOr Philip.
A committee of eleven has been
named by the prohibition element of
Superior to carry on the dry side Of
the license campaign to be waged in
Superior this spring.
Racine fishermen have sent repre-
sentatives to Madison to oppose bin
calling for the increase in size of gill
meshes from one and one-half to Gre
and three-quarter inches.
The Joerns Brothers company is
contemplating extending it's furniture
factory and doubling the output fol-
lowing the destruction by fire of its
plant at Sheboygan last week.
George Grey, of Milwaukee, who
drove an automobile ambulance
through the battle of Verdun, was
overcome by heart failure and is in
a serious condition at st. Luke's
Albert Gutowski received internal
injuries when the handle of a windlass
knocked him off a wall at the Biron
mill of the Consolidated Water Pow
er and Paper company at Grand
Rapids.
Albert SwenSon is in a hospital at
La Crosse with his jaw broken in four
places, and his wife's father and broth
err wealthy Bloomingdale farmers, are
at liberty on bonds following family
quarrel.
A threatening letter based on the
legislative joint resolution pledging
support to the federal government in
the present international crisis, has
been received by Senator Tim Burke
Green Bay.
The Wisconsin Retail Furniture
Dealers association elected G. +.
Schneck, Milwaukee, president, and A
L. Gold, Milwaukee, secretary treas
urer, and chose Milwaukee for next
years meeting.
The death rate in Wisconsin is high
er today than it has been for nine
years. Statistics for the last quarter
of 1916 show that there were 1854
deaths in the state This is at the
rate of IL per 1000.
What appears to be the first attack
on Speaker Whittet's bill to reorgan.
ize the central board of education is
seen in a move to amend the measure
so that the board would consist of
eleven members instead of seven.
Dropping through hole in the fioo-
into which he backed while at work,
Frank Elliott, helper in repair work az
the Dells Paper and Pulp company's
pulp mills at Eau Claire, fell into the
mill water dume, broke his neck and
died instantly.
Happy Little Joe," helpless Grip
pie who had suffered many years from
tuberculosis of the spine and who
had made an appeal to the people to
aid in battling the white plague, died
at his home at Kenosha. He was Jo-
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