The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-09-07

nette remains unsettled.
Judging from the number of entries
received the tractor demonstration at
the Wisconsin state fair, Sept. 10 to
Is, will be of national character.
Sixty-fve leading business and pro
fessional men have applied to Gov
ernor Philip for permission to or,
ganize home guard unit in Depere.
DR.. Charles Mccarthy, legislative
reference librarian and now first all
to Food Administrator Hoover, is adj
vocating licensing all foodstuff deal
ers in Wisconsin.
The first burglary since the new po-
lice call system was installed many
months ago has just been reported.
Burglars entered a Fond du Lac drug
store and took camera.
The postofIice safe at Omro was
blown and between $1,000 and $4,000
in stamps stolen. 1t is believed the
cracksmen drove to Omro in an auto
mobile stolen from 7. H Wall in this
city.
Bishop Richard J. Cooke of Helena,
Mont, opened the Northwest confer
ence OF the German Methodist Epis-
cCpal churches at La Crosse with
more than 100 delegates in attend
ance.
Three hundred and thirty-two cities
and villages in Wisconsin are divid-
ing a $138,235.49 fund as a result Of
the per cent levied on the total re-
ceipts of insurance companies dong
business in Wisconsin.
Parents will decide whether their
children shall learn foreign languages
in the public schools. This plan is
proposed by the rules committee OF
the board of education and is receiv-
ing general support in Milwaukee.
Attorney Harry j. Masters, of the
firm of Graves & Masters, has been
appointed county judge to succeed
Judge Richards, now brigadier gen
eral in the United States army. Mr..
Masters is a resident of Sparta.
Contending that the condensories
are buying directly from the farmers
and therefore shutting eff their
source of supply, milk dealers have in
creased the price from to 8 cents
quart They say the increase will be
statewide.
Posses were searching the woods
south of Manitowoc for man named
Voss, who is alleged to have shot
Sheriff Kellner when ne attempt
ed to arrest Voss' brother for failing
to register under the CONSUMPTION law.
Kellner may die.
Colonel A. J. Bowley, commanding
Camp Robinson where $4,000 regular
soldiers are training, announced that
he would appeal to President Wilson
to close the 146 saloons in La Crosse
unless the liquor traffic among the
soldiers is stopped.
The Wisconsin Brewers association
through it's president, H. J. Stark Of
Milwaukee, filed a statement with the
secretary of state to the effect that tn,
organization paid S1,298.07 TO attor-
neys who represented it on excise
bills before the legislature during the
last session
Frank Badge, said to be an enemy
alier out of his district, was charged
with assault and battery after he beat
up Helmuth Toepfer. In the district
court Badge was sentenced to six
months at the Milwaukee house of
correction.
Governor Philip is reported to be
preparing a call for special elections
to choose successors to Senator A J.
Pullen, Fond du Lac, now a major in
the army medical corps; Assembly
man w. A. Campbell, Milwaukee, now
an ensign in the navy, and Senator
Frank Raguse, who was expelled by
the senate.
The attorney general advised City
Attorney George H. McCloud of Ash
land, that civil authorities can not
lawfully arrest and prosecute mem
bers of a military company in federal
service for violating city ordinances.
Soldiers guilty of such violation must
be turned over to their commanding
officers, the attorney general said.
A case of cerebrospinal meningitis
discovered at Waukesha, has resulted
in the quarantine of the home of An:
ton Lift, whose sixteen years old son
and namesake has been treated twice
with injections of Flexner serum from
the laboratories of the Rockefeller in
stitute Dr. w. T. Murphy, attending
physician, said the patient is showing
some improvement.
Disabled eight miles out in Lake.
Michigan, about fourteen miles south
of Sheboygan, the yacht Besse Emily,
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Evin-
rude, was towed into this port. The
engine of the Evinrude yacht was dis
abled by an accident, it was said,
Evinrude is the maker of the motor Of
that name. One of the party rowed
eight miles to shore to get help.