The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-02
Andrew Dickinson, ninety years old,
resident of Snarta is dead

new luOuGTu lSOldtiOu uOSpItdI W COSt
between 100000 and $4,000.
Clerk of the Court F. w. Klinker has
issued naturalization papers to nine
foreigners at Mansion during the last
week.
The state Bank of Mansion plans
to begin the erection of a modern
building as soon as the weather will
permit
The Standard Oil company has
leased ground in the village of Almond
where an oil station will be erected in
the near future.
AS soon as the necessary materials
are on the ground the proposed new
Turtle Lake High school building will
be under construction.
Condemnation proceedings to secure
property for new grade school at
Green Bay may be instituted by the
board OF education, it is reported.
While sitting in his chair at his
farm home near Plover, Martin Wor-
zalla, aged ninety-one years, suddenly
expired He was a retired farmer
Mrs. Melissa Perkins, ninety-seven
years of age, oldest pioneer resident
in Racine, is dead, following brief ILL
ness. She came from Vermont in 1889.
Attorney General Owen has brought
suit against the County and City of
Milwaukee for upward of 100000 for
fines collected and not turned over to
the state.
Herbert Townsend of New Lisbon
was one of five senior students of
Rush Medical college awarded mem
bership in an international honorary
medical society.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gotto, eighty
and eighty-thre years old, respective
ly, celebrated their sixtieth wedding
anniversary at Green Bay, where they
have resided nearly seventy years.
Commercial clubs at Winona and
La Crosse have petitioned the Milwau-
kee railroad to appoint depot agent
at Richmond, Mimi, halfway between
the two towns. 1t is now a signal sta
ton.
The plan of commission form of
election at Manitowoc, the vote being
1928 to 400. Every ward in the city
voted overwhelmingly against the
plan.
Bridges across the Mississippi river
in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa,
and public utilities, including power
developing plants in government
h,,; FnIa nd
is believed.
John Busse, ninety-six years old, a
La Crosse pioneer, is dead. John H.
Bfistow, eighty-three years old, cap
tain of the first local fire company, is
dead. He had lived at La Crosse more
than fifty years.
Lone Star" Dietz, son of the late
William Dietz and nephew of John
Dietz, Cameron dam defender, has
been at Rice Lake on visit. Young
Dietz was recently named coach at
the Carlisle Indian school.
Burglars who entered the home Of
David Korf, we'll known business man,
paid no attention to a lot of valu
able plate and silver which they
moved out of the way in order to get
lot of eatables at Kenosha.
The coal shortage has hit Madison.
Alarmed by the delay in the expected
arrival of cars of coal, coal dealers
notified customers that until the situa-
ton becomes normal only a quarter Of
a ton would be allowed to an order.
AS result of family alteration
during which James Boudreau was
charged with having shot his wife
through the neck with rifle at their
home at Stevens Point, Mrs. Boudreau
has just obtained decree of absolute
divorce.
County officials in Northern Wiscon-
sin are pushing the movement before
the state legislature to establish the
commission form of government for
all Wisconsin counties doing away
with unwieldy county boards and saw
ing money.
w. E. Tyler, superintendent of the
the Milwaukee road with headquar-
tiers at Mendoza, Ill, was appointed
superintendent of the Superior divi-
sion, with headquarters in Green Bay,
to succeed the late J. M. Clifford
Starting with Colonel Michael Frank,
the first mayor of Kenosha, the COM
mon council has directed that a pic
ture of each mayor since. the city was
incorporated in 1850 be secured and
hung in the common council chamber,
all, of the expense to be borne by the
city.
A committee from the G. A. R., w.
R. c., and Sons of Veterans of Depere
have made arrangements for the cree
ton in the Depere park of seven foot
bronze soldiers monument. The monu-
ment will be an infantryman Eat rest"
set upon a marble pedestal twenty
| feet in height.
The most effective argument against
| the Skogmo proposal for constitu
tional convention centered in the un-
cott1od conditions in This country in