The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-16
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Va Indyer as postmaster dL FdlulyTd,
Wis.
Charles Dunlap, an early resident OF
Walworth county, died at his home at
Elkhorn
Tmos Ely, city assessor and an
old time resident of Cumberland, died
at his home.
e. J. Evans, sixty years old, prom
inent business man of Beloit for many
years, is dead.
Arthur p Daniels, seventy-eight
years old, lifelong resident of Beloit.
is dead at his home.
The public schools of Plover have
been closed on account of an outbreak
of scarlet fever in the village.
Fire damaged the Stanley house at
Chippewa Falls, the Oldest hotel in the
city. The loss is about $4,000.
Mrs. Louis Foote, a bride of six
months, died following two operations
for appendicitis at Grand Rapids.
The Green Bay Leather company
has been incorporated under the state
law with capitalization of $4,000.
Carl Donalds, forty years old, prom
inent in the lumber industry of the
northwest, died suddenly at Rhinelan-
der of heart failure.
Walter j. Cavanaugh of Kenosha
Wis, president of the Coil Wire Pro
ducts company, died at Toledo as re-
suit of an automobile accident
The senate passed the Bennett bill
making it state prison offense for
an intoxicated person to drive an au-
tomobile or other motor vehicle.
Fred Stewart, eighteen, was instant
ly killed at Edgerton near GAINESVILLE.
He stepped from behind a freight
train directly into the path of pas
senger train
Paul Hibbard, one time sheriff of
Jefferson county and head of the
Vaughn Manufacturing company for
many years, is dead after an illness of
several years.
James McDudle, sixty years old and
an old resident of Kenosha, died as
result of injuries received several
months ago when he fell on the ice
on Hooker like.
Declaring that 1t believes it the duty
of Senator La Toilette to resign the
Green Bay Press-Gazette is carrying
On its front page a petition calling on
the senator to do so.
At a meeting of the Pioneer asso-
citation at Green Bay a resolution was
adopted endorsing the manner in
which President Wilson is handling
the international crisis.
A spectacular state historical page
ant to mark the official opening of
Wisconsin's new capitol building has
been suggested by the officers of the
State Historical society.
T. G. Simmons, Kenosha millionaire
manufacturer, who has for years been
an active member of the board of po-
lice and fire commissioners, wired his
resignation from Florida.
Charles Sush, resident of Manawa,
who mysteriously disappeared from
his home five weeks ago, is now be-
lieved to have persisted and his body
to have been covered with snow.
The Republican state central COM
mfttee filed a statement in the office
of the secretary of state, declaring
that from Oct 4, 1916, to Nov 20, 1916,
it spent $9,534.77 for campaign pur-
poses.
Tests of the milk of 1872 producers
just completed at Green Bay by Ed
ward Mclean revealed only two
places where admonitions regardine
the quality of the tactical fluid were
necessary.
A. A. Hovda, for the last ten years
chairman of the town of Vance Creek.
Barron county, and who was former
chairman of the Barron county board
for one term, died at his home of
heart failure
Sufficient signatures have been Sc
cured to warrant a special election on
the establishment of union high
school for Brentwood. Should the cleo
ton result favorably a $4,000 institu,
ton will be erected.
Mrs. Mary Janet Stone, eighty-six
years old, widow of Captain AntIe
Stone, who for a number of years was
a sailor on the great lakes, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Daniel
Mcdonald, in Oconomowoc.
Orville Green Bennett, aged thirty
five, New York man widely known
to the automobile trade in the United
States, died at the Pennoyer sanitar-
ium at Kenosha following a three
days illness from pneumonia.
Michael Koran of Lebanon, who be-
came lost in a heavy snow storm while
on his way to Manawa and wandered
around in the cold many hours, has
suffered the loss of the toes on both
feet. It is also feared he may lose an
arm.
Sam Leonette, an Italian, distracted
on account of the fact that his five
| year old boy, Frank Leonette, had died
under an operation at Kenosha, open
! ed fire with a revolver on DR.. John H
! Cleary and DR.. George Ross. Neither
! of the doctors were injured.
Federal secret service agents, and