The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-12-22
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ty agent in Rock county, was renamed
for this office during a meeting held
by the Rock county board agricul
tural committee.
DR.. V. W. Rapp, Wayside, physician
charged with wife abandonment
pleaded guilty in municipal court al
Green Bay and was sentenced to one
year Imprisonment in the Wisconsin
state reformatory by Judge N. ]
Monahan.
Ruben r. Hudson, widely known
Superior politician, died of pneumonia
at his home in that city following q
five-day illness. Mr.. Hudson was g
candidate for the state assembly from
the Second Douglas county district al
the fall election.
Everett H. Randall, 80, grandson OF
Adm Randall, one of Eau Claire's
founders in 1856, died at an Eau
Claire hospital. He was president and
one of the founders of the Eau Claire
Outdoor Sports club, member Of the
American Legion and Knights OF
Columbus.
Cold weather, car shortage and an
improved demand at terminal markets
are given by the state department OF
markets as causes for the greatly i'm
proved cabbage market during the last
few weeks. Where growers through
out the fall were receiving an average
of "a a ton they now are receiving
from $11 to $12, the department says
Peter Denoylles, deranged man, who
set fire to the barns ON the George
H. Stanchfield farm, near Fond du
Lac, causing loss of $4,000, and
then slashed his throat, was commit
ted to the Northern hospital for the
insane. He will recover. Denoylles
said that he set fire to- the barn to
destroy "a mob of a million men who
were chasing him."
Russell Griffen, Janesvills, arraigned
in federal court at Madison on a
charge of ticket scalpina, entered a
plea Of not guilty and his case was
w
was dismissed. Meyer bernstein and
Leo Dagget, arraigned on a similar
charge for ticket scalping, entered
pleas Of guilty and paid fines of S25
imposed by Judge Luse.
Capt. A. r. Brunei, 40, who com.
manded Co. B, One Hundred Fiftieth
machine gun battalion, Rainbow divi-
sion, in the World war, died at Fond
du Lac of cancer caused, 1t was be-
lieved, by bruise when thrown from
Camp Douglas in 1917. He was mem
Der of the Wisconsin National guard
since 1897. He had served as deputy
game warden since 1909.
Members of the Clintonville Wom-
ans club have begun a campaign to
clean IN the citv on1 s.
ment of state laws and city ordi-
by calling upon the mayor to compel
observance of city ordinances On the
part Of pool hall arrangements, which
ordinances they claim are openly VIC
lated, not only as to closing hours but
also as to harboring boys under Is
years old.
Charging negligence in not provid-
ing proper burglary protection, 40
separate suits for damages, aggregat-
ing $4,000, have been filed in the JEFF
fersOn county circuit court against
he 10 yTI,.
plaintiffs are depositors of the bank
who seek to recover for their losses
when their safety deposit boxes were
robbed May 10, 1921, when the bank
was raided by burglars. The suits,
said to be the first of their kind in
Wisconsin, will be tried at the Febru-
airy term, it is expected.
A movement to GUST the aldermanic
government and return to government
by commission, was started in Apple
ton. Petitions seeking LOO signatures
will be placed in circulation at once
SO that special election can be held
before the end of February. Appleton
abandoned commission government in
1918, after six years trial, to return
to government by board of IL alder.
men. High tax rates and alleged in.
efficiency in the city hall are blamed
for the desire to go back to the com
mission form.
Need of more soy bean raising on
Eau Claire county farms was pointed
out by e. J. Delwiche of Green Bay
in an address before the Farmers in
stitute at Drammen. Location of 9
soy bean Oil mill in Eau Claire OF
some other northern Wisconsin city
within the next ten years was pre-
dicted by Mr.. Delwiche Beside {
good investment from the financial
viewpoint the soy bean was urged a:
soil builder and producer of protein
feeds for live stock, by Mr.. Delwiche
and also by Charles Ristow, Blacl
River Falls. Following talk by Mr.
Ristow, Drammen farmers pooled or
ders for more than sixty tons o