The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-11


Mrs r. b. Melvin. wife of Assem-.
blyman Melvin of Sheboygan. died in
the Plymouth hospital following an OPP
Grafton She resided in the town of
Greenbush nearly all her life.
The Lakeside Paper company of
Menasha is to erect several houses for
their employees on land purchased re-
Gently in West Menasha A $1,000
tract was secured for this purpose.
The Rev. c. H. Auerswald, tried for
seditOus utterances, was found guilty
by jury in Menominee after the jury
was out a half hour. He was fined
500 and costs.
Arthur Thomas, % years old. Of
Berlin. was killed when a crane he was
operating in the foundry Of the Case
South works, at Racine, dropped TO
the floor, a distance of twenty-five feet
and an iron rod pierced his body.
In a letter to the Beloit board OF
education, Supt. f. h. Converse sug-
of instruction for the colored boys and
girls of the city who are behind in
their work in the public schools.
Miss Lillian lserman, one OF the best
known young women OF Kenosha so
ciety, left for immediate embarkation
for France for Red Cross work. She
was formerly head nurse at the Vete-
rams Home in Milwaukee.
Nearly 1900 University of Wiscon-
sin students, now in war service, were
university, at which an oak roll of
honor in glass case, was dedicated
by Prof, Carl Russell Fish,
Forty thousand dollars is the
amount Racine and Kenosha counties
will eXpend in the construction of the
teachers training school at Union
Grove on two acre site for which
the committees paid $4,000.
Nine drafted men, headed by Ivan l..
Spear, eX-newspaper man of Neenah,
and who volunteered for the service,
left for a cantonment camp some
where in Oregon. They will be assign
ed to the coast artillery
More than 700 Kenosha honor men,
ready to be called for army service,
enlisted for vocational classes to pre-
pare themselves for special army
work Schools are To be maintained in
| twenty different trades and many
prominent persons are to aid in in
struction.
The University OF Wisconsin is I'M
dergoing siege of scarlet fever and
| at present one girls dormitory, one
| girls rooming house, and four fra
| ternity houses are under scarlet
! fever quarantine. One student. Ed
ward X Hurley of Buffalo, has died OF
scarlet fever. He was junior and a
member of the Chi Psi fraternity.
A German reservist whose name
was not made public was arrested in
| the vicinity of an automobile plant in
Clintonyille, engaged in manufacture
! ing cars for the government, and is
| being held for the department of JUS
| tice II is alleged the man has been
spying about the plant and making out
and forwarding daily reports of the
output of the concern.
When the train left Tomah, carry
| ing Mike Standingwater, an Indian, IL
years old. Of Mather, to a cantonment
in the United States for training as q
soldier of his country. his parents sal
for hours on the track and mutteret
sadly to themselves: Mike will never
come back" Now they are in posses
| sion OF cablegram announcing theil
sons death somewhere in France"
The February death rate showed a
! slight increase over January for Wis
consin, according to reports compiled
| by the state bureau of vital statistics
| Total deaths were 2,319, an increase OF
! ninety-eight, and the rate was 80 pei
1000 population, as against SO in Jan
uary The northern counties have the
| lowest rate, IT; the southern counties
are next with 9.5 and the central coun
! ties have a rate of 90.
Samuel A. Cook, ex.congressman
and pioneer paper manufacturer, died
! at Neenah after "a prolonged illness
brought on by a complication of dis
eases. He was born in Ontario. Can
ada, in 1S49, and came to Wisconsin
settling in Chiffon on the west shore
| of Lake Winnebago, Calumet county
| i'm 1856 He moved to Neenah i'm 1881
and has made that city his home ever
since. He enlisted in the army with
| Clusters cavalry and served through
out the civil war. In 1876 he married
| Miss Jennie Christie, Chiffon. At the
| time of his death he was president OF
the Alexandria Paper company al
Alexandria, Ind, and treasurer of the
| Wisconsin Northern Railroad company
and director of the Phillips Manu-
! featuring company of Chicago He was
a member Of the Elks, commander oil
the local G. A. r., Modern Woodman
Knights of Pythias, l.. f. IT,, and the
| Neenah club. Mr. Cook was a Repub
lican in politics and occupied a promi
| nent place in the affairs OF the party
in Wisconsin. He was elected mayor
| Of Neenah several times, the first in
! $50, and was "A member of the Wis
consn legislature in 1890 and 1891. In
| 1892 he was delegate TO the national
Republican convention in Minneapolis
and in 1894 was elected to congress
from the Sixth Wisconsin district
serving in the Fiftyfourth congress
and declining denomination.
The Grand Rapids city council has
made arrangements TO permit people
| within certain districts of the city &c