The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-08
LOCAL WAR NOTES.

III the expected COMES lO pass anu
the draft age is changed from 21-31
1S-45 1t will take an awful toll Of
Mantowoc's business and professional
life. OF course most of them will get
deferred classification, but the law
yers of the city, at least half of whom
are under 45, have been the victims of
lot of chatting over the reported
coming ruling making law a non-es-
sential occupation. If this is put In
force the lawyers under 46 will have
to go to work, If exempt from mill
tary service, and the thought of eight
or ten lawyers Juggling steel plates
at the shipyard seems to give an un-
holy JOY to numerous people.
The moulders at the Smith foundry
and the Richards foundry went Oh a
strike this week, but went back to
work onthe understanding that the
questions in issue be left to the Unit
ed tSates war labor board. Both con-
Germs are engaged in government
work.
Work has started on the 100 resi-
dences which the government is
financing. They are for war industry
workers and are being erected west
of the hospital.
Monday, Mrs. A. l.. Nash received a
message stating that Major Nash had
arrived safely verseas. Major Nash IS
in the artillery.
Leonard Hansen, has been certified
for service and leaves with the next
contingent on August 18th. This
makes fvesons of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Hansen, North Fourteenth street, in
the service. Harold is in France. Ed
gar Jr, is at Camp Custer. Delmar is
at Great Lakes Naval Station. Burton
is at Camp Robinson, Sparta.
Monday, Mrs. Henry Bruins, South
from her son Andrew FROM France in
which hew rote, among other things,
that he did not expect to get into the
front line trenches until fall. The
same day shereceived a telegram from
the War Department saying that he
had been severely wounded in action
on July 18th. This is the first fatal
casualty reported in the terrible strug-
gle of the past three or four weeks. 1t
indicates that the former local ma
tional guardsmen are in the fight.
Margaret, daughter of Judge Oscar
Torrison of Chicago, we'll known here
by reason of frequent visits to her
fathers home town, is in France, in
canteen work for the army y. M. c. A.
Louis Nellner, now at Fort Mayard,
is corporal and engaged in office
work at headquarters.
Daniel Weber ond John an Max
Dethlefern enlisted last week in the
navy.
All enlisting upon calls for specic
service Roy Sievert, Frank Willard
Arthur Hayward and Clarence John
son departed for Syracuse last week
and Edward Mrotek left for Van
couver.
Under the government operation of
railways unnecessary duplication of
offices is one of the things that is go
ing The Pere Marquette railway
closed up shop last week and went in
as "bunkie" with the other car-ferry
line, the Ann Arbor on Commercial
street
The following is an extract from a
letter, received a few days ago from
Lieut.. !. ~ Kiland, of the U. S. S. de-
stroyer Sterrett, addressed to his
parents, Mr. and Hrs. G. ii. Kiland, of
Madison who are former residents of
this city. 1t gives strong hint as to
the workings of the "frightfulness"
campaign of warfare conducted on
land and sea by the Prussian war
lords.
u. S. S. Sterett,
Care p. NJ, N. Y. City.
Dear Folks:-
We just got into port today after
about week at sea, where Fritz is
still to certain extent rampant. He
has just pulled off another one of his
characteristic tricks, namely, that of
the sinking by torpedo of distinctly
marked hospital ship, 150 miles or SO
from land, with the added crime of at
tempting to hide his despicable act by
turning his machine guns on the life
boats, with the clear purpose of leay-
ing mo trace" Although ours was one
of the destroyers sent out to search
for survivors we were only able after
many hours to pick up one boat load.
We found, however, much wreckage
and a few lifeless bodies encased in
life-belts, floating about in the vicin-
ity where the sinking took nlaca Mo-