The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-14


Lieuts. Hugh France. E. Morrison
and James Ackley of Brentwood have
arrived in France, according to MES
sages received by relatives.
Madison will witness another wet
and dry" fight Petitions have been
placed in circulation to put the mat
ter up to the people this April. The
city went dry last spring by close
margin.
Oscar Frings. Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar Frings of Sheboygan, has
been promoted to lieutenant at Waco
He was sergeant in Co. +, 121st Field
| artillery. He made his home in Ra-
cine for ten years before joining Co,
IF.
Young women of Ia Crosse are TAX
ing course in telegraphy in order to
| prepare themselves TO fill the places
of men telegraphers who may be call
Western Union operators to teach
them,
A bond issue of not to exceed ST.
100000 will be asked of the Legislature
which convenes on Feb 10. The
bonds will bear interest at the rate OF
Az per cent and the public will be in
yited to make purchases just as dur
ing the Civil war. The bill follows the
Pleasure passed in the legislature OF
1862
The annual death rate for Wisconsin
for 1917 was lis per thousand esti
mated population. This was the same
rate as for 1916, and is not higher
than the average for the ten-year pc
Rod. The mortality figures announced
by the state bureau Of vital statistics
STOW 29,137 deaths, exclusive of still
births.
About 40 per cent of all the peas
grown in the United States are raised
in Wisconsin. Production figures have
been compiled by w. f. Calender
field agent for the United States de
partment of agriculture. He finds that
Wisconsin had $4,000 acres of peas
last year, and that the production was
1856 tons.
Food boarding, whether in violation
OF the law or through \misunder
standing of its provisions and penal
ties, is to be stopped in the Badger
state. The campaign inaugurated by
| Food Administrator Magnus Swenson
is to be thorough, to cover every
county, and in advance of action in
other states.
Wisconsins 1917 state boys pie
club championship was won by Erwin
Eckert of Markesan. according to re
ports received from the Office of Il. l.
Bewick, college of agriculture, state
leader of agriculture clubs. YOUNG
Eckert secured first position because
of his excellent record with two litters
of Duroc Jersey pigs, farrowed after
April l.
The Wisconsin county school super
inLendents, in annual session at Wau
sau, adopted the following resolution
BE it resolved that we condemn the
dlsloyal expressions of our senior
senator, Robert NJ La Toilette, anc
recommend that he be dismissed from
the senate" Prof. II. n Sherwood OF
La Crosse presented the question as q
loyalty proposition.
United States Marshall OConnol
has mailed to the chiefs of police anC
postmasters in the western district OF
Wisconsin, letters informing them that
according to word received from the
attorney generals department al
Washington, the contents of all exc
cuted registration aiidavits made by
German aliens are to be held strictly
confidential.
| About $l75 a mile will be spent in
Wisconsin this year for the mainte
nance of the 5000 miles of trunk line
highway system. This was made cleal
by j. r. Donaghey in an address be
fore the good roads convention. IL,
pointed out that the financial provision
for the maintenance of the trunk line
highway system is made through au
tomobile license fees.
A 1904 Beloit mystery was recalled
by the filing of an application for the
administration of the estate of Johr
Gard in the county court of Rocl
county. In 1904 Gard. who was ther
a successful jeweler. disappeared mys
teriously. Under Wisconsin laws he
has now been declared legally dead
and an effort is being made to dis
tribute the estate.
The lives of a number of peopl,
were imperiled when a Northwestern
passenger train jumped the track or
the edge of a big embankment, neal
Appleton The engine and tender ant
the trucks of one of the coaches were
deraled. No one was injured. Tn,
embankment where the wreck oc
Cured is fifty feet high and a bat
wreck would have meant a large los,
of life.
The wOmar'a committee of the Stat,
Council of Defense is sending
call 10 the WulA,u ui n lsCOnsin, urg
ing them to avail themselves of tn,
opportunity to secure training "a,
teachers of domestic science which j,
now being offered by the university
Beginning Oh Feb. 10. a two years
course leading to the granting of
special license for teaching in voca
tional schools win be open to bipl
school graduates or to women residen
of the state who are past 81 years o
age,
Maj Gen. Mccain, adjutant genera
of the army, has announced a list o
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