The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-07

all ner lie.
l.. l.. Olds, Hurley, is under arrest
on charge of impersonating federal
officer. He will be taken to Madison
for trial.
Because he expects to be drafted
soon, Ernest Rhoades, Neenah, has
sold his clothing store and now stands
ready to serve with the national army
Matthews Faster, 26 years old mem
Der of the Green Bay fire department,
committed Suicide. He leaves a wife
and child.
William Chrouser of Fenwood plead
ed guilty to saying: "The damn Red
Cross, | wouldn't give five cents" and
other unprintable things, and was
fined and paid costs amounting of $44.
Daniel Miller, 20 years DID, and for
mer resident of Kenosha died at the
Marine hospital at Annapolis. He was
in the navy for more than thirty years
and retired Ave years ago,
An ordinary feed cutter, used in
chopping up all kinds of fodder. is do
ing service in the Green Bay Red
Cross workshop in cutting waste ma
terials fer pillows.
Ed. Prichard, Maiden Rock, Is years
old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. owen Prich-
ard, probably will lose his right arm
as result of having it drawn into the
machinery of his fathers mill, which
he was repairing.
7. II. Melville of Madison was chos
en- as Wisconsin director of the public
service reserve, the recruiting branch
which will endeavor to mobilize and
distribute an industrial army Of S.000,'
600 men for war service.
William Quinn, Neenah high
school boy in the wireless service, has
landed safely at an Atlantic port after
a trip to South America. Young Quinn
also has brother, Cornelius Quinn,
who is in the wireless service.
The Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance company has the right to issue
sickness and health policies, according
to an opinion from Attorney General
Spencer Haven to Insurance Commits
Sl0ner M. j. Cleary.
The University of Wisconsin mil.
tary department will offer course in
military training to students during
the summer session of 1918. The
course will be optional and no uni
forms will be required.
The "booj" band invented and de
veloped by the Three Hundred and
Forty-first infantry, has caused a SEN
sation at the military camp here. The
first "booj" band was formed while
Co. X was in quarantine because Of
the measles.
Unless new cases of secarlet fever
are discovered in the meantime, the
quarantine on the State Boys Indus.
trial school at Waukesha will be lift
ed on Feb. 10, Chairman James o..
Davidson of the state board of control
has announced.
Clifford Horper and julius f. Due,
sic, OF Menomonie. who confessed they
held up and robbed the Knapp State
bank, on Jan. 3, have been sentenced
to fifteen years in the penitentiary by
Judge George Thompson. This is the
maximum penalty.
The adyet of cold weather, bringing
closer confinement. bad ventilation
and more pneumonia, influenza, etc,
raised the states death rate slightly
in the last quarter of 1917. Deaths
from pneumonia were nearly double
those of the third quarter.
The First congregational church at
Eau Claire. a $4,000 edifice, was de
stroyed by fire. II is supposed the fire
started from an overheated furnace.
100000 memorial to the late Mrs. o,
II. Ingram, was barely saved.
DR. William f. Whyte of Madison
was re-appointed by Gov. Philip as a
member of the state board of health.
DR.. Whyte is absent from the city,
having been commissioned first lieu
tenant in the Medical Officers Reserve
corps.
IN an effort to save fuel, Monroe
business men have agreed as a patri-
otto move to shorten business hours.
Practically every business man in the
city attended a meeting at which it
was decided to conserve the supply OF
coal in this manner.
Herman A. Marth, OF Wausau, is a
Socialist candidate against John
Manser, Republican, for assemblyman
in the Marathon county district at the
special election called by Gov. Philip
for Feb. IL, to succeed d. S. Burnett,
now in army service.
That city must pay the required
license fee for all automobiles. motor
cycles and other motor vehicles is the
opinion of Attorney Haven to
Secretary of State Merlin Hull So
many cities have written to ask if a
fee must be paid for cars owned by
cities that the matter was submitted
to the attorney general for an opinion
After thirty-three years at the head
OF ST. John Lutheran school. Two
Rivers, Prof Bernard J. Wetzel tend
cred his resignation. Prof. Wetzel
came from WATERFOWL, Wis. his home
city, Immediately after his graduation
from the Wauwatosa Lutheran semi.
nary and the Capitol university, Co.
lumbus, O. With his son he will en-
gage in the mercantile business in
Milwaukee.
Rev Daniel Woodward of Omro, has
accepted the call to the Congregational