The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-22


The board of education of the city
of Kenosha by an unanimous vote
dropped the teaching of German from
the school course there and substitu.
ted French.
Albert Gosa, Appleton, enemy alien,
arrested following an assault by a
Kimberly man for alleged unpatriotic
utterances, is held for the United
States marshal.
George Albee, IS, Fond du Lac, re-
iocted as an applicant for the navy,
had an operation performed to correct
a deformed finger and will try to en-
ter Great Lakes.
Gov. Philip asks cooperation of all
citizens for an early registration Aug.
"a of men of 81. He urges employers
to see that employees are registered
early in the day.
Sergt. Harry ]. Boyle. Seventy
third Royal Highlanders, Canada, is
delivering a series of addresses in
Marathon county. Sergt. Boyle lost
his left leg during the big push on the
Somme in the fall of 1916.
II is understood that Col. w M.
Lee, former commander of the Second
regiment of Wisconsin in France, was
recently given an honorable discharge
because of age, and is now on his way
home. Col. Lee resided in Oconto.
Raymond LEM of Menasha has ap-
piled for a patent on an attachment
for a moving picture machine which
is heralded as quite a success. The
device permits making certain ad
justment on the machine without stop
ping it.
Milwaukees fifteen draft boards will
register 65,765 boys between the ages
of Is and 81, and men between 81 and
As on Sept. 5, according to estimates
of Provost Marshall General Crowder
and received by State Draft Admins
traitor f. A. Fitzpatrick
Mrs. Katherine Neiman, Kenosha,
travelled in Dunkirk, ~ Y, where she
searched the records and found that
her husband, John Neiman, had be-
come a citizen more than forty years
ago. She returned home and had her
name removed from the enemy alien
list
The industrial commission, realiz.
ing that on account of the war more
Juveniles are leaving school to earn
a living has arranged to improve the
"a T,fr1 1ennt nf "a les
in Milwaukee under Miss Tracy Copp,
who, with three assistants, will look
after the placement of children, in in.
dustries and see that they secure the
proper vocational guidance
Camp Randall, one of the Wisconsin
mobilization points in civil war days,
and later the scene of many a hard
fought football and baseball battle, is
to be the temporary home of thousands
of soldiers soon to take their places in
the trenches of the world conflict The
university has signed contract with
the war department for the erection of
barracks to house 1000 men. Work
will be started at once.
Fort Leayenworth was the punishment
meted out in federal court, Madison,
to John NJ. Becker county judge of
Green county, who was convicted re-
Gently at Eau Claire of violation of
the espionage act i. b. Nagler, Mad
ison, former assistant secretary of the
state of Wisconsin, convicted of a sim
liar offence was sentenced to Fort
Leavenworth for thirty months.
The worlds record of ten seconds
for laying a ships keel was broken
twice in the shipyards of the North
west Engineering works, Green
Bay. Simultaneously with the launch
ing of the tug "ToileT," a new keel
was laid in a berth vacated by the
tug, and another keel in berth close
by. The time of laying the keel was
four and one-half seconds, and five
seconds respectively. Facts on the
wired to the United States shipping
board
Mail order houses have been re-
quested to send into other states only
such amounts of sugar as residents in
those states are permitted by their
local food administrators. Home can
ners in Wisconsin can no longer get
more than the ten pounds given them
upon application to the county food
administrators, for canning certificates
and may have only two pounds per
person per month for household con
sumption, ordering pounds at a time
if they live in a city and five pounds if
they live in the country.
A statement issued by A. H. Mel
vile, Madison, executive secretary of
the Wisconsin Food Administration,
says: ut should be definitely under
stood that no public eating place will
be given any sugar above their speci
fed allotment. Most OF the proprie-
tors understand this, but many are
using more than they can afford to-
They should serve only two half
Jumps or one teaspoonfuls of granu-
lated sugar to each patron at one meal.
Unless they adopt some method of
limiting the service of sugar, they will
find themselves without any sugar at
all at the end of the month"
Stanley Brewzynski of Shawano was
killed by a bullet wound in the head,
inflicted by Deputy Sheriff Charles
Heckie near Pulaski Brewzynski, who
was out of the reformatory on parole,
was trying to escape from the officer
uhan no waa shot