The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-12-26
Badger State
Happenings

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lege S. A. T. c. have been dismissed
and the unit demobilized.
Yeggs cracked the door of the
vault in the Klueter company offices,
Madison, and found it empty.
Ernest Boebel, Fennimore farmer,
paid fine of $35 in federal court at
Madison for making proGerman ut
terances.
The quadrennial convention of Wis
consin Maccabees will be held Oh June,
according to plans completed by di-
rectors at Superior.
A strip of canvas from a German
aeroplane, shot down over the Ameri-
can lines, has been sent Louis Kola-
sinski, Menasha, by brother
reunion of La Crosse aviators who
served in the war with flights by those
most efficient will be feature of the
1919 interstate fair here.
Al Kemmett, GAINESVILLE, aged 20,
fell from an adto truck and was in
stantly killed when wheels of machine
crushed his head
Within two days Mr.. and MB. Hans
l.. Hanson and Mr.. and Mrs. liver
Hanson of Holmen, La Crosse County,
died of influenza. The husbands were
| brothers.
Safe blowers looted the safes of the
Coal company, GAINESVILLE, obtaining
considerable money, Thrift stamps
and Liberty bonds.
Private Frank Foster is the first
wounded La Crosse soldier to arrive
home He lost his right leg as re-
suit of a high explosive striking his
! knee.
f. II. Hicks, Oshkosh, was chosen
president; f. A. Williams, Neenah,
vice-president; John w. Brown,
Stevens Point, secretary and treasu-
rer, of the Wisconsin Fraternal con-
gress.
The eighth annual road school I'M
der the auspices of the Highway Com
/ Feb. 8 to 8, at which time it is expect
ed from 400 to 500 road men of the
state will be present.
Frank V. Harnacker of Co. h, Fond
du Lac, part of the Rainbow division,
| has arrived in New York He has
seven wounds, all from fragments of
| one she'll He writes that a bunch"
of Fond du Lac boys have returned.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
! Weigle has announced that he would
! prosecute manufacturers OF egg sub
/ stitutes." Weigle declared that some
of the socalled Substitutes" are moth
ing more than corn starch and skim
milk
Private Peter j. Beisbier, town of
Wayne, Dodge county, has been cited
| for bravery, according to message
received by his mother Mrs. Mary
Beisbier, from the war department.
Beisbier, the citation states, was
caught back of the German lines but
refused to surrender, putting up a
vigorous fight until severely wounded.
DR.. A. j. Williams, member of the
Racine board of health, has demanded
an investigation of the methods of
DR.. II. E. Wilson, deputy health officer,
whom he charges with circulating pc
titions for appointment of Miss Marie
Corse as health inspector at 500 a
month. Dr. Williams declares the po-
sition is one for which women is
not fitted.
Ripon college just received official
notice that Ripon will have a reserve
officers training corps. Following is
the telegram received from Washing
ton: President Ripon college: You
may proceed with the organization of
a reserve officers training corps pend
ing official notification from the adiu-
tant general of the army A profess
sor of military science and tactics will
be assigned to your institution in the
near future"
The Wisconsin Food Administration
received a telegram from Washington
asking it to make plans for closing up
its work after Jan. l. This oSer
means that the federal government is
planning to curtail the work of the
state food administration. The big
Wisconsin food staff will be laid off
on that date, with the exception of
county administrations, which will
be retained temporarily for food price
fixing purposes.
In one of the quietest primary cleo
tons in the history of Oshkosh Hen
ny T. Hagene, former council commits
sioner and Charles +. Hart, for assem-
blyman from the Third district, We're
nominated from a field of seven can
| didates to stand for election Jan. 2,
for the unexpired term of Florian Lam
pert as third member of the commits
| sion council. Mr. Lampert was elect
| ed to congress fro mthe Sixth district
and there remains a year and four
months of his term as council commits
sioner. Not more than half the vOt-
ing strength of the city went to the
| poles.
Fity students at the officers mate
rial school at Great Lakes have re-
ceived their commissions as ensign.
These men were the successful grad
yates of a four months course at the
school. Wisconsin men commissioned
were w. G. Erdman, Oshkosh, and L.
| o. Keans, Kenosha.
Fire caused nearly $4,000 damages
| at Liberty Cottage, Il college woman's
dormitory at Beloit. AS Beloit college
is closed on account of influenza most
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