The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-01
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

a CduuludlS lOT COH6CSbS dI the pr
mary election, John J. Esch, republi
can, is the present incumbent.
Charles r. Smith, who claims to be
travelling representative of the Rail
way Clerks association of Chicago
was arrested at Sheboygan, charged
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Cooperation between a Y. M. c. A.
industrial department and the largest
employers of labor in Racine has re-
suited in the establishment of an in
dustrial hotel, which relieves an acute
housing situation.
Protests by the merchants of La
Crosse resulted in the Minnesota state
warehouse and railroad commission
ordering the Milwaukee railroad to re
store three trains running into that
city on the Southen Minnesota diyi
sion from Austin.
Rev. and Mrs. A. Almquist and lit
tie daughter, and Rev. and Mrs. l.. E
Ost and four children, formerly of
Ashland, have gone to Seattle, whence
they leave with detachment of work
ers for the Alaskan coast, where they
will care for Eskimos and Indians
With sixteen more men joining the
navy through the local recruiting sta.
ton at Oshkosh in the last few days
Oshkosh is second only to Milwaukee
in its record. The grand total of en-
listments through the local Office is
now LA.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of the Rev. M. V. Breed
temporary pastor of the Edgerton Con
gregational church, was solved with
the finding of his body in Lake Kosh-
konong 1t is though the was victim
of cramps.
The loss of pocketbook containing
$3.50, for which he was searching, was
quickly forgotten by l.. j. Roth of St
Cloud, Mimi, when he ran into khaki
clad man on the streets of Racine, who
turned out to be his son, whom he be
lieved dead.
The fourth biennial conference OF
health officers in Wisconsin will bring
together at Madison for discussion OF
health problems several hundred Off
Gals from all parts of the state on
Aug. Z and s. The program embraces
a wide range of subjects.
Farmers in seven counties will hold
farm demonstration picnics in Aug
ust. According to the usual custom
these will be given in the county asy
lum farms. Announcements have al
ready been made for picnics in Co
lumbia, Ontagamie, Waupaca. Chippe
wa, Richland, st. Croix, and Saul
counties.
Mr. and Mrs. owen Sullivan Of
Wausau have three sons in military
service and a daughter Rozella, al
Trinity hospital, Milwaukee, training
for service as a Red Cross nurse. 10
seph Sullivan has been accepted fol-
naval service and George is at Cam
Grant. William is in France with the
One Hundred Twenty first Heavy Ar
tillery.
At meeting of about fifty business
men of Eau Claire, held to devise {
plan for providing farmers of the
country with farm hands, it was de
cided to send questionnaires to city
workmen and business men to find al
who would be available for farm work
1t is further planned that each towI
chairman in the county send in a lis
of the labor requirements in his town
J. c. Schroeder of Manitowoc has
been fined 5000 by the Wisconsin fooC
administration for not using the full
amount of substitutes required by the
food regulations for bakers, and Dicl
Brothers, also of Manitowoc, have
been ordered to pay 5000 for exceed
ing their wheat allotment for Other
products than bread and rolls and alsC
for using less than the required
amounts of substitutes.
Feeding soldiers in the cantonmentS
in America and abroad is taking {
large proportion of the country's com
mercially canned goods. The Wiscon
sin food administration states tha
government requirements are expected
to take one-third of the output of can
ned tomatoes, twenty-five per cent o.
the total output of canned peas, corr
and string beans, about sixty per cen
of the salmon pack, and one-half the
production of canned cherries anC
dried peaches.
Although the engine, tender and mai
car of 500 passenger train No 4
bound from Minneapolis to Chicago
were overturned, near Neenah, tn,
track torn up for a distance of 800
feet and the four box cars which haC
slid onto the main track from sidinl
badly demolished, neither the engi
neer fireman of any of the passengers
sustained as much as a scratch, in ont
of the luckiest wrecks in railroad an
mails. No. was travelling at the raft
of forty miles an hour when the crasl
came.
Racine people strongly protes
against the application of Chief Engi
neer Hirsh Of the state highway com
mission, for permission to haul crush
ed stone on the tracks of the stree
car company. Mr.. Hirsh declares tina
1t is a win-the-war measure, but tn,
people fail to see it.
John g. Thomnson nrominant al
torney of Oshkosh, who is chairman
of the Winnebago County Council o
Defenae and chairman of the count,