The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-02
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

| has resigned to go into war service. He
will leave soon for England
Dean L. L. Lewis, Lewis institute,
Chicago will deliver the address at
the sixty-eighth annual commence
ment exercises of Lawrence college,
June S.
William Graves of Prairie du Chen,
is expected to announce his candidacy
for congress in the Third COMPRESSION
al district against Congressman John
M Nelson.
Judge Il. " Werner of Shawano has
been appointed one of the delegates to
the convention of "Win the War for
Permanent Peace, to be held in Phila-
delphia on May 16 and II.
Sam Barto, an Austrian, is in Jail at
Marinette, having been brought from
Niagara for alleged disloyalty. He is
n brother of captain and lieuten-
ant OF the Austrian army, in which he
himself served.
Helmuth Evans OF Corinth, % years
old died at ST. Joseph hospital,
Marshfield, as a result of a revolver
shot in the abdomen while attending a
country saloon dance in the town of
Motion, Marathon county.
Seventeen large milk factories and
condenseries in the state, were order
ed closed by the federal food admins
traitor April q on directions from
Washington for alleged failure to
make proper reports with the govern
ment.
The demand for help by the farmers
In the vicinity of GAINESVILLE has be
come so great that all men in the
county Jail have been shipped 10
farms For the first time in many
months the Rock county Jail is devoid
of prisoners.
The crusade against bootleggers in
Beloit is continuing. Constable Root,
South Beloit, added two women to his
list of alleged liquor law violators,
One of the women had dozen half
pints of liquor stored in her stockings
and the other had ten half-pints.
Peter Norbut, former Chicago man,
and member of the draft quota from
Kenosha county, attempted TO end his
life by leaping into Lake Michigan He
is being held in Jail, but may be sent
camp later. Physicians say Norbut
has worried almost constantly over
the war.
Stanley Jarocha and Joseph Cor
zezyk, Pullman, H., are held at Wau-
sau for the United States department
Of justice. Among their effects were
found copies of The Finnish Mystery.
The men are alleged to be disciples of
Pastor Russell and members of
group operating throughout Wiscon
sin.
The children of the Sheboygan pub
lie and parochial schools have pur-
chased $S,53S.50 in Thrift and War
Savings stamps, Fred Look, local di-
rector of war savings societies, re-
ports OF the 443S school children,
1903 are war savers. Several classes
have been awarded 100 per cent ban
ners.
To advertise their livestock the
farmers of Barron county have form
ed a sales association through which
men will make their animals known
throughout the state. An assessment
of per cent on all sales made by the
members is to pay for the advertise
ments contracted for Ny the associa
ton.
George f. Reidenbach, postoffice in
spector of Green Bay, is the original
Thrift stamp and War Savings certifi-
cate travelling salesman. His opera
lions are confined to selling War
stamps to passengers aboard rail
road trains while travelling over his
territory in Wisconsin, parts of Illinois
and Michigan.
Many settlers with a distance of
fifteen miles of Sucker creek, near
Couderay, are collecting their sum-
mers supply of red horse and suckers.
All the mel have to do is to kill the
fish with "a club and throw them on
the shore with fork 1t is an easy
matter for one man to get 100 pounds
OF fish in a few hours.
DR.. Henry Coe Culbertson, formerly
president of Emporia college, Kansas,
and at present associated with Mr..
Hoover in work of the United States
food administration, has been elected
president of Ripon college, and has &C
cepted He succeeds DR.. Silas Evans,
who recently resigned to accept the
presidency of Occidental college at Los
Angeles. DR.. Culbertson was born in
Cincinnati, July II, 1874.
The woman's committee of the Wis
consin State Council of Defense.
means to go out after the girl Stacker.
The idle girl, the girl with no defnils
plans for the future, the girl who ID
not now preparing herself for useful
work, is to be the object of definite
campaign to be carried on through the
speakers bureau of the woman'S com
mittee. Girls are to be urged to fit
themselves either as nurses or teaSh-
ers or stenographers in all three of
these professions there is great
dearth of proficient workers.
The women of Dundee raised s11915
for the Fond du Lac chapter OF the
Red Cross through patriotic enter
tainment. Much OF the money was
raised by auctioning donated articles.
No Red Cross chapter has been started
al Dundee, but the women are willing
workers