The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-12-05
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

About 1000 acres have been cleared
In Sawyer county land clearing con-
tests in six weeks. Fifty-four farms
were entered.
Clatis Poehling, 16. Bangor. was &C
cidentally shot through the thigh by
Palmer Peterson while hunting, Teta.
nus is feared,
That the legislature may be asked
to give free university tuition to the
S. A. T. c. students for the remainder
of the year was the suggestion made
by officials at Madison.
Adjt. Gen. orlando Howay, Madi-
son, held a conference with former
Wisconsin National Guard officers re-
Gently returned from France on the
reorganization of the National Guard
after the discharge of the soldiers.
For thirty years Rhinelander had a
Chinese laundry. zee York has closed
his establishment and disappeared,
He informed a patron he had made
enough money to supply him with
small change for the rest of his life.
Shot by playmate, William Thomp.
sin, S-year-old son of Alex Thompson
of Nirequa, is in a critical condition.
A charge of shot lodged in his eye.
The boy was playing soldier when
he received his injury.
Omcial kilograms from the war de
partment announce that Lieut.. How
ard M. Morrissey, former well known
Kenosha dentist, has been killed in
action on the western front He was
serving with the dental reserves and
was killed on Nov l. He was widely
known among the alumnae of Mar
quette university in Milwaukee
Declaring he proposed to establish
confidence in the health department,
Mayor A. A. Bentley, La Crosse, at
meeting of the common council, de
clared no meeting of the board had
been held for a year The mayor in
duced the council to hold up the
health fund of $4,000, pending an in
vestigation by a special committee.
James A. Smith, ranked among Wis
consin foremost fire insurance men,
and conspicuous in the business life
Of Eau Claire for thirty years died at
his home there, aged 81 years. He
was stricken by heart failure as he
was entering his Office. He is survived
by his sister and adopted daughter.
He was a thirty-second degree Mason
and an Elk.
The Jewish congregation of Bnel
Abraham. Beloit, has purchased the
property formerly used by the Beth
lehem Norwegian Lutheran church
and will have it for their synagogue.
The new Jewish congregation includes
twenty-five families They have been
contributing literally for long time
to a church building fund and find it
possible now to support a church
Plans are to be made at Oshkosh
for entertaining and welcoming all
Oshkosh soldiers returning from the
war. AS some will come home sngly
and in small groups, it has been de-
cided to have welcoming receptions
at regular intervals, entertaining
those arriving home in the intervals
between receptions. In that way no
one will be sighted and the honors
will be bestowed upon all alike.
The James II. Mead club, Sheboy-
gan's finest recreation hall has been
thrown open to working girls Since
its organization two years ago the
club has been exclusively for mem
bers. Glasses in dancing, gymnastics,
singing, reading and dramatice,
will be formed. Any girl is eligible on
payment OF cents Club fees are
waived Classes are held on different
evenings, TO enable girls TO enroll in
!! more than one class.
one hundred and twenty-six indict.
ments. for ohense against practically
all of the war measures passed by
congress, were reported by the federal
grand jury before Judge Sanborn, La
Crosse. District Attorney A. G. Wolfe
refused to make public any of the in
dictments until warrants are served,
but indicated that the true bills
charge violation of the espionage act.
After reporting, the jury was not dis
charged but was excused, subject TO
call. II was indicated they might be
reConvened for other matters
The industrial commission awarded
$4,000 compensation to Mr.. and Mrs.
Rudolph Bake against The Interna.
tional Harvester Corporation, in
whose employ their son, slightly less
than IS, was killed June q. while en-
gagged as electricians h,lper The
child labor law provides that no one
under Is may be employed in electri-
cal work. but the boy misrepresented
his age. The commission ruled, how
ever, that responsibility rs to age of
employees rests with the employer.
The regular award Is four times the
sum contributed by Il minor to the
support of his parents, in The Bake
case, $500, but due to the child labor
law violation the sum was trebled
The experiment in training of car
rier pigeons for the army signal
corps, carried on for five months by
Prof l.. j. Cole, University OF Wis
consin, under direction of the war de.
partment. has been completed The
signal corps sergeant, who assisted
Prof. Cole, has taken the government
pigeons to Fort Monroe. The training
involved flights from half mile TO
thirteen miles, under various con.