The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-11-21
WISCONSIN news
Important Events % the Week
Around the Badger State

where bandages and dressings were
made for soldiers have been closed on
orders from Chicago headquarters. A
large stock of material is on hand.
Orla knight, 2S, rural mail carrier,
Durand, was killed when rifle, which
he intended taking with him to shoot
squirrels on his route, was accidental
ly discharged.
A fish bone lodging in his throat
coused the death OF Ferdinand Har-
old, Racine. SO years old. of strangu-
lation. Harold was veteran of the
Spanish-American war
Mrs. Andrew Antilla, Tripoh, Onci'
da county became crazed while ill
with influenza, and, rushing from the
house, plunged into the river and
drowned She leaves a husband and
several children.
About $4,000 was paid beet growers
of Menominee, Delta and Wisconsin
counties by the Menominee Sugar
Beet Co., for beets delivered during
October The price, $40 ton, is the
highest ever paid.
Fifteen loaded cars of a northbound
freight were ditched and the wreck
age strewn over both tracks for sew
eral hundred feet on the Milwaukee
road at Layland, near Racine, No one
was injured. A broken rail is blamed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene a. Potter of
nc Oh iAf a a.
ding anniversary on Nov. Is in Chica-
go, where they are visiting their
daughters Mr.. Potter was formerly
sheriff of Winnebago county.
Increased rates have been granted,
the Amigo Electric company and the
Amigo Telephone corporation by the
Wisconsin Railway commission. In
each instance the increases were less
than those asked in the petitions sub
mitted.
The post Office department has an
nounced that the following, Wisconsin
fourth class post offices have been adj
vancod to presidential class: Lyndon
Station, Schofield and Weyershauser.
The postmaster of each of these ofi-
ces will receive $1,000 year
Mrs. h. b. Hartman, Milwaukee,
was elected regent OF the Wisconsin
d. A. r. over Mrs. NJ. J. Trenary, ke-
nosha, at the twenty-second annual
convention in GAINESVILLE. The vote
was % to IA Miss Helen Dorset, La
Crosse, was elected vice-regent.
Louis b. Nagler, former assistant
secretary OF state sentenced by Unit
ed States Circuit Judge Evan A. Evans
to two and one-half years in the fed
eral penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth
for violation OF the espionage act, has
appealed his case to the United
States supreme court, Judge a. l..
Sanborn allowing a writ of error.
Dec. 81 will probably end the work
OF the local and district boards. Thai
is the ntimation given in a telegram
TO Maj. Il. A. Fitzpatrick, Madison,
state draft administrator, from Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder The
order stated that 40 requisition for
supplies, furniture or equipment for
local and district boards should be
bonored beyond Dec. 81
Outagamie county may soon have
the best patrolled highways in the
state if the plans of the county high
way commission are carried out.
Fifty miles. mostly federal and state
trunk lines, are being patrolled at the
present time and the additional $50
miles which the commission desires to
patrol is the old county trunk line
This would give this county 200 miles
OF patrolled highways
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette has
again given the pressure of official
business in Washington as the rea-
son Cor his failure to appear at Madi-
son for adverse examination under the
discovery statutes in his 100000 libel
suit against the Democrat Printing
company He was to have appeared
Nov. Is but wrote his attorneys it was
impossible to come or to set definite
date when he could be in Madison.
All retail dealers in food who fol-
low prices issued by the price-hXing
committees will receive new window
sign from the food administration,
which will serve as a safeguard from
prohteering for consumers. The sign
reads: The prices charged by this
store viii not exceed those indicated
in the most recent list OF fair prices
applicable to this locality and issued
under authority and direction of the
United States food administration"
Enlargement of the Brown county
fair seems assured as the result Of ac-
ton by the Brown county board of
supervisors in the appointment of a
special committee to confer with the
Brown County Agricultural and Fair
association 1t is probable that the
board will appropriate $500 annually
toward the support OF the fair. New
buildings, and new race course will
be laid out next year on the fair
grounds under plan of the fair asso.
citation.
The board of directors of the Wis
consin Holstein Breeders association,
met at Fond du Lac and selected
March IL, II and 10, 1919, for its next
annual meeting and sale The sale
will be limited to $50 head and will be
held in the new $4,000 pavilion at
Fond du Lac.
University of Wisconsin men to the
number OF 212 have registered in Lon
don and Paris az the American Uni.