The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-25
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

quardt OF Wausau has been named ex-
ecutive secretary of the Marathon
county county council of defense.
Plymouth went over the top in the
| third Liberty loan campaign with
subscriptions of over $4,000. The
quota is $4,000. The women of the
city sold over $4,000 of the bonds.
With the Jackie band as the feature
| attraction, big demonstration in cele-
| bration of the success of the recent
Liberty Loan drive and the opening of
the new postoffice was held at Neenah.
James McCanna, Neenah's oldest cit
izen, died at the nome of his son, w.
f. McCanna He was 92 years of age.
Ten children survive. The remains
were taken to BeIoit for burial.
The Manitowoc branch of the Red
Cross expects to make $500 on its
white elephant" sale which is now in
progress. Anything from stick candy
TO Liberty bonds may be purchased at
the sale
Baby week campaign will be opened
at Sheboygan May l. A clinic will be
in operation three days at the Sheri-
dan, Lincoln and Jefferson schools.
Babies up to year old will be weigh
ed and measured at the clinic.
Mandersan (Bud) Lehr, former Be
lott athlete and member of the famous
La Fayette escadrille, has been trans
fprrpd IN tho rna,inan aviation, ca,
ton in France and commissioned a
first lieutenant
Complaint has been made to State
Food Administrator Magnus Swenson
fuse to sell potatoes at So cents. a
bushel, the price fixed by the county
food administrator
In order to utilize the surplus sup
ply of potatoes in the vicinity of
Bloomer the manufacture of starch
from potatoes has been resorted to.
Fifty cents per hundred pounds are
paid for the potatoes.
1t is expected that 100 acres of
sugar beets will be planted in Winnie
bago county this year. At least $50
acres will be planted for purely patri-
otto reasons, according to w J. Roe
of the Winnebago County Council of
Defense.
John Boese, q years old, of Duck
Greek, near Green Bay, is among the
PA members of the crew of the collier
Cyclops, which has been reported over
due at an Atlantic port since March
-. Boese was a fireman on the miss.
ing vessel
Due to war conditions, the James
vile high school will not have a track
team this year The interest of stu
dent athletes has turned to military
affairs and they are now drilling Two
companies have been formed and uni
forms purchased.
Thirty appeals have been taken
from decisions of the state highway
commission as to routes for the new
federal aid trunk line highway through
Wisconsin. The cases will come up
before the special legislative commit
tee within a few weeks.
AT a meeting of the Waupun women
war workers called by the woman's
committee. council of defense resolu-
tions were passed asking the United
States food administrator to restore
potatoes to the list of substitutes for
wheat flour in Wisconsin.
Tho Iargapt amount of ,,,ona,, o,o,
awarded by the industrial commission
for the loss of an arm, was given Ed
ward Aligney, who was injured while
operating a machine at the Relland
Packing Co.'S plant, Grand Rapids.
The award was made against the EN-
ployers Mutual Liability Insurance
Company for $4,000 and an artificial
arm.
The Rock county board of supervis-
ors has enacted an ordinance regulat-
ing the size of loads to be carried by
vehicles trayersing roads maintained
by the county or state or both, The
ordinance provides that no motor or
horse driven vehicle shall carry load
in excess of 1900 pounds per inch
width of tire and no load to exceed
5000 pounds.
Col. K. II. Spencer, formerly a resi-
dent of Madison but now living in Al
COMA la, is the father of the second
pair of twins in two years. Col. Spen-
Ger is Is and a civil war veteran. He
enlisted from Madison and was cap
tured at Chickamauga He served a
year in the famous Libby prison, es-
Gaping when being transferred by
jumping off train.
White grubs cost the state OF Wis
consin several million dollars in 1912
and 1915. and are due TO appear again
this summer, according to a circular
issued by the Wisconsin department of
agriculture Farmers are warned not
to plant corn or cultivated crops on
grass sod land this spring This is a
white grub year." especially in
southern Wisconsin, and grass sod
land is filled with the grubs in many
places.
Byron Nelson, son of Congressman
Nelson, will go in the draft from Mad
ison May 5. His name was certified by
the Madison board. This contingent
of which there are eighty.one, includ-
ing Nelson, will go to Columbus bar
racks. Ohio.
sSeven carloads Of baggage personal
effects that Wisconsin National guards.
men were not allowed to take with
them, when they left Camp MacAr-
thur FIR E'rance-will he delivered IN