The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-06-06


contingent, Mrs. August Lach, of Men
| hours later.
Donald Rowland, Reedsburg, now al
| the radio school at Newport, r. l., has
| been chosen out of 200 applicants for
a "Pinafore" company to tour thu
| eastern states.
Rack county's war chest drive rails
ed s165,000 to pay allotments for Red
Cross. Knights of Columbus, Young
Mems Christian association, and 9th.
81 patriotic activities.
Winnebago County Beekeepers' as.
| sociation, formed to increase the pro-
| duction of honey, has William Nelson
| of the town of Omro for its first vice.
| president. H. +. Greenwood, Oshkosh,
was elected secretary-treasurer
Heirs-at-law of the late Mrs. Johan-
ma Booker, Sheboygan, will share half
| the 100000 estate, instead of re-
eciving only So each, and Mrs. Sell
ma Mueller, an adopted daughter, will
receive but half, according to the su.
preme courts decision.
Official notification of the death Of
Edward Gerl, Manitowoc, in the sink.
| ing OF the steamer Moldavia in the
English channel, has been received
by his parents. Gerl was a former rail.
way mail clerk and left Manitowoo
with the contingent in October.
Reports on file at the state board of
control show that 374 Wisconsin boys
have been returned from cantonments
because they were affected with tn.
| berculosis. The record also shows
that $50 additional have been returned
to date because mentally defective.
| Wisconsin knights of Pythias are to
hold their annual convention at She.
boygan on June IT. Is and 10, instead
of Eau Claire, the change having been
made because of temporarily limited
hotel accommodations in the latter
city.
A silver jubilee celebration, COM
memorating the twenty-fifth anniver
sary of the ordination to the priest.
hood of the Rev. j. B. Hauck, pastor
|
sau, was given on Memorial day I'M
der the auspices of the pupils of St.
Mary's school. Thirty-five visiting
priests were present.
Grace Lusk, Waukesha, is guilty of
murder in the second degree. This
is the verdict, after four hours DELHI
GRAFTON, of the twelve men who have
sat on the judgment seat before her
for two weeks during her heart-grip
ping trial for the Staying of Mrs. Mary
Newman Roberts, wife of Dr. David
Roberts, former state veterinarian
The Sheboygan common council
adopted formal protest against pass
age by congress of the Randall lamend.
ment to the food stimulation bill. The
resolution was introduced by Alder
man William Brockman, a saloon
keeper. The amendment seeks to pro
hibit use of foodstuffs and fruit In the
manufacture of beverages.
Sixty men, class l registrants yet
to be called to war service, began
training at Oshkosh to operate army
|
concerns donated use of their heavy
trucks for practice. Other classes for
registrants at the Beach school are in
electricity, stenography and type
writing, carpentry and radio work.
At massmeeting in West Algoma
called to discuss the Punchoqua school
problem, action was taken to show
that the patrons of the school want a
larger building than originally pro
posed, favoring an eleven room struc-
| ture. The council has been standing
out for smaller school than the ma.
jority of the school board recommend.
ed.
| Aggressive patriotism Of North
| American Indians was responsible for
a Liberty Loan record, which may
not be surpassed in the United States.
1t was officially announced that Odan-
ah, an Indian reservation village in
Ashland county, subscribed thirty-fve
| times its quota. The quota was $4,000
and the total subscription was $106,
Geo.
Conservation Warden Graves has
crew of men at work in the Bibon
swamp near Drummond, Bayfield, coun.
| ty blowing out the beaver dams in
th2t vicinity. The beavers are pro-
| tected until 1920, and during the past
few years have multiplied in great
numbers and especially in the Bibon
swamp, where their great dams have
backed up the water to such an extent
that in places it is flooding the county
highway and part of the timber pre-
serve of the Rust-Owen Lumber COM
pany.
The industrial commission in a ia
| BILE shows the number of industrial ac-
cidents in the state during the past
three years. About 40,9S0 cases were
reported, ST. of which resulted in
deaths. The total working time loss
because of the accidents is 5,951, 1888
days or between $12,000,000 and SIS.
100000 in wages. Only 19 per cent of
the accidents were caused by ma.
chimes and a larger number of acct.
dents by handling objects. Other
causes were from falls, falling objects.
hot substances, cranes, derricks and
hoists.
An increase of ten per cent in wages
has been granted to policemen and
firemen of Green Bay. The new pay
of the police chiefs of both depart.
ments is $13750 month. captains are
paid $105, and regular firemen and pa.