The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-31

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/ food administration for Wisconsin to
contribute S25 to their local Red Cross
chapters for failure to obtain licenses.
Northern Wisconsin is making a
fight to win the war by the production
of more foods. Data compiled by
/ William +. Calendar of the United
States department of agriculture, Wis
consin branch show that in ten coun-
ties the acreage in northern Wiscon-
sin was increased 24,175 acres.
Wounded when a fragment of burst
ing "wrizbang" struck him in the
back, Lieut.. Donald Vaughan, Green
Bay officer, crawled five miles along a
road and through open country under
constant shell fire, it was learned in a
letter received from France. Exhaust
ed, he reached a point where an am
bulance was discovered.
Wisconsin is among four states
which have completed 80 per cent of
classifying and examining registrants
of the 10 and SO class. The others are
Utah, Iowa and Indiana. Some boards
in nineteen state are reported by the
provost marshal generals Office to
have done less than 80 per cent of the
work
That Wisconsin farmers have gone
over the top in one more drive for
war production is the statement made
| by j. G. Haipin, Madison, secretary of
the state poultrymen, throughout the
state. The dealers find that there has
been an increase in the number of
chickens and eggs, in spite of the talk
last spring that the farmers were sell
| ing off all their chickens
Michael A. Lucide, foImer attendant
at the Mendoza hospital for the insane,
was sentenced to twenty years at
Waupun prison for killing Erhardt
| Pfsterer, an inmate. LUcide killed
! Pfisterer when the latter refused to
obey his orders at time when the
I patient was being given bath. The
patient was slow in carrying out or
ders and Lucide struck him.
A slight decrease in the insane pop
ulation of the state is recorded in the
monthly population statement of the
state board of control. In September
there were S,26S insane patients I'M
der public care in Wisconsin. The
latest report gives 1924. The reports
of the board show that large num-
\ Der of persons are on parole from the
different institutions at this time.
Plans for a mid-winter show that
will be in keeping with the big cereal
crop of Wisconsin this year have al
ready been made by officers of the
Wisconsin Experiment association,
/ Madison. The annual meeting and
/ grain show will be held at the time of
/ the Farmers Course at Madison, Feb,
TO S, and the program of the expert
ment association and alfalfa order,
will be carried out Feb. Z to 8.
William Davis, believed the oldest
man in the northwest, died at Superior
at the age of 106. Born in Wales in
| 1912, he came to the United States
while still young. He worked in Penn
sylvania coal mines and after service
in the civil war, was a Mississippi
river steamboat captain. He came to
this county from St. Paul after his
wife died there at the age of so in
1912.
Soldier voters in the S. A. 7. c.
camps in Wisconsin will have to vote
/ by mail or return to their homes to
ballot Atty. Gen. Spencer Haven,
| Madison, in an opinion held that UNI
der the soldiers voting laws. the sec
rotary of states is not empowered to
provide messengers to collect these
votes. Forty messengers will be APP
pointed to collect the votes Of Wis
consin soldiers in camps outside of the
state.
The famous trading stamp" case
came up officially again when Atty
| Gen. Spencer Haven, Madison, in an
| opinion given to George j. Weigle,
dairy and food commissioner, held that
although the merchants coupons
| issued by the DowneyFarrel company,
and which are redeemable by the local
merchant may be used under the SUI
preme courts Interpretation of the
law, the consumers" coupon is pro-
hibted.
The meat committee of the state
/ food administration has designated
| fifteen Madison meat dealers to make
/ tests of shrinkage in meat from the
time of its shipment from Chicago un-
til it is sold in Madison, as a basis on
which an allowance will be made to
the dealer. The committee is also
working out a plan for cutting meat so
standard prices may be made for vari-
Gus cuts. 1t is proposed to work out
the plan in Madison and then extend 1t
to the state in general.
Late returns received by State Sales
Director +. j. Kearney, Milwaukee.
show that thirty-four Wisconsin coun-
ties in the Seventh Federal Reserve
district went "over the top" by over
subscribing their respective allot-
ments in the recent fourth Liberty
Loan campaign. These figures do not
represent the final returns and there
are still additional subscritions to be
reported by some of the counties. The
reports show that the forty-five Wis
consin counties included IN the Sev-
enth Federal Reserve district sub
scribed $1OS,OS 500 which is 10S.03
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