The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-15
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

Neenah city council.
An increase of passenger fare to 4
cents is asked by the La Crosse &
Southeastern, railroad operating be-
tween La Crosse and Viroqua
The Racine county poor farm, York
vile, will be auctioned off together
with crops, stock and machinery, Aug.
&c. The farm of 100 acres is appraised
at $120 an acre.
Private Henry Meyer, son of Mrs.
Louise Meyer. town of Sheboygan,
died in the base hospital at Camp
Zachary Taylor from the effects of a
heat stroke.
The Board of Education of Beaver
Dam by an unanimous vote decided
that hereafter the study of the German
language in the public schools of the
city will be eliminated
Neenah's honor roll, huge framed
affair bearing the names of all Neenah
boys in service, has been hung on the
side of building, on one of the main
thoroughfares. 1t contains over 400
names
Overcome by heat at the Charles s.
Weisse & Co. tannery, Sheboygan, Au-
gust Splittgerber fell into a vat of
boiling liquor and sustained severe
cut on his jaw and painful burns about
his body.
The selection of a new postmaster
at Neenah viii be made from five
prominent citizens who have success
fully passed the civil examinations, ac-
cording to a recent announcement by
postal officials.
Three buildings on the Herman Al
brecht farm near Beaver Dam were
destroyed by fire. Neighbors succeed
ed in saving a large barn and resi-
dence on the farm. Mr.. Albrecht lost
all of his farm machinery
An exhibit of the crops grown by the
boys and girls of the Oshkosh schools
will be held at the high school early
in September under the direction of
T. G, Brown, supervisor of agriculture
in the schools.
A meeting of the Wisconsin Live
Stock Breeders association will be
held in Green Bay the second week in
October, according to an announce
ment by County Agricultural Agent L.
A. Carncross.
Harold Hart, Kenosha, manager of
the truck department of Nash Motors
company, and one of the best known
men in the automobile game in the
middle west was commissioned a cap
tain in the United States army.
No county fair will be held in
Shawano county this year, as the
grounds need considerable improve
ments and officials believe they can
use the labor to better advantage in
helping take care of the crops.
Federal authorities raided the
Ha~enbeckW circus at Stevens
Point just before it left for Portage
and took $50 men from the show as
Stacker subjects, The show left with
small boys filling places of men taken.
Martin Pollen, a farmer in the town
of Cassian, near Rhinelander, was shot
and instantly killed by George Tomlin-
son, on Tomlinson's farm in Rice Lake
on the Tomahawk river. The shooting
is said to have resulted from a debt
Tomlinson owned Pollen.
A committee of the State Council
OF Defense met with Gov Il. l.. Philip,
and considered plans for preparing a
military map OF Wisconsin to be pre-
scented to the war department, which
will be part of the gigantic survey OF
the entire country.
The small grain crop in Dodge coun-
ty this year is breaking all records.
Oats are yielding as high as ninety
five bushels to the acre; wheat forty
and barley forty-fve bushels There
has been more wheat raised this year
than for number of years.
Secretary of State Merlin Hull is
already laying plans for collecting the
soldier vote at the primary election in
September Representatives of the
state secretary will be sent to each of
the environments in this country where
Wisconsin voters are now in training.
In a special meeting, the Brown
county board of supervisors adopted a
bond issue for building highways at "A
cost of 100000. The chief job will be
done in the town of Lawrence on the
Green Bay-Appleton road, the appro-
pration being 100000. The road will
be of concrete, and will make a con
tinuous road from the Fox River valley
points to Green Bay.
j. J. Auer, publisher at Der Herold,
a German weekly published at Eau
Claire, was sentenced by Judge Evans
in federal court to eighteen months
in Leavenworth, Kas., on his plea Of
guilty, made to n charge of violating
the espionage act by printing seditious
articles in his paper and also failing
TO file with the postmaster TRANSACTIONS
of articles printed in German In his
paper.
Excursions are entirely dispensed
with this summer and it is only oc-
casionally that launch passed
through the locks. according to one of
the lock tenders on the Fox river at
Appleton. Pleasure crafts are becom-
ing thing of the past
Residents OF the village of Winnie
come on the Fox river, say the war
has had serious effect upon the sum
mer resort bus.ness which flourished
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