The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-09-05
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events OF the Week
Around the Badger State

George Delvo, Green Bay, age Is,
was drowned while swimming in Fox
river. His body was recovered.
After being in a hospital in Texas
almost since the time of his enlist
ment, e. Scubesky of Neenah has re-
ceived an honorable discharge.
Mrs. Golden, 60 years old, commit
ted suicide by throwing herself into a
creek near her home at Wrightstown,
in the southern part of Brown county,
it was reported to police officials at
Green Bay
While driving through woods near
Boulder Junction, Villas county. Leo
Seltz was instantly killed by lightning
and Dennis Poquette, ST., Arbor Vitae
hotel man. and John Teaks, were in
jureG by the same bolt.
John Horn, Fond du Lac, a truck
farmer and well known cattle buyer,
is being held on $500 bond charged
with having made sediuous utteran-
ces. Horn was arrested by officials OF
the department of Justice
A large cold storage plant will be
erected at Green Bay by Armour &
Co, Chicago meat packers The com
pany will make Green Bay it's dis.
tributing plant for the northern part
of this state and upper Michigan.
Albert E. Voelz OF Tineda, who was
arrested by a government agent
charged with disloyal utterances, was
brought to Shawano and taken before
a justice, who fined him $50, which
was given TO the Shawano Red Cross
Frank Fault, 46 years old, a resident
of Linden, Wis, was injured fatally
when an emery wheel in the plant OF
the Mitchell Motors company, Racine
where he was employed, broke and a
piece struck Fault on the head frac-
turing his skull.
A record yield of sixty bushels of
wheat per acre is reported by Seller
Bros, owners Of a dairy farm five
miles east of La Crosse, on five acres
OF land 300 bushels of spring wheat
was raised, Bumper yields of grain
and corn are found on hundreds of
farms in La Crosse county. Corn will
be ready for cutting next week.
Corp. George w. Chapman of the
town Of Johnson and Private Henry
Nehrbass of town of Halsey have been
killed in action in France, according
to kilograms received by relatives in
Wausau. Corp. Alfred Remer Private
Arthur Kastel and Private Leonard
Seller of Wausau have been wounded
in action
Twenty years ago on Thurs
day, Aug. 20, occurred the Whiting
Mill disaster Menasha in which a
score Of workmen were killed when a
steam boiler exploded. Memorial serv
ices were held at ST. Mary's church
in Menasha, eight of the men killed
being members of the Menasha con
gregation.
To meet the need for nurses, both
during the war and afterward, the de
partments Of medicine and home
economics, University of Wisconsin
are offering courses recognized by law
and have arranged a course Of study
whereby the requirements for the Ger
titicate of registered nurse may be Sc
curd in the shortest possible time.
Several Racine people have given ur
sugar to which they were not entitled
w. 7. Harvey food administrator, has
recovered 200 pounds of sugar, most
of which was voluntarily returned
Some of the sugar has been distributed
to the Jacks canteen, hospitals anC
other institutions which have had diff
ficulty in obtaining complete supply
In closing session of their sixteenth
annual convention at Green Bay, the
Wisconsin Association of the Master
Horseshoers' National Protective assO
citation pledged itself to aid the wal
department TO procure hOrseshoers anG
instructors for blacksmithing work in
the army Officers elected were.
President, c. N. Gehlinger, Wausau
first yice-president, h. Hausch Mil
waukee; second vicepresident, ChAs
Briggs; secretary-treasurer Walter G.
Pokerandt, Waukesha
Thomas e. Corrison Sheboygan
head of the O, Corrison company. for
mer mayor and prominently mention
ed as a candidate for congress, died
at the age of 81 years. Mr. Corrson
had been identified with business in
terests at Sheboygan for forty years
and for twenty-five years had been
head Of the company which bore his
name. He has a brother, Judge Oscar
Corrison of Chicago, and has been
prominent in public affairs in this sec
ton of the state for many years.
The officers of the Milwaukee re-
cruiting Office for the Polish army in
France are proud of their latest re-
cruit He is Stanislaw Pieklik, who
reported at the Office in the Juneau
building, after trip of nearly 1906
miles. Stanislaw lived at Tacoma
Wash. He always wanted to join the
Polish army and last week found he
had saved enough money to make the
trip to the nearest Polish recruiting
Office, which is in Milwaukee. He was