The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-06-27

To protect their interests now end
after the war, trackmen on railroads
in Eau Clair county formed a section
mems union.
In an opinion to District Attorney
c. j. Smith, Viroqua, Attorney Cen
eral Haven holds that fish peddlers are
required to obtain licenses.
The thirty-fourth annual Old Set
tiers day at Palmyra was turned into
patriotic demonstration and every
cent spent by the 10000 visitors went
to the Red Cross.
American soldiers. returned from
France, will be engaged by the State
Council of Defense, If possible, to give
addresses on the war at the county
fairs of Wisconsin this fall.
The fourth annual state convention
of the Wisconsin Association of Mas
seurs and Masseuses will be held in
the assembly chamber of the capitol
at Madison, June 30 and 80.
The Manitowoc Shipbuilding com
pany has purchased the twelve acre
tract west of the Holy Family hospital.
The tract will be plated, sewers and
water mains put in and 100 homes
erected
The town of Mt. Pleasant will sue
the city of Racine for 1000 alleged
to have been paid through error by
the Horlic& Matted Milk Co. as income
tax for 1914 The company has prop
erty in both localities.
Anthony Simmons, mentioned in
war dispatches for bravery, is thought
to be a Wausau boy. He left Wausau
thirteen years ago. He was home on
a furlough last Christmas and was
then stationed at Camp Funston.
Mrs. M. G.. Jeffris, wife of Malcolm
Jeffris, we'll known Wisconsin lawyer.
died suddenly at her home in James
Vile. She was well known throughout
the state as active in women's club
and war work.
Myron MacLaren, Milwaukee, joined
the growing army of 81 a year war
workers when he assumed the Office
management of the state draft admin
istration in the capital under Maj. Il.
A. Fitzpatrick.
Richland, Crawford and Green coun-
ties have been found by state and fed
eral authorities to be free from bar
berry that causes rust in grain.
Eradication of the weed is being push
ed vigorously all over the state.
julius Mayer of Sherman, Clark
county, accused by the state fire mar
shaps department of having killed his
wife and set fire to his house on last
Thanksgiving night, was found guilty
by jury at Black River Falls.
Treasurer Schilder of the Sheboygan
County War Chest committee reports
rs an estimate that the city OF She
boygan has already pledged more than
100000 for the War Chest, which eX-
ceeds its allotment by $4,000.
The state railroad commission has
received application from the Eastern
Wisconsin Electric company for the
privilege of increasing its fares on the
nterurban systems operated between
FOND du Lac, Oshkosh and Neenah.
and Oshkosh and Omro.
Six more Kenosha County saloons
went into the discard when Sheriff
Hermann issued an order preventing
the opening OF any saloons within five
miles of Camp Herring at kenosha,
following a federal order. The saloons
affected We're in Pleasant Prairie and
Somers, which recently voted wet
Because most of it's members have
gone to war the Baraca club, Madison,
mas closed its doors. The club had IA
membership of about forty-nine, and
practically every one is in the service
of the country. The organization was
formed two and half years ago TO
provide home and social center for
boys.
After thrilling his friends at La
Crosse for several months with his
stories of experiences" in the trench
es of France and after having claimed
he was lieutenant, Fred. j. Bartheld
has admitted that he was only a pri-
yate and has retracted all he said dur
ing war stories He made the retrac-
ton at the request of the war depart
ment
Upon complaint OF J. IL. MCGOWAN.
county food administrator Herman
Moede, of Luxembourg, has been charg-
ed with violating the food regulation
forbiddng the boarding of flour. Mr..
Moede was ordered to pay $50 to tho
Luxembourg Red Cross chapter. and di-
rected to take the surplus amount OF
-four back to the Luxembourg Milling
company.
A total of 873 degrees and diplomas
of graduation were conferred upon
members of the graduating class at
commencement at the University OF
Wisconsin. With 179 graduated since
last commencement, the total for the
year is 1852. War diplomas were
conferred on 254 men who have left
to enter war service since fall. OF
these, 20S received their diplomas now,
and forty-six received diplomas dur
ing the year.
Twelve large boats for the emer-
gency fleet corporation are to be built
at Green Bay within year by the
Northwest Engineering works. The
company will construct a $4,000 adj
dition to the plant. Four ships may
be built simultaneously.
Mercy hospital. formerly Lakeside