The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-21
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS


army nurse. She will report at Van
couyer barracks, Wash.
Edwin p. Hunt, who resigned
as secretary of the Eau Claire Y.
M. c. A., recently, has accepted an
offer from the Y M. c. A. at Stockton,
Cal He will leave here on April l6.
When the left hand of Alvin Ander-
son of Prairie Farm, near Brentwood,
was cut from his arm while saving
wood with a power saw, his future as
an army private was shattered. An
derson had been placed in class la.
The $4,000 Arpin sawmill at Allan
Ia, Rusl county was destroyed by fire
The mill IS practically the largest saw
mill in this section. The fac came just
as the mill was prepared for a gisan-
tic cutting this coming summer.
Between thirty-fve and forty men
are Studying navigation in special
course IN the university of Wisconsin.
Almost all OF them intend to join the
navy and many will be candidates for
commissions.
Maintaining that the gases from the
plant of the Du Pont Co, Barksdale,
damaged the crops on his farm and
the health OF himself and family, ia
cob Bjork is suing the company for
$500
Heer have become so numerous in
the south part of Richland county and
travel in such large herds that they
are becoming a menace to crops and
orchards. State game wardens have
been asked to kill or drive them away.
Fenwood chapter, Wausau, Wiscon-
sin Loyalty legion, adopted resolu-
| ton censuring Assemblyman Herman
Hedrick for voting against the resolu-
ton condemning the war attitude Of
Senator La Follette,
All officers, including John w. eau
erke, exalted ruler, were reelected
! for year by Green Bay Lodge, 259
| Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. Nh Gauerke has served three
| years as exalted ruler
Trempeauleau and Ia Crosse coun-
ties are the first in western Wisconsin
to perfect plans for the daily patrol
of highways. Division foremen are APP
of highways. Division foremen were
appointed and territory allotted.
By a vote of "a to 10, the Outaga-
ME county board condemned Herman
Wieckert, assemblyman from this dis
trict, for voting against the censure
! OF Senator La Follette's war attitude
BY the same vote il commended Il, w.
| Armstrong for voting for the amend
ment
The problem of housing 1000 men
| employed in the Du POnt explosive
| plant at Barksdale confronts Ashland,
| so many men have been added to the
force that all accommodations in
| Barksdale and Washburn have been
utilized The Commercial club has
taken up the problem.
Raising guinea pigs for laboratory
| purposes is one feature of a unique
farm project which is being establish
ed in connection with Sunny View,
| Winnebago county's tuberculosis san
atorium. with a view to providing con
valescent patients with profitable and
interesting employment of nature
that will aid their recovery.
one hundred fifty acres of sugar
| beets. twenty-five to thirty acres of
| cane sugar and 100 acres of beans will
| be planted on the farms at state in
| situations by the state board of con
| troll this spring. The cane sugar is
| expected to furnish enough molasses
to supply all state institutions for a
year.
Through its information department,
| the Woman's committee, Wisconsin
| Council of Defense, will cooperate
with the American Library association
| in the campaign to collect books for
| the soldiers and sailors. 1t is proposed
| to collect a million books for use in
| the large camps, in the military forts
at naval stations and barracks and on
transports carrying troops across and
| the help of every woman is desired,
The sum of $32,37S46 was distribu-
| ted to employees of the Paine Lumber
company of Oshkosh which operates
one of the biggest sash and door plants
in the world, as a profit-sharing divi-
| dend based on the Oshkosh concerns
earnings for 1917. About 900 employees
of the LOO on the payrolls shared in
| the plan, they having been employed
longer than one year. Many of the
workers invested their dividends in
War Savings Stamps,
The burial of Isaac Stephenson for
mer United States senator, took place
at Marinette. Gov. Philip of Wiscon-
sin and many other prominent men at
| tended the funeral. During the serv-
| ices all business in the Twin Cities of
| Marinette and Menominee was sus-
pended for five minutes. The former
senator's body was placed in a hand
| some new mausoleum which he built
recently. Dr.. Samuel Plantz, president
| of Lawrence college, Appleton, assist
ted the Rev. John Reynolds of the
Gram M. Il. church of Marinette in the
| final rites.
A damage suit, in which 10000 is
| asked has been filed by Albert Merrill
| of Kenosha against the Chicago, North
| Shore and Milwaukee Electric Railway
company, 1t is alleged that Mrs Mer-
rill was killed in an accident, caused
| by gross negligence on the part of the
| company