The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-18

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The Racine county board voted to-
combine the poor farm and insane
asylum at Gatliff, following recent
burning of the poorhouse.
James Murray, GAINESVILLE farmer, is
held to the federal grand jury under
$4,000 bail on charge of giving liquor
to Camp Grant soldiers.
Slaves and hair cuts were raised at
Madison July Is. Prices from is to Csc
for shaves and 95 to so cents for hair
cuts went into effect.
Eyre Scot of Marinette was indicted
into the navy for nonsupport of his
wife and two small children. His wife
waived exemption at the board.
Gov. Philip has appointed Scion
Berrin of Superior county judge of
Douglas county, to succeed the late
Judge Charles Smith.
Charles o. Coyne, Madison, carpen-
ter at the University of Wisconsin.
has been appointed by the Knights of
Columbus as secretary of soldiers aid
in France.
The parents of Arnold j. Peterson
of Beloit were notified of the death of
their son in France from accidental
gunshot wounds. He is the first Be
lott man to die overseas.
Attorney General Haven has ruled
that articles of the Mutual Fire In
surance Co., Milwaukee, do not permit
writing of tempest, cyclone and wind
storm insurance.
After having headed the domestic
science department in the Neenah high
school for the past twenty-five years,
Mrs Jennie Jamison has resigned and
will go to Milwaukee to reside.
Louis w. Wolfensen, professor of
Semetic languages at the University
of Wisconsin, has been appointed as
sistant to superintendent of the Wis
consin employment bureau at Madison.
Raymond Christensen of Oocnomo-
voc was a member of the crew of the
transport Henderson, which caught
fire on its recent trip across the At
lantic, but was able to make port in
safety. No one was injured.
Green Bay now has fourteen mem.
bers in its $1,000 w. S. S. club. One
family-man, woman and one boy
has subscribed $1,000 each to War
Savings stamps, thus becoming 100
per cent family.
Peter Michaelson Tud Albert Graft
of the town of Neva, near Amigo.
have been bound over to the United
States District court at Milwaukee for
trial on the charge of buying liquor
for three Indians employed at Amigo.
John Freehoff assembyman from
the second district of La Crosse coun-
ty, will not be a candidate for re
election. Orrin Fletcher, a member of
the county board, has taken out nom
ination papers as Republican candi-
date.
An ordinance effective Aug. /, per
hitting residents to keep pigs within
the Rhinelander city limits, but limit
ing the number to two pigs to a fam.
lily, was passed by the city council.
The ordinance is to be in effect only
during the war.
With view of impressing upon the
minds of other American citizens that
this country is at war, the Madison
city council passed unanimously a
resolution petitioning Gov. Phillip Ia
issue proclamation calling upon the
citizens of the state to salute the flag
for a period OF one minute at O'Clock
each evening
The remarkable finding of pearl in
a clam which was caught in the Wolf
river by Mrs. Ida Peters of Fremont,
, WaupaCa County, has caused consider
able excitement in that section Of the
county and pearl fishing has increased
: rapidly. The pearl brought $40. A
; Chicago firm purchased the pearl from
Mrs. Peters.
a. II. Melville, executive secretary
for the Wisconsin Food Administra
ton. has telegraphed all county food
! administrators that in one week the
Americans have saved up such sur
plus OF beef by obeying the food reg.
ulatons that now hotels and other
public eating places may serve beet
daily at the evening meal from five
, o'clock until midnight
, On petition of the Farmers State
bank Of Sullivan, the Sullivan Con
densed Milk company has been placed
in the hands of a receiver {. +. Lamb
, referee in bankruptcy, appointed - j
EdgertOn of OCOnOmowOC as receiver
, The Sullivan Condensed Milk com
, pany has an authorized capital stock
of 100000 of which $4,000 had been
paid in, according TO reports of the
! secretary of state.
/ A woman and two men are dead and
[ the authorities are looking for a third
r man to clear up the mystery surround
} ing a murder and double suicide which
f.. occurred at the farm of William lille
i six miles southwest Of Waukesha
+. IIille 53-year old farmer shot him
, self with a shotgun; his sister IIulda
p took her life by swallowing portion
} OF carbolic acid and Ernest Sentz, d
!. former farmland in Hlle's employ
was killed by lille in a quarrel
2 Cyrus Phillip, son of Gov. Il. l.
D Philip. and a junior in the University
I of Wisconsin, has enlisted in the navy
/ and will leave shortly for Great
5 Lakes, H.. to start training. lie has
T just completed the officers course al
! Fort sheridan
. War emergency classes, taking In