The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-22
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State


ing the coming year was announced
by President +. A. Cotton.
The public schools of Plymouth will
be opened a week later in September
this year, to give the farmers the aid
of students in harvesting their crops.
A canvass was made of Menasha to
ascertain the amount of alien-owned
property subject to seizure by
the government. The results have not
been made known as yet.
Winnebago county need not worry
about the wolf being at the door as the
county treasurer has reported regular
funds of $260,341.24 and special funds
of $72,0S9.49.
H. e. Taylor, Chicago, inspector of
government war contracts at a sewing
machine factory, Fond du Lac, fell
twelve feet down an elevator shaft,
suffering fractured knee cap and a
dislocated shoulder.
Joseph fish shot and killed his wife
because she refused to give him money
and then turned the shotgun on him
seld, dying instantly. The shooting oc-
cured on the road near Gagen, fifteen
miles east of Rhinelander.
Being one of three selected men
by the selective service board of
Washburn county for a mechanical
training course at the University of
Wisconsin, was the honor that fell to
Lloyd c. Frank of Brentwood.
The rear end of a southbound extra
freight went into the ditch fifteen
miles south of Tomahawk. Ten cars
of logs were badly damaged No one
was injured but traffic was tied up
for twenty hours.
NJ. p. Mccullough Wausau, chair
man OF the war industries board Sec
ond Wisconsin district, has appointed
vice-presidents as follows; George L.
Gilkey. Merrill; Roy McQuillan, An
tigO; James Harding, Shawano.
At the sixteenth annual meeting of
the soldiers and sailors Of Jefferson
county, f. B. Heimstreet of Palmyra
was reelected president. Perry Good
rich of Fort Atkinson and Frank
Foote were reelected to the Offices of
secretary and treasurer.
John H. Gadsby said to be the old
est member of the Masonic lodge in
Wisconsin, both as to age and from
length of membership, died at Eau
Claire at the age of 49, He was born
in Gilbertsyille, n. Y, Sept. 1S, 1929
and came to Eau Claire in 1871
Elijah King an Indian held in the
Appleton Jail on a charge of causing
the death of David o. Hill, an Indian,
waived preliminary hearing and was
bound over for trial in circuit court on
charge of second degree murder
He will be tried in September,
Peter E. Fluor, son of j. Simon
Fluor, former Oshkosh resident, now
OF Santa Ana, Cal, has won his double
bars as a lieutenant in the aviation
corps. He was the first in a squad of
ninety to complete his course. His
brother, Fred, has joined the navy.
The stations of the Milwaukee and
Northwestern roads at Plymouth,
have been combined in an order re-
ceived from the general manager, I'm
Gle Sam. Hereafter, tickets for both
roads will be sold in the c., M. & St
+. station.
Frank Schaettle, member of the low
er house of the Wisconsin legislature
from Buffalo and Pepin counties, I'M
der federal Indictment, charged with
violating the Mann act, is at liberty
on $4,000 bonds. He was at one time
mayor of Alma, Wis.
The La Crosse county school of agri-
culture, one of the pioneers in that
field of education in the northwest,
may be closed because of the war and
the building converted into tubercu-
losis sanatorium TO care for soldiers
afflicted with that disease.
Twelve residents of Oakfield, near
Fond du Lac, have been debarred in.
definitely from getting any sugar in
+ Fond du Lac county. The food admin
istrator announces that in checking
over allotments he found that several
purchasers exceeded their allowances.
These will be denied sugar for an in
dfnite period.
Lieut. Irwin Hurlburt has returned to
his home at Rice Lake from the battle
front in France. Hurlburt is a member
of the Rice Lake company of national
guards, and joined Pershing's forces
in France six months ago. He was re-
turned to this country because of his
marked ability and will train officers
for service in machine gun companies.
No agreement on prices to be charg-
ed for threshing was reached at
meeting in Oshkosh of fifty threshers
and farmers. Farmers have claimed
that the prices for threshing were too
high. Several of the threshermen
agreed to cut prices. 1t was brought
out that the county threshers commit
tee of the federal food administration
has no control over the regulation of
amounts to be charged for threshing.
Steps have been taken to establish
regular and permanent agricultural
work in Winnebago county. Gustaye
A. Sell, who for the last year has been
acting as county emergency food
agent, under federal authority, will be
the county's first agricultural repre-.
sentative.
Presidents of twenty-five county
Sunday school associations of Wiscon.
sin met at Oshkosh to confer on the